WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.680 We're pretty similar in our views, and we're both pretty 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:07.080 oh we're both very good looking. So yes, this is 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.400 actually Christi Kafer sitting in for Andy Connell. And no 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:14.199 doubt you've heard this voice before. I've been I've been 5 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:14.880 on air. 6 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:16.640 Different stations, different times, probably for the. 7 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:21.120 Last ten years, sometimes with a mic partner, sometimes without. 8 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:26.320 And sometimes I'm just I guess a scene but not heard. 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:27.359 I guess you could say. 10 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:31.039 I'm a columnist for the Denver Post and I'm also 11 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:33.079 on Channel twelves Colorado Inside Out. 12 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.799 The program that you wish you saw. If you can get. 13 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.079 Channel twelve here in Denver, definitely check us out or check. 14 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.159 It out on the web. It is. 15 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.439 It's a good little program, just a half hour some 16 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:48.039 news insiders talking about the news, and yeah, I like 17 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:48.520 it a lot. 18 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:49.880 Also, I've got a substack. 19 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.039 If you say, well, hey, I'm not a subscriber to 20 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:54.159 the Denver Post but still like to read what you 21 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.039 have to say, go on over to substack dot com. 22 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:00.000 Type in CHRISTA Kaefer and it'll pull up my column 23 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.759 posts there just a couple of days after it posts 24 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:04.359 in the Denver Post. 25 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.840 And yeah, that's. 26 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.760 A little about me, and you can follow me on 27 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:10.719 at Krista Kaifer and all. 28 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.040 Those fabulous topics we're going to talk about today. 29 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:16.000 I've posted a little something something up there on that 30 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.959 Twitter account. Got some fun stuff ahead, But I want 31 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:20.439 to give a quick shout out. 32 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.319 They're not paying me to do this. I just want 33 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:23.760 to do this because I love these guys. 34 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:28.760 Carl's Canine Crew in Colorado Springs. It's a place where 35 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:31.480 you you can adopt a dog, or you can foster 36 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.359 a dog. You know, maybe you're not ready to have 37 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.000 a dog. My favorite dog in the world passed away 38 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.680 a couple of years ago. I'm not quite ready to own, 39 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.959 but I am fostering, and I'm fostering the cutest dog ever, 40 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:44.640 Cata Hula and pitt. 41 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:46.480 Her name is Mocha. 42 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.319 And yes, if you're looking for a dog and you're like, 43 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.680 you know, I want a dog that's super cute and 44 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:54.959 can hunt grasshoppers, yeah, I feeling you could trade her 45 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.480 to hunt all kinds of things. She definitely wants to hunt. 46 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.680 And yeah, check out Mocha over there Carl's Canine Crew. 47 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:05.079 That's Carl with a k Qnaine with the Z and 48 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:09.240 Crew with a K or you can just foster. Give 49 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.240 that dog chance at there forever home. 50 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:16.039 Yeah, yeah, forever get it, get it, get. 51 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.719 Okay, Yeah, enough with that, we're gonna move on to 52 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:21.439 the show. My text line is five six six nine. Oh, 53 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.879 if you want to weigh on, wag in way in, 54 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:25.840 way on, whatever, whatever. 55 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:31.080 You want to do. Topics for today include. 56 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.759 It's Colorado's birthday, talk a little bit about what we 57 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.080 like about the state and what we don't like so much. 58 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:40.599 I am a Colorado native. I actually have a bank 59 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.520 I got when I was let's see, six years old. 60 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:47.400 It's it was like the was it the bi centennial 61 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:50.479 and it's like a little liberty bell bank. I still 62 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:53.759 have it. But we are the centennial state for a reason. 63 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:58.879 We became a state in eighteen seventy six, so you know, 64 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:02.639 kind of like seventeen seventy six, and yeah, that's why 65 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.759 we're the centennial state. Anyway, we have a birthday today. 66 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.960 It's not the big birthday. I think the big birthday 67 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:12.479 is next year. And yeah, I remember the governor was 68 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.080 going to build that silly bridge to nowhere to see 69 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:15.520 what to. 70 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:16.400 Celebrate the birthday. 71 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.000 But we got to figure out a better way to 72 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.319 blow a few million dollars in taxpayer revenue on the 73 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:24.159 state's birthday. 74 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:25.120 I say, hey, how about you. 75 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.639 Just mail us each a check and we'll call it good. Also, 76 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.759 when was the last time you saw a really funny movie. 77 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:34.759 At the movie theater? 78 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.159 Not on TV, not streaming, not off your phone, not 79 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:40.960 off your tablet, actually saw it in the theater? 80 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.759 And if you're thinking, not a lot used to go to. 81 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.479 Comedies all the time back in the nineteen eighties. 