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Speaker 2: Oh, you can expect to hear that one quite a

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Speaker 2: bit on the show today, Buffalo Buffalo, Twin Cities News

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Speaker 2: Talk Am eleven thirty one three five FM. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the midpoint of your week. My name is John Justice

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Speaker 2: in the Master Control booth next door.

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Speaker 3: That would be Devon.

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Speaker 2: On the show today, we're going to talk about the

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Speaker 2: Brady Bunch House. Devin, do you have any idea what

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about when I say that? Do you have

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Speaker 2: any familiarity at all with the Brady Bunch?

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Speaker 3: I do you do? Yeah, I'm assuming from your parents

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Speaker 3: as a kid. I love the Brady Bunch.

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Speaker 2: We're also going to talk to Angela's on the show

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Speaker 2: today the return of the Minnesota Female Dark Lord of COVID,

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Speaker 2: once again proving when you're on the left, if you're

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Speaker 2: a dfler in the state of Minnesota, you fail upwards,

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Speaker 2: you're never truly gone. Representative Tom Emmer next hour, We've

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Speaker 2: got Liz Collin from Alpha News joining us at eight

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Speaker 2: thirty this morning. Also in the seven o'clock hour bombshell

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Speaker 2: report yesterday. None of this comes as a surprise. Just

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Speaker 2: Auditor published a new report yesterday under the title of

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Speaker 2: Department of Human Services Investigations of Alleged Kickbacks in Early

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Speaker 3: I'm working off of a.

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Speaker 2: Short version of the story from Center of the American

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Speaker 2: Experiment and friend of the show Bill goln That's the

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Speaker 2: EIDBI program now where the state pays unlicensed providers of

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Speaker 2: autism therapy services that in and of itself is beyond problematic.

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Speaker 2: You will recall that some defendants accused of defrauding the

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Speaker 2: program are also accused of paying kickbacks to patients. Of

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Speaker 2: excuse me, parents of patients involved in the scheme. Local

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Speaker 2: media characterized the OLA report findings as follows from Fox nine.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota DHS failed to investigate kickback complaints in autism program,

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Speaker 2: according to the auditor. Channel five has a similar headline,

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Speaker 2: audit reveals flaw in how Minnesota DHS handles some autism

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Speaker 2: fraud and kickbacks. Oh, it's shocking, even though it really

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Speaker 2: We need to get to the root cause I'm on

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Speaker 2: talking about the fraud, but I'm talking about the people.

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Speaker 2: There's too many bodies of buffer. I'm going to be

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Speaker 2: hearing that on the show today as well. Buffer bodies

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Speaker 2: between when people turn a blind eye within the Walls

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Speaker 2: administration and then when we find out about it. There's

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Speaker 2: So again we will dive into this coming up next

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Speaker 2: on Governor Tim Walls and why he said buffalo fluffalo,

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Speaker 2: which probably just is making me laugh more than anything else.

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Speaker 2: I just thought it was hysterical the moment I heard it,

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Speaker 3: They knew and they let it all right.

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Speaker 2: I've been holding onto this one for a while. I'm

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Speaker 3: Going again tomorrow, by the way, to see that fantastic film.

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Speaker 2: So up in my neck of the woods, a Blaine

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Speaker 3: First backyard tiny home. Well that sounds nice.

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Speaker 2: After learning that the homeowner, Alex Peppin, wanted to rent

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Speaker 2: consider prohibiting the detached backyard units. The city would still

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Speaker 2: permit attached to ADUs so the sucessory dwelling units such

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Speaker 2: The Brady Bunch House, I go ooh, that's cool, even

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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, I want to hear from you. Email

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Speaker 2: Justice at iHeartRadio dot com brand new phone number eight

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Speaker 2: of course if you're listening on the iHeartRadio Apple, he

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Speaker 2: John Justice Blaine could ban backyard tiny homes after plans

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Speaker 2: for homeless family in need set off neighborhood disputes in

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Speaker 2: a legal fight. Apparently, this home Alex Peppin wants to

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Speaker 2: exiting homeless. These are considered accessory dwelling units. Blaine had

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Speaker 2: put a year long moratorium on these that was a bridge.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, council members considered new ways to

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Speaker 2: expected to consider prohibiting the detached backyard units ADUs. These

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Speaker 2: dwellings are often considered a way to add greater variety

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Speaker 2: due to factors such as high costs and strict regulation.

