December 12, 2025 • 42 mins
Jon is joined in studio by MN Rep Max Rymer and Grace Keating. Max and Sam realized they were in the same part of Florida at the same time, and the group looks at comments from Hope Walz. U.S. Rep Tom Emmer joins to discuss the latest in healthcare and other headlines from Washington. AK Kamara joins in studio where the group looks at breaking news about a new Minnesota government department.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
John, you seem to be describing host as whole hold
which have the little swirls ing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Gongs just look like a hockey puk. I got that right,
I remember? No, Sorry, this is what we were referring to.
Good morning guys.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
The cupcakes with the swirly frost team is just that
hostess cupcakes.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
There you go, have a good movie.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
How did we land Sam? Do you remember how we
landed on this last week?
Speaker 5 (00:37):
How we landed on?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Be sure you want to go? We were talking? Were
we talking about eating?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And then I was telling the story about how you
said duncan and milk, and then we got down there
and Catherine got confused. Okay, that's probably what it was,
all right, don't need to repeat that one again. You
can listen to last week's episode if you missed it.
Welcome back to hour two here on our Freedom Friday
from the six five to one Carpet plus Next Day
Install Studios. We have Grace Keating from American Experiment back
after a couple of weeks, as is Max Rhymer.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So good morning to the both of you.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Good morning, glad to be here. How have your holidays
been so far? I mean, do we say that ahead.
We say that ahead of Christmas, I mean it's holiday holidays, Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, get yeah, Yeah, you've been traveling right.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
I was in DC last weekend for the National Christmas
Tree Lighting.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Nice ceremony.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
How was that?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was cold? It was cold, It was fun, it
was cool.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Uh, you know, saw the President speak and Milania, you know,
lit the tree and it was a cool group assembled there.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But we were outside for many hours in the colds.
I am uh, I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I asked you that because I actually have in the
stack some Malania Christmas stories that I was thinking about
getting too, so it might be a propos coming up
in the in the eight o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How are about things with you and the kids? The
kid's excited You're going to see me.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Like, yeah, yeah, we're leaving for my mom's house this
weekend to have a pre Christmas Christmas and they're excited.
It's that time of year. I will just say that
I didn't know Sam and I were in Naples, Florida
at the same time. I learned that walking in. Yeah,
we didn't even know. We didn't even know. So I
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host as part of my company, our ownership group, we
put on a conference for real estate agents in Naples, Florida,
every year, so you get about three hundred of our
clients down there. We have a bunch of good speakers.
But I was in Naples in eighty five degree weather
from Wednesday until Sunday, and then I came back. In
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the day after I came back, I had to snowblow
almost a foot of snow off my driveway.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I had no idea that Sam was even I had
no idea even Florida. I get a text from Sam.
He's like, I just went by Alligator Alcatraz and I
was like what. Sam was like, it's a real thing.
I know so little about the producers on the show.
I just discovered yesterday. I just discovered yesterday that Devin
was married.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I got to do a conversation on the air, and
I brought him into a scenario. I'm like, you know
if Devin ever got married? On the mic is like,
I am married.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I go if you are. No, I had no idea
on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Did you get confused when you looked over here and
saw Brett sitting in the chair.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, No, John doesn't ask questions. Yeah, yeah, I don't
all right, let's go here on the Freedom Friday.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
On Twinnesday's news talk your iHeartRadio app talkbacks are brought
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Speaker 8 (03:21):
Oh Balls is quitting social media?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, like, I guess, like the only thing I could say,
like is it's good news for my liver.
Speaker 9 (03:35):
If you follow me, know me, know anything about me,
you know that I'm not one to back down, and often.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I you know, accept them good to backdown.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Fact to the opposite of that, and that is you
know who I am, what I use this platform for.
But when it comes to like my safety and my
family safety, there has to be a line there. And
in the past few days there have been some things
that have crossed that line. I have gotten some really
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scary emails, you know, DMS comments, just stuff on the Internet,
and it's gotten to a point where it is not
really safe for me to be on the Internet right now.
So I'm going to take a step back until probably
after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
There's more here, just until Christmas.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Wait, I thought she was not like quitting.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's what made me laugh. This isn't an airport. You
don't have to announce that you're leader.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I mean, if you went silent between now and Christmas
two weeks away. I think most people would simply go,
there's the holidays.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
She made a good bye video, stunning and brave. You're
taking two weeks off of social media. No, you know
what's happening here? Like nobody should go and do threats?
Right of course, right, you should be nice.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It's like people, you should not be driving past the
governor's mansion and yelling out the artword.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's not a very nice thing. Yet, don't you do Christmas?
Definitely don't do that, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Don't, don't video, you know, don't record it, certainly, shouldn't
post it on social don't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Certainly, shouldn't tag me in those videos. Don't don't do
any of that. It's not nice. Don't don't harass Hope Walls.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
No, what happened is and she had a previous video
that we talked about earlier in the Wink. What happened
is is that her dad has become a national embarrassment
once again.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Everybody is frustrated.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And when she starts posting her ridiculous videos with her
ludicrous hot takes in the wake of all of this controversy,
she's getting all this negative feedback, to which she first
blamed on Russian bots, and now she's decided that she's
going to take a break everybody just for the day.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Thank you two weeks.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
I never thought that I would, you know, have to
do this.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Vacation.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
It's at a point where what is being said on
the internet potentially has, you know, real life consequences that
you know, could potentially harm me or my family, and
that that is where I draw a line. I'm always
going to be someone that stands up for what is
right and for the little guy, but I think right
now I just have to look out for my family
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and my family safety. I know there's so much support.
Sometimes it's hard when you're like in this to see that,
and like I, it's hard for me sometimes, but there
is more support than there is hate. But when you
know the quote unquote hate has real life consequences, I
have to take it seriously. So I see all of
your guys' support. My family sees all of your guys' support.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We like of you guys.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
I'm just not going to post for a couple of weeks,
and you know, I'm starting my other job, and you know,
I'm busy and have things in my every day like
in you know, my material everyday life. So don't want
you guys to worry. I'm just letting you know where
I'm at because I know, and I don't post for
a few days, sometimes you'd be.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Like, ohe were you at? So that's why mot.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
I'm just taking a step back, looking out for me
and my family safety.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
I love you all.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So I don't know if any truth to the rumor,
but I had heard that she's actually going to be
working on side the Minnesota DFL and Nicole Mitchell at
the dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Out on the West Side. So that's a new job.
I don't think that's the case. I don't think that's
the case at all.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Yeah, I don't know what I would have done if
she would not have posted for two weeks and I
didn't hear from her.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
That would be are there people? Are the people watching?
They're going no, that's what she's clamoring for too. Yeah,
for sure, that's that's also what she's doing now that
I say it out loud, that's what she wants.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
She wants people to go no, don't come back, stay strong, hope,
we need your voice.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Two weeks guys, why is she framing it as, you know,
for the safety of myself and my family, I'm gonna
I would have truly like, no problem if she just
said I'm going to take a break for the holidays. Yeah, okay, no,
but she has to try to present herself as the
victim and say I have to do this because there's
mean people on the internet sending scary things to me.
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I just don't don't tack that on, you know, just
be honest about what doing.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Or here's a profound thought, don't say anything, take your
time off. Do we really need to know everything that
you're thinking all of the time.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Is she that big of an influencer that there's gonna
be like panic in that's what every.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
That's what that's what every self important. Good And by
the way, influencer like you're the you're the daughter of
a you're the daughter of a governor. Like you're not
a you're not an influencer. But we don't need to know,
we don't need to know. Go take your two weeks,
disappear for a little while.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's fine.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Inflated ego that somebody has to think that anyone cares
if they're taking two weeks off around the holidays is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh wait, well, so wait, does that mean you're not
going to be sad when I take my two weeks
off for vacation.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Maybe I'm playing this all wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Maybe maybe I should have framed this next week and
you know what, guys, for the safety of me and
my family, it's been a very contentious year.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So I just I'm gonna have to go and take,
you know, the next two weeks off. I will be
back after January first.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But for my own safety and the safety of my family,
maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I should have taken it. I
should have gone that way. Well, maybe I don't know
how to do this thing.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yeah, go go post a long, tear filled TikTok video
John say you know, I know you're all gonna miss
me so much, and then say you're gonna take two
weeks off and just take it like two days off
and then come back like gotcha.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm the host that gets worried about who the national
filling is gonna be and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Whether or not they're a better host than I.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Hey help, congratulations, you just realize that spouting off on
the internet. Internet has real life consequences. Congratulations, you're head
of most of the other dflas.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
All right, Representative Tom Emmer coming up in just a moment,
we will find out the latest on the Obamacare subsidy
batt'll take place in DC. We'll have more with our
guests this morning, Max Rymer and Grace Keating ak Kamara
will be in right at the bottom half of the
hour as well, and of course your comments from the
iHeart or radio app on and off a topic all
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morning long right here on Twin Cities News Talk Am
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 12 (10:19):
Hope Wall's family is protected by a cadre of state troopers.
