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There are another big win in a working weekend in Washington.
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saw something unusual, a daytime fireball, possibly dropped by a meteor.
They say, I don't know what It is kind of
wild to watch this stuff coming through this especially that
time of the day was broad daylight. It actually created
a sonic boom. Now folks are looking for whatever that
was that fell from the sky.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Number going him.
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Big win for the Supreme Court yesterday and of course
for conservatives. Justice is ruling that South Carolina states like
it can bang medicate funds for people like planned parenthood.
The Supreme Court's term is winding down today. We expect
to hear more decisions, six major cases, among them President
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Speaker 2 (04:19):
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you the ability to leave us a little talkback message.
It's almost like a little voicemail. We'll play them all
the air if we get some good ones. Now that
part is up to you. Speaking of good ones, our
good friend Kyle Olsen from the Midwestern to Midwestern or
(04:42):
TOT News joining us now. What the latest big busy
week not throughout not just throughout the country and the world, Kyle,
but also here in Michigan as things have been buzzing along,
you've all been covering it all with the Midwestern Thanks
for taking the time to be here with us today.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Happy two, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So hearing after hearing, let's start with Benson this week.
Oh man, this was something to see the Secretary of
State and you know, some interesting things happened. She was busted,
caught doing something kind of interesting that Midwestern are covered.
I thought was that was kind of funny, but also busted. Rep.
Kara in a moment there with Secretary of State Benson,
(05:23):
as it calls her route on a few things, the
most lawless secretary of State in the history of this state.
What do you make of that there, Kyle Olson, Well.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Obviously it was sort of a gotcha. Yeah, But you know,
I think it's important for all elected officials to have
some self reflection and admit when they make mistakes, and
she's she's made a lot of mistakes, either intentionally or
through incompetence. So whether it is how she's interpreted election
laws and then the guidance says she's given to clerks
(05:56):
incorrectly and illegally to the point where courts have intervened
or it is how she's botched this transparency website system,
and she now is working with that company to try
and fix what's going on. They're saying it could be
in July. She has said that she's going to be
(06:17):
very upset if it's not fixed in July. So I
think there's a lot that she has to atone for.
But the fact that she sort of is very defiant
about that and refuses to acknowledge any sort of mistake,
I think is very telling.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You know, I think you've got to watch out for
those folks. They've got this really lockdown when they do
job interviews. And by the way, folks don't get a twister.
That's a job interview that's taking place right there, or
an opportunity for one. That's for sure, she does it.
She's not qualified for the job she currently holds, and
yet she wants she wants to run for governor. I
(06:55):
say she's completely unqualified. The point here is they'll ask
in job interviews, hey, what's what's one of the biggest
you know, it's one of those biggest mistakes or a
mistake you made that you really learn from, or they'll
ask that question in a job interview and the answer
they get tells them everything. In other words, if somebody
really comes Clayton and says, you know, I there was
(07:15):
one time I did this and gosh, it was like
the worst thing that I could have done, but I
really learned from it. It's made me a better person.
And boy, you bet I'll never do that again. And
this is that, This is how I learned that. That's
somebody who, as you said, is introspective. They're not full
of pride, they're not full of hubris. They know, Okay,
I'm gonna screw up every now and then, but I'm
(07:37):
gonna do my best to make sure I get it right.
I'll admit it when I get it wrong. She didn't
do that. She did what some of these people do,
which is they sort of they don't want to look
bad and from the job interviewers, so they don't even
it fault about anything, and they have a hard time
coming up with something that they did wrong. What did
she do? She pointed their finger. She pointed the finger
(07:57):
at everybody else, you, me, and everyone else. No, let's
go back to those elections that she oversaw, specifically in
twenty twenty. We're learning every day. In fact, this is
a subject part of it of a conversation. We had
podcasts dropping this weekend with Ryan Kelly, one of the
guys that was targeted. You can remember during the twenty
two election, that guy running for governor. You know he's
(08:20):
out there, he's at the capitol on twenty twenty and
of course in January twenty twenty one, I guess it
was Jenam six. And we're finding out the reason they
went to the capitol, these people because there were things
that they saw that was wrong, They had issues right
with They just wanted to get these things fixed and say,
why what about this? What about that? Well, now we're
learning the FBI saying, hey, you know, China was involved.
(08:42):
They were involved, they were trying to print fake ballots,
they were trying to print fake IDs, and we find
out the FBI was trying to cover all of that up.
So you know, we've got we've got major issues in
these elections that she's overseen and she's been part of
it since day one, and yet she doesn't want it yet.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It well and the whole One of the major cruxes
of what's going on in the state House right now
is the Election Integrity Committee wants to make sure that
the guidance that Benson, Secretary of State, is giving to
local clerks on how to handle ballots, how to count ballots,
(09:26):
et cetera, is within the law. And so there are
about five thousand local clerks who have received this guidance,
which is in the form of a booklet, and the
House Integrity Election Integrity Committee has asked for a copy
of that from the Secretary of State, and she refuses it.
She refuses to give it to them, and to the
(09:48):
point where they have subpoenat it, and she is refusing
to comply with the subpoena. So I guess, of course,
the question is what is there to hide? Why do
why are you hiding this if this is a guidance
that you are giving to clerks, and by the way,
it's from the twenty twenty four election, so it's not
(10:10):
I mean it's not we're not currently in this election.
