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July 29, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

0:03
SPEAKER_33: What did you think about John's announcement today?
0:06
SPEAKER_48: I loved that.
0:07
SPEAKER_48: Fantastic.
0:08
SPEAKER_09: Absolutely.
0:10
SPEAKER_09: Super excited for John.
0:11
SPEAKER_09: I'm super excited what the future holds for him.
0:13
SPEAKER_09: I think every time he gets knocked down a peg, he shoots right back up again.
0:17
SPEAKER_10: Fantastic.
0:18
SPEAKER_10: Good to see that he's getting back on the air, doing getting active and uh bringing bringing his voice back to Minnesota.
0:24
SPEAKER_36: I think it's so exciting.
0:26
SPEAKER_36: It was so sad for everyone to hear that he was no longer gonna be on the radio.
0:30
SPEAKER_36: Uh, but we knew he was gonna get picked up right away, so I was super excited.
0:33
SPEAKER_46: Well, I think it's really great that he's um continued on with his message, and I think it's even greater that he's reaching out to different members of the community to to let them know how they can participate, and it's um also good to see him partnering with the Center for the American Experiment.
0:48
SPEAKER_46: Sounds like a really good collaboration.
0:50
SPEAKER_44: Oh, I was uh actually very grateful to hear that, and that was great.
0:54
SPEAKER_44: Um that was one of the reasons we came down here was to just hear what was going on.
0:59
SPEAKER_34: I'm a big fan of John Justice, some honest news coverage, and it's sad that we lost him as one of the actually only honest voices of news in Minnesota.
1:07
SPEAKER_34: Uh I was actually supposed to be on the John Justice show the morning that he left.
1:11
SPEAKER_34: Um you know, so really disappointment.
1:13
SPEAKER_34: But great pickup for Americans um experiment and a great pickup for just American conservative voices in the public.
1:20
SPEAKER_34: So the town's quick has a great voice.
1:22
SPEAKER_00: I am so psyched.
1:24
SPEAKER_00: I am so relieved and so excited to tune in Monday morning for the next show.
1:29
SPEAKER_00: I am just so happy to be part of him in this next partnership.
1:33
SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be so cool.
1:34
SPEAKER_03: I can't wait to see him back on air.
1:35
SPEAKER_03: That's gonna be awesome.
1:37
SPEAKER_33: He's gonna continuing to do what he's gonna do.
1:39
SPEAKER_33: So left when he was gone and left the big void.
1:44
SPEAKER_33: This show was really good, very informative, entertaining as well.
1:48
SPEAKER_46: Well, when I heard his show is cancelled, um, you know, it's unfortunate because radio does need diverse viewpoints across all spectrums.
1:56
SPEAKER_46: We shouldn't just have radio that the mainstream agrees with, but we should have radio that all community viewpoints um agree with.
2:05
SPEAKER_09: Uh I didn't know what to think.
2:07
SPEAKER_09: I was very confused, and I thought uh there's possible nefarious intentions behind it, because it's really our only source for uh local politics, and we need that.
2:17
SPEAKER_10: Uh I was disappointed.
2:19
SPEAKER_10: I w I'm a I'm a listener, I'm a fan.
2:21
SPEAKER_10: Uh you know, you know, I'm an independent in in Minnesota, and and uh, you know, I I like listening to his views, I like listening to other views, and uh, you know, I appreciated his show, and uh, I'm glad that he's found a place here now six to nine on uh on his program, so I'm gonna be excited to kind of listen to that again.
2:41
SPEAKER_36: Very sad.
2:41
SPEAKER_36: I obviously went to the negative, and so I wouldn't say no.
2:46
SPEAKER_36: We need more Republican voices on the freaking out there.
2:52
SPEAKER_36: I love this, I love the listening.
2:55
SPEAKER_34: It was really uh sad, basically, and uh I was a little surprised because uh the tweet cities really I was disappointed because it's truly the the the news is so upside we don't have any voices that's the most conservative values and largely even just the truth.
3:17
SPEAKER_34: The truth is uh uh on a short order when it comes to journalists these days.
3:20
SPEAKER_34: I thought that John Justice was an honest broker and a voice for reason in the truth, and it's some glad that he's funny.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: I was devastated and I was really uh devastated.
3:29
SPEAKER_00: I know I'm excited and worried for him, of course, and um I'm I'm so happy to hear that he is excited about the new direction that he's gonna take.
3:37
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but it's kind of to hear that we were we might lose another conservative voice, and I'm just so glad it's that I guess I wasn't surprised.
3:44
SPEAKER_33: I guess stuff is going on in the uh radio media business now.
3:49
SPEAKER_33: Unless uh someone has got just ratings that are just through the roof and uh they really don't want everybody seems like uh you're kinda on to the nice.
3:59
SPEAKER_09: What's your favorite thing about John Stow?
4:01
SPEAKER_09: I just love John's honest pursuit of the truth and his good Christianity.
4:06
SPEAKER_09: I appreciate his candidness.
4:07
SPEAKER_36: Testability now! It's really great.
4:11
SPEAKER_36: I just love all the people that he has on there and his perspective, and I'm thinking, I never thought that, or that's a good intro, I never saw that coming.
4:20
SPEAKER_46: What I like about John's show is he has a passion for the truth, and he has a passion for a diversity of topics with a good focus on economic considerations, and it's very educational.
4:33
SPEAKER_44: His topics during current events of Minnesota.
4:36
SPEAKER_44: I I can pick up national news anywhere.
4:39
SPEAKER_44: So going to the uh you know, the old station, what has changed to is just national, and I I don't get the Minnesota perspective.
4:49
SPEAKER_48: He stands up for his beliefs.
4:54
SPEAKER_48: Not afraid to say it like it is.
4:56
SPEAKER_45: Easy to identify with everyday every man's every day's man.
5:00
SPEAKER_34: It's just that he's smart.
5:01
SPEAKER_34: He's a he's a smart I don't get to have that many as a I'm running for US Senate, I don't get to have a lot of smart dialogue.
5:06
SPEAKER_34: It's usually just sound bites.
5:08
SPEAKER_34: The times are warm on the deals on the jumps, just to show they're more just not provoking real conversations that were a little more long form, and I like that.
5:14
SPEAKER_34: I like to be able to talk to somebody who's educated on the issues, smart, and is an honest broker.
5:19
SPEAKER_34: So you can have some real dialogue in the town square and think that's kind of what John Justice brings is real dialogue to the town square, and I'm glad he's found another place to do that.
5:26
SPEAKER_00: All the jokes, and of course Freedom Friday is.
5:28
SPEAKER_34: Freedom Friday for sure.
5:30
SPEAKER_33: That's so funny.
5:31
SPEAKER_33: Actually, most people probably wouldn't say this, but I like it when he really takes apart the uh Star Tribune writers and editorials.
5:40
SPEAKER_33: He'll get into their articles and just rip them to shreds, just uh, for all the faults and all the all the one-sided uh journalism that they do.
5:50
SPEAKER_33: All the things that they miss when they put together their articles.
5:52
SPEAKER_33: So that's my favorite thing that he does.
5:55
SPEAKER_05: Well, good news for that guy today on the show, because we actually do have a story where that very thing will uh happen.
6:03
SPEAKER_05: Those were listeners at the America 250, a Center of the American Experiment event from this past Saturday.
6:09
SPEAKER_05: So uh incredibly blessed and grateful to hear those uh kind uh words.
6:13
SPEAKER_05: And speaking of the local news, as we launch Wednesday's show, big news broke overnight.
6:19
SPEAKER_05: I know this because when I woke up this morning, my text, I had like 37 texts waiting for me.
6:26
SPEAKER_05: And it was all from one text chain, and it was pretty much all about this story.
6:33
SPEAKER_05: Here is just a snippet from Channel 5.
6:36
SPEAKER_42: Hi, everybody.
6:37
SPEAKER_42: Kevin Dorn in the KSTP newsroom, and we are tracking a bombshell story out of the city of St.
6:44
SPEAKER_42: Paul right now.
6:45
SPEAKER_42: The police chief, Axel Henry, is accusing the mayor, Khalid Hur, of sexual harassment.
6:53
SPEAKER_42: This is completely out of the blue.
6:55
SPEAKER_42: We're working to get reaction from all sides on this.
6:58
SPEAKER_42: The mayor's office, the police chief.
7:01
SPEAKER_42: We've got a letter outlining all the complaints and allegations.
7:05
SPEAKER_42: Um, but we're gonna have this for you later tonight, so I hope you can join us again.
7:10
SPEAKER_42: Sexual harassment allegations against the mayor of St.
7:14
SPEAKER_42: Paul by the police chief.
7:17
SPEAKER_42: Hope you join us.
7:44
SPEAKER_05: AmericanExperiment.org.
7:46
SPEAKER_05: We are streaming live on the Mix LR app, also at AmericanExperiment.org.
7:51
SPEAKER_05: You can watch on the X feed at MNTank.
7:55
SPEAKER_05: If you're on X, we're also up on YouTube at the American Experiment to YouTube page, my personal uh YouTube page, and both of our Facebook pages as well.
8:05
SPEAKER_05: As we dive into today's uh show, Lieutenant Governor candidate with Lisa Damath, uh Ryan Wilson will be joining us right around uh eight o'clock this morning.
8:13
SPEAKER_05: We've got a lot of news uh to cover uh today.
8:16
SPEAKER_05: I was telling uh Isaac, producer Isaac, who's joining me here this morning.
8:19
SPEAKER_05: Good morning, Isaac.
8:20
SPEAKER_05: Good morning, John.
8:21
SPEAKER_05: How are we doing this morning, sir?
8:22
SPEAKER_05: Oh, pretty good.
8:23
SPEAKER_05: You getting used to the early hours yet?
8:25
SPEAKER_04: Uh I don't know about used to.
8:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
8:28
SPEAKER_04: Late night, early morning.
8:29
SPEAKER_05: Uh depends on how long you do it for, but uh eventually you get used to it.
8:32
SPEAKER_05: All right, that's good.
8:33
SPEAKER_05: I couldn't go back the other way.
8:35
SPEAKER_05: I I mentioned that when I was working more of like a nine to five when we were setting everything up for the debut of the show, that was really throwing me off.
8:42
SPEAKER_05: Like driving in the morning in broad daylight is very, very odd to me.
8:47
SPEAKER_04: I will say it's nice being done at like two.
8:50
SPEAKER_04: There is that.
8:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
8:51
SPEAKER_04: Or earlier, my guy.
8:52
SPEAKER_04: Or earlier.
8:53
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
8:53
SPEAKER_04: I like that.
8:54
SPEAKER_05: Although the prep never stops.
8:55
SPEAKER_05: Which certainly was the case this morning.
8:57
SPEAKER_05: I woke up, and as I mentioned, I I I do.
8:59
SPEAKER_05: So I have a whole routine.
9:01
SPEAKER_05: And and this this totally works.
9:04
SPEAKER_05: I just want to point this out.
9:05
SPEAKER_05: So I had seen my algorithm had fed me um basically details on better ways to wake up in the morning to allow your body to adjust to the early morning hours.
9:21
SPEAKER_05: And there was this whole set of routines.
9:24
SPEAKER_05: And the the idea is that you don't want to drink your cup of coffee as soon as you wake up.
9:31
SPEAKER_05: As you sleep overnight, your cortisol levels rise as you're asleep.
9:37
SPEAKER_05: And it takes the body a while to go and get rid of that when you wake up in the morning.
9:44
SPEAKER_05: So what you want to do is you want to wake up and you want to allow your body to naturally get rid of all those chemicals that go and stress you out.
9:50
SPEAKER_05: Because if you have your coffee too early, it suppresses that ability.
9:54
SPEAKER_05: And then what happens is when the coffee wears off later on, then you crash even harder.
9:58
SPEAKER_05: So my whole routine in the morning has completely changed.
10:02
SPEAKER_05: And you can't, you know, you're not supposed to get on screens either.
10:05
SPEAKER_05: That's another big facet of this.
10:07
SPEAKER_05: So I basically reverse the order that did everything.
10:09
SPEAKER_05: I used to get up, get my cup of coffee, and then I would immediately go to my phone, and then I would immediately go to the computer, I would do all my work, I would do all my prep, I would pull my audio, I would fix the audio, I would send it off to the producer of the show, then I would go get in the shower, and then I would drive in.
10:24
SPEAKER_05: Now I go in in the complete opposite order.
10:27
SPEAKER_05: I immediately get up, take a shower, wait about 40 minutes before I start my cup of coffee, and then wait about a half hour before I go and get online.
10:36
SPEAKER_05: And can I and I'm let me just say up front, it has made a world of difference for me.
10:42
SPEAKER_05: I'm not even not even joking.
10:45
SPEAKER_05: Um as an individual that gets up with the alarm at 2.30 in the morning.
10:48
SPEAKER_05: This was the first time, by the way, that I finally actually woke up with the alarm.
10:52
SPEAKER_05: Because I've been waking up earlier and just deciding, okay, I'm gonna get up.
10:55
SPEAKER_05: I gotta get here early.
10:56
SPEAKER_05: I want to make sure everything is off and running the way that it uh the way that it needs to needs to be.
11:02
SPEAKER_05: But um typically when I do get up, I I look at my phone just briefly, which is why I bring all this up.
11:07
SPEAKER_05: I look at my phone for just just really quick.
11:10
SPEAKER_05: Uh, make sure because I've I've got it on Do Not Disturb.
11:13
SPEAKER_05: And so in case something happened overnight or Melinda needed me to know something as soon as I woke up, I need to check it.
11:19
SPEAKER_05: So I looked at it this morning, and like I said, I had like 37 messages of like, oh, what is going on?
11:26
SPEAKER_05: Because typically that means something happened overnight.
11:29
SPEAKER_05: And people are talking about it, and I'm involved in it, although I've been asleep through the whole thing.
11:34
SPEAKER_05: And it was our Freedom Friday crew group chat.
11:39
SPEAKER_05: So with the with the Freedom Friday crew group chat, um, this story is how is what the topic of discussion was.
11:49
SPEAKER_05: And as a matter of fact, A.K.
11:50
SPEAKER_05: Kamara, who will be in here Friday on a Freedom Friday, uh, he uh he had talked about going back to the first part of the year, a woman who had filed a sexual harassment complaint against the St.
12:04
SPEAKER_05: Paul mayor, but the judge ended up dismissing the charges.
12:08
SPEAKER_05: So you heard the audio there from Channel 5.
12:11
SPEAKER_05: The AI uh overlord summary on all of this, the St.
12:14
SPEAKER_05: Paul police chief Axel Henry filed the sexual harassment complaint against Mayor Cooley Herr, alleging inappropriate sexual comments and text messages.
12:26
SPEAKER_05: The complaint addressed to the city attorney calls for full system extraction of her's phones.
12:35
SPEAKER_05: This is gonna get spicy.
12:37
SPEAKER_05: Hers office stated they cannot comment on the active investigation.
12:42
SPEAKER_05: So I'm gonna dive into further details of this coming up after seven o'clock this morning.
12:46
SPEAKER_05: I'll give you a few here.
12:47
SPEAKER_05: I don't wanna I don't wanna leave you in suspense because what the actual text entailed uh entails is really quite comical.
12:56
SPEAKER_05: Very befitting today, because one of the text messages, a screenshot, uh said, Happy Wiener Wednesday.
13:03
SPEAKER_05: I wish I was having a, with parentheses, a hot dog emoji with uh you uh all on six today.
13:12
SPEAKER_05: Happy Wiener Wednesday.
13:15
SPEAKER_05: It's Wiener Wednesday on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
13:21
SPEAKER_05: All right, so Chris Maddle, who was representing Henry, told five eyewitness news in a statement Chief Henry just closed a triple homicide case in under four hours.
13:33
SPEAKER_05: He's got a city to keep safe and has no comment on this.
13:36
SPEAKER_05: In the letter, Maddle calls on the city attorney to take all steps necessary to perform a um full file system extraction of hers phones.
13:49
SPEAKER_05: A spokesperson from the mayor's office sent the following statement.
13:52
SPEAKER_05: To protect confidentiality, the integrity of the process, the city will not comment on an active uh investigation.
14:01
SPEAKER_05: The mayor has deep respect for city employees and regrets any unintended impact her actions might have had.
14:08
SPEAKER_05: By the way, her, just as a complete side note, the fact that we're referring to her as her as her, it's very confusing when you're doing notes.
14:17
SPEAKER_05: I have to like, okay, it's not capitalized.
14:21
SPEAKER_05: Mark Ross, uh, the president of the St.
14:23
SPEAKER_05: Paul Police Federation, also sent a comment.
14:26
SPEAKER_05: Our obligation is you, our membership and the focus of the federation will remain on supporting the rank and file members.
14:33
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
14:35
SPEAKER_05: Who are in the community risking their lives every day.
14:40
SPEAKER_05: I'm not in a position to elaborate further on the situation, but I do want the community to rest assured that our focus is on serving them with the uh commitment, class, integrity that they have come to expect and deserve.
14:53
SPEAKER_05: So what we have here are a lot of individuals that simply do not want to comment on these allegations up front, and it's understandable, this is pretty, this is pretty typical when it comes to this type of investigation and these types of claims.
15:08
SPEAKER_05: Now the letter in the city attorney to the city attorney claims that her, capital H used one or more mobile phones to communicate inappropriate and indeed unlawful text messages.
15:21
SPEAKER_05: And this includes, as I mentioned, what appears to be a screenshot of a message saying, Happy Wiener Wednesday.
15:27
SPEAKER_05: Wish I was having a with a hot dog emoji with you all on six today.
15:31
SPEAKER_05: A redacted picture is then included with a statement saying when she wraps you up in her blanket after you gave her a good wienering with laughing emojis.
15:48
SPEAKER_04: A good wienering.
15:51
SPEAKER_04: That's a tough, that's a tough read right there.
15:54
SPEAKER_02: Oh, wait, there's a lot of tough reads this morning, Isaac.
15:57
SPEAKER_02: Can I just say that up here?
15:59
SPEAKER_02: Yes, I know, I know.
16:01
SPEAKER_05: And I thought more about that as I was like, you know what though?
16:04
SPEAKER_05: We're in a format we can go right into it.
16:06
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
16:07
SPEAKER_05: I used to couch my words quite a bit, and I'm still going to with the show.
16:10
SPEAKER_05: I had a whole conversation with Melinda about this, given the fact that we are, you know, now broadcasting online.
16:17
SPEAKER_05: So that gives us a lot of freedom.
16:19
SPEAKER_05: If you've heard any of the audio clips that we've already played over the first two debut shows, I think you know that already.
16:25
SPEAKER_05: And every time one of those clips plays, because I'm not paying attention to whether or not the expletives are bleeped from the audio anymore.
16:32
SPEAKER_05: Every single time it happens, though, I just think I get this rush of chemical panic.
16:37
SPEAKER_05: Like, and I was like, oh, I forgot.
16:40
SPEAKER_02: I'm not on terrestrial radio anymore.
16:41
SPEAKER_02: I don't have to worry about it.
16:42
SPEAKER_05: Where's the dump button?
16:43
SPEAKER_05: I need the dump button.
16:46
SPEAKER_05: So I thought about maybe not going there this early this morning, but I'm like, you know what?
16:50
SPEAKER_05: This is what the new show, this is what the new show affords me.
16:52
SPEAKER_05: Why not?
16:53
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
16:54
SPEAKER_05: Wake everybody up with Wiener Wednesday and a good wienering.
16:59
SPEAKER_05: Maybe we should use that.
17:00
SPEAKER_05: I know we're doing a lot of promotion for the show right now.
17:02
SPEAKER_05: Maybe that's a good tagline.
17:04
SPEAKER_02: Maybe it's a good t-shirt.
17:05
SPEAKER_05: Oh.
17:06
SPEAKER_02: Get a good wienering by listening to John Justice.
17:11
SPEAKER_05: I'm not sure uh American experiment with that.
17:14
SPEAKER_04: No, we should probably keep our logo.
17:15
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm pretty sure that once that goes out the door right over there, it's gonna go right into the waste bin right outside the door right over there.
17:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, probably.
17:22
SPEAKER_05: All right.
17:22
SPEAKER_05: That is allegedly just one of numerous inappropriate incidents involving her.
17:28
SPEAKER_05: Her.
17:28
SPEAKER_05: That works both ways.
17:31
SPEAKER_05: The letter to the city attorney says uh they go beyond isolated incidents and extend to other city employees and police officers.
17:39
SPEAKER_05: It adds that Henry, this will be the police chief, St.
17:42
SPEAKER_05: Paul police chief, Henry Axel.
17:44
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
17:45
SPEAKER_05: Um goes, uh, adds that Henry came forward as a formal complaintant over concerns that without doing so, the behavior, doing that thing with my fingers, the behavior will continue unchecked and may expose others to retaliation for speaking for speaking out.
18:03
SPEAKER_05: All right.
18:04
SPEAKER_05: Uh let's go to uh the blast this morning.
18:08
SPEAKER_05: If you want to leave us a blast, it's 612-584-4565.
18:13
SPEAKER_05: Again, 612-584-4565.
18:16
SPEAKER_05: If you want to leave us a blast.
18:17
SPEAKER_14: I just wanted to apologize for making an inappropriate comment.
18:21
SPEAKER_14: No need to apologize.
18:22
SPEAKER_14: I take responsibility for it.
18:24
SPEAKER_14: I fail to recognize the mood and the tone of the conversation.
18:40
SPEAKER_14: So uh apologize for that, and everything can make it.
18:52
SPEAKER_05: Oh Bob, you have no reason to apologize.
18:55
SPEAKER_05: I was being sarcastic.
18:56
SPEAKER_05: Bob should know that by now.
18:58
SPEAKER_05: Bob goes way back with the show.
19:00
SPEAKER_05: Bob, you are all good.
19:02
SPEAKER_05: I had no issue, I have no issues at all.
19:03
SPEAKER_05: Especially Did you hear the opening conversation that we just had on the show?
19:10
SPEAKER_05: Long forgotten, Bob.
19:12
SPEAKER_05: I appreciate your uh I appreciate your your input here on the John Justin show.
19:16
SPEAKER_26: Hey Michael.
19:18
SPEAKER_26: Glad you're back on the radio.
19:23
SPEAKER_26: I really hope you're gonna talk about the alligations against the caller.
19:33
SPEAKER_26: So as always, I'm gonna think.
19:36
SPEAKER_05: Well, you know what?
19:36
SPEAKER_05: I you know, I'm I'm I'm here to please.
19:39
SPEAKER_05: I aim to please here on this show.
19:42
SPEAKER_05: So we'll get into more of this coming up after 7 o'clock.
19:45
SPEAKER_05: Uh we're gonna dive into the uh Star Tribune article.
19:48
SPEAKER_05: And I use the Star Tribune article just because reading from the Star Tribune a story about a DFLer who is now embroiled in this type of controversy, it brings warm feelings to this talk show host's uh heart.
20:05
SPEAKER_05: By the way, prepare to just witness the double standard that we all have to live with, not just here in Minnesota, but in America.
20:12
SPEAKER_05: The media is covering the story now because there's wieners and wienering involved.
20:17
SPEAKER_05: It'll get quite a bit of attention.
20:19
SPEAKER_05: I know the Freedom Friday crew is really hoping that the story is alive and welcome Friday because they all want to weigh in on it.
20:26
SPEAKER_05: But make no mistake, this will not be handled in the same fashion if this was done by any Republican, any individual aligned with conservatism.
20:38
SPEAKER_05: And I this is a comment that I've been making for for years.
20:42
SPEAKER_05: I don't have any issue with how the media will go and handle this particular story.
20:48
SPEAKER_05: I have an example later on today.
20:50
SPEAKER_05: There's an update on the taxpayer-funded uh gender genital swapping dolls that we've been talking about the past two days.
21:00
SPEAKER_05: One of the local media outlets, I think it's Fox and I, but it might it might be Carolina.
21:04
SPEAKER_05: But they did a very straightforward story on it.
21:06
SPEAKER_05: You know, fact-checking the gender doll issue.
21:09
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
21:10
SPEAKER_05: That's fine.
21:11
SPEAKER_05: I'm fine with that.
21:12
SPEAKER_05: They don't provide any information that hasn't already been given out to everybody, mind you.
21:17
SPEAKER_05: And when it comes to the story of Cooley Her and the and the Wiener Wednesday in Wienering, they're gonna cover this very straightforward and not provide a lot of commentary.
21:27
SPEAKER_05: I'm fine with that.
