December 18, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Our three on a Liberty Thursday, John Justice on Twin
Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three
five FM from the sixty five to one Carpet plus
Home of the Next Day Install Studios Brett and the
Master Control Booth. For the final show of twenty twenty five.
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I'm heading off on vacation. I'll be back Monday, January fifth.
We will have the tribute to Charlie Brown Christmas coming
up before the end of the show this morning. We're
also going to work through some of the stack that
I have not had a chance to get to, including
both the European version and the American version of the
Words of the Year.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And hopefully we can talk a little movies too.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I got a couple of a great stories relating to
that in an email that I received from a friend
of the show. Right now, we'll talking about fraud here
in Minnesota. There was a committee hearing that took place
yesterday regarding fraud. A lot came from that. We've been
sharing with you the audio. Yesterday. Representative Kristin Robbins, subernatorial candidate,
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alleged also that the Minnesota Department of Human Services paid
Medicaid money to a defendant and Feeding our future case
through the assisted living program while they were awaiting trial.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm not even kidding with you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The allegations during the hearing was that DHS gave taxpayer
dollars to a Feeding our Future defendant as late as
October while he was still awaiting his federal trial, even
though the States assisted and through the state's Assisted and
Customized Living program. Robins declined to name the defendants and
said her researcher used public records to identify the payments.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Again, the information's just out there.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
After Robin's presentation, the DHS Inspector General, who you heard
last hour, James Clark, didn't cooborate her allegations. Robbins told
the committee, it's outrageous that the Department is still allowing
of feeding our future fraudster who has been who had
been charged to still get money of any kind. After
the committee hearing, Clark detail reporters that, like Robbins, the
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agency has been investigating connections between the possibly fraudulent providers,
but it is not familiar with the case wherein Feeding
our Future defendant is still receiving payments. Clark emphasized that
DHS can suspend payments, unlike the US attorney or the
office of a legislative auditor. It's my understanding that for
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every single feeding our future defendant that's been indicted, we
scrub our records to see if they have ties to
the Department of Human Services billing, and we investigate and
we stop payments. So if there is evidence that of
feeding our future defendant out there who are still getting
bills from the state or still billing the state, please
let us know. Representative Dave Pinto dfl out of Saint
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Paul in a state and criticized Robbins for prioritizing political theater.
If cher Robbins has in fact uncovered legitimate concerns of fraud,
a claim for which there is no evidence that her
top priority should have been to get them investigated and,
if warranted, to get payment stopped. Her deliberate choice instead
to prioritize political theater and let the funds keep flowing.
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Is yet another example of her choosing to put her
partisan political ambitions above those of Minnesota taxpayers. What if
she had just found out hadn't gotten there yet letting
everybody know, I guess the question that I have is,
are they going to do the proper follow up now
that she's gone, and said that lou Regoose has been
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posting commentary online from Caro Levin. He put this one
up just recently regarding adult daycares, which we've talked about
on the show, how any new applications are being halted
and any pending applications canceled for two years amidst growing
concerns of fraud. Here's the latest of what lou Ragoose
had to say in his post.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The Inspector General in charge of stopping fraud at the
Minnesota Department of Human Services says owners of adult daycares
are paying kickbacks to steal clients from other adult daycares
as part of a fraud scheme. DHS is freezing all
new provider applications for adult day services for two years.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
To get a grip on the fraud. The biggest red flag.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Over the last five years, the number of people using
adult day services increased by seven percent, but the number
of providers increased by forty three percent. As the Inspector
General said, if there isn't enough demand for legitimate business,
fraudsters are motivated to drum up illegitimate business. I'm louver Goose.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Follow for more news and again he's from Caro leven
Bill long one more fraud item posted this fraud being
baked into the state budget. Earlier this year, Minnesota state
budget officials presented their latest state budget forecast. In a
report to at American Experiment, They write, Minnesota's budget deficit
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has very little, if anything, to do with what is
going on in Washington. D c has some claimed Minnesota's
fiscal problem is not only worse than what the headline
numbers show, but also has been going on since the
end of the twenty twenty three session. So what is
causing this slow motion fiscal disaster? In a word, it's fraud.
Welcome to Minnesota, the fraud capital of the United States.
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Minnesota State government operates its budget in two year cycles
called the biennia. The forecast for the fiscal year twenty
eight to twenty nine cycle shows a projected deficit of
almost three billion dollars. Constitutionally, state government can't run a
deficit unlike the Feds, so taxes must be raised to
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cover any shortfall. Why not just cut spending to balance
the books. We'll get to that in a moment. The
latest forecast, though again fiscal year eight and twenty nine
the outlook worse by about two billion, three hundred and
sixteen million since the date the budget was passed six
months ago. Some of that shortfall is attributed to is
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attributable to reduced revenue projections. The real problem lies, though,
in increased spending. The increase to spending the bulk almost
eighty percent, lies in a single budget area, Health in
human Services, scheduled to increase by an unexpected one billion,
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three hundred and sixty two million during that twenty eight
to twenty nine cycle. Now you dig deeper, and I
know we're getting into the weeds. Arera a bit, but
just bear with me. You dig deeper into the health
and Human services category in almost all of the fiscal
year twenty eight twenty nine unexpected increase is driven by
one single line items four casted programs within the state
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Department of Human Services DHS. To over simplify, as big
Lon writes, forecasted programs is a euphemism for entitlement social
welfare spending. These programs don't have a set budget. The
money continues to be paid out to anyone and everyone
who's eligible. The only way to control the spending is
to limit the eligibility or discontinue individual programs within the department.
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The forecasted programs line that item of the DHS is
where much of the multi billion dollar fraud has taken place.
So during the state budget presentation back on December fourth,
the state budget officials took questions from the media in attendance.
An extraordinary sequence can be heard beginning at about the
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forty minute mark and what was posted online. Reporters asked
a question where in the budget did the fraud numbers appear.
Channel five's Tom Hauser reported from inside the room. Minnesota
budget officials say money lost to fraud is not specifically
accounted for in budget forecasts as a specific line item. Instead,
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it's just accounted for as part of the overall spending.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, you heard that right.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Past fraud is now baked into the spending numbers. In
budget jargon, pass fraud is now incorporated into the spending
baseline treated is that as if it's just going to
continue forever. For the first time, Walls is acting tough
on fraud. Federal prosecutors continue to go after individual frausters
to the extent that anti fraud efforts are successful, will
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the taxpayers even see any benefit? Will there be any
anti fraud dividend tax cut funded by lower fraud spending.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Or will the windfall money merely.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Be shifted to state bureaucrats to other spending items to
justify their bloated budgets and headcount. Writes Bill GLNN, the
world is watching. Yeah, we're all watching. Welcome to Minnesota,
fraud capital of the United States. What's surprising is that
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when you go to the Oxford University Press and their
word of the year is actually more apropos to what
we're dealing with here, rage bait. We'll get to more
of the words of the year words that were most
pronounced this year as well. We have the tribute to
a Charlie Brown Christmas talk back of the day on
the way. We still got a lot of ground to
cover on this final show of twenty twenty five here
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on Twin City's News Talk Don't Go Anywhere Wow. Oxford
University Press has named rage bait as its word of
the year, capturing the Internet zeitgeist of twenty twenty five.
