 broadcasting live election results show thank you very much oh my god I can feel you clapping at home I gotta tell you I can I can feel that all the way from the studio here in beautiful long mod color put your hands together for my friend Pierre he's gonna be playing the drums for us he's gonna he's gonna like let you know when I've made a joke in case it's not real clear you know it goes like this I'll be like oh you know Brian Bagley so tall you know he thought he had dandruff but it turned it out to be frozen hikers that didn't make it to the summit that's how you do the jokes so just let me know today we're gonna be looking at the results from the local election now I don't know if you are a voter yourself no shame for me we don't shame people about voting do it no no it's perfectly fine if you're disenfranchised that makes sense to me we have a yellow light here I'm not sure if that means be careful with language or and now we're back to blue are we still rolling excellent perfect I was I was taught to read a color code recently before this show and being dyslexic and ADD I've forgotten what the colors mean there is a kind of tricksy right blue and orange and green green definitely means go but blue means like you're choking here in Longmont Colorado we have 102,000 people in our population is I think that's correct it's it's weird to have moved here a bunch of years ago in 2009 and watch it grow so quickly it's also a joy so thank you for tuning in we have election coverage for you today golly there's been there's been some voting that's been going on in town now we don't really know if this is all the votes or how many are gonna total come in right probably a lot one would assume but right now I can give you the results that we currently have is that is that what we want they're over here on this screen you can read them for yourself if you're a reader but I'll read it to you of course we got three candidates for mayor get Ethan all green Joan Peck and Terry goon right now Joan Peck is in the lead now don't whatever people could will be in the lead and you know things will go back and forth a lot while we sit here even just in the hour that we're gonna be broadcasting so don't get too excited about if your candidate doesn't have enough votes yet or whatever this is all sort of randomly gonna add up to whatever our final result is so fucking relax maybe like a relaxing relaxing beat you know just to sort of help everyone just take it even because honestly local politics is very important it's some of the most important things we're doing in America I don't know if you know about national level politics one word that comes to mind is uber fucked so like that's a little depressing but along the local level your vote your vote really does make a difference thank you that's pure isn't a fabulous didn't feel more relaxed with the little beat so right now Joan Peck's on the lead we also got City Council member at large at word one and word two all up for grabs consensual grabs friendly grabs like more like you know like a not like an aggressive BDSM level powerful thing just like you know gifting what's been handed to you by the community Sean McCoy a friend of the show now for nothing Sean McCoy came on our last election special he was great he came on the special and then was elected immediately so not for nothing not for nothing he was elected immediately Sean McCoy and then we got Steve all shuler and then we got Becky Venturella Venturella maybe golly I don't know how to pronounce everybody's name and the candidates we got word one also we got Nia Wassnick we got Diane Christ and we got Harrison Earl I'm at Harrison Earl Pierre and I were doing our show Boulder County tonight just the other night at the Dickens opera house remember the guy that we interviewed that nice guy he was like hi it's me I'm just nice and I just like wear this comfortable sweater and like that seems so huggable that was the guy he's in the race we know Sean as well so like we're not we're not trying to I don't know push for any particular candidates we're just friendly with the entire community in word three you got Ron Gallegos who's run for candidate he's run for City Council before Gary Hodges who we've met of course she came on Boulder County tonight last time she was in in in office here I think she wasn't running at the time but she was great Gary Hodges and Susie Hidalgo fairing that's what I mean but Gary came on last time remember Gary Hodges the bald dude he was so nice he came on our little show Ron Gary Susie and then we got Spencer Adams who I don't know but he seems nice right it's good name it's a nice name he seems nice I'm sure he's harmless so we're we're whatever in favor of all these people before we talk anymore about like who's getting elected and the race blah blah the most important thing to remember is that all leave all of these people are offering to do a job that fucking sucks this is a public service it is not fun to be in politics especially at the local level it can be a real pain in the fucking dick and like it don't pay good takes a bunch of your time as soon as you get elected half the public probably hates you or whatever because there's some party affiliation thing they eat up all your time half the population doesn't like you then of course like the half that does like you wants you to be like radicalized with the things that they voted for so they may be let down as well by the end you have like sort of this tiny proportion of the community that like actually was your friend the whole way through everybody else at the end will just pretend to be a familiar friend the whole time it's a fucking tricky game nobody should really want this job and so like when people run for Senate you know in Washington or whatever that's obviously a rigged thing that's obviously like people in it for a lot of the wrong reasons I think everybody agrees at the local level that really is not true and there's not enough money in it there's not enough power in it for real problematic people to want the gig so when we talk about different