WEBVTT 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:08.279 No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:12.060 contain Liberty -oriented content. PINCO discretion 00:00:12.060 --> 00:00:19.420 is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci 00:00:19.420 --> 00:00:24.460 and Scott Moskowitz. Well, it almost happened 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:26.699 again. We almost started doing the show, but 00:00:26.699 --> 00:00:28.739 this time we caught ourselves and hit the record 00:00:28.739 --> 00:00:31.320 button. It's North Idaho's mainstream media deconstruction. 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:35.899 I'm Scott. Hello internet, I'm Paul. Yeah. Yeah, 00:00:35.899 --> 00:00:37.439 we almost did it again, but we're getting better 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:39.600 at it It only took us a year to figure it out 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:41.780 when we get together and start talking We need 00:00:41.780 --> 00:00:44.939 to just hit the record button immediately Otherwise, 00:00:44.939 --> 00:00:47.240 we're gonna do 20 minutes of the show without 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:51.200 this without the show part It remains to be seen 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.520 if we can continue to remember that we might 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.299 just revert next week It's true we are like guppies 00:00:59.299 --> 00:01:04.569 with short memories, huh? Here is where I'd like 00:01:04.569 --> 00:01:07.469 to start this week before we get into deconstructing 00:01:07.469 --> 00:01:11.950 Idaho's mainstream media. Ripe as ever, lots 00:01:11.950 --> 00:01:13.969 of low -hanging fruit. There's not even any fruit 00:01:13.969 --> 00:01:16.269 in the middle or the upper part of the tree. 00:01:16.489 --> 00:01:18.549 It's all just dangling at the ground, getting 00:01:18.549 --> 00:01:20.650 eaten by squirrels. The freaking media, man. 00:01:21.329 --> 00:01:25.390 I'd like to go through a couple of last week's 00:01:25.390 --> 00:01:28.599 drops. and discuss which one should go on the 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.659 sound board very quickly because this note came 00:01:31.659 --> 00:01:35.359 in as part of a donation note, which I will read 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.379 the donation note in our value for value segment 00:01:38.379 --> 00:01:41.079 where we will describe the model that this program 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.379 runs on because we don't have advertisers or 00:01:43.379 --> 00:01:46.900 sponsors or anything. It came in from the agenda 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:49.439 archaeologist. So this part of the note I'm reading 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.150 now. What if the episode's previous sound Sorry, 00:01:53.170 --> 00:01:56.189 what if the previous episode's sound drops were 00:01:56.189 --> 00:01:58.870 cataloged at the beginning of the next episode? 00:01:59.569 --> 00:02:01.569 So you'll see why he's saying that as I read 00:02:01.569 --> 00:02:05.069 his note later in the show. But I want to start 00:02:05.069 --> 00:02:07.250 with because we sort of we do that at the end 00:02:07.250 --> 00:02:09.969 of shows where, you know, we're amused by a bunch 00:02:09.969 --> 00:02:11.770 of different cuts from that episode. Like, oh, 00:02:11.810 --> 00:02:13.569 that should go on the soundboard. Sometimes they 00:02:13.569 --> 00:02:16.370 do. Sometimes they don't. So I pulled a bunch 00:02:16.370 --> 00:02:18.909 and I like to go through them and have you weigh 00:02:18.909 --> 00:02:24.590 in. Here is. The first one not the way in me. 00:02:24.849 --> 00:02:28.349 Yeah We're gonna we're gonna make an executive 00:02:28.349 --> 00:02:32.250 decision per the agenda archaeologists prompting 00:02:32.250 --> 00:02:37.870 So here's a new proposal for a new 999 Which 00:02:37.870 --> 00:02:42.750 would not to supplant this one But just to be 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.300 Like another version of it and that was up Mike 00:02:46.300 --> 00:02:49.099 the llama liquor from the the now unemployed 00:02:49.099 --> 00:02:52.539 Idaho statesman watchdog journalist He had a 00:02:52.539 --> 00:02:58.680 nine that might work. Well The context was this 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:02.460 you go back 20 years or so ago and we had a hundred 00:03:02.460 --> 00:03:04.919 people in our newsroom that we're gonna have 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:13.659 Okay, is that worthy Hmm. I'm on the fence. I 00:03:13.659 --> 00:03:16.340 know. It sounded really good in context, but 00:03:16.340 --> 00:03:18.560 then when I isolated the nine, it wasn't quite 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.180 as good. It's okay. And he's on the phone, which 00:03:22.180 --> 00:03:24.659 is a little bit annoying, and it is really hard 00:03:24.659 --> 00:03:27.319 to compete with this guy. You know, the intensity. 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:33.960 It is really hard to dethrone the Führer. Where 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.060 am I missing it here? I have some other ones. 00:03:37.580 --> 00:03:40.020 It's in 46. Oh, here we go. Okay, here. It's 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:43.860 in 46. Here is this one. Deep grunting coming. 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:47.219 So there was the deep grunting from the Boise 00:03:47.219 --> 00:03:49.860 school district settling a lawsuit with a former 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:52.580 female and a trans something and there was remember 00:03:52.580 --> 00:03:55.039 they were in the bathroom and they heard deep 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:56.840 grunting coming from one of the stalls. So there's 00:03:56.840 --> 00:04:00.580 either this one. Deep grunting. Or I this is 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:03.120 at this is actually how it sounds like deep grunting 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.659 coming from the stall but I cut this. Deep grunting 00:04:05.659 --> 00:04:08.919 coming. Deep grunting coming. Is any of that 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:13.659 good, deep grunting? Yeah, I mean deep grunting 00:04:13.659 --> 00:04:16.740 obviously makes the cut. I was, I was an immediate 00:04:16.740 --> 00:04:19.560 cut maker. Deep grunting. I'm pretty sure I had 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.819 a stop so I could say we got to make that one 00:04:21.819 --> 00:04:24.879 a sound drop. All right, we'll add deep grunting. 00:04:24.899 --> 00:04:30.560 So yes, as usual, I agree with myself. Here is 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:36.730 this one. Pay more for schools. That's from four 00:04:36.730 --> 00:04:39.949 news. Now is asking Coeur d 'Alene. Just an evergreen 00:04:39.949 --> 00:04:43.069 evergreen. Yeah. It approves the latest temporary 00:04:43.069 --> 00:04:47.069 answer to every question that anybody in anybody 00:04:47.069 --> 00:04:50.050 ever asks. That's you could just use that sound 00:04:50.050 --> 00:04:53.329 drop for a time or for schools. It's for a temporary. 00:04:53.589 --> 00:04:55.589 And what are we going to do about this problem? 00:04:55.709 --> 00:04:57.829 Pay more for school. What about this problem? 00:04:58.050 --> 00:05:01.600 Pay more for schools. Okay, so that one's going 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.439 on. Yes. We can't afford housing. What do we 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.800 do? Pay more for schools. Pay more for schools. 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:16.339 Here's this one. That was NPR doing the sheep 00:05:16.339 --> 00:05:20.399 podcast promo. When the flock cameras observe 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.920 the sheep of Idaho, this is how NPR hears it. 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.110 Do we like that? No, I love that one. That one's 00:05:29.110 --> 00:05:33.870 one of my recent favorites. Pay more. Because 00:05:33.870 --> 00:05:37.149 just remember, you can shear a sheep many times, 00:05:37.370 --> 00:05:43.970 but you can only skin him once. OK, here is another 00:05:43.970 --> 00:05:46.250 one from that same four news now. Coeur d 'Alene 00:05:46.250 --> 00:05:48.629 School temporary levy again. The district says 00:05:48.629 --> 00:05:52.730 it needs more money. Yeah, you could tie. You 00:05:52.730 --> 00:05:55.149 got to tie that one right right into a pay more 00:05:55.149 --> 00:05:59.910 for schools. Pay more for schools The district 00:05:59.910 --> 00:06:02.290 says it needs more money. So I don't have these 00:06:02.290 --> 00:06:04.689 as buttons yet This is all just in waveform because 00:06:04.689 --> 00:06:07.029 I'm gonna well I'll add them as we decide which 00:06:07.029 --> 00:06:08.610 one so it's I'm having to sort of skip around 00:06:08.610 --> 00:06:11.970 here Okay, so that's it. That's a yay how I got 00:06:11.970 --> 00:06:18.959 two more the district doesn't get enough You'll 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:20.740 notice that that one might not make the cut. 00:06:21.100 --> 00:06:23.959 Yeah. Well, that's it. It starts. It starts to 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.100 get redundant. So we have to pick the best of 00:06:26.100 --> 00:06:28.199 the best. Yes. Fair enough. All right. So we'll 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:32.040 delete that one. And final one racing your immune 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:35.990 system's memory. That's right. That's from a 00:06:35.990 --> 00:06:38.670 creme channel to and dr. Celine gounder. You 00:06:38.670 --> 00:06:41.230 know, we got a bus that one out any time Yeah 00:06:41.230 --> 00:06:45.389 field to the experts experts have said the it's 00:06:45.389 --> 00:06:49.709 a surge in memory erasing bacteria Erasing your 00:06:49.709 --> 00:06:52.629 immune system's memory and remember if that's 00:06:52.629 --> 00:06:54.889 measles is like AIDS. Oh, you can't remember. 00:06:54.889 --> 00:06:59.449 That's the problem Erasing your immune system's 00:06:59.449 --> 00:07:03.170 memory. So that's a yay as well That's a yay, 00:07:03.310 --> 00:07:09.230 okay done these people are the experts So that 00:07:09.230 --> 00:07:11.230 might be what we just do We just kind of do some 00:07:11.230 --> 00:07:13.430 housekeeping at the top of the show and just 00:07:13.430 --> 00:07:15.949 kind of decide what we'll do from what we'll 00:07:15.949 --> 00:07:18.990 add From last week's episode. Thanks agenda archaeologists 00:07:18.990 --> 00:07:22.230 for this gesture suggestion. It's a good one 00:07:22.230 --> 00:07:24.509 Along we get it. Are we thinking of making this 00:07:24.509 --> 00:07:27.189 a feature of every episode? I know I don't see 00:07:27.189 --> 00:07:29.370 why not sure. I don't see why not through the 00:07:29.370 --> 00:07:31.589 menu They're always funny and I always, you know, 00:07:31.610 --> 00:07:35.589 I don't necessarily need to make a dictatorial 00:07:35.589 --> 00:07:37.610 declaration for what should be added to the soundboard. 00:07:37.629 --> 00:07:42.050 This is a democracy. Oh, okay. Well, I'm for 00:07:42.050 --> 00:07:44.410 it. It's fun. Gives people a chance to revisit 00:07:44.410 --> 00:07:46.509 some of our favorites. Gives us a chance to revisit 00:07:46.509 --> 00:07:48.410 some of our favorites. So if we make it a feature 00:07:48.410 --> 00:07:50.769 of the episode, I'm cool with it. There you go. 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:52.089 What do we got to call it though? We got to call 00:07:52.089 --> 00:07:54.970 it something sound drop in it or something. We 00:07:54.970 --> 00:07:57.550 got to come up with some catchy name with alliteration 00:07:57.550 --> 00:07:59.589 because you know me, I'm a sucker for alliteration. 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:04.560 I would love suggestions. The agenda archaeologist 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.060 would be maybe the first person to, if you got 00:08:07.060 --> 00:08:09.319 a suggestion for what to name that little vignette, 00:08:09.339 --> 00:08:11.779 that'd be great. You know, I want to reset clean 00:08:11.779 --> 00:08:15.000 feed. You're still choppy. We could call it a, 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:17.720 I'm digging it in honor of the archaeologist. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:20.540 I'm digging it. I like it. Hey, let me, let me 00:08:20.540 --> 00:08:22.560 reset clean feed, dude. You're still really choppy. 00:08:22.579 --> 00:08:26.139 I'm not sure why I'm going to reset it. How's 00:08:26.139 --> 00:08:30.759 that? I don't know. You tell me. Okay, well so 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:32.740 clean on my end. Yeah. Okay. I'm glad to hear 00:08:32.740 --> 00:08:35.559 that so so far better Hopefully that's all it 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:38.039 takes. All right. So let's launch into this then 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.980 as It is right along the lines of the district 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:43.799 doesn't get enough and it needs more money and 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.149 we need more money for schools The Idaho state 00:08:46.149 --> 00:08:48.269 budget is projected to end the current fiscal 00:08:48.269 --> 00:08:51.350 year with a larger surplus than lawmakers previously 00:08:51.350 --> 00:08:54.029 expected. That comes after the state made spending 00:08:54.029 --> 00:08:56.730 cuts across multiple departments last year. Now 00:08:56.730 --> 00:08:59.070 new estimates from the Legislative Services Office 00:08:59.070 --> 00:09:02.669 show the state's financial outlook has improved. 00:09:03.409 --> 00:09:06.529 When the Idaho legislature wrapped up in April, 00:09:06.649 --> 00:09:08.750 lawmakers estimated the state would have about 00:09:08.750 --> 00:09:12.090 $150 million in surplus funds at the end of the 00:09:12.090 --> 00:09:15.539 fiscal year 2027. But the latest estimate from 00:09:15.539 --> 00:09:17.820 the Legislative Services Office now puts that 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:20.399 number at about six hundred and fifty seven million 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:22.799 dollars. That's roughly five hundred and seven 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.240 million dollars more than the estimate made in 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.779 April. The latest figures reflect the state's 00:09:27.779 --> 00:09:30.179 current revenue and spending projections. So 00:09:30.179 --> 00:09:33.500 there's so the experts whose immune systems have 00:09:33.500 --> 00:09:36.179 been erased by raw milk. It turns out they can't 00:09:36.179 --> 00:09:38.919 estimate for jack crap. What is that like a nine 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:44.669 million percent error? It's big else. Also, speaking 00:09:44.669 --> 00:09:47.330 of short memories, do you remember how early 00:09:47.330 --> 00:09:49.529 in the session, so we're talking February, March, 00:09:50.070 --> 00:09:52.590 they couldn't shut up about how we were facing 00:09:52.590 --> 00:09:55.090 dire financial straits. And of course it was 00:09:55.090 --> 00:09:58.889 all the mean, mean, mean old conservative Republicans 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:01.990 faults for not spending enough money on education 00:10:01.990 --> 00:10:03.889 and health care. And that's why we were in the 00:10:03.889 --> 00:10:06.049 hole. These cuts are killing people. Literally. 00:10:06.809 --> 00:10:08.809 Literally. That's all we heard. Literally killing 00:10:08.809 --> 00:10:11.090 people to the tune of a half a million dollar, 00:10:11.090 --> 00:10:14.389 half a billion dollar surplus. That sounds like 00:10:14.389 --> 00:10:16.690 total death to me. Man, it's a good thing these 00:10:16.690 --> 00:10:18.789 people are in charge. It's a good thing they're 00:10:18.789 --> 00:10:21.309 so much smarter than us, huh, Scott? So not only 00:10:21.309 --> 00:10:24.750 can they extract maximum dollar from us and celebrate 00:10:24.750 --> 00:10:26.750 the fact that they've extracted maximum dollar 00:10:26.750 --> 00:10:28.710 for us, but they never will stop complaining 00:10:28.710 --> 00:10:30.509 about how it's not enough while they're extracting 00:10:30.509 --> 00:10:33.590 maximum dollar from us. And they're wrong about 00:10:33.590 --> 00:10:36.590 how much they got from us. Here's another one 00:10:36.590 --> 00:10:38.490 that I missed. Governor Brad Little has ordered 00:10:38.490 --> 00:10:41.090 state officials to keep spending. Remember that 00:10:41.090 --> 00:10:43.740 one? There's another one from last show. Yeah, 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.679 keep spending. What we ought to do is, you know 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.960 what we ought to do for our one year anniversary, 00:10:50.059 --> 00:10:52.019 which is coming up, by the way, we ought to just 00:10:52.019 --> 00:10:56.200 do a two hour long super cut of all of these 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.740 sound drops that all revolve around the experts 00:10:59.740 --> 00:11:02.320 and spending and memory erasing viruses and just 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.840 super cut a whole two hour thing together. And 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:06.639 then you and I don't say a word. We just put 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:11.440 this on for our anniversary and. Just see if 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.659 anybody notices a trend. We need this money. 00:11:15.179 --> 00:11:16.679 Is that I think it's a lot of rebel. We need 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.960 this money. They need money. We need this money. 00:11:19.539 --> 00:11:22.440 That's all we heard is how desperately which. 00:11:22.820 --> 00:11:25.059 But did you hear what they said? What the report 00:11:25.059 --> 00:11:27.980 said, though? When the Idaho legislature wrapped 00:11:27.980 --> 00:11:30.720 up in April, lawmakers estimated the state would 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:34.240 have about $150 million in surplus funds at the 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.639 end. So that was still all of the, we need money 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.120 and there's no money and the district needs more 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.620 money and we can't keep spending on the more 00:11:41.620 --> 00:11:45.259 money. That was all still based on $157 million 00:11:45.259 --> 00:11:51.730 estimated surplus? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, is there 00:11:51.730 --> 00:11:53.730 any universe I mean to be fair back into our 00:11:53.730 --> 00:11:56.450 pockets or I mean am I just living on a planet 00:11:56.450 --> 00:11:59.309 planet redic I mean obviously that's a rhetorical 00:11:59.309 --> 00:12:02.149 and ridiculous question. What are you new here 00:12:02.149 --> 00:12:08.470 first day? I Remember my first time. Oh my god 00:12:08.470 --> 00:12:19.830 It was grunting I guess in their defense though 00:12:20.940 --> 00:12:24.700 a five hundred and something million dollar extra. 00:12:24.740 --> 00:12:27.139 So it's actually like a six million and seventy 00:12:27.139 --> 00:12:29.259 something dollar surplus, but they were off by 00:12:29.259 --> 00:12:32.480 a mere five hundred and something million. To 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.960 be fair to them, that's only three and a half 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.840 post fall city budgets. That's all you're right. 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.120 So it's not very much money. You know, when you 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.940 measure it in post fall city budgets, it's actually 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:48.720 it's almost bankruptcy. It's tiny. You're completely 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.279 right. You know what we need to do? Let's remove 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.620 all the gates from all the snowplows in the entire 00:12:53.620 --> 00:12:58.200 state. We don't have enough money for the state 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.360 snowplows to have gates. We need this money. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.539 We have sort of a problem here. It's only three 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:08.759 and a half Post Falls budget's worth. I mean, 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:10.279 honestly, would you say it like that? It sounds 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:15.610 so small. There's there's also this way Wait, 00:13:15.669 --> 00:13:18.169 there's this this the awkward laugh from the 00:13:18.169 --> 00:13:20.669 the poor lady who had her who had code enforcement 00:13:20.669 --> 00:13:24.809 shut down her What was her Sasquatch snack stand 00:13:24.809 --> 00:13:28.649 down in southern Idaho her awkward laugh? That 00:13:28.649 --> 00:13:31.629 one is on there, too Oh, that's got us. That's 00:13:31.629 --> 00:13:34.110 that has to yeah that also makes the cut. These 00:13:34.110 --> 00:13:36.090 are just gold We just had a solid lineup this 00:13:36.090 --> 00:13:37.870 week They're not all gonna make the cut like 00:13:37.870 --> 00:13:40.629 they did this week, but this week was solid lineups 00:13:40.629 --> 00:13:43.779 put another way just to make it, you know, so 00:13:43.779 --> 00:13:46.740 that you understand Scott, how trivial and petty 00:13:46.740 --> 00:13:50.179 we're being about this half a billion dollar 00:13:50.179 --> 00:13:56.559 fuck up. It's only $262 per man, woman and child 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.940 in Idaho. That's it. That's all it is. Nothing. 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.519 It's nothing. It just, you know, which divided 00:14:01.519 --> 00:14:04.659 by or a multiply times five for me, for my household, 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:08.460 which is a household of five is about $1 ,300, 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.940 give or take 1250. 1300 because it's 262 per 00:14:13.940 --> 00:14:17.519 man, woman and child. So what is that? Hey, they 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:23.799 could give me a 1300 dollar refund. It would 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:31.580 cover half of my property taxes. But don't worry, 00:14:31.580 --> 00:14:33.799 when they're taking it from us, it's only three 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.379 percent. When we're cutting them back, it's an 00:14:37.379 --> 00:14:41.549 apocalyptic point eight percent. Don't ever forget. 00:14:41.710 --> 00:14:46.610 These cuts are killing people. Literally. Literally. 