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All right, us added better than expected. I'm trying to
read that. How many jobs is that? Can you see?
Can you see the the number? It looks like one
hundred and fifteen thousand, nineteen? All right, good, one hundred
and nineteen thousand. By the way, it's not me. My
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eyes are great, but that TV is not that TV.
It hadn't seen better day. Speaking of big numbers. Yeah,
that's a fantastic report. We've got another one for you
coming up in just moment. Your help with the Turkey
draft this year.
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all unclassified records tied to Jeffrey Epstein. I heard that unclassified.
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Just remember that as we and as we get a
little closer in on this, the days start tick along.
You know, they got thirty days. That's another thing. I've
already seen complaints over this, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
That's the law that Congress put together and not the president. Again,
they got thirty days of Justice Department to put this
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stuff together, that documents all of that and get it out, names, connections,
long suppressed details could finally see the light. It sounded
me not holding my breath, but I'm just gonna tell
you the ones that were already starting to see the light.
And some of this is self inflicted. The Democrats, well
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they could be implicated, lots of them is. Remember, Epstein
was a big Democrat donor. Trump White House already on
the offense President Trump with a truth social post on
the subject yesterday saying this Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged
by the Trump Justice Department in twenty nineteen, not the Democrats,
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was a lifelong Democrat. Donated thousands of dollars to Democrat politicians.
Was deeply associated with many well known Democrat figures such
as Bill Clinton, who traveled on his plane twenty six times,
Larry Summers, who just resigned for many boards, including Harvard
sleas bag political activist, Reed Hoffmann, minority leader Kakim Jeffries,
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who asked Epstein to donate to his campaign after Epstein
was charged. That just happened. Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett's from
the Virgin Islands where that island was classicet texting back
and forth with Epstein that day that she was caught out.
It's been revealed in a in a hearing against what
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a was on Trump. I think at the moment all
of this, he says, will be revealed because I have
quote just signed the bill to release the Epstein fis
There's more and more of this. By the way, still
doubling down on calling it the hugs. Will the part
where the Democrats in the media try to pen it
on him could be an interesting time in the days
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I had.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
FUS number two.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
How about this two hundred and fifty three individuals illegally
harbored from a Michigan plumbing company, and I was looking
at how much revenue they've regenerated, seventy more million dollars
and they had people coming in from god knows where
here in the country illegally they were all employed. Now
(04:55):
those were jobs michiganers could have enjoyed. I don't know
how much they paid these people, but seventy four million
dollars in that revenue owners uh, Hispanic themselves. Interesting story.
You're gonna hear a little bit about this in the news,
but I wanted to make sure you heard about it today.
I'll dig strough into it. Of course, they were housing
(05:17):
them not authorized to work. They were housing them in
overcrowded conditions, collecting their passports and paying them through bank
accounts controlled by the compassentially like modern day and entured
servitude or slavery in some ways. And again it happened
to the other side of the state. But details you'll
need to know. Maybe the biggest story of the day,
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and it kind of gets overshadowed by the Epstein story
and some others. But Supreme Court has approved Trump's removal
of foreign terrorists like trend de Ragua and some of
these other gangs. It's a story that you know, we
were watching to see what they were gonna. I didn't
think there's any way you could tell a president he
can't do what he wanted to do, and especially in
(06:02):
this case, to defend the country. But of course it
was challenged like everything else.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh yeah, Fox News.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Alert, the Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump
to deport illegals even faster. The High Court ruled that
Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuela
and gang bangers to a mega prison in El Salvador.
This is a huge ruling in Trump's favor and a
major win for the country.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It is a five four decision Supreme Court giving president
sweeping wartime authority under the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act.
So there you have it, the stories you want to
hear anywhere else, historic changes, everything, a lot of it
in fact. And then but wait, there's more. In fact,
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we have some big numbers we've got to share with
you as well in just a moment. But first chance
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Call Justin now at six one, six seven seven four
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Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yep, big one, big one. It was a big one
for sure. The biggest of all time, in fact, seven
thousand thirty three turkeys. Now those are physical turkeys and
donations that came to cash and and the donations online
checks and things like that as well. Reported they you know,
the goal mel Trotter and Wood Radio setting out for
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just five thousand, that was the goal, and people were wondering,
will they make it, will they break it? What's gonna happen?
We just don't know because of the kind of year
and the economy, learned all things about you know, all
of it. But I had no doubt. I just knew
that the people here in Michigan so generous and incredible, Well,
we just can't do this thing. It's twenty two years.
(08:03):
You don't do anything alone when it comes to something
like this, especially, but it is made possible really, but
I think only by the generosity in this in this
in this area of this community, and really essentially because
of those those values of faith that I think drive
people to do things like this. And by the way,
you know, all the stuff that we've had heard in
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the last you know, a couple of months on snap
and helping people who need it most, and you know what,
it's just occurs to me that this right here, this
is how it's supposed to work. This idea is that
people helping people stepping out doing the right thing because
it's the right thing. People helping people, and you people
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do that year in and year out, and it is
it is incredible to watch. I never get tired of
seeing it. It's so inspiring. Fact, we took our girls
yesterday and I was in in the afternoon, probably about
two o'clock in the afternoon, something like that, and we
took them to the store. We let them pick out
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a big bird in the three in the five. Well
she's almost GiB me five here in a couple of weeks,
but picking out these birds and they can't. I mean
the five year old almost she trapped that thing up
in her arms and almost she carried it for a
little bit and then she said, Dad, can you take this?
I said, yeah, have my hand on the strap of
it the whole time, because I want to make sure that,
(09:31):
you know, this thing doesn't fall and break a toe
or something, because those birds are heavy, man and frozen.
It's like carrying around a barbell or something, you know.
And we had the moment just to just to kind
of walk them through why we were doing it, you know,
and the most simplest terms, you know, honey, that there
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are some families that can't have a turkey for Thanksgiving
or won't have a turkey for Thanksgiving unless we help
them in that moment. Being able to have a teachable
moment with them was just really incredible. It was heartwarming.
And I think I have a sense. Anyway, we were
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talking about this and essentially why the numbers were so
big this year, why it was another record breaking year,
and I said, you know, I think I have a
sense that First of all, the weather was so nice yesterday.
