May 1, 2026 • 38 mins
Freedom Friday is off to a great start! Jon is joined in studio by MN Rep. Max Rymer, Kathryn Johnson, and Grace Keating where the group starts with a Disney policy that ends with Jon's YouTube search history. Jon looks at a story about phones in schools and parking lots for unhoused people.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
So let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If you vote on your phone, you still have to
use the multi factor verification.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Isn't that kind of like an ID?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, it would be kind of like a like like
I mean, like yeah very much so. Yeah, but again
according to Feven, And by the way, that's Feven.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
With an F. I thought I was being I thought I.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Was articulate, being very articulate, but apparently I wasn't because
a lot of people thought I was saying seven, which
may just be a byproduct of Seinfeld, because that was
one of George's names that he wanted to name his
daughter was seven. Seven and soda, right, and that was
the other one. So it was Feven that we were
talking about last hour that depended editorial, or at least
(00:51):
her name was on this editorial trying to justify making
it an option to vote via your phone here in
uh Minnesota, which and I won't get into people, but
apparently this I know it's dead, but this had bipartisans support.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's that's not that's not good.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
In no way, shape or form should we ever go
to this form of voting ever. I'm sorry, No, you
should go paper ballots on election day, show an ID
and that's it extreme cases.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Those in the military.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Whoever, the dude that we were talking about that lives
in the upper corner of Minnesota that probably you're right,
doesn't want to vote and that's why he lives out
in the middle of nowhere. But no, this this should
be something that you absolutely have to respect and should
not be reduced to, you know, scrolling on your on
your on your phone, no way, in no way, shape
or form, speaking of which, Disney has band phones. Not
(01:45):
just not just phone stuff, also heavy insulated tumblrings tumblers
on certain rides do to safety concerns. Well, sure, the
new policy nicknamed stow it don't Show It. I believe
that's the same policy that they're deploying at the adult
bathhouses in Minneapolis as well.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I knew you're going to see something like that.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I don't like that crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Show.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah multitude, Yeah, no, I mean it wasn't. Okay, let's
back up here a moment. That is sage advice, right,
I mean, of the options available regardless of how you
are taking and what you're applying that that those words
to the stow it don't show it. You know those are.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Words to live by.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
H just just in just in general, thank you, widely applicable,
Thank you, grace. It requires phones to be secured before boarding,
and cast members will be conducting visual checks to make
sure that you are not showing it and that you
are indeed justice stowing it.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Ohly, I do have a guy on a buzz light
you're costume like leading over people on the ride.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You put your phone away, so guests would be what
guess would have to fully put away their phones when
going on Certain rides includes Mickey and Mini's Runaway Railroad
and the in Credit Coaster. This is reported by the
Disney focused site to Inside the Magic and other items
that you won't be able to bring on the ride
include heavily insulated tumblers. The rule is popularly known by
(03:17):
the Stanley ban Okay, referencing the popular brand name cup.
It was implemented as a reaction to an increase in
unplanned down times for rides last year, according to Fox News,
which was due to security incidents related to guest behavior.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It all comes down to common sense.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Phones and metal cups can become projectiles during high rates
of speed on those and other rides, which poses a
potential safety threat to riders. Cast members have been instructed
to conduct a visual checks and refuse to dispatch the
ride if the phones and cups are visible.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The outlet noted.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So as somebody who admittedly and it's a freedom fright
element this, so I want a lot of footage inside
of Disneyland. There are people who run YouTube channels where
they are dedicated to all things the theme park, and
they do like full walk throughs of the park. They
(04:15):
don't talk, they just walk through all the parks, they
go on all the rides, and you can basically just
put it on in the background and as if you
were walking around the park.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's kind of cool. I had nail Salon once that
would do this with like the streets of different countries,
and it was extremely cool. They're right on the TV
and they would walk you through a super busy city
and you know, China or whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, I get on the elliptical and I'll throw on
the Disney walk through and I'll do that. The problem
is that when they go on the rides, they're losing
the phone. They're dropping in on the high speed rides
and it's flying out of their hands and they have
to shut it down if it gets stuck on the
track or it gets lost. And the same thing with
the massive tumblers, which is why they've gone about banning these.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Actually look confused.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
The fact that you watch that on YouTube, that you
just slap that on the old, the old television screen.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, let me provide a little bit of perspective on this.
So when I go to prep the show, which takes
me a number of hours, So I sit in my
favorite recliner, I'm focused on finding prep and then audio
and stuff on X. But I want to have something
on in the background, so I can't put anything on
that's gonna distract me or that I need to be
focusing on. So I'll put on like The Office Seinfeld,
(05:24):
or I'll do like Disney walk Through.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Does that make a little bit more sense? This is
what introsexual in me. Yeah right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
defend this. I'm gonna defend you on this. So my
vice to you, Max is go to Minnie Leave, get
some nighttime gummies.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, go on YouTube and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Then watch videos like the Scale of the Observable Universe
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You'd want to do the fun gummies for those not
the night yummies, because you fall asleep with the night gummy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You don't want to know that's wants.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
This is the moment where we probably miss a k
on the show because something tells me that he's doing
the same things sam ay.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Man, I'm just look, I'm just throwing out the idea.
But give it a shot some time, all right, and
you're welcome in.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
No, this isn't one of those like obese YouTube influencers
who's like testing all the rides to see if they
can actually no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Green a great genre of content.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's a whole thing. I did not know. I love that.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's like Disneyland plus sized park hoppers.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Is that what it is? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's a rabbit hole you gotta explore sometimes.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Reddit commentators were mad about.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
The new policy, in particular because the app is required
for ride access a lot of the times and payment
through the park. They say their entire ecosystem requires you
to use your phone for everything. This is laughable. All
they're saying is when you go on the ride, just
just you know, don't show it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Well, couldn't just fly out of your hand and hit
someone in the head.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And exactly what I'm thinking. Yeah, those and those tumblers
are huge.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Oh yeah, because family would be like a projectile.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'll kiss somebody with one of those.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Value fair They make you put everything in a cubby,
They make you take your use off on some of
those rides.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Is that a you know joke? Filter caught that one.
I'm gonna let I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm gonna let you know, let's go talk wants to
talk about somebody?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Let's comment. We say, iHeartRadio. Brought to you by Lindahl Realty.
We should play one of these.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Hey guys, Happy Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This is TJ from North Minneapolis, a huge fan of
the show.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
I really hope that we do not go in to
voting for elections via phone. It's not American idol. The
only positive about that is we could get election results
immediately and up to the minute. But just imagine China
hacking people's cell phones being don't get free cell phones
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, I don't like it. No, I it's it's it's
it's bad. It's it's bad on every level.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, how about the voter influence angle of this, Like,
are there are laws against political groups standing like next
to lines in front of polling places and handing out
water or voting the because you don't want your vote
influence before you go into the center you're something.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
You want to do this on a smartphone where you could.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Literally be watching a political ad and then two seconds
later your notification to vote.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Pops in or a Papa yeah you know, or yeah
yeah yeah, or a random Papa bad that came up.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Although it is pretty generous to think that we would
still have voting results in real time, something tells me
Minnesota would still find of court.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah course, listen, we probably should go and promote this
in Minnesota because if they have the government going created,
it's just going to crash and never be functional. Bother,
Minnesota is a state where we were finding ballots in
the trunks of cars. You know, what we would say
in this would be like, oh, we had like forty
thousand text messages that didn't get through because Verizon went
down or something like that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
They were undeliverable.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
All right, coming up, I'll give one more example about
why this is a bad idea, because a child reportedly
consumed I'm not going to give you the number yet
I'm going to save it for when we come back.
Consumed blank amount of YouTube videos in three months during
school hours. They say it's probably not even a record,
(09:07):
even though the number is ridiculous. Also, we talked about
Minneapolis in recent weeks and how they want to offer
up parking lots for those who are homeless but have
an automobile. Apparently this trend is catching fire worldwide and
there are school districts that are doing this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We'll give you the details coming up. We'll get to
your talkbacks as well on a Freedom Friday here on
Twin Cities News Talk at AM eleven thirty and one
oh three five FM.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
A little fruity.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty one o three
five FM.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We have the talk back of the day. I'm looking
at it right now.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
That's coming up in about fifteen minutes from now here
on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It'll I'll give you the background on it when we
get there.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But somebody has a really good comment relating to Disney
banning cell phones and large tumblers from a lot of
their fast moving attractions, a new policy nicknamed toe it,
Don't Don't Show It so we'll get into that coming
uptow it, don't show it. Stow it, don't show it.
