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August 5, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

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SPEAKER_20: It's Wednesday, and welcome to the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
0:28
SPEAKER_20: Of course, you can listen on the mixed LR app at American Experiment.org.
0:33
SPEAKER_20: You can watch it at MN Think Tank on X and on YouTube and Facebook as well.
0:39
SPEAKER_20: Go to Center of the American Experiment or my uh personal pages, uh the John Justice uh pages, J-O-N, and you can watch there uh as well.
0:48
SPEAKER_20: In uh studio today, we have uh Devin who's running uh running the board, producer Devin.
0:54
SPEAKER_20: Isaac has parked himself over with Grogu on the couch this morning as we hand the show over to uh to Devin, and he takes over in producing the show on a daily basis.
1:05
SPEAKER_20: And I'm so thankful that you are all with the show uh today.
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SPEAKER_20: If you want to leave a comment at any point throughout today's broadcast, you can do so by calling the blaster line.
1:15
SPEAKER_20: That number is 612-584-4565, 612-584-4565.
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SPEAKER_20: And you can also email john.justice at americanexperiment.org.
1:26
SPEAKER_20: So on the show today, we have the continuing adventures uh of uh Horny Her and the St.
1:32
SPEAKER_20: Paul police chief.
1:34
SPEAKER_20: Text messages have uh been released from uh Cooley Her.
1:39
SPEAKER_20: Oh yeah.
1:40
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, they're juicy.
1:41
SPEAKER_20: So we'll dive into that just after seven o'clock today.
1:44
SPEAKER_20: Also, uh joining us in studio, very excited.
1:46
SPEAKER_20: And this came as a uh recommendation from a friend of the show, a social media influencer, uh heavily involved in well, trying to make uh Minneapolis vibrant again.
1:58
SPEAKER_20: If you're on X, you're probably following her already.
2:01
SPEAKER_20: Becca Thompson will be joining us coming up at 7:30 today.
2:05
SPEAKER_20: Looking forward to talking with her about the Minneapolis City Council.
2:09
SPEAKER_20: We'll dive into some of the uh renewed controversies surrounding boys, playing in girls' sports, the W NBA as well.
2:18
SPEAKER_20: Uh also, we have more paid family medical lead news to get to.
2:21
SPEAKER_20: People are not getting their checks.
2:23
SPEAKER_20: They're taking time off, they're enjoying their time off, but unfortunately, uh they're not receiving uh their uh checks in the mail, which is causing quite a bit of uh frustration on their part.
2:37
SPEAKER_20: So we'll dive into that just after uh eight o'clock today.
2:40
SPEAKER_20: I want to start here though.
2:41
SPEAKER_20: Um so we shop at Walmart quite a bit.
2:43
SPEAKER_20: Uh head, you know, hands up, you guys shop at Walmart.
2:46
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, Devin shops at Walmart.
2:48
SPEAKER_20: Sam's Club, either of you, Sam's Club?
2:50
SPEAKER_20: No?
2:50
SPEAKER_20: No, I don't do Sam's Club either.
2:51
SPEAKER_20: I think Melinda goes to Sam's Club.
2:53
SPEAKER_20: I couldn't tell you the last time.
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SPEAKER_20: I don't know if I've ever been in a Sam's Club for crying out loud.
2:56
SPEAKER_20: You know me, I'm partial to uh to Costco.
2:59
SPEAKER_20: But uh Walmart and Sam's Club, they've uh settled claims that they shared customers' personal shopping information with third-party advertising companies without consent.
3:10
SPEAKER_20: Now there's a reason why I'm I'm bringing this up, not just because of the story.
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SPEAKER_20: But the settlement totaling almost a million dollars,$908,815, it resolves allegations that Walmart used to tracking tools to collect, uh collect and disclose confidential data.
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SPEAKER_20: The agreement includes a restitution fund for eligible customers.
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SPEAKER_20: So kind of like with what happened with Facebook when they were sharing uh information.
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SPEAKER_20: I think I got a check in the mail for like$350 or something like that.
3:41
SPEAKER_20: I went ahead and like it was barely worth the amount of effort that I put in to actually be a part of that class action lawsuit against Meta and Facebook.
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SPEAKER_20: So this is very similar.
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SPEAKER_20: If you shop at Walmart, you could be a part of this lawsuit and actually receive some compensation.
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SPEAKER_20: Um, it's requiring Walmart to comply with privacy laws.
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SPEAKER_20: Uh, Los Angeles County officials emphasized the importance of protecting consumer data, holding businesses accountable for safeguarding personal information.
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SPEAKER_20: Listen, I agree with that, right?
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SPEAKER_20: I don't want my personal information being shared with other people.
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SPEAKER_20: We're all worried about privacy.
4:16
SPEAKER_20: That being said, I mean, I see stories like this, and I kind of laugh because you know how many circumstances are there of places that we shop that are doing exactly the same thing?
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SPEAKER_20: They simply aren't being called out for it at all.
4:30
SPEAKER_20: But that's another reason why I bring this up, though.
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SPEAKER_20: So the settlement creates a$318,815 restitution fund for eligible customers who visited Walmart's website between January 1st and May 20th.
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SPEAKER_20: That was January 1st of 2020 and May 20th of 2024, and whose personal purchased uh information was allegedly collected by third parties.
4:56
SPEAKER_20: So I suppose that if you go and sign up to get this restitution, whatever you receive is going to be based off of how many other individuals decided they want to go they wanted to go and try to get this money as well.
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SPEAKER_20: Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis emphasized that companies should not treat customers' personal information as a source of profit, and that companies collecting consumer data have a responsibility to protect it, not exploit it for profit without consent.
5:22
SPEAKER_20: So you may be going, John, why in the heck are you bringing this up on a Wednesday morning?
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SPEAKER_20: Well, because as I'm reading this, doing my prep yesterday, I'm thinking, listen, if we can do this, like if we can sue Walmart, if Walmart can be sued for sharing personal data and you can receive money in return, you know, as restitution because they've been found guilty of sharing that personal information and data.
5:46
SPEAKER_20: Uh, can't we all collectively, and I know I'm not the first person to suggest this, but can't we all collectively as a state file a class action lawsuit against Governor Jim Wall's thief Ellison and the DFL for allowing the fraudsters to steal billions of dollars from us?
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SPEAKER_20: Now it's not really realistic because when you think about it, well, where's the money going to come from?
6:05
SPEAKER_20: Well, you'd have to claw back the money from the fraudsters in the first place, which, as we've talked about in numerous stories on the show, is an incredibly difficult thing to do.
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SPEAKER_20: My fear is that if we actually were successful in filing a class action lawsuit for allowing the fraudsters to steal billions of our taxpayer dollars, and we were to get a you know, a check of payment restitution back to us, it's probably just gonna be our tax money handed back to us in the first place in the first place.
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SPEAKER_20: Because we're also gonna pull the money from.
6:36
SPEAKER_20: I suppose Governor Dim Walsh could tap into his uh to his Chinese bank account.
6:40
SPEAKER_20: I'm just assuming he has one.
6:42
SPEAKER_20: I don't do they have bank accounts in China.
6:46
SPEAKER_20: How does that work?
6:47
SPEAKER_20: Isaac, do you wanna did you wanna did you wanna chime you wanna chime in on this?
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SPEAKER_20: From the from from the sofa, from the non-lit sofa on the other side of the room.
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SPEAKER_20: Did you have a comment on Chinese bank accounts?
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SPEAKER_03: I'm chilling.
6:59
SPEAKER_03: I don't need the camera on me.
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SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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SPEAKER_03: I remain faceless.
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SPEAKER_03: Um no, they do not, I bet.
7:04
SPEAKER_03: It's all government owned.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
7:06
SPEAKER_20: I would think that you you wouldn't be allowed to have a bank account or a savings account.
7:10
SPEAKER_03: But we really should ask Tim Walls if he has a bank account over there.
7:13
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, no, that's what I'm wondering.
7:14
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_20: I wonder if he has it.
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SPEAKER_20: It wouldn't be an I guess it would be an offshore um uh account at the end of the day, but yeah.
7:21
SPEAKER_20: I'm sure he's got a lot of money stashed, stashed away for his lavish vacations with his wife to China and Tiananmen Squares.
7:28
SPEAKER_20: I hear it's beautiful in the spring.
7:29
SPEAKER_20: All right, you go back to the dark in your laptop.
7:32
SPEAKER_20: Nice to hear from you this morning.
7:35
SPEAKER_20: Chiming in from the darkened part of the room.
7:38
SPEAKER_20: Uh, I have this story for Monday.
7:40
SPEAKER_20: I didn't get a chance to uh to get to it, and I figured, and you know what, we'll toss it in the mix as we kick off a Wednesday show.
7:46
SPEAKER_20: We are gonna get you up to speed on what's happening with Iran.
7:49
SPEAKER_20: Um continue my my continued journey to try to figure out what is going on with our ammunition supplies as that narrative continues regarding the war in Iran, and I have several audio clips to share with you.
8:05
SPEAKER_20: There was also an alleged um another assassination attempt or planning for an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.
8:14
SPEAKER_20: So I will get you up to speed on that coming up in just a moment here on the show.
8:18
SPEAKER_20: But uh, let me go here.
8:19
SPEAKER_20: This is the ultimate uh get off my lawn, taken to the extreme.
8:24
SPEAKER_20: I had mentioned this when we were talking with Andrew Langer on Monday morning.
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SPEAKER_20: But a Minnesota man is facing charges after he allegedly used a spike trap to deter children from biking across his lawn.
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SPEAKER_20: Kyle James Stefan, 38 years old.
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SPEAKER_20: I would have expected this from an individual who was 83 years old, less from a 38-year-old.
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SPEAKER_20: Although as you get older, you will find out.
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SPEAKER_20: Because there's there's levels like when you grow up as a kid, you hate mowing the lawn, you don't care what lawns look like, right?
9:01
SPEAKER_20: And then as you get older, suddenly that concern about your lawn grows and grows, and you want a nice looking clean lawn, and then you eventually reach a level and an age of, hey, get off my lawn because you're putting steps on my lawn.
9:13
SPEAKER_20: No, I've never gotten quite that that far.
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SPEAKER_20: But again, I would expect this coming from an 83-year-old, not a 38-year-old of Wyoming.
9:21
SPEAKER_20: He has been charged, though.
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SPEAKER_20: In uh in uh Shissago.
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SPEAKER_20: Shy sago?
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SPEAKER_20: Shissago?
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SPEAKER_20: Shy?
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SPEAKER_20: She?
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SPEAKER_20: Shy?
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SPEAKER_20: Anybody?
9:28
SPEAKER_20: Shy?
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SPEAKER_20: Am I got it right?
9:29
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_20: If I don't, somebody will just correct me on the blaster line, 612-584-4565.
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SPEAKER_20: So a Chishago County District Court earlier this week with one count of setting up a spring gun slash pitfall slash deadfall slash snare trap.
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SPEAKER_20: It's his own lawn.
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SPEAKER_20: Can he not put whatever he wants on his own lawn?
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SPEAKER_20: It's his property.
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SPEAKER_20: According to the criminal complaint, the Wyoming Police Department received a report of spikes being laid in a yard near Goodview Park on April 28th.
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SPEAKER_20: A woman had also told police that a man nearby the home had been yelling at her children to stay out of his yard.
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SPEAKER_20: Once at the home, officers saw the wide piece of plastic set in the grass with 43-inch screws sticking straight up from it, according to the complaint.
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SPEAKER_20: Again, it's his lawn.
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SPEAKER_20: He can do whatever he wants with it.
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SPEAKER_20: Officers also saw bike tracks going from the Goodview Avenue into the yard as a shortcut into the park and determined the device was meant to deter children from traveling that way.
10:40
SPEAKER_20: Okay, so he could have done I mean he could have put like a block up, right?
10:44
SPEAKER_20: Just put up a fence?
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SPEAKER_20: Would that have made a difference?
10:47
SPEAKER_20: I mean, I guess the spikes is dangerous.
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SPEAKER_20: Snare, can't do that.
10:51
SPEAKER_20: But he shouldn't have been able to put something up there.
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SPEAKER_20: Just took it to the extreme.
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SPEAKER_20: Officers identified Stefan as the homeowner.
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SPEAKER_20: He admitted to placing the device on his lawn to keep kids away and stated that they continue to bike through his lawn despite the trap and him yelling hundreds of times according to the complaint.
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SPEAKER_20: Stefan also told police that the device had not injured anyone according to the state charges.
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SPEAKER_20: He is due back in court uh later this month.
11:19
SPEAKER_20: I don't know.
11:19
SPEAKER_20: I've got a I've got a bit of a I've got a bit of an issue on this.
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SPEAKER_20: I think he should be allowed to put spikes on his lawn.
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SPEAKER_20: If he if he if he wants.
11:30
SPEAKER_20: Go ahead and turn Isaac's mic back on again.
11:32
SPEAKER_20: He's a hundred percent.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah, it's his lawn.
11:34
SPEAKER_20: I thought this was America.
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SPEAKER_20: It's his lawn.
11:38
SPEAKER_20: Okay, so thumbs up from you.
11:40
SPEAKER_20: He should have Isaac.
11:41
SPEAKER_20: Devin?
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SPEAKER_20: Should he be able to?
11:43
SPEAKER_04: I'll give him a thumbs up.
11:44
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
11:45
SPEAKER_03: It's his private property.
11:46
SPEAKER_03: Seriously.
11:47
SPEAKER_03: I thought we believed in private property in this country.
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SPEAKER_20: So was it the in is it the intent then?
11:53
SPEAKER_20: Is that is that the case?
11:54
SPEAKER_20: Is that because he put spikes on his lawn with the intent to go and harm the children that they ended up charging him?
12:02
SPEAKER_20: Like I said, if he let's say he just got a log.
12:05
SPEAKER_20: What if he just took a log and set it on that trail that the kids had made through his yard?
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SPEAKER_20: Is he still going to go and get and get charged?
12:11
SPEAKER_04: What was the wording?
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SPEAKER_20: So the charge was setting a spring gun slash pitfall slash deadfall slash snare trap.
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SPEAKER_20: Okay, so it must have been just it must have been less about him being his in his yard and more about the device in which he used, obviously, but I still what if you what if you're in a somewhat, you know, uh rural area and there's bears and you set up a bear trap in your yard.
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SPEAKER_20: I mean, that's a snare trap.
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SPEAKER_20: Can you not?
12:48
SPEAKER_20: I suppose there's a whole other set of laws when it comes to trapping animals.
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SPEAKER_20: You probably can't set bear traps anyways.
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SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
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SPEAKER_03: And they really get uh, you know, they really uh prevent or they really get uh look down upon children traps.
13:02
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: They don't like those.
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SPEAKER_20: No, no.
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SPEAKER_20: Pitfall, deadfall.
13:05
SPEAKER_20: What's a dead what's a deadfall?
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SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_03: But spring gun sounds not great either.
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SPEAKER_20: No, that doesn't sound that doesn't sound good either.
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SPEAKER_20: All right, let's go to the blaster line.
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SPEAKER_20: Uh 612-584-45 uh 65.
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SPEAKER_20: Friend of the show, uh Ron wants to chime in on this.
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SPEAKER_14: I drive regarding the fight thing, I did the strange thing on my property because people were driving across my draft to get found for the river characters on my property.
13:30
SPEAKER_14: And uh, half a dozen cutter characters on a bunch of kids' cars.
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SPEAKER_14: What was funny was my wife ran into one of them while they were at Walmart getting their tires replaced until we had a good ride.
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SPEAKER_14: And it was effective, by the way.
13:47
SPEAKER_14: That wasn't effective deterrent.
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SPEAKER_14: It only happened once and we never did it.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah, I got, yeah, I've got it has to be the setting of a trap, regardless of where it is.
13:59
SPEAKER_20: But I still take issue with the fact that it was on his lawn and he should be allowed to go and do what he wants to do.
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SPEAKER_20: If you want to chime in on this, again, 612-584-4565.
14:10
SPEAKER_20: We're gonna move on to more pressing matters.
14:12
SPEAKER_20: I didn't expect this was gonna spark so much uh so much conversation.
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SPEAKER_20: You can also email john.justice at americanexperiment.org.
14:22
SPEAKER_20: Let's go and talk to uh Alex, who apparently used to work in uh law enforcement.
14:27
SPEAKER_14: Good morning, John.
14:28
SPEAKER_14: I used to uh work in law enforcement, and uh I could 90% of the time, if not more, there's always way more of a story than what the media is letting you know.
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SPEAKER_14: But you probably know that.
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SPEAKER_14: But uh this is one of those cases, it's probably way more of a story because a lot of things on our hands.
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SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
14:48
SPEAKER_20: No, I'm with you.
14:50
SPEAKER_20: I'm with you.
14:50
SPEAKER_20: Maybe it's the fact that he uh that he admitted that he admitted this was the case.
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SPEAKER_20: That he was maybe that's what it was.
14:58
SPEAKER_20: Maybe he took it a bridge too far because he was honest about what he was attempting to do in trying to.
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SPEAKER_22: Hey John, you may want to keep this article for Freedom Friday.
15:07
SPEAKER_22: This is uh Max Reimer's area.
15:10
SPEAKER_22: He may have some information for you.
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SPEAKER_22: It is Chicago.
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SPEAKER_20: Okay, thank you.
15:16
SPEAKER_20: Thank thank you for the for the clarification on that.
15:19
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, maybe Max knows this guy.
15:21
SPEAKER_20: Maybe Max urged him to go.
15:23
SPEAKER_20: I should probably shouldn't do that.
15:24
SPEAKER_20: I probably shouldn't make claims that are completely totally bogus, especially for an individual that's serving in a position of power in office.
15:30
SPEAKER_20: All right, you can leave a comment on X if you follow me at John J O N Justice.
15:34
SPEAKER_20: Again, uh John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org and leave us a uh blast on the blaster line, 612-584-4565.
15:44
SPEAKER_20: All right, coming up.
15:45
SPEAKER_20: Has the U.S.
15:47
SPEAKER_20: gone and used virtually all of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran War?
15:54
SPEAKER_20: I continue to see these stories on a daily basis, and I don't know what the truth is because you read it and it sounds like, yes, we've gone and depleted our stockpiles.
16:05
SPEAKER_20: We're running out of ammunition.
16:06
SPEAKER_20: But then when you get further into the story, we're talking anonymous sources, and then you get the coded language of maybe we have, maybe we haven't, and if we do, this is what can happen.
16:20
SPEAKER_20: So I'm gonna break it all down.
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SPEAKER_20: I have audio from President Donald Trump talking about the next phase of what's been going on and attempting to reach some sort of deal with Iran.
16:32
SPEAKER_20: Also, the individual who was scoping out one of Donald Trump's golf courses that he would be uh playing at with concerns because the individual was actually carrying around um firearms at the time.
16:46
SPEAKER_20: So that's coming up on the show.
16:47
SPEAKER_20: We'll get back to more of your thoughts from the blaster line, 612-584-4565.
16:52
SPEAKER_20: And again, you can email john.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
16:57
SPEAKER_20: Now, here is more commentary from Center the American Experiment, including from the American Experiment podcast with Grace Keating and Catherine Hinderocker.
17:07
SPEAKER_20: In uh a few of these clips, you're gonna hear from a lawyer in the Upper Midwest Law Center with some recent concerns and what the Upper Midwest Law Center has been involved in as of late.
17:17
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Now that school's out for the summer, how are Minnesota students doing?
17:21
SPEAKER_01: Not very well.
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SPEAKER_01: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in ten years.
17:28
SPEAKER_01: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota's students can either read or do math at grade level.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: We used to brag about our schools.
17:36
SPEAKER_01: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Visit AmericanExperiment.org for more information.
17:41
SPEAKER_01: Think about it is brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
17:47
SPEAKER_36: There is certainly a culture at the City Council and at the mayor's office, again, over the last 10 years, that has just not been willing to hire police officers.
17:57
SPEAKER_36: And we have seen rhetoric and action that has very much been about defunding the police.
18:03
SPEAKER_36: We filed a petition called a Ret of Mandamus, which is basic basically a Latin word for we command, and where we're asking the court to hold the mayor to his duty and hire those police officers.
18:17
SPEAKER_36: And we have tried to detail in our court papers the real-world effect this has on people, including our brave clients who've come forward and put their name on court papers and who've experienced everything from bullet holes in their houses to family members who've been struck by a vehicle and in a hit and run never solved, to personal vandalism at their homes and property, where they've had property stolen, to murder in their neighborhoods where they don't feel safe.
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SPEAKER_36: They don't feel protected, they literally feel they cannot go out at night.
18:53
SPEAKER_36: Because we challenged it on behalf of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.
18:58
SPEAKER_36: And we said this is a violation of the single subject and title clause of the Minnesota Constitution.
19:03
SPEAKER_36: We are challenging this one section on behalf of our clients, the binary trigger clause, which had to do with how you define a trigger that can, with one pull, fire off multiple shots.
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SPEAKER_36: And that's just mashed into this 1,400-page thing, right?
19:19
SPEAKER_36: Yes.
19:19
SPEAKER_36: That covers everything from health, higher education, firearms, energy, agriculture, human services, health, and paid leave.
19:26
SPEAKER_36: Not a single subject.
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SPEAKER_36: The court in August of 2025 struck down the bill and severed basically one provision relating to the binary triggers.
19:37
SPEAKER_36: Judge Castro had some interesting words for this, and he said, out of respect for precedent favoring severance, I'm just gonna strike down the binary trigger amendment.
19:47
SPEAKER_36: But then he says, quote, make no mistake, during the late hours of May 19, 2024, lawmaking did not occur within the framework of the Constitution.
19:57
SPEAKER_36: This court respectfully suggests that if there has ever been a bill without a common theme and where all bounds of reason and restraint seem to have been abandoned, this is it.
20:07
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
20:08
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota has always been a low crime state.
20:12
SPEAKER_01: But according to the most recent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension data, we are now above the national average when it comes to part one crimes, a category that includes crimes like murder, assault, rape, and carjackings.
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SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Minnesota is now a high crime state.
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SPEAKER_01: Visit highcrime.com to learn more.
20:32
SPEAKER_01: Think about it is brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
20:39
SPEAKER_20: It's a John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
20:42
SPEAKER_20: The blaster line is 612-584-4565.
20:46
SPEAKER_20: Got a lot of comments that have been rolling in based off the previous story of uh of a uh a guy who had basically uh set up a trap on his lawn in order to stop kids from bicycling uh over his yard.
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SPEAKER_20: And now he's facing uh charges, which kind of brings up the question of whether or not this guy, you know, had the right to go and put what he wants on his lawn, regardless of the reason.
21:11
SPEAKER_20: Let's get to a few of your thoughts from the blaster line at 612-584-4565.
21:15
SPEAKER_20: We'll hear from Friend of the Show, uh Brian.
21:18
SPEAKER_14: Uh, with regards to the trap, I think it's more the potential for the kids can get hurt if they fall on the screws.
21:26
SPEAKER_14: Um I like the idea of putting a lot across it, that makes more sense.
21:31
SPEAKER_14: But I think the potential for kids to get hurt by the screws makes it more of a uh problem area.
21:40
SPEAKER_20: So and again, it though it uh not to wipe out too hard on this, but in my mind it also raises the question of well, what if you have something else that's dangerous in your yard?
21:52
SPEAKER_20: Is it still just about intent?
21:55
SPEAKER_20: I mean, what if you've got a bunch of branches that fell and if kids had gone through the yard and they Fell on those, are you gonna end up being you know liable for that?
22:04
SPEAKER_20: And as I begin to say it out loud, I realize, yeah, you probably are going to end up being held accountable if that were to happen.
22:10
SPEAKER_20: Let's go for and hear from uh Michael, who left us a uh blast this morning on the John Justice show.
22:23
SPEAKER_20: If it wants to cooperate.
22:24
SPEAKER_42: Yeah, I believe it was back in the 1930s when it was outlogged to booby trap your property.
