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August 21, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show | FREEDOM FRIDAY · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

• 0:53
  SPEAKER_24: Indescribable feeling we get some other thing before the face of sound that I can feel somehow upright out here like the best boy feel I fucked up We actually went to the movies uh yesterday and it's a little bit uh disappointing because they've completely changed that uh whole Hitman intro.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_29: What you hear there is almost a historical footnote now.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_29: And it's official Freedom Friday here from the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_29: My name is uh John Justice playing Fat AI jams.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_29: Producer Isaac is with us this morning.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning, Isaac.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_29: I could have done a whole hour's worth of songs that I've created.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_29: Wow.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_29: I don't know, man.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_29: That song's catchy as I'll get out.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_25: I know it's not everybody's cup of tea, but it was one of the most songs I've ever heard.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_29: It was a song.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_29: It was what you're saying.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_29: It was a song, and uh it had music and lyrics and allegedly and voices, voices singing.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, well, you know, there was I did do a little, I did do a a little bit of an update on the on the poetry from before I added a few things.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_29: That's good here and there.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_29: Because I've grown, you know, I've grown as a person.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_29: I've grown.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_29: I've grown as a man since since the mid-90s.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_29: The death of all good poets is you know, getting a job.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I've been uh I've been torturing uh the family with my uh with my uh poetry AI AI songs.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_29: Uh on the show today, we do have a full house uh arriving throughout the opening hours of the show.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_29: We'll have Representative Max Reimer on the comfy sofa on the comfy couch here at the Center of the American Experiment Studios.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_29: Uh aka Kamara, your RNC committeeman, will be here.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Grace Keating, who was not here last week, will join us once again, as will uh Catherine Johnson.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_29: And uh we've got a stack.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_29: It is a stack.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_29: We'll see how much of the stack that we uh that we that we get to this morning here on the on the show.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_29: You know, the good thing is there's not anything, uh it's kind of fun when we hit when I get to Fridays like this, when there isn't like anything like major.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_29: I feel like we got through all the big stuff yesterday.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_29: So there's a there's a few things that we needed to to discuss today, but there's nothing uh earth-shattering, you know, that we need to spend an ignor, you know, uh uh too much time on, I guess is what I'm I'm trying to say.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_29: I do want to make um I want to make one point.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, this is probably the most that I'll spend on it.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_29: We may talk about it when the guests join us in studio later on uh this morning, but um I do want to make one more comment that I didn't get to yesterday uh regarding Mike Lindell and his statewide recount of the primary election.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_29: We were having a conversation when the show ended yesterday, and there was a point that I wished that I had made yesterday that I didn't uh that I'll do here in uh just a moment.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_29: But let's get some of the business out of the way.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_29: Remember that you can watch the show live at MN Think Tank.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_29: There was no video attached to that previous song, by the way.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_29: I just want to let everybody know.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_29: I have thought about it.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_29: Not yet.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_29: I thought, not yet.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_29: Not yet.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_29: I think Purple Rain stains has the potential to be a huge hit.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_29: Like I imagine that playing like before the Vikings come out.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_29: You know, when the season begins.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_29: Although the season's ruined already.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_29: I saw photographs of Governor Dimwall's uh meeting with the uh with the coach and the and the players of the uh starting team.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_29: That pretty much means the season's over before it even gets started because he is a curse upon our sports franchises uh here.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_29: Uh so you can watch the show at MN Think Tank, Facebook, and uh YouTube uh at Center of the American Experiment.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_29: Of course, you can listen live on the Mixed LR app.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_29: Podcasts are posted there uh after the show is over and across all the podcast platforms, and the rewatch of the videos are on those uh on those channels as well, as uh along with Rumble too.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_29: So uh you can email John.justice at American Experiment dot ORG and John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_29: And uh also uh you can leave us a blast at any point in the show at 612-584-4565.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_29: 612-584-4565.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, Gary was up early this morning, left us our first uh blast uh here on the John Justice show.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_12: Good morning, John Justice.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_12: Gary calling in on a Friday morning, looking forward to freedom Friday and the call phone that I was in the podcast yesterday about uh Michael Indall on the record uh maybe or someone like uh the president of the United States and call it off because uh Michael Indall only listen for President Trump.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, you know, you know what I can do?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_29: I can drop Pete Heggseth a text.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_29: Hey Pete, can you uh Gary would uh like you to uh talk to Trump and to tell Mike Lindell to knock it off with the uh with the recount.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_23: Yeah, I'm not gonna do that.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_29: I feel like I have a select a selected number of texts that I can send Pete Heggseth, so I don't want to burn one, you know, unless it's uh unless it's super important.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, but Gary, you did provide me the opening to make the point that I didn't make yesterday.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_29: So for those that aren't aware, um uh Mike Lindell is launching a uh wants to launch a recount of the primary election.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_29: He is citing what he believes are anomalies going back to election night, and he is not convinced that it was a proper vote to count and that there might not have been fraud involved.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_29: This will cost about what,$835,000.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_29: I think that was the price tag that I saw on this.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_29: He said he was going to pay for it with his own money, but he's also asking for individuals to donate to him, um, uh obviously to assist in this in this effort.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_29: The point that I didn't make yesterday that I want that that I want to make here, and then we'll move on to some other items.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_29: And as I mentioned, we might talk about it a bit when our uh Freedom Friday crew joins us in studio, is that if Michael, in my opinion, if Mike Lindell legitimately believes that there are anomalies, he's calling into question the primary.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_29: If he genuinely believes this and believes this, and it's not just about him, this is how he this is how he should have gone about doing this.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_29: This is how anybody should have should go about doing what Mike Lindell is suggesting.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_29: You admit that you lost the election, okay, you concede, throw your support behind the primary winner, in this case Lisa Damath and Ryan Wilson, and then say, now I'm going to go and launch my official uh recount.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_29: Okay?
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_29: That's what you do.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_29: That way, when you're done with the recount, if it turns out that you were right for the sake of argument, now you've got the backing of everybody.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_29: Now it's like, hey, look at what I've exposed, and it calls into question the legitimacy of the primary.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_29: We need to now go and address it.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_29: And in doing so, you have maintained the trust of the voters.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_29: You've done the right thing in causing less harm because I still think there's damage to be done to the Republican Party candidates that won by going and doing this recount.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_29: This is not a positive thing for Republican efforts to win statewide.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_29: Be that as it may, if you went about the way that I suggested it, then this way, if you actually do end up finding some anomalies or regularities or fraud, then everybody is with you.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, you know, you did the right thing.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_29: You backed Damoth, but now you have proof that this primary was not on the up and up.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_29: And now you move forward with whatever remedy is available to go and fix that problem.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_29: You don't go the route of not conceding, essentially, saying that you believe that you won, not throwing your support behind the candidate, and then launching this recount, which has now caused a lot of consternation within the Republican Party and the base of voters who either voted for Mike Lindell or voted for Lisa Damath or voted for Kendall Qualls.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_29: And so, again, if this wasn't about him, that's how you should have gone about doing it.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_29: And that's not how he's going about doing it.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_29: And that's probably the aspect of this that I found so um uh the most uh frustrating was because of that, of that very reason.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_29: Because the right thing to do would have been to back the winner and then go and conduct your audit, you know, your recount.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_29: Because I've seen people online, they've been they've reached back out to me.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_29: There was a video that we posted, a clip uh from the from the show talking about this issue, and they, you know, were saying that they appreciate that Mike Lindell is looking into this.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_29: And, you know, maybe all of this was simply so that he could go and do this.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_29: Well, again, if that's the case, then he should admit defeat, support the winner, and then go do his recount.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_29: And if there happens to be evidence to suggest that this was not on the up and up in the primary, you know, now you've now you've got a leg to stand on and you haven't gone and made a bunch of people mad.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_29: Because unfortunately, now a bunch of people are mad.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_29: 612-584-4565.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_29: Again, if you want to email John at dot justice at American Experiment.org.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_29: Yesterday, FBI agents reportedly confronted former Representative Eric Swalwell at a California airport, seized his electronics as part of a federal crime investigation.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_29: Agents served the California Democrat with a search warrant.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_29: This was actually last weekend after he arrived at a San Francisco international airport.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_29: The source subsequently confirmed the airport encounter to the New York Post.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_29: The federal agents who executed the additional court-approved warrants on Sunday at Swalwell's Washington, D.C.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_29: residence and seized other potential evidence.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_29: Swalwell, 45 years old, apparently is cooperating with agents at the airport.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_29: Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department immediately commented on the reported searches.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_29: The investigation comes after multiple women accused the former congressman of sexual misconduct, allegations of Swalwell V-I can't ever say that word.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_29: I can't I can't ever I can't ever say vehemently.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_29: Vehemently, vehemently.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_29: I've always had a problem with that one.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_29: I need to work on it.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_29: I need to like practice it in a mirror, I think.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_29: He has denied the allegations ardently.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_29: We'll change it that way.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_29: That's easier to say.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_29: A former staffer has alleged that Swalwell raped her on two occasions when she was too intoxicated to consent.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_29: That's not good.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_29: And while other, another woman has accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2018.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_29: Two women have alleged he sent them unsolicited explicit images.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_29: The allegations had not been proven in court, and Swalwell maintains his innocence at this point.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_29: The accusations brought a dramatic end to the political career of one of President Donald Trump's most outspoken critics.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_29: Swalwell ended his campaign for California governor after the allegations surfaced.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_29: Resigned from Congress in April as he faced a House Ethics Committee investigation.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_29: The FBI action comes as Swalwell faces renewed scrutiny over his past relationship with Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative known as Feng Fang.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_29: Fang Fang.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_29: So nice you say it twice.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_29: Maybe I should write a song about Fang Fang.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_29: Put that into the that would be fun.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_29: AI generator.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_29: That's right.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_29: Newly declassified records released by the White House uh Transparency Task Force reportedly state that Swalwell told the FBI he had occasionally hooked up with Fang Feng.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_29: Just occasionally.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_29: Just occasionally.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_29: It's not that big of a deal.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_29: It was more of a fang.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_29: We didn't really fang fang.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_29: We just kind of fanged.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_29: Just fanged a few.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_29: Just we fanged a few times.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_25: No.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_29: Fanged on occasion.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_25: Every other Wiener Wednesday.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_29: It was never a full fang-fang.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_29: Just a fang every once in a while.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_29: Um, listen, I'm done being surprised by allegations like this.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_29: And I know a lot of you guys have been done long before before I am, but but I'm just I'm done.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_29: I'm done being surprised when we see this type of misconduct, regardless of political party.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_29: Tragically, the acceptable societal standards to hold the office has plummeted in the years of President Donald Trump.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_29: And make no mistake, and again, this is this is you know, there's this there's no party exclusivity here, even though it typically goes and happens on the left.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_29: But make no mistake, too.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_29: Um Trump derangement syndrome is uh provides simply an excuse for the left to justify horrible decision making.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_29: Because it's a constant crutch that they use of, well, you know, well, you know, Trump is this.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_29: I know this person's done this, I know Swalwell, and he fang-fanged.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_29: I got it, you know, but Trump's a pedophile and Epstein files and Iran and gas prices.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_29: I think it's part uh partly the reason why they continue, not uh not not a not a big part, but a part.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_29: It's uh it's a part of why Trump's derangement syndrome is so persistent because it does provide those on the left an excuse to just go and act horribly because they just look back at Trump and they just say, Yeah, well, he's he's super bad.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_29: So I don't know what you're I don't know what you're talking about.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_29: All Swalwell did was fang fang.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_29: 612-584-4565 on a Freedom Friday.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_29: You can email John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_29: Coming up, NASA has selected Minnesota to be one of seven nationwide aerospace workforce hubs, and I know the reason why.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_29: It's not in the story, but there's a very specific reason why, in my opinion, NASA has chosen Minnesota to be one of seven aerospace workforce hubs.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_29: It's actually a pretty cool story.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_29: I'll give you details on it.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, bad news, Minnesota reports job loss for the first time in four months.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, I don't know if there's a correlation, but I'll tell you that when I saw this story yesterday, the first thing that popped into my mind is the time frame regarding it, because it seems awfully close to the start of paid family medical leave, and I can't help but wonder if the two things are connected.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota job loss the first time in four months, as in a large number of individuals have gone and taken advantage of paid family uh medical leave.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_29: And so we'll dive into that if you want to comment on any of these stories or anything.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_29: On and off topic comments all morning long here on the John Justice Show on a Freedom Friday, 612-584-4565.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_29: And again, drop me an email, John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_29: We'll get to your blast coming up in just a moment here on the John Justice Show, presented by American Experiment.
• 17:01
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• 17:05
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• 17:12
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• 18:31
  SPEAKER_06: And now, here's commentary on the latest issues facing Minnesotans from the hosts, policy fellows, and guests of American Experiment.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_06: For more content, head on over to the center of the American Experiments YouTube page or at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: The state government of Minnesota gave five hundred thousand dollars of taxpayers' money to a non-profit called gender justice.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: And it was gender justice who brought the lawsuit against the state government, which won, um, which allowed for uh men to be put in women's prisons.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um and the state government you paid for that.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you hard-pressed, hard-working, law-abiding Minnesota taxpayer, you paid for this.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: You paid for it both ends.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: You paid for it when they paid gender justice, to being the lawsuit, and you paid for it at the other end when this guy living in a woman's prison gets a sex change operation.
• 19:24
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• 19:28
  SPEAKER_27: For more details, email John.justice at American Experiment.org.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I wrote uh last week about the example of a sex change operation that uh the state of Minnesota has apparently paid for for a convicted murderer.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know, now I looked up how much do these things cost, and I got an estimate of between fifty and eighty thousand dollars.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: So if you take the low-end estimate about fifty thousand dollars, let's say this was a cheap operation, um and then you look at um how much the kind of median Minnesota taxpayer pays in taxes, you're looking at about ten Minnesotans' annual tax uh state income tax payments have gone to pay for this guy to get a sex change operation.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_28: Think about it.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_28: Now that school's out for the summer, how are Minnesota students doing?
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_28: Not very well.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_28: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in ten years.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_28: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota students can either read or do math at grade level.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_28: Think about it.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_28: We used to brag about our schools.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_28: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_28: Visit AmericanExperiment.org for more information.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_28: Think about it is brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_29: It's John Justice here on the John Justice show, presented by American uh Experiment.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, producer Isaac is with us this morning.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_29: Hey, Isaac, think about it.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_29: I'm thinking.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_29: Just you th you you think you think about it.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_29: You think about it, you think about it hard.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_25: 6 20 in the morning, John.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_25: I can't think that.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_29: Sure you can.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_29: I've been up since 1 30.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_25: Oh gosh.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_29: Can't you tell?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_25: We crossed paths then.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_29: I was up at 1.30.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_29: How do you mean we cross paths?
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_29: We I that's about when I went to bed.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_29: Is it that that is not when you went to bed?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_29: That's pretty close.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_29: Is it seriously when you went to bed?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_25: Pretty close.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_29: How old are you?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_29: Twenty-six.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_29: All right, and you young whippersnappers.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I got a nice nap.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_29: I could do that.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_29: I could I could do that back in the day.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_29: That's probably the schedule that I was keeping back in the day when I was writing all of my musings.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_29: I hate calling it poetry.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_29: All of my musings.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_29: There was a lot.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_29: Like I was even shocked at how much I think poetry hates you calling it that too.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_29: I was a I was certainly a uh a torture a tortured soul back then.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_29: Or at least I thought at least I thought I was.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_29: Overly, uh, overly dramatic.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_29: I'm glad that I've grown up and changed, because I'm certainly not that way anymore.
• 21:53
  unknown: Yeah.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_29: You know, let's go to the uh blaster line.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_29: A lot of people are already uh dropping us messages uh this morning.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_29: We'll hear from uh Friend of the show, uh Lori.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_05: I think I blew it with my new smartphone and turning into society.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_05: This is Lori and Bloomington.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_05: So good to hear your voice again.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_05: I can't wait till all the the guys show up again, and I just I just woke up, but I'm so glad to hear your voice.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_05: Bless you.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_05: Bye-bye.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_29: I think uh she went to bed about the same time that you both Lori.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_29: You didn't, you did, Isaac.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_29: You both had a you both had a late night.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_29: I actually stayed up a little bit later.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_29: I was I was uh awake until about uh 8.05 last night.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_29: It's very late for me.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_29: Wow, late night.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_29: Well, we went to the movies.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_29: We went to go see End of Oak Street, which was uh which I very much enjoyed.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_29: Uh there's I have a big I have a big issue with the ending, and I don't want to spoil it for anybody, uh for anybody that's seen it, but there's uh there's a bit of a conundrum at the end of that film.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, but one of the best dinosaur movies I'd actually seen in a while.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, it really brought back the and that's not a spoiler, it's in the trailer for crying out loud.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, it really brought back the the terror of what it would be like to be face to face with a dinosaur, with the with a dinosaur.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_29: You know, the Jurassic Park uh movies, I mean, they still do, everyone's still scared of the dinosaurs, right?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_29: But it's been sort of, you know, tempered down since the original Jurassic Park, and this really brought that fear uh factor uh back.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_29: Uh but because of that, my just my evening schedule got thrown off, and so I got home.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_29: I ended up staying up a little bit uh a little bit later than I than I should have.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_29: I I put on speed.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_29: I haven't seen speed in a while, so I was watching a little bit of that last night.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_29: Good movie.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_29: Have you seen speed?
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_29: I have not.
• 23:40
  unknown: Oh my gosh.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_29: I know.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_29: It's so hard when I have conversations with individuals that are the age of Isaac and others because there's so many movies that you need to be exposed to.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_29: I'm gonna make you a list.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that'll work.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_29: I actually do need a list.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_29: It's like uh it's like Captain America and Winter Soldier, you know, when he wakes up after 60 years and he has to get caught up on all the pop culture references.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_29: So when he has that list that he's checking off, I'll give you a Captain America John Justice list of all the things that you should that you should go and uh and watch.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_29: In the meantime, let's go back to the blaster line this morning on a Freedom Friday.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_22: Hey, John Dennis for Southwest Minnesota.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_22: Yeah, I voted for Mike and I don't know what he's doing.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_22: All he's doing is uh um dividing our party.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_22: Um let's go beat Color Shark.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_22: He can feel the uh very good support of making state of Minnesota great again.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_22: I I hope he figures that out.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_22: And uh anyway, you have a good day and have a good freedom Friday.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_22: Yeah, thank you.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_29: Thank you, thank you, Dennis.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_29: And I, you know, I I tend to I tend to agree with you.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_29: I think that would be the best move.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_29: Um, you know, for uh for handsome man, Mike Lindell, for those that were listening to yesterday's show.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_29: The mustache works on him, it really does.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_18: Hey John's material for your next overlord fly.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_18: So do the bang bang bang bang.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_29: Thank you.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_29: Uh thank you.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_25: No, don't thank him for that.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_25: Thank you.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_29: We are thanking him.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_29: No, we're absolutely thanking him for that.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_29: It's a Freedom Friday.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, man.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_29: I appreciate it.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_29: That's good, you know.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_29: Listen, I had really held off on that.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_29: I'm not kidding.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_29: When this story had first come up of us Walwell and Fang Fang, I had avoided the juvenile commentary regarding Fang Fang.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_29: Not anymore.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_29: I'm just I'm not I'm not.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_29: I'm going, I'm going, I'm going all in.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_29: Now that I'm with a prestigious organization like Center of the American Experiment, now I'm going to get more juvenile, right?
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota was selected as one of seven nationwide hubs to develop uh technicians for the aerospace industry.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_29: This is really cool.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_29: NASA announced this yesterday.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence will now be the lone hub in the Midwest to help address the growing need for technical talent in the aerospace field.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_29: The three-year$1.5 million initiative will enable Minnesota State to help prepare students for careers in aerospace.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_29: The hub is intended to create a pathway from high school to develop job already aerospace technicians for NASA suppliers and beyond.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_29: According to a release, the training will include welding, precision machining, automation, robotics, avionic uh avionics, uh non-destructive testing.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_29: Better than destructive testing.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_29: It depends on who you ask.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_29: If it was my son Kyle, I think he would want destructive testing.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_29: I think top of his list of jobs is demolition expert.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_29: The man is an agent of chaos.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_29: Mayhem is his middle name.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_29: And system integration and employer demand.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_29: So the initiative intends to enroll 1,800 to 2,400 students in aerospace aligned pathways and award 500 to 700 aerospace specific credentials.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_29: They'll be establishing 140 to 200 new registered apprenticeships and internships, 1,000 to 1,400 high school students through career awareness and hands-on learning opportunities, providing professional development for educators while strengthening aerospace focused curriculum statewide.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_29: NASA has selected the Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence as one of seven aerospace skilled technical workforce state hubs in the nation and the only one located in the Midwest.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_29: The NASA State Hubs Initiative is designed to address the growing national need for skilled technical talent as the aerospace economy expands and the nation advances priorities related to human exploration.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_29: The three-year 1.5 million initiative, Minnesota will convene colleges, aerospace employers, workface, uh workplace development organizations, economic development partners, and expand industry, aligned education, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_29: So you know why they chose Minnesota?
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_29: Because uh in the dead of winter, Minnesota is the uh closest that anybody can get to being in space without actually going to space.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, think about it.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_29: You go outside and you're not properly clothed with multiple layers, and you could die.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_29: That's exactly what happens when you're in space.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_29: I don't know if you know that or not.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_29: If you try to go out in space and you don't have a space suit on, you die.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_29: That's what happens.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_29: Now you might say, well, John, you can breathe.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_29: Well, barely.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_29: Depends on how far, you know, how far below zero we are at at that point in time.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_29: So that's why that's why that's why I I think we they chose us.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_29: Because in the wintertime, we're all we all become astronauts of the Midwest.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_29: Ooh, that might be a good band name.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_29: Band name or a racehorse?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_29: Astronauts of the Midwest.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_29: I lean band name.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I lean band name too.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_29: I do that.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_29: I I I I'm I'm with you.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_29: I'm with you on that.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_29: No, this is actually a really cool initiative.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_29: And um I'm I'm curious.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_29: I'm assuming that this is not our taxpayer dollars that are going to the 1.5 million dollars uh$1.5 million for this um initiative, but uh then again, I'm also not 100% sure if that is or is not the uh not the case.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_29: I hope it's not the case.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_29: This sounds like it's a federal uh uh initiative, and this is coming from uh the federal government, which ultimately means it is your tax dollars, but it's just not directly your tax dollars here in uh Minnesota.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota lost nearly 2,000 non-farm jobs.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_29: I'm looking forward to talking a bit about this with uh Max Reimer when he joins us in the studio.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_29: 2,000 non-farm jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis in July, while the private sector decreased by about 800 jobs.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_29: So listen, this is bad news for the DFL heading into November.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_29: Bad economic news, you just point that directly over to the DFL and their policies.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_29: This is not good news for them.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_29: The data was released yesterday by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_29: The losses come after four straight months of growth and three months when the sp the state outpaced the national uh average.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_29: Which again, I I don't have any evidence of this, and I'm I'm curious to talk about this with Max when he uh when he joins us.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_29: I expect him to be walking down the hall here at any moment.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_29: Um, but with paid family medical leave starting, knowing that we're running way beyond the expectations of the number of individuals that are taking advantage of this program, they decided not to go and increase the tax, even though it needs it, because there's too many people that have signed up for the program, but they decided not to go and increase the tax because it's an election year, which is just going to provide more disaster to this program because they're not increasing it next year.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_29: I don't want to see the tax increased.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_29: I don't want to see this program at all.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_29: This is a blatant redistribute uh you know, a redistribution of wealth that the DFL put together.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_29: And as I've said, you know, as I've said every single time we've talked about paid family medical leave, if you go and if you take advantage of this, that's fine.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_29: I get it.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_29: Your money is going in to pay for this.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_29: The government is just stealing that money.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_29: The employers have to pay into it as well, so I do not begrudge you for taking advantage of the program that you're paying into.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, that being said, there's a lot of individuals who do not need to be taking this much time off.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_29: We already had means and mechanisms with employers to go and take the time off.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_29: There was no need for this program either way.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_29: Nevertheless, here we are.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_29: And because of that, they do.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_29: They need to raise the tax on it, but they're not because it's an election year.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_29: That's going to end up hurting Democrats.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_29: And ultimately, the program's going to suffer even further because they won't end up raising the tax until 2028.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_29: In July, eight super sectors lost jobs, including 1,100 in financial uh activities, 1,000 in construction, professional and business services, however, added 2,400.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota's unemployment rate and statewide labor force participation each had dropped one-tenth of a percent in July.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_29: That uh professional and business services, I'm assuming that's also like just the service sector.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, I wonder how much of those 2,400 jobs that were added here in the midst of this report of uh the first job loss in four months here in Minnesota is because of, you know, what had taken place with individuals no longer going to their jobs here illegally, Metro Surge, and other individuals going and filling those particular uh gigs.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_29: A lot of questions, dovetailing off of this, and maybe he can provide some answers, and maybe he can't.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_29: We'll find out.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, Representative Max Reimer joins us on a Freedom Friday.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_29: He's making himself comfy on the sofa.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_29: Good to see you, sir.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_31: Good morning.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_31: Glad to be here.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_31: I don't think I can answer any questions.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_29: Then why are you here?
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_31: I don't know.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_31: Just to hang out at 6 30 in the morning.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_29: Just want to come what just want to come watch me?
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_29: Just want to come uh watch me go blah blah blah blah for three hours.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_29: Um, do you have any thoughts on this?
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, Minnesota lost nearly 2,000 non-farm job uh farm jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis in July.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_29: Um the losses come after four straight months of growth and three months when the state outpaced the national average.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_29: Uh the thing, and I mentioned this uh before, and I'll throw it at you, the thing that popped into my mind, and I don't know if there's any correlation at all, uh, Max, is that it kind of coincides with the beginnings of paid family medical leave.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_29: And I don't know if that maybe might have attributed to some of this, but did you have any sort of gut reaction to this to this bad jobs report, apart from this not being good news for Democrats heading into the election?
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_31: Well, we're not a competitive state.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_31: We don't have new businesses that come here, we don't have growth in Minnesota.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_31: The people that we do bring here are not typically people who are building businesses.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_31: And big reason why is our tax and regulatory environment, it's just bad.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_31: So when we have these swings and unemployment, Minnesota typically gets a hit a little bit harder just because we are not a good business state to begin with.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_31: And that's something that if if Republicans ever take back power, if it's this election or in future elections, it's something that we have to focus on because when you don't have a growing and thriving state, that's why you have huge property taxes, that's why you don't have a commercial base, that's why you have headquarters of companies that leave Minnesota.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_31: So this unemployment report, I think it's just part of a broader stew of things.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_31: I don't necessarily think it's paid family medical by itself.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_31: That doesn't help, certainly.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_31: Right, but we're just not a competitive state.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_31: Well, one like data point, I I had talked to somebody last week where you have Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_31: We have like three or four of them, okay?
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_31: And all three or four of them are over a hundred years old.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_31: All of our Fortune 500 companies are over a hundred years old.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_31: Wow.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_31: And what that tells me is you don't have new businesses that have started up and been successful and found their home in Minnesota, and the ones that do have have left.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that's um that's an interesting data point, and you're absolutely correct.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_29: And your, you know, your assessment on the jobs report makes sense as well.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_29: I think it's more, you know, I think the sort of the Occam's razor approach, the most obvious answer is probably the correct answer.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_29: And that's one of the items that's on the wrong track on Minnesota list at AmericanExperiment.org, or just we are not a competitive state economically uh right now.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_29: Um, you know, I was encouraged with the conversation that I had with John Phelan, the policy fellow here at American Experiment earlier this week.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_29: Um, you know, the guy's an expert economist, and you know, he he knows his knows his stuff.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_29: And, you know, he believes that we can turn things around, says that if we do get leadership that's going to do the right thing for Minnesota, it may take a couple legislative cycles.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_29: Um, but hopefully you can maintain that that uh that legislative leadership for that amount of time, you know, if the GOP were to win, um, it could take a couple of cycles, but we can turn things around.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_29: It's just going to take a different, a different, better pro-Minnesota, pro-business mindset.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, it doesn't take that long.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_31: It it does take like a new flagship leadership in order to turn things around.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_31: I I think we saw that with the different Trump administrations, where as soon as Trump came in, there was all this flurry of capital and activity and companies move moving their headquarters back to America.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_31: And I think that's what's so depressing about a place like Minneapolis, right?
