1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Hey, look, Tim Walls is on Fox News. 2 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 2: We were talking about him earlier in the show, spreading 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: another lae. He's talking with a group of educators in Texas, 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 2: apparently telling them how Texas can improve their education on 5 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: Thursday this week. 6 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: I don't know how that happens, but he. 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: Said that we had universal pre k here in Minnesota 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: and we don't. Actually got called out by the Minnesota Reformer, 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: which is far from a right wing publication, actually goes 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 2: the other way. Our three here on Twinsday's news Talk 11 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 2: Am eleven thirty one oh three five FM. We're going 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: to return to the story in just a moment, one 13 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 2: woman's lawn fight against an HOA. There's a talkback very 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: upset with the show. The lawsuit blooms in Plymouth as 15 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 2: a homeowner battles HOA over her naturally planted yard. So 16 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: we'll get to more of this fight, including why she 17 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: had to file up police report and install ring cameras. 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second. In studio though, 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: welcome back our guests. We have Catherine Johnson and Grace 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: Keating from the American Experiment podcast out every Tuesday. Thank 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: you both for coming in this morning. 22 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 3: Thanks for having us John, another great show this week, 23 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 3: by the way, thank you very much. 24 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 4: Everyone, go listen. 25 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 5: Check us out on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts. 26 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 2: I've had many people that have been sharing my and 27 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: sharing me back at me because you guys had the 28 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: clips up from the show, and I was very pleased 29 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: to see that you isolated some of my clips and 30 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 2: made them a lot more succinct with clever editing, because 31 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 2: I tend to extrapolate and it takes a long time 32 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: to get to my point. 33 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 6: I love how they do that. 34 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 4: You'll hear me just stop mid sentence and it's like, wow, 35 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 4: it was so much better that way, if I had. 36 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: That sort of control that the Clipper had. John. 37 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 7: Was that a backhanded shot at me, by the way, No. 38 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: No, no, not at all. It was as a crack at me. Actually. 39 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: When you host a radio show, though, as Brian McDaniel 40 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: from the Wrong About Everything podcast can a test, you know, 41 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: you have to learn the art of filling time sometimes, 42 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 2: and so you know you have to tend to be 43 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 2: word you have to tend to be wordy. 44 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,559 Speaker 5: I'm loquacious. That's a good, good word. 45 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: Probably the first time, well first time it's ever been 46 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: uttered on this show. 47 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 5: Oh I know all the words. 48 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 2: Brian McDaniel joins us in a studio again, hosted the 49 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 2: Wrong About Everything podcast, attorney, political pundit and stand up comedian, 50 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 2: of which you can go and see you perform at 51 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 2: the Strike Theater. 52 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: You have a benefit going on for this, right, Yeah. 53 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 5: So the Strike Theater it's you know, part of the 54 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 5: give Give to the Max event. It's the night of 55 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 5: what's it called the Night of twenty five thousand laughs, 56 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 5: on November twentieth. It's something that's going to go all day. 57 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 5: I have the coveted two in the afternoon slot. Yeah, 58 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 5: so you can tell that they're pretty excited to have 59 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 5: me there. 60 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: It should be a Rockets corct. It should be a 61 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: Rockets crowd. 62 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 5: So two in the afternoon, you're an angry loaner or unemployed, 63 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 5: you know, just us swing by two pm. Strike Theater. 64 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 1: We were, uh so it was earlier this week. Hummeline 65 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: is gonna kill me. I'm gonna tell the story. 66 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 2: Anyways, So we were we were watching trailers on YouTube 67 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 2: and you know how they show movies, you know, movies 68 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 2: with ads on YouTube, They just pop up. I don't 69 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 2: have the subscription, just the regular you know YouTube account, 70 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 2: and Eddie Murphy's Raw came up. Okay, you brought neither 71 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 2: of you have probably seen Eddie Murphy's Row, right, Sam, 72 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: Eddie Murphy's Row abs. Okay, So I remember this as 73 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: a kid. I have not seen Eddie Murphy's Raw in decades, 74 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,519 Speaker 2: and I remember as a kid in eighty seven, I 75 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: shouldn't have, but I did went to the theater to 76 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: go see Eddie Murphy's Raw. 77 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: So we put it on and started watching it. 78 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, talk about getting in a time capsule, 79 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 2: and I'm going there is if anybody, I don't care 80 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: who you are, had got up on stage and done 81 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 2: that routine, now, the outrage that would ensue would be 82 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. Like I remember it, But at the time, 83 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 2: it was just edgy comedy. Now, I mean, you want 84 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: to talk about just offensive by today's standards, and I 85 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 2: were just I think we were as wide eyed and 86 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 2: our jaws dropped open as we were chuckling at the 87 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: jokes as well. 88 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, so so Raw 89 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 5: was was kind of his second big event. The first 90 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 5: one was delirious, right, and you know, I've aways been 91 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 5: more of a delirious guy than the raw guy, but 92 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 5: in both of them, you you can't say those things, 93 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 5: and uh, you know it didn't even occur to us 94 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 5: that that was wrong. Then it's just edgy. But he's 95 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 5: using curse words through a modern lens. You only can't 96 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 5: say those things. But uh, hey, it's funny. It's funny, 97 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 5: and there's there are things in there that have nothing 98 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 5: to do with that, with the offensive stuff, that are 99 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 5: well worth your toe. Yeah, but you will be horrified 100 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 5: by some of it. 101 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: It is it. 102 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 2: It is a it is a curiosity in twenty twenty 103 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 2: five to go back and watch it now. 104 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's you're you're both absolutely right. I think my 105 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 7: favorite bid from I can't remember if it's raw or 106 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,919 Speaker 7: delirious when he talks about making the cheeseburgers at home 107 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 7: because get made on. 108 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 5: The houseburger, big old bloody hobsburger. 