Lots of giving happened in person a little differently than
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it normally happens every year. And I said, you know,
the weather was so nice, I think people wanted to
get out and be a part of it. But the
other thing that I really just I have a sense,
just a feeling that because of the way of the world,
the way things are right now, just all the insane
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you know, I don't have to go through a name
at all, right, but all the insanity and everything else
that I think people they had a craving, a hunger,
you know, they had like a need to be a
part of this. And I think in in in a
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in a especially in a day, in an age, in
a year, where there's just so much, there's just so
much going on. Uh and and by the way that
that that is undeniable. I can't I you know, I
totally get it. I can't. I can't blame you. I
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really felt the same way this this year's turkey drop,
as the kids would say, hit different, hit different. You know,
maybe it was seeing that first family, hearing about the
stories of these people, right rolling up before sunrise, the
frozen turkey in a backseat, kid's still in the pajamas,
you know, smiling like they were dropping off treasure. Honestly,
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that's what it was, right. It is where your heart is,
That's where your treasure will be too. We know that
Bible tells us every time I see this, so I
will tell you it is incredible. It never ceases to
it never ceases to amaze me. I'm reminded each year
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of what West Michigan does best. You know, you show up,
you give, you don't wait for instructions or somebody else
to come save it. You act. And after twenty two
years of doing this, it still gets to me. I
want you to think about this for a moment. Picture
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a mom who doesn't know how she's gonna put a
meal on the table this next week. Who need you to?
Picture a dad knowing he's trying to do everything he
can just to keep it together, trying to high distress
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on his face of the day to day that grind dad,
you know what I'm talking about. Picture a kid who
thinks Thanksgiving just another Thursday, because it always is until
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someone like you steps in. You know, one Turkey changes
that day for them, and sometimes it changes far more.
And that's what's why this matters. So I want to
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say thank you on behalf of all of us here
at Wild Radio, Meltrotter Ministries, life ems or wonderful sponsors.
Somebody can't name them all, but I gotta tell you
each and every one of you. They dropped off of
pros and Turkey, made a donation online. Every bit of
it helps and every year you blow us away. So
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thanks for showing up again and thanks for caring, Thanks
for proving way it's so great to live here in
West Michigan. And one the right thing is still in style.
It never went out of style, and that generosity and
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above all, love still wins. By the way, if you
think I missed out, I didn't get a chance to
be a part of now you still can. You can
still drop off turkeys at Meltrodter Ministries, or you can
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still help by giving online what radio dot com there
still link up and we just appreciate it all. Thank
you so much. God bless you all, and God bless America.
We're back in moments right after this grabbing the latest
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Coming up a nine thirty five the Conversation with Patty
McMurray from The Gateway Pundit and the Headlines Wild. She'll
have the full story coming up in Jocelyn Benson's Michigan
that she oversees a matter of fact, she wants to
oversee her own election to governor. This kind of thing's
happening me. Michigan's dead voters. Several voted in person, others
(18:29):
voted absentee. One voted forty one years after he died. Incredible, Well,
Patty breaks it all down. Coming up after this. We'll
check our headlines about in the hour and we're back
in just moments. So don't go anywhere, folks. It's another
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Speaker 9 (20:05):
This is the September Job Job Jobs report. Non farm
payrolls are up a robust one hundred and nineteen thousand.
One hundred nineteen thousand would be the best since April
when we were up one hundred and fifty eight thousand.
If we look at labor force participation rate, it ticked up.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Sixty two point four equals where we were in May.
You have to go to April of this year when
it was sixty two point six to five eight higher number.
If we look at the hours work then this is
always important. It remains at thirty four point two.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
To find a lower.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Number, you're going to January when it was thirty four
point one.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's a massive, massive report. By the way, that report
for CNBC and Wall Street loves it. I told you
what the futures looked like. Now we're at actual numbers
on open six hundred and thirty three points as we speak,
with a Dow over one hundred, with the S and
P and the Nasdaq almost five hundred at four to
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seventy four. So there's a lot going on there today.
But this just to let you know that's what we're
keeping our eye on for you, and we'll do more
of that coming up. But first, a major bombshell story.
Patty McMurray the Gateway punted here right now. Listen to
this headline. This is incredible, and we just talked to
her off the edge. She goes, you think this is big,
(21:26):
I got an even bigger story coming for you in
the next few days. But she says, meet Michigan's dead voters.
Several voted in person, others voted absentee. One voted forty
one years after he died. Patty's with us right now.
Welcome in, Patty, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
You being here, my justin. Thanks for having me. I
appreciate you allowing me to tell my story, the story
that every Michigan and er should know about you.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Know, we're just talking about there's so many things happening
that stuff like this, which would be in any other
time right major bombshell news and information just gets it
sort of gets swept under the rug. And there's a
lot of folks that want to see that happen anyway,
but there's just so much going on right now. This
deserves a big spotlight though.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, thank you, I agree with you. I am. I
really owe this investigation to a check my vote investigator
who has done amazing work and she prefers not to
be named, and so I'm not going to name her.
But she's been doing this work for several years now,
finding voters on the voter rolls, especially the months with
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these you know, nineteen hundred or before birth dates, and
then investigating and finding out that these people are in
fact deceased and there's a record of them being deceased.
She reaches out to the clerk in Michigan across the
state of Michigan. By the way, this is not just
a Republican or Democratic clerk problem. This is a bipartisan
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problem with our clerks not removing these names, these dead
voters from the voter roles. Whether it's intentionally or just
you know, laziness or negligence. And I'm not sure what
the problem is, but there's a real problem with dead
voters on our voter roles that are not being removed.
And I'm talking about obvious dead voters just you know,
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just for example, just the in Wayne County alone, there
in January of twenty five, before this research was presented
to present it to the clerk, there were three hundred
and one voters over the age of one hundred and
fifteen living are registered to vote, active voters on our
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voter roles. Since since this investigator has presented this evidence
that there are now two hundred and fifty seven, which
is still obviously a number that's that's way too high,
voters that are over one hundred and fifteen years old.