But she is claiming that, well, she can't do that
because of security. But the question is what exactly are
you hiding because this is a public document, it went
out to five thousand people, and she won't she won't.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Answer that again. Transparency, and she wants to be the governor.
Of course she'll tell us everything we need to know
when she becomes a governor, but now she she can't
really get into all that.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And that's the thing here, is that her campaign is
premised on two things. One transparency and two that she
has done such a great job as Secretary of State.
She's improved elections, she's improved customer service, et cetera, that
she should be in charge of the entire state government. Yeah,
(11:01):
so that's how she has That's how she's framed her campaign,
and so that's how we should be scrutinizing her record
and what she wants to do.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Kyle also the Midwestern or the midwesternort News more fireworks
than Lansing yesterday. In fact, Ted Nugent Uncle Ted or
was it the day before, testifying about the abuse of
dn R, etc.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
An eighteen year old boy who gotten into bowl hunting
because of my TV show got a ticket because his
bull case wasn't zipped up. There's a law in Michige
that wildlife policy has to be based on science. What's
the science of a bowl case?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know, he made so many great points, and I
know this was about hunting, fishing, wildlife, et cetera. But really,
if you take a look at that way of thinking,
the way the government comes really to everything, it really
is a blanket approach. It really does. I believe China
(11:59):
the big spotlight on everything that they're trying to do.
When that comes to everything, there is no common sense.
It's complete control and they're out of control of Lancing.
And I was just happy to see him testify and
make those points.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, and he said that the DNR is the enemy
of conservation, and I thought what that hearing really did.
And there was another hearing by the Government Weaponization Committee
that really brought light to the fact that the DNR
is they're actually going undercover. They're deceiving ranch owners to
(12:36):
get onto the property and investigate what is going on there.
And it shows that this DNR is totally out of control.
One of the things that he talked about is how
the deer population is totally out of control. I live.
I live in suburban Muskegon County, and I can tell
you the deer population is totally out of control. And
(12:57):
just drive when I drive to Lancing occasionally, the amount
of deer that you see on ninety six on the
side of the road from Muskegon County to Lansing is crazy,
and this is the way it is across the entire
the entire state. The last data that's been made available
was twenty twenty three, over fifty eight thousand car deer
(13:19):
crashes in the state of Michigan. First of all, at
which led to eleven deaths. So, first of all, that
is dangerous, but secondly, think about what that does to
insurance rates, what that costs a motorists when they have
to fix their cars. This is a huge problem. And
so the DNR, instead of trying to figure out what
(13:41):
to do about the deer population and how do we
incentivize hunters to hunt more which helps one helps our
economy and two controls the deer population, they're going after bowhunters,
as Ted said, they're going undercover. They have lost their way,
(14:02):
and it's it's up to the to the state House
to do something about that. Because the Democrats, the Whitmer administration,
which is I mean the DNR is her appointee and
her appointees and the state Senate, they're not going to
going to do anything about this, and so it's up
to the House to do something about it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Kyle also the Midwestern or the Midwesterner dot news always
a pleasure, my friend. Before we go, there's one story
that's over on the Midwesterner that we talked about at
length a little bit yesterday and wanted to just sort
of get your comment. I can you hang with us
for just a moment. It's it's a story in fact
about the people in Michigan living like they're amish, to
(14:45):
live like they're almis because the prices of the energy
keep going up. And it's a story folks are really
passionate about. Want to dig into that and find out
I'll tell you what you can find more of these
stories in the Midwestern or the Midwesterner dot news. We're
back with Kyle Olsen coming up in just a minute.
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
All right, Kyle Olson with us the Midwestern or the
Midwestern or dot news. People in Michigan living like they're
amish because of the electric prices and the energy just
keeps going through the roof. A great article story about
this on the Midwestern Kyle, I've only got about like
forty five seconds here, but i just wanted you to
address this. This is something driving people up the wall.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, Michigan has the highest electricity rates in certainly in
the Midwest, if not the country. And here we've got
companies like DTE Consumers Energy. They keep going to the
Whitmer Public Service Commission asking for rate increases and year
after year, and people are saying, we can't, we can't
(18:38):
afford this anymore. And not to mention, we have some
of the most unreliable electricity in the country and so
something has got to give. And so we've published this
story about how people are they don't have Christmas lights anymore.
They're hanging their clothes outside so they can, you know,
not have it, not pay for the dryer electricity. This
(18:59):
is not the people want to live, but because of
the situation in Michigan, it's what they're having to do.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It is incredible, and you're right, it's like we're paying
more for less and every day people are just bringing
their heads. But by the way, it's not just you
or me, it's also industry, big business that would like
to come here, manufacturing, et cetera. They can't because they
just can't afford the energy crisis. Always the pleasure of
my friend, I appreciate, by the way, that costs us jobs. Folks,
the midwestern or the Midwesterner Dot News Kyle Olson, thank you, sir,
(19:28):
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I haven't tried the meck thing yet, but I don't
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It's like, oh man, you couldn't be more happy.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
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(20:55):
of weeks a year, really, that's what we're talking about.
So when it's here, we got to get out and enjoy,
go to the lake, you know, spend some time with
the kids, the grandkids, chasing after, do them on all
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to go when they are. And that's why I'm so
(21:16):
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is working over the weekend. We've got a podcast coming out.
