1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: I'm very pleased today to be joined by Adam Frish 2 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: from the third District of Colorado, who is the candidate 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: running against Lauren Bobert. This is the second time around. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: He lost by five hundred and thirty four votes when 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: he ran against her in twenty twenty two. Her removal 6 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: from office is a paramount concern not just for the 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: people in that community, but all across America because she 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: is a paragon of imbecility unfitness who disgraces her community 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: with her presence under the Capitol Dome. So before we 10 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: get into the conversation, I want to welcome Adam. Tell 11 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: this audience how they find your campaign, where they go, 12 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: how they send money to it, how they can support, 13 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: how they can get involved, and how they involved here 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: from anywhere in the country to help the good people 15 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: of the Western Slope in the Rocky Mountains rid themselves 16 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: of this pasture. 17 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 2: Lens good data. Steve, Thanks so much, big fan of 18 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 2: what you've been working on over your entire career. It's 19 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 2: great to be here. I'm glad to great Right to 20 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 2: the punchline, Adam for Colorado. Fr Adam for Colorado dot 21 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: com is our website. There's a big button to donate, 22 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: which is always great. We're doing super well, but we're 23 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: going to need a good amount of resources to tell 24 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: our story Club for growth and some other organizations have 25 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 2: already made this race in CD three one of their 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: top four or five races, and they have a twenty 27 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: million dollar price tag they're looking to put on my head, 28 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, there's also a big 29 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: volunteer button, and whether you live in our district or 30 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 2: in the state of Colorado, around the country, or if 31 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: you're an American citizen overseas, please get on that volunteer basis. 32 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,359 Speaker 2: We're accumulating a lot of names, and we have a 33 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 2: lot of them from all over the country literally obviously 34 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 2: focused on our district, but there's a lot of excitement 35 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: to help, and there's all sorts of ways to help, 36 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 2: whether it's door knocking or phone calling or postcard writing 37 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 2: or reaching out to people that live in the western 38 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 2: part and the southern part of Colorado. 39 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: So thanks for asking that right off the bat. 40 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: So you grew up in New York. 41 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 2: Nope, Actually I'm guilty of living there for twelve years. 42 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 3: It was a great twelve years. 43 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 2: Right after college, I was born on an Indian reservation 44 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: in northeastern Montana, right where the North Dakota Canada border 45 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 2: comes together. My father spent two years working for the 46 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 2: Indian Health Service as a young doctor, and he went 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 2: on to become an OBGN for about forty five fifty years. 48 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: Both my mom and my dad are from northern Minnesota. 49 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 2: My dad's father came over from Europe and opened up 50 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: a little grocery store with my grandfather's two brothers, Fish's 51 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: Market in the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. My dad 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 2: grew up in a mining town, and my mom's grandparents 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: came over from Europe and opened up a cattle trading business, 54 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 2: and my cousin is now the fourth generation owner operator 55 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 2: of a feed store and grain elevator. So after five 56 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: years in Montana, I grew up in Minneapolis. I was 57 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 2: there from kindergarten through high school. A nice upbringing and 58 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: I was loved by both parents, which was obviously super 59 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 2: helpful these days. And did a little bit of ski racing. 60 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 2: My misspent youth was on the little hills of Minnesota. 61 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 2: Went out to the University of Colorado at Boulder to 62 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 2: ski race and get an education. In college, I ended 63 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: up getting hurt, so I ended up not racing, but 64 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 2: went off to New York City in the summer of 65 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: ninety was there for twelve years. I left after a 66 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 2: lot of nine eleven funerals and just wanted to clear 67 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: my head. But showed up with no job in a 68 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: non ivy league education and so people in finance and 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 2: banking weren't that interested in talking to me. 70 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: So hopped into. 71 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: Waiting tables for about a year, which was a great experience, 72 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 2: and then kind of fell into working on the investment 73 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: management side for a couple of years during that time 74 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: there in the early nineties. I actually was on the 75 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: one hundred and first floor of the World Trade Center 76 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety three that February when the first terrorist 77 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 2: attack happened down there in the Real Trade Center. 78 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 3: And after a. 79 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 2: Couple of years ended up getting involved in the global 80 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 2: foreign exchange markets and spent time in about fifty different 81 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 2: countries and traveled and did business in about another fifty and. 82 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: Spent a couple of years working in. 83 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: Seven World Trade Center as well, and that's the building 84 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 2: that fell down that afternoon on nine to eleven. I 85 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 2: was working in Midtown, which is a couple of miles 86 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 2: north of the World Trade Center downtown on nine to eleven, 87 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 2: and obviously it kind of shook my core, as it 88 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: did for many people. And hung around for the little 89 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 2: bit and then did some funerals and figured I would 90 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: take some time to clear my head in the winter 91 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 2: of one oh two and ended up meeting the proverbial 92 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 2: girl in the Western Slope of Colorado. She was a 93 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 2: washed up ski racer as well and spent some time 94 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 2: in New York, and so we hung out for a 95 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 2: while and moved to Aspen about twenty years ago to 96 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: build a community and do some business here. And we've 97 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: been in the Western Slope since November of twenty twenty 98 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: or twenty three. 99 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: Do you recall the first time in your life that 100 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: you saw the rocky mountains and the impression they made 101 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: on you. 102 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I was probably about seven or eight. Uh, 103 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 2: My dad and I drove out from Minnesota and the 104 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 2: old station wagon. He was attending a conference or something 105 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 2: in Snow mass And even then I came out and 106 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 2: had these thoughts that I was going to find out 107 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 2: whatever it was going to take to come back to 108 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 2: this beautiful mountain range in western Colorado. 