And as I mentioned in my story, the oldest living
person in America is one hundred and fifteen years old.
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The fact that we have two hundred fifty seven active
registered voters just in Wayne County alone, that a one
hundred and fifteen years old should be a pretty disturbing
number for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
There's the headstone of one hundred and sixteen year old
artist Barnes. What wild to see some of these, uh,
these stories, and as you mentioned, you know this, this
seems to be a people wonder like what's the smoking gun?
How are they doing? You know, how are they monkeying
with you? But there there's a number of things, right,
(24:30):
There is a number of things that they're doing, and
this is seems to be just one of them. Whether
it's actively part of what they do to to to
a monkey with things, or it's just something that they
they've left in there to throw us off. The scent
it is, it's it needs to be talked about because
here's the bottom line. I don't care what anyone says
(24:53):
or thinks about these They should never even be an
appearance of impropriety when it comes to any of this.
And this Secretary of State Joscelyn Benson has been one
of the worst. I mean, judge after judge is said,
you're breaking the law, and here she is, she's going
to oversee her own election for governor. I mean that's
(25:15):
just preposterous.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, it's disturbing really because our voter roles in my
opinion from what I can tell, because I've been looking
back at the history of our voter roles. They've never
been more corrupt our voter roles. And I did mention
that I have another pretty big story coming out. I
think it's really going to shock a lot of people,
not just in Michigan, but across the country related to
(25:38):
our voter roles. They are corrupt. As I mentioned in
a previous interview with you, we now have all the
documentation from the twenty twenty election in Detroit. We obtained
that through a FOYA and there's a team of incredible
investigators working on this information and putting this data together.
(25:59):
But one of the one of the pieces of the
puzzle that was solved in this article that I wrote,
was solved by actually obtaining the absentee ballot envelope. It
was signed by a dead voter, Belma Steele, who was
a World War Two veteran. And these are the kinds
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of stories, honestly, that should break people's hearts, because here
this gentleman served in World War Two, he died several
years ago, and he's somehow combat from the grave thanks
to somebody who's added his vote to our voter roles
and also just the vote total in Wayne County. This
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individual was born in nineteen twelve, and he voted in
November twenty twenty election and again in the August twenty
first and November twenty first general election, so he's voted
three times. But fortunately we were able to find his
absentee ballot lope with his signature on it. And not
(27:02):
only does the signature not look anything like the like
the date that was added to his signature, but it
doesn't look anything like doesn't even resemble the signature on
his marriage certificate.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, I was just going to say, well with Patty
mcburry right now, she's contributed at the Gateway Pine with
the latest story here, and you said, Patty, there's an
even bigger one and even bigger bombshell around the corner.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It sounds like, yeah, yeah, we do have. We're pouring
through these voter rolls and we're just finding things that
are just incredible. And you know, it's the things that
we're finding are surprising to us because they're not something
we would have thought of before and something that's never
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been examined before, and it's just amazing. Every time we
turn around, we find a new way that Michigan voters
are being cheated by these voter roles, and it's it's
actually an emergency that the federal government comes in and
takes a look at these voter roles and helps to
clean them up, because we know that Jacqulyn Benson not
(28:09):
only does she not have any interest in cleaning these
voter rolls up, but she's absolutely defiant. She's been defiant
with the state legislature and now with the federal government.
So you know, it's imperative that somebody comes in and
cleans up these voter roles, especially before her name appears
on the ballot for governor of the state of Michigan.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, there's nothing she won't do too. And then this
is just for all Democrats, but she's particularly bad. Now
did she won't do to gain or retain power. Eric Nasbit,
by the way, this is breaking, just wrote this SENTI
Minority later running for governor here as a Republican. He's
been one of the folks urging the federal government to
get involved in oversee this election. Despite Jcelyn's claims, thousands
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of dead people on the voter roles does not make
our election safe and secure. It's time for the DOJ
to show her what a secure election really looks. Like well, Patty,
thank you for staying on topic. We'll have you back
next week when you have your your big bomb show
whenever it drops, We'll have you back for the latest
and uh and please definitely come back let us know
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what you found.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, thank you Justin.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
By the way, folks, if we don't get this right,
and we can do anything else we want, but if
we don't get this whole thing right, none of it
means anything. This is what matters. Thank you so much.
As always more coming up, folks. You can join the
program at any time. Six' one six seven, seven four,
twenty four, twenty four, jump on the line. Where this
We're back next Speaker of the House Matt Hall with
(29:36):
another big win in Lansing. We'll fill you in on
that right after.
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This informative engigee. It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
nine a f as.
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Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or This Thursday,
November twentieth, I'm Robin Poffman. Michigan Senator Democrat Alissa Slotkin
up to some new tricks as she tries to undermine
President Trump sloting along with fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill,
posting a video to x calling on the deep state
to rise up against the president.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
No one has to carry out owners that violate the
law or our constitution.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
We know this is hard and that.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
It's a difficult time to be a public servant.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Whether you're serving in the CIA.
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The Army, or Navy Air Force, your vigilance is critical.
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You know that we have your part to go.
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Give up, don't give up. Don't give up.
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Don't give up the ship.
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Governor Whitmer's Department of Health and Human Services, busy with
population control, turns out the department handing out more than
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Speaker 2 (30:49):
Dot five years ago this week.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
By the way, we're preserving sure holiday gatherings together by
taking this seriously. Now remember this by not gathering with
people outside of your household.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
This Thanksgiving the act of kindness.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Future holiday gatherings together.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It was an act of kindness and love that you
couldn't go to Thanksgevik. Remember that a lot of us
just had We had funerals for our pet turkeys, and
the family was either to we were able to gather
for Thanksgiving, I mean for the funeral. Excuse me for
the tear. Can you believe five years ago this week
(31:37):
in the Wolverine Queen mom telling us whether we were
grounded or not? Holy cow, isn't that something We've come
a long way? In fact, you're watching some of that
happen as we speak. It takes a little while to
unravel that mess, but it is happening at record pace.
