March 9, 2026 • 36 mins
Which car did you drive during your practice exam? Jon, Sam, and the listeners share their experiences. Jon talks through the issue of disruptive students in the classroom, and revisits the topic of shoplifting being beneficial. Jon and Sam try to figure out an actor's filmography and the listeners set the record straight.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Proposed bill would require new drivers twenty one in under
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to take driver's head and before getting a license. Currently,
the state law mandates thirty hours of driver's education for
those seventeen another under, but the new proposal by state
Representative Andrew Myers would require every new driver to take
driver's education before getting behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And the stats seem to back up the proposal.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Eighteen to twenty years old, if you skip driver's d
you are seventy five percent more likely to get a
traffic ticket twenty four percent more likely to be involved
in a crash. I got a lot of comments that
rolled in I want to answer from the iHeartRadio app
talkbacks that are brought to you by Lindahl Realty. Here
on Twin City's News Talk. When Minneapolis resident took a
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very progressive view of this, Isaac expressed uncertainty, saying, you know,
maybe we should update the road designs in high traffic areas,
might do a better job of keeping drivers safe. Fix
some of the often on rams in the city. They're
not big enough for people to merge on and off.
At the same time, I think people are getting along
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just fine. I mean, Chris Williams, a youth hockey coach,
though says this thirteen year old son that he has
plans to take driver's head shared a perspective on the mandate,
saying I think it would at least make people think
a little bit when asked if the classes would make
better drivers. Williams, however, also suggested another solution for improving
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driver's safety. Give out a lot of bus passes and
improve public transportation, and then you have a lot fewer
drivers on the road. You already have fewer drivers on
the road. Getting your driver's license doesn't carry the same
cash e as it used to when I was younger.
When I was younger, and you know this, by the
time I turned fifteen to get my learners permit and
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to get my life license when I was sixteen. The
day that I turned sixteen, I won on my driver's license.
And it's simply not a priority like it used to be.
For all the reasons that we've talked about on the show,
just the changing of society. How often people are just
staying at home, not going out, necessitating the need to
go see friends when you can communicate via text through
your smartphones. I mean, there's a lot of different reasons why.
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I'm very much in support of this. By the way,
I think we need to make sure that people who
are driving on the roadways or is educated and trained
as much as possible. Side note on this, and I
want to get to your talkbacks on here, But ever
since I got the new car, I haven't talked about
it very much. I mean, I still have the issue
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of tailgating, but people drive like jerks around me more often.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm convinced it's because I'm driving a sport of your car.
It's the one hundred percent what it is.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I never anticipated that would be the case, but suddenly
now if there is a car that seemingly on par
with mind, listen, my car's not that fancy.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's the keyest singer for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's not We're not talking about Mercedes, a BMW or
McLaren or anything like this, right, It's just but it is,
you know, a low profile automobile.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think it looks cool from the back.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It looks great and actually have I'll tell you a
story off the air about the Stinger.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I got one for you, Okay, But.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it just seems like people right now they just
want to drive like jerks around me way worse than
it was when I was driving, when I was dripping junior.
All right, let's let's go to your iHeartRadio app talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Two things for you, John.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
On the driver's licenses, you do not have to take
driver's head, but you do have to pass the test.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And I very.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Distinctly recall when I had to go get my Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh that's right now, My apologies, we had played this
one earlier. Let's go here.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
So John, I gotta respond to this. I grew up
in Minnesota in the summers through my teen years, and
I drove farm trucks and semis and tractors and the
farmers pickups when I was fourteen years old, so I
waited till I was eighteen so I would not have
to take drivers AD because when you're working for farmers,
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you don't need a driver's license at all to drive
the farm equipment and the semis hauling grain.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
If I didn't want to spend the money.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Ever, well, I totally believe that people should take drivers
AD before they can take their driver's test or get
on the road, because if you take lessons from a
crappy driver Heidi, a parent or a friend. That just
makes you a crappier driver, and I don't want to
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meet you on the roadway.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Let's not forget that.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
In Minnesota you also have to take a class to
operate a snowmobile, and now they've switched it to even
a boat operation, and they are a little bit different
for miners, you know, fourteen year olds to the eighteen
year olds versus eighteen and over. But yeah, there's against something.
We're going to have it.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
I'll follow up on that age one for you.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
John.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
My grandma is ninety three, soon to be ninety four
years old, legally blind in one eye, and just passed
her re examination for her driver's tests, including her visual exam.
Explain that one Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Okay, so we need to know where she drives most
often and then what kind of vehicle she's in. No offense,
I don't want to come anywhere near driving where your
grandmother is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Based off of your story, Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
John is somebody who is a truck driver and puts
on hundreds of miles around the Twin Cities area a day.
It is appalling to me that you get your driver's
license at sixteen and you never have to take the
test again in your life.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I will tell you about.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Seventy five percent of everybody that's on the road has
no idea how to drive, should lose their license today.
Speaker 10 (06:11):
I got my driver's license in nineteen seventy seven, and
I was in California, and I thought it was required
for me to take driver's d before I got my license.
This is back in I think nineteen seventy seven or
nineteen seventy. Yeah, I got it in nineteen seventy seven
because I was driving when I was a junior in
high school. So and it was it was always my
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impression it was mandatory back then. It's not mandatory in
Minnesota to have driver's head. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Do you remember, Sam, Do you remember the car you
took your your driver's license testing?
Speaker 11 (06:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, it was a nineteen ninety five Pontiac Grand Prix. Okay,
I didn't go for your pass first time around. No, well,
I passed the written test the first time. It took
me two or three tries to get to get my license.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So I I'm trying to think of which way this went.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, so I tried to take when I went to
go take my driver's license exam. I went to go
take it in my first off. I had to wait
because I was living in southern California at the time.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We had to wait.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
A long period of time before I could end up
getting scheduled to take my driver's license test. Now, my
memory that was a long time ago, right, My memory
might not be serving me as well as I would hope,
but I do remember anticipating taking the test. So whether
it was because I was just excited to take the
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test or we had to wait a long period of time,
it probably felt like a long period of time. So
I went to take the test in my dad's sixty
eight volspikeen Bug, which he had purchased he bought he
had bought brand new off the showroom floor. When we
got there, the tail one of the tail lights was out.
Oh no, and they would not let a us take
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the exam in the car. I was freaking out because
I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't want to wait.
I said, well, if you can get another car to
take the test, and you can still go and take
the test today. So we drove home and we ended
up I ended up having to take my driver's license
test in our I think it was an eighty three
Volkswagen bus. I almost just sowar on the air to
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parallel park that beast. I earned my right at my
driver's license for having to parallel park that sucker.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And I did end up passing by the way. That
was the That was the that was the good news.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Did you have to do the ninety degree back in?
Speaker 12 (08:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, the whole night? Yeah yeah, yeah, the whole the
whole nine yards. Yeah no, no, no, I was well trained, man.
All I wanted. I wanted my driver's license, and I
was gonna get it, and I got it.
