1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Situation with Michael Brown featuring the Dragon 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: Redbeard on a fifty koa. Here are your rules of engagement. 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: Text the word Mike or Michael to three three one 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: oh three and leave a message. Download the free to 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: you iHeartMedia app. Be sure to favorite the two greatest 6 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: shows iHeartMedia has to offer, The Situation with Michael Brown 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: and The Weekend with Michael Brown. 8 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 2: Press the little red microphone button in the top. 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: Right corner to leave a talkback, and your voice may 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: just make it on the radio. Last, but not least, 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: go to Michael says go here dot com. 12 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: That's Michael says. 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 1: Go here dot com, where you can find compilations of 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: talkbacks and all the witty things that Dragon posts throughout 15 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: the day. 16 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 3: Well, Michael is uh. 17 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 4: Henry Choll, the comedian, would say, what's that clicking noise? 18 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: Asks everybody switching the radios off of your news station? 19 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 2: O koa. 20 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 5: W Well, then, how do you know? How do you 21 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 5: know we'll get them back? I'm not worried about that. 22 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 5: They'll they'll soon come to love Dragon and despise me 23 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 5: as they normally do. 24 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 3: So. 25 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 5: Situation normal, It's a snaf foo, always a snaf food. 26 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 5: Don't forget the text lines always open three three one 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 5: zero three, keyword micro Michael. You can tell me anything 28 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 5: or ask me anything. And I was just going through 29 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 5: them and you're right. Uh, my goodness is uh goober 30 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 5: number fifteen twenty three? These three hours go fast whenever 31 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 5: we used to listen to you for four hours. 32 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh. 33 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 5: I'm looking at the clock going, whoa, And I know 34 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 5: a lot of you are look at the clock going, is. 35 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: It ever going to end? Yeah? 36 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 5: No, No, You'll you'll soon come to love us. Yeah 37 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 5: you will. I promise, I promise. You want to talk 38 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 5: about trucks for a moment, Let's talk about trucks for 39 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 5: a moment. Ford's over hype electric full size pickup might 40 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 5: be headed for the scrap heap. 41 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 3: Of EV history. 42 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 5: It sure looks like that might be the ultimate decision 43 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 5: from the company c suite because of flagging sales and 44 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 5: pressure from investors that are tired of footing the bill. 45 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 5: Do you know what the annual loss is for Ford 46 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 5: Fixed a repair daily found on the roadside dead five 47 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 5: billion dollars in annual losses in the company's Model EEV division, 48 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 5: The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday. 49 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:34,119 Speaker 3: I think it was that. 50 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 5: And what made me think about this story was I 51 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 5: saw something on Facebook where an acquaintance I can't really 52 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 5: say it's a friend an acquaintance on Facebook. By the way, 53 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 5: if you're not following me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, 54 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 5: you need to do that on X I'm sorry, excuse me, Elon, 55 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 5: it's X at Michael Brown USA, Go give me a 56 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 5: follow right now. The Wall Street Journal was reporting that 57 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 5: company executives are quote in act the discussions about what 58 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 5: to do about their they say, vaunted electric truck for 59 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 5: which there is really no demand now. When Ford rolled 60 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 5: this out onto the market in twenty twenty one, Ford 61 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 5: said its goal was to move one hundred and fifty thousands, 62 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty thousand of these monstrosities yearly on 63 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 5: an annual basis. They haven't even made it into the 64 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 5: ballpark of reaching that level. What do you think that 65 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 5: last year, how many units of that truck were sold? 66 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 5: Anybody want to take a guess and got a number 67 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 5: in your head. Thirty three thousand. They were trying. When 68 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 5: they rolled it out, they told the country and their shareholders, 69 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 5: We're going. 70 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 3: To sell one hundred and fifty thousand of these trucks. 