1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Michael, did you see the story about the people in 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: the police chase crash in Aurora that tragically died and 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: the police chase the one guy has been arrested, had 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: been arrested seventy times in thirty years. 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 2: How can that be that the guy is out with 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: seventy arrestler over thirty years. It's hard for you to imagine. 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 3: But I've seen this story in other communities as well. 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: Thank you. 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 4: At some point, and I don't know what the tipping 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 4: point will be these stories. I mean, you're right, we 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 4: hear about these stories all over the country. Truck drivers 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 4: or illegal aliens or whatever that. But for their presence 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 4: illegally in the country, those accidents would not have occurred. 14 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 4: There's no way to get it beyond that logic. They're 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 4: here unlawfully, they're not supposed to be. And but for 16 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 4: the fact that they are here illegally, that particular accident 17 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 4: would not have happened, that chase would not have happened, 18 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 4: and so people would not have died. If anybody died 19 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 4: in that particular one. 20 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: I don't know what. 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 4: That tipping point is, but it has to be at 22 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 4: some level where we recognize I really thought that the 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 4: one where and I don't want to say that it 24 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:34,119 Speaker 4: was someone who was illegal or who had a wrap 25 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 4: sheet a mile long, but there was the family of 26 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 4: five that was killed over on US eighty five somewhere 27 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 4: down between Islands Ranch and Castlelocks somewhere. 28 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 2: Then you got the truck drivers. 29 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 4: You've got the one that smashed right into you know, 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 4: the back end of that car. 31 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: At some point that will change. 32 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 4: But what we ought to do until it does is 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 4: recognize how that occurs. It occurs because we have too 34 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 4: many stupid people, too many people that don't understand the 35 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 4: consequences of their vote, and too many people that then 36 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 4: get elected based on those stupid votes, that become prosecutors 37 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 4: or they become governors, and they appoint judges, and then 38 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 4: those judges and those prosecutors have the idea that, oh, 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 4: it's compassion once again. It's the abdication of compassion to 40 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 4: the government. And liberals believe very sincerely, but I think, 41 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 4: very sincerely incorrectly that compassion means that no one is 42 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 4: ever held accountable for their actions. And it drives me 43 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 4: absolutely backcrap crazy that you know, Dragon and I you know, 44 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 4: we get one slip up of the tongue. You know, 45 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 4: my one of my favorite phrases backcrap crazy. You know 46 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 4: that there's another word that actually fits in there. Well, 47 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 4: if we let that get that get out on air, 48 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 4: it might not necessarily beating into the world, but we're 49 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 4: certainly going to get in trouble for it. So that's 50 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 4: why we keep the dump button ready at all times, 51 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 4: try to avoid it from getting out of the air. 52 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 4: So we are held to a standard that says you'll 53 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 4: follow the rules, and I'm more than happy to follow 54 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 4: the rules. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about it. 55 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 4: I'm just saying that, why why is it that we 56 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 4: have all these different standards of rule following based on 57 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 4: your ethnicity or your citizenship status, or your legal status 58 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 4: or whatever. It drives me crazy, and I know it 59 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 4: drives you crazy too. It also makes me actually a 60 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 4: little And look, I don't drive around paranoid, but I drive. 61 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 4: You know, I'm on the road quite a bit to 62 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 4: and from work, going to see clients, all that sort 63 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 4: of stuff. And I'm on the road quite a bit, 64 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 4: and I'm always seeing potential accidents, and of course I 65 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 4: do everything I can defensively to avoid them. But I 66 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 4: can't help, but wonder do they have a legal driver's license, 67 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 4: how many times they been arrested? How many times have 68 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 4: they been driving drunk? I don't know what to tell you. 69 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 4: For those of you who've listened to me over the 70 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 4: almost two decades, now know that I think that every 71 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 4: single one of us has an obligation in whatever way 72 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 4: we can to make certain that the people that we 73 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 4: vote for. And I don't look, I'm not talking about Trump, 74 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 4: and right now I'm not even talking about members of Congress. 75 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 4: I'm talking about the people that are closest to you. 76 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 4: Your city council, your mayor, own council members, a local prosecutor, 77 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 4: a local district attorney, a county commissioner, a local sheriff, 78 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 4: the deputy sheriffs. Now I know the deputies aren't elected, 79 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 4: but the sheriffs are your school board, school board president, 80 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 4: school board members. 