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_31: Minneapolis keeps selecting the same type of leadership, St.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_31: Paul, the same way.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_31: But if you just had a pro-business, uh pro-growth mindset and a leader who could come in and make that known, it doesn't, it wouldn't take that long to turn around a city like Minneapolis, whose commercial building values are in the toilet.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_31: They just keep selecting the same leaders and in some cases more and more radical leaders.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_29: We're gonna run through uh I've got a stack of school-related stories that I haven't had a chance to cover this week.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_29: We're gonna dive into some of those coming up.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_29: Speaking of Minneapolis, uh, the judge dismissed a DOJ lawsuit against Minneapolis schools, but has grave doubts about the race-based policy.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_29: There's an interesting the way that this story ended is rather interesting, and I'm looking forward to sharing it with everybody.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_29: Before we do that, though, let's go back to the blaster line on the Freedom Friday.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_29: You're on and off-topic comments uh all morning long to 612-584-4565.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_17: Hey John, it's Timmy Cambridge.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_17: Uh speaking of going to the movies, did you have to sit through 30 minutes of commercials at the beginning of your movie as well?
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_17: Yeah, when it's uh like a 330 showing, but the movie itself is actually starting till 4.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_29: They're not required to go and tell you.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_29: When you go, well, it depends on where you're going.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_29: I don't I don't know if it's a law yet, but I know AMC has adopted that when you purchase your tickets, uh, it says that the film's not going to start for 25 to 30 minutes before the actual start time.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_29: You know, I I miss I miss the days when you just you got like three or four trailers, you were good to go, and you're off to the you're off to the races, and that's just not the case anymore.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_29: I still have a hard time showing up late.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_29: I'm I'm so punctual when it comes to stuff that even if like yesterday we went to a 345 showing, I knew there's probably gonna be 20 minutes of or 25 minutes of trailers and we were running a little bit behind.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_29: I think the rest of the family did it intentionally, but I was like, I want to get to the movie theater.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_29: Isn't the trailers part of the fun?
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_31: Don't you like the trailers?
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, I'm with you.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_31: I I like them.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_31: It's like I didn't know that was coming out.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_31: I didn't know Iron Man 18 was coming out or whatever.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_29: That's the difference between you and me because I watch all the trailers ahead of doing.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, true.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_29: So true.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_29: You know, in our family, we've probably seen most of the trailers, but on occasion you see ones that you weren't expecting to uh to go and uh and see.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, I'm like finding out that some movie's gonna come out for the first time at the movie theater, and it's like, I'll go see that one, full well knowing I will not go see that one.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_29: Dude, the etiquette of the theater yesterday.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_29: I'm so glad that the people there was a group.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_29: There was a group of people there, and they were way down in front.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_29: We were like in row F and they were way down in front.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_29: And they had was like a mom and their two kids uh just on their phone.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_29: Why full brightness on the phone?
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_29: They're just having full-blown conversations in the middle of the movie, you know, and you could see, and I got and it was it was really distracting because I'm watching it and I'm you know watching dinosaurs chasing, you know, people around.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_29: And then the quiet moments, they're going on their phone, and you could see that the moment the dinosaur showed back up, they would close their phone and they'd watch.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_29: And then the dinosaur would go away, somebody would talk, and they would go back on their phone and they're having conversations.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_29: Just like did you not watch the pre-show where it said silence your phones?
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_31: You had the CEO of AMC telling you that.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_31: Grab your popcorn and your soda and don't look at your phone.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_29: We need movie cops.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_29: They should be arrested and they should be thrown in jail.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_31: That's right.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_31: Suspended from watching movies for the next five years.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_29: I'm done I'm done I'm down with that.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go full totalitarian on them.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_25: Fun fact.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_25: Catherine would love that.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_25: Uh movie theater?
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_25: What's that?
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_25: I used to work for a movie theater.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_25: Which movie theater did you reform?
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_25: Uh, Marcus Theaters.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_25: And it was miserable.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_25: I hated it.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_25: Did you?
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_25: I did.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_25: Did you have to clean up?
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_25: I did.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_25: I had to clean up after that.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_25: So I saw like the and it was right in like endgame time, like maybe a little before like Peak Marvel.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_25: So I saw like the end scene no less than like three dozen times.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, because you had to go in there away?
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_29: Because I had to go in there.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_25: And then most people left.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_25: And so I was watching the scene, picking up popcorn.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_29: So you would see, we're the kind of patrons that that Isaac would love because we we we clean up after our uh ourselves.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_29: Not everybody goes in.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_25: I would enjoy that.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_25: I would enjoy that.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_25: No, I can confirm no one does that.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_29: Can you share like the the worst thing that you that you ever found?
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, I don't know.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_29: We are streaming, so we're we're we're you can you can clean it up for the audience.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_29: I don't know if I want to hear that.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_25: There's this one time this guy like said he's like, Oh, I dropped my phone in the movie and there was a movie showing.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_25: I was like, dude, there's a movie showing, you can't go in there.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_25: And he's like, No, no, I I'm just gonna go real quick.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_25: And so he goes into the theater while the movie's showing and like turns on his flashlight, trying to look, or like try turns on like a he brought like a flashlight, and he's like trying to look for his phone under the seat, and he's like, Oh, I'm just trying to find my phone.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_25: It was a very weird experience.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_29: That's what happened yesterday.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_29: That that family that I was talking about, I don't know why the the mom at one point, they were way down in front.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_29: The mom at one point had walked up the stadium seating, was looking for somebody else, and she had the she had the the light on her iPhone was on, and she's just shining it all over the place.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_29: And yeah, yeah, it was not it was very frustrating.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_29: Did people still try to sneak in when you were when you were I I don't know, I didn't know you never okay.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_31: Did people ever um take out uh one of the large popcorn buckets from the garbage for the free refill?
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_31: Oh, I don't know.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_31: I've never done that before for sure.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_25: I also probably would not have cared.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_25: You're a liar.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_25: You're such a liar.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_31: There's some bleak years in high school.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_29: It was uh I man, I still I I loved going to the movies when I was a kid.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_29: I'd love I still love going to the movies now.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_29: I don't ever want to see it go away.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_29: You know, it seems like we always get those doomsday reports.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_29: It's been a comeback, hasn't it?
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, it's starting to.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_29: It's starting to make a comeback, it's starting to make a comeback, and I hope it, I hope it stays.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_29: I because I want to see the quality of the movie theaters change.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_29: Uh it's just because, you know, the standards of the theaters is the one that we go to, we go to the AMC in in Coon Rapids, and it's okay.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_29: It's it's not the greatest, you know.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_29: It's got that kitschy movie, you know, house to it, and they kind of take care of it.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_29: But uh the imagin theaters are the ones that we've been going to more often.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_29: We usually go to AMC because we're A-list members, but the Imagine.
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_29: I know Pink A-list.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_29: Pink is up, man.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_29: We were gold, man, we were gold members.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_29: There was there was a gold member um great movie tier.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_29: Austin Powers.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_29: There was a gold member tier at Blockbuster that most people weren't aware of.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_29: And we were gold, we were gold members.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_29: You had to have rented a certain allotment of films to reach the gold standard.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_29: And and my wife and I were were gold members at their blockbuster.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_31: But have you ever been to like an Alamo draft house or something like that?
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_31: I mean, like, those are remarkable, I think.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_31: Those experiences and the seats, and you get to lean them back and have heated seating.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_31: And that's nice.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_31: I didn't have that type of theater when I was a kid.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_29: I don't need booze and food when I go to the theater.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_29: I know that people do that because it's just distracting.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_29: You gotta look down, you gotta eat.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_29: I want to be locked into I want to be locked in the movie, but I do want my re I do want my recliners.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_29: I will say I I'm one of the weirdos that misses the I miss the days when you didn't have the ability to go and schedule um to pick your seats when You actually had to get early.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_29: You had to choose your seat.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_29: You had to wait in line.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_29: And I know it's a lot more convenient now, but there was a there was a there was a level of fun in that and and work and effort.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_29: Like you had to put some effort into it.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_29: I kind of attribute the same thing to voting.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_29: I feel the same way about, you know, like you need to put some effort into it.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_29: It shouldn't be that easy.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_29: You have to show an ID.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_29: Should just be one day.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_29: See how I brought it back to that.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_29: That was good.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_29: I'm a professional.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_29: I've been doing this for 30 years.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_31: I will just tell you, the blaster was from Cambridge.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_31: That theater in Cambridge is awesome.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_31: It's cash only.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_31: Uh, so you can go to the ATM and you can pay for a ticket.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_31: But like that theater, John.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, for sure.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_31: They're they're above board, I'm sure.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_31: Uh but that theater is so busy all the time.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_31: And just up in Cambridge, Minnesota.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_31: I I'd take my kids there.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_31: That's the closest theater we have to us.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_31: And yeah, it's cash only, and that theater is packed for every like you know, blockbuster movie that's there, you would think just this little kind of what's the owner of it?
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_29: What I think it's independent.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_31: I know there's not like a no, it's not like an AMC or Imagine or anything like that.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_31: But awesome place.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_29: There's an independent one up in um up in Anoka that we've been to on a few occasions that we that we liked.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_29: But again, we typically go to AMC because of the I think he's a list.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_29: Gold Member.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that's right.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_29: Let's get back to the blaster line here.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_29: Uh 612-584-456.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_21: You know, if Mike Landell wants to do some good and wants to get into the politics where he can do something, he should support.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_21: And then he can put him in some position where he can do some good.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_21: It's not going to be a governor.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_21: He's doing too much damage to himself to do that.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_21: But maybe he can do some better being appointed somewhere in the government.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_21: And he can get a foot in the door and prove what he's saying about himself.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_29: Listen, these are all good suggestions, uh, but I'm also I have no expectation that any of that is going to happen.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_29: I think Mike Lindell is gonna do what Mike Lindell does, and I think a lot of us predicted that this was going to be the case, or that he would do something like this were he not to go and uh and win the primary.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_29: Max, did you have any quick thoughts on that, by the way?
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_31: I don't think it's impacting anything.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_31: Mike Lindell can do whatever he wants.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_31: He can ask for a recount of 50,000 votes or whatever.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_31: But uh from you know, I've I've talked to the candidates, it seems like everyone's like full steam ahead and just kind of running a general election campaign.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_29: You don't think it's gonna weigh down, weigh down on him at all?
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_29: No, I don't think so.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_31: In fact, I I'm not even sure that he's gonna raise the money to do it.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_31: It seems kind of uh kind of grifty.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, that's a that's a chunk of change.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_31: 900,000 or something like that to do it.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, it's close to yeah, it's close to a million dollars.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_29: It's just okay.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_29: Put that money elsewhere.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, do something else with it for crying out loud.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_31: You got I mean, you you know, these these statewide campaigns could really benefit from$900,000.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_29: Uh-oh.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_29: Somebody's upset with you, Max, on the uh blaster line this morning here on the John Johnson.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_17: Don't tell everybody.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_17: Don't tell everybody how awesome that theater in Cambridge is.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_17: Yeah, sorry.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_17: Horrible.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_31: Awful.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_29: You gotta end up driving there.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, you gotta take a you gotta take a bit of a you got, you know.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_29: I'm not driving out to Cambridge to go to the movie theater, despite your glowing endorsements.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_29: We could go to a movie together, though.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_29: We could.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_29: We could.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_29: End of Oak Street was good.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_29: Go see Avengers uh Doomsday.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_29: End of what?
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_29: End of Oak Street?
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_29: What is that one about?
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_29: I've never even heard of that.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_29: Clearly you haven't gone to the uh you clearly clearly you haven't gone to the uh to the movies and seen the trailer for that one.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_29: No.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_29: It's uh it is uh it is a uh it's a dinosaur movie, a you and McGregor and Hathaway, uh based in the 80s, where their block, essentially their neighborhood, uh, and this is in the trailer, their neighborhood gets transported to prehistoric times.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_29: And it's a lot of fun.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_29: Is it?
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_30: Yeah.
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_29: You enjoyed it?
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_31: It's a dinosaur movie.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_31: Family friendly, I assume?
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_29: No, no, no, no, no.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_29: There's not for your little ones.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_29: There's dinosaurs are straight up just ripping people apart.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_29: And it's in broad daylight.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_29: Never mind.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_29: So probably not good for the little ones.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, they're a little too young.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_29: I was watching some of the I was watching some of the videos uh uh then and pictures you had posted recently on Facebook and the little the little contraptions you had bought them were having a good time with your kids.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_29: I think that would scare them.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_29: Uh let's go here.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_29: Maybe.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah, you guys are missing it.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_16: We used to go to the drive-in.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_16: We used to have a lot of fun with those.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, we I did um I did drive-ins um for a bit.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_29: It was kind of on the tail end, you know, of their heyday, but we used to do drive-ins, and even the drive-ins when you would grab the speaker and place it in the, you know, place it in the window in the whole nine yards.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_29: I haven't been to a drive-in in in forever, but I enjoyed going to going to a drive-in.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_31: We did a couple of drive-ins when I was in college.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_31: It was a fun college activity when you're going to a Christian school where you can't drink and you can't party.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_31: So going to the drive-in was like your greatest form of weekend entertainment.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, somebody else is gonna, but actually you, uh, Max Rhyme are on the blaster line here on a Freedom Friday.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_29: So Okay.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_14: Not to do the will, actually, guys, but I think there's a few more than four or five, Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Target Five, People Lab.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_29: I don't know.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I'm not to do the will.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_29: Have a great thing.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_29: There's gotta be a data point in what you were that was specific to what you were talking about, though.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, it was a one-off conversation I had had last week.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_31: I'm not sure how many, but I I I think a significant portion of them, or maybe all of them, are over a hundred years old.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_31: I but yeah, I'm not sure.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_31: I mean, maybe Best Buy is still part of the Fortune 500.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_31: I I'm I'm not sure.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_29: That that that's actually uh that's the interesting question, is whether or not they are or not.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_29: I know they've been struggling for uh for a while.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_29: They don't sell movies anymore.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_29: They don't sell movies anymore.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_29: That's what sucks.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_29: They used to be my go-to for my Blu-rays.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_29: Now they're not anymore.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_31: One quick thing on Best Buy, they got that big headquarters down there in Richfield, and it sounds like um they're trying to get rid of that building, basically.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_31: That and you drive 494, that building is huge, and it sounds like Richfield's gonna be on the hook for some of it, like it just very strange circumstances.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_31: Interesting.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_29: Joining us on uh the in one of the comfy chairs this morning from the American Experiment podcast here at American Experiment.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_29: Grace Keating, welcome back.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning, good to be back.
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_29: Well done, let's try that again.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_29: Sorry, my fault.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_29: Go ahead.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_33: Good morning.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_33: There you go.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_33: Good to be back.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_29: What is your uh have you ever been to a drive-in movie theater?
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_29: No, I've always wanted to, though.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, the opportunity has just not presented itself to me, sadly.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, between you and Catherine, you go to the movies more often.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, certainly.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_33: I don't think Catherine I watch many more movies.
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_29: I think Catherine's very, I mean, I think she, if she's going to the movies, she's going to protest the movies.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, probably.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_29: I'm pretty sure she's out there rioting, saying, nobody go in here.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_29: Why are you wasting your time?
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I'm only saying that because she's not here yet.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_29: So good to see him.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_29: Glad you're in, uh glad you're in on the Freedom Friday.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_29: Uh aka Kamar will be making his way in soon, as will Catherine Johnson.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_29: A federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit against Minneapolis Public Schools, citing procedural grounds.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_29: The lawsuit challenged a policy in the teacher's contract that prioritizes certain teachers for layoffs based on race, which the judge expressed doubts about its legality.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_29: Although the case was dismissed, the judge noted that the policy still harms white teachers and could be challenged again.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_29: Let me just jump to the end of this particular story.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_29: Are you guys familiar with this whole race-based issue in Minneapolis?
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_29: We've talked about it quite a bit in previous iterations of the John Justice show.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_29: What I found was interesting, what what he actually said in his in his ruling, because my assessment on this is the judge went looking for an excuse to not go and overturn it, and he found one.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_29: But in the meantime, he told everybody how bad it was.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_29: So he says, generally, uh, let's let me back up here just a little bit.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_29: Um the Minneapolis public school system argued the Justice Department didn't have a case in part because the race-based exemptions have never actually been used to determine whether a teacher was laid off.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_29: The whole premise behind this is the Justice Department sued MPS last year.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_29: They were alleging that the collective bargaining agreement with the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers violates one of the articles of the Civil Rights Act.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_29: When staff reductions occur at a particular school, teachers are generally subject to layoffs based off reverse seniority.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_29: But under the challenge provision, if the next teacher in line is a member of the population that is considered doing that thing with my fingers, underrepresented, MPS must skip that teacher and instead lay off the next least senior teacher who's not a member of the underrepresented population.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_29: And of course, you get into the questions of who determines who is underrepresented and who determines who isn't underrepresented.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_29: Before I get any further, Grace, did you wanna add something to this?
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_33: This is just this is insane.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_33: Um, so it sounds like the judge's response is basically because this hasn't happened yet, we don't actually have someone who, you know, we don't have a white teacher, for example, who was fired instead of a black teacher.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_33: Because that exact circumstance has not happened yet, they can't do anything about this rule.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_29: Well, that was the that was the Minneapolis Public Schools answer.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_29: They were saying because we haven't actually discriminated against anybody, you guys don't have a case.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_33: We haven't done it yet.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_33: Right.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_33: So when we discriminate in the future, you know, you guys can come after us.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_33: Right.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_29: But so you get further into the uh story.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_29: The U.S.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_29: district judge, Patrick um Schlitz, okay, uh, he rejected that argument that I just laid out.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_29: He rejected the argument that just because you haven't gone and discriminated against anybody, he says the contractual disparity exists regardless of whether or not the layoffs have occurred.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_29: Right?
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_29: That's just that's an easy go Schlitz.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_29: Under Article 15, white teachers have weaker seniority rights than black teachers, he wrote, this disparity does not spring into existence only if um excess uh excessing occurs.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_29: It exists right now and will continue to exist as long as the CBA remains in force.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_29: He also questioned whether MPS could justify the policy under federal law.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_29: So is in his entire post-decision brief, he's talking about how horrible and awful this whole thing is, right?
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_29: Despite those concerns, Schlitz did not rule on whether the policy violates federal civil rights.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_29: Instead, he found the lawsuit could not proceed without the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, which negotiated and signed the contract, but was not named as a defendant.
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_29: Schlitz concluded the case could not proceed in equity and good conscience without the union and dismissed the remaining claims without prejudice.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_29: The ruling does not mean the policy has been found legal.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_29: So when I saw that, I went, this judge just looked for 100%.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_29: He just he didn't want to be the one to rule against this, he didn't want to face the backlash.
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_29: So instead, he spends all this time talking about how it's discriminatory, how it's wrong, how you shouldn't do it, but then found this little teeny tiny loophole to go.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_29: But you know what?
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_29: My name's Paul, and this is between you all.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_29: It's a it's a joke, it's an absolute joke.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, he he he was looking for a technicality, and because I I don't know who appointed him or where he came from.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_31: However, if you're a judge in Minnesota and Trump's DOJ does something, it is your duty, apparently, to basically try to dismiss it.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_31: And it sounds like this was a small technicality saying one party was not involved who should have been involved while agreeing with the premise of the lawsuit.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_31: It's it's a joke.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_33: How can you say you're doing your your duty as a judge and and and acknowledge that something is wrong and unlawful and could cause discrimination on the basis of race and not do anything about it?
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_33: Like, I don't okay, this is gonna sound intense, but like how do you sleep at night?
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_33: How do you how do you wake up in the morning feeling like you've done your duty in this vocation that you've chosen?
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_33: Because what happens now?
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_33: Now the plaintiffs have to go back and submit you know, substantially, materially, the exact same lawsuit, and then just add one more name to the plaintiffs.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_31: On its face, I think it's like crazy excuse me, defendants call.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_31: I it's crazy.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_31: Like if I had a company and I said our policy is that we don't hire women and then somebody sues me for that, and then it gets dismissed because it's like, yeah, that's our policy.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_31: We just haven't had any women apply to this this job yet.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_31: You know what I mean?
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_31: Like that on its face, it's still like a discriminatory policy.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_31: But just because it hasn't happened, like that's the justification for a judge to throw it out.
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_31: It sounds like he was looking for a technicality here.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_29: Well, and Grace, to your um to your point, uh, you know, this kind of goes back to something that I said earlier.
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_29: We were talking about the FBI seizing this these items from Eric Swalwell, continuing the investigation with him, and I made the point that I'm done being shocked by the deplorable behavior of elected um uh uh officials.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_29: When you look at the varying degrees of deplorable behavior, to be redundant here, you know, a judge going and doing something like this, you know, isn't really high up on the list, but it's combined with it.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_29: I'm with you.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_29: How do you live with yourself?
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_29: Why did this policy even exist in the first place?
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, what sort of mentality, you know, does one have to have to actually go and implement a policy without having at least somebody around going, yeah, this is really discriminatory and kind of racist against white teachers based off the color of their skin, and yet they moved forward anyways.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_29: But as I said at the top of the show, I just can't simp I can't be shocked by it anymore.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_33: No, and that's exactly it.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_33: When you start letting the, you know, comparatively smaller things slide, that's when you start to have a breakdown in our standards as a society.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_33: You have judges who aren't doing their job when they see something unlawful happening, and you have, you know, elected officials doing very bad behavior in DC.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_29: As we uh get ready to hit the top of the hour here on a uh Freedom Friday, our other guests will be joining us shortly, uh A.K.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_29: Kamar.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_29: I believe he had to stop for an energy drink.
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_29: At least that's what he texted.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, I'm not sure he wanted me to share that with everybody, but I'm going to anyways, and I just did.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, Catherine Johnson will be joining us uh as well.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_29: And of course, you're on and off topic comments all morning long.
• 58:37
  SPEAKER_29: A lot of comments have rolled into the blaster line, and we will get those, uh, get to those in just a moment at 612-584-4565.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_29: It is a Freedom Friday here on the John Justice Show, presented by American Experiment.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_29: It is the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:00:30
  SPEAKER_29: You can head on over to American Experiment.org.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_29: You can listen to the show live there.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_29: Also on the uh Mix LR app where you can get uh caught up on the uh podcast at the end of uh every show and across all the uh podcast platforms as well.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_29: Uh joining us in studio, we have uh AK Kamara, your RNC committeeman, and Catherine Johnson from American Experiment joining us very shortly.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_29: But Max Reimer and Grace Keating already seated on the comfy chairs and sofas in the American Experimenta studio.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_29: A lot of comments rolled in based off of our uh opening conversation regarding uh movies.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, you guys brushed way too fast past Max digging through garbage cans to get a bucket to refill with popcorn for free.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_31: Some dark days in high school.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_33: How much is popcorn?
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_33: Five bucks.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_31: Oh, it's more than that.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_33: It was more than that when I was home.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_25: Holy buckets of crazy.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_25: Raccoon behavior is not condoned because of the price of the Bezos being like, how much are pizza rolls?
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_25: Like 12 bucks?
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_33: How much could one banana possibly cost, Michael?
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_33: Ten dollars?
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_31: I don't know.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_31: It's probably what?
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_31: Right now it's probably 12, 13 bucks, right, for a large popcorn.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_31: At least.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_31: Dang.
• 1:01:39
  SPEAKER_29: But see, when you're an A-list member, you get rewards, you know, so that can build up.
• 1:01:42
  SPEAKER_29: And so it feels like you're getting free popcorn.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_29: Plus, AMC does.
• 1:01:45
  SPEAKER_29: I didn't mind they need to be a sponsor on the show for crying out loud.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_29: I need an AMC banner like right over here.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_29: That'd be a six sponsor.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_29: Um actually I have one I'll share with you in just a moment.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_29: But um, no, AMC you can actually do refills on the popcorn.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:01:59
  SPEAKER_29: So if I go to if we go to the theaters and if we go to the theater and Melinda's not with us, then usually we refill it and and bring it home.
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_29: And then Melinda goes and takes it and puts it in separate Ziploc bags to keep it fresh.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_31: Now have you ever done have you ever done one of the like novelty popcorn buckets where you're paying like 40 bucks or 50 bucks for like the the cool, yes, the cool popcorn?
• 1:02:18
  SPEAKER_29: You know who you're talking to, right?
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_31: I know.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_29: I know which movies?
• 1:02:21
  SPEAKER_29: Which I have I have a whole collection of popcorn buckets.
• 1:02:25
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_29: Of course you do.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, so I have on the top of my head, I can go.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_29: Let's see.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_29: I have a Revenge of the Sith one, I have a Mandalorian and Grogu.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_29: I have a oh, I have the I have Last Jedi and popcorn buckets, I have the infamous Dune popcorn bucket.
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_29: I was just gonna bring that one up.
• 1:02:42
  SPEAKER_29: I have that one, I have a Tron popcorn bucket.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_29: I know I've got a Tron.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_29: I've got some older ones that are back in the corner, but yeah, I do.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_29: I I don't go all you they have the really big ones that cost like$80 to$100.
• 1:02:54
  SPEAKER_29: I don't do those.
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_29: I usually just do the standard metal tin popcorn bucket.
• 1:02:58
  SPEAKER_29: I dig those a lot.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_29: And a lot of those have like action figures I haven't opened up in there.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_29: I forgot.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_29: I always we're on the air, aren't we?
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:03:06
  SPEAKER_29: I should get back to the this is not a conversation that we're having off the off the show on a Freedom Friday.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_29: So uh let's get back to a few of your uh your thoughts from the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_15: Maybe computers being slow this morning.
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_15: There we go.
• 1:03:28
  SPEAKER_15: I work at a United United Art Theater in Virginia during high school.
• 1:03:33
  SPEAKER_15: And I always pick up my craft after uh came off the butt um we actually had no troubles.
• 1:03:43
  SPEAKER_15: Most note troubles we push up back and forth down the road between all the popcorn and all the stuff and vacuums and different things at the end.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_15: But yep, good time.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_15: Love working at the theater.
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_15: Well, theater employee.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_29: When I was in um when I was working in Tucson, and I want to say it was for at least three or four years, because I was there for nine years.
• 1:04:07
  SPEAKER_29: Um and it's funny because you could track the economic downturn through Obama, through the Obama years, buy this uh free movie card that I would get from Harkins Theaters.
• 1:04:22
  SPEAKER_29: So it started that I had a I had a movie card from Harkins, and I could go see a movie for free whenever I wanted.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_29: I never had to pay.
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_29: What?
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_29: It was amazing it was the it was the best advertise, you know, advertising and advertisement on the show gift that I could ever receive.
• 1:04:40
  SPEAKER_09: That is crazy.
• 1:04:42
  SPEAKER_29: It was fantastic.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_29: Just free movies, whenever I wanted to go, no limit.
• 1:04:46
  SPEAKER_29: Over the years, though, it slowly diminished and changed.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_29: They started limiting it and more and more.
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_29: And then by the end, by the time I left, there was no more free movie card anymore.
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_29: It was just like, you know, it was like discount on popcorn and soda or something like that.