21:29
SPEAKER_05: What should happen though is when it does happen to a conservative or Republican, the reporting should be the same.
21:35
SPEAKER_05: And it never is.
21:37
SPEAKER_05: It always gets it always gets more attention.
21:40
SPEAKER_05: The focus of the story shifts to getting actualities and opinions from all these different people about the controversies, wherein the initial reporting over the story of Juli Her, which might change, but the initial reporting was just straight up based on the facts this is what's going on without any added opinion to.
22:00
SPEAKER_05: It so I will sit here not having any sort of expectations that there will be any deep dives into the psyche of the St.
22:09
SPEAKER_05: Paul mayor, given the severity of these uh allegations.
22:15
SPEAKER_05: But we will talk about it further coming up a little bit uh later on um in the show.
22:19
SPEAKER_05: I want to touch upon this story just uh just really quick.
22:22
SPEAKER_05: It's a fun one, but it does relate to something that we'll be talking about uh again next hour.
22:27
SPEAKER_05: So uh first off, uh Isaac, are you familiar with uh Jimothy the raccoon?
22:35
SPEAKER_05: I am.
22:36
SPEAKER_05: Okay, all right.
22:36
SPEAKER_05: You are familiar with those that aren't, Jimothy is a raccoon who is dealing with a rare uh short spine condition.
22:47
SPEAKER_05: He's gone viral online after this video footage was released.
22:52
SPEAKER_05: It was it was so funny, too, because in a world where everybody's got a high quality and HD phone in their pocket, we still end up getting these blurry videos when it comes to circumstances like this.
23:05
SPEAKER_05: I know they're catching Jimothy on the fly, but if you've seen the video of Jimothy, the short-spined conditioned raccoon, it looks like an AI generator took that classic Bigfoot footage and just replaced it with a short-spined raccoon.
23:26
SPEAKER_05: It's off in the distance, it's a little bit blurry, walking very similarly.
23:31
SPEAKER_05: But Jimothy has c has has caught the country's imagination.
23:35
SPEAKER_05: You can now get Jimothy uh t-shirts and mugs.
23:39
SPEAKER_05: I think we're actually selling some John Justice show presented by American Experiment Jimothy gear on the website, I think.
23:46
SPEAKER_05: Maybe the if the official mascot is Shoguru, who we still have to find a he's over here behind me.
23:51
SPEAKER_05: He takes up the frame and hogs the focus of the camera if I put him in on the table.
23:57
SPEAKER_05: So I bring this up because uh local media picked up on this, Fox 9 specifically.
24:01
SPEAKER_05: Uh the story of Jimothy has brought attention to two Minnesota dogs.
24:06
SPEAKER_05: Do you have a dog, Isaac?
24:09
SPEAKER_04: I do.
24:09
SPEAKER_04: Okay, you seem like a dog, dude.
24:11
SPEAKER_04: Little black lab.
24:12
SPEAKER_04: Nice.
24:12
SPEAKER_04: Oh, I love her.
24:13
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
24:13
SPEAKER_05: What's her name?
24:14
SPEAKER_02: Harley.
24:15
SPEAKER_05: Oh, how old is Harley?
24:16
SPEAKER_05: Harley's about three.
24:17
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
24:17
SPEAKER_05: You'll have to send me a picture of Harley.
24:18
SPEAKER_05: I will.
24:19
SPEAKER_05: I want to see Harley.
24:19
SPEAKER_05: Oh, look at that.
24:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:22
SPEAKER_05: I have Artemis.
24:23
SPEAKER_05: She's on uh Artemis is on.
24:24
SPEAKER_04: No, every time you get a text, I see a little picture, and I'm like, oh.
24:27
SPEAKER_04: I know.
24:27
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
24:27
SPEAKER_05: If she was right here in front of you, she would be acting like she wants to eat your face off.
24:32
SPEAKER_05: Sweetest dog at home, but holy cow, is she ferocious if there's anybody that she doesn't know?
24:37
SPEAKER_05: So these two dogs, uh Quasi and Cooper, they share the same condition as Jimothy the raccoon.
24:44
SPEAKER_05: Despite the challenges, both dogs are thriving.
24:47
SPEAKER_05: Their owners emphasize the importance of responsible care uh for animals with this condition.
24:52
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
24:53
SPEAKER_05: So I dove into the story a little bit.
24:54
SPEAKER_05: So Quasi is a German shepherd who came to Minnesota from Kentucky 10 years ago.
24:59
SPEAKER_05: His S-shaped spine is missing vertebrae, uh, left to veterinarians puzzled.
25:04
SPEAKER_05: Cooper, an American foxhound, arrived from Virginia after Quasi's story mid headlines.
25:10
SPEAKER_05: The two dogs live about five miles apart from each other in the Twin Cities Metro, and they've actually hung out.
25:14
SPEAKER_05: They're friends.
25:15
SPEAKER_05: It's very sweet.
25:16
SPEAKER_05: Um, the hue they're humans, Terry Willard and uh Eli Keegan.
25:21
SPEAKER_05: I just, they're humans.
25:22
SPEAKER_05: That made me laugh a little bit.
25:23
SPEAKER_05: I know it's the appropriate I know it's the appropriate way to go and write that, but they're humans.
25:28
SPEAKER_05: They're humans.
25:29
SPEAKER_05: Say veterinarians now have a better idea of how to care for the dogs.
25:32
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
25:33
SPEAKER_05: They're very well versed with quasi.
25:36
SPEAKER_05: They know all of his ailments.
25:38
SPEAKER_05: They have a great team that is very used to him, said Willard.
25:41
SPEAKER_05: Keegan added, we do annual x-rays with his veterinarians just to make sure everything is, you know.
25:48
SPEAKER_05: Uh everything is, you know.
25:50
SPEAKER_05: We've got our eyes on everything.
25:52
SPEAKER_05: Hey, they're just like me.
25:53
SPEAKER_05: I have to do annual checkups on my heart.
25:55
SPEAKER_05: As a matter of fact, I have to end the show today right exactly at nine o'clock because I have my televisit with my cardiologist today after my, which is really unnecessary.
26:05
SPEAKER_05: I got the results for my echocardiogram and the notes are on there.
26:08
SPEAKER_05: Everything is fine.
26:10
SPEAKER_04: We could just bring him on as a guest.
26:12
SPEAKER_05: Oh, I should.
26:13
SPEAKER_05: Oh, I totally should.
26:15
SPEAKER_05: I'm pretty sure I can't do that legally unless I have to.
26:17
SPEAKER_05: Legally.
26:17
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:19
SPEAKER_05: Um, but uh, they're basically gonna get like, you know, 300 bucks out of me for doing this television, even though I already know what the conversation's gonna be.
26:26
SPEAKER_05: It's gonna be about four minutes.
26:28
SPEAKER_05: Everything looks good.
26:28
SPEAKER_05: Let's schedule another one for next year.
26:31
SPEAKER_05: Anyway, back to the dogs.
26:33
SPEAKER_05: Only two or three dozen short-spined dogs are known worldwide.
26:37
SPEAKER_05: Uh Fox Nine has followed Quasi and Cooper's story for over a decade.
26:41
SPEAKER_05: Both dogs are thriving.
26:42
SPEAKER_05: Quasi is now 13, and Cooper is almost 10.
26:46
SPEAKER_05: You don't realize when well, I okay, I didn't.
26:51
SPEAKER_05: I won't, I won't, I won't speak for you listening to the show.
26:54
SPEAKER_05: I didn't realize.
26:55
SPEAKER_05: You know, I didn't realize growing up with pets, um, like how short those lifespans are.
27:02
SPEAKER_05: I never really it never really came into my into my mind.
27:06
SPEAKER_05: Even when we had Bella, who we lost, you know, uh several years ago now, um, at a at a relatively early age.
27:12
SPEAKER_05: She was dealing with some with some issues, and uh we had to uh we had to say goodbye to Bella, best dog uh ever.
27:18
SPEAKER_05: Uh wherein I said we were gonna wait a while before we got another dog, and I think we got Artemis inside of like a a month or two, right?
27:25
SPEAKER_05: Right, because you just can't wait.
27:26
SPEAKER_05: But you don't realize, you know, how that and you're younger, you don't realize the short time span that you have with you know with your pets, with your dogs and and with your with your cats.
27:37
SPEAKER_05: And I'm experiencing that now with Artemis.
27:39
SPEAKER_05: I got a little a little sad last night because if we were hanging out uh watching TV, uh the new episode of uh of uh the world's uh ugliest homes is the new season has started.
27:51
SPEAKER_05: Melinda and I love watching w wiping out on that show.
27:54
SPEAKER_05: But I noticed on uh on Artemis' uh snout, she's getting a little gray.
27:59
SPEAKER_05: And I asked Melinda because I've completely forgot how old she was.
28:02
SPEAKER_05: Melinda's like, oh, she's six.
28:03
SPEAKER_05: I was like, oh no.
28:06
SPEAKER_02: I want her to be around forever.
28:08
SPEAKER_05: Anyway, back to this story.
28:10
SPEAKER_05: Quase has outlived the average German Shepherd's uh lifespan.
28:14
SPEAKER_05: He's been thriving, he runs, plays a lot, obviously a lot less, his human said.
28:19
SPEAKER_05: Uh he's an old man now.
28:20
SPEAKER_05: Uh Cooper is still playful, like Quasi.
28:22
SPEAKER_05: Uh he loves attention from people.
28:24
SPEAKER_05: Cooper has never scratched an inch, uh, an itch in his life, so I always call myself the VP of itches and scratches.
28:32
SPEAKER_05: Oh, I get it.
28:32
SPEAKER_05: That's it's because he scratches for him.
28:34
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
28:34
SPEAKER_05: So Quasi and Cooper's Facebook pages update fans about their everyday lives and help other short-spined dogs find homes.
28:41
SPEAKER_05: And this is the point.
28:41
SPEAKER_05: I bring all this up.
28:42
SPEAKER_05: One, because of Jimothy and how Jimothy has been this viral, uh, this viral sensation.
28:49
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
28:49
SPEAKER_05: But the owners want to make sure that Jimothy's popularity and their dog's success do not encourage people to breed animals for this rare condition.
28:58
SPEAKER_05: We are seeing the other side of it where people are like, oh, I want a short spine.
29:03
SPEAKER_05: That's so cool.
29:05
SPEAKER_05: So I kind of worry that me and Cooper's mom both um both have our people going to start trying to breed for short-spined dogs.
29:14
SPEAKER_05: That would be very unfortunate.
29:16
SPEAKER_05: Quasi is great, Cooper is great, Jimothy is great, but they also come with many health issues.
29:21
SPEAKER_05: We want to support the animals that are born with this condition, but we do not want to recreate it in uh in any way.
29:27
SPEAKER_05: So I'm this is a bit of a stretch here.
29:28
SPEAKER_05: I I fully admit that.
29:30
SPEAKER_05: But this is where my mind went when I was talking about this um this story.
29:36
SPEAKER_05: You know, we have an update later, as I mentioned, on the ridiculous taxpayer-funded uh gender genital swapping paper dolls that Govern uh that Governor Dimwalls signed off on in terms of the funding to go uh for this.
29:51
SPEAKER_05: And we'll do the fact check that I mentioned earlier that local media did on this.
29:56
SPEAKER_05: But you know, you you read a story like this, and there will be these owner the owners of these two unique dogs are absolutely correct.
30:06
SPEAKER_05: There will be individuals out there saying, I want a genetically mutated dog.
30:13
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
30:13
SPEAKER_05: It's tragic and it's uh and it's unfortunate.
30:16
SPEAKER_05: You know, but I wonder how many of those individuals have thought about the issue relating to what we're doing to young people as well.
30:26
SPEAKER_05: You know, the left's agenda.
30:29
SPEAKER_05: Like, for example, if you were to say, ask Dim Walls about this story, and then you know, and and and get his get his take on it.
30:38
SPEAKER_05: I would love to hear his take and then subsequently bring up the fact that here you have the left's agenda, right, supporting surgical, chemical, bodily changes to underage children, and how much mass support that ends up receiving from those politicians on on the left.
31:02
SPEAKER_05: You know, people would freak out if you were starting to breed animals that had this type of condition just to have them as pets because it was cool.
31:12
SPEAKER_05: But how many of those people align with the left's agenda regarding what's been happening to uh to our to our children?
31:23
SPEAKER_05: And again, I again I know I I know it's a bit of a stretch from this, but that's where my that's where my head went because there is such a double standard.
31:29
SPEAKER_05: Maybe that's going to be the theme of today's show.
31:31
SPEAKER_05: There'll be a double double standard regarding the hoole her uh controversy, and we'll see how that shakes out and talk about it more at uh nine o'clock this morning.
31:40
SPEAKER_05: And there absolutely is a double standard relating to what's been happening to our young people across the country and how the left has continually and still pushes to exploit our most vulnerable.
31:52
SPEAKER_05: Because you know what happens to a child who ends up going through those transitions that are supported by Democrats, by those radical whack jobs on the left.
32:03
SPEAKER_05: They're gonna deal with negative health consequences for the rest of their lives, many of which we're not even aware of yet.
32:13
SPEAKER_05: People do not realize how fragile our bodies actually are.
32:18
SPEAKER_05: What a blessing that these dogs owners dealing with this condition have been able to live a long and thriving life.
32:25
SPEAKER_05: But it was also a naturally occurring condition.
32:29
SPEAKER_05: What we're allowing to take place when it comes to our most vulnerable, it's criminal.
32:36
SPEAKER_05: And I say this from a position where I know what I'm talking about because I know how fragile our bodies are.
32:45
SPEAKER_05: Right in his image, but also because of sin in the world, right?
32:50
SPEAKER_05: We all sin and fall short of the glory of God.
32:53
SPEAKER_05: Unfortunately, we're flawed.
32:54
SPEAKER_05: Our bodies are flawed.
32:56
SPEAKER_05: They're in this delicate balance that as you get older, you have to maintain a certain lifestyle to remain healthy.
33:03
SPEAKER_05: It's hard enough if you're just taking care of yourself as an average human being to keep your body healthy.
33:10
SPEAKER_05: It's something wholly different when you're actually going and intentionally making changes, whether you're an adult and certainly with what's been happening to our children across the country.
33:20
SPEAKER_05: I was gonna hold off on this clip, but it's relevant to what I'm talking about uh right now, and we do have some uh blasts that have uh rolled in, 612-584-4565.
33:31
SPEAKER_05: But there is a Florida Democrat governor candidate, David Jolly, and he's calling laws that are banning sex change surgery for minors.
33:41
SPEAKER_05: Listen, I'll just I'll play the clip.
33:43
SPEAKER_05: Listen to what he has to say.
33:44
SPEAKER_05: Because there are laws being put forward, appropriate laws, that should be passed, banning the ability of inflicting this type of harm upon our children.
33:54
SPEAKER_05: And listen to what this lunatic Democrat candidate in Florida has to say about those laws.
34:01
SPEAKER_12: And as a family, we embraced it.
34:04
SPEAKER_12: We saw the right pathways, the medical pathways, the gender-affirming care for this grandchild.
34:10
SPEAKER_12: And this was when Tallahassee was wrestling with this really, you know, draconian legislation during a special election called about or a special session called about insurance, I think, led them to this other issue.
34:23
SPEAKER_12: Um, and he said, Look, if if this legislation passes, the doctor will be arrested for continuing to care for my grandchild.
34:30
SPEAKER_12: The parents could lose their child, their child could be removed from their home.
34:34
SPEAKER_05: He calls him draconian.
34:37
SPEAKER_05: What kind of twisted mind?
34:42
SPEAKER_05: What kind of morally corrupt individual would think of a law that would prevent underage children from being harmed through dangerous gender reassignment health care?
34:58
SPEAKER_05: Draconian.
35:00
SPEAKER_05: Dude, it's the other way.
35:03
SPEAKER_05: Draconian is doing these types of dangerous experiments on our most vulnerable in the country.
35:12
SPEAKER_05: I mean, you want to talk about what's indicative of the Democrat Party right now.
35:17
SPEAKER_05: They are wholly corrupt and lost as a party right now.
35:22
SPEAKER_05: We're going to talk a little Lamy Klobishar uh after my conversation with Lieutenant Governor candidate uh Ryan Wilson in the eight o'clock hour.
35:30
SPEAKER_05: But I did a radio interview, uh, interview yesterday with the flag up north.
35:34
SPEAKER_05: And uh we were getting into this, to this, to this conversation of where the Democrat Party currently is, how radical they've become.
35:43
SPEAKER_05: And uh the host of the show was pointing out that it's in in their mind, and they're right, they find it interesting that uh that Lamie Klobuchar is suddenly now beginning to move away from that sort of senator of small things moderate stance, and some of her commentary as of late has become more extreme.
36:04
SPEAKER_05: And I'm just wondering how much the Klobuchar campaign camp and her personally is wrestling with this idea that she's always cast herself as being this sort of middle ground moderate.
36:15
SPEAKER_05: She's not, but that's how she's presented herself.
36:18
SPEAKER_05: And yet, even she, in the wake of this governor's race, and with the Democrat socialists taking over the radical hardcore leftists that have co-opted and taken over the party, even she can't escape the fact that you know what, she needs their support too, and she's gonna need to start leaning that direction as well.
36:39
SPEAKER_05: We're gonna continue with this uh commentary coming up again next hour uh here on the show.
36:44
SPEAKER_05: Let's go back uh and uh hear from you.
36:46
SPEAKER_05: Leave a blast at 612-584-4565.
36:49
SPEAKER_05: And remember, you can email me to John.justice at American Experiment.org.org.
36:57
SPEAKER_06: Good morning, John.
36:58
SPEAKER_06: Uh Holly and Blaine.
37:01
SPEAKER_06: Did you start your show at 5 a.m.
37:03
SPEAKER_06: this morning?
37:03
SPEAKER_06: I got up at uh about 5 30 and turned on the mixer off at least after six.
37:09
SPEAKER_06: And it's a show has been running for an hour already.
37:12
SPEAKER_06: Just uh kind of wanted to know what I missed.
37:14
SPEAKER_06: Thanks.
37:14
SPEAKER_06: Have a good day.
37:15
SPEAKER_06: Right.
37:16
SPEAKER_05: So because um because of the way that we are uh we're doing the show, we have some really cool opportunities to do some unique things uh when um when uh producing the show.
37:29
SPEAKER_05: And what we decided to do was to replay.
37:33
SPEAKER_05: I get in super early to get my notes done.
37:36
SPEAKER_05: And if you happen to be watching on the live stream before 6 a.m., uh I actually turned the camera on for a bit while I was working for those that were interested in seeing me do notes.
37:44
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
37:45
SPEAKER_05: Wanted to change it up.
37:46
SPEAKER_05: It was there, I clicked off the little image.
37:47
SPEAKER_05: Uh but we're doing a replay of the previous day's show in the run-up to today's show.
37:52
SPEAKER_05: Uh so if you, you know, get up early, if you get up earlier than six, and maybe you missed a portion of Tuesday's show, um, you should be able to every morning, you know, provided that I get here on time and get it up and running, you should be able to hear a replay of the show.
38:06
SPEAKER_05: So that's why it was running uh an hour before the uh the show had started.
38:10
SPEAKER_05: And so this is something that uh came to mind after we were uh sort of finished getting all of our equipment and the show all ready to go.
38:17
SPEAKER_05: And I was like, you know what, we've got some really we've got some really good opportunities to do some cool and unique things on the show.
38:24
SPEAKER_05: Let's take advantage of it.
38:25
SPEAKER_05: So a replay of the previous day's show before the start of the show at six o'clock is what uh we have uh planned uh moving forward here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiments.
38:35
SPEAKER_30: I'm gonna remain anonymous, but I also now understand why St.
38:41
SPEAKER_30: Paul is drowning in debt.
38:44
SPEAKER_30: May or her needs to set her sites a little higher.
38:48
SPEAKER_30: Yeah.
38:49
SPEAKER_30: Later Wednesday, hey, it's air time.
38:52
SPEAKER_30: Let's talk pronoun pups.
38:56
SPEAKER_05: You know, I'm not a hundred percent sure, Isaac, where she was going there.
38:59
SPEAKER_05: And to be quite honest with you, I I don't really want to know.
39:02
SPEAKER_08: I don't know.
39:02
SPEAKER_05: I think there were pronto pups involved.
39:04
SPEAKER_05: Is that what I is that is that?
39:06
SPEAKER_05: I'm not quite sure.
39:06
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I I think uh I think that's one of those uh blasts that's uh better left uh un unsolved at this point in time.
39:13
SPEAKER_05: But um, okay, she wanted to remain anonymous so I can see her name.
39:16
SPEAKER_05: I'll leave her.
39:17
SPEAKER_05: I will do you a favor and I will leave you anonymous.
39:20
SPEAKER_31: I think we had already done all of the crazy lefties will be protesting in in St.
39:25
SPEAKER_31: Paul this weekend with their wiener costumes on to support Mayor her.
39:30
SPEAKER_31: I just can see it now.
39:32
SPEAKER_05: Well, and that's what's and and I I don't want to get too far ahead of the commentary that I'll provide after 7 o'clock uh the this morning.
39:40
SPEAKER_05: But if you're on the left, and let's just say for the sake of argument that Wiener Wednesdays and the wienering texts and all the claims by the St.
39:49
SPEAKER_05: Paul police chief that we talked about at the start of the show with this harassment claim, let's just say for the sake of argument that it's all completely and and totally accurate and she did all these things.
40:00
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
40:00
SPEAKER_05: And again, it's just we don't know yet, it's an investigation, the whole thing will play out.
40:04
SPEAKER_05: But if it is, does anybody on the left actually care?
40:07
SPEAKER_05: I mean, you should conduct of individuals in positions of power it it it should be pretty straightforward.
40:16
SPEAKER_05: Do the right thing, don't do stupid stuff.
40:18
SPEAKER_05: We've talked about that on the show, even when it comes to Republicans.
40:21
SPEAKER_05: I I just the way the Democrat Party is conducting itself right now, I don't think most people are care.
40:29
SPEAKER_05: They'll say it's female empowerment that she sent the wienering texts.
40:34
SPEAKER_05: And who are we to go and criticize a woman who is simply expressing her sexuality through emojis?
40:41
SPEAKER_05: Maybe I would make a good leftist commentator.
40:45
SPEAKER_05: I'm not gonna try that out, by the way.
40:48
SPEAKER_32: The city attorney is appointed by the mayor and worked basically for the mayor.
40:55
SPEAKER_32: So to investigate an issue between the mayor and the chief, they're going to have to hire an independent law firm or a business to do the investigation.
41:06
SPEAKER_32: So I think that's what we're going to hear very soon.
41:09
SPEAKER_32: Oh, and by the way, John, I'm glad you're half on the air.
41:12
SPEAKER_32: It is such a pleasure to see you again.
41:15
SPEAKER_32: Thank you.
41:16
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, maybe they need to get uh lawyer extraordinaire uh Jeff O'Brien uh on the case.
41:23
SPEAKER_05: Need to get him on the show very soon uh as well.
41:28
SPEAKER_18: John, Mike from Minnesota 100%.
41:32
SPEAKER_18: If these allegations were made against someone in the Republican Party, every talking head or wannabe from the Democrats would be screaming for a resignation before the investigation even started.
41:45
SPEAKER_18: Yeah.
41:46
SPEAKER_18: It's a ridiculous double standard.
41:48
SPEAKER_05: Well, and listen, that raises the question of whether or not Republicans should go and do the same thing.
41:52
SPEAKER_05: I I I I don't believe so.
41:54
SPEAKER_05: Don't misunderstand.
41:55
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
41:56
SPEAKER_05: Politics, modern day politics is a very different uh game than what it's been in the past.
42:02
SPEAKER_05: You've gotta, you've gotta take your opportunities and run with them.
42:06
SPEAKER_05: But I I also firmly believe in keeping a level of integrity.
42:10
SPEAKER_05: These are just allegations, regardless of who's involved.
42:13
SPEAKER_05: I would want the same type of leniency if this were a Republican doing this as well.
42:19
SPEAKER_05: But you're right.
42:20
SPEAKER_05: If this were a Republican doing this, the Democrats would be seizing on the moment, running with it and calling for her to resign.
42:26
SPEAKER_05: And I don't I wouldn't begrudge anybody on the right who was doing the same thing.
42:30
SPEAKER_05: I wouldn't do that personally because, again, I believe in letting the process go and uh and play out fully.
42:37
SPEAKER_05: Let's grab uh one more blast from 612-584-4565.
