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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 1: I eleven thirty one three point five.

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Speaker 4: Monitoring the situation of Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we need to get a uh.

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Speaker 4: We need to get a jar in studio where I

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Speaker 1: When I conflate things, I.

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Speaker 4: Got occasion for some reason, I'll conflate walls and trump.

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Speaker 1: I think I think I did that every once in

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Speaker 4: Sure, But with all the operations between Operation Metro Surge

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Speaker 4: and Operation Epic Fury, if I haven't done it already,

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be shocked. But if we had, maybe I

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Speaker 1: Just don't just don't put any pens in that jar.

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Speaker 4: Right, oh man, don't even get me started off. People

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Speaker 4: steal into my pens. That was a nightmare. Can't find

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Speaker 4: I can't find a pen in this place. And somebody

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Speaker 4: took my last good one on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing that up.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm here for, John, Only it was Friday,

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Speaker 4: wasn't it was when that happened. I keep him in

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Speaker 1: They didn't do that. They got me all upset again.

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Speaker 4: All right, Looking at the latest regarding Operation Epic of Fury,

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Speaker 4: Iran continues to retaliate against our efforts to remove this regime.

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Speaker 4: There was reports this morning that the Iranian regime is

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Speaker 4: on the brink of collapse right now. And these attacks

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Speaker 4: the attempts of what's left of Iran's military to push

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Speaker 4: for the biggest impact, not military targets. And Marco Rubio

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Speaker 4: had laid this out in the audio that we played

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Speaker 4: last hour. If you missed it, be sure to check

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Speaker 4: out the podcast on the iHeartRadio app. And while we'll

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Speaker 4: Nicholson will be joining us in studio as Kendall Quall's

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Speaker 4: names Brian Nicholson as Lieutenant Governor, as was just announced

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Speaker 4: moments ago an army, veteran business leader, a Republican candidate

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Speaker 4: We'll talk to him about joining Kendall Qualls in this race, and.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to get his thoughts on.

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Speaker 4: The ongoing operations right now against against Iran. To that point,

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Speaker 4: keep your prayers up, obviously for our brave men and

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Speaker 4: now during these operations, including the Minnesota National Guard, who

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Speaker 4: talking with Channel five said that we have more than

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Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty personnel currently serving on regularly scheduled

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Speaker 1: No injuries reported at this time.

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Speaker 4: These airmen and soldiers come from De Luce one hundred

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Speaker 4: Artillery and if I said that inappropriately, my apologies. Also

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Speaker 4: While their missions and duty locations will vary, all are

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Speaker 4: grateful for the strong support of those back home. This

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Speaker 4: of our brave men and women serving in our armed forces,

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Speaker 4: I want to share with you just briefly, and then

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Speaker 4: even after Operation Metro Surge has ended, the Ice president

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Speaker 4: presence diminishing greatly here in Minnesota. This was a post

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Speaker 4: This is what he had to say about the ongoing operations.

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Speaker 4: And you know, the sort of assumptions into the level

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Speaker 4: the reality has actually been since the operation started.

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Speaker 5: And as far as the active fighting in the war,

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Speaker 5: Iran's already lost. This war has been going on for

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Speaker 5: States now control the skies over Iran. They're eliminating targets

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Speaker 1: If Iran was going to destroy like a.

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Speaker 5: Battleship or an aircraft carrier, they would have done it

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Speaker 5: by now. And Iran's response has been pretty embarrassing. The

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Speaker 5: Iranian regime has fired missiles at nine countries Bahrain, Rock, Israel, Jordan,

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Speaker 1: In less than twenty.

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Speaker 5: Four hours, they have likely fired approximately the same number

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Speaker 5: and they have nothing to show for it. I'm going

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Speaker 5: to go through some of the damaged caused by Iranian

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Speaker 5: They successfully bombed the Kwait International Airport. They bombed the

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Speaker 5: He drone just flew into it. This is the Port

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Speaker 5: This is the famous berje Al Arab Hotel in Dubai,

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Speaker 4: And again that was a former nuclear and missile operations

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Speaker 4: Iran had spent almost fifty years building up their military

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Speaker 4: Because assuming that Operation Epic Fury concludes the way that

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Speaker 4: yet you have this irrational opposition to President Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: and everything and anything that he does, and this desire

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Speaker 4: what's happening right now. You have Operation Metro Search. It's

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Speaker 4: ended for the most part. You still have ICE agents

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Speaker 4: here conducting a little bit of work, but you're down

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Speaker 4: to the hundreds if not less, not including those that

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Speaker 4: of Operation Metro Surge. That wasn't enough. It wasn't enough

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Speaker 4: to push back to break laws, put people's lives in danger.

