1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Devin and the Master Control booth and next door. It's 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: nice to see him and of course you throughout the 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: show this morning. We have some questions and we will 4 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: be asking in the seven o'clock hour relating to graduating. 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: The University of Minnesota says they're no longer going to 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: host high schools at the Mariucci Arena for graduation ceremonies, 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: and this is really gone and ticked a lot of 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: people off, So we'll dive into that next hour on 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: the show. 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 2: We'll talk shut Down. 11 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: At some point in time, I discovered a new news 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: outlet didn't even I didn't even know it existed. I 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: can actually thank a precarious state documentary for making me 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: aware of this Minneapolis based online publication. So we'll get 15 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: into that later on in the show as as well. 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: I was watching Fox News. 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: For the I's on the not much watching Fox News 18 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: right now while I talk, But before Fox and Friends 19 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: came on at five o'clock, they always do like a 20 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: lifestyle cooking segment or something of that nature right before 21 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,199 Speaker 1: the top of the hour, and they had a guy 22 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: that came on and he had created a candy corn pizza. 23 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: Devin's head perked up. So it was, you know, because 24 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 2: they made like. 25 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: Dessert pizzas, right, you see like this before, you know, 26 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: cinnamon roll ones and things of that nature. So the 27 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: guy made a candy corn pizza. I came in late, 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: so I do not know what the ingredients were. I 29 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: do know that he was putting powdered sugar on top 30 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: of it before the hosts went and partook it in it. 31 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: They both said that they enjoyed it from a dessert 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: pizza standpoint. But it reminded me that I have completely 33 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: failed this holiday season. I have not had a single 34 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: kernel of candy corn. I know, I do not know. Well, 35 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: I do know how it happened. Typically, melindages and buys 36 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: me the candy corn on occasion. I have listeners that 37 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: send it, that send it in, but I have not 38 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: had any candy corn. I still have a little less 39 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: than forty eight hours to get that in. And I 40 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: suppose you can go candy corn after Halloween heading into 41 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Thanksgiving season, but I didn't. 42 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 2: I have not had any. 43 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: I feel like I've failed, I really really do. Maybe 44 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: I'll pick up some on the way home this morning. 45 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: All right, let's start here I'm going to talk about 46 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: this and solicit for your comments coming up next hour. 47 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: But one of the biggest stories today that we'll be 48 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: covering is Governor Tim Walls. Yesterday, he announced that he 49 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: has ordered a third party audit of Medicaid billing at 50 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: the Department of Human Services. He's also paused all payments 51 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: to fourteen different DHS Medicaid services until the audit is complete. 52 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: The names of these fourteen services, by the way, early 53 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: intensive development, behavioral intervention for autism, integrated community supports, non 54 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: emergency medical transportation, peer recovery services, adult rehabilitative mental health services. 55 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: A lot of these are incredibly redundant. This goes back 56 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: to what I've been saying over all of these different 57 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: social programs that if we actually identified the fraud and 58 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: stopped the payments the moment we started to identify the fraud, 59 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: most of these different services wouldn't even need to exist. 60 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: Adult day services, personal care assistance, community for services, recuperative care, 61 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: individualized home supports, adult companion services, night supervision, assertive community treatment, 62 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: intensive residential treatment services. So, using funding passed during the 63 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five legislative session, DHS has now contracted with Optum, 64 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: which will analyze Medicaid fee for service claims data and 65 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: flag potential issues for DHS review. Does already questions immediately 66 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: arise when you consider that Optum has connections with large 67 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: pre existing healthcare providers that are receiving Medicaid funding. 68 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 2: Plus we're spending or Walls is going. 69 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: To be spending and I know this is money that 70 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: was passed during the twenty twenty five legislative session. Is 71 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 1: it gonna cost two point three million dollars? Do we 72 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: have nobody on the inside of the Walls administration or 73 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: working for the State of Minnesota that can do what 74 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: essentially optim is going to do. 75 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 2: For far cheaper than two point three million dollars. 