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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, in tip -top condition
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  once again, it's No ID. Welcome back to North
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  Idaho's mainstream media deconstruction. I'm
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  Scott. And I'm Paul tip -top condition speak
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  for yourself Scott you hoser I was very sarcastic
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  sadly All right. I'm just gonna put us asterix
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  next to this one right off the bat. I am Live
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  from the Clark Ford castle, but I am foot elevated
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  in the easy chair The mic is off to the side
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  here. So I apologize if the audio is a little
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  off But we're gonna give it the old college try
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  just picture Paul You know, he didn't climb his
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  stairs to his normal desk. You know, he's on
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  the couch with the leg up, and he's got the mic
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  just sort of four feet away on the couch, pointed
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  in the general direction of his vicinity, and
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  he's just writhing around on the couch. You are
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  correct. I did not climb the stairs. I actually
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  came down the stairs on my butt, stair by stair,
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  just like a toddler. Yes, my two -year -old does
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  that, exactly. It's been a humbling experience.
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  So I had surgery on my Achilles tendon Last Wednesday,
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  so almost a week ago To repair it full rupture
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  and now it's pieced back together But my god,
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  what a brutal post -op Zero stars would not recommend.
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  I've had a few surgeries in my time. I've had
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  a lot of injuries in my time I think the only
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  one that has been more painful was a kidney stone
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  kidney stone was slightly more painful, but it
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  only lasted a few hours. So this one actually
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  wins because it's lasted a lot longer. Would
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  not recommend rupturing your Achilles tendon.
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  Anyways, let's do this, man. Let's do it. I'm
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  ready. Well, if we're going to start off the
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  show with a pity party for poor Paul and his
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  poor leg. Let's continue it to the poor folks
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  who can no longer buy Snickers bars in Mountain
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  Dew with their food stamps. Limits on SNAP are
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  now in effect. For Idahoans using food stamps,
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  candy and soda are officially off the list. Learning
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  how these changes are already affecting both
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  shoppers and local stores like Jackson's. This
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  week, Idaho rolled out new restrictions on sweet
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  snacks and drinks for SNAP recipients. Cassie
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  Donat, who's used SNAP since she was 18, says
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  the change caught her off guard. So I went to
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  Jackson's in Boise to get my mom and I a drink,
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  and I forgot it was the 15th, of course, and
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  I scanned the EDT card and it declined. This,
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  by the way, this lady was, I'm going to say 150
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  pounds overweight. Just seen that they made a
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  point to note that has been on snap since she's
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  18. Well, I wonder how old she is now. She's
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  got to be what mid 20s, mid 30s. She looked late
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  20s for how long it's on. It's honestly hard
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  to tell when they're that overweight, but I'm
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  going to guess late 20s, early 30s and right
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  off the bat. I already, uh, we have sort of a
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  problem here. Red flags due to my disabilities.
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  So I had only have a based amount of money every
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  month. At Jackson stores, staff reference these
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  flyers posted by the registers. So I just want
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  to be clear here that she she's saying that she
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  collects Social Security, which means her income
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  every month is fixed. And when she was at the
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  convenience store or whatever the grocery store
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  that she had gone to to get soda for herself
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  and her mom, a .k .a. diabetes water, she it
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  was declined. And so she switched and used her
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  debit card, which was her own money rather than
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  the EBT card. But of course, that money that
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  was in her checking account that the debit card
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  was linked to came from Social Security. So at
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  no point was it like, well, maybe I won't buy
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  the soda at the convenience store. It was just
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  like, well, I'm going to use a different form
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  of government funds to pay for it. We used to
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  refer to creatures like this properly. The term
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  was parasite. And that's the proper term. That's
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  how we used to refer to, you know, when a tick
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  latches on and sucks your blood, that's a parasite.
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  This is just a parasite in human form. She says
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  she has, like, you know, due to my disability,
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  disabilities even, I have been on, that's why
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  I get Social Security. You would think that a,
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  you know, reporter, which the lady from whatever,
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  Idaho News 6, purports to be, would maybe ask
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  a question to enlighten the viewer, such as,
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  what are your disabilities, or what have you
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  struggled with, or some version of trying to
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  figure out what that is. Tick with Down syndrome
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  or a leech with a Low IQ They may be disabled,
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  but they're still parasites amount of money every
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  month at Jackson stores, staff reference these
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  flyers posted by the registers, while the system
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  automatically blocks items that don't qualify.
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  We got them in an email, so basically they want
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  us to keep them up by the register. That way
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  we have something to go off of. You know that
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  way we can refer the customers to look at these
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  papers if they have any questions. Jessica Green
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  and assistant manager at a Caldwell Jackson says
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  staff are adapting day by day. Basically, we're
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  all just learning. as the day goes by. If they
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  didn't know about the fountain drain, you know,
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  maybe we need to implement something for that.
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  Donat says she understands the goal, but feels
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  the policy creates new challenges. At least either
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  raise the amount of food stamps people can get.
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  Give me more. So that they can buy the healthier
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  food. Give me more. I understand you're trying
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  to fight obesity, which is hard when fresh fruits
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  and vegetables are expensive. She also says the
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  change affects small traditions that matter to
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  her and others. Those of us not on welfare still
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  make the choice to buy them with our own money.
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  We budget for it. Somewhere in between buying
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  premium priced fresh fruits and vegetables and
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  Mountain Dew lies some beans or rice or other
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  forms of cheap food that is not necessarily candy.
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  Yeah, see, that's what irks me is that most of
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  us who are doing it on our own, we're out here
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  still trying to make those kinds of good decisions.
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  And we're paying the premium for it, too. It's
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  just that's a matter of choices and priorities
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  and budgeting. And it's not necessarily easy
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  or fun, but it's the choices you make. Actually,
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  there has been a number of studies done on this
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  particular issue that shows that those who spend
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  their own money on groceries are far likely to
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  eat healthier. and buy fruits and veggies and
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  make the sacrifices. So that number one is fascinating.
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  Number two is there's been a bit of a not surprising
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  phenomenon occurring and that is the decreasing
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  of the price of junk foods, junk and snack foods.
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  Prices have decreased anywhere from three to
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  15 % over the last year as programs like this
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  have been rolled out across different states.
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  Turns out, the market reacts as the market does
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  and when the market is not subsidized via government
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  handout in this case prices go down weird it's
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  almost like the market reacts to price signals
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  and every industry that is subsidized by the
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  government is more expensive weird super weird
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  well you know that's just like your opinion man
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  i mean It's the opinion of basic economics, but
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  yeah, yeah. I understand you're trying to fight
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  obesity, but which is hard when fresh fruits
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  and vegetables are expensive. She also says the
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  change affects small traditions that matter to
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  her and others. I host a Christmas party every
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  year for all my special needs friends and I buy
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  treats for us all to have there. Now I'll have
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  to figure out a different way to get those, but
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  not everyone is like everybody else. Oh, and
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  by the way, in no universe will the candy be
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  throttled back, which I know I will on Christmas,
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  like, of course, but this is, it's not as if
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  the, it doesn't sound like for this lady, the
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  candy is a Christmas time treat, but rather a
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  morning time treat on a Tuesday. But it's like,
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  in no universe will I consider, I'm just gonna
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  have to, she said, I'm gonna have to just figure
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  out another way. The candy shall get consumed.
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  I'm just gonna have to figure out another way.
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  Will I use my EBT card or will I use my debit
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  card? Either way, it's loaded with taxpayer money.
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  Now I'll have to figure out a different way to
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  get those. But not everyone is opposed. As we
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  previously reported, some say the change could
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  be positive. That actually helps me a lot. Listen
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  to the framing there too. Not everyone is opposed.
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  So that framing is like, well... Almost everybody
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  is, but not everybody. There are a few holdouts.
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  Right, but otherwise the overwhelming majority
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  of the good people, capital G, capital P, are
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  opposed to having EBT not cover candy and soda.
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  But not everyone is opposed. As we previously
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  reported, some say the change could be positive.
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  That actually helps me a lot. Addiction comes
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  in many forms and I have overcome a lot in the
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  past, but sugar seems to be my standby addiction.
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  Stores are posting these signs near aisles to
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  remind shoppers of the new rules before they
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  make it to the register. I don't think it's really
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  affected us too much yet, but I'm sure there's
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  more changes to come. Listening to the underclass
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  talk about these sorts of things again, I don't.
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  I'm in a bad mood today, so that's probably part
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  of it. I'm in a lot of pain. But nevertheless,
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  these people are parasites. There's no other
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  way to put it. I don't care about the sob stories
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  because most people's life choices put them where
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  they are. And generational life choices. If you
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  go up the family tree and down the family tree,
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  you'll see that people tend to be on the system,
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  their kids stay on the system, their grandkids
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  stay on the system. On Snap, since she was 18
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  and now she's 32 and 100 pounds overweight. and
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  bummed out that she can't get soda for her and
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  her mom. When I listen to these people, like,
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  you can tell they have a collective IQ lower
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  than three digits, and it's just like that movie
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  Dodgeball. It's like watching a bunch of retards
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  trying to fuck a doorknob out there. He said,
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  like, it's a sob story, you know, which is that
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  is how this clip is presenting this woman's,
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  this poor woman's plight. It is presented as
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  a sob story with no, no challenging or really
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  no questions at all from the quote reporter who's
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  there with the microphone on the picnic bench
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  interviewing the very large woman. Oh, well,
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  these are the same type of reporters who, you
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  know, called Minnesota daycare centers to ask
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  them, Hey, are you guys doing fraud over there?
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  And the response they get is no, no, no, no fraud.
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  Well, okay, cool. Check mark. Be like, well,
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  you've heard it here, folks. No fraud. That's
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  the level of investigation these people do. Well,
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  it makes you, you know, one must wonder if you're
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  going to present this as a sob story, like in
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  a sympathetic light, then what you're doing effectively
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  is shilling or promoting government funded sugar
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  consumption. And in other words, therefore, I
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  mean, it's like, I don't even know what to make
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  of it. Like, where does this come from? It's
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  such a sinister force. Behind that the whole
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  the framing and like what is going on here like
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  to what end? What's a slightly different version
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  of shut up and take your pills? The effect is
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  the same. It's Soma. It's Soma like from from
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  animal farm or whatever. Is that it? Basically
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  shut up and take your pills or in this case shut
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  up and eat your junk food Keep them fat and stupid.
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  Is that it? Sugar and sodium are drugs of another
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  kind, you know, they light up the same sugar
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  is known to light up the same parts of the brain
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  as ecstasy does and heroin. They've done studies
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  on that too, where they, you know, they do CT
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  scans on the brain as you're consuming different
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  drugs and including sugar and sugar lights up
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  the same parts of the brain. This is not coincidental.
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  It's dark, man. Yeah, it's, it's systemic and
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  it's pernicious, but it's a good thing that Idaho
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  legislators are making the attempt to stymie
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  these purchases using EBT. You would think this
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  would have been a requirement from day one. And
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  I have to think that when the stuff first was
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  rolled out, it was a requirement. And then it
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  probably got rolled back or never enforced. And
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  now it's being enforced. But it's sort of like
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  when they pass a bill saying like Medicaid benefits
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  for illegals. And I'm sitting here going, shouldn't
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  that have always been the case? Why the hell
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  are we missing here? How do we need to codify
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  that? I thought that was already an automatic.
