09-04-24 FULL SHOW - The Aurora Gang Story is Exploding, And Gabe Evans Pops In

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headlines on the blog at Mandy's blog dot com. Now, looking at how thinn the blog is, you might be thinking, Mandy, you really took the day off here. But no, when you see the deep dive that I did looking at all of the different media coverage of the situation in Aurora,

whatever that is. I mean that whatever that is, because depending on what news media outlet you consume, you would think that either there's absolutely nothing to see, we don't have any gang issues, no crime in Aurora, don't look over there, or if you consume different news media, you would find out that, yeah, the police have been actively

involved with this gang for a long time. Or you would find out that Mayor Mike Johnson says, oh, that's an Aurora on Denver, and you would find out that Mayor Mike Compton says, yeah, we've got a problem, but it's isolated. I mean it's it's all over the place. You like me to present you with horses mouth, yes, please? Or a Mayor Mike Kaufman was on with CMN this morning and this is what he said.

At the same time, she has constituents coming to her talking about the dangerous situations at these various apartment complex. Says she actually helped move three different families out of these apartments, and the whole time she's being told sit down, shut up, let the grown.

is consumed Aurora. Instead, they tried to shut her down, tell her she was crazy, tell her she didn't know what's going on, tell her her constituents were lying to her. I mean, that's the ultimate end result. So she sounded the alarm, and the alarm is now a three alarm fire. And I'm I think that people that live in these apartment complexes are around them are probably happy. It's finally

getting the attention it deserves. So you have to look at all, and I mean all of the coverage that has come out, because let me pull up the headlines really quickly. I have like seven different stories embedded, and I want to be able to cross reference because they are They're fascinating the way that our different news media

outlets are handling this particular situation. I want to start with the Denver Zette because they are doing extremely complete reporting, using things like pulling police logs and getting nine to one one reports and things of that nature. And I want to share just part of this. Newly released details compiled from police written arrest affidavits, hinted of a twisted tail involving to Venezuelan brothers who allegedly intimidated other immigrants

with guns and threats. Witnesses said they bragged that they owned an apartment complex in North Aurora and funded their gang by stealing from Walmart stores. But just before dawn on July twenty eighth, Janardi J. Pacheco Tiranos twenty two and his older brother, Janardi Dejezos Pacheco Chiranas, twenty four. We're part of a group of several men who terrorized residents of the Aspen Grove apartments at Nome Street with

automatic weapons. It was a drunken night turned violent, according to a July thirtieth rest a warrant, and the brothers are now in ice custody. Now that is that everything that they said there happened, because they're using arrest affidavits to sort of determine what's going on with these two brothers. Now, this all happened at the Nome Street apartment complex that

has already been shut down. And I want to come back to that later because we have a significant issue with affordable housing in this area and governments are coming in and they are condemning these properties. And don't get me wrong, I also embedded on the blog today the citizen reporting done by a guy named Tyler Olivera. He went to these apartment complexes and asked people the questions. Now, a lot of the residents were like, no, no, there's no gangs. No gangs. No, no, no, no gangs.

for human beings. So we do have a slow looard situation. But what we have is a slum lords situation meeting Venezuelan gangs. How do I know this? Because we know this because the let's see the I'm trying to figure out which one is the one that talked about The owners of the apartment complex sent a letter two not just Attorney General Phil Wiser, but also to the mayor saying, look, we have lost control of these apartment complexes. We've lost control and we need help. And now that might be

just pr but here's the thing. What if they're not lying, what if there's slum lords. Let's concede to that fact they're slum lords. And at the same time they are doing even less because these gangs have taken over and their staff essentially refused to come to work anymore. We're done, We're not working anymore. So it's we've we've got this

convergence of things happening and in Aurora. Now, somebody just pointed out on the Common Spirit Health text line you can always text us at five sixty six nine, and they said, Mandy, it's widely happening in Denver. The fact that Mayor Johnston is not addressing it is a bigger crime. Oh, Mayor Johnston is basically like, hey, everything's fine in Denver as long as you don't look at the homeless hotels. Forget about the trouble Tree or the meth Western. Everything's fine,

everything's fine, We're doing everything right. I mean, it's absurd. You did you just come up with the last nick name? No, I did not. The meth Western has been around for a while. Oh man, the Trouble Tree in the meth Western. Are there ever been better nicknames for that? I mean, there's another hotel, but I don't think it has I don't know if it hasn't a nickname yet. Somebody will let me know if it does. Hey, Mandy says this Texter. Last night Fox thirty one had the residence of one

of those apartment buildings. All they wanted was to have the place cleaned up. They're probably just used to having Venezuelan gangs around. The guy had a Venezuelan shirt on. Now, it is my understanding, and I have not verified this myself, so this could be wrong. It is my understanding that that press conference was organized by a group that is funded by government. City of Aurora, City of Denver behalf of immigrants. So they came out to say, because here's

the problem, you guys. You have forty thousand Venezuelan's living in the metro area at this point, right I mean twenty thousand. They say half of them left. So twenty thousand New Venezuelan immigrants living here in the metro A vast majority of them are not criminals. They're not part of a gang. They're not here to rob people and steel. They're here because genuinely they want a better life. Now what percentage of the twenty thousand is are members of a gang? I don't know. I have no idea, but

I have to believe it's not a vast majority. So you're trying to balance not turning people against people who came here for a better life, who are trying to live here, work here, do the right thing. They want to raise their families here. You don't want to cast them in the same light as these gang members, right, I mean, it's not fair. It's really not fair. Now I could argue about their methodology of coming to the

United States walking across the southern border. I mean, we could talk about that for a while, can I I'm to have a sidewinder just for a second, you guys. I have a friend whose husband is Irish. They have been married for twenty three years. She lived in Ireland for many years now. They've been moved back to the

United States. He is trying to get the final paperwork to be a naturalized part of the United States of America because he's been married to an American woman for twenty three years and he now has to do another immigration interview and he has to do it in the UK. That's how absurd our immigration system is. I mean, it's just insane what he is and the money that they've spent.

