November 13, 2025 • 40 mins
In Hour 2 of the show Jon talks about the Epstein Emails that got leaked after the Government Shutdown ends. Then Jon talks about some Fraud in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Twin Cities News Talking Am eleven thirty and one three
five FM. Interesting commentary that I'll get to here in
just a moment from the iHeartRadio app Talkbacks brought to
you by Lyndahl Realty. Focusing once again, as we've talked
about many times on the show, this desire that you
have for Republicans to do more and what they should do.
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I want to add some of my insight into your
comments here in a bit, but let me get you
up to speed of what's transpired over the course of
the past twenty four hours. So we did have an
end to the Democrat shutdown last night, but this is
not before House Democrats released new emails yesterday morning that
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work hard to tie President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's
sex crimes, with the White House immediately firing back, labeling
the emails as selectively leaked and designed to create a
fake narrative to smear Trump, and they're right. The redacted
name was of a woman who tragically took her own life,
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but has sworn testimony. Depositions clearing President Donald Trump of
any wrongdoing. Also was in her memoir as well. Why
anybody would go and believe. A party that has done
everything in their power to drag this president down through lies, smears, propaganda,
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bogus lawsuits. A party that was disappointed at the two
times that somebody went to go and attempt to take
President Donald Trump's life. A party that celebrated when Charlie
Kirk was assassinated. A party that just kept the government
shut down for the longest time in history, and then suddenly,
out of nowhere, emails get dropped. Hey, look there's emails
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in It's Epstein and it's Helene and Trump's involved in them.
Look over here, everybody. So why did they do this? Well,
they did this because the Democrats caused a lot of
harm in the shutdown and they weren't able to go
in successfully pin in on Republicans, and even Democrats were
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upset with them over not getting anything for the shutdown.
There was reports yesterday that apparently within days of the
government closing, Democrats were about ready to come to the
table to reopen the government with everything that they got,
which was essentially a handshake deal for Republicans to revisit
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the Obamacare subsidies, and before they had a chance to
go and take a vote, Chuck Schumer pulled everybody aside
and said, nope, we're going to keep everything shut down.
Reminds me quite a bit of Governor Tim Walls from
a couple of years back when he did something similar
during the legislative session. Both the Small Business Optimism Index
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and the Federal Reserve reported the shutdown has already negatively
impacted the economy, and that was by design too, because
Schumer and the Democrats want the ability to be able
to look at the economic devastation that will ensue in
the wake of the shutdown that's now over, and to
go and blame it on Trump because they do not
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care if they lie. Millions of Americans unemployed are employed
by the federal government. Millions more work as federal contractors.
Subcontractors are for businesses that depend on federal contracts for funding.
At the most recent Federal Reserve meeting, Federal Chair Jerome
Pals that the negative economic effects should begin to reverse
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once the governm reopens. Airlines for America estimates that flight
disruptions already have or will impact some five point two
million travelers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that cuts to
fourth a quarter GDP growth could be as large it
excuse me. Cuts to fourth quarter GDP growth could be
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a large as large as two percent, potentially delivering a
negative blow, and the Treasury Secretary Scott Pssent's plan to
keep the federal deficit at three percent of GDP in
his three to three to three plan. The CBO says
most of the decline in real GDP will be recovered eventually,
but estimates between seven billion and fourteen billion will not be.
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President Donald Trump went in yesterday and laid out the
economic damage done by the shutdown in.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
The past seven weeks. The Democrats shut down as inflicted
massive harm. They caused twenty thousand flights to be canceled
or delayed. They departed so many times so late, people
were hurt so badly. Nobody's ever seen anything like this one.
This was a no brainer. This was an easy extension.
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But they didn't want to do it the easy way.
They had to do it the hard way. They looked
very bad the Democrats do. They deprived more than one
million government workers from their paychecks and cut off food
stamp benefits of millions and millions more Americans than need.
They caused tens of thousands of federal contractors and small
businesses to go unpaid. And the total effect of the
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damage their antics cause will take weeks and probably months
to really calculate accurately, including the serious harm that they
did to our economy and to people and the families.
So I just want to tell the American people you
should not forget this when we come up to midterms
and other things. Don't forget what they've done to our country.
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You also want to call for a termination to the
Pilipbuster so that this can never happen again and again.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
For the examples of how this was and why this
was so bogus, let me play for you another clip.
So this is a reporter grilling the newly installed Democrat
Representative at Alita Griholva after the Epstein file vote blocked
by her own party and blocked Representative Tim Burchett's motion
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to bring the Epstein files straight to the House floor.
So they asked Atlita about this. She's way out of
her league, by the way. She was a big fish
in Arizona, being the daughter of Raoul Grihalva, and I
spent almost a decade there covering the news. But she's
not anymore. But when she was asked about this, she
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ended up defaulting to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Democrats continue to say that it's Republicans who are keeping
the Epstein files hidden. But Congressman Tim Burchett is just
reporting that he tried to bring a release of the
Epstein file to the floor immediately and Democrats blocked it.
Do you have any insight as to what happened there
and why when just afforded it just about four minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, I tried to do a use the unanimous consent
of a tried to get the Epstein files, get it
straight to the floor, just to cut out all this nonsense,
and you know, and the Democrats blocked it. Audla En, Now.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Look, I think it's I think it's incredibly clear that
Republicans will stop at nothing to avoid the disclosure of
this information. So what that means is two hundred and
eighteen signatures were reached. Despite White House efforts even at
the eleventh hour to summon people down to the White
House to try to get them to remove their signatures,
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those members said no. And so our rules indicate a
two hundred and eighteen members get a vote. And so
that's what we're looking forward to We're not looking for
people to avoid taking a vote on this, and that's
what that effort was. That is a weak effort to
try to allow Republicans to pass this measure without being
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accountable and showing whether they support this or not. So
let's call the vote. The discharge process has its rules.
Let's bring the question up. Nothing prevents the Speaker from
bringing this up tomorrow if he wanted it done. But
if he drags it out and if the will of
those that bipartisan coalition holds, we will have this before
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us in a couple weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So to that point, first off, this is just a
word salad with no substance sticker. Mike Johnson did say
the House will vote on a bill to release all
files related to the late financier and the convicted child
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein next week.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They could have done it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That was an interesting little dance that you heard there
from that Democrat representative trying to explain the way why
Democrats didn't want to do the vote yesterday. Johnson said
on Wednesday that a discharge petition to bypass leadership and
force a vote on the bill hit the benchmark for
the needed signatures. He's decided to expedite the vote for
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the bill, which under current rules would have to be
delayed until at least early December. The discharged position received
the final signature it needed after Johnson, as I mentioned,
swore in Democrat at Alia Grihova.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Last night.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Four Republicans joined every Democrat to force a vote on
the release of the Epstein files. So we'll see what
shakes out from here. Let me play you one more
clip though, and then I want to get to your
comments relating to what Republicans can or can't do regarding
these issues. So this is from CNN. This is a
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representative Melanie Stansbury.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Listen to this exchange like this should be raising every
hair in the back of neck right now. We don't
even know that that is who is named in this email. Secondly,
whether or not Virginia Dufrey has accused the president of wrongdoing,
what I'd like to say to the American people is
believe your eyes. We have all seen the photographs of
Donald Trump with underage girls sitting.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
On his lap.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
We know that he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein
for more than a decade. We know that he has
not complied with our congressional subpoena of the DOJ files,
and we know that he is named multiple times in
those files. So believe your eyes, believe your ears. And
my question is if they were not engaged in an
elaborate smokescreen and cover up, then why the hell is
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the President calling and threatening members of Congress for them
to not take a vote on releasing these files after
these files have already been subpoenaed.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Baseless claims, numerous claims baseless by their representative. But the
most telling ants respect of that whole thing is the
idea that she presents. He is guilty until proven innocent.
