4-25-25 - 8am - Colorado Abortions, Sex Ed Summer Camp and Kids & Social Media

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Michael, do the circumstances beyond my control. I
cannot listen to the show this morning, so I will
have to listen to the podcast as I make my
long drive home. So no slacking off there, mister Tallent.
I expect an excellent Friday show, great tax payer relief shots,
and just the usual out of Dragon you know, excellence always. Bye.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
What's this tax payer relief shot that he mentioned? What's
what's that?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm not sure? Huh, I'm tanks.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Tax A tax payer relief shot. I can't believe that
anybody would do like the shot. Yeah, maybe maybe that's
what he's referring to, because I mean that did well.
That did relief a lot. That did relieve a lot
of taxpayers of their tax liabilities because well they're no
longer in existence. A couple of things yesterday before I

(00:56):
want to go back to chaos. This has kind of
been the theme of the week, chaos before I do.
I don't know what made me think of this. Oh
it was it was talking about raising the costs of
raising a kid. Yesterday the Denver Post had a story
police signed a public funding law. Colorado will now cover

(01:20):
abortion for medicaid patients, state employees. Now. Because I couldn't
get beyond the paywall, I didn't read the story, but
I didn't need to because I'm a headline guy like
Dragon when it came. When it came to that crap,
So special classes of people Medicaid patients, government employees. So

(01:46):
it's bad enough that my tax dollars are being used
to pay for abortions, but it's even worse that we
now have special classes of people. They're getting my tax
dollars for abortions. How about in staid we just let
everybody get their own a board. You want an abortion, okay,
go do that. You pay for it yourself. You know
if that might actually slow down the killing of babies.
I don't know, But let's go back to Medicaid patients

(02:08):
for a moment. I know the teenage pregnancy The teenage
pregnancy rate, I should say, is down. I don't know
that the actual number of teenage pregnancies has decreased, but
the rate of pregnancies is down. Uh, probably a Medicaid patient,

(02:29):
or an illegal alien, or just a poor person. So
we're gonna pay for their abortions. And then government employees.
Where did that come from? Why? Are Why are we paying?
Why are we using our Why? Why are you using
my tax? You know, I don't care about you. I'm caring.
I care about my tax dollars. Why am I using

(02:50):
my tax dollars to pay for an abortion for a
government employee. I'm already paying their salary, I'm already paying
their benefits, I'm already paying for the retirement. I'm paying
for every damn thing. Why am I paying for an
abortion too? Some stuff just pisses me off. And then
there's this. So we talked. Yeah, yesterday we we casually

(03:17):
mentioned some of the stupid stuff about transsexuals. Oh it
was the the transsexual that was pissed off because the
gay person had an LGB sticker on their car, And
that led to a whole conversation about sexual preferences. Well,

(03:41):
if you're looking for someplace, what'd you find? What have
you got here? Oh? Here, dragon's got the story. Let's see.
Poll a signed two abortion rights bills, permits the use
of public funding to cover the procedure, provide for more
protection for doctors and patients from out of state interference.

(04:02):
Pula says, Colorado is making sure that we are completely
protecting the right to choose. I'd like to have a
right to choose. Well, at the federal level, we're already
seeing the government overreaching, threatening basic freedom when it comes
to the most personal and private decisions. Damn right, But
I don't think we're talking about the same thing, he says.

(04:25):
That's not the Colorado law. One new law passed by
the legislature as Senate Bill one eighty three, implements Amendment
seventy nine. Remember that, to establish a constitutional right to
abortion in Colorado, he repealed an earlier provision in the
state constitution that prohibited public funding toward abortion. Now, the
new law requires abortion care coverage for Medicaid patients and

(04:49):
Child Health Plan Plus program recipients using state money. Public
employees insurance plans will also have to cover abortion care.
The state just gets worse and worse and worse.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Then there was this real quick I want to jump
to the other Yes, feel free.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yah.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Was it the Dobbs decision that the Supreme Court did
the toss the abortion cases back to the states that
I would like to point out since that decision more
abortions have been performed since then in the year's previous
So first, so all the claiming that their rights are

