May 4, 2026 • 45 mins
Jon and Sam discuss two surprising stories involving goldfish and hippos which the listeners offer up some pretty interesting talkbacks in response. Jon turns his attention to Amy Klobuchar's campaign and a Minnesota report card that gives MN some eyebrow-raising grades around the State.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
There's a lot of inks coming in from me. iHeartRadio
app on him. May the fourth be with you Monday?
Typically I disfigure it must be over the target. If
that's the case, we have a new foe of the
show apparently.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Actually John, I wouldn't be too.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hard on or let me stop here really quick. Why
is it the folks of the shows always have the
worst connection? Although I think this is not a new
phoe of the show I now that I realize it,
I think this is the beck Mindy who has a
new email address. That's my That's my guess now that
I think about it, because this is typically the quality
of his talk backs, of which I've said multiple times
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to get a better phone beat.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It is it? May here we go?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Actually, John, I wouldn't be too hard on Eric.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
He's more accurate than you and I sit up as
a bar.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
And pads present your audience anyways, or they're sitting in
the nursing home on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You shouldn't talk about yourself that way. You should have
a little bit more respect. I mean, considering that you
listen more often than most of the friends of the show.
On average listener for about twenty minutes and then go
about the rest of their day. But I do appreciate
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your leaving a talkback. We'll leave it at that. This
morning here on Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty
and one oh three five FM, Sam is pushing the
buttons this morning. My name is John Justice. On this
Star Wars Day, Happy Star Wars Day to you a
friend of the show, Pat. We were talking about the
goldfish last star.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Pat nice thoughts on this one?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, I yeah, I wanted to mention really quickly. Had
a talkback. I talked about goldfish and I had a
couple of pet related stories from Friday and did get
a chance to get to pet. Goldfish released into lakes
can trigger rapid eco logical disruption, measurable damage appearing.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
In as little as two months.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Further details in nutrient rich water goldfish turned up sentiment.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
As we talked about reducing.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Water clarity by sixty five percent, snail and amphipod populations
dropped by more than sixty percent. I thought that goldfish
were like the most innocuous fish out there, Like, it
doesn't get any planeer than a goldfish.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
I know they get pretty big. Yeah, so maybe they
have more space and I don't know, I don't know
how it all works.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now, apparently you're not supposed to flush him them an alligator.
So was one of my favorite movies growing up as
a kid. I think it was a made for TV
movie called Alligator, where somebody I can I'll always remember
the opening seat if somebody, I think, like a kid,
had gotten one from a friend. You wanted to keep
it as a pet, and mom said no, And so
they flushed the alligator into the toilet and it ended
up growing to full size in the in the sewer
and wreaking havoc on a town. It was fantastic. You
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should do a follow up on golden native of fish.
Sharing water with goldfish ended up in significantly worse conditions,
could affect their ability to reproduce over time goldfish. The
silent killer policies routinely overlook a goldfish as an invasive species,
and researchers are calling for clearer warnings at the point
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of sale. Who knew, like all of those times when
you want a goldfish in a state fair and you
brought it home in that little bag and all of that,
and you were really carrying a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Apparently carnies are going to make you sign a waiver
now when you win a.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just be aware, right, goldfish is more of an invasive
species than you even realize. Friend of the show, Pat
right rights on X. I had goldfish in turtles as
beets when I was a kid. They never made it
to a lake though. My maternal grandmother hated them and
put to their bowl and dish whatever you call a
turtle home out on the front steps and the dead
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of winter. Oh it's not very nice. Wow, grandmothers. Grandmothers mean,
good morning, John, very simple. The foes of the show
are a bunch of ravenous monkeys coming from.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The pocket verse spouting hate.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's why the connection is lousy intern dimensional.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh gotcha, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I was wondering where that was going, and there's the
pocket verse as to the poor connection.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So that makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Listen, since we're on it and it's Monday and I'm
in a good mood. This comes from CNN Indian magnates
a not to Ambonni, you know, the son of Mkesha Ambonni.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Everybody knows the Ambonni family. Right Hard to Forget.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Has offered to take in at his wildlife sanctuary in India.
Eighty doing that thing with my fingers cocaine hippos currently
living in Columbia, where the govern mint is planning on
culling them. That these are not hippos hopped up on cocaine.
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I thank the Good Lord Almighty. The hippos are descended
from animals introduced into the country in the nineteen eighties
by Pablo Escobar, one of Columbia's top drug lords, who
had sought to have one of the largest private zoos
in Latin America with a wide variety of animals. You know,
it's kind of like, you know, the Michael Jackson of
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Colombia in terms of having a farm on his property
or something. Since then, their population exploded to about one
hundred and sixty individuals and their presences now an endangered
native species. A few weeks ago, Colombia said that it
planned to cull eighty of these animals, sparking a debate,
and Bonni asked the Colombian government to reconsider their decision,
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proposing to house them at his rescue center. These eighty
hippos did not choose where to be born, nor did
they create the circumstances they now face, he said in
the social media posts. These animals are living, sentient beings
and if we have the capacity to save them through
the safe and humane solution, we have the responsibility to try. Now,
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if the Colombian government doesn't prove their request, it would
be carried out in strict accordance with the necessary approvals, permits,
due diligence of processes, biosecurity requirements and logistical planning. They say,
now CNN di to reach out to the Colombia's Ministry
of Environment and Sustainability Development.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Can you imagine having to be the reporter to go
and do the story? What do you got for me?
Straight up?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hormos, epic fury fraud in Minnesota, No cocaine, hippos from
Pablo Escobar's farm.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Is this Veronica corneyson and that's the reporter.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So when CNN reached out regarding the reception of the
proposal and it's a feasibility, they're still a waiting for
a response. The measure to authorize the calling of the
eighty of the specimens was due to the uncontrolled growth
of an invasive species in the Magdalena River basin. According
to Minister Villez when announcing the decision.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Boy, I mean you usually when.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You hear about invasive species, there are things that are
like small, like to have hippos as an invasive species.
And what kind of property do you need to go
and appropriately go and house eighty of them?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And where are you.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Gonna get all that cocaine from? All right, let's go here.
So the missing scientist conspiracy theory. Since the beginning of this,
I've wanted certain pieces of information to determine whether or
not this is a legitimate conspiracy or is this just
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more a simple matter of these deaths are being reported
and it is in line with the deaths given the
number of scientists that we have in America.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, it looks like we have an answer.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
This comes from Talking Points memo. When the researchers began dying,
it was so mysterious and intertwined that outside observers determined
it had to be done with intent. First, the project's
biggest funder died this of an infected wound from shaving.
Soon death came for others linked to the inscrutable and
(08:26):
important work.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Of visiting diplomat.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The lead funder's half brother and a string of scientists
involved with the project. They died of suicide, strange illnesses,
and a gruesome murder. There were so many deaths that
there was no way they could not be connected. Finally,
the project's lead scientists and most famous face died unexpectedly
years after the project's completion. Anyone following the news lately
(08:51):
might think that what I just read was about the
disappearing scientists, sorry, alleging that the number of researchers and
scientists connect did in the defense industry or astrophysics have
all died of unusual causes over the past year, with
some vanishing while on walks and others horrifically murdered and
seemingly random shootings. No, the conspiracy theory has jumped from
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obscurity and global coverage in just a few weeks, with
more names being added to the death list every day.