What danger are you in?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Zip zero zilch.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It is a marshmallow world that we live in, although
I don't know if there's any marshmallows in these or not.
But friend of the show Pat brought by her yearly
tupperware containers filled with homemade cookies.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Grace, you seemed very confused when these came in. You
were like, where are these? What is going on here?
Speaker 7 (10:58):
I don't think you guys understand the quantity. There's like
four enormous containers, enough for like a small Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Just walked into the studio. You could you could feed
an army.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
If you if if they were if they were functioning
solely off of delicious Christmas cookies.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So thank you Pat.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
As always Twin City's News Talk from the six five
to one carpet Next Day Install Studios. That voice is
Grace Keating from American Experiment. We have Representative Max Rymer
with us on a Freedom Friday. Max and the Maxter
Control Booth, his last show of the year, because you're
gone all next week. I am on the air next week,
but you're not here.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's Sam. By the way, did I say Sam?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
What Max?
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Max?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Want to get coffee? I thought I said Sam. After that,
I'm sorry you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yes, Today's my last show for the rest of the year, Bomb,
but you are here next week, just so clear Friday,
my last show of the year. John is here next
week Monday through thirdy.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
All right, let's get back on track on a Freedom Friday,
and we will welcome to the show Representative Tom Emmer.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Good morning, Tom. How are we doing this more?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Sir?
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Oh, it's nice and cold outside and there are no
mosquitoes for miles.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
So give us the latest on what is taking place
with these Obamacare subsidies. I know debate, the debate continues,
you know, expectation of where this goes. Are we going
to be able to come to any sort of agreement
before the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What's the latest on this battle?
Speaker 13 (12:27):
Well, first, John, I will never refer to it by
the name of the former president. It is the Affordable
Care Act. It was created fifteen years ago. And you
remember when the Democrat only bill was passed. They promised
the American people three things. They promised you could keep
your doctor. They promised you that you have more choices
in healthcare, and they also promised that your premiums would
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go down. John, complete lie. They're all for three on
all of them. And now they want to talk about
healthcare subsidies, these Enhanced Premium time Credit. John, premiums are
going up for three hundred million Americans by twenty percent
or more this year. The Enhanced Premium tax credit only
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applies to seven percent of Americans. It's about twenty one
million people out of that three hundred million. And by
the way, it would only reduce their twenty percent some
increase by about four percent. This is the biggest con
job ever by Democrats who broke our healthcare system.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Literally, the discussion right.
Speaker 13 (13:35):
Now is how we fix it and how we move
forward so that Americans can get access to the care
they need by what by having health insurance that's affordable. John,
I don't know if you've seen your premiums, but my
wife Jackie, and I saw ours. The profanity I'm not
going to use on the air, but it's ridiculous that
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these health insurance companies have been getting fat and wealth
over the last fifteen years while Americans have fewer and
fewer choices and can't afford the products, the insurance products
they're putting out. I think you should see you will
find out this Affordable Unaffordable Care Act is not only
broken the healthcare system, but it's rife with fraud. It's
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time that we address the real problem, which is why
I really appreciate my friend Jamie Comer from Kentucky, the
chair of the Oversight Committee, has plans to start calling
in his insurance company executives and asking him what in
God's name are you doing? Why are you gouging the
American people. It's time to fix the system that Democrats
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broke John.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
So it sounds like this is going to be stretching
into in the next year. I know the Democrats have
shown no desire to come to sort of any rational compromise.
As a matter of fact, having some members of Congress
actually been calling for not you know, compromising at all
relating to these subsidies.
Speaker 13 (14:59):
Well, that is the debate, right, and it's not a compromise.
You have members who are like, all right, Democrats set
this up. By the way, You're right, Democrats don't care
about fixing this thing.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
If they did, they would have left.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
There's a cost reduction thing that was in the Working
Families Task Care Act that they took out in the Senate,
I'm going to tell you, and the Democrats fought to
have it taken out that actually would have reduced premiums
for all three hundred million Americans, not just the seven
percent that they're falsely claiming they're trying to save. Right now,
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Democrats just want this as a political issue. But going forward, John,
it's not about the healthcare providers. This is a lot
like what they've done to our ag community.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Right.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
The producers are the ones that are getting hurt, while
the packers and all the others in between. People are
benefiting off of bad government policy. So I don't expect
it to go long when it comes to the healthcare discussion,
because we still have the greatest healthcare in the world.
The issue is people being able to afford access to it,
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and that is the result of skyrocketing insurance premiums. It
is the insurance companies and that reform that we have
to look at, along with just getting all the darn fraud.
This thing has been so dirty for years. It was
built for insurance companies, it was built for everyone but
the American people.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
It's another one of these Democrat.
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Swings and misses that has cost the American people a
lot of money that Donald Trump and the Republicans are
going to fix.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
One last thing before I let you go, You mentioned fraud.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I know you've been very vocal over your frustration of
what's taking place under Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
We have.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yesterday, we had a chance to speak with the CMS administrator,
doctor Oz. If you missed that conversation, you can check
out the podcast second hour of yesterday's show, wherein I
know he's expecting to get updates from the Walls and
administration regarding what they're doing in looking at the various
aspects of fraud. I just wanted to give you an
opportunity to share your to share your thoughts this morning
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before I let you go on where things stand into
these federal and investigations with what has happened to under
Governor Tim Walls and the fraud here in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Tom.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
Yeah, First, I have to there's another fraud going on.
I mean, John, we've been trying to raise the alarm
on this for three years. Three years that worthless Star Tribune,
and I'm going to argue the worthless media in the
Twin Cities that were fused to host refuse to hold
Tim Walls and his administration and Keith Ellison accountable that
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they've allowed this to happen just as much because good
Minnesotans are out there reading the nonsense that they put
in that worthless paper and watching the news at night.
We like we're kind of local people, right, John, I mean,
you're one of the few that's actually speaking truth to
this fraudulent power.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Look, Tim Walls and Keith Ellison.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Knew this, think about this tenty seventeen and eighteen. Do
you remember at Democrat Attorney General by the name of
Laurie Swanson. John, she was prosecuting, investigating, and prosecuting Somali
daycare fraud in twenty seventeen and eighteen. And for your
listeners who don't remember, she actually ran for the Democrat
nomination for governor that year against.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Who Tim Walls. Well.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
Tim Walls and Keith Ellison both take office at the
same time.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
And it's really interesting. There's about sixty to eighty.
Speaker 13 (18:28):
Thousand Somalis in Minnesota. These guys can't get votes outside
of the Twin Cities.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I mean, you look at their numbers. It's awful.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
Keith Ellison won by less than a point last time.
What happened when they took office, John Well. Keith Ellison
decided within the Attorney General's office there would be no
more investigations without his approval. John, how many of the
investigations has he approved in the last seven years?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Absolutely none?
Speaker 13 (18:55):
And Tim Walls, by the way, Tim Wallas has benefited
off of this the same way is Ellison. And if
these whistleblowers are real and if what they are claiming
can be documented, and they are claiming that they not
only told Tim Walls about the fraud, but he and
he ignored them, but he retaliated against him.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
John.
Speaker 13 (19:18):
If that's true, then there's criminal activity that has to
be has to be investigated, because I got to tell
you it's hard to understand how over a billion and
screw the Star tribe and now they've got to show
their masks because they refuse to call out the fact
that we've got criminals who have been allowed to run rampant.
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This is not about Not all Somali's are criminals. It
just happens that ninety percent of the people charged, for instance,
in the Feeding our Future scandal are some from the
Somali community. So call out criminals. This is what has
to happen. And these guys they've done nothing. No one
in the Walls administration has been held countable and it
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has to be. It has to be investigated. If this
stuff is true, then people need to be held accountable.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Representative of Tom Emmer. Great to talk with you this morning.