So it doesn't shock me or surprise me that someone would try to take the cheater's way out and just walk across the southern border and be welcome with open arms. But the reality is not all of these people are bad people, but the reality is also that some of them are some of them are very bad people. So now we're in this situation where Aurora is getting a massive black eye, even though I believe and if you live in Aurora, you can comment on the text line

about your current situation. But we all know, first of all, Aura is ginormous, right, It's a huge land mass, massive land mass, So it stands to reason that Aurora is still the same as it's been for a long time. When people ask me about Aurora, this is what I say, in Aurora. You can drive down a street and you can see beautiful neighborhood on the right, beautiful neighborhood on the left, and then you drive a half a mile and you're literally in the slums.

Aurora none. He is a figurehead. The real power comes from the city manager, John Batchelor, who he's the one in charge of the police department. He's the one in charge of public safety. And I haven't seen him anywhere now. I understand he's off this week or some I don't know, but he's been nowhere and he's the one with all the power. He's the one that makes all the money. So Mayor Mike Kaufman is out there basically doing PR.

He's doing powerless PR. He's trying to save whatever reputation that Aurora has been slowly but surely building back up. I think under the current leadership of the current city Council, their aggressive approach to homelessness that is about WorkFirst and housing secred I mean, there are some really great stories to tell in Aurora right now. This apartment complex situation

is not one of them. I would have lost something up to you guys, and as a libertarian, I am loath to have government insert itself into an account of private industry. But hear me out. So Aurora already condemned one of these apartment complexes on Nome Street. But instead of now you've kicked all these people out at a time where we don't have enough affordable housing, right, we don't have enough housing units. So instead, here's my plan.

If I were running things in Aurora, I would simply say to the slan lords, you have four weeks to clean up everything. Four weeks to clean up everything. We'll give you the security that you need during the day, but you have four weeks to clean it all up. If it's not cleaned up and you're free of code violations and everything else, then we are going to seize

your building, but we're not kicking anybody out. We're going to then contract a company to come in and clean up all the code violations, and then we are going to contract a company to manage the property for the next year, and then in a year, we are going to sell that apartment complex to a company that will run it. Probably will shoot for lowally owned, so we don't have any distance saw lords, and we're going to

fix this problem instead of just condemning it. So they make their money back from all of the repairs and everything they've done by selling the complex in a year to someone else. But you've solved the problem and let people stay in their homes. Oh, Jason Bachelor, not John, thank you for that. Thank you for the correction. Texter Mandy, it's inhumane to invite these people here by not protecting the southern border, only to have them live in these conditions.

I agree wholeheartedly, but this is one of my personal concerns based on personal experience. When you bring in people from essentially what has become a third world country. They bring their third world country habits with them. I mean, just like things like and I'm not talking about Venezuelan's because Venezuela was a developed economy for a very long time.

But when you're talking about some places in Ecuador and Guatemala and these developing nations where they don't have plumbing that can handle toilet paper and things of that nature, they bring all of those habits with them, and I find that very concerning, very concerning. So it's like the slum lords are no longer collecting rents. The gang is collecting rents now. They lost control of their revenue stream.

I don't Here's the thing. I don't care. If I am in an apartment complex and all of a sudden people stop paying rent because they said they were paying to gang members, the first thing I would do is fly here from wherever I was, and I would go meet with the police force and say I need help cleaning up this complex. But the reality is is they've been slum lords for a long time. The city of a War has had an ongoing issue with this particular company for a long time.

And if I'm the slow lords, this is what I do. I say, take the building, take it, just take it, take away their spie. I don't want to deal with it anymore because the building probably isn't worth that much at this point because it's been so badly damaged. So I don't know when we get back. I want to read some of your text messages. If you live in Aurora, and I mean any part of Aurora, tell me your story on the text line. Do you still feel safe

walking around your neighborhood? Are you still going to the same restaurants. Can you still shop in the same areas or are you still comfortable living in your home? Because again, Aurora is massive, and I don't think this is a widespread, massive problem. I think it's an extremely significant an issue in a very small part of Aurora. We'll be back right after this our chief meteorologist from Fox thirty one, Dave Fraser. Dave Fraser, how are you today? I'm good.

see the building clouds. We should start to get into showers and thunderstorms here pretty quickly, which will take us into the evening. They will be scattered, and some of that could linger past midnight into early Thursday before kind of drizzling showers wrap up with some late day sunshine.

