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September 18, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show | FREEDOM FRIDAY · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_05: Out of the way, it is Freedom Friday here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you for joining us in this early hour.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_05: Of course, I am your host, John Justice.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_05: To my right, pushing the buttons and producing the show this morning is Isaac.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning, Isaac.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning, John.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_05: It's good to see you.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_05: Good to see you too.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_05: Those watching early on the stream got a got a treat.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_05: A little preview.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you got to see uh Isaac, his middrift as he was setting up the studio.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_07: It's a good looking mid drift.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_05: Got to see a little bit of Grogu dancing in the middle of the AI overlord tunes.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_05: Got it.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_05: You know, you got to appease the AI overlords because they're going to be taking over everything at some point.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_05: It's absolutely terrifying.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_05: On Freedom Friday, you're on and off topic comments all morning long in the blaster line, voice or text message and email.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_05: Um the number is 651-964-0294.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_05: And you can also email John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_05: A full house today.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_05: We'll have uh Max Reimer will be joining us in less than a half hour from now.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_05: Hopefully he's on his way in.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_05: Uh aka Kamara next hour here from American Experiment Catherine Johnson.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_05: And um a bittersweet final send-off for Grace Keating.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_05: This is her final Freedom Friday, as she is leaving for another job after uh tomorrow's fall briefing at Sovereign Estates with Byron York.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_05: So she will make her uh her final appearance here on a Freedom Friday on the John Justice show.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_05: So yeah, we're all bummed that she's leaving.
• 1:50
  unknown: Yeah.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_05: Completely understand.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_05: We're all incredibly uh excited for Grace and her uh her next uh her next adventure.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_05: I know she's excited for her next gig, uh, but we'll certainly be missing her here.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_05: But one more Freedom Friday, and we've got plenty of stuff to talk about this morning on the show.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_05: I'm very, very excited, including hearing from you.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_05: We already have some comments that have been rolling into the blaster line this morning, uh, from this morning and overnight.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_05: So let's get to some of your thoughts before we dive into some of the latest news, including President Donald Trump saying, and I feel like he said this a lot of times, big decision coming up when it comes to the Iran War.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_05: So I'll get you an update on uh on that.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_05: First off, let's go here to the blaster line.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_23: I got just listening to the Omar song and I'm thinking, can you sometime have maybe John Magel on so we can see what he's all about?
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_23: I know it's uh a long shot for him to win down in Minneapolis, but you never know.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_23: Miracles do happen.
• 2:54
  unknown: Okay.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_23: Have a good day.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_23: Bye.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_05: It was a little mumbled there.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_05: Did you hear who he was referring to in Minneapolis?
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_05: Did you happen to catch that, Isaac?
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_07: I did not catch that, no.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, somebody helped me out here.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't hear who he was referring to.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_05: I'm assuming he was talking about a Minneapolis candidate of of some sort, but I missed that in the uh in the blast.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_05: So if you picked up on what it was, uh drop me an email or 651-964-0294.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go here.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_05: An individual friend of the show on the highway currently.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_09: Good morning, John.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_09: This is Jim.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_09: I'm trucking from Toma, heading to Watertown, South Dakota.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_09: I got a line for you.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_09: I got a long way to go and no time to get there.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_09: Can you remember what movie that's from back in the 80s?
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_05: Now let me pause it here.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_05: First off, oh, somebody said Nagel, John Nagel.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, thank you for that, a guy in Minnesota for helping to clear that up.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, I appreciate it.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_05: So, to um to uh Trucker Jim, uh, first off, I think I think he got it wrong.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_05: Um, let me back it up, because I think he actually it's from Smokey and the Bandit.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_05: Let me just say that up front.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_05: But I think he actually got the line wrong.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_09: Long ways to go and no time to get there.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_05: I thought it was we got a long, a long ways to go and a short time to get there.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not gonna look or ask Isaac because one, this is probably the first time you've ever heard the term Smoky and the Bandit.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_06: Let me try that again.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_05: Still can't work it.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_05: There it is.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_06: Hello.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_07: Correct.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_07: That is correct.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_07: All right.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_05: So there you go.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_05: Um, yeah, I think it's we have a long ways to go on a short time to get there.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_05: But I could be wrong on that.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_05: But it is from Smoky and the Bandit.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_09: Can you remember what movie that's from back in the 80s?
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_09: Anyway, I've had an hour and a half sleep.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_09: You gotta keep a good show going today.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_09: Keep me awake.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_09: I'm looking forward to the show this morning.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_09: Talk to you later.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, I am not gonna take on that responsibility.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_05: It's not gonna.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_05: I'm on the road.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_05: I got a long way to go, short time to get there, and I'm working off of 10 minutes of sleep.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_06: I don't think that's probably not a not a good probably not a good idea.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_05: You know, and I probably not a good idea that I was playing communism Kool-Aid before the show, because that's kind of a slow, a slow jam.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_05: Very relaxing.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_05: Dude, get some more, get some more sleep.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_05: Get some night gummies from Mini Leaf to help you get a good night's sleep, especially when you're on the when you're on the road.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_05: You know, I take them every single night.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_05: They're made with all natural ingredients, Isaac.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know if you're aware of this or not.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_06: It's an elite plug.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_05: They're uh also available at M-I-N-N-E-L-E-A-F.com.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_05: My uh my father, my beloved father, who's been having difficulty uh getting uh sleep himself, has uh now been taking uh advantage of the uh mini leaf night gummies, and he's having success with them as well as I have for a couple of years.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, whether it's the spooky mini leaf tonics that are brewed in Eden Prairie, uh, whether it is the delicious dark chocolates, the fun gummies, uh everything's packaged locally uh as well with mini leaf, right in Brooklyn Park.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_05: Um, and the Triple Diamond Pain Cream, which my wife uh swears by.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_05: It's all available at M-I-N-N-E-L-E-A-F.com.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_05: That's minilef.com.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_05: You know, you'll taste happy when you go to minileaf.com.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_05: Just wanted to want to let you know that.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_11: Hey John, Brandon Codestro.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_11: Just catching up on today's podcast.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_11: Uh won't be able to listen live tomorrow, so I wanted to call and wish Grace uh luck with her new endeavor, and uh, you know, I'll be praying for her.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_11: Gonna miss her.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_11: Love the fire from her and Catherine.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_11: But, you know, I understand everyone's got to move on.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_11: One more thing.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_11: Uh, the Sydney Sweeney thing, I get a kick out of it.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_11: They're throwing a pick because she lost 200,000 followers.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_11: 0.00074% of her entire following.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_11: She does not care.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_11: Also, the UFC, the WWE, women's soccer, they've all been doing these body positive things where they go out and model in the nude.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_11: What is the big deal?
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_11: It's all because of Sydney Sweet.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_11: I mean, I don't get it.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_11: The outrage is ridiculous.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_11: Anyways, I hope you guys have a great Freedom Friday.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_11: I'll be catching up afterwards.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_11: Have a great day.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, there were images going around yesterday.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_05: It was it was unsurprising.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_05: And I I have to remember that they were out there, but you know, I didn't bother to go and look.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_05: But, you know, Sydney Sweeney posing in these ads, nude being covered up by various uh, you know, sporting equipment.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_05: It is absolutely nothing new.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_05: There's been uh montages put together online that show, you know, your litany of female athletes posing nude on sports covers.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_05: Sometimes together with other with other women as well.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_05: So yeah, the outrage.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_05: Again, it's it's power that Sydney Sweeney is wielding through her ads and the confidence that she has because of what God has bestowed upon her and her assets, and because it gained attention and she is not aligned with the left, the left needed to exploit it to try to pull whatever power they could from it.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_05: And in this case, by going after her and criticizing her, saying that this is not the example that needs to be set when it comes to women's sports, when that is completely and totally uh irrelevant and hypocritical given what we were just talking about here on the show.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_28: Yeah, it's Mike and Jordan.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_28: Uh eastbound and down, loaded up and trucking.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_28: We're gonna go until we can be done.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_28: We're gonna do what what anyone can be done.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_28: I can't remember.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_28: But smokey and the bandit.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_06: Well, yeah, that still didn't, that still didn't, yeah.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_06: It's just we've got a long, a long way to go and a short time to get there.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_05: That's the one that's the part of it that I was I was looking.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_05: Can you look up look at you can you look up the lyrics, please?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_05: Come on, it for yeah, for the smoky and the bandit song.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_05: I would I just just so we can put a period on this particular portion of the kickoff of Freedom Friday.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_05: Hey John, this is Ronald Grump.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_33: I'm curious if we know for sure Sydney Sweeney would actually do.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_33: The whole thing could be like AI totally or AI enhanced.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_33: She might have had all her clothes on.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no, no, I I I'm you know, given my you know, 54 years of experience uh in uh admiring the female form, I'm fairly positive that what was shown in that that let me let me back up a little bit.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_05: Sydney Sweeney does not eat and does not need AI assistance.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_05: You give AI assistance to Sydney Sweeney, and you're venturing into uh, you know, your your you know, what was it, manga territory when it comes to the overemphasized female anatomy in certain art forms, as I tread this conversation delicately on a Freedom Friday morning.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_05: Well, we are off to a raucous uh start this morning.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_07: We've got a long way to go and a short time.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_07: A short time to get there.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, yes.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_05: I was right.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_05: And it's also probably the theme for today's show.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_05: We have a long way to go and a short time to get there, and we're not going anywhere, apparently.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_16: Yeah, just a thought on uh Sweeney.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_16: Good-looking girl.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_16: I don't think she's that perfect.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_16: I mean, but she's she's a hottie.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_05: But that but that's that that is the I don't know what to wipe out here, but that's the appeal.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_05: That is the appeal of Sydney Sweeney is that she is she is attractive, and obviously she has her assets that you know bring about uh uh an enhancement of that attraction.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_05: But at the same time, she also is bestowed by God this girl next door face.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_05: It's the combination of the of the two.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_05: For those that think for a second that I'm running the fan club, I'm not.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_05: I just I just want to, nor am I a card-carrying member.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_05: I just want to make that perfectly perfectly clear.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_05: Well, we were talking about it yesterday with Becca Thompson.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, that's the thing.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_05: Sydney Sweeney is taking advantage of what God has given her for now because it will not last.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_05: You know, eventually gravity will take its toll and things will change.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_05: And for a certain, you know, segment of society, there's an appeal for that.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_16: So people that are complaining, do they watch Austin Powers and have a heart attack, or do they just get back and watch it and think it's fun?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_05: They sit back and they watch it and and think it's uh and think it's fun.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_06: All right, let's uh let's go.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_06: Let's go here.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_19: John, Sidney Sweeney is fantastic.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_19: And I'd like to see her mix it up with Sophie Cunningham.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_19: Two powerful chicks, two conservative gals, and two gals that know what the difference between female and male is.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_19: That'd be a perfect calendar.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_05: I wasn't I was curious what his definition was of mix it up.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_05: It's like, where's he where's his head going here?
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_05: So talking about a calendar.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_05: Uh to your point though, Sophie Cunningham put out a video uh overnight defending um Sydney Sweeney, which I know was not coming as a as a huge surprise.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_05: Um I was gonna grab the audio, but it was a little lengthy and I was short on uh I was short on time, so I just didn't have the uh have the opportunity.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_05: But yeah, Sophie Cunningham came out.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_05: She took heat, by the way.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_05: Sophie Cunningham went to the NASCAR race uh last weekend and was making the rounds with all the various drivers, which was really funny because with Sophie Cunningham walking around the garage in Pitt Road on race day, suddenly now all the NASCAR drivers looked like horse jockeys because they all just looked a teeny tiny compared to Sophie Cunningham.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_05: It was just it didn't help because Michael Jordan was there as well because he owns 2311, the the race team, and he goes to a lot of the races.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_05: So now you have Michael Jordan and Sophie Cunningham who are almost match in matched in terms of height, and they're standing around the other NASCAR drivers, and suddenly they all look like Keith Ellison.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_05: Because he's a very little guy.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_05: Teeny, teeny, teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_05: You know, if you put Shoguru in front of Keith Ellison, you can he can hide.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_05: Don't know if you're aware of that or not.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_05: That's what made that's what makes him so sneaky.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_05: He can sneak up on you.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_29: It seems like nudity has been associated with gymnastics for a long time.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_29: The ancient Greeks in the uh Olympics, the man would perform in the nude completely naked.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_29: And the word gym comes from gymnos, which means naked, where we get gymnasium.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, now we're just going down.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_06: Now we're now we're just going down some some some strange roads this morning.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_21: Good morning, John.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_21: Happy Freedom Friday.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_21: The formula is pretty clear.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_21: If the left is against it, then it's probably a right thing for the conservatives to support and go after.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_21: Simple formula.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_21: Have a good weekend, everybody.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_05: You know, one of these Freedom Fridays, I think what's going to happen is I'm not going to have any guests.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_05: I'm just going to start off the show taking blasts from the blaster line at 651-964-0294, and then we can see how long I can sustain the show based off of your commentary alone.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_05: That's not going to happen this morning, but I'm loving all the comments that are rolling in on the Freedom Friday.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_10: Okay, since we're going there today, uh, when we're mixing it up, I'd like to know how many people think it should be in a mud pit.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_10: No, how many people think it should be wet t-shirts?
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_10: No, it's not.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_10: No, no.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_05: I it would when I think of mixing it up when it comes to Sidney Sweeney and Sophie Cunningham, I'm thinking about a good, raucous debate on the pressing issues of the day.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_05: You know, like a like, you know, let's get him on stage and have him talk about, you know, an exit strategy for the Iran conflict.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_05: So when I talk about mixing it up, that's what that's what I would like to see to really tap into the expertise of both of these beautiful women.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_18: Hey, happy Freedom Friday, John.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_18: So bringing up Iran, Trump's big decision.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_18: I don't know, this all feels like a setup.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_18: Everything about Iran was a setup.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_18: Somebody had bad information and made him do it.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_18: This just this doesn't make any sense.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_18: Should have been over in March.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_18: Why not just decapitate the regime?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_18: That was the whole point.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_18: If you were gonna do it, you just remove the regime and install a new government, or else this is never gonna end.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_18: I don't think it took a rocket scientist to figure that out.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_18: I don't know.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_18: It's frustrating because this has really like destroyed everything going forward.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_18: So yeah, awesome.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_18: Anyway, I don't blame them for doing it.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_18: I just don't think the Intel was correct.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_18: Well, I hey welcome to America.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_18: Our Intel's never correct.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_05: So thank you for the comment uh and keep your uh comments rolling into the blaster line at uh 651-964-0294.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_05: I I'd like to go back to the very beginning of the start of Operation Epic Fury, and I would I'd love to see official statements from the administration juxtaposed with the commentary and how much of the determination of how long this operation was supposed to take place was coming from the commentary side of it and the administration side of it.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_05: We've discussed this many times on the show, and I don't want to venture too far down the down this road this morning, but it was clear that the administration wanted to try to do what they could to not completely destroy Iran and its infrastructure for the people in Iran, to give them the opportunity to take back their country from this tyrannical regime.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_05: And then you had Iran going out and murdering thousands who did not have the ability to go and defend themselves in the wake of protests that were taking place as people were trying to rise up.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_05: And that quelled any movement by the people in Iran to go and do the very thing that I was mentioning for fear of being murdered, you know, slaughtered in the streets of Iran.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_05: So in the meantime, we've been waging this, you know, this military action trying to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, and it's a difficult process.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_05: So, but as I mentioned, I'd like to go back and see did the administration set firm guidelines on this?
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_05: I think they would have liked to have seen it over by now, obviously.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_05: Or was this more the media that was running with a thought, like I did.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_05: Like I remember when Russia invaded Ukraine.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_05: I will never forget when that whole operation launched.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_05: And it was just a stunning display or a stunning move by Russia to go and do this.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_05: And the assumption was they were gonna march into Ukraine, take Kyiv, and that would be the end of it.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_05: It'd be done in 48 hours.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_05: And here we are, how many years later?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_05: And they're still fighting a war over there.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_05: So uh President Donald Trump yesterday said that he faces a big decision on whether to resume the massive attacks against Iran as he seeks to bring the nearly seven-month war to an end.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_12: We turned it into the golden age.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_12: We're right now in the golden age of America, and that war, that war is gonna end very soon.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_12: Watch, you just watch.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_12: Trump was right about everything you watch.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_12: They're getting decimated, and they want to make a deal so badly they call, we want to make a deal, we want to make and they're not ready yet, I don't think, but we could have a deal anytime we want.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_05: Trump's comments come ahead of a planned meeting next week with leaders from six Gulf countries on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where the next phase of the war is expected to be a major focus.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_05: The president said he wants to hear directly from regional allies before deciding on how to proceed.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_05: Can I stop for just a moment and tell you that this is the beauty of Freedom Friday, where we can go from talking about, you know, mud wrestling, Sophie Cunningham, Sidney Sweeney, and then ride into an exit strategy for Iran?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_07: I just want to No other show.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, no, no other show.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_07: You don't get that kind of content just everywhere.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_05: Probably for really for good reason.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_07: I mean, just because can't be that big of a market for it.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_05: Not not very sustainable.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_10: A good rockets debate.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_10: I'm not so sure I believe you on that one.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_05: I don't I don't know what you're talking about.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_05: Hey man, you decide what you want to believe on this show and what you don't want to believe.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_05: That's uh that's completely up to you.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_05: We do have a lot of uh comments that have been uh uh rolling into the uh blaster line uh this morning.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, so somebody had earlier on had confirmed uh that I had the refrain right um uh when it came to Smoky and the Smokey and the Bandit.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_05: So there we go.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_05: That makes me that makes me happy.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_05: Uh let's go here.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_05: Happy Freedom Friday, John, and all the listeners.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_14: As to what's going on with Iran, I think uh Donald had the best intentions and he underestimated the resolve of the leadership of Iran, and he's realizing that these people who are running the Iranian country could give a damn if their people suffer, and they'll fight this out until the bitter end.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_05: And it's real quick.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_05: Am I the only one who has the the Steve Carell anchorman meme in my head?
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know what we're yelling about.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_05: I just wonder, am I I guess I I think I'm the only one.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_05: I guess it's not Isaac, he's looking at me with a blank face.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_14: In the United States, and this is what's going to be a real problem come November because people don't always vote based upon I don't want a crazy leftist in office.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_14: People go, I want cheaper gas.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_14: And that's the sad part of this country.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_14: Our citizens just aren't that smart, or at least some of them, unless you're listening to the John Justice show.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_14: Have a great day.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_05: There you go.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_05: Scott Con 5 this morning for a friend of the show, Scott Berger.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_05: Much appreciated, my friend.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_05: Don't know why you were yelling, but I do appreciate the uh enthusiasm.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, Trump declined to say whether he expects to decide his next move before or after the midterm elections.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_05: The president has repeatedly suggested in recent days that the war could soon be approaching its end.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_05: Early voting is starting, and it would certainly both.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_05: hoove Trump to find at least a temporary end to the operations that have been uh taking place.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_05: But this is also what Iran has been, you know, what Iran has been hoping for.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_05: Right?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_05: The, you know, the the experts have espoused that Iran has been delaying these deals and saying, hey, we'll give you a deal and then they pull back for this very, for this very reason, because they wanted to have more leverage leading into the midterm elections.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_05: I just want Trump to go and get it done like so many people do.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_05: I want the ability of the people of Iran to take their country back.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_05: There are plenty of good people that have been living under the boot of this tyrannical regime for far too long.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_05: But let's also not forget the main reason why we are doing this in the first place.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_05: And that is to make sure that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_05: And to that point, let me share this with you.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_05: This is the CP uh the CEO of JP Morgan Chase talking about Iran, American strength and Western economic alliances earlier uh this week at a press conference.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Iran having a nuclear weapon may be the biggest threat facing mankind.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Because if they have it so Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, South Korea, Philippines, Japan, Australia, and then I don't know how you stopped real proliferation at that point.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: So in light of this, what does it mean for alliances, not just from a defense standpoint, which we're going to get into more, but also from an economic one?
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: I think, you know, so the the the foundation for the we want to maintain we should we must maintain the strongest military in the world.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: That is the best protection against anything you see today or that you don't see today.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: And foundational is the best economy in the world.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: They kind of go hand in hand.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: I remind people, you know, if you want to keep the dollar as a reserve currency, you know, if we're not the preeminent military and the pre-eminent economy in the world in 30 years, we will not be the pre-eminent reserve currency.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: They actually go hand in hand.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just an economic kind of issue.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: On the economic side, you know, my view is a little different than than you see the this administration, I think economic allies are critical.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of them.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: We have a huge common interest.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: We have a common value system.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: We have a common interest.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: We should protect each other.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: So you talk about all this trade stuff with China, the best protection in my opinion is that the Western world bring back in the things it needs for security, which we'll talk about in a minute, but that we have economic relationships that are that are profound and deep, help our economy and help I I think if we're this is a little bit of a pipe dream that we can we should go to Europe and say, if you do the right things, we'll give you one big beautiful free trade deal.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: The right things are the Draghi report.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: We kind of know what they are.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: They're struggling they're they're literally slowly walking off a cliff uh over time and they need our help.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: And so I want to keep it together and I put you know put Australia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea in there.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I think those those economic things are critical and they're they're being challenged a little bit not that all trade is good.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's not you know we there are a lot of flaws in trade but uh but I'd like to make that stronger not weaker.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_05: And again that was uh Jamie Dimon.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_05: He's the CEO of JP uh Morgan Chase.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_05: And like I said reminding everybody why Iran is a threat and why we have been doing what we uh have been uh what we have been doing.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_05: All right let's get to a few more of your thoughts on a Freedom Friday this morning.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning John Rich here.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_19: Hi Rich.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_19: I like Scott I like his uh his callbacks or not callbacks his blast is just a little too early before 6 30 before I get my coffee in happy Friday.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_05: Well you don't need your coffee after listening to Scott to get you all fired up yelling because it's a blaster life and you did not want no eat what is what is Isaac what is happening I don't know what is going what is going on wow is it my fault am I to blame you did lead the show with the Sydney Sweeney you're right I didn't hear I I did I did well they you know they encouraged I'm just saying there's a little there's a little blame to place they left messages and encouraged my commentary I'm not going to take full responsibility I'll tell you this much I think that the uh friend of the show Jim the trucker is probably still awake so that's so that's good news.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_05: Oh and by the way to uh to the point that was just made uh Scott was yelling back when we used to call him talkbacks for crying out loud so that's nothing new and I appreciate it but it's why we have the whole Scott Conn level to gauge his uh in in uh enthusiasm.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_05: All right uh coming up of no surprise and probably the reason why this film exists in the first place student Muslim group melts down over Daily Wire's new Run Hide Fight Infidels movie which I'm planning on watching uh this uh weekend saying for decades these stereotypes have fueled racism xenophobia and hate against uh Muslims ah but they're not actually going and stating whether or not the stereotypes are uh accurate it's because they are I'll give you details on this story uh coming up also we talked about the uh the drag queen clowns being brought out to push back on the right in various parts of the country so we go from drag queen uh clowns to uh now porn stars are being utilized to drive voter registration for those on the left as if things hadn't gotten spicy enough already on a Freedom Friday that's coming up on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment first I want to remind you that if you're looking to get work done on your home whether you need a whole home inspection whether you just have an issue that needs to be addressed you know that when you call most home companies most home service companies you're gonna get commissions you're gonna get one trade fixes and you're gonna get upsells that does not happen with the amazing folks over at Erickson Plumbing, heating air and electrical they're licensed experts across all the major trades in this family owned team including plumbing HVAC even safety and security systems but of course electrical and and gas they're all noncommissioned so whatever recommendations that you get if you're taking advantage of their iHeart My Home Club which I which I've done the full home mechanical analysis seasonal tuneups right on down to water quality testing really um it's it's needed information when you're looking at making sure that your home is running the way that it should and your family is safe, right?
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• 29:14
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• 29:50
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• 31:25
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't no I always very good I always meant to it's very very good but fantastic a tough watch but very good but and from the clips that I've seen of infidels also a tough watch that's I've seen clips but it ends up being sort of the the movie version of the arguments that I've made and others have made on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment regarding how so many of these groups on the left align themselves with these radical jihadists not realizing that if they actually went to where these individuals reside in the Middle East, they would be murdered on the street and that actually happens in the in the film.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_05: We call on our fellow students to challenge any rhetoric that perpetuates collective blame and religious intolerance the group posted on Instagram adding though we have little faith in Vanderbilt's uh in uh administration to respond appropriately now the statement is titled On Islamophobia and anti-Muslim uh rhetoric was co-signed by 24 registered student organizations and a lot of students that are completely oblivious as to what exactly that they were going and signing uh on to uh by the way run high fight infidels of follows former Delta Force uh operator Jonathan Majors who battles radical Islamic terrorists after they hijack a pro-Palestinian protest at a liberal university uh university in attempt to oppose impose Sharia law there's an interesting sidebar to this that I'm surprised hasn't um gained any attention and that is the the actor that they got Jonathan Majors for those that aren't aware Jonathan Majors was uh a an an incredibly hot up and coming young uh black actor he was supposed to play Kang in the he did play Kang actually in in the Marvel MCU who was supposed to be the next big bad that you would see the Avengers battling in the upcoming what has now become Avengers Doomsday.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_05: He was supposed to be a crucial part of the future of the uh of the expanded of uh of the MCU replacing Thanos essentially well he was embroiled in a lot of personal controversies and basically was ostracized from from Hollywood um and with that he ended up being uh picked up here by the Daily Wire as he tries to go and remake his his career.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_05: It's just interesting to me that nobody has picked up on a lot of people have picked up on that Jonathan Majors again is a somewhat you know major doing that thing with my fingers and no pun intended movie star but they have completely missed you know glossed over the fact that there was controversy attached to this individual.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_05: I did not go down uh the road of finding out how legitimate or not legitimate the claims the claims against him were uh I just know that that's the reason why he was pitched off and Doomsday ended up becoming the big bad within Marvel.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the MCA accused the film of conflating Muslim identity, Palestinian liberation and political violence claiming it encourages viewers to regard calls for a free Palestine and as a dangerous and extreme.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_05: Oh the movie did that yeah yeah right listen I'd imagine that the true jihadists uh those true jihadist believers would actually very much approve of what the film is depicting going yeah that's exactly what we would do there's a clip that I watched where there's a couple standing on a roof who are watching other um other Islamists gunning down a bunch of students in the on the lawn in front of the campus and they're on the roof and one of the guys is like I just what in the the the the terrorist is like well what's the problem here what what would why are you why are you scared?
