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October 2, 2026 | The Jon Justice Show | FREEDOM FRIDAY · The Jon Justice Show: Presented by Center of the American Experiment

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SPEAKER_39: And I'm glad you're with the show this morning on a Freedom Friday.
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SPEAKER_39: We have Isaac serving as producer today in studio.
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SPEAKER_39: Catherine Johnson, Amanda Lamar, Turning Point USA, chapter president aka Kamara, and Representative Max Reimer.
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SPEAKER_39: The blaster line is open.
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SPEAKER_39: If you want to leave a voice or text a message on a Freedom Friday, on and off topic comments all morning long.
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SPEAKER_39: 651-964-0294.
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SPEAKER_39: It is the John Justice Show presented by American Experiments.
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SPEAKER_39: Let's go ahead and make it a few.
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SPEAKER_06: If it's big, you don't touch it.
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SPEAKER_06: That's what I was taught.
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unknown: Dave F energy.
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SPEAKER_11: Oh hell yeah.
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SPEAKER_56: I'm a big fan.
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SPEAKER_07: I think they vastly underestimate humanity.
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SPEAKER_11: Come to this twice.
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SPEAKER_11: Cry.
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SPEAKER_11: An indescribable feeling we get.
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SPEAKER_11: Yes, and we go somewhere.
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SPEAKER_11: We've never been before.
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SPEAKER_04: The bold strategy card.
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SPEAKER_11: Together.
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SPEAKER_11: Sound that I can feel.
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SPEAKER_11: Somehow.
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SPEAKER_11: Outbreak feels good enough.
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SPEAKER_11: Our heroes feel like the best part of it.
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SPEAKER_11: Stories feel perfect and powerful.
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SPEAKER_11: Because here they are.
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SPEAKER_11: I found all the started.
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SPEAKER_44: Good morning, John.
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SPEAKER_44: I'm ready for a Freedom Friday.
2:42
SPEAKER_44: Looking forward to it.
2:43
SPEAKER_44: Thank you.
2:56
SPEAKER_39: See how much stuff we can play before the show officially starts.
3:29
SPEAKER_39: We have more details, troubling details about that terror flight in Israel earlier this week.
3:36
SPEAKER_39: President Donald Trump has started his 32-day tour of the states that will prove to be crucial in these midterm elections.
3:44
SPEAKER_39: May have even changed his transportation plans based on concerns of terrorist threats.
3:52
SPEAKER_39: Plus, locally.
3:53
SPEAKER_39: Further details about Mayor Cooley Her and the Horny Her investigation.
3:58
SPEAKER_39: We talked at length yesterday about the disastrous MCA scores that were released and how the DFL and Education Minnesota is desperately trying to save a face.
4:10
SPEAKER_39: A little bit later on this hour.
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SPEAKER_39: The family of Renee Good is suing the federal government over her death, an altercation with immigrations and customs enforcement.
4:18
SPEAKER_39: And they're using a really bizarre means to put uh to push forward the lawsuit.
4:24
SPEAKER_39: They're trying to take advantage of a couple of things that are happening within the culture right now.
4:29
SPEAKER_39: So we'll talk about that with our guests uh today.
4:31
SPEAKER_39: We'll get into uh the thoughts of our guests regarding the Misabi mine that decided to build their$15 billion uh steel mill in Iowa over Minnesota, even though the ore will be mined here, and we've got quite a bit uh in between uh to uh to cover and some light things of lighter note as well.
4:51
SPEAKER_39: So, yesterday, as we kicked the show off, if you were listening earlier on the stream, we uh debuted a few new uh a few new parodies.
4:59
SPEAKER_39: Isaac and I were jamming in here rocking.
5:02
SPEAKER_39: It's incre it is real.
5:03
SPEAKER_39: I I I cannot overstate how incredible it is that artificial intelligence, super intelligence is able to go and look the visuals are obviously incredible.
5:18
SPEAKER_39: I was watching a video yesterday that was a send-up on training day with Denzel uh Washington and uh Ethan Hawk, and you know, they changed up the dialogue, and it was like you were watching the movie, it was amazing.
5:30
SPEAKER_39: What they can do with music though, that that to me is I mean, both are impressive.
5:36
SPEAKER_39: Don't misunderstand.
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SPEAKER_39: But I mean, as you know, somebody who loves music, I got my start in radio, doing rock radio.
5:43
SPEAKER_39: The fact that artificial intelligence can go and take the anything you write, like I've written, I wrote all the lyrics to all these parodies.
5:51
SPEAKER_39: Um you give it the direction you want it to go, you tell it what it should be inspired by, and there's all kinds of different composition prompts that you can give it, and it creates these just amazingly catchy songs.
6:05
SPEAKER_39: It's just yeah.
6:06
SPEAKER_39: I meant I mentioned it yesterday, I'll continue mentioning it.
6:09
SPEAKER_39: We're just living in incredibly unprecedented times right now.
6:13
SPEAKER_39: So I'm working on the show yesterday.
6:16
SPEAKER_39: And the Minneapolis City Council ended up um approving the Waymo ban.
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SPEAKER_39: The de facto ban saying that the you have to, if you're an if you're a if you're a rideshare company and you want to go and operate an autonomous vehicle, Waymo specifically, then you need to have basically a minimum page, minimum paid babysitter sitting, you know, sitting in the in the front of the car.
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SPEAKER_39: It's it's a de facto ban.
6:42
SPEAKER_39: Now, Minneapolis Man Baby Mayor Mom Jeans Jacob Fry has said that he's going to veto this this ban.
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SPEAKER_39: Okay.
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SPEAKER_39: So we were playing this clip of one of the city council members from earlier in the week that just was probably my f was my favorite clip this week.
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SPEAKER_37: You know, and then you can use the Waymo.
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SPEAKER_37: You don't know which way they may go or may not go.
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SPEAKER_37: Just get in, okay?
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SPEAKER_37: There's way more ways than the way that you got.
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SPEAKER_37: So let's go with those ways.
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SPEAKER_37: The end.
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SPEAKER_39: So when the news dropped, yes, I know Isaac's over there chuckling.
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SPEAKER_39: I know that's what it's that's what inspired me, right?
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SPEAKER_39: So when the news dropped yesterday, I was like, you know what?
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SPEAKER_39: There's a sing-song-y nature together.
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SPEAKER_37: You know, and then you can use the Waymo.
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SPEAKER_37: You don't know which way they may go or may not.
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SPEAKER_39: So, you know, I'm like, you know what?
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SPEAKER_39: I'm gonna make a parody about this.
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SPEAKER_39: Okay.
7:35
SPEAKER_39: So I was I was it's a Freedom Friday, so you know what?
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SPEAKER_39: Just indulge me for a moment as I wipe out.
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SPEAKER_39: I know.
7:44
SPEAKER_39: So I'm trying to get ahead of my work because all week long I've just been behind.
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SPEAKER_39: And and and this pulling back the curtain just a touch here on the show, this show that I'm doing now with American Experiment, while I am happier than I've been probably almost in my in the entirety of my radio career, next to when I started working with Drew over at iHeart, you know, going over 10 years ago, right?
8:12
SPEAKER_39: This is really the the most fun that I've been having being a talk show host here at American Experiment.
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SPEAKER_39: I never would have imagined it would have been in this format, but it's it's just it's it's it's been amazing.
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SPEAKER_39: Um but it is more work.
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SPEAKER_39: There's a lot more work involved uh with this.
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SPEAKER_39: So I've just have not been able to get ahead of schedule.
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SPEAKER_39: So I finally got ahead yesterday.
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SPEAKER_39: I ended up creating this parody song based off of the Wingo Clip.
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SPEAKER_37: Just get in, okay?
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SPEAKER_37: There's way more ways than the way that you got.
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SPEAKER_37: So let's go with those ways.
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SPEAKER_37: The end.
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SPEAKER_39: So I made that parody, and you know, it took a couple of prompts, took a couple of tries, but it ended up coming out spectacular.
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SPEAKER_39: So if you missed it at the start of the show, I'll play it again later on today.
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SPEAKER_39: Don't worry, it's gonna get plenty of airtime, so just just stick around.
8:57
SPEAKER_39: Well, then, as I'm, you know, I finished it and I'm sharing it with the Freedom Friday group chat, and I'm just patting myself on the back.
9:04
SPEAKER_39: I just think I'm being so clever, right?
9:05
SPEAKER_39: Because I'm just all I just want to share in my joy.
9:09
SPEAKER_39: And then I get back online because I wanted to search for a little bit more audio for the show, and uh this clip popped up, and it's City Council member Jason Chavez arguing against the Waymo autonomous vehicles using well, just listen.
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SPEAKER_53: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles, and I have a cat.
9:32
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
9:35
SPEAKER_53: So those to those cat lovers out there just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats, and that's unfair.
9:42
SPEAKER_53: I I just watched a video sitting here from the dais, and it was really hard to watch.
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SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
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SPEAKER_13: Within a matter of an hour, Isaac this clip was everywhere.
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SPEAKER_13: They're killing the dog.
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SPEAKER_13: They're killing the cat.
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SPEAKER_39: I hadn't even put that together yet! Right.
10:05
SPEAKER_39: I couldn't, I just I couldn't I couldn't believe it.
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SPEAKER_39: I mean, listen, in all seriousness, you've got children dying in vehicles getting in gunfights.
10:17
SPEAKER_39: Right?
10:18
SPEAKER_39: I mean uh you have the wind car windows being smashed continually.
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SPEAKER_39: You've got the exposure now that we know of the of the assaults and the rapes taking place in autonomous vehicles, and that is what Jason Chavez lands on, you know?
10:36
SPEAKER_39: What about you know, what about the cats?
10:41
SPEAKER_39: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles and Okay, so uh so then I was like, well gosh, I'm I'm already in a creative mode.
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SPEAKER_53: Right?
10:50
SPEAKER_38: I'm like, oh now I gotta make another parody.
10:56
SPEAKER_39: Okay, so I played the RB version, which is probably going to get more attention throughout the show today, but I'll let Isaac decide.
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SPEAKER_39: Isaac, would you like to you know it's about two minutes and forty seconds.
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SPEAKER_39: Would you like to hear the rock version?
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SPEAKER_39: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_39: All right, so here is the the the rock version of uh a song uh called Stop Cat here on the John Justice show, presented by American Experiment.
11:19
SPEAKER_39: Again, the blaster line is open.
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SPEAKER_39: We'll get into news in just a moment on a Freedom Friday, 651-964-0254 have been killed.
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SPEAKER_53: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
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SPEAKER_53: And I have a cat.
11:31
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
11:34
SPEAKER_53: So those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Wayne Mill vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
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SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
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SPEAKER_22: Streets of Minneapolis.
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SPEAKER_53: I will say cats have been killed, and cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
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SPEAKER_53: And I have a cat.
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SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
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SPEAKER_53: So those should those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
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SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
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SPEAKER_47: Good morning, John.
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SPEAKER_47: Maybe Jason Schaff should worry about his cat's feet getting caught up from all the busted glass all over the crowd all over the city.
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SPEAKER_47: Happy Freedom Friday.
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SPEAKER_47: Thanks.
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SPEAKER_39: 651-964-0294 is the blaster line.
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SPEAKER_51: It's important that Waymo is regulated the way they want to because it's killing cats.
14:39
SPEAKER_51: I'd like to go one step further and say his cats are killing birds.
14:43
SPEAKER_51: So yeah, let's have the Waymo run over everybody's cats because their cats belong in George.
14:49
SPEAKER_51: They don't belong outside, killing all the indigenous wildlife.
14:54
SPEAKER_39: We're gonna talk about this further when the Freedom Friday crew gets in studio.
14:59
SPEAKER_39: They have to go to ridiculous, nonsensical arguments like this because their arguments that they've used to put this forward are nonsensical and ridiculous.
15:09
SPEAKER_39: You know, where was the fight?
15:12
SPEAKER_39: Where was the ordinance when ATM machines were created?
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SPEAKER_39: And you no longer were required to go into the bank to get cash.
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SPEAKER_39: I mean, that's just one example.
15:24
SPEAKER_39: The elevator doorman's one, but the ATM one is probably one of the best ones that I'd heard.
15:30
SPEAKER_39: You used to have to go into the bank if you wanted to get money, and then ATM machines popped up.
15:33
SPEAKER_39: I know this is long before Isaac's time, but I remember the fur I can remember the first time that I was out with my mom in Southern California in Temple City, and she went to an ATM machine, and we didn't have to go into the bank anymore.
15:46
SPEAKER_39: Nobody argued, oh my gosh, they're taking away these jobs from the bank tellers.
15:51
SPEAKER_39: We can't have these ATM machines.
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SPEAKER_39: I mean, the list goes on and on when it comes to automation that ended up replacing the human element.
16:02
SPEAKER_39: Like I said, Minneapolis Man, Baby, Mayor, Mom Jeans is going to go and veto this, be that as it may, now they've gone and landed on ridiculous arguments like the autonomous vehicles are murdering cats.
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SPEAKER_48: Chavez is my representative.
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SPEAKER_48: He is so embarrassing.
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SPEAKER_48: He has to know that cats are killed by regular vehicles every day, right?
16:26
SPEAKER_48: I mean, he has to know that.
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SPEAKER_48: I picked up a dead cat in front of my house.
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SPEAKER_48: He has to know that.
16:39
SPEAKER_48: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_39: Alright, we're gonna get into uh some of the serious news items.
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SPEAKER_39: Max Reimer should be joining us here shortly.
16:46
SPEAKER_39: We have more parodies to play for you on a Freedom Friday.
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SPEAKER_39: We'll get to more of your comments from the blaster line on and off topic comments all morning long.
16:53
SPEAKER_39: I do want to add one dead cat story.
16:55
SPEAKER_39: I do have a dead cat story.
16:56
SPEAKER_39: So uh in one of the first houses that I lived in on Tree Lane Avenue in Southern California, in in uh Arcadia, California, uh, there was a uh a friend of mine.
17:09
SPEAKER_39: So I was really young at the time.
17:10
SPEAKER_39: Uh this was great school.
17:12
SPEAKER_39: There was a friend of mine that lived like on the opposite block.
17:14
SPEAKER_39: So the school that we I went to was at the end of our block and it was kind of a cul-de-sac.
17:18
SPEAKER_39: So he lived on the opposite block, and uh they were having me watch their watch their house while they went on vacation.
17:25
SPEAKER_39: So I'd gone over to check on the house, went in, did the stuff I needed to do around the house, and I needed to feed the cat.
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SPEAKER_39: And I couldn't find the cat.
17:35
SPEAKER_39: I could can't remember the name of the cat.
17:37
SPEAKER_39: Couldn't find the cat uh anywhere.
17:39
SPEAKER_39: Um and so I went into the garage because the cat had indoor-outdoor uh access.
17:44
SPEAKER_39: And then I suddenly I went and I saw the cat was underneath one of the cars that was in the go in the garage.
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SPEAKER_39: I was like, oh hey, there's the cat, and I went and I, you know, I was like, come on, kitty, come on, kitty.
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SPEAKER_39: And it was dark, I couldn't see.
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SPEAKER_39: So I went and I went to grab the cat and I went to pull the cat, and the cat moved all in all in one solid motion before the cat was dead.
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SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
18:07
SPEAKER_39: The odd thing was, right?
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SPEAKER_39: Like I felt mad.
18:10
SPEAKER_39: Oh, the cat died.
18:11
SPEAKER_39: It wasn't my fault.
18:12
SPEAKER_39: Right.
18:12
SPEAKER_39: I went over when I was supposed to go over there.
18:14
SPEAKER_39: It was really funny.
18:14
SPEAKER_39: I'll never forget this.
18:16
SPEAKER_39: So the family got back and they ended up paying me more.
18:20
SPEAKER_39: Like to deal with the trauma of having to of having discovered the the the dead cat.
18:28
SPEAKER_39: They ended up they ended up paying me more than they were supposed to.
18:31
SPEAKER_39: So yeah.
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SPEAKER_39: There's my dead cat story.
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SPEAKER_39: Alright.
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SPEAKER_43: Happy Friday.
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SPEAKER_43: Happy Freedom Friday.
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SPEAKER_43: Just a thought on the ATM thing.
24:02
SPEAKER_43: Now they've got the tellers so brainwashed debate every time you go in.
24:07
SPEAKER_43: Do you have our app?
24:08
SPEAKER_43: You could do this on your app.
24:09
SPEAKER_43: You wouldn't have to come in.
24:10
SPEAKER_43: You can take a picture.
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SPEAKER_43: They're trying to talk themselves out of their own games.
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SPEAKER_43: It's crazy.
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SPEAKER_39: Yeah, make that make sense.
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SPEAKER_33: Good morning, John and Isaac.
24:19
SPEAKER_33: I am a dog person.
24:20
SPEAKER_33: I think either one or the other.
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SPEAKER_33: I don't wish harm to cat, but I don't relate to cat.
24:27
SPEAKER_39: I've had both.
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SPEAKER_14: I've had both dogs anymore.
24:30
SPEAKER_14: With them, big dog guy.
24:31
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, I'm a big dog guy now.
24:33
SPEAKER_39: I have no problem being a cat guy.
24:35
SPEAKER_39: I used to be a cat guy, but that was mostly because I was living an apartment life.
24:39
SPEAKER_39: So having a dog in an apartment, right?
24:41
SPEAKER_39: And I have an issue regarding somebody I made a comment regarding cats I want to address here in a moment, but let's get back to uh Scott Conn, our friend of the show.
24:48
SPEAKER_39: Scott, I think he's kind of in a Scott Conn 3 this morning.
24:50
SPEAKER_39: He seems kind of he's not he's not quite as amped up.
24:52
SPEAKER_39: I mean, we're talking about dogs and cats for crime.
24:54
SPEAKER_33: And I had uh cousin who had several cats and they were building their house, and one day two of the cats disappeared, and all he could do is hear it in the cinder blocks of the basement.
25:05
SPEAKER_33: Here, these cats have climbed down into the cinder blocks and gotten trapped so they'd take sledgehammers to bash the walls open.
25:14
SPEAKER_33: These cats will get themselves in so many predicaments.
25:17
SPEAKER_33: I think we can't worry about them getting hit by an autonomous vehicle.
25:21
SPEAKER_33: It's just leftism at its finest.
25:24
SPEAKER_33: Have a great day, everybody.
25:26
SPEAKER_33: And what's this video that he said?
25:29
SPEAKER_53: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles, and I have a cat.
25:34
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
25:37
SPEAKER_53: So those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
25:42
SPEAKER_53: And that's unfair.
25:43
SPEAKER_53: I just watched a video sitting here from the dais, and it was really hard to watch.
25:47
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
25:50
SPEAKER_39: But what about the cars that are also murdering first of all?
25:54
SPEAKER_39: It's not murder.
25:56
SPEAKER_39: It's it's it's not these aren't they uh, I mean, it might be eventually when you know we we reach the sky net level and the machines turn on us and then the gludes the cats as well.
26:08
SPEAKER_39: You know, I I would imagine, if and when that happens, that the artificial intelligence is going to be more concerned about the humans than they are the feral cats, but they're not, you know, m murdering anybody even now.
26:21
SPEAKER_39: But what about all the regular cars that are killing cats?
26:25
SPEAKER_39: For crying out loud, Jason Chavez better not come here to Minnetonka and the offices here at Center of the American experiment because the office park here has got these geese.
26:35
SPEAKER_39: Oh man.
26:35
SPEAKER_39: These are the boldest geeks, geese that I've ever seen in my life.
26:39
SPEAKER_39: They come out, I don't know what time.
26:40
SPEAKER_39: They must come out when the sun comes up.
26:42
SPEAKER_39: They must be back in the woods at night.
26:43
SPEAKER_39: Is that I assume that's where they are?
26:44
SPEAKER_39: Isaac.
26:45
SPEAKER_39: I don't know.
26:45
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, the kid's sleeping.
26:47
SPEAKER_39: But then they come out and then they dot the grassy knolls on the side of the road, but then they sleep in the middle of the street and they do not move for cars.
26:56
SPEAKER_39: At least once a week I see a dead goose in the roadway.
27:01
SPEAKER_39: It's sad.
27:02
SPEAKER_39: You gotta I have to be careful when I'm driving out of the parking lot.
27:06
SPEAKER_39: Somebody said, what kind of monster lets their cat uh their cat uh their cats out of the house?
27:10
SPEAKER_39: I I had it, my cat was an indoor outdoor cat when I lived in the apartment.
27:14
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, Sally came and went as as she saw fit.
27:17
SPEAKER_39: I didn't know that was a that's not the first person that said that, by the way.
27:20
SPEAKER_39: I didn't know that was a thing.
27:22
SPEAKER_39: Like people saying you shouldn't let your cats go go out and roam.
27:25
SPEAKER_39: I let my cat.
27:25
SPEAKER_39: I was in Southern California, I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
27:28
SPEAKER_39: Uh somebody said Waymo's murdering cats is as ridiculous as dogs blocking native prayers at the dog park.
27:36
SPEAKER_39: True.
27:37
SPEAKER_39: Okay, that makes that makes sense.
27:38
SPEAKER_39: Okay.
27:39
SPEAKER_39: Uh let's see.
27:40
SPEAKER_39: Somebody else wrote in.
27:42
SPEAKER_39: Uh looks like a person-driven light rail train has killed at least 18 people in 22 years.
27:49
SPEAKER_39: Where is that concern?
27:51
SPEAKER_39: Somebody also wrote in saying, I guarantee you that Mildred is a cat lady.
27:55
SPEAKER_39: Oh, that's funny.
27:56
SPEAKER_39: Uh, one more, and then uh we're going to uh get to some of the news items this morning.
28:01
SPEAKER_39: Somebody said, Okay, now you need to release an album.
28:05
SPEAKER_39: Uh, The AI Overlords.
28:07
SPEAKER_39: Oh, oh, don't you worry.
28:09
SPEAKER_39: Oh, I'm I'm uh I'm working on it.
28:12
SPEAKER_39: Don't don't you don't you fret.
28:17
SPEAKER_37: You know, and then you can use the Waymo.
28:20
SPEAKER_37: You don't know which way they may go or may not go.
28:23
SPEAKER_37: Just get in, okay?
28:25
SPEAKER_37: There's way more ways than the way that you got.
28:28
SPEAKER_37: So let's go with those ways.
28:30
SPEAKER_37: The end.
28:40
SPEAKER_20: Here they come, the autonomous beat.
28:44
SPEAKER_20: Driven by the ghost of the digital.
29:22
SPEAKER_39: All right, that's just a risky.
29:23
SPEAKER_39: We'll play the uh song in its entirety uh a little bit uh later on this morning.
29:28
SPEAKER_39: It is the John Justice show presented by American Experiment, and uh I am very pleased to be staring at sitting on the comfy sofa, the man, the myth, the legend, representative, Max Reimer.
29:40
SPEAKER_39: What's up, my friend?
29:40
SPEAKER_39: Good morning.
29:41
SPEAKER_39: What a way to wake up.
29:43
SPEAKER_07: That's a bop.
29:44
SPEAKER_39: No shortage of news, man.
