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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, where should I direct my two and a half
percent benefit the bill for having to listen to your
show today?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You can send that to my venmo at Michael D. Brown.
It's it's pretty easy. You can find it on venmo.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And two and a half percent of what are we
charging today, Dragon, a thousand bucks for today at least. Okay,
so just two and a half percent of a thousand bucks.
Just go ahead and venmo that what he's referring to
is something I wanted to talk about this morning because.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I imagine that. Yeah, this is the opposite of a squirrel. Yeah,
this is the opposite of a squirrel.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yesterday I took Tamra out to Denver International Airport and
by the.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Way, Dragon, can you shift her away? Or she's leaving?
She's leaving? She finally left you.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
She finally left me. Yeah, she finally left me. Unfortunately,
I think she's coming back. So you know, I don't
know for her. For you, well, I say, I know
she bought a round trip ticket. That doesn't I mean,
you don't have to use it and you can always
postpone it, so who knows.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Sometimes the round trip tickets are cheaper than the one way.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, exactly. It kneel exactly right. The only reason I
think she's coming back is she left her little, yappy
Wiener dog here. So I had a wiener dog in
bed with me last night. And it wasn't even an
all meat wiener dog. It wasn't even like I couldn't
even put mustard on it or anything. Of course you
would have put ketchup on it, but you know, but
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I would have put So I'm I'm thinking, you know, well,
first I'm thinking to you, which is really pathetic, because
I'm driving along and I exit off the two two five.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Wait wait, wait, I don't even think about you during
this show, So I'm not clearly not going to think
of you outside of the show.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
What how's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I had no life.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I have no life whatsoever, which is why I'm telling
this story because you know a lot, you know, you
would think that somebody would, oh, look is it going
to rain today? I just looked out the window, squirrel.
So I I pull off the two two five. Remember
yesterday I told you we were laughing about Pena Boulevard.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, and so once again spend was it fifteen million
dollars to figure out if they really need to widen Pinion.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right, right, so for less than fifteen million dollars, I
figured it out yesterday. They need to widen Pinia and
they need to fix the A line because apparently it
was right at least I never saw a train in
the UH. I don't know thirty minutes it took me
to go from the adjunction of the seventy and and
Pina UH to get around of the airport. I never
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saw a train go by once, so that doesn't seem
to be very good service. But I exited off the
two two five and sure enough, And of course Tamra
hates riding with me because I normally when i'm I
shouldn't say normally, but oftentimes when I'm driving, it's because
we're in area. Is that she doesn't only drive in
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like her driving is very.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Limited, right, Yeah, she's just not comfortable driving outside of
her bubble.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right, She drives in her bubble, which is pretty much
to work grocery store. I mean, she just stays in
her bubble. So it's like when well, just like yesterday
it started even getting on to the twenty five off
the four seventy, I know where all of the potholes are.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So I know that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, Now, as I'm approaching the flyover, I've got to
get over into the right lane in order to avoid
the expansion joint that's going to kaboom us. So I
have to swerve over to get over to do that,
and then I have to immediately get back over into
the left lane in order to avoid the potholes where
the concrete turns into the asphalt. And there's a bunch
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of potholes right there, so I've got to turn over that.
So and she's like, what the hell are you doing?
And I said, I just I know this road.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I drive this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Road six days a week, and I know where all
the potholes are.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I just hate riding with you.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So then we get onto the two two five and
we're now going to exit to get on to seventy
to get over to you that short little stretch get
over to Penya right, and I know to stay in
the left exit ramp because or the left lane of
the exit ramp, because I know that there's the junction
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where you have it's exit only to go onto Chambers.
So I know when i'd have to start trying to
cross over, So I go ahead and get in the
left lane of the exit lane. So I'm already over
one lane, so I can go ahead and move over
to the next lane. And of course everybody is you know,
everybody's trying to go back and forth. They can't figure
out where to go, and so I'm just like, you know,
we and I'm just scooting around and then I make
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the fly over and then boom, come to a stop.
Accurate because Penya is Penia pain I like to say Penia,
because a fillerycal Pinia, I like to say Penia.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So I get onto Penion and come to a stop.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And because you and I have talked about it, I
knew it was going to happen. So I knew it
was gonna you know, from that point, I was gonna
take another four hours to get to the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And because it's conveniently located in Denver, you're right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, Topeka, Topeka, and you and I get on there,
and I know that's what's happening, and I look up
ahead far enough to see that there is some construction crews,
and now the southbound the exit on Pina is already
backed up. I mean, the minute we get on, it's
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just cars creeping along on the other side. On our side,
I can see way ahead that there is construction crews
with their lights flashing, so I know everybody's gonna be
slowing down and pulling over. So I immediately start weeding
in out of the traffic because I'm gonna like, I
don't care, I know what's going on. So I keep
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moving and she's now she's just like, nuts, just get
me to the airport.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And I'm like, I'm gonna get you to the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But then she said, t me, I want to get
you to the air right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I want to go to lunch, and we and she's
looking at all this traffic and this is proof that
she doesn't always listen to us. She goes, what the
hell is all of this? And I have to explain
to her, well, Dragon's all excited because they're gonna spend
fifteen million dollars to figure out whether or not they
should widen being a boulevard. And she's like, well, has
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he even make him out here?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And looked yes. I thought that was the perfect answer.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Just you don't need to spend fifteen million dollars, just
somebody just go out and just drive it figure out.
So then I drop her off, and I swerve back around.
And now, because it's taking longer I expected, I'm thinking,
you know, I really do just want I want to
go eat somewhere that normally you know, I'm batching it right,
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So let's go someplace that I wouldn't normally go because
so I'm thinking sushi or one of the Mexican joints,
one of the dives downtown, since I'm gonna come back
a way because I've also looked at the map and
I see that two two fives backed up, and so
I'm just gonna go through. I'm gonna use the express
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lanes and I'm gonna go to downtown and hit the
twenty five and go back down that way. And I think,
I think I'll just stop at blue Bonnet on South
Broadway because it's right there on South Broadway. It's pretty close,
so I can take that exit. Well, I forgot that
that exit was under construction, so now I got I
get trapped in that, and so now I'm like committed
to going to blue Bonnet. So I go to blue Bonnet,
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and let me just say, I too was shocked. If
you look at my ex account at Michael Brown USA,
where you should be following me. I posted a photo
of my check. Now I know what the prices are,
and I think it's outrageous, But what I paid for
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one person just a few years ago would be what
I would have paid for two of us to eat.