And one of those big stories that we're following, in fact,
just happened this week. Big celebration in the house here
in Lansing. Speaker Matt Hall joins us right now, mister speaker,
(31:59):
thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me big celebration.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
You guys have got another big win here.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Well, you're right. You know, when we have a principal
conservative Republican House, we can force Governor Whitmer to do
things that align with our platform and agenda. That's still
tough because they control two branches of government, the governor
and the Senate. But the Republicans, you know, we flipped
(32:31):
the House this year and so we can still accomplish
some things. And what we did was we implemented HEAT
the Hall Ethics, Accountability and Transparency Plan. And this was
a real tough one. So, you know, during the COVID
nineteen pandemic, there was so much money flowing into government.
The politicians they would just spend it, I mean, without
(32:55):
any anyone knowing what they were doing with it. So
we'd get, you know, a budget bill and they'd tack
on the one or two billion dollars of pork spending.
At the last minute. You'd say, what are these things?
And you'd get, you know, four or five word descriptions,
and then you know, a year after the vote, we'd
start to find out what these things were. And you know,
(33:15):
we'd see hip hop academies, splash pads, big big new
buildings and lancing. I mean, the DNR for some reason
built a five million dollar pool and lancing all kinds
of things, and big Democrat developers would get huge windfalls.
So what I said when I became Speaker is, you know,
(33:36):
we need to start raining in this pork spending, and
we need to come up with HEAT, the Hall Ethics,
Accountability and Transparency Plan, which forces them to disclose this
forty five days in advance. If you want a pork
spending project in the budget, tell us what it is,
put your name on it, be proud of it, tell
us the public purpose. Uh, and when is it going
(33:59):
to be complete? And we have to certify the organization
exists because they would even give money to millions to
organizations that did not exist, and then they'd create the
organizations after they got the money. It was a real
real uh you know, anything goes system. And now we've
cleaned that up with the governor signing HEAT today.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, it really is interesting. It makes you wonder how
we blew through all that money we had in the
COVID days, you know, billions upon billions of done. I
guess it's not hard when you're handing out all those
you know, behind the scenes backroom deal you know checks
for your all your Democrat donor friends. Is it.
Speaker 9 (34:39):
No?
Speaker 8 (34:39):
But you know they're so addicted to this pork, especially
the Democrats. We forced them in this budget. We just
got done to cut the pork by eighty seven percent.
We cut eight hundred million dollars of waste, fraud, and
abuse from the budget, including two thousand ghost employees. And
these were fake employees that the Whitmer administration and would
(35:00):
use to pad their budgets so they could spend more.
We cut the budget. It's smaller than it was last
year as a major accomplishment under Whitmer. And then we said, look,
we're not We're not going to let you go out
once you get these pork projects awarded and just spend
all the money. Because what they were doing is you
(35:21):
get the pork project and then the Whitmer administration would say, okay,
here's your twenty five million dollars. That's how you got
this one where the woman went out paid herself like
a you know, eight hundred thousand dollars salary, bought first
class tickets and the big you know, the big what
is it, eight thousand dollars coffee maker. Well, we changed
(35:41):
it and said, from now on in these projects, if
we give it to you, you have to send us
your expenses first and then we'll reimburse you for the
ones that are appropriate. So we had to get that
under control. I mean, this was a free for all
for many years under Whitmer, and we've reined it in
(36:02):
and we've put the guardrails on it, and and we're
going to be watching very close. But I think we've
we finally fixed a.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Lot of that.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Another big win, Speaker Matt Hall there in the house
here in Michigan, and of course yet more to come.
This is it's just the beginning, and I think not
just for for Republicans there in the house, but this
will win for Michigan for all the folks who you know,
if you're paying taxes, you swhere your money's going speak,
miss speaker, Thank you so About anything else we should
be looking for in the days ahead, things you guys
(36:32):
are working on before.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
We let you go, Well, you know, I just point
out that, you know there are some good project like
with Whitmer, I could see her punishing a Republican in
their district. So you know, we want roads, we want bridges,
you know, we want these things, but not all this,
you know, hip hop academies and splash bats and all
(36:54):
this other craft they were doing. So we're gonna we're
gonna keep holding the line on this. And you know
the Democrats wants the budgets done. They want to do
another budget bill.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
We're going to.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
Block all that. We're really focused on getting better value
for your tax dollars and you're going to see that
for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I love it, mister speaker. Thank you so much for
the latest and the heads up on this, folks, another
big one. We'll continue to keep you up there. Please
come back and let us know when you have more.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
I will thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You got it, my pleasure. That's a Speaker of the House,
Republican Speaker of the Republican controlled House, Matt Hall. As
you know this when you when you put them back
into business, Republicans can rain those folks in. And you
know twenty twenty six is I think just as importmently
and more important from Michigan as twenty four was for
the nation. And we're going to see that, folks. You
(37:45):
gotta you've got to get those folks back. I think
the adults essentially back in the room. That's how it's done.
Have you seen what's happening in North Carolina right now,
all out assault essentially going after some of the most
illegal criminal folks there, and there are people like Antifa
types fighting back. That's a it's I think there's been
(38:07):
a little coverage of this, but not a massive amount,
so want to make sure we cover that during the
after show. There are stories that you just haven't heard yet.
We'll make sure we get into that. And the markets
are going nuts as well, so we'll get into that
and more coming up today in the after show. By
the way, it's the show After the Show, never miss
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Justin Barclay dot com for the stories we cover today
in the stack. Oh yeah, the Glenn Back Program is
next again. Thanks to the folks who helped us get
it done another record year, seven thirty three turkeys, Mel
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right, us added better than expected. I'm trying to
read that. How many jobs is that? Can you see?
Can you see the the number? It looks like one
hundred and fifteen thousand, nineteen? All right, good, one hundred
and nineteen thousand. By the way, it's not me. My
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eyes are great, but that TV is not that TV.
It hadn't seen better day. Speaking of big numbers. Yeah,
that's a fantastic report. We've got another one for you
coming up in just moment. Your help with the Turkey
draft this year.
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Just remember that as we and as we get a
little closer in on this, the days start tick along.
