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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. Well, it almost happened
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  again. We almost started doing the show, but
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  this time we caught ourselves and hit the record
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  button. It's North Idaho's mainstream media deconstruction.
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  I'm Scott. Hello internet, I'm Paul. Yeah. Yeah,
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  we almost did it again, but we're getting better
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  at it It only took us a year to figure it out
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  when we get together and start talking We need
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  to just hit the record button immediately Otherwise,
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  we're gonna do 20 minutes of the show without
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  this without the show part It remains to be seen
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  if we can continue to remember that we might
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  just revert next week It's true we are like guppies
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  with short memories, huh? Here is where I'd like
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  to start this week before we get into deconstructing
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  Idaho's mainstream media. Ripe as ever, lots
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  of low -hanging fruit. There's not even any fruit
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  in the middle or the upper part of the tree.
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  It's all just dangling at the ground, getting
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  eaten by squirrels. The freaking media, man.
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  I'd like to go through a couple of last week's
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  drops. and discuss which one should go on the
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  sound board very quickly because this note came
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  in as part of a donation note, which I will read
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  the donation note in our value for value segment
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  where we will describe the model that this program
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  runs on because we don't have advertisers or
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  sponsors or anything. It came in from the agenda
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  archaeologist. So this part of the note I'm reading
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  now. What if the episode's previous sound Sorry,
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  what if the previous episode's sound drops were
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  cataloged at the beginning of the next episode?
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  So you'll see why he's saying that as I read
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  his note later in the show. But I want to start
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  with because we sort of we do that at the end
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  of shows where, you know, we're amused by a bunch
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  of different cuts from that episode. Like, oh,
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  that should go on the soundboard. Sometimes they
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  do. Sometimes they don't. So I pulled a bunch
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  and I like to go through them and have you weigh
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  in. Here is. The first one not the way in me.
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  Yeah We're gonna we're gonna make an executive
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  decision per the agenda archaeologists prompting
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  So here's a new proposal for a new 999 Which
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  would not to supplant this one But just to be
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  Like another version of it and that was up Mike
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  the llama liquor from the the now unemployed
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  Idaho statesman watchdog journalist He had a
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  nine that might work. Well The context was this
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  you go back 20 years or so ago and we had a hundred
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  people in our newsroom that we're gonna have
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  Okay, is that worthy Hmm. I'm on the fence. I
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  know. It sounded really good in context, but
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  then when I isolated the nine, it wasn't quite
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  as good. It's okay. And he's on the phone, which
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  is a little bit annoying, and it is really hard
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  to compete with this guy. You know, the intensity.
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  It is really hard to dethrone the Führer. Where
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  am I missing it here? I have some other ones.
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  It's in 46. Oh, here we go. Okay, here. It's
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  in 46. Here is this one. Deep grunting coming.
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  So there was the deep grunting from the Boise
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  school district settling a lawsuit with a former
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  female and a trans something and there was remember
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  they were in the bathroom and they heard deep
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  grunting coming from one of the stalls. So there's
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  either this one. Deep grunting. Or I this is
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  at this is actually how it sounds like deep grunting
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  coming from the stall but I cut this. Deep grunting
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  coming. Deep grunting coming. Is any of that
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  good, deep grunting? Yeah, I mean deep grunting
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  obviously makes the cut. I was, I was an immediate
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  cut maker. Deep grunting. I'm pretty sure I had
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  a stop so I could say we got to make that one
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  a sound drop. All right, we'll add deep grunting.
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  So yes, as usual, I agree with myself. Here is
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  this one. Pay more for schools. That's from four
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  news. Now is asking Coeur d 'Alene. Just an evergreen
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  evergreen. Yeah. It approves the latest temporary
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  answer to every question that anybody in anybody
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  ever asks. That's you could just use that sound
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  drop for a time or for schools. It's for a temporary.
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  And what are we going to do about this problem?
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  Pay more for school. What about this problem?
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  Pay more for schools. Okay, so that one's going
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  on. Yes. We can't afford housing. What do we
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  do? Pay more for schools. Pay more for schools.
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  Here's this one. That was NPR doing the sheep
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  podcast promo. When the flock cameras observe
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  the sheep of Idaho, this is how NPR hears it.
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  Do we like that? No, I love that one. That one's
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  one of my recent favorites. Pay more. Because
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  just remember, you can shear a sheep many times,
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  but you can only skin him once. OK, here is another
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  one from that same four news now. Coeur d 'Alene
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  School temporary levy again. The district says
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  it needs more money. Yeah, you could tie. You
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  got to tie that one right right into a pay more
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  for schools. Pay more for schools The district
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  says it needs more money. So I don't have these
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  as buttons yet This is all just in waveform because
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  I'm gonna well I'll add them as we decide which
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  one so it's I'm having to sort of skip around
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  here Okay, so that's it. That's a yay how I got
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  two more the district doesn't get enough You'll
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  notice that that one might not make the cut.
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  Yeah. Well, that's it. It starts. It starts to
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  get redundant. So we have to pick the best of
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  the best. Yes. Fair enough. All right. So we'll
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  delete that one. And final one racing your immune
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  system's memory. That's right. That's from a
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  creme channel to and dr. Celine gounder. You
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  know, we got a bus that one out any time Yeah
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  field to the experts experts have said the it's
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  a surge in memory erasing bacteria Erasing your
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  immune system's memory and remember if that's
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  measles is like AIDS. Oh, you can't remember.
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  That's the problem Erasing your immune system's
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  memory. So that's a yay as well That's a yay,
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  okay done these people are the experts So that
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  might be what we just do We just kind of do some
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  housekeeping at the top of the show and just
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  kind of decide what we'll do from what we'll
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  add From last week's episode. Thanks agenda archaeologists
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  for this gesture suggestion. It's a good one
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  Along we get it. Are we thinking of making this
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  a feature of every episode? I know I don't see
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  why not sure. I don't see why not through the
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  menu They're always funny and I always, you know,
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  I don't necessarily need to make a dictatorial
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  declaration for what should be added to the soundboard.
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  This is a democracy. Oh, okay. Well, I'm for
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  it. It's fun. Gives people a chance to revisit
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  some of our favorites. Gives us a chance to revisit
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  some of our favorites. So if we make it a feature
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  of the episode, I'm cool with it. There you go.
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  What do we got to call it though? We got to call
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  it something sound drop in it or something. We
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  got to come up with some catchy name with alliteration
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  because you know me, I'm a sucker for alliteration.
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  I would love suggestions. The agenda archaeologist
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  would be maybe the first person to, if you got
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  a suggestion for what to name that little vignette,
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  that'd be great. You know, I want to reset clean
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  feed. You're still choppy. We could call it a,
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  I'm digging it in honor of the archaeologist.
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  I'm digging it. I like it. Hey, let me, let me
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  reset clean feed, dude. You're still really choppy.
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  I'm not sure why I'm going to reset it. How's
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  that? I don't know. You tell me. Okay, well so
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  clean on my end. Yeah. Okay. I'm glad to hear
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  that so so far better Hopefully that's all it
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  takes. All right. So let's launch into this then
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  as It is right along the lines of the district
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  doesn't get enough and it needs more money and
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  we need more money for schools The Idaho state
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  budget is projected to end the current fiscal
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  year with a larger surplus than lawmakers previously
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  expected. That comes after the state made spending
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  cuts across multiple departments last year. Now
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  new estimates from the Legislative Services Office
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  show the state's financial outlook has improved.
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  When the Idaho legislature wrapped up in April,
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  lawmakers estimated the state would have about
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  $150 million in surplus funds at the end of the
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  fiscal year 2027. But the latest estimate from
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  the Legislative Services Office now puts that
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  number at about six hundred and fifty seven million
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  dollars. That's roughly five hundred and seven
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  million dollars more than the estimate made in
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  April. The latest figures reflect the state's
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  current revenue and spending projections. So
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  there's so the experts whose immune systems have
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  been erased by raw milk. It turns out they can't
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  estimate for jack crap. What is that like a nine
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  million percent error? It's big else. Also, speaking
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  of short memories, do you remember how early
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  in the session, so we're talking February, March,
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  they couldn't shut up about how we were facing
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  dire financial straits. And of course it was
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  all the mean, mean, mean old conservative Republicans
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  faults for not spending enough money on education
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  and health care. And that's why we were in the
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  hole. These cuts are killing people. Literally.
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  Literally. That's all we heard. Literally killing
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  people to the tune of a half a million dollar,
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  half a billion dollar surplus. That sounds like
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  total death to me. Man, it's a good thing these
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  people are in charge. It's a good thing they're
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  so much smarter than us, huh, Scott? So not only
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  can they extract maximum dollar from us and celebrate
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  the fact that they've extracted maximum dollar
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  for us, but they never will stop complaining
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  about how it's not enough while they're extracting
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  maximum dollar from us. And they're wrong about
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  how much they got from us. Here's another one
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  that I missed. Governor Brad Little has ordered
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  state officials to keep spending. Remember that
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  one? There's another one from last show. Yeah,
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  keep spending. What we ought to do is, you know
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  what we ought to do for our one year anniversary,
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  which is coming up, by the way, we ought to just
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  do a two hour long super cut of all of these
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  sound drops that all revolve around the experts
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  and spending and memory erasing viruses and just
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  super cut a whole two hour thing together. And
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  then you and I don't say a word. We just put
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  this on for our anniversary and. Just see if
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  anybody notices a trend. We need this money.
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  Is that I think it's a lot of rebel. We need
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  this money. They need money. We need this money.
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  That's all we heard is how desperately which.
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  But did you hear what they said? What the report
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  said, though? When the Idaho legislature wrapped
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  up in April, lawmakers estimated the state would
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  have about $150 million in surplus funds at the
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  end. So that was still all of the, we need money
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  and there's no money and the district needs more
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  money and we can't keep spending on the more
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  money. That was all still based on $157 million
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  estimated surplus? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, is there
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  any universe I mean to be fair back into our
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  pockets or I mean am I just living on a planet
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  planet redic I mean obviously that's a rhetorical
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  and ridiculous question. What are you new here
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  first day? I Remember my first time. Oh my god
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  It was grunting I guess in their defense though
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  a five hundred and something million dollar extra.
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  So it's actually like a six million and seventy
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  something dollar surplus, but they were off by
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  a mere five hundred and something million. To
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  be fair to them, that's only three and a half
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  post fall city budgets. That's all you're right.
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  So it's not very much money. You know, when you
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  measure it in post fall city budgets, it's actually
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  it's almost bankruptcy. It's tiny. You're completely
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  right. You know what we need to do? Let's remove
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  all the gates from all the snowplows in the entire
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  state. We don't have enough money for the state
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  snowplows to have gates. We need this money.
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  We have sort of a problem here. It's only three
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  and a half Post Falls budget's worth. I mean,
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  honestly, would you say it like that? It sounds
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  so small. There's there's also this way Wait,
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  there's this this the awkward laugh from the
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  the poor lady who had her who had code enforcement
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  shut down her What was her Sasquatch snack stand
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  down in southern Idaho her awkward laugh? That
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  one is on there, too Oh, that's got us. That's
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  that has to yeah that also makes the cut. These
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  are just gold We just had a solid lineup this
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  week They're not all gonna make the cut like
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  they did this week, but this week was solid lineups
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  put another way just to make it, you know, so
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  that you understand Scott, how trivial and petty
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  we're being about this half a billion dollar
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  fuck up. It's only $262 per man, woman and child
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  in Idaho. That's it. That's all it is. Nothing.
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  It's nothing. It just, you know, which divided
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  by or a multiply times five for me, for my household,
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  which is a household of five is about $1 ,300,
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  give or take 1250. 1300 because it's 262 per
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  man, woman and child. So what is that? Hey, they
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  could give me a 1300 dollar refund. It would
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  cover half of my property taxes. But don't worry,
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  when they're taking it from us, it's only three
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  percent. When we're cutting them back, it's an
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  apocalyptic point eight percent. Don't ever forget.
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  These cuts are killing people. Literally. Literally.
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  You shouldn't have to pay tax to breathe. And
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  yet here we are. But my roads. What about my
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  roads? So you love potholes. Shut up and take
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  my money. Yeah. That's right. That's right. We
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  shouldn't have to pay to breathe, but we're going
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  to do it anyways because when you angle roads
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  like that. Shut up and take my money. Let's pick
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  our road we yeah Let's do Well, I guess we could
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  do Traff now, let's forget traffic. Let's do
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  the the guns verse hjr4 thing the article that
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  you said yes, yes So I have a bunch of I have
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  that shit dialed up go right ahead It's so good
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  and then I got lots of audio for it Okay, so
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  I'm gonna credit Wayne Hoffman for juxtaposing
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  the two things against each other in a way that
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  I hadn't thought to do so, even though like I
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  knew it, but I didn't put it down on paper the
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  way my friend Wayne Hoffman, who a former, he
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  is the founder of Idaho Freedom Foundation and
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  the former, of course, what would it be? Chairman,
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  I guess, president CEO of it. He stopped doing
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  that stuff about four or five, six years ago.
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  Now he's working on a... thing called level up
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  humanity, I'm on the board of it. It's a, it's
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  a total reframing of the way we look at humanity
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  in general, basically, it's a lot of like, what
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  if we didn't do what the government said? And
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  what if we didn't bind ourselves to this idea
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  that without the state, everything would be awful?
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  Because actually, it's with the state, everything
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  is awful. But I digress, Wayne puts out a great
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  email every couple of days. And one came down
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  the pipe where he juxtaposed these two things
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  that reveal the absolute lunacy of the matrix
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  in which we live. In Idaho, on one side, you
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  have HJR4, House Joint Resolution Four, which
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  is a ballot initiative that's going to be on
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  the ballot in November, this November in Idaho,
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  where the voters get to decide whether or not
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  to restrict their own rights. Basically, it's
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  a it's regarding the legalization of basically
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  any non FDA regulated drug at this point, because
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  they didn't stop at marijuana, of course. Oh,
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  no, no, no, it's anything. So psychedelic psychosilabin,
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  any anything that's basically not your over the
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  counter for your pharma approved, sponsored by
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  Pfizer drug, psilocybin be completely psilocybin.
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  Thank you. Well, yeah, you can tell what I do
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  and I don't do here. So basically what it does
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  is it gives the legislature exclusive power to
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  legalize or criminalize all of these drugs that
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  are considered basically not pharmaceutical approved,
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  not FDA approved. What's the word I'm looking
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  for, Scott? They're black market drugs. There's
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  another term for it, but illicit substances.
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  You mean the runs that are run by the cartel?
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  They're very good at masking themselves as a
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  legitimate private entity. And then when you
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  really pull everything back and you pull these
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  layers back, you realize who you're dealing with.
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  You're dealing with the cartel. Right. And they're
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  pushing drugs. Well, the question is which cartel
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  here? Because you have Pfizer and all of them
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  on the one side, which are also a cartel. What
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  about Idaho state liquor? What would you call
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  that? Oh, that's a cartel as well. Well, that's
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  why that's the it's government run. So it's the
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  biggest cartel of all. Whoa, psychoactive substances.
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  Okay. Cheech. Yeah, ironically enough, the cartel
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  that they tell us to be the most afraid of is
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  the one that actually hurts us the least and
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  may actually provide useful goods and services.
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  But that's a conversation for another time, I
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  suppose. Anyways, what it does is H .J. House
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  Joint Resolution Four is a ballot initiative
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  whereby voters can vote less rights for themselves
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  and give the legislature exclusive power in Idaho
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  to regulate, legalize or criminalize or decriminalize.
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  illicit drugs and substances. So the idea is
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  to basically make it impossible to have a ballot
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  initiative in Idaho to legalize marijuana. That's
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  the main gist of this. That is the main point,
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  because they are afraid that at some point in
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  the near future, as has happened in other states,
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  it will be legalized. In fact, Idaho is like,
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  I think, one of two states left in the entire
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  country. There's only a couple of states left,
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  and Idaho is one of them. I can actually, I don't
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  know. Why don't you look it up for me, Scott?