22:31
SPEAKER_42: Somebody took a fourth pan and wired up his barn door because somebody kept breaking into his barn and a kid died, but it might fall under that category.
22:42
SPEAKER_20: I like I like the uh, yeah, and a kid died.
22:45
SPEAKER_20: So maybe that's the reason why, you know, it happens when you go and booby trap your barn door.
22:50
SPEAKER_20: Sometimes neutral election children just die.
22:54
SPEAKER_03: That's what that was.
22:55
SPEAKER_20: You know what?
22:56
SPEAKER_20: We need to get back to a place where it's your property.
22:59
SPEAKER_20: If you own the property, you can do what you want on the property.
23:02
SPEAKER_20: If somebody comes on your property, that's what I thought growing up.
23:05
SPEAKER_20: When I was growing up, I was oh I always assumed that if I went on somebody else's property, they had every right to pull out a gun and shoot me.
23:13
SPEAKER_20: That's always what I assumed as a kid.
23:16
SPEAKER_20: It's a shotgun blast to the body part of their choice because I came on to their lawn.
23:22
SPEAKER_20: That's how, and that's what, you know, when you were a kid, that's what made it risky.
23:26
SPEAKER_20: Like when you were going to go and go across somebody's lawn because you didn't know what could happen.
23:29
SPEAKER_20: Because in the back of my mind, I thought that dude's got a right to do whatever he wants.
23:33
SPEAKER_20: If he wants to set up a trap.
23:35
SPEAKER_03: It sounds like that law was passed in the in the FDR days of massive government.
23:39
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, but the world that we live in now, that might have been the case.
23:42
SPEAKER_20: You know, the ebb and flow.
23:44
SPEAKER_20: So originally you had every right to go and defend your property and you know, in any way that you saw fit.
23:50
SPEAKER_20: And it's the same thing.
23:51
SPEAKER_20: Like if a burglar client came into your house.
23:53
SPEAKER_20: I mean, definitely if a burglar came into your house.
23:56
SPEAKER_20: Maybe my thought of going across somebody's lawn as a kid and then being shot.
24:02
SPEAKER_20: Maybe that's a bit extreme.
24:03
SPEAKER_20: But certainly, if somebody were to um, you know, break into your home, the assumption was always you break in, I'm going to shoot you.
24:13
SPEAKER_20: I have a right to shoot you, or stab you, you know, or cut off a limb.
24:18
SPEAKER_20: Whatever.
24:18
SPEAKER_20: You came into my house, you can eat my house, you can't do that.
24:21
SPEAKER_20: And of course, now you know you do that, and you're the one that's gonna end up being locked up behind bars.
24:25
SPEAKER_20: What is this world coming to?
24:27
SPEAKER_20: That's the problem.
24:28
SPEAKER_20: This guy should have a right to booby trap his lawn, and those kids should stay off of it because I bet he worked hard to keep his lawn looking good.
24:36
SPEAKER_20: Stupid children.
24:37
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SPEAKER_23: If they back out again, they're gonna get hit really hard.
27:19
SPEAKER_23: You know, they know that.
27:20
SPEAKER_23: They understand that.
27:21
SPEAKER_23: Uh I have no choice.
27:23
SPEAKER_23: They can't have a nuclear weapons, for example.
27:25
SPEAKER_23: It's not like, gee, let's, you know, think about something else.
27:28
SPEAKER_23: No.
27:28
SPEAKER_23: It should have been done by many presidents over many years, and it wasn't.
27:33
SPEAKER_23: And I'm doing it.
27:34
SPEAKER_23: Obama was taken to the cleaners.
27:36
SPEAKER_23: He thought he could bribe his way out.
27:38
SPEAKER_23: He gave them billions, tens of billions of dollars so stupidly.
27:42
SPEAKER_23: 1.7 billion in cash, green cash, on a Boeing 757, an airplane, loaded up with cash.
27:49
SPEAKER_23: They probably looked at it and said, You gotta be kidding.
27:52
SPEAKER_23: Uh, no, you can't bribe your way out.
27:54
SPEAKER_23: All you can do is fight your way out.
27:56
SPEAKER_23: And if they didn't, they wouldn't be talking if we weren't doing what we're doing.
28:00
SPEAKER_23: We hit them very, very hard, but the hard hit is yet to come, and hopefully we won't have to use it.
28:05
SPEAKER_23: I hope we won't have to use it.
28:06
SPEAKER_23: We're having very good discussions.
28:07
SPEAKER_23: I don't like to admit that, but yeah, it's a little bit disconcerting.
28:12
SPEAKER_23: You tell people like you, we're having wonderful discussions, and then some guy will come out of a rant and say, we have not met, we have not such a lie.
28:21
SPEAKER_23: All day long.
28:21
SPEAKER_23: You understand?
28:22
SPEAKER_23: It's just incredible.
28:23
SPEAKER_23: We didn't talk, they'll say we didn't talk about nuclear.
28:25
SPEAKER_23: Well, what do we talk about?
28:26
SPEAKER_23: We're sitting there twiddling our thumbs, right?
28:29
SPEAKER_23: So uh but it doesn't matter.
28:31
SPEAKER_23: That's talk.
28:32
SPEAKER_23: The only thing that matters is action.
28:34
SPEAKER_23: And they want to make a deal.
28:36
SPEAKER_23: We'll see what happens.
28:37
SPEAKER_23: If they don't make a deal, it's gonna be too bad.
28:41
SPEAKER_20: That was President Donald Trump talking with Fox News uh yesterday uh regarding uh the latest efforts to bring Iran to some sort of deal.
28:51
SPEAKER_20: Earlier in the uh earlier in the week, uh President Donald Trump during a White House press conference had uh this to say.
29:00
SPEAKER_23: Well, you don't know.
29:01
SPEAKER_23: I don't know.
29:02
SPEAKER_23: I think we're gonna maybe get something, but uh I want to give him every last chance before decapitation.
29:08
SPEAKER_23: Very tough to do what uh what we have planned, still planned.
29:13
SPEAKER_23: We'll see what happens.
29:14
SPEAKER_23: But it's a very, very tough thing to do.
29:17
SPEAKER_23: I think uh I'm very proud of the fact that I will give people a chance.
29:22
SPEAKER_23: This is a big move.
29:24
SPEAKER_23: To do an attack that big on a country, I'd rather not do it.
29:28
SPEAKER_23: Now we've already through lots of large attacks, but they were normal large.
29:35
SPEAKER_23: Um hopefully they'll come to their senses because what happened can cannot have a nuclear weapon.
29:42
SPEAKER_20: But so the U.S., according to a story this morning out of Newsmax, has nearly uh has used nearly all of its long-range precision missiles during the five-month war with Iran.
29:56
SPEAKER_20: And I've been trying to get to the truth of this since this first narrative emerged.
30:01
SPEAKER_20: Because I have a lot of questions involved.
30:03
SPEAKER_20: First off, who would be the one, who are the individuals that have the firsthand information and knowledge that we would be at a point where we have depleted these necessary missiles?
30:18
SPEAKER_20: What would be the purpose for putting that information out there beyond making President Donald Trump look bad?
30:24
SPEAKER_20: And I'll get to more of that in in just a moment.
30:27
SPEAKER_20: And also, is this a matter of the number of missiles that we have within our arsenal getting to a level that we typically don't want it to get?
30:39
SPEAKER_20: For example, like when I when I talk to my boys about saving money, I I usually give them like a dollar amount.
30:45
SPEAKER_20: I say, listen, this is how much money that I would advise you to keep in the bank at any length of time.
30:52
SPEAKER_20: And if you go below that, you want to make sure that you wait a couple of you know, paycheck cycles to get it back to where it needs to be.
31:01
SPEAKER_20: Don't spend beyond that while you're also saving.
31:03
SPEAKER_20: So that's the other question that I have.
31:05
SPEAKER_20: Is this just a matter of percentages?
31:07
SPEAKER_20: That we're depleting our stockpiles of missiles to a point where uh this is not where we want it to be.
31:15
SPEAKER_20: Now, there's some further details in the story that may lend some evidence as to why individuals may be leaking this information.
31:22
SPEAKER_20: But while the U.S.
31:23
SPEAKER_20: has been able to replenish uh replenish supplies from other locations, the drawdown, they say, has limited uh the military's ability to respond to a crisis that may take place in another location as well.
31:41
SPEAKER_14: If our weapon cockpile is at that low after what we did in Iran, a small country like that.
31:49
SPEAKER_14: We have to look at why I don't think we are a small country who's prepared for a world war.
31:58
SPEAKER_14: Why is it called low in a cockpit?
32:09
SPEAKER_20: Well, in the absence of evidence relating to that, I'm reluctant to take it that far.
32:14
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna push back a little bit though, and um, you know, Iran's not a small country.
32:19
SPEAKER_20: If you look at the total size of Iran, reminds me quite actually reminds me quite a bit of Minnesota.
32:25
SPEAKER_20: I'll explain in just a moment.
32:26
SPEAKER_20: But if you look at the size of Iran, I mean it's a third the size of the United States of America.
32:30
SPEAKER_20: But kind of like Minnesota is laid out, you have these very concentrated areas of population, right?
32:38
SPEAKER_20: With an area that with the rest of the land being, you know, essentially mountainous, desert, and rural.
32:45
SPEAKER_20: I guess Iran has its own version of rocks and cows, is I guess that's what I'm what I'm trying to what I'm trying to say.
32:52
SPEAKER_20: But with that, you have their military power is spread throughout a large country, which speaks to the difficulty in rooting out, as we talked about with Senate candidate Tom Weiler uh on uh Monday show, which fantastic conversation uh with uh with Tom specifically about this and his insight from his military background regarding the size of Iran and how difficult it is to go and root out their military when it is divided up the way that uh the way that it is.
33:19
SPEAKER_20: So let's go back into the uh blaster line 612-584-4565.
33:23
SPEAKER_21: Yes, the military stockpile on long-range missile was low, which it's not, you and I would not know about it.
33:36
SPEAKER_20: Okay, so the uh friend of the show has inside information, apparently.
33:40
SPEAKER_20: Because she knows it's not, that makes me feel better.
33:42
SPEAKER_20: No, I appreciate you uh leaving a comment.
33:44
SPEAKER_20: If you want to email too, John.justice at American Experiment.org.
33:48
SPEAKER_20: And again, the blaster line is 612-584-4565.
33:52
SPEAKER_20: So where is all this coming from?
33:53
SPEAKER_20: According to this recent story from Newsmax, it's coming from two different sources.
33:57
SPEAKER_20: They actually have a few others in here, and they're all anonymous, which again puts a big question mark on the entire narrative, in my opinion.
34:04
SPEAKER_20: The degree to which the military is running out of these precision strike missiles had not previously been reported.
34:09
SPEAKER_20: The dramatic rundown, the article goes on to say, in precision uh precision long-range missiles means that President Donald Trump may have to rely on more riskier piloted bombing missions if he relaunches large-scale attacks on Iran.
34:24
SPEAKER_20: You see, and what I don't like about the narrative and why I throw a huge question mark on it is that uh we haven't talked about this on the show, but apparently details have emerged that somebody within the Trump administration sought to undermine Trump and the strike that he was going to conduct this past weekend to try to bring the Iranian regime to its knees to come to an agreement.
34:50
SPEAKER_20: And that may have been one of the reasons why they halted that military strike because somebody in the administration had leaked out the plans to Iran.
34:59
SPEAKER_20: So if that's happening, then you know it's a lot less egregious for somebody to go and start spreading a narrative that, oh, we're running out of the ammunition, and that's the real reason why President Donald Trump didn't go and launch this renewed kinetic action.
35:17
SPEAKER_20: The sources declined to say how many of each munition the U.S.
35:23
SPEAKER_20: has left.
35:24
SPEAKER_20: Three people familiar with the matter expressed worry that the falling missile supplies could limit the U.S.'s ability to deter adversaries, including Russia and China.
35:34
SPEAKER_20: The sources interviewed for the story spoke on a condition of anonymity.
35:38
SPEAKER_20: Now, when asked for comment about the stockpile data, the White House issued a statement from Trump saying that the U.S.
35:43
SPEAKER_20: had far more munitions than anyone in the world and far more than we need.
35:48
SPEAKER_20: Our defense companies are at this moment making more munitions than they have ever made before, in addition to expanding their plants and equipment at record levels.
35:58
SPEAKER_20: Analysts agree that certain munitions, including artillery shells and several types of missiles, are being produced at record levels, but caution that supplies might fall short of what is needed for a prolonged war.
36:14
SPEAKER_20: This is buried towards the end of the piece, and it's probably one of the most relevant comments in the article as to what is really happening.
36:24
SPEAKER_20: Leaning into my suspicions that these are individuals who may have some connections to the White House, but ultimately are looking to feed anti-Trump narratives and give the news media a new angle on which to cover what's been taking place in Iran because they've clearly gotten bored with talking about it.
36:44
SPEAKER_20: Even though the actions are continuing.
36:46
SPEAKER_20: So individuals going and putting out these types of concerns are and are, you know, really helping the media and those anti-Trump uh narratives.
36:57
SPEAKER_20: Now, responding to a request for comment, Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said, Doing that thing with my fingers, America's military is the most powerful in the world and has everything it needs to execute at the time and place of the president's choosing.
37:10
SPEAKER_20: We have executed multiple successful operations across combatant commands while ensuring the U.S.
37:15
SPEAKER_20: military possesses a deep arsenal of capabilities to protect our people and interests.
37:20
SPEAKER_20: The supply figures have circulated inside the federal government for the last week during the tense conversations inside the Trump administration without uh about how much longer the U.S.
37:30
SPEAKER_20: can continue striking Iran without drawing down the stockpile levels that would limit the ability to respond to a crisis elsewhere.
37:37
SPEAKER_20: You know, I go back to my initial comments on this when we first saw this narrative emerge.
37:42
SPEAKER_20: And again, I think it's people that like to hear themselves talk, that are feeding the media desperate to go and cover a different angle on all of this and go and make Trump look bad.
37:55
SPEAKER_20: We've obviously used a lot of our weaponry and our, you know, arsenal of missiles in our attacks on Iran.
38:04
SPEAKER_20: I don't think anybody is disputing that.
38:06
SPEAKER_20: But this just seems like an extension of that Trump derangement syndrome and individuals even with inside the administration that are seeking to make the president look bad.
38:16
SPEAKER_20: 612-584-4565.
38:20
SPEAKER_20: We'll get to uh the latest security scare for Trump in uh just a moment.
38:24
SPEAKER_20: I want to share with you this clip, though.
38:26
SPEAKER_20: Uh this is Mike Pence uh talking with Fox News and comments regarding what he believes Trump should do when it comes to Iran that I found kind of surprising coming from Mike Pence.
38:41
SPEAKER_25: We had a Fox poll that came out about two weeks ago.
38:43
SPEAKER_25: We asked the question on the ultimate outcome with Iran, the U.S.
38:46
SPEAKER_25: will reach what?
38:47
SPEAKER_25: Good deal, bad deal, or no deal?
38:48
SPEAKER_25: And 48 percent uh said no deal.
38:51
SPEAKER_25: What's your view?
38:52
SPEAKER_00: Well, I have more confidence in President Trump than that.
38:56
SPEAKER_00: Um I think the Iranians should be very wary in this moment.
39:01
SPEAKER_00: Look, I strongly supported the President's decision uh to use military force last year and this year, striking Iran really for the first time uh in 47 years after they've waged a continuous war against the United States and the West all those years.
39:18
SPEAKER_00: Um but uh honestly, I think the president, after that first month where our military did a brilliant job taking down 13,000 military sites, I think the president has tried to create room for diplomacy.
39:31
SPEAKER_00: He's done that again over this weekend, even as we were marshalling military assets across the region.
39:38
SPEAKER_00: Uh but I honestly think that uh the time has come for the President of the United States to unleash the armed forces of the United States, strike the remaining nuclear facilities in Iran, take down and degrade their ability to project force, not only in the strait, uh, but across uh the region.
39:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh look, uh, one does not make peace with one's enemy, one makes peace with one's defeated enemy.
40:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh and given their posture and their attitudes and even denying that negotiations are happening, uh I that's a Mike Pence that I can get behind, by the way.
40:14
SPEAKER_20: And um just pure speculation, obviously, on my part.
40:19
SPEAKER_20: But the sense that I get of what's happening is the administration is has grown impatient and has been impatient for a while now.
40:28
SPEAKER_20: They're tired of the games that the Iranian regime is playing.
40:33
SPEAKER_20: We talked earlier in the week about the fact that a lot of uh commentary is swirling around Iran trying to draw out these negotiation efforts until October, where they'll have more leverage that close to the midterm elections, believing that President Donald Trump would go and agree to lesser terms than what the Trump administration has been offering um the leaders in in Tehran uh up until this point.
41:03
SPEAKER_20: What I think is happening right now is that because of this potential leak of this plan that was supposed to take place over the weekend, we're probably gonna end up launching another final major strike, much in the same way that Mike Pence laid out.
41:18
SPEAKER_20: And we're not gonna know ahead of time.
41:20
SPEAKER_20: It's just going to it's just gonna happen.
41:23
SPEAKER_20: That's my guess about where all this is going currently.
41:26
SPEAKER_20: I mean, and it could even happen as soon as this weekend.
41:28
SPEAKER_20: So something we'll certainly be keeping an an eye on.
41:31
SPEAKER_20: Along with this as well, President Donald Trump responded to the latest potential threat against his life, keeping with the theme of Trump here on the John Justice Show, with a notably upbeat uh reaction on his first public comments about the incident.
41:44
SPEAKER_20: I'll tell you what Trump had to say here in uh just uh in just a moment.
41:48
SPEAKER_20: But the sec uh Secret Service is investigating whether an armed man outside of Trump's national golf club uh golf club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California on Sunday intended intended to harm the president.
42:01
SPEAKER_20: This 38-year-old named named uh Janine John Talley.
42:07
SPEAKER_20: Does anybody know any dudes named Janine?
42:11
SPEAKER_03: No.
42:12
SPEAKER_20: No?
42:12
SPEAKER_20: Isaac, no Janine, no dude, you know, no.
42:15
SPEAKER_20: No male friends named named Janine.
42:18
SPEAKER_20: Devin, any male friends named named Janine?
42:20
SPEAKER_04: I can't think of.
42:21
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
42:22
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, and I know and from you I would expect that because I know that sometimes Devin can be masculine and and fem and feminine.
42:28
SPEAKER_20: I think I dated a Devin once.
42:30
SPEAKER_20: Or at least I wanted to.
42:31
SPEAKER_20: I think that's what it was.
42:33
SPEAKER_20: I recollection issue was pretty hot too.
42:35
SPEAKER_20: But it was a long time ago and I could be getting that wrong.
42:38
SPEAKER_20: And I just think that's weird that I'm talking about that with another Devin right to my right.
42:42
SPEAKER_20: That's very strange.
42:43
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna get back to the story now.
42:44
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, okay, is everybody creeped out right?
42:46
SPEAKER_20: Everybody probably creeped out this morning on a Wednesday.
42:48
SPEAKER_20: Alright.
42:49
SPEAKER_20: Sorry about that, Devin.
42:51
SPEAKER_20: You're a good man.
42:54
SPEAKER_20: Good man.
42:54
SPEAKER_20: Keyword man.
42:55
SPEAKER_20: Man.
42:56
SPEAKER_20: Janine Juntally, 38, was arrested after FBI agents allegedly found him carrying a 16-round magazine in his pocket.
43:04
SPEAKER_20: According to the uh LA County Sheriff's Department, Talley was also seen taking photographs and videos near the property.
43:11
SPEAKER_20: If investigators determined that Tally was targeting Trump, it would mark the third widely reported threat involving the president this year.
43:19
SPEAKER_20: So let's go to the president's comments uh on the matter, speaking with uh Fox News.
43:24
SPEAKER_35: There was a threat.
43:24
SPEAKER_35: There was a man who was arrested, seemed to be heavily armed near the property here on Sunday.
43:29
SPEAKER_35: Is it it's an ongoing concern, sir?
43:31
SPEAKER_35: Talk about that for briefly if we can.
43:33
SPEAKER_23: Well, the only thing I get a little solace from is they say only consequential presidents.
43:39
SPEAKER_23: And I am definitely consequential.
43:41
SPEAKER_23: I mean, if you look at the economy, if you look at what is happening, uh Iran, as an example, will never have a nuclear weapon.
43:46
SPEAKER_23: They already can't, but they'll it's going to be formal.
43:50
SPEAKER_23: The straits are going to be open very soon, or they're going to get hit very hard, and the straits are going to be open.
43:55
SPEAKER_23: We were going to a tremendous attack, the biggest since World War II, and they caught the U.S.
44:00
SPEAKER_23: Me and said very politely, please can we talk?
44:03
SPEAKER_23: Can we talk?
44:04
SPEAKER_23: They didn't want.
44:05
SPEAKER_23: And I said, Yes, we can talk.
44:08
SPEAKER_23: Let's get it done.
44:09
SPEAKER_23: Finally, let's get it done.
44:11
SPEAKER_23: Uh, this should have been done by other presidents for 50 years.
44:14
SPEAKER_23: You know, you keep here at 47, but that's been for three years now.
44:17
SPEAKER_23: It's been over 50 years.
44:19
SPEAKER_23: Other presidents or other countries should have been able to do this.
44:22
SPEAKER_23: And I did something that I had to do because if they had a nuclear weapon, this whole world would be a different place.
44:28
SPEAKER_23: If they back out again, are they done?
44:30
SPEAKER_23: Well, if they back out again, they're gonna get hit really hard.
44:33
SPEAKER_23: You know, they know that.
44:34
SPEAKER_23: They understand that.
44:36
SPEAKER_23: Uh I have no choice.
44:38
SPEAKER_23: They can't have a nuclear weapons, for example.
44:39
SPEAKER_23: It's not like, gee, let's, you know, think about something else.
44:42
SPEAKER_23: No.
44:43
SPEAKER_23: It should have been done by many presidents over many years, and it wasn't.
44:48
SPEAKER_23: And I'm doing it.
44:49
SPEAKER_23: Obama was taken to the cleaners.
44:51
SPEAKER_23: He thought he could bribe his way out.
44:52
SPEAKER_23: He gave them billions, tens of billions of dollars so stupidly.
44:56
SPEAKER_23: 1.7 billion in cash.
44:59
SPEAKER_20: And you'd heard that, those those previous comments from uh from Trump uh a little earlier this uh this hour.
45:05
SPEAKER_20: So again, um this particular incident, if it turns out this this individual named this dude named Janine, was looking to target Trump.
45:13
SPEAKER_20: I mean, you're looking at um you had the fatal shooting of an armed individual carrying a shotgun and a gas canister near the near Margo uh Mar-a Lago, the arrest of the man who breached the uh security at the White House Correspondence Center, of course, the attempted assassination at the campaign rally in Butler.
45:32
SPEAKER_20: The bottom line ends on this whole thing people have been radicalized by Democrats.
45:35
SPEAKER_20: End of story.
45:36
SPEAKER_20: That's it.
45:38
SPEAKER_20: It's one of the conversations that we're not allowed to have in the country, but it's the truth.
45:43
SPEAKER_20: Individuals have been radicalized over and over again by the inflammatory rhetoric coming from prominent Democrats, including Governor Dimwalls, including Thief Ellison.
45:54
SPEAKER_20: And they've taken to wanting to harm the president multiple times, specifically because of the direct correlation over that inflammatory rhetoric and the individuals now that feel like the only solution is to go and harm President uh Donald Trump.
46:12
SPEAKER_20: And it's a conversation that we need to have.
46:14
SPEAKER_20: But again, we're just we're not allowed to go and have those conversations right now.
46:19
SPEAKER_20: All right, coming up.
46:21
SPEAKER_20: Uh tragedy, family confirms the identity of the in and out associate killed during Saturday's uh shooting.