So this is what our friends over the pond have
determined is the word of the year. Rage Bait top
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to two other contenders. As we continue the final Show
twenty twenty five here on Twin Cities News talk for me,
I'll be back on Monday, January fifth, from the sixty
five to one carpet plus Next Day Install Studios. The
two other contenders it topped was Aura Farming. Brett, you're
shaking your head up and down like you're familiar with
that one. I am what is Aura Farming?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Couldn't tell you, Okay, but I know I've heard of
it and there's a certain dance associated.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Biohack was the other one. Oh Ire, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I actually have that. It has the oh nea it
has in the story. The answer to my question, Aura
farming means to cultivate a public image by presenting oneself
in a way intended to subtly convey an air of confidence, coolness,
or mystique. You know, like dressing, classing when you get
on an airliner.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Sure you can see that full circle there is, yes,
nice callback.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Bio hack is defined as an attempt to improve or
optimize one's physical or mental performance, health, or longevity.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
So it's like a life hack for your body. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But so, my, my, my, oily amotz arella balls would
probably not fall into the category of a biohack. I
guess depending on what your definition of a of a
biohack is. But I would see mini leaf is the Bible.
I could be a biohack absolutely. Speaking of which, right now,
just you know what, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You had no idea. But right now they have some.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Amazing like mini leaf stocking stuffers they've they've put together. Yeah,
they're going to be at the Paul European Christmas Market
Friday through Sunday, and they got stocking stuffers. I'm looking
at them right now. He's like little little little mini
leaf stockings. They're decorated for Christmas, Gummi's and a candy cane. Fantastic, Yeah,
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danky canes, they're calling them.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Check that out.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
They sponsor your talk back of the day that's coming
up here. In just a moment, I had a comment
that rolled in. You guys are weird. Sometimes I can't
find it. My apologies. I had a comment that rolled
in and somebody was saying, John, with your heart problems,
so you'd be eating oiled mozzarella balls It's like my
heart problems were all plumbing related. It's not artery related.
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It's plumbing related because it's just because my plumbing was
all thrown off. The Monzarella balls will have any impact
on that. Yeah, I don't know if my cardiology is
not within the pipes you're saying. Yeah, I mean typically
if you have a heart problem with clogged arteries, you
want to make sure you eat better.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I do try to take care of myself obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But my specific heart rate, my heart related issues was
they were genetic, a bicuspod heart valve which ended up
creating the aneurysm, of which both had to be replaced,
and then holes that popped up in them. Yeah, the
pipes were not clogged, they were broken. Yes, thank you
very much. This is why I appreciate Brett when he's
in here. He's able to go and help me work
through my word salads, of which that was.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
This is just a word salad with no substance.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The Word of the Year is selected by the Lexo
the Lexicoxographers sure Oxford University Press, who analyze new and
emerging words. Past winners include podcast in two thousand and five,
emoji in twenty fifteen Goblin mode.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I remember in twenty twenty two did this show at
that point? I remember a talking about goblin.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I remember Goblin Mode two describe people who are resisting
returning to normal life after the COVID nineteen pandemic. I
think there are people that are still in goblin, molden,
goblin mode.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I didn't think that's what that meant.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, people who have resisted returning to a normal life
after COVID nineteen, which pretty much describes the current state
of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I think they're all still in goblin mode.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Miriam Western's twenty twenty five word of the Year Okay, creepy,
zany and demonstrably faked content is often called slop the
words proliferation online in part thanks to the widespread availability
of generative artificial intelligence. Landed and Merriam Webster's twenty twenty
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five word of the Year. Slop was first used in
the seventeen hundreds to mean soft mud, but it's evolved
more generally to mean something of little value. The definition
has since expanded to mean digital content of low quality
that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
In other words. You know, absurd.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Videos, weird advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks real,
junkie ai written digital books. It's all slop. You can
probably describe this morning show a slop.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm just kidding. I've been having a good time.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, Rounding outs Merriam Webster's top words of twenty twenty five,
In the first one, right out of the gate, I
think is stupid? Okay, six seven. Well it's not a
word exactly. Yeah, it's a phrase phrase. The viral term
exploded in popularity over the summer. Inside joke with an
unclear meaning, driven by social media, can be traced back
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to rapper Scrilla's twenty twenty four song dute six seven.
There is no meaning. No, it's just a thing. It's
just a thing that people. It's like it's like a kint. No,
I can't even I was gonna say it's like saying dude,
But it's not like saying dude.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It's just non. It's just a phrase.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, it doesn't. It's just it doesn't really mean anything.
So it shouldn't be I shouldn't be in here. The
other one's performative performative male shorthand for a disingenuous guy
who pretends to like things women like in order to
gain their trust.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Jerry Mander. I think we all know that one touch grass.
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Definition of the popular internet phrase phrase to participate in
normal activities in the real world, especially as opposed to
online experiences and interactions conclave. It's also list Yeah's old
election of a pope that derives its name from the
Italian con klav, meaning with a key to underscore. The
cardinals seequestered until they find a winner. Tariffs made the
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list as well. If I get my two thousand dollars check,
tariffs can win. Okay, that's that's my stance. So here
are the words that define the last ten years? Okay
I am, I am, So here are the words that
defined the last ten years. As we wrap up this
little portion here, we'll get to the the mispronouncement's coming
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up in a moment.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But let's see you go back to twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was isam, which is dumb because that's the tag
that goes on other words.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I questioned all of this.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Twenty sixteen was surreal twenty seventeen feminism, twenty eighteen justice.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Hey, look at that hey. Twenty nineteen, they oh, and
then you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Get the eight do it again oh twenty nineteen. Of
the words that defined the last ten years, according to
Miriam Webster, was they energy.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Twenty twenty and twenty twenty one Brett.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't typically like to ever personally be put on
the spot like this, and therefore I don't like to
go and intentionally put other people in a position like this.
But I will ask you if you'd like to take
a stab at what the twenty twenty and twenty twenty
one words were. According to Miriam Webster, I mean very
indicative of the time that we were living in twenty
twenty and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How about math or.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You're you're on the social distance, you're on the right path.
What were we two weeks to flatten the groove? Pandemic
in twenty twenty, vaccine in twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty
two was kip, speed was gas lighting twenty twenty three?