29:45
SPEAKER_39: It's incredible what artificial intelligence can create.
29:48
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, it's wild.
29:49
SPEAKER_39: It's amazing.
29:50
SPEAKER_39: I saw, I don't want to, I have this buried in the stack.
29:53
SPEAKER_39: I don't think we'll have a chance to get to it, so I'll just bring it up now.
29:56
SPEAKER_39: Uh because I know you've been very vocal, Max, about that about data centers.
30:00
SPEAKER_39: Data centers, right?
30:01
SPEAKER_39: I saw, and apparently this is happening in a few places.
30:04
SPEAKER_39: I saw one of the most amazing ideas that I think I've ever seen go on, and that is turning the empty malls into data centers.
30:13
SPEAKER_39: Okay.
30:13
SPEAKER_07: There's an idea.
30:14
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
30:14
SPEAKER_39: There's an idea.
30:15
SPEAKER_39: And apparently it's happening in other places across the country.
30:17
SPEAKER_39: I was just like, oh my gosh.
30:19
SPEAKER_39: That's like a I haven't thought about that.
30:21
SPEAKER_39: That's like a br that's a brilliant idea.
30:23
SPEAKER_39: I mean, if the infrastructure, you know, you still have the other variables of the community and all that kind of stuff.
30:28
SPEAKER_39: But when you consider locations of malls, the surrounding areas, the parking lots that provide the buffer zone, and just the sheer space, I was like, oh my, I hadn't even thought about that.
30:36
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, super interesting.
30:37
SPEAKER_07: I the the biggest concern that I have is one, what are we doing with farmland?
30:42
SPEAKER_07: And then two, how are we disrupting people's everyday lives?
30:45
SPEAKER_07: And if, hey, if we could use an empty mall, it's an eyesore anyway, which happens to be, I think, most of the malls in the Twin Cities at this point.
30:53
SPEAKER_07: It's an interesting idea.
30:54
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
30:54
SPEAKER_39: So if we have time, we'll get into it later on in the show, but I wanted to uh I wanted to bring it up.
30:59
SPEAKER_39: All right, let's go here.
30:59
SPEAKER_39: Let's finally get to some news.
31:01
SPEAKER_39: The co-pilot accused of stabbing the captain and attempting to seize control of the fly Dubai flight F Z-1073 was identified, and we've known this now for a few days, as an Omani national, a fact that has raised immediate questions about how he was permitted to serve as a pilot on a flight bound for Israel.
31:21
SPEAKER_39: In the first place, Israel and Oman do not have diplomatic relations.
31:26
SPEAKER_39: According to Israeli officials, pilots operating flights into the country are required to hold passports from countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Israel per the aviation agreement governing fly Dubai's service to Israel.
31:42
SPEAKER_39: If the suspect was indeed flying under an Omani passport, his presence in the cockpit appears to have violated the rules governing the airline's operation in Israel.
31:52
SPEAKER_39: The Israeli transportation minister has called for an investigation into whether the United Arab Emirates violated its aviation agreement with Israel.
32:01
SPEAKER_39: And of course, you know, Max, I think this raises the obvious questions here of okay, was this an oversight or was this potentially an intentional oversight to allow this individual to board this flight, even though technically by their own standards he was not allowed to?
32:18
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I read that yesterday.
32:19
SPEAKER_07: And where my where my head goes naturally is when we find out that, for instance, there was that superintendent in Iowa who happened to be an illegal immigrant, and we didn't find out until the Trump administration finally took power and we deported this guy.
32:35
SPEAKER_07: My head naturally goes to where is this happening in the United States right now?
32:42
SPEAKER_07: And do do we know everyone who's a pilot?
32:46
SPEAKER_07: Do we know where their allegiances may lie?
32:50
SPEAKER_07: I think that's an important question to ask because beyond the United States, no one's got more intelligence than Israel does.
32:58
SPEAKER_07: Right.
32:59
SPEAKER_07: So I that's where my head goes first and foremost is like, where is this happening in our country right now?
33:05
SPEAKER_39: I've already seen, I I know this isn't gonna come as a shock to you, uh shock to you, Max, but I've already seen individuals that are claiming that this whole thing was was was staged and fake.
33:15
SPEAKER_39: It's just it's the way of the internet.
33:17
SPEAKER_39: I get it, but I saw it yesterday and I was like, you've gotta be kidding me.
33:20
SPEAKER_39: It's everything.
33:21
SPEAKER_39: You've gotta be kidding me.
33:22
SPEAKER_39: Yes, they staged a flight, the flight radar data, the whole nine yards.
33:26
SPEAKER_07: It's just like they staged the Trump possession.
33:28
SPEAKER_07: Come on, already Charlie Kirk is still alive.
33:32
SPEAKER_07: The it's it's exhausting at this point.
33:35
SPEAKER_07: And honestly, prior to I don't know, John, call it prior to 2018.
33:41
SPEAKER_07: I I was like, I was interested in most conspiracy theories.
33:44
SPEAKER_07: I'd I'd check them out, I'd vet them for what they were.
33:47
SPEAKER_07: I'm at the point right now, you and I have talked about it.
33:50
SPEAKER_07: I'm at the point right now where it's like if everything is conspiracy theory, nothing is.
33:55
SPEAKER_07: And I tune out, honestly, I tune out to most conspiracy theories nowadays.
34:01
SPEAKER_39: Well, and it under you know, you know what it reminds me, it reminds me of the constant cries of racism from the left and and it it undermines actual racism when it takes place because then suddenly people don't take it as serious.
34:12
SPEAKER_39: And and when you have everything being a conspiracy, it undermines legitimate questions that could arise from many controversial stories.
34:20
SPEAKER_07: If we could, if we could scrutinize them a little bit more and pick our battles a little bit more.
34:24
SPEAKER_07: But there hasn't been there hasn't been a world event or a world controversy in the last five or six years that hasn't had this fever pitch of everything is fake, you're not being told the truth, and it's exhausting.
34:38
SPEAKER_07: I imagine living that way.
34:40
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, I yeah, I'm sorry.
34:42
SPEAKER_39: No, I'm good.
34:42
SPEAKER_39: No, I'm I'm uh I'm good.
34:44
SPEAKER_39: Um Israel did suspend the f the fly Dubai flights to and from the country while the authorities are investigating this.
34:50
SPEAKER_39: A spokesperson for Netanyahu's office uh said that Israel would now seek to know the identity of the pilots flying into the country and conduct a higher levels of uh security screening.
35:00
SPEAKER_39: Let me share this uh let me share this audio with you.
35:03
SPEAKER_40: This is yesterday from Fox News, Peter uh Peter Ducey, um, talking about what he's hearing regarding the background of the I just spoke to the president as he was boarding Marine One on the South Lawn, and I asked him if anybody has briefed him in the last day and a half about whether or not this fly Dubai pilot, the one who allegedly tried to take down the plane, is linked to Iran.
35:28
SPEAKER_40: And the president told me they're working on it right now.
35:32
SPEAKER_40: Uh he would say the answer based on what he is hearing is yes, but they are working it right now.
35:37
SPEAKER_40: And because it can be a little bit noisy here at the White House, I sought clarification.
35:41
SPEAKER_40: I asked him, uh, so this guy might have been put in there by the IRGC or radicalized some other way and then sent to take down the plane.
35:50
SPEAKER_40: And the president said it could have been, yeah.
35:53
SPEAKER_40: Earlier today, when we heard from the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, he said it was too early to tell if this co-pilot was linked to Iran.
36:03
SPEAKER_40: The president gets different briefings, though, uh, in addition to all of the intel sharing that we do with Israel and with other partners in the Middle East.
36:11
SPEAKER_40: So a lot is moving here, and according to the president, it is moving in the direction of an Iranian-linked uh incident.
36:21
SPEAKER_39: You know, I I know that now the news cycle uh it's no longer a 24-hour news cycle.
36:28
SPEAKER_39: It's like an hour news cycle.
36:30
SPEAKER_39: Yes.
36:31
SPEAKER_39: And most of that is dominated by ridiculous nonsense coming out of uh the Twin Cities.
36:36
SPEAKER_39: Uh that being said, it's um it's sad that this story is not.
36:41
SPEAKER_39: I mentioned this yesterday, but I'll just I'll just repeat myself.
36:44
SPEAKER_39: It's sad that this story this story should be getting a lot more attention.
36:46
SPEAKER_39: There's so many different levels, so many uh different uh interesting aspects of it and things that could be uh discussed.
36:53
SPEAKER_39: But of course, because this has the potential to be tied to Iran, and that would have the potential of substantiating in the minds of individuals what Trump has been doing in Iran, you know, the whole thing is getting, and not to mention the Israel aspect of it, the whole thing is getting memory hold.
37:09
SPEAKER_39: It's sad.
37:09
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and maybe we would pay attention to it if it weren't for our politicians in Minnesota touching each other's legs and we'll get into that.
37:18
SPEAKER_07: Being worried about cats and waves.
37:21
SPEAKER_07: Yes, yes.
37:22
SPEAKER_07: Could you give it a break could you give it a breather for a little bit so we can pay attention to the news that might actually matter?
37:27
SPEAKER_39: Certain state Senate candidates that may or may not have been sending inappropriate pictures to people online.
37:32
SPEAKER_39: I'm still trying to get verification on that whole thing.
37:34
SPEAKER_39: I saw I saw Dustin had posted it.
37:37
SPEAKER_39: I have some of the audio, but I have not received independent verification of those recent claims.
37:41
SPEAKER_07: Well, he's uh state senator candidate, he's running against Mark Coran up in my district, and it it was late breaking, but it seems like there's there's some legs there.
37:52
SPEAKER_07: So this story disappeared overnight.
37:54
SPEAKER_39: So President Donald Trump uh traveled to Oklahoma, and apparently uh they told Trump, I don't know if this is because of the heightened security threats, but I guess they told Trump because he was in Texas originally that they couldn't fly or take Marine Force One.
38:09
SPEAKER_39: Because of weather?
38:10
SPEAKER_39: No, I think it was uh was it weather?
38:12
SPEAKER_39: I thought it was weather.
38:12
SPEAKER_39: Oh, was it weather related?
38:13
SPEAKER_39: Okay, because I was thinking that this was security concerns.
38:16
SPEAKER_39: Oh.
38:17
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, what I had read last night before I went to bed was that it was uh severe weather deputy.
38:21
SPEAKER_39: Okay, okay, so that's better news.
38:23
SPEAKER_39: Uh, I do have a quick clip of Trump talking about how he ended up getting to Oklahoma City.
38:27
SPEAKER_54: Uh thank you very much.
38:29
SPEAKER_54: Well, I want to say a very special hello Durant and hello to Oklahoma.
38:40
SPEAKER_54: This was not an easy trip.
38:43
SPEAKER_54: We were in Texas.
38:46
SPEAKER_54: Trying to get Ken Paxton elected, we have to do that.
38:50
SPEAKER_54: We can't have telefunction.
38:52
SPEAKER_54: We can't have we can't have the other guy, Ken was great.
38:58
SPEAKER_54: Attorney General is done a great job.
39:00
SPEAKER_54: We gotta get him elected.
39:01
SPEAKER_54: So I was in Texas.
39:02
SPEAKER_54: And they said, sir, I think we're gonna have to cancel Oklahoma.
39:05
SPEAKER_54: The weather is terrible.
39:09
SPEAKER_54: You can't take the helicopter, sir.
39:11
SPEAKER_54: You can't take the plane.
39:12
SPEAKER_54: I said, what can it take?
39:13
SPEAKER_54: Well, it's a very long drive.
39:16
SPEAKER_54: I said, how long?
39:18
SPEAKER_54: They said it could be long, sir.
39:19
SPEAKER_54: I said, how fast does the beast travel?
39:23
SPEAKER_54: They said we could go close to a hundred miles an hour.
39:26
SPEAKER_54: He said, get your asses in that car.
39:28
SPEAKER_54: We're going to look at the robot.
39:33
SPEAKER_07: There's no one like him.
39:34
SPEAKER_07: There's no one like him.
39:35
SPEAKER_14: Born to be a comedian, forced to be president.
39:37
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
39:39
SPEAKER_07: I think about that all the time.
39:40
SPEAKER_39: He does not get enough credit for his sense of humor.
39:42
SPEAKER_39: No, he really doesn't.
39:43
SPEAKER_07: And actually, to the left's credit, I do see comments on X every now and again where people hate him, but they're like, Trump will have some banger or some joke, and you'll have people who are like, I hate that I like this.
39:56
SPEAKER_07: I hate that he's so funny.
39:57
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
39:57
SPEAKER_39: And well, I'd love to go back to the first.
40:00
SPEAKER_39: Um, well, I have to say hypothetically.
40:03
SPEAKER_39: I'd love to go back to the first term and look at a lot of the comments that Trump received the most criticism over now that we know him better, that could be further attributed to his sense of humor that I think a lot of us just really weren't used to at the beginning.
40:16
SPEAKER_07: And keep in mind, it's a different world now.
40:18
SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah.
40:19
SPEAKER_07: The the political correctness that we experienced at the beginning of Trump's first term and kind of going into 2020, it doesn't, it doesn't exist.
40:26
SPEAKER_07: No, no, it's gone.
40:28
SPEAKER_07: It's so it would be interesting to view him through that lens, or to have even the the media view him through that lens, because even the media has taken they've relaxed a little bit, truly.
40:39
SPEAKER_07: I mean, that woke 1.0 thing, you still have clingers on, you still have politicians who ascribe to that.
40:47
SPEAKER_07: But it's by and large, it is gone in society.
40:50
SPEAKER_39: Well, and even, you know, you have some like even within pop culture, um, we ended up watching lanterns and lanterns uh that's the um the DC green lantern serious tone, right?
41:03
SPEAKER_39: You know, and they use a lot of curse words and it's so unnecessary.
41:07
SPEAKER_39: But listen, it was enjoyable.
41:08
SPEAKER_39: We enjoyed it.
41:09
SPEAKER_39: Um, however, there are some really, really woke elements in that story, and I ended up seeing an interview with the writers on the show, and I'm glad that I didn't see the interview before I started watching the show because I probably wouldn't have watched it because it was such an eye roll.
41:27
SPEAKER_39: But in the story, it uh talks about Hal Jordan, who is the Green Lantern, but then there's also Jon Stewart, who ends up becoming another Green Lantern.
41:36
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
41:36
SPEAKER_39: Uh Hal Jordan is white and Jon Stewart is black.
41:39
SPEAKER_39: And so the premise of the show is that Jon Stewart is the a protege to Hal in order to eventually replace him.
41:50
SPEAKER_39: And I found out that the writers of the show, their inspiration was Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden on the on the ticket in 2024.
41:56
SPEAKER_39: What are we doing?
41:57
SPEAKER_39: And I was just like, come on.
41:58
SPEAKER_39: And no one cares.
41:59
SPEAKER_39: No one likes that.
42:00
SPEAKER_07: If we can, if we're crashing out on media and wokeness right now for just a second, one thing that's interesting in kind of the gaming world is I don't know if you've followed this at all.
42:10
SPEAKER_07: I don't even know if you played it or engaged with the game at all, but World of Warcraft.
42:14
SPEAKER_07: No, I do own the blue the the Blu-ray for the movie.
42:16
SPEAKER_07: Okay, so Warcraft the movie.
42:18
SPEAKER_07: I am familiar with it.
42:19
SPEAKER_07: Good movie, I think.
42:19
SPEAKER_07: I enjoyed it.
42:20
SPEAKER_07: But I'm a nerd.
42:21
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, no, I actually that that movie is uh is very is very much underrated.
42:24
SPEAKER_07: So they're beta testing right now something called World of Warcraft Forever.
42:28
SPEAKER_07: And what it is, is it is basically just a return.
42:31
SPEAKER_07: They've had all these expansions.
42:33
SPEAKER_07: That it's a game that's existed for 20 years now at this point.
42:36
SPEAKER_07: They've had all these expansions, and with every expansion, you are spanning the woke era of the United States.
42:43
SPEAKER_07: So they're uh they're expanding, they're adding new content, but a lot of the content was basically developed by uh people who have a political ideology, and so like a lot of media, you saw it start to evolve into this thing that original people who played the game didn't really recognize.
43:02
SPEAKER_07: The game got easier, the content got a little bit more woke.
43:05
SPEAKER_07: Anyway, Blizzard, the company, just re-released, or they're beta testing right now, World of Warcraft Forever, which is basically going back to the original game.
43:16
SPEAKER_07: Okay, without any frills, basically what people fell in love with back in 2006 and 2007.
43:22
SPEAKER_07: And right now they are like breaking records because they have eliminated a lot of that woke content and just gone back to the core game that people have nostalgia over.
43:34
SPEAKER_07: And they're breaking records, but what's hilarious is they're also in this beta test allowing names that would not have been allowed um back then.
43:43
SPEAKER_07: So you have characters running around that are like Jeffrey Epstein, and you have characters running around that it's like it's so funny because when you make good content that is removes a lot of the thrills that we added in.
44:00
SPEAKER_07: 2016 to 2020.
44:04
SPEAKER_07: It is like there's a resurgence in this game.
44:07
SPEAKER_07: A game that people thought was basically dying.
44:10
SPEAKER_07: They just said, you know what we're gonna do?
44:12
SPEAKER_07: We're gonna go back to the very original game that people fell in love with, and we're gonna remove all the extra stuff that we added because of politics.
44:19
SPEAKER_39: Well, and getting back just briefly to my HBO Lantern's uh story, uh Lanterns is kind of the outlier.
44:25
SPEAKER_39: There was one episode where it gets really, really heavy-handed into the you know, race issues and uh in uh a mother talking to her son, the disadvantage and white privilege and all this nonsense, right?
44:37
SPEAKER_39: Um but that really is the outlier.
44:39
SPEAKER_39: When you watch a majority of other shows, no doubt.
44:42
SPEAKER_39: When they inject anything sort of woke in the woke point one, it's done as sort of a we just check the box, it's a quick conversation, and they move on.
44:50
SPEAKER_39: Ted Lasso this season.
44:51
SPEAKER_39: And this would have been right for it, because Ted Lasso is now coaching a woman's, you know, um soccer team, football team in Europe.
45:01
SPEAKER_39: And so this would be just an open door for equity issues and all that.
45:05
SPEAKER_39: And they're they're not.
45:06
SPEAKER_39: There's a few like one-liners they throw in, but it's not heavy-handed anymore.
45:11
SPEAKER_39: And so you're right, people are there, there's a lot of embracing of sort of the traditions because there's no money in it.
45:16
SPEAKER_39: They found out go woke go broke, and that terminology is absolutely true.
45:20
SPEAKER_07: And this is this is why uh so the WNBA playoffs have started.
45:24
SPEAKER_07: This is why that sport needs to get out of its own way because people want, I don't think people realize people want to root for the WNBA, people want to engage at this point, and Caitlin Clark has a lot to do with that, but the WNBA can't get out of its own way because it's a political product as much as it is a sports product.
45:43
SPEAKER_07: You see that all the time where they're gatekeeping normal people who want to engage with the sport because you can go to like a WNBA arena or even like a soccer, like if you go to the Minnesota Soccer Arena, you can't look around and see like you can't avert your gaze.
46:01
SPEAKER_07: There is trans flags flying everywhere in the arena.
46:04
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and so it's a political event.
46:07
SPEAKER_07: And there's dimdos flying in the arena too.
46:10
SPEAKER_07: Well, that happens on occasion.
46:13
SPEAKER_07: That the the rally that Trump had in Texas.
46:16
SPEAKER_07: Speaking of him being funny, he is there's such an interesting dynamic between him and Ken Paxton.
46:25
SPEAKER_07: You can tell that personally, he's not a huge Ken Paxton fan.
46:30
SPEAKER_07: No, no, there's there's there's obvious tension.
46:32
SPEAKER_07: He has to like point out and yeah, be like, hey, there's Ken Paxton.
46:36
SPEAKER_07: He's not looking great today.
46:38
SPEAKER_39: Um this is a good uh this is a good transition because one of the reasons why I I was conflating a couple of different stories, and this disappeared from the headlines.
46:49
SPEAKER_39: I don't know where it went, but why I thought the president had changed changed up his travel plans over threats was one, there was the Israeli issue, and I thought maybe there was a concern with our own um, you know, airline transportation, but that was just weather.
47:01
SPEAKER_39: Uh but this story broke yesterday afternoon and suddenly uh disappeared.
47:05
SPEAKER_39: This was on Fox News.
47:06
SPEAKER_23: Well, Texas authorities and the FBI thwarting an alleged plot to attack the state's Capitol building.
47:11
SPEAKER_23: Law enforcement arrested the 40-year-old suspect in his home.
47:14
SPEAKER_23: Director Patel writing about oper the operation in part saying this threaten Americans or our institutions, and law enforcement will move fast.
47:23
SPEAKER_23: The investigation is ongoing.
47:25
SPEAKER_23: And Chief Correspondent Jonathan Hunt has the latest.
47:27
SPEAKER_23: Hi, Jonathan.
47:28
SPEAKER_12: Good morning, Dana.
47:29
SPEAKER_12: According to Texas law enforcement officials, the attack was supposed to happen today, but was stopped thanks to the joint work of agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI.
47:40
SPEAKER_12: Culminating with the arrest early Wednesday morning of 40-year-old Benny Caldera at a home near San Antonio.
47:47
SPEAKER_12: Officials say they got a tip Tuesday evening that gave them, quote, credible information about an individual planning an attack on the Texas Capitol in Austin.
47:58
SPEAKER_12: Local media quoted an arrest warrant alleging Caldera told a friend he was going to the Capitol to, quote, shoot it up, and that he was angry at the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, saying, quote, these people need to be exterminated.
48:14
SPEAKER_12: Whoa.
48:15
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, this completely disappeared from all the I missed this one.
48:20
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, there were no stories on it overnight.
48:22
SPEAKER_39: I'll have to do I um, and to be honest, it's funny because I grabbed that for today, obviously yesterday, and went through my morning prep for today's show, and it wasn't until I got in because I had loaded it into the program, I was like, oh, I forgot I had this clip and there wasn't any other there weren't any other stories about it today.
48:41
SPEAKER_39: So I'll have to do a follow-up to find out what the details were.
48:44
SPEAKER_39: Because that's no small if that was I mean, it sounds like it's accurate.
48:46
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, Cash Patel that was commenting on it, and but I I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it's not.
48:52
SPEAKER_39: It goes back to the to the hourly news cycle that we're currently under right now.
48:56
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it goes to show you.
48:57
SPEAKER_07: I mean, I'm I try to stay plugged in and paying attention to the news.
49:00
SPEAKER_07: I miss this one completely.
49:03
SPEAKER_39: Um, the White House uh Council on uh economic advisors released a report yesterday estimating that implementing the Democrat Socialists of America's workers deserve more agenda would cost nearly$49 trillion over the next decade.
49:21
SPEAKER_39: This was a 92-page report called The Real Cost of Socialism in America.
49:25
SPEAKER_39: Um it examined eight elements of the DSA agenda, including uh Medicare for all student debt cancellation and the Green New Deal.