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_05: And they're like well because I didn't I didn't expect there to be so much death and he's like well you know kind of what did you expect?
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_05: And then they go and say that well we're we're gay to which he go and proceeds to commit acts of violence against them and it and it cuts because that's what would happen.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_05: For Muslim students, faculty and staff media that portrays Islam through the lens of extremism violence does not exist in a vacuum the statement said.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_05: For decades these stereotypes have fueled racism, xenophobia and hate against Muslims, particularly in the 25 years since 9-11.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_05: Free speech does not require our silence in the face of rhetoric that dehumanizes our people, the group went on to say.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_05: Listen, and the fact that the Muslim Student Association refusing to acknowledge that there is truth within the film tells you how delusional in my opinion most of them are to what that religion actually goes and promotes.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_05: You can follow this religion and not be a jihadist terrorist, but the jihadist terrorists are for the most part coming from this religion.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_05: And with that and an awkward opening Max Reimer joins us in studio on a Freedom Friday good morning Max.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning yeah that was a fun way to start I know I should have gone back to the Sydney Sweeney conversation before I ended up pulling you into the to the uh run hide fight infidels one you're gonna watch this movie probably not I mean maybe maybe eventually did you see the first one I I did not no no but I obviously I I remember when the first one came out and it being as controversial as this one is yeah the first it was the first one was good and this one looks to be as it's one of those ones where I feel like I want to see it once but it's not gonna be I'm gonna go watch Run Hide Fight again.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_04: Although I would like to see the original again now that it's been a it's been a couple of uh a couple of years it's interesting with these movies that you're starting to really see kind of independent studios break out like this and create content that's on par with with Hollywood.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_04: I think the reason that this has gotten so much attention is because it's actually like a well done movie.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_04: It reminds me of some of the stuff that Angel Studios has done like following the Bible as well that my wife is just obsessed with some of those series because they are they're well done John you're you're not talking about traditional conservative Christian hokey movies that are not well produced.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_04: The reason that these movies have so much controversy surrounding them is in part because they're actually really well done movies.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_05: Well and there's an interesting correlation too as we kind of well let me let me wrap up there's one more point in the article and then I want to make a larger point because it it might it might end up sparking a uh a different conversation.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_05: At the end of this uh article it says the Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro probably the most famous Daily Wire host uh responded to the group's criticism of the film saying I would expect nothing less from the MCA which was originally founded in coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood figures he wrote on X.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_05: When I was a student at UCLA the MCA openly fangirled Hezbollah and a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation a front group for Hamas.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_05: The Daily Wire X account noted that the film seems to have struck a chord with the Vanderbilt MSA.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_05: It's now available to watch on Daily Wire and I don't know whether or not I don't think I think they're offering it for free.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not 100% sure on that.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_05: Interesting um but I'm pretty sure I mean all that all that was said by Ben Shapiro, I'm pretty sure is why the film was created in the first place.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah they were expecting to get this kind of attention.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_05: I mean there's nothing wrong with that they saw an opportunity here to try to go and show what these true jihadist Islamists believe in and the ramifications of what would happen here in America.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_05: And uh and from what I've heard so far from people that have seen it, they've done a a decent job in in uh conveying that.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_05: Getting back to what you said a moment ago though it's interesting because there is um there is a comparison to be made of what's happening in Hollywood with so many other entertainment sectors, including what we're doing right here as we've talked about how radio is changing, this race to the bottom that's happening within these major radio corporations.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_05: You have shows like mine that are now you know online live you know 6 until 9 a.m central time but not on you know a broadcast signal and we're able to tap into almost the same size audience and growing even further than what we were before.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_05: And now what you're seeing in Hollywood with Paramount potentially pulling out of Hollywood to other states and escaping and these smaller studios like Angel Studios like Daily Wire that are emerging in the wake of this, it is a wholesale transformation of the entertainment industry that we are all in the middle of witnessing.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_04: And I don't think most people really understand that we get 10 years from now and what we know of entertainment and how and what studios we consume our entertainment from is going to have changed dramatically which is awesome because when you're talking about movies specifically so much of what Hollywood has put out is because of what the big money wants to put out or what who's willing to fund a specific script or a specific movie.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_04: And that's why we went through an era of woke garbage basically being on your film screen was because you had people up top who didn't really care what the audience wanted.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_04: They care about what they wanted.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_04: And so when you have this kind of separation of studios and independent studios breaking out I think you're gonna have more and better content more and better IP that you can work with because they're gonna want to serve an audience that's willing to see the movie.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_04: And so my wife like I said before she she's really into the chosen which I believe was an angel studios series or is an angel studio series and she's she just loves it because it's showing the Bible it's showing the the story of Jesus Christ in like a new way and in a way that can take its time where there are it's still true to the gospel but they're filling in gaps and actually making it a a fun narrative for her to follow it's like nothing I've ever seen before.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_05: A house of David falls under those same lines on Amazon I've not seen it.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_05: That was a fantastic is a fantastic uh series.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_05: On a side note uh Ted Lasso this have you watched watching Teddy no I did I started Ted Lasso a long time ago and I was like I don't like this uh this season is really really good is it yeah I've been meaning to watch it it's really really good and I know I think a lot of people felt the same way that you did because the um are we on the fourth season now third third fourth season I think it's fourth it kind of it started off hot it dipped dramatically this season though has come back and I think a lot of people haven't returned because of the quality dip that took place that be and I and because of the subject matter of now Ted is coaching a woman's um football league and you would think that this football yeah football football soccer football league um you would think that this would oh it's just girl power woke nonsense it's not they've actually handled it really really well there's a couple of moments where is it's so funny the way they're doing it now because as the woke stuff is not nearly as popular within our pop culture the way they get away with it now is they choose they have like instead of having it embedded across all the content they choose like one moment in time let's get in the buzzwords in this one spot and then we can check that box we can check the box and move on.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_05: And they did there was this conversation that Ted Lasso has with one of the uh one of the other coaches oh no he's he's talking with Keeley in the in the office and he's setting up a banter account because he wants to go date spoiler alert um and and so she at one point she does the what are your pronouns and he goes off on a Ted Lasso joke and they basically check check check but that's it the rest of the season's really good i'm it I'm enjoying I'm enjoying it quite a bit so I've not yeah I've I've not picked it back up I would encourage you to go and uh and and and return and give it a shot put it on my list yeah put it on my John Justice list right there next to uh to uh run hide fight infidels yeah yeah yeah yeah we'll we'll make a weekend out of it let's go here um do you happen to hear about the uh earlier this week probably not it was early in the show but uh the uh the group uh the leftist group that now has uh drag queen clowns that they're using to get out the uh the vote efforts talked about that earlier in the week um I thought that was bad until I got to the leftist group hot to vote that announced a$100,000 Or push to register voters in Atlanta, Georgia with the help of a few adult film stars.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my gosh.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_05: Whoops.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_05: That'll do it.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_05: So I just$100,000.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I guess you're kind of How far does that take you?
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_05: You're kind of trolling the bottom of the barrel to try to get a celebrity doing that thing with my finger.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_05: We got 100 grand.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_05: Who do we get?
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_04: Porn stars.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_04: So what is it?
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_04: Are the porn stars just bringing bussing people to the ballot box?
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_05: So uh this reminds me of the old PETA campaigns when they were tapping quasi-celebrities for their ad campaigns going back to the early 2000s.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_05: They're posing for pinup style posters and videos aimed at getting more people registered to vote ahead of the 2026 midterm elections in November.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_05: The political playbook reported yesterday that the push comes after a major cleanup of the state's voter rolls and features 100 says Atlanta.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_05: 100 performers reminding Georgia voters to check their status and to make sure that their vote registrations remain active.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_05: One video shared on YouTube shows adult film actress Kimmy Kim.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_05: Don't think that's her real name.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_05: Just wanted to point that out.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think that's a good one.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_04: That's her really Kimmy Kim.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_04: That's a band.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_04: That's a K-pop band.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_05: Well, or we go and just add another category, racehorse, rock band or porn star, but I don't think we want to do that.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_07: Family friendly show.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_05: Well, it was up until this moment.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_05: Well, actually, we kind of blew past that by about a half hour ago.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_07: Family friendly show.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_05: I'm trying to get it all out of the way before Grace and Catherine go and join.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_05: So we can be proper.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, exactly.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_05: Uh so Kimmy Kim is what is uh is walking voters through the process of checking their voter registration status online.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, come on.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_05: What are we what are they doing?
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_05: I'm not gonna say we.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_05: What are they doing?
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_05: Kim is a Georgia native herself, is known for such titles as unsavory elements and nothing she won't stoop to.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_04: That's who I want involved in our elections.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_05: Another video features Sherry Deville, uh, who starred in uh such films as Kinky's Secrets of the Suburbs and Trans Active.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_05: Also, Sex and Love in the Time of Quarantine.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_05: And the Bang Theory Eight.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, there's eight of them.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_07: Okay.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_07: Well eight was definitely better than seven and six.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it may be.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_05: Or that just could be the number of individuals involved.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_05: You guys opened yourself up to that one on the Freedom Friday, guys.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_04: That that's gotta be a big bang spin-off.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_04: I I you know what?
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_04: I I don't want to find out.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_04: The big bang theory.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_05: I don't want to, yeah, I would assume.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_05: I would assume so.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_05: The bang theory.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_05: Eight.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, she is also advising voters according to Politico, and the multimedia ad campaign includes pinup style posters, in-person appearances, and digital ads, geofense to adult clubs with the aim of reaching more than 400,000 people, mainly men around Atlanta.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_05: So the campaign is far from the first time they've used celebrities who've used sex appeal to drive voters to the polls.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_05: They get into the details of a 2020 uh campaign, then we don't need to, we don't need to talk about.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_05: But, you know, this is your left in America right now.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, these are the levels that those on the left have to, speaking of stooping to, these are the levels that they have to stoop to in order to try to go and drive voter turnout.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_05: And as we've been talking about for so long, it's because they just don't have a firm standing when it comes to the when it comes to the issues.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I wonder what these porn stars, what their message is.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_04: Why, why should their fans get out and vote?
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_04: Is it to protect the industry or something?
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I have not.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_05: I don't I I don't even think the messaging is going that far.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_05: I think it's just, hey, you watch us, you go vote, because we're telling you that you should.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_04: We have a place of authority in your life.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_04: Go vote.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_04: It's very sad.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_04: All right.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_04: Let's uh uh let's see.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_04: I wonder if they're gonna get in on the Act Blue grift.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_04: You hear about that?
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_04: No.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_04: That Act Blue, it it sounds like the feds have the feds have been investigating Act Blue, which is the Democrat donation software for as long as Trump has been president.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_04: Sounds like they actually have basically some subpoenaed records that indicate uh from Slack channels that ActBlue knew that foreign donors were actually using fake names and fake IDs to to donate to Democrat candidates.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_04: This smurfing issue, it sounds like it's an actual thing that the Department of Justice has a beat on.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_04: They have them almost dead to rights, it sounds like.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_04: So between the USAID funding and the smurfing that was happening through these back channels on Act Blue, you almost are left with not to get, I know we were talking about porn stars.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, no.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_04: Feel free to move on.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_05: We're actually we're actually gonna move on to voter, we're actually gonna move on to election integrity and and uh and and voting.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_04: So it sounds like it sounds like the Democrat finance operation basically, as we have predicted in the past, John, is fake.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_04: It sounds like they are basically courting money from overseas and using fake names and fake Americans or people who just have no idea that they're donating to Democrat candidates.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_04: It sounds like the whole grift is fake at this point, that Democrats really don't have a base of financial support beyond dark money billionaires and then this smurfing that was happening.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_05: It's a real thing.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_05: Well, it brings up I was listening to we were actually talking about this before the uh before the show started.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_05: So for those that were early on to the feed and were wondering what we were gabbing about because we had the camera on, this was a part of what we were gabbing about.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_05: Um I that was uh when I wasn't making Grogu dance.
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_05: Um but uh I was listening to Tim Poole uh and his latest show uh this morning when I was prepping for today.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_05: And one, they were talking about extensively about artificial intelligence and what's been happening and what artificial intelligence has been doing to skirt around the rules that their programmers have tried to put in place, the safeguards.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_05: But the other aspect of what Tim said was that talking about AI and specifically Instagram, he his contention was it was like 15% of what you see on Instagram is actually real.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_05: And he said that low?
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he said it's that he said most of everything that you see when it comes to these carousel videos and photos, that it's a lot of it is AI driven.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_05: It's being pushed by, you know, adversaries to you know shove different narratives in certain ways.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_05: And then what happens is they they even start off just arbitrary trends that get picked up on by real people, but they start it off in a completely fake, fake fashion.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_05: Um, you know, and so it just raises this question of what is real, what isn't real, not just when it comes to artificial intelligence, what we're seeing online, but even when it comes to getting out the vote to efforts and Dak Blue.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no doubt.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_04: I think you're seeing that more and more.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_04: And it's been happening for a while where you do have actors on social media that are using and now AI has gotten realistic enough where they're they're trying to make a narrative catch, basically.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_04: And I I know I said on last week's show, I'm not sure how effective that is, but I you do see it.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_04: You you do see obvious bot bots that are putting messages out.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_04: What I appreciate about X is now they have started attaching to accounts, country of origin.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_04: So you had these accounts where you're like, yeah, this is some troll, but they're probably an American putting out some kind of message, but now you're seeing, oh, it's just a bunch of accounts from India or China trying to sway a narrative.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_05: I double check that all the time.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_05: Me too.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_05: When I see a post, I go and click on the I don't know what it is.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_05: It's not about, it's something else.
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, there's like in the profile to find out if they're actually from the U.S.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go back to the blaster line 651-964-0294.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_13: US money.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_13: That's why they have to go into this$100,000 towards cars because they can't afford actual Hollywood cigars anymore.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_13: It's great.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_13: I love it.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_05: You know, you wonder if if the I almost feel like this is something that the Trump administration should be discussing more in the open.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_05: Um I know that we I know we talk about it a lot.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_05: I know it gets talked about in other conservative circles, but I feel like if you want to, if the Republican Party wants to win in the midterms and they're looking for a counter argument to the, you know, the affordability angle, right, which right now Democrats have an advantage of because of the cost of gasoline and goods and services with what's going on with Iran, this would certainly be an avenue Republicans could go and take advantage of, of showing, hey, you know, if you're concerned, this is what happened with AID.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_05: We cut off the funding, and this is the unintended consequences, although maybe intended consequences of that is that it's left Democrats without a means to go and support a lot of these efforts to cause division.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_05: That would be a good talking point, but I don't see the administration doing that in any way.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, your tax dollars are literally funding a political operation, and they have been for basically no matter no matter when you were born, dear listener, your entire life.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_04: That is how the that is how deep this goes.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_04: And in Minnesota, it's a microcosm of that because you can be a teacher or you can be a laborer or you can be a union member, and you're seeing the same thing happen in Minnesota where you think your dues are going towards making a better working environment for you, when in reality, in Minnesota, it is a circular grift.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_04: You are literally funding a political operation that circles back exclusively to the DFL party.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm talking right now specifically about education Minnesota, the teachers union, where we have a bunch, we probably have a number of teachers that are listening right now on their way into work.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_04: You have a bunch of good teachers who believe that they're paying their union dues in order to protect their working environment in Minnesota, protect their paycheck, protect their increases, protect their benefits.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_04: But what actually is happening is you pay the money to the union, the union backchannels it exclusively to the DFL.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_04: And that is why Democrats oftentimes have to kowtow to these groups because that is where their bread is buttered.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_04: And you saw that with USAID on the federal level.
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_04: You see a number of Democrat initiatives just totally falling apart without that department.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_04: And in Minnesota, it's no different.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_04: It it is.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_04: In fact, I would say Minnesota is the case study for that circular political grift.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_04: And I know AK has talked about that in a number of times too.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_15: You know, John, leave it to the hypocritical left to throw a fit when Sidney Sweeney does a half-dress commercial for a betting site, but then turn around and hire porn stars to register people to vote.
• 55:09
  unknown: Yeah.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_05: No, he's uh he's on point.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_05: And others think that you're on point as well there, Max Reimer.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_32: Good morning, John Max.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_32: Hey, uh, to your point regarding the last callers paying for things, did not Kamwell Harris have to pay both Al Sharpton, uh the original drifter, and Oprah Winfrey, a huge amount of money for participation in uh their promo.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_32: Uh, have a great morning.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_32: Have a great Freedom Friday.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_32: Cheers.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_05: By the way, whatever happened, where did PETA go?
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_05: They used to run ads, a campaign, you know, campaigns AIDS.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_07: Every single oh, yeah, I guess I just kind of answer my own question.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_05: Hey, we have another guest in studio.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_05: It's Grace Keating making her final appearance on a Freedom Friday.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning, Grace.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_25: Morning.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_25: Good morning.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_05: It's good to see you this morning.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_25: It's good to be here.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_04: Uh final uh final appearance.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_04: Did I Oh yeah?
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_04: Are you not are you not aware?
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on?
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_04: Final appearance.
• 56:01
  SPEAKER_04: What did I miss?
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_04: Help.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_04: Grace?
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_25: Well, this is uh wrapping up my last week here at American Experiment.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_25: Oh wow, I thought this news had circulated.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_25: I am so sorry.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_25: Internal channels.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_25: Um, yes, it's it was a very, very bittersweet decision, of course.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_25: I've just absolutely loved my time here, especially, you know, of course, on this show.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_25: Um, but it's you know time for for a new chapter for me.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_04: So okay, let's make it a good one.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_05: No, we're really excited for Grace.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_05: Of course, we're gonna miss you, and uh the listeners are already uh expressing uh their disappointment, but also excitement for your for your next venture as well, as we are here.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_05: So uh so thankful to have you on the show this morning, though, by the way, Grace.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_05: So uh anything that you wanted to add to our discussion before we kick off the second hour of the show?
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_25: Or I'll I'll be honest.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_25: I thought the only thing that's sticking in my mind is the last uh blaster that you played saying that the Sydney Sweeney uh you know ad she appeared in, in that she was half dressed in that.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_25: That's generous.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_25: Half dressed for that ad, that's too much.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_25: That's overstating it.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_25: That was 10% dressed, 5% dressed, maybe.
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_05: It's been hysterical seeing though uh individuals going back.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_05: And I'm glad that it's happened going back and looking at all of the other famous athletes who have also done nude covers, including together with other like two females together.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I saw like six or seven of them, but it was Sydney Sweeney was the one that was apparently a bridge uh too far.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_05: All right, let's make it official on a freedom press.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_05: We have Isaac producing this morning, Representative Max Reimer in uh studio, and Grace Keating from American Experiment, as we await the arrival of Catherine Johnson and A.K.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_05: Kamara later on this hour.
• 58:00
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• 58:07
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• 58:35
  SPEAKER_05: We were talking about um elections a moment ago.
• 58:38
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, Minnesota ranked 45th in the Heritage Foundation's election integrity scorecard, scoring poorly in voter ID implementation, voter registration list accuracy, and citizenship verification.
• 58:53
  SPEAKER_05: The report evaluated states across 15 categories, emphasizing voter ID, registration list accuracy, and the absent ballot management.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_05: The foundation aims to highlight conservative policies for election integrity and encourage voter uh confidence.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_05: Um when it comes to shoring up our election integrity, the only way that's gonna happen is if Republicans end up in office to go and do that, because Democrats are not gonna do that.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_05: And when you look at, and I made this example yesterday, but when you uh when you look at the current narratives from the from the Democrats, and you can include in the controversies surrounding Lindsey Clancy and things of this nature.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, when you're talking about openly advocating for post-birth abortions, when you get down to election integrity and concerns about fraud, it's going to be way, way, way down on the on the list.
• 59:47
  SPEAKER_05: And so the only way that any of this changes, in my opinion, is if Republicans retain power, and even then Republicans would actually have to go and do something about it, which the Senate seems incapable of doing.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, at the state level, you you are going to have to have a Republican trifecta for anything to happen.
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_04: And to John, you had mentioned for a lot of people this might be further down the list.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_04: However, if you don't have elections that have integrity, if you don't have elections that you're confident about, you don't have anything because bad elections determine bad outcomes.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_04: And in Minnesota, I I'm not sure what was all included in this Heritage Foundation survey.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_04: But when you talk about the vouching, when you talk about the absentee ballots, and we talk about literally early voting starts today in Minnesota.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_04: And we have an election season here where if Democrats don't feel like they have the votes, they go out and try to find the votes.
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_04: And as Project Veritas showed, whatever it was, almost a decade ago, I believe James O'Keefe did the ride along with the young Somali man who was basically saying, Yeah, I get paid$10 a ballot.
• 1:00:55
  SPEAKER_04: And in Minnesota, we don't have safeguards around stuff like that.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_04: And if you don't have secure elections, all of the other stuff falls by the wayside.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_04: If you want more pro-life policies, that's going to fall by the wayside.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_04: Because again, if you if you don't have an election you're confident in, then nothing else really matters.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah, with how deeply flawed our election system is here in Minnesota and with how abnormal it is when you look at other state systems.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_25: I mean, we are an outlier.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_25: Other people in other states cannot believe the the weak, weak election rules that we have.
• 1:01:30
  SPEAKER_25: I mean, from the motor voter registration to the huge, you know, election season voting window that we now have and the vouching and the same-day registration and no provisional ballots, all this stuff.
• 1:01:42
  SPEAKER_25: I am dying to know who ranked below us on this list.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_25: I expected us to be dead last, if I'm being honest.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, the report, as I mentioned, valued 15 categories that the foundations uh considers necessary for fair, secure, and honest elections.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_05: Um, the highest weighted categories include voter ID implementation.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_05: That was worth 20 points accuracy.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_05: We went through these a moment ago.
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, Minnesota did score relatively well in the latter two categories, um, but received just three of the 20 points when it came to voter ID implementation.
• 1:02:15
  SPEAKER_05: Only to answer your question, Grace.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Vermont, California, and Hawaii scored worse.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_05: Blue state, blue state, blue state, blue state.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_24: We are in bad company on this.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_04: California makes sense.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_04: California, I feel like those elections don't get resolved for two months, basically.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_06: Oh man, California's gonna have a rough go of it very, very soon.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_05: If the, like, like we talked about before, with the, you know, it runs off of, especially Southern California.
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, it runs off of Hollywood.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_05: And with Hollywood just abandoning it right now, I've been watching some uh pop culture commentator channels that typically are devoted to talking about movies, and they're to all chiming in on this, going, yeah, this is the death of what we've known of Hollywood for for for gener, I mean even decades, generations.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_05: Which is fine.
• 1:03:01
  unknown: Which is fine.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_05: Let's diversify.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_25: It's good.
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_25: Let's let's it's just it's whatever.
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_25: I feel like that captures how most Americans feel about this shift in Hollywood.
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_25: Like, yeah, that's fine.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_04: Let's I let's decentralize where movies are made, which is happening right now.
• 1:03:15
  SPEAKER_04: And if you have a state that's bad for business, guess what?
• 1:03:17
  SPEAKER_04: That's bad for movies because movies are business.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_04: And if you have if you have them moving their studios to Georgia or Florida or Texas or what have you, I'm good with it because you're gonna actually have some cultural impact on the movies that are being made.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_04: If you're in a conservative state, you might have more conservative producers and directors and things of that nature.
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_05: Actually, it's gonna go very independent.
• 1:03:41
  SPEAKER_05: And you know, you can couple this with the AI conversation, with the the rise of artificial intelligence, what you're able to create.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_05: There is a program now where you can create an AI movie.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_05: It's actually, I don't know which one it is.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_05: I haven't looked into it yet.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_05: I intentionally, because I don't want to, I know I'll go down that rabbit hole and I'll just be lost and I'll never show up for work.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_05: Where's John?
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, he's making movies at home again with AI.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_05: We're paying him to be here.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_05: That is just around the corner.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, right.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_05: No, it's it's it's it's absolutely it's it's happening.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_05: And so with Hollywood and these changeover taking place, it's going to afford the opportunity for this type of new content to end up becoming a lot more prominent and potentially popular than it was before.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_05: And one more note on this there's been a really interesting dynamic of these first-time independent directors who have been creating these films who have just been destroying at the, I mean, just crushing the box office.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_05: Real originality.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_05: Obsession, um back rooms is one of them.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_05: And what you're my prediction is those individuals and the next generation of those film, you know, those creators who have gone through and done the schooling and have a good eye to make a movie, they're not going to bother attaching themselves to a studio.
