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14 - Hummer Limo · NO ID

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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. PINCO discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Hey, what's happening? Welcome
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  back to No ID, North Idaho's mainstream media
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  deconstruction. I am Scott. Hello, Internet.
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  I'm Paul. How are we this beautiful afternoon?
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  Well, we're in tip -top shape, as we've been
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  discussing. Tip -top. Who's we, white man? Got
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  a mouse in your pocket? Oh man, what a lead up
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  to today's show it's been for the both of us,
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  but I'd rather be me. I have a cold. I'm coming,
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  or wait a minute, no. It became trendy to test
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  yourself to like learn what specifically you
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  were sick with in 2020. If you recall before
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  you were just sick and now you like have to test
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  and see what you have so you can announce to
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  everyone that you have fill in the blank. And
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  then when I would ask, why does it matter what
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  you're sick with? No one ever could answer my
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  question. But in any case, I am under the weather.
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  But while I'm here, I'm I'm bringing we're we're
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  bringing the show. We're bringing it. It's happening.
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  You, on the other hand. I guess I would be under
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  the. Under the climate is because weather and
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  climate are not longer. That's so true. They
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  are not the same. No, no So I would be under
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  the climate or so we're under the tectonic plates.
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  I don't know. I don't know We it's been a hard
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  week on Monday night the Scott came back from
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  traveling and is Feeling really poor because
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  that's what you get for going to California.
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  You get chump He came back and you're all sick
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  again. What happened two out of two, right Scott?
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  That's right trips to LA and both times back
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  sick. You got it Both times. You have the 2022
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  wedding. My wife and I came back sick as dogs.
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  We never get sick, by the way. And then now here
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  we are, come back from LA, sick as dogs. What
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  do you know? I'm noticing a pattern. I think
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  it's probably because you didn't wear your masks.
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  Is this where we stop being best friends? I never
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  learned my lesson. Wearing a mask. A mask. Yeah.
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  Just goes to show you, LA is a... just a terrible,
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  dirty place. That is your body knowing and summarily
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  rejecting the grossest that is LA, California
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  in general, but specifically LA. You talk to
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  people who are in holistic medicine, and I'm
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  a believer in holistic medicine and functional
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  medicine and that kind of thing. Western medicine
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  has its place in time, too. But if you talk to
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  folks on more of the Eastern medicine side of
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  things, they'll tell you the body knows. I was
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  definitely like all in on Western medicine pre
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  2020 but now I'm I think completely differently
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  as we've all gathered and The time and the place
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  for it does seem to be it does have utility with
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  like emergencies You know, like if you can't
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  if you have a compound fracture, you know I'm
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  not gonna I'm not gonna rub some herbs on it.
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  I would like to be set Yeah, or you need your
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  cataracts removed or things like that I mean
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  this is pretty amazing some of the things they
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  can do and actually Western medicine will be
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  a huge help to me momentarily, because I ruptured
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  my tendon, my Achilles tendon in my left leg
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  on Monday night. I got to tell you, that's a
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  negative five stars. Would not recommend. It's
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  pretty awful. So I need a something out of me.
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  I need a leg out of me. A new leg. That's so
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  bad. It's not fun. Thinking about it makes my
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  teeth hurt. Yeah, mine too. Thinking about it
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  happening and replaying it in my mind makes my
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  teeth hurt. It's, um, it's nightmare fuel for
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  every. I don't want to be too generous and call
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  myself an athlete, but I'm an athletic -ish kind
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  of guy. I like to play sports. I'm an active
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  fellow. You know, the sports I play are pretty,
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  they're not, they're, they're high impact. They're
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  not high contact, but they're high impact and
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  I enjoy them immensely. But man, my body apparently
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  does not. And I've been struggling and working
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  on my strength, working on my flexibility, working
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  on all that stuff. And Monday night, it didn't
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  matter. just took a step to the side and my Achilles
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  tendon essentially exploded. So now I got to
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  go see a specialist. I got to go get MRIs. I
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  got to see what the specialist can do. Word on
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  the street is it'll probably be surgery. They'll
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  have to tie the two ends back together. We don't
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  know if it's a partial blowout yet or a full
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  blowout, but odds are good surgery will be needed
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  to pull the two ends of the, it's the strongest
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  tendon in your body, by the way, the more you
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  know. I've been doing some, I've been doing some
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  research. It's the strongest tendon in your body.
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  It's quite strong. I've never heard that. It's
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  interesting. Yeah. Yeah. To have it snapping
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  in two is, it's pretty catastrophic. I've heard
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  stories like, oh, you see it sort of roll up
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  on itself or what, you know what I'm saying?
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  Like, did you see anything like that visually?
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  No, thankfully, no. Because you are right, Scott,
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  and I've heard those stories too. I know a guy
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  or two who have had that happen to them where
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  it happened to them. It snapped and they just
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  felt and saw their entire calf muscle basically
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  just roll up like a... Yeah. Yeah. Well, there
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  was a lot of that. But fortunately, my calf seems
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  to be mostly intact, although, I mean, it's wigging
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  out. Like, I got to massage it every hour just
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  because it's... naturally just going, what the
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  hell is happening here? Stuff is not right. But
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  it didn't roll up on me. So I'm grateful for
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  that. But yeah, this is my nightmare. This is
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  exactly what we hope never happens for those
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  of us who are active like this. So yeah, I'm
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  pretty demoralized. Actually, I've been working
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  hard on my body to be more durable. And this
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  is the opposite of that. And it's like a six
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  to 12 month recovery process. So I'm hoping I
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  can shorten that up. We'll see we will see. So
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  anyways all that to say We're gonna do our best
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  today. We just ask you our listeners and executive
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  producers to Just understand we're gonna do our
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  best. Yeah, and thank you This might be a Hall
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  of Fame episode, but we're we are gonna do our
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  best So let's start I'm gonna try and cheer you
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  up a little bit here Let's start off with an
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  ask Paul and we'll see if we can lift your spirits
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  a little bit with some absurdity Midwives across
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  North Idaho seeing more expectant mothers seeking
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  their services. State data shows out of hospital
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  births increased by 2 % in the panhandle. Some
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  North Idaho counties like Bonner have seen increases
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  of up to 5%. Midwives attribute the increase
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  to a few things. One is a growing interest in
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  moms having babies outside of the hospital, and
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  another is a lack of access to care. It goes
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  on, and we haven't got to the ask Paul yet, but
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  I just thought that was a little bit like midwives
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  attribute the reason to they want, people want
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  midwives. The reason people want midwives is
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  because they want midwives. Midwives attribute
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  the increase to a few things. One is a growing
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  interest in moms having babies outside of the
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  hospital. Isn't that just saying the same thing
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  to us? What am I missing? Kind of. It's a very...
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  thinly veiled and polite way of saying fewer
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  people trust the establishment. They trust medical,
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  fewer people trust medical institutions. And
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  that is a fact. And that kind of would run in
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  lines. If I, if I had the proper Scots shots
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  dialed in today, it actually would be congruent
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  with that because the, uh, the COVID stuff is
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  a big part of why a lot of people no longer trust
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  the medical industrial complex, which is a good
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  thing. So I'm going to give a bell to bell to
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  midwives. I think it's a good trend. Yes, of
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  course it is. Now, my wife had our daughter outside
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  of the hospital. I would have never considered
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  that prior to 2020. But because of the distrust
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  that has developed for the complex, so we're
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  right in this demographic. They're talking about
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  us. So let's go on. We're going to get to the
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  Ask Paul. And another is a lack of access to
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  care. We don't have enough midwives in this area
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  to answer all of the inquiries. That's the true
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  need right now. Andrea Rolchin owns in the vine
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  midwifery in Post Falls her facility features
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  two birth suites designed to feel like home for
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  expecting mothers medical experts say the surge
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  started Medical experts say the surge started
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  when? Hmm like the search for for alternatives
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  Surge the surge started though the search is
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  up taking admit. It sounded like search Medical
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  experts say the surge started. Would have started
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  right around 2020 -2021, would be my guess. Or
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  maybe it would have been, because knowing the
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  mainstream media, the other way they probably
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  would have spun it, because the obvious answer
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  is 2020 -2021, because everybody stopped trusting
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  the medical industrial complex. Well, not everybody,
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  but more people began to trust the medical industrial
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  complex less. However, this being the mainstream
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  media, they're going to spin it a different way.
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  And I think I know how they're going to spin
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  it. It was two years ago, I believe, that Idaho
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  passed a more stringent law against abortion.
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  And it was a big hullabaloo, especially up here,
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  where Bonner General rules the roost, because
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  it's just Bonner General Hospital up here. And
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  they lost a bunch of, or most of, their maternity
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  ward. Basically, the doctors who birth the babies
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  or the people who take care of mom stuff. Words,
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  they're hard. I'm not even doped up. Can you
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  believe this? I have no meds in me at all. I'm
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  on a seven to ten of the pain scale right now,
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  though. Does the Achilles run from your ankle
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  to your brain stem, right? So just your mind's
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  not working as well. Dude, it might as well today.
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  It might as well. But I know that a number of
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  people quit. Obstetricians or gynecologists or
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  basically people who deliver babies, damn it,
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  whatever they are. A lot of them went away because
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  basically protesting the inability to murder
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  children was the deal. They were afraid that
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  they'd lose their licenses or go to jail if they
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  enacted care for women who were pregnant and
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  that quote unquote care involved possibly ending
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  a child's life. And so they cited liability issues
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  and a lot of people quit or left. And now, Bonner
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  General doesn't deliver babies. You have to go
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  to Kootenai Health. So that's why. So that would
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  have been, I think, 2026. That would have been
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  2024, I think. Am I on it? I'm going to play
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  it one more time. And I want you to tell me,
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  what do you think he's going to say? Medical
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  experts say the surge started. Oh, the surge
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  started when the abortion law, something along
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  the lines of the abortion law was passed. Bonner
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  general basically stopped delivering babies as
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  a result something along those lines So this
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  is another one where I must not be close your
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  your your well you your initial impulse was correct
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  about 2020 or 2021 but they of course they don't
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  because that is when the surge started for the
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  reasons we just outlined and Yeah, they of course
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  don't but the way they're gonna spin it. I just
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  hit me with it I'm struggling medical experts
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  say the surge started after the pandemic. Oh
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  Okay, for Pete's sake. So I spent five minutes
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  on back history of the answer and I had it in
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  the first five seconds. There you have it, folks.
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  Simplicity always wins. Simplicity is the key.
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  It's always due to that. Now, for some reason...
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  Scott, just go ahead and edit out that last five
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  minutes. That was a waste of time. I'm sorry.
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  You know, for some reason, the Hong Kong flu
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  pandemic or the SARS one or the Zika or the...
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  The bird flu or all these other pandemics for
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  some reason surges for midwifery there were none
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  So it's very confusing something was very particular
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  about this pandemic. I'm not sure why it was
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  a magic pandemic You know as far as changing
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  people's behavior, but it was magic Yeah, well
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  it turns out that the magic of this pandemic
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  this last one was coercion Some people don't
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  like it. Let's move on to You'll never guess
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  what Washington State is trying to implement.
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  Washington imposed a 10 % sales tax on gold,
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  silver, or precious coins last month in an effort
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  to close the state's budget deficit. Yeah, but
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  critics say it's only driving business to North
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  Idaho. Precious metals broke record highs and
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  dips in the past week. This is one ounce of silver.
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  It's a very common item bought and sold here
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  at DJ's coins. Now last week this was selling
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  for about $115 an ounce. Today it's worth about
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  80 bucks. Workers tell me this is a market they
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  can change overnight. But that's not the only
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  thing that's been keeping Idaho coin shops on
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  their toes. The market itself has just been so
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  insane the last month in general. So it's kind
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  of the combination between the spike in metals
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  as well as the spike in extra customers coming
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  in. Washington families trying to protect their
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  savings are now driving out of state to avoid
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  a new tax. They're avoiding a 10 % sales tax
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  on gold, silver, and precious coins that took
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  effect January 1st. Since then, coin and pawn
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  shops in Idaho have been inundated with new customers.
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  I'd say that about 50 % of the people that have
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  been coming. This guy, by the way that's speaking,
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  had the very rarely spotted in the wild double
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  nose rings. He had a hoop in each nostril, which
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  I guess that's how, you know, for he's working
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  in a precious metal shop. So he just has extra
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  metal on his face. I thought that was funny and
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  inundated with new customers. I'd say that about
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  50 % of the people that have been coming into
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  the shop are from Washington and we get lots
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  of phone calls, probably about 70 % just new
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  people. Washington Coin Store owners like Jake
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  Graham have pre filed legislation that would
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  reinstate a tax exemption for these metals. But
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  if it doesn't pass, we're going to have to make
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  a pretty tough decision to pick up a business
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  that's been in this building for over 40 years
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  and move it so that we can transact with our
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  customers in a fair way. And customers say they'll
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  follow to protect their savings. This is exactly
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  the same story as the tobacco tax that we did
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  a few shows ago where the people were driving
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  over state line. Well, it turns out that if people
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  can avoid a tax, they will. Even people who claim
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  to like taxes. In fact, most of the people who
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  claim to like taxes are the best at avoiding
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  them. Usually the people at the top. It's ironic
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  and sad and also true and historical. It's time
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  and time and time and time and time again. This
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  is as tale as old as time. And of course, Washington
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  bureaucrats learn nothing. So all the shops on
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  the borders of Oregon and Idaho, because I don't
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  think Oregon taxes gold and silver either. Although
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  don't quote me on that, because Oregon is the
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  kind of state that's beginning to tax the very
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  air you breathe as well, same as Washington.
