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Speaker 1: Hour two Twin Cities News Talk.

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Speaker 2: AM eleven thirty and one O three five FM on

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Speaker 2: a Freedom Friday.

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Speaker 1: Guest joining us.

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Speaker 2: At studio Catherine Johnson from American Experiment. She should be

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Speaker 2: here in the next ten minutes or so waiting to

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Speaker 2: hear from Representative Walter Hudson and ak Kamara. Should be

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Speaker 2: in some time before the final hour of the show

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Speaker 2: we just played, Hope Walls. She apparently thinks that all

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Speaker 2: of these posts online suddenly regarding Minnesota and her dad

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Speaker 2: and something but a bunch of Russian bots. She's very,

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Speaker 2: very confused.

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Speaker 3: The bots on this app lately are insane. I've literally

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Speaker 3: never had so many bots in my comments.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I think it's because like trumped that.

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Speaker 3: Minnesota is something he's gonna go after and be like

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Speaker 3: extremely racist towards.

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Speaker 4: A really awesome community in Minnesota.

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Speaker 5: And then well, Hope, sorry to say it, but your

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Speaker 5: daddy's on the way out, and so are you.

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Speaker 6: Good riddance our word, good morning. John Does Hope Alls

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Speaker 6: think getting likes on your comment means just saying like

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Speaker 6: every other word?

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Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it is. Maybe it's like a Jedi

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Speaker 2: mind trick, She says, like a lot in her post.

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Speaker 2: She'll get a lot of likes in her videos. We

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Speaker 2: continue the show from the six five to one carpet

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Speaker 2: plus next Day install studios here on Twin Cities News Talk.

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Speaker 7: I'm like Hope Walls, and like, I like the word

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Speaker 7: like because it's a likable, liking kind of a word,

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Speaker 7: and it's like, you know the way it is here,

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Speaker 7: and like Trump is racist, and.

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Speaker 2: Like I want to play the clips again. I have

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Speaker 2: more of Walls, but I got a couple of comments

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Speaker 2: that rolled in from last hour. This one, of course,

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Speaker 2: went viral yesterday.

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Speaker 1: This creates danger.

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Speaker 8: And I'll tell you what, in my time on this,

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Speaker 8: I'd never seen this before. People driving my house by

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Speaker 8: my house and using the R word in front of people.

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Speaker 1: This is shameful.

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Speaker 2: I want the details of what actually transpired. I honestly

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Speaker 2: want to know what were the circumstances, What were the circumstances,

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Speaker 2: Where was Governor Walls, what place were they driving by,

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Speaker 2: Who was saying the R word, and who were they

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Speaker 2: saying it too. I'm genuinely curious.

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Speaker 9: Tim Wallas thinks he's in danger because people are driving

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Speaker 9: by the Governor's mansion calling him retarded, but he was

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Speaker 9: in full support of protesting on the front lawns of

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Speaker 9: the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, John.

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Speaker 10: There's no way Governor Walls heard anybody's scrap yelling outside

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Speaker 10: of his door. There's a tunnel between his mansion and

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Speaker 10: his garage. He never sets foot outside of the door.

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Speaker 6: He goes through the.

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Speaker 10: Tunnel to get in his chauffeur limousine and goes wherever

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Speaker 10: he's going, comes back the same way. I worked on

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Speaker 10: it recently. I know about the tunnel, it's there. He

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Speaker 10: never goes outside. He never heard a damn thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe there's some insider at the Capitol that can

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Speaker 2: give us the backstory on what exactly Walls was referring to.

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Speaker 2: I'm an adventure I guess probably not because I'm an

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Speaker 2: adventure I guess the Walls is probably making the whole

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Speaker 11: Good morning, John Mitch here. So Tim Walltz is trying

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Speaker 11: to play the victim card. Obviously, we can see that

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Speaker 11: they always turn around the facts of what they're doing

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Speaker 11: and accuse their opponents.

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Speaker 6: Of doing it.

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Speaker 1: So I want to play.

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Speaker 2: Also, I got a couple of clips that rolled in

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Speaker 2: from another portion of the press conference yesterday talking about

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Speaker 2: the budget.

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Speaker 1: We'll be getting into that later on in the hour.

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Speaker 8: I tell our Tomale neighbors, I tell our Mong neighbors,

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Speaker 8: I tell all of our neighbors in minut so, do

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Speaker 8: you're respected, You're valued. We're proud of this state that

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Speaker 8: ranks near the top in almost every single category. And

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Speaker 8: I will tell you the only thing that's hurting this state,

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Speaker 8: as he so falsely claimed to a group of people,

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Speaker 8: is Donald Trump himself.

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Speaker 12: Hey, John Jerry Rosemound, Happy Freedom Friday. He says that

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Speaker 12: we're the top of the list in every category. What category?

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Speaker 12: We're not top in education, we're top in taxes, we're

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Speaker 12: toping fraud. We don't even have a winning football team.

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Speaker 12: What is he talking about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're not even triple bond rated anymore. So

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Speaker 2: he can't even lay claim to that.

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Speaker 13: The one thing in that press conference about the budget

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Speaker 13: yesterday was there's one dffler who was talking about, let's

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Speaker 13: put this myth to rest about us wasting money or something,

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Speaker 13: and you know, us playing all the money goes when

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Speaker 13: we had a surplus in money, he said, we've had

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Speaker 13: a surplus every year for I don't know how many years.