Believe your eyes when you see all of these things
that we tell you, when you see these photos and
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we extrapolate and make stuff up regarding them, he is
guilty until he's proven innocent. And even then, according to Democrats,
he's of course guilty. Right Your comments coming up from
the iHeart Radio app will turn our attention in the
hour over to fraud. Minnesota Snap surge explanation is raising
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new questions. I'll give you details on that here on
Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one O
three five FM.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Good morning from Debbie up North. It's just so sickening
having to listen to these democrats and all their hatred
and ridiculousness and all their lies. It's time I grew
up and acted like adults. Oh maybe they maybe they can't.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The quality of the follow of the show talkbacks has
greatly diminished. I have a theory as to why that's happened,
by the way, beyond the on set and continue to
suffering of Trump arrangement syndrome. I'll share that with you
in just a moment on Twin Cities News Talk Am
eleven thirty one oh three five FM from the six
y five to one carpet Next Day Install Studios.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
John.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Then the double talkbackers can't understand how the liberal leftist hits.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Can't understand that.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Hey, if fight and have you think quite at it
foils to plunge le fast metal laugh canstane?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Let me stop there, because the quality of your talkback
is weak.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
There gotta do something about that. Maybe get headphones are
a microphone or something.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That being said to his comment of the left being insane,
I give you this talkback. He left one earlier this
morning just because of the ridiculousness of it. I wanted
to I share it again, breaking my rule of only
playing one talkback per person. I typically break that when
it comes to foes of the show.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Donald Trump could say the water is not wet, and
John Justice would believe every single word he said.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
First off, you know you're leaving those talkbacks for me,
like I see them. You can just speak directly to
me and just if you wanted to, like for example,
you could just say Donald Trump could say water is
not wet, and you would believe every single word that
he said. Well, first off, water isn't wet. I mean,
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the premise would suggest that there's a point in time
when water isn't water. I mean water makes things wet,
So technically speaking, it's not it's not wet. Again, the
quality of the talkbacks has diminished greatly. He originally called
and was claiming Trump was a pedophile based off of well,
just based off of their own assertion.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
People already thought that long before the Epstein email smear
that dropped yesterday.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But instead I get that. My theory is that a.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Lot of foes of the show, they listen, they tune in,
and then they actually hear common sense, rational commentary was
sometimes a humorous edge to it and a little bit
of Nascar and Star Wars thrown in, and it turns
them around. So by the time they go and leave
a talkback, I've saved people from their liberalism.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's what I'm That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
When Groc was asked yesterday about these email leaks, this
is what Groc had to say, specifically asking Rock, are
these new Epstein emails the smoking gun? Groc had this
to say, No, they aren't a smoking gun. Their unverified
claims Epstein made in twenty eleven to Maxwell and a
journalist long after his conviction. With no coroborating evidence implicating
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Trump in the crimes, Epstein had every reason to exaggerate
or lie to shift scrutiny. Democrats timed the release. A
timed release smells like political opportunism, especially lacking independent proof
amid prior Epstein files that cleared Trump of wrongdoing. Thank you, Groc,
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and if you needed more evidence of why the Democrats
were attempting to change the subject, let me play this
for you. Senator John Fetterman drew a shocked response from
CNN anchor Dana bash when he told her that the
most vicious attacks aimed at him have not come from conservatives,
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but rather those on the left.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
You said, quote, I drunk deeply of the venom of
both the left and the right. As a connoisseur, I
can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest is from.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The far left.
Speaker 11 (16:12):
That is pretty remarkable to hear you say that as
an elected Democrat.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Why yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:22):
Yeah, no, you know, it's been it's just been my
personal experience on this thing.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
And when I asked my digital team, I.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Said, you know, you're we're on all the platforms, you know, really,
what's what's kind of the harshest, what's kind of the
most personal?
Speaker 10 (16:36):
And the answer was immediately said, oh, blue sky. It's
blue sky. And the difference is, I.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
Mean, the right would say really rough things and names,
you know, some names I won't I won't repeat on TV.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
But but but the the.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
On the left, it was like they want me to die,
or that we're cheering for your next stroke, or that's
terrible that depression wants why couldn't it depression one? And
and I hope your kids find you, uh, I mean
they even have.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Like the graphic.
Speaker 12 (17:10):
A gift where they have like a stroke you know,
you know, in your head and cheering yeah, and.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
And they said that.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
I remember one they claimed the doctor let us down
and why did they have to save his life?
Speaker 10 (17:25):
I mean just really like, I.
Speaker 12 (17:26):
Just can't imagine people are are wishing, you know, I
wish he dies or I want him to die, you know,
literally cheering for for a stroke. And I don't know
what the kind of a place where that comes from.
I mean, that's that's much different than just calling me
a name, you know, and that's that's really been consistent,
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you know, in that community online.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And it serves to underscore just how grotesque this smear
campaign was yesterday and how it actually diminishes the seriousness
and the severity of what Epstein did. Democrats have plenty
of ways, and you'll see this over the course of
the next four years and even this year, in which
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they are going to continue to do smear campaigns like
this just to go and distract. It's pure political theater.
They knew it wasn't going to stick, they knew that
it was easily refuted, but they blasted this out yesterday,
dominated the commentary online and legacy media taking away the
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attention from the fact that they caved on the shutdown,
And as I talked about it at the start of
the show, woke up this morning and it was all
but gone. So if you weren't paying attention yesterday to
the news or on social media, you probably weren't even
aware that this had happened.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And yet it was on.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
The front page in all of the headline stories on
every single news outlet. Now to the issue of Republicans
not doing enough, and why Republicans aren't hurt enough and
why aren't they countering these claims. I want to get
to a couple of talkbacks and share some more of
my thoughts. Then we're going to dive into how state
Representative Pam Altendorf pushing back after Fox nine reported the
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Minnesota recently publicized the one hundred and seventy four percent
jump and snap issuance was the result of a reporting error.
This raises a host of new questions, and we'll get
into this coming up and more of your comments from
the iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndall Realty. Next
on Twinsday's News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM. What are you doing Democrats?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So last Hour had a couple of different.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Talkbacks, and I received these quite often frustration coming from
friends of the show who believe that Republicans aren't doing enough.
He had a friend of the show, Tim had left
a couple of comments about asking why Republicans aren't out
there hammering the reality around these Obamacare subsidies and how
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they were tied to COVID. Had another friend of the
show left to talk back relating to Republicans doing more,
need to do more? And I responded to that and
said here on Twin Cities News Talk from the sixty
five to one carpet plus Next Day Install studios that
Republicans are but they're just not getting their voices amplified.
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And I raised the question, well, what else would you
like them to do? Specifically, when it comes to the
mainstream media, legacy media, drive by media, whatever you want
to call them. Press conferences are held all the time
candidates elected officials in and out of session, but if
the media doesn't go and cover it, and you're not
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going to see it. So again to the question of
what more can Democrats do? I want to give the
friend of the show an opportunity to respond.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
As much as I hate TikTok and that kind of stuff,
you wanted to know what the Republicans can do. Maybe
all of the Republicans should have TikTok accounts.