I believe I'll be seeing you on Sunday, but thank
you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Awesome Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Chap has some.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Breaking news by the way, Oh yeah, and it's directly
tied to what we're talking about with Tom Emmer. I
don't know, Max. I don't know if you're aware of
this or not. You're a member of the legislature. I
don't know if you've been informed or if Governor Tim
Wallas reached out to you and you've been holding back.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But apparently Walls is.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Said to unveil a new statewide fraud prevention program today.
Oh yeah that details, according to CBS or on the
programs are scant, but the Governor's office has said it
was built with help from outside forensic experts. I just
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want to say, for the record, I was not consulted,
even though I do consider myself and.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
These these forensic experts were violence interrupters who needed a
new job.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Walls will also name a new director of Program integrity.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Of any Bach everybody who was white man.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Apparently he will be giving details about the program at
a ten thirty am press conference. So very exciting. Who
is the new director? Who would the DFL shooting Cole.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Mitchell coming back? Director of program integrity?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Everybody we resurrected the body of Bernie made off to run.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Our Jennifer Carnahan, no comment. It's a new director. It's
just a rumor by the way that I'm starting right now.
All right, we'll get into more details of this ak Kamar.
We'll be joining us in studio businessman and RNC Committee
representative Max Brime.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Or Gray Skating for miss owner chairments. That's right. I'm sorry,
I jaged in this business. Get it right, all right, I'm.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Gonna take a break, enjoy a ding dong, and we'll
get back to the show on a Freedom Friday. Here
just a moment on Twin City's news Talk Am eleven
thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You're fascinating to talk to kt Olka, I mean eleven
thirty Minneapolis. I'm Saint Paul.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
I do want to make sure that I cover one
other thing that the chairman spoke about. He specifically said
that he's concerned about the fraud. He's not given us numbers,
but I can give you some numbers if we're concerned
about how much money it may be costing us. Because
systems are not perfect. We have no perfect systems. We
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have always had some level of fraud in anything that
we have, because there's no such thing as perfection walking
on this earth.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You mentioned defraud, like I mentioned going to the club.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
That's your next Democrat Senate candidate from Texas right there
as a Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
People need to stop worrying about mass fraud because no
system is perfect and there's always been fraud.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
And you think that any of these positions the Walls
is putting in we should take seriously. If you're a
liberal listening to this, we don't believe anything that he
has to say, because all he's going to do is
put one of his corrupt cronies in there.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So this is a nothing burger. He's just trying to say.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Face let's say how tough he is on corruption.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yeah he's not. He's the king of corruption, No kings.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Nicely done there, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Talkback's brought to you from the iHeartRadio app by Lindahl
Realty in studio this morning from American Experiment American Experiment.
In the American Experiment podcast is Grace Keating. We have
representative of Max Reimer and ak Kamara is making his
way up right now. We were talking about this off
the air just a moment ago in the six five
one Carpet plus Next Day Install studios that Governor Tim
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Walls is set to announce a new massive effort relating
to tackling fraud, and apparently this is going to have
a new integrity director. Another question is who is that
integrity director going to be? But the talkback kind of
echo of what we were saying off air during the
break and this just reeks of desperation at this point
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in time.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
This is literally the definition of hiring an arsonist to
come put out your fire.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That is what is about to happen here.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
He's feeling the heat. I really think he's feeling the heat.
To your point, I want to get back to the
looking at the story here. I want to make sure
I got this right. Yes, a new director of program
integrity and it'll be a new statewide fraud prevention program.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
This is completely unnecessary.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
If you just identify when the increase in the funding
requests take place and begin to examine that immediately, you
could a stop to all of this. There's no need
for a new fraud prevention program or a director you know,
of integrity for any of this.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's completely it's completely unnecessary. It's gonna do nothing.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
This is Walls trying desperately to change the search results
when you type Walls fraud into Google that's what this.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Is great point. Yeah, you're absolutely right, he wants to
change the dialogue.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
But he had eight years to figure this out. All
this fraud started happening under his watch. We've had Democrats
before Tim Walls that it didn't have nearly the amount
of fraud or the problems that Tim Walls has had,
and Tim Wallis has turned a blind eye to it.
He's turned the focus on other things that he's wanted
to turn the focus on. How can we expect this
guy to start doing something about fraud when he hasn't
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done anything about fraud in seven years and straight up
ignored it as he was running for vice president.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So in the Minneapolis Times, there was an editorial that
I shared on the show from Tom Horner and it
was basically why Walls shouldn't run. Okay, and I had
covered this again on the show. Well, there's a counterpoint
that I wanted to share with you guys. Counterpoint why
Governor Tim Walls is running in twenty twenty six. So
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this is written by cot Conrad lang Zibakowski, very prominent
within Minneapolis specific politics. He's run for a bunch of
district seats and stuff like that. I've seen his name before,
so this.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Is what he has to say.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Because I was very curious what a Walls supporter? You know,
how a will I spin it? Yeah? How does the
Walls supporter look at Walls? You know who's running and
justify it?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So let's let's get through this a bit.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Recently, Tom Horner wrote in these pages asking why Governor
Tim Walls was running for reelection. I spoke with Walls
a few weeks ago on this very topic at a
Senate DFL event. Walls is very transparent about why he
is running, and he makes a strong case.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, right.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
The short answer is that Walls is the most qualified
candidates to candidate in the present arena to run for governor.
With two terms of experience and many lessons learned over
the years of crisis, Walls is uniquely qualified to run
again as Minnesota's chief executive. Walls is relatively young at
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sixty one years old. I'm sorry, sixty one years wise,
he writes and even runs, and even runs competitively, posting
a great time on the Twin Cities ten mile alongside
his daughter Hope.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
This is why he should be our governor.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
That is because he can he has good run times,
they've got nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I'm only two paragraphs into six paragraph article.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Ak Kamara, good morning, Good morning somebody.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You know it started to reign and sleep, So be
careful out there while you're driving because it's like fifteen
degrees outside.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But I've had a great week.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I got to go to Pinkies up Washington, DC, go
to the Vice President's residence and President Trump unannounced showed
up and riffed for like an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So that was super dope.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
And shout out to Melinda for this amazing gift package.
It is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I got a ding dong in there too.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You were here, You were here, I was, and I'll
be honest, I did not know that this is what
a ding dog is.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Okay, I thought.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Ding dongs were different, because remember I was telling you
I thought it was the log and You're like, nope, yeah,
I guess I'm not a fan of ding dong.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It was the log.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
I'm a fan of logs, not ding dongs.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I do take it personally, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I want to get back to your visit in just
a moment. First off, though, we got to continue running
through Conrad Zipbekowski's and his reasons why Governor Tim Wallas
is running so so far.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Go over that last one, okay, so so let me
do it again.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
So two terms of experience, lessons learned during years of
the crisis that we've endured, uniquely qualified to run as
Minnesota's chief exiscutive, relatively young at sixty one years wise,
and even runs competitively, posting a great time on the
Twin Cities ten mile alongside his daughter Hope.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So he's had the job. He's relatively young, and he
doesn't die when he runs.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
And he runs, Listen, I want to put my hat
in the ring for governor because I can bench press
two hundred and twenty five pounds at least one time.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Critically, it's my qualification.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Walls has said publicly that he will not be running
for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
That is a flat out no.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
He says he sees his responsibility to Minnesotan's to serve
the state well and running for the highest office conflicts
with that. So we have he has the job already,
he's relatively young, he runs and apparently he won't leave.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So he says, that's.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Kind of like holding a gun to your head and
being like, this is the reason I should be reelected.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Walls and DFL legislators have overcome unprecedented challenge like the
pandemic to provide historic investment in education, define overcome, prioritize
clean energy and more. Okay, so he spent a lot
of money and he put clean energy at the top.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Of a list.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
With the second trifecta DFL legislative majorities and his signature
pin we can do more to improve the lives of
Minnesotan's in every corner of the state.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So essentially, he did things he was governor. Oh yeah,
he did. He did things he was governor, So he
should keep being governor. By the way, over.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Saying overcoming challenges, think of every challenge we've had in
the last six years, and could I'm asking this question genuinely,
could it have been handled worse? Could COVID have been
handled worse than what Governor Wallas did? Could the riots
have been handled worse? So using the word overcome is
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a pretty liberal definition of that word.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
It's been miss after miss for miss.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Grinchy Harton or something.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
We have two more paragraphs here. So far, I'm not
really seeing any good reasons beside the fact that he's
had the job.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Okay, Joe Biden was twenty years older than Tim Walls
is now when the disastrous debate took place. US Senator
Amy Klobashar, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Elis, and two of
the leading candidates who intended to run should Wall step aside,
are both older than Walls.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Senate majority of the leader, Aaron Murphy.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Murphy once arrival to Walls, is also older than him.
