March 12, 2026 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, it's Thursday, twinter City's News Talk AM eleven thirty
one oh three five FM, streaming worldwide on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
My name is John Justice, and in the studio to
my right would be Devin. I've got a pack show today.
We're going to talk about the attempts to make sure
that wild Rice in Minnesota has the right to live.
Brought to you by the same people who supported Aborshit
(00:42):
up until birth. By the way, we'll get into this
later on in the show. Senday candidates. Former submariner Tom
Wyler will be joining us just after eight o'clock this morning.
We've got Feeding our Future back in the in the
news of the mansions purchased by the fraudsters is up
(01:04):
for sale, so we'll run through some of the details
regarding just how nice this house was what they were
convicted of. And as I was doing some research on
that story, I was looking up the individual who owned
the home. I found audio of this fraudster talking to
(01:26):
a group of people prior to the Feeding our Future
scandal being exposed, and it is so fascinating, for lack
of a.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Better word, you're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Listen to the way that these fraudsters spoke in retrospect,
in hindsight, knowing that they were committing fraud at the
time when this was taking place. We have Minneapolis as
city clown soil News. I didn't realize that Moby was
on the city council.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'll explain further.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
But there's a guy that's on the city council that
like he like, looks just like alternative artist Moby. There's
also a big old liberal too, so I'm not sure
there's a correlation at all. I just thought it was funny.
That's all coming up in the seven o'clock hour. Let's
start here.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Though.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Efforts to get the Save America Act to President Donald
Trump's desk those intensified yesterday. Senator John Cornyn ended up
releasing an op ed and highlighting that he would back
whatever changes to the Senate rules doing that thing with
my fingers deemed necessary in order to pass the bill.
Oh hell yeah, that's right now. Cornyn did this. He
(02:41):
penned this op ed because he and Attorney General Ken Paxton,
they're battling for Trump's endorsement in the heated Texas primary
Senate primary. It's already headed to the May twenty sixth
the runoff election. Democrats have of course coalesced around psycho
boy Senator James tall Rico, who defeated Jasmine Crockett in
(03:02):
the primary last week, But according to the Cook Political Report,
the general election race still is skewed, likely Republican and
probably is going to stay that way. Tall Rico is
a He's a he is a absolute nutbar now.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Cornan wrote in the op ed.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
For many years, I believe that at the Senate, scrapped
at the filibuster, Texas and our nation would stand to
lose more than we would to gain.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
He wrote this in the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
My fellow Conservatives, I have proudly used the sixty vote
threshold to protect the country from all sorts of bad
ideas and dangerous policies, adding, when the reality on the
ground changes, leaders must take stock and adapt. Today Democrats
are weaponizing the Senate rules to block the Save America Act,
defund the Department of Homeland Security, and hurt the American people,
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all just by President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, and by the.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Way, that DHS blocking is getting even more dangerous. We'll
talk about this in just a moment. But there's an
alert out for California right now of potential Iranian drone
attacks on the West Coast. I don't know how viable
that would be. I have a hard time believing that
Iran could go and park a ship off our coast
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without us knowing and launched drones. But I'm also not
working for the Department of Defense. So we'll talk about
that a little bit later on when Tom Wyler joins
US after eight o'clock today. Corney went on to say,
but they say openly that if these same rules ever
get in Democrats way, they won't hesitate to rip them up,
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he said, noting how many Democrats have sought to get
rid of the filibuster in the past. Critics of the
talking filibuster are ending the practice altogether, have warned it
could open the floodgates to certain legislative proposals that the
Democrats and perhaps a small number of Republicans could pass.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now, is that a majority?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Leader John Thune told NBC News earlier this week. What
people don't realize I think is that it's un that's
unlimited debate, but it's also unlimited amendments. John Cornyan did
exactly what I produced to one weeks ago. One week ago,
said Paxton in a post on Wednesday, I made him
more conservative than in the past twenty four years. The
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historic flip flops great and all, but why aren't you
calling out your buddies like McConnell for opposing the bill.
Tell the American people who's opposing this and listen. Paxton's
right on that front. The reality is that there are
holds out, holdouts like deathbed Mitch McConnell, That's what I'm
calling him now because he's on his deathbed, like deathbed Mitch,
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who hates Trump to the point where he doesn't want
to get behind any of this. And then you've got Murkowski,
whose career is kind of ode to deathbed Mitch. So
they're holding out. As I've said from the start, and listen,
nuke the filibuster, talk the filibuster to death. I don't care.
Get the Save America Act passed, and then I trust
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God to handle what comes next after we get some
election integrity. President Donald Trump had in an interview, had
some words to say about the current situation regarding the
Save Act. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
It's a very basic thing. It's called save America. Actually,
and that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
It's having to do with voting and voter ID. We
want voter ID, we want proof of citizenship. We added
a couple no men playing in women's sports.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
We don't want that.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nobody does.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I think it's about a ninety eight percent issue. We
want no transgender mutilation of our children.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Very basic things that you.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Wouldn't even think we'd be talking about fifteen or twenty
years ago. But for the voting aspect of it is,
we want voter ID very important. You have to have
identification and you have to have proof of citizenship.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We don't want mail in ballots.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
We don't want to have ballots coming from all.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Different corners of the world. Want to have it accurate,
and you can't do that with it mail in ballots.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Actually, Jimmy Carter headed a commission years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
He said, mail in ballots no good.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
We're the only country in the world.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's doing mail in ballots and.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That would exclude, though, our military or people that are ill,
people that are away.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So we're generous in that way. But people don't want mail.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
In ballots because you have crooked elections.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It guarantees a crooked.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Election now beyond the fears of a California Iranian drone attack.
I also want to give you another quick update on
Operation Epic Fury. Coming up, and again we'll talk with
Tom Weiler in the eight o'clock hour and get into
more details in his thoughts as well. I also have
audio an amazing radio exchange between in Israeli and US
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fighter pilot. I'll play that for you. Coming up, we'll
talk magic mushrooms being debated within the legislative a session,
and of course we'll hear from you throughout the show
this morning. The new phone numbers eight four four, nine
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Speaker 2 (08:05):
As always, you can email Justice.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
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Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Good morning, and I love your show.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, before we talk bad A fighter pilots and
Irenian drone threats here on Twinsday's News Talk, let's get
some of your thoughts comments on the Save America Act
and the lack of the GOP able to coalesce and
get this thing passed.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We'll start with friend of the show, Scott.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
We have had rhinos in Senate forever, Murkowsky, Collins, now McConnell.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And the corner thing is just another attempt.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
For some to try and get into political office another term,
because they love being important over useful. So it's time
to rip the band aid off, get rid of the filibuster,
and start passing these things because I guarantee you when
the Dems have a chance, they're going to do it
in a blink.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, and there's an argument to be made as well,
and this is the this is what stalling part of
this is that because of the Republican's reluctancy, that Democrats
might have the same reluctancy. I don't care either way.
I don't know which way Democrats would end up going.
(09:38):
I tend to believe is Scott and think a Scott
said there, that the Democrats would end up taking advantage
of this their Trump arrangement syndrome. They simply cannot help themselves.
You have more examples of this when we talk about
the inherent right of rights of wild rice for crying
out loud. That being said, this debate between Cornyn and Paxton.
