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we go way back, way back. Yeah.

Long time. When is, before he had kids, when he was just getting married. Yeah.

And he was a hell of a boxer in the day too. Yeah. Uh, so Jesse will be on just after seven.

Um, and, uh, we've got, uh, just after eight o'clock there's Tyrone Leslie's coming in, there's an event or kind of a thing that they're doing. Uh, that they've been supporting for a while. Sunshine kids.

And it's, uh, he'll tell us about it, what it means and, uh, how they're raising a little money and trying to, you know, trying to do some good. Amen to that. Um, also what's on TiVo? Well, we have, uh, you know how we talked about the naked trucker, the naked illegal trucker.

Everybody's talking about the illegal trucker. Well, Will Kane had that segment on his show yesterday and I was fortunate enough to have seen it. And, uh, he also had Sean Duffy on with him.

So they're talking about the trucking industry and these illegals and how bad it is and what they can do about it. And then at the end of the segment too, we have, uh, Sean Duffy talking about the shutdown, the air traffic controllers and all that. So that will be very, very interesting.

He's got a little leverage he can do to kind of help stop this thing. And then we have, uh, Jesse waters. He recaps Trump's Asian trip and, uh, China, the China deal he made with G. And, uh, he gets into a lot of different things about how Trump's deciding he's testing for nukes again now.

So lots of good stuff there. And then at the end of that, the left is still melting down over King Trump. So lots of good stuff coming up on TiVo should be entertaining.

Yeah. Uh, by the way, speaking of the, um, I just did a search and my phone is talking to me now telling him, giving me the answer, um, 4.27 billion bushels of, uh, soybeans, 22, 23 marketing year. Uh, 60 billion or so.

What, uh, what did I see? The, uh, how many, how many bushels China's going to buy? I just saw it this morning, but it'll probably be in there, but yeah. So I hope the soybean farmers are okay and that they're buying them. This session, they're buying them right now.

So I guess that's good. Hopefully we can get the, uh, elevators emptied. All right.

Well, we'll, our first, uh, TiVo here in about 15, 20 minutes or so. Uh, we've got, uh, Dean will slide in to lead off, uh, some info. We got sports, big game, James McCarty, the sports desk.

We got a business report at the bottom of the hour and, uh, got Austin Erickson in the newsroom this morning. Keep us up to date on the headlines on the way. The, uh, thing for, uh, that's coming up, uh, just after eight o'clock, this Sunshine Kids Foundation that Tyrone's going to be in talking about, pretty cool thing.

So I've been around since the early eighties and it's, it's all about kids with cancer. And boy, when it comes to our children, we don't, you know, whether it's Sue Barron helping those that are homeless, our friends that help pediatric, fight pediatric cancers and things that, you know, we actually do, uh, not so much with Nancy, but we actually do care about the kids, just, just say it. So excited to hear about that.

The old golf scramble coming up. Uh, what else? It is the need to know morning show. We're at six, let's call it coming up on 17 after six o'clock.

It is today. If you're wondering today, it's with, I'll be Halloween as well. It's a national, uh, ref reformation day today.

Reformation day today. And what is a refer reformation? I, uh, reform is that a good things you tell yourself to stay positive. Let me do the quick search.

You know, I am, it's a, uh, Protestant, Oh, Protestant, Christian, religious holiday, uh, and remembrance on the onset of the reformation reformation. There you go. We'll learn more about that.

Uh, it's also today, uh, national doorbell day today. I don't even, I don't even have one. I disassembled it.

Uh, when I first started in radio, I was working overnight. I know why you don't have it. Well, there's that too.

You should have a sign in. Don't even think about knocking either. Yeah.

I was working overnight and I would sleep during the day, which meant I worked from midnight to 6 AM. So then you'd go home and sleep. And I didn't want any disturbances.

Yeah. They don't even have that shift anymore, but that's how it all started. And I disassembled the doorbell and haven't needed one ever because of three dogs.

There's quite a bit of notification. If someone's thinking about coming up to my house, I'd have a side of a door. Don't even knock, please.

Just to come back. Uh, I don't know. Whenever.

Oh, yeah. There's just, I mean, you can just drive down the street. It's national magic day today.

National magic day today. Ever been to a good magician, seen a good magician and, and like David Copperfield just on TV. Yeah.

We saw Copperfield live. And, um, I've seen him twice, actually. I'll tell you.

And I think a lot of times it's gotta be that like Chris Angel and so they have to have twin brothers that nobody knows about. And I mean, they have to, they must have a twin brother or an exact look alike. That nobody, cause Copperfield, one of the shows we were at, the lights go down and, and, um, and, uh, all of a sudden at the top of the theater and it was in Minneapolis at the top of the theater, one of the doors opens up like where people would walk in, like as far from the stage as you could be.

And, and here's David Copperfield. He starts a Harley Davidson. Oh, and he's roaring this Harley and he pulls the Harley like into the theater, into the first five rows.

And as any, any like puts the bike, shuts it off, puts the bike in a kickstand, gets off of it and raises his hands. And this big smoke bomb goes off around him. And all of a sudden he's gone and the curtain opens up and he's in a cage hanging over the stage with the motorcycle.

There is some kind of trickery involved in that. Yeah. Copperfield used to be hot in the day.

With the motorcycle. In the cage. Now nobody got up and see if the, somebody back there, if the motorcycle somehow got, I don't know how it got out of the top of the theater so fast, but it was pretty wild.

It was, uh, I can imagine. I suppose the crowd was just going crazy. He did some stuff that just, it was like, well, wait a minute.

You know, and then Chris Angel's the same thing. Yeah. Chris Angel does the elevating and the levitating or whatever, that kind of stuff.

It's wild. Is he like the most current one now for the magicians? Yeah, he's probably, he doesn't have nearly as big a deal going, I think as well when you late night TV was good, you know, Leno and they would have these people on and they would do tricks and stuff. So you'd be more aware of what was going on in Las Vegas and different places.

Uh, it's knock, knock joke day. They, there you go. Um, I, I don't think I could remember a good knock knock joke if I try.

Now, uh, caramel apple day today. That's always good. Always bad for the fillings though.

The caramel, the, you know, the harder caramel. Yeah. They have that dip now.

That's probably a better way to do it. That's a little softer too. Um, Oh, I know a knock knock.

Okay. Who's there? I'm a, I'm a who? I'm a knock you out. Uh, are you going to use that for the boxing thing then Saturday night? Probably not lyric or something.

Uh, okay. We'll get Dino in here in just a couple of, just a minute or so. With Halloween, by the way, uh, if you are, um, you know, doing candy and things like that and taking kids trick or treating, I mean, that's obviously, uh, if you're not taking, but if you're just out and about, make sure you know that the kids are going to be out and about.

Um, if you're wondering what the neighbors will be passing out this year, just read it, just get it up here. Hershey foods did a survey. 73% of American households will hand out chocolate followed by lollipops.

Hard candy, bubble gum, and a gummy candy, stuff like that. Not a gummy fan, but give me chocolate. I love it.

Are you a little, uh, you buy the variety pack where you get like the little Snickers, a little, you know, three Musketeers or whatever. Now, are you guys, are you handing out candy? Do you get trick or treaters? Are you going out? No, we're out. We're out.

Yeah. So we're, uh, they'd have to hike to our place. Yeah.

Well, uh, Jay stands out in the garage with a beer and a cigarette. And, uh, he heads off the trick or treaters and, uh, he gives mom's candy bars and he'll give the dads a beer. Oh, that's a good neighbor.

Yeah. Meanwhile, I'm in the house in the bedroom, uh, with the TV cranked up and the dogs in the bed, so they don't know what's going on. I try and keep it quiet.

Otherwise, you know, the hell that unleashes at my house. Oh yeah. Yeah.

You have the hell hounds, literally have the little hounds from hell. Yeah. The little yappy ones.

So, um, yeah, if you're in a neighborhood, obviously that's a, that's, that's the thing and I, you know, it's sad that you've got to, got to check your kid's candy. I don't know what, what that would mean anymore. Back in the day.

I mean, check it. I'm like, I like this. Uh, you can have that.

That's checking it. That's how I check it. This one's mine.

Mommy wants this one for mommy. That's how it works at my house for mommy, one for you. Uh, but the, um, I just think back of like when apples would get, I'd put razor blades and apples and just the sick crap people used to do.

And that was like, you know, 30, 40 years ago. Have you heard about that? Well, yeah, they would have the hospitals. You could bring your trick or treat bag to get x-rayed.

That's pretty sad. I'm wondering if you can still do that. I have not heard.

Probably. It's just, are you kidding me? Yeah. Keep it to your neighborhood, you know, or, or do the trunk or treat things and, and, you know, they do events like that.

It's always good to go to like the mall, wherever you're at, the little mall or some, you know, stores will do that stuff. Well, then you can see a bunch of other people all dressed up too. Isn't it about taking the kids out tonight and go, by the way, speaking of that, what, uh, you know, get rained on, look good, hold on, hold on.

We need to address the, uh, the, uh, situation in the room first. I think there, there might be a little HR situation. I fill this out very nicely.

Dean comes into my office. Alex, they need your help with my bra. I'm like, what are you transitioning? What's going on? He's like, you'll see, you'll see.

I'm like, you need some toilet paper in that. What is your, what are you, what is this? It's on Facebook. Take a look.

It's on Facebook. Dean and I have posted the costume. He is a spice rack.

I thought he was, he's got all kinds of spices in his brassiere. And I thought he was a hot mom. I thought he had like, I thought he had like salsa and stuff in there, but cause I couldn't see without my glasses.

I got slap your mama. Yeah. You got anything, you got any, uh, like, uh, any good, uh, rib rub in there? Uh, yes, actually there is.

You can rub anytime you want. You want to rub me a nice rack, but Holstrom is going to love the same costume. Okay.

Yes. So if Holstrom comes in dressed like this, I will give up my paycheck. Oh, I'll send him a picture.

I'd strongly suggest I'll split the money with you from Dean's paycheck. You're giving me an idea for an invention to, for like barbecue competitions, right? You can, you know, our cooking competitions, you could have all your spices right in like a, a bra like device that you're wearing and have them right there, right? Like you're running while you're cooking. There you go.

You look good, bud. All right. Let's get into the weather.

I've got a totally different costume for tonight. Yeah. What are you doing tonight? I, uh, you'll see.

Well, we're going to a Halloween party and, uh, so this was Christie's idea. Let's just say I will be in full makeup and you will be transitioning tonight. I will be transitioning.

Okay. Good. Can't wait to see the lovely Dina.

That'll be fun. Dina, I got this at the thrift store. Somebody's grandma's bras.

What that is. All right. Let's, uh, let's check down the weather.

Yeah. Well, we're looking at a few sprinkles out there this morning. Uh, and it's mainly going to be this morning.

Uh, we should dry things out as we head throughout the day. Now I, again, can't rule out an isolated sprinkle throughout the day, but I think most of any light rain will be this morning moving from north to south. Uh, it's a little too warm here in the FM area to mix in any snow, but can't rule out a flake or two.

But again, uh, nothing to worry about 42 for high today. We're in the upper thirties right now. So we're not going to move a whole lot with North winds, 10 to 20 cloudy skies near freezing tonight.

And then we'll start off a cloud cover on Saturday and then we'll turn partly cloudy, light winds 46. And then Sunday more spring like 60 degrees for a high and breezy conditions out of the West Southwest gusting up to an over 30. And then next week, you guys like roller coasters? Uh, no.

Well, we're on it next week. I'll detail what I'm talking about coming out about six 50. They're scary.

Yeah. Well, we're going to be out next week. Okay.

Well, I'm ready. Yes. Take your dramamine.

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Big game, James. Let's go busy weekend for you, my boy. Hey, it's a great opportunity this weekend for us.

Our family of stations, man. We got some tremendous ball games for you this weekend. We have state quarterfinals football in the three, a division in North Dakota.

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So it's the Bemidji state Beavers 11 a.m. Pre-game a noon kickoff for that one. The dragons have lost five straight games in this series, but an opportunity to get that battle ax back for the first time since the 2018 season. Some fun conversations pregame here this weekend where you're going to hear from Owen Wiersma.

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November tomorrow. Oh, can you believe that? No. Where does the time go? And it's going to be 46 tomorrow.

Not too bad. But in the meantime, today we do have a 40% chance of rain, mostly in the morning, so trick-or-treaters should be fine. 42 for the high.

Like I said, tomorrow, 46, partly cloudy. Sunday, 61. That's going to be nice, except for, well, the wind.

Back to work Monday, 52. And Tuesday, 60. Wednesday, 49.

Thursday, 53. So it's not horrible yet. We're just trugging along with some decent weather.

I wonder if we get to that 60 mark on Tuesday, if that'll be the last time we see the 60 mark, you know? I would think so, but who knows? We've got to be getting close to dropping into real fall weather. Let's just keep this going as long as we can. Yeah, I mean, weather brought to you by the team at labormasters.net, and they have the work and they have the workers.

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Oh, really? Small world. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

Anyway, keep doing what you guys are doing. Love listening to you guys. Thanks.

That's from Savannah. Wow. Thank you.

So yeah. And Adam's doing great, by the way. Your boys are rocking it.

The dogs, I don't know. We've got to do something about the, two of the, two of the, two of your three dogs are fantastic. I mean, I just, I love Cash and Morgs.

They're just great. Well, you know, they're with me there. Okay.

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All right. We're good on all the texts. Let's roll the Tivo.

All right. We mentioned this the other day, uh, the video of the illegal trucker. Well, Will Kane has it here of the, the naked trucker with no clothes on.

And then he chats with, uh, transportation secretary Jeffy. This is an issue that you and I have talked about on occasion. I know it's one that is important to both of us.

And I don't know if you've seen this video that was given to us here at the Will Kane show by the American truckers association, but I'd love to start with just playing you some video that we shared with our audience just a few days ago. This is a trucker issued a CDL in California, pulled over in Arkansas. You understand English? You do? Yeah.

How did you park here? No, no good. Is there anybody else in the truck? Is there anybody else in the truck? No, I'm a company, your company. Okay.

You don't understand English. Put your pants on, put your pants on. No idea.

No idea. Pants, your pants, trousers, some pants on. You don't understand English.

Your company's called California. Yeah. You don't understand me.

Oh my God. Your reaction, Mr. Secretary. Yeah.

So, so first off, it begs the question, how in the hell did someone like that get a driver's license? Right. Um, because we have requirements that you have to be proficient in speaking English. And so one, whether you're at the DMV in California and, uh, issuing a license or the school that tested him, that would have, uh, you know, said he's proficient as a driver and sent him to, to the DMV in California, there's a multiple trigger points where someone should have flagged this guy that he should not be driving.

The problem specifically in California, but also in other States is that they're not enforcing the English only provisions of our federal law. No, clearly, clearly there's, uh, something not right. Well, what's going on? Uncle Kev did the dive on this a couple of weeks ago when this came up and, uh, what near as I can figure out, there's a bunch of these companies that are, are formed, they're India, they're from all over Pakistan and they're, they're the trucking companies are on some sort of a CDL exemption or some, it's a, I forget the name of it, but it, then, so that's there again, and then they're driving exclusively for these companies.

And if a guy like that gets pulled over and pulled out of his truck, it just, it doesn't matter. They should be shut down. Yeah, they, there, there should be no fine.

They should be shut down completely for hiring people like this. Yep. All these checks and balances have just been ignored.

But it's not just that will, I mean, this is such a deeper problem. You have, you know, individuals, foreigners come into the country, some, uh, with work permits and we have States that issue their commercial driver's licenses for long after their work permit expires, meaning it's an incentive to stay in the country illegally. And it, by the way, it's the States you'd think it's California, it's Minnesota, it's Illinois, it's New York, et cetera.

So we have some States that don't make drivers show them legal status. They're illegals. They should be deported.

Instead of being deported, they're given a commercial driver's license. And then we have some drivers who have no driver's license at all. They're just on the road, driving, wreaking havoc.

And as you mentioned, uh, or our secretary, I know mentioned in her clip, they're driving a fuel tankers. They're driving school buses, really dangerous things on American roads, and they're endangering the lives of American citizens. I appreciate, uh, Kristi Noem and her team.

They've done yeoman's work. I don't have a law enforcement wing at DOT. I have to rely on my state partners and I have great state partners.

Some of them, other States are in opposition to what we're trying to do. But Kristi Noem comes in with ice and has been a force for good in taking these bad actors off our roads. You do though, have access to a budget, Mr. Secretary.

And that's something you discussed with us a few months ago here in Dallas. And that is these States, whether it be New York or California or Illinois, those were three States mentioned by DHS secretary. No, these States need federal highway transportation funds.

Now this was famously used in our past to convert all States to a drinking age of 21. You've talked about this. What can you do to, to deny funds to, for example, Gavin Newsom in the state of California, if they continue to issue CDLs to people who should not be on our highways? Good question.

