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48 - Born Bureaucrat · NO ID

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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. PINCO discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Hey, y 'all. Welcome back.
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  It's No ID. North Idaho's mainstream media deconstruction.
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  I'm Scott. Hello, Internet. I'm Paul. It's a
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  beautiful day and we have a beautiful guest on
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  with us today Matt edwards is here from so many
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  things. I don't even know where to begin. Maybe
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  you should just start A beautiful face for radio
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  when you said beautiful, right? Isn't that what
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  they say? I heard that a lot of times. Yeah,
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  like thanks a lot Yeah, you know I dip my toes
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  in a lot of different things my my background
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  is film and television and in hollywood made
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  a career out of there doing that and find myself
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  in the mix in Idaho politics these days. If you
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  made a career in film with a radio face, I'm
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  already impressed, Matt. Behind the camera, behind
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  the camera. Yeah. And so if you came from Hollywood,
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  then you have distinctions about it. You must
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  have at least one trans kid, I'm assuming. Right.
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  Or two or three. Just got a gag considering that's
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  where I met my wife as well on a set. So but
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  no, we escaped that. We escaped that somehow.
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  I don't know how that seems unlikely, but here
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  we are. So let's just dive right off the bat
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  just for that. Idaho Signal would be the main
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  your main organization. Yeah, well, that's a
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  project of Citizens Alliance of Idaho. Yeah.
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  So in terms of, you know, folks who tune into
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  podcasts that deal with Idaho news and the like,
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  Idaho Signal might be on their radar. So, yeah.
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  So from the most, as I'm making sort of a tongue
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  in cheek about the TransKit thing, because the
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  most, I don't know if it's the most recent or
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  just within a week that you did a whistleblower
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  interview with a, about the LGBTQ plus IA apostrophe
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  up down left, right starts to like take over
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  of an elementary school down in South Idaho,
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  which as we've discussed a thousand times on
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  this program is basically a different country.
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  So let's play a quick clip of it just to give
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  you a sense of what Matt's doing. Let me jump
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  to April real quick again because April, you
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  said earlier that a lot of, how many staff and
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  teachers would you say are carrying around these
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  lanyards or these badges? So before we hear her
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  answer, set this up. Who are you talking to and
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  in what context? Yeah, so her name is April Cheney
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  and she is a paraprofessional, I guess that's
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  what they call her. And she's working inside
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  the White Pine Elementary School, a K through
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  six elementary school in South Boise. And she
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  has been documenting, taking photographs and
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  whatnot and documenting all of the sort of trans
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  LGBT, BLT plus lettuce and avocado mafia, all
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  of their paraphernalia around the school. You
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  know stickers lanyards and such and there's this
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  one particular thing that teachers are wearing
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  It says I'm here and it has like a little rainbow
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  motif on it and it's a safe space spot So if
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  a student sees that and it says I'm here then
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  that teacher is designated as being somebody
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  who is an ally gay Coming for our kids Oh yeah.
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  No paranoid. You know, when that, it was all
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  of like less than 10 years ago when we went,
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  you know what this is all about, right? Guys
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  grooming. This is about grooming children. They
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  were like, no, no, no. Gay rights and stuff.
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  You guys are nuts. Yeah. Well now they're not
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  numbers. Yeah. And now they're not really coming
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  for them. You just dropped them off at their
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  institutions. Yeah. There's a there's one of
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  my favorite quotes of all time and Scott's heard
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  this probably a number of times, but now because
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  the homeschooling topic comes up a lot because
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  it's near and dear to my heart is basically a
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  modern conservative is someone who sends their
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  kids to public school and then complains about
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  why they're losing the culture war. Yeah, really.
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  All right. So here's the here's the lady's answer
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  to what percentage of the staff faculty are wearing
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  these hammer and sickles. I mean, the LGBT pins,
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  whatever they were patches or pins. They're like
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  lanyards lanyards. Oh look like at your film
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  festival. Yeah Staff and teachers, would you
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  say are carrying around these these lanyards
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  or these badges? It's definitely over half Wow
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  Half to three quarters. Yeah this year they double
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  down on it because i'm there Okay, so all right.
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  Well, I guess the next question too is are I
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  mean Kindergarten through through fifth grade,
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  sixth grade here. How many transgender students
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  go to this school? How many gay students go to
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  this? How many gay five year olds? This is an
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  elementary school, right? Yeah. Elementary. By
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  the way, just so you know, Paul, I did, I did
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  cut out this question. This is now living on
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  the soundboard. How many gay five year olds are
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  go to go to school at white pine? Be part of
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  a, and we're going to go through last week's
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  sound clips as soon as we're done with that.
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  You were going to. Set me up for an ask Paul
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  with how many gay five -year -olds existed. Well,
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  yeah, you can guess here comes the question I
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  don't know how many make your guess before we
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  call the game begins. It's ask Paul brought to
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  you by Pfizer. Okay. Let's reiterate the question.
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  How many transgender students go to this school?
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  How many gay students go to this? How many gay
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  five -year -olds are go to go to school at white
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  pine? Oh man, is it a proportionate to the number
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  of liberal white moms? B, proportionate to the
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  number of I Am Here Safe Place staffers, or C,
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  all of the above. 10 out of 10 studies show that
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  the more gay people are near your kids, the gayer
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  your kids become. I have no idea. I don't know.
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  So I think you got that wrong, man. I'm being
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  a little bit... The answer was, I don't know.
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  Do you run into students that are, that are,
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  you know, they wear, they wear boys clothes when
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  they're a girl and vice versa and they, they
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  act, they, they, they have their pronouns changed.
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  I mean, you, you, you must, you know, be in touch
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  with students. So is it even happening or is
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  this just sort of what we've all suspect, which
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  is like grooming thing. It's getting them prepared
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  for the next level. Yeah. We don't, we don't
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  groom. What are you talking about? This is just
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  about gays getting married. This is a whistleblower
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  is, you know, has come forward about this particular
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  school. I mean, the only reason we're hearing
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  about this school is because somebody's speaking.
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  So I'm to the assumption is that it's going on
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  at all schools. Just not all of them have whistleblowers.
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  Yeah, not all of them. Yeah, not all of them
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  are. Not all of them are coming public. You know,
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  there are people who have come to me in the past
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  and said this. I've seen this at school. This
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  is happening. Parents, you know, students and
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  stuff and whatnot. And every and when I say,
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  are you willing to like Go go public with it.
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  No. Oh Maybe let me think about it. Yeah, I mean
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  there's a lot at stake. You know, you're you're
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  you just want your kid to graduate, you know
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  we've talked about that a million times to where
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  like there's the Oh, well, I'll come to your
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  defense But only privately all of the like the
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  detractors will say it publicly and then they'll
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  come to you privately afterwards and be like
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  hey I'm on your side and they'll whisper it's
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  like yeah, but you're not doing it publicly.
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  What good is it? Mm -hmm. That's very true. Yep
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  Yeah, well it is most people most people do lack
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  Courage in general, that's a lot of why we are
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  where we are. Most people lack common sense and
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  decency. That's why we are where we are. We could
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  unpack that all day. But there are real world
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  implications and consequences for speaking out.
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  I mean, the public education as a whole is a
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  cartel. It's a cult. And the gay agenda, trans
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  agenda, that whole... I don't know what else
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  to call it because community is not the right
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  word, but it is also a cult and the two go hand
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  in hand and what is one of the You got it Yeah,
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  well the teachers unions just just a sub cult
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  of a bigger cult cartels and cults man, and what
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  are what are the what are the biggest markers
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  of A cartel and or a cult can't criticize not
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  allowed to criticize them. They are above reproach
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  The moment that you offer any critique or whistle
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  blowing or any accountability of any kind, they
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  destroy you. It's not enough for them to put
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  you away. They, they actively must destroy you
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  and your family and your neighbor's tail as old
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  as time. It's formulaic and everybody knows what
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  the formula is. And that's why Matt, you know,
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  when a guy like Matt tries to find people to
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  speak up, it's really hard. You have to be willing
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  to sack, you have to be willing really to put
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  it all out there and sacrifice everything. And
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  there seems to be a common thread when people
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  do speak up is April is a is a believer she knows
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  that And that's what drives her, you know, she
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  she reads the Bible. She can quote it. She She's
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  very devout. She used to be a Democrat You know,
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  she didn't think that this stuff was going on
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  And then it was confronted with her. She'll talk
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  about it on her own. And that's what turned her
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  around? Well, it was the women's sports thing.
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  The men and women's sports. She's like, what
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  is going on here? Wait a minute, you people are
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  nuts. And so it just kind of woke her up. And
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  being a Christian and also just seeing the attacks
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  on all of that. And she'll go to the mat now
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  knowing that she's speaking the truth. And when
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  you live in that... When you live inside that
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  paradigm in your mind like nothing you're afraid
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  of nothing, you know Because you expect to be
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  persecuted totally. Yeah Let's Do we you know
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  promise to do is at the at the top of the show
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  the new? Segment where we do last week sound
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  clips I only have two of them like we're going
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  to determine whether or not these are going on
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  the drop board This is episode number 48 of no
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  ID from episode 47 There are two and I did hear
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  from the agenda archaeologist Paul He wrote back
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  in he remember we said can you please suggest?
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  Names for this new segment at the top of the
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  show and he he wrote in dropped a liberation
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  deathmatch He said, because Paul asked for alliteration.
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  What do you think? I do love alliteration. It's
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  true. Triple D. Triple D. All right. So it's
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  the Triple D at the top. Let's go. It reminds
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  me of a celebrity death match back in the old
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  days of MTV. So I'm not opposed to it. Was that
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  Claymation, wasn't it? You guys remember that?
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  The Claymation? That stuff was killer. Wow. I
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  haven't thought about that in a long time. All
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  right. Well, the drop deliberation death match.
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  And here is the first one. This is from the NPR
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  promo that they did for Boise Pride. It's really
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  magical. What do you think? It's really magical.
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  It's one of the organizers, which you'll be shocked
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  to know was a little bit gay. And he had this
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  to say when NPR interviewed him. It's really
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  magical. It's really magical. He's on the phone,
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  so it's not great. What do you think, Paul? I
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  think as a tie into another sound drop, it has
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  potential. I think as a standalone, it's not
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  as awesome as I want it to be. And I want it
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  to be awesome. Fair enough. Well, it wasn't such
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  a magical drop. We're going to delete it. And
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  the other one from last week was this. Everything
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  I say is made up. Okay, that's a yay. All right.
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  And well, you know how much I love to listen
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  to the sound of my own voice, Scott. So obviously
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  that one's it. Everything I say is made up. All
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  right. This is going on the drop board. That's
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  the this week's drop the liberation death match.
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  And we'll we'll see what comes from this episode
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  number 48. And, you know, we did do as well in
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  between these two. episodes, we had our inaugural
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  meetup, no ID meetup at the racketeer. And here
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  is the meetup report. This is the Spookist Volcan
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  calling in from the racketeer lounge on my second
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  cigar here. The first no ID meetup. wonderful
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  time, great people, and we clearly established
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  that Paul doesn't like roads. So, uh, but my
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  roads. This is Brian here, also from Post Falls.
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  Speaking for Brian and Lacey, she's rolling out
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  now, but had a great time. It was officially
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  not a sausage fest. Pretty close, though. Ladies,
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  the clarion call is out. Next meetup, we need
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  your presence. What are you guys talking to?
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  We're doing a meetup report. Oh, it's still recording.
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  OK, well, I guess the Paul Van Duzi taxation
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  is theft. Boom, short and simple. David Wallace,
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  taxation is theft. Pierce Duncan, mass surveillance
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  is a Fourth Amendment violation. Alex here for
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  the good cigars and good people. This is Jason
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  here drinking an amazing Scotch ale. Sir Donald
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  with the fire bottles we solve the problems of
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  the world at this meeting. I feel like we did
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  solve the problem. Heck yeah we did. Yeah at
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  least we solved the problem of potholes. Is that
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  why I'm feeling so good? I think that well I'm
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  also I slipped some molly into your coffee that
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  also might have something to do with it. Yeah,
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  that was a good time. We really enjoyed hanging
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  out with you guys in person. Man, there's nothing
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  like a real meetup with real faces and just real
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  conversation and just the internet was a, it
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  was a distant fart in the wind. Paul agrees.
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  There you go. I agree. I don't have a sound job
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  to fart in the wind, so I just went with the
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  bell. You know, we need to meet up with each
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  other. I mean, this was the whole thing during
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  the pandemic, right? It was like, stop talking
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  to each other. You know, any time someone wants
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  to disrupt something, they tell people to like,
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  you know, like you need to separate your fellow
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  man is dangerous. Yes. Yep. Always. Yeah. Yeah.
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  I mean, Scott and I are on that topic all the
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  time. We lived it. We worked in industries that
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  were we were the non -essentials. Our businesses
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  were deemed non -essential. We were deemed non
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  -essential. All the good stuff. So we lived through
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  it. We fought through it. We we disobeyed it.
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  And the other covid stuff is a major, major hot
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  topic. And One of the, I think for both of us,
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  but specifically since we're talking about it
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  with the racketeer and its predecessor, the bulldog,
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  that was, you know, the, uh, the root of our
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  success is we don't even have T TVs in there.
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  Now I don't own it anymore, but I say we, but
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  I guess, you know, I built it. So I'm going to
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  still claim it a little bit. Um, no TVs. And
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  that was intentional. People come in and be like,
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  yeah, Hey, no, I see no TVs. And we go, yeah,
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  that's the point. You sit down, you have a cigar,
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  you have a drink and you, and you, and you're
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  here. You visit. It's for fellowship. And it
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  works. It's a formula that works tried and true.