The total, including tax and including a fee, came to
forty nine dollars and eighty cents.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now you can judge me. I don't care, but.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I knew it was going to be expensive. But I
have to admit I was a little shocked at the price.
So I just I looked, and I saw it was
before tax. I saw it was forty six dollars and
twelve cents.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
So I left a nine dollars tip.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I figured forty six, you know, four and a half
twenty percent close enough?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Nine dollars. I gave nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And then as I was sitting there putting everything together,
I noticed there's a up in the menu part. I
mean up in the line item part. There's the carnea sada.
I know, twenty six dollars. And I didn't notice this
until somebody pointed it out. But I ordered a coin
Margarita sands to Goby. I didn't want to eat a
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gobby in it. I just wanted, you know, the tequila
lime juice and clontro or triple sick. I didn't notice it,
but it says one gel BBC SL marg for thirteen dollars,
and of course somebody wanted to know what exactly is
a BBC margarita.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Big black?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, that's And then it took me a minute. Oh
it's a blue Bonny coin. Ah yeah, because I was
I was kinda worried for a moment, like what did
I just consume?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
What?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
What did I what did I just swallow? So I
was really worried about it until I figured it out.
But then there's a wage and benefit fee of two
point five percent, which came to a dollar and twelve cents.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I didn't realize that at the time, and you can.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Make fun of me for not paying attention to the details,
but I just was, you know, I'd eaten and I
saw the forty nine dollars in eighty because total bill
with tax was forty nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And eighty cents, and so I was like, I'm not
coming back here again.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know, it was good, don't get me wrong, it
was good, but it wasn't fifty dollars worth good of
a Mexican food for one individual. It's outrageous. I don't
know how I missed this, but in Denver, restaurants or
some restaurants not at all, are adding what's called a
wage and benefit fee of bills, often presented as a
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service charge or a searcharge. However, at the Blue Bonnet
it was called a wage and benefit fee. Now I
didn't know at the time whether that was a state
of Colorado, I mean, not a state of Colorade, because
I don't see anywhere else whether that was a Denver
fee or it was something that was imposed by, you know,
the city in County of Denver. I didn't know what
it was, so I had to look it up. It's
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to help cover rising labor costs, especially for non tipped
employees like cooks and dishwasher. Now, if you do an
AI search, if you use CHET, GDP, JET, CHET GBT
or Grocker or Perplexity or one of them, it says
the fee is aimed to supplement their pay and may
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also cover other operational costs like benefits. The amount of
how the fee is used can vary by restaurant, but
the purpose is generally to ensure a more equitable wage
structure and potentially contribute to employee well being. Had I known,
I would have gotten my little eye phone out and
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subtracted a dollar in twelve cents that search arge from
the tip. Why would I tip on a search arge?
Why would I tip on something they're charging me to
help cover their labor costs and then considering the price
of the food.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now not going back there again, So lesson learned. I
don't get it's.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
People wonder why restaurants are going out of business in Denver. Right,
there is the answer. Now I walked in. I don't
know what the I've been the Bluebonnet in years, so
I don't know what their current customer base is like.
I do know that there was a time, say pre COVID,
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when you had to wait in line during lunch to
get in to the Blue Bonnet in the evening, you'd
have to wait in line. I think you can make reservations.
I'm not sure, but I think you can make reservations.
But it used to be jam packed. I walked in,
sat in the now the dining area was completely empty.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
The bar area.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I could tell that, at least based on the four
years ago or whatever it's been since I've been there,
that many of the tables in the bar area had
been removed, so there was much more spacious. They hadn't
expanded the space, they had just taken out chairs and tables,
and I was one of four tables in the entire area.
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So I would say the Blue Bonnet, you're pricing yourself
out of business. And I would say that, but for
my not paying attention to the search arge, you probably
won't get my business again. Unbelievable. And then I get
here and I get this email, and I'm fascinated by
this email because when someone sends me an email and
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the subject is the honest truth about lawyers, which I
always find interesting because what's the dishonest truth about lawyers?
Isn't that redundant honest and truth? Anyway, the subject line
was the honest truth about lawyers, and I would normally
just glance at it, except the person who sent it,
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somebody by the name of Jason, who apparently knows you're
Dragon because they got your email address on here too.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh yeah, it's not like it's very complicated. It's just
dragging atiheartmedia dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, but I'm just always surprised when someone sends an
email to I mean, it's for the people that you
and I regularly correspond with. I'm not surprised, right, but
for someone that I've never I don't think I've ever
got an email from this person, at least I don't
remember the name Loough.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Why aren't you surprised that they got your email? If
mine is so astonishing, yours is just as.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Because I think mine might be on the website.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
It is what it is, and it is.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
It's the simple first name, last name. For you, Michael
Brown at iHeartMedia dot com. For me, it's even easier,
Dragon at iHeartMedia. Well, why you're surprised somebody to be
able to email you Dragon?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Anyway? Then there's such an It's all right, it's too
early in the morning to be amass.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You started it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So then I'm thinking, well, I'm going to glance at
the email. But then I realize, oh, it's very well formatted,
short succinct paragraphs, very well written, So now I want
to read it. And now is this is going to
be the subject of a segment.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
The subject, Cline again, is the honest truth about lawyers
as opposed to the dishonest truth about lawyers. I suppose
he writes, Jason, does we all get succumbed into our
profess the lawyers are constantly focused on philosophy rather than
the most basic question. I'm going to use Dragon's deception
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on you as an absolute example. Okay, now, you know, truthfully,
that's a very well written paragraph. I disagree with the presumption,
the premise in the in the paragraph, but it's well
written and the language. You're going to use Dragon's deception
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on me yesterday about re recording that dumbass corporate promo
that we had to do and which we mocked and
made fun of, and which Dragons said, oh I forgot
to record it. You know, you got to do it again, And.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I just, blithely, without thinking, went on and recorded it again.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
You poor trusting soul.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I know what an idiot I am.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But then he goes, I'm going to use that as
an absolute example. Now you got my attention. The Supreme
Court was so focused on questions about essentially nonsense to
make a very simple question complicated for the sake of ambiguity. Now,
I will tell you right now that I wasn't quite
sure what he was talking about. But now that I
do know what he's talking about, I disagree with that
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premise because you have to understand and maybe this guy's
a lawyer, but maybe he has never done anything before
the Supreme Court. But it all goes to Justice Gorsuchez
questioning yesterday that we listened to. We're gonna listen to
it again because I want to make a really good
point because this is a good learning lesson here, he says, Jason,
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does you lawyers, this is kind of funny. You lawyers
are constantly trying to think two steps ahead.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I do.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I'm always trying to think two steps ahead, and you proved.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It today with Dragon's perfect prank of you thinking that
you needed to re record that BS. I hope Dragon
was leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed
and smoking his cigarette. Dragon lawyer, Michael Dragon did perfectly
deceive me. He perfectly punked me, I think is the
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correct term. I don't think he perfectly lawyered me.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yuh.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I don't think two three steps ahead. I was just
going for the funny at the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Right right, Mike, I will be honest.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Support you for what you did up until your departure
of the Department of Homeland Security. You and President Bush
got dealt with a lot of disasters that could have
been foreseen with the right intelligence and not foreseeen because
we can't control the earth.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I have no clue what that means.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
And you supported me. You supported me, why was the
under secretary? But now you don't support me. I'm confused by.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That, Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Even if your waiter had to share twenty percent of
his or her kip with the bartender and the bus boys,
that's still seven dollars. So unless they spent more than
a total of seven minutes bringing you a menu, taking
your order, entering your order, and delivering your to then
bringing me the check, that works out to at least
sixty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Not bad, Yeah, not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And while the service was not superb, it wasn't subpar either.