00:14:47.669 --> 00:14:50.090 You shouldn't have to pay tax to breathe. And 00:14:50.090 --> 00:14:57.330 yet here we are. But my roads. What about my 00:14:57.330 --> 00:14:59.509 roads? So you love potholes. Shut up and take 00:14:59.509 --> 00:15:01.889 my money. Yeah. That's right. That's right. We 00:15:01.889 --> 00:15:03.590 shouldn't have to pay to breathe, but we're going 00:15:03.590 --> 00:15:05.809 to do it anyways because when you angle roads 00:15:05.809 --> 00:15:12.100 like that. Shut up and take my money. Let's pick 00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:17.120 our road we yeah Let's do Well, I guess we could 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.580 do Traff now, let's forget traffic. Let's do 00:15:20.580 --> 00:15:24.700 the the guns verse hjr4 thing the article that 00:15:24.700 --> 00:15:27.919 you said yes, yes So I have a bunch of I have 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:31.039 that shit dialed up go right ahead It's so good 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:34.970 and then I got lots of audio for it Okay, so 00:15:34.970 --> 00:15:38.250 I'm gonna credit Wayne Hoffman for juxtaposing 00:15:38.250 --> 00:15:40.370 the two things against each other in a way that 00:15:40.370 --> 00:15:42.889 I hadn't thought to do so, even though like I 00:15:42.889 --> 00:15:45.210 knew it, but I didn't put it down on paper the 00:15:45.210 --> 00:15:48.590 way my friend Wayne Hoffman, who a former, he 00:15:48.590 --> 00:15:51.509 is the founder of Idaho Freedom Foundation and 00:15:51.509 --> 00:15:54.450 the former, of course, what would it be? Chairman, 00:15:54.610 --> 00:15:57.769 I guess, president CEO of it. He stopped doing 00:15:57.769 --> 00:15:59.269 that stuff about four or five, six years ago. 00:15:59.330 --> 00:16:01.679 Now he's working on a... thing called level up 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.220 humanity, I'm on the board of it. It's a, it's 00:16:04.220 --> 00:16:06.320 a total reframing of the way we look at humanity 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.580 in general, basically, it's a lot of like, what 00:16:08.580 --> 00:16:11.159 if we didn't do what the government said? And 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.919 what if we didn't bind ourselves to this idea 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:16.940 that without the state, everything would be awful? 00:16:17.019 --> 00:16:18.700 Because actually, it's with the state, everything 00:16:18.700 --> 00:16:21.460 is awful. But I digress, Wayne puts out a great 00:16:21.460 --> 00:16:25.240 email every couple of days. And one came down 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:30.340 the pipe where he juxtaposed these two things 00:16:30.340 --> 00:16:35.580 that reveal the absolute lunacy of the matrix 00:16:35.580 --> 00:16:38.879 in which we live. In Idaho, on one side, you 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:43.220 have HJR4, House Joint Resolution Four, which 00:16:43.220 --> 00:16:45.320 is a ballot initiative that's going to be on 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.580 the ballot in November, this November in Idaho, 00:16:47.779 --> 00:16:52.259 where the voters get to decide whether or not 00:16:52.269 --> 00:16:56.789 to restrict their own rights. Basically, it's 00:16:56.789 --> 00:17:00.110 a it's regarding the legalization of basically 00:17:00.110 --> 00:17:03.309 any non FDA regulated drug at this point, because 00:17:03.309 --> 00:17:05.430 they didn't stop at marijuana, of course. Oh, 00:17:05.430 --> 00:17:10.069 no, no, no, it's anything. So psychedelic psychosilabin, 00:17:10.250 --> 00:17:12.450 any anything that's basically not your over the 00:17:12.450 --> 00:17:15.430 counter for your pharma approved, sponsored by 00:17:15.430 --> 00:17:18.930 Pfizer drug, psilocybin be completely psilocybin. 00:17:19.069 --> 00:17:22.220 Thank you. Well, yeah, you can tell what I do 00:17:22.220 --> 00:17:28.980 and I don't do here. So basically what it does 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:33.319 is it gives the legislature exclusive power to 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.579 legalize or criminalize all of these drugs that 00:17:36.579 --> 00:17:40.259 are considered basically not pharmaceutical approved, 00:17:40.460 --> 00:17:43.259 not FDA approved. What's the word I'm looking 00:17:43.259 --> 00:17:46.250 for, Scott? They're black market drugs. There's 00:17:46.250 --> 00:17:49.390 another term for it, but illicit substances. 00:17:50.009 --> 00:17:52.150 You mean the runs that are run by the cartel? 00:17:52.230 --> 00:17:54.829 They're very good at masking themselves as a 00:17:54.829 --> 00:17:57.089 legitimate private entity. And then when you 00:17:57.089 --> 00:17:59.509 really pull everything back and you pull these 00:17:59.509 --> 00:18:01.849 layers back, you realize who you're dealing with. 00:18:01.910 --> 00:18:03.589 You're dealing with the cartel. Right. And they're 00:18:03.589 --> 00:18:05.990 pushing drugs. Well, the question is which cartel 00:18:05.990 --> 00:18:10.650 here? Because you have Pfizer and all of them 00:18:10.650 --> 00:18:13.720 on the one side, which are also a cartel. What 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.000 about Idaho state liquor? What would you call 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:19.240 that? Oh, that's a cartel as well. Well, that's 00:18:19.240 --> 00:18:21.259 why that's the it's government run. So it's the 00:18:21.259 --> 00:18:24.579 biggest cartel of all. Whoa, psychoactive substances. 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:29.289 Okay. Cheech. Yeah, ironically enough, the cartel 00:18:29.289 --> 00:18:31.470 that they tell us to be the most afraid of is 00:18:31.470 --> 00:18:33.710 the one that actually hurts us the least and 00:18:33.710 --> 00:18:36.049 may actually provide useful goods and services. 00:18:36.230 --> 00:18:37.930 But that's a conversation for another time, I 00:18:37.930 --> 00:18:41.269 suppose. Anyways, what it does is H .J. House 00:18:41.269 --> 00:18:43.529 Joint Resolution Four is a ballot initiative 00:18:43.529 --> 00:18:46.410 whereby voters can vote less rights for themselves 00:18:46.410 --> 00:18:50.190 and give the legislature exclusive power in Idaho 00:18:50.190 --> 00:18:54.670 to regulate, legalize or criminalize or decriminalize. 00:18:55.329 --> 00:18:58.690 illicit drugs and substances. So the idea is 00:18:58.690 --> 00:19:02.849 to basically make it impossible to have a ballot 00:19:02.849 --> 00:19:05.410 initiative in Idaho to legalize marijuana. That's 00:19:05.410 --> 00:19:07.650 the main gist of this. That is the main point, 00:19:07.690 --> 00:19:10.250 because they are afraid that at some point in 00:19:10.250 --> 00:19:12.390 the near future, as has happened in other states, 00:19:12.849 --> 00:19:15.789 it will be legalized. In fact, Idaho is like, 00:19:15.789 --> 00:19:18.049 I think, one of two states left in the entire 00:19:18.049 --> 00:19:20.769 country. There's only a couple of states left, 00:19:20.829 --> 00:19:22.470 and Idaho is one of them. I can actually, I don't 00:19:22.470 --> 00:19:23.630 know. Why don't you look it up for me, Scott? 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.839 It's one of only two or three states in the entire 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:31.079 country where there is not seasonal use or full 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:33.279 recreational use, but Idaho is one of the only 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:39.000 holdouts left. Let's ask the robot. What other 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:42.099 states besides Idaho still don't allow for any 00:19:42.099 --> 00:19:48.190 sort of marijuana? Let me check that. Okay as 00:19:48.190 --> 00:19:51.569 of September 2026 if you mean states with no 00:19:51.569 --> 00:19:54.230 medical program or recreational legalization 00:19:54.230 --> 00:20:02.009 the list is Idaho Georgia Indiana Iowa Kansas 00:20:02.009 --> 00:20:08.589 North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Wisconsin 00:20:08.589 --> 00:20:13.450 and Wyoming With the big caveat that some of 00:20:13.450 --> 00:20:17.349 those have very limited low THC or CBD programs. 00:20:18.509 --> 00:20:22.650 So that distinction, well no, that distinction 00:20:22.650 --> 00:20:25.809 matters, I guess, because Idaho, all of that 00:20:25.809 --> 00:20:29.150 is illegal. So that is a distinction with a difference, 00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:32.809 it does matter. In Idaho, Idaho is one of two 00:20:32.809 --> 00:20:38.509 states where there are no THC or CBD exemptions, 00:20:38.829 --> 00:20:42.619 Kansas being the other one. Marijuana is completely 00:20:42.619 --> 00:20:45.019 100 % illegal in every shape, way, and form. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.359 And they're one of two states where there's no 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.200 exemptions for any of it. And there's only four 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.059 states with total marijuana bans. That's Idaho, 00:20:54.079 --> 00:20:58.559 Kansas, Indiana, Nebraska. Even Ohio has exemptions. 00:20:59.859 --> 00:21:02.279 Gray area states, which are considered restrictive 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:06.839 states, but you can have low THC products or 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:11.200 medical THC oil. Uh, products and programs, uh, 00:21:11.259 --> 00:21:13.019 Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, 00:21:13.099 --> 00:21:15.380 Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming, all have exemptions 00:21:15.380 --> 00:21:20.059 for those low level stuff. I look, I was looking 00:21:20.059 --> 00:21:21.859 it up same time as you, because I don't, because 00:21:21.859 --> 00:21:24.200 Chauncey is shit, man. You keep consulting Chauncey, 00:21:24.220 --> 00:21:26.000 but we get better answers with just the plain 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:29.779 old Google machine, man. You want to do anyways, 00:21:29.819 --> 00:21:32.240 the point is I was right. Idaho is one of two 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:36.099 states where everything is illegal. Again, that's 00:21:36.099 --> 00:21:40.819 groundhog day. again and hjr4 will make it so 00:21:40.819 --> 00:21:45.059 that the people us we don't get a say well we 00:21:45.059 --> 00:21:47.880 get a say right now and the vote that's coming 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:49.920 up is us getting a say on whether or not we ever 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:55.910 get a say again Yeah, no, man. It's like every 00:21:55.910 --> 00:21:59.869 election cycle. Oh, dude. Here's here's. So I 00:21:59.869 --> 00:22:02.789 can go ahead. So I was going to play Idaho. No, 00:22:02.789 --> 00:22:05.230 you go ahead. Illustrating what you're what you're 00:22:05.230 --> 00:22:07.809 describing here, what this proposal is all about, 00:22:07.849 --> 00:22:09.890 what they're proposing we take away from ourselves. 00:22:10.109 --> 00:22:13.930 this november, Idaho vot to vote on whether the 00:22:13.930 --> 00:22:18.250 le should have the exclusive things like marijuana 00:22:18.250 --> 00:22:22.990 and would block the ability to create ballot 00:22:22.990 --> 00:22:32.680 initiati Riley Shoemaker and I put So now she's 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.319 as you hear from that nap she's now on the and 00:22:35.319 --> 00:22:38.779 I asked a lawmaker why the lawmakers who stand 00:22:38.779 --> 00:22:42.460 to gain more power from this support this Okay, 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:44.859 but yeah the lawmakers who are super against 00:22:44.859 --> 00:22:48.720 like psychoactive Intoxicants, but they get can't 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:50.660 campaign contributions from Pfizer and Moderna 00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:53.519 those those lawmakers Well, yeah, which is ironic 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:59.339 as power is one hell of a drug shows you that 00:22:59.339 --> 00:23:05.319 Riley sho streets of downtown Boise board. Right 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:09.599 now, Idaho can gather signatures to p on the 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:15.579 ballot, including or other psychoactive sub resolution 00:23:15.579 --> 00:23:20.259 four would cha the ability for citizens the, 00:23:20.259 --> 00:23:24.940 she's written the lang on this on this dry eras 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:30.980 read it, you know, like, clear, remove the ability 00:23:30.980 --> 00:23:38.200 state statute statutes tha substances. If it 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:43.119 passes would have the authority a no vote would 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:51.430 keep the c We showed voters the ling not necessarily 00:23:51.430 --> 00:23:54.650 confusing. I mean it seems pretty clear and I 00:23:54.650 --> 00:23:57.089 would probably vote for the citizens, but not 00:23:57.089 --> 00:23:59.269 everyone found it clear. I think the language 00:23:59.269 --> 00:24:02.250 is confusing. People are a proper representation 00:24:02.250 --> 00:24:04.890 of what people think. So yeah, it should be up 00:24:04.890 --> 00:24:08.049 to people that is confusing. Yes, I do think 00:24:08.049 --> 00:24:10.250 that it should be up to up to the people. August 00:24:10.250 --> 00:24:12.650 Seymour came to a different conclusion. I feel 00:24:12.650 --> 00:24:14.470 like definitely it should be held to it like 00:24:14.470 --> 00:24:17.890 a higher power. Therefore it can be more moderated. 00:24:18.009 --> 00:24:20.230 Did you hear that? I want my glorious Supreme 00:24:20.230 --> 00:24:22.990 Chalupa leaders to decide this for me. A higher 00:24:22.990 --> 00:24:27.970 power. Like God. They are God. Unbelievable. 00:24:28.190 --> 00:24:32.319 We can't do this. We need a higher power. It's 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:34.039 really something. The truth always wants to come 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:39.220 out. He stumbled, too. Did you hear? He almost 00:24:39.220 --> 00:24:40.980 says, like, wait, did that really just come flying 00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:43.819 out of my mouth? Like a higher power, therefore 00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:46.500 it can be more moderated. So then it's not just 00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:48.420 anybody making that decision. I want us to hold 00:24:48.420 --> 00:24:51.359 the line. So it's not just anybody. No, not us. 00:24:51.779 --> 00:24:54.859 No, no, no, no, no. The god kings make the decisions. 00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:59.279 This is our fellow citizens. He was also wearing 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:04.319 six masks. He wasn't, but he might as well. Higher 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.700 power, therefore it can be more moderated. So 00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:09.460 then it's not just anybody making that decision. 00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:13.019 That might be a sound drop right there. Which 00:25:13.019 --> 00:25:16.759 one? It's all gold. Which one? Higher power. 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:21.359 It's a little garbled when you do just that. 00:25:22.099 --> 00:25:26.740 That's true. Out of context, but whatever. In 00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:29.380 context, it's fabulous. Therefore it can be more 00:25:29.380 --> 00:25:32.019 moderated. This is why we deconstruct the mainstream 00:25:32.019 --> 00:25:35.140 media because it's so Illustrative of what's 00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:38.380 going on in how in what's being presented to 00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:41.180 everybody and then how it makes their brains 00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:44.059 work This guy thinks that I would other higher 00:25:44.059 --> 00:25:46.220 powers in the government should make decisions 00:25:46.220 --> 00:25:50.039 for him. That's what he's saying Yeah. Yeah, 00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:54.140 I would also say that it's illuminating for exactly 00:25:54.140 --> 00:25:58.440 that reason what you just mentioned is in the 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:01.339 way that the COVID crazy showed us how many of 00:26:01.339 --> 00:26:04.680 our neighbors were actually insane, breaking 00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:07.259 down the mainstream media and watching other 00:26:07.259 --> 00:26:11.859 people as they react to it and what they do or 00:26:11.859 --> 00:26:13.720 don't do or what they think or don't think it's 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:16.440 very illuminating. And it's just like, you sit 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:20.180 there and you wonder and all the armchair quarterbacks 00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:23.069 today, Or like, if Hitler came to power, I'd 00:26:23.069 --> 00:26:26.869 never join him. I hate to break it to you, but 00:26:26.869 --> 00:26:29.809 you already have. It just looks a little different. 00:26:30.170 --> 00:26:32.690 But the effect is the same. There's so much future 00:26:32.690 --> 00:26:35.809 tense being used. Like, you know, if we're not 00:26:35.809 --> 00:26:38.490 careful, we're going to lose our liberties. Like, 00:26:38.490 --> 00:26:44.009 OK. Oh, bad. I don't even know where to start. 00:26:44.130 --> 00:26:45.670 And by the way, you know, I meant to mention 00:26:45.670 --> 00:26:47.250 this earlier before we continue on with this 00:26:47.250 --> 00:26:51.319 clip. The notion, you know, I I've heard a little 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:53.160 bit of this feedback and I know it's a it's a 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.240 popular sentiment amongst the You guys are wild 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.599 -eyed nutjobs with your nonsense world that can 00:26:58.599 --> 00:27:00.440 never possibly exist. What's the point? What 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.380 do you like potholes? You know, I mean if people 00:27:03.380 --> 00:27:07.740 thought that way about any like movement that 00:27:07.740 --> 00:27:10.500 made the world better in the past, it never would 00:27:10.500 --> 00:27:12.000 have happened. Like, can you imagine going back 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.880 to like 1684? What's the point of even discussing 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.940 chattel slavery, you stupid idealists? Like, 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.460 it's never going to change, man. There's no point. 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.500 This is a waste of time. Like, it's the world 00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:25.220 that exists. There's nothing you can do about 00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:28.200 it. And it's legal. It's legal. Exactly. So, 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:29.500 you know, what do you fight? You're fighting 00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:31.880 City Hall. What are you doing? And besides, if 00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:33.880 we get rid of the slaves, who's going to build 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:41.670 the roads? Who will pick the cotton? There is 00:27:41.670 --> 00:27:45.230 something to be said about like attempting to 00:27:45.230 --> 00:27:48.190 make a tiny mark of your own on the zeitgeist 00:27:48.190 --> 00:27:51.150 such that eventually maybe the zeitgeist will 00:27:51.150 --> 00:27:53.650 change and then the macro change can take place. 00:27:53.710 --> 00:27:55.670 I don't know. It just seems like such a defeatist 00:27:55.670 --> 00:27:58.769 way to frame thinking about stuff. What's the 00:27:58.769 --> 00:28:01.069 point? I don't know. What's the point of anything? 00:28:01.289 --> 00:28:07.579 Sometimes things change. They can and they do 00:28:07.579 --> 00:28:10.700 Yeah All right, let's continue on here. Therefore, 00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:13.319 it can be more moderated so that it's not just 00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:15.220 anybody making that decision. I want us to hold 00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:17.339 the line right where we're at. Representative 00:28:17.339 --> 00:28:19.920 Bruce Gogg helped lead H .J .R. 4 through the 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:22.680 House. He argues drug policy should be excluded 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.299 from the initiative process because large financial 00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:28.420 interests can influence signature gathering campaigns. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:35.440 Unlike any other topic or industry. What does 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:38.259 that not apply to? What does that not apply to? 00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:40.680 That's what I'm saying. No, no, it was cool when 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.359 King Ag was dumping money into all of the primary 00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.299 elections. But now that we're talking about drugs, 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:50.140 we can't be having drug money influencing elections, 00:28:50.339 --> 00:28:52.500 even though it's on the one side of it. You know, 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.160 Pfizer is dumping and whoever else, you know, 00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:57.880 all of the other pharmaceuticals that I don't 00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.339 know. They're all dumping money into this, you 00:29:00.339 --> 00:29:04.359 know which way they're pushing. Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, 00:29:04.660 --> 00:29:07.539 Moderna. I mean, that's just like off the top 00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:11.099 of my head, there's a billion of them. The logic 00:29:11.099 --> 00:29:14.799 here, the argument is basically that if we don't 00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:17.019 take rights away from the voters, from the people, 00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:20.180 if we don't centralize power into our hands, 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:23.339 then a lot of money could get dumped into this 00:29:23.339 --> 00:29:28.650 issue. That's what he said. He argues drug policy 00:29:28.650 --> 00:29:30.650 should be excluded from the initiative process 00:29:30.650 --> 00:29:33.730 because large financial interests can influence 00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:36.670 signature gathering campaigns. That's what the 00:29:36.670 --> 00:29:39.069 reporter summarized. But then here, here's his 00:29:39.069 --> 00:29:41.269 words. Here, the big drug money comes in are 00:29:41.269 --> 00:29:43.069 those who are likely to make a lot of money. 00:29:43.369 --> 00:29:45.490 We saw that in the attempt to get marijuana on 00:29:45.490 --> 00:29:47.650 the ballot, three and a half or three point two 00:29:47.650 --> 00:29:49.630 million dollars spent on that to get signatures. 