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  You know, interestingly enough, I don't know
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  if I've shared this with you, Paul, but we had
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  the exact same philosophy early on at the hop
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  grenade. We we had three TVs up in the like across
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  the top of the bar, basically. But they were
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  digital menus like digital pour for craft beer
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  taps, you know. And we had that for I remember
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  how long probably six months that we had because
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  we wanted to go into it with the exact same philosophy.
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  No TVs. And eventually the market. sort of made
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  the decision for us, especially because it was
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  the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Warriors
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  and the 49ers and the Sharks and the Giants are
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  just huge. I mean, pro sports obviously is huge,
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  but in particular in the Bay Area. And, you know,
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  one of them is always making some sort of playoff
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  run or championship run. And we we sort of had
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  to the market said, hey, man, we really want
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  the games on TV. So we made a point of sure we'll
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  play games, but we will not do the audio. It's
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  still just going to be music. And we were not
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  going to have it on ESPN the Ocho at 11 o 'clock
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  in the morning. It's just going to be for these.
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  But we have this exact same philosophy. Paul
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  and I, we had very similar wavelengths from,
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  you know, from an ocean away and we didn't know
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  each other. Right on the same page. Yeah, I enjoy
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  it as a patron. I got away with it a little bit.
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  Sorry. Come again, Matt. I was just saying as
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  a patron of those types of establishments, I
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  appreciate that there's no television. There's
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  no distractions. You can spend time with your
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  I mean I say with my own family when we go to
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  a restaurant It's just filled with television.
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  That's like okay. There goes the conversation
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  I guess I'll just talk to my wife and not my
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  kids sometimes it works You could use it to your
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  advantage But you know if you want to be with
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  your family and you've got TVs all around you
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  the kids are naturally going to be distracted
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  by I'm Italian, so meal time is really important.
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  I love a good meal, an hour and a half man, hour,
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  hour and a half if we can help it. Right now
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  we have an 18 month old in addition to our two
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  older kids, so meal time gets disrupted and cut
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  up and chaotic a little bit. And it's a struggle
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  for me as a guy who's a lot of his best quality
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  time comes from gathering around over food. So
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  yeah, fellowship is important around food or
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  again, good tobacco, good libations, et cetera.
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  You solve all the world's problems that way.
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  or you get damn close well so listen to this
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  the meetup was a good time It was great and so
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  this is what we're really kind of talking about
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  here is openness and like how do you facilitate
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  it as opposed to like mask up stay six feet away
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  stay in your basement like that's what would
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  be the opposite so how do you facilitate openness
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  listen to this from npr a new study ranks idaho's
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  two largest public universities low in categories
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  it says demonstrate freedom of speech idaho ed
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  news reports spoicy state and the university
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  of idaho were ranked in the top 50 of more than
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  250 schools for political tolerance by nonprofit
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  foundation for individual Rights and Expression,
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  known as FIRE. But Boise State was in the bottom
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  50 of rankings for openness. U of I was in the
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  bottom 25 for self -centership, two categories
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  indicating students' willingness or comfort bringing
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  up contentious topics on campus. Other schools
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  in Idaho were not included in the rankings, which
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  were based on student surveys. BSU representative
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  told Ed News the school will consider the fire
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  survey as it continues to work on making campus
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  culture supportive of open inquiry and free expression
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  of ideas. A U of I spokesperson downplayed the
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  results to Ed News, saying students come to learn
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  and the campus is not overly political. Surveys
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  showed both campuses lean slightly liberal with
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  BSU, nearly even in the number of students identifying
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  as conservative or liberal. About half the schools
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  included in the survey received failing grades
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  on free expression from fire. So why would it
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  be that a bunch of kids who were 13, 14, 15 years
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  old in 2020 and now they're on college campuses
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  and they don't talk and they're not open and
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  they're afraid to, you know, rock the boat with
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  opinions, even though that's what students in
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  college were like, you know, supposed to do or
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  something. Why might that be? Well, when you
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  run afoul of the authorities and might be labeled
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  non -essential or worse, a domestic terrorist
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  of some kind, you know, for the same reason that
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  Matt Edwards struggles to get his whistleblowers
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  to speak up like they ought to, it's the same.
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  It's collective punishment works, man. Societal
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  punishment works. Societal pressures, they work.
• 19:21
  And the left is so effective at using those pressures.
• 19:27
  Man, yeah, it's a chilling effect. It's it's
• 19:30
  the chilling effect. I mean you're you are absolutely
• 19:32
  right These kids went through that they're in
• 19:34
  college now and they're like I ain't saying a
• 19:36
  damn thing Even if I mean they just they won't
• 19:40
  you you you look at you could look at your own
• 19:42
  family We look at our own family members and
• 19:44
  friends that you know that you you go through
• 19:46
  that and they see how you were treated When you
• 19:48
  did buck the narrative during kovat, right and
• 19:51
  they're like, I don't want any of that Yeah,
• 19:53
  I don't want any of that. I mean, in fact, I'm
• 19:54
  not even gonna listen to you Tell me the truth
• 19:56
  because if I agree with you, I know I know how
• 19:58
  I'm going to be treated and I don't want that.
• 20:01
  I mean, heck, we could. I think we all probably
• 20:04
  could. I know you guys. You guys know that I
• 20:06
  absolutely could use a close family member. My
• 20:08
  dad is the example. Now it wasn't covid, although
• 20:10
  one of the issues that they fought over at the
• 20:12
  college was covid and the board at the time that
• 20:14
  had for all of, I don't know, six to eight months,
• 20:17
  had a three to two conservative majority overruled
• 20:19
  the left as president on double masking and vaccine
• 20:22
  in order to go back to school at NIC. And the
• 20:25
  conservative board, led by my dad, overruled
• 20:28
  the president. And man, they caught so much flack
• 20:30
  and so much shit for that. And then that whole
• 20:33
  nightmare that was the NIC thing ensued. And
• 20:36
  I got to watch what happened to my old man, who
• 20:39
  the whole time thought the truth will come out
• 20:42
  in the end, and the truth never really came out.
• 20:46
  I would constantly be like, dad, why do you guys
• 20:48
  not have a social media person? doing this. Why
• 20:51
  do you not have a channel where you can get on
• 20:53
  and tell your side of the story or something?
• 20:55
  Like just do something and dad's like, nah, it'll,
• 20:58
  you know, the truth will come out in the end.
• 20:59
  It always does. Like, no, the future is now old
• 21:02
  man and that's not how it works anymore. And
• 21:05
  he learned the hard way. The truth never came
• 21:07
  out. The left and the quarter lane press and
• 21:10
  NIR just pounded the same talking points over
• 21:12
  and over and over again. They're still doing
• 21:14
  it. They got their asses kicked. Yeah, they're
• 21:16
  still doing it. Save NIC. We always talk about
• 21:18
  this one. Save our libraries, save NIC, save
• 21:22
  our schools from the big bad conservatives. And
• 21:24
  it's like, well, aren't you guys conservatives,
• 21:26
  NIR? You call yourselves conservatives. So who
• 21:28
  are you saving this from? Yeah, what does the
• 21:30
  R stand for? And when the truth does come out,
• 21:34
  you can even look back and say, well, how many
• 21:37
  years did it take? I mean, how many years and
• 21:39
  how many things in history did we learn much,
• 21:41
  much, much later when a generation or two has
• 21:43
  already passed? you know, the truth. Oh man,
• 21:46
  we is in the libertarian circles. We laugh about
• 21:48
  that all the time. As you know, ours can be quote
• 21:50
  unquote conspiracy theorists who are batting
• 21:52
  a thousand were like 135 for 135 on all of this
• 21:56
  stuff. We've talked over the course of a century
• 21:58
  and ever it's formulaic. Now it's every about
• 22:00
  15 to 20 years they release the federal government
• 22:03
  releases another document and goes, yeah, yeah,
• 22:05
  you know, you know, operation mocking Jay. Yeah.
• 22:08
  Okay. That happened. We did do that. That was
• 22:10
  us, but, but don't worry about it because we're
• 22:13
  the good guys. And we're like, look, now they're
• 22:17
  admitting it. Now it's right there. Hey, we're,
• 22:20
  yeah, somehow we're still the crazies. Yeah.
• 22:23
  What, what do you do when they're, when they're
• 22:24
  not hiding the agenda anymore, but still most
• 22:26
  people aren't like from September 23, from just
• 22:29
  a week ago. I posted an article by Rachel tour
• 22:33
  and it is called it was North Idaho College was
• 22:36
  a canary in the coal mine for the political takeover
• 22:38
  of higher ed, but it survived. This is from inside
• 22:41
  higher ed .com. And it's like, it's more of a
• 22:43
  national but it was like using it as a as a case
• 22:46
  study, I suppose, for the political takeover
• 22:48
  of higher ed, which is of course what they do.
• 22:51
  But Zach Ben -Jazelf, they just they project
• 22:53
  they do Alinsky tactics. They accuse their opponents
• 22:56
  of what they do. 100 % when they're in power.
• 23:00
  It's reasonable and it's consistent and it's
• 23:03
  safe and it's secure. But when the other side
• 23:05
  takes power, it's it's a hostile takeover. It's,
• 23:08
  you know, they all the different inflammatory
• 23:10
  language they use when it's their side versus
• 23:12
  our side. It's a coup. It's textbook. It's a
• 23:17
  surge in conservative representation. Now, of
• 23:20
  course, I looked up Rachel Tour when I when this
• 23:23
  article came across my feed. And of course, she's
• 23:25
  an she's an academic and she's a she's a delusional,
• 23:29
  paranoid, hypochondriac. There's all sorts of
• 23:32
  documentation of how she behaved and what she
• 23:35
  said and did publicly in that era. And like,
• 23:37
  oh, she's making her husband double mask in the
• 23:40
  house. I mean, the willingness of these types
• 23:42
  to believe absurdities is bottomless. She admits
• 23:46
  to forcing her husband to double mask. Oh, yeah,
• 23:49
  probably. It's all right there. All I did was
• 23:50
  Google her. It all came right up. I'm not sure
• 23:54
  who I who I have the least respect for in that
• 23:57
  dynamic Him for sure. Yeah kidding. This is see
• 24:03
  and this is this is the divide that that that
• 24:05
  they've that we've all created, right? I mean
• 24:07
  like we have our bubbles right like we live in
• 24:09
  a completely different Society than these other
• 24:12
  people. Yes, we do. It's a it's we do have a
• 24:15
  parallel societies happening and You'll you're
• 24:19
  never again and once again back to the other
• 24:21
  thing you'll never break them out of it because
• 24:22
  they realize if they do leave The plantation
• 24:26
  they do leave the reservation. They do leave
• 24:28
  the institution They will be ridiculed by those
• 24:31
  that they respected before that's what cults
• 24:33
  do. Yeah all the time. Yep all the time Yes,
• 24:37
  the Mormons have a term for that. It's called
• 24:39
  apostate. Yeah No one wants to be an apostate
• 24:44
  let's do a Follow -up this was sent to me. I
• 24:48
  had sort of thought we did hjr4 pretty thoroughly
• 24:51
  on the last episode number 47 This was sent to
• 24:54
  me by dan of the dead and I I think it's worth
• 24:56
  playing ktvb did a Follow -up per a viewer question.
• 25:01
  All right you at home. Okay, we appreciate you.
• 25:04
  So yeah what I was just saying then let's see
• 25:07
  if we can get uh, I bet matt can find a way to
• 25:09
  segue this into I want to hear from matt about
• 25:12
  the work he's doing at Citizens Alliance. And
• 25:14
  I'm sure regarding HRJ4, HJR4, and Prop 1, and
• 25:18
  a number of other things, and just the general
• 25:19
  work that Matt does with Citizens Alliance, because
• 25:21
  we haven't even asked him yet, so we should.
• 25:23
  Well, this isn't an interview show. This is,
• 25:26
  you know, we're here to deconstruct the media.
• 25:29
  That's right, Matt. You're just along for the
• 25:30
  ride. Hey, I'm enjoying it, man. Now I do have
• 25:33
  a lot of prop one stuff too. Here I am trying
• 25:36
  to defer to our guest. Hey, man, I spent 10 freaking
• 25:41
  years interviewing guests on the Brewing Network.
• 25:43
  I'm done interviewing. I have a lot of prop one
• 25:48
  stuff to is Citizens Alliance. Has it been involved
• 25:51
  in this HR for stuff at all? HR for no, but prop
• 25:54
  one. Yes. Okay, then you know what? Maybe we'll
• 25:56
  let's save the follow -up then let on a share
• 25:58
  for we can because it's sort of evergreen We
• 26:00
  can do it next week because it has to do with
• 26:02
  like old Versions of this thing like oh this
• 26:05
  isn't new it happened in 1994 or whatever we
• 26:06
  can do that next week So let's let's do prop
• 26:08
  one. Yeah evergreen. Let's save it. Yeah. Okay.
• 26:11
  So where should we start here for prop one? well
• 26:16
  How about the whole campaign being a lie? I don't
• 26:18
  know about that. Let's start with the infusion
• 26:22
  of cash before we do the nuts and bolts. I want
• 26:25
  you to hear how this is sort of being funded.