Speaker 13 (08:59):
I would like to see that requirement for drivers training
be extended to any potential motorist who's not held a
license in the United States of America, so that these
immigrants who've never driven elsewhere or maybe had different laws
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where they came from, get trained on our rules and laws.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Can you transfer if you have a driver's license in
another country, do you still have to go through I
don't know. I honestly don't know the answer to that,
whether or not you still have to go through or
what you have to go through here in the United
States if you end up immigrating here. I'm sure somebody knows.
Leave us a talk back on the iHeartRadio app. We'll
get back to a few more of your comments, and
then I want to turn our attention to Republican State
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Senator Jim Abler says he's gotten an airful about the
problem relating to schools and disciplinary action taken when students
disrupt the classroom. We typically think of our schools as
safe spaces, according to the article that I have here
in front of me from Channel five, but sometimes there
are safety issues.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Inside the school with students.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
They might start throwing classroom materials, flipping chairs, yelling and screaming,
said Michelle Krell, the executive director of the Minnesota Elementary
School Principals Association, and then the rest of the students
need to take cover, be evacuated from the room, and
the learning stops.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We'll get into this.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Coming up, because I was completely unaware of this until
late last year, that we are not removing a problem
kid from the classroom.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We're removing all of the other.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Students from the classroom to deal with the problem kid.
And that just seems utterly ridiculous to me. We'll get
some more of your comments as well, talkbacks on the
iHeartRadio app. Next here on Twin Cities News Talk by
AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 14 (10:50):
And Twin Cities News Talk and Guaranteed Humans a few.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
More comments to share from the iHeartRadio app and regarding
this proposed bill that would require new drivers and those
twenty one and under to take a driver's head before
getting a license.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Don't want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Lawmakers proposing a cooling off period for K through three
students with disciplinary problems. You're talk Back of the Day
brought to you by Mini Leaf coming up as well
here on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's go here.
Speaker 15 (11:33):
Hey, John, I'm just going to tell you first ten knowledge.
They're just pushing these people through because they are so
overloaded with people coming to get driver's license into the
state that are not of this country.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And as you can tell, when you're on the road,
you run.
Speaker 15 (11:48):
Into them quite often because they almost run you off
the road.
Speaker 16 (11:53):
Hi, good morning, great show. As always, I think with
the driver's ad issue, it sounds like once someone turns eighteen,
they need to only hold the permit for one hundred
and eighty days, and I don't think they need a
certain amount of hours during the day and night, or
have restrictions once they get their license for how many
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people they can have in their car, et cetera. And
then it even lessens at nineteen. So it sounds like
there's several factors playing into the issue.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I wonder how big of a push there is for
you being able to decide the whole music when you
call vehicle services versus putting this law into effect.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
For those that were listening.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Last hour to the show, and if you weren't, be
sure to check out the podcast available on the iHeartRadio
app once the show wraps up.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This morning.
Speaker 17 (12:43):
Good morning, John, Josh. This is Chuck from Green Isle.
I also had to pass my driver's test in an
old Swagen van parallel park without an issue. So it
was a nineteen seventy two bus with a stick shift
and it was where I am.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, say the bus that I was referring to, I
actually had to.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I texted.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I texted my dad because I wasn't We had a
we had a believe it was a seventy one camper bus,
Volkswagen camper Bus. After we had the other Volkswagen bus.
And I want to say the one bus that I
was driving. Took the test and was actually not an
eighty three. It might have been in the seventies, but
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I texted him to ask, but he hasn't. He's in California.
He might still be he might still be sleeping right now.
But it too was a stick shift as well. I
got an email that rolled in, Jeff Wrights, I got
you bait. My first driver's test was taken in a
nineteen seventy nine Chevy Impalla Wagon. I failed my first
test because in my parallel park the tail end hit
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a snowbank.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That didn't fail me, but it did rattle.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Me, and I subsequently turned on a left turn amber arrow,
which the tester thought I should have stopped for. I
eventually passed on my second test in the same same vehicle.
Speaker 18 (14:03):
Good morning, John. I took my driver's license in a
nineteen seventy six Mercury Ltd Wagons. If you want to
talk about a big vehicle that you have to parallel park,
that was a very long and wide and big vehicle.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Thankst have a good day.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, it's a boat. You had to take your driver's
test in a boat.
Speaker 19 (14:24):
I practice driver's ed and driving in my dad's nineteen
ninety five suburban could not figure out how to parallel
park that beast. I ended up taking the test in
my mom's nineteen ninety six. Grand Am was terrified about
the parallel parking aspect.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Knew I was going to fail.
Speaker 19 (14:45):
It ended up not having to parallel park. It got
past a parallel park like a king. Now it is great.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I just like the fact that he's very proud I
could parallel park like a king.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Now that's amazing.
Speaker 20 (15:05):
Good morning, John and Sam. Regarding Minnesota driver's licenses, I
lived in Minnesota a licensed driver since age sixteen, moved
to Georgia for two years, came back, and at age
fifty six, I had to retake the written test for
the state of Minnesota to get a license again. In Minnesota.
When I went to Georgia did nepsake test, just had
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to fill out the form. But in Minnesota you have
to retake it, even if you were licensed for decades
in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Make it make sense, Yeah, I was. I've told this
story before. But we'll wrap on this.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We'll take a quick break, and then we'll get into
this proposed cooling off Perigo through K through twelve of
students with disciplinary problems. We'll talk about this proposed illegal
new sanctuary state tax. It's being pedled through the legislative session.
But we were raised in a Volkswagen family, and so
many of the cars that we were driving around just
simply weren't street legal for an abundance of different reasons.
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Beyond the tail light issue that I talked about earlier,
there was another car that I had didn't have a
bumper on it, and.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Things of this nature.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
After I got my license, I had so many dings
on my record that the State of California was threatening
to take my driver's license away from me.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I had to write an essay to explain to them.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Because I was working as a public real estate auctioneer
at the time and to have my license taken away
from me was going to end up dramatically and adversely
affecting my livelihood. Needless to say, my essay worked and
I was able to keep my license, and it made
me a better driver too.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So there you go, all.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Right, your comments regarding the fact that our schools have
to end up pulling the entire classroom out if there
is a child that is disrupting the classroom, the measure
would end up reversing a twenty twenty three mandate that
bans suspensions from Minnesota students from kindergarten through the third grade.
This new bill would allow schools to send those students
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with disciplinary problems home for a maximum of one partial
day and one full day after the incident. I'll give
you further details on this and we'll get some more
of your thoughts in your talkback of the day, Brought
to you by Minnie Leath. It's all coming up on
Twinsday's news talk AM eleven thirty and one oh three
five FM.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
All right, we are going to switch topics.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
However, I have just a few more comments that have
already rolled in, So no more talkbacks relating to your
vehicles and the bill to require individuals to take drivers
at those younger are twenty one and younger. Okay, have
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a couple of talkbacks plus your talkback of the day.
First off, my dad texted back, I was way off
on the year of the Volkswagen bus. So the westphailure
that we had, the Camper bus that was in nineteen seventy.
The bus the VW bus that I took my driver's
license test and was in nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ooh, full Swagen bus. So that's significantly.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So I get a little bit more cred for passing
it successfully for what it's worth, all right, So I
got a couple of comments, and then we have your talkback,
your talk back of the day. Let's go here.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, good morning.