But you'll feel the refreshing change tomorrow. And then the other quarter that we'll turn is to head back to the upper eighties to near ninety degrees, but it'll take several days to inch back in that direction, so lower eighties, mid eighties uper ratings, and then maybe close to ninety degrees early next week. And once we get past tonight

and tomorrow morning's chance for rain. Unfortunately, the forecast does look dry, although that's what we expect in September, one of the best months of the year.

has certainly proved out. We ended up with the second warmest June an average July for temperatures, fifth warmest August, and second warmest.

text about this the other day. On record is since eighteen seventy two, and it's first reading to me that we don't clarify that because on record sounds like well, the beginning of record keeping went back thousands of years and when you consider how cyclical weather is in ten thousand year and one hundred thousand year, you know, spans to say on record, I think it gives an impression that people this is like of all time, and that's not at all what we're talking about.

that was set downtown. Of course you have to look at what year it was set in. But it's the only body that we have to be able to compare. The other thing is technology. Think about mercury thermometers back in the eighteen hundred versus today's. You know, digital means, and there's rounding of temperatures, you know, So when you look at hourly observations, you'll see ninety six point two,

ninety six point four, ninety six point eight. And then you do all the averaging for your monthly averages, taking all the highs and the lows, adding them together, dividing out by the number of days in a month to come up with an average, to be able to compare month to month to month over a series of years. So listen, It is not a perfect science, but it does give you a little bit of an understanding. To say, Denver's average is eighty four today and I tell you

it's going to be ninety four. I think you can make the comparison.

the topography. It's not a huge difference.

second of August his report shows one hundred. Well, the airport reported ninety nine on the first and one hundred and one on the second and then he had ninety six. They had ninety six, and then he had ninety nine. They had one hundred and two. So the numbers don't jive. The averages are going to be very different.

Those are numbers that come out all the time. As matter of fact, when I look at the climate data for the outlooks that I was just telling you about six to ten, the eight to fourteen, the three months, all of that is based on where we are when it comes to those types of patterns for El Nino Lamina. So for right now, you know the next November persistent. You know they're looking at Lamina to emerge in September, and so we may be leaning more towards La Nina

from September through November. We'll have to wait and see if that changes a little bit for the latter part of winter, which made the December, January and februe. Don't discount March in April for us here in Denver, Personelo and for.

from west to east. So depending on what the ocean waters are doing, the jet stream will kind of fluctuate a little bit, and the movement of that jet can change across Colorado and how it comes over the mountains from more of a northwesternly flow or a southern track. Those differences in the tracks across the state from north to south highly influenced where storms will set up and

who will benefit from those different storm systems. So a southern tract will benefit the front range, a northwestern tract will benefit more. Northwestern Colorado will be a little drier, and it also influences temperatures as well. So those things are taken in, but they're like the long range outlook. It's not a day to day. We stable the day to day. We get into the nitty gritty, we get

into the details. We're looking for the hard numbers. Then when it starts, when it ends, how much you're shoveling all of that kind of stuff, and you.

lived in Aurora my entire life. Other than four years in Fort Collins, I've steadily moved southeast over time to the nicer areas of Aurora to get my kids in the Cherry Creek School district. I know exactly the areas of Aurora to avoid, in which ones are generally nice and peaceful. My daughter and her friends wanted to go see their high school football team play in Aurora Public School team at the APS Stadium next to Hinckley High

School last Friday. Knowing that that is not a good area, my wife and I said they could not go without us. Unsurprisingly to me, multiple fights broke out in the stands and in the parking lot shortly after halftime. Multiple police and other emergency vehicles were dispatched to the area to control the situation. My daughter and her friends were horrified, but they will not doubt me again when I tell them which areas are good or bad. Someone posted and

he sent a video. We can't. I can't get videos on the text line. Guys, I can't get photos. I can't get any of that stuff on the text line. So oh wait, he said it via another text so it's an Instagram. I'll look at that on the break, Mandy, Are there Venezuelan gangs an Aurora or not? Of course, conflicting reports, and that's really what we've been talking about earlier on the show. It's like, can we just get

accurate reporting. The Denver Gazette seems to be the only news outlet that can actually file an open records request for things like police affidavits and arrest records. A lot of other news media outlets my news are just talking to people like Governor Jared Polis and he's like, no, it's fine, and they're like, oh, okay, all right, there you go. There you go. Hi, Mandy. I've been a resident in Aurora since nineteen seventy seven, still live here.

Up until the year two thousand, Aurora was a great city to raise a family, and crime has progressively gotten much worse over the last twenty four years, but the worst parts are in certain neighborhoods, particularly where the Venezuelan gang apartments are. My wife and I and our three little kids lived in the Nome Street apartments thirty one years ago and it was a nice community then. Now. I do still feel relatively safe in the majority of

the city elsewhere, minus random guns fired off and bad drivers. Mandy, Aurora is dealing with big city problems, but not equipped for it. Most of Aurora is fine, including my neighborhood. By the way, the city, they can't just take a property. It takes multiple trips to court with multiple fines, usually reduced by judges to give a second chance before you can contemplate condemning it so they could get control. The biggest problem is all the players may be telling the truth,

which shows the complexity. And I think that's part of it, is that I do think there's truth in all of this. There are Venezuelan gangs, there are slumlords, there are all

of these issues. But in trying to solve the problem without just condemning the building, because we already have a shortage of affordable housing, and I think one of the reasons that the residents are keeping things to themselves are number one, they don't want to put themselves in the line of fire, but number two, they're afraid they're going to be thrown out on the street like the Nome Street people were, and that they're not going to have any place to live, and that a roof is better

than no roof.