82 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.199 But not so much now. 83 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.400 There's actually a reason for that. Wall Street Journal ways 84 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:56.560 in don't know why you should also think about seeing 85 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.120 the Naked Gun reboots with Liam Neeson. 86 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:00.919 I am, I'm down for that. 87 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.560 Also why we should give Congressman Kate Gabe Evans a break, 88 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:11.199 why NPR should be defunded, and how the left keeps 89 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.000 the American majority leaning right. Yeah, hey, thanks for the 90 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:19.639 assist out there, lefties. There's a reason why the nation 91 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:21.720 has moved rightward, and it's because. 92 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:23.120 Of some of the silly stuff you do. 93 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.920 And I say this as as basically a moderate. 94 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:28.720 I know some of you're like, oh, she's a moderate. 95 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.439 I'm turning it off now, But you know, there's a 96 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:33.759 handful of us out there moderate's on the air. 97 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:37.480 I'm a moderate, righty, I am a Republican, but. 98 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:41.639 I gotta think the left sometimes you guys do something 99 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:45.879 so silly it keeps keeps the nation moving right. And 100 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.040 I'm probably more libertarian than than conservative. 101 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.319 Kind of like Ross, kind of like me Andy. 102 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:55.439 I'm super pro life though, so I don't know where 103 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:58.560 that puts me somewhere in there. But anyway, let's start 104 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.600 off with the birthday. Five six six nine zero is. 105 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:02.160 The text line. 106 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:04.600 And before I forget, want to give a little shout 107 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:07.439 out to Zach, who is the producer behind the glass, 108 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:12.120 making it all, making it all happen. Just a moment ago, 109 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.480 saw Shannon, one of my favorite producers here at KOA 110 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:17.680 and I said, Hey, Shannon, can you give me a 111 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.800 favorite He says, does. 112 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.120 Does it involve fleeing the state in a stolen car? 113 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.439 And I was like, well, yeah, you hit it on 114 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.600 the you hit it on the head, and that you know, 115 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.279 in addition to the question I'm about to throw out 116 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.800 about the state, if you want to answer this question, 117 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.480 you can. If you were to flee the state in 118 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.879 a stolen car, what will them make in the model? 119 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:41.879 I say this because if I was going to flee 120 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.959 the state in a stolen car, it would be a 121 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:49.360 Chevy Chevelle Malibu convertible Blue. 122 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:50.480 Yeah. 123 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:54.240 If I'm flaying the state in a stolen car, that's 124 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:55.600 what I'm going to be driving. 125 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:57.120 Anyway. The question is. 126 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:01.000 This, given that it is the state's ber Day, whether 127 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.759 you're a native or not, what do you like about 128 00:06:03.759 --> 00:06:07.079 the state? What do you don't like about the states? 129 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:10.360 I say, this is a native, right, So I'm looking 130 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.480 back over I'm not going to say how many years 131 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.199 I've lived here, but looking back over the years, the decades, 132 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:18.639 there's some things that I really like, some things that 133 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.439 have happened to the state that I think are really 134 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:21.759 really quite nice. 135 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:23.839 Other things not so much. 136 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:28.000 And here's one of the not so much things. It's 137 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:31.079 the crime rate still pretty high in this state, especially 138 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.199 the city of Denver, Denver, I just saw a report 139 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.199 by the common in the Common Sense Institute found that 140 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.720 in most categories, crime is up from it last year. 141 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.040 The Mayor of Denver's correct, homicide is down. 142 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:46.360 That's that's good. 143 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.480 It's you know, it's nice to stay alive, but other 144 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.000 crimes are up. And I got to say it's a 145 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:59.240 it's an issue. So my sister, she and my niece go, 146 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:02.920 I think it was just the bookstore. Somebody steals their bikes. 147 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.519 It's a vagrant camp that's down the street. 148 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:09.360 A bunch of vagrants that steal bikes and do drugs 149 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:13.519 and drink and live in tents near the walmart and 150 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:18.120 takes their bikes. So my sister calls. She calls the cops. 151 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.959 She also calls a friend. She says, you know, they 152 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.560 just took our bikes. Well, the friend finds the one bike, 153 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:29.160 takes it from the vagrant and and you know, but 154 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:31.600 get throws it in the in the truck and drives away. 155 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:33.879 By then the cops show up and she says, see 156 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:37.000 that bike over there, that's my bike. I know the 157 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.720 combination of the lock. That's my bike. Those people took it. 158 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:43.000 Can can you help me get it back? 159 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:45.959 And the police are like, no, not so much, not 160 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:47.319 unless we know the VEN number. 