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  You have to have certain forms of ID to be able
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  to apply. You have to do all this different stuff.
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  How the hell was this? Why does this have to
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  be made law? Wasn't this already a law or at
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  least de facto by the mechanics of how it works?
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  Wasn't this law? What the hell? This has been
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  going on this entire time. What the hell is wrong
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  with you people? Yeah. So it's 2026 and the legislature
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  finally went, you know, Maybe we shouldn't be
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  out there giving them legal crack with EBT cards
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  on the other hand Okay, I Don't know what they
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  there is another hand because that's what's going
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  on. I'm just not sure what the other hand is
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  Oh the other hand is anybody who disagrees with
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  allowing them to buy legal crack with? Taxpayer
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  money is just as mean for me. Oh you're meanies
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  Yes, like the very specific form of charges levied
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  against Todd Banducci when he was the board chair.
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  He's a meanie. I'm filing an official complaint.
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  Check the meanie box. So speaking of illegals
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  in Idaho, by the way. The panel of experts discussed
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  a new study on the state's unauthorized immigrant
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  workforce and the potential impact on the state's
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  economy if a large portion of those workers were
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  removed. Remember that unauthorized immigrant,
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  the memo from Central has gone out to all network
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  affiliates and all forms of mainstream media
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  that that is the terminology that must be used.
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  That's the latest. It's not the last, you know,
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  just like it used to be undocumented. And then
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  before that, it was illegal immigrant. And then
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  before that, it was illegal alien. These things
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  are always a progression, you know, just like
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  it goes from Negro to black or colored people
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  to African American to there's always going to
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  be a next one, just whatever it is now, it'll
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  just just keep keep an eye out, keep an ear out
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  for the change, because the change will be coming
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  so that the NPR people can correct you in conversation
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  impact on the state's economy. If a large portion
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  of those workers were removed. Our farmers are
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  frustrated. That didn't do that that that nap
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  pop the fact that it's like louder than the rest
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  of the clip, they like point four seconds of
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  the machine running. That's part of the way the
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  news is, the clip is presented. I love it. Our
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  farmers are frustrated. Our farmers are struggling
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  because the system is not working for them. A
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  press conference sponsored by the Idaho Alliance
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  for a legal workforce. Oh, is that going to be
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  the crux of the argument for keeping illegal
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  immigrants in the state is because we need their
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  cheap, because farmers need their cheap labor.
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  Shared findings on the new study on the super
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  manipulative about three different fronts and
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  very disingenuous. New study on the state's unauthorized
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  immigrant workforce. Our task with this study
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  was to understand the role undocumented labor
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  fills in construction, hospitality and dining,
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  production agriculture and agricultural processing
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  here in Idaho with a particular emphasis on our
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  dairies. If we reduce the number of laborers
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  on dairies, dairy output will have to be curtailed.
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  That reduction in dairy output, reduction in
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  milk production, will lead to places like Chobani
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  not being able to expand. I asked Rick Nirabon,
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  CEO of the Idaho Dairymen's Association, that
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  with all the talk about U .S. immigration and
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  customs enforcement and deportation, how does
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  their industry navigate 2026 and beyond? Well,
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  we've had the focus and what the general public
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  sees is very much enforcement focused. We do
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  know that there's internal conversations happening
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  and you're starting to hear the president even
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  talk about where he's instructed his agencies
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  to not enforce on agriculture and other critical
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  industries. And that's clearly a way to create
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  space where we don't carve out while they're
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  working towards a solution. Get them. Go get
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  them. Pick them up. No, no, not them over there.
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  You leave them alone and you leave them alone
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  because we need my fruits and my dairies. OK,
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  but you go get them. You gotta love a law that
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  immediately comes with carve -outs. Well, you
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  know, you guys like milk in your coffee, don't
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  you? One of those solutions is working towards
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  a year -long visa work program similar to the
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  seasonal visa program. No one is satisfied with
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  the state of gray that we find ourselves in.
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  We want to have a very clear, easy, legal workforce.
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  I think you mean the state of green cards. Otherwise,
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  I'd give myself a bell right now. I left my bell
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  up in my office. I gave you a rim shot. Sorry,
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  Steve Pegg. No bells today for me. Because of
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  your setup, there's just nowhere to set it. Set
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  it. I just forgot. Oh. I'm down here now. There's
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  no going back. There's no going up. You forgot.
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  His dog ate his bell. No, an illegal immigrant
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  stole my bell. It's undocumented immigrant, asshole.
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  Oh, excuse me. No, it's unauthorized. Jerk off.
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  What did I say? Did I screw it up too? Oh my
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  God. The state's unauthorized immigrant. You're
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  right. I screwed it up. I'm a bigot. Unbelievable.
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  Wow. I'm not only am I a bigot, I'm like calling
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  other people names. Boy, I'm spiraling. Okay,
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  let's do this because... when I opened the weather
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  app last night you know and it's got like the
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  snowflake emote all you know from like 9 p .m
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  to 6 a .m like it's gonna snow all night then
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  I woke up this morning and it was like the the
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  littlest tiniest dusting that melted off by like
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  8 a .m but the mail we got like an inch and a
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  half up here you did okay well yeah so at higher
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  elevations and of course the mountains uh did
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  get some snow and I got a I got a boots on the
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  gray um what was it an article That was forwarded
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  by one of our producers. And so I want to read
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  a little bit of that and her note, but first
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  here's the very elated report. Lots of ski resorts
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  and mountains in our area had to make adjustments
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  because of this year's mild snowfall. But today,
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  Schweitzer Mountain sent us some video folks
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  celebrating Valentine's Day on the slopes. Take
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  a look. The mountain got five and a half inches
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  of snow overnight and two more additional inches
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  on the snow stake by the opening bell. This is
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  great news for skiers and snowboarders because
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  the snow is coming just in time for Presidents
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  Day weekend, a three day weekend for many. Okay,
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  so I was forwarded this article from Genevieve
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  and Genevieve said, Hey guys, silly little article
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  about Schweitzer's media team with an entertaining
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  twist at the end. And I scrolled back through
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  their Instagram and it seems pretty accurate
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  or inaccurate depending on if you are referring
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  to the article or the socials. So she linked
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  an article to the Coeur d 'Alene press. And I
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  think I couldn't tell if it was a I think it
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  might have been like a letter from a reader about
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  how Schweitzer has been posting pictures of powder
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  -filled runs and bright and sunny days, only
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  to have locals show up to the rain and the brush
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  covered runs that we know is happening with this
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  winter where there hasn't really been any snow.
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  But the reader's letter goes on to say, the posts
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  have gotten more frequent, more inaccurate, and
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  now politically driven. more politically driven
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  than ever in Schweitzer's history. So who really
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  runs the resort and makes the decisions? It sounds
• 21:05
  like it may be the social media group and unfortunately,
• 21:09
  it's running it into the ground. The latest step
• 21:11
  was to create an annual gay pride day on the
• 21:13
  mountain. Why on earth would a sexual orientation
• 21:16
  be a thing on a ski hill? Alright man, cue all
• 21:20
  of the jokes about runs and humps and mountains
• 21:24
  and ridges. I felt really gay last night. I bet
• 21:27
  Dan Gookin skis at Switzer. He's got the money.
• 21:30
  Pretty standard fare though, Scott. I'm not super
• 21:32
  surprised. I mean, Switzer's the primo place.
• 21:35
  It's the money place. It's all the elites who
• 21:37
  tend to be leftists in general, so it fits the
• 21:41
  bill. Let me say quickly that I saw Gookin in
• 21:46
  IRL over at the Art Spirits final closing party,
• 21:52
  because remember we covered that they're closing...
• 21:53
  permanently. In fact, it was one of the Scott
• 21:55
  shots that you brought their final night last
• 21:58
  Friday. And my buddy and I went over there just
• 22:00
  to see if they had any, you know, maybe I wanted
• 22:01
  to scoop up a painting or two fire sale. I didn't
• 22:04
  end up getting anything, but I did see Gukan
• 22:06
  over there. And it's the first time I've seen
• 22:07
  the guy in person. And I don't know if you even
• 22:11
  know this. Maybe you do that from the chest up.
• 22:15
  He looks like a sort of just a normal old guy
• 22:17
  from the chest down. He's he's very, very sloppy
• 22:21
  tubby. He has a gigantic gut. and not one of
• 22:24
  those like really hard that's like you know like
• 22:26
  stiff and distended but sloppy like comic book
• 22:30
  guy from the simpsons i didn't realize that he
• 22:32
  was that large it was not a good look yeah time
• 22:37
  has not been kind to dan gookin turns out when
• 22:41
  you're a bitter hateful person it tends not to
• 22:45
  uh age you very well also i'm curious was dan
• 22:48
  gookin over there uh buying art for the city
• 22:51
  or was he using his own money this time Well,
• 22:55
  he tried his EBT card, but it got rejected Hey,
• 22:59
  oh nice you if I had my bell right now, you'd
• 23:02
  get a bell ding ding ding ding ding I'm not gonna
• 23:05
  ring my own just that's that's for you Steve
• 23:07
  that this lack of Bell is brought to you by Steve
• 23:09
  here is Here is the gem state brief. Hold on.
• 23:14
  I real quick. I wanted to touch back on the What
• 23:17
  are they calling an unauthorized worker shoe
• 23:20
  with the farmers and whatnot anytime your argument
• 23:23
  for? uh, breaking the law. So basically the premise
• 23:28
  is that we should allow illegal immigration because
• 23:30
  if we don't, who will do all the jobs that I
• 23:33
  don't want to do? Who will do the shit work?
• 23:35
  Who will? So in, in one, in one go, you have
• 23:38
  this, these people like leftists saying that,
• 23:41
  you know, no one is illegal and human life is
• 23:44
  sacrosanct while at the same time, relegating
• 23:48
  this subspecies of human life to, well, they're
• 23:52
  good enough to come over and pick my apples.
• 23:55
  And that's why I want them here to mow my lawn
• 23:57
  and pick my apples because otherwise I'm not
• 24:00
  going to do that stuff. Well, we can move on
• 24:03
  to the next topic now. Well, that's I think it
• 24:05
  is important to note the premise from which people
• 24:08
  are arguing when they use that or that particular
• 24:11
  argument for illegal immigration being OK. And
• 24:17
  honestly, even the word illegal doesn't get used
• 24:19
  half the time. People just say immigration immigrants.
• 24:21
  You're against immigrants like OK. Okay. Trump's
• 24:27
  immigration crackdown. As if no other president
• 24:31
  has done it or done it more. I'm trying to figure
• 24:36
  out how to transition, if you'll pardon the pun,
• 24:39
  back to the Schweitzer thing, because I had another
• 24:42
  thing to relay on the whole bit. Oh, I'm sorry.
• 24:45
  Let's just go, let's just, whatever, herky -jerky.