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Speaker 4: My wife and I live in into To Heights and

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Speaker 3: To look like a trailer park that over.

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Speaker 5: Hey, John, Matt and Woodbury. You know, I have friends

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Speaker 2: Well, and you know, it's funny because the area that

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Speaker 3: And then once you get one.

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Speaker 3: Well, don't.

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Speaker 3: The Brady Bunch home.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to your talkbacks in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: Regarding the Blaine band on tiny homes after plans for

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Speaker 7: Good morning, john Rick and Virginia. One of the items

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Speaker 7: I did not hear you mentioned in your opening monologue

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Speaker 7: was the Senate last night open debate on the Save Act.

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Speaker 7: Even though Senator.

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Speaker 3: Murkowski of Alaska voted.

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Speaker 7: With the Democrats not to open debate. What a sham

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Speaker 7: she is. If John fun the Senate Republican leader in

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Speaker 7: the Senate leader can't get this through and you need

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Speaker 7: If they don't pass the Save Act. Yes, Democrats, you

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Speaker 8: Hey, John Brandon, cottage girl. So I was just lissuming

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Speaker 8: to Fox News headlines trying to figure out why Republicans

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Speaker 2: My understanding is, and I could be wrong on this,

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Speaker 2: And again, we will be talking about this in much

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Speaker 3: Let's get back to.

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Speaker 2: The story and regarding detached dwellings on people's houses.

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Speaker 3: The debate this has sparked over in Blaine.

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Speaker 9: Good Morning John. Regarding the detached dwellings on homes, It's

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Speaker 4: Them come and live in their house.

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Speaker 10: What I've noticed in my city is the houses that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's such a it's got to be

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that like he I mean, this

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Speaker 3: Like he loves us just because we don't cause him

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Speaker 2: Is any problems with the house, we just try to

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Speaker 3: I just don't want to.

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Speaker 2: I know, I didn't want to bother the guy who was,

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Speaker 11: He lives over in one of those new Blaine developments

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Speaker 2: So I actually have when the fraud story erupted, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I spent a couple hours one day

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Speaker 3: Passed that information off to some friends. But these.

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Speaker 2: Potential like childcare centers, daycare centers, they're just like in

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Speaker 2: how are you running a daycare center out of a

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Speaker 3: Hey, John, this is Matt here.

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Speaker 12: What's this guy in Blaine gonna do when he builds

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Speaker 2: Well, he belongs to this nonprofit organization, so I imagine

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Speaker 3: But I certainly understand your point.

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Speaker 13: Hey, good morning John, about these tiny homes. I think

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Speaker 13: it could be a safety issue. You know, some people's

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Speaker 14: When I was a kid, what we now refer to

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Speaker 3: Morge, Well, keep an eye on this story.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious how the debate played out and whether or

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Speaker 3: In the meantime, Speaking of houses.

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Speaker 2: Tina Trahan specifically her husband had one question when she

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Speaker 2: spent three point two million dollars on the Brady Bunch House.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, as I mentioned earlier, as a kid, I

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Speaker 2: not three point two million dollars worth.

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Speaker 3: By the way, he apparently told his wife, have.

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Speaker 2: You lost your mind? It was a two year campaign

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Speaker 2: that she spearheaded. The modest Studio City, Southern California home

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy sitcom has officially been granted Historical Cultural Monument

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Speaker 2: status by the Los Angeles City Council. Yes, they also

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Speaker 2: get the colwncol titled too. It was an expensive journey

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Speaker 2: The effort began shortly after she bought the property in

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Speaker 3: She spotted the listing on Zillo.

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Speaker 2: The dangerous move if you have if you have disposable

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Speaker 2: and look at look at homes. I probably should not

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Speaker 2: criticize that too much. Melinda and I are always looking

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Speaker 3: This is on Amazon. I think it's Amazon Discovery Plus.

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Speaker 14: This show.

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Speaker 3: This show is so much fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: So they go through different recent regions of the country

442
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Speaker 2: and then they pick three houses who the owners believe

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Speaker 2: that they have the ugliest house in America, but in

444
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Speaker 2: those particulars, and then one of those gets picked, and

445
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 2: they're put in with different regions every season, and then

446
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Speaker 2: one house gets one hundred and fifty thousand dollars makeover.