76 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 3: No. 77 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: You see, Walls is only doing this because he's running 78 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: for reelection and because he knows he can't hide from 79 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: it anymore. He didn't care. DHS didn't care until they 80 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: had to care. In a quote from the story in 81 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: the Star Tribune, if you attempted to defraud our public 82 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: programs and steal taxpayer dollars out from under the people 83 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: who need them most, you will be stopped and you 84 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: will be held accountable. 85 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 2: That's what Governor Jim Walls. 86 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 4: Had to say, you. 87 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 2: Know, it's kind of like the guy that gets caught 88 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: cheating on his wife. 89 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: Honey, I'm so sorry I cheated on you. I promise 90 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: I'll stop. I'll stop. Well, how long have you been 91 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: cheating on me? 92 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: For? Five years? When was the last time you cheating 93 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 2: on me? Last night? But I swear I'll stop now. 94 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: So, as I mentioned, we'll get into further details of 95 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: this in your commentary coming up just after seven o'clock 96 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: this morning. On the way, we do have another Gone 97 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: Green update, further evidence of why Bill Gates has changed 98 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: his tune on the doomsday climate change talk. GM's also 99 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: struggling mass layoffs occurring because their evs aren't selling. I 100 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: know you're as surprised as I am. And Krizan Pierre 101 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: is on a book tour that many are saying is 102 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: one of the worst book tours for a former politician 103 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: individual working inside of presidency. Ever, I'll explain why, and 104 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: we'll get to your comments from the iHeart Radio app 105 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: this morning. If you're listening there, leave us a talkback. 106 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: Those are brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. You can 107 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: email me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com and we have 108 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: a brand new phone number. That's right, eight four four 109 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: nine four six five eight five five eight four four 110 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: nine four six fifty eight to fifty five. That is 111 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: the new phone number here for Twin City's News Talk 112 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. 113 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 5: Wow. 114 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 6: I have no doubt they'll find a crowned with the 115 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 6: Earth system. But did I hear you say optum? 116 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 2: Yep? 117 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 6: Wonder if it's the same optum that the VIA contracts with. 118 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 2: Yep. 119 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 6: Do the conversation and pension jams and stuff like that. 120 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 6: From my experience and that of many other veterans, they're 121 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 6: not exactly the most upright system but our company, but 122 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 6: they're really good at tying the person who pays their 123 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 6: bills what they want to hear. So, yeah, that's really interesting. 124 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 2: And I would I miss Vogue earlier. 125 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: Thank you JD for the talkback brought to you by 126 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: Lyndall Realty from the iHeartRadio app. We're gonna be getting 127 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: into that Walls story in the eight o'clock hour. I 128 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: think I had mistakenly said we will be talking about 129 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: it in the seven o'clock hour. No, we have other 130 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: items to get to in the seven o'clock hour. In 131 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: the meantime, let's go ahead and do this for a 132 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: second day in a row here on Twin City's News 133 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: Talk from the sixty five to one carpet Next Day 134 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: Install studios. 135 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 7: It's not easy being green, Nope, having to spend each 136 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 7: day the color of leaves. 137 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: In the latest when I think CNN's data analysts delivered 138 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: bad news to the climate alarmists across the United States, 139 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: saying that Bolling indicates very few Americans of you the 140 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: potential threat of climate change is a major issue going 141 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty six mid term elections. 142 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, of average that I'm. 143 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: Not surprised by this at all. I don't find this 144 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: shocking in the least bit. When you're not having this 145 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: pushed arbitrarily at the federal level, and that's trickling down 146 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: to various other even you know, private level entities, suddenly 147 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: you face a reality that wasn't shown before. 148 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: And this is what's happening here. It's a lot in 149 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 2: a lot. 150 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: It's very similar to what's happened with the trans identity 151 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: studies that were done that we talked about last week. 152 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: Those three independent studies that have shown just the issue 153 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: of young Americans identifying as trans has just fallen off 154 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: a cliff, and the conclusion from three independent studies compiled 155 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: together was that mental health had something to do with it, 156 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: but the big driving factor was that it turned out 157 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 1: that it was trendy. Like a fashion trend, the same 158 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: thing rings true for this. I mean, there's been a 159 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: lot of damage that's been done and billions of dollars. 160 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 2: Wasted, and that will continue to be wasted. 