Is Iowa Going to Arm Teachers?

Episode Transcript

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First off, there's a bill workingits way through the Congress in Iowa.
Now, for my Nebraska people,Iowa does things very differently. You have
the unicameral you call them state senators, but it's one thing, not even
party related, and it's not partyto party. You know, obviously,
you know you vote on these peopleand you don't think about the party on

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the ballot, even though you knowgenerally what these people's platforms are. That's
one way to govern in a state. Iowa does it very differently. It
operates kind of like a little Washington, d c. Where there's a House
and there's a Senate, and thereare Republicans and there are Democrats. There's
nothing wrong with that. Everybody everystate kind of has their own system that

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they think works well. A coupleof months ago, and I was watching
this, the Iowa House passed abill that would allow staff at a school
any school district to have the abilityto get a permit to carry a firearm
on the grounds of the school.This, of course, coming in the
wake of what happened in Perry,Iowa at the beginning of January, when

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a seventeen year old student went intoa school and started to shoot people ended
up killing the principal of the schooland a child, right, just a
horrific thing. Multiple people were woundedwith gunshots as well. And I mean,
this scar is a community. Itshould scar all of us, even

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if we aren't there, and thisis one way to respond. I kind
of was paying attention to win theIowa Senate would get on this though,
because it has to get to theirchamber as well, and it finally did
and they passed it with one smallamendment that I'll get to, but for
the most part, it remains intactthe way that it was from the House.

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The first thing about this bill thatyou need to know is it would
allow teachers and other school staff toget a permit to carry a gun on
the school's grounds. So how doyou get the permit? Well, how
do you get a gun? Usuallyteachers or staffers would have to pass background

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checks and they would be required toattend at least five training courses. If
you are at a private school,a college, or a university, you
also have the ability to get apermit as well, not just public schools.
Now, the reason that I thinkthat this is not a bad thing.

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Now, I here's the deal.I know that what I'm about to
say is going to compare apples tooranges. But I just want to throw
this out here, Matt. Haveyou ever loaded and fired a weapon once?
Okay? Did somebody show you howto do that? Or were you

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left to figure it out yourself?Yeah? There was someone there who showed
me how to do it. Yeah? Did you feel like everything went okay
after that? Like nothing surprised you. I pointed it at the target,
and you aimed at the target andit when in the general vicinity of the
target. Yeah. Not that you'rea dead eye shot or anything. No.

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I don't remember being great or terrible. But you never feared for your
own safety no, or the safetyof others. No. Okay. I
did trap shooting at the Isaac WaltonLeague in a Tumble, Iowa, when
I was fifteen years old. Ilike to do stuff, you know me,
I'm a tryer. I like todo all sorts of stuff. I've

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tried a bunch of different things.My sister, for some reason, we
watched I know what it was.We watched the Olympics and there was a
girl from Southeast Iowa that made theOlympics in trap shooting, and we were
watching it, and we were justlike in awe of like how good she
was at shooting the gun. Andmy sister was like, I think I'd
be interested in doing that now.My grandpa, my sister didn't get to
meet him because he passed away beforeI was just a young tyke when he

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passed away. But one of hisbig legacies was he was a huge big
wigan. Was a former president ofthat Isaac Walton Legue in a Tumula,
so my dad had still had alot of connections there and was like,
oh, we can absolutely get youset up for that. And I wasn't
super interested at first, but Iwent just to check it out, and
I kind of was like, yeah, I'd like to try that. You
know, you say, Paul,the orange disc goes flying and then you

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try to shoot it with your shotgun. And I had a little four to
ten that wasn't very good for thistype of sport. But you also could
choot like a twelve gage or twentygauge or anything like that, right,
And not once did I fear formy safety. There there were people that
were helping, not just how totake care of your weapon, not just

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how to load your weapon, notjust to you know. They gave you
the rules, but they also gaveyou like pointers of like, hey,
this is you know when you seethis thing fly, like you should do
this or whatever. I was fifteenyears old, I did weekly trap shooting.
It was like eight to ten weeksduring this summer. And I did
that for a couple of years.Right, Not one time did I feel

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like I was getting worse at it, or did I like I always was
on point with thinking about it,and never did I fear for my safety.
And it was a bunch of kidsdoing this, Like kids under the
age of eighteen were in this littleyouth trap shooting league. Okay, you're
going to give responsible adults. Iwould say most teachers would fall under the

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responsible adult category. I would sayan incredibly large majority ninety seven or more
percent probably of teachers you would considerpatient good people. Otherwise they wouldn't have
gotten into this industry or they wouldn'tbe employed. And now you have the
opportunity to give them an opportunity thatthey don't have to. This is not