candidates or whatever we're talking about different ideas just remember that basically everybody's in it I think for the right reasons I've never really run into a local candidate especially up here that I thought was in it for the wrong reasons beyond the candidates we've got ballot issues now I knew I'd take this off immediately I'm just a sweaty bitch and it's gonna be this way if you're really good I'll keep losing layers we've got ballot issues now we'll talk more in depth about what the ballot issues were and you know what they maybe meant for us but they're all trending against right now everybody seems to not want that at this point only 29% of the people are voting in favor of 3c only 28% are voting for 3d and 3d is the coolest way to watch a movie so it's weird to see people voting against it looks like 26% are voting in favor of 3e so like it those those look like they're fucked basically on arrival we'll talk more about those later but first if we like we can we actually have a guest that we can turn to we'll come back to covering this stuff but we've we've got a while to work on this and we can really take our time thank you to the people that are in our studio audience today let's let's hear a little see what's there thank you thank you he's so helpful not not right now just that but right now I'd love to call up my good friend mr. Aaron Rodriguez councilman Rodriguez please come join us how you doing sir good to see you good to see you so oh my god if you'll chill that water up for you some of this wine that's not water but yeah happy election day happy election day hope everybody voted I hope I like to say I've argued the past tense of to vote could be to have farted yes you know what I think that's great I got no no especially if you don't like who you're voting for it's better say I've argued for them alright that's how I felt when I voted for a Clinton once upon a time I had to choose you know a terrible person or a psychopath and I chose a terrible person now I'll always forget it yeah but today's election day now I don't I just want to make just a note from the show I don't require that you vote matter of fact if you have a friend group and your friend group tells you that you are let's say an asshole I just want you to know that you're not required to vote as far as I'm concerned if you ask around your friend group hey my whatever an asshole and if your friends are like yeah kind of just I know that you don't need to whatever you tell them tomorrow's when you vote yeah yeah make it like a makeup vote you know no you got to Wednesday oh well you've yeah yeah you've got the you've got to win that yeah till Wednesday it's fine don't worry about it now and you're not having to run for your seat correct that must feel nice absolutely yeah what's it like to do an election is it I mean you you're getting grilled by local news affiliates or is it more like you wish you were getting attention well you know long months so you know important in the greater front-range scene that of course I'm always being asked no that's not the case I thought we're okay okay definitely not the case I don't you know I watch a lot of local news I actually prefer parental in the mornings on channel whatever that he's on I'm not gonna blast him because you know but I like parental I've dealt with him because my band played on that station at 6 o'clock in the morning one time and I thought he was a very interesting person and I will tell you that outside of the Denver the explicit Denver metro region even though long months considered that are we really yes we're considered part of the Metroplex we're 40 minutes from it I know this and this is a big problem with our public transportation system for instance here's a question okay there we go I know it's not on the ballot this time but do you remember that time that we spent all this money to like build a train this train company maybe was gonna build a train from here to Denver light rail and then like we got all involved with the contract and pay the money and stuff and then as it turned out like they just ran a train on us as a community well you know that's where the concept of being railroaded came from right right right where are we with that is there anything to be said about that so mayor Peck who is running for reelection the goodly mayor Peck that is one of her very large campaign issues if anybody's been paying attention to those and some people one of her opponents for instance has called her train wreck Peck because of her focus it does run the train yes it does it does okay it sounds a little bit like some national politics that I don't want to get into you but fair enough but rhyming is nice I love alliteration too we love alliteration pick Peck you know that's what I'd be putting on the side but that's questionable on the worst so she's in favor of the train or not in yes absolutely she's been fighting for the train and I believe it was 2004 which would have been my junior year in college so I was not unfortunately here to have a vote in that I feel you that was that's how long we've been paying yes so that's how long we've been paying and there are other options now which what she is proposing now is related to a different proposition called the north something passenger rail north Western passenger rail something along those it's been so fucking long it might as well be called the hoverboard who gives a shit because you know we got other things to deal with but I really wish that train came through I don't mean to wait get on topic or whatever please please believe you me if I could get on a train and go down to Denver and watch some comedy or some live music I have two thumbs up there just seems like to this way and then to down to Denver four thumbs total that's like yeah if I had more thumbs that's where they'd go listen I I respect that note I appreciate that have you been I don't see you in a minute oh you know just living the life of an unemployed man so relatable I'm in the arts that we call it being in the arts yeah yeah it's like being unemployed but every once in a while