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  It's one of only two or three states in the entire
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  country where there is not seasonal use or full
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  recreational use, but Idaho is one of the only
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  holdouts left. Let's ask the robot. What other
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  states besides Idaho still don't allow for any
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  sort of marijuana? Let me check that. Okay as
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  of September 2026 if you mean states with no
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  medical program or recreational legalization
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  the list is Idaho Georgia Indiana Iowa Kansas
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  North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Wisconsin
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  and Wyoming With the big caveat that some of
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  those have very limited low THC or CBD programs.
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  So that distinction, well no, that distinction
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  matters, I guess, because Idaho, all of that
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  is illegal. So that is a distinction with a difference,
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  it does matter. In Idaho, Idaho is one of two
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  states where there are no THC or CBD exemptions,
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  Kansas being the other one. Marijuana is completely
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  100 % illegal in every shape, way, and form.
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  And they're one of two states where there's no
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  exemptions for any of it. And there's only four
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  states with total marijuana bans. That's Idaho,
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  Kansas, Indiana, Nebraska. Even Ohio has exemptions.
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  Gray area states, which are considered restrictive
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  states, but you can have low THC products or
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  medical THC oil. Uh, products and programs, uh,
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  Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina,
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  Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming, all have exemptions
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  for those low level stuff. I look, I was looking
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  it up same time as you, because I don't, because
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  Chauncey is shit, man. You keep consulting Chauncey,
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  but we get better answers with just the plain
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  old Google machine, man. You want to do anyways,
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  the point is I was right. Idaho is one of two
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  states where everything is illegal. Again, that's
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  groundhog day. again and hjr4 will make it so
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  that the people us we don't get a say well we
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  get a say right now and the vote that's coming
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  up is us getting a say on whether or not we ever
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  get a say again Yeah, no, man. It's like every
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  election cycle. Oh, dude. Here's here's. So I
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  can go ahead. So I was going to play Idaho. No,
• 22:02
  you go ahead. Illustrating what you're what you're
• 22:05
  describing here, what this proposal is all about,
• 22:07
  what they're proposing we take away from ourselves.
• 22:10
  this november, Idaho vot to vote on whether the
• 22:13
  le should have the exclusive things like marijuana
• 22:18
  and would block the ability to create ballot
• 22:22
  initiati Riley Shoemaker and I put So now she's
• 22:32
  as you hear from that nap she's now on the and
• 22:35
  I asked a lawmaker why the lawmakers who stand
• 22:38
  to gain more power from this support this Okay,
• 22:42
  but yeah the lawmakers who are super against
• 22:44
  like psychoactive Intoxicants, but they get can't
• 22:48
  campaign contributions from Pfizer and Moderna
• 22:50
  those those lawmakers Well, yeah, which is ironic
• 22:53
  as power is one hell of a drug shows you that
• 22:59
  Riley sho streets of downtown Boise board. Right
• 23:05
  now, Idaho can gather signatures to p on the
• 23:09
  ballot, including or other psychoactive sub resolution
• 23:15
  four would cha the ability for citizens the,
• 23:20
  she's written the lang on this on this dry eras
• 23:26
  read it, you know, like, clear, remove the ability
• 23:30
  state statute statutes tha substances. If it
• 23:38
  passes would have the authority a no vote would
• 23:43
  keep the c We showed voters the ling not necessarily
• 23:51
  confusing. I mean it seems pretty clear and I
• 23:54
  would probably vote for the citizens, but not
• 23:57
  everyone found it clear. I think the language
• 23:59
  is confusing. People are a proper representation
• 24:02
  of what people think. So yeah, it should be up
• 24:04
  to people that is confusing. Yes, I do think
• 24:08
  that it should be up to up to the people. August
• 24:10
  Seymour came to a different conclusion. I feel
• 24:12
  like definitely it should be held to it like
• 24:14
  a higher power. Therefore it can be more moderated.
• 24:18
  Did you hear that? I want my glorious Supreme
• 24:20
  Chalupa leaders to decide this for me. A higher
• 24:22
  power. Like God. They are God. Unbelievable.
• 24:28
  We can't do this. We need a higher power. It's
• 24:32
  really something. The truth always wants to come
• 24:34
  out. He stumbled, too. Did you hear? He almost
• 24:39
  says, like, wait, did that really just come flying
• 24:40
  out of my mouth? Like a higher power, therefore
• 24:43
  it can be more moderated. So then it's not just
• 24:46
  anybody making that decision. I want us to hold
• 24:48
  the line. So it's not just anybody. No, not us.
• 24:51
  No, no, no, no, no. The god kings make the decisions.
• 24:55
  This is our fellow citizens. He was also wearing
• 24:59
  six masks. He wasn't, but he might as well. Higher
• 25:04
  power, therefore it can be more moderated. So
• 25:07
  then it's not just anybody making that decision.
• 25:10
  That might be a sound drop right there. Which
• 25:13
  one? It's all gold. Which one? Higher power.
• 25:18
  It's a little garbled when you do just that.
• 25:22
  That's true. Out of context, but whatever. In
• 25:26
  context, it's fabulous. Therefore it can be more
• 25:29
  moderated. This is why we deconstruct the mainstream
• 25:32
  media because it's so Illustrative of what's
• 25:35
  going on in how in what's being presented to
• 25:38
  everybody and then how it makes their brains
• 25:41
  work This guy thinks that I would other higher
• 25:44
  powers in the government should make decisions
• 25:46
  for him. That's what he's saying Yeah. Yeah,
• 25:50
  I would also say that it's illuminating for exactly
• 25:54
  that reason what you just mentioned is in the
• 25:58
  way that the COVID crazy showed us how many of
• 26:01
  our neighbors were actually insane, breaking
• 26:04
  down the mainstream media and watching other
• 26:07
  people as they react to it and what they do or
• 26:11
  don't do or what they think or don't think it's
• 26:13
  very illuminating. And it's just like, you sit
• 26:16
  there and you wonder and all the armchair quarterbacks
• 26:20
  today, Or like, if Hitler came to power, I'd
• 26:23
  never join him. I hate to break it to you, but
• 26:26
  you already have. It just looks a little different.
• 26:30
  But the effect is the same. There's so much future
• 26:32
  tense being used. Like, you know, if we're not
• 26:35
  careful, we're going to lose our liberties. Like,
• 26:38
  OK. Oh, bad. I don't even know where to start.
• 26:44
  And by the way, you know, I meant to mention
• 26:45
  this earlier before we continue on with this
• 26:47
  clip. The notion, you know, I I've heard a little
• 26:51
  bit of this feedback and I know it's a it's a
• 26:53
  popular sentiment amongst the You guys are wild
• 26:56
  -eyed nutjobs with your nonsense world that can
• 26:58
  never possibly exist. What's the point? What
• 27:00
  do you like potholes? You know, I mean if people
• 27:03
  thought that way about any like movement that
• 27:07
  made the world better in the past, it never would
• 27:10
  have happened. Like, can you imagine going back
• 27:12
  to like 1684? What's the point of even discussing
• 27:15
  chattel slavery, you stupid idealists? Like,
• 27:19
  it's never going to change, man. There's no point.
• 27:21
  This is a waste of time. Like, it's the world
• 27:23
  that exists. There's nothing you can do about
• 27:25
  it. And it's legal. It's legal. Exactly. So,
• 27:28
  you know, what do you fight? You're fighting
• 27:29
  City Hall. What are you doing? And besides, if
• 27:31
  we get rid of the slaves, who's going to build
• 27:33
  the roads? Who will pick the cotton? There is
• 27:41
  something to be said about like attempting to
• 27:45
  make a tiny mark of your own on the zeitgeist
• 27:48
  such that eventually maybe the zeitgeist will
• 27:51
  change and then the macro change can take place.
• 27:53
  I don't know. It just seems like such a defeatist
• 27:55
  way to frame thinking about stuff. What's the
• 27:58
  point? I don't know. What's the point of anything?
• 28:01
  Sometimes things change. They can and they do
• 28:07
  Yeah All right, let's continue on here. Therefore,
• 28:10
  it can be more moderated so that it's not just
• 28:13
  anybody making that decision. I want us to hold
• 28:15
  the line right where we're at. Representative
• 28:17
  Bruce Gogg helped lead H .J .R. 4 through the
• 28:19
  House. He argues drug policy should be excluded
• 28:22
  from the initiative process because large financial
• 28:25
  interests can influence signature gathering campaigns.
• 28:28
  Unlike any other topic or industry. What does
• 28:35
  that not apply to? What does that not apply to?
• 28:38
  That's what I'm saying. No, no, it was cool when
• 28:40
  King Ag was dumping money into all of the primary
• 28:43
  elections. But now that we're talking about drugs,
• 28:46
  we can't be having drug money influencing elections,
• 28:50
  even though it's on the one side of it. You know,
• 28:52
  Pfizer is dumping and whoever else, you know,
• 28:55
  all of the other pharmaceuticals that I don't
• 28:57
  know. They're all dumping money into this, you
• 29:00
  know which way they're pushing. Merck, GlaxoSmithKline,
• 29:04
  Moderna. I mean, that's just like off the top
• 29:07
  of my head, there's a billion of them. The logic
• 29:11
  here, the argument is basically that if we don't
• 29:14
  take rights away from the voters, from the people,
• 29:17
  if we don't centralize power into our hands,
• 29:20
  then a lot of money could get dumped into this
• 29:23
  issue. That's what he said. He argues drug policy
• 29:28
  should be excluded from the initiative process
• 29:30
  because large financial interests can influence
• 29:33
  signature gathering campaigns. That's what the
• 29:36
  reporter summarized. But then here, here's his
• 29:39
  words. Here, the big drug money comes in are
• 29:41
  those who are likely to make a lot of money.
• 29:43
  We saw that in the attempt to get marijuana on
• 29:45
  the ballot, three and a half or three point two
• 29:47
  million dollars spent on that to get signatures.
• 29:50
  And they almost did it, even though Idaho has
• 29:53
  been very strong against marijuana and other
• 29:55
  drugs. keep the big money, the cartels, keep
• 29:58
  that money out. So we can't, yeah, of course
• 30:02
  that doesn't include Idaho state liquor. That
• 30:06
  cartel will remain intact and in fact will remain
• 30:09
  the only game in town with regard to psychoactive
• 30:12
  intoxicants. I'm Bruce Scott. King Ag, no big
• 30:16
  deal. King State Liquor, no big deal. The quote
• 30:20
  unquote education. I hate that word because it's
• 30:22
  not education. It's indoctrination. But the indoctrination
• 30:25
  cartel, that's cool. But marijuana, we can't
• 30:31
  be having that weed money. You know, if we didn't
• 30:36
  take rights away from the voters, we might have
• 30:39
  the wrong kind of money dumped into the wrong
• 30:41
  kind of political campaign. That's the coolest
• 30:43
  fucking story I've ever heard in my entire life.
• 30:45
  That's insane. Can I hear it again? Do you have
• 30:47
  time? So we want to keep the big money, the cartels,
• 30:50
  keep that money out. The cartels! The cartels.
• 30:55
  The cartels! They're very good at masking themselves.
• 30:59
  Let this be our weekly friendly reminder. The
• 31:03
  government is the biggest, most violent cartel
• 31:06
  on planet Earth. And it's not that they don't
• 31:10
  like... the things that they're engaged in. It's
• 31:13
  just that they don't like competition. They love
• 31:16
  drugs, they love booze, they love gambling, they
• 31:19
  love all the things that make them money and
• 31:21
  keep you stupid. They're immoral! They just don't
• 31:24
  like... They just don't like competition. Skog
• 31:29
  pointed to cities like Portland, Oregon, where
• 31:31
  drug decriminalization policies have been controversial,
• 31:35
  arguing Idaho should not follow the same path.
• 31:37
  You know, we have another actually example to
• 31:41
  add. This is the only two things that can come
• 31:43
  up with the roads and Portland, the road and
• 31:46
  Portland arguing Idaho when all else fails, you
• 31:49
  just. Go. You don't want to be like Portland,
• 31:52
  do you? Portland. Idaho should not follow the
• 31:54
  same path. The damage is done very quickly once
• 31:57
  illegal drugs are legalized. It destroys lives,
• 32:01
  destroys families. House Joint Resolution Four
• 32:03
  will be determined on Election Day this November.
• 32:06
  Reporting at the State Capitol. OK, yeah, whatever
• 32:07
  you say, you freaking teetotaler. So don't legalize
• 32:10
  psychoactive intoxicants. So then no booze, right?
• 32:13
  Is he for prohibition? Yeah. Your first crusade
• 32:17
  should be banning booze immediately or maybe
• 32:21
  that's your second crusade. Your first crusade
• 32:22
  should be banning all opioids, all painkillers,
• 32:27
  opioids in particular. You got to ban it. It
• 32:30
  ruins lives. It's hell on your kidneys and liver.
• 32:33
  It's addictive. It's expensive. And it's run
• 32:36
  by the second or third largest cartel on the
• 32:39
  planet, the pharmaceutical cartel. So if that's
• 32:42
  what we're afraid of, what are we waiting for?
• 32:46
  It's just like when people talk about safety
• 32:48
  and deaths and like, oh, you know deaths deaths
• 32:51
  deaths and I go alright Well, if we really cared
• 32:53
  if we were like just anything to save one life,
• 32:56
  we would ban cars today We would ban cars today
• 33:01
  Ban them if everything we do saves just one life
• 33:07
  I'll be happy. So no more cars in awesome No
• 33:10
  more banning cars. You know what? Hey, they did
• 33:12
  try this, though. You know, they told us to stay
• 33:14
  in our houses. Stay in the house. It's true.
• 33:18
  It's true. I guess that's step number one to
• 33:20
  banning cars, because then after that, it's like,
• 33:22
  well, you can't leave your home, so you don't
• 33:24
  need your car. That's right. Well, right. And
• 33:27
  the fuel is going to be so expensive anyway,
• 33:28
  you're not going to be able to afford it. And
• 33:30
  thus sayeth the higher powers that are making
• 33:32
  decisions for you. Oh, thank God we gave that
• 33:36
  power to a higher power. We can't just have anybody
• 33:38
  doing it. Yeah, it has to be moderated by somebody
• 33:41
  smarter than me. Okay, there's a couple more
• 33:44
  here and it all ties into the the choice that
• 33:47
  our benevolent higher powers are giving us. We're
• 33:50
  working towards an overarching point here. We
• 33:52
  really are. We're taking the scenic route as
• 33:54
  we like to do. This is 35 seconds and it's a
• 33:58
  clip from our homeboys at the North Idaho Experience
• 34:01
  who are all like former law enforcement, former
• 34:04
  military, and this is a brief vignette from their
• 34:07
  discussion on this matter. I think it was from
• 34:08
  a couple few months ago. Idaho's 2026 ballot
• 34:11
  has two opposing laws. It was actually before,
• 34:14
  because that was when they were still going to
• 34:16
  try to get the legalized medical, but that failed.
• 34:21
  You know legalizes. They couldn't get enough
• 34:23
  signatures couldn't get enough right exactly
• 34:25
  what 20 ,000 short The the estimate was that
• 34:27
  they were gonna have 18 million, but it turned
• 34:30
  out that they only got 52 ,000 So you just don't
• 34:32
  have that not that very good at estimating on
• 34:34
  it The other makes it impossible to ever vote
• 34:36
  on it again. We're talking about Marijuana the
• 34:40
  devil's lettuce marijuana and potentially coming
• 34:42
  to Idaho. Is that a big deal? There is a correlation.
• 34:45
  I don't know if it's the marijuana specifically
• 34:47
  I don't know what it is. Hopefully we can hash
• 34:49
  some of that out today, but there's a Correlation
• 34:51
  between legalizing drugs and the a state sliding
• 34:56
  downward into law enforcement in Idaho It's such
• 35:03
  a tired trope and if you look at it in any sort
• 35:06
  of intelligent way It's the other way around
• 35:09
  it's they're getting the whole chicken before
• 35:11
  the egg thing wrong here. They're like drugs
• 35:13
  drugs are what did it? They're what turned every
• 35:15
  state gay Sorry to burst your bubble, guys, but
• 35:20
  every state that's done it good and hard, full
• 35:23
  legalization, which I think is only like two,
• 35:25
  Oregon was one of them for sure, already was
• 35:28
  chock full of decay, corruption, 30 years of
• 35:33
  Democrat control. And they already were super
• 35:37
  gay, metaphorically and literally, before drug
• 35:41
  legalization. One beget the other, but not the
• 35:45
  way that people in Idaho think. It's so ridiculous,
• 35:48
  too, because all it takes is five minutes of
• 35:52
  sitting down, taking a deep breath, and looking
• 35:53
  at, I don't know, just reality and political
• 35:58
  history of Oregon. We'll just key in on Oregon,
• 36:02
  because that's the state of the election. Portland
• 36:03
  is a place that lost its mind in the early 90s
• 36:08
  politically and philosophically and ideologically.