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Speaker 1: Now that it's over, never.

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Speaker 4: Letting a crisis go to waste, I'll share with you

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Speaker 4: the ways in which Democrats are now attempting to go

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Speaker 4: and exploit it now that it's done. From articles being

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Speaker 4: supposed to allow individuals to put their instances where they

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Speaker 4: believe that ICE agents abuse their authority. Educators are now

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Speaker 4: saying that stress among and amid the ICE operations could

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Speaker 4: actually skew Minnesota test results. That's right, they're going to

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Speaker 4: the left. The DFL Education Minnesota is going to attempt

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Speaker 4: to blame low tests scores, which already existed by the way,

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Speaker 4: as we were talking about earlier in the show, They're

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Speaker 1: They have no shame on the left in the state.

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Speaker 4: Also in the Minnesota Reformer, they actually tried to go

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Speaker 4: and figure out the measuring tactics for the economic damage

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Speaker 4: that Walls and Minneapolis Man Baby Mayor Mom Jeans Jacob

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Speaker 4: Frye has said has taken place. And even in this

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Speaker 4: of fact, the closing line of the piece, and I'll

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Speaker 3: Oh hell yeah, I didn't hear it get mentioned but

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Speaker 3: as far as I know, the majority of not the entirety,

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Speaker 3: it's only taken two days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently it's all sitting at the bottom of the

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Speaker 2: Specific to your comment or regarding the performance of the

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Speaker 2: Iranian military, this has everything to do with the degrading

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Speaker 2: of the military of the twelve.

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Speaker 7: Day War in June of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: This is a great time to go back and do

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Speaker 2: it again at reduced risk to our military. Our loss

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Speaker 1: And that's a really great point.

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Speaker 4: And it's something I had in my stack today and

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Speaker 4: just hadn't had a chance to get to. But you're right,

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Speaker 4: you so much for reminding me of that this morning

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Speaker 8: But the Democrats are seen in this country is the

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Speaker 8: change in Iran, and they see the possibility of all

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Speaker 8: They don't want to see that because then they see

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Speaker 4: The Hamniping County Attorney's Office also announced a new initiative.

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Speaker 1: We already know how much the public.

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Speaker 7: Hey, this is Brian from Saint Michael.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the recognition of the Minnesota National Guard and

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Speaker 1: Coming in this morning.

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Speaker 4: First off, let's start with your decision to join Kendall

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Speaker 9: And it comes from a deep place of duty that

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Speaker 1: And you're right.

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Speaker 9: I was busy living a happy life, shuttling my kids

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Speaker 1: Uh. But but I do it from a place of duty.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, never, This is not something that I ever anticipated doing.

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Speaker 9: up to and how things are going.

442
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Speaker 4: Uh.

443
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 9: And and so as those politicians have come through, you

444
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 9: know it at the end of all of those meetings,

445
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 9: you know, you sit down and you're concluding things at

446
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 9: a conference table. And and you look across the table

447
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 9: and say, you know, what I've said to each of

448
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 9: these guys is listen, the state needs help. And so

449
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 9: if there's anything that I can do help you, I

450
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 9: would like you to just not hesitate to reach out.

451
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Speaker 9: And and I was surprised then a few weeks after

452
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Speaker 9: I had sort of given that same story to Kendall

453
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Speaker 9: when he called it. And how that conversation went is

454
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 9: he he had asked if I had any suggestions for

455
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 9: a lieutenant governor candidate. And this was so far from

456
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Speaker 9: something that I had considered that I was, you know,

457
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Speaker 9: I was, first of all, thank you. You know, I'm

458
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 9: honored that you're asking for my input for this. Tell

459
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 9: me about what you're looking for, tell me why you're

460
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 9: asking me for for suggestions, and and and so he

461
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 9: got done describing uh, this individual. And it wasn't until

462
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 9: after I had hung up the phone with him that

463
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 9: I thought he may have been describing me in that conversation.