you draw a picture yeah you know sending in a lot of inquiries and drinking I believe it's it's kind of how it goes that is how it goes my yes my inquiries the real estate business which is what I have a license in oh that's right of course yeah it is terrible right now so yeah you have any questions about housing or anything oh I know you know I like to talk about housing and here's it generally yeah well that's not just long no it is everywhere that's right I feel like these ballot initiatives they were all tax increases and it added it added up to 40 million and $600,000 sure toward like whatever swing sets or whatever the fuck good for them but like with all the things that we've been learning with like housing and whatever just an affordable community it seems strange to spend 40 million dollars on anything else I don't know I've never run city government so I don't know what the priorities are like understandable Mike here's a question how did you feel about these battle initiatives do you do everyone seems against them so there are there's two pressures there on a city council okay is that yes we as a city council are very understanding of what the economic environment is but we're also very understanding of what the public environment is and the public environment for the last at least as long as I've been on which is six years now has said that we want expanded library services if not another annex but at least fund us to a certain level we've heard from the folks that are really into the recreation scene that we're overburdened and then we also have facilities currently that are aging out of life there's it's not financially feasible to continue them without a complete let's say demolishment and rebuild which is a very expensive proposition and then as well as the arts and entertainment proposition that we see having been to music school being a touring musician very sympathetic to what they're saying and I technically speaking I think that would be the easiest one to vote for because they're already talking and they're promising funding up to 35 million I believe and at least when they finish that project it's a source of tax money exactly much more so than a drain on tax money which is what you could say for a library or rec centers yeah with the proposition that they have forward with the arts and entertainment building or concept that's likely to be actually a revenue driver then drain but they don't know where it's gonna be yet right the sugar mill maybe wants it over there I think generally speaking you would see it whether it's at the sugar mill or a little bit closer to Main Street it's still the same proposition of where it would go between the steam area and the sugar mill area and so the steam area is close to Main Street the sugar mill areas just a little bit or sugar factory we get a lot of complaints about how we talk about the sugar mill sugar factory is just a little bit to the east and so that's why they've tried to group them together as an idea so it's just getting across Martin Street is the delineation line oh I see okay I feel like you know Martin has all those terrible roundabouts and that people hate so much and you know I have personally been in an accident in a roundabout it was an Australia though oh yeah well Jesus well you know there's a very pretty lady sitting next to the taxi driver and he was checking her out a little bit and boom we got t-boned I relate to everyone in the story yeah I know you do it feels like in Australia they go Randy Andy that's how it goes it feels like in Australia they have roundabouts in our in Canada they have roundabouts sounds a boot right thank you thank you sorry I'll never be a father so I have to use the jokes as they come to me all right well this I don't know this election is just barely getting underway these numbers are barely coming through I know and you've asked me nothing about candidates do you want to be asked about candidates happy to divulge yeah of course because now it's over right so here we are with our without yeah because other candidates are still at home eating chicken wings wondering how it's gonna go into it's gonna be fine your chicken wings will be old by the time you actually know that's right that's right but we do I think it's 8 p.m. in Longmont Colorado we're the only ones talking about this news right now I think we're the first ones with the I don't do the Times calls published it I don't think the both of we cuz published it highly unlikely so we got our beloved goodly honorable mayor Joan Peck who wants to hold her position as mayor and then there's Ethan Allgreen and Terry goon running against her well you know sometimes they say that when you run for office it's dependent upon your name I think Terry goons a terrible name for me I mean some some people might like to try strong aren't people but I feel like it's also Halloween season and like ghouls and stuff or in fashion so we'll see I don't know Terry she's a nice woman she seems like I don't work with her I was reading her opinion she did an interview with the Longmont Chamber of Commerce and in that she was basically saying like I don't think the government should basically do anything and so like that's kind of where most of her opinions are coming from I see that's my take that's whatever that's I see your note this one journalist page yeah yeah that's interesting in this conversation yeah yeah I would say that she's a bit one note but for many people that would be very beneficial to them in their ideology and what they think of it how government should be run so and I feel very much that Terry is somebody I could work with I'm sure you could circumstance because you're such a reasonable character you could work with probably most people so you would think but I always like to live by the immortal words of Andrew W. K. which is party party party so well you make an excellent point Erin as always all right well I think like we'll see these numbers keep growing or whatever now Sean McCoy just got on council last time around right for the second time yes for the second time