109 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 3: At some point. 110 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 2: I ended up coming out at a young age and 111 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: just kind of fell in love with it and figured 112 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 2: i'd come back at some point. 113 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:14,159 Speaker 3: Came back a little bit sooner than planned. 114 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,679 Speaker 2: But it's just been beautiful and it's just a great 115 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: place to be as you know, yourself, clean air, clean living, 116 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 2: and you know, it's a wide variety of people out here. 117 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: We have some you know, our district it is bigger 118 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 2: than the state of Pennsylvania and half the state of Colorado. 119 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 2: And it's a wide variety of people out here. But 120 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 2: the mountains are beautiful and the people are even better. 121 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: I distinctly remember you my first impression of seeing those mountains, 122 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: and I had the experience this summer with my son, 123 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: and I've written about it, driving across the country and 124 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: we crossed the US border back into Montana south of Waterton, Alberta, 125 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: and then came across the state on US Route too, 126 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:06,119 Speaker 1: on that northern border, about twenty miles from Canada, through 127 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: a lot of reservation land in eastern Montana, through the 128 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: Bear Paw Battlefield where Chief Joseph delivers one of the 129 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: great speeches, most tragic speeches in American history, as the 130 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: Nez Pierce surrender to the Federal Army hours literally short 131 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: of safety, coming across into North Dakota, into the Iron 132 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: Bound Range. And this is a part of the country 133 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: that so few Americans will ever see. It's stunning in 134 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: its beauty, the plains as they rise up. Ken Burns 135 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: will be releasing very shortly a new documentary about the 136 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: American bison, And it's an extraordinary thing to drive and 137 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: ponder that one hundred and twenty years ago there were 138 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: thirty million animals on these on these plains, and the 139 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: American impulse has always been to move west crossing those plains. 140 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: It's a enormous part of America's story, its myth, the resiliency, 141 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: the character of its people. Great degradations of humanity took 142 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: place while while crossing those planes. You know, you grew 143 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: up on an Indian reservation. You know certainly have you 144 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: know a great connection and sense to you know some 145 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 1: tragic elements of America's story. You wind up in Colorado, 146 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:03,359 Speaker 1: you find the person you are married to. Like everybody 147 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: of our generation, we're impacted by nine to eleven. I 148 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: was having a conversation the other day with someone who's 149 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: approximately our age and was trying to explain the period 150 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:24,319 Speaker 1: of optimism that was the nineteen nineties. Bill Clinton's bridge 151 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: to the twenty first century packs Americana. The Cold War 152 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: was over, the Internet was in its infancy, and twenty 153 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: five years later, the twenty first century is well underway, 154 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: a quarter over, and it is very, very different than 155 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: what I imagined it would be at the dawn of 156 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: the millennium in two thousand and that really has nothing 157 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: to do with political parties. It has to do with 158 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: the reality of the world we find ourselves in now. 159 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: How do you see the world, particularly as someone who 160 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: has seen so much of it, has lived in a 161 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: unique part of the contrary, what did you learn about 162 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 1: America from your travels abroad? 163 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: Yeah? 164 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 2: No, see, but you know, we're talking about some big stuff, 165 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 2: and it's important stuff, and it doesn't get enough conversation 166 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 2: and it's not something that gets in the SoundBite or 167 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: in a tweet. 168 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: Right. 169 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 2: It's hard to believe that there was actually a budget surplus. 170 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: I know those two words haven't been used in the 171 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 2: English language in a really long time, but those mid 172 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: to late nineties, there actually was a budget surplus. And 173 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: it's hard to believe that we're just going in the 174 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 2: completely wrong direction. 175 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: You know. 176 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 2: I think that during the time you were talking about 177 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 2: until recently the country, you know, and not to be euphemistic, 178 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 2: it was the shining beacon on the hill for sure. 179 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, there's a reason why so many 180 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 2: people want to come to this country, regardless of their 181 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: economic or educational background. It is truly a land of opportunity. 182 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 2: It's truly unique in the breath and the depth of 183 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 2: the variety that we have in our country from Manhattan 184 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 2: and just go in La to the beautiful South to 185 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 2: some of the most beautiful plains in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, 186 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 2: Utah where you live, and you know, there's just a 187 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: lot of opportunity and a lot of optimism. And obviously 188 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 2: that's just not where we sit right now, especially lately 189 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 2: in the past couple of days, with a super heavy heart, 190 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 2: what's happened over in the Middle East, and we're just 191 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 2: being fractured. And I'm not sure if it's simple to 192 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 2: go back to the mid nineties when in the cable 193 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 2: news network started and then it got turbo boosted when 194 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 2: the internet, social media, and iPhone created. But there's certainly 195 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 2: something to be said about the fractured place we're in. 196 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 3: In the United States. 197 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 2: I don't travel very much overseas anymore, but you know 198 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 2: that in those years from the mid nineties through this 199 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 2: end of one, you know, I was across the country. 200 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 2: I was across the world, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America. 