46:29
SPEAKER_20: Also, the individual who pulled his own firearm in defense of those patrons at that In N Out speaks to local media.
46:40
SPEAKER_20: You're probably not seeing this unless you're on social media because it's not a story that media is going to want to widely report on because it's a good guy with a gun.
46:49
SPEAKER_20: I'll share that audio with you coming up in just a moment on the John Justice show presented by American Experience.
46:55
SPEAKER_30: What's that thing that Keith Ellison said in the December 2021 meeting with fraudsters?
46:59
SPEAKER_30: Money is freedom, money is powers.
47:02
SPEAKER_30: Yeah, right.
47:02
SPEAKER_30: I mean, that's happening in Minnesota.
47:04
SPEAKER_30: And you don't just see it with public sector unions generally, but especially I mean, look at the teachers' union.
47:09
SPEAKER_30: It is truly, it is like cartel levels of control that they hold over the DFL here in Minnesota.
47:14
SPEAKER_30: So even if there were some DFL legislators who say wanted school choice and thought it was a great policy, the teachers' union is so against it, so against any meaningful reform that they really can't come out and support it because they're being funded, their campaigns are being run by the union.
47:29
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47:30
SPEAKER_01: Now that school's out for the summer, how are Minnesota students doing?
47:33
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47:34
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in 10 years.
47:40
SPEAKER_01: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota students can either read or do math at grade level.
47:46
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47:46
SPEAKER_01: We used to brag about our schools.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
47:51
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47:58
SPEAKER_30: Minnesota is the second most generous state in the nation, spending$46,000 on public welfare per person in poverty in 2023.
48:05
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48:06
SPEAKER_31: Just really quick, if those people in poverty had the$46,000, they wouldn't be in poverty.
48:12
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48:15
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48:20
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48:21
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48:24
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48:37
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49:21
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49:23
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49:24
SPEAKER_37: It's Victor from Bloomington here.
49:26
SPEAKER_37: Now I know the joke is just hidden out there, but was that a magazine in Janine's pocket or was he just happy to see it from?
49:33
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49:38
SPEAKER_20: I expect that kind of humor out of Isaac.
49:40
SPEAKER_20: Not from you, Victor.
49:43
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49:45
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50:02
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50:07
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50:14
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50:16
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50:25
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50:26
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50:30
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50:31
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50:32
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50:37
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50:41
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50:43
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50:44
SPEAKER_20: I think that's uh Isaac's giving me a heads up.
50:46
SPEAKER_20: He's like, yeah, we are doing some stickers.
50:48
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50:50
SPEAKER_20: Nothing John Justice show related apart.
50:52
SPEAKER_20: Those are fellows apart from it.
50:54
SPEAKER_03: I'll sign them for five bucks.
50:56
SPEAKER_03: I keep saying that.
50:56
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
50:57
SPEAKER_03: The faceless face stickers five dollars.
51:00
SPEAKER_20: I could never get into I wouldn't, I don't think I would ever pay No, I wouldn't.
51:06
SPEAKER_20: I would never pay for the signature of a celebrity or a or a or a sports personality.
51:14
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
51:15
SPEAKER_20: I would I would never I would never drop money.
51:18
SPEAKER_20: Now, if it was, let's just say for the sake of argument, if it was like a that kind of surprises me coming from a collector like that.
51:23
SPEAKER_20: Well, so okay, let me let me let me let me collect sports cards.
51:26
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
51:27
SPEAKER_03: I collect sports cards.
51:27
SPEAKER_03: You collect sports cards.
51:28
SPEAKER_03: They have a lot of autographs.
51:29
SPEAKER_03: Now that's different.
51:30
SPEAKER_03: See, I think that's different.
51:31
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
51:31
SPEAKER_20: I'm talking specifically about when you go to like a Comic-Con and like Mark Hamill shows up and he wants to charge like$500.
51:40
SPEAKER_03: And then you just get something.
51:41
SPEAKER_20: No, no, no.
51:42
SPEAKER_03: There's a very select few I would do that for.
51:44
SPEAKER_20: But like if I'm getting like a die cast car and it's got Dale Jr.'s signature on it, I I might pay a couple extra bucks, but at the same time, it's already Dale Jr.'s car.
51:53
SPEAKER_20: So I don't necessarily need the signature.
51:55
SPEAKER_03: So cool.
51:56
SPEAKER_20: Is it though?
51:57
SPEAKER_20: Is it still cool?
51:58
SPEAKER_20: Devinor's signature is still cool.
51:59
SPEAKER_20: Do you have signature?
52:00
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, you're McBoard's guy.
52:01
SPEAKER_04: It's still cool.
52:02
SPEAKER_04: Because without the signature, it's just another car.
52:06
SPEAKER_04: Just a thing.
52:07
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
52:07
SPEAKER_04: But the signature gives the personal element of the athlete celebrity, whoever.
52:12
SPEAKER_20: Does it still carry the same weight as it always has?
52:16
SPEAKER_20: Signatures, or has that diminished?
52:18
SPEAKER_20: I don't know.
52:18
SPEAKER_20: That's a good question.
52:19
SPEAKER_20: Over time.
52:20
SPEAKER_20: I think so.
52:22
SPEAKER_04: I think so.
52:23
SPEAKER_04: They might be on the bounce back, though.
52:25
SPEAKER_04: I know like sports cards in general.
52:27
SPEAKER_03: Sports cards are very in right now.
52:29
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
52:29
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I know that collectible stuff is back in.
52:32
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, Dale Jr.
52:33
SPEAKER_20: actually, I'm still a Dale Jr.
52:35
SPEAKER_20: fan.
52:35
SPEAKER_20: He has his own podcast, um, because he does NASCAR announcing and stuff now, and he was my driver back when he was before he retired.
52:41
SPEAKER_20: And uh he's a big he talks about how he's a big baseball card collector.
52:46
SPEAKER_20: I would imagine if I you're probably right.
52:48
SPEAKER_20: Uh I think that signatures, if they were on a downtrend, they're probably on an uptrend because I firmly believe that people are going to be seeking authenticity and that which is genuine in the rise of artificial intelligence, even though we are not guaranteed human here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
53:10
SPEAKER_20: But I think people are gonna want things that are real and tangible and authentic, and I think signatures come into the mix.
53:16
SPEAKER_20: I I'll be specific.
53:18
SPEAKER_20: I was more just talking about going to a place, there's an actor or an actress with the booth set up, and they're charging you an exorbitant amount of money to get their signature.
53:26
SPEAKER_20: Nah.
53:26
SPEAKER_20: I'd rather have a photograph.
53:28
SPEAKER_20: Like, ain't gonna charge me that much?
53:29
SPEAKER_03: I'd rather have a selfie with.
53:30
SPEAKER_03: I have a friend who's the exact same way.
53:32
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, not Mark Hamill, because he's like I'd rather shake the guy's hand.
53:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
53:35
SPEAKER_03: You know, say hi.
53:36
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
53:37
unknown: Okay.
53:37
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
53:38
SPEAKER_03: I don't I I think I'd still probably prefer an autograph.
53:40
SPEAKER_03: I have no shame.
53:41
SPEAKER_03: I'd probably ask for an autograph.
53:42
SPEAKER_20: No, you know what?
53:43
SPEAKER_20: I think we all um collectively.
53:46
SPEAKER_17: You're fascinating to talk to.
53:48
SPEAKER_20: Let's go here.
53:50
SPEAKER_20: Shifting gears, and this is tragic.
53:52
SPEAKER_20: Uh, we're learning more about the victims of Saturday's mass shooting in the In N Out in Twin Falls.
53:57
SPEAKER_20: ABC 10 in Sacramento confirms that Ashley Garabay, an In N Out associate, was one of the three people that were killed.
54:05
SPEAKER_20: Just so completely and utterly uh senseless.
54:08
SPEAKER_20: Uh Garabay lived in Stockton, traveled to help uh new in and out locations.
54:13
SPEAKER_20: Uh, the location in Twin Falls opened in uh on July 24th of this year.
54:18
SPEAKER_20: In a statement, her family tells uh ABC 10 that Garabay was a devoted daughter, sister, uh auntie, cousin, and friend, and that she dreamed of one day managing an in-and-out store.
54:33
SPEAKER_20: The statement went on to say that Garabay was an amazing, beautiful soul who loved living life.
54:38
SPEAKER_20: It's just, again, it's just so incredibly senseless.
54:40
SPEAKER_20: Uh, in a statement posted on Saturday Night In N Out owner confirmed uh the associate was killed in the shooting, and a GoFundMe page has also been set up to help Garabay's family during this uh difficult time.
54:52
SPEAKER_20: In the meantime, uh local news talked with the fearless patriot in the Twin Falls uh shooting, Jordan Salinas.
55:00
SPEAKER_20: He went on to promote on television the Second Amendment rights, talking about the shooter's bravado and how it changed dramatically once he went and drew his uh firearm.
55:12
SPEAKER_33: I peeked around the uh right-hand side of that sign closest to the road, and that's where I saw the the individual with his rifle uh pointed at the vehicles.
55:24
SPEAKER_02: Authorities believe those heroic actions drove the shooter from the scene and likely saved lives.
55:29
SPEAKER_33: He seemed uh unusually comfortable aiming that rifle at those cars, and then as soon as some rounds start coming at him, everything changed.
55:37
SPEAKER_33: Immediately, all that, you know, all that bravado he had immediately crumbled.
55:44
SPEAKER_02: This In N Out had opened just a week prior.
55:46
SPEAKER_02: The company says one of their workers was killed while caring for customers.
55:50
SPEAKER_02: Christopher Claunch was also killed.
55:54
SPEAKER_20: Um, not surprised to hear his commentary of what had actually taken place.
56:01
SPEAKER_20: Uh, individuals like that tend to act really uh brave when they're going and committing a a horrible act like this.
56:08
SPEAKER_20: You've decided to go and take somebody else's life, your your respect of another individual's life has gone out the window, including your own.
56:16
SPEAKER_20: But then suddenly, when you're faced with any kind of opposition to your your heinous actions, you turn into an absolute coward.
56:24
SPEAKER_20: I wish this story was getting more attention, because it should.
56:27
SPEAKER_20: It is the example of a good guy with a gun.
56:30
SPEAKER_20: And why your Second Amendment rights are so crucial here in the United States, and also why the left continues to try to strip them away from you.
56:39
SPEAKER_20: Because it brings about personal accountability.
56:42
SPEAKER_20: And they don't want that.
56:43
SPEAKER_20: They want to be in control, they want to be in charge, they don't want you having the ability to go and push back on individuals.
56:51
SPEAKER_20: You know, this this person in the middle of going and committing his murderous act was ultimately a massive coward for a number of different reasons, including the fact that he just did what he did.
57:02
SPEAKER_20: A brave individual doesn't go and do something like this.
57:05
SPEAKER_20: Cowards go and do things like this.
57:07
SPEAKER_20: Let me let me go here.
57:08
SPEAKER_20: And I wasn't planning on going here just yet, but since I'm on this line of thinking, I want to share with you um some audio that came out out of St.
57:16
SPEAKER_20: Paul.
57:16
SPEAKER_20: I was gonna hang on to this until our guest of next hour joins us Becca Thompson, but it seems more appropriate to go and um and share this with you here.
57:24
SPEAKER_20: So this clip was making the rounds on X yesterday.
57:27
SPEAKER_20: Uh Wall Street Apes, the X account, had shared this.
57:31
SPEAKER_20: A resident at the St.
57:33
SPEAKER_20: Paul City Council meeting in Minnesota stood at the podium during this council meeting talking about our system in America of having private property needs to be abolished so that people can live in a park without being harassed.
57:50
SPEAKER_20: This punk is a straight up coward.
57:54
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna share with you why.
57:56
SPEAKER_20: But first, these were the comments by this moron in St.
58:02
SPEAKER_20: Paul during a city council meeting.
58:04
SPEAKER_19: What we're all participating in here And let me let me stop it real quick.
58:08
SPEAKER_20: Right at the end of the piece, you'll hear a transition to another voice of an individual who had captured the video but then wanted to offer clarity to what this idiot was spewing in the St.
58:22
SPEAKER_20: Paul City Council chamber.
58:29
SPEAKER_19: This is a government that represents the settlers and the capitalists and the other neoliberal fascists that live amongst us.
58:39
SPEAKER_19: Why are they brutalizing all of these innocent, beautiful people?
58:45
SPEAKER_19: It's crazy.
58:46
SPEAKER_19: I mean, I'm sure they take care of their pets at home and they take care of their kids at home and they kiss their you know, kids good night and all that.
58:53
SPEAKER_19: But what this government, what this system exists to do is to enforce private property.
59:01
SPEAKER_20: Okay, let me pause it real quick.
59:04
SPEAKER_20: This coward might have might as well might as well have been dressed up like a Muslim woman walking the streets of Somalia or Iran.
59:17
SPEAKER_20: I say that because he was completely shrouded in clothing.
59:22
SPEAKER_20: He had on this zip-up sweater jacket up to his neck, he had a face covering on, and it looked like he was wearing a flesh-colored prosthetic around his nose under the mask, and then dark sunglasses on and a beanie.
59:38
SPEAKER_20: Dude, you're a coward.
59:40
SPEAKER_20: Show your face.
59:41
SPEAKER_20: You want to stand up there and spew your Marxist nonsense?
59:46
SPEAKER_20: But so brave behind the shielding of anything that can go and identify you.
59:52
SPEAKER_20: Because ultimately, deep down, this lunatic knows that he's a lunatic.
59:58
SPEAKER_20: He knows what he's saying is ridiculous.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_20: He doesn't care because Marxists don't care.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_20: The radicals in Minneapolis and St.
1:00:07
SPEAKER_20: Paul don't care.
1:00:09
SPEAKER_20: But they're not brave souls.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_20: They're pure cowards.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_20: They hide themselves from the public because they know that what they're saying is, you know, at the least, stupid and at the most really, really radicalized, dangerous commentary.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_20: He's got his right to say it, but to stand up there and spew this nonsense, hiding his face from everybody, it goes to show that he doesn't have any conviction behind any of the garbage that you're listening to here.
1:00:39
SPEAKER_19: And if these people think that they can just go live in the park, no, no, no.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_19: That'll bring all our property values down.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_19: That'll collapse the whole system.
1:00:52
SPEAKER_19: So what can we do besides beg and plead for a little bit of humanity?
1:00:59
SPEAKER_19: I think what we should do is take their ability away to brutalize us like this.
1:01:06
SPEAKER_19: I think we should take away the weapons from the armed group of thugs that they used to brutalize all of us.
1:01:15
SPEAKER_32: I think the best way to address this is just ask the question, is America stolen land or conquered land?
1:01:22
SPEAKER_32: And the answer is conquered land.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_32: And in the same way, nearly all human territory has been acquired throughout all of history.
1:01:30
SPEAKER_32: The Americas were not empty or peaceful.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_32: They were occupied by hundreds of distinct peoples, nations, and empires that fought displaced, enslaved, and absorbed one another for centuries.
1:01:41
SPEAKER_20: You know, it's morons like this coward that you just heard spewing this anti-property nonsense.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_20: It's morons like that that end up electing St.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_20: Paul mayors like Horny Her.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_20: They're part of the problem.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_20: We have an update on the further adventures of Horny Her and the St.
1:02:03
SPEAKER_20: Paul police chief coming up on the protest show.
1:02:28
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1:02:51
SPEAKER_20: Uh new texts reveal that St.
1:02:54
SPEAKER_20: Paul Mayor Horny Her thought male colleagues were falling in love with her.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_20: She had a very, very high opinion, this demisexual, self-admitted, had a very, very high opinion of herself.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_20: So we'll uh give you the further details on that in just a moment on the show.
1:03:10
SPEAKER_20: We have social media influencers.
1:03:12
SPEAKER_20: We talk about things relating to Minneapolis.
1:03:14
SPEAKER_20: Uh Becca Thompson will be joining us at uh 7:30 this morning.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_20: This news broke overnight.
1:03:19
SPEAKER_20: Mike Lindell, amid his run for governor of Minnesota, announced that he is stepping down as the chief executive officer of his shakapee-based MyPillow.
1:03:33
SPEAKER_20: He said, doing that thing with my fingers, today I've made the biggest, one of the biggest decisions of my life.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_20: I'm stepping down as CEO of MyPillow so that I can devote 100% of my time and energy to my campaign for governor of Minnesota.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_20: Minnesota deserves my full attention, and that's exactly what I'm gonna give it.
1:03:51
SPEAKER_20: I'm all in, and I can't wait to earn your vote.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_20: Um this reeks of desperation.
1:04:00
SPEAKER_20: You got the My Pillow giveaway uh challenges, and we'll get to this based, it's it's in the story here.
1:04:07
SPEAKER_20: Um you have the questions over Mike Lindell's uh residency requirements, and this timing of stepping down as CEO of My Pillow seems to me just like just as a blatant attempt for Mike Lindell to try to change the topic.
1:04:25
SPEAKER_20: I said it before, I'll say it again.
1:04:27
SPEAKER_20: If he ends up being the winner in the primary next week, he's absolutely getting my vote.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_20: I will vote for him, I would vote for Devin, I would vote for Isaac, I would vote for a majority of individuals that walk through the door here as Center of the American experiment if they're Republican and they were the GOP candidate over Lamy Clobichar.
1:04:46
SPEAKER_20: That being said, this reeks of desperation coming from Mike Lindell's campaign.
1:04:51
SPEAKER_20: And then he went on to say this, which was probably one of the stupidest things, in my opinion, he could have said.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_20: He said uh that the Minnesota GOP questioning his residency was a hit job.
1:05:02
SPEAKER_20: Are you trying to make it difficult for Republicans to support you?
1:05:06
SPEAKER_20: Is that your goal?
1:05:07
SPEAKER_20: Is that what you're trying to do here?
1:05:09
SPEAKER_20: Because you are.
1:05:10
SPEAKER_20: That's what's happening.
1:05:12
SPEAKER_20: Why are you making it so hard?
1:05:17
SPEAKER_20: Lindell has also reduced his ownership stake in the company to a minority share.
1:05:22
SPEAKER_20: He'll stay on as member of the board, but the CEO title goes to James Furlong, who served as the MyPillow director from 2004 and 2019.
1:05:31
SPEAKER_20: At this point in time, less than a week away from next week's primary, he should have just waited.
1:05:37
SPEAKER_20: Nobody was putting an argument out there of, you know what, I was gonna go and vote for Mike Lindell, but gosh darn it.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_20: He's been running for governor and he's still CEO of MyPillow.
1:05:44
SPEAKER_20: And I just I love my slippers.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_20: I put my head on a MyPillow every night, but you know, I just can't get behind him because he's still CEO.
1:05:53
SPEAKER_20: Oh, he's not CEO anymore.
1:05:54
SPEAKER_20: He's totally got my vote now.
1:05:56
SPEAKER_20: Nobody is saying that.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_20: Now, if he were to win the prize.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_20: Primary and then wanted to say, I want to focus 100% on my campaign now that I won the primary.
1:06:06
SPEAKER_20: Okay, I'll give it to you.
1:06:07
SPEAKER_20: But this obviously is just a means to go, don't look at these other controversies, please, which may or may not be legitimate.
1:06:14
SPEAKER_20: No, no, no.
1:06:15
SPEAKER_20: Let's talk about in the cycle the fact that I'm no longer going to be CEO of the Minnesota-based My My Pillow.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_20: Let's do that.
1:06:23
SPEAKER_20: Not to mention the fact that, I mean, as CEO, it's kind of like the cushiest job you could have with the company.
1:06:30
SPEAKER_20: No, it has a lot of pressure, don't misunderstand.
1:06:32
SPEAKER_20: Right?
1:06:33
SPEAKER_20: I don't want to go and diminish the role of individuals who are the heads of organizations, certainly not the one that I'm currently doing the show from either.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_20: There's a lot of pressure involved in that, I understand.
1:06:44
SPEAKER_20: But you're a leader.
1:06:45
SPEAKER_20: You delegate, right?
1:06:47
SPEAKER_20: Ultimately it all falls on you.
1:06:49
SPEAKER_20: But if the company's running as it should, making, you know, my slippers and my pillows for people to go and walk around and sleep in comfort, if it's running the way that it should, there's not a whole lot you really need to you need to do.
1:07:04
SPEAKER_20: Lindell told or bring me the news that the residency questions are a hit job from Alex Plekish, whom he called a horrible leader for the GOP.
1:07:14
SPEAKER_20: Again, Mike, if you're listening, you're not Trump.
1:07:21
SPEAKER_20: Don't be like Trump.
1:07:23
SPEAKER_20: Trump does that.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_20: We're used to Trump doing that.
1:07:26
SPEAKER_20: He'll go after members of his own party and then end up being friends with them later on.
1:07:31
SPEAKER_20: This is a different dynamic.
1:07:33
SPEAKER_20: You're talking about a state, you know, gubernatorial race, not a national not on the national stage.
1:07:42
SPEAKER_20: So when you speak like that about current leaders within the GOP, again, are you trying to make it harder to get support?
1:07:51
SPEAKER_20: If you were to win the primary on Tuesday, you're going to want individuals like Alex uh Plekish and the GOP on your side.
1:08:00
SPEAKER_20: You're undermining all of that.
1:08:03
SPEAKER_20: I I don't understand any of these moves.
1:08:06
SPEAKER_20: I mean, going back to the whole amnesty plan, I I just I do not get it.
1:08:13
SPEAKER_20: What are your thoughts?
1:08:14
SPEAKER_20: Leave us a comment on the blaster line 612-584-4565 if comments have been rolling in.
1:08:22
SPEAKER_15: Who vote you said my little guy?
1:08:25
SPEAKER_15: That's a weirdo.
1:08:26
SPEAKER_15: Uh is it leftist infiltrating the party, or is it a group of Diehard Minnesota?
1:08:34
SPEAKER_15: Anyway.
1:08:36
SPEAKER_15: You know what I'd buy?
1:08:37
SPEAKER_15: An R-draft stack of John Justin.
1:08:42
SPEAKER_15: Okay.
1:08:43
SPEAKER_20: Oh, I'll give you the stack for free.
1:08:44
SPEAKER_20: It's just over here.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_20: I have it every single day.
1:08:46
SPEAKER_20: As a matter of fact, I have uh underneath my printer at home, I have a bin where I put all of the paper because I use both sides of it, right?
1:08:54
SPEAKER_20: So like this, like you'll see, if you're watching, if you're watching at MN Think Tank, or on Facebook or YouTube, so like this side's still clean.
1:09:01
SPEAKER_20: So what I'll do is I'll mark it when I'm done, and then I'll save it and use it again.
1:09:04
SPEAKER_20: And then when both sides are done, I throw it in the bin.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_20: Usually I empty it out, empty it out every couple of months, and the stack is like this.
1:09:13
SPEAKER_20: Like I feel like I should do something.
1:09:14
SPEAKER_20: Like it should be archived somewhere.
1:09:16
SPEAKER_20: Maybe I'll give it to Hans.
1:09:17
SPEAKER_20: I give it to you for free, Hans.
1:09:18
SPEAKER_20: You can have all my recycled paper.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_20: Free of charge.
1:09:23
SPEAKER_20: No, listen, I don't have a problem with anybody that's supporting Mike Lindell.
1:09:27
SPEAKER_20: I know there's a lot of people that like Mike Lindell.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_20: There's a lot of individuals out there who want a somebody who's an outsider like Trump.
1:09:34
SPEAKER_20: They see Mike Lindell as that individual.
1:09:36
SPEAKER_20: They see him as being fearless, willing to call out the establishment GOP, probably get very excited, and the moves that he's making appeal to those individuals who who support him.
1:09:49
SPEAKER_20: And I have no problem with anybody that wants to go and vote for Mike Lindell in a primary.
1:09:53
SPEAKER_20: This is why we have primaries, right?
1:09:56
SPEAKER_20: I have not chosen uh uh a dog in this fight.