• 36:11
  Portland has been a leftist hellscape. or utopia
• 36:14
  depending on your perspective for 40 years and
• 36:19
  it had it began its slide in the early 90s so
• 36:24
  it wasn't like they didn't you know they didn't
• 36:25
  legalize drugs until the late or the early 2020s
• 36:30
  right so one begat the other but not but in reverse
• 36:34
  order compared to what everybody in Idaho likes
• 36:37
  to think it's so ridiculous so yeah so yeah if
• 36:40
  you have a system or a systemic decay and corruption
• 36:45
  and, you know, 50 years of unabated Democrat
• 36:49
  control and all of their policies that ensue.
• 36:53
  Well, drugs are no drugs. It's a hellscape. Drugs
• 36:57
  just sort of like help it help it look even worse.
• 37:03
  But legalizing drugs didn't turn Portland into
• 37:05
  a hellscape. Portland already was a hellscape.
• 37:07
  And then they just put a little whipped cream
• 37:08
  and a cherry on top. I felt really gay last night.
• 37:12
  Oh dude, Dan Guggen would love Portland. Come
• 37:14
  over for a gay time. So many failing art galleries
• 37:19
  for him to trounce around in. Here's the last
• 37:23
  part of this clip from North Idaho Experience
• 37:25
  so you can hear how other, in many ways, liberty
• 37:29
  -minded North Idaho guys still think about some
• 37:33
  elements of liberty that they, I guess, find
• 37:35
  personally distasteful or they think is going
• 37:37
  to lead to X or et cetera. Well, you got a couple
• 37:40
  of things going on there. These dudes are former
• 37:41
  law enforcement. So there's strike number one.
• 37:44
  So you already know the way they're going to
• 37:45
  think about almost everything anyways, even if
• 37:47
  they claim to be for liberty. And number two
• 37:50
  is they're they're the you know, and I'm sure
• 37:52
  they're good dudes. And I'm actually hoping we
• 37:53
  can get on their show and really rile shit up.
• 37:56
  And that would be so much fun. I'd love to do
• 37:58
  it. And I'm sure we'll be we'll be mostly good
• 38:01
  friends. afterwards and before, but they still
• 38:03
  are also a part of that tropey, conservative
• 38:06
  -ish crowd that are like, well, I'm all for rights,
• 38:09
  but, and it's like, I'm all for freedom, but,
• 38:12
  it's like, yep, no, you're not. There is no qualifier
• 38:15
  there. Outside of the NAP, the non -aggression
• 38:18
  principle, which is very clear cut, because that's
• 38:20
  natural rights, that's don't hurt people, don't
• 38:23
  take their stuff. That's natural law, natural
• 38:27
  rights. Outside of that, because that's, that's
• 38:30
  the but part other than that though there are
• 38:32
  no buts no buts it's freedom or you don't believe
• 38:35
  in freedom the only time the freedom quote unquote
• 38:37
  stops is if you hurt other people then no you
• 38:40
  don't you don't have the freedom to do that because
• 38:42
  that's a violation of natural law but yeah these
• 38:44
  dudes are classic you know conservatives where
• 38:47
  they're like well i'm for less government until
• 38:49
  i'm for more government when it's the thing i
• 38:51
  don't like Being in law enforcement in Idaho,
• 38:55
  we were very aggressive with even marijuana,
• 38:57
  right? Right? Right? Right? Right? One of four
• 38:59
  states that it's not just illegal. Ruining people's
• 39:01
  lives. One of four states that it's not just
• 39:03
  illegal, but it's also criminalized here in the
• 39:05
  state The fact is is that weed you know with
• 39:08
  the argument for for marijuana is not for enjoyment
• 39:11
  It's a medical argument. That's what's been going
• 39:14
  on throughout the United States for years It
• 39:15
  has a medicinal purpose because we are a society
• 39:18
  that more is better and like you said What's
• 39:20
  the next way to get more high? That's where the
• 39:23
  problem comes in and people that are doing that
• 39:25
  are not doing that because oh, okay cool They
• 39:27
  can't sleep now do opioids Now do alcohol yeah,
• 39:32
  see that's not do gambling where it like So at
• 39:36
  Liberty, and I'm actually not even sure what
• 39:38
  this is, Dave. I'm not even sure what Dave is
• 39:39
  necessarily arguing here. It's 10 more seconds.
• 39:41
  Let him finish and then we'll try to decipher
• 39:43
  what it is he's even saying. And this is also
• 39:45
  from a short. So this is it's it's cut a lot,
• 39:47
  although this is how they cut it. So I'm not
• 39:49
  sure what point they're even driving at. But
• 39:51
  here it is. That's where the problem comes in.
• 39:53
  And people that are doing that are not doing
• 39:54
  that because they have back pain or they can't
• 39:56
  sleep well. It gets abused. And this is a problem
• 39:59
  that you see with drugs across the country. I
• 40:01
  mean, honestly, we're voluntarily giving up our
• 40:04
  rights. citizens to make these laws. What about
• 40:06
  heroin? What about, what about methamphetamine?
• 40:09
  What if they wanted to do something like that?
• 40:11
  They could, and it would not take the vote of
• 40:12
  the people. So I'm not even like, so in other
• 40:15
  words, we should have the right to decide taken
• 40:18
  away or we shouldn't. I it's not even clear to
• 40:21
  me what points making maybe he's not even sure
• 40:22
  himself. I don't even know what the why it even
• 40:26
  matters what the topic is, who even cares what
• 40:29
  any of this stuff is about. Should the citizens
• 40:31
  be able to decide X? The answer is just how could
• 40:33
  it be anything but yes? Why do you want overlords
• 40:36
  making decisions for you? Insert topic here.
• 40:40
  And the answer is it should be up to the individual.
• 40:44
  I mean, we're talking about you and I right now
• 40:46
  are talking about ballot initiatives where people
• 40:48
  get to vote. for themselves more rights or fewer
• 40:52
  rights or whatever, but these are civil rights
• 40:55
  even, we're talking about. And civil rights don't
• 40:57
  really exist. Civil rights are something the
• 40:59
  government can take away from you at any time
• 41:00
  and do often. Like the right to vote, that's
• 41:02
  not a natural right, that's a civil right. You
• 41:05
  don't have a natural right to vote. Voting is
• 41:07
  just, the government says, yeah, you're allowed
• 41:09
  to have a say in this because you're welcome,
• 41:11
  peasants. Natural rights are like, you know,
• 41:14
  you have the right to prosper. You have the right
• 41:16
  to your own self -ownership of your body. You
• 41:19
  have the right to property. You have the right
• 41:21
  to not be killed. Those are natural rights. So
• 41:24
  that's an important distinction. But ultimately
• 41:28
  it gets even further down than voting as a group
• 41:34
  of people to give or deny the legislature more
• 41:38
  power. If people thought about it the way you
• 41:42
  and I think about it, Scott, we wouldn't even
• 41:43
  be having these conversations, which I guess
• 41:46
  would put us out of a job. But it's, should it
• 41:49
  be up to the individual to live their life the
• 41:51
  way they choose peacefully? And the answer should
• 41:55
  always be yes. And that's what makes us, I guess,
• 42:00
  just wild -eyed kooks. I don't know how that
• 42:03
  makes me a kook. It's wild to me. I'm soapboxing
• 42:07
  here, but it's just like, but here we are. Literally
• 42:10
  debating about whether or not a group of people
• 42:13
  can vote to take more of my rights away Which
• 42:17
  is government in a nutshell when you think about
• 42:18
  it Here this is the last part that I'll play
• 42:22
  and then we'll do the guns part which the the
• 42:24
  Infantilization part of this hat the hey look
• 42:26
  over here guns guns and drugs here. This is actually
• 42:29
  from a year ago Here is Senator James, is it
• 42:33
  Rucktee? I should have actually looked that up.
• 42:35
  That's stupid of me. Rucktee, Rucktee, Senator
• 42:38
  James Rucktee. I don't know. I've never actually
• 42:39
  heard. I've never heard his name pronounced.
• 42:41
  So I know who you're talking about, but I've
• 42:43
  never heard his name pronounced. Again, so he's
• 42:45
  a he's a Democrat down in Pocatello. And this
• 42:48
  is him speaking on H .J .R. for, like I said
• 42:51
  a year ago. I don't see how you can't logically
• 42:54
  conclude that the legislature thereby believes
• 42:58
  it can do the same thing for. alcohol, and I
• 43:03
  just don't think that's what the people want.
• 43:06
  They really don't need the legislature to babysit
• 43:09
  them on this. I mean, the people are smart. They're
• 43:13
  intuitive. They figure this stuff out. They can
• 43:16
  decide whether marijuana needs to stay illegal
• 43:19
  or become legal. The arguments can be made. You
• 43:23
  can go to the people and I mean such overwhelming
• 43:27
  testimony here today certainly that would convince
• 43:31
  anybody that is open to those arguments and you
• 43:37
  should be able to make those arguments in the
• 43:39
  marketplace of ideas. But this is a very undemocratic
• 43:43
  concept to just remove this particular issue
• 43:45
  from being able to be debated by the people in
• 43:48
  the marketplace of ideas. If you're that confident
• 43:51
  in your argument and the data that supports it.
• 43:56
  Let's have the discussion. But a prohibition
• 44:00
  on what the people are smart or are thoughtful
• 44:04
  enough to understand. Boy, that that just rings
• 44:10
  hollow to me. So I'll be voting against this.
• 44:14
  Mother of God. So we actually have a politician
• 44:19
  saying something sensical for a change. I'm going
• 44:22
  to give him credit for that. However, it's only
• 44:27
  because he's pro marijuana. It's because it's
• 44:30
  a topic that he agrees with. It's still about
• 44:32
  the topic. Correct. It's still about the topic.
• 44:34
  Cool, Senator Ruckie. That's awesome. Thank you
• 44:37
  for not being a total chode this one time. Now
• 44:40
  do taxes. Do property taxes. Do state indoctrination
• 44:45
  camps that we're forced to fund. Do gas taxes.
• 44:49
  Do registration fees. Do cutting back on Medicaid
• 44:54
  expansion, which we should have never done in
• 44:56
  the first place. We never should have done Medicaid
• 44:58
  expansion in the first place because it will
• 45:00
  eventually bankrupt the state. Do scratch ticket.
• 45:04
  Let's legalize poker next, huh? It's time. It's
• 45:08
  so time to decriminalize poker. Let's do any
• 45:12
  of those. Isn't it interesting though? So that's
• 45:16
  what I'm talking about, Scott. And you and I
• 45:17
  know it, we see it every day. And this is how
• 45:21
  I end up having very few friends. Because living
• 45:25
  the life of a libertarian is basically like,
• 45:28
  you know, somebody will hear me dumping on Trump
• 45:31
  and they'll be like, yeah, blah, blah, blah,
• 45:33
  Kamala Harris or Biden. And I'll spin around
• 45:34
  and be like, I don't remember asking you a goddamn
• 45:37
  thing. Shut up, Democrat. You're next. Like you're
• 45:42
  just as bad Yeah, just because I'm critical.
• 45:47
  Yeah, both sides suck. You're all terrible It's
• 45:49
  extremely effective had the the the infighting
• 45:52
  that the higher powers get us to do amongst ourselves
• 45:55
  Oh, if you're you're saying bad about team red,
• 45:58
  you must be blue and vice versa. Uh -huh Well,
• 46:02
  it's like the those guys that we got into a kind
• 46:05
  of got into a conversation with on my Facebook
• 46:06
  thread a couple of days ago that I got to follow
• 46:09
  back up on. I haven't been on Facebook in about
• 46:10
  four days. But that's four days. When I get on
• 46:13
  there and I criticize the Trump administration
• 46:15
  and I criticize Republicans, which I do all the
• 46:17
  time, he shows up and is immediately like, yeah,
• 46:22
  Democrats slop. Blur to blur. Left is bullshit.
• 46:25
  And I'm like, whoa, hold on. Like, you're wrong,
• 46:28
  too. You are so wrong and and wildly incoherent
• 46:31
  yourself. Dude, you're just excited because you're
• 46:34
  like, yeah, Team Blue. Screw Team Red. I'm like,
• 46:39
  oh, no, buddy. Just no. You're worse, actually,
• 46:44
  but not by much. OK, so then we ultimately get
• 46:47
  to the Marodes thing. what we can now we cannot
• 46:51
  the higher powers need to take away our ability
• 46:54
  to make decisions on that and they don't want
• 46:57
  our input and in fact we're not allowed to give
• 46:58
  our input if they have their druthers what they
• 47:01
  do need our input on what they are in desperate
• 47:04
  need of our opinion on is this extremely crucial
• 47:08
  and just existential, even I don't want to overstate
• 47:12
  the case, a topic with regard to Idaho and its
• 47:14
  future. I want you to just forget the candidates
• 47:16
  for a second. I know voters will pick the state's
• 47:20
  official gun this November. It's actually one
• 47:25
  of several statewide ballot questions that voters
• 47:28
  will see in November. This one is an advisory
• 47:31
  ballot question created by the legislature. It's
• 47:34
  not a citizen initiative and it's meant to designate
• 47:43
  an official state symbol, similar to the state
• 47:45
  bird or state flower. So while other ballot measures
• 47:48
  could affect state policy, this one's just about
• 47:50
  choosing a symbol. What do you think it should
• 47:53
  be, Paul? I don't know. How many choices do we
• 48:02
  have? Well There's uh, let's see there's the
• 48:07
  the the cannon mounted to the m1 Abrams. I think
• 48:10
  that's on the list I think and I wonder a Sidewinder
• 48:16
  missile. I'm pretty sure is on there What about
• 48:19
  a howitzer? I want sure sir or an ice pick So
• 48:25
  this was what Hoffman's article could going way
• 48:27
  back to the beginning of this that you had sent
• 48:29
  was about which is like Hey, look over here plebes
• 48:33
  while we take away your ability to make decisions
• 48:36
  about your own state and your own lives We really
• 48:39
  want your input on the gun Hello peasants Yeah
• 48:47
  is um when you when you think about it again
• 48:51
  sit down for five minutes take a breath and think
• 48:54
  about it, it's insulting. So we have, to my knowledge,
• 48:59
  three ballot initiatives coming up in November,
• 49:02
  or some form of ballot initiative might not be
• 49:04
  the right term for all three of them, but they
• 49:06
  effectively are what amounts to a ballot initiative,
• 49:08
  or I guess two of them are ballot initiatives
• 49:10
  and one of them is where we were voting on a
• 49:13
  piece of legislation that already passed, and
• 49:15
  the piece of legislation, this is the gun thing,
• 49:18
  it was like, okay, we're gonna do a state gun,
• 49:20
  so that's already locked in. But you, the voter,
• 49:23
  you get to you guys. We want your opinion. But
• 49:26
  at the same time, you juxtapose this against
• 49:30
  two things that are much more important, which
• 49:32
  is prop one, a ballot initiative to essentially
• 49:35
  undo all of the protections for life that Idaho
• 49:39
  has erected over the last 10, 12, 20 years regarding
• 49:43
  abortion. So Idaho is actually one of the least
• 49:45
  friendly to abortion states in the union, if
• 49:48
  not the least friendly. And I applaud it. I applaud
• 49:50
  it. There's arguments to be made. If you don't
• 49:55
  believe life begins at conception, you're wrong.
