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Speaker 1: Good morning, James from Bell Playing James. The bonuses are

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Speaker 1: brilliant because that's going to complicate the next shutdown because

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Speaker 1: those people who sicked out last time may reconsider this

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Speaker 1: thing on the HEMP thing. I think that's interesting because

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Speaker 1: that could complicate Keith Ellison's position since he had sent

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Speaker 1: letters supporting that. All right, take care by, So.

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Speaker 2: Let's address both of these things just briefly here on

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Speaker 2: Twin Cities News Talk Hour two on a Freedom Friday

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Speaker 2: from the sixty five to one carpet Next Day Install

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Speaker 2: Studios want to welcome the guest so far in studio.

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Speaker 2: As we mentioned, Brian McDaniel Triumphant return to the show.

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Speaker 2: It's been far too long and that's one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: on me, but it is fantastic to see you.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that your public has been clamoring for me.

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Speaker 2: Just so I can go through the list of all

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Speaker 2: your accolades. Here a stand up comedian, political pundit, attorney,

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Speaker 2: Minnesota governmental relations professional and hosted the Wrong About Everything

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Speaker 2: podcast where you guys just talked about Dick Cheney and

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Speaker 2: the shutdown this week.

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Speaker 3: Right, yep, yep, yep, yes we did.

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Speaker 2: Grace Keaty from American Experiment American Experiment podcast. Hello, Grace, Hello,

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Speaker 2: where's your cohort?

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Speaker 4: I am not responsible for her timing. That's kind of

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Speaker 4: what I thought you were going to say, make me,

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Speaker 4: don't put me in that position. So I just a

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Speaker 4: quick question for the both of you.

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Speaker 2: Were talking about the shutdown and the fact that Christianome

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Speaker 2: yesterday was handing out ten thousand dollars bonus checks to

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Speaker 2: the TSA worker so far that actually stayed on the

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Speaker 2: job during the shutdown. There is the possibility that the

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Speaker 2: air traffic controllers would end up getting a check as well.

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Speaker 2: But Grace, if you were working for the government and

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Speaker 2: it shut down, are you still going to go to

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Speaker 2: until the government has turned back on again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I keep going in.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I agree with that logic of like, I still want

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Speaker 4: Yeah, especially now.

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Speaker 6: That I know, like, oh, I might get a ten

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Speaker 2: The talkback mad made a good point wherein that if

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Speaker 2: be like, Hey, I'm staying on because I want to

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Speaker 2: get that sweet bonus check. Ryan mccaniel, what about you,

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Speaker 2: You staying on your government job or you can take

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 7: I have been a state employee during a shutdown here

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Speaker 7: the state of Minnesota, though I was deemed to be

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Speaker 7: an essential employee, which I'm sure you all would guess,

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Speaker 7: and one of my jobs was to drive down to Rochester,

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Speaker 3: So I was essential.

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Speaker 7: But if I can, a very good friend of mine's

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Speaker 7: And the story that he told me of the men

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Speaker 7: I think Americans have lost. Pride in your job. It

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Speaker 2: Well, and it's something that it's it's a learned thing.

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Speaker 2: It's a learned thing. And unfortunately, I don't see as

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Speaker 4: And I agree with you.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we have a story later

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Speaker 2: They're just the kids are just not being taught that

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Speaker 6: No, I think there's been such a culture shift and

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Speaker 4: If you pay me.

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Speaker 6: I deserve more than your giving me in almost every circumstance,

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Speaker 2: We were talking about this last hour and earlier in

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Speaker 2: the week, and that is this inclusion in the Continuing

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Speaker 2: Resolution regarding the regulating or reregulating of hemp derived products

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Speaker 2: that were already available here prior to the legalization of marijuana,

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Speaker 7: I mean, with full disclosure, I represent liquor stores, so retailers,

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Speaker 4: Well, I just can't stand the fact that well, let

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Speaker 4: me rephrase this.

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Speaker 2: You can look to the imputus of how this all

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Speaker 7: And I know that the craft brewing industry has met

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Speaker 7: you know many other attorneys general are taking this position.

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Speaker 7: It's a little bit hard to nail down what exactly

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Speaker 2: It seems as if it's one of those issues right

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Speaker 2: this particular issue relating to these HEMP regulations was gaining

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Speaker 4: You're right, this is going to be a.