But the opening anecdote that I just shared with you
was actually about the so called the Curse of.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
King tut I don't know if you had any hippos
or not.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Which saw the number of people connected to the opening
of the tomb of the Egyptian monarch in nineteen twenty
two die in short succession. To the point here is
that this isn't the first time we've had a similar
story like what we've been dealing with when it comes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
To these missing scientists.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
For decades, both curse believers and skeptical scientists struggle to
explain why so many people died after visiting and participating
in the opening of tuts tomb. Relatively few of the
people involved in opening the tomb actually had untimely or
mysterious deaths. Some died of causes that would be treated now,
Many were older and already in ill health, or worked
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in professions where the risk of death was common. The
curse was a media creation ginned up to sell newspapers
and books at the time, and had a real effect
on the people who were its subject matter. Now you
jump ahead some one hundred years, and the same story
as playing out with the missing scientists. I'm going to
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share with you just a few more points and specifically
why there actually is an easy explanation for all of
these missing scientists in this conspiracy theory, after which we'll
turn our attention over to Representative Kristin Robbins ending her
bid for Minnesota governor that she throw her support behind
another candidate. In the meantime, Over the weekend, Senator Lamy
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Klobashar made it official official is actually talking about her
plans as she runs for governor. I don't believe she
wants this job. I will explain why. We'll get to
more of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app next here
on Twin Cities News Talk at AM eleven thirty and
one oh three five FM.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
John the Sandy for Minvergrove, I'm actually on the road
in Rochester and you'll be happy to know that the
Minnesota Highway Department is into the the fourth be with
you think a road sign says that, Yoda says slow down,
you must in work zone.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's nice. Well hat tip in this case to men dot.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Would you get a couple of comments that rolled in,
actually more than a more than a couple regarding goldfish
being an invasive species?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Who knew?
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
John, I am calling from the goldfist. Life matter and
they do matter.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
See I imagine that's what goldfish actually sound like.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
I released a goldfish in a little farm pond I had,
and that thing, in about two years, grew to be
thirteen inches long. I found it dead on the shoreline.
It was a monster, probably ran out of things to eat.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Goldfish will grow to a size relative to the environment
they're in, so they don't get very big in a
fish tank, but if you put them in a large
body of water, they get pretty big.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Good morning, John, you know, we might want to keep
this goldfish can under them away from the Democrats is
typically their solution is much worse than the problem. I
can see them just jumping chemicals and fresh killers into
these lakes to kill a goldfish, ruining the entire equal system.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
It says goldfish can grow to twenty inches in the wild,
so that's pretty good size.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That is probably do a lot of dab I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm just chuckling over anybody listening to the show and
suddenly googling for golds, for goldfish facts.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's all these the off topic stuff. It never it.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Never changes, man, it never it never, it never, it
never changes. Good Morning dark isn't a native fish to Minnesota,
And they're all over at the Mississippi.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
And if you look at a goldfish, they're just a golden.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Dark oh bottom feeder.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, so they're masquerading, say, innocuous fish, when really they're
an invasive species. All right, I do want to wrap
up the story on the missing scientists. I did have
one comment that rolled in regarding the individual who wants
to save the eighty cocaine hippos formerly owned by drug
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lord Pablo Escobar in Colombia.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
All right, mister Abdani or how are you pronounce here
your last name? How are you going to move these
hiptoms and weigh a ton? You can't really knock them out.
If you do knock them out, to just get a
drawn because they lay a ton nails or water. How
are you gonna move them? Go in and put buzzle
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on them and hope you don't get eaten. Yeah, good
luck with that, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I think you just move them one at a time.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
I think also a multi billionaire has the resources to
figure out how to move hippos.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
To throw that out there, probably got a helicopter, so
I picture nipple. Yeah, it's getting Operation Dumbo draft.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, like you know when in Jurassic in the original
Jurassic Park in the beginning, you know when they're you
just hear the velociraptors and the raptor pen but you
don't see them, and they lower that cow into the
pit and then all the hell breaks. It is the
same thing with a hippo. I do appreciate the fact that,
just like anything else, people have suddenly become experts on
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how to go and move eighty hippos that are destined
to be killed. Find that quite amusing. All right, let's
wrap this up on the missing scientist story. This is
the information that I was waiting for so the beginning
of this piece. It talks about a past conspiracy theory
going back to the so called Curse of King Tutt
in nineteen twenty two, where something very similar happened.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
The curse was a media creation.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And at the time it was ginned up to sell
newspapers and books. You jump ahead one hundred years and
the same thing's been playing out with these missing scientists.
A string of unexpected deaths in a variety of adjacent
fields and science and technology has been turned into a
new version of DUT's curse. The story jumped from the
obscure UFO blogs and Reddit threads into some of the
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biggest podcasts and news outlets.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Plus just I mean, we're talking thousands of videos social
media videos created online over this all leaning into the
conspiracy party, because that's what makes the videos more interesting,
is sparked discussion and investigation by the FBI and Congress.
It's charning speculation. It's such a frenzy that the White
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House was even asked about it. Now, the article from
Talking Points and Memo goos with President Trump unhelpfully because
of course, offering that I hope it's random, but we're
going to know by the next week.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And a half. They have what's called a Trump derangement problem.
Have you heard about that problem? How was that unhelpful?
The story had reached.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Sort of its apex in terms of coverage conspiracy and
people were curious. I fail to see how that's unhelpful,
But can say anything positive about President Donald Trump. Now,
every iteration of one of these so called death lists
that's been put out over these scientists begins with just
a few people. In this case, it's two people who
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might have been linked through their work, but only in
the most tangentle of inconsequential ways. Both were linked to
an Air Force research apparatus, and both likely had some
form of top security clearance. There's no indication they knew
each other or directly worked on the same projects. To
slightly connected people going missing within months of each other
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is simply not a story, so UFO cranks and conspiracy
theorists had to go and make it a story, in
the same way the tabloid rags in the nineteen twenties
needed to make King Tut's curse also a story. Statistically speaking,
it's not unusual that several people who are linked to
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massive hubs of research and development happened to die. Eighteen
thousand people are employed at Los Alamos, well about five
thousand work at JPL, though it recently went through protracted cuts.
At least a few of these people will pass away
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every year, and of those, at least a few will
be from causes other than illness, including homicide. It doesn't
mean that they were disappeared or murdered as part of
a conspiracy, because even the people claiming this was a
conspiracy don't know why it's happening or who's doing it,
which is always the reverse engineering when it comes to
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so many of these conspiracies.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It just doesn't. It just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It doesn't add up to scrutiny when you begin to
reverse engineer. But that's not what typically conspiracies do. They
start off with the conspiracy, but never bother to sort
of lay out exactly how this would all go and
play out. It's always abut of, it's always a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
If the missing scientists list continues the way the past
death conspiracy theories have grown, it will blow out to
two gargantuan proportions, pulling even more people in with less
reason to be on such a list. Given the frenzy
over the conspiracy theory in the fringe media, there is
clearly money to be made.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I mean clips to be clips to be generated by
exploiting these sad stories, and that's ultimately what they are.
All these names left behind loved ones, family members and friends,
desperate foreclosure and certainty. Many are likely finding themselves in
an unwanted spotlight from people who only seek to exploit them.
There is no conspiracy to silence a great scientific discovery
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or an energy breakthrough, or if there is, there's no
evidence of it. There are also only questions left behind
when someone is unexpectedly killed or vanishes, and the markers
of these lists don't have any interest in answering any
of those questions, so again, this is what I was
waiting for all along. It was the simple data point
relating to the two locations where this conspiracy has been
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focused on, Los Alamos and JPL and considering the number
of people that work at both of those facilities. You know,
this talking points to memos verus anti bias, as it
was against Trump. There's a lot more in there that
I cut out for the sake of time and frustration.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I do actually agree with its assessment.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Coming up, Republican state Representative Christian Robbins has dropped out
of the Minnesota governor's race, and we'll also get into
how Minnesota got its letter grade on the latest ASCEE
Infrastructure Report American Society of Civil Engineers. So I'll let
you guess between now and when I give you the
details if it was a good grade or a bad
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grade for the estate of Minnesota.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
Morning John Alice Colin, Interesting show topics.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Quite quite a spread here.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Don't be too proud of this technological terarot you've constructed.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to
the power of the force.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Morning John Alice Colin, Interesting show topics. Quite a quite
a spread here.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But when you were saying that the.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
Hippos or somebody needed to figure out how to do
something with the hippos. I had a vision pop into
my head that some guy that kind of looks like
Harvey Kattel would show up on the door of this
billionaire knock and say, I'm the cleaner.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You need some pretty big bathtubs if you're going to
be calling hippos that way.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Good morning John. It's actually really easy to move a hippo.
