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Speaker 1: Quinn City's News Talk Hour three. Hey, I'm eleven thirty

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Speaker 2: My name is John Justice.

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Speaker 1: We are joined in studio lawyer extraordinaire Jeff O'Brien as

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Speaker 1: we work through the confusion. And it appeared to be panic,

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Speaker 1: although you know it's hard to tell based off of

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Speaker 1: the way media covers this stuff. I'm working off a

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Speaker 1: version here from the Star Tribune. In every single news outlet,

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Speaker 1: it was running with the headline yesterday, federal shutdown could

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Speaker 1: to kill Minnesota's hemp derived THHC markets. The spending bill

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Speaker 1: passed by the US Senate would essentially ban hemp based

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Speaker 1: THHC products. So this is the bill that passes center,

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Speaker 1: we'll be voted on tonight. It would effectively ban hemp

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Speaker 1: products containing more than zero point four milligrams of THHC.

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Speaker 1: This is the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. The legal the

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Speaker 1: limit with outlaw intoxicating based products in Minnesota, which allows

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Speaker 1: edibles containing up to five milligrams of THC preserving and

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Speaker 2: And as we were laying out last hour.

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Speaker 1: It's it's worth noting that the products that we're talking

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Speaker 1: about have been legal here for those over twenty one

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Speaker 1: for quite a long time, because they're essentially derivatives coming

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Speaker 1: from hemp that don't fall under the legal classification of

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Speaker 1: recreational or even medical marijuana, your Delta eight, your Delta

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Speaker 1: nine specifically, and here in Minnesota we'd actually gone about

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Speaker 1: in regulating and making those products available for how long, actually, Jeff, do.

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Speaker 2: You know how long?

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Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty two?

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Speaker 1: So twenty twenty two, those have been a bit so

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Speaker 1: it's actually not that not that long. No, okay, I

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Speaker 1: want to get to a couple of comments here, and

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Speaker 1: then I went to finish your story regarding Mitch McConnell.

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Speaker 2: Let's go here. Oh you played that already.

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Speaker 1: I love well what the government gets when goalg and

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Speaker 1: we start dogging legal stuff.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he fought what from being a

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Speaker 1: Consumed by stoners who have caught out to being authored

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Speaker 1: PC humors. Well, people have been purchasing these for for

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Speaker 1: a while now. I think the stereotype of these only

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Speaker 1: being consumed by the by the stoner crowd. From your

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Speaker 1: days to confused. Confused has kind.

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Speaker 2: Of gone out the window.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why that on somebody who was

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Speaker 1: talking about one of the issues this will cause is

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Speaker 1: that no federal regulated car carrier will transport any of

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Speaker 1: these products.

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Speaker 2: It makes these products unshippable.

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Speaker 1: Now, that happened just recently prior to this issue relating

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Speaker 1: to the bill that the Senate passed and will be

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Speaker 1: voted on tonight. Right, the issue of being able to

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Speaker 1: to mail these products here in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, under the under the change in the

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Speaker 3: law here in Minnesota where they were, you know, there

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Speaker 3: was this separate law under chapter one fifty one where

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Speaker 3: these products were the hemp drived THG had been governed

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Speaker 3: by and then moving that under three forty two, which

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Speaker 3: is with the cannabis law. As part of that change,

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Speaker 3: of a licensed transport acue they have a cannabis transport license.

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Speaker 3: So that was already going away under the Minnesota law,

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Speaker 3: the shipping across state lines because or shipping with a

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Speaker 1: So this is this is when here in Minnesota we

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Speaker 1: ended up taking these products that were already available and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this with this these low potent potents see hemp

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Speaker 3: edible licenses. By putting all the hemp products underneath the

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Speaker 2: They did they need to do? They need to do that?