You're right, not toe it. I don't know where toe
it came from the tongue.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I'm wondering if glad you guys are here this morning
to correct you. Toe it, don't show it. Toe it
don't No, I don't know if you have an ugly car, no.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Stow it, don't show This is a great talkback though,
so it's the talkback of the day.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Max go there as representative Max Rhymer.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
We have Grace Keating and Catherine Johnson from a center
of the American Experiment, the American Experiment podcast. We were
talking about an editorial from last hour, which is why
we were talking cell phones with Disney, where a young
would be old enough soon to vote Minnesota and says
that it's a good idea to go in and make
it so that you can vote on your cell phone,
(10:43):
to which we all unanimously agreed, along with many of
the talkbacks this morning from the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Is a horrible idea.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Here's another example of why this would be a horrible
idea because of what the people are consuming.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Namely the kids online some kids more than others.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
A Wall Street Journal report earlier this week about YouTube
consumption on what are supposed to be educational devices included
a jaw dropping factoid. Oh boy, you all prepared for
a factoid this morning. They're my favorite types of facts,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
The factoid.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
A seventh grader named Ben Warren in Wichita, Kansas, reportedly
managed to log thirteen thousand YouTube views from December of
twenty four through February of twenty five on his school
Google account. Thirteen thousand YouTube views, thirteen thousand YouTube views
(11:38):
from middle school or on school equipment during school shows
real dedication.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
According to the article from Gizmoto.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's doubtful Warren holds the record for binging on YouTube
because he's.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Far from alone.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
One anonymous tenth grader in Oregon, according to the Journal,
logged two hundred views video views in one school morningast month.
This is all during school, that they're doing this. I mean,
I think that's the that's the part of it. Like
none of this surprises me, sadly outside of school, but
the fact that it's actually occurring during.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
School, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
By my math, Warren was averaging about one hundred and
forty four shorts per day across his entire heavy viewing period.
Another student in Oregon watched two hundred and forty minutes
four hours of YouTube in one day, according to the Journal,
and had to be placed in an addiction treatment program
at Boston Children's Hospital. But sure, let's all go and
(12:35):
vote on our on our phones. This is the danger
that I don't think people realize of what the cell
phone usage does to people and out basically just blows
out your frontal your frontal lobe. By giving you an
overload of dopamine that your bodies simply can't handle. You
actually develop lanes within your brain like rivers that run
(12:59):
wherein you. You need to continue to fill that with
the dopamine constantly, and if you don't, you crash like
any addict would not being given whatever drug that they're
addicted to. I mean this therein lies the problem of
why we have so many issues right now with our
with our screens, and why you see so many schools,
including here in Minnesota, that actually have been looking to
banning cell phone usage inside the class.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Yeah, and early data from cell phone bands in school
is showing just like remarkable statistics improvement across all age groups,
all demographics, and then in all classes. And then I
even read a statistic I don't know where it was from,
and I don't know which district bannit, but even the
book checkouts from the library went up like five hundred
percent after they banned cell phones in schools. And I know,
(13:43):
working through the legislature right now, there's like an age
verification bill that's coming through for social media, and I
don't really know how I feel about that type of stuff,
because some of this is on the parents. It's gotta
be you would not introduce your young child to fentanyl
just just because you don't need to have your kid
(14:03):
have a cell phone at twelve years old like that.
That's got to be part of this as well. Oh, absolutely,
it absolutely is.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I think too many parents have simply allowed their phones
to do the majority of you know, give them the
attention that they're they're not giving them for a host
of reasons. You know, families that have both parents that
have to go and work and the kids are home alone.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I mean, this is a dynamic that's been going on
ever since I was a kid as well. You know,
back then, we didn't have this though, So you found.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Boredom was a good thing. It's a good thing for
kids to be bored.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It's a good thing for kids to have to go
and find ways to entertain themselves. Unfortunately, boredom has been
eliminated in the worst possible ways because of the fact
that we have.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
These the smartphe the are you know our smartphones?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Now, Yeah, you are truly rewiring your child's brain when
you let them have access to this stuff too early
and I think one hundred and forty four videos a day.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's like, man, this is an pandemic. And it is.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
It is truly an addiction. I mean, these apps are
designed to be addictive and to hand them to children,
and then to have the schools not even put guardrails
in place to allow phones in the classroom. And I
mean that doesn't even get to laptops that are so
commonly used in school today. You can access all these
sites on a laptop just the same way you can
(15:22):
on a phone. But it is this. If this is
not get addressed very very quickly in our society, I mean,
we're going to see such harmful long term effects in America.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Say you have a comment on this, well, I just
maybe just to curb this a little bit or ease
it a little bit. I'm willing to bet that a
lot of these kids are going to YouTube because it's
free and then just putting on like a playlist of
like one hundred songs, and then when they skip through
the songs, it counts each one as it's so in view.
So I understand there's also the addiction part of it. However,
(15:53):
just curb it a little bit, or at least ask
the questions like how much of it is maybe music
based versus like so.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
They actually do address in the story.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So yeah, So, according to the journal, the one kid
who logged the thirteen thousand YouTube videos in three months,
he had been using a school iPad to endlessly swipe
TikTok style on YouTube shorts, frequently ingesting headshot glorifying content
about Fortnite, a game that he was not allowed to play,
(16:22):
which is an interesting angle on.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
That as well, question where do we stand on that?
Like are they still trying? When I was in high school,
they would roll out this big thing of chrome books
and they were kind of trying to get kids to
use laptops in the classroom. Now, I think Obviously it's
been abused by kids because of course, I mean they're
on YouTube watching TikTok shorts. Are they still trying to
do that or did they not do I mean we
(16:45):
need to be back to like penned paper. Obviously not
to be a boomer, but I mean it's absurd that
we would introduce those things to kids while they're in school.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, the other I guess the other question I have is,
I mean, if we're not doing this, you know some
companies do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
We don't hear.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Obviously the nature of what we do as radio hosts
would be horrible. But you know, there's a lot of
filters you can put on the streaming in and of
itself with the access to the Wi Fi. So obviously
a kid could pitch off the Wi Fi and just
go with the over air signal. But if they're taking
advantage of school Wi Fi, you should be able to
put restriction blocks on that to keep that content from
being accessible.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
That's a tough part about a platform specific band though,
right because I'm sure YouTube is what teachers probably world
examples of whatever, less than they're teaching.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, it goes back to why there's legislation moving through
to you know, keep the cell phones out of the school.
So all right, coming up your talk back of the day,
we'll get into Cincinnati Public Schools launching their safe Sleep
lot much in the same way that Minneapolis has done.
And speaking of Minneapolis, the city of Oakland and I
can only imagine that this may happen here is taking
(17:52):
a rather unique approach to discourage sex work activity on
the streets, and so we're going to it in to
this coming up, you do not want to miss this
conversation along with the talk back of the day with
our guests and studio on a Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You're listening to Twin Cities News Talk. You missed a
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Speaker 3 (18:16):
Brain, final segment of which the in studio guests on
a Freedom Friday here on Twin Cities News Talk are
all very surprised. Representative Max Rymer, good morning, slum By.
Today we have Yes, Catherine and Grace from the Center
of the American Experiment. American Experiment podcast out every Tuesday.
Another great episode this week. I mentioned that earlier.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Thank you very much. We even have a little bonus
episode if you take a look on our YouTube feed.
We did a stop the tape on the state of
the state that Walls did.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Oh boy, oh my gosh, it must have been a
lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You said you hadn't watched it yet. What was it?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Did it? Did it meet your expectations there, Catherine, Yeah, it.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Is about what I expected. I mean, either I thought
he did. They used a little more to get I
expected to be a little more insane even maybe so.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He knew he knew the audience. He you know, you know, Walls,
He's a Charlottean. He adjusts to whoever he's speaking to.
He knows this is going to be a more this
is going to be a speech's more mainstream, picked up
by the majority of the media outlets, and so he
toned it down doing that thing with my fingers. I
still contend, as I said earlier this week, that he's
prepping to run for the presidency in twenty twenty eight.