What do you want to do? Property can't be worth much now at all, you know, make it hard enough that you then seize the property. You then contract out somebody to come in and fix everything that's wrong with it, and then you hire a management company and then you sell it in a year. You don't keep it. That would be what I would recommend, but you know that's just me. Mandy. I've been a resident in Aurora since nineteen seventy so, oh wait a minute, hang on. I

lived in Aurora all my life. I carried mail and Aurora for thirty years and delivered to all of those apartments. They've been run down, low income places for as long as I can remember. It hurts my heart to see how far my city has fallen, and that my friends is right there people who live and grow up in Aurora. It's heartbreaking. I think for Mayor Mike Kaufman, it's heartbreaking.

I know that Mayor Mike Kaufman, I know that Daniel Drinsky, I know that everyone on the city Council loves Aurora, or they wouldn't be putting themselves out there trying to fix the problems, but acting like there isn't a problem when there obviously is one. It's just bad advice, really bad advice, because now it's exploded into way more than it needed to be.

In twenty twenty two, ran for and won my state House seat down at the state Capitol of Denver. Been fighting down there for two years to try to just restore some common sense. We know we have a crime problem, we know we have an affordability problem. The fact, you know, I'm married, My wife and I've been married for fifteen years.

a real problem in Congress. What do you do to help with the problems that we're having here in Colorado when it comes to crime.

Would that be something that you would support as a threat in order to rescind these laws that you're talking about right now, kind of force the hand of Colorado lawmakers, because we've just seen that when threatened with something like two ballot initiatives on property taxes, they can be brought to heal just a little bit, right, Is that something you would support?

So yeah, absolutely, when you have states like Colorado that blatantly ignore what the federal government is doing when they're trying to secure the border, and when we have folks like immigration and Customs and the Border Patrol, and the State of Colorado comes along and says, nah, we're not going to even let our state and local.

That's how we make Colorado in the eighth Congressional District in an affordable place.

what do you think about that kind of stuff? Because I think that's all part of the green New deal as well.

give up their ethanol subsidies. Where do you stand on that, if you have an opinion at all.

And that's one of the things that we don't talk about enough, is that if we truly really exploited all of our energy options, we would be able to not only power our own economy, but also create big problems for Russia and for other bad actors around the world. Who's their entire economy is their oil economy. I mean, why don't we talk about that more?

we agree on about ninety percent of the stuff. So we drafted a pledge two point zero that we could both agree on, and that really does highlight those things that we care about, small limited government, making sure that we respect individual liberty, making sure that we're focused here on the United States critical things like securing our borders, and so.

the Libertarians, we've found that common ground. But as a state legislator, you know, I'm in the Mike super minority down at the state Capitol, nineteen Republicans to forty six Democrats in the state House, and I still got almost sixty percent of my bills passed because I'm able to work across the aisle there. That's what I'm focused on.

How do we move the ball forward? How do we make sure that we're passing on to future generations the same American dream that my grandfather mia Ethel gave to me when he immigrated here to this country.

the eighth district. I've not seen a single one, but I see one from his opponent every five minutes, And I want to use that as a springboard to ask you about the challenges going on at the state party and how that has affected your campaign in terms of the support that you have gotten or not gotten from the state campaign. It just kind of give me a minute on that.

I think your race is in highly winnable. I think you're the right candidate to win that race, and I look forward to talking to you after the election, if not before, to be able to congratulate you. On your victory. So let's let's do the assumed clothes on that one and and uh, we'll be in touch again before the election. I can assure you.

what you're hearing, we'll be right back, Mandy. I'm a Democrat because we just interviewed Gave Evans from the eighth congressional district race, and if you missed it, you can always go to our mandysblog dot com page look for latest posts and a Rod's going to put that podcast up. If you live in the eighth congressional district, I'd love you would share that podcast with people because I think that is an incredibly winnable race and I actually think

Gave Evans is a fantastic candidate. I watched him for the first time at the Weld County Women's rumbles that they had, and he was debating Janet Joshi, who was the carpetbagger from the Springs that was backed by Dave Williams. And in that interview it became apparent to me very quickly that Gabe had a really good handle on the issues of the eighth Congressional District. And he wasn't just saying things because he thought they would rile up the

crowd or be inflammatory. He's just very even keeled, has a good head on his shoulders, shares a lot of my same value systems. So I'm a big fan of Gabe Evans. And yes, I know I misspelled Gabe on the blog. I just didn't fix it yet. I put Gabe and that that was an auto correct. So I want to share this text message Mandy. I'm a Democrat, but I actually don't care for Caraveo too much and I'm considered voting for the guy. But I do have a couple of questions. Hopefully maybe you can ask him

what is his stance on abortion too? How is he going to come back Donald Trump if he's the party of fiscal conservatism, Because Donald Trump led us to a gigantic deficit. That is an absolutely fair criticism. First, on the abortion issue, he has said he believes it is a state issue to be decided at the state level. He would be in favor personally of a ban on abortion for everyone except in cases of rape, incest, and the health of the mother. But he has essentially punted

and said it's a state issue. We know in Colorado it is not going to be illegal. I don't know if it ever will. I can't imagine the kind of sea change it would have to happen here for abortion to be limited in any way, shape or form in Colorado. Because every time there's a ballot initiative, every time there is an opportunity for Colorado's to weigh in at the ballot or give their opinion through a vote, they have

shot down any of restrictions on abortion. Which is why in Colorado it is legal to have an abortion up to the day of birth. And for all of you who are reaching for the text line to tell me I'm wrong, it is not wrong. It happens here. And there is a doctor in Boulder who specializes, I guess, in late term abortions, and even on their website it says mostly women do this because of a health issue. Mostly got to pay attention to those qualifiers, so he

does not favor a federal abortion ban. I will say that let's talk about the deficit buster for a second, because the deficit buster is an accurate, absolutely accurate accusation against Donald Trump. But it just pulled up some numbers that I want to share and to give you some perspective about why we have a thirty five thirty six trillion dollar debt now because of deficit spending. And I want to take you back to two thousand and nine. Now we all know what happened to two thousand and eight.