• 24:47
  This is, we're doing our best here. We'll just
• 24:50
  go right back to it, because I wanted to follow
• 24:52
  up on Genevieve's note. Did find this audio from
• 24:56
  some guys? I think they're out of southern, Idaho
• 24:59
  They're they called themselves the gem state
• 25:02
  brief and they're sort of doing short form videos
• 25:05
  covering some of these stories with commentary
• 25:07
  I was gonna say not dissimilar to what we're
• 25:10
  doing But it is really because they're not really
• 25:12
  they're not using clips and it's all short form
• 25:14
  and we are using clips in its long form Okay,
• 25:16
  so I take it back. It's not related at all. But
• 25:18
  here's some quick commentary on the schweitzer
• 25:20
  thing from those guys An Idaho drag show for
• 25:22
  the whole family and a pizza party. That's what's
• 25:26
  on the docket for Pride on the Mountain, an LGBTQ
• 25:29
  focused event being held at Schweitzer Mountain
• 25:31
  Resort in Sandpoint, Idaho this March. The event
• 25:34
  not only includes a rainbow parade, pride village
• 25:36
  and a big gay selfie, but also directly states
• 25:39
  that despite having a drag show, an after party
• 25:42
  is a healthy and family friendly event to make
• 25:46
  matters worse. They reference a pizza party.
• 25:48
  If you're out of the loop. The Epstein emails
• 25:51
  confirm a previous conspiracy that pizza is a
• 25:54
  pedophilic reference towards children, with pizza
• 25:56
  being referenced 844 times in the emails. Between
• 26:00
  Epstein's strong support of the LGBTQ movement,
• 26:03
  the event being family friendly, and it featuring
• 26:06
  a pizza party, this is at best terrible optics
• 26:09
  for Schweitzer Mountain. Why? Why host an LGBTQ
• 26:12
  focused event? Idaho is one of the most conservative
• 26:15
  states in the nation. According to UCLA, it has
• 26:18
  the second lowest LGBTQ population per capita
• 26:21
  in the U .S. We should get an award for that.
• 26:23
  Who's number one? It is one of the states with...
• 26:26
  Good question. What state has the lowest per
• 26:32
  capita... What does he even mean, dude? LGBTQ...
• 26:39
  population for one, like B? B. How do you quantify
• 26:44
  that? What is, you know what I'm saying? Like
• 26:47
  every college chick classifies as B for a couple
• 26:52
  months in her life during that one summer. That's
• 26:54
  the beauty of it. It's nebulous. It's impossible
• 26:56
  to define. They like things like that. Remember,
• 26:59
  they can't even define what a woman is. Right,
• 27:01
  of course not. So they can claim that there's
• 27:02
  some sort of community, which of course there's
• 27:04
  not. But let's let's see what chat GPT says to
• 27:06
  that prompt. What state has the lowest per capita
• 27:09
  LGBTQ population? I stopped there. I didn't do
• 27:13
  like plus or IAA or any of the other stuff. OK,
• 27:16
  according to data from the UCLA Williams Institute
• 27:19
  and related state level surveys, Mississippi,
• 27:23
  about four point one percent of adults identify
• 27:26
  as LGBTQ plus. That's still really high. Four
• 27:31
  percent. Four out of a hundred. The reason is
• 27:34
  because the acronym encompasses almost everybody.
• 27:39
  You know what I'm saying? LGBTQ plus like isn't
• 27:43
  one of them ally? Like if you did like LGBTQ
• 27:46
  IAA or whatever like there's if the extended
• 27:49
  like if you know pi is three point one four but
• 27:51
  if you like keep extending the digits it goes
• 27:53
  on forever. There's more and more Letters that
• 27:56
  mean stuff and at one point there is an a that
• 27:58
  stands for Ally, which is all of the straight
• 28:01
  commies So that's half the population. They're
• 28:04
  all they're all in this category, too So you
• 28:06
  see what I'm saying? What does it even mean?
• 28:08
  4 .1 % West Virginia is around the same North
• 28:11
  Carolina wrath 4 .4, Alabama 4 .6 So there's
• 28:15
  a bunch of states ahead of Idaho, but the whole
• 28:17
  thing is freaking meaningless doesn't you know,
• 28:19
  it's baloney legal and cultural views of that
• 28:22
  form of sexual deviancy. It makes no sense until
• 28:26
  you look at who bought it two years ago. Altera
• 28:29
  Mountain Company, a product of two investment
• 28:31
  groups, was founded in 2018. They have since
• 28:34
  bought up Mammoth, Deer Valley, Palisades in
• 28:37
  Tahoe, and now Schweitzer. On their LinkedIn,
• 28:40
  you can find them like many giant liberal corporations.
• 28:43
  bragging about hosting one of the longest running
• 28:45
  Pride celebrations in the industry. So what do
• 28:48
  Idahoans think? The reception to Altera's purchase
• 28:50
  itself wasn't too positive. Reportedly, after
• 28:53
  the initial purchase, the price of season passes
• 28:56
  skyrocketed to double what it was just a few
• 28:58
  years ago. This makes sense when you learn that
• 29:00
  the CEO of Altera, Jared Smith, used to be the
• 29:03
  CEO at Ticketmaster. How about the Pride event?
• 29:06
  Idahoans and Sandpoint locals do not seem happy.
• 29:11
  I mean, when are we ever happy? Wow, Paul really
• 29:14
  is in a bad mood. People in standpoint always
• 29:18
  have something to complain about and I have always
• 29:21
  something to complain about them. So just so
• 29:23
  you know, when are we ever happy is definitely
• 29:26
  going to be sound soundbited. You don't look
• 29:31
  for the record. I am not suicidal. I am alive
• 29:36
  and well. I ate granola this morning, which means
• 29:40
  I expect to live a lot longer. At least I'm trying
• 29:43
  to, you know, whatever all the things that a
• 29:48
  person says when they're afraid they might get
• 29:51
  Hillary Clinton or something. That's what I'm
• 29:53
  trying to say. Paul's not suicidal. Let the record
• 29:57
  show. No, just just hurting. OK, we'll do we'll
• 30:04
  do one more here and then we'll take a mid show
• 30:06
  breather to thank the executive producers and
• 30:10
  describe the model for the show. Before we do
• 30:12
  that, let's... I think from now on we're just
• 30:15
  gonna refer to Schweitzer as Gay Mountain. That's
• 30:17
  it. It's just Gay Mountain. Gay? We live up kind
• 30:22
  of in the mountains. So I'm gonna, I'll cut together
• 30:24
  gay and mountains. Gay? Mountains. Come to Schweitzer
• 30:29
  for a gay time. Sponsored by Pfizer and Dan Duchen.
• 30:32
  Come over for a gay time. It's all coming together
• 30:35
  now, Scott. You see all the little pieces and
• 30:38
  the threads of the, of this weird ass community
• 30:40
  that is North Idaho. It's all coming together,
• 30:43
  culminating in a great ad campaign for Switzer
• 30:48
  Mountain. Here is a ridiculous fun one. Here's
• 30:54
  some empty calories. Maybe we'll cheer Paul up.
• 30:57
  Even just a few percentage points heading into
• 30:59
  our mid show breather. famously posed into a
• 31:03
  burlap potato sack, turning a critics insult
• 31:06
  into an iconic empowering moment. Now allegedly
• 31:09
  there was this party at Beverly Hills Hotel and
• 31:12
  she showed up in a revealing red dress that a
• 31:14
  columnist declared cheap and vulgar. adding shoe
• 31:18
  would have been better off wearing a potato sack.
• 31:20
  Well, that's when the 20th Century Fox PR department
• 31:23
  capitalized on that moment by putting her in
• 31:26
  just that a potato sack and that photo is iconic,
• 31:29
  especially for people here in Idaho because it's
• 31:31
  what the state is proud of our potatoes. Well,
• 31:34
  fast forward to now that potato sack is back
• 31:38
  before New York Fashion Week before Paris. Did
• 31:52
  you catch her name? What are the chances that
• 31:56
  that is the name on her birth certificate? Or
• 32:01
  she's from Boise? Tommy Hilfiger Ralph Lauren
• 32:08
  Anderson Cartier Dior Eliason was a little girl
• 32:12
  in rural Idaho making dresses out of whatever
• 32:15
  she could find. I started doing fashion design
• 32:17
  when I was nine years old. I started just making
• 32:21
  dresses out of literally anything I could get
• 32:23
  my hands on. I lived in like the middle of nowhere
• 32:25
  in Idaho, like I did not have money for fabric,
• 32:27
  but my grandpa hooked me up with a whole bunch
• 32:30
  of phone books from our town's recycling program.
• 32:33
  And that's kind of how I started. I made dresses
• 32:35
  out of phone books out of like tax forms, like
• 32:37
  things like that, just anything I can get my
• 32:39
  hands on. She's shredded. They were showing images
• 32:42
  of it's like shredded paper. And I don't know
• 32:44
  if it reminds you of anything. particular certainly
• 32:46
  remind anything I can get my hands on it landed
• 32:50
  her on project run with your glorious come back
• 32:52
  city when she was 16 she stitched together a
• 32:55
  bigger dream taking her talent across the world
• 32:57
  to a fashion school in Paris but even there.
• 33:01
  Idaho was always in the fabric. We are here from
• 33:04
  Idaho. We're bringing Idaho potato couture to
• 33:08
  New York Fashion Week. The Idaho Potato Commission
• 33:10
  started this project as a way to honor the hard
• 33:12
  work of Idaho's potato farmers and celebrate
• 33:15
  Idaho's farming heritage. It's really special
• 33:17
  to me that this project came up and just at like
• 33:20
  the perfect time and in a way that I could really
• 33:24
  be able to represent Idaho on such a grand stage.
• 33:28
  That is the least Idaho thing I have ever heard
• 33:33
  You know what I love Scott more than almost anything
• 33:39
  what's that being patronized Well, it's funny.
• 33:44
  You should mention Speaking of being patronized.
• 33:49
  Oh, yeah. I love when they tell us what they
• 33:50
  were we care about, right? Like oh, yeah, what
• 33:52
  Idahoans care about is potatoes We're Idaho News
• 33:55
  7 like thank you for telling me one fact never
• 33:58
  thought about potatoes at all, Washington produces
• 34:00
  more potatoes than Idaho does. Just FYI. Is that
• 34:03
  right? Is that true? Truth. Yep, it is true.
• 34:07
  Okay, well before we do our executive producers,
• 34:10
  I suppose we should look that up. Grant County
• 34:14
  is the leading potato producing county in the
• 34:17
  entire country and Grant County is in Washington.
• 34:21
  According to Chatchabuti, no, Idaho produces
• 34:23
  more potatoes than Washington. Idaho is the leading
• 34:26
  potato producing state in the US, famous for
• 34:28
  its russets and overall volume. Washington also
• 34:30
  grows a lot of potatoes, particularly in the
• 34:33
  Columbia basin, but its total production is lower
• 34:35
  than Idaho's. For perspective, Idaho roughly
• 34:37
  13 to 14 billion pounds of potatoes per year,
• 34:41
  Washington roughly four to five billion pounds
• 34:43
  per year. So according to the ultra net, it is
• 34:46
  only about a fourth. Okay, I could be wrong.
• 34:52
  I probably am wrong then based off of an incorrect
• 34:56
  premise because I look up if I think it's Grant
• 35:00
  County in Washington is the leading potato producing
• 35:05
  county in the country. Let's see. Oh, so Grant
• 35:10
  County, Washington. Is it the leading potato
• 35:12
  producing county? Yes. Widely recognized as the
• 35:17
  leading potato. The designation is not just marketing.