• 49:57
  But if you don't believe it, then there is an
• 50:00
  argument to be made that it is a violation of
• 50:03
  personal liberty and personal choice, and the
• 50:05
  government should have no say in that. However,
• 50:08
  if you do operate from the premise that life
• 50:10
  begins at conception, and the evidence points
• 50:13
  to that for sure, inconveniently for people who
• 50:16
  hate babies, then once life begins, then life
• 50:20
  must be protected. You have a natural liberty,
• 50:23
  a natural right to not be killed. That's the
• 50:27
  non -aggression principle. And therefore, it
• 50:29
  is within the purview of a state, even though
• 50:31
  I don't believe the state should exist. While
• 50:33
  it does exist, it is within the purview of the
• 50:36
  state to protect natural rights. That is actually
• 50:39
  what the express purpose of a government is supposed
• 50:42
  to be, slash have been. Obviously, we're way
• 50:46
  past that point, as is always how that works
• 50:49
  with government. It never just protects rights.
• 50:51
  It ultimately abuses them as much or worse than
• 50:53
  anybody else. Again. I digress. But so on one
• 50:57
  hand, we're voting to either completely open
• 51:00
  up abortion again in Idaho, or keep it the way
• 51:04
  things are now, which is protection of life.
• 51:06
  That's Prop 1. Then you have H .J .R. 4, House
• 51:10
  Joint Resolution 4, which is regarding the legalization
• 51:13
  or the criminalization of illicit drugs, and
• 51:16
  whether or not we the people will essentially
• 51:19
  hand our own power and rights off to the state
• 51:22
  legislature. The higher power. so that they can
• 51:25
  decide. Yeah, basically give God, the God known
• 51:29
  as the state, the power to decide that for us.
• 51:33
  And then thirdly, and most importantly, we get
• 51:36
  to decide, hey, what do we want the state gun
• 51:39
  to be? So when you think about it, it's asinine.
• 51:44
  On one hand, there is the real possibility that
• 51:46
  we surrender more of our power to the government
• 51:48
  because the government is quite literally with
• 51:50
  this HJR force saying You guys are too stupid.
• 51:55
  We don't trust you. You shouldn't have the right.
• 51:58
  Give us more power. But hey, look over here.
• 52:01
  Here's a box of crayons. Pick your favorite color.
• 52:05
  But don't you dare color outside the lines, by
• 52:07
  the way. And with your box of crayons, vote for
• 52:11
  which gun you want to be the state gun. There
• 52:14
  you go, kindergartners. I like green. I like
• 52:19
  green, too. Green is a nice color if there's
• 52:22
  a green gun I vote for that Okay green gun possible
• 52:27
  show title So yeah, and we know we took the scenic
• 52:33
  route to get here But it's a really important
• 52:35
  thing to stop and consider that this is what
• 52:38
  our glorious supreme to lupa leader leader leaders
• 52:41
  are higher powers Think of themselves and think
• 52:44
  of us Fuck you plebes You can pick this completely
• 52:50
  who gives a fuck thing over here. We'll let you
• 52:52
  decide this, but this other stuff give us the
• 52:57
  power. This other stuff that we have a monopoly
• 53:00
  over the, over the distribution and public messaging
• 53:04
  with regard to its legitimacy. We wish to preserve
• 53:07
  that monopoly. You can't vote to take any little
• 53:10
  piece of it away. Yeah. And one of them literally
• 53:13
  involves life and death. And what's interesting
• 53:17
  to me, is that you would think of all of the
• 53:21
  things for the legislature to take the power
• 53:24
  over for instead of it being drugs, you would
• 53:28
  think it would be abortion or protecting life,
• 53:31
  the right to life. Like if you're that hot to
• 53:33
  try to protect kids. Why are you wasting your
• 53:37
  time as a legislature going, no, no, we need
• 53:39
  the exclusive power to criminalize or decriminalize
• 53:43
  drugs? No, man, you should have been focusing
• 53:46
  on we need the exclusive right to criminalize
• 53:48
  or decriminalize, I don't know, slaughtering
• 53:50
  babies. That probably would have been the way
• 53:53
  to go. I'm just throwing that out there. Again,
• 53:55
  I don't agree with any of it. But if as a legislature,
• 53:59
  you're going to do something like that, they
• 54:02
  haven't even done it for the life or death topic.
• 54:05
  They just did it for drugs drugs Let's before
• 54:12
  we do our mid show here do a quick follow -up
• 54:15
  because you and I had a phone conversation with
• 54:17
  a Producer about this and you know right on cue
• 54:21
  funnily enough with this is about the River Keeper
• 54:24
  Which we've done a couple of shows John right
• 54:28
  on cue for news now sort of illustrated the producer's
• 54:32
  point, which I will discuss after the clip. Today
• 54:34
  is World Cleanup Day. Wait, hold on, Scott. Hold
• 54:36
  on. Sorry, I apologize. I think we should save
• 54:40
  that for after the break because it's going to
• 54:42
  be a longer topic. We're going to spend some
• 54:43
  time on this. So I think if we have a before
• 54:46
  break slot, we should spend it on the boomer
• 54:49
  guy or the guy who is contesting my boomerisms.
• 54:53
  OK, all right. That's short enough. And then
• 54:55
  we go into the break and then let's talk about
• 54:57
  the Riverkeeper stuff, because that one's going
• 54:59
  to that was going to take most of second half
• 55:01
  or a good portion of it. Okay, fair enough. Let
• 55:04
  me pull up that and see where do I have it. What
• 55:10
  was that called? Okay. Yes. Got it. I got it.
• 55:12
  So it was titled boomer wealth was the said but
• 55:16
  that was the scotch shots from last week and
• 55:18
  the statistics for the wealth controlled by boomers
• 55:21
  And and that they like half of them don't want
• 55:24
  to leave anything behind and half of them Don't
• 55:26
  have wills and all the statistics that you were
• 55:27
  citing. Okay, here's the note two points This
• 55:31
  is anonymous boomer Anecdotally, not only do
• 55:34
  I not know a single boomer who doesn't plan to
• 55:36
  leave the bulk of their remaining assets to their
• 55:39
  children, I find them consumed with how they
• 55:41
  will make this happen. I know it's only a small
• 55:43
  sample, but I found Paul's statistics literally
• 55:45
  unbelievable. My other observation I was a bit
• 55:48
  surprised that both of you barely if at all talked
• 55:50
  about the consequences of such a vast amount
• 55:53
  of wealth either being transferred or spent in
• 55:55
  such a Relatively short time to maintain value
• 55:58
  after flooding the market with sell orders like
• 56:00
  you know stocks real estate other assets It requires
• 56:02
  an equally robust buy side, which is an extremely
• 56:06
  dubious notion I know that not all inherited
• 56:08
  assets will be liquidated and some will be held
• 56:10
  but the downward pressure on prices slash valuations
• 56:13
  will still be enormous if only a modest fraction
• 56:16
  is sold. OK, so there's a few things to unpack
• 56:21
  there and we can do it pretty quickly, which
• 56:22
  is why I wanted to do it before the break. First
• 56:25
  off, I am going to defer to Scott on the way
• 56:29
  he read this. I read this is I don't believe
• 56:31
  Paul Paul's making shit up. Scott said, I didn't
• 56:35
  read it that way either way, however it was meant.
• 56:39
  No, sir, I was not making these. No. And let
• 56:41
  me just say how. directly from Northwestern Mutual.
• 56:45
  So it's not a huge sampling size, but it is buoyed
• 56:51
  and buttressed up against many other surveys
• 56:54
  that have been put out there and several other
• 56:56
  companies and outlets that also do these sorts
• 57:00
  of things. But the main one that got the main
• 57:01
  press was from Northwestern Mutual, which is
• 57:03
  an insurance and wealth management company. And
• 57:06
  they surveyed their own clients. And that's how
• 57:08
  they came up with these numbers and their own
• 57:10
  clients reported that only about 20 % of them
• 57:13
  expected to leave any inheritance to their kids
• 57:16
  or grandkids. Meanwhile, over 50 % of millennials
• 57:20
  in Gen Z expected an inheritance from their parents.
• 57:23
  Now Gen Z, they're gonna get lucky because their
• 57:26
  parents are mainly millennials and millennials
• 57:28
  who will have something to leave will leave it.
• 57:32
  The millennials were built differently. Now it's
• 57:34
  true, I'm gonna... go off on a quick little side
• 57:37
  branch here, but while it's true that only about
• 57:40
  30 to 35 % of millennials actually even have
• 57:43
  kids, because our marriage rates are low, our
• 57:46
  kid having rate are low, but a lot of that is
• 57:47
  economic, of course, which is again, a whole
• 57:49
  nother topic. It is also well known via surveys
• 57:55
  and anecdotal evidence, and anybody who works
• 57:57
  in the industries of any kind will tell you that
• 58:00
  millennials who are parents tend to be much,
• 58:03
  much more involved, much more future -minded,
• 58:05
  and much more intentional about generational
• 58:09
  wealth. And a lot of that is because we have
• 58:11
  to be. We know we have to be. We're kind of on
• 58:14
  our own out here. Not all of us and not exclusively,
• 58:18
  but in a general sense, This is true. Millennials
• 58:22
  are on their own. They know it, and they're not
• 58:25
  doing the same thing to their kids. And this
• 58:27
  is true. Look it up. Now, the stats on the boomers.
• 58:32
  Those are true. Northwestern Mutual did a survey.
• 58:36
  Fortune has done surveys. Forbes has done surveys.
• 58:40
  The real estate industry, realtor .com specifically,
• 58:44
  has done surveys. So you're talking across wealth
• 58:49
  outlets. wealth management, real estate asset
• 58:53
  industries. And I'm just accidentally hitting
• 58:56
  my own bell. Good for me. Would you whack it
• 58:59
  with your elbow? I'm Italian. What are you going
• 59:03
  to do? I'm moving my arm. You can't see it, but
• 59:05
  I'm flailing like a crazy person. Wild eyed anarchist
• 59:08
  Paul Manduce is also waving his arms around like
• 59:10
  a madman. Well, what do you call a one -armed
• 59:13
  Italian? What? Speech impediment. So the long
• 59:24
  and the short of it is these numbers are true
• 59:27
  and they stay about the same regardless of what
• 59:30
  outlet you go to to ask. It's roughly 20 -ish
• 59:33
  percent of boomers plan to leave anything to
• 59:36
  their kids. Full stop. I'm not making it up.
• 59:40
  You might find the stats unbelievable. I do too.
• 59:44
  That's that's what he's I know I know this person
• 59:47
  is duty that they're for sure saying that not
• 59:49
  that you're they're not I promise you they're
• 59:51
  not accusing you of just making stuff up and
• 59:54
  pulling it out of your rear end and just saying
• 59:56
  it into a micro for sure not they just found
• 59:58
  the stats unbelievable not that you made the
• 1:00:00
  stats up. But I but once you understand the dynamic
• 1:00:05
  and the boomer generation it is believable and
• 1:00:09
  that's the thing is it that is the thing. It
• 1:00:13
  is believable. The demographics are one of my
• 1:00:16
  hobbies. Politics, history, philosophy, ideology,
• 1:00:20
  demographics, economics, micro, macro. That's
• 1:00:23
  my jam. All of that shit is my jam. That's what
• 1:00:25
  I study in college. Doesn't make me the expert,
• 1:00:27
  of course, but I got the certs, which, you know,
• 1:00:29
  whatever, certs are certs. It doesn't, you don't
• 1:00:31
  matter. But they're also my hobbies. So I like
• 1:00:33
  crayons and guns. That's a good hobby, too. Great
• 1:00:37
  hobby. And the legislature approves, Scott. Good
• 1:00:40
  for you. My favorite color is green. Hey, mine
• 1:00:44
  too. Mainly because it's the color of money and
• 1:00:47
  trees. And I like both of those. And incidentally,
• 1:00:48
  money doesn't grow on trees, but it should. If
• 1:00:52
  I were king for a day, I'd plant so many money
• 1:00:54
  trees. Higher power call. Dude, I'm telling you
• 1:00:58
  what. But yeah, once you dig down into it, I
• 1:01:01
  know it sounds constantly like bitterness or
• 1:01:03
  sour grapes. It's not. It's just observation.
• 1:01:06
  And then me being just... incredulous over the
• 1:01:09
  whole thing, because it's just like, how can
• 1:01:11
  a group of people be so self -centered? But they
• 1:01:14
  are. You look at the system they built. You look
• 1:01:16
  at the way they parented. You look at their politics.
• 1:01:18
  You look at the government they built. You look
• 1:01:21
  at how even now, even now at the federal level,
• 1:01:25
  65 % of the federal budget is entitlements. And
• 1:01:28
  those entitlements are Medicare and Social Security.
• 1:01:31
  Who gets those things? Old people off the backs
• 1:01:35
  of young people. War. Who profits off of war?
• 1:01:40
  Old people. And this country has been at war
• 1:01:42
  for like 230 of its 250 years. Look to listen,
• 1:01:47
  look at the young people die. Old people make
• 1:01:50
  money. The notion of even being young in an office
• 1:01:53
  like Kennedy having kids, babies while he was
• 1:01:57
  at like. They used to be young family men in
• 1:02:00
  national political positions was was common,
• 1:02:03
  including all the way up to the presidency. Now
• 1:02:05
  look at like Pelosi and McConnell and all of
• 1:02:09
  these freaking ancient. They've been in power
• 1:02:11
  for 50 years, six years. The average age of the
• 1:02:14
  U .S. Senate. is 65. These people, yeah, and
• 1:02:18
  they white knuckle these positions all the way
• 1:02:22
  into their 80s, I don't know, 90s, you know,
• 1:02:25
  like, what was Strom Thurmond, 158? You know,
• 1:02:28
  I mean, I know that there's probably like, well,
• 1:02:30
  what about the district rep for Beaver Falls,
• 1:02:33
  North Dakota? He's a family, like, I know that
• 1:02:35
  it exists. But if you look at the national level,
• 1:02:38
  it's a completely different landscape. and it's
• 1:02:40
  because the old yeah but the exceptions don't
• 1:02:42
  prove the rules right they prove the exceptions
• 1:02:44
  don't prove the rules they prove the exceptions
• 1:02:46
  yeah old people control everything yeah we are
• 1:02:51
  a geriatric society and have and the boomer the
• 1:02:53
  boomers have been the it generation they will
• 1:02:56
  not let go since they were born Yep, they will
• 1:02:59
  not let go. Their parents doted on them. And
• 1:03:01
  well, I mean, I think a lot of the silent generation
• 1:03:03
  where they were shit parents, but they gave their
• 1:03:06
  kids everything that they could because they
• 1:03:07
  themselves didn't have anything. So boomers grew
• 1:03:09
  up not wanting much. Boomers grew up in an economic
• 1:03:13
  situation with an economic engine, the likes
• 1:03:16
  of which you and I will never ever see. ever.
• 1:03:19
  And a lot of it is just the way the system was
• 1:03:21
  set up. And then when boomers became a voting
• 1:03:23
  age and in their 20s and 30s, they just leaned
• 1:03:26
  into it as hard as they possibly could. And you
• 1:03:28
  look at the system now and the system is set
• 1:03:31
  up for everything that the boomers needed and
• 1:03:34
  wanted. And the boomers have had control since
• 1:03:38
  their mid 20s. You remember in the 60s even the
• 1:03:42
  early 60s the early to mid 60s the whole movement
• 1:03:44
  was the future is now old man So don't trust
• 1:03:48
  anyone over 30 love and Froot Loops Don't trust
• 1:03:50
  any and those were the boomers who were doing
• 1:03:53
  that it was you know down with the man Well,
• 1:03:56
  now the the boomers are the man and they've been
• 1:03:58
  the man for 30 years Really for long long way
• 1:04:02
  longer than that, but I'm trying to be generous
• 1:04:05
  You know, they're well known as the first generation
• 1:04:08
  to ever do drugs with their kids. They're well
• 1:04:10
  known as the first generation to be like the,
• 1:04:12
  I want to be the cool parent kids. They're the
• 1:04:14
  first generation to not spank their kids. They're
• 1:04:16
  the first generation to have everything they
• 1:04:18
  ever wanted as a generation and the best economic
• 1:04:22
  engine and the most wealth accumulation in all
• 1:04:25
  of human history. Let that sink in. Meanwhile,
• 1:04:32
  their kids Have had one of the worst economic
• 1:04:36
  engines to deal with in Not in all of human history,
• 1:04:39
  but in modern times in the u .s. Anyways now
• 1:04:44
  Millennials like to complain but they do have
• 1:04:46
  a case in a lot of in a lot of ways. We have
• 1:04:49
  a case Yeah, we do. I were 40 trillion dollars.