Speaker 13 (21:04):
Go on Facebook more, and just smear the.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Truth like that.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
I realize they can't sit in front of a news
channel and demand coverage, but they sure can do a
stupid TikTok channel and then maybe some of the TikTok
ding gongs will listen to it if they keep doing
it over and over and over.
Speaker 14 (21:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'll address that in just a moment, but let me
share another talk back from the iHeartRadio app John.
Speaker 14 (21:30):
I agree with the lady that called in a few
minutes ago. The Republicans have to get out there and
do a better job of trying to win the pr war.
They've never won it, they've never been good at it.
They've been better at it the last few years because
of Trump, but they've.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Got to follow Trump.
Speaker 14 (21:48):
They've got to get out there and tell people and
at least convince those people on the edges.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
You're not going to.
Speaker 14 (21:54):
Convince the far left, but people on the edges.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
So let me start here.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Let me start here with that second talkback, what does
winning the pr war look like to you?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I mean, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So if you asked me, not a phrase that I use,
but if you asked me, I would say, well, it
means that we won last year during the election, when
Republicans grabbed the power and Trump won a second non
consecutive term. That being said, maybe you have a different
definition of what a pr war means. I will say
that conventionally, speaking of this fictional, this hypothetical thing here,
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they're never going to And this goes back to the
other friend of the show talkback. I can tell you
Republicans do have TikTok accounts. Plenty of congressional Democrats, members
of the legislature have TikTok accounts, have ex accounts, have
social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I see their posts. I would venture a guess.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I could confidently say that without having the data in
front of me. Just an totally speaking, there are just
as many TikTok accounts for elected officials that are Republicans
as there are Democrats, and even more so TikTok, Facebook, x,
you name it, and even more so there are more
commentators conservative commentators on those platforms that are amplifying the
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messages and the things that we talk about. But if
those are not being spread by other outlets and other means,
and you don't see them, there's not much else that
Republicans can do that is happening. Republicans have gotten a
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lot better. Can they get better at it? Sure they can.
But I can tell you firsthand, in the time that
I have been doing radio, I can tell you firsthand
that Democrats still do a good job. But Republicans have
stepped up their game and are dominating within that public
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sphere in a way that they haven't in years past.
But they have all of those accounts, but if they're
not being spread, there's nothing you can do about it.
And ultimately, this is the point that I want to make.
If we want to win pr wars, if we want
to win elections down the road, I'll just I'll share
with you my view. I'm not going to get frustrated
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at fellow Republicans because I don't think that they're because
I think they're not doing enough. I'm just not going
to do that. I see posts all the time, but
if those voices aren't amplified, and I was getting lost
in my words, that's the term I was looking for.
If their commentary isn't amplified, there's only so much that
you can end up doing.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And what I would say is.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Spend less time getting mad at Republicans and more time
supporting the candidates that you support and trying to increase
the number of individuals that are going to go out
and vote.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Because if we continue to.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Go in arbitrarily, and that's how I kind of view this,
we're kind of arbitrarily and almost and not to offend anybody,
but almost irrationally criticizing Republicans, then that's negative energy that
is not going to positively contribute to winning strategies to
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get more Republicans elected in the future. But take it
from somebody who knows if you trust me at all,
you don't have to you believe what you want to
believe of what I say on this show. But if
you trust me at all, I'm telling you Republicans are
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out there spreading this news countering Democrat arguments. There are
way more conservative commentators on platforms like TikTok. Myself included
post on average three videos a day up online, and
there are plenty of other Republicans that are doing exactly
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the same thing, and a lot more conservative commentators doing
the same thing.
Speaker 15 (26:15):
Good morning. In response to the comments about the Republicans
not doing more, my question is.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
What are you doing?
Speaker 15 (26:25):
Are you involved in your BPOU? Do you know who
the candidates or the potential candidates are for local offices?
Things change on a local level, so it's very important
for people not to sit home and complain but actually
do something.
Speaker 16 (26:44):
Hey, good morning guys, John. I think going down to
the news station is exactly what they should do. We're
always talking about trying to think outside the box and
do different things. Pretty sure, elected officials have a pr budget.
You could hire a camera crew to come down to
CNN headquarters and start asking, like you're a reporter, the
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actual journalist walking in and out, why you're not covering
these stories? Why are you lying? Get out there, do
something different.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I guess if we're just looking at this from a
do something different standpoint, then yeah, sort of as a hypothetical,
but even to the example you gave, I'm I'm not
exactly sure what you're going to accomplish. Let's just say
for the sake of argument here, and this is all
very subjective, by the way, I want to make sure
I point that out. I don't think there's any wrong
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or right way to look at any of this. It
is all going to be very personal depending on your outlook,
the news that you consume, where you see it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So I want to state that upfront.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I don't want to give off the impression that my
commentary on here ever, is like the end all be all.
Most of this is all very subjective, and this particular
topic is incredibly subjective. But even to what you're saying
to looking to reporters and journalists walking in and out,
and why aren't they covering these stories? First off, that
does happen, say, like at the White House press briefings?
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Caroline Levitt constantly because I watch these, I'm doing my
prep and there's a White House Press briefing, I'll throw
it up on the TV and I'll have it on
in the background.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I grabbed the clips. I played them this morning.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
She's constantly calling out the media for not talking about
these issues. But you're also preaching to the choir because
the individuals that you're going to be reaching and talking
to are individuals that already don't have any trust in
the media whatsoever. I would like to see more attention
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put on what I mentioned, and that is getting out
supporting your candidates. If you can knock on doors, if
you can donate money, post your own comments, get your
own social media accounts. You have to grow those you
don't immediately have followers. I have to grow my own
followers as well. But you can do your part too.
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But at the same time, let's not drag down our
party for sort of irrelevant commentary and criticism when we
need to make sure that we have as many individuals
who are registered to vote going out to vote when possible.
Speaker 17 (29:20):
Good morning, John, and I know I'm speaking directly to you.
I think that overall the Republicans do have accounts out there,
and for anybody calling and complaining, go out there and
follow those people on whatever platform you find them, and
then you share their information because again there's only so
much that gets shown on the mainstream media and they
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can't force their way on there.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Have great day, well, and you're also beholden to the
algorithm too. I mean, this is such a detail conversation.
I understand the desire to have a blanket approach to
move forward and to get things done and to generalize,
but The truth is these are all so nuanced, with
thousands of variables involved. When you're talking about mainstream media,
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you're not even necessarily talking about the journalists themselves. Yeah,
they should be held accountable for the commentary that they give,
But do you think those anchors, and I don't care
what network you're watching, do you think that they are
all personally hand picking which stories they are covering? No,
they're done by committee. So do even go and hold
the one individual accountable. They are the face and I
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understand that, but there's a whole bunch of people behind
closed doors that are over there making decisions on what's
going to get covered and what's not going to get covered.
So to the other talkbacker's point, you can go and
question that anchor, that journalist outside of CNN headquarters.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But even if you.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Humiliated them to the point where they decided to go
and call it a day, do you really think for
a second there's not going to be another journalist waiting
in the wings that's going to be more than happy
to get behind that desk, to get in the makeup
chair and get it in front of that camera and
talk about the stories that are being chosen by committee.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Byd closed doors, and when it.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Comes to posting things online, the algorithm is going to
feed individuals whatever they typically go and look at. So
if they're only looking at their own liberal voices, they're
not going to be fed. Commentary from timber Chet from
a secretary of Brook Rawlins that we'll play here in
just a moment regarding the snap but benefits as well.