Got U a chance to sit down. Remember Ryan Kelly,
he ran for governor in twenty twenty two. He's one
of the forty people that were in that race, but
at one point he was like near the top until
he was charged the weaponization of government. He was politically
persecuted for a misdemeanor on January sixth, that was just
(22:22):
being at the capitol that day essentially, and what they
did to him, essentially sending him to prison, was just
unforgivable the Biden administration. So we sat down because he's
a friend and we haven't had a chance to really
talk about this, and he's been out talking to folks,
(22:42):
chriss crossing the state and really probably wrestling with that
question of whether or not he's going to try to
run again. But I really wanted to sit down and
have it on the record what happened to him, what
they did, what that was like with his family. We
did over an hour and you'll be able to hear
and see that tomorrow as it drops for everybody at
(23:03):
nine am. But today it's over on locals as we
speak free for folks at Justin Barclay dot com slash locals,
but you'll be able to hear just a portion of it.
Here was our conversation.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Always good to be here with you, Justin, Thanks for
the invite. It is a story that needs to be told.
It's people you know, all over the state, in the
country that don't even really understand.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
The depths of what happened. And I'm not alone in this.
There's so many other people that have gone through similar struggles,
you know, similar persecutions. My story is unique because I
was running for public office. I was the leading gubernatorial
candidate in the state of Michigan at the time that
I was arrested for misdemeanors. And you know, I've been
(23:47):
telling the story all over the state of Michigan and
excited to do it.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Here. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
There's the picture. I think this one maya came from NBC.
One of the things that probably gives folks the best
sort of descript about what happened. But as I mentioned,
the political persecution, right, and the prosecution, but really the
persecution of all of this. I mean it started even
before President Trump's really started feeling it. Were they rated
(24:15):
Morrow logo and all that. They came to your house
as well. And I want to take folks back to
this time. We're going to talk about January sixth and
what happened on that day and kind of get into
all of that at some point, But first let's start
with this because this happened at a time when you
were doing pretty well in the polls, weren't you. I mean,
(24:36):
walk us through where we were during the election for
governor here in Michigan and particularly I guess this was
primary right before the primary.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
It was right before all the primary voting started.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
And if we want to rewind back to a time
that people will remember the signature Debaco, remember that justin
there is ten gubernatorial candidates I think at the time,
and then five of them didn't get their signatures because
of you know, invalid signatures they had, you know, fraudulent signatures,
(25:14):
and there was five that.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Didn't make the ballot.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
So that whole time period following that was the end
of May of twenty twenty two, you started to see
articles and polls pop up all over the state that
Ryan Kelly is the favored candidate, is the leading gubernatorial candidate.
And you know, it was multiple polls from different places
(25:37):
that you know, really painted a picture of Hey, you know,
we have this guy that was, you know, leading protests
in twenty twenty was courageous enough to step up and say, hey, look,
you know this is all one constitutional, this is not
how we operate in America. And then the next thing,
you know, the FBI shows up at my house twenty
(26:00):
twenty two and I'm arrested for in front of my
family early in the morning.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You know, they made my house for misdemeanor charges.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I gotta, I guess I gotta slow you down
because this is so much. And the first time I
got to take people back the first time I met Ryan,
and you said something that made me think about this.
Who I think we all have a little bit of
PTSD over the last several years. It's hard like putting
these pictures together. I can't believe it's been five years. Wow,
that's the insanity of twenty twenty. But you and I
first met there that as the governor Queen, the Wolverine
(26:30):
Queen time, Gretchen Whitmer had really decided, you know, latterly
we had no king's protests the other day, but she decided,
the Queen of Michigan, she was gonna shut this down,
open that up, and all these things that she was
making these these decisions on, you know, based on the
science and the data. I remember all of that. Oh
my gosh, nails on a chalkboar, are you thinking back
(26:52):
to that now? But you and I met, I guarantee you.
I believe it was one of the gatherings. I think
it must have been like the Delta Plexu someplace like that.
And in fact, this will tell you how crazy this
time was. I think Tutor Dixon was there too. A
few of our other friends were roaming around. People that
got chance, a great chance to get to know since then,
(27:15):
but that's where I got to know you and some
of these other folks. So you were involved in standing
up and I'm saying, look, this isn't right. So you've
been very vocal from that point, and that's that's really
where you start to get again. I guess notoriety and
you had been active in government and business for for
(27:35):
a while. But that's where people really got to know you, right.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
It was.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
It's the beginning of you know, kind of the public
version of myself, if you will, and Justin if you
remember back, the first time that I was on your
radio show was April thirtieth of twenty twenty. We had
that protest at the Capitol. We had a ton of
national news from that for you know, various reasons, but
(28:01):
you had me on your show. With that event, we
had a very simple message, a very simple objective, and
that was to get the Senate to vote no to
extend the governor's state of emergency declaration. So I'm on
your show with you. You're covering what's happened at the Capitol.