(05:34):
being taken away. No, because more have happened since that decision.
So just just want to point that out. Alrudience is
smart and they probably already knew that kind of thing.
But you know the Dobb's decision is going to take
away our rights? No, because more has happened, you know, speaking.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Of killing, which in my opinion, abortion is I look
up at the two monitors while.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
You're ammering on about something. I have no idea what
you were talking about. You don't listen to me, and
I don't listen to you.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
So it's right. Fox was covering the Coburg murder trial.
That's the Idaho students and the Karen Reied murder trial,
and CNN is covering the Luigi Mangione murder trial. Man,
we just live in the killing fields, may Nuda. So

(06:27):
speaking of you know, five thousand dollars, and you get
the five thousand dollars because you want to have a
rug rap, Well, what are you going to do with
that rug rat? Would they get to be fifth, sixth, seventh,
or eighth graders? And you know, and and summer's coming up,
and you're trying to figure out what the hell am
I going to do to keep my fifth, sixth, seventh
or eighth grader occupied, out of the house, out of

(06:48):
my hair. I got things to do. I gotta go
to work. Where do I send them? Well, A lot
of people like to send them to summer camp. Right, Well,
what if I told you that, taxpayers? These are the
the University of Colorado at Boulder and some hospital or
medical group have a summer camp for your fifth, sixth, seventh,

(07:12):
or eighth grader. It's built as a summer camp for
and I want to quote learning ourselves and our world.
Now seems like to be bad grammar to me. Learning
ourselves and our world? What do you think it is?

(07:37):
It's the sex ed Summer Camp at CEU Sexy. Here's
from the Here's from the brochure. Sex Ed Summer Camp
is everything your camper won't always get to learn in school.
Some topics will include bodies beyond the binary, a lot

(08:03):
of nice alliteration there, bodies beyond the binary, the mysteries
of puberty, feelings and how to navigate them, gender and sexuality,
consent and communication, relationships.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Self love, dragon I wonder about self love is no,
I'm not sure I mean, I haven't loved myself in years.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh you're full of crap. You probably did just last
night self love and so much more. It says this
justice rooted camp. That's good to know. It's a justice
rooted camp will help guide your young people in their
curiosities and navigate their changing bodies in this changing world.

(08:54):
And by the way, they want to make sure you
know that it's free, no tax payer money involved. They
say free. Wait a minute, it's sponsored by held BA,
the University of Colorado. Well maybe they I know, maybe
they got a grant from the federal government to do it.
So that makes it free. That I mentioned, it's free, free, free,

(09:18):
it's free of dragons.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Free.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah. So if you're looking for someplace to send your kid,
you can send them up to the CU Sex Camp
for the summer. Oh my gosh. Yes, we live in
a whack old world. So let's talk about chaos for
a moment. It's my favorite topic this week. There this

(09:43):
clash that is occurring. Go back to the one of
the first topics of the day, Alexandria Cossi Cortes, and
there they're they're fight against their their rallies against the oligarchy.
There are tours against the oligarchy. Well, that's the of
the chaos. Now, these two rich people, Bernie Sanders and

(10:05):
AOC are out fighting the oligarchy and they attracted twelve
thousand people in Idaho and they so far they've raised
almost ten million dollars. You know, what was it, twenty
one dollars average donation. Well, what if I told you
that the chaos exists in Europe too, And the chaos

(10:34):
in Europe is driven by exactly what's going on in
this country, nationalism and populism. But the reaction in Europe,
I think deserves our attention because I think, and I'm
still working on the next level of this topic is

(10:55):
going to involve Trump, and it may us to question
whether what he's doing in response to the chaos is
the proper thing or not. But I'm not quite there yet.
I want to focus on Europe right now. So you
remember that the Vice President shocked and outraged Europeans back

(11:18):
at the beginning in January when he went to the
security conference in Munich and said that our support for
Europe in general and NATO in particular depended on Europe's
support for free speech. Well, since he made that speech,
things have actually gotten worse. German secret intelligence agency, their

(11:41):
security agencies and their judicial system are starting to crack
down on citizens and independent media alike for what or
Well referred to as wrong thing. The German Minister of Defense,
in reply demands declare that the notions of limitations to

(12:03):
free speech preposterous, while defending censorship of fake news and misinformation,
and then with just war, We're absolutely indignant. The newly
elected German government and courts deny that they are at

(12:25):
war against freedom of speech and would love nothing more
than to punish you if you say so. No, make
that make sense. They deny their war against freedom of speech,
but they want to punish anybody who says that they

(12:46):
are at war with freedom of speech. Isn't that? Isn't
that proof? State media agencies are sma's in Europe play
a crucial role in their forms of censorship. Now, I

(13:07):
don't think most people. I didn't realize there were fourteen
of these. I had heard of state media agencies before,
but I didn't know about these fourteen different agencies. Their
original purpose was licensing private TV and radio stations, supervising
youth protection from private media and then assigning cable network frequencies.