42:41
SPEAKER_05: Then I want to turn our attention over to the fact that that uh Anthony Fauci is set to testify uh today, and I have some commentary on that here on the John Justice show.
42:50
SPEAKER_29: Hey, good morning, John.
42:51
SPEAKER_29: Happy Wednesday or Winter Day or whatever we're calling it.
42:54
SPEAKER_29: So isn't Kahooli her the same one who claims her family is not a citizen, she's not a citizen.
43:02
SPEAKER_29: So now America's chiefs are being harassed by non-citizen sexual crazy crazy every day.
43:11
SPEAKER_05: There's some, there is some, and I have to I have to dig it up, but I believe there's some quote from Kuhliher, and I could be getting this wrong, where she claimed that she was demisexual, and because she was demisexual, she actually doesn't get her hooky-ton uh hookie-taw on very very often.
43:29
SPEAKER_05: That's my more uh Isaac, that's my cleaner way of talking about sex.
43:32
SPEAKER_05: I just want a hookie-ta.
43:33
SPEAKER_05: That works.
43:34
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
43:35
SPEAKER_05: Of course, now I can just, you know, be more straightforward about it.
43:38
SPEAKER_05: So we will uh get into further details of that controversy.
43:40
SPEAKER_05: Thank you all uh who have left uh the blast so far, six one two five eight four four five six five.
43:46
SPEAKER_05: And again, the email, john dot justice at american experiment.org.
43:50
SPEAKER_05: All right, let's go, let's go here.
43:52
SPEAKER_05: I mean this story's been sitting in the stack um from Monday and yesterday.
43:56
SPEAKER_05: Didn't get a chance to uh to dive into it.
43:58
SPEAKER_05: So uh the hearing.
44:00
SPEAKER_05: Will take place today.
44:01
SPEAKER_05: So I suppose this is going to be even more relevant.
44:03
SPEAKER_05: Dr.
44:03
SPEAKER_05: Anthony Fauci set to testify before a Senate committee where he will be questioned by Senator Rand Paul about his diaries.
44:13
SPEAKER_05: So these new Fauci diaries reveal the celebrity obsession that Anthony Fauci had at the height of the COVID crisis.
44:22
SPEAKER_05: Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci's diaries, claiming that they show Fauci's private and public statements contradict each other.
44:32
SPEAKER_05: Critics have accused Fauci of being obsessed with fame and contradicting himself during the COVID-19 pandemic.
44:39
SPEAKER_05: And once again, thank you to our AI overlords for providing us with that summary.
44:44
SPEAKER_05: Daily Wire has coverage on the story regarding the diaries.
44:49
SPEAKER_05: So Fauci, of course, was a former chief medical advisor to the president, appeared consumed with media attention and his growing public image as the coronavirus pandemic claimed the lives of individuals and overwhelmed hospitals around the globe.
45:06
SPEAKER_05: We all saw this firsthand.
45:09
SPEAKER_05: You could see the arrogance on his face.
45:14
SPEAKER_05: You could hear the celebrity in his tone.
45:17
SPEAKER_05: The dude thought that he was he thought he was a rock star.
45:23
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I didn't need I certainly didn't need the you know these diaries to go and and prove that point to me.
45:34
SPEAKER_05: I think again, we all we all saw it with our with our own eyes.
45:38
SPEAKER_05: Needless to say, this actually goes and exposes what we had all already kind of known.
45:43
SPEAKER_05: The document shedding light on the COVID uh COVID advisor's obsession with his public profile at the height of the years-long pandemic inside the near-daily journal entries chronicled.
45:55
SPEAKER_05: Fauci's nonstop media appearances on local and national outlets reaching a level of publicity that Fauci himself couldn't help but blush at.
46:08
SPEAKER_05: The Daily Wire published excerpts from Fauci's journal without any edits or spelling corrections.
46:13
SPEAKER_05: So here's one.
46:14
SPEAKER_05: Press is still hot and heavy about me, Fauci wrote on April 7th, 2020.
46:18
SPEAKER_05: Multiple stories per day, directly or indirectly involving me.
46:23
SPEAKER_05: Oh, the little guy was so happy.
46:27
SPEAKER_05: Of course, weeks later, infection spread around the world.
46:30
SPEAKER_05: 10,000 had died from the virus when Fauci penned the following journal entry on May 21st, 2020.
46:38
SPEAKER_05: Big front-page article about me appeared in the Washington Post.
46:42
SPEAKER_05: Very flattering.
46:43
SPEAKER_05: The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable.
46:49
SPEAKER_05: It is not a hyperbole to say that today I'm the most famous and talked-about person in the country and one of the most recognized people in the world.
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unknown: Wow.
47:04
SPEAKER_05: Isn't it so typical?
47:06
SPEAKER_05: Isn't it so typical of an individual who essentially ended up dictating a huge portion of the way that the country and the world responded to COVID?
47:19
SPEAKER_05: Much of it flat out wrong.
47:22
SPEAKER_05: Flat out wrong.
47:24
SPEAKER_05: I've talked about it many times.
47:27
SPEAKER_05: I was wrong.
47:29
SPEAKER_05: When the COVID-19 pandemic started, like a lot of people were.
47:45
SPEAKER_05: Totally wrong.
47:46
SPEAKER_05: All we did was slow the inevitable.
47:49
SPEAKER_05: That's all that happened.
47:51
SPEAKER_05: More people probably died.
47:53
SPEAKER_05: We shouldn't have been putting people on ventilators.
47:55
SPEAKER_05: Governor Dim Walls, Cuomo in New York.
47:59
SPEAKER_05: They're responsible for thousands of deaths combined by shoving individuals into nursing homes where we now know the virus was just spreading around, keeping everybody in their homes when we should have been outside getting fresh air.
48:16
SPEAKER_05: The idea that this little tiny cloth, piece of cloth, can stop you from catching the virus, the idea that the vaccine was actually a vaccine and it wasn't.
48:27
SPEAKER_05: And what is this little pathetic man more concerned about?
48:31
SPEAKER_05: His new rise to fame and celebrity status.
48:36
SPEAKER_05: Countless profiles on me in multiple media.
48:38
SPEAKER_05: I cannot even read all the things that are written about me since I am so busy, seriously.
48:44
SPEAKER_05: POTUS seems to be enamored of me, even though I am taking the spotlight away from him.
48:49
SPEAKER_05: We are developing a very unique and interesting relationship.
48:52
SPEAKER_05: He added, I've seen this happen.
48:56
SPEAKER_05: People often, through no fault of their own, they take they they end up with this with a false view of individuals who are media personalities or politicians.
49:12
SPEAKER_05: It's almost like a subconscious, a subconscious thing, where we kind of we kind of place them on another on another level.
49:18
SPEAKER_05: Now there's some legitimacy to that.
49:20
SPEAKER_05: So in Fauci's case, here's an individual who's supposed to be knowledgeable about this horrible situation that we are all now having to be faced with in the form of a global pandemic that we've never experienced before in our lives.
49:36
SPEAKER_05: So we're looking for people that we can go and trust to give us the proper information to deal with this.
49:46
SPEAKER_05: But often with that desire for leadership, we overlook the fact that these are still incredibly flawed, sinful human beings.
50:01
SPEAKER_05: And this is certainly the case when it comes to Fauci.
50:04
SPEAKER_05: You know, we had our own little we had our own version of this here in Minnesota.
50:07
SPEAKER_05: Michael Alsterholm, for those that remember that fool who had books to sell, and as I've mentioned so many times, selling books is hard.
50:16
SPEAKER_05: But he was very much enamored with himself and his own celebrity.
50:20
SPEAKER_05: At least that's the perception that I that I took from the time when he was speaking to local media about these issues.
50:28
SPEAKER_05: It seemed in the beginning, much like Fauci, Osterholm was genuinely concerned and knowledgeable about these types of pandemics, you know, being uh being an expert, doing nothing with my fingers in the field.
50:41
SPEAKER_05: But it was clear that in a very short period of time, he was way more interested in just getting on as many uh, you know, news shows, local and national, that he possibly could because he liked the attention.
50:54
SPEAKER_05: I've seen this happen to people that I've had on the show.
50:56
SPEAKER_05: Thankfully, not here in Minnesota, but in other places where I've worked, where they get just a little teeny tiny bit of celebrity and it goes straight to their heads.
51:05
SPEAKER_05: Because again, we're all flawed people and often can't go and handle these types of things.
51:11
SPEAKER_05: Now, with regard to Fauci and his testimony uh later on uh today, RFK Jr.
51:17
SPEAKER_05: was on Fox News yesterday.
51:19
SPEAKER_05: A lot of commentary, right?
51:20
SPEAKER_05: And a lot of expectation when it comes to this hearing taking place, and certainly because of these diaries that released that were released.
51:27
SPEAKER_05: But uh RFK Jr.
51:30
SPEAKER_05: was on Fox News talking about Anthony Fauci.
51:33
SPEAKER_05: Here's a little bit of what he had to say.
51:35
SPEAKER_49: He lied about mass, he lied about social distancing, he lied about the transmission, he lied about natural immunity, he lied about the capacity, as you just said, of the vaccine to prevent infection, prevent it.
51:49
SPEAKER_49: He got uh vaccinated a very, very public uh press conference in January of 2020.
51:58
SPEAKER_49: And then five months later, he had the first time that we knew this from the diary, he had a pulmonary infarction, which is one of the adverse events that NIA, CDs, and FDAs that are expected from the vaccine.
52:14
SPEAKER_49: He never told anybody he got treated for it privately by the best doctors in America at the same time.
52:21
SPEAKER_49: He was telling everybody that that was not an adverse event.
52:24
SPEAKER_48: Is there anything else we're missing from these diaries that has not been released that you can share with us in the world?
52:31
SPEAKER_49: I mean, I've just seen a lot of this in my book, um and but based upon other documents, but it there's something very dramatic, even for me, of seeing him write it in his own in his own journal, confessing to you know, being wrong to lying about all this.
52:52
SPEAKER_48: Loving his own press.
52:53
SPEAKER_48: I mean, going on and on.
52:55
SPEAKER_48: Well, I'm the most famous person in the world, internationally and nationally.
52:59
SPEAKER_48: I can't even go out to a restaurant because people want to take pictures of me.
53:02
SPEAKER_05: Of course, that was uh Laura Ingram, and they're right.
53:06
SPEAKER_05: And and it's funny because it drives point it drives home the point, and in the middle of hearing that exchange between RFK Jr.
53:13
SPEAKER_05: and Laura, it kind of even hit harder for me.
53:18
SPEAKER_05: I mean, we were in the middle of a worldwide pandemic.
53:20
SPEAKER_05: People were dying.
53:22
SPEAKER_05: This was a guy who was looked at as an authority.
53:25
SPEAKER_05: Uh even if I don't necessarily have a problem that he was obsessed with his own celebrity, but dude, read the room already.
53:35
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I guess the expectation was that these diaries were confidential.
53:40
SPEAKER_05: I don't know the exact details of how they got a handle on them.
53:43
SPEAKER_05: Let's get back to a little bit more of what was said in these.
53:46
SPEAKER_05: Uh, Fauci also recounted how the Secret Service agents routinely waved him through the White House gates without uh asking to see his badge, often striking up casual conversations.
53:56
SPEAKER_05: Everyone is worried about my health and welfare, probably because it's all over the place that I'm almost 80 years old.
54:01
SPEAKER_05: About a month later, Fauci admitted to telling his counterpart, Dr.
54:05
SPEAKER_05: Deborah Burks, that the administration's infamous uh contact tracing and isolation strategy to combat the virus was a blanking disaster and an abject failure.
54:19
SPEAKER_05: The infatuation with television hits did not stop as the virus abated in parts of the country, and Red State governors started reopening measures.
54:29
SPEAKER_05: In a June 29th meeting with then vice president Mike Pence, Fauci pleaded to get back on the big screens.
54:37
SPEAKER_05: I told him that I'm being blocked from TV.
54:39
SPEAKER_05: I need to get on TV to give a risk reduction message and that I would avoid being pitted against him or the POTUS merely by not playing that game, he wrote.
54:48
SPEAKER_05: He did promise that he would get me out there on the TVs since he really liked my message.
54:54
SPEAKER_05: First time anyone ever spoke of that way to the VP.
54:58
SPEAKER_05: He truly likes me a lot, and vice versa.
55:02
SPEAKER_05: Now we have to get the POTUS press people to agree.
55:06
SPEAKER_05: Interesting intrigue in the White House.
55:08
SPEAKER_05: POTUS people versus VP people, he added, suggesting the internal divisions at the time over the public relations strategy.
55:15
SPEAKER_05: It raises the question in my mind of how much did Fauci we'll never know the answer to this, but how much did Fauci skew his commentary in the wake of his celebrity status?
55:35
SPEAKER_05: Right, the legend in his own mind that he had created.
55:39
SPEAKER_05: I'll give a real world example and a personal example.
55:42
SPEAKER_05: I've done a lot of uh hits on Laura Ingram.
55:45
SPEAKER_05: According to some foes of the show on uh X, I'm a Laura Shill.
55:52
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
55:53
SPEAKER_05: They ask me to go on, I go on.
55:56
SPEAKER_04: You shill.
55:57
SPEAKER_04: Nobody's paying me anything, right?
56:00
SPEAKER_04: You go on when they ask you to.
56:01
SPEAKER_05: Well, I know I've seen I've still I've they've shared with me, Isaac, those text exchanges that I haven't seen where you've called me a shill, so don't you but apparently I'm a Laura Shill.
56:12
SPEAKER_04: Wait until our diaries get leaked.
56:14
SPEAKER_05: Right?
56:15
SPEAKER_05: Um The point I want to make though is that when you go on those shows, you want to have something good to say.
56:22
SPEAKER_05: Of course.
56:23
SPEAKER_05: Right?
56:24
SPEAKER_05: You you you want you want your commentary to be worthy of getting a national exposure.
56:32
SPEAKER_05: You want to be able to present something that maybe people haven't heard before.
56:37
SPEAKER_05: That's what I try to do.
56:39
SPEAKER_05: If I'm gonna have the opportunity to speak to a national audience, you know, I want to make the most of it.
56:43
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna be genuine, I'm gonna be authentic.
56:45
SPEAKER_05: Sometimes I'm gonna be super stupid as I make my commentary, but I want it to be interesting.
56:53
SPEAKER_05: But we're talking about a wholly different situation with a global pandemic that is costing individuals their lives on a daily basis.
57:00
SPEAKER_05: And one can't one cannot help but wonder when it comes to Anthony Fauci, how much of his commentary wasn't relevant relating to the severity of the virus that he gave to the press is simply because he was so infatuated with his own quasi-celebrity status.
57:22
SPEAKER_24: So Anthony Fauci, he got a shot and then he didn't take anymore.
57:27
SPEAKER_24: But he still pushed the shot to everybody else.
57:30
SPEAKER_24: And it's hard as the Rand Paul.
57:34
SPEAKER_24: If everybody called the Republicans would uh we have the time and go to Rand Paul, we can get through a lot more.
57:40
SPEAKER_24: And it's hard to compensate, Paul.
57:42
SPEAKER_24: So far, I'm not all tonight to him to tell me from the office.
57:46
SPEAKER_24: That's where they'll get the room that we want for no prosecution.
57:51
SPEAKER_05: Um Rich, it's great to hear from you.
57:54
SPEAKER_05: You're also providing me an opportunity.
57:57
SPEAKER_05: When you leave a blast, let's just stick to the topic.
58:01
SPEAKER_05: Freedom Friday, you can cover all the bases.
58:03
SPEAKER_05: I do appreciate that Richard was making sure that he was commenting on all the stories.
58:07
SPEAKER_05: Although I didn't hear an opinion, Rich, about Jimothy.
58:12
SPEAKER_05: I suppose that's on me.
58:13
SPEAKER_05: Of all the stories that I've covered so far, Jimothy is probably the least uh interesting one.
58:19
SPEAKER_05: But thank you for the uh for the blast.
58:21
SPEAKER_05: Uh greatly appreciate it.
58:22
SPEAKER_05: Uh let's go back uh to the uh blaster line, 612-584-4565, and we'll hear from uh friend of the show, Jeff.
58:31
SPEAKER_22: Yeah.
58:48
SPEAKER_22: Like I'll look at two pretty hard.
58:57
SPEAKER_22: What do you mean if you have trillions of dollars and millions of life?
59:04
SPEAKER_22: And then travel planet is following for that old man.
59:09
SPEAKER_05: Thank you so much uh for the comment uh from the uh blaster line again, 612-584-4565.
59:17
SPEAKER_05: Uh in a related story, specifically regarding COVID.
59:23
SPEAKER_05: U.S.
59:23
SPEAKER_05: Customs and Border Protection, and uh this broke earlier in the week, but I wanted to make sure I gave it some attention.
59:29
SPEAKER_05: Uh U.S.
59:30
SPEAKER_05: Customs and Border Protection officers found vials of porcine um porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
59:41
SPEAKER_05: I don't think this has any relation to what had happened to people eating the lettuce at Taco Bell.
59:46
SPEAKER_05: That was all over social media for a hot minute last week, although hot is probably not the word that I should use attached to a story of people having to spend a lot of time in the bathroom after eating Taco Bell lettuce.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_05: But these vials of porcene epidemic diarrhea virus, a highly dangerous coronavirus, on on a courier at a Detroit metropolitan airport in 2018.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_05: The courier claimed the vials were intended for uh Fang Lee, a researcher at the University of Minnesota who has connections to the Chinese military.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_05: Oh somebody called Dim Walls.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_05: Big fan of China.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_05: This incident raises concerns about the potential risks to U.S.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_05: uh national security posed by research collaborations between American and uh Chinese uh scientists.
1:00:41
unknown: Oh man.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_05: You know, it brings up the lonely highway theory with this one, because this goes back to 2018, obviously, it's just not getting exposure.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_05: Uh, for those that are unfamiliar with a lonely highway theory, the idea is that if you're speeding on a on a on a highway and you get pulled over by law enforcement because they happen to be out there, and you say, officer, officer, this is the first time I've that I've ever sped on this road, right?
1:01:03
SPEAKER_05: The truth of the matter is, no, it's not.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_05: And you've been driving on this highway a bunch, usually as there's no cops around, right?
1:01:09
SPEAKER_05: You've been speeding all the time, you just now got caught.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_05: That's the lonely highway theory.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_05: So the lonely highway theory applies to this.
1:01:15
SPEAKER_05: Uh, how many vials were not found?
1:01:18
SPEAKER_05: Ended up in the hands of individuals with connections to the Chinese uh military.
1:01:23
SPEAKER_05: Again, somebody should probably go and call uh Dim Walls.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_05: All right, coming up.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_05: St.
1:01:31
SPEAKER_05: Paul Mayor, her, investigated for sexual harassment allegations involving the police chief.
1:01:38
SPEAKER_05: The city hired an outside law firm for the probe after Chief Axel Henry filed a formal complaint alleging inappropriate conduct toward city employees.
1:01:48
SPEAKER_05: We have protest plans uh for the uh attempts to close the homeless encampments, fact checks on the gender dolls program, and a fascinating piece that I'm really uh it's it's really important in my opinion, that I'm I'm really looking forward to sharing with you of an individual who has firsthand experience in sexual exploitation of prostitutes, right, young people pushing back on the Minneapolis bathhouse ordinance.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_05: Uh, it is a fantastic uh editorial that, again, I think it's really important that people hear, I'll share it with you, uh, coming up in the next hour here on the John Justice Show presented by American Experiment.
1:02:32
SPEAKER_05: We'll take a brief uh intermission.
1:02:33
SPEAKER_05: We'll hear from Center of the American Experiment and commentary that you uh might have missed as of late from the American Experiment podcast, including American Experiment's uh Matt Dean discussing with Catherine Johnson one of his most recent uh pieces.
1:02:50
SPEAKER_05: So take a listen to what you might have missed in terms of the content provided here at Center of the American Experiment, and we're back in just a minute here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
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SPEAKER_41: I looked it up, and the percentage of children in poverty in Minnesota is about 10%, which is lower than the national average.
1:03:08
SPEAKER_41: So how come somewhere around a third, 33% say of children in Minnesota are on Medicaid if they aren't poor?
1:03:15
SPEAKER_23: Sure.
1:03:15
SPEAKER_23: My kids are grown now, but I had three kids that I raised, and for us, we could make over$100,000 a year, and still our kids would be on Medicaid, if you can imagine that.
1:03:29
SPEAKER_23: That's middle class.
1:03:30
SPEAKER_23: That's crazy.
1:03:31
SPEAKER_23: And uh, you know, we also as a state, I think we should really measure ourselves by how few people have to rely on the government for healthcare, not how many.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_23: But if you ask uh, you know, Governor Walls, he'll say the more people we feed, the better, the more people on government programs, the better.
1:03:49
SPEAKER_23: And that's really how he measures the state, and we really see that in the numbers in Medicaid, which have just exploded.
1:03:57
SPEAKER_37: Think about it.
1:03:58
SPEAKER_37: Now that school's back in session, how are Minnesota students doing?
1:04:01
SPEAKER_37: Not very well.
1:04:03
SPEAKER_37: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in 10 years.
1:04:08
SPEAKER_37: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota students can either read or do math at grade level.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_37: Think about it.
1:04:15
SPEAKER_37: We used to brag about our schools.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_37: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
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SPEAKER_23: We're doing a really big deep deep dive on Medicaid right now at the center.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_23: We're looking at just how the heck this has gotten so out of control in Minnesota.
1:04:37
SPEAKER_23: And just like since 2023, okay, we spent$18 billion on Medicaid in the state.
1:04:44
SPEAKER_23: Okay.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_23: Now we are spending$27 billion in this year.
1:04:50
SPEAKER_23: Okay, and we are spending that on fewer people on Medicaid.
1:04:55
SPEAKER_23: So there was 1.4 million people on Medicaid in 2023.
1:05:01
SPEAKER_23: Now there is 1.2.
1:05:03
SPEAKER_23: So you have to ask yourself, how in the heck can we be spending that much more money on Medicaid?
1:05:09
SPEAKER_23: And we're really looking into that because we think a lot of that money is going to people who are dead, people who live in other states, people who are on more than one program.
1:05:20
SPEAKER_23: And you are not surprised because you've seen that on so many different programs in the state of Minnesota, but Medicaid is by far the biggest enchilada when it comes to that.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_37: Think about it.
1:05:31
SPEAKER_37: Now that school's out for the summer, how are Minnesota students doing?
1:05:35
SPEAKER_37: Not very well.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_37: Minnesota ACT scores fell again last year and are the lowest they've been in 10 years.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_37: In fact, fewer than half of Minnesota's students can either read or do math at grade level.
1:05:47
SPEAKER_37: Think about it.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_37: We used to brag about our schools.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_37: Now we're losing to states like Mississippi.
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SPEAKER_20: Hey John, this is Carl from the Fifth Floor.
1:06:28
SPEAKER_20: Glad to hear your voice on the radio, so to speak.
1:06:31
SPEAKER_20: Real quick question is it Mix LR or is it Mixler?
1:06:35
SPEAKER_20: Because you kind of got RGR and razors shoot up last time.
1:06:39
SPEAKER_20: Anyway, just having fun.
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SPEAKER_20: Glad to hear you're uh on the radio, so to speak.
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SPEAKER_20: Okay, Froffy.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh, Carl, that's Mr.
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SPEAKER_05: Zur to you.
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SPEAKER_05: Just so we're clear, it's Mr.
1:06:53
SPEAKER_05: Zur.
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SPEAKER_05: Almost the name of my car.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_05: Welcome into uh hour two of the John Justice Show, presented by American uh Experiment.
1:07:00
SPEAKER_05: Glad you're with the show this morning.
1:07:02
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1:07:32
SPEAKER_05: I don't, surprisingly.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Doesn't really matter.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, no, you established that it was guitar.
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1:10:05
SPEAKER_05: All right, we'll get back to more of your uh blasts coming up in just a moment on the show.
1:10:11
SPEAKER_05: But let's back dive back into the big story of the morning.
1:10:14
SPEAKER_05: And we'll work off the Minnesota Star Tribune uh version of this for those that are just joining.
1:10:19
SPEAKER_05: The city of St.
1:10:20
SPEAKER_05: Paul has hired an outside law firm to investigate sexual harassment allegations against Mayor Cooley Herr, including claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward the police chief, Axel Henry, and other city employees.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_05: Listen, the mere the allegation alone, or the suggestion that these were inappropriate, right, regardless of the motivation, should already bring pause to people.