You're getting the message out there, you know. And then
from there, you know, we've we've collaborated on a lot
(28:24):
of stuff. And you know, it was very early on
that people like you and I said, you know, hey,
this is not right. And with that event on the thirtieth,
even though the Senate did vote no, we were highly
successful that day of getting them to vote no. Queen
Gretchen right, no Kings, no queens. Queen Gretchen decided that
she's not going to listen to what the Senate says,
(28:45):
and she's going to continue with her status quote, shutting
the state down, put your mask on, stay at home.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
You're not allowed to operate unless she tells you that
she can move.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So much about that time now, when you think of
back about it's so absurd. It's so absurd. But there
were some people, and you and I and you know,
lots of folks listening to this program who saw that
completely for all, for what it was. And there's some
people that we welcome in with open arms now that
are discovering they're still waking up. There's a lot of
people that still need to wake up. But that that
(29:19):
was it. So it's funny to hear you say that,
to think about it, they did. They came to your house,
and we'll get to January sixth and why you were
there and what you were doing and whatnot. But it's
important to note this as a legal issue because I
remember coming to the courthouse that day and hearing that
you had been you know, the FP had come to
your home and they'd raided your home and for a misdemeanor,
(29:44):
which is so wild now to hear and to think
about and to talk about it. This time, there were
questions about what they were going to do and what
you were. You were essentially where you weren't supposed to
be according to them. Now I don't really personally see
anything wrong, but maybe you can. You can give me
(30:06):
sort of the background and what they charged you with,
what they said, what was going on in the background there,
But like you were on the property there at the
house when you shouldn't have been. Is that? Is that?
The is that? Essentially what they were saying you were here?
Is answer? And of course what happened when they sent
him away? This story behind it all coming up this
(30:28):
week and on dropped the podcast, but more on that
after this, plus will he run for governor again? Ryan
Kelly our exclusive interview, More of it after this. They
are preaching past the headlines.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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News original story Michigan Senator Democrat Alissa Slockin says Democrats
are urging Republicans to vote against President Trump's Big, beautiful bill,
which she claims cuts Medicaid funding.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Is there any American who thinks that healthcare is going
well right now in America? So, yes, we're having those conversations.
At the end of the day, the President is trying
to browbeat people into voting for this thing and soon.
And so it's going to be up to my Republican
colleagues whether they have a spine on these issues or not.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
In other news, the ACLU filing a lawsuit on behalf
of a fourteen year old Palestinian student in Detroit who
wants a court to award her emotional damages after her
teacher calls her out for refusing to stand for the
Pledge of Allegiance. The girl says she refused to stand
up as she's protesting US support of Israel and the
(31:43):
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Hamas terrorists murdering and kidnapping Jews. On October seventh, fifty
people still being held hostage, only twenty are thought to
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This one this week in a full hour with Ryan Kelly.
As he mentioned, he was politically persecuted as a gob
(32:22):
editorial candidate back in twenty twenty two, did time in
prison because of the the the Biden Injustice Department. And
your question, will he run again for governor here in Michigan.
You get all those answers of the podcast drops tomorrow,
just another taste.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
I'm the leading candidate according to all these different polls
I'm taking. I was one hundred percent in, and you
know that justin I was one hundred percent and I
spent all of my time connecting with people traveling around
the state. I would go to restaurants, grocery stores, cigar bars,
you know, different stores, just introducing myself just to random
(33:01):
people in the general public, because I wanted to meet
people and win.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Earn their vote.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
I was one hundred percent in and that's why I
started doing so well and was the leading candidate, So
they needed to interfere with my election to plant seeds
of doubts and the mind of voters that you know,
at that time, if you remember, you know, you saw
on the news. You know, they kept playing the same
clips of the January sixth stuff where there was you know,
a lot of conflict with law enforcement officers, you know,
(33:31):
putting down you know, replay all of that and then
sending all these people to prison for extended periods of time.
And in the mind of a lot of voters that
maybe don't pay as much attention as you and I
and some of the people listening to this, you see
that and you ask the question, Hey, is this guy
going to go to jail?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Is he going to be able to go against Whipmer?
Speaker 9 (33:51):
You know, there's a lot of people that still don't
even realize that I had missdemeanor charges. I was also
before they went after presient in Trump with the fourteenth
Amendment to try to keep him off the ballot. They
had lawsuits here in the state of Michigan deeming the
insurrectionist trying to keep me off of the ballot.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
So voters, you.
Speaker 9 (34:12):
Know, to the tune of hundreds of thousands, which I
just I couldn't meet that many people personally. You know,
they planted seeds of doubt and I think a lot
of people were thinking that, what's going to happen to
this guy? He's a fighter, they're doing him wrong. But
I want Whitmer out of office. So that was their
main thing. Interesting picture right there. I can make a
comment on that one if you.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Want, absolutely tell us.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
So I have the video of that part right there,
and in the video you'll hear people start screaming USA, USA.
It starts as a faint chant, and then you see
me screaming USA getting people to continue to scream USA.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
So interesting enough. I have a video of that, and
that's one of the ones that they used. And I
was such a bad guy. Oh no, he's screaming USA.
Can't have that in America? Now? Can we just do.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
That picture we're talking about you'll be able to see
when you watch the video and see the full podcast
show that's dropping tomorrow at nine am. Is that picture
of him at Tifamous. Now he's holding his hands up
and he's kind of like you's said, bringing up, bringing up,
but he's actually saying ussay is in chant louder and
they use that to paint a picture of him, and
(35:25):
of course that's what sort of what the media that
now we've learned how they work. He was one of
the first they targeted, even before President Trump. Since been
pardon but will he run again? What was it like
when he had to go to prison, What are some
of the things that he learned, and what was the
impact on his family. What a conversation with Ryan Kelly
And of course you can hear it this week and
(35:45):
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app or wherever you download your podcast and after show
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we'll try and make sense of it all before the
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but a massive, massive fireball shooting across the sky. The
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a sonic boom. Now folks are looking for whatever that
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Speaker 4 (03:00):
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Big win for the Supreme Court yesterday and of course
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The Supreme Court's term is winding down today. We expect
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TOT News joining us now. What the latest big busy
week not throughout not just throughout the country and the world, Kyle,
but also here in Michigan as things have been buzzing along,
you've all been covering it all with the Midwestern Thanks
for taking the time to be here with us today.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Happy two, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So hearing after hearing, let's start with Benson this week.