(13:30):
In the sixteen federal states of Germany. In twenty twenty,
they enacted a new law, the Media State Treaty. It
gave these state media agencies I'm going to refer to
them as SMAs. It gave the SMAs the power to
supervise private creators journalistic diligence obligation. Wait a minute, what's

(13:53):
their journalistic diligence obligation? Now? Whatever that is, which we'll
get to in a minute, includes oversight of journalists. It
affects private radio stations, online magazines, even individuals that they
consider to be influential. That's pretty subjective, and I suppose

(14:15):
you could come up to some metrics that says, oh,
you're an influencer and you're not an influencer. But it
also includes politicians. Now, notably, the sma's the state media
agencies don't monitor public broadcasting stations. So in Germany, there's

(14:35):
a difference between and we're kind of a hybrid. We're
a highly regulated industry. This station, this company's highly regulated industry.
It is a privately publicly traded company, but they have private,
purely private radio stations as opposed to public. Same is

(14:57):
true with television. So there was a public radio station,
m ABB. They have an actual name, I will bascheardize it,
but it's run Funk Berlin Brandenburg. They all sensibly smeared
a Green Party politician by the name of Stephen Galbar,

(15:19):
and the SMA took no action whatsoever. The m ABB
that public radio station claimed that that politician, Stephan Galbart
had sexually harassed a woman, even though the editor in
charge had never even met with the woman and so
there was no proof. Nonetheless, the Green Party dropped the

(15:42):
candidate and obliterated his political career well. The SMA, the
m ABB, the German the German radio station accused an
independent news media company NIAS, of knowingly violent accepted journalistic standards,

(16:02):
and the charges were false. Two years ago, Nia's published
a video report about asylum seekers in Germany, illegal aliens,
migrants coming from abroad. They did a video report showing
extensive dental care that these migrants were receiving receiving. Nia's

(16:27):
interviewed a bunch of these illegal aliens who easily and
readily and quite openly provided all the information and proudly
showed their new teeth. But MABB, which again is the
public radio station, claimed that NIAS had insufficiently informed the
interviewed the people that they were interviewing about the report's

(16:51):
alleged connection with statements made by a German leader by
the name of Frederick Mertz, Merz political adversary. He's had
denied that dental care for these aliens existed in the
first place, and the NIAS inconveniently provided irrefutable evidence to
the contrary. So you've got a private radio station out

(17:18):
here pointing out that, oh, everyone's been denying that they're
getting all these benefits, but we have the proof. So
in December of last year, a nia's journalist named Alexander
Perruker commented on former Chancellor Schultz using German word and
martin heinmutton. Basically, it's homeland. The plural doesn't exist in

(17:42):
the spoken German language. I don't think objection, objection your owner.
Peru's the German dictionary. There's no plural for homeland.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
This plan and the governor is doing all of this
for abortions because he's a man and he wanted to
be a woman, and he hates women because they can
give birth.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Is just a disgusting human being. So in Germany you've
got this fear of nationalism and populism that's behind this
censorship effort in Germany, and so you see that in
response to that, these government agencies are punishing journalists for

(18:26):
actually just publishing accurate information about these illegal aliens. They
call them migrants over there, they're crime rates. Well, it's
not just Germany in the in the UK, there's it
seems to be a consensus that social media is having

(18:46):
a negative impact on young people and that the government
ought to intervene to do more to protect them. Now,
that general statement some people probably agree with. But who's
ultimately responsible for a child's consumption of social media? The

(19:09):
government or the parents or is Europe's Here Great Britain,
they're turning just like we do. Like when I mentioned
that we advocate our compassion to the government to take
care of the poor and the downtrod and everybody else,

(19:33):
Well it's equally true in Europe. But in Great Britain
is now being carried over to social media. And I
know there are efforts in this country to do the
same too, But here it's gotten to a kind of
a it's really gotten to a certain point of mass
that it really needs to be pointed out. There's research

(19:58):
that shows that more there's majority support for raising the
legal age for social media access from thirteen to sixteen,
and in all age groups, across all age groups, including
even among generations Z responders who themselves grew up with