1:09:59
SPEAKER_20: I'll comment once we get past the primary and I will support whomever those winners are.
1:10:04
SPEAKER_20: But I'm not making any endorsements on this show leading up to it.
1:10:08
SPEAKER_20: I never do during election cycles.
1:10:10
SPEAKER_20: But I have no problem, and I don't begrudge anybody that supports Mike Lindell because people all have their own reasons.
1:10:17
SPEAKER_20: It's very subjective, it's very personal, and you do you.
1:10:20
SPEAKER_20: That's great if you want to throw your vote behind him.
1:10:22
SPEAKER_20: I just think these moves that he has been making are incredibly stupid and also are undermining the efforts, were he to win the primary next week, of actually being voted, you know, voted in by the GOP and drumming up enthusiasm when you're going and complaining about the leaders within the GOP, like Alex Bleckish, who had no choice but to go and call out the residency question.
1:10:51
SPEAKER_20: Because you know what?
1:10:52
SPEAKER_20: If they don't get that squared away between now and primary day, the questions around his residency here in Minnesota, the DFL, if Mike Lindell is the primary candidate for the GOP, they are gonna make a mess of it.
1:11:07
SPEAKER_20: And it's not just me saying that either.
1:11:09
SPEAKER_20: I got an email, I'll leave it anonymous.
1:11:12
SPEAKER_20: He did not give me permission, although I get the feeling he probably will be fine with me uh sharing his thoughts.
1:11:16
SPEAKER_20: But since he didn't, I'll go ahead and share with you what this anonymous friend of the show uh shared with me.
1:11:22
SPEAKER_20: Uh talking about the residency question, the controversy behind it, the emailer writes, this is exactly what the DFL wants.
1:11:29
SPEAKER_20: The question of residency to hold office is fact-driven.
1:11:34
SPEAKER_20: So when you look back at Curtis Johnson and his house disqualification case that gave us Speaker Lisa Damath, he had a driver's license and voter registration in his apartment doing that thing with my fingers that he never lived in.
1:11:51
SPEAKER_20: It's in Judge Castro's order.
1:11:55
SPEAKER_20: Mike Lindell may have switched his driver's license, but he didn't even have his voter registration in Minnesota.
1:12:02
SPEAKER_20: Mike Lindell was claiming that he had pay stubs showing that he was a resident of Minnesota.
1:12:06
SPEAKER_20: But about those pay stubs, the emailer says, I'm not sure how pay stubs work for addresses or if that's even that important of a fact.
1:12:17
SPEAKER_20: If you look up some of the affidavits, uh affidavits filed in cases that he's been involved in in the past couple of years, there's at least one where he personally served at a resort in Texas.
1:12:28
SPEAKER_20: Does that mean that his that's his residence?
1:12:31
SPEAKER_20: No.
1:12:31
SPEAKER_20: And there are several court filings where he says he is a Minnesota resident, but you can imagine that the very well-paid DFL lawyers will be doing a whole lot of digging, and that's not a good situation.
1:12:43
SPEAKER_20: It's not a good situation.
1:12:45
SPEAKER_20: Alex Plekish and the Minnesota GOP are not in a good situation having this come to light.
1:12:51
SPEAKER_20: Whether or not the you know, the residency question is an issue or not, Alex Plekish was absolutely correct in going and questioning it because the DFL is going to, if he is the nominee, and it's going to be a mess.
1:13:06
SPEAKER_20: And I hope that we get a concrete answer between now and Tuesday so that voters can go and make the informed decision that they have a right to make regarding a candidate that they support.
1:13:20
SPEAKER_20: Coming up.
1:13:21
SPEAKER_20: St.
1:13:22
SPEAKER_20: Paul Mayor, cooleie her, horny her, under investigation for sexual harassment allegations made by police chief Axel Henry.
1:13:29
SPEAKER_20: Text messages now obtained by Alpha News reveal her's belief that men misinterpret her professional passion as romantic interest, leading her to set clear boundaries.
1:13:44
SPEAKER_20: Boy, if those are her boundaries based off the allegations around horny her, I think she needs to reevaluate those boundaries.
1:13:50
SPEAKER_20: The investigation includes the claims of inappropriate messages, comments about physical appearance, and altered photographs of police officials.
1:13:59
SPEAKER_20: I'll give you details on this.
1:14:00
SPEAKER_20: We'll get to more of your thoughts.
1:14:02
SPEAKER_20: John.justice at American Experiment.org.
1:14:04
SPEAKER_20: You can leave us a blast at 612-584-4565.
1:14:09
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1:14:16
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1:14:23
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1:14:52
SPEAKER_31: And they also state that Box said on the telephone that her criminal defense attorney and the editor of the Star Tribune were making plans as to when to publish the article to garner the most strategic advantage.
1:15:05
SPEAKER_30: So that's like pretty high-level collusion between the Star Tribune and this woman who's sitting in a jail waiting to be sentenced for her role in the fraud scheme.
1:15:14
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
1:15:15
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota has always been a low crime state.
1:15:18
SPEAKER_01: But according to the most recent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension data, we are now above the national average when it comes to part one crimes, a category that includes crimes like murder, assault, rape, and carjackings.
1:15:31
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota is now a high crime state.
1:15:35
SPEAKER_01: Visit highcrime.com to learn more.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_01: Think about it is brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
1:15:44
SPEAKER_30: Minnesotans, based on our polling, would agree.
1:15:46
SPEAKER_30: It was temporary from the beginning.
1:15:47
SPEAKER_30: It was temporary very COVID going to people who don't need it.
1:15:51
SPEAKER_30: They can work, or they're illegal immigrants.
1:15:53
SPEAKER_30: Yep.
1:15:53
SPEAKER_30: Shouldn't be benefiting from the system anyway.
1:15:54
SPEAKER_30: Yep, they're able-bodied or they're not Americans.
1:15:57
SPEAKER_30: We're gonna kind of roll through a few of the senators' opinions on why this funding is so crucial.
1:16:01
SPEAKER_30: Let's roll it.
1:16:03
SPEAKER_28: Work reporting requirements don't work.
1:16:05
SPEAKER_28: The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are forcing states to adopt these work reporting requirements so they can kick enough people off Medicaid to justify the tax cuts they gave to billionaires.
1:16:15
SPEAKER_29: The single purpose of this is to kick people off of their health insurance, except to corporations and super rich donors, the only people who stand to gain from this deal.
1:16:24
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
1:16:25
SPEAKER_01: Now that school's back in session, how are Minnesota students doing?
1:16:29
SPEAKER_01: Not very well.
1:16:30
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in 10 years.
1:16:36
SPEAKER_01: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota students can either read or do math at grade level.
1:16:41
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
1:16:42
SPEAKER_01: We used to brag about our schools.
1:16:44
SPEAKER_01: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
1:16:46
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1:16:49
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1:16:55
SPEAKER_41: Education Minnesota came in and testified against that bill.
1:16:59
SPEAKER_41: Even though it included public schools, and their basic thing was we are testifying against this because it'll decrease the enrollment in public schools, decrease teacher uh teacher funding in public schools, and basically take money away from our teachers in public schools.
1:17:20
SPEAKER_41: And when they did that, what was what just became so crystal clear, and every DFL representative fell in line, repeated the same talking, the same anti-Trump talking points.
1:17:31
SPEAKER_41: What stuck out to me was like, wow, you really don't care about the kids.
1:17:36
SPEAKER_41: You really, really don't.
1:17:38
SPEAKER_41: The only thing you're prioritizing is public school enrollment.
1:17:43
SPEAKER_41: Not for the sake of the we need more kids in public school because they'll get the best education.
1:17:48
SPEAKER_41: The justification was we need more kids in public school so that our teachers can get paid in public school.
1:17:56
SPEAKER_31: Yeah, they should be happy that there's gonna be more private money under this program going to schools, more money in general, but they're not, yeah, because some of it might go to private schools.
1:18:05
SPEAKER_31: Meanwhile, in other states that are run by Democrats, they did opt into this program, and their kids are gonna benefit from Virginia did Minnesota.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_41: New York did.
1:18:13
SPEAKER_41: Michigan.
1:18:13
SPEAKER_41: Michigan, Colorado, who had these other states that are blue states that were opting into this program.
1:18:20
SPEAKER_41: And I think just the most jarring part of it was listening to these DFL representatives, this DFL testifier from Education Minnesota, and going, Wow, the point is not educating our children.
1:18:36
SPEAKER_20: And that was actually from uh Freedom Friday here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment, and of course, uh Max Reimer, who will be in uh this Friday as well.
1:18:46
SPEAKER_20: And we should have a full house.
1:18:48
SPEAKER_20: Isaac will be producing that morning.
1:18:50
SPEAKER_20: Devin will be producing the show Monday through uh Thursdays, and we should have uh Grace and Catherine from the American Experiment podcast, of which there is a brand new episode out today.
1:18:59
SPEAKER_20: Unfortunately, that is right, you're not here for.
1:19:02
SPEAKER_20: I forgot you're not here Friday, Isaac.
1:19:04
SPEAKER_20: We'll be attending a wedding.
1:19:05
SPEAKER_20: But I'll tune in.
1:19:06
SPEAKER_20: We'll be here in spirit.
1:19:07
SPEAKER_20: Devin will be here on Friday.
1:19:09
SPEAKER_03: Maybe I'll leave a maybe I'll leave a blast.
1:19:11
SPEAKER_03: You should leave a blast.
1:19:12
SPEAKER_20: You should leave a cardboard cutout of yourself.
1:19:15
SPEAKER_20: Fun.
1:19:15
SPEAKER_20: Just set it over there.
1:19:16
SPEAKER_20: I like that.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_20: So Devin will be here on Friday, at least for a little while.
1:19:20
SPEAKER_20: So but we should have a full house of AK and uh Max uh Max Reimer uh here as well on the John Justice show, presented by American Experiment.
1:19:27
SPEAKER_20: Let's get to uh before we get to uh the continuing adventures of St.
1:19:30
SPEAKER_20: Paul Mayor Horney Her, let's uh get to some of your thoughts from the blaster this morning, 612-584-4565, and we'll hear from Matthew, who left us a message.
1:19:42
SPEAKER_16: John, good morning.
1:19:43
SPEAKER_16: Great job.
1:19:45
SPEAKER_16: Mike Lindell is the Timu version of Donald Trump.
1:19:50
SPEAKER_16: That's really all I have to say.
1:19:52
SPEAKER_20: I like the fact that at the end of uh Matthew's comment, he had a uh he had a little chuckle there at the end of it.
1:19:58
SPEAKER_20: At one point, are we not gonna be allowed to call individuals a teamu something?
1:20:02
SPEAKER_20: Like I'm surprised that that has not been put in the penalty box of you can't say that.
1:20:08
SPEAKER_20: That's incredibly rude to call anybody a Timu uh anything.
1:20:12
SPEAKER_20: Let's go and hear from uh Kevin this morning on the blaster line.
1:20:17
SPEAKER_07: John, as an employer, I know that your pay sub would show what state your income tax, your state income tax is paid into.
1:20:26
SPEAKER_07: Your state income tax would be paid into your state of residence.
1:20:32
SPEAKER_07: Kevin's following you.
1:20:35
SPEAKER_20: Okay, thank you for that.
1:20:36
SPEAKER_20: Again, there's still it there still are some questions.
1:20:39
SPEAKER_20: I don't think it's as definitive.
1:20:41
SPEAKER_20: And if it were, then this controversy would be over, and the controversy is not over yet.
1:20:46
SPEAKER_20: If it were simply that definitive, that it was just enough to have the pay stubs be uh the qualifier for your residency.
1:20:53
SPEAKER_20: But thank you all for the uh comments of the blaster line again.
1:20:56
SPEAKER_20: 612-584-4565.
1:20:58
SPEAKER_20: Alpha News obtained text messages revealing that uh St.
1:21:03
SPEAKER_20: Paul Mayor Horney Cooley Her believed the men that she encountered through her professional and political life ended up developing romantic feelings for her.
1:21:17
SPEAKER_20: The nature of my work, doing that thing with my fingers, she says, requires a lot of love and passion.
1:21:25
SPEAKER_20: Otherwise, the work is too heavy to carry and the burden is too great.
1:21:31
SPEAKER_20: I run across this with men more frequently, but men will sometimes mistake it for more.
1:21:38
SPEAKER_20: I think they end up falling in love with me.
1:21:41
SPEAKER_20: So I have to set very clear boundaries.
1:21:45
SPEAKER_20: Don't we all have that problem, guys?
1:21:48
SPEAKER_20: Gotta leave before you love me.
1:21:53
SPEAKER_20: That's a great jam, by the way.
1:21:54
SPEAKER_20: I just tell you.
1:21:56
SPEAKER_20: That is a great, that is a great Jonas Brothers and uh who's the other guy with that song?
1:22:00
SPEAKER_20: I always forget.
1:22:01
SPEAKER_20: It's the guy that wears the the what is it uh marshmallow.
1:22:06
SPEAKER_20: He wears the marshmallow head?
1:22:07
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, you know I'm talking about, right?
1:22:09
SPEAKER_20: He has a big marshmallow head with the with the with the Yeah, it is Jonas Brothers and marshmallow.
1:22:13
unknown: Thank you.
1:22:14
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna listen to that on the way home.
1:22:15
SPEAKER_20: It's at the top of I have a John's favorite playlist, which is really every playlist.
1:22:20
SPEAKER_20: That one is at the top of one of my John favorite playlists.
1:22:23
SPEAKER_20: That's a good jam.
1:22:25
SPEAKER_20: She is delusional.
1:22:27
SPEAKER_20: Uh, getting back to the messages, they were later submitted as exhibits in support of the harassment restraining order petition filed by Yang, who alleged that her engaged in a pattern of wanted communications, intimidation, and interference in Yang's personal professional life.
1:22:41
SPEAKER_20: In January of this year, a Ramsey County court referred, uh referee, excuse me, denied Yang's petition, finding evidence did not meet the legal standard required to issue a harassment restraining order.
1:22:55
SPEAKER_20: So what it sounds like here is that with these text messages relating to um Shirley Yang in the spring of 2005, who while Cooley Her was serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives, this sounds like the that version of the narrative that she wanted to put forward, like people just don't get my jokes with the current allegations.
1:23:15
SPEAKER_20: Meaning Shirley Yang's um protests of harassment was really just the fact that Shirley, even though it happens more often with men, just simply fell for Cooley Herz charms.
1:23:30
SPEAKER_20: And therefore the unrequited love pushed her to the point where she said that she was being harassed or something.
1:23:38
SPEAKER_20: Now her faces a separate investigation into allegations of sexual harassment following the complaint filed by St.
1:23:44
SPEAKER_20: Paul police chief Axel Henry.
1:23:46
SPEAKER_20: So how long until Horny Herz says that you know the problem?
1:23:49
SPEAKER_20: Axel's just in love with me.
1:23:51
SPEAKER_20: What can I say?
1:23:54
SPEAKER_20: I'm a magnet for men and women because I just exude this level of sexuality.
1:24:00
SPEAKER_20: Oh my gosh.
1:24:04
SPEAKER_20: I'll tell you this much, man.
1:24:05
SPEAKER_20: Thank you, Horny Her, for providing me material.
1:24:07
SPEAKER_20: This is spectacular.
1:24:08
SPEAKER_20: I just gotta never a dull moment.
1:24:11
SPEAKER_20: The messages provide additional insight into the mayor's views on relationships and professional boundaries, as I was just explaining.
1:24:19
SPEAKER_20: They also um the messages also uh surface as competing narratives emerge about the investigation.
1:24:25
SPEAKER_20: So KSTP reported Monday night that her and Henry had longstanding disagreements over several issues before the chief filed the complaint and quoted a former St.
1:24:34
SPEAKER_20: Paul City Council member who questioned whether the allegations have been overstated.
1:24:38
SPEAKER_20: And again, this goes back to the point I was just making a moment ago.
1:24:41
SPEAKER_20: So we had earlier this week what I just mentioned.
1:24:44
SPEAKER_20: These all we already had, we were already had disagreements.
1:24:48
SPEAKER_20: We didn't disag we didn't agree about ICE operations, about uh issues regarding public safety and the police.
1:24:54
SPEAKER_20: Now it seems like her wants to inject this, and I'm just waiting for it.
1:24:58
SPEAKER_20: This and on top of all this, Axel Henry really just had a crush on me.
1:25:03
SPEAKER_20: And why wouldn't he?
1:25:04
SPEAKER_20: I'm horny her for crying out.
1:25:09
SPEAKER_20: Chris Maddle, the attorney representing Henry, rejected that characterization in a post on X and reiterated his criticism in a statement to Alpha News.
1:25:18
SPEAKER_20: He said it's BS and they know it, and he used the words.
1:25:23
SPEAKER_20: A lot of exploit is flying around lately.
1:25:25
SPEAKER_20: I don't I don't I do, I'm not gonna lie, I miss the days when we didn't curse as much in public.
1:25:32
SPEAKER_20: And that includes President Donald Trump.
1:25:33
SPEAKER_20: I just my my father, right, taught me early and often move on from the profane to the profound.
1:25:42
SPEAKER_20: Often when people use that type of language, not all the time, but often when people use use that kind of language, it's sort of lazy.
1:25:49
SPEAKER_20: Right?
1:25:49
SPEAKER_20: They can't really express their views.
1:25:51
SPEAKER_20: Comedians, I just don't understand it.
1:25:53
SPEAKER_20: Like to me, comedians, when they use an abundance of profanity, it's often because their material is is weak.
1:25:59
SPEAKER_20: If your material is good, you don't need to use profanity.
1:26:01
SPEAKER_20: Anyway.
1:26:04
SPEAKER_20: This is the uh this is my version of putting spikes on the lawn to stop kids from writing over it.
1:26:09
SPEAKER_10: These kids should say all their language and these attorneys.
1:26:13
SPEAKER_20: But I get it, Chris Maddle is a passionate dude and he's upset.
1:26:16
SPEAKER_20: He said, unlike these clowns, Chief Henry has put his life on the line to protect people, and now he's putting himself out there to protect others.
1:26:25
SPEAKER_20: So what does the mayor, her, and crew do?
1:26:28
SPEAKER_20: They blame the victims.
1:26:30
SPEAKER_20: Now, last week, Alpha News reported that Mayor Her was under investigation following the allegations by Chief Henry that she sexually harassed his subordinate city employees, including members of the St.
1:26:40
SPEAKER_20: Paul uh police force.
1:26:42
SPEAKER_20: Now, the allegations outlined by Chief Henry are not the only claims that have surfaced regarding her conduct, as we've been reporting on the show.
1:26:53
SPEAKER_20: Star Tribune said that a former high-ranking St.
1:26:56
SPEAKER_20: Paul police deputy told investigators shortly after her took office.
1:26:59
SPEAKER_20: The mayor approached her in the police department's gym and the locker room area and commented on the size of her own breasts before complimenting the deputy chief's breasts.
1:27:11
SPEAKER_20: Now, see, listen, I take issue with this because if you've ever been in a locker room with a bunch of dudes, I mean, dudes do do this all the time.
1:27:17
SPEAKER_20: They look at other dudes' junk and they go, man, you got some nice junk going on there.
1:27:21
SPEAKER_20: Right?
1:27:21
SPEAKER_20: It doesn't compare to my junk, but you got some nice junk going on there.
1:27:26
SPEAKER_20: That never happens, by the way.
1:27:29
SPEAKER_20: And if it does, uh, those individuals making those comms are probably not gonna be back in that locker room anytime soon.
1:27:36
SPEAKER_20: Could you imagine?
1:27:39
SPEAKER_20: You're in a stall in the bathroom.
1:27:40
SPEAKER_20: Hey, what you got going on over there, buddy?
1:27:42
SPEAKER_20: Nice! It's good.
1:27:45
SPEAKER_20: You know?
1:27:46
SPEAKER_20: That's all right.
1:27:47
SPEAKER_20: Wanna see what I got happening here?
1:27:49
SPEAKER_20: Normal people don't do that.
1:27:53
SPEAKER_20: The Star Tribune also reported allegations that her altered framed photographs of senior police officials.
1:28:00
SPEAKER_20: Displayed in the department offices by placing copies of her official mayoral portrait over some of the officers' faces.
1:28:08
SPEAKER_20: The newspaper further reported that Her posted an edited image depicting a shirtless UFC fighter with the faces of St.
1:28:16
SPEAKER_20: Paul police officers, including Chief Henry, digitally superimposed onto the fighters' bodies.
1:28:23
SPEAKER_20: Separately, Kara Levin reported allegations that Her positions herself in front of police officers in the department's weight room and made sexually suggestive noises while stretching.
1:28:36
SPEAKER_20: In text messages with Yang, Hur said that she had undergone what she had described as an as a cashic reading.
1:28:45
SPEAKER_20: I have no idea what that is.
1:28:46
SPEAKER_20: AKA S-H-I-C, Akashic.
1:28:49
SPEAKER_20: No, nobody?
1:28:50
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
1:28:51
SPEAKER_20: Not just me.
1:28:52
SPEAKER_20: And wrote that the psychic psychics have now entered horny Herschat.
1:29:00
SPEAKER_20: Concluded that at the core of who I am is love.
1:29:07
SPEAKER_20: Her goes on to write that her love is intense, doing nothing with my fingers.
1:29:12
SPEAKER_20: And that she has soulmates, kindred spirits, and twin flames.
1:29:19
SPEAKER_20: I mean, she needs her own reality show at this point in time.
1:29:22
SPEAKER_20: I mean, seriously.
1:29:24
SPEAKER_20: Mayors of Saint Ball.
1:29:26
SPEAKER_20: Starring hornier.
1:29:29
SPEAKER_20: She also writes that she is demisexual.
1:29:33
SPEAKER_20: I hated them in Stranger Things, by the way.
1:29:37
SPEAKER_20: Terrifying.
1:29:38
SPEAKER_20: The demisexuals and Stranger Things.
1:29:44
SPEAKER_20: Oh, Debbie Gorgon, sorry.
1:29:46
SPEAKER_03: Sorry.
1:29:46
SPEAKER_03: Another dad joke.
1:29:47
SPEAKER_03: Sorry, I thought it was funny.
1:29:48
SPEAKER_03: I joked.
1:29:49
SPEAKER_20: Demi Gorgon, not demisexual.
1:29:52
SPEAKER_20: No, that was the youngest actor on that came out as demisexual, didn't he?
1:29:56
SPEAKER_20: Isn't that what in that part of it?
1:29:57
SPEAKER_20: I can't keep track.
1:29:58
SPEAKER_20: Isn't that I can't keep track?
1:30:01
SPEAKER_20: By the way, uh Debbie, she said she's demisexual, which means she does not experience sexual attraction unless she has formed a deep emotional bond with somebody.
1:30:10
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, that's what's supposed to happen.
1:30:12
SPEAKER_20: I mean, I mean, that's that's like the most normal thing that's gonna be said about this juvenile lunatic.
1:30:19
SPEAKER_20: Her and her husband Kong.
1:30:22
SPEAKER_20: Kong's now entered the chat.
1:30:25
SPEAKER_20: They have two daughters.
1:30:27
SPEAKER_20: She did not uh she did not respond to a request for for comment.
1:30:31
SPEAKER_20: Wait a second.
1:30:31
SPEAKER_20: Who didn't respond for?
1:30:33
SPEAKER_20: Is Kong a female?
1:30:34
SPEAKER_20: I'm confused.
1:30:35
SPEAKER_20: Is she married to a woman with two daughters?
1:30:38
SPEAKER_20: I don't I can't tell.
1:30:39
SPEAKER_20: I can't keep track.
1:30:42
SPEAKER_20: Alright.
1:30:43
SPEAKER_20: So let me put a period on this.
1:30:45
SPEAKER_20: We need to bring our uh our guest in.
1:30:47
SPEAKER_20: Um at a minimum, this is a very juvenile woman, at a minimum, that unfortunately voters in St.