(19:18):
That's that's my bet.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, he had one of those presidential teleprompters. This is like,
for some reasonsessed with this because I know how expensive there,
because I do events, and I'm just thinking, you know,
you could have paid for that. He could have printed
that on a piece of paper and saved the taxpayer
at least a thousand bucks from renting it, or if
you bought that.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Tim Walls went from the State of the State speech
on is getting on a plane now to go and
support a Nazi candidate.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And that's saying, yeah, he's supporting that, that Platner guy. Right,
it's his first first.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Stop in the small town pack Well, with the book
that he's you know, allegedly writing, and this potential rumor
that he's building a house in Montana, I just think
this is all a precursor going on Jimmy Kimmel continuing
to keep his name id out in public. He got
it last year or two years ago when he ran
for the VP. So I buy he's gonna he's gonna run.
It'll be feeling it's financially lucrative for him to do so,
(20:06):
even if it doesn't have a chance, he'll bring in
a ton of money doing that.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, you know, he did tell Jimmy Kimmel he was
going to go back to teaching.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Uhuh okay, okay, speaking of teaching, we do have a
teaching store. We'll get to in just a moment. First off, though,
we have to get to your talk Back of the Day.
It's brought to you by minileafmmnileaf dot com. We shared
a story earlier in the show. Disneyland is banning phones
and tumblers from certain rides due to safety concerns high
speed rides where these tumblers or phones could fly off
(20:34):
heard somebody get lodged on the ride cause shutdowns. The
policy is nicknamed stow it, Don't show.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
It made a great opportunity for Disney to make some
license merch, maybe some T shirts for the parks that
say I'm a stower, not a shower.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's right, that's a very good idea. I endorsed this plan.
I may I'm a.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Stowe or not a face, not a You know, well,
it's probably only popular with half the half the the
group in studio right now. I thought it was funny
and I made it your talk back of the day,
So there you go. Brought to you by minileafandminileaf dot com.
After months of preparations, Cincinnati Public Schools is opening a
safe sleep lot. They did so Yesterday's designed for students
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in their families who are living out of their cars.
Now Minneapolis wants to do something similar They want to
open up parking lots where individuals who are homeless but
on an automobile can basically live for free in their
car in the parking lot. Nearly four thousand Cincinnati Public
School students, they say, are unhoused each year, and the
(21:47):
district wanted to be part of the solution. I want
to know the criteria for the designation of the students
that are unhoused. Four thousand seams high, so high.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
How can you pay to go to college and not
be able to afford somewhere to live?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, this is public schools. This is this is the
Cincinnati Public schools. Oh we're in high school? Yeah yeah, yeah,
grade school? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, this is elementary school located within one of the
parking lots at Taft Elementary. The lot is a safe
space where families can stay while awaiting shelter placement. They
have access to the bathrooms, to the cell phone charging stations,
to the meals on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Certain nights of the week. Listen, this is.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
A step towards that full Democrat indoctrination dormitories which the
Left would love to make our schools feeding them every
single meal. You can actually stay there on campus. You
could basically just drop your kid off at public school
and then pick them up four years later after the
Democrats are done with them.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yep, yep, that is what this is.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
And like that again, four thousand seems ridiculously high. I
can't imagine even for a metro area it being that bad.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
But this is.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
To your point, John, this is like getting them plugged
into a system where they don't need to go anywhere else.
And I'm worried about how normalizing this unhoused thing would be, Like.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It wasn't criteria for four. I just that that doesn't
seem that's crazy. It seems really high. That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
But like, yeah, again, like normalizing you know, if these
are families on the fringes or they're looking for housing elsewhere,
normalizing living in your car is like, that's destabilizing for kids,
you know, I don't know why we would indulge that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And it gives them a place to engage in behaviors
that might not otherwise be allowed if they were in
a shelter. Because that's a problem you spend in Minneapolis
where the reason we have such a homelessness crisis in
large part is because the shelters require things like sobriety,
and you know, there are a lot of people who
don't want.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
To comply with that. It was anitche slated to open
in February.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
But it was delayed to expand it to include a
kitchenette stocked with meals, showers and laundry for students. If
that four thousand number is actually legitimate, and they're going
out of their way the way it seems like they
are to provide this parking lot for people living out
of their cars, and they're providing all this extra stuff,
I'm beginning to think a lot more parents maybe getting
(24:24):
out of their teeny tiny hotels and maybe just living
in their cars so they can get all the free
stuff from the public school.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's my system. I think that's what they actually want
in arazy four thousand kids. There's no way, there's no way. Yeah,
I'm curious how big the school district is.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
That whole system just puts way too much stock in
faith in people, you know, providing the food and the
spaces to shower and things like that. It's going to
get abused so badly and it sucks. It's like good intentions,
but I don't see that working.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And only the road to Hell is paid with good intentions, just.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
A way for them to save money so they don't
have to transport kids that are homeless do it to
That's a bussing regulation that.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm unfamiliar with that, but it is an interesting point,
all right, Moving through the stories quickly. This morning, the
city of Oakland, I reminded. I was reminded of Minneapolis
when I found this a story, because perhaps one day
this might be a feature of ours, as they move
to make legal adult dens of debauchery like bathouses. Okay,
you see in Oakland they're taking a page out of
(25:24):
San Francisco's playbook to try to discourage. However, sex work
activity in a notorious section of International Boulevard seems to
be an increasing problem the prostitutes, so they want to
discourage it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Ladies of the night, Yes they do.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Sounds good.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
They have an interesting solution for this discouragement. Oakland is
launching a pilot program that will bring water filled street
barriers to several side streets that lead off International Boulevard
in order to divert the frequent traffic from customers of
sex workers. So essentially, these would be booty barriers. So
(26:02):
we're looking at here. So they just want to get
people off the path. Yeah, they wanted to happen. They
just don't want to be as visible.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Is that what I'm getting out of this?
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
They're trying to discourage by It's a again, it's a
you're going to get your booty and they want it.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's a barrier.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's a barrier to block you from your ease of
getting the booty by going a different direction.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's a booty barrier. I think they vastly underestimate human horniness.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
San Francisco's has had some limited success with a similar
effort on several notorious blocks of cap Street and Shotwell
Street in the Mission District, although residents follow the lawsuit
last fall claiming the city's efforts we're not doing enough.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now the area in question in Oakland is.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Called the Blade, so we can go even further, so
this would be the Blade booty barrier, okay, And for
many years it's been a hotbed of street level sex work,
often using the side streets of nineteenth and Eleventh Avenue
in order to conduct a business, with International Boulevard being
the main drag where you can also find a lot
of people in drag as well, but the jokes are
(27:04):
just not hope they landing with the audience, because they're
landing with nobody right now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Thanks for the podcast titles.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Oh no, no, no, not yet not yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Samy's got another b word is another one.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We have more literation coming. It's coming.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'm ready, As Oakland City council member Charlene Wang tells a.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
K TV you, oh dear, don't show it was that
what was that last name? What was that last name
of the Oh? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
This is an area where there's an elementary school as
well as a health clinic.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And the really the intention is since much of.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
The trafficking activity takes place on the side streets off International.
International is like a main corridor, but you know, the
purchasing activity happens on the side streets and is to
block off those areas so it can't happen there. Now,
the pilot program will bring new bullards or barry years
to the area. So we have the Blade Booty Bullards
(28:04):
and barrier.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Now, there you go, the Blade, Bullard's Booty Big Barrier
battles tar Coalecticut.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Finally, you know what, I was gonna go out on
that music.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You just go with the music now, since that's the
only one that landed, I greatly.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Would appreciate it. Thanks everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
The pilot program will bring those new Bulleger barriers to
the area. Oakland had previously done something similar along Sixteenth Avenue,
and much like the activity from Cap Street over to
shot Well in San Francisco, the sex workers just moved
a couple of streets down to Oakland too, of course,
so they're just into so basically the booty barriers are
(28:53):
they're just funneling the workers to a different location because
of what you said, you underestimate, Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Desire of individuals. It's like, look at their hooky talk.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Do you think that just putting up some physical barriers
are going to prevent guys who want a hooker from
getting a hooker. It's like, okay, I men have done
a lot more to get what they want.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Seems like a bit of a dying industry, as an
oh Man as Evan told us, the youth they're really
just using their phones for everything now. So I don't know,
I think we just give it a couple more years
and the old fashioned way of getting a hooker will
be out of style anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Please clip Max saying I think that they've vastly underestimated
the rate of human hardiness.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I'm sure, I'm sure Sam's working on it.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I wouldn't be doing my job, man, I'm already on it.