109 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,559 Speaker 7: That's that's one of my favorite comedy bits ever. 110 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: Chray and Catherine just completely You guys are familiar with 111 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:04,239 Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy. 112 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 6: I initially thought this was a movie. Is this a condo? 113 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 6: A stand up special? 114 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: Murphy is well, yeah, okay, yeah, so he started track. Yeah, 115 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: he started off well. 116 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 5: Technically true. 117 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Donkey, okay, okay. 118 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 5: Can we can we turn off two of the micsre 119 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 5: gonna be so. 120 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: Mad at that. 121 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 2: Neither of you ever go watch raw Do now. 122 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: No, No, you're really not. 123 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 2: You're really You're really really not, Because there were moments 124 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 2: where I was laughing out loud and I saw Melinda's 125 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 2: side Ivy She's like, really you think that's funny? Hum Like, yeah, 126 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: I'm this nostalgic humor. 127 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 5: I think it was delirious, not rob but my favorite 128 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 5: bit is, uh aunt bunny falling down the stairs. Oh yeah, 129 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 5: it was quite often. I'll just go my shoe. 130 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:56,839 Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to this h o A story. 131 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 2: So this woman moved from Portland to Churchill Arms here 132 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: in Minnesota, purchased her home in twenty twenty two, and 133 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 2: she wanted to essentially grow native vegetation in her front 134 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 2: to and backyard, which would mean very very tall native grass. 135 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 2: Wanted to attract lightning, bugs, frogs, and wood ducks. This 136 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 2: is a nice neighborhood, you know, some one hundred and 137 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 2: three houses, you know, tightly trimmed yards, three car garages, 138 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 2: your typical you know, Minnesota suburb division and of course 139 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,600 Speaker 2: her yard was inviting controversy because the neighbors didn't want 140 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 2: to go and look at it, and the HOA said 141 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 2: that she. 142 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: Was in violation. 143 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 2: In July of twenty twenty three, a complaint about the 144 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: yard was sent to the city of Plymouth, and at 145 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 2: the end of that month, someone drove across the front yard, 146 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 2: leaving tire tracks, So obviously things were escalating for her. 147 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: She had to file the police report. She installed ring cameras. 148 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: The following April, the HOA invited her to come to 149 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 2: a meeting to talk about her project. 150 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: She didn't show up. 151 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 2: She did send information on the state's Natural Landscapes law 152 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 2: and why it was beneficial to plant native plants. 153 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: So she was going all in on this whole thing. 154 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 6: But you're in an ho way, Like you bought a. 155 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 8: House in not every house comes with an ho way. 156 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 8: You could have bought it somewhere else, because a frankly 157 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 8: part of me, the conservative libertarian to me, is like, 158 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 8: this is my property. 159 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 6: I bought this house. I want to have an unmowed lawn. 160 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 8: I'm gonna but that you're in an ho way that 161 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 8: doesn't apply here. 162 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got rules you had to follow, although this 163 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 2: talkback here from Joe is very upset with all of us. 164 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 9: Here we are on a Freedom Friday and the John 165 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 9: Justice Show, and all of his guests are rallying against 166 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 9: somebody who wants the freedom to grow whatever kind of 167 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 9: grass they want in their yard, their freedom to landscape 168 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 9: their yard. All they want, their freedom to have land rights, 169 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 9: property rights, their freedom you need to live the way 170 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 9: they want to live. 171 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: Justine shows against that. Brian McDaniel, I can tell, is 172 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: eager to go and respond. 173 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 5: Excuse me, sir, but I would like the record to 174 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 5: clearly reflect that I am against hoas in all forms, 175 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 5: and I would like a public retraction of your scandalous barb. 176 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, we're having a conversation about it, and I'm 177 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 2: with Grace on this. You know, you purchased this home 178 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: knowing that you had an HOA. You have to understand 179 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: that because you did that, you made that choice. You're 180 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 2: going to have to abide by their rules. Now with 181 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 2: this woman and what she is attempting to do with 182 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 2: her lawn is not against the HOA rules. Right, you 183 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 2: have a different situation and this is what she's been 184 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: dealing with. I want to mention just briefly, because this 185 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 2: whole story reminded me of this. On Apple Plus, for 186 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 2: those that have the service, there is a fascinating story 187 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 2: that not is unlike this one. It's a documentary about 188 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 2: a guy who moved into a neighborhood that I had 189 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 2: at HOA and he wanted to have these yearly fundraising 190 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: drives at Christmas where they would he would invite thousands 191 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 2: upon thousands of people from neighboring cities to come and 192 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 2: look at the light display that he had in his house. 193 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: And something very similar happened here. 194 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: He came in. He was a lawyer, no offense, Brian. 195 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 2: He went through and looked at all of the rules 196 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 2: and says, well, I don't see any rules in violation 197 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 2: that I would be in violation of and decided to 198 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 2: move forward with doing this without even bothering with the 199 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,839 Speaker 2: HOA and then turned into this massive fight that ended 200 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 2: up going all the way to the Supreme Court. 201 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: That's how big this fight ended up getting. 202 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 2: So again to the talkbacker's point, no, we're just breaking 203 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: it to all down. But if you want to think 204 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 2: that we're against freedom, then go right ahead. 