201 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 2: There's very few places I didn't go except for it 202 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 2: didn't spend a lot of time in Eastern Europe. But again, 203 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 2: it was this idea that there were a lot of 204 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 2: institutions in the United States, how the banking system worked, 205 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 2: how capitalism worked, how a government worked that still allowed 206 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 2: people to aspire and look up to where we are 207 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 2: as a country, and we still I believe, and I'm 208 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 2: an optimist deep down, there's a lot of great stuff 209 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 2: in our country, regardless of race and religion and educational background, 210 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 2: whether it's informal or formal, and that there's just we 211 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 2: just got to figure out how to get over some 212 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: really trying times, and it's not going to be easy 213 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 2: and it's not going to be quick. But not to 214 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 2: sound hokey, this is one of the reasons I decided 215 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 2: to get into this conversation a couple of years ago 216 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: when the current representative made some comments and had a deep, 217 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 2: long conversation with my wife, Katie, who's on our school board, 218 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 2: and I spent eight years doing elected community service as 219 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: well on city council here, and my very politically aware 220 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 2: at the time sixteen year old son talking about when 221 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 2: you know, there's times when it's really important to stand up. 222 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 2: And I think for those that are standing up in 223 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 2: today's public sector of public service, regardless of party affiliation, 224 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: the vast majority of us are really trying to figure 225 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 2: out how to bring back the country and do some healing. 226 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 2: I still believe, you know, and I've driven forty thousand 227 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 2: miles probably now twenty five thousand miles last cycle in 228 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 2: Ford pickup truck. Those twenty five thousand miles was with 229 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 2: my son Felix, and spent probably eighty percent of the 230 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 2: time talking to non Democrats. Our district is twenty two 231 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 2: percent registered Democrats, and you know, you learn a lot, 232 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 2: and I realized, you know, ninety percent of the people 233 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 2: are on the same page about what's important to them. 234 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 2: And I believe maybe eighty percent of the people in 235 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 2: Congress even now to this day, are trying to make 236 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 2: the country a better place. The problem is the fringes 237 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 2: are taking up ninety five percent of cable news and 238 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the Twitter space. But a good 239 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 2: amount of people, Democrat and Republican, are really trying to 240 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 2: kind of grind it out in those committees and those subcommittees. 241 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 2: I'm trying to make their district, regardless of Republican or Democrat, 242 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 2: a better place. And it might sound a little hooky now, 243 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: but I believe it in my heart and on the 244 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 2: soul of my children. This is what's important. What got 245 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 2: me off my couch to get working on this. 246 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: So you just said something port in there, right, you 247 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: said getting off your couch to go working on this. 248 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: But you know you're being a little bit unfair to 249 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: yourself there in that. A lot of people on the 250 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: warning community, which is which is growing a vibrant place 251 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: of discussion, will ask what can I do, And what 252 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: I say to them is to get involved in their 253 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: communities where I do a terrible job. Right Like as 254 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: a as a citizen, right, I'm very disconnected to my 255 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: local community. It's local politics. I flew hundreds of thousands 256 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: of miles a year traveling, you know, I just I 257 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: wasn't here wasn't involved, but you got very involved. You 258 00:15:54,160 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: served on local appointed positions. You were involved in the 259 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: financial management of the county. The county is not like 260 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 1: the federal government, right. It can't just start printing its 261 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: own currency. Right. You have to balance budgets, act reasonably, responsibly, pragmatically, 262 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: make sure the taxpayers getting a dollar value for a 263 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: dollar spent. You got involved in local office, your wife 264 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: was involved in local office. And when you're talking about 265 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: these issues, and there can be all sorts of divisive 266 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: issues in a community, but typically they're not tribal in 267 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: the way that they are in Washington, DC. But you're 268 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: someone who is serving your community. You're involved in the 269 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: civic life, and you make a decision. I just can't 270 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: abide that this woman is my congresswoman and talk to 271 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: me about that. And I want to just say and 272 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm like a prelude to it, and I'm going to 273 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: say something provocative, and I'm going to say something in 274 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: my native New Jersey dialect, which is this, I'm driving 275 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: from Park City to Aspen. And because I used to 276 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: be at the NRCC early in my career, which is 277 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: the political campaign arm of the House Republicans and in 278 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: a redistricting year, there was a time when I was 279 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: completely fluent on where every congressional district line was exactly. 280 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: I'm not anymore, but proximate. I know that I'm mere 281 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: Lauren Bobert's congressional district is. I'm driving through and I'm 282 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: thinking myself, Am I in it? Am I on the 283 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: edge of it? And finally get through account I go 284 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: now I know I'm in it, and I'm looking around. 285 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: The first thing I want people to know is how 286 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 1: beautiful the part of the country where you live is. 287 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: It is epically, magnificently, stunningly beautiful, and there are normal 288 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: looking people walking around. It's not some backwoods, backwater place 289 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination. I think about Lawrence Bobert, 290 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: think about Marjorie Taylor Green, and there's about, let's call 291 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: it twenty twenty five of these places all over the 292 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: country where you have in a congressional district eight hundred 293 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 1: thousand people that are being represented A big number. Yeah, 294 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand people. Pick one person right, send them 295 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: to Washington to represent the district. There's a lot of 296 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: stuff involved in that. You're in a competition against four 297 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five other people to get your fair share. Yep, 298 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: you have issues. You have constituents, You have Americans who 299 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: are in Israel right now who need help getting out right. 