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Speaker 2: The makeover part is secondary to just seeing these horrific

448
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Speaker 2: homes that people have decided to purchase. It is so

449
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Speaker 2: incredibly entertaining, So I really shouldn't be knocking individuals who

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Speaker 2: may go and waste time on Zilla. So she spotted

451
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Speaker 2: the listing immediately recognized the iconic split level ranch home

452
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Speaker 2: from the show's opening credits, the triangular roofline, stacked stone

453
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Speaker 2: facade in the large picture window, instantly transporting her back

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Speaker 2: to childhood. After watching reruns of the show, it feels

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Speaker 2: like you walked into your childhood home when you were

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Speaker 2: ten years old, she said. No one can get this

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Speaker 2: feeling anywhere else. Trahan, who grew up in Chicago, says

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Speaker 2: she watched The Brady Bunch constantly as a kid, even

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Speaker 2: though it wasn't technically her favorite sitcom.

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Speaker 3: She was a Bigger Threes Company fan. I got respect

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Speaker 3: for that.

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Speaker 2: The Brady Bunch House, the two story single home that

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Speaker 2: served as the main setting for the television series in

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Speaker 2: Studio City, Her husband, the HBO chief Chris Albrick, who

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Speaker 2: oversaw shows like The Sopranos and Section and the City,

466
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Speaker 2: initially thought the idea was absurd, so now we understand

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Speaker 2: where they got the money from. She's married to an

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Speaker 2: HBO chief executive. After she lost her mind, he thought

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Speaker 2: we wanted He thought that I wanted to move into it.

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Speaker 2: Living there, she said, was never the plan. What if

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Speaker 2: someone drops some meat ball in the sofa, she said,

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Speaker 2: I would have a nervous breakdown. Instead, she turned the

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Speaker 2: house into a carefully preserved pop culture time capsule. Over

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Speaker 2: the past two years, she's added roughly four hundred props

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Speaker 2: in Easter eggs referencing moments from the show, including the

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Speaker 2: flashlight that Greg once used to fake a UFO siding,

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Speaker 2: the stuffed giraffe like the one that appeared in the

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Speaker 2: girl's bedroom. She even had three different giraffe giraffe custom

479
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Speaker 2: made before settling on the right size. I remember all

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Speaker 2: of this from the show. The interior itself already closely

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Speaker 2: resembled the show set after HGTV renovated the property for

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Speaker 2: its twenty nineteen a very brady renovation, recreating the famous

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Speaker 2: floating staircase and other recognizable rooms, but Trahan worried about

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Speaker 2: the house's future. The Brady Bunch House staircase with stone

485
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Speaker 2: walls in a colorful window. She said, what if I

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Speaker 2: get hit by a bus tomorrow? Is there anything I

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Speaker 2: get to preserve this? That letter to the question of

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Speaker 2: pursuing the landmark status. The designation was notable because the

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Speaker 2: house is the first property in Los Angeles to receive

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Speaker 2: landmark protection specifically for its significance as a filming location

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Speaker 2: outside of a studio lot, and the Et House needs

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Speaker 2: to be added to the list because next to the

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Speaker 2: Brady Bunch House, the Et House was also my one

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Speaker 2: of my favorite houses I saw as a kid.

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Speaker 3: I like Suburbia. What can I say?

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Speaker 2: Though the home was built in nineteen fifty nine and

497
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Speaker 2: only its exterior, of course, appeared on the sitcom, officials

498
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Speaker 2: ultimately extended the landmark designation to the interior as well.

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Speaker 2: She was donne at what happened. I'm sure there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of people who are like but wait, that's

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Speaker 2: not historical. But the decision does reflect the enduring impact

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Speaker 2: of the show, which debuted in nineteen sixty nine and

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Speaker 2: has been in near constant syndication since its original run

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Speaker 2: going back to nineteen seventy four, and there's.

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Speaker 15: A steady stream of people that actually go and visit

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Speaker 15: the home to check it out.

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Speaker 2: Trahan has also opened the property for charity hours called

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Speaker 2: the Brady Experience, featuring Task members Christopher nine to em

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Speaker 2: Marie McCormick. Becoming the owner of the official Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: lair mark hasn't changed much for her, except for one

511
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Speaker 2: unexpected headache. My insurance company dropped average after the designation

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Speaker 2: became public.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's a bummer.

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Speaker 2: Historic homes can be more complicated and expensive to ensure.

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Speaker 2: And let's just hope that she times her dumping of

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Speaker 2: the house off right, because there's going to be.

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Speaker 3: A point of diminishing return on having a house like this.