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  But border shops will do OK, or they'll be able
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  to move across the border into Idaho. Of course,
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  Idaho border shops like the ones in Post Falls,
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  Coeur d 'Alene, are going to do great. Yeah,
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  we've seen this story before Oregon by the way,
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  just look at this one. No no sales tax on gold
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  silver plat or on precious metals Not yet. Good
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  job, Washington. You're worse than Oregon. Good
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  job this has been a running theme of this week's
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  clips as you'll see which is the The never considering
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  for one moment doing any cuts of any sort. It's
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  always just oh, there's a deficit How do we wring
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  more money out of the citizenry? Never, never
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  does anybody mention anything about cuts. And
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  to the extent that they do get mentioned, like
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  we have covered a little bit, oh, the, you know,
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  the... JFAC is saying prepare for these 1 % cuts
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  and sorry, you get 99 % of your budget and all
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  of your hair is on fire. You can't figure out
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  how to make do with 99 % of your budget. We're
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  so very sorry. A lot of that is being walked
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  back. Governor Brad Little designed a budget
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  that makes cuts to several areas, but prevents
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  further cuts from being made to education. Last
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  week, the Joint Finance Appropriation Committee
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  instructed the State Department of Education
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  to prepare for cuts anywhere. If there was anything
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  easy, we would have done it. Governor Brad Little
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  met with reporters at the Twin Falls Library
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  on Monday, part of his annual tour around the
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  state to present his budget priorities. Our revenues
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  are are tighter, but they're still adequate as
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  a historic budget surplus from previous years
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  has turned into projected shortfall. Most state
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  agencies have been instructed to prepare for
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  additional cuts, with a few exceptions. suffice
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  it to say our constitutional obligation for public
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  schools. I was very disappointed by the way.
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  Did you catch him actually clearly say Constitution?
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  Suffice it to say, our constitutional obligation
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  to public schools and my highest priority remains
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  the same. This year, the governor said he wanted
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  to protect education from further cuts. But last
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  week, JFAC circulated a memo to all agencies,
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  including the State Department of Education,
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  to prepare one and 2 % constitutional. A 2 %
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  cut now is like a 6 % cut on top of the 3 % cut
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  for those agencies. Little pointed to his support
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  of education, highlighting increases in teacher
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  pay and benefits, as well as the state's payoff
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  of bonds aimed at reducing property taxes. He
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  said that while it's JFAC's constitutional obligation
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  to set the budget, he still feels schools should
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  be kept from cuts. They can do that, but it actually
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  gives us an opportunity to talk about why our
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  plans better. The governor plans to visit northern
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  Idaho later this week to advocate for his enduring
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  Idaho budget. Well, none of this is a surprise.
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  I mean, oh, man. So enrollment has decreased
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  across Idaho, like 2 .9%. I think this year.
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  Yeah, for some reason, that started after the
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  pandemic too. So strange. Yeah. And that's a
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  that's the national trend. Enrollment has steadily
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  decreased. It's a combination of two things.
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  Well, two primary things is more than that. But
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  number one is what parents saw and experienced
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  during the covid years. And they went, yeah,
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  this is crap. We're getting out of this. And
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  number two is just straight up a declining youth
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  population. People aren't having as many babies
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  as they used to. The birth rate is down for a
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  lot of different reasons. And that's a whole
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  piece of luggage we can unpack at another time.
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  But the population is aging. And it's been trending
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  that way for some time. And that trend has only
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  picked up pace. So enrollment. has decreased
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  across the board on a national level, on a state
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  level, on a county level, district level. It's
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  down. It's down one to two percentage points
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  almost every year now. Yet somehow we still are
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  spending percentage points more every year on
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  school. And it's primarily an increase in administrative
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  costs. It's administration. It's staff. It's
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  not even teachers. It's not even more teachers,
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  although teachers keep getting raises. Staff
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  it's administrative costs. It's bullshit man.
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  It's bullshit. And I have no no love for any
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  of this Why don't they ask the the average person?
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  The taxpayer or the person who works in the private
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  sector or who owns a business in the private
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  sector Like we don't get to behave this way.
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  I don't get a raise just because I want one I
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  don't get to not cut stuff just because I think
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  I deserve to be in business. It's Everybody else
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  has to make cuts when there's not enough to go
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  around. That's just how it is I don't get to
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  vote myself a new raise as a business owner.
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  I have to either provide more value sell more
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  stuff or cut something Then that's why that's
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  why government sucks because it doesn't have
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  to do those things it can always a la Washington
• 20:14
  Ring more out of the taxpayer in all the different
• 20:17
  creative ways which back to that real quick That's
• 20:20
  one of the most pernicious taxes you can levy
• 20:22
  on people because you're essentially taxing inflation
• 20:25
  is a tax on savings And as people flock to gold
• 20:28
  and silver as a hedge against inflation to protect
• 20:30
  their savings and protect their assets and whatever
• 20:33
  value they can hold on to, you've just taxed
• 20:38
  that too. It's like a double, triple tax because
• 20:42
  you tax their money when they earn it, then you
• 20:45
  tax it when they spend it, and then you tax it
• 20:48
  when they spend it on something that is one of
• 20:50
  the few things that is supposed to help them
• 20:52
  preserve their purchasing power and their asset
• 20:55
  value. While everything else decreases That that
• 21:00
  is it's evil. It's pernicious and it's evil We
• 21:04
  need this money the state we need this money
• 21:07
  the state we need this money All right. Well,
• 21:15
  let's keep our spirits up. Idaho Superintendent
• 21:17
  of Public Instruction Debbie Critchfield says
• 21:19
  she's not going to cut public school budgets.
• 21:21
  That response after lawmakers on the Budget Setting
• 21:24
  Joint Finance Appropriation Committee sent a
• 21:26
  memo last week to the Education Department and
• 21:29
  the Division of Medicaid within Idaho's Department
• 21:31
  of Health and Welfare asking those groups to
• 21:33
  join the rest of Idaho state agencies in mapping
• 21:36
  out additional 1 and 2 percent cuts. Oh no, no.
• 21:40
  We only get 98 or 99 percent of our budget. budget.
• 21:44
  This is ridiculous. The population is attacking
• 21:47
  us. 2 % cuts to the current and upcoming fiscal
• 21:50
  years. K -12 schools were exempt from previous
• 21:53
  3 % cuts ordered by the governor last summer.
• 21:56
  In her response to JFAC, Critchfield wrote that
• 21:59
  the state's public school budget is already quote,
• 22:01
  in line with the state's fiscal reality unquote,
• 22:04
  declining enrollments in most districts already
• 22:06
  means schools will receive less funding. A 2
• 22:09
  % cut to public schools would be about $55 million.
• 22:13
  Other agencies have been instructed to plan for
• 22:15
  additional budget cuts and inform JFAC how those
• 22:18
  reductions would affect agency operations. We
• 22:21
  need this money. That number is intentional.
• 22:25
  $55 million. Where else have we heard that number,
• 22:28
  Scott? HB93 when they allocated $50 million in
• 22:32
  tax credits, not money in hand, but tax credits.
• 22:38
  up to $50 million, not per person, of course,
• 22:42
  $50 million per person, but just as an aggregate.
• 22:45
  And so that number of 2%, which equates to $55
• 22:48
  million in cuts for schools, that is intentional.
• 22:51
  And it's intentional because it can be used as
• 22:54
  a very convenient and quick and clean talking
• 22:57
  point for those who are against HB93 and who
• 23:02
  are against tax credits for private schools who
• 23:05
  are against any basically any alternative to
• 23:07
  public education. Now it is a marvelous talking
• 23:11
  point because the numbers, the cuts and the numbers
• 23:15
  almost line up identically. So now they're so
• 23:17
  now, even though it's disingenuous and it's not
• 23:20
  true, you can make them interchangeable things
• 23:25
  and say, look, we gave 50 million to private
• 23:30
  schools over here and oh, look, the state has
• 23:32
  to cut 55 millions from public education over
• 23:35
  here. And most people are incapable of understanding
• 23:40
  that those are mutually exclusive things. One
• 23:42
  does not equate to the other, but they're going
• 23:45
  to see them as completely tied together and be
• 23:47
  like, oh, so we just gave 50 million to private
• 23:49
  schools and that costs us 50 million, 55 million
• 23:52
  over here. And that's bad. It's intentional.
• 23:56
  It's brilliant. That is Boise political maneuvering
• 23:59
  if ever there was some. And it's, I mean, you
• 24:02
  got to hand it to them. Scott, I hate them. They're
• 24:05
  terrible people. The establishment is just garbage.
• 24:07
  The cartel is garbage. But they are nothing if
• 24:10
  not shrewd, cunning and clever. They're cunning.
• 24:12
  Yep. The devil is cunning. So speaking of Boise,
• 24:16
  here is a prediction, an easy prediction to make,
• 24:19
  but one that we've made here on No ID that is
• 24:23
  coming true before your eyes with regard to the
• 24:25
  New Year's the potato drop. And we were like,
• 24:28
  oh, well, that's going to be the end of the line
• 24:29
  for all that. Well, Here you go today. Assistant
• 24:32
  Boise Fire Chief Romeo Gervais updates the Boise
• 24:36
  Council, as does the city's community engagement
• 24:39
  director Maria Wigg, who appeared on this broadcast
• 24:41
  just last week. The larger conversation is more
• 24:45
  likely about is the way in which the footprint
• 24:48
  downtown has changed, have an impact on whether
• 24:53
  or where fireworks are allowed for any for any
• 24:58
  event. There it is. See you later, but shouldn't
• 25:02
  even be a job community outreach director get
• 25:05
  fucked. Yes We're looking for ways to increase
• 25:09
  the budget but cut fun for the citizens This
• 25:13
  lady over here is perfect It is a position that
• 25:17
  would never exist in the private sector with
• 25:20
  rare exception unless it was a big old corporation
• 25:23
  that was you know needed to have people to do
• 25:26
  community outreach because nobody liked them.
• 25:28
  In fact, I know a guy who does that. My buddy
• 25:30
  Rob Seeley works for, I think PG &E down, I think
• 25:32
  it's PG &E down in California. It's a, they're
• 25:36
  a utilities company or water is their main thing.
• 25:38
  So it might not be PG &E. I should know this.
• 25:41
  But what I do know he does is it's political
• 25:43
  outreach and community outreach. So he hobnobs
• 25:46
  and shakes hands and kisses babies with mayors
• 25:49
  and city council members and state representatives.
• 25:52
  And also this. Oh, you mean our leaders out of
• 25:54
  town. Leaders, leaders, leaders. He's actually
• 25:58
  a really, really good guy and a very intelligent
• 26:01
  guy and a very he wants. He is a community minded
• 26:05
  guy. He lives down there. He wants the best for
• 26:08
  it all. And he does very good work, but. There's
• 26:10
  a lot of scumbags in the industry. Him and I
• 26:12
  talk at great length every couple of weeks, usually
• 26:15
  during our commutes. We always talk about all
• 26:18
  this stuff. And I laugh and I go, Hey, Rob, do
• 26:20
  you ever feel like you got to just take a shower
• 26:21
  after every day of work because of who you got
• 26:25
  to shake hands with and deal with? And he goes,
• 26:26
  Oh yeah, the corruption down here is insane.
• 26:28
  People are terrible down here. He goes, but if
• 26:31
  I can move the needle and try to bring together
• 26:34
  communities and my company and make things happen
• 26:37
  in a good way, we're everybody wins or where
• 26:41
  most of the time nobody gets exactly what they
• 26:44
  want, then that's what I'm doing. So that's an
• 26:47
  example of somebody doing that in the private
• 26:49
  sector, but it's useful. Even then, it's public
• 26:53
  sector adjacent, because he's acting as a liaison
• 26:57
  between the company and the regulatory bodies,
• 27:01
  so that they can become regulatory capture. He's
• 27:05
  the liaison for regulatory capture. That would
• 27:08
  yeah, I think that's a great way to put it. You
• 27:10
  know, they're it's a heavily heavily regulated
• 27:12
  industry that he's in so they have to You know
• 27:15
  tiptoe through the tulips with everything all
• 27:17
  the time and balance balance the needs of their
• 27:20
  communities with their needs as a company but
• 27:22
  and then also balance the requirements of the
• 27:26
  state it's a hell of a hell of a tightrope act
• 27:29
  I'm writing down tiptoeing through the tulips
• 27:32
  as a potential show title. Oh, I like it Anyways,
• 27:37
  I'm sorry back to the matter at hand. I guess
• 27:39
  I just I the fact that that job exists community
• 27:43
  organizer for Boise I hate that I hate it Let's
• 27:48
  do yeah, we wouldn't yeah, we wouldn't want the
• 27:51
  see we can't have fireworks anymore Because one
• 27:54
  of them might set the pride flags all on on all
• 27:58
  the lamp posts It might set them a light, you
• 28:01
  know, and we can't we can't be burning pride
• 28:03
  flags. So no more fireworks No, no and Boise
• 28:06
  they got a flay got a fly that pride flag good
• 28:09
  and high in direct violation of state law Just
• 28:14
  speaking of pride flags You know who else is
• 28:20
  going home is the lady who owns mix downtown
• 28:24
  Coeur d 'Alene, she's gonna be leaving the area
• 28:26
  because that place is is done for. Mecs on North
• 28:30
  4th Street in Coeur d 'Alene announced they are
• 28:32
  closing their doors coming out February 14th
• 28:35
  and they say it's because of a change in Idaho
• 28:37
  law regarding liquor licenses. Senate Bill 1120
• 28:40
  banned the selling or leasing of liquor licenses
• 28:43
  and the owner says between the cost and lack
• 28:46
  of available licenses in Coeur d 'Alene it's
• 28:49
  just not feasible to stay open. After their final
• 28:52
  hurrah on the 14th, VFW posed in 889, who owns
• 28:56
  the bar, has 90 days to reopen in its place.