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Speaker 13: But we also have a deficit the next year when

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Speaker 13: it comes to the budget thing, and he said, we

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Speaker 13: don't have a spending problem. If you have surpluses and

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Speaker 13: deficits at the same time, something's wrong and you are

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Speaker 13: talking both.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, you're absolutely correct, And we're going to get back

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Speaker 2: into that very issue coming up in a bit here

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Speaker 2: on Twin Cities News Talk this issue of that eighteen

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Speaker 2: billion dollar surplus that went up in smoke, and it

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Speaker 2: may have been because of fraud, as DHS has now

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Speaker 2: halted the payments relating to the different programs and disability

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Speaker 2: waivers that a year ago Walls had said contributed to

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Speaker 2: going from an eighteen billion dollar budget surplus to the

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Speaker 2: largest deficit in the state's history. Now it was one

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Speaker 2: contributing factor, don't you know. Don't forget though, too the

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Speaker 2: Democrats went and blew through that money on these various programs.

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Speaker 2: They went and spent the surplus on top of what

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Speaker 2: may have been a portion of that eighteen billion dollars

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Speaker 2: going to fraud. Before we dive into that and get

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Speaker 2: to more of your talkbacks, I want to go here

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Speaker 2: briefly with an immigration update. US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement

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Speaker 2: did arrest at least twelve men in Minneapolis this month.

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Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security announced this on Thursday. Six

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Speaker 2: of the arrested men were from Mexico, five from Somalia,

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Speaker 2: one from El Salvador. The Department called ICE's focus on

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Speaker 2: the Twin Cities Operation Metro Surge. ICE agents have had

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Speaker 2: an increased presence in the Twin Cities in recent days,

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Speaker 2: including a raid in Saint Paul.

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Speaker 1: Last week.

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump indicated Somali's in Minnesota would be targeted

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Speaker 2: following his string of derogatory comments about the Somali community.

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Speaker 2: I'm working off the version here from the Star Tribune.

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Speaker 2: Dhs AS Secretary Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a

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Speaker 2: news release that ICE is protecting Minnesotan's by arresting the

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Speaker 2: worst of the worst. She said, sanctuary policies and politicians

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Speaker 2: like Tim Walls and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob frye that's man

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Speaker 2: baby me or mom jeans.

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Speaker 2: Allowed criminals to roam free in the streets. Jacob Fry

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Speaker 2: has voice concerns that federal agents would mistakenly target citizens. Listen,

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Speaker 2: if that happens, then you go and you do something

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Speaker 2: about it, you go through the necessary protocol to make

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Speaker 2: sure that that gets rectified.

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Speaker 1: Mistakes do happen.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they don't, but you don't simply

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Speaker 2: stop enforcing the law for fear that a mistake might

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Speaker 2: be made. And I haven't seen in the examples of

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Speaker 2: that actually occurring.

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Speaker 1: Either.

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Speaker 2: It's not clear how long ICE agents are planning to

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Speaker 2: continue Operation Metro Surge or if these arrests are related

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Speaker 2: to last week's raid in Saint Paul. Now, keeping with

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Speaker 2: the theme of illegal immigration, we will get into this

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Speaker 2: as well. The Minnesota paid family leave program is now

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Speaker 2: making national news. I have an article here from the

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Speaker 2: Daily Wire. Tim Walls just released a paid leave plan

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Speaker 2: for Minnesota that includes illegal immigrants. Now, what was really

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Speaker 2: interesting about this Yesterday? I want to play this clip

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Speaker 2: for you from Walls as well. This clip was when

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Speaker 2: Walls was talking about paid family medical leave earlier this week.

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Speaker 8: And one of the things is that has been missing

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Speaker 8: in America is what happens if you have a child,

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Speaker 8: how do you take time away and how do you

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Speaker 8: bond with that child? Which we know all the research

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Speaker 8: shows how big a difference that makes, or what happens

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Speaker 8: if you've got a family member that's sick. My family's

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Speaker 8: going through that right now with a mother in law,

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Speaker 8: Or what happens if you yourself have an illness and

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Speaker 1: The choice in the past was.

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Speaker 8: Lose your job or go broke, or care for yourself

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Speaker 8: or as we were just saying, if you're lucky enough

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Speaker 8: to have family support and people who do that, it's

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Speaker 8: not the way things should be done. And I continue

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Speaker 8: to say that the United States is about one of

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Speaker 8: program like this. Now we join the states that are

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Speaker 8: going to implement a paid family medical lead program.

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Speaker 2: It's such a fabricated argument. I'll bring some details from

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Speaker 2: the article from Daily Wire. We're going to get to

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Speaker 2: your talkbacks. I know a lot of you had comments

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Speaker 2: regarding paid family medical lead that we have not had

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Speaker 2: into next year in my opinion, next to fraud, because

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Speaker 2: it impacts everyone who is working here in Minnesota. Every

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Speaker 2: single working taxpayer owner to employee is affected by paid

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Speaker 2: family leave. Plus there seems to be a bit of

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Speaker 2: the show, so we'll continue to take your talkbacks on that.

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Speaker 1: I still have my gingerbread question that I will be unleashing.

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Speaker 2: And Catherine Johnson from American Experiment has a right she'll

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Speaker 2: on Twin City's News Talk along with your talkbacks from

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Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio app brought to you by Lyndall Realty.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, John, to quote the Lake Chris Farley, Holy schnikes.