00:29:50.430 --> 00:29:53.089 And they almost did it, even though Idaho has 00:29:53.089 --> 00:29:55.230 been very strong against marijuana and other 00:29:55.230 --> 00:29:58.339 drugs. keep the big money, the cartels, keep 00:29:58.339 --> 00:30:02.440 that money out. So we can't, yeah, of course 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:06.380 that doesn't include Idaho state liquor. That 00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:09.099 cartel will remain intact and in fact will remain 00:30:09.099 --> 00:30:12.220 the only game in town with regard to psychoactive 00:30:12.220 --> 00:30:16.160 intoxicants. I'm Bruce Scott. King Ag, no big 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:20.619 deal. King State Liquor, no big deal. The quote 00:30:20.619 --> 00:30:22.480 unquote education. I hate that word because it's 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.019 not education. It's indoctrination. But the indoctrination 00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:31.380 cartel, that's cool. But marijuana, we can't 00:30:31.380 --> 00:30:36.099 be having that weed money. You know, if we didn't 00:30:36.099 --> 00:30:39.140 take rights away from the voters, we might have 00:30:39.140 --> 00:30:41.380 the wrong kind of money dumped into the wrong 00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:43.700 kind of political campaign. That's the coolest 00:30:43.700 --> 00:30:45.240 fucking story I've ever heard in my entire life. 00:30:45.299 --> 00:30:47.799 That's insane. Can I hear it again? Do you have 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:50.640 time? So we want to keep the big money, the cartels, 00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:54.859 keep that money out. The cartels! The cartels. 00:30:55.299 --> 00:30:59.000 The cartels! They're very good at masking themselves. 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:03.339 Let this be our weekly friendly reminder. The 00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:06.220 government is the biggest, most violent cartel 00:31:06.220 --> 00:31:10.539 on planet Earth. And it's not that they don't 00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:13.259 like... the things that they're engaged in. It's 00:31:13.259 --> 00:31:16.759 just that they don't like competition. They love 00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.519 drugs, they love booze, they love gambling, they 00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:21.940 love all the things that make them money and 00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:24.619 keep you stupid. They're immoral! They just don't 00:31:24.619 --> 00:31:29.140 like... They just don't like competition. Skog 00:31:29.140 --> 00:31:31.380 pointed to cities like Portland, Oregon, where 00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:34.700 drug decriminalization policies have been controversial, 00:31:35.299 --> 00:31:37.579 arguing Idaho should not follow the same path. 00:31:37.779 --> 00:31:41.259 You know, we have another actually example to 00:31:41.259 --> 00:31:43.640 add. This is the only two things that can come 00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.740 up with the roads and Portland, the road and 00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.980 Portland arguing Idaho when all else fails, you 00:31:49.980 --> 00:31:52.039 just. Go. You don't want to be like Portland, 00:31:52.059 --> 00:31:54.559 do you? Portland. Idaho should not follow the 00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:57.500 same path. The damage is done very quickly once 00:31:57.500 --> 00:32:01.099 illegal drugs are legalized. It destroys lives, 00:32:01.380 --> 00:32:03.579 destroys families. House Joint Resolution Four 00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:05.799 will be determined on Election Day this November. 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:07.619 Reporting at the State Capitol. OK, yeah, whatever 00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:10.099 you say, you freaking teetotaler. So don't legalize 00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:13.440 psychoactive intoxicants. So then no booze, right? 00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:17.220 Is he for prohibition? Yeah. Your first crusade 00:32:17.220 --> 00:32:21.039 should be banning booze immediately or maybe 00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:22.940 that's your second crusade. Your first crusade 00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:27.400 should be banning all opioids, all painkillers, 00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.079 opioids in particular. You got to ban it. It 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:33.380 ruins lives. It's hell on your kidneys and liver. 00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:36.500 It's addictive. It's expensive. And it's run 00:32:36.500 --> 00:32:39.099 by the second or third largest cartel on the 00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:42.579 planet, the pharmaceutical cartel. So if that's 00:32:42.579 --> 00:32:45.500 what we're afraid of, what are we waiting for? 00:32:46.349 --> 00:32:48.470 It's just like when people talk about safety 00:32:48.470 --> 00:32:51.450 and deaths and like, oh, you know deaths deaths 00:32:51.450 --> 00:32:53.529 deaths and I go alright Well, if we really cared 00:32:53.529 --> 00:32:56.869 if we were like just anything to save one life, 00:32:56.869 --> 00:33:01.890 we would ban cars today We would ban cars today 00:33:01.890 --> 00:33:07.710 Ban them if everything we do saves just one life 00:33:07.710 --> 00:33:10.920 I'll be happy. So no more cars in awesome No 00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:12.799 more banning cars. You know what? Hey, they did 00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:14.599 try this, though. You know, they told us to stay 00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:18.339 in our houses. Stay in the house. It's true. 00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:20.759 It's true. I guess that's step number one to 00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:22.380 banning cars, because then after that, it's like, 00:33:22.380 --> 00:33:24.599 well, you can't leave your home, so you don't 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:27.140 need your car. That's right. Well, right. And 00:33:27.140 --> 00:33:28.579 the fuel is going to be so expensive anyway, 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:30.180 you're not going to be able to afford it. And 00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:32.779 thus sayeth the higher powers that are making 00:33:32.779 --> 00:33:36.259 decisions for you. Oh, thank God we gave that 00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:38.480 power to a higher power. We can't just have anybody 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:41.920 doing it. Yeah, it has to be moderated by somebody 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:44.640 smarter than me. Okay, there's a couple more 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.059 here and it all ties into the the choice that 00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:50.400 our benevolent higher powers are giving us. We're 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.200 working towards an overarching point here. We 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.440 really are. We're taking the scenic route as 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:58.140 we like to do. This is 35 seconds and it's a 00:33:58.140 --> 00:34:01.619 clip from our homeboys at the North Idaho Experience 00:34:01.619 --> 00:34:04.400 who are all like former law enforcement, former 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:07.420 military, and this is a brief vignette from their 00:34:07.420 --> 00:34:08.780 discussion on this matter. I think it was from 00:34:08.780 --> 00:34:11.539 a couple few months ago. Idaho's 2026 ballot 00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:14.639 has two opposing laws. It was actually before, 00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:16.880 because that was when they were still going to 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.920 try to get the legalized medical, but that failed. 00:34:21.929 --> 00:34:23.449 You know legalizes. They couldn't get enough 00:34:23.449 --> 00:34:25.130 signatures couldn't get enough right exactly 00:34:25.130 --> 00:34:27.949 what 20 ,000 short The the estimate was that 00:34:27.949 --> 00:34:30.130 they were gonna have 18 million, but it turned 00:34:30.130 --> 00:34:32.590 out that they only got 52 ,000 So you just don't 00:34:32.590 --> 00:34:34.230 have that not that very good at estimating on 00:34:34.230 --> 00:34:36.429 it The other makes it impossible to ever vote 00:34:36.429 --> 00:34:40.150 on it again. We're talking about Marijuana the 00:34:40.150 --> 00:34:42.989 devil's lettuce marijuana and potentially coming 00:34:42.989 --> 00:34:45.889 to Idaho. Is that a big deal? There is a correlation. 00:34:45.889 --> 00:34:47.869 I don't know if it's the marijuana specifically 00:34:47.869 --> 00:34:49.789 I don't know what it is. Hopefully we can hash 00:34:49.789 --> 00:34:51.840 some of that out today, but there's a Correlation 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:56.039 between legalizing drugs and the a state sliding 00:34:56.039 --> 00:35:03.440 downward into law enforcement in Idaho It's such 00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:06.780 a tired trope and if you look at it in any sort 00:35:06.780 --> 00:35:09.440 of intelligent way It's the other way around 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:11.260 it's they're getting the whole chicken before 00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:13.079 the egg thing wrong here. They're like drugs 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.719 drugs are what did it? They're what turned every 00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:20.300 state gay Sorry to burst your bubble, guys, but 00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:23.699 every state that's done it good and hard, full 00:35:23.699 --> 00:35:25.679 legalization, which I think is only like two, 00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:28.980 Oregon was one of them for sure, already was 00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:33.199 chock full of decay, corruption, 30 years of 00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:37.659 Democrat control. And they already were super 00:35:37.659 --> 00:35:41.400 gay, metaphorically and literally, before drug 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:45.119 legalization. One beget the other, but not the 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:48.739 way that people in Idaho think. It's so ridiculous, 00:35:48.900 --> 00:35:52.059 too, because all it takes is five minutes of 00:35:52.059 --> 00:35:53.900 sitting down, taking a deep breath, and looking 00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:58.579 at, I don't know, just reality and political 00:35:58.579 --> 00:36:02.320 history of Oregon. We'll just key in on Oregon, 00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:03.860 because that's the state of the election. Portland 00:36:03.860 --> 00:36:08.480 is a place that lost its mind in the early 90s 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.940 politically and philosophically and ideologically. 00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:14.789 Portland has been a leftist hellscape. or utopia 00:36:14.789 --> 00:36:19.630 depending on your perspective for 40 years and 00:36:19.630 --> 00:36:24.230 it had it began its slide in the early 90s so 00:36:24.230 --> 00:36:25.969 it wasn't like they didn't you know they didn't 00:36:25.969 --> 00:36:30.650 legalize drugs until the late or the early 2020s 00:36:30.650 --> 00:36:34.769 right so one begat the other but not but in reverse 00:36:34.769 --> 00:36:37.369 order compared to what everybody in Idaho likes 00:36:37.369 --> 00:36:40.969 to think it's so ridiculous so yeah so yeah if 00:36:40.969 --> 00:36:45.829 you have a system or a systemic decay and corruption 00:36:45.829 --> 00:36:49.289 and, you know, 50 years of unabated Democrat 00:36:49.289 --> 00:36:53.309 control and all of their policies that ensue. 00:36:53.670 --> 00:36:57.150 Well, drugs are no drugs. It's a hellscape. Drugs 00:36:57.150 --> 00:37:01.329 just sort of like help it help it look even worse. 00:37:03.030 --> 00:37:05.329 But legalizing drugs didn't turn Portland into 00:37:05.329 --> 00:37:07.309 a hellscape. Portland already was a hellscape. 00:37:07.369 --> 00:37:08.909 And then they just put a little whipped cream 00:37:08.909 --> 00:37:11.949 and a cherry on top. I felt really gay last night. 00:37:12.550 --> 00:37:14.730 Oh dude, Dan Guggen would love Portland. Come 00:37:14.730 --> 00:37:19.329 over for a gay time. So many failing art galleries 00:37:19.329 --> 00:37:23.489 for him to trounce around in. Here's the last 00:37:23.489 --> 00:37:25.110 part of this clip from North Idaho Experience 00:37:25.110 --> 00:37:29.030 so you can hear how other, in many ways, liberty 00:37:29.030 --> 00:37:33.719 -minded North Idaho guys still think about some 00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:35.960 elements of liberty that they, I guess, find 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:37.820 personally distasteful or they think is going 00:37:37.820 --> 00:37:40.360 to lead to X or et cetera. Well, you got a couple 00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:41.960 of things going on there. These dudes are former 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:44.000 law enforcement. So there's strike number one. 00:37:44.059 --> 00:37:45.260 So you already know the way they're going to 00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:47.420 think about almost everything anyways, even if 00:37:47.420 --> 00:37:50.280 they claim to be for liberty. And number two 00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:52.460 is they're they're the you know, and I'm sure 00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:53.920 they're good dudes. And I'm actually hoping we 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:56.199 can get on their show and really rile shit up. 00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:58.480 And that would be so much fun. I'd love to do 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.019 it. And I'm sure we'll be we'll be mostly good 00:38:01.019 --> 00:38:03.670 friends. afterwards and before, but they still 00:38:03.670 --> 00:38:06.170 are also a part of that tropey, conservative 00:38:06.170 --> 00:38:09.269 -ish crowd that are like, well, I'm all for rights, 00:38:09.730 --> 00:38:12.610 but, and it's like, I'm all for freedom, but, 00:38:12.710 --> 00:38:15.869 it's like, yep, no, you're not. There is no qualifier 00:38:15.869 --> 00:38:18.750 there. Outside of the NAP, the non -aggression 00:38:18.750 --> 00:38:20.730 principle, which is very clear cut, because that's 00:38:20.730 --> 00:38:23.789 natural rights, that's don't hurt people, don't 00:38:23.789 --> 00:38:27.190 take their stuff. That's natural law, natural 00:38:27.190 --> 00:38:30.289 rights. Outside of that, because that's, that's 00:38:30.289 --> 00:38:32.329 the but part other than that though there are 00:38:32.329 --> 00:38:35.110 no buts no buts it's freedom or you don't believe 00:38:35.110 --> 00:38:37.949 in freedom the only time the freedom quote unquote 00:38:37.949 --> 00:38:40.429 stops is if you hurt other people then no you 00:38:40.429 --> 00:38:42.289 don't you don't have the freedom to do that because 00:38:42.289 --> 00:38:44.889 that's a violation of natural law but yeah these 00:38:44.889 --> 00:38:47.769 dudes are classic you know conservatives where 00:38:47.769 --> 00:38:49.610 they're like well i'm for less government until 00:38:49.610 --> 00:38:51.610 i'm for more government when it's the thing i 00:38:51.610 --> 00:38:54.949 don't like Being in law enforcement in Idaho, 00:38:55.130 --> 00:38:57.329 we were very aggressive with even marijuana, 00:38:57.690 --> 00:38:59.110 right? Right? Right? Right? Right? One of four 00:38:59.110 --> 00:39:01.210 states that it's not just illegal. Ruining people's 00:39:01.210 --> 00:39:03.789 lives. One of four states that it's not just 00:39:03.789 --> 00:39:05.829 illegal, but it's also criminalized here in the 00:39:05.829 --> 00:39:08.150 state The fact is is that weed you know with 00:39:08.150 --> 00:39:11.889 the argument for for marijuana is not for enjoyment 00:39:11.889 --> 00:39:14.309 It's a medical argument. That's what's been going 00:39:14.309 --> 00:39:15.849 on throughout the United States for years It 00:39:15.849 --> 00:39:18.650 has a medicinal purpose because we are a society 00:39:18.650 --> 00:39:20.909 that more is better and like you said What's 00:39:20.909 --> 00:39:23.670 the next way to get more high? That's where the 00:39:23.670 --> 00:39:25.190 problem comes in and people that are doing that 00:39:25.190 --> 00:39:27.170 are not doing that because oh, okay cool They 00:39:27.170 --> 00:39:32.599 can't sleep now do opioids Now do alcohol yeah, 00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:36.159 see that's not do gambling where it like So at 00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:38.000 Liberty, and I'm actually not even sure what 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:39.780 this is, Dave. I'm not even sure what Dave is 00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:41.440 necessarily arguing here. It's 10 more seconds. 00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:43.179 Let him finish and then we'll try to decipher 00:39:43.179 --> 00:39:45.019 what it is he's even saying. And this is also 00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:47.679 from a short. So this is it's it's cut a lot, 00:39:47.739 --> 00:39:49.739 although this is how they cut it. So I'm not 00:39:49.739 --> 00:39:51.380 sure what point they're even driving at. But 00:39:51.380 --> 00:39:53.139 here it is. That's where the problem comes in. 00:39:53.139 --> 00:39:54.659 And people that are doing that are not doing 00:39:54.659 --> 00:39:56.360 that because they have back pain or they can't 00:39:56.360 --> 00:39:59.280 sleep well. It gets abused. And this is a problem 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.139 that you see with drugs across the country. I 00:40:01.139 --> 00:40:04.500 mean, honestly, we're voluntarily giving up our 00:40:04.500 --> 00:40:06.809 rights. citizens to make these laws. What about 00:40:06.809 --> 00:40:09.510 heroin? What about, what about methamphetamine? 00:40:09.610 --> 00:40:11.110 What if they wanted to do something like that? 00:40:11.110 --> 00:40:12.909 They could, and it would not take the vote of 00:40:12.909 --> 00:40:15.630 the people. So I'm not even like, so in other 00:40:15.630 --> 00:40:18.750 words, we should have the right to decide taken 00:40:18.750 --> 00:40:21.090 away or we shouldn't. I it's not even clear to 00:40:21.090 --> 00:40:22.769 me what points making maybe he's not even sure 00:40:22.769 --> 00:40:26.269 himself. I don't even know what the why it even 00:40:26.269 --> 00:40:29.170 matters what the topic is, who even cares what 00:40:29.170 --> 00:40:31.409 any of this stuff is about. Should the citizens 00:40:31.409 --> 00:40:33.969 be able to decide X? The answer is just how could 00:40:33.969 --> 00:40:36.829 it be anything but yes? Why do you want overlords 00:40:36.829 --> 00:40:40.469 making decisions for you? Insert topic here. 00:40:40.650 --> 00:40:44.329 And the answer is it should be up to the individual. 00:40:44.489 --> 00:40:46.170 I mean, we're talking about you and I right now 00:40:46.170 --> 00:40:48.849 are talking about ballot initiatives where people 00:40:48.849 --> 00:40:52.980 get to vote. for themselves more rights or fewer 00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:55.219 rights or whatever, but these are civil rights 00:40:55.219 --> 00:40:57.500 even, we're talking about. And civil rights don't 00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:59.179 really exist. Civil rights are something the 00:40:59.179 --> 00:41:00.820 government can take away from you at any time 00:41:00.820 --> 00:41:02.699 and do often. Like the right to vote, that's 00:41:02.699 --> 00:41:05.059 not a natural right, that's a civil right. You 00:41:05.059 --> 00:41:07.539 don't have a natural right to vote. Voting is 00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:09.340 just, the government says, yeah, you're allowed 00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:11.219 to have a say in this because you're welcome, 00:41:11.579 --> 00:41:14.539 peasants. Natural rights are like, you know, 00:41:14.539 --> 00:41:16.360 you have the right to prosper. You have the right 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:19.440 to your own self -ownership of your body. You 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:21.260 have the right to property. You have the right 00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:24.300 to not be killed. Those are natural rights. So 00:41:24.300 --> 00:41:28.460 that's an important distinction. But ultimately 00:41:28.460 --> 00:41:34.539 it gets even further down than voting as a group 00:41:34.539 --> 00:41:38.880 of people to give or deny the legislature more 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:42.159 power. If people thought about it the way you 00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:43.739 and I think about it, Scott, we wouldn't even 00:41:43.739 --> 00:41:46.199 be having these conversations, which I guess 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:49.719 would put us out of a job. But it's, should it 00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:51.900 be up to the individual to live their life the 00:41:51.900 --> 00:41:55.739 way they choose peacefully? And the answer should 00:41:55.739 --> 00:42:00.000 always be yes. And that's what makes us, I guess, 00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:03.139 just wild -eyed kooks. I don't know how that 00:42:03.139 --> 00:42:07.500 makes me a kook. It's wild to me. I'm soapboxing 00:42:07.500 --> 00:42:10.509 here, but it's just like, but here we are. Literally 00:42:10.509 --> 00:42:13.130 debating about whether or not a group of people 00:42:13.130 --> 00:42:17.010 can vote to take more of my rights away Which 00:42:17.010 --> 00:42:18.750 is government in a nutshell when you think about 00:42:18.750 --> 00:42:22.769 it Here this is the last part that I'll play 00:42:22.769 --> 00:42:24.869 and then we'll do the guns part which the the 00:42:24.869 --> 00:42:26.849 Infantilization part of this hat the hey look 00:42:26.849 --> 00:42:29.889 over here guns guns and drugs here. This is actually 00:42:29.889 --> 00:42:33.179 from a year ago Here is Senator James, is it 00:42:33.179 --> 00:42:35.139 Rucktee? I should have actually looked that up. 00:42:35.340 --> 00:42:38.139 That's stupid of me. Rucktee, Rucktee, Senator 00:42:38.139 --> 00:42:39.820 James Rucktee. I don't know. I've never actually 00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:41.659 heard. I've never heard his name pronounced. 