• 35:20
  It's reflected in how the Okay, so I was incorrect
• 35:25
  in my I guess assertion or my factual statement
• 35:30
  with regards to the states But it was based on
• 35:33
  a correct premise that I then extrapolated and
• 35:37
  got the wrong result He's absolutely right. You
• 35:41
  feel better now while being absolutely wrong
• 35:43
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• 35:50
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  we do have three executive producers this week
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  here for episode number episode number 16 Must
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  have really wowed them with our in the same room
• 38:01
  energy for episode 15 Yes, I actually I did hear
• 38:04
  a bunch of in -person feedback about the energy
• 38:08
  level and that people were really enjoying it
• 38:10
  There was a little bit of constructive I don't
• 38:13
  know forget constructive. No, it was just the
• 38:15
  it was the the criticism was was vastly outpaced
• 38:19
  by the People saying like they dug the energy
• 38:21
  for sure and they were like well Paul was really
• 38:23
  on one and they did say that as Because you are
• 38:27
  on one because that that that French press that
• 38:29
  I made really Just hit you like a ton of bricks
• 38:32
  from a 12 -story window. There were also an inordinate
• 38:34
  amount of f -bombs. Oh My bad, which I also noticed
• 38:38
  and I can you know when I was when I did the
• 38:40
  edit before I posted it I considered for a moment
• 38:44
  like going Osborn's and bleeping them out. And
• 38:46
  I was like, you know what? Nah, that's lame.
• 38:49
  Like I'm just going to post the show just was
• 38:51
  what it was. So and then the other thing was
• 38:54
  so one person was like, oh, well, you guys were
• 38:56
  talking on top of each other a lot. And I, of
• 38:59
  course, I cut that guy off in the middle of a
• 39:01
  sentence to be like, no, we weren't. Way to prove
• 39:04
  your point, Scott. I appreciate that. Yeah. Really
• 39:06
  get in there with your strong words and prove
• 39:08
  him wrong. So, but yes, but people did enjoy
• 39:12
  the energy. So this, not only is Paul just, you
• 39:15
  know, down for the count, you know, wallowing
• 39:18
  in his sorrow and his busted leg, we're also
• 39:21
  not in the same room. So this show, I'm sure,
• 39:23
  especially if, you know, if you've been listening,
• 39:25
  like let's say you've been listening to several
• 39:26
  episodes in a row, because you've just discovered
• 39:28
  the show or something like that, and you just
• 39:29
  heard the last episode and now you're hearing
• 39:31
  this one. I suppose, depending on your sensibilities,
• 39:35
  either my apologies or you're welcome. Yeah,
• 39:40
  we try to be pretty consistent and I guess all
• 39:43
  I can do is apologize for this the the inconsistency
• 39:46
  between the two episodes I had a lot of fun last
• 39:48
  week though It was a good time being in the same
• 39:49
  room with you having a good cup of coffee and
• 39:51
  discussing all kinds of topics that well I'm
• 39:54
  pretty passionate about Today is a little bit
• 39:56
  different. I think next week. We'll get a little
• 39:59
  bit more back on track and You know doing the
• 40:02
  best we can but it's frankly I almost I'll be
• 40:06
  honest and I'm not trying, again, I'm not trying
• 40:08
  to stretch this out or make anybody tell everybody
• 40:11
  my sob story, but I had really considered asking
• 40:14
  Scott to bag out on this week because it's the
• 40:17
  first three or four days after surgery, I could
• 40:19
  barely hear myself think. So the fact that I
• 40:21
  can string together, you know, words that make
• 40:24
  sense today, I'm very proud of. And no, it's
• 40:26
  not because I'm all doped up or anything like
• 40:28
  that. I have actually largely avoided most of
• 40:31
  that because I try hard to, but just the level
• 40:33
  of pain. It's been pretty impressive, pretty
• 40:36
  impressive. So, you know, I'm doing the best
• 40:39
  we can here and I appreciate everybody's patience.
• 40:42
  Hopefully we'll be back to a little bit more
• 40:43
  normal next week. Yeah. No, there was, there
• 40:47
  was a, there were definitely some times as the
• 40:49
  first few days, Scott, where I'm just sitting
• 40:50
  there closing my eyes, working on my breathing
• 40:53
  exercises and trying to get through it. So let's,
• 41:01
  let's hear about our executive producers. We
• 41:03
  appreciate the support. I want to, I want to
• 41:04
  know who you are. Yes, right on. So Dave McPherson
• 41:09
  sends in $20 US and says, Scott and Paul, greetings
• 41:14
  from Western Washington, such as it is. Our condolences.
• 41:19
  Thank you for your courage, loving the deconstruction.
• 41:23
  Good to hear folks over there know what they
• 41:25
  got. Paul, sorry about your Achilles. Get better
• 41:29
  from Dave. Thank you very much, Dave. I appreciate
• 41:33
  it, brother. And we wish you all the protection
• 41:36
  and goodwill as you fight the good fight over
• 41:39
  in Western Washington. Godspeed, my friend. Thank
• 41:43
  you, Dave. And next up is Kyle. OK, now here,
• 41:51
  this is a this is a big one here. Kyle sent in
• 41:56
  a row. Actually, so was it a row of ones or I
• 42:00
  can't remember if there's a name for it. 111
• 42:03
  .11. $111 .11. Oh, that's a cool number. He says,
• 42:10
  this is a proper row of Schmeckles. Schmeckles.
• 42:14
  But I do not attest to the small, quote unquote,
• 42:18
  component of the definition by Google. This is
• 42:20
  a switcheroo for Dame Jen with a G, protector
• 42:24
  of woman's vaginas. So Kyle texted me a longer
• 42:28
  note that I wish to read. And so what's happening
• 42:31
  here is Kyle does not accept that 999 is the
• 42:37
  Row of Schmeckles. Now, that's what Chris, who
• 42:40
  sent that in last week, Chris was making the
• 42:44
  case for 999. Now, I'm not sure the mechanics,
• 42:49
  the etiquette here, because we did say, like,
• 42:52
  okay, yeah, the shiny Schmeckle donation is now
• 42:54
  here by 999. But Kyle's like, well, no, I don't
• 42:59
  think that's good enough. Like, this is a proper
• 43:01
  Row of Schmeckles. So do we now say that Chris
• 43:04
  has been one -upped and actually a shiny schmeckle
• 43:07
  donation is 111 .11? I'm torn on this, Scott,
• 43:12
  because on one hand, I feel like Chris was the
• 43:14
  first to do it, and that's special. On the other
• 43:18
  hand, Kyle's definitely putting his money where
• 43:20
  his mouth is, and that is worth something too.
• 43:23
  So I feel like I want to give them both a little
• 43:25
  bit of something. Maybe Chris's can be a row
• 43:31
  of Schmeckles, and maybe Kyle's can be a field
• 43:33
  of Schmeckles. So it could be, look, gaze upon
• 43:36
  my field and see my Schmeckles grow courtesy
• 43:40
  of Kyle. You know what? Okay, you're right. And
• 43:43
  actually, now that I'm looking at it really closely,
• 43:45
  the shiny Schmeckle is what the 999 donation
• 43:49
  is. That's $9 .99. That's a show. So the shiny
• 43:56
  Schmeckle shall remain forevermore at 999 now
• 44:01
  a row of Schmeckles So maybe the next one will
• 44:07
  have to be a field of Schmeckles or a harvest
• 44:10
  of Schmeckles or the Schmeckle harvest a Grant
• 44:13
  County of Schmeckles Yeah, or the Schmeckle season.
• 44:18
  Let me read Kyle's longer note here that he sent
• 44:21
  Here's the long, it's a long donation note. So
• 44:23
  forgive me. That's okay. We're going to read
• 44:24
  it. Dame Jen, protector of women's vaginas is
• 44:28
  the most amazing person I know. Happy Valentine's
• 44:32
  day, my love. You have brought so much joy and
• 44:34
  love to my life. I can't even describe it. I'm
• 44:37
  a better man because of you. The love you bring
• 44:39
  into this world is beyond measure. We are all
• 44:41
  beneficiaries of your love and light husbands,
• 44:44
  kids, patients, and everyone you encounter are
• 44:47
  touched by your warmth. You are a true light
• 44:49
  to this world. Happy belated Valentine's Day.
• 44:52
  We are all better off by the gifts. You give
• 44:54
  us just by being yourself You are amazing baby
• 44:58
  making karma appreciated and let's see what sound
• 45:02
  They have like a specific sound clip on no agenda
• 45:05
  for karma. What can we give him? That's kind
• 45:08
  of like a karma sound effect. You got any idea?
• 45:12
  I do have Clips of Sam my daughter little tiny
• 45:17
  kids saying Or and this one because I feel like
• 45:24
  baby making karma and a little tiny kid Yeah,
• 45:27
  we'll definitely go together. I think that works.
• 45:29
  I think that works. I like it. I like it. Well
• 45:32
  done. Thank you, Kyle and May you and the project
• 45:36
  protector of the JJ's be very well He's got one
• 45:40
  little last part of his note that I want to finish
• 45:42
  here It's gonna be a it's gonna be weird to name
• 45:46
  a potential girl John Adam or Paul Scott But
• 45:50
  whatever it takes to knock this hottie up, I
• 45:53
  am in. John and Adam have joked that if you get
• 45:58
  baby making karma and then you go on to have
• 46:00
  said baby, you know, you got to name the kid
• 46:03
  after you got to name the kid, Adam or John or
• 46:05
  in our show's case, Paul or Scott. So he's, you
• 46:08
  know, he's he's combined the two into one ridiculous
• 46:11
  name. So like where his head's at, though, I
• 46:14
  appreciate it. I admire your tenacity and your
• 46:18
  courage, sir. Thank you. So just so I'm making
• 46:22
  sure I understand fully what's going on here.
• 46:24
  This was a, this was a shout out to, I think
• 46:25
  his wife. Yeah. I was doing a shot. Happy Valentine's
• 46:29
  day. Shout out to his wife who is probably, I'm
• 46:31
  guessing the gynecologist or ergo, a protector
• 46:34
  of the JJs and baby making karma. That's it.
• 46:37
  Wonderful. I love that. Actually that's a, I
• 46:40
  would say that tickles me pink. I see what you
• 46:45
  did. Thank you, Kyle. Kyle had us a clip request,
• 46:51
  like a sound drop request, and he said, if you
• 46:55
  have it, give me the Trump I'm going to come
• 46:57
  and do to climate change. So the thing is, as
• 47:01
  much as the show is obviously an inspiration
• 47:03
  to us and our model and stuff, those are just
• 47:05
  straight up no agenda jingles. So what I did
• 47:08
  is I put together our own version of it using
• 47:12
  an Idaho NPR clip. along with just that, you
• 47:16
  know, from that original Trump quote. So here
• 47:19
  is what I put together for you, Kyle. Enjoy.
• 47:22
  Oh, I'm gonna come. The climate change driven
• 47:24
  come. Do not come. Do not come. I'm gonna do
• 47:28
  it. Thank you, Kyle, very, very much for your
• 47:35
  row of schmeckles. And finally, we have ourselves
• 47:42
  a third executive producer this week, and it
• 47:44
  is from Ainsley Kay, who gave us a hundred bucks.