• 29:00
  And the reason I say speaking of Pride flags
• 29:01
  is because you had mentioned when we had texted
• 29:04
  this article that there was a well -known gay
• 29:08
  bar. Gay? Which I did not know. Yeah, Dan Guggen
• 29:12
  probably hung out there. Come over for a gay
• 29:15
  time. Yeah, it was it's one of those like if
• 29:18
  you know, you know type things I think a lot
• 29:19
  of people probably don't because they You know
• 29:22
  like unlike your home to homeland California
• 29:26
  where they would be you know flying that freak
• 29:28
  flag right out the door in North Idaho It's a
• 29:31
  more of a wink and a handshake and if you know,
• 29:33
  you know, but a lot of people knew so if you
• 29:35
  had experience with it The only reason I knew
• 29:37
  okay. I have story time I only knew because five
• 29:41
  years ago six years ago. I Was doing a birthday
• 29:45
  celebration with a buddy of mine And there were,
• 29:47
  I don't know, eight of us. And we went to, what
• 29:51
  was that place on 4th Street, owned by Rob Elder,
• 29:54
  Satay, Satay Bistro, great little joint. And
• 29:57
  then I got into a Hummer limo and went downtown
• 29:59
  afterwards. Now I wasn't, I didn't know what
• 30:01
  to expect on the whole night. I had no idea what
• 30:03
  was going to happen other than Satay. So we got
• 30:05
  all dressed up. We go eat in a little wine cellar
• 30:07
  at Satay. That was fun. Then get in this big
• 30:10
  old Hummer limo. And I have no idea where we're
• 30:12
  going next. Turns out the next stop was Mix downtown.
• 30:18
  Now I had a cigar on me and I had lit it cause
• 30:21
  I thought we were going to be walking around
• 30:22
  downtown. So I, and it's, I don't know, eight,
• 30:24
  nine o 'clock at night. So I light it and all
• 30:27
  of a sudden that we stopped and like, all right,
• 30:29
  we're going in a mix. And I was like, oh, okay.
• 30:31
  Well, they had a bouncer at the bar, a bouncer
• 30:33
  at the door and you go down into the basement.
• 30:35
  And I thought, well, it's a bar, you know, a
• 30:38
  lot of bars in Idaho, you can smoke. So we'll
• 30:40
  give it a try. So we all go down there. I, they
• 30:43
  let me through. I've got a cigar in my hand lit.
• 30:47
  And nobody stops me. So we get down in there
• 30:50
  and the other like six or eight people that we
• 30:52
  were with, because Mary was with me, my wife
• 30:54
  disperse, scatter like they know the joint. They
• 30:57
  kind of know what they're doing. And I don't
• 30:59
  think they meant to. But they accidentally kind
• 31:01
  of just left Mary and I to our own devices. And
• 31:04
  there I am looking around. I got my cigar in
• 31:06
  my hand and immediately I went, oh, oh, it's
• 31:13
  one of these. And I've never been to one of those.
• 31:18
  And I could tell immediately, oh, yeah, this
• 31:20
  is a gay bar. Well, what tipped you off? This
• 31:22
  is all of the all of the couples and the way
• 31:28
  people were dressed and the way they walked and
• 31:31
  carried themselves. And the fact that most people
• 31:33
  were very clearly not with members of the opposite
• 31:35
  sex, they were with members of the same sex and
• 31:38
  just the whole. I mean, you know, dude, it can
• 31:40
  be pretty obvious if you're paying attention.
• 31:42
  And it was pretty obvious. after 30 seconds.
• 31:44
  Well, I mean, if the bartender, you know, looks
• 31:46
  like he's at Chippendales, he's got no shirt
• 31:49
  and only a bow tie. Like, I mean, yes, it can
• 31:51
  be obvious. Wasn't that obvious. No, that's where
• 31:55
  it was. You know, like it wasn't the whole freak
• 31:57
  flag totally flying, but it was like, oh, OK,
• 32:00
  yeah, no, I'm picking up. I'm picking up what's
• 32:02
  happening here. So then I'm standing there going,
• 32:05
  all right, I'm not into this. You know, whatever.
• 32:08
  Good for you guys. But it's not my flavor. And.
• 32:12
  mary went off to go use the restroom so then
• 32:14
  i'm stuck by myself in this really uncomfortable
• 32:16
  situation where i don't know anybody i don't
• 32:18
  know what to do everybody i do know is oh you
• 32:20
  know not near me and you're holding you're holding
• 32:22
  a phallic item and you're that you're that you're
• 32:26
  sucking on well i also realize no one else is
• 32:29
  smoking this is a smoke -free bar because again
• 32:31
  these are things you pick up on really quick
• 32:33
  dude everything about this is I should probably
• 32:39
  I got to get out of here and as I'm about to
• 32:40
  turn for the door and head back up the stairs
• 32:42
  and out the door about another bouncer comes
• 32:45
  in behind me grabs my shoulders not aggressively
• 32:48
  but puts a hand on my shoulder and goes hey you
• 32:50
  can't be here with that I turn around and I go
• 32:53
  oh you know what that's okay bud I uh I was just
• 32:57
  leaving anyways don't worry I was just leaving
• 32:59
  so and I did up I went and then I just prayed
• 33:02
  and hoped that I texted Mary it was like I'm
• 33:05
  I got kicked out. Please, please leave. And we'll
• 33:08
  do it. So we, so she did. And we just walked
• 33:10
  up and down downtown area for like two hours
• 33:13
  waiting for everybody else to be finished. And
• 33:15
  then they accidentally left us there. They left
• 33:20
  us downtown with no ride because they got all
• 33:22
  drunk and they came out and they went into their
• 33:24
  Hummer and took off. And then it was like, Hey,
• 33:26
  uh, Mark, his birthday. It was, it was Mark,
• 33:28
  my buddy. Can you guys come get us? Of all the
• 33:31
  makes and models to the limo you were in was
• 33:33
  a Hummer. Yep. Yep. What about the mix of couples?
• 33:38
  Was it equal amounts of guy -guy and girl -girl,
• 33:41
  or was it mostly just guy -guy? It was, gosh,
• 33:46
  I don't know, man. I didn't look that hard, but
• 33:48
  I was, I'd say more guy than gal. Yeah, that
• 33:53
  tracks. Okay, well, and you know, with the real
• 33:56
  giveaway, you know, it used to be called dicks.
• 34:00
  No, it did not. That's funny. Thank you. Everybody
• 34:09
  boo that boo that man boo. Oh my gosh. Well,
• 34:14
  so anyways, yeah, mix. It's a if you know, you
• 34:17
  know, and I actually am. I think it's a shame
• 34:20
  not because I think we should preserve that particular
• 34:24
  culture or anything like that, although people
• 34:26
  should have a space for themselves. So, you know,
• 34:29
  I got just as much as right as anybody to have
• 34:31
  a space for themselves, even if I don't agree
• 34:33
  with it. But that's another issue entirely. But
• 34:36
  the real issue at hand is yet again, the state
• 34:38
  of Idaho with its archaic liquor laws have fucked
• 34:42
  over yet another business and screwed over a
• 34:44
  lot of people. It's a lot of lost revenue. That's
• 34:47
  a lot of people who don't have a space now that
• 34:50
  is, well, the state should be pissed off because
• 34:53
  that's a lot of tax revenue they probably lost.
• 34:55
  You know, you're not selling stuff. You're not
• 34:56
  taxing it. There's a lot of people who are no
• 34:58
  longer employed. There's a business owner who's
• 35:01
  out of business. And it's all because some jackass
• 35:04
  bureaucrats say what you can and can't do with
• 35:06
  a liquor license, which shouldn't exist in the
• 35:09
  first place, a liquor license, you should be
• 35:11
  able to sell beer, wine, liquor as you please.
• 35:13
  Because you know what a license is, Scott? What?
• 35:16
  It's when the government steals a right from
• 35:18
  you and then sells it back to you. That's what
• 35:21
  a license is. Oh, here, let us come into our
• 35:25
  facility where we make you wait three hours,
• 35:28
  treat you like complete crap, and then have you
• 35:31
  beg us for permission to operate your own property.
• 35:34
  Yep. Which by the way... That's the DMV in a
• 35:37
  nutshell right there. So speaking of that...
• 35:40
  A new proposal that would end the requirement
• 35:42
  to have a vehicle registration sticker on Idaho
• 35:46
  license plates. The sponsor, GOP House Representative
• 35:49
  John Weber from Madison County. This came about
• 35:53
  when I registered my personal vehicle and I was
• 35:57
  handed the stickers and the thought triggered
• 36:00
  my mind. I'm thinking, why are we doing this?
• 36:02
  And as I studied this out and realized that how
• 36:07
  many vehicles, either you couldn't read the sticker,
• 36:10
  it wasn't on the plate, or it was covered up.
• 36:14
  Weber says he has talked to law enforcement,
• 36:17
  county sheriffs and state police about the proposal.
• 36:20
  But they're all over the board when you talk
• 36:23
  to, depending on who you talk to. And Idaho always
• 36:27
  prides itself on being innovative and reducing
• 36:32
  red tape, if you will. This is a program that
• 36:35
  could certainly fit that category. Now, Weber
• 36:38
  told the House Transportation Committee on Monday
• 36:41
  that getting rid of the vehicle registration
• 36:44
  stickers, that program would save the state about
• 36:47
  $300 ,000. So, the measure is now headed to a
• 36:51
  full public hearing before the House Transportation
• 36:54
  Committee and that hearing will hit their schedule
• 36:57
  in the coming days. Well, that's enough to hire
• 37:00
  at least two more community outreach positions
• 37:03
  for Boise. Well, and that's the thing is that
• 37:07
  just to be in case it wasn't clear, they're not
• 37:09
  saying eliminate registration. They're just saying
• 37:11
  the physical stickers. And, you know, printing
• 37:14
  those out or whatever is what that number is.
• 37:16
  Now, this is all being obviously this is just
• 37:19
  on the table. My guess is what they'll actually
• 37:21
  do is end up enhancing the stickers and making
• 37:24
  them more complicated, and it will cost more
• 37:26
  than it did last year. Well, I like the idea
• 37:30
  at face value. So I guess we'll see how it's
• 37:32
  actually executed because you are correct. Just
• 37:35
  like the last liquor license license laws that
• 37:39
  got passed in 2023, which were meant to alleviate
• 37:42
  some real issues. Instead, it basically though
• 37:46
  that revamp broke what wasn't broken. and kept
• 37:50
  what was broken, broken. In this case with the
• 37:53
  stickers, I don't know how you could keep breaking
• 37:56
  what already is also broken, but hold my beer,
• 38:00
  right? We'll find a way. Yeah. I'm sure they
• 38:03
  will find a way to make this worse. Yeah. But
• 38:06
  I like it at face value. So, you know, but I
• 38:09
  also love the fact that it reminds me of this
• 38:11
  again, where like a legislator had to do what
• 38:16
  the little people do. Is this some sort of peasant
• 38:19
  joke that I'm too rich to understand? And went,
• 38:22
  wait a minute, this sucks. This is dumb. We make
• 38:24
  people do this. I don't want to do this. When
• 38:28
  I sent one of my interns to the DMV and he came
• 38:31
  back with all this paperwork, I was like, what's
• 38:33
  this sticker even for? So kudos to him, I guess,
• 38:39
  for being like, you know what, this is bullshit
• 38:41
  and I don't want to deal with this. And instead
• 38:43
  of just carving out an exemption for himself,
• 38:46
  at least is like, well. Yeah, nobody else should
• 38:49
  have to do this too Cuz this is dumb. I mean,
• 38:53
  I guess credit where credit's due. I'm trying
• 38:55
  to try to be a optimistic today as best I can
• 39:00
  Good times good times. Let's do one more before
• 39:04
  we take a mid show breather here and it looks
• 39:07
  like we are continuing to track toward Medical
• 39:11
  Mary Jane and we swear it's just for glaucoma
• 39:14
  people and cancer people we swear A group of
• 39:16
  Idahoans says it's getting closer to putting
• 39:19
  medical marijuana on the November ballot. They
• 39:22
  say they've gathered more than 45 ,000 signatures
• 39:25
  for a ballot initiative. Natural Medicine Alliance
• 39:28
  of Idaho made that announcement on Friday. The
• 39:31
  group is hoping to get the Idaho Medical Cannabis
• 39:33
  Act on the general election ballot this November.