All you need to do.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Is lay out a line of marbles in the direction
that you want them to go.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Gosh, Jarda, that's a great joke.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ah, that's really good. That was great way to go. Ben,
that's a good one. I'm only jealous, that's all. You're right,
that's exactly how you move a heard of hippos. You're
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Speaker 1 (22:50):
Mama's pretty straightforward. All right, Let's get back to some
other news. Hello, Republican state represented Christian Robbins dropped out
of Minnesota governor's race. The announcement on Friday represents the
Maple Grove area, indicates she's leaving elected office after her
term ends in early twenty twenty seven. Our state government
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and political system are broken, and after fighting for Minnesotan's
from the inside for the past eight years, I've determined
the best way for me to fight for the future
of the state just from the outside, Robins said in
a statement.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Which is a.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Bummer that she's leaving her elected office, because you know,
she's certainly has been doing a fantastic job, especially when
it comes to fighting from During her gubernatorial campaign, Robbins
was forced was focused on fighting fraud. She's been a
lowed critic of Walls continues to deny Minnesota's Minnesota's fraud
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scandal was the reason why he ultimately scrapped his brief
bid for a third term. There's a piece in the
Star Tribute this morning. I didn't grab it because I
can pretty much give you the summary, but it's interesting.
It essentially is focusing on something that we've been focusing
on during the show, and that is the short timers
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disease of Governor Tim Walls and how he is setting
himself up for the future post him being the governor.
You know, he you know, he made all the comments
out in public over what he said he was going
to do.
Speaker 12 (24:28):
Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride
you like you've never been ridden.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And yet in action he's shown to be doing anything.
But I still am very much convinced that he's angling
for a twenty twenty eight presidential run. As I said
on Friday show, Robbins said that she feels the establishment
political class, media and donors have annoyed today by Klobashar
despite her refusal to engage in and anything meaningful on
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the issues that matter most to Minnesotan's And I don't
put lead that she has gone and thrown her support
and representative of Kristen Robbins behind any of the remaining candidates.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So, speaking of Amy Clobachhar, though.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
She did finally in my view, kind of make this official,
I know that she made the announcement months ago that
she was running for governor. But since then she's just
been absent in talking about anything relating to the governor's race.
Well that all changed over the weekend, outlining her campaign priorities,
focusing on modernizing state government and combating frauden Okay Fox
(25:35):
nine covered how Amy klobash are over the weekend. At
an event in Saint Paul, did lay out what her
plans would be were she to win the seat.
Speaker 13 (25:45):
I plan to transform our state government into a government
that is innovative, effective, and accountable.
Speaker 12 (25:53):
Senator Amy Clobshar laying out priorities of her campaign for
Minnesota governor at a press conference in Saint Paul's Son.
She was joined by local and former leaders from across
the state. Cloverhar says combating fraud is top of mind.
Speaker 13 (26:07):
On day one, I will begin a top to bottom
audit of our state government. That audit will look at
state agencies to identify waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So let's get to work.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
Critics have questioned whether Cloversar would be an extension of
Governor Tim Walls. Minnesota House Speaker and Republican gubernatorial candidate
Lisa Damuth sent this statement that reads, in part quote,
plain and simple. Four terms of Democrat control of the
executive branch have doubled our state budget, raised taxes by billions,
and enabled a culture of fraud that has stolen billions more.
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Amy Klobshar wants to triple down on the Walls era,
adding I'm running for governor to fix the mess Tim
Walls has left in his wake and return our state
to common sense that's been missing for far too long.
Clobshar separated her ideas from Walls's track record, especially when
it comes to fraud over and also vowed to modernize
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state government.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I don't like the status quo.
Speaker 13 (27:05):
I wouldn't be running for governor if I wanted to
have things remain the same.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I want to see change.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
And there are several other Republican candidates remaining in the race,
including former healthcare executive Kendall Paul's and my Pillow CEO
Mike Lindell, and Clobshar is known to visit all eighty
seven counties every year, but didn't announce plans for what's
next for getting on the campaign trail, and she also
mentioned she's not quite ready to announce a running.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Meete again, I don't believe for a second, that to
Lamy Clobashar wants this gig, and because of that, she's
going to do what every single leftist Democrat candidate, especially
the gulbernatorial candidates, have been doing. I look to Virginia
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and the friends of the show who listened from there.
She's going to run as this quasi liberal moderate on
the issues, and if she wins, she's gonna move as
far left as Governor Jim Walls.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I don't didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I don't doubt that for a second. And by the way,
the Lamy Clobeashar title, that's for two reasons. One lame given,
but also she lies a lot. So therefore Lamy clobe Shar,
speaking of which, so here's a clip of Amy Klobehar
doing that. You'll hear her touting, you know, what a
(28:31):
great job that former President Joe Biden was doing, and
then you'll get an example of the great job that
Joe Biden did.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Oh, President Biden is fit to be commander in chief.
Every time there has been a big moment where the
Trump people are predicting some fiasco, every time President Biden
rises to the occasion.
Speaker 14 (28:51):
You can sure that we're able to make every single
solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do
with the COVID, with dealing with I mean, we have
to do with.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Look, the science is on my side.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I'll later it affect a strategy to mobilized.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
True in our stubberg the pressure find of quote, repeat the.
Speaker 13 (29:19):
Line, Hello America, I'm Amy Kubashar, and I will beat
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Not a single thing he said is accurate.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, I could see dim Walls running for president next
time around him, and you gotta admit.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
When he was up there on stage, the guy, oh,
we'll just stop it right there.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
So that was a little moment of me looking ahead
to the transcript and realizing that may I have not
been appropriate for this time on a Monday morning. Come on, guys,
don't put me in that situation, all right? Before we
move on to our American Society of a Civil Engineers. Great,
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let's go back to the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
We need to make a new state flag with the
goldfish on.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Hi, John, can you explain the hippos and marbles joke?
I didn't get that one. Thank you, hungry hungry hippos.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You had the game with the marbles and you you
hit the handle and the hippos mouth will go up
and down, and you grab the grab the marbles, and
who ever grabs the most one wins.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Right on remembering that game absolutely correctly. All right, So
there you go, just doing just doing what I doing
what I can. Staple of my childhood in the nineties,
I'm trying to think. I don't know if I ever
had I know my friends had one.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I don't know if I specifically had a Hungry Hungry
Hippos game. I know I had the rock'm Sockham robots.
I do remember, I do remember that Good morning John.
Speaker 15 (30:56):
You know, if memory serves, I think I remember Klobashar
and having a meeting a few months ago about her
running for governor. I assume, and I bet you one
thousand percent that she said to him that if she
were to run, that she would have to lamb.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Base him a little bit.
Speaker 15 (31:17):
And I bet you this is all with a wink
and a nod.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And this is why again, she's just gonna run as
a She's gonna end up running as a moderate, much
in the same way the you know the other candidates
have done across the across the country. I mean, speaking
of which this is what I was referencing earlier.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Might as well call Amy Clobhart Amy Spamberger, because you're
going to get the exact same thing that Virginia's suffering
with right now.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Unfortunately, John, she doesn't have to campaign.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
She obviously is gonna win the nomination. There's very few
other Democrats even in the race, nobody of name. She's
gonna lay low and still do just fine.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
If not, unfortunately, probably even within this state is just backward.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well, I pray that you're that you're wrong. I appreciate
the talk back. And of course she doesn't have to
campaign to get the nomination, but she still is going
to have to run in this In this race now,
it will be interesting to see how much of a
Biden campaigning from the basement approach she ends up taking.
(32:31):
This was the first major step forward that she took
over the weekend of this event to in Saint Paul,
laying out these things that she wants to change. The
modernization aspect of what she said, by the way, that
really had me laughing. And we've never been able to
get that right in terms of our technological advancements here
in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
All right, let's go here. Good morning, John Esters. Okay, no,
I just can't. I just can't. I can't.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I mean, for as much as I would like to,
I just I've got it. I have got to draw
the line somewhere.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So Minnesota got a letter grade in the latest report
card from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So the highest grades were a B.
Speaker 16 (33:24):
Minus in aviation and public parks okay, a D plus
in roads, and a C grade when it comes to infrastructure.
I don't find any of this surprising in the slightest.