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Speaker 2: I mean, eventually, the individuals who would actually want to

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Speaker 2: go and spend time looking at the old Brady Bunch home,

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Speaker 2: I mean they're going to age out, unless Devin plans

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Speaker 2: on visiting it in California when he goes some time.

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Speaker 2: Merely off of the fact that you know about the

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Speaker 2: Brady Bunch from your parents, I'm considering that. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: don't believe that for a second. Speaking of houses, almost

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Speaker 2: like a real life sitcom. Usn A candidate just got

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Speaker 2: convicted of tossing a life tarantula into a home she

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Speaker 2: rented out to an Airbnb. She admitted she got the

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Speaker 2: bizarre idea from Home Alone. Independent Minnesota hopeful past guest

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Speaker 2: on this show, Marissa Simonetti said that she was inspired

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Speaker 2: by the nineteen ninety Macaulay Culkin classic when she tossed

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Speaker 2: a creepy iraqnet down the stairs at the basement unit

532
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Speaker 2: she was renting to Jackline Vasquez back in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and four. I watched the movie Home Alone growing up,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, you know what, this is such

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00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: a strange situation, referencing the famous Christmas classic. She's like,

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Speaker 2: I'm scared, or if I'm scared or herts I try

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Speaker 2: to make jokes, adding that she was so scared about

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Speaker 2: the escalating tensions with her renter. I was just like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to do, and so yeah, I

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Speaker 2: got the spider.

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Speaker 3: That seems logical.

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Speaker 2: Her over the top antics were of course caught on videotape,

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Speaker 2: and Seminetti was convicted of gross misdemeanor harassment, misdemeanor domestic assault,

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Speaker 2: and disorderly conduct on Friday after a three day trial

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Speaker 2: in Hennepin County District Court. According to the local Eden

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Speaker 2: Prairie News, she'll be sentenced coming up on May first.

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Speaker 2: She represented herself during the trial after parting ways with

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Speaker 2: her lawyer. She admitted to buying the tarantula from a

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Speaker 2: pet store after the tenant barricaded herself in my basement,

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Speaker 2: like she had no intention of leaving, according to an

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Speaker 2: NBC News report in twenty twenty four. So after representing

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Speaker 2: herself during the trials, she claimed that she lost because

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Speaker 2: she didn't fully understand the court procedures. She says, I

554
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Speaker 2: was just outplayed, that's all, she told the Star Tribune

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Speaker 2: after her guilty verdict. Again, she'll be scheduled on May first.

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Speaker 2: You know what's funny is that she'll probably face more punishment,

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Speaker 2: not probably, she will. She'll face more punishment than the

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Speaker 2: vandal that we talked about yesterday during the Operation Metro

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Speaker 2: Surge and the guy that went and vandalized all of

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Speaker 2: the teslas as well.

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Speaker 3: She'll end up facing more heat for that.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to a few of your thoughts

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Speaker 2: from the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 16: Happy hump Day, John two thoughts the deal going up

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Speaker 16: and blaming with the tiny house or whatever. I think

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Speaker 16: they gut just but they're just trying to blockbust the

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Speaker 16: area an end. And as far as the Brady House,

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Speaker 16: too much time, too much money on her hands, and

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Speaker 16: a shell vapid life.

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Speaker 3: I disagree, lou Listen.

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Speaker 2: They obviously have disposable income, she's married to an HBO executive,

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Speaker 2: the house is of historical significance, and if there's a

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Speaker 2: market demand for fans of the show growing up individuals

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Speaker 2: of an age as such as me, I don't see

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Speaker 2: any harm, any harm in that she's trying to preserve

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Speaker 2: the home. I don't think that's vapid in the least bit.

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Speaker 2: I disagree with you on that. All right, let's go here.

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Speaker 2: So a little bit later on in the show, fantastic

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Speaker 2: piece out of center of the American experiment about the

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Speaker 2: number of years that Governor Chim Walls had spent radicalizing

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Speaker 2: the youth through our public education system here in UH Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: So we'll give you details on this as a bit

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Speaker 2: of a preview.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: As I was going through X, I was looking for

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Speaker 2: audio for the show today, and I saw that Governor

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Speaker 2: Tim Walls's x account had posted this little montage video

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Speaker 2: of Governor Tim Walls visiting a school.

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Speaker 3: I just it cracked me up.

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Speaker 15: Because he's talking to the children in the classroom in

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Speaker 15: the clip the same way that he talks to voters

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Speaker 15: when he holds the press conferences. Like you'd almost be

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Speaker 15: hard pressed to know if you just isolated the audio

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Speaker 15: Buffalo Fluffalo, whether or not he was actually talking to

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Speaker 15: school age kids or talking to the average Minnesota voter.