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_29: It was like you could see you could reduce the benefit.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_29: You could track the economic downturn based solely off of that free car.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_29: But that was the best, though.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_29: It was like it was like Arkansas movie theaters.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_29: It was a great, it was a great theater, too.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_29: It was a really it was a really nice, uh, really nice movie theater.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go here to the blaster line.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_15: John fell from Jordan again.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_15: Yes, United Artists Theater when I worked there in high school.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_15: The other fine memory I had was going up on a rickety ladder to change the marquee that was out on Highway 42 in front of the Burnville Center in the winter.
• 1:05:28
  SPEAKER_15: It was awesome.
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_15: Yeah, I don't know making minimum wage if that was uh worth it, but it was uh definitely the adventure that made me the man I am today.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_31: Wow shaped him.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_29: I'll never forget, and then we'll move over to uh some uh some news stories as the guests arrive.
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_29: I'll never forget my dad and I, and he knows the story I'm telling when I tell the story, I know that he's gonna know what I'm talking about.
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_29: We had gone on uh we'd done a couple of uh summer trips, right?
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_29: Just uh when I was BMX racing, we were traveling around the country, we were in North.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_29: Northern California and there was a movie theater, and um you know the Silence of the Lambs, you know, the those films.
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_29: The precursor to that was a film with William Peterson called Mind Hunter, and it was one of the first ones that had Hannibal Lecter in it.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_29: It was based off those books.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_29: So before the Jodie Foster Silence of the Lambs film, a few years earlier in the late 80s, there was this film called called Mind a Hunter, and they actually ended up remaking that as Red Dragon, I think, later on with Edward Norton.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, so if you follow those movies.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_31: Yes.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_31: Okay, I'm glad you said that because I was gonna it's Red Dragon, not girl with the dragon tattoo.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_31: Right, right.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_29: That's a completely different movie.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_29: So I knew I knew there was a dragon.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_29: The Red Dragon movie was what the original Mindhunter was based off of, coming off the source material.
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_29: I bring it all up because the guy mentioned the marquee.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_29: We were in we were up in Northern California driving, and some, you know, tricksters had gone and changed the marquee lettering in Mind Hunter, and they had changed it to eat, and a word that I will never say out loud in front of, certainly not in front of any woman.
• 1:07:09
  SPEAKER_29: It was probably the first time that I'd seen that word to which I had to ask my my dad, you know, hey dad, what what what is that that the sign is telling me that it wants me to eat?
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_29: And he was like, Oh, goodness gracious.
• 1:07:20
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:20
  SPEAKER_29: Moving on.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that was uh Delinquence.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that was that was it was an it was an eye-opening experience, but it was a lesson to be learned, as my dad always says, right?
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_29: These are these are learning, these are learning lessons.
• 1:07:32
  SPEAKER_29: So I never did such a thing.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, we were talking about schools in the first hour of the show.
• 1:07:36
  SPEAKER_29: I'm just gonna, again, a couple of stories here I want to run through.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_29: They've been in the stack all week.
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_29: A civil rights complaint was filed against the Minneapolis Public Schools for a school supplies giveaway event that is reserved for American Indian students only.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_29: So just take all the commentary that we had in the previous story of discrimination and apply it here.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_29: The complaint alleges the event violates Title IX by excluding students based off of race and ethnicity.
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_29: The complaint, the University of Minnesota professor emeritus Mark Perry suggests the event be open to all students or canceled.
• 1:08:09
  SPEAKER_29: And again, as I said before, I just the fact that we even get to this spot where they are going and making these very specific um, you know, and discriminatory sort of events, uh, it's it's it's stunning to me that we get that far.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_29: And but, you know, nevertheless, here we are again.
• 1:08:26
  SPEAKER_33: They're just begging to get sued.
• 1:08:28
  SPEAKER_33: It is unbelievable.
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_33: And I had this thought.
• 1:08:31
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:08:32
  SPEAKER_33: I I had this thought with the last story too, which is that this they've created the system and they want to create the system, which is literally the inverse, not the opposite, the inverse of separate but equal.
• 1:08:43
  SPEAKER_33: They've got all of these students together and they are trying to build a system in which they are treated unequally based on race.
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_33: It is unbelievable.
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_31: How are test scores doing in Minneapolis?
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_31: Not great, Max.
• 1:08:54
  SPEAKER_31: What is reading look like in Minneapolis?
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_31: Can kids do math?
• 1:08:58
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_31: Like I know.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_31: We're doing all this crazy political stuff, and the fundamentals of what schools should be.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_31: I don't even I don't I don't even need to tell you.
• 1:09:08
  SPEAKER_31: You gonna you can probably guess how Minneapolis schools are are doing statewide.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_29: They're doing they're doing absolutely horrible.
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_29: And to your to your point, Grace, uh, you know, I often think that you know, there you have individuals that drive these because they because they want to push the agenda.
• 1:09:24
  SPEAKER_29: They don't care if they're gonna have to face a legal fight.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_29: It helps them in their legal fight.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_29: It brings in more individuals to their cause.
• 1:09:30
  SPEAKER_29: And then unfortunately, you have too many people underneath that that just follow in lockstep thinking that this is the right thing to go, to go and do.
• 1:09:39
  SPEAKER_29: And and a lot of it comes down to these are like they end up being like trial balloon discriminatory initiatives, wherein even if they get smacked down, they've done a good job of bringing more people to their cause.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_29: And so the next time they'll have even more support to do it.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_29: It's a slow chipping away and eroding of the values here in the state and ultimately, you know, across the across the country.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, it does feel very much like how much can we get away with and pushing that a little bit more each time.
• 1:10:07
  SPEAKER_33: And it's interesting too because I feel like when I was in high school and I was a very big liberal, the the mantra going around was, you know, you can't, it's impossible for, you know, reverse racism is not a thing.
• 1:10:18
  SPEAKER_33: It's impossible for a person of color to be racist against white people.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_33: And now I think that that's shifted where it is actually it, it's not that it's not possible, it is good for a person of color to be racist against white people.
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_33: And I think that's kind of what you're seeing with the policies that are being implemented in these schools now.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, and we certainly are not uh we we are certainly inclusive here on the John Justice Show, both male and female, and uh individuals of of all of all colors.
• 1:10:45
  SPEAKER_29: We celebrate all colors here.
• 1:10:46
  SPEAKER_29: Uh with that, we invite in our guests.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_03: Speaking of our transition, all done intentionally, as he gets himself ready.
• 1:10:54
  SPEAKER_29: What's up, AK Kamar?
• 1:10:55
  SPEAKER_29: How are you doing this morning, sir?
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_11: What?
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_29: Hold on.
• 1:10:58
  SPEAKER_29: Oh I blame the gremlins.
• 1:11:04
  SPEAKER_29: Really?
• 1:11:04
  SPEAKER_29: Because I blame Isaac.
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_26: Same diff.
• 1:11:07
  SPEAKER_29: Same diff.
• 1:11:08
  SPEAKER_29: Actually, in his defense, there is some maneuvering that needs to be done on the microphones when other people come in because of his mic.
• 1:11:14
  SPEAKER_29: So good morning, AK.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_29: Good to see you this morning, sir.
• 1:11:16
  SPEAKER_26: Good morning.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_26: I brought in Catherine's favorite smelling energy drink this morning.
• 1:11:21
  SPEAKER_26: I had to stop and get my Welch's grape ghost.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_02: Grape drink.
• 1:11:25
  SPEAKER_29: Grape drink.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_29: Purple drink.
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_29: At least it's far from you.
• 1:11:28
  SPEAKER_29: I guess at least you guys are separated by the, you know.
• 1:11:31
  SPEAKER_29: It'll probably waft over this.
• 1:11:32
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, it'll be a test.
• 1:11:33
  SPEAKER_02: How far does this waft?
• 1:11:35
  SPEAKER_29: Are you trying to get the to get the wild card all?
• 1:11:40
  SPEAKER_26: I I'm I'm really curious about her authoritarian theater take.
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_02: I did think that was quite funny.
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for the shout-out.
• 1:11:47
  SPEAKER_02: Max, when you mentioned like police officers in the theater, and Max just quietly goes, Catherine would love that.
• 1:11:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:11:53
  SPEAKER_03: I would.
• 1:11:54
  SPEAKER_02: I maybe would go.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm bad in a theater.
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_02: I'm probably the person on my phone.
• 1:11:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, more likely sleeping, but if I went to a theater.
• 1:12:01
  SPEAKER_29: Of all the places that I would welcomely open, sort of totalitarian authority, uh, you know, authoritarian rule, it would be a movie theater.
• 1:12:10
  SPEAKER_29: I'd be totally fine with that.
• 1:12:11
  SPEAKER_29: Just crack them down.
• 1:12:12
  SPEAKER_29: You talk once, you're gone.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_29: Just bounce, done.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's just like too much antisocial behavior going on in general in the public.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like my husband and I always talk about this.
• 1:12:20
  SPEAKER_02: Like people on their phone, FaceTiming at full volume, or you know, to like why are you doing that?
• 1:12:26
  SPEAKER_02: You're in a waiting room in a in a doctor's office or something.
• 1:12:29
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I feel like all this behavior is gotten out of hand.
• 1:12:31
  SPEAKER_02: So maybe that's what we need a little bit of a little bit of fraternism.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_29: Well, there's been this um, there's been this emerging concern about how young people can't communicate with with one another.
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_29: They don't have the skills to just simply carry on a conversation with somebody else, to the point where if a parent goes and talks with a child and they actually are well spoken and they stick out.
• 1:12:52
  SPEAKER_29: It's like, wow, that child actually knows how to talk to somebody because they're on their phones all the time.
• 1:12:57
  SPEAKER_29: And you couple with that how we have lost so many of those public spaces where we do go and experience things together as a society.
• 1:13:05
  SPEAKER_29: Fewer people are going out to restaurants now.
• 1:13:07
  SPEAKER_29: There are fewer people going out to the movies anymore.
• 1:13:09
  SPEAKER_29: You still have sports and people go out for live sports, but we just in an era of you know, the black mirrors on our phones, uh, we've lost the art of being able to just interact in a rational way within society.
• 1:13:24
  SPEAKER_29: And you know, movie theaters is just one aspect of that.
• 1:13:26
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, people just lost the etiquette of movies in the first place and the app like they're at home, and it just drives me nuts.
• 1:13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then like some people even dig through the garbage.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, what are you doing?
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_02: You know?
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_29: I know, those darn kids.
• 1:13:36
  SPEAKER_29: Boy, you really you really stepped in it.
• 1:13:37
  SPEAKER_29: You really stepped in it there, didn't you, Max?
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKER_31: I can neither confirm nor deny I did that in high school, but I certainly witnessed it.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_29: All right, one more school-related story, and then I want to talk a little bit about uh Peggy Flanagan and his own hands.
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_02: Taking through the garbage.
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_29: I can't control it.
• 1:13:54
  SPEAKER_02: Whose hands are these?
• 1:13:57
  SPEAKER_29: Um, Thomas Rosengren, we've talked about him before.
• 1:14:01
  SPEAKER_29: He's a former sixth grade teacher who withdrew from the Minnesota Teacher of the Year contest after a controversy involving explicit photos, and they were really explicit photos.
• 1:14:11
  SPEAKER_29: We're talking about him with other dudes, sexually explicit, showing online.
• 1:14:16
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, really, I mean, they were.
• 1:14:18
  SPEAKER_29: They were deviant photos.
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_29: Yikes.
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_29: Um, he's now teaching the fifth grade at Da Vinci Academy.
• 1:14:22
  unknown: Oof.
• 1:14:24
  SPEAKER_29: The school, which faced protests in 2023 over its LGBTQ focused curriculum, declined to comment on whether it was aware of the controversy surrounding Rosengrenn's hiring.
• 1:14:35
  SPEAKER_29: The explicit photos, which were widely circulated online, led to Rosengrend's departure from his uh previous uh district.
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_29: This is a story here from uh from Alpha News.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_29: I'll refrain from getting into the into the we talked about this when it first emerged when they first had the story, and I'll get I'll I'm gonna refrain from getting into the details just to say that the photographs were, I mean, again, they they should not have been publicly available online in any way, in any way, shape, or form.
• 1:14:59
  SPEAKER_29: And I don't know if this is still the case, but I know that it used to be that, and I was was surprised by this, that school districts and schools, individual schools, could hold students accountable for off-campus behavior.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_29: Like if a student, even if it was out of school, school hours, say it was after three o'clock, and a student was down the road and was at a at a grocery store or a convenience store and got into a fight or an altercation with another student, the school district would actually take action against that student.
• 1:15:29
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, those same rules should be applying here when it comes to when it comes to teachers and what they've posted online.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_29: It happens in virtually every other facet of employment where they're checking your your online profiles now.
• 1:15:42
  SPEAKER_29: Um, but unfortunately, it seems as if individuals like this, they end up getting special treatment.
• 1:15:48
  SPEAKER_29: Like there's people that are sympathetic to them, even though they've shown this type of deviant uh behavior.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_29: So I'm curious to get your to get your guys' thoughts this morning on Freedom Friday.
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_26: The thing that's fascinating is that Minnesota, at this point, I can think of multiple teachers of the year winners who then were accused or even convicted of some pretty heinous moral crimes.
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_26: Whether it was I I think there was a guy by the name of uh Abdul, uh, and not this Abdul, but there was a guy named Abdul, and uh as a weird kind of side story, I worked with him at an after-school program.
• 1:16:23
  SPEAKER_26: He went on to become a teacher.
• 1:16:25
  SPEAKER_26: He had kind of transitioned from like middle school to high school, and then he worked as an after-school program, but he had that.
• 1:16:30
  SPEAKER_26: And then there's other teachers that have won Teacher of the Year, and so I don't know what it is about Minnesota's teachers that get elevated and pushed to the top.
• 1:16:39
  SPEAKER_26: It's like they might have all these moral discretions and they push them to the side because they represent some group, and so they decide this is a person we're gonna elevate.
• 1:16:48
  SPEAKER_26: But at this point, I just I wouldn't want to be anywhere near anyone that's even be looked at for teacher of the year.
• 1:16:54
  SPEAKER_26: It's just that bad.
• 1:16:55
  SPEAKER_26: There's so many stories now at this point.
• 1:16:58
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, I think when you when you have so many stories coming out lately too about teachers having affairs with their students or statutory rape or whatever, it's like, you know, you because part of me wants to go, okay, is this guy bringing some of that to the classroom?
• 1:17:17
  SPEAKER_31: If not, do I have like an issue with it?
• 1:17:21
  SPEAKER_31: And the answer is still probably yes, because I think what we're seeing is like you don't want your teacher, like if it was a female teacher, you wouldn't want your teacher to be like have an active only fans account, right?
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_26: Probably probably already happened.
• 1:17:35
  SPEAKER_26: Like that's the thing, is like, yeah, there is no moral code anymore.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_26: And to your point, John, when I was in high school, I played football, and if I got caught smoking cigarettes off campus, I would not be able to play for the rest of the season.
• 1:17:49
  SPEAKER_26: So there was like certain moral things that even if it's like not that big of a deal, if you're caught doing, caught stealing, and not on school property, you will not be able to play for the rest of the season.
• 1:18:00
  SPEAKER_26: That's why a bunch of like high schoolers that chew, um, you know, they would stop chewing when it's during the season, and then when the season's over, then you can go back because if it's not during the season, then you don't have to worry about it.
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_26: So that was your school.
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_26: Doubles Lake shout out, doubles Lake High School.
• 1:18:16
  SPEAKER_26: What up?
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_29: Doubles Lake.
• 1:18:18
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I miss the uh I missed the days of accountability like that.
• 1:18:21
  SPEAKER_29: I miss the days when, you know, when a student was doing something that they shouldn't have been doing underage, that we actually went and held them, you know, accountable.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_29: With this particular teacher, it falls in line with the indoctrination that the public that the public schools and schools like Da Vinci are already doing when it comes to the LGBTQ curriculum that should not be introduced to any child under the age of 18.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_29: And so I imagine that when it comes to a person like this, it's merely seen as an extension, and therefore he probably is getting preferential treatment.
• 1:18:48
  SPEAKER_29: He the other other teachers were probably passed over so they could hire this guy because of the controversy.
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_29: And and you and that's why you need to make sure that you pay attention to what your schools are are teaching, homeschool if you can, or get him into private school.
• 1:19:02
  SPEAKER_29: And even if you're gonna get him into private school, make sure you do your due diligence to check out the background of those private schools.
• 1:19:08
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, that's exactly been the piece that I've been stuck on this whole time.
• 1:19:11
  SPEAKER_33: Obviously, the teacher's behavior is a little insane to me, but the LGBT curriculum aspect of this, that that phrase should not even exist.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_33: In a state where half of our kids cannot read or do math at grade level, we should not be designing curriculum around issues, social issues like LGBTQ.
• 1:19:33
  SPEAKER_33: Pride, I suppose is the word you would use.
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_33: Teach them reading, teach them math, prepare them for life, and leave that other stuff out of the freaking schools.
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_33: Also, someone should fact-check me on this.
• 1:19:43
  SPEAKER_33: I am fairly certain that the Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award is run solely by the union and is only open to union teachers, which explains a lot of the candidates that end up getting picked.
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that makes that that makes sense.
• 1:19:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was gonna say that too.
• 1:19:55
  SPEAKER_02: I think that's correct, Grace.
• 1:19:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's is also sad, I think, that they do see this kind of degenerate behavior as an extension of that sort of identity, like you said, John, like the uh degenerate pictures you see of this guy online, I saw against my will, um, are part of being LGBTQ for some reason.
• 1:20:15
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it doesn't have to be that way.
• 1:20:16
  SPEAKER_02: You can do what you want in your private life and keep it private.
• 1:20:20
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have to be an extension.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's like the Pride Parades.
• 1:20:22
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have to be a thing where there are people so scantily clad doing things that are so just RX rated in front of children.
• 1:20:30
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't have to be that way.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_02: And so I think that's also a sad part of this, too, that they are accepting that as part of this identity when it doesn't have to be that way.
• 1:20:38
  SPEAKER_29: Well, the good news is that um, you know, this guy will have uh bathhouses to go to in Minneapolis sometime in the near future.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_29: So maybe able to go and he can go get his freak on his freak on there.
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_29: So well, just groans from the audience.
• 1:20:50
  SPEAKER_29: Uh all right, let's do this.
• 1:20:51
  SPEAKER_29: I have a uh I have a blast that I want to share, 612-584-4565.
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, there's an article about Peggy Flanagan in the Star Tribune this morning that we need to get into because it's utterly uh ridiculous.
• 1:21:01
  SPEAKER_29: I also have some fun items in the in the stack.
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_29: We're gonna talk a little alcohol a little bit later on.
• 1:21:07
  SPEAKER_29: It's been declining among people your age over here.
• 1:21:10
  SPEAKER_29: You guys aren't drinking as much.
• 1:21:11
  SPEAKER_29: You gotta step up your game for crying out loud.
• 1:21:13
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, we also have a list of the most popular mixed drinks.
• 1:21:15
  SPEAKER_29: So I'm looking forward to going through uh that list a little bit uh later on as we continue to get your on and off topic comments all morning.
• 1:21:22
  SPEAKER_29: Uh before I play this blast, and uh I also want to share a piece of uh audio.
• 1:21:26
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Grace, I want to go to you for just a moment.
• 1:21:28
  SPEAKER_29: I know that you've been um recording more in your uh coming to the classroom series, uh, correct?
• 1:21:34
  SPEAKER_29: Are those are those up yet or will they be up soon?
• 1:21:36
  SPEAKER_33: There are two more in uh post-production right now.
• 1:21:40
  SPEAKER_33: So they'll be coming soon.
• 1:21:41
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 1:21:41
  SPEAKER_29: So what we'll do is we'll play this uh comment here from a friend of the show at 612-584-4565.
• 1:21:46
  SPEAKER_29: And then for those that are not familiar with uh Grace and her coming to the classroom series, I'll play you a snippet of one of them here in just a moment.
• 1:21:53
  SPEAKER_29: Honor Freedom Friday, we'll continue to take your emails as well, John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 1:22:01
  SPEAKER_18: I'm sorry, but uh because I have a lot of friends that are teachers, but public school teachers are some of the dumbest people on the face of the earth.
• 1:22:09
  SPEAKER_18: I and I mean that an awful charity.
• 1:22:12
  SPEAKER_18: We're not the best.
• 1:22:14
  SPEAKER_18: Those who can't teach, apparently, because wild.
• 1:22:19
  SPEAKER_29: Not all.
• 1:22:20
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:22:21
  SPEAKER_29: And if you're a good teacher, we're certainly not talking about it.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_29: I know some awesome public teachers.
• 1:22:24
  SPEAKER_29: There are some awesome public school teachers.
• 1:22:26
  SPEAKER_29: That's true.
• 1:22:27
  SPEAKER_29: There's also some really dumb ones, be that as it may, especially the ones that are working with that lunatic at DaVinci.
• 1:22:32
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, here is uh some of what you can check out at AmericanExperiment.org or on the YouTube page at Center of the American Experiment.
• 1:22:38
  SPEAKER_33: In this week's episode of Coming to a Classroom Near You, we look at the new requirement to teach ethnic studies in all K-12 schools in Minnesota, which must be implemented in 2026.
• 1:22:48
  SPEAKER_33: Ethnic Studies includes three distinct standards identity, resistance, and ways of knowing and methodologies.
• 1:22:55
  SPEAKER_33: The resistance standard takes learning to a whole new level.
• 1:22:58
  SPEAKER_33: It requires students to describe how individuals and communities have fought for liberation against systemic exercises of power and organize with others to engage in such activities.
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_33: The ways of knowing standard requires students to understand the roots of contemporary systems of oppression and apply lessons from the past that could eliminate contemporary injustices.
• 1:23:22
  SPEAKER_33: High school students are instructed that resistance to our nation's social and political institutions is required as they explain how the social construction of race was used to oppress people of color, evaluate policies affecting historically marginalized communities of color, and take action to affect policy.
• 1:23:41
  SPEAKER_33: It's not ambiguous.
• 1:23:42
  SPEAKER_33: The new ethnic study standards don't just require learning.
• 1:23:45
  SPEAKER_33: They require students to organize, to take action.
• 1:23:48
  SPEAKER_33: And it's already playing out in classrooms near you.
• 1:23:51
  SPEAKER_33: Teachers in schools across Minnesota are encouraging their students to organize using this resistance standard.
• 1:23:57
  SPEAKER_33: For example, the principal at Eagle Ridge Middle School in Savage, Minnesota sent a message to families saying he will not stop kids from leaving school to protest and will have staff supervising the protest.
• 1:24:09
  SPEAKER_33: But don't blame the principal.
• 1:24:11
  SPEAKER_33: He's simply implementing the new ethnic study standards.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_33: More concerning is that the activists now exhorting students to join protests are the very people who helped draft the ethnic studies standards in the first place.
• 1:24:23
  SPEAKER_33: Far left activist groups like UNIDOS MN are organizing Minneapolis high school students to protest.
• 1:24:29
  SPEAKER_33: UNidos has also been promoting a 25-page guidebook calling on students to engage monthly in mass non-cooperation to halt the authoritarians' advance.
• 1:24:38
  SPEAKER_33: UNIDOS is a prominent member of the Minnesota Ethnic Studies Coalition, and Jose Alvilar, the statewide director of youth programs for ONIDOS, formerly called Navigate Minnesota, served on the Minnesota Department of Education committee that wrote our social studies standards.
• 1:24:54
  SPEAKER_33: The resistance is all happening according to plan, and it's officially coming to all Minnesota public schools this fall.
• 1:25:01
  SPEAKER_33: When Ethnic Studies was presented to the Minnesota legislature in 2023, it was portrayed as the study of different cultures, students seeing themselves in the curriculum and learning honest history.
• 1:25:12
  SPEAKER_33: But like so many other familiar terms, Minnesota's ethnic studies has been hijacked to apply a liberated approach to understanding our world.
• 1:25:20
  SPEAKER_33: Minnesota students deserve a robust education that includes learning hard historical truths and frank discussions on where our country has fallen short, not one that is confined to a narrow, politicized, and ideological worldview.
• 1:25:35
  SPEAKER_33: Recently, California rejected a statewide ethnic studies mandate because it was too divisive.
• 1:25:40
  SPEAKER_33: How will Minnesota respond?
• 1:25:42
  SPEAKER_33: To learn more about Minnesota's ethnic studies standards, visit AmericaneExperiment.org/slash ethnic studies.
• 1:25:50
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• 1:26:38
  SPEAKER_29: It is a Freedom Friday, and we have a full house.
• 1:26:40
  SPEAKER_29: Katherine Johnson is with us this morning here in American Experiment.
• 1:26:43
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning, Catherine.
• 1:26:44
  unknown: Good morning.
• 1:26:46
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning.
• 1:26:47
  SPEAKER_02: Happy to be here.
• 1:26:48
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Grace Keating, of course.
• 1:26:50
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning.
• 1:26:50
  SPEAKER_29: Max Reimer, representative.
• 1:26:52
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning.
• 1:26:53
  SPEAKER_29: And A.K.
• 1:26:54
  SPEAKER_29: Kamara.
• 1:26:54
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning, AK.
• 1:26:55
  SPEAKER_29: Good morning.
• 1:26:56
  SPEAKER_29: Energy drink in hand.
• 1:26:57
  SPEAKER_29: Indeed.
• 1:26:58
  SPEAKER_29: Hour to a shirt rocking.
• 1:27:00
  SPEAKER_29: I have a couple of Peggy Flanagan stories to share.
• 1:27:03
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, first one here from Alpha News on Tuesday, Democrat Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan published a social media statement which said, I love Minnesota.
• 1:27:12
  SPEAKER_29: I'm proud to be a Minnesotan.
• 1:27:13
  SPEAKER_29: Who wouldn't be?
• 1:27:15
  SPEAKER_29: That tweet was an apparent jab at Michelle Tefoya.
• 1:27:18
  SPEAKER_29: In recent days, Tefoya's been criticized for sympathizing with Minnesotans who say it's embarrassing to tell other people that they are from Minnesota.
• 1:27:25
  SPEAKER_29: Tefoya, who's also been criticized for a 2024 post in which she appears to say that she will be fleeing Minnesota soon.
• 1:27:32
  SPEAKER_29: Now, while Flanagan's tweet appeared to be an attempt at shaming Tefoya, Flanagan herself has a history of making controversial comments about Minnesota.
• 1:27:40
  SPEAKER_29: And this is what I wanted to focus on because uh, as we were talking about, I think, last week when she was giving her first appearances, um, and they were they were borderline disasters, in my opinion.
• 1:27:50
  SPEAKER_29: I just don't think she's ready for prime time.
• 1:27:52
  SPEAKER_29: And on top of that, she's got a lot in her history that Tefoya and Republicans can draw scrutiny from.
• 1:27:59
  SPEAKER_29: In the days Following the death of George Floyd, she did an interview with uh NPR, and she says, We've got a really incredible state if you're white, if you're a person of color, if you're indigenous, if you are an immigrant or a refugee, the opposite is true.
• 1:28:15
  SPEAKER_29: I imagine, by the way, that if you were to go to ask Peggy Flanagan about those comments now, she would probably say, let me put it this way: if I were Peggy Flanagan, my response would be, well, it was that way back then, but the DFL's made a lot of progress now.
• 1:28:28
  SPEAKER_29: And it's a great place for people who are black and who are immigrants.
• 1:28:32
  SPEAKER_29: Later that same year in an NPR interview, she said, Minnesota has been built on white supremacy.
• 1:28:37
  SPEAKER_29: That might be a tougher one to get around.
• 1:28:40
  SPEAKER_29: Unless we tackle it in a really aggressive way.
• 1:28:42
  SPEAKER_29: Never mind.