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Speaking of which, let's go here. We're going to talk
with Rob dor from the Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus. Coming
up just after the top of the hour, city of
DNA has gone and moved forward with a firearm ordinance.
In the meantime, Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus immediately went and
sued the City of e Dinah. I'm glad that they
did for going and moving forward on that firearm or ordinance,
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completely ignoring the preemption that we have here in the state,
but under the continued banner of fraud. I want to
share this with you from Center of the American Experiment
and Bill glan this actually comes from and he's highlighting
some comments made from a Bloomberg opinion column. Minnesota is
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becoming the land of ten thousand frauds. Bill says, I
would update the headline with has become The column was
written by Patricia Lopez, formerly of the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Lopez writes, this, in a state that once prided itself
on clean government, fraud allegations have been turning up in
an array of nonprofits the state depends on to carry
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out programs relating to housing, nutrition, assistance, childcare, and more.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
The constant taxpayers could exceed.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
One billion dollars according to the US Attorney's Office here
in Minnesota. There isn't a single word bill wrights and
the above paragraph that couldn't have been written three years ago.
Lopez then recounts some of the intervening scandals and then
poses a question, how do we get here? Lax oversight
perhaps a complex web of two close relationships between regulators
and those they oversee. We've been resting on our laurels
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for forty years on how good and clean our government is.
That's according to the political science professor David Schultz, the
go to commentary when it comes to political science. Professor
Schultz writes, Glawn is correct. I've been saying the same
thing for going back more than three years, but three
years ago publishing such statements was considered to be racist slander.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
What's changed?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Professor Schultz notes this the other problem is probably a
consequence of one party rule. Democrats have filled nearly every
top state wide elected office for over a decade. Again,
he is correct, but some of the blame must be
placed on miss Lopez and her former employer, the Star Tribune.
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All the stories she mentions have been around for at
least the last decade, going back to the childcare scandal
noted above. By the way, quick correction, I complained in
my stories, there's so many different firearm ordinances that our
cities are moving forward with. There is the Dyna firearm ordinance,
of which a Minnesota gun Owner's Caucus is threatening. But
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then we also have Saint Paul. Saint Paul Moves has
made moves over their illegal gunman, of which the Minnesota
gun Owner's Caucus has sued. So Rob do Or is
going to help me. I'll break all of this down
coming up just after the top of the hour. So
my apologies for conflating the two different cities that were
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acting stupidly, both of which are being held accountable by
the Minnesota gun owners Caucus. All right, wrapping up this
piece about fraud from the center of the American experiment.
The Star Tribune buried the stories because they reflected badly
on the one party rule that Patricia Lopez and other
editors favored. It fell to out that's like the New
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New York Post the UK Daily Mail to bring these
scandals to public attention. Back in Minnesota, David Berg wrote
back in twenty thirteen, journalism is about covering important stories
with a pillow until they stop moving. Lopez is justified
in her concern that popular support for the state's generous
welfare programs has dropped as fraud stories have become more
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widely known. Too late now, I will say this though,
to this point, better late than never that this is
being covered and people are more confident in talking about
the fraud. Granted, it's had to get as bad as
it has gotten, with an estimated six billion if not more,
in fraud money just going up in smoke under DFL
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rule here in Minnesota, but it is a positive step
forward that people are willing and stepping up to talk
about it, even if they are late to the party.
While other individuals have been talking about this forever up.
Precarious State documentary is one to go a note this
brought attention to a lot of these issues, but there
were individuals that were out there talking about it for
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years prior to that documentary being made, and in underscores
the commentary that I was sharing a moment ago, and
that is it's just difficult if you're a conservative to
have your voice heard, and things have to get really,
really bad until these outlets that are so beholden to
Democrats actually go and speak up. Minnesota Snap surge explanation
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is raising new questions. ALFA News had previously reported that
Minnesota saw the largest one year increase in SNAP issuance
of any state in the country. SNAP issuance in Minnesota
continued to grow in the years since, reaching more than
one point five billion in twenty twenty three, nearly triple
the number from four years ago. Fox nine had a
recent report citing the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and
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Families claiming the spike was caused by a pandemic era
reporting mistake, not to increase to benefit distribution. Altendor said
the state's explanation does not address how such a significant
error large enough to triple the SNAP spending could go
undetected across multiple fiscal years. She also noted that the
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Fox nine requested her statement for its story but did
not include it in its broadcast or online article, and
said the outlet was attempting to sweep it under the rug.
Yet another example of what I'm talking about. So in
this case, for whatever reason, you had Fox nine covering
the story. They talked with the representative, but they didn't
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end up covering what she said.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
On Laura Ingram.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
However, Secretary USDA Brooke Rawlins, talking about the snap fraud
being out of control, had this to say on Fox
News with Laura Ingram, how do.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
We stop this before it starts so they can't even
get as far as they get any schemes.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
It's overwhelming.
Speaker 13 (37:56):
It's pretty remarkable. And let me level set us for
just a minute. It is so great to be on
to talk about this, and it's funny. I think, ohut,
Funny's probably not the right word, but I do think
what the Democrats did not include in their calculation and
their insane government shutdown was the fact that this spotlight
was going to be shined upon one of their favorite
government welfare programs that under Joe Biden increased forty percent,
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where all that money went trying to buy elections. We're
not one hundred percent sure, but we're rolling it back now.
On day one, back in February, for me, we sent
a letter to every governor saying, send us your snap data.
All of this money that the federal government, the taxpayers
are paying for food stamps, we don't even know where
it goes, what happens, what they're doing with it. And
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we said no more. So, twenty nine states complied and
twenty other twenty plus others did not, and we're suing.
We're in a litigation right now. But if the twenty
nine that complied, what we have found is staggering half
a million people getting benefits two times under the same name,
five thousand dead people, eighty percent of the able bodied Americans,
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meaning they can work, they don't have small children at home,
they're not taking care of an elderly parent. They can work,
and they choose not to work, of course, because they're
getting significant benefits from the taxpayer. So this light Laura
that has now been shined on what is perhaps one
of the most corrupt, dysfunctional programs in American history, that
we are working now. Very big announcements coming next week
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on this we are cracking down. We now have a
plan to fix it, and we're really really excited about
doing that for the American people.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
We have a couple of other gun related issues to
get to. We'll get you your comments coming up again.
That was the USDA Secretary Brook Rawlins talking with Fox
News and Laura Ingram about the issue of SNAP and
Minnesota being one of the states that refused to go
and turn over at SNAP data and perhaps what Pam
Altendorff had discovered was one of the reasons why. We'll
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continue to follow that story as well. But we do
have a couple of gun related items to get to.
Minnesota Gun He's Caucus issuing the city of Saint Paul
over its illegal gun ban, also threatening a lawsuit after
he Dina plans their own local firearm ordnance, and another item,
we'll talk to Rob dor from.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
The Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus about.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
The court blocks the states attempted to revive the unconstitutional
gun ban relating to the binary trigger band. Rob Dorr
will join us next here on Twin Cities News Talk
at AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Hour two.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Twin Cities News Talking Am eleven thirty and one three
five FM. Interesting commentary that I'll get to here in
just a moment from the iHeartRadio app Talkbacks brought to
you by Lyndahl Realty. Focusing once again, as we've talked
about many times on the show, this desire that you
have for Republicans to do more and what they should do.
