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Thursday October 22 2026 | 10.22.26 | Minnesota Fraud | Florida tax relief · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 3: when Yasmin mentioned a hundred, I thought I was, I
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  Speaker 2: We've got a very special focus on Minnesota today. Remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Keep that in your memory bank about Minnesota because this
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  Speaker 2: is Minnesota Day on M & M Extra.
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  Speaker 3: In a number of ways. In a couple of ways, yes.
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  Speaker 2: In a way that we're going to bring Mark into
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  Speaker 2: the fold of something that I have been very, very
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  Speaker 2: fond of for years. been a staple on the Mike
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  Speaker 2: Gallagher show. Now it's going to become a staple on
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  Speaker 2: Eminem Extra. More on that. But I've just got to
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  Speaker 2: start with Ilhan Omar. Now, Mark, and I'm not, let's
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  Speaker 2: not be political for a moment. Let's just take our
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  Speaker 2: hats off. We're not a couple of conservative big mouth hosts. We're,
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  Speaker 2: we're just neutral observers. Couple of dudes. We just, we
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  Speaker 2: just came here from Mars. We just landed, we just
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  Speaker 2: landed from Mars and we're taking, we're taking in all
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  Speaker 2: the landscape of politics, political figures, famous people, maybe not
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  Speaker 2: so famous. Ilhan Omar, big fire brand from Minnesota, Somali. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's, she's just right in the middle of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, criticizing Trump and conservatives and she's, defending the
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  Speaker 2: Somali fraud in Minnesota. So she decides to do a
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  Speaker 2: little rehabilitation this week, and she sits down with Chris
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  Speaker 2: Hayes at MS Now. Yes. Chris Hayes does, as expected,
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  Speaker 2: a fawning kiss-up interview. Flip-flop. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, that's
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  Speaker 2: baked into the cake. It's MS Now. He kind of
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  Speaker 2: jokingly says, you know, there's this whole thing about you
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  Speaker 2: marrying your brother.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy conspiracy.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the
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  Speaker 2: normal response from, if I said to you, hey, is
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  Speaker 2: Lisa your sister?
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  Speaker 3: Is it possible?
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  Speaker 2: Is it possible?
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  Speaker 3: I will not hem and haw. I will not get
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  Speaker 3: back to you. I'll not circle back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you'd give a pretty simple answer if I said,
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  Speaker 2: are you biologically related to Lisa? In a millisecond, I.
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  Speaker 3: Would say, no, I am not.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that'd be a normal reaction, though. Of course. That's
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  Speaker 2: a normal thing. Can I play for you what it
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  Speaker 2: sounded like when Chris Hayes asked her that question this
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  Speaker 2: week on MS Now?
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  Speaker 3: Permission granted.
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  Speaker 2: Brace yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you who was this man that was your husband?
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  Speaker 3: When did they start saying that he was your brother? Why?
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  Speaker 4: I started with the Somali blog that I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if it still exists, but somebody put in there that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that he had to have been my brother
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  Speaker 4: or something to that effect.
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  Speaker 2: And right wing people.
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  Speaker 4: Conspiracy theorists in Minneapolis got a hold of it, and
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  Speaker 4: they just kind of went and, like, found random people
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  Speaker 4: who were like, she introduced us. You know, she introduced
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  Speaker 4: him to us and said he was her brother, which is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, insane. I mean, I don't know those people
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  Speaker 4: that they talk about.
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  Speaker 3: You were not related to him at all. Not that.
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  Speaker 2: There's not some.
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  Speaker 3: Weird kernel of truth that's through some game of telephone.
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  Speaker 4: Not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Is she being hearing it? Cause I read about it.
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  Speaker 3: Not to my knowledge. He, he, he, is she be,
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, this is Mark. This is grace. She does
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  Speaker 3: not deserve.
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  Speaker 2: Cause not to my knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: Is she being ironically understated? Like when something, if you
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  Speaker 3: would present something to me that was just really obvious.
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  Speaker 2: And, Are you day drinking?