• 1:28:43
  SPEAKER_29: We're not going to see the systemic change we need.
• 1:28:46
  SPEAKER_29: That following year, she issued a lengthy public statement in response to the shooting of Dante Wright, where she said, uh, regarding Wright's death, I'm grappling with the stark reality.
• 1:28:56
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota is a place where it's not safe to be black.
• 1:29:00
  SPEAKER_29: And uh the statement went on to call for rethinking policing and rethinking crowd control when people express righteous and justifiable outrage that our state is not uh uh safe for uh black people.
• 1:29:12
  SPEAKER_29: Um, AK, let's start with you.
• 1:29:14
  SPEAKER_29: Any thoughts on Peggy uh Flanagans in the comments?
• 1:29:17
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, listen, um, every every Democrat that has adopted you know this language, whether it's like critical race, critical gender theory, like on its premise, on the surface, they have to reject everything that built up to this point because like that's what they're critiquing, is that history has been built by white men, cisgender normative, all this garbage nonsense.
• 1:29:41
  SPEAKER_26: So for Peggy Flanagan to attack a comment saying, thinking about fleeing Minnesota because of the trifecta, it didn't say, oh, I think that Minnesota's awful.
• 1:29:51
  SPEAKER_26: It's like I'm fleeing now because of these terrible policies.
• 1:29:55
  SPEAKER_26: For her to be that critical, it's just because they don't think about the long-term ramifications.
• 1:30:00
  SPEAKER_26: Oh, Minnesota's amazing and beautiful in its current context.
• 1:30:04
  SPEAKER_26: So I think it's a nothing burger.
• 1:30:06
  SPEAKER_26: And when you see all of these different publications and media outlets that are kind of glomming onto the story about Tefoya's previous comments, it's because they have nothing.
• 1:30:17
  SPEAKER_26: And they're just trying to help Peggy Flanagan.
• 1:30:19
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 1:30:19
  SPEAKER_26: I mean, ask her what she thinks about the United States.
• 1:30:21
  SPEAKER_26: Ask her what she thinks about Christopher Columbus and that statue that she was happy was toppled.
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_26: Yep.
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_26: Like, is that showing pride in this country?
• 1:30:31
  SPEAKER_26: Pride that Minnesota decided to honor Italian Americans?
• 1:30:35
  SPEAKER_26: Of course it's not.
• 1:30:36
  SPEAKER_26: So I just think it's it's funny because their entire premise is built on that everything up to this point in America and in Minnesota has been awful and racist.
• 1:30:44
  SPEAKER_29: Before we hear comments from uh from Max, Grace, and Catherine, I want to add one more element to this and something that you just mentioned.
• 1:30:50
  SPEAKER_29: Um, an observation uh over the course of the past week.
• 1:30:54
  SPEAKER_29: Um, it could be anecdotal.
• 1:30:55
  SPEAKER_29: I don't think that it is, but what's really interesting to me is that across, when you talked about the media jumping onto the story, across all the local media channels, suddenly there's a bunch of reporting on issues that we have not been talking about in the longest time.
• 1:31:08
  SPEAKER_29: Suddenly now, Operation Metro Surge is being talked about on multiple levels, multiple different ways, where I hadn't seen a single story about Operation Metro Surge in months.
• 1:31:19
  SPEAKER_29: And this plays into this article from the Star Tribune that I'll get into in just a moment, just to sort of reinforce your point that there is a lot of carrying of the water for the DFL that local media is is currently uh doing.
• 1:31:30
  SPEAKER_29: Representative uh Max Reimer, do you have thoughts on Flanagan?
• 1:31:32
  SPEAKER_31: You know, it's interesting because they try to lob this comment about uh this one-off comment from uh from Tefoya talking about how she wanted to leave because of DFL policies.
• 1:31:42
  SPEAKER_31: Well, it wasn't that long ago that Governor Mark Dayton said if you don't like what the DFL is doing in Minnesota, you can leave the state.
• 1:31:52
  SPEAKER_31: Mark Dayton said that, you know, and that sentiment has been shared by other DFLers too.
• 1:31:57
  SPEAKER_31: If you don't like what we're doing, you can always leave.
• 1:31:59
  SPEAKER_31: And so when somebody says, I don't like what you're doing and it's making me want to leave, now all of a sudden.
• 1:32:05
  SPEAKER_31: I think I think what Michelle Tefoya said, a lot of Minnesotans share that sentiment.
• 1:32:10
  SPEAKER_31: Not even just Republicans, just people who who want a normal state.
• 1:32:15
  SPEAKER_31: They're like, I I travel to other states and it used to be about Prince, or it used to be about the Mall of America, or it used to be about a myriad or hockey.
• 1:32:26
  SPEAKER_31: You'd go out of state and people would talk to you about the normal topics that your kind of classical Minnesota used to be about.
• 1:32:32
  SPEAKER_31: Now, when I go out of state, I'm in Naples, Florida, probably once a quarter.
• 1:32:37
  SPEAKER_31: Every time I tell people I'm from Minnesota, it's like, oh, what about that Ilhan Omar?
• 1:32:42
  SPEAKER_31: Or wow, you guys really got defrauded.
• 1:32:44
  SPEAKER_31: It's like embarrassing topics.
• 1:32:47
  SPEAKER_31: Michelle Defoy is right when she says that.
• 1:32:49
  SPEAKER_31: And the only way you change it is a change in leadership.
• 1:32:52
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:32:53
  SPEAKER_33: What she was commenting on was others, you know, other states' perception of what's happening here in Minnesota.
• 1:32:58
  SPEAKER_33: I think a lot of that goes back to when Tim Walls was the VP candidate.
• 1:33:02
  SPEAKER_33: And that was that was when I first started hearing Minnesota referred to um in sort of a like a laughing at us way.
• 1:33:08
  SPEAKER_33: You know, he was on stage doing the jazz hands things and and then it became fraud and became Noha No Mar.
• 1:33:13
  SPEAKER_33: Um, but what at the end of the day, what voters should be asking themselves and asking Peggy Flanagan is if this is such a terrible state to live in, if you're not white and you're not cisgender or whatever, you're not straight, um, what on earth has Peggy Flanagan's party been doing for the last 10, 15, 20 years?
• 1:33:31
  SPEAKER_33: They have been running our state on every level for years and years.
• 1:33:35
  SPEAKER_33: And if it is this bad and deeply racist, I'm I'm they should be pointing the fingers at her party.
• 1:33:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think that this Peggy Flanagan problem is something we see across the country too with the whole Democratic Party because they fully embraced in 2020, um, like woke one, as AOC called it.
• 1:33:54
  SPEAKER_02: Which we shouldn't let them get away with.
• 1:33:55
  SPEAKER_02: We're not out of woke one.
• 1:33:57
  SPEAKER_02: We're still in woke H E L L right now as we speak.
• 1:34:00
  SPEAKER_02: Listen to the stories we talk about.
• 1:34:02
  SPEAKER_02: But they fully embraced the craziest people in their party around that time, like Peggy Flanagan.
• 1:34:07
  SPEAKER_02: They brought them in as voters, and now um it's fully makes up the majority of their party.
• 1:34:13
  SPEAKER_02: So we have candidates like Peggy Flanagan and other extremely radical people on the left all throughout the country.
• 1:34:18
  SPEAKER_02: And I think it'll be interesting to see how people, normal people in the middle, respond to these particularly radical candidates in the election.
• 1:34:27
  SPEAKER_29: Uh first off, uh, we are streaming, so you can say hell if you'd like.
• 1:34:29
  SPEAKER_29: I just want to let you know.
• 1:34:30
  SPEAKER_29: I just want to.
• 1:34:31
  SPEAKER_02: This is trying to be delicate.
• 1:34:32
  SPEAKER_02: No, I know.
• 1:34:33
  SPEAKER_29: Listen, I appreciate usually I do the H E double hockey stick.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_29: So I was just thinking, you know, you can throw a hell out there.
• 1:34:39
  SPEAKER_29: You can throw a hell.
• 1:34:40
  SPEAKER_29: You can throw a damn out there.
• 1:34:41
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:34:42
  SPEAKER_29: Let's just, you know, let's just throw it all the profanity right now.
• 1:34:44
  SPEAKER_29: No, I'm just kidding.
• 1:34:45
  SPEAKER_29: I'm just kidding.
• 1:34:46
  SPEAKER_29: Um I want to get to the Star Tribune article, but let me add something, something to this.
• 1:34:50
  SPEAKER_29: Um, there's been an emerging theme.
• 1:34:52
  SPEAKER_29: I had a lot of guests uh this week, and I've been really I don't know if you guys have had you guys have noticed this, and I think it's partly because we're heading into the general election, so there is a narrative out there of, especially when it comes to the Republicans, to, you know, better the state, turn the state around.
• 1:35:10
  SPEAKER_29: But what I have, and I think beyond that, I think it goes deeper than that, I have seen a level of of optimism and positivity and people talking, even though despite all of our problems, people talking more positively about the state than I can recall.
• 1:35:25
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, this goes back to pre-COVID.
• 1:35:27
  SPEAKER_29: I've been hearing a lot of that lately.
• 1:35:29
  SPEAKER_29: And I do just one little anecdote on that.
• 1:35:32
  SPEAKER_29: I have no evidence to back this up.
• 1:35:33
  SPEAKER_29: But I also think that the individuals who were so fed up that they did leave because we know that there was a mass exit of people here in Minnesota, I think those people, I think, I think that has slowed down.
• 1:35:46
  SPEAKER_29: And so the core individuals that are here, especially Republicans, have decided to commit to stay here.
• 1:35:51
  SPEAKER_29: And because of that, they're committed to making the state better.
• 1:35:53
  SPEAKER_29: And so I've seen a level of positivity that I hadn't heard in in years over the course of the past month or so.
• 1:35:59
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, I think listen, Minnesota is an amazing state.
• 1:36:02
  SPEAKER_26: I think with all of the different, you know, weather that we have.
• 1:36:07
  SPEAKER_26: If you're a snowmobile person, you got all that.
• 1:36:10
  SPEAKER_26: If you like, you know, running in nature and running around lakes and all that.
• 1:36:13
  SPEAKER_26: Driving your Mr.
• 1:36:14
  SPEAKER_26: Zerz.
• 1:36:14
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, all the Mr.
• 1:36:15
  SPEAKER_26: Zerr's out there.
• 1:36:16
  SPEAKER_26: And honestly, that's what makes Minnesota great.
• 1:36:19
  SPEAKER_26: And you can go up in the Iron Range or you can go down to the prairie.
• 1:36:23
  SPEAKER_26: We have an amazing state, and people like this state.
• 1:36:27
  SPEAKER_26: So a lot of this critique that people have of like, hey man, like I love all these things, but if this is how our policies are going to impact everyday business and life, I want to leave.
• 1:36:38
  SPEAKER_26: But you're right, John.
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_26: There is a level of optimism, but I just want to be very, very also critical of this aspect.
• 1:36:47
  SPEAKER_26: I'm also hearing from a lot of people like this is our last time.
• 1:36:50
  SPEAKER_26: If things don't change wow, I'm out.
• 1:36:54
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 1:36:54
  SPEAKER_26: And there's been no shout out to Frank Long.
• 1:36:57
  SPEAKER_26: Uh, I I know that he had his beef and his contention, but he was a long time activist in Minnesota and he left.
• 1:37:05
  SPEAKER_26: He's gone now.
• 1:37:06
  SPEAKER_26: He's moved out of Minnesota.
• 1:37:07
  SPEAKER_29: Was that my fault?
• 1:37:09
  SPEAKER_26: No, no, not your fault at all.
• 1:37:11
  SPEAKER_29: I don't I don't care if it was one reason.
• 1:37:13
  SPEAKER_26: In the in the grand, you know, the grand scheme and looking at kind of the long run, this is why it's important for people to really say this is where we put it all on the line.
• 1:37:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:37:22
  SPEAKER_26: Um, I I just think that we have an amazing opportunity this election cycle.
• 1:37:27
  SPEAKER_26: We can't let it slip away.
• 1:37:28
  SPEAKER_26: And so if you love this state and you don't want to be part of woke 2.0, you have to get out there and vote like that's actually what's at stake and get your neighbors and your friends and the people that say, yeah, we're not gonna go back to this this lifestyle and keep that optimistic view because Minnesota has so much potential to be great again.
• 1:37:48
  SPEAKER_29: I'm uh I'm holding out for woke uh 3.0.
• 1:37:50
  SPEAKER_29: I heard that's gonna be awesome.
• 1:37:52
  SPEAKER_29: I hear woke 3.0 and 2.
• 1:37:53
  SPEAKER_31: Woke 3.0, electric boogaloo.
• 1:37:55
  SPEAKER_26: Vast, vast improvement.
• 1:37:58
  SPEAKER_26: Just in the VAT, plugged into you know the woke matrix.
• 1:38:01
  SPEAKER_29: You know what?
• 1:38:01
  SPEAKER_29: Maybe I'll that's what maybe that's what I'll name my my my AI band, woke 3.0.
• 1:38:05
  SPEAKER_29: We were working on some some names this morning.
• 1:38:07
  SPEAKER_29: Uh let's go here to the blaster line at uh 612-584-4565 here on the John Justice show.
• 1:38:13
  SPEAKER_19: Hey, good morning, Paul from Brooklyn Park.
• 1:38:15
  SPEAKER_19: Happy freedom Friday, everyone.
• 1:38:18
  SPEAKER_19: The plan against me must have absolutely nothing.
• 1:38:27
  SPEAKER_19: Like girls gossiping about embarrassing that Peggy Flanagan is the lieutenant governor of the state.
• 1:38:38
  SPEAKER_19: It's terrifying to think that she could be a senator.
• 1:38:41
  SPEAKER_19: It's terrifying that she's in charge of anything.
• 1:38:44
  SPEAKER_29: That's a really interesting point.
• 1:38:45
  SPEAKER_29: It must suck to be writers for Peggy Flanagan because you've got like virtually no resume there.
• 1:38:50
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, at at I mean, with her time being lieutenant governor, I mean, she's just been lieutenant governor.
• 1:38:55
  SPEAKER_29: So there's not really much that she can go and hang her hang her hat with.
• 1:38:59
  SPEAKER_31: No, even Peggy Flanagan says, I don't know anything about the fraud.
• 1:39:03
  SPEAKER_31: I had nothing to do with that.
• 1:39:04
  SPEAKER_31: The guy, the guy who actually handles the state knew about it.
• 1:39:08
  SPEAKER_31: Like you're outsourcing the the bad things and trying to take credit for the good things, doing that with my finger.
• 1:39:15
  SPEAKER_31: But it was interesting.
• 1:39:17
  SPEAKER_31: I went to an event.
• 1:39:19
  SPEAKER_31: Fingers?
• 1:39:19
  SPEAKER_31: What's that?
• 1:39:20
  SPEAKER_31: Just one thing.
• 1:39:22
  SPEAKER_31: Doing that thing with my fingers.
• 1:39:23
  SPEAKER_31: Just the one finger.
• 1:39:24
  SPEAKER_31: Doing that thing with my finger.
• 1:39:27
  SPEAKER_31: That thing.
• 1:39:28
  SPEAKER_26: Hey, stay on your side of the couch, man.
• 1:39:30
  SPEAKER_31: Doing that thing with my finger.
• 1:39:31
  SPEAKER_29: Hey, hey, Kate.
• 1:39:32
  SPEAKER_29: Are you uh auditioning to be a teacher at DaVinci?
• 1:39:38
  SPEAKER_29: Hey, oh sorry, boy.
• 1:39:41
  SPEAKER_30: Where do I go from there?
• 1:39:44
  SPEAKER_26: But yeah, listen, Peggy Flanagan, trying trying to like do the stuff.
• 1:39:49
  SPEAKER_26: Hang on, hang on.
• 1:39:49
  SPEAKER_26: Okay, you got it.
• 1:39:50
  SPEAKER_31: I went to an event, okay?
• 1:39:52
  SPEAKER_31: That's where I was.
• 1:39:54
  SPEAKER_31: I went to an event, and they they reminded me that like the one thing that you're like responsible for as lieutenant governor is to handle the Capitol grounds.
• 1:40:02
  SPEAKER_31: Like you're in charge of decor and making things, uh making sure that like things stay upright.
• 1:40:09
  SPEAKER_31: So like the fact that Peggy Flanagan, maybe, maybe you hired the lawn company lawn care company.
• 1:40:15
  SPEAKER_31: Uh, but the fact that Peggy Flanagan let the Christopher Columbus statue get torn down and then like celebrated it, it was like you had one job, and it was that, and she couldn't even do that, and then celebrated the fact that she failed at her job.
• 1:40:29
  SPEAKER_33: Wasn't there also like a satanic display at the Capitol as well?
• 1:40:31
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, there's that.
• 1:40:33
  SPEAKER_31: It's still there.
• 1:40:34
  SPEAKER_29: No, it's gone now.
• 1:40:36
  SPEAKER_02: Just satanic people.
• 1:40:37
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, this display's gone, but the people okay, the people are still around.
• 1:40:40
  SPEAKER_26: And then all like the drag show, like all the stuff in the rotunda.
• 1:40:43
  SPEAKER_26: But to your point though, Max, like when it comes to running on her record, she probably wants nothing more than to do that.
• 1:40:52
  SPEAKER_26: But everyone that understands politics is like, but it's not popular with people beyond just our radical Marxist base.
• 1:40:59
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, so you really can't.
• 1:41:00
  SPEAKER_26: The only thing, and the blaster pointed this out, she can only attack what could be with a Michelle Tefoya U.S.
• 1:41:09
  SPEAKER_26: senator or attack Trump.
• 1:41:12
  SPEAKER_26: That's all she can do.
• 1:41:13
  SPEAKER_26: They can't even bring up their accomplishments because they're so radical.
• 1:41:17
  SPEAKER_26: I mean, I would love nothing more than for Peggy Flanagan to put on her protect trans kids with the knife K bar on her shirt and run around and campaign.
• 1:41:25
  SPEAKER_26: Be your true self, Peggy, if you're watching this.
• 1:41:28
  SPEAKER_26: Let your freak flag fly, girl.
• 1:41:30
  SPEAKER_26: I think, hasn't she done that enough?
• 1:41:32
  SPEAKER_26: No, she needs to keep doing that so people know that's what they're voting for.
• 1:41:35
  SPEAKER_29: Just keep the freak up.
• 1:41:36
  SPEAKER_29: Keep the freak up.
• 1:41:37
  SPEAKER_29: Keep the freak up.
• 1:41:38
  SPEAKER_29: I don't think that'll be that hard.
• 1:41:39
  SPEAKER_29: Great campaign slogan for her.
• 1:41:40
  SPEAKER_29: Peggy Flandan, I'm keeping the freak up.
• 1:41:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think too, she has a feeling about her that is not super genuine, in my opinion.
• 1:41:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um if you look back at the way that she used to dress, for example, it is not very similar to the way that she dresses now.
• 1:41:55
  SPEAKER_02: I don't question anything she said about her heritage or anything like that, but there has been a transition that's occurred in the way she presents herself.
• 1:42:03
  SPEAKER_02: And it is to really lean into certain identities and things like that that I think she sees as favorable and and and help her.
• 1:42:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't think that that comes off very well to most voters.
• 1:42:13
  SPEAKER_02: When you seem like you're just not a genuine person, I think that's what people hate most in politicians.
• 1:42:17
  SPEAKER_02: So I think that is actually gonna work against her in woke 2.0 anyway.
• 1:42:22
  SPEAKER_29: So uh two things.
• 1:42:23
  SPEAKER_29: One, I think I'm gonna work on a new AI song, Keep the Freak Up, Peggy Flanagan.
• 1:42:27
  SPEAKER_29: I think that'd be a good one.
• 1:42:28
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 1:42:29
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:42:29
  SPEAKER_29: I can work on that over the weekend.
• 1:42:30
  SPEAKER_29: This article here in front of me, when I saw it, I laughed, uh, I laughed out loud.
• 1:42:34
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, Peggy Flanagan isn't a Democrat socialist, but here's where she agrees and doesn't with the DSA.
• 1:42:42
  SPEAKER_29: Like I so how long until we're gonna get the uh Michelle Tefoya isn't MAGA, but here's where she agrees and doesn't agree with MAGA.
• 1:42:51
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, give me I won't hold my breath.
• 1:42:54
  SPEAKER_29: Break already.
• 1:42:55
  SPEAKER_29: I, you know, this is where Flanagan and the Democrat Socialists agree.
• 1:42:58
  SPEAKER_29: This is where Flanagan and the DSA don't align.
• 1:43:02
  SPEAKER_29: She's in the article, it says that uh she joins a growing number of uh this would be Angie Nixon's victory, uh joins a growing number of Democrat socialists finding success over the past year.
• 1:43:12
  SPEAKER_29: But don't count Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, the Minnesota DFL nominee for U.S.
• 1:43:17
  SPEAKER_29: Senate among them.
• 1:43:18
  SPEAKER_29: Though Republicans have tried to label Flanagan as a socialist, she hasn't received the endorsement of any DSA chapters and identifies solely with the Minnesota DFL.
• 1:43:29
  SPEAKER_33: Those are so different at this point.
• 1:43:32
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, to that point, here's uh some audio from Peggy Flanagan.
• 1:43:34
  SPEAKER_32: It means passing Medicare for all to make healthcare available and affordable once and for all.
• 1:43:40
  SPEAKER_32: It means universal child's care.
• 1:43:46
  SPEAKER_32: It means stopping ICE from terrorizing our communities, and it means fighting corruption.
• 1:43:53
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, it means fighting corruption.
• 1:43:54
  SPEAKER_29: A lot, listen, her stance is not, and in the article even gets into it, and I won't uh I won't bore everybody with it, but when you get into the piece, uh listen, she's DSA all the way.
• 1:44:04
  SPEAKER_29: She's simply avoiding getting labeled as part of the party because they know that there is a portion for the Democrats where it is toxic to be labeled as that, despite these victories across the country.
• 1:44:14
  SPEAKER_29: And just another quick note, I want to bring it up again.
• 1:44:16
  SPEAKER_29: I mentioned it yesterday, but the Angie Nixon victory, she was competing against Alex Vindman.
• 1:44:22
  SPEAKER_29: He was the guy who had leaked the big, beautiful phone call that caused all the consternation for Trump.
• 1:44:28
  SPEAKER_29: The Democrats went after him.
• 1:44:29
  SPEAKER_29: Um, he had spent a ton of money, but what was being reported after the fact was apparently he didn't campaign at all.
• 1:44:35
  SPEAKER_29: None.
• 1:44:35
  SPEAKER_29: Like apparently he didn't get out and do anything that was necessary to knock on doors, to meet people, any of the groundwork.
• 1:44:43
  SPEAKER_29: He just decided they were going to spend all the money on his campaign.
• 1:44:45
  SPEAKER_29: And you, I don't care where you are, you just simply cannot run a campaign that way.
• 1:44:49
  SPEAKER_29: And the Democrats found that out in Florida.
• 1:44:50
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, and listen, I think the Democrats, and I I've said this for a long time, is as dumb as some of the things they do are, strategically, they kind of see the long view.
• 1:45:02
  SPEAKER_26: Just like in Michigan, you have Abdul El-Sayed who is like, I'm not DSA, I'm a capitalist, right?
• 1:45:08
  SPEAKER_26: And but yet all the people who come and campaign for him, just look at where they lie.
• 1:45:14
  SPEAKER_26: Same thing here in Minnesota with Peggy Flanagan.
• 1:45:16
  SPEAKER_26: They're gonna try and say that she isn't this, you know, DSA type person.
• 1:45:20
  SPEAKER_26: They're gonna probably just label her as like, we're progressive because they know that the average person, when they hear that, they reject socialism.
• 1:45:29
  SPEAKER_26: So it's it's not that they don't want to run that way.
• 1:45:32
  SPEAKER_26: It's just that they understand from a strategic standpoint, you will lose badly.
• 1:45:37
  SPEAKER_26: So it's incumbent upon Michelle Tefoya and Republicans to just specifically push the issues that she stands for.
• 1:45:45
  SPEAKER_26: And then you can clearly lay out that yes, she is aligned with Democrat Socialists of America.
• 1:45:51
  SPEAKER_26: She wants to fundamentally change the actual makeup of this country.
• 1:45:56
  SPEAKER_26: She supports all of these laws that are discriminatory against people that are white, that are straight, that are Christian.
• 1:46:03
  SPEAKER_26: That's what she stands for.
• 1:46:04
  SPEAKER_26: She wants to tear down that entire system, but she's not so dumb, or her people aren't so dumb, that are helping running her campaign that she can just go out and say that just blatantly.
• 1:46:14
  SPEAKER_29: Let's get back to the uh blaster line and then we'll take a quick break here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:46:19
  SPEAKER_29: We're gonna talk a little uh Minnesota State Fair.
• 1:46:22
  SPEAKER_29: I'm doing this.
• 1:46:22
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I knew I knew Catherine was gonna be excited about this.
• 1:46:25
  SPEAKER_29: Apparently, there's a state fair lip balm.
• 1:46:28
  SPEAKER_29: Are you guys Of course.
• 1:46:29
  SPEAKER_29: What do you mean?
• 1:46:29
  SPEAKER_29: The Star Tribune one?
• 1:46:30
  SPEAKER_29: I knew, I knew that.
• 1:46:32
  SPEAKER_29: Just I'd never seen this before.
• 1:46:33
  SPEAKER_02: They just announced the new flavor.
• 1:46:35
  SPEAKER_02: What world are you living in?
• 1:46:37
  SPEAKER_29: This is the story that I have.
• 1:46:38
  SPEAKER_29: We'll wild card.
• 1:46:39
  SPEAKER_29: We'll get into it.
• 1:46:40
  SPEAKER_29: Also, uh, there's an update on uh the muddy uh uh versus the villet.
• 1:46:45
  SPEAKER_29: The villay.
• 1:46:46
  SPEAKER_29: It's not, it's the ville.
• 1:46:47
  SPEAKER_29: It is my Melinda made that very she's like, it's the it's the the ville.
• 1:46:52
  SPEAKER_31: And it is for Burnsville.
• 1:46:53
  SPEAKER_29: It is Burnsville, yeah.
• 1:46:54
  SPEAKER_29: It is what I have come to learn.
• 1:46:56
  SPEAKER_26: Out of Burnsville, gang out of Burnsville.
• 1:46:58
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, so we do have an update on that.
• 1:46:59
  SPEAKER_29: We'll get to that coming up in just a moment.
• 1:47:00
  SPEAKER_29: Continue to get your blasts in at 612-584-4565 here on the John Justice show.
• 1:47:06
  SPEAKER_13: So Peggy Free is how the universal childcare.
• 1:47:12
  SPEAKER_13: Well, haven't we learned over the few years of universal pre-care?
• 1:47:18
  SPEAKER_13: It's really not about the free child care.
• 1:47:21
  SPEAKER_13: It's about them getting their hands on your children and starting the indoctrination as soon as possible.
• 1:47:29
  SPEAKER_29: I just want to take a quick moment and remind everybody that we're gonna be having uh a discussion about America's drinking remains at a record low coming up very soon here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:47:40
  SPEAKER_29: I just wanted to tease, uh, moving, you know, tease ahead.
• 1:47:43
  SPEAKER_29: That was the only reason why I made that a comment.
• 1:47:46
  SPEAKER_28: Think about it.
• 1:47:47
  SPEAKER_28: Now that school's out for the summer, how are Minnesota students doing?
• 1:47:50
  SPEAKER_28: Not very well.
• 1:47:51
  SPEAKER_28: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in ten years.
• 1:47:57
  SPEAKER_28: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota's students can either read or do math at grade level.
• 1:48:02
  SPEAKER_28: Think about it.
• 1:48:03
  SPEAKER_28: We used to brag about our schools.