(10:01):
I'm fine with it whatever as long as it results
in getting the Save America Act passed, that's it. I
don't at this point, I don't really care how we
get there, and as I mentioned, I'll let God handle
everything else after that.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Good morning, gentlemen, Hope everything's going well. Corwin flipped because
the fact that a back room deal was made. They
know the bill isn't going to pass, so he comes
out and pretends like he's for the bill, but they
already know it's not going to pass. On all political damage.
And you can see it in the betting markets right now,
(10:38):
the odds of Corwin winning flip flopped.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
With packs and.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I tend to go more with this.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Is Cornyan trying to get the endorsement of President Donald Trump,
because Donald Trump has yet to endorse either of these individuals.
So Cornyn's of the opinion that hey, if I go
ahead and change my view on this to get the
Save America Erica Act passed, then perhaps that will ensure
Trump's endorsement to maybe put me over the edge. Relating
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to Ken Paxton, So we'll see how the whole thing
shakes out. An assessment from the Israeli intelligence said it
is believed that Iran's new Supreme Leader, the Motaba Khamane,
the son of the Iatola Kamane, was wounded at the
start of the war. An Israeli intelligence official and reservist
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with knowledge of the situation spoke in a condition of anonymity.
They were not authorized, of course, to discuss the matter
to the media. Gave no details on the nature of
the injuries. The fifty six year old son of the
late Supreme leader has not been seen since succeeding his
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father on Monday. His father and wife were killed in
an Israeli airstrike on the first day of the conflict.
Apart from cardboard cutouts, i'body even kidding you. They've been
pulling out cardboard cutouts of this dude, lavishing praise upon
him in front of people.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know if it's throngs of people.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't know how many people are turning out for
the regime at this point in time, then not showing
the crowds separately. Kowait said its defenses down to eight
Iranian drones, and Saudi Arabia said it intercepted five heading
towards the Kingdom's Shaiba oil field. Witnesses reported continuous air
strikes hitting Tehran after Israel said it had renewed its attacks.
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Explosions were also heard in Beirut in southern Lebanon as
Israeli said it was. Israel said it was hitting targets
connected with the Irani impact Hezbolah militants. We may have
dropped the mother of all bombs a moab yesterday. There
was footage of this epic massive explosion just outside of
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Tehran that was making the rounds yesterday, really really incredible.
There was some erroneous reports that Israel had used a
low yield nuke. Those were debunked rather quickly, and the
assessment at the moment seems to be that again this
was the US using a moab on this particular facility.
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This stip was also making the rounds yesterday. I wanted
to share it with you. This is a radio exchange
between in Israeli and US fighter pilot.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I just thought it was awesome.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
A great tonal for us. By you'll do a great job.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Thank you very much for my questions. Gentlemen, Please we.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Saved up there.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Just cool stuff gives me the chills. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Before we move over to a new bill that would
legalize magic mushrooms, not without some stipulations. By the way,
it's almost not even worth it for crying out loud.
We'll give you, uh, I'll give you the details of this,
uh of this coming up in just a moment. I
had this clip from earlier in the week. I haven't
had the opportunity to play it yet. I don't know
if you saw it. Hillary Clinton was actually going and
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offering up a bit of I don't want to say praise,
but she was actually she was being complimentary of President
Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh it was really really odd.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
She was on a podcast and she was talking about
how Trump was acting differently and better.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm just kind of summarizing.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Then he did in his first term in office. It
just was kind of like, oh my gosh, my broken
clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
This is ABC News. Jonathan Carl.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He posted this up online earlier in the week, getting
into a bit of President Donald Trump and how he
operates as a president and how much different he is
from a typical president. As if you needed another example,
But listen to what Jonathan Carl from BBC News had
to say, it's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I've covered five different presidents. I have never seeing one
other than Donald Trump, who regularly takes phone calls from reporters.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So I thought I would talk a little.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Bit about that.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I've spoken to him over the phone three times since
the military operation the war against Iran started. In each
of those cases, I simply called him and he answered.
Some of the conversations are short, some of them can
be quite lengthy. I talked to him today during the
middle of the afternoon, and the call lasted for about
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twenty minutes. When I called, I was actually calling to
ask him because if he was firing Christy nom because
ABC News was about to report that had happened.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And it turned out that he was.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
As I was talking to him, reviewing the statement that
he would put out saying that she was leaving office,
and he told me he was sitting there with Marco
Rubio and he started to read the statement to me,
and then he pressed to send and he said, look, you
can see it now. You can see it now, And
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sure enough, while we were talking, it appeared on True
Social him saying that Christine Homes leaving and being replaced
by Mark Wayne Mullin. The conversation then turned to Iran,
obviously the really big story and major decision which made
define not just his presidency but his entire political career.
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And I have to say he just sounded incredibly triumphant.
He said to me, they're calling me the goat greatest
of all time. And he asked me, and this again,
this is one of the unusual things.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He asked me if I thought.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It was impressive being the war, He said, what do
you make what do you think of the performance? He
clearly feels that he is a president right now that
is almost unlimited in his power, and he feels that.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
He can do no wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And he told me, well, in the first term, I
built the military. In my second term, I am using it.
But again the conversation goes on, and it's in the
middle of the day, in the middle.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Of the war.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
He had just fired his secretary of Homeland Security, just
replaced her.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
And.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You know, he's available and talking about it. It's very unique.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Let's just say it that way. It's a very unique situation.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And again that was Jonathan carl and the comment of
the president believes he can do no wrong. Aside, I
think that's the wrong takeaway from it. It was an
interesting insight into President Donald Trump. I had a very
similar experience with another well known politician who is no
longer with us, many years ago. I'll tell you that story.
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Coming up in just a moment here on Twinsday's News Talk,
we'll talk about legalizing magic mushrooms. Hearing brings support and
concern for a bill that would require cameras in childcare centers. Yeah,
there's some really interesting little nuggets within this story, especially
as it relates to fraud and tackling the fraud here
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in Minnesota. I want to give you a warning as well.
I have one clip from Governor Tim Walls that I
will share before seven o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm warning you now, it's annoying.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I know the majority of clips that we play from
Governor Tim Walls are annoying. But once again, just like
Sidney Jordan yesterday with the tax credit for schools and
the video that the DFL put out of her just
lying about every single aspect of this, you can say
something very similar with this clip that I have from
Governor Tim Walls. Coming up on Twinsday's News Talk AM
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eleven thirty in one oh three five FM.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They have what's called a Trump derangement problem.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Have you heard about that problem?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
HERT Radio station?
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Hey John, before you mentioned legalizing magic mushrooms, I don't
think we can afford it. Yesterday I was in Hockeys
at this new legal place to buy marijuana or canvabis, right,
twenty nine dollars for a one gram marijuana cigarette what
we used to call a joint. Listen, we don't have
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to make this stuff illegal. We just got to make
it illegal in charge like this, and nobody's gonna be
able to afford it anywhere. Five hundred dollars mushroom.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
That's a lot of money for not a lot of marijuana.
I'm good, by the way, mini leaf right now, five
dollars off then at the night gummies that's right. More
details coming up a little bit later on, but I
figured i'd take the opportunity here on Twin Cities News Talk.