81 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 2: I leave you. 82 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 4: As a state representative, state senators, those are the people 83 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 4: that you can have the most direct influence over. But 84 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 4: and I think part of the problem is that those 85 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 4: like you, I don't know whether you work, whether you're 86 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 4: listening to me as you're driving around and doing your job. 87 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 4: I don't know what your circumstances are. But I do 88 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 4: know that many people have full time jobs and for 89 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: them to take even fifteen minutes away from what they're 90 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 4: supposed to be doing to write an email or to 91 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 4: make a phone call, or to go to a you 92 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 4: know that they'll have a town hall or maybe they 93 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 4: have a fundraiser. Go to a fundraiser, you know, particularly 94 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 4: at that level where it's not really going to cost 95 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 4: you a lot to get in, you know, for AE 96 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 4: hundred bucks you can get into a school board race fundraiser. 97 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 4: And you can and I'm going to use the word browbeat, 98 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 4: but I don't really mean browbeat them, But you can 99 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 4: get in their faces in a professional appropriate way and 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 4: make certain they understand that you believe X, Y, Z, 101 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 4: and that your expectation is that they will do X, 102 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 4: Y and Z, and that if they don't, that you 103 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 4: will use whatever your sphere of influence is, whether that's 104 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 4: your four neighbors around you, or it's your worker, your coworkers, 105 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 4: or it's your church or your synagogue, whatever it is, 106 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 4: you have a sphere of influence. But we all talk 107 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 4: among ourselves. We all talk inward, and we don't talk outward. 108 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 4: And the more we talk outward, the more they'll understand. 109 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 4: That's why I think, Look, do I think that my 110 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 4: tweets meaning things to Jared Polis? No, I'll tell you 111 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 4: what they do mean to other people that read them, 112 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 4: or his staff that read them. And I'm not saying 113 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 4: that extra Twitter is the end all and meal. I'm 114 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 4: just using it as an example. But when I specifically 115 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 4: call out Jared Polus for some of the dumb assy 116 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 4: that he says, and give examples of where it's dumb assery, 117 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 4: then all of the useful idiots that are, you know, 118 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 4: kissing his butt and oh, you're. 119 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 2: Doing a great job, governor, blah blah blah. 120 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 4: Blah, maybe one of them will see that and think about, 121 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 4: oh maybe I should change. 122 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 5: Oh my god, what did I just tune into? Michael's 123 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:39,119 Speaker 5: talking about his widget and something about his widget dropping off? 124 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 5: I thought Rocky Mountain Men's Clinic would have helped him out. 125 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 2: Better than this. 126 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 4: Well, they charge extra for widgets, and my widget is 127 00:07:53,440 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 4: particularly complicated, shall we say, it's a complicated widget? So there, Golly, 128 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 4: I can't escape any of this stuff, can I? 129 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 2: There's no getting around any of it. 130 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 4: Let me swerve from that conversation about each of us 131 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 4: have a responsibility to be more actively involved in the 132 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 4: political process and being willing to live in the real 133 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 4: world about government cannot and should not be compassionate. If 134 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 4: they were, that means that it's a nanty state, and 135 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 4: even a nanny state is not compassionate. The one big, 136 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,319 Speaker 4: beautiful bill signed by Trump back on July fourth is 137 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 4: actually making some really serious changes to the Supplemental Nutritional 138 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 4: Assistance program, the SNAP program, the food the food stamp program, 139 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 4: what do you want to call it. And under that bill, 140 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 4: recip now have to work, train or volunteer for at 141 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 4: least eighty hours per month. Now, I you know, because 142 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 4: I can't do math in my head very well, that 143 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 4: comes out to something like two point six hours two 144 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 4: point six hours per day, eighty hours per month, and 145 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 4: a work day is about just eighty divided by thirty 146 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 4: gives you two point sixty six sixty sixty sixty six six. 147 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,239 Speaker 4: So they got to do that to receive the maximum 148 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 4: benefits work train or volunteer. Now, for recipients that receive 149 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 4: less than the maximum amount, the require monthly number of 150 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 4: hours decreases based on the amount of benefits that somebody 151 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 4: gets that means that people have to work over two 152 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 4: and a half hours per day before the government will 153 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 4: force others. And this is the way I want to 154 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 4: word this. This is the way I want you to 155 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 4: understand it. 156 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 2: We're asking you here, you are, we are all. 157 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 4: Asking that you know it is, well, you just got paid, 158 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 4: or depending what your payroll system is, you're going to 159 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 4: get paid in another eleven days or so. And when 160 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 4: you look at that payroll voucher that you're getting your 161 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 4: email or however you get it delivered or you actually 162 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 4: get a check, and there's the attachment to the check. 