The market absolutely crashed. We had a devastating great recession. It was terrible, and the government's response was to print a whole bunch of money and eventually set the table for the inflation that we've had over the last couple of years. Because inflation doesn't happen overnight. Although historically, and this is accurate, I have looked it up and confirmed that what I'm about to say is true every period of and I don't ways say hyper inflation because we

didn't have hyperinflation. Hyper Inflation is when prices are going up one hundred percent every day. We just had a period of steep inflation. It is always preceded by a flood of the money supply, and that's exactly what the Federal Reserve did during COVID. They wanted the federal government to be able to continue to spend like drunken monkeys, which they did, and not have to pay the pipers.

So they dropped interest rates to darnaar zero and they kept printing money so the federal government could spend it. That was the whole thing. But let's go back to two thousand and nine. Deficit spending in two thousand and nine was one point four trillion dollars, twenty ten, one point twenty nine trillion dollars, twenty eleven, one point three trillion dollars, twenty twelve, one point oh seven seven trillion dollars.

And then in twenty thirteen we started to get interact together a little bit, and we dropped down to just six hundred and eighty billion dollars twenty fourteen, four eighty five, and these are billions four forty two and twenty fifteen. We're starting to make progress. Twenty sixteen, Donald Trump gets elected, the deficit was five hundred and eighty five billion dollars twenty seventeen up to six sixty five, twenty eighteen, up to seven seventy nine, twenty nineteen, up to nine eighty four.

Now I felt somewhat vindicated in this because I was the one that told everybody in this listening audience that Donald Trump was not going to do anything about the deficit. And people told me I was crazy. Donald Trump was going to fix that too. He did not fix that too.

And that takes us to twenty twenty COVID COVID spending three point one three to two trillion dollars in one year in spending, and twenty twenty one was even not even worse, but certainly not better, two point seven to seven trillion dollars in deficit spending, twenty twenty two to one point three in deficit spending. And if you remember, there was, you know, a midterm and deficit spending in twenty twenty three one point six trillion dollars. Both Donald

Trump and Joe Biden suck on the deficit. Suck. They're a huge part of why we have these massive deficits. But they're not the only ones. Everyone in Congress is responsible for these deficits. And by the way, these deficits, they're not made up money, they're our money. Deficits have to be paid back in a few ways. Number One, you can raise taxes, that's how you pay off the debt. Or you can print more money, which causes inflation, which

is a tax on the American people as well. And you can also cut spending, which obviously Washington has no desire to do so. Trump exploded the deficit during COVID, but the Biden administration has been very slow to bring it down. No one is good and Kamala Harris is out there running around talking about how she is going to give up certain first time home buyers twenty five thousand dollars, which is going to inflate the housing market

even more. She's talking about all these giveaway programs she's trying to buy votes. She is an absolute disaster on the debt and deficit, and Donald Trump is not much better. The whole tariff thing that he's talking about is just a dumb idea. It's pretty much failed every time it's try. But yet here we are again trying to figure out a way to bring back the manufacturing jobs to the United States instead of trying to help people pivot to the service spased economy that we have right now. I

would love to have more manufacturing jobs. I would love it. I think it would be amazing because manufacturing jobs are a ladder to the middle class for people. But the reality is is I don't think they're coming back. It's too expensive to produce things here. The regulatory structure, minimum wages, things of that nature. It just makes it hard to compete with China, which pays people nothing and doesn't worry

about environmental concerns. They don't care. So I'd love to tell you that Donald Trump is going to be amazing on the deficit. I don't think he will be. But all that being said, I do know people that are on Trump's economic advisory team, and they Steve Moore being one of them. He's a major deficit hawk. So if there's a chance that someone's going to get through to either one of these candidates, the advisors around Kamala Harris suck and the advisors around Donald Trump on the economy

are much better on these things. So if you're gonna throw a dart board, you know, throw a dart against the dart board and shooes, which one's going to be better. You have to look at the whole picture. And there's nothing, not one single thing in the Kamala Harris economic Plan that says we're going to do anything about the deficit. Nothing. So I don't trust either of them. I wish I

had better news. I wish I could forcefully make the case that Donald Trump was going to be a deficit hawk and do something about the debt, because guys, we're headed for a debt crisis. We're headed for the kind of crisis that makes us no longer the world's reserve currency. We're headed for the crisis that ends our reign as the world's leader when it comes to finances and economics. And it's going to be very very ugly when it happens,

and it's only getting worse. And the American people don't care because they're too stupid to know what it looks like when all of this debt crisis actually happens, because they've been so poorly educated about economics and the effects that they think. Some of these young people think socialism is the way to go. It's almost like they didn't

see all of the ways that socialism has failed. And before anybody writes to me about the Nordic countries, if you want to have a high services government like they have in the Nordic countries, then get ready to open your wallet, not rich people's wallets, because if you look at the tax structure in those high service, high tax Nordic countries, everybody pays. Everybody pays twenty percent of their income. Everybody pays at least twenty percent of their income. Some

of the tax burdens are over fifty five percent. So if you want to if you want to high services like that, then you got to pay for it, because there's not enough rich people in the world to pay all of those taxes, all of those prices for all of those people. Melatonin. No, I have no problem sleeping. Oh okay, that's good. That's because you're young. I enjoy it while you can. Okay, every morning when you wake up well arrested, I want you to just say, you

know what, God, thank you for that. I know you're going to strip it away from me as I get older, but you know, thanks for that.