300 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: When they can't get an answer from the Israeli government, 301 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,239 Speaker 1: When they can't get an answer right from the State Department, right, 302 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: they call their Congressional office social Security check rate. So 303 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: all of these things are part of being a being 304 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 1: a congress person. I'm driving through this district and my 305 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: question is fuck is wrong with these people that they 306 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: would permit this. I get the Republican then I go, 307 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: but you know, if we if we if we put 308 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: an R next to Charlie Manson's name, you know is 309 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 1: he is he gonna get the vote? And so I 310 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: think about Warren Bobert, and I think this beetlejuice thing 311 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: is a big deal. And and it's not like this 312 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: Republican district didn't think hard about it. Right, because you 313 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: fell short by five hundred and thirty four votes, You're 314 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: you're and you're gonna win this time because decency is 315 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: on the ballot. And so this person literally could not 316 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: make it through a play, could not make it through 317 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: to intermission of Beatle, the vaping, the lying incredible, it 318 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: was a first date. We put that aside. Is there 319 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: a sense that's palpable of embarrassment that this do we 320 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: have sent as a community this person there, this person 321 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: represents us, like a sense of shame that you pick 322 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: up on, a sense of motivation of people coming together, 323 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: like this is not us, this is appalling. Right, I 324 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: am honestly interested because she is an outlier in the 325 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: outlier field. Right, that's that's there, like a like a 326 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: paragond just utter, absolute, incondescent unfitness. But why shouldn't I 327 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: look and say, I don't blame her. I blame you 328 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:22,639 Speaker 1: people collectively, all eight hundred thousand of you. And it 329 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: pisses me off, just like it pisses me off in 330 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: that Georgia district with Marjorie Taylor Green, just like it 331 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: pisses me off with the Nazi dentist from Arizona, Paul Gosar. 332 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,479 Speaker 1: And we don't ever talk about this in the country, 333 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 1: And obviously you can't yell at your voters, but I'd 334 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: like you to explain to me, from someone who deeply 335 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: loves this beautiful part of the country, how that happened 336 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: and one hundred percent not castigating someone I deeply admire. 337 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 1: Who's the guy who got off the couch said enough, 338 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: I'm taking her on fell short by five hundred and 339 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: thirty four votes and said let's go again. I love that, 340 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: and that's why every person who's watching this needs to 341 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: support this guy. But I honestly I want to talk 342 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: about that. Why shouldn't we be really pissed off at 343 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 1: everybody who lives where you live? 344 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 2: Well, I hope that's not the case. Steve a lot 345 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,400 Speaker 2: to unpack there. Let's say a couple things. One, Yes, 346 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 2: we live in the most beautiful districts in the country. 347 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 2: And just to give everyone a little bit of a background, 348 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 2: it's larger than the state of Pennsylvania, half the size 349 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: of Colorado. The other seven congressional districts have the other half. 350 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 2: We have all of the Utah border, the western slope 351 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 2: you drive through from Utah coming into Denver. We have 352 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,919 Speaker 2: a third of Wyoming, and we have about ninety percent 353 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 2: of the New Mexico border, Publo County, San Luis Valley, 354 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 2: four corners, two Indian reservations down there. 355 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 3: We have oil and gas. 356 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 2: We have asked men, tell you're writing questioned three resort communities, 357 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 2: Grand Junction, which is the hub of the Western Slope. 358 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 2: There's a lot of moving parts. Some of the most 359 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 2: rural counties Hensdale in the country, four hundred and fifty 360 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 2: or five hundred people in the county Cologna, Colorado, population 361 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 2: twenty three. And one of the highlights is definitely driving around. 362 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 2: And so the plan was never to really run. I 363 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 2: was never planning, you know, I'd stand up and did 364 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 2: things for the community and everything else like that. I'm 365 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 2: interested in policy more than politics. By follow up, but 366 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 2: the plan was never to get involved at this level 367 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 2: until some comments. A series of comments were made in 368 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 2: the about two years ago, and again I say, don't 369 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 2: ask me what they were, but they were very on 370 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 2: brand for the current representative. Some version of racist, homophobic, ignorant, 371 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 2: whatever you want to say. And there's two themes that 372 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 2: we started to talk about. Leads into kind of a 373 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 2: bigger conversation. It was people want the circus to stop. 374 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 2: As I mentioned before, my buddy Dean Phillips in Minnesota, 375 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 2: when I went to school with high school and middle school, 376 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 2: talked about this entertainment industry and I thought that the 377 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 2: marchy tale green and Bobert were kind of the heads 378 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: of this anger tainment industry. The yelling and the screaming. 379 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 2: We're seeing some version of that. People want the circus 380 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 2: to stop. Our conservatives, our Republicans are very, very libertarian 381 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 2: in the conversation. They just don't want to get involved 382 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 2: in heavy government, and that's why there's been a a 383 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 2: high pro choice conversation and supportive of gay marriage. They 384 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 2: don't really want to get into who you're marrying, who 385 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 2: you want to love. 386 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 3: It's almost like. 387 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: The Ubu Party for that crowd. But the tribalism is there, 388 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 2: and there are some really bad people that if they 389 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 2: had an R or a D by their name, it's 390 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 2: just too many people in the country look on a 391 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 2: ballot and they read right to left, and as soon 392 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 2: as there's an R there or as soon as there's 393 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 2: a D there, the conversation is over. I'll say one thing. 394 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,959 Speaker 2: My team gets very you know, ad nauseum I talk 395 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 2: about this. There are thirty one hundred and fifty counties 396 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 2: in the country. Thirty one hundred and forty seven counties 397 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 2: in the country, two thousand of them are demed ruled 398 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 2: by the Department of Agriculture based on density. We have 399 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 2: twenty seven counties. The vast majority of our counties are 400 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 2: our rule and Bill Clinton in ninety six won fifty 401 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 2: two percent of these two thousand rule counties in the country. 402 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: Speed up to twenty twelve, Barack Obama, President Obama won 403 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 2: twenty five percent of the rural counties. In twenty twenty, 404 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 2: President Biden won fewer than ten percent of the rural 405 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 2: counties in the country. So I when I have conversations 406 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 2: and talk to people about the Democratic Party, I mentioned 407 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 2: that they need to do better than twenty big cities 408 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 2: Aspen and Martha's Vineyard, because that's pretty much where the 409 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 2: Democratic Party is. 410 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 3: At the moment. 411 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 2: And monopolies are bad in politics, and monopolies are bad 412 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 2: in business. And I would argue that these twenty big 413 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 2: cities are not getting the best version of the Democratic Party. 