• 1:48:05
  SPEAKER_28: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
• 1:48:08
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• 1:48:11
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• 1:48:16
  SPEAKER_06: And now here's commentary on the latest issues facing Minnesotans.
• 1:48:20
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• 1:48:24
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• 1:48:34
  SPEAKER_00: There is certainly a culture at the City Council and at the mayor's office, again, over the last 10 years, that has just not been willing to hire police officers.
• 1:48:44
  SPEAKER_00: And we have seen rhetoric and action that has very much been about defunding the police.
• 1:48:50
  SPEAKER_00: We filed a petition called a Red of Pandemus, which is basic basically a Latin word for we command.
• 1:48:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh where we're asking the court to hold the mayor to his duty and hire those police officers.
• 1:49:04
  SPEAKER_00: And we have tried to detail in our court papers the real world effect this has on people, including our brave clients who've come forward and put their name on court papers and who've experienced everything from bullet holes in their houses to family members who've been struck by a vehicle and in a hit and run never solved to personal vandalism at their homes and property where they've had property stolen, to murder in their neighborhoods where they don't feel safe, they don't feel protected, they literally feel they cannot go out at night.
• 1:49:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because we challenged it on behalf of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.
• 1:49:44
  SPEAKER_00: And we said this is a violation of the single subject and title clause of the Minnesota Constitution.
• 1:49:50
  SPEAKER_00: We are challenging this one section on behalf of our clients, the binary trigger clause, which had to do with how you define a trigger that can with one.
• 1:50:00
  SPEAKER_00: Pull fire off multiple shots.
• 1:50:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that's smashed into this 1,400 page thing, right?
• 1:50:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:50:06
  SPEAKER_00: That covers everything from health, higher education, firearms, energy, agriculture, human services, health, and paid leave.
• 1:50:13
  SPEAKER_00: Not a single subject.
• 1:50:14
  SPEAKER_00: The court in August of 2025 struck down the bill and s severed basically one provision relating to the binary triggers.
• 1:50:24
  SPEAKER_00: Judge Castro had some interesting words for this, and he said, out of respect for precedent favoring severance, I'm just gonna strike down the binary trigger amendment.
• 1:50:34
  SPEAKER_00: But then he says, quote, make no mistake, during the late hours of May 19th, 2024, lawmaking did not occur within the framework of the Constitution.
• 1:50:44
  SPEAKER_00: This court respectfully suggests that if there has ever been a bill without a common theme and where all bounds of reason and restraint seem to have been abandoned, this is it.
• 1:50:54
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• 1:51:34
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• 1:51:35
  SPEAKER_28: Minnesota has always been a low crime state.
• 1:51:38
  SPEAKER_28: But according to the most recent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension data, we are now above the national average when it comes to part one crimes, a category that includes crimes like murder, assault, rape, and carjackings.
• 1:51:51
  SPEAKER_28: Think about it.
• 1:51:52
  SPEAKER_28: Minnesota is now a high crime state.
• 1:51:56
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• 1:51:59
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• 1:52:04
  SPEAKER_09: Hey, good morning, girl.
• 1:52:08
  SPEAKER_09: Anyway, great postal car, you guys love the Freedom Prize.
• 1:52:12
  SPEAKER_09: Anyway, I want to add one more item to the Minnesota embarrassment paint go card.
• 1:52:19
  SPEAKER_09: How about the drag phone card?
• 1:52:21
  SPEAKER_09: The Minnesota feature is now promoting.
• 1:52:24
  SPEAKER_09: Can we please?
• 1:52:25
  SPEAKER_09: How many other features do I have to make promotes dragon colours?
• 1:52:30
  SPEAKER_09: Honestly, can we cannot have anything that can stay hold from and have fun out without just embedding perversion?
• 1:52:40
  SPEAKER_09: Alright, actually later.
• 1:52:43
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, we talked about that earlier in the week.
• 1:52:46
  SPEAKER_29: Um, this drag, it was I wish I had the story.
• 1:52:49
  SPEAKER_29: It was like drag show colon something.
• 1:52:52
  SPEAKER_29: That was the name of the review.
• 1:52:54
  SPEAKER_29: And it was being put on by somebody named La La, and the last name was spelled L-U-Z-C-I-O-U-S, which I believe is supposed to be luscious.
• 1:53:06
  SPEAKER_29: So Lala Luscious was gonna be hosting um a part of this.
• 1:53:10
  SPEAKER_29: And it's gonna be multiple days at the Minnesota State Fair where you can go and get your get your drag on if you if you'd like.
• 1:53:16
  SPEAKER_02: Who's doing it?
• 1:53:17
  SPEAKER_29: Like it's an organization.
• 1:53:19
  SPEAKER_29: It's like a traveling drag review.
• 1:53:20
  SPEAKER_26: It's a BIPOC drag group.
• 1:53:24
  SPEAKER_26: Troop.
• 1:53:25
  SPEAKER_26: I don't know what do they call it?
• 1:53:26
  SPEAKER_26: Are they a troop, a queer troop?
• 1:53:28
  SPEAKER_26: I don't know.
• 1:53:29
  SPEAKER_26: A gagle.
• 1:53:30
  SPEAKER_26: A gagle.
• 1:53:32
  SPEAKER_26: A gaggle.
• 1:53:32
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 1:53:33
  SPEAKER_26: But that's what it is.
• 1:53:33
  SPEAKER_26: It's like it's like a BIPOC, uh, drag, whatever.
• 1:53:37
  SPEAKER_26: Like to the to the blaster's point, this is kind of again, you're like your standard fare for Democrats.
• 1:53:43
  SPEAKER_26: Like the only reason this is happening is because you have all of these critical gender people, because like that's what the drag show stuff is really about.
• 1:53:52
  SPEAKER_26: It's people that have this Marxist critical, you know, gender ideology where they're like, there's no such thing.
• 1:53:59
  SPEAKER_26: Gender is just how you feel from day to day.
• 1:54:01
  SPEAKER_26: So if a bunch of gay men want to dress up like women and gyrate, like that's just part of who they are, children.
• 1:54:08
  SPEAKER_26: This is not weird, this is not sexual, but yeah, it's depraved.
• 1:54:12
  SPEAKER_26: And they're doing it because this is what the Democrats, this is what they're part of their base is now.
• 1:54:17
  SPEAKER_26: They have to let all of this very disgusting behavior come to the front to try and normalize it.
• 1:54:24
  SPEAKER_26: And using the state fair as a platform to do that, it just shows if you want to keep this state, you have to push back and go and vote for Republicans because with Republican leadership, this ain't gonna be a thing.
• 1:54:35
  SPEAKER_26: Go and do your weird freaky thing in your clubs and whatever, and do your brunches.
• 1:54:40
  SPEAKER_26: But like the state fair is supposed to be for family.
• 1:54:44
  SPEAKER_26: Going there and being like, sorry, kids, we can't go over here or having to look at the schedule because we're gonna do all these things in public, that's not what the average Minnesotan wants to worry about at all.
• 1:54:53
  SPEAKER_26: No.
• 1:54:53
  SPEAKER_29: And I and I don't even um and I know this isn't this isn't uh a um this isn't correct across all drag queens.
• 1:55:03
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, I just want to say that up front.
• 1:55:04
  SPEAKER_29: I know that this is there's individuals within the drag community that are that are agenda driven.
• 1:55:09
  SPEAKER_29: But for the most part, like I don't even give um I don't I don't point any frustration to like the drag queen reviews of the drag queens themselves.
• 1:55:20
  SPEAKER_29: You you have individuals that are allowing them to go to these places to do these performances.
• 1:55:27
  SPEAKER_29: My point being that I think that if they were prohibited from doing that, I think most drag queens and drag reviews would be like, yeah, okay, we'll just go do it where we typically do it, where we normally do it.
• 1:55:36
  SPEAKER_29: They're being allowed to.
• 1:55:38
  SPEAKER_29: And so in that case, I don't really begrudge the drag queens all that much.
• 1:55:42
  SPEAKER_29: You do, you do, you.
• 1:55:43
  SPEAKER_29: I don't care.
• 1:55:43
  SPEAKER_29: It's the fact that they're being allowed to go to these locations.
• 1:55:46
  SPEAKER_29: It's the individuals making the decision to allow this type of inappropriate behavior to be on the ground.
• 1:55:51
  SPEAKER_29: So that's the problem.
• 1:55:52
  SPEAKER_29: It's not necessarily the drag queens.
• 1:55:53
  SPEAKER_31: Where is the show happening?
• 1:55:55
  SPEAKER_31: Like we're in the state fair.
• 1:55:56
  SPEAKER_31: Uh, you know what?
• 1:55:57
  SPEAKER_29: Let me let me take a moment and look it up because I didn't grab the grab the story here.
• 1:56:00
  SPEAKER_02: Do some research.
• 1:56:01
  SPEAKER_02: I need to know where to where to go and not go.
• 1:56:03
  SPEAKER_31: But I will say The Miracle of Life Barn.
• 1:56:06
  SPEAKER_02: I will say they have a lot of crazy things at the fair, okay?
• 1:56:09
  SPEAKER_02: Part of the fair is, you know, they got like the the bearded lady and stuff like that.
• 1:56:13
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, freak shows.
• 1:56:14
  SPEAKER_02: Freak shows.
• 1:56:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:56:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I don't know, drag queens fair.
• 1:56:18
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe the fair is like the best place for them.
• 1:56:20
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, keep them in the freak show portion.
• 1:56:22
  SPEAKER_26: I I'd be cool with that.
• 1:56:23
  SPEAKER_26: But I think it's gonna be like at the like the the Snell band shell, like where you go and like everyone's like kind of sitting out on the grass and all that.
• 1:56:30
  SPEAKER_29: I like that area.
• 1:56:30
  SPEAKER_29: I do too.
• 1:56:31
  SPEAKER_29: So it's uh it's called Power Colon Drag Review.
• 1:56:35
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:56:36
  SPEAKER_29: Uh it'll be taking place the 27th and the 28th, the West End Market.
• 1:56:41
  SPEAKER_26: Oh, West End Market.
• 1:56:42
  SPEAKER_26: Never mind.
• 1:56:42
  SPEAKER_26: So there's complete opposite side.
• 1:56:44
  SPEAKER_26: Uh three offices.
• 1:56:46
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't the Schnell in the West End market?
• 1:56:48
  SPEAKER_02: No, I think that the Schnell one?
• 1:56:50
  SPEAKER_26: The KSTP Heritage Plaza.
• 1:56:52
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, that's that's over there.
• 1:56:53
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:56:54
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 1:56:54
  SPEAKER_26: It's like it's like the newer area.
• 1:56:56
  SPEAKER_26: That's that's the West End area.
• 1:56:58
  SPEAKER_26: Right.
• 1:56:58
  SPEAKER_29: Now we're gonna be at the near the uh Center of the American Experiment will be uh be near the grandstand on the 29th.
• 1:57:04
  SPEAKER_29: Well, we'll be there.
• 1:57:05
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, we're gonna be there a lot, right?
• 1:57:06
  SPEAKER_29: Or is that the only day that we're gonna be there at the at the fair?
• 1:57:09
  SPEAKER_33: That is our one day at the end.
• 1:57:10
  SPEAKER_29: That's the one day at the fair is the 29th.
• 1:57:12
  SPEAKER_33: Saturday, August 29th.
• 1:57:14
  SPEAKER_33: And we're there all day.
• 1:57:14
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah.
• 1:57:16
  SPEAKER_29: I'll be there uh 11 to 1.
• 1:57:17
  SPEAKER_29: I hope you guys will I hope you guys can make it out on that on that Saturday.
• 1:57:20
  SPEAKER_29: You'll be there.
• 1:57:21
  SPEAKER_26: I want to be there, but I'm gonna be at a wedding.
• 1:57:23
  SPEAKER_26: Shout out to Ivory Heck because she's getting married that day.
• 1:57:26
  SPEAKER_23: A wedding shading, whatever.
• 1:57:27
  SPEAKER_23: Whatever.
• 1:57:27
  SPEAKER_23: Yeah, I know.
• 1:57:28
  SPEAKER_23: She come to the fair with us.
• 1:57:29
  SPEAKER_26: I know.
• 1:57:30
  SPEAKER_26: Just kidding.
• 1:57:30
  SPEAKER_31: I'm gonna try to be there.
• 1:57:31
  SPEAKER_02: We could do thank you, Max.
• 1:57:32
  SPEAKER_02: We could do an unofficial day at the fair as well.
• 1:57:34
  SPEAKER_02: I will be there.
• 1:57:35
  SPEAKER_02: I always take a day off work, go with my mom, do a whole thing of it.
• 1:57:38
  SPEAKER_02: And this this year I feel like I got a busy schedule, so I'm really trying to fit it in wherever I can.
• 1:57:42
  SPEAKER_02: If anyone wants to schedule any other days, I'm happy to go.
• 1:57:45
  SPEAKER_29: I'm looking at the uh story here of the drag of the uh power colon drag review.
• 1:57:49
  SPEAKER_29: Um free with fair admission.
• 1:57:51
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 1:57:52
  SPEAKER_29: This is the first time a drag troupe has been featured in the official Arts Affair pop-up showcase lineup.
• 1:57:59
  SPEAKER_29: I think it kind of goes back to your point, Catherine, that this is part of a specific group of individuals.
• 1:58:03
  SPEAKER_29: Uh high energy numbers, stunning costumes.
• 1:58:06
  SPEAKER_29: Some dare say they're fabulous.
• 1:58:08
  SPEAKER_02: I know what they're doing.
• 1:58:08
  SPEAKER_02: I know what they're doing.
• 1:58:11
  SPEAKER_29: And there'll be an encore performance going on in another location uh after the fair is over.
• 1:58:15
  SPEAKER_02: They're in the area where they do the like twirling and the dancing and things like that in the West End market.
• 1:58:20
  SPEAKER_02: They're doing a pop-up there.
• 1:58:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's kind of nuts, actually.
• 1:58:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's very public.
• 1:58:24
  SPEAKER_02: You can't avoid it.
• 1:58:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's in the middle of the area.
• 1:58:26
  SPEAKER_02: That's a little nutty.
• 1:58:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:58:28
  SPEAKER_29: So just tell do you know what?
• 1:58:29
  SPEAKER_29: Just tell your children that they're clowns.
• 1:58:31
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:58:32
  SPEAKER_29: That's all.
• 1:58:32
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:58:32
  SPEAKER_29: Just say they're clowns.
• 1:58:33
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 1:58:34
  SPEAKER_29: Just go just.
• 1:58:34
  SPEAKER_02: It's a fair.
• 1:58:35
  SPEAKER_02: Just go that route.
• 1:58:36
  SPEAKER_02: Just go that route.
• 1:58:37
  SPEAKER_29: Say they're clowns.
• 1:58:38
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, I was unaware of the lip balm, but apparently, according to uh Catherine Johnson, it's a big deal.
• 1:58:43
  SPEAKER_29: I'm looking at a story here from the uh Star Tribune.
• 1:58:45
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota has been through a lot since last year's great Minnesota get together.
• 1:58:49
  SPEAKER_29: They cannot help but inject something into it, right?
• 1:58:52
  SPEAKER_29: Right, right.
• 1:58:52
  SPEAKER_29: Right.
• 1:58:53
  SPEAKER_29: And those who decide the Star Tribune's lip balm flavor thought that we deserved something nice.
• 1:59:00
  SPEAKER_29: So this year's flavor is Minnesota gneiss.
• 1:59:03
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota gice has a flavor.
• 1:59:05
  SPEAKER_29: What does that taste or smell like?
• 1:59:07
  SPEAKER_29: Very bitter.
• 1:59:09
  SPEAKER_29: Very passive aggressive.
• 1:59:11
  SPEAKER_29: Very bitter.
• 1:59:14
  SPEAKER_29: It's an it is inspired.
• 1:59:16
  SPEAKER_29: It's a floral scent, in all seriousness.
• 1:59:18
  SPEAKER_29: Inspired by the state flower.
• 1:59:19
  SPEAKER_29: Anyone know the state flower?
• 1:59:20
  SPEAKER_33: It's the lady slipper slipper.
• 1:59:22
  SPEAKER_29: There's one more word attached to it.
• 1:59:24
  SPEAKER_33: The pink lady slipper.
• 1:59:25
  SPEAKER_29: No.
• 1:59:25
  SPEAKER_29: The the or is it just a descriptor?
• 1:59:28
  SPEAKER_29: It says showy.
• 1:59:28
  SPEAKER_29: It says showy lady slipper.
• 1:59:31
  SPEAKER_33: That's a descriptor.
• 1:59:32
  SPEAKER_33: I don't think so.
• 1:59:32
  SPEAKER_29: That's a descriptor.
• 1:59:33
  SPEAKER_29: That's just a descriptor.
• 1:59:34
  SPEAKER_02: I thought they were calling it like blooming ladies.
• 1:59:36
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 1:59:37
  SPEAKER_02: Any event.
• 1:59:38
  SPEAKER_02: This is a good one, okay?
• 1:59:39
  SPEAKER_02: So I like this one.
• 1:59:40
  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes they do like pickle or whatever, which is a pass for me.
• 1:59:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but this is the best thing the Star Tribune does all year, okay?
• 1:59:46
  SPEAKER_02: They stand up there and they give out cool novel chapsticks at the state fair.
• 1:59:50
  SPEAKER_02: So I think we should celebrate them for doing that.
• 1:59:52
  SPEAKER_29: Lip bum.
• 1:59:53
  SPEAKER_29: Um, we do have more Minnesota State Fair uh news to share.
• 1:59:57
  SPEAKER_29: A hat tip to the five of you that got the reference that I just did.
• 2:00:00
  SPEAKER_29: Uh as we enter into the, oh my gosh, we're into the third hour of the show already.
• 2:00:03
  SPEAKER_29: How does this happen?
• 2:00:04
  SPEAKER_29: It is a uh Freedom Friday here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 2:00:21
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• 2:01:46
  SPEAKER_29: John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 2:01:49
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• 2:01:52
  SPEAKER_29: If you want to leave us a comment on our blaster line and joining us in studio, we have RNC committeeman aka Kamara, Representative Max Reimer, Grace Keating, and Catherine Johnson from uh Center of the American Experiment.
• 2:02:04
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• 2:02:10
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• 2:02:12
  SPEAKER_19: John, when you brought up uh wolf 3.0 for a UAI band.
• 2:02:18
  SPEAKER_19: I'm thinking you need to go with the social justice reggae version to be wokeyman.
• 2:02:24
  SPEAKER_19: Have a great day.
• 2:02:26
  SPEAKER_19: Sorry about that.
• 2:02:28
  SPEAKER_31: At least he apologized afterwards, right?
• 2:02:30
  SPEAKER_31: You're fascinating to talk to.
• 2:02:32
  SPEAKER_23: You know, it's oh, how do I want to word this?
• 2:02:36
  SPEAKER_23: Maybe I don't want to word it at all, and I should just move on.
• 2:02:38
  SPEAKER_29: I was just gonna say that when it comes to the to the people of Jamaica, they don't seem to get offended by anything.
• 2:02:45
  SPEAKER_29: Like I was thinking, is that offensive?
• 2:02:46
  SPEAKER_29: Like for me to go, like, oh, you know, it's wokeymon, you know.
• 2:02:49
  SPEAKER_29: Like if you did that for other demographics, people might get upset.
• 2:02:51
  SPEAKER_29: But I'm thinking when it comes to people from Jamaica, I think they're fine with it.
• 2:02:54
  SPEAKER_29: Chill.
• 2:02:56
  SPEAKER_26: Because they're all high all the time.
• 2:02:58
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, I mean, it's like that's the thing in Jamaica.
• 2:03:00
  SPEAKER_26: You're just kind of chill, man.
• 2:03:02
  SPEAKER_02: No, though, most of the people, like, even if you talk to like Hispanics, you know, you show them a picture of someone wearing a sombrero, they're like, that's fantastic, love it.
• 2:03:09
  SPEAKER_02: But if you show it to like a woke, white chick, they're like, oh, it's so racist.
• 2:03:14
  SPEAKER_29: It's usually other people that get offended for the minority group.
• 2:03:18
  SPEAKER_29: That's right.
• 2:03:18
  SPEAKER_29: That's a great point.
• 2:03:19
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• 2:03:28
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• 2:03:34
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• 2:03:41
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• 2:03:43
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• 2:03:52
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• 2:04:04
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• 2:04:11
  SPEAKER_29: Minnesota officials held a presser yesterday regarding the lawsuit to prevent gang violence at the Minnesota State Fair.
• 2:04:17
  SPEAKER_29: Seven alleged gang members agreed not to attend the fair, while three others are prohibited from unlawful activity within the safety area.
• 2:04:27
  SPEAKER_29: The court ruled that the MUDI gang and the crimin uh is a criminal gang and granted the state's request to prohibit certain actions by the three remaining individuals.
• 2:04:39
  SPEAKER_29: And apparently they all agreed.
• 2:04:40
  SPEAKER_29: So seven of the alleged gang members, three associated with Muddy, four associated with the Ville, have all agreed not to attend the fair.
• 2:04:50
  SPEAKER_29: Ellison, Attorney General, Thief Ellison, says if they comply, once the fair is over, Ellison and the Ramsey County attorney, John Choi, will drop all legal action against them.
• 2:05:02
  SPEAKER_29: This is the weirdest story, in my opinion.
• 2:05:05
  SPEAKER_29: What a bizarre move by these gangs to agree.
• 2:05:09
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, can you not just go to the fair and not do gang activity?
• 2:05:12
  SPEAKER_29: Can you not just go and be and just behave yourselves?
• 2:05:15
  SPEAKER_29: I don't know.
• 2:05:16
  SPEAKER_29: I don't understand any of this.
• 2:05:17
  SPEAKER_31: Like Keith Ellison's like negotiating a ceasefire, it sounds like.
• 2:05:21
  SPEAKER_31: It's weird.
• 2:05:22
  SPEAKER_02: Or can we just go back to that quote that they're not allowed to do illegal things in the vicinity of the fair?
• 2:05:28
  SPEAKER_31: Thank you.
• 2:05:28
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 2:05:29
  SPEAKER_02: Why can they do them in the first?
• 2:05:30
  SPEAKER_02: They're allowed to do illegal.
• 2:05:31
  SPEAKER_02: That doesn't make no sense.
• 2:05:32
  SPEAKER_26: So here's here's my understanding of it.
• 2:05:35
  SPEAKER_26: Like reading through the filing, reading basically what what the current reporting is.
• 2:05:40
  SPEAKER_26: Essentially, the initial request was that they would be able to discriminate against anyone that is affiliated with these two gangs.
• 2:05:49
  SPEAKER_26: And then there was pushback, being like, Well, what are you gonna do?
• 2:05:52
  SPEAKER_26: Walk up to every young black male that looks like they're of Somali descent and say, Who are you?
• 2:05:57
  SPEAKER_26: And then say, Are you on this list of people that we can discriminate against?
• 2:06:01
  SPEAKER_26: Which is yes, what they should do.
• 2:06:02
  SPEAKER_26: Like quite literally, that's what you need to do.
• 2:06:04
  SPEAKER_26: So instead of going forward with that plan, which would be effective, they've instead decided to focus on a couple of the gang leaders, bring this action forward and say that we are going to go through and basically hold you basically accountable for a law that was passed last session that uh allows the state to go after someone's personal finances.
• 2:06:26
  SPEAKER_26: And they basically treat them as an unincorporated entity.
• 2:06:30
  SPEAKER_26: That's what they hold them, this gang affiliation.
• 2:06:34
  SPEAKER_26: And so what they've decided to do is go after the leaders and say, We're going to bring down your entire financial house of cards unless you agree to stay away.
• 2:06:43
  SPEAKER_26: And if you agree to stay away, we will then not process or charge you.
• 2:06:48
  SPEAKER_26: So this is like the dumbest of all things.
• 2:06:50
  SPEAKER_26: I want these people to be busted.
• 2:06:53
  SPEAKER_26: I want every member that's affiliated with a gang that is participating in this crazy amount of violence to be locked up and thrown in prison until they basically say, I'm no longer in the gang.
• 2:07:05
  SPEAKER_26: But instead, this is what they've negotiated is like, okay, these gang leaders, they're not gonna go, and therefore you're gonna have a lower likelihood of having basically the violence spring up.
• 2:07:17
  SPEAKER_26: I just think that you've now handed a victory to a bunch of gang leaders that they can negotiate the terms of when they can and can't be gang members, which is dumb.
• 2:07:26
  SPEAKER_26: It should just be never plus the gangs, man.
• 2:07:30
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, none of this should have should have should have this.
• 2:07:32
  SPEAKER_29: It's ridiculous.
• 2:07:33
  SPEAKER_29: I can I I agree with you uh completely.
• 2:07:36
  SPEAKER_29: Max, did you have any further further thoughts?
• 2:07:37
  SPEAKER_31: No, it's interesting to hear AK talk about that because basically that's a task like a an admission that we're just gonna let crime continue to happen, and then we're gonna leverage the fact that you're involved with crime to negotiate you not coming to the state fair.
• 2:07:55
  SPEAKER_31: And all I can think of is listen, between the muddy and the the veil, it's probably a lot of Keith Ellison donors.
• 2:08:01
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, a lot of money, man.
• 2:08:03
  SPEAKER_29: I have the barber of the vil keeps popping into my head for those of a certain I am the muddy and the I'm sorry.
• 2:08:09
  SPEAKER_29: Do you guys have any idea what I'm referring to?
• 2:08:11
  SPEAKER_29: The barber of the nothing?
• 2:08:12
  SPEAKER_29: I know.
• 2:08:13
  SPEAKER_02: Musical?
• 2:08:13
  SPEAKER_29: Uh yeah, it's a movie?
• 2:08:16
  SPEAKER_29: I will say I'm very age gap between us really throws off the comedy.
• 2:08:19
  SPEAKER_29: I know.
• 2:08:19
  SPEAKER_29: There's people that are getting it online, that's fine, but I'm sorry.
• 2:08:21
  SPEAKER_02: You tell yourself that.
• 2:08:23
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 2:08:24
  SPEAKER_29: I'll get some emails that'll say that was a good reference, John.
• 2:08:27
  SPEAKER_29: Way to go.
• 2:08:27
  SPEAKER_02: I'm very skeptical that keeping seven individuals out of the fair is going to help stop the uh so-called teen takeovers that we've seen all over the country and at the Wisconsin State Fair.
• 2:08:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's groups of massive hordes of people, young people taking over and causing violence.
• 2:08:45
  SPEAKER_02: So what?
• 2:08:46
  SPEAKER_02: Is this all driven by one person at the top?
• 2:08:48
  SPEAKER_02: I can't imagine this makes any bit of a difference.
• 2:08:50
  SPEAKER_29: They should spread the drag queens around because I bet it would make it less desirable for the gangs to come in and conduct their gang activity with so much flamboyant awesomeness all over the fair everywhere.
• 2:09:02
  SPEAKER_29: When I was working in Riverside San Bernardino early in my radio career, there was a mall right across the street from the radio station.
• 2:09:10
  SPEAKER_29: That mall uh was in uh downtown San Bernardino, really rough area.
• 2:09:14
  SPEAKER_29: There was a crackhouse right next door to the radio station where I worked at.
• 2:09:17
  SPEAKER_29: And often you can look out the window and see homeless people peeing right outside there on the glass.
• 2:09:21
  SPEAKER_29: It was nice.
• 2:09:21
  SPEAKER_29: It was great.
• 2:09:22
  SPEAKER_29: Or you had to vibrate homeless people as you walked in to do your overnight shift.
• 2:09:25
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, it was great.
• 2:09:26
  SPEAKER_29: Um, but that mall was riddled with great with gang activity.