Yeah. So those States that don't enforce our English proficiency rules, uh, we can pull money from. So I already pulled $40 million from Gavin Newsom, but now we look at the commercial driver's license that they issue.

Uh, we are doing a review right now. We're supposed to do that lawfully and we are doing it, but I anticipate that $160 million will be pulled from the state of California. And that's just tranche one.

That's only 4% of the money that they get from us. We'll go on to another 4% after that and another 4% after that even, but if it, if it doesn't get rectified by the state of California and other huge violators, other States, we're going to pull their ability to actually issue a CDL. You can't issue a commercial driver's license any longer.

We're going to go after the schools that don't test these drivers, make sure they're proficiently equipped to operate these big rigs on our roads. We're going to go after them. We're going to go after every link in the chain that's allowing this to happen because, I mean, you play these clips on your show.

Well, it is horrific. You have, you have a mom and dad out with her kids on a Sunday afternoon and they're getting rear ended by a semi driver. Who's not paying attention.

You have a guy driving a semi without pants on the stories are, I think would shock the conscience of most Americans. These people should never be on American roads. Great point.

And raises a ton of questions. What was he doing beyond his inability to speak English with no pants and no shirt on in the cab of that truck? We don't even want to consider that. But I got confidence in Duffy here.

I sounds like he's got this under control. But then there's Gavin in California. It's the government.

They're just coming after me because I'm going to run for president. This should not be that hard. It shouldn't be.

Imagine that you're in immediately. They look at Alex Taylor and they say, all right, you're in charge. What are we doing today on this? Well, what do you mean? What I'm doing today on this is I'm going to who owns that truck? I'm going to be like the guy.

I mean, forget the movie. It was like with Will Smith. He's like, I want to know the every piece of the DNA of that truck.

Where did that guy come from? Where is he licensed from? What is the address of that company? We're going there right now. I mean, how hard is it to just that the whole operation? Why did the rules get thrown out? Exactly. Well, I mean, did this all happen during COVID when things were being shut down and they're just letting anyone willy nilly have a truck go to the place that the guy hired, hired the guy, pull everything, shut it down today, you know, and semis, I imagine are pretty expensive.

Just just buying a regular vehicle is expensive. So if you're the owner of a company and you have 20 trucks, 30 trucks, you just let anybody drive it. Yeah, well, they bring the drivers in from the companies where they're from, the countries where they're from, the India, again, Pakistan, they're from all over the world.

And they're circumventing the system through these states like Cali that are allowing them to get these CDLs, these exemptions. It's ridiculous. It really is.

Trucking companies that hire these people should be allowed to not get away with this. But one more link in the chain, Mr. Secretary, the companies that hire these illegal drivers, that is a huge contributor to this entire problem. I'm sure it is companies looking to cut costs, but they should be paying a cost.

That is the point. You're right. So we're gonna start looking at not just the companies that hire.

Again, you should do your due diligence, making sure I mean, a company can't hire someone and then do so knowing that they can't speak English. Huge problem. They should go through their own instruction course to make sure you have a well-qualified driver.

And by the way, if you don't do that, well, your insurance rates go through the roof. So we are going to hold them to account. I also think we have to take a look at the shippers, the people who load up these rigs and send them across the country.

There's a lot of interaction between the shipper and the trucker. And if you can't speak English, I think those shippers should be held to account to say, listen, I'm not going to put my load on that truck with that driver because they're breaking the law. We have a lot of levers to pull, so we'll be watching.

And I know that you've already pulled some of those levers, but watching for those other levers to be fully pulled against companies or, for example, the state of California. You know, you've got to wonder if this was a Biden-era DEI thing, too, that maybe contributed to part of this problem. We were all over this a couple of weeks ago on the statewide show on What's On Your Mind and heard from a lot of truckers.

Legitimate trucking companies, for the most part, are not hiring these people. And they're not not doing their due diligence. They do background checks.

They should, yeah. Well, think of the hundreds of thousands of dollars they have invested, which is insured, bonded and, you know, they're licensed, bonded and insured and all of that. And then for the products they haul, too, if something happens to that.

Yep, yep, yep. They lose all that if they don't do the due diligence, don't do the background checks, don't vet their drivers. The companies that are hiring these, for the most part, are these these shell corporations, these companies that are set up by foreign entities.

And then they're bringing these people in on work visas and giving them CDLs. It's not it's not a big secret how they're doing it. And so it's when you go to one of these companies, I guarantee you, every one of them will be people that can't speak English or read their own sign.

OK, so they're moving their products at discounts then, too. So if you want a cheap trucking company, you go to Pakistan, we move Pakistan or whatever the heck they want to call themselves. There you go.

Wow. Cheap trucking or whatever. Yeah.

Yeah. Cheap trucking. OK, this now we're changing the subject here.

It's the latest on the air traffic controllers and a shutdown. Let's also talk about what's happening in the air or better phrased with air traffic control. I know you participated in a roundtable with Vice President Vance on how the shutdown is impacting aviation.

Today, the FAA has issued ground delays at Reagan National Airport at DFW International Airport. As I understand it, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is currently, as we speak, sitting through a delay. So what's going on? I know that air traffic controllers are working without pay, but this looks like a problem that's set to get worse in the coming days.

That's right. So in October, we have the best weather and some low traffic, and so the delays have been minimal, though they have been real. But we have air traffic controllers who have gone with a full paycheck that hasn't come through.

And every day, well, every family understands that every day there's expenses. There's there's food, there's gas. If you have a young family, someone might want to play basketball or play soccer and they can't afford to pay these fees for these sports.

And so every day, as this shutdown continues, we're going to see more controllers say, I have to make a choice to put food on my family's table or do I come in and work for a nonpaid position at the FAA? And I think you're going to see more controllers. And by the way, I want them to come to work. I don't want to see disruption, but they're going to start making choices where they're going to take side jobs and and not go into the towers.

And when that happens, you're going to see a continual ricocheting set of delays across the country only affecting the American people. One of the point, well, we have technicians. So we I've told you we have really old air traffic control systems.

We have technicians that work every day, also not getting paid. They make sure the old system is operational so the controllers can do their work, making sure planes are safe. Those guys don't get paid.

And so we're seeing the tension, the anger, the frustration from the controllers. And at one point, Democrats have to do the right thing, open up the government, make sure these people get paid and then sit down and negotiate the real points that you may have and differences with Republicans. But don't hold America hostage.

As J.D. Vance said today, don't point a gun at the American people and say, give us what we want or we're going to shut the government down. I know you're already suffering through a shortage of air traffic controllers to think that they could be walking away rationally should they not be getting a paycheck. That's a bad sign for what's coming for flight delays, flight cancellations.

If we don't get the government up and running. Yeah, I mean, these air traffic controllers, these people that work there, they have families to feed. They've got to look out for their families.

So they're going to have to take jobs. I and I don't know what they're I don't understand why they're fighting, why they're fighting at one point five trillion dollars for all the crap again. Yes, that's this is the apparently this is the hill they're going to die on.

Yeah, it's going to be bad after this weekend. There's going to be gridlock all over. And then the snap thing wraps up, shuts off tomorrow.

Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Yeah. All right.

Need to know. Morning show on the flag. Dino's in with a pretty good looking weekend forecast.

Stand by. Happy Halloween. Oh, no.

Morning show. Classic. Doing the monster mash.

All right. Who's saying it? Boris, Boris. What is it, Boris? Something, you know, I have no clue.

You're close. Bobby Boris Pickett. That's it.

I knew that. How would you know that? I know stuff. I don't know numbers, but I know some stuff.

Anybody that was in music radio for at least once a year, you play Bobby Boris Pickett. There you go. Happy Halloween, Dino.

A couple of texts here. They didn't quite understand what we were talking about with your costume. What Dean is wearing, he's wearing a thrift store bra, like a grandma's bra.

Oh, it's definitely a grandma's bra. It's it's stuffed full of spices. So it's a spice rack.

Spice rack. It's a spice rack. Check it out on Facebook.

It's on Dean's page and mine. One of the texts says, you guys had me laughing, but I had no idea why. I wasn't quite sure what the costume was.

It's a, you know, Dean, only Dean can pull that off. What Jason on Facebook said. Oh, you could go as a brabecue.

Hey, that works, too. A couple of texts. One says, when I worked on the receiving dock, truckers bringing freight in from Canada almost never spoke English.

They might have spoken French. Um, but yeah, there's in 1998 when I got my CDL, Illinois DMV was caught selling CDLs for 10 grand. Yeah.

There's a lot of money. Really? Oh yeah. I read the, uh, another text.

Corey says, I read the Dems will vote on the CR after the elections next week. That's the question. Yeah.

Who knows? That's not smart. I don't know. All right.

Dino's here with a good, good looking weekend. What about the wind factor? We're going to drop that a little bit. Uh, it's going to be windy on Sunday.

Uh, but, uh, not, it doesn't look like it will be as windy as last Sunday when we had what, 50 miles. Oh, that was, it won't be that bad, but, uh, it will be, uh, we'll probably be 30 plus on Sunday. But, uh, today we're looking at a few light sprinkles on radar right now, moving from north to south.

And, uh, that's going to be mainly a morning event that we see any precip and it looks like mainly rain. We're, I don't think we're going to be able to mix in any snow temps, just not cold enough. Uh, we're in the upper thirties right now.

We'll make it into the low forties today. And again, a few morning sprinkles. And then as we head into tonight, we're looking at cloudy skies, lows near freezing.

And for the weekend light winds on Saturday, we'll start off with clouds and then turn partly cloudy with highs in the mid forties and then around 60 on Sunday with breezy conditions. And then back into the upper forties on Monday, back close to 60 by Tuesday, up and down all next week, um, anywhere between the upper forties and sixties up, up and down, up and down. Um, and it looks like by next weekend, next weekend, uh, we will start to see some colder air start to build in.

And, um, I do see a more active pattern after the sixth, seventh of the month. So yeah, it's, it's active as in snow or rain. Uh, yes, yes.

All of the above. It's just, I mean, we're overdue. We re we haven't had, we really, we've had a widespread frost, but we haven't really had a hard, hard freeze.

So we're well, we're well overdue. We really are. Go to deer opener a week from today.

So, uh, cool it off. It does look like we will turn cooler for deer. Thank you much.

It is the, I need to know morning show. This is WZFG Dilworth, Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo USA. We'll get a news break in here.

And then a Bridget's not in this week, but Jesse Barbeau's got a little boxing event we'll hear about after the top of the hour here on the flag. Oh, happy Halloween. This makes me want to do the dance.

Uh, well, uh, Halloween 2025. It is the need to know morning show. I'm Kevin Flynn.

That's Alex Taylor. Thanks for hanging with us right here on the flag at AM 1100 FM 92.3. We've got to check in on the app, uh, from a trucker friend, beautiful, a sunrise shot, the road in Kansas. We, we don't have a sunrise here yet, but we are a falling back might not be from this morning, but it's a nice picture.

Thank you. Anyway. Yeah.

What, what do we fall back tomorrow night? Sunday morning weekend. Yeah. This weekend.

Oh, man. I'll back. Yes.

We're at a 38 right now, heading up to 42 little bit of showers this morning. Dean took that S word, uh, out of the forecast though for the kitties today. So don't need to worry about that tomorrow.

46 Sunday. Can't believe it. 61 degrees.

We're going to see lots of sunshine, so that's pretty nice. And next week, not bad either. Monday, 52 Tuesday, 60 again, crazy Wednesday, 49 Thursday, 53.

So let's keep it going. I'll take a couple of more sixties if we can get them. Yeah, definitely.

If we can, that'd be great. Thanksgiving. I'm fine.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Um, we got just a couple of texts here and then we're going to chat with, uh, Jesse Barbeau, big boxing event. I'm honored to be a, be in the ring guy, be in the announcer tomorrow. I got to pull out my best, best Bruce buffer.

I know you don't know who that is. Or do you know what he's the UFC guy? And yeah, the ring announcer for the US. I know what he sounds like.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Uh, food shortages played a pivotal role in fueling the flames of the French revolution. Just saying. Uh, well, I, there's something to be said about providing food to people and a listener sent this in.

This was a link to a video. Listen to what this gentleman has to say as he's fishing on the dock. Food sales program is administered by the U S department of agriculture.

They proudly report that they distribute free meals and food steps to 46 million people on an annual basis. Meanwhile, the national park service ran by the U S department of interior asked us to please do not feed the animals when we visit the parks. They're stated reason for this policy is being that the animals will grow accustomed and dependent on the handouts and they will never learn to take care of themselves.

There it is. Ain't that the truth. I was listening, I don't know, to Fox yesterday and they were saying that there were stipulations in place.

Wait, well, I don't know how far back, but they said Obama took those out when he became president. He said, no, you shouldn't have to, to work to get welfare. Yep.

Yep. And yep. And here we are.

Uh, one more guys. Trump wants the nuclear option where 50 votes instead of 60 is required. If Trump comes out and reinstate snap and tells folks why he did it, I think he will come off as a hero point.

He doesn't care, uh, of any downsides of the Dems, uh, using it. If they ever get back in power, I can see this would work well for Republicans. Uh, that's wild times.

We live in, but you know, this isn't really about politics though. I mean, if people need food, they need food. And it's also about, we're sorry.

We're not giving your illegal resident voters healthcare and we're not doing the thing with the USA ID and we're not doing the thing with PBS. Your grift is over. How about hard, hard stop? No.

The answer is no on that, but they're, they're still fighting for it, I guess. Uh, Hey, tomorrow going to be a little boxing in town. I think we still have some tickets available.

We want to, uh, kill a Saturday afternoon, have some fun, cheering on some great amateurs, uh, with some boxing with Barbo boxing, Jesse Barbo, who I found out is longtime friend of Alex Taylor. Oh, long time. We've got a lot to get catch up on.

I haven't seen Jesse. I ran into him at the DMV quite a few years ago. It's the last time I saw him.

How are you doing brother? Hey guys. How's it going? Boy, it's been a long, yeah, we were, we were sitting at the DMV waiting to get our names called. And, uh, that was the last time I saw you is probably what? 10 years ago or so.

Yes. Yeah. It's been, yeah.

It's funny how time flies. You think, Oh, it might be just a few years ago, but it's probably been like 10. And your kids are all grown up.

Yeah, boy, I tell you what, when did you, uh, when did you, when did you get out of the ring? Well, um, I think it was, um, 2009, 2009 was my, my last one. Yep. So it's been, it's been quite a while.

One of our mutual best friends is Chris Holt, former Minnesota middleweight champion. And, um, it's been great watching him. Uh, and, and, uh, it was so funny when he finally got his nose fixed.

Okay. He had to, we had to, I had to take, I had to take him over. Did he wait till he got done with the boxing career before he fixed it? It was one of the worst noses I've seen.

Oh, it was terrible. It was so bad. Smart move to wait though.

He lived with it forever. And his final bout with Butch, against Butch Heitcheck that he lost. He, uh, we finally went over and the surgeon was in Brainerd.

And so he said, well, yeah, he's going to have the surgery Friday. Then he can get back to work Monday. And I'm like, dude, no, you won't.

By Thursday, he was about ready to get off my couch, but, um, it's been great watching him and you and all of, a lot of our other friends, Dion and, uh, a lot of local boxers that have gone on to train, to run gyms, to have events, um, proving that it really is in your guys' DNA. So let's talk about what's going on tomorrow. Yeah.

Well, tomorrow, it's funny you mentioned Chris Holt because he'll be our chief official, uh, tomorrow night. He'll be reffing the majority of the bouts and, um, and then Butch Heitcheck, he'll be there in attendance too, because, uh, the Grand Forks team's coming up. So, um, so yeah, a lot of the guys, but, uh, yeah, we've got a big fight coming up.

Um, we got teams, a couple of teams from Canada, one from, uh, Winnipeg and one from, uh, Bolliger, which is just east of, uh, east of Winnipeg. Um, and then, uh, teams from Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. And where's this at? Um, it's at the Ramada, Ramada Woodland Ballroom.

And, uh, we've been shows there now. I think this is about our, our 10th show that we did that we've, uh, did there. They've been a good partner for us.

So, um, yeah, and you're going to find, you know, you'll have, we're going to have kids, um, there'll be a 10 year old match with a couple of 10 year old kids. Um, and then all the way up to heavyweights and everything in between. And, uh, the, our main event is, uh, is, uh, uh, two females.

Um, one, the female that is from our gym. She's an 18 year old who, um, won the national silver gloves just two years ago. And she's boxing, um, uh, Canadian from, um, Bolliger.

So, um, yeah, it's, it's going to be a lot of action, a little bit, uh, something for everybody. Well, um, let's talk about your gym for a minute. Uh, uh, do you have room, uh, as far as training, uh, people that maybe want to take it up? And I know, uh, there's really no age limit.

