Eastern Colorado

So that is part of the reason why they are able to open their doors.

60s Eastern Plains for tomorrow.

We were in the 60s today.

We'll be in the 50s in the mountains tomorrow.

As bad as a charge as you could get.

And, and it, it, you know, in me, it, it, I just became more of a, probably a bit blue in the face ambassador around this sort of urban rural, you know, just, I don't want to call it divide, but there, there can be some really significant misunderstandings in our state when you, when most people live in these populated seven counties sort of front range area and people are on the Western slope and on the Eastern Plains just sort of are often not in those conversations.

And that was just a really good example of a ballot measure that for right, wrong, or otherwise, and I used to say after I was the chair of the commission, you know, I'm supportive of wolves on the landscape in Colorado do I think a ballot measure is the way to do that particularly when it's a it's a it's a state that's populated the way it is and you've got so much of a sort of a centrist centrifugal force along the front range but you have so many people out in the in the rural parts of our state that sort of get to live with the results of those measures

yeah and

A short answer to each of you first, Ms. Bovert first.

Do you think that the price benefit for consumers outweighs the harm to ranchers on the Eastern Plains?

I do not.

I came out and I was critical of this decision.

I've never said that they're going to close anyway.

What I have said is what I've heard from the CEOs of rural hospitals, which is this.

If things don't dramatically change in five years, they have told me that there will be no rural hospitals on the eastern plains.

We must do more to support our rural hospitals, taking away $150 billion and giving them the potential for $50 billion.

And Devin's coming home with the service truck today.

He's been over in Eastern Colorado.

He had five tractors that he was working over there.

One of them we brought up in the last podcast.

It was giving them some codes that they were getting some EGR problems.

He got over there, looked at it, seen the exact same thing, and was really questioning the EGR valve in it at all, but he finally got all the exhaust tore off of it, and somebody had been in there and broke the end off of the clip, and it was actually just barely plugged in, and so he was able to fix that one.

We have a new plug coming for him, but he's going to do that on the next trip when he's over there in eastern Colorado again.

He had to work on an 8280 Deutz over there that was having a... upstream sensor on the DPF that was, or I'm sorry, upstream on the, the DOC that was giving him some problems.

Why did he come to the conclusion Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean was such a pro-death penalty movie? And he explained to us that precisely because that nun brought repentance into his life and the man who was on death row because of that nun approached a chaplain, I think it was actually a priest and he made a confession, and then got the death penalty, the very fact that he was brought face to face with, just like what you said, the last four things, he was brought to confession precisely because he had to face his own death.

Now, the people I've seen in solitary confinement, I remember I was working at one of the prisons on the Eastern Plains of Colorado as a priest, and I was talking to a guard about the guys in solitary confinement, and he said, They are so out of their minds.

They're catatonic.

We have to drag them out of their cells.