Oh man, this was something to see the Secretary of
State and you know, some interesting things happened. She was busted,
caught doing something kind of interesting that Midwestern are covered.
I thought was that was kind of funny, but also busted. Rep.
Kara in a moment there with Secretary of State Benson,
(05:23):
as it calls her route on a few things, the
most lawless secretary of State in the history of this state.
What do you make of that there, Kyle Olson, Well.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Obviously it was sort of a gotcha. Yeah, But you know,
I think it's important for all elected officials to have
some self reflection and admit when they make mistakes, and
she's she's made a lot of mistakes, either intentionally or
through incompetence. So whether it is how she's interpreted election
laws and then the guidance says she's given to clerks
(05:56):
incorrectly and illegally to the point where courts have intervened
or it is how she's botched this transparency website system,
and she now is working with that company to try
and fix what's going on. They're saying it could be
in July. She has said that she's going to be
(06:17):
very upset if it's not fixed in July. So I
think there's a lot that she has to atone for.
But the fact that she sort of is very defiant
about that and refuses to acknowledge any sort of mistake,
I think is very telling.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You know, I think you've got to watch out for
those folks. They've got this really lockdown when they do
job interviews. And by the way, folks don't get a twister.
That's a job interview that's taking place right there, or
an opportunity for one. That's for sure, she does it.
She's not qualified for the job she currently holds, and
yet she wants she wants to run for governor. I
(06:55):
say she's completely unqualified. The point here is they'll ask
in job interviews, hey, what's what's one of the biggest
you know, it's one of those biggest mistakes or a
mistake you made that you really learn from, or they'll
ask that question in a job interview and the answer
they get tells them everything. In other words, if somebody
really comes Clayton and says, you know, I there was
(07:15):
one time I did this and gosh, it was like
the worst thing that I could have done, but I
really learned from it. It's made me a better person.
And boy, you bet I'll never do that again. And
this is that, This is how I learned that. That's
somebody who, as you said, is introspective. They're not full
of pride, they're not full of hubris. They know, Okay,
I'm gonna screw up every now and then, but I'm
(07:37):
gonna do my best to make sure I get it right.
I'll admit it when I get it wrong. She didn't
do that. She did what some of these people do,
which is they sort of they don't want to look
bad and from the job interviewers, so they don't even
it fault about anything, and they have a hard time
coming up with something that they did wrong. What did
she do? She pointed their finger. She pointed the finger
(07:57):
at everybody else, you, me, and everyone else. No, let's
go back to those elections that she oversaw, specifically in
twenty twenty. We're learning every day. In fact, this is
a subject part of it of a conversation. We had
podcasts dropping this weekend with Ryan Kelly, one of the
guys that was targeted. You can remember during the twenty
two election, that guy running for governor. You know he's
(08:20):
out there, he's at the capitol on twenty twenty and
of course in January twenty twenty one, I guess it
was Jenam six. And we're finding out the reason they
went to the capitol, these people because there were things
that they saw that was wrong, They had issues right
with They just wanted to get these things fixed and say,
why what about this? What about that? Well, now we're
learning the FBI saying, hey, you know, China was involved.
(08:42):
They were involved, they were trying to print fake ballots,
they were trying to print fake IDs, and we find
out the FBI was trying to cover all of that up.
So you know, we've got we've got major issues in
these elections that she's overseen and she's been part of
it since day one, and yet she doesn't want it yet.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
It well and the whole One of the major cruxes
of what's going on in the state House right now
is the Election Integrity Committee wants to make sure that
the guidance that Benson, Secretary of State, is giving to
local clerks on how to handle ballots, how to count ballots,
(09:26):
et cetera, is within the law. And so there are
about five thousand local clerks who have received this guidance,
which is in the form of a booklet, and the
House Integrity Election Integrity Committee has asked for a copy
of that from the Secretary of State, and she refuses it.
She refuses to give it to them, and to the
(09:48):
point where they have subpoenat it, and she is refusing
to comply with the subpoena. So I guess, of course,
the question is what is there to hide? Why do
why are you hiding this if this is a guidance
that you are giving to clerks, and by the way,
it's from the twenty twenty four election, so it's not
(10:10):
I mean it's not we're not currently in this election.
But she is claiming that, well, she can't do that
because of security. But the question is what exactly are
you hiding because this is a public document, it went
out to five thousand people, and she won't she won't.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Answer that again. Transparency, and she wants to be the governor.
Of course she'll tell us everything we need to know
when she becomes a governor, but now she she can't
really get into all that.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
And that's the thing here, is that her campaign is
premised on two things. One transparency and two that she
has done such a great job as Secretary of State.
She's improved elections, she's improved customer service, et cetera, that
she should be in charge of the entire state government. Yeah,
(11:01):
so that's how she has That's how she's framed her campaign,
and so that's how we should be scrutinizing her record
and what she wants to do.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Kyle also the Midwestern or the midwesternort News more fireworks
than Lansing yesterday. In fact, Ted Nugent Uncle Ted or
was it the day before, testifying about the abuse of
dn R, etc.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
An eighteen year old boy who gotten into bowl hunting
because of my TV show got a ticket because his
bull case wasn't zipped up. There's a law in Michige
that wildlife policy has to be based on science. What's
the science of a bowl case?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
You know, he made so many great points, and I
know this was about hunting, fishing, wildlife, et cetera. But really,
if you take a look at that way of thinking,
the way the government comes really to everything, it really
is a blanket approach. It really does. I believe China
(11:59):
the big spotlight on everything that they're trying to do.