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Speaker 6: I just looked at my hours or time that I

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Speaker 6: listened ten thousand and thirty seven minutes, which translates to

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Speaker 6: just under one hundred and sixty eight hours or an

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Speaker 6: entire week. Yikes, I've been listening to a lot.

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Speaker 4: Happy Friday.

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Speaker 15: I just looked, and I've listened to iHeartRadio twenty six thousand,

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Speaker 15: two hundred and ninety seven minutes in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 15: and of course, John, you were the most listened to.

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Speaker 15: I go back and I listened to all episodes. I

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Speaker 16: I want to know all.

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Speaker 4: The juice, all the tea, all the deeps. Have a

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Speaker 4: good weekend.

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Speaker 1: You know why you listen to me so much. It's

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Speaker 1: because an optimistic person. I'm not hysterical.

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Speaker 2: Jwentna City's News Talk Am eleven thirty one oh three

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Speaker 2: five FM from the six five to one Carpet plus

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Speaker 2: next day install Studios on a.

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Speaker 1: Thin freedom Friday.

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Speaker 2: So Ak Kamara should be here hopefully by eight o'clock

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Speaker 2: this morning. I do not know where Representative Walter Hudson

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Speaker 2: is at this point in.

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Speaker 16: Time paging I made it, but I am looking.

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Speaker 1: At Catherine Johnson from American Experiment.

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Speaker 17: You're here a.

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Speaker 2: Little bit later, but you have an excuse because you

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Speaker 2: guys had a big party last night.

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Speaker 16: We did have a big party last night, Thank you.

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Speaker 16: I met multiple john Justice people at our American Experiment

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Speaker 16: Christmas party. It was packed, our biggest one ever. We

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Speaker 16: Well, and yeah, new tax from businesses and people. Now,

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Speaker 2: Budget talk from yesterday, what the future outlook looks for

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Speaker 2: the state. There's some fantastic commentary coming out of Center

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Speaker 19: John, here's how easy fraud and medicaid happens in Minnesota.

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Speaker 19: Saw a fifty nine year old patient yesterday who moved

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Speaker 4: Thanks everybody for paying for.

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Speaker 17: His Good Morning, John Dan in New Brighton what Tim

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but according to Governor Tim Malls, then you couldn't

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Speaker 2: more of your thoughts coming up on twin Cday's News

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Speaker 2: Talk AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we have arrival times for the other

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Speaker 2: Freedom Friday guests. Catherine Johnson from American Experiment is in studio.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, fresh off of the holiday party for American Experiment.

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Speaker 16: I'm up in shipper.

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Speaker 1: I had the moment with Melinda again.

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Speaker 2: She was like, oh, did you see that in American

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Speaker 2: It goes because people know better than to invite me

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And Catherine and Grace are fully well aware of

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Speaker 16: Certainly. Yeah, I knew you would be long asleep before

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Speaker 2: So your schedule goes so we have ak Kamara R

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Speaker 16: Yeah, the things you can take time off for two

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine any excuse being brought forward that won't

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Speaker 16: Yeah, the language is so ambiguous that it's like it

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Speaker 2: The state run program takes effect on the first of January.

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Speaker 2: A website for the state expressly states then undocumented workers,

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Speaker 2: youth workers, and new workers are also covered. For those

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Speaker 2: of you that are leaving talkbacks now relating to questions

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Speaker 2: that you have for paid family medical leave as we

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Speaker 2: revisit this next hour. If you've left a talkback already

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Speaker 2: another one to sort of get it back up in

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Speaker 2: the queue.

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Speaker 1: You're always welcome to go and do that.

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Speaker 2: I try to stay as on top of them as

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Speaker 2: I can. But as we move through various topics, sometimes

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Speaker 2: the talkbacks get lost in the shuffle from previous conversations,

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Speaker 2: so if you have a question it doesn't get answered

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Speaker 5: Looking forward for the FMLA taxes and it going wrong?

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Speaker 5: But where's the money been going for the stupid delivery fee?

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Speaker 6: Tax dollars delivery? Where's that going? Has any forensics we

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Speaker 6: can do on that?

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Speaker 5: I have a feeling that it's being wasted or not

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Speaker 5: using what it was said was going to be used.

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Speaker 6: For I have a great day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to hold my breath for any

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Speaker 2: sort of any quick analysis on where any of that

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Speaker 2: money is going. But he's absolutely appropriate to go and ask.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, they clearly don't know where the money is going,

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Speaker 16: I think, is the answer.

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Speaker 6: Thank goodness.

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Speaker 14: Up until now we haven't been able to have children,

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Speaker 14: and we haven't been able to take care of our

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Speaker 14: elderly parents. Thank goodness for Timmy Walls and the Democrats

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Speaker 14: for allowing us to do that now by taxing the

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Speaker 14: living crap out of us. Here's a little hint to

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Speaker 14: hope it's better like to keep your mouth shut and

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Speaker 14: have people assume like you're dumb. Than to open your

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Speaker 14: mouth and like prove them right.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, he invoked a hope wauls. Did you hear

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Speaker 2: the clip I played earlier time?

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Speaker 16: I did?

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Speaker 1: I did well For those that may.

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Speaker 2: Have missed it, Sam went ahead in the master control

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Speaker 2: booth and he basically edited down to just the most

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Speaker 2: relevant parts of her commentary in her latest post.