1:10:52
SPEAKER_05: Like this seems like a situation where it could have been easily remedied.
1:10:58
SPEAKER_05: And I would be curious to know what sort of conversations were taking place.
1:11:03
SPEAKER_05: And what I mean by this is if if um you know if Isaac sends me something that's that I believe is inappropriate, as you know, as us being you know, working for the same company, uh the easy solution is to go to Isaac.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_05: Or maybe I shouldn't put it under you.
1:11:21
SPEAKER_05: I send something to Isaac that's inappropriate.
1:11:23
SPEAKER_05: Let's go that route instead.
1:11:26
SPEAKER_05: Instead of making you the bad guy, I'll make myself the bad guy.
1:11:29
SPEAKER_05: I send something inappropriate to Isaac.
1:11:33
SPEAKER_05: You know, I my guess is Isaac would come to me and said, John, what was your intention with this?
1:11:40
SPEAKER_05: And can you not?
1:11:42
SPEAKER_05: And then it's end of story.
1:11:44
SPEAKER_05: That's how that goes down.
1:11:45
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I don't know you that well, Isaac, but I would imagine that's how it would go down, right?
1:11:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that sounds about right.
1:11:49
SPEAKER_05: You just you would come to me.
1:11:50
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:11:50
SPEAKER_05: Or just text me back.
1:11:51
SPEAKER_05: What did you mean by this?
1:11:52
SPEAKER_05: Or don't ever send this to me again?
1:11:53
SPEAKER_04: I go, huh?
1:11:54
SPEAKER_04: Question mark?
1:11:55
SPEAKER_04: That's probably what I'd say.
1:11:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, exactly.
1:11:57
SPEAKER_05: I responded to a lot of listener emails with that exact response yesterday.
1:12:01
SPEAKER_05: Just, huh?
1:12:02
SPEAKER_05: Question mark.
1:12:04
SPEAKER_05: Yet here it's it's now gone into a full-fledged investigation.
1:12:08
SPEAKER_05: So were there conversations with the police chief in Kahuli Her and they didn't stop?
1:12:12
SPEAKER_05: How many of these messages are there?
1:12:14
SPEAKER_05: The Minnesota Star Tribune obtained an April 1st letter by Henry's attorney, Chris Maddle, to the St.
1:12:20
SPEAKER_05: Paul City attorney, Irene uh Kao, notifying the notifying the city that Henry had filed a formal complaint.
1:12:28
SPEAKER_05: Uh sidebar to this whole thing is I use a little lawyer speak.
1:12:32
SPEAKER_05: If Chris Maddle doesn't write a book or there isn't a documentary based off of the number of various cases and situations and investigations that he has served in an official capacity of, right, he he will have failed society.
1:12:53
SPEAKER_05: Like how many outlandish stories, issues, controversies, investigations, and lawsuits can one attorney handle?
1:13:07
SPEAKER_05: I, for one, am waiting for the Netflix documentary.
1:13:13
SPEAKER_05: Or whatever his official title is.
1:13:15
SPEAKER_05: Chief Henry has reached the decision to step forward as a formal complaintant against the mayor after becoming aware that the mayor's conduct has extended beyond isolated incidents and has included sexual harassment of subordinates, subordinate and city employees, including members of the St.
1:13:31
SPEAKER_05: Paul Police Department.
1:13:33
SPEAKER_05: In choosing to name himself as the complaintant, the letter read, Chief Henry is not only seeking to address the wrongdoing, but also create a measure of protection for his team.
1:13:47
SPEAKER_05: Signaling that such conduct will not be tolerated.
1:13:51
SPEAKER_05: I think the first layer of protection for the team would be to block Mayor Cooley Her from being able to go and text them anything.
1:13:59
SPEAKER_05: That would be that's what I'd do.
1:14:03
SPEAKER_05: I believe there I my my understanding here is I'm being sarcastic, is that more than likely this protection is more from the allegations coming forward and any sort of negative reprisals that may occur coming from her's office against the individual stepping forward to make these um allegations and claims.
1:14:22
SPEAKER_05: And a statement, hers spokesperson, Matt um would genius.
1:14:30
SPEAKER_05: He's quite the would genius, would not comment on the investigation.
1:14:36
SPEAKER_05: If somebody had just sent me Matt's last name via text, I would have thought that was offensive.
1:14:43
SPEAKER_05: The mayor has deep respect for the city employee.
1:14:46
SPEAKER_05: It's the way it looks on the page.
1:14:47
SPEAKER_05: It's like it's like Wagon with an E and then and then Neus.
1:14:50
SPEAKER_05: So Wood Genius.
1:14:53
SPEAKER_05: The mayor has deep respect for city employees and regrets any unintended impact her actions may have had, would genius said.
1:15:01
SPEAKER_05: That is a pretty cool last name.
1:15:02
SPEAKER_05: I know I'm having fun, but I'm a wood genius.
1:15:06
SPEAKER_05: Who's a wood genius?
1:15:07
SPEAKER_05: I'm a wood genius.
1:15:09
SPEAKER_05: Included in the letter is a screenshot of the text message allegedly sent by her to a city employee that reads, Happy Wiener Wednesday! exclamation point.
1:15:18
SPEAKER_05: And the note expressing regret that she can't be with the employee to eat a lot.
1:15:23
SPEAKER_05: Excuse me, to eat a hot dog that day.
1:15:27
SPEAKER_05: It's always a bummer when you can't enjoy a good hot dog with a fellow employee, especially one that's got the hot dog in beans.
1:15:34
SPEAKER_05: There's a recall to a first dry run show.
1:15:37
SPEAKER_05: Love that.
1:15:37
SPEAKER_05: We love a good recall.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:15:39
SPEAKER_05: Early on in the inception of the John Justice show presented by American Experiment, beneath the message was a partly redacted image showing a swaddled baby.
1:15:49
SPEAKER_05: According to a person familiar with the inquiry who spoke on a condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the matter, the redacted part of the image was the face of a St.
1:15:59
SPEAKER_05: Paul police officer assigned to her security detail superimposed on the baby's body.
1:16:08
SPEAKER_05: I haven't seen the image.
1:16:09
SPEAKER_05: I'm going to venture a guess that it's probably a bad Photoshop.
1:16:14
SPEAKER_04: Ooh, can't be doing that.
1:16:15
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
1:16:17
SPEAKER_05: Above the photo, a message read that when she wraps you in a blanket after you gave her a good wienering with two laughing emojis.
1:16:26
SPEAKER_05: So you're beginning to see the picture here, right?
1:16:30
SPEAKER_05: So we've got Happy Wiener Wednesday.
1:16:34
SPEAKER_05: You have a note of regret saying that she can't be with the employee to eat a hot dog that day.
1:16:40
SPEAKER_05: And then that's with a swaddled baby and the comment with a superimposed image of a law enforcement officer who was allegedly part of her security detail.
1:16:49
SPEAKER_05: When she wraps you in a blanket, meaning the picture would be representative of this.
1:16:54
SPEAKER_05: When she wraps you in a blanket after you gave her a good wienering.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_04: I don't like that.
1:17:02
SPEAKER_04: I don't like that one bit.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_05: You know what I do like?
1:17:06
SPEAKER_05: I do love the fact that the Star Tribune actually wrote this sentence.
1:17:09
SPEAKER_05: The term wienering, doing that thing with my fingers, this is what the Star Tribune wrote.
1:17:12
SPEAKER_05: The term wienering is often used as a sexual innuendo on the internet.
1:17:21
SPEAKER_04: Thanks, Star Tribune.
1:17:24
SPEAKER_05: Would have been lost on that one.
1:17:25
SPEAKER_05: What do they mean?
1:17:26
SPEAKER_05: What is this wienering?
1:17:28
SPEAKER_04: Why do you like hot dogs so much?
1:17:30
SPEAKER_05: What's going on?
1:17:31
SPEAKER_02: Was there ketchup and mustard involved?
1:17:35
SPEAKER_02: If I eat a hot dog, am I wienering it?
1:17:38
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
1:17:39
SPEAKER_02: What happens when you wiener somebody on the 4th of July?
1:17:43
SPEAKER_05: According to people familiar with the St.
1:17:44
SPEAKER_05: Paul Police Department, a civilian employee typically brings in hot dogs for a small group of staff on Wednesdays.
1:17:50
SPEAKER_05: Oh, it's kind of like what we do here at Center of the American Experience Room.
1:17:52
SPEAKER_05: We got free food coming on Wednesdays.
1:17:54
SPEAKER_05: It is not wiener Wednesdays here, by the way.
1:17:57
SPEAKER_05: It's much more family friendly.
1:18:00
SPEAKER_05: Which is informally dubbed Wiener Wednesdays to some employees, like Taco Tuesday, but different.
1:18:05
SPEAKER_05: In a letter, Maddle claims that the city is on notice that the Mayor Her has engaged in illegal conduct toward city employees while arguing that future litigation is reasonably foreseeable.
1:18:15
SPEAKER_05: Mattle demanded that the city immediately take all steps necessary to perform a full file system extraction of each of Mayor Her's mobile phones.
1:18:25
SPEAKER_05: I hope they pull that off.
1:18:28
SPEAKER_05: Probably shouldn't use that terminology in the wake of doing the details of this story, but I hope that we do get that extraction.
1:18:34
SPEAKER_05: Also don't want to use that word either, of her's text because I get the feeling that this whole story is just going to explode.
1:18:44
SPEAKER_05: No pun intended.
1:18:45
SPEAKER_05: Happy Wiener Wednesday.
1:18:48
SPEAKER_05: The extraction would copy data off her's phones, including text messages across multiple applications, photos, videos, contacts, and emails.
1:18:56
SPEAKER_05: So I'm I'm assuming those have to be archived.
1:18:59
SPEAKER_05: Like if I'm cooley her and I, you know, and I'm aware that there's going to be potential extraction of my messages.
1:19:07
SPEAKER_05: I mean, you're scrambling to delete everything, but I have to imagine those have got to be archived, archived with the with the telephone company.
1:19:16
SPEAKER_05: At least that's my that's my guess.
1:19:20
SPEAKER_05: Alright, let's go and uh back to the to the blaster line.
1:19:25
SPEAKER_05: 612-584-4565, where uh friend of the show, Kenny, has left us a blast.
1:19:36
SPEAKER_15: John Ken K.
1:19:38
SPEAKER_15: This thing is very seemed like some sort of plan for the DFL to uninstall somebody who was duly elected.
1:19:51
SPEAKER_15: If you can consider duly elected, that's stupid ranked choice voting.
1:19:55
SPEAKER_15: But anyway.
1:19:56
SPEAKER_15: This thing's the high heavens and smells like somebody's trying to install a new candidate.
1:20:04
SPEAKER_05: Ah, the conspiracy theories are already forming.
1:20:08
SPEAKER_05: Maybe.
1:20:08
SPEAKER_05: Or it could just be this is what it seems to be.
1:20:12
SPEAKER_05: Could you say, by the way, so he said he questioned her being duly elected.
1:20:16
SPEAKER_05: So in this case, could you say that she's coolly elected?
1:20:24
SPEAKER_05: Oh, I got a dismissive head shake from Isaac.
1:20:28
SPEAKER_05: There it is.
1:20:30
SPEAKER_05: Out of every out of all the stupid jokes that I've already done this morning, that's the one that I get the it was pretty bad.
1:20:36
SPEAKER_05: Coolly elected.
1:20:38
SPEAKER_05: A person, um, let's see.
1:20:41
SPEAKER_05: A person familiar with the investigation said that it also includes sexualized communications and unwanted physical contact from her directed at Henry.
1:20:51
SPEAKER_05: You know, as a sidebar, just not knowing very much about Kahuli her at all, right?
1:20:57
SPEAKER_05: I'm kind of surprised it's coming out of this little woman.
1:21:00
SPEAKER_05: If any of this is true, what a randy little lady.
1:21:04
SPEAKER_05: Who knew?
1:21:07
SPEAKER_05: You know what?
1:21:08
SPEAKER_05: To each, to each their own.
1:21:11
SPEAKER_05: To each their own.
1:21:12
SPEAKER_05: All right, I am very pleased.
1:21:15
SPEAKER_05: A blast has just arrived to 612-584-4565.
1:21:19
SPEAKER_05: I had received other blasts earlier this morning asking a very important question.
1:21:25
SPEAKER_05: And that question was where is friend of the show Scott?
1:21:29
SPEAKER_05: For those that are unfamiliar and Isaac included, uh, Scott is a he's a top-tier, top-tier friend of the show.
1:21:37
SPEAKER_05: And uh, Scott, we would have what we called um the uh the the ScottCon level, because it would be what sort of what level of enthusiasm?
1:21:47
SPEAKER_05: Yes, so so instead of DEF CON, it's ScottCon.
1:21:50
SPEAKER_05: So we would guess what kind of level of enthusiasm would friend of the show Scott exude in his in his talkback.
1:21:58
SPEAKER_05: Now, I I can cheat.
1:22:00
SPEAKER_05: I haven't heard it yet, but I can see the transcript.
1:22:02
SPEAKER_05: On a one to five scale in terms of ScottConn, I'm gonna probably give this, without having heard it, I'm gonna give it a three.
1:22:09
SPEAKER_05: But here is Friend of the Show Scott on the John Justice Show.
1:22:13
SPEAKER_21: Good morning, John.
1:22:15
SPEAKER_21: Welcome back.
1:22:16
SPEAKER_21: As to the Axel Henry situation and the mayor of St.
1:22:20
SPEAKER_21: Paul.
1:22:21
SPEAKER_21: I know Axel Henry a little bit, and he is one straight shooting person of the highest ethical and moral character.
1:22:28
SPEAKER_21: So I have no doubt that there's something far greater going on to get him to do what he did.
1:22:34
SPEAKER_21: Everybody have a great day.
1:22:36
SPEAKER_21: So happy to have you back, John.
1:22:37
SPEAKER_05: You know what, Scott?
1:22:38
SPEAKER_05: It's happy.
1:22:39
SPEAKER_05: I'm happy to have you back.
1:22:40
SPEAKER_05: And thank you so much for the uh for the blast this morning.
1:22:44
SPEAKER_05: It's great to hear from you.
1:22:45
SPEAKER_05: I feel pretty confident in my Scott Con 3.
1:22:47
SPEAKER_05: That was pretty tame.
1:22:48
SPEAKER_05: He can get very, very fired up, and I look forward to further blasts from him and all of you here on the John Justice Show.
1:22:56
SPEAKER_05: The St.
1:22:57
SPEAKER_05: Cloud-based resolute law was retained in early April to investigate these allegations, according to a person familiar with the inquiry.
1:23:04
SPEAKER_05: The law firm did not respond to the request for comments about the status of the investigation.
1:23:08
SPEAKER_05: The St.
1:23:09
SPEAKER_05: Paul Police Department also declined to comment.
1:23:11
SPEAKER_05: Witnesses in the ongoing investigation have been instructed not to speak about the manor.
1:23:16
SPEAKER_05: I'm assuming that's a text about the manor, either, right?
1:23:19
SPEAKER_05: I think that would kind of be, I think that would kind of be a given.
1:23:22
SPEAKER_05: Definitely don't text.
1:23:24
SPEAKER_05: Don't mention hot dogs or wieners.
1:23:27
SPEAKER_05: The allegations arise, arose less than six months after Herr was elected in 2025, upsetting former mayor Melvin Carter and becoming the first woman and Hmong person to hold office.
1:23:38
SPEAKER_05: Now, this is not the first time that the mayor, Kahooli Herr, has dealt with any allegations about her behavior.
1:23:43
SPEAKER_05: Last year, a petition for a restraining order was filed against her in Ramsey County District Court by a former friend who claimed that Herr had sent inappropriate sexualized questions, failed to respect her boundaries, and got her removed from the National Kidney Foundation board.
1:24:00
SPEAKER_05: The restraining order was denied by the Ramsey County District Court referee, Elizabeth Clidesdale, who wrote that the text messages filed showed her had not threatened her former friend and that her husband had tried to help resolve the issue.
1:24:13
SPEAKER_05: It was not proven that her had played a role in the woman's removal from the National Kidney Foundation.
1:24:20
SPEAKER_05: And again, um just watch the double standard play out.
1:24:24
SPEAKER_05: You're gonna see very straightforward, fact-based reporting about these allegations, depending on how this whole thing shakes out, right?
1:24:33
SPEAKER_05: Because you do you are gonna have a both side issue here.
1:24:35
SPEAKER_05: And if if for some reason there doesn't seem to be any any indication of this either way, these is this is just initial investigations regarding these allegations.
1:24:43
SPEAKER_05: But if for some reason ends up looking bad on the St.
1:24:46
SPEAKER_05: Paul police chief, then I would imagine the mainstream media will probably amplify the story because that's an angle that they would want to roll with.
1:24:55
SPEAKER_05: And if Cooley Her were a Republican, this would be given an entirely different treatment by the mainstream media.
1:25:03
SPEAKER_05: But because she's aligned with the DFL, the reporting will be very straightforward, fact-based, and make no assumptions whatsoever.
1:25:10
SPEAKER_05: So we all get to sit back and watch the double standard uh at uh at play.
1:25:14
SPEAKER_05: Not the only controversies surrounding St.
1:25:16
SPEAKER_05: Paul and Cahuli, her.
1:25:17
SPEAKER_05: The St.
1:25:18
SPEAKER_05: Paul mayor, her, has pointed to back-to-back emergency calls at the city's three largest homeless encampments as rationale for clearing them next month.
1:25:28
SPEAKER_05: Even as protesters and community organizers continue to urge her to reconsider.
1:25:33
SPEAKER_05: I there's quite a few details in the story, but basically you have today at 2 30, you have the People's Action Coalition against Trump.
1:25:45
SPEAKER_05: Does that spell anything out, by the way?
1:25:48
SPEAKER_05: People's Action Coalition against Trump?
1:25:51
SPEAKER_05: They're planning a stop the sweeps rally.
1:25:57
SPEAKER_05: Pacat?
1:25:59
SPEAKER_05: Pacat?
1:26:00
SPEAKER_04: I don't think that's why I don't think they intended an acronym there.
1:26:03
SPEAKER_04: I don't think so.
1:26:03
SPEAKER_04: Pacat.
1:26:04
SPEAKER_04: Seems kind of lazy, though.
1:26:05
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
1:26:06
SPEAKER_05: Pacat.
1:26:07
SPEAKER_05: That's the noise that my dog makes if I happen to step on her tail.
1:26:09
SPEAKER_05: PACAT!
1:26:14
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, they're so gonna regret hiring me.
1:26:17
SPEAKER_05: So the People's Action Coalition against Trump.
1:26:20
SPEAKER_05: They're planning a stop the sweeps rally outside the St.
1:26:23
SPEAKER_05: Paul City Hall to oppose further destabilizing 400 unhoused encampment residents.
1:26:28
SPEAKER_05: Attendees are expected to include encampment residents, shelter workers, and community leaders.
1:26:34
SPEAKER_05: Picat, this People's Action Coalition against Trump.
1:26:37
SPEAKER_05: They don't care about these people.
1:26:38
SPEAKER_05: It's all about bringing attention to their cause.
1:26:41
SPEAKER_05: They don't look at any of the facts of the situation.
1:26:45
SPEAKER_05: Most importantly, that here you have a leftist mayor looking to close these encampments.
1:26:51
SPEAKER_05: And if you have a leftist looking to shut down these encampments, then there's probably a really good reason why.
1:26:57
SPEAKER_05: Because a Republican probably would have done it a long time ago.
1:27:00
SPEAKER_05: Most of the individuals within these encampments, they're doing so voluntarily.
1:27:04
SPEAKER_05: They're homeless and on the streets because they want to be.
1:27:07
SPEAKER_05: Or they're drug addicts that don't want to go to the proper shelters that are there to do the good work of helping individuals who are homeless, not unhoused.
1:27:17
SPEAKER_05: That's a stupid way to go and describe it.
1:27:19
SPEAKER_05: But the majority of the individuals in these encampments are choosing to be there for their own selfish reasons.
1:27:26
SPEAKER_05: And the residents and the taxpayers, whether it's St.
1:27:29
SPEAKER_05: Paul or it's Minneapolis, do not deserve to have these dens of debauchery and squalor popping up next to their homes.
1:27:37
SPEAKER_05: And yet you got a bunch of idiots out there more than willing to go grab their stupid signs and protest.
1:27:43
SPEAKER_05: Stop the sweeps.
1:27:47
SPEAKER_05: And they're using it to take a stab at Trump for crying out loud.
1:27:50
SPEAKER_05: It's Kahooli her that's looking to go and close down the encampments.
1:27:56
SPEAKER_05: By the way, there's no uh word in the story whether or not any of the Uh encampments had Wiener Wednesday on their own.
1:28:02
SPEAKER_05: I just wanted to point that point that out.
1:28:06
SPEAKER_05: The mayor shared a statement on social media Friday outlining her rationale for closing the camps, which is based on analysis conducted by multiple city departments that found them unsafe and unstable.
1:28:16
SPEAKER_05: Between early July of 25 and uh July of this year, first responders were dispatched to the Pig's Eye Park location on reports of 81 medical emergencies, 20 fires, 14 assaults, 11 restraining order violations or domestic assault disturbances, nine weapons calls, five death investigations, and one sex offense according to the mayor's office.
1:28:47
SPEAKER_05: And yet ask anybody who's involved in PACAT, the People's Action Coalition against Trump, their thoughts on the fact that these homeless encampments are incredibly dangerous, not just for the community surrounding them, but for those in the community.
1:29:01
SPEAKER_05: Get their thoughts on it, and they'll probably just do a butt trump on you.
1:29:05
SPEAKER_05: City and county staff are on site daily attempting to transition the encampment residents to nearby shelters and housing.
1:29:11
SPEAKER_05: The city's uh response is not focused on enforcement alone, according to the uh according to the mayor.
1:29:19
SPEAKER_05: Coming up, Channel 5 does a fact check on the University of Minnesota gender dolls uh program.
1:29:25
SPEAKER_05: I want to uh touch briefly, and I'm gonna I'm gonna attach it to this story.
1:29:29
SPEAKER_05: There was a video going around of um of an actress at a human rights event who was delivering this ridiculous.
1:29:41
SPEAKER_05: It was Ann Hathaway giving this human rights speech where she gives this ridiculous word salad, nonsensical diatribe on the myth relating to cisgender males, the trans community, white people.
1:29:58
SPEAKER_05: Riley Gaines put up just a fantastic response uh about this viral clip going around.
1:30:05
SPEAKER_05: I want to share that with you and dive into the details of not only sort of putting a bow, at least for now, on the Minnesota Gender Dolls program, but then I'm also going to uh share with you um this article from Scott Gillespie.
1:30:19
SPEAKER_05: It was published in Min Post and reposted in the Minneapolis Times.
1:30:23
SPEAKER_05: And what I like about this story is that, for one, I'm pretty sure the individual who wrote it is aligned with the left.
1:30:30
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:30:31
SPEAKER_05: So it should technically carry some weight with the Minneapolis City Council leadership.
1:30:38
SPEAKER_05: I use that term loosely, and Minneapolis man, baby, may, or mom jeans, Jacob Fry relating to the bathhouse issue.
1:30:45
SPEAKER_05: It's probably going to be largely ignored.
1:30:47
SPEAKER_05: But the headline of the piece is the Minneapolis Bathhouse Ordinance opens the door to sexual exploitation.
1:30:53
SPEAKER_05: It's probably one of the best and most comprehensive takedowns of this dangerous lifting of the bathhouse ordinance and what these lunatics, these lunatic activists on the Minneapolis City Council want to do to downtown Minneapolis in opening up these dens of debauchery.
1:31:11
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1:35:00
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1:35:06
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1:35:10
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1:35:16
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1:35:25
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1:35:26
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1:35:28
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1:35:36
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1:35:44
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1:35:48
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1:35:56
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1:35:57
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1:35:59
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1:36:06
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1:36:56
SPEAKER_05: University of Minnesota program involving transgender therapy for children is under intense national scrutiny.
1:37:01
SPEAKER_05: Channel 5.
1:37:02
SPEAKER_05: Fact check on the University of Minnesota Gender Dolls program.
1:37:06
SPEAKER_05: Conservative outlets say the children as young as four will be given the dolls as part of the program, and that Governor Tim Walls helped to drive the effort.
1:37:13
SPEAKER_05: That's right.
1:37:14
SPEAKER_05: Here's what they say, though.