I'm literally waiting for the audio to download now.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
So Jim Walls and Brad tab Feed don't have one
for Mary Moriarty, and I'm almost I'm almost afraid to
ask for one. Yeah, on Twin Cities News Talk, because
I I get the feeling that they would be rather
rather vicious. I don't know what kind of alliteration you
could come up with that, and I probably opened a
(30:06):
can of worms now. So I'm just gonna move on
to the next item. Here on Twin City's News Talk
on a Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Scary Mary, Oh, that's scary Mass.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I'm gonna I wanted to give you some credit for
scary Marry, even though we're going with scary Moriarity. I'm
just gonna put that out there, all right, Let's keep
moving through the stack. Here Anka School Social District allowing
outdoor alcohol consumption and designated the areas it's expanding to
year round.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I applaud this.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
This was a great idea, like Vegas, when you can
walk around with an adult beverage out on the street.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I'm sorry, did you say school district?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No? No, social district?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Sorry even have to ask about that though. It's like
we're allowing alcohol in school distress. It's like, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So we already allowed the homeless in one area.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Any any, any faith that Grace had left in society
was quickly plummeting.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I believe anything at this point.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Anoka Social District Okay. While the city emphasis.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Sizes education and aims to avoid strict enforcement, the businesses
are expressing concerns about the potential liability for customer violations.
Despite these concerns, the city reports no significant increase in
the rule breaking within the social district. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I was on board with this when they did the
trial run.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
That area is built in such a way where it
could really support that type of social district where you
can have an adult beverage outside. There's multiple bars around
the restaurants there, and so you know, they did it
the right way. They tested it, They ran it for
a couple of years. It went well and so now
they're going to expand it year round, I mean, and
when it gets colder outside and all people aren't going
to be taking that much advantage of it during the
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colder tenth.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
So I don't want to crash out on this topic,
but the social district the way that it's been basically
decided or prioritized, are political handouts. This was a Zach
Stevenson and Brad Tabke special project where they didn't want
any other place to have social districts except their districts.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Why every time we can't say.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
And there have been legislators, mainly Republicans, who have advocated
for social districts being fair, like handing them out in
a fair process, And the way that it's worked so
far is like, no, we just want it to be
a political favor to Democrats.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Well, and it seemed like though everywhere this has been
tried it hasn't gone very well. I mean, I don't
know as New Orleans like thriving that area.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I mean, maybe it is, but the Anoko one's pretty limited.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But that so what you're saying is other areas have
been have asked yes in order to have these they
and they've said no, yes, they want one, all right.
I'm glad I brought it up because the clarities and
I still support it.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But that's I know. That is absolutely fair, equitable.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
There are a number of cities that have good like
main drags, main streets, that would want this, and they've
been denied. While some of these Democrat politicians during the
trifecta said, actually, I want that on my reelection campaign,
like that's listen.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I don't disagree with the idea too.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
I want it to be fair and equitable, and Democrat
politicians want it to be a special car of Alla.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That sucks. I'm glad. No, that's all right, I'm glad.
I'm good. That's good. That's good to know. It's good
to know.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I'm not surprised by that, and I hope that that
argument can be made succinctly given the fact that they're
not handing these out to other places that have asked
for them, because that's lame.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I think they vastly underestimate human horny noess to the
point of drinking. No, let's go here.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Drinks are apparently so expensive now that grown ups are
pregaming like they did in college. I've heard this too, okay,
everybody is shaking their heads, really all right? With everything
from groceries to gas climbing, Americans are pinching pennies and
making hard choices. Many have cut out alcohol together, but
for those who still crave a cocktail, they're entering a
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flashback era of pregaming, downing a few drinks at home
before going out to keep from spending much more money
to get the same buzz. Nearly one third of a
thousand people surveyed by ZAPPI, I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I don't have it, Zapy, there it is.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I actually look at I had it written on the
page right there for ready to see.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Here it is.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Darn it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I didn't put it up on the button bar. Now
I'm well, whatever about to hear? You know you can
trust it is.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Within the last three months of these individual surveys said
they now pre drink to avoid paying higher prices at venues.
Drinkers or training tips on how to sneak alcohol into events.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Oh Man, back in the days.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Back in the days of zema and clear crystal pepsi,
it was so easy to do. Probably one of the
reasons why it became such a big fan of Zema
at the time was because you could put the zema
in a clear place, in a in a in a
crystal pepsi bottle, because they were more prolific than you know,
(35:05):
not prolific. They were more readily available than even water
balls at the time. Sure, and then you can just
take your clear pepsi bottle because it had the it
had the fizz.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
But as a metrosexual, I feel like you would want
more of a classy flask vibe.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
No, not with zema.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
No, as a metrosexual, in zema, you're proudly drinking it
right out of the bottle, just so everybody knows that
you're consuming.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
But I got clarity on that the zema, so back
in the day you could easily go.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I remember there was a concert that we went to,
uh it was a E M F and to a
Universal at the Universally Ampitheater in Hollywood, where we did
our own bit of pregaming with with clear with crystal
clear crystal.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Pepsi filled with zema. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I didn't make it past the opening act as far
as I remember, as far as you remember important detail
and we're still on the air right now. It's one
of those most where completely forgot but in the middle
of telling us starting like we're not in the midll
have a break right now, I'm talking into the microphone
and everybody can hear me. The average price of a
cocktail right now is thirteen dollars and sixty one cents. Yeah,
(36:07):
so you guys, have you guys done this because any
and you guys pregame before.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Yeah, not really recently, but we used to. My husband
and I lived in the West End area, were a
little bit younger, and we could walk to dinner, So
that was where we would have a glass of wine
before we went.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
To dinner before The thing is you know, we social
district would have been good there.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah, exactly, but we don't like any kind of expensive wine.
But if you get a bottle of wine, excuse me,
if you get a glass of wine at a restaurant,
it costs the price of the bottle total wine. Right,
so that always kind of made us an angry god.
We'd have a glass one before we walked over there.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well, it wouldn't be a Freedom Friday if we didn't
go out with the Costco story. Of course, Costco is
making a very rare change to his legendary one dollar
and fifty cent hot dog a combo, but do not worry,
it's a good one. The price is not going up,
staying true to the founder's commitment to keep the famously
cheap meal intact. Instead, Costco shoppers can now opt for
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a bottled water as part of the combo, rather than
being limited to a fountain soda alongside the overside oversized
a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Thanks RFK.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, they're doing the lord's work life.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I know. I know Costco has gone the way of
wokeness in the past, and you know, and receive some
criticism for that. I understand then is due at the time,
but I will say they still are a fantastic corporation
of which people are spotting me left and right when
I go. Now, I was standing waiting for the pizza
on Friday last week. I'm just I'm just standing there
and I'm on my phone and this guy just.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Says like, Hey, John, just walks like boss By, just
keeps on going, Hey, how's it going. You've made it.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I know, I have the first notable tweak to the
buck fifty deal in more than forty years, dating back
to his debut in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I didn't realize that costs. I didn't realize Cosco was
around that long.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I'm confused, Couln't you have just gotten water in the
soda cup.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, it's not a bottle. It's not a bottle of water.