00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:43.260 So I know who you're talking about, but I've 00:42:43.260 --> 00:42:45.659 never heard his name pronounced. Again, so he's 00:42:45.659 --> 00:42:48.639 a he's a Democrat down in Pocatello. And this 00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:51.699 is him speaking on H .J .R. for, like I said 00:42:51.699 --> 00:42:54.699 a year ago. I don't see how you can't logically 00:42:54.699 --> 00:42:58.440 conclude that the legislature thereby believes 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:03.190 it can do the same thing for. alcohol, and I 00:43:03.190 --> 00:43:06.809 just don't think that's what the people want. 00:43:06.869 --> 00:43:09.769 They really don't need the legislature to babysit 00:43:09.769 --> 00:43:13.030 them on this. I mean, the people are smart. They're 00:43:13.030 --> 00:43:16.110 intuitive. They figure this stuff out. They can 00:43:16.110 --> 00:43:19.130 decide whether marijuana needs to stay illegal 00:43:19.130 --> 00:43:23.710 or become legal. The arguments can be made. You 00:43:23.710 --> 00:43:27.469 can go to the people and I mean such overwhelming 00:43:27.469 --> 00:43:31.210 testimony here today certainly that would convince 00:43:31.210 --> 00:43:37.610 anybody that is open to those arguments and you 00:43:37.610 --> 00:43:39.409 should be able to make those arguments in the 00:43:39.409 --> 00:43:43.130 marketplace of ideas. But this is a very undemocratic 00:43:43.130 --> 00:43:45.829 concept to just remove this particular issue 00:43:45.829 --> 00:43:48.650 from being able to be debated by the people in 00:43:48.650 --> 00:43:51.730 the marketplace of ideas. If you're that confident 00:43:51.730 --> 00:43:55.869 in your argument and the data that supports it. 00:43:56.670 --> 00:44:00.429 Let's have the discussion. But a prohibition 00:44:00.429 --> 00:44:04.070 on what the people are smart or are thoughtful 00:44:04.070 --> 00:44:10.230 enough to understand. Boy, that that just rings 00:44:10.230 --> 00:44:13.309 hollow to me. So I'll be voting against this. 00:44:14.510 --> 00:44:19.289 Mother of God. So we actually have a politician 00:44:19.289 --> 00:44:22.519 saying something sensical for a change. I'm going 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:27.059 to give him credit for that. However, it's only 00:44:27.059 --> 00:44:30.579 because he's pro marijuana. It's because it's 00:44:30.579 --> 00:44:32.139 a topic that he agrees with. It's still about 00:44:32.139 --> 00:44:33.719 the topic. Correct. It's still about the topic. 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.500 Cool, Senator Ruckie. That's awesome. Thank you 00:44:37.500 --> 00:44:40.679 for not being a total chode this one time. Now 00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:45.500 do taxes. Do property taxes. Do state indoctrination 00:44:45.500 --> 00:44:49.199 camps that we're forced to fund. Do gas taxes. 00:44:49.739 --> 00:44:54.599 Do registration fees. Do cutting back on Medicaid 00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:56.500 expansion, which we should have never done in 00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:58.380 the first place. We never should have done Medicaid 00:44:58.380 --> 00:45:00.400 expansion in the first place because it will 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:04.679 eventually bankrupt the state. Do scratch ticket. 00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:08.280 Let's legalize poker next, huh? It's time. It's 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:12.179 so time to decriminalize poker. Let's do any 00:45:12.179 --> 00:45:16.000 of those. Isn't it interesting though? So that's 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:17.760 what I'm talking about, Scott. And you and I 00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:21.099 know it, we see it every day. And this is how 00:45:21.099 --> 00:45:25.099 I end up having very few friends. Because living 00:45:25.099 --> 00:45:28.380 the life of a libertarian is basically like, 00:45:28.519 --> 00:45:31.440 you know, somebody will hear me dumping on Trump 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:33.079 and they'll be like, yeah, blah, blah, blah, 00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:34.940 Kamala Harris or Biden. And I'll spin around 00:45:34.940 --> 00:45:37.099 and be like, I don't remember asking you a goddamn 00:45:37.099 --> 00:45:42.119 thing. Shut up, Democrat. You're next. Like you're 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:47.159 just as bad Yeah, just because I'm critical. 00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:49.480 Yeah, both sides suck. You're all terrible It's 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.079 extremely effective had the the the infighting 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:55.599 that the higher powers get us to do amongst ourselves 00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:58.480 Oh, if you're you're saying bad about team red, 00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:02.699 you must be blue and vice versa. Uh -huh Well, 00:46:02.699 --> 00:46:05.280 it's like the those guys that we got into a kind 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:06.940 of got into a conversation with on my Facebook 00:46:06.940 --> 00:46:09.059 thread a couple of days ago that I got to follow 00:46:09.059 --> 00:46:10.699 back up on. I haven't been on Facebook in about 00:46:10.699 --> 00:46:13.460 four days. But that's four days. When I get on 00:46:13.460 --> 00:46:15.500 there and I criticize the Trump administration 00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:17.739 and I criticize Republicans, which I do all the 00:46:17.739 --> 00:46:22.320 time, he shows up and is immediately like, yeah, 00:46:22.639 --> 00:46:25.659 Democrats slop. Blur to blur. Left is bullshit. 00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:28.260 And I'm like, whoa, hold on. Like, you're wrong, 00:46:28.420 --> 00:46:31.639 too. You are so wrong and and wildly incoherent 00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:34.619 yourself. Dude, you're just excited because you're 00:46:34.619 --> 00:46:39.800 like, yeah, Team Blue. Screw Team Red. I'm like, 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:44.159 oh, no, buddy. Just no. You're worse, actually, 00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:47.920 but not by much. OK, so then we ultimately get 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:51.559 to the Marodes thing. what we can now we cannot 00:46:51.559 --> 00:46:54.400 the higher powers need to take away our ability 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:57.059 to make decisions on that and they don't want 00:46:57.059 --> 00:46:58.719 our input and in fact we're not allowed to give 00:46:58.719 --> 00:47:01.260 our input if they have their druthers what they 00:47:01.260 --> 00:47:04.119 do need our input on what they are in desperate 00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:08.519 need of our opinion on is this extremely crucial 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:12.119 and just existential, even I don't want to overstate 00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:14.820 the case, a topic with regard to Idaho and its 00:47:14.820 --> 00:47:16.840 future. I want you to just forget the candidates 00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:20.280 for a second. I know voters will pick the state's 00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:25.980 official gun this November. It's actually one 00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:28.420 of several statewide ballot questions that voters 00:47:28.420 --> 00:47:31.559 will see in November. This one is an advisory 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:34.380 ballot question created by the legislature. It's 00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:43.179 not a citizen initiative and it's meant to designate 00:47:43.179 --> 00:47:45.460 an official state symbol, similar to the state 00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:48.280 bird or state flower. So while other ballot measures 00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:50.739 could affect state policy, this one's just about 00:47:50.739 --> 00:47:53.639 choosing a symbol. What do you think it should 00:47:53.639 --> 00:48:02.320 be, Paul? I don't know. How many choices do we 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:07.659 have? Well There's uh, let's see there's the 00:48:07.659 --> 00:48:10.960 the the cannon mounted to the m1 Abrams. I think 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:16.480 that's on the list I think and I wonder a Sidewinder 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:19.219 missile. I'm pretty sure is on there What about 00:48:19.219 --> 00:48:25.159 a howitzer? I want sure sir or an ice pick So 00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:27.280 this was what Hoffman's article could going way 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:29.420 back to the beginning of this that you had sent 00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:33.239 was about which is like Hey, look over here plebes 00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:36.019 while we take away your ability to make decisions 00:48:36.019 --> 00:48:39.079 about your own state and your own lives We really 00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:47.199 want your input on the gun Hello peasants Yeah 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:51.280 is um when you when you think about it again 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.559 sit down for five minutes take a breath and think 00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:59.159 about it, it's insulting. So we have, to my knowledge, 00:48:59.460 --> 00:49:01.599 three ballot initiatives coming up in November, 00:49:02.500 --> 00:49:04.440 or some form of ballot initiative might not be 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:06.300 the right term for all three of them, but they 00:49:06.300 --> 00:49:08.639 effectively are what amounts to a ballot initiative, 00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:10.340 or I guess two of them are ballot initiatives 00:49:10.340 --> 00:49:13.559 and one of them is where we were voting on a 00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:15.980 piece of legislation that already passed, and 00:49:15.980 --> 00:49:18.019 the piece of legislation, this is the gun thing, 00:49:18.460 --> 00:49:20.579 it was like, okay, we're gonna do a state gun, 00:49:20.659 --> 00:49:23.059 so that's already locked in. But you, the voter, 00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:26.800 you get to you guys. We want your opinion. But 00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:30.239 at the same time, you juxtapose this against 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:32.380 two things that are much more important, which 00:49:32.380 --> 00:49:35.860 is prop one, a ballot initiative to essentially 00:49:35.860 --> 00:49:39.630 undo all of the protections for life that Idaho 00:49:39.630 --> 00:49:43.469 has erected over the last 10, 12, 20 years regarding 00:49:43.469 --> 00:49:45.969 abortion. So Idaho is actually one of the least 00:49:45.969 --> 00:49:48.670 friendly to abortion states in the union, if 00:49:48.670 --> 00:49:50.949 not the least friendly. And I applaud it. I applaud 00:49:50.949 --> 00:49:55.269 it. There's arguments to be made. If you don't 00:49:55.269 --> 00:49:57.829 believe life begins at conception, you're wrong. 00:49:57.989 --> 00:50:00.610 But if you don't believe it, then there is an 00:50:00.610 --> 00:50:03.469 argument to be made that it is a violation of 00:50:03.469 --> 00:50:05.789 personal liberty and personal choice, and the 00:50:05.789 --> 00:50:08.550 government should have no say in that. However, 00:50:08.929 --> 00:50:10.670 if you do operate from the premise that life 00:50:10.670 --> 00:50:13.030 begins at conception, and the evidence points 00:50:13.030 --> 00:50:16.349 to that for sure, inconveniently for people who 00:50:16.349 --> 00:50:20.510 hate babies, then once life begins, then life 00:50:20.510 --> 00:50:23.050 must be protected. You have a natural liberty, 00:50:23.429 --> 00:50:27.039 a natural right to not be killed. That's the 00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:29.760 non -aggression principle. And therefore, it 00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:31.820 is within the purview of a state, even though 00:50:31.820 --> 00:50:33.639 I don't believe the state should exist. While 00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:36.340 it does exist, it is within the purview of the 00:50:36.340 --> 00:50:39.420 state to protect natural rights. That is actually 00:50:39.420 --> 00:50:42.559 what the express purpose of a government is supposed 00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:46.119 to be, slash have been. Obviously, we're way 00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:49.260 past that point, as is always how that works 00:50:49.260 --> 00:50:51.380 with government. It never just protects rights. 00:50:51.460 --> 00:50:53.500 It ultimately abuses them as much or worse than 00:50:53.500 --> 00:50:57.309 anybody else. Again. I digress. But so on one 00:50:57.309 --> 00:51:00.789 hand, we're voting to either completely open 00:51:00.789 --> 00:51:04.210 up abortion again in Idaho, or keep it the way 00:51:04.210 --> 00:51:06.769 things are now, which is protection of life. 00:51:06.849 --> 00:51:10.269 That's Prop 1. Then you have H .J .R. 4, House 00:51:10.269 --> 00:51:13.530 Joint Resolution 4, which is regarding the legalization 00:51:13.530 --> 00:51:16.610 or the criminalization of illicit drugs, and 00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:19.190 whether or not we the people will essentially 00:51:19.190 --> 00:51:22.849 hand our own power and rights off to the state 00:51:22.849 --> 00:51:25.639 legislature. The higher power. so that they can 00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:29.559 decide. Yeah, basically give God, the God known 00:51:29.559 --> 00:51:32.519 as the state, the power to decide that for us. 00:51:33.179 --> 00:51:36.739 And then thirdly, and most importantly, we get 00:51:36.739 --> 00:51:39.300 to decide, hey, what do we want the state gun 00:51:39.300 --> 00:51:43.980 to be? So when you think about it, it's asinine. 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:46.579 On one hand, there is the real possibility that 00:51:46.579 --> 00:51:48.739 we surrender more of our power to the government 00:51:48.739 --> 00:51:50.659 because the government is quite literally with 00:51:50.659 --> 00:51:55.329 this HJR force saying You guys are too stupid. 00:51:55.809 --> 00:51:58.269 We don't trust you. You shouldn't have the right. 00:51:58.510 --> 00:52:01.570 Give us more power. But hey, look over here. 00:52:01.889 --> 00:52:05.409 Here's a box of crayons. Pick your favorite color. 00:52:05.750 --> 00:52:07.570 But don't you dare color outside the lines, by 00:52:07.570 --> 00:52:11.630 the way. And with your box of crayons, vote for 00:52:11.630 --> 00:52:14.489 which gun you want to be the state gun. There 00:52:14.489 --> 00:52:19.429 you go, kindergartners. I like green. I like 00:52:19.429 --> 00:52:22.550 green, too. Green is a nice color if there's 00:52:22.550 --> 00:52:27.889 a green gun I vote for that Okay green gun possible 00:52:27.889 --> 00:52:33.449 show title So yeah, and we know we took the scenic 00:52:33.449 --> 00:52:35.869 route to get here But it's a really important 00:52:35.869 --> 00:52:38.429 thing to stop and consider that this is what 00:52:38.429 --> 00:52:41.170 our glorious supreme to lupa leader leader leaders 00:52:41.170 --> 00:52:44.289 are higher powers Think of themselves and think 00:52:44.289 --> 00:52:50.099 of us Fuck you plebes You can pick this completely 00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:52.579 who gives a fuck thing over here. We'll let you 00:52:52.579 --> 00:52:57.000 decide this, but this other stuff give us the 00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:00.460 power. This other stuff that we have a monopoly 00:53:00.460 --> 00:53:04.000 over the, over the distribution and public messaging 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.480 with regard to its legitimacy. We wish to preserve 00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.320 that monopoly. You can't vote to take any little 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:13.579 piece of it away. Yeah. And one of them literally 00:53:13.579 --> 00:53:17.960 involves life and death. And what's interesting 00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.699 to me, is that you would think of all of the 00:53:21.699 --> 00:53:24.500 things for the legislature to take the power 00:53:24.500 --> 00:53:28.320 over for instead of it being drugs, you would 00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:31.500 think it would be abortion or protecting life, 00:53:31.599 --> 00:53:33.860 the right to life. Like if you're that hot to 00:53:33.860 --> 00:53:37.340 try to protect kids. Why are you wasting your 00:53:37.340 --> 00:53:39.380 time as a legislature going, no, no, we need 00:53:39.380 --> 00:53:43.719 the exclusive power to criminalize or decriminalize 00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:46.019 drugs? No, man, you should have been focusing 00:53:46.019 --> 00:53:48.519 on we need the exclusive right to criminalize 00:53:48.519 --> 00:53:50.719 or decriminalize, I don't know, slaughtering 00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:53.019 babies. That probably would have been the way 00:53:53.019 --> 00:53:55.519 to go. I'm just throwing that out there. Again, 00:53:55.519 --> 00:53:59.619 I don't agree with any of it. But if as a legislature, 00:53:59.699 --> 00:54:02.579 you're going to do something like that, they 00:54:02.579 --> 00:54:04.699 haven't even done it for the life or death topic. 00:54:05.450 --> 00:54:12.329 They just did it for drugs drugs Let's before 00:54:12.329 --> 00:54:15.309 we do our mid show here do a quick follow -up 00:54:15.309 --> 00:54:17.949 because you and I had a phone conversation with 00:54:17.949 --> 00:54:21.610 a Producer about this and you know right on cue 00:54:21.610 --> 00:54:24.550 funnily enough with this is about the River Keeper 00:54:24.550 --> 00:54:28.010 Which we've done a couple of shows John right 00:54:28.010 --> 00:54:32.519 on cue for news now sort of illustrated the producer's 00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:34.619 point, which I will discuss after the clip. Today 00:54:34.619 --> 00:54:36.659 is World Cleanup Day. Wait, hold on, Scott. Hold 00:54:36.659 --> 00:54:40.519 on. Sorry, I apologize. I think we should save 00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:42.139 that for after the break because it's going to 00:54:42.139 --> 00:54:43.739 be a longer topic. We're going to spend some 00:54:43.739 --> 00:54:46.019 time on this. So I think if we have a before 00:54:46.019 --> 00:54:49.059 break slot, we should spend it on the boomer 00:54:49.059 --> 00:54:52.960 guy or the guy who is contesting my boomerisms. 00:54:53.099 --> 00:54:55.460 OK, all right. That's short enough. And then 00:54:55.460 --> 00:54:57.460 we go into the break and then let's talk about 00:54:57.460 --> 00:54:59.360 the Riverkeeper stuff, because that one's going 00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:01.360 to that was going to take most of second half 00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:04.519 or a good portion of it. Okay, fair enough. Let 00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:10.099 me pull up that and see where do I have it. What 00:55:10.099 --> 00:55:12.219 was that called? Okay. Yes. Got it. I got it. 00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:16.099 So it was titled boomer wealth was the said but 00:55:16.099 --> 00:55:18.579 that was the scotch shots from last week and 00:55:18.579 --> 00:55:21.980 the statistics for the wealth controlled by boomers 00:55:21.980 --> 00:55:24.699 And and that they like half of them don't want 00:55:24.699 --> 00:55:26.260 to leave anything behind and half of them Don't 00:55:26.260 --> 00:55:27.900 have wills and all the statistics that you were 00:55:27.900 --> 00:55:31.139 citing. Okay, here's the note two points This 00:55:31.139 --> 00:55:34.719 is anonymous boomer Anecdotally, not only do 00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:36.820 I not know a single boomer who doesn't plan to 00:55:36.820 --> 00:55:39.139 leave the bulk of their remaining assets to their 00:55:39.139 --> 00:55:41.059 children, I find them consumed with how they 00:55:41.059 --> 00:55:43.219 will make this happen. I know it's only a small 00:55:43.219 --> 00:55:45.860 sample, but I found Paul's statistics literally 00:55:45.860 --> 00:55:48.570 unbelievable. My other observation I was a bit 00:55:48.570 --> 00:55:50.690 surprised that both of you barely if at all talked 00:55:50.690 --> 00:55:53.050 about the consequences of such a vast amount 00:55:53.050 --> 00:55:55.369 of wealth either being transferred or spent in 00:55:55.369 --> 00:55:58.250 such a Relatively short time to maintain value 00:55:58.250 --> 00:56:00.650 after flooding the market with sell orders like 00:56:00.650 --> 00:56:02.989 you know stocks real estate other assets It requires 00:56:02.989 --> 00:56:06.010 an equally robust buy side, which is an extremely 00:56:06.010 --> 00:56:08.630 dubious notion I know that not all inherited 00:56:08.630 --> 00:56:10.610 assets will be liquidated and some will be held 00:56:10.610 --> 00:56:13.630 but the downward pressure on prices slash valuations 00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.539 will still be enormous if only a modest fraction 00:56:16.539 --> 00:56:21.139 is sold. OK, so there's a few things to unpack 00:56:21.139 --> 00:56:22.679 there and we can do it pretty quickly, which 00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:25.280 is why I wanted to do it before the break. First 00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:29.579 off, I am going to defer to Scott on the way 00:56:29.579 --> 00:56:31.920 he read this. I read this is I don't believe 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:35.500 Paul Paul's making shit up. Scott said, I didn't 00:56:35.500 --> 00:56:38.699 read it that way either way, however it was meant. 00:56:39.099 --> 00:56:41.380 No, sir, I was not making these. No. And let 00:56:41.380 --> 00:56:45.420 me just say how. directly from Northwestern Mutual. 00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:51.199 So it's not a huge sampling size, but it is buoyed 00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:54.159 and buttressed up against many other surveys 00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:56.679 that have been put out there and several other 00:56:56.679 --> 00:57:00.159 companies and outlets that also do these sorts 00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:01.880 of things. But the main one that got the main 00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:03.739 press was from Northwestern Mutual, which is 00:57:03.739 --> 00:57:06.199 an insurance and wealth management company. And 00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.949 they surveyed their own clients. And that's how 00:57:08.949 --> 00:57:10.650 they came up with these numbers and their own 00:57:10.650 --> 00:57:13.909 clients reported that only about 20 % of them 00:57:13.909 --> 00:57:16.949 expected to leave any inheritance to their kids 00:57:16.949 --> 00:57:20.849 or grandkids. Meanwhile, over 50 % of millennials 00:57:20.849 --> 00:57:23.809 in Gen Z expected an inheritance from their parents. 