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Speaker 2: Much bigger issue as these industries go and speak out

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Speaker 8: Good morning. Okay, it's big alcohol. No, it's a new

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Speaker 8: big to me. I didn't know there was big alcohol,

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Speaker 3: Oh there's big alcohol.

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Speaker 2: Well, big alcohol is how it started with Mitch McConnell, right, Yes,

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Speaker 2: interested to know if they were looking at any sort

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Speaker 2: just making an assumption that people were going to trade

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Speaker 8: Well, alcohol usage is down, I think clearly, especially among

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, in one hundred percent.

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Speaker 7: You know, from the retailer standpoint, you know, it used

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Speaker 7: to be that llow beer is what you know, made

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Speaker 7: was kind of where you found your profit. That's not

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Speaker 3: People. You know, if you go to your local liquor store,

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Speaker 7: You know, you will find that it's seltzer, seltzer seltzer

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Speaker 7: and there's less less shelf space, less cooler space for

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Speaker 7: beer and other things. And this is just a shift.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't mean that it's not going to shift back.

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Speaker 7: I mean, when when we were kids, John, you know,

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Speaker 7: absolutely is a thing. If you can't beat them, join them,

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Speaker 7: start making seltzer. That's what the people want.

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Speaker 2: Well for me, when when I was a kid, it

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Speaker 2: It's like a liquid alcoholic chocolate shake. That's how I

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Speaker 2: You guys probably haven't heard about this one, and it's

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Speaker 4: this morning.

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Speaker 2: What do you usually lead with Brian McDaniel, Do you

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Speaker 4: Do you lead with hosts of the Wrong About Everything Podcast?

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Speaker 3: I prefer Emmy Award winner.

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Speaker 2: Brian McDaniel, Also in studio, the Salt and Pepper of

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Conservative Podcasting Catherine Johnson and Grace Keating. I never

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Speaker 2: asked you, guys permission from Center of the American Experiment

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Speaker 2: Inviting Brian McDaniel in this Morning, although I think, you know,

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Speaker 8: Yes, I didn't get that one. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: I was choosing it to go down on that road.

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Speaker 4: Let's go here. Governor Tim Walls was caught another lie.

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Speaker 3: I'm shocky way.

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Speaker 2: What's funny about this? This is a story from Michelle

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Speaker 2: Griffith in the Minnesota Reformer.

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Speaker 9: The lie.

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Speaker 2: The way that they describe it is Walls made an

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Speaker 2: Governor Tim Walls was in Texas on Thursday. I have

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Speaker 2: no idea why he's down in Texas. Anybody knows why

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, has he looked at our rankings? I

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Speaker 2: So we could just spend the next hour just tearing

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Speaker 2: that aspect of this whole story apart. In that meeting, however,

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Speaker 4: We'll get well, we'll get back to that in a moment.

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Speaker 2: Free school meals sets up students for success, of course,

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Speaker 2: it's one of the few things that he knows he

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Speaker 2: can tout. And universal pre kindergarten education gives students a

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Speaker 2: k On top of that, this is the Minnesota Reformer,

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Speaker 2: which is a very I mean, you know, an unabashed

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Speaker 4: I like to go to them because it's good to

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Speaker 2: On top of that day right, childcare in Minnesota is

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Speaker 4: Oh those poor people. Walls was asked.

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota education system is superior to other states. We

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Speaker 2: We made sure that students were secure in their persons,

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Speaker 2: we have universal pre K for everyone, so students come

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Speaker 2: ready to do what they need to do. This wasn't

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Speaker 2: even like a slip of the tongue wherein he's touting this,

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Speaker 4: Have we have universal pre K or is this just.

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Speaker 2: Another circumstance where he's just straight up lined everybody.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, I think by his own admission, he's

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Speaker 7: But he's a public figure now, a national public figure.

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Speaker 7: Now he's not going to get away with it. And

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Speaker 7: good on the Reformer for actually, you know, doing journalism,

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Speaker 7: and they're really good at that.

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Speaker 6: That's the thing, because the other stats that he's chosen

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Speaker 6: But instead he turns around, he says, oh, well, you know,

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Speaker 6: we have free school lunches, which sets them up for

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Speaker 6: So he has these they're not quite mistruths, but they're

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Speaker 8: To cover up the reality of what's happening in Minnesota.