Speaker 21 (18:24):
My son had to learn how to drive and test
in my twenty fifteen for F one fifteen crew cab
pickup truck, which.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Is huge for a young.
Speaker 21 (18:38):
Driver, ended up actually passing on his first test and
then now has crashed twice and told him.
Speaker 12 (18:45):
To come.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Brutal.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh that sucks. All right, let's go to this talk back.
I'm brought to you by Lindahl Realty.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I may have you beat.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
I took my test in a nineteen seventy three big
station wagon and I got a nine.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, I don't know. I mean based off of Ippian
A sixty seven. You know. Does that mean you still
got me beat?
Speaker 16 (19:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
By the way, we have what it means to make
yourself a king with parallel parking.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
Well yeah, but parallel parking like a king means you
leave it in the middle of the street, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
And now it's time for your talkback of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Your talkback of the day is brought to you by
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I'm not showing any favoritism here. I was unaware that
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McDonald until I actually went and looked. I had already
chosen it and it just happened to be from my
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good friend Joe McDonald. Who is your talkback of the
day today.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Good morning John.
Speaker 22 (20:00):
I took my test in the most beautiful colored green
cordola sold my father by Ricardo macaban.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It was fantastic and I passed right away.
Speaker 22 (20:10):
The velvet covered cloth in the interior seats was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Have a great day. Keep up the good work. Sam.
You're not You're clueless.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
On Ricardo Montoban, the famous actor from the sixties and
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No, nothing like I Love Lucy. I think it's Fantasy Island, right,
is that Ricardo Manchabon. I'll have to look, he'll look.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, it's Ricardo and him and him in tattoo on
Fantasy Fantasy Island. Funny side note about Fantasy Island. Is
that the island in Fantasy Fantasy Island?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And I was right about that, right, Yeah, you're okay, right, yeah, right,
that's just what I thought the island. There was a
place called the Arboretum in Arcadia, southern California, And in
the Arboretum was the location where the house for Fantasy
Island and the seaplane was that located. As a kid,
it was a really fantastic place. I used to go
outdoors a lot more when I was younger than I
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do now.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Ricardo mantle Bond, by the way, the villain from the
original Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's where I know I'm from. Okay, and was it?
Hold on a second, I just want to make sure
I'm getting this. I'm getting this correct. Oh and he
he was con Oh he was Cone.
Speaker 16 (21:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I always get thrown off because he's wearing the fake
muscular chest.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, in that movie.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
My favorite of all the Star Trek films, by the way,
well second to jj Abram's twenty ten version.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And now I'm really getting off the subject. So thank
you Joe McDonald.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You are the talk back of the day, brought to
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Speaker 2 (21:40):
All right, let's get to this story. Typically we think
of our schools to safe spaces.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Sometimes there are safety issues inside the school with the students.
Michelle Crell, executive director of the Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association,
said they might start throwing classroom materials, flipping chairs, yelling
and screaming. Then the rest of the students seem to
take cover, be evacuated from the classroom, and then the
learning stops. Representative State Senator Jim Abler says he's gotten
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a near ful about the problem. Teachers are getting injured,
other students are at risk, the whole class gets evacuated.
So in Anoka District, one hundred and forty two times
this year already, classes have been evacuated kindergarten, first, second,
third grade, thirty three in kindergarten alone, just in our district.
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This blew me away when I heard about when I
heard this was the case, This is the most ridiculous solution,
in my view, you could ever come up with for
this problem. You remove the child that's causing the issue.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You don't remove the entire classroom. That's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Abler's bill would allow schools to send those students with
disciplinary problems home for a maximum of one partial day
and one full day after the incident. Well, does this
also mandate that you remove the kid that's causing the
issue as opposed to the entire classroom. The measure would
reverse a twenty twenty three mandate that bans suspensions from
Minnesota students from kindergarten through third grade. Supporters say it
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would give counselors a chance to meet with students in
those evacuated classrooms. Not only is not only lost learning,
but they also lost the sense of security and safety,
increased anxiety for students trying to learn. I know I
must be missing something on this, but to go and
evacuate the classroom is just again ridiculous. You want to
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go and work on solving the problem, You remove the
child causing the problems, and that disincentivizes the rest of
the students. I just imagine students right now acting up
is simply to get their classmates remove from the classroom.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Hey, John Tiptop show this morning.
Speaker 23 (23:56):
So my question would be if you got kids in
their flip and tail and everybody has to get evacuated
and then the learning stops, is what she says no, no, no, no, no,
there was never any learning going on in that classroom.
Oh my goodness, gracious, that just sounds like an anxiety
stress vest for all the kids. They are not focused
on anything that's going on on that board. They're waiting
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for the next kid to pop off.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
So on the students being removed from classrooms. I have
a wife who worked as a pair of in schools locally,
and at least in our schools, they have staff on
call that anytime a student is creating an issue in
the classroom, they simply radio that staff. They come and
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remove the student and take them to a separate space
in the school for their cool down and reprimands.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, that's the way that that's the way that it's
should happen. All right, hold on real quick, Hey, Sam,
I got I need to do a little research for me. Okay,
completely off of this particular topic, but I have a
talk back that can you double check for me to
make sure that Ricardo Monto Bonds was wearing a prosthetic
(25:09):
chest in Wrath of Khan. Somebody has challenged me on
this and I am ninety nine point nine percent sure
that was the case.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So if would you mind googling that five. Yeah, it
sure goes my search history. Hey, John Cohn is not
wearing a fake muscular chest. That's not a prosthetic, that's
a real chest.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Okay, so we're gonna work. We're gonna Sam's gonna find
this out. We do have other things to talk about,
but Sam is going to go.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I googled his name in Khan and then Autophil put
in chest, So of course more to come on because.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He's wearing a prosthetic chest.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That's why, getting back to the story, the proposed bill,
which would take effect in the twenty twenty six twenty
seven school years, still maintains that expulsions and exclusions can
only be used as a last resort, that after resources
have been utilized, and only when there is a serious
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and ongoing safety threat to other to students or others.
I hate the ambiguity with all of this. If there
is any threat, they shouldn't have to be ongoing, Krell says.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
My hope is that they pass.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It gives us the opportunity to create safe spaces for
our kids when necessary, not as the first resort, but
as a last resort.
Speaker 24 (26:33):
There's many times where my better half comes home with
bruises and teeth marks because of the kids that are
in the classroom. One of the things that she talks
about is ninety percent of the problems with the kids
are the parents.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The other piece is they can't touch them.
Speaker 24 (26:52):
That's why they don't remove them from the classroom. If illegal,
their hands are tied.
Speaker 25 (27:00):
Children who misbehave in schools should have to have their
parents sit with them for the next three days in class,
in every class, follow them everywhere they go. And I
think that might help the problem significantly. If parents have
to take time off of work and sit with their
child who doesn't know how to behave because the parent
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didn't teach them how to behave properly.