If you want to go pound down the big bag for a while or whatever, you can go, uh, I know, how's, how's the gym working? How's it going? It's going real well. Uh, we actually have, um, we're not taking anyone until after the new year where we're pretty full. And, um, we take, um, we say eight years old and up, but it really depends on the eight year old, because, um, you know, there's some eight year olds that can follow direction and stay with the group.

And there's some that are some that can't, uh, because the, the young kids, they practice right on up with the, with the 40 year olds. So they gotta be coachable. They gotta be able to use direction.

And we have some like that, but, um, but I, I would, um, you know, you can contact me or contact on our, any of our social media platforms to, uh, get on the waiting list for January. Um, cause right now, um, we're, we're pretty full. Where's your gym located? Jesse.

It's a seven 23 NP Avenue. Um, so that, that is the place that used to be called labor ready. Uh, it's called people ready now.

Yep. And we're on the North unit of that building, which is right across just east of Jiffy loop. So yeah, right down there.

All right, man. Well, it's great to catch up. It's going to be rumble 2025 tomorrow.

And there's some, uh, MnDAC amateur titles. It'll be on the line as well. So literally, uh, it's so fun.

If you're down for boxing, if you like some, uh, I mean, great battles, you get up into the, when the adults and the, you know, the heavyweights get going, there's some real awesome battles from Midwest and Canada, like you said, is your son boxing in this event? No, he's not boxing anymore. No, he, um, he, he might get back into, I don't know. He's kind of, um, uh, just kind of steps away from it for a bit.

So, um, he hasn't been boxing for about a year, but, um, used to be very active. You know, um, you know, but, uh, no, he's, he's, he's not, he'll be there. Just, just, uh, watching.

All right. Sounds good. Um, and we'll be in the Woodland ballroom at the Ramada, uh, doors open at five.

Uh, first spot is at six o'clock and tickets at the door. Super easy. I would imagine.

Right. Yep. Yep.

And Kevin, uh, you, you know, too, like, even if you're not a boxing fan or haven't seen, I would say, come on out and check it out. It's, it's really different live than, than watching it on TV. I have some friends that always come to the show and this, this show is the only one that they ever attend, but, um, they love it, you know, it's it.

You'll see some great sportsmanship. It's, you know, you think you're, you're going out there to beat the crap out of each other and fight, but you will find some of the best sportsmanship, um, that you'll ever, that you'll ever see a camaraderie. So, um, so yeah, come on out and, and, and check us out.

Yeah. And if you have any kids that have an interest in that at all too, it'd be a great way to introduce them to it. Yes, exactly.

Show them, you know, what, you know, what, what, what it's all about, what it entails. And, uh, um, this would be a pretty, you can get up right close. They don't have a Woodland ballroom is, um, not that big.

So every seat is going to be a, a good seat and you're up close. So, so yeah. Uh, doors open at five o'clock.

So get in, get, get in line right away because the earlier there, the better seat you're going to get, we'll have the VIP tables and then after that, the next people that come, you can be right behind the VIP tables, or if you don't, if you get there later, you might end up, um, in the back, but, uh, no matter where you end up, there's not a bad seat and it's fun. You're, you know, you're walking around mingling, we're going to have some food and some beverages and all of that. So, uh, it's a fun, there'll be concessions and, uh, burgers, you know, short order stuff and, and alcohol and drinks and, um, and, and everything gone.

And it's all ages. Sounds like a good time. You do this a couple of times a year.

Jesse have these events. Oh, we just do it once a year. We always do it in the fall.

We do it around October, November. Um, so I don't think my nerves could take doing it. It's always, oh man, it's almost more nerve wracking than fighting itself.

It's a lot of, it's a lot of preparation. Yeah. You do a great job, man.

No doubt. Well, thanks. Thanks man.

We're Kevin. We're looking forward to having you on here. It's nice to have someone who's a fan.

You bet. I love doing it. Great.

Great. Well, thank you for having me on. I appreciate it.

My best tip from one of the ladies, it's part of the, uh, like the officiating entity from the upper Midwest. She said, these are not fights. These are bouts.

There you go. She said, we're not fighting. We're boxing.

I was like, yes, ma'am. Yeah, she was. I can bet that was Cindy.

That said that it was Cindy. That's right. She is so good.

She's been so good. I bet that was Cindy. Yep.

Well, I'm honored to be there. We'll see you tomorrow afternoon. All right.

Thanks a lot, guys. I appreciate it. And, um, it was nice catching up with you.

Yeah. We'll, we'll have to do it for real sometime. We'll get a J Thomas out to, and to the fat.

Absolutely. All right. Take care, Jess.

All right. Thanks guys. Bye.

You bet. If you want to follow him on social media, it's barbo and it's B-A-R-B-O-T barbo boxing, uh, Jesse barbo. And, uh, they do, um, I will give a shout out to our friend, Christopher Holt.

Chris Holt, uh, runs lakes area boxing in Detroit lakes. Um, and when he puts on events every, usually every may, it's a no mercy event in Detroit lakes. These events are so fun.

You guys, if you get, if you can, if you got some time tomorrow, come on out to the Ramada. Again, doors will open at five first bouts at six. Um, and you're going to see some serious battles and have some fun.

You don't have to stay for the whole thing either. Yeah. That sounds like a good time.

You're helping out Jesse's gym and, uh, and the effort to keep the, keep that going. So local, local, local, big fan. 725 Dean's here.

Let's kick it off with the weather check. The, uh, weekend looks pretty good, bro. Yeah.

Not too bad. Not too bad. I hate about the rain today.

Where and how much just, you know, not much, uh, we're less, you know, five hundreds of an inch total. And most of it's going to occur this morning. Uh, we've got some light sprinkles out there across the area right now, moving from north to south.

And again, this is mainly a morning event. Now we could still see a few leftover sprinkles this afternoon, but it's not going to be anything to worry about. We're in the upper thirties right now.

We're not going to move a whole lot today into the low forties is it with the north wind about 10 to 20. And then we'll see mainly cloudy skies overnight tonight with lows dipping down close to freezing. And the weekend we'll start off a cloud cover on Saturday.

Then we'll turn partly cloudy with highs in the mid forties. It does turn breezy on Sunday. Southwest winds pick up gusting at or over 30 and highs close to 60.

And then we're on a roller coaster ride next week. Uh, back down into the upper forties to near 50 on Monday, back up close to 60 on Tuesday, back down about 50 on Wednesday. So you get the trend.

Uh, we've got a bunch of fast moving systems that'll race across Southern Canada, uh, not a lot of precip associated with it for our area, but it warms us up ahead of it and it cools us down behind it. So that's the reason for the roller coaster ride next week, next weekend. Again, after about the sixth, seventh of the month, I do see some signs of a possible pattern change, not holding my breath quite yet, but, uh, we're seeing signs of that, uh, bye-bye to the bye-bye to the warm, uh, above normal temperatures.

It's been good while it lasted. The whole, the whole, this whole month. It's been above normal.

We've had very few days below normal this month. Yeah. I got this email here for you, Dean.

It's from Dan. He says Dave's West Fargo tire called to confirm my special order. No key in studded snow tires will arrive next week.

Once they're mounted, there won't be more than one event that will require them. Not with them. I can drive through three feet of snow, stop and steer on the sheerest of ice.

So, uh, none of that will happen, but once this winter or not, and not both, that's my luck or lack thereof it. So what do you think? No, no snow because Dave gets this tight. All right, Dave.

I like Dan gets these tires. I like your thinking, but I don't think that's going to be the case, bud. Exactly.

I like, I like, I like this thought process. So that's how it usually goes though. Right? Jay's got this snowblower all tuned up and ready to roll.

And you don't even get to use it. Yep. Or the day you wash your car and then it rains.

Exactly right. Every time. All right.

Thanks buddy. Oh, by the way, someone put on Facebook with Dean's costume. He's just got the spice rack going.

Dean's ensuring that his weekly appointment with HR is booked. I saw Roman put that on there. Hey, he's spot on, right? No doubt about it.

Dean, yeah. Dean likes HR. All right.

I need to know morning show seven 28. Yeah. By the way, weather brought to you by the team at Red Wing Boots and Shoes 3003 main Avenue in Fargo.

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It's a, it's how, I mean, and with the orthotics thing now, unbelievable. Comfy. Uh, big game, James, what do we know? Where do you want to start? Well, we had wild hockey last night and things started out.

Good. Kuroko Brizov scored 10 minutes in one, nothing wild. Then they gave up four unanswered goals and they fall four to one to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

They are having a tough start to the year at three, six and three. Another crack at it in St. Paul on Saturday night against the Vancouver Canucks. Paco drop at seven for that one on the diamond.

The world series continues in Toronto tonight. The blue Jays hosting the Dodgers seven o'clock game coverage available on Fox for that one. The Jays lead the series three games to two.

If the Dodgers win tonight, they will force a decisive game seven on Saturday night at seven o'clock. Go birds. Yeah, I'm okay.

I'm it's tough, man. It's like, do I want the team that's, uh, you know, domestic in the U.S. Or do I want the team? Uh, that's just not one of those big Metro teams like that. And that's kind of where we're shaking out.

Also, you have the rest of the week on our family of stations here on the flag tonight. Fargo Davies gets Mandy and in state quarter finals football in North Dakota, seven o'clock kickoff for that Saturday, 11 a.m. pregame noon kickoff, Minnesota state Moorhead. The dragons will battle Bemidji state, the annual battle ax game in Moorhead.

Let's go. All right, buddy. Big game, James McCarty at the sports desk.

Seven 30 need to know morning show. We'll get a business report in here. Some headlines and then some more Tebow coming up.

I ain't afraid of no ghosts. Happy Halloween. Need to know morning show on the flag.

Now, Kevin and Alex, don't forget one of the all time classics tubular bells. Oh, that song gives me goosebumps. I watched the exit, the, you know, every one of the, like AMC and a bunch of them are having these marathons, you know, and the exorcist was on the other night.

And it was right at the scene when Reagan has gone through all of the brain scans and everything, and they, they summoned the two medical doctors to the house. And it was right at the scene where she opens the door and she says, come on, though, you hear screaming in the room and they run upstairs and she's doing those nuclear sit-ups on the bed. And then the bed is bouncing and raising and running around.

And then somehow the guys are trying to, those doctors are trying to explain. Yeah, it was just a, it's a manifestation spasms. It's such a great movie, but happy Halloween.

It looks like a weekend is upon us. We'll take advantage of treaters tonight. Just a little bit of rain this morning should be good for a later on when the kids are out of 42 for the high today, tomorrow, 46, not too shabby.

Sunday though, 61 degrees. If you can believe that windy, but not as windy as it was last weekend. So pretty nice overall.

We'll, we'll take it as long as we can get it. I guess. Right.

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Um, the fill text says the filibuster should be there. They should not get rid of it. It was put there for a reason.

Isn't it supposed to slow government down? I don't know. Do we need government any slower? I thought it was to get stuff passed when there's a gridlock. Yeah.

To stand your ground kind of thing and not give in and do it. Stand there and talk for hours and hours and hours. I don't know.

Seems like, uh, we can wait. Uh, text. Could the obesity epidemic in America be over with the WIC and SNAP benefits being cut off? Question mark.

Come on. I don't know. No, not if people, if people need healthy food.

Well, again, there's, there's tens of millions of people that are dependent on this and a lot of it's, it's sad that you have to say a lot of it. A lot of them are scamming the system. It's like someone said, it's, it's ridiculous to have to watch somebody pull their EBT card out of their Gucci purse, you know? And it happens.

It had to have big time and you know, mothers, single mothers that are in whatever neighborhoods or wherever part of the parts of the country where that is, that is what they do. And I get that, but we got to figure out a better path for those moms. And I don't know, it's, it's getting to be kind of crazy.

Uh, another one here. The real grift is being perpetrated by the orange King Alex. Yeah.

Come Mary, uh, comparing dollars a day versus billions is ridiculous. Quit being the shill for the billionaire class. Long live the King.

Yeah. I guess no, not a, not a King. Um, and yeah, snap.

We'll cut off tomorrow. Hopefully, uh, well, yeah, today's the last day, but it's a hard pass and all the things that they want. So I'm, I don't see it.

I don't see it ending anytime soon. So, uh, Trump's deal with China. Another texter says results in them buying $10 billion worth of soybeans for the next three years, considering they bought over $12 billion worth in 2024 and about the same the year before COVID, why should I think that's a good deal? I don't know.

It's a start. I don't know. Uh, well, how, how's it? I don't, I don't know.

I'm not, I'm just, I'm passing it on, but hopefully it's a start. That's all I'm hoping for. I'm hoping for nothing but great things for every, whatever crop or whatever you're raising, whatever you're farming.

Yeah. I'm hoping for great prices forever for you. That's it.

All right. Keep them coming. 7 0 1 2 3 7 15 90 Tivo time.

All right. We got, uh, Jesse waters here and he'll help you out with that China deal a little bit. All right.

He, he recaps what's going on on the Asian trip and he praises Trump's stamina. Okay. Trick or treat.

Trump spent a week in Asia negotiating with the world, flew back on a red eye and still had enough gas to hand out candy. This were Joe he'd be sleeping until Thanksgiving, but there's no sleeping at this white house. You can't even get a bit of shut eye on air force.

One. When you go on one of these 23 hour international trips with Donald Trump, if you're lucky, he'll sleep two hours. If you're unlucky, he'll be roaming around air force one, you know, busting your chops because you've fallen asleep.

You're like, oh, he's low energy. Look, he's already asleep. And he's, you know, been on the plane for 18 hours.

He wakes up the journalists. He was midnight gaggles. He wakes up the journalists for midnight gaggles.

No one was sleeping on this trip back home. If the president didn't wake you up, the turbulence did. These are rough winds in Asia.

I must tell you, this is a rough flight. We could have waited an hour. Maybe it's a little tough.

These are tough conditions for interviews. You know, they're going to be watching Trump. They're going to say, he didn't look too good.

He's got the shakes. The flight was bumpy, but the sit down with Chi smooth sailing. Overall, I guess on the scale from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was at 12.

Trump had the upper hand from the start. He made sure to win the body language battle at the first handshake. And we're going to have a very successful meeting, I have no doubt.

But he's a very tough negotiator. That's not good. Trump never took his eyes off this.

During the meeting, she kept looking down at his papers. 47 staring him straight in the eyes. She knows who deserves a prize.

Mr. President, you care a lot about world peace and you're very enthusiastic about settling various regional hotspot issues. China is calling Trump the peace president, but don't take it for granted. Just because 47 wants peace doesn't mean he's not prepared for war.

Yeah, I love Trump's sense of humor, too. He's just so happy and easygoing and he just laughs and makes fun. If you're picking on him or whatever, he just takes it.

Clearly, you're an Orange King fan. I am. Sorry.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know about you. Trump here has decided to resume testing nukes.

Trump's making sure we're in tip top shape. He's ordering the Department of War to start testing America's nuclear weapons for the first time in 30 years. And we're also helping South Korea build a nuclear powered submarine and we're doing it in the Philly shipyards.

If China behaves, there's nothing to worry about. Trump would rather strike deals than targets. And he's leaving Asia with a China deal.

I put a 20 percent tariff on China because of the fentanyl coming in, which is a big tariff. And based on his statements today, I reduced it by 10 percent. So it's 10 percent instead of 40 percent effective immediately.

I believe he's going to work very hard to stop the death that's coming in. China has been promising to help us curb fentanyl for years, so we'll believe it when we see it. Trump told him, do the right thing.

And if they know what's good for them, they will. Less fentanyl, more soybeans. The Chinese have agreed to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans during this season.

And then for the next three years, they're going to be buying a minimum, a minimum of 25 million metric tons per per annum. American farmers are thrilled. So are the taxpayers.

No bailout. And it wasn't just soy. She wants a taste of American energy.

Trump says the Chinese agreed to start buying oil and gas from Alaska. And the more China buys oil from us, the less they buy from Putin. China is also opening up their rare earths market to us.

And in exchange, we're suspending tariffs on port fees and overall tariffs on China will now be about 50 percent. This isn't meant to be a comprehensive deal. Trump's basically lowering the temperature.

Yeah, I think I think we're going in the right direction here with China. You've got to handle China with kid gloves, you know. Well, they're all about the money.

Show them the money, figure it out. Yep. Yeah.

Who isn't? So is Trumpster. Like him or not. Trump is fostering a relationship with China.

China's tough and Trump is taking his time. It's why the president's going to China next year and inviting Xi to Mar-a-Lago. We're maintaining supremacy over the Chinese.

So far, we still have the upper hand. Chuck Schumer, who can't cut a deal for his life, says Trump got rolled. Don't believe this BS.

Trump folded on China, folded. He's taming China and we gave up nothing. Hakeem's a little jealous that Trump's giving other people attention.