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Speaker 6: But then you're right, he turns around and for some

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Speaker 6: reason decides to just throw in a blatant, a blatant

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Speaker 2: Friend my best friend growing up, And I'm ninety percent

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Speaker 2: sure he doesn't listen to me. Now, if he does,

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Speaker 2: my apologies, But everything I'm about to say is true.

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Speaker 2: But my best friend growing up, he was a liar

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Speaker 2: and there was no getting around it.

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Speaker 4: He was just a liar.

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Speaker 2: But what was really interesting about it was it was

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Speaker 2: he said that was a lie that had any large,

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Speaker 4: And it reminds me of Walls.

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to provide excuses here, but in the

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Speaker 2: it's much different because he's the governor of a state

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Speaker 2: that he shouldn't be saying these things, and these are

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Speaker 2: policy items. But at the end of the day, kind

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Speaker 4: That thing with my fingers harmless.

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Speaker 2: But I often wonder if that's what he just deals with,

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Speaker 2: and that could be the reason why he did this

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Speaker 7: Well, and as I said earlier, it's baffling because these

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Speaker 7: These are things where you can look them up in

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Speaker 7: a book. You got the everyone's got a pocket robot,

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Speaker 7: and time after time after time he gets busted on this.

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Speaker 7: because this is something that whether you like him as

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Speaker 7: where if you want to have faith and trust in

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Speaker 7: quite often that's just not the case.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that speaks to the larger issue right now

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's thinking that deep on this.

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Speaker 2: Let me go to the talkback though, because they raise

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Speaker 2: a point and this is actually answered in this article

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Speaker 6: Are you sure we don't have universal pre K I

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Speaker 4: So here's what we're going to do.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually going to address that because surprisingly, and this

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Speaker 2: going through what she was going through. We'll give you

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Speaker 2: all the details coming up with our in studio guests

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Speaker 2: on Freedom Friday here on Twisted his news talk AM

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Speaker 2: eleven thirty and one three five FM.

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Speaker 9: Good morning, and I love your show, John.

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Speaker 4: You got it right.

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Speaker 5: There are some people that are incapable of differentiating from

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Speaker 5: the cup from the false.

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Speaker 1: Their narrative is the reality for them, and that's why

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Speaker 1: they're always preaching this subjective.

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Speaker 4: I love me some Louke who's always got my backup.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, John, great shows.

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Speaker 10: Always expect your discussion with your guests about Tim Wall.

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Speaker 4: She used the word bathing. What's fampling to me is

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Speaker 4: how anyone could vote for this line of food. Have

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Speaker 4: a great day, Games, and.

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Speaker 3: That's why I like Brian McDaniels.

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Speaker 9: There you go.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea what she's referring to, but a

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Speaker 2: nice little, nice little shout out to Brian McDaniel.

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Speaker 4: It's get a little terry eyde over here.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Mom.

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Speaker 5: Tim Wall shows all the signs of being pathological liar.

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Speaker 5: He lies compulsively and so easily. I think he doesn't

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Speaker 5: even realize he's done it till after the fact, and

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Speaker 5: then he has to go and either try to defend

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Speaker 5: it or tell more lies to try to cover those lies.

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Speaker 5: And then of course you start forgetting what's the truth.

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Speaker 2: But he doesn't, you know, he only goes and calls

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Speaker 2: it out when he gets called out on it. He's

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Speaker 2: never there's never any there's never any self reflection where

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Speaker 2: Walls is correcting himself before somebody else goes in and

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Speaker 2: does it. To the previous talkback that we had regarding

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Speaker 2: whether or not we have universal pre k here and

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Speaker 2: minute Nesota, it is Twin City's News talk from the

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Speaker 2: sixty five to one carpet Next Day Install Studios.

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Speaker 4: As a talk backer mentioned, we.

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Speaker 2: Have Brian McDaniel and studio with us this morning, along

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Speaker 2: with Catherine and Grace from Center of the American Experiment.

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Speaker 2: And I was surprised that Governor Tim Wall's making this

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Speaker 2: comment at this Texas Tribune festival, wherein they decided to

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Speaker 2: have our governor go and talk to a Texas to

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Speaker 2: audience group of educators on how to improve their education.