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_05: They're going to end up going independent.
• 1:04:55
  SPEAKER_05: They're going to end up disseminating out their films in a different fashion so that they can keep all the financial rewards from it.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_05: You know, how long it takes until the movie theaters end up allowing those films to be shown.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_05: However, if they are successful apart from that, you watch.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_27: Yeah.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_05: You watch the you watch the film industry and your movie theaters, they'll end up accepting these films completely detached from any sort of major movie movie studio just because they know that they want to stay alive, they want to keep the movie theater open, they have to show something.
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_05: They'll have to.
• 1:05:25
  SPEAKER_04: And what's cool about that, the the second second order effect of something like that, is that you're also gonna have actors who are out there that you have not heard of before that are immensely talented and really good.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_04: And why that's cool and why this is something that we should embrace, frankly, is that you're not gonna just have Hollywood chase the blockbuster actor because they know it's gonna draw seats to butts or butts to seats, I should say.
• 1:05:53
  SPEAKER_04: Seats to butts.
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_04: That would be interesting, though.
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that would be.
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_05: I think Kimmy Kim starred in that movie, if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_05: Oh The bang theory eight.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, maybe maybe we can get a few more bangs.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_04: I've been looking for seats to butts.
• 1:06:08
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I've been looking to I I've been looking forward to bang theory nine, and maybe this will help that.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_05: Degenerates.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_05: You know what?
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna use this uh this blast to sort of uh help us transition to the next uh topic.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_19: Good morning, John and crew on Friday.
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_19: So when Max Reimer's talking about union du is going for Democratic Party, the union representatives use that a lot, and especially when a non-union company gets a state contract bid, they have to pay the prevailing wage, which would be the union scale.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_19: So the union uh representatives say the democratic elected officials give us our state contracts and create work for us, so therefore we got a vote for them to keep our union wages up the way they are.
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_19: Correct.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_19: And that's the sales pitch that they use.
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_05: It was funny.
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_05: The transcript origin uh here over here said when Max Reimer is talking about union dudes, and I was like, Union dudes?
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_05: Union dudes.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_05: I know some union dudes.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_05: I've been people.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_06: I've been wiping out a lot of Beavis and Butthead lately.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_05: There was a somebody had posted, did you you probably didn't see this, but somebody had posted it was this was like three or four days ago, and it was I've never laughed so hard at a Beavis and Butthead clip than the one where they were watching the music video that showed the pyramids, and Butthead goes, Where is that?
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_05: And so that thread has exploded with clips, with clips of individuals.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_05: This is my favorite Beavis and Butthead, and I've been wiping out on that as of late.
• 1:07:44
  SPEAKER_05: And uh, you know what?
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_05: Uh you know what you know what else?
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_28: You're fascinating to talk to.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, yeah, yes, you are.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_05: I totally, I totally deserve that.
• 1:07:52
  SPEAKER_05: All right, let's go here.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_05: Um, we talked about it a little bit at the end of yesterday's show, uh, but some very interesting polling data came out.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_05: We had one polling firm that came out earlier this week.
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_05: I can't remember what it was called.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_04: Oh efficient.
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_05: Is that the first one that was earlier this week?
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_05: Which is a somewhat Republican-leading one, as Max said, as I repeat and become redundant here on the John Justice Show.
• 1:08:12
  SPEAKER_05: Um, then there was the new KSTP survey USA poll.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, and here is uh KSTP talking about the results of that poll here on the John Justice Show.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_36: Both Republicans and DFLers have good reason to study our new polling closely.
• 1:08:27
  SPEAKER_36: And get this less than seven weeks from election day, Republican candidates have gained ground in all five statewide races.
• 1:08:34
  SPEAKER_36: DFL candidate Amy Klobuchar's lead over Republican Lisa Damath narrowed from 16 points to seven.
• 1:08:41
  SPEAKER_36: DFL candidate Peggy Flanagan's five-point lead over Republican Michelle Tefoya is gone.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_36: They are now tied.
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_36: Republican Ron Schutz now leads DFL candidate Keith Ellison by two points after trailing by eight six weeks ago.
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_36: DFL candidate Steve Simons lead over Republican Tad Jude narrowed from seven points to four.
• 1:09:01
  SPEAKER_36: And Republican Scott Jensen now leads DFL candidate Zach Flipovich by seven points after they were tied last month.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_36: Political scientist Steven Scheer, who you see often on kstp.com, describes this as a Republican wave.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_36: But the question remains, will this continue?
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_36: This is one snapshot.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_36: As many as one in five voters are still undecided in some races, and the results could vary by about four and a half points in either direction.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_05: What I would like to take a look at is I would love to see um polling, and I know it it is irrelevant because every single election cycle is different, but just out of pure curiosity, I would love to see previous polling data at this moment in time in past elections and specifically past midterm elections here just to see what the comparison is, because I think a lot of people were surprised to see the polling as close as it is, and even seeing some Republicans leading in these polls, because typically these polls are not kind to Republicans.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_05: If a Republican is within a few points, you can usually tack on at least two or three other points attached to it because they usually don't favor the GOP, which, if you follow that logic, would mean that those that are leading uh in these polls on the Republican side are probably leading by more than these polls are even showing.
• 1:10:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I can tell you in 2022, at this point in time, that KSTP poll had Scott Johnson down by 20 to Tim Walls.
• 1:10:31
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_04: Same time period, same poll.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_04: Scott Johnson lost by seven seven percent in the general election.
• 1:10:38
  SPEAKER_04: So what are your what are your thoughts on what was revealed this week?
• 1:10:41
  SPEAKER_04: I've never seen polling like this before in Minnesota.
• 1:10:44
  SPEAKER_04: If I'm being honest, I have never seen it be this good this early.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_04: And I think what it speaks to, no matter what people feel about Trump or what's happening at the federal level or the war in Iran, what it says to me is I think for the first time since I've lived in Minnesota that Minnesotans are finally being like, okay, you know what?
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_04: Our problems are unique and they are caused by the DFL.
• 1:11:10
  SPEAKER_04: And what you're seeing right now is people are getting their property tax bills, and depending on where you live, you're seeing a 10 to 25% increase in your property tax bill.
• 1:11:21
  SPEAKER_04: Well, guess what?
• 1:11:22
  SPEAKER_04: That's an affordability issue.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_04: If affordability is the number one issue for people, the DFL have basically implemented a number of mandates that have caused your property taxes to go up.
• 1:11:33
  SPEAKER_04: You can lay that increase at the feet of the DFL party.
• 1:11:37
  SPEAKER_04: And I think people are seeing that right now.
• 1:11:40
  SPEAKER_04: That same poll, the number one issue with the on the dot was fraud, was fighting fraud.
• 1:11:48
  SPEAKER_04: So among the populace, not just Republicans, but independents and Democrats and everybody who was surveyed in this KSTP poll, the number one issue was the was our fraud issue.
• 1:11:58
  SPEAKER_04: And that is uniquely Minnesotan.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_04: That's not Trump, that's not Congress, that's not Iran or Israel.
• 1:12:05
  SPEAKER_04: That is Democrat politicians in Minnesota.
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_05: Starting next week, uh, we will be sharing here on the John Justice Show uh the latest uh American experiment uh thinking Minnesota polling data.
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_05: Grace, have you had a chance to peruse uh any of any of this information yet?
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_25: I haven't.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_25: I've heard some rumblings about what we got back in the poll, so this is definitely one to watch, but I have not heard specifics.
• 1:12:31
  SPEAKER_25: So I'm excited.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we'll be rolling it out over the course of the next few weeks here on the show starting next week.
• 1:12:35
  SPEAKER_05: And there is, to your point, Max, there is some really fascinating data points in what Center of the American Experiment, what we here were able to glean in the Thinking Minnesota poll.
• 1:12:47
  SPEAKER_05: I'm really excited.
• 1:12:48
  SPEAKER_05: Bill Walsh will be joining us next week and we'll be getting into it uh more because it echoes some of what you're what you're saying.
• 1:12:54
  SPEAKER_05: And I think um it's gonna surprise a lot of individuals, especially one of the pieces of data.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_05: I don't have it in front of me, so I'm just gonna do a quick overview, but one of the pieces of data in this Thinking Minnesota poll that I thought was most interesting was the data relating to the perception that either party has of the other party and what they think the other party thinks about particular issues.
• 1:13:17
  SPEAKER_05: That is very, very eye-opening, as is the information relating to Democrats and Democrat socialists.
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_05: That was also incredibly eye-opening.
• 1:13:28
  SPEAKER_25: I don't know.
• 1:13:28
  SPEAKER_25: This, uh all the poll results coming out this week, and I'm excited to hear, you know, what was in our poll starting next week.
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_25: I just think that it can go two ways in terms of influence.
• 1:13:37
  SPEAKER_25: You know, people out there who are dissatisfied with the way our state has been going.
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_25: We know that nearly 60% of Minnesotans say that we're on the wrong track here in Minnesota.
• 1:13:46
  SPEAKER_25: Anyone who feels that way, especially coming hot off the heels of, of course, the enormous fraud scandal, should be encouraged by these numbers and maybe feel like, like you were saying, Max, you know, Minnesotans have finally had enough and we're at, we're truly at a turning point here in this state.
• 1:14:00
  SPEAKER_25: You know, this could be what shifts that momentum and and hopefully gets us back on the right track in some areas.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_25: Unfortunately, the you know, the cynic in me also says that these legacy, you know, mainstream media outlets might be pushing out these polls um that look so different from the from their typical ones to kind of scare certain voters into going to the polls um um by saying, oh, it's so close, you know, things might change here in Minnesota if certain people don't go out and vote.
• 1:14:27
  SPEAKER_25: Um, so I I it's exciting, uh, these results.
• 1:14:31
  SPEAKER_25: Uh it feels like change is coming, but I'm also very um cautious in my optimism.
• 1:14:36
  SPEAKER_05: If they were doing that, and I think that there's I thought about the same thing, Grace.
• 1:14:39
  SPEAKER_05: Um, that's a gamble though, because if you take that mentality, the flip side can be true too.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_05: That same data point can also go and encourage the other party to go, oh my gosh, certainly, we've got momentum, we need to capitalize on this and just keep, you know, we going the route that we're going or doubling down even even further.
• 1:14:58
  SPEAKER_05: I don't, Max, I don't know if you wanted to add anything to that.
• 1:15:00
  SPEAKER_04: I I think that's right.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_04: I I I'm not sure how who this motivates more.
• 1:15:05
  SPEAKER_04: I for me, it is incredibly motivating to say that we are within striking distance.
• 1:15:10
  SPEAKER_04: Obviously, to Grace's point, we've not won anything yet.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_04: Uh we can't celebrate or spike the football here too early.
• 1:15:18
  SPEAKER_04: But what these polls indicate to me is that if you put in the work, if if you help a local Republican candidate out, that we actually are within striking distance in all of these races.
• 1:15:29
  SPEAKER_04: To hear KSDP basically say that at this point in time, we have a statewide Republican campaign that is ahead by seven points, I've never seen a poll like that in Minnesota.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I've never I haven't.
• 1:15:42
  SPEAKER_04: I none of us have, frankly.
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_04: And from what I hear, if you go state house race by state house race, these flips, these flip seats, these potentially could be Republican, could be Democrat seats, they're still 50-50.
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_04: It's still jump ball, flip a coin in some of these races.
• 1:16:00
  SPEAKER_04: And the narrative is that Trump is evil, Trump is costing us the election, the economy, Trump has wrecked the economy.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_04: And so therefore, that's what these Democrats are trying to run on.
• 1:16:12
  SPEAKER_04: But I think what's indicative of where this polling actually is, is you have Democrats that don't know their message right now.
• 1:16:19
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think Peggy Flanagan has a cohesive message.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_04: I think Amy Klobuchar is struggling.
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_04: Amy Klobuchar went on national TV and said, the Republicans are spending so much money against me right now, complaining about it, as if the Democrats have not had a monopoly on billionaire money coming in and influencing our elections.
• 1:16:39
  SPEAKER_04: For Amy Klobuchar to come in and say, Wow, I'm scared of the money Republicans are spending against me.
• 1:16:45
  SPEAKER_04: That's crazy, John.
• 1:16:46
  SPEAKER_05: Well, and as I, you know, I mentioned this yesterday.
• 1:16:49
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think that uh, you know, Amy Klobuchar and Keith Ellison uh have really faced a challenge in the way the GOP has mounted a challenge with everything, all the challenging things that we have been faced here in Minnesota.
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_05: I just don't think that that they have any experience in actually going, oh my gosh, we we we we need to mount an incredibly competitive campaign.
• 1:17:13
  SPEAKER_05: You know, money pouring in may not be enough for Democrats this time around.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_05: They've got to figure out something on on messaging.
• 1:17:21
  SPEAKER_04: To our earlier point, I'm not sure they have the money they used to have.
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
• 1:17:25
  SPEAKER_04: Because the grift is the grift is dying.
• 1:17:29
  SPEAKER_04: And one thing that's working is Lisa Damath and her team have gone up with ads about Amy Klobuchar praising Tim Walls overtly when he announced for his re-election campaign.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_04: Another thing that is fallout for this election season is just what a nuclear bomb Tim Walls has been on the Democrat Party.
• 1:17:52
  SPEAKER_04: They are they are effectively tying Amy Klobuchar right now to Tim Walls, and it is sinking her like a rock because I I just can't believe it.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_04: This is a guy who was popular once upon a time, and this fraud scandal broke, and he ran for vice president, and now he is radioactive.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_04: They are tying every candidate to him, and it is actually tanking every candidate who's been remotely tied to Tim Walls.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_05: Catherine Johnson has joined us in the uh Center of the American Studio uh studios this morning, Center of the American Experiment Studios this morning.
• 1:18:24
  SPEAKER_05: Holy cow.
• 1:18:25
  SPEAKER_05: Good morning, Catherine.
• 1:18:25
  SPEAKER_26: Good morning.
• 1:18:26
  SPEAKER_05: Good to see you.
• 1:18:27
  SPEAKER_26: Good to see you all.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_05: We have uh, I haven't mentioned this yet, but we have an update on uh Horny Her, the Cooley Her investigation.
• 1:18:34
  SPEAKER_24: Oh my god.
• 1:18:35
  SPEAKER_05: It is over.
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_05: So we'll give you details.
• 1:18:38
  SPEAKER_24: Over?
• 1:18:38
  SPEAKER_05: The investigation has been completed.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_24: That was fast.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_24: Yeah.
• 1:18:41
  SPEAKER_05: Well, nothing to see here.
• 1:18:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:18:44
  SPEAKER_05: So we'll get into what we know and what we don't know about that coming up in just a moment.
• 1:18:49
  SPEAKER_05: Also, there's a new Ken Bassador.
• 1:18:50
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Ken, I don't know if you know this.
• 1:18:52
  SPEAKER_05: Do you know Ken Ken Basseter?
• 1:18:53
  SPEAKER_05: These are individuals that are chosen to have Ken dolls created of themselves.
• 1:18:57
  SPEAKER_05: These are these are Ken Basseters?
• 1:18:59
  SPEAKER_27: No.
• 1:18:59
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:19:00
  SPEAKER_05: So there's a new famous individual who will now be turned into a Barbie Ken doll.
• 1:19:05
  SPEAKER_26: Have they like wokeified Ken yet?
• 1:19:07
  SPEAKER_26: Is it a chubby, like guy?
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_26: It's gonna be Elliot Page.
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, nicely, nicely, nicely done, Grace.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_05: Um no, actually, this one's kind of cool.
• 1:19:18
  SPEAKER_05: So we'll share it with you coming up in just a moment here on the show.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_05: We're also awaiting the arrival of AK Kamar to join Catherine, Grace, and Max, along with Isaac here in the Center of the American Experiment Studios.
• 1:19:29
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  SPEAKER_43: And now here is commentary from the guests, hosts, and policy fellows of Center of the American Experiment.
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  SPEAKER_25: One man, a 32-year-old named Jacob Rosenbacher from Illinois, had his name and his personal ident information stolen and was used to enroll at Normandale and obtain a federal student loan of about$9,000.
• 1:21:33
  SPEAKER_25: Jacob lives in Chicago and had never heard of Normandale, had never heard of Bloomington, Minnesota.
• 1:21:40
  SPEAKER_25: His credit score dropped almost 170 points overnight as a result of this theft, according to KSTP.
• 1:21:47
  SPEAKER_25: So again, many of these applications are thankfully caught before the money goes out the door, but very no very frequently at least, they're not caught.
• 1:21:57
  SPEAKER_25: And so you have people like Jacob whose identity is stolen, and then you've got mil literally millions of dollars going out the door.
• 1:22:03
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• 1:22:04
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• 1:22:13
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• 1:22:17
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• 1:22:51
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  SPEAKER_22: So these polls, they are encouraging.
• 1:23:50
  SPEAKER_22: I I hope they're true.
• 1:23:52
  SPEAKER_22: You know, I I think they're probably better away than they're really showing.
• 1:23:57
  SPEAKER_22: I I still think uh I still think Amy doesn't want the job.
• 1:24:00
  SPEAKER_22: She's kind of running the campaign like she doesn't.
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_22: I think Keith also that has.
• 1:24:06
  SPEAKER_22: I think the guy got some hair work done.
• 1:24:07
  SPEAKER_22: I wonder if he was worried everybody's getting a glare on top of his short little head.
• 1:24:12
  SPEAKER_22: But we we need a reset.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_22: We we need it bad.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_22: We can't keep going on this way.
• 1:24:18
  SPEAKER_22: So I'm just hoping we can get it done.
• 1:24:21
  SPEAKER_22: Have a great day.
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_05: And I know we've had some uh comments that have uh rolled in here on a Freedom Friday regarding uh Grace Keating and her uh departure, not only obviously from Freedom Fridays uh here on the John Justice show, but also Center of the American Experiment.
• 1:24:35
  SPEAKER_05: And Isaac, you wanted to share some of those uh comments?
• 1:24:37
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we got some on YouTube here.
• 1:24:40
  SPEAKER_07: Um someone um underscore Nick said uh or at Nick said, really gonna miss her.
• 1:24:45
  SPEAKER_07: She's great.
• 1:24:46
  SPEAKER_07: Um at Red Y Z said Grace would make an excellent White House press secretary.
• 1:24:53
  SPEAKER_07: Oh my a lot of pressure.
• 1:24:56
  SPEAKER_25: Lower your expectations, everyone.
• 1:24:57
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:58
  SPEAKER_07: Um this one, this one says, why can't it be John leaving instead of Grace?
• 1:25:02
  SPEAKER_07: That's from at real aka Kamara.
• 1:25:05
  SPEAKER_07: That's weird.
• 1:25:06
  SPEAKER_07: I don't know where that one came from.
• 1:25:08
  SPEAKER_07: And then we have a couple asking Grace where you're going.
• 1:25:11
  SPEAKER_07: So I don't know if you want to share that or not, but yeah, certainly.
• 1:25:15
  SPEAKER_25: You guys, thank you for the sweet comments.
• 1:25:17
  SPEAKER_25: That's that's so kind.
• 1:25:17
  SPEAKER_25: I've just loved getting to be to be a part of uh you know your lives in a small way every Friday and every Tuesday uh at American Experiment and on this lovely show.
• 1:25:25
  SPEAKER_25: Um, I will be going to um actually a national organization called the American Institute for Economic Research that has been doing um uh education outreach on it uh issues of the economy all the way back since 1933.
• 1:25:38
  SPEAKER_25: They're based out of Massachusetts, so I will actually still be here uh in Minnesota, so I'll be around.
• 1:25:43
  SPEAKER_25: Uh if you're attending American Experiment events, you will probably see me, including at our fall briefing this Saturday.
• 1:25:48
  SPEAKER_25: Um, but yes, very, very bittersweet.
• 1:25:50
  SPEAKER_25: I've loved my time here.
• 1:25:51
  SPEAKER_25: And uh, you know, Minnesota's got an amazing team here fighting to make it a better state every single day.
• 1:25:56
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and you were a huge, um, uh, you know, a huge factor in in helping to get this show launched and and established and all that.
• 1:26:04
  SPEAKER_05: So uh I'll do a uh a preemptive before we close the show out later.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you uh for your for your help.
• 1:26:09
  SPEAKER_05: Um and certainly my relationship with both uh Grace and Catherine was one of the big reasons why the first phone call that I made when I was unceremoniously dismissed from my last position was to center the American experiment.
• 1:26:22
  SPEAKER_05: And because these were the first two individuals that really popped into my head because I just enjoy working with you guys so much.
• 1:26:27
  SPEAKER_05: And I know it's a great organization.
• 1:26:28
  SPEAKER_05: So um I'm thrilled to uh be here, and it's in no small part because of both of you guys.
• 1:26:31
  SPEAKER_05: So thank you.
• 1:26:32
  SPEAKER_26: Of course.
• 1:26:33
  SPEAKER_26: We're so happy to have you here, John.
• 1:26:34
  SPEAKER_26: And I I love very nice that we're giving Grace a ceremonial dismissal and not just giving her the boot, like some radio stations, apparently.
• 1:26:44
  SPEAKER_26: That's true.
• 1:26:44
  SPEAKER_25: It happens on occasion, stations which shall not be named.
• 1:26:47
  SPEAKER_05: Your services are no longer needed.
• 1:26:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's right.
• 1:26:49
  SPEAKER_04: What John fails to mention is the alternative, it was either American experiment or recording in AK's garage.
• 1:26:55
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, I I pay far less.
• 1:26:58
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, hey, look, there's AK.
• 1:27:00
  SPEAKER_05: What's going on, AK?
• 1:27:01
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning.
• 1:27:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh shout out to Isaac.
• 1:27:04
  SPEAKER_02: That was that was that was great.
• 1:27:07
  SPEAKER_04: Didn't you didn't use your burner account on that comment?
• 1:27:11
  SPEAKER_02: How are you doing?
• 1:27:12
  SPEAKER_02: Figured it out.
• 1:27:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm doing great.
• 1:27:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I feel like just the week that I was gone to now that like today, it got so much darker this morning.
• 1:27:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's yeah, it's like every day it feels like we're losing like another like 30 minutes of oh, I thought you were talking about the show.
• 1:27:28
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, I thought the show's been pretty lively today so far.
• 1:27:30
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, what are you talking about?
• 1:27:32
  SPEAKER_05: I know we're talking polls and stuff like that.
• 1:27:34
  SPEAKER_02: But as a quick aside, uh not to to to you know completely go off track, but back in 2022 and 2024 in Minneapolis, they had a polls to the polls where literally a bunch of strippers got together from different clubs.
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_02: And if you went to go and vote, you would basically get free admission, not a lap dance, but like this is like the degeneracy of the left.
• 1:28:00
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like whether we're talking about adult film stars or we're just like straight up talking about people in the sex industry, like the Democrats are so wholly tied to it.
• 1:28:10
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like, what's ultimately your goal?
• 1:28:12
  SPEAKER_02: Power.
• 1:28:13
  SPEAKER_02: That's all they care about.
• 1:28:14
  SPEAKER_04: How did I know that Minnesota was going to be first to this idea?
• 1:28:18
  SPEAKER_04: When we were talking about the porn stars getting people to the polls, I was like, you know what?
• 1:28:21
  SPEAKER_04: That's it.
• 1:28:23
  SPEAKER_04: That sounds like something Minnesota would have done.
• 1:28:27
  SPEAKER_05: In our defense, it was Atlanta.
• 1:28:28
  SPEAKER_05: Just so we just so you can.
• 1:28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 1:28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Minnesota back in 2022.
• 1:28:34
  SPEAKER_02: Even 2020, polls to the poll.
• 1:28:37
  SPEAKER_02: It was like a whole thing where all these strip clubs got together and all the strippers and sex workers were like, Gotcha.
• 1:28:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're gonna give you guys half off for free admissions.
• 1:28:46
  SPEAKER_02: Free wings at the strip club that you go vote.
• 1:28:48
  SPEAKER_02: Free hot dog bars.
• 1:28:50
  SPEAKER_26: So they just assume the people using these services are Democrats.
• 1:28:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:28:56
  SPEAKER_02: Well, what they're assuming is that, you know, like most of the the data we see is that, you know, porn rots men's brains.
• 1:29:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like it does.
• 1:29:05
  SPEAKER_02: And what it does is it makes these men subservient in a certain aspect.
• 1:29:11
  SPEAKER_02: And strippers, they really play on that stuff.
• 1:29:14
  SPEAKER_02: Like they love the idea of taking advantage of men.
• 1:29:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, if you think about Cardi B, she used to be a stripper, they made a movie, and she actually portrayed what she did.
• 1:29:23
  SPEAKER_02: She used to get men drunk, and then she would steal money from them, quite literally, like take their credit cards, go and just steal hundreds of thousands of really like crazy charges, but she did it all the time.
• 1:29:36
  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, I mean that's what they're they're playing on.
• 1:29:38
  SPEAKER_02: They're playing on men that go to strip clubs who have brain rot, and like you join it together with the Democrats and the Marxists, and uh, you know, sex positivity and all that stuff.
• 1:29:48
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, that's what their entire goal is.
• 1:29:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's really sad.
• 1:29:53
  SPEAKER_02: Good morning, guys.
• 1:29:54
  SPEAKER_19: So let's stop calling them porn stars and start calling them by the professional new term now, mattress actresses.
• 1:30:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you see that online all the time.