Speaker 26 (27:25):
If they're using the same playbook as the anti gun establishment,
punish the law binding people and ignore those that are
causing the problems.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Well and again, this mentality permeates to so much of
the commentary that we have of trying to solve, you know,
a lot of different problems.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We had the story earlier.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Regarding the driver's licenses where the person interviewed in the
story was like, well, you.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Know what, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's a bad idea that we require drivers at for
these younger drivers. But maybe it's unnecessary and we just
need to go out there and make the roads wider.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Don't try to get the individuals driving the cars better
trained to actually operate the automobile. No, we're going to
spend millions of dollars adjusting the roads to cater to
bad drivers.
Speaker 21 (28:24):
So we've got fired drills, tornado drills, ice drills, and
naughty child drills.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So I wonder the state tests for the soul. Well,
all right, so before we have a couple of things
to talk about before we go, I have emails that
are rolling in. Chad is also challenging me on this.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Am I right or wrong about Ricardo Montobah's chest in
Star Trek two The Wrath of Car.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So, according to the director Nicholas Meyer, his chest was real.
He showed up on set all right, in peak physical condition,
and they just added makeup to enhance the features.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay, So I was wrong. I was absolutely wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I was probably conflating it with Sigourney Weaver because she
also had a prosthetic test in Galaxy. Question that I
know for sure because I watched the documentary on that.
But I was I was so positive, so had tip
to Ricardo Montebonford putting forth the effort.
Speaker 12 (29:24):
Well, that's true. Ricardo was a pretty tough dude. He
actually was last size when he portrayed cog So the myth,
the man on the legend.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, well, I'm glad you put that that one to bed.
And I'm a talk show host that can admit what
I'm wrong. My apologies guys for putting out bad information.
I will sleep easier tonight, I know everybody. Everybody will,
and I will probably get more emails on that and
the number of and the type of vehicles that people
went and took the driver's license test, and then I
do anything else.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, no, no, what I love about our listeners, no
doubt about that at all.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
There's something to be said about it, but I'm not
going to get into it now. Let's go here. Hey,
happy Monday morning, John.
Speaker 27 (30:07):
Yeah, my grandson has that same problem in school. But
what it is, it's more like DEI. They tend to
like put these autistic children in there that are very disruptive,
and then the kids themselves have to deal with these
autistic kids with their outbursts. I just remember when we
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were in school, they were the helmet patrol.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, and to that point, you're not the only one
to key in on this particular issue.
Speaker 28 (30:41):
A lot of these students that are causing the issues
are special head students. Back in my day, special ed
students were not just intertwined in a regular classroom because
of these disruptions. But now, because we want them to
feel like humans, we allow them to be in the classroom,
and that just messes it up for everyone else. There's
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got to be a different way.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
So thank you for all the comments this morning. Greatly
appreciate it. From the iHeart Radio app. Before we wrap
things up, I'm going to move a couple of stories
to tomorrow. Specifically, on tomorrow's show, we will get into
the dfellow's proposed illegal news sanctuary sanctuary state tax, also
a proposed forty million dollar rental assistant to package. Let's
(31:25):
wrap up on these two stories. Following up on last week,
we talked about this on the Freedom Friday Show. A
Minnesota House hearing about the misclassification of workers at the
state capitol this week somehow turned into a kerfuffle as
Channel five states about the benefit of shoplifting. So during
(31:49):
the presentation, Republican Representative Isaac Schultz asked if any studies
had been done about employers having to pay higher wages
and benefits leading to higher prices. I wonder if, through
our studies, if you'd study the impact of worker misclassification
to consumer taxpayer. Schultz ast he was told that they
had not studied that and that the state law requires
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workers to be properly classified. Schultz says he's not suggesting
workers be misclassified, he's just once a full picture of
what's happening. Minutes later, Representative Dave A. Pinto Dfler out
of Saint Paul, the committee co chair, compared blaming higher
work pay for causing higher prices to impact shoplifting and
(32:32):
what it has on higher prices. He says, it would
probably have been good to make sure that they would
study the benefits of shoplifting and retail theft, because perhaps
people are relying on that and using that and maybe
it's assisting them in some way.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So this story blew up. It ended up going viral.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
When asked for comment, Pinto declined to do an on
camera interview, but issued a written statement said my comments
were tended to be sarcastic. Following the line of questioning
from Representative Isaac Schultz. They were in no way, shape
or form meant to be sarcastic. He was absolutely serious.
(33:14):
He's only saying that because the kerfuffle, as Channel five explains,
ended up gaining a lot of attention. To that point,
Minnesota State Representative Krista Khannutsen talked about this very issue
and what actually had transpired. Here is audio that she
posted on her account on x Hey.
Speaker 29 (33:34):
Minnesota State Representative Krista Knutson. So today in the Labor Committee,
Representative Dave Pinto requested a study for the benefits of shoplifting.
There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that
are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else
(33:58):
to say.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'm shopped Actually, I.
Speaker 18 (34:05):
Don't even know what to say.
Speaker 28 (34:06):
Who I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Who benefits from shoplifting?
Speaker 18 (34:18):
The criminals?
Speaker 29 (34:19):
Once again, the criminals benefit from shoplifting. Please take a
look at the comments to see for yourself.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It is an intriguing line of questions. Several of us
are in the Public Safety Committee.
Speaker 30 (34:28):
Yesterday there was a presentation of a group seeking to
change how we address organize retail theft, and it actually
had not occurred to me to ask. It probably would
have been good to make sure that they would study
sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft,
because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of
using that. Maybe it's you know, assisting them in some way.
(34:49):
I mean, these folks were describing people violating the law,
but I suppose it could be useful to look into that.
But ultimately a policy question, right, we do want to
make sure when we have a law in place where
we're enforcing it.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
There was not a hint of sarcasm in any of
what he said.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't get why Democrats just don't just own it.
Your base doesn't care. Just own it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's your excuse, and it's what you will use when
trying to go and explain what's had taken place regarding
fraud the behavior of your base of supporters individuals.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Again, it's that idea, and we talked about this at
Linked on Friday.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It's that idea that you are inherently good and that
you only make bad decisions because of outside influences. There
was nothing sarcastic about that at all. We'll end on this.
Maybe the Tourism Board for Minneapolis can use this as
a new means to lure tourists to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
From Fox nine.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Minneapolis Only Fans subscribers have helped the city secure a
top spot for content consumption on the site Oh Yeah,
I can believe It, ranking it in fifth place in
the entire country per capita spending. The city's per capita
spending intensely is a whopping four point four percent higher
(36:18):
than the national average. Minnesota among top five only Fans
spenders per capita in the country. So Minneapolis residents spent
a combined total of fourteen point three million in twenty
twenty five. That amounts to three hundred and thirty seven
two hundred and forty eight dollars per ten thousand residents,
and that was enough for it to earn fifth place nationally.