71 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 5: On an annual basis, and last year just sold thirty 72 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 5: three thousand units, and since then sales have slowed even 73 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 5: below that level. After Trump did away with California's suicidal 74 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 5: ev mandate, isn't that interesting? You mandate something and then 75 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 5: you take away the mandate and people go. 76 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 3: Oh, finally, I didn't want that anymore. 77 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 5: And he also eliminated the Inflation Reduction Acts seven thousand 78 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 5: dollars per unit subsidy as of the end of September, 79 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 5: So you take all of that away, Everybody goes, ah, 80 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 5: maybe I don't want to buy that truck after all. 81 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 5: It's amazing how economics works, isn't it. It's just like 82 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 5: the law of physics. The Adam Khrushar, I'm not sure. 83 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 5: I'm sure I'm bashardizing the name, but Adam he's the 84 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 5: owner of Lester Glenn Auto Group out in New Jersey. 85 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 5: In quoting he was quoted in the Wall Street Journal 86 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 5: said this, the demand is just not there. We don't 87 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 5: order a lot of them because we don't sell them. Okay, gosh, 88 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 5: a car dealer running his business on uh supply demand 89 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 5: principles in the face of massive marketing campaigns coming down 90 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 5: from corporate that's filled with I don't know, sugar plum 91 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 5: ferries or something. 92 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 3: Loo could have seen this one coming. 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 5: And I know I'm talking about trucks, but stop and 94 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 5: think about anything else where you impose a mandate, and 95 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 5: then on top of the mandate, you subsidize. You create 96 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 5: a false, fake market, and if you don't really want that, 97 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 5: you're going to look for alternatives and you'll end up 98 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 5: buying some other truck because I don't want an EV 99 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 5: and I don't trust the EV yet. I mean, the 100 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 5: battery technology is not to the point yet where you 101 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 5: can trust it to really carry the loads that it's 102 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 5: designed to load. And if it does, for how long? 103 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: How long? 104 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 5: The Wall Street Journal said there's a decision to cancel 105 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 5: the F one fifty Lightning. Actually now, this is, according 106 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 5: to the Wall Street Journal, could spell the beginning of 107 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 5: the end of the US electric vehicle their attempts to 108 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 5: attrack consumers to a full size truck market, because they 109 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 5: note that, as we see every day, car makers are struggling. 110 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 3: With their own dumb decisions to try to compete. 111 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 5: In that segment from the story comes this, no final 112 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 5: decision has been made yet, according to people familiar with 113 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 5: the discussions, but such a move by Forward could be 114 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 5: the beginning of the end for big EV trucks. Ram 115 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 5: truck maker stillants Jeep. Earlier this year called off plans 116 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 5: to make an electric version of its full side pick up. 117 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 5: General Motors execs have discussed discontinuing some electric trucks, According 118 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 5: to people familiar with the matter, sales of Tesla's angular 119 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 5: stainless steel cyber truck uglistling on the earth. I'm sorry 120 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 5: if you have one, but I just think it's ugly 121 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 5: that tank. This year, and EV truck maker Rivian has 122 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 5: been cutting jobs to conserve cash. Riythian's also been doing 123 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 5: a lot of product placement. Tam and I were watching 124 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 5: some series about a kidnap and I'll sensibly a kidnapping. 125 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 5: I forget what streaming service surface it was on, but 126 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 5: one of the main characters, the father of the missing boy, 127 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 5: drives a Rythan truck and oh, my gosh, did we 128 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 5: see Rivian. The camera would focus on the Rivian nameplay 129 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 5: and then slowly howly move away. Product placement still not working. 130 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 6: Mike or Michael listeners Gooper eighty one hundred a p 131 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 6: one listener from Colorado Springs, Colorado, want to welcome you 132 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 6: to K ZEROA. I've been listening to you on the 133 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 6: iHeartRadio app. 134 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 5: I'm glad you're doing it. Let's get to the text line. 135 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 5: I'm gonna cover some texts. Remember the text numbers three 136 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 5: three one zero three three three one zero three. Keyword 137 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 5: is either Mike or Michael. You can just use either 138 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 5: one at the beginning of the text. You do Mike 139 00:07:59,680 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 5: or Mike. 140 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can be a smart ass and do either one. 141 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: Like that talkback we just heard. 