• 1:30:04
  SPEAKER_05: I'm pretty sure that was born, though.
• 1:30:06
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think that was born out of a desire to um water down the terminology.
• 1:30:12
  SPEAKER_05: I think that was born because of the social media platforms that were tagging the other terminology and they couldn't put their videos up.
• 1:30:20
  SPEAKER_05: So instead they changed.
• 1:30:22
  SPEAKER_05: I know, I'll trick the algorithm and the same mattress actress instead until they go and they end up tagging that.
• 1:30:26
  SPEAKER_05: So finds a way.
• 1:30:27
  SPEAKER_05: Speaking of online photographs, Senator Amy Klobishar can't quit recycling her own social media posts.
• 1:30:32
  SPEAKER_05: It was revealed Thursday after posting a different photo for the past uh uh well for four years straight, kicking off the beginning of the NFL season, using the same photo for four years straight.
• 1:30:46
  SPEAKER_05: And by the other people have pointed this out too, and it's absolutely true.
• 1:30:49
  SPEAKER_05: That shirt is gross that she's wearing.
• 1:30:50
  SPEAKER_05: It's like stain.
• 1:30:52
  SPEAKER_04: Is it really?
• 1:30:53
  SPEAKER_04: She's got toothpaste on it that morning.
• 1:30:58
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's really not a clean shirt.
• 1:31:00
  SPEAKER_05: Now she has foreped a Thanksgiving photo between 2021 and 2025.
• 1:31:07
  SPEAKER_05: Used different captions each time, but the photo which showed her boxing up individual slices of pie between her husband John and their daughter Abigail was absolutely identical.
• 1:31:18
  SPEAKER_25: Is she this lazy?
• 1:31:20
  SPEAKER_25: I just I don't have time to repeat, to retake a photo once a year.
• 1:31:24
  SPEAKER_05: It's gotta be the comms team.
• 1:31:26
  SPEAKER_25: Okay, but still, it's coming out from your account.
• 1:31:28
  SPEAKER_25: You know, maybe have a little bit of a.
• 1:31:29
  SPEAKER_02: Can we say a prayer for whoever the comms people?
• 1:31:32
  SPEAKER_02: Because I feel like they're just getting beat right now in a cellar.
• 1:31:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're getting a binder thrown out.
• 1:31:36
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 1:31:37
  SPEAKER_02: Multiple binders just getting whooped.
• 1:31:40
  SPEAKER_05: So here's the question I have though.
• 1:31:42
  SPEAKER_05: Um so I think we all post on social media, right?
• 1:31:45
  SPEAKER_05: I think some of us more than more than others.
• 1:31:47
  SPEAKER_05: Do you reuse pictures?
• 1:31:48
  SPEAKER_05: And what's the protocol for reusing pictures?
• 1:31:50
  SPEAKER_05: Like I would argue that the two times that Amy Clobuchar has re-posted photographs, this is exactly what you don't want to do.
• 1:31:57
  SPEAKER_05: When you are going in, um, you know, being a champion for your sports team, you want to do something that's original and authentic.
• 1:32:04
  SPEAKER_05: If you're talking about a holiday, they're unique every single year.
• 1:32:07
  SPEAKER_05: Pick a new photo.
• 1:32:08
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, it's just how hard is it?
• 1:32:10
  SPEAKER_26: That's exactly it.
• 1:32:11
  SPEAKER_26: This was so avoidable.
• 1:32:12
  SPEAKER_26: Isn't she going around places with like a handler 24-7?
• 1:32:15
  SPEAKER_26: Can't they just snap a few pictures?
• 1:32:17
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, I would assume so.
• 1:32:18
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's inauthentic, and in what I actually think is that clearly Amy Clobishar doesn't give a rip about the Vikings.
• 1:32:26
  SPEAKER_02: She also probably doesn't even really care about the holidays.
• 1:32:28
  SPEAKER_02: It's just like, oh, we we better take one really good photo, and most people aren't gonna pay attention.
• 1:32:34
  SPEAKER_02: I I imagine that if Dustin Grahey is able to continue to go down this path where he's he's getting, man, he's getting millions and millions of impressions.
• 1:32:44
  SPEAKER_02: They're gonna find a lot more of these on social because it was just kind of like a throwaway thing where it's like, okay, check a box, make sure I make a Thanksgiving post, a Christmas post, whatever other holiday.
• 1:32:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I bet they're gonna find a lot of that.
• 1:32:57
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I and I bet there's no party exclusivity on this either.
• 1:33:00
  SPEAKER_05: That's what I would be curious to see if other but that's why I'm asking, like, what times is it appropriate to reuse a photo?
• 1:33:06
  SPEAKER_05: Never.
• 1:33:06
  SPEAKER_05: And is it it's never, you don't think it's ever appropriate where you're trying to make a point of just make a new photo.
• 1:33:12
  SPEAKER_02: Unless, like, you like, I don't know, maybe you're conscientious or conscious about like weight gain, and you're like, well, ooh, I don't know about posting too much.
• 1:33:22
  SPEAKER_03: Better post that 2007 photo again.
• 1:33:25
  SPEAKER_05: Max, are you reusing photos for anything that you do campaign-wise?
• 1:33:29
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think I post enough to to reuse photos.
• 1:33:32
  SPEAKER_04: No, I I think that if you're going to be at a parade or have a moment or celebrate a holiday, it doesn't, it's not that hard to come up with a new photo, even if you're keeping it low-key, I think that's relatable.
• 1:33:44
  SPEAKER_04: But when you have Amy Klobuchar posting that I'm excited for the Viking season, she's got like a deodorant stain on this shirt in the bottom left corner of the shirt.
• 1:33:56
  SPEAKER_04: But you know what's happening here is the two staffers are sitting here talking, like, should we post something new?
• 1:34:02
  SPEAKER_04: Should we ask Miss Klobuchar for new content?
• 1:34:06
  SPEAKER_04: And then the other staffer's like, no, don't do that.
• 1:34:08
  SPEAKER_04: Don't you don't go to her office, just post the same photo from four years ago because they're probably too scared to talk to her because they're gonna they're gonna have they're gonna have one of the staffers shave her legs or get a binder thrown at her or eat a salad with a comb.
• 1:34:24
  SPEAKER_04: It's obviously she she is like a terror of a boss.
• 1:34:27
  SPEAKER_04: So these staffers are probably sitting here and going, like, let's just post the same photo.
• 1:34:31
  SPEAKER_04: Don't rock the boat, don't ask her for anything.
• 1:34:33
  SPEAKER_04: That's probably what's happening here.
• 1:34:34
  SPEAKER_26: It's just so classic, Amy Klobuchar.
• 1:34:36
  SPEAKER_26: Like, she's so inauthentic, like you said, AK, that she can't even come up with anything to tweet on her own, take a picture of her own.
• 1:34:45
  SPEAKER_26: Like it's all just her staff.
• 1:34:47
  SPEAKER_26: And it's the same thing with any statement she puts out, any press conference.
• 1:34:50
  SPEAKER_26: They don't even invite press.
• 1:34:52
  SPEAKER_26: They just, you know, put her in a room and put a camera on her because she is like the least accessible kind of politician ever, the exact opposite of the spectrum from someone like Trump who will go and tweet whatever whenever he feels like it, which is why people loved him.
• 1:35:05
  SPEAKER_26: And so I don't know.
• 1:35:06
  SPEAKER_26: I think this sort of politician is like on its way out.
• 1:35:09
  SPEAKER_26: It's it's retiring, it's something people don't want anymore.
• 1:35:12
  SPEAKER_04: If I can, it's not just photos.
• 1:35:14
  SPEAKER_04: We had a montage back at the old show of Amy Klobuchar saying the same thing 400 times.
• 1:35:21
  SPEAKER_04: I'm snow woman.
• 1:35:23
  SPEAKER_05: How would yeah, how would how would uh your hair uh Trump, I want to see how your hair looks in a blizzard hair in a blizzard.
• 1:35:29
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, there's there's this other point too, right?
• 1:35:31
  SPEAKER_02: When we talk about inauthenticity, and John, you mentioned this even months ago.
• 1:35:36
  SPEAKER_02: Amy Klobuchar is a U.S.
• 1:35:38
  SPEAKER_02: senator, has nowhere near the same level of scrutiny of needing to go out um as a governor does, right?
• 1:35:47
  SPEAKER_02: It's a different race.
• 1:35:48
  SPEAKER_02: People really don't understand that running for a U.S.
• 1:35:51
  SPEAKER_02: Senate, running for that federal office versus running for a governor is different.
• 1:35:54
  SPEAKER_02: And I think they're worried that if they don't carefully curate what Amy Klobuchar actually looks like, that you'll have a disaster like Tina Smith.
• 1:36:04
  SPEAKER_02: Tina Smith, of all the things that she does, she posts some of the dumbest things that clearly are her, and people can just absolutely crush and pick apart.
• 1:36:14
  SPEAKER_02: And I think they're afraid of that happening with Amy Klobuchar.
• 1:36:16
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, this is what you're gonna get.
• 1:36:18
  SPEAKER_02: This is Amy.
• 1:36:19
  SPEAKER_02: She's like trying to be boring and bland because they don't actually trust her to go out there and present who she is.
• 1:36:25
  SPEAKER_05: People are looking at this photo like it's the uh Zapruder film.
• 1:36:29
  SPEAKER_05: Somebody wrote, it's not the only it's not only the deodorant on the bottom left.
• 1:36:34
  SPEAKER_05: If you look right under the wording, the first couple of letters, there's something on that too.
• 1:36:40
  SPEAKER_05: Got another comment that rolled in.
• 1:36:41
  SPEAKER_05: I don't reuse pictures of me, I reuse pictures of my dog.
• 1:36:44
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's right.
• 1:36:45
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 1:36:46
  SPEAKER_05: You know, it's I it's I wonder, because if you've seen recent photos of Amy Klobishar, like everybody, you get older.
• 1:36:55
  SPEAKER_05: She looks significantly older now, especially in these pictures.
• 1:36:58
  SPEAKER_05: So you wonder if they got so far down the line and should we take a new photo?
• 1:37:02
  SPEAKER_05: It's like, oh, you know what?
• 1:37:04
  SPEAKER_05: Let's just stick with the old one.
• 1:37:05
  SPEAKER_05: I look significantly younger than I did before.
• 1:37:07
  SPEAKER_26: This is like in the office when I try and get everyone to get updated headshots.
• 1:37:12
  SPEAKER_26: All of the old guys look at me and are like, no, F and Way, lady.
• 1:37:17
  SPEAKER_26: I'm not updating my headshots.
• 1:37:19
  SPEAKER_04: I'd prefer to keep the one from 1989.
• 1:37:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
• 1:37:23
  SPEAKER_26: Shout out to Matt Dean's.
• 1:37:24
  SPEAKER_26: Got this like blurry JPEG from when he was in the in the house.
• 1:37:28
  SPEAKER_26: I'm like, can we get a new one of those?
• 1:37:30
  SPEAKER_26: No.
• 1:37:31
  SPEAKER_05: The sexual harassment investigation against St.
• 1:37:34
  SPEAKER_05: Paul Mayor Cooley Her has concluded, but the complaintant at Chief Axel Henry was not informed of the findings.
• 1:37:43
  SPEAKER_05: What?
• 1:37:44
  SPEAKER_05: The investigation stemmed from allegations of inappropriate comments and unwanted physical contact towards police officers.
• 1:37:50
  SPEAKER_05: Sources with knowledge of the investigation told Kara Levin that Axel Henry, the police chief, was told yesterday via a letter that they had concluded the investigation, the City HR department, but he was not informed of any findings or outcomes.
• 1:38:04
  SPEAKER_05: So I don't know.
• 1:38:05
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know what that.
• 1:38:06
  SPEAKER_05: I guess maybe he just maybe the story is it's completed.
• 1:38:09
  SPEAKER_05: He just hasn't been given the results yet.
• 1:38:11
  SPEAKER_05: But I would have thought that that would have been the first person that got the results of the investigation before it was even made public, would have been that it was handed over to him.
• 1:38:22
  SPEAKER_05: It was launched this past spring.
• 1:38:24
  SPEAKER_05: Henry designated himself as the former a formal complaintant against Mayor Her when she became aware, when he became aware of the mayor's conduct and it's extending beyond isolated incidents.
• 1:38:36
  SPEAKER_05: And so here were the really quick, here was here's the rundown.
• 1:38:38
  SPEAKER_05: So there was unwanted physical, the claims were unwanted physical uh contact and sexualized communications from her to the police chief commenting on the breasts of a female deputy chief in the locker room, then asking a woman her thoughts on uh Mayor Her's breasts.
• 1:38:53
  SPEAKER_05: I wonder what uh Cooley Her's thoughts are on Sidney Sweeney.
• 1:38:56
  SPEAKER_05: Um, anyway, making uh Mayor Her making sex noises and pantomiming, oh, I'm even gonna say that.
• 1:39:04
  SPEAKER_05: Um pantomiming uh reaching a peak while stretching in front of uh in front of police officers.
• 1:39:12
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 1:39:12
  SPEAKER_05: I just didn't want to say the word.
• 1:39:13
  SPEAKER_05: I just I know we're streaming and I could, but be that as it may.
• 1:39:17
  SPEAKER_05: Um I think we got it.
• 1:39:18
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
• 1:39:20
  SPEAKER_05: At this point, I might as well have just said orgasm, right?
• 1:39:22
  SPEAKER_05: Sending a meme to a police officer with his face photoshopped onto it, referencing wienering and a sex sting.
• 1:39:29
  SPEAKER_05: Of course, Wiener Wednesday came about because of this.
• 1:39:32
  SPEAKER_05: Attorney Christopher Maddle sent a letter to the city attorney on April 1st.
• 1:39:36
  SPEAKER_05: Maddle said that the city is on notice that Mayor Her has engaged in illegal conduct towards city employees, adding litigation was reasonably foreseeable.
• 1:39:45
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Mayor Her expressed her belief in the investigation, saying that she remains confident the facts will come to light as she continues to serve the people of St.
• 1:39:53
  SPEAKER_05: Paul.
• 1:39:53
  SPEAKER_05: So the investigation is done.
• 1:39:55
  SPEAKER_05: We just don't know the results yet.
• 1:39:56
  SPEAKER_25: That did go on for a long time.
• 1:39:58
  SPEAKER_25: In my head, this whole story broke like, I don't know, a few weeks ago.
• 1:40:01
  SPEAKER_25: No, it was a while.
• 1:40:02
  SPEAKER_25: It was a spring.
• 1:40:03
  SPEAKER_05: It was a it was a while, it was a while back.
• 1:40:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:40:05
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I think it really came to light over the course of the past few months with the investigation being launched, but still I would imagine I would think by the end of the day we would get results or by next week.
• 1:40:14
  SPEAKER_26: Or they'll have to, right?
• 1:40:16
  SPEAKER_26: What are the results?
• 1:40:17
  SPEAKER_26: Like, yes or no, she's kind of weird.
• 1:40:22
  SPEAKER_26: Or like it's fire.
• 1:40:23
  SPEAKER_05: I think the verdict is already in on that one.
• 1:40:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, regardless of the results.
• 1:40:27
  SPEAKER_02: I think the results were supposed to be from the formal complaint and from the other complaints.
• 1:40:34
  SPEAKER_02: Did she actually violate protocol for the city?
• 1:40:37
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 1:40:38
  SPEAKER_02: And could she be like fined or charged with sexual harassment?
• 1:40:43
  SPEAKER_02: I imagine that there's probably things going on in the back where it's like, please, let's not do anything until after the election.
• 1:40:49
  SPEAKER_02: This is gonna hurt us.
• 1:40:50
  SPEAKER_02: Because we I actually thought it was fascinating.
• 1:40:52
  SPEAKER_02: When the state fair opened, I saw a bunch of photos of Mayor Fry and Mayor Collie Her, like just hanging out and chilling, and I was just cracking jokes, making fun.
• 1:41:02
  SPEAKER_02: But they seemed like it, you know, it hit that fever pitch, and there was all the stories off the newshead reports, right?
• 1:41:08
  SPEAKER_02: Chris Maddal was talking about it, and then it just kind of went to this lull.
• 1:41:12
  SPEAKER_02: So maybe there's some negotiations, you know, and maybe that was what this always was, right?
• 1:41:17
  SPEAKER_02: I think you had alluded to this before, Catherine, that it could just be, you know, there's been this tension between the St.
• 1:41:24
  SPEAKER_02: Paul police and the mayor's office, and this was just like their way of like trying to get their negotiating to maybe get more budget set aside or whatever it might be.
• 1:41:33
  SPEAKER_02: And that's why it was just fun and entertaining to us to make fun of Horny Heard.
• 1:41:39
  SPEAKER_05: I would uh I'll put forward an argument that this is not going to go in her's favor specifically because we don't know what the results are yet.
• 1:41:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:41:48
  SPEAKER_05: That's my guess.
• 1:41:48
  SPEAKER_05: My guess to is that's my guess.
• 1:41:51
  SPEAKER_05: And I reserve the right to be completely wrong come Monday morning, and that probably will be the case.
• 1:41:56
  SPEAKER_05: But I would think that if this was a positive outcome for horny her, that she more than that this would have been released already.
• 1:42:06
  SPEAKER_05: But they're probably, if she's found to have you know been in violation of city policy, then they may be withholding it while they try to figure out what it is they're gonna end up doing about it.
• 1:42:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I'm I'm with Katherine though.
• 1:42:17
  SPEAKER_04: The results of what we have we have the facts.
• 1:42:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, it's not is like Maury Povich gonna come out and be like, you are not a pervert.
• 1:42:29
  SPEAKER_05: She didn't deny it either.
• 1:42:31
  SPEAKER_05: She just said, People don't get my sense of humor.
• 1:42:33
  SPEAKER_05: So she didn't even deny any of the allegations.
• 1:42:37
  SPEAKER_04: The results are gonna come out and just be like, yeah, kind of a weird, she's kind of weird.
• 1:42:41
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yeah, okay.
• 1:42:43
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  SPEAKER_26: Ooh.
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  SPEAKER_26: Lieutenant Governor Catherine Johnson.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh, that's right, Lieutenant Governor Catherine Johnson.
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  SPEAKER_26: Oh, I saw this.
• 1:44:27
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  SPEAKER_34: The state government of Minnesota gave$500,000 of taxpayers' money to a non-profit called gender justice.
• 1:46:38
  SPEAKER_34: 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.
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• 1:46:54
  SPEAKER_34: You paid for it both ends.
• 1:46:55
  SPEAKER_34: You paid for it when they paid gender justice to bring 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.
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  SPEAKER_34: So I wrote uh last week about the example of a sex change operation that uh the state of Minnesota was apparently paid for for a convicted murderer.
• 1:47:24
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• 1:47:31
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• 1:47:52
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• 1:48:03
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• 1:48:37
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• 1:48:41
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• 1:48:54
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• 1:48:55
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• 1:49:03
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• 1:49:07
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• 1:49:20
  SPEAKER_18: Hey guys, horny her is definitely getting a bad result.
• 1:49:23
  SPEAKER_18: That's why they're gonna release it on Friday afternoon.
• 1:49:26
  SPEAKER_18: Have a good day.
• 1:49:28
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• 1:49:31
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• 1:49:32
  SPEAKER_20: Happy Freedom Friday, or as Cooley Herr would call it, Fornication Friday.
• 1:49:38
  SPEAKER_20: Glad you guys brought her back up because uh seems like that's just gone completely dark.
• 1:49:44
  SPEAKER_20: It's just uh another example of the corruption that runs around the Twin Cities.
• 1:49:48
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• 1:49:51
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• 1:49:52
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• 1:49:53
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• 1:49:54
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• 1:49:56
  SPEAKER_20: And no, I do not claim Clovachar as someone who lives in Wyzetta.
• 1:49:59
  SPEAKER_06: So yeah.
• 1:50:00
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, that's Waysada, by the way.
• 1:50:01
  SPEAKER_06: You know?
• 1:50:02
  SPEAKER_05: Waysata.
• 1:50:02
  SPEAKER_05: Waysata.
• 1:50:03
  SPEAKER_05: I still get that.
• 1:50:04
  SPEAKER_05: Samantha's handsophir screwed me up for life on that one.
• 1:50:07
  SPEAKER_05: Every single she would always wrong correct me.
• 1:50:09
  SPEAKER_05: Oh.
• 1:50:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so I still, I still get it messed up.
• 1:50:12
  SPEAKER_05: All right, let's go here.
• 1:50:13
  SPEAKER_05: Lenny Kravitz is the second Ken Bassador in Barbie's signature Ken Bassaders collection.
• 1:50:22
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:50:22
  SPEAKER_02: Why?
• 1:50:23
  SPEAKER_05: Because aren't they like giving each other looks over here?
• 1:50:25
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't he like in his like late 50s?
• 1:50:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I thought the same thing.
• 1:50:28
  SPEAKER_05: I'm like, when was the last time that Lenny Kravitz was relevant?
• 1:50:32
  SPEAKER_04: The last story I remember about Lenny Kravitz was when he was wearing tight leather pants and they split at the crotch and he wasn't wearing underwear.
• 1:50:42
  SPEAKER_05: Wait a second, wait a second.
• 1:50:43
  SPEAKER_05: Grace and Catherine, you guys unfamiliar with Lenny Kravitz like in total?
• 1:50:46
  SPEAKER_25: No, yeah, no idea.
• 1:50:48
  SPEAKER_25: I don't know.
• 1:50:48
  SPEAKER_05: You have no idea who Lenny Kravitz is.
• 1:50:50
  SPEAKER_25: Have heard the name.
• 1:50:51
  unknown: Wow.
• 1:50:51
  SPEAKER_26: I feel like I've heard the name, but I have no The song Are You Gonna Go My Way?
• 1:50:56
  SPEAKER_04: Are you gonna go My Way?
• 1:50:57
  SPEAKER_05: No, nothing.
• 1:50:58
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, no.
• 1:50:58
  SPEAKER_04: So he did he did the cover, the redo of American Woman.
• 1:51:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, American Woman.
• 1:51:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh that maybe let me let me let me help.
• 1:51:07
  SPEAKER_05: And he's also an actor.
• 1:51:08
  SPEAKER_05: Let me I bet I can go this route and and tell you who he is.
• 1:51:11
  SPEAKER_05: So Hunger Games, the dude who helped Katniss in getting her dressed up for the various appearances.
• 1:51:20
  SPEAKER_05: And then as she was getting uh as she was going to compete, I believe, in the second Hunger Games, he got beat to a pulp.
• 1:51:27
  SPEAKER_25: The black one.
• 1:51:28
  SPEAKER_25: I don't think that helps.
• 1:51:29
  SPEAKER_25: Yes.
• 1:51:29
  SPEAKER_25: Lenny Kravitz is black.
• 1:51:31
  SPEAKER_25: This is I'm Cinna is the name of the black.
• 1:51:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, yes, the Cinna.
• 1:51:35
  SPEAKER_26: I watched this in like eighth grade.
• 1:51:36
  SPEAKER_25: I have no idea.
• 1:51:37
  SPEAKER_25: That's Lenny Kravitz?
• 1:51:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's Lenny Kravitz.
• 1:51:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 1:51:40
  SPEAKER_02: And and he he he married, right?
• 1:51:43
  SPEAKER_02: I believe the gal from um what's her name, my goodness.
• 1:51:49
  SPEAKER_02: From the Cosby show.
• 1:51:50
  SPEAKER_02: From the Cosby show.
• 1:51:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:51:51
  SPEAKER_02: Lisa uh Lisa Bonnet.
• 1:51:52
  SPEAKER_02: Lisa Bonnet, yeah.
• 1:51:53
  SPEAKER_02: And their daughter is uh she's an actress too.
• 1:51:56
  SPEAKER_02: My goodness.
• 1:51:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Zoe Kravitz.
• 1:51:58
  SPEAKER_02: Zoe Kravitz.
• 1:51:59
  SPEAKER_02: Zoe Kravitz, yes.
• 1:52:00
  SPEAKER_07: Oh can you can you turn it as they know Zoe Kravitz?
• 1:52:04
  SPEAKER_07: Can you turn that picture around?
• 1:52:05
  SPEAKER_07: I want to see if I can.
• 1:52:06
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my gosh.
• 1:52:08
  SPEAKER_07: I don't know.
• 1:52:09
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, Isaac, you're from Isaac's also like he was kind of the epitome of cool athletics.
• 1:52:16
  SPEAKER_05: For sure at the time.
• 1:52:17
  SPEAKER_02: Here's the weirdest thing about Lenny Kravitz because he didn't really have that many great songs.
• 1:52:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like he he he had like one or two albums where anyone could, like, oh yeah, these are the songs.
• 1:52:27
  SPEAKER_02: And then it seemed like he got picked up maybe by Pepsi.
• 1:52:30
  SPEAKER_02: And then I think he was part of a halftime show.
• 1:52:33
  SPEAKER_02: And then from then on, he really hasn't produced that much content.
• 1:52:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's just you remember, like, yeah, the American Woman remake, and he's like jamming out on guitar, uh, and that's that's basically it, man.
• 1:52:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like he has some really good bangers from the early 2000s, but then really, like, he hasn't been he hasn't been relevant apart from I think, you know, I think Hunger Games would have been the most sure noteworthy item.
• 1:52:58
  SPEAKER_05: Although it's really it's funny because as I sit here surprised that Catherine and Grace and Isaac are completely unaware of who he is, I'm suddenly now remembering that the first time I became really familiar with Lenny Kravitz, I was dating this girl, Shelly.