00:57:23.929 --> 00:57:26.590 Now Gen Z, they're gonna get lucky because their 00:57:26.590 --> 00:57:28.670 parents are mainly millennials and millennials 00:57:28.670 --> 00:57:31.829 who will have something to leave will leave it. 00:57:32.210 --> 00:57:34.550 The millennials were built differently. Now it's 00:57:34.550 --> 00:57:37.889 true, I'm gonna... go off on a quick little side 00:57:37.889 --> 00:57:40.610 branch here, but while it's true that only about 00:57:40.610 --> 00:57:43.650 30 to 35 % of millennials actually even have 00:57:43.650 --> 00:57:46.130 kids, because our marriage rates are low, our 00:57:46.130 --> 00:57:47.869 kid having rate are low, but a lot of that is 00:57:47.869 --> 00:57:49.769 economic, of course, which is again, a whole 00:57:49.769 --> 00:57:55.099 nother topic. It is also well known via surveys 00:57:55.099 --> 00:57:57.860 and anecdotal evidence, and anybody who works 00:57:57.860 --> 00:58:00.199 in the industries of any kind will tell you that 00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:03.019 millennials who are parents tend to be much, 00:58:03.119 --> 00:58:05.880 much more involved, much more future -minded, 00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:09.820 and much more intentional about generational 00:58:09.820 --> 00:58:11.980 wealth. And a lot of that is because we have 00:58:11.980 --> 00:58:14.480 to be. We know we have to be. We're kind of on 00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:18.099 our own out here. Not all of us and not exclusively, 00:58:18.440 --> 00:58:22.150 but in a general sense, This is true. Millennials 00:58:22.150 --> 00:58:25.070 are on their own. They know it, and they're not 00:58:25.070 --> 00:58:27.010 doing the same thing to their kids. And this 00:58:27.010 --> 00:58:32.230 is true. Look it up. Now, the stats on the boomers. 00:58:32.650 --> 00:58:36.150 Those are true. Northwestern Mutual did a survey. 00:58:36.510 --> 00:58:39.869 Fortune has done surveys. Forbes has done surveys. 00:58:40.710 --> 00:58:44.369 The real estate industry, realtor .com specifically, 00:58:44.730 --> 00:58:49.090 has done surveys. So you're talking across wealth 00:58:49.090 --> 00:58:53.429 outlets. wealth management, real estate asset 00:58:53.429 --> 00:58:56.809 industries. And I'm just accidentally hitting 00:58:56.809 --> 00:58:59.590 my own bell. Good for me. Would you whack it 00:58:59.590 --> 00:59:03.710 with your elbow? I'm Italian. What are you going 00:59:03.710 --> 00:59:05.710 to do? I'm moving my arm. You can't see it, but 00:59:05.710 --> 00:59:08.510 I'm flailing like a crazy person. Wild eyed anarchist 00:59:08.510 --> 00:59:10.730 Paul Manduce is also waving his arms around like 00:59:10.730 --> 00:59:13.889 a madman. Well, what do you call a one -armed 00:59:13.889 --> 00:59:24.409 Italian? What? Speech impediment. So the long 00:59:24.409 --> 00:59:27.690 and the short of it is these numbers are true 00:59:27.690 --> 00:59:30.570 and they stay about the same regardless of what 00:59:30.570 --> 00:59:33.670 outlet you go to to ask. It's roughly 20 -ish 00:59:33.670 --> 00:59:36.130 percent of boomers plan to leave anything to 00:59:36.130 --> 00:59:39.929 their kids. Full stop. I'm not making it up. 00:59:40.409 --> 00:59:44.570 You might find the stats unbelievable. I do too. 00:59:44.750 --> 00:59:47.250 That's that's what he's I know I know this person 00:59:47.250 --> 00:59:49.710 is duty that they're for sure saying that not 00:59:49.710 --> 00:59:51.909 that you're they're not I promise you they're 00:59:51.909 --> 00:59:54.710 not accusing you of just making stuff up and 00:59:54.710 --> 00:59:56.309 pulling it out of your rear end and just saying 00:59:56.309 --> 00:59:58.769 it into a micro for sure not they just found 00:59:58.769 --> 01:00:00.809 the stats unbelievable not that you made the 01:00:00.809 --> 01:00:05.730 stats up. But I but once you understand the dynamic 01:00:05.730 --> 01:00:09.869 and the boomer generation it is believable and 01:00:09.869 --> 01:00:13.269 that's the thing is it that is the thing. It 01:00:13.269 --> 01:00:16.190 is believable. The demographics are one of my 01:00:16.190 --> 01:00:20.230 hobbies. Politics, history, philosophy, ideology, 01:00:20.690 --> 01:00:23.670 demographics, economics, micro, macro. That's 01:00:23.670 --> 01:00:25.650 my jam. All of that shit is my jam. That's what 01:00:25.650 --> 01:00:27.670 I study in college. Doesn't make me the expert, 01:00:27.670 --> 01:00:29.750 of course, but I got the certs, which, you know, 01:00:29.829 --> 01:00:31.329 whatever, certs are certs. It doesn't, you don't 01:00:31.329 --> 01:00:33.289 matter. But they're also my hobbies. So I like 01:00:33.289 --> 01:00:37.849 crayons and guns. That's a good hobby, too. Great 01:00:37.849 --> 01:00:40.369 hobby. And the legislature approves, Scott. Good 01:00:40.369 --> 01:00:44.739 for you. My favorite color is green. Hey, mine 01:00:44.739 --> 01:00:47.119 too. Mainly because it's the color of money and 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:48.880 trees. And I like both of those. And incidentally, 01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:52.320 money doesn't grow on trees, but it should. If 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:54.880 I were king for a day, I'd plant so many money 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:58.880 trees. Higher power call. Dude, I'm telling you 01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.500 what. But yeah, once you dig down into it, I 01:01:01.500 --> 01:01:03.420 know it sounds constantly like bitterness or 01:01:03.420 --> 01:01:06.119 sour grapes. It's not. It's just observation. 01:01:06.519 --> 01:01:09.800 And then me being just... incredulous over the 01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:11.519 whole thing, because it's just like, how can 01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:14.119 a group of people be so self -centered? But they 01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:16.340 are. You look at the system they built. You look 01:01:16.340 --> 01:01:18.719 at the way they parented. You look at their politics. 01:01:18.900 --> 01:01:21.400 You look at the government they built. You look 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:24.840 at how even now, even now at the federal level, 01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:28.400 65 % of the federal budget is entitlements. And 01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:31.380 those entitlements are Medicare and Social Security. 01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:35.780 Who gets those things? Old people off the backs 01:01:35.780 --> 01:01:39.590 of young people. War. Who profits off of war? 01:01:40.309 --> 01:01:42.929 Old people. And this country has been at war 01:01:42.929 --> 01:01:47.510 for like 230 of its 250 years. Look to listen, 01:01:47.829 --> 01:01:50.269 look at the young people die. Old people make 01:01:50.269 --> 01:01:53.809 money. The notion of even being young in an office 01:01:53.809 --> 01:01:57.050 like Kennedy having kids, babies while he was 01:01:57.050 --> 01:02:00.760 at like. They used to be young family men in 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:03.739 national political positions was was common, 01:02:03.940 --> 01:02:05.960 including all the way up to the presidency. Now 01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:09.260 look at like Pelosi and McConnell and all of 01:02:09.260 --> 01:02:11.179 these freaking ancient. They've been in power 01:02:11.179 --> 01:02:14.480 for 50 years, six years. The average age of the 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:18.659 U .S. Senate. is 65. These people, yeah, and 01:02:18.659 --> 01:02:22.139 they white knuckle these positions all the way 01:02:22.139 --> 01:02:25.099 into their 80s, I don't know, 90s, you know, 01:02:25.239 --> 01:02:28.199 like, what was Strom Thurmond, 158? You know, 01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:30.400 I mean, I know that there's probably like, well, 01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:33.420 what about the district rep for Beaver Falls, 01:02:33.619 --> 01:02:35.380 North Dakota? He's a family, like, I know that 01:02:35.380 --> 01:02:37.639 it exists. But if you look at the national level, 01:02:38.139 --> 01:02:40.389 it's a completely different landscape. and it's 01:02:40.389 --> 01:02:42.250 because the old yeah but the exceptions don't 01:02:42.250 --> 01:02:44.590 prove the rules right they prove the exceptions 01:02:44.590 --> 01:02:46.269 don't prove the rules they prove the exceptions 01:02:46.269 --> 01:02:51.309 yeah old people control everything yeah we are 01:02:51.309 --> 01:02:53.909 a geriatric society and have and the boomer the 01:02:53.909 --> 01:02:56.789 boomers have been the it generation they will 01:02:56.789 --> 01:02:59.460 not let go since they were born Yep, they will 01:02:59.460 --> 01:03:01.719 not let go. Their parents doted on them. And 01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:03.860 well, I mean, I think a lot of the silent generation 01:03:03.860 --> 01:03:06.000 where they were shit parents, but they gave their 01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:07.840 kids everything that they could because they 01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:09.860 themselves didn't have anything. So boomers grew 01:03:09.860 --> 01:03:13.159 up not wanting much. Boomers grew up in an economic 01:03:13.159 --> 01:03:16.019 situation with an economic engine, the likes 01:03:16.019 --> 01:03:18.769 of which you and I will never ever see. ever. 01:03:19.309 --> 01:03:21.949 And a lot of it is just the way the system was 01:03:21.949 --> 01:03:23.929 set up. And then when boomers became a voting 01:03:23.929 --> 01:03:26.670 age and in their 20s and 30s, they just leaned 01:03:26.670 --> 01:03:28.809 into it as hard as they possibly could. And you 01:03:28.809 --> 01:03:31.349 look at the system now and the system is set 01:03:31.349 --> 01:03:34.829 up for everything that the boomers needed and 01:03:34.829 --> 01:03:38.909 wanted. And the boomers have had control since 01:03:38.909 --> 01:03:42.590 their mid 20s. You remember in the 60s even the 01:03:42.590 --> 01:03:44.789 early 60s the early to mid 60s the whole movement 01:03:44.789 --> 01:03:48.190 was the future is now old man So don't trust 01:03:48.190 --> 01:03:50.909 anyone over 30 love and Froot Loops Don't trust 01:03:50.909 --> 01:03:53.409 any and those were the boomers who were doing 01:03:53.409 --> 01:03:56.369 that it was you know down with the man Well, 01:03:56.469 --> 01:03:58.789 now the the boomers are the man and they've been 01:03:58.789 --> 01:04:02.789 the man for 30 years Really for long long way 01:04:02.789 --> 01:04:04.349 longer than that, but I'm trying to be generous 01:04:05.469 --> 01:04:08.150 You know, they're well known as the first generation 01:04:08.150 --> 01:04:10.630 to ever do drugs with their kids. They're well 01:04:10.630 --> 01:04:12.690 known as the first generation to be like the, 01:04:12.809 --> 01:04:14.469 I want to be the cool parent kids. They're the 01:04:14.469 --> 01:04:16.650 first generation to not spank their kids. They're 01:04:16.650 --> 01:04:18.409 the first generation to have everything they 01:04:18.409 --> 01:04:22.469 ever wanted as a generation and the best economic 01:04:22.469 --> 01:04:25.150 engine and the most wealth accumulation in all 01:04:25.150 --> 01:04:31.949 of human history. Let that sink in. Meanwhile, 01:04:32.190 --> 01:04:36.360 their kids Have had one of the worst economic 01:04:36.360 --> 01:04:39.500 engines to deal with in Not in all of human history, 01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:44.019 but in modern times in the u .s. Anyways now 01:04:44.019 --> 01:04:46.579 Millennials like to complain but they do have 01:04:46.579 --> 01:04:49.420 a case in a lot of in a lot of ways. We have 01:04:49.420 --> 01:04:51.980 a case Yeah, we do. I were 40 trillion dollars. 01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:54.039 Anyways, the point is taking away half our money 01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:56.940 all the time Like you you like the boomers have 01:04:56.940 --> 01:05:00.800 presided over this kareen into all of it. Yeah, 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.690 it's true It is true. Welfare, the war, the wealth 01:05:03.690 --> 01:05:06.849 transfers. Even COVID was a massive wealth transfer. 01:05:07.710 --> 01:05:10.909 2008 was a massive wealth transfer from young 01:05:10.909 --> 01:05:14.150 to old. COVID, a massive wealth transfer from 01:05:14.150 --> 01:05:18.150 young to old. Every single time you tax the working 01:05:18.150 --> 01:05:20.170 young in any way, shape, or form, which is fucking 01:05:20.170 --> 01:05:23.170 everything now, we get taxed on everything now, 01:05:23.309 --> 01:05:27.489 the working young. It goes towards Medicare, 01:05:28.250 --> 01:05:33.199 Social Security. real estate prices well guess 01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:36.760 where all of boomers wealth tends to exist their 01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:40.260 homes their assets that are in like the stock 01:05:40.260 --> 01:05:43.940 market that are inflated by a weak dollar Medicare 01:05:43.940 --> 01:05:47.980 and Social Security well it's all wealth transfer 01:05:47.980 --> 01:05:52.110 stuff So and political fuckery is obviously not 01:05:52.110 --> 01:05:56.230 unique to the boomers, nor are economic cycles. 01:05:56.530 --> 01:05:58.710 None of it is unique necessarily to the boomers, 01:05:58.710 --> 01:06:02.949 but you'll forgive us for observing the at least 01:06:02.949 --> 01:06:05.829 certainly current and what seems like particularly 01:06:05.829 --> 01:06:08.829 virulent nature of what has happened as we, you 01:06:08.829 --> 01:06:11.510 know, observe the boomers as we get into our 01:06:11.510 --> 01:06:15.650 age that you guys were 20 years ago. In size 01:06:15.650 --> 01:06:20.179 and scale and execution of it all. and in duration 01:06:20.179 --> 01:06:23.719 of regime. The boomers are unique in all four 01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:25.500 of those factors. And that's why they kind of 01:06:25.500 --> 01:06:27.840 get the extra hate because they're like no generation 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.619 before them has lasted as fucking long and has 01:06:30.619 --> 01:06:33.460 refused to give up. Like you said, they're white 01:06:33.460 --> 01:06:36.599 knuckling till the bitter end. The boomers will 01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:38.940 not give anything up, power money or otherwise, 01:06:39.039 --> 01:06:42.539 until they die. We will have to pry it from their 01:06:42.539 --> 01:06:45.960 cold dead fingers. And then whatever's left, 01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:50.039 which will be mostly ashes, is ours to fight 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:53.219 over. So it's just kind of, it's just that way. 01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:57.119 That's the truth. It's just how it is. Sorry. 01:06:57.760 --> 01:07:00.460 I'm sorry. Sorry, not sorry, but also sorry, 01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.099 because it sucks for everybody below you. And 01:07:03.099 --> 01:07:05.539 you know, it's a generation that has mortgaged 01:07:05.539 --> 01:07:08.079 their kids and their grandkids into oblivion 01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:11.500 for themselves and are unapologetic about it. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.960 That's just the truth. But before we do mid show 01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:18.500 here, like just want to round it out by reiterating 01:07:18.500 --> 01:07:22.760 that it does not apply to Paul or I with regard 01:07:22.760 --> 01:07:26.840 to how our boomer fathers specifically handled 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:29.920 these matters does not apply. So this is not 01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.539 sour grapes. And if we went on anecdotal evidence, 01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:35.519 these are not our observations necessarily in 01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:38.559 our own personal lives for each other. That is 01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:41.780 correct. For most of my friends. You are incorrect. 01:07:42.059 --> 01:07:45.599 My anecdotal evidence is quite the opposite of 01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.260 mine. My father is the exception. Your father 01:07:48.260 --> 01:07:50.059 is the exception. They don't prove the rule. 01:07:50.840 --> 01:07:52.860 And at times, my father had to argue with my 01:07:52.860 --> 01:07:56.480 mother to support my business and my ventures 01:07:56.480 --> 01:07:58.619 the way he did. They fought amongst themselves 01:07:58.619 --> 01:08:00.239 about it because my mom didn't agree with it 01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:02.440 at times. And then it was weird because the script 01:08:02.440 --> 01:08:07.530 flipped later on. I don't know and so at different 01:08:07.530 --> 01:08:10.650 times one of my parents was responsible for lending 01:08:10.650 --> 01:08:14.730 the Support needed and and also same for you 01:08:14.730 --> 01:08:16.609 since we're telling our stories a little bit. 01:08:16.609 --> 01:08:19.930 It was all done in business Nothing was handed. 01:08:20.189 --> 01:08:23.670 Nothing was free. It was all done business. I 01:08:23.670 --> 01:08:27.390 paid full price, you know interest rates loans 01:08:27.390 --> 01:08:30.449 and all it was it was just like business and 01:08:30.449 --> 01:08:32.810 that's how I wanted it and Because it just makes 01:08:32.810 --> 01:08:35.479 everything cleaner and better for everybody. 01:08:36.060 --> 01:08:38.420 That's how it needed to be. But there were no 01:08:38.420 --> 01:08:40.640 handouts. There were no hand -me -downs. There 01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:42.359 were no handouts. And I know your situation was 01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:44.960 the same too, Scott. It was my parents and your 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:48.399 parents. They invested in us and they got a return 01:08:48.399 --> 01:08:51.159 on their investment, as they should. So that's 01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:53.359 largely true. It's not completely true in my 01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:56.600 case. Well, I haven't gotten like gifts, not 01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:58.939 just straight up like here's a lot, whatever. 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:01.369 It's all been treated like... you know, there's 01:09:01.369 --> 01:09:03.210 mostly investments, like you're saying, investments 01:09:03.210 --> 01:09:05.090 in real estate, investments in business ventures. 01:09:05.369 --> 01:09:08.109 There has been some like, oh, if you need this, 01:09:08.109 --> 01:09:10.810 or you need that, we're here, but there's a ledger. 01:09:11.170 --> 01:09:14.229 I mean, nothing has really been gifted, but I 01:09:14.229 --> 01:09:17.689 do represent an exception for how my boomer, 01:09:17.810 --> 01:09:19.529 specifically father, has thought about money. 01:09:20.090 --> 01:09:21.789 But the only reason I'm even bringing that up 01:09:21.789 --> 01:09:25.090 is because the anonymous boomer here says that 01:09:25.090 --> 01:09:28.119 anecdotally, He doesn't know a single boomer 01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:29.680 who doesn't plan to leave the bulk of their bubble 01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:31.119 I get like I was reading the note at the top 01:09:31.119 --> 01:09:35.359 which is simply a reflection of The crowd that 01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:38.279 that person hangs out with which is a great reflection 01:09:38.279 --> 01:09:40.140 on them Obviously you're hanging out with a bunch 01:09:40.140 --> 01:09:41.960 of exceptions and that's that's a reflection 01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:45.319 on you and your choice of company Not of boomers 01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:49.960 as a group Yeah, no argument there at all. It 01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:52.539 means you probably are of a higher caliber, you're 01:09:52.539 --> 01:09:54.560 above average, and the group you surround yourself 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:56.119 with, the people you surround yourself with, 01:09:56.779 --> 01:09:59.800 are above average of caliber. And that's awesome. 01:10:00.380 --> 01:10:02.239 You would probably find it as distasteful as 01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:04.140 we do to hang around with the types of boomers 01:10:04.140 --> 01:10:06.420 that we're even describing here that are driving 01:10:06.420 --> 01:10:10.279 the statistics, which is why you don't. Yeah, 01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:13.659 no, agreed, agreed. Again, no argument on that. 01:10:13.819 --> 01:10:15.420 And that's also, yeah, to your point, I was I 01:10:15.420 --> 01:10:17.159 was going to mention before you beat me to it. 01:10:17.220 --> 01:10:18.739 But that's why we brought up our own anecdotal 01:10:18.739 --> 01:10:20.859 evidence is because he he brings up his anecdotal 01:10:20.859 --> 01:10:22.520 evidence. And he's like, yeah, on my end, none 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:24.520 of them, none of my boomer buddies talk like 01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:26.340 this. And I'm and I'm over here going, well, 01:10:26.420 --> 01:10:28.659 on my end, I know what all of my millennial friends 01:10:28.659 --> 01:10:31.300 are dealing with. And for the record, like when 01:10:31.300 --> 01:10:33.340 it comes to our kids, you know, Scott and I talk 01:10:33.340 --> 01:10:36.420 about this all the time. And and all of my other 01:10:36.420 --> 01:10:39.000 buddies who Scott knows, you know, Steve and 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:41.100 Jason and Dave and all the guys who are all high 01:10:41.100 --> 01:10:44.760 caliber men, we're all millennials with kids, 01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:48.220 or very, very young, very, very, very young Gen 01:10:48.220 --> 01:10:50.479 X. But we're, you know, we're all cuspy right 01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:52.640 on the cusp either upper millennial or lower 01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:55.340 Gen X. You know, we're looking at it all in a 01:10:55.340 --> 01:10:58.760 generational wealth lens. And we have to, and 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:02.449 we are. So my kids will be able to tell their 01:11:02.449 --> 01:11:04.850 friends or their podcast listeners that like, 01:11:04.909 --> 01:11:08.470 yeah, my dad set me up with a house and I paid 01:11:08.470 --> 01:11:10.449 him a mortgage on it, but not really. It was 01:11:10.449 --> 01:11:13.189 like a rent to own situation. Like my dad bought 01:11:13.189 --> 01:11:15.310 the house. He put me and my wife in the house 01:11:15.310 --> 01:11:17.470 so we could have babies and work and not have 01:11:17.470 --> 01:11:20.470 to worry about being crushed with a $5 ,000 mortgage. 01:11:20.710 --> 01:11:23.350 And then we just made payments and we bought 01:11:23.350 --> 01:11:26.130 the house from my dad making payment. Like, you 01:11:26.130 --> 01:11:27.510 know, cause that's what I'm going to do for my 01:11:27.510 --> 01:11:31.279 kids. If I can, That's the plan because I want 01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:33.500 them to live nearby I don't want my I don't want 01:11:33.500 --> 01:11:36.640 my son to be like well the job is in is in Portland 01:11:36.640 --> 01:11:38.720 because drugs are legal there and that's all 01:11:38.720 --> 01:11:43.640 my heroin And I go well alright, I guess I guess 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.100 we'll see you at Thanksgiving Christmas and Easter 01:11:46.100 --> 01:11:51.479 in between Yeah, fuck that no I want my kids 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:53.840 to live within an hour and a half or two hours 01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:56.000 of me And I will do everything in my power to 01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:58.979 make it so that if I if I have to be more poor 01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:01.039 Mary and I, my wife, we've talked about this 01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:04.140 ad nauseam. We will be more poor to make sure 01:12:04.140 --> 01:12:07.260 our kids can live close by, get married, have 01:12:07.260 --> 01:12:12.960 babies, and not have to be crushed by debt and 01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:14.960 mortgages and things like that. And then we can 01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:18.319 all be a family and be nearby. And most people 01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:20.460 in my orbit, you, Scott, and all the other guys 01:12:20.460 --> 01:12:24.159 I just listed, we all are doing that. Yes, and 01:12:24.159 --> 01:12:25.960 that's the difference. That's the difference. 