• 39:37
  That act would allow the use of medical cannabis
• 39:40
  by patients with certain conditions. Some of
• 39:42
  those conditions include cancer, boredom, AIDS,
• 39:46
  epilepsy and Alzheimer's. In order for the act
• 39:49
  to qualify for the ballot, though, the group
• 39:51
  must secure signatures from at least 6 % of registered
• 39:54
  voters in the majority of districts across Idaho.
• 39:59
  Also, I think what should be on that list is
• 40:02
  ruptured Achilles tendons. Yes. Because that
• 40:05
  shit hurts. It hurts. Telling you what, it's
• 40:13
  a low feeling not being able to move and being
• 40:16
  in pain all the time. But it's for my pain. But
• 40:25
  it really hurts. And also I might have AIDS.
• 40:29
  And I don't have AIDS. I don't know, you're still
• 40:31
  hanging out at Nick's. Ah, you, sir. Thank you.
• 40:39
  Good, good one. All right. It was an accident.
• 40:41
  It was one time. Well, this show, no ID. operates
• 40:48
  on the value for value model. You notice that
• 40:51
  we don't have any ads on this show. No ads, no
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  I have to argue real quick, I'm sorry, because
• 44:28
  I can't help myself. You use the term real money.
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  It's not. It's fiat currency, but it spends.
• 44:33
  So we do appreciate your fiat currency. I'm also
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• 44:38
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• 44:42
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• 44:58
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  That is a great point. Sometimes I even dole
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  out a favor. Yes, it doesn't just need to be
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  Buy something cool for the show. That is an order
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  So Kevin when you hear this we need to get together.
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• 47:38
  okay second half Oh show hey Scott yo Do you
• 47:43
  know what time it is? Oh baby. It's time. For
• 47:50
  Scott's shots. For stretches. Put on your fightin'
• 47:55
  pants. Strap on your gloves. Let's go. Start
• 48:02
  warmin' up. Cause it's about to get heavy. Oh
• 48:07
  yeah, shadow boxin', mirror boxin'. So. My pecs
• 48:18
  are like, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot,
• 48:21
  doot, doot. To the timing of the music and everything,
• 48:24
  that's impressive. Well done. Okay, I'm ready.
• 48:26
  You're a god among men, Scott. The World Economic
• 48:32
  Forum popped off not that long ago, released,
• 48:37
  as they do, many different statements and documents
• 48:40
  and things. This one was a little bit quieter.
• 48:43
  You didn't you didn't hear them crow about it,
• 48:45
  but it is you can find it. I found it courtesy
• 48:49
  of the Internet. It was brought to me. I didn't
• 48:53
  I didn't go look for it because I don't know
• 48:54
  where to look for these sorts of things. But
• 48:56
  luckily, I know the people who do. And sometimes
• 48:59
  I don't even know them personally. But according
• 49:02
  to the World Economic Forum, there have been
• 49:04
  significant developments in the last five to
• 49:05
  seven years on social environment and technology
• 49:07
  fronts that could help realize the quote unquote,
• 49:10
  my carbon initiatives for shaping the future
• 49:12
  towards smart and sustainable cities. So as most
• 49:16
  of us know, this has been a push by the the pedos
• 49:19
  and the elites. Although I really those are the
• 49:21
  same thing. So I should shouldn't even use them.
• 49:24
  Distinction without a difference. Yeah, it's
• 49:26
  a distinction without a difference. to push us
• 49:28
  all into smart cities and all of that kind of
• 49:31
  thing for all the different reasons that we all
• 49:32
  know. But it's specifically to mention three
• 49:35
  developments in this context. Number one, COVID
• 49:39
  -19 was the test of social responsibility, meaning
• 49:45
  a huge number. And this is their words, by the
• 49:49
  way. This is from the World Economic Forum. A
• 49:52
  huge number of unimaginable restrictions for
• 49:54
  public health were adopted by billions of citizens
• 49:57
  across the world. There were numerous examples
• 50:00
  globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing
• 50:02
  masks, mass vaccinations, and acceptance, acceptance
• 50:05
  being an important word here, of contact tracing
• 50:08
  applications for public health, which demonstrated
• 50:12
  the core of individual social responsibility.
• 50:16
  In other words, to paraphrase, the WEF just quietly
• 50:19
  admitted that COVID served as a test of your
• 50:22
  willingness to comply with the unimaginable.
• 50:27
  So this isn't a trivia, Scott's shots. This is
• 50:30
  more of a, look what I found, Scott, and wanted
• 50:33
  your, I don't know, take it away. Yeah. Well,
• 50:37
  so for one, it's not as entertaining without
• 50:39
  Stavros Blofeld at the head of the World Economic
• 50:42
  Forum. Like it was way better when it was Klaus
• 50:43
  Schwab, like who was just like a Bond villain
• 50:46
  out of a card. And much like Gavin Newsom is
• 50:49
  Patrick Bateman from American Psycho Klaus Schwab
• 50:53
  is Stavros Blofeld I mean they're they're toying
• 50:55
  with us by putting these these these low intellect
• 50:58
  stooges in these positions and Having them just
• 51:00
  be cartoon characters. So it's definitely less
• 51:02
  entertaining without that guy. But yeah, I mean
• 51:04
  this was You had to want to not see it in real
• 51:08
  time because in real time they were saying stuff
• 51:11
  like Build back better and you'd have the super
• 51:14
  cut of all the the world the world Stooges figureheads
• 51:18
  up at up at podiums You know like a Justin Castro
• 51:21
  from Canada or you know the the coarse -faced
• 51:25
  chick from New Zealand You know, they would all
• 51:28
  just be build back better build back better build
• 51:30
  back better So like central gave them a memo,
• 51:32
  you know, maybe it was the World Economic Forum.
• 51:34
  That was that's central don't know whatever dispersed
• 51:39
  dispersion point from whence it emanated or maybe
• 51:42
  we've never even heard of the entity from whence
• 51:45
  it emanated but obviously there was coordination
• 51:48
  in messaging so who was the coordinator the World
• 51:51
  Economic Forum sort of served as the You know,
• 51:55
  either the literal coordinator or the stand -in
• 51:57
  for whatever that was the like, you know the
• 51:59
  power center of the elites, where they would
• 52:01
  get together in Davos and coordinate upon us
• 52:04
  for our health. So not only was there that, there
• 52:07
  was also the Agenda 2030. There was like, oh
• 52:10
  yeah, it's by 2030, you know, build back better
• 52:13
  by 2030, which by the way, if you notice, we're
• 52:16
  a little more than halfway there. And we have
• 52:18
  the same administration slash regime that was
• 52:22
  in 2020 that implemented all this. And now there's
• 52:26
  arguments about masks just in a different way.
• 52:29
  and there's chaos in the streets in very much
• 52:31
  the same way. Isn't that interesting? But one
• 52:36
  important thing to remember through all of this,
• 52:38
  Scott, and also something that was mass distributed
• 52:41
  to us. But I think they mean well when they say
• 52:44
  this. We're all in this together. That was another
• 52:48
  one. Don't you worry. We're all in this together,
• 52:52
  Scott. As we watch Gavin Newsom host a party
• 52:55
  with himself and 45 of his best Donors slash
• 52:59
  pedos. Oh friends. I mean friends and Whether
• 53:02
  telling the rest of us to stay home and leave
• 53:04
  grandma to die yes, and all of these all of these
• 53:08
  con family wannabes without masks surrounded
• 53:12
  by other little minions wearing masks as we've
• 53:14
  discussed ad nauseam on the show so in other
• 53:16
  words all of the stuff that they're quote admitting
• 53:18
  now that this is all just like a stress test
• 53:20
  story a sort of compliance barometer so they
• 53:23
  for the next time they pull start this engine,
• 53:26
  they know what to implement and what not to what
• 53:29
  worked and what didn't. That was also freaking
• 53:31
  obvious in real time. You had to want to not
• 53:33
  see it. Well, it's following the classic cycle
• 53:39
  of a conspiracy, which is I wish I had it up
• 53:42
  here, but I've seen it make the rounds. It always
• 53:44
  makes the rounds, but it basically starts off
• 53:46
  with that's not real. And then it goes to no,
• 53:50
  that didn't happen. And then it goes to, well,
• 53:53
  it happened, but not the way that you guys think.
• 53:55
  And then it goes to, OK, it happened the way
• 53:58
  you think, but for good reasons. Yeah, right.
• 54:00
  And then it goes to, well, it happened and we
• 54:04
  did it, but we're the good guys. And then it
• 54:08
  goes to it happened. We did it. We're the good
• 54:10
  guys. And you common folk are the reason it happened
• 54:14
  and you're the bad guys. It's your fault. Inflation
• 54:17
  is your fault because you spend your money. I
• 54:23
  need to put together. I need to admit there's
• 54:25
  probably one already out there, a supercut of
• 54:27
  all of the the build back better. We're all in
• 54:29
  this together. All of that that message agenda
• 54:32
  2030, the New World Order, all of these ridiculous
• 54:37
  cartoon dystopian totalitarian catchphrases that
• 54:41
  were coming out of these people's mouths like
• 54:42
  constantly. Oh, God, if you if you do that, though,
• 54:45
  you've got to wait until medical marijuana is
• 54:49
  legal in Idaho, because if you that supercut
• 54:51
  is going to give me cancer and I am going to
• 54:53
  have to. smoke my troubles away. You wanna get
• 54:57
  high? And I was the only one like in real time
• 55:00
  at the time going like, hello, like, here's the
• 55:03
  video of, what was Horseface's name? Jacinda
• 55:07
  Ardern. Here's a video of Jacinda Ardern like,
• 55:10
  you know, on the side of the stage, you know,
• 55:13
  before she's going out to the podium to give
• 55:15
  some phony baloney scripted press conference
• 55:17
  and how she, you know, she like. puts the mask
• 55:20
  on right before she walks out. And then she walks
• 55:23
  to the podium and then takes it off to give the
• 55:25
  speech. You know, like it was so like the theatrics
• 55:28
  were so obvious and so ridiculous. And and I
• 55:31
  was in my circles. I was like one of the only
• 55:33
  ones with the only one going like, hello, hello.
• 55:37
  Hello. Does anybody see this? Like, does anyone?
• 55:41
  Is anybody? And then, you know, no. Well, there's
• 55:45
  a. okay i can't i can't i'm gonna get cancer
• 55:47
  it uh oh no i know exactly what you're talking
• 55:49
  about it's this right it's that yeah uh okay
• 55:59
  so speaking of that the idaho state senate is
• 56:01
  introducing a bill restricting when law enforcement
• 56:04
  can use facial coverings senator janie warden
• 56:07
  jill king is the bill's sponsor and how many
• 56:10
  names does she have warden jill king Under a
• 56:14
  Janey Ward and Jill King is force Janey Ward
• 56:18
  and Jill that was for under a Janey Ward and
• 56:21
  Jill King is the bill sponsor and she says that
• 56:25
  it's similar to legislation pending in Utah and
• 56:27
  Washington Idaho's bill does not identify a specific
• 56:31
  law enforcement agency unlike in other states
• 56:33
  that specifically named ice as the primary subject.
• 56:37
  The bill would restrict law enforcement officers
• 56:39
  from wearing items that conceal or obscure their
• 56:42
  face. But there is some exceptions like a clear
• 56:45
  face shield or a medical mask to protect against
• 56:47
  exposure from harmful environmental conditions.
• 56:50
  Medical mask. So now I have this adjacent because
• 56:54
  this is now this is now a once again a I suppose
• 56:57
  a raging debate to the extent that it's even
• 56:59
  real. I don't actually think social media or
• 57:00
  any of these phony baloney comment sections or
• 57:03
  none of it is actually real. So I don't actually
• 57:05
  think there is really a debate, but the algo
• 57:07
  is making it seem like there is one with regard
• 57:09
  to the mal law enforcement should be able to
• 57:12
  cover their face. But it's the strangest thing
• 57:14
  because half of the the commie protester set
• 57:18
  still covers their face all the time at these
• 57:20
  things. And it has ever since, you know, they
• 57:22
  were doing it for the free Palestine stuff. When
• 57:25
  they were doing the quote women's march half
• 57:27
  of these psychos are covering their faces And
• 57:29
  so I'm not really sure like how they're gonna
• 57:31
  square that circle if this actually comes to
• 57:33
  pass But I want you to hear this quickly from
• 57:36
  Idaho new six from the year way way back in the
• 57:39
  year of our Lord to ought to one Here in Idaho
• 57:42
  protesters gathered outside City Hall burning
• 57:45
  now the reason it sounds like she's on like freaking
• 57:48
  Skype this this talking head reporter is because
• 57:50
  she is when all of the people you know, when
• 57:53
  they were like trying to show how virtuous they
• 57:55
  were. Look, our reporter is reporting from home,
• 57:57
  like from behind her desk. Now, of course, she
• 57:59
  had gone to Home Depot in Costco earlier that
• 58:01
  day. But that's a material. Protesters gathered
• 58:03
  outside City Hall burning masks. Well, many are
• 58:06
  now asking, is saving lives worth giving in to
• 58:09
  a temporary mandate? Many are now listen to that
• 58:12
  question. Many are now asking, is saving lives
• 58:15
  worth giving in to a temporary mandate? It's
• 58:17
  just an assertion that that the way the way this
• 58:20
  phrase is. The the assertion is that lives are
• 58:23
  being saved by these draconian methods. And if
• 58:26
  you if you do, if you do not, all you need to
• 58:29
  do is just is just go along with this temporary
• 58:31
  mandate. And if you don't, you're killing people.