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  Speaker 3: Like, Mark, are you a Soviet agent? Well, not to
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  Speaker 3: my knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Are you day drinking? She
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  Speaker 2: ain't that smart. She's not being funny. She's not being subtle.
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  Speaker 2: She said not to my– Mark, those four words would
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  Speaker 2: never come out of a normal person's mouth when they said,
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  Speaker 2: are you related to your husband biologically? But the fraud is– look,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at the fraud that they've– and this is
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  Speaker 2: why Michelle Tafoya might win. This fraud is something that
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  Speaker 2: everybody in Minnesota is talking about, and they've tried to
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  Speaker 2: suppress it. The Minneapolis Star Tribune, leftist rag, and it
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  Speaker 2: is a rag. I mean, man, that is a full-blown,
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  Speaker 2: far-lefties-run newspaper. They're doing their best to spin it. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to polish that turd. But here's what is fascinating,
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  Speaker 2: and it turned out this was confirmed. Despite making up
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  Speaker 2: of 2%, of Minnesota's population, Somalis account for 90% of
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  Speaker 2: the fraud they've uncovered. Oh, man. Mark, think about that.
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  Speaker 2: So with that in mind, let's stay in Minnesota for
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  Speaker 2: a minute. Let me give you the mayor of Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Fry. Here's a winner. Yeah, oh, yeah. The guy,
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  Speaker 2: and all I can think of with him is the
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  Speaker 2: image of, Him on his knee.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the George Floyd.
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  Speaker 2: George Floyd's casket.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The gold casket because, of course, it was a gold casket.
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  Speaker 3: Visiting head of state.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. Dignitary. And he's on his knee sobbing and
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  Speaker 2: heaving and snot. I mean, he was just crying like
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  Speaker 2: he had just lost. His whole family had just been
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  Speaker 2: wiped out. You want to talk about performative, this is performative.
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  Speaker 3: You read my mind in my favorite word. And listen,
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  Speaker 3: we are normal human beings with hearts and minds and
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  Speaker 3: brain stems. We can do an entire deep dive on
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  Speaker 3: the whole George Floyd thing and how really tragic that was.
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  Speaker 3: But the reaction to it and the handling of it
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  Speaker 3: and the weirdness of the performative hyperbole surrounding it did
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  Speaker 3: not serve us well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he continues. He's still doing what he does. I
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  Speaker 2: give you Mayor Jacob Fry. He was at a Somali
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  Speaker 2: networking night event. Check out what he said about the
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  Speaker 2: Somalis in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: One of the reasons that they were coming after you
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  Speaker 5: is they saw the kind of economy and entrepreneurship that
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  Speaker 5: you're helping to build. They saw suddenly that the CEOs
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  Speaker 5: of the future are not all going to look like me.
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  Speaker 5: The CEOs of the future are going to be from
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  Speaker 5: a thousand different backgrounds. And so suddenly, you all are
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  Speaker 5: creeping up in brilliant fashion. You're not just the CEOs
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  Speaker 5: and entrepreneurs of tomorrow, but of right now.
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  Speaker 2: You are showing that. Pander much? Pander much?
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  Speaker 3: Just trying to make the room feel good. And my congressman,
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  Speaker 3: Brandon Gill, in various moments in hearings, Texas District 26,
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  Speaker 3: he asked this question of everybody. He said, look, I
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  Speaker 3: know we're a nation of immigrants, people come in, etc.,
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  Speaker 3: but we've lost track of the ability to ask Immigration
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  Speaker 3: should be of value to the receiving country. And by
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  Speaker 3: what measure has Somali immigration been a net positive for
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota or a net positive for America and the degree
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  Speaker 3: of fraud and welfare? It's just an undeniable point. And
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  Speaker 3: how would you like to be? How would you like
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  Speaker 3: to be the. The Somali immigrant guy who actually does
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  Speaker 3: love America, who came here like somebody might from Mexico
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  Speaker 3: or might from Nigeria or might from Denmark and who
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  Speaker 3: loves America and learns the language and assimilates. Talk about
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  Speaker 3: the guilt by association from the powerful majorities who are.