163 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 2: I want you to look at it. 164 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 4: Because those federal income taxes, let alone the state income taxes, 165 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 4: but the federal income taxes that are taken out are 166 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 4: not enough to cover all of the spending that Congress 167 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 4: and the President do, which means we didn't have to 168 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 4: go borrow that money. Now, the last I checked, it 169 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 4: was upwards a fifty percent, not quite but getting close. 170 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 4: Maybe I s exceeded that by now I should go 171 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 4: check that. But what we don't have we have to 172 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 4: go borrow, which means that we have to go issue 173 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 4: treasure and we have to put those up at auction, 174 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 4: and so we can borrow the money from the federal 175 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 4: reserve so they can print the money, so we can 176 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 4: You know, it's an inflationary spiral that got way out 177 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 4: of control under Biden. But I'm telling you, while it's 178 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 4: while the rate of inflation has decreased, If you wonder 179 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 4: why things are still so expensive, it's because while the 180 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 4: rate of inflation has increased, the value of the dollar 181 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 4: that you have in your wallet that you're going to 182 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 4: go spend to buy a diet coke is worth less 183 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 4: today than it was a year ago. That's monetary policy 184 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 4: that's got to be fixed. But back to the food stamps. 185 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 4: So you are working so that the money that you 186 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 4: pay in your federal income tax can then go to 187 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 4: pay for someone who is supposed to be working, training 188 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 4: or at least volunteering for eighty hours a week so 189 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 4: they can get the maximum benefits. That means that many 190 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 4: people have to work two and a half hours a 191 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 4: day before the government will force you to pick up 192 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 4: their tab at the supermarket. As before work requirements were 193 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 4: nullified by Biden, all in the name of COVID. I 194 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 4: don't want people to go hungry, don't misunderstand. Don't don't 195 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 4: sit there and try to claim that I'm in the 196 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 4: a hole because I'm pointing out that they're forcing you, 197 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 4: a worker, to give up some of your hard earned 198 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 4: money so that somebody else can go to the grocery store. 199 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 4: I don't think that's a government function. I don't think that. 200 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 4: You know, when I was the undersecretary, we had to 201 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 4: do an audit. I forget who, whether it was the 202 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 4: GAO or OMB or somebody required us to do an audit, 203 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 4: and we were supposed to divide all the programs that 204 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 4: we did between those programs that were inherently governmental, meaning 205 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 4: that it was well defined as a government function, versus 206 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 4: all the peripheral stuff that we did that was not 207 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 4: inherently governmental. I don't think it's an inherently governmental function 208 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 4: to feed society. I think that that is a function 209 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 4: of society, not government. 210 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 2: Why do I spend so much time on that? Or 211 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 2: once you listen to something, next. 212 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 3: If you're listening on the iHeart app, you are forced 213 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 3: to listen to iHeart commercials. Now, all the commercials are 214 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 3: made by the same people because you recognize their voices 215 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 3: and they are the crappiest commercials in the world. These 216 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 3: people don't know how to make a commercial. All the 217 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 3: commercials I listen to make me go I'm not buying 218 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 3: that product for no reason. 219 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 6: Okay, it is a bit of a bummer because the 220 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 6: streaming commercials are different than the over the air commercials, 221 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 6: and both of which we have no control over whatsoever 222 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 6: we have, I mean, have even less control over what 223 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 6: gets streamed. 224 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 2: Oh, we have no control. 225 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 4: I don't think we have any control over what gets 226 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 4: streamed other than what we are doing, like right now 227 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 4: as we are live. 228 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: Correct. 