Was authentic? In twenty twenty four was polarization. Okay, so
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there you go, all of which are words that can
still apply here. It's I look at the vaccine and
the pandemic. One I just cringe. Oh, just just going
even even just pondering the time that we lived through
the pandemic just makes me just let's shudder.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What a horrible time, Yeah, but absolutely horrible. I think
Touchgrass is a runaway winner this year. I like that
one a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I look, I love the word slop. I think it's
just fun to say. But I'm with you, although I
have a problem. It's a phrase. It's not a word,
it's two words. I guess it should be Phrase of
the Year, yeah, or just thing.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Of the year. All right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Talk Back to the Day is coming up, brought to
you by Minni Leaf in just a moment. Will also
give you the most mispronounced words of twenty twenty five.
And I have a ridiculous clip from Zohorn Mom Donnie
that we will share with you ahead of.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
The tribute to a Charlie Brown Christmins.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
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Speaker 2 (18:48):
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Speaker 1 (18:59):
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Your Tribute to it Charlie Brown Christmas coming up in
just a moment here on Quinn City's News Talk got
to get to your talkback of the day in this morning.
It really is going to be talkbacks of the day.
Thank you to everybody that has left Christmas greetings on
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the talkbacks and the emails as well. I really do
appreciate it, which is why it's tough to reward one.
So we'll do several this morning, your talkbacks of the
day on the final show of twenty twenty five. These
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the day.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
In spite of all the bad news that we hear
every day, let's remember that hope came into this world
two thousand years ago, and that hope can enter our
lives today as we individually make room for Jesus and
our hearts. He can bring hope and light in a
world that often has a lot of dark places. May
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you have a joyous Christmas, John, and we hope look
forward to you next year.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Thank you so much for the comments. And I got
a little worried there at first because I'm like, hope.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's not that old.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
He was talking about hope, hope, not not that other
hope that's taking a break from social media.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
John, Good morning pat for me again. I just wanted
to wish you and your family the merriest of Christmases
and thank you for the hard work every morning all year,
and have a very happy New Year. And here's to
a great twenty twenty six in Minnesota, which you're doing
your darnest to help fix.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Thank you. Good morning John, Happy Thursday.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I just wanted to issh you a very mary Christmas
and say thank you for all that you do for us.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Take care and God bless hey.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
John.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Wishing you your producers are very merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
I hope you wake up Christmas morning and find a
twelve pack of zem onto your tree.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Very Christmas and happy New Year.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I wish somebody had shared with me a recipe for
that online yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's just not the same, just not the same.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
A recipe, yeah, a recipe to make homemade zema. Now,
granted I haven't tried to make it. I almost feel
like bad if I tried.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
To do that. But it's just not that. It's got
to be the real stuff. Is it even possible to
get that? No, it's not, it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
They made a limited run and they had like a
zema party. I think it was last year in Wisconsin.
But I love my zema, don't misunderstand, But not enough
to travel down in Wisconsin in order to get some.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's quite all right. More than John Dan and the drug.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
Hope you and Britain enjoy your well be there of
your education.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I hope you all have been very Merry Christmas and
a happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Hey, good morning, John.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I just realized that today is there last day until
after the first of the year.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm really going to miss hearing you in the morning.
But I want to wish you a merry Christmas and
a happy New Year.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
And you just take this time and enjoy and I
also have a couple of five day weekends coming up.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Good for you again. Merry Christmas and happy New Year
to you and Sam.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
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That's a lot of tonics.
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So am I N N E l e AF dot com.
From the election of Zohorn mom Donnie to the intrigue
surrounding the Joel heist at the Louver. Keeping up with
this year's list of the most difficult pronunciations this year,
the language learning company Babel and closed captioning company The
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Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of words that
the news anchors, politicians, and other public figures in the
US struggled with the most this year, giving an overview
of the people topics that had Americans talking. So, Mam
Donnie made his political rise. Babel said his name, which
should be pronounced Zoe Ron Mam Donnie. So I've been
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pronouncing it correct this whole time, right, The most commonly
mispronounced name when people swapped the m for the n
in his last name. The theft of the Crown Jewels
in France from the Louver in October had many people
mispronouncing the name of the world's most visited museum. Babel
says the correct pronunciation pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Is louvra.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Lov capital and then ruh. It's a very soft pronunciation
on the rugh, which can be challenging for English speakers.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
They go on to say other words on the list.
A scene metaphine.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Alex Murdau is on here too, the prominent South Carolina
attorney who was sentenced to life in prison in twenty
twenty one for the fatal shootings of his wife and son.
Apparently it's pronounced Alec Murdoch. See I always said Murdau
because well, is that how they spell his last name in.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Lethal weapon, which is a Christmas Is it really?
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Cause you didn't know. So it's Alec Murdoch. Monzao pronounce Monjarro.
So I guess I said that wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Part of the wave of diabetes and obesity medications that
sort in popularity because of the way to people have
lost taking the injections in a pronunciations. Surprise of the
Year actor Denzel Washington told the late night talk show
host Jimmy Kimmel that he was named after his father
and their first names are actually pronounced Denzel, not Denzel.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Everything's a lie.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, it's kind of like with Ace Freely, and it's
actually Ace Frehley. He said that became confusing, so his
mother decided to pronounce her her son's name Denzel. So, boy,
if I had a list, I'd probably take up a
whole show of names that I've just randomly.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Mispronounced on the show, I could take up a lot.
Speaking of Zohran mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
He was talking with Trevor Noah on Trevor's podcast I
Guess and about the efforts that he's making in New
York City. This clip was making the viral rounds yesterday
under we.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Made five bus routes free in New York City. When
we made those bus routes free, after a year, assaults
on bus drivers dropped by thirty eight point nine percent
on the bus drive the bus drivers because unlike the train,
the act of a collection on the bus happens on
the bus, and bus drivers and unions have shared anecdotally
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that about fifty percent of assaults happen around the farebox.
So when you eliminate the farebox, you make for a
safer experience for the bus driver, for everyone on these Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know, Brett.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know if you're aware of this, but you know,
oftentimes banks will get robbed. If you just went and
made the money in the banks free to everybody, you know,
banks would never get robbed.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Think about it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Grocery stores, things get lifted all the time, target gets
robbed all the time. If those products were just free,
then they would never get robbed.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
We made five bus routes free in New York City.
When we made those bus routes free, after a year,
assaults on bus drivers dropped by thirty eight point nine.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I had a friend of the show.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
He does the American Warrior radio show, known for a
long time going back to my days in Arizona, Benbueler Garcia.