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mandatory, but if they want tohave a permit to carry a firearm,
they feel like that's something they wouldlike to do. For the safety of
themselves and the safety of their schooland their classroom. You're not just going
to allow them to have a permitto get a weapon, but you're going
to require them to do the workto get at least five training courses and
have background checks to be able toget this weapon, and to be feeling

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like they were able to do thisin the incredibly unlikely event, but maybe
necessary to defend their classroom or kidsin their school, or staff at the
school. I think I'm not seeingthe problem here. Of course, the
question then becomes what about insurance.Well, one of the large providers for

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insurance for schools in the state ofIowa said they would do if the laws
changed, the policy options would thenchange. It would create competition. It
certainly would not have an effect onwhether or not a school could get insurance
based on the policies in the law. The bill also is going to require

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school districts with more than eight thousandtotal students to have one school resource officer
or security office per high school.That's a large number, that eight thousand
per district. That's going to beyour major melitropolitan areas. But they also
say smaller districts will be encouraged evenif not required to hire their own security
as well. School boards also canvote to opt out of that requirement for

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the larger number as well. Thepart of the bill that was amended was
a grant program which would help districtsrecruit and retain school security officers, so
that part of it was pulled outof there by the Senate. The House
will then get sent back the amendedbill and they'll have to pass it before
it heads to the desk of GovernorKEM Reynolds, and if it was signed,

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it would go into effect immediately.My thought is, I feel like
this is an unfortunate but necessary thingin our society that you have to think
about the options to potentially protect students, schools, classrooms and finally get free,
if you will, of that insanegun free zone idea, that even

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the idea, the mere thought ofpeople being armed in a school should be
a deterrent to anybody thinking of inflictingviolence in a school like that. Just
my two cents. It'll be interestingto see. I'm certain this amended bill
will pass in the Iowa House andlikely get signed by Governor Cam Reynolds,

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and it might make some big newson a national level and something to keep
an eye on whether you're in Iowaor out of Iowa. This could be
the future of schools in America.Five eighteen. More on the way,
including did you know that Latino Americansare supporting more and more the idea of
a border barrier like a wall orof fence. I'll explain the numbers next

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on news radio eleven to ten kfabI found this to be quite fascinating.
If so S and axios work togetheron a Latino poll in partnership with no
notesius Telemundo, they say that nowforty two percent of Latino adults are in

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favor of building a wall or afence at the southern border. Forty two
percent. Now, you might besaying, okay, forty two percent is
still not a majority. If Iasked you about what Latino Americans thought about
the border crisis that we have inthis nation right now, and I asked

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you, I asked you what youwould think if I asked one hundred Latino
Americans of various background, Central Americans, Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, et
cetera, and I asked them whatthey thought about building a fence or a
wall on the southern border. Doyou think forty two percent would be the
number you'd think would support that.I would say probably not, probably,

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not even close. In fact,they had a survey like this over two
years ago in December of twenty twentyone, where only thirty percent of Latinos
said that they would support a wallor of fence as a barrier at the
southern border. That's got up twelvepoints twelve percentage points in just over two
years. They also showed us inthis survey, thirty eight percent of Latino

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adults support sending all undocumented immigrants backto their country of origin. That's up
ten points from this survey in Decemberof twenty twenty one. The narrative is
changing even within the Latino community.Sixty four percent of Latinos said they support
giving the president the authority to shutthe US border if too many immigrants are

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trying to enter. Now, theydidn't ask that question because it really wasn't
a topic of conversation in twenty twentyone. But now that this conversation is
continuing to persist, and Republicans specificallyare saying that the president already has the
power just hasn't decided to use it. Apparently, sixty four, almost two

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thirds of Latino adults say they supportthe president being able just to shut the
border off if too many people areentering. Maybe the An administration needs to
rethink this border thing, because ifthis is the growing trend with Latino Americans
and the way that they feel aboutour border crisis, that it is a
crisis and they feel like we shouldn'tjust be letting everyone in here. Most

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of these people certainly are citizens thatwere asking the survey, but of Latino
heritage. I can't tell you arelosing people that are generally likely to vote
Democrat because you are letting problems getso bad that even people who did support
you feel like you are mishandling them. Nobody. An administration has a load

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of these issues that they have towork through, and this is another one
that looks like we're a growing numberof Latino adults the United States say,
yeah, it's not a majority,but we're getting close to that fifty to
fifty mark where they're saying we absolutelyshould have a barrier between Mexico and the
United States. Keep that in theback of your mind when November comes and
we see the exit polls on howthe Latino population voted in the November election.

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You might be surprised based on thesenumbers. Got plenty more for you
in the second half of this fiveo'clock hour, including does your eyes hurt
still? Because a lot of doctorsare talking about how stupid it was for
a lot of us to look upinto the sun during that eclipse and not
have those special sunglasses on. Andalso how about the Caitlin Clark effect.