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Speaker 20: Before you Play, John, it's the it's still the full

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Speaker 20: clip from this morning, but it's calling out highlighting the legs.

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Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha, Yeah, most relevant parts. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The bots on this app lately are insane. I've literally

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Speaker 3: never had so many bots in my like comments.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think it's because like Trump decided that Minnesota is

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Speaker 3: something he's gonna go after and be like extremely racist

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Speaker 3: towards a really awesome community in Minnesota, and then like

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Speaker 3: they get programmed to just like flag anything Minnesota and

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Speaker 3: just like be racist and horrible in people's comments. I

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Speaker 3: don't know, actually, but like I've I've never had so

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Speaker 3: many bots.

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Speaker 4: I always have like some, but it's like overrun. I

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Speaker 4: don't know.

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Speaker 3: Someone in Russia decided to program literally every bot on

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Speaker 3: the internet to play anything Minnesota in any like person.

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Speaker 4: That has anything to do with Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, so weird, like so weird. Good luck, y'all,

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Speaker 3: it's not gonna work.

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Speaker 2: This is actually really sad because what happened here with her.

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Speaker 1: This is my take on it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, my take on this is that Hope Walls is

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Speaker 2: getting inundated because of all the negativity surrounding her dad.

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Speaker 2: She's seeing all this negativity online. She's having a hard

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Speaker 2: time reconciling it. And as as as a daughter would,

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Speaker 2: I would anticipate that my son's if they were spending

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Speaker 2: time online and saw the amount of negativity that Walls

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Speaker 2: is receiving aimed at their dad, they too would be

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Speaker 2: questioning and wondering what was going on. And so the

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Speaker 2: cope here for Hope is to go and say, oh,

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Speaker 2: these where are these bots coming from? Because she simply

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to reconcileile what her subconscious is doing her.

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Speaker 2: And that is the reality that No, it's a lot

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Speaker 2: of people pointing out that your dad is a complete

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Speaker 2: and total failure as the governor of Minnesota.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I've always been surprised that she has a TikTok,

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Speaker 16: that she seems to be able to go on freely

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Speaker 16: and talk about these issues. My advice to her would

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Speaker 16: be stop doing that and do not respond, do not

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Speaker 16: do anything, or at least think about it and maybe

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Speaker 16: run it by your dad first. I mean, to have

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Speaker 16: all this stuff in the public view, that she's stating

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Speaker 16: her opinion on her views are going to change so

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Speaker 16: much in a couple of years. Let's what a lot

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Speaker 16: of people go through at that age, and so to

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Speaker 16: have all of that out there, I've always been surprised.

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Speaker 16: I've always been surprised, but I do I'm a little

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Speaker 16: sympathetic to the like girls. Okay, I've maybe fallen into

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Speaker 16: this category once or twice.

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Speaker 2: But you know, out of all of our Freedom Friday guests, Catherine,

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Speaker 2: you making that statement does not surprise me. And I

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Speaker 2: also know that you are not going to take offense

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Speaker 2: to that at all either. So I appreciate the yeah.

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Speaker 16: Well, and I did have a dad and a brother

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Speaker 16: who when it got to extreme would go, you know,

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Speaker 16: do like a mocking and say like like like. So

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Speaker 16: I had a little check insistent in place growing up.

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Speaker 16: I'm not sure howpe had that, but I appreciate that.

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Speaker 16: I that I got that.

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Speaker 21: Hey, John, they paid family leave benefits all the big

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Speaker 21: box stores and all the big corporations. It's just like

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Speaker 21: raising the minimum wage. The higher these things go, the

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Speaker 21: harder it is for the momb and Top Shop, and

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Speaker 21: the easier is to do everything with automation, AI and robotics.

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Speaker 21: That's what it's all about, is getting rid of people

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Speaker 21: and not having benefit packages.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to return to the paid family medical

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Speaker 2: leave again. We're going to wait for our guests to

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Speaker 2: join us in studio, and if you have further comments

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Speaker 2: on that, feel free to leave us talkbacks and we'll

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Speaker 2: try to get those questions in once we have RNC

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Speaker 2: Committee man Akkmar and Representative Walter Hudson in studio with us.

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Speaker 1: Catherine Johnson from American Experiment is here.

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Speaker 2: Katherine, I have a question for you before we talk

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Speaker 2: about the budget forecast here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Yes, on gingerbread houses, you're familiar.

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Speaker 16: I'm familiar. It's a bit of a triggering subject for me.

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Speaker 1: Maybe do you are you supposed to eat them?

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Speaker 16: No, that's like a hard lesson that I had to

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Speaker 16: learn as a child, that you don't eat them is

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Speaker 16: what I was told.

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Speaker 1: You were told you, you were told you don't eat gingerbread. House.

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Speaker 16: I believe this was maybe in preschool and I made

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Speaker 16: maybe kindergarten was a little young. He was, can you

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Speaker 16: run it? And I made a gingerbread house. I take

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Speaker 16: it home. It sits on the counter or whatever for

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Speaker 16: weeks until Christmas. Right after Christmas, I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 16: time to dig in, you know, to the gingerbread house.

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Speaker 16: And my mom said, absolutely not. It's been sitting on

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Speaker 16: the counter for weeks. It's not gonna be good anyway

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Speaker 16: from a food safety perspective. Okay, not probably what you

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Speaker 16: should do. We don't eat those, but we can go

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Speaker 16: get like the gram crackers if you want and like

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Speaker 16: eat that. And that was that's not appealing.

