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He is a 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.000 telephone number one eight hundred two two two five two 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.920 two two. It is our pleasure to welcome our next 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.640 guest to the program. He is a member of the 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:31.440 Minnesota State Legislature. You can find him online at Maxreimer 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:36.280 dot com and follow him on x at maxim Max Reimer. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.800 Welcome, Hey John, thanks for having me. Good to be back. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.160 Well, thanks so much for stopping by. So, there was 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.720 a big election last night in your neighboring state, the 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.320 state of Michigan, or the way I see it, the 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:56.280 DSA had a clean sweep where Abdul al Sayed won 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.920 the Democratic nomination for US Senate over Haley Steves, a 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.160 man who has said that the United States deserved nine 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.160 to eleven. You had Rashida Talib, who is a proud 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.240 member of the DSA, She won her primary for reelection. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.880 And then you had a Democrat, Shariit Theander, who is 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.440 just a standards rank and file Democrat with very interesting 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:25.520 eyebrows and hair, and he went down to a DSA candidate. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.080 What do you make of the fact that in a 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.040 swing state that voted for Donald Trump two out of 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.240 three times, the state of Michigan, the DSA is on 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:40.600 the ascendancy and just the standard partisan Democrats just took 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.000 a good swift kick to the. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.280 Crotch, isn't it interesting? And I think you're going to 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.600 see the same thing happen in Minnesota this upcoming week. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.280 So we have a primary election here for both governor 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.440 and US Senate in Minnesota. On the Democrat side, you 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.839 have more of your stock Democrat candidate in Angie Crag 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.600 and then you have our lieutenant governor, who's probably the 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.880 most radical politician we have in the state except for 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:10.440 Ilhan Omar, who is the DSA candidate. And I think 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.120 this is a harbinger for what's going to happen here 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.280 in Minnesota and actually what's going to happen in our 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.680 neighboring state in Wisconsin. You do see this ascendancy of 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.640 DSA candidates, But you got to keep in mind the 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.880 Democrats gave these candidates, and these people really no outlet 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.840 in their party. They haven't picked their own candidate for 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.080 a long long time. They tried to keep them at bay. 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.480 They tried to basically play the hits, say the right thing, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.840 And what's become very apparent is that that is not 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.080 enough anymore. And just one note on shre Thanadar. I'm 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.720 bummed that he lost because every now and again he 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.200 would come up on my social media feeds and I 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.600 would just get a big kick out of how is 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:53.800 this guy in Congress? 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.680 The Midwest is known for having a very polite sort 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.600 of culture. In Minnesota, they call it Minnesota nice, and 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.120 people they go to the Midwest, they get treated very well. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.440 People are very impressed with the manners, the yes ma'am, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.600 the no sir, that sort of thing. How do you 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.440 think it's gonna play in Michigan where you have a 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.680 candidate that goes you know, planes land on runways every day, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.520 it's not every day that they fly in the buildings. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.600 And you know, nine to eleven was something I think 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.400 was a pretty good thing. How is that gonna fly 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.120 in the nice Midwest? 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.680 Yeah? What we call it in Minnesota, like you said before, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.120 is Minnesota nice, And what it really means is Minnesota 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:42.040 or Midwestern passive aggressive. We're not always going to tell 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:43.800 you the truth to your face, but when we're in 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.400 the privacy of a voting booth, then we're gonna let 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.080 our frustration out a little bit. I don't think it's 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.840 gonna work. I don't think the country is ready for it. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.400 I think socialism is still a deeply unpopular concept. It 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.679 just so happens that one party doesn't talk to working 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.839 people anymore about what they actually want, and they think 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.320 that Democrats the prescription here is that the DSA candidates 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.560 by abolishing the Senate and praising nine to eleven and 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.440 medicare for all, and we don't need a presidency anymore. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.039 That's not what I when I talk to working class 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.960 voters in Minnesota, that's not even remotely what they're looking for. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.640 They're just looking at like a fair shake. So I 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:30.599 don't think that it's going to invigorate this underground socialist 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.400 base of America. I don't think there's enough people in 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.440 the country who believe that. And I think, thank God, frankly, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.120 that l Sied is the candidate, because we're facing some 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.240 headwinds on the national stage as the Republican Party. But 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.680 to have these radical candidates be the answer, whether it's 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.680 Minnesota or Michigan or Wisconsin, I think this is a 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:51.479 godsend for us. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.600 John, do you think it's possible given the fact that 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.800 standard rank and file Democrats seem to do well in 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:03.120 statewide elections in those states where Amy Klovachar wins every 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.760 time she comes up in Minnesota. You look at Michigan, 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.240 Debbie Stabbinow string together a bunch of different wins when 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.279 she was in the United States Senate in the House 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.760 before that. Could you see a scenario where the Republican 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.680 candidates win the US Senate seats in Minnesota and Michigan 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.240 because the Democrats just pushed too far with these ideologically 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:26.360 extreme candidates. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.160 Yeah, well, I think in Michigan you have a state 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.640 that Trump has carried twice. Now this is basically a 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.560 down the middle state. And when you have just your 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:44.720 average stock Republican whose name is Mike Rogers. Okay, this 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.279 is Joe America versus Saddam Hussein's cousin. If you've ever 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.920 seen that meme before, and I just don't think it's 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.760 going to play well in Michigan. And then in Minnesota, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.000 if this Peggy Flanagan is their nominee, this is a 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.400 candidate who adopts every left wing position. She's famous for 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.880 wearing a shirt that says protect trans kids with a 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.240 knife on it, like a knife stabbing someone on it. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.240 And if she is the nominee for the Democrat Party. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.680 We're going to have a real puncher's chance, I think 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.720 in Minnesota, because most Minnesotans they want to think of 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:28.040 themselves as compassionate, generally center left, But to nominate a 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.040 candidate like that, I think is a bridge too far. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:36.280 In California, the public employee unions are very, very, very powerful. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.920 The SCIU is arguably the most powerful entity in the state, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.560 maybe even more powerful than the teachers Union, which maybe 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.520 two three years ago I would have told you is 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.960 insane to think about, but I think it might be 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:54.840 true now. And the institutions, the unions, and the environmental 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.239 groups and all of those groups seem to have tight 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:03.840 control over statewide primaries. Here where you get those standard Democrats. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.640 Javier Besserra is the Democratic nominee for governor. Before that, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.880 it was Adam Schiff for US Senate. They aren't DSA candidates. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.440 They're very partisan Democrats, and that's who the parties tend 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.640 to like. It seems like your state parties in the 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.080 Middle West and elsewhere, because it happened in Colorado and 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.960 it happened in New York too, they're losing control of 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.400 their own primaries. They're losing control of their own voters. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.439 How much panic is setting in within those institutions, the 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.319 Democratic Party, the state parties, and the unions that they 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.440 might not be the shot callers anymore. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.920 I can guarantee you that's a real phenomena in Minnesota 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.520 for two reasons. So the chair, the longtime chair of 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.320 the Democrat Party in Minnesota, the DFL, we call them 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.600 the Democrat Farmer Labor Party. They've been that for fifty years. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.720 The chair of that party moved on to be the 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.960 head of the DNC, Ken Martin. So you lost this 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:07.000 continuity in leadership, this track record of success in leadership 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.280 with him moving to the national stage. And then, because 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.160 you're right, in Minnesota, it's very similar to California, where 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.800 you do have the unions try to bolster the most 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:22.760 electable Democrat candidate. What's transpiring among the Democrat base in 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.240 Minnesota is they have now gone two election cycles in 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.280 a row where they did not get any say in 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.240 who their candidate was. The first being they didn't get 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.640 to pick Kamala Harris here in Minnesota. I'm not sure 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:39.240 Kamala Harris would have won a primary contest in Minnesota. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.360 And two because Tim Walls, our governor, the former VP candidate, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.720 was so mired in controversy he basically stepped down and 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.520 said I'm not running for reelection. Well, then Amy Klobashar 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.280 got inserted into that. She became the de facto candidate 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.559 for the Democrats. No one's going to challenge Amy Klobashar. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.080 So you have this frustration among the Democrat base leaking 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.880 out now in this upcoming Senate primary, where I think 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.800 Peggy Flan again, the more radical of these two candidates, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.080 is going to win, and I don't think it's going 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.680 to be particularly close in Minnesota. I think she's going 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.520 to win by five, six seven points. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.800 Well, it seems like they're losing control of their own 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.640 primaries on a variety of levels. Because first, you have 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.920 what the pitchforks and torches are doing, and clearly right 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.120 now there's a level of anger within their own electorate 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.400 that is scaring them. But you also have people like 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.400 let's say Chuck Schumer, where if I'm Chuck Schumer and 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.040 I'm trying to keep these seats in Minnesota and Michigan 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.440 without having to worry too much about it, you go 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.160 to the incumbent senators and you go, you're not retiring 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.640 right now. I don't have enough bandwidth to defend an 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.840 open seat in your state right now. You're going for 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.120 one more term whether you like it or not, or 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.200 you go in the case of Michigan, let's just say 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.960 that Gary Peters is really done with politics and doesn't 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.840 want to serve anymore. Okay. Then you go to Gretchen Whitmer, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.200 the governor who's won many state wide elections in that state, 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.439 and you go, Okay, I don't have the bandwidth to 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.920 defend an open seat with a bunch of lunatics running, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.560 You're gonna run. And they didn't have that power, and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.880 so they ended up with these chaotic primaries where they're 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.559 losing control absolutely. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.640 And in Minnesota, I think what they thought was that 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.319 if Amy Klobasher wants to step in and do the 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.160 governor thing, that's fine. Minnesota is usually a safe seat. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.480 Will insert this moderate congresswoman Angie Craig into that seat, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.839 will funder to the gills, We'll make sure that it's 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:54.280 not a competitive primary. Well that's not happening. And the favorite, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.440 the polling favorite right now next Tuesday in Minnesota is 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.400 Michelle Tafoya Okay, we have a couple of other key candidates. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.560 We have our endorsed candidate, Adam Schwarzy, But right now, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.600 the polling favorite is Michelle Tafoya, the former NFL sideline 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.559 reporter who's very moderate on a number of issues on 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.240 things like abortion and some statements where she's opposed Trump. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.840 And if it is Michelle Tafoya against Peggy Flanagan in 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.840 our general election, John the Democrat National Group, that Senate 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.160 group is going to have to spend money in a 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.920 general election in Minnesota. And I don't know when the 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.199 last time they had to do that was maybe Norm 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.920 Coleman or something like that, because it's been it's been 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.959 twenty five years since outside money on the Democrat side 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.520 has needed to try to defend a seat in Minnesota, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.240 and it's shaping up like they're going to have to. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.360 They got egg all over their face right now. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.079 Let's go back to that Michigan Senate race for a second, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.560 because I think there were a lot of dynamics in 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.880 that race that kind of give us an idea as 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.559 to how some of these future primary are going to 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.400 play out, and maybe even the general election. Hailey Stevens, 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:09.120 who was the Democratic Party's choice did very well with 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.040 black voters, and she did very well with blue collar whites, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:18.719 people without college degrees. And you look at Abdul, he 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:25.000 did extremely well with white people with college degrees. And 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.480 the more educated you were, I guess the dumber your 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.920 vote was, because the more educated you were, the more 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:36.360 likely you were to vote for him. And it seems 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:41.520 like whites with college degrees, specifically left wing whites with 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.600 college degrees, have lost their freaking minds, and it's taking 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.200 place in primary after primary after primary. They that's a 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.240 group that's been radicalized. It's been radicalized in the way 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.239 that they vote. It's been radical Look at Luigi Mangioni. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.880 He fitshed that category. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.400 Are the ones celebrating him. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.720 Who killed Charlie Kirk? You know, you name it. That 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.040 crazy demographic seems to be hitting all the erogenous zones 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.800 right now. What the hell is going on with whites 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.960 with graduate degrees and their insane political views right now? 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.720 Isn't it insane? I saw a chart. I saw somebody 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:26.320 post a chart the other day of also comparing college 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.000 education versus how you vote well. The affluent, I won't 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.440 even say affluent, the people with bachelor's and master's degrees 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:38.320 who also couldn't parlay those degrees into legitimate careers. They 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.800 go into full time activism whether they know it or not. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.840 Their career or something adjacent to their career requires them 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.120 to be political activists. And one thing you saw in 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.880 Michigan that I found fascinating was that race was way 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.160 closer than polling would lead you to believe. In some polls, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:03.640 Abdul was fifteen to twenty points ahead. And I think 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:09.560 this is actually impacting the polling industry because these affluent 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:15.080 white liberal especially women, are more responsive, it seems too polling. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.440 They are excited to get a polling call. So what 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.680 I'm seeing the discourses is like, we actually have to 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.320 adjust because we had this one demographic who's not only 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.720 like politically engaged, but wants to answer a poll. I 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.160 think it's the best case scenario for Republicans that it 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.480 was as close as it was, because I think you're 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.280 going to have a lot of people on the fringes, 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.400 a lot of people who could swing either way, who 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.000 are probably working class michigan Ers that say we're not 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:44.680 going to vote for We're not going to vote for 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.040 the socialist here but it is an interesting phenomena. It's 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.440 people who are not earning enough money but have advanced degrees, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.040 went to an indoctrination factory, and they've made this their 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:56.880 full time mission. It's their religion. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.160 John. I also think there's a sense of titlement because 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.480 many of these people probably grew up in upper middle 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.440 class homes where their parents had a nice house, their 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.360 parents had a couple of cars, they had a pool, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.720 they had a yuard, they went on nice vacations, they 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:20.280 were educated at elite institutions, and they have these useless 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.600 degrees that they've collected that they cannot parley into a 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.000 living that gives them a lifestyle they believe that they're 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.480 entitled to. And because they're not living as good as 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.080 their parents, they hate their boomer the boomers. They blame 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.200 the boomers for them not being able to buy a 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:42.160 home because the Boomers bought their home fifty years ago 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.360 for eighty five cents in an onion and now they 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.880 can't get into to a house in the city that 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.600 they live in, certainly not any big city in the 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.720 United States. And they're working these jobs that they think 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.240 are beneath them, and they just don't see a bright future. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.320 So why not have the government provide me with the 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.840 healthcare I want? Why not have the government provide me 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.480 with a basic income. Why not have the government provide 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.840 me with wiping out my student debt. The government should 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.840 be the one that becomes my sugar daddy. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:18.439 Yep, yep. And we saw that with mom Domni's housing director. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.800 When he first got elected, it was uncovered that this 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.080 young woman basically was a trust fund baby, had like 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.760 grew up on a ranch, multiple parents, had multiple homes. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.040 This is the same lady who then went out and 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.040 said that the private ownership of housing needs to be abolished. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.680 She was like that extreme on it. The real tragedy 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.800 with these people is, to your point, their background means 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.800 that the policies they advocate for that actually impact people 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.919 who are trying to work their way up the ladder, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.159 they have no consequence to that. There's always a fallback 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.520 for this demographic of people, and they're making decisions for 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.119 people impoverty, people who are trying to work two jobs 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.280 and work their way up. They're going to make life 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.200 more unaffordable for the very same people that they claim 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.440 that they're helping. Because they have they don't have. They 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.200 don't have the real problems that actual people who are 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.680 working class or in poverty have. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.760 Last question before you go, what's your prediction in the 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.560 Democratic primary in your home state of Minnesota. Is the 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.000 left wing candidate going to win or the standard Democrat 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.280 can win? No? 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.720 I think Peggy flanagain, the DSA candidate in Minnesota, is 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.600 going to win. I think she is going to win 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.840 by like I said before, five to seven percent. I 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.199 do not think it will be as close as Michigan is. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.879 And then really the matchup, the odds on matchup is 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.240 Michelle Tafoya versus Peggy Flanagan, and I like our chances 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:51.119 if that's the case. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.720 Max Rymer, member of the Minnesota Legislature. You can get 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.280 them online at Maxerymer dot com and follow him on 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.760 x at Max Rymer. Max Rymer, thanks so much for 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.560 stopping John. It's the John Phillips Show. It's the John 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.440 Phillips Show. Eight hundred two two two five two two two. 