01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:29.199 I didn't have the same structure with my first 01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:32.140 house either, but I would not have been able 01:12:32.140 --> 01:12:36.140 to purchase my first house if it wasn't for the 01:12:36.140 --> 01:12:38.079 help of my boomer dad who made it happen. But 01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:40.300 it was a gift, but like you're saying, it was 01:12:40.300 --> 01:12:43.319 a similar structure, but he enabled it to happen, 01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:46.539 which again makes him an exception, gratefully. 01:12:47.640 --> 01:12:50.670 Yeah. Anyway, so that was that was again we took 01:12:50.670 --> 01:12:52.649 the scenic route but it was important context 01:12:52.649 --> 01:12:54.930 matters background matters history matters and 01:12:54.930 --> 01:12:57.329 also Scott and I also want everybody to understand 01:12:57.329 --> 01:12:59.189 that we you know, we're being genuine here and 01:12:59.189 --> 01:13:01.470 it's not bitterness It's not sour grapes, but 01:13:01.470 --> 01:13:04.470 we're noticers. We notice stuff and we know and 01:13:04.470 --> 01:13:07.270 it's true. What's the truth hurts man? Governor 01:13:07.270 --> 01:13:09.489 Brad little has ordered state officials to keep 01:13:09.489 --> 01:13:12.069 spending Well, that makes sense, being a boomer. 01:13:12.189 --> 01:13:13.930 Hey, while you guys are still clinging to power, 01:13:14.090 --> 01:13:16.729 all you 85 -year -old senators, keep spending 01:13:16.729 --> 01:13:21.930 while you still can before you die. It's almost 01:13:21.930 --> 01:13:24.710 like the generation that believes in dying with 01:13:24.710 --> 01:13:28.649 zero is in charge of the government. Almost as 01:13:28.649 --> 01:13:32.470 if. Well, I think on no ID we're going to die 01:13:32.470 --> 01:13:36.130 with zero, unless the value for value model is 01:13:36.130 --> 01:13:40.850 embraced. The value for value model is very simple. 01:13:40.989 --> 01:13:43.310 It's what this show runs on as I alluded to at 01:13:43.310 --> 01:13:46.210 the top. It is the opposite of the traditional 01:13:46.210 --> 01:13:49.210 model in broadcast, which is to accumulate people's 01:13:49.210 --> 01:13:51.890 ears or eyes or whatever, and then sell them 01:13:51.890 --> 01:13:55.510 crap. We don't do that. It's the opposite. It's 01:13:55.510 --> 01:13:57.590 value for value. And it simply means that you 01:13:57.590 --> 01:13:59.550 will never hear advertisements on the show. There 01:13:59.550 --> 01:14:02.550 are no sponsors. We remain free of brackish outside 01:14:02.550 --> 01:14:06.909 influence. We survive solely on your time, talent 01:14:06.909 --> 01:14:09.739 and treasure. returning value to the program 01:14:09.739 --> 01:14:13.079 if you find it valuable. But I am going to say 01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:14.760 this from time to time, if there's a product, 01:14:15.180 --> 01:14:17.220 especially a local product from a friend of mine 01:14:17.220 --> 01:14:18.880 or whatever that I'm really enjoying, I might, 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:20.520 you know, I might shout it out and just give 01:14:20.520 --> 01:14:23.229 a little love to people we care about. You absolutely 01:14:23.229 --> 01:14:25.310 should. And that is very much part of the value 01:14:25.310 --> 01:14:29.210 for value model. They're not sponsors. But as 01:14:29.210 --> 01:14:31.170 a matter of fact, what it really amounts to is 01:14:31.170 --> 01:14:34.729 genuine. It's a genuine way to broadcast. And 01:14:34.729 --> 01:14:37.609 when you discuss the coffee roaster that you 01:14:37.609 --> 01:14:40.289 love the coffee, what's the name again? Spencer 01:14:40.289 --> 01:14:42.750 Lambest of Wilder Coffee. That's how you know 01:14:42.750 --> 01:14:44.970 that we actually like the product. It has nothing 01:14:44.970 --> 01:14:47.689 to do with being pitched anything. It's a genuine, 01:14:47.989 --> 01:14:51.920 hey, we dig this. Can I basically I'll never 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:54.560 do another podcast without it. It's so good and 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:56.840 he's a cool dude and he smokes cigars Which makes 01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.340 him even cooler of a dude, you know what his 01:14:59.340 --> 01:15:01.359 side gig is. Sorry now I've got to tell I was 01:15:01.359 --> 01:15:03.760 about to I was really short story Kristoff cigars. 01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:08.039 Yeah, it was Kristoff. Yes Kristoff's Yeah, and 01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:10.800 and he one of his other side gigs is he sells 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:14.220 snakes. He goes to like reptile shows and swaps 01:15:14.220 --> 01:15:18.100 snakes It's wild. I never met a guy who's a who 01:15:18.100 --> 01:15:20.760 does that but it Well, other than Spencer, it's 01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:23.859 cool. Yeah, like Kevin Kristoff. Like, yeah, 01:15:24.020 --> 01:15:26.619 yes. Another good guy to talk about. I've been 01:15:26.619 --> 01:15:29.560 every time I've been at the racketeer in recent 01:15:29.560 --> 01:15:31.500 months, I have bought Kristoff cigars. And that's 01:15:31.500 --> 01:15:33.960 not because they're sponsoring us. And it's not 01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:36.460 because of anything other than it's value for 01:15:36.460 --> 01:15:41.220 value. Yeah. Good products and voluntary transactions 01:15:41.220 --> 01:15:44.380 based on value perceived. Snake Swapper is now 01:15:44.380 --> 01:15:47.680 in the running for show title. Yes, Snake Swapper. 01:15:47.920 --> 01:15:49.920 Oh, man, if we do that, I'm gonna have to share 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.779 this episode with Spencer. You should be sharing 01:15:52.779 --> 01:15:55.640 it anyway, you doofus. I have, I've shared it 01:15:55.640 --> 01:15:57.960 twice. Okay, good. So that's part of the Value 01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:00.260 for Value model, returning value. If you find 01:16:00.260 --> 01:16:02.239 the program valuable, we try to make it valuable 01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:03.859 every week. It comes out every Thursday. There's 01:16:03.859 --> 01:16:05.659 no paywalls, there's no nothing. It's just free 01:16:05.659 --> 01:16:07.359 and it's the best we can make it. And if you 01:16:07.359 --> 01:16:09.439 find it valuable, then please return value to 01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:10.859 the show with your time, talent, or treasure. 01:16:11.159 --> 01:16:14.279 Time is a... the probably the biggest time a 01:16:14.279 --> 01:16:16.640 value return you could do at this point is what 01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:18.500 Paul doesn't do even though he just says he does, 01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:21.560 but I don't trust Paul statistics. Telling people 01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:24.460 about the show. Word of mouth is how shows like 01:16:24.460 --> 01:16:28.279 this girl and if you you're basically you're 01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:30.420 you're lending us your credibility really is 01:16:30.420 --> 01:16:32.420 what it is by by recommending the show to others 01:16:32.420 --> 01:16:34.899 in your orbit. And it's a huge value which we 01:16:34.899 --> 01:16:40.220 will repay with interest. What else? I have a 01:16:40.220 --> 01:16:44.720 whole notepad here full of stuff. What? Oh, what 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:48.819 happened? My browser froze. Hold on. Oh, crap. 01:16:49.060 --> 01:16:51.880 The disease erased your memory. I got the I got 01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:55.180 like the the hourglass, the flipping hourglass. 01:16:55.340 --> 01:16:58.640 OK, it's good. All right. Show art, audio clips, 01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:01.039 articles, boots on the ground, reports, topics 01:17:01.039 --> 01:17:03.420 you think we should cover, follow ups like the 01:17:03.420 --> 01:17:04.880 Riverkeeper follow up that we're about to do 01:17:04.880 --> 01:17:06.619 after the break. Things we got right. Things 01:17:06.619 --> 01:17:09.409 we got wrong. All of these things are ways to 01:17:09.409 --> 01:17:11.489 return value in the time and talent department 01:17:11.489 --> 01:17:14.810 No ID pod at gmail .com is an email address that 01:17:14.810 --> 01:17:17.789 you can send anything you want to No ID show 01:17:17.789 --> 01:17:20.850 .com is the webpage where you can sign up for 01:17:20.850 --> 01:17:22.810 the newsletter That comes out every Thursday 01:17:22.810 --> 01:17:24.729 if you would like to do that. I try to make it 01:17:24.729 --> 01:17:26.630 funny and interesting That's a cool way to stay 01:17:26.630 --> 01:17:28.409 in touch with what the show is doing just previews 01:17:28.409 --> 01:17:31.390 the topics of that week show and whatnot It also 01:17:31.390 --> 01:17:33.970 is the portal. No ID show .com is the portal 01:17:33.970 --> 01:17:37.159 to return value in the treasure department And 01:17:37.159 --> 01:17:39.760 doing so makes you an executive producer of that 01:17:39.760 --> 01:17:42.300 week's episode. And that could mean any any whatever 01:17:42.300 --> 01:17:44.340 value means to you. Just ask yourself what value 01:17:44.340 --> 01:17:46.859 got out of the show and return value in any way 01:17:46.859 --> 01:17:48.680 that you like. In the treasured department, we 01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:53.260 got a couple this week after a banducci wealth 01:17:53.260 --> 01:17:56.399 induced drought, where, you know, he's he's he's 01:17:56.399 --> 01:18:00.060 just hammering money hand over fist. So you then 01:18:00.060 --> 01:18:02.000 a little drought there. But you're blaming me. 01:18:02.439 --> 01:18:05.619 Oh, OK. People are back now. Um, so let's leave 01:18:05.619 --> 01:18:08.159 here. So this was a sound drop for being thrown 01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:13.079 under the bus. Hold on. Maybe we can do that. 01:18:13.340 --> 01:18:17.579 Remember the, remember the, the airplane turbulence 01:18:17.579 --> 01:18:19.899 PSA from love line. And it was the, the gut, 01:18:20.220 --> 01:18:21.699 the rollerblading that your body was built for. 01:18:21.760 --> 01:18:23.859 And there was the cars honking and skidding, 01:18:23.979 --> 01:18:28.649 maybe something like that. Yes. Yes. okay so 01:18:28.649 --> 01:18:31.109 let's do the agenda archaeologist as I brought 01:18:31.109 --> 01:18:32.770 up at the top of the show who had recommended 01:18:32.770 --> 01:18:35.850 that we do the previous episode sound drops catalog 01:18:35.850 --> 01:18:37.289 him at the beginning which we did and I love 01:18:37.289 --> 01:18:42.069 that he did send in a shiny schmeckle of 999 01:18:42.069 --> 01:18:47.250 and that's why he that's why I had done the the 01:18:47.250 --> 01:18:51.590 999 from the llama liquor although it just we 01:18:51.590 --> 01:18:56.689 decided it's probably not It just doesn't have 01:18:56.689 --> 01:18:58.810 that doesn't punch it doesn't it's cuz he's on 01:18:58.810 --> 01:19:02.050 this doesn't have that German fury and passion 01:19:02.050 --> 01:19:09.010 999 from the shot from the agenda archaeologist 01:19:09.010 --> 01:19:12.210 and his the rest of his note says I Recovered 01:19:12.210 --> 01:19:14.770 three previously unknown specimens buried beneath 01:19:14.770 --> 01:19:17.229 the sediment of mainstream discourse one appears 01:19:17.229 --> 01:19:20.029 to be a local official experiencing consequences 01:19:20.029 --> 01:19:23.550 Another is approximately 40 % bureaucratic nonsense 01:19:23.770 --> 01:19:26.789 The third may simply be Paul. The acoustical 01:19:26.789 --> 01:19:29.109 team is still determining whether these constitute 01:19:29.109 --> 01:19:31.770 evidence. In the meantime, I recommend repeated 01:19:31.770 --> 01:19:34.970 listens. I have no idea what most of that means, 01:19:35.189 --> 01:19:38.430 but I appreciate that. I want to know. Wait, 01:19:38.510 --> 01:19:41.130 hold on. Would you like to know more? Yes. Yes, 01:19:41.130 --> 01:19:43.350 I would. I would like to know more. What? Come 01:19:43.350 --> 01:19:46.569 on, archaeologists. I'm on the edge of my seat. 01:19:46.609 --> 01:19:48.970 What does this mean? I want to run it through 01:19:48.970 --> 01:19:50.649 Google Translate, but I don't know what the source 01:19:50.649 --> 01:19:53.989 language is. All right, maybe he'll maybe he'll 01:19:53.989 --> 01:19:56.569 give us more next week maybe so like and then 01:19:56.569 --> 01:19:58.630 but then you know Like just give us breadcrumbs. 01:19:58.949 --> 01:20:01.149 I don't well then he returned to coherence for 01:20:01.149 --> 01:20:03.090 what if the previous episode sound drops were 01:20:03.090 --> 01:20:04.729 cataloged at the beginning of the next episode 01:20:04.729 --> 01:20:07.329 Well, that made sense the rest of it. I I cannot 01:20:07.329 --> 01:20:10.909 decipher Oh and whatever. Well, we need him to 01:20:10.909 --> 01:20:13.670 decipher this hieroglyph that he's laid on us 01:20:13.670 --> 01:20:16.210 Thank you agenda. I don't speak this dialect 01:20:16.210 --> 01:20:20.149 And then it's an older code sir, but it checks 01:20:20.149 --> 01:20:24.640 out repeated and frequent executive producer 01:20:24.640 --> 01:20:29.239 Jack Kramer is back with one two three four and 01:20:29.239 --> 01:20:32.319 his note is shorter and more coherent and in 01:20:32.319 --> 01:20:35.239 fact to say it's really a question for all you 01:20:35.239 --> 01:20:39.119 producers out there Jack says I get value do 01:20:39.119 --> 01:20:45.510 you Is that a rhetorical? I mean, I do. I have 01:20:45.510 --> 01:20:48.010 a good time. That's that. Well, again, I suppose 01:20:48.010 --> 01:20:49.829 I don't. Oh, maybe he's talking to Paul. I assume 01:20:49.829 --> 01:20:51.770 that he was talking to all the producers that 01:20:51.770 --> 01:20:54.649 are hearing him ask that question such that it 01:20:54.649 --> 01:20:56.850 might induce them to pick up a handheld mirror 01:20:56.850 --> 01:20:59.750 and stare into it for a long time. But maybe 01:20:59.750 --> 01:21:01.210 he's just asking you. I don't know. Do you get 01:21:01.210 --> 01:21:07.569 any value? It depends. Where's the decimal point 01:21:07.569 --> 01:21:13.560 in that one, two, three, four? Let's leave it 01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:15.399 at that. Time, talent, treasure, return value. 01:21:15.420 --> 01:21:18.479 Wait, you're not going to tell me? Oh, it's $12 01:21:18.479 --> 01:21:22.920 .34. One, two, three, four. Nice. Yeah. Well, 01:21:22.920 --> 01:21:24.979 it could have been like one dot two, three, four, 01:21:25.100 --> 01:21:27.399 which would have been really cool. Like a fourth 01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:31.960 of a cent. Oh, I see. Or one, two, three, dot 01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:33.859 four would have been cool, too. Whatever, though. 01:21:34.020 --> 01:21:36.220 It's like... I'm saying whatever value means 01:21:36.220 --> 01:21:37.460 to you, it means a lot of different things to 01:21:37.460 --> 01:21:39.979 a lot of different people. You know, $5 could 01:21:39.979 --> 01:21:41.979 mean a lot to you and $500 could be nothing. 01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:45.500 You know, especially if you're a boomer, you 01:21:45.500 --> 01:21:47.779 know, $500 just means nothing to you because 01:21:47.779 --> 01:21:53.340 you have it all, you know, just saying. Thank 01:21:53.340 --> 01:21:56.420 you, Jack Kramer. Thank you, Archaeologist. Appreciate 01:21:56.420 --> 01:21:58.539 you both. You have your Schmechel thing. I'm 01:21:58.539 --> 01:22:02.470 going to ponder Jack's question now. Oh, do I 01:22:02.470 --> 01:22:05.489 have a song? Yeah, I have a song. Yeah, but first... 01:22:05.489 --> 01:22:07.750 Oh, hold on. I got that too. I know where you're 01:22:07.750 --> 01:22:10.069 going. Hold on. I was toggling. Toggling. So 01:22:10.069 --> 01:22:14.829 much toggling. I'll take you down there for 25 01:22:14.829 --> 01:22:18.149 shmeckles! 25 shmeckles? I don't know how much... 01:22:18.149 --> 01:22:19.609 I don't know what that is. Is that a lot? Is 01:22:19.609 --> 01:22:22.310 it a little? Alright, what's coming up before 01:22:22.310 --> 01:22:25.170 second half? DJ Paul. I'm going with my original 01:22:25.170 --> 01:22:27.869 pick. Yeah, I'm going with it because I think 01:22:27.869 --> 01:22:29.909 it's just so apropos now that we've covered some 01:22:29.909 --> 01:22:32.270 of the ground we've covered regarding the government 01:22:32.270 --> 01:22:36.430 having more and the youngins having less. Spinning 01:22:36.430 --> 01:22:39.510 records and inventing statistics. It's DJ Paul. 01:22:40.649 --> 01:22:42.569 This is your last announcement. Brought to you 01:22:42.569 --> 01:22:44.670 by Public School. You've had a great year and 01:22:44.670 --> 01:22:46.810 I'm proud of each and every one of you. Have 01:22:46.810 --> 01:22:49.350 we all just pay our fair share? Right? I just 01:22:49.350 --> 01:22:52.489 want to wish you all good luck. You're gonna 01:22:52.489 --> 01:26:05.670 need it. you shouldn't have to pay tax to breathe 01:26:05.670 --> 01:26:15.289 if that sounds bonkers to you it's because it 01:26:15.289 --> 01:26:22.689 is all right second half is you ready i am um 01:26:22.689 --> 01:26:25.409 i regret to inform you i have once again failed 01:26:25.409 --> 01:26:28.050 in my duties i don't have a scotch shot i did 01:26:28.050 --> 01:26:30.069 dabble with two or three and decided i hated 01:26:30.069 --> 01:26:35.130 them all so That's that's the story there. I'm 01:26:35.130 --> 01:26:41.449 gonna find something else next you fuck you And 01:26:41.449 --> 01:26:43.869 while we're on that topic I just want to throw 01:26:43.869 --> 01:26:47.069 out a suggestion to the state legislature That 01:26:47.069 --> 01:26:49.569 next year we should put on the ballot Deciding 01:26:49.569 --> 01:26:53.689 the state bird and I have just the best idea 01:26:53.689 --> 01:26:58.050 for what the state bird ought to be I'm on the 01:26:58.050 --> 01:27:00.350 edge of my seat three guesses and the first two 01:27:00.350 --> 01:27:04.920 don't count parrot Oh, you can't see it, but 01:27:04.920 --> 01:27:11.340 I'm pointing a finger. Oh, the one you flip. 01:27:12.460 --> 01:27:19.640 The best bird. The best bird. Got it. That should 01:27:19.640 --> 01:27:22.079 be the state bird. Yeah, man, I thought that 01:27:22.079 --> 01:27:24.579 one was an easy setup for you. Fail. You failed. 01:27:24.779 --> 01:27:30.039 F, yeah. All right. Here is the... Go ahead. 01:27:30.159 --> 01:27:31.760 One other thing I wanted to touch on real fast 01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:33.979 before I forget, and I'm sorry, Scott, I'm interjecting. 01:27:35.100 --> 01:27:36.640 What was his name? I actually don't know the 01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:38.979 guy's name, but the boomer guy. Oh, well, he 01:27:38.979 --> 01:27:41.840 didn't give his name. Anonymous Boomer. Anonymous 01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:44.399 Boomer, yeah. Well, what his handle was, I guess. 01:27:45.399 --> 01:27:46.739 He did mention something interesting I wanted 01:27:46.739 --> 01:27:49.260 to touch back on really quick about the assets 01:27:49.260 --> 01:27:52.640 once boomers do finally, finally at the ripe 01:27:52.640 --> 01:27:55.640 old age of like 102 pass into the great beyond. 01:27:56.220 --> 01:27:59.119 He's not. Wrong and it is something that's been 01:27:59.119 --> 01:28:01.579 discussed is what happens to the assets the stock 01:28:01.579 --> 01:28:05.220 the stock market assets the IRAs the 401ks housing 01:28:05.220 --> 01:28:08.220 that kind of thing Because it's an interesting 01:28:08.220 --> 01:28:11.159 thing to ponder is yeah will will the market 01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:14.199 value of those things plummet and plummet quickly 01:28:14.199 --> 01:28:18.260 if there is a wave of Wealth transfer and then 01:28:18.260 --> 01:28:22.880 sell -offs Well, I think there's a small potential 01:28:22.880 --> 01:28:25.319 for some for that scenario to play out. I think 01:28:25.319 --> 01:28:30.829 it's pretty pretty low odds because the boomer 01:28:30.829 --> 01:28:35.170 generation spans 1945 to 1964. It's one of the 01:28:35.170 --> 01:28:42.029 bigger wider generations. And only about 12, 01:28:42.189 --> 01:28:46.590 it's 10 to 12 % of boomers hold 70 % of the boomers 01:28:46.590 --> 01:28:49.350 wealth. which stands, I think when we talked 01:28:49.350 --> 01:28:52.789 about it last week at like 128 trillion dollars 01:28:52.789 --> 01:28:55.550 or some crazy ass thing, but 10 % of boomers 01:28:55.550 --> 01:28:59.869 hold 70 % of that. So, and they're already set 01:28:59.869 --> 01:29:03.569 up for generational wealth and trusts and irrevocable 01:29:03.569 --> 01:29:04.909 trusts and all kinds of different things. So 01:29:04.909 --> 01:29:07.510 a lot of that transfer either, it won't really 01:29:07.510 --> 01:29:09.609 happen because it's already quote unquote happened 01:29:09.609 --> 01:29:14.529 or will only affect a small portion of the population 01:29:14.529 --> 01:29:18.529 in general, but also as, what is that, close 01:29:18.529 --> 01:29:22.449 to 20 years of people kind of phase out. Cause 01:29:22.449 --> 01:29:24.470 right now the older boomers are in their mid 01:29:24.470 --> 01:29:26.850 eighties. The youngest boomers. Yeah. And they're 01:29:26.850 --> 01:29:29.909 all in Congress this year. Yeah. They're all 01:29:29.909 --> 01:29:33.550 in Congress. Oh my God. Yeah. Taking three months 01:29:33.550 --> 01:29:38.029 leaves of absence too, by the way. So it'll, 01:29:38.149 --> 01:29:40.510 it'll be something that occurs across 20 plus 01:29:40.510 --> 01:29:43.640 years. It won't be an all at once type thing. 01:29:44.859 --> 01:29:46.239 You're talking about a generation that spans 01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:49.720 20 plus years of wealth that is unevenly distributed. 01:29:49.939 --> 01:29:51.659 We're in the middle of it now. I mean, it's been 01:29:51.659 --> 01:29:54.000 already going on because of the huge, like you're 01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:55.859 saying, the huge wide window. There's already 01:29:55.859 --> 01:29:58.920 been. They're dying. They're dead. They're in 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:00.359 the middle of dying. They're going to die soon. 01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:04.119 They're going to die in 15 years. It's just starting, 01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:07.500 Scott. Don't get too excited yet. Put that boner 01:30:07.500 --> 01:30:13.779 away. I'm so excited. No, dude, it's just starting. 