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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's Jody Ernst, and I'm just gonna she said, well,
we're all going to die.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
People were yelling at her at this town hall in Parkersburg,
which is in south or in north central Iowa, and
she's trying to explain to people who are upset about
the possibilities of medicaid and medicare having cuts and cuts
are being dealt with, and part of this is like, Okay, well,
the government is trying to make these determinations, and I
(00:26):
think people legitimately want an explanation. But whenever you're having
a town hall anywhere, no matter what you are, Democrat, Republican,
no matter where you're doing this, especially when you're gonna
be up for reelection in twenty twenty six, like Jonny
Ernst happens to be, you're gonna have some infiltrators who
are going to try to rock the boat a little bit.
And that is just how it works. So have town
(00:46):
halls at your own risk. Politicians. I know that you're
gonna get flamed for not having those two, but let's
just be honest. I don't know how productive they are,
especially when people are going in there with and agenda. Anyway,
while people are yelling at her. She sits there and say, well,
we are all going to die someday anyway for Heaven's sakes,
or something to that effect, and people are.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Like, whoa, You're telling us that we're going to die?
What kind of politician are you?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well a day later, Jodi ERTs she didn't post this
in a full on post. This is just in like
you know how you can do like a story on
Instagram or on Facebook, then after like a day it disappears.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, that's what she did on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So you can't find it from her account, but you
can find it on some other accounts that people have
ripped it off of. Here's Joni Ernst apologizing for what
she said on Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to
sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
My town hall.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
See. I was in the process of answering a question
that had been asked by an audience member when a
woman who was extremely distraught screamed out from the back
corner of the auditorium people are going to die. And
I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium
(02:08):
understood that, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We are all going to perish from this earth.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So I apologize, and I'm really really glad that I
did not have to bring up the subject of the
tooth fairy as well. Oh but for those that would
like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you
to embrace My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Uh. That is not artificial intelligence. Nobody deepfaked that I
was posted on her account as like a story on Saturday,
the day after all this, when she I mean, you
don't have to read the tabloids every day to know
people are talking about you. I'm sure like you have
to be under a ruckt And like Matt, if you
win the American Samoa primary years, you're gonna know that
(03:01):
people are talking about you. Like, even if you're not
that active on social media, you're not gonna get away
from the fact that you're all of a sudden like
kind of famous.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
For yeah, I might get a mention on like MSNBC
or something, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
For good or for bad, right, and she's just like, eh,
you know, she knows. She went viral for that. It
was all over Iowa media, of course, but national media
picked it up too, because it's kind of a crazy
thing to say.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
She must really not like being a politician. This is
a person that is up for reelection next year. I
think she's just ready to get out. That's what it
sounds like to me.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
She's not an ounce she's running for reelection. Well, she
doubles down. She doubled down publicly, not privately, and not
in a professional way either. She literally did it in
a very sarcastic way, which I know a lot of
people are probably just like good. We need more politicians
that are going to be blunt and upfront. But you
(03:50):
have to understand that it is not the way the
game is played. Flanked on Delana Roosevelt even ninety years
ago in his fireside chat. So we can talk about
whether or not even a good president. If you're a Republican,
you probably don't like a lot about what he did,
except maybe pull us out of a depression by putting
us into a world war that we had to get into.
I know it's complicated, but you cannot argue the fact
(04:11):
that those fireside chats were massively important to the American public.
He said, the only thing to fear is fear itself. Now,
isn't that something that we like that's kind of a
timeless piece of advice.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Right, I would say, for Joni's sake, maybe the sound
of her own voice at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Might need to ride the pine for a couple of
weeks and in a way that you know, you're still
like active and you're getting up on the top step
and cheering from the dugout, but might not be bet
It might be best to, you know, take a few
days off, would be my would be my suggestion. Now,
I talked to Joni Ernst a few times. Nice enough person.