You know, they got thirty days. That's another thing. I've
already seen complaints over this, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
That's the law that Congress put together and not the president. Again,
they got thirty days of Justice Department to put this
(02:42):
stuff together, that documents all of that and get it out, names, connections,
long suppressed details could finally see the light. It sounded
me not holding my breath, but I'm just gonna tell
you the ones that were already starting to see the light.
And some of this is self inflicted. The Democrats, well
(03:05):
they could be implicated, lots of them is. Remember, Epstein
was a big Democrat donor. Trump White House already on
the offense President Trump with a truth social post on
the subject yesterday saying this Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged
by the Trump Justice Department in twenty nineteen, not the Democrats,
(03:26):
was a lifelong Democrat. Donated thousands of dollars to Democrat politicians.
Was deeply associated with many well known Democrat figures such
as Bill Clinton, who traveled on his plane twenty six times,
Larry Summers, who just resigned for many boards, including Harvard
sleas bag political activist, Reed Hoffmann, minority leader Kakim Jeffries,
(03:48):
who asked Epstein to donate to his campaign after Epstein
was charged. That just happened. Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett's from
the Virgin Islands where that island was classicet texting back
and forth with Epstein that day that she was caught out.
It's been revealed in a in a hearing against what
(04:10):
a was on Trump. I think at the moment all
of this, he says, will be revealed because I have
quote just signed the bill to release the Epstein fis
There's more and more of this. By the way, still
doubling down on calling it the hugs. Will the part
where the Democrats in the media try to pen it
on him could be an interesting time in the days
(04:33):
I had.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
FUS number two.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
How about this two hundred and fifty three individuals illegally
harbored from a Michigan plumbing company, and I was looking
at how much revenue they've regenerated, seventy more million dollars
and they had people coming in from god knows where
here in the country illegally they were all employed. Now
(04:55):
those were jobs michiganers could have enjoyed. I don't know
how much they paid these people, but seventy four million
dollars in that revenue owners uh, Hispanic themselves. Interesting story.
You're gonna hear a little bit about this in the news,
but I wanted to make sure you heard about it today.
I'll dig strough into it. Of course, they were housing
(05:17):
them not authorized to work. They were housing them in
overcrowded conditions, collecting their passports and paying them through bank
accounts controlled by the compassentially like modern day and entured
servitude or slavery in some ways. And again it happened
to the other side of the state. But details you'll
need to know. Maybe the biggest story of the day,
(05:41):
and it kind of gets overshadowed by the Epstein story
and some others. But Supreme Court has approved Trump's removal
of foreign terrorists like trend de Ragua and some of
these other gangs. It's a story that you know, we
were watching to see what they were gonna. I didn't
think there's any way you could tell a president he
can't do what he wanted to do, and especially in
(06:02):
this case, to defend the country. But of course it
was challenged like everything else.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh yeah, Fox News.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Alert, the Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump
to deport illegals even faster. The High Court ruled that
Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to send Venezuela
and gang bangers to a mega prison in El Salvador.
This is a huge ruling in Trump's favor and a
major win for the country.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It is a five four decision Supreme Court giving president
sweeping wartime authority under the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act.
So there you have it, the stories you want to
hear anywhere else, historic changes, everything, a lot of it
in fact. And then but wait, there's more. In fact,
(06:50):
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Speaker 1 (07:02):
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Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yep, big one, big one. It was a big one
for sure. The biggest of all time, in fact, seven
thousand thirty three turkeys. Now those are physical turkeys and
donations that came to cash and and the donations online
checks and things like that as well. Reported they you know,
the goal mel Trotter and Wood Radio setting out for
(07:40):
just five thousand, that was the goal, and people were wondering,
will they make it, will they break it? What's gonna happen?
We just don't know because of the kind of year
and the economy, learned all things about you know, all
of it. But I had no doubt. I just knew
that the people here in Michigan so generous and incredible, Well,
we just can't do this thing. It's twenty two years.
(08:03):
You don't do anything alone when it comes to something
like this, especially, but it is made possible really, but
I think only by the generosity in this in this
in this area of this community, and really essentially because
of those those values of faith that I think drive
people to do things like this. And by the way,
you know, all the stuff that we've had heard in
(08:26):
the last you know, a couple of months on snap
and helping people who need it most, and you know what,
it's just occurs to me that this right here, this
is how it's supposed to work. This idea is that
people helping people stepping out doing the right thing because
it's the right thing. People helping people, and you people
(08:47):
do that year in and year out, and it is
it is incredible to watch. I never get tired of
seeing it. It's so inspiring. Fact, we took our girls
yesterday and I was in in the afternoon, probably about
two o'clock in the afternoon, something like that, and we
took them to the store. We let them pick out
(09:09):
a big bird in the three in the five. Well
she's almost GiB me five here in a couple of weeks,
but picking out these birds and they can't. I mean
the five year old almost she trapped that thing up
in her arms and almost she carried it for a
little bit and then she said, Dad, can you take this?
I said, yeah, have my hand on the strap of
it the whole time, because I want to make sure that,
(09:31):
you know, this thing doesn't fall and break a toe
or something, because those birds are heavy, man and frozen.
It's like carrying around a barbell or something, you know.
And we had the moment just to just to kind
of walk them through why we were doing it, you know,
and the most simplest terms, you know, honey, that there
(09:51):
are some families that can't have a turkey for Thanksgiving
or won't have a turkey for Thanksgiving unless we help
them in that moment. Being able to have a teachable
moment with them was just really incredible. It was heartwarming.
And I think I have a sense. Anyway, we were
(10:13):
talking about this and essentially why the numbers were so
big this year, why it was another record breaking year,
and I said, you know, I think I have a
sense that First of all, the weather was so nice yesterday.