1:37:15
SPEAKER_05: Here's what's true and what's not, and what we found.
1:37:17
SPEAKER_05: We do know that in the spring of 2023, the project, run by Diane Berg and G.
1:37:22
SPEAKER_05: Nick Ryder, won an early innovation fund grant.
1:37:27
SPEAKER_05: According to the university's website, those are grants of up to$10,000 available to short-term projects at the university that advance early stage innovations.
1:37:38
SPEAKER_05: The paper dolls are built to help children tell their stories and see themselves represented, and are designed for clinicians and educators who show up for these kids every single day.
1:37:51
SPEAKER_05: They're dolls, they're cartoon character dolls of children where you can swap genitalia.
1:37:58
SPEAKER_05: It's child abuse.
1:38:01
SPEAKER_05: It's borderline, if not straightforward, pedophilia to go and peddle this to any kid.
1:38:06
SPEAKER_05: I mentioned this when we first talked about it.
1:38:08
SPEAKER_05: If you're a if you're a man on the street and you see a child and you were to go and hand them this material, you probably would get arrested.
1:38:17
SPEAKER_05: And yet somehow this type of ridiculous and dangerous ideology, guised as education, ends up seeping into our public education system, our university education system, and nobody looks at it from in the in a in a real world lens anymore.
1:38:39
SPEAKER_05: It's funny, I have a story.
1:38:41
SPEAKER_05: I ended up moving it to the bottom of the stack, but um there's a new set of laws that start here in Minnesota on August 1st.
1:38:48
SPEAKER_05: We covered a bit of this last week on Friday during the Dry Run Freedom Friday show, and there were a couple of uh a couple of laws that we didn't cover on the show.
1:38:57
SPEAKER_05: Elon Musk is suing the state of Minnesota over the anti-nudification app law.
1:39:05
SPEAKER_05: Basically, the argument from Elon is that it's overly restrictive, and the AI, Grok on X, already handles making sure that you cannot go and create nude material, nude content, and nude AIs of individuals.
1:39:21
SPEAKER_05: It's already the private sector has already built in safeguards to keep this from happening, and that this law would go and stifle innovation relating to uh artificial intelligence and what you can and can't create.
1:39:34
SPEAKER_05: In the story, Governor Dim Walls calls Elon Musk a creep for pushing back on the legislation.
1:39:44
SPEAKER_05: It's pretty rich that Governor Dim Walls would call anybody a creep.
1:39:48
SPEAKER_05: I mean, here's a dude that you know uh allows the murdering of babies.
1:39:52
SPEAKER_05: We have some of the most, if not the most extreme abortion policies available here in Minnesota.
1:40:00
SPEAKER_05: An individual who signed off on allowing underage children to be mutilated via the hands of healthcare providers in these dangerous transgender surgeries, has been an advocate for this dangerous sexually explicit material in schools, and he has the nerve to call Elon Musk a creep.
1:40:21
SPEAKER_05: Now, getting back to the fact check on the gender dolls.
1:40:25
SPEAKER_05: Will these paper dolls be in your child's school?
1:40:28
SPEAKER_05: Not from what we learned.
1:40:29
SPEAKER_05: And again, we knew all of this.
1:40:30
SPEAKER_05: I mean, Channel 5's a little late to the party here, but Five Eyewitness Cool uh news did call 19 of the largest district school districts in seven counties that make up the Twin Cities Metro.
1:40:41
SPEAKER_05: Eight got back to us.
1:40:42
SPEAKER_05: Seven out of eight had never heard of the My Gender Dolls project, and none planned to use it.
1:40:48
SPEAKER_05: They also reached out to the Minnesota Department of Education, which said this project, uh this isn't a project, uh, sent us, uh sent us back to the university, which said this project, this isn't its project, and they sent it, they sent them back to the university.
1:41:02
SPEAKER_05: My apologies, I got my words fumbled there.
1:41:04
SPEAKER_05: The researchers, Ryder and Berg, responded by email saying we would like to respond to address the mis and disinformation about the MyGender dolls.
1:41:13
SPEAKER_05: The MyGender dolls will not be in public schools this year.
1:41:18
SPEAKER_05: My gender dolls are a therapeutic tool, according to the fact check from Channel 5, used by licensed professionals.
1:41:25
SPEAKER_05: All licensed professionals will undergo a required training before being able to use the MyGender dolls in their therapeutic practice.
1:41:33
SPEAKER_05: There is no set launch date to determine at this time.
1:41:35
SPEAKER_05: So I played this clip earlier.
1:41:37
SPEAKER_05: Let me play it again.
1:41:38
SPEAKER_05: This is a Florida gubernatorial candidate to David Jolly giving his opinion of bills to ban gender reassignment surgery and techniques for underage minors.
1:41:51
SPEAKER_12: And as a family, we embraced it.
1:41:54
SPEAKER_12: We sought the the right pathways, the medical pathways, the gender-affirming care for this grandchild.
1:42:00
SPEAKER_12: And this was when Tallahassee was wrestling with this really, you know, draconian legislation during a special election called about or a special session called about insurance, I think, led them to this other issue.
1:42:13
SPEAKER_12: Um, and he said, Look, if if this legislation passes, the doctor will be arrested for continuing to care for my grandchild.
1:42:20
SPEAKER_12: The parents could lose their child, their child could be removed from their home.
1:42:24
SPEAKER_05: Draconian laws, he calls it, it's child abuse.
1:42:30
SPEAKER_05: Anybody who is actually using their brain appropriately, that hasn't been brainwashed by the left or isn't fully agenda-driven knows that this is child abuse.
1:42:46
SPEAKER_05: And yet he's calling it draconian.
1:42:48
SPEAKER_05: No, draconian is what I just mentioned a moment ago.
1:42:51
SPEAKER_05: Actually training licensed professionals on how to expose children to sexually explicit material under the guise of health care.
1:43:07
SPEAKER_05: That's draconian.
1:43:10
SPEAKER_05: That's the stuff of 1984.
1:43:14
SPEAKER_05: Will the dolls be given to children as young as four?
1:43:18
SPEAKER_05: The website says the dolls are a first of their kind therapeutic play approach designed for gender-diverse children ages four to ten.
1:43:28
SPEAKER_05: Finally, they reached out to the governor's office, which uh told Channel 5 in a text to the governor that Walls has no connection to the program and it's not being implemented uh implemented by the state.
1:43:38
SPEAKER_05: So again, everything that we kind of already knew about the story here, very straightforward, no opinion.
1:43:45
SPEAKER_05: For the sake of argument, you and I both know it's true.
1:43:48
SPEAKER_05: If this had been a Republican governor, this wouldn't happen, but just live in the fantasy for just a moment.
1:43:54
SPEAKER_05: If this had been a Republican governor that was proposing this and it was garnering controversy, there would be an abundance of quotes from individuals over their views of what was being discussed.
1:44:11
SPEAKER_05: How does this person feel about the gender dolls that apparently are not being implemented, but some say are being supported by the governor?
1:44:19
SPEAKER_05: How does this person feel?
1:44:20
SPEAKER_05: But because it's Governor Dimwalls and the DFL, you just get a very straightforward story, and this is the way the media always should be, but they're not.
1:44:31
SPEAKER_05: You know, and the real story here, by the way, is the tax dollar is going to fund this dangerous gender genital swapping doll program, right?
1:44:46
SPEAKER_05: And does Walls actually support what these two radical leftist individuals are attempting to go and create?
1:44:56
SPEAKER_05: If this were to be placed in schools, would Governor Jim Walls be supportive of it?
1:45:03
SPEAKER_05: That's the that's the question.
1:45:04
SPEAKER_05: But of course, because it's Governor Jim Walls, you're not gonna see local media go and uh and ask him that question.
1:45:12
SPEAKER_05: All right, keeping with the theme.
1:45:16
SPEAKER_05: Originally posted in Min Post, reposted at the Minneapolis Times.
1:45:20
SPEAKER_05: I've talked extensively.
1:45:21
SPEAKER_05: Uh Catherine and Grace on the American Experiment podcast have uh talked extensively about the repeal of the bathhouse ordinance uh in Minneapolis.
1:45:31
SPEAKER_05: These dens of debauchery being labeled as a health care initiative.
1:45:37
SPEAKER_05: I mean, you and I both know that's utterly ridiculous.
1:45:40
SPEAKER_05: What I love about this piece is that this is coming from an individual who has experience and knows the dangers of what these types of bathhouses would create in the city of Minneapolis.
1:45:54
SPEAKER_05: So I want to share with you a majority of this because I feel like it's I it it's I don't feel like I know it's incredibly important.
1:46:01
SPEAKER_05: Because when we push back on these issues, you want to be able to arm yourself with the truth and you want to have as much knowledge as you can to provide with authority the arguments against this.
1:46:10
SPEAKER_05: Now, on its face, when it comes to the bathhouse issue, I think that the arguments are already right there in front of you.
1:46:16
SPEAKER_05: There's no need for any of these.
1:46:19
SPEAKER_05: They're only going to go and invite harm, exploitation of individuals.
1:46:25
SPEAKER_05: There's no need to have to go and give out the necessary healthcare information to people because they can't get it.
1:46:30
SPEAKER_05: If people want to go and engage in this type of activity, they can, just like they have for decades since the ban went in place, they can do it in the comfort of their own home.
1:46:38
SPEAKER_05: To make a public space is only inviting disaster and it's spreading the wrong message to anybody who wants to come to Minneapolis and spend money, and certainly as we look to have the city of Minneapolis sort of get out from under all of this negativity that's been created by the radical leftists on the Minneapolis City Council.
1:47:03
SPEAKER_05: It's time for us to wake up and stop the City Council and Mayor Fry from allowing this multi-billion dollar sex industry to turn Minneapolis into a sanctuary city for sexual exploiters.
1:47:15
SPEAKER_05: On June 28th, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Fry signed an ordinance passed by the City Council on a 9-2 vote to repeal the adult bathhouse ban.
1:47:26
SPEAKER_05: The advocates and elected officials pushing for legalized adult sex venues are framing this ordinance as a supportive of LGBTQ rights and gay men's health.
1:47:36
SPEAKER_05: But this is not an issue, writes the author, of either protecting the community's health nor the human rights of queer people.
1:47:45
SPEAKER_05: Quite the opposite.
1:47:47
SPEAKER_05: Remembering Minneapolis in the 1980s brings me both smiles and head-scratching memories of what the city looked like then.
1:47:56
SPEAKER_05: Hennepin Avenue was not the vibrant theater district and the great downtown dining spot it is today.
1:48:01
SPEAKER_05: It was pretty gritty and sorid, hosting the likes of Moby Dix, Gay 90s, The Saloon, Roaring Twenties, Empress Triple X Theater, Adult Bookstores, and several strip clubs.
1:48:14
SPEAKER_05: It was also known as one of the big ho strolls doing that thing with my fingers and not on my bingo card for today's show.
1:48:23
SPEAKER_05: With rampant prostitution on the street and a commercial sex establishment.
1:48:29
SPEAKER_05: Why would our mayor want to reopen these corridors for sexual exploitation?
1:48:33
SPEAKER_05: Well, the mayor's an idiot, for one, whether or not he's aware of what the actual agenda of the radical leftists on the Minneapolis City Council remains to be seen.
1:48:43
SPEAKER_05: But make no mistake, this is what the Minneapolis City Council wants.
1:48:46
SPEAKER_05: Everything that was just described of what Hennepin Avenue used to look like.
1:48:51
SPEAKER_05: Because these are godless heathens that want the world around them to justify their own moral depravity based solely off their own base desires and emotions.
1:49:08
SPEAKER_05: To bring about, I mentioned this when we first talked about the show.
1:49:11
SPEAKER_05: You might as well just go and go ahead and open up a red light district.
1:49:14
SPEAKER_05: They want affirmation of their own illicit behavior.
1:49:22
SPEAKER_05: And they want society to go and agree with them.
1:49:24
SPEAKER_05: This benefits their agenda.
1:49:27
SPEAKER_05: Because when you're dealing with that God-sized hole in your life, you got to fill it with something.
1:49:34
SPEAKER_05: And these individuals have filled it with selfish moral depravity.
1:49:40
SPEAKER_05: And they want to basically establish this as a cultural norm.
1:49:44
SPEAKER_05: They can act and do whatever they want.
1:49:46
SPEAKER_05: And everybody around us who still respects those societal norms that makes this country great, you're all just gonna have to go and deal with it.
1:49:56
SPEAKER_05: Legal venues for public sex, the author goes on to say.
1:50:00
SPEAKER_05: Or where prostitution occurs, I should know.
1:50:02
SPEAKER_05: As a survivor with lived experience, I am fortunate that I am not in the life anymore.
1:50:08
SPEAKER_05: Many of us who survived on the streets and became leaders in the community understand the connections and trajectory of what this ordinance means for Minneapolis.
1:50:18
SPEAKER_05: What rules the game is demand for sexual acts, whether it's in the trap house at a hotel, in the brothel, in escort services, or in the backseat of a car, sex buyers drive the business exploitation, sexual harassment, and rape.
1:50:36
SPEAKER_05: With news of the signed ordinance reached us, a friend reminded me of how much her pimp loved the bathhouses in downtown Minneapolis when the brothels were in full swing in the 1980s.
1:50:49
SPEAKER_05: I was going to save this for the end of the article, but let me go ahead and present it here.
1:50:54
SPEAKER_05: You know, will this rational, credible, and passionate concern and plea be heard by any of the individuals on the Minneapolis City Council, or will they just simply go and ignore it?
1:51:04
SPEAKER_05: I think you'll know the answer.
1:51:09
SPEAKER_05: When news of the signed ordinance reached us, although I mean I'm sorry, I got I said I shared that part already.
1:51:13
SPEAKER_05: Although women rarely frequented bathhouses, they go on to write, our traffic uh, our traffickers' business doubled as patrons leaving the bathhouses would then call to buy their girls.
1:51:25
SPEAKER_05: Promoters of the ordinance claim that this discriminate that this was discriminatory against the LGBTQ people and will support public health.
1:51:33
SPEAKER_05: But the research shows that adult sex venues are not safe spaces, particularly in this instance for queer youth looking to explore their sexuality.
1:51:43
SPEAKER_05: In fact, research shows that queer youth are twice as likely to be sex trafficked than their peers.
1:51:51
SPEAKER_05: Other supporters reassured the public that the majority of individuals involved here are consenting adults.
1:51:57
SPEAKER_05: As if those who are purchased for sex have the agency choice and desire equal to that of their buyers.
1:52:08
SPEAKER_05: The notion of consent is meaningless or non existent in exchange where one party holds all the financial, social, and typically physical power.
1:52:24
SPEAKER_05: And the other holds on to coercive thread for survival.
1:52:28
SPEAKER_05: The truth is that money can never buy consent, they write.
1:52:32
SPEAKER_05: The other narrative we often hear is that the is that of harm reduction, giving the false impression that the city would tame the sex trade and guarantee less violence, less organized crime, and less risks of adverse health outcomes to the people in prostitution.
1:52:48
SPEAKER_05: And again, for those that may be just joining us, this is an editorial.
1:52:53
SPEAKER_05: It's written by Terry Fort Liddy, a survivor of sexual exploitation.
1:52:58
SPEAKER_05: Minneapolis bathhouse ordinance opens the door to sexual exploitation.
1:53:06
SPEAKER_05: This is at best a wishful thinking and at worst insanity, that this would tame the sex trade, guarantee less violence, less organized crime, and less risks of adverse health outcomes and prostitution.
1:53:16
SPEAKER_05: Every jurisdiction in the world that has legalized or decriminalized the commercial sex industry, from the from counties in Nevada to New Zealand, Germany, and the Netherlands, have tried and failed to improve the lives of prostituted people.
1:53:31
SPEAKER_05: Boy, it sounds a lot like socialism, doesn't it?
1:53:34
SPEAKER_05: The question is not whether individuals have a right to earn money, however they choose, but whether the city of Minneapolis will offer vulnerable people access to real economic opportunities rather than a green light, the right of men to exploit their vulnerability for sexual gratification.
1:53:52
SPEAKER_05: Minnesota was proud to be one of the first states to implement safe harbor, which ended the criminalization of sex-trafficked youth and provided them services.
1:54:02
SPEAKER_05: So true sadness kicks in as our mayor and city council want to move us backwards.
1:54:08
SPEAKER_05: Over the past two decades, I have personally worked with hundreds of women, girls, and boys who were sexually exploited, trafficked, assaulted locally, nationally, and internationally.
1:54:17
SPEAKER_05: The majority of my friends, primarily black and brown, who shared Minneapolis streets and brothels with me, are deceased.
1:54:23
SPEAKER_05: Several of my native sisters died violent deaths, which often included murder by sex buyers.
1:54:29
SPEAKER_05: The trauma runs so deep that we now witness second and third generations of familial prostitution and sex trafficking.
1:54:37
SPEAKER_05: One commonality binds them.
1:54:41
SPEAKER_05: The physiological and psychological, emotional and spiritual harm that prostitution inflicts feels the same from one end of the world to the other, exposing vulnerable boys, young men, and queer youth to these unspeakable harms with no exit will make our city complicit in sexual orientation and exploitation.
1:55:05
SPEAKER_05: Excuse me, sexual exploitation.
1:55:07
SPEAKER_05: Unless the brave people of Minneapolis prevent the city council from taking the next steps necessary to open brothels and other sex establishments, we will create a renewed pathway of suffering for the most marginalized among us.
1:55:21
SPEAKER_05: It's time for us to wake up and stop the city council and Mayor Fry from allowing this multi-billion dollar sex industry to turn Minneapolis into a sanctuary city for sexual exploiters.
1:55:32
SPEAKER_05: Our response to legalized brothels must be to create a safe and healthy Minneapolis free from sexual exploitation that we can all thrive free from violence and discrimination.
1:55:46
SPEAKER_05: At the end of the piece, it says Terry works to offer hope, encouragement, and empowerment through her testimony and direct services to those who have experienced the sex trade.
1:55:58
SPEAKER_05: And again, I just I asked the question.
1:56:02
SPEAKER_05: In the wake of the political expediency and opportunism of the individuals that push forward on this under all of these false arguments that were just absolutely decimated in this in this piece.
1:56:19
SPEAKER_05: Her voice is probably going to go unheard.
1:56:23
SPEAKER_05: Probably going to be ignored.
1:56:26
SPEAKER_05: And it's tragic.
1:56:27
SPEAKER_05: It's absolutely tragic.
1:56:30
SPEAKER_05: And again, those that passed lifting the ban, these are just godless, godless, degenerate heathens with only their base, selfish desires guiding their decision making.
1:56:41
SPEAKER_05: And it'll be to the detriment of Minneapolis were they to move forward on this.
1:56:45
SPEAKER_05: And you know that they know the truth too, because when the arguments were being put forward in favor of this at the time, one of the arguments that I heard over and over again was the fact that they would say, Well, just so you know, we're a long way off from opening any of these bathhouses.
1:57:04
SPEAKER_05: It would be quite a long time until we actually see one.
1:57:09
SPEAKER_05: So this is just a first step.
1:57:11
SPEAKER_05: There's no need to be concerned about it now.
1:57:14
SPEAKER_05: Well, why should anybody be concerned at all that they're so great?
1:57:18
SPEAKER_05: Why are you gonna wait?
1:57:19
SPEAKER_05: Because it's a slow burn.
1:57:20
SPEAKER_05: Because they want people to get accustomed to the idea so that voices like this are more easily silenced when people step forward.
1:57:29
SPEAKER_05: You know, and going back to the gender dolls for just a moment here on the show, you know, they call it grooming for a reason.
1:57:38
SPEAKER_05: Why do you think they work at such an early age to get at our most vulnerable?
1:57:44
SPEAKER_05: To impress upon them issues of sexuality at an age when they're not ready to handle it and it can cause detrimental physical and psychological harm.
1:57:55
SPEAKER_05: Because it makes individuals more willing to accept policies like this, while others, while the adults that are passing these ordinances attempt to go and justify their own base, selfish, and godless desires.
1:58:13
SPEAKER_05: It is the slippery slope right there in front of you for everybody to see.
1:58:18
SPEAKER_05: And hat tip to this woman for stepping up and speaking out against this.
1:58:22
SPEAKER_05: Unfortunately, I fear, as I mentioned, that more than likely her words of caution are going to go completely unheard and will ultimately be ignored.
1:58:34
SPEAKER_05: All right, coming up next hour, Wisconsin Brewery that offered free beer when Trump dies says alcohol permit revoked.
1:58:41
SPEAKER_05: Oh no.
1:58:42
SPEAKER_05: That's so sad.
1:58:44
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of what's have been happening in our schools, however, at AmericaneExperiment.org, Grace Keating has uh put out a series of uh videos commentary of what is coming to the classroom.
1:58:56
SPEAKER_05: In case you've missed any of it, I wanted to share with you one of the most recent coming to the classroom pieces that are available up at AmericanExperiment.org.
1:59:05
SPEAKER_01: In this week's episode of Coming to a Classroom Near You, we look at the new requirement to teach ethnic studies in all K-12 schools in Minnesota, which must be implemented in 2026.
1:59:15
SPEAKER_01: Ethnic Studies includes three distinct standards: identity, resistance, and ways of knowing and methodologies.
1:59:22
SPEAKER_01: The resistance standard takes learning to a whole new level.
1:59:26
SPEAKER_01: It requires students to describe how individuals and communities have fought for liberation against systemic exercises of power and organize with others to engage in such activities.
1:59:37
SPEAKER_01: The ways of knowing standard requires students to understand the roots of contemporary systems of oppression and apply lessons from the past that could eliminate contemporary injustices.
1:59:49
SPEAKER_01: High school students are instructed that resistance to our nation's social and political institutions is required, as they explain how the social construction of race was used to oppress people of color, evaluate policies affecting historically marginalized communities of color, and take action to affect policy.
2:00:08
SPEAKER_01: It's not ambiguous.
2:00:09
SPEAKER_01: The new ethnic study standards don't just require learning.
2:00:12
SPEAKER_01: They require students to organize, to take action.
2:00:15
SPEAKER_01: And it's already playing out in classrooms near you.
2:00:18
SPEAKER_01: Teachers in schools across Minnesota are encouraging their students to organize using this resistance standard.
2:00:24
SPEAKER_01: For example, the principal at Eagle Ridge Middle School in Savage, Minnesota sent a message to families saying he will not stop kids from leaving school to protest and will have staff supervising the protest.
2:00:36
SPEAKER_01: But don't blame the principal.
2:00:38
SPEAKER_01: He's simply implementing the new ethnic studies standards.
2:00:41
SPEAKER_01: More concerning is that the activists now exhorting students to join protests are the very people who helped draft the ethnic studies standards in the first place.
2:00:50
SPEAKER_01: Far-left activist groups like UNidos MN are organizing Minneapolis high school students to protest.
2:00:56
SPEAKER_01: UNidos has also been promoting a 25-page guidebook calling on students to engage monthly in mass non-cooperation to halt the authoritarians' advance.
2:01:06
SPEAKER_01: UNidos is a prominent member of the Minnesota Ethnic Studies Coalition, and Jose Alvilar, the statewide director of youth programs for Onidos, formerly called Navigate Minnesota, served on the Minnesota Department of Education Committee that wrote our social studies standards.
2:01:21
SPEAKER_01: The resistance is all happening according to plan, and it's officially coming to all Minnesota public schools this fall.
2:01:28
SPEAKER_01: When Ethnic Studies was presented to the Minnesota legislature in 2023, it was portrayed as the study of different cultures, students seeing themselves in the curriculum, and learning honest history.
2:01:39
SPEAKER_01: But like so many other familiar terms, Minnesota's ethnic studies has been hijacked to apply a liberated approach to understanding our world.
2:01:48
SPEAKER_01: Minnesota students deserve a robust education that includes learning hard historical truths and frank discussions on where our country has fallen short, not one that is confined to a narrow, politicized, and ideological worldview.
2:02:02
SPEAKER_01: Recently, California rejected a statewide ethnic studies mandate because it was too divisive.
2:02:08
SPEAKER_01: How will Minnesota respond?
2:02:09
SPEAKER_01: To learn more about Minnesota's ethnic studies standards, visit AmericaneExperiment.org/slash ethnic studies.
2:02:16
SPEAKER_05: And I would encourage you to head on over to AmericanExperiment.org and check out that entire series.
2:02:21
SPEAKER_05: We will be playing more uh clips from the content available up at the website at americanexperiment.org.