He's got a military background. Remember the the ad that
(04:50):
helped get her elected is the pig squealing ad. I'm
gonna go make him squeal. Remember it worked. She's been
there since twenty fourteen. But mat I gotta tell her.
I can't see a whole lot of positive slices out
of this thing. I don't know how you can view
what she's doing here as anything positive. The only positive
I think is there's not really a Democrat that is
(05:12):
equipped to run for that seat in the state of Iowa,
at least yet. All of the kind of noise making
Democrats in the state of Iowa have already kind of
suggests they're going to run for a different office, including
Rob sand running for governor, including Sarah Tronngarriot who's running
for the third Congressional District against Sack Nunn, which is
a competitive House seat. I don't think they see a
(05:34):
real avenue right now with how red Iowa is and
winning a Senate race. But the Republicans would have to
also find a way to come up with a Republican
that is electable and will do a good job if
Jony doesn't want to.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But I get the same read.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You don't talk like this if you're having like, if
you feel like you're being an effective politician, you're enjoying yourself.
This is the kind of thing that you say when
you're just like, I'm over this, and I suppose I mean, like.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Would you volunteer to be a politician? I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I mean maybe when I'm fifty and like I go
through midlife crisis, because that's common. You and me are
going to have a midlife crisis, Matt. I'm trying to
get out in front of it and just let you
try to run for government. And American Samoa, by the way,
if they if they said they would be willing to
fly you out there.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Would you go?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
It'd be a wonderful place to go and visit, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, and you get to talk to people first firsthand.
Jason Palmer won the primary, the Democratic primary in American Samoa.
He didn't even go there. He zoom called him. We'll
definitely when if you go there.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I think it could be a little condescending, especially if
there is already a local candidate.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, but they can't run for president. You're running for president.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Oh, that's right. It's for president though, So I suppose
they can have a primary, but they can actually vote
for the general election, but they have a delegate.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They have a delegate.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
For the primary, they don't have a delegate for like
the electoral college.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's complicated.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
My point is when we go through midlife crisis, maybe
that's when we decide we need people to adore us,
and the best way to get that dopamine hit is
by us running for election. But it feels like it's
a really hard job and you're really unpopular even when
you win. Why would anyone do this to themselves? That's
the bigger picture here. Wild stuff to me, but you're
thinking the same thing I am now, Looking like Joni's
super interested in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, I don't, well the doubling down and then to me, okay,
so did you give the context of where she was walking?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, she was walking in a cemetery. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And then to me, it's kind of like, okay, so
that video was a minute in seven seconds? Was the
whole thing atrol job? Are you trolling Christians as well
with your comment at the very end?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't really.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
The whole tone to me suggests someone who doesn't take
criticism well said something that was pretty incendiary. Whether she
agrees with what she said or not, it was no
doubt and is now doubling down in a pretty mind
boggling way for a politician to do. And to be
walking where she was walking. I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You're all going to die and you can see tombstones
behind her.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Weird. But it wasn't like organized.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I thinks maybe she was just on a walk, decided
this was something she wanted to go do, and then
decided to film herself doing it. I don't know, Like,
I don't think it was that premeditated until she like
was like, you know what, I'm gonna go do that
and then she wouldn't did it and nobody was with her.
She was just like doing it. I don't know, it's weird.
It's weird behavior for a politician, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Well, but that the context of where she was walking,
I mean, is there a possibility it was incidental? Very
highly unlikely.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, but I think I don't think it was incidental.
But I think I don't think she premeditated it that much.