49:32
SPEAKER_39: The report suggests that financing these policies through debt or higher taxes would have uh significant negative uh impacts.
49:42
SPEAKER_39: So um obviously we're we're getting closer to the election because you have items like this.
49:48
SPEAKER_39: Um it's a smart move for the White House to put this out.
49:52
SPEAKER_39: Uh I was talking yesterday and it was new, it was commentary by Newt Gingrich, and he was talking about how this is an incredibly difficult election cycle to go and predict for all the different variables involved.
50:03
SPEAKER_39: And one of the things he was, you know, focusing on was the DSA.
50:06
SPEAKER_39: And he mentioned how you know socialism still gets a lot of blanket support from Democrats, but there still is negativity towards big government socialism.
50:16
SPEAKER_39: You know, big government socialism that's tied to the to big government.
50:20
SPEAKER_39: And a lot of the hardcore social, you know, Democrat socialist communists don't like that.
50:24
SPEAKER_39: Um, this to me plays into that to sort of exacerbate that issue of big government socialism, meaning, you know, hey, if you adopt this, this is gonna, you know, affordability is an issue.
50:34
SPEAKER_39: This could cost the country 49 trillion dollars.
50:38
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, there's a there's a working theory on that right now.
50:41
SPEAKER_07: Uh because Nuke Newt Ingrid, I don't think, is alone about what do we actually think is gonna happen this election cycle.
50:48
SPEAKER_07: And what you have to keep in mind is we have a lot of headwinds nationally, gas prices and things of that nature.
50:55
SPEAKER_07: But what uh what I find interesting is you do have polling numbers that look good for Democrats nationally, but in blue states, Minnesota being one of them, Oregon being another one, it's bucking the trend.
51:12
SPEAKER_07: So it's almost like there is a blue state rebellion happening, even though across the country the poll numbers don't look great for Republicans.
51:19
SPEAKER_07: And I think this DSA component is a huge piece of that.
51:23
SPEAKER_07: In Minnesota, Minnesota, we also had something that went through the last session, uh didn't go through, but we took a vote on it.
51:30
SPEAKER_07: Was Democrats are pushing for this climate super fund, which is basically a retroactive tax on b all businesses for whatever climate impacts that they had.
51:39
SPEAKER_07: I mean, you are talking about a multi, multi, multi-billion dollar tax increase for businesses.
51:46
SPEAKER_07: It ended up failing, but these are what uh that's what the party will push for, stuff like that if they get power in November.
51:53
SPEAKER_39: We need to welcome in another guest of our uh Freedom Friday crew, Amanda Lamar, Turning Point USA chapter president out of Apple Valley, joins us in studio.
52:01
SPEAKER_39: Good morning, Amanda.
52:01
SPEAKER_39: How are you doing?
52:02
SPEAKER_34: Good morning.
52:03
SPEAKER_34: I'm doing really good.
52:04
SPEAKER_34: I'm feeling much better than last week.
52:06
SPEAKER_34: I was up all night last week with a feverish baby.
52:09
SPEAKER_34: So Oh my goodness.
52:10
SPEAKER_34: I had no, I had no idea.
52:12
SPEAKER_34: Yeah, so this week both my kids slept through the night and I'm feeling good.
52:15
SPEAKER_39: All right.
52:15
SPEAKER_39: Well, you can't well, that's great.
52:17
SPEAKER_39: I mean I'm glad you got a good night.
52:18
SPEAKER_39: I'm glad you got a good night's sleep.
52:19
SPEAKER_39: Uh there's a lot of crap going around with the kids.
52:22
SPEAKER_39: My kids.
52:23
SPEAKER_39: Don't say that.
52:23
SPEAKER_39: Don't say that.
52:24
SPEAKER_39: I'm just saying, my kids.
52:25
SPEAKER_39: What about their if they're older?
52:26
SPEAKER_39: Mine are much older.
52:27
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, I still have to worry about it.
52:28
SPEAKER_07: It's just young kids, no.
52:30
SPEAKER_34: They have to build their immune system.
52:31
SPEAKER_34: So it's like every week we get something new.
52:34
SPEAKER_39: It's like a play a rotating plague ship.
52:36
SPEAKER_39: I just end up uh having to worry about the crap that they give to each other in terms of yeah, when they get older and they big and they fight.
52:42
SPEAKER_39: Anyway, let's go back to the uh blaster life 651-964-0294.
52:47
SPEAKER_10: Good morning, John and crew.
52:49
SPEAKER_10: Happy Friday from Rich.
52:52
SPEAKER_10: Um, when we talk about big government stuff, people got to realize what's really the largest driver of inflation in our country, it is government.
53:01
SPEAKER_10: Government only takes, it does not contribute to the gross national product.
53:07
SPEAKER_10: So the GDP only is subtracted by government.
53:11
SPEAKER_10: So that is an inflationary issue people never talk about.
53:15
SPEAKER_39: Well, thank you for that, Rich.
53:16
SPEAKER_39: And uh, I think we're probably all in agreement.
53:18
SPEAKER_39: That's 100% accurate.
53:19
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, it needs to be discussed uh more uh more more often.
53:22
SPEAKER_39: All right, let's go here.
53:24
SPEAKER_39: Uh I talked about this briefly yesterday, but the uh the council, I'm sorry, the council tasked with documenting the harms and resistance to the federal government's immigration crackdown held its final public meeting Tuesday in uh Rochester.
53:40
SPEAKER_39: Uh Amanda, Max, did you guys go?
53:42
SPEAKER_39: Did you guys go to the Truth Council meeting?
53:44
SPEAKER_39: No, I missed that one.
53:45
SPEAKER_39: Oh, I'm sorry.
53:46
SPEAKER_39: Didn't get the didn't get the memo on that, huh?
53:48
SPEAKER_39: Uh Governor Dim Walls established the Minnesota Truth Council by executive order back in March.
53:53
SPEAKER_39: Selected the former Hennepin County judge Peter Cahill, best known as the judge in the murder trial of former Minneapolis uh officer Derek Chauvin to lead the uh council.
54:02
SPEAKER_39: Guys, this is what cracked me up about the article.
54:05
SPEAKER_39: So this comes from the Minnesota Reformer, which is a left-leaning outlet.
54:08
SPEAKER_39: They wrote that this was the next pair, this is the next line that they wrote.
54:12
SPEAKER_39: Truth commissions are common practice in the aftermath of human rights abuses committed by governments.
54:18
SPEAKER_39: For example, in Argentina in the wake of a military dictatorship, and in South Africa following the end of apartheid.
54:26
SPEAKER_39: Now, I I understand why they put it in there.
54:30
SPEAKER_39: I think that they, you know, feel that this operation Metro Surge was akin to those different events that brought about the other Truth Commissions.
54:41
SPEAKER_39: Uh, but that is an absolutely ridiculous notion, which is probably the biggest understatement that I can make throughout the morning uh this morning.
54:50
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
54:51
SPEAKER_07: And if truth commissions were a thing that actually worked, then we would have a truth commission on what they did during COVID.
54:57
SPEAKER_07: Just throwing that, just throwing it out there.
54:59
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, that's a good idea.
55:00
SPEAKER_39: Any thought any uh thoughts on this uh truth commission there, Amanda?
55:04
SPEAKER_34: I mean, yeah, the is this is interesting because I feel like this kind of ties into a lot of the other stories that we're gonna talk about today.
55:12
SPEAKER_34: But the idea that like the I I get why people uh on the progressive side feel this way.
55:20
SPEAKER_34: Like I remember during Metro Surge, people, I mean, we heard the Gestapo comments from Tim Walls and things like that.
55:26
SPEAKER_34: They truly believe this.
55:28
SPEAKER_34: Like they really believe that it's it's like we sent in the Gestapo into the cities.
55:33
SPEAKER_34: And it's to me, like the more broader cultural point that I've seen in these stories is that there's a misalignment with morality and there's this empathy that they have that's not allowing them to see the full picture.
55:49
SPEAKER_34: The that we need law enforcement to come in and actually enforce laws.
55:55
SPEAKER_34: We can't just have a lawless state.
55:57
SPEAKER_34: But and then you're also they're missing the when it comes to immigration, they're missing the um pain and suffering that's coming from having open borders and and no doubt.
56:08
SPEAKER_34: Yeah, just you know what I'm saying?
56:09
SPEAKER_34: Like against they're they're just missing that morality piece.
56:13
SPEAKER_39: Well, and they're missing it intentionally.
56:15
SPEAKER_39: I mean, this the this whole thing, and we there's so many I'm I'm gonna attach this to the other big story overnight, and that was the Renee Good uh shooting.
56:23
SPEAKER_39: The family has filed two level the two civil lawsuits against the federal government in the in in the sh shooting.
56:30
SPEAKER_39: Um and they're ridiculous.
56:32
SPEAKER_39: We'll get into the details of it here in just a moment.
56:35
SPEAKER_39: But it's all purely political.
56:37
SPEAKER_39: These lawsuits are happening right now because we're into October, we're a handful of weeks away from the election.
56:42
SPEAKER_39: They need to keep Operation Metro Surge top of mind.
56:44
SPEAKER_39: It's why one of the other things that we'll double back to were the horrible MCA scores and how you have Education Minnesota posting overnight as well that this was because of Operation Metro Surge.
56:55
SPEAKER_39: And this truth council is gonna come up with their results on October 31st.
57:00
SPEAKER_39: So you're talking about a week or so before the election, they're gonna drop their results.
57:04
SPEAKER_39: And we know, we already know what their findings are going to be without even knowing what the details are.
57:09
SPEAKER_39: It's just gonna be just one huge massive condemnation of Operation Metro Surge, and they're gonna come up with all kinds of ridiculous numbers that they gamed out to talk about the cost of Operation Metro Surge and what it did to the community.
57:23
SPEAKER_39: It's all purely political right now.
57:25
SPEAKER_39: I just simply can't take any of it seriously.
57:27
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it reminds me of during the 2022 and 2024 elections when Democrats tried to make the central issue January 6th, okay?
57:35
SPEAKER_07: And here's the truth with Operation Metro Surge, it's why I was strong on this and at the state legislature.
57:44
SPEAKER_07: And I know the truth commission is not interested in the truth because they won't come to this conclusion, but it is the truth, is that we needed coordinated law enforcement efforts.
57:54
SPEAKER_07: We had local municipalities, mainly Hennepin County and the Minneapolis Police Department, that were told to stand down in assisting with crowd control in this specific uh circumstance.
58:06
SPEAKER_07: And if you had that, I believe that these people would still be alive today because you have local on-the-ground police enforcement that is doing crowd control as the federal government is carrying out lawful immigration authority.
58:23
SPEAKER_07: And because we didn't have that, what were you left with?
58:26
SPEAKER_07: You were left with ICE agents who were having people jump in front of their cars, be violent with them.
58:33
SPEAKER_07: This this was the big failure of Operation Metro Surge, is that we could not have a coordinated law enforcement effort.
59:01
SPEAKER_39: And we'll make it official and welcome you into the second hour here on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment.
59:07
SPEAKER_39: You can listen live on AmericanExperiment.org, the website, or on the Mix LR app where the podcasts are posted after the show.
59:15
SPEAKER_39: Of course, you can watch the show on my XFeed at John JusticeJ-O-N.
59:19
SPEAKER_39: Also at Center of the American Experiments Facebook and uh YouTube pages.
59:22
SPEAKER_39: Those are posted there.
59:24
SPEAKER_39: Post the show and on Rumble as well.
59:26
SPEAKER_39: In studio, we're happy to welcome back uh Amanda Lamar, Turning Point USA Chapter President out of Apple Valley.
59:32
SPEAKER_39: Also, uh Representative uh Max Reimer.
59:35
SPEAKER_39: And uh, we're about uh 10 minutes away from being joined by Catherine Johnson and uh A.K.
59:39
SPEAKER_39: Kamara on a Freedom Friday.
59:42
SPEAKER_16: Happy Freedom Friday!
59:46
SPEAKER_07: Hello.
59:47
SPEAKER_16: Thankful for another day, another breath in your lungs, thank the Lord Almighty.
59:52
SPEAKER_16: We have more craziness and ridiculousness by the day, but at least we have breath on our lungs, the opportunity to do better today.
1:00:02
SPEAKER_16: Okay.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_16: Praise the Lord.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_16: Yeah.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_07: Amen.
1:00:08
SPEAKER_16: Thank you.
1:00:09
SPEAKER_16: You're a bright spot in my week.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_16: Aw, so nice.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_39: That's nice.
1:00:14
SPEAKER_39: Uh, speaking of the Lord God Almighty, in the eight o'clock hour, I have a uh handful of uh audio uh clips from uh pastors and reverends here in uh the Twin Cities that'll uh make us all collectively pull our hair out.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_39: So I'm looking forward to.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, that was a special request by uh Amanda.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_39: There was a clip that we played earlier this week.
1:00:32
SPEAKER_39: She was like, please, can I talk about this on Friday?
1:00:35
SPEAKER_39: And I said, yes.
1:00:36
SPEAKER_39: And I'll grab you even more audio.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_39: Uh so uh we're gonna get into uh the family of Renee Good, uh, the Minneapolis uh woman fatally shot by ICE during Operation Metro Surge, suing agents and the federal officials for their roles over her death.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_39: And you gotta get into the nuances of what the lawsuits are actually entail.
1:00:54
SPEAKER_39: Let's get back to a few of your comments from the blaster line, uh, on and off topic comments all morning long on Freedom Friday.
1:01:00
SPEAKER_29: If Governor Walls and Mayor Frye had let local police work with ICE agents to uh establish a buffer zone to keep the violent agitators away from the ICE officials.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_29: No one would have died.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, very yeah.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_39: I mean, we said as much when it was ongoing, we said as much when it uh when it happened, and uh Max Reimer said as much this morning here on the show as well.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_39: Thank you for the comment though.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_39: Again, 651-964-0294.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_35: Good morning, John, and Freedom Friday truth from Apple Valley.
1:01:42
SPEAKER_35: I find it rich that people who talk about a truth council define murder as killing cats.
1:01:52
SPEAKER_35: You murder cats, but they have a truth council.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_35: Have a good day, everybody.
1:01:58
SPEAKER_53: I will say cats have been killed.
1:02:00
SPEAKER_53: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles, and I have a cat.
1:02:05
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_53: So, those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
1:02:13
SPEAKER_53: And that's unfair.
1:02:14
SPEAKER_53: I I just watched a video sitting here from the days, and it was really hard to watch.
1:02:18
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_14: We're gonna get into more of this uh later on.
1:02:23
SPEAKER_14: Never heard a better argument for more Waymo's.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_07: I've never heard a better argument to abolish the Minneapolis City Council.
1:02:30
SPEAKER_07: Right?
1:02:31
SPEAKER_34: I just have to say Jason Chavez of the Minneapolis City Council being a cat person is the least surprising thing I've heard all week.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, 100%.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, yeah.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_39: Truer words may not be spoken on the show this morning.
1:02:43
SPEAKER_39: No, you're you are you're absolutely right.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_39: Okay, we will be getting more into that, uh, into that in more detail a little bit later on when the guests uh when the uh rest of our guests have arrived arrived.
1:02:52
SPEAKER_39: So attorneys from the Chicago-based law firm, uh Romanucci and Blandon and the Minneapolis-based um Rach Law filed two uh civil lawsuits yesterday on behalf of Renee Good's family.
1:03:04
SPEAKER_39: Uh the plaintiffs in both cases are Brent uh Brent Ganger, Renee's brother, serving as a trustee for the next of kin of Renee, Nicole Maclin Good, including her three children, parents and siblings, and Becca Good, Renee's partner.
1:03:18
SPEAKER_39: The complaint seeks damages for the immense suffering Renee endured in the final moments of her life.
1:03:26
SPEAKER_39: The family's losses and the emotional physical injuries of Becca Good, Renee's partner, who was standing feet from the couple's vehicle and witnessed a deadly shooting.
1:03:36
SPEAKER_39: The second lawsuit names eight individuals Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Good, Stephen Miller, Christy Gnome, Corey Lewandowski, and uh Tom Homan, Todd Lyons, Gregory Bovino, and a group of unidentified federal agents and a partridge in a pear tree.
1:03:52
SPEAKER_39: Um, the lawsuit alleges that senior White House and DHS officials in conspiracy with private influencers and tech vendors launched Operation Metro Surge, a discriminatory campaign against Minnesotans of Somali and Hispanic descent that deployed thousands of unmasked identified federal agents to the state.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_39: The further allegations are that Ross and other agents unlawfully targeted good while she was exercising her First Amendment rights to observe and warn the neighbors of the agent's presence, culminating in Ross's deadly use of force when he shot her, uh shot her, shot into her car three times, killing her.
1:04:35
SPEAKER_39: I listen, that certainly runs a foul to um what you can actually see in the video footage of what transpired.
1:04:41
SPEAKER_39: I'll get into a little bit more detail about the lawsuit because they are keying in on this 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.
1:04:51
SPEAKER_39: If you guys aren't aware of this.
1:04:52
SPEAKER_39: Let me back up further here, really quick.
1:04:55
SPEAKER_39: I mentioned this is political.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_39: It is political.
1:04:57
SPEAKER_39: The fact that these lawsuits, in my opinion, the fact that these lawsuits have been put forward right now, just weeks before this election, right?
1:05:04
SPEAKER_39: It's designed, one, to keep Operation Metro Surge in the news.
1:05:08
SPEAKER_39: There's another part to this, though.
1:05:10
SPEAKER_39: And that is, in my view, this is a blatant attempt right now to capitalize on the news surrounding Lindsey Clancy, the crazies who have now turned their focus, if you're not aware, to the botched execution of Krista Pike in Tennessee.
1:05:28
SPEAKER_39: There's a whole new now group, the same group of individuals are now posting new commentary defending Krista Pike, who heinously in her youth had murdered an individual, right?
1:05:41
SPEAKER_39: And also attaching this to the ICE controversy, I'm convinced that that is the attempt here to exploit the current narratives of the awful, affluent white liberal women to capitalize on the commentary um within the social, uh, the social sphere right now.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_39: And I'm curious to get Your guys' uh uh thoughts.
1:06:01
SPEAKER_39: And Amanda, we can uh we can start with you.
1:06:04
SPEAKER_34: Yeah, I mean it's it's sad to obviously the loss of life is sad.
1:06:08
SPEAKER_34: I think she was a a mother and had a young child, so that that is what breaks my heart is that she felt the need to go and put herself in a dangerous situation, knowing what's going on in her in her that she has a child to protect.
1:06:22
SPEAKER_34: I think she had just dropped her child off at school when that happened.
1:06:26
SPEAKER_34: Um but yeah, obviously sh they were not infringing on her rights.
1:06:31
SPEAKER_34: She put her, she blocked, she was blocking an operation that was going on.
1:06:34
SPEAKER_34: So she put herself in a very dangerous situation.
1:06:37
SPEAKER_34: It's very sad.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_34: I mean, you think about the the wife who I remember she said drive, baby drive or something, like right into the officer.
1:06:45
SPEAKER_34: The shot that he the first shot what went through the windshield.
1:06:49
SPEAKER_34: So it was she was obviously driving towards him.
1:06:52
SPEAKER_34: I mean, I I don't the the Alex Predi one is actually more questionable to me than this one.
1:06:59
SPEAKER_34: Um, but I don't know.
1:07:01
SPEAKER_34: I it's it's just the whole situation's sad, and I think you're right, it is this like progressive liberal woman where they again feel this empathy for one group of people to the point where it blinds them to reality to seeing the sufferings of another group.
1:07:17
SPEAKER_07: I I don't have much to add to to that.
1:07:21
SPEAKER_07: I I would just say that, yeah, I if I'm the family, of course I am sad about the loss of somebody who I was close to.
1:07:29
SPEAKER_07: Sure.
1:07:30
SPEAKER_07: And I I get it, maybe they're filing this lawsuit out of good faith, but at the end of the day, we do have a video where the wife is saying, drive, baby, drive, right into the officer.
1:07:41
SPEAKER_07: And we can we can dispute, we can have debates about whether or not that officer's life was really in danger, but at the at the same time, we give officers of the law a latitude where if they feel like their life is danger, is in danger, they have to take action.
1:07:56
SPEAKER_07: And again, I just go back to there there's blood on officials' hands in this case, and I don't think it's necessarily the federal government.
1:08:07
SPEAKER_07: I think it is the politicians that we have here in Minnesota that told our local law enforcement to stand down, not assist in the operation because that crowd control was such an important component that was missing.
1:08:20
SPEAKER_07: And it was a malicious attempt by the state and local government in Minneapolis and in Minnesota to say we're going to make this a political point.
1:08:29
SPEAKER_07: We're going to make this a political fight, we're going to make immigration enforcement this political fight.
1:08:39
SPEAKER_07: And in so doing, they did not protect their citizens, period.
1:08:44
SPEAKER_07: And that's that's that's what I think we need to have a conversation about.
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1:08:51
SPEAKER_28: Hi, Stave from Ankidd.
1:08:52
SPEAKER_28: Uh don't forget that uh Renee Good's dad told the media that the uh ISA shouldn't be responsible for what they did.
1:09:05
SPEAKER_28: Renee Good was in the wrong by not getting out of the way and protesting.
1:09:11
SPEAKER_28: Thank you.
1:09:11
SPEAKER_39: Let's um I do have audio of the attorney yesterday uh during the announcement uh of uh of this uh lawsuit.
1:09:20
SPEAKER_39: Let's go here.
1:09:21
SPEAKER_09: Our government is killing our citizens without any legal justification.
1:09:28
SPEAKER_09: Folks, we live in a democracy, not a dictatorship.
1:09:34
SPEAKER_09: Today, we announced two historic federal lawsuits taking on the Trump administration unconstitutional acts during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
1:09:46
SPEAKER_09: Thousands and thousands of agents were deployed.
1:09:51
SPEAKER_09: They were deployed, allegedly, to deport what's called the quote, worst of the worst.
1:09:59
SPEAKER_09: But what happened went far beyond that scope.
1:10:04
SPEAKER_09: It ensnared an inexcusable number of good and decent people, including Renee Good.
1:10:14
SPEAKER_31: If anybody should be getting sued over the problems of metrosurge, it should be the city of Minneapolis by um Becca Good for them not having enough police officers on duty to do crowd control.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_31: They didn't want to do crowd control, but there's a legitimate lawsuit there because they're violating ordinances by not having enough police on duty.
1:10:37
SPEAKER_31: Ridiculous.
1:10:38
SPEAKER_39: So the family's second lawsuit, by the way, is really interesting.
1:10:41
SPEAKER_39: I mentioned this a moment ago.
1:10:42
SPEAKER_39: Um, it alleges that senior administration officials, including Stephen Miller, Christy Noam, Tom Homan, Gregory Bovino, and others, participated in a conspiracy under the 1871 KKK Act.
1:10:54
SPEAKER_39: The theory is that the immigration operation was deliberately designed to target Somali and Hispanic communities and intimidate people who attempted to observe or document or protest it.
1:11:05
SPEAKER_39: This goes back to the blatant political aspect and the attempts to try to attach this to current narratives, including the idea that just because individuals who were um, you know, in a minority group and those largely responsible for the fraud, for example, and the fact that it is people mostly coming up from our southern border that were getting swept up in these raids, and suddenly now that just becomes racist.