• 47:50
  Rock and roll. Thank you, Ainsley. Heck yeah.
• 47:53
  And Ainsley did not send a note. She just sent
• 47:56
  a... Oh, no note? Like a Hang Ten emote. So,
• 47:59
  there it is. Well, thank you very much, Ainsley.
• 48:00
  We appreciate that a lot. Dude, awesome. I'm
• 48:03
  pretty stoked. It's got some boots on the ground
• 48:06
  reports, some people sending us articles, executive
• 48:09
  producers showing up with rows and fields of
• 48:12
  schmeckles and all kinds of things. No, that's
• 48:15
  badass. I love it. Love notes. I love the fact
• 48:17
  that Kyle had us blast out a Valentine's Day
• 48:21
  love note to his woman. That's awesome. Oh, thank
• 48:24
  you guys. Do not come. Indeed. Yes, thank you.
• 48:30
  If you would like to be... My foot hurts a little
• 48:31
  less right now. If you would like to become an
• 48:35
  executive producer of an episode of No ID, please
• 48:38
  visit noidshow .com and return some value back
• 48:43
  to us. A value for value model. Okay, so I'd
• 48:54
  like to start the second half here with a very,
• 48:58
  an excellent catch by Devin. Devin sent in this
• 49:04
  note, Hey guys, about 10 minutes into episode
• 49:06
  15, during the clip about contractor licensing,
• 49:10
  There was a moment where the narrator is talking
• 49:12
  about Idaho being business friendly with minimal
• 49:15
  regulation. Then there is literally the sound
• 49:18
  of a death knell in the background as she goes
• 49:20
  on to talk about regulations that were passed.
• 49:23
  Hilarious. I was surprised you guys missed it
• 49:25
  from Devin. So I went back and I pulled it and
• 49:30
  check this out. Idaho prides itself on being
• 49:32
  business friendly with low barriers to entry
• 49:35
  and very minimal regulation. That was one of
• 49:38
  the main reasons lawmakers passed the Contractor
• 49:40
  Registration Act. Unbelievable. Literally like
• 49:44
  death to freedom. That was one of the main reasons
• 49:47
  lawmakers passed the Contractor Registration
• 49:49
  Act. More like the mainstream narrative is that
• 49:54
  freedom leads to death, basically. It's like,
• 49:57
  oh, it's risky. It's dangerous. If we don't license
• 50:00
  contractors, you could die. That was one of the
• 50:03
  main reasons lawmakers passed the Contractor
• 50:05
  Registration Act. Good catch. No, it's a great,
• 50:08
  great catch, Devin. I don't think that these
• 50:12
  people are like evil geniuses who are like inserting
• 50:15
  this stuff. Not in this case. I mean, I feel
• 50:18
  like that's just a crazy coincidence with the
• 50:23
  background bed that they were running under the
• 50:25
  underneath that that that presentation. But boy,
• 50:28
  man, you talk about timing and and and just on
• 50:33
  the nose weirdness. I'd believe it if it was
• 50:36
  intentional. That's a death knell. Yes, that
• 50:43
  is. Okay, so this is the sort of value returned
• 50:46
  by the way that we're talking about, you know,
• 50:49
  pointing stuff out to us that we might have missed.
• 50:51
  Awesome value returned. That is someone who understands
• 50:54
  the value for value model. Yeah, love it. Moving
• 50:58
  right along. Two, a follow up on the vehicle
• 51:02
  registration stickers, HB 533. Registering your
• 51:05
  vehicle is a yearly fee, one that you'd continue
• 51:07
  to pay even though House Bill 533 would remove
• 51:10
  the requirement to display registration stickers
• 51:12
  on your license plates. On the House floor, bill
• 51:14
  author and Republican Representative John Weber
• 51:17
  said officers already receive what they need
• 51:19
  when they run a plate number. 100 % of the time,
• 51:22
  law enforcement runs your plate and receives
• 51:25
  all the information they need on that vehicle.
• 51:29
  Lawmakers estimate ending the program would save
• 51:31
  the Idaho Transportation Department approximately
• 51:33
  $300 ,000. But Lieutenant Don Peck with the Nampa
• 51:36
  Police Department says the sticker often provides
• 51:38
  a first visible clue. Not having that registration
• 51:42
  sticker, what it does, it allows somebody to
• 51:44
  fly under the radar. When you say fly under the
• 51:46
  radar. Oh no. Where's the death knell in the
• 51:50
  background? I need to pull a death knell to separate
• 51:53
  just to start using it. That's great. whatever,
• 51:58
  I can't remember where this was, KTBV, KBTV,
• 52:02
  or whatever it is. Whoever sent the reporter
• 52:06
  doofus down to the police department with the
• 52:09
  little handheld lav mic to interview a lieutenant.
• 52:12
  Not having that registration sticker, what it
• 52:14
  does, it allows somebody to fly under the radar.
• 52:17
  When you say fly under the radar, from your law
• 52:19
  enforcement perspective, what do you mean by
• 52:21
  that? What do you mean by that? In his head,
• 52:26
  the guy who's in the interview in his head is
• 52:28
  like, I'm doing great. Absolutely. When you say
• 52:31
  fly under the radar, from your law enforcement
• 52:33
  perspective, what do you mean by that? So what
• 52:36
  I'm talking about when I'm talking about flying
• 52:37
  under the radar is somebody could just say, well,
• 52:41
  I'm not going to get pulled over because they
• 52:42
  don't know that my vehicle. Why bother? Why bother?
• 52:45
  My vehicle is not registered. How is the how
• 52:47
  are law enforcement going to know unless they
• 52:49
  run my vehicle? Peck says checking registration
• 52:52
  is a manual process and a choice by officers.
• 52:55
  I have to physically run that. I had to put it
• 52:57
  into my computer. Oh, so sorry. It's an extra
• 53:00
  extra step for you on its own. We don't have
• 53:03
  any systems that can do that. Not even license
• 53:05
  plate readers like these recently installed in
• 53:07
  Caldwell. They can compare plate numbers to a
• 53:09
  national database for stolen vehicles, wanted
• 53:11
  people and other alerts, but they can't check
• 53:13
  registration status. And even if expired registrations
• 53:16
  were added to LPR alerts. Officer driving down
• 53:19
  the road. constantly getting a ping of expired
• 53:22
  registration in their call. They will get desensitized
• 53:28
  to the license plate reader. And then when we
• 53:30
  have something that is a high priority, a stolen
• 53:33
  vehicle, a wanted person, a missing person. It's
• 53:37
  always interesting any single time, anytime something
• 53:40
  is proposed where it's like, yeah, maybe we could
• 53:42
  take the burden off of the average citizen and
• 53:45
  maybe we could have. less legality that they
• 53:48
  have to deal with. And the cops always are like,
• 53:52
  no, that would be a disaster. How are we going
• 53:55
  to police everybody if we don't have every single
• 53:58
  opportunity to police everybody for nonviolent,
• 54:01
  victimless crimes? It's basically whatever they're
• 54:04
  for, I'm against. Whatever they're against, I'm
• 54:06
  for at this point. It's automatic. This got me
• 54:10
  to thinking more foresty rather than trees. You
• 54:14
  know, like pull up on the drone and have it just
• 54:16
  go right up into the air over the top of the
• 54:17
  canopy. Like what, what might this actually lead
• 54:20
  to or, or even I'm not going to give the representative
• 54:23
  chaos that much credit that they're actually
• 54:26
  thinking this way. But the notion, like let's
• 54:29
  say the bill, you know, okay, there are no more
• 54:30
  registration stickers. And then like, well, the
• 54:33
  thing is, is the automatic license plate readers
• 54:34
  that are on every single traffic light in the
• 54:36
  entire state. or at least we want it to be, they're
• 54:39
  not able to automatically ping the reg and we
• 54:42
  need it to. So therefore we need to upgrade that
• 54:45
  grid such that it automatically pings and it's
• 54:48
  going to be like a much larger surveillance web.
• 54:53
  You see what I'm saying? It's like removing this
• 54:55
  like analog sticker and replaced with digital
• 54:59
  surveillance. Registration stuff shouldn't be
• 55:02
  something that initiates an interaction anyways.
• 55:05
  It should be at best. a secondary thing. I mean,
• 55:08
  that's my opinion is you shouldn't be out there
• 55:11
  looking for registration issues in the first
• 55:13
  place. It's such a minor thing. You shouldn't
• 55:16
  care. It shouldn't be an issue. You shouldn't
• 55:18
  have an interaction with anybody anyways unless
• 55:20
  you've got a real reason to unless there's a
• 55:21
  victim, unless there's a crime. Of course, I
• 55:24
  know I'm in the minority on that. People think
• 55:27
  interactions with police are legitimate for a
• 55:29
  lot of reasons. When they're not, this would
• 55:32
  be a non -legitimate reason for it. but they
• 55:35
  don't want yet another tool that they use to
• 55:38
  hem people up taken away from them. But it shouldn't
• 55:41
  be something that they're looking for in the
• 55:42
  first place. It should be something that if you
• 55:44
  get pulled over for a legitimate reason, you're
• 55:47
  harming others or other stuff, and then you also
• 55:49
  happen to have your car out of registration.
• 55:51
  All right, well, now you've got a secondary issue,
• 55:53
  and they deal with it. And that's what it should
• 55:56
  be. Speaking of registration, the timing's perfect
• 55:59
  because we just got a postcard in the mail from
• 56:01
  the Idaho DMV. My daughter is about to get her
• 56:05
  full driver's license. She's 15 She's about to
• 56:07
  get a full driver's license in the next few months
• 56:08
  So we've been getting all the hours in and doing
• 56:11
  the learner's permit thing and everything It's
• 56:13
  pretty exciting stuff and we were able to get
• 56:15
  our hands on a great little 09 Subaru for her
• 56:18
  And we went and we got it registered in November
• 56:21
  right after we bought it But we have not put
• 56:24
  insurance on it yet because we're not we're not
• 56:26
  actively driving it right now when my daughter
• 56:29
  drives She drives either my car my wife's car
• 56:31
  with our supervision per the requirements of
• 56:34
  the learner's permit. Well, we get a postcard
• 56:37
  in the mail from Idaho DMV threatening to cancel
• 56:42
  our registration with the state because the state
• 56:46
  database shows that we don't have insurance on
• 56:49
  MRS's car. So they have all this information
• 56:52
  already. And not only that, but they hold it
• 56:54
  over your head. So I actually had to get using
• 56:56
  the information on the postcard. I had to get
• 56:58
  online, spend my time to then file for an exemption.
• 57:01
  a storage exemption, basically saying, Hey, we're
• 57:03
  not, you know, we're not using the car right
• 57:05
  now. It's in storage. So please don't cancel
• 57:08
  the registration for this car that I paid for.
• 57:11
  Please. And thank you very much jerk offs. That's
• 57:14
  how that shit works. I couldn't believe it. I've
• 57:16
  never dealt with that before, but it's all in
• 57:18
  the database. They track you, they send you threatening
• 57:21
  postcards and they basically are like, Hey, you're
• 57:23
  not doing the thing we think you should do. And
• 57:25
  if you don't do it, then that shit you paid for
• 57:27
  isn't valid anymore. That's the thing right like
• 57:30
  when they when these things come up and they
• 57:32
  act like they're just like You know, they got
• 57:34
  their thing being led around by a labrador with
• 57:37
  big black glasses and it came like well We don't
• 57:38
  know there's no way for us to like know anybody
• 57:40
  even the license plate readers that we don't
• 57:42
  know We don't know and then like, you know, you
• 57:44
  definitely already have all this information.