• 26:28
  This is from NPR. The Group Behind a Ballot Initiative
• 26:31
  to Restore Abortion Rights in Idaho just got
• 26:33
  a heavy injection of cash, including a big donation
• 26:36
  from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
• 26:39
  Since last week, Influence United for Women and
• 26:42
  Families more than doubled its bank account thanks
• 26:45
  to massive contributions from both in Idaho and
• 26:48
  out -of -state donors. The group hauled in more
• 26:50
  than $1 .8 million over the last few days, leaving
• 26:54
  nearly $3 .8 million cash on hand. The biggest
• 26:58
  chunk came from a national progressive politics
• 27:00
  PAC called Government That Works PAC. It chipped
• 27:03
  in $650 ,000. Former New York mayor and Democratic
• 27:08
  presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg donated
• 27:10
  $250 ,000. Gwendolyn Sondheim and heiress to
• 27:14
  the - I think on pure principle, they shouldn't
• 27:17
  take his money because leftists hate billionaires,
• 27:19
  don't they? They hate them. It used to be millionaires.
• 27:23
  What is it with leftists only hating the rich
• 27:26
  people who aren't them? Weird I just I gotta
• 27:30
  throw that out there. So I'm fighting the oligarchy
• 27:33
  from my seat here in first class Headed to my
• 27:38
  third home Hello fellow proletariats, I am one
• 27:43
  of you Yes, comrade. Pass the champagne. Gwendolyn
• 27:46
  Sontime and heiress to the agribusiness giant
• 27:48
  Cargill also gave a quarter of a million dollars.
• 27:52
  Another quarter mill came from Jill Grossman,
• 27:54
  who founded a nonprofit that donates to causes
• 27:56
  in Ketchum and the San Francisco Bay area. And
• 28:00
  Christine and Jeff Stoddart from McCall, who
• 28:02
  work in commercial real estate development, upped
• 28:04
  their contributions to $252 ,000. Okay, so let
• 28:09
  me get this straight. The bulk of the money,
• 28:13
  no surprise, has come from out of state, mainly
• 28:16
  billionaires and their PACs. Shocker, right?
• 28:20
  Here we go. Shocker. From California and New
• 28:23
  York. And did you hear too in the beginning of
• 28:25
  this NPR part where they were like, oh, it's
• 28:27
  come from Idaho and out of state, where they
• 28:30
  sort of make it sound like it's 50 -50. But in
• 28:32
  point of fact, it's like 80 % of the money is
• 28:34
  from outside Idaho. But thanks for that framing,
• 28:36
  NPR. Or more. Yeah, no, thank you mainstream
• 28:39
  media for helping clear that one up. So California,
• 28:44
  New York, also from aggregate, big ag was thrown
• 28:48
  in there. Remember how we've covered that in
• 28:49
  Idaho. Ag is king, which is kind of interesting
• 28:51
  because you would think that an industry, yeah.
• 28:55
  Well, you would think that King Ag that thrives
• 28:57
  on cheap labor would love having more babies
• 29:00
  around. to recruit and be like, hey, we need
• 29:04
  cheap labor, more people, come on. So that's
• 29:06
  a little counterintuitive, but I don't know.
• 29:08
  Or in a different angle for the future, you'd
• 29:11
  think they'd appreciate having more people around
• 29:12
  because, you know, Soylent Green's coming. Well,
• 29:16
  the point of, you know, as someone who runs an
• 29:20
  organization that does receive out of state money,
• 29:23
  it's not a big secret. It's on our Sunshine Reports.
• 29:25
  And when it comes to the PAC side, What it really
• 29:29
  is showing though is the fact that like This
• 29:33
  is about a topic that is extremely unpopular
• 29:35
  You know abortion like full -scale abortion in
• 29:38
  Idaho is extremely unpopular with the normal
• 29:41
  populace of Idaho And so when you when you see
• 29:44
  all like signature gathering episode, you know
• 29:47
  part of this was funded by a lot of out -of -state
• 29:52
  dollars and so it just kind of showed that this
• 29:53
  is sort of just like They move around the country.
• 29:57
  Once Roe v Wade collapsed, they move around the
• 29:59
  country trying to get all of these things passed
• 30:02
  in these different states. And they've been largely
• 30:05
  successful. I forget what the ratio is, but only
• 30:09
  just recently did Florida, two years ago, the
• 30:12
  Florida initiative to pass abortion failed. And
• 30:18
  it failed somewhere else as well and now we're
• 30:20
  here in Idaho and so the big fight is on Idaho
• 30:21
  because Idaho is a huge Target for the left because
• 30:24
  they've already conquered Washington, Oregon,
• 30:26
  California Colorado, you know parts of Utah.
• 30:29
  Those are the easy states. Those are the easy
• 30:31
  states Yeah, but they were they were they were
• 30:33
  they are yeah, they were conservative years ago
• 30:35
  I mean the whole you know, I mean I'm originally
• 30:37
  from California. California was a red. It was
• 30:39
  Reagan Reagan country And it still largely is
• 30:42
  hate to be this guy Matt, but that was like 45
• 30:45
  years ago Well, yeah, but even when I mean Yeah,
• 30:50
  but sure, I mean, you know I went to high school
• 30:52
  and yeah, i'm old but like I went to high school
• 30:54
  with a republican governor Uh, it was going back
• 30:56
  and forth But the well, yeah, I mean kind of
• 31:00
  kind of Yeah, but the originator was like he
• 31:03
  was a mainstream Republican. Yeah, he was a man
• 31:05
  Yeah, he was a mainstream, but then when you
• 31:06
  look at his policies, he barely did a damn thing.
• 31:09
  Oh, I totally agree I mean he's a he absolutely
• 31:11
  but but the the populace of California is largely
• 31:14
  conservative outside of the big cities true It's
• 31:17
  true. So in the same thing in Eastern Washington
• 31:18
  and Eastern, Oregon So anyway, that being said
• 31:21
  that's ever again and I'm not trying to argue
• 31:23
  but that's every state. That's every state It's
• 31:25
  it's us versus Coeur d 'Alene, Moscow, Pocatello,
• 31:27
  Boise It's everybody versus Salem, Portland,
• 31:32
  and I don't know, UG. It is, and they will now.
• 31:35
  Same thing. Yeah. And they're tripling down on
• 31:38
  Idaho now because they've conquered everywhere
• 31:40
  else. So that's why you're seeing this huge,
• 31:43
  huge bush. The exact figures here from the Secretary
• 31:47
  of State Sunshine records that Matt just referenced
• 31:49
  for this is about one. Or wait a minute. Of this
• 31:55
  recent infusion, sorry, it's saying about 76
• 31:57
  % of this recent infusion was from outside Idaho.
• 32:00
  Here's the last 10 seconds of that clip. Ads
• 32:02
  from Idahoans United and its main opponent Too
• 32:05
  Extreme for Idaho have begun airing on commercial
• 32:08
  TV stations as counties began mailing absentee
• 32:11
  ballots last week. James Dawson. Now here's what
• 32:14
  we are going to tell you. Election day is November
• 32:16
  3rd. Get out there, guys. And Election Day is
• 32:19
  November 3rd. The far right. Sounds like a native
• 32:23
  ad. Almost. All right. So now here is the...
• 32:26
  And if you support the slaughter of babies, just
• 32:28
  remember the election is November 3rd. And, you
• 32:32
  know, Big Daddy Bloomberg from New York and the
• 32:35
  hipsters in San Francisco are telling you to
• 32:38
  vote this way. So if you want to be, you know,
• 32:40
  cool and hip. Hello, fellow high schoolers. How
• 32:43
  do you do? I'm hip. And, you know, just remember.
• 32:47
  Slaughter and babies is hip by the way the just
• 32:50
  so you know the head of that organization Idahoans
• 32:54
  united for women and families the head of that
• 32:56
  organization Ran Boise mayor Lauren McLean's
• 32:59
  campaign. It's give you an idea of where she's
• 33:02
  coming from Here is a creme channel 2 and their
• 33:05
  coverage of I don't what you're saying is That
• 33:08
  if I'm anywhere near them I'm liable to get stabbed
• 33:11
  by a hobo in the green belt while I'm on my way
• 33:13
  to vote for slaughtering babies No, they're saying
• 33:16
  that you're liable to get greeted by an unhoused
• 33:20
  individual who is camping on the green belt.
• 33:24
  Oh, right. I'm the intruder there. My bad. My
• 33:26
  bad. Stupid taxpayer. Here's Crime Channel two.
• 33:29
  Idaho voters will soon decide whether to change
• 33:31
  the state's abortion laws. Proposition one would
• 33:34
  establish a right to reproductive freedom, including
• 33:36
  abortion. Listen to the framing. Whenever the
• 33:39
  end, whenever the mainstream media suddenly concerned
• 33:42
  with rights and freedom. establish a right to
• 33:45
  reproductive freedom, freedom, abortion before
• 33:48
  fetal viability and in certain medical emergencies
• 33:51
  after viability. Christian Lopez with our Boise
• 33:53
  sister station spoke with doctors on both sides
• 33:56
  of the issue to break down what they say prop
• 33:57
  one would mean for patients. More than 300 Idaho
• 34:01
  physicians have signed a letter in support of
• 34:04
  prop one while around 59 physicians have signed
• 34:07
  a letter against it. Now notice what they're
• 34:09
  doing here, which which would be way more. But
• 34:13
  back to the whole, you can't critique the cult
• 34:15
  type thing and it's hard to find the whistleblowers.
• 34:18
  It's the same thing in the medical industrial
• 34:19
  complex. The fact that those 59 physicians even
• 34:21
  did that, those are the bravest of the brave.
• 34:23
  I guarantee you there's three, four, five times
• 34:25
  that many. They just understand that there's
• 34:29
  a lot of pressure they face if they put their
• 34:30
  names on it. They've got mortgages and country
• 34:32
  club dues, man. They can't be putting stuff on
• 34:34
  the line like that, but hanging their ass out
• 34:36
  there in the breeze. No, thank you. Notice that
• 34:38
  they did hard numbers. They did not do percentages.
• 34:41
  They are doing hard numbers. What does that mean?
• 34:43
  We know that well. Uh -huh. 200 sounds like a
• 34:47
  lot. More than 300 Idaho physicians have signed
• 34:51
  more than 300 while around 50 less than 60. on
• 34:56
  the other side. While around 59 physicians have
• 34:59
  signed a letter against it. This is something
• 35:02
  that people on both sides of the argument...
• 35:03
  Now if they were arguing the other side is they'd
• 35:06
  be like dozens of physicians have signed it.
• 35:09
  It's just all about how they frame every sentence.
• 35:12
  While around 59 physicians have signed a letter
• 35:15
  against it. This is something that people on
• 35:17
  both sides of the argument say would have significant
• 35:20
  impact on patient care. We spoke with a doctor
• 35:23
  on each side about what they believe the measure
• 35:25
  would change. Prop 1 would establish a statutory
• 35:28
  right to reproductive freedom including abortion
• 35:31
  before fetal viability and in certain medical
• 35:34
  emergencies after viability. It would also protect
• 35:37
  contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage
• 35:40
  care and prenatal and postpartum care. But opponents
• 35:43
  argue that the measure could go further than
• 35:45
  supporters say. They say it could allow abortions
• 35:48
  later in pregnancy affect parental consent requirements.
• 35:51
  for minors and allow some health care providers
• 35:55
  to care. One Coeur de L says current Idaho law
• 36:01
  al to provide lifesaving care I think the biggest
• 36:06
  miscon is that this is a restrict you know, only
• 36:11
  going to i in Idaho right now. Unfo falsehoods
• 36:22
  put out about the current conditions in Idaho,
• 36:27
  there have been suggestions that emergency medical
• 36:29
  care cannot be delivered to women because of
• 36:32
  our laws. That is not true at all. The Supreme
• 36:35
  Court of Idaho reviewed the Defense of Life Act
• 36:37
  in Idaho and said that physicians have very wide
• 36:40
  latitude to make the decisions they need to administer
• 36:43
  lifesaving care to women who are pregnant. But
• 36:46
  a Boise physician who supports Prop 1 says current
• 36:50
  law can prevent some patients from getting the
• 36:52
  care they need. Dr. Justin Bailey says the measure
• 36:55
  would give patients more options, including the
• 36:58
  ability to receive certain care in Idaho rather
• 37:00
  than having to travel out of state. More options,
• 37:04
  like the ability to kill their baby electively.
• 37:07
  Exactly. That's all we're talking about. Their
• 37:09
  campaign is built on a complete and total lie,
• 37:12
  but because people are lazy and don't. want to
• 37:15
  do any more research on it then they just go
• 37:16
  oh well we can't we can't be allowing that women
• 37:19
  need to be able to get saved if they have a life
• 37:21
  -threatening pregnancy well we're reasonable
• 37:23
  and that's and that's why they're couching it
• 37:25
  and campaigning exactly the way they're doing
• 37:27
  it prop one allows us to save women from potential
• 37:31
  harm oh well we we don't want women to be harmed
• 37:35
  oh so you're for harming women is that it only
• 37:39
  if they're in the womb women as much as i hate
• 37:41
  roads Mainly because women drive on roads and
• 37:44
  that's dangerous. I must have missed the roads
• 37:46
  thing. Oh, I mean not to open up a whole new.
• 37:50
  Oh, here we go. I'll have to go back to episode
• 37:52
  where we are. Which episode should I start on?
• 37:54
  Which episode isn't it in? OK, it's the ongoing
• 37:58
  joke of Paul being the wild eyed anarchist. Yes.
• 38:01
  And then people that are with him with him on
• 38:05
  most topics are, you know, like, you know, what
• 38:07
  about the roads? Yeah. How can we possibly have
• 38:10
  an argument with the status? Yeah. because they're
• 38:13
  like, well, fine, I'm taking my roads and I'm
• 38:15
  going home. And I'm like, that's, that was always
• 38:16
  an option. That's fine. The idea that we can
• 38:20
  build a complex machine that can call somebody
• 38:22
  in China for, you know, or we can create a complex
• 38:26
  machine with a what 1200 moving parts from all
• 38:30
  over the world to drive on the flat surface.