• 58:34
  Well, many are now asking, is saving lives worth
• 58:37
  giving in to a temporary mandate? She is saving
• 58:40
  lives worth what people were asking is, oh, my
• 58:44
  gosh. Well, people were asking is, is this fat,
• 58:47
  this authoritarian bullshit? Is it even saving
• 58:50
  any lives and we know that vote for like it's
• 58:52
  not it's not it doesn't matter You just like
• 58:55
  goes cannot tell me to cover my face get bent.
• 58:58
  Are you out of your mind? Yeah, who thinks they
• 59:01
  have this kind of authority over people It's
• 59:02
  by beyond belief, but listen to this messaging.
• 59:05
  I mean this is this messaging was global To down
• 59:08
  to Idaho News 6 in busted whistle freaking in
• 59:13
  inland Northwest is saving lives worth giving
• 59:15
  into a temporary mandate. Even Texas, one of
• 59:17
  the most conservative states in the union, believes
• 59:20
  so. The governor there has instituted a statewide
• 59:22
  mask mandate. A couple 100 people showed up at
• 59:25
  City Hall to show their displeasure towards Mayor
• 59:27
  McLean's public health order that will require
• 59:30
  masks to be worn in public places starting on
• 59:32
  Independence Day. The mayor mandated wearing
• 59:34
  masks. Uh huh. Everything about it was very deliberate.
• 59:38
  This was the stress test toying with us nature
• 59:41
  all of it. Everything was done very deliberately.
• 59:43
  To be worn in public places starting on Independence
• 59:45
  Day. The mayor mandated wearing masks in an effort
• 59:48
  to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But these
• 59:51
  protesters view her order as unconstitutional.
• 59:55
  joins more than 20 full states that have instituted
• 59:58
  a mandatory mask rule as health experts say that's
• 1:00:01
  the best way to slow the spread of the virus
• 1:00:03
  and save our economy. The city of Boise gave
• 1:00:05
  masks away for free today. And save our economy.
• 1:00:08
  So by the way, if you're for the spread of disease
• 1:00:11
  and you hate the economy, if you won't cover
• 1:00:12
  your face. States that have instituted a mandatory
• 1:00:15
  mask rule as health experts say that's the best
• 1:00:17
  way to slow the spread of the virus. What about
• 1:00:19
  the experts who don't agree with that assessment?
• 1:00:21
  of the spread of the virus and save our economy.
• 1:00:23
  The City of Boise gave masks away for free today
• 1:00:26
  at City Hall West and the Boise Depot to anyone
• 1:00:28
  who needed one. It's an effort to make sure everyone
• 1:00:30
  in the city had access to a mask before the mandate
• 1:00:34
  takes effect. If people don't have masks, then
• 1:00:51
  they can't move about the community safely. So
• 1:00:53
  we wanted to make sure that masks are available
• 1:00:55
  to everybody who wants one, so that everyone's
• 1:00:59
  able to participate. Everyone, thank you, kind
• 1:01:01
  psycho chick. The CDC recommends wearing masks
• 1:01:04
  when around other people. It's not intended to
• 1:01:06
  protect you so much as those around you. Experts
• 1:01:10
  save, experts save, experts save. Everyone wears
• 1:01:12
  them, it will drastically cut down on the amount
• 1:01:13
  of viral droplets in the air. So there was another
• 1:01:16
  part of the coordinated messaging from people
• 1:01:18
  like Klaus Schwab and the WEF and the WHO and
• 1:01:20
  every other form of information dissemination
• 1:01:23
  that it was not to protect you, it was to protect
• 1:01:26
  others because you, you little disease vector,
• 1:01:29
  you are spreading disease. So you need to make
• 1:01:32
  sure that you don't spread disease to others.
• 1:01:34
  It's not to protect you. The CDC recommends wearing
• 1:01:36
  masks when around other people. It's not intended
• 1:01:39
  to protect you so much as those around you. So
• 1:01:42
  now, here we are, four long years later, five
• 1:01:47
  long years later, and we are talking about the
• 1:01:52
  notion of law enforcement covering their faces
• 1:01:55
  and not being allowed to. And the states who
• 1:01:58
  were the most draconian with regard to forcing
• 1:02:00
  their citizenry to cover their faces are now
• 1:02:03
  the ones pushing to make sure that... Ice agents
• 1:02:07
  or I guess law enforcement in general can't cover
• 1:02:09
  their faces But I thought you said you can't
• 1:02:11
  move about the community safely unless your face
• 1:02:14
  is covered. Oh, that was then this is now things
• 1:02:17
  are different because Also, you're gonna love
• 1:02:22
  this. Well, wait because why actually finish
• 1:02:24
  your sentence? Because hello Yeah Because like
• 1:02:34
  that's how this works, right there that's how
• 1:02:37
  paternalism works You know when you have a kid
• 1:02:40
  a lot of people because I said so right well
• 1:02:42
  Why why can't I do stay up and do this and because
• 1:02:45
  I said so well? That's the state in a nutshell
• 1:02:48
  to especially when it becomes paternalistic and
• 1:02:50
  authoritarian and everything else You know it's
• 1:02:52
  really interesting to say things have changed
• 1:02:54
  on on that the notion of because I said so it's
• 1:02:57
  funny You bring up that particular phrase because
• 1:02:59
  I have been known yes my wife I've said I've
• 1:03:02
  sworn up and down my kid will never hear that
• 1:03:05
  phrase come out of my mouth Ever. I will never
• 1:03:08
  say it. Never. Hey, I'm 43, man. I got answers.
• 1:03:13
  I got reasons. I got answers. I got questions
• 1:03:16
  for you. There is no way you are going to catch
• 1:03:19
  me with my pants down to such a degree that that's
• 1:03:21
  all I can come up with. Rats a ruck. And maybe
• 1:03:25
  that's why I have that reaction to that phrase
• 1:03:27
  that I do is because it is somehow paternalistic
• 1:03:32
  in the state. I hate it. I hate it. I react viscerally
• 1:03:36
  to it. You and I agree fully on that point, which
• 1:03:39
  same thing, Mary and I, my wife, same conversations
• 1:03:42
  from, you know, we've, we have a 15 year old
• 1:03:44
  and 11 year old and a 10, 11 month old now. And,
• 1:03:47
  you know, we had that conversation from day one
• 1:03:49
  with our first kid. Well, we didn't have with
• 1:03:51
  the kid, but with each other, my wife and I went,
• 1:03:54
  yeah, this, this is not an approach we're going
• 1:03:56
  to use or take ever. And we don't, we haven't,
• 1:03:59
  we don't, we won't. We have a visceral reaction,
• 1:04:03
  a negative visceral reaction to because I said
• 1:04:05
  so. For me, it's as much about rebellion against
• 1:04:07
  the state and the love of individual liberty
• 1:04:09
  as it is anything, but it's also just terrible
• 1:04:12
  parenting. It's terrible governance as well.
• 1:04:15
  For anybody who believes in the legitimacy of
• 1:04:17
  governance, I don't, obviously, but for those
• 1:04:19
  who do, it's still a terrible form of governments
• 1:04:22
  even, because I said so. Shut up, sit down, or
• 1:04:26
  we'll do. This is outrageous. Where are the armed
• 1:04:31
  men who come in to take the protesters away?
• 1:04:33
  Where are they? This kind of behavior is never
• 1:04:36
  tolerated in Boracua. You shout like that, they
• 1:04:39
  put you in jail. Right away? Right away. No trial,
• 1:04:42
  no nothing. Journalists, we have a special jail
• 1:04:44
  for journalists. Good. You're stealing, right
• 1:04:47
  to jail. You're playing music too loud, right
• 1:04:49
  to jail. Right to jail. You're driving too fast,
• 1:04:51
  jail. Slow, jail. You're charging too high prices
• 1:04:54
  for sweaters. glasses, you write to jail. You
• 1:04:59
  undercook fish, believe it or not, jail. You
• 1:05:01
  overcook chicken, also jail. I agree with that
• 1:05:05
  one. You make an appointment with the dentist
• 1:05:06
  and you don't show up, believe it or not, jail,
• 1:05:08
  right away. We have the best patients in the
• 1:05:10
  world because of jail. Behold, the warmth of
• 1:05:14
  collectivism. I loved that docu -series. It was
• 1:05:17
  terrific. Thank you. I thought you might, yeah,
• 1:05:21
  I was proud of that one. Here's where this gets
• 1:05:24
  even better. And we're staying right on track
• 1:05:26
  with what with what you brought up here So there's
• 1:05:28
  a bill right moving forward. I don't think it's
• 1:05:31
  gonna I don't think it's gonna get very far because
• 1:05:33
  Idaho again is so so Bootlicking when it comes
• 1:05:37
  to law enforcement I don't think that it'll move
• 1:05:41
  forward or pass or anything like that. But here's
• 1:05:43
  where it gets good is simultaneously There is
• 1:05:45
  a bill that is moving forward and this shows
• 1:05:49
  you the power dynamic of Idaho Where it's a proposed
• 1:05:53
  bill it made it narrowly out of committee a few
• 1:05:56
  days ago. And what it does is basically further
• 1:06:01
  penalize or further criminalize the covering
• 1:06:05
  of one's face while committing a crime. So you're
• 1:06:10
  not allowed to be masked while a crime. And they
• 1:06:16
  can add up to they can add more fines, you know,
• 1:06:19
  thousands and thousands of dollars or add up
• 1:06:21
  to an extra year in prison per count. If you're
• 1:06:26
  masked while criming. If people don't have masks,
• 1:06:30
  then they can't move about the community safely.
• 1:06:33
  Yeah, well, how am I going to do crime safely
• 1:06:36
  without my mask? Well, I don't see why just just
• 1:06:39
  because you want to just because you want to
• 1:06:41
  knock off a circle K doesn't mean you need to
• 1:06:43
  catch COVID. If people don't have masks, then
• 1:06:46
  they can't move about the community safely. You
• 1:06:49
  heard it. In fact, if you were going to knock
• 1:06:50
  off a circle K odds are good, you were going
• 1:06:53
  to get COVID. Circle C stands for COVID. Circle
• 1:06:59
  C. Man, if you want to know anything about government
• 1:07:04
  and people and how the two interact in a nutshell,
• 1:07:06
  this is it. Like these two bills, and then surrounded
• 1:07:11
  by the historical context of the last six years,
• 1:07:15
  behold the human condition. I mean, like these...
• 1:07:20
  I'm at a loss for words actually with how stupid
• 1:07:22
  it is. Statists are retarded. So anyways, I'll
• 1:07:25
  finish this real fast. I apologize. So it applies
• 1:07:28
  to felonies and misdemeanors. I mean, these penalties
• 1:07:31
  are big. Of course, there's a few critics. And
• 1:07:34
  one of the main issues is the bill's definition
• 1:07:38
  could potentially apply to wearing sunglasses.
• 1:07:41
  And I quote, it says, what? What do you say?
• 1:07:46
  It goes, anyone would have to be guilty of a
• 1:07:49
  crime to get the extra penalty, the defender
• 1:07:51
  said. Enhancements are not often used, he added,
• 1:07:54
  but and wouldn't be used. For example, if someone
• 1:07:56
  jaywalked while wearing a mask. So and I quote,
• 1:07:59
  he says, it's not like they're going to be like
• 1:08:00
  these enhancements are going to be used against
• 1:08:02
  somebody who wore a pair of Ray Bans jaywalking.
• 1:08:06
  What if you were wearing trans bands? I was just
• 1:08:10
  going to say it was like having them. Yeah, that's
• 1:08:13
  what they need is trans bands for the right kind
• 1:08:16
  of jaywalking. So this is what they're arguing
• 1:08:21
  about down in Boise right now. Right. Is should
• 1:08:24
  cops be allowed to wear masks? Yes or no. Should
• 1:08:27
  you get extra penalties for wearing masks while
• 1:08:30
  climbing? Yes. Yes or no. And whether or not
• 1:08:33
  we should cut one percent from the state school
• 1:08:38
  budgets. Oh, my gosh. Which no, we're not. You
• 1:08:40
  know what? We would never do that. We because
• 1:08:43
  we like education. I think this is how I'm feeling
• 1:08:48
  right now. It'll work for me. I think a lot of
• 1:08:56
  us are feeling this way right now Anyway, I'll
• 1:09:04
  save that for the end of the podcast. We should
• 1:09:05
  actually outro the podcast with this song I think
• 1:09:08
  you know we can do it as an end -of -show song
• 1:09:11
  like after the after the outro I mean we can
• 1:09:13
  play it at the end. Yeah, let's do it And that's
• 1:09:16
  something that that no agenda does people submit
• 1:09:18
  end -of -show mixes so people much like our brewing
• 1:09:21
  network guy Remixed strictly illegal into like
• 1:09:25
  a song like show content into a song So we can
• 1:09:29
  start implementing end of show mixes and we can
• 1:09:32
  start with that one today. That's awesome. In
• 1:09:36
  the meantime, if people don't have masks, then
• 1:09:38
  they can't move about the community safely. Just
• 1:09:40
  remember, unless your face is covered, you are
• 1:09:43
  unsafe. And the reason that we continue to harp
• 1:09:46
  on it and will basically never stop is because
• 1:09:49
  there's no off ramp for that psychotic delusion.