(33:45):
So the report card gives eleven categories infrastructure aviation, As
I mentioned, public parks, although this piece from Channel five
there's a typo in here, so under public parks they
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used to be instead of a bee in it's public barks.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Our two podcasts.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's funny, Bridges, energy, dams, ports, stormwater, transit, wastewater, drinking water,
in roads. According to the ASCE, Minnesota improved in four
categories bridges, energy, ports, and transit. It decreased in one aviation,
although still getting a B minus in aviation in public parks,
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and then got an overall C grade for like everything.
According to the chair of the twenty twenty six report
Card for Minnesotan's Infrastructure press release.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
All of this is that which we should be proud of.
So should be.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Proud of the progress made to improve the infrastructure. Yes,
in Minnesota, AC is something that we're supposed to be
proud of. It kept businesses and communities thriving and helps
to maintain the highest quality of life for all Minnesotans.
Just don't put any goldfish into large bodies of water. However,
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we are at risk of losing these gains as temporary
infrastructure funding measures expire. I'm sure that's all Trump's fault.
Minnesota's infrastructure systems that need dependable, consistent, sustainable funding sources
all my favorite sustainable funding sources.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
That's that's the that's the best.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
To ensure communities can keep systems thriving and plan for
the future.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well I've been doing this for a long time.
So here's your full report card, just for the sake
of argument. So, aviation B minus. As I mentioned, bridges
we got a C plus. None of this is encouraging.
Damns we got a C. Drinking water a C minus. Yikes.
This is why the whole home care for your home
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the iHeart my Home club with Ericson is important to
actually do a water quality testing and this shows you
the before and after, like what the water quality is
out of the taps on the outside of your home
versus what you're drinking inside.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I was very happy to see the results.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Thankfully, I have a water softener in our home, but
drink again. I want to point the press release to
this said Minnesotan should be proud drinking waters out of
CEA minus. Okay, energy a C plus, ports a C,
public parts a B minus, roads a D plus, storm
water a sea transit a sea. Wastewater is a CEA.
(36:52):
This all could have been like my report card from
grade school. So roads were great of the worst, the
state's busiest roads rated the best, with ninety three percent
of interstate highway miles rated it to be in good condition.
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The AS and C also warns that there's a twenty
billion dollar road funding shortfall in the next twenty years.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Boy, we only had like.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
A surplus that was close to that amount where we
could have dealt with some of these some of these
problems which could lead to declining performance on future report cards. Well,
they can't decline much further. Considering our roads right now,
we're sitting at a D plus.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I've done. I'm surprised I've driven on Minnesota roads. I
drive throughout the country very much throughout the year. I
just drove back back from forward over the spring, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Dakota's they have good road constructions crews. If you
ever go down south Man in Ticlar, Texas, they're horrible.
(38:02):
But whatever, man, Hey, John, Steve andover. You know what
a C grade gets you.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
That means you're the best of the lousiest, and the
lousiest of the best. Have a good day. Nice.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They do say recent increases in state and federal funding,
including five point two billion from the twenty twenty three bill,
have helped, but remain short term solutions and do not
close the long term gap. The report reads, without major
new investment, a significant share of Minnesota roads could fall
into poor condition by twenty thirty four. So, just going
(38:41):
back to the point that I made a moment ago
in my sarcastic commentary, we did. We had billions of
dollars in surplus. We're going to be facing budget deficits
in the years to come, and for what nothing to
show for it. How many billions have we lost because
(39:02):
of fraud? And if we hadn't lost that money due
to fraud, how much of that could have gone to
help this in other areas here in the state of Minnesota,
which should have been used in worthy ways your taxpayer dollars.
This is what they should be going towards, not these
pet projects, certainly, not to fraud, not to social service programs,
(39:27):
where in individuals don't even need these services, and these
programs only exist so that people can make themselves rich
by stealing from you in the state of Minnesota. And
yet in the meantime, again they say that Minnesotans should
be proud of the progress made to improve the infrastructure
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systems that keep businesses and communities thriving. If this is
what we're supposed to be proud over, yeah, then we've
got some problems. The best grade here was a B
minus in public parks and a B minus for aviation.
Everything else was barely passing or borderline failing when it
comes to the roads. Speaking of roads, this is a
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weird one that's sold on to this one since last
week A Wisconsin County facility is drawing attention with an
unusual speed limit designed to make drivers think twice. That's
not what I would have thought had I seen this
speed sign. So the county recycling and solid waste. And
(40:34):
I'm probably saying the county name wrong. But out of gaming,
out of Gomi No, had no idea it's Wisconsin, so
I care less it was in Minnesota, i'd be searching
it up. But so this is located west of Green Bay.
They announced the change in a Facebook post. They've posted
a speed limit sign in one area at seventeen point
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three miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Samuer shaecking your head up and down as if you've
seen this. Yes, I saw this story last week. Okay,
this is dumb.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
They say it's because it makes you pause, it makes
you think twice.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I would just think my state is being stupid.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yes, it would probably gain my attention, but I also
wonder whether or not it just becomes more distracting at
the end of the day instead of going, oh, this
been limit is seventeen miles, Like if the speed limit
was seventeen miles an hour, that would have been enough
to sort of have me go what we're parked seven,
(41:33):
but you had to go seventeen point three. Most importantly,
it breaks that autopilot feeling we can all fall into
when driving on familiar roads. You know they're there are
a billboards you could put up that do that as well.
You can put up all kinds of distracting things to
grab people's attention. The Post explain that the site sees
(41:54):
constant traffic from Haller's contractor's residents. Has said the change
is meant to keep people alert. It's situated in Appleton,
about one hundred miles north of Milwaukee, handles recycling and
landfilled disposal and sees his steady traffic daily. The change
was announced early last week along with the image of
the news sign posted on the site. It looks exactly
(42:14):
like a speed limit sign. Looks like it just says
seventeen point three on it for those that are curious.
Speed limits with decimal points are uncommon, but not unheard of.
I don't think I've ever seen one with a decimal point.
The Independent reported that a sign posted at a shopping
center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, This makes sense set a
limit at eight point two miles per hour a road
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near Opry Mills Mall in Nashville uses a twenty four
miles per hour limit instead of the typical twenty five.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
A twenty twenty four study in Minnesota transportation agencies found
that lowering the post of speed limit does not always
immediately change the driver behavior.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I'm sitting here shocked by that.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
Really.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
The analysis show to drivers may not respond immediately to
a posted speach speed sign, according to the studies lead author,
but it is a good start to a longer term
evaluation to see if the speed control of policy objectives
are met.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
I you know what I've said this before, I'll say
it again. You want to slow down speed limits on
any roadway.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Just when it comes to law enforcement, they usually have
a lot where they put retired police cars. Just go
and clean some of those up and put them on
the side of the road. That's gonna slow everybody down.
Just make sure it's prominent enough to where it looks
like it's hiding, but it's still out in the open.
I'm always surprised when I'm driving in and I see
(43:37):
the law enforcement in Blaine, of whom I have the
utmost respect for.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Let me say, by the way, but.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
When i'm driving in in the morning and I see
them parked on sixty five as I'm heading south to work,
and they're off to the side. Obviously they're to catch speeders,
but they got their lights on. It's like, turn your
lights off. You're letting me know you're there, unless they're
just doing what I'm suggesting, in which case, just get
a decommissioned police.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Car input it there. That will go on slow everybody down?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
All right, coming up, we'll get to your talkbacks on
the iHeartRadio app. Also speaking of traveling, I do want
to talk briefly about Spirit Airlines officially shutting down. Treasury
Secretary Scott was sent to blames Elizabeth Ward, Warren and
Biden for the Spirit Airlines collapse. A little bit later
on in the show, we will get into how here
(44:28):
in Minnesota, the Walls Administration is complaining that, yeah, there's
a lot of fraud, but you know, we don't have
the manpower to tackle all of it. It's also coming
from the Attorney General's office. I'll give you details an
hour three for a Monday here on May the fourth.
You're listening to Twin Cities News talk.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
An Let's be fair today you with the here and
you deserve your glorious day with the politicians.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
All right, are you owe me one? I'm not for
saving your skin for the tenth time, ninth time that business.
In case Anemoia doesn't and come, the force is with you,
John Justice.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
And in this case the force is truth, the Bible
and the US Constitution and God himself
There's a lot of inks coming in from me. iHeartRadio
app on him. May the fourth be with you Monday?