It's the it's the water out of the machines. It's
not gonna be nearly just good. Oh okay, yeah, it's
not gonna be a good question. It appears it's constantly
no question it Katherine Holy Cow, Catherine Johnson, Grace Keating
American Experiment American Experiment podcast every Tuesday. Catherine, thank you,
Thank you, Grace, thank you. Anything you want to hit
(38:18):
and going on. Before we say goodbye this.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Morning, all I'll say is stay tuned for our summer
event tour that's going to be launching very very quickly,
as is our America two hundred and fiftieth celebration at
the Capitol. You will want to be a part of
those awesome events.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
That's right, Tanned Representative Matt Chrimer, thanks for coming in
this morning. Thanks for having me as always, Sam, thank
you so much, great morning this morning.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Thanks for getting the drops. I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
All.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Little Fruity, everybody have yourself a fantastic weekend. We'll talk
to you guys on Monday. Bye.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Thanks everybody. You guys are the best. I think they
vastly underestimate humane
So let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If you vote on your phone, you still have to
use the multi factor verification.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Isn't that kind of like an ID?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, it would be kind of like a like like
I mean, like yeah very much so. Yeah, but again
according to Feven, And by the way, that's Feven.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
With an F. I thought I was being I thought I.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Was articulate, being very articulate, but apparently I wasn't because
a lot of people thought I was saying seven, which
may just be a byproduct of Seinfeld, because that was
one of George's names that he wanted to name his
daughter was seven. Seven and soda, right, and that was
the other one. So it was Feven that we were
talking about last hour that depended editorial, or at least
(00:51):
her name was on this editorial trying to justify making
it an option to vote via your phone here in
uh Minnesota, which and I won't get into people, but
apparently this I know it's dead, but this had bipartisans support.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That sucks.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's that's not that's not good.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
In no way, shape or form should we ever go
to this form of voting ever. I'm sorry, No, you
should go paper ballots on election day, show an ID
and that's it extreme cases.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Those in the military.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Whoever, the dude that we were talking about that lives
in the upper corner of Minnesota that probably you're right,
doesn't want to vote and that's why he lives out
in the middle of nowhere. But no, this this should
be something that you absolutely have to respect and should
not be reduced to, you know, scrolling on your on
your on your phone, no way, in no way, shape
or form, speaking of which, Disney has band phones. Not
(01:45):
just not just phone stuff, also heavy insulated tumblrings tumblers
on certain rides do to safety concerns. Well, sure, the
new policy nicknamed stow it don't Show It. I believe
that's the same policy that they're deploying at the adult
bathhouses in Minneapolis as well.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I knew you're going to see something like that.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I don't like that crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Show.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah multitude, Yeah, no, I mean it wasn't. Okay, let's
back up here a moment. That is sage advice, right,
I mean, of the options available regardless of how you
are taking and what you're applying that that those words
to the stow it don't show it. You know those are.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Words to live by.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
H just just in just in general, thank you, widely applicable,
Thank you, grace. It requires phones to be secured before boarding,
and cast members will be conducting visual checks to make
sure that you are not showing it and that you
are indeed justice stowing it.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Ohly, I do have a guy on a buzz light
you're costume like leading over people on the ride.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You put your phone away, so guests would be what
guess would have to fully put away their phones when
going on Certain rides includes Mickey and Mini's Runaway Railroad
and the in Credit Coaster. This is reported by the
Disney focused site to Inside the Magic and other items
that you won't be able to bring on the ride
include heavily insulated tumblers. The rule is popularly known by
(03:17):
the Stanley ban Okay, referencing the popular brand name cup.
It was implemented as a reaction to an increase in
unplanned down times for rides last year, according to Fox News,
which was due to security incidents related to guest behavior.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
It all comes down to common sense.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Phones and metal cups can become projectiles during high rates
of speed on those and other rides, which poses a
potential safety threat to riders. Cast members have been instructed
to conduct a visual checks and refuse to dispatch the
ride if the phones and cups are visible.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The outlet noted.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So as somebody who admittedly and it's a freedom fright
element this, so I want a lot of footage inside
of Disneyland. There are people who run YouTube channels where
they are dedicated to all things the theme park, and
they do like full walk throughs of the park. They
(04:15):
don't talk, they just walk through all the parks, they
go on all the rides, and you can basically just
put it on in the background and as if you
were walking around the park.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's kind of cool. I had nail Salon once that
would do this with like the streets of different countries,
and it was extremely cool. They're right on the TV
and they would walk you through a super busy city
and you know, China or whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, I get on the elliptical and I'll throw on
the Disney walk through and I'll do that. The problem
is that when they go on the rides, they're losing
the phone. They're dropping in on the high speed rides
and it's flying out of their hands and they have
to shut it down if it gets stuck on the
track or it gets lost. And the same thing with
the massive tumblers, which is why they've gone about banning these.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Actually look confused.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
The fact that you watch that on YouTube, that you
just slap that on the old, the old television screen.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Me.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, let me provide a little bit of perspective on this.
So when I go to prep the show, which takes
me a number of hours, So I sit in my
favorite recliner, I'm focused on finding prep and then audio
and stuff on X. But I want to have something
on in the background, so I can't put anything on
that's gonna distract me or that I need to be
focusing on. So I'll put on like The Office Seinfeld,
(05:24):
or I'll do like Disney walk Through.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Does that make a little bit more sense? This is
what introsexual in me. Yeah right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
defend this. I'm gonna defend you on this. So my
vice to you, Max is go to Minnie Leave, get
some nighttime gummies.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Okay, go on YouTube and.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Then watch videos like the Scale of the Observable Universe
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You'd want to do the fun gummies for those not
the night yummies, because you fall asleep with the night gummy.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You don't want to know that's wants.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
This is the moment where we probably miss a k
on the show because something tells me that he's doing
the same things sam ay.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Man, I'm just look, I'm just throwing out the idea.
But give it a shot some time, all right, and
you're welcome in.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
No, this isn't one of those like obese YouTube influencers
who's like testing all the rides to see if they
can actually no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Green a great genre of content.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That's a whole thing. I did not know. I love that.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's like Disneyland plus sized park hoppers.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Is that what it is? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That's a rabbit hole you gotta explore sometimes.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Reddit commentators were mad about.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
The new policy, in particular because the app is required
for ride access a lot of the times and payment
through the park. They say their entire ecosystem requires you
to use your phone for everything. This is laughable. All
they're saying is when you go on the ride, just
just you know, don't show it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Well, couldn't just fly out of your hand and hit
someone in the head.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And exactly what I'm thinking. Yeah, those and those tumblers
are huge.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Oh yeah, because family would be like a projectile.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I'll kiss somebody with one of those.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Value fair They make you put everything in a cubby,
They make you take your use off on some of
those rides.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Is that a you know joke? Filter caught that one.
I'm gonna let I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm gonna let you know, let's go talk wants to
talk about somebody?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Let's comment. We say, iHeartRadio. Brought to you by Lindahl Realty.
We should play one of these.
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Hey guys, Happy Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
This is TJ from North Minneapolis, a huge fan of
the show.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
I really hope that we do not go in to
voting for elections via phone. It's not American idol. The
only positive about that is we could get election results
immediately and up to the minute. But just imagine China
hacking people's cell phones being don't get free cell phones
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, I don't like it. No, I it's it's it's
it's bad. It's it's bad on every level.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, how about the voter influence angle of this, Like,
are there are laws against political groups standing like next
to lines in front of polling places and handing out
water or voting the because you don't want your vote
influence before you go into the center you're something.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
You want to do this on a smartphone where you could.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Literally be watching a political ad and then two seconds
later your notification to vote.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Pops in or a Papa yeah you know, or yeah
yeah yeah, or a random Papa bad that came up.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Although it is pretty generous to think that we would
still have voting results in real time, something tells me
Minnesota would still find of court.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah course, listen, we probably should go and promote this
in Minnesota because if they have the government going created,
it's just going to crash and never be functional. Bother,
Minnesota is a state where we were finding ballots in
the trunks of cars. You know, what we would say
in this would be like, oh, we had like forty
thousand text messages that didn't get through because Verizon went
down or something like that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
They were undeliverable.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
All right, coming up, I'll give one more example about
why this is a bad idea, because a child reportedly
consumed I'm not going to give you the number yet
I'm going to save it for when we come back.
Consumed blank amount of YouTube videos in three months during
school hours. They say it's probably not even a record,
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even though the number is ridiculous. Also, we talked about
Minneapolis in recent weeks and how they want to offer
up parking lots for those who are homeless but have
an automobile. Apparently this trend is catching fire worldwide and
there are school districts that are doing this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We'll give you the details coming up. We'll get to
your talkbacks as well on a Freedom Friday here on
Twin Cities News Talk at AM eleven thirty and one
oh three five FM.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
A little fruity.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty one o three
five FM.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We have the talk back of the day. I'm looking
at it right now.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
That's coming up in about fifteen minutes from now here
on Twin Cities News Talk.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It'll I'll give you the background on it when we
get there.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But somebody has a really good comment relating to Disney
banning cell phones and large tumblers from a lot of
their fast moving attractions, a new policy nicknamed toe it,
Don't Don't Show It so we'll get into that coming
uptow it, don't show it. Stow it, don't show it.