If we were to pass the baton to a younger generation,
that would mean a messy endorsement and primary and much
reduced chances of success for a candidate with a far
lower name recognition.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So age again, what is the.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Is he insecure about looking old? Because he's got some
white hair and he's a little bald, looks that's the
vibe I'm getting.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Yeah, but he looks it's way older than his actual age.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Like that's it.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Like he looks like he's in his seventies, like pushing
mid seventies. And you know, no shade against people in
their mid seventies. But when you tell people that he's
like sixty, people are like, no, he's not. I'm like, yeah,
he's literally sixties I've never heard a.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Candidate focused this much on convincing people that he's younger
than him.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
He's a gen xer, but he looks like he's a
baby boomer.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Just remember that that's crazy. It's a T shirt.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
This is what happens when you there's nothing. There's nothing
for anybody to point to like. This is one of
Walls's biggest supporters. You know, an individual heavily involved in
Minneapolis politics, has the opportunity to write an editorial counterpoint
on whise Walls should run, and there's nothing here he
ends on this. The simple answer is that no incumbent
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governor DFL or GOP has lost a bid for reelection
in thirty five years. Walls is not running for president.
He's here to serve the people who have been Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Any baggage from the last eight years would certainly fall
even more heavy on a new DFL candidate.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Says, who what, So choose the one that has caused
all the failure, please.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Because it's going to be more difficult for a different
DFL candidate that was not governor. In the midst of
all this national coverage of the fraud that we've had
to endure.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Was he paid by Walls to write this. Genuinely, he
must have. I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
There is a weird fixation here on age and looks
happening too. It's like, are we going to see Walls
come home with a bunch of plastic surgery?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Please?
Speaker 8 (33:32):
Is Walls going to start looks maxing as the kids says,
he's going to look maxing.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
He's going to get the plugs, the flashy car.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Just flowing like you heard this, all these gen zs doing,
all these gen Z men doing looks maxing where they're
like doing jaw training and they're doing what's called bone smashing,
where they like smash their cheeks to like form their jaw.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's what Tim Wallas is going to be doing. He's
super gay coated and that's cool.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
I mean nothing against that, but like, uh, if you
are like shaping your eyebrows and like getting like facial surgery,
like that is a very very not masculine thing to do,
So don't do look vaccine.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I want Walls to get a hair piece, and I
want it to look like the head of hair that cherid.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Sanity, because as they can switch hair, that would be
that would be amazing and his eyebrows. That would be
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
What's up, my fellow kids, I'm running for reelection.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It's got the skateboard on his back.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
The editorial ends with this sentence, the best, the best
path forward is to lead with positive, inclusive vision of
what walls can be, excuse me, what Minnesota can be,
and celebrate the popular legislation we can build upon for
another DFL trifecta in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You know, we're in chaos. We're in chaos right now.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
This this whole state is falling apart because of Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Like seriously, it's like, hey.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
Mister Arson, come come put out this fire that you created.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Thanks for sharing that.
Speaker 12 (35:01):
Ak Now that I know I'm a exer with walls
makes me feel just.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Right right out of the gate there, akay, right out
of the.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Hey John, great show today, it's your boy tearing here
from the Crescent.
Speaker 11 (35:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Overcome the pandemic, I mean, lock everything down, crush the
local economy, strap two, strap uh face diapers on two
year old, and then forced everybody to get experimental vaccines.
That's overcoming the pandemic while locking old people into you know,
nursing homes and stuff. This is crazy overcoming the pandemic.
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That's the lowest bar ever set. All right, thanks for
the talkback today, have it.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Thank you for the comment. Greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
I want to go through by the way, this is
a quick one that I want to share with you guys.
I had grabbed this earlier in the week, but it
was fairly benign, and I actually had gone to go
and recycle it because I wasn't going to cover it,
and then something popped up on my feet and I
felt like it was worse sharing. So there was an
article when the Minnesota Reformer and the headline was survey
Minnesota students faring better compared to a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Now it caught my.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Attention because obviously we've talked a lot about, you know,
the education system here, the lack of proficiency in reading,
in math. They lowered the standards as it relates to
graduation to increase the graduation rates. And then suddenly you
have this, you know, this article, this survey students faring
better than compared a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
So I look into it and it's basically about mental health.
What it is though it is a survey done by
the State of Minnesota. It is voluntary and it is anonymous,
and they got this positive outlook.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
So first off, you got a big old question mark,
like wasting the survey out right? Sure, okay.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
In this it says that less than half of Minnesota
students in fifth, eighth, ninth, and eleventh grades completed the
optional survey, which has been administered over the course of
the past few years. So again I grabbed it and
I was like, well, this is interesting, I wonder but
there wasn't anything else to it. And I was like, ah,
you know what, I'm gonna blow it off. I'm doing
prep yesterday and I see this post from Tim Walls
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new we're seeing a reversal in a decades long trend
of declining student mental health.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Over the last few years, we've been invested.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
In free school meals, public schools, teacher training, and mental
health resources. Today we're seeing the results. I'm sorry, today
we're seeing the results. And I just stopped and I
went he's basing it off of this voluntary, mononymous survey
that was conducted by the State of Minnesota. You know,
these are the little tiny things, the nefarious chipping away
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and the narratives that they form, and it really speaks
to the lengths.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
That they will go to.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Now, I don't have any evidence that this survey was bogus,
you know, in terms.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Of people filling it out, but to say it's suspect, right,
And that's.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
The least thing you can say when you see the
combination of these two together where suddenly now he's touting, oh, look,
we're seeing a reversal in this decade long trend of
declining student health and it's all because we're giving out
free meals.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Yeah, but here's the thing, Like, this is what democrats
do all the time. They will literally create a cherry
picked data story and then they'll use that as a
fact basis that then everyone else refers to without referring
to it directly. But if you dig deep enough, you
know there is still some journalistic ethics. They will tag
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what the source is and you'll come to realize that
democrats do this all the time. It will be sourced
to material that is cherry picked data, and then everyone
will be like, you know, there was a there was
a survey that showed that this this is truly what's happening,
And then it becomes part of like, oh, well, yeah,
everyone's referring to a thing that was never scrutinized and
it's just one falls. But this is what narrative, This
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is what Walls has to do. With all of the
fraud narrative going on, he has to try and find
other places where they really just like fill up all
the narrative juice, and then that kind of runs around everywhere,
so everyone can be like, well, do you know that
Minnesota is doing a lot better because of the actions
of Tim Walls and all these little things.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
To Aka's point, this is the circular content machine that
that Democrats create, right. Story is basically or survey is
initiated by the state of Minnesota. I am telling you
just based on the people who come down to the
capitol that was organized, the people who got that survey,
the schools that got that survey and administered it were encouraged,
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highly encouraged by the state of Minnesota to do so.
That data point is then taken by a publication so that,
to Aka's point, it can be referenced back over and
over again. This is how if you ever heard Tim
Walls on the vice presidential campaign trail or the governor
campaign trail, Tim Walls would always throw out Minnesota's number
three in business, number three business. Well, what does that mean, right?
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It means nothing. It means that somebody created some bogus
survey at some point in time to show that Minneapolis
or Minnesota was like thriving in business, and maybe they
had twelve business owners who were Walls downers.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Who filled it out.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
Tim Wallas is referencing some vague survey in the in
the nebulous atmosphere of the Internet, to say we're number
three in business, when no, we aren't. No one believes that,
Like it's a ridiculous claim. But Ak's right. This is
the circular content machine that democrats participate in.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Just file this away.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Just file this away as we head into next year,
because you will see Walls end up using this at
someone when a debate comes up, when something else comes up,
file this away, and just remember that in this particular instance,
that's what the starting point was in this case relating
to the mental health of students because they have so
little that they can go and hang their hat on
regarding education.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
And I'm glad he's picked this issue because there are
few issues that Americans agree on as widely as the
fact that there's a mental health crisis among teenagers and
pre teens.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I could go on and.
Speaker 7 (41:07):
On about that, but I don't think that this statistic
is going to resonate with people, especially in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I mean, I leave it there.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
Yeah, coming up, we got more with our guests this morning.
We have ak Kamara, a business owner, an RNC committeeman.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I called you business Presidential residence visitor to get the.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yeah, we got to talk about both of your visits.