464
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Speaker 9: And so as we got together for coffee shortly after,

465
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Speaker 9: that was different that I By the way, is that right, Yeah,

466
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 9: I'll get to that in a second. But that but

467
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 9: that but that went my head had it going a

468
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 9: different direction than that, which is interesting, but please continue.

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Uh, so we got together for coffee shortly after that.

471
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 9: Uh and uh, you know, sort of even before sitting

472
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 9: down and having pleasantries, you know, I had to sit

473
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 9: down and just say, Kendall, were you asking me to

474
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 9: be your lieutenant governor?

475
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Speaker 1: So that's that's.

476
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Speaker 4: That's how it I'll be And and so what was it?

477
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Speaker 4: Would you don't want my asking? What was his response

478
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 4: to to that particular question.

479
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 9: Yeah, he sort of sat back in his chair and

480
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 9: chuckled a little bit and said, yes, Sarah, well, sir,

481
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 9: I was So that was kind of how I was

482
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 9: anticipating that it was that it was going to go.

483
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Speaker 4: I do find it interesting though, that the way that

484
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 4: the way that you present that, it's almost like it

485
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Speaker 4: provided you the opportunity to sort of come to the

486
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 4: conclusion yourself before going back to him, instead of him

487
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 4: asking you you directly what is it about Kendall Qualls?

488
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Speaker 4: Again talking to Brian Nicholson, who Kendall has named as

489
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 4: his lieutenant governor candidate? What is it about Kendall Qualls

490
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 4: you know about him that drew you to to him?

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Speaker 9: There There are many things. The first is how aligned

492
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Speaker 9: we are on issues and thoughts.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're we're both Christian men. That's really important

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Speaker 1: to me. Uh.

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Speaker 9: The as as we sort of talked about where the

497
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Speaker 9: state was, where where he was on different issues and

498
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 9: philosophies and things.

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Speaker 1: Uh, I would.

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Speaker 9: Describe the alignment is on canny. Uh it's it's nearly perfect. Uh.

501
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 9: And and that helps me a lot to you know,

502
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Speaker 9: I've certainly not in this for climbing some political ladder. So,

503
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 9: you know, being being aligned with somebody and not looking

504
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 9: at this as some sort of steps onto some future

505
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 9: endeavor makes that critical.

506
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Speaker 1: Uh. As as I make that decision.

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Speaker 4: Talking to Brian Nicholson again, lieutenant governor candidate with gubernatorial

508
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 4: candidate Kendall, calls, all right, let's go back in time

509
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Speaker 4: and talk a little bit about your your background here

510
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 4: in Minnesota and you know, sort of your your rise

511
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 4: to prominence as as a businessman to you know, to

512
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 4: where you are today as you made this decision to

513
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 4: join Ni Kendall's ticket.

514
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 9: Sure, well, I grew up in in the northern suburbs

515
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 9: right here in the Twin Cities. I've lived in Minnesota

516
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 9: almost my entire life. I grew up doing all things

517
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 9: a lot of Minnesota kids did. Riding around my bike,

518
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 9: you know, until the street lights came on.

519
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 1: Uh.

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00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 9: I was involved in a little bit of hockey because

521
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 9: all good Minnesota boys do. UH. And and you know,

522
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 9: went to public school and got a great education, and

523
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 9: everything was great. I went to the University of Minnesota.

524
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 9: I got an undergraduate degree in computer science. I spent

525
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 9: a short time out in Seattle working at a Microsoft,

526
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Speaker 9: but mostly I've been here my whole life. Shortly after college,

527
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 9: I met my wife. We've been married nearly twenty years.

528
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Speaker 9: We have three wonderful children. I have identical twin boys

529
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 9: that are seventeen, a daughter who's thirteen, and they're I

530
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 9: mentioned this already a little bit, but they're running around

531
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Speaker 9: playing soccer and playing volleyball, and they're great kids. Thirty

532
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 9: years ago, I started at at a family company and

533
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 9: we we had a great business, and we sold that

534
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 9: to a private equity group. I stayed around with those

535
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 9: guys for a little while, started a couple of different

536
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 9: companies at that point, and now you don't have between

537
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 9: my partners and I we started a couple dozen different companies.