• 1:09:51
  There is no off ramp. Yeah. Let's do another
• 1:09:56
  Ask Paul. The Coeur d 'Alene City Council is
• 1:09:59
  considering dissolving the city's parking commission.
• 1:10:02
  Oh, yeah, you know what? Actually, I forgot this
• 1:10:03
  is actually this is bizarro, ask Paul, because
• 1:10:07
  somehow we have stumbled into the twilight zone
• 1:10:11
  where the government is considering eliminating
• 1:10:16
  something. The Coeur d 'Alene City Council is
• 1:10:18
  considering dissolving the city's parking commission.
• 1:10:20
  Staff say they meet monthly, but have little
• 1:10:23
  work to do. The committee agreed to recommend
• 1:10:25
  that the city council adopt several changes to
• 1:10:28
  the municipal code regarding parking, including
• 1:10:30
  repealing the chapter that established the parking
• 1:10:33
  commission. If dissolved, the money in the city's
• 1:10:36
  parking fund will. The money will what? It will
• 1:10:41
  not be returned to the taxpayer. You got there.
• 1:10:47
  The money will probably be used to either shore
• 1:10:51
  up a budget deficit or be spent on more administration.
• 1:10:55
  And here's my follow up question slash answer
• 1:10:58
  is the employees of the parking commission are
• 1:11:01
  going to be reassigned to a slightly less useless
• 1:11:04
  department and given raises. If dissolved, the
• 1:11:08
  money in the parking fund will remain under control
• 1:11:10
  of the city council. They didn't even specify.
• 1:11:14
  They're just like, Hey, just so you know, we
• 1:11:15
  might know this, but we're keeping your money.
• 1:11:18
  We're keeping the money. I'm giving you that
• 1:11:21
  one though. Yeah. Fuck you peasants. You definitely
• 1:11:24
  got that one. All right. So speaking, I'm blown
• 1:11:29
  away though, that they're actually considering
• 1:11:31
  removing a department. I mean, I guess credit
• 1:11:35
  where credit is due. Well, they're not giving
• 1:11:38
  the money back. Well, and also don't hold your
• 1:11:41
  breath because they say they're just considering
• 1:11:42
  it, which might mean they will expand. Oh, okay.
• 1:11:45
  Okay. You big tease. And you know what happens
• 1:11:48
  to when you when you expand stuff. The executive
• 1:11:52
  director of the Coeur d 'Alene Child Development
• 1:11:54
  Center has been sentenced for a Medicaid fraud
• 1:11:56
  scheme. According to Attorney General Raul Labrador,
• 1:11:59
  49 year old Tracy Hopius stole more than $150
• 1:12:02
  ,000 from 2022 to 2023 at North Star Child Development
• 1:12:06
  Center. Over the course of the year, the AG says
• 1:12:09
  Hopius was receiving Medicaid funding for services.
• 1:12:12
  that were never offered at her business. A judge
• 1:12:14
  placed Topias on supervised provision, ordering
• 1:12:16
  her to pay about $154 ,000 in restitution and
• 1:12:21
  as well as community service. It's unclear if
• 1:12:23
  she's of Somali origin. It doesn't sound like
• 1:12:25
  it. I was going to ask, but the name doesn't
• 1:12:29
  doesn't sound it so. 49 year old Tracy Hopius
• 1:12:32
  stole Tracy Hopius. No, yeah, I'm gonna go with
• 1:12:36
  no Tracy. Probably not a common name. Honestly,
• 1:12:39
  it answered the question for us when we found
• 1:12:41
  out how much she stole, because had she been
• 1:12:43
  Somali, it would have been like 1 .5 million.
• 1:12:45
  At a zero, absolutely. Yeah, not 150k, because,
• 1:12:49
  you know, you got to consult the professionals
• 1:12:52
  on these sort of scams first before you really
• 1:12:54
  take a stab at it, because if you've got to like
• 1:12:55
  go to jail and have to go through all of this
• 1:12:57
  rigmarole, you might as well at least make seven
• 1:13:00
  figures, not low six, and come on, amateurs.
• 1:13:05
  Here's a couple more. I do have a, not really
• 1:13:08
  a boot on the ground, but it's a note from a
• 1:13:10
  producer with regard to. uh, roads and privatization
• 1:13:14
  versus public roads, which I thought was perfect
• 1:13:17
  because the, uh, the, the Gaza set is looking
• 1:13:20
  to privatize their stretch of road again. The
• 1:13:23
  Gaza ranch homeowners. Oh, and this is our, you
• 1:13:25
  know, I need to come up with it. Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:13:27
  I need to come up with a, uh, like a, like a
• 1:13:29
  sort of warning jingle when we're about to play,
• 1:13:31
  uh, our good friend who's the most affected newsreader
• 1:13:34
  we've heard thus far on this show, Gaza ranch
• 1:13:36
  home. This is great. Does this guy have a name
• 1:13:38
  for Gaza ranch requesting? He does have a name.
• 1:13:41
  I don't think he's AI generated. I don't know,
• 1:13:44
  but if he's got a name, we've got to find it.
• 1:13:46
  He does. I'll find it in between the shows. Come
• 1:13:48
  up with an alliteration for it. OK, I'll find
• 1:13:50
  it. The Gaza Ranch Homeowners Association and
• 1:13:53
  Developers for Gaza Ranch are requesting the
• 1:13:56
  Highway District to vacate an abandoned public
• 1:13:59
  right of way on Gaza Road. It's a busy shortcut
• 1:14:01
  for many people who live in that area. And tonight,
• 1:14:04
  one local resident is asking the petitioners
• 1:14:06
  to listen to what the public wants. Please don't
• 1:14:12
  take our road, you know, it belongs to everybody
• 1:14:14
  You like you like the net pop we the of the of
• 1:14:19
  the cars going down I love it. I love this whole
• 1:14:23
  clip so far the the the commentators fantastic
• 1:14:26
  the the pop of the drive the traffic is You've
• 1:14:32
  got a sound bite that opening statement for me,
• 1:14:34
  please don't take our roads Please don't take
• 1:14:38
  our road. Please don't take our road Please That
• 1:14:43
  is I got a meme that that is so memeable was
• 1:14:46
  like every statist ever He's done to you know,
• 1:14:49
  or any any time I talk like a libertarian or
• 1:14:51
  an anarchist someone else says, please don't
• 1:14:53
  take our roads Please don't take our road, you
• 1:14:55
  know, it belongs to everybody and it should stay
• 1:14:58
  just like that Thomas little lives just down
• 1:15:01
  the road from Gaza ranch. We've lived in this
• 1:15:04
  area 48 plus year over his time. He's seen a
• 1:15:08
  lot of things change in the area and a lot of
• 1:15:10
  the locals use this road to get up to Burma Road.
• 1:15:13
  And this is like a shortcut because in the winter
• 1:15:15
  you can't use a lot of the other road. According
• 1:15:18
  to the petition, this is the section of road
• 1:15:20
  they want to privatize. It's nearly two miles
• 1:15:23
  long. So this is this is a very important road
• 1:15:26
  for everybody to come and go. Also for the fire,
• 1:15:29
  the fire department, they use this road to get
• 1:15:31
  a shortcut to Burma Road and then down south.
• 1:15:35
  I called the East Side Fire District. Chief Jerry
• 1:15:38
  Lin told me the privatization of Gaza. I called
• 1:15:42
  the East Side Fire District. Chief Jerry Lin
• 1:15:45
  told me the privatization of Gaza. We called
• 1:15:46
  the daycare center and asked them if they were
• 1:15:48
  committing fraud and they told us no. You can
• 1:15:50
  tell that he called because just listen. I called
• 1:15:54
  the East Side Fire District. Chief Jerry Lynn
• 1:15:56
  told me the privatization of Gaza Road would
• 1:15:59
  be an impediment to life saving response. You
• 1:16:01
  know, people's lives are at stake. Oh, lives
• 1:16:04
  are at stake. About four miles away as the crow
• 1:16:07
  flies and at the East Side Highway District,
• 1:16:10
  director Ben Wymouth says this isn't the first
• 1:16:12
  time this conversation has been brought up. They've
• 1:16:15
  wanted guard checks. They've wanted it to be
• 1:16:17
  private in the past, but. It was approved and
• 1:16:20
  built as a public road, and that's what it is
• 1:16:21
  today. Interestingly enough, Gaza has security
• 1:16:24
  posts on the public road at each end. I just
• 1:16:28
  don't get it. How can they put, you know, that
• 1:16:30
  on a public right -of -way? It does not make
• 1:16:32
  sense. The climate says they're doing their due
• 1:16:34
  diligence to prepare... Money! We need this money.
• 1:16:41
  ...to prepare the board. The road could be sold
• 1:16:44
  at market value if it's in the public's best
• 1:16:47
  interest and is not landlocking people. You know,
• 1:16:50
  I love that too when it's like, oh this part
• 1:16:52
  you can't have a new dock on this section of
• 1:16:55
  Hayden There's you know We don't allow building
• 1:16:57
  of new docks because of environmental and the
• 1:16:59
  shoreline isn't that and then you go and a couple
• 1:17:02
  months later like There's like a Stancraft construction
• 1:17:05
  site and they're building a new dock You're like
• 1:17:06
  what I thought you I thought the environment
• 1:17:08
  no docks like oh well what happened is they they
• 1:17:12
  paid a you know a million dollar fee to the city
• 1:17:15
  of Hayden is like Oh, I see. So it was never
• 1:17:17
  about that. It's just, you know, we need this
• 1:17:19
  money. Got it. Now I understand. It never is.
• 1:17:22
  Never is. It never is. Usually somebody, you
• 1:17:25
  know, going back to the cartel stuff, it's somebody
• 1:17:27
  who knows somebody around here. Stancraft is
• 1:17:29
  a good example of people who are connected all
• 1:17:31
  the way to the top. Good Lord. It's nice to have
• 1:17:33
  relatives and friends on all the councils and
• 1:17:35
  boards and everything else backed by lots and
• 1:17:38
  lots of money. Well, it's the third time. I actually
• 1:17:43
  followed up on that article a little bit because
• 1:17:45
  you showed me that one. I think you showed it
• 1:17:47
  to me. And it's the third time Gaza Ranch is
• 1:17:49
  trying to do it. They've been denied twice. I
• 1:17:51
  suspect they're going to be denied again because
• 1:17:52
  they have to go before like, I think it's called
• 1:17:55
  the Public Roads Commission, which is a government
• 1:17:57
  entity. Unless Gaza Ranch says, we'll give you
• 1:18:01
  20 million dollars. I don't think it's going
• 1:18:03
  to get privatized. Well, I wouldn't put it past
• 1:18:06
  them. We shall see. OK, this is a good time.
• 1:18:11
  Then, as I mentioned, I want to read this note.
• 1:18:13
  from one of our producers, this is from Kyle,
• 1:18:17
  and he wrote in about the, he said, privatization
• 1:18:20
  of the road network. Well, I generally agree
• 1:18:21
  that government services should be extremely
• 1:18:24
  limited. I do not believe that the road system
• 1:18:27
  is an appropriate component of infrastructure
• 1:18:29
  to privatize. Yes, there are plenty of private
• 1:18:32
  roads in existence. In few cases these are well
• 1:18:35
  maintained and snow removal privatized which
• 1:18:37
  works in a functional community generally where
• 1:18:39
  there is an active HOA which is essentially a
• 1:18:41
  mini government that assesses slash taxes its
• 1:18:44
  homeowners with little representation to set
• 1:18:46
  budgets and service levels. However most HOAs
• 1:18:48
  die and the roads are orphaned with no mechanism
• 1:18:50
  to fund maintenance and they eventually deteriorate.
• 1:18:54
  Aside from the logistical nightmare of people
• 1:18:56
  navigating a private road network which would
• 1:18:58
  have to pay for itself, so think tolls every
• 1:19:00
  few blocks, gates everywhere, keeping unpaying
• 1:19:03
  drivers off particular roads, etc. The biggest
• 1:19:05
  reason is purely efficiency. Roads are not designed
• 1:19:08
  for efficiency. If you think of roads like a
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  product manufacturer and the road system is your
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  assembly line, getting your products from point
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  A to point B as they are assembled, you would
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  build that assembly line at the leanest limit
• 1:19:18
  you could so as not to overbuild excess capacity.