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Speaker 1: Could they have carved out just to continue to allow

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Speaker 3: It's an ongoing discussion. You know, there's there's a lot

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Speaker 4: Why would McConnell introduce a bill to allow this and

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense lyrics Jeff O'Brien, which is like

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Speaker 3: It makes a lot of se well, not a sense,

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Speaker 3: but it is definitely an explanation. So Mitch McConnell is retiring,

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Speaker 3: and he has a my understanding, he has a library

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Speaker 3: expand the McConnell library. And he's in Kentucky, and so

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Speaker 3: the bourbon industry is a large factor in Kentucky, and

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Speaker 3: I was told they was there. You know, he needs

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Speaker 3: So what the heck, let's just shut the loophole and

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Speaker 3: fund that library. So that's this is the kind of

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Speaker 3: stuff that make people upset about politics. It's regularly federal

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Speaker 3: resolution to reopen the government, to get the snap benefits

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Speaker 3: going to get federal air traffic workers back to work

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Speaker 2: The military paid and incomes.

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Speaker 3: This slipped in someplace in the bill because somebody needs

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Speaker 3: it for some pet project back at home. This is

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Speaker 3: why people get turned off by by electoral politics and

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Speaker 3: politicians because they do this stuff.

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Speaker 1: We really did bury the lead on this because this

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Speaker 1: was this was the larger issue about this whole this

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Speaker 1: whole thing. Let me play this talk back here because

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Speaker 1: it plays into what we're talking about right now in

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Speaker 1: Twin Cities News Talk with Large Shortenaar Jeff O'Brien.

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Speaker 5: I really wish I considered with leadership right now. I'll

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Speaker 5: be focused on real issues and real problems, not going

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Speaker 5: after gas station Delta eight and Delta nine, which is ridiculous. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it sucks to hear when teenagers get a hold of

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Speaker 5: stuff like you know, mom and DIDs, dash of alcohol,

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Speaker 5: and you know, you know how horrible these kids are

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Speaker 5: going to take Delta eight and Delta nine, have a

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to what he first said,

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Speaker 1: I wish the conservative leadership, you know, would would be

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Speaker 1: demonstrated was it wasn't necessarily conservative leadership doing that thing

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Speaker 1: with my fingers. It was one individual with one particular

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Speaker 1: already been regulating these particular items. I mean, should they

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Speaker 1: be up to spin on it, Sure they should. But

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Speaker 1: at the same time, you're also talking about an issue

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Speaker 2: And that's the part of this whole thing that try

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Speaker 3: Ran Paul made an attempt a couple of nights ago

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Speaker 3: to get this provision stripped out of the CR and McConnell,

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Speaker 3: it's more I wouldn't read too much for those that

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Speaker 3: wouldn't necessarily hit it yet. I think that there is

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Speaker 3: big push to revisit this, and that's the whole point

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Speaker 3: so you can definitely tell from some of the comments

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Speaker 3: are definitely feeling the heat from this. I don't think

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Speaker 3: hope they don't want to go into the midterms having

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Speaker 3: basically killed an industry. So we'll see where it goes.

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Speaker 3: But you know, it's again the larger issue. If they

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Speaker 3: deal with the cannabis rescheduling, we wouldn't be sitting over

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Speaker 3: here arguing over Minutia about a hembloopole.

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure Stoners aren't wasting their money on over

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Speaker 6: christ low potency THHC beverages.

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Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you that you're wrong. Those businesses,

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Speaker 1: and I mentioned there's like at least three of them

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Speaker 1: and people are purchasing these products. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 7: A couple months back, my local restaurant and my local

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Speaker 7: them that Delta nine products were legal to sell. They

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Speaker 7: not sell them anymore. So my favorite drinks are longer available.

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Speaker 1: First off, I don't think that should be happening. No, no,

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Speaker 3: If if if if a retailer had that happen, they yeah,

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Speaker 3: Feds should just get out of the way from it.

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Speaker 2: Let the state.

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Speaker 3: This is something you know, as Republicans, we believe in

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Speaker 3: federalism and putting and giving this issues back to the states.