Donald Trump has spent more time talking to Hamas and the Chinese Communist Party than he has in talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill to end the Trump shutdown. Whose fault's that, Hips? Trump just came home with peace deals and trillions in new business. What have Denis done besides shut down the government? Federman's not mad.

He's disappointed. As a Democrat, I am incredibly, you know, I've been disappointed and I refuse to have a political gamble that's going to put those kinds of food security for 42 million Americans at risk on this. Now, some people might be afraid of the extreme left, but I am not one.

I am not one of those Dems. Maybe Democrats are mad that Trump was lavished with special gifts by all his new friends. The South Koreans literally drenched him in gold.

Mr. President, can we offer you this beautiful golden necklace? It was a nice gesture, but Trump had his eyes on something else, the golden crown. And they asked Mr. President, may we do the honor? The symbolizes the divine connection between the authority of the heavens and sovereignty on Earth. That symbolizes the spirit of Shilla, which brought peace to the Korean Peninsula for the first time and the opening of the golden age of the Korea and U.S. alliance.

Beautiful gold. The divine connection between the heavens and sovereignty on Earth. Wow.

Are the South Koreans calling Trump the new messiah? Not even Barry got a crown. And the South Koreans just gave this president a crown to a dynasty that goes back to the first century B.C. Don't worry, Trump's not actually the king of South Korea. The crown's only a replica.

Trump's just the king of America. Yeah, and I wonder if they did that because of all the stupid no king stuff. They know what's going on here.

Just to just to take him off. Yeah. Yeah.

Love it. And the left, of course, Kev, they're still melting down over King Trump. We just got that text.

Not our words. Pocahontas said it. Donald Trump wants to politicize everything in America because he thinks he's the king in charge.

A king, Democrats say, yeah, and he's building a big, beautiful palace and he's never going to leave. I personally think that an infrastructure is being built to allow Donald Trump to stay in office. And definitely, I don't think that what's being done to the White House, you don't do that if you think that anybody else is going to inhabit this thing after you and if you are planning on leaving power.

Seriously. You know who's really mad about Trump's big, beautiful ballroom? Maddow. She's fuming that her boss paid for it.

For every corporation like our parent company for another hot minute Comcast that wants to pay for Trump to take a literal wrecking ball. Excuse me. I mean, an excavator to the White House.

Yeah. Those public facing companies should know those are costs. Yeah.

We get a new ballroom for what would happen to you if you told your boss that he's going to pay. I don't think you'd be clocking in the next day. No, probably not.

Kamala's ballroom derangement syndrome is off the walls. Come on. Are you kidding me? This guy wants to create a ballroom for his rich friends while completely turning a blind eye to the fact that that babies are going to starve when the SNAP benefits end in just hours from now.

No, they're not. No, they're not. Come on.

So what? I'm not going to be distracted by, oh, does the guy have a big hammer? Babies are going to starve. I'm kidding. What about those babies? They are again with the baby.

Newsom says he's demolishing it if he becomes president. The changes at the White House, the demolition of the East Wing, all the gold in the Oval Office, all the what is all this going to I mean, first of all, this is like a metaphor for how the stuff he is doing now, the wrecking ball presidency, I mean, it's going to is going to last him. Well, I mean, is the next Democratic president going to get rid of? Yeah, I think they will.

I hope they will. I mean, God forbid they don't. Why? Why would you get rid of it? Democrats just don't like nice things.

All they want to do is throw the king in a gulag. He will be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to do that. You think you think he should be arrested if he attempts to have a third term in in any way? He's a violation of the Constitution of the United States and he should be arrested.

Would he, though, even CNN is saying there may be a chance. The 22nd Amendment says no person shall be elected to president more than twice. But there's arguably a difference between elected and be the president or serve as president.

So that gives rise to this theory. Maybe he'll run as the vice president and then the president will resign. Well, someone needs to tell Trump because he still thinks he can't.

I would say that if you read it, it's pretty clear. I'm not allowed to run. It's too bad.

It's too bad. Too bad. But no, I love that theory.

OK, let's get J.D. And Trump can run as VP and J.D. will resign. OK, knock it off, you idiots. I just stop already.

Yeah. Wow. Talk about fear mongering.

Unbelievable. Babies are going to starve if the when the benefits run out. Wow.

Oh, how? Wow. How is that going to? Well, then come to the table, Democrats. Let's sign this CR and get rolling.

How about that? Just tell you right now that if you have a baby and you are on assistance and as of tomorrow, for some reason, if your baby is starving, please call us. Call me and I'll make sure your baby isn't starving. I mean, what are you kidding me? Oh, this fear.

I'm so tired of the fear. I know it's all they do. That's all they have.

They don't talk issues. Great stuff. Need to know.

Morning show on the flag. Three degree guarantee coming up. Oh, yeah, that one.

Oh, there we go. Now we got it. That's the spirit of Halloween.

It's a beautiful day for nexus ism. Oh, man. Happy Halloween.

Need to know. Morning show on the flag. Kev Alex Dino's here with a three degree guarantee brought to you by the window store, the WD store dot com, Bismarck and Fargo guarantee and everything.

As long as you're in your home. How did you be right on it yesterday? Forecasted 50 and we hit 53. It was a close one.

I know. I know. We had that sunshine.

We had that sunshine that warmed us up a little bit more than what I thought. But today, clouds hang tight. A few sprinkles, light showers here and there throughout the day.

And 42 for today's three degree guarantee with a north wind 10 to 20. We'll dry things out overnight and we'll remain mainly cloudy with lows around 30. And the weekend, we'll see more sunshine highs in the mid 40s with light winds on Saturday.

But the winds ramp up out of the southwest on Sunday. But that'll help warm us up to near 60. So, again, today's three degree guarantee.

Forty two. Not cool. Let's do it.

Yeah. All right, buddy. Appreciate it.

You got what's going on in the town of. Well, the left is giving Melania Trump grief because of her Halloween display. She had too many pumpkins and things decorating the White House when the kids came trick or treating.

It's so horrible of her. I mean, knock it off. Oh, and then I saw I think it was ABC.

They're doing some kind of interview with Michelle Obama calling her a style icon. It's like, what? Just stop that. She's yesterday's news.

We've moved on. OK, Francis Ford Coppola auctioned off seven watches, including one that valued a million dollars. Wowzer, you're going to like this one, too.

Gloria Stefan says she carries her passport with her because I know people who have been taken away. I know them. I tell you, the meltdown just is horrible.

Did you know they were in the country illegally? Well, yeah, there was there was that early, not a Florida man's being accused of smashing five hundred dollars worth of pumpkins in front of a Target store. Security cameras recorded him in action. He smashed all 80 some pumpkins at one o'clock in the morning.

Was alcohol involved? Maybe. Maybe he's just a jerk. Yeah, well, or are disturbed.

The top three most haunted states in the US, Maine, Wyoming, Vermont, and I guess based that's based on ghost sightings per one thousand residents in Wyoming and Vermont, most haunted places. Yeah, I haven't been to any of them. I've been through Wyoming, but I can tell you a couple of haunted spots like the place I said in Jerome, Arizona, the Grand Hotel.

Go to stay the night there. Tell me what you think. Yeah, well, that was fun when we heard about the Bonanza Ville thing, too.

And I don't know if they still have openings for tonight or not for their the ghost paranormal activity thing. That would be cool to do, too. Oh, also one more thing.

I guess Gail King is going to be leaving her anchor desk at CBS, her contracts up in May. And it sounds like they're not renewing it must be because she sat next to the plate on a plane with Jesse Watters and took his picture and she didn't hate him. Oh, sure.

They got along great. Fantastic. All right.

Thank you, my friend. Well, we're just about eight o'clock. This is WZFG, Dilworth, Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, USA.

We'll get a news break in here and then hang out at the top of the hour. Got more TiVo coming up, too. Hang on.

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Tell Sam I said hi. Get yourself a skid steer. Need a lift of any kind.

Got a project going there in Holley at Hollywood Lumber on Highway 10 and in Moorhead. This is the Simpsons Halloween theme. OK.

Yeah, that sounds like it now. Yeah. Halloween from the Simpsons.

Happy Halloween, by the way. All Hallows Eve tonight. Looks like the weather's going to cooperate for the trick and treating.

Should be pretty nice. I mean, it's not going to be warm really where 42 is going to be the high. But showers will be ending here pretty soon that we've got this morning.

And now Dean took the snow out of the forecast. So that's all good. We're at 38 right now.

And tomorrow heading up to 46. Partly cloudy Sunday. I can't believe it.

Sixty one. Sixty one on Sunday. But of course, it's going to be windy.

Gusting up to 30-ish, I believe. And then back to work Monday, 52. So it's not over yet.

It's good. Let's keep it rolling. Yeah, right.

I'm just I'm good right up until Thanksgiving. If we can get just really the cold snaps happening, we get into December, make some ice, maybe get a little snow as we get into the new year. Everybody's happy.

We'll see how it all rolls out. Hey, brought to you by the team at Beverage Wholesalers. Enjoyed a Miller Lite on tap at poker last night.

Didn't get any cards, but enjoyed the cold Miller Lite. The reason I'm doing that is because they are wrapping up today the donations to the Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Center. That's right.

So I had to go Miller Lite last night. And that's never a problem. But I do want to give a shout out to and we always do when we raise our glasses, make a toast.

Our law enforcement, our military, our veterans, our first responders, our frontliners can't make that toast and have that beverage without them. So thank you so much. And Beverage Wholesalers reminds us all the time of that.

So and today they wrap up that. I do want to tell you, give a shout out to a new one on the shelf this fall. Tyrone, my brother Tyrone, might enjoy a white mocha stout from Line and Kugel's.

Oh, yeah. Yep. Fall beers are out.

And that's that's one of them that Liney says out and they do all the Line and Kugel's are on the shelves because of Beverage Wholesalers. Thank you, guys. Welcome back, Tyrone.

Leslie, how you been, buddy? God bless. I can't complain. Life is good.

I hear you. I love the Facebook. I get to follow with the follow my friends and family and see how kids are growing up.

And life's going on. And man, you've got graduates and all kinds of stuff with the Leslie's going. That's it's a crazy, crazy time when the kids get up there.

Yeah, right. But and let's talk about this deal that that you guys are supporting. That's an event.

Yeah, that's the Sunshine Kids Foundation. Absolutely. What's the deal with this? You know, this is something that's very near and dear to our hearts.

You know, we've been doing this for almost 18 years. When you think about it, we have raised almost eight hundred thousand dollars for these kids. It's absolutely amazing.

And the money stays local, which is very, very important to us as well. So, you know, we've been we've been very blessed. Who are the kids, though? What kids are you helping? This is the Sunshine Kids.

These are kids with cancer. OK. And it's a foundation.

And the beauty of it is that we send these kids on trips. All expenses paid. They're chaperoned.

No, no parents are allowed. Oh, even better. Yeah.

And they get to be with other kids that are sharing the same situation as them. So it helps these kids realize they're not alone. They create such an incredible friendship with these kids for life.

And that's what's so amazing about it. That and we believe truly that it does help in their care. Oh, I'm sure to have someone else you can talk to that's going through the same sort of things that you are.

That is amazing. Absolutely. So when we could be a part of something like that, you know, you know, we're very, very blessed.

And, you know, being a part of this incredible community, like I said, you know, to be able to be a small company that we are on a national scale, we've made the top 10 multiple times in fundraising. So this is a national foundation. This is a national foundation with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.

And like I said, we've been in the top 10. And a lot of these companies have two or three thousand agents. And here we are with 60 or 65 agents and we are making the top 10 or the top 20.

It's very seldom that we don't make in the top 20, but which is awesome in itself. But the fact that we're able to do such an amazing work because of our incredible community is very humbling. Now, the money raised locally, does that go to local kids here? Yes, that's a big part of it.

So, you know, are we excited about it? Absolutely. Are we excited about our next year tournament? Absolutely. We just finished one at Sweet Shots.

We had a really we took the whole floor and we had all the booth taken. We were golfing and having a great time and raising money. Our staff does an incredible job, you know, engaging our sponsors, engaging the people that are part of it.

We had an incredible deal at Rose Creek this summer. Had it sold out. We've been sold out every single year.

Wow. It's so blessed. It's just so awesome.

That's awesome. It is. Go ahead.

Well, I just let's get I want to back up a bit. Again, the company is Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and National, which and that's that's the company that's Tyrone's deal. You guys crush it.

You have a great team. I know a few members of your team and they they love you. So I love them, too.

Seriously. Now this let's talk about this golf thing. Now, are we going to Sweet Shots? We did.

They did it. It's already. Yeah, we just did it last week.

And it was so awesome. You talk about weather. Monday was a beautifully gorgeous, typical, windy, rainy day.

And then Wednesday, it was absolutely stunning. Something like 60 degrees. You ordered that up, huh? Along with God, of course.

And it was just so amazing when we look at how that day went. It was just wonderful. And and we're going to be doing that every year because I think people really enjoyed it.

It was next week, dude. OK, I'm there if you are. I'll bring that beer you're talking about.

I'm getting thirsty now. So you have different events coming up during the year, like every few months you do something or how often do we do events here? Well, we used to do just one golf tournament every year, but because it was so big and selling out all the time, we thought, you know what, we can do more. So we decided to do a fall and golf courses supposed to be closing.

It's supposed to be almost November. We thought, let's do a deal at Sweet Shots. And they have such a great staff out there, such a great facility.

We thought, how cool could that be? So we didn't know if it was going to go well. Last year we sold it out. This year we sold it out.

So now we want to get to the second floor. If my staff hears that, I'm sure they're going to get excited. I'm getting the stare down, but we'll want to ultimately get to all three floors being sold out.

How cool would that be? Yeah. Yeah. OK, I love it.

Well, I'm totally we're totally in for next year. But we get us to get involved. We'll have a team.

I definitely have a we have the hackers. We call ourselves the hackers. Well, that's the flag hackers.

But we'll we'll we'll come and make an effort. I'm just looking at the Sunshine Kids website to Sunshine Kids dot org. What an amazing if you go on there shows all the different events, ways that you can give and help, you know, outside of Tyrone's events.

But what amazing stories. I'm looking at this website. I've been looking at it while we've been chatting.

It's what a wonderful organization. It really is. You know what? It makes a difference.

And it's kind of a different way of doing it. You know, and helping these kids do a trip that they wouldn't otherwise ever be able to. Well, especially without parents to overshadowing you.

I mean, you can still have fun and. Exactly right. And they have an experience like they get to go all around the United States and get to see different areas that they wouldn't otherwise know.

And of course, learn about it and to get engaged with other people. It's it's an absolutely beautiful thing. And, you know, if anybody's interested, we'd love them to, you know, send a check to Sunshine Kids Foundation to Fargo, to our office here in Fargo.

Would be greatly appreciated. Drop a check off to our office. We're over at 1815 38th Street.

We would greatly appreciate it, because when you do that, it's the money stays. Right. And that's what we want.

How often do these kids go on trips and things then? Yeah, we are our kids go once a once a year. We raise the money for the year and then they and then they take the kids out and they could be anywhere. It could be you can go to California, you can go to Colorado, go skiing.

You can go to New Orleans. You can go to Washington, D.C. There's a Florida, of course, Disney and whatnot. There's just so many different things that they get to do.

That is just so cool. And that gives them some excitement, something to look forward to. Besides treatment and all that, too.

That's part of the healing part. Yeah. You know, you know, that's it's an amazing thing to live for.

Yeah, absolutely. It gives them fight when they meet other kids that are fighting, too. So it gives everybody that encouragement and that faith and that hope.

I love it. That's what we want. It's a great foundation.

I love the children part of it. Spent a lot of years working with Make-A-Wish, too. It reminds me of Make-A-Wish.

It's the same kind, you know, getting just giving kids, especially when they're in the middle of a cancer battle, get their brains off of that, get their minds off of that. Go and go and be a kid. Right.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, great to hang out with you again, buddy.

Tyrone Leslie from Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and Home Services Premier Properties. Say hi to the team from us. And you guys are great.

And if you're buying or selling, give a shout out to that side of your world. This team is amazing and all the best, buddy. Keep up the great work.

Likewise. I appreciate you guys so much. And yeah, and thanks for letting us know about this foundation.

I had no idea about it. It sounds fabulous. Well, it's growing.

Yeah, we're doing this for 18 more years. So there's so many more kids getting cancer now, too. So it's so needed.

Yes, absolutely. All right. There we go.

God bless. God bless, buddy. I appreciate you all.

You bet. Coming up on 21 after eight o'clock. Need to know.

Morning show. Should we? We got a few texts. Why don't we we'll tackle those as we get out of here.

Coming up next. I'm just seeing what we've got going here. OK, yeah, we'll do that.

Happy Halloween. Can't even believe November's here tomorrow. Man.

All right. Need to know. Morning show on the flag.

Be right back. There you go. Is this Adam's family? No, the Munsters.