It was just for the lack of business. I mean,
she wasn't rush. There was no there, you know, there
was just no pressure at that time of day whatsoever.
So yeah, I mean that's got it. I hate to
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commit that the.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Engineer actually made a good point, But the engineer doesn't
make a good point. So back to this email. The
the next.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Paragraph reads this Now. This is an email sent from
a listener who thinks he's trying to tie dragging punking
me yesterday about re recording a stupid promo we were
doing and punking me on air about it, which which
we both both thought was hilarious. Uh, he's trying to
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tie that to lawyers trying to think two steps ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Now. I wasn't thinking any steps ahead when't Dragon punked me.
I was just thinking here.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I wasn't thinking two steps ahead either.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You just had You just saw an opportunity to make
an idiot of me, and you did so, and I wasn't.
If I've been thinking two steps ahead, I would have
said to Dragon, well, you're recording the entire program. This
wasn't something see, I wasn't thinking about. We were doing
it during a break, We were doing it live and
on air. And if I'd been thinking about that, I
would have said, well, you're recording the program, so all
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you have to do is go go back and pull
it in the audition and you got it.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But I wasn't thinking that.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I was thinking, oh, because sometimes we have to re
record things because I bought them. Yeah, even though I'm
generally known as one.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Day, quite bad at it? Yeah, what what huh?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I'm one take, one take. I'm a one take guy,
fourth take.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So I'm not quite sure what the tie is between
lawyers thinking two steps ahead and getting punked, But I
do understand the next what he wants to make. The
simplest question that could have been asked by the Supreme
Court justices today, meaning yesterday, is that if the state
of Maryland has an opt out for parents for their
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family health and sexuality subjects, why isn't that book What
was the name of that book again, Puppy something.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Or what was it?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Pride Puppy, Pride Puppy. Why isn't that You find that it?
Michael says, Go here, Tom, Yesterday's.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Post right is up there on the website from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Why isn't that book considered part of family health and
sexual subjects? Well, because they don't want the opt out,
he writes. This is how people slip things into the curriculum. Yes,
that's true. They add a part of literature into an
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English class that should be the family health and sexuality curriculum.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Now here's where he gets it wrong. None of the
Justice justices even ask about that, just like how you,
as a lawyer, didn't ask Dragon the simple question of
why he didn't need to of why he did not
need to record it. The second time, you think so
deep that you do not recognize the shallow. I don't
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think you can tie those two things together, because listen
to the next paragraph. The Supreme Court failed today, just
how you fail today. You at least have a platform
to blow your ego. What the Supreme Court's supposed to
have a platform to blow their ego. I really don't
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get what you're talking about, because I don't think and
I don't get what you're talking about at the same
time that I really don't think that you understand how
the Supreme Court works and what they were doing. So
let's listen to the audio again, because I want you
to understand precisely what Justice score or such was doing,
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because it's brilliant. Don't always agree with Justice score or such,
but I know precisely what he was doing here, and
I think you'll understand why.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
When I explained to Scorch.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I just want to make sure I understand a few things,
fact things. And then a blaw question, what age do
you in Montgomery County? Teach students normally about human sexuality.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Now he's talking about human sexuality. What do you normally
teach about human sexuality in your school district?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
I think that it begins in either fourth or fifth
grade human sexuality class, Family Life and Human Sexuality curriculum.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I'm not entirely sure it.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Starts in fourth or fifth grade. I think is there
anything you can to turn the record on that?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I don't think so?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Okay, Now that's a great point. He doesn't say anything,
but it's a great point. Now the lawyer himself knows, oh,
because he asked, is there anything in the record. Because
the Supreme Court is looking only at the record, They're
not trying to ascertain new facts. They have to rely
on the facts that are before them, that's been developed
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in the trial court and in the that's been developed
in the trial court. That gets that those facts, rulings, motions,
everything that record gets passed on to the appellate court.
Now the appellate court cannot introduce new facts. They have
to make their decision based upon the facts that are
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before it from the trial court. That's the purpose of
a trial court to ascertain what are the facts and
then apply the law to the facts as they are
developed throughout the trial.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's why it's called the tr court.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Then it gets to the appellate court, they're relying solely
on the record, as is the US Supreme Court. So
what Justice Gore Such was doing right there when he said.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Human Sexuality Class, Family Life, and Human Sexuality curriculum.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I'm not entirely sure it starts in fourth or fifth grade.