2:02:27
SPEAKER_05: So again, I encourage you to go and uh and check those out.
2:02:30
SPEAKER_05: Ryan Wilson, Lieutenant Governor uh candidate with Lisa Damath, will be joining us in just a few minutes here uh on the show.
2:02:38
SPEAKER_05: I want to go here just uh just briefly, and I'll provide more details uh coming up uh uh after my conversation with uh with Ryan uh with Ryan Wilson.
2:02:47
SPEAKER_05: Uh however, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue has revoked the alcohol permit for the Minoqua Brewing Company, citing violations of transporting beer from Illinois without permits or taxes, the brewery's owner, Kirk Bangstad, who we've talked about quite a bit on the show before, plans to fight the decision, arguing that the violations don't warrant shutting down his business.
2:03:11
SPEAKER_05: The brewery, known for its anti-Trump stance, previously faced a backlash for a social media post offering up free beer upon Trump's death.
2:03:21
SPEAKER_05: So while the revocation of his alcohol permit did not have uh anything to do necessarily uh with the fact that this individual had put forward some pretty deplorable commentary relating to President Donald Trump.
2:03:34
SPEAKER_05: Um needless to say, uh, not sad that this guy got his license revoked.
2:03:39
SPEAKER_05: I'll give you further details uh about the story.
2:03:42
SPEAKER_05: Again, coming up uh next hour, I have some uh audio to share regarding also the uh freakout that currently dominates uh the Democrat Party.
2:03:51
SPEAKER_05: Some of that happening right here in Minnesota uh as well.
2:03:54
SPEAKER_05: When you look at the controversies uh relating to the uh Lisa Damath uh campaign and uh also what's been going on with Angie, with Angie Craig.
2:04:06
SPEAKER_05: There's a lot of dysfunction that's been taking place uh as well.
2:04:09
SPEAKER_05: But it requires that, you know, us Republicans here in Minnesota, we also make sure that we get our act together and we coalesce behind those candidates who end up getting the nomination once we get past the uh the primary.
2:04:21
SPEAKER_05: I love to see the infighting of the DFL, but make no mistake, we got to make sure that we get our own issues uh hammered out so that we can take advantage of that panic that's taking place on the left right now.
2:04:32
SPEAKER_05: Here to talk a little bit about that and so much more.
2:04:34
SPEAKER_05: I'm very pleased to welcome to the John Justice Show, presented by American Experiment as we head into hour three.
2:04:39
SPEAKER_05: Lieutenant Governor candidate on the Lisa Damuth campaign.
2:04:42
SPEAKER_05: And uh, you know what, Ryan Wilson, I'll call you a friend of the show.
2:04:45
SPEAKER_05: Good morning, Ryan Wilson, and thank you so much for joining us this morning.
2:04:48
SPEAKER_05: Oh, thanks for having me.
2:04:50
SPEAKER_35: It's great to be on.
2:04:50
SPEAKER_35: I think the first time I came on was uh early 22 when I was running for auditor, back before people even knew we had an auditor.
2:04:57
SPEAKER_35: Um it's got a little more important since uh since then, and so thank you for having me on over the years.
2:05:01
SPEAKER_35: It's just been great being able to uh talk the state of affairs with you.
2:05:05
SPEAKER_05: What's um what's the current state of your guys' uh of your campaign?
2:05:09
SPEAKER_05: I think we might have talked post-convention.
2:05:12
SPEAKER_05: Of course, there was a lot of controversy that came out of that.
2:05:15
SPEAKER_05: And, you know, unfortunately, I think some of that controversy, you know, continues to cycle in the background based on the wake of what had happened at that convention.
2:05:23
SPEAKER_05: But what's the current state of uh of your campaign uh so far, especially in the wake of those controversies out of the convention, uh, Ryan Wilson?
2:05:32
SPEAKER_35: Yeah, the campaign's going great.
2:05:33
SPEAKER_35: You know, Lisa and I are traveling the state, and uh you know the best way to see that is if you you know follow her on the Twitter or the Facebook, you'll see that we're you know up and down, left and right, all over, you know, take taking the uh time to meet with folks and here just the other day we're up in Pine County talking to some farmers about the challenges that they see.
2:05:48
SPEAKER_35: And uh I think the campaign is the campaign is going great.
2:05:50
SPEAKER_35: Campaign finance reports just came out the other day.
2:05:53
SPEAKER_35: Um, continue to you know lead the pack in cash and hand and other important metrics, um, which is important.
2:05:58
SPEAKER_35: We're getting the message out.
2:05:59
SPEAKER_35: I mean, that's at the end of the day, uh, we need a candidate, and Lisa's really is that only candidate that can take it to Amy Klobuchar.
2:06:04
SPEAKER_35: You know, we have to be able to stop Amy or everything else is for naught if we don't uh if we don't turn the state around.
2:06:10
SPEAKER_05: You know, since you since you mentioned it, let me go ahead and go here.
2:06:12
SPEAKER_05: Uh Matt Dean here at Center of the American Experiment, he has a piece out this morning.
2:06:16
SPEAKER_05: Um I'll share with you the uh the uh AI overlord uh summary.
2:06:20
SPEAKER_05: Uh but the headline for Matt Dean's piece, as we talk with uh Lieutenant Governor candidate uh Ryan Wilson, Klobuchar's health plan rewrites history.
2:06:28
SPEAKER_05: Senator Amy Klobuchar's health care plan for Minnesota uh governor highlights her efforts to lower costs and protect the medical device industry.
2:06:37
SPEAKER_05: However, her support for the Affordable Care Act, the ACA in 2009, which included a medical device excise tax and led to significant premium increases in Minnesota, contradicts this narrative.
2:06:50
SPEAKER_05: Despite her later opposition to the tax and efforts to repeal it, the ACA's impact on Minnesota's healthcare system remains a point of contention.
2:06:59
SPEAKER_05: Um I encourage everybody to go and check out the entirety of its piece.
2:07:03
SPEAKER_05: Matt Dean uh gets into quite a bit of uh of detail.
2:07:06
SPEAKER_05: But Amy Klobuchar earlier this week came out and was touting what she wants to do regarding fraud and her health plans.
2:07:12
SPEAKER_05: But with what Matt Dean lays out here, at least my takeaway, Ryan, is that um she can't be trusted.
2:07:18
SPEAKER_05: We've seen her go back and forth on these votes that have had major dramatic negative impacts on Minnesota as she tries to sort of cast herself in a somewhat new light on the campaign trail.
2:07:30
SPEAKER_05: Uh your th your uh your thoughts on this and Amy Clobishar's healthcare plans and certainly what she's voted on in the past.
2:07:37
SPEAKER_35: Oh, sorry here, can you see me?
2:07:39
SPEAKER_35: Um, uh a hundred a hundred percent.
2:07:41
SPEAKER_35: And you know I was in the medical device industry for for years.
2:07:44
SPEAKER_35: You know, the company I started um supported the medical device industry, and that tax was a huge deal.
2:07:51
SPEAKER_35: And uh uh it it hurt existing businesses, it kept new businesses from coming to Minnesota.
2:07:56
SPEAKER_35: Uh and of course, Amy uh was, I believe, the 60th vote.
2:07:59
SPEAKER_35: I think they needed every vote to to pass that.
2:08:02
SPEAKER_35: And um, you know, without her, had she stood up for Minnesota, it wouldn't have passed.
2:08:06
SPEAKER_35: And so this gets back to we see this time and again with her policies where she says, Don't look at what I did, don't look at my record, look at just listen to what uh what I'm gonna say.
2:08:15
SPEAKER_35: Don't believe your uh your lying eyes, as they say.
2:08:18
SPEAKER_35: And we, and you know, it's the other day, she uh Amy Klobichar was saying, uh um, I'm gonna fight fraud, right?
2:08:22
SPEAKER_35: I'm gonna stand up, I'm gonna be loud on fraud, I'm gonna be doing, you know, all these things in her, you know, in her fraud plan.
2:08:27
SPEAKER_35: Then you look at what she's done over the last you know decade while this fraud's been happening, uh, when these federal dollars are being stolen, uh, she did nothing.
2:08:35
SPEAKER_35: She sat there.
2:08:35
SPEAKER_35: At best, she continued to pass these budgets and these bills and extend the same program uh that was feeding the feeding our future folks.
2:08:44
SPEAKER_35: And so again, it's pretty rich to say that now you're gonna, you know, change your stripes on whether it be healthcare or medical device or fraud or immigration that she voted, you know, for every open border bill that Joe Biden wanted.
2:08:54
SPEAKER_35: And but now, you know, now she's gonna be uh tough on crime.
2:08:56
SPEAKER_35: And so I just again, you gotta look at what she's done, not what she says she's gonna do.
2:09:00
SPEAKER_35: You know, she says she's gonna cut taxes or or not raise taxes, uh, but but she voted, she voted to raise taxes.
2:09:07
SPEAKER_35: What was it just last year?
2:09:08
SPEAKER_35: When the when the the one of the largest tax cuts was set to expire in 2025, she held it up.
2:09:15
SPEAKER_35: Uh, thank goodness it passed, you know, through reconciliation, and those tax cuts got extended on the middle class, on our small businesses.
2:09:22
SPEAKER_35: Um, but it is Amy just she can't she cannot be trusted because again, you look at her record and you compare that to what she's saying, the two things just don't line up.
2:09:30
SPEAKER_05: I was talking with a um radio station.
2:09:33
SPEAKER_05: I think it's up in in your neck of the woods.
2:09:35
SPEAKER_05: I think you're up in northern Minnesota right now, aren't you?
2:09:37
SPEAKER_05: Aren't you, Ryan Wilson?
2:09:38
SPEAKER_05: If I'm not mistaken.
2:09:38
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
2:09:39
SPEAKER_05: So I was talking with the radio station that serves the the Rocks and Cows uh up there yesterday.
2:09:43
SPEAKER_05: And uh the host made an interesting comment from their perspective.
2:09:47
SPEAKER_05: Um, they felt like Amy was starting to lean into more so than what they'd seen before.
2:09:53
SPEAKER_05: Um, what's what you've typically seen from the radical wing of the Democrat Party, wherein she sort of has taken this somewhat, you know, my my dear friend or dear friend uh Drew uh had uh you know had coined the phrase that uh that Amy Klobuchar was a senator of small things, but that it was his impression that she'd been leaning in more towards those radical left uh policies.
2:10:15
SPEAKER_05: And I'm curious if you've been uh seeing the same thing from her commentary out uh uh with her limited time on the campaign trail because she doesn't pop up very often.
2:10:24
SPEAKER_05: But have you seen that from Amy too?
2:10:26
SPEAKER_05: Her sort of leaning into that radical left-wing part of the Democrat Party right now?
2:10:30
SPEAKER_35: Not on the campaign trail, but I think she's always been there.
2:10:33
SPEAKER_35: Let me give you a couple more examples.
2:10:34
SPEAKER_35: Sure.
2:10:34
SPEAKER_35: So, you know, there was there was a bill in Congress to um to stop boys from competing in girls' sports.
2:10:40
SPEAKER_35: She voted against it, right?
2:10:41
SPEAKER_35: I mean, that is that is something that 80% of Minnesotans would want to see be able to be able to happen here.
2:10:46
SPEAKER_35: Uh she, you know, she's led very few bills.
2:10:49
SPEAKER_35: She's, you know, she's usually on uh on the backbench, as they say.
2:10:52
SPEAKER_35: Um every now and then she'll try to put her name on something and lead a charge.
2:10:55
SPEAKER_35: Well, one of the charges she tried to lead, and thankfully it wasn't successful, um, was to a bill that would have, in effect, banned voter ID across the country.
2:11:04
SPEAKER_35: I think at that time it was 20-some states that had it.
2:11:07
SPEAKER_35: And this was uh one of the key points of her bill.
2:11:09
SPEAKER_35: And so again, that's another 80-20 issue.
2:11:11
SPEAKER_35: That's it that is, and we just saw a bunch of polling this last week on it.
2:11:13
SPEAKER_35: You know, that is a radical, a radical idea.
2:11:15
SPEAKER_35: And again, all the open border stuff, you know, the free health care for illegals, you know, uh, these are the kinds of things that she was.
2:11:20
SPEAKER_35: So she's she's always been there.
2:11:22
SPEAKER_35: She's just tried to package it in a way that uh and hide it really from from Minnesotans and um and hasn't faced a lot of scrutiny over the years.
2:11:29
SPEAKER_35: And she's gonna get, you know, uh when when uh you know when this primary gets wrapped up here, um, you know, and and Lisa's able to kind of take it to her one-on-one, I think she's gonna have her first real challenger uh since she's been elected.
2:11:40
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I was gonna ask you, talking with Ryan Wilson, Lieutenant Governor uh governor candidate uh on uh uh Lisa Damas uh campaign, uh, can you kind of contrast um Lisa compared to what you just mentioned?
2:11:52
SPEAKER_05: I mean, as you're going through the list, I'm thinking in my mind, well, I'm fairly confident that Lisa's pretty much against everything.
2:12:00
SPEAKER_05: That you were just talking about regarding Amy Klobuchar.
2:12:02
SPEAKER_05: But I'm I'm just curious to get your perspective as you um as you go to reach voters and not just Republican voters, but also those open-minded, and there are still some out there, those open-minded Democrat voters that may not be thrilled about Amy Clobichar, but may want to vote for her as a default.
2:12:17
SPEAKER_05: Um, you know, compare and contrast the two the two candidates in in your mind.
2:12:21
SPEAKER_05: I know you're biased.
2:12:22
SPEAKER_05: That being said, I am curious your thoughts, though.
2:12:24
SPEAKER_35: Well, let's take uh let's take economic plans, right?
2:12:27
SPEAKER_35: Uh uh Lisa wants to make sure that uh small businesses, that families keep more of their hard-earned money.
2:12:34
SPEAKER_35: And that's that's the fraud, right?
2:12:36
SPEAKER_35: Making sure that it doesn't get stolen, but also just from tax reform, regulatory reform, permitting reform, red tape reform.
2:12:41
SPEAKER_35: You know, those are all things that Lisa has fought for, some of which, even though she only had a tie, were able to pass.
2:12:46
SPEAKER_35: And so you can look at her record and see what she's been advocating for.
2:12:49
SPEAKER_35: Um again, Amy's gonna run on some of those things, but what you see her actual record is there's never been a regulation that she hasn't liked.
2:12:55
SPEAKER_35: Uh, you brought up ACA, the Fairable Court Affordable Care Act.
2:12:58
SPEAKER_35: Um, because someone said to me the other day, Ryan, everything the government touches and tries to make more affordable gets way more expensive.
2:13:04
SPEAKER_35: And the things that they don't, take like flat screen TVs, they come crashing down in price.
2:13:08
SPEAKER_35: And so we need to get the government just stop touching things, stop doing things.
2:13:11
SPEAKER_35: And so um that, you know, and like we said, boys and girls sports, open borders versus closed borders.
2:13:17
SPEAKER_35: Um, you know, Lisa, I think, did a um masterful job um navigating some of the challenges we had here over the immigration policy at the uh beginning of the year, right?
2:13:26
SPEAKER_35: Um met with Vice President Vance when he came in and really laid out a framework for if Minnesota is cooperating with the federal government the way that states like Michigan do, which, you know, uh uh uh Governor Whitmer isn't exactly, you know, a far-right, uh far-right governor.
2:13:43
SPEAKER_35: And so they didn't see the kind of things that we had here.
2:13:45
SPEAKER_35: Instead, what do you have is you have Amy Klubachar showing up at the No Kings rallies, I believe, right?
2:13:49
SPEAKER_35: And so you you just uh Minnesotans will see just a return to normalcy, a return to kind of common sense, um, taking down the temperature, just kind of bringing it back to the um the Minnesota that we know that's great.
2:14:01
SPEAKER_35: You know, we we like things like our parks and our lakes and our schools and things that we want to invest in, right?
2:14:07
SPEAKER_35: We don't want to um we don't want to be a uh uh society that leaves people in need um without that helping hand.
2:14:14
SPEAKER_35: I mean, that's the nature of Minnesota.
2:14:16
SPEAKER_35: But there's a way you can do it responsibly and a way that you can do it to um balance kind of the needs of everybody and make sure that again you're not uh not stealing from folks.
2:14:24
SPEAKER_35: I think I think when you look at that, it's really at every single issue.
2:14:26
SPEAKER_35: Go and again go back to the election integrity stuff on the voter ID.
2:14:30
SPEAKER_35: Um people want that.
2:14:31
SPEAKER_35: People want uh they have no issue walking in and showing their license to somebody to be able to vote because that's how much their vote matters to them.
2:14:37
SPEAKER_35: They want to make sure that it's uh that it's protected.
2:14:39
SPEAKER_35: And you got Amy again leading the charge on bills that don't.
2:14:41
SPEAKER_35: And you know, immigration.
2:14:42
SPEAKER_35: Amy's voting for every open border policy that uh the Joe Biden, the Joe Biden advanced towards.
2:14:47
SPEAKER_35: So it's gonna be a nice contrast uh come this fall that I think Minnesotans will be able to look.
2:14:52
SPEAKER_35: You know, I just want kind of a someone that's been here, that's been in Minnesota, um, that hasn't been in DC for the last 20 years, that knows the issues that uh that we have.
2:15:01
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2:15:04
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2:15:11
SPEAKER_05: We're talking with Ryan Wilson, Lieutenant Governor candidate with uh Lisa Damath.
2:15:14
SPEAKER_05: We have a uh blast that's rolled in from uh Curtis on the topic of Amy Clobishar.
2:15:20
SPEAKER_05: Let's go ahead and hear from him.
2:15:21
SPEAKER_19: Yeah, every time uh somebody is able to ask Amy questions in an open forum.
2:15:29
SPEAKER_19: I should ask her why she wasn't at the fraud hearing in DC.
2:15:36
SPEAKER_19: None of the Democrats were, but why wasn't she there?
2:15:40
SPEAKER_05: Well, I know that um Ryan Wilson, uh, she uh Amy, there was a piece on Amy Clobusar she held a press conference recently talking about, you know, she was going to be the one to go and and tackle fraud.
2:15:51
SPEAKER_05: It's tragic that our you know our mainstream media here in Minnesota doesn't take the next step in asking the very legitimate question of how does she feel about Governor Tim Walls and the fraud that has occurred under him and current attorney general uh Keith Ellison.
2:16:05
SPEAKER_05: But what are your thoughts on what Amy Klobuchar has said about her desire to go and tackle uh tackle fraud?
2:16:12
SPEAKER_35: So this is another great example of you know, almost everything that Amy does is uh gonna be pull tested, workshopped, you know, how is this gonna play out?
2:16:21
SPEAKER_35: And that's why you can't see Amy ever respond to something in in real time.
2:16:24
SPEAKER_35: And it's not not I we'll we'll let's see how many debates that she's willing to do.
2:16:28
SPEAKER_35: And and um uh it'll be interesting.
2:16:31
SPEAKER_35: Uh um we have uh I think we have an upcoming debate with her and all the candidates in uh in FarmFest, so that'll be good uh or forum or whatever you want to call it.
2:16:37
SPEAKER_35: Um but no, on this uh on this fraud stuff, we rolled out our fraud plan in uh, I think November, early December, as soon as we got in, it's a five-point plan and and um talks about how we're gonna tackle fraud, you know, what the role myself, my role as a lieutenant governor is gonna be in making sure that fraud gets rooted out across uh across agencies.
2:16:55
SPEAKER_35: Um parts of that included things like the Office of Inspector General bill, making sure that gets through, or modernizing IT systems in our uh, you know, across our counties where a lot of these verifications are happening, right?
2:17:05
SPEAKER_35: And so that was part of our plan in December, I call it December.
2:17:09
SPEAKER_35: Um then Amy rolls out her plan in, oh, I think February or whatever.
2:17:13
SPEAKER_35: It was a couple uh months after she uh after she announced getting in, and had a lot of those same elements, right?
2:17:18
SPEAKER_35: And so it took her a while to get it out there, uh, had a lot of the things that were in Lisa and I's plan, um, had some other things in there.
2:17:24
SPEAKER_35: Uh, but if you look at what who's actually willing to put uh kind of their their feet forward and get her done, uh Lisa passed multiple elements of her plan, were able to get it passed as speaker of the host, used her uh already position of leadership to be able to fight fraud with nothing more than a tie.
2:17:39
SPEAKER_35: And so even though Democrats blocked it for you know a year, that Office of Inspector General bill got passed.
2:17:45
SPEAKER_35: Um, additional money to modernize those IT systems got passed.
2:17:48
SPEAKER_35: So Lisa's already delivering on the things that she says she's gonna do.
2:17:52
SPEAKER_35: If you look at the things, uh other things in Amy's plan, things like I'm gonna audit, you know, the entire government top to bottom.
2:17:58
SPEAKER_35: Well, call on Governor Wallace to do it today.
2:18:00
SPEAKER_35: A lot of the things in her plan, she could call on her party, her governor, her governor that she emphatically endorsed to do today.
2:18:07
SPEAKER_35: But she's not because it's all just packaging, it's all just for show.
2:18:10
SPEAKER_35: And we all know that the status quo is what's gonna happen.
2:18:13
SPEAKER_35: We're gonna get a Wallace third term, and uh Amy Klobuchar is gonna be just like it was before.
2:18:17
SPEAKER_35: Because if she if she really believed in it, she would do what Lisa did.
2:18:20
SPEAKER_35: Lisa's already delivering on her plan.
2:18:22
SPEAKER_35: Uh Amy could deliver on her plan, and she's not.
2:18:25
SPEAKER_05: Uh let's talk a little bit about the uh primary.
2:18:28
SPEAKER_05: You know, we talked about the controversy that came out of the of the uh the GOP uh convention.
2:18:34
SPEAKER_05: Um that being said, uh recently you had President Donald Trump.
2:18:37
SPEAKER_05: He tossed his endorsement out for gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell.
2:18:41
SPEAKER_05: Shortly after that, Mike Lindell made quite a few waves with his um pathway to non-voting citizenship amnesty plan.
2:18:51
SPEAKER_05: I know that his camp tries to has tried to frame this as not being an amnesty plan, although Mike Lindell has been on record saying people can call it whatever they they want to call it.
2:19:00
SPEAKER_05: But your uh response, uh Ryan Wilson, as lieutenant governor candidate on Lisa Dama's campaign, uh your response to this uh proposal that uh Mike Lindell's campaign has put out regarding those who've come into our country uh illegally.
2:19:13
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we're really surprised by it.
2:19:15
SPEAKER_35: You know, it undoes a lot of the work that has already been fought for here by Republicans in Minnesota.
2:19:20
SPEAKER_35: And again, uh Republicans haven't held a lot of cards over the last decade, you know, um, in the House.
2:19:25
SPEAKER_35: Um I think this is the first this is the first time Lisa has ever been and called in power.
2:19:29
SPEAKER_35: She's in the tie, right?
2:19:30
SPEAKER_35: And so, but with that, was able to leverage important wins like repealing um free uh health care for illegal uh illegal immigrants.
2:19:38
SPEAKER_35: I should call it free, taxpayer paid for healthcare, free to them for illegal immigrants.
2:19:43
SPEAKER_35: And what that does is that turns off one of the many magnets that were created by the Democrats to draw illegal immigrants to this state.
2:19:50
SPEAKER_35: Um with that comes crime, you know, additional crime in addition to being here illegally.
2:19:54
SPEAKER_35: With that comes, you know, um burden on our already overburdened resources here and you know, the people that have been paying in.
2:20:01
SPEAKER_35: Um the you know, Minnesota benefits should be for Minnesotans.
2:20:05
SPEAKER_35: And uh, and so we've made a little bit of progress again with the with the little bit of power that Republicans have had, and granting this kind of amnesty um would undo all of that.
2:20:15
SPEAKER_35: And not only that, but it would make us a super magnet for the country.
2:20:18
SPEAKER_35: And if if we're the state that, you know, over a six-month period you can get kind of this uh get a jail free card um from uh you know um the Lindell Amnesty Plan, um, everybody from across the country is gonna come and try to get that.
2:20:31
SPEAKER_35: And so it it is it is probably one of the worst policies that uh has ever been proposed by a Republican um in any primary race, right?
2:20:39
SPEAKER_35: Or any race, any race ever.
2:20:41
SPEAKER_35: And uh not to mention that just how it would work, it doesn't quite make any sense.
2:20:45
SPEAKER_35: But again, the even the idea of it, the fact that it's being um fleshed out or floated out there, um, and I see it goes back and forth between being a Minnesota plan and a national, you know, being referred to as a national plan.