times or jump back into your own time zone. But there's been no long term studies that have shown that it's been helpful for sleep issues in the long term. I've known this for years because everybody's like, when I say I don't sleep well, I'm actually sleeping better now. The Soda Weight Lost plan not only helped me lose weight, but it helped me understand that there are certain things I cannot eat at night and go to sleep. It's just not I got to eat early, which I started

with my vocal cord issues. I try to be done eating by life. And then it taught me a lot about what to eat to be able to sleep. So now I'm sleeping better than I have in a really long time. But I've tried melatonin, and it's not a good answer for long term sleep disorders. But the article which I will go back and find because it was actually very interesting. Talked about the fact that a vast

majority of Americans we're not sleeping well. And then a Rod sends me this video today on the show or this morning rather about a nightly routine that can change your life. And it's very simple things, and it's amazing how many of us in our society we always look for a pharmacological solution first, and the pharmacological solutions are not perfect. Now on occasion, I have used ambient in

the past. Chuck was a long time ambient user until it made him into a horrible person, horrible version of himself. And I finally was like, you have to stop taking this because you're becoming a horrible person. And he was thankfully wise enough to recognize that I'm not just saying that to be mean. But then I found out that's very common with Zambian if you take it too long. But then, how many of us are doing the things

on a daily basis? And if you've listened to the show for a long time, I want you to hear what I'm about to say in Michelle's Oehner's voice. How many of us are doing the things that we need to do every single day to be a happy, healthy human. Are you getting exercise, are you going outside? Are you spending time with friends and family? Are you feeding your body nutritious foods? Are you setting yourself up for success?

For sleeping at night? If you're on your phone until eleven o'clock and then you put your phone down and you're like, oh, I can't sleep, well, you can't sleep because you just had the entire world in your hand. And Aaron had sent me this video, and I was like, these five little things really would make a difference, just from disc connecting from the phone early enough and reading a book. I know some people say I don't really like to read. Great even better, you'll only have to

read for a few minutes before you fall asleep. Set your plan for tomorrow. I do this every night. I look at my calendar for the next day, kind of have my mental order of the way things are going to go. And these little things just setting yourself up for success. It's all about that. It's all about having a great bed. Go to NMAX for that. I think we solve that problem a long time ago. So when we get back in the next hour at pray there's coming on you, guys. The real estate market is very

interesting right now. We have a lot of buyers sitting on the sidelines in what I call ready set mode, ready set, ready set, ready set, and they're just waiting for a rate drop, which I and I'm not usually like, I'm certain about this. I feel very good based on the labor number adjustment down. They took away a million jobs roughly that they had said had been created, which we're not so that. And inflation is it's manageable now.

It's like two point I don't know, two point seven percent whatever, not the two percent that the Fed wants, but it's much lower than it was a few years ago. So I think we're gonna get a rate cut in September and maybe another one in December. So we're gonna talk to Ed Pratherer at two thirty about what to expect. If you've been thinking about selling, you're ready to go. We'll be talking about the best time to put that home on the market when we get back. I want

to give a big shout out to Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, that Gwyneth Paltrow, And you're not gonna believe what for I'm doing that. Next.

a year in captivity. One one of them, heirsh Goldberg poland his parents, just appeared at the Democratic National Convention. He lost part of his arm in the initial attack on October seventh, but had been seen fairly recently, I guess, and they knew he was alive. Hammas, when they were faced with the idf coming through the tunnel that they were holding these people in, apparently brutally murdered them just before Israel was able to rescue them in what is

absolutely yet another war crime committed by Hamas. Now, of course, the world's reaction, including our idiot president Joe Biden, was well, Israel's not dooming enough to get the hostages back, not hey, what a war crime by Hamas, or hey, it's been Hamas who's turned down all of the ceasefire deals that had been offered, even the ones that Israel a great too.

has been deafening. The same women who ran around and told us that we had to believe all women, no matter how ridiculous their stories were. And I'm talking about Christine GLASI Ford there on that one. We had to believe all women. And boy howdy, they were ready to support women who came out after Harvey Weinstein with a like a pack of wild animals. Not to say he didn't deserve it, but they were united in their condemnation

of that. And yet we know, we absolutely know, because Harmas live streamed the rapes of women on October seventh. We know that women were raped, and yet Hollywood has been very, very very quiet. So I guess we're supposed to be believe all women unless they're raped by organizations that are anti Israel, in which case, go for it.

Messing who is Jewish, Galgado who is Israeli. They've been out there screaming about this stuff for a very long time. And it's a very good question. It's a good column. It's very short. You can read it at the blog or at Hollywood intoto dot com. But that's not the only feminist story we got on the blog today. We have a couple of things about feminism today on the blog, and one of them, I guess that's not really about feminism.