I think, is there anything you can point us to
in the record on that?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I don't think so?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Okay, okay, So he's got his point made. There is
nothing in the record about when that curriculum starts. He
doesn't have to ask the next question, well, why not
or when does it start? The lawyer can't answer the question,
you know, certainly with any certainty. So he just passes
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on because that will be if he writes the opinion
or writes the dissent, that will be part of his opinion.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I guarantemn to you it will be. But it gets better.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
And uh, second, these books are being used in English class.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
The division between English class and other things in a
second grade classroom doesn't really exist. You're sort of in
a room with a teacher, and somehow.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I appreciate that. I went to second grade too.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Yeah, but but it's it's part of the English curriculum
that these books are being used, and that's I thought
that was.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not fighting the premise.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I'm just saying, it's not the math class.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It's not it's not the human sexuality class.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
It's it is certainly not the human sexuality class. I'm
just sort of fighting the premise that there's a neat decision.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And see right there, of course, such as him, so
this is this is a part of the English class well,
and then the guy starts for severing, you know, it's
not it's not you know, it's a you know, it's
a singular classroom. These are second third, fourth graders, so
it's you know, it's like, you know, so we're gonna
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do English for a little while, then we'll do math
for a little while, then we're gonna do human sexuality
for a while.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
He's made point.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
He doesn't have to say, he doesn't have to ask
the follow up question, So this book is not part
of the human sexuality class. It's part of the English curriculum,
because he already knows. But Justice already knows that the
human sexuality portion has an opt out provision, so anytime
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you're teaching human sexuality, the parents have a right to
opt out. He just established, without asking any further questions,
that the book that is in question here is a
part of the English curriculum for which there is no
opt out. He doesn't have to be so bold or
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blatant or obvious, because now he's got this lawyer on
the record, he doesn't have to ask the next what
to mister, what's the guy's name that I'm talking about
hereon Jason Gorsuch knew precisely what he was doing. He
doesn't have to ask the question why isn't this book
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in the human sexuality class because he doesn't want to
know the answer. All he needs to know is it's
not in the human sexuality section, where there is an
opt out provision. It's in the English section, where you
have already admitted there is no opt out provision for
the English curriculum, which is where this book resides. Bam,
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he's gotten nailed. So your point about thinking two steps
ahead doesn't mean you always ask. There are many times
that I never asked a follow on question, either of
my bosses or anybody or my wife or anybody else,
because I got what I needed may not be obvious
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to you, and somebody may walk away from me going ha.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Ha ha ha.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Well, Brown didn't pick up the point that he should
have asked about x y Z, because he would have
had me if he'd asked x y Z. No, I've
got you, now, I've got you right now. So, Jason,
I think you might have a thing about lawyers, and
you may think that maybe you are a lawyer, and
maybe you think you're smarter than lawyers. And you know
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that wouldn't take much, because I know a lot of
dumb ass lawyers. But I think you missed the entirety
of the point here about justice or such. He knew
precisely what he was doing.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Being used in English language instruction at age three, some
of them.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
So Pride Puppy was the book that was used for
the pre kindergarten curriculum. That's no longer in the curriculum.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
That's the one where they are supposed to look for
the leather and things and bondage things like that.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's not bombag sex a woman and a leather sex worker.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
No, no, not correcting, no gosh, I read it growing
and Greg.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Now there's a little there's a little cross talk there
from the lawyers. I'm not q sure what it says,
but uh, he's he's making a point to the lawyer there.
You need to remember, I read the book. I know
what's in the book. So when we get to the
leather portion, uh, there was some bondage involved. I haven't
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read the book, so I don't know, but I assume
from the point he was making that I've read the book.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
So quit lying to me, Mike.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Even if your waiter had to share twenty or her Kim.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Sorry, that's my fault. I've been doing other things at
the time. I let me pull up another one here.
Let me I just been back there, busied looking.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Through the book, and let's try this one. See what
happens here?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Bring you.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Son of up, Michael, do your thing?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Wow, oh I love it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
This is glorious, mister producer, excellente back there. As after
that in that glorious are you are you giving up?
Have you given up?
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Den Michael? Denver is going down and it's about damn time.
Maybe they'll realize when all the people that pay the
taxes and can actually go out and spend some money
eating out are gone. I do everything outside of Denver
that I possibly can, even though I live in this
crap hole.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Which is interesting. That's a great point because the only
reason I stopped. I've told you before that all of
my both me and Tamra and then separately and collectively
we we just don't dine in Denver anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
We've quit doing it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And why I did it yesterday was simply because of
traffic was leading me a certain way and I was
just like, Okay, I want to go someplace I haven't
gotten in a long time, someplace that you know, we
used to go, we haven't been in along and just
you know, go back. So there I am on twenty
five and Broadway thing. I'll just go over the Blue Bonnet.
I haven't been there. I haven't been there since COVID.
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I made since before COVID, So it's been a long time.
Good number fifty seven fifty nine rites. And while we're
talking about you can find at at Michael Brown USA
on my on my x feed about walking into the
Blue Bonnet Cafe and having some over the price Mexican
food and then discovering that there was a surcharge that
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I didn't notice at the time, but hindsight, after I
posted posted it on X started researching it and find
out that I'm I'm I'm paying the wages. Well, I
thought that's what I paid when I paid the price
of the food. So many of you have great text
messages about this issue, particularly about the restaurant business. Fifty
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seven to fifty nine Rights Michael, I can remember when
the Blue but this is so true. I can remember
when Blue Bonnet was one of the most popular Mexican joints.
In There was almost always a line between ten thirty
in the morning and midnight. The bar area was so
packed you could hardly squeeze through the crowd.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
That is so true.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The noise level was so loud you could barely hear
the conversation at your own table.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That is so true.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Combo platters arrived at the table buried in cheese to
the point you couldn't tell what was on your plate.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
That is so true.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
The owner would always stop by the table and say hi.
And the prices were so affordable that you wonder what
they forgot to add to your tab. Yes, the last
time Life and I went, none of that was the same.
We ate mediocre, overpriced meals and have never been backed.
I will say this, My meal was actually better than
I expected. It was not smothered in cheese. The carnea
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saw that was actually thicker than usual. It was it
was tender, and I would say that the faeeta vegetables
were very well grilled. It was very good. The refried
beans were good. The sauce was still the running kind
of sauce that they have. And I would say the
coin Margaret beat it was good. But for forty nine
dollars before it was absurd.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And it was empty.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I mean it was the grand canyon inside that restaurant
and then oh nine three eight, writes Michael, similar to
your blue Bonnet story. I stopped by the Panera by
my house a few days ago. It used to have
a line and be bustling every morning. Not a single
person there other than myself and the staff. I told
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you about the little dive place that Tim and I
have kind of gotten to know one of the co owners,
and she tells us about there are you know, they
just expanded. It's not just within the past day six months,
and they're really worried because they now wonder whether they
should have expanded enough, and they and she made this
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comment that she sees a lot of people come in
till I do this, okay, but not very often. Depends
on depends on what we're ordering to eat. But a
lot of couples they'll come in and they split a meal.
And she says she knows this because they can't afford
the price of the full meal. We are Colorado is
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destroying itself.
Michael, where should I direct my two and a half
percent benefit the bill for having to listen to your
show today?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You can send that to my venmo at Michael D. Brown.
It's it's pretty easy. You can find it on venmo.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
And two and a half percent of what are we
charging today, Dragon, a thousand bucks for today at least. Okay,
so just two and a half percent of a thousand bucks.