(00:41):
I want to add some of my insight into your
comments here in a bit, but let me get you
up to speed of what's transpired over the course of
the past twenty four hours. So we did have an
end to the Democrat shutdown last night, but this is
not before House Democrats released new emails yesterday morning that
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work hard to tie President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein's
sex crimes, with the White House immediately firing back, labeling
the emails as selectively leaked and designed to create a
fake narrative to smear Trump, and they're right. The redacted
name was of a woman who tragically took her own life,
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but has sworn testimony. Depositions clearing President Donald Trump of
any wrongdoing. Also was in her memoir as well. Why
anybody would go and believe. A party that has done
everything in their power to drag this president down through lies, smears, propaganda,
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bogus lawsuits. A party that was disappointed at the two
times that somebody went to go and attempt to take
President Donald Trump's life. A party that celebrated when Charlie
Kirk was assassinated. A party that just kept the government
shut down for the longest time in history, and then suddenly,
out of nowhere, emails get dropped. Hey, look there's emails
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in It's Epstein and it's Helene and Trump's involved in them.
Look over here, everybody. So why did they do this? Well,
they did this because the Democrats caused a lot of
harm in the shutdown and they weren't able to go
in successfully pin in on Republicans, and even Democrats were
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upset with them over not getting anything for the shutdown.
There was reports yesterday that apparently within days of the
government closing, Democrats were about ready to come to the
table to reopen the government with everything that they got,
which was essentially a handshake deal for Republicans to revisit
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the Obamacare subsidies, and before they had a chance to
go and take a vote, Chuck Schumer pulled everybody aside
and said, nope, we're going to keep everything shut down.
Reminds me quite a bit of Governor Tim Walls from
a couple of years back when he did something similar
during the legislative session. Both the Small Business Optimism Index
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and the Federal Reserve reported the shutdown has already negatively
impacted the economy, and that was by design too, because
Schumer and the Democrats want the ability to be able
to look at the economic devastation that will ensue in
the wake of the shutdown that's now over, and to
go and blame it on Trump because they do not
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care if they lie. Millions of Americans unemployed are employed
by the federal government. Millions more work as federal contractors.
Subcontractors are for businesses that depend on federal contracts for funding.
At the most recent Federal Reserve meeting, Federal Chair Jerome
Pals that the negative economic effects should begin to reverse
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once the governm reopens. Airlines for America estimates that flight
disruptions already have or will impact some five point two
million travelers. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that cuts to
fourth a quarter GDP growth could be as large it
excuse me. Cuts to fourth quarter GDP growth could be
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a large as large as two percent, potentially delivering a
negative blow, and the Treasury Secretary Scott Pssent's plan to
keep the federal deficit at three percent of GDP in
his three to three to three plan. The CBO says
most of the decline in real GDP will be recovered eventually,
but estimates between seven billion and fourteen billion will not be.
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President Donald Trump went in yesterday and laid out the
economic damage done by the shutdown in.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
The past seven weeks. The Democrats shut down as inflicted
massive harm. They caused twenty thousand flights to be canceled
or delayed. They departed so many times so late, people
were hurt so badly. Nobody's ever seen anything like this one.
This was a no brainer. This was an easy extension.
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But they didn't want to do it the easy way.
They had to do it the hard way. They looked
very bad the Democrats do. They deprived more than one
million government workers from their paychecks and cut off food
stamp benefits of millions and millions more Americans than need.
They caused tens of thousands of federal contractors and small
businesses to go unpaid. And the total effect of the
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damage their antics cause will take weeks and probably months
to really calculate accurately, including the serious harm that they
did to our economy and to people and the families.
So I just want to tell the American people you
should not forget this when we come up to midterms
and other things. Don't forget what they've done to our country.
(05:52):
You also want to call for a termination to the
Pilipbuster so that this can never happen again and again.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
For the examples of how this was and why this
was so bogus, let me play for you another clip.
So this is a reporter grilling the newly installed Democrat
Representative at Alita Griholva after the Epstein file vote blocked
by her own party and blocked Representative Tim Burchett's motion
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to bring the Epstein files straight to the House floor.
So they asked Atlita about this. She's way out of
her league, by the way. She was a big fish
in Arizona, being the daughter of Raoul Grihalva, and I
spent almost a decade there covering the news. But she's
not anymore. But when she was asked about this, she
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ended up defaulting to somebody else.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Democrats continue to say that it's Republicans who are keeping
the Epstein files hidden. But Congressman Tim Burchett is just
reporting that he tried to bring a release of the
Epstein file to the floor immediately and Democrats blocked it.
Do you have any insight as to what happened there
and why when just afforded it just about four minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Yeah, I tried to do a use the unanimous consent
of a tried to get the Epstein files, get it
straight to the floor, just to cut out all this nonsense,
and you know, and the Democrats blocked it. Audla En, Now.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Look, I think it's I think it's incredibly clear that
Republicans will stop at nothing to avoid the disclosure of
this information. So what that means is two hundred and
eighteen signatures were reached. Despite White House efforts even at
the eleventh hour to summon people down to the White
House to try to get them to remove their signatures,
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those members said no. And so our rules indicate a
two hundred and eighteen members get a vote. And so
that's what we're looking forward to We're not looking for
people to avoid taking a vote on this, and that's
what that effort was. That is a weak effort to
try to allow Republicans to pass this measure without being
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accountable and showing whether they support this or not. So
let's call the vote. The discharge process has its rules.
Let's bring the question up. Nothing prevents the Speaker from
bringing this up tomorrow if he wanted it done. But
if he drags it out and if the will of
those that bipartisan coalition holds, we will have this before
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us in a couple weeks.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So to that point, first off, this is just a
word salad with no substance sticker. Mike Johnson did say
the House will vote on a bill to release all
files related to the late financier and the convicted child
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein next week.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
They could have done it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That was an interesting little dance that you heard there
from that Democrat representative trying to explain the way why
Democrats didn't want to do the vote yesterday. Johnson said
on Wednesday that a discharge petition to bypass leadership and
force a vote on the bill hit the benchmark for
the needed signatures. He's decided to expedite the vote for
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the bill, which under current rules would have to be
delayed until at least early December. The discharged position received
the final signature it needed after Johnson, as I mentioned,
swore in Democrat at Alia Grihova.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Last night.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Four Republicans joined every Democrat to force a vote on
the release of the Epstein files. So we'll see what
shakes out from here. Let me play you one more
clip though, and then I want to get to your
comments relating to what Republicans can or can't do regarding
these issues. So this is from CNN. This is a
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representative Melanie Stansbury.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Listen to this exchange like this should be raising every
hair in the back of neck right now. We don't
even know that that is who is named in this email. Secondly,
whether or not Virginia Dufrey has accused the president of wrongdoing,
what I'd like to say to the American people is
believe your eyes. We have all seen the photographs of
Donald Trump with underage girls sitting.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
On his lap.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
We know that he was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein
for more than a decade. We know that he has
not complied with our congressional subpoena of the DOJ files,
and we know that he is named multiple times in
those files. So believe your eyes, believe your ears. And
my question is if they were not engaged in an
elaborate smokescreen and cover up, then why the hell is
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the President calling and threatening members of Congress for them
to not take a vote on releasing these files after
these files have already been subpoenaed.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Baseless claims, numerous claims baseless by their representative. But the
most telling ants respect of that whole thing is the
idea that she presents. He is guilty until proven innocent.