You're right, not toe it. I don't know where toe
it came from the tongue.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I'm wondering if glad you guys are here this morning
to correct you. Toe it, don't show it. Toe it
don't No, I don't know if you have an ugly car, no.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Stow it, don't show This is a great talkback though,
so it's the talkback of the day.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Max go there as representative Max Rhymer.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
We have Grace Keating and Catherine Johnson from a center
of the American Experiment, the American Experiment podcast. We were
talking about an editorial from last hour, which is why
we were talking cell phones with Disney, where a young
would be old enough soon to vote Minnesota and says
that it's a good idea to go in and make
it so that you can vote on your cell phone,
(10:43):
to which we all unanimously agreed, along with many of
the talkbacks this morning from the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Is a horrible idea.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Here's another example of why this would be a horrible
idea because of what the people are consuming.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Namely the kids online some kids more than others.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
A Wall Street Journal report earlier this week about YouTube
consumption on what are supposed to be educational devices included
a jaw dropping factoid. Oh boy, you all prepared for
a factoid this morning. They're my favorite types of facts,
by the way.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
The factoid.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
A seventh grader named Ben Warren in Wichita, Kansas, reportedly
managed to log thirteen thousand YouTube views from December of
twenty four through February of twenty five on his school
Google account. Thirteen thousand YouTube views, thirteen thousand YouTube views
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from middle school or on school equipment during school shows
real dedication.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
According to the article from Gizmoto.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's doubtful Warren holds the record for binging on YouTube
because he's.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Far from alone.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
One anonymous tenth grader in Oregon, according to the Journal,
logged two hundred views video views in one school morningast month.
This is all during school, that they're doing this. I mean,
I think that's the that's the part of it. Like
none of this surprises me, sadly outside of school, but
the fact that it's actually occurring during.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
School, that's the problem.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
By my math, Warren was averaging about one hundred and
forty four shorts per day across his entire heavy viewing period.
Another student in Oregon watched two hundred and forty minutes
four hours of YouTube in one day, according to the Journal,
and had to be placed in an addiction treatment program
at Boston Children's Hospital. But sure, let's all go and
(12:35):
vote on our on our phones. This is the danger
that I don't think people realize of what the cell
phone usage does to people and out basically just blows
out your frontal your frontal lobe. By giving you an
overload of dopamine that your bodies simply can't handle. You
actually develop lanes within your brain like rivers that run
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wherein you. You need to continue to fill that with
the dopamine constantly, and if you don't, you crash like
any addict would not being given whatever drug that they're
addicted to. I mean this therein lies the problem of
why we have so many issues right now with our
with our screens, and why you see so many schools,
including here in Minnesota, that actually have been looking to
banning cell phone usage inside the class.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Yeah, and early data from cell phone bands in school
is showing just like remarkable statistics improvement across all age groups,
all demographics, and then in all classes. And then I
even read a statistic I don't know where it was from,
and I don't know which district bannit, but even the
book checkouts from the library went up like five hundred
percent after they banned cell phones in schools. And I know,
(13:43):
working through the legislature right now, there's like an age
verification bill that's coming through for social media, and I
don't really know how I feel about that type of stuff,
because some of this is on the parents. It's gotta
be you would not introduce your young child to fentanyl
just just because you don't need to have your kid
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have a cell phone at twelve years old like that.
That's got to be part of this as well. Oh, absolutely,
it absolutely is.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I think too many parents have simply allowed their phones
to do the majority of you know, give them the
attention that they're they're not giving them for a host
of reasons. You know, families that have both parents that
have to go and work and the kids are home alone.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I mean, this is a dynamic that's been going on
ever since I was a kid as well. You know,
back then, we didn't have this though, So you found.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Boredom was a good thing. It's a good thing for
kids to be bored.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
It's a good thing for kids to have to go
and find ways to entertain themselves. Unfortunately, boredom has been
eliminated in the worst possible ways because of the fact
that we have.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
These the smartphe the are you know our smartphones?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Now, Yeah, you are truly rewiring your child's brain when
you let them have access to this stuff too early
and I think one hundred and forty four videos a day.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's like, man, this is an pandemic. And it is.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
It is truly an addiction. I mean, these apps are
designed to be addictive and to hand them to children,
and then to have the schools not even put guardrails
in place to allow phones in the classroom. And I
mean that doesn't even get to laptops that are so
commonly used in school today. You can access all these
sites on a laptop just the same way you can
(15:22):
on a phone. But it is this. If this is
not get addressed very very quickly in our society, I mean,
we're going to see such harmful long term effects in America.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Say you have a comment on this, well, I just
maybe just to curb this a little bit or ease
it a little bit. I'm willing to bet that a
lot of these kids are going to YouTube because it's
free and then just putting on like a playlist of
like one hundred songs, and then when they skip through
the songs, it counts each one as it's so in view.
So I understand there's also the addiction part of it. However,
(15:53):
just curb it a little bit, or at least ask
the questions like how much of it is maybe music
based versus like so.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
They actually do address in the story.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So yeah, So, according to the journal, the one kid
who logged the thirteen thousand YouTube videos in three months,
he had been using a school iPad to endlessly swipe
TikTok style on YouTube shorts, frequently ingesting headshot glorifying content
about Fortnite, a game that he was not allowed to play,
(16:22):
which is an interesting angle on.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
That as well, question where do we stand on that?
Like are they still trying? When I was in high school,
they would roll out this big thing of chrome books
and they were kind of trying to get kids to
use laptops in the classroom. Now, I think Obviously it's
been abused by kids because of course, I mean they're
on YouTube watching TikTok shorts. Are they still trying to
do that or did they not do I mean we
(16:45):
need to be back to like penned paper. Obviously not
to be a boomer, but I mean it's absurd that
we would introduce those things to kids while they're in school.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, the other I guess the other question I have is,
I mean, if we're not doing this, you know some
companies do.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
We don't hear.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Obviously the nature of what we do as radio hosts
would be horrible. But you know, there's a lot of
filters you can put on the streaming in and of
itself with the access to the Wi Fi. So obviously
a kid could pitch off the Wi Fi and just
go with the over air signal. But if they're taking
advantage of school Wi Fi, you should be able to
put restriction blocks on that to keep that content from
being accessible.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
That's a tough part about a platform specific band though,
right because I'm sure YouTube is what teachers probably world
examples of whatever, less than they're teaching.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, it goes back to why there's legislation moving through
to you know, keep the cell phones out of the school.
So all right, coming up your talk back of the day,
we'll get into Cincinnati Public Schools launching their safe Sleep
lot much in the same way that Minneapolis has done.
And speaking of Minneapolis, the city of Oakland and I
can only imagine that this may happen here is taking
(17:52):
a rather unique approach to discourage sex work activity on
the streets, and so we're going to it in to
this coming up, you do not want to miss this
conversation along with the talk back of the day with
our guests and studio on a Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You're listening to Twin Cities News Talk. You missed a
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Speaker 3 (18:16):
Brain, final segment of which the in studio guests on
a Freedom Friday here on Twin Cities News Talk are
all very surprised. Representative Max Rymer, good morning, slum By.
Today we have Yes, Catherine and Grace from the Center
of the American Experiment. American Experiment podcast out every Tuesday.
Another great episode this week. I mentioned that earlier.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Thank you very much. We even have a little bonus
episode if you take a look on our YouTube feed.
We did a stop the tape on the state of
the state that Walls did.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Oh boy, oh my gosh, it must have been a
lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
You said you hadn't watched it yet. What was it?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Did it? Did it meet your expectations there, Catherine, Yeah, it.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Is about what I expected. I mean, either I thought
he did. They used a little more to get I
expected to be a little more insane even maybe so.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He knew he knew the audience. He you know, you know, Walls,
He's a Charlottean. He adjusts to whoever he's speaking to.
He knows this is going to be a more this
is going to be a speech's more mainstream, picked up
by the majority of the media outlets, and so he
toned it down doing that thing with my fingers. I
still contend, as I said earlier this week, that he's
prepping to run for the presidency in twenty twenty eight.