Just go ahead and venmo that what he's referring to
is something I wanted to talk about this morning because.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I imagine that. Yeah, this is the opposite of a squirrel. Yeah,
this is the opposite of a squirrel.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yesterday I took Tamra out to Denver International Airport and
by the.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Way, Dragon, can you shift her away? Or she's leaving?
She's leaving? She finally left you.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
She finally left me. Yeah, she finally left me. Unfortunately,
I think she's coming back. So you know, I don't
know for her. For you, well, I say, I know
she bought a round trip ticket. That doesn't I mean,
you don't have to use it and you can always
postpone it, so who knows.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Sometimes the round trip tickets are cheaper than the one way.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, exactly. It kneel exactly right. The only reason I
think she's coming back is she left her little, yappy
Wiener dog here. So I had a wiener dog in
bed with me last night. And it wasn't even an
all meat wiener dog. It wasn't even like I couldn't
even put mustard on it or anything. Of course you
would have put ketchup on it, but you know, but
(01:30):
I would have put So I'm I'm thinking, you know, well,
first I'm thinking to you, which is really pathetic, because
I'm driving along and I exit off the two two five.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Wait wait, wait, I don't even think about you during
this show, So I'm not clearly not going to think
of you outside of the show.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
What how's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I had no life.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I have no life whatsoever, which is why I'm telling
this story because you know a lot, you know, you
would think that somebody would, oh, look is it going
to rain today? I just looked out the window, squirrel.
So I I pull off the two two five. Remember
yesterday I told you we were laughing about Pena Boulevard.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, and so once again spend was it fifteen million
dollars to figure out if they really need to widen Pinion.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right, right, so for less than fifteen million dollars, I
figured it out yesterday. They need to widen Pinia and
they need to fix the A line because apparently it
was right at least I never saw a train in
the UH. I don't know thirty minutes it took me
to go from the adjunction of the seventy and and
Pina UH to get around of the airport. I never
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saw a train go by once, so that doesn't seem
to be very good service. But I exited off the
two two five and sure enough, And of course Tamra
hates riding with me because I normally when i'm I
shouldn't say normally, but oftentimes when I'm driving, it's because
we're in area. Is that she doesn't only drive in
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like her driving is very.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Limited, right, Yeah, she's just not comfortable driving outside of
her bubble.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right, She drives in her bubble, which is pretty much
to work grocery store. I mean, she just stays in
her bubble. So it's like when well, just like yesterday
it started even getting on to the twenty five off
the four seventy, I know where all of the potholes are.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So I know that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, Now, as I'm approaching the flyover, I've got to
get over into the right lane in order to avoid
the expansion joint that's going to kaboom us. So I
have to swerve over to get over to do that,
and then I have to immediately get back over into
the left lane in order to avoid the potholes where
the concrete turns into the asphalt. And there's a bunch
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of potholes right there, so I've got to turn over that.
So and she's like, what the hell are you doing?
And I said, I just I know this road.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I drive this.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Road six days a week, and I know where all
the potholes are.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I just hate riding with you.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
So then we get onto the two two five and
we're now going to exit to get on to seventy
to get over to you that short little stretch get
over to Penya right, and I know to stay in
the left exit ramp because or the left lane of
the exit ramp, because I know that there's the junction
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where you have it's exit only to go onto Chambers.
So I know when i'd have to start trying to
cross over, So I go ahead and get in the
left lane of the exit lane. So I'm already over
one lane, so I can go ahead and move over
to the next lane. And of course everybody is you know,
everybody's trying to go back and forth. They can't figure
out where to go, and so I'm just like, you know,
we and I'm just scooting around and then I make
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the fly over and then boom, come to a stop.
Accurate because Penya is Penia pain I like to say Penia,
because a fillerycal Pinia, I like to say Penia.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So I get onto Penion and come to a stop.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And because you and I have talked about it, I
knew it was going to happen. So I knew it
was gonna you know, from that point, I was gonna
take another four hours to get to the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
And because it's conveniently located in Denver, you're right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, Topeka, Topeka, and you and I get on there,
and I know that's what's happening, and I look up
ahead far enough to see that there is some construction crews,
and now the southbound the exit on Pina is already
backed up. I mean, the minute we get on, it's
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just cars creeping along on the other side. On our side,
I can see way ahead that there is construction crews
with their lights flashing, so I know everybody's gonna be
slowing down and pulling over. So I immediately start weeding
in out of the traffic because I'm gonna like, I
don't care, I know what's going on. So I keep
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moving and she's now she's just like, nuts, just get
me to the airport.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And I'm like, I'm gonna get you to the airport.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But then she said, t me, I want to get
you to the air right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I want to go to lunch, and we and she's
looking at all this traffic and this is proof that
she doesn't always listen to us. She goes, what the
hell is all of this? And I have to explain
to her, well, Dragon's all excited because they're gonna spend
fifteen million dollars to figure out whether or not they
should widen being a boulevard. And she's like, well, has
(06:22):
he even make him out here?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And looked yes. I thought that was the perfect answer.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Just you don't need to spend fifteen million dollars, just
somebody just go out and just drive it figure out.
So then I drop her off, and I swerve back around.
And now, because it's taking longer I expected, I'm thinking,
you know, I really do just want I want to
go eat somewhere that normally you know, I'm batching it right,
(06:50):
So let's go someplace that I wouldn't normally go because
so I'm thinking sushi or one of the Mexican joints,
one of the dives downtown, since I'm gonna come back
a way because I've also looked at the map and
I see that two two fives backed up, and so
I'm just gonna go through. I'm gonna use the express
(07:11):
lanes and I'm gonna go to downtown and hit the
twenty five and go back down that way. And I think,
I think I'll just stop at blue Bonnet on South
Broadway because it's right there on South Broadway. It's pretty close,
so I can take that exit. Well, I forgot that
that exit was under construction, so now I got I
get trapped in that, and so now I'm like committed
to going to blue Bonnet. So I go to blue Bonnet,
(07:34):
and let me just say, I too was shocked. If
you look at my ex account at Michael Brown USA,
where you should be following me. I posted a photo
of my check. Now I know what the prices are,
and I think it's outrageous, But what I paid for
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one person just a few years ago would be what
I would have paid for two of us to eat.
The total, including tax and including a fee, came to
forty nine dollars and eighty cents.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now you can judge me. I don't care, but.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I knew it was going to be expensive. But I
have to admit I was a little shocked at the price.