2:20:55
SPEAKER_35: Um, that makes it even worse.
2:20:56
SPEAKER_35: So this is a plan that was going to be advocated for for the entire country.
2:20:58
SPEAKER_35: And so I just I don't get it.
2:21:00
SPEAKER_35: It doesn't make sense.
2:21:02
SPEAKER_35: Um uh yeah, I think we're on day like seven of uh it trying to be explained away by the uh by the Lindell camp.
2:21:07
SPEAKER_35: And what we keep seeing is not uh not just saying I was wrong or pulling it back, but trying to double down on it and explain that it would triple down on it.
2:21:15
SPEAKER_35: And um I just uh I don't get it.
2:21:17
SPEAKER_35: You know, it's not uh you you will not see any kind of amnesty plan out of the Damuth campaign.
2:21:22
SPEAKER_05: Um we uh we it's not not not in our uh not in our repertoire.
2:21:26
SPEAKER_05: Well, let me um let's let's wrap on this.
2:21:28
SPEAKER_05: And uh I'm gonna give you uh I'm gonna let Ryan Wilson, I'm gonna let you choose your own adventure.
2:21:32
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
2:21:33
SPEAKER_05: So choose choose your own adventure, Lieutenant Governor candidate Ryan Wilson.
2:21:37
SPEAKER_05: Um there's a series of data points that AmericanExperiment.org has uh recently put out.
2:21:42
SPEAKER_05: These are available at the website uh at americanexperiment.org, but basically going and showing the challenges that we're faced with here in Minnesota on an almost daily basis.
2:21:51
SPEAKER_05: I mean, first off, you have the fact that over 68% of the individuals uh polled to say that we're on the on the wrong track.
2:21:57
SPEAKER_05: Uh let me run through these these bullet points here, and I'll just let you, I want you to choose which one that you want to address specifically in our conversation, and we can do this again the next time that you're uh that you're on.
2:22:08
SPEAKER_05: So choose your own adventure.
2:22:09
SPEAKER_05: Choose one of these wrong track items and and let us know uh your thoughts on it.
2:22:13
SPEAKER_05: So we have um kids in Mississippi can read better than kids in Minnesota.
2:22:18
SPEAKER_05: Minnesota is now a below average state economically.
2:22:21
SPEAKER_05: These are all fact-based.
2:22:22
SPEAKER_05: There's no refuting any of these.
2:22:24
SPEAKER_05: Uh 55% of students can't do math at a grade level.
2:22:29
SPEAKER_05: Minnesota taxes to small businesses more than any other state.
2:22:32
SPEAKER_05: And Minnesota's government led fraudsters steal over nine billion dollars.
2:22:37
SPEAKER_05: So choose your own adventure, Ryan Wilson.
2:22:39
SPEAKER_05: Which one of those uh items showing that we're on the wrong track would you like to uh would you like to address?
2:22:45
SPEAKER_05: Let's wrap on fraud.
2:22:46
SPEAKER_05: How about that?
2:22:46
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
2:22:48
SPEAKER_35: Um, you know, I I think people I know people work really, really hard for the money they take home.
2:22:56
SPEAKER_35: And a lot of that money ends up going to the government, supposed to go to the government to do things like our school so our kids can read, right?
2:23:02
SPEAKER_35: Um, they can learn math and science so that uh, you know, um we shouldn't be collecting money that we don't need for our businesses.
2:23:08
SPEAKER_35: All those things you talked about kind of starts with that fraud.
2:23:12
SPEAKER_35: When we're overtaxing our our uh hardworking Minnesotans here, our hardworking families.
2:23:17
SPEAKER_35: And that money didn't need to be taxed in the first place because it was going to, you know, by uh, I don't know, what was it, condos in Kenya or different things, you know, in other parts of the world.
2:23:25
SPEAKER_35: Um that's wrong.
2:23:27
SPEAKER_35: You know, that's uh the Democrats like to talk a lot about injustice.
2:23:29
SPEAKER_35: That's an injustice.
2:23:31
SPEAKER_35: That is um that is stealing time from people away from their family.
2:23:35
SPEAKER_35: Every extra hour that somebody has to work, that that money goes to fraudsters instead of what it was supposed to.
2:23:41
SPEAKER_35: That's money that could have been at a baseball game, that could have been um helping, you know, uh raise a newborn, that could have been taking care of uh a grandparent.
2:23:48
SPEAKER_35: Um, but instead, people had to work those extra hours to put extra money in their own family's pockets uh above and beyond what the government has taken from them so that they can uh can live their lives.
2:23:57
SPEAKER_35: And so it starts with stopping, eliminating the fraud, getting any money we can get back.
2:24:02
SPEAKER_35: A lot of that money is already, you know, left the country.
2:24:04
SPEAKER_35: But any money we can get, we should get back, making sure that people are prosecuted, held accountable, uh, and that can't keep taking from the government.
2:24:12
SPEAKER_35: You know, you you defraud the government, you should be disqualified from ever being able to work in a program again or even be able to get benefits from a program again.
2:24:20
SPEAKER_35: If you're a fraudster, you're done.
2:24:21
SPEAKER_35: You want to go to another state and get their benefits?
2:24:23
SPEAKER_35: I guess that's up to that state, but you ain't gonna give it, you're not gonna be getting them from Minnesota.
2:24:27
SPEAKER_35: Um, we uh we cannot let ourselves be taken advantage of anymore.
2:24:31
SPEAKER_35: People are angry about this.
2:24:32
SPEAKER_35: When I travel the state, it's the first thing that comes up.
2:24:34
SPEAKER_35: I think of a gentleman that came up to me once and said, single dad.
2:24:37
SPEAKER_05: I had for you was what what are you hearing the most from people?
2:24:39
SPEAKER_05: And I think you're answering it.
2:24:41
SPEAKER_35: Yeah, single dad, couple kids, and says, you know, he was angry.
2:24:45
SPEAKER_35: Um, and said, I work, he says, I work really hard and um we don't make a lot of money, aren't able to set a lot aside a lot of money.
2:24:53
SPEAKER_35: Um, and I gotta send my kids to daycare and daycare down the street.
2:24:57
SPEAKER_35: Yeah, he was saying, and he says, um, I it's expensive.
2:25:00
SPEAKER_35: I got three kids there, including a little one.
2:25:03
SPEAKER_35: And to find out that, you know, I got to work about you know a week and a half to be able to afford daycare, um, you know, and then the rest of the month is for other stuff.
2:25:09
SPEAKER_35: He said, But to find out that my other money is going to pay other people's daycares, it's not even going to help their other people's kids going to daycares, it's being stolen by fraudsters who are buying things like Lamborghinis and houses and living the high life.
2:25:20
SPEAKER_35: He's like, What am I doing here?
2:25:21
SPEAKER_35: Why am I working so hard and you know, barely getting by so that other people can cheat the system?
2:25:27
SPEAKER_35: And so that's the hearing that kind of story, you know, that should make us all want to care about stopping the fraud.
2:25:34
SPEAKER_35: And the fact that, you know, um, Governor Wallace and the Democrats and Amy Klobuchar have let it happen and haven't spoken up and haven't been angry.
2:25:42
SPEAKER_35: That's an injustice against Minnesota families and everyday Minnesotans and people that work hard.
2:25:47
SPEAKER_35: And, you know, we see a lot of this kind of um faux compassion from uh, you know, from Governor Wallace and the Democrats.
2:25:53
SPEAKER_35: Um, but what about the compassion for the gentleman I just described to you and for the family that's struggling to get by and that's overtaxed and own daycare is super expensive, while they're again paying for daycare fraudsters to steal this money.
2:26:03
SPEAKER_35: And so I I think that is going to be the central issue of this election is contrasting um who cares, really cares about Minnesotans, um, how their families work, how their families operate, how their families are able to save and live their lives uh between these two candidates, Amy and Lisa.
2:26:22
SPEAKER_05: Ryan Wilson, again, Lieutenant Governor candidate on the Lisa Dame with campaign.
2:26:25
SPEAKER_05: Where would you like people to uh to go to find out more about uh about the campaign right now, Ryan?
2:26:30
SPEAKER_35: Go to Lisa4mn.com and follow us on all socials, Twitter, Facebook.
2:26:34
SPEAKER_35: It's a great way to stay in touch with Lisa, any new policies and uh and things that we're rolling out.
2:26:38
SPEAKER_05: Thank you so much uh for the time this morning.
2:26:40
SPEAKER_05: It's always great to speak with you, and I look forward to the next time you and I have a chance to uh to chat.
2:26:44
SPEAKER_05: Have fun next week at uh farmfest.
2:26:46
SPEAKER_05: I know American Experiment will be uh will be up there, so be sure you swing on by the booth and say uh say hi to everybody.
2:26:53
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of fraud, let me share this one with you really quick.
2:26:56
SPEAKER_05: Um, from Alpha News.
2:26:58
SPEAKER_05: Um four men have plead have uh pled guilty to bilking.
2:27:04
SPEAKER_05: That's also a word I did not expect on the show today.
2:27:08
SPEAKER_05: Not on my bingo card.
2:27:09
SPEAKER_05: For bilking Medicaid in Minnesota under a company called Brilliant Minds.
2:27:15
SPEAKER_05: So uh defrauding Minnesota's housing stabilization services program of approximately$2.2 million.
2:27:21
SPEAKER_05: They used artificial intelligence to fabricate records and inflate service claims, exploiting the program designed to help people with disabilities and addictions find and maintain housing.
2:27:34
SPEAKER_05: They are facing justice for their fraudulent conduct.
2:27:37
SPEAKER_05: So the scheme highlights the burgeoning trend of fraudsters using artificial intelligence.
2:27:44
SPEAKER_05: And so while the DFL and the state wants to craft these laws, and I'm not saying there's not justification for making sure that you can't go and exploit individuals by using artificial intelligence to create nude versions of those people, nobody wants that.
2:28:00
SPEAKER_05: As I mentioned earlier, Elon Musk is filing a lawsuit because the law itself is overly broad, and in the case of Grok uh AI attached to X, they already have filters that keep that type of image from being created.
2:28:17
SPEAKER_05: Here you have legitimate concerns of artificial intelligence and the way that fraudsters can go and take advantage of this.
2:28:23
SPEAKER_05: As a matter of fact, we talked with David Gartnerstein Ross yesterday, the CEO of Expert Theory and our AI analyst and expert.
2:28:30
SPEAKER_05: That was in the first hour of the show, and I encourage you to head on over to wherever you listen to podcasts and make sure you give a listen to that interview because we talked about this very issue of artificial intelligence and uh security.
2:28:42
SPEAKER_05: But they used AI to further a fraud scheme targeting health care programs in Minnesota and around the country.
2:28:49
SPEAKER_05: This is according to the DOJ's announcement.
2:28:51
SPEAKER_05: The defendants corruptly exploited vulnerable people and a vulnerable program to enrich themselves.
2:28:57
SPEAKER_05: Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said in a statement taxpayer dollars designed to provide shelter and support for the homeless and needy instead went to the pockets of these men.
2:29:07
SPEAKER_05: And they now have admitted their fraudulent conduct and will face justice for their crimes.
2:29:11
SPEAKER_05: In the meantime, our work to stamp out fraud in Minnesota will continue in abandoned.
2:29:17
SPEAKER_05: This is just another example of the means and the ways that the fraudsters here have been taking our money and the lengths that they're willing to go to in order to do just that.
2:29:30
SPEAKER_05: They become so brazen, unfortunately, in large part, because they were allowed to get away with it for far too long.
2:29:36
SPEAKER_05: Because the Minnesota Attorney General, Thief Ellison, and Governor Dim Walls simply didn't give a rip about the issue until they had to give a rip about the issue, until the chorus around the fraud and the number grew to a point where local media couldn't ignore it and therefore they couldn't ignore it.
2:29:53
SPEAKER_05: And now, of course, they're all out there touting how they're gonna be the ones to handle this.
2:29:58
SPEAKER_05: I mean, this is in large part the reason why Governor Dim Walls backed out of the governor's race because of all this fraud.
2:30:04
SPEAKER_05: And the expectation is that Lamy Clobuchar is gonna be the one to step in and go and fix it?
2:30:08
SPEAKER_05: Hardly.
2:30:09
SPEAKER_05: The woman simply cannot be trusted.
2:30:11
SPEAKER_05: And again, that just serves as a further example of the lengths in which these fosters will go to to commit their crimes.
2:30:18
SPEAKER_05: It's the brazenness of it that really just drives me the most nuts.
2:30:23
SPEAKER_05: Individuals who just have a mindset that this is just what you can do.
2:30:26
SPEAKER_05: You just come to America and you can go and commit these acts of fraud.
2:30:29
SPEAKER_05: It's it's a bit the cottage industry.
2:30:31
SPEAKER_05: It's easy, they don't even hold you accountable.
2:30:34
SPEAKER_05: More people need to be held accountable.
2:30:36
SPEAKER_05: I'm glad to see that these prosecutions are moving forward.
2:30:39
SPEAKER_05: All right, coming up.
2:30:41
SPEAKER_05: Oh, glad to see this.
2:30:42
SPEAKER_05: Poor guy.
2:30:43
SPEAKER_05: Wisconsin uh brewery that offered free beer when Trump dies says their alcohol permit was revoked.
2:30:49
SPEAKER_05: I will give you uh details on that in just a moment.
2:30:51
SPEAKER_05: Here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
2:30:54
SPEAKER_05: Right now I want to share with you some commentary between Grace Keating and um Matt Dean from Center of the American Experiment on a recent American Experiment podcast.
2:31:04
SPEAKER_01: By the way, the class of 2025 just posted the worst academic performance on record for a graduating cohort.
2:31:11
SPEAKER_01: But wait, that's why they earned, of course, the highest graduation rate ever.
2:31:16
SPEAKER_01: Record low academic performance.
2:31:18
SPEAKER_01: They can't read at do math read at grade level, they can't do math at grade level, the schools aren't teaching them anything, but they're still graduating in record numbers.
2:31:27
SPEAKER_41: It's crazy, they do such a disservice.
2:31:28
SPEAKER_41: How do we expect them to be successful?
2:31:31
SPEAKER_41: We're just setting them up for um failure, which is really sad.
2:31:35
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2:31:37
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2:31:39
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2:31:42
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2:31:50
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2:32:00
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2:32:02
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2:32:05
SPEAKER_41: I looked it up, and the percentage of children in poverty in Minnesota is about 10%, which is lower than the national average.
2:32:12
SPEAKER_41: So how come somewhere around a third, 33% say, of children in Minnesota are on Medicaid if they aren't poor?
2:32:20
SPEAKER_23: Sure, my kids are grown now, but I had three kids that I raised, and for us, we could make over$100,000 a year, and still our kids would be on Medicaid, if you can imagine that.
2:32:33
SPEAKER_23: That's middle class.
2:32:34
SPEAKER_23: That's crazy.
2:32:36
SPEAKER_23: And uh, you know, we also as a state, I think we should really measure ourselves by how few people have to rely on the government for healthcare, not how many.
2:32:45
SPEAKER_23: But if you ask uh, you know, Governor Walls, he'll say the more people we feed, the better, the more people on government programs, the better.
2:32:54
SPEAKER_23: And that's really how he measures the state, and we really see that in the numbers in Medicaid, which have just exploded.
2:33:02
SPEAKER_37: Think about it.
2:33:03
SPEAKER_37: Black and Hispanic students in Mississippi perform better in reading and math than black and Hispanic students in Minnesota.
2:33:10
SPEAKER_37: And Mississippi spends thousands of dollars less per student than Minnesota.
2:33:14
SPEAKER_37: Mississippi spends less money, gets better results, and their achievement gaps are closing, while ours are getting worse.
2:33:21
SPEAKER_37: Think about it.
2:33:22
SPEAKER_37: It's time for real education reform so Minnesota can catch up to Mississippi.
2:33:27
SPEAKER_37: Think about it, it's brought to you by Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota's think tank.
2:33:32
SPEAKER_23: You have to ask yourself, how in the heck can we be spending that much more money on Medicaid?
2:33:37
SPEAKER_23: And we're really looking into that because we think a lot of that money is going to people who are dead, people who live in other states, people who are on more than one program.
2:33:47
SPEAKER_23: And you are not surprised because you've seen that on so many different programs in the state of Minnesota.
2:33:53
SPEAKER_23: But Medicaid is by far the biggest enchilada when it comes to that.
2:33:58
SPEAKER_01: That blows my mind.
2:34:00
SPEAKER_23: If you leave the state, they still get a check for you every month.
2:34:04
SPEAKER_23: And if you are um if you are covered by more than one program or you get married and you're on your your husband or wife's plan, they still get a check unless that is circumvented.
2:34:16
SPEAKER_23: So they have sort of a a very vested interest in not finding you.
2:34:22
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2:35:10
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2:35:13
SPEAKER_05: Uh let's go here talking about the state of the Democrat Party, including this lunatic, the uh owner Kirk Bangstad of this brewery in Wisconsin, who had in the past faced a backlash for a social media post offering free beer upon Trump's death.
2:35:31
SPEAKER_05: Uh, he's had his alcohol permit revoked.
2:35:33
SPEAKER_05: I'm going to give you details on this in uh in just a moment.
2:35:36
SPEAKER_05: But there's a commonality between all of this.
2:35:38
SPEAKER_05: There's a commonality between actress Ann Hathaway and this ridiculous clip that's resurfaced of this nonsensical word salad speech she gave at a human rights um event.
2:35:51
SPEAKER_05: Also, David Hogg, formerly of the DNC, on MS Now, talking about the upheaval within the Democrat Party.
2:36:00
SPEAKER_05: First, though, let's start with Riley Gaines.
2:36:02
SPEAKER_05: She probably had one of the uh best retorts to Anne Hathaway's uh ridiculous uh comments at this human rights event.
2:36:10
SPEAKER_39: She lost me after the first sentence.
2:36:23
SPEAKER_38: That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness.
2:36:35
SPEAKER_38: And it is a myth that keeps money and power in the hands of the few instead of being invested in the lives of the free.
2:36:43
SPEAKER_38: I appreciate this community.
2:36:48
SPEAKER_38: Because it's where I learn to reject this myth.
2:36:52
SPEAKER_38: I appreciate this community because together we are not just going to question this myth, we are going to destroy it.
2:37:01
SPEAKER_39: Even when I disagree with people politically, I try and listen and understand where they're coming from, but after watching that video, I still have absolutely no idea what Anne Hathaway was saying.
2:37:10
SPEAKER_39: Saying that all races orbit around whiteness?
2:37:13
SPEAKER_39: I got news for you.
2:37:14
SPEAKER_39: If in the year 2026 you are making assumptions based on the color of someone's skin, then you are the racist, not the other way around.
2:37:21
SPEAKER_39: I guess my question for Anne is, what exactly are you advocating for?
2:37:24
SPEAKER_39: Do you want cisgenders, really the vast majority of Americans, to orbit around transgenders?
2:37:30
SPEAKER_39: Do you want normal Americans to bow down, kiss the feet, and grovel to a very loud, fringe, oftentimes violent minority?
2:37:38
SPEAKER_39: That's a rhetorical question, because of course Anne Hathaway does.
2:37:42
SPEAKER_39: Or at least that's what Anne Hathaway and her elk act like they want.
2:37:45
SPEAKER_39: Because that's the virtuous thing to do.
2:37:47
SPEAKER_39: I think that's what all of this boils down to.
2:37:49
SPEAKER_39: I think Anne Hathaway is virtue signaling.
2:37:51
SPEAKER_39: I think she wants to be seen as kind and empathetic and compassionate, but lying and affirming mental illness is none of those things.
2:37:58
SPEAKER_39: It just makes her seem out of touch and like a total self-absorbed narcissist.
2:38:02
SPEAKER_39: Good time to remind you that Anne Hathaway is an actor, meaning she's used to following scripts.
2:38:08
SPEAKER_39: She's used to portraying herself as someone she really isn't.
2:38:11
SPEAKER_39: She's made a career and a lot of money out of being someone else for our entertainment, for public consumption.
2:38:17
SPEAKER_39: And I view this as no different.
2:38:18
SPEAKER_39: But I guess that's what happens when you live in an echo chamber.
2:38:22
SPEAKER_05: Riley Gaines there.
2:38:23
SPEAKER_05: Fantastic comments based off of those ridiculous statements from uh from Anne Hathaway.
2:38:28
SPEAKER_05: It's there's a commonality between what with uh what Anne Hathaway said and what we know now of Anthony Fauci, the diaries that were released, and the testimony that he'll have to give today uh at the urging of uh of Rand Paul.
2:38:43
SPEAKER_05: Fauci likened himself as a celebrity.
2:38:46
SPEAKER_05: He inflated his own sense of self-importance.
2:38:49
SPEAKER_05: He should have been focused solely on what his expertise was, and that was dealing with pandemics, the likes of which none of us had ever had to face here in our lifetimes.
2:38:59
SPEAKER_05: But instead, the celebrity aspect and his the popularity around him got to his head, and he certainly seemed much more concerned about perpetuating and keeping up with that celebrity aspect that and that attention that he was gaining than it was than he was actually doing the right thing for the public.
2:39:18
SPEAKER_05: And individuals like Ann Hathaway, you know, Riley Gaines is right.
2:39:22
SPEAKER_05: We put a set a sense of worth on these individuals as actors and actresses, okay?
2:39:27
SPEAKER_05: And you have some that handle it the right way, right?
2:39:30
SPEAKER_05: They understand their role in life, they understand their role as entertainers, they stay out of politics, and then you have other individuals who take this inflated sense of self-worth and then go and try to use it for activism, and they just end up coming off like a bunch of idiots.
2:39:46
SPEAKER_05: And that's exactly what happened here with Anne Hathaway.
2:39:48
SPEAKER_05: But the mentality is permeating through the Democrat Party right now to their own demise.
2:39:54
SPEAKER_05: In fighting here in Minnesota, of course, on the national level, Ken Martin dealing with the DNC being millions of dollars in debt.
2:40:04
SPEAKER_05: The guy who was one of the leads at the DNC for a little while, David Hogg, was talking with MS Now about what's been going on with the DNC to get his passed inside perspective.
2:40:16
SPEAKER_40: David, you were a part of the DNC until June of last year when committee members voted to hold new elections for your post and a fellow vice chair.
2:40:24
SPEAKER_40: And this came after you told the New York Times that you planned to spend millions to bring generational change to the party.
2:40:31
SPEAKER_40: Knowing what you know now about the committee, what you've seen from Ken Martin, are you surprised at all by these reports?
2:40:38
SPEAKER_47: No, unfortunately, I'm I am disappointed to see them, but I'm far from surprised.
2:40:43
SPEAKER_47: Uh we I saw the writing in the wall early on.
2:40:46
SPEAKER_47: I remember talking about some of the issues that were going on that helped to decide the election.
2:40:50
SPEAKER_47: Let's remember here, you know, one of the main things that Chair Ken Martin ran on releasing was an autopsy report that would bring real accountability to the DNC.
2:40:59
SPEAKER_47: And that was totally fumbled, where there was no mention of Gaza, there was no mention of inflation, there was no mention of the president's age, or any of the any actual issues that decided the election.
2:41:09
SPEAKER_47: And it couldn't even, they couldn't even be bothered to include a conclusion in that.
2:41:13
SPEAKER_47: Then you add on top of that that it's now been 18 months, and that they had to put the building up as collateral, and they are$2 million in debt, and then you juxtapose that with the progressive movement and what's going on out there.
2:41:24
SPEAKER_47: It's it's incredibly sad to see the DNC in the committee at this point, and it could not be more clear that he's unfit to leave.
2:41:30
SPEAKER_47: We need somebody who can actually raise money and also not throw his phone at staff.
2:41:35
SPEAKER_05: There are so many opportunities for Republicans right now if we just don't squander it.
2:41:40
SPEAKER_05: Unfortunately, we've been squandering it.
2:41:43
SPEAKER_05: On numerous uh levels, right?
2:41:46
SPEAKER_05: We got to get our act together here in Minnesota.
2:41:49
SPEAKER_05: And as I've said numerous times already this morning, we need to coalesce behind whoever are those GOP nominees once we go and get past uh the primary.
2:42:00
SPEAKER_05: This couldn't have happened to a finer folk.
2:42:03
SPEAKER_05: A Wisconsin brewery, known for its anti-Trump social media posts, including one promising a free beer promotion upon the death of President Donald Trump, has had his permit to operate in the state revoked by state officials.