538
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 9: We've we've created nearly a thousand jobs in the state

539
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 9: of Minnesota over the last you know, fifteen or so years,

540
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Speaker 9: and we've we've those enterprises have created hundreds of millions

541
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 9: of dollars of value here in the state. And you know,

542
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 9: we've been able to do that in spite of you know,

543
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 9: some of the regulations and things that get in our way.

544
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 9: And you know, I would attribute that to you know,

545
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 9: there's an element of leadership there, There's an element of

546
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 9: recognition that great teams breed success, and then there's an

547
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 9: element of innovation that's just required to you know, solve

548
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 9: problems and tackle things.

549
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: That is part of what makes that all work.

550
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 4: Talking with again, Brian Nicholson, lieutenant governor candidates with gouvenantorial

551
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 4: candidate Kendall Qualls, beyond what you mentioned a moment ago,

552
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 4: why do you think Kendall gravitated towards you to lieutenant

553
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 4: governor and what do you think makes you qualified for this?

554
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 4: Is it you think specifically because of your business at

555
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 4: acumend as to why he wanted to bring you on

556
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 4: on board his ticket.

557
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do, I know that that's true.

558
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 9: You know what what this ticket offers the state, which

559
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 9: is historic in many ways, is that this is a

560
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 9: this is a ticket with two outsiders. This is not

561
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 9: two people who are career politicians.

562
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: UH.

563
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 9: And you know it's it's been a long time since

564
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 9: the Republican ticket has put forward since the public is

565
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 9: put forward a ticket that is credible uh and is

566
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 9: uh and can win and this message so that we

567
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 9: can bring to the state of you know what, what

568
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 9: we don't need is more politicians here. What we need

569
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 9: are business people to come in and provide real solutions

570
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 9: to real problems that that are now at a level

571
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 9: that are causing national embarrassment UH to many of us.

572
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: That that's what That's what Kendall and I bring to

573
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: the state.

574
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 9: And you know, I think, Uh, the little bit I've

575
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 9: been able to be out and talking to people in

576
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 9: advance of this announcement, you know that that.

577
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: Messages is working.

578
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 4: Talking with again Brian Nicholson, Kendall Qualls and his lieutenant

579
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 4: governor candidate, what did your family have to say regarding

580
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 4: UH making this decision? How much discussion? If you don't

581
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 4: mind my my asking, I'm asking you anyway, but I'm curious.

582
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 4: You know how that how those conversations transpired. Well, it

583
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 4: was not an automatic and easy. Yes, you know, as

584
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 4: we were talking about this, you know that this came

585
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,479
Speaker 4: out of the blue, and so this isn't something that

586
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 4: you know, we've sort of uh this. There was no

587
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 4: opportunity for me to plant a seed and then sort

588
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 4: of let it water and grow over time, so that

589
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 4: this was quite a shock, you know, and ultimately it

590
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 4: took a little getting over to to to realize that.

591
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 9: And I think part of that is because of the

592
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 9: just nastiness that politics can bring. And you know, certainly

593
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 9: that was a real part of this decision making for

594
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 9: me as well. You know that just being a part

595
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 9: of something that can otherwise be avoided is is a

596
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 9: necessary part of kind of that that element of duty

597
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 9: I described earlier.

598
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 4: What are some of your what are some of your

599
00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 4: biggest concerns with where things are currently now here in

600
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 4: the in the state of Minnesota. I do want to

601
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 4: go back a bit and get your view on how

602
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 4: things have changed, especially from my perspective, because you know,

603
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 4: as I was telling you before we went on the

604
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 4: we went on the air, you know, I've been here

605
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 4: going on on ten years, and I also know the

606
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 4: Kendall's been here for about the same amount of time

607
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 4: if you want to address that feel free is.

608
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: Feel free as well.

609
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 4: But with the way things have been going, that you know,

610
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 4: sort of drove you to make this decision. What has

611
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 4: been the most concerning for you, Brian Nicholson again Lieutenant

612
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 4: governor candidate with with Kendall Walls campaign.