So I just I looked, and I saw it was
before tax. I saw it was forty six dollars and
twelve cents.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
So I left a nine dollars tip.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I figured forty six, you know, four and a half
twenty percent close enough?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Nine dollars. I gave nine dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And then as I was sitting there putting everything together,
I noticed there's a up in the menu part. I
mean up in the line item part. There's the carnea sada.
I know, twenty six dollars. And I didn't notice this
until somebody pointed it out. But I ordered a coin
Margarita sands to Goby. I didn't want to eat a
(09:20):
gobby in it. I just wanted, you know, the tequila
lime juice and clontro or triple sick. I didn't notice it,
but it says one gel BBC SL marg for thirteen dollars,
and of course somebody wanted to know what exactly is
a BBC margarita.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Big black?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, that's And then it took me a minute. Oh
it's a blue Bonny coin. Ah yeah, because I was
I was kinda worried for a moment, like what did
I just consume?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
What?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
What did I what did I just swallow? So I
was really worried about it until I figured it out.
But then there's a wage and benefit fee of two
point five percent, which came to a dollar and twelve cents.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I didn't realize that at the time, and you can.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Make fun of me for not paying attention to the details,
but I just was, you know, I'd eaten and I
saw the forty nine dollars in eighty because total bill
with tax was forty nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And eighty cents, and so I was like, I'm not
coming back here again.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
You know, it was good, don't get me wrong, it
was good, but it wasn't fifty dollars worth good of
a Mexican food for one individual. It's outrageous. I don't
know how I missed this, but in Denver, restaurants or
some restaurants not at all, are adding what's called a
wage and benefit fee of bills, often presented as a
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service charge or a searcharge. However, at the Blue Bonnet
it was called a wage and benefit fee. Now I
didn't know at the time whether that was a state
of Colorado, I mean, not a state of Colorade, because
I don't see anywhere else whether that was a Denver
fee or it was something that was imposed by, you know,
the city in County of Denver. I didn't know what
it was, so I had to look it up. It's
(11:18):
to help cover rising labor costs, especially for non tipped
employees like cooks and dishwasher. Now, if you do an
AI search, if you use CHET, GDP, JET, CHET GBT
or Grocker or Perplexity or one of them, it says
the fee is aimed to supplement their pay and may
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also cover other operational costs like benefits. The amount of
how the fee is used can vary by restaurant, but
the purpose is generally to ensure a more equitable wage
structure and potentially contribute to employee well being. Had I known,
I would have gotten my little eye phone out and
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subtracted a dollar in twelve cents that search arge from
the tip. Why would I tip on a search arge?
Why would I tip on something they're charging me to
help cover their labor costs and then considering the price
of the food.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now not going back there again, So lesson learned. I
don't get it's.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
People wonder why restaurants are going out of business in Denver. Right,
there is the answer. Now I walked in. I don't
know what the I've been the Bluebonnet in years, so
I don't know what their current customer base is like.
I do know that there was a time, say pre COVID,
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when you had to wait in line during lunch to
get in to the Blue Bonnet in the evening, you'd
have to wait in line. I think you can make reservations.
I'm not sure, but I think you can make reservations.
But it used to be jam packed. I walked in,
sat in the now the dining area was completely empty.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
The bar area.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I could tell that, at least based on the four
years ago or whatever it's been since I've been there,
that many of the tables in the bar area had
been removed, so there was much more spacious. They hadn't
expanded the space, they had just taken out chairs and tables,
and I was one of four tables in the entire area.
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So I would say the Blue Bonnet, you're pricing yourself
out of business. And I would say that, but for
my not paying attention to the search arge, you probably
won't get my business again. Unbelievable. And then I get
here and I get this email, and I'm fascinated by
this email because when someone sends me an email and
(14:09):
the subject is the honest truth about lawyers, which I
always find interesting because what's the dishonest truth about lawyers?
Isn't that redundant honest and truth? Anyway, the subject line
was the honest truth about lawyers, and I would normally
just glance at it, except the person who sent it,
(14:29):
somebody by the name of Jason, who apparently knows you're
Dragon because they got your email address on here too.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh yeah, it's not like it's very complicated. It's just
dragging atiheartmedia dot com.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, but I'm just always surprised when someone sends an
email to I mean, it's for the people that you
and I regularly correspond with. I'm not surprised, right, but
for someone that I've never I don't think I've ever
got an email from this person, at least I don't
remember the name Loough.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Why aren't you surprised that they got your email? If
mine is so astonishing, yours is just as.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Because I think mine might be on the website.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
It is what it is, and it is.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
It's the simple first name, last name. For you, Michael
Brown at iHeartMedia dot com. For me, it's even easier,
Dragon at iHeartMedia. Well, why you're surprised somebody to be
able to email you Dragon?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Anyway? Then there's such an It's all right, it's too
early in the morning to be amass.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
You started it.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
So then I'm thinking, well, I'm going to glance at
the email. But then I realize, oh, it's very well formatted,
short succinct paragraphs, very well written, So now I want
to read it. And now is this is going to
be the subject of a segment.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
The subject, Cline again, is the honest truth about lawyers
as opposed to the dishonest truth about lawyers. I suppose
he writes, Jason, does we all get succumbed into our
profess the lawyers are constantly focused on philosophy rather than
the most basic question. I'm going to use Dragon's deception
(16:08):
on you as an absolute example. Okay, now, you know, truthfully,
that's a very well written paragraph. I disagree with the presumption,
the premise in the in the paragraph, but it's well
written and the language. You're going to use Dragon's deception
(16:29):
on me yesterday about re recording that dumbass corporate promo
that we had to do and which we mocked and
made fun of, and which Dragons said, oh I forgot
to record it. You know, you got to do it again, And.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I just, blithely, without thinking, went on and recorded it again.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
You poor trusting soul.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I know what an idiot I am.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But then he goes, I'm going to use that as
an absolute example. Now you got my attention. The Supreme
Court was so focused on questions about essentially nonsense to
make a very simple question complicated for the sake of ambiguity. Now,
I will tell you right now that I wasn't quite
sure what he was talking about. But now that I
do know what he's talking about, I disagree with that
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premise because you have to understand and maybe this guy's
a lawyer, but maybe he has never done anything before
the Supreme Court. But it all goes to Justice Gorsuchez
questioning yesterday that we listened to. We're gonna listen to
it again because I want to make a really good
point because this is a good learning lesson here, he says, Jason,
(17:32):
does you lawyers, this is kind of funny. You lawyers
are constantly trying to think two steps ahead.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I do.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I'm always trying to think two steps ahead, and you proved.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It today with Dragon's perfect prank of you thinking that
you needed to re record that BS. I hope Dragon
was leaning back in his chair with his legs crossed
and smoking his cigarette. Dragon lawyer, Michael Dragon did perfectly
deceive me. He perfectly punked me, I think is the
(18:02):
correct term. I don't think he perfectly lawyered me.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yuh.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I don't think two three steps ahead. I was just
going for the funny at the moment.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Right right, Mike, I will be honest.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Support you for what you did up until your departure
of the Department of Homeland Security. You and President Bush
got dealt with a lot of disasters that could have
been foreseen with the right intelligence and not foreseeen because
we can't control the earth.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I have no clue what that means.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
And you supported me. You supported me, why was the
under secretary? But now you don't support me. I'm confused by.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
That, Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Even if your waiter had to share twenty percent of
his or her kip with the bartender and the bus boys,
that's still seven dollars. So unless they spent more than
a total of seven minutes bringing you a menu, taking
your order, entering your order, and delivering your to then
bringing me the check, that works out to at least
sixty dollars an hour.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Not bad, Yeah, not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And while the service was not superb, it wasn't subpar either.