161 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:49.079 If we knew the VIN number, if you had the 162 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.879 VEN number, maybe we could get the bike back. Who 163 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.839 knows the VIN number of the bike. I don't know 164 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.120 the VEN number of my car. 165 00:07:57.240 --> 00:07:57.560 I don't know. 166 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:00.879 I don't know the VIN number of anything. I certainly 167 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:03.360 don't know it for my bikes. But she's like, yeah, 168 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.560 I could describe the bike. I can tell you the 169 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.759 bikelock combination. We can walk thirty feet over there, I 170 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.680 can get my bike back, and the police refuse to 171 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:13.319 do anything. 172 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:14.560 So I don't know. 173 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.000 I don't know if this means that my sister and 174 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:19.600 I need to go vigilante or what, but it is. 175 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.600 It's an issue I think about. I have an uncle 176 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.399 that was run over by a drunk driver. They know 177 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.480 who the drunk driver was. It's one of three drunk 178 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.360 people in a car random over left him for dead, 179 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:38.000 broke something like thirty bones, he said, I don't know 180 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:41.000 how many surgeries. He's lucky to be alive. They know 181 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.720 who the culprits are. Two and a half years later, 182 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.399 I guess where those culprits are. They're still out and about, 183 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.759 still driving, Yeah, still doing all the things that us 184 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:53.080 free people do. They are not behind bars even though 185 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.679 they are guilty of a drunken hit and run. It 186 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.799 just yeah, the crime in this city and the fact 187 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:06.320 that some folks are are gonna get you know, are 188 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:09.480 getting away with it is just really really sickening. Getting 189 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.159 some stuff coming in on the coming in on the 190 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:12.879 text line. 191 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:17.320 Five six six nine to zero. And yeah, this. 192 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.840 Person says, the problem is that smart, strong people, rather 193 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:23.279 than move away than stay and fight it enables you 194 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.039 need to cut the cancer out. 195 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.200 I can't say that word on the air, but yeah, there. 196 00:09:29.080 --> 00:09:32.679 Is something to be said about people leaving the state 197 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.240 of Colorado instead of fighting it. 198 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.159 But that said, there's still quite a few people who 199 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:36.720 are fighting it. 200 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:42.519 I think about the Centennial Institute, the Independence Institute, the 201 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.559 Common Sense Institute. There are a number of organizations that 202 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:50.840 are fighting the good fight, trying to move, trying to 203 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.159 move the state back in the direction that it needs 204 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.799 to go. Oh this is nice, this person says, so 205 00:09:55.879 --> 00:10:01.799 nice to hear your voice, and please wish Mandy well, 206 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:02.799 I can do. 207 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:03.440 That for you. 208 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.879 Can certainly do that for you. Other things coming in 209 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.960 on five six six nine to zero. Love traveling the state, 210 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:13.399 this person says, nature is amazing. Not so much the 211 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.639 cost of living in Colorado. Yeah, that is an issue 212 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:19.840 as well. In addition to crime, which I just talked 213 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.559 a bit about. How about this little nugget that I 214 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.039 just read, the number one city. This is based on 215 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.679 a report using Zillow, which sell it as like a 216 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:35.480 home buying website home selling website. The cities with the 217 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:41.799 highest number of for sale listings with price reductions, meaning 218 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.879 that people want to sell their house, they want to 219 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:48.000 get out of here. They put their house up there, 220 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.759 they're optimistic, They're like, yeah, this house will go for 221 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:54.519 a lot, and then a couple of weeks go by, 222 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:59.279 maybe a month goes by, and. 223 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:02.519 Yeah, they got to drop the price. 224 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:05.720 And what city is number one when it comes to 225 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:08.159 having to reduce the price of your house before you 226 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:09.120 can sell it. 227 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.519 It would be Denver. Kind of scary. 228 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:13.600 The article goes on to say, and I have it 229 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.679 up on my Twitter. You follow Twitter, you can see 230 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:26.519 it there. The actual article that yeah, the Denver, Raleigh, Dallas, Nashville, Phoenix, 231 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.200 those are all the below lights, if you will, the 232 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:34.360 cities that have the most amount of listings with dropped prices. 233 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:38.360 That all of these cities went to a pandemic boom. 234 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.440 People came here, they wanted to work remotely, They thought, yeah, 235 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.440 Denver's a great city, moved in, bought a house, and 236 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.440 now are thinking about going elsewhere. 237 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.120 And honestly, I don't think a day goes by that 238 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:52.960 I don't think about going elsewhere. 