Typically I disfigure it must be over the target. If
that's the case, we have a new foe of the
show apparently.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Actually John, I wouldn't be too.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hard on or let me stop here really quick. Why
is it the folks of the shows always have the
worst connection? Although I think this is not a new
phoe of the show I now that I realize it,
I think this is the beck Mindy who has a
new email address. That's my That's my guess now that
I think about it, because this is typically the quality
of his talk backs, of which I've said multiple times
(00:47):
to get a better phone beat.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It is it? May here we go?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Actually, John, I wouldn't be too hard on Eric.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
He's more accurate than you and I sit up as
a bar.
Speaker 6 (00:59):
And pads present your audience anyways, or they're sitting in
the nursing home on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
You shouldn't talk about yourself that way. You should have
a little bit more respect. I mean, considering that you
listen more often than most of the friends of the show.
On average listener for about twenty minutes and then go
about the rest of their day. But I do appreciate
(01:26):
your leaving a talkback. We'll leave it at that. This
morning here on Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty
and one oh three five FM, Sam is pushing the
buttons this morning. My name is John Justice. On this
Star Wars Day, Happy Star Wars Day to you a
friend of the show, Pat. We were talking about the
goldfish last star.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Pat nice thoughts on this one?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, I yeah, I wanted to mention really quickly. Had
a talkback. I talked about goldfish and I had a
couple of pet related stories from Friday and did get
a chance to get to pet. Goldfish released into lakes
can trigger rapid eco logical disruption, measurable damage appearing.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
In as little as two months.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Further details in nutrient rich water goldfish turned up sentiment.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
As we talked about reducing.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Water clarity by sixty five percent, snail and amphipod populations
dropped by more than sixty percent. I thought that goldfish
were like the most innocuous fish out there, Like, it
doesn't get any planeer than a goldfish.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
I know they get pretty big. Yeah, so maybe they
have more space and I don't know, I don't know
how it all works.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now, apparently you're not supposed to flush him them an alligator.
So was one of my favorite movies growing up as
a kid. I think it was a made for TV
movie called Alligator, where somebody I can I'll always remember
the opening seat if somebody, I think, like a kid,
had gotten one from a friend. You wanted to keep
it as a pet, and mom said no, And so
they flushed the alligator into the toilet and it ended
up growing to full size in the in the sewer
and wreaking havoc on a town. It was fantastic. You
(02:58):
should do a follow up on golden native of fish.
Sharing water with goldfish ended up in significantly worse conditions,
could affect their ability to reproduce over time goldfish. The
silent killer policies routinely overlook a goldfish as an invasive species,
and researchers are calling for clearer warnings at the point
(03:20):
of sale. Who knew, like all of those times when
you want a goldfish in a state fair and you
brought it home in that little bag and all of that,
and you were really carrying a weapon of mass destruction.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Apparently carnies are going to make you sign a waiver
now when you win a.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just be aware, right, goldfish is more of an invasive
species than you even realize. Friend of the show, Pat
right rights on X. I had goldfish in turtles as
beets when I was a kid. They never made it
to a lake though. My maternal grandmother hated them and
put to their bowl and dish whatever you call a
turtle home out on the front steps and the dead
(04:00):
of winter. Oh it's not very nice. Wow, grandmothers. Grandmothers mean,
good morning, John, very simple. The foes of the show
are a bunch of ravenous monkeys coming from.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The pocket verse spouting hate.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That's why the connection is lousy intern dimensional.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Oh gotcha, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I was wondering where that was going, and there's the
pocket verse as to the poor connection.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So that makes sense. That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Listen, since we're on it and it's Monday and I'm
in a good mood. This comes from CNN Indian magnates
a not to Ambonni, you know, the son of Mkesha Ambonni.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Everybody knows the Ambonni family. Right Hard to Forget.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Has offered to take in at his wildlife sanctuary in India.
Eighty doing that thing with my fingers cocaine hippos currently
living in Columbia, where the govern mint is planning on
culling them. That these are not hippos hopped up on cocaine.
(05:08):
I thank the Good Lord Almighty. The hippos are descended
from animals introduced into the country in the nineteen eighties
by Pablo Escobar, one of Columbia's top drug lords, who
had sought to have one of the largest private zoos
in Latin America with a wide variety of animals. You know,
it's kind of like, you know, the Michael Jackson of
(05:28):
Colombia in terms of having a farm on his property
or something. Since then, their population exploded to about one
hundred and sixty individuals and their presences now an endangered
native species. A few weeks ago, Colombia said that it
planned to cull eighty of these animals, sparking a debate,
and Bonni asked the Colombian government to reconsider their decision,
(05:49):
proposing to house them at his rescue center. These eighty
hippos did not choose where to be born, nor did
they create the circumstances they now face, he said in
the social media posts. These animals are living, sentient beings
and if we have the capacity to save them through
the safe and humane solution, we have the responsibility to try. Now,
(06:11):
if the Colombian government doesn't prove their request, it would
be carried out in strict accordance with the necessary approvals, permits,
due diligence of processes, biosecurity requirements and logistical planning. They say,
now CNN di to reach out to the Colombia's Ministry
of Environment and Sustainability Development.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Can you imagine having to be the reporter to go
and do the story? What do you got for me?
Straight up?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hormos, epic fury fraud in Minnesota, No cocaine, hippos from
Pablo Escobar's farm.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Is this Veronica corneyson and that's the reporter.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So when CNN reached out regarding the reception of the
proposal and it's a feasibility, they're still a waiting for
a response. The measure to authorize the calling of the
eighty of the specimens was due to the uncontrolled growth
of an invasive species in the Magdalena River basin. According
to Minister Villez when announcing the decision.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Boy, I mean you usually when.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
You hear about invasive species, there are things that are
like small, like to have hippos as an invasive species.
And what kind of property do you need to go
and appropriately go and house eighty of them?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
And where are you.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Gonna get all that cocaine from? All right, let's go here.
So the missing scientist conspiracy theory. Since the beginning of this,
I've wanted certain pieces of information to determine whether or
not this is a legitimate conspiracy or is this just
(07:51):
more a simple matter of these deaths are being reported
and it is in line with the deaths given the
number of scientists that we have in America.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, it looks like we have an answer.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
This comes from Talking Points memo. When the researchers began dying,
it was so mysterious and intertwined that outside observers determined
it had to be done with intent. First, the project's
biggest funder died this of an infected wound from shaving.
Soon death came for others linked to the inscrutable and
(08:26):
important work.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Of visiting diplomat.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
The lead funder's half brother and a string of scientists
involved with the project. They died of suicide, strange illnesses,
and a gruesome murder. There were so many deaths that
there was no way they could not be connected. Finally,
the project's lead scientists and most famous face died unexpectedly
years after the project's completion. Anyone following the news lately
(08:51):
might think that what I just read was about the
disappearing scientists, sorry, alleging that the number of researchers and
scientists connect did in the defense industry or astrophysics have
all died of unusual causes over the past year, with
some vanishing while on walks and others horrifically murdered and
seemingly random shootings. No, the conspiracy theory has jumped from
(09:13):
obscurity and global coverage in just a few weeks, with
more names being added to the death list every day.
But the opening anecdote that I just shared with you
was actually about the so called the Curse of.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
King tut I don't know if you had any hippos
or not.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Which saw the number of people connected to the opening
of the tomb of the Egyptian monarch in nineteen twenty
two die in short succession. To the point here is
that this isn't the first time we've had a similar
story like what we've been dealing with when it comes.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
To these missing scientists.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
For decades, both curse believers and skeptical scientists struggle to
explain why so many people died after visiting and participating
in the opening of tuts tomb. Relatively few of the
people involved in opening the tomb actually had untimely or
mysterious deaths. Some died of causes that would be treated now,
Many were older and already in ill health, or worked
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in professions where the risk of death was common. The
curse was a media creation ginned up to sell newspapers
and books at the time, and had a real effect
on the people who were its subject matter. Now you
jump ahead some one hundred years, and the same story
as playing out with the missing scientists. I'm going to
(10:34):
share with you just a few more points and specifically
why there actually is an easy explanation for all of
these missing scientists in this conspiracy theory, after which we'll
turn our attention over to Representative Kristin Robbins ending her
bid for Minnesota governor that she throw her support behind
another candidate. In the meantime, Over the weekend, Senator Lamy
(10:56):
Klobashar made it official official is actually talking about her
plans as she runs for governor. I don't believe she
wants this job. I will explain why. We'll get to
more of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app next here
on Twin Cities News Talk at AM eleven thirty and
one oh three five FM.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
John the Sandy for Minvergrove, I'm actually on the road
in Rochester and you'll be happy to know that the
Minnesota Highway Department is into the the fourth be with
you think a road sign says that, Yoda says slow down,
you must in work zone.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's nice. Well hat tip in this case to men dot.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Would you get a couple of comments that rolled in,
actually more than a more than a couple regarding goldfish
being an invasive species?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Who knew?