205 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 4: Well I do think that you should be able to 206 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 4: buy a house in an Hoa area or a not 207 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 4: Hoa area. And I think, as Brian said, the Hoas 208 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 4: have totally taken over and now when I was just 209 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 4: looking for house recently, the vast majority of them have Hoas. 210 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 6: I am a person who wants to live in an. 211 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 4: Hoa that's got a dictator sort of running, you know, 212 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 4: Like I think people are doing way too much crazy stuff, 213 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 4: like I want a dictator Hoa person, but most people 214 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 4: probably don't want that. 215 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 2: I think of the five of us right now on 216 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: the show, if any of us were dropped in North Korea, 217 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 2: I think you do the best thing I. 218 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 5: Was gonna say, does Chris Lindall have a fascism box 219 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 5: that you could you could check on? 220 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 2: All Right with that, let's take a quick break. We'll 221 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 2: get back to more of your talkbacks coming up here. 222 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 2: Your talk back of the day brought to you by 223 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 2: Mini Leaf on the Way as well here on Twin 224 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 2: City's News Talking. I'm eleven thirty one three five FM. 225 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 10: Hey guys, I live out in the middle of nowhere. 226 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 10: My yard is full of thousands of wildflowers, wild plants, landscaping. 227 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: Uh. 228 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 10: We have birds everywhere, wildlife and it is a lot 229 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 10: of work to keep it from looking like I am 230 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 10: a shut in horder. I'm gonna guess that this woman, 231 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 10: like many people I have met, is actually just super 232 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 10: duper lazy, and this is the excuse for why she 233 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 10: doesn't want to do any yard work. 234 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: Oh man, it's been a while since I've made the show. 235 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 2: Outside of the show comparison Twin City's News Talk from 236 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios. 237 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: John Justice Sam is in the master control. 238 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 2: Booth, and we've got Brian McDaniel, Catherine and Grace in 239 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 2: there from American Experiment. Brian's just here from himself Wrong 240 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 2: about Everything podcast host and a longtime friend of the 241 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 2: of the show. But yeah, we went all over the place. 242 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 2: During the commercial break, we were talking ghosts, yeah, water. 243 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,439 Speaker 4: Aliens, indigenous ocean aliens. 244 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 2: Indigenous ocean aliens, to which everybody seems, well, Brian. 245 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: You didn't you know what I'm talking about? 246 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 5: Oh well, and I think that that's what the hoa 247 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 5: lady was trying to lure into her in her native grass. 248 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: Brian McDaniel knows what's going on. 249 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 5: We see, I see, thanks, look to pick the scales 250 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 5: off your eyes people. 251 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I want my age. 252 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 6: I hate defending me from the ocean aliens. 253 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 2: That's why sure, this too is why I like Brian McDaniel, 254 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 2: because he knows the art of a good segue. I 255 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 2: could also predict when I was about to completely go 256 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 2: off the rails. 257 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 7: He's just going to say thank you for the podcast title, 258 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 7: by the way. 259 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 2: So let's I want to get back to some more comments. 260 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 2: Here a few of the comments, and then get onto 261 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 2: a few other items. In the remaining time we have 262 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 2: with the show. We've been working through this lengthy story 263 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 2: from the Minnesota Star Tribune. I do want to add 264 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 2: that as this woman battles her hoa at Churchill Farms 265 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 2: in Plymouth over her naturally planted yard, uh, there is 266 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 2: no resolution at this point in time. She is still 267 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 2: battling and now it's coming down to a state law. 268 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 2: So there was an instance where at some point in 269 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: July of last year, somebody had gone through and completely 270 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: mode her flatten her yard. So she actually went and 271 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 2: investigated track down the individual who did it, and it 272 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 2: was a neighbor who had already gone and mowed three 273 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 2: other yards that day. He was doing it as a favor, 274 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 2: he says. It says he was doing it as a favor, 275 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 2: but ohing. So she ended up suing him. After a 276 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 2: Court of conciliation hearing, she ended up being awarded four thousand, 277 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 2: seven hundred and twenty four dollars from that man for 278 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 2: the damage that he did to her neighbor petation yard. Yep, no, 279 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 2: So wrapping up the story. One of the reasons Scott 280 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 2: moved forward with her landscaping HOA and this goes back 281 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 2: to the HOA discussion we were having earlier. At the 282 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 2: time she bought the house, that HOA didn't have rules 283 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 2: barring plantings. 284 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 6: That changes everything. 285 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 2: The city of Plymouth limited how much of a yard 286 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 2: could be converted from turf grass, but the ordinance was 287 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 2: changed after the state outlawed those restrictions. 288 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty. 289 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 2: Three, a little less than a month after the mowing incident, 290 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 2: the HOA called the special meeting to discuss the landscaping rules. 291 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 2: Scott claims she never got notice of the gathering, and 292 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 2: her suit argues that the resulting rule was improperly passed, 293 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: so they tried to sort of after the fact to 294 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 2: go and pass another rule. Essentially, the HOA adopted Plymouth's 295 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 2: old rule that limited native plants to fifty percent of 296 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 2: the yard and required an eight foot buffers of turf 297 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 2: grass or mulch along the property edges. The HOA director 298 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: said that he described the rule as really friendly. 299 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: To native plants. 