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Speaker 4: Can somebody please tell me when people are going to

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Speaker 5: Hey, John, So what you're saying is you want every

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that again, that's a problem that I have

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Speaker 11: Maybe the Minneapolis Times could do a promo on the

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Speaker 1: Based off the coverage that I've seen out of this publication,

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Speaker 1: Are you working in a field? Is he bailing Hay

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Speaker 1: out of curiosity? Are in child Hurry? Doesn't see drug

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Speaker 1: directly to MPD in my office. And this is where

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Speaker 1: the article writer in the Minneapolis Time, Michael Baskins and

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Speaker 1: Carol Becker, this is when they do not do any

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Speaker 1: good to their own commentary because they add, yes, conservatives

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Speaker 1: may be circulating through our neighborhoods and we should be afraid.

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Speaker 1: Why they're doing good work and calling this stuff out

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Speaker 1: and hopefully there's people that are reading this. Hopefully it'll

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Speaker 1: my larger takeaway from all of this, is that there

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Speaker 1: and want to see change, and I believe that that

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Speaker 1: change is going to come eventually. The question is how

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Speaker 1: bad does it have to get for people to actually

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Speaker 1: go and wake up? But they do themselves no favors

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Speaker 1: when they buy into this. Conservatives maybe circulating in our neighborhoods,

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Speaker 1: and we should be afraid agreeing with a ridiculous assertion

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Speaker 1: by Wansley. It undercuts what they're laying out in this

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Speaker 1: article that I'm sharing with you. I'll get back to

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Speaker 1: you a few more points on this in a moment.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the iHeartRadio app. Your talkback's brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Lyndall Realty.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 12: Just based on sales tax alone for drug dealers, I'm offended.

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Speaker 12: As one who has to file and collect sales tax

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Speaker 12: every month. It's just offensive. Just based on that alone.

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Speaker 12: That should be where we could start cleaning up some

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Speaker 12: people who are accepting that they're committing crimes by allowing

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Speaker 12: this sales tax people.

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Speaker 13: I have experienced working with a couple of organizations that

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Speaker 13: used to deal with homelessness, and what I discovered while

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Speaker 13: I was working with those groups is that most people,

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Speaker 13: if offered the chance for a place to a warm

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Speaker 13: place to live, a chance at a job to clean

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Speaker 13: themselves up, they will choose the drugs. They will choose

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Speaker 13: to live on the streets without any strings, and they'll

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Speaker 13: refuse services to help them get a leg up.

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Speaker 1: Getting back to the council, member Wansley up for reelection

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Speaker 1: rallying against free speech. Her defensive free speech depends on

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Speaker 1: the issue. She berated the university with what she view

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Speaker 1: it is insufficient support for free speech. Earlier this year,

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Speaker 1: after eleven pro Palestinian protesters at the University of Minnesota

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Speaker 1: barricaded themselves in an administrative hall on campus. During that event,

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Speaker 1: the protesters burglarized and vandalized the building while locking staff

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Speaker 1: within the building. Wansley supported this free speech action and

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Speaker 1: then went so far in December of twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: to author a resolution supporting the pro Palestinian student protesters.

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Speaker 1: The resolution says these protesters should not be charged for

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Speaker 1: any of their crimes, arguing that free speech protection should

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Speaker 1: extend to property crimes committed during the protest. But that's

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Speaker 1: not how free speech works, and certainly not how Wansley.

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Speaker 1: Free speech works when it is a conservative group like

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Speaker 1: Turning Point, they should be shut down. When it is

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Speaker 1: protesting Palestine and other important groups that should be supported

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Speaker 1: to the point of dropping criminal charges for people who

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Speaker 1: did violence as part of their free speech. The article

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Speaker 1: wraps up with Minneapolis deserves more principled reps presentation on

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Speaker 1: the City Colouncil to represent the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis,

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Speaker 1: And again I agree, but unfortunately this is the whole

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Speaker 1: of the Democrat Party right now, and the article writers

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Speaker 1: did themselves no favor by agreeing with the ridiculous assertion

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Speaker 1: of concerns over conservative circulating in particular neighborhoods. If we're

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Speaker 1: looking at irrational viewpoints and criticizing them, then going and

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Speaker 1: agreeing with that makes them know better than Wansley on

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Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things.

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Speaker 13: You know, I'm so sick of the gaslighting by liberals

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Speaker 13: on the whole who's violent and who's the threat to

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Speaker 13: society and who's going to lose their crap? If you know,

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Speaker 13: if people hear the wrong thing. Have we not seen

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Speaker 13: enough evidence that it's the left that are violent when

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Speaker 13: they don't get their way, when they hear something they

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Speaker 13: don't like, when they see something they don't like enough already,

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Speaker 13: I mean it just they can never produce any examples.

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk didn't use hate speech. He used speech they hated.

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Speaker 2: Part of the age old conflict between light and darkness.

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Speaker 2: The dark side always tries to suppress the truth and

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Speaker 2: hide it from us.