and I don't know he seemed like a nice fella he had a nice when he came on this show he'd look nice do you remember him that day oh yes he tries to dress very natty I'd like that shit what's that mean maddy though maddy like sexy like stylish stylish I like an old word for stylish I think okay okay well I like to be a little you know retro sometimes a classic character yourself allegedly as you go forward with you know you'll have new people possibly a new mayor who knows with these numbers are still growing and changing what do you hope council prioritizes for long long because obviously these ballot initiatives aren't tickling anybody's fucking team I'm not surprised I've been a staunch housing advocate continually growing the the housing stock because as you'll hear from other people that it's economy economics is supply and demand I mean it's a very simple concept to to grasp in the sense that well there's quite a bit of demand for housing in this area and as there should be it's we are dreadfully behind in the supply and so we'll continue to push for housing I'm glad you fucking said that I think that's just as history is going that is the right answer people need homes and we'd like to live here you know I would hope people like to live here because I enjoyed living living here from birth till I graduated high school and then I went out of state and I loved it so much I came back my man put your hands together for this nice man he's been serving you in the shitty job we've been talking about thank you Randy Andy well he seemed nice didn't he that's his thing he's nice you know and smart you know it's like be talented or smart or nice but don't be all three fucking pick you know one that's what I'm doing I'm like charming but I'm an asshole it's like it's called balance Aaron doesn't get it let's walk through the ballot issues very quickly we we haven't really talked about it now we've been doing this show for about a half hour it goes quick you know we need to keep an eye on the things here okay you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna I'm gonna work on doing two things at once here's what I'm gonna do I have my old friend out to watch the numbers put your hands together for my friend Jack when we started working with public television years ago we realized that you know you get a puppet as like mr. Rogers and shit so if you could watch the numbers I will talk about the election things here thank you Jack. Pierre how about a little little talking about the initiative's groove like a proposition groove excellent maybe we just got a perfectly working system now so comfortable we had ballot issue 3C it's worth seven million four hundred thousand dollars and it's to build a new branch library thank you Pierre now I don't know if you're very hip to the library honestly could you just the library where there's it's you could have voted today it looks like you're not but you could have voted to spend seven million dollars and how's it going okay fine to build a new branch library I don't think that's wise for a long mile what do I know I'm an idiot look Jesus Christ look at the screen and realize who's talking to you don't agree that hard a new branch library I don't know if you've heard of the library it's you know it's the place where they printed the fucking internet I'm just not sure we need it another place where we printed sections of the internet so that's where we should maybe look away from that looks like Longmont thinks that there's also ballot issue 3D not that one it's a tax increase of course of twelve million five hundred thousand dollars for an arts and entertainment center I don't know about this because it seems like one of the great benefits of Longmont is that the arts and entertainment is spread out through venues in the community where more people make money from it I think if we had I don't know arts and entertainment center what does that mean symphony performances I like the symphony we love the guys over there do they need a building to themselves is again who's gonna be playing at this thing who's gonna be doing it it's just in thought but I don't know do we need it it seems like with housing in such a bad place in Longmont it seems silly to spend 12 million on that ship there's also ballot issue 3E they'll have threes in them and this is worth 20 fucking million dollars and seven hundred thousand dollars can you believe these numbers that's for recreation centers recreation centers that's like a like a park they're talking about doing it Dry Creek Community Park now I will say I we may need more recreation centers I was in Longmont just the other day and I was driving around at Centennial Park and that and that there were 50 children in line to have one swing on the swing it was it was really embarrassing there are so many there are so many children wishing that they could swing on the swing 50 children deep in the line just and they would take turns like there were good children the Longmont children and they would each kid got three swings you know it's not enough swings I was at Roosevelt Park the other day and they've changed it to a Petunia garden easier to maintain I guess takes less water I saw that the fucking the jungle gym only had one monkey bar you know what the fuck are we talking about a recreation center seems silly Longmont is in Colorado now I don't fucking know if you've heard about Colorado but it's basically famous for get this outdoor naturally occurring recreation so why do we need 20 million motherfucking dollars when it's like you know go hiking you know go to a gym Jesus Christ what are you looking for you know I want to fucking I want to go swimming in the winter time we have that we have that relax I don't know 20 million dollars seems too much have the numbers changed at all thank you that's a total proposed tax increase of 40 million six hundred thousand dollars and I just want you to remember when you hear that number what we were talking about in this election is 40 million dollars zero percent of it going to actually solving life problems for anyone in the