(36:41):
According to the data, Minneapolis residents spent about thirty nine
thousand dollars a day on OnlyFans, and that was more
than any other city in the Midwest. Of all of Minnesota,
they spent a total of forty seven point nine million,
ranking seventeenth out of all fifty states.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
For all of
Proposed bill would require new drivers twenty one in under
(00:11):
to take driver's head and before getting a license. Currently,
the state law mandates thirty hours of driver's education for
those seventeen another under, but the new proposal by state
Representative Andrew Myers would require every new driver to take
driver's education before getting behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And the stats seem to back up the proposal.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Eighteen to twenty years old, if you skip driver's d
you are seventy five percent more likely to get a
traffic ticket twenty four percent more likely to be involved
in a crash. I got a lot of comments that
rolled in I want to answer from the iHeartRadio app
talkbacks that are brought to you by Lindahl Realty. Here
on Twin City's News Talk. When Minneapolis resident took a
(00:55):
very progressive view of this, Isaac expressed uncertainty, saying, you know,
maybe we should update the road designs in high traffic areas,
might do a better job of keeping drivers safe. Fix
some of the often on rams in the city. They're
not big enough for people to merge on and off.
At the same time, I think people are getting along
(01:17):
just fine. I mean, Chris Williams, a youth hockey coach,
though says this thirteen year old son that he has
plans to take driver's head shared a perspective on the mandate,
saying I think it would at least make people think
a little bit when asked if the classes would make
better drivers. Williams, however, also suggested another solution for improving
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driver's safety. Give out a lot of bus passes and
improve public transportation, and then you have a lot fewer
drivers on the road. You already have fewer drivers on
the road. Getting your driver's license doesn't carry the same
cash e as it used to when I was younger.
When I was younger, and you know this, by the
time I turned fifteen to get my learners permit and
(01:59):
to get my life license when I was sixteen. The
day that I turned sixteen, I won on my driver's license.
And it's simply not a priority like it used to be.
For all the reasons that we've talked about on the show,
just the changing of society. How often people are just
staying at home, not going out, necessitating the need to
go see friends when you can communicate via text through
your smartphones. I mean, there's a lot of different reasons why.
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I'm very much in support of this. By the way,
I think we need to make sure that people who
are driving on the roadways or is educated and trained
as much as possible. Side note on this, and I
want to get to your talkbacks on here, But ever
since I got the new car, I haven't talked about
it very much. I mean, I still have the issue
(02:44):
of tailgating, but people drive like jerks around me more often.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm convinced it's because I'm driving a sport of your car.
It's the one hundred percent what it is.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I never anticipated that would be the case, but suddenly
now if there is a car that seemingly on par
with mind, listen, my car's not that fancy.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's the keyest singer for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's not We're not talking about Mercedes, a BMW or
McLaren or anything like this, right, It's just but it is,
you know, a low profile automobile.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think it looks cool from the back.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It looks great and actually have I'll tell you a
story off the air about the Stinger.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I got one for you, Okay, But.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, it just seems like people right now they just
want to drive like jerks around me way worse than
it was when I was driving, when I was dripping junior.
All right, let's let's go to your iHeartRadio app talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Two things for you, John.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
On the driver's licenses, you do not have to take
driver's head, but you do have to pass the test.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And I very.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Distinctly recall when I had to go get my Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh that's right now, My apologies, we had played this
one earlier. Let's go here.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
So John, I gotta respond to this. I grew up
in Minnesota in the summers through my teen years, and
I drove farm trucks and semis and tractors and the
farmers pickups when I was fourteen years old, so I
waited till I was eighteen so I would not have
to take drivers AD because when you're working for farmers,
(04:12):
you don't need a driver's license at all to drive
the farm equipment and the semis hauling grain.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
If I didn't want to spend the money.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Ever, well, I totally believe that people should take drivers
AD before they can take their driver's test or get
on the road, because if you take lessons from a
crappy driver Heidi, a parent or a friend. That just
makes you a crappier driver, and I don't want to
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meet you on the roadway.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Let's not forget that.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
In Minnesota you also have to take a class to
operate a snowmobile, and now they've switched it to even
a boat operation, and they are a little bit different
for miners, you know, fourteen year olds to the eighteen
year olds versus eighteen and over. But yeah, there's against something.
We're going to have it.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
I'll follow up on that age one for you.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
John.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
My grandma is ninety three, soon to be ninety four
years old, legally blind in one eye, and just passed
her re examination for her driver's tests, including her visual exam.
Explain that one Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Okay, so we need to know where she drives most
often and then what kind of vehicle she's in. No offense,
I don't want to come anywhere near driving where your
grandmother is.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Based off of your story, Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 9 (05:44):
John is somebody who is a truck driver and puts
on hundreds of miles around the Twin Cities area a day.
It is appalling to me that you get your driver's
license at sixteen and you never have to take the
test again in your life.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I will tell you about.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
Seventy five percent of everybody that's on the road has
no idea how to drive, should lose their license today.
Speaker 10 (06:11):
I got my driver's license in nineteen seventy seven, and
I was in California, and I thought it was required
for me to take driver's d before I got my license.
This is back in I think nineteen seventy seven or
nineteen seventy. Yeah, I got it in nineteen seventy seven
because I was driving when I was a junior in
high school. So and it was it was always my
(06:33):
impression it was mandatory back then. It's not mandatory in
Minnesota to have driver's head. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Do you remember, Sam, Do you remember the car you
took your your driver's license testing?
Speaker 11 (06:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, it was a nineteen ninety five Pontiac Grand Prix. Okay,
I didn't go for your pass first time around. No, well,
I passed the written test the first time. It took
me two or three tries to get to get my license.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So I I'm trying to think of which way this went.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, so I tried to take when I went to
go take my driver's license exam. I went to go
take it in my first off. I had to wait
because I was living in southern California at the time.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We had to wait.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
A long period of time before I could end up
getting scheduled to take my driver's license test. Now, my
memory that was a long time ago, right, My memory
might not be serving me as well as I would hope,
but I do remember anticipating taking the test. So whether
it was because I was just excited to take the
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test or we had to wait a long period of time,
it probably felt like a long period of time. So
I went to take the test in my dad's sixty
eight volspikeen Bug, which he had purchased he bought he
had bought brand new off the showroom floor. When we
got there, the tail one of the tail lights was out.
Oh no, and they would not let a us take
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the exam in the car. I was freaking out because
I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't want to wait.
I said, well, if you can get another car to
take the test, and you can still go and take
the test today. So we drove home and we ended
up I ended up having to take my driver's license
test in our I think it was an eighty three
Volkswagen bus. I almost just sowar on the air to
(08:25):
parallel park that beast. I earned my right at my
driver's license for having to parallel park that sucker.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And I did end up passing by the way. That
was the That was the that was the good news.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Did you have to do the ninety degree back in?
Speaker 12 (08:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, the whole night? Yeah yeah, yeah, the whole the
whole nine yards. Yeah no, no, no, I was well trained, man.
All I wanted. I wanted my driver's license, and I
was gonna get it, and I got it.
Speaker 13 (08:59):
I would like to see that requirement for drivers training
be extended to any potential motorist who's not held a
license in the United States of America, so that these
immigrants who've never driven elsewhere or maybe had different laws
(09:21):
where they came from, get trained on our rules and laws.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Can you transfer if you have a driver's license in
another country, do you still have to go through I
don't know. I honestly don't know the answer to that,
whether or not you still have to go through or
what you have to go through here in the United
States if you end up immigrating here. I'm sure somebody knows.