(19:18):
That's that's my bet.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, he had one of those presidential teleprompters. This is like,
for some reasonsessed with this because I know how expensive there,
because I do events, and I'm just thinking, you know,
you could have paid for that. He could have printed
that on a piece of paper and saved the taxpayer
at least a thousand bucks from renting it, or if
you bought that.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Tim Walls went from the State of the State speech
on is getting on a plane now to go and
support a Nazi candidate.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And that's saying, yeah, he's supporting that, that Platner guy. Right,
it's his first first.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Stop in the small town pack Well, with the book
that he's you know, allegedly writing, and this potential rumor
that he's building a house in Montana, I just think
this is all a precursor going on Jimmy Kimmel continuing
to keep his name id out in public. He got
it last year or two years ago when he ran
for the VP. So I buy he's gonna he's gonna run.
It'll be feeling it's financially lucrative for him to do so,
(20:06):
even if it doesn't have a chance, he'll bring in
a ton of money doing that.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, you know, he did tell Jimmy Kimmel he was
going to go back to teaching.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Uhuh okay, okay, speaking of teaching, we do have a
teaching store. We'll get to in just a moment. First off, though,
we have to get to your talk Back of the Day.
It's brought to you by minileafmmnileaf dot com. We shared
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and tumblers from certain rides due to safety concerns high
speed rides where these tumblers or phones could fly off
(20:34):
heard somebody get lodged on the ride cause shutdowns. The
policy is nicknamed stow it, Don't show.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
It made a great opportunity for Disney to make some
license merch, maybe some T shirts for the parks that
say I'm a stower, not a shower.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's right, that's a very good idea. I endorsed this plan.
I may I'm a.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Stowe or not a face, not a You know, well,
it's probably only popular with half the half the the
group in studio right now. I thought it was funny
and I made it your talk back of the day,
So there you go. Brought to you by minileafandminileaf dot com.
After months of preparations, Cincinnati Public Schools is opening a
safe sleep lot. They did so Yesterday's designed for students
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in their families who are living out of their cars.
Now Minneapolis wants to do something similar They want to
open up parking lots where individuals who are homeless but
on an automobile can basically live for free in their
car in the parking lot. Nearly four thousand Cincinnati Public
School students, they say, are unhoused each year, and the
(21:47):
district wanted to be part of the solution. I want
to know the criteria for the designation of the students
that are unhoused. Four thousand seams high, so high.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
How can you pay to go to college and not
be able to afford somewhere to live?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, this is public schools. This is this is the
Cincinnati Public schools. Oh we're in high school? Yeah yeah, yeah,
grade school? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well, this is elementary school located within one of the
parking lots at Taft Elementary. The lot is a safe
space where families can stay while awaiting shelter placement. They
have access to the bathrooms, to the cell phone charging stations,
to the meals on.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Certain nights of the week. Listen, this is.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
A step towards that full Democrat indoctrination dormitories which the
Left would love to make our schools feeding them every
single meal. You can actually stay there on campus. You
could basically just drop your kid off at public school
and then pick them up four years later after the
Democrats are done with them.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yep, yep, that is what this is.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
And like that again, four thousand seems ridiculously high. I
can't imagine even for a metro area it being that bad.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
But this is.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
To your point, John, this is like getting them plugged
into a system where they don't need to go anywhere else.
And I'm worried about how normalizing this unhoused thing would be, Like.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It wasn't criteria for four. I just that that doesn't
seem that's crazy. It seems really high. That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
But like, yeah, again, like normalizing you know, if these
are families on the fringes or they're looking for housing elsewhere,
normalizing living in your car is like, that's destabilizing for kids,
you know, I don't know why we would indulge that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And it gives them a place to engage in behaviors
that might not otherwise be allowed if they were in
a shelter. Because that's a problem you spend in Minneapolis
where the reason we have such a homelessness crisis in
large part is because the shelters require things like sobriety,
and you know, there are a lot of people who
don't want.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
To comply with that. It was anitche slated to open
in February.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
But it was delayed to expand it to include a
kitchenette stocked with meals, showers and laundry for students. If
that four thousand number is actually legitimate, and they're going
out of their way the way it seems like they
are to provide this parking lot for people living out
of their cars, and they're providing all this extra stuff,
I'm beginning to think a lot more parents maybe getting
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out of their teeny tiny hotels and maybe just living
in their cars so they can get all the free
stuff from the public school.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's my system. I think that's what they actually want
in arazy four thousand kids. There's no way, there's no way. Yeah,
I'm curious how big the school district is.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
That whole system just puts way too much stock in
faith in people, you know, providing the food and the
spaces to shower and things like that. It's going to
get abused so badly and it sucks. It's like good intentions,
but I don't see that working.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And only the road to Hell is paid with good intentions, just.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
A way for them to save money so they don't
have to transport kids that are homeless do it to
That's a bussing regulation that.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm unfamiliar with that, but it is an interesting point,
all right, Moving through the stories quickly. This morning, the
city of Oakland, I reminded. I was reminded of Minneapolis
when I found this a story, because perhaps one day
this might be a feature of ours, as they move
to make legal adult dens of debauchery like bathouses. Okay,
you see in Oakland they're taking a page out of
(25:24):
San Francisco's playbook to try to discourage. However, sex work
activity in a notorious section of International Boulevard seems to
be an increasing problem the prostitutes, so they want to
discourage it.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Ladies of the night, Yes they do.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Sounds good.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
They have an interesting solution for this discouragement. Oakland is
launching a pilot program that will bring water filled street
barriers to several side streets that lead off International Boulevard
in order to divert the frequent traffic from customers of
sex workers. So essentially, these would be booty barriers. So
(26:02):
we're looking at here. So they just want to get
people off the path. Yeah, they wanted to happen. They
just don't want to be as visible.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Is that what I'm getting out of this?
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:11):
They're trying to discourage by It's a again, it's a
you're going to get your booty and they want it.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's a barrier.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's a barrier to block you from your ease of
getting the booty by going a different direction.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
It's a booty barrier. I think they vastly underestimate human horniness.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
San Francisco's has had some limited success with a similar
effort on several notorious blocks of cap Street and Shotwell
Street in the Mission District, although residents follow the lawsuit
last fall claiming the city's efforts we're not doing enough.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now the area in question in Oakland is.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Called the Blade, so we can go even further, so
this would be the Blade booty barrier, okay, And for
many years it's been a hotbed of street level sex work,
often using the side streets of nineteenth and Eleventh Avenue
in order to conduct a business, with International Boulevard being
the main drag where you can also find a lot
of people in drag as well, but the jokes are
(27:04):
just not hope they landing with the audience, because they're
landing with nobody right now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Thanks for the podcast titles.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Oh no, no, no, not yet not yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
Samy's got another b word is another one.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We have more literation coming. It's coming.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I'm ready, As Oakland City council member Charlene Wang tells a.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
K TV you, oh dear, don't show it was that
what was that last name? What was that last name
of the Oh? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
This is an area where there's an elementary school as
well as a health clinic.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And the really the intention is since much of.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
The trafficking activity takes place on the side streets off International.
International is like a main corridor, but you know, the
purchasing activity happens on the side streets and is to
block off those areas so it can't happen there. Now,
the pilot program will bring new bullards or barry years
to the area. So we have the Blade Booty Bullards
(28:04):
and barrier.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Now, there you go, the Blade, Bullard's Booty Big Barrier
battles tar Coalecticut.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Finally, you know what, I was gonna go out on
that music.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You just go with the music now, since that's the
only one that landed, I greatly.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Would appreciate it. Thanks everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
The pilot program will bring those new Bulleger barriers to
the area. Oakland had previously done something similar along Sixteenth Avenue,
and much like the activity from Cap Street over to
shot Well in San Francisco, the sex workers just moved
a couple of streets down to Oakland too, of course,
so they're just into so basically the booty barriers are
(28:53):
they're just funneling the workers to a different location because
of what you said, you underestimate, Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Desire of individuals. It's like, look at their hooky talk.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Do you think that just putting up some physical barriers
are going to prevent guys who want a hooker from
getting a hooker. It's like, okay, I men have done
a lot more to get what they want.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Seems like a bit of a dying industry, as an
oh Man as Evan told us, the youth they're really
just using their phones for everything now. So I don't know,
I think we just give it a couple more years
and the old fashioned way of getting a hooker will
be out of style anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Please clip Max saying I think that they've vastly underestimated
the rate of human hardiness.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I'm sure, I'm sure Sam's working on it.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I wouldn't be doing my job, man, I'm already on it.