229 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, And I remind people too, if you don't hear 230 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 4: my voice, then it's not something that I endorse or 231 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 4: that ies have there. They're not sponsoring me. That you 232 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 4: have just bought time during the program. And of course 233 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 4: I like to buy time during the program because we 234 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 4: attract a very great audience. Well with the exception of 235 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 4: a couple of you that we've had that we're watching 236 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 4: out for. I want to move on to something going 237 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 4: on in Canada, but before I do, I want to 238 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 4: close out about the whole thing with food stamps, because 239 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 4: I ran across this is from It's one of the 240 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 4: not local, this one. It's one of the Fox affiliates 241 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 4: from around the country. I don't. I just ran across 242 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 4: it last night looking through my x feed, and I 243 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 4: I'm a little hesitant to play it because I don't 244 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 4: want you to think that I'm that much of a 245 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 4: cold hearted bastard. 246 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 2: But when when someone else. 247 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 4: And this is this is really a great example of 248 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 4: the attitude of entitlement, when someone else is using my 249 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 4: tax dollars that you know, right riding my Buster Bucks 250 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 4: to do a quality program, and the engineers and everybody 251 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 4: in this building really work hard to you know, do 252 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 4: I got to quit saying, you know, I've said to me, 253 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 4: you know, too many times, and that in this monologue, 254 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 4: I'm I'm dancing around what's going to be a tough SoundBite. 255 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 4: Let's just play it. Let's just rip the bandage off. 256 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 7: I don't think it's fair either. 257 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 5: You do that, And you were saying, you think it's 258 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 5: going to hurt a lot of people. 259 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, definitely, definitely is gonna hurt a lot of people, 260 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 7: because you never know, you know what, especially now that 261 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 7: we and the holidays and everybody wants to have a 262 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 7: good thing and everything, and if you don't give it 263 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 7: to them, it's going to be really hard. 264 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 2: It's very sunny, and. 265 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 4: If you don't give it to them, it's gonna be 266 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 4: very sad. The point I would make is this, that's 267 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 4: true for everyone, less of course, like yes, maybe you're 268 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 4: you're a billionaire and you've got, you know, pocket change 269 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 4: to go buy your groceries. Everyone struggles. But this sense 270 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 4: of entitlement really does bug me. And we've allowed that 271 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 4: to percolate and to exist. And then when we try 272 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 4: to start drawing in, drawing back and saying, okay, we 273 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 4: you know, in exchange for what we're going to give you, 274 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 4: then we want you to do something train work, volunteer. 275 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, no, can't do that. Okay, well then 276 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 4: we'll just take it all the way. And that's really 277 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 4: the point that I'm getting to because I'm not I'm 278 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 4: not complaining on behalf of myself. I'm complaining on behalf 279 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 4: of all of those people out there that are living 280 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 4: paycheck to paycheck, that are struggling. 281 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 2: That are worried about whether they're. 282 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 4: And they're working, they're being productive members of society. And 283 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 4: because we have allowed progressives and Marxists to now take 284 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 4: our compassion that we would normally you know, by donating 285 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 4: to a food bank, or to a charitable organization, or 286 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 4: to our church or our sonagogue, whomever it might be, 287 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 4: they would help those in need. No, now, we just 288 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 4: expect the government to do it, and we forget that 289 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 4: the people that are working their asses off out there 290 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 4: are struggling too. There's a pastor in Calgary. He's a 291 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 4: street preacher. He leads something called the Mission seven Ministries. 292 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 4: Was arrested on December third, yesterday for breaching a court 293 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 4: order condition by refusing to write an apology letter to 294 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 4: a manager of a library in Calgary. This comes from 295 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 4: a twenty twenty three confrontation at Town Public Library library 296 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 4: excuse me in Calgary during a reading with Royalty event. 297 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 4: This is where drag performers read to children. Now I'm 298 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 4: not dragging up the whole drag Queen's reading the children's 299 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 4: issue again because I you know what you need to 300 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 4: go deal without your school board. Here's my problem. The pastor, 301 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 4: Derek raymer Rhymermer, I'm not sure, questioned the librarian about 302 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 4: the program's content. So he posted his exchange with her 303 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 4: online and he urged protests, and for doing that he 304 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 4: was convicted of criminal harassment and bail breaches. He was 305 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 4: released on conditions, including house arrest. During during that period, 306 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 4: uh released on conditions including house arrest that was supposed 307 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 4: to end soon. He defied the apology mandate. Okay, I 308 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 4: understand that you didn't follow the rules. He decided that 309 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 4: it was compelled speech against his religious convictions, and that 310 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 4: led to him being taken into custody after the deadline 311 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 4: had passed. The arresting officer. 