• 57:46
  You have a giant database Yeah, exactly. Like
• 57:49
  it's you're just full of crap and you're this
• 57:51
  is probably just gonna be used to like I said
• 57:53
  digitize the entire Experience so that you're
• 57:55
  actually being a lot more surveilled than you
• 57:58
  were before License registration is just revenue
• 58:00
  generation. That's all it is. That's all it truly
• 58:03
  is. You are being charged by the state more money
• 58:07
  on something you already bought and already paid
• 58:09
  taxes on to be able to quote unquote legally
• 58:14
  drive it on the roads you already paid for with
• 58:17
  all of the taxes you've paid. So it's straight
• 58:21
  up revenue generation under the guise of consumer
• 58:24
  protection or under the guise of law enforcement
• 58:26
  being able to Stop criminals better. No, what
• 58:29
  it is is it just gives them excuses to interact
• 58:32
  with you, pull you over and generate more revenue
• 58:34
  when they pull you over on the roadside or every
• 58:37
  two years squeeze almost $200 out of you just
• 58:41
  to drive your car that you already paid for.
• 58:45
  Insurance is also BS. The reason it's a scam
• 58:49
  is what you just described because you're forced
• 58:52
  to purchase it. unless you'd not be allowed to
• 58:55
  operate your own property. And then when you
• 58:58
  go to make a claim, they're like, oh no, well,
• 59:00
  we're not gonna, we're not paying that. It's
• 59:03
  like, oh, well, we are paying it or we're dragging
• 59:04
  your rates through the roof. You're like, well,
• 59:05
  what good is this service? I don't want it. Well,
• 59:07
  you can't not want it. It's too bad. You gotta
• 59:09
  have it. Or, hey, we know that it costs you a
• 59:11
  couple hundred dollars a month, but before we
• 59:13
  cover anything, if we do cover anything, you
• 59:15
  still gotta pay anywhere from 500 to a thousand
• 59:18
  dollars out of pocket first before we'll cover
• 59:21
  anything. Yeah, insurance is a total scam. Oh,
• 59:23
  OK. Cool. I mean, the one time it comes in handy,
• 59:27
  and what it's designed for is for catastrophic
• 59:29
  type stuff and for liability. You accidentally
• 59:32
  have a collision and somebody gets really hurt.
• 59:35
  That's when that stuff comes in handy. But outside
• 59:38
  of those circumstances, it is pretty much just
• 59:42
  like most other things of this nature, a scam.
• 59:45
  One that is mandated by the government, which
• 59:48
  totally changes the product. It changes the product,
• 59:51
  it changes the service, and it changes the market.
• 59:53
  The moment that the government mandates something
• 59:55
  has to be purchased in the market. Well, first
• 59:58
  off, you've lost your individual liberties. That's
• 1:00:00
  a big problem. And secondly, there's a lot less
• 1:00:03
  incentive for the market to be price conscious.
• 1:00:07
  But like why, as a provider of said service that's
• 1:00:09
  been, that you have to buy from me, now I don't
• 1:00:13
  have to be so price conscious. Yeah, I mean it's
• 1:00:17
  even it's the inversion of price consciousness.
• 1:00:19
  It's incentive to gouge Correct. Well good times
• 1:00:24
  here is the You know your your daughter while
• 1:00:29
  she might be about to you know Get a little autonomy
• 1:00:32
  and liberty with her own driver's license. I'm
• 1:00:35
  not really sure that she's gonna be able to do
• 1:00:37
  To enjoy any of those things without the state
• 1:00:40
  Looking at a dormant piece of Idaho law that
• 1:00:44
  is suddenly sparking a debate. Now lawmakers
• 1:00:46
  are considering a bill that would remove the
• 1:00:49
  Idaho Women's Commission from state code, saying
• 1:00:51
  it hasn't been funded in 17 years. But opponents
• 1:00:55
  say eliminating it sends a message. First time
• 1:00:58
  I went to get a credit card, they said, yeah,
• 1:01:00
  we want to save money. First time I went to get
• 1:01:04
  a credit card, they said, oh, we always put it
• 1:01:05
  in the husband's name for Dr. Mary Mosley. That
• 1:01:08
  moment is a reminder of how much has changed
• 1:01:11
  and how quickly it can. In 1975, I got my first
• 1:01:15
  credit card of my own and put my husband on it
• 1:01:19
  as a user. And how did that feel? That felt pretty
• 1:01:23
  good. And that household has been deep in debt
• 1:01:24
  ever since. Now Dr Mosley is speaking out against
• 1:01:28
  Senate Bill 1236, a bill that would remove the
• 1:01:31
  Idaho Women's Commission from state law. And
• 1:01:34
  we're saying, well, it sends a bad message to
• 1:01:36
  the women of Idaho. Supporters of the bill say
• 1:01:38
  the commission hasn't been funded or active in
• 1:01:41
  nearly two decades, and eliminating it is simply
• 1:01:44
  housekeeping. This just deals with getting rid
• 1:01:47
  of old, obsolete code. Mosley argues keeping
• 1:01:51
  the commission in law costs nothing and preserves
• 1:01:54
  the option to bring it back. It's not costing
• 1:01:56
  the state a thing to leave alone. And we could
• 1:01:59
  at some point reactivate it. She says there are
• 1:02:01
  still issues she believes deserve to be studied,
• 1:02:04
  including the number. Isn't that like just the
• 1:02:06
  perfect dynamic between men and women where the
• 1:02:08
  man's like, OK, this is this is useless. We don't
• 1:02:11
  use it. We haven't touched it in 20 years. It's
• 1:02:14
  taking up space. Let's just get rid of it. And
• 1:02:17
  the woman's like, no, keep it. We might use it
• 1:02:19
  again. Including the number of women behind bars
• 1:02:25
  in Idaho. We are the highest. number of incarcerated
• 1:02:28
  women per capita in the nation. Others testifying
• 1:02:31
  in public. We're number one saying we're number
• 1:02:33
  one finger number one hearing agreed saying removing
• 1:02:37
  the commission closes off a tool for policy discussion.
• 1:02:40
  I believe there is a need and actually a desire
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  on the part of several groups representing Idaho
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  women to reestablish a women's commission in
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  Idaho. And I don't want to lose this opportunity.
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  But backers of the bill push back, arguing women
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  don't need a state commission to succeed. I am
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  not convinced that any one of these beautiful,
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  strong women in my life need a government established
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  commission in order to live successful, empowered
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  lives. He doesn't understand. Without government,
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  women wouldn't exist. Not that the government
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  can even define what a woman is. Moseley says
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  her concern isn't nostalgia, it's civic awareness.
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  If you think that... What the legislature and
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  what Congress does don't affect your personal
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  life. You're absolutely wrong because it does.
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  This bill is up for a third reading Tuesday,
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  and if it passes, the Idaho Women's Commission
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  would be removed from state law. I do like the
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  part two where they have the woman, you know,
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  being like, well, we need a women's commission.
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  And then they play the clip of the man going
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  like, well, I got women in my life that I don't
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  see why they I don't see why they they're strong
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  and beautiful. Why do they need a commission?
• 1:03:52
  Now of course you could definitely find - Like
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  we need him to mansplain it for us or anything
• 1:03:57
  like that, how rude. You could of course find
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  a man that is for keeping the Women's Commission
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  stuff on the books and you could find a woman
• 1:04:06
  who's against it because it's not about their
• 1:04:09
  sex, it's about their political ideology, but
• 1:04:12
  it makes a lot more sense if you frame the issue
• 1:04:14
  as man -woman versus left -right. Just go over
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  the Democrat voter rolls and the North Idaho
• 1:04:20
  Republican voter rolls. You'll find all the beta
• 1:04:24
  males you want. Couple more for this week here
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  on no ID. Let's do. Well, maybe this will cheer
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  you up. The Idaho Supreme Court last week upheld
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  the state's parental choice tax credit program,
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  clearing the way for $50 million in tax credits
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  to roll out to Idaho families this spring. While
• 1:04:45
  the program got the green light to move forward,
• 1:04:48
  the question now is whether Idaho's budget crisis
• 1:04:50
  could put it back in the spotlight. The Idaho
• 1:04:53
  Supreme Court ruled last week that the state's
• 1:04:55
  parental choice tax credit program does not violate
• 1:04:58
  the state's Constitution. I think this is a pretty.
• 1:05:01
  definitive decision. The program sets aside $50
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  million in public funds annually for tax credits
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  that Idaho families can use on private school
• 1:05:10
  expenses, including tuition. In the court's opinion,
• 1:05:13
  the justices, you notice the little, the subtle
• 1:05:15
  framing there where they're setting aside in
• 1:05:17
  the court's opinion, they're setting aside public
• 1:05:20
  funds so that Idaho families, so you, but they're
• 1:05:24
  not one is a collective collectivized public
• 1:05:27
  funds, like they're just, they are materialized
• 1:05:29
  out of nothing. And then one is like for families,
• 1:05:32
  like here's for the individual. Of course, it's
• 1:05:34
  those families own money back. There's no such
• 1:05:37
  thing as public money. It's all just stuff that's
• 1:05:39
  extracted from those families. A hundred percent.
• 1:05:43
  It's framed incorrect. The premise is wrong and
• 1:05:46
  the framing is disingenuous. It's all the above.
• 1:05:49
  There's not this pile of money that's being set
• 1:05:51
  aside for it. It's tax. credits, it's you not
• 1:05:55
  getting taxed harder if you do these precise
• 1:05:58
  things. Number two is any time public or public
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  indoctrination camps is what really public education
• 1:06:07
  is. So state run education, state run public
• 1:06:09
  indoctrination camps is probably the best way
• 1:06:11
  to put it. Anytime proponents of that system
• 1:06:13
  talk about the money, they always talk about
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  public funds for public schools. I go, I'm the
• 1:06:18
  public. That's my money. So not only is it not
• 1:06:21
  true that there's some chunk of money out there
• 1:06:23
  they're setting aside But this this idea that
• 1:06:26
  the money doesn't the money somehow belongs to
• 1:06:28
  the nebulous public But only when it's the stuff
• 1:06:32
  they like The program sets aside 50 million dollars
• 1:06:37
  in public funds annually for tax credits that
• 1:06:40
  Idaho families can use on private school expenses
• 1:06:42
  including tuition In the court's opinion, the
• 1:06:45
  justices noted that the challengers claims of
• 1:06:47
  harm were hypothetical and speculative, meaning
• 1:06:50
  they couldn't prove the tax credit program would
• 1:06:52
  actually hurt public schools. This decision illustrates
• 1:06:56
  why there just aren't very many good arguments
• 1:06:58
  or really any good arguments. Legal arguments
• 1:07:00
  against school choice. Tom Fisher is the litigation
• 1:07:03
  director at Ed Choice, a national advocacy group
• 1:07:06
  for school choice. He hopes Idaho's ruling can
• 1:07:08
  be an example for other states facing the same
• 1:07:11
  legal battle. Public schools are terrific for
• 1:07:13
  many families and they do a great job for many
• 1:07:15
  families. But for others, there is a need to
• 1:07:18
  do something different to make sure that every
• 1:07:20
  child... But for others who are discerning, not
• 1:07:22
  so much. Every child has a chance at a high quality
• 1:07:25
  education that's appropriate for them. But as
• 1:07:28
  Idaho faces a projected $40 million budget deficit
• 1:07:31
  this year and a projected $500 million for fiscal
• 1:07:34
  year 2027, some wonder whether this could end
• 1:07:38
  up back in court if the budget for public schools
• 1:07:40
  gets touched to help bridge the state's funding
• 1:07:43
  gap. I don't think the evidence will ever bear
• 1:07:45
  that out. The program is free to go ahead. Stephanie
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  Witt is a public service professor at Boise State.