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Speaker 2: So we are talking about though, and I know Sam's

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Speaker 2: gonna chime in on this, but I just want to

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Speaker 2: and I'll get back to how this whole thing came about,

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Speaker 2: but not to push back because I I haven't landed

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Speaker 2: on a definitive opinion on this yet, which is why

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Speaker 2: I wanted to bring it up on the show this morning.

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Speaker 2: But you know, we are talking about food products that

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Speaker 2: for the most part, if you're gonna.

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Speaker 1: Have stuff sit out, it's pretty.

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Speaker 2: Much everything that is entailed relating to a gingerbread house.

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Speaker 2: I mean, these are these are these are solid food products.

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Speaker 2: You know, the frosting maybe, but the gingerbread itself.

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Speaker 1: But that's sitting out.

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Speaker 2: That's not a big deal when you look at all

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Speaker 2: the little details of the candies and whatever you put

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Speaker 2: on there.

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Speaker 1: So, Sam, what did you what did you want to

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Speaker 1: you want to chime in on this?

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Speaker 20: I just well, Catherine, I just had a question for you.

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Speaker 20: Were you not allowed to eat your gingerbread houses because

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Speaker 20: of the Hoa's or what's going on there?

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Speaker 1: He's he's bringing it back to the to the ho

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Speaker 1: A because of your views on h He went deep

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Speaker 1: on that. I know were you, I know where you were,

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Speaker 1: you know where you were going there.

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 16: You know what, that's a great point. Maybe maybe my

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Speaker 16: gingerbread house was involved in HOA where I was allowed

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Speaker 16: to eat it. I don't know.

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Speaker 20: I have a community of Hoa gingerbread houses at home.

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Speaker 16: Is that my happiness lives in an hoa run by

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Speaker 16: a fascist?

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Speaker 4: I forgot about that.

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Speaker 16: I was still true by the way.

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Speaker 20: I was the kid. This kind of tells you a

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Speaker 20: lot about me. I was the kid that had to

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Speaker 20: use milk cartons to keep my gingerbread house stable. So

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Speaker 20: I would not have eaten my gingerbread houses anyway because

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Speaker 20: they had milk cartons.

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Speaker 2: So Melinda and I are watching, So I like watching.

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Speaker 2: We like watching the baking shows together.

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Speaker 16: Oh, which one like Great British.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't watch.

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Speaker 2: We didn't We watched the new holiday episodes of The

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Speaker 2: Great British Baking Show. We haven't watched this season of

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Speaker 2: The Great British Baking Show. There's a bunch on HBO Max,

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Speaker 2: by the way. It just has a real quick side

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Speaker 2: note on that. Apparently HBO Max has gone and purchased

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Speaker 2: or Netflix is buying Warner Brothers and HBO Max for

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Speaker 2: eighty two point seven billion dollars, So potentially all of

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Speaker 2: Warner Brothers and HBO Max content could just end up

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. We're gonna have like one streaming platform rule

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Speaker 2: to rule them all.

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Speaker 16: We're getting closer and closer to that point where we

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Speaker 16: just have cable in a different form of cable, and

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Speaker 16: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 2: So we're watching this gingerbread competition because what happens is

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Speaker 2: we get caught up on the baking shows and we

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Speaker 2: got a way for the new ones to air because

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Speaker 2: they don't release them all at the same time. So

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Speaker 2: we're looking for shows to watch and this is what

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Speaker 2: we watch, saying, you know, this is what we watch

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Speaker 2: it during the week, and so we're watching it and

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Speaker 2: I'm realizing watching this, this this gingerbread house baking competition

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Speaker 2: where they're given, you know, different themes for every.

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Speaker 1: Competition that they're not there's no taste test involved.

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Speaker 16: Why why is it The taste isn't relevant.

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Speaker 1: But it is in every other, every other baking show.

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Speaker 16: That's a good point. But you're not really baking, are you.

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Speaker 16: I mean, what did they make? Yeah, they're making your

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Speaker 16: gingerbread assembling.

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Speaker 18: Oh yeah, they're making all the all the items and

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Speaker 18: the gingerbread. So, like I asked her, we got through

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Speaker 18: like two or three, We got like through two episodes

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Speaker 18: that I'm like, wait a second, they're not having any

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Speaker 18: taste portion to the competition, which raised the question of

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Speaker 18: are you supposed to eat a gingerbread house.

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Speaker 1: I think that's how this whole thing came about.

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Speaker 16: I think to solve this, along with the sides of

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Speaker 16: the house, you got to make some little guys or

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Speaker 16: or gals, little ginger gal guys, and uh, you can

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Speaker 16: snack on those while you're while you're putting the house together,

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Speaker 16: and then the house is decorative and the people are edible.

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Speaker 20: Okay, if I was the producer that see, my mind

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Speaker 20: went to, if I was the producer on that show,

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Speaker 20: just put the bowls with all the batter off to

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Speaker 20: the side. I'll taste test those and let you know

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Speaker 20: who the winner is.

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Speaker 2: I was just genuinely I would want to go and

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Speaker 2: eat the gingerbread house, like I think it's okay, even

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Speaker 2: if it was maybe there's a maybe there's a limitation,

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Speaker 2: maybe there's so many days at which but to me,

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Speaker 2: that's the fun of having it.