• 2:09:30
  SPEAKER_29: The local city leadership came in and for like a fairly decent cost, they went in and revamped it the carousel mall.
• 2:09:37
  SPEAKER_29: And so they had a carousel in there.
• 2:09:39
  SPEAKER_29: They redesigned all of the signs outside of the carousel mall, and suddenly it didn't become it wasn't desirable for the gangs anymore to go there because it wasn't rough enough for the local San Bernardino gangs to go in and do their hangout at the carousel mall.
• 2:09:52
  SPEAKER_29: So they ended up going, and then a subsequent mall down a few miles away got really upset because that's where they ended up going to.
• 2:09:58
  SPEAKER_29: So they ended up shifting to a listen.
• 2:10:00
  SPEAKER_26: I I I you're actually on to something here.
• 2:10:02
  SPEAKER_26: Tim Poole uh shocking grew up in Chicago, and he often says, and and I agree actually with this assessment, the best way if you want to break up gangs, um, a lot of people in gangs are about being proud and having honor, right?
• 2:10:17
  SPEAKER_26: As as crazy as that sounds, like you offend someone, you step on their territory, or whatever.
• 2:10:22
  SPEAKER_26: What the punishment should be is they should force all of these gang members to like literally dress up as babies and make them crawl across the ground with like a knuck in their mouth and wearing a diaper.
• 2:10:34
  SPEAKER_26: Just humiliation.
• 2:10:35
  SPEAKER_26: If you are caught, if you are arrested as a gang member, it should be like you have to wear a bright pink, like binky, and you have a bonnet, and they just parade you around, and like that's half of your punishment and be like, man, I ain't gonna be doing that, man.
• 2:10:50
  SPEAKER_26: Like, quite literally, I think that's the best punishment.
• 2:10:54
  SPEAKER_26: You send them to jail, good.
• 2:10:55
  SPEAKER_26: They're gonna hang out to all their gang members, all you know, get all their street cred up and go and stab some people or whatever.
• 2:11:02
  SPEAKER_26: No, make them dress up like babies and uh parade them around, man, and like stream it live.
• 2:11:07
  SPEAKER_26: Like, have this is what Sheriff Fletcher should do, live on patrol.
• 2:11:10
  SPEAKER_26: If you bust a gang member, you hit force them to like put on like uh a diaper and you film them like crawling around on the ground.
• 2:11:17
  SPEAKER_26: What?
• 2:11:19
  SPEAKER_02: Let's do it.
• 2:11:19
  SPEAKER_02: Max is writing the bell, as we said.
• 2:11:21
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:11:22
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:11:22
  SPEAKER_29: Well, back in the uh back in the early 2000s, uh, Sheriff Joe Arpayo in Arizona, he made all the inmates wear pink.
• 2:11:29
  SPEAKER_29: Yep.
• 2:11:29
  SPEAKER_29: All of the inmate wardrobe was uh he also had them outside, which sucked as well.
• 2:11:33
  SPEAKER_29: But he he had especially in that part of the world.
• 2:11:36
  SPEAKER_29: Outside Arizona.
• 2:11:37
  SPEAKER_29: It was brutal.
• 2:11:38
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, but they all had to wear pink, and that of course caused controversy for the or make them dress in drag, and they can be part of the power colon.
• 2:11:45
  SPEAKER_29: It's like part of your community service.
• 2:11:48
  SPEAKER_26: If you're busted, you have to become a drag queen.
• 2:11:52
  SPEAKER_29: It should be like the amazing race when you have to go and you have to do the various challenges, and a lot of times it's like theater performance.
• 2:12:00
  SPEAKER_29: performances and then you're judged by the individuals who are in charge of those theater professional performers and they're very, very strict about it.
• 2:12:07
  SPEAKER_29: They should do that.
• 2:12:07
  SPEAKER_29: They should have la luscious should then have to go and judge the gang's drag review and it has to meet their criteria.
• 2:12:15
  SPEAKER_29: And your sentence will be dropped.
• 2:12:17
  SPEAKER_29: And I imagine gang activity would fall just dramatically.
• 2:12:22
  SPEAKER_29: This story here I was going to move out of the stack, but it actually kind of fits into our conversation.
• 2:12:26
  SPEAKER_29: So you guys remember the prominent New York politician who stood outside the courthouse and talked about stealing toothpaste and toilet paper was a basic necessity for people in soap and all that.
• 2:12:34
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 2:12:35
  SPEAKER_29: Days after that New York socialist Emily Gallagher defended the shoplifting for basic needs, a California store ended up being ransacked by a mob by a mob.
• 2:12:44
  SPEAKER_29: If you want to see exactly what the modern looting looks like in practice, look no further than what happened in Southeast LA.
• 2:12:50
  SPEAKER_29: Last weekend a massive street takeover completely blocked at intersection in the city of Bellflower.
• 2:12:55
  SPEAKER_29: Dozens of cars aggressively spun their tires in the streets.
• 2:12:58
  SPEAKER_29: A highly coordinated group of criminals targeted a nearby AZ market.
• 2:13:02
  SPEAKER_29: This was not a massive corporate superstore.
• 2:13:04
  SPEAKER_29: It was a beloved convenience store owned and operated by a local family for years.
• 2:13:09
  SPEAKER_29: The surveillance video from the scene showed up to 40 suspects swarming the small business.
• 2:13:15
  SPEAKER_29: The masked individuals did not just walk in and grab tubes of toothpaste.
• 2:13:19
  SPEAKER_29: They literally used heavy power tools to cut through the security gates and completely smash the front windows.
• 2:13:27
  SPEAKER_29: Once inside they spent two chaotic minutes minutes completely ransacking the store before effortlessly effortlessly blending back into the massive crowd outside.
• 2:13:39
  SPEAKER_29: Crazy incredible I mean there's no it was a it was kind of a correlation here even though there wasn't like a direct correlation but it flies in the face of of what the that uh socialist comments were.
• 2:13:48
  SPEAKER_29: I mean we all knew they were ridiculous.
• 2:13:49
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah understand this worldview that these socialists have whether it's Keith Ellison or this other elected official like they really do have this mindset that they think well people that do crime are only doing it because we haven't created an environment for them to be able to to have their greatest levels of success.
• 2:14:08
  SPEAKER_26: And I was going to jokingly say maybe Keith Ellison should just pay the gangs to not show up but they've probably thought about that.
• 2:14:15
  SPEAKER_26: Oh they did I pretty sure it's actually happened.
• 2:14:18
  SPEAKER_26: I've saw some stories if I think back years ago that they're like well see people that join gangs it's because they don't have enough economic opportunity which is not wrong but in order to have economic opportunity you have to get rid of the crime a lot of people think that poor areas have high crime because they're poor.
• 2:14:34
  SPEAKER_26: It's actually the opposite it's because there's so much crime areas are economically depressed and suppressed.
• 2:14:41
  SPEAKER_26: But I think that ultimately if you give people an opportunity it's not they're not doing the crime because there's not other things for them to do.
• 2:14:50
  SPEAKER_26: They have chosen because they know that there are far less consequences to commit acts of crime because no one's coming after them.
• 2:14:59
  SPEAKER_26: It's very easy to go and break the law in a lot of these liberal you know um you know areas because they know that there's no consequences.
• 2:15:07
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah it reminds me during the George Floyd riots when they they were doing everything they could to excuse the rioting and to justify it.
• 2:15:16
  SPEAKER_31: And I had heard quite often different refrains from politicians but essentially saying looting and riots are the voice of the voiceless and basically saying like this is totally excusable and we haven't come back we haven't come back since then.
• 2:15:32
  SPEAKER_33: And when you zoom out too there's definitely an element to this of wealth redistribution.
• 2:15:37
  SPEAKER_33: And that applies that does not stop with just big businesses and corporations.
• 2:15:42
  SPEAKER_33: That definitely does apply to small businesses as well if you are perceived as someone who is doing well in society you're owning a business of your own you're on their hit list.
• 2:15:53
  SPEAKER_29: We have a uh suggestion uh for the title of the bill that you guys were uh referring to on the blaster line this morning here on the John Justice show.
• 2:16:01
  SPEAKER_09: Hey Max I got a uh title for your bill that you can draw up on that call it Drag the Ditch in drag.
• 2:16:08
  SPEAKER_09: How's that one?
• 2:16:10
  SPEAKER_09: That's awesome.
• 2:16:11
  SPEAKER_26: All right drag the drag the dragon okay I think I think I know where they're going.
• 2:16:15
  SPEAKER_26: They're saying if you get arrested for gang activity, you have to go clean the ditches dressed like a drag queen.
• 2:16:22
  SPEAKER_26: Oh okay okay drag the ditches and drag drag the ditches and dragons because you know like they make him go clean up the side of the road and stuff some of that stuff drag the ditches and drag just to be clear.
• 2:16:34
  SPEAKER_31: Okay.
• 2:16:34
  SPEAKER_29: A little bit of a journey but I appreciate the ponderation yeah we got there.
• 2:16:38
  SPEAKER_29: Uh quick one Minneapolis man, baby mayor mom jeans Jacob Fry is urging residents to ignore a weekend rally by Jake Lang, known for his provocative and racially charged events.
• 2:16:50
  SPEAKER_29: Plans to lead a freedom of speech rally outside the Minneapolis uh City Hall featuring speakers like Shiloh Hendricks oh wow who has a history of using racial slurs according to the article from Fox9.
• 2:17:00
  SPEAKER_29: Oh it's good this is bringing me the news uh Fry uh has advised residents not to engage with the demonstration hoping to prevent the spectacle uh laying seeks uh then don't bring it up Minneapolis man baby mayor yeah I didn't even know it was happening just keep your trap shut just don't tell anybody and the handful of people that want to come down will come down everybody else won't be aware of it and it won't be an issue but I can't help but think that that's what he actually wants by going and drawing attention to it.
• 2:17:25
  SPEAKER_02: When is it?
• 2:17:25
  SPEAKER_02: I haven't heard about it.
• 2:17:27
  SPEAKER_29: It's this weekend I know you hadn't I hadn't heard about it either I had no idea that Jake Lenning was coming to town.
• 2:17:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's just performative he made this whole like video about it and was like don't show up these awful people it's just performative no one's gonna show up he shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.
• 2:17:40
  SPEAKER_31: So this but Shiloh Hendricks is making a speech at this thing?
• 2:17:44
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah it should be rather colorful I might be I might want to tune in yeah um in our group chat I I sent you a screenshot of a poster that's what that one is so if you remember right after the Shiloh Hendricks case that's right it's oh yeah yeah so that's it's that one now I remember it's it's all about like listen Jake Lang he really shouldn't have brought it up he is just doing you know grifting to the highest degree yeah he's sad if Shiloh Hendricks uh you know we've talked about it on the actually the first show uh Freedom Friday back and I talked about it and I'm like listen if this is what your worldview is set aside the freedom of speech issue and then there's just like you're a garbage person uh show up to the garbage person I guess rally if if that's your prerogative and as a person that believes in you know freedom of association associate with those people at your own peril here's what I will say though I wish that Jacob Fry would you know talk with so much fervor about all the gangs in his city maybe yeah you know put a little bit more of the energy into like breaking up the gangs and less focus about people to say naughty words because who cares?
• 2:18:52
  SPEAKER_26: They're just naughty words.
• 2:18:53
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah I forgot I I had forgotten about that one and uh I'm actually kind of surprised it hasn't gotten more attention to be honest with you based off of just how egregious the labeling of that event was.
• 2:19:04
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah we'll just we'll leave it at that yeah the percentage of Americans who drink alcohol remains at a record low of 54%.
• 2:19:12
  SPEAKER_29: It's the lowest since Gallup began tracking back in 1939.
• 2:19:17
  SPEAKER_29: The decline is attributed to increased awareness of research linking alcohol consumption to health risks with 86% of Americans aware of such studies.
• 2:19:27
  SPEAKER_29: While beer remains the most popular alcoholic beverage preferences are shifting towards liquor particularly among younger adults I've seen different versions of the story and I've talked about it a bit on the show and none of them have focused on this element to the the alcohol consumption dropping among young people.
• 2:19:45
  SPEAKER_29: I believe there is a direct correlation with what we talk about on a daily basis on a weekly basis of the rise of smartphones, social media and a lot of young people are getting essentially the hit that they would have off of alcohol, they're getting it through their through their phones.
• 2:20:03
  SPEAKER_29: You trade off one for another if you you know if you've ever spoken with addicts of any sort or talked with anybody who's dealt with that type of thing you know that often when it comes to an addict it's not enough just to stop what it is you're doing.
• 2:20:16
  SPEAKER_29: You have to go and replace it with something else positive because there's a dopamine hit that you're getting from the bad behavior that you are participating in.
• 2:20:24
  SPEAKER_29: And because of that you often have to go and find something positive to replace it because if you don't you're really going to hit rock bottom and it's harder to go and stop doing whatever you were addicted to.
• 2:20:34
  SPEAKER_29: And I'm convinced the same thing rings true here.
• 2:20:36
  SPEAKER_29: I mean maybe it's one positive aspect of the rise of uh social media and smartphones but I think there's so many so many young people are on their phones all the time that's where they're getting that dopamine hit from and it's less um enticing to go and you know grab alcohol on top of all the awareness issues that are listed in the stories.
• 2:20:53
  SPEAKER_29: But I'm curious uh what uh what you guys uh what you guys think uh let's start over here on the left though uh Catherine do you have any have any thoughts on this?
• 2:20:58
  SPEAKER_29: Uh I feel like people are probably just replacing it with like gummies or THD drinks there has been there was a study done that's saying that that obviously has gone up because of the legalization across the country as well.
• 2:21:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah that's what I think I see more so is people just switching to that sometimes instead of alcohol.
• 2:21:13
  SPEAKER_02: But I don't know maybe you have a point.
• 2:21:15
  SPEAKER_02: I mean there's definitely less uh I mean alcohol tends to be like a social thing right you know and and you go out and you drink with your friends there's less social activity going on now in the world than ever sort of people are on their phones at home or whatever.
• 2:21:28
  SPEAKER_02: So part of that I would assume is probably just yeah the the decrease in people actually going out and having fun with other people.
• 2:21:36
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah I always scratch my head a little bit when I hear stories like this.
• 2:21:39
  SPEAKER_33: I think they've been saying this about Gen Z for a while that they're the the generation that doesn't drink or whatever.
• 2:21:43
  SPEAKER_33: I like personally have not experienced this anecdotally in my life.
• 2:21:46
  SPEAKER_33: I don't really know anyone who chooses to not drink just to not drink.
• 2:21:51
  SPEAKER_33: But uh I if anything I think I would I would side with you Catherine and say I'd attribute that more to people either choosing you know gummies or something or just the decrease in in old school style parties which is certainly something that's happened with Gen Z.
• 2:22:02
  SPEAKER_33: That you know the that that that's on the kind of on the outs right now.
• 2:22:07
  SPEAKER_33: But I also think this is just a fad.
• 2:22:08
  SPEAKER_33: Like honestly tune back in in like three, five years I think drinking will be at its old levels.
• 2:22:13
  SPEAKER_29: Well certainly depending on the outcome of the election in November it could be could see a good spike here in Minnesota.
• 2:22:19
  SPEAKER_31: It could go up quite a bit uh Max you have any thoughts I I think you bring up an interesting point about the second level effects of this where on on its face the two things that have decreased pretty dramatically are drinking and then teen pregnancy and I think we can can agree that it's probably a good thing right but it also indicates that we are more anti-social than we have been before there is a a force for the trees here that yeah drinking is a social thing and then obviously younger people are having less sexy for the responsibility of a child.
• 2:22:56
  SPEAKER_31: But I do remember reading an article about how team pregnancy also is dropping and that's again on the surface it's a good thing but it's also an indicator that we're younger people are are are becoming more disassociated with one another yeah I don't know I I think that sometimes uh you kind of muddle the message and you put everything together.
• 2:23:16
  SPEAKER_26: I do know that Gen Z and also Gen Alpha are showing a higher tendency towards returning to some type of religiosity whether that's uh finding more Orthodox, you know, Christian joining Catholic church and things like that.
• 2:23:30
  SPEAKER_26: So you're starting to see an increase there.
• 2:23:32
  SPEAKER_26: But I also think that there is a a trueness to there are certain things that are like coming of age, having a house party uh consuming alcohol that's like that is a reflection of whether or not you have a a society that has a lot of um social aspects to it.
• 2:23:50
  SPEAKER_26: And I think you're not gonna get together with a bunch of your buddies and just smoke marijuana that's more of like very, very small group versus having a house party you're gonna have a lot of alcohol so I I think that is true that there is um more of a a societal reflection that people are less social because of social media.
• 2:24:07
  SPEAKER_26: And we know that that's been a huge thing.
• 2:24:09
  SPEAKER_26: I will say though that I think there is kind of like this tipping point where there has been this regression and we've talked about it before of Gen Z and Gen Alpha starting to ditch smartphones.
• 2:24:22
  SPEAKER_26: So I'm a little bit more optimistic that maybe people are just making more health conscientious and you know trying to have a better life not having you know relationships outside of marriage and having sex out of marriage and I I tend to want to believe that that is actually what is occurring.
• 2:24:40
  SPEAKER_26: We'll see though I mean I I think that the older Gen Z you guys are cooked but I think that maybe um the younger Gen Z going into Gen Alpha that's where you're starting to see a little bit of this kind of change of not wanting to continue to embrace this antisocial behavior.
• 2:24:58
  SPEAKER_29: Well and there's a you know kind of to to back even further from what I was saying um we used to be bored when I was young.
• 2:25:06
  SPEAKER_29: You you you were I mean and I don't you don't hear that anymore you don't hear kids being bored anymore.
• 2:25:13
  SPEAKER_29: And it's a lot of a lot of it is because what I talked about before but a lot of those habits when you were younger the parties and all of that hanging out with your buddies it was obviously taboo taboo if you were underage and all that but there was a lot of boredom because there wasn't as nearly as much to do and I think all because of the fact that there is so there's there is such a variation in different forms of entertainment that you can now partake in and watch and view on so many different levels that boredom that I had when we were younger where my buddies and I would go out and try to find things to entertain ourselves and sometimes it was you know through inebriation we would go out you know and and drinking and all that but that's just not nearly as prevalent as it was before and I don't I mean I don't hear anything like even in pop culture you don't hear any storylines of kids being bored anymore.
• 2:25:57
  SPEAKER_29: It's just not and that used to be if you go back and watch old shows and old movies that was always the thing that got the kids into trouble.
• 2:26:03
  SPEAKER_29: You know more boredom led you know was the devil's was the devil's play thing at the time you just don't have that anymore.
• 2:26:08
  SPEAKER_29: Now the kids are all locked in on their on their phones.
• 2:26:11
  SPEAKER_20: We played this uh blast that came in 612 584 45 uh 65 from Jody John we used to go to the bar and it's called the meat market now you don't need to have that kind of social interaction because you're on your phone.
• 2:26:25
  SPEAKER_20: Yeah no it's just and just remember at one o'clock you all swiped right have a good day.
• 2:26:33
  SPEAKER_29: I was just gonna I was gonna make a joke of they're all swiping right and stuff going to the bar instead so that's true.
• 2:26:38
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah there we go slow.
• 2:26:40
  SPEAKER_29: Um at the end of this piece here it says Americans' alcohol use has changed significantly in recent years as concern about its health effects has grown and I do I do agree that that's a I think we're learning more about that too just even like being it being that it's so like uh carcinogenic that there's more studies that are linking it to cancer and all sorts of things like I've read those.
• 2:27:01
  SPEAKER_29: Fewer Americans are drinking and those who do appear to be cutting back including by turning to non-alcoholic drinks or other drinks you know like the spooky mini leaf tonics which are brewed in Eden Prairie you can head on over to M I-N-N-E L-E-A-F dot com and check those out delicious flavors available there at the website and of course the night gummies for me uh and mini leaf get me a good night's sleep if you have trouble with your sleep be sure to go to M-I-N-N-E-L-E-A-F.com taste happy at minileaf.com and get yourself some night gummies um let's go here have a little fun we got a pocket wallet survey very fun here we go first pocket wallet of the John Justice show presented by American Experiment I I don't I think maybe it might be on a Freedom Friday maybe it's I think so it better be good let's hear how great we are this this cocktail is the most ordered drink at bars worldwide worldwide worldwide and it's the one Americans Google the second most often would you guys like to take a stab have a guess okay Catherine Negroni okay martini okay rum and coke okay why would you be ruminating old fashioned okay Isaac no no no no guess there the margarita is the most ordered drink at March worldwide I could see it this is according to the Bacardi cocktails trend report of 2026 there's your pocket wallet survey right there the Bacardi which is kind of funny that Bacardi admitted that the a competition beverage because Bacardi doesn't make it tequila's wrong I know I'm saying a margarita's tequila yeah I'm kind of surprised they actually admitted that good for them yeah who needs to know what's in a margarita it's just like tequila in the the mix you know salt yeah so it says it ranks the drinks uh the drinks people order the most from the company's global consumer survey uh the anyone take a stab at the at second and third anybody and you did not know nobody named nobody named second or third on the list we're talking about gin and tonic we're talking about mixed drinks gin and tonic okay gin and tonic grace come back to me okay Max uh second and third Yagi bomb Yagi Bomb so I'd say either Manhattan or maybe um say martini all right like long Long Island Ice tea like sex on the beach something like that no actually and I was Sex on the beach we have the top 20 here we'll run through it it's not even on the list.
• 2:29:43
  SPEAKER_29: What?
• 2:29:44
  SPEAKER_02: I know what that's not something I'm familiar with like I've heard that in movies I've never seen someone order one or it be on a menu like what is it?
• 2:29:52
  SPEAKER_29: They're not great.
• 2:29:53
  SPEAKER_29: I remember ordering it with or getting it they had the pre-mixed bottles you can get from the store and we listen to be honest we did it just because it was called Sex on the beach we're like oh we're getting Sex on the beach you know but it wasn't that great of a of a of a drink.
• 2:30:04
  SPEAKER_26: So in in Fargo um I can't even remember what the name of the bar is now in uh it's like downtown Fargo but they had Sex on the beach night on Thursdays and it was like five dollars and this thing was like 32 ounces and you would just get hammered.
• 2:30:18
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah so it's Broadway that's what it's called Broadway Broadway in Fargo uh super delicious and you'll drink a lot of them so Catherine it should be up here Allie it is a fruity alcoholic cocktail made with vodka peach schnapps orange juice and cranberry juice it became famous in the 1980s typically served over ice in a highball glass with an orange slice and a cherry I always thought the gosh darn I'm talking aren't I um I always thought that the name Sex on the Beach was incredibly dumb.
• 2:30:47
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah because who wants to do that?
• 2:30:50
  SPEAKER_26: It sounds delightful but I will never order it for the stage I'm not gonna the drink sounds no what was your point I was we're we're catching up now yeah I okay I agree with you on that point I don't like sand I don't it's coarse and it's rough see irritating it's everywhere growing up in like Midwest right I mean Thank you Max you you wouldn't even necessarily know they got my reference yeah got it yeah like growing up sorry Grace well listen growing up in the Midwest maybe it sounded appealing the name because you're like oh that would be cool right like but I've never been on a sandy beach yeah because it's different I mean you can go on like a sandy lake beach but it's not the same did you say there was grapefruit in it can I make that up uh cranberry juice orange juice peach nops and vines I feel like we are like crossing winding are we talking about the drink are we talking about literal sex on the beach I am having a hard time keeping up with AK was just talking about literal sex on the beach you can't do it in the Midwest.
• 2:31:54
  SPEAKER_29: Yep but then we're talking about and there's grapes involved yeah it sounds delightful I'm like I'm I'm so lost he would need a lot of blankets you know otherwise it just yeah yeah otherwise I mean you're just getting sand in all these crevices or it sounds actually awful yeah you know to be honest uh be having uh grown up in Southern California and spending a lot of time at the beach it's not that great it's it's it is a sounds awful it is uh it is a it is a task like it is effort to go to the beach enjoy the time there but then to when you leave to get it all it's just it's have we figured out have we figured out what number two on this list is what is it what is it I'm sorry mojito a mojito okay that make that makes sense okay I'm sure the whole audience was waiting with bated breath to find out yeah it took a while to get there that was a journey we all just went in uh third if you like pina coladas I love a pina that should have been an easy one I think yeah the Bicardi uh Bacardi produced the reports uh uh with a London based trends consultancy group drawing on consumer bartender surveys along with interviews of people working in the industry most of the next to several spots go to drinks with two ingredients Max this is for you rum and coke whiskey and coke vodka soda gin and tonic a dry martini is the first drink in the top ten that takes more than that takes more than a pour.
• 2:33:18
  SPEAKER_29: The next several spots belong to drinks that take almost no work to make so rum and coke whiskey and coke land at four and five and we'll go through the list here in just a just a second.
• 2:33:27
  SPEAKER_29: I went through phases so like for a while I was a seven and seven guy I ordered a seven and seven and then for the longest time I what?
• 2:33:34
  SPEAKER_29: Seagrum seven and seven up yeah never heard of that yeah yeah whiskey whiskey and seven up seven and seven seagram seven and you that was a big together in one yeah seven and seven that's like mixing light and dark is it not like that was good it was isn't that a good I used to I get it all the time I didn't realize it was weird.
• 2:33:51
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah yeah it must be a generational thing.
• 2:33:54
  SPEAKER_29: Um then I moved over for the longest time to uh Bacardian Coke and then for a while When I started to pack on the pounds as I got older, it became Bicardian Diet Co.
• 2:34:03
  SPEAKER_29: Cause I was, you know, healthy.
• 2:34:04
  SPEAKER_29: Uh now I just go straight to the rum.
• 2:34:05
  SPEAKER_29: I just do straight up spice, spice, spice, fresh.
• 2:34:08
  SPEAKER_31: Let's stop pretending.
• 2:34:10
  SPEAKER_29: Don't don't water this down with soda or anything.
• 2:34:14
  SPEAKER_31: I got a job to do with this drink.
• 2:34:16
  SPEAKER_29: Do uh do we have uh do we have drinks of uh personal favorite uh drinks among the among the group?
• 2:34:22
  SPEAKER_29: Anyone want to do it?
• 2:34:23
  SPEAKER_26: Rum and diet.
• 2:34:24
  SPEAKER_26: So I'm that's that's what I think.
• 2:34:27
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:34:27
  SPEAKER_26: Rum rum and diet coke.
• 2:34:28
  SPEAKER_26: I also do like um tangerai and lemonade, specifically tanger, not just any gin.
• 2:34:34
  SPEAKER_26: That's probably my my second favorite drink.
• 2:34:36
  SPEAKER_26: Okay.
• 2:34:37
  SPEAKER_33: My favorite drink is a dark and stormy.
• 2:34:39
  SPEAKER_33: I don't remember what's in it.
• 2:34:40
  SPEAKER_33: I think that there's rum.
• 2:34:41
  SPEAKER_33: It's really good.
• 2:34:41
  SPEAKER_33: Okay.
• 2:34:42
  SPEAKER_33: Dark and stormy.
• 2:34:43
  SPEAKER_02: I guess I would like, okay, I really like specifically gin and tonics with Hendrix gin and then like cucumber.
• 2:34:48
  SPEAKER_02: Like they have this like fever tree cucumber stuff that is good.
• 2:34:51
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 2:34:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um that's otherwise, I don't know, whatever's fruity at the place.
• 2:34:57
  SPEAKER_02: Pinot is good.
• 2:34:58
  SPEAKER_31: Just the beer.
• 2:34:59
  SPEAKER_31: Just gummer beer.
• 2:35:01
  SPEAKER_29: Just the just cool's like those mountains blue.
• 2:35:05
  SPEAKER_29: This is not gonna stun anybody.