I believe we have a special gift that we'll be
doing on air from Sam a little bit later on
in the show. Right around our talkback of the day,
I have I want to talk a little bit about
paid family sick leave again. I have an email that
came in. Just wait, do not go anywhere. You have
to hear this email from a listener who's presenting another
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real world scenario of what she's witnessing already with regard
to paid family leave. Like, if you thought it was
ridiculous already, we're beginning to find out like the scenarios
involved in which people can take advantage of this are
far beyond our wildest dreams. And this particular email that
I received. It's a perfect example of that. Don't go anywhere.
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after a couple of weeks, as is Max Rhymer.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So good morning to the both of you.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Good morning, glad to be here. How have your holidays
been so far? I mean, do we say that ahead.
We say that ahead of Christmas, I mean it's holiday holidays, Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, get yeah, Yeah, you've been traveling right.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:16):
I was in DC last weekend for the National Christmas
Tree Lighting.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Nice ceremony.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
How was that?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was cold? It was cold, It was fun, it
was cool.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Uh, you know, saw the President speak and Milania, you know,
lit the tree and it was a cool group assembled there.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But we were outside for many hours in the colds.
I am uh, I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I asked you that because I actually have in the
stack some Malania Christmas stories that I was thinking about
getting too, so it might be a propos coming up
in the in the eight o'clock hour.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How are about things with you and the kids? The
kid's excited You're going to see me.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Like, yeah, yeah, we're leaving for my mom's house this
weekend to have a pre Christmas Christmas and they're excited.
It's that time of year. I will just say that
I didn't know Sam and I were in Naples, Florida
at the same time. I learned that walking in. Yeah,
we didn't even know. We didn't even know. So I
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host as part of my company, our ownership group, we
put on a conference for real estate agents in Naples, Florida,
every year, so you get about three hundred of our
clients down there. We have a bunch of good speakers.
But I was in Naples in eighty five degree weather
from Wednesday until Sunday, and then I came back. In
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the day after I came back, I had to snowblow
almost a foot of snow off my driveway.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I had no idea that Sam was even I had
no idea even Florida. I get a text from Sam.
He's like, I just went by Alligator Alcatraz and I
was like what. Sam was like, it's a real thing.
I know so little about the producers on the show.
I just discovered yesterday. I just discovered yesterday that Devin
was married.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I got to do a conversation on the air, and
I brought him into a scenario. I'm like, you know
if Devin ever got married? On the mic is like,
I am married.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I go if you are. No, I had no idea
on Monday and Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Did you get confused when you looked over here and
saw Brett sitting in the chair.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, No, John doesn't ask questions. Yeah, yeah, I don't
all right, let's go here on the Freedom Friday.
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Speaker 8 (03:21):
Oh Balls is quitting social media?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, like, I guess, like the only thing I could say,
like is it's good news for my liver.
Speaker 9 (03:35):
If you follow me, know me, know anything about me,
you know that I'm not one to back down, and often.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I you know, accept them good to backdown.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Fact to the opposite of that, and that is you
know who I am, what I use this platform for.
But when it comes to like my safety and my
family safety, there has to be a line there. And
in the past few days there have been some things
that have crossed that line. I have gotten some really
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scary emails, you know, DMS comments, just stuff on the Internet,
and it's gotten to a point where it is not
really safe for me to be on the Internet right now.
So I'm going to take a step back until probably
after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
There's more here, just until Christmas.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
Wait, I thought she was not like quitting.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That's what made me laugh. This isn't an airport. You
don't have to announce that you're leader.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I mean, if you went silent between now and Christmas
two weeks away. I think most people would simply go,
there's the holidays.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
She made a good bye video, stunning and brave. You're
taking two weeks off of social media. No, you know
what's happening here? Like nobody should go and do threats?
Right of course, right, you should be nice.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
It's like people, you should not be driving past the
governor's mansion and yelling out the artword.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's not a very nice thing. Yet, don't you do Christmas?
Definitely don't do that, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Don't, don't video, you know, don't record it, certainly, shouldn't
post it on social don't do it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Certainly, shouldn't tag me in those videos. Don't don't do
any of that. It's not nice. Don't don't harass Hope Walls.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
No, what happened is and she had a previous video
that we talked about earlier in the Wink. What happened
is is that her dad has become a national embarrassment
once again.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Everybody is frustrated.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
And when she starts posting her ridiculous videos with her
ludicrous hot takes in the wake of all of this controversy,
she's getting all this negative feedback, to which she first
blamed on Russian bots, and now she's decided that she's
going to take a break everybody just for the day.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Thank you two weeks.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
I never thought that I would, you know, have to
do this.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Vacation.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
It's at a point where what is being said on
the internet potentially has, you know, real life consequences that
you know, could potentially harm me or my family, and
that that is where I draw a line. I'm always
going to be someone that stands up for what is
right and for the little guy, but I think right
now I just have to look out for my family
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and my family safety. I know there's so much support.
Sometimes it's hard when you're like in this to see that,
and like I, it's hard for me sometimes, but there
is more support than there is hate. But when you
know the quote unquote hate has real life consequences, I
have to take it seriously. So I see all of
your guys' support. My family sees all of your guys' support.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We like of you guys.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
I'm just not going to post for a couple of weeks,
and you know, I'm starting my other job, and you know,
I'm busy and have things in my every day like
in you know, my material everyday life. So don't want
you guys to worry. I'm just letting you know where
I'm at because I know, and I don't post for
a few days, sometimes you'd be.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Like, ohe were you at? So that's why mot.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
I'm just taking a step back, looking out for me
and my family safety.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
I love you all.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
So I don't know if any truth to the rumor,
but I had heard that she's actually going to be
working on side the Minnesota DFL and Nicole Mitchell at
the dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Out on the West Side. So that's a new job.
I don't think that's the case. I don't think that's
the case at all.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Yeah, I don't know what I would have done if
she would not have posted for two weeks and I
didn't hear from her.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
That would be are there people? Are the people watching?
They're going no, that's what she's clamoring for too. Yeah,
for sure, that's that's also what she's doing now that
I say it out loud, that's what she wants.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
She wants people to go no, don't come back, stay strong, hope,
we need your voice.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Two weeks guys, why is she framing it as, you know,
for the safety of myself and my family, I'm gonna
I would have truly like, no problem if she just
said I'm going to take a break for the holidays. Yeah, okay, no,
but she has to try to present herself as the
victim and say I have to do this because there's
mean people on the internet sending scary things to me.
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I just don't don't tack that on, you know, just
be honest about what doing.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Or here's a profound thought, don't say anything, take your
time off. Do we really need to know everything that
you're thinking all of the time.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Is she that big of an influencer that there's gonna
be like panic in that's what every.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
That's what that's what every self important. Good And by
the way, influencer like you're the you're the daughter of
a you're the daughter of a governor. Like you're not
a you're not an influencer. But we don't need to know,
we don't need to know. Go take your two weeks,
disappear for a little while.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That's fine.
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Inflated ego that somebody has to think that anyone cares
if they're taking two weeks off around the holidays is unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh wait, well, so wait, does that mean you're not
going to be sad when I take my two weeks
off for vacation.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Maybe I'm playing this all wrong.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Maybe maybe I should have framed this next week and
you know what, guys, for the safety of me and
my family, it's been a very contentious year.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So I just I'm gonna have to go and take,
you know, the next two weeks off. I will be
back after January first.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But for my own safety and the safety of my family,
maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I should have taken it. I
should have gone that way. Well, maybe I don't know
how to do this thing.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Yeah, go go post a long, tear filled TikTok video
John say you know, I know you're all gonna miss
me so much, and then say you're gonna take two
weeks off and just take it like two days off
and then come back like gotcha.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I'm the host that gets worried about who the national
filling is gonna be and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Whether or not they're a better host than I.
Speaker 11 (09:40):
Hey help, congratulations, you just realize that spouting off on
the internet. Internet has real life consequences. Congratulations, you're head
of most of the other dflas.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
All right, Representative Tom Emmer coming up in just a moment,
we will find out the latest on the Obamacare subsidy
batt'll take place in DC. We'll have more with our
guests this morning, Max Rymer and Grace Keating ak Kamara
will be in right at the bottom half of the
hour as well, and of course your comments from the
iHeart or radio app on and off a topic all
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morning long right here on Twin Cities News Talk Am
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 12 (10:19):
Hope Wall's family is protected by a cadre of state troopers.
What danger are you in?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Zip zero zilch.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It is a marshmallow world that we live in, although
I don't know if there's any marshmallows in these or not.
But friend of the show Pat brought by her yearly
tupperware containers filled with homemade cookies.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Grace, you seemed very confused when these came in. You
were like, where are these? What is going on here?