I had posted this online and he wrote, violence on
and around public transit has increased substantially in Tucsons, specifically
under the free transit program, including a young man murdered
with a hatchet. I mean of the ridiculous notions that
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I've heard from Zohorn Mom Donnie that has to be
way up on the top of the list, you know,
because you know the violence takes place. If you just
get rid of the fair box and it's free, then
people won't end up getting hurt.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Easy way to remember how to pronounce mom Donnie. Just
think of mayor Jacob pry Man. Boy mom jeans Jacob pry.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Okay, this is done from Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It's louver well, yeah, I think is.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It louver a louverra. But I think that rough part
is the part that's tripping people up.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
Move on that one that I'm a little late, but
I just wanted to say happy holiday, I see you
and say I'm the producer.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
I seen the metafit of.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Both of you.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yet Joles pronounced so from the comedie.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Now that your bud, Katie Pavlich is going to News Nation,
where we see your smiley face on News Nation, you
have a great holiday season.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I do not know. I listen. I have no expectation
on that front.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
For those that had missed the news on that Katie
Pavltch has left Fox News and will now be starting
in twenty twenty six, the primetime host in the ten
o'clock Eastern time time slot, so you'll be able to
watch her on News Nation at nine o'clock our time.
And I'm just incredibly, incredibly happy for my John. This
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is just a word salad with oily mozzarella balls.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Have a great Christmas. This is just a word salad
with no substance.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Good morning, John, say. I also had it by a
custod bell than a oric aneurysm so bake valve here.
Don't you think the Minnesota taxpayers should get like a
tax holiday this next year?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Just a thought.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Merry Christmas, Hey John.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
On a health note, this is Denise from Chicago City, Minnesota.
The oil that your mozzarella balls are soapd in is
actually a healthy oil.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Normally it's olive oil.
Speaker 11 (29:43):
And we really need some good, healthy olive oil in
our diet, and your mozzarella balls are probably healthy too,
just in moderation, good fat.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
We need it.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Thanks, have a great vacation.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
That is a fantastic news, especially considering that I've actually
been drinking that oil. I've been taking it like it
was a like it was a shot.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm just kidding. I haven't been doing that. I haven't
been doing that at all.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
John, I'm super sad that this is your last day
for the rest of the year, but I understand the
need to take a break. We're on the same vacation
cycle and my mornings aren't going to be the same.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Back to something reasonable, going back some now twenty years ago,
which is absolutely amazing. Before I got the job in Tucson, Arizona,
before I met my dear friend Drew, who I continue
to miss every single day when I arrive here at
Twin Cities News Talk, I was working part time on
a news talk station owned by iHeartRadio, and I was
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asked to host, along with another employee with iHeart at
the time at Wood, a night show on Christmas. And
because of that, I wanted to put together something special
and ever since then, right before I head off on vacation,
the last show that I do before I take my
two weeks off and head into the new year, I
like to share this with you as my closing out
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of the year, my tribute to Christmas, my love of Christmas,
and specifically a Charlie Brown Christmas. So this is what
I wrote almost twenty years ago. Phil Tower was the
program director at the time in Grand Rapids Michigan, and
when Phil asked me my thoughts about hosting a live
show on Christmas night, I was excited over the opportunity
to be able to simply be on the air doing
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what I love. Being out of work full time as
the host of a morning show for the past four months,
Tonight I decided would be a little Christmas gift to myself. Sure,
few people would be listening, but I enjoyed doing talk
radio so much that any opportunity that I can get
I gladly welcome. Once we decided to go ahead and
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do what we ended up calling Leftover Eggnog, it was
time to figure out just what we were going to
do with the show. If you've been listening to the
show for any length of time, we decided to keep
it simple. Let's remember our troops fighting for our freedom
who can't be with us. Let's tell stories of our
Christmas present and past. Let's go through the news items
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that you weren't aware of since you did the smart
thing and turned off the TV. But I also wanted
to do something special, something that maybe, just maybe would
let me recapture those old holiday feelings, the Christmas spirit
of my youth that I try to hold on to
so desperately.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
What for me is Christmas? What for America is Christmas?
What can people of all.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Generations look at as a true piece of Americana that,
in one minute represents what Christmas is all about? A
Charlie Brown Christmas and Linus on stage explaining the true
meaning of Christmas. In a time where every Christmas, not
the Holidays, not Hanukah, not Kwansa, Christmas comes harder and
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harder under attack, to the point where the mere mention
of Christ no longer is deemed appropriate in reference to
the very holiday that is to celebrate the birth of
our Lord Jesus Christ. When I look back and watch
a simple cartoon of a young child on stage quoting
from the Bible the Birth of Jesus to his friends,
I think it's amazing they still allow this on TV
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in today's politically correct world, I dare say that no
major network would have the guts to do what a
Charlie Brown Christmas did, and that is to tell it
as it was written. No CGI, no five point one
surround sound, no HD, no celebrities. Just line this as
spotlight and one minute worth of dialogue to put it
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all into perspective to take the wrapping paper, the santas,
all the sales, the stress, and reduce it to rubble
under the weight of the true origins. Reason for the season,
for Untu is born today in the City of David,
a savior who is Christ the Lord. Even if you
don't believe, one would be hard pressed not to feel
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the power of the story of one child born to
save the sins of man. Few times in American media
have we got it right. Few times have we taken
the means to entertain and made it worth anything more
than the dollar amount the advertisers spend on a thirty
second sixty second commercial for what it's worth. Coca Cola
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was the original sponsor of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and
over the years any product placement had to be edited
out of A Charlie Brown Christmas because the advertisers were upset.
The fact that the mention of the christ story has
not been edited out of the cartoon as well, for me,
is a testament to what a wonderful piece of American
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history A Charlie Brown Christmas is. Sure my wife may
not understand why I hold such a fondness for the cartoon,
why I still laugh at Snoopy dancing on Schroeder's piano.
Why my heart still goes out to Charlie Brown every
time he brings that pathetic looking Christmas tree in, but
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she still stops down. My wife does to sit down
and watch that one minute of a child on stage
with a spotlight telling it like it is. That's what
Christmas is all about.
Speaker 12 (35:29):
Everything I do turns into a disaster. I guess I
really don't know what Christmas is all about. Isn't there
anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Here's Harlie Brown.
I can tell you what Christmas is all about.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Life, please.
Speaker 12 (35:52):
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in
the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, and
low the Angel of the Lord upon them. The glory
of the Lord shall round about them. They were so afraid,
and the Angel said, unto them, if you're not for behold,
I bring your tidings great joy which shall be to
all people. For unto you is born this day in
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the City of David, a savior, just Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign onto you. You shall
find the babe, wrapped in swaddling toes, lying in a manger,
and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of
the heavenly host praising God. I'm saying glory to God
in the highest and on earth.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Peace would feel toward men.
Speaker 12 (36:40):
That's what Christmas has thought about.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Charlie Brown, Thank you so much for listening to the
show and your support of the show throughout the years.
As I headed into my tenth year here on Twin
City's News Talking, I'm looking forward to my time off,
but I'm also looking forward to getting back and getting
back at it starting on Monday, January fifth, in twenty
twenty six. I hope you and your family, your loved ones,
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and your friends all have a fantastic and God filled
Christmas and New Years. I'll talk to you guys in
twenty twenty six. God bless and have yourself a merry Christmas.