• 38:33
  But we can't, we can't clear and pave space and
• 38:37
  roll a flat surface out without the government,
• 38:40
  it's just an absurd plot line. Now there's nuts
• 38:43
  and bolts to work out there, and there is no
• 38:45
  such thing as utopia or perfection. And the way
• 38:47
  people's brains are wired now, we think the government's
• 38:50
  the only entity that can do it. It's not true.
• 38:53
  But shocker when you grow up, especially in public
• 38:55
  school, and all you're told is the state is the
• 38:57
  answer to everything. Look at it this way. If
• 39:00
  we let, as parents, if we let our kids go to
• 39:04
  school at age one, and we let state agents known
• 39:09
  as teachers, teach our kids how to walk, it would
• 39:12
  be less than a generation before we would make
• 39:14
  the argument that without government, people
• 39:15
  wouldn't be able to walk. Please don't take our
• 39:19
  road. I am an anarchist. I'm an anarcho -capitalist.
• 39:23
  And so, yes, that's the trope. And it's only
• 39:25
  because I hate roads. It's not because I believe
• 39:27
  in moral and ethical, peaceful behavior. It's
• 39:30
  not because I think monopolies on violence are
• 39:32
  wrong. It's just because I hate flat surfaces.
• 39:35
  And I really hate women driving on those flat
• 39:37
  surfaces. This was a hot topic at the meetup.
• 39:41
  And I'm pretty sure that was the problems that
• 39:43
  we solved, the world's problems. It was the roads
• 39:45
  problem that was solved at the meetup. All right,
• 39:47
  here's the rest of this clip. We created a scenario
• 39:49
  where we'll have a mom in the room and we know
• 39:54
  that a pregnancy is on its way to ending. And
• 39:59
  there's life threatening complications. And we're
• 40:01
  moving those patients out of Idaho where we have
• 40:04
  all that medical care. We're sending them to
• 40:06
  Utah. We're sending them to Oregon. to receive
• 40:08
  that care that we have here because we have laws
• 40:10
  that restrict our ability to take care of our
• 40:14
  patients, our families, our moms, our wives and
• 40:17
  their most needy. See, I call bullshit on this.
• 40:19
  Yes. I know you were trying to get through this
• 40:21
  clip, but it's absolute bullshit. These these
• 40:23
  hospitals have entire departments built by legal
• 40:27
  teams. They have entire legal teams to handle
• 40:30
  this kind of shit. They know what is legal and
• 40:32
  what is not. They have to anybody who's been
• 40:35
  through the system at all. knows that it's reams
• 40:37
  of paperwork. It's all about what you can and
• 40:40
  can't do. It's the industrial medical complex.
• 40:43
  They have to play by the rules. That's why it
• 40:46
  sucks as hard as it sucks because there are so
• 40:49
  many rules and there's bureaucracy and levels
• 40:51
  and levels and levels and levels of it. They
• 40:53
  know precisely what they can and can't do. This
• 40:55
  is a political bullshit stunt. And this guy,
• 40:58
  he's not being very specific. His you can hear
• 41:01
  him like trying not to say exactly what he is
• 41:04
  trying to say which is yeah They want all of
• 41:07
  them are doing that The baby has a has a fatal
• 41:10
  fetal anomaly that the parents don't want to
• 41:12
  raise a special needs kid They want to go kill
• 41:14
  it. So we need to go somewhere else to do it
• 41:16
  I mean, that's basically what or what we we did
• 41:19
  a background check and we figured out that this
• 41:21
  family is poor So we should just kill the child
• 41:24
  right now because it right because one of the
• 41:27
  lines of logic The left is employing as we speak
• 41:29
  is that it's better to be aborted than be poor
• 41:32
  Mm -hmm ever like or what if the woman can't
• 41:34
  afford the child or what if she like needs to
• 41:36
  finish college It wasn't planning on having the
• 41:38
  baby or maybe what if she was raped? By an abusive
• 41:41
  family member and maybe the child will have a
• 41:44
  disability Well, what if she can't afford the
• 41:46
  medical expenses and I'm over here just going
• 41:47
  bow bow pick a plotline pick a plotline. Come
• 41:51
  on Well, see the pregnancy... They try to build
• 41:54
  this caricature that's as sympathetic as possible
• 41:57
  even though it encapsulates 0 .0001 % of the
• 42:01
  population and most of the things that are actual
• 42:04
  legitimate issues are already covered by law
• 42:06
  and you're okay and you can handle it. One of
• 42:09
  the biggest questions surrounding Prop 1 is how
• 42:11
  it defines fetal viability. The measure does
• 42:14
  not set a specific week of pregnancy for viability.
• 42:17
  Instead, it defines viability as the point when,
• 42:20
  based on a physician's good faith medical judgment
• 42:23
  and the facts known at the time, the fetus has
• 42:26
  a significant likelihood of sustained survival
• 42:29
  outside of the uterus without extraordinary medical
• 42:32
  measures. So like seven months. After that point,
• 42:35
  Prop 1 would allow abortion in certain medical
• 42:37
  emergencies. Opponents argue that the lack of
• 42:41
  specific week -based limit could allow abortions
• 42:44
  later in pregnancy, while supporters say that
• 42:46
  viability is a medical determination that can
• 42:49
  vary from one pregnancy to another. What this
• 42:52
  proposition does and what makes it so radical
• 42:54
  in a way is that it redefines fetal viability.
• 42:57
  There's an existing standard which is around
• 43:01
  21 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. But the new standard
• 43:04
  that would be written in with proposition one
• 43:07
  means it would be allow abortions up to the point
• 43:11
  at which babies are able to live without having
• 43:14
  any extra care like neonatal ICU care for babies
• 43:17
  that are born early. You've got a baby who's
• 43:19
  not being developed, whose brain is not developing.
• 43:22
  You know, you found out at your 20 week ultrasound,
• 43:25
  the brain's not developing. That is no longer
• 43:27
  going to be a viable pregnancy. Wouldn't you
• 43:29
  want to know? and be able to make the decision
• 43:31
  that made the best sense for you wouldn't you
• 43:33
  want your child's doctor there's a word for this
• 43:36
  hmm uh oh uh it's an impromptu ask scott i don't
• 43:40
  have a sound drop for it but scott your people
• 43:42
  know what's the word for this what is the this
• 43:46
  for what he's referring to being able to genetically
• 43:51
  select to some to make selections yes eugenics
• 43:54
  yes Well, yeah, and who what was Margaret Sanger
• 44:00
  into remember when all the cool kids were into
• 44:02
  eugenics Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah and hangings. This
• 44:06
  is Iceland 99 % downs free Down syndrome free
• 44:10
  in Iceland that right percent. I mean good for
• 44:13
  them, I guess But at the same time Wow, we're
• 44:16
  I mean the hubris of playing God and of course,
• 44:19
  there's more You know, this is now this is another
• 44:21
  tangent. I'm just gonna touch real fast It's
• 44:23
  almost like the more we have jabbed ourselves
• 44:26
  with X Y & Z, especially our babies the more
• 44:29
  Autism and Down syndrome we come up with so brought
• 44:32
  to you go there, but And the older people are,
• 44:37
  when they're having babies, especially millennials,
• 44:39
  because a lot of millennials aren't having kids
• 44:41
  till their late 30s, early 40s. And those statistics
• 44:44
  are well -known, especially for the men. The
• 44:46
  older the man is, the more likely your kid's
• 44:48
  going to turn out autistic, unfortunately. The
• 44:52
  odds go up exponentially. That's just biology.
• 44:55
  So you've got demographics working against us.
• 44:57
  You've got the medical industrial complex working
• 45:00
  against us. But hey, Guys, don't worry about
• 45:02
  it. We have an easy fix. We'll just figure it
• 45:05
  out early in the pregnancy and then just use
• 45:08
  eugenics. Problem solved. We need a sell -by
• 45:13
  date on our sperm. Is that what you're saying?
• 45:15
  I guess. Well, yeah, I suppose so. Turn the vial
• 45:19
  upside down. It's probably printed on the bottom
• 45:21
  of the vial. Right. If we were doing a storytelling
• 45:23
  exercise, this would be a really short Disney
• 45:27
  film. If we had the Mandalorian, start off with,
• 45:31
  you know, Mandalorian shows up in the recruitment
• 45:32
  office and gets the picture of baby Yoda. And
• 45:34
  he's like, wait, so you want me to kill him?
• 45:37
  But he's a baby. And this pink Okami on the other
• 45:40
  side of the desk is, no, no, no, just a clump
• 45:42
  of midichlorians. Don't worry about it. And be
• 45:45
  able to make the decision that made the best
• 45:46
  sense for you. Wouldn't you want your child's
• 45:49
  doctor to be able to provide everything that
• 45:50
  they could? in in such a tough circumstance and
• 45:54
  we're taking that away right like the way the
• 45:56
  law stands currently we're taking that away and
• 45:59
  i did you hear he did though he he snuck it in
• 46:01
  there but he did the affirm his own statement
• 46:03
  because the statement is questionable did you
• 46:05
  hear the right and we're taking that away right
• 46:07
  like the way right we're taking that away right
• 46:09
  and we're taking no not right necessarily myself
• 46:11
  here right and we're taking that away right like
• 46:14
  the way the law stands currently we're taking
• 46:16
  that away And I am a proponent of giving that
• 46:20
  back to families. How is this any benefit to
• 46:24
  the child? How is this any benefit to the child?
• 46:28
  That's the neat part. It's not. And another point
• 46:33
  of disagreement is whether Prop 1 would change
• 46:35
  Idaho's parental consent requirement for minors
• 46:38
  seeking an abortion. The initiative does not
• 46:41
  specifically mention parental consent, so supporters
• 46:43
  and opponents disagree over whether its new right
• 46:47
  to reproductive freedom would override that existing
• 46:50
  law. That is another legal question that voters
• 46:53
  will have to decide on when they cast their vote
• 46:55
  in November. Now, speaking of voting, the only
• 46:58
  place that I found the KCRCC trying to investigate
• 47:03
  the members who voted whatever, I couldn't find
• 47:06
  it was sent to me. The Coeur d 'Alene Press article
• 47:07
  was sent to me by a couple of different people.
• 47:09
  I couldn't find audio for it except for the Coeur
• 47:12
  d 'Alene Press itself. They put out a short.
• 47:15
  I really had to dig for it and it's very, very
• 47:17
  short. Here's how they summed it up. Or here's
• 47:19
  how the, you know, Gen Z intern summed it up.
• 47:22
  Hold on. Let's give a little context to it. Unless
• 47:25
  the short gives context to it. The context is
• 47:28
  the KCRCC, which is almost evenly split now between
• 47:31
  North Idaho Republican operatives, I'm going
• 47:34
  to say, which North Idaho Republican is a misnomer.
• 47:36
  Those who listen to this show or understand what
• 47:38
  goes on up here understand the NIR. They're not
• 47:40
  actually like. They don't follow the Republican
• 47:43
  platform in a lot of ways, but they refer to
• 47:45
  themselves as conservative Republicans. Maury
• 47:48
  says that was a lie. But they've got half of
• 47:52
  the KCRCC right now and the other half are actually,
• 47:55
  for the most part, actual conservatives. But
• 47:58
  about half a dozen of the NIR candidates who
• 48:00
  are now precinct committee members put their
• 48:03
  names on the petition to start this ballot initiative.
• 48:07
  And so there is an investigation going on regarding
• 48:10
  that because it does diametrically to put your
• 48:14
  name on the petition to support abortion and
• 48:16
  to get prop one as a ballot initiative puts you
• 48:20
  diametrically opposed to the Republican Party
• 48:23
  platform of Idaho. You cannot openly support
• 48:27
  abortion and adhere to the Idaho Republican Party
• 48:31
  platform. So that's what's going on here. So
• 48:34
  now there's an investigation and they're like,
• 48:36
  hey, did you actually support this stuff? And
• 48:38
  if so, well, then we're going to call into question
• 48:40
  your republicanism. And naturally, I imagine
• 48:43
  what you're about to play, the Idaho press is
• 48:45
  going to be like, whoa, and that's no big deal.
• 48:47
  And it's a big tent party and it shouldn't matter.
• 48:49
  And this is a witch hunt. Witch hunt. How dare
• 48:53
  precinct committee men be put to the test on
• 48:55
  actually, I don't know, adhering to the party
• 48:57
  platform, as you're supposed to. In Coeur d 'Alene,
• 49:00
  a Kootenay County Republican Central Committee
• 49:02
  subcommittee investigated members who signed
• 49:04
  to qualify Proposition 1, a proposed abortion
• 49:07
  rights initiative for the November ballot. That
• 49:09
  was it. That's that's the only audio I found
• 49:12
  on the entire internet and it was set to some
• 49:14
  very Pleasant music and but they didn't they
• 49:17
  didn't do any details and I couldn't I could
• 49:19
  only find printed articles I heard a lot of the
• 49:21
  reasons were how? Oh, I just wanted I I felt
• 49:25
  the I wanted the public to to decide No, that's
• 49:28
  why I signed it. Sure. Yeah Okay, so should we
• 49:32
  do that with everything? Yeah. Oh What about
• 49:34
  the laws on murder? Let's have Let's have the
• 49:37
  public decide if murder is ready. The public
• 49:40
  wants to do a ballot initiative about legalizing
• 49:43
  marijuana. No, no, no, no. The legislature is
• 49:45
  going to take that right away from you. No, we
• 49:47
  don't want the public. What about paying taxes?