Believe your eyes when you see all of these things
that we tell you, when you see these photos and
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we extrapolate and make stuff up regarding them, he is
guilty until he's proven innocent. And even then, according to Democrats,
he's of course guilty. Right Your comments coming up from
the iHeart Radio app will turn our attention in the
hour over to fraud. Minnesota Snap surge explanation is raising
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new questions. I'll give you details on that here on
Twin City's News Talk AM eleven thirty and one O
three five FM.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Good morning from Debbie up North. It's just so sickening
having to listen to these democrats and all their hatred
and ridiculousness and all their lies. It's time I grew
up and acted like adults. Oh maybe they maybe they can't.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The quality of the follow of the show talkbacks has
greatly diminished. I have a theory as to why that's happened,
by the way, beyond the on set and continue to
suffering of Trump arrangement syndrome. I'll share that with you
in just a moment on Twin Cities News Talk Am
eleven thirty one oh three five FM from the six
y five to one carpet Next Day Install Studios.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
John.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Then the double talkbackers can't understand how the liberal leftist hits.
Speaker 10 (12:42):
Can't understand that.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Hey, if fight and have you think quite at it
foils to plunge le fast metal laugh canstane?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
All right?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Let me stop there, because the quality of your talkback
is weak.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
There gotta do something about that. Maybe get headphones are
a microphone or something.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That being said to his comment of the left being insane,
I give you this talkback. He left one earlier this
morning just because of the ridiculousness of it. I wanted
to I share it again, breaking my rule of only
playing one talkback per person. I typically break that when
it comes to foes of the show.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Donald Trump could say the water is not wet, and
John Justice would believe every single word he said.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
First off, you know you're leaving those talkbacks for me,
like I see them. You can just speak directly to
me and just if you wanted to, like for example,
you could just say Donald Trump could say water is
not wet, and you would believe every single word that
he said. Well, first off, water isn't wet. I mean,
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the premise would suggest that there's a point in time
when water isn't water. I mean water makes things wet,
So technically speaking, it's not it's not wet. Again, the
quality of the talkbacks has diminished greatly. He originally called
and was claiming Trump was a pedophile based off of well,
just based off of their own assertion.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
People already thought that long before the Epstein email smear
that dropped yesterday.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
But instead I get that. My theory is that a.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Lot of foes of the show, they listen, they tune in,
and then they actually hear common sense, rational commentary was
sometimes a humorous edge to it and a little bit
of Nascar and Star Wars thrown in, and it turns
them around. So by the time they go and leave
a talkback, I've saved people from their liberalism.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
That's what I'm That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
When Groc was asked yesterday about these email leaks, this
is what Groc had to say, specifically asking Rock, are
these new Epstein emails the smoking gun? Groc had this
to say, No, they aren't a smoking gun. Their unverified
claims Epstein made in twenty eleven to Maxwell and a
journalist long after his conviction. With no coroborating evidence implicating
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Trump in the crimes, Epstein had every reason to exaggerate
or lie to shift scrutiny. Democrats timed the release. A
timed release smells like political opportunism, especially lacking independent proof
amid prior Epstein files that cleared Trump of wrongdoing. Thank you, Groc,
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and if you needed more evidence of why the Democrats
were attempting to change the subject, let me play this
for you. Senator John Fetterman drew a shocked response from
CNN anchor Dana bash when he told her that the
most vicious attacks aimed at him have not come from conservatives,
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but rather those on the left.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
You said, quote, I drunk deeply of the venom of
both the left and the right. As a connoisseur, I
can confirm that the most poisonous, the bitterest is from.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The far left.
Speaker 11 (16:12):
That is pretty remarkable to hear you say that as
an elected Democrat.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
Why yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12 (16:22):
Yeah, no, you know, it's been it's just been my
personal experience on this thing.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
And when I asked my digital team, I.
Speaker 12 (16:30):
Said, you know, you're we're on all the platforms, you know, really,
what's what's kind of the harshest, what's kind of the
most personal?
Speaker 10 (16:36):
And the answer was immediately said, oh, blue sky. It's
blue sky. And the difference is, I.
Speaker 12 (16:42):
Mean, the right would say really rough things and names,
you know, some names I won't I won't repeat on TV.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
But but but the the.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
On the left, it was like they want me to die,
or that we're cheering for your next stroke, or that's
terrible that depression wants why couldn't it depression one? And
and I hope your kids find you, uh, I mean
they even have.
Speaker 10 (17:06):
Like the graphic.
Speaker 12 (17:10):
A gift where they have like a stroke you know,
you know, in your head and cheering yeah, and.
Speaker 10 (17:17):
And they said that.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
I remember one they claimed the doctor let us down
and why did they have to save his life?
Speaker 10 (17:25):
I mean just really like, I.
Speaker 12 (17:26):
Just can't imagine people are are wishing, you know, I
wish he dies or I want him to die, you know,
literally cheering for for a stroke. And I don't know
what the kind of a place where that comes from.
I mean, that's that's much different than just calling me
a name, you know, and that's that's really been consistent,
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you know, in that community online.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And it serves to underscore just how grotesque this smear
campaign was yesterday and how it actually diminishes the seriousness
and the severity of what Epstein did. Democrats have plenty
of ways, and you'll see this over the course of
the next four years and even this year, in which
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they are going to continue to do smear campaigns like
this just to go and distract. It's pure political theater.
They knew it wasn't going to stick, they knew that
it was easily refuted, but they blasted this out yesterday,
dominated the commentary online and legacy media taking away the
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attention from the fact that they caved on the shutdown,
And as I talked about it at the start of
the show, woke up this morning and it was all
but gone. So if you weren't paying attention yesterday to
the news or on social media, you probably weren't even
aware that this had happened.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And yet it was on.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
The front page in all of the headline stories on
every single news outlet. Now to the issue of Republicans
not doing enough, and why Republicans aren't hurt enough and
why aren't they countering these claims. I want to get
to a couple of talkbacks and share some more of
my thoughts. Then we're going to dive into how state
Representative Pam Altendorf pushing back after Fox nine reported the
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Minnesota recently publicized the one hundred and seventy four percent
jump and snap issuance was the result of a reporting error.
This raises a host of new questions, and we'll get
into this coming up and more of your comments from
the iHeartRadio app brought to you by Lyndall Realty. Next
on Twinsday's News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM. What are you doing Democrats?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
So last Hour had a couple of different.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Talkbacks, and I received these quite often frustration coming from
friends of the show who believe that Republicans aren't doing enough.
He had a friend of the show, Tim had left
a couple of comments about asking why Republicans aren't out
there hammering the reality around these Obamacare subsidies and how
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they were tied to COVID. Had another friend of the
show left to talk back relating to Republicans doing more,
need to do more? And I responded to that and
said here on Twin Cities News Talk from the sixty
five to one carpet plus Next Day Install studios that
Republicans are but they're just not getting their voices amplified.
(20:24):
And I raised the question, well, what else would you
like them to do? Specifically, when it comes to the
mainstream media, legacy media, drive by media, whatever you want
to call them. Press conferences are held all the time
candidates elected officials in and out of session, but if
the media doesn't go and cover it, and you're not
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going to see it. So again to the question of
what more can Democrats do? I want to give the
friend of the show an opportunity to respond.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
As much as I hate TikTok and that kind of stuff,
you wanted to know what the Republicans can do. Maybe
all of the Republicans should have TikTok accounts.