01:30:14.039 --> 01:30:17.939 We've barely seen it begin. Dude, right now, 01:30:18.020 --> 01:30:21.500 the average age of is, what is it? Oh shit. What 01:30:21.500 --> 01:30:24.060 is the mortality rate right now? It's high and 01:30:24.060 --> 01:30:26.859 it continues to get higher. The oldest boomers 01:30:26.859 --> 01:30:30.239 are in their low to mid eighties. The average 01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:34.300 age of death is like 80, 81, 82. It's above 80. 01:30:35.479 --> 01:30:38.340 It is above 80. Yeah. Yeah and 81 and change 01:30:38.340 --> 01:30:42.859 It says the average life expectancy in the United 01:30:42.859 --> 01:30:46.859 States is 79. It's 81 .4 years of age for women 01:30:46.859 --> 01:30:51.260 and oh wow men totally lose that one 76 and a 01:30:51.260 --> 01:30:54.340 half years for men. Whoa, is it that low? Wait 01:30:54.340 --> 01:30:58.640 a minute Paul's making up statistics No No, it's 01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:01.260 not true. You just, just, man, everybody sharpened 01:31:01.260 --> 01:31:03.739 in their knives today on the stats. I, I Googled 01:31:03.739 --> 01:31:09.939 it. It can't be wrong. No, it's a, it's per the 01:31:09.939 --> 01:31:12.739 CDC. And this is actually one of the things the 01:31:12.739 --> 01:31:15.840 CDC is supposed to track. This is actually supposed 01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:21.760 to be a CDC thing. But you know, you know how 01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:25.260 to get it above 76. We've got drugs for that. 01:31:25.739 --> 01:31:30.939 We know drugs. Six of them to be in every month. 01:31:31.640 --> 01:31:35.579 Just stand still while we jab you harder. Brought 01:31:35.579 --> 01:31:40.460 to you by Pfizer. It is kind of crazy that that 01:31:40.460 --> 01:31:45.520 window is nuts. So someone born in 1946, when 01:31:45.520 --> 01:31:48.600 they're 17 years old, a senior in high school, 01:31:48.720 --> 01:31:50.500 someone born that year is considered part of 01:31:50.500 --> 01:31:53.319 the same generation. What is that? That person's 01:31:53.319 --> 01:31:55.949 already grown up. How does that make sense? Yeah, 01:31:56.010 --> 01:31:58.390 well, that's what makes it such a unique again. 01:31:58.510 --> 01:32:01.270 It's a unique generation. And I know we might 01:32:01.270 --> 01:32:03.069 get some eye rolls here as we just continue to 01:32:03.069 --> 01:32:05.649 hammer this topic. But it's a it's a very relevant 01:32:05.649 --> 01:32:07.909 topic politically, ideologically, economically. 01:32:08.289 --> 01:32:10.750 I mean, like, geez me, Christmas, the world we 01:32:10.750 --> 01:32:14.050 live in was essentially shaped, completely shaped 01:32:14.050 --> 01:32:17.550 by the silent generation and the boomers. It's 01:32:17.550 --> 01:32:22.180 the higher powers. It matters. Our higher powers. 01:32:22.500 --> 01:32:25.060 Thank you. You're the man. But women live to 01:32:25.060 --> 01:32:28.140 81 .4 on average, men to 76 .5. That's just wild. 01:32:28.340 --> 01:32:31.619 So I'm 38. That means I only have, I have fully 01:32:31.619 --> 01:32:33.380 lived one half of my life. Fuck, I'm over the 01:32:33.380 --> 01:32:36.560 hill next year. Red convertible incoming. That's 01:32:36.560 --> 01:32:41.039 disappointing. Shit, I only have 38 more years 01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:44.239 to have the Federal Reserve keep printing the 01:32:44.239 --> 01:32:48.640 money I need. But the point is, Boomers are unique 01:32:48.640 --> 01:32:51.079 also in that way is they are not only population 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:52.819 wise one of the bigger generations, but there's 01:32:52.819 --> 01:32:57.000 their time wise spread out over one of the longer 01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:02.880 periods of time 1945 to 1964. I think it's 46 01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:07.539 close enough. Yeah Okay. Well, what does the 01:33:07.539 --> 01:33:18.460 Google machine say? Pfizer says Oh, okay. 46. 01:33:18.840 --> 01:33:25.579 You win. Everything says 46. Thank you. Excuse 01:33:25.579 --> 01:33:28.319 me. Excuse me. I'm off by a year. I can't remember 01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:32.399 everything perfectly. Making statistics up. There 01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:34.199 I go again. Just pulling them right out of my 01:33:34.199 --> 01:33:37.180 pocket. All right. Are we ready to do the river? 01:33:37.180 --> 01:33:39.859 It's a wide enough generation that not everything 01:33:39.859 --> 01:33:42.239 is going to get spent off, you know, transferred 01:33:42.239 --> 01:33:44.119 all at the same time or spent all at the same 01:33:44.119 --> 01:33:45.840 time. And if there is anything like, cause a 01:33:45.840 --> 01:33:47.359 lot of it's going to get spent on keeping the 01:33:47.359 --> 01:33:50.159 boomers alive forever. Yeah. Average age of, 01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:53.819 I guess when you split 65 and 81, it's a five 01:33:53.819 --> 01:33:56.340 year split. So let's say the average age is 79 01:33:56.340 --> 01:33:59.539 and change. I mean, geez me to Christmas. They're 01:33:59.539 --> 01:34:03.140 going to live forever. Yeah, the home prices 01:34:03.140 --> 01:34:06.239 might go down for our kids, Scott. They're not 01:34:06.239 --> 01:34:07.859 going to go down for us because there's not enough 01:34:07.859 --> 01:34:10.579 housing now and the millennial generation is 01:34:10.579 --> 01:34:12.779 smaller than the boomer generation. So by the 01:34:12.779 --> 01:34:15.340 time the boomers finally die out and Gen X is 01:34:15.340 --> 01:34:17.739 kind of on the way and you and I are like 60 01:34:17.739 --> 01:34:23.000 something, then the shit might like normalize 01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:25.380 and our kids might have normal house prices. 01:34:25.420 --> 01:34:29.600 Maybe just be just be just by sheer coincidence, 01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:33.439 but just sheer happening of just population decline. 01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:37.579 So available housing will actually match population 01:34:37.579 --> 01:34:41.600 sizes. Since we've decided, again, thanks to 01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:44.439 boomers, mainly NIMBYs and county codes and state 01:34:44.439 --> 01:34:46.720 codes and building codes, and that's all boomers, 01:34:47.399 --> 01:34:50.220 mainly, making building housing fucking impossible 01:34:50.220 --> 01:34:53.380 and prohibitively expensive. It's not something 01:34:53.380 --> 01:34:55.119 that's going to sort itself out anytime soon. 01:34:55.659 --> 01:34:57.420 We basically, our strategy is we have to wait 01:34:57.420 --> 01:35:01.010 for people to die before our kids will. See normal 01:35:01.010 --> 01:35:04.630 house like market normal house prices or I mean 01:35:04.630 --> 01:35:07.270 that that extends to so many things I mean everything 01:35:07.270 --> 01:35:09.689 is becoming prohibitively expensive I mean, you 01:35:09.689 --> 01:35:12.449 know, you can't fill up your tractor with diesel 01:35:12.449 --> 01:35:14.529 because diesel is eight bucks a gallon Yeah, 01:35:14.649 --> 01:35:16.630 but it is like that's not a supply and demand 01:35:16.630 --> 01:35:18.569 issue. No, it's not that's what I'm saying. I 01:35:18.569 --> 01:35:20.229 mean not the market It's all been messed with 01:35:21.269 --> 01:35:24.289 Yeah, I mean that said so housing is more specifically 01:35:24.289 --> 01:35:26.930 a supply and demand issue in in the sense We're 01:35:26.930 --> 01:35:29.489 like we just literally do not have enough housing 01:35:29.489 --> 01:35:32.369 for the population that exists and it is almost 01:35:32.369 --> 01:35:35.689 exclusively due to government Distortion of the 01:35:35.689 --> 01:35:38.510 marketplace almost exclusively between the Fed 01:35:38.510 --> 01:35:41.569 printing money and making the dollar worth significantly 01:35:41.569 --> 01:35:44.840 less But you know real estate going up because 01:35:44.840 --> 01:35:48.100 we're just not building etc etc etc Prohibitive 01:35:48.100 --> 01:35:51.119 building codes land use codes etc etc whereas 01:35:51.119 --> 01:35:56.020 like everything else groceries food oil All the 01:35:56.020 --> 01:35:59.020 you know clothing construction supplies all that 01:35:59.020 --> 01:36:01.939 shit is because of monetary policy the Fed fuck 01:36:01.939 --> 01:36:07.619 the Fed and foreign policy Just choking off the 01:36:07.619 --> 01:36:11.390 trade points the distribution network It's not 01:36:11.390 --> 01:36:14.670 that we don't have enough oil or enough cotton 01:36:14.670 --> 01:36:17.710 for the clothes or enough lumber or timber for 01:36:17.710 --> 01:36:19.890 the two by fours. There's plenty of all that 01:36:19.890 --> 01:36:22.890 shit. The raw resources, there's plenty of raw 01:36:22.890 --> 01:36:27.090 resources. We just, our monetary policy and our 01:36:27.090 --> 01:36:29.689 foreign policy is what's fucking us there. Yeah, 01:36:29.710 --> 01:36:31.829 yeah. Have you thought more about which vintage 01:36:31.829 --> 01:36:34.010 firearm should be Idaho's official state gun? 01:36:35.329 --> 01:36:39.510 The green one. All right, here is the at long 01:36:39.510 --> 01:36:41.689 last the follow -up on the river keeper today 01:36:41.689 --> 01:36:44.609 is world cleanup day a global movement Encouraging 01:36:44.609 --> 01:36:47.050 everyone to take extra care of the environment 01:36:47.050 --> 01:36:49.810 around them the River keeper and lands council 01:36:49.810 --> 01:36:52.270 organized tons of volunteers to pick up trash 01:36:52.270 --> 01:36:55.149 from in and around the Spokane River today Sunny 01:36:55.149 --> 01:36:57.350 day was at the event talking to volunteers about 01:36:57.350 --> 01:37:00.500 why they chose to come help This is just a tiny 01:37:00.500 --> 01:37:02.680 fraction of the amount of trash that's being 01:37:02.680 --> 01:37:05.579 picked up at today's annual river cleanup. There 01:37:05.579 --> 01:37:07.859 are hundreds of volunteers out here today and 01:37:07.859 --> 01:37:10.039 they've already filled an entire truckload with 01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:12.859 trash. Event organizers told me just 30 minutes 01:37:12.859 --> 01:37:15.739 into the cleanup, 150 people had already shown 01:37:15.739 --> 01:37:18.460 up to help out. This year featured a special 01:37:18.460 --> 01:37:21.060 new bag volunteers could use to collect recycling. 01:37:21.560 --> 01:37:24.220 It's made entirely from reused materials like 01:37:24.220 --> 01:37:26.899 pet food bags and even banners left over from 01:37:26.899 --> 01:37:30.340 Expo 74. A representative for the Spokane Riverkeeper 01:37:30.340 --> 01:37:32.460 emphasized the importance of the river to our 01:37:32.460 --> 01:37:35.100 community and said this annual cleanup is vital. 01:37:35.600 --> 01:37:39.020 The river is the lifeblood of our community and 01:37:39.020 --> 01:37:42.279 if it's our source of water, if we don't protect 01:37:42.279 --> 01:37:45.619 the river, everybody fails, everybody loses. 01:37:47.529 --> 01:37:50.050 We need to take pride in it and we need to take 01:37:50.050 --> 01:37:52.390 care of it." She says lots of garbage releases 01:37:52.390 --> 01:37:55.029 toxic materials into the river, harming the surrounding 01:37:55.029 --> 01:37:57.729 fish and birds. When those species struggle, 01:37:58.050 --> 01:38:00.829 an entire ecosystem is disrupted, setting off 01:38:00.829 --> 01:38:03.069 a chain reaction that lowers the water quality 01:38:03.069 --> 01:38:07.020 and destroys wildlife. One volunteer who recently 01:38:07.020 --> 01:38:09.340 moved to Spokane said today gave her a chance 01:38:09.340 --> 01:38:11.800 to connect with and contribute to her new community. 01:38:12.260 --> 01:38:14.239 It like helps me get connected to my community. 01:38:14.460 --> 01:38:17.380 I do cleanups wherever I move to so this is the 01:38:17.380 --> 01:38:20.340 second city I've done that in and it just like 01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:23.140 It helps me feel like I belong somewhere and 01:38:23.140 --> 01:38:25.779 that I also do my part to contribute to the place 01:38:25.779 --> 01:38:28.359 I live. Volunteers spanned across seven different 01:38:28.359 --> 01:38:31.180 sites, including Highbridge Park and Mirabu Trailhead. 01:38:31.460 --> 01:38:33.680 One volunteer said it was her fourth river cleanup 01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:36.159 this year. It's the least we can do, right? We 01:38:36.159 --> 01:38:38.539 only have one Earth, so taking care of it, protecting 01:38:38.539 --> 01:38:41.439 it is, you know. It's something close to our 01:38:41.439 --> 01:38:43.479 hearts. The Spokane Riverkeeper tells me that 01:38:43.479 --> 01:38:45.699 they expect to pull thousands of pounds of trash 01:38:45.699 --> 01:38:48.039 out of the river after today's cleanup and hope 01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:50.579 to see even more volunteers at next year's event 01:38:50.579 --> 01:38:52.960 so that they can keep trash like this out of 01:38:52.960 --> 01:38:56.319 the river. In Spokane, Sunny Day, 4 News Now. 01:38:56.739 --> 01:38:58.279 So I thought it was really interesting that this 01:38:58.279 --> 01:39:00.619 4 News Now report happened to air this week after 01:39:00.619 --> 01:39:03.659 our follow up conversation with one of our producers, 01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:06.600 Sir Spook of Spokane, who knows the river well 01:39:06.600 --> 01:39:10.960 and is, I won't get too specific, but There was 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:13.000 a multi -faceted conversation that Paul and I 01:39:13.000 --> 01:39:16.180 had on speakerphone with him over over cigars 01:39:16.180 --> 01:39:18.800 Because he a message had come in last show from 01:39:18.800 --> 01:39:21.619 him and that because he had heard pre whatever 01:39:21.619 --> 01:39:23.640 two shows ago previous segment we did on the 01:39:23.640 --> 01:39:26.859 River keeper because the news coverage that we 01:39:26.859 --> 01:39:29.140 highlighted because it was all that I found in 01:39:29.140 --> 01:39:31.960 previous weeks was more of the hey hey ho ho 01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:33.960 commie side of the Riverkeeper where they're 01:39:33.960 --> 01:39:36.439 like chanting in megaphones and you know saying 01:39:36.439 --> 01:39:38.699 oh the river hath runneth dry and we need more 01:39:38.699 --> 01:39:42.239 regulation on on the the flow from the dam and 01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:45.020 stuff so the I'll try and naturally they're they're 01:39:45.020 --> 01:39:47.340 the ones who get the they're the ones who get 01:39:47.340 --> 01:39:49.319 all the all the attention in the media and the 01:39:49.319 --> 01:39:50.779 press so they're the ones they're they're the 01:39:50.779 --> 01:39:55.210 ones we see yes and as per the As per Sir Spook 01:39:55.210 --> 01:39:59.909 of Spokane, that's their MO, is they do that 01:39:59.909 --> 01:40:02.329 to drum up the media attention, which then drums 01:40:02.329 --> 01:40:08.109 up donations from the Women's Marcher set, let's 01:40:08.109 --> 01:40:11.289 say. And they're trying to raise money. But there 01:40:11.289 --> 01:40:15.649 was a multifaceted, much more nuanced follow 01:40:15.649 --> 01:40:17.810 -up. You want to describe it or you want me to? 01:40:19.310 --> 01:40:21.329 I'm going to let you take the reins on this. 01:40:21.350 --> 01:40:23.609 It was a fantastic conversation. It was illuminating. 01:40:23.689 --> 01:40:26.149 We got a lot of information on it. And it definitely 01:40:26.149 --> 01:40:30.210 changed our perspective, our opinion on the organization 01:40:30.210 --> 01:40:37.090 as a whole. So now, instead of being fully derisive 01:40:37.090 --> 01:40:41.869 of it, now we know that a good half of it is 01:40:41.869 --> 01:40:44.550 actually a very good thing. The other half is 01:40:44.550 --> 01:40:47.970 still very much worthy of derision. Right, exactly. 01:40:48.229 --> 01:40:50.170 And that's why it was interesting that 4 News 01:40:50.170 --> 01:40:54.069 Now happened to air a segment on more highlighting 01:40:54.069 --> 01:40:56.189 that other side of it, which is just the straight 01:40:56.189 --> 01:40:58.529 up... Yeah, the timing is uncanny. Isn't that 01:40:58.529 --> 01:41:00.930 weird? That was literally from like three days 01:41:00.930 --> 01:41:03.949 ago, this 4 News Now report, which I hadn't ever 01:41:03.949 --> 01:41:05.909 found anything like it. I'd only found the hey, 01:41:06.050 --> 01:41:08.909 hey, ho, ho stuff. Sir Spook of Spokane pointed 01:41:08.909 --> 01:41:11.409 out that the other half of the non -highlighted, 01:41:11.430 --> 01:41:14.609 until now, side of Riverkeeper is very much a... 01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:18.859 We actually just get in small craft and go fish 01:41:18.859 --> 01:41:21.420 garbage out of the river. We're putting our money 01:41:21.420 --> 01:41:22.880 where our environmentalist mouths are. We're 01:41:22.880 --> 01:41:25.399 not just yelling into a bullhorn or breaking 01:41:25.399 --> 01:41:27.520 the windows of foot lockers. We're actually, 01:41:27.579 --> 01:41:30.619 we're at the river cleaning up garbage. And that, 01:41:30.819 --> 01:41:33.340 I believe he said, Jule Schultz, who is with 01:41:33.340 --> 01:41:35.239 the Riverkeeper, I don't know, maybe he's an 01:41:35.239 --> 01:41:37.800 executive, or in any case, he's a very big action 01:41:37.800 --> 01:41:40.560 taker on the get in the river and clean up garbage 01:41:40.560 --> 01:41:43.560 front. very worthy of the title River Keepers 01:41:43.560 --> 01:41:47.100 keeping the river. Jule does it like every week 01:41:47.100 --> 01:41:50.119 or more. He's made it sound like it was almost 01:41:50.119 --> 01:41:52.239 a daily thing, but it was definitely a very regular 01:41:52.239 --> 01:41:55.720 thing that Jule himself has personally pulled 01:41:55.720 --> 01:41:58.199 hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash out 01:41:58.199 --> 01:42:00.220 of the river. Right. That that's that's what 01:42:00.220 --> 01:42:02.380 he does is what he's known for and uh, I mean 01:42:02.380 --> 01:42:05.000 this I don't I see no downside to action like 01:42:05.000 --> 01:42:06.720 that Seems like you're doing the lord's work 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:08.560 and that if you're going to be an activist and 01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:10.220 I found it interesting too They're highlighting 01:42:10.220 --> 01:42:12.640 the girl is like a sense of belonging a sense 01:42:12.640 --> 01:42:15.739 of community Well in in a context like this where 01:42:15.739 --> 01:42:17.819 you're getting together with the stick with the 01:42:17.819 --> 01:42:19.640 poker on the end of it and picking up garbage 01:42:19.640 --> 01:42:22.779 from the from the park like yeah, that's seems 01:42:22.779 --> 01:42:26.359 productive and like you're actually putting you're 01:42:26.359 --> 01:42:27.979 believing in what you say you believe in because 01:42:27.979 --> 01:42:30.680 you're cleaning up you're not just rioting or 01:42:30.680 --> 01:42:33.420 yelling into a bullhorn. So that seemed pretty 01:42:33.420 --> 01:42:35.340 cool that that was highlighted and that it's 01:42:35.340 --> 01:42:37.680 nice to know that that is also going on with 01:42:37.680 --> 01:42:39.880 part of this organization and it's not just a 01:42:39.880 --> 01:42:45.279 commie front. It's classic volunteerism. It's 01:42:45.279 --> 01:42:47.479 what us as libertarians and anarchists always 01:42:47.479 --> 01:42:50.000 talk about. You see a need, you fill the need. 01:42:50.109 --> 01:42:52.050 You see something that needs to happen. You take 01:42:52.050 --> 01:42:53.710 care of it. You see something needs to be done. 01:42:53.829 --> 01:42:57.329 You do it. You don't get moral credit for forcing 01:42:57.329 --> 01:42:59.649 someone else to do it over the barrel of a government 01:42:59.649 --> 01:43:04.449 gun. You know, the taxes are not charity. Charity 01:43:04.449 --> 01:43:07.789 is charity. Doing the thing yourself with your 01:43:07.789 --> 01:43:10.350 time, your money. That's what we're always talking 01:43:10.350 --> 01:43:13.010 about. So well done. Like that was really refreshing 01:43:13.010 --> 01:43:15.449 to hear. as Lucas Vulcan was adamant about. He's 01:43:15.449 --> 01:43:17.729 like, yeah, that other side of it, they're crazy 01:43:17.729 --> 01:43:19.729 commie retards. He goes, but there's a whole 01:43:19.729 --> 01:43:23.689 other side of this organization that does put 01:43:23.689 --> 01:43:26.090 their, you know, metaphorical money where their 01:43:26.090 --> 01:43:29.630 mouths are and have done a lot of great work 01:43:29.630 --> 01:43:31.609 and continue to do a lot of great work. So Scott 01:43:31.609 --> 01:43:33.529 and I both were like, well, hell, that's great 01:43:33.529 --> 01:43:35.689 to know credit where credit is due. We have to 01:43:35.689 --> 01:43:38.770 highlight that because that's that's cool. That's 01:43:38.770 --> 01:43:42.050 exactly the stuff we want to see cheerlead applaud 01:43:42.050 --> 01:43:45.319 for support. Spread the word, because we also 01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:46.500 look at each other and we're like, we got to 01:43:46.500 --> 01:43:48.579 spread the word to our listeners and let them 01:43:48.579 --> 01:43:50.920 know that these opportunities exist if they want 01:43:50.920 --> 01:43:53.140 to. I mean, I'm not going to do it because I 01:43:53.140 --> 01:43:56.739 live in Clark Fork. But, you know, and I'll clean 01:43:56.739 --> 01:44:00.060 up my own rivers up here. But if people want 01:44:00.060 --> 01:44:02.439 the opportunity, they're there. So I thought 01:44:02.439 --> 01:44:05.500 that was cool. Also, Spook of Spokane. I assume 01:44:05.500 --> 01:44:07.539 you were probably going to cover this this other 01:44:07.539 --> 01:44:09.380 part of our conversation with Spook of Spokane, 01:44:09.420 --> 01:44:11.539 Scott, where he kind of gave us some technical. 01:44:11.760 --> 01:44:14.380 Information about on the low river level or the 01:44:14.380 --> 01:44:18.939 river. Yeah variations. Yeah Yeah, yeah, well 01:44:18.939 --> 01:44:21.539 it's so it's it's complex so I'll try to distill 01:44:21.539 --> 01:44:25.479 it as best I can or he was Floating one of the 01:44:25.479 --> 01:44:28.920 many theories that are being bandied about Among 01:44:28.920 --> 01:44:30.819 in these circles of the people who are paying 01:44:30.819 --> 01:44:33.279 close attention to the flows and where things 01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:35.180 are going into the aquifer and what section is 01:44:35.180 --> 01:44:38.140 dry and what section is not and Why it might 01:44:38.140 --> 01:44:40.420 be happening that while as we've mentioned on 01:44:40.420 --> 01:44:42.479 previous shows covering the River keeper There 01:44:42.479 --> 01:44:45.319 are just normal fluctuations and no normally. 