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I'm am eleven thirty one oh three five FM. My
name is John Justice. Devin is smiling, and the master
Control booth to my right. If passed, this bill would
create a pilot program for up to one thousand patients
to qualify for the medical with aqua. Excuse me with
a qualifying medical condition like depression to use the psilocybin mushrooms.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm sure there's a reason why the program is capped
at a thousand patients in the first three years, monitored
by fifty facilitators who will be licensed in the state.
Patients must consume the mushrooms at a licensed facility and
the legislature will reevaluate the program after three years.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
I just.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It almost doesn't seem worth it. So.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Psilocybin is the psychedelic compound found in the species of mushrooms.
It's currently illegal as a psychedelic drug, but Minnesota state
representatives from both parties believe it can help a lot
of people. People are saying that they have a new
lease on life. They thought they wouldn't make it, and
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now they are because of these drugs.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
This is according to the DFL Representative A and D.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Smith out of Rochester, Representative Nolan West out of my
neck of the Woods, and Blaine gop.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He said, if this was a terrible.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Idea, you would have seen a lot of medical professionals
here to oppose it, all right, So I appreciate the
sentiment from Representative Nolan West on this, but maybe we
shouldn't put that much faith.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
In stock in the medical professionals.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I respect the medical professionals do not misunderstand, but I
also remember what a lot of those say medical professionals
had to say during COVID, and especially here in Minnesota,
with politics and more specifically progressive ideologies that have infected
our healthcare system. I am hesitant to go and lean
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on that. Well, you know, this was a bad idea.
We would see a lot of medical professionals here opposing it.
And again, given the restrictions on this, it kind of
seems like, well, why would you have any medical professionals
proposing it. One, they're capig out of a thousand patients
and you have to consume the mushrooms at a license facility.
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Now the other part to this too, and I don't
have the details here to know. Let me share with
you the rest of the story here and then I'll
add in my concerns. If you want to comment, feel
free to leave a talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
But one doctor, Aminji Kim, Minneapolis psychiatrist, said this therapy,
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I want to be very clear, is not for casual
or recreational use, and involves careful screening, preparation sessions, and
supervised therapeutic experience, as well as integration afterwards. Medical professionals
testified the psilocybin will be a meaningful new option for
patients who have exhausted existing options. Since the bill would
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legalize a drug, there are several legislative committees that must
go through before becoming a law. I've told this story before,
but in the last the open heart surgery that I
had in twenty twenty two, they were trying new therapies
out in terms of pain management. One of them they
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actually thought had given me a stroke.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That wasn't the case.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'm allergic to morphine and they had a derivative of
it that they were using. It was a new procedure
where they actually injected into your back, right. I hadn't
had this in the first two open heart surgeries that
I went through, so this was all new and they said, yeah,
this should ease the pain of the chest pain. Later
on will the drug that they used, again being a
derivative of morphine. I remember this was like one of
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the first days after waking up, and I'm sitting in
my hospital room and I'm just completely out of it,
because you know, after the surgery, it takes you a
day or two before you you know, before all of
the anesthesia wears off and you can actually sort of
think clearly. But I'm sitting there and my eyes were bouncing,
and I was so out of it, and on some
of the other drugs, I'm like, that's really weird. And
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my eyes are like bouncing up and down, and the
doctors are like, what. And I had a whole bunch
of doctors that came in to examine me, and sure enough,
they could actually see my pupils were gyrating up and down,
and at first they thought I was having a stroke,
and then we realized that it was a it was
a negative reaction to the morphine. Later they ended up
giving me ketamine. And that was the worst thing ever.
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I've told that story. No, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I had blood pressure monitor.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I was watching blood pressure monitors walking across the counter.
My doctor came in with bright blue hair, and you
might think, well, are you sure they didn't just have
bright blue hair. No, no, no, they were it was
they actually had black hair, but it was bright blue
because of the drugs that I was.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It was no fund, it was no fun whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
But the point I wanted to make on this is
what concerns me is just when it comes to the
wave that Minnesota in the Democrats go and craft these rules,
especially when it comes to licensing anybody, fifty different facilitators
will be licensed with the state to handle these one
thousand patients. Are we going to put safeguards in to
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make sure that this doesn't end up becoming fraudulent as well?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That's the concern that I would have worn it everybody.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
It's chat from Dollan all.
Speaker 13 (25:57):
A thousand patients. Then people want to be lamb rats.
I don't get it. What kind of mushrooms are they
going to try to give you and monitor you? And
then yeah, no thanks? Sounds like some kind of a
weird experiment to me.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I would imagine the individuals that would participate in this
would be people that were again dealing with a extreme
qualified medical condition, wherein other therapeutic means of pain management
just simply aren't working.
Speaker 14 (26:28):
John, let all the people that are in favor of
using psilocybin get on and lead the way start using it.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But I think they already are.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
Well, John they said you had to consume them at
a license facility, didn't mean you have to finish enjoying
them at a license facility.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, I think the whole point is that you're not
allowed to take them with you. In the story says
it involves careful screening preparation sessions. Patients must consume them
in a license facility so that they could be monitor
at the time so they don't start flipping out. And
again I'm not against this, I just want to make
sure that we do it the right way. And here
in Minnesota, when it comes to crafting legislation, especially when
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it comes to licensing individuals, we.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Don't typically do it the right way.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
We typically do it in such a way that it's
going to benefit democrats by giving individuals the opportunity to
go and commit acts of fraud, something that we'll talk
about in further detail next hour.
Speaker 15 (27:32):
Before you're all against the vetical bush, it wasn't about
one thing. If they're not talking taking huge doses, it's
very small doses.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
It has animal beneficture, just like that bear wada gwys
that you take to go to sleep. You're taking a
smaller dose and a certain part of the chemical plant
strain that helps you sleep, stay with the mushrooms, just
small quantity.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Why did you get the impression I was against it.
I was just making sure we do it right, that's all.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I don't know. It's not my bag. I don't want
hallucinogens a misconstrue. What I'm saying, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Speaking of the legislative session and informational hearing was held
in the Minnesota House Children and Families Finance and Policy
Committee earlier this week for Harvey's Law. If passed, Minnesota
would become the first state to require cameras for childcare centers. Okay,
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so can we do while Housing and Stabilization services is gone,
because again that was all fraudulent. But can we also
do autism centers, hospices, nursing homes, et cetera. I think
we should expand this everywhere. I think the cameras would do.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
A lot of good.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Harvey's Law honors eleven month old Harvey mucle Bust, who
was build last fall at a daycare in Savage. According
to court documents, the eighteen an eighteen year oldmployee confessed
to choking him.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Now the bill.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The law would require cameras in infant and toddler rooms
and license to childcare centers receiving state funds. It also
calls for footage to be retained for twenty eight days. Again, no,
that's good. I think this is a good thing. We
need this type of oversight. But let's also do autism centers, hospices,
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and nursing homes. I bring up hospices, and I haven't
talked about this in the show yet, but they have
uncovered a massive fraud scheme regarding hospices in California, and
it's exactly the same thing that we saw here. You
have an office building with like thirty different autism centers
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autism offices that aren't operating, but they're collecting all the
money because they're building the state for services they're not giving.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's the same thing with these hospices in California.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You had investigators that went out exactly to an office
building where there were multiple hospices that were apparently supposed
to be existing there, and while there were signs on
the door, nobody was home. According to court documents, Harvey
was the daycare worker's second victim, the first child harmed
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a second. The first kid harmed a second time just
hours before Harvey survived. Many parents to who testified saying
their children have also been victims of child abuse at
childcare centers. But lawmakers also heard from people, including childcare providers,
who voiced concerns about everything from the cost of the
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cameras to privacy and security concerns. Kathlyn McHenry with the
Early Care and Educational Consortium, said that mandating cameras in
every childcare setting would be like requiring cameras in every
hospital room. They might record what happens every day, but
they don't prevent errors or maltreatment.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
What do you want, absolutes?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I mean, if you're worried about errors and maltreatment, you're
taking a step forward by going and requiring cameras. And
I would be fine with cameras in a hospital room.