Speaker 7 (10:58):
I don't think you guys understand the quantity. There's like
four enormous containers, enough for like a small Christmas party.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Just walked into the studio. You could you could feed
an army.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
If you if if they were if they were functioning
solely off of delicious Christmas cookies.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
So thank you Pat.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
As always Twin City's News Talk from the six five
to one carpet Next Day Install Studios. That voice is
Grace Keating from American Experiment. We have Representative Max Rymer
with us on a Freedom Friday. Max and the Maxter
Control Booth, his last show of the year, because you're
gone all next week. I am on the air next week,
but you're not here.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's Sam. By the way, did I say Sam?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
What Max?
Speaker 11 (11:36):
Max?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Want to get coffee? I thought I said Sam. After that,
I'm sorry you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yes, Today's my last show for the rest of the year, Bomb,
but you are here next week, just so clear Friday,
my last show of the year. John is here next
week Monday through thirdy.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
There we go.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
All right, let's get back on track on a Freedom Friday,
and we will welcome to the show Representative Tom Emmer.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Good morning, Tom. How are we doing this more?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Sir?
Speaker 13 (12:01):
Oh, it's nice and cold outside and there are no
mosquitoes for miles.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
So give us the latest on what is taking place
with these Obamacare subsidies. I know debate, the debate continues,
you know, expectation of where this goes. Are we going
to be able to come to any sort of agreement
before the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
What's the latest on this battle?
Speaker 13 (12:27):
Well, first, John, I will never refer to it by
the name of the former president. It is the Affordable
Care Act. It was created fifteen years ago. And you
remember when the Democrat only bill was passed. They promised
the American people three things. They promised you could keep
your doctor. They promised you that you have more choices
in healthcare, and they also promised that your premiums would
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go down. John, complete lie. They're all for three on
all of them. And now they want to talk about
healthcare subsidies, these Enhanced Premium time Credit. John, premiums are
going up for three hundred million Americans by twenty percent
or more this year. The Enhanced Premium tax credit only
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applies to seven percent of Americans. It's about twenty one
million people out of that three hundred million. And by
the way, it would only reduce their twenty percent some
increase by about four percent. This is the biggest con
job ever by Democrats who broke our healthcare system.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Literally, the discussion right.
Speaker 13 (13:35):
Now is how we fix it and how we move
forward so that Americans can get access to the care
they need by what by having health insurance that's affordable. John,
I don't know if you've seen your premiums, but my
wife Jackie, and I saw ours. The profanity I'm not
going to use on the air, but it's ridiculous that
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these health insurance companies have been getting fat and wealth
over the last fifteen years while Americans have fewer and
fewer choices and can't afford the products, the insurance products
they're putting out. I think you should see you will
find out this Affordable Unaffordable Care Act is not only
broken the healthcare system, but it's rife with fraud. It's
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time that we address the real problem, which is why
I really appreciate my friend Jamie Comer from Kentucky, the
chair of the Oversight Committee, has plans to start calling
in his insurance company executives and asking him what in
God's name are you doing? Why are you gouging the
American people. It's time to fix the system that Democrats
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broke John.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
So it sounds like this is going to be stretching
into in the next year. I know the Democrats have
shown no desire to come to sort of any rational compromise.
As a matter of fact, having some members of Congress
actually been calling for not you know, compromising at all
relating to these subsidies.
Speaker 13 (14:59):
Well, that is the debate, right, and it's not a compromise.
You have members who are like, all right, Democrats set
this up. By the way, You're right, Democrats don't care
about fixing this thing.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
If they did, they would have left.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
There's a cost reduction thing that was in the Working
Families Task Care Act that they took out in the Senate,
I'm going to tell you, and the Democrats fought to
have it taken out that actually would have reduced premiums
for all three hundred million Americans, not just the seven
percent that they're falsely claiming they're trying to save. Right now,
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Democrats just want this as a political issue. But going forward, John,
it's not about the healthcare providers. This is a lot
like what they've done to our ag community.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Right.
Speaker 13 (15:45):
The producers are the ones that are getting hurt, while
the packers and all the others in between. People are
benefiting off of bad government policy. So I don't expect
it to go long when it comes to the healthcare discussion,
because we still have the greatest healthcare in the world.
The issue is people being able to afford access to it,
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and that is the result of skyrocketing insurance premiums. It
is the insurance companies and that reform that we have
to look at, along with just getting all the darn fraud.
This thing has been so dirty for years. It was
built for insurance companies, it was built for everyone but
the American people.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
It's another one of these Democrat.
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Swings and misses that has cost the American people a
lot of money that Donald Trump and the Republicans are
going to fix.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
One last thing before I let you go, You mentioned fraud.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I know you've been very vocal over your frustration of
what's taking place under Governor Tim Walls.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
We have.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yesterday, we had a chance to speak with the CMS administrator,
doctor Oz. If you missed that conversation, you can check
out the podcast second hour of yesterday's show, wherein I
know he's expecting to get updates from the Walls and
administration regarding what they're doing in looking at the various
aspects of fraud. I just wanted to give you an
opportunity to share your to share your thoughts this morning
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before I let you go on where things stand into
these federal and investigations with what has happened to under
Governor Tim Walls and the fraud here in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Tom.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
Yeah, First, I have to there's another fraud going on.
I mean, John, we've been trying to raise the alarm
on this for three years. Three years that worthless Star Tribune,
and I'm going to argue the worthless media in the
Twin Cities that were fused to host refuse to hold
Tim Walls and his administration and Keith Ellison accountable that
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they've allowed this to happen just as much because good
Minnesotans are out there reading the nonsense that they put
in that worthless paper and watching the news at night.
We like we're kind of local people, right, John, I mean,
you're one of the few that's actually speaking truth to
this fraudulent power.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Look, Tim Walls and Keith Ellison.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Knew this, think about this tenty seventeen and eighteen. Do
you remember at Democrat Attorney General by the name of
Laurie Swanson. John, she was prosecuting, investigating, and prosecuting Somali
daycare fraud in twenty seventeen and eighteen. And for your
listeners who don't remember, she actually ran for the Democrat
nomination for governor that year against.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Who Tim Walls. Well.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
Tim Walls and Keith Ellison both take office at the
same time.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
And it's really interesting. There's about sixty to eighty.
Speaker 13 (18:28):
Thousand Somalis in Minnesota. These guys can't get votes outside
of the Twin Cities.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
I mean, you look at their numbers. It's awful.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
Keith Ellison won by less than a point last time.
What happened when they took office, John Well. Keith Ellison
decided within the Attorney General's office there would be no
more investigations without his approval. John, how many of the
investigations has he approved in the last seven years?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Absolutely none?
Speaker 13 (18:55):
And Tim Walls, by the way, Tim Wallas has benefited
off of this the same way is Ellison. And if
these whistleblowers are real and if what they are claiming
can be documented, and they are claiming that they not
only told Tim Walls about the fraud, but he and
he ignored them, but he retaliated against him.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
John.
Speaker 13 (19:18):
If that's true, then there's criminal activity that has to
be has to be investigated, because I got to tell
you it's hard to understand how over a billion and
screw the Star tribe and now they've got to show
their masks because they refuse to call out the fact
that we've got criminals who have been allowed to run rampant.
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This is not about Not all Somali's are criminals. It
just happens that ninety percent of the people charged, for instance,
in the Feeding our Future scandal are some from the
Somali community. So call out criminals. This is what has
to happen. And these guys they've done nothing. No one
in the Walls administration has been held countable and it
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has to be. It has to be investigated. If this
stuff is true, then people need to be held accountable.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Representative of Tom Emmer. Great to talk with you this morning.
I believe I'll be seeing you on Sunday, but thank
you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Awesome Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Chap has some.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Breaking news by the way, Oh yeah, and it's directly
tied to what we're talking about with Tom Emmer. I
don't know, Max. I don't know if you're aware of
this or not. You're a member of the legislature. I
don't know if you've been informed or if Governor Tim
Wallas reached out to you and you've been holding back.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But apparently Walls is.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Said to unveil a new statewide fraud prevention program today.
Oh yeah that details, according to CBS or on the
programs are scant, but the Governor's office has said it
was built with help from outside forensic experts. I just
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want to say, for the record, I was not consulted,
even though I do consider myself and.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
These these forensic experts were violence interrupters who needed a
new job.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Walls will also name a new director of Program integrity.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Of any Bach everybody who was white man.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Apparently he will be giving details about the program at
a ten thirty am press conference. So very exciting. Who
is the new director? Who would the DFL shooting Cole.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Mitchell coming back? Director of program integrity?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Everybody we resurrected the body of Bernie made off to run.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Our Jennifer Carnahan, no comment. It's a new director. It's
just a rumor by the way that I'm starting right now.