Ah, OK. I knew it was something from that era. There you go.

Happy Halloween. Need to know. Morning show on the flag.

Oh, did you did someone say the Addams family? Is that what you said? The Addams family. Yeah. Ah, there it is.

There it is. I got the TV themes playlist here. We're good.

TV shows from back in the day. But anyway, Halloween is upon us. You know, we'll get in here with a I think he's got a 42 on the three degree guarantee.

That's what it's looking like. And then we got to just I got a bunch of texts here. Good morning, flag family.

You are my number one radio station. You guys start off my day perfectly. Oh, thanks.

Happy Halloween. Fast forward to my second favorite frequency. This guy, Jay Thomas, I'm going to name him.

We know him. He goes off on what a mess he's come into at work. What made me chuckle was the comparison he made to someone destroying his garden hose.

I certainly can sympathize. Alex, have a wonderful day, guys. Oh, that stupid garden hose.

It just got tangled. I didn't purposely tangle this stupid thing. I understand he did a hell of a job getting the shed cleaned out.

I still have to pick up my umbrella. It's crazy. Yeah, I boy, when the stuff starts stacking up, I can walk in there.

And, you know, he's like, OK, come and look at this. And then I pull out I pull up in this drawer and he goes, oh, I didn't clean that yet. It's like, OK, yeah, the only thing he didn't clean is what I pull out.

So it's pretty funny. A lot of illegal residents getting SNAP benefits or send the food back to their home countries for a profit. I don't I know they can sure wire money.

Yeah, they advertise that all the time. Well, you're walking around Walmart and they advertise how you can do it right in the store there. Yeah, they have been doing it for decades.

And by the way, that those dollars, none of those are taxed. Those are all under the whole thing. Um, one more back just for a second to the orange king.

And we should stop being a shill for the billionaire class. OK, let me ask Alex, how many billionaires do you think there are in America? I don't know. No clue.

No, take a guess. No, you think you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a billionaire. Right.

The way these people talk. There's eleven hundred and thirty five approximate billionaires as of as of this year. Now, we have the highest number of billionaires in the world.

They hold a collective net worth of about five point seven trillion dollars. So this tax the rich, right? Tag, that's what we want to tax the rich. Yeah, they're evil.

Don't be a shill for the billionaires. The Bernie, yeah, billionaire, the oligarchs, all of those people. All right.

So collectively in America, the billionaires are worth about six trillion dollars. And that's if you took everything they had. That's not that's every mansion, every plane, every every yacht, every car, every dime, you'd have seven trillion dollars, which would cover the U.S. government spending for what? About two weeks now.

Now what? Now you now the billionaires, you took all their companies, you took all their money and took all their stuff. Now what do you now what? Now, now, who do we now who do we eat, you know, eat the rich thing? I don't know. Do you? It's just by the way, unless we have the most billionaires in America because of capitalism, we have the most billionaires.

Oh, is that why? Yeah, we have the most millionaires to make more millionaires than anybody. So instead of bitching about the billionaires, why don't you go out and make a plan and become a millionaire? It's not because of socialism, huh? No, no socialist millionaire. No, none of that.

So thanks for that. The Philadelphia shipyard closed in 1996 and it says Trump's deal with China. Oh, OK.

The Philadelphia shipyard closed in 96. I don't know what that what that's about, but I've always wondered, says the texter, who the pilots are for Air Force One and how they handle all the flying. Are there several on board? Yeah, there's teams of them.

Yeah, they have they have teams. They have they have their own their own sleeping space, their own bunk space. It's it's pretty impressive.

There's a couple of really good documentaries about Air Force One. But yeah, they fly into it's like military. They're military guys.

And they're the best of the best. How is going from zero soybean sales to 62 million metric tons over the next three years a loss just because they bought more in years past?

Well, we have the PetroServe USA microphones in the Puklice GMC Sierra Denali mobile studio today, Kev. How's that for two sponsors coming together to power us across Minnesota? Going mobile. 10,000 regulations.

Yeah, going mobile today. And we're escaping Minnesota for now. We did do our part last night, just so you know, to try and get this back to the land of 10,000 lakes.

Rather than 10,000 laws and regulations designed to stifle everything and send people to freedom states. So we're doing our part for your good state, just so you know. And I had a wonderful time last night at the invite of a good guy by the name of Ben Golnick.

Ben is a longtime political figure in Minnesota and has helped folks like Tim Pawlenty and others over the years govern effectively. Unfortunately, there's too few of him and good Republicans left anymore. But we did meet some folks that are kicking some tires on some opportunities last night to run for office in Minnesota.

That would be a breath of fresh air. So pretty amazing. One of them, by the way, is a candidate for governor.

We're going to watch that close because we got a lot of folks in that race. Kendall Qualls, you and I have talked to before. Scott Jensen would be another one.

There's a woman whose name escapes me in the state legislature. She was just another one. Yeah, there you go.

There you go. I don't remember what Jensen maybe. I don't remember last name, but not Jensen.

That's Scott. Anyway, so, yeah, interesting for sure. And just some really good people, really good people that were interested.

And a guy by the name of Tommy Miracle is Glenn Taylor's longtime right hand guy. And he's a Wadena product that his son's one of the sons works with the Timberwolves and met him last night and another younger son. They spent a lot of time growing up in Otter Tail on, you know, on Otter Tail Lake with the family roots back there.

So just a delightful family. And they were our hosts last night. So we had a great time.

Kristen, we watched a little bit of basketball. Excuse me, Kristen. What's your last name? Kristen Robbins.

Kristen Robbins. Yeah, she's another one, I believe that's announced. Yeah.

Philip Parrish, Brad Kohler, Jeff Johnson. You mentioned Scott Jensen and Tom Evenstad is another one. So there's a big field in the Republican.

Yeah, I didn't actually mention Jeff Johnson. Is he back in the, because he's run before. Yeah, he's run before.

DL guy, yep, he's back in it. But I think Kendall's the guy. I don't know.

We'll see. I like Kendall a lot. The only thing that worries me a little bit, and this sort of goes to the Royce White and a few others.

There gets to be a point when you run so many times that people kind of yawn. You know what I mean? Now, the thing I can't wrap my arms around related to Minnesota is just how much has Tim Walz damaged the Democratic Party that there's an opportunity for the Republican Party. I also believe if we can crack the code of getting Western Minnesota voters, who I don't know why, are sometimes low propensity voters.

I think it's partly like why bother, right? I'm not going to affect anything, so why would I bother? So if you can find those why would I bother folks, and then also the Trump walk on broken glass folks. Because again, we talked to Karl Rove about this. Trump voters that are most passionate about Trump are, I mean, a lot percentage less likely to vote when Trump isn't on the ballot.

Can you explain that to me, Kevin? Can you help me understand why that would be? Let's just talk about congressional races. So Donald Trump's presidency will end in November of 2026 if there is a Democratic majority in either the House or the Senate. It will end.

It's over. It'll be a two-year presidency because Hakeem Jeffries will be running impeachment inquiries. And they'll want to throw him in jail for improving the White House.

It'll be just all kinds of crazy. So I think if they get that out, even in a race like for governor and other down-ballot races in Minnesota, and with the legislature, and then you change things a lot. Coming up on the program, we're going to talk with Fargo Police Chief Dave Zabolsky.

Fargo City Commissioner on with us yesterday had some concerns about reducing the items that the police department will engage in related to calls of service. Chief Zabolsky does not agree. He wants to respond.

The mayor, who you heard yesterday as well, same boat. Alex Marlow will be here from Breitbart. Love the guy.

Love Breitbart. Wrote a great book about the weaponization of government that everybody's forgotten about. Russia, Russia, Russia, and all that.

I mean, we're getting a little blip here and there, but not much. Congressman Dusty Johnson in South Dakota. He's South Dakota.

He wants to be your governor. And he's trying to save us from the Democrats and all the things that are happening in the government shutdown. Also going to talk to Hayden Smith.

Hayden is the NDSU president of Turning Point USA. They have somebody coming to town that I think, Kevin, you're going to like a lot. Got a great story.

We always love the Turning Point USA peeps. Stay tuned. Mobile edition.

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Hi, Scott. Yeah, thank you. I want to ask you first a little bit about the recent Fargo City Commission meeting related to solutions that are being offered up downtown.

Just give me your first top-line view of what you saw, what you heard, and what's workable, what concerns you. Just lay it all out for me. Sure.

Well, I mean, I think the commission is attempting to address the issue of location and services and all of that. So, I mean, if you recall, the deck came about during COVID as kind of an emergency type of operation. And over the, you know, subsequent years, I don't know that there just hasn't been that long-term strategic plan about what are we doing with it, what do we intend to do.

And I think that's what's been getting worked on in at least the last year or more with public health, et cetera, to try and address homelessness, mental health, and addiction. They're kind of all inextricably connected. And, you know, they have an impact on how people feel about their safety and other attributes of the city.

So, I think in terms of moving it to the location on 1st Avenue, I think that as a, not as a permanent, and I think that's exactly what they said, more as a first step or temporary type of move while they work on the rest of the plan. I think that that's positive for the downtown area because there is a, you know, a very big impact perceptually on downtown because of the location of the engagement center. And I understand there's some resources down there as well, but there's still, you know, that's just an issue that we know we've all been dealing with.

So, I'm hopeful that this relocation will at least assuage some of that while I think public health and we'll certainly partner with them as well and city administration work on a really longer-term plan to address these issues. I remember at an event Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo Chamber held a couple years ago now, and it was about law enforcement. And I spoke with you there.

I spoke with Jesse Johnner, the sheriff of Cass County, as well as your counterparts in Moorhead and in West Fargo. And to a person not knowing what the others said, I said, if you had a magic wand, what would you deploy it to accomplish? And you all said some version of mental health help because of the amount of recurring interaction that law enforcement was having with, you know, people in a state. Yes, some homelessness.

Yes, some, you know, crime issues, whatever. But it all was, you know, most of it came back to that root cause and repeat offenders. You obviously have limited resources, limited amount of officers.

You know, give me an update on that issue of how many interactions and what sort of percentage bandwidth-wise that you're dealing with. You know, I don't want to say that element. It's just reality of people in a very bad state, and you need resources beyond, obviously, a jail cell and city ordinances.

Just give me the lay of the land there a little bit. Sure. Yeah, no, I would agree with that.

I think still mental health is a big driver in terms of consumption of police resources and I'm sure other hospital, et cetera, public health resources. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I certainly can get those to you. But I think last year, off the top of my head, I think we had something close to 3,500 calls for service that were purely mental health-related.

Those calls take significant time, usually several officers, depending on how they play out, or the officer's ability to help de-escalate and get them into the right state of mind. We have a group that is very repetitive and very chronic in their issues. We don't have a sufficient mid- to long-term mental health care in our region.

However, there is a couple through the last legislative session the state has awarded. It's called a community, I'm going to get this a little bit wrong, community-based mental health facility, but it's probably not 100% accurate in the title. And Southeast Human Services is the entity that's going to be implementing that.

So I think we're hopeful that as that comes off the ground, that will result in some bed space. We were successful last legislative session. I testified on this bill as well to extend the mental health hold period from 24 hours to 72 hours to allow a more thorough and complete mental health evaluation and then allow for placement.

But then once you get to that point, you have to have a place to put them. So we're still short there. That's being worked on, I guess, at the Southeast level.

I know that there's some other entities in Fargo that have applied for grant awards to assist with treating those with mental health issues from that perspective as well. So it's moving in the right direction, but the problem is we'd all like it to move last year or sooner. And it's just been a very, unfortunately, slow, I guess, bureaucratic process, but I think we're making some headway.

I want to talk a little bit about the City Commission meeting and a conversation that I had with a PEPFAR and Fargo City Commission member yesterday. And everything you just described, he said, is causing you and the leadership of the police department to say we've got to be more selective about where we deploy our officers related to calls for service. He implied that you have reduced the amount of things that you'll respond to.

Has that happened in any way, shape, or form? No, we have changed the way that we respond. And so I don't 100% agree with that. I didn't hear the statement that he made, but as you're describing it, we respond to all of the calls for service.

They're prioritized in that thing. But if you recall back in 2022, because we don't have enough officers overall, we've created many efficiencies in the department over the last five years to help with that. One of the things that we set up in 2022 was an online reporting system where we were able to identify certain crimes that didn't necessarily require an officer's presence to have the report filed and have it followed up on.

And so our online reporting system since 2022 has taken nearly 7,500 crime reports online. People can submit video and photos if they've got any of that, and that's been very successful. And we've cleared crimes from them as well.

So what we've been doing is also using injured officers to monitor that online system to ensure that things are reviewed and that follow-up is passed along. So if you do the math on that, 7,500 calls, you're at almost 1,500 hours of person time. Basically, over each year, they've taken enough calls that would offset two full-time officer positions each year just based on the average amount of time these calls would take, et cetera.

So, yes, we've created some efficiencies, but in no way are we not handling calls or filing criminal reports or any of that stuff. But certainly we've changed the response mode because we have to. We still have enough people.

Yeah, and I think the wrap on that, I think it's a brilliant idea, obviously, because you get all the information rather than an officer writing pen and pad. You know, all of it's there. Like you say, photos, whatever.

I think the wrap sometimes is, well, they get blown off or it's not a big enough deal. What would you say to that? Yeah, no, I think definitely not. We take all of these seriously.

We 100 percent encourage people to report them. But it's really just we have to have an alternative response mode. And this is done in many other cities as well for many of the same reasons.

And we have people following up on this. We've cleared crimes as a result of these. Our intel analysts also get this data, so it's extremely helpful for us in identifying crime trends that maybe the theft report that you're reporting online is connected to something else in that same area, and they're able to identify that.

So if we make an arrest, we can connect all of that stuff. So we wholeheartedly encourage people to report that, and it doesn't mean that their crime is any less important to them. We have to come up with alternative methods to handle these calls.

Again, just from a staffing perspective, we have to use our resources as efficiently as possible. Is there any kind of a threshold on that where, no, at this level I need an officer out there versus reporting? Like where is that line drawn? Yeah, if you go on our online reporting link on our website, it will explain all those parameters. But certainly if anyone feels that they are in any way in danger, any active crime in progress, that's a 911 call.

And sometimes they may call 911 on a theft report that that doesn't pertain to, and they'll be directed to the online reporting. But by all means, if there's any danger, threats, concerns from the community member, someone's going to be sent out there. So that option is there, and that's done at the dispatch center as they vet the call.

We only have about 30 seconds left. Anything related to this you want to tell us? No, I think just really letting the community know about it. I encourage folks to go on our website and check these options out.

We've got our crime data on there as well. Our team here is doing everything that they can with the resources available to make sure that Fargo stays safe. And we're working, as you mentioned earlier, on a lot of these other fronts, mental health, addiction.

All those things are part of that overarching issue, and we're trying to be part of the solution. Chief Dave Zabolsky, Fargo Police Department. We back the blue around here.

Appreciate you and the whole rank and file. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Scott.

Have a good day. More after this. All right, we packed up those PetroServe USA microphones and decided Clearwater, Minnesota is where we are currently at.

And power us all the way home in a beautiful Pucklidge GMC Sierra 2026. Still smells new. Can you smell that, Kemp? It's got that new car smell.

Oh, baby. Nothing better. Put a nice bed topper on this thing for me so I can load up the gear and head out and have a grand old time.

Heading back to North Dakota from Minnesota. I didn't get any on me, so that's good. I did go to the Timberwolves game last night.

And I did something you should never do. I bet Dean Wysocki, our chief meteorologist, has never done this. Don't be so sure.

It was a close game. It was a close game, Lakers and Timberwolves, okay? And the superstars were all hurt. I don't know how they're hurt.

I don't watch NBA at all and consider it to be subpar in the way of pro athletics. But it was the Lakers. It was the late game.

It was at Timberwolves' nice renovated Target Center. And so, you know, whatever. Fun.

And it was mainly a business reason to be there. But the game was closed a couple times. Timberwolves started with a little lead.

Lakers came back. Then it kind of grew in the fourth quarter to being gross. That could be the wrong word.

Just boring. And we leave, and I don't know, five minutes left, maybe four minutes left in the game. And then Timberwolves almost won it.

They came back, and the Lakers had a buzzer beater. And we were walking to our hotel. So we missed it all.

So you should never, ever, ever. I mean, first of all, it's kind of dumb. You pay money to go to a game.

And, you know, if you do the math, per minute it costs you a fortune. If you buy brats and, you know, soda and maybe a beer, you've got to take out a loan. So why would you leave early for crying out loud? But we did.

To beat traffic. That's what we used to do. Yeah, exactly.

That's such a my dad thing. Oh, I've got to beat the traffic. And they do this at UND hockey games, too.

I've got to beat the traffic. Well, you lost. You missed an overtime game that was spectacular, right? To beat the traffic.