Leave us a talk back on the iHeartRadio app. We'll
get back to a few more of your comments, and
then I want to turn our attention to Republican State
(09:47):
Senator Jim Abler says he's gotten an airful about the
problem relating to schools and disciplinary action taken when students
disrupt the classroom. We typically think of our schools as
safe spaces, according to the article that I have here
in front of me from Channel five, but sometimes there
are safety issues.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Inside the school with students.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
They might start throwing classroom materials, flipping chairs, yelling and screaming,
said Michelle Krell, the executive director of the Minnesota Elementary
School Principals Association, and then the rest of the students
need to take cover, be evacuated from the room, and
the learning stops.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We'll get into this.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Coming up, because I was completely unaware of this until
late last year, that we are not removing a problem
kid from the classroom.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We're removing all of the other.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Students from the classroom to deal with the problem kid.
And that just seems utterly ridiculous to me. We'll get
some more of your comments as well, talkbacks on the
iHeartRadio app. Next here on Twin Cities News Talk by
AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
Speaker 14 (10:50):
And Twin Cities News Talk and Guaranteed Humans a few.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
More comments to share from the iHeartRadio app and regarding
this proposed bill that would require new drivers and those
twenty one and under to take a driver's head before
getting a license.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Don't want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Lawmakers proposing a cooling off period for K through three
students with disciplinary problems. You're talk Back of the Day
brought to you by Mini Leaf coming up as well
here on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's go here.
Speaker 15 (11:33):
Hey, John, I'm just going to tell you first ten knowledge.
They're just pushing these people through because they are so
overloaded with people coming to get driver's license into the
state that are not of this country.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And as you can tell, when you're on the road,
you run.
Speaker 15 (11:48):
Into them quite often because they almost run you off
the road.
Speaker 16 (11:53):
Hi, good morning, great show. As always, I think with
the driver's ad issue, it sounds like once someone turns eighteen,
they need to only hold the permit for one hundred
and eighty days, and I don't think they need a
certain amount of hours during the day and night, or
have restrictions once they get their license for how many
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people they can have in their car, et cetera. And
then it even lessens at nineteen. So it sounds like
there's several factors playing into the issue.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I wonder how big of a push there is for
you being able to decide the whole music when you
call vehicle services versus putting this law into effect.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
For those that were listening.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Last hour to the show, and if you weren't, be
sure to check out the podcast available on the iHeartRadio
app once the show wraps up.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This morning.
Speaker 17 (12:43):
Good morning, John, Josh. This is Chuck from Green Isle.
I also had to pass my driver's test in an
old Swagen van parallel park without an issue. So it
was a nineteen seventy two bus with a stick shift
and it was where I am.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, say the bus that I was referring to, I
actually had to.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I texted.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I texted my dad because I wasn't We had a
we had a believe it was a seventy one camper bus,
Volkswagen camper Bus. After we had the other Volkswagen bus.
And I want to say the one bus that I
was driving. Took the test and was actually not an
eighty three. It might have been in the seventies, but
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I texted him to ask, but he hasn't. He's in California.
He might still be he might still be sleeping right now.
But it too was a stick shift as well. I
got an email that rolled in, Jeff Wrights, I got
you bait. My first driver's test was taken in a
nineteen seventy nine Chevy Impalla Wagon. I failed my first
test because in my parallel park the tail end hit
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a snowbank.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That didn't fail me, but it did rattle.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Me, and I subsequently turned on a left turn amber arrow,
which the tester thought I should have stopped for. I
eventually passed on my second test in the same same vehicle.
Speaker 18 (14:03):
Good morning, John. I took my driver's license in a
nineteen seventy six Mercury Ltd Wagons. If you want to
talk about a big vehicle that you have to parallel park,
that was a very long and wide and big vehicle.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Thankst have a good day.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, it's a boat. You had to take your driver's
test in a boat.
Speaker 19 (14:24):
I practice driver's ed and driving in my dad's nineteen
ninety five suburban could not figure out how to parallel
park that beast. I ended up taking the test in
my mom's nineteen ninety six. Grand Am was terrified about
the parallel parking aspect.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Knew I was going to fail.
Speaker 19 (14:45):
It ended up not having to parallel park. It got
past a parallel park like a king. Now it is great.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I just like the fact that he's very proud I
could parallel park like a king.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Now that's amazing.
Speaker 20 (15:05):
Good morning, John and Sam. Regarding Minnesota driver's licenses, I
lived in Minnesota a licensed driver since age sixteen, moved
to Georgia for two years, came back, and at age
fifty six, I had to retake the written test for
the state of Minnesota to get a license again. In Minnesota.
When I went to Georgia did nepsake test, just had
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to fill out the form. But in Minnesota you have
to retake it, even if you were licensed for decades
in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Make it make sense, Yeah, I was. I've told this
story before. But we'll wrap on this.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We'll take a quick break, and then we'll get into
this proposed cooling off Perigo through K through twelve of
students with disciplinary problems. We'll talk about this proposed illegal
new sanctuary state tax. It's being pedled through the legislative session.
But we were raised in a Volkswagen family, and so
many of the cars that we were driving around just
simply weren't street legal for an abundance of different reasons.
(16:01):
Beyond the tail light issue that I talked about earlier,
there was another car that I had didn't have a
bumper on it, and.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Things of this nature.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
After I got my license, I had so many dings
on my record that the State of California was threatening
to take my driver's license away from me.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I had to write an essay to explain to them.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Because I was working as a public real estate auctioneer
at the time and to have my license taken away
from me was going to end up dramatically and adversely
affecting my livelihood. Needless to say, my essay worked and
I was able to keep my license, and it made
me a better driver too.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So there you go, all.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Right, your comments regarding the fact that our schools have
to end up pulling the entire classroom out if there
is a child that is disrupting the classroom, the measure
would end up reversing a twenty twenty three mandate that
bans suspensions from Minnesota students from kindergarten through the third grade.
This new bill would allow schools to send those students
(16:58):
with disciplinary problems home for a maximum of one partial
day and one full day after the incident. I'll give
you further details on this and we'll get some more
of your thoughts in your talkback of the day, Brought
to you by Minnie Leath. It's all coming up on
Twinsday's news talk AM eleven thirty and one oh three
five FM.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
All right, we are going to switch topics.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
However, I have just a few more comments that have
already rolled in, So no more talkbacks relating to your
vehicles and the bill to require individuals to take drivers
at those younger are twenty one and younger. Okay, have
(17:43):
a couple of talkbacks plus your talkback of the day.
First off, my dad texted back, I was way off
on the year of the Volkswagen bus. So the westphailure
that we had, the Camper bus that was in nineteen seventy.
The bus the VW bus that I took my driver's
license test and was in nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ooh, full Swagen bus. So that's significantly.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So I get a little bit more cred for passing
it successfully for what it's worth, all right, So I
got a couple of comments, and then we have your talkback,
your talk back of the day. Let's go here.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Okay, good morning.
Speaker 21 (18:24):
My son had to learn how to drive and test
in my twenty fifteen for F one fifteen crew cab
pickup truck, which.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Is huge for a young.
Speaker 21 (18:38):
Driver, ended up actually passing on his first test and
then now has crashed twice and told him.