239 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.559 Whether it's the traffic. I think that's an issue. The 240 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:01.759 crime rate. The cost of living is astronaut between my 241 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.600 mortgage and my healthcare payment, like one of those Colorado 242 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:12.320 Healthcare marketplace plans between the two of those, and that's 243 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:15.919 most of my income right there. And so it's the 244 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:19.240 cost of living, crime and traffic. 245 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.960 Yeah, it makes me want to go. And I remember, 246 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:24.039 I remember when. 247 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:27.320 We could ski on the weekends, or for that matter, 248 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.639 hike on the weekends. Now I work weekends now, so 249 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:30.720 I guess I don't have that option. 250 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.000 But I won't ski on the weekend. 251 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.639 You could give me a free lift ticket to Copper Mountain, 252 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.679 my favorite, my favorite resort, for a weekend, and I 253 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.000 wouldn't go. I wouldn't go because by the time you 254 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.759 get up there, you've been in traffic for multiple hours. 255 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:53.240 Now you're going to wait in lift lines over and 256 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.639 over and over again. You're gonna get in about five 257 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:57.799 runs before you go home. 258 00:12:57.919 --> 00:12:59.720 If you decide to buy lunch there as. 259 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:01.960 Opposed to packet, you're looking at twenty bucks for a 260 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.480 tiny cup of chile. 261 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:06.000 I know I'm not doing it. 262 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:08.639 I will I'll ski any other day of the week, 263 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:12.679 but Saturday and Sunday is out and some of that matter. 264 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.440 You know, camping, hiking, all of that on the weekends 265 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.840 is nearly impossible. You're a better bet going up to 266 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.960 Wyoming then to stick around here. So yeah, between the 267 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:32.000 crime rate, the traffic, the weekends, it is, it's not 268 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.519 as much fun as it was twenty years ago, let's 269 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:35.240 put it that way. 270 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.240 But you know, there's still some good things. I will 271 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:38.840 say this. 272 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:43.320 As compared to the rest the Colorado of my youth. 273 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:47.639 I don't know why my computer is malfunctioning here, sorry, 274 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.440 little inside. 275 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:54.399 We have better restaurants now, I mean, do you remember 276 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:55.360 do you remember. 277 00:13:55.279 --> 00:14:00.919 Nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties Denver, Denver Metro you had like 278 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:06.360 the Chinese restaurant, all of those diners maybe I remember, 279 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:07.759 you know, I think it. 280 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:08.480 Was Benny Hannah. 281 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.159 You could go to White Fence Farm, which I think 282 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:14.399 was good in theory. 283 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:15.759 I think their food was terrible. 284 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.480 Old Kasabanita which was fun, but the food was kind 285 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.879 of in edible, I mean except for the soapo peas. 286 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:27.320 So yeah, not the best food. Do you remember that. 287 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.080 I mean, if you wanted to go somewhere interesting, you 288 00:14:30.120 --> 00:14:30.960 had to go downtown. 289 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:31.879 Well, now you don't have to. 290 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.759 Every little part of the metro area now has a 291 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:36.879 cute little main street. 292 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:38.600 I don't go downtown anymore. 293 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.200 If I want to take friends that are out of 294 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:43.480 town somewhere fun, go to Littleton's. 295 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.039 Main street, go to Parker's main street. 296 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:49.919 By the way, Parker's got a great, really great farmers 297 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:51.480 market on Sundays. 298 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:53.360 You should check it out. It's a lot of fun. 299 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.399 But I mean, there's farmers' markets everywhere. There's cute little 300 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.200 town centers everywhere. There's really no need to go downtown 301 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.120 unless you want to see a play. But even there, 302 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:07.600 Parker has a culture center, Littleton's got a cute little playhouse, 303 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:11.559 or Vada Center's got some really great acts. So you 304 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.759 don't even have to go downtown to go to the 305 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:17.600 to go see a play. You could just go somewhere regionally. 306 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.639 And that's better than in nineteen seventies and eighties. 307 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:23.639 Growing up, growing up. 308 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.200 I remember Littleton, which has got like the cutest main 309 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:30.120 street ever. It was so seedy, all these empty storefronts. 310 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:31.600 Now it's fantastic. 311 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:32.960 Golden. 312 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.279 Golden's got a great, you know, great little main street, 313 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:38.720 a lot of fun stuff. 314 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:40.559 So this person says, by the way. 315 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.360 I will not go downtown unless I have my concealed 316 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:43.960 carry on me. 317 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:46.279 It's too dangerous. Hey, I get it, I get it. 318 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:47.120 You just don't know. 319 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:49.960 I mean, the chances of something happening are pretty low. 320 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:51.799 I guess depending on when you're down there. 