What's the rush? I'll tell you. The Target Center gets you out of there pretty quick. They're pretty good.

They do. They got it down. Partly because Target Field's right there, obviously.

Literally within spitting distance. So the Target Field, Target Center mojo, related to in and out and the parking ramps and everything else. You're right, Kev.

They got it figured out. They didn't even block the hotel or whatever. Anyway, have you ever left a Bears game or Huskers game early? Bears game, yes.

Huskers game, no. Because we always tailgated after the game. So there was no rush to leave.

There's a shocker. Wysocki is tailgating. Kev, I'm shocked.

I'm clutching my pearls as we speak. Yeah, after the game. That's a special kind of fun right there.

I love it. Dean Wysocki, our chief meteorologist, is here as we roll closer to November. We've been pretty darn lucky.

Traveling night, 94 today. And the leaves are turning. And fall's in the air.

And what's the next couple of days into the weekend look like? Well, I'll tell you what. It's going to feel more like fall for the next couple of days. But then after that, conditions change quite quickly.

That's kind of been the trend. Up and down, up and down this fall. And today we've seen a few light showers press through the FM area.

That's moving east now into Lakes Country. If you look out west, you're seeing some clearing skies. So we'll call it partly cloudy for the afternoon.

And then more clouds come back as we head towards evening across the state. Now, highs today out in the west only in the 40s. And we're not going to be far behind in the central and east either.

Upper 40s to right around 50 degrees. And, again, partly cloudy skies throughout the state. But then as we head into Friday, a clipper system dives in from Canada.

That will cloud us up and give a few rain and snow showers to the central and east while it remains dry out west. Highs only in the upper 30s tomorrow out west. And in the low 40s in the central and east.

We're not looking at any accumulating snow. So it's not going to be a problem for the trick-or-treaters across the state. It'll just be a little bit on the chilly side.

But nothing we haven't seen before on Halloween. And then the weekend does improve. The sunshine returns.

Highs on Saturday in the low 50s out west. Mid and upper 40s in the central and east. And then statewide on Sunday, sunny and windy conditions with highs right around 60 across the state on Sunday.

And then next week we're kind of up and down. We've got a couple of fast-moving clipper systems moving through. But generally 40s and 50s it looks like for all next week.

I mean, as we turn the corner into November and we're still looking at 50s in the forecast, wow. Let's take it while we can get it. Because you know the other shoe is eventually going to drop.

Shush. Right. Shush about the other shoe.

We'll hold it off as long as we can. Speaking of which, when do you see our first opportunity for mega snowstorm kind of road closure stuff? I'm not seeing anything, Scotty. Nothing.

Our models were trying to hint at something in about 10 days. But they backed off on that now. We are getting into a little more active pattern in these first couple of weeks of November.

But by active, they're quick-moving systems. I'm still not seeing any big storm system just yet. That will eventually change.

But over the next 10 days or so, I'm not seeing anything big. Interesting. How's the hurricane thing coming? Is that thing petered out yet? It's moving towards Bermuda in a weakening fashion, yes.

So I was just reading some newly released data as this went ashore in western Jamaica. Now, what they calculated was 185 mile-an-hour wind gusts. Now, satellite, and they still have more research to do, satellite imagery was indicating over 200, like more like 215 for peak wind gusts as the eyewall made landfall.

So it'll be interesting to see once they comb through the data, does this end up being the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Basin, or will it be number two? Either way, it did a lot of devastation to Jamaica, especially the western third. Now, the last report I saw, and hopefully this doesn't climb, I mean, any fatalities are bad, but only 30 fatalities on the island thus far. And if it stays like that, that's literally a miracle because this thing was an absolute monster without a doubt.

All right, got to watch that, pray for that. Appreciate the update, Dean, as always. Thank you.

You got it. Welcome to a Thursday edition of What's On Your Mind. I'm Scott Hannon.

Kevin Flynn is here piloting this ship. We're going to talk to Alex Marlow, a Breitbart, coming up in a little bit. Got a great new book.

Dusty Johnson, South Dakota congressman. I understand, I know this will shock you, Kevin, but there's a little bedwetting going on among some House Republicans. I heard last night a little bit of intel that Donald Trump had to do while he's trying to save the world in China, a little damage control.

He's not in China, but he's dealing with China, South Korea, and the other sticky wickets related to trade deals that he had to get on the phone and calm some folks down. Do you want him to cave? Do you think that, you know, this whole thing over Medicaid and law enforcement and military not being paid, and you should know this, and if you don't, everybody I see commenting on social media is obviously watching MSNBC or, you know, fake news outlets everywhere. They're regime media.

They get up every day and say, how do we make the Democrats and their woke agenda more successful, and how do we lie about Republicans? That's the vast majority of the media I just described. So believe nothing they say. Okay? So they like to say, oh, Republicans wouldn't open the government, or even if they leave the government shut down, they're not going to give poor people their food stamps.

Absolutely not true. 13, 17, I forget how many times they've said, fine, let's battle on the government shutdown. It'll remain, but let's pay these people, Capitol Police and all the rest.

They don't care. They do not care. They say out loud the quiet part now.

They say this is about leverage, and we're winning every day we win a little more. It's all leverage to them. It's just disgusting.

Well, they voted for the thing 13 times or whatever because, remember, they always put it in the last minute, all kinds of pork. They load these CRs up, and they always, you know, well, we fought against it, and now, I mean, they really took the casino away from the grifters here. USAID gone.

Medicaid for illegals gone. The PBS, the propaganda radio network that they were funding all gone, which to the Democrats, to me, brother, says they're just getting rid of our voters and our grift. So that's why they're fighting so hard.

Maybe I'm wrong. No, I don't think you're wrong. And, of course, the ironic thing here is that the Democrats required these continuing resolutions to be clean, as they called them, in other words, no goodies in them.

They do goodies in other things, but the continuing resolution was always, no, nothing in there, and that's how they get to 60 votes. Now the Democrats are saying we want goodies in it. Yep.

And even things that have been voted on in the one big, beautiful bill already, they want to relitigate in this bill. Well, you lost. It doesn't work like that.

Now, there's going to be some deal-making to say, fine, let's give you a vote on leaving Obamacare premiums artificially low so the rest of us have to pay for them. No, we want illegal immigrants, criminals to get health insurance. That's what they're fighting for.

And the Republicans are even offering separate votes on that. They don't care. Should they cave is the question.

More after this. All right. Back on Wellesley on your mind.

Get to some texters here as well. Besides Dusty Johnson of South Dakota on all this, Hayden Smith will be here too. NDSU president of Turning Point USA.

Boy, oh, boy. A mega event. Last night, Vice President J.D. Vance headlining an event for Turning Point USA.

Erica Kirk as well. One strong woman. I mean, a force of nature.

How do you lose your husband September 10th and you sit here at the end of October continuing to motivate that team to keep going, to be a mother, to now lead this organization, and they're all going through a ton of crap. I think I mentioned this week that one of Charlie's key lieutenants was in town. Marie and I bumped into him last week at the airport.

We're like, what the heck is John doing here in North Dakota? He came up to pheasant hunt and meet with some supporters of Freedom Matters USA and Turning Point USA. And, you know, we had lunch with him. And the stories he told me curdled my blood related to the hate, the death threats, the social media mob, the whole Candace Owens thing, the whole, you know, Charlie was a hater thing.

These people in the middle of grieving are being put through the meat grinder. It is disgusting. It's just an example of everything that's bad about America right now.

So just pray for these people. And yet through all that, here is Erica being Erica. It's amazing.

Before I play some of the clips, Kev's got a couple of things that J.D. Vance and Erica said last night in case you missed them. I want to remind you that on November 15th, now just a little better than three weeks away, it's three weeks from Saturday, we have a Freedom Matters USA event. Again, Freedom Matters USA, long supportive of Turning Point USA and Charlie, brought Charlie up here many times.

And Brian Kildman from Fox and Friends, as well as Jimmy Fala, are going to be doing a wicked good event on Saturday, November 15th. Tickets start literally at $20 on up to $25,000 sponsorship opportunities for lifetime membership to help us do this over and over and over again. Pete Hegseth is going to come in and talk about the battle for the American mind and education.

The government shutdown has pushed that back. We were thinking we'd have that done by the end of the year. But he's committed to come, wants to do it, very gratified we've been asked.

And a whole bunch of America 250 events to celebrate America. We've got a real concern on the dashboard of North Dakota related to keeping ourselves the best-governed state in the United States for sure, and maybe around the world. So a lot of work to do.

We're fighting on that front. Classical education, everything they're doing at Capstone Classical Academy, soon coming to Stanley, North Dakota. Just a lot of those fronts that are very Charlie-like.

And most importantly, standing up Turning Point USA chapters per capita, number one, high schools, colleges, if you hear the sound of my voice. We want to make that happen fast, quickly. And we do that with your support.

Freedommattersusa.com for all the details on the event November 15th. Roundtable opportunities, VIP opportunities, break a little bread with the boys. Going to be a great time.

Eventbrite is where you can get your tickets right now. Eventbrite or go to freedommattersusa.com. Mark my word, there will be a point when I'll come on the air, just like we did with the Washington, D.C., trip. This happens with our listeners.

They sell out. We're going to come on the air and say there are not any tickets left for this event. So don't do the North Dakota, Minnesota thing, I'll decide on the 13th.

You can't. The tickets will be gone because this is November 15th. All right, the techs are pouring in, but play a couple of these clubs, Kev, because it was just like bucket-filled time yesterday.

It was amazing. You are living in one of the most defining moments in American history. And we are all witnessing in real time the battle that is raging for the soul of your generation.

We will not apologize for loving our country first. We will not be silent about our faith. We will not back down when the world tells us to kneel.

Because we bow only to the king of kings. Charlie's murder might seem like we're standing in a shadow, as if death was the victory meant for the enemy, but looking around in this arena, you are proof that this light of truth burns so brightly. So brightly.

Wow. Right? And that bright light is shining right here. You know, Kevin and I have said from the moment this happened, our whole company has, my wife and I have, our kids have, all right, what do we pick up in the way of signal through this noise, and what is our lane? I'll never forget the call we got from Williston shortly after this happened.

A sweet mom whose kids were saying, now, mom, don't go on social media and say stuff. She said, no, no, no. I'm going to be Charlie-like.

She was furious about this bee bunny loser that's going to be performing. I don't know if you call it performing. I would say destroying minds at the Super Bowl.

And she said, I want to do a wholesome Super Bowl and get people to turn the channel. And the Turning Point USA picked up that mantle. They're doing it.

So we all got to find our lane here for sure. Do you have any J.D. Vance at all, Kev? Charlie wasn't just a political figure. He wasn't just a guy who went around campus and said very interesting things and hosted all of these debates.

He was a person who, particularly to the young people of this country, to all of you, he had the very best advice. We have got over 10,000 students from across Mississippi. We are proud to have you.

And we know that you are the future of Charlie Kirk's legacy. So thank you for being here. Unreal.

Packed, by the way. An arena. An arena packed.

Yeah, that one wasn't the Chesterfield Auditorium with 2,300 people. I hope we're filled up to the rafters November 15th as well. So very interesting.

Let me take some text here. 701-271-1100 to call us. Text us 701-237-1590.

Listener says, I think the question of the day is, will Trump confront Xi about the Wuhan lab and China being responsible for unleashing COVID? China owes us like $10 trillion. Maybe the Democrats can ask China for their continuation of COVID subsidies for failed Obamacare. I get conflicting thoughts on that.

First of all, it is what it is. And it was what it was. And it is awful.

And we should hold them accountable and make sure it never, ever happens again. And, by the way, the biggest culprits from what happened because of COVID was us. Saying, oh, okay, we won't go to church.

Okay, dear leader, we'll put a mask on. Okay, we'll vax our kids. Oh, let's shut down schools because kids will be super spreaders.

That was us. We did that. Conversation last week with Ross Perot, Jr. about all this and what would his dad think.

He said there had been no COVID. And I said to him, let's talk about COVID a minute. You know, did it come as a bioweapon to us? Do they know exactly what they're doing? He didn't believe so.

He said, came from a lab, really dumb oversight. Maybe they didn't care if it got unleashed, but it got out of control for them in a way that destroyed their economy. And our economy is so resilient that it obviously has bounced back thanks to Donald Trump.

So I don't know if I'd waste political capital on that particular track is what I'm saying. But I hear you. We ought not forget for sure.

I want to make them feel the pain. I want them to feel the pain and have to do so many deals to revive their economy, which is making everything they're trying to do to destroy us more difficult and gain for the U.S. farmer and for our economy and stop buying their cheap crap. And back on What's On Your Mind, cranking away on a Thursday edition of the show.

So much going on. All fun, of course. I think this is fun.

We're winning. We're winning, winning, winning, winning on so many fronts. So we just got to keep going.

Our next guest is Alex Marlow from Breitbart. Breitbart is the vision of Andrew Breitbart, who was a friend of mine and a regular guest on this program and loved North Dakota and did so many things so well. We lost him way too early.

But his legend lives on in the form of this news organization that could use our help because little known secret regime media more and more is being funded by these co-ops and shadowy money and 501C3 foundations. And George Soros is writing a lot of the checks. It's happening in North Dakota.

Newsrooms are going broke, so they take the content of these people, and they don't care if they have a hidden agenda because it fills papers. It's just disgusting. Meanwhile, if somebody like Alex comes along and says, well, we have a conservative version of this and you take our content, they wouldn't do it on a bet.

So you've got to applaud groups like Breitbart, and it's what Elon Musk calls philanthropic journalism sometimes. We've got to get into that game. Somebody told me somewhere, I'm going to ask Alex this question, by the way, Alex Marlow from Breitbart, author of Breaking the Law, Exposing the Weaponization of America's Legal System in a Way the Regime Media Won't, is my add-on subtitle, sub-sub-subtitle.

How are you, Alex? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on the program. Yeah, glad to have you.

The question I was going to ask related to sort of the need for conservative outlets, especially in the media, to have nontraditional revenue, if I remember correctly, a friend of mine, Jane Nordlinger from the National Review, told me that a big part of their job, even as journalists, was with meeting with donors, and the National Review, under the infamous William F. Buckley, would never have existed without donors. There was no business model for National Review. Do you know that to be true? Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to me because good journalism is not, it's very hard to monetize it in our modern times, and Breitbart's a part of this history because after Donald Trump won, and people were so shocked that new media could beat the establishment media, not just in terms of power, but also in terms of page views, traffic, and Breitbart was at the front and center of this.

I remember seeing data from Harvard and MIT right after the 2016 election, and the top three web outlets on social media were the Huffington Post, New York Times, and Breitbart. I think Breitbart might have been number one, actually, and this was deemed completely unacceptable to the political establishment because they thought that we had just been able to use their platforms that they built, the left, and beat them with them. And so they went on this huge boycott, advertiser boycott, to try to get advertisers not to put advertising on Breitbart, but what ended up happening is it reset the entire digital ad market, and people didn't want to put content on anything that had to do with war or viruses, and then all of a sudden there were basically no ads worth any value on the web in general, which makes it virtually impossible to do business just on web advertising.

And it's a remarkable thing because it makes it so that the powers that be have fewer journalists sniffing around to figure out what they're doing because it's hard to make money. Yeah, that is like, you know, that requires a Glenn Beck chalkboard to just do what you did, and he used to do this so well because there are so many tentacles to that, and they're very smart. They're very, very good at this, aren't they? Yeah, it's an interesting moment we're in because it feels like the model to do media is moving towards it's going to be a donor-driven thing.

At Breitbart, we're so big and we're so lean and mean that we make ends meet from web traffic, but I would never recommend starting a business just based off of web traffic. You really do need that backwards. And so we've launched a foundation, so if people want to support us, we have the Breitbart News Foundation, which is going to fund some of our longer-form stuff that is just, you know, things that take months, weeks or months to do.

It's hard to pay a good salary and then you get one story in the end at that rate. It doesn't make any sense financially. So we are starting to go down that road, but a lot of people were there years ago, and I didn't know the Buckley quote, but it makes sense to me.

Yeah, and, you know, what you just described I think is so important because it doesn't exist. You're talking about doing what literally doesn't exist. I don't know what journalism schools teach anymore, but they come out wanting to save the world.

Yeah, I don't want them to save the world. I just want them to call balls and strikes, and they don't do it anymore. And ironically, everybody on the left would say, oh, Breitbart, like you can't even, like, come on.

That's a bunch of right-wing crap. You're actually doing journalism, Alex, right? Yeah, absolutely. And I don't know what journalism schools teach either, but I do think they probably have a lot of this is what you do to save the world vibe to it.

And that's just not really what media should be about. It should be about just reporting on what's going on and making it so that the public, which is interested in how the world works, helping them understand it by dedicating time and resources to it, that seems to be the most fundamental thing. But it does feel like what happened is that there were a lot of people who were trying to become heroes as journalists.