community they were all extras that seems strange especially fucking printing the internet we have the newspaper you know what I mean they print the internet you know they do a great job printing the internet they're a bunch of bunch of like bird cages that are very grateful you know what I mean no I'm kidding we love the newspaper they're fine so those are our ballot initiatives that's what you were choosing between and how did we do Jackie perfect looks like it's no on all those that's gonna keep going all excellent well I think we might have another guest to deal with would you fuck off also there was a judge retention question now for me whenever they ask me if you want to keep a judge it's basically no every time you know spin the wheel you never know just get a new judge I'm sure this person's name is Robert J. Frick which is what we used to say in Christian school when we couldn't say fuck you know Robert J. Frick I'm sure the honorable Judge Frick's a great character but I'm just all about that fresh judges often as possible we bless Judge Frick now if I can I'd like to call another guest is Ethan still here Ethan all green who's running for mayor we're gonna talk about about that Ethan nice to see you join us won't you do you see the professional show biz monkey from earlier no I did maybe I'll introduce you if you seem really awesome I'm elected for mayor so Ethan you're running for mayor today I am well not running anymore because polls closed well but the numbers are still coming in so we'll see what happened here you never know let's talk about your vision for long line because when or lose we'd love to hear what you think would be helpful for our community and also put your hands together for this person who's running for this job we thank you for your service why did you why do you want to fucking do this shitty job well I got lots of debt get a master's degree in environmental leadership so I think I might as well put that to use and think beneficial for the community I think that the priorities are misguided when it comes to environmentalism and there's not a lot of serious forethought and strategy going into what this is doing in terms of doing a new energy transition or I don't know if you're aware but we're clear coming thousands of acres of trees up in the head where is a button rock preserve that's a bad idea a bit button rock yeah that's one of the pretty places it is yeah and we're cutting down trees and then she's just fuck us we're assholes because she's can burn so I don't run fires so might as well just cut down all the trees but the problem is that that increases the risk of floods of course cutting the balance where we're not coming on all the trees but we also be running fires and we have like soil erosion problems when we started losing our trees right yeah sedimentation the water quality I have an associates degree in in a dumb assery so I don't can't say I understand at the depth that you must be looking at this problem but even I can see it's an important issue what do you think Longmont as a city could possibly do about about that like we can't stop trees being cut down is there something in Longmont that could be sustainably more helpful planting trees is better than cutting down hell yeah we like we only planted 236 trees last year and this year we've cut down thousands of don't know how many we planted but it's not anywhere near close to number we've cut down and there's a great website tree equity score dot org tree equity analyze the tree canopy in different neighborhoods and we have a big disparity in Longmont there are some neighbors out of lots of trees and some neighbors don't have any trees at all so we could address that inequity by planting more trees and neighbors don't have them and also address the climate crisis because trees are great for air quality they absorb carbon trees and bees right that's that's kind of the thing these are good too yeah we have a 4,000 acres of open space land and about 1,500 acres of our culture and that all could be regenerative our culture going crops and hemp in ways that beneficial for the soil instead of GMO corn enough alpha like we're doing now hmm did you you must have an opinion I suppose on these ballot issues you agree with all my comedy bits from earlier obviously but what do you what do you think about that stuff well I think well I expected them to be voted down because people don't want to pay more taxes yeah right I voted for the library because I like books I also like books I'm not I'm not moving out of hatred for books you know we're pro book but Jesus Christ have you seen the internet you know what I mean it's it's got the books it's got the books for sure yeah Twitter is a great placement for books in my opinion and where like if they were going to do a library another branch library where would you want that to be I guess I think the most frequent use of libraries these days are homeless people probably up in North Walma around 21st and Maine would be a good place because lots of homeless seem to congregate up there that makes sense yeah that makes sense and the library is a great resource for like having getting on the internet and be able to use a computer be able to use a printer or whatever yeah but like I like a lot for jobs Longmont could operate a fucking kinko's for a lot cheaper than this you know this I think was I don't know Jesus Christ it was seven million dollars but I do agree that the line was kidding when I was of course shit on the library don't mean to shit on them but whatever fuck it turns don't live in Longmont but when they come they visit the library often so yeah and and there's a lot they have a library app to the e-books all over the place it just seems like we have such a big expansive library that was my issue because I thought we should support the current library instead of building new one but there was part of this where they did direct funding to the existing libraries that's the reason why I voted for it hmm but I think the most predictable outcome in current politics overall is that voters reject bad