All right, we'll get into more details of this ak Kamar.
We'll be joining us in studio businessman and RNC Committee
representative Max Brime.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Or Gray Skating for miss owner chairments. That's right. I'm sorry,
I jaged in this business. Get it right, all right, I'm.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Gonna take a break, enjoy a ding dong, and we'll
get back to the show on a Freedom Friday. Here
just a moment on Twin City's news Talk Am eleven
thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You're fascinating to talk to kt Olka, I mean eleven
thirty Minneapolis. I'm Saint Paul.
Speaker 14 (22:27):
I do want to make sure that I cover one
other thing that the chairman spoke about. He specifically said
that he's concerned about the fraud. He's not given us numbers,
but I can give you some numbers if we're concerned
about how much money it may be costing us. Because
systems are not perfect. We have no perfect systems. We
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have always had some level of fraud in anything that
we have, because there's no such thing as perfection walking
on this earth.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You mentioned defraud, like I mentioned going to the club.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
That's your next Democrat Senate candidate from Texas right there
as a Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
People need to stop worrying about mass fraud because no
system is perfect and there's always been fraud.
Speaker 12 (23:12):
And you think that any of these positions the Walls
is putting in we should take seriously. If you're a
liberal listening to this, we don't believe anything that he
has to say, because all he's going to do is
put one of his corrupt cronies in there.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So this is a nothing burger. He's just trying to say.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Face let's say how tough he is on corruption.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yeah he's not. He's the king of corruption, No kings.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Nicely done there, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Talkback's brought to you from the iHeartRadio app by Lindahl
Realty in studio this morning from American Experiment American Experiment.
In the American Experiment podcast is Grace Keating. We have
representative of Max Reimer and ak Kamara is making his
way up right now. We were talking about this off
the air just a moment ago in the six five
one Carpet plus Next Day Install studios that Governor Tim
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Walls is set to announce a new massive effort relating
to tackling fraud, and apparently this is going to have
a new integrity director. Another question is who is that
integrity director going to be? But the talkback kind of
echo of what we were saying off air during the
break and this just reeks of desperation at this point
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in time.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
This is literally the definition of hiring an arsonist to
come put out your fire.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That is what is about to happen here.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
He's feeling the heat. I really think he's feeling the heat.
To your point, I want to get back to the
looking at the story here. I want to make sure
I got this right. Yes, a new director of program
integrity and it'll be a new statewide fraud prevention program.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
This is completely unnecessary.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
If you just identify when the increase in the funding
requests take place and begin to examine that immediately, you
could a stop to all of this. There's no need
for a new fraud prevention program or a director you know,
of integrity for any of this.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's completely it's completely unnecessary. It's gonna do nothing.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
This is Walls trying desperately to change the search results
when you type Walls fraud into Google that's what this.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Is great point. Yeah, you're absolutely right, he wants to
change the dialogue.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
But he had eight years to figure this out. All
this fraud started happening under his watch. We've had Democrats
before Tim Walls that it didn't have nearly the amount
of fraud or the problems that Tim Walls has had,
and Tim Wallis has turned a blind eye to it.
He's turned the focus on other things that he's wanted
to turn the focus on. How can we expect this
guy to start doing something about fraud when he hasn't
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done anything about fraud in seven years and straight up
ignored it as he was running for vice president.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So in the Minneapolis Times, there was an editorial that
I shared on the show from Tom Horner and it
was basically why Walls shouldn't run. Okay, and I had
covered this again on the show. Well, there's a counterpoint
that I wanted to share with you guys. Counterpoint why
Governor Tim Walls is running in twenty twenty six. So
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this is written by cot Conrad lang Zibakowski, very prominent
within Minneapolis specific politics. He's run for a bunch of
district seats and stuff like that. I've seen his name before,
so this.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Is what he has to say.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Because I was very curious what a Walls supporter? You know,
how a will I spin it? Yeah? How does the
Walls supporter look at Walls? You know who's running and
justify it?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So let's let's get through this a bit.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Recently, Tom Horner wrote in these pages asking why Governor
Tim Walls was running for reelection. I spoke with Walls
a few weeks ago on this very topic at a
Senate DFL event. Walls is very transparent about why he
is running, and he makes a strong case.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, right.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
The short answer is that Walls is the most qualified
candidates to candidate in the present arena to run for governor.
With two terms of experience and many lessons learned over
the years of crisis, Walls is uniquely qualified to run
again as Minnesota's chief executive. Walls is relatively young at
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sixty one years old. I'm sorry, sixty one years wise,
he writes and even runs, and even runs competitively, posting
a great time on the Twin Cities ten mile alongside
his daughter Hope.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
This is why he should be our governor.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
That is because he can he has good run times,
they've got nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I'm only two paragraphs into six paragraph article.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Ak Kamara, good morning, Good morning somebody.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You know it started to reign and sleep, So be
careful out there while you're driving because it's like fifteen
degrees outside.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But I've had a great week.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I got to go to Pinkies up Washington, DC, go
to the Vice President's residence and President Trump unannounced showed
up and riffed for like an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
So that was super dope.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
And shout out to Melinda for this amazing gift package.
It is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I got a ding dong in there too.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
You were here, You were here, I was, and I'll
be honest, I did not know that this is what
a ding dog is.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Okay, I thought.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Ding dongs were different, because remember I was telling you
I thought it was the log and You're like, nope, yeah,
I guess I'm not a fan of ding dong.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It was the log.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
I'm a fan of logs, not ding dongs.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I do take it personally, all right.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I want to get back to your visit in just
a moment. First off, though, we got to continue running
through Conrad Zipbekowski's and his reasons why Governor Tim Wallas
is running so so far.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Go over that last one, okay, so so let me
do it again.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
So two terms of experience, lessons learned during years of
the crisis that we've endured, uniquely qualified to run as
Minnesota's chief exiscutive, relatively young at sixty one years wise,
and even runs competitively, posting a great time on the
Twin Cities ten mile alongside his daughter Hope.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
So he's had the job. He's relatively young, and he
doesn't die when he runs.
Speaker 8 (29:14):
And he runs, Listen, I want to put my hat
in the ring for governor because I can bench press
two hundred and twenty five pounds at least one time.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Critically, it's my qualification.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Walls has said publicly that he will not be running
for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
That is a flat out no.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
He says he sees his responsibility to Minnesotan's to serve
the state well and running for the highest office conflicts
with that. So we have he has the job already,
he's relatively young, he runs and apparently he won't leave.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
So he says, that's.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
Kind of like holding a gun to your head and
being like, this is the reason I should be reelected.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Walls and DFL legislators have overcome unprecedented challenge like the
pandemic to provide historic investment in education, define overcome, prioritize
clean energy and more. Okay, so he spent a lot
of money and he put clean energy at the top.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Of a list.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
With the second trifecta DFL legislative majorities and his signature
pin we can do more to improve the lives of
Minnesotan's in every corner of the state.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So essentially, he did things he was governor. Oh yeah,
he did. He did things he was governor, So he
should keep being governor. By the way, over.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
Saying overcoming challenges, think of every challenge we've had in
the last six years, and could I'm asking this question genuinely,
could it have been handled worse? Could COVID have been
handled worse than what Governor Wallas did? Could the riots
have been handled worse? So using the word overcome is
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a pretty liberal definition of that word.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
It's been miss after miss for miss.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Grinchy Harton or something.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
We have two more paragraphs here. So far, I'm not
really seeing any good reasons beside the fact that he's
had the job.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Okay, Joe Biden was twenty years older than Tim Walls
is now when the disastrous debate took place. US Senator
Amy Klobashar, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Elis, and two of
the leading candidates who intended to run should Wall step aside,
are both older than Walls.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Senate majority of the leader, Aaron Murphy.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Murphy once arrival to Walls, is also older than him.