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Speaker 3: They love giving issues back to the states, and they

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Speaker 3: should do that. And for our Attorney general to be

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Speaker 3: signing on to a letter, you know, supporting this ban,

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Speaker 3: our attorney general should be grabbing the other attorney's general

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Speaker 3: in the states where it's where cannabis is legal and

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Speaker 3: filing a lawsuit to have to say, under the fourteenth Amendment,

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Speaker 3: the federal government is blocking, is infringing the states' rights,

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Speaker 3: and let the Supreme Court, who loves to kick things

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Speaker 3: back to the states, let them decide this.

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Speaker 1: Laura Schredonnaire, Jeff O'Brien, thank you so much for hanging

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Speaker 1: out this morning.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. We're going to switch gears here in

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Speaker 2: just a moment.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the city council member that was carjacked

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Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah.

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis City council member Jamal Osman carjacks. Working off of

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Speaker 1: Next Day Install Studios. Jamal Osman, a member of the

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis police responded quickly to the incident.

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Speaker 2: What no violence interrupters.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't want You shouldn't do that too. I still

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Speaker 1: Over the next several hours, the suspects used the Subaru

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Speaker 2: Let me just add one thing to this whole story.

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Speaker 1: Would we have heard at all about the other story

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Speaker 1: Or did we only hear about that portion of the story,

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.

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Speaker 1: Glad you're with the show this morning. Before we talk

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Speaker 1: with Liz Collin from ALFA News, let's get to your

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Speaker 9: They used to hang horse thieves. Nowadays we get around

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Speaker 9: in cars, not horses. There needs to be a stronger deterrent,

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Speaker 9: stronger penalty, like take away their iPhones permanently. But then

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Speaker 1: Punishment, referencing the Jamal Osmond City councilman getting carjacked, which

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about. Thank you, rister, you are

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Speaker 1: mini Leaf and minileaf dot com joining us once again

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Liz, how are you?

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Speaker 10: Good morning John?

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Speaker 2: Done well, how are you? I'm okay. I will say

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Speaker 1: I went online this morning when I was doing my

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Speaker 2: I don't remember getting one.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, you were top top of the list for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. I saw the photos.

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Speaker 1: I was disappointed, and then I went, it's not like

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Speaker 10: So yeah, so that's why I was going to bring

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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't know it was. I didn't know it

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Speaker 10: See that changes everything.

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Speaker 1: So since I certainly didn't deleted by mistake, which probably

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Speaker 1: story at Alpha News the Minneapolis City council member Jamal

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Speaker 1: You know, listen, the story of the Sydney council person

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Speaker 10: Yeah, the timeline is absolutely wild, and I think you're right.

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Speaker 10: And then it's a six thirty. I mean, I honestly

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Speaker 1: On Monday at six seven am, a man was carjacked

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Speaker 1: stole the victims Kiya Forte at two forty am on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, Fourth Precinct officers located the stolen Kia initiated

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Speaker 1: a pursuit.

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Speaker 2: They fled.

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Speaker 1: They crashed the vehicle near sixteenth in Queen Avenue. The

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Speaker 1: passenger was arrested at the scene. The driver was arrested

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Speaker 1: a few minutes later after perim to search. Both suspects

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Speaker 1: have criminal histories and had active warrants at the time

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Speaker 1: of their arrest. I mean this is just over and

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Speaker 1: over again, these stories repeat Liz, and these two.

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Speaker 10: Kids are responsible to just for terrorizing the city for hours,

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Speaker 10: hours on end, and they and exactly they have warrants,

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Speaker 10: meaning they've been arrested probably many times before and perhaps

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Speaker 10: they're out by tomorrow at this rate. With what has

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Speaker 10: gone on, well, it's really really sad.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I wanted to ask, was I would

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Speaker 1: I would hope that there would be some tracking. I know,

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Speaker 1: I would very much be interested in knowing sort of

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Speaker 1: or knowing what happens with these two individuals moving moving forward,

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Speaker 1: and I hope there's follow up to find out, you know,

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Speaker 1: what repercussions, if any, they end up facing. It'd be

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Speaker 1: very interesting to see whether or not they actually do

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Speaker 1: or are held more accountable than typically fifteen the sixteen

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Speaker 1: year olds are, just because of their carjacking of a

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Speaker 1: city council member. I'm very curious to see what ends

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Speaker 1: up happening with these two youths.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm gonna be honest, I don't think much. And

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Speaker 10: that's the situation we're in with Hennepin County Attorney Mary

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Speaker 10: Moriarty at the HELM pretty difficult to hold especially.