Otherwise there would have been like a camera Ki got
with her. You know, she just selfie did herself.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
She was out, you know what, she was out for
a walk. She was ruminating. She definitely was talking about
it all the probably all the probably you know, emails
and calls that she got that were they were not
very happy, right, And there you go. You know, anybody
wants to talk to her about out of that entire
town hall is the one line, not anything else. Well
and rightly so, Emery's songer on news radio eleven ten
(08:56):
KFAB
Here's Jody Ernst, and I'm just gonna she said, well,
we're all going to die.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
People were yelling at her at this town hall in Parkersburg,
which is in south or in north central Iowa, and
she's trying to explain to people who are upset about
the possibilities of medicaid and medicare having cuts and cuts
are being dealt with, and part of this is like, Okay, well,
the government is trying to make these determinations, and I
(00:26):
think people legitimately want an explanation. But whenever you're having
a town hall anywhere, no matter what you are, Democrat, Republican,
no matter where you're doing this, especially when you're gonna
be up for reelection in twenty twenty six, like Jonny
Ernst happens to be, you're gonna have some infiltrators who
are going to try to rock the boat a little bit.
And that is just how it works. So have town
(00:46):
halls at your own risk. Politicians. I know that you're
gonna get flamed for not having those two, but let's
just be honest. I don't know how productive they are,
especially when people are going in there with and agenda. Anyway,
while people are yelling at her. She sits there and say, well,
we are all going to die someday anyway for Heaven's sakes,
or something to that effect, and people are.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Like, whoa, You're telling us that we're going to die?
What kind of politician are you?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Well a day later, Jodi ERTs she didn't post this
in a full on post. This is just in like
you know how you can do like a story on
Instagram or on Facebook, then after like a day it disappears.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, that's what she did on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So you can't find it from her account, but you
can find it on some other accounts that people have
ripped it off of. Here's Joni Ernst apologizing for what
she said on Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Hello everyone, I would like to take this opportunity to
sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
My town hall.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
See. I was in the process of answering a question
that had been asked by an audience member when a
woman who was extremely distraught screamed out from the back
corner of the auditorium people are going to die. And
I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium
(02:08):
understood that, yes.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We are all going to perish from this earth.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So I apologize, and I'm really really glad that I
did not have to bring up the subject of the
tooth fairy as well. Oh but for those that would
like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you
to embrace My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Uh. That is not artificial intelligence. Nobody deepfaked that I
was posted on her account as like a story on Saturday,
the day after all this, when she I mean, you
don't have to read the tabloids every day to know
people are talking about you. I'm sure like you have
to be under a ruckt And like Matt, if you
win the American Samoa primary years, you're gonna know that
(03:01):
people are talking about you. Like, even if you're not
that active on social media, you're not gonna get away
from the fact that you're all of a sudden like
kind of famous.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
For yeah, I might get a mention on like MSNBC
or something, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
For good or for bad, right, and she's just like, eh,
you know, she knows. She went viral for that. It
was all over Iowa media, of course, but national media
picked it up too, because it's kind of a crazy
thing to say.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
She must really not like being a politician. This is
a person that is up for reelection next year. I
think she's just ready to get out. That's what it
sounds like to me.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
She's not an ounce she's running for reelection. Well, she
doubles down. She doubled down publicly, not privately, and not
in a professional way either. She literally did it in
a very sarcastic way, which I know a lot of
people are probably just like good. We need more politicians
that are going to be blunt and upfront. But you
(03:50):
have to understand that it is not the way the
game is played. Flanked on Delana Roosevelt even ninety years
ago in his fireside chat. So we can talk about
whether or not even a good president. If you're a Republican,
you probably don't like a lot about what he did,
except maybe pull us out of a depression by putting
us into a world war that we had to get into.
I know it's complicated, but you cannot argue the fact
(04:11):
that those fireside chats were massively important to the American public.
He said, the only thing to fear is fear itself. Now,
isn't that something that we like that's kind of a
timeless piece of advice.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Right, I would say, for Joni's sake, maybe the sound
of her own voice at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Might need to ride the pine for a couple of
weeks and in a way that you know, you're still
like active and you're getting up on the top step
and cheering from the dugout, but might not be bet
It might be best to, you know, take a few
days off, would be my would be my suggestion. Now,
I talked to Joni Ernst a few times. Nice enough person.