1:11:30
SPEAKER_39: The attorneys then characterize the Ross shooting of Good as predictable and intended a product of a broader operation.
1:11:38
SPEAKER_39: In my view, the the predictability could have been seen in Renee Good putting herself into harm's way.
1:11:46
SPEAKER_39: Uh the lawsuit's alleged underlying conspiracy, though, centered on targeting uh Somali Hispanic people, while Renee was a white woman who was, according to the family's account, observing the federal operation, warning neighbors.
1:11:58
SPEAKER_39: The attorneys are trying to basically establish a chain here, and we'll uh invite our guests or our other guests in here in just a moment.
1:12:04
SPEAKER_39: Alleged targeting of Somali Hispanic communities, federal agents deployed into neighborhoods, alleged policy of confronting observers.
1:12:13
SPEAKER_39: Renee observes the operation, confrontation with the ICE agent Ross.
1:12:17
SPEAKER_39: Ross shoots Renee, therefore her death was part of an alleged conspiracy.
1:12:23
SPEAKER_39: Who's on first?
1:12:24
SPEAKER_39: I don't know, third base.
1:12:25
SPEAKER_39: Holy cow.
1:12:25
SPEAKER_39: Good luck with that.
1:12:26
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
1:12:27
SPEAKER_39: That's why I think I just don't think there's any validity to this beyond wanting to try to create as much of a ruckus, keep Operation Metro surge in the news.
1:12:36
SPEAKER_39: And yes, I do think it's also trying to capitalize on the sympathetic white liberal woman movement going on right now relating to the botched Tennessee execution and what's been going on with the Lindsey Clancy trial.
1:12:49
SPEAKER_07: As a baseline for this conspiracy, for this to work, you and this is stated based on what you just read.
1:12:56
SPEAKER_07: This is stated that basically the Trump administration came to Minneapolis with the intention to murder citizens.
1:13:03
SPEAKER_07: Right.
1:13:04
SPEAKER_07: Right.
1:13:04
SPEAKER_07: That's the baseline.
1:13:05
SPEAKER_07: Or they didn't.
1:13:06
SPEAKER_07: That's the baseline.
1:13:07
SPEAKER_07: They did not.
1:13:08
SPEAKER_07: I mean, objectively, they did not.
1:13:10
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I think it's AK Kamara.
1:13:12
SPEAKER_07: Good morning.
1:13:13
SPEAKER_03: Good morning.
1:13:14
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, no, you're right.
1:13:15
SPEAKER_03: Uh, this is 100% political theater.
1:13:17
SPEAKER_03: The fact that they're trying to invoke some some sense of racial justice in white liberals by invoking the KKK Act is super hilarious.
1:13:28
SPEAKER_03: But at the end of the day, don't be mistaken.
1:13:31
SPEAKER_03: Renee Good would be alive today if she just did not interfere with a law enforcement action.
1:13:39
SPEAKER_03: And that's the funny thing that even in this lawsuit, they are acknowledging that these were lawful law enforcement actions.
1:13:47
SPEAKER_03: Because if they were not, then we wouldn't have to talk about invoking the KKK Act.
1:13:52
SPEAKER_03: If if this was like rogue, you know, outside of the government actions occurring.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_03: But at the end of the day, that's what this boils down to.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_03: If you believe that we should have laws on the books that should be enforced, it happens to be that we're not having a bunch of people come from Finland and Sweden and even the UK and hordes crossing the border.
1:14:15
SPEAKER_03: It just happens to be that the people that cross the border are not European by and large.
1:14:21
SPEAKER_03: So it's like, okay, well, they're going after Somalis and they're going after Hispanics.
1:14:26
SPEAKER_03: Well it's like, yeah, because they were abusing the system.
1:14:30
SPEAKER_03: It's not because their skin color or their ethnicity.
1:14:33
SPEAKER_03: It just happens to be that that's who came across the border.
1:14:35
SPEAKER_03: So that's who you have to enforce the action against.
1:14:37
SPEAKER_03: So it's not meant to actually seek truth.
1:14:40
SPEAKER_03: It's not meant to give actual justice.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_03: It's just meant to push a narrative and make people feel that this is wrong.
1:14:47
SPEAKER_06: It reads like a narrative of someone who just read about Operation Metro Surge in the news and is parroting it back.
1:14:54
SPEAKER_06: Like if you actually look at who was arrested, you see lots of Asians, lots of people who are of uh even white descent.
1:15:02
SPEAKER_06: Like you see all kinds of things.
1:15:04
SPEAKER_06: Um but yeah, they specifically call out Hispanic and Somali.
1:15:08
SPEAKER_06: It's like you're thinking you're reading the news and you're parroting it back.
1:15:11
SPEAKER_06: And there's been so much law already on this, so I don't understand what.
1:15:14
SPEAKER_06: I mean, the Supreme Court, the whole time this was going on, has made numerous decisions about the fact that they've stated they do not believe that Trump was targeting any specific racial demographic.
1:15:24
SPEAKER_06: Uh they decided that you can use race as a factor when you are considering um if someone should be pulled over or not.
1:15:30
SPEAKER_06: Like there's all kinds of law here.
1:15:31
SPEAKER_06: I don't know what they could possibly think they are digging up that's new.
1:15:34
SPEAKER_39: That is uh my Lieutenant Governor candidate uh Catherine Johnson.
1:15:37
SPEAKER_39: Good morning, Catherine.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_06: Good morning.
1:15:39
SPEAKER_39: Let's go ahead and do a full reset.
1:15:40
SPEAKER_39: So we also have Amanda Lamar in studio with us, TPD chapter president out of uh Apple uh Apple Valley.
1:15:46
SPEAKER_39: Do you have anything to add on this before we uh move on to some other issues, Amanda?
1:15:49
SPEAKER_34: Well, I was just gonna say when you initially kind of set this up and we're s we're listing the connections between Lindsay Clancy and all of that, I wasn't following it as much, but I get what you're saying now that there is this kind of push where we we don't want to hold women accountable for their decisions and find someone else to blame, a bigger system to blame.
1:16:07
SPEAKER_34: Cornell.
1:16:08
SPEAKER_39: Well, yeah, yeah, that's the other one too.
1:16:10
SPEAKER_39: And I actually was funny, I had texted the group yesterday because I was going down the Cornell 7 rabbit hole, and then I was like, Yeah, you know what?
1:16:17
SPEAKER_39: I'm gonna hold off on this for a little while just because this is a this is uh a story that continues to sort of develop.
1:16:24
SPEAKER_39: But I do when I saw overnight the fact that the Lindsay Clancy crazies were now out there defending Krista Pike, who was on you know, death row, and it was a botched execution, and there's some really interesting questions around that botched execution, by the way, and some speculation that people are saying that maybe it was botched intentionally, but I'm waiting for further details on that.
1:16:44
SPEAKER_39: But I when I saw this, I went, man, they're gonna try to turn the Renee Good, they're gonna try to take what was already a con a controversial issue with the shooting of Renee Good and try to go and capitalize right now on the sympathy that the white liberal women have right now for women that are caught up in these legal wranglings.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_39: I'm j I just I'm like sitting back going, this is what is going to what is going to happen.
1:17:06
SPEAKER_39: So AK Kamara, RNC committeeman and online opinionator will make it official, and you got your head bobbing up and down if you wanted to add something.
1:17:12
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so to further your point, right, this is meant to try and turn up the pressure, the dial to get these white liberals to turn out during the midterms.
1:17:22
SPEAKER_03: In Minnesota, the one thing, and Max, you alluded to this earlier, you know, when you look at the national landscape, it seems like you have these pockets of these like purple-blue states that are kind of like having a rebellion to whatever else is going on, Minnesota and Oregon.
1:17:36
SPEAKER_03: And it's because there's huge fraud stories that came out of Minnesota and Oregon.
1:17:41
SPEAKER_03: That literally the Democrats and the DSA types have been bilking and stealing billions of dollars from taxpayers.
1:17:49
SPEAKER_03: So that narrative, I believe, is driving a lot of people to want to go out and vote.
1:17:54
SPEAKER_03: And that's what we're seeing in the, especially the most recent polling.
1:17:57
SPEAKER_03: There's another poll that's gonna come out today that's gonna show that Tefoya and Peggy Flanagan are again tied.
1:18:02
SPEAKER_03: It's because basically, independence, even if you view yourself as like, well, I'm truly independent.
1:18:09
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes I'll vote Republican, sometimes I'll vote Democrat.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_03: If you ask them, do you think fraud is good, they're all gonna say no.
1:18:16
SPEAKER_03: And I think that that is pushing a lot of people out.
1:18:19
SPEAKER_03: So the counter that the Democrats and the DSA types are pushing is like, don't forget we have to get people motivated because of racial injustice, because of, you know, the the femicide that's occurring, and you know, all all of all of these, you know, males and white Christians, they're trying to oppress us.
1:18:39
SPEAKER_03: So they're trying to really turn up the dial to get people's, you know, social justice juices flowing, and that's what they're trying to do, in my opinion, with all of this stuff.
1:18:48
SPEAKER_39: Femicide sounds like something you would take to sort of repel women.
1:18:53
SPEAKER_39: Rock band or racehorse.
1:18:55
SPEAKER_39: Uh that's a rock band.
1:18:56
SPEAKER_39: That's a very angry, it's a very angry female-led rock band with a lot of piercings and short hair.
1:19:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and a very Butch-lead singer.
1:19:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, a hundred, a hundred percent.
1:19:08
SPEAKER_02: I'm anesthesia.
1:19:09
SPEAKER_02: We're femicide.
1:19:12
SPEAKER_02: All right, let's go uh let's go here.
1:19:14
SPEAKER_27: Yeah, this is Tony in New Brighton.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_27: Uh, people are forgetting that uh Peggy Flanagan actually was quoted for saying, put your bodies on the line to stop ice.
1:19:28
SPEAKER_39: And we're gonna talk um uh coming up, we're gonna keep with the theme a bit because the Minnesota Department of Education did publicly come out yesterday in the wake of these atrocious MCA scores and doubled down on blaming Operation Metro Surge for this.
1:19:42
SPEAKER_39: We'll get the thoughts of our Freedom Friday crew this morning, Catherine, Amanda, A.K., and uh Max.
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1:24:50
SPEAKER_08: Uh happy Freedom Friday to you and everyone there.
1:24:53
SPEAKER_08: So I don't know if you're going to touch on the MCH or whatnot today, but figured I'd let you in on my personal experience with it.
1:25:02
SPEAKER_08: So this last year, the end of the graduating year, my buddy's son just graduated high school.
1:25:11
SPEAKER_08: So I was going to get him a good job in the blue collar area as a heavy equipment operator.
1:25:17
SPEAKER_08: Well, you have to take a general attitude test.
1:25:20
SPEAKER_08: Super easy, super simple.
1:25:22
SPEAKER_08: I'm not the smartest person, and I did the practice test and basic.
1:25:27
SPEAKER_08: It's you know, using levers and pulleys, you know, basic, basic stuff that anybody should probably be able to do.
1:25:35
SPEAKER_08: He got one question right out of 20.
1:25:38
SPEAKER_08: One out of 20, and this is basic stuff.
1:25:42
SPEAKER_08: And he gave up because he thought it was too hard.
1:25:45
SPEAKER_08: And that is proves that these numbers are real, and they pushed him through to graduate and to get the numbers for the school.
1:25:54
SPEAKER_08: Um, I won't say what school or whatever, because you know, it's probably across the board in Minnesota.
1:26:01
SPEAKER_08: But no, the numbers don't lie, they're real.
1:26:03
SPEAKER_08: I've seen it, and it actually broke my heart.
1:26:06
SPEAKER_08: This kid's a good kid.
1:26:07
SPEAKER_08: He just got screwed over by the system.
1:26:10
SPEAKER_08: Anyways, you guys have a great Freedom Friday, have a wonderful weekend, and I'll be catching up on the podcast afterwards.
1:26:16
SPEAKER_08: Thanks.
1:26:17
SPEAKER_39: So let me reset the baseline here on these MCA scores that came out uh yesterday.
1:26:22
SPEAKER_39: I want to remind everybody that six days before these MCA scores were released, you had the Minnesota Department of Education announcing a task force that was going to be convening uh to look at revising the standards of grading.
1:26:34
SPEAKER_39: I don't see any coincidence in this whatsoever.
1:26:36
SPEAKER_39: They had the data up front.
1:26:38
SPEAKER_39: They knew what was coming.
1:26:39
SPEAKER_39: We have seen a 25% increase in the amount of funding that we have been sending to our schools going back to the pandemic of 2020.
1:26:48
SPEAKER_39: I think it was like 25.9 billion is where we are.
1:26:52
SPEAKER_39: When you go back to 2020, we were at like 21 billion in the amount of funding.
1:26:57
SPEAKER_39: So that's been the increase.
1:26:58
SPEAKER_39: And the numbers have only gotten worse.
1:27:00
SPEAKER_39: The media can talk about how these numbers are flat all they want, but they've gone down.
1:27:04
SPEAKER_39: And even if they were flat, that still is bad.
1:27:07
SPEAKER_39: So you have the according to the data, um, when it comes to reading, it was 46 uh 8.6%, 44.9% proficient in math, and then the science one at 25.5% proficient in science was just and then that was mostly ignored by the vast majority of the mainstream media.
1:27:26
SPEAKER_39: Uh the Minnesota Department of Education wants to go and blame the science number on a change in the testing standard from last year to this year.
1:27:34
SPEAKER_39: Of course.
1:27:34
SPEAKER_39: So the original testing standard, and again, I went over this yesterday, but just to kind of re-establish the baseline on this the original science testing standard was basically more of recitation and facts, fact based, you know, scientific fact just being able to memorize and and tout it back.
1:27:50
SPEAKER_39: The change in the assessment was actually taking the science and applying it in real life.
1:27:54
SPEAKER_39: How applicable, how well do the students actually know the science?
1:27:58
SPEAKER_39: And so they want to say, well, you can't compare.
1:28:00
SPEAKER_39: The two tests.
1:28:00
SPEAKER_39: Well, sure you can.
1:28:02
SPEAKER_39: It was actually 40% under the read sort of I call it regurgitation, but the repetition version of science.
1:28:09
SPEAKER_39: And now, after they actually went and looked at the students being able to apply science, it plummeted to 25.5%.
1:28:16
SPEAKER_39: A statement from Education Minnesota yesterday, this is the president Monica Byron on the MCA scores.
1:28:22
SPEAKER_39: These scores are surprising in the context of what happened last winter.
1:28:25
SPEAKER_39: They reflect how hard Minnesota educators worked to keep their classes on track while federal agents were causing chaos in the streets in many communities across Minnesota.
1:28:36
SPEAKER_39: One more thing.
1:28:38
SPEAKER_39: Metro surge started December 1st, ended February 12th.
1:28:41
SPEAKER_39: And one thing we didn't talk about yesterday, and if I'm taking this away from any commentary of our guests, I apologize.
1:28:46
SPEAKER_39: But we didn't talk about this yesterday.
1:28:48
SPEAKER_39: They moved to distant learning, to distance learning during that time.
1:28:51
SPEAKER_39: So there was education was still taking place.
1:28:55
SPEAKER_39: And so uh thoughts from the group.
1:28:57
SPEAKER_39: We have Max, A.K., we have Amanda, and we have uh Catherine and uh Catherine, want to start with uh your thoughts on the MCA results?
1:29:04
SPEAKER_06: Well, I just first of all I saw that quote in a graphic on X, and I thought it must be a parody, like someone was making fun of education in Minnesota.
1:29:11
SPEAKER_06: And I was like, yeah, that does sound like something, you know, they would say they're nuts.
1:29:15
SPEAKER_06: Uh but um okay.
1:29:16
SPEAKER_06: So I'm a little disheartened to hear it's real.
1:29:18
SPEAKER_06: Um but it's not surprising, unfortunately.
1:29:21
SPEAKER_06: I mean, our scores have been going down now for a long time.
1:29:24
SPEAKER_06: Our kids are doing worse and worse, and um, there's no end in sight.
1:29:28
SPEAKER_06: And meanwhile, you have people like Amy Klobuchar who are on uh X saying, I'll fix this, I'll fix this.
1:29:34
SPEAKER_06: Why has no one fixed it over the past 20 years while our scores have been declining?
1:29:38
SPEAKER_06: Why haven't any of your friends who have had complete control of the state for this entire time done anything to fix this?
1:29:46
SPEAKER_06: Um that that is the part that really gets me.
1:29:48
SPEAKER_06: That now there's Democrats out there running who claim I will fix this.
1:29:52
SPEAKER_06: I do not believe you for one frickin' second.
1:29:56
SPEAKER_34: Yeah, I this deeply, deeply angers me.
1:30:00
SPEAKER_34: This is actually, and I I believe it's a righteous anger.
1:30:03
SPEAKER_34: This is one of the reasons that I wanted to get involved in Turning Point when I started seeing the things that this state was doing to our kids and the these policies, how they harm children so much.
1:30:15
SPEAKER_34: Uh, my husband and I, we have kids that are starting to get to school age, and we've been talking about we don't feel like we can send them to public schools in Minnesota.
1:30:23
SPEAKER_34: We feel like, and so that's an additional expense now to our family that we have to think about as we think about growing our family, having more children.
1:30:30
SPEAKER_34: And so that's my concern is I'm very pro-family.
1:30:34
SPEAKER_34: Having more children is good for our country, it's good for society.
1:30:38
SPEAKER_34: So I'm looking at the deeper problem of this is families have to make these really hard choices of how do we afford, what what do we cut out of our budget so that we can afford to educate our children, take our children's education into our own hands, which maybe that's one positive.
1:30:52
SPEAKER_34: I do think parents should have a little more ownership over their kids' education and not just leave it up to the state.
1:30:58
SPEAKER_34: But it is sad because you you're right, the the people who are the most harmed by this are the lowest, the most vulnerable families and the most vulnerable children.
1:31:09
SPEAKER_39: Aaron Powell Well, I was having a conversation with uh with Melinda about this yesterday, and she was curious to see.
1:31:14
SPEAKER_39: She she she wanted to know like demographics and breakdowns, you know, of of of the test scores and the and the students involved.
1:31:22
SPEAKER_39: And I'm very much of the opinion, and this is probably an obvious thing for those that follow this stuff, but you know, it's not necessarily the education system here in Minnesota sucks, but I imagine that what's dragging these numbers down are very concentrated areas where these numbers are being dragged down.
1:31:38
SPEAKER_39: It's not as systemic in other parts of the of the state where you know they're they're making good with the curriculum being handed, even though it's like working with one hand behind uh tied behind your back.
1:31:48
SPEAKER_39: There was a comment that rolled in just to my point about the Minnesota Department of Education and the numbers.
1:31:52
SPEAKER_39: Preliminary results are available to me, and they're a test coordinator almost immediately after the MDE.
1:32:00
SPEAKER_39: Uh almost immediately after testing.
1:32:02
SPEAKER_39: So MDE knew the results as well.
1:32:04
SPEAKER_39: The MCA window runs March through May.
1:32:07
SPEAKER_39: So the Department of Education convened this task, this task force, knowing full well that these results were going to be hitting the public.
1:32:15
SPEAKER_39: They weren't gonna look good, and they needed something to save face, especially ahead of this election here in a few weeks.
1:32:21
SPEAKER_06: But John, really quick, just for the record, something you said I think isn't quite true, which is that there are certain places dragging down these numbers.
1:32:27
SPEAKER_06: You see this across the suburbs.
1:32:29
SPEAKER_06: We went in last year and we did a campaign where we targeted people in individual areas and told them exactly how their school, the kids in their school are doing.
1:32:38
SPEAKER_06: And across all of the suburbs, you're not safe from this in E Dino where they still claim they're like the number one school or whatever.
1:32:44
SPEAKER_06: You're not safe from this anywhere.
1:32:45
SPEAKER_06: They're all going down.
1:32:46
SPEAKER_06: It certainly has gotten worse in some areas.
1:32:48
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
1:32:48
SPEAKER_06: But across the board, schools are all doing worse.
1:32:51
SPEAKER_39: Well, when this was, and just really quick, that was stemming from I had a couple of people that reached out yesterday from there.
1:32:56
SPEAKER_39: And and again, this is all, you know, anecdotal stories.
1:32:59
SPEAKER_39: Um, you know, my thought process was based off of a handful of individuals that reached out yesterday that were talking about their their individual schools results versus the MCA results, and they weren't matching.
1:33:11
SPEAKER_39: They were like, our school has been able to, you know, we're at 60% or at 70%.
1:33:17
SPEAKER_39: So, you know, I think there's there's truth in both things.
1:33:20
SPEAKER_39: You're right.
1:33:20
SPEAKER_39: You're there's no escaping the horrible curriculum that the Minnesota Department of Education has been putting forward, and the fact that everything that they've suggested in the wake of this so far, none of it is focused on actually changing the curriculum.
1:33:32
SPEAKER_39: It's all about changing the way that they're testing so they can game out the results so they don't end up with another disastrous report like this.
1:33:39
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I think if you really want to understand what is happening here and why these standards have been dropping across the state, you just have to look at the actual teachers teaching the kids.
1:33:51
SPEAKER_03: I actually do think that Metro Surge had a negative impact on teaching uh and the kids, but that's because all the teachers were out participating in social justice and shutting down law, you know, lawful law enforcement actions.
1:34:04
SPEAKER_03: Like I'm legitimately saying that.
1:34:07
SPEAKER_03: They were so focused on being the social justice warrior, they have allowed their classrooms to fall into chaos and they're mailing it in because that's the way that these teachers in Minnesota, that's how they're kind of like geared, that's their mentality.
1:34:23
SPEAKER_03: And it's because Minnesota has encouraged and opened up the door to doing all of this social emotional learning, right?
1:34:29
SPEAKER_03: All of these like social justice things, all this curriculum.
1:34:33
SPEAKER_03: That's because the actual teachers don't care about teaching core competency.
1:34:40
SPEAKER_03: They don't.
1:34:40
SPEAKER_03: They care about creating the next social justice warrior.
1:34:44
SPEAKER_03: So of course you're gonna see these test scores fall.
1:34:46
SPEAKER_39: I'm looking at an article that was just sent to me.
1:34:48
SPEAKER_39: Um, and it's uh it's from February 9th of this year.
1:34:52
SPEAKER_39: Uh, out of Vice.
1:34:53
SPEAKER_39: Gen Z is the first generation dumber than their parents.
1:34:57
unknown: It's yeah.
1:34:58
SPEAKER_39: Incredible.
1:34:58
SPEAKER_39: Uh Max.
1:34:59
SPEAKER_07: You're not teaching them.
1:35:00
SPEAKER_07: Uh Max, your uh your thoughts on this.
1:35:02
SPEAKER_07: So in session, I have the privilege of sitting on the education finance committee, and a lot of what we talked about were the mandates that were passed down to our schools because what you said or what you heard from Tim Walls all the time was that we finally got, we finally funded our schools.