300 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 2: So at a meeting where the rule was passed, fifty 301 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 2: one people voted in favor, one against, and one abstained, 302 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 2: according to the HOA. Filence asked whether Scott came up 303 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 2: during the discussion at the meeting, and one of the 304 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 2: individuals said, yes, it was very personal because she made 305 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 2: it personal. She's not the victim here. This is the 306 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 2: rule Scott now wants to invalidate in her lawsuit. So 307 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 2: I guess that's an interesting question. I mean, if they 308 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 2: if the HOA then goes and changes the rules, I'm 309 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 2: assuming there must be something in the HOA guidelines that 310 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 2: states that they reserve the right to change the rules 311 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 2: of the HOA. 312 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 5: They probably can't do it. I would assume they can't 313 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 5: do it. You in the Latterally, there need to be 314 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 5: noticed requirements and whatnot, which you know they may or 315 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 5: may not have have followed. I think that she needs 316 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 5: to hire a lobbyist and go up and change the 317 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 5: rules up at the capital. 318 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 11: No. 319 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 4: No, this is why I like the hoa's local control. 320 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 4: This doesn't need to come from the state. You decide 321 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 4: in your little neighborhood what your rules are and then 322 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 4: let the state leave us alone. 323 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 6: This is what I'm lobbying for. 324 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 4: And I want to live in a neighborhood where everyone's 325 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 4: sane and has all of their lawns mode. 326 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 5: She just believes in municipal fascism. So that's fine, that's fine. 327 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:07,560 Speaker 1: There there's another title. Or drop your inside there. 328 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 5: Sam a good fantasy football team. 329 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 6: Now we're banned. 330 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 12: A woman who located from Seattle to Plymouth evokes the 331 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 12: same concerns I have about certain liberal voters. They often 332 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 12: support policies that negatively impact their own communities, only to 333 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 12: seek refuge in better managed areas while inadvertently bringing those 334 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 12: problematic ideas with them. I'd love to know why she relocated. 335 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 12: Could it be because Seattle has been run into the 336 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 12: ground and she's looking for a better community. 337 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 2: By the way, can I just give a quick, nicely 338 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 2: done to the talkback, because she obviously sat down and 339 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: crafted this exactly. 340 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. 341 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 2: No, and I'm glad that she did so one more 342 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: added point to this whole thing. So they say that 343 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 2: this rule that Scott now wants to invalidate with her 344 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 2: lawsuit right. But a sponsor of the state law supporting 345 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 2: native landscapes said that lawmakers purposefully left the hoas out 346 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 2: of the state law. Representative Rick Hanson dfl Out of 347 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 2: South Saint Paul said the bill was drafted after some 348 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 2: cities moved to bar pollinator gardens, which we were talking 349 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: about earlier. It took a few tries in prior sessions 350 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: to pass it before it finally stuck. Howays were left 351 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 2: out because I needed to pass the bill. I wanted 352 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 2: to have brought support of course, of course that's why 353 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 2: it was it was left out. 354 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 5: If you if you would have said, Brian, who do 355 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,479 Speaker 5: you think passed us? I would have said Rick Hanson. 356 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 2: He acknowledged the statue could be stronger, but he said 357 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 2: he was hesitant to reopen the discussion on it in 358 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 2: the future because there are people who want to repeal 359 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 2: it too. 360 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: Can't have that. 361 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 2: So As for Scott, she says that she's prepared to 362 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 2: wage a lengthy and expensive legal fight to clarify the 363 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 2: state law with the judges ruling so that others don't 364 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 2: have to battle the homeowner groups. The she just I'm 365 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: one of she's just independently wealthy, and she just has 366 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of money that she can 367 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 2: go and throw at this particular issue because it seems 368 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 2: like this is a lot to just have this native 369 00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 2: vegetation in your in your in your yard. 370 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 3: Part of me wants like, I'm so glad she's battling 371 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 3: it out because they have. 372 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 6: To decide this. 373 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 4: It's like HO wa versus state law and can the 374 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 4: HUA change. 375 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 6: It's like, I want to know, I want to be 376 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 6: a homeowner. It's a point like settle this. 377 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 2: But here's the thing on that though it's like I 378 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 2: agree with you, I agree with you in spirit of that, 379 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 2: but I still default to, oh, this is so completely 380 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 2: unnecessary property, writes John. 381 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,920 Speaker 1: So completely get tired up. 382 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 5: Just I like, I mean, okay, I get my liberty 383 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 5: pursuit of happiness. 384 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 4: You're right, and my happiness lives in an hoa run 385 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 4: by a fascist. I do not want to. 386 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 6: Deal with this at all. But if you do, fun, I. 387 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 4: Don't care what the wacky people of Minneapolis want to 388 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 4: do in their yards. 389 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,719 Speaker 6: Franklin don't care. I want to live in a place 390 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 6: with nice laws. 391 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 5: All right, generally smoke. 392 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 1: She knows. 393 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 2: She said that the conflict reached this point because of 394 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: her complete failure to engage with the HOA. 395 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: I respect that. 396 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 2: I absolutely respect the acknowledgment that she actually admitted that fact. 397 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,320 Speaker 2: But at this point, she says, she's not neighborhood sympathy. 398 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 2: I'm not interested in knowing my neighbors anymore after the 399 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 2: way this has gone on. Yeah, I don't think the 400 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 2: National night Outs are going to be very friendly with her, 401 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 2: and her and her neighbors. She's going to be invited 402 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 2: over for any holiday parties any type. 403 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 5: So she moved to a city named after the rock 404 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 5: of which our country was built. 