If we were to pass the baton to a younger generation,
that would mean a messy endorsement and primary and much
reduced chances of success for a candidate with a far
lower name recognition.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So age again, what is the.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Is he insecure about looking old? Because he's got some
white hair and he's a little bald, looks that's the
vibe I'm getting.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Yeah, but he looks it's way older than his actual age.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Like that's it.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Like he looks like he's in his seventies, like pushing
mid seventies. And you know, no shade against people in
their mid seventies. But when you tell people that he's
like sixty, people are like, no, he's not. I'm like, yeah,
he's literally sixties I've never heard a.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Candidate focused this much on convincing people that he's younger
than him.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
He's a gen xer, but he looks like he's a
baby boomer.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Just remember that that's crazy. It's a T shirt.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
This is what happens when you there's nothing. There's nothing
for anybody to point to like. This is one of
Walls's biggest supporters. You know, an individual heavily involved in
Minneapolis politics, has the opportunity to write an editorial counterpoint
on whise Walls should run, and there's nothing here he
ends on this. The simple answer is that no incumbent
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governor DFL or GOP has lost a bid for reelection
in thirty five years. Walls is not running for president.
He's here to serve the people who have been Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Any baggage from the last eight years would certainly fall
even more heavy on a new DFL candidate.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Says, who what, So choose the one that has caused
all the failure, please.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Because it's going to be more difficult for a different
DFL candidate that was not governor. In the midst of
all this national coverage of the fraud that we've had
to endure.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Was he paid by Walls to write this. Genuinely, he
must have. I have no idea.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
There is a weird fixation here on age and looks
happening too. It's like, are we going to see Walls
come home with a bunch of plastic surgery?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Please?
Speaker 8 (33:32):
Is Walls going to start looks maxing as the kids says,
he's going to look maxing.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
He's going to get the plugs, the flashy car.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Just flowing like you heard this, all these gen zs doing,
all these gen Z men doing looks maxing where they're
like doing jaw training and they're doing what's called bone smashing,
where they like smash their cheeks to like form their jaw.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That's what Tim Wallas is going to be doing. He's
super gay coated and that's cool.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
I mean nothing against that, but like, uh, if you
are like shaping your eyebrows and like getting like facial surgery,
like that is a very very not masculine thing to do,
So don't do look vaccine.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I want Walls to get a hair piece, and I
want it to look like the head of hair that cherid.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Sanity, because as they can switch hair, that would be
that would be amazing and his eyebrows. That would be
absolutely amazing.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
What's up, my fellow kids, I'm running for reelection.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
It's got the skateboard on his back.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
The editorial ends with this sentence, the best, the best
path forward is to lead with positive, inclusive vision of
what walls can be, excuse me, what Minnesota can be,
and celebrate the popular legislation we can build upon for
another DFL trifecta in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You know, we're in chaos. We're in chaos right now.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
This this whole state is falling apart because of Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Like seriously, it's like, hey.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
Mister Arson, come come put out this fire that you created.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Thanks for sharing that.
Speaker 12 (35:01):
Ak Now that I know I'm a exer with walls
makes me feel just.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Right right out of the gate there, akay, right out
of the.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Hey John, great show today, it's your boy tearing here
from the Crescent.
Speaker 11 (35:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Overcome the pandemic, I mean, lock everything down, crush the
local economy, strap two, strap uh face diapers on two
year old, and then forced everybody to get experimental vaccines.
That's overcoming the pandemic while locking old people into you know,
nursing homes and stuff. This is crazy overcoming the pandemic.
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That's the lowest bar ever set. All right, thanks for
the talkback today, have it.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Thank you for the comment. Greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
I want to go through by the way, this is
a quick one that I want to share with you guys.
I had grabbed this earlier in the week, but it
was fairly benign, and I actually had gone to go
and recycle it because I wasn't going to cover it,
and then something popped up on my feet and I
felt like it was worse sharing. So there was an
article when the Minnesota Reformer and the headline was survey
Minnesota students faring better compared to a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Now it caught my.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
Attention because obviously we've talked a lot about, you know,
the education system here, the lack of proficiency in reading,
in math. They lowered the standards as it relates to
graduation to increase the graduation rates. And then suddenly you
have this, you know, this article, this survey students faring
better than compared a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
So I look into it and it's basically about mental health.
What it is though it is a survey done by
the State of Minnesota. It is voluntary and it is anonymous,
and they got this positive outlook.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
So first off, you got a big old question mark,
like wasting the survey out right? Sure, okay.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
In this it says that less than half of Minnesota
students in fifth, eighth, ninth, and eleventh grades completed the
optional survey, which has been administered over the course of
the past few years. So again I grabbed it and
I was like, well, this is interesting, I wonder but
there wasn't anything else to it. And I was like, ah,
you know what, I'm gonna blow it off. I'm doing
prep yesterday and I see this post from Tim Walls
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new we're seeing a reversal in a decades long trend
of declining student mental health.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Over the last few years, we've been invested.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
In free school meals, public schools, teacher training, and mental
health resources. Today we're seeing the results. I'm sorry, today
we're seeing the results. And I just stopped and I
went he's basing it off of this voluntary, mononymous survey
that was conducted by the State of Minnesota. You know,
these are the little tiny things, the nefarious chipping away
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and the narratives that they form, and it really speaks
to the lengths.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
That they will go to.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Now, I don't have any evidence that this survey was bogus,
you know, in terms.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Of people filling it out, but to say it's suspect, right,
And that's.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
The least thing you can say when you see the
combination of these two together where suddenly now he's touting, oh, look,
we're seeing a reversal in this decade long trend of
declining student health and it's all because we're giving out
free meals.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Yeah, but here's the thing, Like, this is what democrats
do all the time. They will literally create a cherry
picked data story and then they'll use that as a
fact basis that then everyone else refers to without referring
to it directly. But if you dig deep enough, you
know there is still some journalistic ethics. They will tag
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what the source is and you'll come to realize that
democrats do this all the time. It will be sourced
to material that is cherry picked data, and then everyone
will be like, you know, there was a there was
a survey that showed that this this is truly what's happening,
And then it becomes part of like, oh, well, yeah,
everyone's referring to a thing that was never scrutinized and
it's just one falls. But this is what narrative, This
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is what Walls has to do. With all of the
fraud narrative going on, he has to try and find
other places where they really just like fill up all
the narrative juice, and then that kind of runs around everywhere,
so everyone can be like, well, do you know that
Minnesota is doing a lot better because of the actions
of Tim Walls and all these little things.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:19):
To Aka's point, this is the circular content machine that
that Democrats create, right. Story is basically or survey is
initiated by the state of Minnesota. I am telling you
just based on the people who come down to the
capitol that was organized, the people who got that survey,
the schools that got that survey and administered it were encouraged,
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highly encouraged by the state of Minnesota to do so.
That data point is then taken by a publication so that,
to Aka's point, it can be referenced back over and
over again. This is how if you ever heard Tim
Walls on the vice presidential campaign trail or the governor
campaign trail, Tim Walls would always throw out Minnesota's number
three in business, number three business. Well, what does that mean, right?
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It means nothing. It means that somebody created some bogus
survey at some point in time to show that Minneapolis
or Minnesota was like thriving in business, and maybe they
had twelve business owners who were Walls downers.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Who filled it out.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
Tim Wallas is referencing some vague survey in the in
the nebulous atmosphere of the Internet, to say we're number
three in business, when no, we aren't. No one believes that,
Like it's a ridiculous claim. But Ak's right. This is
the circular content machine that democrats participate in.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Just file this away.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Just file this away as we head into next year,
because you will see Walls end up using this at
someone when a debate comes up, when something else comes up,
file this away, and just remember that in this particular instance,
that's what the starting point was in this case relating
to the mental health of students because they have so
little that they can go and hang their hat on
regarding education.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
And I'm glad he's picked this issue because there are
few issues that Americans agree on as widely as the
fact that there's a mental health crisis among teenagers and
pre teens.
Speaker 2 (41:05):
I could go on and.
Speaker 7 (41:07):
On about that, but I don't think that this statistic
is going to resonate with people, especially in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
I mean, I leave it there.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
Yeah, coming up, we got more with our guests this morning.
We have ak Kamara, a business owner, an RNC committeeman.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I called you business Presidential residence visitor to get the.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yeah, we got to talk about both of your visits.
I believe we have a special gift that we'll be
doing on air from Sam a little bit later on
in the show. Right around our talkback of the day,
I have I want to talk a little bit about
paid family sick leave again. I have an email that
came in. Just wait, do not go anywhere. You have
to hear this email from a listener who's presenting another
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real world scenario of what she's witnessing already with regard
to paid family leave. Like, if you thought it was
ridiculous already, we're beginning to find out like the scenarios
involved in which people can take advantage of this are
far beyond our wildest dreams. And this particular email that
I received. It's a perfect example of that. Don't go anywhere.
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