161 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: I mean, don't misunderstand there will still be efforts to 162 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: combat climate change, but now we're just seeing things leveling 163 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: out and it not being nearly as big of a 164 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: concern as what it had been shown to be at 165 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: the time when Democrats were in charge. Harry Engine discussed 166 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: the topic with host John Berman, shared data showing the 167 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: percentage of Americans who were greatly worried about climate change 168 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: had not changed drastically and even dropped somewhat recently. 169 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: Let's get to this from CNN. 170 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 4: A lot of people will agree with Bill Gates that 171 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 4: maybe this wouldn't be the end of humanity. 172 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 2: And I think, you know, we've. 173 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 4: Been talking about climate change now for decades upon decades 174 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 4: upon decades and the worry in terms of climate change, 175 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 4: simply put, hasn't shifted. It has not reached the majority 176 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 4: of Americans. 177 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 2: What are we talking about greatly worried. 178 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 4: About climate change? 179 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 2: You go all the way back. 180 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 4: To nineteen hundred and eighty nine, it was thirty five percent, 181 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 4: two forty percent, twenty forty six percent, and in twenty 182 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 4: twenty five, look at that, it's forty percent, the same 183 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 4: number as we had twenty five years ago, back in 184 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 4: twenty in two thousand and then only just five points 185 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 4: higher than we had back in nineteen hundred and eighty nine. Really, 186 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 4: we've just seen consistency on this issue. The bottom line 187 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 4: is that the climate change message that folks who of 188 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 4: course believed that climate change is real and it's quite worth, 189 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 4: simply put, has not really worked with the American people. 190 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: In the meantime, General Motors is said to lay off 191 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: more than two thousand workers in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, citing 192 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: lower and slower ev sales than expected. GM's Detroit area 193 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: electric vehicle plant has been hit the hardest, twelve hundred 194 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: employees being informed that they were no longer needed. The 195 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: Detroit News reported that the all Electric Factories zero. Detroit 196 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: Assembly Center will shut down completely from November twenty fourth 197 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: until January fifth, after which it will operate on a 198 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: single shift. Around two thousand employees will stay employed at 199 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: the plant. Cuts will be based on seniority. They're saying 200 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: a lot of this has to do with the fact 201 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: that President Donald Trump did eliminate the Biden administration seventy 202 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: five hundred dollars EV tax credit cut back on regulations 203 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: relating to gas power vehicles. GM said it would lose 204 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: one point six billion related to the changes the company 205 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: would have to make to its EV rollout. According to 206 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: NBC News, the elimination of the EV tax credit regulatory 207 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: changes have also affected major EV companies like Tesla and 208 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: Rivian and other auto giants that have focused on producing 209 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: more electric vehicles. Tesla's sales, of course, dropped last year. 210 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: GM and Ford have pumped the brakes on EV production 211 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: and due to the Trump Administration's recent actions. For its CEO, 212 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: Jim Farley no relation to phil predicted that the EV 213 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: adoption will now only be about five percent of the 214 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: US market, shocking that when it comes down to consumer 215 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: actual consumer demand now there really isn't that much demand 216 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: in the free market for EV's like anyone receiving government benefits, 217 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: if you're not prepared for those funds to be eliminated, 218 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: and that rings true when it comes to these auto manufacturers. 219 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 2: That's on you. We don't live in. 220 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: A world at least we shouldn't like what we've seen 221 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: with the COVID funds. And we all know how the 222 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: COVID relief funds have been squandered, used for fraud, mismanaged, 223 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: spent on things completely unrelated to COVID, and now you 224 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: have these government entities that we're relying on that extra 225 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: funding that never should have I mean even to this 226 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: day within our school systems in the Twin Cities where 227 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 1: they cry over the cutting off of COVID relief funds 228 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: because they've been using it for things that they shouldn't 229 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: have used it on. It should have been used for 230 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: items related to COVID, and if those things weren't necessary 231 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: to be funded anymore, then you stick it in a 232 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: fund someplace else and you certainly don't ask for more 233 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: money or you should be returning it. If we're really 234 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: going to be honest about it, Listen, it sucks that 235 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: people are going to go and lose their jobs. That 236 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: is a bummer, But at the same time, you also 237 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 1: have to understand these are the jobs that you've decided 238 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: to go and do, and you note these decisions are 239 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: being made by a corporation that you decided to go 240 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: and work for. So if you're not prepared for the 241 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: inevitability of certain funding to end and therefore having a dramatic, 242 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,959 Speaker 1: drastic and negative impact on the bottom line that could 243 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: cost jobs and billions of dollars, then that's on the 244 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: individuals who didn't prepare for the future. Lessons learned, teachable moments. 