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Speaker 2: It makes no sense, but he said that we have

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Speaker 2: universal pre K here in Minnesota, and we don't. The

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Speaker 2: article goes on to say Minnesota lawmakers in recent years

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Speaker 2: have taken steps to open up more free voluntary pre

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Speaker 2: kindergarten seats, but it's far from enough to cover all

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Speaker 2: the pre K students. The legislature last year agreed to

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Speaker 2: fund another fifty two hundred seats by fiscal year twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six in the state's voluntary PreK program that provides

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Speaker 2: free school for four year olds. Minnesota will soon have

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Speaker 2: a total of twelve three hundred and six slots available statewide.

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Speaker 2: This is where it takes another turn, though, and I

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Speaker 2: was really surprised by this. Wallstuted Minnesota's better achievement, but

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Speaker 2: academic outcomes for Minnesota students have been stag as stagnated

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Speaker 2: since the pandemic in both reading in math. The Reformer

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Speaker 2: analysis of test scores from twenty nineteen to twenty five

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Speaker 2: found that less than one in eight school districts have

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Speaker 2: returned to the pre pandemic proficiency rates. He says Waltz

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Speaker 2: is right about high school graduation, just over eighty percent

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Speaker 2: of Minnesota' high school seniors graduated. But then they actually

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Speaker 2: go and talk about how what we've talked about, and

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Speaker 2: that is the lack of proficiency in reading and in

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Speaker 2: reading in math.

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Speaker 8: They always bring up the pandemic too, And if you

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Speaker 8: go and you look at the numbers, the chart of

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Speaker 8: student how they're doing, student proficiency and reading in math

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Speaker 8: is just down from before the pandemic. It just keeps

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Speaker 8: going down. And then you hear this graduation rate thing

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Speaker 8: all the time, which is not even necessarily a good

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Speaker 8: thing if you're graduating people from high school sending them

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Speaker 8: to college, which is what they want to get into

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Speaker 8: a lot of debt and not be prepared. And then ultimately,

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Speaker 8: how do those kids do? I don't know that they're

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Speaker 8: doing better.

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Speaker 4: Is there any possibility?

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Speaker 2: I'm just going to back up from this article a

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Speaker 2: little bit, because again I was somewhat surprised that the

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Speaker 2: Minnesota Reformer, you know, even pushed back the way that

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Speaker 2: they did it all and clarifying what Walls is saying.

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Speaker 2: I think we all agree that the Walls is vulnerable

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Speaker 2: in this historic third run for governor. But do you

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Speaker 2: think there's any chance that there might be a Democrat

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Speaker 2: that would step up to challenge him. I mean, how

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Speaker 2: vulnerable would he need to look beyond where he is

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Speaker 2: now for another Democrat to step in and to give

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Speaker 2: him a bit of a primary run.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really don't see that.

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Speaker 7: I think there need to be some scandal or some

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Speaker 7: health you know issue allah Biden that would that would

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Speaker 7: make somebody do that. I think that there is, you know,

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Speaker 7: a real lack of enthusiasm. I'm with Democrats about Tim

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Speaker 7: Walls running for a third term, but not to the

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Speaker 7: point where somebody of any substance or a real challenge, would.

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Speaker 4: Would you step up.

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Speaker 8: The Minnesota Democratic Party is also in a position where

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Speaker 8: they're having to host listening sessions because people are so

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Speaker 8: dismayed with how things are going. Where a bunch of

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Speaker 8: people last night stood up and complained about the Minnesota

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Speaker 8: Democratic Party. So I don't think they're as organized and

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Speaker 8: put together as we often see.

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Speaker 4: Them coming from the right.

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Speaker 2: Well, and this underscore is what the GOP needs to

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Speaker 2: do and make sure that you know, we get our

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Speaker 2: ducks in a row.

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Speaker 4: We don't eat our own.

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Speaker 2: We were talking off the air a moment ago just

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Speaker 2: about the governor candidates and how there really isn't anybody

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Speaker 2: that is setting the world on fire. I think that's

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Speaker 2: partly because everybody sees how vulnerable Walls is and there's

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Speaker 2: an expectation that it should be potentially a slam dunk

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Speaker 2: win against him, and so therefore there is a high

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Speaker 2: expect on all of the Republican candidates that have thrown

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Speaker 2: their name out there, wherein people are going, well, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if that's the person to do it, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the person to do it,

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Speaker 2: And I almost feel as if it's kind of an

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Speaker 2: unfair assessment because there's a lot of really good candidates

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Speaker 2: candidates running. I feel it's more about Walls and the

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Speaker 2: lack of enthusiasm than it is the candidates themselves.