Speaker 7 (11:54):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
John, I am calling from the goldfist. Life matter and
they do matter.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
See I imagine that's what goldfish actually sound like.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
I released a goldfish in a little farm pond I had,
and that thing, in about two years, grew to be
thirteen inches long. I found it dead on the shoreline.
It was a monster, probably ran out of things to eat.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Goldfish will grow to a size relative to the environment
they're in, so they don't get very big in a
fish tank, but if you put them in a large
body of water, they get pretty big.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Good morning, John, you know, we might want to keep
this goldfish can under them away from the Democrats is
typically their solution is much worse than the problem. I
can see them just jumping chemicals and fresh killers into
these lakes to kill a goldfish, ruining the entire equal system.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
It says goldfish can grow to twenty inches in the wild,
so that's pretty good size.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That is probably do a lot of dab I agree.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm just chuckling over anybody listening to the show and
suddenly googling for golds, for goldfish facts.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's all these the off topic stuff. It never it.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Never changes, man, it never it never, it never, it
never changes. Good Morning dark isn't a native fish to Minnesota,
And they're all over at the Mississippi.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
And if you look at a goldfish, they're just a golden.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Dark oh bottom feeder.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, so they're masquerading, say, innocuous fish, when really they're
an invasive species. All right, I do want to wrap
up the story on the missing scientists. I did have
one comment that rolled in regarding the individual who wants
to save the eighty cocaine hippos formerly owned by drug
(14:16):
lord Pablo Escobar in Colombia.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
All right, mister Abdani or how are you pronounce here
your last name? How are you going to move these
hiptoms and weigh a ton? You can't really knock them out.
If you do knock them out, to just get a
drawn because they lay a ton nails or water. How
are you gonna move them? Go in and put buzzle
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on them and hope you don't get eaten. Yeah, good
luck with that, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I think you just move them one at a time.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
I think also a multi billionaire has the resources to
figure out how to move hippos.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
To throw that out there, probably got a helicopter, so
I picture nipple. Yeah, it's getting Operation Dumbo draft.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, like you know when in Jurassic in the original
Jurassic Park in the beginning, you know when they're you
just hear the velociraptors and the raptor pen but you
don't see them, and they lower that cow into the
pit and then all the hell breaks. It is the
same thing with a hippo. I do appreciate the fact that,
just like anything else, people have suddenly become experts on
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how to go and move eighty hippos that are destined
to be killed. Find that quite amusing. All right, let's
wrap this up on the missing scientist story. This is
the information that I was waiting for so the beginning
of this piece. It talks about a past conspiracy theory
going back to the so called Curse of King Tutt
in nineteen twenty two, where something very similar happened.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
The curse was a media creation.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And at the time it was ginned up to sell
newspapers and books. You jump ahead one hundred years and
the same thing's been playing out with these missing scientists.
A string of unexpected deaths in a variety of adjacent
fields and science and technology has been turned into a
new version of DUT's curse. The story jumped from the
obscure UFO blogs and Reddit threads into some of the
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biggest podcasts and news outlets.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Plus just I mean, we're talking thousands of videos social
media videos created online over this all leaning into the
conspiracy party, because that's what makes the videos more interesting,
is sparked discussion and investigation by the FBI and Congress.
It's charning speculation. It's such a frenzy that the White
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House was even asked about it. Now, the article from
Talking Points and Memo goos with President Trump unhelpfully because
of course, offering that I hope it's random, but we're
going to know by the next week.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And a half. They have what's called a Trump derangement problem.
Have you heard about that problem? How was that unhelpful?
The story had reached.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Sort of its apex in terms of coverage conspiracy and
people were curious. I fail to see how that's unhelpful,
But can say anything positive about President Donald Trump. Now,
every iteration of one of these so called death lists
that's been put out over these scientists begins with just
a few people. In this case, it's two people who
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might have been linked through their work, but only in
the most tangentle of inconsequential ways. Both were linked to
an Air Force research apparatus, and both likely had some
form of top security clearance. There's no indication they knew
each other or directly worked on the same projects. To
slightly connected people going missing within months of each other
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is simply not a story, so UFO cranks and conspiracy
theorists had to go and make it a story, in
the same way the tabloid rags in the nineteen twenties
needed to make King Tut's curse also a story. Statistically speaking,
it's not unusual that several people who are linked to
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massive hubs of research and development happened to die. Eighteen
thousand people are employed at Los Alamos, well about five
thousand work at JPL, though it recently went through protracted cuts.
At least a few of these people will pass away
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every year, and of those, at least a few will
be from causes other than illness, including homicide. It doesn't
mean that they were disappeared or murdered as part of
a conspiracy, because even the people claiming this was a
conspiracy don't know why it's happening or who's doing it,
which is always the reverse engineering when it comes to
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so many of these conspiracies.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It just doesn't. It just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It doesn't add up to scrutiny when you begin to
reverse engineer. But that's not what typically conspiracies do. They
start off with the conspiracy, but never bother to sort
of lay out exactly how this would all go and
play out. It's always abut of, it's always a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
If the missing scientists list continues the way the past
death conspiracy theories have grown, it will blow out to
two gargantuan proportions, pulling even more people in with less
reason to be on such a list. Given the frenzy
over the conspiracy theory in the fringe media, there is
clearly money to be made.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I mean clips to be clips to be generated by
exploiting these sad stories, and that's ultimately what they are.
All these names left behind loved ones, family members and friends,
desperate foreclosure and certainty. Many are likely finding themselves in
an unwanted spotlight from people who only seek to exploit them.
There is no conspiracy to silence a great scientific discovery
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or an energy breakthrough, or if there is, there's no
evidence of it. There are also only questions left behind
when someone is unexpectedly killed or vanishes, and the markers
of these lists don't have any interest in answering any
of those questions, so again, this is what I was
waiting for all along. It was the simple data point
relating to the two locations where this conspiracy has been
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focused on, Los Alamos and JPL and considering the number
of people that work at both of those facilities. You know,
this talking points to memos verus anti bias, as it
was against Trump. There's a lot more in there that
I cut out for the sake of time and frustration.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I do actually agree with its assessment.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Coming up, Republican state Representative Christian Robbins has dropped out
of the Minnesota governor's race, and we'll also get into
how Minnesota got its letter grade on the latest ASCEE
Infrastructure Report American Society of Civil Engineers. So I'll let
you guess between now and when I give you the
details if it was a good grade or a bad
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grade for the estate of Minnesota.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
Morning John Alice Colin, Interesting show topics.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Quite quite a spread here.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Don't be too proud of this technological terarot you've constructed.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to
the power of the force.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
Morning John Alice Colin, Interesting show topics. Quite a quite
a spread here.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
But when you were saying that the.
Speaker 11 (21:39):
Hippos or somebody needed to figure out how to do
something with the hippos. I had a vision pop into
my head that some guy that kind of looks like
Harvey Kattel would show up on the door of this
billionaire knock and say, I'm the cleaner.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You need some pretty big bathtubs if you're going to
be calling hippos that way.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Good morning John. It's actually really easy to move a hippo.