245 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: My father always says, coming up, Karine Jean Pierre's humiliating 246 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: book tour is even worse than you think. We may 247 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: have a visit from the AI overlords as well. We'll 248 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: also get back to the shutdown. We have some audio 249 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: to share. Schumer is flipping out. Will the Democrats cave 250 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: today or tomorrow to try to take advantage of making 251 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: sure that the snap benefits don't end. In the meantime, 252 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: here in Minnesota, air traffic controllers are trying to single 253 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: handedly stop the shutdown from occurring. 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Nope, more like a Barry Manilow situation. 270 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 2: I have no idea what that means. 271 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 8: Am. 272 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: I supposed to be aware of what a Barry Manilow 273 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: can't smile without you, Mandy, and I don't I know. 274 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm looking over at Dev and he's like, I don't know. 275 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know. I don't know what you're 276 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: talking about. I inquired from Big Jiggy. Maybe he'll answer, 277 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: or if you want to leave a talk back. If 278 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: you have an explanation to to that feel feel free. 279 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: All right, let's go here Karine Jean Pierre. It's been 280 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: a while as we've talked about her, she's been talking 281 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: a new book. I'm working off on an article here 282 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: from Glenn Beck's The Blaze, desperate attempt to cash in 283 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: on her time as the White House Press secretary not 284 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: going well. Sell them books is hard, don't I know it. 285 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: The Washington Post has even, Boy, the Washington Post is 286 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: really kind of bringing it. They provided clarity on the 287 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: Trump's focus being the ballroom, but adding the context that 288 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: comment was made specifically about renovations to the White House, 289 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 1: and now they're shredding kjp's book. It's called Independence Colon, 290 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: A look inside a broken White House outside the party lines, 291 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: a look into it doesn't matter, noting that it was 292 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: a doing that thing with my fingers. Fascinating book for 293 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: all the reasons. The reviewer confronted with one hundred and 294 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: eighty pages worth of Corine Jean Pierre's thoughts written in 295 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: the out moded register of one of those lawn signs, 296 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: proclaiming that in this house we believe kindness is everything, 297 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: expressed amazement that someone who writes in such feel good 298 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: thought repelling cliches, was hired to communicate with the nation 299 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: from its highest podium. It's amazing the clarity that suddenly 300 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: has now arrived on so many different issues when Republicans 301 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: are in charge. The Post concluded on the basis of 302 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: the book that Jean Pierre had blinkered is a blinkered establishmentarian. 303 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: I had to look up blinkered by the way. I 304 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: had no idea what that meant. That's a horse wearing blinders. No, 305 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: I had no clue that's what blinkered meant. They go 306 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: on to say the kjp's recent departure from the Democrat 307 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: Party and identification as independent seems to be less of 308 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: a strategy than a style whose thinking remains so decidedly 309 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: in the box and who appears to have little authentic 310 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: understanding of why her erstwhile party's approval rating has cratered. 311 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: Journalist Matt Tayebi's review of the book for The Free 312 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 1: Press was similarly damning not too surprising, dubbing it history's 313 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: most incoherent memoir. So In the book, Jean Pierre reportedly 314 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: rejects the obvious justification for Biden being ousted the mental 315 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: and physical state that had him tumbling and mumbling and bumbling, 316 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: and claims that she saw Biden every day and saw 317 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: no such decline. Perhaps worse than the reviews for the 318 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: book are Jean Pierre's efforts to actually sell it on tour. 319 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: For instance, KJP befuddled a sympathetic journalist with a series 320 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 1: of word salads. In her recent interview with The New Yorker, 321 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: Isaac chot At Tanier repeatedly pressed KJP on her explanation 322 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: of how and why the Democrat Party supposedly undermined the 323 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: President Joe Biden ahead of twenty four election. When asked 324 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 1: a second time why Democrats had it out for Biden, 325 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: John Pierre said in an interview with The New Yorker 326 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,199 Speaker 1: that was edited for length and clarity, but essentially said this, 327 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 1: they believed that he needed to step aside. There's more 328 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: to this than just that period of time. This is 329 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: very layered, right. There's a period of time that I 330 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: questioned what I was, what was happening, and how do 331 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: we treat our own? How do we treat people who 332 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: are decent people? And then you have to think about 333 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: how am I thinking about this as a black woman 334 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: who was part of the LGBTQ community and living in 335 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: this time where I also don't think Democrats right now 336 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 1: Democrats leadership is protecting vulnerable people the way that it should. 