Ammon Bundy

Then, to protect their own property during a larger wildfire in 2006, they started their own back burns to limit the oncoming fire's fuel, which nearly trapped BLM firefighters between two blazes.

These moves led to charges of arson, and after a lengthy legal battle, the story began to spread across the rest of the ranching west, where it reached one Ammon Bundy in Arizona, who set in motion the takeover of the refuge.

To any BLM official, the name was notable, as the Bundy family, too, has a long history of high-profile disagreements with federal managers.

Cliven, Ammon's father, had refused to sell his grazing permits back to the federal government in 1993 as part of a larger land swap deal to protect a newly designated endangered species, the desert tortoise, in southern Nevada.

In a further act of defiance, he decided to no longer renew his grazing fees, eventually racking up more than a million dollars' worth of unpaid fees.

How are you smart enough to vote but not smart enough to have a cigar?

I think, uh, the, so the trans and kids kind of segues nicely into this Ammon Bundy arrested in Utah story, uh, that happened.

I, I actually wanted to maybe read, though, this note because I, I think I should have done it here as part of the Prop 1 thing, uh, I think.

Um, I don't know how to weave it in, so I'm just gonna read it now.

But you know, you just, just keep plodding along with your shitty MAGA policies, GOP, and, uh, maybe it'll work this time.

But it might work for us.

Well, as promised, uh, moments ago, here is a spin, and spe- speaking of, uh, banning cars because they're a dangerous mechanism, and trans and kids Here is the Ammon Bundy story.

This is, again, I apologize, but it's from NPR.

Comes from God.

Longtime anti-government figure, Ammon Bundy.

Son of Cliven Bundy.

And Celeste Malloy's cousin.

Congresswoman, Celeste Malloy.

Hello! It's just a little joke between Gina and I whenever it's Celeste Malloy.

Ammon Bundy was arrested in Iron County, that's down there near Cedar City, on Wednesday, for driving an unregistered vehicle, a requirement he argues violates his inalienable right to travel freely.

In protest, Bundy later walked eight miles down I-15.

Uh, yeah.

Speaking of not hear the last of, uh, someone, Ammon Bundy.

You know who that is, right?

Yep.

Uh, Ammon Bundy, who, uh, famously two episodes of The Cultural Hall, go back and get in the archives for that.

I spoke with him for nearly three hours, and I have maybe five regrets professionally in my life.

Uh, and Ammon Bundy is one of the regrets that I have.

Not that I interviewed him, no, no, no.

I don't know.

Ammon Bundy, call your office.

Like-

Yeah.

I don't really know what the-- [laughs] This has never come up before in the time I have been following politics, so I don't know what the United States Senate can do about this, but he's starting out urging the Secretary of Defense to reconsider his exact words, what he had to say, drawing on some history and LDS scripture as well to oppose the announce-- or the plans to live-stream a military execution.

Before we get to that, not really a lot of import to this story, but it cracked me up, and he's somewhat infamous, but Ammon Bundy's back in the news.

Ammon Bundy, if you remember, the Bundy family first got their claim to fame over a standoff, which really, you know, it came down to basically, we found out afterwards, the family abusing their grazing rights.

And so why they became, you know, far-right heroes is beyond me because they were basically freeloading off of all the other ranchers who were paying the grazing fees.

But either way, it became a big thing when a heavy-handed federal response cracked down on them on a ranch in Nevada.

Well, uh, then he, he ran to Idaho.

Uh, he got sued by a hospital in Idaho and lost, and he's now a fugitive, and it's been known m- pretty widely that he's been living in southern Utah.

Um, by the way, Bundy, Ammon Bundy, is like a second or something cousin of United States Congresswoman from Utah, Celeste Maloy.

happened in Oregon.

The FBI intervention resulted in a death among Ammon Bundy's friends.

The situation was filmed live.

Following these two confrontations, the farmer spent two years in prison.

Since then, he has become a symbol of total and unequivocal rejection of federal power.

In Idaho, Ammon Bundy has been given a new opportunity at life.

He became an apple farmer.

Politics, not that fun.