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Speaker 1: I think if we're if.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to land somewhere, I was gonna land on,

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Speaker 2: I want to go and eat the gingerbread house when

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden done.

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Speaker 20: In this case, I would agree with you, John, because

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Speaker 20: I'm assuming they made the gingerbread houses right then and there,

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Speaker 20: so they're they're fresh, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're making them on the floor.

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Speaker 16: But why are you putting together a gingerbread house if

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Speaker 16: you're just gonna eat it?

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Speaker 1: I know, I know.

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Speaker 2: Right after well, I guess that to that question, I go, well,

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Speaker 2: why are we having this baking competition at all. Why

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Speaker 2: don't we just have a competition on you building little

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Speaker 2: miniature houses. I guess that's what we're doing. But they're

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Speaker 2: calling it a gingerbread house. Just the food aspect of

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Speaker 2: it seems lost. I do like what the creations that

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Speaker 2: they make. Eat the gingerbread houses. I'm with you, John,

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Speaker 2: You're with Anything's okay, you're on your pro eat the

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Speaker 2: gingerbread house. I say, eat the gingerbread house. You were

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Speaker 2: told in the past, don't eat the gingerbread house. But

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Speaker 2: what do you how do you really feel?

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Speaker 16: I'm kind of don't eat it. I don't think it's

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Speaker 16: that good anyway. I mean, I think it's better as

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Speaker 16: a decorative object.

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Speaker 2: All right, do you have any thoughts on this? Leave

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Speaker 2: us a talkback on the iHeartRadio app. Those are brought

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Speaker 2: to you by Lyndahl Realty. You know, see this is

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Speaker 2: what I said. Remember, I thought that this was gonna

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Speaker 2: be like a massive like everybody's gonna want to chime

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Speaker 2: on this every single time I do that got nothing

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Speaker 2: so far. I've got fifty paid family leave talkbacks in

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Speaker 2: here that I haven't head of. Jest to get to you,

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Speaker 2: but I expected that I've been holding off on this

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Speaker 2: very topic because I'm like, I'm gonna get slammed. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna get slamm with people wanting to talk about gingerbread houses.

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Speaker 2: And all I'm getting is.

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Speaker 4: You're fascinating to talk to.

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Speaker 1: We'll see.

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Speaker 20: I wish I had a cricket sound effect.

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Speaker 2: Every I know we do. I know everything is on

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Speaker 2: a slight delay. So maybe everybody's just holding off on that.

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Speaker 2: So while your talkbacks roll in and you prove that

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Speaker 2: I was correct that you are very interested in gingerbread

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Speaker 2: houses on a Freedom Friday. Five takeaways from the budget Forecasts.

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Speaker 2: So Minnesota's Management and Budget released the budget forecast yesterday

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Speaker 2: showing a two point four billion dollars surplus in the

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Speaker 2: current biennium going through twenty twenty seven and a two

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Speaker 2: point nine billion dollar deficit in the next twenty eight

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Speaker 2: to twenty nine. So Bill Walsh, the center of the

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Speaker 2: American Experiment Rights, Here are the five takeaways from Bill,

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Speaker 2: whose opinion I greatly respect. First off, the structural imbalances

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Speaker 2: he mentions, even though there's enough cash in the bank

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Speaker 2: to support the current surplus, structural deficit between spending and

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Speaker 2: revenues persists. So when the dust settles, Minnesota is projected

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Speaker 2: to take sixty six point two six two billion and

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Speaker 2: spend sixteen point four billion, a difference of two point

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Speaker 2: one billion. Essentially, the structural deficit will grow to four

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Speaker 2: point four almost four point five billion in the next

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Speaker 2: biennium if nothing is done to align spending with the

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Speaker 2: projected revenue. And that's one of the questions I want

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Speaker 2: to ask Walter Hudson when he joins US is how

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Speaker 2: do we do that? I mean, are we capable of

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Speaker 2: aligning with the spending with the projected revenue given the

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Speaker 2: makeup of the legislature right now?

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Speaker 16: Well, you know, if they did something about fraud, that

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Speaker 16: would make a good tent there is that.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you.

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Speaker 6: Here.

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Speaker 2: The other takeaway that Bill Walsh has on the budget

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Speaker 2: forecast is Governor Wallson Democrats in Minnesota continued to blame Trump,

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Speaker 2: as Walls did yesterday.

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Speaker 8: I tell our to Molly neighbors, I tell our long neighbors,

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Speaker 8: I tell all of our neighbors in Minnesota your inspected,

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Speaker 8: You're valued. We're proud of this state that ranks near

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Speaker 8: the top in almost every single category.

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Speaker 6: And I will tell you. The only thing.

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Speaker 8: That's hurting this state, as he so falsely claimed to

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Speaker 8: a group of people, is Donald Trump himself.

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Speaker 16: Can I make one point of it, absolutely before we

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Speaker 16: get to this.

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Speaker 1: Week, make all the points you want.

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Speaker 16: Don't bring the Mung into this. Who's mad about the Mung.

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Speaker 16: I've not done anything wrong whatsoever. They are a great community,

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Speaker 16: I think, and to say the other one isn't. But

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Speaker 16: we do have a problem right now that's persisting within

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Speaker 16: the Somali community. This isn't just a racism issue against

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Speaker 16: all people of color, which is what he seems to think.