• 49:49
  I'd like an opt out clause or at the very least,
• 49:51
  let's do a public ballot initiative where we
• 49:53
  turn it into a menu. a menu like a menu of taxes
• 49:57
  and line items and stuff and so it'll be like
• 49:59
  okay you owe 10 % or whatever this year what
• 50:02
  do you want that money to go towards and I get
• 50:04
  a menu of like 25 things and I go definitely
• 50:06
  not any of this but sure I'll uh oh my roads
• 50:10
  yeah I'll pay for those that's it well you know
• 50:14
  what you should you should get a choice we don't
• 50:17
  get it you know where you do get a choice though
• 50:18
  about what you want to pay for this program no
• 50:22
  ID you know why Because we run on the value for
• 50:25
  value model. That's right. It's all choice. You
• 50:28
  get a menu of stuff that you can pick from, and
• 50:30
  it's time, talent, and treasure. That's how you
• 50:33
  can return value to this show, if you find it
• 50:36
  valuable. I think I was kind of explaining this
• 50:38
  to you, Matt, when we were hanging out at the
• 50:40
  opening night after party at the No ID Film Fest,
• 50:42
  which by the way, thank you for not suing us.
• 50:44
  It turns out we share branding. Matt is on year
• 50:48
  three of a film festival that he has spearheaded
• 50:51
  up here. Co -organized? What's your title? Yeah
• 50:55
  founder founder. Yeah, yeah And it is that he
• 50:58
  has he branded at the no ID film festival He
• 51:01
  was first somehow I did not come across it when
• 51:03
  I was searching and initially before we started
• 51:05
  this program You know, I looked at other podcasts
• 51:08
  and whatever YouTube channels and I just I don't
• 51:11
  know why I didn't find it So I appreciate that
• 51:12
  the no lawsuit at least not yet No, not at all.
• 51:16
  And when I saw the no ID man Yeah, I saw the
• 51:19
  no ID podcast come across my Facebook feed. I
• 51:21
  was like I must have missed a meeting. We started
• 51:25
  a podcast? Who's doing it? Who's doing it? It's
• 51:28
  like, am I on the board of something? And I didn't
• 51:30
  know. Right. Yeah. And, but anyway, so I was,
• 51:34
  so we, I went, Matt was kind enough to hook up
• 51:37
  some passes and I went and saw several different
• 51:39
  screenings of. feature -length documentaries
• 51:42
  and short films and a bunch of stuff, and it
• 51:43
  was all terrific. It was over at the Regal Cinemas
• 51:45
  in Coeur d 'Alene, so it's the real deal. It
• 51:48
  was fantastic. I went to the after -party, I
• 51:51
  think the first night, and Matt and I sat at
• 51:52
  the bar talking for a bit, and I was sort of,
• 51:54
  I think I was, because you were talking about,
• 51:55
  you know, we're both sort of radio dorks from
• 51:57
  back in the day. We've mentioned Phil Hendry
• 51:59
  and some of our other radio heroes, and how that...
• 52:03
  The model for all of these different broadcast
• 52:06
  entities are all gather an audience and pitch
• 52:08
  products to them. That's always the model. Well,
• 52:10
  value for value is exactly the inversion of that
• 52:12
  model. We do not have sponsors, we do not have
• 52:15
  advertisers, and we never will. This program
• 52:17
  completely runs on the value that you feel you
• 52:20
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• 52:24
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• 52:26
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• 52:29
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• 52:32
  like telling people about the show. That's huge.
• 52:35
  Word of mouth is how shows like this grow. That's
• 52:37
  a huge, probably the biggest at this point, less
• 52:39
  than a year in. That's probably the biggest time.
• 52:42
  Value return that you can engage in is telling
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  not be shy to promote us using your credibility
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  something topics Do you think we should cover?
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  Follow -ups things we got right things we got
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  there's gonna be plenty to you know feedback
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  in the treasure category is at noidshow .com.
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  Treasure returning of value makes you an executive
• 53:35
  producer of that week's episode, and we have
• 53:38
  a few this week for episode 48. Let's start here
• 53:41
  with our new, I was trying to think of a title
• 53:44
  for him, Paul. Jeff Mason, otherwise known as
• 53:47
  We Jeff, sent in $42, and he. The meaning of
• 53:54
  life. Oh, you got it. Did he tell you that or
• 53:58
  did you get that? No, I'm only half as dumb as
• 54:02
  I look, Scott. And you can't even see me right
• 54:04
  now, so you don't know how dumb I look. Both
• 54:08
  of us have known Jeff for quite a while, you
• 54:10
  longer than me. Jeff is joining our team here
• 54:14
  on NoID as Director of Development. I'm not sure
• 54:17
  what we're calling him yet exactly, but he's
• 54:19
  going to be helping us out with getting the word
• 54:21
  out about the existence of this program. as a
• 54:26
  true producer sent in value back to us. And the
• 54:30
  42 bucks does indeed reference Hitchhiker's Guide
• 54:32
  to the Galaxy, which I've never seen, but he
• 54:34
  highly recommends. The movie doesn't do it justice
• 54:38
  as usual. The book is it's a ride, man. It's
• 54:42
  a ride. But yeah, there's a lot of good stuff
• 54:44
  in both. But yeah, you worth a spin at least
• 54:47
  once. It's you got to be in the right frame of
• 54:48
  mind. It's kind of like movies like The Big Lebowski
• 54:51
  or whatnot. You got to be in the right frame
• 54:52
  of mind, otherwise you'll hate it. But if you're
• 54:54
  in the right frame of mind, you'll have a good
• 54:55
  time. But yeah, man, 42, the meaning of life.
• 54:57
  Also, I find it hilarious and marginally ironic.
• 55:01
  And kind of apropos that we bring we Jeff onto
• 55:03
  the team and we're going to be compensating him
• 55:05
  and his first act as our media guy is to compensate
• 55:08
  us. That's value for value, baby. That's someone
• 55:11
  who gets it. So we should hire people more often.
• 55:15
  What's my salary? Oh, no, you don't understand.
• 55:18
  You pay us to work here. Terrific model. I'm
• 55:21
  telling you, we're doing it right. Forget Pfizer.
• 55:23
  Matt, you could learn something from us here.
• 55:26
  as someone who's out there trying to raise money.
• 55:28
  This is fantastic. I told him that I would play
• 55:31
  the clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 55:34
  from whence 42 came. The answer to the ultimate
• 55:37
  question of life, the universe, and everything
• 55:44
  is 42. Yes, yes, I thought you'd over quite thoroughly.
• 56:03
  It is, it's 42. There you go. There's also a
• 56:06
  BBC version that was pretty funny. I left. I
• 56:29
  just liked the little lilting affect on the word
• 56:31
  million. I think my favorite part of the whole
• 56:35
  series or the whole thing is where the movie
• 56:37
  starts, where the, uh, the intergalactic highway
• 56:40
  planning division of the, you know, of the great
• 56:43
  universal empire shows up and it's like, so we're
• 56:46
  going to put a super highway here and earth is
• 56:48
  in the way. So you've been scheduled for You've
• 56:52
  been scheduled for demolition, eminent domain.
• 56:54
  Like space is so fast. There's vast, not fast,
• 56:58
  vast. And yet we got to blow up this planet to
• 57:00
  make way for a super highway. And it's just like,
• 57:02
  isn't that government in a nutshell right there?
• 57:04
  You could put this fucking thing anywhere else,
• 57:06
  but nah, we're going to eminent domain your ass.
• 57:10
  All right. Thank you. Run strong. I'm telling
• 57:13
  you the road. I hate them. Please don't take
• 57:16
  our road. That was a clip from when they were
• 57:20
  trying to privatize the road that runs through
• 57:23
  Gaza and they interviewed I don't know I think
• 57:25
  it was like KTVB or somebody interview Gaza was
• 57:28
  trying to privatize their road basically in the
• 57:30
  surrounding community It was like no no, please
• 57:32
  keep it public, but please also keep paying for
• 57:34
  Gaza All right, thanks Jeff Mason and now moving
• 57:39
  on Sir Donald of the fire bottles secretary general
• 57:44
  of greater, Idaho who sent in or actually he
• 57:47
  handed he handed in cash 1111 a row of Schmeckles
• 57:54
  From a sir Donald of the fire bottles and he
• 57:56
  handed it to me in an envelope at the meetup
• 57:58
  And there was no note, but he this was a 1111
• 58:01
  in cash. He had a dime and a penny in there I
• 58:05
  don't know where he found the penny. I heard
• 58:06
  those are gone these days, but we appreciate
• 58:08
  it waning, almost extinct for now. That was cool,
• 58:14
  I got to meet Don for the first time. Yes, you
• 58:15
  did. I got to meet a lot of our listeners for
• 58:17
  the first time last Saturday. And I had the indignity
• 58:21
  of after meeting Sir Donald of about half an
• 58:24
  hour later going, and what was your name? Oh,
• 58:26
  come on. Don. Sir Donald of the fire bottles.
• 58:31
  My name is Don. I was like, oh, my bad. Thanks
• 58:35
  for the schmeckles. Should have done the math
• 58:37
  on that one. I know we, and we've had this conversation
• 58:39
  before where he's like, Oh yeah, my buddy Vince,
• 58:42
  uh, you know, he might be able to go. And I'm
• 58:43
  like, who the hell's Vince? I don't know. Vince.
• 58:45
  He's like, you've met him a few times. I was
• 58:46
  like, Oh, is that sir Tigger Max? And he's like,
• 58:48
  yeah. I'm like, Oh, okay. Stop. What are you
• 58:50
  using his real name for, man? Yeah. Okay. Sir
• 58:52
  Tigger Max. In my defense though, I had to, I
• 58:54
  had to learn like 12 names Saturday and I got
• 58:56
  him. There was Alex. There was, I lost it all.
• 59:02
  There was Kyle. There was a Lacey's husband.
• 59:06
  Who's, hold on, what's his name? Give me the
• 59:08
  first letter. Everything I say is made up. No,
• 59:11
  it's not true. She just made up a name. Lacey's
• 59:16
  husband is Brian. That's Brian. Brian. I was
• 59:18
  going to go with Ryan. I knew that wasn't quite
• 59:20
  right. Ryan with a B. Yes, Ryan with a B. That's
• 59:24
  how he introduced himself to me initially. Hi,
• 59:26
  I'm Ryan with a B. Sorry, Brian. All right moving
• 59:30
  and then here's another envelope of cash with
• 59:32
  the change in there as well a 33 33 from Jason
• 59:37
  the weightlifting Polak Who you heard all these
• 59:40
  folks in? Oh, yeah, Jason. Yes, you heard all
• 59:42
  these folks in the meetup report He looks like
• 59:45
  he lifts weights way to go Jason. Yes. Yes. He's
• 59:48
  an artist a body sculptor We appreciate the net.
• 59:52
  These are all these are all dudes who understand
• 59:55
  the value for value model. So thank you very
• 59:57
  Very much for the value return and you know,
• 59:59
  there was one more there was another there was
• 1:00:01
  a 20 spot on the pile and But it wasn't attached
• 1:00:06
  to anything. It wasn't in an envelope. There
• 1:00:07
  was no note So I don't know who's that $20 was
• 1:00:10
  but there was an extra 20 bucks in there from
• 1:00:12
  anonymous If you'd like to take credit, I will
• 1:00:15
  absolutely include you as the executive producer
• 1:00:17
  in the show notes me That was Matt Edwards who
• 1:00:21
  was nowhere near the racketeer at the time amazing
• 1:00:23
  good nice trick. All right, Matt Matt Edwards
• 1:00:25
  I am giving it to him if you'd like to send an
• 1:00:30
  email in and let me know who you are I will add
• 1:00:32
  your name to the executive producers list and
• 1:00:35
  Thus concluded our value for value for episode
• 1:00:39
  48. Do you have your? Schmeckle drop before we
• 1:00:43
  do second half. I'll take you down there for
• 1:00:46
  25 25 Schmeckles. I don't know how much I don't
• 1:00:50
  know what that is. Is that a lot? Is it a little
• 1:00:52
  are we doing a song or no? Let's skip it cuz
• 1:00:54
  we're running out of time, but I got a peek.
• 1:00:56
  So just give me 30 seconds Alrighty. It's alright.
• 1:01:00
  I'll talk to Matt. What's up, Matt? How you doing?
• 1:01:02
  I'm good This is great. This is great. Yeah,
• 1:01:06
  we have a good time. Yeah the story of how this
• 1:01:09
  came to be is rather rather goofy, but Comes
• 1:01:14
  to me and goes, how do you know each other? Yeah,
• 1:01:16
  how did that happen? Well, he knew of me before
• 1:01:18
  I knew of him when he came up. So he's from the
• 1:01:20
  Bay Area down in California. And during the covid
• 1:01:23
  nonsense, that's so he's always leaned more libertarian,
• 1:01:26
  of course, like like a lot of us and then found
• 1:01:29
  himself. So I'm telling his story a little bit,
• 1:01:31
  but it's kind of cool. You know, he's in the
• 1:01:33
  middle of boarding up his his pub on Main Street,
• 1:01:37
  San Francisco, basically boarding it up on a
• 1:01:39
  Friday because the following day on a Saturday,
• 1:01:41
  you know, twenty three thousand people are going
• 1:01:44
  to march for BLM. Right in the middle, of course,
• 1:01:47
  of when he's got to shut his business down because
• 1:01:49
  he's not essential and everybody has to triple
• 1:01:51
  mask and quadruple vax. But racist protests are
• 1:01:55
  considered not a threat to public health. So
• 1:01:59
  he's in the middle of boarding up his shop and
• 1:02:01
  he's like, no, this is it. I'm not doing this.