• 1:04:52
  Anyways, the point is taking away half our money
• 1:04:54
  all the time Like you you like the boomers have
• 1:04:56
  presided over this kareen into all of it. Yeah,
• 1:05:00
  it's true It is true. Welfare, the war, the wealth
• 1:05:03
  transfers. Even COVID was a massive wealth transfer.
• 1:05:07
  2008 was a massive wealth transfer from young
• 1:05:10
  to old. COVID, a massive wealth transfer from
• 1:05:14
  young to old. Every single time you tax the working
• 1:05:18
  young in any way, shape, or form, which is fucking
• 1:05:20
  everything now, we get taxed on everything now,
• 1:05:23
  the working young. It goes towards Medicare,
• 1:05:28
  Social Security. real estate prices well guess
• 1:05:33
  where all of boomers wealth tends to exist their
• 1:05:36
  homes their assets that are in like the stock
• 1:05:40
  market that are inflated by a weak dollar Medicare
• 1:05:43
  and Social Security well it's all wealth transfer
• 1:05:47
  stuff So and political fuckery is obviously not
• 1:05:52
  unique to the boomers, nor are economic cycles.
• 1:05:56
  None of it is unique necessarily to the boomers,
• 1:05:58
  but you'll forgive us for observing the at least
• 1:06:02
  certainly current and what seems like particularly
• 1:06:05
  virulent nature of what has happened as we, you
• 1:06:08
  know, observe the boomers as we get into our
• 1:06:11
  age that you guys were 20 years ago. In size
• 1:06:15
  and scale and execution of it all. and in duration
• 1:06:20
  of regime. The boomers are unique in all four
• 1:06:23
  of those factors. And that's why they kind of
• 1:06:25
  get the extra hate because they're like no generation
• 1:06:27
  before them has lasted as fucking long and has
• 1:06:30
  refused to give up. Like you said, they're white
• 1:06:33
  knuckling till the bitter end. The boomers will
• 1:06:36
  not give anything up, power money or otherwise,
• 1:06:39
  until they die. We will have to pry it from their
• 1:06:42
  cold dead fingers. And then whatever's left,
• 1:06:45
  which will be mostly ashes, is ours to fight
• 1:06:50
  over. So it's just kind of, it's just that way.
• 1:06:53
  That's the truth. It's just how it is. Sorry.
• 1:06:57
  I'm sorry. Sorry, not sorry, but also sorry,
• 1:07:00
  because it sucks for everybody below you. And
• 1:07:03
  you know, it's a generation that has mortgaged
• 1:07:05
  their kids and their grandkids into oblivion
• 1:07:08
  for themselves and are unapologetic about it.
• 1:07:12
  That's just the truth. But before we do mid show
• 1:07:14
  here, like just want to round it out by reiterating
• 1:07:18
  that it does not apply to Paul or I with regard
• 1:07:22
  to how our boomer fathers specifically handled
• 1:07:26
  these matters does not apply. So this is not
• 1:07:29
  sour grapes. And if we went on anecdotal evidence,
• 1:07:32
  these are not our observations necessarily in
• 1:07:35
  our own personal lives for each other. That is
• 1:07:38
  correct. For most of my friends. You are incorrect.
• 1:07:42
  My anecdotal evidence is quite the opposite of
• 1:07:45
  mine. My father is the exception. Your father
• 1:07:48
  is the exception. They don't prove the rule.
• 1:07:50
  And at times, my father had to argue with my
• 1:07:52
  mother to support my business and my ventures
• 1:07:56
  the way he did. They fought amongst themselves
• 1:07:58
  about it because my mom didn't agree with it
• 1:08:00
  at times. And then it was weird because the script
• 1:08:02
  flipped later on. I don't know and so at different
• 1:08:07
  times one of my parents was responsible for lending
• 1:08:10
  the Support needed and and also same for you
• 1:08:14
  since we're telling our stories a little bit.
• 1:08:16
  It was all done in business Nothing was handed.
• 1:08:20
  Nothing was free. It was all done business. I
• 1:08:23
  paid full price, you know interest rates loans
• 1:08:27
  and all it was it was just like business and
• 1:08:30
  that's how I wanted it and Because it just makes
• 1:08:32
  everything cleaner and better for everybody.
• 1:08:36
  That's how it needed to be. But there were no
• 1:08:38
  handouts. There were no hand -me -downs. There
• 1:08:40
  were no handouts. And I know your situation was
• 1:08:42
  the same too, Scott. It was my parents and your
• 1:08:44
  parents. They invested in us and they got a return
• 1:08:48
  on their investment, as they should. So that's
• 1:08:51
  largely true. It's not completely true in my
• 1:08:53
  case. Well, I haven't gotten like gifts, not
• 1:08:56
  just straight up like here's a lot, whatever.
• 1:08:59
  It's all been treated like... you know, there's
• 1:09:01
  mostly investments, like you're saying, investments
• 1:09:03
  in real estate, investments in business ventures.
• 1:09:05
  There has been some like, oh, if you need this,
• 1:09:08
  or you need that, we're here, but there's a ledger.
• 1:09:11
  I mean, nothing has really been gifted, but I
• 1:09:14
  do represent an exception for how my boomer,
• 1:09:17
  specifically father, has thought about money.
• 1:09:20
  But the only reason I'm even bringing that up
• 1:09:21
  is because the anonymous boomer here says that
• 1:09:25
  anecdotally, He doesn't know a single boomer
• 1:09:28
  who doesn't plan to leave the bulk of their bubble
• 1:09:29
  I get like I was reading the note at the top
• 1:09:31
  which is simply a reflection of The crowd that
• 1:09:35
  that person hangs out with which is a great reflection
• 1:09:38
  on them Obviously you're hanging out with a bunch
• 1:09:40
  of exceptions and that's that's a reflection
• 1:09:41
  on you and your choice of company Not of boomers
• 1:09:45
  as a group Yeah, no argument there at all. It
• 1:09:49
  means you probably are of a higher caliber, you're
• 1:09:52
  above average, and the group you surround yourself
• 1:09:54
  with, the people you surround yourself with,
• 1:09:56
  are above average of caliber. And that's awesome.
• 1:10:00
  You would probably find it as distasteful as
• 1:10:02
  we do to hang around with the types of boomers
• 1:10:04
  that we're even describing here that are driving
• 1:10:06
  the statistics, which is why you don't. Yeah,
• 1:10:10
  no, agreed, agreed. Again, no argument on that.
• 1:10:13
  And that's also, yeah, to your point, I was I
• 1:10:15
  was going to mention before you beat me to it.
• 1:10:17
  But that's why we brought up our own anecdotal
• 1:10:18
  evidence is because he he brings up his anecdotal
• 1:10:20
  evidence. And he's like, yeah, on my end, none
• 1:10:22
  of them, none of my boomer buddies talk like
• 1:10:24
  this. And I'm and I'm over here going, well,
• 1:10:26
  on my end, I know what all of my millennial friends
• 1:10:28
  are dealing with. And for the record, like when
• 1:10:31
  it comes to our kids, you know, Scott and I talk
• 1:10:33
  about this all the time. And and all of my other
• 1:10:36
  buddies who Scott knows, you know, Steve and
• 1:10:39
  Jason and Dave and all the guys who are all high
• 1:10:41
  caliber men, we're all millennials with kids,
• 1:10:45
  or very, very young, very, very, very young Gen
• 1:10:48
  X. But we're, you know, we're all cuspy right
• 1:10:50
  on the cusp either upper millennial or lower
• 1:10:52
  Gen X. You know, we're looking at it all in a
• 1:10:55
  generational wealth lens. And we have to, and
• 1:10:58
  we are. So my kids will be able to tell their
• 1:11:02
  friends or their podcast listeners that like,
• 1:11:04
  yeah, my dad set me up with a house and I paid
• 1:11:08
  him a mortgage on it, but not really. It was
• 1:11:10
  like a rent to own situation. Like my dad bought
• 1:11:13
  the house. He put me and my wife in the house
• 1:11:15
  so we could have babies and work and not have
• 1:11:17
  to worry about being crushed with a $5 ,000 mortgage.
• 1:11:20
  And then we just made payments and we bought
• 1:11:23
  the house from my dad making payment. Like, you
• 1:11:26
  know, cause that's what I'm going to do for my
• 1:11:27
  kids. If I can, That's the plan because I want
• 1:11:31
  them to live nearby I don't want my I don't want
• 1:11:33
  my son to be like well the job is in is in Portland
• 1:11:36
  because drugs are legal there and that's all
• 1:11:38
  my heroin And I go well alright, I guess I guess
• 1:11:43
  we'll see you at Thanksgiving Christmas and Easter
• 1:11:46
  in between Yeah, fuck that no I want my kids
• 1:11:51
  to live within an hour and a half or two hours
• 1:11:53
  of me And I will do everything in my power to
• 1:11:56
  make it so that if I if I have to be more poor
• 1:11:59
  Mary and I, my wife, we've talked about this
• 1:12:01
  ad nauseam. We will be more poor to make sure
• 1:12:04
  our kids can live close by, get married, have
• 1:12:07
  babies, and not have to be crushed by debt and
• 1:12:12
  mortgages and things like that. And then we can
• 1:12:14
  all be a family and be nearby. And most people
• 1:12:18
  in my orbit, you, Scott, and all the other guys
• 1:12:20
  I just listed, we all are doing that. Yes, and
• 1:12:24
  that's the difference. That's the difference.
• 1:12:25
  I didn't have the same structure with my first
• 1:12:29
  house either, but I would not have been able
• 1:12:32
  to purchase my first house if it wasn't for the
• 1:12:36
  help of my boomer dad who made it happen. But
• 1:12:38
  it was a gift, but like you're saying, it was
• 1:12:40
  a similar structure, but he enabled it to happen,
• 1:12:43
  which again makes him an exception, gratefully.
• 1:12:47
  Yeah. Anyway, so that was that was again we took
• 1:12:50
  the scenic route but it was important context
• 1:12:52
  matters background matters history matters and
• 1:12:54
  also Scott and I also want everybody to understand
• 1:12:57
  that we you know, we're being genuine here and
• 1:12:59
  it's not bitterness It's not sour grapes, but
• 1:13:01
  we're noticers. We notice stuff and we know and
• 1:13:04
  it's true. What's the truth hurts man? Governor
• 1:13:07
  Brad little has ordered state officials to keep
• 1:13:09
  spending Well, that makes sense, being a boomer.
• 1:13:12
  Hey, while you guys are still clinging to power,
• 1:13:14
  all you 85 -year -old senators, keep spending
• 1:13:16
  while you still can before you die. It's almost
• 1:13:21
  like the generation that believes in dying with
• 1:13:24
  zero is in charge of the government. Almost as
• 1:13:28
  if. Well, I think on no ID we're going to die
• 1:13:32
  with zero, unless the value for value model is
• 1:13:36
  embraced. The value for value model is very simple.
• 1:13:40
  It's what this show runs on as I alluded to at
• 1:13:43
  the top. It is the opposite of the traditional
• 1:13:46
  model in broadcast, which is to accumulate people's
• 1:13:49
  ears or eyes or whatever, and then sell them
• 1:13:51
  crap. We don't do that. It's the opposite. It's
• 1:13:55
  value for value. And it simply means that you
• 1:13:57
  will never hear advertisements on the show. There
• 1:13:59
  are no sponsors. We remain free of brackish outside
• 1:14:02
  influence. We survive solely on your time, talent
• 1:14:06
  and treasure. returning value to the program
• 1:14:09
  if you find it valuable. But I am going to say
• 1:14:13
  this from time to time, if there's a product,
• 1:14:15
  especially a local product from a friend of mine
• 1:14:17
  or whatever that I'm really enjoying, I might,
• 1:14:18
  you know, I might shout it out and just give
• 1:14:20
  a little love to people we care about. You absolutely
• 1:14:23
  should. And that is very much part of the value
• 1:14:25
  for value model. They're not sponsors. But as
• 1:14:29
  a matter of fact, what it really amounts to is
• 1:14:31
  genuine. It's a genuine way to broadcast. And
• 1:14:34
  when you discuss the coffee roaster that you
• 1:14:37
  love the coffee, what's the name again? Spencer
• 1:14:40
  Lambest of Wilder Coffee. That's how you know
• 1:14:42
  that we actually like the product. It has nothing
• 1:14:44
  to do with being pitched anything. It's a genuine,
• 1:14:47
  hey, we dig this. Can I basically I'll never
• 1:14:51
  do another podcast without it. It's so good and
• 1:14:54
  he's a cool dude and he smokes cigars Which makes
• 1:14:56
  him even cooler of a dude, you know what his
• 1:14:59
  side gig is. Sorry now I've got to tell I was
• 1:15:01
  about to I was really short story Kristoff cigars.
• 1:15:03
  Yeah, it was Kristoff. Yes Kristoff's Yeah, and
• 1:15:08
  and he one of his other side gigs is he sells
• 1:15:10
  snakes. He goes to like reptile shows and swaps
• 1:15:14
  snakes It's wild. I never met a guy who's a who
• 1:15:18
  does that but it Well, other than Spencer, it's
• 1:15:20
  cool. Yeah, like Kevin Kristoff. Like, yeah,
• 1:15:24
  yes. Another good guy to talk about. I've been
• 1:15:26
  every time I've been at the racketeer in recent
• 1:15:29
  months, I have bought Kristoff cigars. And that's
• 1:15:31
  not because they're sponsoring us. And it's not
• 1:15:33
  because of anything other than it's value for
• 1:15:36
  value. Yeah. Good products and voluntary transactions
• 1:15:41
  based on value perceived. Snake Swapper is now
• 1:15:44
  in the running for show title. Yes, Snake Swapper.
• 1:15:47
  Oh, man, if we do that, I'm gonna have to share
• 1:15:49
  this episode with Spencer. You should be sharing
• 1:15:52
  it anyway, you doofus. I have, I've shared it
• 1:15:55
  twice. Okay, good. So that's part of the Value
• 1:15:57
  for Value model, returning value. If you find
• 1:16:00
  the program valuable, we try to make it valuable
• 1:16:02
  every week. It comes out every Thursday. There's
• 1:16:03
  no paywalls, there's no nothing. It's just free
• 1:16:05
  and it's the best we can make it. And if you
• 1:16:07
  find it valuable, then please return value to
• 1:16:09
  the show with your time, talent, or treasure.
• 1:16:11
  Time is a... the probably the biggest time a
• 1:16:14
  value return you could do at this point is what
• 1:16:16
  Paul doesn't do even though he just says he does,
• 1:16:18
  but I don't trust Paul statistics. Telling people
• 1:16:21
  about the show. Word of mouth is how shows like
• 1:16:24
  this girl and if you you're basically you're
• 1:16:28
  you're lending us your credibility really is
• 1:16:30
  what it is by by recommending the show to others
• 1:16:32
  in your orbit. And it's a huge value which we
• 1:16:34
  will repay with interest. What else? I have a
• 1:16:40
  whole notepad here full of stuff. What? Oh, what
• 1:16:44
  happened? My browser froze. Hold on. Oh, crap.
• 1:16:49
  The disease erased your memory. I got the I got
• 1:16:51
  like the the hourglass, the flipping hourglass.