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Speaker 1: So keeping on Minneapolis for just a moment. Once the

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Speaker 1: intent to strike is filled by Minneapolis teachers union members

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Speaker 1: could walk out of classroom just ten days later. Now

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis school families are coming up with their own plans

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Speaker 1: if the teachers do go and strike. You have individuals

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Speaker 1: now that are hoping that the strike won't last long,

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Speaker 1: and if it does, they're planning on Like Alyssa Blair,

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Speaker 1: a server at Hazel Northeast, has two children who attend

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Speaker 1: Northeast Middle School. During the last teachers strike, she leaned

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Speaker 1: on family and friends to help watch your kids. Just

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Speaker 1: planning on doing the same thing if teachers walk out

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Speaker 1: of the classroom. If the teacher strike happens, the Minneapolis

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Speaker 1: Parks and Recreation Board says they're working on a plan

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Speaker 1: to add hours and programs at centers around the city,

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Speaker 1: just like they did during the last teachers strike in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. And hey, we already know that they

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Speaker 1: can go and get free breakfast starting on Monday over

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Speaker 1: at the Hope Breakfast Bars, they got free pancakes from

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Speaker 1: seven to nine o'clock. Just wanted to give them an

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Speaker 1: extra plug here. In the meantime, at least two dozen

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Speaker 1: high schools are scrambling to figure out where they're going

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Speaker 1: to hold graduations this spring after the University of Minnesota

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Speaker 1: abruptly canceled the ceremonies at Mariucci Arena. The university told

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Speaker 1: administrators about the decision on Tuesday, and in a statement

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Speaker 1: to care eleven yesterday, they said it was too expensive

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Speaker 1: to the events, a spokesperson wrote, in part, hosting more

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Speaker 1: than twenty outside events with thousands of attendees over a

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Speaker 1: two week period represents a significant strain on the university's

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Speaker 1: limited resources that is no longer sustainable. Now, some schools

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Speaker 1: are considering moving ceremonies back on site, while others are

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Speaker 1: exploring different venues.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: The timing of it is unfortunate. That's a quote doing

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Speaker 1: that thing with my fingers from Senator Michael Crhan, who

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Speaker 1: serves the North Metro including the Innoka Hennepin School District.

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Speaker 1: Senator Crwin wrote a strongly worded letter on Wednesday to

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Speaker 1: to the US President asking her to reconsider this decision.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they've been talking about it, and they didn't

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Speaker 1: even bother to bring the school district into the conversations

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Speaker 1: and make the decision with them, and that would have

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Speaker 1: been more respectful and responsible, said Senator Cruhin. A spokesperson

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Speaker 1: for the Yanoka Hennepin said it was planning to hold

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Speaker 1: four high school ceremonies at Mayor in the spring. It

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Speaker 1: has done that for several years because the space can

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Speaker 1: accommodate upwards of five thousand people. So this hits a

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Speaker 1: little bit home for me, just because we went to Kyle,

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Speaker 1: our youngest graduation ceremony when he just wrapped up graduating

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Speaker 1: from from high school at Blaine. A couple of things

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Speaker 1: really interesting experience. By the way, it was the first

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Speaker 1: time we'd gone through that, only because Logan my oldest

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Speaker 1: just simply didn't want to go through the process of graduation.

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Speaker 1: He didn't give a rip about it, which raises the

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Speaker 1: question for me that I want to ask you, do

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Speaker 1: I need to still have these elaborate ceremonies. I'll get

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Speaker 1: to that again in just a moment. But you have

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Speaker 1: many both on the left and the right, in the

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Speaker 1: wake of this, saying the university serves the public and

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Speaker 1: not the other way around. Now I can't help but

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Speaker 1: wonder how long until graduation is deemed not inclusive? Trying

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Speaker 1: to get into the mind of a liberal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how can we celebrate kids graduating when there's some kids

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Speaker 1: that don't. Now, currently we have far too many students

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Speaker 1: that are graduating that shouldn't because of the standards that

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Speaker 1: we've lowered. Well, I said we, I'm sorry, my apologies

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Speaker 1: that Governor Tim Walls has lowered and the DFL has lowered.

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Speaker 1: Far too many students are graduating they shouldn't be graduating.

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Speaker 1: But were we to have leadership changeover with Republicans winning

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Speaker 1: elections and we increase the standards again, yeah, I can

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Speaker 1: imagine there would be an argument from the progressive left

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Speaker 1: that would move forward to end graduations in and of themselves.

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Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you your comments on

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Speaker 1: this one. How do you feel about the University of

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Speaker 1: Minnesota announcing it's no longer going to host these high

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Speaker 1: school graduations, believing a lot of these in the lurch.

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Speaker 1: But also, I mean, this is a tradition, and I

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Speaker 1: now my boys are graduated, so we're not having any

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Speaker 1: other children, so that doesn't affect me anymore. I'm just

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Speaker 1: wondering how important are graduation ceremonies. Are they still important?

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Speaker 1: How much did it matter to your kids? Is the

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Speaker 1: tradition itself important? I'd love to hear your thoughts. Leave

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Speaker 1: us ay talk back on the iHeart Radio app. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to those coming up in just a moment. Brought

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Speaker 1: with the theme from Alfnows Men's restrooms at Minnesota state

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Speaker 1: colleges are now stocked with menstrual products. I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: Tim Walls is incredibly happy about that.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready to get they