• 1:02:04
  This is the dumbest shit ever. So then he went
• 1:02:06
  to his partners and went, I'm opening or you
• 1:02:09
  buy me out. So they were terrified. They wouldn't
• 1:02:12
  do it. So they bought him out and they parted
• 1:02:14
  ways and him and his wife Danica came up here
• 1:02:17
  and and then they got into the circle with and
• 1:02:21
  I don't know if this name will mean anything
• 1:02:22
  to you or not, but Jeff Whitman and Selkirk Abbey
• 1:02:24
  brewing in Post Falls. So really good. That was
• 1:02:28
  a good orbit. That was a part of my orbit as
• 1:02:31
  the Bulldog pipe and cigar and then the racketeer
• 1:02:33
  lounge in Post Falls. And so Scott's orbit and
• 1:02:36
  my orbit bled together. So Scott knew of me before
• 1:02:38
  I knew of him. As I was in the throes of selling
• 1:02:43
  my shop in early 2025, he came to me and was
• 1:02:48
  like, you know, this is the industry I've done
• 1:02:50
  work in and I kind of want to get back into it.
• 1:02:52
  And this is the focus I want to do, which is
• 1:02:54
  what we're doing, you know, media deconstruction
• 1:02:56
  and hyper localized. And he goes, and I think
• 1:02:59
  you're the guy. And I kind of laughed and was
• 1:03:01
  like, dude, I don't even listen to podcasts.
• 1:03:03
  I don't know anything about podcasts. And he
• 1:03:06
  goes, yeah, well, you've got a voice and everything
• 1:03:08
  you say is made up. Everything I say is made
• 1:03:10
  up. Aha. There you are. You're back. I'm back.
• 1:03:14
  Everything I say is made up. All right. So we're
• 1:03:17
  going to get mileage out of that sound drop.
• 1:03:19
  You bastard. It's so clean too. I don't know
• 1:03:22
  if you're saying it live or not. That's what's
• 1:03:24
  the beauty. It was live. It was all part of the
• 1:03:26
  deal and then just pulled it right out of there.
• 1:03:27
  Everything I say is made up. Scott has all the
• 1:03:29
  power. I'm just defenseless over here. You are
• 1:03:31
  mad. Yeah. I can see his rig over here. It's
• 1:03:34
  incredible. It's got it all ready to roll. I'm
• 1:03:36
  the glorious burrito supreme and his burrito
• 1:03:40
  supreme leader of this program. Oh, hail the
• 1:03:43
  supreme leader. All right. So I have Scott shots
• 1:03:47
  for you today. Oh, all right. Let's do it. Do
• 1:03:50
  you want it? Well, you're going to tell me, no,
• 1:03:53
  I finally do the work and you don't want it.
• 1:03:55
  Is it an evergreen? Yeah, it's an evergreen.
• 1:03:58
  We can save it. Yeah, we might as well since
• 1:04:00
  we have Matt here. Let's save it because we have
• 1:04:01
  Matt here, yeah. All right. But I did have one.
• 1:04:04
  I have it. Thank you. Thank you for doing the
• 1:04:06
  work. Or you know what? This could just be a
• 1:04:09
  poker. This could be a bluff. You might not have
• 1:04:11
  done it, but you just knew I was going to say
• 1:04:12
  that. Oh, man. I just shoved all in, just hoping
• 1:04:16
  and praying we weren't going to have time for
• 1:04:18
  you to call my bluff. I have seven deuce options.
• 1:04:22
  Oh my God, please fold. Well, you might just
• 1:04:24
  win, you know, sometimes that just wins. Well,
• 1:04:27
  I did because we're moving on, aren't we? Well,
• 1:04:30
  yeah, let's we'll save it. Let's do. Let's see
• 1:04:33
  what's going to be the most. Oh, I got this one
• 1:04:38
  several times. So let's do that. Tell you what's
• 1:04:40
  the most relevant for Matt and Citizens Alliance.
• 1:04:42
  OK, yeah, here. I'll give you a list of three
• 1:04:44
  doing the Lord's work. Fair enough. Let's do
• 1:04:46
  three. You have three choices of what to do next
• 1:04:48
  year. I got Hayden canceling their contract with
• 1:04:50
  the KCSO with the sheriff's office. Spokane County
• 1:04:54
  Commissioners approving reduced permit fees for
• 1:04:57
  rebuilding people. Not not no fees. Reduced.
• 1:05:00
  You're welcome. No fees. And I have Boise schools
• 1:05:04
  and their enrollment. They're skyrocketing, right?
• 1:05:10
  Through the roof. Boiler alert. They need more
• 1:05:12
  money while having less students. And the reason
• 1:05:14
  they have less money is because they have less
• 1:05:16
  students. And the formula sucks. Pay more for
• 1:05:19
  schools. I mean, you know, any chance you get
• 1:05:22
  to rail on Spokane is like. All right. They're
• 1:05:28
  not Spokane Stan. Let's do it. This morning more
• 1:05:34
  help for people Whoops, sorry, that was not muted.
• 1:05:38
  Now you're just getting a headache. This morning
• 1:05:43
  more help for people impacted by the Spokane
• 1:05:45
  area fires and the upriver wildfire. The Spokane
• 1:05:48
  County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution
• 1:05:51
  reducing the cost of building permit fees for
• 1:05:54
  homeowners. It will cover any permits associated
• 1:05:57
  with demolition, rebuilding, repairs and expedited
• 1:06:00
  reviews, which means building permits will be
• 1:06:03
  given priority application processing for a demolition.
• 1:06:06
  permit the inspection fee is now waived and for
• 1:06:09
  the other building permits the inspection fees
• 1:06:11
  are reduced by 50 % oh thank you just only half
• 1:06:16
  guys guess what and the timelines are moved up
• 1:06:18
  so it's an expedited process it's only gonna
• 1:06:21
  take a month to get to your thing now county
• 1:06:23
  commissioners say the resolutions could save
• 1:06:25
  some homeowners more than $600 we have a more
• 1:06:29
  in -depth breakdown of the costs on our way so
• 1:06:32
  it could it might could save some homeowners
• 1:06:36
  600 bucks. Oh, by the way, you owe us four grand
• 1:06:40
  for property taxes. Yeah. So that's cool. Thanks,
• 1:06:44
  Spokane, for making it real easy on the people
• 1:06:46
  whose homes were burnt to a crisp to rebuild
• 1:06:49
  and only having to pay half to you is just by
• 1:06:53
  fiat. They can do it, which tells us exactly
• 1:06:55
  what you and I already know, which is they could
• 1:06:57
  always have done it. We didn't need this shit.
• 1:06:59
  We've never needed this shit. It's just a it's
• 1:07:02
  just rent seeking. It's just a giant rent seeking
• 1:07:05
  scheme. which when anybody else does it, it's
• 1:07:07
  called extortion and it's illegal. When the government
• 1:07:09
  does it, it's just a business as usual. We're
• 1:07:12
  like, I mean, hey guys, you need to demo your
• 1:07:14
  home and build something new. That's okay. Don't
• 1:07:17
  worry. We're good guys. We'll, we'll wave this
• 1:07:19
  one for you. But these other ones, you still
• 1:07:20
  got to pay, but you only have here. Here's our
• 1:07:24
  ring. You can kiss it. It is such a great point
• 1:07:27
  because I've often always said, whenever it's
• 1:07:30
  me, mano a mano with me and some bureaucrat,
• 1:07:33
  and it can be in the corporate world or it can
• 1:07:36
  be in the government world, you kind of look
• 1:07:38
  across and then you go, I just want to let you
• 1:07:40
  know I'm not giving up and wherever I need to
• 1:07:45
  go for the person who has the leeway, the sort
• 1:07:50
  of discretion. to wave whoever's gatekeeping
• 1:07:54
  me yeah yeah like let's just get to that person
• 1:07:57
  now it'll save us both a lot of time let me speak
• 1:07:59
  to your manager you know because at the end of
• 1:08:02
  the day we are the ones that have created this
• 1:08:05
  we created this mess so let's all get out of
• 1:08:07
  it together you know who's we white man i didn't
• 1:08:10
  create any of this i didn't want any of it i'm
• 1:08:13
  still looking for the unsubscribe button i've
• 1:08:14
  been looking for that button the whole time you
• 1:08:16
  got a mouse in your pocket A printer once told
• 1:08:18
  me, I can't print your artwork to the edge of
• 1:08:22
  the page, right? The printer only, it needs a
• 1:08:25
  margin around it. And I said, but doesn't that
• 1:08:28
  seem odd to you? Like, why can't we invent a
• 1:08:31
  printer that does print to the edge of the page?
• 1:08:34
  And she looked at me like I was a complete alien,
• 1:08:39
  like, but that's not how they work. It can't
• 1:08:40
  be done. It cannot be done. No, you're out of
• 1:08:44
  your mind. You're just out of your mind. There
• 1:08:49
  is one thing that 18 years in state -run institutions
• 1:08:52
  has told me is that you never color outside the
• 1:08:56
  lines and you only use the crayons that are permitted.
• 1:09:00
  But you're right though, is sitting in mano a
• 1:09:02
  mano especially, but in any setting where you're
• 1:09:05
  up against the bureaucrats, which is pretty much
• 1:09:06
  anytime you want to build anything metaphorically
• 1:09:09
  or literally. It is that situation. And it's
• 1:09:12
  so, it is so frustrating to realize and understand
• 1:09:16
  that the power dynamic is so perverse and it's
• 1:09:20
  inverse of what it should be. And people like,
• 1:09:23
  well, Russell Mann is always a great example
• 1:09:25
  who will rattle off how perfect the system is
• 1:09:28
  because this is legal and that is legal and you
• 1:09:30
  could always do this and you could do this and
• 1:09:31
  property taxes are totally moral and ethical
• 1:09:33
  because well, it's legal. And it's like, no,
• 1:09:36
  dude, we're not arguing whether or not it's legal.
• 1:09:39
  We're arguing whether or not it should it gets
• 1:09:41
  ethical or moral. That's a whole nother topic,
• 1:09:43
  but a guy Dude, but a guy like that will tell
• 1:09:47
  you well You do have the power because you can
• 1:09:49
  vote and you can you you know have have a source
• 1:09:52
  say over who's in charge of the committees and
• 1:09:54
  the commissioners and the commissioners Create
• 1:09:56
  the committees and you know, so the trickle -down
• 1:09:58
  effect you do have the power No, you don't you
• 1:10:00
  sit across from these mid -level local government
• 1:10:02
  bureaucrats and they have more power over us
• 1:10:04
  than the wealthiest capitalist on planet Earth
• 1:10:07
  has Elon Musk isn't the one telling me I can't
• 1:10:09
  build a shed and paint it green. It's the county
• 1:10:12
  commissioners or the bureaucrats who work underneath
• 1:10:15
  the county commissioners who tell me that. And
• 1:10:16
  no matter who I vote for, that shit still exists.
• 1:10:21
  Zoning violations, denies business permits, shutdowns
• 1:10:24
  your business if your sign is too big or if you're
• 1:10:27
  deemed non -essential. That's the local bureaucrats
• 1:10:30
  doing that stuff. It's not the billionaire across
• 1:10:32
  the country. You should know, Paul, that when...
• 1:10:35
  It's the Spokane City Council. when Russell Mann's
• 1:10:37
  name came out of your mouth, Matt went like flying
• 1:10:41
  out of his chair and his earbud popped out and
• 1:10:43
  his eyelid twitched. He had to get a violent
• 1:10:46
  reaction. That was triggering. That was very
• 1:10:49
  triggering. Dude, that guy, I hate to give him
• 1:10:52
  so much attention, but he is a, he, that dude
• 1:10:54
  is a carpet bagger to the max. He is a, like
• 1:10:57
  you look up charlatan in the dictionary and that
• 1:10:59
  guy is there. Carpet bagger, charlatan, whatever
• 1:11:01
  you want to call it. Like that guy is a is the
• 1:11:05
  epitome of North Idaho Republican word salad
• 1:11:07
  bullshit. And it wouldn't be so irksome if people
• 1:11:12
  were people, but people take them seriously.
• 1:11:14
  And that's what's so irksome about it. It's like,
• 1:11:16
  yeah, I feel embarrassed for having taken them
• 1:11:19
  seriously for so long, you know, but I'm not
• 1:11:22
  from here. I had to learn my lesson. Well, it's
• 1:11:25
  because when you first meet the guy, if you can,
• 1:11:28
  if you never really think past the first level,
• 1:11:30
  he sounds genuine and intelligent. But the moment
• 1:11:32
  you can get past the first level and have any
• 1:11:35
  understanding of reality, then you realize, oh,
• 1:11:37
  this guy is a charlatan. What was the turning
• 1:11:40
  point for this moment right now? No, not based
• 1:11:43
  on your reaction. No, it was a phone. It was
• 1:11:46
  a phone conversation I had with him. Well actually
• 1:11:50
  was the follow -up to the phone conversation
• 1:11:51
  because he kept telling me that there were there
• 1:11:53
  were certain legislators and people that we were
• 1:11:55
  backing at Citizens Alliance who are full -blown
• 1:11:57
  white Supremacists and whatever and I said wow,
• 1:12:00
  I you know, they signed our pledge and all that
• 1:12:02
  I said Wow I said I did not know that can can
• 1:12:04
  you send me what you know, you know, and he sent
• 1:12:08
  me a plethora of documents and all of these things
• 1:12:11
  that showed zero. It showed other people, you
• 1:12:16
  know, like some city councilwoman in Spokane
• 1:12:18
  that that was perhaps, you know, affiliated with
• 1:12:21
  some weird, you know, weird offshoot of Aryan
• 1:12:23
  nation or whatever, but had nothing to do with
• 1:12:25
  the legislators here. That was Ava Schickelgruber.