All you need to do.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Is lay out a line of marbles in the direction
that you want them to go.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Gosh, Jarda, that's a great joke.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ah, that's really good. That was great way to go. Ben,
that's a good one. I'm only jealous, that's all. You're right,
that's exactly how you move a heard of hippos. You're
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Speaker 1 (22:50):
Mama's pretty straightforward. All right, Let's get back to some
other news. Hello, Republican state represented Christian Robbins dropped out
of Minnesota governor's race. The announcement on Friday represents the
Maple Grove area, indicates she's leaving elected office after her
term ends in early twenty twenty seven. Our state government
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and political system are broken, and after fighting for Minnesotan's
from the inside for the past eight years, I've determined
the best way for me to fight for the future
of the state just from the outside, Robins said in
a statement.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Which is a.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Bummer that she's leaving her elected office, because you know,
she's certainly has been doing a fantastic job, especially when
it comes to fighting from During her gubernatorial campaign, Robbins
was forced was focused on fighting fraud. She's been a
lowed critic of Walls continues to deny Minnesota's Minnesota's fraud
(23:50):
scandal was the reason why he ultimately scrapped his brief
bid for a third term. There's a piece in the
Star Tribute this morning. I didn't grab it because I
can pretty much give you the summary, but it's interesting.
It essentially is focusing on something that we've been focusing
on during the show, and that is the short timers
(24:12):
disease of Governor Tim Walls and how he is setting
himself up for the future post him being the governor.
You know, he you know, he made all the comments
out in public over what he said he was going
to do.
Speaker 12 (24:28):
Expect for the next eleven months for me to ride
you like you've never been ridden.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And yet in action he's shown to be doing anything.
But I still am very much convinced that he's angling
for a twenty twenty eight presidential run. As I said
on Friday show, Robbins said that she feels the establishment
political class, media and donors have annoyed today by Klobashar
despite her refusal to engage in and anything meaningful on
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the issues that matter most to Minnesotan's And I don't
put lead that she has gone and thrown her support
and representative of Kristen Robbins behind any of the remaining candidates.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
So, speaking of Amy Clobachhar, though.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
She did finally in my view, kind of make this official,
I know that she made the announcement months ago that
she was running for governor. But since then she's just
been absent in talking about anything relating to the governor's race.
Well that all changed over the weekend, outlining her campaign priorities,
focusing on modernizing state government and combating frauden Okay Fox
(25:35):
nine covered how Amy klobash are over the weekend. At
an event in Saint Paul, did lay out what her
plans would be were she to win the seat.
Speaker 13 (25:45):
I plan to transform our state government into a government
that is innovative, effective, and accountable.
Speaker 12 (25:53):
Senator Amy Clobshar laying out priorities of her campaign for
Minnesota governor at a press conference in Saint Paul's Son.
She was joined by local and former leaders from across
the state. Cloverhar says combating fraud is top of mind.
Speaker 13 (26:07):
On day one, I will begin a top to bottom
audit of our state government. That audit will look at
state agencies to identify waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So let's get to work.
Speaker 12 (26:20):
Critics have questioned whether Cloversar would be an extension of
Governor Tim Walls. Minnesota House Speaker and Republican gubernatorial candidate
Lisa Damuth sent this statement that reads, in part quote,
plain and simple. Four terms of Democrat control of the
executive branch have doubled our state budget, raised taxes by billions,
and enabled a culture of fraud that has stolen billions more.
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Amy Klobshar wants to triple down on the Walls era,
adding I'm running for governor to fix the mess Tim
Walls has left in his wake and return our state
to common sense that's been missing for far too long.
Clobshar separated her ideas from Walls's track record, especially when
it comes to fraud over and also vowed to modernize
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state government.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I don't like the status quo.
Speaker 13 (27:05):
I wouldn't be running for governor if I wanted to
have things remain the same.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I want to see change.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
And there are several other Republican candidates remaining in the race,
including former healthcare executive Kendall Paul's and my Pillow CEO
Mike Lindell, and Clobshar is known to visit all eighty
seven counties every year, but didn't announce plans for what's
next for getting on the campaign trail, and she also
mentioned she's not quite ready to announce a running.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Meete again, I don't believe for a second, that to
Lamy Clobashar wants this gig, and because of that, she's
going to do what every single leftist Democrat candidate, especially
the gulbernatorial candidates, have been doing. I look to Virginia
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and the friends of the show who listened from there.
She's going to run as this quasi liberal moderate on
the issues, and if she wins, she's gonna move as
far left as Governor Jim Walls.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I don't didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I don't doubt that for a second. And by the way,
the Lamy Clobeashar title, that's for two reasons. One lame given,
but also she lies a lot. So therefore Lamy clobe Shar,
speaking of which, so here's a clip of Amy Klobehar
doing that. You'll hear her touting, you know, what a
(28:31):
great job that former President Joe Biden was doing, and
then you'll get an example of the great job that
Joe Biden did.
Speaker 13 (28:38):
Oh, President Biden is fit to be commander in chief.
Every time there has been a big moment where the
Trump people are predicting some fiasco, every time President Biden
rises to the occasion.
Speaker 14 (28:51):
You can sure that we're able to make every single
solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do
with the COVID, with dealing with I mean, we have
to do with.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Look, the science is on my side.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I'll later it affect a strategy to mobilized.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
True in our stubberg the pressure find of quote, repeat the.
Speaker 13 (29:19):
Line, Hello America, I'm Amy Kubashar, and I will beat
Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Not a single thing he said is accurate.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Yeah, I could see dim Walls running for president next
time around him, and you gotta admit.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
When he was up there on stage, the guy, oh,
we'll just stop it right there.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
So that was a little moment of me looking ahead
to the transcript and realizing that may I have not
been appropriate for this time on a Monday morning. Come on, guys,
don't put me in that situation, all right? Before we
move on to our American Society of a Civil Engineers. Great,
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let's go back to the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
We need to make a new state flag with the
goldfish on.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Hi, John, can you explain the hippos and marbles joke?
I didn't get that one. Thank you, hungry hungry hippos.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You had the game with the marbles and you you
hit the handle and the hippos mouth will go up
and down, and you grab the grab the marbles, and
who ever grabs the most one wins.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Right on remembering that game absolutely correctly. All right, So
there you go, just doing just doing what I doing
what I can. Staple of my childhood in the nineties,
I'm trying to think. I don't know if I ever
had I know my friends had one.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I don't know if I specifically had a Hungry Hungry
Hippos game. I know I had the rock'm Sockham robots.
I do remember, I do remember that Good morning John.
Speaker 15 (30:56):
You know, if memory serves, I think I remember Klobashar
and having a meeting a few months ago about her
running for governor. I assume, and I bet you one
thousand percent that she said to him that if she
were to run, that she would have to lamb.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Base him a little bit.
Speaker 15 (31:17):
And I bet you this is all with a wink
and a nod.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And this is why again, she's just gonna run as
a She's gonna end up running as a moderate, much
in the same way the you know the other candidates
have done across the across the country. I mean, speaking
of which this is what I was referencing earlier.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Might as well call Amy Clobhart Amy Spamberger, because you're
going to get the exact same thing that Virginia's suffering
with right now.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Unfortunately, John, she doesn't have to campaign.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
She obviously is gonna win the nomination. There's very few
other Democrats even in the race, nobody of name. She's
gonna lay low and still do just fine.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
If not, unfortunately, probably even within this state is just backward.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well, I pray that you're that you're wrong. I appreciate
the talk back. And of course she doesn't have to
campaign to get the nomination, but she still is going
to have to run in this In this race now,
it will be interesting to see how much of a
Biden campaigning from the basement approach she ends up taking.
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This was the first major step forward that she took
over the weekend of this event to in Saint Paul,
laying out these things that she wants to change. The
modernization aspect of what she said, by the way, that
really had me laughing. And we've never been able to
get that right in terms of our technological advancements here
in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
All right, let's go here. Good morning, John Esters. Okay, no,
I just can't. I just can't. I can't.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I mean, for as much as I would like to,
I just I've got it. I have got to draw
the line somewhere.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
All right, let's go here.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So Minnesota got a letter grade in the latest report
card from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
So the highest grades were a B.
Speaker 16 (33:24):
Minus in aviation and public parks okay, a D plus
in roads, and a C grade when it comes to infrastructure.
I don't find any of this surprising in the slightest.