It was just for the lack of business. I mean,
she wasn't rush. There was no there, you know, there
was just no pressure at that time of day whatsoever.
So yeah, I mean that's got it. I hate to
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commit that the.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Engineer actually made a good point, But the engineer doesn't
make a good point. So back to this email. The
the next.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Paragraph reads this Now. This is an email sent from
a listener who thinks he's trying to tie dragging punking
me yesterday about re recording a stupid promo we were
doing and punking me on air about it, which which
we both both thought was hilarious. Uh, he's trying to
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tie that to lawyers trying to think two steps ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Now. I wasn't thinking any steps ahead when't Dragon punked me.
I was just thinking here.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I wasn't thinking two steps ahead either.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You just had You just saw an opportunity to make
an idiot of me, and you did so, and I wasn't.
If I've been thinking two steps ahead, I would have
said to Dragon, well, you're recording the entire program. This
wasn't something see, I wasn't thinking about. We were doing
it during a break, We were doing it live and
on air. And if I'd been thinking about that, I
would have said, well, you're recording the program, so all
(20:37):
you have to do is go go back and pull
it in the audition and you got it.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But I wasn't thinking that.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I was thinking, oh, because sometimes we have to re
record things because I bought them. Yeah, even though I'm
generally known as one.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Day, quite bad at it? Yeah, what what huh?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I'm one take, one take. I'm a one take guy,
fourth take.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So I'm not quite sure what the tie is between
lawyers thinking two steps ahead and getting punked, But I
do understand the next what he wants to make. The
simplest question that could have been asked by the Supreme
Court justices today, meaning yesterday, is that if the state
of Maryland has an opt out for parents for their
(21:20):
family health and sexuality subjects, why isn't that book What
was the name of that book again, Puppy something.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Or what was it?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Pride Puppy, Pride Puppy. Why isn't that You find that it?
Michael says, Go here, Tom, Yesterday's.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Post right is up there on the website from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Why isn't that book considered part of family health and
sexual subjects? Well, because they don't want the opt out,
he writes. This is how people slip things into the curriculum. Yes,
that's true. They add a part of literature into an
(21:58):
English class that should be the family health and sexuality curriculum.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Now here's where he gets it wrong. None of the
Justice justices even ask about that, just like how you,
as a lawyer, didn't ask Dragon the simple question of
why he didn't need to of why he did not
need to record it. The second time, you think so
deep that you do not recognize the shallow. I don't
(22:24):
think you can tie those two things together, because listen
to the next paragraph. The Supreme Court failed today, just
how you fail today. You at least have a platform
to blow your ego. What the Supreme Court's supposed to
have a platform to blow their ego. I really don't
(22:47):
get what you're talking about, because I don't think and
I don't get what you're talking about at the same
time that I really don't think that you understand how
the Supreme Court works and what they were doing. So
let's listen to the audio again, because I want you
to understand precisely what Justice score or such was doing,
(23:11):
because it's brilliant. Don't always agree with Justice score or such,
but I know precisely what he was doing here, and
I think you'll understand why.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
When I explained to Scorch.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I just want to make sure I understand a few things,
fact things. And then a blaw question, what age do
you in Montgomery County? Teach students normally about human sexuality.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Now he's talking about human sexuality. What do you normally
teach about human sexuality in your school district?
Speaker 7 (23:47):
I think that it begins in either fourth or fifth
grade human sexuality class, Family Life and Human Sexuality curriculum.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I'm not entirely sure it.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Starts in fourth or fifth grade. I think is there
anything you can to turn the record on that?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I don't think so?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Okay, Now that's a great point. He doesn't say anything,
but it's a great point. Now the lawyer himself knows, oh,
because he asked, is there anything in the record. Because
the Supreme Court is looking only at the record, They're
not trying to ascertain new facts. They have to rely
on the facts that are before them, that's been developed
(24:27):
in the trial court and in the that's been developed
in the trial court. That gets that those facts, rulings, motions,
everything that record gets passed on to the appellate court.
Now the appellate court cannot introduce new facts. They have
to make their decision based upon the facts that are
(24:48):
before it from the trial court. That's the purpose of
a trial court to ascertain what are the facts and
then apply the law to the facts as they are
developed throughout the trial.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That's why it's called the tr court.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Then it gets to the appellate court, they're relying solely
on the record, as is the US Supreme Court. So
what Justice Gore Such was doing right there when he said.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Human Sexuality Class, Family Life, and Human Sexuality curriculum.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
I'm not entirely sure it starts in fourth or fifth grade.