But I will share this story very very quickly because it's bothered me since I saw it a couple of days ago, or yesterday maybe. The Douglas County Sheriff's office over the Labor Day weekend, they were doing increased enforcement. They were pulling over people for drunk driving, and they shared the story of a woman. Friday afternoon, at three pm, deputies responded to a call about a vehicle weaving erratically

before crashing. The driver reportedly attempted to leave the scene by ramming the victim's car to push it out of the way. Turns out that this driver was a forty year old mom from Castle Pine, so you know how we know she's a mom because her two children we're in the back seat. And I'm not going to name her here, although the Castle Rock Police Department did name her,

because I'm not trying to shame this woman. I'm trying to make a bigger point, and it's an important point that has been bothering me for a really, really long time. At three pm on a Friday, this woman's preliminary breath test showed a blood alcohol content of point three three four in her car, a full bottle of wine, five open alcoholic beverage containers, and two young children in the backseat.

This story is so horrifying to me, but in my mind, this is the natural outcome of mommy wine culture in the United States of America. And maybe wine's not your thing. Maybe you're a bourbon gow, maybe you're a whiskey goal, maybe you're a beer gal, or maybe you're a dad who's driving around with your children in your back seat

while you're wasted. But I want to talk about women right now, because women have now caught up to men almost in the category of people dying from alcoholism related diseases, and it's very frustrating for me. When I go to a gift shop or I go to a women's section because I'm trying to buy a gift for my friends, and everything says it's wine o'clock sometime, or I drink because of you. Yeah, Mommy drinks because of you. That was one of my least favorite T shirts I've ever seen.

And don't get me wrong, I have, you know, lived through a portion of my life where alcohol was a big part of it. But when I decided to have a child, I decided it was time to make different choices. And luckily, I've never struggled with addiction of any kind. I've never been in that situation, so I don't want to downplay how challenging it is to get to overcome an addiction. But the thing is, I know so many women and men who have overcome their addictions that I

know it can be done. And I y'all, I said a prayer last night for this woman. I don't know her, I've never seen her before. I wouldn't know her if she walked up and slapped me in the face. I said a prayer last night that God would tell her that this was her wake up call because her children were in the back seat and she's driving them around

wasted at three o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday. Please, like I, if you know her, please get her help support her in her sobriety because she's going to die and she may take somebody out with her. Right if she's going to drive this drunk with her kids in the car, she probably thought she was just buzzed. I'm just a little buzzed. It's fine. People die at point four blood alcohol content. She was at point three three four with their kids in the car. Think about this stuff,

you guys. Your kids deserve you at your best. And ask anyone who grew up the child of an alcoholic, and they will let you know you are not at your best. If you're suffering through that, there's so much help out there. Just get it, accept it, and move on with your life. We now know there is going to be a butt load of ballot initiatives to consider this year fourteen. And that's just for the state. We're

going to have about ten more in Denver alone. Now I've already started working on my voter guide of I'm doing it this year because there's so much stuff to vote on, and I know that many of you don't have the time to dig through this stuff on your own, so it will definitely be a big voter guide that should be out in the next couple of weeks because realistically, you guys, ballots drop very very shortly beginning of October,

so we're a month away from ballots drop. This is why I am concerned about the Harris Walls campaign being able to stay out of the public eye long enough to continue pulling the wall over the eyes of the voters and really showing them what they're about. Interesting stuff going on there. We'll see if that strategy actually works. So that's on the blog today with a list of kind of what you can look at if you want

to start investigating yourself. There's a column today, you guys, I just am so sick of this because I'm pretty sure that this exact same thing was said in twenty twenty, the headline if Republicans want to win, they need Trump to lose big to dominate the country once more. Republicans need to hasten the move to a post Trump party. Well, that didn't work in twenty twenty, did it. Don't get me wrong, I'd be you guys. I don't need to

repeat how I feel. You know, I would love to be able to vote for any other Republican candidate at this point, but it's he's the candidate. So what am I gonna do. I'm not sure he'd go away if he lost again. I mean, granted, he's going to be super old in four years, but I don't know if that would stop him. So there's a whole column about why it would be better for Republicans, and Trump lost and lost handily. I guess that's supposed to encourage Republicans

to not vote or something. I honestly couldn't get through the whole column, and I put it there just so I wouldn't be the only one who saw it. So there you go. If you are curious at all about the this is kind of like a two minute drill right now, with a little longer conversations than I normally do. If you're curious about the Redo of Casabanita, are you going to see this movie by Trey Stone and Matt Parker. You're gonna go see it a rod because I think

I am the movie. Yeah, Casabanita, Mia Moore. It is a movie about the Redo of Casabanita, and it's a whole documentary and I'm playing at the Alamo Draft House this weekend. I don't know if it's going to have a long run or if it's just like this weekend, but I want to see it. I think it's interesting to me. If it's just this weekend, can't do that. But well, you got what you How are you working this weekend? What are you work? You're working everything every day, every hour. Well that's.

absolutely glorious. I like the Alamo Draft House. I think they do a good job for what it is. My problem is is their chairs are too comfortable, and if I'm going to fall asleep watching a movie, It's going to be in the comfort of my own home. Okay, I'm not going to pay to go fall asleep in You're a movie theater. I remember the food being pretty dang good. The food was very good last time I was there. I haven't been there in a while. We just we never started going back to the movies after COVID.