ballot measures and then they reelect the same politicians who put those bad ballot measures on the ballot it's an interesting note I'll be surprised by anything different happens tonight but I think that's what we'll see if you could have like a message that you could send to Longmont voters whether or not you get this particular job or whatever we love that you want to help and so if you had anything that you could tell the general public just in general would you have any maybe notes what should they be looking for from their city council I think they should be looking for diversity of thought and new ideas there's kind of a stack stagnation of ideas it seems in city council in the mayor's office and that's part of why these bad ballot measures got placed on the ballot cause they're just not creative thinking and not really enough strategy behind the policies that are moving forward in the city overall. Well I appreciate that opinion and that you you've got to think that there's some place that you can fix if you get one. I'm a bit short-sighted and I can't see the numbers but are there any surprises and who's winning or are any incumbents losing? No incumbents right now are losing. How about Ward 1? Ward 1 is right now it's going to Diane Christ with 44% of the votes that have been counted. Awesome. Which is what or 44 is a nice number to have at this stage in the game you know what I mean the other candidates have 27 and 27. Twinsies. She's my friend I've ever Yeah I mean we I don't think we have any crazy motherfuckers or anything running we don't have any like terrible people running for office and if we did I swear we would say so. I've said so. Yeah I haven't met anybody that's running that seemed terrible of course I haven't met some of these people I guess but thank you so much for coming around on our show I really appreciate your time. Yeah and good luck in your election and then if we don't get the job this time please come around and run again if you like we really appreciate your willingness to serve. Thank you. Thank you. Put your hands together for this nice character. Now we've only got like 20 minutes left in the show and I know what you're thinking who else is going to come by and be interviewed I was wondering the same thing myself let me get a quick refresh on these numbers that's what we're actually supposed to be doing I just like talking to people they're so nice. Let's talk about these ballot issues real quick do you want to show this screen. City of Longmont ballot issue 3C that's the library. Longmont says 70% of the vote is saying no we will not print the internet. City of Longmont ballot issue 3D now that's the arts and entertainment center 71% of the votes are saying no we are currently sufficiently entertained. City of Longmont ballot issue 3E that is the recreation centers. Remember all those sad children that like oh my god they were just wanted to go one time on the swing once down the slide you got to wait all day. 73% of Longmont saying fuck those kids you know let them wait in line to play on the one monkey bar we could afford to give them and they should be happy with it. When I was a kid they just sent us out to jump into vans with candy in it it was the 90s we didn't ever we didn't have any monkey bars and as far as the local elections are concerned for mayor that was Ethan Ogreen that we just met what a delightful character that guy was holding 14% of the vote right now that's a lot of votes that's here's a quick note for you at home how many motherfuckers would say that you should run the city? How many like people in general are going to be like this guy or this person they should definitely be at the wheel of power? Zero right 15 max okay depending on meds these people are getting at least thousands of votes okay so just so you know they're doing better than you do okay can you imagine that if my name was on this it'd be like negative numbers you know what I mean as it should I have no right to be at the wheel of power on any level Jesus Christ but the monkey puppet however could really make a difference for this town more more beep that would be the buttons maybe we'll run an election next time for the monkey we'll see um so looks like Joan Peck is holding 57% of the vote and then Terry Goon who we haven't gotten to meet yet you know has 28% of the votes you've got 3,000 votes like thousands of people deciding you should run the city is really an impressive thing for anybody. Sean McCoy's running he's going to be city council member at large if these numbers don't change but they're not nearly as far off as some of these others Sean McCoy's got 47% of the vote Steve Allschuler Allschula Steve Knapschula it's a cool name I like I like these people they're great names 4,000 people at this point think that he should be on city council that's 30% of the vote 4,000 people it's so many people and then Becca Venturella she's got 2800 votes 21% of what's counted so far Ward 1, Mia Wasnick holding 27% of the vote Diane Christ is in the lead with 44% Harrison Earl who we met the other night who seemed like a delight he's like the kind of guy that you would trust with your car keys you know what I mean like or to give you a ride home if you were drunk he seems like a huggable character I don't know seemed very nice Harrison Earl's got 27% of the vote currently Ron Gallegos who's tried to serve this community a bunch of times I don't know I think twice maybe before but at least once nice fella I met him nice guy 18% of the vote right now Gary Hodges is holding 37% of the vote and then Susie Hidalgo Faring who we have had on the show before delight she's got 38% of the vote that's the closest race right now between Hodges and Faring and then Spencer Adams is also on the list with five percent of vote this sounds like my kind of guy you know what I mean but so far you know we haven't had that many votes total votes for mayors only 13,000 I expect that'll that'll grow a bit remember if you're an asshole you don't have to vote it's not required of you um now if we can uh one last interview I think we have