• 1:19:21
  Building roads for cars with relatively minimal
• 1:19:23
  weight is much different than an interstate highway
• 1:19:25
  that must transport heavy loads long distances.
• 1:19:27
  These roads are three to eight times thicker
• 1:19:30
  and stronger. Most many roads are used at under
• 1:19:33
  five percent of their carrying capacity. Anytime
• 1:19:36
  you see asphalt without a car on it, that is
• 1:19:37
  over capacity. or underutilized investment in
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  your conveyance system. Manufacturers make as
• 1:19:43
  lean a system as possible such that their unused
• 1:19:45
  capacity approaches zero and a road network simply
• 1:19:48
  couldn't function in such a manner without the
• 1:19:50
  public losing their shit. So last part of it,
• 1:19:53
  even your residential street has no business
• 1:19:56
  carrying two -way travel. It's overbuilt. Just
• 1:19:59
  build it with one lane with pull -offs and you
• 1:20:01
  can have your investment without significantly
• 1:20:02
  diminishing the usage, but people would hate
• 1:20:04
  it. And anyway, it goes on a little bit, but
• 1:20:07
  he's, I don't know, what do you? What do you
• 1:20:09
  think about this case he's making for why that's
• 1:20:11
  not a good candidate for privatization? Yeah,
• 1:20:15
  well, it's not a bad case. He brings up some
• 1:20:18
  good points, some points that have been brought
• 1:20:20
  up before. I mean, the road debate is one that
• 1:20:22
  comes up a lot, especially as, you know, as a
• 1:20:24
  libertarian or an anarchist like myself. And
• 1:20:26
  usually one of the first things somebody says,
• 1:20:29
  and they usually think it's a gotchas. Well,
• 1:20:31
  what about my roads? And it's like, ah, here
• 1:20:33
  we are again. So. Number of good thoughts a number
• 1:20:38
  of good points and actually I appreciate that
• 1:20:40
  he gets kind of technical with it But there's
• 1:20:42
  a number of things to consider and of course,
• 1:20:44
  I'm not a utopist no libertarian or anarchist
• 1:20:47
  is quite the opposite we understand human nature
• 1:20:49
  and understand that there is no such thing as
• 1:20:51
  a As perfection and there's no such thing as
• 1:20:54
  a perfect solution only trade -offs So what do
• 1:20:57
  you value more read his final sentence Paul because
• 1:21:00
  he says the government does a crappy job of funding
• 1:21:03
  and maintaining the road system, but it's still
• 1:21:04
  a better alternative than privatization. So I
• 1:21:07
  definitely acknowledge, yes, neither one of these
• 1:21:08
  would actually be all that great of a solution,
• 1:21:11
  but which one is less bad than the other? I think
• 1:21:15
  overall, the private sector does a better job
• 1:21:17
  at almost everything. And I think the roads would
• 1:21:20
  be no exception. It would take some getting used
• 1:21:22
  to. We're conditioned to it being the way it
• 1:21:24
  is and the way it has been since the 50s when
• 1:21:27
  the highway network was built under Eisenhower.
• 1:21:31
  Which, incidentally, if you want to go down the
• 1:21:33
  history route, that was because Eisenhower, when
• 1:21:35
  they were over in Germany for World War II, saw
• 1:21:37
  how their road systems were and saw that it was
• 1:21:39
  built for fast and easy mobility of military
• 1:21:43
  forces. And so Eisenhower brought that model
• 1:21:46
  back here. And in the 50s, it was one part that
• 1:21:49
  and one part, of course, we got all these unemployed
• 1:21:52
  soldiers, let's put them to work. So it was a
• 1:21:54
  public works project. And, you know, bada bing,
• 1:21:56
  bada boom, the national highway system is built.
• 1:21:58
  So you employ all these former soldiers. while
• 1:22:00
  also putting together a system of highways where
• 1:22:02
  you can easily move troops and machines and weapons
• 1:22:06
  from one end of the country to the other. And
• 1:22:09
  that has a lot of trade -offs into itself. A
• 1:22:11
  lot of small towns and small communities got
• 1:22:13
  left out and basically have withered and died.
• 1:22:16
  And it's not without its downsides. And it also,
• 1:22:20
  the highway system didn't follow what a lot of
• 1:22:21
  people wanted. It didn't follow what the market
• 1:22:23
  naturally would do, where it would send people,
• 1:22:26
  where people would want to go. Instead, it just
• 1:22:28
  got built to where the government wanted and
• 1:22:30
  then funneled everybody that direction. Now,
• 1:22:33
  that aside, private sector almost always does
• 1:22:36
  better and usually less expensive. And one thing
• 1:22:41
  that would be, that I would appreciate is instead
• 1:22:43
  of being taxed for it, user fees. If I'm going
• 1:22:46
  to use it, I'll pay for it. That's a more Ethical
• 1:22:49
  moral and fair way to do it. So, you know, you
• 1:22:52
  own a stretch of road It gets me where I need
• 1:22:53
  to go and I pay, you know as a customer I pay
• 1:22:57
  But I'm using it. It's it's just like anything
• 1:22:59
  else you use it you pay for it, right? That's
• 1:23:01
  the most moral and ethical way number two is
• 1:23:04
  as a cut, you know, yeah Is that me or is that
• 1:23:10
  you that's you that was you on the last show
• 1:23:12
  too? Oh weird You did it on purpose on the last
• 1:23:17
  show and I thought it just be the reference went
• 1:23:20
  over my head But now I realized that it's just
• 1:23:22
  something that happened Huh, I'll have to look
• 1:23:26
  into that. I'm sorry everyone I'm gonna figure
• 1:23:30
  out where that came from Yeah, it's cool I actually
• 1:23:38
  I think I know what it is now, I think it's my
• 1:23:39
  Schwab trading account that I left up. And I
• 1:23:42
  think it's the Oh, it's 1pm. That's why it's
• 1:23:44
  the end of the trading day is that that's the
• 1:23:45
  end of trading bell. It does sound very, very
• 1:23:48
  stock exchangey. Yeah, figured it out. Sorry,
• 1:23:53
  everybody. All right. Number point number two
• 1:23:55
  is when you're a customer, it's different than
• 1:23:57
  when you're a taxpayer. So a company is going
• 1:23:59
  to be Typically not always more responsive to
• 1:24:03
  what the customer wants and needs They'll build
• 1:24:04
  the roads that way roads will look different
• 1:24:06
  depending on what region you're in what culture
• 1:24:08
  you've got and what people want What do the customer
• 1:24:10
  want? number three is Companies don't like lawsuits
• 1:24:16
  So they're gonna build the roads to spec and
• 1:24:19
  they're gonna make sure that they're safe because
• 1:24:20
  you can't you can't sue the government When you
• 1:24:23
  run off the road because the road was bad. You
• 1:24:25
  can't sue the government to help replace your
• 1:24:28
  your rims and your tires When you hit a pothole
• 1:24:30
  and it fucks everything up, you can't sue the
• 1:24:33
  government for when they put the wrong salt on
• 1:24:35
  the roads and it rusts out the underneath of
• 1:24:37
  your car. You can't do anything to the government.
• 1:24:41
  But if it's privately owned, well, now there's
• 1:24:43
  liability involved. And then that just like everything
• 1:24:46
  else, it goes back to having to be responsive
• 1:24:48
  to your customers. So the roads will be maintained
• 1:24:50
  while taken care of. Again, not all, but the
• 1:24:53
  vast majority of companies who do this are have
• 1:24:55
  to be responsive to the people they serve. That's
• 1:24:58
  what business is. But as long as you take care
• 1:25:00
  of your customers, you're doing what you're supposed
• 1:25:01
  to do in the free market and everybody benefits.
• 1:25:04
  So there's liability as well. If they don't maintain
• 1:25:06
  the roads, well, you've got a lawsuit on your
• 1:25:07
  hands. So incentives, incentives matter. The
• 1:25:10
  government doesn't have the incentive to serve
• 1:25:12
  the customer because the government, it's government
• 1:25:15
  and taxpayer. It's not service provider and customer.
• 1:25:19
  There was a couple of other things he mentioned
• 1:25:20
  that I thought were really interesting that I
• 1:25:22
  have forgotten that were also bring up. Oh, one
• 1:25:25
  other thing is the unseen consequences of And
• 1:25:29
  this is an overarching argument that's not specific
• 1:25:31
  to the roads, but it applies. Imagine where we
• 1:25:35
  would be if the government had gotten out of
• 1:25:38
  the way for the last hundred years. Right. We
• 1:25:42
  very well might have actually flying cars or
• 1:25:45
  we might have other ways. I'm serious. I'm dead
• 1:25:46
  serious. We would have other ways to get around.
• 1:25:50
  Roads might not be as necessary. They might be
• 1:25:53
  just as necessary, but not as heavily used. There
• 1:25:55
  might be there's all kinds of innovation. that
• 1:25:59
  has never occurred because it's been smothered
• 1:26:01
  in the cradle because of taxation, regulation,
• 1:26:04
  all of the opportunity lost by the government
• 1:26:07
  just getting in the way of human flourishing.
• 1:26:10
  So think of an industry, any industry, think
• 1:26:12
  of a product, any product, think of all the things
• 1:26:15
  you think are legal, and then think of all the
• 1:26:18
  things or look up all the things that are illegal
• 1:26:21
  and really do some thinking about that. And then
• 1:26:24
  realize human flourishing has been stimmied really
• 1:26:27
  badly for by the state particularly in the last
• 1:26:31
  century always but particularly in the last century
• 1:26:34
  as technology becomes what it is where we could
• 1:26:37
  be right now versus where we are miles apart
• 1:26:41
  if we had just had the freedom to do it so roads
• 1:26:44
  might not even matter in 2026 if in 1926 we didn't
• 1:26:48
  have the income tax and the government stayed
• 1:26:50
  the size that it was then now isn't it stymied
• 1:26:56
  not stimied maybe Well, because because I think
• 1:27:01
  of people talk about stimmy checks, stimmy as
• 1:27:03
  in like stimulus and stymied is the opposite
• 1:27:07
  is what you're saying. You're the one with fancy
• 1:27:10
  AI. Look it up. I've actually never heard. I
• 1:27:12
  don't think I've heard the word ever said, but
• 1:27:14
  I've seen it many, many times written because
• 1:27:16
  I'm I'm I'm 99 percent sure it's stymied. Let's
• 1:27:21
  look it up. Whatever. I use the word properly.
• 1:27:25
  At least at least grant me that stymied. Stymied.
• 1:27:31
  This guy's weird. Yeah, you totally, you used
• 1:27:34
  it properly. I just, the reason I keyed in on
• 1:27:36
  it is because, for one, it happened in the last
• 1:27:39
  episode, too. And I was like, oh, hmm. And then
• 1:27:42
  also, like, it's it's just stimmied in that context
• 1:27:46
  would be the opposite, as in, like, stimulated.
• 1:27:50
  I see what you're saying. I guess, yeah. I mean,
• 1:27:52
  for those of you who have, you know, COVID on
• 1:27:54
  the brain. Thank you. But I befitted my way.
• 1:27:58
  Stimid well and to your point about you know,
• 1:28:01
  who knows what things would look like and how
• 1:28:04
  relevant roads would even be I mean and this
• 1:28:06
  is actually this is a book I've mentioned even
• 1:28:08
  to Kyle when we were discussing this like in
• 1:28:11
  person Which is the the biography the power broker
• 1:28:14
  about Robert Moses in New York It's from the
• 1:28:17
  70s and say it's it's long, but it's a really
• 1:28:20
  really good read It's like sort of he's like
• 1:28:23
  one of the most influential men in American and
• 1:28:26
  maybe even like world history that whose name
• 1:28:27
  very few people remember Including me until I
• 1:28:30
  read this biography Robert Moses was the most
• 1:28:32
  powerful man in New York from the basically the
• 1:28:34
  20s through the 60s and he he single -handedly
• 1:28:38
  He like consolidated so much power for himself
• 1:28:41
  and single -handedly shaped New York with regard
• 1:28:43
  to roads and bridges and That sort of in and
• 1:28:46
  parks. He was technically like that believe the
• 1:28:48
  parks commissioner those as like official title,
• 1:28:51
  but what he ended up being was the lone lone
• 1:28:55
  director of what the road and bridge infrastructure
• 1:28:57
  would look like in New York and then by by extension
• 1:29:01
  became really influential for how other American
• 1:29:04
  cities would look because other city planners
• 1:29:07
  in that era were like going to like sort of studying
• 1:29:10
  underneath him because he was Robert Moses in
• 1:29:13
  New York and he was executing these unbelievable
• 1:29:15
  infrastructure projects in the Triborough Bridge
• 1:29:17
  and this and that so and Robert Moses never drove
• 1:29:20
  a car he never drove a car he was driven around
• 1:29:24
  and not only that you know he when he came up
• 1:29:26
  in the 20s cars were not what they they were
• 1:29:29
  like playthings of the rich and of course they
• 1:29:32
  became much more sort of utilitarian items that
• 1:29:35
  everybody had during the course of his tenure,
• 1:29:38
  but because he was so stuck in the notion of
• 1:29:41
  what cars once were and he never drove one, basically
• 1:29:46
  he'd open up one bridge and then that would be
• 1:29:48
  packed bumper to bumper and then in order to
• 1:29:50
  alleviate that traffic the other road would open
• 1:29:52
  and that would be packed and another bridge would
• 1:29:53
  open and that would be packed and he would fund
• 1:29:56
  everything he was doing from his toll booth so
• 1:29:58
  he could issue bonds against toll revenue so
• 1:30:00
  he was accountable to nobody, he could fund any
• 1:30:03
  project he wanted to, and he single -handedly
• 1:30:05
  shaped what New York and a lot of the rest of
• 1:30:09
  the United States looks like with regard to...