01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:47.859 Yes, things are dry. There's there's flow. There's 01:44:47.859 --> 01:44:50.449 no flow. There's it's just there's variation 01:44:50.449 --> 01:44:51.949 in weather, there's variation in water flow, 01:44:52.409 --> 01:44:54.949 that the way they do the dam, the level of like 01:44:54.949 --> 01:44:56.449 Coeur d 'Alene, there's like a million factors 01:44:56.449 --> 01:44:59.630 that go into where there is water and when. But 01:44:59.630 --> 01:45:03.470 he did say it what it has been unusually low 01:45:03.470 --> 01:45:06.170 at certain times in certain places. Now the records 01:45:06.170 --> 01:45:09.829 don't go back that far. And there's there's tribal 01:45:09.829 --> 01:45:12.510 considerations for where what the the tribes 01:45:12.510 --> 01:45:15.350 control You know, I don't know the whole Lake 01:45:15.350 --> 01:45:17.090 Coeur d 'Alene's levels or large parts of it 01:45:17.090 --> 01:45:19.710 and what they say goes as far They have a they 01:45:19.710 --> 01:45:23.510 have an outsized influence on regulation of the 01:45:23.510 --> 01:45:26.170 water level of Coeur d 'Alene Lake which feeds 01:45:26.170 --> 01:45:29.890 the Spokane River and They want the Coeur d 'Alene 01:45:29.890 --> 01:45:34.430 Lake at a certain level and when they speak about 01:45:34.430 --> 01:45:37.689 it It tends to go the way the Coeur d 'Alene 01:45:37.689 --> 01:45:39.289 tribe wants because of course no one wants to 01:45:39.289 --> 01:45:43.739 be on record telling the tribe no That's a whole 01:45:43.739 --> 01:45:47.300 different conversation. And then the dam in Post 01:45:47.300 --> 01:45:50.659 Falls, which is run by Avista, well, that obviously 01:45:50.659 --> 01:45:53.460 regulates the Spokane River as well. And they 01:45:53.460 --> 01:45:55.880 have federal regulations that they have to abide 01:45:55.880 --> 01:45:57.939 by, state regulations they have to abide by. 01:45:57.979 --> 01:46:01.119 And then, of course, power concerns and maintenance 01:46:01.119 --> 01:46:02.619 concerns and all kinds of things they have to 01:46:02.619 --> 01:46:05.239 deal with. So you have many different entities, 01:46:05.479 --> 01:46:08.600 both governmental and NGO and private sector. 01:46:09.309 --> 01:46:13.109 And utility who all have their thumb in the proverbial 01:46:13.109 --> 01:46:16.329 pie and all kind of have the stakeholders if 01:46:16.329 --> 01:46:18.810 you will and there are many of them of varying 01:46:18.810 --> 01:46:21.550 degrees of size power and influence But it's 01:46:21.550 --> 01:46:23.850 not just as simple as I'll just turn the water 01:46:23.850 --> 01:46:28.850 back on or and it's also not as simple as The 01:46:28.850 --> 01:46:31.869 river is dying and there's no more water and 01:46:31.869 --> 01:46:34.310 it's climate change and it's humans faults and 01:46:34.310 --> 01:46:37.170 we're all gonna die It's nowhere near that either 01:46:37.239 --> 01:46:39.180 And there are a number of theories that are floated. 01:46:39.340 --> 01:46:41.100 There is one thing that they have noticed, and 01:46:41.100 --> 01:46:46.140 that is there is more Water loss is not the technical 01:46:46.140 --> 01:46:48.939 term, but it's the term I've got. Leakage, maybe, 01:46:49.000 --> 01:46:50.979 is the term. I don't know. What's the term they 01:46:50.979 --> 01:46:52.359 use, Scott? Do you remember? I don't remember, 01:46:52.399 --> 01:46:55.500 but it was that down into the aquifer. More than. 01:46:55.500 --> 01:46:58.180 There is more leakage. I'm just going to call 01:46:58.180 --> 01:47:00.460 that. Or drainage, if you will, into the aquifer. 01:47:00.500 --> 01:47:04.319 They are noticing that. And so they have formed 01:47:04.319 --> 01:47:06.859 half a dozen different theories as to why. Why 01:47:06.859 --> 01:47:09.399 now? What's going on? And a couple of the theories. 01:47:09.800 --> 01:47:11.699 are really interesting and make a ton of sense. 01:47:11.739 --> 01:47:13.560 One of them, like the most obvious one, which 01:47:13.560 --> 01:47:15.460 I think was the third one he floated, and that 01:47:15.460 --> 01:47:17.720 one stuck with me the most, because Lightning 01:47:17.720 --> 01:47:19.920 Creek that goes right through my five acres here 01:47:19.920 --> 01:47:23.359 does the same thing, is a buildup of sediment 01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:26.600 and rock. Because it could be, one of the theories 01:47:26.600 --> 01:47:29.380 is the water levels haven't really receded and 01:47:29.380 --> 01:47:31.680 we're not losing a ton of water down into the 01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:34.319 aquifer. It just looks like that or feels like 01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:38.460 that because of sediment and material and rock 01:47:38.460 --> 01:47:42.289 buildup. As material moves down the river, well, 01:47:42.310 --> 01:47:47.590 the riverbed get can get higher. So the water 01:47:47.590 --> 01:47:50.989 level looks and feels lower. And the river is 01:47:50.989 --> 01:47:54.270 still there. It's just flowing underground. You 01:47:54.270 --> 01:47:57.010 know, my Arc Creek, right, running through my 01:47:57.010 --> 01:47:59.489 backyard, Arc Creek does that. The creek is still 01:47:59.489 --> 01:48:01.869 running right now. I can't see most of it, but 01:48:01.869 --> 01:48:04.989 it's there. It's just three inches underground 01:48:04.989 --> 01:48:07.430 under the under all the rock and the sediment 01:48:07.430 --> 01:48:11.390 that's in there. But it's there. One of the other 01:48:11.390 --> 01:48:14.029 ones was that because the water, when it warms 01:48:14.029 --> 01:48:15.569 up a little bit, when it's coming from Coeur 01:48:15.569 --> 01:48:17.609 d 'Alene, being a little warmer, he goes, the 01:48:17.609 --> 01:48:20.630 warmer the water, and this again, it's not the 01:48:20.630 --> 01:48:22.289 technical term, there's a scientific technical 01:48:22.289 --> 01:48:24.909 term for it, but the water actually, when it's 01:48:24.909 --> 01:48:30.569 warmer, is a little slipperier. And it can get 01:48:30.569 --> 01:48:32.890 down and through things, obviously, with slippery 01:48:32.890 --> 01:48:35.390 means it can get places more easily and boom, 01:48:35.430 --> 01:48:37.979 there it goes, down into the aquifer. And he 01:48:37.979 --> 01:48:39.520 goes, recently, when things warm up a little 01:48:39.520 --> 01:48:42.319 bit, if the water goes up half a degree in temperature, 01:48:42.460 --> 01:48:44.340 a degree in temperature, it's a little more slippery 01:48:44.340 --> 01:48:47.319 than it was 10 years ago. And so we lose a little 01:48:47.319 --> 01:48:49.939 more into the aquifer. But the water system as 01:48:49.939 --> 01:48:52.640 a whole, and this was the main point, it still 01:48:52.640 --> 01:48:56.760 is very, very healthy and is being replenished 01:48:56.760 --> 01:48:59.979 in the necessary cycles that it needs to be replenished. 01:49:01.060 --> 01:49:03.939 This is not apocalyptic. It's a little quizzical. 01:49:04.350 --> 01:49:06.829 But it's not apocalyptic. Yeah, and it's too 01:49:06.829 --> 01:49:09.470 bad that it's the apocalyptic, hey, hey, ho, 01:49:09.470 --> 01:49:12.590 ho, commie nonsense that is, I guess, what drums 01:49:12.590 --> 01:49:15.170 up donations. It's a shame that that's what has 01:49:15.170 --> 01:49:18.550 to be highlighted in order to get people to action. 01:49:19.250 --> 01:49:22.449 It seems like you would get as many or more if 01:49:22.449 --> 01:49:24.390 you highlighted the cleanup efforts, but apparently 01:49:24.390 --> 01:49:27.750 that's not the strategy they or the mainstream 01:49:27.750 --> 01:49:30.869 media thinks is effective. Well, of course not. 01:49:31.210 --> 01:49:33.130 Sensationalism sells, my friend. You know that. 01:49:33.260 --> 01:49:36.359 Sex and sensationalism. One of the other notes 01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:38.960 from Spookus Bulcan that I thought was really 01:49:38.960 --> 01:49:41.659 cool and interesting was he goes, yeah, when 01:49:41.659 --> 01:49:43.640 we do get these sensationalist reports and you 01:49:43.640 --> 01:49:47.119 see the images of dead fish and things in the 01:49:47.119 --> 01:49:49.899 river, in spots where it's drier or where it 01:49:49.899 --> 01:49:51.800 looks like it's, he goes, actually, what you 01:49:51.800 --> 01:49:53.779 have going on there, he goes, the ecosystem there 01:49:53.779 --> 01:49:57.300 is in good shape. He goes, we have the cleanest 01:49:57.300 --> 01:49:59.979 water in the damn country. He says the two water 01:49:59.979 --> 01:50:01.859 processing plants that we've got around here, 01:50:02.119 --> 01:50:06.340 are hold themselves and are held to standards 01:50:06.340 --> 01:50:10.319 that don't exist like anywhere else. Yes. Another 01:50:10.319 --> 01:50:14.420 reason why another theory and also all of these 01:50:14.420 --> 01:50:16.159 theories could it could be a little bit of all 01:50:16.159 --> 01:50:18.300 of them. It's no one really knows. That's another 01:50:18.300 --> 01:50:21.619 reason that the water has disappeared at a faster 01:50:21.619 --> 01:50:24.420 rate or more is that it's cleaner. So it actually 01:50:24.420 --> 01:50:26.979 flows down and there's not like gunk that is 01:50:26.979 --> 01:50:31.170 stopping the flow to put it crudely. 100 % yet 01:50:31.170 --> 01:50:33.949 the water moves down the river a little bit quicker 01:50:33.949 --> 01:50:36.229 because there's less there's less algae. There's 01:50:36.229 --> 01:50:37.930 less buildup. There's less bacteria. There's 01:50:37.930 --> 01:50:42.649 less You know kind of the mucky miry scummy pondy 01:50:42.649 --> 01:50:45.310 type stuff to build up because the there is no 01:50:45.310 --> 01:50:47.470 nitrates There's no phosphates. There's no nitrates 01:50:47.470 --> 01:50:51.770 the two Plants in the Spokane area have the highest 01:50:51.770 --> 01:50:53.890 state. That's also why it's so expensive It's 01:50:53.890 --> 01:50:57.430 insanely expensive, but they far outpace and 01:50:57.430 --> 01:51:01.409 outs and exceed the necessary, the actual necessary 01:51:01.409 --> 01:51:03.670 specifications for putting water back into the 01:51:03.670 --> 01:51:06.930 system. They're like, so I think Spookispulcan, 01:51:06.949 --> 01:51:09.430 he was laughing about it. He goes, it's so laughably 01:51:09.430 --> 01:51:12.289 advanced what we're doing up here with this water. 01:51:13.010 --> 01:51:15.430 No one else comes close. And it actually might 01:51:15.430 --> 01:51:19.109 be contributing to the lack of water later in 01:51:19.109 --> 01:51:21.529 the season because it just moves that much faster 01:51:21.529 --> 01:51:23.609 downstream because there's nothing to build up 01:51:23.609 --> 01:51:26.310 and stop it. But then with all of the, like when 01:51:26.310 --> 01:51:28.390 they show pictures of the dead fish and whatnot, 01:51:29.050 --> 01:51:31.130 Spook of Spokane was laughing again and he goes, 01:51:31.270 --> 01:51:34.270 yeah, what they're showing you is non -native 01:51:34.270 --> 01:51:36.949 species. He goes, the ecosystems in great shape 01:51:36.949 --> 01:51:39.729 and the species that are from here that should 01:51:39.729 --> 01:51:42.229 be here, they're doing fine. The counts are all 01:51:42.229 --> 01:51:44.930 good. They migrate up and downstream like they're 01:51:44.930 --> 01:51:46.829 supposed to. The plants are fine. The fish are 01:51:46.829 --> 01:51:48.869 fine. Everything's fine. What you're seeing are 01:51:48.869 --> 01:51:52.130 non -native bass coming down from the Coeur d 01:51:52.130 --> 01:51:54.229 'Alene River that were brought here 20 years 01:51:54.229 --> 01:51:55.909 ago from somewhere else. They don't belong here. 01:51:56.060 --> 01:51:59.500 But so when the water heats up or moves, they 01:51:59.500 --> 01:52:03.579 die. The b -roll of the carcass, the skeletal 01:52:03.579 --> 01:52:06.600 fish carcass on the dry rock and then the anchors 01:52:06.600 --> 01:52:10.720 like, I'm Irving Farquhar. Four News Now. It'd 01:52:10.720 --> 01:52:14.960 be so awesome if you put that banjo music to 01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:24.760 that. Deep. Hold on. I'm Irving Farquhar. Four 01:52:24.760 --> 01:52:30.739 News Now. For the low low price of $38 ,000 a 01:52:30.739 --> 01:52:33.840 month YouTube can sponsor a river and make sure 01:52:33.840 --> 01:52:37.579 that these poor non -native bass Will never go 01:52:37.579 --> 01:52:44.680 hungry or dead again Okay, awesome follow -up 01:52:44.680 --> 01:52:48.359 very much appreciated sir spook of Spokane for 01:52:48.359 --> 01:52:51.619 the yeah, it was a very baller conversation it 01:52:51.619 --> 01:52:53.420 was and there's more too, but it was like it 01:52:53.420 --> 01:52:56.659 was it was very content rich and Scott and I, 01:52:56.659 --> 01:52:58.300 while we like to fancy ourselves intelligent 01:52:58.300 --> 01:53:01.420 human beings, I think together we got probably 01:53:01.420 --> 01:53:04.699 70 or 80 % of it. We retained it, but it was 01:53:04.699 --> 01:53:07.039 a lot, but it was awesome. So thank you, Spokane. 01:53:07.060 --> 01:53:11.739 And as such, you know what? Meetup, no ID meetup 01:53:11.739 --> 01:53:15.069 at the lounge on the 25th. Right. You're going 01:53:15.069 --> 01:53:17.170 to be here. I think. Oh, is that what you're 01:53:17.170 --> 01:53:18.729 thinking of doing? Yeah. Why not? Because we 01:53:18.729 --> 01:53:20.970 because we if you recall the conversation with 01:53:20.970 --> 01:53:22.909 Sir Spook of Spokane ended with us saying like, 01:53:22.909 --> 01:53:24.029 all right, well, thank you. And we're enjoying 01:53:24.029 --> 01:53:26.010 cigars. And he said, well, let me give me some 01:53:26.010 --> 01:53:27.810 advance notice next time and I'll come have a 01:53:27.810 --> 01:53:31.170 cigar with you guys. So let's do let's do this. 01:53:31.189 --> 01:53:33.609 Let's do Saturday, the 26th, Friday, the 25th. 01:53:33.609 --> 01:53:35.390 I know we'll be there. You and I will be there. 01:53:35.550 --> 01:53:37.069 But, you know, we got a meeting of the meeting. 01:53:37.069 --> 01:53:39.029 Oh, you're right. Yeah, you got the meeting. 01:53:39.029 --> 01:53:41.590 And then I also have planned a rendezvous with 01:53:41.590 --> 01:53:45.430 my old buddy, Dave Temple. And so if we're going 01:53:45.430 --> 01:53:48.890 to do a no ID meetup, I would much prefer to 01:53:48.890 --> 01:53:51.869 be able to devote time and energy and focus on 01:53:51.869 --> 01:53:55.310 our no ID people. If we're going to do it, let's 01:53:55.310 --> 01:53:58.390 do Saturday the following day, Saturday the 26th, 01:53:58.409 --> 01:54:01.210 because I'll be available. I got paintball practice. 01:54:01.409 --> 01:54:04.369 I'm coaching my brother and son's paintball team. 01:54:04.710 --> 01:54:06.270 That'll be done around one or two. I don't know. 01:54:06.270 --> 01:54:10.489 So we could do a meetup at like 3 o 'clock until 01:54:10.489 --> 01:54:12.529 pretty much the night's over if we want. When 01:54:12.529 --> 01:54:15.229 is when is executive producer Kevin Killian come 01:54:15.229 --> 01:54:19.529 in Friday or Saturday? Friday, but that's coming 01:54:19.529 --> 01:54:22.590 Friday. OK, we talked to him about Friday about 01:54:22.590 --> 01:54:25.630 Saturday. He might be able to shift over or not. 01:54:25.689 --> 01:54:28.909 That's OK, too. Maybe if it's just Kevin, I'm 01:54:28.909 --> 01:54:30.689 just throwing that out there. Yeah. Hey, let 01:54:30.689 --> 01:54:32.850 me let me reset this because it glitched out. 01:54:32.869 --> 01:54:35.489 And now I think there's a delay. One moment. 01:54:35.569 --> 01:54:37.289 Let me just reset this because I will do one 01:54:37.289 --> 01:54:39.649 more clip and then we'll be done for today. Yeah, 01:54:39.649 --> 01:54:42.140 that was weird. It's always tough when there's 01:54:42.140 --> 01:54:43.680 a when there's a delay because then it's like 01:54:43.680 --> 01:54:45.680 we were talking to each other Okay. All right. 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:48.760 All right. Sounds good. I'm down for for Saturday. 01:54:49.199 --> 01:54:51.520 That sounds great and also so let's make it official 01:54:51.520 --> 01:54:55.960 then Yeah, yeah officially meet up Saturday September 01:54:55.960 --> 01:55:02.020 26th, let's say 3 o 'clock until I guess whenever 01:55:02.020 --> 01:55:04.529 we run out of steam Word. All right. Sounds good 01:55:04.529 --> 01:55:06.569 to me. And so that'll be two days from now as 01:55:06.569 --> 01:55:08.729 you guys are hearing this. And let's close out 01:55:08.729 --> 01:55:12.210 this week with Uno Mas and I'll give you the 01:55:12.210 --> 01:55:15.689 option. Do you want to do a NPR promoting Boise 01:55:15.689 --> 01:55:18.350 Pride or do you want to be an or do you want 01:55:18.350 --> 01:55:22.949 to do an NPR poll of college kids in Idaho and 01:55:22.949 --> 01:55:27.970 how they rank for student openness? Oh, wow. 01:55:28.350 --> 01:55:34.050 Those are both terrible. Why are you gay? I could 01:55:34.050 --> 01:55:37.390 do another I could do Boise schools enrollment 01:55:37.390 --> 01:55:41.510 No, so when I say terrible, I don't mean like 01:55:41.510 --> 01:55:44.170 you picked terrible things I just mean they're 01:55:44.170 --> 01:55:51.550 both Paul statistics are made up this I'm just 01:55:51.550 --> 01:55:53.569 taking a page out of anonymous boomers book. 01:55:53.590 --> 01:55:55.510 All right, don't hurt. Don't don't hate the player 01:55:55.510 --> 01:55:57.850 hate the game No, we should we should have ended 01:55:57.850 --> 01:56:00.170 with this Spokane River thing because it was 01:56:00.170 --> 01:56:02.109 a nice thing to end on Now we're going to end 01:56:02.109 --> 01:56:03.770 on something that's going to make me depressed. 01:56:04.369 --> 01:56:06.890 Let's go with Blackpillum. I think I'd rather 01:56:06.890 --> 01:56:10.270 go with the gays instead of stupid young people. 01:56:11.210 --> 01:56:14.189 I felt really gay last night. Boise Pride is 01:56:14.189 --> 01:56:16.949 back this weekend for its 37th year. Last year, 01:56:16.949 --> 01:56:19.649 we reported the festival lost funding amidst 01:56:19.649 --> 01:56:23.550 rising economic uncertainty and anti -LGBTQ legislation 01:56:23.550 --> 01:56:26.630 and pressure. Julie Luketa has more on how the 01:56:26.630 --> 01:56:29.689 festival has pivoted to make it work in 2026. 01:56:30.029 --> 01:56:33.170 In 2025, several corporate sponsors pulled out 01:56:33.170 --> 01:56:36.649 of the event, resulting in a 40 % decline in 01:56:36.649 --> 01:56:39.430 funding compared to the previous year. There 01:56:39.430 --> 01:56:41.510 was also grunting coming from behind the stall. 01:56:41.970 --> 01:56:44.729 This year's festival also has to make do with 01:56:44.729 --> 01:56:47.989 fewer big name donors. Marketing director Davis 01:56:47.989 --> 01:56:51.329 Hilton says they're adapting to cover expenses. 01:56:51.750 --> 01:56:53.829 We lost a lot of corporate funding in the last 01:56:53.829 --> 01:56:56.060 couple of years. We're relying a lot more heavily 01:56:56.060 --> 01:56:58.079 on our small businesses who are incredible and 01:56:58.079 --> 01:57:00.420 have stepped up this year. The three -day festival 01:57:00.420 --> 01:57:03.760 is mostly free, but will charge for two big -name 01:57:03.760 --> 01:57:06.779 events. Performances by Trixie Mattel on Friday 01:57:06.779 --> 01:57:09.979 and Patty Gonya on Saturday. It's just really 01:57:09.979 --> 01:57:11.859 important for us to all come together. When you're 01:57:11.859 --> 01:57:15.279 dealing with holes in your budget. I see you 01:57:15.279 --> 01:57:17.739 wasted no time in filling my seat hole. Holes. 01:57:18.100 --> 01:57:20.760 Also, if you catch, I'm not sure how he's spelling 01:57:20.760 --> 01:57:22.920 this. It's just really important for us to all 01:57:22.920 --> 01:57:26.319 come together as a community. And so money and 01:57:26.319 --> 01:57:29.159 performances aside, it really is super heartwarming 01:57:29.159 --> 01:57:33.079 to see the parade and the fireworks and to celebrate 01:57:33.079 --> 01:57:35.399 and see all of these vendors and all of the things 01:57:35.399 --> 01:57:38.239 they offer and connect. It's really magical. 01:57:38.880 --> 01:57:43.300 Pride starts at 5 p .m. on Friday. Here's our 01:57:43.300 --> 01:57:46.300 national treasure, our publicly funded radio 01:57:46.300 --> 01:57:48.739 promoting. Pride starts at 5 p .m. on Friday 01:57:48.739 --> 01:57:54.260 until Sunday afternoon. Yep. There you go. That's 01:57:54.260 --> 01:57:56.739 where your tax dollars we were wondering when 01:57:56.739 --> 01:57:59.520 and where we could attend There's not enough 01:57:59.520 --> 01:58:01.800 and there's there's not enough. They need more. 01:58:01.960 --> 01:58:04.859 There's never enough. Their budget is not enough 01:58:04.859 --> 01:58:07.260 It's really magical especially with the gays 01:58:07.260 --> 01:58:09.159 because the only way that the gays could make 01:58:09.159 --> 01:58:15.579 more gays is by turning people gay You have to 01:58:15.579 --> 01:58:23.430 recruit PSA gays can't make more gays Are you 01:58:23.430 --> 01:58:25.350 sure about it? It sounds like another made up 01:58:25.350 --> 01:58:29.149 Paul statistic. Oh, man. I know I'm on a roll, 01:58:29.170 --> 01:58:31.090 aren't I? I think they're all made up. Everything 01:58:31.090 --> 01:58:35.250 I say is made up. All right. Are we done? I think 01:58:35.250 --> 01:58:37.810 we're just done. Let's be done. Yeah. And on 01:58:37.810 --> 01:58:44.609 that note, this must be like what anonymous boomer 01:58:44.609 --> 01:58:47.850 hears when I talk. You want from me more. How 01:58:47.850 --> 01:58:50.170 much more successful do you want me to be? More 01:58:50.170 --> 01:58:53.020 successful. How many records can my records break? 01:58:53.619 --> 01:58:57.800 More records. But I'm the best. But are you a 01:58:57.800 --> 01:59:02.699 different animal and the same beast? What the 01:59:02.699 --> 01:59:06.500 f**k does that mean, Kobe Bryant? As in what 01:59:06.500 --> 01:59:09.180 the f**k does that mean? What the f**k is he 01:59:09.180 --> 01:59:11.460 talking about? I don't think there's a boomer 01:59:11.460 --> 01:59:16.939 on the planet that knows that reference. The 01:59:16.939 --> 01:59:21.739 important thing is that I'm happy. No ID Show. 01:59:21.880 --> 01:59:26.060 This is episode number 47 in the can. We'll be 01:59:26.060 --> 01:59:28.539 back next week for episode 48. In the meantime, 01:59:28.760 --> 01:59:31.380 please remember us at noidshow .com. To become 01:59:31.380 --> 01:59:35.640 an executive producer, go to noidshow .com. There 01:59:35.640 --> 01:59:38.439 are a myriad ways to kick whatever value back 01:59:38.439 --> 01:59:41.199 value means to you. If you're finding our program 01:59:41.199 --> 01:59:44.539 valuable, please keep us in mind and whatever 01:59:44.539 --> 01:59:47.569 the value means to you. Send it back our way. 01:59:48.329 --> 01:59:52.649 Next week, Matt Edwards will be here. As per, 01:59:52.689 --> 01:59:55.550 speaking of boomers, another anonymous, oh no 01:59:55.550 --> 01:59:58.229 that was not anonymous, that was Eman, who had 01:59:58.229 --> 02:00:00.810 said, I need you to have more guests on your 02:00:00.810 --> 02:00:04.189 pod, in the large font, so with emphasis, so 02:00:04.189 --> 02:00:06.829 we're heating the call, and we will have another 02:00:06.829 --> 02:00:07.869 guest next week. And that is pretty boomer of 02:00:07.869 --> 02:00:10.310 him too. yell at us through the internet on the 02:00:10.310 --> 02:00:12.590 keyboard. I know. At least he didn't do all caps. 02:00:12.649 --> 02:00:14.409 It wasn't all caps. He increased the font size. 02:00:14.409 --> 02:00:16.069 Oh, okay. I thought it was all caps. No, fine. 02:00:18.390 --> 02:00:23.869 Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I didn't say it. I declared 02:00:23.869 --> 02:00:29.069 it. All right. Until next week. Looking forward 02:00:29.069 --> 02:00:31.949 to smoking sticks with you guys on Saturday. 02:00:32.250 --> 02:00:36.970 From Post Falls, I'm Scott. And I'm Paul. Taxation 02:00:36.970 --> 02:00:39.409 is theft. Governor Brad Little has ordered state 02:00:39.409 --> 02:00:44.689 officials to keep spending. Everything I say 02:00:44.689 --> 02:00:45.329 is made up.