• 1:53:18
  SPEAKER_05: She had purchased brand new, no shout out, Shelly.
• 1:53:22
  SPEAKER_06: No, no, no, she was a lunatic.
• 1:53:24
  SPEAKER_05: Um I was dumb because I actually had her name, I had her name engraved on the inside of my class ring because I thought it was love that was gonna look.
• 1:53:36
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
• 1:53:38
  SPEAKER_04: Did you did you have to get the tattoo of her name removed?
• 1:53:40
  SPEAKER_05: No, the reason why, no, hold me back up.
• 1:53:42
  SPEAKER_05: I forgot.
• 1:53:43
  SPEAKER_05: The reason why I got her name engraved on my class ring was because she had my name tattooed on her on a shark on a shark that she had on her ankle.
• 1:53:53
  SPEAKER_05: So she had an outline of a shark, she had my name in it.
• 1:53:56
  SPEAKER_05: Oh wow.
• 1:53:57
  SPEAKER_05: And then I it's you're like, well, I'm not putting that.
• 1:54:00
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 1:54:04
  SPEAKER_26: There's a woman out there who's not your wife who has your name tattooed on her.
• 1:54:09
  SPEAKER_04: Not anymore.
• 1:54:09
  SPEAKER_04: She definitely tattooed.
• 1:54:10
  SPEAKER_05: Because when she broke, when we broke up, because I was a jerk, she ended up filling in the the shark with uh with black ink.
• 1:54:18
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, she had that plan ready to go.
• 1:54:21
  SPEAKER_07: She knew what she was gonna do in case that did not end up hacking her bets.
• 1:54:26
  SPEAKER_05: Not gonna say I cheated on her with her best friend, but I cheated on her with her.
• 1:54:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh you know, I have my wife's name tattooed on my neck, Bethany, and I always joke, and I did this uh after we got married, it was the first uh Valentine's Day, so that was my Valentine's gift to her, was her name on my neck.
• 1:54:43
  SPEAKER_02: But I always said, like, if she ever did me dirty, I would just be like sucks underneath it.
• 1:54:47
  SPEAKER_05: There you go.
• 1:54:48
  SPEAKER_05: There you go.
• 1:54:49
  SPEAKER_05: So back to what I was gonna say was Shelly had purchased and spent all of her savings on a CD player.
• 1:54:55
  SPEAKER_05: And it was the first thing it was the first, and it was an individual standalone CD player that she and the first album that she got was a Lenny Kravitz record.
• 1:55:05
  SPEAKER_05: That's why.
• 1:55:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:55:06
  SPEAKER_05: And I was a dumb dude at the time, and I was all jealous because she loved Lenny Kravitz.
• 1:55:09
  SPEAKER_05: And I'm like, I don't know Lenny Kravitz.
• 1:55:11
  SPEAKER_05: I was an idiot.
• 1:55:12
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go here though.
• 1:55:13
  SPEAKER_05: And the lineage of Kravitz, let's go there.
• 1:55:15
  SPEAKER_05: The lineage of uh freeze right past that.
• 1:55:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, yeah.
• 1:55:19
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go here.
• 1:55:20
  SPEAKER_41: Morning, y'all.
• 1:55:21
  SPEAKER_41: Fun fact Lenny Kravitz is the son of the woman who was the neighbor in the old show The Jefferson.
• 1:55:29
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it goes so there's your there's your okay.
• 1:55:31
  SPEAKER_05: Well, he's got a long, so maybe he is deserving of being a Ken Basseter.
• 1:55:34
  SPEAKER_05: Maybe he's got a long lineage.
• 1:55:36
  SPEAKER_05: I forgot that's how this starts.
• 1:55:38
  SPEAKER_24: They're making a Kendall doll out of the kids.
• 1:55:42
  SPEAKER_05: None of you guys have heard.
• 1:55:43
  SPEAKER_05: Do we know why?
• 1:55:44
  SPEAKER_05: Seriously, why are they doing it?
• 1:55:46
  SPEAKER_05: We do.
• 1:55:46
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the collection celebrates men who have made a significant cultural impact.
• 1:55:50
  SPEAKER_05: And I'll give them to him.
• 1:55:51
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, not on you guys, apparently, but can we have a Michael Jackson Ken doll?
• 1:55:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'll tell you less.
• 1:55:56
  SPEAKER_02: You're a lot better option.
• 1:55:57
  SPEAKER_05: The Ken, the, the, the, uh, the Lenny Kravitz Ken doll, it's pretty cool.
• 1:56:02
  SPEAKER_05: It's got his signature style, the glasses, the whole nine yards.
• 1:56:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, by the way, Kravitz fan.
• 1:56:06
  SPEAKER_05: You're digging it.
• 1:56:07
  SPEAKER_05: Dreads?
• 1:56:07
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 1:56:08
  SPEAKER_26: So is this the first Barbie Ken with dreads?
• 1:56:11
  SPEAKER_26: That's so interesting.
• 1:56:12
  SPEAKER_05: As a matter of fact, so the article suggests that other male icons, including Prince, Denzel, Washington, Michael, uh Jordan, should also be considered for future Ken Basseter dolls.
• 1:56:22
  SPEAKER_05: Michael Jordan, for sure.
• 1:56:23
  SPEAKER_25: Wait, should be considered for future.
• 1:56:25
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so he's only the second one.
• 1:56:27
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 1:56:30
  SPEAKER_25: Oh no.
• 1:56:30
  SPEAKER_05: What?
• 1:56:31
  SPEAKER_25: What is this?
• 1:56:32
  SPEAKER_02: So Ken is now black?
• 1:56:33
  SPEAKER_02: We're just making Ken black.
• 1:56:36
  SPEAKER_02: And we got Kenneth.
• 1:56:37
  SPEAKER_02: Come on, man.
• 1:56:38
  SPEAKER_02: He's always been black.
• 1:56:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, in his heart, deep, deep inside.
• 1:56:42
  SPEAKER_05: A spokesperson for uh Nathan Bernard.
• 1:56:45
  SPEAKER_05: He is the spokesperson uh for uh the Barbie brand at Mattel says as we continue to celebrate Ken's 65th anniversary, we are incredibly excited to recognize Lenny Kravitz as the second honoree of our Barbie signature Cambassadors collection.
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  SPEAKER_05: From his genre-defying music to his fearless approach to personal style, Lenny uses his platform to champion individuality while empowering others to do the same.
• 1:57:10
  SPEAKER_05: Does he?
• 1:57:10
  SPEAKER_05: Just don't get it.
• 1:57:11
  SPEAKER_05: Does he though?
• 1:57:12
  SPEAKER_05: I'll tell you what, man.
• 1:57:13
  SPEAKER_05: If they want to make money like gangbusters, want to sell a bunch of Barbie dolls, they need an anatomically correct Sidney Sweeney like right now.
• 1:57:23
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
• 1:57:24
  SPEAKER_05: Have a great weekend, everybody.
• 1:57:26
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my goodness.
• 1:57:26
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, you know what?
• 1:57:27
  SPEAKER_05: It's actually, I can't, we're already the third hour.
• 1:57:29
  SPEAKER_05: Holy cow.
• 1:57:31
  SPEAKER_05: All right, let's do this.
• 1:57:53
  SPEAKER_05: And it is the third hour of the John Justice Show presented by American Experiment.
• 1:57:58
  SPEAKER_05: You can listen to the show live on the Mix LR app or on uh AmericanExperiment.org.
• 1:58:03
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• 1:58:07
  SPEAKER_05: We have Representative Max Reimer is in studio with us this morning.
• 1:58:11
  SPEAKER_05: We have conservative online opinionator aka Kamara.
• 1:58:15
  SPEAKER_05: Indeed.
• 1:58:16
  SPEAKER_05: Grace Keating making her final appearance here on a Freedom Friday and the John Justice show as she gets ready to uh go on to another adventure.
• 1:58:25
  SPEAKER_05: And uh with us as always the wild card.
• 1:58:27
  SPEAKER_05: We have a story coming up for her, Catherine Johnson, who also I'm gonna be missing both of you guys in somewhat of a short period of time.
• 1:58:34
  SPEAKER_05: Are you gonna use a paid family medical leave?
• 1:58:36
  SPEAKER_05: You're gonna take an extended time off and ditch us all for months on end?
• 1:58:39
  SPEAKER_26: No.
• 1:58:39
  SPEAKER_05: Because I put you in a tough spot.
• 1:58:41
  SPEAKER_05: I just did.
• 1:58:43
  SPEAKER_26: Okay, this is a point of discussion, though, because we work at a small organization, and so I'm like trying to figure out what the deal is.
• 1:58:50
  SPEAKER_26: But paid family medical leave is actually not that great.
• 1:58:52
  SPEAKER_26: You don't get paid as much.
• 1:58:54
  SPEAKER_26: It's like, it's it's not that good.
• 1:58:55
  SPEAKER_26: And here at American Experiment, we have always had a better policy than what you out of paid family medical leave.
• 1:59:02
  SPEAKER_26: And so I am blessed to work at an organization where um I'm actually gonna have a better deal than what I would get through that stupid program.
• 1:59:08
  SPEAKER_05: See, I knew that she was gonna answer like that, so I knew it was completely appropriate for me to ask her that.
• 1:59:12
  SPEAKER_02: You teed it all up.
• 1:59:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I want to say real quick, shout out.
• 1:59:15
  SPEAKER_02: Last night did a uh MC to fundraiser for both Lisa Damath and Sebastian Stoss, and I met a bunch of fans of the John Justice show that have migrated over.
• 1:59:24
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, nice.
• 1:59:24
  SPEAKER_02: That love the new format.
• 1:59:26
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that makes me so happy.
• 1:59:30
  SPEAKER_05: Then they get to utilize the clapping sound effect that's way too loud.
• 1:59:35
  SPEAKER_05: So we were talking about uh the Ken Basseter, Lenny Kravitz, the National Toy Hall of Fame have announced their 12 finalists for the 2026 induction class.
• 1:59:44
  SPEAKER_05: Would you guys like to know the list?
• 1:59:45
  SPEAKER_02: So, what are the criteria for how long it has to be since the toys were created?
• 1:59:50
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, let's see here.
• 1:59:52
  SPEAKER_05: The National Toy Hall of Fame receives thousands of nominations annually.
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  SPEAKER_05: The three finalists receiving the most public votes will join the top three submissions uh by the members of the National Selection Advisory.
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  SPEAKER_05: I do not know if it tells me what the criteria is.
• 2:00:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because you know, like the NFL Hall of Fame, right?
• 2:00:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like it has to be, I think, whatever, 15 years since they played or something.
• 2:00:13
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know what the five years, but the uh the National Toy Hall of Fame recognizes toys that have engaged in and delighted multiple generations.
• 2:00:20
  SPEAKER_05: Uh its induction criteria includes icon status, longevity, discovery, and innovation.
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  SPEAKER_05: So that doesn't have a time frame on it.
• 2:00:28
  SPEAKER_05: I'm kind of surprised some of these haven't been inducted already.
• 2:00:31
  SPEAKER_05: So we have uh bingo, the game of bingo.
• 2:00:34
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, like that's what a weird one to say.
• 2:00:37
  SPEAKER_05: There aren't a couple of weird ones.
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  SPEAKER_05: I think it's the it's gotta be the official game.
• 2:00:41
  SPEAKER_07: Okay, I would assume.
• 2:00:42
  SPEAKER_07: Is bingo trademarked?
• 2:00:44
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I don't know.
• 2:00:45
  SPEAKER_05: Your guess is as good as mine.
• 2:00:47
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna probably find out as the list goes on.
• 2:00:49
  SPEAKER_05: I'm just shocked you guys actually know bingo, but you don't know Lenny Kravitz.
• 2:00:52
  SPEAKER_26: What?
• 2:00:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh they probably they probably play bar bingo, you know.
• 2:00:55
  SPEAKER_26: Uh yeah, bingo slaps.
• 2:00:57
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Bopit.
• 2:01:01
  SPEAKER_03: Twist it.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's a first ballot Hall of Fame.
• 2:01:03
  SPEAKER_03: What else is there?
• 2:01:04
  SPEAKER_26: Shout it.
• 2:01:05
  SPEAKER_26: No, right.
• 2:01:07
  SPEAKER_02: Slap it?
• 2:01:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Yankee it, I think, isn't it?
• 2:01:11
  SPEAKER_07: Puppet is definitely not one of them.
• 2:01:13
  SPEAKER_05: That's uh that's a man.
• 2:01:14
  SPEAKER_24: Slap it is Bop it.
• 2:01:15
  SPEAKER_24: That's the same motion.
• 2:01:17
  SPEAKER_24: Yeah.
• 2:01:17
  SPEAKER_05: That's Mayor Hur's version.
• 2:01:21
  SPEAKER_07: Noogie it.
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  SPEAKER_07: Wedge it.
• 2:01:23
  SPEAKER_07: We're in Amy Clobuchar's version of.
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  SPEAKER_05: And I still have other things to talk about.
• 2:01:30
  SPEAKER_05: So uh Care Bears.
• 2:01:33
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, what never toy?
• 2:01:38
  SPEAKER_02: It was a stuffed toy.
• 2:01:39
  SPEAKER_02: Care Bear.
• 2:01:40
  SPEAKER_26: What else would you call it?
• 2:01:41
  SPEAKER_26: Animal.
• 2:01:42
  SPEAKER_26: That's not a toy.
• 2:01:42
  SPEAKER_26: What do you do with it?
• 2:01:43
  SPEAKER_26: It just sits there.
• 2:01:44
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it tells you that it loves you and you can't.
• 2:01:48
  SPEAKER_05: That's what most toys do.
• 2:01:49
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:01:50
  SPEAKER_05: You know, they kind of just sit there.
• 2:01:52
  SPEAKER_05: Care bear.
• 2:01:53
  SPEAKER_05: Shoguru's.
• 2:01:53
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and then they shoot the.
• 2:01:55
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, Shoguru's not a toy.
• 2:01:56
  SPEAKER_26: That's another Shoguru is absolutely a toy.
• 2:01:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's a toy.
• 2:02:01
  SPEAKER_25: He is a he's he's he's a collect, he's a collectible.
• 2:02:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's our toy.
• 2:02:05
  SPEAKER_02: You play with him.
• 2:02:06
  SPEAKER_02: I'm all toy.
• 2:02:06
  SPEAKER_24: Look at him.
• 2:02:07
  SPEAKER_25: Okay.
• 2:02:08
  SPEAKER_25: He's so branded, guys.
• 2:02:09
  SPEAKER_25: Look at that logo on it.
• 2:02:11
  SPEAKER_25: Who pinned that there?
• 2:02:12
  SPEAKER_05: He's also flying across the room.
• 2:02:14
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Pokemon trading card game.
• 2:02:16
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, wow.
• 2:02:16
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 2:02:17
  SPEAKER_02: Is this like one of the first years that they've opened the code?
• 2:02:19
  SPEAKER_05: No, it's not.
• 2:02:20
  SPEAKER_05: It's it's I know.
• 2:02:21
  SPEAKER_05: You would think, I mean, I've covered this every single year, and and you're I just think there's a lot of toys out there that just haven't been recognized yet.
• 2:02:28
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of Pokemon cards, I read that the economy is so bad that people are saying that Pokemon cards are gonna be our replacement currency for the dollar.
• 2:02:35
  SPEAKER_04: Probably mixed up.
• 2:02:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:02:37
  SPEAKER_05: If that's the case, then we're in good shape in our household because Kyle used to collect these, and I think you still have all of them.
• 2:02:41
  SPEAKER_05: Gotta catch them all.
• 2:02:42
  SPEAKER_25: So um wait, I'm sorry, can I clarify?
• 2:02:44
  SPEAKER_25: Have these been inducted yet?
• 2:02:45
  SPEAKER_25: No.
• 2:02:46
  SPEAKER_05: These are just one from this list?
• 2:02:50
  SPEAKER_25: Three.
• 2:02:51
  SPEAKER_26: I'm sorry.
• 2:02:51
  SPEAKER_26: I probably just wasn't listening to that.
• 2:02:52
  SPEAKER_26: Wait, didn't Amy Klovachar say Pokemon to the polls?
• 2:02:55
  SPEAKER_26: Pokemon to the colour.
• 2:02:56
  SPEAKER_26: Hillary Clinton.
• 2:02:57
  SPEAKER_26: Same person, same.
• 2:02:59
  SPEAKER_05: Same architect.
• 2:03:00
  SPEAKER_05: Same generic Democrat.
• 2:03:01
  SPEAKER_05: This next one had me confused.
• 2:03:03
  SPEAKER_05: So uh Mahjong.
• 2:03:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:03:05
  SPEAKER_26: Oh, okay.
• 2:03:05
  SPEAKER_26: No, I know what it is.
• 2:03:06
  SPEAKER_26: I just but I just I just it's huge right now.
• 2:03:11
  SPEAKER_26: Like one.
• 2:03:12
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, that was my thing, Grace.
• 2:03:13
  SPEAKER_26: I didn't put it in the toy academy.
• 2:03:15
  SPEAKER_04: Mahjong, like 300 years old.
• 2:03:17
  SPEAKER_25: Exactly.
• 2:03:18
  SPEAKER_25: Thousands?
• 2:03:18
  SPEAKER_25: I mean, it is an old game, right?
• 2:03:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I feel like it's Chinese, right?
• 2:03:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:03:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Monster High Dolls.
• 2:03:24
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 2:03:25
  SPEAKER_02: Monster High Dolls.
• 2:03:26
  SPEAKER_25: Oh my gosh, what?
• 2:03:28
  SPEAKER_05: Monster High.
• 2:03:29
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Mouse Mousetrap.
• 2:03:30
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, going back to the day.
• 2:03:32
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, the board game.
• 2:03:33
  SPEAKER_05: Again, surprised it hasn't been inducted earlier.
• 2:03:34
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, that was certainly from my youth.
• 2:03:36
  SPEAKER_26: That's like the least satisfaction game.
• 2:03:38
  SPEAKER_26: You know, you take like four hours to set up this entire thing and then it goes done.
• 2:03:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, true.
• 2:03:44
  SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna uh spike in another uh mayor uh cooley her uh her joke in here, and she's probably a big fan of the pocket wallet.
• 2:03:50
  SPEAKER_05: So that's in here.
• 2:03:51
  SPEAKER_05: Or poly polypocket.
• 2:03:54
  SPEAKER_05: I wrote polypocket I wrote poly pocket and then parentheses wallet, and I screwed myself up.
• 2:03:58
  SPEAKER_05: Poly pocket wallet.
• 2:03:59
  SPEAKER_05: Poly pocket wallet.
• 2:04:00
  SPEAKER_05: Uh sorry, because there's an exclamation point attached to it.
• 2:04:03
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I used to I at least love that game.
• 2:04:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it was a good one.
• 2:04:06
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the last two tickle me Elmo.
• 2:04:09
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 2:04:09
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 2:04:10
  SPEAKER_04: Just surprise it wasn't in there.
• 2:04:11
  SPEAKER_04: I forget about what a phenomenon that was in 1998 or whenever it came out.
• 2:04:16
  SPEAKER_04: That that like took the world by storm.
• 2:04:18
  SPEAKER_04: Stores were selling out of it, and it was this stupid Elmo that just laughed.
• 2:04:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, laughs like Elmo.
• 2:04:26
  SPEAKER_05: Last one on the list was uh Yahtzee.
• 2:04:29
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, Yahtzee.
• 2:04:31
  SPEAKER_05: See, I feel like I feel like Mahjong, Yahtzee, Pokemon, Bingo, I feel like those need to be in a in the game.
• 2:04:40
  SPEAKER_25: Is there not a board game?
• 2:04:41
  SPEAKER_25: There's gotta be.
• 2:04:42
  SPEAKER_25: There's gotta be.
• 2:04:42
  SPEAKER_05: I feel like those need to be in the gaming one and not in the toy list.
• 2:04:46
  SPEAKER_05: So that's not a toy list.
• 2:04:47
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I call shenanigans on this whole thing?
• 2:04:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:04:49
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:04:49
  SPEAKER_05: I'm sorry.
• 2:04:50
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know what you're saying.
• 2:04:53
  SPEAKER_05: You know what?
• 2:04:53
  SPEAKER_05: Bye.
• 2:04:54
  SPEAKER_25: Screw you and your stupid finalist.
• 2:04:56
  unknown: All right.
• 2:04:57
  SPEAKER_25: Pocket wallet garbage.
• 2:04:59
  SPEAKER_02: It's basically the pocket wallet.
• 2:05:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's like so what we're gonna find out, it was like some little organization that's created just to get people to click and fill out their information, steal their data.
• 2:05:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, big toy.
• 2:05:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, big toy.
• 2:05:11
  SPEAKER_04: Same group's gonna come out and say the top ten states for board games or the top ten states for toys in Minnesota is gonna be number one.
• 2:05:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 2:05:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 2:05:19
  SPEAKER_05: Every time.
• 2:05:20
  SPEAKER_05: All right, we're gonna talk about HOAs.
• 2:05:22
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• 2:05:30
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• 2:05:32
  SPEAKER_05: Mm-hmm.
• 2:05:33
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• 2:05:47
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• 2:05:53
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• 2:05:56
  SPEAKER_42: Hi, I'm Joe Scott, and I'm the only conservative on the Eastern Carver County Schools board.
• 2:06:02
  SPEAKER_42: I'm also the only incumbent who supports balanced budgets, key performance indicators in our superintendent's contract, and counting everyone's vote every time in school board elections.
• 2:06:15
  SPEAKER_42: Our enrollment has been declining since 2018, and we lose 1,300 of our resident students each year to neighboring districts.
• 2:06:25
  SPEAKER_42: I have solutions, but the majority of the school board and administration are stuck in the status quo.
• 2:06:32
  SPEAKER_42: You can vote as early as Friday, September 18th, and I'd appreciate your support.
• 2:06:38
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• 2:06:45
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  SPEAKER_40: Good morning, and I love your show.
• 2:07:01
  SPEAKER_05: Thanks, Trump.
• 2:07:02
  SPEAKER_05: It is a John Justice show presented by American Experiment with our in-studio guests on a Freedom Friday, Catherine Johnson, Grace Cating making her final appearance, Max Reimer, and of course uh A.K.
• 2:07:12
  SPEAKER_05: Kamara.
• 2:07:13
  SPEAKER_05: Isaac is pushing the buttons and producing this morning.
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  SPEAKER_05: So from the Minneapolis Times, this is an editorial written by AJ Gubosh.
• 2:07:21
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 2:07:22
  SPEAKER_05: AJ Gubosh.
• 2:07:23
  SPEAKER_26: We know AJ.
• 2:07:24
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:07:24
  SPEAKER_26: Do you guys know?
• 2:07:25
  SPEAKER_26: Right across the hall.
• 2:07:26
  SPEAKER_26: Right across the hall.
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  SPEAKER_05: Minnesota Paralegal working in nonprofit public uh interest law.
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  SPEAKER_05: Well, good.
• 2:07:31
  SPEAKER_05: If you have an issue with this, uh Catherine Johnson, you can march right next door and have a word with him.
• 2:07:35
  SPEAKER_26: I think I do.
• 2:07:36
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, Minnesota law allows homeowners associations to prohibit political signs even during election season, creating a disparity compared to municipal regulations.
• 2:07:48
  SPEAKER_05: This raises concerns about restricting political expression within residential communities.
• 2:07:54
  SPEAKER_05: Legislation should be considered to protect political signs in HOAs, especially during election season, ensuring homeowners can express their views and participate in the democratic process.
• 2:08:08
  SPEAKER_05: So AJ thinks that HOAs uh should allow, because some HOAs do not.
• 2:08:14
  SPEAKER_05: You have state rules, right?
• 2:08:16
  SPEAKER_05: Uh HOA is not a government.
• 2:08:18
  SPEAKER_05: Its restriction on political signs does not technically constitute a First Amendment violation.
• 2:08:22
  SPEAKER_05: Your local government is rightly prohibited from telling you that you uh have too many political signs in your yard during an election season, while your HOA may prohibit you from displaying one at all, even in the window of your home.
• 2:08:35
  SPEAKER_05: He says that legal distinction is precisely why the issue deserves attention.
• 2:08:40
  SPEAKER_05: A private organization exercising substantial control over an entire residential community can completely restrict a form of political expression in a way the government itself may not.
• 2:08:53
  SPEAKER_26: See, this is not conservative.
• 2:08:54
  SPEAKER_26: That is not a conservative view.
• 2:08:56
  SPEAKER_26: This is my theory on HOAs.
• 2:08:58
  SPEAKER_26: If a couple people want to get together and they want to have their houses next to each other and they all decide, let's do no political signs, they should be allowed to do so.
• 2:09:06
  SPEAKER_26: It shouldn't be the government coming in and saying, no, no, you have to let people put out their political signs.
• 2:09:11
  SPEAKER_26: I just disagree with that.
• 2:09:12
  SPEAKER_26: I think the HOAs should absolutely be able to allow um bans on political signs or whatever signs they want because it's their neighborhood and their group of houses and that local control being so specific to those few people is like the most conservative thing ever.
• 2:09:27
  SPEAKER_02: And listen, I agree with you because I was in an HOA and you can go to HOA meetings, you can run to be on the board, you can even run to be the president.
• 2:09:36
  SPEAKER_02: So if you feel that the rules or whatever, so in my HOA, they tried like doing like you can't even put a sign in your window.