time for don't you think yeah could you maybe give us a little one last interview beat put your hands together for Pierre over there and of course now we've had city council people on the show we've had candidates on the show who we haven't had so far is Mayor Joan Peck herself delightful character um if if things don't change we're likely to see her be the mayor again for another term uh and you can find great interviews with all these people on the Longmont Chamber of Commerce website they gave them like a questionnaire and each each candidate gave back pretty exclusive pretty involved dancers you probably should whatever should have checked it before now fuck you whatever but uh you definitely check it at some point now um I reached out to a bunch of these people to see if they'd like to come on the show um and I'm afraid uh Mayor Peck is unavailable uh unavailable to come on the show so um but she did say that she would be here in spirit which I think is sweet so um since she'll be here in spirit and because we have time for one more interview we'll see if we can put together some kind of uh with the Ouija board uh and we'll see if we can we'll see if we can get the Joan Peck to join us in spirit yeah don't worry she's alive she's not like a ghost or anything she we're just gonna we're just gonna just gonna put very gentle have you ever used one of these Ouija boards no I'm afraid to afraid to but never tried to summon a living person one assumes no I haven't tried that less dangerous I think uh one assumes so don't worry you at home you're in no danger no um okay so uh here we are we're gonna we're gonna interview Joan Peck who is a delight a great character and a big fan of the show as I understand um so uh you know spirit of Joan Peck we hereby invite you to speak to us through this uh through this Ouija board uh since this is the way that that you were able to show up today thank you very much for being here in spirit and if you are here please let us know through the Ouija board just let us know just don't move it don't be an asshole just relax and just let the thing oh my god did you do that do you didn't do it I feel I felt something no no no do it okay just relax it Joan Peck if you're here now on the show with us at Longmont Public Media your beloved uh home for local news uh entertainment um please let us know if you're here or not oh my god did you feel that okay oh she's yes it says yes okay okay we're in business okay uh Mayor Peck uh thank you for coming on the show we really appreciate it oh my god it's moving and you know Mayor Peck if you could speed up the spelling just for the sake of the show oh Andy Eppler thank you so much for having me on the show I'm a big fan of the show and of Longmont Public Media in general uh thank you so much for having me wow amazing isn't this amazing uh Joan my god thank you Miss Peck Mayor Peck uh thank you for for joining us oh my god thank you for that nice note about our show um do you have any notes on the ballot initiatives oh my god it's so creepy does it feel weird yes she does have notes oh my god okay great great are you willing let me ask you this uh are you willing to to go ahead and call the results for your election here we are with with some percentage of the votes in about 13 000 are you willing to just declare yourself the victor oh it's so creepy I've never used one of these no oh that's that's kind of her she's she's right of course the the election's not over I know I know I know all right well listen uh Mayor Peck uh you know uh what is your big uh most important issue of course in in for Longmont it oh my god she's she's spelling of a storm she says thank you so much for the opportunity to come on the show I know that you're not trying to like trick me into anything you're actually just a person trying to give me a space to talk for a minute on the show uh and I appreciate the opportunity as it turns out um and thank you for always saying nice things about my adorable sweaters wow we do say nice things about her adorable sweaters she has more sweaters than anybody I know um Mayor Peck uh as if you get reelected um if you get reelected what's going to be like your number one thing you're going to be working on oh Jesus oh she says uh that the ballot initiative seemed like too much money to be spending and if we're going to spend that kind of money we should spend it on something like Longmont public media which actually provides a benefit to local communities that are disenfranchised uh in Longmont and can't necessarily afford their own uh camera equipment but deserve to make their visual art and expressive uh projects even if uh even if they can't afford to own their own equipment wow I really agree with that and and I didn't know if we would get along remember when uh at one point uh Tim Waters came on the show and we weren't sure if Tim and I were going to get along at first right uh because he's terrifying he looks like uh like a seven foot tall middle finger he's he's an intimidating guy but once we got to know him he's actually a sweetheart and he was a school principal so we had to decide what that meant for us you know what I mean I suspect it'll be that way for for Joan and I as well Joan uh thank you for coming on the show how did you like working with Tim just for the one uh yeah that was fine oh great yeah he was fine uh great he seemed very nice uh did you whatever uh thank you very much also for writing in on the last episode with a beautiful note uh oh my god oh my darling Andy I can't believe it's been so long since we've gotten to chat I really do appreciate the work that you do and how much you try and help our local politicians get some attention from the general public oh Joan well honestly knock it knock it off you're gonna make me blush uh thank you for letting us summon you uh Joan Peck Mayor Joan Peck uh Honorable Goodly Mayor Joan Peck uh and uh thank you very much uh for for joining us in spirit uh have you got any last words for the show or anything she says Pierre is my favorite drummer in town he can really lay down the beats oh my god