Talk to you guys next year.
Our three on a Liberty Thursday, John Justice on Twin
Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty and one oh three
five FM from the sixty five to one Carpet plus
Home of the Next Day Install Studios Brett and the
Master Control Booth. For the final show of twenty twenty five.
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I'm heading off on vacation. I'll be back Monday, January fifth.
We will have the tribute to Charlie Brown Christmas coming
up before the end of the show this morning. We're
also going to work through some of the stack that
I have not had a chance to get to, including
both the European version and the American version of the
Words of the Year.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And hopefully we can talk a little movies too.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I got a couple of a great stories relating to
that in an email that I received from a friend
of the show. Right now, we'll talking about fraud here
in Minnesota. There was a committee hearing that took place
yesterday regarding fraud. A lot came from that. We've been
sharing with you the audio. Yesterday. Representative Kristin Robbins, subernatorial candidate,
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alleged also that the Minnesota Department of Human Services paid
Medicaid money to a defendant and Feeding our future case
through the assisted living program while they were awaiting trial.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm not even kidding with you.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The allegations during the hearing was that DHS gave taxpayer
dollars to a Feeding our Future defendant as late as
October while he was still awaiting his federal trial, even
though the States assisted and through the state's Assisted and
Customized Living program. Robins declined to name the defendants and
said her researcher used public records to identify the payments.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Again, the information's just out there.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
After Robin's presentation, the DHS Inspector General, who you heard
last hour, James Clark, didn't cooborate her allegations. Robbins told
the committee, it's outrageous that the Department is still allowing
of feeding our future fraudster who has been who had
been charged to still get money of any kind. After
the committee hearing, Clark detail reporters that, like Robbins, the
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agency has been investigating connections between the possibly fraudulent providers,
but it is not familiar with the case wherein Feeding
our Future defendant is still receiving payments. Clark emphasized that
DHS can suspend payments, unlike the US attorney or the
office of a legislative auditor. It's my understanding that for
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every single feeding our future defendant that's been indicted, we
scrub our records to see if they have ties to
the Department of Human Services billing, and we investigate and
we stop payments. So if there is evidence that of
feeding our future defendant out there who are still getting
bills from the state or still billing the state, please
let us know. Representative Dave Pinto dfl out of Saint
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Paul in a state and criticized Robbins for prioritizing political theater.
If cher Robbins has in fact uncovered legitimate concerns of fraud,
a claim for which there is no evidence that her
top priority should have been to get them investigated and,
if warranted, to get payment stopped. Her deliberate choice instead
to prioritize political theater and let the funds keep flowing.
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Is yet another example of her choosing to put her
partisan political ambitions above those of Minnesota taxpayers. What if
she had just found out hadn't gotten there yet letting
everybody know, I guess the question that I have is,
are they going to do the proper follow up now
that she's gone, and said that lou Regoose has been
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posting commentary online from Caro Levin. He put this one
up just recently regarding adult daycares, which we've talked about
on the show, how any new applications are being halted
and any pending applications canceled for two years amidst growing
concerns of fraud. Here's the latest of what lou Ragoose
had to say in his post.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The Inspector General in charge of stopping fraud at the
Minnesota Department of Human Services says owners of adult daycares
are paying kickbacks to steal clients from other adult daycares
as part of a fraud scheme. DHS is freezing all
new provider applications for adult day services for two years.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
To get a grip on the fraud. The biggest red flag.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Over the last five years, the number of people using
adult day services increased by seven percent, but the number
of providers increased by forty three percent. As the Inspector
General said, if there isn't enough demand for legitimate business,
fraudsters are motivated to drum up illegitimate business. I'm louver Goose.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Follow for more news and again he's from Caro leven
Bill long one more fraud item posted this fraud being
baked into the state budget. Earlier this year, Minnesota state
budget officials presented their latest state budget forecast. In a
report to at American Experiment, They write, Minnesota's budget deficit
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has very little, if anything, to do with what is
going on in Washington. D c has some claimed Minnesota's
fiscal problem is not only worse than what the headline
numbers show, but also has been going on since the
end of the twenty twenty three session. So what is
causing this slow motion fiscal disaster? In a word, it's fraud.
Welcome to Minnesota, the fraud capital of the United States.
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Minnesota State government operates its budget in two year cycles
called the biennia. The forecast for the fiscal year twenty
eight to twenty nine cycle shows a projected deficit of
almost three billion dollars. Constitutionally, state government can't run a
deficit unlike the Feds, so taxes must be raised to
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cover any shortfall. Why not just cut spending to balance
the books. We'll get to that in a moment. The
latest forecast, though again fiscal year eight and twenty nine
the outlook worse by about two billion, three hundred and
sixteen million since the date the budget was passed six
months ago. Some of that shortfall is attributed to is
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attributable to reduced revenue projections. The real problem lies, though,
in increased spending. The increase to spending the bulk almost
eighty percent, lies in a single budget area, Health in
human Services, scheduled to increase by an unexpected one billion,
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three hundred and sixty two million during that twenty eight
to twenty nine cycle. Now you dig deeper, and I
know we're getting into the weeds. Arera a bit, but
just bear with me. You dig deeper into the health
and Human services category in almost all of the fiscal
year twenty eight twenty nine unexpected increase is driven by
one single line items four casted programs within the state
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Department of Human Services DHS. To over simplify, as big
Lon writes, forecasted programs is a euphemism for entitlement social
welfare spending. These programs don't have a set budget. The
money continues to be paid out to anyone and everyone
who's eligible. The only way to control the spending is
to limit the eligibility or discontinue individual programs within the department.
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The forecasted programs line that item of the DHS is
where much of the multi billion dollar fraud has taken place.
So during the state budget presentation back on December fourth,
the state budget officials took questions from the media in attendance.
An extraordinary sequence can be heard beginning at about the
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forty minute mark and what was posted online. Reporters asked
a question where in the budget did the fraud numbers appear.
Channel five's Tom Hauser reported from inside the room. Minnesota
budget officials say money lost to fraud is not specifically
accounted for in budget forecasts as a specific line item. Instead,
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it's just accounted for as part of the overall spending.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, you heard that right.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Past fraud is now baked into the spending numbers. In
budget jargon, pass fraud is now incorporated into the spending
baseline treated is that as if it's just going to
continue forever. For the first time, Walls is acting tough
on fraud. Federal prosecutors continue to go after individual frausters
to the extent that anti fraud efforts are successful, will
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the taxpayers even see any benefit? Will there be any
anti fraud dividend tax cut funded by lower fraud spending.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Or will the windfall money merely.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Be shifted to state bureaucrats to other spending items to
justify their bloated budgets and headcount. Writes Bill GLNN, the
world is watching. Yeah, we're all watching. Welcome to Minnesota,
fraud capital of the United States. What's surprising is that
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when you go to the Oxford University Press and their
word of the year is actually more apropos to what
we're dealing with here, rage bait. We'll get to more
of the words of the year words that were most
pronounced this year as well. We have the tribute to
a Charlie Brown Christmas talk back of the day on
the way. We still got a lot of ground to
cover on this final show of twenty twenty five here
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on Twin City's News Talk Don't Go Anywhere Wow. Oxford
University Press has named rage bait as its word of
the year, capturing the Internet zeitgeist of twenty twenty five.