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Speaker 4: But I could be but I could be wrong.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I feel, I personally feel looking ahead to twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty six, that Conservatives need.

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Speaker 4: To just get behind one person.

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Speaker 6: I really like the field of contenders that we have,

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Speaker 6: and what the left does better than us is unity

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Speaker 6: and you know, getting their marching orders and getting everyone

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Speaker 6: on the same team, and that's what conservatives struggle with.

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Speaker 6: You know, ideologically, it makes sense, but if we want

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Speaker 6: to defeat Walls. We can't go into this thinking that

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Speaker 6: it's going to be a slam dunk, that he's so ulnerable, vulnerable,

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Speaker 6: that we can pick anyone and they will be fine.

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Speaker 7: Well, and here's the thing you need to find. We

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Speaker 7: need to find the candidate that is going to put

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Speaker 7: together the best state even if they fall short. If

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Speaker 7: you have the wrong person at the top of the ticket,

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Speaker 7: that affects everything down the line. And you know, you

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Speaker 7: might not care who the governor is. I'm sure if

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Speaker 7: you're listening to the show, you care very much. But

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Speaker 7: it goes all the way down to state representative. We

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Speaker 7: have a tie in the Missilda House. We have a

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Speaker 7: one vote Democrat majority in the Senate. Who we put

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Speaker 7: up for governor will matter a ton, not just for

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Speaker 7: governor for you know, attorney General, Secretary of State, things

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Speaker 7: like that, but the legislature itself. And if you don't

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Speaker 7: want another DFL trifecta, then you need to get behind

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Speaker 7: the most electable Republican for governor. We have a couple

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Speaker 7: that can do it.

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Speaker 3: But don't don't you know whether it'say get rid of

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Speaker 3: the good for the perfect, don't do that.

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Speaker 8: You're pretty optimistic John, I try to be It's Friday,

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Speaker 8: that's true. I'm not sure if I'm there with you,

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Speaker 8: but I like the attitude.

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Speaker 2: Oh good, well, thank you. I'm glad you're here. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate it. And you know what, it smells lovely in

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Speaker 2: studio right now.

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Speaker 3: I is a heterosexual male like the smell of women.

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Speaker 2: This is only because it actually really does. Because Sam,

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Speaker 2: I don't mind saying he needed some lotion, and both

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Speaker 2: of the ladies in studio were kind enough to oblige.

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Speaker 8: We pulled out three options. Actually we had a whole

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Speaker 8: selection prepared for him.

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Speaker 2: That was such a stereotypical thing that happened to off

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Speaker 2: the air that just made me laugh because Sam had

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Speaker 2: asked me, It's like, do you have any lotion in studio?

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Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, I have, honey, I have cleaning products.

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Speaker 4: Why is that comparable?

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Speaker 8: Why why don't have it?

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Speaker 4: I don't know what his ration that was.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he just had something that needed to be slathered

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Speaker 2: and you can slatter, honey, God, but I immediately defaulted

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Speaker 2: to Grace and Catherine were like, hold.

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Speaker 4: On a second. I have multiple times uncented the best

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Speaker 4: person I walked in the studio. They were like presented

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Speaker 4: in front of me like a like a in a row.

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Speaker 8: Here's the thing I carry around this person. It's like

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Speaker 8: ten pounds, okay, and it's got so much crap in it.

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Speaker 8: So whenever it comes in handy, I've got like a

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Speaker 8: dudad someone needs.

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Speaker 4: I am pumped, I got it. I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 8: I'm lugging it on for a reason. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry if you were offended Brian that I didn't

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Speaker 2: ask you if you had any elotionan, But that was

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Speaker 2: that was a guess on my part, and I figured

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Speaker 2: that I was probably pretty right in my assessment.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes I'd just like to smell pretty.

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Speaker 11: Just using his freedom Friday to ask a question a

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Speaker 11: long time listener here, whatever happened to Don from Burnsville?

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Speaker 11: Just I know he was up in age and just

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Speaker 11: if anybody knows love an update, I haven't heard his

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Speaker 11: voice for a long time. Talk to you guys later.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am.