• 2:35:07
  SPEAKER_29: I've never been much of a beer guy.
• 2:35:08
  SPEAKER_29: I did Guinness for a while.
• 2:35:09
  SPEAKER_29: I was a Guinness guy.
• 2:35:10
  SPEAKER_29: But that drinking a Guinness is like drinking a chocolate shake.
• 2:35:13
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, like it's like a meal.
• 2:35:15
  SPEAKER_26: It really is like a that was a reason that they think that they created it was to like to like stop uh just rampant alcohol consumption because it fills your belly or something like that.
• 2:35:24
  SPEAKER_26: And I don't know if I saw that on a TV show or heard that on a podcast.
• 2:35:28
  SPEAKER_31: Oh, I don't know if you talked about it on the show.
• 2:35:29
  SPEAKER_31: They are trying to reverse engineer the original formula that was lost uh with Guinness because they discovered a bottle from uh from the original factory, like in the ocean, and it was perfectly preserved, and apparently they lost the formula in a fire, so they had to like they had this bottle now to say we're gonna reverse engineer the original.
• 2:35:51
  SPEAKER_29: It's like new Coke, but different.
• 2:35:53
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 2:35:54
  SPEAKER_31: Sure.
• 2:35:55
  SPEAKER_02: That's not real.
• 2:35:56
  SPEAKER_02: That's like a movie plot.
• 2:35:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's not crazy.
• 2:35:58
  SPEAKER_31: No, I'm telling you, it's a real story.
• 2:36:00
  SPEAKER_31: You can look at it.
• 2:36:00
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah.
• 2:36:01
  SPEAKER_26: Isaac knows.
• 2:36:02
  SPEAKER_26: Isaac.
• 2:36:03
  SPEAKER_26: Isaac nodding.
• 2:36:03
  SPEAKER_26: And now that I'm thinking about it, it it was actually um Andrew on Monday.
• 2:36:08
  SPEAKER_26: He was talking about that that land deal or lease deal that Guinness did.
• 2:36:12
  SPEAKER_26: That's where the story was.
• 2:36:13
  SPEAKER_26: Oh, yeah, okay.
• 2:36:15
  SPEAKER_26: I watch outside of today's episode.
• 2:36:17
  SPEAKER_26: Thank you.
• 2:36:19
  SPEAKER_29: You know what?
• 2:36:20
  SPEAKER_29: He said that very convincingly.
• 2:36:21
  SPEAKER_29: Dude, straight to my heart, man.
• 2:36:23
  SPEAKER_29: Straight to my heart.
• 2:36:24
  SPEAKER_29: I had a friend of the show, lawyer extraordinaire, Jeff O'Brien, actually, he texted me early this morning.
• 2:36:28
  SPEAKER_29: He says, FYI, in case you ever question my loyalty uh as far as my listener status, I am holding off on listening to my download of the new Kiss Destroys Anaheim album that just dropped at midnight until your show is over.
• 2:36:41
  SPEAKER_29: Huh.
• 2:36:41
  SPEAKER_29: I appreciate the loyalty.
• 2:36:43
  SPEAKER_29: Um, unsurprisingly, we have a lot of comments that have rolled into the blaster line on this.
• 2:36:47
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, oh, here we go.
• 2:36:48
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go uh let's go here and hear from Benjamin.
• 2:36:50
  SPEAKER_11: Hey John, I know it sounds disgusting, but if you take 7up and Captain and mix it together, it also looks disgusting, but it only tastes like the spice drum flavor afterwards.
• 2:37:02
  SPEAKER_11: Okay.
• 2:37:03
  SPEAKER_11: One of my friends showed me it and I was impressed, but also never drink it.
• 2:37:07
  SPEAKER_29: So have I done my um Dr.
• 2:37:09
  SPEAKER_29: Pepper is just barbecue sprite conversation with you guys before?
• 2:37:13
  SPEAKER_29: I think I've heard that phrase before.
• 2:37:15
  SPEAKER_29: Barbecue Sprite.
• 2:37:16
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:37:18
  SPEAKER_29: Dr.
• 2:37:19
  SPEAKER_29: One word for it.
• 2:37:20
  SPEAKER_29: Dr.
• 2:37:20
  SPEAKER_29: Pepper is essentially just barbecue sprite.
• 2:37:22
  SPEAKER_29: I like that.
• 2:37:23
  SPEAKER_29: I know.
• 2:37:23
  SPEAKER_29: It's really grabbed hold, but I think it's brilliant if you're it's it's made my in my view.
• 2:37:28
  SPEAKER_29: So uh should we go through the top 20?
• 2:37:31
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 2:37:31
  SPEAKER_29: Coming in at number 20 is the passion fruit martini.
• 2:37:34
  SPEAKER_29: Never even heard of it.
• 2:37:35
  SPEAKER_29: Sounds good.
• 2:37:36
  SPEAKER_29: Uh 19 is the Paloma.
• 2:37:38
  SPEAKER_29: I have no idea what the Paloma is.
• 2:37:39
  SPEAKER_33: I almost guessed that earlier.
• 2:37:40
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, grapefruit, yeah.
• 2:37:41
  SPEAKER_29: Is that okay, good?
• 2:37:42
  SPEAKER_29: I don't have to look it up.
• 2:37:43
  SPEAKER_29: I should have looked it up a horror.
• 2:37:44
  SPEAKER_29: Uh screwdriver comes in at 18.
• 2:37:46
  SPEAKER_29: Never been a fan of the screwdriver.
• 2:37:47
  SPEAKER_26: I mean, that really when I think of a screwdriver, I just think of like destitute.
• 2:37:51
  SPEAKER_26: You just, you know, just you're grabbing the vodka and the orange juice and you're barely mixing it.
• 2:37:57
  SPEAKER_26: You're like, oh man.
• 2:37:58
  SPEAKER_26: You're actually working out.
• 2:37:59
  SPEAKER_29: Your your your last options is your screwdriver.
• 2:38:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we could get at the airport when we were going to CPAC as college students, you know, you can get like a handle of vodka and then these little things of orange juice.
• 2:38:09
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:38:10
  SPEAKER_26: Get the handle of taca.
• 2:38:11
  SPEAKER_26: It's like$9.99 for$175.
• 2:38:14
  SPEAKER_26: 17 was gin lemonade.
• 2:38:17
  SPEAKER_26: I am not that's what I was just saying.
• 2:38:18
  SPEAKER_26: Tangrain lemonade.
• 2:38:19
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, yeah, gin lemonade.
• 2:38:20
  SPEAKER_29: I am not a gin fan.
• 2:38:21
  SPEAKER_29: Delicious.
• 2:38:22
  SPEAKER_29: I'm not a gin fan.
• 2:38:22
  SPEAKER_29: It's so good, though.
• 2:38:23
  SPEAKER_29: I'm not.
• 2:38:25
  SPEAKER_31: I don't know.
• 2:38:25
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, if there's a if there's a day where like a cold gin and tonic does hit the spot.
• 2:38:29
  SPEAKER_31: Uh tequila soda is 16?
• 2:38:32
  SPEAKER_29: What is tequila soda?
• 2:38:34
  SPEAKER_02: If you're on a diet, is that what that is?
• 2:38:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:38:36
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 2:38:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's like really local.
• 2:38:39
  SPEAKER_02: So usually you don't get it because you're like excited to drink it.
• 2:38:42
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 2:38:43
  SPEAKER_29: Mimosa comes in at 15.
• 2:38:45
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 2:38:45
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:38:46
  SPEAKER_29: It's good on a Sunday morning.
• 2:38:47
  SPEAKER_29: Dacquery at 14.
• 2:38:48
  SPEAKER_29: Nice.
• 2:38:48
  SPEAKER_29: Tequila sunrise.
• 2:38:50
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Bloody Mary.
• 2:38:51
  SPEAKER_29: Never been a big Bloody Mary for.
• 2:38:52
  SPEAKER_29: No.
• 2:38:52
  SPEAKER_29: No, what?
• 2:38:53
  SPEAKER_26: Minnesota and Wisconsin.
• 2:38:55
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:38:55
  SPEAKER_26: Bloody Marys are like our thing.
• 2:38:57
  SPEAKER_26: And it's funny because if you go to another state.
• 2:38:59
  SPEAKER_26: So really?
• 2:38:59
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:39:00
  SPEAKER_26: Like you put like an entire.
• 2:39:01
  SPEAKER_26: Wisconsin for sure.
• 2:39:02
  SPEAKER_26: You're putting beef sticks, you're putting chicken wings, you're putting, you know, all the stuff in there, man.
• 2:39:07
  SPEAKER_26: You know, load it up.
• 2:39:08
  SPEAKER_31: You know, one thing that's crazy is uh I got a buddy, an old friend who lives in Louisiana, and they have drive-thru daiquiri bars.
• 2:39:16
  SPEAKER_31: Did you know this?
• 2:39:17
  SPEAKER_31: That basically you can drive up, order like a big flavored daiquiri, and take it with you.
• 2:39:22
  SPEAKER_31: That's dope.
• 2:39:23
  SPEAKER_33: How is that legal?
• 2:39:24
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, well, it's Louisiana.
• 2:39:26
  SPEAKER_33: Because it's Louisiana.
• 2:39:28
  SPEAKER_31: Because it's Louisiana.
• 2:39:29
  SPEAKER_31: My understanding is that they serve it to you in like um a Coke cup, basically.
• 2:39:34
  SPEAKER_31: And if the seal is broken where the straw is when you're driving, that is considered to be an open container at that point.
• 2:39:42
  SPEAKER_31: Sure.
• 2:39:42
  SPEAKER_31: But yes, they have drive-through daiquiri bars all over the place in like the New Orleans area.
• 2:39:47
  SPEAKER_29: So, aka I was laughing because I've done those those bloody Marys with all the shrimp and the bake.
• 2:39:54
  SPEAKER_29: That's awesome.
• 2:39:54
  SPEAKER_29: But that at that point you're at a meal, and the goal, my like the goal of my drinking, it's like taking me too long to get to the goal.
• 2:40:01
  SPEAKER_29: That's why I just go straight to the room.
• 2:40:02
  SPEAKER_29: Just straight.
• 2:40:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's but they come with a bonus drink sometimes.
• 2:40:05
  SPEAKER_02: It's more like a meal.
• 2:40:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, little beer shop.
• 2:40:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, beer back or whatever they call it.
• 2:40:09
  SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
• 2:40:10
  SPEAKER_29: Irish coffee comes in at number 11.
• 2:40:12
  SPEAKER_29: It's been a lot of time since I've been.
• 2:40:13
  SPEAKER_29: Uh all right, so your top 10.
• 2:40:14
  SPEAKER_29: Dry martini cocktail at 10.
• 2:40:16
  SPEAKER_29: Uh gin and tonic at number nine.
• 2:40:18
  SPEAKER_29: They get kind of uh bland here.
• 2:40:20
  SPEAKER_29: Uh eight, vodka soda.
• 2:40:21
  SPEAKER_29: I guess it's the same, is it the same thing as the okay locale?
• 2:40:24
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 2:40:25
  SPEAKER_29: Um seven is vodka lemonade.
• 2:40:27
  SPEAKER_29: Six is spritz.
• 2:40:29
  SPEAKER_33: Oh, I love a spritz.
• 2:40:31
  SPEAKER_33: Hugo spritz?
• 2:40:32
  SPEAKER_33: What is a spritz?
• 2:40:33
  SPEAKER_33: It's um it I don't know.
• 2:40:35
  SPEAKER_33: I don't know what goes into any drink.
• 2:40:37
  SPEAKER_33: It's like bubbly and um a little sweeter.
• 2:40:40
  SPEAKER_33: Um I'm thinking of like an april spritz specifically.
• 2:40:43
  SPEAKER_33: That's like a very good thing.
• 2:40:44
  SPEAKER_26: I like saying spritz, it's fun to say wine with a carbonated.
• 2:40:48
  SPEAKER_33: It is carbonated.
• 2:40:49
  SPEAKER_29: Italian wine-based cocktail served as a refreshing apertif.
• 2:40:54
  SPEAKER_29: It's really good.
• 2:40:54
  SPEAKER_34: Like prosecco or something, but with like uh bubbly and sweet, but not too sweet.
• 2:40:59
  SPEAKER_29: I only know that word because of friends.
• 2:41:01
  SPEAKER_29: That's so funny to me.
• 2:41:01
  SPEAKER_29: Aperitif.
• 2:41:02
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I only know that because of Monica and her cooking on Friends.
• 2:41:05
  SPEAKER_29: Uh simple three to one ratio, three parts proseco, two parts bitter liqueur, or apertif, such as uh aparol or uh campari, and one part soda water served over ice with an orange slice.
• 2:41:16
  SPEAKER_29: Uh all right, where are we at?
• 2:41:18
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, whiskey and coke.
• 2:41:18
  SPEAKER_29: That's not nearly as much fun.
• 2:41:20
  SPEAKER_29: Uh rub and coke at four, and then again, pina colada at uh three, mojito two, and margarita at number one.
• 2:41:27
  SPEAKER_26: I'm surprised old fashion wasn't anywhere on that list either.
• 2:41:30
  SPEAKER_26: Like old fashions are good.
• 2:41:31
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, that's surprising.
• 2:41:32
  SPEAKER_33: The the top three are so tropical.
• 2:41:34
  SPEAKER_33: If this is a worldwide survey, that has to be driven by like partying in on like cruise ships and stuff, right?
• 2:41:41
  SPEAKER_33: And in, I don't know, Sandals, Jamaica or something.
• 2:41:44
  SPEAKER_29: Um yeah, I'm still surprised at margarita being number one on the list, though.
• 2:41:48
  SPEAKER_29: That's still that still is but something skewing that.
• 2:41:50
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I think.
• 2:41:51
  SPEAKER_29: There's there's some demographic out there that's that's uh that's throwing that one off.
• 2:41:56
  SPEAKER_29: All right, let's go here.
• 2:41:57
  SPEAKER_29: We'll kind of keep with uh the somewhat of a theme.
• 2:41:59
  SPEAKER_29: Um a Northeast Ohio McDonald's restaurant was transformed into a wedding venue last Saturday, as two co-workers said I do in front of friends, family, fellow employees, and the occasional customer.
• 2:42:13
  SPEAKER_33: Now, as I work The occasional customer, wait, they left it open while they were getting married.
• 2:42:18
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, is it day of business?
• 2:42:19
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, come on, man.
• 2:42:20
  SPEAKER_26: Okay.
• 2:42:20
  SPEAKER_29: Now, as I work through this, I'm gonna give you guys a bit of a heads up as I work through this, okay?
• 2:42:25
  SPEAKER_29: So I wanna I want to know if you had to get married at a fast food restaurant, which one would you choose?
• 2:42:33
  SPEAKER_29: Call versus So hold on, you guys, hold on.
• 2:42:35
  SPEAKER_29: Don't just don't don't shout your answer out.
• 2:42:37
  SPEAKER_29: Hang on to it.
• 2:42:38
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that was a good answer, so I'm they're so welcoming.
• 2:42:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's like a clean swarm.
• 2:42:43
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, so you guys, you guys hang on.
• 2:42:44
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go through some more details here, and then you can tell me.
• 2:42:46
  SPEAKER_29: And you can do it all over again and we can act like we didn't hear it.
• 2:42:49
  SPEAKER_29: Um, we had uh people trying to come into the lobby the whole time, despite the dining room being closed to the public for the ceremony and the reception, according to the bride at Jamie Calicote of Akron, Ohio.
• 2:43:00
  SPEAKER_29: Um I was handing out extra sauces to an actual customer in my wedding dress.
• 2:43:06
  SPEAKER_29: Some customers made it to the kiosks inside to order, and the drive-thru remained open throughout the celebration.
• 2:43:12
  SPEAKER_29: I'm thinking if you're having your wedding at a McDonald's, I mean, you'd first off, you don't care.
• 2:43:18
  SPEAKER_29: And then second, you'd want to leave it open.
• 2:43:20
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, I would kind of want that activity happening if you're yeah.
• 2:43:24
  SPEAKER_29: Would you like a couple of angry black ladies like yelling that you got her order on.
• 2:43:29
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, if you're gonna if you're gonna shut the McDonald's down to have the wedding, then just go have it at some place that's more respectable.
• 2:43:35
  SPEAKER_33: Oh, but but but John, this is a celebration of where they met, how their relationship blossomed, and then you don't have to do a separate venue and or excuse me, ceremony venue and reception venue.
• 2:43:45
  SPEAKER_33: You just get married in front of the cash registers, and then you walk five steps and take your seat at your little McDonald's booth.
• 2:43:52
  SPEAKER_33: In-house catering.
• 2:43:53
  SPEAKER_33: Yes.
• 2:43:53
  SPEAKER_26: They both work at McDonald's, so I don't think their budget's very, very high.
• 2:43:58
  SPEAKER_33: Also that.
• 2:43:59
  SPEAKER_29: And I'll tell you what, I'll take the majority of the McDonald's food over most of the food that you get at a wedding.
• 2:44:05
  SPEAKER_29: Like I would rather have McDonald's food than most of the food that you go and get at a wedding.
• 2:44:09
  SPEAKER_26: I would cater McDonald's if I if I could do it all over again, me and Schmoopy, maybe we'll do like a Vower Newal at 25.
• 2:44:15
  SPEAKER_26: We're gonna cater McDonald's.
• 2:44:16
  SPEAKER_02: I went to a Kane's wedding recently.
• 2:44:18
  SPEAKER_02: That's my cool.
• 2:44:18
  SPEAKER_26: Ooh, see, that's that's good too.
• 2:44:20
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:44:20
  SPEAKER_29: But see, I'm also the person that would much rather have like a pizza on Thanksgiving versus Thanksgiving trimmings.
• 2:44:25
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:44:26
  SPEAKER_29: I just not.
• 2:44:26
  SPEAKER_29: It just always seems formulaic and it's kind of like, oh, turkey's okay, the gravy's alright.
• 2:44:29
  SPEAKER_29: It's like, okay, we're doing this, but I'd rather have if I was gonna have something, then we're gonna do it.
• 2:44:33
  SPEAKER_29: We literally did that.
• 2:44:34
  SPEAKER_26: So my mom was in a nursing home uh the basically nine years before she passed away, and uh we would do the non-traditional Thanksgiving.
• 2:44:41
  SPEAKER_26: So like we would do like a whole spread with pizza.
• 2:44:44
  SPEAKER_26: My mom would be like, I want Arby's or something like that.
• 2:44:47
  SPEAKER_26: Like we would do a spread every time we did Thanksgiving.
• 2:44:50
  SPEAKER_29: So I I've been getting so I have like multiple ways that I can get messages here, right?
• 2:44:53
  SPEAKER_29: So I've like emails coming in over here, and I have blasts coming in over here, and I keep seeing the same term over and over again, and now I realize why.
• 2:45:02
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go to this uh blast at six.
• 2:45:05
  SPEAKER_10: I'm watching the show on a screen, and it's got each of your guests in a square box, one in each corner, and you're on a box in the middle.
• 2:45:14
  SPEAKER_10: I have a request.
• 2:45:15
  SPEAKER_10: If the two ladies look down and the two men look up, then you will look just like the Brady bunch.
• 2:45:22
  SPEAKER_29: And I mean I kept seeing Brady Bunch.
• 2:45:24
  SPEAKER_29: I'm like, why are people emailing me Brady Bunch?
• 2:45:27
  SPEAKER_29: And I'm looking at the screen right now, and that's exactly what it uh what it's like.
• 2:45:33
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, that's it.
• 2:45:35
  unknown: You got it.
• 2:45:36
  SPEAKER_29: I'm surprised you guys actually know that.
• 2:45:38
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, it makes me feel so much better.
• 2:45:39
  SPEAKER_29: I'm not that old.
• 2:45:40
  SPEAKER_29: Um, let's see.
• 2:45:41
  SPEAKER_29: Kind of fun.
• 2:45:42
  SPEAKER_29: Social media.
• 2:45:43
  SPEAKER_29: What's that?
• 2:45:43
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, it's kind of fun.
• 2:45:44
  SPEAKER_33: Feel so close to AK and Hello down there.
• 2:45:47
  SPEAKER_33: It totally max.
• 2:45:48
  SPEAKER_33: Oh, wait, wait, am I wait, this is gonna get it.
• 2:45:52
  SPEAKER_33: Everything is reversed.
• 2:45:52
  SPEAKER_33: I'm sorry.
• 2:45:53
  SPEAKER_02: This is great audio content.
• 2:45:56
  SPEAKER_29: This is gonna get clipped so hard.
• 2:45:59
  SPEAKER_29: Social media content surrounding the wedding has already generated more than 20 million.
• 2:46:03
  SPEAKER_29: Okay, I've seen the video.
• 2:46:06
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:46:06
  SPEAKER_29: Now they can afford a real wedding.
• 2:46:08
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:46:09
  SPEAKER_26: Or save up for a nice honeymoon.
• 2:46:11
  SPEAKER_29: Or save up for a nice honeymoon.
• 2:46:13
  SPEAKER_29: That's true, too.
• 2:46:13
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:46:13
  SPEAKER_29: That's true.
• 2:46:14
  SPEAKER_29: We kind of figured it would get some attention, but this is just unreal, said the bride.
• 2:46:18
  SPEAKER_29: The newlyweds were back at work on Tuesday after their wedding as uh customers and others who frequent the restaurant began congratulating them.
• 2:46:26
  SPEAKER_29: Our Brinks guys who come in and pick up our money came in and they both walked right up to us and said, Oh my gosh, we've seen the video.
• 2:46:32
  SPEAKER_29: It was wild.
• 2:46:33
  SPEAKER_29: It's really fun.
• 2:46:34
  SPEAKER_34: This is kind of cute.
• 2:46:35
  SPEAKER_29: Jamie is a manager at the McDonald's where she wed George, the restaurant's crew trainer.
• 2:46:40
  SPEAKER_29: The pair met through mutual friends at Cedar Park, Ohio.
• 2:46:44
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, in June of 2025, when on a few dates when Jamie moved to Akron and began working at McDonald's in October.
• 2:46:49
  SPEAKER_29: George was the individual who trained her.
• 2:46:53
  SPEAKER_29: I do like that.
• 2:46:54
  SPEAKER_29: It's very fun.
• 2:46:54
  SPEAKER_26: It's a wholesome story, promoting marriage, working hard at McDonald's.
• 2:47:00
  SPEAKER_26: You know, it's a good story, yeah.
• 2:47:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's cute.
• 2:47:02
  SPEAKER_02: I would probably do Chick-fil-A, I have to say.
• 2:47:05
  SPEAKER_02: I doesn't that make the most sense.
• 2:47:07
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, Chick-fil-A makes sense.
• 2:47:08
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah, I'll do the I'll do the atmosphere of culvers over a Chick-fil-A any day, personally.
• 2:47:12
  SPEAKER_33: They're both great, but like culvers.
• 2:47:14
  SPEAKER_29: So you're doing Chick-fil-A, you're doing culvers.
• 2:47:16
  SPEAKER_31: Max had to get married at a fast food restaurant.
• 2:47:18
  SPEAKER_31: I was thinking Chick-fil-A too, just because the likelihood of one of the staff members being an ordained pastor is probably pretty high.
• 2:47:24
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, that's a good call.
• 2:47:25
  SPEAKER_29: I like that.
• 2:47:26
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Max?
• 2:47:27
  SPEAKER_29: I'm sorry, not AK?
• 2:47:28
  SPEAKER_26: So I actually would do McDonald's.
• 2:47:30
  SPEAKER_26: I I legitimately think McDonald's is like go-to number one fast food.
• 2:47:35
  SPEAKER_26: If you any anytime you're like, what would you like out of all the fast foods, McDonald's?
• 2:47:40
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:47:40
  SPEAKER_29: Isaac, you wanna you wanna?
• 2:47:42
  SPEAKER_29: I know you don't have a mic over there, but you can you go you go on Kane's?
• 2:47:46
  SPEAKER_29: So if I were getting married, if we were well, we do.
• 2:47:49
  SPEAKER_29: We got married out in in Arizona.
• 2:47:50
  SPEAKER_29: So if we were doing it there, I would go in and out.
• 2:47:52
  SPEAKER_29: That's an easy one.
• 2:47:53
  SPEAKER_29: Sure.
• 2:47:54
  SPEAKER_29: Um, but if we were here, uh I do Taco Bell.
• 2:47:56
  SPEAKER_29: Taco Bell.
• 2:47:57
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I run for run for the wedding border.
• 2:47:59
  SPEAKER_29: I love me some Taco Bell.
• 2:48:00
  SPEAKER_29: I'm just saying.
• 2:48:02
  SPEAKER_31: It is tasty.
• 2:48:03
  SPEAKER_29: It is good.
• 2:48:03
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, all the items are basically just repackaged and resized.
• 2:48:07
  SPEAKER_29: It's the same thing.
• 2:48:08
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, different ways of presenting the meat and cheese.
• 2:48:10
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, I know.
• 2:48:11
  SPEAKER_23: But I love it.
• 2:48:11
  SPEAKER_23: But I love everything.
• 2:48:12
  SPEAKER_26: Five ingredients of it.
• 2:48:13
  SPEAKER_31: I love the aspect of it.
• 2:48:15
  SPEAKER_26: A wrapped or rolled quesadilla.
• 2:48:17
  SPEAKER_26: I'm like, that's just a chicken burrito.
• 2:48:19
  SPEAKER_31: Wrapped in another burrito.
• 2:48:22
  SPEAKER_31: I love it.
• 2:48:23
  SPEAKER_29: I love it, absolutely love it.
• 2:48:24
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:48:24
  SPEAKER_29: McDonald's provided the venue, and um uh despite ultimately holding a larger ceremony than the destination-style wedding they had originally envisioned.
• 2:48:33
  SPEAKER_29: Jamie said the ceremony was cost effective.
• 2:48:35
  SPEAKER_29: Well, I was hoping I would hope it was.
• 2:48:37
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 2:48:37
  SPEAKER_29: The couple handed uh handled some of the decorations and food themselves.
• 2:48:40
  SPEAKER_29: The guests were served pulled barbecue chicken, buffalo chicken dip, homemade rigatoni, and fried chicken while the kids ate fresh McDonald's food.
• 2:48:49
  SPEAKER_33: Wait, so they don't even use the McDonald's food?
• 2:48:52
  SPEAKER_33: That's awful.
• 2:48:54
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that's that's I I don't agree with that at all.
• 2:48:56
  SPEAKER_33: That puts a damper on the whole story.
• 2:48:58
  SPEAKER_33: It really does.
• 2:48:58
  SPEAKER_31: I was about to say, is that like a hidden menu item?
• 2:49:01
  SPEAKER_31: The pulled the pulled chicken at McDonald's?
• 2:49:03
  SPEAKER_31: Not that I would that sounds pretty sick.
• 2:49:04
  SPEAKER_26: So they wanted the venue of McDonald's, they brought in their own food.
• 2:49:08
  SPEAKER_26: Well, if I could do that, I guess I would do McDonald's venue and then Raising Canes uh in addition to McDonald's food.
• 2:49:15
  SPEAKER_26: That that would be a great spread.
• 2:49:16
  SPEAKER_26: Okay.
• 2:49:17
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:49:17
  SPEAKER_33: Wait, what's the chain that has um has the it's it's like a drive up and they have servers going around on if I could have people roller skating around at my wedding, like serving food, I think that'd be pretty sick.
• 2:49:29
  SPEAKER_33: Maybe I'd do Sonic.
• 2:49:31
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go back to the oh no, I'm not going there.
• 2:49:33
  SPEAKER_29: Uh you know what?
• 2:49:34
  SPEAKER_29: Let's not let's not go to the blaster line.
• 2:49:35
  SPEAKER_29: Let's go to this story.