1:35:20
SPEAKER_07: We finally, after Republican Republicans blocking this for so long, we were finally.
1:35:27
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, well, this is my point.
1:35:29
SPEAKER_07: I have a list with me right now that I got in that committee of during the DFL trifecta, 60 different mandates that were attached to that funding, that record funding for our public schools.
1:35:43
SPEAKER_07: And I appreciate public schools.
1:35:45
SPEAKER_07: I'm a product of public school.
1:35:46
SPEAKER_07: I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing when you look at me.
1:35:50
SPEAKER_07: But we also send our kids to public school up in North Branch.
1:35:54
SPEAKER_07: So I believe an education choice, but public school is one of those choices.
1:35:59
SPEAKER_07: And what we have done is with that funding that the DFL bragged about, we have attached so many non-education related handcuffs to our public schools that they are now, if you look across any district, especially in greater Minnesota, they are being forced to lay off teachers because we have we have passed menstrual support and paid family medical leave and unemployment insurance during the summers and e-learning mandates and all sorts of things that add administrative cost to our schools without that dollar ever touching the classroom.
1:36:39
SPEAKER_07: When we talk about per pupil spending, well, that's a misnomer because I'm not sure that half that money is going towards the pupil.
1:36:48
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
1:36:48
SPEAKER_07: Because at the same time, I'm sorry, I'm fired up.
1:36:51
SPEAKER_07: At the same time, max conference historic DFL trifecta funding, we have teachers that are being laid off in school right now.
1:37:07
SPEAKER_07: And by the way, the Minnesota Department of Education during that same period of time grew by about 30%.
1:37:14
SPEAKER_07: Do you think there is one bureaucrat while we lay off teachers in schools?
1:37:18
SPEAKER_07: Do you think there is one bureaucrat in that department that has been fired?
1:37:22
SPEAKER_07: Probably not.
1:37:22
SPEAKER_07: No.
1:37:23
SPEAKER_07: The answer is no.
1:37:24
SPEAKER_07: So I'm not saying that funding is the only problem, but what I am saying is that we have such administrative bloat to accommodate the mandates that the DFL passed that I feel bad for these students and for these teachers who are being told they have more, but in reality they actually they actually have less.
1:37:44
SPEAKER_07: And it's not about performance, it's not about what actual spending impacts the students.
1:37:48
SPEAKER_07: It is literally a laundry list of DFL DEI agenda items that they got passed two and three years ago.
1:37:56
SPEAKER_34: And that not only did they add add cost, there's also the federal program that we've opted out of in Minnesota.
1:38:03
SPEAKER_34: Where we have access to a bunch of free money from the government.
1:38:07
SPEAKER_34: I think 30 some states have opted in.
1:38:09
SPEAKER_34: Minnesota, of course, has opted out because they're completely beholden to the government.
1:38:12
SPEAKER_07: Including New York, including Virginia.
1:38:14
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, these are not red states that are opting in, opting into this program as well.
1:38:18
SPEAKER_02: Trump's dirty blood money.
1:38:22
SPEAKER_07: Got another parody.
1:38:23
SPEAKER_07: Sorry, Amanda, I interrupted you.
1:38:24
SPEAKER_07: I the but yes, we have blue states that are being.
1:38:27
SPEAKER_34: I agree, yeah.
1:38:28
SPEAKER_39: Got another parody idea.
1:38:29
SPEAKER_39: Trump's dirty blood money.
1:38:31
SPEAKER_39: That's a good one.
1:38:32
SPEAKER_39: Let's go to the uh blaster line, 651-964-0294.
1:38:38
SPEAKER_39: Or maybe not.
1:38:40
SPEAKER_39: Okay, let's try this one.
1:38:43
SPEAKER_35: Good morning, John.
1:38:44
SPEAKER_35: Happy Freedom Friday.
1:38:45
SPEAKER_35: Um about the box execution.
1:38:49
SPEAKER_39: Oh, we're not on the box execution right now.
1:38:50
SPEAKER_39: It is a Freedom Friday, but right now I want to stick with the uh topic.
1:38:53
SPEAKER_31: Hey, good morning, everybody.
1:38:55
SPEAKER_31: Just listen to Super Max Reimer getting ready to go.
1:38:58
SPEAKER_39: Supermax Supermax.
1:39:01
SPEAKER_31: Nice studio.
1:39:04
SPEAKER_31: Education is so broken in this in the state.
1:39:07
SPEAKER_31: What I really love seeing right now on the internet is like this true north or whatever garbage DFL posting site going out there saying, James fans advice.
1:39:19
SPEAKER_31: I'm like, well, thanks for announcing that.
1:39:21
SPEAKER_31: A lot of people actually stand advice.
1:39:26
SPEAKER_31: Minneapolis area, but the rest of us support that.
1:39:28
SPEAKER_31: So thanks for doing your work for Happy Freedom Friday.
1:39:32
SPEAKER_38: That's a really good point.
1:39:34
SPEAKER_38: That's a really good point.
1:39:35
SPEAKER_49: Yeah, uh the comment that was just made about the unemployment offered to schools.
1:39:41
SPEAKER_49: Um, my wife is a school bus driver, and usually they were just screwed all summer because their contracts were tied to the teachers who are paid a heck of a lot more.
1:39:52
SPEAKER_49: They've finally, for the last few years, been able to get unemployment for the three short months if they don't work in the summer.
1:40:00
SPEAKER_49: And it's been a blessing.
1:40:04
SPEAKER_39: Uh, let's go ahead and listen, yeah, listen.
1:40:08
SPEAKER_07: Okay, I I I drew that one up.
1:40:10
SPEAKER_07: That I I hope you can understand my broader point here.
1:40:13
SPEAKER_07: That it is I I appreciate that your wife has benefited from that specific program, but there's a number of other specific programs in this stew of policies that have added costs and basically not gone to the classroom.
1:40:28
SPEAKER_07: So I can appreciate that your wife has taken that money.
1:40:32
SPEAKER_07: Uh, we have a number of other mandates that I I did not read off.
1:40:37
SPEAKER_39: So this is a good reminder when it comes to the show, and I haven't mentioned it in a while.
1:40:42
SPEAKER_39: This is a good reminder that when we talk about items and issues like this that often impact even friends of the show in a positive way and we speak negatively.
1:40:50
SPEAKER_39: What I always say is if you are if you are using something appropriately, even though myself and the guests of the show may be criticizing it, we're not talking about you.
1:40:59
SPEAKER_39: Yep.
1:41:00
SPEAKER_39: Right?
1:41:00
SPEAKER_39: You know, and the same thing like with paid family medical leave, right?
1:41:03
SPEAKER_39: And there's a story in the stack that I've been sitting on, probably won't have time to get to it today.
1:41:07
SPEAKER_39: Um, but it was Rochelle Olsen and the Star Tribune talking about, well, if they make any changes, I hope they don't for like domestic violence victims, because you know, they take advantage of it.
1:41:17
SPEAKER_39: And it's and and I know we've had listeners that have taken advantage of paid family medical leave.
1:41:21
SPEAKER_39: Listen, if you it's there, why wouldn't you?
1:41:24
SPEAKER_39: They're taking money from you, you might as well take advantage of it.
1:41:27
SPEAKER_39: It doesn't mean that we're supportive of it.
1:41:28
SPEAKER_39: So just to rush to Super Max's defense there, you know, you don't need to do that.
1:41:33
SPEAKER_07: I hope, I hope you can see the forest for uh for the trees.
1:41:36
SPEAKER_07: On my my point here is that dollars have not reached the classroom because the DFL had a laundry list of policies that have nothing to do with learning.
1:41:47
SPEAKER_07: Yep.
1:41:47
SPEAKER_07: That's that's my broader point.
1:41:49
SPEAKER_07: And so I appreciate that your wife has taken advantage of that.
1:41:52
SPEAKER_07: But again, we have an entire stew of policies that were passed over the last two or three years that have nothing to do with our student, and it is not surprising that MCA scores are going down.
1:42:04
SPEAKER_03: And and can I just say this, right?
1:42:05
SPEAKER_03: If you take a step back and realize what this does to the next generation of the people that are supposed to run the state, all of the people that are going to be in law enforcement, in hospitals, right?
1:42:17
SPEAKER_03: I'm not even talking about just like the highly specialized, because we can bring those people in from other states.
1:42:22
SPEAKER_03: But the people that are just helping society actually exist, if they're all stupid and they can't do basic things, it's going to be really, really bad.
1:42:32
SPEAKER_03: So if you're listening to this and you are like, well, you know, whether you homeschool your kids or you find some alternative, this is a problem that must be addressed because eventually you actually have to address the problem.
1:42:46
SPEAKER_03: Like you can pass kids, push them along, but just like the talk, you know, the blaster said the the kid that he knows, his his buddy's kid, that literally got one question right out of 20, that's a big problem because we still need to rely on those people.
1:43:02
SPEAKER_03: Or I guess robots just take over all the things that humans do.
1:43:05
SPEAKER_03: Oh, getting ahead.
1:43:06
SPEAKER_03: We're going to talk robots here in a bit.
1:43:08
SPEAKER_32: So yeah, on top of the curriculum things bringing education down.
1:43:11
SPEAKER_32: Let's not underestimate the idiocracy factor.
1:43:14
SPEAKER_32: You've got the lowest common nuts denominator out there procreating like rabbits because they get free gimme's all the time.
1:43:22
SPEAKER_32: Free this, free that.
1:43:23
SPEAKER_32: They don't have to do anything except sit around and play games, get high, and procreate.
1:43:28
SPEAKER_32: And we're starting to see the truths of that lack of labor.
1:43:33
SPEAKER_32: I sorry.
1:43:34
SPEAKER_32: I don't know where this is gonna end up, but embarrassing.
1:43:38
SPEAKER_39: You can just see that dude just described my weekend.
1:43:40
SPEAKER_03: That's what's my you know my favorite, my favorite comeback to people that say that.
1:43:44
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, okay, well, if you're smart, how many kids do you have?
1:43:46
SPEAKER_03: Oh, you don't have like 12?
1:43:48
SPEAKER_03: What's your problem?
1:43:49
SPEAKER_03: So, like, listen, like going after the people that are having kids, like we need human beings, and if you're born to stupid parents, like in the United States of America, you can still become very, very successful.
1:43:59
SPEAKER_03: But that's why the system that we are uh building and and continually shaping has to be a good system to give people opportunities.
1:44:07
SPEAKER_03: So if you're smart and you're looking down on people that are dumb having a lot of kids, hopefully you're matching that energy, man.
1:44:12
SPEAKER_06: Amanda brought this up, but there's also uh always some onus that belongs with the parents, I think, who are more and more handing their kids over to the government rather than teaching them themselves at home.
1:44:24
SPEAKER_06: Like I went to kindergarten completely knowing how to read and things like that.
1:44:28
SPEAKER_06: That now I don't know that as many parents, or certainly still are, but I don't know as many parents prioritize because it seems like school has become this like one-stop for everything for your kid.
1:44:38
SPEAKER_06: The parents need not be involved.
1:44:40
SPEAKER_06: They'll get two meals, they'll get supposedly taught the things they need to do, and parents have outsourced all of that to the government.
1:44:46
SPEAKER_06: And ultimately, that's a really dangerous thing to do.
1:44:49
SPEAKER_39: So Alpha News has a story this morning.
1:44:51
SPEAKER_39: Uh, there's a piece of this that made me laugh.
1:44:53
SPEAKER_39: Uh, and also I want to play uh Becca Thompson, friend of the show and uh fighter for the future of Minneapolis, has left us a uh a blast that we'll share here in a moment.
1:45:02
SPEAKER_39: Um, but new data, MCAs, student proficiency, reading, math, the science sucks.
1:45:07
SPEAKER_39: I'm paraphrasing.
1:45:08
SPEAKER_39: Um but these are comments from Lisa Damath and uh and uh and Amy Clovishar.
1:45:13
SPEAKER_39: Uh so Damath said uh on Wednesday, under uh Tim Walls, fewer than half of Minnesotans are proficient in math and reading, according to the data.
1:45:20
SPEAKER_39: Um Damath, the speaker of the House, is uh running on a platform to make Minnesota a top 10 state for education, wants to increase school safety funding, empower parents in their child's education, lessen state mandates, and uh remove woke standards adopted by uh Walls and the status quo, and replace them with evidence-based math and phonics.
1:45:40
SPEAKER_39: Meanwhile, U.S.
1:45:41
SPEAKER_39: Senator Amy Clobichard, the DFL nominee, appeared to react to the new test scores in a social media post on Wednesday evening, saying, I plan to get uh student achievement up and screen time down in the classroom.
1:45:53
SPEAKER_39: That includes evidence-based approaches uh to drive real results in reading and math, uh small group tutoring and boosting attendance.
1:46:00
SPEAKER_39: And I can't help but laugh because every single time when she goes and makes a comment, whether it's this or whether it's fraud and we're gonna do an audit, I keep going back to you you're in a position now where you have a voice and you can't do anything.
1:46:14
SPEAKER_39: And I when I was reading this, I was immediately reminded of that moment in the office when uh they were looking to hire a new office manager and Will Arnett came into the office.
1:46:23
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1:46:25
SPEAKER_15: Do you think you could use that experience to inform decisions here?
1:46:29
SPEAKER_15: Absolutely.
1:46:30
SPEAKER_15: I yes.
1:46:31
SPEAKER_15: In fact, I actually have a three-step plan that I believe could effectively double your profits.
1:46:36
SPEAKER_10: Really?
1:46:37
unknown: Yeah.
1:46:39
SPEAKER_15: What is it?
1:46:43
SPEAKER_15: Nice job.
1:46:46
SPEAKER_15: I'm sorry.
1:46:48
SPEAKER_15: What is your three-step plan?
1:46:50
SPEAKER_15: Well, I mean, I I can't just hand you my plan.
1:46:52
SPEAKER_15: I mean, if you guys give me the job, then then you'll get the plan.
1:46:56
SPEAKER_15: Well, it's an interview, and we don't know that you really have the plan.
1:46:59
SPEAKER_15: Well, I'm not gonna just make a plan.
1:47:01
SPEAKER_15: I got a plan, but even guys want it.
1:47:03
SPEAKER_15: You're doing paper, right?
1:47:04
SPEAKER_15: How do we know that?
1:47:05
SPEAKER_15: You know you could just be saying it to get the job.
1:47:07
SPEAKER_15: I guess I could be.
1:47:08
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1:47:11
SPEAKER_15: How about this?
1:47:12
SPEAKER_15: Why don't you give us a part of the plan, and that way we know you have it?
1:47:16
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1:47:19
SPEAKER_15: Not gonna give you a whole part.
1:47:21
SPEAKER_15: Okay.
1:47:22
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1:47:27
SPEAKER_15: Did you just trademark that?
1:47:29
SPEAKER_15: What?
1:47:29
SPEAKER_15: That's a verbal trademark, that's an agreement.
1:47:34
SPEAKER_38: Amanda, you wanted to uh you wanted to chime in on this.
1:47:37
SPEAKER_34: Oh, that was funny.
1:47:38
SPEAKER_34: But what I'm thinking is just it is unloving to lie to children.
1:47:42
SPEAKER_34: I read an article recently, I think it was in New York, where they were closing down a school and a mom went to an administrator and was like, Why are you closing down the school?
1:47:50
SPEAKER_34: This is a good school.
1:47:51
SPEAKER_34: And they had to tell her, this is the worst school in this district.
1:47:54
SPEAKER_34: And she pulled out her child's report card that was filled with A's, and she's like, What are you talking about?
1:48:00
SPEAKER_34: My child is doing well.
1:48:02
SPEAKER_34: And how sad is that that as a parent, you like you're saying, Catherine, you believe that your child is being educated, you believe that they're doing well, and then you find out that they were being lied to, they were being pushed ahead and not helped when they should have been helped.
1:48:17
SPEAKER_34: I think it's it's either second grade or fourth grade.
1:48:20
SPEAKER_34: A teacher can correct me, but you go from learning to read to reading to learn.
1:48:25
SPEAKER_34: And what studies have shown is that if you pass a child into that next grade where they go to reading to learn and they never actually learn those basic principles, they are behind for the rest of their educational career.
1:48:37
SPEAKER_34: And so you are putting that on the child.
1:48:40
SPEAKER_34: The most loving thing is to be honest and to hold them back when they need to be held back.
1:48:45
SPEAKER_34: And I think it's it's an adult problem where we want to say, look at all the success we've had.
1:48:51
SPEAKER_34: We have more kids gradu, we have higher graduation rates than we've ever had, and it's all lies.
1:48:56
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
1:48:56
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
1:48:57
SPEAKER_39: Let's go and uh hear from Friend of the Show.
1:48:59
SPEAKER_39: We'll make her a uh we'll make her an honorary away uh guest on the Freedom Friday, Becca Thompson.
1:49:05
SPEAKER_46: What's up, guys?
1:49:05
SPEAKER_46: It's Becca Thompson, and I uh am just listening a bit from home because I'm sick today.
1:49:11
SPEAKER_46: It's like a sick day.
1:49:12
SPEAKER_46: I used to watch uh, you know, Price is right.
1:49:14
SPEAKER_46: You guys do that to you.
1:49:15
SPEAKER_36: Oh, yeah.
1:49:16
SPEAKER_46: I'm listening to you talk about schools, and I wanted to add you know, I get fired of two.
1:49:21
SPEAKER_46: I don't know who you've got on there, and I was like, yes, I'm fired up too.
1:49:26
SPEAKER_46: Um the stuff that you're talking about is 100% and part of why I do what I do is because to make schools very great again.
1:49:37
SPEAKER_46: Um there are great teachers left and right who are unable to find jobs.
1:49:44
SPEAKER_46: I want to make that super clear.
1:49:45
SPEAKER_46: Like there are great teachers that are unable to find jobs at all because school districts are so burdened by these administrative costs and and districts all over the state because they have to.
1:50:00
SPEAKER_46: people all over the state.
1:50:01
SPEAKER_46: They are they literally like they need extra earmarks just to be able to get busing services for like 14 um up in the in the iron range area which uh I I I I can't I couldn't believe it when I found that out.
1:50:16
SPEAKER_46: We have people who like are unable to get kids to field trips again because of lack of ability to just transport them because they are hemorrhaging their budget in all these different locations that they're supposed to use for kids.
1:50:32
SPEAKER_46: Now the reason why things get extra bad too is because is by and large the the the federal government pays for uh a lot of special ed teachers so you're getting also this has become a social situation where a lot of the special ed teachers um are language learning specialists well put two and two together who who is it that's going to be a language learner and now I'm gonna tell you one more thing and now I'm gonna tell my catchy to keep uh here's something else that you don't see is that um my time in MTS um specifically I mean I've been another specific but specifically there were a ton of jobs in the last 10 years of translators for Somali English right and those jobs now and their districts are needing translators from Spanish English and there's no need for the Somali translators anymore because that community has been largely uh accumulated enough where the the young people are not they're not new they're they've been here right so they know English and so then there's like oh well we have different people on the room where we do we need to get them job skills.
1:51:48
SPEAKER_46: Um and so there are a ton of people they're good people I am not trying to like throw anybody into the butt but I'm just talking about the structural issue that that are literally like actually literally wandering the hall of tools.
1:52:03
SPEAKER_39: 100% um and the problem I mean and one of the problems and then we'll do one more sort of round robin on this issue before we move on to some other items as we head into the uh third hour here on the show but as I broke down yesterday this task force that's convening in the wake of in the wake of these MCA scores and everything that's being discussed this morning everything that I've seen so far all the evidence so far of what this task force is going to be looking at is not addressing anything of what Becca mentioned what Max, aka Amanda or Catherine mentioned.
1:52:35
SPEAKER_39: None of it.
1:52:35
SPEAKER_39: They're not address it's it's it's going to be all about equity in grading.
1:52:40
SPEAKER_39: How do we change the system?
1:52:41
SPEAKER_39: It's this idea that well just because students aren't turning their homework in on time they're missing work or it's incomplete it doesn't mean that they're not learning the curriculum so we need to find a way to gauge how they're actually learning the curriculum.
1:52:55
SPEAKER_39: And so they're going to go down a path that will not be looking at solving any of these problems.
1:53:00
SPEAKER_39: And so like I said we'll go back around the room and we'll start with uh Max.
1:53:02
SPEAKER_07: And that that very point is why if you are a doomer or a black pillar or someone who says that both parties are the same what's it matter if my vote I don't want to vote because what's it matter both parties no no because the the way that this changes overnight I am telling you you see it in Alabama.
1:53:23
SPEAKER_07: You see it in other red states that are improving as we are declining the way that this changes is a change at the top it is a mentality that we can do something about this.
1:53:37
SPEAKER_07: Education in Minnesota is the largest line item in our entire budget and it has grown exponentially because the DFL again they gave all these monies to the to the schools but it came with all of these handcuffs about how you can use the money.
1:53:53
SPEAKER_07: If we did the federal tax credit which a Republican governor would have if we basically would have said we're still going to give public schools a substantial amount of money but we are going to let them determine how to best use that to improve outcomes for their students a Republican would do that.
1:54:11
SPEAKER_07: A Democrat has proven over the last 20 years they are unwilling to do that.
1:54:16
SPEAKER_07: If you want to see test scores improve I'm just telling you a change in leadership would change this whole situation overnight.
1:54:23
SPEAKER_03: And I'm gonna take it again the bigger pitcher view.
1:54:28
SPEAKER_03: Understand that this is not like oh well it's just bad leadership that this is you know these people just don't really know how economies work.
1:54:37
SPEAKER_03: This is intentional okay Marxists believe that the education system is not meant to produce a productive worker in a capitalist system.
1:54:47
SPEAKER_03: They actually don't believe that they don't want that to happen.
1:54:50
SPEAKER_03: They believe that we should have the system that allows for ownership of all these uh you know the people to collectively own everything and take down the capitalist system.
1:55:00
SPEAKER_03: How do you do that?
1:55:01
SPEAKER_03: Why don't you create an entire education system that doesn't actually produce productive members of societies from a capitalist kind of work system and instead produces a bunch of social justice warrior kids.
1:55:14
SPEAKER_03: That's the intent.
1:55:16
SPEAKER_03: Now I will say that in order to understand that you have to be able to kind of take a step back and be like well I know some teachers that don't believe that yes in in your little kind of piece you're right but look at the larger program in and of itself when you look at the actual standards that Democrats pass that's why you see this huge reduction.
1:55:40
SPEAKER_03: It's intentional.
1:55:41
SPEAKER_03: It's not just like poor management it's intentional to destroy the ability for our education system to create productive members in a capitalist system.
1:55:52
SPEAKER_03: That's intentional.
1:55:53
SPEAKER_34: Representative uh Patricia Mueller uh has uh shared with the she shares some thoughts on this yesterday shout out they're uh available up on her uh up on our website but uh she did post uh preach Amanda exclamation point it is uh it is fourth grade so uh your uh your final thoughts on this all right thank you for that um I I would just say I want to bring it back to the teachers I know there are a lot of bad teachers out there but you a a plane that lands safely never makes the news right there are also a lot of good teachers out there and for anyone who's listening that's a teacher I just want to encourage you say I want to say thank you for what you're doing.