• 1:16:55
  OK, it's good. All right. Show art, audio clips,
• 1:16:58
  articles, boots on the ground, reports, topics
• 1:17:01
  you think we should cover, follow ups like the
• 1:17:03
  Riverkeeper follow up that we're about to do
• 1:17:04
  after the break. Things we got right. Things
• 1:17:06
  we got wrong. All of these things are ways to
• 1:17:09
  return value in the time and talent department
• 1:17:11
  No ID pod at gmail .com is an email address that
• 1:17:14
  you can send anything you want to No ID show
• 1:17:17
  .com is the webpage where you can sign up for
• 1:17:20
  the newsletter That comes out every Thursday
• 1:17:22
  if you would like to do that. I try to make it
• 1:17:24
  funny and interesting That's a cool way to stay
• 1:17:26
  in touch with what the show is doing just previews
• 1:17:28
  the topics of that week show and whatnot It also
• 1:17:31
  is the portal. No ID show .com is the portal
• 1:17:33
  to return value in the treasure department And
• 1:17:37
  doing so makes you an executive producer of that
• 1:17:39
  week's episode. And that could mean any any whatever
• 1:17:42
  value means to you. Just ask yourself what value
• 1:17:44
  got out of the show and return value in any way
• 1:17:46
  that you like. In the treasured department, we
• 1:17:48
  got a couple this week after a banducci wealth
• 1:17:53
  induced drought, where, you know, he's he's he's
• 1:17:56
  just hammering money hand over fist. So you then
• 1:18:00
  a little drought there. But you're blaming me.
• 1:18:02
  Oh, OK. People are back now. Um, so let's leave
• 1:18:05
  here. So this was a sound drop for being thrown
• 1:18:08
  under the bus. Hold on. Maybe we can do that.
• 1:18:13
  Remember the, remember the, the airplane turbulence
• 1:18:17
  PSA from love line. And it was the, the gut,
• 1:18:20
  the rollerblading that your body was built for.
• 1:18:21
  And there was the cars honking and skidding,
• 1:18:23
  maybe something like that. Yes. Yes. okay so
• 1:18:28
  let's do the agenda archaeologist as I brought
• 1:18:31
  up at the top of the show who had recommended
• 1:18:32
  that we do the previous episode sound drops catalog
• 1:18:35
  him at the beginning which we did and I love
• 1:18:37
  that he did send in a shiny schmeckle of 999
• 1:18:42
  and that's why he that's why I had done the the
• 1:18:47
  999 from the llama liquor although it just we
• 1:18:51
  decided it's probably not It just doesn't have
• 1:18:56
  that doesn't punch it doesn't it's cuz he's on
• 1:18:58
  this doesn't have that German fury and passion
• 1:19:02
  999 from the shot from the agenda archaeologist
• 1:19:09
  and his the rest of his note says I Recovered
• 1:19:12
  three previously unknown specimens buried beneath
• 1:19:14
  the sediment of mainstream discourse one appears
• 1:19:17
  to be a local official experiencing consequences
• 1:19:20
  Another is approximately 40 % bureaucratic nonsense
• 1:19:23
  The third may simply be Paul. The acoustical
• 1:19:26
  team is still determining whether these constitute
• 1:19:29
  evidence. In the meantime, I recommend repeated
• 1:19:31
  listens. I have no idea what most of that means,
• 1:19:35
  but I appreciate that. I want to know. Wait,
• 1:19:38
  hold on. Would you like to know more? Yes. Yes,
• 1:19:41
  I would. I would like to know more. What? Come
• 1:19:43
  on, archaeologists. I'm on the edge of my seat.
• 1:19:46
  What does this mean? I want to run it through
• 1:19:48
  Google Translate, but I don't know what the source
• 1:19:50
  language is. All right, maybe he'll maybe he'll
• 1:19:53
  give us more next week maybe so like and then
• 1:19:56
  but then you know Like just give us breadcrumbs.
• 1:19:58
  I don't well then he returned to coherence for
• 1:20:01
  what if the previous episode sound drops were
• 1:20:03
  cataloged at the beginning of the next episode
• 1:20:04
  Well, that made sense the rest of it. I I cannot
• 1:20:07
  decipher Oh and whatever. Well, we need him to
• 1:20:10
  decipher this hieroglyph that he's laid on us
• 1:20:13
  Thank you agenda. I don't speak this dialect
• 1:20:16
  And then it's an older code sir, but it checks
• 1:20:20
  out repeated and frequent executive producer
• 1:20:24
  Jack Kramer is back with one two three four and
• 1:20:29
  his note is shorter and more coherent and in
• 1:20:32
  fact to say it's really a question for all you
• 1:20:35
  producers out there Jack says I get value do
• 1:20:39
  you Is that a rhetorical? I mean, I do. I have
• 1:20:45
  a good time. That's that. Well, again, I suppose
• 1:20:48
  I don't. Oh, maybe he's talking to Paul. I assume
• 1:20:49
  that he was talking to all the producers that
• 1:20:51
  are hearing him ask that question such that it
• 1:20:54
  might induce them to pick up a handheld mirror
• 1:20:56
  and stare into it for a long time. But maybe
• 1:20:59
  he's just asking you. I don't know. Do you get
• 1:21:01
  any value? It depends. Where's the decimal point
• 1:21:07
  in that one, two, three, four? Let's leave it
• 1:21:13
  at that. Time, talent, treasure, return value.
• 1:21:15
  Wait, you're not going to tell me? Oh, it's $12
• 1:21:18
  .34. One, two, three, four. Nice. Yeah. Well,
• 1:21:22
  it could have been like one dot two, three, four,
• 1:21:25
  which would have been really cool. Like a fourth
• 1:21:27
  of a cent. Oh, I see. Or one, two, three, dot
• 1:21:31
  four would have been cool, too. Whatever, though.
• 1:21:34
  It's like... I'm saying whatever value means
• 1:21:36
  to you, it means a lot of different things to
• 1:21:37
  a lot of different people. You know, $5 could
• 1:21:39
  mean a lot to you and $500 could be nothing.
• 1:21:42
  You know, especially if you're a boomer, you
• 1:21:45
  know, $500 just means nothing to you because
• 1:21:47
  you have it all, you know, just saying. Thank
• 1:21:53
  you, Jack Kramer. Thank you, Archaeologist. Appreciate
• 1:21:56
  you both. You have your Schmechel thing. I'm
• 1:21:58
  going to ponder Jack's question now. Oh, do I
• 1:22:02
  have a song? Yeah, I have a song. Yeah, but first...
• 1:22:05
  Oh, hold on. I got that too. I know where you're
• 1:22:07
  going. Hold on. I was toggling. Toggling. So
• 1:22:10
  much toggling. I'll take you down there for 25
• 1:22:14
  shmeckles! 25 shmeckles? I don't know how much...
• 1:22:18
  I don't know what that is. Is that a lot? Is
• 1:22:19
  it a little? Alright, what's coming up before
• 1:22:22
  second half? DJ Paul. I'm going with my original
• 1:22:25
  pick. Yeah, I'm going with it because I think
• 1:22:27
  it's just so apropos now that we've covered some
• 1:22:29
  of the ground we've covered regarding the government
• 1:22:32
  having more and the youngins having less. Spinning
• 1:22:36
  records and inventing statistics. It's DJ Paul.
• 1:22:40
  This is your last announcement. Brought to you
• 1:22:42
  by Public School. You've had a great year and
• 1:22:44
  I'm proud of each and every one of you. Have
• 1:22:46
  we all just pay our fair share? Right? I just
• 1:22:49
  want to wish you all good luck. You're gonna
• 1:22:52
  need it. you shouldn't have to pay tax to breathe
• 1:26:05
  if that sounds bonkers to you it's because it
• 1:26:15
  is all right second half is you ready i am um
• 1:26:22
  i regret to inform you i have once again failed
• 1:26:25
  in my duties i don't have a scotch shot i did
• 1:26:28
  dabble with two or three and decided i hated
• 1:26:30
  them all so That's that's the story there. I'm
• 1:26:35
  gonna find something else next you fuck you And
• 1:26:41
  while we're on that topic I just want to throw
• 1:26:43
  out a suggestion to the state legislature That
• 1:26:47
  next year we should put on the ballot Deciding
• 1:26:49
  the state bird and I have just the best idea
• 1:26:53
  for what the state bird ought to be I'm on the
• 1:26:58
  edge of my seat three guesses and the first two
• 1:27:00
  don't count parrot Oh, you can't see it, but
• 1:27:04
  I'm pointing a finger. Oh, the one you flip.
• 1:27:12
  The best bird. The best bird. Got it. That should
• 1:27:19
  be the state bird. Yeah, man, I thought that
• 1:27:22
  one was an easy setup for you. Fail. You failed.
• 1:27:24
  F, yeah. All right. Here is the... Go ahead.
• 1:27:30
  One other thing I wanted to touch on real fast
• 1:27:31
  before I forget, and I'm sorry, Scott, I'm interjecting.
• 1:27:35
  What was his name? I actually don't know the
• 1:27:36
  guy's name, but the boomer guy. Oh, well, he
• 1:27:38
  didn't give his name. Anonymous Boomer. Anonymous
• 1:27:41
  Boomer, yeah. Well, what his handle was, I guess.
• 1:27:45
  He did mention something interesting I wanted
• 1:27:46
  to touch back on really quick about the assets
• 1:27:49
  once boomers do finally, finally at the ripe
• 1:27:52
  old age of like 102 pass into the great beyond.
• 1:27:56
  He's not. Wrong and it is something that's been
• 1:27:59
  discussed is what happens to the assets the stock
• 1:28:01
  the stock market assets the IRAs the 401ks housing
• 1:28:05
  that kind of thing Because it's an interesting
• 1:28:08
  thing to ponder is yeah will will the market
• 1:28:11
  value of those things plummet and plummet quickly
• 1:28:14
  if there is a wave of Wealth transfer and then
• 1:28:18
  sell -offs Well, I think there's a small potential
• 1:28:22
  for some for that scenario to play out. I think
• 1:28:25
  it's pretty pretty low odds because the boomer
• 1:28:30
  generation spans 1945 to 1964. It's one of the
• 1:28:35
  bigger wider generations. And only about 12,
• 1:28:42
  it's 10 to 12 % of boomers hold 70 % of the boomers
• 1:28:46
  wealth. which stands, I think when we talked
• 1:28:49
  about it last week at like 128 trillion dollars
• 1:28:52
  or some crazy ass thing, but 10 % of boomers
• 1:28:55
  hold 70 % of that. So, and they're already set
• 1:28:59
  up for generational wealth and trusts and irrevocable
• 1:29:03
  trusts and all kinds of different things. So
• 1:29:04
  a lot of that transfer either, it won't really
• 1:29:07
  happen because it's already quote unquote happened
• 1:29:09
  or will only affect a small portion of the population
• 1:29:14
  in general, but also as, what is that, close
• 1:29:18
  to 20 years of people kind of phase out. Cause
• 1:29:22
  right now the older boomers are in their mid
• 1:29:24
  eighties. The youngest boomers. Yeah. And they're
• 1:29:26
  all in Congress this year. Yeah. They're all
• 1:29:29
  in Congress. Oh my God. Yeah. Taking three months
• 1:29:33
  leaves of absence too, by the way. So it'll,
• 1:29:38
  it'll be something that occurs across 20 plus
• 1:29:40
  years. It won't be an all at once type thing.
• 1:29:44
  You're talking about a generation that spans
• 1:29:46
  20 plus years of wealth that is unevenly distributed.
• 1:29:49
  We're in the middle of it now. I mean, it's been
• 1:29:51
  already going on because of the huge, like you're
• 1:29:54
  saying, the huge wide window. There's already
• 1:29:55
  been. They're dying. They're dead. They're in
• 1:29:58
  the middle of dying. They're going to die soon.
• 1:30:00
  They're going to die in 15 years. It's just starting,
• 1:30:04
  Scott. Don't get too excited yet. Put that boner
• 1:30:07
  away. I'm so excited. No, dude, it's just starting.
• 1:30:14
  We've barely seen it begin. Dude, right now,
• 1:30:18
  the average age of is, what is it? Oh shit. What
• 1:30:21
  is the mortality rate right now? It's high and
• 1:30:24
  it continues to get higher. The oldest boomers
• 1:30:26
  are in their low to mid eighties. The average
• 1:30:30
  age of death is like 80, 81, 82. It's above 80.
• 1:30:35
  It is above 80. Yeah. Yeah and 81 and change
• 1:30:38
  It says the average life expectancy in the United
• 1:30:42
  States is 79. It's 81 .4 years of age for women
• 1:30:46
  and oh wow men totally lose that one 76 and a
• 1:30:51
  half years for men. Whoa, is it that low? Wait
• 1:30:54
  a minute Paul's making up statistics No No, it's
• 1:30:58
  not true. You just, just, man, everybody sharpened
• 1:31:01
  in their knives today on the stats. I, I Googled
• 1:31:03
  it. It can't be wrong. No, it's a, it's per the
• 1:31:09
  CDC. And this is actually one of the things the
• 1:31:12
  CDC is supposed to track. This is actually supposed
• 1:31:15
  to be a CDC thing. But you know, you know how
• 1:31:21
  to get it above 76. We've got drugs for that.
• 1:31:25
  We know drugs. Six of them to be in every month.
• 1:31:31
  Just stand still while we jab you harder. Brought
• 1:31:35
  to you by Pfizer. It is kind of crazy that that
• 1:31:40
  window is nuts. So someone born in 1946, when
• 1:31:45
  they're 17 years old, a senior in high school,
• 1:31:48
  someone born that year is considered part of
• 1:31:50
  the same generation. What is that? That person's
• 1:31:53
  already grown up. How does that make sense? Yeah,
• 1:31:56
  well, that's what makes it such a unique again.
• 1:31:58
  It's a unique generation. And I know we might
• 1:32:01
  get some eye rolls here as we just continue to
• 1:32:03
  hammer this topic. But it's a it's a very relevant
• 1:32:05
  topic politically, ideologically, economically.
• 1:32:08
  I mean, like, geez me, Christmas, the world we
• 1:32:10
  live in was essentially shaped, completely shaped
• 1:32:14
  by the silent generation and the boomers. It's
• 1:32:17
  the higher powers. It matters. Our higher powers.
• 1:32:22
  Thank you. You're the man. But women live to
• 1:32:25
  81 .4 on average, men to 76 .5. That's just wild.
• 1:32:28
  So I'm 38. That means I only have, I have fully
• 1:32:31
  lived one half of my life. Fuck, I'm over the
• 1:32:33
  hill next year. Red convertible incoming. That's
• 1:32:36
  disappointing. Shit, I only have 38 more years
• 1:32:41
  to have the Federal Reserve keep printing the
• 1:32:44
  money I need. But the point is, Boomers are unique
• 1:32:48
  also in that way is they are not only population
• 1:32:51
  wise one of the bigger generations, but there's
• 1:32:52
  their time wise spread out over one of the longer
• 1:32:57
  periods of time 1945 to 1964. I think it's 46
• 1:33:02
  close enough. Yeah Okay. Well, what does the
• 1:33:07
  Google machine say? Pfizer says Oh, okay. 46.
• 1:33:18
  You win. Everything says 46. Thank you. Excuse
• 1:33:25
  me. Excuse me. I'm off by a year. I can't remember
• 1:33:28
  everything perfectly. Making statistics up. There
• 1:33:32
  I go again. Just pulling them right out of my
• 1:33:34
  pocket. All right. Are we ready to do the river?
• 1:33:37
  It's a wide enough generation that not everything
• 1:33:39
  is going to get spent off, you know, transferred
• 1:33:42
  all at the same time or spent all at the same
• 1:33:44
  time. And if there is anything like, cause a
• 1:33:45
  lot of it's going to get spent on keeping the
• 1:33:47
  boomers alive forever. Yeah. Average age of,
• 1:33:50
  I guess when you split 65 and 81, it's a five
• 1:33:53
  year split. So let's say the average age is 79
• 1:33:56
  and change. I mean, geez me to Christmas. They're
• 1:33:59
  going to live forever. Yeah, the home prices
• 1:34:03
  might go down for our kids, Scott. They're not
• 1:34:06
  going to go down for us because there's not enough
• 1:34:07
  housing now and the millennial generation is
• 1:34:10
  smaller than the boomer generation. So by the
• 1:34:12
  time the boomers finally die out and Gen X is
• 1:34:15
  kind of on the way and you and I are like 60
• 1:34:17
  something, then the shit might like normalize
• 1:34:23
  and our kids might have normal house prices.