We can improve safety in hospitals and in childcare with
proper training, supervision, ratios, protocols, procedures, inspections, higher pay for staff,
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and more safety improves through systems and standards, not constant surveillance.
I don't disagree with that, but at the same time,
we don't do that well here in Minnesota. So you
can want the proper training, supervision, ratios, protocols and procedures
and inspections. But unfortunately, with the leadership that we currently
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have under Governor Tim Wallas, at least we do that poorly.
So if you viewing requiring cameras in childcare centers is
more extreme than pointed Democrats on that they've created this
scenario with the lack of oversight and too much of
the policies and the programs that they've created. Several people
who expressed concerns with the law said they were in
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favor of a task force being formed to gather more information.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Great, so we can spend more money.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Last session, lawmakers did pass legislation that requires cameras at
childcare centers with active maltreatment violations. That law goes into
effect in July. We have a return of Representative Nolan
West once again for Harvey's law. He's the bill's author.
He said it has bipartisan support. He also said he
was not against adding language in the law around privacy
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after hearing concerns from some of his fellow lawmakers. Now,
the bill was introduced yesterday a voting. Any consideration on
the amendments will happen on the seventeenth, so something that
will certainly keep it ion and I will update you
once we have more information. Let's go back to some
more of your comments from the iHeartRadio app. Got one
(33:08):
here regarding mushrooms.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Psychedelic mushrooms.
Speaker 16 (33:14):
Huh limited to a thousand patients in a controlled environment. Yeah,
come on, please here in the state of Minnesota. This
is just another fraud that is waiting to be had,
just like paid leave. We're right on the money on
those statistics, right.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Thank you for the setup on this.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I have a story coming up John Feeling, center of
the American Experiment. He's been tracking the number of individuals
that have been taking advantage of paid family medical leave,
and he's already two and a half months into this program,
asking the question of whether or not by this summer
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there will need to be another payroll tax hike to
deal with the number of individuals signing up for paid
family medical leaf, which raises the question in my mind
of whether or not they can just arbitrarily go and
raise the tax on this. I need to ask Max
Rymer or some of our legislative friends on that is
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the ability to raise the payroll tax baked in to
this program or does it have to be voted on
by the legislature. All right, getting back to your top
backs from the current topic.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
John, I've been touring some commercial places for work recently,
and it seems that about half is not all the
ones that are vacant, which is probably close to half
of the total market, were entirely fraudulent businesses. There was
no sign that anybody ever worked there. They were all
tied into the government and they're all closing up shop
and failing back to Africa wherever they came from.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Is really unbelievable how much fraud there is. This is
just the tip of.
Speaker 17 (34:58):
The Iceberg Hospice is huge in Minnesota too. There's one
building that has twenty one location. Then it hasn't been
brought to the public yet.
Speaker 18 (35:09):
Hey, John, I think if it's cool for them to
have the constitutional watchers going around following ice then we
got to have constitutional watchers at all of these daycares
and autism centers.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's a great point.
Speaker 18 (35:22):
And a constitutional watch every time they need a translator
for eight hours for one hundred dollars an hour, and
a constitutional watcher every time they need a ride to
and from their.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Hospital appointment.
Speaker 18 (35:36):
You know, let's have constitutional watches on them.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, that's a that's a really, really good point. Thank
you for the talkbacks this morning, greatly appreciated. I want
to revisit briefly. I have a story of the new
of Minnesota software system speaking of costs, and we'll talk
about the new the paid Family Medical leaf here in
just a moment on Twin City's News Talk. But yesterday
we spent a lot of time talking about Governor Tim
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Walls and his ridiculous and unnecessary major plan to centralize
and modernize DHS. So I was working off the Fox
nine news story yesterday, and in the Fox nine story
they lay out the price tag for this, and I
brought attention to it on Wednesday show.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
The price tag's not cheap.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
The budget director for Walls's news Centralized Modernized, Modernized DHS
plan puts the cost of the state takeover of county
eligibility responsibilities at seventeen million dollars in the first budget
cycle fifty five million in the next cycle. It's not
clear how much of it will cost to modernize the computer.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Systems within DHS.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Those costs will be included in the governor's budget proposal.
So I made the comment yesterday and I was joking that, well,
if you're looking at fifty five million in the second cycle,
seventeen million for the next cycle is probably going to
be closer to a one hundred and twenty million dollars
when all was said and done. Because every single time
that Democrats go and have a new program and they
try to game out an estimate of how much is
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it going to cost, it's always lower than what it
ends up costing. To that point, Minnesota's new software system
costs fifty million more than was initially approved. Side note
on this too, I had to go find the story
again about Walls and his plan because I wanted to
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get the dollar amounts correct. I couldn't find any other
story other than Fox nine, and it's there.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I missed it.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
But I looked at Cara Leven, I looked at Channel five,
looked at the Pioneer Press, I looked at the Star Tribune,
I looked at the Minnesota Reformer. All the coverage of
their stories of Walls and his new plan to centralize
and modernize DHS, they all left out the cost. Fox
nine was the only one that actually included the price
in it.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I thought that was rather interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
So they're trying to replace out data software essential to
everything from payroll to class registration the Minnesota State school system.
It's costing now forty eight million dollars more than initially approved,
and it's four years behind schedule. We just we can't
do anything right. I'll give you further details on this
(38:20):
in just a moment. We'll get to your talkbacks as well,
and I'll bring a little bit of a truth to
this clip from Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
He was at some event sitting up on stage when
he spouted this word salad of lies. Here's Governor Tim Walls,
and we'll get to more of it and your thoughts
next here on Twin Cities News Talking Hour two of
today's show.
Speaker 19 (38:47):
What happened right and why they left was because of
the people on the streets.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
It wasn't the elected officials.
Speaker 19 (38:54):
They left because of that and each organizations.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
That turned into food banks and you know.
Speaker 19 (39:03):
Soccer and basketball carpools that turned into protecting children and
parents surrounding schools.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
What I would tell.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Them, and I don't know if you can.
Speaker 19 (39:13):
You can't replicate it immediately, but that old adage that
all politics and all action is local. Minnesotans take that
to local, to your house and the house next to you,
and the house next to you.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Easy, every word of what you just said. What's wrong,
Hey, it's Thursday, twinter City's News Talk AM eleven thirty
one oh three five FM, streaming worldwide on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
My name is John Justice, and in the studio to
my right would be Devin. I've got a pack show today.