1:56:31
SPEAKER_34: Being a teacher in the public schools in Minnesota right now is one of the hardest environments to be in and if you are someone who's there and you have conviction of what you want to teach and just thank you.
1:56:42
SPEAKER_34: You're on the front lines of this and I know we lost a lot of good teachers during COVID with the mandates and everything but there's a lot of people who stayed and thank you for doing that for our kids.
1:56:52
SPEAKER_34: Just want to encourage you in that and keep going and we we need more good teachers in the school to counteract what's going on and I I agree with that we do need a change in leadership to be able to support those teachers from from the top.
1:57:06
SPEAKER_34: It's really hard when you're being when you're being completely pushed down from the top.
1:57:11
SPEAKER_06: I will uh piggyback on Max's white pill and add on to it that I think for the first time we are finally seeing people wake up and realize that this is a problem.
1:57:20
SPEAKER_06: For a long time I think a lot of Minnesotans were um just completely ignorant living in bliss they they still thought this old idea that our schools are incredible.
1:57:29
SPEAKER_06: We have the best schools in Minnesota that's not true anymore sadly but people are finally waking up and realizing it that's what our polling shows that's what all of my experience talking to people shows and that's the first step towards actually making a change so uh we need new leadership but I think look opinions and the truth uh opinions are changing and the truth is coming out and so I have a lot I have a lot of hope for the future of of Minnesota and and actually changing this system.
1:58:16
SPEAKER_03: All right it's hour three on the John Justice show presented by American Experiment Catherine Johnson Amanda Lamar aka Kamara Max Reimer all in studio on a Freedom Friday so I know red pill I know blue pill can somebody square away black and white pill for me because you just you just said you just said white you just said white pill a moment ago that's like that's optimism and I heard okay and then what's black pill black pills doomer doom okay things are going to the red pill and the white so are they different than the matrix red pill kind of it basically same idea again like this the root is the blue pill you stay where you are the red pill you awaken to the reality right and then because that became so popular people are like well when someone is like super super doomer and they're like oh man like who cares man whether it's red blue you know red or blue man it's just all effed that's black pill and then it's like well no man look at all the amazing things that could happen that's the white pill.
1:59:13
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
1:59:14
SPEAKER_03: And then there's clear pill which is like we're just clear pill we're just gonna that one's made up a K is not in our clear pillow is battery or I'm sorry clear pill I've never worked outside that pill clear pill it's because everyone wants to do a pill that does something what if you just take a placebo and you're just like I'm gonna live in just reality.
1:59:32
SPEAKER_39: I'm just gonna live here in the real world I miss the clear trend I miss I know that I know this was lost on most of everybody here but there was a moment in time in the 90s where we had this clear trend it was clear deodorant it was clear Pepsi it was you know my beloved Zima I miss the clear trend.
1:59:51
SPEAKER_39: Yep I do now you gotta just start pushing the clear pill I'm gonna start pushing the the clear pill was clear Pepsi good yeah yeah yeah it was great yeah it was also great when you wanted to sneak vodka into venues very great said it was clear Pepsi yeah I don't know what kind of voodoo has to happen though to to get a clear Pepsi because you got to take out the color there's probably a lot of chemicals in there voodoo is not putting the yeah color dye yeah it's always all colorless sure yeah have I done the have I done the whole I know I've done it before and it doesn't land I think it's the greatest thing ever but it never nobody agrees with me that um Dr.
2:00:27
SPEAKER_39: Pepper is barbecue sprite?
2:00:28
SPEAKER_39: Yeah okay I know you're with me on that yeah yeah yeah I see I know I know I know so you can blank blank face shout out to Arby's they have uh Diet Dr.
2:00:36
SPEAKER_03: Pepper in the little machine what was your thoughts on I know you shared with the group yesterday the steak the steak nuts delicious man you you get what you pay for and when it comes to like having this high standard for steak now lower that standard put that bar on the floor and uh it'll be amazing every time let's go here to the blaster line is 651-9640294.
2:00:57
SPEAKER_25: Hey the black pill for me was calling in to the blaster line hearing my own voice on the on the radio once realizing I hate my voice realizing I may welcome my word strange filler sounds like um all and say the word light a lot and basically sounds like a stunner.
2:01:14
SPEAKER_39: It's uh it's been a rude awakening takes a while and sometimes some some crutches never go away.
2:01:20
SPEAKER_37: So all right let's uh let's go and then you can use the Waymo you don't know which way they may go or may not go just get in okay there's way more ways than the way that you got so let's go with those ways the end all right the Minneapolis City Council passed a new policy yesterday requiring human monitors in the driver's seat of robotaxis.
2:01:44
SPEAKER_39: The workers drive Minneapolis policy will in effect uh and will affect uh any commercial autonomous vehicles operating in the city including Waymo's it also includes Tesla cyber cabs and the Amazon Zooks Z O X I have not heard of the Zoom it's basically the driverless Amazon vehicles that can you know get around and then you just got to have someone that's unhauling so it's way faster.
2:02:09
SPEAKER_39: It sounds like a slur.
2:02:11
SPEAKER_39: It does wow yeah careful with that one yeah I know who you know what I'm even gonna go there you watch a lot of Grand Torino or what it does though it's you know what this would be a this would be like a slur for like zoo animals.
2:02:25
SPEAKER_07: Sure sure you know let's go that route okay have you guys seen the slur for uh AI and robots no clankers taken from Star Wars oh okay well called the the uh the the uh the droids for the Federation were all called clankers by the uh that's funny by that people people being overtly racist towards AI on on like X it's like I don't want these damn clankers taking my job.
2:02:51
SPEAKER_39: So Minneapolis man baby mayor mom jeans Jacob Fry said that he is going to uh veto this.
2:02:56
SPEAKER_39: We'll talk a little bit more about it in just a moment but as I mentioned earlier in the show you may not have uh heard it yet I was inspired in a number of different ways uh yesterday as we get into the Minneapolis City Council passing the policy essentially banning Waymo's and sending it to the mayor for approval you know and then you can use the Waymo you don't know which way they may go or may not go just get in okay there's way more ways than the way that you got so let's go with those ways the end shivers do the right share since they grip the stiff here they come the autonomous vehicles driven by the ghost of the digital the humans crack a little bit crafting up you can use the way don't know which way the mate of the minimum you know and then you can use the Waymo you don't know which way they may go or may not go.
2:06:25
SPEAKER_37: Just get in okay there's way more ways than the way that you got so let's go with those ways the in I saw a great comment on X yesterday about the Waymo thing imagine your uh daughters are all drinking in there for being safe and they want to take a Waymo home back to their apartment and there's some strange man sitting in the front seat with nothing to do and who knows he might be of questionable integrity.
2:07:00
SPEAKER_30: Um no way this is we this is just bound to be a bad idea I won't say what I think the driver would look like but I think you can extrapolate thank you.
2:07:12
SPEAKER_39: Robin Wandsley War II council member said an unregulated influx of robotaxis into Minneapolis would disrupt the wages of about 10,000 residents who earn money driving for Uber or Lyts workers drive Minneapolis is about public safety and protecting immigrant workers from losing their jobs to automation, Wansley said.
2:07:37
SPEAKER_39: Rideshare drivers and their families are invested in our city and our communities big tech companies are not now the policy will land on the desk of Minneapolis man, baby mayor, mom jeans Jacob Fry.
2:07:46
SPEAKER_39: If he vetoes it then Minneapolis will remain as it is now without any specific regulations for autonomous vehicles and as I saw yesterday apparently he is planning on uh on vetoing this uh we'll get to some of the ridiculous uh excuses that they are um that they're putting forward to to block this from happening but the one that I saw yesterday that I thought I hadn't thought about when we were talking about it yesterday on the show was the ATM analogy.
2:08:10
SPEAKER_39: Is that you know ATMs and I remember the first time that my mom took me to an ATM you know going going going I was in Temple City California never forget it pulled over to the side of the road walked up to the ATM machine got money well what about all those bank tellers and you used to go get money from them or of course the other example that's been given has been the um the uh the elevator uh the the elevator doorman uh as well so uh before we get into Jason Chavez and his comments um this seems like a just a direct appeal to the lobbying groups and those that support the Minneapolis City Council they're trying to stifle the innovation and I I have even based off of their own arguments I have an incredibly difficult time uh believing that the ride share companies would have been that negatively impacted by uh by this but uh what's the thoughts of the uh of the group this morning so choose your own adventure whoever wants to start first I'll start first so listen I I used to be a Lyft driver and an Uber driver I got a jacket I still have it where I gave over a thousand rides so the 10-year jacket says lift and it has 1k on the arm.
2:09:09
SPEAKER_03: So I understand that there's this concern that whenever we have these technological advances that's going to impact people that are out there making a living but be like very very clear just a year ago like a year and a half ago it was this exact same city council that we're talking about implementing a higher base wage when it comes to actually these driver services so like in this case they're just concerned about their constituents that's it and if you want to make a full time gig out of driving you know ride share or whatever then you have to understand that this is about a market competition happening we used to have taxi cabs and then it became far more advantageous for the consumer to be able to have you know a lift driver versus a cab company because the fares went down.
2:09:59
SPEAKER_03: When it goes to all the way to you know cyber taxi and Waymo those costs are far lower for the consumer that's the way that the market is going to work.
2:10:09
SPEAKER_03: So at the end of the day I don't care what their excuse is what their reason is they're just trying to protect their constituents and like it's very very obvious when you go to Minneapolis and you get a lift who the drivers are and that's really what this is all about.
2:10:25
SPEAKER_03: So whether it's cats or any other nonsense it's it's not about that.
2:10:29
SPEAKER_03: They just want to keep that market out of Minneapolis.
2:10:34
SPEAKER_34: I I do want to push back a little bit I think I disagree in the sense that the you have to remember there's a Marxist on the a self-described Marxist on the city council a lot of them have these socialist values and so to them their ideology is labor versus capital.
2:10:50
SPEAKER_34: That is the big conflict that they see and so the way that they're viewing this as is the labor the drivers versus a big tech company.
2:10:58
SPEAKER_34: Now what they're missing from this is that nobody is forcing patrons to take a Waymo or to choose to engage in that transaction with that company and the company has to when you the the benefit to capitalism is both sides see value in that transaction, right?
2:11:15
SPEAKER_34: So the person who's taking the Waymo says it's worth it to me to pay this amount of money to take this ride and the company is going to make money off of that.
2:11:23
SPEAKER_34: That's how capitalism works the the issue is what they're trying to do is basically subsidize these drivers to the detriment of all the other patrons of the city.
2:11:34
SPEAKER_34: Nobody's forcing them to take a Waymo.
2:11:37
SPEAKER_34: I will also say right now driverless autonomous vehicles are not necessarily cheaper at this point than Lyft or Uber but as scalability as it scales that's gonna happen.
2:11:48
SPEAKER_34: So the argument that I've heard before is is this is kind of like the horse and buggy thing and what someone from maybe the city council would say as well it took a lot longer for that to be implemented over time Like not everybody started driving cars right away.
2:12:02
SPEAKER_34: So these blacksmiths and all these people had time to kind of figure something else out.
2:12:07
SPEAKER_34: It is kind of it's gonna go faster with autonomous vehicles, but they're these are not gonna be adopted all right away.
2:12:13
SPEAKER_34: Like it is there's still gonna be time to scale and time for them to start learning something else.
2:12:19
SPEAKER_34: So if there's any drivers that listen to this show, I would just say start now, try to figure out a different way forward.
2:12:24
SPEAKER_34: Because obviously this can't, this isn't gonna I mean mayor the mayor fry is not gonna sign this anyway.
2:12:30
SPEAKER_06: Well, and it's just ahistoric thinking.
2:12:31
SPEAKER_06: Like any uh technical revolution we've had in our history has come with people doing this exact same thing, saying this exact same thing.
2:12:39
SPEAKER_06: And ultimately we've had more jobs created through um other means when we have technical revolutions.
2:12:45
SPEAKER_06: And it's not just cab drivers who are in this situation or lift drivers.
2:12:50
SPEAKER_06: Um it's everyone.
2:12:51
SPEAKER_06: I mean, talk to anyone and they're thinking about okay, is my job gonna be taken over by AR?
2:12:56
SPEAKER_06: Sure.
2:12:56
SPEAKER_06: So this is a totally, I mean, this is a problem that we're all gonna have to deal with.
2:13:00
SPEAKER_06: And so to prevent that from that technical innovation from taking place is just ahistoric, stupid, and it holds us back, obviously, as a city.
2:13:09
SPEAKER_07: I'm just wondering, so AK, you you got a K on your jacket.
2:13:12
SPEAKER_03: One K.
2:13:13
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
2:13:14
SPEAKER_03: One K.
2:13:15
SPEAKER_06: What was your what was your weirdest ride?
2:13:17
SPEAKER_03: What happens if you're gonna be like?
2:13:18
SPEAKER_03: Oh, I've got some weird ones.
2:13:19
SPEAKER_03: Like my first weird one was this woman was like trying to sexually assault me.
2:13:24
SPEAKER_03: And um, I was like, I had to like pull over the car, and I was like, listen, lady, uh, you know, I'm married, and you gotta stop trying to put your leg over my steering wheel.
2:13:33
SPEAKER_03: I can't drive.
2:13:34
SPEAKER_03: She was literally trying to put her leg over my steering wheel.
2:13:36
SPEAKER_03: It was weird.
2:13:37
SPEAKER_06: See, I have a story sort of like that, not really.
2:13:40
SPEAKER_06: But I got picked up at the airport by an Uber and he gets out of the car to grab my luggage.
2:13:44
SPEAKER_07: You sexually assaulted him?
2:13:47
SPEAKER_06: I started this off the wrong way.
2:13:50
SPEAKER_06: He gets out of his Uber with his pants off.
2:13:53
SPEAKER_06: Oh no.
2:13:54
SPEAKER_06: I was like, oh my god.
2:13:55
SPEAKER_06: And he's like, I he's got some boxers or something, but like his pants are fully like at kind of mid-thigh and open.
2:14:04
SPEAKER_06: And I'm like, oh, oh no.
2:14:05
SPEAKER_06: Like, do I get in this car?
2:14:07
SPEAKER_06: What do I do?
2:14:08
SPEAKER_06: Did you get in the car?
2:14:09
SPEAKER_06: I got in.
2:14:09
SPEAKER_06: Okay, so he's got a lot of people.
2:14:11
SPEAKER_07: She had to be somewhere.
2:14:12
SPEAKER_07: Hey man.
2:14:13
SPEAKER_06: I had to get home.
2:14:14
SPEAKER_06: So I get in the car and immediately call my husband, and I'm like, listen, you're never, ever, ever making me take an Uber home from the airport ever again.
2:14:22
SPEAKER_06: And for the next 20 minutes you're stuck on this call with me.
2:14:24
SPEAKER_06: And it was fine, but I mean, like, he did have his pants off.
2:14:27
SPEAKER_06: It was freaking weird.
2:14:28
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:14:28
SPEAKER_07: No.
2:14:29
SPEAKER_07: If you get 1K on your jacket for 1,000 drivers, is it KKK if you get 3,000 drivers?
2:14:35
SPEAKER_03: You know, I think I think you'd have to have 300,000.
2:14:38
SPEAKER_03: Um, that'd make more sense.
2:14:40
SPEAKER_03: Three Ks versus 1K of 1,000.
2:14:43
SPEAKER_50: Barney John in the last administration when they shut down the pipeline.
2:14:46
SPEAKER_50: The Biden administration said, Well, you guys can just go find new jobs.
2:14:51
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:14:51
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:14:53
SPEAKER_39: Exactly.
2:14:53
SPEAKER_39: The the technology is is coming.
2:14:56
SPEAKER_39: Um, and another comment.
2:14:58
SPEAKER_26: Let's not forget, correct me if I'm wrong, they banned Rideshare uh, I don't know, two, three years ago.
2:15:04
SPEAKER_26: There was a big hullabaloo about that.
2:15:07
unknown: Yeah.
2:15:08
SPEAKER_03: Well, I just well they were they were trying to because they're gonna put those wages in.
2:15:11
SPEAKER_03: The the minimum wages that you must pay.
2:15:14
SPEAKER_03: And again, the companies are like, we're not gonna do this.
2:15:16
SPEAKER_03: And listen, when when it comes to the costs, right, every single technological leap forward, we have the same thing.
2:15:23
SPEAKER_03: Like just study humanity, and then you won't be so shocked, and you'll understand that you have to be able to have a much wider ability to adapt to different changes.
2:15:33
SPEAKER_03: I have been a rideshare driver, I drove basically uh nuclear radioactive material for nuclear medicine.
2:15:42
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
2:15:42
SPEAKER_03: Uh I have been an insurance agent.
2:15:46
SPEAKER_03: I have been a youth group.
2:15:47
SPEAKER_06: I've like a business owner.
2:15:49
SPEAKER_06: Business owner.
2:15:50
SPEAKER_07: Okay, just listing off his resume right now.
2:15:53
SPEAKER_03: But because of that, I I'm I'm willing to understand that you have to adapt.
2:15:57
SPEAKER_03: And when I was in Austin, my cyber cab fare for a 21-minute ride was$8.13.
2:16:06
SPEAKER_03: I took a 10-minute ride with Lyft and it cost me$12, and I had to tip.
2:16:12
SPEAKER_03: So this is the thing.
2:16:13
SPEAKER_03: Like, this is the way that humanity works.
2:16:16
SPEAKER_03: We create a technological innovation.
2:16:18
SPEAKER_03: People freak out because they're like, oh, it's gonna take my job.
2:16:21
SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, it is.
2:16:23
SPEAKER_03: Uh, but the good thing is you're gonna have a lot more innovation, and there's going to be new jobs that you didn't even realize would exist that will exist, and you'll be able to find a way to adapt to it.
2:16:33
SPEAKER_07: I just love how these Democrats are like, it's to protect the worker.
2:16:37
SPEAKER_07: Well, we just lost 1,500 steel manufacturing jobs in Minnesota because we did not give a crap about the worker.
2:16:46
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we did not give a crap about the industry.
2:16:48
SPEAKER_07: We basically just said we have some environmental dogma, so therefore we need to ship these jobs out of Minnesota, and we need more Uber drivers in Minnesota.
2:16:58
SPEAKER_07: It's like you don't care.
2:17:00
SPEAKER_07: Nope.
2:17:01
SPEAKER_07: You don't you don't care?
2:17:02
SPEAKER_07: You're just protecting your constituency.
2:17:05
SPEAKER_07: That's what you're not even your constituency.
2:17:07
SPEAKER_07: You're protecting the people who pay your bills, basically.
2:17:11
SPEAKER_07: Speaking of uh Democrats, more than deserved for Brainerd.
2:17:14
SPEAKER_55: Yeah, uh autonomous vehicles need a driver in them 1,000% in Minnesota.
2:17:19
SPEAKER_39: First of all, is that a thing?
2:17:20
SPEAKER_39: Is 1000% a thing?
2:17:21
SPEAKER_39: That's not a thing, isn't it?
2:17:22
SPEAKER_39: Is it okay?
2:17:22
SPEAKER_39: It is too to Mildred.
2:17:24
SPEAKER_55: But I don't know if you guys know this, uh, at least you Californians, but usually people can block uh signs and traffic lights and all that.
2:17:34
SPEAKER_55: Autonomous vehicles will have issues with that.
2:17:37
SPEAKER_55: Sorry.
2:17:37
SPEAKER_39: You know who else has issues issues with that?
2:17:40
SPEAKER_39: Uh cars that have drivers.
2:17:43
unknown: Right.
2:17:44
SPEAKER_39: They have into Minneapolis.
2:17:46
SPEAKER_39: They also they also have uh a lot of uh issues, uh issues with that uh too.
2:17:50
SPEAKER_39: And I don't see calls to add another individual in the car with the driver.
2:17:56
SPEAKER_39: Don't give them ideas.
2:17:58
SPEAKER_06: I have calls.
2:17:59
SPEAKER_06: I'm calling to get a lot of these people off the roads, okay?
2:18:03
SPEAKER_06: Like I am calling.
2:18:04
SPEAKER_06: It's bad.
2:18:05
SPEAKER_55: And all it's gonna take is for them to run over a dog before you guys actually care.
2:18:11
SPEAKER_55: Not a cat person, not a dog person, but that is what it is.
2:18:15
SPEAKER_39: They're just they're just being contrary for the sake of being contrary.
2:18:18
SPEAKER_39: Like and he didn't then he ends up ends up, she ends up moving over to like Renee Good and Alex Predi and all this nonsense, and I don't even want to bother going there.
2:18:26
SPEAKER_39: I do want to go here though, in uh defense of this.
2:18:29
SPEAKER_39: Jason Chavez yesterday uh had some.
2:18:31
SPEAKER_53: I would say cats have been killed.
2:18:33
SPEAKER_53: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles, and I have a cat.
2:18:38
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
2:18:41
SPEAKER_53: So those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats, and that's unfair.
2:18:47
SPEAKER_53: I I just watched a video standing here from the Bears, and it was really hard to watch.
2:18:51
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
2:18:53
SPEAKER_53: Murdered.
2:18:54
SPEAKER_53: It's to the point of parody.
2:18:57
SPEAKER_34: I couldn't believe it.
2:18:59
SPEAKER_34: I love that line.
2:19:01
SPEAKER_14: I already supported Waymo.
2:19:02
SPEAKER_14: You don't need to convince me more.
2:19:03
SPEAKER_34: I yeah, my favorite part is when he uses the word murder, like they are intentionally programming these vehicles to mow down cats.
2:19:10
SPEAKER_34: Aim for the cats.
2:19:11
SPEAKER_34: That is hilarious.
2:19:13
SPEAKER_07: Isaac is like, if I I would program the Waymo.
2:19:18
SPEAKER_06: There's no doubt that we would have safer roads if everyone was in an autonomous vehicle.
2:19:23
SPEAKER_06: Okay, the the rate of human error is way greater than the rate of what the error would be if we had all of these cars.
2:19:29
SPEAKER_06: Okay, so it's just an absurd, an absurd argument.
2:19:32
SPEAKER_03: And I I gotta say, if you're Jason Chavez and he's like, I don't want my cat to be mowed down, does Jason Chavez just let his cat run around, which is fine?
2:19:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
2:19:41
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
2:19:41
SPEAKER_03: In my neighborhood, we do have cats.
2:19:44
SPEAKER_03: Uh shout out, you know, we had Moose, R.I.P.
2:19:47
SPEAKER_03: Uh, we also had Harry, R.I.P., I believe.
2:19:50
SPEAKER_03: Uh, and and and uh we also have Rue.
2:19:52
SPEAKER_03: Now, Rue, she's a fighter.
2:19:53
SPEAKER_03: Uh, she will come into garages and she will kill all the mice.
2:19:57
SPEAKER_03: Uh, but in Minneapolis, letting your cat run around, you want it to get shot?
2:20:02
SPEAKER_03: You want it to have fentanyl overdose?
2:20:05
SPEAKER_03: I mean, just beyond the autonomous vehicles.