142 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 7: You don't have to use a keyword or anything on 143 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 7: the talkback that just comes straight to the station, straight 144 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 7: to me. But if you say Mike or Michael, it just. 145 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 5: It's just irritating to me. So people do it to 146 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 5: irritate me. It makes Dragon happy. Uh, I love this. 147 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 5: I've heard your honest before. It honestly is one sided. 148 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 5: Best for journalists to admit that. I agree. I think 149 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 5: a journalist should admit to their to their biases. A 150 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 5: journalist should try to be objective. Uh, that's why I'm 151 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 5: not a journalist. If if you tune into this program 152 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 5: and you expect to hear a journalist then you're going 153 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 5: to have, uh a brain fart. 154 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 3: You're gonna be like, oh my god, what am I? 155 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 3: What am I doing? 156 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 5: What am I doing? I'm not a journalist. I don't 157 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 5: pretend to be one. I'm not one, never wanted to 158 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 5: be one. That's not my deal. My deal is to 159 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 5: tell you what I think about issues. 160 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 3: And as I've told you, you know, there's a guy 161 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 3: that sat in. 162 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 5: This chair for decades who always like to say to 163 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 5: a listener to or callers, but end up saying it. 164 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 5: I want you to know where I stand before I sit. Well, 165 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 5: I've told you from the start of the program at 166 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 5: nine o'clock this morning that I am a right of 167 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 5: center conservative slash libertarian talk show host, and my point 168 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 5: of view, my POV is the cool kids say is 169 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 5: right of center. Now, there occasionally when I will irritate 170 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 5: people who are also conservative or libertarian because I might dwell, 171 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 5: you know, kind of cross over a little bit onto 172 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 5: the other, to the dark side. But I'll tell you 173 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 5: exactly why, because neither side has some sort of lock 174 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 5: on being right or wrong. But I take it from 175 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 5: a conservative point of view. So if that's not your thing, 176 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 5: that's not your thing. But if your thing is you 177 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 5: want to learn what conservatives slash libertarians believe, and you 178 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 5: want to hear the rationale and the reason and the 179 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 5: logic behind that, then you're in the right place. And 180 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 5: I would encourage you to stay and do that, because 181 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 5: you know what, where do you think I get most 182 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 5: of my material. I get most of the material that 183 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 5: i'd like that I like to talk about. 184 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 3: From over there. 185 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 5: Yes, goober number seventeen fifty seven, Michael, welcome back to 186 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 5: the mothership. It is a mothership. We actually have a 187 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 5: seed that works too. Dragon word how long it will last? 188 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 5: It's comfortable. Yeah, I could just sit here all day. 189 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 5: That blond shack from used to be from across the 190 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 5: hall that now you know comes in after me. 191 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 2: You're the guy. You're a guy from across the hall. 192 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 3: Now I'm the guy. That's right, I'm the dumb ass 193 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 3: from across the hall. That's who I am. 194 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 5: Let's see seventeen forty eight, Michael, big ass assumptions. I 195 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 5: see what you did there? 196 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: Huh? 197 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 3: Yes? 198 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 5: And oh and break time. One thing, I haven't heard 199 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 5: anyone this is sixty four or fourteen. I haven't heard 200 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 5: anyone ask why they are forty million on snap. Okay, 201 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 5: why are there forty million on snap? 202 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 3: Frannie? 203 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 5: Speaking of drugs, you couldn't hide from me, I'm still here. 204 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 4: Good morning, Michael and Dragon. Welcome to your new time 205 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 4: slot on KOA. I have been trying desperately to give 206 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 4: up some vices this past a couple of months. 