Speaker 13 (21:04):
Go on Facebook more, and just smear the.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Truth like that.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
I realize they can't sit in front of a news
channel and demand coverage, but they sure can do a
stupid TikTok channel and then maybe some of the TikTok
ding gongs will listen to it if they keep doing
it over and over and over.
Speaker 14 (21:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I'll address that in just a moment, but let me
share another talk back from the iHeartRadio app John.
Speaker 14 (21:30):
I agree with the lady that called in a few
minutes ago. The Republicans have to get out there and
do a better job of trying to win the pr war.
They've never won it, they've never been good at it.
They've been better at it the last few years because
of Trump, but they've.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Got to follow Trump.
Speaker 14 (21:48):
They've got to get out there and tell people and
at least convince those people on the edges.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
You're not going to.
Speaker 14 (21:54):
Convince the far left, but people on the edges.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
So let me start here.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Let me start here with that second talkback, what does
winning the pr war look like to you?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I mean, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So if you asked me, not a phrase that I use,
but if you asked me, I would say, well, it
means that we won last year during the election, when
Republicans grabbed the power and Trump won a second non
consecutive term. That being said, maybe you have a different
definition of what a pr war means. I will say
that conventionally, speaking of this fictional, this hypothetical thing here,
(22:36):
they're never going to And this goes back to the
other friend of the show talkback. I can tell you
Republicans do have TikTok accounts. Plenty of congressional Democrats, members
of the legislature have TikTok accounts, have ex accounts, have
social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I see their posts. I would venture a guess.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I could confidently say that without having the data in
front of me. Just an totally speaking, there are just
as many TikTok accounts for elected officials that are Republicans
as there are Democrats, and even more so TikTok, Facebook, x,
you name it, and even more so there are more
commentators conservative commentators on those platforms that are amplifying the
(23:28):
messages and the things that we talk about. But if
those are not being spread by other outlets and other means,
and you don't see them, there's not much else that
Republicans can do that is happening. Republicans have gotten a
(23:49):
lot better. Can they get better at it? Sure they can.
But I can tell you firsthand, in the time that
I have been doing radio, I can tell you firsthand
that Democrats still do a good job. But Republicans have
stepped up their game and are dominating within that public
(24:10):
sphere in a way that they haven't in years past.
But they have all of those accounts, but if they're
not being spread, there's nothing you can do about it.
And ultimately, this is the point that I want to make.
If we want to win pr wars, if we want
to win elections down the road, I'll just I'll share
with you my view. I'm not going to get frustrated
(24:30):
at fellow Republicans because I don't think that they're because
I think they're not doing enough. I'm just not going
to do that. I see posts all the time, but
if those voices aren't amplified, and I was getting lost
in my words, that's the term I was looking for.
If their commentary isn't amplified, there's only so much that
you can end up doing.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And what I would say is.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Spend less time getting mad at Republicans and more time
supporting the candidates that you support and trying to increase
the number of individuals that are going to go out
and vote.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Because if we continue to.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Go in arbitrarily, and that's how I kind of view this,
we're kind of arbitrarily and almost and not to offend anybody,
but almost irrationally criticizing Republicans, then that's negative energy that
is not going to positively contribute to winning strategies to
(25:29):
get more Republicans elected in the future. But take it
from somebody who knows if you trust me at all,
you don't have to you believe what you want to
believe of what I say on this show. But if
you trust me at all, I'm telling you Republicans are
(25:50):
out there spreading this news countering Democrat arguments. There are
way more conservative commentators on platforms like TikTok. Myself included
post on average three videos a day up online, and
there are plenty of other Republicans that are doing exactly
(26:11):
the same thing, and a lot more conservative commentators doing
the same thing.
Speaker 15 (26:15):
Good morning. In response to the comments about the Republicans
not doing more, my question is.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
What are you doing?
Speaker 15 (26:25):
Are you involved in your BPOU? Do you know who
the candidates or the potential candidates are for local offices?
Things change on a local level, so it's very important
for people not to sit home and complain but actually
do something.
Speaker 16 (26:44):
Hey, good morning guys, John. I think going down to
the news station is exactly what they should do. We're
always talking about trying to think outside the box and
do different things. Pretty sure, elected officials have a pr budget.
You could hire a camera crew to come down to
CNN headquarters and start asking, like you're a reporter, the
(27:05):
actual journalist walking in and out, why you're not covering
these stories? Why are you lying? Get out there, do
something different.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I guess if we're just looking at this from a
do something different standpoint, then yeah, sort of as a hypothetical,
but even to the example you gave, I'm I'm not
exactly sure what you're going to accomplish. Let's just say
for the sake of argument here, and this is all
very subjective, by the way, I want to make sure
I point that out. I don't think there's any wrong
(27:36):
or right way to look at any of this. It
is all going to be very personal depending on your outlook,
the news that you consume, where you see it.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So I want to state that upfront.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I don't want to give off the impression that my
commentary on here ever, is like the end all be all.
Most of this is all very subjective, and this particular
topic is incredibly subjective. But even to what you're saying
to looking to reporters and journalists walking in and out,
and why aren't they covering these stories? First off, that
does happen, say, like at the White House press briefings?
(28:08):
Caroline Levitt constantly because I watch these, I'm doing my
prep and there's a White House Press briefing, I'll throw
it up on the TV and I'll have it on
in the background.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I grabbed the clips. I played them this morning.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
She's constantly calling out the media for not talking about
these issues. But you're also preaching to the choir because
the individuals that you're going to be reaching and talking
to are individuals that already don't have any trust in
the media whatsoever. I would like to see more attention
(28:39):
put on what I mentioned, and that is getting out
supporting your candidates. If you can knock on doors, if
you can donate money, post your own comments, get your
own social media accounts. You have to grow those you
don't immediately have followers. I have to grow my own
followers as well. But you can do your part too.
(29:03):
But at the same time, let's not drag down our
party for sort of irrelevant commentary and criticism when we
need to make sure that we have as many individuals
who are registered to vote going out to vote when possible.
Speaker 17 (29:20):
Good morning, John, and I know I'm speaking directly to you.
I think that overall the Republicans do have accounts out there,
and for anybody calling and complaining, go out there and
follow those people on whatever platform you find them, and
then you share their information because again there's only so
much that gets shown on the mainstream media and they
(29:42):
can't force their way on there.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Have great day, well, and you're also beholden to the
algorithm too. I mean, this is such a detail conversation.
I understand the desire to have a blanket approach to
move forward and to get things done and to generalize,
but The truth is these are all so nuanced, with
thousands of variables involved. When you're talking about mainstream media,
(30:07):
you're not even necessarily talking about the journalists themselves. Yeah,
they should be held accountable for the commentary that they give,
But do you think those anchors, and I don't care
what network you're watching, do you think that they are
all personally hand picking which stories they are covering? No,
they're done by committee. So do even go and hold
the one individual accountable. They are the face and I
(30:29):
understand that, but there's a whole bunch of people behind
closed doors that are over there making decisions on what's
going to get covered and what's not going to get covered.
So to the other talkbacker's point, you can go and
question that anchor, that journalist outside of CNN headquarters.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
But even if you.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Humiliated them to the point where they decided to go
and call it a day, do you really think for
a second there's not going to be another journalist waiting
in the wings that's going to be more than happy
to get behind that desk, to get in the makeup
chair and get it in front of that camera and
talk about the stories that are being chosen by committee.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Byd closed doors, and when it.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Comes to posting things online, the algorithm is going to
feed individuals whatever they typically go and look at. So
if they're only looking at their own liberal voices, they're
not going to be fed. Commentary from timber Chet from
a secretary of Brook Rawlins that we'll play here in
just a moment regarding the snap but benefits as well.