So this is what our friends over the pond have
determined is the word of the year. Rage Bait top
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to two other contenders. As we continue the final Show
twenty twenty five here on Twin Cities News talk for me,
I'll be back on Monday, January fifth, from the sixty
five to one carpet plus Next Day Install Studios. The
two other contenders it topped was Aura Farming. Brett, you're
shaking your head up and down like you're familiar with
that one. I am what is Aura Farming?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Couldn't tell you, Okay, but I know I've heard of
it and there's a certain dance associated.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Biohack was the other one. Oh Ire, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I actually have that. It has the oh nea it
has in the story. The answer to my question, Aura
farming means to cultivate a public image by presenting oneself
in a way intended to subtly convey an air of confidence, coolness,
or mystique. You know, like dressing, classing when you get
on an airliner.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Sure you can see that full circle there is, yes,
nice callback.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Bio hack is defined as an attempt to improve or
optimize one's physical or mental performance, health, or longevity.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
So it's like a life hack for your body. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I've never heard of that one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But so, my, my, my, oily amotz arella balls would
probably not fall into the category of a biohack. I
guess depending on what your definition of a of a
biohack is. But I would see mini leaf is the Bible.
I could be a biohack absolutely. Speaking of which, right now,
just you know what, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
You had no idea. But right now they have some.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Amazing like mini leaf stocking stuffers they've they've put together. Yeah,
they're going to be at the Paul European Christmas Market
Friday through Sunday, and they got stocking stuffers. I'm looking
at them right now. He's like little little little mini
leaf stockings. They're decorated for Christmas, Gummi's and a candy cane. Fantastic, Yeah,
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danky canes, they're calling them.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Check that out.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
They sponsor your talk back of the day that's coming
up here. In just a moment, I had a comment
that rolled in. You guys are weird. Sometimes I can't
find it. My apologies. I had a comment that rolled
in and somebody was saying, John, with your heart problems,
so you'd be eating oiled mozzarella balls It's like my
heart problems were all plumbing related. It's not artery related.
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It's plumbing related because it's just because my plumbing was
all thrown off. The Monzarella balls will have any impact
on that. Yeah, I don't know if my cardiology is
not within the pipes you're saying. Yeah, I mean typically
if you have a heart problem with clogged arteries, you
want to make sure you eat better.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I do try to take care of myself obviously, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But my specific heart rate, my heart related issues was
they were genetic, a bicuspod heart valve which ended up
creating the aneurysm, of which both had to be replaced,
and then holes that popped up in them. Yeah, the
pipes were not clogged, they were broken. Yes, thank you
very much. This is why I appreciate Brett when he's
in here. He's able to go and help me work
through my word salads, of which that was.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
This is just a word salad with no substance.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The Word of the Year is selected by the Lexo
the Lexicoxographers sure Oxford University Press, who analyze new and
emerging words. Past winners include podcast in two thousand and five,
emoji in twenty fifteen Goblin mode.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
I remember in twenty twenty two did this show at
that point? I remember a talking about goblin.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I remember Goblin Mode two describe people who are resisting
returning to normal life after the COVID nineteen pandemic. I
think there are people that are still in goblin, molden,
goblin mode.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I didn't think that's what that meant.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, people who have resisted returning to a normal life
after COVID nineteen, which pretty much describes the current state
of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I think they're all still in goblin mode.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Miriam Western's twenty twenty five word of the Year Okay, creepy,
zany and demonstrably faked content is often called slop the
words proliferation online in part thanks to the widespread availability
of generative artificial intelligence. Landed and Merriam Webster's twenty twenty
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five word of the Year. Slop was first used in
the seventeen hundreds to mean soft mud, but it's evolved
more generally to mean something of little value. The definition
has since expanded to mean digital content of low quality
that is produced, usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
In other words. You know, absurd.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Videos, weird advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks real,
junkie ai written digital books. It's all slop. You can
probably describe this morning show a slop.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm just kidding. I've been having a good time.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, Rounding outs Merriam Webster's top words of twenty twenty five,
In the first one, right out of the gate, I
think is stupid? Okay, six seven. Well it's not a
word exactly. Yeah, it's a phrase phrase. The viral term
exploded in popularity over the summer. Inside joke with an
unclear meaning, driven by social media, can be traced back
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to rapper Scrilla's twenty twenty four song dute six seven.
There is no meaning. No, it's just a thing. It's
just a thing that people. It's like it's like a kint. No,
I can't even I was gonna say it's like saying dude,
But it's not like saying dude.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
It's just non. It's just a phrase.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, it doesn't. It's just it doesn't really mean anything.
So it shouldn't be I shouldn't be in here. The
other one's performative performative male shorthand for a disingenuous guy
who pretends to like things women like in order to
gain their trust.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Jerry Mander. I think we all know that one touch grass.
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Definition of the popular internet phrase phrase to participate in
normal activities in the real world, especially as opposed to
online experiences and interactions conclave. It's also list Yeah's old
election of a pope that derives its name from the
Italian con klav, meaning with a key to underscore. The
cardinals seequestered until they find a winner. Tariffs made the
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list as well. If I get my two thousand dollars check,
tariffs can win. Okay, that's that's my stance. So here
are the words that define the last ten years? Okay
I am, I am, So here are the words that
defined the last ten years. As we wrap up this
little portion here, we'll get to the the mispronouncement's coming
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up in a moment.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But let's see you go back to twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It was isam, which is dumb because that's the tag
that goes on other words.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I questioned all of this.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Twenty sixteen was surreal twenty seventeen feminism, twenty eighteen justice.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Hey, look at that hey. Twenty nineteen, they oh, and
then you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Get the eight do it again oh twenty nineteen. Of
the words that defined the last ten years, according to
Miriam Webster, was they energy.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Twenty twenty and twenty twenty one Brett.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't typically like to ever personally be put on
the spot like this, and therefore I don't like to
go and intentionally put other people in a position like this.
But I will ask you if you'd like to take
a stab at what the twenty twenty and twenty twenty
one words were. According to Miriam Webster, I mean very
indicative of the time that we were living in twenty
twenty and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
How about math or.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You're you're on the social distance, you're on the right path.
What were we two weeks to flatten the groove? Pandemic
in twenty twenty, vaccine in twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty
two was kip, speed was gas lighting twenty twenty three?