405 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 4: Sorry, I was just gonna say, I'm kind of stuck 406 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 4: on the conciliation court thing too, where the guy mowed 407 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 4: the lawn as an act of service, and now it 408 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 4: was her four thousand dollars. 409 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,959 Speaker 2: My guess was on that, and it's not in the story, 410 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 2: But my guess is that he might go and mow 411 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 2: other people's lawns. But I'm going to venture I guess 412 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 2: that they probably all figured out that he intentionally went 413 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 2: over to wipe out her lawn under the guise of well, 414 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 2: I was just trying to help. 415 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 6: We don't touch my lawn. 416 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 4: Sure, but how is that four thousand dollars worth of damage? 417 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 4: What is this the most elite crass in the world. 418 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 3: Didn't she hire someone to like she brought in a 419 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 3: group to do this lawn though, right. 420 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: She had picked the vegetation to bring in all those 421 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,679 Speaker 2: different woodland animals and creatures as she was referring to. 422 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 5: There was probably emotional distress involved, cost, punitive damages. 423 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 2: And somebody just buy her a zoo pass and call 424 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 2: it a day. For crying out loud. Como zoo, not 425 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: the other one. 426 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, valley people here come to spend money in our town. 427 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,719 Speaker 6: I'm just got camping, you know what I mean. 428 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 2: I forgot I have very Minnesota Minnesota State Zoo friendly 429 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 2: people in here. 430 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 5: Now. 431 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: I was poured out of my mind. 432 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 5: We went They have a turtle. Now I loved her? 433 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: Oh really? 434 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 5: Yeah? 435 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 2: You know they have red pandas not as you can 436 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 2: see him if you go down to the look at him. 437 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: For crying out loud. Don't get me started so. 438 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,120 Speaker 6: Bitter about that. 439 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: I am. 440 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: I am bitter about that. 441 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,880 Speaker 2: I was very excited to see the red pandas there's 442 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 2: no way to see them time, I went there for 443 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: that reason alone, to go back so for the big 444 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 2: fake ones that are outside. 445 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: All right, talk back of the day coming up. 446 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 2: More of your talkbacks as well from the iHeartRadio brought 447 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 2: to you by Lyndall Realty. Next on Twinsday's news talk 448 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 2: a'm eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. 449 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: Why am I getting beate with the hot dog or 450 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: radio with your smart speaker? Oh, I love my redneck way. 451 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 10: Not living in an h O way, Burn our trash, 452 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 10: our cars on the lawn, wake up in the morning 453 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 10: and shoot a big bond. 454 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for the talkback from the iHeart Radio app. 455 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 2: Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty one oh three 456 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 2: five FM. Really having a fun time this morning on 457 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,439 Speaker 2: a Freedom Friday, even though some of us love freedom 458 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 2: more than others. 459 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 4: No, I love that for that man, and you should 460 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 4: be allowed to do that in America, just not in 461 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 4: my neighborhood. My happiness lives in an h o a 462 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 4: run by a fascist. 463 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 2: That would be Catherine Grace from American Experiment. Brian McDaniel 464 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 2: in studio with US as well. 465 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 5: Everything pod sounds like the experiment's over. We had a 466 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 5: good run. 467 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: It is time to get to your talkback of the day. 468 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: Your talkback of the day. 469 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 2: Is brought to you by minileaf and minileaf dot com 470 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 2: probably products that you could do well just to calm 471 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 2: you down a bit nn l eaf dot com. Head 472 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 2: on over to minileaf dot com and here is your 473 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 2: talkback of the day from a friend of the show, Scott, 474 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 2: who we have not heard from this morning, but did 475 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: not disappoint with this talkback. 476 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 11: Good morning, John, and guests into one of the members 477 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 11: of Salt and Pepper who talks as if she enjoys 478 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 11: the principles of fascism. You cannot your latterly go into 479 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 11: somebody's yard and mold their lawn without their permission. 480 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: That is called trespassing. 481 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 11: And it is of no surprise to me that a 482 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:48,719 Speaker 11: judge awarded that person that woman money for the damages. 483 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: This is America, not North Korea. 484 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 2: That is your talkback of the day, brought to you 485 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 2: by minileaf and minileaf dot com. 486 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 1: Would you care to respond to Catherine. 487 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 4: I just think the libertarian are out of control and 488 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 4: there's a reason they never went elections. But really I 489 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 4: feel little misunderstood. Okay, I like, I want local. We 490 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 4: all agree the households in my area that we're gonna, 491 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 4: you know, look nice. 492 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 6: I don't want the state. I don't want a government. Federals, 493 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 6: fed stay out of it. Just a local faisal. 494 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 5: It sounds like Minneapolis. You're just, yeah, we just want 495 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 5: to do what we want. 496 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 2: You're a fan of order, Yeah, you're a fan of order. None, 497 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 2: none of this, None of this surprises me. Although Grace, 498 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,560 Speaker 2: you've been oddly quiet over her fascist rants over here. 499 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 6: I'm just I don't want to be associated with them. 500 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 6: One of the members of Salt and Pepper. She's like, 501 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 6: oh no, we. 502 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: Were talking before we switch gears here. 503 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 2: Although we're going to keep with a bit of the 504 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 2: theme the story I've been sitting on for a while. 505 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: But we were talking about the northern lights from earlier 506 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 2: this week, and uh I mentioned how Logan and Melinda 507 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 2: had gone up and Logan actually ended up going up 508 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 2: to Duluth to see him on on a Wednesday night. 