He's got a military background. Remember the the ad that
(04:50):
helped get her elected is the pig squealing ad. I'm
gonna go make him squeal. Remember it worked. She's been
there since twenty fourteen. But mat I gotta tell her.
I can't see a whole lot of positive slices out
of this thing. I don't know how you can view
what she's doing here as anything positive. The only positive
I think is there's not really a Democrat that is
(05:12):
equipped to run for that seat in the state of Iowa,
at least yet. All of the kind of noise making
Democrats in the state of Iowa have already kind of
suggests they're going to run for a different office, including
Rob sand running for governor, including Sarah Tronngarriot who's running
for the third Congressional District against Sack Nunn, which is
a competitive House seat. I don't think they see a
(05:34):
real avenue right now with how red Iowa is and
winning a Senate race. But the Republicans would have to
also find a way to come up with a Republican
that is electable and will do a good job if
Jony doesn't want to.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
But I get the same read.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You don't talk like this if you're having like, if
you feel like you're being an effective politician, you're enjoying yourself.
This is the kind of thing that you say when
you're just like, I'm over this, and I suppose I mean, like.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Would you volunteer to be a politician? I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I mean maybe when I'm fifty and like I go
through midlife crisis, because that's common. You and me are
going to have a midlife crisis, Matt. I'm trying to
get out in front of it and just let you
try to run for government. And American Samoa, by the way,
if they if they said they would be willing to
fly you out there.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Would you go?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
It'd be a wonderful place to go and visit, for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, and you get to talk to people first firsthand.
Jason Palmer won the primary, the Democratic primary in American Samoa.
He didn't even go there. He zoom called him. We'll
definitely when if you go there.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I think it could be a little condescending, especially if
there is already a local candidate.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, but they can't run for president. You're running for president.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Oh, that's right. It's for president though, So I suppose
they can have a primary, but they can actually vote
for the general election, but they have a delegate.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They have a delegate.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
For the primary, they don't have a delegate for like
the electoral college.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's complicated.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
My point is when we go through midlife crisis, maybe
that's when we decide we need people to adore us,
and the best way to get that dopamine hit is
by us running for election. But it feels like it's
a really hard job and you're really unpopular even when
you win. Why would anyone do this to themselves? That's
the bigger picture here. Wild stuff to me, but you're
thinking the same thing I am now, Looking like Joni's
super interested in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, I don't, well the doubling down and then to me, okay,
so did you give the context of where she was walking?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, she was walking in a cemetery. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And then to me, it's kind of like, okay, so
that video was a minute in seven seconds? Was the
whole thing atrol job? Are you trolling Christians as well
with your comment at the very end?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I don't really.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
The whole tone to me suggests someone who doesn't take
criticism well said something that was pretty incendiary. Whether she
agrees with what she said or not, it was no
doubt and is now doubling down in a pretty mind
boggling way for a politician to do. And to be
walking where she was walking. I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You're all going to die and you can see tombstones
behind her.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Weird. But it wasn't like organized.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
I thinks maybe she was just on a walk, decided
this was something she wanted to go do, and then
decided to film herself doing it. I don't know, Like,
I don't think it was that premeditated until she like
was like, you know what, I'm gonna go do that
and then she wouldn't did it and nobody was with her.
She was just like doing it. I don't know, it's weird.
It's weird behavior for a politician, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Well, but that the context of where she was walking,
I mean, is there a possibility it was incidental? Very
highly unlikely.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, but I think I don't think it was incidental.
But I think I don't think she premeditated it that much.
Otherwise there would have been like a camera Ki got
with her. You know, she just selfie did herself.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
She was out, you know what, she was out for
a walk. She was ruminating. She definitely was talking about
it all the probably all the probably you know, emails
and calls that she got that were they were not
very happy, right, And there you go. You know, anybody
wants to talk to her about out of that entire
town hall is the one line, not anything else. Well
and rightly so, Emery's songer on news radio eleven ten
(08:56):
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