414 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 2: And a lot of rural America, especially western and southern Colorado, 415 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 2: are certainly not getting a very good version of the 416 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 2: Republican Party. And I've said for twenty years if there 417 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 2: was a get stuff done party, I'd be in that party, Steve, 418 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: but that party's not doing very well. And I said 419 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 2: that two years ago, and look where the get stuff done. 420 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: Party is right now. It's like hanging on a vine 421 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 2: and whittling away. It's very, very sad about what we've 422 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 2: seen happen obviously internationally with Ukraine and the Mid East 423 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 2: terrorist crisis, and obviously we have a house divided of 424 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 2: epic proportions. 425 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: We need more. 426 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 2: People looking at the name and who they are as 427 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 2: opposed to are the end Team Blue and Team Red. 428 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 2: And if I get into a Team Red Team Blue conversation, 429 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 2: I'm losing by eight points. I'm going to lose by 430 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 2: forty thousand votes. So I've said this for a long time. 431 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 2: I'm on eighty percent of us. Eighty five percent of 432 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 2: us are on Team Colorado, and fifteen percent people are 433 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 2: on Team Chaos, and I'm on Team Colorado. And that's 434 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: what we're really focused on. And that's why, well, nobody 435 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 2: believed that we can make up a forty thousand vote deficit. 436 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 3: As I joke kind of. 437 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 2: It took my mom five times for me to finally 438 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: get her on the phone to believe I could actually 439 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 2: do this, and we ended up, you know, winning a 440 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 2: losing by just under five hundred. 441 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 3: And fifty votes. 442 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 2: And one of the things that got me off the couch, 443 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 2: and there are many Steve was, I'm into Dad, as 444 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 2: you might be able to tell. I pulled out and 445 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 2: looked at kind of where on one side Talib and 446 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 2: Omar were, and then Margie Taylor Green, Jim Jordan, Matt Gates, 447 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 2: Paul Ghostar, Andy Biggs to Taylor Green and realized none 448 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 2: of them have any chance of losing with a billion 449 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 2: dollars going into their district. But I saw in twenty 450 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 2: twenty the current representative only one by five percentage points. 451 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 2: And then sadly after that, the Colorado Democratic Party kind 452 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 2: of threw away CD three. They threw it under the 453 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 2: bus because there was a new district that was coming in. 454 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 2: We got an eighth district in our Colorado. 455 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 3: We got it. I don't say we got it. 456 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 2: From California, but California went from fifty three to fifty two. 457 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 2: Colorado went from seven to eight, and all of a 458 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 2: sudden there was a ten point deficit, and I'm like, 459 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 2: you know, I think if you know this better than 460 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,479 Speaker 2: I do, Steve, a third of the Republican Party minimally 461 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 2: wants their party back. People want the circus to stop. 462 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 2: They want someone to focus on the job. Not themselves. 463 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: We have a lot of independent libertarian type of conversations 464 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 2: going out with our conservatives that I fully respect. We 465 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 2: have lots of ranchers and farmers. They're very, very pragmatic. 466 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 2: I've yet to meet an unpragmatic rancher. You will be 467 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 2: out of business in two minutes, right, And she's about 468 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 2: as unpragmatic as a gets. And I'm like, I'm fully aware. 469 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 2: The last thing the Democratic Party I was looking for 470 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 2: is some middle aged, straight white guy who lives in 471 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 2: a mountaintown, let alone Aspen, and a pretty conservative Democratic 472 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 2: that And I knew another reason I decided to drive 473 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 2: I was gonna have to drive all these miles was 474 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 2: once we were able to get by the primary, I 475 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 2: was going to have to convince a lot of farmers 476 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: and ranchers and small business owners in very small towns 477 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 2: that this guy who spent twelve years in New York 478 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 2: City lived in a mountain town, let alone Aspen. The 479 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 2: skepticism was gonna be huge. You know, the amount of 480 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 2: people that thought I was going to have blue horns 481 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 2: and mountain horns and Aspen horns was gigantic. And I'm 482 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 2: missing a lot of things. But somewhat self aware my 483 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 2: whole life, and so I decided to just hop in 484 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 2: the pickup truck and start convincing people. 485 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 3: And there was a gap. 486 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 2: You know, if there was a no a traditional Republican 487 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 2: who've before Lauren Bobert, all the Republicans that were running 488 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 2: and serving were traditional Republicans, I wouldn't run. 489 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,959 Speaker 3: There wouldn't have been a path to victory. 490 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 2: And I never would have thought there'd be need to 491 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 2: because a traditional Republican could represent this district putting on 492 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 2: well and a lot of our you know, water, water, water, 493 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 2: like you know, are three top issues. And then I 494 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 2: would get into the rural aspects of healthcare, and Republicans 495 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 2: get into droughts as much as Democrats, and healthcare issues 496 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 2: as well. And so the conversation is not any who's 497 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 2: anti water, it's who do you want sitting down in 498 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 2: the Colorado delegation representing. 499 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: You and your family and your business and your community. 500 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: This is a fundamental issue. No one in the East 501 00:31:54,680 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: understands the water issues in the American West, yep muting 502 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: most of the Congress. And I guarantee you Lauren Bobert 503 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: doesn't understand any of this, and that has to be 504 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: self evident. I mean she doesn't. There's no there's no 505 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: evidence to suggest that she has the intellectual capacity, frankly, 506 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: to digest and understand federal water policy, which is as 507 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 1: complicated a subject matter as there is, that has enormous, 508 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: enormous implications for the ranchers, the cattlemen, the farmers in 509 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: your in your district. 510 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 3: It's not just our district. The we have this Colorado. 511 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 3: There's a Colorado through the West. Yeah, the whole West. 512 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: We have. 513 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 2: The vast majority of water for forty million people California, Nevada, 514 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 2: and Arizona. That's the lower basin, to get a little technical, 515 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 2: and in the upper basin Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. 516 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 2: Those seven states are taken care of by about about 517 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 2: forty million people in those seven states are looked after 518 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: by the water, of which ninety percent of it flows 519 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 2: within Colorado third District. And again, no one's anti water. 