• 1:12:28
  Yeah, I know her. OK, yeah. And so once he sent
• 1:12:31
  me that that had zero, I was like, oh, you're
• 1:12:33
  one of those people. OK, thank you very much.
• 1:12:37
  Here's, let's do where we're going to be bumping
• 1:12:40
  up against it here. Paul's got a hard out. The
• 1:12:41
  fact that he doesn't work for government is a
• 1:12:43
  shocker. Like that dude is a born bureaucrat.
• 1:12:45
  He is a guy who you imagine. Here's your square.
• 1:12:48
  Don't ever walk or paint outside the square.
• 1:12:50
  And don't you worry about it. It's all okay because
• 1:12:52
  it's legal. And no, no, you have the power, dirty
• 1:12:56
  plebes. I promise you, you have the power. But
• 1:12:58
  you just, I'm sorry, I'm hammering it because
• 1:12:59
  it just made me think about it. The Spokane City
• 1:13:01
  Council has deigned or the Spokane County Commissioner
• 1:13:04
  has deigned to allow property owners to do something.
• 1:13:10
  And everybody's like, oh, my God, you're so gracious
• 1:13:11
  and magnanimous. Oh, yes. Half off permits. Come
• 1:13:15
  on down. Half off your permit. Come on down.
• 1:13:18
  This week only. It would be so awesome if other
• 1:13:21
  people got in line like, oh, my house kind of
• 1:13:23
  got partially burned, too. I just want to put
• 1:13:24
  up an ADU. Can I do that? Can I get a half off
• 1:13:27
  permit did it for them? You mean we could have
• 1:13:32
  done this the whole time I had property rights
• 1:13:35
  the whole time We've had so many of these clips
• 1:13:38
  and they're like, oh, well see we'll just go
• 1:13:40
  well, you know, we'll waive the inspection Oh,
• 1:13:42
  so you're telling me that they're bullcrap because
• 1:13:44
  isn't the hospital gonna fall down now, right?
• 1:13:46
  Exactly. Yeah, you know you won't inspect. Okay
• 1:13:48
  Here is you know, I really had that click for
• 1:13:52
  us early in 2020 Scott this one, you know, you'll
• 1:13:56
  get on board with this is when after my business
• 1:13:59
  was finally deemed allowed to open back up in
• 1:14:02
  the end of June 2020, because we were closed
• 1:14:05
  from mid March to the end of June, taverns were
• 1:14:07
  the first to be closed and the last to be opened.
• 1:14:10
  Thanks, Mormons in Idaho. Appreciate that. Everybody
• 1:14:12
  else got to be open a lot. a lot or closed, I
• 1:14:16
  should say a lot less time or, or never, or never
• 1:14:19
  touched at all. Like a B like a CVS, Walgreens,
• 1:14:22
  Target, Costco, Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe's and
• 1:14:25
  all those places that just got to do whatever
• 1:14:26
  they wanted the whole time during the lockdown.
• 1:14:29
  Uh huh. Yeah. The lockdown. Remember when we
• 1:14:31
  were locked down. My favorite part was watching
• 1:14:35
  the liquor store owned by the state of Idaho
• 1:14:37
  still get to sell booze while I who also sold
• 1:14:40
  booze had to close. Good times. That was a lot
• 1:14:42
  of fun. But what really did it was when ABC,
• 1:14:46
  speaking of the liquor stores, Alcohol Beverage
• 1:14:48
  Control Board, run by ISP, Idaho State Police
• 1:14:51
  in Idaho, said, hey, you know what, guys? It's
• 1:14:53
  been illegal for like 20 or 30 years for reasons
• 1:14:56
  we can never explain, because we're tyrants.
• 1:14:58
  But you know what we're going to allow now to
• 1:14:59
  help you guys get back on your feet? Cocktails
• 1:15:02
  to go. You can sell cocktails to go now. Just
• 1:15:06
  poof. It's OK now. And then about a year and
• 1:15:10
  a half later in your car, don't drink it till
• 1:15:12
  you get home. They made it illegal again. Well,
• 1:15:15
  no, because what we did was we put like a sticker
• 1:15:17
  on it that said, this is sealed. Oh, all right.
• 1:15:21
  Like crime averted. There's a sticker on my lid.
• 1:15:26
  And then a year and a half later, give or take.
• 1:15:29
  then they got rid of it. They took it. They took
• 1:15:31
  the right back. Now you don't have this right
• 1:15:34
  anymore. It's illegal again. On account of society
• 1:15:36
  was collapsing. Society was collapsing when you
• 1:15:39
  were elected. Cause you know, they have to save
• 1:15:40
  us from ourselves. So they, we got back to law
• 1:15:43
  and order. It all makes sense. Yeah. Coeur d
• 1:15:46
  'Alene has open container laws. Post falls does
• 1:15:48
  not have open container laws. You just cross
• 1:15:50
  an imaginary line and all of a sudden I can walk
• 1:15:53
  on the sidewalk with a beer. And then, but if
• 1:15:56
  I cross an imaginary line, now I'm a misdemeanor.
• 1:15:59
  And it's weird because Post Falls doesn't have,
• 1:16:01
  I mean, Coeur d 'Alene has worse issues with
• 1:16:03
  drunkenness than Post Falls ever has. Well, you
• 1:16:06
  know what, along those lines, hey, maybe somebody
• 1:16:08
  got, maybe somebody had a margarita in their
• 1:16:11
  car when this happened. We begin tonight with
• 1:16:12
  a crash in Coeur d 'Alene. A car drove off the
• 1:16:14
  parking garage at the Coeur d 'Alene Resort.
• 1:16:16
  These are some photos here from Coeur d 'Alene
• 1:16:18
  Fire and Rescue. They tell us the car drove off
• 1:16:20
  the garage around 1230 this afternoon. Two people
• 1:16:24
  were hurt. They were taken to Kootenai Health
• 1:16:25
  for evaluation. This is the multi -level parking
• 1:16:28
  garage at the Coraline Resort and it was like
• 1:16:30
  the third or fourth level and it went through
• 1:16:31
  the railing and went onto its roof onto the ground.
• 1:16:35
  So clearly they got a cocktail to go or nine.
• 1:16:39
  It was a pretty brutal picture. Yeah it was.
• 1:16:43
  And now they're going to put in like concrete
• 1:16:45
  railings. Are they going to redo the railing
• 1:16:46
  system and the parking garage remains to be seen?
• 1:16:49
  But that's a rough afternoon for wherever that
• 1:16:51
  happened to. railings I mean now they're metal
• 1:16:55
  in that particular garage oh that's gonna change
• 1:16:59
  exactly here is we're running up against it here
• 1:17:01
  let's do the Boise schools enrollment Pure students
• 1:17:04
  are enrolled in Boise schools this year, a lower
• 1:17:07
  number than even predicted. That's creating a
• 1:17:09
  squeeze on district funding, which is based on
• 1:17:11
  how many students are in class. The Idaho Press
• 1:17:14
  reports Boise schools have about 700 fewer students
• 1:17:17
  compared to this time a year ago. Most of the
• 1:17:19
  decrease is coming in elementary school buildings.
• 1:17:22
  District officials say declining birth rates
• 1:17:24
  and a high cost of housing in Boise are factors.
• 1:17:27
  The district has seen a decline the last five
• 1:17:30
  years of more than 2 ,000 total students. Now
• 1:17:33
  do private schools and homeschooling. The birth
• 1:17:36
  rates in the expensive houses. How does that
• 1:17:39
  factor in there again? Pay more for schools.
• 1:17:42
  Oh, okay. Enrollment is predicted to continue
• 1:17:45
  to decline. Fewer students means less state funding
• 1:17:48
  and a larger reliance on bond revenue for property
• 1:17:51
  taxpayers in the district. What is the difference
• 1:17:53
  between those two things? Bond and... Fewer students
• 1:17:59
  means less state funding and a larger reliance
• 1:18:02
  on bond revenue for so less state funding which
• 1:18:04
  comes from where the state Which comes from where
• 1:18:07
  the taxpayer? Okay, and where's the bond revenue
• 1:18:09
  come from the taxpayer? Clarifying fewer students.
• 1:18:14
  I win No, no, it's the same. You should have
• 1:18:17
  a show. That's federal money. That's federal
• 1:18:19
  money. Oh, it's federal money Yeah, we don't
• 1:18:23
  worry about that. Don't worry about federal.
• 1:18:24
  No, no never It's like when they tried to, well,
• 1:18:28
  no, they didn't try. They did the push to expand
• 1:18:30
  Medicaid a few years back. And one of the main
• 1:18:32
  talking points that the pro Medicaid expansion
• 1:18:34
  camp used was, well, it's federal money and it's
• 1:18:37
  our money anyways. We might as well get it back
• 1:18:38
  and spend it. It's like, yeah, but you forgot
• 1:18:40
  the part where we're 40 % of it's unbacked by
• 1:18:42
  anything whatsoever. Anything like nothing. It's
• 1:18:45
  not backed by any kind of revenue. And so yes,
• 1:18:48
  it is all already quote printed out of thin air,
• 1:18:51
  but 40 % 40 cents of every dollar from the feds,
• 1:18:54
  like literally and metaphorically is printed
• 1:18:57
  out of thin air with nothing behind it at all
• 1:18:59
  of any shape, way, shape or form. So we're fine.
• 1:19:02
  Hooray. We got the money, but we also just indebted
• 1:19:05
  our children again and our grandchildren again
• 1:19:07
  to 40 cents on the dollar for a program that's
• 1:19:09
  going to go bankrupt anyways in the near future.
• 1:19:12
  Pay more for schools. Because every state that's
• 1:19:14
  done it has had the same issues. Have we all
• 1:19:18
  just pay our fair share? Right? That's Melissa
• 1:19:20
  Wintrow. It's either taxes. Win throw and extortion
• 1:19:23
  or its inflation. She's not kidding. We all just
• 1:19:26
  pay our fair share Wintro, right? We just need
• 1:19:28
  to pay our fair share. Yeah. Oh here Matt is
• 1:19:31
  writing that down. He's scribbling feverishly
• 1:19:33
  on his notepad. Oh our fair share. Pay your fair
• 1:19:36
  share, right? Here's the rest of this clip. Matt's
• 1:19:39
  gonna love all of your Wintro clips. You got
• 1:19:41
  to share all of them with them. We call her Wintro.
• 1:19:44
  Don't you know that? Wintro? Wintro. Yeah. Josh
• 1:19:46
  Tanner, who is the head of JFAC, one of the co
• 1:19:49
  -chairs of JFAC. Yeah. Which she sits on. Yeah,
• 1:19:52
  yes all the time. He just like oh, yes senator
• 1:19:55
  win throw He just mispronounces it. Is he doing
• 1:19:56
  it on purpose to dig at her or is it? I'm not
• 1:19:58
  gonna divulge I Call her did senator windbag.
• 1:20:06
  I mean these cuts are killing people literally
• 1:20:10
  literally. Yes. We played that clip on our literally
• 1:20:15
  Strong revenue from new development fees has
• 1:20:18
  helped keep the City of Boise's budget on track
• 1:20:20
  through the third quarter of this fiscal year,
• 1:20:22
  then ended in June. The City takes in money through
• 1:20:25
  taxes on sales, property, and liquor, plus fees
• 1:20:28
  on new development fines like parking tickets
• 1:20:31
  and participation fees for... Just do the list
• 1:20:33
  of stuff it doesn't hammer you for. It's a much
• 1:20:36
  shorter, much shorter list. ...for recreation
• 1:20:38
  programs and golf, for example. Oh, did you hear
• 1:20:40
  that, too? Listen to that. Like parking tickets
• 1:20:42
  and participation fees for recreation programs
• 1:20:44
  and golf. for example. Taxes pay for the services,
• 1:20:48
  plebs! Anyway, that'll be $180 for the football
• 1:20:51
  game today. And participation fees for recreation
• 1:20:53
  programs and golf, for example. Development impact
• 1:20:57
  fees through June nearly reached $28 million.
• 1:21:01
  The city's senior budget manager, Alicia McAndrews,
• 1:21:03
  expects they'll break last year's record development
• 1:21:06
  fee revenue of $29 million. This revenue is primarily
• 1:21:10
  driven by Micron, the expansion project, as well
• 1:21:13
  as hospital construction and other major commercial
• 1:21:17
  activity. That $28 million already collected
• 1:21:19
  is 133 % of what the city budgeted for this fiscal
• 1:21:24
  year. It is only about 12 % of the overall city
• 1:21:27
  general fund though. McAndrews says other revenue
• 1:21:29
  lines are within expected ranges after three
• 1:21:32
  quarters and expenses are also in line with predictions
• 1:21:34
  for the current fiscal year which ends this month.