When that comes to everything, there is no common sense.
It's complete control and they're out of control of Lancing.
And I was just happy to see him testify and
make those points.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, and he said that the DNR is the enemy
of conservation, and I thought what that hearing really did.
And there was another hearing by the Government Weaponization Committee
that really brought light to the fact that the DNR
is they're actually going undercover. They're deceiving ranch owners to
(12:36):
get onto the property and investigate what is going on there.
And it shows that this DNR is totally out of control.
One of the things that he talked about is how
the deer population is totally out of control. I live.
I live in suburban Muskegon County, and I can tell
you the deer population is totally out of control. And
(12:57):
just drive when I drive to Lancing occasionally, the amount
of deer that you see on ninety six on the
side of the road from Muskegon County to Lansing is crazy,
and this is the way it is across the entire
the entire state. The last data that's been made available
was twenty twenty three, over fifty eight thousand car deer
(13:19):
crashes in the state of Michigan. First of all, at
which led to eleven deaths. So, first of all, that
is dangerous, but secondly, think about what that does to
insurance rates, what that costs a motorists when they have
to fix their cars. This is a huge problem. And
so the DNR, instead of trying to figure out what
(13:41):
to do about the deer population and how do we
incentivize hunters to hunt more which helps one helps our
economy and two controls the deer population, they're going after bowhunters,
as Ted said, they're going undercover. They have lost their way,
(14:02):
and it's it's up to the to the state House
to do something about that. Because the Democrats, the Whitmer administration,
which is I mean the DNR is her appointee and
her appointees and the state Senate, they're not going to
going to do anything about this, and so it's up
to the House to do something about it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Kyle also the Midwestern or the Midwesterner dot news always
a pleasure, my friend. Before we go, there's one story
that's over on the Midwesterner that we talked about at
length a little bit yesterday and wanted to just sort
of get your comment. I can you hang with us
for just a moment. It's it's a story in fact
about the people in Michigan living like they're amish, to
(14:45):
live like they're almis because the prices of the energy
keep going up. And it's a story folks are really
passionate about. Want to dig into that and find out
I'll tell you what you can find more of these
stories in the Midwestern or the Midwesterner dot news. We're
back with Kyle Olsen coming up in just a minute.
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twenty seventh. I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News
original story. A fourteen year old Palestinian student in Detroit
wants a court to award her emotional damages after her
teacher calls her out for refusing to stand for the
pledge of allegiance. In other news, Michigan House Democrats melting
(17:11):
down as a Republican representative Josh Shriver delivers a speech
on illegal immigration. Shriver introducing a resolution that would encourage
Michigan law enforcement agencies to enter into an agreement with Ice.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The One Big Beautiful Bill to secure our borders, triport,
charge our economy, and bring back the American dream. That's
what's happening too.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
At the White House, President Trump hosting an event for
his One Big Beautiful Bill that he's trying to get
passed through Congress. A reporter asking the President if he
thinks the Senate will finish its work on the bill
by the fourth of July, because.
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The president can Congress finishes by July fourth.
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
All right, Kyle Olson with us the Midwestern or the
Midwestern or dot news. People in Michigan living like they're
amish because of the electric prices and the energy just
keeps going through the roof. A great article story about
this on the Midwestern Kyle, I've only got about like
forty five seconds here, but i just wanted you to
address this. This is something driving people up the wall.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, Michigan has the highest electricity rates in certainly in
the Midwest, if not the country. And here we've got
companies like DTE Consumers Energy. They keep going to the
Whitmer Public Service Commission asking for rate increases and year
after year, and people are saying, we can't, we can't
(18:38):
afford this anymore. And not to mention, we have some
of the most unreliable electricity in the country and so
something has got to give. And so we've published this
story about how people are they don't have Christmas lights anymore.
They're hanging their clothes outside so they can, you know,
not have it, not pay for the dryer electricity. This
(18:59):
is not the people want to live, but because of
the situation in Michigan, it's what they're having to do.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It is incredible, and you're right, it's like we're paying
more for less and every day people are just bringing
their heads. But by the way, it's not just you
or me, it's also industry, big business that would like
to come here, manufacturing, et cetera. They can't because they
just can't afford the energy crisis. Always the pleasure of
my friend, I appreciate, by the way, that costs us jobs. Folks,
the midwestern or the Midwesterner Dot News Kyle Olson, thank you, sir,
(19:28):
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It's not like it very rarely there's like a silver bullet,
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It's like, oh man, you couldn't be more happy.
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of weeks a year, really, that's what we're talking about.
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(21:59):
is working over the weekend. We've got a podcast coming out.
Got U a chance to sit down. Remember Ryan Kelly,
he ran for governor in twenty twenty two. He's one
of the forty people that were in that race, but
at one point he was like near the top until
he was charged the weaponization of government. He was politically
persecuted for a misdemeanor on January sixth, that was just
(22:22):
being at the capitol that day essentially, and what they
did to him, essentially sending him to prison, was just
unforgivable the Biden administration. So we sat down because he's
a friend and we haven't had a chance to really
talk about this, and he's been out talking to folks,
(22:42):
chriss crossing the state and really probably wrestling with that
question of whether or not he's going to try to
run again. But I really wanted to sit down and
have it on the record what happened to him, what
they did, what that was like with his family. We
did over an hour and you'll be able to hear
and see that tomorrow as it drops for everybody at
(23:03):
nine am. But today it's over on locals as we
speak free for folks at Justin Barclay dot com slash locals,
but you'll be able to hear just a portion of it.