520 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: But the conversation has to do with who do you 521 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 2: want sitting in that chair in a bipartisan manner talking 522 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 2: about some pretty complicated issues. 523 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 3: And I would be in grand junction, you know, in 524 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 3: Mesa County, which is a pretty. 525 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: One, Lauren Boubert. 526 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 3: I made that article. 527 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 2: I would stand up in a lot of chamber of 528 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 2: commerces and say, listen, at some point, there could be 529 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 2: eight of us from Colorado sitting across the table from 530 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 2: fifty two people from the California delegation. Who do you 531 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 2: want sitting in that chair representing you and your ranch, 532 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 2: your farm, your small business, your community, your grandkids, her 533 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 2: or me? 534 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 3: And I would say that. 535 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 2: Not because of this or that, just because who do 536 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 2: you want sitting there? I figured out if I had 537 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 2: the difference. I was talking to the around crowd. But 538 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 2: these civic and business leaders understand and a lot of 539 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 2: the issues that face a lot of people in the country, 540 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 2: but especially in the Western part of the United States, 541 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 2: it's who do you want focusing on it? 542 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 3: And who's going to put the time and effort into it. 543 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 2: Most of our issues are, you know, the caucuses that 544 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,879 Speaker 2: I'll be involved with in the Promise Harbist Caucus. There's 545 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 2: a Western caucus that I hope has me. I think 546 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,760 Speaker 2: there's seventy members of the Western Caucus. There's Mary Patola 547 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 2: in Alaska who defeated the political godmother of Lauren Bobert 548 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 2: Sarah Palin and sixty nine Republicans and Will I'm going 549 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 2: to do my best to be the second Democrat in 550 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 2: that caucus of seventy one to just look after the 551 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 2: rural aspects of health care, the rural aspects of soil 552 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:54,959 Speaker 2: health and water drought and being pro domestic energy. And 553 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 2: these are the issues that face western and southern Colorado 554 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 2: and in the western part of the United States as 555 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 2: a whole. And people want the circus to stop, and 556 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 2: they want someone to focus on the district, not themselves. 557 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 2: And that's something I've been resonating with with a lot 558 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 2: of people. Again, we got forty nine point nine percent 559 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 2: of the vote in a district that's registrations about twenty 560 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 2: two or twenty three percent Democrat, And part of that 561 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 2: success is because we worked our butt off and drove 562 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 2: thousands and thousands and thousands of miles and do a 563 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 2: lot more listening than talking and try to focus on 564 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 2: common sense solutions and not spend my whole time on 565 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 2: trying to be a Twitter star. 566 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 1: I was. I look back with a lot of regret 567 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: personally on your twenty two rays because I had a 568 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 1: sense that you could win early talking to people in 569 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 1: that district. I didn't really raise money using my platforms 570 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 1: and do the things that I'm going to try to 571 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: do this cycle. And you know, when you lose an 572 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: election by five hundred and thirty four votes and it's 573 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: that close, right, there's a thousand marginal things right, could have, 574 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:24,280 Speaker 1: would have, should have and and so that's why I began. 575 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: I think, you know, we have a marge audience that 576 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: I really encourage everybody who sees this. Two. I really 577 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: encourage everybody who sees this to donate to Adam Frisch's campaign. 578 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:50,879 Speaker 1: And I want to and I want to tell you why, Well, 579 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:59,320 Speaker 1: everybody who sees this to understand what happened in Israel. 580 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: What happened in Israel was evil manifest itself successfully because 581 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:22,240 Speaker 1: of the brokenness and incompetence of government. That's the price 582 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:32,600 Speaker 1: of this idiocy, of this populism of imbeciles extremists in 583 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: positions would be b net. Yahoo did in Israel was 584 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 1: divide the country against itself. Sound familiar. Everyone, fill the 585 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: government with extremists, sound familiar, everyone, fill the government with incompetence, 586 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:09,280 Speaker 1: sound familiar to everyone, and then ignore every single warning 587 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: by the professional security experts with regard to the country's preparedness, 588 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:24,800 Speaker 1: and the result of that is an attack that adjusted 589 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 1: for population if it had happened on Americans, so I 590 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:35,359 Speaker 1: would have killed forty thousand Americans. And now what will 591 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: result from this is a war that is immoral, like 592 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:54,640 Speaker 1: all wars, but just because murder is wholly different than 593 00:38:54,680 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 1: the civilian casualties inevitably caused by war, and that is 594 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: the inherent immorality of all war. General MacArthur spoke to this, 595 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 1: This war will likely escalate. The world is at a 596 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: very dangerous place, and people like Lauren Bobert in the end, 597 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,279 Speaker 1: I have no doubt about saying this whatsoever, that it 598 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: is true they will get a mains killed at a 599 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:44,799 Speaker 1: industrial level in the Butcher's bill counts of thousands. And 600 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: we've seen the terrible, terrible, terrible price for government failure 601 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,719 Speaker 1: play out in Israel through these early stages. But in 602 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 1: America we have exactly the same situation that preceded these 603 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: attacks in Israel. And I'd like for you to talk 604 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: about that, about the danger, as you said, of the 605 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 1: accumulation of the Laurent Boberts, because and I want you 606 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,840 Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to denounce what you alluded to before, 607 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:40,800 Speaker 1: the equal repugnance of a Congresswoman Taib who can't find 608 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,160 Speaker 1: it within herself to condemn the murder and burning alive 609 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: of babies. But I'd like you to talk about the 610 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 1: danger that you see, because inevitably, right there's a tipping 611 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: point where if you have enough of these people, the 612 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,879 Speaker 1: whole thinking go down. And I think there's a real 613 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: lack of imagination about that prospect, and I think we're 614 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:14,200 Speaker 1: seeing it, at least a foreshadowing it play out with 615 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,920 Speaker 1: the absolute chaos and dysfunction in the House of Representatives, 616 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:25,879 Speaker 1: which means we cannot arm Ukraine and we cannot send 617 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:32,480 Speaker 1: aid to Israel at critical moments. That has enormous implications 618 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,799 Speaker 1: for the peace and security of the world in the 619 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,120 Speaker 1: coming decade. 