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  Speaker 3: Are America hating fraudsters?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there are plenty of them. That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're not trying to condemn the Somali community
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  Speaker 2: writ large. We're saying, but look, if 2% of the
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota population is Somali and 90% of the fraud that's
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  Speaker 2: been uncovered committed by Somalis, Houston, we got a problem.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little disproportionate.
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  Speaker 3: week around here because there was Jude, not Jude Law.
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  Speaker 3: What's Jude's name? He's running for Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 2: Tad Jude. Tad Jude. Jude Law. You're close. Jude Law. Hey, Jude.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Tad Jude.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Jude. I got more feedback about that. About people
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  Speaker 3: of state in Minnesota, who ran like a two-minute ad
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  Speaker 3: There are people who have found their way into our
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  Speaker 3: not wish us well. And there's fraud and there's weirdness.
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  Speaker 3: And we told me that thing about how they changed
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  Speaker 3: the Minnesota flag in a clear reflection of the Somali flag, again,
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  Speaker 3: pandering much. It made me crazy. So God bless this
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  Speaker 3: guy as well. And I hope Michelle Tafoya can win
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  Speaker 3: in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: That would be so cool. Me too. And God bless
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  Speaker 2: Food for the Poor. You and I have gotten to
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  Speaker 2: travel on behalf of Food for the Poor. We went
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  Speaker 2: to Guatemala. We watched kids line up for their meals. Look,
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of these children, that's all they get.
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  Speaker 2: And you can step up. And it's a simple ask.
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  Speaker 2: Just text FFTP to 51555. Food for the Poor is
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful, beautiful ministry. They've been at this for 44 years,
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  Speaker 2: 4.7 billion meals delivered. And they're different, Mark. They're special.
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  Speaker 2: Food for the poor.
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  Speaker 3: When they took us to Guatemala and, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: fly into Guatemala City and then you go to wherever
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  Speaker 3: you're staying. And this time we get on our large
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  Speaker 3: bus of the transportation in order to get out to
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  Speaker 3: these villages on this mountainside and see these people. And
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  Speaker 3: they are filled. The whole point is that these are
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  Speaker 3: hungry villages with people who have been starving before Food
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  Speaker 3: for the Poor. They are so grateful. So filled with
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  Speaker 3: the spirit, so filled with gratitude. And that's the kind
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  Speaker 3: of gratitude that Mike and I want to reflect to
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  Speaker 3: Text FFTP to 51555. Those kids thank you. Those moms
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  Speaker 3: thank you. We thank you. Food for the poor thanks you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what blew up on my show today was
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  Speaker 2: property tax. because I shared the story of Amendment 3
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  Speaker 2: in Florida. Amendment 3 provides a path To eventually, and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take a while.
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  Speaker 3: Well, not a long while. Three years?
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  Speaker 2: Three to five years.
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  Speaker 3: It was going to take 10 in Texas, but when
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  Speaker 3: anybody even remotely talked to me, maybe a decade we'll
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  Speaker 3: be able to get rid of property.