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I know I keep talking about this, but y'all said once she finished college
it would stop. And I'm goingto tell you why it won't. Next.
Also on these radio eleven to tenkfab Matt, you see in this
show heo Tani interpreter stuff. Lookthis up. Yeah, this guy was
a degenerate the interpreter. Yeah.They have said Shohotani has had no idea.

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And that's a different question because thisis a famous baseball player makes millions
upon millions of dollars and apparently itwasn't just a couple of million dollars that
were stolen from him. It waslike sixteen million that was stolen from him.
Here is a here, here's atext from Epei Misuhara, the interpreter,

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to a book maker as this washappening, they have the evidence.
Epey said, have you seen thereports? The book maker said, yes,
but that's all BS. Obviously youdidn't steal from him. I understand
it's a cover job. I totallyget it. And then Epay replied,

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technically I did steal from him.It's all over for me. That sounds
like a confession. He placed approximatelynineteen thousand wagers between December of twenty twenty
one and this January. Matt,can you do the math on that?

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What was it again? Okay?So it was this January was January twenty
four, So that's that's twenty fivemonths. Okay, nineteen thousand divided by
twenty five. Nineteen thousand divided bytwenty five, seven sixty a month divided

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by on average thirty divided by thirty. So seven sixty divided by thirty.
Roughly twenty five a day, twentyfive wagers a day, about a little
over one an hour. Well,theoretically he's asleep for at least eight of

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those hours. So what in thetarnation? Okay? And he's just making
he's just like he's just tossing thesethings down. Man, He's tossing them
down, losing bets one hundred andeighty two point nine four million dollars,
he won back one hundred and fortytwo point twenty seven million dollars. Total

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losses roughly forty point seven million dollars. Wow, And apparently none of this
was on baseball. They say itdoes not reflect any bet on bets on
baseball games because he he knew hewasn't supposed to do that. He obviously
had no idea about the rest ofthis stuff. And there are multiple texts.

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I mean, there's all sorts oftexts in here, and they have
a bunch of what's going on inthe writing. But I just his average
bet was twelve thousand, eight hundredtwelve thousand, eight hundred per bet.

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He's not messing around. Where ishe getting this money from Otani? But
no, he was, and hehad a steal from him. Remember he
was betting without he was betting withoutknowing he had that money. Well,
that's what I'm saying, Like hegot it from him, He just he
didn't ask first. Jeff Passon isgrabbing little excerpts of this and posting it

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and it's very interesting, he sayshonor. About November fourteenth, twenty twenty
two, Miszuhara messaged the book makerstating, I'm terrible at this sports betting
thing. Huh lol, any chanceyou can bump me again? As you
know, you don't have to worryabout me not paying. So, like,

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you kept betting and betting and bettingand betting and betting, and he
was just like, oh, that'sfine. Over twelve thousand, what intarnation?
And you keep doing it because you'relike, well, there's a moment,
you know, especially when he's behindyou know, Now that's an addiction.
Yeah, I got to catch up. I gotta get back. Nobody

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will know. So he said,you don't have to worry about me not
paying. About three weeks later,he messaged the bookmaker again and said,
can you bump me last two hundred? I swear on my mom this will
be the last ask before I payit off once I get back to the
States. Sorry for keep on asking, And the bookmaker applied and said NP

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for no problem done. Bud MerryChristmas. Who is this bookmaker? He's
charged with bank fraud after it wasdiscovered officially, this is what he's being
charged with after bank fraud. Itwas discovered he transferred more than sixteen million
dollars from Otani's account to the sportsbook. Now they have cleared o'tana of

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any wrongdoing. Could you misplace likesixteen million dollars to just not notice?
Is that something that can happen?I mean if my wife decided to do
that, I'd not know. Imean, I don't have sixteen million dollars,
but if she took sixteen hundred dollarsout of my account, I wouldn't
notice. I so much money andlanguage barrier, I suppose you know,

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Yeah, but they he's an interpreter. You can't use a language barrier.
Come on, there's no he's withthis guy all the time. He didn't
know this was going on. Heobviously had a level of trust with this
guy that he shouldn't have had.He didn't know this guy was betting on
sports at all. The frequency atwhich he's doing it, you'd have to
be like, how many a daywas it? Twenty twenty five wagers a

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day? Yeah, he transferred sixteenmillion out of Otani's account, wouldn't show
Hey, no, this guy doesnot have that kind of money. What
are we talking about here. There'sno way he doesn't know. I'm not
saying he's guilty because I don't wantto make a sound that way. But

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this is crazy, man, Thisis a gigantic number. The story keeps
unfurling here, the numb You haveto you just have to read it to
believe it. I mean, it'sjust incredible to me. Investigators also relied
on recorded phone calls from the bankin which Mitsuhara falsely identified himself as Otani

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to trick and deceive bank employees intoauthorizing the transfers. What a crazy dude,
or maybe it is Otani. Yeah, that wouldn't make any sense.
He wouldn't use his real name ifhe was. Yes, that wouldn't happen.
M Okay, you know right,he wouldn't call him just right.