• 1:07:51
  We are seeing a legislature that appears really
• 1:07:54
  committed to this idea, even with the $50 million
• 1:08:00
  plus price tag in a season where we're making
• 1:08:03
  cuts in other state agencies. She says it's hard
• 1:08:06
  to argue the credits specifically are taking
• 1:08:08
  from public schools when other major agencies
• 1:08:11
  draw from the same pot, the state's general fund.
• 1:08:13
  I don't know how you make that argument exactly
• 1:08:16
  because you know that you have all the slices
• 1:08:21
  of the pie that take a lot of money, right? Correct.
• 1:08:24
  This is a slice. Medicaid has a slice in transportation.
• 1:08:29
  A question the state has faced several times
• 1:08:32
  before, including a 2005 Idaho Supreme Court
• 1:08:34
  ruling that the state was not fulfilling its
• 1:08:37
  duty. We've never had a conclusive. More than
• 1:08:43
  5 ,000 applications have already been filed with
• 1:08:46
  the state's tax commission for the program. The
• 1:08:49
  application period remains open until March 15th
• 1:08:51
  and tax credits are set to roll out in April.
• 1:08:54
  One of the justices noted that while the speculation
• 1:08:57
  on harm right now is what it appears to be, they
• 1:08:59
  could be reexamining that in the future once
• 1:09:02
  the program's impacts can be properly measured.
• 1:09:07
  Two things on that number one is that. proponents
• 1:09:12
  of state -run education and opponents of school
• 1:09:16
  choice, them making the argument that competition
• 1:09:21
  hurts them is not the flex they think it is.
• 1:09:24
  They are effectively admitting that if parents
• 1:09:27
  and families get to choose, they're going to
• 1:09:30
  choose something other than the monopolistic
• 1:09:33
  state -run education system. Not a great flex,
• 1:09:36
  not a great argument. That's a terrible argument,
• 1:09:40
  actually. We can't give people a choice. Can
• 1:09:41
  you imagine what will happen if they have a choice?
• 1:09:42
  We give people a choice. Number two is that education
• 1:09:45
  is by far still the biggest budget line item
• 1:09:47
  in the state, by far. It's a wide margin. The
• 1:09:50
  next thing is Medicaid. And the two of those
• 1:09:52
  make up over what I think it's 75%, 80 % of the
• 1:09:54
  state budget as a whole. It's insane. It's huge.
• 1:09:57
  And they complain about 1 % cuts. Get banned.
• 1:10:01
  Number three is that the Idaho state budget has
• 1:10:04
  increased 66 % over the last seven years. A 66
• 1:10:09
  % increase in the amount of money that Idaho
• 1:10:12
  spends in the last seven years. It's outrageous.
• 1:10:17
  It's absurd. It's damn near, it's a hockey stick
• 1:10:21
  graph. And as we've continued to harp on, there's
• 1:10:25
  never any sentiment, it feels like, from the
• 1:10:29
  mainstream or the leader, leader, leaders, or
• 1:10:32
  really anybody, that would suggest that they
• 1:10:36
  that they have an understanding of how unnecessary
• 1:10:38
  so much of the government apparatus actually
• 1:10:41
  is. I mean, no point does anyone. Well, how about
• 1:10:46
  we just start eliminating stuff? Why is there
• 1:10:48
  a state arts commission? Why is there a state
• 1:10:50
  liquor board? Why is there so much? Is there
• 1:10:53
  a state women's commission? Well, it's not costing
• 1:10:56
  any money. Like all of a sudden you're concerned
• 1:10:58
  about money. Like it's just like there's only
• 1:11:00
  it's only. It's really only ever one side of
• 1:11:03
  the equation, which is how do we extract more
• 1:11:05
  money? And I know we're a broken record. We can't
• 1:11:07
  even get people to agree on getting rid of these
• 1:11:11
  stupid little stickers to put on the license
• 1:11:12
  plates that can save almost half a million dollars.
• 1:11:16
  If Paul and I were running in the red in our
• 1:11:20
  retail hospitality operations, there would be
• 1:11:22
  two sides of the discussion. How do we increase
• 1:11:25
  gross sales? How do we get people to voluntarily
• 1:11:27
  come through the door and purchase more of our
• 1:11:28
  products and services? And also, how do we trim
• 1:11:32
  the money going out? How do we save on labor?
• 1:11:35
  How do we save on cost of goods? How do we...
• 1:11:39
  You know, how do we bridge it and then switch
• 1:11:41
  from red to black? It's it would be a two -way
• 1:11:43
  discussion now if a certain point if you're hammering
• 1:11:47
  See that said I was about to say if you're hammering
• 1:11:48
  enough gross sales It stops mattering but that's
• 1:11:50
  actually not true because if you have enough
• 1:11:53
  money going out It doesn't matter how much gross
• 1:11:55
  sales you're doing you will run in the red So
• 1:11:57
  gross sales help they help a lot but the point
• 1:12:00
  is is it's a it's a two -sided conversation and
• 1:12:02
  it's it's it's dishonest and disingenuous to
• 1:12:05
  only talk about one side of it, especially when
• 1:12:09
  your revenue is being forcibly Confiscated rather
• 1:12:13
  than earned say those who say with an added wrinkle
• 1:12:15
  is that in the private sector you and I both
• 1:12:17
  did not have the option of Rounding up our customers
• 1:12:21
  pointing a gun at them and extracting more forcefully
• 1:12:25
  And that's that's the thing when I wanted more
• 1:12:28
  revenue. I didn't get to just vote myself a new
• 1:12:30
  raise as a public union I didn't get to Beg the
• 1:12:35
  my neighbors to vote to give me a raise over
• 1:12:39
  again, over the barrel of a gun, stealing from
• 1:12:42
  their neighbors to give me more money. That doesn't
• 1:12:43
  exist in the private sector. So you have to do
• 1:12:46
  one of only a few things, tighten your belt,
• 1:12:48
  make more sales, provide better value, figure
• 1:12:51
  out your place in the world. And when you are
• 1:12:54
  in the private sector, you are the direct beneficiary
• 1:12:57
  of good decisions and success. And you are the
• 1:13:00
  direct feeler of the consequences of poor market
• 1:13:04
  decisions or a market that doesn't want you.
• 1:13:06
  what have you. And that's why government always
• 1:13:09
  operates in such an irresponsible way is because
• 1:13:12
  when you do something with there's fourth ways
• 1:13:15
  you can basically spend money. You can spend
• 1:13:17
  money directly on yourself. You can actually
• 1:13:19
  say you can spend your own money on yourself.
• 1:13:22
  You can spend your own money on others. Someone
• 1:13:26
  can spend your money on themselves and someone
• 1:13:32
  can spend your money on someone else. Government
• 1:13:36
  is someone spending your money on someone else
• 1:13:40
  and sometimes also themselves. So they feel the
• 1:13:44
  effects and the consequences the least. There
• 1:13:46
  is the least incentive to save. There is the
• 1:13:50
  least incentive to produce. There is really no
• 1:13:52
  incentive to do anything that we would naturally
• 1:13:55
  do in the real world, which we do in the private
• 1:13:58
  sector. And that's the nature of government and
• 1:14:00
  why it's terrible, why it does what it does.
• 1:14:02
  The bureaucrats don't suffer the consequences
• 1:14:04
  of not adhering to the budget. the taxpayer suffers
• 1:14:07
  the consequences. Well, it's groundhog day again.
• 1:14:11
  I know we're harping on this stuff all the time.
• 1:14:14
  And so you'll please forgive us. This is this
• 1:14:16
  sort of stuff is just crazy making for guys that
• 1:14:18
  are wired like Paul and I are because it's so
• 1:14:21
  straightforward and it's so basic. It really
• 1:14:22
  is. It's just read. It's just basic economics
• 1:14:25
  and human nature and human behavior. And of course,
• 1:14:28
  the government warps and distorts and defies
• 1:14:30
  all of that. And the people who think we we couldn't
• 1:14:33
  live that we can't live and exist without these
• 1:14:36
  psychopaths stealing from us and doing whatever
• 1:14:39
  they want with our money. It blows my mind and
• 1:14:41
  it drives me nuts. It's just like we don't need
• 1:14:44
  them. They need us. And yet most people believe
• 1:14:47
  the reverse narrative that somehow without them,
• 1:14:51
  everything is anarchy and chaos and it falls
• 1:14:53
  apart and nothing could be further from the truth.
• 1:14:55
  By the way, we watched a Groundhog Day as a family
• 1:14:57
  last week. It was a hell of a good time. It was,
• 1:15:01
  I hadn't watched it in probably 20 years and
• 1:15:03
  it was a good time. First time for the rest of
• 1:15:04
  my family though. And we had a ball. So thank
• 1:15:07
  you for the reminder and the recommendation,
• 1:15:09
  Scott, the kids, especially. I'm curious to know
• 1:15:11
  their reaction. It was a very, it was a generational
• 1:15:15
  piece for sure. I thought it was a very good
• 1:15:17
  expose on boomer mentality, which I won't try
• 1:15:20
  to unpack here, but there were moments of it
• 1:15:22
  that were very sweet. There are moments of it
• 1:15:24
  that were very candid, but there were also a
• 1:15:25
  lot of moments of it where we just all looked
• 1:15:26
  at each other and went, They could never make
• 1:15:29
  a movie like this now, or like people are not
• 1:15:31
  allowed to behave like this. Now you'd go to
• 1:15:34
  jail for some of these sorts of things. It was
• 1:15:35
  like, uh, yeah, that's not, that's not appropriate.
• 1:15:38
  That's not appropriate. Well, what if there is
• 1:15:41
  no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. Bill Murray
• 1:15:45
  puts in a pretty good performance there. He plays,
• 1:15:48
  he plays a casual dirt bag really well. Yeah,
• 1:15:50
  he does. It's still just once a year, isn't it?