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  Speaker 2: But take 10. Take 10. Whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But I can't get past the fundamental concept of the
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  Speaker 2: expectation by Americans that you've got to pay for something
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: you own for the rest of your life. And, Mark,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: you should have heard the pushback I got from people. Well,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: this lady called from Long Island. Well, there you are.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I know. Long Island. She said, I'm looking at my
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: property tax bill. It pays for the police. It pays
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: for water. Well, guess what? That's up to your local government.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Of course it does. They need to balance their budget.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: And you called me out on this this morning. Because
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I pointed out, you know, look, the money will have
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to come from somewhere. And you said, not necessarily. Wait
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: a minute. Explain your pushback.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Well, whenever people talk about getting rid of any kind
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: of tax, how will we supplant this? How will we
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: make up for this lost revenue? Maybe you got too
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: much revenue in the first place. Maybe you haven't found
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: all the waste, all the fraud, all the bloat, all
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: the fat. When you've done all of that, then maybe
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: we can talk about replenishing lost property taxes with something else.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But the first thing you need to do is look
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: at spending, spending, spending before necessarily saying that a property
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: tax reduction here must be responded to with a tax
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: increase over here.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Governor DeSantis, who I believe is the best governor in America,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: pointed out that the state of Florida, under his leadership,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: has reduced its budget four years in a row. He's
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: a fiscal hawk, right? No community in Florida, no local
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: government has reduced their budget. And yet, in the last
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: seven years, property tax revenues in Florida have increased nearly 100%.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: So local governments are awash in that property tax revenue,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: but they refuse to balance or reduce their budget. So
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: guess what? Mayor Castor, the mayor of Tampa... This Jane Castor,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and she's a far-left Democrat, not as bad as some
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: of the ones around the country. She's a former cop.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: And so she's got law enforcement in her background, which
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I kind of like. But she's a Democrat, and she's
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: trying to scare the crap out of everybody. We won't
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: have cops. We won't have a fire department. You're going
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: to die. We won't have water. We've got to have
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: property taxes. But, Mark, just the fundamental principle of saying
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you don't really own your house, because even when you
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: pay it off, you've got to pay the government for
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the rest of your life. And that's bull crap. That's
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: bull crap.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: It's just untenable. And we've grown used to it. And we've,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: like the frog in the boiling water, we've grown used
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: to it. And so it is time to retreat on that.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: And it's funny you talk about local spending and to
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: get into real civics dorkery. Every town, every city down
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: there in Florida where you are, here in Texas where
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I am, everybody got.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: A bond issue.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Well, here comes a bond issue. More bonded debt in
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: this for schools or senior citizen centers or a new
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: police headquarters.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: All good stuff.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: But nobody has the balls anymore to come to the
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: public and say, we need money for this. Your taxes
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: are going up. Or to cut spending and find money
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: elsewhere like any business does, like any household does. It's
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: this endless stream of bond indebtedness. You never get out
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: of it. There's always just more and more indebtedness. And
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: you're really on to something. The glut, the spending obsession
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: of local governments is a lot of why states have
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a tough time getting things like this passed, like property
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: tax rollback.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Here's a great comment in the live chat over on
• 20:34
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• 20:37
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• 20:42
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  Speaker 2: M & M Extra. Before you leave Florida. Final note
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: on property tax.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Then I've got a one Florida asterisk at the end.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Sure. I want to tell you about a
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: conversation I had in my condo. High-rise condo building in
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay area. And nice lady, senior, elderly lady.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: She's a widow. No kids. And she was so proud
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: of the fact that thanks to her husband's planning and
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: thanks to her Her life choices, she paid off that condo.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: She owned it free and clear. And incidentally, that's freedom.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a personal question? Do you own
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: your house outright or do you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Still got a smidge of mortgage left? Our house would
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: be on schedule to be paid off in a couple
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: of years. I can't wait for that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: What a freedom that's going to feel like. But the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: property tax continues, though, so I don't really own it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: So that's what she told me. She said she had
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: tears in her eyes. Because I said to her, congratulations,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: that's got to be such a great feeling. She said, well, no,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I have to move. I said, what do you mean
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you have to move? She said, I can't afford to
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: live here. She said, my property tax is $ 26, 000 a year.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Lord.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: On a two-bedroom condominium. Now, I know you're going to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: make it. Sweet condo, but still. It's a nice condo.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It's high-rise, a lot of amenities. But by the way,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: that doesn't include the HOA fees. You want to know