1:30:55
SPEAKER_20: Paul pathetically picked to lead their city.
1:30:58
SPEAKER_20: I was no fan of former mayor Melvin Carter.
1:31:00
SPEAKER_20: He's a leftist, but certainly he was a better leftist choice than Horny Her is.
1:31:06
SPEAKER_20: And I hope that the people in St.
1:31:08
SPEAKER_20: Paul are regretting their vote.
1:31:11
SPEAKER_20: Unless they're just wild wildly entertained by all of this at this point in time.
1:31:16
SPEAKER_20: So man, that's just St.
1:31:21
SPEAKER_20: Paul Mayor.
1:31:23
SPEAKER_20: Thought colleagues were falling in love with her.
1:31:25
SPEAKER_20: Allegation surface.
1:31:26
SPEAKER_20: This is a delusional juvenile woman.
1:31:29
SPEAKER_20: I'd love to hear your thoughts.
1:31:30
SPEAKER_20: It's 612-584-4565 if you want to leave us a uh blast.
1:31:34
SPEAKER_20: John.justice at American Experiment.org.
1:31:38
SPEAKER_20: Sophie Cunningham's trans sports stance could become federal law.
1:31:44
SPEAKER_20: So uh Clay from Outkick uh made uh a um he made a deal, basically, offering up a handful of money to have a team compete against some WNBA players.
1:31:58
SPEAKER_20: Uh, Carol Evans Janice Shortall took issue with this.
1:32:01
SPEAKER_20: I have the audio to share with you.
1:32:03
SPEAKER_20: We've still got a lot of ground to cover.
1:32:05
SPEAKER_20: Do not go anywhere.
1:32:06
SPEAKER_20: You're listening to the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
1:32:11
SPEAKER_20: Uh coming up in just a moment here, you're gonna hear from Center of the American Experiment's Bill Walsh, a frequent guest on the show, talking about some recent uh polling and uh commentary that you might have missed that's available at the YouTube page at Center of the American Experiment and at AmericanExperiment.org.
1:32:29
SPEAKER_12: Is the Declaration of Independence worth celebrating?
1:32:32
SPEAKER_12: 66% of Minnesotans said yes.
1:32:34
SPEAKER_12: The Declaration of Independence worth celebrating.
1:32:36
SPEAKER_12: Uh 4% said boycott.
1:32:38
SPEAKER_12: That's that's just 4% crank, you know, in this in this poll.
1:32:42
SPEAKER_12: Um we can we can ignore that.
1:32:44
SPEAKER_12: Positive.
1:32:45
SPEAKER_30: It really is.
1:32:46
SPEAKER_30: When I have to picture all of the protesters that I see every weekend with their upside-down American flags, the no-kings, and the science cycle every few months because someone's making them for them and giving them their messages.
1:32:56
SPEAKER_30: Those people must be included somewhere in here, right?
1:32:58
SPEAKER_30: I don't know.
1:32:59
SPEAKER_30: That's incredible.
1:33:00
SPEAKER_12: Is America generally a force for good in the world?
1:33:03
SPEAKER_12: And again, remember this came out right before we bombed uh Iran.
1:33:06
SPEAKER_12: This these numbers might be different today, but 54% thought America was a force for good in the world, 41% not a force for good, 5% unsure.
1:33:14
SPEAKER_12: So not a horrible uh uh result there, I think.
1:33:18
SPEAKER_31: 41% say not a force for good.
1:33:20
SPEAKER_31: How do you think that?
1:33:21
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
1:33:22
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota has always been a low crime state, but according to the most recent Bureau of Criminal Apprehension data, we are now above the national average when it comes to part one crimes, a category that includes crimes like murder, assault, rape, and carjackings.
1:33:39
SPEAKER_01: Think about it.
1:33:40
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota is now a high crime state.
1:33:43
SPEAKER_01: Visit highcrime.com to learn more.
1:33:46
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1:33:51
SPEAKER_30: Now one of Keith Ellison's campaign donors has pleaded guilty to fraud.
1:33:57
SPEAKER_30: So shocking, I know.
1:33:58
SPEAKER_30: For what it's worth, uh became the last of a seven-member family group to plead guilty in the sprawling Feeding Your Future fraud scandal last week.
1:34:06
SPEAKER_30: Akrum Yusuf Mohammed, who once worked as a Feeding Our Future employee, but more excitingly, was present at the infamous 2021, December 2021 meeting where Keith Ellison, our own attorney general, met with some fraud-connected individuals.
1:34:20
SPEAKER_30: She was in that meeting.
1:34:22
SPEAKER_30: So a few days after that meeting took place, back in December 2021, her brother Gandhi, who just pled guilty last week, donated the maximum allowed amount to Keith Ellison's campaign.
1:34:34
SPEAKER_30: Now that was$2,500.
1:34:35
SPEAKER_30: So this is so interesting because Gandhi was not only being investigated for food fraud.
1:34:39
SPEAKER_30: And we've seen this with several frauds here.
1:34:41
SPEAKER_30: Gandhi Muhammad received at least$36 million in Medicaid reimbursements.
1:34:47
SPEAKER_30: As well as the stuff that he was making off the free food fraud case.
1:34:50
SPEAKER_30: But he hasn't been charged with fraud in those programs yet.
1:34:53
SPEAKER_30: So were those ill-gotten gains?
1:34:55
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1:34:56
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1:35:02
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1:35:20
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1:35:25
SPEAKER_20: It's a John Justice show presented by American Experiment and AmericanExperiment.org.
1:35:30
SPEAKER_20: A lot of comments have uh rolled into the blaster line, 612-584-4565, based off of our previous story of the continuing adventures of the St.
1:35:40
SPEAKER_20: Paul Mayor horny her.
1:35:42
SPEAKER_20: Text messages now reveal that she thought male colleagues were falling in love with her as new allegations uh surface, saying, The nature of my work requires a lot of love and passion.
1:35:53
SPEAKER_20: Otherwise, the work is too heavy to carry and the burden is too great.
1:35:57
SPEAKER_20: I run across this with men more frequently, but men will sometimes mistake in it for more.
1:36:02
SPEAKER_20: I think they end up falling in love with me.
1:36:04
SPEAKER_20: So I have to set clear boundaries.
1:36:06
SPEAKER_20: This is what she wrote in text messages to an individual who had claimed harassment but had those charges dismissed in the spring of 2025 while uh Horney Her was serving in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
1:36:18
SPEAKER_20: Let's uh hear some of your thoughts from the blaster line this morning.
1:36:21
SPEAKER_20: Again, 612-584-4565.
1:36:25
SPEAKER_09: Mayor, her's uh wild imagination kind of reminds me of Steve Urkel when he used to imagine that Laura really did love him.
1:36:36
SPEAKER_20: I always appreciate Bob's comments because he certainly shows his age when he makes comments about Urkel, which is funny to me now because Urkel is now like if you make an Urkel reference, again, people immediately know you are a person of a certain uh age.
1:36:50
SPEAKER_20: Let's hear more of uh your thoughts this morning here on the John Justice show, presented by American Experiment.
1:36:56
SPEAKER_17: Good morning, John.
1:36:58
SPEAKER_17: You know, if anyone comments me aside from my husband on parts of my body, I'd never talk to them again.
1:37:07
SPEAKER_17: And if it's gonna work, then I would go directly to HR.
1:37:10
SPEAKER_17: You can have a joke about stuff, but I even was thinking of having a green clue of happy wiener Wednesday just because that was the joke from last week.
1:37:20
SPEAKER_17: But that's the thing around me to think Democrats is me together.
1:37:26
SPEAKER_20: I completely forgot.
1:37:27
SPEAKER_20: I had every single intention of opening up the show saying happy Wiener Wednesday.
1:37:32
SPEAKER_20: And I I'm sorry, I failed you guys.
1:37:35
SPEAKER_20: I'm a failure.
1:37:36
SPEAKER_20: I'm sorry I did that.
1:37:37
SPEAKER_20: It is Wiener Wednesday.
1:37:38
SPEAKER_20: Not too late though.
1:37:40
SPEAKER_20: Still have uh half the show left to uh to get through.
1:37:48
SPEAKER_20: I you know what?
1:37:49
SPEAKER_20: I don't want to know any more about the private life of of Horny Her.
1:37:53
SPEAKER_20: Alright, one more comment and we'll go to our guest uh this morning.
1:37:59
SPEAKER_22: Don Guarantee, Melvin Carter is sitting there collecting his even bigger paycheck working for Second Harvest Heartland, laughing at what's going on, because again, he's making more money now, not having to deal with the craziness of the city of St.
1:38:14
SPEAKER_22: Paul.
1:38:15
SPEAKER_22: Just casting his paycheck.
1:38:17
SPEAKER_22: It's just disgusting.
1:38:19
SPEAKER_20: Thank you all for the comments, 612-584-45 uh 65.
1:38:24
SPEAKER_20: With our next guest, uh Becca Thompson.
1:38:27
SPEAKER_20: I know your focus is on Minneapolis, but have you ever thought of going a little bit further east and covering what's been going on in St.
1:38:34
SPEAKER_20: Paul based off of all of this recent uh controversy?
1:38:37
SPEAKER_20: Good morning and welcome to the show.
1:38:39
SPEAKER_39: Good morning.
1:38:39
SPEAKER_39: Thank you for having me on the show.
1:38:41
SPEAKER_39: Uh, you know, I'm a Minneapolis kid, so there's always a longtime rivalry in hearing that.
1:38:46
SPEAKER_39: I just I'm gosh, they have they have their own.
1:38:50
SPEAKER_39: I I uh yeah, yeah, there's some problems over there too, for sure.
1:38:55
SPEAKER_20: It's something in the water in the Twin Cities just across the across the board.
1:38:58
SPEAKER_20: So let's let me back up here a little bit.
1:39:01
SPEAKER_20: I had a I had a friend of the show that uh came out to the America 250 event uh a couple of weekends back where we made the announcement about the launch of this show here at American Experiment.
1:39:13
SPEAKER_20: Uh and uh her name is Sandy, I'm sure she doesn't mind me mentioning that.
1:39:16
SPEAKER_20: And uh she was ranting and raving about this woman, Becca Thompson.
1:39:22
SPEAKER_20: No, I've I've I've seen your posts online, so the moment that she said your name, I go, Oh, okay, yeah, I've seen, I've seen, I've seen Becca's comments.
1:39:30
SPEAKER_20: And so uh she's like, listen, you have to have Becca Thompson on your show.
1:39:33
SPEAKER_20: You gotta get her on your show.
1:39:34
SPEAKER_20: I'm like, okay, I'll look into it.
1:39:36
SPEAKER_20: You know, I'll see.
1:39:37
SPEAKER_20: You know, we were launching the show, we were launching the show, very, you know, very busy and all that.
1:39:41
SPEAKER_20: Well, um, that wasn't enough because Sandy went and emailed me.
1:39:45
SPEAKER_20: I love that.
1:39:46
SPEAKER_20: So, so this is this is what this is what Sandy uh wrote.
1:39:49
SPEAKER_20: She says, Becca is articulate, uh smart, has an edgy, cutting sense of humor.
1:39:54
SPEAKER_20: She uses all of her gifts to call out the BS that has gone on the past several years in the state of Minneapolis government.
1:40:01
SPEAKER_20: Her focus is on Minneapolis, the downfall in the city of the state post-George Floyd.
1:40:06
SPEAKER_20: A commit um Becca was a committed Democrat, but saw the lightness left the party, having worked in and seen the dark side of Minneapolis government.
1:40:15
SPEAKER_20: She's not afraid to call out the Minneapolis City Council, the DSA, Governor Walls, the fraud, and failing schools.
1:40:22
SPEAKER_20: Uh, and then she actually goes so far as to give a full background uh on you.
1:40:26
SPEAKER_20: But you know what?
1:40:26
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna allow you to uh get the audience familiar with uh with your background.
1:40:34
SPEAKER_20: So again, thank you for uh joining the show.
1:40:36
SPEAKER_20: I've been um a fan of what you've been posting online, and your posts are relentless and they're spot on.
1:40:42
SPEAKER_20: But give us a bit of your uh a bit of your background and kind of what brings you uh brings you here to uh to the show.
1:40:48
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, I ended up sitting right here, which thank you for having me on, and I really appreciate those superlatives.
1:40:53
SPEAKER_39: I hope I can I hope I can live up to it.
1:40:56
SPEAKER_39: Um I, you know, the it here, I'll try to get this as short as I can.
1:41:00
SPEAKER_39: I was born and raised in Minneapolis, um, and I have my degree in mathematics that I got from the University of Minnesota, which I used to have rivalry with my siblings who went to UW, and and now I'm like, I don't know, maybe the U of M isn't as good as it used to be.
1:41:15
SPEAKER_39: I'm sorry, sorry, Big Ten U of M.
1:41:17
SPEAKER_39: Um, and then uh then I became a classically trained uh professional actor, so I'm very used to being around in here.
1:41:25
SPEAKER_39: And um, you know, look here's my my 1990s reference, yada yada yada.
1:41:30
SPEAKER_39: I ended up back in Minneapolis.
1:41:32
SPEAKER_39: Nice.
1:41:33
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, right.
1:41:33
SPEAKER_20: I've been doing a Seinfeld rewatch when I've been prepping right now.
1:41:37
SPEAKER_39: Absolutely.
1:41:38
SPEAKER_39: Um, and so then I I became a teacher with my math degree.
1:41:42
SPEAKER_39: I've been teaching for a very, very long time.
1:41:45
SPEAKER_39: And I kind of was like, you know, I'm just gonna do the whole Minneapolis thing, um, teach, do local theater, maybe start a film company.
1:41:54
SPEAKER_39: And and then when the city burned, it was just kind of like literally, there's no, I was just saying this to people the other day.
1:42:01
SPEAKER_39: I'm like, you guys created this monster that's me, because I just wanted to live my life.
1:42:07
SPEAKER_39: I I and then there's nothing, like there are no theaters left.
1:42:11
SPEAKER_39: A lot of my friends' theater companies have closed.
1:42:13
SPEAKER_39: A lot of my friends um who did ran dance companies, they've closed like big tent pole stuff that's downtown.
1:42:20
SPEAKER_39: Um, of course, you probably have heard, maybe you haven't, that the jungle theater, they you know, they say they're rebranding, but they're selling their theater, which is never a good sign.
1:42:29
SPEAKER_39: Um, I'd be surprised if Mixed Blood survives much longer.
1:42:33
SPEAKER_39: You know, there's just a lot of spaces that are really, really challenging that so that was what got me to get really ticked off.
1:42:41
SPEAKER_39: And then I was uh elected in Minneapolis to the park board.
1:42:44
SPEAKER_39: And I I love the park board, and I and that was post-2020.
1:42:49
SPEAKER_39: I became very active.
1:42:51
SPEAKER_39: I ran for city government, I was successful.
1:42:55
SPEAKER_39: I'm very grateful for that time.
1:42:57
SPEAKER_39: I saw what was going on behind the scenes.
1:43:01
SPEAKER_39: I thought that we were trying to start the to put the uh city back together after 2020.
1:43:08
SPEAKER_39: And then the election that happened of last year, I mean, it's just like it's relentless, uh, the layers of of of incompetence and and really how there are so many problems I don't even know where to begin.
1:43:22
SPEAKER_39: And I'm and I and like I have data on there were multiple wards in the city of Minneapolis.
1:43:27
SPEAKER_39: That's how they carve it up, right?
1:43:28
SPEAKER_39: Right by wards.
1:43:29
SPEAKER_39: And they're just the the numbers don't make sense.
1:43:32
SPEAKER_39: I asked the I asked the state for our election numbers, they kicked it to the city, I asked the city, they kicked it to the county, I asked the county.
1:43:39
SPEAKER_39: The county gave me data, but only like a little, it was incomplete.
1:43:42
SPEAKER_39: And I was like, I want to know, you know, who signed up day of, who vouched for people, who did this, and they have no granular data on anything.
1:43:49
SPEAKER_39: And again, I mean, I've been teaching mathematics and and statistics for 25, 30 years.
1:43:55
SPEAKER_39: So I just I can know when it's it doesn't take much to create a data set.
1:43:59
SPEAKER_39: And when you don't have that, then you go, wow, and these you're in charge of billions of dollars of budget.
1:44:05
SPEAKER_39: And so I I'm very passionate about fixing it because it's my hometown and also like our amazing park system, they're about to just be decimated.
1:44:14
SPEAKER_39: The mayor's budget came out two days ago, they're gonna lay off like a hundred employees.
1:44:18
SPEAKER_39: Everything that I've predicted when I ran for the city council, oh, I ran for the city council too.
1:44:22
SPEAKER_39: Last year when I ran for the city council, everything I predicted has come true.
1:44:25
SPEAKER_39: Everything.
1:44:25
SPEAKER_20: So let me pull from a couple a couple of things that you mentioned you mentioned so far.
1:44:29
SPEAKER_20: Let's focus on the elections for just a moment.
1:44:30
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, please.
1:44:31
SPEAKER_20: Um, every time that I would bring up controversies taking place inside of Minneapolis, um, certainly in the wake of of what happened in 2020 with the riots and whatnot, um, I would get um a a host of of of comments and emails and phone calls from people saying, well, this is what the city, this is what the people of Minneapolis voted for.
1:44:52
SPEAKER_20: They vote they voted for this, they voted for this leadership.
1:44:55
SPEAKER_20: They're getting what the what they deserve.
1:44:56
SPEAKER_20: And typically, again, talking with uh with Becca Thompson, um, typically my response would be, okay, even if that's true, it's not representative of everybody.
1:45:06
SPEAKER_20: And even if, and even with that, when you, before you even get to the possibility of shenanigans doing that thing with my fingers in elections, when you look at the way that these elections are held and just how few people are deciding these city council members, you know, you're just you are you're paring down and paring down to a very, very small group of a handful of a couple thousand people.
1:45:29
SPEAKER_20: So again, I would push back on people saying this is just what people in Minneapolis voted for.
1:45:35
SPEAKER_20: Um, so with that, I'm I'm curious.
1:45:39
SPEAKER_20: One, do you think you're gonna be able to get to any sort of clarity on the outcome of these uh these elections?
1:45:46
SPEAKER_20: But more importantly, do you think that people in Minneapolis are starting to wake up to all of this, are getting fed up and frustrated because all we're seeing is the on-the-street activism that would lean in.
1:45:57
SPEAKER_20: They're absolutely frustrated.
1:45:58
SPEAKER_20: To the city council.
1:45:59
SPEAKER_39: Yes.
1:45:59
SPEAKER_39: So, so like, look, I I've I've taken a lot of heat of people of me intimating that our elections are a little suspect.
1:46:06
SPEAKER_39: I'm I'm not I'm not saying anything over the top right now, but I am just saying it's really opaque, right?
1:46:14
SPEAKER_39: Like if you want clarity and transparency, you don't have it.
1:46:17
SPEAKER_39: That much I can say for sure.
1:46:18
SPEAKER_39: But then, but then what what happens?
1:46:21
SPEAKER_39: So, so this is the land of DFL, okay.
1:46:24
SPEAKER_39: The I've tried to explain this to people many times.
1:46:27
SPEAKER_39: There are moderate to right-leaning residents, and there's a ton of even more normal uh I saw someone put up a scale on on the internet of like just like numbers, and and you get to like numbers to the left and to the right, and it was like five and six are like communist socialists, and and and one, two, and three, and four are like different gradient gradients of Democrat.
1:46:53
SPEAKER_39: And I was like, I would probably put myself at like a one or a two, but the city's being run by the fives and sixes right now, and it's because they've they've found a way to pull the levers of that DFL endorsement process, and they're all communists.
1:47:08
SPEAKER_39: And the thing is, is that there are regular, I mean, there's like a word for people now, normy Democrats.
1:47:14
SPEAKER_39: They're talking, it's funny, they're talking about it even in Michigan.
1:47:16
SPEAKER_39: I saw people talking about it of like, oh, the normies, it was again pushing back on this El Said guy, and I was like, yeah, see, it's like it's it's like pervasive everywhere in a major city.
1:47:26
SPEAKER_39: But so what has happened is because it's been a Democrat stronghold my entire life, people just assume that there's no variation inside of what's going on.
1:47:38
SPEAKER_39: And so for me, I saw the I mean the DSA, I just call them communists now because that's what they are.
1:47:44
SPEAKER_39: Sure.
1:47:44
SPEAKER_39: But I I saw them taking it over.
1:47:46
SPEAKER_39: And by taking it over, what I mean is that like they're in every leadership position inside the party, inside the city party.
1:47:52
SPEAKER_39: And then just I'll for a personal example in Ward 12, which is where I ran, the caucus process, um, it was like probably 50-50, but then but then my opponent was allowed to have, I remember getting this delegate list, and there were eight people listed in a single one-bedroom apartment on Mini Haha Avenue.
1:48:12
SPEAKER_39: So it's like, okay, so either these eight people don't really live there, or or someone needs to call this building manager because that is against code to have eight people living in a one bedroom.
1:48:23
SPEAKER_39: But so when they do that, when they take over the that's very easy to do.
1:48:27
SPEAKER_39: And they do it by having these leadership positions that turn a blind day, blind eye, and they certify certain delegates and not others.
1:48:33
SPEAKER_39: And then once they get that caucus endorsement, they get the money and then they brand themselves DFL.
1:48:38
SPEAKER_39: And then a lot of well-meaning, just died in the wool Democrats.
1:48:43
SPEAKER_39: I think of my grandmother who every election voted for FDR, you know, till the day she died, right?
1:48:49
SPEAKER_39: But probably paid no attention.
1:48:50
SPEAKER_39: That they then they just vote for it.
1:48:53
SPEAKER_39: So I think that there's that coupled with just, you know, just I mean, honestly, there's a lot of ignorance of what you're voting for, to be perfectly blunt.
1:49:00
SPEAKER_20: So you used to be uh a a Democrat.
1:49:03
SPEAKER_20: Would you would you consider I'm curious, um, sort of uh the you know, uh a brief version of the story of your transition over from that.
1:49:11
SPEAKER_20: But I'm also curious if I'm sorry, you just used the T word.
1:49:16
SPEAKER_20: I did, didn't I?
1:49:17
SPEAKER_20: Um But uh but I'm also curious if like would you go back if the if the Democrat Party returned to sort of that that more classical Democrat Party, maybe somebody, and I guess the best example I could probably give and give, and you certainly have more background on this than I do, but just based off of recent commentary would be uh Michael Rainville.
1:49:35
SPEAKER_20: Like it seems it's yeah.
1:49:37
SPEAKER_20: So it seems like it seems like you know, there's a guy who I'm probably not going to agree with agree with in terms of a lot of policy, um, because I'm not a Democrat, but at the same time, he also is willing to step up and say, Okay, this has gone too far.
1:49:50
SPEAKER_20: I don't agree with this.
1:49:51
SPEAKER_20: He seems to be sensible.
1:49:52
SPEAKER_20: Could you see yourself a returning to the Democrat Party if it's uh Michael is like I'm totally in sync with Michael.
1:49:58
SPEAKER_39: So we're like, he's I mean.
1:50:00
SPEAKER_39: For me, like I'm not currently elected.
1:50:02
SPEAKER_39: If I were currently elected, I'd probably consider myself in that wing.
1:50:05
SPEAKER_39: But the reality is I just know that with every passing day it gets more and more taken over by communists.
1:50:10
SPEAKER_20: Um Do you see it changing?
1:50:12
SPEAKER_20: Do you think or do you think that this is just how it's gonna go?
1:50:14
SPEAKER_20: And I you know, what is the future of the party gonna be?
1:50:17
SPEAKER_39: I don't I you know, it was Hubert Humphrey that made it the DFL, right?
1:50:21
SPEAKER_39: And the Democrat farmer labor.
1:50:23
SPEAKER_39: And labor was always, I don't know a lot of Minnesotans know this.