509 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 2: This has not been widely reported though, so the reason 510 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 2: why we had the northern life in abundance this week 511 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 2: was one there was a massive solar flare actually I 512 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,239 Speaker 2: think a couple of them off the Sun, and then 513 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 2: we have an issue with the with the poles here 514 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 2: on the planet. But apparently, and I've seen this reported 515 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 2: in a few places, and nobody is talking about about 516 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 2: it like we were. 517 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: A stone's throw away. 518 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 2: If it had increased anymore, it would have had massive 519 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 2: repercussions on our energy grid here, like they were saying 520 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 2: it was. 521 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: It was approaching like. 522 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 2: Blackout levels of the CMEs coming off the sun here. 523 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,399 Speaker 2: And it's a part of this that, oh, the the 524 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 2: northern lights is so brittany. Yeah, and they also could 525 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 2: be really really devastated if it had gotten any worse. 526 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 2: So it hasn't been widely hasn't been widely reported. I 527 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:42,959 Speaker 2: don't know if you guys haven't seen that at all. 528 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 6: Apparence is bliss, man, I don't want to know about 529 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 6: any of that. 530 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 5: When society crumbles, will be wishing we had more pollinators. 531 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 6: From that, the bees could have stopped the bees. 532 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 5: Who who who misses the bees? 533 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:55,360 Speaker 11: Then? 534 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the bees, it's not easy. 535 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: Look on green update. Now, this is a little vindication 536 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: for me. 537 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: I talked about this a long, long time ago, and 538 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 2: the concerns over certain E vehicles and the speed at 539 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: which they travel upon our sidewalks and our roadways. 540 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: Well, we have another woman here. Bad week for women. 541 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 2: Apparently, Janet Stockco was hit by what she says was 542 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 2: a Class three E bike, leaving her without her sense 543 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:39,719 Speaker 2: of smell. It's very odd side effect the apparently E 544 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: bikes and COVID who knew who knew? So August of 545 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 2: last year will stick. This was August twelfth of last year. 546 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,959 Speaker 2: We'll stick in Janet's mind forever. Generally, I don't come 547 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 2: over to this area area anymore since the accident. She 548 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 2: was walking on the sidewalk near fifteen Street West and 549 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 2: Pleasant Drive in Hastings when she was hit by a 550 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 2: minor riding an electronic bicycle. 551 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 5: It's funny. 552 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: Stocko says that it was. 553 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 2: A Class three E bike and E bike with no 554 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 2: throttle that can travel up to twenty eight miles per 555 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 2: hour with some assist. Now that may not seem like 556 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 2: it's very fast, but if you're talking about a bicycle. 557 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's insane. 558 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: That's your your trucking, your trucking. 559 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 6: Of course it's a minor. 560 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 4: Ugh, the youths Janet, you have a home in my 561 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 4: hoa and we will have no e bikes, I promise you. 562 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,639 Speaker 2: She says that she doesn't remember the actual incident or 563 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: most of her three weeks stay in the hospital courage. 564 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 1: I remember maybe the last few days. She says. 565 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 2: She's not heard from the minor involved or their family. 566 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 2: So changes have come to Hastings as a result of 567 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 2: that day. In March, the city change the ordinances relating 568 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 2: to e bikes, banning all classes of e bike from 569 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 2: writing on sidewalks. According to the police chief, it's education 570 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 2: for you know, the juveniles in our community that are 571 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 2: riding these and also the parents that might be purchasing 572 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 2: these unknowingly breaking the law because their child is not 573 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 2: fifteen years of age or older. And when and then 574 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 2: enforcement is it's interactive. They've issued a citation to the 575 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 2: juvenile who was riding the bike involved in the crash. 576 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 2: And I bring it up because I had talked about 577 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: this a while back, and I had some listeners that 578 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,640 Speaker 2: were pushing back on me because I was talking about 579 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 2: the speed at which these vehicles can go and a 580 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 2: lot of people were downplaying this. And I was under 581 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 2: the assumption that now these things are going a lot 582 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: faster than I think a lot of people realize, and 583 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 2: I imagine that very soon we're going to start seeing 584 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 2: regulations coming down. 585 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: It seems like it's one of these. 586 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 2: New innovations that just hasn't caught up with our resisting laws, 587 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: and they've really pushed the boundaries on just how fast 588 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 2: some of these vehicles can can go. 589 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 13: Uh. 590 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, they're a menace. I wish, say, I wish I 591 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 5: had one. That's awesome. Well, yeah, but it is a sidewalk, 592 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 5: that's true. 593 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 6: So but what about their freedom, Brian? What about their 594 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 6: freedom to go really fast? 595 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 3: Know what? 596 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 5: Your freedom stops where my nose begins. 597 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 4: Oh you think that tall pollinator grass doesn't have any smell? 598 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 5: Not from that woman. She lost her sense of smell. 599 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:22,959 Speaker 5: She has no idea. 600 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 2: And that was my band's name in high school, the Pollinators. 601 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: But don't boom. I guess he answered that question right 602 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: out of right, out of the right, out of the gate. 603 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 2: Apparently they are working on a new laws. State Representative Scott. 604 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: I always get his last I mean, excuse me, Tom 605 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 2: depel pelpel I'm okay, I want to say dipple. 606 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. 607 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 5: We have a dibble, we don't need a dipple. 608 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 9: That's right. 609 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I'm getting get confused by. So 610 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 2: he represents the area. I guess there is a push 611 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: to change the classification around Class three E bikes in 612 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 2: the wake of what it has happened to stop co 613 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 2: I would the story doesn't get into it. I am 614 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 2: oddly curious of the correlation of the accident, the injury, 615 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 2: and how she lost her sense of smell. 