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: what her HOA fees are? Sure. $ 2, 000 a month. Now,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: if you're a senior on a fixed income, now, again,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I know the criticism. She's not eating dog food.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Let's stipulate that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: It's a luxury. Well, but she's going to have to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: move out of the condo she loves. She can't afford it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: But you've got to have such financial sustenance to be
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: able to afford those kind of numbers. In fact, one
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: of the callers today on the show got in the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: weeds and was babbling about HOA fees. And I said,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know. I just want to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: talk about the big picture of property tax. But it's
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: not fair. I got a text from North Carolina. He said,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I retired 20 years ago. So far, I have paid
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: over $ 30, 000 in property tax since 2009. Mark, that's wrong.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's fundamentally wrong.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Completely and totally wrong. And God bless Ron DeSantis for
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: doing this. And I just love him. He's just, again,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite governors, one of my favorite politicians.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: And just the last 60-second postscript on him is he
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: just cannot buy a break because he ran against Trump.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: That was never going to work. And now you got J.D.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Vance and maybe Marco Rubio. I don't know if maybe
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: DeSantis will be 80 himself before the presidential window opens
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: for him. But did you catch the J.D. Vance quote
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: kind of on the fly a few days ago where
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: he floated the possibility of maybe not running because he's
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: got four young kids? And I love J.D. I want
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: him to run. I'd like to have a chance to
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: evaluate him for being the 48th president. But I also
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: want Rubio in there, too. And Rubio has said, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: will not run if my friend J.D. Vance does. He
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: really needs to get over that. Can you imagine a Vance, Rubio,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Ron DeSantis three-way primary? Talk about bench strength. Talk about
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: an embarrassment of riches. Any one of whom would be
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: a fine, fine successor to President Trump.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be very bullish, continually bullish on Marco Rubio.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be Marco Rubio at the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: top of the ticket. And please, please, please, Lord. Give
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: us Kamala Harris as a Democrat. She's trying out a new.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: She's thinking about it. She's trying out a new dialect. Oh,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: she's thinking. She's doing more than thinking about it. A
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: new dialect? Yep. She's got a new dialect. Where's that clip, guys?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Kamala is back. Kamala Harris.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Here she was. This is this week. She was at
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: an event. Please, Lord, bless us. with Kamala Harris running again.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine America electing this person?
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: That era, that era.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Of feeling powerless, like what can we do? This just
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: keeps happening.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: That era is over because we are now 13 days away.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: From doing something about it to stop the pain.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: So that's where we are right now.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of exciting, right? This is some good stuff.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: We're taking our power and we're using it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: To determine who will hold offices, like being.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: The governor of Nevada, which is so important. For the
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: people every day on the most basic.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Issues that affect our lives, who will continue to walk
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: those halls of Congress being an extraordinary fighter. She takes
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: condescending to a whole new level.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: The era of feeling powerless is over. Oh, my gosh.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I join you in thinking and hoping and praying that
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the Democrats are unwise enough to elevate her again. Mike,
• 26:20
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  Speaker 2: the idea of these theme days on Fridays. And when
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I suggested what we could do tomorrow, you mocked me.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I thought already, because last week we did Halloween and Thanksgiving.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: And we were, silly us, we were going to do
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: like a big holiday festival tomorrow. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. But
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: being us, we were yammering so long, we only got
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: two of those three done. So we put a pin
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: in Christmas, and I thought we'll get back to that
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: after Thanksgiving. Mike thought otherwise.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Let's do Christmas tomorrow. Let's have Christmas.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Instead of Christmas in July, we'll do Christmas in October.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Exactly right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: We're just inside two months, or almost two months. Christmas
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: is of the past. How Christmas, how we're doing. I
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: want to talk to you about the Christmas. Do you
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: remember the Christmas wars? Did we win those? Is that
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: why we don't hear about that so much?
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Well, let's save that for tomorrow. And I
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: want to talk about memories. I want to talk about
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: holiday traditions, Christmas traditions in your house and in mine.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: And considering that my life is sort of like the
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: nightmare before Christmas or whatever it's called. Or, you know,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: bad Santa. No morbid negative stories from me tomorrow. Okay?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I promise. There's not going to be one negative thing
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: about Christmas. Okay. You'll see. And hold me to it.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: If I start to veer off, if you start to
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: see me weep, call me back. Don't bring me back.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I got your back.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I am ready for you. Merry Christmas early. We'll see
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: you tomorrow. See you then.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Thank you.