And even the media plays them up, and they make movies about portraying journalists as heroes. So what ended up happening is that every establishment journalist was just trying to take on the man, and the man being Republicans, Donald Trump, whoever's the standard bearer at the time. And it got them into a lot of trouble, and it made it so they're the most distrusted profession on the planet pretty much.

And that creates a huge void for truth tellers, which is what we're doing at Breitbart, and it's why we've had such longevity and support. Let's talk about your book. Glad you wrote it.

It could be easy to move on. Thank you. And just say, you know what? It is what it is, Russia, Russia, Russia.

And I have to admit, I think I was a little naive as well in just saying, you know, litigating the past is full of peril, and it causes people that are important to us to win, suburban moms and some of those squishy middle folks, to say, you know, why is he going after so-and-so? John Bolton, who cares? On the other hand, if you don't cut the head of the snake off, you're done. Now, I've said many times, we have to win the midterms. We absolutely have to win the midterms.

And so I don't want anything in the way of contagion, because the Trump administration will be two years long if we allow Democrats to take the House or the Senate. On the other hand, I'm going to argue with myself, I believe Donald Trump won in 2024 because the left, the regime, all the corruption deep staters went too far. And people said, this is ridiculous.

That's right. You're suing him because he took two ham sandwiches out of the buffet line rather than one. This is just getting so dumb.

You have done something so important here by getting under the hood and reporting something that wasn't. Bring us inside the covers of your book. Yeah, thank you.

And we're on the same page here. One of the reasons why I felt like this was important is, first of all, I think people need to understand that there were six major cases against Donald Trump. And I also get into some of the other cases against some of the J6 prisoners, things like that.

But the centerpiece of the book, you know, 50%, 60% of the book is dedicated to those six cases against President Trump. I'm editor-in-chief of Breitbart. I have been for, I think, 13 years now.

Even I couldn't keep up with all of the cases and keep them all straight in my head. And that shows you what an onslaught he was under, that if I can keep them straight, then I figure 99.999% of the population can't keep them straight. And not only does he need to try to win these cases or at least survive them, then he has to campaign from the courthouse for the highest office in the land, which is, of course, not just unprecedented.

It ought to be unacceptable in this country. And it felt like someone needed to dedicate some time mapping that out for people. But it also provides a roadmap for where we go from here.

And when you read the book, you see there is so much impropriety, such a miscarriage of justice, due process not applied to President Trump. And people do need to be held to account because if they don't, then they're going to feel like they got away with it. Maybe they lost the election, but they got away with it in their personal lives.

And that just can't be the case. And to your point about how we have to win the midterms, my number one prescription about how to move forward is something everyone in your audience can get involved in today. We can never lose another election because us spacing out on down ticket races and off years and in down ballot stuff, judgeships, things like that, that's how we got the lawfare mess that we got into.

And we need to be ever vigilant. And the left has been better traditionally about this than we on the right. And so that's one of the big warning I have is that all of you need to get fired up each and every year to go vote.

You're so right. And by the way, you're channeling Charlie Kirk there, right? I mean, I interviewed Charlie last and just kept pressing him to say, how do you repeat this, right? How do you do what you did in Arizona and all these other places, Wisconsin? How do we do it? How do we take your mantle? And he said, local, local, local. School board races.

To your point, judges. Yeah, I love it. How many people go into the voting place and they want to vote for president and a senator and a congressman and maybe a governor and they literally don't know the names of down ballot people? That's up to us.

That's in our hands. And if you want America to continue to go down the track now under Trump, that's the only way we do this. How do you think we do it, Alex? How do you think we get people to step up their game a little bit? Yeah, I think part of it is that we in the media, you and I have an opportunity here because if we tell compelling stories about the attacks we're under, I think that's really important.

I think we made a little bit of a mistake, and I'll say a huge mistake, that after President Trump's first election, I think there was some hope a lot of this emanated from the White House itself to just sort of normalize things. And I think that they tried to really co-opt the establishment. That was their first move.

They tried to co-opt the establishment media and work with the establishment media and break their stories within the establishment media, and that really failed because that just fed the beast, and it didn't keep conservative media strong. And I think Trump learned those lessons, and I think we in conservative media have learned some lessons that we need to tell the most compelling stories and keep people engaged and fired up on a civic level. In your personal lives, you all need to be evangelists for these values in your communities.

And you can start small, PTAs, school boards, homeowner associations, I don't care, local governance, but you all need to be involved at a certain level, even if it's just getting out the word in your communities about what's going on in this country. But the left is completely at war with us. All you need to do is see the reaction to the assassination of my friend, it sounds like our friend, Charlie Kirk, who I've known since he was a teenager.

He got his start writing for me at Breitbart. And to this day, the left is laughing about it. You're going to see at Halloween people dressing up as assassinated Charlie Kirk.

These are sick, demonic freaks who we're up against, and we cannot rest on our laurels ever again. So true. By the way, I've heard you on Charlie's platform many times and knew obviously that we had that connection, and now it's up to all of us.

That's what he's doing now. He's orchestrating this. A martyr goes immediately to the side of Jesus.

They just do. If you know anything about the Bible and the martyrs through history, Charlie was one, assassinated for what he believed and what he said and preaching the gospel. So he's still with us.

More with Alex Marlow after this. Don't go away. Oh, Kev's got a little toto going today, don't you? I love it.

There you go. Rosanna Annadanna. Isn't this? Is this Rosanna? I think it is.

Rosanna Annadanna. Oh, we love the 80s music here. Proves our age, but we love it.

Back on What's On Your Mind. Congressman Dusty Johnson of South Dakota coming up, trying to fix that dumpster fire that is the Democratic Party and the shutdowns. I have good intel that there are House Republicans that are bedwetting.

Trump had to get on the phone yesterday and knock some heads around because, you know, these nervous Nellies. I've got to run them. Not unimportant that we pay attention to the public opinion on this, but we need strength right now.

We've got the moral high ground. Don't cave to these leftists who are using this and the harm it is causing on the poorest among us, the people they used to claim to defend for leverage. That's what they're doing.

We'll have an update on that. Will Witt is coming to North Dakota for Turning Point USA. We're going to talk to the NDSU chapter president about that.

If you don't know who Will Witt is, he has a hilarious new book. It makes me laugh out loud. How to Win Friends.

Remember Dale Carnegie and that famous How to Win Friends book? That was famous. I'm trying to remember the name of the book. How to Win Friends and Influence Others or something like that? Influence People, yep.

So this Will Witt has a book called, are you ready, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies. Yeah, so stick around for that. You're going to love that.

More of Alex Marlow from Breitbart today on the program as we talk about the innovative work they are doing in the media. I want to go back to the media thing for a minute before we finish on the book and the weaponization and all that and how that happened and how you're reporting it, Alex. You know, I know this was a COVID-era thing.

I know it was a Biden-era thing. We know now because of Michael Schellenberger and all the work on the Twitter files that, you know, they were taking platforms like yours and going, well, you're talking about Orange Man, so we're going to decrease your views and therefore you'll make less money. Is that gone now? Is that something we need to be wary of? Are they still doing this without saying they'll do it? Tell me a little bit about that.

Well, first of all, I've got to talk to you about the song Rosanna by Toto because Andrew Breitbart, who was my boss and mentor and close friend and I owe him everything. We all owe Andrew so much. He had a severe ADHD, and this was a huge advantage some days, but he also had to focus on the computer a lot.

In the early days of Breitbart, it was just me, Larry Solove, who's our CEO and president to this day, and Andrew. There was the three of us. We were the star of the company, and Andrew would be on the computer, and we'd all be in deep focus, and then he had a few go-to songs where he would just spontaneously start belting it out, out of nowhere, and then stop, and then he would do this so frequently that we wouldn't even acknowledge it at a certain point, and every so often we would all be in deep focus work, and we would hear, Meet you all the way.

And then he would stop. And it was just one of my favorite memories, and you had no idea when you guys played that bumper music that that's what you were going to remind me of. I completely forgot your question, but I've just been totally distracted now.

I'll circle back, and I'm not even sure it's important, but I loved his genius, and I interviewed him many times. I'd go to different events. I interviewed him, and he was just a sweet soul and brilliant.

I mean, I would talk to him on walks. I would talk to him. There was a deal you guys were doing where I forget which administration, but they did some deal with black farmers and tried to screw a bunch of other farmers, and so I connected him with our, at the time, Ag Secretary Ed Schaefer, and they did some really good reporting on all that.

Yeah, yeah. Andrew figured out an $8 million fund for black farmers or $8 billion fund for black farmers, was not necessarily going to blacks and not necessarily going to farmers, so that was a pretty good call. By the way, that was Doge and Elon Musk before there was Doge.

It really was. Yeah, and good reporting. Just good, solid reporting.

We could talk for hours, and I'd love to again and continue this conversation on everything we're talking about here and how we do media differently. I'd love to visit with you about a North Dakota bureau because a lot is happening here fast, and there's good people here, right? There's really good people. Just quickly, all the games, like what Twitter did before in the Biden administration, is that a chapter closed, or is this stuff still happening in the deep shadows of social media? Oh, yeah, this is a great question.

So there's always new battles, and the algorithm controls so much of our lives, and really, sometimes I feel like as powerful and as lucky as I've been to have a big megaphone at Breitbart, sometimes I feel like I got in the wrong business and I should be in the platform business because we're constantly having to dodge what these new media platforms are focused on. Like, for example, all my content gets censored on YouTube. It's all shadow banned, so they promote content they like.

It'll never be our content. Twitter has gotten markedly better, which is X now since Musk bought it, but that was terrible. They shadow ban all of my stuff, meaning that we put stuff out, it would not show up in people's feeds, even if you followed our accounts, and then they would lie about it to the public.

Facebook is constantly turning down the dials on all political content because the most popular political content is conservative. So now we're in an okay spot with Facebook, but part of it's just because Trump's president, Ian Zuckerberg, wants to kiss his butt. So we have to be ever vigilant in this regard.

You sure do. Alex, keep doing what you're doing at Breitbart, that legacy of Andrew Breitbart, and obviously we ought to do the same with Charlie Kirk. Every one of us, top-down, it'll transform this country.

God bless you. Keep up the great work. My pleasure.

Thanks for having me, and I'll come back. All right, friends, welcome back to What's On Your Mind? Scott Hinton live and on location, actually packed up the PetroServe USA microphones, and we have them mobile today, as a matter of fact. So I am... wait a minute, Alexandria here, I think? Yeah, Alexandria, Minnesota, heading for the West, trying to escape the contagion of Minnesota.

Try not to get any on me, because the state is emptying out now to North and South Dakota, which makes me weep because I'm a Minnesota kid. But it is what it is. It's a good example of how the laboratories of our republic are the states, and they are giving a freedom in our Constitution to be stupid.

And unfortunately, some are stupid. So it really is kind of sad to see all this happen. But I will say this.

There can be good examples. Best practice isn't bad. And maybe we need to show South Dakota the way.

So, I'm sorry, not South Dakota. That's another bastion of freedom, as our next guest knows. Dusty Johnson, congressman from South Dakota who wants to be your governor of South Dakota, and you ought to say yes.

Yes is the answer to that question. Dusty, welcome back to the show. How are you? Oh, I'm doing fine.

I mean, you know, government shutdowns are stupid, and we're into day 30 of this one, but I think we're starting to move toward you in the right direction. I want to talk to you about that and a couple other things related to the government shutdown. I believe, and I want you to tell me unvarnished your opinion on this, but also the data to back it up, I hope, is that I don't remember Republicans having the moral higher ground during a government shutdown in a long time.

And partly because Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and the others are saying the quiet part out loud, that, hey, we go another day, we get more leverage. Right? And saying some really dumb things. They're literally trying to... Every day gets better for us.

In other words, the worse it gets for, you know, those we used to care for, Medicaid recipients and all that, the better it gets. Does the data support that U.N. Republicans are winning the moral high ground on this debate in this day? Yes, you're exactly right. In fact, just in the last week, according to a CNN poll, the numbers have shifted five points in the direction of Republicans.

And nobody wins a shutdown. I mean, yes, it is great that the American people are starting to see through this terrible Democratic tactic, but I'm not so interested in having Republicans win the shutdown as I am in just getting the damn government back open and making sure that we don't surrender to giving $1.5 trillion more of spending just to the people who are willing to take their entire country hostage. I mean, we know from the past, no party ever wins a big policy concession when they shut down the government.

And, Scott, that is a good thing, because if this tactic worked, we would get a lot more shutdowns. Yeah, and I want to just explain this for people that are still confused, most of whom don't care about the facts. They care about a political argument on social media.

But when I decide to play ping pong with them, when they say, well, Republicans are making sure we don't pay cops, Republicans are shutting down the Defense Department, I say, no, no, no. Actually, Democrats are. And the reason I say that is because, correct me if I'm wrong, number one, a lot of what they're trying to change has already been voted on.

So they fought a battle, and they lost. Now they see this as an opportunity to get what they couldn't get before and revisit those issues. But a clean, continuing resolution, just like it was under the Democratic regime, is not a place to try and get something done policy-wise.

You're trying to fund the government. And if I'm not mistaken, for a very short period of time, to sort of get to a bigger thing, and with all of Biden's spending. So they are now voting against Biden-era spending, and, you know, again, everything that they previously have done to say it needs to be a clean CR.

I mean, sometimes this gets in the weeds, and how does a bill become a law and all that, but this is really pretty simple, isn't it, Dusty? Oh, you are, listen, you said it exactly right. I mean, listen, if this was a big negotiation, like if somebody says, hey, I want to buy a big swath of your farmland, they could respond by saying, well, will you give me your house in town? All right, that's a big thing for a big thing. But all the Republicans wanted was a short-term continuing resolution so that we could finish these negotiations about funding government while the government was open.

This is not a big ask. Let's negotiate while the government is open. And so in essence, we're asking for like, hey, we got a mountain bike to sell, and they want our whole house.

They want $1.5 trillion of spending just for a six-week CR. That was never going to work. I'm not even sure that's what they wanted.

This feels like a base management exercise for Chuck Schumer. I mean, listen, I get it. They're really upset at Donald Trump.

They're really, really upset. But they are not going to get what they want by shutting down this government. And so let's end this charade.

Let's open up the government. And then let's do the big negotiations. And I get it.

Scott, the Democrats are going to get some of what they want. Republicans are going to get more of what they want. But we are not going to do that right now.

We cannot capitulate and let this shutdown win for the Democrats. So let's talk a little bit about the negotiation to come and the current position we're in. I won't tell you how I know this, but I understand a friend of mine who had a conversation, big ag guy, had a conversation planned with Brooke Rollins yesterday.

Brooke Rollins' team had to call and say, we're super sorry. She's got to cancel it. We're losing some House Republicans.

The president is in the middle of negotiations with Xi. Xi, you know, whatever, president, the crazy man in China, Xi. And so Brooke Rollins and others at the direction of the president have to call these House Republicans down who want to cave.

Is that happening? Are some of your members getting weak here? No, not on the shutdown. I do think the Argentinian beef deal plus the lack of soybean sales to Asia have spooked a lot of farmstay Republicans. And listen, all of that concern is legitimate, but now is not the time to go wobbly.

I don't love high tariffs as a permanent part of the economic landscape, but I understand what the president has been trying to do. I think that's why a lot of farm country was willing to give the president some time to negotiate these deals. I think yesterday was a validation of that approach.

Now we got all the Chinese feet to the fire. I don't really think we can trust Xi. I don't think we can trust the Chinese Communist Party, but at least with the deal, we have a chance to hold their feet to the fire.

And so, no, I think, I do not think House Republicans, any of us were getting wobbly on the shutdown. I do think some people really wanted to make sure the president had a plan with regard to tariffs and beans. And frankly, they are pretty irritated on the Argentinian beef deal.

I mean, I'm just, I'm not sure people understand the long-term strategy with that. I do understand what the president's trying to do, but fundamentally, I think the better way to reduce the price at the meat counter is through more American beef, not more Argentinian beef. Yeah, I think as usual, Trump's playing a different game there, but I hear you, and our ranchers like yours are concerned.

I want to come back to that in a minute. When you talk about negotiating, you're talking about, again, we're not going to do it during the government. What are we negotiating? Are we going to give them more freebies related to Obamacare for an extra year? You know, are we going to say, okay, you want to ensure illegal immigrants? We've done this for four years.

We'll do it another six months to shut you up. Like, what's the negotiating field right now? No, no, none of that's going to happen. I mean, I guess I can only speak for myself, but I'm certainly not going to vote for a deal that allows illegal immigrants to be able to continue to receive Medicaid through states like California.

That's a hard no, and I wouldn't do it for a six-month extension. I wouldn't do it for a one-year extension. I wouldn't do it, period.