Was authentic? In twenty twenty four was polarization. Okay, so
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there you go, all of which are words that can
still apply here. It's I look at the vaccine and
the pandemic. One I just cringe. Oh, just just going
even even just pondering the time that we lived through
the pandemic just makes me just let's shudder.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
What a horrible time, Yeah, but absolutely horrible. I think
Touchgrass is a runaway winner this year. I like that
one a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I look, I love the word slop. I think it's
just fun to say. But I'm with you, although I
have a problem. It's a phrase. It's not a word,
it's two words. I guess it should be Phrase of
the Year, yeah, or just thing.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Of the year. All right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Talk Back to the Day is coming up, brought to
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Speaker 1 (18:59):
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It really is going to be talkbacks of the day.
Thank you to everybody that has left Christmas greetings on
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Speaker 6 (19:49):
In spite of all the bad news that we hear
every day, let's remember that hope came into this world
two thousand years ago, and that hope can enter our
lives today as we individually make room for Jesus and
our hearts. He can bring hope and light in a
world that often has a lot of dark places. May
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you have a joyous Christmas, John, and we hope look
forward to you next year.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Thank you so much for the comments. And I got
a little worried there at first because I'm like, hope.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's not that old.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
He was talking about hope, hope, not not that other
hope that's taking a break from social media.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
John, Good morning pat for me again. I just wanted
to wish you and your family the merriest of Christmases
and thank you for the hard work every morning all year,
and have a very happy New Year. And here's to
a great twenty twenty six in Minnesota, which you're doing
your darnest to help fix.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Thank you. Good morning John, Happy Thursday.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I just wanted to issh you a very mary Christmas
and say thank you for all that you do for us.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Take care and God bless hey.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
John.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Wishing you your producers are very merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
I hope you wake up Christmas morning and find a
twelve pack of zem onto your tree.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Very Christmas and happy New Year.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I wish somebody had shared with me a recipe for
that online yesterday.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's just not the same, just not the same.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
A recipe, yeah, a recipe to make homemade zema. Now,
granted I haven't tried to make it. I almost feel
like bad if I tried.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
To do that. But it's just not that. It's got
to be the real stuff. Is it even possible to
get that? No, it's not, it's not.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
They made a limited run and they had like a
zema party. I think it was last year in Wisconsin.
But I love my zema, don't misunderstand, But not enough
to travel down in Wisconsin in order to get some.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's quite all right. More than John Dan and the drug.
Speaker 11 (21:48):
Hope you and Britain enjoy your well be there of
your education.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I hope you all have been very Merry Christmas and
a happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Hey, good morning, John.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I just realized that today is there last day until
after the first of the year.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'm really going to miss hearing you in the morning.
But I want to wish you a merry Christmas and
a happy New Year.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
And you just take this time and enjoy and I
also have a couple of five day weekends coming up.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Good for you again. Merry Christmas and happy New Year
to you and Sam.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That is your talk back to the day again, brought
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There's a lot with the pictures in these tonics.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's a lot of tonics.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So am I N N E l e AF dot com.
From the election of Zohorn mom Donnie to the intrigue
surrounding the Joel heist at the Louver. Keeping up with
this year's list of the most difficult pronunciations this year,
the language learning company Babel and closed captioning company The
(23:04):
Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of words that
the news anchors, politicians, and other public figures in the
US struggled with the most this year, giving an overview
of the people topics that had Americans talking. So, Mam
Donnie made his political rise. Babel said his name, which
should be pronounced Zoe Ron Mam Donnie. So I've been
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pronouncing it correct this whole time, right, The most commonly
mispronounced name when people swapped the m for the n
in his last name. The theft of the Crown Jewels
in France from the Louver in October had many people
mispronouncing the name of the world's most visited museum. Babel
says the correct pronunciation pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Is louvra.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Lov capital and then ruh. It's a very soft pronunciation
on the rugh, which can be challenging for English speakers.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
They go on to say other words on the list.
A scene metaphine.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Alex Murdau is on here too, the prominent South Carolina
attorney who was sentenced to life in prison in twenty
twenty one for the fatal shootings of his wife and son.
Apparently it's pronounced Alec Murdoch. See I always said Murdau
because well, is that how they spell his last name in.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Lethal weapon, which is a Christmas Is it really?
Speaker 12 (24:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Cause you didn't know. So it's Alec Murdoch. Monzao pronounce Monjarro.
So I guess I said that wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Part of the wave of diabetes and obesity medications that
sort in popularity because of the way to people have
lost taking the injections in a pronunciations. Surprise of the
Year actor Denzel Washington told the late night talk show
host Jimmy Kimmel that he was named after his father
and their first names are actually pronounced Denzel, not Denzel.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Everything's a lie.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, it's kind of like with Ace Freely, and it's
actually Ace Frehley. He said that became confusing, so his
mother decided to pronounce her her son's name Denzel. So, boy,
if I had a list, I'd probably take up a
whole show of names that I've just randomly.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Mispronounced on the show, I could take up a lot.
Speaking of Zohran mom Donnie.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
He was talking with Trevor Noah on Trevor's podcast I
Guess and about the efforts that he's making in New
York City. This clip was making the viral rounds yesterday
under we.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Made five bus routes free in New York City. When
we made those bus routes free, after a year, assaults
on bus drivers dropped by thirty eight point nine percent
on the bus drive the bus drivers because unlike the train,
the act of a collection on the bus happens on
the bus, and bus drivers and unions have shared anecdotally
(26:10):
that about fifty percent of assaults happen around the farebox.
So when you eliminate the farebox, you make for a
safer experience for the bus driver, for everyone on these Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know, Brett.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know if you're aware of this, but you know,
oftentimes banks will get robbed. If you just went and
made the money in the banks free to everybody, you know,
banks would never get robbed.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Think about it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Grocery stores, things get lifted all the time, target gets
robbed all the time. If those products were just free,
then they would never get robbed.
Speaker 13 (26:51):
We made five bus routes free in New York City.
When we made those bus routes free, after a year,
assaults on bus drivers dropped by thirty eight point nine.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I had a friend of the show.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
He does the American Warrior radio show, known for a
long time going back to my days in Arizona, Benbueler Garcia.
I had posted this online and he wrote, violence on
and around public transit has increased substantially in Tucsons, specifically
under the free transit program, including a young man murdered
with a hatchet. I mean of the ridiculous notions that
(27:26):
I've heard from Zohorn Mom Donnie that has to be
way up on the top of the list, you know,
because you know the violence takes place. If you just
get rid of the fair box and it's free, then
people won't end up getting hurt.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Easy way to remember how to pronounce mom Donnie. Just
think of mayor Jacob pry Man. Boy mom jeans Jacob pry.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Okay, this is done from Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It's louver well, yeah, I think is.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
It louver a louverra. But I think that rough part
is the part that's tripping people up.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
Move on that one that I'm a little late, but
I just wanted to say happy holiday, I see you
and say I'm the producer.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
I seen the metafit of.