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Speaker 2: I don't have any confirmation of this whatsoever, but I

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Speaker 2: know the last time that we talked to Don he

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Speaker 2: was in his nineties. I'm fairly certain he's probably passed

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Speaker 2: and passed away. That's my guess, but I haven't heard

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Speaker 2: from Don from Burnsville. He threatened to no longer listen

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Speaker 2: any longer when Sam had left producing the show, but

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Speaker 2: then he still was. And I remember shortly after Drew

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Speaker 2: had passed away, he had reached out a couple times,

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Speaker 2: and then I didn't hear from him ever again. He

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Speaker 2: may just not be listening anymore, but my guess is

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Speaker 2: he's probably passed away. Brian McDaniel goes back with Don.

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Speaker 1: I do was.

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Speaker 3: It triggered me a little bit hearing his name.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go here. Bonnie Scott story from the

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Speaker 4: Minnesota Star Tribune. I've been saving this all week for

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Speaker 4: you guys.

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Speaker 2: When Bonnie Scott started planning the yard of her new

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Speaker 2: home in the church Hill Farms subdivision off of County

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Speaker 2: Road twenty fourth in Plymouth, any familiarity anybody with that

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Speaker 2: area and oh yeah, yeah, okay. She thought it might

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Speaker 2: one day become a neighborhood gathering place for people and

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Speaker 2: animals alike.

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 4: She wanted to attract lightning, bugs, frogs, and wood ducks.

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Speaker 2: She hired a company to install a meadow of low

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Speaker 2: growing grasses in the front and tall swaying Prairie natives

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Speaker 2: in the back. Three years after she bought the house,

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Speaker 2: the property has become the focal point in the neighborhood,

665
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: but not the way the Scott wanted. Driven over the yard,

666
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: They've mowed it without her permission. Scott enlisted police and

667
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: a private detective to find the offenders, and now some

668
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: neighbors stay away from her property. Okay, so what I

669
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: want to do here, We're going to work through this story.

670
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 2: Oh it gets better if you have any horror stories

671
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 2: that you want to share, whether it is your neighbor,

672
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: whether it is your hoa, because that's where this battle ensues.

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Speaker 2: Leave us your talkback comments on the iHeartRadio app as

674
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 2: we work through this story. Now, thankfully I have not

675
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 2: had any personal issues in the place that we currently reside.

676
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 2: I will say there is a couple of blocks over

677
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 2: there is a house that I've never seen so much

678
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: junk piled grills, washing machines, dryers, lawn chairs, like fifteen

679
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 2: different large trash cans that you would get from the city.

680
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: But thankfully it wasn't mine. It wasn't my block.

681
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Speaker 8: And you'll have to re up your avoid curse words

682
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 8: because I can't imagine anything that gets people more fired

683
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 8: up than HOA issue.

684
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 4: Thank you for that suggestion. People have gotten a bottymouth.

685
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 4: That's it's laid on the talkbacks. I don't know what

686
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 4: that's about. Last month, the conflict escalated.

687
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 2: Bonnie Scott sued at Churchill Farms and their Homeowners Association,

688
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 2: asking a court to rule that the fines it levied

689
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: against her are unenforceable because of state law. Scott's argument

690
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: could test the limits of that law, which says the

691
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: cities and towns can't restrict native landscaping, but says nothing

692
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: about hoa's Nobody wins in a lawsuit, she said, but

693
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: at this point that law needs to be better. So

694
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: Churchill Farms HOA answered in court, writing that Scott maintained

695
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: her yard in an unsightly manner to create a condition

696
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 2: which is indecent and offensive to the senses.

697
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 4: Oh mynd what did it smell?

698
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 2: Scott has been fined two hundred and fifty dollars by

699
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Speaker 2: the HOA as of that filing, which actually is rather

700
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 2: small considering right, which asks the court to foreclose on

701
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Speaker 2: her own if necessary, to pay those fees and HOA

702
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: legal costs I've always wanted to resolve this from the beginning,

703
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 2: but we still want to resolve this amicably, and said

704
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 2: the president of the of the HOA. I cannot relate

705
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 2: to the mindset of an individual who wants to take

706
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: on that fight over there over there over their yard.

707
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Speaker 4: Like but again, that's just that's just me. I'm I

708
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:29,959
Speaker 4: would want to clean yard.

709
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 2: But if I wanted to do that and somebody was

710
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 2: against it in the neighborhood and looking at it, I'd

711
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 2: be like, Okay, fine, I guess I'll move on with

712
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 2: with life.