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Speaker 2: Teenagers very long at all.

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Speaker 10: There's been some rumblings that there could even be more

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Speaker 10: with her and certain ages of people that will not

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Speaker 10: be charged with felonies moving forward, something we've we'll do

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Speaker 10: some reporting on. But again, I mean, it's like you

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Speaker 10: can have you can have as many cops in the

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Speaker 10: world in Minneapolis, but if they're not allowed to actually

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Speaker 10: do their jobs and enforce the law, that much is

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Speaker 10: going to change with these people in charge.

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Speaker 1: I want to get to a couple of comments that

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Speaker 1: have come in to the iHeart or radio app talkback,

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Speaker 1: So I'm talking with Liz Colin from Alpha News.

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Speaker 11: John This story drives me absolutely bonkers. This happens to

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Speaker 11: a couple hundred people in Minneapolis every single year, and

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Speaker 11: they don't get their ten minutes of fame. But because

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Speaker 11: he's a consul member, he gets his ten minutes of

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Speaker 11: fame on every news outlet in Minnesota. It's just ridiculous.

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Speaker 11: It happens all the time.

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Speaker 12: It reminds me of the First Fast the Furious plot,

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Speaker 12: where all the truckers kept getting hijacked and they were patient,

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Speaker 12: they would be waiting for police to do something about it,

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Speaker 12: but they never did so. Then they started arming themselves

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Speaker 12: with firearms. I wonder when that's gonna start happening in

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Speaker 12: Minneapolis after they realize, well, they're not going to do

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Speaker 12: anything about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I guess, you know, Liz, if that was

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Speaker 1: going to happen, it would have happened already. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've seen story after story of individuals when they're interviewed

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Speaker 1: by local media regarding the cars that are being vandalized.

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Speaker 1: We just had a whole what another one hundred at

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Speaker 1: Lowry Hill, and you hear comments from the residents going, well,

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Speaker 1: I didn't put it in the garage.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's my bad.

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Speaker 1: I'll just factor in the price of fixing the car

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Speaker 1: into my yearly expenses. You know, I think at this point,

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Speaker 1: if somebody was going to actually go and take matters

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Speaker 1: into their own hands, people would have started doing it already.

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Speaker 1: And it just seems to have become a common way

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Speaker 1: of life if you're living in Minneapolis right now, Liz.

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Speaker 10: Well, and look at what happened to the man that

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Speaker 10: was two weeks ago, man in his forties who had

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Speaker 10: somebody rifling through his car at seven in the morning

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Speaker 10: at his workplace and confronted him and he was shot

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Speaker 10: and killed, and then you had the police chief come

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Speaker 10: out and talk about just how tragic this was kind

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Speaker 10: of over nothing. But I also thought that messaging maybe

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Speaker 10: it maybe isn't the best. This is this is something

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Speaker 10: to a lot of people. Nobody wants their property property stolen,

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Speaker 10: and this just continuing feeling of violation. But yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 10: some people think that, you know, this isn't this isn't

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Speaker 10: that big a deal, or you know, they they you know,

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Speaker 10: look at the look at the root causes, and they

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Speaker 10: feel bad for these these kids. But I really it's

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Speaker 10: it's hard to wrap your head around at this point.

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Speaker 1: Let's call here to this story available about off the news.

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell's ex wife was

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Speaker 1: sentenced to just three years in prison for attempted murder

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Speaker 1: of their disabled son.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when you get into the fact that essentially she.

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Speaker 1: Was crushing up prescription medication and putting them in water

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Speaker 1: in order to in order to what murder this particular individual.

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Speaker 2: This story is just wild, Liz, Yeah.