Lots of giving happened in person a little differently than
(10:34):
it normally happens every year. And I said, you know,
the weather was so nice, I think people wanted to
get out and be a part of it. But the
other thing that I really just I have a sense,
just a feeling that because of the way of the world,
the way things are right now, just all the insane
(10:58):
you know, I don't have to go through a name
at all, right, but all the insanity and everything else
that I think people they had a craving, a hunger,
you know, they had like a need to be a
part of this. And I think in in in a
(11:21):
in a especially in a day, in an age, in
a year, where there's just so much, there's just so
much going on. Uh and and by the way that
that that is undeniable. I can't I you know, I
totally get it. I can't. I can't blame you. I
(11:44):
really felt the same way this this year's turkey drop,
as the kids would say, hit different, hit different. You know,
maybe it was seeing that first family, hearing about the
stories of these people, right rolling up before sunrise, the
frozen turkey in a backseat, kid's still in the pajamas,
you know, smiling like they were dropping off treasure. Honestly,
(12:09):
that's what it was, right. It is where your heart is,
That's where your treasure will be too. We know that
Bible tells us every time I see this, so I
will tell you it is incredible. It never ceases to
it never ceases to amaze me. I'm reminded each year
(12:33):
of what West Michigan does best. You know, you show up,
you give, you don't wait for instructions or somebody else
to come save it. You act. And after twenty two
years of doing this, it still gets to me. I
want you to think about this for a moment. Picture
(12:56):
a mom who doesn't know how she's gonna put a
meal on the table this next week. Who need you to?
Picture a dad knowing he's trying to do everything he
can just to keep it together, trying to high distress
(13:18):
on his face of the day to day that grind dad,
you know what I'm talking about. Picture a kid who
thinks Thanksgiving just another Thursday, because it always is until
(13:39):
someone like you steps in. You know, one Turkey changes
that day for them, and sometimes it changes far more.
And that's what's why this matters. So I want to
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say thank you on behalf of all of us here
at Wild Radio, Meltrotter Ministries, life ems or wonderful sponsors.
Somebody can't name them all, but I gotta tell you
each and every one of you. They dropped off of
pros and Turkey, made a donation online. Every bit of
it helps and every year you blow us away. So
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thanks for showing up again and thanks for caring, Thanks
for proving way it's so great to live here in
West Michigan. And one the right thing is still in style.
It never went out of style, and that generosity and
(14:50):
above all, love still wins. By the way, if you
think I missed out, I didn't get a chance to
be a part of now you still can. You can
still drop off turkeys at Meltrodter Ministries, or you can
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still help by giving online what radio dot com there
still link up and we just appreciate it all. Thank
you so much. God bless you all, and God bless America.
We're back in moments right after this grabbing the latest
from the Midwesterner headlines.
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That trust is at risk.
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hundred thousand condoms along with sixty thousand doses of emergency contraception.
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
Coming up a nine thirty five the Conversation with Patty
McMurray from The Gateway Pundit and the Headlines Wild. She'll
have the full story coming up in Jocelyn Benson's Michigan
that she oversees a matter of fact, she wants to
oversee her own election to governor. This kind of thing's
happening me. Michigan's dead voters. Several voted in person, others
(18:29):
voted absentee. One voted forty one years after he died. Incredible, Well,
Patty breaks it all down. Coming up after this. We'll
check our headlines about in the hour and we're back
in just moments. So don't go anywhere, folks. It's another
(18:51):
big day. We got a big win in the Michigan
House and the legislature will continue to keep you updated
on that as well. It's West Michigan Live f YI.
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News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six nine
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Speaker 2 (19:09):
Now, well, just minutes before the market's open, so remember this.
And in fact, I think at that jobs report is
probably gonna be a doozy for them today, especially if
you look at some of the futures. We're already a
big lots of green on the screen. DOW up almost
five hundred s and P up one hundred, NASDAK up
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Speaker 9 (20:05):
This is the September Job Job Jobs report. Non farm
payrolls are up a robust one hundred and nineteen thousand.
One hundred nineteen thousand would be the best since April
when we were up one hundred and fifty eight thousand.
If we look at labor force participation rate, it ticked up.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Sixty two point four equals where we were in May.
You have to go to April of this year when
it was sixty two point six to five eight higher number.
If we look at the hours work then this is
always important. It remains at thirty four point two.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
To find a lower.
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Number, you're going to January when it was thirty four
point one.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's a massive, massive report. By the way, that report
for CNBC and Wall Street loves it. I told you
what the futures looked like. Now we're at actual numbers
on open six hundred and thirty three points as we speak,
with a Dow over one hundred, with the S and
P and the Nasdaq almost five hundred at four to
(21:05):
seventy four. So there's a lot going on there today.
But this just to let you know that's what we're
keeping our eye on for you, and we'll do more
of that coming up. But first, a major bombshell story.
Patty McMurray the Gateway punted here right now. Listen to
this headline. This is incredible, and we just talked to
her off the edge. She goes, you think this is big,
(21:26):
I got an even bigger story coming for you in
the next few days. But she says, meet Michigan's dead voters.
Several voted in person, others voted absentee. One voted forty
one years after he died. Patty's with us right now.
Welcome in, Patty, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
You being here, my justin. Thanks for having me. I
appreciate you allowing me to tell my story, the story
that every Michigan and er should know about you.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Know, we're just talking about there's so many things happening
that stuff like this, which would be in any other
time right major bombshell news and information just gets it
sort of gets swept under the rug. And there's a
lot of folks that want to see that happen anyway,
but there's just so much going on right now. This
deserves a big spotlight though.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, thank you, I agree with you. I am. I
really owe this investigation to a check my vote investigator
who has done amazing work and she prefers not to
be named, and so I'm not going to name her.
But she's been doing this work for several years now,
finding voters on the voter rolls, especially the months with
(22:32):
these you know, nineteen hundred or before birth dates, and
then investigating and finding out that these people are in
fact deceased and there's a record of them being deceased.
She reaches out to the clerk in Michigan across the
state of Michigan. By the way, this is not just
a Republican or Democratic clerk problem. This is a bipartisan
(22:53):
problem with our clerks not removing these names, these dead
voters from the voter roles. Whether it's intentionally or just
you know, laziness or negligence. And I'm not sure what
the problem is, but there's a real problem with dead
voters on our voter roles that are not being removed.
And I'm talking about obvious dead voters just you know,
(23:15):
just for example, just the in Wayne County alone, there
in January of twenty five, before this research was presented
to present it to the clerk, there were three hundred
and one voters over the age of one hundred and
fifteen living are registered to vote, active voters on our
(23:37):
voter roles. Since since this investigator has presented this evidence
that there are now two hundred and fifty seven, which
is still obviously a number that's that's way too high,
voters that are over one hundred and fifteen years old.