312 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 2: UH, no, just the regular call. 313 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 3: So you're under arrest for your breach of Cso. 314 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 6: Can you come inside with the speak? 315 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 2: Sounds good? 316 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 6: Are you able to drop that? 317 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 2: For year? 318 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 3: Tapping off the life from. 319 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 4: You know, while you're arresting this month for he was 320 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 4: apologized for he's religious. 321 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 3: Understand how. 322 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 2: Do you guys understand what you're doing? 323 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 6: You probably wouldn't be doing it. 324 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 2: Apologist is not a. 325 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: Pride thing to do. 326 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 4: I like the fact they asked the cops, are you 327 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 4: aware of why you're arresting him? 328 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 2: Now? 329 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 4: His legal troubles began back in twenty twenty three. Missed 330 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 4: all those protests that were going on about the drag 331 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 4: queen story hours We all heard about those. 332 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 2: Well, he entered this event. 333 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 4: He asked the librarian why taxpayer funded libraries hosted it. 334 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 4: The video is quite He's not confrontational. He just wants 335 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 4: he wants to understand what's going on. He left when 336 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,679 Speaker 4: he was asked to leave, but he shared the video 337 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 4: online criticizing her role. This is after she's nowhere around. 338 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 4: She's back at the library, he's gone home, he's taking 339 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 4: his phone video and he's uploaded it and he asked again, 340 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 4: why are they allowing this to occur in taxpayer public libraries. 341 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 4: He was convicted in August of last year by this 342 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 4: justice who were rejected his Canadian Charter rights. He made 343 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 4: the argument on freedom of religion and conscience. As the 344 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 4: judge did that his religious freedom arguments and his conscience 345 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 4: was irrelevant. He faced a year long house arrest instead 346 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 4: of jail. With the apology do on November twenty eight, 347 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, His probation officer reportedly aimed to break 348 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 4: down his traditional views, highlighting the ideological pressures that he 349 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 4: was facing based on his deeply held religious beliefs. 350 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 2: The reason I. 351 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 4: Bring you the story is the arrest underscores Canada's prioritization. 352 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 2: We're on this road kids, We're on the same. 353 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 4: Damn road, prioritization of hate speech laws and anti harassment 354 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 4: measures over our robust freedom of expression protections under the 355 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 4: First Amendment. Well, they have something called the Charter of 356 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 4: Rights and Freedoms, and the courts in Canada have deemed 357 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 4: that implicable here. So Reamer now risks extended custody, stricter 358 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 4: probation for non compliance. Now I understand, don't get me wrong. 359 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 4: As long as I understand he did not follow their 360 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 4: probation rules, he did not issue the apology. The reason 361 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 4: he did not issue the apology is because the requirements 362 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 4: for the apology violated his deeply held religious beliefs. I 363 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 4: have a problem with a judge ordering an apology. If 364 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 4: the judges said apologized to her and that was the 365 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 4: only requirement, that I'd say fine. But the apology went further. 366 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 4: Had to go further than that. It had to be 367 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 4: pretty much a confession that he was wrong in questioning 368 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 4: why there were the drag queen stories going on in 369 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 4: a taxpayer public library. Now, if that had occurred in 370 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 4: this country, I firmly believe his actions would likely be 371 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 4: shielded by the First Amendments. Free speech, free exercise clause 372 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 4: protecting expressive protests against government funded programs even if somebody 373 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 4: finds them offensive. Courts per cases like Snyder versus. Felt, 374 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 4: that's the twenty eleven case that affirmed offensive speech of 375 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 4: public events. And then, of course, right here in Colorado 376 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 4: we've got Masterpiece Cake Shop versus Colorado from twenty eighteen, 377 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 4: safeguarding religious objections to LGBTQ messaging. 