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Speaker 10: This is this is awful. So the sentencing was on

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Speaker 10: Friday last week, but this incident took place back in

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Speaker 10: December of twenty twenty three, so this is now the

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Speaker 10: ex wife. They were married at the time. Julie Meyer Schnell.

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Speaker 10: Paul Schnell is in charge of the Department of Corrections,

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Speaker 10: the Commissioner of corre Actions of Minnesota, so a Wall's appointee.

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Speaker 2: But the complaint details.

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Speaker 10: Just this.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely awful.

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Speaker 10: But she talked about how she did it. She attempted

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Speaker 10: to kill her own son. He's disabled, living in a

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Speaker 10: group home in Badness Heights. He requires a feeding tube,

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Speaker 10: so she crushes up medication, her anxiety pills, mixing them

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Speaker 10: into his feeding bag, hoping he would go to sleep forever, is.

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Speaker 2: What she said.

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Speaker 10: She actually told this to her son, who then has

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Speaker 10: this obviously horrendous reaction. He's hospitalized low bread pressure, respiratory failure.

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Speaker 10: He goes into the staff at the time did not

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Speaker 10: conduct a toxicology screen. But then they're looking through her

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Speaker 10: communications and sounds like she, you know, confessed to him

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Speaker 10: and others and talks talks about it. It's absolutely horrid,

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Speaker 10: and she's facing at the time an eighteen year sentence

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Speaker 10: ends up with a three year sentence last Friday. I mean,

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Speaker 10: you'll only see serve two years for this because of

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Speaker 10: the two thirds rule in Minnesota, and the Scott County

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Speaker 10: Attorney made it very clear how he felt about the sentencing,

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Speaker 10: calling it completely inappropriate and an example of why people

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Speaker 10: feel the justice system is flawed. But yeah, the details

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Speaker 10: of this are absolutely horrid and luckily their sun survived.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was when I was going through doing my notes,

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Speaker 1: I it was done to find out that she only

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Speaker 1: got three years in all of this.

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Speaker 2: I just I can't. I mean, what else do you say?

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Speaker 1: I mean, on top of what we were, you know,

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Speaker 1: discussing with the lack of accountability in Minneapolis when it

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Speaker 1: comes to actions like this, what kind of message does

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Speaker 1: that send? Oh, hey, you can attempt to, you know,

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Speaker 1: to go on murder and a disabled kid, but you're

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Speaker 1: only going to have to spend a couple of years

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Speaker 1: in prison for it.

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Speaker 2: I just I don't get it. List.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and also we've had the messaging from Commissioner Snell

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Speaker 10: talk about well, you know, I basically I divorced her

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Speaker 10: after this, and I'm going to have nothing to do

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Speaker 10: with you know.

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Speaker 2: I would hope. So it's so it's so dark. It's

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Speaker 2: just so dark.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to let's do let's do one

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Speaker 1: more here, speaking of children.

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Speaker 2: A children's book.

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Speaker 1: This children's book called We Miss You George Floyd is

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Speaker 1: available at libraries throughout the Twin Cities for as it's described,

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Speaker 1: for children working through George Floyd's murder and the police

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Speaker 1: violence plaguing our country.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 1: Is this a children's book or a or a horror story?

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Speaker 1: I guess it depends on what version you get. Although

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Speaker 1: from what I can detail or what is detailed in

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Speaker 1: the Alphanus story, Liz Colin not a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: full context relating to George Floyd's background in the in

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Speaker 1: this children's book.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, they left that out of the children's book version,

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Speaker 10: no doubt. Actually this is this is why a one

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Speaker 10: of our reporters just happened to discover this book at

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Speaker 10: a library recently, And that's why you put a story together.

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Speaker 10: We almost couldn't believe what they were pushing on our

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Speaker 10: younger generation. But yeah, I encourage people to check out

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Speaker 10: that story, even just the the way things are are

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Speaker 10: are afraised. I think there's also a word find in

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Speaker 10: the book defund the police. I think it's one of

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Speaker 10: the things you can can look for. What's interesting. The

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Speaker 10: Hennipen County Library System. I think there are twenty five copies.