(20:20):
smartphone smartphones. So the United Kingdom has, like you know,
we have a Secretary of Homeland Security, secretary Secretary of Agriculture.
They have a Digital Secretary. His name is Peter Kyle.
He's raised the possibility of what he calls a social

(20:41):
media watershed and it's modeled on TikTok's introduction of a
and I didn't know TikTok had this, like started reading
about it. They have a ten pm curfew for anyone
that's on that platform who's under the age of sixteen.
It's a part of TikTok's enhanced rental controls. So now

(21:04):
you're the I keep saying Uka EU UK government is
thinking about introducing a what they consider to be a
popular measure to address a problem that they say worries
a majority of voters, including parents and teenagers themselves, without
spending any money. But is there really evidence that social

(21:27):
media is the cause of so many problems, because I
don't think that it is. There's a twenty twenty four book.
I've not read the book. I've only read excerpts about
the book, written by a professor by the name of
Peter Etchel's. It's called Unlocked. It's about the effects that
those social media platforms have and that they are not

(21:49):
universally harmful, and it varies enormously between individuals and the
context in which they. You know, under the age of
eighteen is using a social media a platform. A significant
minority of the digital generations one in five millennials and
almost twenty five percent of Gen Z think social media's

(22:11):
impact on kids under the age of sixteen is actually positive.
Now in an age where so much social contact has
moved online, think about how much you and I, even
on this program, communicate online, or even even tamer and

(22:33):
I rarely talk to each other on the telephone. It's
usually texting each other. So in an age where so
much social contact has moved online, teenagers and I think
many adults naturally conduct much of their crucial peer interaction,
which means their identity building that they're going through as teenagers.

(22:56):
They do that through their smartphones. Now obviously that has drawbacks,
but without change, that moves that interaction back from cyberspace
into real life, which I don't see happening anytime soon.
Social media use is often countering rather than feeding loneliness
and isolation, and that's counterintuitive that everything that I read

(23:20):
is everything that I read. And I would say the
general media, for lack of a better term, is that
it's actually feeding isolation and it's actually feeding loneliness. But
in the UK they say no, in some studies say no,
that's actually not true. Now, what if they do implement

(23:41):
in the UK a law that would restrict social media
access if you're under the age of sixteen, How would
you do that? Even now when the legal limit is
supposedly thirteen. I think most of us would agree, and
I think the evidence would show that it's very easy
for an under thirteen person to access social media of

(24:03):
all sorts, whatever the platform is, tech Talk, Facebook, whatever.
The twenty somethings of today got around printer rules by
simply changing the studies, or they'd use other devices, or
they set up secret accounts, and of course generally if
they're more tech savvy than their adults that was probably

(24:23):
pretty easy to do. So if today's under thirteens are
actually successfully circumventing this new law in the UK, it's
hard to think that tomorrow's fifteen year olds we're going
to have really much trouble doing exactly the same thing.
And if they're essentially the same cohort with years of
practice getting around the law and adult rules, what what

(24:46):
what are we accomplishing here? Well, I think we're accomplishing
something pretty insidious, more government control over the ways that
not just adults, but now children communicate and interact with
one another. And that's a further abdication of If you believe,

(25:08):
either in line with what evidence you have or contrary
whatever evidence I have, that it has a negative impact
on rug rats, why are you not controlling it despite
the difficulty that would be in doing it. Do you

(25:29):
think the government's going to be better at it? So
the UK's Online Safety Act, that's what it's called, the
Requirements for Age Verification Systems come into effect this summer
and all these social media companies are going to be
among those enforcing these legally mandated checks on all these

(25:50):
would be users potential users out there. Some platforms Instagram,
Discord have been experimenting with artificial intelligence tools which would
predict the user's age from their face. Now, some say
that's going to be an alternative to uploading a photo ID. Okay, well,

(26:13):
you don't upload a photo ID. But for artificial intelligence
to analyze your face, don't you have to provide that
AI platform with the opportunity to look at your face
and then who's the same thing when you look at it.
It's like going through the body scanners at TSA. You

(26:34):
go through the body scanners, they snap a photo and
they assure you that once somebody you know sitting upstairs
somewhere looks at it and gives you the clear to
move on through the scanner. If they delete that, the
question becomes is it really deleted? Because you know that

(26:55):
when you delete something, I hope you know that when
you delete something from your computer that unless you use
an encrypted deletion app which will encrypt you know, all
these ones and zeros all over it so that it's
virtually impossible to find. It's never really deleted, it's just
more difficult to find. So it's an essentially what it

(27:19):
is is essentially an AI version of the of the
bar landlord or the smoke shop owner looking you over,
just visually looking you over, but deciding whether not to
serve you a drink or selling you a pack of cigarettes,
or you know, without ever looking out a driver's license.