207 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 3: Something like that. 208 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 4: Everything that I love seems to be killing me some 209 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 4: way or another. Whiskey, women, nicotine, and foul language. If 210 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 4: you could just hit a man with some curse words 211 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 4: or some cackles, yes, some kambala cackles, please hit me 212 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 4: with them. 213 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: That really helped me. 214 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 5: You, mister producer, are what we refer to as an enabler. 215 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about. He's trying to 216 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 5: get rid of those vices. He asked for it. So 217 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 5: the guys, the guys that went the fentanyl over here 218 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 5: behind the McDonald's at Bellevue and Quebec, are desperate for fentanyl, 219 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 5: and so they asked for it. I'm supposed to give 220 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 5: it to him. By the way, if you want to 221 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 5: avoid the cackles, make sure you always leave a talkback. 222 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 3: We need dalkbacks. 223 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 2: Yep, you can do it. 224 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 3: I I can't decide whether to explain it or not. 225 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 2: No explanation, No explanation. 226 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 5: Okay, Zoe Fram, Mom, Donnie, did you take any zo 227 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 5: Fram this morning? 228 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: Because because I knew I was, He's. 229 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 3: Gonna work with me, because we show up together again. 230 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 5: Zofram Mandani will be officially sworn in as I think 231 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 5: the second young I may be wrong about this, but no, no, 232 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 5: Remember somebody said I'm I'm full of myself. I'm never wrong. 233 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 5: I'm more wrong than you can imagine. I think he 234 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 5: will be the second youngest mayor in the history of 235 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 5: New York City, behind a guy by the name of 236 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 5: Hugh Grant. 237 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 3: No, not that Hugh Grant, but a Hugh Grant. 238 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 5: He'll be thirty four years old when he's sworn in 239 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 5: on January one, and I think he actually is sworn 240 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 5: in on January one. Dragon will be out partying, but 241 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 5: Zofram will be getting sworn in. Interestingly, both of these 242 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 5: young y'all who's represented the Democrat Party as the mayor 243 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 5: of New York City. But I would argue that Zofram 244 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 5: Mam Donnie's version of Democrat is really a far cry 245 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 5: from Hugh Grant's of the Democrat Party. And to that point, 246 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 5: Mamdani is a member of the Democrat Socialist of America. 247 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,719 Speaker 5: He's a middle a member of the DSA. Go look 248 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 5: at the people accuse me sometimes of overusing the word 249 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 5: Marxist and communists. I know none of you would ever 250 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 5: do that, particularly those of you who think that you're, Oh, 251 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 5: I'm I'm right down the middle of the road. Bull crap. 252 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 5: Nobody's down the middle of the road, and you know it. 253 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 5: You just like to pretend you're down the middle of 254 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 5: the road. Go look up Democrats Socialists of America and 255 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 5: then tell me that that's what you stand for, that 256 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 5: that's what you believe, because then I'll say, yes, you're 257 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 5: a Marxist, you're a communist. So unlike the traditional old 258 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 5: school liberal Democrats who often tried to hide their socialist 259 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 5: bent and sometimes really didn't even have one, they were 260 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 5: just like, oh, big government can fix a lot of stuff. 261 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 5: Zofram is an avowed socialist, and he actually sees capitalism 262 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 5: as the problem and big government, socialism, Marxism, communism has 263 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 5: the answer. 264 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 3: In fact, he said that in his speech, we will. 265 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 5: Prove that there is no problem too large for government 266 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 5: to solve. And no concern too small for it to 267 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:17,640 Speaker 5: care about. And somehow the no Kings people are out 268 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 5: there protesting, we don't want eat kings. You just elucted 269 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 5: the guy who already thinks of himself as a king. 270 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 5: I find it freaking hilarious. So the question is it's 271 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 5: a serious question. How much change and how much damage 272 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 5: can Zoe Frawnmandanny Mom Donnie actually impose? Can he really 273 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 5: make the city's buses free? Can he really make childcare free? 274 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 3: Can he? 275 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, let's think about the word free 276 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 5: just now. For those of you who've listened to me 277 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 5: for over the years, do you know I kind of 278 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 5: despise the word free because there is nothing that is free. 279 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 5: Somebody somewhere, somebody along that chain, somebody pays for it. 280 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 5: But he wants to sell free buses and free childcare. 