2:42:14
SPEAKER_05: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that liberal activist and brewery owner Kurt Bangstad is vowing to fight tooth and nail after receiving a letter from the State's Department of Revenue revoking his uh Minoqua Brewing Company's permit to operate in Wisconsin, according to a July 26 newsletter sent to his supporters.
2:42:34
SPEAKER_05: The only thing that could have been better is if uh something like this had happened with the Penzies the Spice Guy.
2:42:41
SPEAKER_05: As you can imagine, he says, I'm not taking this lying down.
2:42:45
SPEAKER_05: He wrote in a Substack post, because of course this idiot has a Substack.
2:42:49
SPEAKER_05: We're gonna fight the state of Wisconsin tooth and nail, but once again, they'll have to pry me out of my tap rooms before I stop selling beer to thirsty progressives who come to visit us.
2:43:01
SPEAKER_05: He was uh he was he also asked his readers, of course, to donate to his legal defense fund, writing as unusual, uh as usual, excuse me, fighting to keep my business alive means I have to pay lawyers, and that's never cheap.
2:43:15
SPEAKER_05: This happens uh this time, uh this happens every time.
2:43:19
SPEAKER_05: I rack up a hundred thousand dollars in legal defense bills before we even see a judge.
2:43:23
SPEAKER_05: If you can help chip into the Minoqua Company's legal defense fund, I'd really appreciate it.
2:43:28
SPEAKER_05: Does he not see the ridiculousness in his statement?
2:43:30
SPEAKER_05: This is all completely avoidable.
2:43:33
SPEAKER_05: Focus on making your beer, quit making political, stupid statements, and maybe you won't have these problems and won't have to fight these legal battles.
2:43:43
SPEAKER_05: But see, here I am making the mistake of expecting a radical Marxist-leftist to actually be intelligent.
2:43:52
SPEAKER_05: So the revocation of the beer license goes into effect on the 4th of August.
2:43:56
SPEAKER_05: The business has locations in Madison and uh Minacua.
2:44:00
SPEAKER_05: I think I'm pronouncing that correctly.
2:44:04
SPEAKER_05: I don't really care.
2:44:05
SPEAKER_05: It's Wisconsin.
2:44:06
SPEAKER_05: In a statement to Fox, a spokesperson for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, said the Wisconsin Division of Alcohol Beverages is dedicated to the fair and consistent enforcement of alcohol beverage regulations in Wisconsin.
2:44:19
SPEAKER_05: The division is also required to follow and implement state law, including ensuring permit holders and licensees follow all applicable laws and regulations.
2:44:29
SPEAKER_05: The division takes appropriate actions when these laws are not followed.
2:44:34
SPEAKER_05: The spokesperson added, we can confirm that the Department of Revenue has issued notice of a brewer's permit revocation for two Minaca brewing company locations and a notice of an alcohol beverage warehouse permit revocation for one location.
2:44:51
SPEAKER_05: The report said the state regulators pursued revoking Bangstad's alcohol license after authorities seized canned beer from his company in June, alleging that it had been transported from Illinois without the required permits and uh taxes.
2:45:06
SPEAKER_05: I'm pretty sure that was the plot of uh Kevin Costner's Untouchables, right?
2:45:12
SPEAKER_05: No?
2:45:13
SPEAKER_05: Great movie, by the way.
2:45:15
SPEAKER_05: It's top of mind because I think it's on Paramount Plus right now.
2:45:18
SPEAKER_05: I think I saw it on the either newly added or going away soon list of uh movies.
2:45:24
SPEAKER_05: One of my favorites when I was growing up.
2:45:26
SPEAKER_05: Uh the newspaper also reported that Bangstad criticized the proposed action as being excessive, arguing that the alleged tax violations didn't warrant shutting down his uh business.
2:45:36
SPEAKER_05: Of course, he's playing the victim in all of this.
2:45:39
SPEAKER_05: On January 22nd, the Monaqua Brewing Company appeared to suggest that it would give free beer to patrons if Trump was killed while not explicitly using his name.
2:45:51
SPEAKER_05: It was posted on Facebook free beer all day long the day he dies.
2:45:56
SPEAKER_05: You know, or as Governor Dimwall says, you know, there might be news.
2:46:02
SPEAKER_05: I'm so glad he's going away.
2:46:03
SPEAKER_05: I hope he goes away for a long, long time.
2:46:05
SPEAKER_05: I'm not expecting it.
2:46:07
SPEAKER_05: However, I do hope that he goes away for a long, long time.
2:46:10
SPEAKER_05: Let's hear from behind.
2:46:13
SPEAKER_27: I bet you that uh progressive bar.
2:46:20
SPEAKER_27: Have a good day.
2:46:21
SPEAKER_05: Is that an issue?
2:46:22
SPEAKER_05: Hoppy?
2:46:23
SPEAKER_05: Having too much hops?
2:46:24
SPEAKER_05: I don't know much about beer.
2:46:25
SPEAKER_05: I was actually telling Melinda I couldn't tell you the last time I had a beer.
2:46:29
SPEAKER_05: If it ain't zima, that ain't working for me.
2:46:31
SPEAKER_05: I'm just telling you.
2:46:33
SPEAKER_05: Have you ever had a Zima?
2:46:34
SPEAKER_05: I have not.
2:46:35
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I didn't think so.
2:46:36
SPEAKER_05: I think I was probably when it comes to you, Catherine and Grace, I think that that the Zima ended like long before any of you were of drinking age.
2:46:44
SPEAKER_05: That's my that's gonna be my that's gonna be my guest.
2:46:48
SPEAKER_05: Hence, if you're watching the live stream today, uh the blue background is uh in honor of Zima, because this is pretty much the color of what the uh of what the bottles were.
2:46:56
SPEAKER_05: Such good stuff.
2:46:57
SPEAKER_05: Clear malt beverage.
2:46:59
SPEAKER_05: It's delicious.
2:47:01
SPEAKER_05: Completely not marketed to a guy like me, even though a guy like me really loved it.
2:47:06
SPEAKER_05: Uh that post was updated to say the one that got this uh idiot into trouble.
2:47:10
SPEAKER_05: Uh we meant the Madison tap room because that's open all year.
2:47:13
SPEAKER_05: If he dies in the summer, then it's going to be the Minaqua tap room.
2:47:18
SPEAKER_05: And a reply to uh uh in reply to comment on the post, the company also did not refer to Trump by name, but said that the post hinted at a high-profile figure when asked whether the timeline for the deal could be moved up earlier.
2:47:32
SPEAKER_05: Well, that's up to you and your ability to act like a CIA agent, the company wrote.
2:47:38
SPEAKER_05: Following the April shooting at the White House correspondence dinner where Trump was present, the company that Bangstad owns wrote on Facebook, Well, we almost got free beer day.
2:47:49
SPEAKER_05: Either a brother or sister in the resistance needs to work on their marksmanship, or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.
2:47:57
SPEAKER_05: We'll never know.
2:47:58
SPEAKER_05: Regardless, we stand ready to pour free beer the day that it happens.
2:48:03
SPEAKER_04: I'm starting to think this guy doesn't like Trump very much.
2:48:06
SPEAKER_05: Not very much at all.
2:48:08
SPEAKER_05: Not a very good business owner across the board.
2:48:10
SPEAKER_04: No.
2:48:11
SPEAKER_05: He's putting up posts that is getting that are that are getting him in trouble.
2:48:14
SPEAKER_05: He's not following state law, probably because he feels like he's above the law.
2:48:19
SPEAKER_05: Well, he's giving away stuff for free.
2:48:20
SPEAKER_05: And he's giving away stuff for free, just like the postmodern.
2:48:23
SPEAKER_05: Just like the postmodern.
2:48:24
SPEAKER_05: There seems to be like a theme going on here, Isaac, that you're picking up on.
2:48:27
SPEAKER_05: I feel like uh you feel like you're getting educated?
2:48:30
SPEAKER_05: I think so.
2:48:30
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
2:48:31
SPEAKER_05: A lot of leering going on on the John Justice show.
2:48:34
SPEAKER_05: That's good.
2:48:35
SPEAKER_05: That's why I'm here.
2:48:36
SPEAKER_05: Bangstad, the owner of the brewery, is also the founder of the Minoqua Brewing Company Super PAC, which aims to remove Republican federal and state elected officials who perpetuated the election lies that caused the insurrection of January 6th.
2:48:51
SPEAKER_05: My gosh.
2:48:53
SPEAKER_05: Listen, January 6th is going to live in the hearts and minds of these radical progressives forever.
2:48:58
SPEAKER_05: They have blown the canon around that day.
2:49:01
SPEAKER_05: The head cannon that they all carry is truly astonishing.
2:49:05
SPEAKER_05: They simply cannot relent of their view, their ridiculous view of that day.
2:49:11
SPEAKER_05: I've said from the get-go, I would be more than happy to have a top-to-bottom accounting of everything that happened on January 6th.
2:49:19
SPEAKER_05: That would be a documentary that I would watch as long as it covered every single angle of what was involved that day.
2:49:25
SPEAKER_05: But of course, we'll never get that.
2:49:27
SPEAKER_05: He also said those who were downplaying the seriousness of COVID-19 that caused so many unnecessary deaths in our country, according to the brewery's website.
2:49:36
SPEAKER_05: Well, I'm sure that he is very pleased about the um Fauci testimony today.
2:49:41
SPEAKER_05: Since I would uh put uh Anthony Fauci firmly in that category of uh exacerbating uh what was already an incredibly uh deadly uh pandemic.
2:49:52
SPEAKER_05: If you want to leave us a blast, you can do so.
2:49:55
SPEAKER_05: 612-584-4565.
2:49:58
SPEAKER_05: 612-584-4565.
2:50:01
SPEAKER_05: If you want to leave a comment, we call them blasts here on our blaster line on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
2:50:07
SPEAKER_05: You can also uh email me John.justice at American Experiment.org.
2:50:14
SPEAKER_05: John.justice at AmericanExperiment.org.
2:50:16
SPEAKER_16: Hey John, welcome back.
2:50:17
SPEAKER_16: It's good to have you on in the mornings again.
2:50:19
SPEAKER_16: Um the comments about the IPAs.
2:50:21
SPEAKER_16: I love IPAs.
2:50:22
SPEAKER_16: I just learned the other day though that IPAs contain estrogen, which would make perfect sense as to why uh perhaps we the Democrats like it so much as well.
2:50:30
SPEAKER_16: You do learn something new every day.
2:50:33
SPEAKER_05: Can you buy like estrogen supplements?
2:50:35
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
2:50:36
SPEAKER_05: I wonder how much estrogen was in Zima.
2:50:38
SPEAKER_05: Do not leave me an email or a blast answering that question.
2:50:42
SPEAKER_05: It's rhetorical.
2:50:43
SPEAKER_05: I only did it for the jokes.
2:50:45
SPEAKER_05: I'm just saying.
2:50:46
SPEAKER_05: Uh Isaac, it wasn't uh considered to be the manliest of drinks.
2:50:50
SPEAKER_05: I just want to say that up front.
2:50:51
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I figured.
2:50:52
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
2:50:53
SPEAKER_05: There was a uh there was a clear, there was a clear phase that took place in the uh 1990s.
2:50:59
SPEAKER_05: Uh so you had uh yet Zima was a part of the clear phase because it was a clear malta beverage a beverage.
2:51:04
SPEAKER_05: You had Pepsi going the crystal clear route where it was clear Pepsi.
2:51:08
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
2:51:09
SPEAKER_05: That was really convenient um when I was uh much younger and into um tomfoolery when you would want to go to say a concert.
2:51:20
SPEAKER_05: Uh-oh.
2:51:21
SPEAKER_05: And you would like to bring with you an alcoholic beverage, but of course you can't carry in an alcoholic beverage.
2:51:26
SPEAKER_05: So you could.
2:51:27
SPEAKER_05: I'm not Isaac, I'm not saying that I did.
2:51:29
SPEAKER_04: Got it.
2:51:30
SPEAKER_04: Just in theory.
2:51:32
SPEAKER_05: I'm not saying that I did, but you could take someone could have.
2:51:36
SPEAKER_05: You could have.
2:51:37
SPEAKER_05: Right.
2:51:37
SPEAKER_05: You could take water bottles or clear Pepsi bottles and then fill them with with uh Zima and then go to your go to your go to your event.
2:51:47
SPEAKER_05: And I'm certainly not saying that there was uh an EMF concert that I went to at the Universal Amphitheater in Southern California, where I may have indulged entirely too much and might have gotten even a little bit sick before the show starts.
2:52:01
SPEAKER_05: I'm not saying that happened at all.
2:52:03
SPEAKER_05: Man, that's a good thing it didn't happen.
2:52:05
SPEAKER_05: No, no, those were during what uh I uh referred to as the uh as the dark years.
2:52:10
SPEAKER_05: That's about as dark as it as it got of the dark years of uh John Justice in the past.
2:52:14
SPEAKER_05: That's not too bad.
2:52:15
SPEAKER_05: No, not too bad.
2:52:19
SPEAKER_27: I could be wrong, but I think it was the Canadian border that were transporting weekly across the Canadian border.
2:52:25
SPEAKER_27: Okay.
2:52:26
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no, I Hans, I yeah, that was Yes, that was the plot of Untouchables.
2:52:31
SPEAKER_05: I I was making uh I was making a joke.
2:52:34
SPEAKER_05: I just want to just for clarity there.
2:52:37
SPEAKER_05: But thank you for the blast.
2:52:38
SPEAKER_05: 612-584-4565.
2:52:40
SPEAKER_05: All right, this is a little bit distressing, and I had to do some digging as to what actually happened.
2:52:44
SPEAKER_05: Minnesota IT services reports that it coordinated a cyber attack targeting technology at more than 30 community water systems between Sunday the 26th and Monday the 27th.
2:52:56
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of beverages, the state has activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities to respond to the attacks.
2:53:07
SPEAKER_05: So on Monday and Tuesday, Fox 9 reported, and this was in multiple news outlets, on notices from four cities that had disclosed the attacks Plymouth, South Say South St.
2:53:18
SPEAKER_05: Paul, uh Maple Plain, and Braum.
2:53:21
SPEAKER_05: All four cities said the impacts of the attacks were limited or mitigated, and residents could continue normal water use.
2:53:29
SPEAKER_05: The Minnesota Department of Health is not aware of any municipality asking residents to alter their drinking water use as a result of the attacks.
2:53:37
SPEAKER_05: Now, state officials say they are working with federal private security partners to investigate uh the uh the attacks, support the affected communities, and strengthen the security of Minnesota's critical critical infrastructure.
2:53:51
SPEAKER_05: Um so a portion of their statement towards the end, it says our response worked as intended, enabling agencies at every level of government to rapidly coordinate, contain the incident, and help prevent more serious impacts to critical services.
2:54:06
SPEAKER_05: Now I had to go and consult our AI overlords uh over this, but because none of the stories, and it's so weird when they do this, I don't understand why.
2:54:15
SPEAKER_05: Um, but none of the stories laid out exactly what had actually happened.
2:54:22
SPEAKER_05: Like we know there was a cyber attack.
2:54:24
SPEAKER_05: Immediately I go, why are we having our water services cyberattacked?
2:54:29
SPEAKER_05: unless they're looking to harm residents.
2:54:31
SPEAKER_05: There seem there appears to be no damage to our uh to our water supplies.
2:54:38
SPEAKER_05: So I did a a bit of a search with our AI overlords, and what I found out was this cyber attack, it shut down the computerized operating controls, disrupted the remote communications, and forced the cities to switch to um manual workloads.
2:54:55
SPEAKER_05: So it essentially stripped away an abundance of the technology that our water services uses, and they had to go back to sort of more archaic means of dealing with the daily operations of providing water in these various communities, South St.
2:55:11
SPEAKER_05: Paul, Maple Plain, Brahmin, and uh Plymouth.
2:55:13
SPEAKER_05: This is always strange to me when they don't ever give us the well, what did they do?
2:55:17
SPEAKER_05: And even to this point, I wonder, okay, well, what exactly were they attempting to do?
2:55:21
SPEAKER_05: Unless they were just simply doing a proof of concept that they could go and attack uh attack our our critical water infrastructure.
2:55:29
SPEAKER_05: So I'm curious to see if there will be any sort of further commentary on any of this.
2:55:36
SPEAKER_05: I'm not trying to, you know, bring about cause of concern, but when you've got cyber attacks and they're c you know and they are impacting our vulnerable water system, yeah, then there's a level of uh of concern there.
2:55:47
SPEAKER_05: Let's go back to the uh blaster line this morning.
2:55:50
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2:55:52
SPEAKER_17: Hey Hardy, welcome back to you and your stories about Monty.
2:55:57
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2:56:27
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2:56:29
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2:57:03
SPEAKER_05: All right, let's wrap up here.
2:57:04
SPEAKER_05: I've been talking about this a little bit throughout the morning.
2:57:07
SPEAKER_05: We covered this briefly on the Dry Run Freedom Friday show with Grace and Catherine.
2:57:12
SPEAKER_05: We will have Grace, uh Catherine, Max, and AK all in studio with us on Friday.
2:57:17
SPEAKER_05: So a full House Freedom Friday.
2:57:20
SPEAKER_05: Isaac is going to be very, very busy on Friday morning.
2:57:24
SPEAKER_05: Because he will he will be here as well.
2:57:26
SPEAKER_05: A lot of requests to get you on camera too.
2:57:28
SPEAKER_05: Why haven't we done that yet?
2:57:29
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
2:57:29
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
2:57:31
SPEAKER_05: I you just don't have an answer for that.
2:57:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
2:57:33
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
2:57:33
SPEAKER_05: No answer.
2:57:34
SPEAKER_05: We'll work on it.
2:57:34
SPEAKER_05: And when I say everybody, I mean my wife, because she's your biggest fan.
2:57:37
SPEAKER_05: There were a couple comments.
2:57:38
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
2:57:39
SPEAKER_04: I fear they don't know what they're asking for.
2:57:41
SPEAKER_05: So uh five new pieces of legislation you need to know before the start of the month.
2:57:47
SPEAKER_05: So again, we went through a few of these on Friday, but I want to one through uh run through these just quickly.
2:57:51
SPEAKER_05: Uh so the ban on crypto at ATMs, virtual uh currency kiosks, crypto ATMs have been a source of concern for law enforcement agencies.
2:58:00
SPEAKER_05: They are now being banned.
2:58:01
SPEAKER_05: Fighting fraud, we talked about this extensively.
2:58:04
SPEAKER_05: Um, according to the House of Representatives, a 2005 law uh lets state agencies withhold payments to a participant for up to 60 days if there is sufficient evidence the participant has committed fraud to get paid.
2:58:17
SPEAKER_05: Uh come August 1st, the new law removes the 60-day cap and lowers the evidence, incredible allegations of fraud verified in state agencies.
2:58:28
SPEAKER_05: And so this was one of the uh sort of the one of the few moments of bipartisanship to come out of the uh legislature this year in the passing of this.
2:58:37
SPEAKER_05: We also had the uh Kratom Age change.
2:58:40
SPEAKER_05: We talked about this at length on Friday's show, and I encourage you to go and check out the uh podcast uh as well.
2:58:47
SPEAKER_05: Also on uh the list, this one we didn't cover two new pieces of legislation directly inspired by the attack on lawmakers.
2:58:56
SPEAKER_05: The first one increases the penalties for impersonating a police officer from a misdemeanor to a felony.
2:59:02
SPEAKER_05: The penalty the penalty increases if the person is trying to get into a public building or government facility that is not open to the public or tries to control a person's actions.
2:59:14
SPEAKER_05: The next law centers around chemical irritants deployed by police inside of buildings.
2:59:23
SPEAKER_05: Following the assassination of his parents last June, Colin Hortman couldn't complete the cleanup of their home for months because it was unclear what chemicals were deployed during the police response and how they needed to be cleaned up.
2:59:38
SPEAKER_05: Now, this new law requires law enforcement to share information about what products were used during a police response when asked.
2:59:47
SPEAKER_05: You know, I'm curious, and the story doesn't get into it uh here from uh from uh Kara Levin, but I'm curious the reasons why that information was held private in the first place.
2:59:58
SPEAKER_05: Um I would guess that there was probably a reason why law enforcement was not making uh known what those chemical irritants uh were.
3:00:07
SPEAKER_05: And then also on the uh on the list of the uh of the new laws was the one that I mentioned earlier, and that was the artificial intelligence bringing about a host of new and frightening concerns, as written in the article when it comes to digital images.
3:00:20
SPEAKER_05: The nudification technology can be used to change a non-explicit photo of someone into a non-consensual, sexually explicit to image using AI.
3:00:29
SPEAKER_05: That technology is now banned throughout the state.
3:00:32
SPEAKER_05: However, Elon Musk's XAI has filed a lawsuit challenging the law, arguing that it is overly broad and infringes on protected speech.
3:00:45
SPEAKER_05: The law, which is uh set to take effect on August 1st, bans the use of AI to create non-conceptual, sexually explicit images and allows the victims to take legal action.
3:00:55
SPEAKER_05: The XAI claims that the law's definition of intimate part is too broad and could prohibit ordinary depictions of people.
3:01:03
SPEAKER_05: As a matter of fact, they mentioned in the article that you could essentially have individuals in bathing suits that are banned from this.
3:01:10
SPEAKER_05: The fate of the legislation is now uncertain, given this new challenge registered in the U.S.
3:01:15
SPEAKER_05: District Court of Minnesota yesterday, which sues Attorney General Thief Ellison over the new Minnesota statute.
3:01:22
SPEAKER_05: Um, Jim Walls, in response to it, said, see you in court, creep.
3:01:27
SPEAKER_05: Come on.
3:01:29
SPEAKER_05: Listen, I know that Governor Jim Walls doesn't care about how he goes and looks, but again, an individual who has passed some of the most draconian abortion laws in the state supports exploiting children, allowing access to explicit sexual material for children, allowing children to have their bodies mutilated by healthcare officials, and his response to this is calling Elon Musk a creep.
3:01:59
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, okay.
3:02:00
SPEAKER_05: You do you, Governor Dimwalls.
3:02:02
SPEAKER_05: But Elon makes uh you know makes a great point in all of this.
3:02:05
SPEAKER_05: It is overly broad, and the private sector is taking care of this.
3:02:08
SPEAKER_05: And wherein you would hope there would at least be some sort of discussion or pushback on this, the Bill's uh uh authors all they do is present the arguments of why it's bad.
3:02:17
SPEAKER_05: Nobody is disagreeing that it's bad, that you shouldn't have technology to allow the nudification of individuals.
3:02:24
SPEAKER_05: The point is the private sector and the creators of these apps and these AI large language models are already taking care of the problem on their end.
3:02:33
SPEAKER_05: Therefore, all this law is going to do is take away other potential advancements in AI.
3:02:40
SPEAKER_05: And at the end of the day, it may be that this law is worthy, but unfortunately, when you look at the commentary coming from the individuals that passed it, uh the our failed leadership and Thief Ellison and Dim Walls, and neither of them have any interest in whatsoever addressing the concerns of individuals who think that this is stifling AI innovation and people will still be safe, and instead they just want to rush to the fact that they think it's completely worthwhile because they passed it.
3:03:06
SPEAKER_05: But that's what you get from DFL and leftist uh leadership here in the state of Minnesota.
3:03:12
SPEAKER_05: That wraps up uh the show for today.
3:03:14
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3:03:47
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3:03:50
SPEAKER_05: with a replay of today's show in the hour leading up to 6 a.m.
3:03:55
SPEAKER_05: for those of you early risers that may have missed some of today's show.
3:03:58
SPEAKER_05: Also in studio tomorrow, uh Adam Schwarzi, a sen-in candidate, will be joining us in studio uh tomorrow morning.
3:04:05
SPEAKER_05: Looking forward to that.
3:04:06
SPEAKER_05: So as we close out the show, uh I played the alternate version of Zima Fizz yesterday.
3:04:11
SPEAKER_05: A lot of people agreed with me that they liked the original version and they were glad that I went with version 1.0 and not version 2.0.
3:04:19
SPEAKER_05: And while we are typically going to reserve a zimaphiz for the intro to Freedom Fridays, in honor of those of you that voiced your opinion over the secondary version of the Song of the song, let's close out with a little Zima Fizz.
3:04:32
SPEAKER_05: God bless, and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow morning.
3:04:35
SPEAKER_05: Have a great one.
3:04:35
SPEAKER_05: Bye.