616 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 5: I think, like, if you hit your head, weird things 617 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 5: can happen. 618 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd be so mad. Don she not taste now either? 619 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 6: Aren't those connected? 620 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 5: I don't know. 621 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: I think they are. Well, you think we would know them. 622 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,479 Speaker 5: What do they say, get kicked by a mule, your 623 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 5: eyes go across, fall on a well they go back and. 624 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 2: Well, I guess if you could have the wind knocked 625 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 2: out of it, you can have your smell knocked out 626 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 2: of you too, right. 627 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: Oh, well, I feel like she should sue. That seems 628 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: like a legitimate I mean I think she well, maybe 629 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 1: she didn't. No, she's just pushing for a change to 630 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: make sure nobody else loses their sense of smell. 631 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 14: That poor woman and. 632 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 6: The family didn't even apologize her. She said, didn't hurt 633 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 6: from the kid who. 634 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 5: You got to make struck her. You got to make 635 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 5: the kid apologize. 636 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 7: By the way, was that a cousin Eddy reference? 637 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: It was? 638 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 5: Okay, I got that. 639 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 6: It was I get references sometimes on the show. 640 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I recognize that reference. 641 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 14: Yeah, Morning Crew on a Freedom Friday. Just wanted to 642 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 14: comment on the e bikes my neighborhood. The kids drove 643 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 14: in packs, and I'm terrified of one of these kids 644 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 14: possibly being hit by a car because they they are 645 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 14: fast and they don't look. I've had kids cut me 646 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 14: off intentionally in e scooters. 647 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 5: Children are a renewable resource. 648 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 2: It's fine, all right, And this okay, So now we're 649 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 2: going to Now I'm getting pushed back on. 650 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: How fast the things are or are not. Twenty eight 651 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: miles an hour is not fast on a bicycle. This 652 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: is chuck from Green Isle. I've been up to forty 653 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: seven and a half miles per hour on my ten speed. 654 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 9: When I used to ride every day, I'd go twenty 655 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 9: five miles just about every day. 656 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: Before I work. 657 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 5: But hey, if twenty eight is fast, I don't know 658 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 5: what slow is. 659 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: By Well, first off, how are you is that an 660 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: e bike that. 661 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: You're doing almost fifty miles an hour on your ten speed? 662 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 2: Are you getting up to that or do you think 663 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 2: you're getting up to that speed on your own? And 664 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 2: what is the incline that you were traveling down when 665 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: that's happening. 666 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 6: Are we doing a chat ept? 667 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: Is that possible? 668 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 5: Are you? 669 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 2: Are you? Are you asking the AI overlords whether or 670 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,320 Speaker 2: not one can get to forty seven point five miles 671 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 2: per hour on a. 672 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 3: Ten speed Whether you can don't on. 673 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 4: A sidewalk where people are scrolling care if you can. 674 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 5: Lance Armstrong's average speed for the entire two thousand and 675 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 5: five Tour de France was an average of twenty five 676 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 5: point nine miles per hour. Yeah, but he has gone 677 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 5: as much. His peak was sixty but I assume that 678 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 5: that was in a controlled downhill up. 679 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 680 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 2: So from you know, henceforth, the Chuck of the talkbackers 681 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: shall be known as the Lance Armstrong. 682 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,640 Speaker 1: The Morning Show here on Twin Cities. Such as an. 683 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 4: Undiscovered talent I think in the cycling world. 684 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 2: And a juvenile on a knee bike twenty eight miles 685 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: an hour hitting something that is a relatively speaking, a 686 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 2: fast rate of speed, and this is a hill. Just 687 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 2: like that woman is dying with her lawn. I'm gonna 688 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 2: I'm gonna die on regard regarding that, that's a that's 689 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 2: a that's a quick clip. 690 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: To say the least. 691 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 5: The plymouth woman should get e bikes now too. 692 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 15: Orange John e bikes are a menace to society. I 693 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 15: have ridden one. The only thing I ever got was 694 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,479 Speaker 15: a windburn. No exercise was ever had. I am an 695 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 15: avid cyclist, average middle aged fat guy. At the same time, 696 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 15: ride your bike, ride a real bike, stay off the sidewalk, 697 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 15: all cyclists. 698 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great day. That's the thing with the 699 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: with the e bikes. 700 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: So so I don't begrudge anybody that's got one and 701 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 2: rides them around, but you need to know what it 702 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: is you're doing. You're not getting any exercise for the 703 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,000 Speaker 2: most part. You're just you're using it for your enjoyment 704 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 2: to get out and about, and I'm totally fine with that. 705 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 2: But for me, I like my pedal bike because I'm 706 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 2: also a middle aged fat guy and I want to 707 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 2: make sure that I can stay as healthy as possible. 708 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: But that's just me. 709 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like a smaller golf cart. It's the same thing. 710 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 6: You should be a little embarrassed. 711 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 5: They still have mopeds. Sound sounds kind of like a moped. 712 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 2: Let's go here as we wrap things up. Yeah, we 713 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 2: have enough time to squeak this in. So you guys 714 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 2: heard about the new controversy around the Blue Line Extension. Okay, 715 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 2: so this which one? Okay, so this comes from channel 716 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 2: Channel five. Let me actually go ahead and play a 717 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,000 Speaker 2: bit of the piece from last night. Community voices connection 718 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 2: to light rail contracts prompts calls for transparency. Here's a 719 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 2: bit again of the coverage from Channel five. 720 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 5: So the train coming here. We give people the opportunity 721 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 5: to find better jobs. 722 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 7: You can be able to move around easily. 