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Speaker 16: This is a specific fraud issue within a community and

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Speaker 16: within his government that we're trying to address. He just

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Speaker 16: fundamentally can't understand that.

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Speaker 2: I had a really interesting conversation with fellow iHeartRadio talk

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Speaker 2: show host Mandy Connell out of Denver early this week,

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Speaker 2: and obviously she had me on to talk about the

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Speaker 2: issues we were facing regarding fraud here in Minnesota, and

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Speaker 2: they've had similar circumstances with an influx of immigrants from Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we haven't talked about it in a long time,

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Speaker 2: but remembered we had you had the the Venezuelan immigrants

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Speaker 2: that were taking over entire housing complexes that were basically,

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Speaker 2: you know, ruling them ruling over these housing complexes.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't get them removed, and it was it.

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Speaker 2: Was an interesting conversation in terms of the comparison of

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Speaker 2: what a state like Colorado is dealing with with their

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Speaker 2: influx of immigrants and a place like Minnesota, because they

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Speaker 2: too have various groups of immigrants that live in the state,

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Speaker 2: but there was a commonality here wherein while they're facing

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Speaker 2: an issue relating to Venezuelans causing difficulty, the other immigrant

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Speaker 2: populations are just going about living their lives, abiding by

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Speaker 2: the law and not causing any problems. And we have

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Speaker 2: a very similar circumstance here in Minnesota. We have a

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Speaker 2: lot of different immigrants groups here, but it really just

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Speaker 2: appears at the moment that the only one we're having

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Speaker 2: a significant issue with is the Somali community. It is

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Speaker 2: a fraction of that large Somali community, but it is

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Speaker 2: the majority. Once again, of the fraud that is taking

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Speaker 2: place is coming from that Somali community and not from

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Speaker 2: other immigrant communities as well.

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Speaker 16: And it is okay to talk about the difficulties that

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Speaker 16: some communities have assimilating more than others. That is not

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Speaker 16: a racist thing to talk about. Whatsoever, assimilation into America

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Speaker 16: and an American culture is crucial for us to stay

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Speaker 16: connected and for us to stay functional as a country,

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Speaker 16: and so it is not a problem at all to

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Speaker 16: point out there is much more of an assimilation problem

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Speaker 16: in some communities than others.

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Speaker 2: Getting back to Bill Walsh's briefly, we have gotten we

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Speaker 2: have received quite a few gingerbreadhouse talkbacks.

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Speaker 1: Yes, some good ones in here. I feel so much

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Speaker 1: better about myself now.

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Speaker 2: So Bill Walsh also says takeaways from the budget forecast

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Speaker 2: outside audit scope of fraud is due in late January.

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Speaker 2: US Attorney Joe Thompson says that we're still looking because

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Speaker 2: we have outside auditors working on getting a number that

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Speaker 2: will be released in late January. Because Walls challenged the

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Speaker 2: public estimates relating to fraud, so we do have some

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Speaker 2: independent investigation in an audit going on. So we'll have

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Speaker 2: a firm number come late January.

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Speaker 16: Okay, we He challenges the When Joe Thompson is the

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Speaker 16: one who said billions, what you challenge him? You think

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Speaker 16: he's wrong? Governor Walls.

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Speaker 2: Walls is trying to say face for as long as

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Speaker 2: he possibly can. He's on a sinking ship. I'm convinced

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Speaker 2: the clock is ticking on him, and Bill Walsh in.

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Speaker 1: Points to this.

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Speaker 2: He talks about the Capitol press corps turning on Walls.

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Speaker 2: Governor Tim Walls used to be used to have a

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Speaker 2: very friendly press corps in Minnesota. It explains how surprised

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Speaker 2: the rest of the country appears to appears to be

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Speaker 2: when they hear about his exploit, stolen valor visits to China.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the fraud.

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Speaker 2: But if Thursday's press conference is any indication, the friendliness

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Speaker 2: might be gone the press as Walls repeatedly about the

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Speaker 2: fraud issue and even yelled some questions at him when

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Speaker 2: his handlers cut the press conference off. I don't think

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Speaker 2: that has happened in the six years as governor. I

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Speaker 2: want to play this clip. It's probably one of the

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Speaker 2: best clips from yesterday. He's asked about fraud. Walls's new

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Speaker 2: name is word salad. Walls listen to the dance that

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Speaker 2: he does, the word salad that he delivers while never

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Speaker 2: answering the question. He basically just spoke as many words

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Speaker 2: as he possibly could until he could find an appropriate

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Speaker 2: stopping point and try to move on to somebody else.

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Speaker 8: Keep looking out for Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: The cliffs question about when you knew or became aware

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Speaker 3: of you, I mean growth in these programs.

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Speaker 1: We can squeel about everything.

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Speaker 6: Other yes come up in these.

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Speaker 1: Forecasts before some of the programs that were.

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Speaker 2: So Again, she's asking him, like, how long did you

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Speaker 2: know the growth in these programs that exploded? How long

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Speaker 2: were you aware of the growth of the increase in

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Speaker 2: these programs. It is a completely fair question to ask.

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Speaker 1: Here was his answer, letting a pathic program to autism

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Speaker 1: that didn't raise any alarm.