337 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 2: This is just a word salad with no substance. 338 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: Can't imagine if I came on the air and I said, 339 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: you know what, every day as I prep for the show, 340 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 1: I think about these issues that I discuss as a 341 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: white man and a part of the community, a part 342 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: of humanity. She's always been stuck on her identity. It's 343 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: what gives her credibility in her mind. The interviewer responded, saying, 344 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be dense, but I'm 345 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: a little unclear what this has to do with Democrat 346 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 1: leaders and many Democrats in the country thinking that Joe 347 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: Biden was going to lose to Donald Trump, which is 348 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: what the polls all showed, and therefore thinking that he 349 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: should be replaced. After KJP launched into a rant about 350 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: how nobody knows about what could have alternatively happened, the 351 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: interviewer indicated that he had no idea what the former 352 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: Biden's box was even trying to say. A political writer 353 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: for Semaphore, who was also among the multitude of critics 354 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: awestruck by how badly this interview went, said, turns out 355 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: you can do a career ending interview even after your 356 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: career is over. She even failed in an interview with 357 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert that went off the rails. Colbert, just like 358 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: The New York The New Yorker asked, asked KJP how 359 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: to explain the Democrat Party betraying Biden, even though that's 360 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: the core claim in the former Press secretary's book. She 361 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: appeared unable to even answer the question, launching into his 362 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: speech about Biden's perceived accomplishments and how he was still engaging, 363 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: understood policy, and was always putting the American people first. 364 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: Colbert then pointed out that it takes more than that 365 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: to be the President of the United States, and in 366 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone 367 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 1: shock us and worry us, and nothing could assuage that worry. 368 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: So I don't think it was necessarily a betrayal of 369 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, as other people saying, we don't think we 370 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: were shown the Joe Biden that you saw. 371 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 2: So two things on this one. 372 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: KJP is really the perfect representation right now of a 373 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: clueless Democrat voter, even though she's identifying as an independent. 374 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: I'm reminded of the blinkered label here. How blinkered the 375 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: people like Colbert were, But they really weren't, though they 376 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: didn't really have blinders on. Really wasn't that they didn't 377 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: know Biden wasn't cognitive decline. They just knew they couldn't 378 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: hide it any longer because everybody saw it during that 379 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: June twenty seventh debate. 380 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 7: Yeah we. 381 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 3: Keleene walks in with the puffing and sway hair like 382 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 3: come up in on a bad hair. 383 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 9: Bag behind the make of painted on her eyes. For 384 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 9: resting bench faces, don't even try. 385 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 2: She's got to Mike. 386 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 9: In the room, goes l all hail the Queen of 387 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 9: Capital Hill, not the briding boat. But she's black and clear, 388 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 9: dropped in the headless like a white tail him. 389 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 2: She liked for a living. When she knew the shows. 390 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 3: She could have dropped a dime in a telephone booth. 391 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 3: Her brain's on vacation, but her smiles on. You Korean 392 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 3: wants a job with wooll beyond the few. Yay no 393 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 3: no no, no, no no no. 394 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 9: When she's asked if there's something wrong. 395 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 3: She flips through a bounder for the ladiest song. 396 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 9: She looks so cute and sings like a bird. 397 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 2: But don't you believe one single word? 398 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 9: Behind the podium, she builds her. 399 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 3: Disguise the Master's spin with the wink in her eyes. 400 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 3: They ask for the fact. 401 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 2: She gives them a play. 402 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 3: Karrian's in controlling her kind of bay she loved for 403 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 3: a living, but she knew the truth. She could have 404 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 3: turned the dime in and telefrono her brain's on vacation butt. 405 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 3: He smiles on you Korean wants a chop woll be 406 00:24:54,680 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 3: on the view, kay l l. 407 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: Thank you once again to the Twin Cities News Talk, 408 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: John Justice Show, house Band, the AI Overlords for that 409 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: always appreciated. So will they or won't they stop the 410 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: shutdown heading into the weekend, that's the question. It would 411 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: be the smartest move right now to make four Democrats. 