We're going to talk about the attempts to make sure
that wild Rice in Minnesota has the right to live.
Brought to you by the same people who supported Aborshit
(00:42):
up until birth. By the way, we'll get into this
later on in the show. Senday candidates. Former submariner Tom
Wyler will be joining us just after eight o'clock this morning.
We've got Feeding our Future back in the in the
news of the mansions purchased by the fraudsters is up
(01:04):
for sale, so we'll run through some of the details
regarding just how nice this house was what they were
convicted of. And as I was doing some research on
that story, I was looking up the individual who owned
the home. I found audio of this fraudster talking to
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a group of people prior to the Feeding our Future
scandal being exposed, and it is so fascinating, for lack
of a.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Better word, you're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Listen to the way that these fraudsters spoke in retrospect,
in hindsight, knowing that they were committing fraud at the
time when this was taking place. We have Minneapolis as
city clown soil News. I didn't realize that Moby was
on the city council.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'll explain further.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
But there's a guy that's on the city council that
like he like, looks just like alternative artist Moby. There's
also a big old liberal too, so I'm not sure
there's a correlation at all. I just thought it was funny.
That's all coming up in the seven o'clock hour. Let's
start here.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Though.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Efforts to get the Save America Act to President Donald
Trump's desk those intensified yesterday. Senator John Cornyn ended up
releasing an op ed and highlighting that he would back
whatever changes to the Senate rules doing that thing with
my fingers deemed necessary in order to pass the bill.
Oh hell yeah, that's right now. Cornyn did this. He
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penned this op ed because he and Attorney General Ken Paxton,
they're battling for Trump's endorsement in the heated Texas primary
Senate primary. It's already headed to the May twenty sixth
the runoff election. Democrats have of course coalesced around psycho
boy Senator James tall Rico, who defeated Jasmine Crockett in
(03:02):
the primary last week, But according to the Cook Political Report,
the general election race still is skewed, likely Republican and
probably is going to stay that way. Tall Rico is
a He's a he is a absolute nutbar now.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Cornan wrote in the op ed.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
For many years, I believe that at the Senate, scrapped
at the filibuster, Texas and our nation would stand to
lose more than we would to gain.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
He wrote this in the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
My fellow Conservatives, I have proudly used the sixty vote
threshold to protect the country from all sorts of bad
ideas and dangerous policies, adding, when the reality on the
ground changes, leaders must take stock and adapt. Today Democrats
are weaponizing the Senate rules to block the Save America Act,
defund the Department of Homeland Security, and hurt the American people,
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all just by President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, and by the.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Way, that DHS blocking is getting even more dangerous. We'll
talk about this in just a moment. But there's an
alert out for California right now of potential Iranian drone
attacks on the West Coast. I don't know how viable
that would be. I have a hard time believing that
Iran could go and park a ship off our coast
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without us knowing and launched drones. But I'm also not
working for the Department of Defense. So we'll talk about
that a little bit later on when Tom Wyler joins
US after eight o'clock today. Corney went on to say,
but they say openly that if these same rules ever
get in Democrats way, they won't hesitate to rip them up,
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he said, noting how many Democrats have sought to get
rid of the filibuster in the past. Critics of the
talking filibuster are ending the practice altogether, have warned it
could open the floodgates to certain legislative proposals that the
Democrats and perhaps a small number of Republicans could pass.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now, is that a majority?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Leader John Thune told NBC News earlier this week. What
people don't realize I think is that it's un that's
unlimited debate, but it's also unlimited amendments. John Cornyan did
exactly what I produced to one weeks ago. One week ago,
said Paxton in a post on Wednesday, I made him
more conservative than in the past twenty four years. The
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historic flip flops great and all, but why aren't you
calling out your buddies like McConnell for opposing the bill.
Tell the American people who's opposing this and listen. Paxton's
right on that front. The reality is that there are
holds out, holdouts like deathbed Mitch McConnell, That's what I'm
calling him now because he's on his deathbed, like deathbed Mitch,
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who hates Trump to the point where he doesn't want
to get behind any of this. And then you've got Murkowski,
whose career is kind of ode to deathbed Mitch. So
they're holding out. As I've said from the start, and listen,
nuke the filibuster, talk the filibuster to death. I don't care.
Get the Save America Act passed, and then I trust
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God to handle what comes next after we get some
election integrity. President Donald Trump had in an interview, had
some words to say about the current situation regarding the
Save Act. This is what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
It's a very basic thing. It's called save America. Actually,
and that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
It's having to do with voting and voter ID. We
want voter ID, we want proof of citizenship. We added
a couple no men playing in women's sports.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
We don't want that.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Nobody does.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
I think it's about a ninety eight percent issue. We
want no transgender mutilation of our children.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Very basic things that you.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Wouldn't even think we'd be talking about fifteen or twenty
years ago. But for the voting aspect of it is,
we want voter ID very important. You have to have
identification and you have to have proof of citizenship.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We don't want mail in ballots.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
We don't want to have ballots coming from all.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Different corners of the world. Want to have it accurate,
and you can't do that with it mail in ballots.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Actually, Jimmy Carter headed a commission years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
He said, mail in ballots no good.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
We're the only country in the world.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
That's doing mail in ballots and.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That would exclude, though, our military or people that are ill,
people that are away.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
So we're generous in that way. But people don't want mail.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
In ballots because you have crooked elections.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It guarantees a crooked.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Election now beyond the fears of a California Iranian drone attack.
I also want to give you another quick update on
Operation Epic Fury. Coming up, and again we'll talk with
Tom Weiler in the eight o'clock hour and get into
more details in his thoughts as well. I also have
audio an amazing radio exchange between in Israeli and US
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fighter pilot. I'll play that for you. Coming up, we'll
talk magic mushrooms being debated within the legislative a session,
and of course we'll hear from you throughout the show
this morning. The new phone numbers eight four four, nine
four six five, eight five five.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
As always, you can email Justice.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
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Speaker 8 (08:19):
Good morning, and I love your show.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
All right, before we talk bad A fighter pilots and
Irenian drone threats here on Twinsday's News Talk, let's get
some of your thoughts comments on the Save America Act
and the lack of the GOP able to coalesce and
get this thing passed.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We'll start with friend of the show, Scott.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
We have had rhinos in Senate forever, Murkowsky, Collins, now McConnell.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And the corner thing is just another attempt.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
For some to try and get into political office another term,
because they love being important over useful. So it's time
to rip the band aid off, get rid of the filibuster,
and start passing these things because I guarantee you when
the Dems have a chance, they're going to do it
in a blink.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Well, and there's an argument to be made as well,
and this is the this is what stalling part of
this is that because of the Republican's reluctancy, that Democrats
might have the same reluctancy. I don't care either way.
I don't know which way Democrats would end up going.
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I tend to believe is Scott and think a Scott
said there, that the Democrats would end up taking advantage
of this their Trump arrangement syndrome. They simply cannot help themselves.
You have more examples of this when we talk about
the inherent right of rights of wild rice for crying
out loud. That being said, this debate between Cornyn and Paxton.