281 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 2: Which is why you like to use the free to 282 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 2: you iHeart Radio tried. 283 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 5: It is free to you iHeartRadio app because well, we 284 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 5: pay for it, yes we do. In fact, we pay 285 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 5: so much for it that they don't pay Dragon and 286 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 5: I enough so that you get so that you can 287 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 5: stream us and so that you can leave talkbacks. So there, 288 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 5: so I guess we do get a benefit from it. 289 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 5: Although isn't it good to our truck drivers still out 290 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 5: there listening? 291 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 3: Yeah? Come on, admit it. No comment, Yeah, you were 292 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 3: worried about it. 293 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 5: Can ken Zofram set up a bunch of city run 294 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 5: grocery stores? Can he force rent freezes across the entire 295 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 5: five boroughs of New York City? In short, I would ask, 296 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 5: can he actually do what he campaigned on doing? 297 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 3: Now? 298 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 5: Obviously, when you're campaigning your answers to very complex issues 299 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 5: that played in New York City. 300 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 3: I was just there a few weeks ago. 301 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 5: The answers are pretty simplistic and they're pretty unrealistic. I 302 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 5: hate to say this, but I think Andrew Cuomo kills 303 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 5: old people. Was right when he observed Mom Donnie during 304 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,920 Speaker 5: the last debate and said their quote, there is no 305 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 5: reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for 306 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 5: eight point five million lives. You don't know how to 307 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 5: run a government, you don't know how to handle an emergency, 308 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 5: and you literally never proposed a bill on anything that 309 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 5: you're not talking about in your campaign. 310 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 3: Cuomo might be a. 311 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 5: Little careful about, you know, qualification for taking care of 312 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 5: eight point five million lives because well, he killed a 313 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 5: lot of old farts. But Mom Donnie really has he 314 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 5: really has never run anything other than this winning campaign. 315 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,159 Speaker 5: So think about his experience, his actually his inexperience. He 316 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 5: starts say experience, Think about his inexperience. How successful do 317 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 5: you think he can be? And more importantly, how much 318 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 5: power will he have to well, he have in order 319 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 5: to effect the changes that he has told the voters 320 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 5: that he would make. Now, this is going to be 321 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 5: really interesting to watch because when you look at the 322 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 5: the voter turnout predominantly eighteen to thirty five year olds, 323 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 5: and I think it narrow down even further twenty one 324 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 5: to thirty five year olds who voted for him in 325 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 5: record numbers. Now, New York is a heavily like eighty 326 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 5: ninety percent Democrat city, but they voted for him on 327 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 5: the belief that he was going to deliver all of 328 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 5: these lollipops and rainbows, snow cones. Everything was going to 329 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 5: be free, even the grocery stores, government run grocery stores. 330 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 5: Wait a minute, can he do that? Because here's where 331 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 5: Mom Donnie's refusal to endorse the current governor of New York, 332 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 5: Kathy Hokeel in return for her clearly less than enthusiastic endorsement. 333 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 5: It's probably going to come back to. In fact, not 334 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 5: only May, but has come back to buy him. 335 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 3: Give you an example. 336 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 5: New York City's trains and buses fall into the purview 337 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 5: of the state run Metropolitan Transit Authority. That's a state agencies. 