And as I mentioned in my story, the oldest living
person in America is one hundred and fifteen years old.
(23:58):
The fact that we have two hundred fifty seven active
registered voters just in Wayne County alone, that a one
hundred and fifteen years old should be a pretty disturbing
number for a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
There's the headstone of one hundred and sixteen year old
artist Barnes. What wild to see some of these, uh,
these stories, and as you mentioned, you know this, this
seems to be a people wonder like what's the smoking gun?
How are they doing? You know, how are they monkeying
with you? But there there's a number of things, right,
(24:30):
There is a number of things that they're doing, and
this is seems to be just one of them. Whether
it's actively part of what they do to to to
a monkey with things, or it's just something that they
they've left in there to throw us off. The scent
it is, it's it needs to be talked about because
here's the bottom line. I don't care what anyone says
(24:53):
or thinks about these They should never even be an
appearance of impropriety when it comes to any of this.
And this Secretary of State Joscelyn Benson has been one
of the worst. I mean, judge after judge is said,
you're breaking the law, and here she is, she's going
to oversee her own election for governor. I mean that's
(25:15):
just preposterous.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, it's disturbing really because our voter roles in my
opinion from what I can tell, because I've been looking
back at the history of our voter roles. They've never
been more corrupt our voter roles. And I did mention
that I have another pretty big story coming out. I
think it's really going to shock a lot of people,
not just in Michigan, but across the country related to
(25:38):
our voter roles. They are corrupt. As I mentioned in
a previous interview with you, we now have all the
documentation from the twenty twenty election in Detroit. We obtained
that through a FOYA and there's a team of incredible
investigators working on this information and putting this data together.
(25:59):
But one of the one of the pieces of the
puzzle that was solved in this article that I wrote,
was solved by actually obtaining the absentee ballot envelope. It
was signed by a dead voter, Belma Steele, who was
a World War Two veteran. And these are the kinds
(26:19):
of stories, honestly, that should break people's hearts, because here
this gentleman served in World War Two, he died several
years ago, and he's somehow combat from the grave thanks
to somebody who's added his vote to our voter roles
and also just the vote total in Wayne County. This
(26:41):
individual was born in nineteen twelve, and he voted in
November twenty twenty election and again in the August twenty
first and November twenty first general election, so he's voted
three times. But fortunately we were able to find his
absentee ballot lope with his signature on it. And not
(27:02):
only does the signature not look anything like the like
the date that was added to his signature, but it
doesn't look anything like doesn't even resemble the signature on
his marriage certificate.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, I was just going to say, well with Patty
mcburry right now, she's contributed at the Gateway Pine with
the latest story here, and you said, Patty, there's an
even bigger one and even bigger bombshell around the corner.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It sounds like, yeah, yeah, we do have. We're pouring
through these voter rolls and we're just finding things that
are just incredible. And you know, it's the things that
we're finding are surprising to us because they're not something
we would have thought of before and something that's never
(27:49):
been examined before, and it's just amazing. Every time we
turn around, we find a new way that Michigan voters
are being cheated by these voter roles, and it's it's
actually an emergency that the federal government comes in and
takes a look at these voter roles and helps to
clean them up, because we know that Jacqulyn Benson not
(28:09):
only does she not have any interest in cleaning these
voter rolls up, but she's absolutely defiant. She's been defiant
with the state legislature and now with the federal government.
So you know, it's imperative that somebody comes in and
cleans up these voter roles, especially before her name appears
on the ballot for governor of the state of Michigan.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah, there's nothing she won't do too. And then this
is just for all Democrats, but she's particularly bad. Now
did she won't do to gain or retain power. Eric Nasbit,
by the way, this is breaking, just wrote this SENTI
Minority later running for governor here as a Republican. He's
been one of the folks urging the federal government to
get involved in oversee this election. Despite Jcelyn's claims, thousands
(28:50):
of dead people on the voter roles does not make
our election safe and secure. It's time for the DOJ
to show her what a secure election really looks. Like well, Patty,
thank you for staying on topic. We'll have you back
next week when you have your your big bomb show
whenever it drops, We'll have you back for the latest
and uh and please definitely come back let us know
(29:11):
what you found.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, thank you Justin.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
By the way, folks, if we don't get this right,
and we can do anything else we want, but if
we don't get this whole thing right, none of it
means anything. This is what matters. Thank you so much.
As always more coming up, folks. You can join the
program at any time. Six' one six seven, seven four,
twenty four, twenty four, jump on the line. Where this
We're back next Speaker of the House Matt Hall with
(29:36):
another big win in Lansing. We'll fill you in on
that right after.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
This informative engigee. It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
nine a f as.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Here are your headlines from the Midwestern or This Thursday,
November twentieth, I'm Robin Poffman. Michigan Senator Democrat Alissa Slotkin
up to some new tricks as she tries to undermine
President Trump sloting along with fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill,
posting a video to x calling on the deep state
to rise up against the president.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
No one has to carry out owners that violate the
law or our constitution.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
We know this is hard and that.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
It's a difficult time to be a public servant.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Whether you're serving in the CIA.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
The Army, or Navy Air Force, your vigilance is critical.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You know that we have your part to go.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Give up, don't give up. Don't give up.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Don't give up the ship.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Governor Whitmer's Department of Health and Human Services, busy with
population control, turns out the department handing out more than
three hundred thousand condoms and sixty thousand doses of emergency
contraception for women, this as Michigan is struggling to grow
its population. For these stories and more, visit the Midwesterner
at the Midwesterner.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Dot five years ago this week.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
By the way, we're preserving sure holiday gatherings together by
taking this seriously. Now remember this by not gathering with
people outside of your household.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
This Thanksgiving the act of kindness.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Future holiday gatherings together.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
It was an act of kindness and love that you
couldn't go to Thanksgevik. Remember that a lot of us
just had We had funerals for our pet turkeys, and
the family was either to we were able to gather
for Thanksgiving, I mean for the funeral. Excuse me for
the tear. Can you believe five years ago this week
(31:37):
in the Wolverine Queen mom telling us whether we were
grounded or not? Holy cow, isn't that something We've come
a long way? In fact, you're watching some of that
happen as we speak. It takes a little while to
unravel that mess, but it is happening at record pace.