You know, when the boys were young and now they're in their early thirties. When the boys were young, the movies were what we did as a family, right. We went to the movies. We saw all the movies, and.

we should start going. But here's the thing, Like I just watched the other day the News and daya movie, uh Challengers, the tennis movie. Yeah, it was not good. And I love Zundeia. I think she's very, very talented and I really like her. I love hers, MJ and Spider Man. This movie was just awful. You know, when you when you can't like anybody in the movie because all the characters are so unlikable, You're like, why why don't have a movie about all of these unlikable characters.

It's just ugh, why do I want to? Although have I told you you need to watch Tulsa King on Paramount? No, you're busy, You're busy telling me about real steel. Sylvester. Oh, of course, was just such a great movie, Sylvester Salone. It's Tulsa King was created by Taylor Sheridan, who did Yellowstone. And I'm not a huge Slice Salone fan, but he is so good in this series.

market going? If you've been sitting on your house waiting to sell we're going to tell you when that right time might be. We're going to do that next. What is happening in the real estate market? I decided to check with my realtor, Ed Praether because he knows what's going on. Good afternoon, I must say, good morning.

hard time letting that three percent mortgage go. You know, the FED men. At the end of July, we've seen a lot of activity though, So you know what I mean by that is is more mortgage applications. You know, as we foresee and expect a soft landing is going to be the reality or hopefully is the reality, as well as showings and even offers. But I'll tell you it is really specific to property in micro market, meaning

kind of the neighborhood. You know, is you got to be real careful because if you're not positioned well, if you're not priced well, the home could easily sit.

seen in gosh ten years. But pricing to stay steady and where it's at, it's it's incredible. And I think, you know, just like you had said, what we're seeing is, you know, sellers are not willing to make those those price decreases to force the sale. And and because of that, I think in many cases you have folks that want to sell but may not need to sell.

will bear, it's one thing. It's another thing if a seller doesn't want to put the time in and is trying to be opportunistic and hit a price that just isn't realistic. And we're not doing anybody any any service by taking something like that on and having someone go through the thrashing around and on market, having showings, having if we're far off from day one right on what that pricing is and what the reality is going to be.

across the board. And so you know, although many folks don't need to sell, we see a lot of folks that want to just to make it a little bit more bearable. And maybe those are folks that have a long standing mortgage that is, you know, not the sixth or the seven that we've seen as of recent and sometimes it is sort of in the last eighteen months or the last two years they've purchased the home and

kind of realized that, hey, this equation doesn't work. I think the majority of the time we see folks downsizing, but it really does. It varies across the board.

a percent in September. Is Do you feel the same way, and if so, is that going to unleash buyers who are able to say, look, okay, you know what it's it's not two percent but five Maybe low sixes is a manageable thing, because I've seen mortgages in the low six is now.

we're watching really closely. But I do expect that activity will continue to increase, and we've seen it since the end of July, you know, quite frankly, and with that, you are certainly in correlation to those mortgage rates going down. You know, the narrative and understanding when we look at the cuts that we expect is that to some extent,

it's already baked into the rate. You know that that those cuts we're all looking at and expecting the same thing that September, you know, twenty five basis points, maybe fifty basis points. But I think the reality is is that we're going to see a big jump in activity as people become more optimistic about the future.

is our responsibility to get them the very most. But if they don't want to bring it to market, you know, that may be, you know, create an opportunity for a buyer and someone who who potentially has the ability to take care of some of those repairs that certain sellers don't want to mess with, or bringing to market, and or even bringing it to market at all. We have a lot of folks that just say, hey, you know,

we need to do this quickly. You know, do you have somebody that might be interested in And of course, like you and I have time, We've got a big database, so you know, most of the time we can get that done at a price that makes sense for everybody.

complexities and implications. I think that maybe some of us, like you and I many kind of overthink, yeah, we're trying to guess what's going to happen here and there. I mean, you know, frankly speaking, we believe fully, you know that in the next few quarters you're going to see rates come down, and so, you know, we've seen first time home buyers be pretty active, gosh over the last couple of years, because we remember what it was

like in twenty twenty one. You could not you couldn't get an offer accept and especially as a home, first time home buyer, when you don't have a big down payment, it's even so we are seeing a lot of opportunistic folks take advantage. And you know, those people so far have done quite well because they are taking action when when some of us are overthinking things.

And if you're sitting on the sidelines now as a potential buyer, I think you're missing opportunities that are out there right this second. Because what do they say, ed, you date the rate, you marry the house, right, you don't have to worry about marrying the rate the rate you can reach later. So I've just been telling like young people that I know have been sitting on the sidelines. I'm like, I would really look right now because you don't want to be in it when everybody else is

in it. You want to be in it before everybody.

I'll tell you what. As a buyer right now, you know, you've got to be disimprinted in what's a fit because there's great opportunities and you don't need to bend over backwards. And it's been a long time since we have been able to say that. So if your discipline, you've got more inventory than you used to, and I think it's a great time to start the process.

listing sites right now, so there are opportunities. And Ed would be the guy I would always recommend Edprather dot com, Ed p R A T H e R dot com. And I appreciate you.

go cups. You are not the only people that walk around Europe with a to go cup of coffee are Americans because they sit and they have their little cups, and they sit and enjoy their coffee and they have a conversation and then they get up and go about their day. It's funny.

of things to do. So I have to ask you a question about your show yesterday because a listener pointed out that Dave Logan was kind of giving you grief a little bit about.

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