• 1:30:11
  So in other words, I'm saying all that to say
• 1:30:13
  like, yeah, maybe the entire premise that these
• 1:30:17
  are even good things in the first place is not
• 1:30:19
  correct. Well, centralized planning is by default
• 1:30:24
  always the worst way to go. You cannot replicate
• 1:30:28
  the knowledge of the market. There's a term for
• 1:30:31
  it. And I forget what the term is. I should know
• 1:30:33
  this term by now, but it's something like gained
• 1:30:36
  or shared knowledge. Yeah. It's essentially the
• 1:30:39
  fact that no, no one of us or even a small group
• 1:30:42
  of us has the knowledge that the rest of humanity
• 1:30:45
  has combined as it works and moves and plays
• 1:30:48
  and has its wants, needs and desires. And that
• 1:30:50
  is why individual actors in the marketplace always
• 1:30:55
  do the best. And as an aggregate in a free market,
• 1:30:59
  it always leads to the maximum, you know, never
• 1:31:02
  perfect, but max liberty, max value, max efficiency
• 1:31:07
  and max fulfillment of wants, needs and desires,
• 1:31:10
  because you have to just do what you're you know,
• 1:31:14
  what does the market want? What do your customers
• 1:31:15
  want? And there's no way to centrally plan all
• 1:31:20
  of that. You cannot. It's impossible because
• 1:31:22
  you don't know. What everybody wants these are
• 1:31:25
  desires at all times and you don't know how they're
• 1:31:28
  gonna behave or why or when People on an individual
• 1:31:31
  level are quite rational But on the macro level
• 1:31:34
  it can be really hard to understand sometimes
• 1:31:36
  and when I say rational I don't necessarily mean
• 1:31:38
  highly intelligent or super smart but rational
• 1:31:42
  in so much is that People are rationally follow
• 1:31:45
  incentives Everything is about incentives and
• 1:31:49
  government by its very nature the state by its
• 1:31:50
  very nature warps the market and screws up natural
• 1:31:56
  versus unnatural. It brings unnatural incentives
• 1:31:58
  to the game and tears out natural incentives.
• 1:32:02
  And so you have behavior that you would never
• 1:32:05
  have otherwise. You have things being built or
• 1:32:08
  done in a way that never would occur otherwise
• 1:32:10
  because the government either makes something
• 1:32:12
  illegal or makes parts of something illegal or
• 1:32:14
  makes you jump through this or that. So central
• 1:32:17
  planning never works. Roads are centrally planned.
• 1:32:20
  Please don't take our roads. Yeah, there's one
• 1:32:24
  other thing too. I guess that I would say it's
• 1:32:26
  worth considering just like on a market -based
• 1:32:28
  level is if I'm a business owner or if I'm a
• 1:32:32
  developer of a of a Housing development for example
• 1:32:36
  or of a where a Walmart's gonna be or anything
• 1:32:39
  And I'm involved in the developing of that or
• 1:32:41
  I'm a business owner as a part of that Well,
• 1:32:44
  I have a natural incentive to make sure that
• 1:32:46
  my customers or the people who are gonna buy
• 1:32:48
  the house that I'm building or rent the building
• 1:32:51
  that I'm building for business or what have you,
• 1:32:55
  my customers need to be able to get to and from.
• 1:32:58
  They got to be able to get there and they got
• 1:33:00
  to be able to leave. So there's a natural incentive
• 1:33:03
  to make sure, well, I better have a road and
• 1:33:06
  I better connect that road to the other roads
• 1:33:08
  so that people, because the more customers and
• 1:33:10
  who can come here or the more people can come
• 1:33:13
  to this neighborhood to live here or to visit,
• 1:33:16
  the more accessible this product, good or service
• 1:33:19
  is. the more marketable and valuable it is. Just
• 1:33:23
  like we do with everything else, like cars, for
• 1:33:27
  example, where parts are made in 10 different
• 1:33:29
  places, all brought together, assembled to create
• 1:33:33
  this amazing machine that is powered on combustible
• 1:33:37
  gas that has been brought up from the earth,
• 1:33:42
  refined, turned into a usable fuel that's then
• 1:33:46
  put into this machine that is a basically magic
• 1:33:49
  if you don't know cars all put together and all
• 1:33:53
  run by a product gas that all combined you're
• 1:33:56
  talking thousands of different moving parts and
• 1:33:59
  companies and things involved to build a working
• 1:34:03
  automobile that can then drive on this basic
• 1:34:06
  flat surface. And the premise then that we can't
• 1:34:10
  somehow build this flat surface and make it go
• 1:34:12
  where we want to go without government, but we
• 1:34:14
  can build a car and get the gas to drive the
• 1:34:17
  car without government. It's back. It's back
• 1:34:20
  to what I said last episode, Scott, where I said,
• 1:34:25
  if we let the government teach humans how to
• 1:34:28
  walk at a young age in one generation, they turn
• 1:34:31
  around and say, well, without the government,
• 1:34:33
  how could anybody learn how to walk? Thanks,
• 1:34:36
  Kyle, for writing in a interesting perspective.
• 1:34:42
  Absolutely. No, I do appreciate it. And it's
• 1:34:44
  not without his. It's not without merit and it
• 1:34:47
  does have some good points, but each of those
• 1:34:49
  points I think are Not to be too aggressive here
• 1:34:52
  or rude, but they are refutable from a libertarian
• 1:34:55
  anarchist perspective I mean ultimately the market
• 1:34:57
  will do what the market will do people want people
• 1:34:59
  need to get places Somebody will innovate and
• 1:35:02
  make sure people can get places because there's
• 1:35:04
  a proper incentive There's there's profit motive
• 1:35:06
  and they'll make sure people can do it safely
• 1:35:08
  and quickly and efficiently because there's also
• 1:35:11
  profit incentive and the incentive to not be
• 1:35:14
  liable whereas the government has no profit incentive
• 1:35:17
  to provide a good service and has no incentive
• 1:35:20
  for safety because you can't really sue the government
• 1:35:22
  for bad roads. Let's do this. Two more quick
• 1:35:28
  ones. You sent me the you know, for both of us
• 1:35:30
  feeling like shit, this might be our longest
• 1:35:32
  podcast so far. Yeah, I figured we were going
• 1:35:36
  to. Do like an hour and then both be like, oh,
• 1:35:38
  we're exhausted. We're done. I was I was. Yeah,
• 1:35:40
  I had like just there's just too much going on,
• 1:35:42
  man. You know, and I think it's going to be hard
• 1:35:44
  to our first episode that we did the about NIC.
• 1:35:47
  I think it's going to be hard to top that length.
• 1:35:49
  This certainly will not. Here's the article.
• 1:35:52
  This is the as read by a voice from 11 Labs,
• 1:35:56
  the Coeur d 'Alene press headline. about CIA
• 1:35:59
  asset, I mean, journalist Don Lemon being arrested.
• 1:36:02
  This is their headline verbatim. Journalist Don
• 1:36:05
  Lemon has been arrested after he covered a Minnesota
• 1:36:08
  church protest. I sent you that article. Oh,
• 1:36:14
  yeah. And I know exactly why I sent it to you.
• 1:36:17
  OK. You get this one though because I've talked
• 1:36:19
  a lot you break it down buddy Trahir and Gene
• 1:36:21
  Cruz is a leader of this is another part of the
• 1:36:23
  article that I could that I I'll do the headline
• 1:36:25
  in a moment But this is another part of the article
• 1:36:27
  because it ties into how the headline is framed
• 1:36:30
  and why it is framed that way The the guy these
• 1:36:32
  is about to mention was a BLM or is a BLM activist
• 1:36:36
  Trahir and Gene Cruz is a leader of Black Lives
• 1:36:39
  Matter, Minnesota Who has led many protests and
• 1:36:42
  actions for racial justice? particularly following
• 1:36:45
  George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis in 2020.
• 1:36:47
  Now, again, that's verbatim from the Coeur d
• 1:36:49
  'Alene press. So you see how they frame the reasoning
• 1:36:53
  for why people are doing things. So in this case,
• 1:36:57
  the BLM activists, he's just protesting for racial
• 1:36:59
  justice. So if you oppose why this guy is out
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  in the streets smashing footlocker windows, then
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  you are against racial justice, just like If
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  you are, if Don Lemon should, you know, what
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  was he doing? Like he was arrested after he covered
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  a Minnesota church protest. So that's it. He
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  was just covering a church protest. So he was
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  arrested. I mean, so this is like where this
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  is a fascist regime. They're arresting journalists.
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  This is all in the framing. And this is also
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  why I played the the Idaho News 6 anti -mask
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  protest coverage from earlier, because this is
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  how they frame stuff when they want you to think
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  that the people gathering are You know, they're
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  bad. Don Lemon good. BLM good. anti -masker is
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  bad. A couple hundred people showed up at City
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  Hall to show their displeasure towards Mayor
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  McLean's public health order that will require
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  masks to be worn in public places starting on
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  Independence Day. So you see how it's just a
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  couple hundred people. A couple hundred people
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  gathered there to protest public health. See
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  they hate health and it was just a couple hundred
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  of them. A couple hundred people showed up at
• 1:38:01
  City Hall to show their displeasure towards Mayor
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  McLean's public health order that will require
• 1:38:06
  masks to be worn in public places. Right, so
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  it's they're a threat. to public health, and
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  it was just a couple hundred of them, versus
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  our BLM friend who's just for racial justice.
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  Traher and Gene Cruz is a leader of Black Lives
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  Matter, Minnesota, who has led many protests
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  and actions for racial justice. For racial justice.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's all in the framing. Nothing,
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  nothing says I'm a fan of black people, like
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  burning down black neighborhoods and smashing
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  the windows of minority owned businesses. This
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  is just this is just textbook mainstream media
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  framing and propaganda on display in the guise
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  of quote journalism and finally for this week
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  Despite all of this, Idaho's population growth
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  ranks second in the nation. That's according
• 1:38:53
  to the U .S. Census Bureau's recent population
• 1:38:55
  estimate. The state had the fastest growth in
• 1:38:58
  the nation between April 2020, April 2020, April
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  2020 to July 2025 with a population increase
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  of about 190 ,000 people. Other top states include
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  North and South Carolina, Texas and Utah. Idaho
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  is known for like the gem state. I wonder why
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  it started increasing so dramatically in April
• 1:39:18
  2020. What is the correlation? Obviously, Scott,
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  it's all of the racists moving here who want
• 1:39:25
  to hang out with other racists. We just want
• 1:39:28
  to sit around, burn our masks and talk about
• 1:39:30
  how much we hate minorities. That's pretty much
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  that's that's what it is. It's got to be it.
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  Yes. The Jews, the blacks and really anybody
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  who's nonwhite is not welcome here. I took one
• 1:39:44
  look at you, Scott, and I was like, this guy
• 1:39:45
  must be a Jew. I hate him. Let's do a podcast
• 1:39:48
  together. Ah, it's so exhausting. Maybe that's
• 1:39:53
  just my COVID talking, even though I didn't take
• 1:39:55
  any of the fake tests. So I don't know what I'm
• 1:39:58
  sick with because no one has ever told me why
• 1:39:59
  it matters. Spoiler alert, it doesn't. Blowing
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  my mind. All right. Well, I wish you godspeed
• 1:40:10
  and I'm stoked. I'm looking forward to seeing
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  you and possibly hanging with Kevin. and others
• 1:40:17
  on Saturday, but I'm a little, you know, it's
• 1:40:20
  going to be a little heartbreaking to watch you
• 1:40:21
  hobble to the front door of the racketeer on
• 1:40:23
  crutches. It's pretty ugly. Yeah. When a spaz
• 1:40:30
  meets crutches, it's a good time for everybody
• 1:40:32
  else. The entertainment level is high. Well,
• 1:40:36
  sit there and watch me try to open the door.
• 1:40:40
  Busted, busted tendons or runny noses. Doesn't
• 1:40:43
  matter. We're going to be here to bring you no
• 1:40:46
  ID. And all this mainstream media deconstruction
• 1:40:49
  as the Thursdays fall off the calendar here,
• 1:40:52
  because that's what we do. The mainstream media
• 1:40:54
  is relentless with their BS. And so we will be
• 1:40:56
  here to break it down. Thank you, everybody,
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  for hanging out with us and tuning in. Until
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  episode 15 from Pulse Falls, I'm Scott. From
• 1:41:10
  the Clark Fork Castle, I'm Paul Banducci. Taxation
• 1:41:12
  is theft. And of course, I'm not a utopist.