713
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 3: Well, and you know, the.

714
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Speaker 7: Hoas are out of control in Minnesota. This is something

715
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 7: where where at the legislature they are trying to figure

716
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 7: out what are some ways that they can kind of

717
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 7: rein back some of the some of the power that

718
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 7: the hoays have. But you know, there are just people

719
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 7: in this world who don't feel like they're in control

720
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 7: of their own lives, which means that they need to

721
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 7: then try to control other people's lives. I mean, I

722
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 7: don't know exactly what this, you know, pollinator friendly front

723
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 7: yard looked like we're going to get into it, but

724
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 7: I don't know, if you know, they got bears walking around.

725
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 7: I don't know, but but something tells me that there's

726
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 7: there is a way to get to yes on this.

727
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 7: It's just people are are are not willing to work together.

728
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 3: Does not prairie grass need to burn about once every

729
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 3: three to four years?

730
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Speaker 2: I have no way, I have no anybody an expert

731
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 2: on prairie grass, Sam, Nope, nobody, I have no I

732
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 2: have no idea.

733
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Speaker 4: It is a freedom Friday. That's why I wanted to

734
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Speaker 4: share your comment.

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Speaker 2: So Churchhill Farms just give you a background to this

736
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: community and three houses, tightly trimmed yards, three car garages.

737
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 4: Pond rings with native plants.

738
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Speaker 2: On a recent fall morning, a red winged blackbird was

739
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 2: making a racket next to Scott's screened back porch.

740
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 4: Sounds like a very idyllic, look at that chinks by me,

741
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 4: a cook.

742
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: Also in the background was the symphony of gas powered

743
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: leaf blowers gathering the fallen autumn splendor from her neighbor's lush,

744
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: green lawns. Scott, sixty three, was a marketer for a

745
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: medical technology company before she retired and moved to Mine,

746
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 2: Oh moved to Minnesota from Seattle.

747
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 4: Is anybody here shocked.

748
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: By this.

749
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 4: Puzzle pieces coming together who just hired the other? Was

750
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 4: it Seattle?

751
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, Seattle just ended up electing their socialist mayor two.

752
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 3: Yeah.

753
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, they had had a really wackadoodal council and then

754
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 7: they pulled it back, and now they're kind.

755
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 4: Of going back.

756
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

757
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 4: Now they're going the Mom Donnie way.

758
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 12: Oh my gosh, native landscapes, doing that thing with my fingers.

759
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 12: I live in South Minneapolis and we have doing that

760
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 12: thing with my fingers. Beautiful boulevards which basically are just

761
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 12: junk piles of weeds in their yards as well, just

762
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Speaker 12: so they don't have to mow, and they have little

763
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Speaker 12: signs that say, excuse the weeds while we feed the bees.

764
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Speaker 4: It looks horrendous.

765
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Speaker 2: They had that at the park over by the Blaine

766
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 2: Baseball Complex. When I would go through Mountain biking there,

767
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 2: there would be these huge swaths where they.

768
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 4: Wouldn't go and mow, and they'd have the little signs

769
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Speaker 4: we're doing this for the.

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Speaker 2: Bees, which was actually discovered to be bogus. There was

771
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 2: a study that came out that said that hole growing

772
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 2: the lawn and not cutting it for the bees was

773
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 2: all was all ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: Yes, and an excellent throwback to one of our Golden

775
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 6: Turkey nominees from a year past, when the State of Minnesota,

776
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 6: maybe I think it was the State of Minnesota.

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Speaker 8: Think so, some Minnesota government entity was paying people to

778
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 8: not mow their lawns.

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00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 4: Yep, for the bees. The bees are fine.

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00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 8: You might as well put a sign out that says,

781
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 8: I'm just lazy.

782
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 2: When she bought her home in Plymouth in twenty twenty two,

783
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 2: she immediately wanted to convert the lot into native landscaping

784
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: that would require little maintenance.

785
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 4: Maybe she just didn't want to mow. I'm seeing an

786
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 4: incentive to get a rock lawn. Go that route a

787
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 4: rock lawn.

788
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 8: Okay, this is in Phoenix.

789
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Rock longs are president are prevalent in

790
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 4: the Southwest.