(31:32):
Speaking of which, let's go here. We're going to talk
with Rob dor from the Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus. Coming
up just after the top of the hour, city of
DNA has gone and moved forward with a firearm ordinance.
In the meantime, Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus immediately went and
sued the City of e Dinah. I'm glad that they
did for going and moving forward on that firearm or ordinance,
(31:55):
completely ignoring the preemption that we have here in the state,
but under the continued banner of fraud. I want to
share this with you from Center of the American Experiment
and Bill glan this actually comes from and he's highlighting
some comments made from a Bloomberg opinion column. Minnesota is
(32:16):
becoming the land of ten thousand frauds. Bill says, I
would update the headline with has become The column was
written by Patricia Lopez, formerly of the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Lopez writes, this, in a state that once prided itself
on clean government, fraud allegations have been turning up in
an array of nonprofits the state depends on to carry
(32:40):
out programs relating to housing, nutrition, assistance, childcare, and more.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
The constant taxpayers could exceed.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
One billion dollars according to the US Attorney's Office here
in Minnesota. There isn't a single word bill wrights and
the above paragraph that couldn't have been written three years ago.
Lopez then recounts some of the intervening scandals and then
poses a question, how do we get here? Lax oversight
perhaps a complex web of two close relationships between regulators
and those they oversee. We've been resting on our laurels
(33:08):
for forty years on how good and clean our government is.
That's according to the political science professor David Schultz, the
go to commentary when it comes to political science. Professor
Schultz writes, Glawn is correct. I've been saying the same
thing for going back more than three years, but three
years ago publishing such statements was considered to be racist slander.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
What's changed?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Professor Schultz notes this the other problem is probably a
consequence of one party rule. Democrats have filled nearly every
top state wide elected office for over a decade. Again,
he is correct, but some of the blame must be
placed on miss Lopez and her former employer, the Star Tribune.
(33:56):
All the stories she mentions have been around for at
least the last decade, going back to the childcare scandal
noted above. By the way, quick correction, I complained in
my stories, there's so many different firearm ordinances that our
cities are moving forward with. There is the Dyna firearm ordinance,
of which a Minnesota gun Owner's Caucus is threatening. But
(34:17):
then we also have Saint Paul. Saint Paul Moves has
made moves over their illegal gunman, of which the Minnesota
gun Owner's Caucus has sued. So Rob do Or is
going to help me. I'll break all of this down
coming up just after the top of the hour. So
my apologies for conflating the two different cities that were
(34:39):
acting stupidly, both of which are being held accountable by
the Minnesota gun owners Caucus. All right, wrapping up this
piece about fraud from the center of the American experiment.
The Star Tribune buried the stories because they reflected badly
on the one party rule that Patricia Lopez and other
editors favored. It fell to out that's like the New
(35:00):
New York Post the UK Daily Mail to bring these
scandals to public attention. Back in Minnesota, David Berg wrote
back in twenty thirteen, journalism is about covering important stories
with a pillow until they stop moving. Lopez is justified
in her concern that popular support for the state's generous
welfare programs has dropped as fraud stories have become more
(35:21):
widely known. Too late now, I will say this though,
to this point, better late than never that this is
being covered and people are more confident in talking about
the fraud. Granted, it's had to get as bad as
it has gotten, with an estimated six billion if not more,
in fraud money just going up in smoke under DFL
(35:43):
rule here in Minnesota, but it is a positive step
forward that people are willing and stepping up to talk
about it, even if they are late to the party.
While other individuals have been talking about this forever up.
Precarious State documentary is one to go a note this
brought attention to a lot of these issues, but there
were individuals that were out there talking about it for
(36:05):
years prior to that documentary being made, and in underscores
the commentary that I was sharing a moment ago, and
that is it's just difficult if you're a conservative to
have your voice heard, and things have to get really,
really bad until these outlets that are so beholden to
Democrats actually go and speak up. Minnesota Snap surge explanation
(36:29):
is raising new questions. ALFA News had previously reported that
Minnesota saw the largest one year increase in SNAP issuance
of any state in the country. SNAP issuance in Minnesota
continued to grow in the years since, reaching more than
one point five billion in twenty twenty three, nearly triple
the number from four years ago. Fox nine had a
recent report citing the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and
(36:51):
Families claiming the spike was caused by a pandemic era
reporting mistake, not to increase to benefit distribution. Altendor said
the state's explanation does not address how such a significant
error large enough to triple the SNAP spending could go
undetected across multiple fiscal years. She also noted that the
(37:12):
Fox nine requested her statement for its story but did
not include it in its broadcast or online article, and
said the outlet was attempting to sweep it under the rug.
Yet another example of what I'm talking about. So in
this case, for whatever reason, you had Fox nine covering
the story. They talked with the representative, but they didn't
(37:32):
end up covering what she said.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
On Laura Ingram.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
However, Secretary USDA Brooke Rawlins, talking about the snap fraud
being out of control, had this to say on Fox
News with Laura Ingram, how do.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
We stop this before it starts so they can't even
get as far as they get any schemes.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
It's overwhelming.
Speaker 13 (37:56):
It's pretty remarkable. And let me level set us for
just a minute. It is so great to be on
to talk about this, and it's funny. I think, ohut,
Funny's probably not the right word, but I do think
what the Democrats did not include in their calculation and
their insane government shutdown was the fact that this spotlight
was going to be shined upon one of their favorite
government welfare programs that under Joe Biden increased forty percent,
(38:19):
where all that money went trying to buy elections. We're
not one hundred percent sure, but we're rolling it back now.
On day one, back in February, for me, we sent
a letter to every governor saying, send us your snap data.
All of this money that the federal government, the taxpayers
are paying for food stamps, we don't even know where
it goes, what happens, what they're doing with it. And
(38:39):
we said no more. So, twenty nine states complied and
twenty other twenty plus others did not, and we're suing.
We're in a litigation right now. But if the twenty
nine that complied, what we have found is staggering half
a million people getting benefits two times under the same name,
five thousand dead people, eighty percent of the able bodied Americans,
(39:01):
meaning they can work, they don't have small children at home,
they're not taking care of an elderly parent. They can work,
and they choose not to work, of course, because they're
getting significant benefits from the taxpayer. So this light Laura
that has now been shined on what is perhaps one
of the most corrupt, dysfunctional programs in American history, that
we are working now. Very big announcements coming next week
(39:23):
on this we are cracking down. We now have a
plan to fix it, and we're really really excited about
doing that for the American people.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
We have a couple of other gun related issues to
get to. We'll get you your comments coming up again.
That was the USDA Secretary Brook Rawlins talking with Fox
News and Laura Ingram about the issue of SNAP and
Minnesota being one of the states that refused to go
and turn over at SNAP data and perhaps what Pam
Altendorff had discovered was one of the reasons why. We'll
(39:52):
continue to follow that story as well. But we do
have a couple of gun related items to get to.
Minnesota Gun He's Caucus issuing the city of Saint Paul
over its illegal gun ban, also threatening a lawsuit after
he Dina plans their own local firearm ordnance, and another item,
we'll talk to Rob dor from.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
The Minnesota Gun Owner's Caucus about.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
The court blocks the states attempted to revive the unconstitutional
gun ban relating to the binary trigger band. Rob Dorr
will join us next here on Twin Cities News Talk
at AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
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