• 1:15:54
  I think that we really missed the boat, dude,
• 1:15:58
  because what we could have actually done, now
• 1:15:59
  that I'm thinking about it, when we were operating
• 1:16:01
  our establishments, is just continue to run massively
• 1:16:05
  in the red, and then get bailouts from the federal
• 1:16:08
  cigar and craft beer establishment, right? Because
• 1:16:12
  we can just keep running in the red, and then
• 1:16:14
  we have the big daddy federal apparatus to just
• 1:16:18
  wire us money. Yeah, what we should have done
• 1:16:22
  is claim like 1 .5 million in losses from the
• 1:16:26
  COVID shutdowns and then just defrauded the government
• 1:16:29
  with PPP loans and stuff like that Well, and
• 1:16:32
  then when they called us and asked if we had
• 1:16:34
  committed any fraud all we would have to say
• 1:16:36
  is no Thank you. Please come again You know the
• 1:16:40
  Simpsons eliminated the APU character the woke
• 1:16:43
  tards in the Simpsons writer room. It's been
• 1:16:46
  a couple of years, I think. I haven't ever watched
• 1:16:50
  an episode, so I didn't know. Lots of clips out
• 1:16:53
  there on the internet, so I'm familiar with the
• 1:16:54
  Simpsons, but I never watched an episode, but
• 1:16:55
  I loved that character. I definitely grew up
• 1:16:57
  on it. It was one of their woke public proclamations
• 1:17:03
  where they got up on top of an apple crate in
• 1:17:06
  the middle of the town square and went, we will
• 1:17:08
  no longer be doing the Appu character because
• 1:17:11
  it's racist and all that. stereotypical and all
• 1:17:13
  that stuff, even though the entire show and TV
• 1:17:16
  and movies in general is kind of nothing really
• 1:17:18
  but stereotypes used for comedic and dramatic
• 1:17:20
  effect. And basically what you're telling me,
• 1:17:24
  you Simpsons writers, is that your judgment is
• 1:17:28
  so bad that you had this character that was wildly
• 1:17:32
  inappropriate all of these years, and you thought
• 1:17:34
  it was a good idea to do that, because the words
• 1:17:37
  you're using now... You were doing it and this
• 1:17:40
  really horrible thing that you're describing
• 1:17:42
  you were doing it your judgment is shit And so
• 1:17:46
  now is it possible that maybe you and your crappy
• 1:17:48
  judgment? Maybe this proclamation itself is also
• 1:17:51
  crappy because it's coming from you you the bad
• 1:17:53
  judgment people remember It's okay to stereotype
• 1:17:57
  the people we think it's okay to stereotype but
• 1:17:59
  Indians are right out Not okay, even though they
• 1:18:03
  actually I mean, there's some things to be said
• 1:18:06
  about how they're Those stereotypes exist for
• 1:18:09
  a reason, man. They are an archetypal people.
• 1:18:13
  Oh, what a time to be alive. Oh, where was it?
• 1:18:16
  Last night we were cruising through Netflix as
• 1:18:18
  a family and we were going to watch a film. And
• 1:18:20
  the thing that popped up was the live action
• 1:18:22
  version of How to Train Your Dragon, which the
• 1:18:25
  original How to Train Your Dragon, great movie,
• 1:18:26
  ton of fun. I love it. It's one of my all time
• 1:18:28
  faves. And my kids were trying to sell me on
• 1:18:31
  it. They're like, yeah, it's pretty good as far
• 1:18:33
  as live action films go. In fact, it's probably...
• 1:18:35
  of all the ones out there, it's probably the
• 1:18:37
  best one. And I went, well, OK, so it crawls
• 1:18:40
  over. It's a low bar. So it leaps over the low
• 1:18:43
  bar. Good for it. And then my daughter, who I
• 1:18:46
  don't think wanted to say it, but she knows me
• 1:18:48
  well enough to know. So she just kind of off
• 1:18:51
  the cusp, off the cuff says it towards the end
• 1:18:53
  of the pitch, the sales pitch. She's like, well,
• 1:18:56
  and Astrid's black. And I went, wait, come again?
• 1:18:59
  She goes, yeah, Astrid's black. And I went, Oh,
• 1:19:02
  okay. Imagine that it's a Netflix adaptation
• 1:19:05
  of how to train your dragon. We're one of the
• 1:19:08
  main characters in a story about Vikings, about
• 1:19:13
  Nordic people is black. That's what that tells
• 1:19:16
  me. All I need to know. Thank you. We're not
• 1:19:18
  watching that be like watching lion King and
• 1:19:21
  being like, yeah. And Simba's white. And I'd
• 1:19:23
  be like, what, why, why did they do that? That
• 1:19:26
  doesn't make any sense. Of course they wouldn't
• 1:19:28
  do that. Cause the time we live in, you know,
• 1:19:30
  that would They would never consider it. But
• 1:19:33
  you don't take a story about the African safari
• 1:19:37
  and race swap them. Simba, what are you all doing?
• 1:19:41
  Isn't Simba the little cub? It would be so awesome
• 1:19:46
  if they made Simba a ginger. Well, they did,
• 1:19:49
  didn't they? So lily white, freckled, redheaded
• 1:19:53
  kid. Well, I don't understand. You mean, isn't
• 1:19:56
  he a lion? Well, he's a lion, yeah. But obviously,
• 1:20:00
  if it was a human, He would not be white. Well,
• 1:20:04
  he was a human and he was white. He's Jonathan
• 1:20:06
  Taylor Thomas. The voice? You talking about the
• 1:20:09
  voice? Yeah. Oh, man. Disney's in so much trouble
• 1:20:12
  now. Yeah. Yeah. It's no good. Disney obviously
• 1:20:16
  hates blacks. There's no other conclusion to
• 1:20:18
  draw. All right. Well, maybe Black Panther then.
• 1:20:20
  Maybe that was a bad example. Black Panther.
• 1:20:22
  There you go. Black Panther? Yeah. If they made
• 1:20:26
  Black Panther characters white from Wakanda.
• 1:20:29
  Wasn't the head of the NEA a former Black Panther?
• 1:20:35
  Hey, oh, I want to do one final one. I'm looking
• 1:20:38
  for what we should do as the final one Let's
• 1:20:40
  do let's I don't let's do this one. We have a
• 1:20:44
  new report Oh, and I'm sorry. It's it's I hate
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  to close out with NPR, but we haven't done one
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  yet this week So I we got to get our our fix,
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  you know It's like bulimia like we just it sucks
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  to puke, but we got to do it We have a new report
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  that confirms what a good many of us have already
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  felt that our winters are indeed getting shorter
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  All of this impacts everything from agriculture
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  to fire seasons. The group Climate Central looked
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  at temperatures in nearly 250 cities across the
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  country. It found that the number of winter weather
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  days had fallen compared to historical norms
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  in 80 % of them. The climate change -driven shifts
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  were more modest in the West, but that doesn't
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  mean the impacts aren't serious. It's because
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  in the West we rely so heavily on snowpack for
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  our water supplies throughout the year. That's
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  Caitlin Trudeau, a researcher with Climate Central.
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  The report finds that lower snowpacks constrain
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  water supplies, worsen fire seasons and heavily
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  impact winter recreation -dependent communities.
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  Some fruit and nut crops also depend on low winter
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  temps, which can also keep pests like mosquitoes
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  in check. Some cities have seen dramatic winter
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  shortenings. Reno and Las Vegas saw theirs contract
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  by more than 20 days and Tucson and Las Cruces
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  by more than 10. So remember, climate is not
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  weather unless we want weather to be climate,
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  in which case our warm winter is climate change.
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  You see how it works? It works pretty well. Pretty
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  convenient for the climate pushers. I think the
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  crux of the issue here is you won't have too
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  many people deny climate change. face value.
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  The issue is that the, the idea that humans can
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  affect climate change that, you know, you can
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  have the volcano belch billions of cubic tons
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  of ash into the sky and CO2 in one, in one go.
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  And then somehow be like, yeah, it's, it's people
• 1:22:43
  who are causing CO2 levels to rise. It's cow
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  farts and it's human activity. And as if our
• 1:22:50
  efforts to cut those emissions are going to do
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  anything when, you know, the next volcano blows.
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  It's the hubris, actually, that humans have,
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  that humans possess to think that we can move
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  the needle that drastically. It's kind of absurd.
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  Well, it's patently absurd and patently false.
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  Climate change is real. It's happening. It's
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  as regular, though, as the Earth is old. So where
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  we disagree is I don't think we turn ourselves
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  into a third world country trying to combat it.
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  because then people suffer even more. It's always
• 1:23:21
  a convenient backdrop excuse that they use for
• 1:23:25
  really crappy policy. Well, it's only crappy
• 1:23:29
  for the plebes, for the leader, leader, leaders.
• 1:23:33
  It's fantastic policy. Yeah, it is. It's pretty
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  awesome. I love having Al Gore tell us what we
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  can and can't do. Meanwhile, he owns a mansion
• 1:23:45
  in California on the ocean that consumes more
• 1:23:48
  electricity in one week than my entire neighborhood
• 1:23:50
  does in a month I really love all those people
• 1:23:53
  fly into Davos and Brussels to lecture us on
• 1:23:56
  not using plastic bags While they fly their private
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  jets that burn more fuel in one go than I will
• 1:24:03
  in a year Yeah, good stuff that I'd like to gather
• 1:24:07
  all of those archetypes and Basically, just like
• 1:24:12
  a penal colony, we'll house them on what's left.
• 1:24:15
  Throw them into a volcano. Well, I was going
• 1:24:16
  to say, we'll house them on what's left of Krakatoa.
• 1:24:20
  Yeah, and we should make them eat bugs. And then
• 1:24:24
  deny it when they're like, hey, we don't want
• 1:24:26
  to eat grasshoppers and cockroaches. And we'll
• 1:24:28
  be like, we never said anything about that. You
• 1:24:29
  guys are nuts. Oh, no, I won't deny it. I'll
• 1:24:33
  just be like, shut up and eat your bugs. They're
• 1:24:34
  good protein. Do you know how much less... You're
• 1:24:38
  saving the planet. Right. How much less emissions
• 1:24:40
  escapes from a grasshopper's butthole as opposed
• 1:24:44
  to a cow's? We should make the measure. It should
• 1:24:48
  be part of their punishment. Oh, man. All right.
• 1:24:52
  Well, thank you, everybody, for hanging with
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  us on this... Well, I would say it's a 10, but
• 1:24:59
  maybe out of 100 episode of No ID. Episode 16.
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• 1:25:21
  that he will return to form soon. Because you
• 1:25:25
  know, the ligament between his, his Achilles
• 1:25:28
  and his brainstem has been surgically repaired,
• 1:25:31
  but clearly it's not like it hasn't taken yet.
• 1:25:34
  Oh man, it's been pulled too tight. It's causing
• 1:25:37
  my, my hair to light on fire, my brain to be
• 1:25:40
  all fuzzy. That's for sure. But I did limit the
• 1:25:44
  f -bombs this time. So whoever gave you that
• 1:25:46
  feedback, you can tell them mission accomplished.
• 1:25:49
  No f -bombs today. So I do apologize. I'm trying
• 1:25:52
  to... My wife says I curse too much. Well, be
• 1:25:56
  careful, man. She might report you to the Women's
• 1:25:57
  Commission. Thank God. It hasn't been active
• 1:26:01
  for 17 years. I might be in trouble. We don't
• 1:26:04
  want to get rid of it, man, because on account
• 1:26:06
  of I gave my husband a credit card back in 1975.
• 1:26:11
  Been in debt ever since. All right. Well, yeah,
• 1:26:14
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  from Post Falls. I'm Scott from Clark Fork. I'm
• 1:26:22
  Paul taxation is theft. I mean, when are we ever
• 1:26:30
  happy?