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But but they they everybody in MajorLeague Baseball could be paying these people off
to like cover up so a Tonydoesn't get in trouble. You have to
keep that in mind. The incentivecertainly is there. Holy cow, if
you're yeah, if you're major LeagueBaseball, you cannot let this guy get
in trouble for sports gambling like youjust can't, No matter what happens.

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He's yeah, I do. Ibelieve the bank thought, like all you
had to do was just say you'resho he a tani and like they'll they'll
transfer sixteen million dollars. I mighthave to try that. What are we
doing? Or for real? Yeah, there's no way. He doesn't know,
there's no way. Ah anyway,all right, I'll talk about the

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eye thing. How do you knowyou might have damaged your eyes watching the
eclipse? And also the Iowa Citymayor had something to say about Kaitlin Clark's
effect economically and if you think thatthat effect is not going to follow her
to the you are gravely mistaken.I will explain next on news radio eleven
to ten kfab what was it atBridge Farm? Remembers we looked up in

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the sun for a hot second.Oh yeah, I was real quick though
I was. I knew it wasa bad idea, but I still did
it. Yeah. Yeah, justlike can we see the moon blocking the
sun for a second? The answerreally is no, you should not be
doing that. Yeah, shouldn't bedoing that at all. Well, how
do you know that your eyes arehurt? Well, symptoms could be uh,

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if you damage your retina by lookingtoo much into the sun, because
that can't actually damage your eyes.Headaches, blurry vision, nausea, you
might be seeing spots. Other symptomscan include a change in color vision.
And there's a lot of people thatare probably just they're feeling a little painful.
She says. This doctor that I'mreading about, her name is Jeannette

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Nasha Watt. She says, ifyour symptoms persist after a few days,
and I think probably if they persistto tomorrow, you probably should get a
look at a doctor. Maybe.But let this be a lesson for all
of y'all out there waiting on that, you know, eclipse in twenty one
years, Maybe don't look up directlyat the sun. And unless you have

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those goggle things, those really darkgoggles that can help you via the eclipse.
That's what I would say. Also, I have a lot of people
to just say stuff like, hey, you know what, Kaylen Clark,
going to the WNBA is a badmove. It's not gonna help anybody.
It's gonna hurt everybody. She's gonnalose a ton of money by doing this.
It's like, is she trust me? She's going to be doing just

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fine with all of her endorsements,which she will carry over into the WNBA.
You want to venture a guess.According to the Iowa city mayor Bruce
Tigue, he estimated how much moneyshe brought to the local economy along with
the rest of the women's basketball team. You want to venture against to how
many dollars couple mil? Two mil? Yeah, three mil? Yeah,

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eighty two point five mil? Nice, eighty two point five million for a
college town in Iowa because of theirwomen's basketball team, because she was on
it. Come on, what arewe talking about here? She's gonna go
to Indianapolis, a bigger market,play for the Indiana Fever. With another
former National Player of the Year innational champion Eleiah Boston, they are going

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to be a duo that is goingto be hard to contain and might take
a few games to figure out.But guess what she gets drafted on Monday,
Dude. This turns around fast.And then on May fourteenth, that's
their first regular season game, whichwill be nationally televised against the Connecticut Sun
on ESPN two. So there's notime to like sit down and be like,

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Okay, I guess I have towait till the fall to see Kaitlyn
Clark again, that's not true.Kaitlyn Clark and the Indiana Fever, they're
gonna be She's gonna get drafted bythem on Monday, and they're gonna start
playing almost immediately. She's got togo to camp and you know, meet
her teammates and her coaches, andpreseason starts right at the beginning of May.

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So this is gonna be a nicelittle wave. And you know who's
else is going to WBA, AngelReese. You know else going to WNBA.
Camilla Cardoso who killed Iowa in theNational Championship game. Cameron Brink from
Stanford. I mean, she's anincredible athlete, very tall as well.
Gonna be a fun WNBA draft tosee where everybody lands. And then I

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can't wait to watch these games.All these college stars moving up into the
professional ranks along with all the starsthat were already there. It's gonna be
fun. It's gonna be a funride. Come along for it. WNBA
draft next Monday to start the wholething. All right, you have some
fun on your Thursday Thursday. We'llsee you tomorrow for a fun Friday at
two o'clock. Can't wait to seeyou then on news radio eleven to ten kfab