• 1:34:25
  Maybe just be just be just by sheer coincidence,
• 1:34:30
  but just sheer happening of just population decline.
• 1:34:34
  So available housing will actually match population
• 1:34:37
  sizes. Since we've decided, again, thanks to
• 1:34:41
  boomers, mainly NIMBYs and county codes and state
• 1:34:44
  codes and building codes, and that's all boomers,
• 1:34:47
  mainly, making building housing fucking impossible
• 1:34:50
  and prohibitively expensive. It's not something
• 1:34:53
  that's going to sort itself out anytime soon.
• 1:34:55
  We basically, our strategy is we have to wait
• 1:34:57
  for people to die before our kids will. See normal
• 1:35:01
  house like market normal house prices or I mean
• 1:35:04
  that that extends to so many things I mean everything
• 1:35:07
  is becoming prohibitively expensive I mean, you
• 1:35:09
  know, you can't fill up your tractor with diesel
• 1:35:12
  because diesel is eight bucks a gallon Yeah,
• 1:35:14
  but it is like that's not a supply and demand
• 1:35:16
  issue. No, it's not that's what I'm saying. I
• 1:35:18
  mean not the market It's all been messed with
• 1:35:21
  Yeah, I mean that said so housing is more specifically
• 1:35:24
  a supply and demand issue in in the sense We're
• 1:35:26
  like we just literally do not have enough housing
• 1:35:29
  for the population that exists and it is almost
• 1:35:32
  exclusively due to government Distortion of the
• 1:35:35
  marketplace almost exclusively between the Fed
• 1:35:38
  printing money and making the dollar worth significantly
• 1:35:41
  less But you know real estate going up because
• 1:35:44
  we're just not building etc etc etc Prohibitive
• 1:35:48
  building codes land use codes etc etc whereas
• 1:35:51
  like everything else groceries food oil All the
• 1:35:56
  you know clothing construction supplies all that
• 1:35:59
  shit is because of monetary policy the Fed fuck
• 1:36:01
  the Fed and foreign policy Just choking off the
• 1:36:07
  trade points the distribution network It's not
• 1:36:11
  that we don't have enough oil or enough cotton
• 1:36:14
  for the clothes or enough lumber or timber for
• 1:36:17
  the two by fours. There's plenty of all that
• 1:36:19
  shit. The raw resources, there's plenty of raw
• 1:36:22
  resources. We just, our monetary policy and our
• 1:36:27
  foreign policy is what's fucking us there. Yeah,
• 1:36:29
  yeah. Have you thought more about which vintage
• 1:36:31
  firearm should be Idaho's official state gun?
• 1:36:35
  The green one. All right, here is the at long
• 1:36:39
  last the follow -up on the river keeper today
• 1:36:41
  is world cleanup day a global movement Encouraging
• 1:36:44
  everyone to take extra care of the environment
• 1:36:47
  around them the River keeper and lands council
• 1:36:49
  organized tons of volunteers to pick up trash
• 1:36:52
  from in and around the Spokane River today Sunny
• 1:36:55
  day was at the event talking to volunteers about
• 1:36:57
  why they chose to come help This is just a tiny
• 1:37:00
  fraction of the amount of trash that's being
• 1:37:02
  picked up at today's annual river cleanup. There
• 1:37:05
  are hundreds of volunteers out here today and
• 1:37:07
  they've already filled an entire truckload with
• 1:37:10
  trash. Event organizers told me just 30 minutes
• 1:37:12
  into the cleanup, 150 people had already shown
• 1:37:15
  up to help out. This year featured a special
• 1:37:18
  new bag volunteers could use to collect recycling.
• 1:37:21
  It's made entirely from reused materials like
• 1:37:24
  pet food bags and even banners left over from
• 1:37:26
  Expo 74. A representative for the Spokane Riverkeeper
• 1:37:30
  emphasized the importance of the river to our
• 1:37:32
  community and said this annual cleanup is vital.
• 1:37:35
  The river is the lifeblood of our community and
• 1:37:39
  if it's our source of water, if we don't protect
• 1:37:42
  the river, everybody fails, everybody loses.
• 1:37:47
  We need to take pride in it and we need to take
• 1:37:50
  care of it." She says lots of garbage releases
• 1:37:52
  toxic materials into the river, harming the surrounding
• 1:37:55
  fish and birds. When those species struggle,
• 1:37:58
  an entire ecosystem is disrupted, setting off
• 1:38:00
  a chain reaction that lowers the water quality
• 1:38:03
  and destroys wildlife. One volunteer who recently
• 1:38:07
  moved to Spokane said today gave her a chance
• 1:38:09
  to connect with and contribute to her new community.
• 1:38:12
  It like helps me get connected to my community.
• 1:38:14
  I do cleanups wherever I move to so this is the
• 1:38:17
  second city I've done that in and it just like
• 1:38:20
  It helps me feel like I belong somewhere and
• 1:38:23
  that I also do my part to contribute to the place
• 1:38:25
  I live. Volunteers spanned across seven different
• 1:38:28
  sites, including Highbridge Park and Mirabu Trailhead.
• 1:38:31
  One volunteer said it was her fourth river cleanup
• 1:38:33
  this year. It's the least we can do, right? We
• 1:38:36
  only have one Earth, so taking care of it, protecting
• 1:38:38
  it is, you know. It's something close to our
• 1:38:41
  hearts. The Spokane Riverkeeper tells me that
• 1:38:43
  they expect to pull thousands of pounds of trash
• 1:38:45
  out of the river after today's cleanup and hope
• 1:38:48
  to see even more volunteers at next year's event
• 1:38:50
  so that they can keep trash like this out of
• 1:38:52
  the river. In Spokane, Sunny Day, 4 News Now.
• 1:38:56
  So I thought it was really interesting that this
• 1:38:58
  4 News Now report happened to air this week after
• 1:39:00
  our follow up conversation with one of our producers,
• 1:39:03
  Sir Spook of Spokane, who knows the river well
• 1:39:06
  and is, I won't get too specific, but There was
• 1:39:10
  a multi -faceted conversation that Paul and I
• 1:39:13
  had on speakerphone with him over over cigars
• 1:39:16
  Because he a message had come in last show from
• 1:39:18
  him and that because he had heard pre whatever
• 1:39:21
  two shows ago previous segment we did on the
• 1:39:23
  River keeper because the news coverage that we
• 1:39:26
  highlighted because it was all that I found in
• 1:39:29
  previous weeks was more of the hey hey ho ho
• 1:39:31
  commie side of the Riverkeeper where they're
• 1:39:33
  like chanting in megaphones and you know saying
• 1:39:36
  oh the river hath runneth dry and we need more
• 1:39:38
  regulation on on the the flow from the dam and
• 1:39:42
  stuff so the I'll try and naturally they're they're
• 1:39:45
  the ones who get the they're the ones who get
• 1:39:47
  all the all the attention in the media and the
• 1:39:49
  press so they're the ones they're they're the
• 1:39:50
  ones we see yes and as per the As per Sir Spook
• 1:39:55
  of Spokane, that's their MO, is they do that
• 1:39:59
  to drum up the media attention, which then drums
• 1:40:02
  up donations from the Women's Marcher set, let's
• 1:40:08
  say. And they're trying to raise money. But there
• 1:40:11
  was a multifaceted, much more nuanced follow
• 1:40:15
  -up. You want to describe it or you want me to?
• 1:40:19
  I'm going to let you take the reins on this.
• 1:40:21
  It was a fantastic conversation. It was illuminating.
• 1:40:23
  We got a lot of information on it. And it definitely
• 1:40:26
  changed our perspective, our opinion on the organization
• 1:40:30
  as a whole. So now, instead of being fully derisive
• 1:40:37
  of it, now we know that a good half of it is
• 1:40:41
  actually a very good thing. The other half is
• 1:40:44
  still very much worthy of derision. Right, exactly.
• 1:40:48
  And that's why it was interesting that 4 News
• 1:40:50
  Now happened to air a segment on more highlighting
• 1:40:54
  that other side of it, which is just the straight
• 1:40:56
  up... Yeah, the timing is uncanny. Isn't that
• 1:40:58
  weird? That was literally from like three days
• 1:41:00
  ago, this 4 News Now report, which I hadn't ever
• 1:41:03
  found anything like it. I'd only found the hey,
• 1:41:06
  hey, ho, ho stuff. Sir Spook of Spokane pointed
• 1:41:08
  out that the other half of the non -highlighted,
• 1:41:11
  until now, side of Riverkeeper is very much a...
• 1:41:14
  We actually just get in small craft and go fish
• 1:41:18
  garbage out of the river. We're putting our money
• 1:41:21
  where our environmentalist mouths are. We're
• 1:41:22
  not just yelling into a bullhorn or breaking
• 1:41:25
  the windows of foot lockers. We're actually,
• 1:41:27
  we're at the river cleaning up garbage. And that,
• 1:41:30
  I believe he said, Jule Schultz, who is with
• 1:41:33
  the Riverkeeper, I don't know, maybe he's an
• 1:41:35
  executive, or in any case, he's a very big action
• 1:41:37
  taker on the get in the river and clean up garbage
• 1:41:40
  front. very worthy of the title River Keepers
• 1:41:43
  keeping the river. Jule does it like every week
• 1:41:47
  or more. He's made it sound like it was almost
• 1:41:50
  a daily thing, but it was definitely a very regular
• 1:41:52
  thing that Jule himself has personally pulled
• 1:41:55
  hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash out
• 1:41:58
  of the river. Right. That that's that's what
• 1:42:00
  he does is what he's known for and uh, I mean
• 1:42:02
  this I don't I see no downside to action like
• 1:42:05
  that Seems like you're doing the lord's work
• 1:42:06
  and that if you're going to be an activist and
• 1:42:08
  I found it interesting too They're highlighting
• 1:42:10
  the girl is like a sense of belonging a sense
• 1:42:12
  of community Well in in a context like this where
• 1:42:15
  you're getting together with the stick with the
• 1:42:17
  poker on the end of it and picking up garbage
• 1:42:19
  from the from the park like yeah, that's seems
• 1:42:22
  productive and like you're actually putting you're
• 1:42:26
  believing in what you say you believe in because
• 1:42:27
  you're cleaning up you're not just rioting or
• 1:42:30
  yelling into a bullhorn. So that seemed pretty
• 1:42:33
  cool that that was highlighted and that it's
• 1:42:35
  nice to know that that is also going on with
• 1:42:37
  part of this organization and it's not just a
• 1:42:39
  commie front. It's classic volunteerism. It's
• 1:42:45
  what us as libertarians and anarchists always
• 1:42:47
  talk about. You see a need, you fill the need.
• 1:42:50
  You see something that needs to happen. You take
• 1:42:52
  care of it. You see something needs to be done.
• 1:42:53
  You do it. You don't get moral credit for forcing
• 1:42:57
  someone else to do it over the barrel of a government
• 1:42:59
  gun. You know, the taxes are not charity. Charity
• 1:43:04
  is charity. Doing the thing yourself with your
• 1:43:07
  time, your money. That's what we're always talking
• 1:43:10
  about. So well done. Like that was really refreshing
• 1:43:13
  to hear. as Lucas Vulcan was adamant about. He's
• 1:43:15
  like, yeah, that other side of it, they're crazy
• 1:43:17
  commie retards. He goes, but there's a whole
• 1:43:19
  other side of this organization that does put
• 1:43:23
  their, you know, metaphorical money where their
• 1:43:26
  mouths are and have done a lot of great work
• 1:43:29
  and continue to do a lot of great work. So Scott
• 1:43:31
  and I both were like, well, hell, that's great
• 1:43:33
  to know credit where credit is due. We have to
• 1:43:35
  highlight that because that's that's cool. That's
• 1:43:38
  exactly the stuff we want to see cheerlead applaud
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  for support. Spread the word, because we also
• 1:43:45
  look at each other and we're like, we got to
• 1:43:46
  spread the word to our listeners and let them
• 1:43:48
  know that these opportunities exist if they want
• 1:43:50
  to. I mean, I'm not going to do it because I
• 1:43:53
  live in Clark Fork. But, you know, and I'll clean
• 1:43:56
  up my own rivers up here. But if people want
• 1:44:00
  the opportunity, they're there. So I thought
• 1:44:02
  that was cool. Also, Spook of Spokane. I assume
• 1:44:05
  you were probably going to cover this this other
• 1:44:07
  part of our conversation with Spook of Spokane,
• 1:44:09
  Scott, where he kind of gave us some technical.
• 1:44:11
  Information about on the low river level or the
• 1:44:14
  river. Yeah variations. Yeah Yeah, yeah, well
• 1:44:18
  it's so it's it's complex so I'll try to distill
• 1:44:21
  it as best I can or he was Floating one of the
• 1:44:25
  many theories that are being bandied about Among
• 1:44:28
  in these circles of the people who are paying
• 1:44:30
  close attention to the flows and where things
• 1:44:33
  are going into the aquifer and what section is
• 1:44:35
  dry and what section is not and Why it might
• 1:44:38
  be happening that while as we've mentioned on
• 1:44:40
  previous shows covering the River keeper There
• 1:44:42
  are just normal fluctuations and no normally.
• 1:44:45
  Yes, things are dry. There's there's flow. There's
• 1:44:47
  no flow. There's it's just there's variation
• 1:44:50
  in weather, there's variation in water flow,
• 1:44:52
  that the way they do the dam, the level of like
• 1:44:54
  Coeur d 'Alene, there's like a million factors
• 1:44:56
  that go into where there is water and when. But
• 1:44:59
  he did say it what it has been unusually low
• 1:45:03
  at certain times in certain places. Now the records
• 1:45:06
  don't go back that far. And there's there's tribal
• 1:45:09
  considerations for where what the the tribes
• 1:45:12
  control You know, I don't know the whole Lake
• 1:45:15
  Coeur d 'Alene's levels or large parts of it
• 1:45:17
  and what they say goes as far They have a they
• 1:45:19
  have an outsized influence on regulation of the
• 1:45:23
  water level of Coeur d 'Alene Lake which feeds
• 1:45:26
  the Spokane River and They want the Coeur d 'Alene
• 1:45:29
  Lake at a certain level and when they speak about
• 1:45:34
  it It tends to go the way the Coeur d 'Alene
• 1:45:37
  tribe wants because of course no one wants to
• 1:45:39
  be on record telling the tribe no That's a whole
• 1:45:43
  different conversation. And then the dam in Post
• 1:45:47
  Falls, which is run by Avista, well, that obviously
• 1:45:50
  regulates the Spokane River as well. And they
• 1:45:53
  have federal regulations that they have to abide
• 1:45:55
  by, state regulations they have to abide by.
• 1:45:57
  And then, of course, power concerns and maintenance
• 1:46:01
  concerns and all kinds of things they have to
• 1:46:02
  deal with. So you have many different entities,
• 1:46:05
  both governmental and NGO and private sector.
• 1:46:09
  And utility who all have their thumb in the proverbial
• 1:46:13
  pie and all kind of have the stakeholders if
• 1:46:16
  you will and there are many of them of varying
• 1:46:18
  degrees of size power and influence But it's
• 1:46:21
  not just as simple as I'll just turn the water
• 1:46:23
  back on or and it's also not as simple as The
• 1:46:28
  river is dying and there's no more water and
• 1:46:31
  it's climate change and it's humans faults and
• 1:46:34
  we're all gonna die It's nowhere near that either
• 1:46:37
  And there are a number of theories that are floated.
• 1:46:39
  There is one thing that they have noticed, and
• 1:46:41
  that is there is more Water loss is not the technical
• 1:46:46
  term, but it's the term I've got. Leakage, maybe,
• 1:46:49
  is the term. I don't know. What's the term they
• 1:46:50
  use, Scott? Do you remember? I don't remember,
• 1:46:52
  but it was that down into the aquifer. More than.
• 1:46:55
  There is more leakage. I'm just going to call
• 1:46:58
  that. Or drainage, if you will, into the aquifer.
• 1:47:00
  They are noticing that. And so they have formed
• 1:47:04
  half a dozen different theories as to why. Why
• 1:47:06
  now? What's going on? And a couple of the theories.
• 1:47:09
  are really interesting and make a ton of sense.