338 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 5: The members are appointed by the governor the CEO of 339 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 5: the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Someone by the name of John 340 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 5: Odieber said that the Transit agency doesn't treat New York 341 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 5: like it's doctor Frankenstein's lab. Let's just attach the electrodes 342 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 5: and just see what happens. I kind of like that 343 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 5: phrase because that's kind of what socialism and Marxism communism does. Hey, 344 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,239 Speaker 5: we've never had the right people do it before, but 345 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 5: we are the ones. Remember Obama told us that we 346 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,679 Speaker 5: are the ones that you've been waiting for. No, I 347 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 5: haven't been waiting for you. I've been dreading you, is 348 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 5: what I've actually been doing. But he is like going 349 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 5: to just attach the electrodes to doctor Frankenstein the five 350 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,400 Speaker 5: boroughs of New York. 351 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 3: He's going to see what happens. 352 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 5: In other words, he does not have unilateral authority to 353 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 5: simply implement his free buses policy. And if he's going 354 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 5: to see any movement on that front, at the very least, 355 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 5: he's gonna have to get Kathy Hockle on board, Which 356 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 5: brings me to this breaking news. Governor Hokele has announced 357 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:22,479 Speaker 5: that the state budget of New York cannot, let me 358 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 5: emphasize that again, cannot accommodate the free business program being 359 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 5: proposed by the socialist New York City Mayor le Zofram 360 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 5: Mom Donnie. Now she did endorse Mom Donnie in his 361 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 5: inner campaign or in his campaign. She made the comments 362 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 5: during a political conference in Porto Rico on Saturday. Now, 363 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 5: you might ask payment what's she doing at a political 364 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 5: conference in Puerto Rico, because there's a lot to Puerto 365 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 5: Ricans in New York City. 366 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 3: She said, and I. 367 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 5: Quote, I cannot set forth a plan right now that 368 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 5: takes money out of a system that relies on the 369 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 5: fares of the buses and the subways. When we've reached 370 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 5: the point in this country where you have to be 371 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 5: the master of the obvious, where you have to state 372 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 5: the obvious in order to let some dumbass, thirty four 373 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 5: year old god that's never done anything. A Ugandan Marxist 374 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 5: claimed he's going to provide free buses. Guess what, he 375 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 5: doesn't even understand that he doesn't have the authority of 376 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 5: the power to do that. Now I get don't get 377 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 5: me wrong. He's got the power persuasion. He can what 378 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 5: set off riots. Tell all of those eighteen to thirty 379 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 5: five year olds that voted for him, Hey, take out 380 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 5: your trash and dump it out on the streets in 381 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 5: New York City. Well, that's not going to do anything. 382 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 5: The garbage piles up all the time in the streets 383 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 5: of New York City anyway. And then Hoko went on 384 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 5: to highlight a three billion Medicaid deficit and of course 385 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 5: all the federal funding cuts as obstacles to implementing his proposals. 386 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 5: She said, and again I quote, our ambitions are big, 387 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 5: and I believe in them, and I want to accomplish them. 388 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 5: But we also have to figure out. Now I'm in 389 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,439 Speaker 5: the whole three billion dollars already just on Medicaid cuts. 390 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 5: The promise of free stuff I thought was the stuff 391 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,239 Speaker 5: of high school student council candidates. I thought that if 392 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 5: you were running for student council president, that you offered. 393 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 5: You promise free pizza on Fridays, no homework on the weekends. 394 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 5: But that kind of bull crap meets the reality of 395 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 5: the real world. And Hochel, who oversees the Metropolitan Transit Authority, 396 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 5: eliminating fairs for New York City buses will put the 397 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 5: state and the city in an even deeper budget hole. 398 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 5: So while the Ugandan immigrant had previously secured a pilot 399 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 5: program for now, I want you to think about this 400 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 5: one free bus in each city borough in twenty twenty three. 401 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 5: That's what he promised back in twenty twenty three. Now 402 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 5: he never made he never fulfilled the promise, but I 403 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 5: want you to let's relate it to the Front Range. 