• 2:09:44
  SPEAKER_02: So I went and made a very passionate plea, and we actually changed the body's rules because I was able to convince everyone, like okay, I understand not putting a bunch of stuff out in the yards and it can get like you know, clutter and all these different things, but you can't stop us from putting in the windows.
• 2:10:00
  SPEAKER_02: That's absurd.
• 2:10:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like, are you gonna tell me what kind of like drapes I can have?
• 2:10:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like, that's that's just kind of silly.
• 2:10:06
  SPEAKER_02: And so people agreed, but that's the thing.
• 2:10:08
  SPEAKER_02: The idea that the government would come in and say, like, no, you can't do this, it's like, well, now you've opened Pandora's box, and now the government gets to tell HOAs what they can and can't do, yeah.
• 2:10:16
  SPEAKER_02: Which takes away the entire purpose.
• 2:10:17
  SPEAKER_02: If you really hate your HOA, I guess sell and move somewhere else.
• 2:10:20
  SPEAKER_02: Or what I often say to people, just like politics, if you feel that you don't like what's happening, get active, get involved, and you can actually change the world.
• 2:10:30
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, dude, no one wants to be running their HOA like my HOA every year is like, please, someone show up.
• 2:10:35
  SPEAKER_26: Yes, yes, they are.
• 2:10:36
  SPEAKER_26: Please run.
• 2:10:37
  SPEAKER_26: You can do whatever you wanted.
• 2:10:38
  SPEAKER_26: No one cares.
• 2:10:40
  SPEAKER_26: And this is kind of the theory I have anyway, which is that if no one else around me is putting signs up, I'm a no-sign house.
• 2:10:45
  SPEAKER_26: Okay.
• 2:10:45
  SPEAKER_26: If I don't see any other signs, I'm a no sign.
• 2:10:48
  SPEAKER_26: Like, let's all be in a silent agreement.
• 2:10:49
  SPEAKER_26: The second anyone puts up a single sign, I am getting one of those huge ones that says, you know, vote against fraud, vote Republican.
• 2:10:57
  SPEAKER_26: Those are amazing.
• 2:10:58
  SPEAKER_26: And I'm putting like seven across the front of my yard.
• 2:11:00
  SPEAKER_26: Okay.
• 2:11:00
  SPEAKER_26: I did this with my American flag, actually, too.
• 2:11:02
  SPEAKER_26: Originally, we didn't have one, and then someone put up in the neighborhood like a Minnesota state flag, and I was like online immediately, like, I gotta get a flag.
• 2:11:12
  SPEAKER_25: I agree so strongly with everything you just said in the last three minutes.
• 2:11:15
  SPEAKER_25: I have nothing to add.
• 2:11:16
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, to get philosophical on the bit, because Mr.
• 2:11:20
  SPEAKER_04: Gubash is advocating for legislation, which I will not be co-authoring because I don't really care about this issue.
• 2:11:27
  SPEAKER_04: But when we talk about housing, that's amazing.
• 2:11:31
  SPEAKER_05: But by the way, just really quick, that was amazing.
• 2:11:33
  SPEAKER_05: Just such honesty coming from a politician, which is why you're on the show every Friday.
• 2:11:39
  SPEAKER_05: Who cares?
• 2:11:39
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
• 2:11:43
  SPEAKER_05: I do not know.
• 2:11:44
  SPEAKER_05: The fine print exists for a reason.
• 2:11:47
  SPEAKER_05: I've never bought this argument that you know, when it comes to the fine print, oh, there's too much.
• 2:11:51
  SPEAKER_05: No, you need to read it.
• 2:11:52
  SPEAKER_05: If you don't read it, that's on you.
• 2:11:53
  SPEAKER_05: But Max, I'm a sort of please continue.
• 2:11:54
  SPEAKER_04: So this past legislative session, though, we did have some HOA reforms about kickbacks.
• 2:12:00
  SPEAKER_04: Contractors and a couple of other things.
• 2:12:02
  SPEAKER_04: But this actually gets into what is the conservative position, right?
• 2:12:06
  SPEAKER_04: Because when you talk about local control and individual rights, what we what we advocate for as Republicans is we want local control.
• 2:12:14
  SPEAKER_04: We want you to the most local unit of government you can should be the one making the decision.
• 2:12:20
  SPEAKER_04: But when you talk about HOA policies, that flies in the face of what is my right as an individual?
• 2:12:26
  SPEAKER_04: Because the smallest minority we can advocate for is the individual.
• 2:12:30
  SPEAKER_04: The smallest unit of government is the individual.
• 2:12:34
  SPEAKER_04: So when you run into HOA policies, for instance, there's this constant conflict of do we care about a municipality having control or do we care about the person having control?
• 2:12:45
  SPEAKER_04: And that is that is a conflict.
• 2:12:47
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, what is your first principle?
• 2:12:50
  SPEAKER_04: Is it individual or is it local control?
• 2:12:53
  SPEAKER_04: Because in this case, those two things kind of like uh are pitted against one another.
• 2:12:58
  SPEAKER_26: Sort of, but you still have the option to not live in that HOA the rules.
• 2:13:03
  SPEAKER_26: So to me, it's just like the individual has so many options.
• 2:13:07
  SPEAKER_26: I can see how, like, I when you're house hunting, yeah, I saw all kinds of options, but HOAs are becoming more popular.
• 2:13:13
  SPEAKER_26: So I do think like if you don't want to live in an HOA, a lot of people don't.
• 2:13:16
  SPEAKER_26: We should, you know, maybe the government has an interest in making sure that there are different types of neighborhoods available for everyone.
• 2:13:22
  SPEAKER_26: But if you want to live in a neighborhood where there's no political signs, like totally, I think you should be allowed to.
• 2:13:27
  SPEAKER_26: And the government shouldn't step in and say, no, no, you gotta have those, you know, yard signs out there that don't do anything much anyway for the candidates.
• 2:13:34
  SPEAKER_26: I'm sorry to say.
• 2:13:35
  SPEAKER_02: So I'll I'll say this that it is this philosophical argument.
• 2:13:38
  SPEAKER_02: And I would say it's the difference between conservatism and libertarian.
• 2:13:41
  SPEAKER_02: If you're a libertarian, you will hate an HOA, right?
• 2:13:44
  SPEAKER_02: Because your individual rights don't matter.
• 2:13:46
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 2:13:47
  SPEAKER_02: But if you are conservative in the idea that you want to conserve some type of community, uh, you're not going to trample over everyone's rights.
• 2:13:54
  SPEAKER_02: You're going to have kind of an agreement that yeah, sometimes your rights uh don't matter because the group itself is voting on it.
• 2:14:00
  SPEAKER_02: So I would say that that's where that's at.
• 2:14:02
  SPEAKER_02: And amen to your statement about lawn signs.
• 2:14:05
  SPEAKER_02: I have been getting messages of people saying, We need to get lawn signs.
• 2:14:10
  SPEAKER_02: Can you believe how many lawn signs Amy Klobuchar has?
• 2:14:13
  SPEAKER_02: Where are Lisa Damon's lawn signs?
• 2:14:14
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, listen, if take all that energy about the lawn signs, go knock on doors.
• 2:14:19
  SPEAKER_02: Go and talk to people to get them out to vote.
• 2:14:22
  SPEAKER_02: The lawn signs don't vote.
• 2:14:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's an aesthetic thing that makes you feel good.
• 2:14:26
  SPEAKER_02: I actually don't want you to feel good.
• 2:14:28
  SPEAKER_02: I want you to feel like we are 10 points behind and you need to do everything in your power to go and crush.
• 2:14:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I think you should get.
• 2:14:35
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and both sides, you know, and and that's you know, that's for for both sides of the whatever party you belong to.
• 2:14:41
  SPEAKER_05: They always go and end up making this because you know, we hear it a lot on the show.
• 2:14:45
  SPEAKER_05: And, you know, lawn sides are just there's a gazillion reasons why people would have them.
• 2:14:49
  SPEAKER_05: And I don't even half the time I don't even know why the what the purpose is.
• 2:14:52
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 2:14:52
  SPEAKER_05: Other than just displaying who it is that you're going to be you're going to be voting for.
• 2:14:56
  SPEAKER_05: It really comes down to can we go and make the other party look like they're losing based off the number of yard signs.
• 2:15:02
  SPEAKER_05: But when it comes to HOAs, you know, this is what the HOAs exist for.
• 2:15:06
  SPEAKER_05: If you decided that you were going to live in that community and you are are adhering to their rules, you made that decision.
• 2:15:14
  SPEAKER_05: That's on you.
• 2:15:15
  SPEAKER_05: And if you don't like it, go to your HOA and try to get your neighbors to join with you to go and get the rules changed.
• 2:15:20
  SPEAKER_05: So um, let's go here.
• 2:15:22
  SPEAKER_05: This is gonna take a dark turn for just a moment.
• 2:15:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you can't.
• 2:15:24
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, great.
• 2:15:25
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go.
• 2:15:26
  SPEAKER_05: Um, but then we're gonna be heading on to uh uh greener uh pastures, so to speak.
• 2:15:30
  SPEAKER_05: So uh beloved Chicago radio personality, uh Judy Markey.
• 2:15:35
  SPEAKER_05: You guys are familiar with her at all now within the radio industry.
• 2:15:38
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I've actually heard of the name.
• 2:15:39
  SPEAKER_05: Uh she was a co-host of the uh Kathy and Judy show.
• 2:15:42
  SPEAKER_05: She passed away at age of 82 after choosing assisted suicide in Switzerland due to a degenerative neurological disorder, known for her candid banter and influential presence in radio.
• 2:15:58
  SPEAKER_05: She is survived by her husband, children, and stepchildren.
• 2:16:00
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the story says that the beloved long-running Chicago uh radio program host died, as I mentioned, in Switzerland voluntarily, suffering from this disorder.
• 2:16:09
  SPEAKER_05: It led for uh her decision to end her life on her own terms.
• 2:16:14
  SPEAKER_05: Reportedly, she was joking around in her final moments before slipping away.
• 2:16:17
  SPEAKER_05: She said she had a headache after taking a few bites of a Snickers bar.
• 2:16:21
  SPEAKER_05: Her husband asked, Do you want some Advil?
• 2:16:25
  SPEAKER_05: And she quipped, I kind of want something a little bit stronger.
• 2:16:28
  SPEAKER_05: This is in the middle of when she was going through this assisted suicide process in uh in Switzerland.
• 2:16:33
  SPEAKER_05: This was according to reporting from the Chicago Sun uh Sun Times.
• 2:16:37
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the show was was known because of its host and callers at the time, didn't shy away from topics ranging from amusing personal anecdotes to sex and heavy topics like abortion, which doesn't come as a surprise to me.
• 2:16:49
  SPEAKER_05: But um, I bring this up because I have another story that I want to get to, but it is something that we've talked about before.
• 2:16:53
  SPEAKER_05: I know, AK, you've discussed this many times uh on the on the show.
• 2:16:58
  SPEAKER_05: And it's relevant when you look at this death culture that we've currently been dealing with here in the United States.
• 2:17:05
  SPEAKER_05: And while we've seen places like Switzerland, I think we've got lax rules up in Canada as well with these types of uh these types of procedures.
• 2:17:13
  SPEAKER_05: Um, you know, we don't want this coming to America, but I think at this point in time it's almost inevitable that it's going to start to be debated at some point in the near in the near future.
• 2:17:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, listen, the whole death cult aspect of the left is ingrained into their entire being.
• 2:17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Whether you're talking about when do you have a right to kill your child, whether it's unborn or born, when do you have a right to end your own life, whether you're 82, which in today's day, I mean, President Trump is 80, all right?
• 2:17:40
  SPEAKER_02: And look at how energetic he is.
• 2:17:42
  SPEAKER_02: So the idea is like, well, it's 82.
• 2:17:44
  SPEAKER_02: I know plenty of people in their late 80s and 90s, even, that are still living quality lives.
• 2:17:50
  SPEAKER_02: But the idea that at that moment that she had enough lucidity and she's talking about having a headache and her husband sitting there, that to me is ghoulish.
• 2:17:59
  SPEAKER_02: It truly, honestly, is ghoulish.
• 2:18:02
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, you'll never be able to convince me because I had a father who died from cancer in hospice, and I had a mother who had a sudden cardiac arrest, and she was non-responsive, and I had to fight with the hospital.
• 2:18:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and they were like basically like, let her go.
• 2:18:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, listen, we believe that life is precious, and who am I to decide what the quality of this person's soul is, and that I should ease them out of life?
• 2:18:28
  SPEAKER_02: I just think it's super ghoulish, but you'll never convince me that that type of conversation about quality of life and you know, all these different things, quality of life and the value of that life to me are like it's not like a sliding scale.
• 2:18:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, you can have a very poor quality of life, but your life still has a 100% value.
• 2:18:49
  SPEAKER_02: And so I just think the stories like this are ghoulish.
• 2:18:52
  SPEAKER_02: And of course, the left is gonna celebrate this and they'll probably use it of like, isn't it sad that she had to go to Switzerland?
• 2:18:58
  SPEAKER_02: Wouldn't it have been so much better if she could have stayed in Chicagoland and been with all of her friends and family, all could have been like standing around her while she gets the the hot shot to end her life and it's like ooh.
• 2:19:07
  SPEAKER_05: Well, and this story was in the New York Post, and so I mean this is getting quite a bit of uh quite a bit of attention.
• 2:19:12
  SPEAKER_05: Uh and like I said, I think it's gonna be something that we'll uh unfortunately be having to debate sometime in the near in the near future.
• 2:19:19
  SPEAKER_05: Hopefully we never end up allowing this to happen here in the U.S.
• 2:19:22
  SPEAKER_05: But at this point in time, the way that we've been going with so much of our commentary, it's kind of un it's kind of unavoidable.
• 2:19:26
  SPEAKER_04: There's there's Minnesota legislators who uh actively push this every session.
• 2:19:32
  SPEAKER_04: Representative, maybe soon to be Senator Freiburg, is the one who can consistently brings this up at the Minnesota State House.
• 2:19:39
  SPEAKER_04: And what I would just say is that I think the Lindsey Clancy trial has really encouraged me to re-plant my flag on the life issue.
• 2:19:49
  SPEAKER_04: Because in situations like this, this is not only her decision.
• 2:19:53
  SPEAKER_04: We might say this, it's her personal decision.
• 2:19:55
  SPEAKER_04: If she wants to die, she can.
• 2:19:57
  SPEAKER_04: But what we're talking about is a constant erosion, like AK mentioned, of the sanctity of all life.
• 2:20:03
  SPEAKER_04: Because when this becomes more normalized, or something like the Lindsay Clancy trial happens, becomes more normalized.
• 2:20:10
  SPEAKER_04: This is part of the same stew of issues where we are constantly being told that human life doesn't have inherent value.
• 2:20:19
  SPEAKER_04: And when you degrade at that fundamental principle, that's where you have situations like in Canada, where essentially people are coming in with a failing organ or knee pain or what have you, and are being prescribed.
• 2:20:35
  SPEAKER_04: Have you thought about killing yourself?
• 2:20:37
  SPEAKER_04: Like that is our professional prescription as medical experts in Canada.
• 2:20:42
  SPEAKER_04: And that's what when we're talking about the abortion issue, or when we're talking about post-birth abortion, or even this Lindsay Clancy thing where we were one juror away from basically just excusing a woman for killing her three children systematically, this is all part of the same stew of just saying life is not that important.
• 2:21:01
  SPEAKER_26: I agree, but I think there's already a lot of issues with end-of-life care that are people don't want to talk about, especially conservatives, like uh people I've seen come to the ends of their lives.
• 2:21:11
  SPEAKER_26: If you, for example, have a lot of money, your life is going to last longer at the end if all things can the same.
• 2:21:18
  SPEAKER_26: And if you don't, you're gonna be put on morphine and you're gonna die much sooner.
• 2:21:22
  SPEAKER_26: And there's like these things that exist in the way we look at end-of-life care right now that I find to be really kind of effed.
• 2:21:28
  SPEAKER_26: And I don't know that conservatives are always talking about the issue within that context of people's own experiences with end-of-life care, because it is tragic to see someone uh who was extremely sharp and an incredible person live for an extra decade beyond what they ever would have wanted in a place where they are just sitting as somewhat of a potato every day being taken care of.
• 2:21:54
  SPEAKER_26: I mean, people live that all the time because we have this kind of system where you can live for a long time in this middle state.
• 2:22:01
  SPEAKER_26: And so I think we need to talk about those things more openly because that's really hard to see as well.
• 2:22:05
  SPEAKER_26: And you understand why people in those positions might think, man, everyone in this position, the person themselves and the whole family wishes we could have done something to help them years ago.
• 2:22:15
  SPEAKER_04: But we've outsourced that, right?
• 2:22:17
  SPEAKER_04: We've outsourced what what was to be intended is for your kids to take care of you.
• 2:22:22
  SPEAKER_04: And because we live such disconnected lives, if you will, that's where when you talk about end-of-life care or in some cases hospice or what have you, it's because we have degraded the family unit as well.
• 2:22:36
  SPEAKER_04: I think that's part of it.
• 2:22:37
  SPEAKER_04: And what I would just say is putting old people on morphine and just waiting for them to kind of kick the bucket, I think that that is part of that stew that I talked about before of just not caring about life.
• 2:22:49
  SPEAKER_04: If they if they don't have quality of life by the end, instead of saying, well, they should be able to take the easy way out, it's actually like, yeah, how can we as a family come and support them and make them feel like they're worthy again in their in their final years?
• 2:23:05
  SPEAKER_04: And we've gotten away from that.
• 2:23:06
  SPEAKER_05: So uh, quick question on this, not to get too serious, but stew of issues, rock band or racehorse?
• 2:23:12
  unknown: Just out of curious.
• 2:23:13
  SPEAKER_02: Stew of issues.
• 2:23:14
  SPEAKER_02: Stew of issues.
• 2:23:15
  SPEAKER_05: I'm going to rock band on that.
• 2:23:17
  SPEAKER_05: Rock band, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:23:18
  SPEAKER_05: But they probably have some pretty deep tracks, I would imagine.
• 2:23:21
  SPEAKER_05: Stewart.
• 2:23:22
  SPEAKER_05: Stew a stew of issues.
• 2:23:23
  SPEAKER_05: Nemo rock bands.
• 2:23:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, even better.
• 2:23:25
  SPEAKER_04: Stew of issues.
• 2:23:26
  SPEAKER_04: If it's a rock band, what what generation or what decade is it a rock?
• 2:23:30
  SPEAKER_05: Stew of issues?
• 2:23:31
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, you're going easily 90s?
• 2:23:34
  SPEAKER_05: Late 90s, early aughts.
• 2:23:36
  SPEAKER_05: They're new metal band for sure.
• 2:23:37
  SPEAKER_05: Has that been fully adopted, by the way, saying aughts?
• 2:23:40
  SPEAKER_02: Early aughts.
• 2:23:42
  SPEAKER_05: No, not yet.
• 2:23:43
  SPEAKER_05: What is that?
• 2:23:43
  SPEAKER_05: Otta is 2000s.
• 2:23:44
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:23:45
  SPEAKER_05: So 90s, but you get in the 2000s, it's the aughts.
• 2:23:47
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 2:23:48
  SPEAKER_05: I have not heard that.
• 2:23:49
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 2:23:49
  SPEAKER_05: No.
• 2:23:49
  SPEAKER_05: Lenny Kravitz played cinema in Hunger Games.
• 2:23:54
  SPEAKER_05: Also did a Don McLean cover that featured a video with Heather Graham, who does not get enough attention in that.
• 2:24:01
  SPEAKER_05: No, she doesn't.
• 2:24:01
  SPEAKER_05: No, yeah.
• 2:24:02
  SPEAKER_05: She really happened to her early.
• 2:24:03
  SPEAKER_05: She's still around.
• 2:24:05
  SPEAKER_05: Aging like a fine wine.
• 2:24:07
  SPEAKER_02: Really.
• 2:24:08
  SPEAKER_02: I just haven't seen her in the city.
• 2:24:09
  SPEAKER_02: Love you, Melinda.
• 2:24:10
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know who you are.
• 2:24:11
  SPEAKER_02: But she would agree with me.
• 2:24:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:24:12
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know Heather Graham?
• 2:24:13
  SPEAKER_02: So she was in the Lenny Kravitz.
• 2:24:15
  SPEAKER_06: You don't know who Heather Graham is?
• 2:24:16
  SPEAKER_02: And she was also in Awesome Powers, right?
• 2:24:19
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe I do.
• 2:24:19
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• 2:24:20
  SPEAKER_05: Who?
• 2:24:20
  SPEAKER_05: Who is who?
• 2:24:21
  SPEAKER_05: Heather Heather Graham.
• 2:24:22
  SPEAKER_05: You've seen The Hangover?
• 2:24:23
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• 2:24:23
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• 2:24:24
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• 2:24:25
  SPEAKER_05: He was uh the uh Ed Helms, the stripper that he ends up marrying.
• 2:24:30
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, guy, okay, yes.
• 2:24:31
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• 2:24:32
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• 2:24:37
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• 2:24:43
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• 2:25:28
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• 2:25:35
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• 2:25:43
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• 2:25:48
  SPEAKER_05: That's minileaf.com.
• 2:25:49
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 2:25:50
  SPEAKER_05: So in the middle of doing this, by the way, if you want to get some of your comments in, we will open up uh the, as we have all morning long, voice or text messages to your own personal home remedies.
• 2:26:00
  SPEAKER_05: If you have any personal home home remedies that you go and deal with interesting blasts.
• 2:26:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:26:05
  SPEAKER_05: Crunchy mom's ears perk up.
• 2:26:07
  SPEAKER_05: Mine uh mine typically just involve one word and it's rum.
• 2:26:10
  SPEAKER_05: Usually just takes care of it right there.
• 2:26:12
  SPEAKER_05: So let's go through this.
• 2:26:13
  SPEAKER_05: 10 health products that really make us wonder uh if anyone uh thought that these were safe to use in the first place.
• 2:26:18
  SPEAKER_05: In the 1920s, you could literally buy a bottled water containing radioactive radium.
• 2:26:25
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, drink it every day and call it a health treatment.
• 2:26:29
  SPEAKER_05: This was sold by William J.
• 2:26:31
  SPEAKER_05: A.
• 2:26:31
  SPEAKER_05: Bailey, who claimed it could treat everything from sexual impotence to venereal disease and more than 160 other ailments.
• 2:26:41
  SPEAKER_05: It was literally radioactive water.
• 2:26:44
  SPEAKER_05: What a time to be alive, man.
• 2:26:46
  SPEAKER_05: People weren't just supposed to sip it and call the day, by the way.
• 2:26:49
  SPEAKER_05: The treatment involved drinking half an ounce every day for several months.
• 2:26:54
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, that's getting in your system.
• 2:26:57
  SPEAKER_24: Holy cow.
• 2:26:58
  SPEAKER_05: Well, and it certainly happened for the guy who claimed it could treat everything.
• 2:27:02
  SPEAKER_05: You see, uh, Bailey wasn't exactly a medical genius.
• 2:27:06
  SPEAKER_05: He attended Harvard but never graduated.
• 2:27:09
  SPEAKER_05: He had previously been convicted of fraud and nevertheless reinvented himself as Dr.
• 2:27:13
  SPEAKER_05: Bailey.
• 2:27:13
  SPEAKER_25: Indeed.
• 2:27:14
  SPEAKER_25: Of course, his name was Bailey.
• 2:27:15
  SPEAKER_25: Isn't that the name of a fraudster?
• 2:27:17
  SPEAKER_25: Well, scam doctor.
• 2:27:18
  SPEAKER_25: Dr.
• 2:27:18
  SPEAKER_25: Bailey.
• 2:27:20
  SPEAKER_05: No offense to any Bailey's listening to the show.
• 2:27:22
  SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
• 2:27:23
  SPEAKER_25: You have the name of a fraudulent doctor.
• 2:27:25
  SPEAKER_05: I'm more than 400,000 bottles were reportedly sold worldwide between 25 and 1930.
• 2:27:31
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, the most famous was a wealthy Pittsburgh industrialist and former U.S.
• 2:27:36
  SPEAKER_05: amateur golf champion Evan Byers.
• 2:27:38
  SPEAKER_05: We all know Ebon Byers.
• 2:27:40
  SPEAKER_05: Of course.
• 2:27:41
  SPEAKER_05: There'll be a Kendall for Evan Byers soon.
• 2:27:44
  SPEAKER_05: Byers started drinking, they called it Radathor.
• 2:27:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yikes.
• 2:27:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yikes.
• 2:27:49
  SPEAKER_05: It had radium in the title.
• 2:27:51
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:27:51
  SPEAKER_05: Oh dear.
• 2:27:52
  SPEAKER_05: He started taking it in 1927 after injuring his arm.
• 2:27:55
  SPEAKER_05: At first, he apparently loved how it made him feel.
• 2:27:57
  SPEAKER_05: I bet, yeah.
• 2:27:58
  SPEAKER_05: He sent cases to his friends and even gave some to his racehorses.
• 2:28:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yikes.
• 2:28:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh.
• 2:28:06
  SPEAKER_05: Over the next few years, he consumed an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 bottles.
• 2:28:13
  SPEAKER_24: Dude.
• 2:28:14
  SPEAKER_05: Did he grow a third arm?
• 2:28:15
  SPEAKER_05: Well, no, but he did lose his jaw.