321 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:52.440 Two am. 322 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.200 Maybe problematic, but it is. It's sketchy. It's totally sketchy. 323 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:06.200 It's totally sketchy. Let's see, Uh what else? AWE so 324 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:09.120 nice to hear you, christer Richard the elk hunter. Yes, 325 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.279 Richard brought me some elk. I made an announcement when 326 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:12.960 I was on the air. 327 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:13.759 Sometime last year. 328 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.080 I was like, if anyone wants to give me, you know, 329 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:20.159 anyone who hunts wants to give me something delicious, I 330 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.039 will certainly take it off your hands. We're not in 331 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.960 a hunting season yet, but you can even give me, 332 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:25.879 like if you I love I love goose. 333 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:28.000 Okay, I know I'm tangenting here. 334 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:30.759 I love goose, And you can actually just drop off 335 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:31.879 goose or ducks. 336 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:34.879 You don't even have to they don't have to skin 337 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:35.679 them or clean them. 338 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.879 I'll do all that. It's fine. And somebody took me 339 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:40.720 up on it. Richard did and he gave me some 340 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.399 elk meat. Elk meat is like better than beef. It's 341 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:48.200 thelish So thanks a lot. I definitely appreciate it. Other 342 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.039 folks talking about the cost of living making it hard 343 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.720 to live here, having to work two jobs, Yeah I 344 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:54.960 get that. 345 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.399 I think I worked like five jobs, this. 346 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.639 Person said before COVID, I didn't need to work two 347 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.440 jobs on top of my retirement pay. This person also 348 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:08.799 loves the outdoor stuff, hunting, fishing, backpacking, and yeah, I 349 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:13.039 get it. It is absolutely gorgeous. On the more important question. 350 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:15.519 Than I asked, I asked the question of what do 351 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.799 you like what do you don't like about the state? 352 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:21.559 Which is turning? It's what are we turning? 353 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.440 We're turning ninety nine? I guess today. State was founded 354 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.720 in eighteen seventy six. Am, I, I'm not doing the 355 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:31.279 math right on that. I think it's No. 356 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:36.279 Sorry, I'm not doing the math right on that here? 357 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:37.319 Do I actually think it is? 358 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.920 Anyway, we were admitted by as the thirty eighth state 359 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:42.759 in eighteen seventy six. 360 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:43.920 And we're having a birthday. 361 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.680 I asked what do you love about the state, what 362 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:48.079 do you hate about the state? 363 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.039 And some good answers on that. I also asked if 364 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:51.519 you were. 365 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.880 To flee the state in a stolen automobile, but what 366 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:57.200 would it be And. 367 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.079 This person said, if I had to split the state, 368 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:06.640 it would be in a vintage white El Dorado convertible. Nice. Yeah, 369 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:07.319 I like it. 370 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.480 I would have a fleet of old cars if I 371 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.960 had the money, I would have like a true Mini, 372 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.319 you know those little not the new Mini Mini, but 373 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.680 the old Minis which were like the size of you know, 374 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.599 not much bigger than you know, a human body, teeny 375 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:30.000 tiny cars. I would have an El Camino because she's 376 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:31.000 just so hideous. 377 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:32.240 I love them, and. 378 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:34.319 It would have to be like a really hideous shade 379 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.920 of brown. I have an El Camino. I would have 380 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:43.920 a Chevy Chevelle Malibu convertible. I'd have an old Ford truck. Yeah, 381 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.440 there's so many great old cars out there. I used 382 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.720 to have a muscle car and I loved hearing that 383 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.400 engine per it. H. There's nothing like a car that 384 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.119 can do zero to sixty and six seconds. And I 385 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.119 will say this for those electric cars. I do not 386 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:01.559 have an electric car, mostly because I don't have what 387 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:05.319 seventy thousand dollars to drop on a new vehicle, especially 388 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.480 when that you know, when the battery dies, kind of 389 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:08.359 the car's done. 390 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:09.440 I don't need that. 391 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:17.359 But I did get to try one of those teslas. 392 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:19.960 And it was zero to sixty and three seconds. There's 393 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:24.960 somebody who likes a little speed. It wasn't too bad. Yeah, 394 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.240 it wasn't too bad. Hey, we're gonna take a break 395 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:27.720 now when we. 396 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.000 Get back, let's maybe switch subjects. 397 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:34.200 I like this birthday subject. We may return to it 398 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:35.240 later on in the show. 399 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:37.880 But I also liked the idea of when was the 400 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.480 last time you saw a funny movie? And are you 401 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:46.599