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I'm fine with it whatever as long as it results
in getting the Save America Act passed, that's it. I
don't at this point, I don't really care how we
get there, and as I mentioned, I'll let God handle
everything else after that.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Good morning, gentlemen, Hope everything's going well. Corwin flipped because
the fact that a back room deal was made. They
know the bill isn't going to pass, so he comes
out and pretends like he's for the bill, but they
already know it's not going to pass. On all political damage.
And you can see it in the betting markets right now,
(10:38):
the odds of Corwin winning flip flopped.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
With packs and.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I tend to go more with this.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Is Cornyan trying to get the endorsement of President Donald Trump,
because Donald Trump has yet to endorse either of these individuals.
So Cornyn's of the opinion that hey, if I go
ahead and change my view on this to get the
Save America Erica Act passed, then perhaps that will ensure
Trump's endorsement to maybe put me over the edge. Relating
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to Ken Paxton, So we'll see how the whole thing
shakes out. An assessment from the Israeli intelligence said it
is believed that Iran's new Supreme Leader, the Motaba Khamane,
the son of the Iatola Kamane, was wounded at the
start of the war. An Israeli intelligence official and reservist
(11:28):
with knowledge of the situation spoke in a condition of anonymity.
They were not authorized, of course, to discuss the matter
to the media. Gave no details on the nature of
the injuries. The fifty six year old son of the
late Supreme leader has not been seen since succeeding his
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father on Monday. His father and wife were killed in
an Israeli airstrike on the first day of the conflict.
Apart from cardboard cutouts, i'body even kidding you. They've been
pulling out cardboard cutouts of this dude, lavishing praise upon
him in front of people.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know if it's throngs of people.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I don't know how many people are turning out for
the regime at this point in time, then not showing
the crowds separately. Kowait said its defenses down to eight
Iranian drones, and Saudi Arabia said it intercepted five heading
towards the Kingdom's Shaiba oil field. Witnesses reported continuous air
strikes hitting Tehran after Israel said it had renewed its attacks.
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Explosions were also heard in Beirut in southern Lebanon as
Israeli said it was. Israel said it was hitting targets
connected with the Irani impact Hezbolah militants. We may have
dropped the mother of all bombs a moab yesterday. There
was footage of this epic massive explosion just outside of
(12:49):
Tehran that was making the rounds yesterday, really really incredible.
There was some erroneous reports that Israel had used a
low yield nuke. Those were debunked rather quickly, and the
assessment at the moment seems to be that again this
was the US using a moab on this particular facility.
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This stip was also making the rounds yesterday. I wanted
to share it with you. This is a radio exchange
between in Israeli and US fighter pilot.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I just thought it was awesome.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
A great tonal for us. By you'll do a great job.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Thank you very much for my questions. Gentlemen, Please we.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Saved up there.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Just cool stuff gives me the chills. I think it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Before we move over to a new bill that would
legalize magic mushrooms, not without some stipulations. By the way,
it's almost not even worth it for crying out loud.
We'll give you, uh, I'll give you the details of this,
uh of this coming up in just a moment. I
had this clip from earlier in the week. I haven't
had the opportunity to play it yet. I don't know
if you saw it. Hillary Clinton was actually going and
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offering up a bit of I don't want to say praise,
but she was actually she was being complimentary of President
Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh it was really really odd.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
She was on a podcast and she was talking about
how Trump was acting differently and better.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I'm just kind of summarizing.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Then he did in his first term in office. It
just was kind of like, oh my gosh, my broken
clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
This is ABC News. Jonathan Carl.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He posted this up online earlier in the week, getting
into a bit of President Donald Trump and how he
operates as a president and how much different he is
from a typical president. As if you needed another example,
But listen to what Jonathan Carl from BBC News had
to say, it's really interesting.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I've covered five different presidents. I have never seeing one
other than Donald Trump, who regularly takes phone calls from reporters.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
So I thought I would talk a little.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Bit about that.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I've spoken to him over the phone three times since
the military operation the war against Iran started. In each
of those cases, I simply called him and he answered.
Some of the conversations are short, some of them can
be quite lengthy. I talked to him today during the
middle of the afternoon, and the call lasted for about
(15:31):
twenty minutes. When I called, I was actually calling to
ask him because if he was firing Christy nom because
ABC News was about to report that had happened.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
And it turned out that he was.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
As I was talking to him, reviewing the statement that
he would put out saying that she was leaving office,
and he told me he was sitting there with Marco
Rubio and he started to read the statement to me,
and then he pressed to send and he said, look, you
can see it now. You can see it now, And
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sure enough, while we were talking, it appeared on True
Social him saying that Christine Homes leaving and being replaced
by Mark Wayne Mullin. The conversation then turned to Iran,
obviously the really big story and major decision which made
define not just his presidency but his entire political career.
(16:27):
And I have to say he just sounded incredibly triumphant.
He said to me, they're calling me the goat greatest
of all time. And he asked me, and this again,
this is one of the unusual things.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
He asked me if I thought.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It was impressive being the war, He said, what do
you make what do you think of the performance? He
clearly feels that he is a president right now that
is almost unlimited in his power, and he feels that.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
He can do no wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And he told me, well, in the first term, I
built the military. In my second term, I am using it.
But again the conversation goes on, and it's in the
middle of the day, in the middle.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Of the war.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
He had just fired his secretary of Homeland Security, just
replaced her.
Speaker 10 (17:29):
And.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You know, he's available and talking about it. It's very unique.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Let's just say it that way. It's a very unique situation.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
And again that was Jonathan carl and the comment of
the president believes he can do no wrong. Aside, I
think that's the wrong takeaway from it. It was an
interesting insight into President Donald Trump. I had a very
similar experience with another well known politician who is no
longer with us, many years ago. I'll tell you that story.
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Coming up in just a moment here on Twinsday's News Talk,
we'll talk about legalizing magic mushrooms. Hearing brings support and
concern for a bill that would require cameras in childcare centers. Yeah,
there's some really interesting little nuggets within this story, especially
as it relates to fraud and tackling the fraud here
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in Minnesota. I want to give you a warning as well.
I have one clip from Governor Tim Walls that I
will share before seven o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm warning you now, it's annoying.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I know the majority of clips that we play from
Governor Tim Walls are annoying. But once again, just like
Sidney Jordan yesterday with the tax credit for schools and
the video that the DFL put out of her just
lying about every single aspect of this, you can say
something very similar with this clip that I have from
Governor Tim Walls. Coming up on Twinsday's News Talk AM
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eleven thirty in one oh three five FM.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They have what's called a Trump derangement problem.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Have you heard about that problem?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
HERT Radio station?
Speaker 11 (19:11):
Hey John, before you mentioned legalizing magic mushrooms, I don't
think we can afford it. Yesterday I was in Hockeys
at this new legal place to buy marijuana or canvabis, right,
twenty nine dollars for a one gram marijuana cigarette what
we used to call a joint. Listen, we don't have
(19:33):
to make this stuff illegal. We just got to make
it illegal in charge like this, and nobody's gonna be
able to afford it anywhere. Five hundred dollars mushroom.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
That's a lot of money for not a lot of marijuana.
I'm good, by the way, mini leaf right now, five
dollars off then at the night gummies that's right. More
details coming up a little bit later on, but I
figured i'd take the opportunity here on Twin Cities News Talk.