620 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,319 Speaker 2: Past couple of weeks, and you could go back the 621 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,440 Speaker 2: past couple of years, no one has been happier than 622 00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 2: Ji in China, Putin in Russia. The lead, the Mulah, 623 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:54,360 Speaker 2: leaders of Iran, and obviously Hamas what used to be 624 00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 2: the PLO, and the Pealestine authority that themselves is on 625 00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:58,920 Speaker 2: the leader. 626 00:41:58,920 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 3: They are. 627 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,400 Speaker 2: The leader I use in quotations is on year seventeen 628 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 2: or a four year term, and you know, having some 629 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,680 Speaker 2: very close family members spend a lot of time in 630 00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,680 Speaker 2: Israel this past summer. In one work for the Israeli 631 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:18,960 Speaker 2: ambassador to the US this summer as well, managing a 632 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,400 Speaker 2: lot of emotional trauma and our immediate family about everything 633 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 2: that has happened over there. There's no doubt that there 634 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,520 Speaker 2: are tremendous amounts of innocent Palestinians that are going to 635 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,200 Speaker 2: be harmed. But we need to look at the PLO 636 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,600 Speaker 2: going way back. We need to look at hamas and 637 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,600 Speaker 2: terrorist organizations without a doubt, and then the complete ineptness 638 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,640 Speaker 2: of the Palestinian authority of late, It's just the whole. 639 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:47,120 Speaker 3: Thing is horrible. 640 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:51,120 Speaker 2: But we have to remember that, especially regarding the US House, 641 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:57,160 Speaker 2: the amount of some really bad people leading bad countries 642 00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:02,520 Speaker 2: are literally laughing and sharing at us. The heroicism of 643 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,840 Speaker 2: the Ukrainian people and the government is really really important 644 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,360 Speaker 2: to honor. But to me, even the bigger question is, 645 00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,760 Speaker 2: you know, God forbid, Ukraine goes down. Putin is not stopping, 646 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,840 Speaker 2: and we need to realize it's not always fun in 647 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,600 Speaker 2: the short term or the median term. But when the 648 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:23,799 Speaker 2: United States does not have an involvement. They don't need to. 649 00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,680 Speaker 2: We do not need to be the police men, police 650 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,000 Speaker 2: officer of the world, but we're when we're not involved. 651 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,319 Speaker 2: People are very very aware of that, and they will 652 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:37,319 Speaker 2: come in at all costs. And that's human life to us, 653 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,960 Speaker 2: the human life of their own population who don't like 654 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,560 Speaker 2: their government. And it's important to make sure that we 655 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,480 Speaker 2: got our house are literally and figuratively house and order 656 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,920 Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. To try to figure out how 657 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,280 Speaker 2: to pick a leader and put some rules in place. 658 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:58,760 Speaker 2: It's unbelievable the utter circus that is happening over there. 659 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,400 Speaker 2: Talking to some people who were involved in some of 660 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,000 Speaker 2: the kerfuffles with the Clinton nuk Rich years, there was 661 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,839 Speaker 2: always a plan to come out of it, from what 662 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 2: I'm hearing, and I spend too much time talking to 663 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 2: people or in d C. But from what I'm hearing now, 664 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:19,000 Speaker 2: literally since Representative Gates book up, there's been no plan. 665 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:23,640 Speaker 2: Since McCarthy was put into office and speaker every fifteen 666 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,040 Speaker 2: minutes was a new day, and it's unbelievable that it 667 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,920 Speaker 2: took this long for the fall apart. And it's really 668 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,840 Speaker 2: important that we get our house in order and find 669 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,880 Speaker 2: people whether there's a Republican leader, Democratic leader. We just 670 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,919 Speaker 2: need a leader that is focused on the job at hand, 671 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,560 Speaker 2: which is a competency conversation to make sure our government 672 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,920 Speaker 2: stays open and making sure some of our closest allies 673 00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 2: are supported across the country. And you just see the 674 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,440 Speaker 2: utter circus happening, and representative of Bobart seems to be 675 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:56,520 Speaker 2: very proud of that. 676 00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 3: For some reason. 677 00:44:57,520 --> 00:44:59,760 Speaker 2: I do not know why, because it's certainly not paying 678 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 2: off her electorally, and it's what happens when you have 679 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,520 Speaker 2: people that are focused on themselves and their Twitter accounts 680 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,280 Speaker 2: more than their constituents or their country. 681 00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,920 Speaker 1: We have a new feature as we have these conversations 682 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:22,720 Speaker 1: where we're asking our guests to give their own warning 683 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,759 Speaker 1: about what they see. And before I ask you to 684 00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:32,520 Speaker 1: do that and conclude, let me just say again to 685 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:38,200 Speaker 1: everybody who is watching this, the election of this man, 686 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,000 Speaker 1: Adam Fresh to the United States Congress is a matter 687 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: of concern not just to his community, which is a 688 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 1: beautiful part of the country filled with good people badly served. 689 00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:03,319 Speaker 1: We are all of us endangered by the accumulation of 690 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:14,160 Speaker 1: the insanity, the imbecility, the neoism, the extremism and the 691 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: utter lack of dignity, comportment, sense of rectitude, and probity. 692 00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: The United States of America is the most complicated society 693 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:41,920 Speaker 1: that has ever existed in the annals of human history. 694 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:49,600 Speaker 1: In fact, it is not even close. The leadership of 695 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:57,120 Speaker 1: the country elected by the American people at this moment 696 00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:06,799 Speaker 1: in time, in so many cases, is beyond redemption, is 697 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:15,640 Speaker 1: unfit at a level of spectacularness that is frightening. It 698 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:24,000 Speaker 1: marks a decay, a regression, and raises a question, are 699 00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:31,000 Speaker 1: we in fact capable of governing ourselves? Because the election, 700 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:37,239 Speaker 1: through a system of redistricting and jerry mandering that has 701 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:44,920 Speaker 1: eviscerated the middle given opportunity to all stripe of extremists 702 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:52,560 Speaker 1: and denied real choices, has to be overcome or we're 703 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:58,439 Speaker 1: gonna lose the country. And in Colorado there is an 704 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:09,120 Speaker 1: in can example of unfitness for public responsibility, and it's 705 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:16,320 Speaker 1: a case study. Winston Churchill once observed that in democracy, 706 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:24,080 Speaker 1: people get the government they deserve. And this is in 707 00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:30,160 Speaker 1: fact a character test that we're faced. And it doesn't 708 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,520 Speaker 1: matter if you're a Republican or a Democrat or an independent. 