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.560 He is a telephone number one eight hundred two two 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:15.920 two five two two two. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.639 We're not writing messages to each other during the breaks 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:26.679 about Katie Porter, she was an analyst. Done with Alex 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.199 Michaelson last night on CNN for the election. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:30.480 I saw that. 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.920 Took a break from the book reviews. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.720 Interesting, where's the uh? 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.120 Where's the little bobblehead doll? 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.959 See? I'm on a panel with her right now. What 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.040 do you think, Katie? 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:45.800 I call it the shift gift. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:46.959 That's what I thought. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.320 I'm pulling in to the bakery. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.080 If you would have watched us perform the show live, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.879 you can do that at Johnny. Don't like dot com. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.080 And if you're working or you're driving, all of this 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.320 stuff is up on so checking out when you get home, Johnny, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:03.320 don't like dot com. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.520 Let's go to John and Long Beach. John. 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:15.879 Hello, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:22.080 dear Randy, Happy birthday to you. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:24.680 Oh thank you John. 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:27.440 Miss you guys. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.040 Hope you come back to Gladstone soon. Just wanting to 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:31.880 wish you all the best. Hope you enjoy your day. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.760 Well, go ahead. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.520 We haven't announced it yet, John, but I believe we're 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.080 heading back to Gladstone sometime in October. 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.800 Indeed, indeed, we're looking forward to seeing you now. 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.200 Earlier this year, around my birthday, we were at Gladstone's 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.760 in Long Beach, enjoying so many of your great dishes, 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.679 including the fish with the Parmesan crust, which happens to 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.200 be my favorite, the halib it, and you were kind 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.679 enough to bring out a birthday cake for us that 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.680 included my face on it. And at the very end, 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.520 I was presented with a piece of cake that had 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.360 my face on it, and I thought I would never 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.600 see the day where I would eat my face without 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.800 being on bath salts first, but I did that day. 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:30.280 God. Oh, congratulations on your success on the new webcast, 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.240 simulcast and on the podcast. I'm looking forward to listening 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:38.560 to your interview with Steve Hilton this afternoon, and we're 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.359 really excited for your success. We're close to opening in 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.000 San Diego. We're hoping that you'll come down and join 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.280 us for my tie down there, and just wanted to 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:48.880 say peace out and go Dodgers and. 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:52.440 Go Angels, all right. John Segmeister, owner of Gladstone's and 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:53.600 Lung Beach, thank you so much. 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:57.879 Save the day early October. We'll tell you when we 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.520 get closer, but we're heading back down there. We're also 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.520 heading back to Pineapple Hill in early September. We'll have 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.840 a lot of announcements later this month about some live events, 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:11.119 and we are actively trying to figure out doing a 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.639 remote in Oakland at the end of October for the 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:19.080 Shanghy trial, so that might actually happen. We'll see. 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:21.800 And when we hit five thousand subscribers, you and I 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:23.200 are going to the Tijuana River. 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:25.959 If you want to see John and I do a 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:30.560 podcast episode on video from the Tijuana River. I'm not 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.280 getting in the water, but we'll smell it right there. 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.400 Tell all your friends to subscribe to our channel at 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:42.000 Johnny Dontlike dot com. We're at over four thousand. Now 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:45.160 let me check the latest numbers. We're at four thousand 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:48.800 and sixty seven. When we get to five thousand, it's 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.320 all over and we're going to the Tijuana River. So 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.640 if you want to see that happen, you can help 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:56.359 us by spreading the word about this little show. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:58.240 What are you going to do if Art gets a 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:00.560 SYI kayak? 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.960 I don't think our insurance will cover it. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:07.000 Would you be the captain or the skipper? 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.840 I can rope pretty well. I don't know how rough 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.080 those waters are going to be. I also don't know 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.439 if the water is so toxic that the kayak will 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.760 disintegrate by the time it gets to the water. 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.720 It is the most polluted waterway in all of North America, 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:27.320 after all, so we have that to look forward to. 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:33.560 All right. We mentioned before that the Accountability Podcast, the 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:36.920 newest edition of the Accountability Podcast drops today at three 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:42.280