378 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 2: I think that. 379 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 4: This case would have been struck down as a compelled 380 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 4: apology that is unconstitutional speech. And I think also you 381 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 4: go all the way back to West Virginia State Board 382 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 4: of Education versus Barnett, no arrests for refusal harassment claims 383 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 4: probably would fail absent true threats, which did not exist 384 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 4: here in my view, preserving his right to public criticism 385 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 4: without retaliation, and bolstering religious nationwide. This contrast, this contrast 386 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 4: reveals deeper free speech divergences because Canada's so called balanced approach, 387 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:17,360 Speaker 4: which it does not, yields incarceration for an unapologetic belief, 388 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 4: while our system prioritizes individual rights over your. 389 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 2: So called emotional harm claim. 390 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 4: You little snowflake, Oh you were you were offended by 391 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:34,479 Speaker 4: what I said? Well, sucks to be you. We've got 392 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 4: to be very, very careful because the First Amendment is 393 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 4: on tenuous grounds in this country. This is occurring in Canada, 394 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 4: it's occurring in the on the European continent. It's way 395 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 4: overboard in uh New Zealand and Australia, it's way overboard 396 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 4: in the United Kingdom. So a lot of Western what 397 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 4: we would consider it to be our allies, our Western 398 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,880 Speaker 4: civilized nations, are beginning to take these hate speech laws, 399 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 4: and as I predicted for decades, would then start bastardizing 400 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:13,959 Speaker 4: them to control speech. I would think that sometime today 401 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 4: I offended somebody, Well, you know what, if you're offended 402 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 4: by something that I say, or if I'm offended by 403 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 4: a talkback, well, if I'm offended by a talkbacking, damn, well, 404 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 4: be certain that dragon will play it just to try 405 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 4: to offend me and piss me off. True, absolutely, But 406 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 4: if it pisses him off, he won't play it. Really, 407 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 4: just just ignore it. Just ignore it. That's the way 408 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 4: it should be. That's our heritage. And so we're sitting 409 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 4: here all dumb, fat and happy thinking that, oh, our 410 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,399 Speaker 4: rights are being protected, Our rights are sanqui sanct No 411 00:26:55,520 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 4: they're not. There is boiling up all around us, civilized 412 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 4: nations who are now beginning to say, oh, we don't 413 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 4: care what the Magna Carta said. We don't care about 414 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 4: you know, the human right of speaking your mind about something. No, 415 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 4: it's beginning to get whittled away. And if we lose 416 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 4: that right in this country, if we lose the right 417 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 4: to freely express ourselves about something we have a deeply held, 418 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 4: particularly a deeply held religious belief. Because now you've gotten 419 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 4: from free speech to the free exercise provision of the 420 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 4: First Amendment. You are free to exercise your religion, of course, 421 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 4: as long as it doesn't you know, involved, you know, 422 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 4: marrying twelve year old girls. Yeah, when you compare our 423 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 4: laws to Canadian laws uncompelled speech and religious cases, they 424 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 4: have done exactly what I was fearful that would happen. 425 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 4: And now is anybody this is me? Remember it. Make 426 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,080 Speaker 4: sure you have the right scene in your mind. He 427 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 4: didn't go bursting through the library door. He didn't yell 428 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 4: and scream at this person. He walked in and asked 429 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 4: the librarian what's going on here? 430 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 2: What is this event? 431 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 4: Oh, you're having drag Queen's read to children you under 432 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 4: the age of majority. Okay, why is that being done 433 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 4: in a taxpayer, publicly funded library? 434 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,920 Speaker 2: That was it? She gave an answer. 435 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 4: He takes the video that he took of the question, 436 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 4: goes home, posts that online, and for that he's arrested 437 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 4: and for that conviction of violating the Canadian law. He 438 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 4: is then forced to issue an apology, the apology which 439 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 4: goes against his dip deeply held religious beliefs. Now, he 440 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 4: was arrested and he'll face the consequences for not following 441 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 4: the order. But my question is simply this, would you've 442 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 4: apologized and would you have apologized in conformity with the 443 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 4: judge's order, because that's where I draw the line. Now, 444 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 4: the Canadian judge may feel perfectly within his rights that 445 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 4: you have to apologize and you cannot say anything about 446 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 4: your religion or anything else. Really, because now you're trampling 447 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 4: on my First Amendment rights, not just you're trampling on 448 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 4: them in two scenarios. One I'm being punished for going 449 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 4: in and having questioned something. Two I'm being punished for 450 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 4: having posted my objection online. And now three I'm being 451 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 4: punished because I refuse to follow your outline of what 452 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 4: my apology ought to say, because what you want me 453 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 4: to say offends my religious beliefs. 454 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 2: It's way out of 455 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 4: Control, and we've got to keep watching it, or soon 456 00:29:58,920 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 4: it'll happen here.