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Speaker 8: These are new programs, a lot of them. Some happened

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Speaker 8: ahead of time, and I think for all of us

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Speaker 8: that there have been these incidents, whether it's in Medicaid, medicare,

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Speaker 8: whatever it would be. And as soon as they're brought forward,

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Speaker 8: we address them. We have commissioners that deal with them

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Speaker 8: in each of that, we have the professionals who deal

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Speaker 8: with them in each of it. When we bring them

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Speaker 8: forward and we believe it's happened, we refer them to

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Speaker 8: the BCA, who then refers them for prosecution. I can't

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Speaker 8: tell you one thing is these are programs. I care

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Speaker 8: deeply about. These are programs, and I have a track

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Speaker 8: record of doing this as being very fiscally responsible and

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Speaker 8: fisically conservative. I can assure you that there is no

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Speaker 8: one angrier about this than me, because I know what

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Speaker 8: the Republican response is is to cut these programs, just

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Speaker 8: cut them in.

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Speaker 2: See, he's angry that people are allegedly driving by his

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Speaker 2: house using the R word. He's not angry about these programs.

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Speaker 2: And in no way did he ever bother to go

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Speaker 2: and answer the question.

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Speaker 1: It was the most word salad of word salads.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, and you know he's lying because he has bragged

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Speaker 16: a numerous occasions about the number of people on these programs.

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Speaker 16: He thinks it's a good thing when people are roped

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Speaker 16: into government programs, and you see that kind of growth,

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Speaker 16: not evidence of obvious fraud.

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Speaker 2: The last takeaway from Bill Walsh on the budget was

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Speaker 2: the cost of fraud is not baked into the current

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Speaker 2: budget forecast. State budget officials had to answer several questions

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Speaker 2: about how they are accounting for fraud in the budget forecast.

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Speaker 2: The answer is they're not. They don't budget for fraud.

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Speaker 2: Bill said, it were, it would be pretty alarming. If

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Speaker 2: your state budget office projected a certain percentage of fraud

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Speaker 2: in the upcoming budget. But maybe that's where we are

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota today. So we'll continue to talk about this

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Speaker 2: heading into next hour. Speaking of baking, we do have

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Speaker 2: a couple of thoughts relating to gingerbread houses and whether

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Speaker 2: or not you're supposed to eat them. Let's go, let's

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Speaker 2: get to those talkbacks brought to you by Lyndahl Realty,

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Speaker 2: and we'll have our guests joining us in studio. Along

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Speaker 2: with Catherine Johnson from American Experiment, we have RNC Committee

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Speaker 2: and ak Kmara and Representative Walter Hudson on the way

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Speaker 2: here on Twin Cities News Talk.

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Speaker 22: Good morning, John. For me, it's a hard pass on

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Speaker 22: eating a gin your bread house. Not only has the

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Speaker 22: gingerbread and the frosting and all the candy been sitting

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Speaker 22: out for weeks, think of all the people that have

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Speaker 22: touched it, sneezed on it, coughed on it.

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Speaker 5: Yuck.

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Speaker 22: The germs would be disgusting.

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Speaker 2: I guess, I guess I would ask the question, who

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Speaker 2: are you inviting to your house and what are they

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Speaker 2: doing around your gingerbread.

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Speaker 16: Sitting on the counter.

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Speaker 2: You know, are sneezing, like they're like pawing at it

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Speaker 2: and like hovering over it and just coughing on top

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Speaker 2: of it. Just you imagine all these people just loobread.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's happening.

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Speaker 6: It's more work than it's worth.

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Speaker 5: But first of all, when you deconstruct a gingerbread house,

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Speaker 5: take the candies off and then put the pieces of

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Speaker 5: gingerbread in the whitewave with a wet paper towel turned

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Speaker 5: on for thirty seconds, instantly waste again.

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Speaker 4: I have a great day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you lost me.

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Speaker 6: I'm not.

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Speaker 2: This is this who This is why I don't eat

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Speaker 2: crab legs. It's just too much work.

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Speaker 1: I just don't.

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Speaker 2: Linda loves crab legs, and every single time I come

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Speaker 2: is she's like, you're not getting any of my crab legs.

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Speaker 1: You won't put in the effort. She's absolutely right, I won't.

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Speaker 16: And you know, the quality of the gingerbread house is

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Speaker 16: significantly below that of a crab leg. I would say, so,

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Speaker 16: I don't know about the effort. Yeah, it's worth it.

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Speaker 1: Well, you get very little. It's a really big crab.

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Speaker 1: You get very little out of the crab leg.

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Speaker 14: I don't.

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Speaker 1: That's just me though apparently.

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Speaker 5: Of course, Catherine probably thinks gingerbread isn't that tasty. But

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Speaker 5: she was also told that graham Cracker is a substitute

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Speaker 5: for gingerbread.

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Speaker 6: Nah, not in close.

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Speaker 1: Did I miss something or he just trying to take

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Speaker 1: a really arbitrary swipe at you.

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Speaker 16: Well, he makes a good point. I should note that

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Speaker 16: I did that in kindergarten class or something, you know,

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Speaker 16: and so not to slander my mom and all. My

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Speaker 16: mom would never allow graham Crackers as a substitute for gingerbread.

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Speaker 16: But that also could explain the germ issue she was

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Speaker 16: concerned about. I think it was sitting on table in

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Speaker 16: a kindergarten class.

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Speaker 2: So all right, We'll continue to tackle the hard issues

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Speaker 2: on the show, budget takeaways, fraud here in Minnesota, and

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Speaker 2: whether or not you should eat a gingerbread house.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up on Twin City's News Talk