Here was our conversation.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Always good to be here with you, Justin, Thanks for
the invite. It is a story that needs to be told.
It's people you know, all over the state, in the
country that don't even really understand.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
The depths of what happened. And I'm not alone in this.
There's so many other people that have gone through similar struggles,
you know, similar persecutions. My story is unique because I
was running for public office. I was the leading gubernatorial
candidate in the state of Michigan at the time that
I was arrested for misdemeanors. And you know, I've been
(23:47):
telling the story all over the state of Michigan and
excited to do it.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Here. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
There's the picture. I think this one maya came from NBC.
One of the things that probably gives folks the best
sort of descript about what happened. But as I mentioned,
the political persecution, right, and the prosecution, but really the
persecution of all of this. I mean it started even
before President Trump's really started feeling it. Were they rated
(24:15):
Morrow logo and all that. They came to your house
as well. And I want to take folks back to
this time. We're going to talk about January sixth and
what happened on that day and kind of get into
all of that at some point, But first let's start
with this because this happened at a time when you
were doing pretty well in the polls, weren't you. I mean,
(24:36):
walk us through where we were during the election for
governor here in Michigan and particularly I guess this was
primary right before the primary.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
It was right before all the primary voting started.
Speaker 10 (24:51):
And if we want to rewind back to a time
that people will remember the signature Debaco, remember that justin
there is ten gubernatorial candidates I think at the time,
and then five of them didn't get their signatures because
of you know, invalid signatures they had, you know, fraudulent signatures,
(25:14):
and there was five that.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Didn't make the ballot.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
So that whole time period following that was the end
of May of twenty twenty two, you started to see
articles and polls pop up all over the state that
Ryan Kelly is the favored candidate, is the leading gubernatorial candidate.
And you know, it was multiple polls from different places
(25:37):
that you know, really painted a picture of Hey, you know,
we have this guy that was, you know, leading protests
in twenty twenty was courageous enough to step up and say, hey, look,
you know this is all one constitutional, this is not
how we operate in America. And then the next thing,
you know, the FBI shows up at my house twenty
(26:00):
twenty two and I'm arrested for in front of my
family early in the morning.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
You know, they made my house for misdemeanor charges.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I gotta, I guess I gotta slow you down
because this is so much. And the first time I
got to take people back the first time I met Ryan,
and you said something that made me think about this.
Who I think we all have a little bit of
PTSD over the last several years. It's hard like putting
these pictures together. I can't believe it's been five years. Wow,
that's the insanity of twenty twenty. But you and I
first met there that as the governor Queen, the Wolverine
(26:30):
Queen time, Gretchen Whitmer had really decided, you know, latterly
we had no king's protests the other day, but she decided,
the Queen of Michigan, she was gonna shut this down,
open that up, and all these things that she was
making these these decisions on, you know, based on the
science and the data. I remember all of that. Oh
my gosh, nails on a chalkboar, are you thinking back
(26:52):
to that now? But you and I met, I guarantee you.
I believe it was one of the gatherings. I think
it must have been like the Delta Plexu someplace like that.
And in fact, this will tell you how crazy this
time was. I think Tutor Dixon was there too. A
few of our other friends were roaming around. People that
got chance, a great chance to get to know since then,
(27:15):
but that's where I got to know you and some
of these other folks. So you were involved in standing
up and I'm saying, look, this isn't right. So you've
been very vocal from that point, and that's that's really
where you start to get again. I guess notoriety and
you had been active in government and business for for
(27:35):
a while. But that's where people really got to know you, right.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
It was.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
It's the beginning of you know, kind of the public
version of myself, if you will, and Justin if you
remember back, the first time that I was on your
radio show was April thirtieth of twenty twenty. We had
that protest at the Capitol. We had a ton of
national news from that for you know, various reasons, but
(28:01):
you had me on your show. With that event, we
had a very simple message, a very simple objective, and
that was to get the Senate to vote no to
extend the governor's state of emergency declaration. So I'm on
your show with you. You're covering what's happened at the Capitol.
You're getting the message out there, you know. And then
from there, you know, we've we've collaborated on a lot
(28:24):
of stuff. And you know, it was very early on
that people like you and I said, you know, hey,
this is not right. And with that event on the thirtieth,
even though the Senate did vote no, we were highly
successful that day of getting them to vote no. Queen
Gretchen right, no Kings, no queens. Queen Gretchen decided that
she's not going to listen to what the Senate says,
(28:45):
and she's going to continue with her status quote, shutting
the state down, put your mask on, stay at home.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
You're not allowed to operate unless she tells you that
she can move.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
So much about that time now, when you think of
back about it's so absurd. It's so absurd. But there
were some people, and you and I and you know,
lots of folks listening to this program who saw that
completely for all, for what it was. And there's some
people that we welcome in with open arms now that
are discovering they're still waking up. There's a lot of
people that still need to wake up. But that that
(29:19):
was it. So it's funny to hear you say that,
to think about it, they did. They came to your house,
and we'll get to January sixth and why you were
there and what you were doing and whatnot. But it's
important to note this as a legal issue because I
remember coming to the courthouse that day and hearing that
you had been you know, the FP had come to
your home and they'd raided your home and for a misdemeanor,
(29:44):
which is so wild now to hear and to think
about and to talk about it. This time, there were
questions about what they were going to do and what
you were. You were essentially where you weren't supposed to
be according to them. Now I don't really personally see
anything wrong, but maybe you can. You can give me
(30:06):
sort of the background and what they charged you with,
what they said, what was going on in the background there,
But like you were on the property there at the
house when you shouldn't have been. Is that? Is that?