723 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 13: The Blue Line Extension promotes a series of videos on 724 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 13: its YouTube page called Community Voices. The people are identified 725 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,480 Speaker 13: as titles with titles such as business owner or resident, but. 726 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 16: Five Investigates found that many of them are also part 727 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 16: of a group or groups that have big contracts with 728 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 16: Hennepin County to do work for the Blue Line. Investigative 729 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 16: reporter Eric Rasmussen asked recently one of the county's project 730 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 16: managers about this. 731 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 5: Listen, why not just disclose that these are paid endorsements? 732 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:08,759 Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. 733 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 2: I'm not aware that what's being done on the YouTube 734 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:13,760 Speaker 2: pages is a paid part. 735 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: Of what they're doing. 736 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 16: Kindepin County followed up to say that the testimonials in 737 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 16: the video. 738 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 6: Were entirely voluntary. 739 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,840 Speaker 16: Are not satisfied with that answer, and they're calling for 740 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 16: more transparency. 741 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 2: So that's a story from Channel five. Essentially, a vast 742 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 2: majority of the individuals that are featured promoting the Blue 743 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 2: Line are connected to these lucrative government contracts. Basically, they're 744 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 2: undisclosed paid endorsements for the light rail. And this is 745 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 2: something that's been in your wheelhouse brand. 746 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 5: Yeah it sounds like transportation fascism, but yeah, no, I mean, 747 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 5: I mean this is something where you know, you want 748 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,240 Speaker 5: community voices. They're important, but most people don't care about things. 749 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 5: But this is something certainly that she be disclosed because 750 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 5: if it's if it's not improper, it is certainly frowned upon, 751 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 5: should be frowned upon, or at least it's it's attempting 752 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 5: to to mislead. 753 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 6: I love the idea. 754 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 3: They had a video team like putting together these testimonials, 755 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 3: and they couldn't find anyone to just organically say that 756 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 3: they want the train. They're like, we need to we 757 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,280 Speaker 3: need three more videos. We gotta go, we gotta go internal. 758 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 3: What if you guys get behind the camera. 759 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 6: No one wants these. 760 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 2: You couldn't You couldn't get just actualities from people talking 761 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,839 Speaker 2: about the you know, And I think it speaks to 762 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 2: the level of how they just don't care when it 763 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 2: comes to the appropriation of taxpayer dollars, wherein we can 764 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 2: just go ahead and we know that they'll talk positive 765 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:42,719 Speaker 2: about it, so we'll just go ahead and use them. 766 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, they seem to have an unlimited amount of money 767 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 4: to promote these transportation projects that no one really wants. 768 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,439 Speaker 6: I mean, what is this money doing. 769 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 4: That's that's coming from the taxpayers and it's going towards 770 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,959 Speaker 4: what a light rail that no one really rides because 771 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,399 Speaker 4: everyone on it is smoking crack? 772 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,799 Speaker 1: Yeah? How much money have we record into this thing 773 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: to these things? 774 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 5: Already? 775 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 1: All of the money, all of all of the money, 776 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: all right. 777 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 2: I want to make sure that I give enough time 778 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,880 Speaker 2: for all of our guests this morning, because usually we 779 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 2: run out and the time is ticking down. I want 780 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,280 Speaker 2: to thank everybody for coming in, of course, of course. 781 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 2: Catherine Johnson Grace Keating from the American Experiment podcast. Anything 782 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 2: you guys would like to promote before we say goodbye 783 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 2: to a Freedom Friday this morning. 784 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,399 Speaker 3: I'll just say giving to Giving Tuesday, Give the Max 785 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 3: Day Early giving is open right now. You should go 786 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,800 Speaker 3: to American Experiment dot org and we've gotten there to 787 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 3: should support our work. 788 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,279 Speaker 6: Please, Yeah. 789 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 4: Give to the Max Day is on Thursday. It's on 790 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 4: the twentieth and often we make it onto the leader board, 791 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 4: which is incredible. Other people on the leader board last 792 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 4: year that beat us include a Planned Parenthood, the ACLU 793 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,920 Speaker 4: of Minnesota. This year we're trying to stomp them and 794 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 4: do even better. So if you would go and support 795 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 4: it and mean the world. Our podcast comes out on Tuesdays. 796 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 2: And speaking of Get to the Match, you have your 797 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 2: event coming up and anything else you'd like to promote there. 798 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 5: Brian, Yeah, So, as I said earlier, I'll be performing 799 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 5: comedy at the Strike Theater next Thursday. You can also 800 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 5: make donations on my Facebook page for the Strike Theater. 801 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,919 Speaker 5: But also you can find me on the Wrong About 802 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 5: Everything podcasts and a new podcast called Wrong about Sports 803 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 5: O fun. 804 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody, thank you so much for coming in today. Guys, Brian, 805 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 2: Catherine and Grace really had a good time today. I 806 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 2: appreciate when you guys join us on a freedom Friday. 807 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: Sam, thank you to you as well. 808 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 2: Podcasts will be up shortly if you missed any portion 809 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 2: of today's show. Have yourself a fantastic weekend. We're going 810 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,280 Speaker 2: to talk about the rise of democrats socialists on Monday 811 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,799 Speaker 2: Mornings show. Also, this allegations against Representative of Eric Swalwell, 812 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 2: is this retribution revenge justice? We'll talk about that with 813 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 2: our DC correspondent. Have yourself a fantastic weekend and I'll 814 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 2: speak to you guys just after six o'clock on Monday. 815 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 1: Bye.