• 1:21:39
  That paltry $28 million will only cover payroll
• 1:21:41
  for three weeks. Yeah. And yes, exactly. So that's
• 1:21:44
  the Boise payroll. That's all the same NPR report
• 1:21:47
  about how Boise school enrollment is falling,
• 1:21:49
  but they need more money than ever. And the only
• 1:21:51
  reason it's falling is because of birth rates
• 1:21:53
  and housing prices, even though other segments
• 1:21:56
  of education are going up. And then it segues
• 1:21:59
  right into all of the tax revenue that Boise
• 1:22:01
  is hammering. Just tens of millions of dollars
• 1:22:04
  like every week. OK, that's right. That's your
• 1:22:20
  national treasure, NPR. All right, we got time
• 1:22:22
  for one more. Never change. Let's do the Hayden
• 1:22:27
  cops. In North Idaho news tonight, the Hayden
• 1:22:29
  City Council voted to cancel the city's contract
• 1:22:32
  with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office this
• 1:22:34
  week. That means the city won't have sheriff's
• 1:22:37
  deputies dedicated to patrolling its streets.
• 1:22:39
  Trump spoke with the city about this decision.
• 1:22:42
  By next week, law enforcement in Hayden could
• 1:22:44
  look very different because of the contract dispute
• 1:22:47
  between the city and the Kootenai County Sheriff's
• 1:22:49
  Office. Five deputies, a detective, and an animal
• 1:22:53
  control officer were all assigned to help protect
• 1:22:56
  the 17 ,000 people that live in the city, but
• 1:22:59
  the city council voted not to renew its contract
• 1:23:01
  with the Sheriff's Office, which expires in six
• 1:23:04
  days. With that contract not being renewed, the
• 1:23:07
  city will lose enhanced services, but will still
• 1:23:10
  remain being service by Kootenai County for public
• 1:23:14
  safety, law enforcement services. So the Sheriff's
• 1:23:17
  Office will still respond to calls in Hayden,
• 1:23:19
  but won't have deputies dedicated to patrolling
• 1:23:22
  the city. The last contract offered by the Sheriff's
• 1:23:24
  Office included going from five deputies to four,
• 1:23:27
  which would have saved the city $113 ,000. The
• 1:23:31
  City Council rejected it, partly because the
• 1:23:33
  consulting firm the city hired found more than
• 1:23:36
  60 % of service hours by the Sheriff's Office
• 1:23:39
  in Hayden were unaccounted for. They're saying
• 1:23:42
  61 .2 % of deputy time is unaccounted for. They
• 1:23:47
  can't, I mean, I can see 10 % or 15%, but 60
• 1:23:51
  % is unacceptable. They don't know. The Hayden
• 1:23:55
  City Council estimates that ending its contract
• 1:23:57
  with the County Sheriff's Office would triple
• 1:24:00
  response. Sweet, now do post falls. Please do
• 1:24:02
  post falls. Because they want more transparency
• 1:24:05
  on what their money is being spent on. The city
• 1:24:08
  is still leaving the possibility open for negotiating
• 1:24:11
  a new contract with the sheriff's office. The
• 1:24:13
  city administrator doesn't know how long that
• 1:24:16
  would take. We really are hoping that we can
• 1:24:19
  bring some solutions to council for consideration
• 1:24:21
  as soon as soon as possible, but at this point
• 1:24:24
  I don't have a time frame. We reached out to
• 1:24:26
  the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office for comment,
• 1:24:29
  but haven't heard back. They don't know. Okay,
• 1:24:33
  that'll be I'm sure in next week might be a sign.
• 1:24:35
  Yes. It's got to be and all this because they
• 1:24:38
  they they can't afford the contract They don't
• 1:24:42
  know yeah, or and they're there at least well
• 1:24:44
  and they're saying like well You're we can't
• 1:24:47
  afford it and in order to figure out if we can't
• 1:24:49
  afford it We need you to account for your time,
• 1:24:51
  but all of the you know overtime hours and when
• 1:24:54
  you're at a lemonade stand It's not being logged
• 1:24:57
  Yeah, so the lemonade stand thing in case you
• 1:24:59
  weren't again for context for you Matt and for
• 1:25:01
  our listeners It's actually pretty fantastic
• 1:25:03
  because during this whole debate back and forth
• 1:25:05
  between the county and and the city and Hayden
• 1:25:08
  going Yeah, what you know actually for in a rare
• 1:25:12
  occurrence here Some bureaucrats are actually
• 1:25:15
  kind of maybe sort of doing what they're supposed
• 1:25:16
  to do. Mm -hmm Although there's personal politics
• 1:25:19
  involved and that's why they're doing it, right?
• 1:25:21
  Hey, if the taxpayer wins then fine fine I'm
• 1:25:24
  on board and they are making a good point like
• 1:25:26
  why can't you guys account for 60 % of essentially
• 1:25:30
  what our expenses are with you guys? And the
• 1:25:34
  sheriff's department's response was, well, when
• 1:25:37
  we stopped by a lemonade stand and check in on
• 1:25:39
  the kids, well, we don't account for that time.
• 1:25:42
  So how could we possibly account for all that
• 1:25:44
  time? I lived in Hayden. I don't recall. You
• 1:25:49
  don't recall all the trans kids running lemonade
• 1:25:51
  stands in Hayden? No? No, it's actually boomers
• 1:25:54
  who are house poor who run the lemonade stands
• 1:25:56
  because Hayden is just all boomers with big ass
• 1:25:58
  houses, huge mortgages. I'm on a fixed income.
• 1:26:02
  Once you can't default. I'm on a fixed income.
• 1:26:04
  I got to run a lemonade stand. They're probably
• 1:26:07
  happy the cops won't be around to shut them down.
• 1:26:11
  We're out of time here. Let me read this quickly.
• 1:26:13
  I should have done this after the Boise Public
• 1:26:16
  Schools. I wanted to read this comment that Darryl
• 1:26:18
  talks. Sent a message. He said hi started listening
• 1:26:22
  to your podcast in New Zealand. That's no agenda
• 1:26:24
  universe You were talking about schools not actually
• 1:26:28
  being public land You know the Boise public schools
• 1:26:30
  and you know, they their enrollments dropping
• 1:26:32
  but they need more money Well here in New Zealand
• 1:26:34
  They mostly are and this is what you were referencing
• 1:26:37
  a couple episodes ago Paul about how like well
• 1:26:39
  the other public schools Yeah public go try to
• 1:26:41
  use the basketball courts Darrell talk says on
• 1:26:43
  the weekend You could go to a school basketball
• 1:26:45
  court and shoot hoops if you wanted sure there
• 1:26:47
  would be time to an organized My sports are using
• 1:26:49
  the court like a Saturday morning or whatever,
• 1:26:51
  but you could take the kids to a primary school
• 1:26:53
  playground, play on the swings. My school when
• 1:26:55
  I was a kid would, for a fundraiser, sell keys
• 1:26:58
  to the pool over the summer so families could
• 1:27:01
  swim on hot days. That's pretty rare now though.
• 1:27:04
  Another weird difference, I know a lot of older
• 1:27:06
  Gen X people who buy their kids land for a house.
• 1:27:09
  or give them a deposit to buy a new house. Not
• 1:27:12
  so much boomers, though. Here, all land is super
• 1:27:14
  expensive. It's basically impossible to buy any
• 1:27:16
  useful land in New Zealand for less than like
• 1:27:18
  $100 ,000 U .S. So he's seeing some, I guess
• 1:27:21
  that's kind of a big difference as they sort
• 1:27:23
  of think about public schools as more public
• 1:27:26
  in New Zealand. Thought that was interesting.
• 1:27:28
  My kids went to, would play in the public school,
• 1:27:31
  like on the weekends. The gate would be open.
• 1:27:33
  Really? We would go play basketball, play on
• 1:27:35
  the playground. I don't know if that was just
• 1:27:37
  that school or if it was uncommon or not. I think
• 1:27:40
  it's a combination of a couple different things.
• 1:27:42
  Number one is locality. So we could, we could
• 1:27:46
  do the same thing to a degree here in Clark Fork.
• 1:27:49
  They have an outside court, a basketball court,
• 1:27:52
  but there's no public access to the inside basketball
• 1:27:55
  court. I would know I play basketball and the
• 1:27:58
  guy who I usually play with is the coach for
• 1:28:00
  the girls, a JV team. And the only reason I see
• 1:28:04
  the inside of that court is because he has a
• 1:28:06
  key. But otherwise, no, it's tightly controlled.
• 1:28:08
  We can't get in to use the facilities. Meanwhile,
• 1:28:10
  there's a permanent bond in this district that
• 1:28:12
  I'm forced to fund that goes towards maintenance
• 1:28:15
  of that building. But I'm not allowed. So I think
• 1:28:20
  if they're like where the New Zealand listener
• 1:28:21
  here, say what? Sorry, they glitched out a little
• 1:28:25
  bit. Yeah, we can hear you. Can you hear us?
• 1:28:28
  Yeah, I can hear you. OK, finish your thought
• 1:28:30
  and then I'll do the outro. OK. I just admire
• 1:28:33
  and appreciate the consistency, at least in places
• 1:28:36
  like where our New Zealand listener is and where
• 1:28:38
  it's like, yeah, OK, if we're all going to fund
• 1:28:39
  it, then we all should have access to it. I don't
• 1:28:42
  agree with public anything. I'm a privatized
• 1:28:44
  everything kind of guy. But if you're going to
• 1:28:45
  force me to fund it, at least have the decency
• 1:28:47
  to let me access the damn thing. It's the same
• 1:28:49
  thing with public lands and national forest.
• 1:28:52
  A lot of people, when we talk about privatizing
• 1:28:54
  it, they go, no, we can't let corporations take
• 1:28:56
  it or people develop it. And I'm like, well,
• 1:28:58
  it's a Housing would be a lot less expensive.
• 1:29:01
  We could have some new towns come up and incorporate
• 1:29:03
  in lots of different places in the Northwest
• 1:29:06
  in particular, where most of it is national forest
• 1:29:08
  or state land. And you can't do anything with
• 1:29:11
  it, but people could live there and we could
• 1:29:14
  develop a lot of it. And there's hundreds of
• 1:29:16
  thousands of acres. So it's not like we're going
• 1:29:17
  to lose the forest lands here or burn down the
• 1:29:20
  rainforest by building a couple of extra towns
• 1:29:22
  and making housing more affordable. But you know
• 1:29:24
  what else would be cool? We'd have more access.
• 1:29:27
  Right now, the way it works is if the Forest
• 1:29:29
  Service wants to bar a road, gate off a road,
• 1:29:31
  and tell me I can't hunt there anymore, they
• 1:29:33
  can, and there's nothing I can do about it. And
• 1:29:35
  then they have the gall to charge me for it and
• 1:29:37
  call it public lands. This is, as you mentioned
• 1:29:40
  a episode or two ago, monopoly .com? No, no,
• 1:29:44
  no, no. Monopoly .gov? Ooh, where do I sign?
• 1:29:48
  Oh, yeah. Where do I sign? All right. See, we
• 1:29:50
  need a monopoly. on violence to protect us from
• 1:29:53
  monopolies that are less violent. Otherwise,
• 1:29:56
  we might be trampled upon by a cartel, you know?
• 1:30:00
  But 50 % off. If we agree with you, dude, who
• 1:30:05
  would grant us the 50 % off permits, Matt, if
• 1:30:09
  it wasn't for the state? Matt, where can people,
• 1:30:12
  what do you want people to know? Where can they
• 1:30:13
  find you? Well, if they're on X, find me at True
• 1:30:16
  Matt Edwards. It's the best spot. And Idaho Signal.
• 1:30:19
  Or do you just want to do personal plug? Yeah,
• 1:30:23
  personal personal only. I use it for work. So
• 1:30:25
  fair enough. He can't have the idea. It's not
• 1:30:28
  a good idea. Yes. I watched his last podcast
• 1:30:32
  with Scott Herndon and Randy Westland. That was
• 1:30:35
  a good one, Matt, by the way. I wanted to plug
• 1:30:36
  it earlier and then I forgot. I'm sorry. Good.
• 1:30:40
  It's all good. Matt does a lot of good work.
• 1:30:42
  Thanks for joining us. You're close to us. I'll
• 1:30:45
  be around. For sure. Please remember us in the
• 1:30:49
  meantime here at KnowIDShow .com. Episode 48
• 1:30:52
  in the can. We'll be back next week with episode
• 1:30:54
  49. I have three show titles that I've written
• 1:30:56
  down. Fatal Anomaly, Born Bureaucrat, Car Margarita.
• 1:31:01
  What do you guys think? Oh, dude. I know the
• 1:31:03
  one I want, but Matt's the guest. He should pick.
• 1:31:05
  No, please. You guys are the experts. Do it.
• 1:31:09
  Trust the experts. I want the second one. Born
• 1:31:11
  Bureaucrat. Born Bureaucrat. Yeah, that's great.
• 1:31:14
  Done. Thank you very much for the, the meetup
• 1:31:17
  was great. Thanks to all you guys that came out
• 1:31:19
  to the meetup. Thanks to our executive producers
• 1:31:21
  this week. And we'll let Paul go. It was fantastic.
• 1:31:28
  The No ID Film Festival. I know Matt said he
• 1:31:30
  wasn't really here in that capacity, but I wanted
• 1:31:32
  A, it shares our branding and B, it was really
• 1:31:34
  a great time. So thank you, man, for the passes
• 1:31:36
  and thanks for what you've done to organize that
• 1:31:38
  thing. It's freaking awesome. I can't wait to
• 1:31:39
  see what year four has in store next year. Until
• 1:31:41
  next week when we come back for episode 49. Almost
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  at episode 50 from Post Falls, I'm Scott. And
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  I'm Paul. Thanks to Matt for doing the Lord's
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  work and for being on with us. Taxation is theft.
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  I ain't saying a damn thing.