404 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 5: He would be like Jared Polis or Mike Johnston, one 405 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 5: of them promising, Uh, we're gonna tell RTD there'll be 406 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 5: what one free bus in each of the cities along 407 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 5: the Front Range. 408 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 3: So if you live in. 409 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 5: Boulder, you get a free one free bus. If you 410 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 5: live in Broomfield, one free bus. If you live a 411 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 5: longmun one free bus. If you live in Westminster, one 412 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 5: free bus. If you live in Denver, one free bus 413 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 5: if you if you live in Centennial, one free bus 414 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 5: if you live in Aurora. One free bus if you 415 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 5: live in Highlands Ranch one free months. Littleton Inglewood won 416 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 5: free bus. 417 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 3: That's it. No, he's asking for money too. 418 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Zen's already asking for money. Let me see 419 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 7: if I can pull that up your ros. Oh he's 420 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 7: begging for it. He's already got his ten cup out. 421 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go. 422 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 3: Well, he's asking for money for his transition team. 423 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 2: Right, money's not fungible. 424 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,720 Speaker 5: Well yes, And what I find funny is you have 425 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 5: to ask for money that you just got elected by 426 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 5: an old you know, a majority, what was it fifty 427 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 5: point nine percent or he got over fifty percent of 428 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 5: the vote, and he's having having to ask for money 429 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:44,640 Speaker 5: for donations to fund the staff for his transition. Holy cow, 430 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 5: this guy's a bigger loser than I thought he was. 431 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 5: So anyway, Kle has also addressed Mom Donnie's push for 432 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 5: free universal childcare. Wait a minute, Colredo, I'm looking at you, 433 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 5: free uni versal childcare, and he noted that that kind 434 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 5: of program would require time to phase in. Why Well, 435 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 5: because one, they don't have the money to pay for 436 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 5: it up front, they don't have the trained workers, they 437 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 5: don't have the facilities. They don't have anything they need 438 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 5: to provide free universal childcare for every kid that's in 439 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 5: the five boroughs. But this shows you how truthfully ignorant, 440 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 5: bruthfully ignorant generations behind us old fart boomers really are. 441 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 5: They think the free stuff is really free, and they 442 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 5: think that he can just easily implement this. And then 443 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 5: she said, but can we find a path to make 444 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 5: it more affordable for people who need help? Well, of 445 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 5: course we can, she claimed. So what she doing She's 446 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 5: trying to have it both ways. She's truly trying to 447 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 5: have it both ways. Now, what's mom? Donnie's answered this 448 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 5: to be to be objective. Let's see what he has 449 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 5: to say. Because his answer, of course, is he wants 450 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 5: to tax the rich. They all want to tax the rich. 451 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 5: I know you may be thinking, well, that's okay, Michael, 452 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 5: because that doesn't include me. 453 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 3: It doesn't include. 454 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 5: You today because you make more than let's just say, 455 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 5: two hundred thousand dollars a year. With inflation the devaluation 456 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 5: of the dollar continuing, pretty soon you'll be making three hundred. 457 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 3: Thousand dollars a year. 458 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 5: There won't be any changing tax brackets or anything else, 459 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 5: and pretty soon you'll be making that kind of money. 460 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 5: Or let's say you're making sixty five thousand dollars a year, 461 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 5: but we only want to tax those that are making 462 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 5: one hundred thousand dollars a year. Trust me, at some 463 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 5: point you'll be rich. And even if you never make 464 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 5: more than sixty five or fifty five thousand dollars a year, 465 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 5: or hell's mails, you're making twenty five thousand dollars a year, 466 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,399 Speaker 5: at some point they're going to tax you too. Tax 467 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 5: the rich is a BS line. Oh, I almost forgot. 468 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 5: He's the mayor. He doesn't have any authority to let 469 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 5: any new taxes. That's the purview of the state Assembly 470 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,479 Speaker 5: in Albany, which importantly also would require the signature of 471 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:15,479 Speaker 5: oh a governor. And she wants to get reelected. So 472 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,920 Speaker 5: I doubt that she's going to do that. I cannot. 