412 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: They're doing all that they can right now to perpetuate 413 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 1: the false notion that the Republicans are responsible for this shutdown. 414 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, yesterday Schumer just melting down, 415 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: basically screaming at any opportunity he possibly could to get 416 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 1: behind a microphone in front of a camera to push 417 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: this false idea that nobody is buying. 418 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 10: Right now, we are saying the Republicans can fund it now, 419 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 10: and they're using these people as hostages, plain and simple. Next, 420 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 10: that's the answer. The answer is they can fund it 421 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,400 Speaker 10: right now. Okay, right now. 422 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: And the answer is they don't have the votes, and 423 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: you guys are keeping it shut down so that Schumer 424 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: and others can go and do and say that very thing. 425 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 2: Send it. 426 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: Majority of Leader John Thune went off yesterday, and there 427 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: were many individuals who've worked with Thune in the past 428 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: who know his behavior and decorum, typically saying that he 429 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: rarely ever gets this fired up during congressional testimony yesterday, and. 430 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 11: We tried to do that thirteen times. You voted no 431 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 11: thirteen times. This is a political game. These are real 432 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 11: people's lives that we're talking about, and you all just 433 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 11: figured out twenty nine days in that oh, there might 434 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 11: be some consequences there are people. 435 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 2: Will run out of money. 436 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 11: Yeah, we're twenty nine days in and they've done their 437 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 11: best to make sure a lot of these programs are funded, 438 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 11: but at some point the government runs out of money. 439 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 11: Thirteen times people over here voted a fund snap thirteen 440 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 11: times they voted the fund which I aching back finally 441 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 11: realize this thing has consequences. Well, you know what what 442 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 11: Democrats are doing here. They're making plans to keep the 443 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 11: shutdown going. 444 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: Yep. 445 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: They want to see if it'll help those elections coming 446 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: up next week and how long can they push it 447 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: And right now they don't have an answer yet. We've 448 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: seen the ramp up of commentary from the loudest voices online, 449 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,719 Speaker 1: which is never representative of the public at large. 450 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 2: The legacy media. 451 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,479 Speaker 1: Hasn't bought on to this beyond allowing Democrats to go 452 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: on to their shows to complain. And while they've done 453 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: a good job in some cases pushing back on some 454 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: of the more egregious lies that they've been spreading, they 455 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: still aren't pushing back hard enough on the vote count 456 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: in the Senate. That's really keeping the shutdown from ending locally, 457 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: air traffic controllers, And it seems a little bit silly, 458 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: but some air traffic controllers are apparently hoping that they 459 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: can single handedly stop all this shutdown on nonsense. Check 460 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: out this story from Fox nine. Hey, y'all, were air 461 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: traffic controllers looking for any support and the government shutdown. 462 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 12: At nineteen airports across the country, including here at MSP. 463 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 12: We'd like to get paid for the work that we 464 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 12: do one day, blitz bite your traffic controllers. 465 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 7: By every day. 466 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 3: So of course, y'all perfect, I've received it. 467 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 5: Thank you. 468 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 12: Handing out leaflets at direct travelers how to help apply 469 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 12: pressure on Washington. 470 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: You could just go to the back and it takes 471 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: ten seconds to message your congressman or senator we want. 472 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 2: To end a shutdown. 473 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: Thank you. 474 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 5: So today was our very first day of a zero 475 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 5: dollar paycheck. Two weeks ago we got a partial paycheck. 476 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 12: There are more than ten thousand controllers nationwide, more than 477 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 12: four hundred in Minnesota. They say they're working mandatory overtime, 478 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 12: many on six d eight weeks and. 479 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 2: Now without pay. 480 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 12: Their message does not take sides, does not lay political blame. 481 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 12: I simply say both parties need to negotiate and get 482 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 12: this done. 483 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, we're definitely ponds in the system, and we just 484 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 5: believe that we deserve to be paid for the work 485 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 5: that we're doing and we shouldn't be used in the middle. 486 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 5: I mean, we can see it what's happening. 