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Both of you.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yet Joles pronounced so from the comedie.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Now that your bud, Katie Pavlich is going to News Nation,
where we see your smiley face on News Nation, you
have a great holiday season.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I do not know. I listen. I have no expectation
on that front.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
For those that had missed the news on that Katie
Pavltch has left Fox News and will now be starting
in twenty twenty six, the primetime host in the ten
o'clock Eastern time time slot, so you'll be able to
watch her on News Nation at nine o'clock our time.
And I'm just incredibly, incredibly happy for my John. This
(29:03):
is just a word salad with oily mozzarella balls.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Have a great Christmas. This is just a word salad
with no substance.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Good morning, John, say. I also had it by a
custod bell than a oric aneurysm so bake valve here.
Don't you think the Minnesota taxpayers should get like a
tax holiday this next year?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Just a thought.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Merry Christmas, Hey John.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
On a health note, this is Denise from Chicago City, Minnesota.
The oil that your mozzarella balls are soapd in is
actually a healthy oil.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Normally it's olive oil.
Speaker 11 (29:43):
And we really need some good, healthy olive oil in
our diet, and your mozzarella balls are probably healthy too,
just in moderation, good fat.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
We need it.
Speaker 11 (29:55):
Thanks, have a great vacation.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
That is a fantastic news, especially considering that I've actually
been drinking that oil. I've been taking it like it
was a like it was a shot.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I'm just kidding. I haven't been doing that. I haven't
been doing that at all.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
John, I'm super sad that this is your last day
for the rest of the year, but I understand the
need to take a break. We're on the same vacation
cycle and my mornings aren't going to be the same.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Back to something reasonable, going back some now twenty years ago,
which is absolutely amazing. Before I got the job in Tucson, Arizona,
before I met my dear friend Drew, who I continue
to miss every single day when I arrive here at
Twin Cities News Talk, I was working part time on
a news talk station owned by iHeartRadio, and I was
(30:50):
asked to host, along with another employee with iHeart at
the time at Wood, a night show on Christmas. And
because of that, I wanted to put together something special
and ever since then, right before I head off on vacation,
the last show that I do before I take my
two weeks off and head into the new year, I
like to share this with you as my closing out
(31:12):
of the year, my tribute to Christmas, my love of Christmas,
and specifically a Charlie Brown Christmas. So this is what
I wrote almost twenty years ago. Phil Tower was the
program director at the time in Grand Rapids Michigan, and
when Phil asked me my thoughts about hosting a live
show on Christmas night, I was excited over the opportunity
to be able to simply be on the air doing
(31:34):
what I love. Being out of work full time as
the host of a morning show for the past four months,
Tonight I decided would be a little Christmas gift to myself. Sure,
few people would be listening, but I enjoyed doing talk
radio so much that any opportunity that I can get
I gladly welcome. Once we decided to go ahead and
(31:55):
do what we ended up calling Leftover Eggnog, it was
time to figure out just what we were going to
do with the show. If you've been listening to the
show for any length of time, we decided to keep
it simple. Let's remember our troops fighting for our freedom
who can't be with us. Let's tell stories of our
Christmas present and past. Let's go through the news items
(32:17):
that you weren't aware of since you did the smart
thing and turned off the TV. But I also wanted
to do something special, something that maybe, just maybe would
let me recapture those old holiday feelings, the Christmas spirit
of my youth that I try to hold on to
so desperately.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
What for me is Christmas? What for America is Christmas?
What can people of all.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Generations look at as a true piece of Americana that,
in one minute represents what Christmas is all about? A
Charlie Brown Christmas and Linus on stage explaining the true
meaning of Christmas. In a time where every Christmas, not
the Holidays, not Hanukah, not Kwansa, Christmas comes harder and
(33:03):
harder under attack, to the point where the mere mention
of Christ no longer is deemed appropriate in reference to
the very holiday that is to celebrate the birth of
our Lord Jesus Christ. When I look back and watch
a simple cartoon of a young child on stage quoting
from the Bible the Birth of Jesus to his friends,
I think it's amazing they still allow this on TV
(33:27):
in today's politically correct world, I dare say that no
major network would have the guts to do what a
Charlie Brown Christmas did, and that is to tell it
as it was written. No CGI, no five point one
surround sound, no HD, no celebrities. Just line this as
spotlight and one minute worth of dialogue to put it
(33:49):
all into perspective to take the wrapping paper, the santas,
all the sales, the stress, and reduce it to rubble
under the weight of the true origins. Reason for the season,
for Untu is born today in the City of David,
a savior who is Christ the Lord. Even if you
don't believe, one would be hard pressed not to feel
(34:12):
the power of the story of one child born to
save the sins of man. Few times in American media
have we got it right. Few times have we taken
the means to entertain and made it worth anything more
than the dollar amount the advertisers spend on a thirty
second sixty second commercial for what it's worth. Coca Cola
(34:33):
was the original sponsor of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and
over the years any product placement had to be edited
out of A Charlie Brown Christmas because the advertisers were upset.
The fact that the mention of the christ story has
not been edited out of the cartoon as well, for me,
is a testament to what a wonderful piece of American
(34:54):
history A Charlie Brown Christmas is. Sure my wife may
not understand why I hold such a fondness for the cartoon,
why I still laugh at Snoopy dancing on Schroeder's piano.
Why my heart still goes out to Charlie Brown every
time he brings that pathetic looking Christmas tree in, but
(35:16):
she still stops down. My wife does to sit down
and watch that one minute of a child on stage
with a spotlight telling it like it is. That's what
Christmas is all about.
Speaker 12 (35:29):
Everything I do turns into a disaster. I guess I
really don't know what Christmas is all about. Isn't there
anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Here's Harlie Brown.
I can tell you what Christmas is all about.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Life, please.
Speaker 12 (35:52):
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in
the field, keeping watch over their flock by night, and
low the Angel of the Lord upon them. The glory
of the Lord shall round about them. They were so afraid,
and the Angel said, unto them, if you're not for behold,
I bring your tidings great joy which shall be to
all people. For unto you is born this day in
(36:14):
the City of David, a savior, just Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign onto you. You shall
find the babe, wrapped in swaddling toes, lying in a manger,
and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of
the heavenly host praising God. I'm saying glory to God
in the highest and on earth.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Peace would feel toward men.
Speaker 12 (36:40):
That's what Christmas has thought about.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Charlie Brown, Thank you so much for listening to the
show and your support of the show throughout the years.
As I headed into my tenth year here on Twin
City's News Talking, I'm looking forward to my time off,
but I'm also looking forward to getting back and getting
back at it starting on Monday, January fifth, in twenty
twenty six. I hope you and your family, your loved ones,
(37:03):
and your friends all have a fantastic and God filled
Christmas and New Years. I'll talk to you guys in
twenty twenty six. God bless and have yourself a merry Christmas.
Talk to you guys next year.
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