I think, is there anything you can point us to
in the record on that?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I don't think so?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Okay, okay, So he's got his point made. There is
nothing in the record about when that curriculum starts. He
doesn't have to ask the next question, well, why not
or when does it start? The lawyer can't answer the question,
you know, certainly with any certainty. So he just passes
(25:49):
on because that will be if he writes the opinion
or writes the dissent, that will be part of his opinion.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I guarantemn to you it will be. But it gets better.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
And uh, second, these books are being used in English class.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
The division between English class and other things in a
second grade classroom doesn't really exist. You're sort of in
a room with a teacher, and somehow.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I appreciate that. I went to second grade too.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Yeah, but but it's it's part of the English curriculum
that these books are being used, and that's I thought
that was.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not fighting the premise.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I'm just saying, it's not the math class.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It's not it's not the human sexuality class.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
It's it is certainly not the human sexuality class. I'm
just sort of fighting the premise that there's a neat decision.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And see right there, of course, such as him, so
this is this is a part of the English class well,
and then the guy starts for severing, you know, it's
not it's not you know, it's a you know, it's
a singular classroom. These are second third, fourth graders, so
it's you know, it's like, you know, so we're gonna
(26:54):
do English for a little while, then we'll do math
for a little while, then we're gonna do human sexuality
for a while.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
He's made point.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
He doesn't have to say, he doesn't have to ask
the follow up question, So this book is not part
of the human sexuality class. It's part of the English curriculum,
because he already knows. But Justice already knows that the
human sexuality portion has an opt out provision, so anytime
(27:25):
you're teaching human sexuality, the parents have a right to
opt out. He just established, without asking any further questions,
that the book that is in question here is a
part of the English curriculum for which there is no
opt out. He doesn't have to be so bold or
(27:47):
blatant or obvious, because now he's got this lawyer on
the record, he doesn't have to ask the next what
to mister, what's the guy's name that I'm talking about
hereon Jason Gorsuch knew precisely what he was doing. He
doesn't have to ask the question why isn't this book
(28:10):
in the human sexuality class because he doesn't want to
know the answer. All he needs to know is it's
not in the human sexuality section, where there is an
opt out provision. It's in the English section, where you
have already admitted there is no opt out provision for
the English curriculum, which is where this book resides. Bam,
(28:30):
he's gotten nailed. So your point about thinking two steps
ahead doesn't mean you always ask. There are many times
that I never asked a follow on question, either of
my bosses or anybody or my wife or anybody else,
because I got what I needed may not be obvious
(28:51):
to you, and somebody may walk away from me going ha.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Ha ha ha.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Well, Brown didn't pick up the point that he should
have asked about x y Z, because he would have
had me if he'd asked x y Z. No, I've
got you, now, I've got you right now. So, Jason,
I think you might have a thing about lawyers, and
you may think that maybe you are a lawyer, and
maybe you think you're smarter than lawyers. And you know
(29:18):
that wouldn't take much, because I know a lot of
dumb ass lawyers. But I think you missed the entirety
of the point here about justice or such. He knew
precisely what he was doing.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Being used in English language instruction at age three, some
of them.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
So Pride Puppy was the book that was used for
the pre kindergarten curriculum. That's no longer in the curriculum.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
That's the one where they are supposed to look for
the leather and things and bondage things like that.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
It's not bombag sex a woman and a leather sex worker.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
No, no, not correcting, no gosh, I read it growing
and Greg.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Now there's a little there's a little cross talk there
from the lawyers. I'm not q sure what it says,
but uh, he's he's making a point to the lawyer there.
You need to remember, I read the book. I know
what's in the book. So when we get to the
leather portion, uh, there was some bondage involved. I haven't
(30:18):
read the book, so I don't know, but I assume
from the point he was making that I've read the book.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
So quit lying to me, Mike.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Even if your waiter had to share twenty or her Kim.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Sorry, that's my fault. I've been doing other things at
the time. I let me pull up another one here.
Let me I just been back there, busied looking.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Through the book, and let's try this one. See what
happens here?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Bring you.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Son of up, Michael, do your thing?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Wow, oh I love it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
This is glorious, mister producer, excellente back there. As after
that in that glorious are you are you giving up?
Have you given up?
Speaker 6 (31:08):
Den Michael? Denver is going down and it's about damn time.
Maybe they'll realize when all the people that pay the
taxes and can actually go out and spend some money
eating out are gone. I do everything outside of Denver
that I possibly can, even though I live in this
crap hole.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Which is interesting. That's a great point because the only
reason I stopped. I've told you before that all of
my both me and Tamra and then separately and collectively
we we just don't dine in Denver anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
We've quit doing it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And why I did it yesterday was simply because of
traffic was leading me a certain way and I was
just like, Okay, I want to go someplace I haven't
gotten in a long time, someplace that you know, we
used to go, we haven't been in along and just
you know, go back. So there I am on twenty
five and Broadway thing. I'll just go over the Blue Bonnet.
I haven't been there. I haven't been there since COVID.
(32:07):
I made since before COVID, So it's been a long time.
Good number fifty seven fifty nine rites. And while we're
talking about you can find at at Michael Brown USA
on my on my x feed about walking into the
Blue Bonnet Cafe and having some over the price Mexican
food and then discovering that there was a surcharge that
(32:30):
I didn't notice at the time, but hindsight, after I
posted posted it on X started researching it and find
out that I'm I'm I'm paying the wages. Well, I
thought that's what I paid when I paid the price
of the food. So many of you have great text
messages about this issue, particularly about the restaurant business. Fifty
(32:50):
seven to fifty nine Rights Michael, I can remember when
the Blue but this is so true. I can remember
when Blue Bonnet was one of the most popular Mexican joints.
In There was almost always a line between ten thirty
in the morning and midnight. The bar area was so
packed you could hardly squeeze through the crowd.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
That is so true.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The noise level was so loud you could barely hear
the conversation at your own table.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That is so true.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Combo platters arrived at the table buried in cheese to
the point you couldn't tell what was on your plate.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
That is so true.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
The owner would always stop by the table and say hi.
And the prices were so affordable that you wonder what
they forgot to add to your tab. Yes, the last
time Life and I went, none of that was the same.
We ate mediocre, overpriced meals and have never been backed.
I will say this, My meal was actually better than
I expected. It was not smothered in cheese. The carnea
(33:42):
saw that was actually thicker than usual. It was it
was tender, and I would say that the faeeta vegetables
were very well grilled. It was very good. The refried
beans were good. The sauce was still the running kind
of sauce that they have. And I would say the
coin Margaret beat it was good. But for forty nine
dollars before it was absurd.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
And it was empty.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I mean it was the grand canyon inside that restaurant
and then oh nine three eight, writes Michael, similar to
your blue Bonnet story. I stopped by the Panera by
my house a few days ago. It used to have
a line and be bustling every morning. Not a single
person there other than myself and the staff. I told
(34:26):
you about the little dive place that Tim and I
have kind of gotten to know one of the co owners,
and she tells us about there are you know, they
just expanded. It's not just within the past day six months,
and they're really worried because they now wonder whether they
should have expanded enough, and they and she made this
(34:49):
comment that she sees a lot of people come in
till I do this, okay, but not very often. Depends
on depends on what we're ordering to eat. But a
lot of couples they'll come in and they split a meal.
And she says she knows this because they can't afford
the price of the full meal. We are Colorado is
(35:10):
destroying itself.
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