• 2:49:37
  SPEAKER_23: Since we were and we'll share that after we get off the air.
• 2:49:39
  SPEAKER_29: I just I saw a number of different words together.
• 2:49:41
  SPEAKER_29: I didn't have time to read the whole thing, and I'm just gonna play it safe, even though we are streaming here on the John Justice show.
• 2:49:46
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Chick-fil-A sparked some excitement speaking to Chick-fil-A.
• 2:49:49
  SPEAKER_29: So this will be uh this will be good news to you, uh Catherine.
• 2:49:52
  SPEAKER_29: Uh your uh you can well you can do your you can renew your wedding vows.
• 2:49:56
  SPEAKER_29: That's Chick-fil-A.
• 2:49:58
  SPEAKER_29: Um announced that they're adding a new all-day chicken and waffles breakfast sandwich.
• 2:50:02
  SPEAKER_29: Ooh, that sounds good frosted coffee flavor and milkshakes to its uh menu this fall.
• 2:50:07
  SPEAKER_30: Thank you.
• 2:50:08
  SPEAKER_29: The breakfast sandwich has especially piqued America's interest as it will mark the first uh time that Chick-fil-A has attempted chicken and waffles.
• 2:50:16
  SPEAKER_29: That sounds really kind of significant.
• 2:50:19
  SPEAKER_29: It got the attention of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which is the excuse I'm using to share the story with everybody.
• 2:50:24
  SPEAKER_29: He chimed in saying that it's going to cost me three kids who both want chicken and waffles and s'mores milkshakes.
• 2:50:30
  SPEAKER_29: Yes.
• 2:50:31
  SPEAKER_29: Can I get through the drive-thru under$50?
• 2:50:35
  SPEAKER_29: He questioned.
• 2:50:35
  SPEAKER_02: Their milkshakes are so, so good.
• 2:50:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's true.
• 2:50:40
  SPEAKER_29: They are rather tasty.
• 2:50:42
  SPEAKER_29: And chicken and waffles is good, it's good too.
• 2:50:44
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 2:50:44
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, I have uh more fast food news.
• 2:50:46
  SPEAKER_29: In recent years, fast food has been quietly shifting from a convenience category to a luxury category.
• 2:50:54
  SPEAKER_29: You guys are aware of this?
• 2:50:55
  SPEAKER_29: It did.
• 2:50:56
  SPEAKER_29: Countless American consumers are frustrated now with the overpriced, low-quality fare that fast food restaurants are offering in 2026, and many are swearing these chains off altogether.
• 2:51:08
  SPEAKER_34: Oh, that's so stupid.
• 2:51:09
  SPEAKER_29: Hitting the drive-thru may still be relatively fast and easy, but long gone are the days when it was cheap too.
• 2:51:16
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, and when you have the the uh what the E.
• 2:51:19
  SPEAKER_29: coli or the the sporous lettuce thing that diarrhea.
• 2:51:24
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, that that whole thing.
• 2:51:26
  SPEAKER_29: That didn't help.
• 2:51:26
  SPEAKER_29: That didn't help either.
• 2:51:28
  SPEAKER_29: Um but this kind of couple this with the conversation we were having earlier in the in the show.
• 2:51:32
  SPEAKER_29: And that is the the lack of younger individuals going out and being social and doing a lot of things.
• 2:51:38
  SPEAKER_29: I mean, fast food venues certainly fall into that.
• 2:51:40
  SPEAKER_29: It's kind of like the mall culture back in the past.
• 2:51:42
  SPEAKER_29: I just think you have fewer, you know, young individuals that are going out and eating the fast food restaurants, and and now you have this race to the bottom because fewer people are going, the fast food places are raising their prices, and they're having difficulty keeping their uh keeping their customers.
• 2:51:56
  SPEAKER_02: I just like I've actually been to McDonald's twice lately because we did a long road trip.
• 2:52:00
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh both times my husband and I got full meals for like eight dollars, and we were like, this is incredible.
• 2:52:07
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, this is insane.
• 2:52:08
  SPEAKER_02: How did we just get all this food for eight dollars?
• 2:52:10
  SPEAKER_02: So I just don't buy that.
• 2:52:11
  SPEAKER_02: If you're complaining about fast food, like move on to something else.
• 2:52:13
  SPEAKER_02: It is still so cheap and affordable.
• 2:52:15
  SPEAKER_02: There were definitely some crackheads inside one of those McDonald's, um, but other than that, it was a great experience.
• 2:52:21
  SPEAKER_02: Other than that.
• 2:52:23
  SPEAKER_31: What meal did you get where both of you only spent are you saying combined you spent eight dollars?
• 2:52:29
  SPEAKER_02: I think so.
• 2:52:30
  SPEAKER_31: You must not have too much.
• 2:52:32
  SPEAKER_02: So it was so cheap.
• 2:52:33
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I don't know.
• 2:52:34
  SPEAKER_02: I don't pay for the food.
• 2:52:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'm the wife, but like, yeah, I think it was like eight, maybe ten.
• 2:52:39
  SPEAKER_02: Crazy.
• 2:52:40
  SPEAKER_26: McDonald's is a few.
• 2:52:40
  SPEAKER_02: I get a plain cheeseburger with no nothing on it without like anything besides just the cheese.
• 2:52:44
  SPEAKER_26: They they've brought they basically they do these like five and six dollar meal deal that McDonald's does, where you get a either a double cheeseburger, um, or you can get like a single cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato, or you can get a McChicken and a small fry, a four-piece nugget, and a small drink, and it's five dollars.
• 2:53:01
  SPEAKER_29: It's making me hungry.
• 2:53:02
  SPEAKER_02: So much food.
• 2:53:03
  SPEAKER_02: Like that's great.
• 2:53:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:53:04
  SPEAKER_29: According to many can uh customer testimonials, shelling out for fast food is simply too expensive based on the quality of the food received.
• 2:53:12
  SPEAKER_29: One frustrated Redditor writes, because we should always take Redditors seriously.
• 2:53:18
  SPEAKER_29: I went to a subway the other day and I spent$20 on my meal.
• 2:53:22
  SPEAKER_29: I've also recently been to a Taco Bell and spent$16 and left hungry because the burrito barely had any filling.
• 2:53:29
  SPEAKER_29: Back to bringing lunches, I guess.
• 2:53:32
  SPEAKER_29: Beyond a decline in overall value, customers are also citing an appetite-spoiling decline in the quality of fast food items.
• 2:53:38
  SPEAKER_29: In a post on Facebook, commenters agree that many of their once favorite chains, specifically McDonald's, Wendy's, Arby's.
• 2:53:45
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, yeah, Arby's has not gotten a shout out.
• 2:53:47
  SPEAKER_29: Arby needs a shout out.
• 2:53:48
  SPEAKER_29: I love you some Arby's.
• 2:53:48
  SPEAKER_26: Oh, they have an amazing steak cheese sandwich.
• 2:53:52
  SPEAKER_26: It's probably one of the best things that I've had at an Arby's ever.
• 2:53:56
  SPEAKER_31: I worked at an Arby's.
• 2:53:57
  SPEAKER_31: Did you really?
• 2:53:59
  SPEAKER_31: What'd you do?
• 2:54:00
  SPEAKER_31: Uh prep table.
• 2:54:01
  SPEAKER_31: Okay.
• 2:54:02
  SPEAKER_31: But I got fired because you're supposed to wear your chainmail glove when you're cutting cutting or when you're cleaning the roast beef slicer.
• 2:54:08
  SPEAKER_31: I was a closer.
• 2:54:09
  SPEAKER_31: This was the Arby's in Roseville on Rice Street.
• 2:54:14
  SPEAKER_31: And so I felt like I was a veteran at the time.
• 2:54:18
  SPEAKER_31: I was going to compete in the Arby's Olympics, actually.
• 2:54:22
  SPEAKER_31: I was training for that.
• 2:54:23
  SPEAKER_31: I'm not kidding, that's a real thing.
• 2:54:25
  SPEAKER_31: You won an iPad if you won.
• 2:54:27
  SPEAKER_31: But anyway, so I was cut uh cleaning the roast beef slicer, and you're supposed to wear your chainmail glove.
• 2:54:33
  SPEAKER_31: It's a company mandate.
• 2:54:34
  SPEAKER_31: If you don't wear your chainmail glove, then if you cut your finger, you're automatically fired.
• 2:54:39
  SPEAKER_31: Automatically.
• 2:54:40
  SPEAKER_31: And so one night it was getting late, and I was cleaning the roast beef slicer and slit my finger and slit it good and started bleeding all over the prep table.
• 2:54:52
  SPEAKER_02: Believe it or not.
• 2:54:53
  SPEAKER_31: No, they I'm sure they cleaned it up and everything, and everything was sanitary or whatever.
• 2:54:57
  SPEAKER_31: But like my manager at the time was looking at this cut and it was on my thumb.
• 2:55:01
  SPEAKER_31: I can still see the scar, and was basically about to pass out.
• 2:55:05
  SPEAKER_31: And so basically I just wrapped it up, excused myself, and never returned.
• 2:55:09
  SPEAKER_31: Everything the funny thing is, is because of that, yes, I got fired.
• 2:55:15
  SPEAKER_31: They went to the emergency room where I eventually got stitched up.
• 2:55:18
  SPEAKER_31: They send a P tester out immediately.
• 2:55:22
  SPEAKER_31: Like they have to come test you for drugs at the hospital.
• 2:55:26
  SPEAKER_31: I should have started with this topic.
• 2:55:27
  SPEAKER_31: Holy cow, this is fascinating.
• 2:55:38
  SPEAKER_31: That I got.
• 2:55:39
  SPEAKER_31: And I did not have health insurance while I was employed at Arby's.
• 2:55:43
  SPEAKER_31: But I think they do that so you don't like sue the company.
• 2:55:45
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:55:46
  SPEAKER_26: Guarantee.
• 2:55:46
  SPEAKER_26: Here's the thing I will say though.
• 2:55:48
  SPEAKER_26: So wear your chainmail glove, kids.
• 2:55:49
  SPEAKER_26: When it comes to these meals, I will agree that if you just like go and say, uh give me a number 10, yeah, typically those meals are like ten, eleven dollars.
• 2:55:59
  SPEAKER_26: So you You have to look at the value menu.
• 2:56:02
  SPEAKER_26: So I think that's kind of a little bit the bait and switch that happens with a lot of these fast food restaurants.
• 2:56:07
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, if you get like a Big Mac meal, large size with the Coke, you're probably looking at like$12 or$13 for a Big Mac meal.
• 2:56:15
  SPEAKER_26: But you can find all the value menu items at every single restaurant.
• 2:56:19
  SPEAKER_26: So the Redditor that paid$20 at Subway, yeah, you probably got a foot long, you doubled the meetup, you probably got a large soda, and that's why it's$20.
• 2:56:29
  SPEAKER_26: But you can get a$7 sub of the day for a foot long.
• 2:56:34
  SPEAKER_26: So you know what?
• 2:56:34
  SPEAKER_26: You just got to be smart about it when you go and shop.
• 2:56:37
  SPEAKER_26: This has been food advice from AK.
• 2:56:40
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, man.
• 2:56:41
  SPEAKER_26: Listen, I'm not, I'm not a I'm not a wealthy man, but I am a fat man.
• 2:56:45
  SPEAKER_26: So I know how to like eat well for cheap.
• 2:56:50
  SPEAKER_29: Uh a couple of things.
• 2:56:51
  SPEAKER_29: First off, uh Max, did you ever feel like a knight when you were working?
• 2:56:55
  SPEAKER_29: Did you ever feel like with your glove?
• 2:56:57
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:56:58
  SPEAKER_31: It's like with the chain mail.
• 2:57:00
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, with the chainmail glove.
• 2:57:01
  SPEAKER_31: Seriously.
• 2:57:01
  SPEAKER_31: And that that roast beef slicer is so fine.
• 2:57:04
  SPEAKER_31: That blade is so fine.
• 2:57:06
  SPEAKER_31: When I cut my finger, pass that out.
• 2:57:10
  SPEAKER_31: It was my manager telling me, dude, what happened?
• 2:57:12
  SPEAKER_31: And it's like, it was this thumb.
• 2:57:14
  SPEAKER_31: And I got like four or five stitches on this thumb.
• 2:57:16
  SPEAKER_31: It wasn't like bad, but it was deep.
• 2:57:18
  SPEAKER_31: And so yeah, I got fired.
• 2:57:20
  SPEAKER_31: That's how I got fired from Arby's.
• 2:57:21
  SPEAKER_29: One of my first one of my first gig, one of my first jobs was uh working at a Baskin Robins, so 31 Flavors.
• 2:57:28
  SPEAKER_29: Okay.
• 2:57:29
  SPEAKER_29: And uh there was there was a guy that got hired, right, at the same time that I got hired.
• 2:57:33
  SPEAKER_29: I was very, very naive at a at a young age.
• 2:57:35
  SPEAKER_29: And uh, and I'm gonna apologize up front for telling my father.
• 2:57:38
  SPEAKER_29: Uh my father listens to the show, so he's gonna hear this story, he's gonna be very upset with me, but I'm gonna tell it anyway.
• 2:57:43
  SPEAKER_29: So the guy that I was working with, he was a bit he was a bit of a rebellious dude at a very, very young age when I was working at Baskin Robbins.
• 2:57:50
  SPEAKER_29: So, first off, he taught me the art of uh whipped cream charger hits.
• 2:57:53
  SPEAKER_29: Nice, yeah, whip it's baby.
• 2:57:55
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, whipping?
• 2:57:56
  SPEAKER_29: You were doing that before it was cool.
• 2:57:57
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 2:57:58
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, didn't that just like kill Hayden Panateer?
• 2:58:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh no, that was separate.
• 2:58:03
  SPEAKER_02: Was that part of the That might have been a separate story about her doing whippets?
• 2:58:06
  SPEAKER_31: Oh, was it?
• 2:58:07
  SPEAKER_31: Okay.
• 2:58:07
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if it was involved in the.
• 2:58:10
  SPEAKER_02: Aren't those in like intense though?
• 2:58:11
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, we we tried to ban them in the legislature.
• 2:58:15
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, yeah, I believe so.
• 2:58:16
  SPEAKER_26: Because you can buy them at like the specialty gift stores like Spencer's or whatever.
• 2:58:19
  SPEAKER_29: So we had, and there was a large supply of whipped cream bottles at the Baskin Robbins back in the back in the fridge.
• 2:58:25
  SPEAKER_29: So we were like, all right, the whole nine yards.
• 2:58:27
  SPEAKER_29: And so we got it.
• 2:58:28
  SPEAKER_29: Explains a lot.
• 2:58:29
  SPEAKER_29: So the the manager got the manager got really confused because they went to go use them and all the all the pressure was out of them, so they weren't working anymore, right?
• 2:58:39
  SPEAKER_29: Oh my gosh.
• 2:58:40
  SPEAKER_29: So didn't didn't get fired for that.
• 2:58:41
  SPEAKER_29: Uh oh.
• 2:58:42
  SPEAKER_29: And then I did, I did end up getting I well, I I kind of got forced out.
• 2:58:46
  SPEAKER_29: I wasn't like officially fired for a really dumb reason, based off, especially based off of what I'm about to share with you right now, as we close the show out.
• 2:58:52
  SPEAKER_29: So at one point, um I was I was working a shift.
• 2:58:56
  SPEAKER_29: The rebellious guy that I had that got hired at the same time as me was was coming in to take over my shift.
• 2:59:02
  SPEAKER_29: And there was a crossover, and he's like, Hey, you should meet me.
• 2:59:05
  SPEAKER_29: Oh no, it was going the other way.
• 2:59:07
  SPEAKER_29: He was getting off of work and I was coming into work.
• 2:59:09
  SPEAKER_29: And so he's like, Hey, you should come out and uh hang out with me in the in the parking lot because he had some some stuff to share of the of the marijuana variety, um, which was a really stupid thing to do as you're about to start a shift at a Baskin Robbins 31 flavors.
• 2:59:27
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, nice.
• 2:59:27
  SPEAKER_29: Actually, sounds like a great idea.
• 2:59:28
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, well, just you're only allowed so many samples, right?
• 2:59:34
  SPEAKER_29: So I made good use of those tiny, tiny spoons as I kept sneaking different flavors and and taking them.
• 2:59:40
  SPEAKER_29: No, the reason why I ended up kind of getting pushed out was because the manager got mad at me because I I used to be very vocal when I was scoop people's people's ice cream.
• 2:59:52
  SPEAKER_29: And he actually had to come and tell me, he's like, Can you stop making noise when you go to getting really into that ice cream?
• 3:00:01
  SPEAKER_31: Yeah, it's just you know as a customer, I would be disturbed by that.
• 3:00:03
  SPEAKER_31: So I was a few.
• 3:00:04
  SPEAKER_31: I don't want you making any noise.
• 3:00:05
  SPEAKER_31: I want you suffering in silence.
• 3:00:06
  SPEAKER_29: And by the way, now now you have a bit of an understanding of why I ended up going into radio and becoming a talk show host because I've always been a very vocal individual, as my wife will attest.
• 3:00:14
  SPEAKER_26: Fast food has informed a lot of us young.
• 3:00:16
  SPEAKER_26: So my first job was McDonald's, 14 years old, North Dakota.
• 3:00:20
  SPEAKER_26: And by the time I had been there for like three months, I really liked uh eating the food there.
• 3:00:25
  SPEAKER_26: And so I wanted to work overtime or just more than the allotted, because I think you can only work like 24 hours or something like that in a week when you're 14.
• 3:00:32
  SPEAKER_26: And so I worked it out with the manager, and they said, All right, you have to clock out at 7, but you're gonna close and we'll pay you in food.
• 3:00:40
  SPEAKER_26: And I said, Great.
• 3:00:41
  SPEAKER_26: So in North Dakota from 1415 to 16, I just straight up illegal child labor.
• 3:00:48
  SPEAKER_26: Child labor, but I loved it.
• 3:00:50
  SPEAKER_26: I got to eat so much McDonald's.
• 3:00:51
  SPEAKER_26: We used to actually do wrestling tournaments in the ball pit back when McDonald's had ball pits, and I was the king of the ball pit, man.
• 3:00:57
  SPEAKER_26: I was like body slamming full-grown adults in there, man.
• 3:00:59
  SPEAKER_26: It was awesome.
• 3:01:00
  SPEAKER_03: She said the weirdest stories I've ever heard in my life.
• 3:01:03
  SPEAKER_29: Let's wrap on this.
• 3:01:04
  SPEAKER_29: I got one more story for you guys, and we'll close out the show on a Freedom Friday.
• 3:01:08
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, this comes out of Camdenton, Missouri, a man that authorities believe was planning to distribute a large amount of marijuana during a gathering of the juggalos festival.
• 3:01:19
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, juggalows in Max Creek is now under arrest.
• 3:01:23
  SPEAKER_29: So, first off, are you guys familiar with the juggalos?
• 3:01:25
  SPEAKER_29: Now, what is a juggerlo?
• 3:01:26
  SPEAKER_29: AK?
• 3:01:27
  SPEAKER_26: Someone who follows ICP.
• 3:01:29
  SPEAKER_26: You have juggaloes, which are the men clown posse.
• 3:01:33
  SPEAKER_26: Shopify it's shopey.
• 3:01:35
  SPEAKER_26: White Sheggy Tug.
• 3:01:37
  SPEAKER_26: They're white rappers.
• 3:01:37
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:01:38
  SPEAKER_33: So this is a music group.
• 3:01:40
  SPEAKER_26: White rappers from the 90s, instant clown posse from Michigan.
• 3:01:44
  SPEAKER_26: Got it.
• 3:01:44
  SPEAKER_26: And the women are called juggerhos.
• 3:01:47
  SPEAKER_26: Men are juggeros, women are juggerhos.
• 3:01:50
  SPEAKER_26: Wow.
• 3:01:50
  SPEAKER_29: So uh this individual who went by the name of Kevin doing that thing with my fingers, Blunt Man Jones.
• 3:01:57
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 3:01:58
  SPEAKER_29: For blunt man.
• 3:01:59
  SPEAKER_29: Blunt man, yeah.
• 3:02:00
  SPEAKER_29: I know him.
• 3:02:01
  SPEAKER_29: 45 years old.
• 3:02:03
  SPEAKER_29: He's being held without bond on felony of drug trafficking and delivering of a controlled substance, according to the court records, um, used to charge Bluntman.
• 3:02:12
  SPEAKER_29: The mid-Missouri Drug Task Force received information that he planned to distribute marijuana during the festival, which makes me laugh a little bit because I'm assuming the juggaloes are bringing their own.
• 3:02:21
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, yeah.
• 3:02:22
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 3:02:22
  SPEAKER_29: But I guess he was going to take advantage of this, right?
• 3:02:24
  SPEAKER_29: It begins on Wednesday, by the way.
• 3:02:26
  SPEAKER_29: The task force found documents on the website juggalo gathering.com.
• 3:02:31
  SPEAKER_29: It's one of my frequent stops when I'm doing for the show every day.
• 3:02:34
  SPEAKER_29: Uh, it described how Blunt Man's one-stop shop had been supplying the festival for more than 20 years.
• 3:02:41
  SPEAKER_29: Makes sense, that tracks.
• 3:02:43
  SPEAKER_29: When members of the task force stopped a pickup for traffic violations, uh, they say they found approximately 128 pounds of marijuana in a camper that was being towed, along with signs reading, weed for sale, flour for sale.
• 3:02:59
  SPEAKER_29: The state said they also located uh plastic containers with uh mushrooms.
• 3:03:04
  SPEAKER_29: Not a huge surprise.
• 3:03:04
  SPEAKER_29: He wasn't using them for his sandwiches.
• 3:03:06
  SPEAKER_29: These were the ones to get you high.
• 3:03:07
  SPEAKER_29: The court documents also say the search located laminated paper with QR codes for various payment methods.
• 3:03:14
  SPEAKER_29: So Bluntman was, you know, he had a he had a entrepreneur.
• 3:03:18
  SPEAKER_29: He was an entrepreneur.
• 3:03:19
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 3:03:19
  SPEAKER_31: Absolutely.
• 3:03:20
  SPEAKER_31: Free Bluntman.
• 3:03:21
  SPEAKER_29: I kind of feel bad for him.
• 3:03:22
  SPEAKER_26: Shaggy2 Dope and Violent J are the two main rappers.
• 3:03:26
  SPEAKER_26: They also became wrestlers, so they did WWE or WCW or ECW one of those.
• 3:03:32
  SPEAKER_26: And uh they're from Michigan, so they beefed with Eminem because they were both in the rap scene.
• 3:03:36
  SPEAKER_26: But ICP, they're like um they were pushing that there was a demonic prophecy of a clown demon, and they made five albums, and it was called The Great Malenko.
• 3:03:46
  SPEAKER_26: Like it's a whole thing, man.
• 3:03:48
  SPEAKER_26: Like people were saying it was a cult back in the day, and these two dudes were just like rappers that wanted to kind of like uh really play into that character, but they always dress in this makeup all the time.
• 3:03:58
  SPEAKER_26: But yeah.
• 3:04:00
  SPEAKER_33: Um, did this guy this guy had charges brought against him?
• 3:04:02
  SPEAKER_26: Uh-huh.
• 3:04:03
  SPEAKER_33: So he has a lawyer who has to defend him now.
• 3:04:05
  SPEAKER_33: Yeah.
• 3:04:06
  unknown: Yeah.
• 3:04:07
  SPEAKER_33: God bless his soul.
• 3:04:08
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, I imagine it's probably a very prominence lawyer.
• 3:04:11
  SPEAKER_29: I imagine that lawyer is used to this type of stuff in that region of the country.
• 3:04:16
  SPEAKER_29: I'm sure he's probably an expert, an expert in this.
• 3:04:19
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 3:04:20
  SPEAKER_29: Listen, that uh wraps up a freedom press.
• 3:04:22
  SPEAKER_29: Good way to add.
• 3:04:22
  SPEAKER_29: Another one for the uh for the record books, uh, Brady Bunch.
• 3:04:25
  SPEAKER_29: Thank you so much for coming in.
• 3:04:26
  SPEAKER_29: Uh RNC Committeeman, aka Kamara.
• 3:04:28
  SPEAKER_29: Anything you want to mention before we cut you loose today?
• 3:04:30
  SPEAKER_26: Shout out uh to the Lions up in Hugo.
• 3:04:32
  SPEAKER_26: We have a golf scramble tomorrow.
• 3:04:34
  SPEAKER_26: So if uh there's any last-minute entrance, you can definitely go and check it out.
• 3:04:38
  SPEAKER_26: Hugo Lions, we have our golf scramble tomorrow.
• 3:04:40
  SPEAKER_26: All proceeds go to the Hugo Fire Department to buy a new Jaws of Life.
• 3:04:45
  SPEAKER_26: Oh, wow.
• 3:04:46
  SPEAKER_26: Okay.
• 3:04:46
  SPEAKER_31: Max Reimer, representative, what's going on with you?
• 3:04:48
  SPEAKER_31: Thanks for having me.
• 3:04:49
  SPEAKER_31: Nothing.
• 3:04:50
  SPEAKER_31: Have a great weekend.
• 3:04:51
  SPEAKER_29: All right.
• 3:04:51
  SPEAKER_29: Uh Grace Keating, anything you want to you want to promote or we got going on over here?
• 3:04:55
  SPEAKER_33: Yes, tickets for our fall briefing are officially on sale.
• 3:04:59
  SPEAKER_33: You can get them at americanexperiment.org slash events.
• 3:05:01
  SPEAKER_33: It's at the beautiful winery at Sovereign Estate out in Waconia.
• 3:05:04
  SPEAKER_33: We'll be hearing from Byron York giving us kind of an elections update.
• 3:05:08
  SPEAKER_33: So definitely don't want to miss that.
• 3:05:09
  SPEAKER_33: Then, Katherine, I'll let you plug our other upcoming event, your favorite day of the year, I believe you called it.
• 3:05:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 3:05:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we'll be at the Minnesota State Fair.
• 3:05:17
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I believe it's August 29th.
• 3:05:20
  SPEAKER_02: 29th, thank you.
• 3:05:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and we'll be there all day.
• 3:05:23
  SPEAKER_02: And we have free stuff.
• 3:05:23
  SPEAKER_02: We have a cool wheel you can spin and some fun facts about Minnesota and the direction that our state is going in.
• 3:05:30
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah, the show will officially uh we'll be out there.
• 3:05:32
  SPEAKER_29: I'll be out there on the 29th, 11 until 1 o'clock, and again, come on by the and spin the wheel.
• 3:05:37
  SPEAKER_29: The wheel of, what do we call?
• 3:05:39
  SPEAKER_29: Destiny?
• 3:05:39
  SPEAKER_29: Wheel of misfortune.
• 3:05:41
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, yeah, that's right.
• 3:05:41
  SPEAKER_29: The wheel of uh the wrong track, Minnesota Wheel of Destiny or something like that.
• 3:05:44
  SPEAKER_29: So we didn't get that.
• 3:05:45
  SPEAKER_29: Oh, I don't know.
• 3:05:46
  SPEAKER_29: It's a long name.
• 3:05:46
  SPEAKER_29: It was a long name.
• 3:05:47
  SPEAKER_29: We got a pair of workshop it a little bit.
• 3:05:48
  SPEAKER_29: Yeah.
• 3:05:49
  SPEAKER_29: We'll workshop it with the comms too.
• 3:05:50
  SPEAKER_29: Come up with an acronym.
• 3:05:52
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• 3:05:58
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• 3:06:04
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• 3:06:09
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• 3:06:13
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• 3:06:16
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• 3:06:20
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• 3:06:24
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• 3:06:27
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• 3:06:30
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• 3:06:32
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• 3:06:33
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• 3:06:34
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• 3:06:37
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