1:50:26
SPEAKER_39: Labor was always the communist wing.
1:50:29
SPEAKER_39: It was it was it and and I it took me doing some research because I just, you know, I was when I again a Minnesota kid who's like, we have a special brand of Democrat and we're called the DFL, you know.
1:50:40
SPEAKER_39: Oh, they're special.
1:50:41
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, we've got to do everything very unique here.
1:50:43
SPEAKER_39: You know, we were the only people to vote for Mondale.
1:50:46
SPEAKER_39: Um, but so so I I just thought like this was cool, but then the more I researched it, I was like, holy cow, wait a second.
1:50:53
SPEAKER_39: That L was always communism, and and it was kind of subsumed, you know, back in when when did Humphrey do this?
1:51:01
SPEAKER_39: But like he he recognized that it this was actually a Republican stronghold state, and the farmers were were being disenfranchised, and so he glommed it all together, and it's been a stronghold for the DFL ever since, but it's kind of been this precarious wing of labor.
1:51:17
SPEAKER_39: So I don't see I honestly I don't know.
1:51:20
SPEAKER_39: There's a lot of pride in that, and so I don't know that the party, I don't know that the party can survive uh much longer.
1:51:28
SPEAKER_39: I certainly don't have I mean the primary's next week, but we'll see what happens.
1:51:32
SPEAKER_20: When you look at what the the Minneapolis City Council has been doing, I'm really curious to get your perspective on a on a host of different issues.
1:51:40
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, and and I've actually gone, I I I went into your and we're talking with uh with Becca Thompson.
1:51:45
SPEAKER_20: How would you go and personally describe yourself?
1:51:47
SPEAKER_20: I kind of have the social media influencer, but it seems like your your resume in terms of what you're doing right now and calling out what's happening in Minneapolis is a little bit broader than that.
1:51:55
SPEAKER_20: So how would you go and define yourself if you needed to go and put a uh a definition, a description on what you do, Becca?
1:52:02
SPEAKER_39: I I honestly don't even know.
1:52:04
SPEAKER_39: I think deep down in my heart of hearts, I still consider myself an actor, but that's not something I've done for 10 years.
1:52:10
SPEAKER_39: So um, unless you count my TikTok videos making fun of the DSA.
1:52:15
SPEAKER_39: Um, I I probably a teacher and an accidental, an accidental uh activist, but not the not the kind of activist that'll burn your neighborhood down.
1:52:25
SPEAKER_20: I've uh I've pulled some, I've I actually went and pulled some audio that you had posted online so that we could go and and uh and you could you could you could riff off of that uh off of that a bit.
1:52:37
SPEAKER_20: Before I get to that though, I want to ask you, let's talk about something like the um the removing of the restriction on the bathhouses, right?
1:52:45
SPEAKER_20: Oh my god.
1:52:46
SPEAKER_20: It's a it's a it's a hot topic for a number of different reasons, right?
1:52:49
SPEAKER_20: Um, but I'm curious your perspective.
1:52:52
SPEAKER_20: What is it in your mind, you know, why are they why are they pushing this as hard as they as they are?
1:52:59
SPEAKER_20: I've certainly shared my views on it, but why is it that these members of the Minneapolis City Council are so hellbent on bringing these bathhouses back?
1:53:08
SPEAKER_20: What's ultimately their agenda?
1:53:10
SPEAKER_20: Because it has to go beyond what they're saying in public regarding their justification for lifting these ordinances.
1:53:17
SPEAKER_39: You know, I I I've thought about this a lot because I actually think I think it's just like truly a degradation of our entire society.
1:53:26
SPEAKER_39: Because when you can normalize certain things, you know, again, I I have an institutionalized like Michael Rainville, uh love Michael, of just growing up in the city, right?
1:53:37
SPEAKER_39: And so I remember they were places when I was a kid that you just didn't go because it was kind of taken over.
1:53:43
SPEAKER_39: I I didn't set foot in Loring Park until I was much older because it was like you just didn't go there as a kid because it was kind of a bach and all.
1:53:52
SPEAKER_39: It was.
1:53:53
SPEAKER_39: And and I think that there's just a general like it's a it's a forgive the analogy, it's like a grand peeing on the tree.
1:54:02
SPEAKER_39: It's like this is ours, and we're gonna make sure none of you guys even want to come here because it's just a it's it's a degradation of of honestly, I think, humanity.
1:54:12
SPEAKER_39: It's making things um not uh welcoming for children.
1:54:16
SPEAKER_39: And no matter what they want to say, I read the files uh I went deep into the record and read the files as and as to why, like the minutes from the meeting in the 1980s as to why they got rid of it.
1:54:31
SPEAKER_39: And it is layers of uh of uh vile, grotesque human trafficking, like uh hurting hurting v vulnerable people, and we're bringing this back.
1:54:42
SPEAKER_39: I mean, like it's just unconscionable to me.
1:54:45
SPEAKER_20: Are they are they ignorant to what the outcome is going to be, or do they just simply not care?
1:54:52
SPEAKER_20: And you can apply this across the board with their policies, their anti-police commentary, the anti-business stances that they take.
1:55:00
SPEAKER_20: I mean, are they do you think that they're aware that it's going to be to the detriment of the city and they don't care?
1:55:07
SPEAKER_20: Or do you think that they genuinely believe that they are doing good for the city and it would be vibrant because of their policies?
1:55:14
SPEAKER_39: I I think they're true believers because they're young and stupid, and I think their handlers completely know that it'll destroy the city, and that's by design.
1:55:23
SPEAKER_39: And I I think we need to also differentiate here that we've got a bunch of electeds between the age of 25 and 30, and if if it this ever gets back to them, which I hope it does, it's like I see you.
1:55:36
SPEAKER_39: They are puppets.
1:55:38
SPEAKER_39: There's no question they're puppets.
1:55:40
SPEAKER_39: I have sat on the dais with them where they won't even, they won't, their eyes are darting down to text messages in real time.
1:55:47
SPEAKER_39: They won't say anything unless it's been emailed to them in advance.
1:55:51
SPEAKER_39: They will never say anything off the cuff.
1:55:53
SPEAKER_39: Their answers are pre-prescribed.
1:55:54
SPEAKER_39: So so they are, but they are young and stupid.
1:55:58
SPEAKER_39: They know nothing.
1:55:59
SPEAKER_39: They know nothing and they don't understand outcomes.
1:56:01
SPEAKER_39: And I can attest to this because I have been teaching math and I've watched the degradation of our education system in real time as well.
1:56:09
SPEAKER_39: So it's like, I don't doubt for a second you've gotten your rubber stamp diploma.
1:56:13
SPEAKER_39: You're probably just you just shout a lot, and you every other word maybe is a has three syllables, and so they're like, ooh, we'll give you a B plus and you got graduated with your bachelor's degree.
1:56:25
SPEAKER_20: You know, you you you tapped into something, and uh you're you are uh echoing the the view that I've had for the longest time because you can take what you just described um happening with the Minneapolis City Council, right?
1:56:38
SPEAKER_20: Because I've always felt this way.
1:56:39
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
1:56:40
SPEAKER_20: You've got you've got individuals sort of in the upper echelons within politics that know what's going on, they are agenda-driven, they know full well what they're doing.
1:56:49
SPEAKER_20: But then as you move down the line, as you walk down the ladder and you get lower and lower down, you just get more ignorant individuals and more ignorant individuals, and they just follow in lockstep.
1:56:59
SPEAKER_20: And you can take that from the Minneapolis City Council, and then you can take it to the Minnesota State Legislature.
1:57:05
SPEAKER_20: Yes.
1:57:05
SPEAKER_20: Because the same thing, and then you can take that all the way to Washington, yes, D.C., you know, and and and it's it's it's replicated time and time again.
1:57:13
SPEAKER_20: And what's frightening about that is that those individuals on the lower end, right?
1:57:18
SPEAKER_20: The people, those young individuals that you're referring to, say, at the Minneapolis City Council, we know what happens.
1:57:24
SPEAKER_20: They end up becoming the true believers and they start moving up the ladder.
1:57:27
SPEAKER_20: Yes.
1:57:27
SPEAKER_20: And then they end up in the legislature, and then eventually they end up in DC, and then they end up taking over for the individuals who were running the show all the time because they they basically bought into their own heated, uh, heightened rhetoric, and they become radicals in and of themselves, fully aware of the damage that they're doing, even though they started off as a bunch of ignorant pawns.
1:57:48
SPEAKER_39: Um, yes, we have we have one such ladder climber that you're talking about who's running for the Senate, and that's all I'll say.
1:57:56
SPEAKER_20: Let's uh let's dive into as we enter into uh hour two, or excuse me, hour three.
1:58:01
SPEAKER_20: Wow here on the John.
1:58:02
SPEAKER_20: I know time's just flying by.
1:58:03
SPEAKER_20: You guys are up early.
1:58:04
SPEAKER_20: On the uh yeah, man, I got here.
1:58:07
SPEAKER_20: This uh building is incredibly quiet at 4 30 in the morning, I can tell you.
1:58:10
SPEAKER_20: Um I probably shouldn't broadcast that, but I just did.
1:58:13
SPEAKER_20: Uh Becca Thompson uh joins us uh in studio.
1:58:16
SPEAKER_20: Uh found you through social media.
1:58:18
SPEAKER_20: If you're not following uh Becca online, you need to.
1:58:21
SPEAKER_20: Becca underscore uh Thompson on uh on X.
1:58:24
SPEAKER_20: Uh you are very busy and you provide a lot of material for me on X, so I'm greatly appreciative of that.
1:58:29
SPEAKER_20: Uh it is the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
1:58:33
SPEAKER_20: If you want to comment on anything that we're discussing right now, you can leave us a blast at 612-584-4565.
1:58:39
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1:58:42
SPEAKER_20: You can also uh drop me an email, john.justice at uh americanexperiment uh dot org.
1:58:49
SPEAKER_20: And we do have some uh comments that have uh rolled in.
1:58:52
SPEAKER_20: So let's go and first uh hear from uh Elizabeth, who I believe has a question for you.
1:58:59
SPEAKER_08: Can you, Adrian, can you ask Becca Thompson what she thinks about the boomers in the city and the protesting?
1:59:07
SPEAKER_08: What happened to their rain?
1:59:09
SPEAKER_08: I I don't understand these people that are retired and cannot treat corners with time.
1:59:16
SPEAKER_08: They're flouting idiocy.
1:59:19
SPEAKER_08: Thank you.
1:59:20
SPEAKER_20: And my apologies too.
1:59:21
SPEAKER_20: I get a name that comes over on the uh on the blast, and it was it was Elizabeth, so I assumed it must be her uh it must be her husband.
1:59:28
SPEAKER_20: So yeah, so we've got, by the way, just real quick, let me add something to this because I haven't had a chance to talk about it this morning.
1:59:33
SPEAKER_20: Um, ICE has signed a deal to reopen the private uh prairie correctional facility in Appleton.
1:59:39
SPEAKER_20: So they might as well just start digging the moat around that facility now because I think we all know that it's going to become protester central.
1:59:47
SPEAKER_20: But I got an email yesterday from a friend of the show who was down at the Whipple Federal building and said that the protesters are still out there every single, every single day.
1:59:55
SPEAKER_20: It's just become a fact of life.
1:59:57
SPEAKER_20: So um your comments about the boomers in the city protesting, what's going on with them, and I'd just be curious to get your thoughts on the on the on-the-street activism that you've uh that you've seen while covering what's been happening in Minneapolis.
2:00:08
SPEAKER_39: Well, uh, you know, I I I think I I see, I do think this is generational, and that's where my Seinfeld jokes come in.
2:00:16
SPEAKER_39: But I think that we're dealing with uh one group of people and their children or their children and the parents of this the it's it's it's like sort of the Vietnam War all over again.
2:00:26
SPEAKER_39: And so I think, you know, I I get very sensitive talking about boomers because I really believe in the honor your father and mother commandments um as though.
2:00:40
SPEAKER_39: It's admirable, it's very admirable.
2:00:41
SPEAKER_39: A lot of frustration, but I do believe that like I I have empathy for that generation.
2:00:46
SPEAKER_39: I mean, they watched the president get murdered on television, you know, they had other people assassinated that they believed in.
2:00:54
SPEAKER_39: Um, and then of course there was the Vietnam War, and there's all this kind of stuff.
2:00:58
SPEAKER_39: So I I think that there's a lot of that whole like I'm on the right side of history kind of a thing.
2:01:05
SPEAKER_39: I that that people convince themselves so much that like I am, I am on the right side of history.
2:01:13
SPEAKER_39: So they need my voice, and so I'm retired, so I'm gonna go be boots on the ground, or I'm gonna go build my sign, or I'm gonna drive a bunch of kids to, you know, young people to the Capitol and do my part, and and never think about why, or never think about what is, what is the consequence of this larger thing.
2:01:34
SPEAKER_39: I think we're really, you know, I I personally at my age, I mean, I'm a teacher, so we always talk about being a lifelong learner.
2:01:43
SPEAKER_39: And I think that's something I've always tried to model, which is how I'm able to sometimes change my mind or say that maybe I was wrong, or just look at something and be like, oof, uh, like this needs, I needed to consider this, and I didn't.
2:01:55
SPEAKER_39: And I'm very bold in what I say because I am very confident that I've done the work.
2:02:00
SPEAKER_39: But if I make a massive mistake, or if I make a mistake, I will say it, right?
2:02:04
SPEAKER_39: I think that as a lot of people age though, they just turn their brains off and they just are like, nope, I decided I'm right, you're wrong, or this is right and this is wrong, and this is good and that is evil, and thus and so I don't have to consider it.
2:02:19
SPEAKER_39: And so then there's just a lot of time to make signs, blow whistles, have bells over the freeway overpass, and it's just exhausting.
2:02:26
SPEAKER_20: Well, and because of everything you mentioned, too, whatever media that they're paying attention to is probably the only media that they're gonna pay attention to.
2:02:36
SPEAKER_20: They're not gonna they're not gonna bother looking for you know varying degrees of opinion because as you said, they believe, you know, hey, I know what I'm talking about.
2:02:44
SPEAKER_20: I've been on this earth for a long time.
2:02:45
SPEAKER_20: I'm set in my ways, I see what the media is telling me, and it's it's it's riffing off of what I already believe.
2:02:51
SPEAKER_20: So why would I bother going and search for anything else?
2:02:53
SPEAKER_20: Because I already know what the truth is.
2:02:55
SPEAKER_39: Well, absolutely.
2:02:55
SPEAKER_39: And you know, I'll I'll I'll confess this.
2:02:58
SPEAKER_39: I um I was a rabid anti-Trumper, never Trumper.
2:03:04
SPEAKER_39: Um, and I had some family members who were like trying to talk to me because they were like, even if you disagree with us, like you're going down a path that's like, and I was like, absolutely not.
2:03:17
SPEAKER_39: I wouldn't listen to anything.
2:03:18
SPEAKER_39: I'm like, well, what's your source?
2:03:20
SPEAKER_39: And they would say, I'm like, I don't, I don't believe them.
2:03:22
SPEAKER_39: They are liars.
2:03:23
SPEAKER_39: It's like, and and I would not, I was like, I had certain things that were trustworthy, and then I had this big pile of things that were not trustworthy.
2:03:30
SPEAKER_39: I just would reject it the moment it was presented to me.
2:03:34
SPEAKER_39: Like the moment I was like, well, if you got it, I don't believe that.
2:03:36
SPEAKER_39: Oh, there that's just a bunch of propaganda.
2:03:38
SPEAKER_39: I'm not gonna listen.
2:03:39
SPEAKER_39: And and I think what ultimately like changed or allowed me to have my mind change was the city burning.
2:03:47
SPEAKER_39: Like you're like, oh, maybe these people and my and then the people I was friends with were like cheering it.
2:03:52
SPEAKER_39: I was like, what?
2:03:54
SPEAKER_39: Wait, I didn't sign up for this, right?
2:03:56
SPEAKER_39: So I think so.
2:03:57
SPEAKER_39: I being someone who actually was that person who just thought they were right and would reject sources, I th I I see that sometimes too of like, I I don't know, like you're gonna find your own way to understanding this more in a more complex way, but like I I'm not necessarily gonna convince you by trying to show you something that you quote unquote don't believe because you don't believe this.
2:04:19
SPEAKER_39: That's why I make up my I don't make up my own math.
2:04:21
SPEAKER_39: I use math because it's math and I'm a math teacher, and I but it's like here's here are the numbers because it's like I'm not citing the you know, HuffPost, I'm also not citing Fox News, I'm just citing the a calculation that like these are the numbers that I got from the city database, you know, black.
2:04:38
SPEAKER_39: So that's anyway, yeah.
2:04:39
SPEAKER_20: Well, I I I think you you spoke to something very important that we've seen some anecdotal evidence of.
2:04:45
SPEAKER_20: I'm I'm typically a very optimistic glass half full kind of guy, probably to my own detriment as a as a talk show host, but the willingness to go and admit that you were wrong about something or to at least be open and honest to change your opinion about something.
2:05:02
SPEAKER_20: Um, we need much more of that right now within our commentary, um, within our society, because too many individuals are refuse to go and admit that they might have been wrong on an issue or that they've changed their view on an issue.
2:05:17
SPEAKER_20: I think it's what makes commentary from Bill Maher so powerful.
2:05:20
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:05:21
SPEAKER_20: Here's a guy I don't agree with, right?
2:05:22
SPEAKER_20: We have completely opposite views regarding uh religion.
2:05:26
SPEAKER_20: Um, and I probably disagree with the majority of what his policies are and what he believes in, and yet I do have a level of respect for him because at least he's willing to go and call out the ridiculousness when he sees it.
2:05:37
SPEAKER_20: He's keeping an open mind about it.
2:05:40
SPEAKER_20: We need more of that within commentary on the conservative side of things because there's too many conservative voices out there that simply refuse to go and bend or change their view on things.
2:05:49
SPEAKER_20: I'm not right on everything.
2:05:51
SPEAKER_20: If you listen to this show, it's up to you to decide whether or not what I'm speaking is truth or not.
2:05:57
SPEAKER_20: That's on you.
2:05:58
SPEAKER_20: I'm gonna be as honest and genuine as possible, but I'll also admit, probably to my detriment as a host, that yeah, I've been wrong on a lot of different issues, especially COVID when the whole thing, when the whole thing started.
2:06:08
SPEAKER_20: And it's funny to me that you held a particular view over Trump because I've seen individuals who have also changed their tune, and they are also people that are willing to stop and go, okay, let me look at the at what the other side is saying about this person that I despise so much.
2:06:24
SPEAKER_20: And you may not still agree with a lot of how he operates or his policy, but at least you can be open and honest enough to go.
2:06:31
SPEAKER_20: What they've been saying about him is absolutely wrong.
2:06:34
SPEAKER_20: It's a lot of rhetoric, and there's too many individuals out there that will simply refuse.
2:06:39
SPEAKER_20: You just say Trump, the blinders go up, that's it.
2:06:41
SPEAKER_20: Trump derangement syndrome takes over, and they will never go and admit that they were wrong on anything.
2:06:46
SPEAKER_20: So I hope that we as a society, and again, I'm not holding my breath on this, uh, Becca Thompson, but I hope that we as a society, you know, begin to stop and have more individuals willing to go and change their view or at least open up their mind a bit to realize that they might not be right on these issues.
2:07:03
SPEAKER_20: And we'll talk about this in a moment, like when it comes to the trans sports, the boys playing and girls' sports issue.
2:07:08
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:07:09
SPEAKER_20: Which is probably one of, and I make I made this comment earlier this week, it's probably one of the biggest issues that Democrats and those on the left are just categorically completely wrong on.
2:07:19
SPEAKER_20: I agree.
2:07:19
SPEAKER_20: And yet they they dig their heels in over this because they are unwilling to relent to the fact that if they were to go and agree that boys shouldn't play in girl sports, suddenly they're capitulating to the right and Trump.
2:07:33
SPEAKER_20: And it's and it's to the devastation of girls competing in sports.
2:07:37
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:07:37
SPEAKER_39: Oh man, are we wanting to talk about this?
2:07:40
SPEAKER_20: Oh, yeah, no, I've got I've audio on and on and on.
2:07:42
SPEAKER_20: Well, as a matter of fact, let's let's let's do that now.
2:07:44
SPEAKER_20: Talking with let me let me get this audio out there and we can go ahead and spend some time here.
2:07:48
SPEAKER_20: Because I do want to go back to the Minneapolis City Council.
2:07:51
SPEAKER_20: I have a I have a message from council member uh Chavez over the uh anti-immigrant rhetoric included in the National Integrated Ballistic Information Modernization Program.
2:08:02
SPEAKER_20: So we'll get into that in just a moment, but let's start here.
2:08:05
SPEAKER_20: You had posted so Sophie Cunningham obviously uh was a target of protest when the fever came to town to play against the Lynx recently.
2:08:13
SPEAKER_20: Um the idiot coach uh for the Lynx has been out there making a bunch of just ridiculous comments.
2:08:21
SPEAKER_34: This is a clip that you, Becca Thompson, posted on X of an interview that uh Cheryl, the uh coach for the Lynx, said on a recent These young girls that are sitting at games with anti-trans signs, do they understand actually what the real problems are and what they're and how they're being marginalized?
2:08:40
SPEAKER_34: Uh we're still not in a space where we have equality.
2:08:44
SPEAKER_20: So she's talking about people that have anti-trans signs at the game and pushing back on those women that are holding those signs trying to defend biological women.
2:08:54
SPEAKER_20: And I know you had posted this online.
2:08:56
SPEAKER_39: Because I'm sorry, we've got this, you know, this TV show called The Handmaiden's Tale, and people can't see when they're being a handmaiden.
2:09:06
SPEAKER_39: It's like, what is wrong with you?
2:09:08
SPEAKER_39: Like, I I I am I have been a coach for years.
2:09:12
SPEAKER_39: I was a high-level softball player.
2:09:15
SPEAKER_39: I wanted to be a baseball player, I want to be the first woman in Major League Baseball.
2:09:19
SPEAKER_39: And not only was I laughed off the baseball team, not that I was good enough to play, um, but I was told I wasn't allowed, right?
2:09:26
SPEAKER_39: Because I'm a girl.
2:09:27
SPEAKER_39: That was, you know, many years ago.
2:09:31
SPEAKER_39: But I only add that anecdote to share that I have been a passionate person of using sports to elevate women's equality, right?
2:09:44
SPEAKER_39: And and just like on any number of of issues.
2:09:49
SPEAKER_39: And so for a a coach, it's like, have you lost your mind?
2:09:56
SPEAKER_39: Like you you have your job because it's the WNBA.
2:10:00
SPEAKER_39: Does the does the W start stand for whatever?
2:10:03
SPEAKER_39: It's the whatever National Basketball Association.
2:10:06
SPEAKER_39: Like, what what is wrong with you?
2:10:08
SPEAKER_39: Talk about bite the hand that feeds you.
2:10:10
SPEAKER_39: And also, this is somebody who I would assume was like me and fighting to be able to have a space where someone like, I mean, I just posted this, or I maybe I was just in a rant with a friend, who knows?
2:10:22
SPEAKER_39: But like someone like Caitlin Clark, I have so many friends back in the day who were unbelievable athletes.
2:10:28
SPEAKER_39: But the moment that college ended, it was done.
2:10:32
SPEAKER_39: It was over.
2:10:32
SPEAKER_39: Unless you were a skier and you were like, maybe you can go to the Olympics, there was nothing, there were no professional women's team sports, none.
2:10:40
SPEAKER_39: So all of us, we just like did our time, tried to have some fun in college, and that was it.
2:10:46
SPEAKER_39: And now Caitlin Clark would have just ended as like the greatest all-time scorer in the NCAA, and then she'd be done, right?
2:10:55
SPEAKER_39: But it's like now you have a chance to play on and you're going to allow that to erode this quickly.