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I'm am eleven thirty one oh three five FM. My
name is John Justice. Devin is smiling, and the master
Control booth to my right. If passed, this bill would
create a pilot program for up to one thousand patients
to qualify for the medical with aqua. Excuse me with
a qualifying medical condition like depression to use the psilocybin mushrooms.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I'm sure there's a reason why the program is capped
at a thousand patients in the first three years, monitored
by fifty facilitators who will be licensed in the state.
Patients must consume the mushrooms at a licensed facility and
the legislature will reevaluate the program after three years.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
I just.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It almost doesn't seem worth it. So.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Psilocybin is the psychedelic compound found in the species of mushrooms.
It's currently illegal as a psychedelic drug, but Minnesota state
representatives from both parties believe it can help a lot
of people. People are saying that they have a new
lease on life. They thought they wouldn't make it, and
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now they are because of these drugs.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
This is according to the DFL Representative A and D.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Smith out of Rochester, Representative Nolan West out of my
neck of the Woods, and Blaine gop.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
He said, if this was a terrible.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Idea, you would have seen a lot of medical professionals
here to oppose it, all right, So I appreciate the
sentiment from Representative Nolan West on this, but maybe we
shouldn't put that much faith.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
In stock in the medical professionals.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I respect the medical professionals do not misunderstand, but I
also remember what a lot of those say medical professionals
had to say during COVID, and especially here in Minnesota,
with politics and more specifically progressive ideologies that have infected
our healthcare system. I am hesitant to go and lean
(22:19):
on that. Well, you know, this was a bad idea.
We would see a lot of medical professionals here opposing it.
And again, given the restrictions on this, it kind of
seems like, well, why would you have any medical professionals
proposing it. One, they're capig out of a thousand patients
and you have to consume the mushrooms at a license facility.
(22:39):
Now the other part to this too, and I don't
have the details here to know. Let me share with
you the rest of the story here and then I'll
add in my concerns. If you want to comment, feel
free to leave a talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
But one doctor, Aminji Kim, Minneapolis psychiatrist, said this therapy,
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I want to be very clear, is not for casual
or recreational use, and involves careful screening, preparation sessions, and
supervised therapeutic experience, as well as integration afterwards. Medical professionals
testified the psilocybin will be a meaningful new option for
patients who have exhausted existing options. Since the bill would
(23:23):
legalize a drug, there are several legislative committees that must
go through before becoming a law. I've told this story before,
but in the last the open heart surgery that I
had in twenty twenty two, they were trying new therapies
out in terms of pain management. One of them they
(23:45):
actually thought had given me a stroke.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
That wasn't the case.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'm allergic to morphine and they had a derivative of
it that they were using. It was a new procedure
where they actually injected into your back, right. I hadn't
had this in the first two open heart surgeries that
I went through, so this was all new and they said, yeah,
this should ease the pain of the chest pain. Later
on will the drug that they used, again being a
derivative of morphine. I remember this was like one of
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the first days after waking up, and I'm sitting in
my hospital room and I'm just completely out of it,
because you know, after the surgery, it takes you a
day or two before you you know, before all of
the anesthesia wears off and you can actually sort of
think clearly. But I'm sitting there and my eyes were bouncing,
and I was so out of it, and on some
of the other drugs, I'm like, that's really weird. And
(24:33):
my eyes are like bouncing up and down, and the
doctors are like, what. And I had a whole bunch
of doctors that came in to examine me, and sure enough,
they could actually see my pupils were gyrating up and down,
and at first they thought I was having a stroke,
and then we realized that it was a it was
a negative reaction to the morphine. Later they ended up
giving me ketamine. And that was the worst thing ever.
(24:56):
I've told that story. No, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I had blood pressure monitor.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I was watching blood pressure monitors walking across the counter.
My doctor came in with bright blue hair, and you
might think, well, are you sure they didn't just have
bright blue hair. No, no, no, they were it was
they actually had black hair, but it was bright blue
because of the drugs that I was.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It was no fund, it was no fun whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
But the point I wanted to make on this is
what concerns me is just when it comes to the
wave that Minnesota in the Democrats go and craft these rules,
especially when it comes to licensing anybody, fifty different facilitators
will be licensed with the state to handle these one
thousand patients. Are we going to put safeguards in to
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make sure that this doesn't end up becoming fraudulent as well?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
That's the concern that I would have worn it everybody.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
It's chat from Dollan all.
Speaker 13 (25:57):
A thousand patients. Then people want to be lamb rats.
I don't get it. What kind of mushrooms are they
going to try to give you and monitor you? And
then yeah, no thanks? Sounds like some kind of a
weird experiment to me.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I would imagine the individuals that would participate in this
would be people that were again dealing with a extreme
qualified medical condition, wherein other therapeutic means of pain management
just simply aren't working.
Speaker 14 (26:28):
John, let all the people that are in favor of
using psilocybin get on and lead the way start using it.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But I think they already are.
Speaker 12 (26:42):
Well, John they said you had to consume them at
a license facility, didn't mean you have to finish enjoying
them at a license facility.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, I think the whole point is that you're not
allowed to take them with you. In the story says
it involves careful screening preparation sessions. Patients must consume them
in a license facility so that they could be monitor
at the time so they don't start flipping out. And
again I'm not against this, I just want to make
sure that we do it the right way. And here
in Minnesota, when it comes to crafting legislation, especially when
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it comes to licensing individuals, we.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Don't typically do it the right way.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
We typically do it in such a way that it's
going to benefit democrats by giving individuals the opportunity to
go and commit acts of fraud, something that we'll talk
about in further detail next hour.
Speaker 15 (27:32):
Before you're all against the vetical bush, it wasn't about
one thing. If they're not talking taking huge doses, it's
very small doses.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
It has animal beneficture, just like that bear wada gwys
that you take to go to sleep. You're taking a
smaller dose and a certain part of the chemical plant
strain that helps you sleep, stay with the mushrooms, just
small quantity.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Why did you get the impression I was against it.
I was just making sure we do it right, that's all.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I don't know. It's not my bag. I don't want
hallucinogens a misconstrue. What I'm saying, all right?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Speaking of the legislative session and informational hearing was held
in the Minnesota House Children and Families Finance and Policy
Committee earlier this week for Harvey's Law. If passed, Minnesota
would become the first state to require cameras for childcare centers. Okay,
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so can we do while Housing and Stabilization services is gone,
because again that was all fraudulent. But can we also
do autism centers, hospices, nursing homes, et cetera. I think
we should expand this everywhere. I think the cameras would do.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
A lot of good.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Harvey's Law honors eleven month old Harvey mucle Bust, who
was build last fall at a daycare in Savage. According
to court documents, the eighteen an eighteen year oldmployee confessed
to choking him.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Now the bill.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The law would require cameras in infant and toddler rooms
and license to childcare centers receiving state funds. It also
calls for footage to be retained for twenty eight days. Again, no,
that's good. I think this is a good thing. We
need this type of oversight. But let's also do autism centers, hospices,
(29:32):
and nursing homes. I bring up hospices, and I haven't
talked about this in the show yet, but they have
uncovered a massive fraud scheme regarding hospices in California, and
it's exactly the same thing that we saw here. You
have an office building with like thirty different autism centers
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autism offices that aren't operating, but they're collecting all the
money because they're building the state for services they're not giving.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's the same thing with these hospices in California.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You had investigators that went out exactly to an office
building where there were multiple hospices that were apparently supposed
to be existing there, and while there were signs on
the door, nobody was home. According to court documents, Harvey
was the daycare worker's second victim, the first child harmed
(30:27):
a second. The first kid harmed a second time just
hours before Harvey survived. Many parents to who testified saying
their children have also been victims of child abuse at
childcare centers. But lawmakers also heard from people, including childcare providers,
who voiced concerns about everything from the cost of the
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cameras to privacy and security concerns. Kathlyn McHenry with the
Early Care and Educational Consortium, said that mandating cameras in
every childcare setting would be like requiring cameras in every
hospital room. They might record what happens every day, but
they don't prevent errors or maltreatment.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
What do you want, absolutes?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I mean, if you're worried about errors and maltreatment, you're
taking a step forward by going and requiring cameras. And
I would be fine with cameras in a hospital room.