• 1:47:11
  One of them, like the most obvious one, which
• 1:47:13
  I think was the third one he floated, and that
• 1:47:15
  one stuck with me the most, because Lightning
• 1:47:17
  Creek that goes right through my five acres here
• 1:47:19
  does the same thing, is a buildup of sediment
• 1:47:23
  and rock. Because it could be, one of the theories
• 1:47:26
  is the water levels haven't really receded and
• 1:47:29
  we're not losing a ton of water down into the
• 1:47:31
  aquifer. It just looks like that or feels like
• 1:47:34
  that because of sediment and material and rock
• 1:47:38
  buildup. As material moves down the river, well,
• 1:47:42
  the riverbed get can get higher. So the water
• 1:47:47
  level looks and feels lower. And the river is
• 1:47:50
  still there. It's just flowing underground. You
• 1:47:54
  know, my Arc Creek, right, running through my
• 1:47:57
  backyard, Arc Creek does that. The creek is still
• 1:47:59
  running right now. I can't see most of it, but
• 1:48:01
  it's there. It's just three inches underground
• 1:48:04
  under the under all the rock and the sediment
• 1:48:07
  that's in there. But it's there. One of the other
• 1:48:11
  ones was that because the water, when it warms
• 1:48:14
  up a little bit, when it's coming from Coeur
• 1:48:15
  d 'Alene, being a little warmer, he goes, the
• 1:48:17
  warmer the water, and this again, it's not the
• 1:48:20
  technical term, there's a scientific technical
• 1:48:22
  term for it, but the water actually, when it's
• 1:48:24
  warmer, is a little slipperier. And it can get
• 1:48:30
  down and through things, obviously, with slippery
• 1:48:32
  means it can get places more easily and boom,
• 1:48:35
  there it goes, down into the aquifer. And he
• 1:48:37
  goes, recently, when things warm up a little
• 1:48:39
  bit, if the water goes up half a degree in temperature,
• 1:48:42
  a degree in temperature, it's a little more slippery
• 1:48:44
  than it was 10 years ago. And so we lose a little
• 1:48:47
  more into the aquifer. But the water system as
• 1:48:49
  a whole, and this was the main point, it still
• 1:48:52
  is very, very healthy and is being replenished
• 1:48:56
  in the necessary cycles that it needs to be replenished.
• 1:49:01
  This is not apocalyptic. It's a little quizzical.
• 1:49:04
  But it's not apocalyptic. Yeah, and it's too
• 1:49:06
  bad that it's the apocalyptic, hey, hey, ho,
• 1:49:09
  ho, commie nonsense that is, I guess, what drums
• 1:49:12
  up donations. It's a shame that that's what has
• 1:49:15
  to be highlighted in order to get people to action.
• 1:49:19
  It seems like you would get as many or more if
• 1:49:22
  you highlighted the cleanup efforts, but apparently
• 1:49:24
  that's not the strategy they or the mainstream
• 1:49:27
  media thinks is effective. Well, of course not.
• 1:49:31
  Sensationalism sells, my friend. You know that.
• 1:49:33
  Sex and sensationalism. One of the other notes
• 1:49:36
  from Spookus Bulcan that I thought was really
• 1:49:38
  cool and interesting was he goes, yeah, when
• 1:49:41
  we do get these sensationalist reports and you
• 1:49:43
  see the images of dead fish and things in the
• 1:49:47
  river, in spots where it's drier or where it
• 1:49:49
  looks like it's, he goes, actually, what you
• 1:49:51
  have going on there, he goes, the ecosystem there
• 1:49:53
  is in good shape. He goes, we have the cleanest
• 1:49:57
  water in the damn country. He says the two water
• 1:49:59
  processing plants that we've got around here,
• 1:50:02
  are hold themselves and are held to standards
• 1:50:06
  that don't exist like anywhere else. Yes. Another
• 1:50:10
  reason why another theory and also all of these
• 1:50:14
  theories could it could be a little bit of all
• 1:50:16
  of them. It's no one really knows. That's another
• 1:50:18
  reason that the water has disappeared at a faster
• 1:50:21
  rate or more is that it's cleaner. So it actually
• 1:50:24
  flows down and there's not like gunk that is
• 1:50:26
  stopping the flow to put it crudely. 100 % yet
• 1:50:31
  the water moves down the river a little bit quicker
• 1:50:33
  because there's less there's less algae. There's
• 1:50:36
  less buildup. There's less bacteria. There's
• 1:50:37
  less You know kind of the mucky miry scummy pondy
• 1:50:42
  type stuff to build up because the there is no
• 1:50:45
  nitrates There's no phosphates. There's no nitrates
• 1:50:47
  the two Plants in the Spokane area have the highest
• 1:50:51
  state. That's also why it's so expensive It's
• 1:50:53
  insanely expensive, but they far outpace and
• 1:50:57
  outs and exceed the necessary, the actual necessary
• 1:51:01
  specifications for putting water back into the
• 1:51:03
  system. They're like, so I think Spookispulcan,
• 1:51:06
  he was laughing about it. He goes, it's so laughably
• 1:51:09
  advanced what we're doing up here with this water.
• 1:51:13
  No one else comes close. And it actually might
• 1:51:15
  be contributing to the lack of water later in
• 1:51:19
  the season because it just moves that much faster
• 1:51:21
  downstream because there's nothing to build up
• 1:51:23
  and stop it. But then with all of the, like when
• 1:51:26
  they show pictures of the dead fish and whatnot,
• 1:51:29
  Spook of Spokane was laughing again and he goes,
• 1:51:31
  yeah, what they're showing you is non -native
• 1:51:34
  species. He goes, the ecosystems in great shape
• 1:51:36
  and the species that are from here that should
• 1:51:39
  be here, they're doing fine. The counts are all
• 1:51:42
  good. They migrate up and downstream like they're
• 1:51:44
  supposed to. The plants are fine. The fish are
• 1:51:46
  fine. Everything's fine. What you're seeing are
• 1:51:48
  non -native bass coming down from the Coeur d
• 1:51:52
  'Alene River that were brought here 20 years
• 1:51:54
  ago from somewhere else. They don't belong here.
• 1:51:56
  But so when the water heats up or moves, they
• 1:51:59
  die. The b -roll of the carcass, the skeletal
• 1:52:03
  fish carcass on the dry rock and then the anchors
• 1:52:06
  like, I'm Irving Farquhar. Four News Now. It'd
• 1:52:10
  be so awesome if you put that banjo music to
• 1:52:14
  that. Deep. Hold on. I'm Irving Farquhar. Four
• 1:52:24
  News Now. For the low low price of $38 ,000 a
• 1:52:30
  month YouTube can sponsor a river and make sure
• 1:52:33
  that these poor non -native bass Will never go
• 1:52:37
  hungry or dead again Okay, awesome follow -up
• 1:52:44
  very much appreciated sir spook of Spokane for
• 1:52:48
  the yeah, it was a very baller conversation it
• 1:52:51
  was and there's more too, but it was like it
• 1:52:53
  was it was very content rich and Scott and I,
• 1:52:56
  while we like to fancy ourselves intelligent
• 1:52:58
  human beings, I think together we got probably
• 1:53:01
  70 or 80 % of it. We retained it, but it was
• 1:53:04
  a lot, but it was awesome. So thank you, Spokane.
• 1:53:07
  And as such, you know what? Meetup, no ID meetup
• 1:53:11
  at the lounge on the 25th. Right. You're going
• 1:53:15
  to be here. I think. Oh, is that what you're
• 1:53:17
  thinking of doing? Yeah. Why not? Because we
• 1:53:18
  because we if you recall the conversation with
• 1:53:20
  Sir Spook of Spokane ended with us saying like,
• 1:53:22
  all right, well, thank you. And we're enjoying
• 1:53:24
  cigars. And he said, well, let me give me some
• 1:53:26
  advance notice next time and I'll come have a
• 1:53:27
  cigar with you guys. So let's do let's do this.
• 1:53:31
  Let's do Saturday, the 26th, Friday, the 25th.
• 1:53:33
  I know we'll be there. You and I will be there.
• 1:53:35
  But, you know, we got a meeting of the meeting.
• 1:53:37
  Oh, you're right. Yeah, you got the meeting.
• 1:53:39
  And then I also have planned a rendezvous with
• 1:53:41
  my old buddy, Dave Temple. And so if we're going
• 1:53:45
  to do a no ID meetup, I would much prefer to
• 1:53:48
  be able to devote time and energy and focus on
• 1:53:51
  our no ID people. If we're going to do it, let's
• 1:53:55
  do Saturday the following day, Saturday the 26th,
• 1:53:58
  because I'll be available. I got paintball practice.
• 1:54:01
  I'm coaching my brother and son's paintball team.
• 1:54:04
  That'll be done around one or two. I don't know.
• 1:54:06
  So we could do a meetup at like 3 o 'clock until
• 1:54:10
  pretty much the night's over if we want. When
• 1:54:12
  is when is executive producer Kevin Killian come
• 1:54:15
  in Friday or Saturday? Friday, but that's coming
• 1:54:19
  Friday. OK, we talked to him about Friday about
• 1:54:22
  Saturday. He might be able to shift over or not.
• 1:54:25
  That's OK, too. Maybe if it's just Kevin, I'm
• 1:54:28
  just throwing that out there. Yeah. Hey, let
• 1:54:30
  me let me reset this because it glitched out.
• 1:54:32
  And now I think there's a delay. One moment.
• 1:54:35
  Let me just reset this because I will do one
• 1:54:37
  more clip and then we'll be done for today. Yeah,
• 1:54:39
  that was weird. It's always tough when there's
• 1:54:42
  a when there's a delay because then it's like
• 1:54:43
  we were talking to each other Okay. All right.
• 1:54:45
  All right. Sounds good. I'm down for for Saturday.
• 1:54:49
  That sounds great and also so let's make it official
• 1:54:51
  then Yeah, yeah officially meet up Saturday September
• 1:54:55
  26th, let's say 3 o 'clock until I guess whenever
• 1:55:02
  we run out of steam Word. All right. Sounds good
• 1:55:04
  to me. And so that'll be two days from now as
• 1:55:06
  you guys are hearing this. And let's close out
• 1:55:08
  this week with Uno Mas and I'll give you the
• 1:55:12
  option. Do you want to do a NPR promoting Boise
• 1:55:15
  Pride or do you want to be an or do you want
• 1:55:18
  to do an NPR poll of college kids in Idaho and
• 1:55:22
  how they rank for student openness? Oh, wow.
• 1:55:28
  Those are both terrible. Why are you gay? I could
• 1:55:34
  do another I could do Boise schools enrollment
• 1:55:37
  No, so when I say terrible, I don't mean like
• 1:55:41
  you picked terrible things I just mean they're
• 1:55:44
  both Paul statistics are made up this I'm just
• 1:55:51
  taking a page out of anonymous boomers book.
• 1:55:53
  All right, don't hurt. Don't don't hate the player
• 1:55:55
  hate the game No, we should we should have ended
• 1:55:57
  with this Spokane River thing because it was
• 1:56:00
  a nice thing to end on Now we're going to end
• 1:56:02
  on something that's going to make me depressed.
• 1:56:04
  Let's go with Blackpillum. I think I'd rather
• 1:56:06
  go with the gays instead of stupid young people.
• 1:56:11
  I felt really gay last night. Boise Pride is
• 1:56:14
  back this weekend for its 37th year. Last year,
• 1:56:16
  we reported the festival lost funding amidst
• 1:56:19
  rising economic uncertainty and anti -LGBTQ legislation
• 1:56:23
  and pressure. Julie Luketa has more on how the
• 1:56:26
  festival has pivoted to make it work in 2026.
• 1:56:30
  In 2025, several corporate sponsors pulled out
• 1:56:33
  of the event, resulting in a 40 % decline in
• 1:56:36
  funding compared to the previous year. There
• 1:56:39
  was also grunting coming from behind the stall.
• 1:56:41
  This year's festival also has to make do with
• 1:56:44
  fewer big name donors. Marketing director Davis
• 1:56:47
  Hilton says they're adapting to cover expenses.
• 1:56:51
  We lost a lot of corporate funding in the last
• 1:56:53
  couple of years. We're relying a lot more heavily
• 1:56:56
  on our small businesses who are incredible and
• 1:56:58
  have stepped up this year. The three -day festival
• 1:57:00
  is mostly free, but will charge for two big -name
• 1:57:03
  events. Performances by Trixie Mattel on Friday
• 1:57:06
  and Patty Gonya on Saturday. It's just really
• 1:57:09
  important for us to all come together. When you're
• 1:57:11
  dealing with holes in your budget. I see you
• 1:57:15
  wasted no time in filling my seat hole. Holes.
• 1:57:18
  Also, if you catch, I'm not sure how he's spelling
• 1:57:20
  this. It's just really important for us to all
• 1:57:22
  come together as a community. And so money and
• 1:57:26
  performances aside, it really is super heartwarming
• 1:57:29
  to see the parade and the fireworks and to celebrate
• 1:57:33
  and see all of these vendors and all of the things
• 1:57:35
  they offer and connect. It's really magical.
• 1:57:38
  Pride starts at 5 p .m. on Friday. Here's our
• 1:57:43
  national treasure, our publicly funded radio
• 1:57:46
  promoting. Pride starts at 5 p .m. on Friday
• 1:57:48
  until Sunday afternoon. Yep. There you go. That's
• 1:57:54
  where your tax dollars we were wondering when
• 1:57:56
  and where we could attend There's not enough
• 1:57:59
  and there's there's not enough. They need more.
• 1:58:01
  There's never enough. Their budget is not enough
• 1:58:04
  It's really magical especially with the gays
• 1:58:07
  because the only way that the gays could make
• 1:58:09
  more gays is by turning people gay You have to
• 1:58:15
  recruit PSA gays can't make more gays Are you
• 1:58:23
  sure about it? It sounds like another made up
• 1:58:25
  Paul statistic. Oh, man. I know I'm on a roll,
• 1:58:29
  aren't I? I think they're all made up. Everything
• 1:58:31
  I say is made up. All right. Are we done? I think
• 1:58:35
  we're just done. Let's be done. Yeah. And on
• 1:58:37
  that note, this must be like what anonymous boomer
• 1:58:44
  hears when I talk. You want from me more. How
• 1:58:47
  much more successful do you want me to be? More
• 1:58:50
  successful. How many records can my records break?
• 1:58:53
  More records. But I'm the best. But are you a
• 1:58:57
  different animal and the same beast? What the
• 1:59:02
  f**k does that mean, Kobe Bryant? As in what
• 1:59:06
  the f**k does that mean? What the f**k is he
• 1:59:09
  talking about? I don't think there's a boomer
• 1:59:11
  on the planet that knows that reference. The
• 1:59:16
  important thing is that I'm happy. No ID Show.
• 1:59:21
  This is episode number 47 in the can. We'll be
• 1:59:26
  back next week for episode 48. In the meantime,
• 1:59:28
  please remember us at noidshow .com. To become
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  the value means to you. Send it back our way.
• 1:59:48
  Next week, Matt Edwards will be here. As per,
• 1:59:52
  speaking of boomers, another anonymous, oh no
• 1:59:55
  that was not anonymous, that was Eman, who had
• 1:59:58
  said, I need you to have more guests on your
• 2:00:00
  pod, in the large font, so with emphasis, so
• 2:00:04
  we're heating the call, and we will have another
• 2:00:06
  guest next week. And that is pretty boomer of
• 2:00:07
  him too. yell at us through the internet on the
• 2:00:10
  keyboard. I know. At least he didn't do all caps.
• 2:00:12
  It wasn't all caps. He increased the font size.
• 2:00:14
  Oh, okay. I thought it was all caps. No, fine.
• 2:00:18
  Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I didn't say it. I declared
• 2:00:23
  it. All right. Until next week. Looking forward
• 2:00:29
  to smoking sticks with you guys on Saturday.
• 2:00:32
  From Post Falls, I'm Scott. And I'm Paul. Taxation
• 2:00:36
  is theft. Governor Brad Little has ordered state
• 2:00:39
  officials to keep spending. Everything I say
• 2:00:44
  is made up.