2:20:07
SPEAKER_03: It's just crazy.
2:20:08
SPEAKER_07: The cats are eating the fentanyl.
2:20:09
SPEAKER_03: They're eating the fentanyl, man.
2:20:10
SPEAKER_03: But but here's the thing that's crazy to me is like he believes that his best argument is like, not this gonna take your job.
2:20:19
SPEAKER_03: Hey, man, it's the cat lovers out there.
2:20:21
SPEAKER_03: These things are murdering our cats, bro.
2:20:25
SPEAKER_03: Just love it.
2:20:26
SPEAKER_07: I all the names you named off.
2:20:28
SPEAKER_07: I don't know if those were cats or the street gang you were part of when you were a kid.
2:20:33
SPEAKER_03: Rue, Harry, and Moose, man.
2:20:35
SPEAKER_03: The cats are running around, bro.
2:20:36
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2:21:40
SPEAKER_53: Cats have been killed.
2:21:41
SPEAKER_53: And cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
2:21:44
SPEAKER_53: And I have a cat.
2:21:45
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
2:21:48
SPEAKER_53: So those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
2:21:54
SPEAKER_53: And that's unfair.
2:21:55
SPEAKER_53: I just watched a video sitting here from the Deus, and it was really hard to watch.
2:21:58
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
2:22:02
SPEAKER_06: What video is he watching?
2:22:03
SPEAKER_06: I have no idea.
2:22:04
SPEAKER_06: What video of the Waymo is the case?
2:22:06
SPEAKER_03: What kind of sick website were you on, man?
2:22:08
SPEAKER_03: Just searching, like, probably someone probably like DM'd him and said, hey man, you gotta check out these murderous Waymo's.
2:22:14
SPEAKER_03: And then he probably just started scrolling the feed and he's like, Oh, look at all the cats being murdered.
2:22:18
SPEAKER_39: We were talking earlier, and I know Catherine can attest to this.
2:22:21
SPEAKER_39: It's like Jason Chavez should not come around here during the daylight hours with all the all the geese that end up sitting out in the middle of the parking lot that don't move.
2:22:29
SPEAKER_39: I see one murdered at least once a week out there.
2:22:32
SPEAKER_39: Actually, if you go out right now, you can see the little chalk outline of the goose body on the street.
2:22:40
SPEAKER_39: The hawkers.
2:22:41
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:22:42
SPEAKER_39: So, all right, coming up.
2:22:43
SPEAKER_39: Uh, we are gonna talk.
2:22:44
SPEAKER_39: We have a little bit of uh audio to share regarding some of our uh more progressive churches.
2:22:48
SPEAKER_39: Also, the full report on uh St.
2:22:50
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2:22:53
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2:22:57
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2:22:59
SPEAKER_39: Uh, but first, a little bit more inspiration based off of the Minneapolis City Plumster.
2:25:21
SPEAKER_53: I will say cats have been killed, and cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
2:25:26
SPEAKER_53: And I have a cat.
2:25:27
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
2:25:30
SPEAKER_53: So, those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
2:25:35
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
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SPEAKER_50: Hey, happy freedom Friday, John and Cru.
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SPEAKER_50: Hey man, I just listened to the new song.
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SPEAKER_50: It's it's hilarious.
2:28:11
SPEAKER_50: Hey, what is the app that you use for doing that?
2:28:14
SPEAKER_50: I want to try to make something.
2:28:16
SPEAKER_50: Thanks.
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SPEAKER_50: Have a good Friday.
2:28:17
SPEAKER_39: It's a Suno.
2:28:18
SPEAKER_39: And actually, it's all Max's fault.
2:28:20
SPEAKER_39: He's the one that started it.
2:28:21
SPEAKER_39: He was the one that first created the Zima Fizz song.
2:28:24
SPEAKER_39: And I uh I finally uh I finally got on board and it's it is amazing the quality of tunes that they are able to uh to pump out.
2:28:31
SPEAKER_39: So I have a rock a rock version that we'll close the show out with of uh of Stopcat and we'll do that uh Stopcat.
2:28:38
SPEAKER_39: We'll do that a little bit later on.
2:28:40
SPEAKER_06: Write every lyric in those songs?
2:28:41
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, yeah.
2:28:42
SPEAKER_39: You can.
2:28:43
SPEAKER_39: You can just give it an idea.
2:28:44
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, you can give it an idea.
2:28:45
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, yeah.
2:28:46
SPEAKER_39: No, I write no all these, all the ones you're hearing, all the new ones you're hearing, though all the lyrics are written by me.
2:28:50
SPEAKER_34: So wait, that's way more impressive.
2:28:52
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, maybe I should have.
2:28:53
SPEAKER_39: I think I missed my calling.
2:28:54
SPEAKER_39: As a lyricist?
2:28:55
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, I really think I did.
2:28:56
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, yeah.
2:28:56
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:28:57
SPEAKER_39: Time writer.
2:28:58
SPEAKER_39: Yeah.
2:28:58
SPEAKER_39: Melinda, I have to give Melinda a little bit of credit because when I was writing Stop Cat, she was the one that came up with the meow meow.
2:29:07
SPEAKER_03: So that was amazing.
2:29:08
SPEAKER_39: So that was all Melinda.
2:29:10
SPEAKER_39: She's the one.
2:29:10
SPEAKER_39: You need to do like a meow meow in there.
2:29:12
SPEAKER_39: I'm like, all right, let me see if I can't.
2:29:14
SPEAKER_39: And I tried different versions at one point, Amanda, in honor of uh your second appearance on Freedom Friday.
2:29:20
SPEAKER_39: I tried to do it to Taylor Swift.
2:29:22
SPEAKER_34: Oh, that's so sweet.
2:29:23
SPEAKER_39: I had it, I had Opalite in my head in the background.
2:29:27
SPEAKER_39: But Suno didn't agree with me.
2:29:29
SPEAKER_34: Well, now that I know that you wrote it, you're kind of on par with Taylor as a lyricist, honestly.
2:29:33
SPEAKER_34: On par.
2:29:36
SPEAKER_07: At the very bottom of that part.
2:29:38
SPEAKER_36: Yeah, but I'm on par.
2:29:39
SPEAKER_07: You're just as cute as Taylor Swift, too.
2:29:42
SPEAKER_39: Isaac, you had a thank you so much.
2:29:44
SPEAKER_39: You know, it's all because all the weight that I've lost through the Neutrowave program.
2:29:47
SPEAKER_39: There you go.
2:29:47
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, neutrawave.us.
2:29:49
SPEAKER_39: That's right.
2:29:50
SPEAKER_39: Uh Isaac, you had a cat story you want to know?
2:29:52
SPEAKER_14: I did.
2:29:52
SPEAKER_14: I did.
2:29:52
SPEAKER_14: Just going back to this, I I Googled during the break, you know, what cats were killed by Waymo's.
2:29:56
SPEAKER_14: It turns out there was a cat in San Francisco named Kit Kat that was killed by a Waymo.
2:30:03
SPEAKER_14: So there was one.
2:30:04
SPEAKER_14: There was one.
2:30:04
SPEAKER_14: Okay.
2:30:05
SPEAKER_14: I remember that story actually.
2:30:06
SPEAKER_14: Do you really?
2:30:07
SPEAKER_14: I was gonna I was gonna ask if anyone remembers it.
2:30:09
SPEAKER_14: Uh, because apparently there was an altar created outside of this market where this cat was killed.
2:30:13
SPEAKER_13: Yeah.
2:30:13
SPEAKER_13: Oh, I do remember that.
2:30:14
SPEAKER_14: And there was a Justice for Kit Kat rally.
2:30:17
SPEAKER_14: So I wonder if our local council member uh attended.
2:30:20
SPEAKER_14: Probably.
2:30:21
SPEAKER_34: Okay, I do have a question.
2:30:22
SPEAKER_34: What do you guys think?
2:30:23
SPEAKER_34: If there was a Waymo that was taking a woman to an abortion, she wanted to get an abortion, but it was going to kill a cat on the way.
2:30:30
SPEAKER_34: Do you think Jason Chavez would support it or not?
2:30:33
SPEAKER_34: Oh, he he definitely moral dilemma.
2:30:35
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I mean he definitely wants abortions more than he cares about cats.
2:30:40
SPEAKER_03: So yeah, he'd it'd be a worthy sacrifice for a woman's health care.
2:30:46
SPEAKER_03: Worthy sacrifice.
2:30:47
SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
2:30:47
SPEAKER_03: But what if it killed the pregnant cat?
2:30:49
unknown: Oh.
2:30:50
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, still human sacrifice is very high on socialists and communists.
2:30:55
SPEAKER_03: You know, they want to do everything in their power to make sure that human sacrifice of abortions happens at a very high level.
2:31:02
SPEAKER_39: So we'll close out with horny her, because that'll be a bit of a lighter note.
2:31:06
SPEAKER_39: I do want to go, I do want to go here.
2:31:08
SPEAKER_39: Um, and I don't know, I don't know exactly what started this new trend online.
2:31:14
SPEAKER_39: I don't know if if these have been posted uh before and my algorithm has just picked up on it.
2:31:20
SPEAKER_39: But over the course of the past week, I've just had this litany of audio and video from inside of these progressive churches here in the Twin Cities.
2:31:31
SPEAKER_39: And you see them all the time.
2:31:32
SPEAKER_39: We went out to the to the fall briefing a couple weekends ago, and there's one church on the drive out that's got the trans flag hanging out in front, and then they have all the doors, the multicolored doors, and we accept everybody here.
2:31:43
SPEAKER_39: Um, I want to kick things off with this story, and this is this takes a dark turn.
2:31:48
SPEAKER_39: Um, a 42-year-old Baldwin, Wisconsin man accused of sexually assaulting two students he met while he was a teacher and athletic director at Hope Christian Academy in St.
2:32:00
SPEAKER_39: Paul Park, according to court documents.
2:32:02
SPEAKER_39: He was charged with one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of fourth degree, uh, one count of soliciting a child.
2:32:12
SPEAKER_39: Uh just an absolutely horrible story.
2:32:15
SPEAKER_39: And I couldn't help but be reminded of these clips that we're about to share.
2:32:19
SPEAKER_39: We just we have this problem of Christians not actually adhering to what the Bible has to say, right?
2:32:26
SPEAKER_39: Either, you know, through their own actions in this story or the way that they have just been twisting the scriptures to fit their own, you know, narratives.
2:32:36
SPEAKER_39: So let's start here.
2:32:36
SPEAKER_39: I played this clip earlier in the week.
2:32:38
SPEAKER_39: This is Reverend Janine M.
2:32:40
SPEAKER_39: Um Hans Keck.
2:32:42
SPEAKER_39: I don't know if I'm saying that correctly.
2:32:44
SPEAKER_39: Uh, she's of uh St.
2:32:45
SPEAKER_39: Paul.
2:32:46
SPEAKER_39: Uh demon she says that Jesus demonstrated that Lazarus was gay by calling him to come out, and then argued that Lazarus had no record, uh, no recorded wife or children, and then goes on to say even worse things.
2:32:59
SPEAKER_39: Here is the uh clip.
2:33:00
SPEAKER_01: I invite you to imagine this evening's reading from John's gospel through the lens or the experience of a queer Lazarus.
2:33:12
SPEAKER_02: Oh goodness.
2:33:14
SPEAKER_01: Now, with a line like Lazarus come out, it does not take a lot of imagination to think that perhaps Lazarus identified as gay.
2:33:25
SPEAKER_39: Okay, so before we continue, it act it actually does take a lot of imagination to come to that uh conclusion.
2:33:36
SPEAKER_39: But uh Amanda had specifically asked for me to hang on to this.
2:33:39
SPEAKER_39: There's more audio to share, but um, your your preliminary thoughts on this and uh why you wanted me to make sure, hey, can we talk about this on Friday's?
2:33:47
SPEAKER_34: Okay, it just reminded me like when I first I became a Christian 10 years ago.
2:33:51
SPEAKER_34: I remember when early in my walk with the Lord, somebody sent me an article that was saying it wasn't actually Adam and Eve, it was Adam and Steve and Eve was transgender.
2:34:03
SPEAKER_34: And their argument for this was that Adam looked at Eve and said, This is bone in my bone, flesh in my flesh, this is like me.
2:34:11
SPEAKER_34: And they said, See, it must Eve must have been a man, and then God changed her to a woman so she could bear children and we could start the human race, right?
2:34:20
SPEAKER_34: That's their argument.
2:34:21
SPEAKER_34: And it's like, it's such a twisting of scripture.
2:34:25
SPEAKER_34: And they like obviously, okay, the the argument against that is before this, all Adam had seen was animals.
2:34:33
SPEAKER_34: He was naming all these animals.
2:34:34
SPEAKER_34: So obviously he sees Eve and says, This is my same species.
2:34:38
SPEAKER_34: This is a human being.
2:34:40
SPEAKER_34: And anyone who's reading it with an honest lens is gonna is gonna see that.
2:34:44
SPEAKER_34: But to to this is all funny, like because these are so egregious.
2:34:49
SPEAKER_34: But the deeper point that I wanted to bring up is this is the first lie that Satan ever told in the Bible.
2:34:55
SPEAKER_34: He twists scripture.
2:34:56
SPEAKER_34: Typically, it's just a little bit.
2:34:58
SPEAKER_34: So the first thing that he said to Eve was, Did God really say that you couldn't eat from any tree in the garden?
2:35:04
SPEAKER_34: What God's what God's rule for them was was don't eat from this one tree.
2:35:08
SPEAKER_34: But he he makes it more restrictive.
2:35:10
SPEAKER_34: The command is more restrictive, right?
2:35:11
SPEAKER_34: So it's a slight twisting of scripture, and this is the importance for believers.
2:35:16
SPEAKER_34: I just want to encourage you, you need to understand your Bible.
2:35:18
SPEAKER_34: You need to go to a Bible-teaching church where they're reading from scripture and they're saying, what does this say?
2:35:25
SPEAKER_34: And not trying to say, This is what I want the Bible to say, and let me go try and find verses that support what I want it to say.
2:35:32
SPEAKER_01: Since the term homosexual did not exist to label people at this point in history, one would have to look for context clues to authenticate that assumption.
2:35:44
SPEAKER_01: Looking both at what is present in the text, but also in this case, what is absent.
2:35:55
SPEAKER_01: There is no mention of Lazarus having a wife or children to mourn him.
2:36:03
SPEAKER_01: This was in a time and place and culture where having this kind of household wasn't just normative, it was also somewhat of a priority for population growth.
2:36:15
SPEAKER_01: So Lazarus, a bachelor, living with his spinster's sisters, his spinster sisters, and I'm curious about that too, but that's another sermon, was definitely queering.
2:36:30
SPEAKER_01: And he was a good friend of Jesus.
2:36:33
SPEAKER_01: Not a student or disciple, but a friend, which in my mind's eye ranks right up there with being a friend of Dorothy.
2:36:45
SPEAKER_01: So you can see it too now, right?
2:36:47
SPEAKER_01: You can imagine this.
2:36:49
SPEAKER_39: So for those that aren't aware, that being a friend of Dorothy is a term that homosexual men use for for one another.
2:36:55
SPEAKER_39: It's sort of like the coded term.
2:36:57
SPEAKER_39: I had never heard that until she had made the the uh the the the comment in the in the clip that we uh that we played.
2:37:04
SPEAKER_39: And I have more, but anybody have further thoughts on the Yeah.
2:37:06
SPEAKER_03: So listen to your point, Amanda, like at the end of the day, the reason why belonging to a church matters and being involved in a community of those that are actually, you know, understand theology is that you can take any type of uh text and on your own you can pervert and twist it to be whatever you want.
2:37:29
SPEAKER_03: That is the beauty of the human brain.
2:37:32
SPEAKER_03: We are really good at actually filling in gaps of information with things that logically you can walk through and explain it.
2:37:41
SPEAKER_03: That's like literally how our brains work.
2:37:43
SPEAKER_03: So I could take any story, any historical context, and say, Well, what isn't being said?
2:37:49
SPEAKER_03: And for her to actually admit that.
2:37:51
SPEAKER_03: But back to the point, you have to find a church that has not only a sound theological basis, but that they can actually explain here's where this comes from, and specifically not just my idea, but we have people that have actually vetted this out.
2:38:07
SPEAKER_03: And that's the beautiful thing about Christianity is that you can go back all the way to the first church, and even if we have different denominations, you can understand that there actually are these conversations that have happened where you've had theologians having these large conversations about what this means, and then beyond that, it's about trusting in the spirit and being able to have these conversations fleshed out within a community.
2:38:31
SPEAKER_03: When you take these one little perverse one-offs, it actually, to me, as you alluded to earlier, perfectly exemplifies what Satan does.
2:38:39
SPEAKER_03: You know, remember in the 40 days of wilderness, Satan came and he was reading scripture to Jesus, and then Jesus was responding back with the actual scripture.
2:38:49
SPEAKER_03: And so there was those little twists, but to me, that's what all of this comes down to, man.
2:38:54
SPEAKER_03: It's it's perversion, and it's actually meant to 100% corrupt the very, very simple thing that Christ asked us to do as Christians is to go out and actually spread of his message and then also to baptize, right?
2:39:07
SPEAKER_03: Like it's very simple, the Great Commission of what Christ calls us to do, and these people are twisting it in a very demonic way, in my opinion.
2:39:14
SPEAKER_06: Well, and it's exactly the same practice that they do with the Constitution because they have the same exact philosophy.
2:39:19
SPEAKER_06: They look at the Constitution and they say it's this breathing document, and they somehow go on to find a right to abortion in a constitution that never mentions anything remotely close to abortion.
2:39:30
SPEAKER_06: So it's the same playbook and it's all meant for their ideological ends.
2:39:35
SPEAKER_06: Obviously, people who listen to this show aren't fooled by that, but I would just encourage people don't be fooled by that.
2:39:40
SPEAKER_06: There's not some secret for the foes, there's not some secret message hidden in your Bible.
2:39:45
SPEAKER_06: It's right there.
2:39:46
SPEAKER_06: It's right there.
2:39:47
SPEAKER_06: God made it clear.
2:39:48
SPEAKER_06: You don't need to read between the lines.
2:39:51
SPEAKER_07: I'm just confused.
2:39:52
SPEAKER_07: I just wanted to I I'm confused about why churches like this exist when your beliefs are indistinguishable from that of everything secular.
2:40:01
SPEAKER_07: Like this could easily just be a book club or get together to play board games.
2:40:06
SPEAKER_34: I can get away.
2:40:07
SPEAKER_39: Well, there's a there's a larger issue at play here.
2:40:10
SPEAKER_39: It's you know, it's a it's a co-opting of what you see, you know, leftists do, you know, all the time.
2:40:15
SPEAKER_39: I'm reminded when you make that comment, I'm reminded about how when it came to socialism and communism going back a decade when it wasn't socially acceptable when it was looked down upon as society, sort of the societal norms, not more widely accepted like it is now.
2:40:32
SPEAKER_39: But you had those groups and organizations that went in and co-opted the environmental movement.
2:40:36
SPEAKER_39: Sure.
2:40:37
SPEAKER_39: Because they knew if they went in there, they can go and they could, they could, they could twist it, they could distort it, and then they could go and push their message.
2:40:42
SPEAKER_39: The same thing is happening right now within our churches, and this is in large part why you've had the left going out there pushing this Christian nationalism, when Christian nationalism really just means individuals that actually adhere to the Bible and believe what it says and don't twist it and don't go, you know, and don't go to distort it.
2:41:03
SPEAKER_39: I mean, to that point, here's Hillary Clinton on this very issue.
2:41:06
SPEAKER_41: We haven't got a more perfect union, and we fought a civil war over part of it.
2:41:11
SPEAKER_41: And people have been protesting, you know, for hundreds of years uh that you know things were not as they should be, given our ideals and how we should be uh uh moving toward them.
2:41:23
SPEAKER_41: So I think that's what makes us so special as a country.
2:41:28
SPEAKER_41: And the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men uh of a certain persuasion, uh a certain religion, uh a certain point of view, a certain ideology, is just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.
2:41:50
SPEAKER_41: And we were on the path toward that.
2:41:52
SPEAKER_41: I mean, imperfectly, lots of, you know, bumps along the way, but I agree with you, we were on the right trajectory.
2:41:58
SPEAKER_41: Let me let me know.
2:41:59
SPEAKER_39: And again, she's pointing to white and Christian men.
2:42:03
SPEAKER_39: And when they talk about Christian nationalism, it is a dire it's in direct opposite of how the left is going out there and twisting and distorting the scripture to fit the the their pre prescribed narratives.
2:42:17
SPEAKER_39: And that let me share with you another example before we get to uh to more here.
2:42:21
SPEAKER_39: This is uh a sermon titled Deconstructing Homophobia.
2:42:26
SPEAKER_39: Fountain Street Church opens with, well, you know.
2:42:29
SPEAKER_42: Our first responsive reading is called Beatitudes for a Queerer Church by Jay.
2:42:36
SPEAKER_42: If you'd follow along in your bulletin.
2:42:41
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, you gotta follow along in the bulletin because you're not gonna find anything in the Bible.
2:43:32
SPEAKER_42: Despite a world that tells them they cannot.
2:43:36
SPEAKER_42: And blessed are those who believe themselves unworthy of blessing.
2:43:43
SPEAKER_42: What inconceivable wonders you hold.
2:43:49
SPEAKER_34: Oh, just final thought on this is to answer Max's question, why are there churches like this?
2:43:54
SPEAKER_34: It's we get the answer in scripture.
2:43:56
SPEAKER_34: It says that in the last days, there's gonna be people with itching ears.
2:43:59
SPEAKER_34: There, they want to hear these things.
2:44:01
SPEAKER_34: There are groups of people who desire these things to be true.
2:44:04
SPEAKER_34: And so you can't, you honestly almost can't blame these reverends for giving people what they want.
2:44:11
SPEAKER_34: They're and I think in a lot of ways, God is Romans 1, giving them up to this debased mind.
2:44:18
SPEAKER_39: There was a uh comment that rolled in.
2:44:20
SPEAKER_39: I won't play the audio.
2:44:20
SPEAKER_39: It says, Good morning, Bible thumpers.
2:44:23
SPEAKER_39: Wondering if you can answer a Bible question.
2:44:26
SPEAKER_39: I always love it when they frame it this way.
2:44:27
SPEAKER_39: Um, can you please tell me why Jesus would be against feeding starving children or poor children?
2:44:33
SPEAKER_39: Still haven't heard a biblical reason for that, except you guys are just being cruel and saying, Well, what about the Dinah kids?
2:44:40
SPEAKER_39: Thanks.
2:44:41
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you know, this is the funniest thing that non-Christians will often throw at Christians.
2:44:47
SPEAKER_03: Yes, we as Christians, we have a, I believe, responsibility to our communities.
2:44:53
SPEAKER_03: That's for us to decide.
2:44:54
SPEAKER_03: We don't give that and abdicate that responsibility to the government.
2:44:58
SPEAKER_03: And that's what's so funny when non-Christians say that they're like, but what about the starving people?
2:45:02
SPEAKER_03: It's like, uh, do you not know that churches feed most of the people that actually are starving?