Speaker 12 (18:45):
To come.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Brutal.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh that sucks. All right, let's go to this talk back.
I'm brought to you by Lindahl Realty.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I may have you beat.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
I took my test in a nineteen seventy three big
station wagon and I got a nine.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, I don't know. I mean based off of Ippian
A sixty seven. You know. Does that mean you still
got me beat?
Speaker 16 (19:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
By the way, we have what it means to make
yourself a king with parallel parking.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
Well yeah, but parallel parking like a king means you
leave it in the middle of the street, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
And now it's time for your talkback of the day.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Your talkback of the day is brought to you by
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L e A f dot com. And just to be clear,
I'm not showing any favoritism here. I was unaware that
this talkback was from representative friend of the show, Joe
McDonald until I actually went and looked. I had already
chosen it and it just happened to be from my
(19:52):
good friend Joe McDonald. Who is your talkback of the
day today.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Good morning John.
Speaker 22 (20:00):
I took my test in the most beautiful colored green
cordola sold my father by Ricardo macaban.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It was fantastic and I passed right away.
Speaker 22 (20:10):
The velvet covered cloth in the interior seats was just amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Have a great day. Keep up the good work. Sam.
You're not You're clueless.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
On Ricardo Montoban, the famous actor from the sixties and
the seventies.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
No, nothing like I Love Lucy. I think it's Fantasy Island, right,
is that Ricardo Manchabon. I'll have to look, he'll look.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, it's Ricardo and him and him in tattoo on
Fantasy Fantasy Island. Funny side note about Fantasy Island. Is
that the island in Fantasy Fantasy Island?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
And I was right about that, right, Yeah, you're okay, right, yeah, right,
that's just what I thought the island. There was a
place called the Arboretum in Arcadia, southern California, And in
the Arboretum was the location where the house for Fantasy
Island and the seaplane was that located. As a kid,
it was a really fantastic place. I used to go
outdoors a lot more when I was younger than I
(21:04):
do now.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Ricardo mantle Bond, by the way, the villain from the
original Naked Gun movie.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's where I know I'm from. Okay, and was it?
Hold on a second, I just want to make sure
I'm getting this. I'm getting this correct. Oh and he
he was con Oh he was Cone.
Speaker 16 (21:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I always get thrown off because he's wearing the fake
muscular chest.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, in that movie.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
My favorite of all the Star Trek films, by the way,
well second to jj Abram's twenty ten version.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And now I'm really getting off the subject. So thank
you Joe McDonald.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You are the talk back of the day, brought to
you by Mini Leafaniminileaf dot Com.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
All right, let's get to this story. Typically we think
of our schools to safe spaces.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Sometimes there are safety issues inside the school with the students.
Michelle Crell, executive director of the Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association,
said they might start throwing classroom materials, flipping chairs, yelling
and screaming. Then the rest of the students seem to
take cover, be evacuated from the classroom, and then the
learning stops. Representative State Senator Jim Abler says he's gotten
(22:05):
a near ful about the problem. Teachers are getting injured,
other students are at risk, the whole class gets evacuated.
So in Anoka District, one hundred and forty two times
this year already, classes have been evacuated kindergarten, first, second,
third grade, thirty three in kindergarten alone, just in our district.
(22:27):
This blew me away when I heard about when I
heard this was the case, This is the most ridiculous solution,
in my view, you could ever come up with for
this problem. You remove the child that's causing the issue.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
You don't remove the entire classroom. That's just dumb.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Abler's bill would allow schools to send those students with
disciplinary problems home for a maximum of one partial day
and one full day after the incident. Well, does this
also mandate that you remove the kid that's causing the
issue as opposed to the entire classroom. The measure would
reverse a twenty twenty three mandate that bans suspensions from
Minnesota students from kindergarten through third grade. Supporters say it
(23:15):
would give counselors a chance to meet with students in
those evacuated classrooms. Not only is not only lost learning,
but they also lost the sense of security and safety,
increased anxiety for students trying to learn. I know I
must be missing something on this, but to go and
evacuate the classroom is just again ridiculous. You want to
(23:41):
go and work on solving the problem, You remove the
child causing the problems, and that disincentivizes the rest of
the students. I just imagine students right now acting up
is simply to get their classmates remove from the classroom.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Hey, John Tiptop show this morning.
Speaker 23 (23:56):
So my question would be if you got kids in
their flip and tail and everybody has to get evacuated
and then the learning stops, is what she says no, no, no, no, no,
there was never any learning going on in that classroom.
Oh my goodness, gracious, that just sounds like an anxiety
stress vest for all the kids. They are not focused
on anything that's going on on that board. They're waiting
(24:17):
for the next kid to pop off.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
So on the students being removed from classrooms. I have
a wife who worked as a pair of in schools locally,
and at least in our schools, they have staff on
call that anytime a student is creating an issue in
the classroom, they simply radio that staff. They come and
(24:40):
remove the student and take them to a separate space
in the school for their cool down and reprimands.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, that's the way that that's the way that it's
should happen. All right, hold on real quick, Hey, Sam,
I got I need to do a little research for me. Okay,
completely off of this particular topic, but I have a
talk back that can you double check for me to
make sure that Ricardo Monto Bonds was wearing a prosthetic
(25:09):
chest in Wrath of Khan. Somebody has challenged me on
this and I am ninety nine point nine percent sure
that was the case.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So if would you mind googling that five. Yeah, it
sure goes my search history. Hey, John Cohn is not
wearing a fake muscular chest. That's not a prosthetic, that's
a real chest.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Okay, so we're gonna work. We're gonna Sam's gonna find
this out. We do have other things to talk about,
but Sam is going to go.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I googled his name in Khan and then Autophil put
in chest, So of course more to come on because.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
He's wearing a prosthetic chest.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That's why, getting back to the story, the proposed bill,
which would take effect in the twenty twenty six twenty
seven school years, still maintains that expulsions and exclusions can
only be used as a last resort, that after resources
have been utilized, and only when there is a serious
(26:06):
and ongoing safety threat to other to students or others.
I hate the ambiguity with all of this. If there
is any threat, they shouldn't have to be ongoing, Krell says.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
My hope is that they pass.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It gives us the opportunity to create safe spaces for
our kids when necessary, not as the first resort, but
as a last resort.
Speaker 24 (26:33):
There's many times where my better half comes home with
bruises and teeth marks because of the kids that are
in the classroom. One of the things that she talks
about is ninety percent of the problems with the kids
are the parents.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
The other piece is they can't touch them.
Speaker 24 (26:52):
That's why they don't remove them from the classroom. If illegal,
their hands are tied.
Speaker 25 (27:00):
Children who misbehave in schools should have to have their
parents sit with them for the next three days in class,
in every class, follow them everywhere they go. And I
think that might help the problem significantly. If parents have
to take time off of work and sit with their
child who doesn't know how to behave because the parent
(27:21):
didn't teach them how to behave properly.