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Speaker 10: I think there's only about three copies of my book.

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Speaker 10: They're lying the media of the Left and the death

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Speaker 10: of George Floyd and the henif the County Library system.

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Speaker 10: So and my book is in the conspiracy theory section

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Speaker 10: also still but meanwhile this is this is in the

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Speaker 10: children's area for people thought better. But anyway, it's really crazy,

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Speaker 10: and I actually does it seems to be encouraging because

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Speaker 10: all the comments are people seem to be just as

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Speaker 10: appalled as we were that this is being offered to children.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize they had a section on conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 2: I love that. That doesn't surprise me. You're gonna love

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Speaker 2: You're gonna love that section. You're gonna love the section

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Speaker 2: in the in the least bit. So all right, let's

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Speaker 2: call it anything else you want to mention before we

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Speaker 2: before we say goodbye this morning.

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Speaker 10: You know, interesting story coming up about Ramsey County property

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Speaker 10: taxes and where money is going and how many NGOs

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Speaker 10: are being supported by tax dollars in Ramsey County. So

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Speaker 10: that's coming up in the next couple of days. At

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Speaker 10: Alphanus it's some new content there at alphanews dot org

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Speaker 10: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I see you actually have an update.

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Speaker 1: We've been following the story of a representative, Pam Altendorf

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Speaker 1: and the snap surge right around the COVID years. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota explanation about how it was just basically an

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Speaker 1: accounting error where they included in other benefits they shouldn't

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Speaker 1: been there. But this has raised a whole host of

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Speaker 1: other questions. And I know you have a brand new story.

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Speaker 1: It's available at the website that we'll certainly be talking

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Speaker 1: about on tomorrow's show, So everybody can head on over

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Speaker 1: to alphaan Whust dot org for that.

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Speaker 2: So glad your tenth anniversary party went well.

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Speaker 1: Sorry I missed it at the at the Council at

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Speaker 1: the Castle, but maybe next year.

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Speaker 10: Yes, the eleventh will be big. We'll have it at

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Speaker 10: three in the afternoons.

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Speaker 2: You can make it fantastic. I'm already there. Let's call on.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the time this morning, as always, I

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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Speaker 10: Thank you very much, John, I'm great day.

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Speaker 1: This George Floyd book, By the Way, published by the

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Speaker 1: University of Minnesota Press, describes Floyd's death as the longest,

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Speaker 1: cruelest eight minutes and forty six seconds.

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Speaker 2: The police came. They pinned him down.

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Speaker 1: They didn't listen even when he said, I can't breathe

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Speaker 1: one page, says the University of Minnesota Press, as the

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Speaker 1: book follows a young girl as she tries to reckon

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Speaker 1: with the senseless, senseless violence of Floyd's killing. For children

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Speaker 1: working through George Floyd's murder and the police violence plaguing

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Speaker 1: our country, and for the grownups just trying to help him,

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Speaker 1: this book is an invitation to open up a difficult conversation,

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Speaker 1: says the book's description. There are no difficul difficult conversations

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Speaker 1: happening in this book. They only painted one side of

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Speaker 1: the story. By the way, can you provide a similar

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Speaker 1: children's book or a similar book geared towards children with

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Speaker 1: this level of extreme subject matter. Yeah, we'll spend a

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Speaker 1: little bit more time on this, on this story on

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Speaker 1: tomorrow's show. There's some further details in here, just from

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Speaker 1: a ridiculous standpoint, that need to be shared, And this

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Speaker 1: morning we're completely.

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Speaker 2: Out of time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining the show today. Of course,

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Speaker 1: if you missed any portion of the broadcast, check out

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Speaker 1: the podcast that's available, and we'll be available up on

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. Thank you to Devin. We'll see him

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Speaker 1: again tomorrow in the Master Control booth, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for spending time with us this morning. If you want,

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Speaker 1: you can email me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com or

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Speaker 1: leave a talk back overnight. I check those every morning

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Speaker 1: when I arrive. Have yourself a great Wednesday. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you guys tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Bye,