473 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 5: She says, set fourth a plan right now that takes 474 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 5: money out of a system that relies on the fares 475 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 5: of the buses and the subways. Then again, Master, the 476 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 5: obvious bottom line is simply this, Mom Donnie is incredibly dangerous, 477 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 5: and not just because of his policies. Mom Donnie is 478 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 5: incredibly dangerous from a branding standpoint. Want you to look 479 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 5: around at Colorado. Many of you are new to this audience. 480 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 5: How long have you been living here? Have you seen 481 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 5: the changes? Because when they implemented the blueprint, when Striker 482 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 5: and all of them, Striker and Polis and Keim Gill 483 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 5: all came out with the blueprint and they showed how 484 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 5: over you know, just ten years or less, we're going 485 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 5: to take over. 486 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 3: Colorado, and they have. 487 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 5: And now we're approving things like, oh, we wanted free 488 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 5: lunches and free meals three times six times whatever it 489 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 5: takes a day to feed a kid. And what happened. 490 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 5: It passed, It passed. It's going to cost us money. 491 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 5: We're already in a budget hole. Look around. I challenged 492 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 5: this new audience to do what I've challenged my other 493 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 5: audience to do. When you drive around Denver, look closely. 494 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 5: Don't just stare at the car in front of you, 495 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 5: and don't just scoot down the twenty five or the 496 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 5: two seventy or wherever you're driving. Really look closely and 497 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 5: see how over time this place has truly deteriorated because 498 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 5: of the policies that emanate from the Pollit Bureau at 499 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 5: COLFAX Broadway or Colfax, Lincoln, wherever you want to look 500 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 5: at it. It's those policies, and it will be these 501 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 5: policies that will unilaterally turn the big Apple Apple into 502 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 5: a socialist hell hope. And ironically, we can thank all 503 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 5: the trappings of government that make changing things so frustrating, 504 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 5: frustrating and so long and slow to take effect is 505 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 5: actually a blessing. Interesting that we all get upset because 506 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 5: the government shuts down because they can't reach an agreement. 507 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 5: Yet had they reached an agreement, had both sides capitulated 508 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 5: and done what the other side wanted, we'd be facing 509 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 5: even larger budget deficits. And that is true at the 510 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 5: federal level, state level, and the local level. Sometimes, even 511 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 5: though it's painful, you look around at what the founding 512 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 5: Father's designed in terms of this unified government that has 513 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 5: three branches that are separate, the whole concept of a 514 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 5: separation of powers. That's what keeps us from almost instantaneously 515 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 5: turning into a socialist hell home. But there are breaks 516 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 5: in the dam all over the place. And I would 517 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 5: put Colorado number one as an example. Do you think 518 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 5: that we're turning into California? We're actually probably worse than California. 519 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 5: We're Illinois, We're in New York. It's happening everywhere. It's 520 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 5: happening even in red states like Texas. If you understand Texas, 521 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 5: you understand what's going on in places like Dallas, in 522 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 5: San Antonio and Austin and Harris County where Houston sits, 523 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 5: you'll understand that. Slowly but surely, that blueprint that started 524 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 5: in Colorado is spreading all across the country, and it's 525 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 5: being fed by the non government organizations and others that 526 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 5: go out and push like in the homeless industry, they 527 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 5: themselves go out and use taxpayer money that gets funneled 528 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 5: out to the NGOs to campaign things like the big 529 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 5: bond deal in Denver that passed. They're using all of that. 530 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:11,640 Speaker 5: So that's the program. I want to say, give this 531 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 5: program time and if you don't like it, fine, If 532 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 5: you do like it, that's great. And remember you can 533 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 5: text any time of day or night. Numbers three three, 534 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 5: one zero three, keyword micro Michael, I'll see you tomorrow.