• 2:28:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I bet.
• 2:28:19
  SPEAKER_05: So he began losing weight, suffering severe headaches.
• 2:28:22
  SPEAKER_05: Tea started falling out.
• 2:28:23
  SPEAKER_05: The doctors ended up removing most of his upper and his lower jaw.
• 2:28:28
  SPEAKER_24: Oh my God.
• 2:28:28
  SPEAKER_05: A government attorney who visited him shortly before death described his bones as disintegrating.
• 2:28:33
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:28:34
  SPEAKER_05: With holes forming in his skull.
• 2:28:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:28:37
  SPEAKER_05: Radiation poisoning classic.
• 2:28:39
  SPEAKER_05: And he died from it in 1932 at age 51.
• 2:28:42
  SPEAKER_05: Even 51.
• 2:28:45
  SPEAKER_05: After his death, Radathor was not immediately taken off the market.
• 2:28:50
  SPEAKER_05: It simp it's simply because it contained radioactive material.
• 2:28:54
  SPEAKER_05: Federal drug laws at the time gave the FDA limited power to remove a product merely because it was inherently dangerous.
• 2:29:01
  SPEAKER_25: Oh my gosh.
• 2:29:02
  SPEAKER_25: Sometimes government involvement is a good thing.
• 2:29:04
  SPEAKER_04: Based.
• 2:29:07
  SPEAKER_04: Dr.
• 2:29:07
  SPEAKER_04: Bailey missed this moment because he could probably get some Medicaid dollars these days for Radathor.
• 2:29:13
  SPEAKER_05: It was accurately labeled, by the way.
• 2:29:14
  SPEAKER_05: It was called radioactive water.
• 2:29:17
  SPEAKER_02: Well, at least they weren't lying to anyone, at least about the name.
• 2:29:21
  SPEAKER_05: Speaking of which, I almost don't want to look it up because I used to consume this a lot, but whatever happened to Java water.
• 2:29:26
  SPEAKER_05: You guys remember Java water?
• 2:29:27
  SPEAKER_05: This was caffeine-infused bottled water.
• 2:29:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, yeah, I've still seen that around.
• 2:29:31
  SPEAKER_02: Do you still see it around?
• 2:29:32
  SPEAKER_05: It had a really bizarre aftertaste.
• 2:29:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was like it tastes like you just took like aspirin, crushed it up, and poured it in the water.
• 2:29:38
  SPEAKER_02: It had like that aspirin-y taste.
• 2:29:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 2:29:41
  SPEAKER_04: That was just Radathor.
• 2:29:46
  SPEAKER_05: And uh radium, and then radium.
• 2:29:48
  SPEAKER_05: Sorry, you got cut off there.
• 2:29:49
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go to the let's go to the next one here.
• 2:29:50
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 2:29:51
  SPEAKER_05: So, next on the list, for centuries, one of the main treatments for syphilis was literally mercury.
• 2:29:57
  unknown: All right.
• 2:29:58
  SPEAKER_05: A substance doctors already knew could be poisonous.
• 2:30:00
  SPEAKER_05: Now, what's amazing about this story regarding mercury is that we ever hear about mercury?
• 2:30:04
  SPEAKER_05: It's like, don't touch it, like, don't even look at it.
• 2:30:06
  SPEAKER_05: Right?
• 2:30:06
  SPEAKER_05: So it's like, don't even, just don't go anywhere near it.
• 2:30:08
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, right?
• 2:30:09
  SPEAKER_05: Because we all we've all we've all heard.
• 2:30:11
  SPEAKER_05: You don't want to put it in your hands, you don't want to go anywhere near it, right?
• 2:30:13
  SPEAKER_05: It's dangerous.
• 2:30:14
  SPEAKER_05: And yet, in this, they had it in all kinds of different products, and people were actually living for a long time until they weren't any more.
• 2:30:22
  SPEAKER_05: But like the way that we're told about mercury, it's like, again, if you look at it the wrong way, you're gonna, you're gonna die.
• 2:30:28
  SPEAKER_05: Uh in uh Protestant Europe, it became the go-to for doctors and apothecaries for ailments, including ointments, pills, uh, and compounds, better known as calomel.
• 2:30:41
  SPEAKER_05: Some treatments were rubbed directly onto the skin while others were swallowed.
• 2:30:46
  SPEAKER_05: Oh.
• 2:30:47
  SPEAKER_05: They had blue mass pills which contained mercury uh mercury, which were especially popular in the 17th and 19th centuries, and mercury ointments continued to be used well into the 20th century.
• 2:30:58
  SPEAKER_05: Oh interesting.
• 2:31:00
  SPEAKER_26: Well, you get mercury poisoning, right?
• 2:31:02
  SPEAKER_26: Isn't this a specific thing?
• 2:31:03
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:31:03
  SPEAKER_26: What happens?
• 2:31:04
  SPEAKER_05: You just They say the treatment was sometimes almost as brutal as the disease, and doctors weren't completely unaware that mercury was dangerous.
• 2:31:11
  SPEAKER_05: They knew it could poison people.
• 2:31:13
  SPEAKER_25: Oh, what great what?
• 2:31:15
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah, Hippocratic oath.
• 2:31:16
  SPEAKER_25: Who?
• 2:31:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I know.
• 2:31:17
  SPEAKER_05: I know.
• 2:31:17
  SPEAKER_05: They ended up one physician and alchemist recognized the risks of swallowing mercury, developed mercury ointments as an alternative because apparently the solution to a poisonous medicine was to put it on your skin instead.
• 2:31:30
  SPEAKER_05: Unfortunately, it didn't make it safe.
• 2:31:32
  SPEAKER_05: Parents would uh excuse me, patients would suffer severe inflammation, neurological problems, and damage to mouth and internal organs from mercury exposure.
• 2:31:42
  SPEAKER_05: Yep.
• 2:31:43
  SPEAKER_05: That'll do it.
• 2:31:44
  SPEAKER_05: God bless them.
• 2:31:45
  SPEAKER_25: Okay, can someone help me out?
• 2:31:46
  SPEAKER_25: What is the the story of the girls who painted their teeth with a substance that and it made their teeth whiter, but it was like radioactive?
• 2:31:55
  SPEAKER_25: Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
• 2:31:56
  SPEAKER_25: No one in the audience, please.
• 2:31:58
  SPEAKER_25: I think it was mercury or rhymes or something.
• 2:32:01
  SPEAKER_25: They got like radiation poisoning because they were they were uh working with the substance in a factory, and it's a very famous story.
• 2:32:08
  SPEAKER_25: And and the girls would take some of it and paint it on their teeth to get really white teeth, but then like their jaws started falling out of their faces eventually.
• 2:32:13
  SPEAKER_25: Oh, someone tell me what this is, please.
• 2:32:15
  SPEAKER_05: 651-964-0294, if you know the answer to Grace's query.
• 2:32:21
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, let's see.
• 2:32:22
  SPEAKER_05: Without effective treatment, by the way, syphilis could progress through latent stage before eventually causing irreversible damage to the skin bones and internal organs.
• 2:32:30
  SPEAKER_05: Certainly, uh, mercury was not the solution to that.
• 2:32:32
  SPEAKER_05: It wasn't until 1910 that the first effective treatment for sil uh for syphilis was developed.
• 2:32:38
  SPEAKER_05: Penicillin finally changed its uh the game in the 1940s, providing a far safer treatment uh that was more effective.
• 2:32:45
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:32:45
  SPEAKER_05: So there's your mercury poisoning as we wait to find out what it was they were putting on their teeth.
• 2:32:50
  SPEAKER_05: Melinda and I had an interesting conversation about this the other day because we were watching a teeth whitening commercial, right?
• 2:32:55
  SPEAKER_05: And it shows how white, you know, look at how white the teeth are.
• 2:32:57
  SPEAKER_05: But I I I think I made a comment, like it just looks so unnatural.
• 2:33:01
  SPEAKER_05: And Melinda was right.
• 2:33:02
  SPEAKER_05: It's because your teeth are not naturally that white.
• 2:33:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, right.
• 2:33:05
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's like veneers, too.
• 2:33:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's like that's why it looks so it's so strange.
• 2:33:10
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, we have an answer, Grace.
• 2:33:12
  SPEAKER_05: Hi, I can answer that question about the I'll read it because you can't hear what she's saying.
• 2:33:16
  SPEAKER_05: Um, they were actually using a material that they used to make watches with radio uh active material.
• 2:33:22
  SPEAKER_05: So it illuminates the hands of the watches so you could see them in the dark, but it was radioactive material, and that's a good point because I remember hearing that when you had like a swatch that glowed in the dark, it actually had a level of radiation in it.
• 2:33:36
  SPEAKER_05: So thank you so much.
• 2:33:37
  SPEAKER_05: Let's get it full circle.
• 2:33:39
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe it's a deep pull completely relevant.
• 2:33:41
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go here.
• 2:33:51
  SPEAKER_08: And ate so much sushi that he got some of the beginnings of mercury poisoning from eating raw fish.
• 2:33:59
  SPEAKER_05: I had the Interview Jeremy Pivens.
• 2:34:01
  SPEAKER_04: Fun fact, I was at the radio station when Jeremy Pivens came in.
• 2:34:05
  SPEAKER_04: I got to meet him in Justin.
• 2:34:06
  SPEAKER_05: That was a fun interview.
• 2:34:07
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, here we go.
• 2:34:08
  SPEAKER_05: We have further information on Grace's uh teeth watching.
• 2:34:10
  SPEAKER_30: Hello, John and True.
• 2:34:12
  SPEAKER_30: This is Chuck from Green Isle.
• 2:34:13
  SPEAKER_30: They called them radium girls.
• 2:34:16
  SPEAKER_30: They would paint the watch dials with radium paint in order to get sharp uh uh they would sharp numbers, they would put the tooth uh paintbrush in their mouth and work it into a small plant thereby exposing themselves to radium.
• 2:34:33
  SPEAKER_30: Yeah.
• 2:34:34
  SPEAKER_30: And they all got sick and died.
• 2:34:38
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that was actually what is wrong with people.
• 2:34:40
  SPEAKER_02: At least their teeth were white for a while, though.
• 2:34:41
  SPEAKER_05: They had some good fun nights on the town, I'm sure.
• 2:34:43
  SPEAKER_05: Well, and what's insane about it is that was the first one on the list was the radioactive water that used radium.
• 2:34:49
  SPEAKER_05: Did we learn nothing going back to the 20s?
• 2:34:52
  SPEAKER_05: Is that not uh Nope.
• 2:34:54
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 2:34:55
  SPEAKER_04: By the way, I I don't have like a ton of fears in life about the way that I look or as I get older, what happens, or what I get sick with.
• 2:35:03
  SPEAKER_04: But losing your jaw.
• 2:35:05
  SPEAKER_04: Dude.
• 2:35:05
  SPEAKER_04: Just like your tongue hanging out.
• 2:35:08
  SPEAKER_05: How do you eat?
• 2:35:10
  SPEAKER_03: How do you end up with it?
• 2:35:10
  SPEAKER_03: What was that?
• 2:35:13
  SPEAKER_05: How do you end up eating?
• 2:35:14
  SPEAKER_05: You gotta like how like that.
• 2:35:16
  SPEAKER_05: Not enough.
• 2:35:17
  SPEAKER_05: Blend it all up.
• 2:35:18
  SPEAKER_05: Right, not like not like that.
• 2:35:19
  SPEAKER_05: Blend it up.
• 2:35:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's how uh Mayor Hurt eats.
• 2:35:22
  SPEAKER_05: Um, one of the strangest things I came across while looking into old uh medical treatments, as we get on the number three, was that doctors actually injected patients with lead to stop heavy bleeding.
• 2:35:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yikes.
• 2:35:35
  SPEAKER_05: Did it work?
• 2:35:36
  SPEAKER_05: We gotta thicken up this blood to stop this bleeding.
• 2:35:39
  SPEAKER_05: For a time.
• 2:35:40
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:35:41
  SPEAKER_05: Uh lead acetate, a poisonous lead compound, was used for conditions ranging from uterine hemorrhaging to heavy menstrual bleeding to diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, nosebleeds, bronchitis, pneumonia, and even epilepsy.
• 2:35:55
  SPEAKER_05: They're just injecting everybody with lead.
• 2:35:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 2:35:58
  SPEAKER_25: I feel like every one of these stories is they found out that some substance fixed one thing and they were like, well, it must cure everything.
• 2:36:04
  SPEAKER_25: Every single one of these.
• 2:36:06
  SPEAKER_04: I'm just imagining the old like 1950s housewife trope where it's like, ah, honey, she's going crazy again.
• 2:36:12
  SPEAKER_04: Better inject her with some lead.
• 2:36:15
  SPEAKER_04: Don't take that Valium, sweetie.
• 2:36:18
  SPEAKER_05: There's a running theme that develops with the other items on the list, because I don't know if we'll have time to get to all of them, but apparently diarrhea was a huge issue back in this time because every every single one of the ones coming up, all of them list diarrhea as one of the forms of treatment, whether it's the lead, whether it's the cocaine that we're gonna talk about coming up in a moment.
• 2:36:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, apparently that there was a lot of that.
• 2:36:40
  SPEAKER_26: Just killing people left and right.
• 2:36:42
  SPEAKER_26: It was like a huge issue.
• 2:36:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I have I have uh lead, I have a lead mark on a lead tattoo on my right palm right here.
• 2:36:51
  SPEAKER_05: I was working at a Music Plus record store, right?
• 2:36:54
  SPEAKER_05: This was going back to the 90s.
• 2:36:56
  SPEAKER_05: Huge, really tall ceilings, right?
• 2:36:58
  SPEAKER_05: Stupid tall ceilings.
• 2:37:00
  SPEAKER_05: And we had the similar tiles to what we have here.
• 2:37:03
  SPEAKER_05: And we used to do this bit where we get bored in the break room and and we would take sharpened pencils and we would toss them up to get them stuck in the ceiling.
• 2:37:11
  SPEAKER_05: So we had all this collection of pencils.
• 2:37:13
  SPEAKER_05: I did that, and I was all proud of myself.
• 2:37:15
  SPEAKER_05: I did it on the first try, and I was like, look at what I did.
• 2:37:17
  SPEAKER_05: And I put my palms up and the pencil fell, came down and stabbed me in the hand.
• 2:37:23
  SPEAKER_05: Right, ended up breaking the skin, and ever since then, I have a little lead.
• 2:37:26
  SPEAKER_05: That's the only tattoo that I have is a little tiny lead dot tattoo on my hand.
• 2:37:29
  SPEAKER_05: And then you started to get superpowers after that.
• 2:37:32
  SPEAKER_05: That's right.
• 2:37:32
  SPEAKER_04: When I became a talk show host.
• 2:37:33
  SPEAKER_02: What's funny about like this symptom of diarrhea, it's because like just I sometimes it's an amazement that we've made it to this point as a species because the the things that can kill humans and the things that can affect us are very, very many.
• 2:37:49
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, this just the idea that like all the things that people used to eat that were probably spoiled and rotten and they got diarrhea from it.
• 2:37:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, what's wrong with me?
• 2:37:58
  SPEAKER_02: We had all way to go.
• 2:37:59
  SPEAKER_05: We had a text that rolled in.
• 2:38:00
  SPEAKER_05: We had mercury in science classes many years ago.
• 2:38:03
  SPEAKER_05: We even rolled it around on our hands.
• 2:38:05
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think you were supposed to touch to do that.
• 2:38:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you would like to play with it, but you're they were like, do not touch it.
• 2:38:11
  SPEAKER_02: And they I think nowadays they probably don't even allow it.
• 2:38:15
  SPEAKER_26: They gave you mercury in school, yeah, yeah.
• 2:38:17
  SPEAKER_02: It was like part of like a lot seventh grade science, I think.
• 2:38:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:38:22
  SPEAKER_05: It's a cool substance.
• 2:38:23
  SPEAKER_05: I was just always told that it just will kill you.
• 2:38:26
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, let's see.
• 2:38:27
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go here.
• 2:38:28
  SPEAKER_05: I had no idea that cocaine was once sold legally at pharmacies and marketed as medicine.
• 2:38:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:38:34
  SPEAKER_05: Before it became synonymous with an illicit drug, cocaine was touted as a treatment for everything from fatigue to pain to sore throats.
• 2:38:42
  SPEAKER_05: And you could find it in products that were sitting right on the pharmacy shelves.
• 2:38:46
  SPEAKER_26: Well, fatigue, yeah.
• 2:38:47
  SPEAKER_26: I mean, there you go.
• 2:38:48
  SPEAKER_26: Yep, yeah.
• 2:38:49
  SPEAKER_03: I've heard stories about it, I don't doubt that.
• 2:38:51
  SPEAKER_03: I've heard stories about that.
• 2:38:53
  SPEAKER_05: I've never tried cocaine.
• 2:38:57
  SPEAKER_05: I have I have tasted a lot of that.
• 2:39:00
  SPEAKER_05: I have tasted it.
• 2:39:01
  SPEAKER_05: I've never actually been high off it.
• 2:39:04
  SPEAKER_05: So same type of what?
• 2:39:06
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, so same girl, same girl, back to Shelly again.
• 2:39:09
  SPEAKER_07: Oh my god.
• 2:39:10
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, Shelly.
• 2:39:11
  SPEAKER_07: Melinda, if you're listening, please leave us a talk back of what you think about this.
• 2:39:15
  SPEAKER_05: So Shelly had some friends that did that used to do coke, and they were over at her house.
• 2:39:21
  SPEAKER_05: And, you know, I I I don't even know.
• 2:39:23
  SPEAKER_05: This was I was I was super young at the time.
• 2:39:25
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I was really young at the time.
• 2:39:26
  SPEAKER_05: As a matter of fact, it was a bit of a scandal because I met her at a record store.
• 2:39:30
  SPEAKER_05: I was 15, she was 19.
• 2:39:34
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yes.
• 2:39:35
  SPEAKER_05: And I was dating I was dating her when I was 16.
• 2:39:38
  SPEAKER_05: I think she was turning 19 or 20, but times were different back then.
• 2:39:41
  unknown: Yeah.
• 2:39:42
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 2:39:48
  SPEAKER_05: And it's really funny because she had and she had a complex about it.
• 2:39:52
  SPEAKER_05: She had one, one of her two front teeth was stained really dark, and she hated taking photographs.
• 2:39:58
  SPEAKER_05: True story.
• 2:39:59
  SPEAKER_05: Because of the Coke?
• 2:40:00
  SPEAKER_05: No, that was a completely separate thing.
• 2:40:01
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 2:40:02
  SPEAKER_05: So her friends were over and they had lines of coke on the table, and I was just, I'd never done it before, and I was scared to do it.
• 2:40:07
  SPEAKER_05: And so I'd always seen, I'd always seen what they had done in movies, and they take it and they put it on their gums.
• 2:40:12
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 2:40:12
  SPEAKER_05: That's it.
• 2:40:13
  SPEAKER_05: Uh-huh.
• 2:40:13
  SPEAKER_05: So I took a little tiny bit, put it on my gums, didn't do anything, tasted weird, and that was my experience.
• 2:40:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it makes it go numb.
• 2:40:18
  SPEAKER_02: So there you go.
• 2:40:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 2:40:19
  SPEAKER_03: It was just powdered sugar.
• 2:40:22
  SPEAKER_05: Well, we're gonna find out if Shelly listens to this show.
• 2:40:24
  SPEAKER_05: It's been decades.
• 2:40:28
  SPEAKER_05: It's probably a name that Melinda's never even heard before, to be honest.
• 2:40:31
  SPEAKER_05: I've never brought her up and I don't think I'm brought her up in the in the in the past.
• 2:40:36
  SPEAKER_26: I did always think that would happen to me after going through high school, like dare and stuff like that.
• 2:40:40
  SPEAKER_26: You know, I'd be like, oh, okay, I gotta prepare to go to college, and there's lines of coke on the table, and I gotta be like, no, no, thank.
• 2:40:46
  SPEAKER_26: Never once.
• 2:40:47
  SPEAKER_26: Like, I this never, maybe it's because I went to St.
• 2:40:49
  SPEAKER_26: Olaf in Northfield, but this issue never crossed my channel.
• 2:40:52
  SPEAKER_26: No one was just handing me drugs at any point in my life, and I had to be like, no, no, stop.
• 2:40:58
  SPEAKER_02: I went to the U and there were quite a lot of people that did drugs, and I had passed that phase in my life.
• 2:41:04
  SPEAKER_02: I did all my drugs when you were like eight from 12 to 18.
• 2:41:08
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's when all my drug consumption happened.
• 2:41:10
  SPEAKER_02: And then I met Schmoopy.
• 2:41:12
  SPEAKER_02: So when I went to college, I was like the dad.
• 2:41:14
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, kids, don't do cocaine.
• 2:41:17
  SPEAKER_02: But there was a couple of people that literally had the drug in their name.
• 2:41:20
  SPEAKER_02: It was like their nickname, and there was cocaine Courtney.
• 2:41:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, because she just did cocaine all the time.
• 2:41:25
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out cocaine Courtney.
• 2:41:27
  SPEAKER_02: But no, no, she turned into Shelly.
• 2:41:29
  SPEAKER_02: You're best friends now.
• 2:41:30
  SPEAKER_02: As I've seen online, her she's turned her life around very productive.
• 2:41:34
  SPEAKER_02: I believe she's born-again Christian.
• 2:41:36
  SPEAKER_02: So, but yeah, there was that time where I'm just like, man, these college kids do a lot of cocaine.
• 2:41:41
  SPEAKER_02: It was a thing.
• 2:41:42
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go here.
• 2:41:43
  SPEAKER_13: Let's go, John.
• 2:41:44
  SPEAKER_13: Uh, hate to hear Catherine's leaving.
• 2:41:46
  SPEAKER_13: This is her final show.
• 2:41:48
  SPEAKER_13: Actually, it would be Catherine.
• 2:41:50
  SPEAKER_05: Sorry to sorry to hear that, Catherine.
• 2:41:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yep, sorry.
• 2:41:53
  SPEAKER_05: That's too bad.
• 2:41:54
  SPEAKER_05: I wanted to say personally that got you confused the last time.
• 2:41:56
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:41:57
  SPEAKER_05: She wasn't unaware of it.
• 2:41:59
  SPEAKER_04: Catherine, we were going to tell you at the end of the show.
• 2:42:02
  SPEAKER_04: Your surfaces are no longer needed.
• 2:42:09
  SPEAKER_16: Could she please do a oh hell yeah drop before you leave?
• 2:42:14
  SPEAKER_16: There's so many things wrong here.
• 2:42:16
  SPEAKER_02: That wasn't Catherine and she's leaving, and this is the oh he's got the spirit.
• 2:42:22
  SPEAKER_05: He's just a little confused.
• 2:42:23
  SPEAKER_05: Oh hell yeah, was a woman that was interviewing E.
• 2:42:27
  SPEAKER_05: Jean Carroll, and it was Eegene Carroll talking about wanting to be a nemesis to Grace, and he thought it was and or Catherine, I guess.
• 2:42:37
  SPEAKER_02: No, I thought that on on the the show, the old show that you had said that one of you two had they had made a drop of one of you saying it.
• 2:42:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like oh yeah.
• 2:42:48
  SPEAKER_26: Right.
• 2:42:48
  SPEAKER_26: I think it was you, wasn't it?
• 2:42:50
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:42:51
  SPEAKER_05: I think it was I think it was Grace.
• 2:42:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:42:52
  SPEAKER_02: So I think he's right.
• 2:42:53
  SPEAKER_02: They have the name correct, uh, or at least the person correct, but the name's still wrong, which is funny.
• 2:42:59
  SPEAKER_24: Wow.
• 2:42:59
  SPEAKER_04: All right, Grace.
• 2:43:01
  SPEAKER_24: Leave us with a good one.
• 2:43:02
  SPEAKER_24: Oh, hell yeah.
• 2:43:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, now we'll have that forever.
• 2:43:08
  SPEAKER_02: That was amazing.
• 2:43:09
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 2:43:12
  SPEAKER_24: My legacy to this show.
• 2:43:14
  SPEAKER_24: Wow.
• 2:43:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:43:16
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 2:43:16
  SPEAKER_24: She's leaving us to go to Disney.
• 2:43:18
  SPEAKER_24: I'm going to the new uh new Hollywood out in Texas.
• 2:43:21
  SPEAKER_24: That was angel studio.
• 2:43:23
  SPEAKER_02: Incredible.
• 2:43:23
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 2:43:24
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 2:43:24
  SPEAKER_05: Holy cow.
• 2:43:25
  SPEAKER_02: That was way better than my Tim Wallace in person.
• 2:43:28
  SPEAKER_24: Let's not bring that up again.
• 2:43:30
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:43:30
  SPEAKER_24: Lomar?
• 2:43:31
  SPEAKER_24: Let's not revisit that.
• 2:43:32
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 2:43:32
  SPEAKER_05: Because cocaine works quickly, it found its way far beyond the operating room with few regulations governing its sale.
• 2:43:40
  SPEAKER_05: What's funny about this is they do not mention the big one, and that was it was actually put in Coca-Cola initially.
• 2:43:46
  SPEAKER_05: And so it's just where it got its change.
• 2:43:47
  SPEAKER_02: I had heard a rumor that you know President Trump he wanted to bring back, you know, old uh Coca-Cola because he loves Diet Coke and put real sugar, and some people online were like, and add the cocaine back.
• 2:43:58
  SPEAKER_02: That's how you make it the best.