709 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:40,880 Speaker 1: What matters is the ability to recognize if someone's lying 710 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:48,160 Speaker 1: to you, abusing you, misinforming you, inciting you, dividing you 711 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:55,280 Speaker 1: for the purposes of their self interest and power. As 712 00:48:55,320 --> 00:49:00,279 Speaker 1: an adult, you have a responsibility as a citizen in 713 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:07,640 Speaker 1: the United States to be involved, to pay attention, and 714 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:14,120 Speaker 1: to not be cond to not be a mark and 715 00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:17,920 Speaker 1: for all of us together, as citizens of this great 716 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:23,359 Speaker 1: republic that spans three thousand miles across the continent bound 717 00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:29,440 Speaker 1: by two oceans, we share some incredible heritage in common, 718 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:40,279 Speaker 1: but the preservation of it absolutely requires a commitment to 719 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:47,280 Speaker 1: an idea that's amongst the deepest in all of human history. 720 00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:55,480 Speaker 1: It's an idea about freedom, about liberty. And there's no 721 00:49:55,719 --> 00:50:04,120 Speaker 1: person in the United States Congress that stands above Lawrence Bober. 722 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:10,560 Speaker 1: Though she's peers with Josh Holly, peers with Ted Cruz, 723 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:19,279 Speaker 1: peers with Congresswoman Taib Peers, with the most pugnant elements 724 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:25,759 Speaker 1: in American life, no one is her prisoner. And she 725 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:32,279 Speaker 1: can be defeated by this guy. And I encourage you, 726 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:39,120 Speaker 1: if you know people in Colorado, call them, if you've 727 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:44,480 Speaker 1: got ten dollars or fifty or the maximum amount, send 728 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,560 Speaker 1: them the money. If you can make one hundred volunteer 729 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:57,040 Speaker 1: calls for his campaign. Make them. We have a national 730 00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:02,880 Speaker 1: crisis that we the people have to find our ways 731 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:09,600 Speaker 1: out of. This man has stood up, stand behind him. 732 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:17,160 Speaker 1: Support this candidacy to rid the United States Congress of 733 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:34,080 Speaker 1: a despicable, dishonorable, dishonest, incompetent. She is unfit. Help this man. 734 00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,160 Speaker 1: And with that, let me turn it over to you, 735 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,600 Speaker 1: and anything that you'd like to say by way of 736 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,080 Speaker 1: a warning, we would love to hear. 737 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,120 Speaker 3: Thanks, Steve. I'll make one. 738 00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,480 Speaker 2: Self serving but country serving point. All those names that 739 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,719 Speaker 2: everyone knows across the country, and there's a handful of 740 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,160 Speaker 2: them in the Republican Party, a little bit on the 741 00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,520 Speaker 2: left as well, Lauren Bolbert is the only person has 742 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,520 Speaker 2: any chance of losing, with all due respect to those 743 00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,120 Speaker 2: that run against her and those that run against the 744 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:10,000 Speaker 2: other people around the country, against those name brand cast members. 745 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,480 Speaker 2: And so after you look after your own senator, House representative, 746 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,359 Speaker 2: please go to adam Forcolorado dot com and donate as 747 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,319 Speaker 2: well as just as important, and then the day's votes 748 00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,520 Speaker 2: not money, hit that volunteer button and get going on that. 749 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:27,120 Speaker 2: You know, I think that there's a mathematical conversation and 750 00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:29,799 Speaker 2: kind of a non emotional conversation, which is that our 751 00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,560 Speaker 2: primary system is broken. We have to figure out a 752 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,839 Speaker 2: way to have more open primaries. Eighty percent of these 753 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,319 Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty five districts in the country on 754 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,719 Speaker 2: the left and the right have been gerrymandered or are 755 00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,960 Speaker 2: just self sorting out. And there's all the ninety five 756 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,560 Speaker 2: percent of the action is happening at the primary level. 757 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,000 Speaker 2: We need to fix our primaries. There's a lot of 758 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,080 Speaker 2: conversations going out there. That's number one. 759 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:52,800 Speaker 3: Two. 760 00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 2: I want to shout the praises of a grand junction 761 00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:00,480 Speaker 2: based organization called Restore the Balance dot org, and it 762 00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,000 Speaker 2: was made up of a bunch of frustrated Democrat and 763 00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,560 Speaker 2: Republicans and independence that got together and they're trying to 764 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,880 Speaker 2: shed extremism on both sides. I think it has a 765 00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,160 Speaker 2: chance to become a national type of organization. Restore the 766 00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,440 Speaker 2: Balance dot org about trying to get principles about getting 767 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,000 Speaker 2: people to meet in the middle and have conversations. But 768 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:23,160 Speaker 2: my warning or my ask on a higher level, it's 769 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,320 Speaker 2: just that we do have and it might sound hopey, 770 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,240 Speaker 2: there's so much more in common than differences than people realize. 771 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:33,040 Speaker 2: About making sure that people have safe schools and safe 772 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:37,120 Speaker 2: neighborhoods and clean air and clean water, and economic opportunity 773 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,479 Speaker 2: and a border that is very very secure but also 774 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,480 Speaker 2: very very humane, and making sure that we honor those 775 00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,360 Speaker 2: words of the Statute of Liberty that has made our 776 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:49,440 Speaker 2: country so great. It's out there, and just less time 777 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:54,160 Speaker 2: on the cable news networks, less time on Twitter, and 778 00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,799 Speaker 2: more time trying to figure out how to build community 779 00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,319 Speaker 2: at the community center, at a senior center, at your 780 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:04,359 Speaker 2: house of worship, through the school boards, whatever it is. 781 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,759 Speaker 2: There's our country is so much better than how we're 782 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,080 Speaker 2: being portrayed now and of late. And our country is 783 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:16,680 Speaker 2: so much more unified than what this angertainment industry wants 784 00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,640 Speaker 2: us to do. And there's a lot of profit behind 785 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,040 Speaker 2: this entertainment industry, and there's a lot of money to 786 00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:27,920 Speaker 2: be made. Whether it's candidates or people or the networks. 787 00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,359 Speaker 2: We just have to figure out a way. And it's 788 00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,799 Speaker 2: much more beyond a Kumbaya type of moment. It is 789 00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,440 Speaker 2: just that, especially I can vouch for spending a lot 790 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,840 Speaker 2: of time with a lot of different people, people just 791 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,640 Speaker 2: want the circus to stop, and they want someone to 792 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,799 Speaker 2: focus on the job and turned on the noise, and 793 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,960 Speaker 2: do not be afraid to reach out to people that 794 00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,200 Speaker 2: you don't know that well, because they're probably just as 795 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:53,720 Speaker 2: concerned as you are. Whether they're blue or red, purple, pink, yellow, 796 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:56,480 Speaker 2: it does not matter. And that's my plea and that's 797 00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:00,960 Speaker 2: my ask. And I appreciate you in the that you're doing, Steve, 798 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,600 Speaker 2: and providing an opportunity to me to check in with 799 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,360 Speaker 2: a lot of important people across the country. 800 00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:10,839 Speaker 1: So thank you very much. Everybody out there. Let's help 801 00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,680 Speaker 1: take her out of power, take her out of office. 802 00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,320 Speaker 1: Support Adam Fresh, thank you very much for your time today. 803 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,080 Speaker 1: Good luck out on the campaign trail. 804 00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,280 Speaker 3: Stay safe, Thanks Steve, We'll see you around and stay healthy. 805 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,200 Speaker 1: Thank tough, you bet