2:11:03
SPEAKER_39: And and here's what gets me.
2:11:05
SPEAKER_39: So I was on the park board and I fought to get softball-specific diamonds um for fast pitch in the city of Minneapolis, of which there had never been any.
2:11:15
SPEAKER_39: When we passed that, I started crying as a kid because as a as a girl growing up in Minneapolis, going to the parks, I saw all the baseball fields that I wasn't allowed to play on.
2:11:24
SPEAKER_39: And then I would see all these dumpy S H I D D, like like softball fields, right?
2:11:30
SPEAKER_39: That then now, and then spring forward, you know, 30 years, I'm coaching at South High, and I'm realizing like my players are getting kicked off for the beer league.
2:11:40
SPEAKER_39: We don't have anything, right?
2:11:41
SPEAKER_39: So I fight to get these these fields.
2:11:44
SPEAKER_39: I wanted to, I was talking to colleagues, I was like, I want to just make this about, I want to force this issue right now, and I'm gonna force this conversation.
2:11:53
SPEAKER_39: This was two years ago in Minneapolis, and I was advised like Becca, we're don't take this on, don't put this, don't put this ch target on the back of of everybody right now.
2:12:03
SPEAKER_39: But I just think like we as as adults and as adult women who fought fought for this for a long time, we are leaving girls out.
2:12:12
SPEAKER_39: We're hanging girls out to dry.
2:12:14
SPEAKER_39: And I and I and I said that at the time and they're like Becca fight that another day.
2:12:18
SPEAKER_39: Like that was what I was counseled.
2:12:20
SPEAKER_39: Like fight because I saw my players, my players who are like trying to stand up against the like we're just they just wanted to finish their game.
2:12:27
SPEAKER_39: And and to me they're they're completely related.
2:12:30
SPEAKER_39: So I I just like it's if you give a mouse a cookie right that old little kids book they take over everything and that that's it's that's what this is and that's why I'm such a stalwart.
2:12:41
SPEAKER_39: And I finally was like I have to say something publicly.
2:12:44
SPEAKER_39: This is I'm not going to hang out kids to dry anymore.
2:12:47
SPEAKER_39: And you start to see these young teens who are getting like bludgeoned in a volleyball game or a basketball game and they're just they're just out trying to do or or being walked into on in the locker room which also happened to me at the YMCA.
2:12:58
SPEAKER_39: And it's just like ridiculous.
2:13:01
SPEAKER_39: Ridiculous.
2:13:02
SPEAKER_39: So anyway yeah I like there we should we go there?
2:13:04
SPEAKER_20: Yeah no and we're and we're going to continue to go there because I have some more audio to share I want your response a new proposal from Senator Marsha Blackburn uh seeks to keep gender confused boys off of girls' sports teams and out of their locker rooms.
2:13:19
SPEAKER_20: The bill was introduced yesterday by Blackburn and 10 other GOP senators and it would tie federal funding to whether schools protect girls from discrimination based off of uh based on biological reality.
2:13:31
SPEAKER_20: It seeks to codify language into federal law that makes it clear that discrimination protections under Title IX are based on sex and not sexual orientation and so-called the gender identity.
2:13:43
SPEAKER_20: We're going to take a quick break but let me just say um I'm obviously fully in support of this uh legislation but it's a travesty that we have to have it in the first place.
2:13:52
SPEAKER_39: Agreed.
2:13:53
SPEAKER_20: We do we this shouldn't even be necessary.
2:13:55
SPEAKER_39: And just and this is why Democrats are going to lose again in 26.
2:13:58
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SPEAKER_38: We are American Experiment go to americanexperiment.org to learn more this woman I didn't know has had a a a bunch of credible allegations going back years to when she worked for the city she's been doing this behavior right this is the St.
2:16:56
SPEAKER_38: Paul mayor who's now under investigation and we'll get to the details here in a moment.
2:17:00
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SPEAKER_38: There was just a video that went viral the other day of Nick Shirley talking to a woman in New York who had been sexually assaulted and she said I would rather that that person doesn't spend the rest of their life in jail and I don't have an answer of how to to do that.
2:18:33
SPEAKER_38: But I don't even think they should even go to jail because our jail system is so messed up and he was like well then how do you stop it from happening?
2:18:40
SPEAKER_38: Well I I don't really have an answer.
2:18:42
SPEAKER_38: Go back to Mayor Lynch you know mayor l mayor of whatever his body is is that the same type of logic can be employed that you're looking at well they they were convicted and they're gonna have to wear that mark but really do we think it's fair that we would send this person to another country because of this and to me that type of suicidal empathy leads to the destruction of our society.
2:19:05
SPEAKER_01: Think about it black and Hispanic students in Mississippi perform better in reading and math than black and Hispanic students in Minnesota.
2:19:13
SPEAKER_01: And Mississippi spends thousands of dollars less per student than Minnesota.
2:19:17
SPEAKER_01: Mississippi spends less money gets better results and their achievement gaps are closing while ours are getting worse.
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SPEAKER_30: It's so upsetting to see our leaders like Governor Wals gaslighting us basically and saying no things are going great.
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2:19:49
SPEAKER_31: Yeah that is such a good point.
2:19:50
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2:20:52
SPEAKER_20: Great show John hope you're having a great day thank you so much for the kind words Scott I greatly appreciate it.
2:20:59
SPEAKER_20: Joining me in a studio is uh Becca Thompson resident of Minneapolis a social media influencer a teacher and an individual who's fighting to bring back vibrancy to Minneapolis if you are not following Becca Thompson, Becca underscore Thompson on X, uh you're doing yourself a disservice make sure you go and do so.
2:21:20
SPEAKER_20: Um I've been pulling content that you've been sharing you make a show prep easier for me Becca and uh easier to do the show.
2:21:28
SPEAKER_20: Uh we've had uh a lot of fantastic comments from your time uh with us this morning uh and I um and I agree I've I've appreciated your uh your insight today so thank you so much for uh for coming on the show thank you so much it's been a pleasure let's get back to a few more thoughts from the uh from the blaster line uh 612-5844565 if you want to share any comments based off of our conversation this question is for Pragar and kind of as well I I have a hard time believing that you are the anomaly and my question how many people do you talk to out there feel the same way in your same situation with your belief I mean I think I have a really really hard time believing that you are yeah are there more individuals uh out there like your like yourself that you've seen I I would I would say yes and and I I well I know okay how shall I put this um barring the whole POTUS Trump conversation there are a just a ton of people in Minneapolis who are fed up with the DFL not being honest about the takeover of the DSA I've been telling this is also a very deep track nerdy joke but I've been for the last two years I said the DFL is like a skillioth it's overrun and nobody would get it except for the Supreme Dorks.
2:22:56
SPEAKER_39: But um uh yeah it's overrun it can't be so there are a ton of people in I mean honestly but it's it's it's kind of whispers because it's still such a DFL str stronghold it always will be um it's and so how do you parse that out and I just I have been advocating it's too late.
2:23:15
SPEAKER_39: Now when it comes to the president I would say there's still like largely a lot of people in Minneapolis don't like Trump.
2:23:24
SPEAKER_39: And that's like I think that's where a little bit sometimes because I talk to everybody and I I I grew up in a family that had all the colors of the political rainbow um if we can use that analogy.
2:23:37
SPEAKER_39: And so it's like it's not hard for me to talk to people but I kind of would would say to people on the right or the far right like it's a like if you want to build a bridge stop shoving like Trump down people's throats of like you just have to take all of it.
2:23:50
SPEAKER_39: But like start with like hey maybe you also want to fund your parks so how like what's going on with small business and like it's like baby I know it's it sounds kind of pathetic because I can handle but it you're talking about like decades and generations of like intractable like ideology on both on both sides, right?
2:24:12
SPEAKER_39: Like who just don't want to bend and I feel like part of why I'm out here trying to make noise is like I'm trying to build an olive branch because again I grew up here which a lot of people didn't I have family all over the the outer you know the greater Minnesota which I love greater Minnesota where my family's originally from way up in like the Moorhead area.
2:24:35
SPEAKER_39: And so like I I I think like we have to start to just kind of start with the conversation of like hey what's working I've noticed a lot of people on maybe their far right but on the right that are just like kind of like you you did this to yourselves and you did and I'm like well our the bankruptcy of Minneapolis will bring down the whole state you guys like so I don't know what you're laughing at.
2:24:58
SPEAKER_39: You know what it is it doesn't help and then it and then it gets people on their heels and honestly it is very juvenile.
2:25:04
SPEAKER_39: I'm a teacher I watch kids all the time like you try to get into a conflict resolution place and then someone will say something and then we're right back to our corners.
2:25:15
SPEAKER_39: And I do feel like that's a little bit like the the more moderate Democrats in the city would probably be willing to acknowledge certain things and they talk about it to me but they but because of like the more national scene um and then there's also like a protection of the party like I could give the nuance of who's DSA I call them closet DSA like let's get out of the closet guys like live in the light um and then there's like actual DSA and then there's like the so-called normies right and I could tell you who everybody is and what pile they land in right but because there's well we don't want to give the G O P any any any space we're not we're it's like it and I like it feels like an abusive relationship honestly it's like well we can't let this get out like what we're our internal turmoil.
2:26:06
SPEAKER_39: And so there's also that like so like if if you're on the if you're right of center like just I guess honestly like start by a little compassion because there are tons of people in the city who would who are normal.
2:26:19
SPEAKER_20: I don't want like it makes I I'm imagining my neighbors now giving me side eye like what the heck did you talk about this morning by the the the communists have been able to and I agree with you I mean they're that's essentially what they are yeah they're communists absolutely they've been able to infiltrate because people have had this myopic frustration of President Donald Trump and this has been um you know this is kind of a hallmark of politics for the longest time and most people right now who are so rabid anti-Trump going back to what we were talking about further this inability to be honest or to admit they're wrong about something the policies of what President Donald Trump has done and what Trump has done barring ICE operations and we can get into that but for the most part it doesn't have a direct daily impact on their lives.
2:27:06
SPEAKER_20: Right.
2:27:07
SPEAKER_20: And and so and so they're they're they're angry at this larger thing of Trump they've all joined in that but it's to the detriment of what actually impacts them on a daily basis in the very neighborhoods and places where they where they live and they spend their money.
2:27:22
SPEAKER_20: And because of that those communists have been able to come in ride that wave of anti-Trump Trump derangement syndrome to positions of power and it's just going to undermine even more what's been happening at the local level that they've completely taken their eye off of.
2:27:38
SPEAKER_39: Oh absolutely absolutely it started with the Democrat Party it's that whole blue no matter who and the and the DSA slash communists they know this you can find clips of them they're online flat out saying it yeah they're not hiding it anymore there is no hiding it at all no and they used to hide it and now now I've noticed I if I mention communists in my in videos or whatever if I'm on TikTok and then and the I'll get that's it's the new it's the new I am like I know all your like tropes because the new thing is now is like define communism.
2:28:20
SPEAKER_39: And I'm like no go F off how about you read a history book like I I even like I got I don't want to say I got baited because I refuse to get baited into these things but I was like um Mao and Stalin and the gulags and how about you know the what is it the gulag are why my my mispronouncing arch archipeg archipelago am I saying that right yeah you got it right um how about that and you're asking the wrong person on the wrong and then and then this person responded they're like I asked for a definition and I was like oh my gosh like because it's it's this war of words that they the communists also want to bait you into like you're you're on their their real like they just you you're the you're the fish on their line and they're just gonna like kill you with spitting words that mean absolutely nothing and it's just a time kill while they're you know breaking into your car.
2:29:14
SPEAKER_20: So uh so this tees up these clips as we go back to the to the issue of the WMBA okay yes let's please this tease this tease this up perfect this tees it up perfectly so first off uh here's the clip this is clay travis out of Outkick he's on Fox News talking with Jesse Waters um about presenting this dollar amount uh to get a boys' sports team to play against WNBA players do a good job here I have challenged the WNBA which says some of their coaches have been saying that men who identify as women should be eligible to play in the league okay now there's a French superstar 21 points she's averaging and by she I mean he 20 rebounds a game okay I want to do two things.
2:29:56
SPEAKER_26: One I want to have a boys high school team versus the WNBA Las Vegas races.
2:30:02
SPEAKER_26: I'll put$10 million on the line the boys are gonna win we're gonna put it on pay-per-view we're gonna make a lot of money for charity secondly Jesse I am putting in an application to get a WNBA franchise from my home Nashville is going to be the most inclusive team that has ever existed only trans only men who identify as women on the team our motto one b uh one love two balls the Nashville balls we are gonna be the greatest the greatest women's basketball team starring men of all time the best women Jesse are men all right I think the speaking of uh speaking of taking the bait so at care which which which makes me laugh because you just you sit back and you go okay you're just heightening the awareness of the thing that you are so ardently pushing back on.
2:31:01
SPEAKER_20: But when you talk about the language she does a really interesting little trick and it's maybe trick isn't the right word but she does something very interesting in her so this is her response to to Clay Travis and his uh and and his deal to again put a million a$10 million on the line to have a boys' high school team versus uh the WMBA Las Vegas aces.
2:31:24
SPEAKER_20: This is what Janice Shortall had to say.
2:31:26
SPEAKER_27: One last thing tonight the entire world of women's sports is facing the debate within its own leagues of who should get to play and who should not.
2:31:34
SPEAKER_27: And a voice that often shouts loudly in that debate is a right-leaning outlet owned by Fox News called Outkick Sports.
2:31:41
SPEAKER_27: And today its founder took to a new stunt one that really makes no sense if Outkick is really concerned about caring about women in women's sports.
2:31:48
SPEAKER_27: So Clay Travis he's the man behind Outkick he announced today he's offering$10 million to the winner of a game of basketball between a high school boys team of his choosing and the WNBA defending champions the Las Vegas Aces I thought to myself why but obviously the answer is because he thinks it is so impossible for any group of women let alone the best in the game that they could ever beat younger and more inexperienced boys.
2:32:16
SPEAKER_27: It's a thinly veiled sexist joke revealing the actual truth of how he and his organization feel about women's sports.
2:32:22
SPEAKER_27: It's not about caring about them.
2:32:24
SPEAKER_20: They think women's sports are a joke I uh all that I can envision is the Superman uh meme of you know the joke and you missed it as it flies overhead right I think she missed the entire point intentionally of what Clay Travis 100% intentionally.
2:32:45
SPEAKER_39: And again I'm listening to this and I'm like embarrassed for my past self because I used to think oh she's so great and now I just think she's a ninka poop.
2:32:54
SPEAKER_39: Like that it's it's it's it you missed it on purpose and she and and listening to that like it's really about if women at their best are not as good even as juvenile boys actually Jenna it's about grown men that you apparently want to be are fine with them taking over the WNBA.
2:33:14
SPEAKER_39: Why are you being such a handmaiden again let's let's put a Hulu show on and we'll all talk about it about this fiction and we'll wear a big thing and say Trump is trying to make us handmaidens you are a handmaiden on television on Care 11 right now.
2:33:29
SPEAKER_39: What was the point of that?
2:33:30
SPEAKER_39: And it was a lie the entire thing was a deceit.
2:33:32
SPEAKER_20: Yeah she she did it on purpose.
2:33:34
SPEAKER_20: She wants to present when she's talking about girls she's talking about her twisted version of girls that are men pretending to be girls but she just redefines it.
2:33:43
SPEAKER_20: You want to talk about the language she just she she she's going off of her redefining of of biology and biological boys and girls.
2:33:52
SPEAKER_20: So in her mind she's thinking oh they're just against you know girls playing in sports it's like no your definition of what a girl is Is patently false.
2:34:02
SPEAKER_20: You are completely misguided in all of this.
2:34:05
SPEAKER_39: Well, absolutely.
2:34:06
SPEAKER_39: And I'll say, and I will get myself in trouble for this, but I am passionate about this as a mother, as a teacher, and as a former girl in sports.
2:34:14
SPEAKER_39: But you know, 10-ish about years ago, and I actually you can look this up because I was a professional actor.
2:34:20
SPEAKER_39: I was part of the whole Me Too movement.
2:34:22
SPEAKER_39: I was interviewed in the LA Times with this thing, this director James Tobak.
2:34:27
SPEAKER_39: It was this whole big to-do um Vice magazine, which I think is now defunct.
2:34:32
SPEAKER_39: But I think you're right.
2:34:33
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:34:34
SPEAKER_39: Uh there was, you know, the the I mean, for me it was James Toback, but there was like Harvey Weinstein, they took down Kevin Spacey, the all these, you know, me too, me too.
2:34:43
SPEAKER_39: Well, 10, so 10-ish about years ago, we as a nation declared that men are evil, essentially.
2:34:49
SPEAKER_39: And and then lo and behold, what comes on the other side of that is now we're ushering in, but don't worry, you're not really a man.
2:34:57
SPEAKER_39: So, so, so this is what I see this as just like this societal, truly genuinely like psychotic thing that I have watched in my lifetime a lot of young kids who are maybe homosexual that are now that are like isn't the whole point that you're trying to give kids space to discover who they are, and instead we're just going to medicate them.
2:35:21
SPEAKER_39: Like I I find the whole thing repugnant, and and I having a total handmaiden like Janice Shortle change that argument on purpose.
2:35:34
SPEAKER_39: And she like there's so many tells this right-leaning outlet outcake, which is owned by Fox News.
2:35:40
SPEAKER_39: It's like, and I don't know, is Fox News is Trump adjacent, and it aren't you mad at Trump right now?
2:35:45
SPEAKER_39: What are we talking about anyway?
2:35:46
SPEAKER_39: I have a good night, women with a why.
2:35:49
SPEAKER_39: It's it's like nothing, it's just words.
2:35:51
SPEAKER_39: It's just words, and I hate, I hate it.
2:35:53
SPEAKER_39: Can you tell?
2:35:53
SPEAKER_20: But think about think about how powerful it would be if you had an individual like that.
2:36:00
SPEAKER_20: And I know that there are those uh members of the LGBT community that are stepping up and pushing back on exactly the thing you're talking about.
2:36:08
SPEAKER_20: But think about how powerful it would be if she were to go without compromising who she is as a person and how she identifies, and point out exactly what you mentioned because that point you made about the Me Too movement versus where we are now in the trans movement, they they they cannot coexist in the in the same in the same space at all.
2:36:30
SPEAKER_20: You've basically undermined everything and the progress doing that thing with my fingers that was made during the Me Too movement.
2:36:38
SPEAKER_20: Now you've basically just you've upended the entire thing and made all of that completely irrelevant.
2:36:44
SPEAKER_39: 100%.
2:36:45
SPEAKER_39: And and you know what is so again, like let's let's let's flash forward like 50 years and have history look back on us, right?
2:36:52
SPEAKER_39: It'll be like, yeah, you're so progressive that you chemically castrated young uh gay kids.
2:37:00
SPEAKER_39: That's what you did.
2:37:00
SPEAKER_39: You can chemically, you chemically and surgically altered the like how is that progress for like young, you know, gay, like homosexual teens who are discovering what they may or may not be, right?
2:37:16
SPEAKER_39: But let's just like I I can't, I can't even that's a whole big thing, which I probably a can of worms I shouldn't have gotten into.
2:37:22
SPEAKER_39: But I get fired up because of the fact that again, like I said about the sports thing, is it's like we are leaving.
2:37:29
SPEAKER_39: I have watched as a teacher, we are hanging kids out to dry.
2:37:32
SPEAKER_39: Kids should not have to fight this battle alone, period.
2:37:35
SPEAKER_39: And it's a bunch of cowardly adults.
2:37:37
SPEAKER_39: And the only thing I'm ashamed of is that I was quiet about it for too long, letting like, oh, it's fine, and then watching kids fight it out and watching kids not have enough adults, and me thinking that, like, oh, but I'm gonna people are gonna call me a trumper if I like really I'm worried about being labeled when instead I could go out and like add a voice to help kids like the if there's even one child that is like, oh man, somebody else like stood up for me, then that's worth it to me.
2:38:05
SPEAKER_39: It's like it's like such ego to think that, like, oh well, you know, my neighbors might think that like I voted for Trump if I happen to say that I don't think that men should play in women's sports.
2:38:18
SPEAKER_39: Like it it's like I I just to me that's just ridiculous.
2:38:21
SPEAKER_39: And that's how a lot of things get stayed uh quiet, is because of this, you know, censorship cancel culture that we live in.
2:38:28
SPEAKER_20: So you can follow uh Becca Thompson on X at Becca underscore Thompson.
2:38:33
SPEAKER_20: Is there anywhere else where people can find you online?
2:38:34
SPEAKER_20: Or is it the best place?
2:38:35
SPEAKER_39: I'm on TikTok too, and I have like reels, but mostly I just it's just too much to keep track of.
2:38:40
SPEAKER_39: You know what I mean?
2:38:41
SPEAKER_20: Let's uh let's go back to the uh to the blaster line.
2:38:43
SPEAKER_20: Got a lot of comments that have rolled into 612-584-4565.
2:38:48
SPEAKER_20: If you have a comment that you want to share about the commentary that you hear on the show.
2:38:52
SPEAKER_10: Good morning, John.
2:38:52
SPEAKER_10: This is Jim from West Council.
2:38:54
SPEAKER_10: I am so glad you had your guest on.
2:38:57
SPEAKER_10: It's good to hear someone who was uh fully on the left gives her turn because it gives us hope.
2:39:05
SPEAKER_10: Um there are so many people that are just that crazy out there.
2:39:14
SPEAKER_10: And so it's giving me hope to tell me that maybe we can turn the time.
2:39:19
SPEAKER_10: Have a great day.
2:39:20
SPEAKER_20: Well, and and and what I hope, and thank you, um, uh thank you, James, for that.
2:39:24
SPEAKER_20: You know, what I hope is that that how he describes sort of you know people who was someone who was fully on the left uh and is turned, I hope that changes to to Democrats who are willing to call out what the Democrat Party has become.
2:39:41
SPEAKER_20: Because there's always going to be two parties in this country.
2:39:43
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:39:44
SPEAKER_20: You know, that's not that's not changing.
2:39:45
SPEAKER_20: And so I I think it's almost more important, while I would like to see as many people come over to conservatism as possible.
2:39:52
SPEAKER_20: Don't misunderstand.
2:39:53
SPEAKER_20: I also think at the moment that the country cannot continue on a positive path if the Democrat Party becomes completely overrun by communists, because then you're dealing with half the country being run by communists, and if they get in power, we're in deep, deep trouble.
2:40:08
SPEAKER_20: So what I hope happens is I hope more Democrats come out and start to call out what their party has become to bring it back to what it typically classically has been.
2:40:19
SPEAKER_20: So again, I want those, you know, I want liberals to become conservatives, but at the same time, right now, the bigger issue is making sure the Democrats do not let their party be overrun by communists because that's what's happening right now.
2:40:31
SPEAKER_39: Absolutely.
2:40:31
SPEAKER_39: And you know, I gotta just say, you know, it's it's it does The Lord of the Rings is the greatest book of all time.
2:40:37
SPEAKER_20: You keep throwing out these pop culture references and you're gonna be on the show a lot, Pick at Thompson.
2:40:41
SPEAKER_39: I'm gonna tell you, I see you have your you know, Grogu over there.
2:40:44
SPEAKER_20: That's that's that's Shoguru, by the way.
2:40:46
SPEAKER_39: Oh, sorry, we haven't even said too much Star Wars.
2:40:48
SPEAKER_20: That is Shoguru, that is Grogu's Estrange to Brother uh Sho Group.
2:40:52
SPEAKER_20: Oh, okay.
2:40:52
SPEAKER_20: So I just want to let you know.
2:40:53
SPEAKER_20: Anyway, please go ahead.
2:40:55
SPEAKER_39: No, you know, it's like if you have uh Mary and Pippin talking about, you know, Tree Beard doesn't want to help and they're gonna go back to the Shire, and and Pippin doesn't get it, and Mary does, and Mary's like, you don't understand, like there won't be a Shire to go home to, right?