• 2:44:00
  SPEAKER_06: Let's go here.
• 2:44:02
  SPEAKER_40: The current fear of mercury is such that when they break a mercury thermometer in a school, they will evacuate the school.
• 2:44:16
  SPEAKER_40: Yeah.
• 2:44:16
  SPEAKER_40: That's just nuts.
• 2:44:18
  SPEAKER_40: I mean, we used to play with it when we were kids.
• 2:44:22
  SPEAKER_40: That makes sense.
• 2:44:23
  SPEAKER_40: Still alive.
• 2:44:25
  SPEAKER_04: Sounds sounds like thank you.
• 2:44:27
  SPEAKER_04: Might be barely, but appreciate the blast.
• 2:44:32
  SPEAKER_02: Do you remember when they first came out with the compact fluorescent lights?
• 2:44:36
  SPEAKER_02: That the problem was, and it still is to this day, that there's mercury in there, and you can't just throw it in the trash.
• 2:44:42
  SPEAKER_05: I hate, I hate, I hate.
• 2:44:44
  SPEAKER_05: I I I can't stand the fact that we don't have do we have access now to the incandescent lights anywhere?
• 2:44:49
  SPEAKER_02: We do because Trump and then LED just so much better.
• 2:44:53
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 2:44:53
  SPEAKER_05: I need to know if that guy was doing a bit.
• 2:44:55
  SPEAKER_05: That was he wasn't.
• 2:44:57
  SPEAKER_05: He's he's a he's a frequent, uh, he's a frequent blaster.
• 2:45:00
  SPEAKER_05: I think I I think I applied the George Lucas um uh acting technique of faster, more intense next time.
• 2:45:06
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, would be would be helpful.
• 2:45:09
  SPEAKER_05: Hang on, hang on.
• 2:45:10
  SPEAKER_04: I want to pause on this.
• 2:45:10
  SPEAKER_04: AK, you said LED lights are just better?
• 2:45:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, way better.
• 2:45:14
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, they're not.
• 2:45:15
  SPEAKER_04: LED lights literally suck your soul out.
• 2:45:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 2:45:19
  SPEAKER_02: No, but you can change, you can change the color, the brightness.
• 2:45:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's fun.
• 2:45:24
  SPEAKER_04: But they don't want the warmth of an incandescent bulb.
• 2:45:28
  SPEAKER_02: I don't want the warmth is what gave us life.
• 2:45:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's destroying my avocados and my tomatoes because they're sitting on top of my microwave.
• 2:45:37
  SPEAKER_02: And it makes it hot.
• 2:45:38
  SPEAKER_02: I hate it.
• 2:45:39
  SPEAKER_02: So I actually am gonna change up my under the worst.
• 2:45:43
  SPEAKER_03: This is the worst thing.
• 2:45:44
  SPEAKER_03: From incandescent, yeah, I'm with Mac LED.
• 2:45:46
  SPEAKER_03: LED lights are you like the LED lights better?
• 2:45:49
  SPEAKER_05: No, I'm with Mac.
• 2:45:50
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, they stop on your body.
• 2:45:53
  SPEAKER_04: They're the reason that we are depressed as a nation.
• 2:45:56
  SPEAKER_05: They're more expensive, they don't last nearly as long.
• 2:45:59
  SPEAKER_05: LEDs what LEDs last forever.
• 2:46:03
  SPEAKER_02: No, yeah.
• 2:46:04
  SPEAKER_07: I saw a picture of a uh, I think it was the New York skyline with like in the 80s and 90s before like LEDs.
• 2:46:10
  SPEAKER_07: It's amazing how much better it looked than today.
• 2:46:12
  SPEAKER_05: Of the life human.
• 2:46:14
  SPEAKER_07: So much better.
• 2:46:15
  SPEAKER_07: So much better.
• 2:46:17
  SPEAKER_02: Much better.
• 2:46:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 2:46:18
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no.
• 2:46:19
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:46:19
  SPEAKER_05: Get out.
• 2:46:20
  SPEAKER_02: Get out of here.
• 2:46:22
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 2:46:22
  SPEAKER_05: Where was I?
• 2:46:24
  SPEAKER_05: You leave with Grace and Catherine.
• 2:46:26
  SPEAKER_05: So um cocaine was appearing in throat lozenge.
• 2:46:29
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think Catherine's leaving, you guys.
• 2:46:30
  SPEAKER_24: I have to stop.
• 2:46:32
  SPEAKER_24: Yeah.
• 2:46:32
  SPEAKER_24: I can't tell if this is a joke anymore.
• 2:46:35
  SPEAKER_06: I just I don't even know what to do.
• 2:46:37
  SPEAKER_06: I'm trying to get back to it.
• 2:46:39
  SPEAKER_05: So, cocaine, throat lozenge uh cocaine, gray tooth drop cocaine.
• 2:46:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yep, yep.
• 2:46:43
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, check.
• 2:46:44
  SPEAKER_05: Some of the products were advertised as remedies for pain, sore throats, other everyday ailments.
• 2:46:49
  SPEAKER_05: You didn't need a prescription to buy it either.
• 2:46:51
  SPEAKER_05: Cocaine uh toothache drops were one in particular.
• 2:46:56
  SPEAKER_05: They were marketed as a way to relieve the pain of a toothache, taking advantage of the cocaine's numbing properties.
• 2:47:03
  SPEAKER_05: So if you thought you had a throbbing tooth in the late 19th or 20th century, one of the remedies available to you was literally cocaine.
• 2:47:13
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:47:14
  SPEAKER_05: Like how many individuals were like the other guy with the radium going, I feel great on this, and just got just got hooked.
• 2:47:21
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think it's coincidental that it sounds like the cocaine was hitting its peak right around the industrial revolution.
• 2:47:26
  SPEAKER_05: Well, let's go further than that really quick.
• 2:47:28
  SPEAKER_05: When you go back to, and I've watched a couple of different documentaries and heard commentary on this, but you go back to the litany of films that came out in the 80s, almost everybody will tell you that the majority of those films were all created and run on cocaine.
• 2:47:42
  SPEAKER_05: Like everybody, you go back to your Fast Times of Ridgemont High, your risky business, you name any popular 80s film, and there is probably a backstory about just how much cocaine was on set and how they were uh everybody was Carrie Fisher.
• 2:47:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, she and then Empire Strikes Back.
• 2:47:59
  SPEAKER_05: The reason she is so thin in that film was because on the filming of those films, they were all hopped up on cocaine.
• 2:48:04
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my gosh.
• 2:48:05
  SPEAKER_04: That checks out.
• 2:48:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:48:06
  SPEAKER_04: But uh, but you go back in time and it's like what this list is really illuminating to me is that this country was basically built by alcoholics and addicts.
• 2:48:15
  SPEAKER_27: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:48:17
  SPEAKER_04: Everything we have today we owe to people on some.
• 2:48:20
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, I got a sore throat.
• 2:48:21
  SPEAKER_04: I'm going to inject myself with literal poison.
• 2:48:25
  SPEAKER_05: Well, to that point, Max, if you thought cocaine uh toothache drops were uh going to be the only health product containing a literal drug, uh, we have news for you.
• 2:48:34
  SPEAKER_05: Heroin was also sold this medicine, too.
• 2:48:37
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, of course it was.
• 2:48:38
  SPEAKER_05: So hell yeah.
• 2:48:38
  SPEAKER_25: Nothing could surprise me at this point.
• 2:48:40
  SPEAKER_25: Yeah.
• 2:48:40
  SPEAKER_05: 1868, Bayer and Company introduced heroin as a pain reliever and a cough suppressant.
• 2:48:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:48:47
  SPEAKER_05: You guys packaging it in small bottles and marketing it as a safe and effective treatment.
• 2:48:54
  SPEAKER_05: How many people were just like, oh, I was just uh I keep coughing.
• 2:48:59
  SPEAKER_05: Uh uh, I really need some more uh heroin, please.
• 2:49:02
  SPEAKER_26: Can you just drink heroin?
• 2:49:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you could, yeah.
• 2:49:05
  SPEAKER_05: Why are people doing that now?
• 2:49:07
  SPEAKER_02: Because it's expensive.
• 2:49:08
  SPEAKER_05: Heroin had actually been uh synthesized with uh from morphine a couple of decades earlier.
• 2:49:14
  SPEAKER_05: It was a bear employee, Felix Hoffman, who then synthesized it, have a hard time saying that, into the form that the company would commercially market.
• 2:49:22
  SPEAKER_05: They promoted it as a powerful alternative to morphine, and it was even presented as a potential treatment for morphine addiction, even though it was derived from morphine.
• 2:49:32
  SPEAKER_25: That is that is that is tragic.
• 2:49:34
  SPEAKER_05: They prescribed heroin for coughs, respiratory illnesses, plus tuberculosis.
• 2:49:40
  SPEAKER_05: Early medical reports suggested that it could suppress coughing effectively, and heroin was considered particularly useful when it comes to respiratory diseases.
• 2:49:49
  SPEAKER_05: Its addictive potential, however, wasn't yet understood.
• 2:49:53
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:49:53
  SPEAKER_05: The problem became apparent surprisingly quickly for obvious reasons.
• 2:49:57
  SPEAKER_05: By 1903, heroin misuse in the United States had already risen to what the DEA described to as alarming levels.
• 2:50:05
  SPEAKER_05: Let me stop here real quick, though.
• 2:50:06
  SPEAKER_05: Consider 1903, for them to be able to identify it nationwide as being raised to alarming levels without the ability to disseminate that information quickly.
• 2:50:18
  SPEAKER_05: Can you imagine how many people must have been hopped up on heroin and commit back to Max's point?
• 2:50:23
  SPEAKER_05: Great point.
• 2:50:23
  SPEAKER_05: Yep.
• 2:50:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:50:24
  SPEAKER_05: Completely alternate history to the United to the United States.
• 2:50:28
  SPEAKER_26: I feel like in the future, one of the things that might be on this list are like the ADHD drugs that give little boys just like meth if you look at the the compound.
• 2:50:36
  SPEAKER_05: Well, that's one of the questions that I had going through this list was I I would hope that we've reached a place where this type of thing would be completely obsolete, but I can't help but wonder because.
• 2:51:09
  SPEAKER_02: Tim Walsh.
• 2:51:10
  SPEAKER_02: Tim Waltz, yeah, 100%.
• 2:51:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's true, right there.
• 2:51:12
  SPEAKER_05: Uh let's see.
• 2:51:13
  SPEAKER_05: Uh getting back to the story.
• 2:51:14
  SPEAKER_05: Well, people who had initially taken the drug for legitimate medical reasons could find themselves needing increasingly larger doses of the heroin.
• 2:51:21
  SPEAKER_05: And because heroin was initially available with few dis uh restrictions, it wasn't difficult for people to get their hands on it.
• 2:51:28
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914, so another 13 years ended up going by.
• 2:51:34
  SPEAKER_05: No, it's more like 11.
• 2:51:37
  SPEAKER_05: Introduced federal controls on narcotics requiring prescription products containing narcotics, above specified limits, and imposing record keeping requirements for on doctors and pharmacists.
• 2:51:49
  SPEAKER_05: However, the restrictions didn't happen overnight, and heroin continued to be used medically in various places for years afterwards.
• 2:51:57
  SPEAKER_05: That is insane.
• 2:51:58
  SPEAKER_05: That's insane to me.
• 2:51:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, you guys remember, like we say, oh, this has happened.
• 2:52:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um Prince died from fentanyl.
• 2:52:07
  SPEAKER_02: Not because like he was being like, you know, obviously there was an addiction, but he was prescribed it.
• 2:52:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um also Michael Jackson in kind of uh a similar had a concoction of propofol and also fentanyl.
• 2:52:22
  SPEAKER_02: So this hasn't happened not that long ago where doctors are using these things, not necessarily realizing that uh they are awful.
• 2:52:29
  SPEAKER_02: And then clearly the entire opioid uh you know, pandemic, epidemic, or whatever you want to call it, that just happened recently with everyone getting hopped up on pain med.
• 2:52:41
  SPEAKER_26: So I do think Michael Jackson's doctors were like doctors doing that thing with my fingers, weren't they?
• 2:52:47
  SPEAKER_26: Weren't they?
• 2:52:47
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, I mean it got charged.
• 2:52:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like Dr.
• 2:52:51
  SPEAKER_04: Bailey.
• 2:52:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like Dr.
• 2:52:52
  SPEAKER_02: Bailey.
• 2:52:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:52:53
  SPEAKER_02: Went to Harvard, didn't finish, you know, med school or whatever, probably.
• 2:52:57
  SPEAKER_05: Well, you look at um Matthew, uh Matthew Perry from Friends.
• 2:53:00
  SPEAKER_05: Yep, yep.
• 2:53:01
  SPEAKER_05: Ketamine.
• 2:53:01
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that was ketamine.
• 2:53:02
  SPEAKER_05: And then we found out that Hayden Panaterie, it was fentanyl.
• 2:53:06
  SPEAKER_05: Fentanyl.
• 2:53:06
  SPEAKER_05: It was fan, it was fed with fentanyl too.
• 2:53:08
  SPEAKER_05: With something else.
• 2:53:08
  SPEAKER_05: It was something else with fentanyl.
• 2:53:10
  SPEAKER_05: I think it was something that was laced with fentanyl with fentanyl.
• 2:53:12
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:53:13
  SPEAKER_05: Um Panateer?
• 2:53:14
  SPEAKER_26: Hayden Panateer.
• 2:53:15
  SPEAKER_26: Is it Panateer?
• 2:53:16
  SPEAKER_26: Am I saying that?
• 2:53:16
  SPEAKER_05: I'm saying that in a right.
• 2:53:17
  SPEAKER_26: See, that's my generation.
• 2:53:18
  SPEAKER_26: That's my Lenny Kravitz.
• 2:53:19
  SPEAKER_05: That is your Lenny Kravitz.
• 2:53:21
  SPEAKER_05: He played Senna in um Hunger Games.
• 2:53:23
  SPEAKER_05: You're aware of that.
• 2:53:24
  SPEAKER_26: And uh, you know, remember the Titans?
• 2:53:27
  SPEAKER_26: Yep.
• 2:53:28
  SPEAKER_26: Hayden Panateer.
• 2:53:29
  SPEAKER_26: Little girl.
• 2:53:29
  SPEAKER_05: That's right.
• 2:53:29
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:53:30
  SPEAKER_05: Denzel Washington.
• 2:53:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:53:32
  SPEAKER_05: I'm familiar with him.
• 2:53:33
  SPEAKER_05: He was suggested to be a Ken Basseter in the story.
• 2:53:35
  SPEAKER_05: I just didn't.
• 2:53:36
  SPEAKER_05: I just didn't get, I just didn't get to it.
• 2:53:37
  SPEAKER_02: That's what so dumb.
• 2:53:38
  SPEAKER_05: What?
• 2:53:39
  SPEAKER_05: He's not even letting me.
• 2:53:40
  SPEAKER_02: I love Denzel Washington.
• 2:53:42
  SPEAKER_02: But Denzel Washington as a Ken doll is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
• 2:53:48
  SPEAKER_05: Did you hear the?
• 2:53:49
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know if it was a myth or not, but apparently he said that that's not technically how his first name was pronounced.
• 2:53:55
  SPEAKER_05: Denzel?
• 2:53:56
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it was like Denzel or something like this, and he said other people just adopted it as Denzel and they went with it.
• 2:54:01
  SPEAKER_05: Too bad.
• 2:54:02
  SPEAKER_31: You are Denzel for that.
• 2:54:04
  SPEAKER_05: I'd heard that as well.
• 2:54:04
  SPEAKER_05: Let's go here.
• 2:54:05
  SPEAKER_31: It may be an old wives' tale, but once medical practices got to the point where they understood cocaine was addictive.
• 2:54:14
  SPEAKER_31: Part of the rehab process was heroin.
• 2:54:21
  SPEAKER_05: That's nice.
• 2:54:24
  SPEAKER_05: That's just absolutely insane.
• 2:54:27
  SPEAKER_17: Well, yeah, uh heroin uh officer.
• 2:54:31
  SPEAKER_17: I remember the movie Tools on White Earth's wife, uh Daddy was uh hook on it constantly.
• 2:54:39
  SPEAKER_17: And you can see how throwing off she was on that.
• 2:54:42
  SPEAKER_17: So that really was the thing.
• 2:54:44
  SPEAKER_05: And wasn't uh wasn't um the one character, what disease uh disease did he have?
• 2:54:49
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Valkelmo.
• 2:54:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Valkelmo.
• 2:54:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:54:51
  SPEAKER_02: What was he?
• 2:54:52
  SPEAKER_05: It wasn't was it syphilis?
• 2:54:53
  SPEAKER_05: I think it was syphilis.
• 2:54:54
  SPEAKER_05: It might have been syphilis.
• 2:54:55
  SPEAKER_05: He probably was on like lead.
• 2:54:56
  SPEAKER_05: Full circle.
• 2:54:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:54:57
  SPEAKER_05: Look how that happened.
• 2:54:58
  SPEAKER_05: Isn't that amazing?
• 2:55:00
  SPEAKER_05: Uh let me wrap up on uh on this one here.
• 2:55:02
  SPEAKER_05: Let me see here.
• 2:55:03
  SPEAKER_05: What did I got here on the list?
• 2:55:04
  SPEAKER_05: We're running out of time here.
• 2:55:05
  SPEAKER_05: This one was made me laugh.
• 2:55:06
  SPEAKER_05: Chloroform was introduced as a surgical anesthetic in 1847, which is bizarre to think about considering doctors were still learning just how dangerous it could be.
• 2:55:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:55:16
  SPEAKER_05: Because that's the one where you that's the one you people get knocked out on all the time.
• 2:55:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like the stereotypical, they have like the cloth and then they pass out.
• 2:55:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 2:55:22
  SPEAKER_05: So first introduced in 1831, it quickly became popular because it was more potent than uh than ether and didn't have ether's strong, unpleasant smell.
• 2:55:32
  SPEAKER_05: A Scottish uh obstetrician experimented with inhaling it himself before using it on the Yeah, I bet.
• 2:55:40
  SPEAKER_24: What a what a hero.
• 2:55:42
  SPEAKER_03: It's like that worked.
• 2:55:47
  SPEAKER_05: In the 19th century, doctors proc uh prescribed strychnine as a medicinal tonic with small doses believed to stimulate the nervous and muscular system.
• 2:55:55
  SPEAKER_05: What is that?
• 2:55:56
  SPEAKER_02: Another poison.
• 2:55:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, straight up.
• 2:55:58
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, uh strychnine.
• 2:56:00
  SPEAKER_05: Showed up in pills, syrups, tablets, uh powders, and elixir elixirs.
• 2:56:04
  SPEAKER_05: We don't get a lot of elixirs.
• 2:56:05
  SPEAKER_05: Elixirs.
• 2:56:06
  SPEAKER_25: We should go back and bring more elixirs.
• 2:56:08
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah, you said apothecary earlier.
• 2:56:09
  SPEAKER_26: I did say apothecary.
• 2:56:10
  SPEAKER_26: I feel like they usually have elixirs.
• 2:56:12
  SPEAKER_26: Yeah.
• 2:56:12
  SPEAKER_05: And you used alchemists.
• 2:56:13
  SPEAKER_05: We need more alchemists.
• 2:56:15
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
• 2:56:15
  SPEAKER_05: You know, proving that I do not work for the government in Minneapolis because I can read numbers and I can pronounce words.
• 2:56:20
  SPEAKER_05: Look at that.
• 2:56:21
  SPEAKER_05: So that's what that's that's amazing.
• 2:56:22
  SPEAKER_05: Let's wrap up on this.
• 2:56:23
  SPEAKER_05: Speaking of pronouncing words, I'm looking at an audio clip that's been sitting here.
• 2:56:26
  SPEAKER_05: I didn't have a chance to play uh this morning.
• 2:56:28
  SPEAKER_05: This is Democrat representative Jonathan Jackson talking about President Donald Trump renovating the White House, and he coined a uh brand new uh term.
• 2:56:38
  SPEAKER_39: President proclivity is inclination, and this administration is towards violence.
• 2:56:44
  SPEAKER_39: You've seen the violence on the buildings of the East Wing was a very historical uh figure and and uh institution, the building, so much history.
• 2:56:57
  SPEAKER_39: Same thing that's happened with the pool and doesn't without Congress.
• 2:57:02
  SPEAKER_05: So that was a new one.
• 2:57:03
  SPEAKER_05: Violent Trump has committed violence on buildings now.
• 2:57:07
  SPEAKER_05: Violence on buildings.
• 2:57:08
  SPEAKER_05: Uh tuberculosis, not syphilis.
• 2:57:10
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 2:57:11
  SPEAKER_05: Is what Doc had.
• 2:57:12
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 2:57:12
  SPEAKER_05: In that uh in that.
• 2:57:13
  SPEAKER_05: He did cough a lot.
• 2:57:14
  SPEAKER_02: He did cough a lot.
• 2:57:15
  SPEAKER_05: Listen, this brings us uh to the end of a Freedom Friday show.
• 2:57:19
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we did it.
• 2:57:21
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you so much uh for everybody joining us.
• 2:57:23
  SPEAKER_05: Uh and uh with uh with this moment, Grace, I just want to say thank you so much for the time that you give into the show over the past few years.
• 2:57:29
  SPEAKER_05: We were talking just recently, like I didn't realize how long uh you had been on the show with with Catherine.
• 2:57:35
  SPEAKER_05: It had been a couple of years now.
• 2:57:37
  SPEAKER_05: So um really enjoyed the time working with you and the time working with you here at Center of the American Experiment.
• 2:57:42
  SPEAKER_05: And I know I speak for all of us uh when I say, you know, good luck on your uh on your next adventure.
• 2:57:46
  SPEAKER_05: You're certainly going to be missed uh here in the building and absolutely here on Freedom Fridays.
• 2:57:51
  SPEAKER_05: And the listeners this morning have been expressing that on the blaster line with voice and text messages all morning.
• 2:57:56
  SPEAKER_05: So thank you uh so much for being a part of the show, Grace.
• 2:57:58
  SPEAKER_25: Oh, thank you so much, John, and and thank you all, and thank you uh again to the listeners.
• 2:58:02
  SPEAKER_25: This has been um um such such a wonderful special experience, and I will certainly miss it moving forward.
• 2:58:08
  SPEAKER_05: Uh Max Reimer, thank you for coming in this morning, my friend.
• 2:58:11
  SPEAKER_05: Thanks for having me.
• 2:58:12
  SPEAKER_05: As always, Great Freedom Friday, aK Kamara, conservative online opinionator.
• 2:58:16
  SPEAKER_05: Where can people find uh the RNC committee man at?
• 2:58:18
  SPEAKER_02: You can find me on X, Facebook, and Instagram at real aK Kamara.
• 2:58:22
  SPEAKER_02: If you are a scolder and you love the Vikings, you gotta watch me on whenever the Vikings play.
• 2:58:27
  SPEAKER_02: I put out some bangers.
• 2:58:29
  SPEAKER_02: I've been told by some people they absolutely love my Vikings content.
• 2:58:32
  SPEAKER_02: And thank you so much, Grace.
• 2:58:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's been awesome getting to know you throughout the last few years, being on you know, the iterations of this different John Justice show.
• 2:58:40
  SPEAKER_02: And I hope that you have a successful future.
• 2:58:43
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, thanks for being part of this amazing journey.
• 2:58:46
  SPEAKER_05: Katherine Johnson, as always, thank you for coming in this morning.
• 2:58:50
  SPEAKER_26: I would love to come back next week if you'll have me.
• 2:58:52
  SPEAKER_26: Absolutely.
• 2:58:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we have just checking.
• 2:58:56
  SPEAKER_05: We have a brand new, we have a brand new guest joining us uh next week, too, Amanda Lamar, who had made an appearance on the show recently uh as part of uh Turning Point USA.
• 2:59:04
  SPEAKER_05: They were hosting a uh tribute uh in the one-year anniversary of uh the loss of Charlie Kirk.
• 2:59:10
  SPEAKER_05: And so we have invited her to join us uh next uh next Friday.
• 2:59:13
  SPEAKER_05: Looking forward to that.
• 2:59:13
  SPEAKER_05: But Catherine, uh, thank you so much for uh joining us today.
• 2:59:16
  SPEAKER_05: Grace and Catherine, I will see you both at the fall briefing tomorrow.
• 2:59:20
  SPEAKER_05: Woohoo! So our time together is uh not done.
• 2:59:22
  SPEAKER_05: Unfortunately, our time together with you watching and listening this morning is producer Isaac.
• 2:59:27
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you so much.
• 2:59:28
  SPEAKER_05: Of course, for the banger of a job this morning as well, my friend.
• 2:59:32
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• 2:59:35
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• 2:59:38
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• 2:59:45
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• 2:59:50
  SPEAKER_05: More AI discussions uh coming up next week with David Garton Steiner Ross.
• 2:59:54
  SPEAKER_05: Really enjoyed that conversation.
• 2:59:56
  SPEAKER_05: Already lining up a fantastic slate of guests for next week's uh shows as well.
• 3:00:00
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you so much for spending time with us all this week.
• 3:00:03
  SPEAKER_05: Have a great weekend, and we'll talk to you guys on Monday morning.
• 3:00:06
  SPEAKER_05: God bless.
• 3:00:07
  SPEAKER_05: Talk to you at 6 a.m.
• 3:00:08
  SPEAKER_05: then bye.