(33:45):
So the report card gives eleven categories infrastructure aviation, As
I mentioned, public parks, although this piece from Channel five
there's a typo in here, so under public parks they
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used to be instead of a bee in it's public barks.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Our two podcasts.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's funny, Bridges, energy, dams, ports, stormwater, transit, wastewater, drinking water,
in roads. According to the ASCE, Minnesota improved in four
categories bridges, energy, ports, and transit. It decreased in one aviation,
although still getting a B minus in aviation in public parks,
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and then got an overall C grade for like everything.
According to the chair of the twenty twenty six report
Card for Minnesotan's Infrastructure press release.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
All of this is that which we should be proud of.
So should be.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Proud of the progress made to improve the infrastructure. Yes,
in Minnesota, AC is something that we're supposed to be
proud of. It kept businesses and communities thriving and helps
to maintain the highest quality of life for all Minnesotans.
Just don't put any goldfish into large bodies of water. However,
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we are at risk of losing these gains as temporary
infrastructure funding measures expire. I'm sure that's all Trump's fault.
Minnesota's infrastructure systems that need dependable, consistent, sustainable funding sources
all my favorite sustainable funding sources.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
That's that's the that's the best.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
To ensure communities can keep systems thriving and plan for
the future.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well I've been doing this for a long time.
So here's your full report card, just for the sake
of argument. So, aviation B minus. As I mentioned, bridges
we got a C plus. None of this is encouraging.
Damns we got a C. Drinking water a C minus. Yikes.
This is why the whole home care for your home
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the iHeart my Home club with Ericson is important to
actually do a water quality testing and this shows you
the before and after, like what the water quality is
out of the taps on the outside of your home
versus what you're drinking inside.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I was very happy to see the results.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Thankfully, I have a water softener in our home, but
drink again. I want to point the press release to
this said Minnesotan should be proud drinking waters out of
CEA minus. Okay, energy a C plus, ports a C,
public parts a B minus, roads a D plus, storm
water a sea transit a sea. Wastewater is a CEA.
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This all could have been like my report card from
grade school. So roads were great of the worst, the
state's busiest roads rated the best, with ninety three percent
of interstate highway miles rated it to be in good condition.
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The AS and C also warns that there's a twenty
billion dollar road funding shortfall in the next twenty years.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Boy, we only had like.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
A surplus that was close to that amount where we
could have dealt with some of these some of these
problems which could lead to declining performance on future report cards. Well,
they can't decline much further. Considering our roads right now,
we're sitting at a D plus.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I've done. I'm surprised I've driven on Minnesota roads. I
drive throughout the country very much throughout the year. I
just drove back back from forward over the spring, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin,
and Dakota's they have good road constructions crews. If you
ever go down south Man in Ticlar, Texas, they're horrible.
(38:02):
But whatever, man, Hey, John, Steve andover. You know what
a C grade gets you.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
That means you're the best of the lousiest, and the
lousiest of the best. Have a good day. Nice.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They do say recent increases in state and federal funding,
including five point two billion from the twenty twenty three bill,
have helped, but remain short term solutions and do not
close the long term gap. The report reads, without major
new investment, a significant share of Minnesota roads could fall
into poor condition by twenty thirty four. So, just going
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back to the point that I made a moment ago
in my sarcastic commentary, we did. We had billions of
dollars in surplus. We're going to be facing budget deficits
in the years to come, and for what nothing to
show for it. How many billions have we lost because
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of fraud? And if we hadn't lost that money due
to fraud, how much of that could have gone to
help this in other areas here in the state of Minnesota,
which should have been used in worthy ways your taxpayer dollars.
This is what they should be going towards, not these
pet projects, certainly, not to fraud, not to social service programs,
(39:27):
where in individuals don't even need these services, and these
programs only exist so that people can make themselves rich
by stealing from you in the state of Minnesota. And
yet in the meantime, again they say that Minnesotans should
be proud of the progress made to improve the infrastructure
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systems that keep businesses and communities thriving. If this is
what we're supposed to be proud over, yeah, then we've
got some problems. The best grade here was a B
minus in public parks and a B minus for aviation.
Everything else was barely passing or borderline failing when it
comes to the roads. Speaking of roads, this is a
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weird one that's sold on to this one since last
week A Wisconsin County facility is drawing attention with an
unusual speed limit designed to make drivers think twice. That's
not what I would have thought had I seen this
speed sign. So the county recycling and solid waste. And
(40:34):
I'm probably saying the county name wrong. But out of gaming,
out of Gomi No, had no idea it's Wisconsin, so
I care less it was in Minnesota, i'd be searching
it up. But so this is located west of Green Bay.
They announced the change in a Facebook post. They've posted
a speed limit sign in one area at seventeen point
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three miles per hour.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Samuer shaecking your head up and down as if you've
seen this. Yes, I saw this story last week. Okay,
this is dumb.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
They say it's because it makes you pause, it makes
you think twice.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I would just think my state is being stupid.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yes, it would probably gain my attention, but I also
wonder whether or not it just becomes more distracting at
the end of the day instead of going, oh, this
been limit is seventeen miles, Like if the speed limit
was seventeen miles an hour, that would have been enough
to sort of have me go what we're parked seven,
(41:33):
but you had to go seventeen point three. Most importantly,
it breaks that autopilot feeling we can all fall into
when driving on familiar roads. You know they're there are
a billboards you could put up that do that as well.
You can put up all kinds of distracting things to
grab people's attention. The Post explain that the site sees
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constant traffic from Haller's contractor's residents. Has said the change
is meant to keep people alert. It's situated in Appleton,
about one hundred miles north of Milwaukee, handles recycling and
landfilled disposal and sees his steady traffic daily. The change
was announced early last week along with the image of
the news sign posted on the site. It looks exactly
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like a speed limit sign. Looks like it just says
seventeen point three on it for those that are curious.
Speed limits with decimal points are uncommon, but not unheard of.
I don't think I've ever seen one with a decimal point.
The Independent reported that a sign posted at a shopping
center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, This makes sense set a
limit at eight point two miles per hour a road
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near Opry Mills Mall in Nashville uses a twenty four
miles per hour limit instead of the typical twenty five.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
A twenty twenty four study in Minnesota transportation agencies found
that lowering the post of speed limit does not always
immediately change the driver behavior.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I'm sitting here shocked by that.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
Really.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
The analysis show to drivers may not respond immediately to
a posted speach speed sign, according to the studies lead author,
but it is a good start to a longer term
evaluation to see if the speed control of policy objectives
are met.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
I you know what I've said this before, I'll say
it again. You want to slow down speed limits on
any roadway.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Just when it comes to law enforcement, they usually have
a lot where they put retired police cars. Just go
and clean some of those up and put them on
the side of the road. That's gonna slow everybody down.
Just make sure it's prominent enough to where it looks
like it's hiding, but it's still out in the open.
I'm always surprised when I'm driving in and I see
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the law enforcement in Blaine, of whom I have the
utmost respect for.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Let me say, by the way, but.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
When i'm driving in in the morning and I see
them parked on sixty five as I'm heading south to work,
and they're off to the side. Obviously they're to catch speeders,
but they got their lights on. It's like, turn your
lights off. You're letting me know you're there, unless they're
just doing what I'm suggesting, in which case, just get
a decommissioned police.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Car input it there. That will go on slow everybody down?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
All right, coming up, we'll get to your talkbacks on
the iHeartRadio app. Also speaking of traveling, I do want
to talk briefly about Spirit Airlines officially shutting down. Treasury
Secretary Scott was sent to blames Elizabeth Ward, Warren and
Biden for the Spirit Airlines collapse. A little bit later
on in the show, we will get into how here
(44:28):
in Minnesota, the Walls Administration is complaining that, yeah, there's
a lot of fraud, but you know, we don't have
the manpower to tackle all of it. It's also coming
from the Attorney General's office. I'll give you details an
hour three for a Monday here on May the fourth.
You're listening to Twin Cities News talk.
Speaker 6 (44:45):
An Let's be fair today you with the here and
you deserve your glorious day with the politicians.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
All right, are you owe me one? I'm not for
saving your skin for the tenth time, ninth time that business.
In case Anemoia doesn't and come, the force is with you,
John Justice.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
And in this case the force is truth, the Bible
and the US Constitution and God himself
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