We can improve safety in hospitals and in childcare with
proper training, supervision, ratios, protocols, procedures, inspections, higher pay for staff,
(31:34):
and more safety improves through systems and standards, not constant surveillance.
I don't disagree with that, but at the same time,
we don't do that well here in Minnesota. So you
can want the proper training, supervision, ratios, protocols and procedures
and inspections. But unfortunately, with the leadership that we currently
(31:55):
have under Governor Tim Wallas, at least we do that poorly.
So if you viewing requiring cameras in childcare centers is
more extreme than pointed Democrats on that they've created this
scenario with the lack of oversight and too much of
the policies and the programs that they've created. Several people
who expressed concerns with the law said they were in
(32:17):
favor of a task force being formed to gather more information.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Great, so we can spend more money.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Last session, lawmakers did pass legislation that requires cameras at
childcare centers with active maltreatment violations. That law goes into
effect in July. We have a return of Representative Nolan
West once again for Harvey's law. He's the bill's author.
He said it has bipartisan support. He also said he
was not against adding language in the law around privacy
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after hearing concerns from some of his fellow lawmakers. Now,
the bill was introduced yesterday a voting. Any consideration on
the amendments will happen on the seventeenth, so something that
will certainly keep it ion and I will update you
once we have more information. Let's go back to some
more of your comments from the iHeartRadio app. Got one
(33:08):
here regarding mushrooms.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Psychedelic mushrooms.
Speaker 16 (33:14):
Huh limited to a thousand patients in a controlled environment. Yeah,
come on, please here in the state of Minnesota. This
is just another fraud that is waiting to be had,
just like paid leave. We're right on the money on
those statistics, right.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Thank you for the setup on this.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
I have a story coming up John Feeling, center of
the American Experiment. He's been tracking the number of individuals
that have been taking advantage of paid family medical leave,
and he's already two and a half months into this program,
asking the question of whether or not by this summer
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there will need to be another payroll tax hike to
deal with the number of individuals signing up for paid
family medical leaf, which raises the question in my mind
of whether or not they can just arbitrarily go and
raise the tax on this. I need to ask Max
Rymer or some of our legislative friends on that is
(34:17):
the ability to raise the payroll tax baked in to
this program or does it have to be voted on
by the legislature. All right, getting back to your top
backs from the current topic.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
John, I've been touring some commercial places for work recently,
and it seems that about half is not all the
ones that are vacant, which is probably close to half
of the total market, were entirely fraudulent businesses. There was
no sign that anybody ever worked there. They were all
tied into the government and they're all closing up shop
and failing back to Africa wherever they came from.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Is really unbelievable how much fraud there is. This is
just the tip of.
Speaker 17 (34:58):
The Iceberg Hospice is huge in Minnesota too. There's one
building that has twenty one location. Then it hasn't been
brought to the public yet.
Speaker 18 (35:09):
Hey, John, I think if it's cool for them to
have the constitutional watchers going around following ice then we
got to have constitutional watchers at all of these daycares
and autism centers.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
It's a great point.
Speaker 18 (35:22):
And a constitutional watch every time they need a translator
for eight hours for one hundred dollars an hour, and
a constitutional watcher every time they need a ride to
and from their.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Hospital appointment.
Speaker 18 (35:36):
You know, let's have constitutional watches on them.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, that's a that's a really, really good point. Thank
you for the talkbacks this morning, greatly appreciated. I want
to revisit briefly. I have a story of the new
of Minnesota software system speaking of costs, and we'll talk
about the new the paid Family Medical leaf here in
just a moment on Twin City's News Talk. But yesterday
we spent a lot of time talking about Governor Tim
(36:00):
Walls and his ridiculous and unnecessary major plan to centralize
and modernize DHS. So I was working off the Fox
nine news story yesterday, and in the Fox nine story
they lay out the price tag for this, and I
brought attention to it on Wednesday show.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
The price tag's not cheap.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
The budget director for Walls's news Centralized Modernized, Modernized DHS
plan puts the cost of the state takeover of county
eligibility responsibilities at seventeen million dollars in the first budget
cycle fifty five million in the next cycle. It's not
clear how much of it will cost to modernize the computer.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Systems within DHS.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Those costs will be included in the governor's budget proposal.
So I made the comment yesterday and I was joking that, well,
if you're looking at fifty five million in the second cycle,
seventeen million for the next cycle is probably going to
be closer to a one hundred and twenty million dollars
when all was said and done. Because every single time
that Democrats go and have a new program and they
try to game out an estimate of how much is
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it going to cost, it's always lower than what it
ends up costing. To that point, Minnesota's new software system
costs fifty million more than was initially approved. Side note
on this too, I had to go find the story
again about Walls and his plan because I wanted to
(37:31):
get the dollar amounts correct. I couldn't find any other
story other than Fox nine, and it's there.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I missed it.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
But I looked at Cara Leven, I looked at Channel five,
looked at the Pioneer Press, I looked at the Star Tribune,
I looked at the Minnesota Reformer. All the coverage of
their stories of Walls and his new plan to centralize
and modernize DHS, they all left out the cost. Fox
nine was the only one that actually included the price
in it.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
I thought that was rather interesting.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
So they're trying to replace out data software essential to
everything from payroll to class registration the Minnesota State school system.
It's costing now forty eight million dollars more than initially approved,
and it's four years behind schedule. We just we can't
do anything right. I'll give you further details on this
(38:20):
in just a moment. We'll get to your talkbacks as well,
and I'll bring a little bit of a truth to
this clip from Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Recently.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
He was at some event sitting up on stage when
he spouted this word salad of lies. Here's Governor Tim Walls,
and we'll get to more of it and your thoughts
next here on Twin Cities News Talking Hour two of
today's show.
Speaker 19 (38:47):
What happened right and why they left was because of
the people on the streets.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
It wasn't the elected officials.
Speaker 19 (38:54):
They left because of that and each organizations.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
That turned into food banks and you know.
Speaker 19 (39:03):
Soccer and basketball carpools that turned into protecting children and
parents surrounding schools.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
What I would tell.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Them, and I don't know if you can.
Speaker 19 (39:13):
You can't replicate it immediately, but that old adage that
all politics and all action is local. Minnesotans take that
to local, to your house and the house next to you,
and the house next to you.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Easy, every word of what you just said. What's wrong,
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