I'm literally waiting for the audio to download now.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
So Jim Walls and Brad tab Feed don't have one
for Mary Moriarty, and I'm almost I'm almost afraid to
ask for one. Yeah, on Twin Cities News Talk, because
I I get the feeling that they would be rather
rather vicious. I don't know what kind of alliteration you
could come up with that, and I probably opened a
(30:06):
can of worms now. So I'm just gonna move on
to the next item. Here on Twin City's News Talk
on a Freedom Friday.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Scary Mary, Oh, that's scary Mass.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I'm gonna I wanted to give you some credit for
scary Marry, even though we're going with scary Moriarity. I'm
just gonna put that out there, all right, Let's keep
moving through the stack. Here Anka School Social District allowing
outdoor alcohol consumption and designated the areas it's expanding to
year round.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I applaud this.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
This was a great idea, like Vegas, when you can
walk around with an adult beverage out on the street.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I'm sorry, did you say school district?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No? No, social district?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Sorry even have to ask about that though. It's like
we're allowing alcohol in school distress. It's like, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So we already allowed the homeless in one area.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Any any, any faith that Grace had left in society
was quickly plummeting.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I believe anything at this point.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Anoka Social District Okay. While the city emphasis.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Sizes education and aims to avoid strict enforcement, the businesses
are expressing concerns about the potential liability for customer violations.
Despite these concerns, the city reports no significant increase in
the rule breaking within the social district. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I was on board with this when they did the
trial run.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
That area is built in such a way where it
could really support that type of social district where you
can have an adult beverage outside. There's multiple bars around
the restaurants there, and so you know, they did it
the right way. They tested it, They ran it for
a couple of years. It went well and so now
they're going to expand it year round, I mean, and
when it gets colder outside and all people aren't going
to be taking that much advantage of it during the
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colder tenth.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
So I don't want to crash out on this topic,
but the social district the way that it's been basically
decided or prioritized, are political handouts. This was a Zach
Stevenson and Brad Tabke special project where they didn't want
any other place to have social districts except their districts.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Why every time we can't say.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
And there have been legislators, mainly Republicans, who have advocated
for social districts being fair, like handing them out in
a fair process, And the way that it's worked so
far is like, no, we just want it to be
a political favor to Democrats.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Well, and it seemed like though everywhere this has been
tried it hasn't gone very well. I mean, I don't
know as New Orleans like thriving that area.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I mean, maybe it is, but the Anoko one's pretty limited.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
But that so what you're saying is other areas have
been have asked yes in order to have these they
and they've said no, yes, they want one, all right.
I'm glad I brought it up because the clarities and
I still support it.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But that's I know. That is absolutely fair, equitable.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
There are a number of cities that have good like
main drags, main streets, that would want this, and they've
been denied. While some of these Democrat politicians during the
trifecta said, actually, I want that on my reelection campaign,
like that's listen.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I don't disagree with the idea too.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
I want it to be fair and equitable, and Democrat
politicians want it to be a special car of Alla.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That sucks. I'm glad. No, that's all right, I'm glad.
I'm good. That's good. That's good to know. It's good
to know.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I'm not surprised by that, and I hope that that
argument can be made succinctly given the fact that they're
not handing these out to other places that have asked
for them, because that's lame.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I think they vastly underestimate human horny noess to the
point of drinking. No, let's go here.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Drinks are apparently so expensive now that grown ups are
pregaming like they did in college. I've heard this too, okay,
everybody is shaking their heads, really all right? With everything
from groceries to gas climbing, Americans are pinching pennies and
making hard choices. Many have cut out alcohol together, but
for those who still crave a cocktail, they're entering a
(33:53):
flashback era of pregaming, downing a few drinks at home
before going out to keep from spending much more money
to get the same buzz. Nearly one third of a
thousand people surveyed by ZAPPI, I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I don't have it, Zapy, there it is.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
I actually look at I had it written on the
page right there for ready to see.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Here it is.
Speaker 9 (34:22):
Darn it.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
I didn't put it up on the button bar. Now
I'm well, whatever about to hear? You know you can
trust it is.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Within the last three months of these individual surveys said
they now pre drink to avoid paying higher prices at venues.
Drinkers or training tips on how to sneak alcohol into events.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Oh Man, back in the days.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Back in the days of zema and clear crystal pepsi,
it was so easy to do. Probably one of the
reasons why it became such a big fan of Zema
at the time was because you could put the zema
in a clear place, in a in a in a
crystal pepsi bottle, because they were more prolific than you know,
(35:05):
not prolific. They were more readily available than even water
balls at the time. Sure, and then you can just
take your clear pepsi bottle because it had the it
had the fizz.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
But as a metrosexual, I feel like you would want
more of a classy flask vibe.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
No, not with zema.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
No, as a metrosexual, in zema, you're proudly drinking it
right out of the bottle, just so everybody knows that
you're consuming.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
But I got clarity on that the zema, so back
in the day you could easily go.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I remember there was a concert that we went to,
uh it was a E M F and to a
Universal at the Universally Ampitheater in Hollywood, where we did
our own bit of pregaming with with clear with crystal
clear crystal.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Pepsi filled with zema. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I didn't make it past the opening act as far
as I remember, as far as you remember important detail
and we're still on the air right now. It's one
of those most where completely forgot but in the middle
of telling us starting like we're not in the midll
have a break right now, I'm talking into the microphone
and everybody can hear me. The average price of a
cocktail right now is thirteen dollars and sixty one cents. Yeah,
(36:07):
so you guys, have you guys done this because any
and you guys pregame before.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Yeah, not really recently, but we used to. My husband
and I lived in the West End area, were a
little bit younger, and we could walk to dinner, So
that was where we would have a glass of wine
before we went.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
To dinner before The thing is you know, we social
district would have been good there.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah, exactly, but we don't like any kind of expensive wine.
But if you get a bottle of wine, excuse me,
if you get a glass of wine at a restaurant,
it costs the price of the bottle total wine. Right,
so that always kind of made us an angry god.
We'd have a glass one before we walked over there.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well, it wouldn't be a Freedom Friday if we didn't
go out with the Costco story. Of course, Costco is
making a very rare change to his legendary one dollar
and fifty cent hot dog a combo, but do not worry,
it's a good one. The price is not going up,
staying true to the founder's commitment to keep the famously
cheap meal intact. Instead, Costco shoppers can now opt for
(37:03):
a bottled water as part of the combo, rather than
being limited to a fountain soda alongside the overside oversized
a hot dog.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Thanks RFK.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, they're doing the lord's work life.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
I know. I know Costco has gone the way of
wokeness in the past, and you know, and receive some
criticism for that. I understand then is due at the time,
but I will say they still are a fantastic corporation
of which people are spotting me left and right when
I go. Now, I was standing waiting for the pizza
on Friday last week. I'm just I'm just standing there
and I'm on my phone and this guy just.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Says like, Hey, John, just walks like boss By, just
keeps on going, Hey, how's it going. You've made it.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
I know, I have the first notable tweak to the
buck fifty deal in more than forty years, dating back
to his debut in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I didn't realize that costs. I didn't realize Cosco was
around that long.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
I'm confused, Couln't you have just gotten water in the
soda cup.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Yeah, it's not a bottle. It's not a bottle of water.
It's the it's the water out of the machines. It's
not gonna be nearly just good. Oh okay, yeah, it's
not gonna be a good question. It appears it's constantly
no question it Katherine Holy Cow, Catherine Johnson, Grace Keating
American Experiment American Experiment podcast every Tuesday. Catherine, thank you,
Thank you, Grace, thank you. Anything you want to hit
(38:18):
and going on. Before we say goodbye this.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Morning, all I'll say is stay tuned for our summer
event tour that's going to be launching very very quickly,
as is our America two hundred and fiftieth celebration at
the Capitol. You will want to be a part of
those awesome events.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
That's right, Tanned Representative Matt Chrimer, thanks for coming in
this morning. Thanks for having me as always, Sam, thank
you so much, great morning this morning.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Thanks for getting the drops. I greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
All.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Little Fruity, everybody have yourself a fantastic weekend. We'll talk
to you guys on Monday. Bye.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Thanks everybody. You guys are the best. I think they
vastly underestimate humane
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