And one of those big stories that we're following, in fact,
just happened this week. Big celebration in the house here
in Lansing. Speaker Matt Hall joins us right now, mister speaker,
(31:59):
thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Hey, good morning, Thanks for having me big celebration.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
You guys have got another big win here.
Speaker 8 (32:09):
Well, you're right. You know, when we have a principal
conservative Republican House, we can force Governor Whitmer to do
things that align with our platform and agenda. That's still
tough because they control two branches of government, the governor
and the Senate. But the Republicans, you know, we flipped
(32:31):
the House this year and so we can still accomplish
some things. And what we did was we implemented HEAT
the Hall Ethics, Accountability and Transparency Plan. And this was
a real tough one. So, you know, during the COVID
nineteen pandemic, there was so much money flowing into government.
The politicians they would just spend it, I mean, without
(32:55):
any anyone knowing what they were doing with it. So
we'd get, you know, a budget bill and they'd tack
on the one or two billion dollars of pork spending.
At the last minute. You'd say, what are these things?
And you'd get, you know, four or five word descriptions,
and then you know, a year after the vote, we'd
start to find out what these things were. And you know,
(33:15):
we'd see hip hop academies, splash pads, big big new
buildings and lancing. I mean, the DNR for some reason
built a five million dollar pool and lancing all kinds
of things, and big Democrat developers would get huge windfalls.
So what I said when I became Speaker is, you know,
(33:36):
we need to start raining in this pork spending, and
we need to come up with HEAT, the Hall Ethics,
Accountability and Transparency Plan, which forces them to disclose this
forty five days in advance. If you want a pork
spending project in the budget, tell us what it is,
put your name on it, be proud of it, tell
us the public purpose. Uh, and when is it going
(33:59):
to be complete? And we have to certify the organization
exists because they would even give money to millions to
organizations that did not exist, and then they'd create the
organizations after they got the money. It was a real
real uh you know, anything goes system. And now we've
cleaned that up with the governor signing HEAT today.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, it really is interesting. It makes you wonder how
we blew through all that money we had in the
COVID days, you know, billions upon billions of done. I
guess it's not hard when you're handing out all those
you know, behind the scenes backroom deal you know checks
for your all your Democrat donor friends. Is it.
Speaker 9 (34:39):
No?
Speaker 8 (34:39):
But you know they're so addicted to this pork, especially
the Democrats. We forced them in this budget. We just
got done to cut the pork by eighty seven percent.
We cut eight hundred million dollars of waste, fraud, and
abuse from the budget, including two thousand ghost employees. And
these were fake employees that the Whitmer administration and would
(35:00):
use to pad their budgets so they could spend more.
We cut the budget. It's smaller than it was last
year as a major accomplishment under Whitmer. And then we said, look,
we're not We're not going to let you go out
once you get these pork projects awarded and just spend
all the money. Because what they were doing is you
(35:21):
get the pork project and then the Whitmer administration would say, okay,
here's your twenty five million dollars. That's how you got
this one where the woman went out paid herself like
a you know, eight hundred thousand dollars salary, bought first
class tickets and the big you know, the big what
is it, eight thousand dollars coffee maker. Well, we changed
(35:41):
it and said, from now on in these projects, if
we give it to you, you have to send us
your expenses first and then we'll reimburse you for the
ones that are appropriate. So we had to get that
under control. I mean, this was a free for all
for many years under Whitmer, and we've reined it in
(36:02):
and we've put the guardrails on it, and and we're
going to be watching very close. But I think we've
we finally fixed a.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Lot of that.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Another big win, Speaker Matt Hall there in the house
here in Michigan, and of course yet more to come.
This is it's just the beginning, and I think not
just for for Republicans there in the house, but this
will win for Michigan for all the folks who you know,
if you're paying taxes, you swhere your money's going speak,
miss speaker, Thank you so About anything else we should
be looking for in the days ahead, things you guys
(36:32):
are working on before.
Speaker 8 (36:32):
We let you go, Well, you know, I just point
out that, you know there are some good project like
with Whitmer, I could see her punishing a Republican in
their district. So you know, we want roads, we want bridges,
you know, we want these things, but not all this,
you know, hip hop academies and splash bats and all
(36:54):
this other craft they were doing. So we're gonna we're
gonna keep holding the line on this. And you know
the Democrats wants the budgets done. They want to do
another budget bill.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
We're going to.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
Block all that. We're really focused on getting better value
for your tax dollars and you're going to see that
for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I love it, mister speaker. Thank you so much for
the latest and the heads up on this, folks, another
big one. We'll continue to keep you up there. Please
come back and let us know when you have more.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
I will thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
You got it, my pleasure. That's a Speaker of the House,
Republican Speaker of the Republican controlled House, Matt Hall. As
you know this when you when you put them back
into business, Republicans can rain those folks in. And you
know twenty twenty six is I think just as importmently
and more important from Michigan as twenty four was for
the nation. And we're going to see that, folks. You
(37:45):
gotta you've got to get those folks back. I think
the adults essentially back in the room. That's how it's done.
Have you seen what's happening in North Carolina right now,
all out assault essentially going after some of the most
illegal criminal folks there, and there are people like Antifa
types fighting back. That's a it's I think there's been
(38:07):
a little coverage of this, but not a massive amount,
so want to make sure we cover that during the
after show. There are stories that you just haven't heard yet.
We'll make sure we get into that. And the markets
are going nuts as well, so we'll get into that
and more coming up today in the after show. By
the way, it's the show After the Show, never miss
a minute, live or archive. You can check it out
on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you download your podcast.
(38:31):
Justin Barclay dot com for the stories we cover today
in the stack. Oh yeah, the Glenn Back Program is
next again. Thanks to the folks who helped us get
it done another record year, seven thirty three turkeys, Mel
Trotter LIVEVMS and you God bless
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