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Speaker 15: But here's audio from the little promo montage that Governor

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Speaker 15: Tim Walls's x account put out overnight.

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Speaker 3: Kee Buffalo.

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Speaker 15: Yes, but I have never read it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm very excited about it though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. This month, March is reading month. How many of

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Speaker 1: you have read a book in the last month?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Very good, very good.

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Speaker 1: So what I'm going to get to do today is,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if you've seen it, I get

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Speaker 1: to read Buffalo Fluffalo. To see that classroom and to

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Speaker 1: see those carrying adults, and to see the skills that

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Speaker 1: they're learning. There's hard skills and soft skills in there.

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Speaker 1: To see little ones setting and interacting with an adult

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Speaker 1: reading them a book. We know what the research shows

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Speaker 1: about that it makes a huge impact on them. So

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Speaker 1: we also know that families are facing a lot of uncertainties.

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Speaker 1: We continue to hear about it. Affordability is not a

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Speaker 1: made up word. It's a real word, and it's one

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Speaker 1: that people are deeply concerned about.

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Speaker 15: Did it was anybody say that affordability was a made

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Speaker 15: up word?

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Speaker 3: Ribbe? I missed it? Is that a.

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Speaker 2: Is that a talking point for conservatives that affordability is

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Speaker 2: a made up word?

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Speaker 14: I did?

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Speaker 2: Or Is that just another example of when democrats sort

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Speaker 2: of set their own baseline premise and then create an

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Speaker 2: argument based off of that even though it was never

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Speaker 2: an issue in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo fluffalo housing about affordability on childcare, about affordability on

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Speaker 1: the things that.

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Speaker 3: You need in your daily life.

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Speaker 1: So what we're doing is making sure that we're putting

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Speaker 1: out a budget like we have for the last seven

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Speaker 1: years that first and foremost is fiscally responsible, but invests

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Speaker 1: in the things that builds Minnesota's economy and that makes

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Speaker 1: life more affordable for Minnesotans. And also make sure that

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Speaker 1: the quality of life, whether it's access to good quality childcare,

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Speaker 1: whether it's access to school meals, whether it's making sure

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Speaker 1: that the middle class is getting the things they need

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Speaker 1: to do to survive and to thrive. And all thereatures

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Speaker 1: from the bats to the bugs covered old fluff with

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Speaker 1: kisses and hogs. And that's how the story a fluffalo

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Speaker 1: and with a happy old buffalo snoggling his brands.

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Speaker 3: A great book. Thanks everybody, you guys are the best.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting so many drops out of that buffalo fluffalo

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 2: Sorry.

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Speaker 15: Governor Jim Walls did unveil a twenty twenty six supplemental

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Speaker 15: budget focused on, as you heard that ridiculous clip, affordability, workforce,

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Speaker 15: adapting AI, taxing tech companies.

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Speaker 3: It's not a budget year.

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Speaker 2: The Minnesota legislature passes budgets on odd years, not even years,

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Speaker 2: so this is not a budget year. Lawmakers required to

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Speaker 2: pass any spending measures. So he's trying to create arguments

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Speaker 2: to use for his party to use against Republicans later

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Speaker 2: on this year.

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Speaker 3: Looking at the budget proposal. By the way, he mentioned

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Speaker 3: a few things in that piece.

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Speaker 2: Lowering costs for families, okay, fine, supporting workers amid artificial intelligence.

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Speaker 2: You also have gun violence prevention and millions of dollars

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Speaker 2: in relief funding because of Operation Metro Surge. Look just enough,

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Speaker 2: already this is probably an all or nothing deal. Again,

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Speaker 2: it has no chance of moving forward with the House

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Speaker 2: being divided the way that it is. But given just

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Speaker 2: the inclusion of those two items, the Operation Metro Surge,

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Speaker 2: stimulus funding whatever you want to call it, forgivable loans

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Speaker 2: millions of dollars to DHS, We're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: fraud here in a moment, and more gun violence prevention

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Speaker 2: and security for.

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Speaker 3: That reason alone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, just burn this budget, burn it with the

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Speaker 2: fire of a thout and suns and blow the ashes

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Speaker 2: into Lake Calhoun.

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Speaker 3: That's about what it's That's about what it's worth. Buffalo, Buffalo,