613
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 9: Well, if I think back to how Minnesota was when

614
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 9: I was growing up, you know, we lived in a

615
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 9: world that was safe. We lived in a state that

616
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 9: was relatively crime free. You know, as we talked about earlier,

617
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 9: just a few minutes ago, you know, we would get

618
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 9: up in the morning, go ride around our bikes all

619
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 9: summer long, and we'd come home when the street lights

620
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 9: came on and that was okay, and nobody wondered if

621
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 9: some kid was going to get something horrible done to

622
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 9: them in that process. And in my later years, my

623
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 9: you know, my college and my twenties, you know, going

624
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 9: out and having a great time in downtown Minneapolis was

625
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 9: so much fun. You know, the whole vibe was alive

626
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 9: and electric, and it was a wonderful place to go

627
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 9: and hang out and have dinner and have some drinks

628
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 9: and have a great time.

629
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: Now those things are not the case.

630
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Speaker 9: We we had some of the best schools in the

631
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 9: country when when I was in school, uh here in Minnesota,

632
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 9: and now we don't. So you know, I think that

633
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 9: the main initiatives touch on all those points. So we

634
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 9: need we need safety. That's not asking too much. And

635
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 9: I don't think that's a that's not a Republican issue

636
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 9: where a Democrat issue. This is a common sense Minnesota issue.

637
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 9: We need to have great schools. I think that's a

638
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 9: similar story. Uh, we need to have the ability to

639
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 9: prosper economically, you know, we need to have all this

640
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 9: hard work and the blood and the sweat and the

641
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 9: tears that we all put into our lives pay off

642
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 9: so that you know, we can benefit from the fruits

643
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 9: of our labor.

644
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: And then finally, you know.

645
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 9: It's it's uh, it's it's crazy that we we have

646
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 9: to sort of have this fight about restoring this fraud,

647
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 9: you know, which which is not just money and not

648
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 9: just you know, a word.

649
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: That's easy to say.

650
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 9: This is this is sort of stealing the future of Minnesotans.

651
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 9: Uh and uh, and I hate it that that's not okay.

652
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 4: It's frustrating, you know, even well from my perspective, you know,

653
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: there are stories. Today, we have the legislative session going on.

654
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 4: It's not a it's not a budget yere, We're going

655
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 4: to be working on bonding. We are talking about budget issues.

656
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 4: But I'm almost to the level where it seems arbitrary

657
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 4: to talk about, you know, even the budget. Given the

658
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,720
Speaker 4: amount of fraud that we haven't been able to to tackle,

659
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 4: you know, and and the impact that it's having on

660
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 4: the budget.

661
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Speaker 1: How can we come to any sort.

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Speaker 4: Of clear view, schoolly of where we are if we

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Speaker 4: don't rain this under you know, if we don't get

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Speaker 4: this under control, what would you like to see, you know,

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Speaker 4: done about tackling this fraud or maybe what hasn't been

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Speaker 4: done yet under governor under Governor Tim Walls.

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Speaker 9: Well, I think, you know, the first thing that we

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Speaker 9: have to remember is that fraud is already illegal. So

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Speaker 9: what we don't need is a whole bunch more government

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Speaker 9: to be able to figure out how to get fraud

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Speaker 9: under control. And you know that that is oftentimes the

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Speaker 9: place the conversation wants to go early is a is

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Speaker 9: a high indicator that we're on the wrong track. And

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Speaker 9: and I think a lot of this comes back to

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Speaker 9: some of the earlier points we're making to hear that

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Speaker 9: if if we have the right people in the right spots,

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Speaker 9: a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of these things start to go away easily.

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Speaker 9: And that doesn't mean that there's not a place for oversight,

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Speaker 9: of course there is. And that doesn't mean there's not

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Speaker 9: a place for transparency, of course there is. But but

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Speaker 9: what we have are people who are interested in in

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Speaker 9: the career of politics, and that's that's a big part

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Speaker 9: of the problem.