2:45:07
SPEAKER_03: Not in the United States, in the world, in the world, because that's what Christ calls us to do, take care of our fellow man.
2:45:14
SPEAKER_03: But instead of taking that personal responsibility and then saying that we should have churches and communities that do these things that fill in the gaps, which we have done as a country for the majority of our country's actual existence, they say, Well, no, the government is supposed to do these things.
2:45:28
SPEAKER_03: It's like quite literally, the government's not supposed to.
2:45:31
SPEAKER_03: It's supposed to be individuals.
2:45:33
SPEAKER_03: So I would say to that person, do you go and feed people that are hungry?
2:45:37
SPEAKER_03: Do you take your time to go and do that?
2:45:39
SPEAKER_03: And if not, you are literally just creating an argument because you think you're like, Oh, I got you, Christians.
2:45:47
SPEAKER_52: One lady, blessed are those who are not insane, for they will not spout foolishness and nonsense.
2:45:55
SPEAKER_39: He said you forgot one lady then.
2:45:57
SPEAKER_39: Blessed are those who are not insane and will not spout foolishness and nonsense.
2:46:01
SPEAKER_39: Thank you, uh Robert.
2:46:03
SPEAKER_39: Uh Isaac, did you want to uh chime in on this?
2:46:05
SPEAKER_14: Yeah, I kind of just wanted to echo what AK just said is that the I it's so hard for these people like the one who left that blast to imagine generosity outside of the government, yeah.
2:46:15
SPEAKER_14: Outside of like mandated generosity.
2:46:18
SPEAKER_14: Yeah.
2:46:18
SPEAKER_14: And it just I mean, it's yeah, that's all I got.
2:46:22
SPEAKER_14: It really bothers you.
2:46:23
SPEAKER_07: I yeah, I want to echo that too.
2:46:25
SPEAKER_07: I mean, it's the Matthew 22, 21.
2:46:26
SPEAKER_07: It's give to Caesars what is Caesar's.
2:46:29
SPEAKER_07: And is Caesar the arbiter of compassion?
2:46:33
SPEAKER_07: Is are we outsourcing our compassion to government?
2:46:36
SPEAKER_07: Is that a Christian way to think?
2:46:39
SPEAKER_07: I would say no, because ultimately it is not compassionate for me to expect my neighbor to fund the things that I care about, right?
2:46:47
SPEAKER_07: So I, in my individual capacity as a believer, I am called to give in charity, to to tithe, to make sure that I am helping those who are downtrodden.
2:46:58
SPEAKER_07: And my wife and I, we we really do.
2:47:00
SPEAKER_07: You know, we we really live a life that we want to extend ourselves financially and otherwise to help our neighbor basically get back on their feet or or help them through a tough time.
2:47:11
SPEAKER_07: That is not that is not Caesar's responsibility.
2:47:15
SPEAKER_07: In fact, it is harder to accept and to take accountability for what your own compassion is because God imbued you with that compassion.
2:47:25
SPEAKER_07: God did not leave a charge.
2:47:26
SPEAKER_07: Jesus was not a governmental figure.
2:47:30
SPEAKER_07: Jesus did not dictate to the Jewish or Roman government what they were supposed to do.
2:47:37
SPEAKER_07: And so when we talk about it's not the compassionate thing to do, well, I actually think it's not compassionate to take from AK to fund the things that I want.
2:47:45
SPEAKER_07: That is up to me.
2:47:47
SPEAKER_07: So there's your answer.
2:47:48
SPEAKER_07: I mean, these but AK's right, these non-Christians basically saying, What does the Bible say about this?
2:47:54
SPEAKER_07: I mean, this is how we get churches where they're talking about blessed are the queers.
2:47:59
SPEAKER_06: And the other thing is that we don't do this because it's to make ourselves feel better.
2:48:03
SPEAKER_06: I think that's a lot of what I see in these churches that have gone uh astray, is they exist exclusively to make themselves feel like better people.
2:48:12
SPEAKER_06: That is not why we're called to help the hungry and the poor whatsoever.
2:48:17
SPEAKER_06: That's a perversion of the Bible.
2:48:18
SPEAKER_06: But yet that's the only reason that a lot of these people continue showing up to churches like this to make themselves feel like they are great people for helping the, you know, illegal immigrant, for helping the whatever person through the government.
2:48:32
SPEAKER_06: It is a completely selfish act.
2:48:33
SPEAKER_39: You know, and I you know I've always held and I still do.
2:48:36
SPEAKER_39: I I, you know, I held, I hold the belief that everything happens for a reason.
2:48:39
SPEAKER_39: Uh, I'm glad that we're having these discussions.
2:48:42
SPEAKER_39: I wish that things were different in these progressive uh, you know, churches, but forgive them for they know not what they do, right?
2:48:48
SPEAKER_39: Um that being said, the byproduct of this is we're having a conversation about it.
2:48:52
SPEAKER_39: You know, we probably would not have been even talking about these issues if it wasn't for the fact that there was, you know, there's this further exposure of what is going on if it wasn't for the fact that the left is out there trying to continue to vilify and demonize Christianity because it's not in their best interest and they can't politically exploit it.
2:49:08
SPEAKER_39: They know how powerful it is, and therefore they have to try to figure out a way where they can go and grab the power that is within Christianity and true believers and take some of that away, and that's what they attempt to do.
2:49:19
SPEAKER_39: But the byproduct of that is we're able to go and counter that and have a conversation here, and thousands upon thousands of people get to get to hear it.
2:49:27
SPEAKER_39: And like that, like I said, that would not have happened if it wasn't for the exposure of what's been what's been taking place.
2:49:33
SPEAKER_07: In fact, I just want to add to that too, the the in it's actually a warped sense, it's beyond a warped sense of compassion.
2:49:41
SPEAKER_07: It is truly coveting what your neighbor has to say that I can't afford to do this, but John can, and I want to use John's resources to fund the thing I care about.
2:49:52
SPEAKER_07: That is not only not Christian compassion, that is greed, and that is coveting what your neighbor has.
2:49:58
SPEAKER_07: That is that is outsourcing to your neighbor what should be done yourself.
2:50:02
SPEAKER_34: And I'm just like go ahead.
2:50:04
SPEAKER_34: I just want to say that being called Bible thumpers, we count it as joy.
2:50:08
SPEAKER_34: That's honestly, we count it as joy to be called that because this is what I'm talking about with these egregious examples of the trans stuff and all that.
2:50:15
SPEAKER_34: It's like, haha, so funny.
2:50:16
SPEAKER_34: Like the scripture is very clear on the sexuality stuff, but this like health care and feeding the poor, it's really easy to just slightly twist it where it's like, oh, you don't support feeding the poor because you don't support a government program that forces people at gunpoint to pay for these things through their taxes.
2:50:34
SPEAKER_34: That is not a cheerful giver.
2:50:35
SPEAKER_34: The Bible says Jesus loves a cheerful giver, right?
2:50:39
SPEAKER_34: So it's the slight twisting that's way more dangerous.
2:50:42
SPEAKER_34: And that's why I just want to encourage people to get in a church where they are teaching from scripture.
2:50:46
SPEAKER_34: They're not necessarily anything wrong with topical teaching, but you're a lot more protected from that, from these crazy ideas if you're just going to a church where they say, We're gonna read John 1 today and talk about what it means.
2:50:58
SPEAKER_39: You know, we should really get into the scripture.
2:51:00
SPEAKER_39: Uh, that's uh St.
2:51:00
SPEAKER_39: Paul Mayor cooley, her.
2:51:02
SPEAKER_39: Yeah, she needs Jesus.
2:51:04
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, I we all need Jesus, but she she a little bit extra special attention to her.
2:51:10
SPEAKER_39: So as we get ready to close things out, uh, the newly released investigative report into the St.
2:51:14
SPEAKER_39: Paul Mayor uh reveals far more than the two-page summary initially released by the city, detailing the unwanted touching, the sexually suggestive meme, and the multiple violations of the city's workplace conduct and policy.
2:51:29
SPEAKER_39: Now, the investigators uh substantiated three policy violations involving a sexually suggestive message, doctored photographs of male police officers, and inappropriate encounters with two female employees.
2:51:43
SPEAKER_39: They also confirmed that her touched the police chief Axel Henry's thigh in an unwelcomed manner that caused him considerable considerable discomfort and inappropriately pressured him to decide whether they would be friends.
2:51:58
SPEAKER_39: Now, we don't have time to get into all of all of this, right?
2:52:02
SPEAKER_39: You get it, there's a couple of things here.
2:52:04
SPEAKER_39: Henry told investigators during this one meeting, we talked about this before.
2:52:08
SPEAKER_39: This is the incident of the mayor's hand on the police chief's thigh.
2:52:12
SPEAKER_39: Investigators uh said that her placed her hand approximately 40% up his leg.
2:52:18
SPEAKER_39: A short time later, he alleged she did it again, reaching approximately 60% of his leg.
2:52:25
SPEAKER_39: What are these measurements?
2:52:26
SPEAKER_03: Maybe the measurements are from the knee, knee to the groin.
2:52:30
SPEAKER_39: I'm assuming the 100% is like you've meet you've met you've reached the naughty bits.
2:52:35
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
2:52:36
SPEAKER_39: What are we starting at the end?
2:52:37
SPEAKER_39: Yes, we're starting at the yeah, so we're starting to.
2:52:39
SPEAKER_02: No, no, we gotta start at the knee.
2:52:40
SPEAKER_02: At the knee.
2:52:41
SPEAKER_02: At the knee, at the knee.
2:52:42
SPEAKER_02: It's his thigh.
2:52:43
SPEAKER_39: It's his thigh.
2:52:44
SPEAKER_39: Okay.
2:52:44
SPEAKER_39: Henry pushed his chair away, and he wasn't the only one who noticed.
2:52:48
SPEAKER_39: Another employee witnessed at least one of the touches and later discussed the uncomfortable encounter with Henry.
2:52:55
SPEAKER_39: So let's let's close on this.
2:52:57
SPEAKER_39: I just want to get everybody's thoughts.
2:52:58
SPEAKER_39: You had now the taxpayers are gonna have to front the bill for this to go to trial because of the fact that the city found her to have done, you know, um inappropriate, uh, you know, offensive things, but didn't substantiate they were against anybody specifically.
2:53:18
SPEAKER_39: This report was released because the city council demanded it for it to be released.
2:53:23
SPEAKER_39: I don't think that she survives this at this point in time.
2:53:27
SPEAKER_39: And I know that we differ in that, but as more of these details come out, unless they are able to frame this, and I'll put this into that, you know, white liberal women sympathy category, unless they're able to frame this, that this was just her, she was in love with Henry Axel, it was unrequited, he was pushing it away, she continued to move forward.
2:53:48
SPEAKER_39: I don't think that she ends up surviving all of this controversy.
2:53:52
SPEAKER_06: Sounds like a porno.
2:53:55
SPEAKER_06: Like the names are on his name's Axel.
2:53:57
SPEAKER_06: Like, what is it?
2:53:59
SPEAKER_38: Yeah, it really, it really does.
2:54:01
SPEAKER_38: I don't know.
2:54:01
SPEAKER_06: I I still feel a little bad for a hornier.
2:54:05
SPEAKER_06: I can't help it.
2:54:06
SPEAKER_06: I mean, how mortifying that you make a move on a guy, and he's like, that was so uncomfortable for me.
2:54:15
SPEAKER_06: I don't think she cares.
2:54:17
SPEAKER_06: I don't think she does.
2:54:18
SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
2:54:18
SPEAKER_06: I have nothing else to say except for no one should be touching anyone at work.
2:54:23
SPEAKER_39: Never touch people.
2:54:24
SPEAKER_39: And that was just the tip of the iceberg with this tip when you get when you get into all of this.
2:54:29
SPEAKER_07: It was just the tip, huh?
2:54:31
SPEAKER_06: I just think I'm like a sexual meme or something.
2:54:33
SPEAKER_06: Like, you know, I thought it was kind of silly to get mad about, but like, don't be touching people.
2:54:37
SPEAKER_06: You can't be touching people.
2:54:39
SPEAKER_06: At the same time, I have a little bit of sympathy for the fact that she touches someone and he's like, that was a good one.
2:54:44
SPEAKER_06: I'm suing you for happening to me.
2:54:47
SPEAKER_34: Uh yeah, I think the two the two things that are bad are I think the meme, I putting his face on a half-naked guy, if that was done other way around, absolutely would be fired.
2:54:57
SPEAKER_34: And the touching, those are the two things.
2:54:59
SPEAKER_34: But there's a lot of other things in those articles where I kind of was like, okay, I kind of want to defend her almost, as like there's one where she's in the women's locker room and she asks another woman about her boobs, like if there's if it's inappropriate.
2:55:12
SPEAKER_34: I'm like, girls do that.
2:55:13
SPEAKER_34: You is this too booby?
2:55:14
SPEAKER_34: Is this okay to wear?
2:55:15
SPEAKER_34: Like, that's a normal thing, but not really professional for a boss to say to a subordinate.
2:55:20
SPEAKER_34: So my advice to Mayor Her is you gotta be friendly but not friends with the people that you're leading, and you need to try to build some respect.
2:55:29
SPEAKER_39: So, really quick, so getting back to the locker room part of it, the report addressed the allegations that her made sexual noises while exercising at the police gym.
2:55:39
SPEAKER_39: Some officers said she sounded like she was having an orgasm, while others heard nothing unusual.
2:55:44
SPEAKER_39: Investigators did not substantiate the allegation, writing that, doing that thing with my fingers.
2:55:49
SPEAKER_39: Women are allowed to make noises in the gym when lifting heavy weights.
2:55:53
SPEAKER_34: Okay, that's another one where I was like, okay, I've been to a lot of gyms where there's a lot of like I you can't you're reading.
2:56:00
SPEAKER_39: Well, I'll tell you what, if you have more women that are lifting weights and then sounding like that's what's happening, you're gonna get a lot more people and a lot more dudes in the in the gyms.
2:56:09
SPEAKER_34: Yeah, it's good for it's good for outside the country.
2:56:11
SPEAKER_03: There are people that have like weird laughs, right?
2:56:14
SPEAKER_03: Right?
2:56:14
SPEAKER_03: Like like that person has a weird laugh, right?
2:56:17
SPEAKER_03: Maybe she just when she is Why does he keep looking at me?
2:56:19
SPEAKER_03: When she is lifting, when she's lifting heavy things, she just sounds like that.
2:56:24
SPEAKER_03: I will say that the counter that she gave that was in the investigation was that basically Chief Chief Ax is it Chief Axel Axel Henry, I always get Axel Henry.
2:56:34
SPEAKER_03: Axel Henry that he was making compliments and that he really wanted her.
2:56:40
SPEAKER_03: That was her, that's what she said.
2:56:41
SPEAKER_03: She was like, oh, he kept on telling me how nice I looked every day.
2:56:44
SPEAKER_03: And I love that Chris Maddle's response was that's insane.
2:56:49
SPEAKER_34: Also, I called this last week.
2:56:50
SPEAKER_34: I said somehow he's the problem, like he's to play for the problem.
2:56:53
SPEAKER_03: Of course, yeah.
2:56:54
SPEAKER_03: He brought it on himself by saying, like, probably one day he's like, oh, you know, you look great today.
2:56:59
SPEAKER_03: And then she's like, Oh, I can grab your thigh.
2:57:02
SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
2:57:03
SPEAKER_39: Max, do you have any thoughts, or do you want me to uh wrap this part wrap this party up?
2:57:09
SPEAKER_07: I'll uh I'll celebrate the day when we're not talking about horny anymore.
2:57:14
SPEAKER_07: I don't know how it resolves.
2:57:16
SPEAKER_07: I still will believe it when I see it.
2:57:18
SPEAKER_07: If she resigns or whatever, I just don't think that's the DFL modus operandi that they don't they don't resign no matter how disgraceful the behavior.
2:57:27
SPEAKER_07: Um keep in mind we had a lady literally burgle her at mom's house out her term.
2:57:35
SPEAKER_07: So I I don't know how it resolves.
2:57:37
SPEAKER_07: I'll believe it when I see it.
2:57:39
SPEAKER_07: I feel bad for the people of St.
2:57:40
SPEAKER_07: Paul because now I think in the last calendar year, the people of St.
2:57:43
SPEAKER_07: Paul have had to foot legal bills like eight or nine different times for different misconduct on the city council.
2:57:49
SPEAKER_07: So they get what they deserve.
2:57:51
SPEAKER_07: I guess they do.
2:57:53
SPEAKER_39: Catherine Johnson here at American Experiment.
2:57:55
SPEAKER_39: Thank you so much for coming in this morning.
2:57:57
SPEAKER_39: I want to remind everybody, and thank you.
2:57:59
SPEAKER_39: Uh we do have new merchandise up on the merchandise page at americanexperiment.org.
2:58:03
SPEAKER_39: We'll have some more items up soon.
2:58:06
SPEAKER_39: But we do have uh there's a t-shirt, I think, is up there right now.
2:58:08
SPEAKER_39: The mug is up there.
2:58:10
SPEAKER_06: And a quarter zip.
2:58:11
SPEAKER_06: And the quarter zip is a hat mug.
2:58:13
SPEAKER_39: All logoed uh with the uh John Justice uh logo, which was created by Isaac, by the way.
2:58:17
SPEAKER_39: Thank you to producer Isaac uh this morning.
2:58:19
SPEAKER_39: Man of many talents.
2:58:20
SPEAKER_39: TPD uh chapter uh president uh out of Apple Valley, Amanda Lamar.
2:58:24
SPEAKER_39: Thank you so much for coming in.
2:58:26
SPEAKER_34: Thank you.
2:58:26
SPEAKER_34: TP USA.
2:58:27
SPEAKER_39: TP USA.
2:58:28
SPEAKER_39: I don't know what I did to say.
2:58:29
SPEAKER_34: T P D at all.
2:58:30
SPEAKER_39: I know, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm tired.
2:58:33
SPEAKER_39: It's 9 04, it's been a long week.
2:58:35
SPEAKER_39: TP USA chapter president out of Apple Valley.
2:58:37
SPEAKER_39: So uh we'll have you back in a couple of weeks.
2:58:39
SPEAKER_39: I know you're gonna be taking some time off, and we're gonna be rotating some uh individuals through.
2:58:43
SPEAKER_39: So we'll certainly have you back on on a Freedom Friday, aka Kamara.
2:58:46
SPEAKER_03: Indeed, you can follow me on Facebook, X, and Instagram at real aka Kamara, and I will actually be giving a sermon this Sunday, announced by my pastor, uh, at Chisago Lakes uh community Maranatha campus.
2:58:59
SPEAKER_03: So come and check that out.
2:59:01
SPEAKER_03: Uh if you want to heckle me, heckle me.
2:59:03
SPEAKER_03: But also you can follow uh Chisago Lakes Maranatha online and they stream it.
2:59:08
SPEAKER_03: So that'll be my first time ever doing it, and it's because I I said to the Holy Spirit, if you want me to do stuff, you know, uh I want people that are involved to be able to make those asks, and then I pray about it.
2:59:19
SPEAKER_03: And yeah.
2:59:20
SPEAKER_39: We certainly talked about a lot today, so maybe there's some inspiration.
2:59:23
SPEAKER_03: We're steering clear of the queer beatitudes, right?
2:59:25
SPEAKER_03: Uh we are definitely steering clear.
2:59:27
SPEAKER_03: We're actually talking about truth and actually not lying.
2:59:31
SPEAKER_03: So the beatique.
2:59:33
SPEAKER_03: The queeritudes.
2:59:36
SPEAKER_07: Rock and race horse.
2:59:39
SPEAKER_39: Representative Max Ramer.
2:59:41
SPEAKER_07: Thanks for having me.
2:59:41
SPEAKER_07: That's all we got.
2:59:42
SPEAKER_07: That's it.
2:59:43
SPEAKER_07: Thank you, buddy.
2:59:43
SPEAKER_07: That's it.
2:59:44
SPEAKER_07: That's it.
2:59:44
SPEAKER_07: I'm not giving a sermon this Sunday.
2:59:45
SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna take a nap, probably.
2:59:47
SPEAKER_06: Oh, I'll be in Winona area tomorrow.
2:59:49
SPEAKER_06: The Winona area uh college not college, but just general republicans.
2:59:54
SPEAKER_06: And uh, if you're in that area, you should come on out.
2:59:56
SPEAKER_06: There's gonna be candidates, and I will be saying a little couple words, I think.
3:00:00
SPEAKER_39: So I do have one more treat before we close the uh the show out, but before we get to that, thank you so much for spending time with us today and all week long.
3:00:07
SPEAKER_39: If you missed any portion of the show, you can head on uh over to AmericanExperiment.org.
3:00:13
SPEAKER_39: You can go to the Mix LR app and listen to the podcast as well.
3:00:16
SPEAKER_39: You can listen to the podcast across all the major podcast platforms.
3:00:19
SPEAKER_39: We repost the video.
3:00:20
SPEAKER_39: That'll be available at Center of the American Experiments, Facebook, and YouTube.
3:00:23
SPEAKER_39: Also on uh Rumble, Ryan Wilson, Lieutenant Governor candidate with Lisa Damath, will be on the show uh Monday, along with uh Andrew Langer as well.
3:00:31
SPEAKER_39: And as I mentioned uh before, we did do two different versions of a Stop Cat.
3:00:36
SPEAKER_39: We had the RB version uh earlier uh based off of Jason Chavez and the Waymo issue and the murderous cats.
3:00:41
SPEAKER_39: I also made a rock version, so we'll close things down on a Freedom Friday with the rock version of uh Stop Cat.
3:00:46
SPEAKER_39: And thank you so much for hanging out.
3:00:47
SPEAKER_39: God bless, have a fantastic weekend, and I'll talk to you guys on a Monday morning.
3:00:51
SPEAKER_53: Cats have been killed, and cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
3:00:55
SPEAKER_53: And I have a cat.
3:00:56
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
3:00:58
SPEAKER_53: So those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles have killed cats.
3:01:03
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
3:01:08
SPEAKER_22: Come the empty cab so dangerous.
3:01:15
SPEAKER_17: You'll need nine lives because you're gonna lose one.
3:03:17
SPEAKER_53: That kills feelings.
3:03:19
SPEAKER_53: I will say cats have been killed, and cats have been killed by these autonomous vehicles.
3:03:24
SPEAKER_53: And I have a cat.
3:03:25
SPEAKER_53: I don't want my cat getting killed because of these autonomous vehicles.
3:03:28
SPEAKER_53: So, those to those cat lovers out there, just know that these Waymo vehicles, these autonomous vehicles, have killed cats.
3:03:33
SPEAKER_53: Literally, cats being murdered by these vehicles.
3:03:58
SPEAKER_24: A voice that lingers when night is gone.
3:04:02
SPEAKER_24: Twin Cities hung, the story's spun.
3:04:07
SPEAKER_24: John Justice rides the rising sun.
3:04:16
SPEAKER_22: Star Wars dreams keep lifting him up.
3:04:20
SPEAKER_22: Costco Miles is safe with round when Leon shadows been around.