Speaker 26 (27:25):
If they're using the same playbook as the anti gun establishment,
punish the law binding people and ignore those that are
causing the problems.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Well and again, this mentality permeates to so much of
the commentary that we have of trying to solve, you know,
a lot of different problems.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We had the story earlier.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Regarding the driver's licenses where the person interviewed in the
story was like, well, you.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Know what, I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
It's a bad idea that we require drivers at for
these younger drivers. But maybe it's unnecessary and we just
need to go out there and make the roads wider.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Don't try to get the individuals driving the cars better
trained to actually operate the automobile. No, we're going to
spend millions of dollars adjusting the roads to cater to
bad drivers.
Speaker 21 (28:24):
So we've got fired drills, tornado drills, ice drills, and
naughty child drills.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So I wonder the state tests for the soul. Well,
all right, so before we have a couple of things
to talk about before we go, I have emails that
are rolling in. Chad is also challenging me on this.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Am I right or wrong about Ricardo Montobah's chest in
Star Trek two The Wrath of Car.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
So, according to the director Nicholas Meyer, his chest was real.
He showed up on set all right, in peak physical condition,
and they just added makeup to enhance the features.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay, So I was wrong. I was absolutely wrong.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I was probably conflating it with Sigourney Weaver because she
also had a prosthetic test in Galaxy. Question that I
know for sure because I watched the documentary on that.
But I was I was so positive, so had tip
to Ricardo Montebonford putting forth the effort.
Speaker 12 (29:24):
Well, that's true. Ricardo was a pretty tough dude. He
actually was last size when he portrayed cog So the myth,
the man on the legend.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, well, I'm glad you put that that one to bed.
And I'm a talk show host that can admit what
I'm wrong. My apologies guys for putting out bad information.
I will sleep easier tonight, I know everybody. Everybody will,
and I will probably get more emails on that and
the number of and the type of vehicles that people
went and took the driver's license test, and then I
do anything else.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah, no, no, what I love about our listeners, no
doubt about that at all.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
There's something to be said about it, but I'm not
going to get into it now. Let's go here. Hey,
happy Monday morning, John.
Speaker 27 (30:07):
Yeah, my grandson has that same problem in school. But
what it is, it's more like DEI. They tend to
like put these autistic children in there that are very disruptive,
and then the kids themselves have to deal with these
autistic kids with their outbursts. I just remember when we
(30:30):
were in school, they were the helmet patrol.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, and to that point, you're not the only one
to key in on this particular issue.
Speaker 28 (30:41):
A lot of these students that are causing the issues
are special head students. Back in my day, special ed
students were not just intertwined in a regular classroom because
of these disruptions. But now, because we want them to
feel like humans, we allow them to be in the classroom,
and that just messes it up for everyone else. There's
(31:03):
got to be a different way.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
So thank you for all the comments this morning. Greatly
appreciate it. From the iHeart Radio app. Before we wrap
things up, I'm going to move a couple of stories
to tomorrow. Specifically, on tomorrow's show, we will get into
the dfellow's proposed illegal news sanctuary sanctuary state tax, also
a proposed forty million dollar rental assistant to package. Let's
(31:25):
wrap up on these two stories. Following up on last week,
we talked about this on the Freedom Friday Show. A
Minnesota House hearing about the misclassification of workers at the
state capitol this week somehow turned into a kerfuffle as
Channel five states about the benefit of shoplifting. So during
(31:49):
the presentation, Republican Representative Isaac Schultz asked if any studies
had been done about employers having to pay higher wages
and benefits leading to higher prices. I wonder if, through
our studies, if you'd study the impact of worker misclassification
to consumer taxpayer. Schultz ast he was told that they
had not studied that and that the state law requires
(32:11):
workers to be properly classified. Schultz says he's not suggesting
workers be misclassified, he's just once a full picture of
what's happening. Minutes later, Representative Dave A. Pinto Dfler out
of Saint Paul, the committee co chair, compared blaming higher
work pay for causing higher prices to impact shoplifting and
(32:32):
what it has on higher prices. He says, it would
probably have been good to make sure that they would
study the benefits of shoplifting and retail theft, because perhaps
people are relying on that and using that and maybe
it's assisting them in some way.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So this story blew up. It ended up going viral.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
When asked for comment, Pinto declined to do an on
camera interview, but issued a written statement said my comments
were tended to be sarcastic. Following the line of questioning
from Representative Isaac Schultz. They were in no way, shape
or form meant to be sarcastic. He was absolutely serious.
(33:14):
He's only saying that because the kerfuffle, as Channel five explains,
ended up gaining a lot of attention. To that point,
Minnesota State Representative Krista Khannutsen talked about this very issue
and what actually had transpired. Here is audio that she
posted on her account on x Hey.
Speaker 29 (33:34):
Minnesota State Representative Krista Knutson. So today in the Labor Committee,
Representative Dave Pinto requested a study for the benefits of shoplifting.
There are no benefits to shoplifting for the people that
are being shoplifted from. I have no idea what else
(33:58):
to say.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
I'm shopped Actually, I.
Speaker 18 (34:05):
Don't even know what to say.
Speaker 28 (34:06):
Who I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Who benefits from shoplifting?
Speaker 18 (34:18):
The criminals?
Speaker 29 (34:19):
Once again, the criminals benefit from shoplifting. Please take a
look at the comments to see for yourself.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
It is an intriguing line of questions. Several of us
are in the Public Safety Committee.
Speaker 30 (34:28):
Yesterday there was a presentation of a group seeking to
change how we address organize retail theft, and it actually
had not occurred to me to ask. It probably would
have been good to make sure that they would study
sort of the benefit of shoplifting and of retail theft,
because perhaps people are relying on that and sort of
using that. Maybe it's you know, assisting them in some way.
(34:49):
I mean, these folks were describing people violating the law,
but I suppose it could be useful to look into that.
But ultimately a policy question, right, we do want to
make sure when we have a law in place where
we're enforcing it.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
There was not a hint of sarcasm in any of
what he said.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
I don't get why Democrats just don't just own it.
Your base doesn't care. Just own it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's your excuse, and it's what you will use when
trying to go and explain what's had taken place regarding
fraud the behavior of your base of supporters individuals.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Again, it's that idea, and we talked about this at
Linked on Friday.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It's that idea that you are inherently good and that
you only make bad decisions because of outside influences. There
was nothing sarcastic about that at all. We'll end on this.
Maybe the Tourism Board for Minneapolis can use this as
a new means to lure tourists to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
From Fox nine.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Minneapolis Only Fans subscribers have helped the city secure a
top spot for content consumption on the site Oh Yeah,
I can believe It, ranking it in fifth place in
the entire country per capita spending. The city's per capita
spending intensely is a whopping four point four percent higher
(36:18):
than the national average. Minnesota among top five only Fans
spenders per capita in the country. So Minneapolis residents spent
a combined total of fourteen point three million in twenty
twenty five. That amounts to three hundred and thirty seven
two hundred and forty eight dollars per ten thousand residents,
and that was enough for it to earn fifth place nationally.
(36:41):
According to the data, Minneapolis residents spent about thirty nine
thousand dollars a day on OnlyFans, and that was more
than any other city in the Midwest. Of all of Minnesota,
they spent a total of forty seven point nine million,
ranking seventeenth out of all fifty states.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
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