487 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 12: In other parts of the country. Flight delays have crapped up. 488 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 12: Is controller absences are rising at MSP. That has not 489 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 12: happened yet. 490 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,080 Speaker 1: Hi, we're airtrapic controllers looking at and the government shutdown 491 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: support But they. 492 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 12: Say a stressful job has only gotten more so not 493 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 12: knowing when the paychecks will resume. 494 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 2: It takes ten seconds. We ter we appreciate it, thank. 495 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 12: You, thank you, and the controllers too tell me that 496 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 12: they are getting support from others in the airline industry, 497 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 12: whether it's the flight attendants or the pilots or the 498 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 12: airlines themselves that have been delivering food up to the 499 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 12: tower here at MSP. But again really looking as the 500 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 12: paychecks now have ended to really hoping to put that 501 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 12: pressure on Washington to get everybody back up and get 502 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 12: the paychecks rolling again because they're concerned about what this 503 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 12: could lead to in terms of delays. At MSP International 504 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 12: rebels Fox nine. 505 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: So again story there from Fox nine. They didn't go 506 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: into detail and explain, well, what are they doing, like 507 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: I assume that these workers are still going to work 508 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: and still doing their or have they gotten other people 509 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: to go and handle it for them temporarily. One more 510 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: quick clip regarding the shutdown you do see some cracks 511 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: taking place within the Democrat party. On Fox News yesterday, 512 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: Representative Democrat Representative josh On Gotttheimer ended up laying out 513 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: what was probably like the sanest thing I've heard of 514 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: Democrats say in a long long time on Fox. 515 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 13: Would you call on Senate Democrats to just go ahead 516 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 13: past the cr. 517 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,959 Speaker 2: So that that won't happen and that you can continue 518 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 2: to negotiate? 519 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 13: Well, I think we actually, I mean, it doesn't solve 520 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 13: the health insurance problem, the premium problem. I think, what's 521 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 13: a very fair deal and is open the government and 522 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 13: lets us vote on extending these premiums for a year 523 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 13: or more. 524 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 2: Well, I don't understand what's so hard about that. 525 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 13: And by the way, Senator Thune has offered that, I 526 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 13: believe he said we'll have a you'd offered up a 527 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 13: vote that we can actually have a vote on extending 528 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 13: these premiums. I think when put to it, you're going 529 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 13: to see Democrat and Republicans senators and congressmen and women 530 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 13: want to vote for that. Why would you not want 531 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 13: to vote to extend help with these tax credits, get 532 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 13: premiums down for people. You know, people are getting hurt, right, 533 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 13: now in their pop books, they're really really help. 534 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 2: So why not give them some help? 535 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 7: All right? 536 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 8: Is there some reason that an air traffic controller can't 537 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 8: actually get hired and paid by the actual airport that 538 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 8: they work at. I just don't understand why they're affected 539 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 8: by the government shutdown. 540 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 2: Well, that's a question that I have. 541 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: Again, I would have liked and then Fox News story 542 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: for there to be some sort of explanation of what 543 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: is actually taking place right now. Obviously there are air 544 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: traffic controllers that are working in the tower or else 545 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: you wouldn't see flights continuing to leave and derive like 546 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: I did on my drive in this morning here too 547 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: twin City's News Talk. I am going to guess that 548 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: in order to be an air traffic controller that this 549 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: has to be attached to the government in some way, 550 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,640 Speaker 1: shape or form. I'm probably the easiest answer, but listen 551 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: beyond that speculation, I don't know, but it is a 552 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: great question. We'll get some more of your comments coming 553 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: up from the iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndahl Realty. 554 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: The Minnesota House DFL put a post on x yesterday 555 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: that I don't think was the humble brag that they 556 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: thought it was, and then I want to talk a 557 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: bit about what's going on in Minneapolis. The Precarious State 558 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: documentary alerted me to a publication that I didn't know existed, 559 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: that I've spent some time with over the course of 560 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: the past few days. And what they're exposing of the 561 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:49,400 Speaker 1: Cydney Council, there is nothing short of astonishing, really interesting, 562 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: on the ground commentary of what's taking place in Minneapolis 563 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: you do not want to miss coming up on Twin 564 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: Cities News Talk AM eleven thirty and one oh three 565 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: five FM.