The is that? Essentially what they were saying you were here?
Is answer? And of course what happened when they sent
him away? This story behind it all coming up this
(30:28):
week and on dropped the podcast, but more on that
after this, plus will he run for governor again? Ryan
Kelly our exclusive interview, More of it after this. They
are preaching past the headlines.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News Radio
one thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a FM.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or this Friday,
June twenty seventh. I'm Robin Poffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot
News original story Michigan Senator Democrat Alissa Slockin says Democrats
are urging Republicans to vote against President Trump's Big, beautiful bill,
which she claims cuts Medicaid funding.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Is there any American who thinks that healthcare is going
well right now in America? So, yes, we're having those conversations.
At the end of the day, the President is trying
to browbeat people into voting for this thing and soon.
And so it's going to be up to my Republican
colleagues whether they have a spine on these issues or not.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
In other news, the ACLU filing a lawsuit on behalf
of a fourteen year old Palestinian student in Detroit who
wants a court to award her emotional damages after her
teacher calls her out for refusing to stand for the
Pledge of Allegiance. The girl says she refused to stand
up as she's protesting US support of Israel and the
(31:43):
war on Gaza, the war starting as a result of
Hamas terrorists murdering and kidnapping Jews. On October seventh, fifty
people still being held hostage, only twenty are thought to
be alive. For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner
at the Midwesterner.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Dot org is coming up the after show. It's the
show after the Show we hosted over Facebook, Twitter, ACX,
t rumble Getter locals, YouTube of the iHeartRadio app. You
can listen to it or wherever you download your podcasts.
This one this week in a full hour with Ryan Kelly.
As he mentioned, he was politically persecuted as a gob
(32:22):
editorial candidate back in twenty twenty two, did time in
prison because of the the the Biden Injustice Department. And
your question, will he run again for governor here in Michigan.
You get all those answers of the podcast drops tomorrow,
just another taste.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
I'm the leading candidate according to all these different polls
I'm taking. I was one hundred percent in, and you
know that justin I was one hundred percent and I
spent all of my time connecting with people traveling around
the state. I would go to restaurants, grocery stores, cigar bars,
you know, different stores, just introducing myself just to random
(33:01):
people in the general public, because I wanted to meet
people and win.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Earn their vote.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
I was one hundred percent in and that's why I
started doing so well and was the leading candidate, So
they needed to interfere with my election to plant seeds
of doubts and the mind of voters that you know,
at that time, if you remember, you know, you saw
on the news. You know, they kept playing the same
clips of the January sixth stuff where there was you know,
a lot of conflict with law enforcement officers, you know,
(33:31):
putting down you know, replay all of that and then
sending all these people to prison for extended periods of time.
And in the mind of a lot of voters that
maybe don't pay as much attention as you and I
and some of the people listening to this, you see
that and you ask the question, Hey, is this guy
going to go to jail?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Is he going to be able to go against Whipmer?
Speaker 9 (33:51):
You know, there's a lot of people that still don't
even realize that I had missdemeanor charges. I was also
before they went after presient in Trump with the fourteenth
Amendment to try to keep him off the ballot. They
had lawsuits here in the state of Michigan deeming the
insurrectionist trying to keep me off of the ballot.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
So voters, you.
Speaker 9 (34:12):
Know, to the tune of hundreds of thousands, which I
just I couldn't meet that many people personally. You know,
they planted seeds of doubt and I think a lot
of people were thinking that, what's going to happen to
this guy? He's a fighter, they're doing him wrong. But
I want Whitmer out of office. So that was their
main thing. Interesting picture right there. I can make a
comment on that one if you.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Want, absolutely tell us.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
So I have the video of that part right there,
and in the video you'll hear people start screaming USA, USA.
It starts as a faint chant, and then you see
me screaming USA getting people to continue to scream USA.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
So interesting enough. I have a video of that, and
that's one of the ones that they used. And I
was such a bad guy. Oh no, he's screaming USA.
Can't have that in America? Now? Can we just do.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
That picture we're talking about you'll be able to see
when you watch the video and see the full podcast
show that's dropping tomorrow at nine am. Is that picture
of him at Tifamous. Now he's holding his hands up
and he's kind of like you's said, bringing up, bringing up,
but he's actually saying ussay is in chant louder and
they use that to paint a picture of him, and
(35:25):
of course that's what sort of what the media that
now we've learned how they work. He was one of
the first they targeted, even before President Trump. Since been
pardon but will he run again? What was it like
when he had to go to prison, What are some
of the things that he learned, and what was the
impact on his family. What a conversation with Ryan Kelly
And of course you can hear it this week and
(35:45):
as it drops everywhere tomorrow at nine am the iHeartRadio
app or wherever you download your podcast and after show
you don't want to miss so much to get to
we'll try and make sense of it all before the
weekend hits coming up next, wishing you're the folks. In
the meantime, the Glen Back Program is up next. Making
a great weekend. God bless
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