2:41:08
SPEAKER_39: That's what I feel like, honestly, is like I just was texting someone this morning.
2:41:12
SPEAKER_39: I said, I honestly feel like we're living uh Germany in the 1920s.
2:41:16
SPEAKER_39: The playbook is the exact same.
2:41:19
SPEAKER_39: Germany was extremely liberal.
2:41:21
SPEAKER_39: Um, you know, that's where you get things like cabaret, the the musical cabaret.
2:41:25
SPEAKER_39: Um all thought, like as a mathematician and a and and someone who's classically trained actress, like all thought, like plays, like you had Brecht, you had like so much um all these universities of these great thinkers, we're all in Berlin, right?
2:41:43
SPEAKER_39: It was extremely liberal, but I was like, gosh, it feels like this is what we're we're we're reliving it.
2:41:48
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:41:49
SPEAKER_39: And and so, so I feel like I'm merry with like I if I don't start talking now, what what is even the point of this like this arc of like, well, I really, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a conservative.
2:42:05
SPEAKER_39: I'm kind of, you know, I'm I'm kind of left-leaning.
2:42:07
SPEAKER_39: And then like people just again, the myopia of that everybody cares about your every thought about everything.
2:42:14
SPEAKER_39: No, to me, the moment is bigger than that.
2:42:16
SPEAKER_39: We have communists at the door who want who are burning our cities down and who want to quite honestly murder whole sections of people.
2:42:25
SPEAKER_39: In it's getting thinner and thinner the veil before they're just gonna call for like another Holocaust.
2:42:31
SPEAKER_39: I'm sorry, but I'm sorry, not sorry.
2:42:33
SPEAKER_39: And so I've just like, I'm not, I'm a student of history and I'm a person who does math projections, so I'm like, I can see where this is going.
2:42:42
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, this moment is larger than me.
2:42:44
SPEAKER_39: I don't care what you say about me, I'm gonna fight this as much as I can.
2:42:47
SPEAKER_20: Well, and it's dovetailing off of off of what you just said, uh, there were for the longest time, I would, I would wonder, especially early in my in my career, it was like, how, you know, how does a how does a Hitler rise to power?
2:43:01
SPEAKER_20: How do so many individuals become convinced to be that evil, right?
2:43:08
SPEAKER_20: The reality is for those individuals didn't see themselves as evil, that's a part of it.
2:43:14
SPEAKER_20: But I'm watching, and this just recently, I was doing a rewatch of Fury, right?
2:43:20
SPEAKER_20: Fantastic film.
2:43:21
SPEAKER_20: Uh Brad Pitt, just a an a just across the board, amazing film.
2:43:24
SPEAKER_20: And suddenly I had this not epiphany, but just this realization of the time period in which that film, you know, fictitious as it is, but you know, World War II, the distance between when that happened and when, you know, Hitler's rise to prominence and the year that I was born in 1972, and then I compare to how many years that I've been on the earth now, and I'm going, holy cow, like the time frame there is like I'm now looking at it in the time frame of my life and much less, as if we could see this happen in my lifetime.
2:43:55
SPEAKER_20: And it begins to provide, as you were just mentioning, that needed perspective on how quickly these movements can form over a period of time.
2:44:03
SPEAKER_20: And before you know it, it's right there on your on your doorstep.
2:44:07
SPEAKER_20: When I consider just how close World War II and Hitler was to the time when I was born, based off of where we are now, and it is that quintessential example that we're living through of if you ignore history, you're doomed to repeat it.
2:44:18
SPEAKER_20: And it's the public education system that has failed our youth to teach them history, to teach them, you know, what has happened in the past that has brought about the rise of everything that you and I have been talking about on the show this morning.
2:44:33
SPEAKER_39: Absolutely.
2:44:34
SPEAKER_39: And and you know, I've been called alarmist by people.
2:44:37
SPEAKER_39: Even a year ago, when I said I want to make it public that we're we're we the Democrats are overrun by communists, and they're like, Don't, don't, don't, don't make that, like, don't make that public.
2:44:46
SPEAKER_39: Don't don't scare people.
2:44:47
SPEAKER_39: I said this city is gonna go bankrupt and it's on its way to being worse than Detroit.
2:44:52
SPEAKER_39: Worse than Detroit because because Detroit, when it fell, didn't exist in the in the realm of of uh work from home, right?
2:45:02
SPEAKER_39: So it it was able to collapse, but it still had a chance to return.
2:45:06
SPEAKER_39: There's no chance for Minneapolis if we allow what's happening to happen.
2:45:09
SPEAKER_39: But yeah, like it's like so so I what's when you when you see it, when you see it playing out, because I am a student of history and it does go quickly, uh I would be I would be remiss if I didn't say something.
2:45:23
SPEAKER_39: And I again, like I said, I don't care how crazy you think I am, I know I'm ultimately correct.
2:45:27
SPEAKER_39: Right.
2:45:28
SPEAKER_39: And so like all these movements, whether it was Germany or whether it was the Bolsheviks in Russia or whether it's Mao, it they start out very student-led.
2:45:40
SPEAKER_39: I mean, there's like Joseph Stalin was completely like this Al-Said, and like he's like handsome, like just like beat poet guy.
2:45:49
SPEAKER_39: That's how Stalin started before he murdered millions of people just a couple decades later.
2:45:55
SPEAKER_39: So, like, but again, I don't think young people even know this.
2:45:58
SPEAKER_39: They're useful idiots.
2:46:00
SPEAKER_39: And so when I call them out as being the, you know, puppets, they get all upset with me and they want to police my language.
2:46:07
SPEAKER_39: And it's like, go ahead, I am probably gonna say things wrong.
2:46:11
SPEAKER_39: But that is that is like nibbling at me to try to get me on my heels that I'm some more I'm morally incorrect when I'm morally very correct.
2:46:20
SPEAKER_39: So, and I could go on and on and on.
2:46:22
SPEAKER_20: Talking with uh Becca Thompson, Becca underscore uh Thompson on X, because the truth of the matter is the communists are not hiding it anymore.
2:46:28
SPEAKER_20: And it's too it's to the benefit of individuals like yourself, um, you know, uh, this show that they're not hiding it anymore.
2:46:36
SPEAKER_20: I mean, they're they're going on Fox News.
2:46:39
SPEAKER_20: The DSA is laying out their platform for everybody to see.
2:46:42
SPEAKER_20: Go to the Minneapolis Times.
2:46:44
SPEAKER_20: They have a whole section and a series of the DSA in Minneapolis putting forward all of their different proposals.
2:46:51
SPEAKER_20: It's been this multi-week expose that's available right now.
2:46:55
SPEAKER_20: They're not hiding any of what they want to do.
2:46:58
SPEAKER_20: And with that, let's go, let's go here in the time that we have uh we have left.
2:47:02
SPEAKER_20: So um uh council member Chavez, Jason Chavez.
2:47:06
SPEAKER_20: By the way, where do you put because this is one of the more vocal individuals, spear, and he was also spearheading the uh decriminalization of the bathhouses.
2:47:16
SPEAKER_20: Where do you put Jason Chavez on the hierarchy of what we were mentioning before of the of the DSA, the communists on the city council?
2:47:24
SPEAKER_20: You think he's one of these younger individuals ignorant to the ramifications of what he's doing, or do you think he's a little bit more aware?
2:47:31
SPEAKER_39: I I I think he's fully ignorant.
2:47:33
SPEAKER_39: He's one of the Chas.
2:47:34
SPEAKER_39: So Robin Wandsley is the she's a bold communist, doesn't even hide it, and then she runs the city council, and then she has her minions, the Chas, Chowdhury Chavez, Chugtai, um, and they do her bidding um along with council president, but that's a different story.
2:47:50
SPEAKER_39: And so, yeah, no, Jason is uh I I Jason is, I have not known him to be very bright, and I have known that off camera, he is he is just a normal person.
2:48:06
SPEAKER_39: This is what again, like he's I don't want to say he's a normal person.
2:48:09
SPEAKER_39: He's he's not mean off camera.
2:48:12
SPEAKER_39: He's and so sometimes people are like, well, you know, they're nice.
2:48:15
SPEAKER_39: Like I yes, and I I do sometimes feel badly because I know these people, I know them.
2:48:20
SPEAKER_39: Um, I do sometimes feel badly, but I'm also like, you put yourself in this intersection.
2:48:25
SPEAKER_39: And also, he and all his minion DSA friends mercilessly went after me and put words in my mouth that I never said when I ran for the city council last year.
2:48:33
SPEAKER_39: So I'm like, well, turn of out is fair play.
2:48:35
SPEAKER_39: Like I I I it's a tactic that you used, so it's a tactic I'm gonna use.
2:48:39
SPEAKER_39: I think you're a nininkin poop.
2:48:40
SPEAKER_39: So yeah, no, he's he's a useful idiot, and I think, but I think he's a true believer for sure.
2:48:45
SPEAKER_20: He uh there's a letter from the Minneapolis Times that he uh that he put out on the 31st condemning the hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric included in the National Integrated Ballistic Uh Information Modernization Program.
2:48:57
SPEAKER_20: We talked about this on the show a few uh days ago.
2:49:00
SPEAKER_20: The council voted 7-5 to move forward on this.
2:49:03
SPEAKER_20: It will require nine votes uh to eventually uh accept uh the grant that's needed for law enforcement.
2:49:10
SPEAKER_20: Um he opposes it because of the language relating to investigating crimes by illegal aliens.
2:49:18
SPEAKER_20: I wanted to use this though uh to play an audio clip that you posted.
2:49:23
SPEAKER_20: And this is uh from is it uh is it Arn?
2:49:26
SPEAKER_20: Oh Chowdhury.
2:49:27
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, Chowdry.
2:49:28
SPEAKER_20: Okay.
2:49:28
SPEAKER_20: Oh my gosh, she's yeah, she's I believe she's I believe she's commenting on this very issue.
2:49:32
SPEAKER_20: Okay, so here's the clip.
2:49:35
SPEAKER_40: For me, the purpose of funding and the Biden Act and the language in which this came from is extremely egregious and deplorable.
2:49:49
SPEAKER_40: And I the term illegal alien is not just a legal term of art.
2:49:59
SPEAKER_40: It's a slur.
2:50:01
SPEAKER_40: It is an absolute slur.
2:50:05
SPEAKER_40: Calling people illegal aliens is dehumanizing, degrading, and it creates a permission structure for violence against them.
2:50:16
SPEAKER_40: It just does and it has, and we've seen it over and over again.
2:50:19
SPEAKER_40: It just it just is.
2:50:20
SPEAKER_40: And so there's a policy choice here today is do we apply for grants where the purpose of funding has slurs within them.
2:50:30
SPEAKER_39: Listening to her voice is really hard for me because I just I know her and she is so calculated.
2:50:39
SPEAKER_39: I know that she was reading from that script.
2:50:44
SPEAKER_39: Here's what I'll say as a math person, okay?
2:50:48
SPEAKER_39: Because I I've talked with children before and they don't necessarily understand.
2:50:53
SPEAKER_39: Like, yes, no human being every human being is a is a is a gift of God and nobody is illegally here in the planet.
2:51:02
SPEAKER_39: But we also and we also have statehoods, right?
2:51:05
SPEAKER_39: And the phrase is a very technical phrase, right?
2:51:08
SPEAKER_39: Alien means foreigner, means they're not a citizen, and illegal means they did not come here in legal metrics.
2:51:14
SPEAKER_39: That's what it is.
2:51:15
SPEAKER_39: So it's like it's not hard.
2:51:16
SPEAKER_39: No, and I and I feel like at math, it's like if someone said, well, negative numbers, you know, that's really I I you know, those numbers have feelings too.
2:51:25
SPEAKER_39: Yes, I I know, but it's a direction.
2:51:27
SPEAKER_39: I'm trying to express a direction for the numbers, so I need to use negative, and it's a way to communicate what I'm doing.
2:51:35
SPEAKER_39: That's how I feel when they get so wrapped up in the emotion of it.
2:51:38
SPEAKER_39: It's like I this is much needed money, and that's there they never miss an opportunity to a waste people's time, b, make the issue not the real issue, because if they get this in the news, which they have, that means that the million issues in the city of it crumbling beneath their feet never makes the news.
2:52:00
SPEAKER_39: Like how small businesses, I all the businesses that I spoke with when I was campaigning, the owners, they don't take a salary because they cannot, they cannot make it work otherwise.
2:52:10
SPEAKER_39: And they're committed to the city and they're hopeful for change.
2:52:13
SPEAKER_39: And I'm like, well, change ain't gonna come with this city council, right?
2:52:17
SPEAKER_39: There downtown never gets talked about with the empty buildings or the fact that, you know, places like US Bank and Target Corp.
2:52:24
SPEAKER_39: are considering leaving and like Target got out of its lease.
2:52:27
SPEAKER_39: Like those are the conversations that should be every day in the city council.
2:52:31
SPEAKER_39: But instead, we're wasting our time on a singular phrase in a grant that we need this money.
2:52:37
SPEAKER_39: And I get like if you want to have a press conference afterwards and be like, yeah, I didn't like that, but you know, but like fine.
2:52:44
SPEAKER_39: If you want to, I I'm not or have your own blog.
2:52:47
SPEAKER_39: They all have their newsletters, go ahead.
2:52:49
SPEAKER_39: But to waste staff time and to waste council time and to try to push this in the news when when it's like when the Titanic is sinking, like it's like, you know, I just the guy who rang the bell really upset me.
2:53:04
SPEAKER_39: Um, he was ringing it really loud and he was yelling at us, iceberg, iceberg, but like it just hurt my feelings.
2:53:12
SPEAKER_39: I don't understand.
2:53:13
SPEAKER_39: And it's like and and you know what?
2:53:15
SPEAKER_39: Someone complained there weren't enough lifeboats, and I just that's really where we are.
2:53:19
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, yeah.
2:53:19
SPEAKER_20: It's just a bummer.
2:53:20
SPEAKER_39: I yeah, it's a bummer.
2:53:22
SPEAKER_20: Oh my feelings, my my my feelings are so conflicted right now.
2:53:25
SPEAKER_20: As people are screaming and plunging to their death.
2:53:27
SPEAKER_20: Yeah, yeah.
2:53:28
SPEAKER_20: I'm just gonna, oh, I'm gonna that part of the boat's higher and it hasn't gone in the water yet.
2:53:31
SPEAKER_20: So I think I'll just I'll hang out here and I just kind of sit in my feelings for a little bit because I don't know how to deal with them.
2:53:37
SPEAKER_20: Do you feel any level is there any level of sort of uh sympathy there?
2:53:43
SPEAKER_20: And I know that's difficult because you don't want to give an inch to these individuals because they do make decisions.
2:53:49
SPEAKER_20: But I mean, yeah, they they've they've come up in the system that's indoctrinated them uh them them this way.
2:53:55
SPEAKER_20: So like like is there is there any sort of like the is there is there any sort of sympathy when it comes to the fact of the the system created them.
2:54:05
SPEAKER_20: They're adults now, they're making these decisions.
2:54:07
SPEAKER_20: They should be able to go out and find the truth on their own, and they seem unwilling to do so, but at the same time, there is a level in which they have been radicalized by by the left, starting at an early age.
2:54:20
SPEAKER_20: It's why Democrats have done what they've done to the public education system.
2:54:23
SPEAKER_39: So I I mean sympathy, no.
2:54:27
SPEAKER_39: Maybe I'm just gonna do that.
2:54:27
SPEAKER_39: I understand, I understand a little bit why, but the truth is, is um, you know, and different different groups will call the age of accountability age 13.
2:54:40
SPEAKER_39: You know, we legalize adulthood at 18.
2:54:43
SPEAKER_39: Um, although as my nephew said yesterday, you can hit that whole trope, you can die for this country at 18, but you can't get a drink till you're 21.
2:54:50
SPEAKER_39: Yep.
2:54:50
SPEAKER_39: Um that like there are there are levels of maturity, and I do agree that we don't really probably fully mature mentally, like as a as a teacher who's ch studied child psychology, till maybe 25 or 30, till you're really dealing with the whole deck of cards.
2:55:09
SPEAKER_20: Certainly the case with both of my boys, 19 and 24.
2:55:12
SPEAKER_39: So yeah, like and and and and so but but what I what what I take issue with, which is fully them, is like in what like they drank their own Kool-Aid in the sense of in what world would you think that you're prepared for leadership?
2:55:31
SPEAKER_39: Like, yeah, in in in in what in what capacity did you possibly think that you're the you cannot you you uh there there's a woman on the c on the parkboard who doesn't even know how to read numbers.
2:55:46
SPEAKER_39: How in what world do you think you should be in charge of a billion dollar budget like that where thousands of people's jobs are on the line, not not to mention, you know, paving our streets and making sure that businesses survive.
2:56:02
SPEAKER_20: Look at what's happening with with horny her in St.
2:56:05
SPEAKER_20: Paul.
2:56:06
SPEAKER_20: I mean, I again in what one, she clearly was never fit to serve in, you know, as a representative in the legislature.
2:56:13
SPEAKER_20: And clearly, based off of what we've seen so far, she seems entirely too juvenile to be the mayor of you know a city like St.
2:56:21
SPEAKER_20: Paul.
2:56:21
SPEAKER_20: Yeah.
2:56:22
SPEAKER_39: I mean there the and and and there's there's there and I will say this for myself and I was unsuccessful in achieving the election certificate.
2:56:32
SPEAKER_39: But even other people that I know who won um or others who who didn't or who didn't get involved.
2:56:40
SPEAKER_39: It is extremely challenging for to even run for office in these spaces.
2:56:45
SPEAKER_39: Not just a fundraising which the DFL caucus takeover you lose out on that kind of um those fundings and the the all the unions have basically been captured inside of them with the with the communist takeover.
2:57:00
SPEAKER_39: I b I am a I belong to two unions.
2:57:03
SPEAKER_39: I'm a a big believer in the union's ability to organize and I also have a ton of friends and union members who've told me that it's like they're not representing us anymore because they're trying to this right so there's extreme uh pressures in fundraising then you go through a personal gauntlet um just just horrific personal attacks um and then it's physically exhausting to just run.
2:57:31
SPEAKER_39: So so you have uh people who are as you said like brought up in these systems they're grown by the system and they're plucked because they're young they're at least uh you know moderately attractive in the in in the in the in the four seconds that they're you know between the ages of twenty two and twenty-seven and except for well I shouldn't say anything and and then uh and and then they're just yes men so so the system incubates them and anybody who wants to try to break outside of that it is so hard.
2:58:07
SPEAKER_20: Well and they've had and and and as you just laid out Rebecca talking with Becca Thompson they've had an ample opportunity all along the way to the position in which they were elected for to uh to change their view, to find the truth to realize that you know what they stand for and what they believe in is not going to be prosperous for the position of which they are uh running for.
2:58:32
SPEAKER_20: They have plenty of opportunities from from from from that you know from that moment that they actually begin to enter politics.
2:58:38
SPEAKER_20: So yeah I mean it really it really comes down to uh to them.
2:58:42
SPEAKER_20: Um let's do this.
2:58:43
SPEAKER_20: I kept you to the end of the show.
2:58:44
SPEAKER_20: So sorry no no no this is no it's been a great conversation and what I want to do here is as we get we as we begin to close things out is I have a lot of comments that have come into the blaster line.
2:58:54
SPEAKER_13: I want to run through some of these and then we'll uh we'll wrap things up with uh with Becca Thompson this morning here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment John Mike for a minute this has been an absolutely incredible segment congratulations to both of you but my view is the left thinks that we have changed as in the Republican and if the Democrats would have changed Roman John Henry was their candidate and president in 1915 he wouldn't be allowed in the party today limited government low tech Catholic would be excommunicated for the Democratic party we also had a comment that I want to that I want to share from a friend of the show Callie Proctor I don't know if you're familiar with yeah by the look on your face you are and uh so she wanted to comment on our conversation this morning here on the show.
2:59:44
SPEAKER_18: Hi Domie thanks for having Dr.
2:59:48
SPEAKER_18: I think he was exactly right about how many people offer and about how 100% have to recognize a large number of more people from 100% but anyway so glad to hear you're telling you well and I want to add that um it's not going to change when Trump is no longer in office.
3:00:52
SPEAKER_20: They're just gonna move they're just gonna move they're gonna they're gonna move their target to whoever the next person is to whether it's Marco Rubio, whether it's JD Vance or whomever.
3:01:02
SPEAKER_20: It's just gonna be the next individual that comes up in the place of President Donald Trump.
3:01:07
SPEAKER_20: This is the cycle that we're going to be that we're gonna be in now.
3:01:10
SPEAKER_39: Oh absolutely and I and just uh I appreciate that I was agreed with on that one because it's it that is a hundred percent it and that's why I just try to talk about again the numbers and the the being able to to make it make it viable and and per the just the the prior I just want to say this quickly with the council members about like sympathy and like being accountable.
3:01:31
SPEAKER_39: Sure like how I because I was thinking about this as you were talking I was like yeah I should have said this.
3:01:36
SPEAKER_39: What what how far is too far to know that your policies don't work and for me it's that there literally are children being murdered in the streets and I can't even tell you how many stories I know and it's directly related to these terrible policies and they won't turn around and say they were wrong.
3:01:50
SPEAKER_39: And to me that's just right there.
3:01:52
SPEAKER_39: That's that to me one is is enough.
3:01:55
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
3:01:55
SPEAKER_20: Let's uh let's go to one more uh blaster from the blaster line uh this morning here on the John Justice show John I'm a boomer and I'm in recovery for forty five years.
3:02:06
SPEAKER_11: I get tired of his boomers and they're stuck in the 60s and everything else and they've raised rationalization to a fine art and they wonder why they're getting commented earlier because they can't think and they're stuck in emotion.
3:02:22
SPEAKER_11: Yeah.
3:02:22
SPEAKER_20: Uh one of the uh friends of the show and thank you to everybody who's uh left a comment this morning and uh Becca Thompson um you will not be a stranger to this show assuming that you'd like to come back at some point in time uh we'll have to uh we'll have to get you in on a Freedom Friday too.
3:02:35
SPEAKER_20: Oh I don't even know what that is we'll get you seated you having me on here JK Kamara and Max Reimer and the rest of our group but thank you so much I really enjoyed the conversation uh today thank you to the friend of the show uh Sandy and her friend who encouraged me to have you uh to have you on the show uh today and uh I think I enjoyed the segment as much as the listeners did so uh thank you so much and follow Becca uh Becca underscore Thompson on X.
3:03:00
SPEAKER_20: Is it the same on uh TikTok as well?
3:03:02
SPEAKER_39: I think so I think my I might have Becca Thompson31 because I I don't know Thompson's kind of a common name John Yeah yeah that's why uh my my real last name is Lojudice but it's entirely too hard to say so that's why I go by justice.
3:03:14
SPEAKER_20: So thank you for the time uh this morning tomorrow on the show a gubernatorial endorsed uh candidate for the GOP Kendall Qualls will be joining us a number of stories we did not get a chance to get to uh today including the former DFL leader who got less than a year in jail for a fatal hit and run of a team the double standard on full display once again and we'll dive into how Republican Senator Michael Holstrom talking about something I support it's just unfortunate we need it at all launching a sharia free Minnesota caucus in the state uh legislature again I fully support it it's just unbelievable that we have to have a sharia a sharia free uh caucus uh at uh at all so Becca thanks again thank you to you uh for listening to the show this morning if you missed any portion of today's broadcast check out the podcast available on all podcast uh platforms also on the MixLR app if you want to watch uh the show that you might have missed you can see uh the replay of the show on Facebook and uh YouTube at Center of the American Experiment and my personal pages as well.
3:04:15
SPEAKER_05: We are back at it tomorrow at uh 6 a.m have yourself a fantastic rest of the day and you know what let's go ahead and go out with uh a little Zima Fizz I'll talk to you guys uh tomorrow morning God bless bye just like the body