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Speaker 4: Talking again with Brian Nicholson, and he's been named Lieutenant

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Speaker 4: governor candidate along with Kendall Cualls in terms of priorities,

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Speaker 4: if you and Kendall were were elected to this position,

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Speaker 4: were of churse talking about the fraud, But what would

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Speaker 4: you want to see, Kendall, what would you want to

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Speaker 4: address first and foremost in the you know here in Minnesota,

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Speaker 4: what's a what what's a high priority for you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the same four things I just mentioned.

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Speaker 9: So, I mean it's safety, it's education, it's economic prosperity,

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Speaker 9: and you know, really, John, what what what I've concluded

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Speaker 9: and I think what most Minnesota's and certainly you know,

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Speaker 9: I think you're in the same boat here, is that

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Speaker 9: you know, Minnesota is at a place where if we

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Speaker 9: don't get it fixed now, we're going to run the

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Speaker 9: risk that it becomes unfixable. And and there's there's an

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Speaker 9: urgency associated with this that that I think sometimes is

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Speaker 9: too easy to skip over.

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Speaker 1: This is a crisis for us. And and if if.

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Speaker 9: We're not careful, if sort of we the silent majority

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Speaker 9: of Minnesotans who have you know, we all walk around

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Speaker 9: and you know, we shake our heads and you know,

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Speaker 9: in disgust, and you know, talk about it when the

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Speaker 9: door's closed. But if we won't stand up and sort

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Speaker 9: of grab back what's ours, then you know, I think

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Speaker 9: we we do ourselves a pretty big disservice and we're

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Speaker 9: going to let the stake get away from us.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know.

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Speaker 4: And the concern that I have and we just got

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Speaker 4: just got about a minute left here is, you know,

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Speaker 4: as we get older and we have families, you know,

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Speaker 4: I have a twenty three year old and I have

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Speaker 4: a nineteen year old, and I'm blessed to still have

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Speaker 4: them under my roof to the roof, but it's not

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Speaker 4: going to be that way forever. I love for them

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Speaker 4: to have a future here because they've spent so much

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Speaker 4: time here already and they love it here. But at

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Speaker 4: the same time, unless things change, they're not going to.

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Speaker 1: Have a future here. And that that's what's at stake.

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Speaker 4: You know, as we get older and sort of cement

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Speaker 4: ourselves with our lives and get into our routines like

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Speaker 4: it obviously becomes.

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Speaker 1: Less about us. It's more about our children.

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Speaker 4: And that's what can that's what concerns That's what concerns me,

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Speaker 4: you know, and I and you know you're not in

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Speaker 4: your I'm sure you can echo those sentiments as well.

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Speaker 9: That's right, that's right, and in fact, and one of

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Speaker 9: the things that I had written recently, you know, I

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Speaker 9: said that our success will be measured here in years,

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Speaker 9: not months, and it'll be when our grandchildren sort of

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Speaker 9: look back at this moment and say that this is

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Speaker 9: a time where Minnesota saved herself and the citizens of

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Speaker 9: Minnesota stepped up and said we've had enough.

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Speaker 4: So I know, we just made this announcement this morning.

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Speaker 4: The press release went out at eight am, Brian Nicholson

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Speaker 4: joining Kendall Qualls and his gubernatorial run as lieutenant governor.

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Speaker 4: As we wrap things up, you think you're ready for

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Speaker 4: what you're about to go through in this I think so. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 4: you know, thank you so much for the time this morning.

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Speaker 4: Good luck to both you and Kendall. I look forward

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Speaker 4: to further conversations as we get into the year and

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Speaker 4: closer to election day. But it was great to get

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Speaker 4: to know you a bit and I hope that the

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Speaker 4: listeners appreciate it as well. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: coming in this morning, Brian, Thanks John again. Brian Nicholson,

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Speaker 4: Lieutenant governor candidate with a Kendall Quall.

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Speaker 1: And that wraps up the show for today.

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Speaker 4: If you missed any portion of today's broadcast, Sam in

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Speaker 4: the studio next door is going to have this podcasts

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Speaker 4: up shortly.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 4: We'll certainly be back at it tomorrow just after six am.

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Speaker 4: So if you missed any portion, check out the podcast.

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Speaker 4: you updated on Operation Epic Fury as we kick off

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Speaker 4: tomorrow's show. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday. I'll talk

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Speaker 4: to you guys then.

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