(27:41):
So then you get to the elephant in the room,
which of course is universal digital ID, so that any
one of us can verify that we're old enough to
access age limited content online. Because if you're trying to
verify age, it's not just going to affect those who

(28:03):
say they're under the age of sixteen. It's anybody that
decides to use any of these platforms, you're going to
have to verify that you're old enough to access an
age limited content online. So it's going to end up
applying to everyone. And we're one step closer, at least

(28:25):
in the UK and soon to be here to a
universal digital ID, you know, like the what's it called dragon,
the new real idea? Yeah, the real ID, I can't
think of it, could real idea as opposed to a
fake ID real ID. The potential price of protecting kids

(28:48):
from adult content online is that users consent to identify
themselves not just as adults, but as themselves in particular,
So there are obvious downsides of that data leagues. The
most obvious right, people who use their digital ID to access, say,
sexually explicit material could find their private proclivities made public

(29:12):
or used for extortion or blackmail. Biometrical digital ID, either
run or license by governments, also makes every single citizen,
even if it's just oh you have to be a
certain age, Well okay, I'm above that certain age. Okay,
well that's fine, you still have to prove it to
use our platform. Makes a citizen potentially transparent to the

(29:35):
state in all of their online.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Interactions about be transparent with a break.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
And be transparent with what kind of break? But you
want to take a break? Might take a break, hey Browning? Uh,
just for information, BUCkies is not a truck stop. As
a matter of fact, they prohibit trucks in BUCkies, which
is kind of a source spot among the trucking community.
And there are no buck He's in Utah yet have

(30:03):
a great day. Yet I was not aware that BUCkies
did not allow I thought BUCkies was like like he
Loves only in this regard that they had a separate
section for trucks. I didn't realize.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
That by one hundred and thirty seven pumps. You can't
have a truck pump. I mean, geez, yeah, I just
I always kind of assume, which proves what an ass
I am that on the maybe on the backside there
was an area for truckers.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Oh wow, I didn't realize that. Two quick things I
want to make about federal judges. So, a federal judge
in California by the name of William Orrick has blocked
the Trump administration from terminating federal dollars that are being
used for sanctuary jurisdictions. He writes, the cities and counties

(30:50):
have also demonstrated the likelihood of irreparable harm. The threat
to withhold funding causes them irreparable injury in the form
of budgetary uncerta, the deprivation of constitutional rights and undermining
trust between the cities and counties and the communities they serve.
For sanctuary cities, that's already violating federal law. What the

(31:12):
hell is going on? But then there's another equally better
story on the other side of the issue. Remember the
judge and Los Cruses Mimico that was harboring a TDA
gang member. Well, not only did the New Mexico Supreme

(31:35):
Court bar him from lifetime from ever serving on the
bench again. But he and his wife had been arrested. Yes,
the FBI rated their home and arrested them for harboring
a member of a domestic terrorist organization and an illegal alien.

(32:00):
It's also just being reported that there's been this arrest
of a second Democrat judge for helping criminal illegal aliens
evade arrest. This week. Wow uh. Judge Hannah Dugan was
arrested by the FBI after helping an undocumented alien evade arrest.

(32:24):
Cash Betel, the director of the FBI, explained, quote, we
believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the
subject to be arrested in her courthouse. Eduardo Floresri is
allowing the subject, an illegal alien, to evade arrest. Holy

(32:45):
crap ola, Cash Battel, Your FBI is arresting judges, Well,
if you are, if they can prove that this judge
intentionally misdirected federal agents away from her courthouse so that

(33:06):
an illegal alien it was appearing in front of her
for whatever the charges are, I don't care, so that
he could evade arrest. She was abaiding and abetting a crime,
and now they're going after her, just as if he
went after the judge in New Mexico. So this is
the kind of action I want to see. This is

(33:28):
the kind of chaos that I actually one is to
engage in. If you're a judge and you're you're basically
empowering a known criminal in your courtroom to evade arrest, Well,
he's got a problem with the bar association. He got

(33:48):
apparently now a problem with the FBI too. Wow. I
could use more stories like this, and here we go.