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00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 2: My favorite was when there was this trend going on

792
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 2: of rock lawns and people decided to paint them green. Okay,

793
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 2: they weren't full of anybuddy, but people were actually going

794
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: and doing that.

795
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 3: Yeah.

796
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 2: The only thing that was great about rock lawns when

797
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 2: I was living in the Southwest was when you got

798
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 2: the weeds that popped up. If you waited just long enough,

799
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 2: you could take them out with a blowtorch.

800
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:20,959
Speaker 4: That was fun.

801
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just burn them, just burn him on the

802
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: rock line. Not the factly the most safest thing. You

803
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 2: gotta have a bucket of water nearbyrah ose.

804
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 3: But why did you ever leave?

805
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 2: That's a good question in court documents, Churchill Farms HOA said.

806
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 2: The August of that year, the board member met with

807
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 2: Scott at a neighborhood event urged her to submit her

808
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: plans to an architectural review committee for her lawn. It

809
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: was the first of several such requests, but Scott refused

810
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 2: because she wasn't making any architectural changes.

811
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 4: Okay, I could.

812
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 2: I can see that that makes that makes a lot

813
00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 2: of sense. Getting further into the story. They declined to

814
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 2: talk in detail, that would be the HOA president about

815
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: the lawsuit, but describe Churchill Farms HOA in general as

816
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 2: light touch. We're not the bad hoas ones that are

817
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: in like high density condominiums where they really need to

818
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: control how everything looks and feels. You know, if you

819
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 2: have to say you're not one of the bad hoa's,

820
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 2: I'm going to venture I guess that you probably are

821
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 2: not like the other hoas.

822
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 4: It's kind of what it sounds like, right, Good.

823
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 10: Morning, saw this person, this lady that had her yard redesigned,

824
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 10: and then the vandals and people mowing, and her hiring

825
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 10: a private detective and a security company, and now she's

826
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 10: suing for this and suing for that. It just reminds

827
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 10: me of somebody with a boltload of money that doesn't

828
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 10: know what to do with their wife and they need

829
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 10: to self justify their existence. My opinion, have a great weekend.

830
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 4: I want to go down the road of that mentality.

831
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 2: However, when you consider like what we talk about on

832
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 2: a daily basis and the things that people will dig

833
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 2: their heels in over like, it really shouldn't come as

834
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,879
Speaker 2: a as a as a big surprise that a woman

835
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: like this who wanted to have this vegetation would be

836
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 2: absolutely willing to fight tooth and nail to keep her

837
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: native lawn landscape, even if it means spending you know,

838
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 2: tons of money to go and do so.

839
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 4: Like, on the one hand, you go, why would you

840
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 4: ever do that? Irrational person wouldn't. But people dig their

841
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 4: heels and over issues like this all the time.

842
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 8: An irrational person wouldn't probably make their yard into a

843
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 8: prairie in the first place. So there's also that I

844
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 8: mean in defense of the HOA. I wish my HOA

845
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 8: was a little bit stricter. Honestly, there's some things going

846
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 8: I have a beautiful neighborhood.

847
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 4: But people are putting out these blinking lights these days.

848
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 2: Do you have any of these.

849
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 8: Where you're looking out your window and someone's blinking, Like

850
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 8: the Christmas lights aren't just you know sagne it got

851
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 8: like or for Halloween. You know, they're all different colors.

852
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 8: I don't want I want uniformity, none of the blinking lights.

853
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 8: So maybe I'm on the side of the bat ajoe.

854
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 4: So this was if this woman was living next to you,

855
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 4: I would go insane. You would mow the lawn, so

856
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 4: I would go out.

857
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 2: We have a lot of talkbacks that are rolling in.

858
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: We're going to get to your thoughts coming up. More

859
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 2: details on this story as well.

860
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 4: Also in the.

861
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Speaker 2: Stack, spandex clad activists versus Ice or workout in Wokeness.

862
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: Apparently things have gotten so interesting in Portland in their

863
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 2: continued battle against the ice facility there, they've taken to zoomba.

864
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Speaker 4: Routines in front of the ice facilities. So we'll get

865
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 4: into that. More of your thoughts as well. Talk back

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Speaker 4: of the day on the way.

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Speaker 2: With our guests this morning, we have Grace and Catherine

868
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Speaker 2: in from the American Experiment podcast, Brian McDaniel as well,

869
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: and your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app Coming up on

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Speaker 4: Oh those more people