yeah I think the mayor's maybe sort of into you no don't make it like that I'm not trying to make it weird oh you know I've uh taken person not looking for a new partner but if I were uh I've noticed that Pierre knows how to do some real thump whackin that's disgusting I'm sorry Pierre Joan dial it back uh thank you for coming on our show and uh we hope to see you in soon uh a person in soon uh Mayor Peck because uh you know I'm sure that we'll do an event here together Longmont Public Media your favorite local resource Longmont Public Media is the greatest resource Longmont is offering at the moment and whatever millions we have to spend um fuck an ice rink and also fuck the motherfuckers trying to build a place where we're gonna print the internet again maybe we should spend it on something that actually benefit uh benefits disenfranchised community six six six double double huh I mean they're losing the mayor uh okay uh Mayor Peck if you can still hear me six six six double uh you know Jesus okay uh Mayor Peck thank you for coming on I'm just still there thank we really appreciate it and thank you very much uh kill burn okay I think we've got something else now uh we're gonna go ahead and knock it off thank you very much here's some ending the Ouija board music thank you very much we can go ahead and stop it wait we can go on stop it is everybody okay that was okay right yeah I feel okay okay we didn't harass her in person we interviewed interviewed her spirit and I think she came off nice she's a good mayor I guess people are voting for but people are voting for everyone in the race that's how the election works let's get final numbers before we have to sign out here we're gonna run out of time you know I just sit here for hours my monkey puppet and I would be happy to summon any local spirits for you uh Ken Pratt uh or the people from the Dickens Opera House they're right down the block I think uh you know uh looks like for mayor Argreens got 13 percent Joan Peck's got 59 percent that's a damn near 60 percent uh Terry Gunn's got 26 percent Sean McCoy is for Mayor uh City Council Large he's looking at 48 percent of the vote right now the other candidates all Shuler is 29 percent and Venturella I keep going back and forth on how I pronounce this name Venturella Venturella I think it's probably what it is uh 28 percent of the vote that nice person has they're working really hard to have a shitty job I'll never really understand it you know they should want my job it's way easier and you show up once every once in a while that's how often I tell my parents that I do drugs every once in a while it's once for every while you know uh Ward 1 Wassonick has got 28 percent of the vote Chris is carrying 43 percent right now Harrison Earl's got 28 percent these things could level out um Gallegos for Ward 3 is holding 17 percent Gary Hodges 36.83 percent uh Susie Hidalgo-Ferring of course is got 40.49 percent Spencer Adams up to 5.10 percent now Gary Hodges and Susie here are closest race and here's why you should here is a little note Longmont's not that big a town and your vote actually does matter because if you look here at 2600 versus 2800 is how close that race is that's really really close and that means that undeniably when you vote it really does matter in Longmont at the national level you pretty much go for yourself but at the local level it does seem to still matter as far as the ballot issues are concerned uh they're all Foxville so don't worry about that thank you very much for tuning in today what did we learn pier did we learn anything tonight I think we learned a lot did we learn a lot someone learned a lot uh I feel like uh I feel like you know it went medium well which is the worst way to get a stake um thank you very much for watching I hope that uh it was fun to sort of whatever get to meet some folks and talk about some local issues I'm sure we'll be back another time be sure to come on down to Longmont public media uh it's you can find them on YouTube you can find them on Facebook more importantly you can find them down here in uh the main heart of Longmont on 4th street uh and frankly what you should do is give them money I'm not gonna whatever preach all day about it but honestly uh what are you doing with your money you're not like helping some kid make their passion project movie or you're not helping like uh yeah somebody start a podcast or whatever but you could do all of those things through Longmont public media if you'd like to help your community express itself if you'd like to help your community have the tools that they need to live up to their potential it's it's tough times for artists and they can't afford the tools they need a lot of times and a lot of communities really can't afford very many tools but they still have worthy things inside them that's what Longmont public media is all about we're here we are very interested in helping you exhibit the beauty and creativity that's inside you that is what all the effort around here goes toward that's why we work with them there we're doing a noble project I hope you'll come around you could be a member I think it's uh it's a monthly fee it's very reasonable fee and with the membership you can rent time in the studio you can take classes you can use equipment you can check out equipment our friend Sergio in the other room uh is the executive director here and he does a great job making sure that everybody has an opportunity so uh if you feel like you care about your town and you care about uh the even disenfranchised communities that ought to be able to have an artistic voice with proper tools our city is doing that that's what this is so uh thank you very much for watching I hope you'll find your way to support the company once you get a little uh a little playing out music here thank you very much for watching Longmont public media it's uh it's your only media source in Longmont other than you and your phone streaming wherever all the time uh thank you very much for watching thank you very much for Pierre as well my god and honor and appeal thanks thank you