Secondly, if this is about extending COVID-era health care subsidies to rich Americans making 600% or 700% of poverty or continue to continue to be able to sell, perhaps 40% of their policy. Are you getting the break up too, Kev? Dusty, I lost you for a second here. We're going to go to a break anyway.

We'll try and improve that connection. Kevin, are you hearing the same thing I am? Were we lost, Dusty, there for a moment? Yeah, a little bit, yep, working on it. All right, so you guys work on that.

We'll take a quick break and come back with more here in a second with Congressman Dusty Johnson, South Dakota. A lot to cover with him. Questions or comments, welcome, by the way.

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We have a smaller head of cattle in the United States than we've had in the past. That's the reason for high prices, all right? Listener's not wrong. And again, there's ebbs and flows outside of political things and trade deals that impact this as well, so I think that is important.

But we'll let him finish on what to negotiate on and where the playing field will be there when we come back. Don't go away. Stays like today.

I missed Charlie Kirk's voice on the radio, but his legend lives on. We are all Charlie now. Hayden Smith, president of NDSU, Turning Point USA chapter, is bringing another guest here for Turning Point USA, a guy by the name of Will Witt, who has a great media platform in Florida and has a book about winning friends and influencing enemies.

We're going to talk about it at the bottom of the hour. Stay tuned for that. Speaking of Charlie, Brian Kilmeade and Jimmy Thaler, two Fox News stories will be in Fargo on November 15th for Freedom Matters USA.

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So check all that out at FreedomMattersUSA.com. Back with Dusty Johnson, congressman from South Dakota who we're rooting for to be governor. I want to talk about that in a moment. Let me finish on, where is the playing field related to negotiation? If you say, okay, we're going to negotiate on this and we're probably going to have some of our members go there and make that happen.

What is that after the government's reopened, Dusty? Yeah, great question. So first off, for people who might be concerned, the ACA health care tax credits are not going away. Those are not even debated.

Those are in permanent law. What we're talking about is the COVID era stuff that was layered on top of that. Back when the Democrats had concerns that nobody was going to be able to work during COVID and they weren't going to be able to pay any of their bills, they wanted to give a lot of people free health care.

Now, of course, COVID, now that was bad policy to start with, but COVID's five years in the rear view mirror. So those tax credits expire. They go to everybody who buys their insurance on the Obamacare exchange.

You can make $300,000 a year, Scott, and still get tax credits. And that is the piece that Republicans just don't understand. About 40% of these policies just end up being giveaways to the insurance companies.

Because so many of these policies were free policies, you had insurance companies signing people up, walking out of the subway station, hey, sign this and I'll give you a $25 gift card. The policies are auto-renewing, and they don't cost people anything. So some people have had a policy for five years they don't even know they've had.

40% of those policies have never had any claim on them whatsoever. And so I think you're asking where we're going to end up. I think there are going to be a group of Republicans who say, hey, listen, if you want to target narrowly some support to working class Americans, then we can talk.

But if this is about illegal immigrants, hard pass. If this is about phantom insured bodies, hard pass. If this is about writing a check to the insurance companies, hard pass.

If this is about borrowing more money from China so we can subsidize rich Americans' health insurance premiums, hard pass. And right now the Democrats say they will not accept that deal. They want a clean extension of these COVID-era subsidies, and that will not happen.

All right, a couple things I want to cover quickly. One on the Argentine beef deal. In my view, President Trump does 99% things well.

1% is this impulsivity, with true social being a little bit of a challenging communications platform. And some things were said about farmers and ranchers that weren't wise trying to explain Argentina. First of all, Argentina is all about beating Russia, and I do believe farmers and ranchers are patriots.

But I also believe their world has been disrupted a little bit, and you know better than me. Ranchers have had a big stretch of bad and a little stretch of good. And the President wants lower beef prices.

You said earlier there's a way to do that. Just tell ranchers and farmers, soybean farmers, what they need to hear in the way of what you know about what the President is trying to accomplish here. I think the President is trying to look at this comprehensively.

He does want to keep Argentina closer to America than to China. But Argentina has been making it a lot easier for China to draw a hard line against us, because Argentina has been selling them whatever they need whenever they've needed it. The President does like the President of Argentina.

I do too. He's a free market guy. We need more free market leaders in South America and elsewhere.

So I understand what the President is trying to do. But here's what I also know. If we want to grow the American herd size, and we do, ranchers have got to have a lot of money in their pocket, because it is expensive to go out and buy more cattle to be able to increase inventory.

It is expensive to be able to go out and buy more pasture land so you can keep more head. And, yes, ranchers have a pretty – it's not a great – I mean, the input costs are so high. They're not doing great.

They're doing good. They're doing real good, but they're not doing great. But that follows a pretty lousy cycle of bad prices.

And so I understand what the President is trying to do. I think there are other ways he could have gotten that done. I would just say to everybody who is listening that you've got to let markets work whenever you can.

Admittedly, this is a very small amount of beef, really, in the whole scheme of things. It's not even one week's slaughter in America. And then, by the way, crappy beef, nowhere near our beef.

So I don't see it as a big competitor, but I get why everybody is worried. If you look at prices, you know, pre the whole conversation, in the middle, when things were messy, and then now, they're not all that different, but I get it. Bankers are freaking out, everything else.

Let me talk about the overall farm economy in South Dakota, which is so integral to everything. I did an interview with Larry Roden early in his tenure as governor, after Christie left, and he told me, South Dakota is open for business. South Dakota doesn't change the rules in the middle of the game.

South Dakota loves its farmers, and the ethanol they produce is a value add. And then he proceeded to absolutely ignore all of that, and stick it to farmers. And a lot of that is related to the ethanol plants and CO2, and opportunities to raise the price of corn, that become, for some reason, this contagion in South Dakota of something President Trump wants in the way of energy infrastructure.

Am I wrong on any of this, and what do we do about it? Governor Roden and I go back 20 years, and I only want to say good things about my state, because, listen, I'm a booster. I love South Dakota, but South Dakota does not have a plan, a strategy for growth. We can say we're open for business, but the reality is, in the last six months, our economy has shrunk 3%, at a time when the rest of the country's economy has grown 3%.

South Dakota is in a technical recession by the numbers. North Dakota isn't. In fact, I've got some pretty high-placed sources within the North Dakota government that says South Dakota has become a huge source of economic development leads for your state, Scott.

We get it when Illinois and Minnesota companies want to move to North Dakota, but when we've got South Dakota companies nervous about our business environment, that is a real problem. South Dakota has slid down the rankings. We used to pride ourselves on being the best country, the best state in this country for business.

According to CNBC, we have slid all the way to 35th best. And you know what? That is the exact opposite of going way back to Larry Janklow years. I spent some time in South Dakota, so old Larry was a buddy of mine.

He was a beauty, and there's been some really good governors there that said, you know what? We have opportunity here. Think of the banks that moved to South Dakota because they said you're business friendly, and you can do so much so fast. How are you doing time-wise? Do you have a couple minutes to stay through the break, and we'll just give you a few more minutes to finish, Dusty? Absolutely.

You bet. Okay. I want to talk more about this farm economy in South Dakota because the farm economy is the key to everything down there.

It really is. They don't have oil and gas. They're going to be playing in the data center world a little bit if they do this right.

So there's a lot we could do together as the Dakotas. Talk more about it coming up. Little Dewey Brothers now.

You were doing the 80s jam today, Kevin. Yeah, kind of in the 80s vibe today. Yeah.

It was so fun to hear Alex Marlow from Breitbart tell that story about Andrew Breitbart and jamming to Toto and Rosanna. So cool. Back finishing up here with Dusty Johnson, next governor of South Dakota, now in Congress.

And Hayden Smith will be coming up in just a minute. Hayden is the NDSU Turning Point USA chapter president. He's got a great guest coming, so we want to tell you about that too.

He's in studio. Well, I'm literally in the truck from Puckledge, North Dakota. He's home for Chevy.

Heading west, young man. Coming back from the Twin Cities. Dusty, I spent time growing up in Minnesota, a little bit in Iowa.

Graduated from Huron High School in South Dakota in 1983. Bill Jankle, I said Larry earlier. I'm getting flooded with texts.

Who's Larry Jankle? I was thinking of Larry Pressler, actually, a former senator from South Dakota. But Bill Jankle walked into my high school in Huron, and I never forgot that, like, a governor is here? And then some friends of mine and I started a little radio show there talking politics, and we had Larry Pressler in studio one time. That's where I sort of got the, it was the Reagan era, and I got spun up about conservative politics and started a conservative chapter in the Huron High School.

And the access to people like that in South Dakota, and then later Iowa, Minnesota, and now North Dakota is what really inspired me. And this is the secret sauce we have, because people thinking about locating in South Dakota call you and others. Kelly Armstrong, your friend, former House member, Chris Wright, the Secretary of Energy, just said recently, North Dakota is the best-governed state in America.

And a lot of that becomes the fact that people have their cell phone numbers, they answer their phones, they get their staff working on these things. We really have something pretty special and unique, but I would agree, you know, Minnesota is hard to fix, and because I'm from there I still care, but that is the long game. South Dakota is going the wrong way fast.

So how do you fix that? Obviously you want to be governor, but there's a lot more layers there. What do you do? Well, I think one of the, you guys are incredibly well run. And listen, there are a lot of different ingredients for that, but a couple of them are, you've got a legislature that's really focused on the meat and potato issues.

They don't get distracted by howling at the moon and kind of the shiny, hot political objects, like they want to go govern a state. And then it helps you've got a governor with real vision. Those two things together make for a pretty potent brew.

You know, in South Dakota we have, I think, too many legislators who have more exotic political views. Sometimes I don't think they understand that this is not a reality TV show. They're the board of directors of a really, really important enterprise.

And I just hope we can bring a little more sanity to South Dakota because North Dakota is doing a lot of things very, very well. But we could align pretty well there as well, couldn't we? I know we talked to Casey Crabtree recently. What a great leader.

Wants to replace you in the House, I know. And, you know, he has a plan for getting South Dakota more business friendly as it relates to data centers, or as Doug Burgum insists, we call them intelligence factories, which is a good word because there's farm factories that pull wheat and corn and soybeans out of the ground. These guys are just mining data and they do it with power.

And that's where the future has to go related to that. Are you confident enough that you're in a good position on the data centers yet or more to do there too, Dusty? Well, South Dakota's way behind. Right now our tax structure means that we won't get any big data centers.

They're moving to North Dakota instead, Allendale, Jamestown, a bunch of other communities. We have a tax that almost nobody else has on the electronics that go into data centers. It makes us fantastically not competitive.

And there are some legitimate concerns about data centers. And rather than run away from them, we just need to address them. Hey, here's how you deal with the electricity situation.

Of course we want to make sure that South Dakota ratepayers are not hauling that burden. But there's a way to do that. We want to answer the questions about water.

We want to answer the questions about land use. All of that, you can deal with all of that. And so I've unveiled a plan called Data Centers Done Right that would make sure that our taxes are competitive with North Dakota and others, at the same time making sure that we protect South Dakotans first.

I just, we need to get this done. And I've been a little surprised we haven't seen leadership in the state to get it done before now. But we've got a good group of state legislators like Kent Rowe who are working with me to make sure we get this done now.

Last question I want to ask you is related to that. Because I believe your farmers and your ethanol producers have a way to get in the middle. It could actually put South Dakota in the oil and gas business.

Because if you take the blown-in-the-air industrial CO2, I'm not talking about the air we breathe. I'm talking about man-made CO2. You use it as a commodity, and then you put it in a pipe, and you allow more corn to go to local places.

Not to Warren Buffett on a rail car. To stay in South Dakota, give the farmer a better price, and his commodity that's now useless gets more energy generation. Now you're in the big business of energy in a big, big way.

Why is that so controversial in South Dakota? I can't figure it out. Well, I think we see this across the country. And in South Dakota, we were an oasis of sanity for a long time.

But, you know, things have gotten a little bit angrier and a little bit more populist. I mean, it's way too hard to build big things in this country anymore. I mean, we couldn't get the Eisenhower interstate system done today.

We couldn't get the Missouri River dams done today, rural electrification. And so we just have given too much power to the bananas to build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything crowd. And they're just real, real loud.

And I don't know what the role for South Dakota is going to be in something like sustainable aviation fuel. But I know Delta and American United want to buy it. And I know that they're willing to pay for it.

And I know that anything that is going to reduce basis and push up price should be the kind of thing that South Dakota should be hungry for. And I just wish we had that kind of vision. There's two ways to do that.

One is obviously up from Iowa in the pipeline. And the Summit Carbon Solution folks did so many things wrong. I can't even defend them when it comes to South Dakota, North Dakota, or Iowa.

They had investors that were greeniacs. They had investors that wanted EOR. You know, it was just a mess.

And then they have landmen that threaten people. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I don't care about them.

What I care about is farmers and the price of corn going up. So do you think that a smart pipeline, better dealing with landowners, who would then benefit from selling their corn to get that ethanol producer in a better position to get into the Deltas and the Unites that you talk about, or a federal permitting, still don't understand this either because CO2 is a gas. And right now natural gas can be permitted federally through FERC.

Do one of those two options, are they on the table if there's a Dusty Johnson governor? Well, I don't think. I mean, the Summit Pipeline is just not coming through South Dakota and any carbon pipeline, I think. I mean, right now our state law prohibits them from using eminent domain.

I don't see a realistic chance of getting that changed. And as long as that's the law, South Dakota is just going to be completely out of the CO2 pipeline game. Now, maybe you like that.

Maybe you don't. I would say this. I think we've got to be problem solvers.

I think we've got to figure out, all right, if the pipeline's not the solution, how else do we figure out how to make sure South Dakota can have a place in the sustainable aviation fuel, and just in the broader biofuels marketplace? I mean, let's go solve the problem. I am certainly hopeful that there's more than one way to skin a cat. And lastly, on federal permitting, is that something you would support to go that route to get, again, the opportunity to take that CO2? I agree with you, by the way.

There's other solutions. They're just slower. And then you lose the data center opportunity.

Then you lose the market opportunity for farmers, where FERC is already doing this. Do you support that with guardrails? I don't think that's going to happen. I think 60.

I mean, listen, they tried in the Senate real hard. I didn't really understand how hard they were working it until relatively late in the process, because at that point it was over in the Senate. But there were some folks who went all in.

I mean, they put all their chips into trying to get that done. And in the end, they just weren't even really close to getting the votes they needed. Even though the president seemed as though he was supportive of the concept, I just think we've got to look for, or the people who want the pipeline have got to look for other ways because that's not happening.

Well, keep leading on it. I think you're challenging everybody appropriately. I think you're the best choice for a business-friendly governor and really want to help you anyway in that regard.

Dusty, appreciate your time today, and we'll continue to stay in touch. You're a good man, Scott. Thanks much.

Thank you. You're a good man, and there's a darn few of us left, as we say. I want you to meet, well, you've met him before because he's been on the show before, but he's one of the lieutenants that is keeping Charlie Kirk's dream alive and the SU Turning Point chapter president, Hayden Smith, who is today.

Hayden, welcome back. How are you? I'm doing well. Thanks, Scott.

You inspire me every day because I know what you're doing, boots on the ground. You're obviously trying to get through college and go get a good career, but you're also devoting your time to keeping Charlie's vision alive. How is that effort going a month or so after his assassination? I would say things are definitely going good.

Things have definitely slowed down a little bit after the temperatures have cooled down, but definitely a lot more active than things had ever been in years prior. When we last talked, there were 20-some members or so of the Turning Point USA chapter, or other people saying, hey, Hayden, I want in, or more people interested specifically to the NDSU chapter? Yeah, we've had a lot of people join. As far as like before all this stuff with Charlie happened, we had about 70 registered members, like registered on my NDSU, which is how you register for clubs at NDSU.

Now we have like 120, 130. And then as far as meeting attendance, we had usually around 20 people. Now we're usually around the 35 to 40 people.

That's awesome. That's great. Yeah, it is.

I mean, think of that. That's good growth percentage-wise. Unbelievable.

You've got a guy coming to town by the name of Will Witt. Talk about him and why you're bringing him in with Turning Point USA. Yeah, so this is going to be our first speaking event of this school year, I mean this semester, and we're bringing in Will Witt.

He is most famous for the work he did with PragerU, which is a company run by Dennis Prager. He did a lot of the man-on-the-street things, going to college campuses, asking college students questions about what they believe, why they believe those things. The thing he went most viral for was he, quote-unquote, got in trouble for cultural appropriation things because he wore costumes of different ethnic groups on campuses and asked college students what they thought about that.

Yeah, isn't that terrible? Asking college students about, you know, let me role-play. That'd be like people like Kev going after our buddy Joe Wegan out in Medora because, well, wait a minute, you're acting like Teddy Roosevelt and he hated people and, you know, denigrated Indians. Why not bring history to life? My buddy Mark Skogarbo does a wicked good Abraham Lincoln replies.

Some people say, well, he's a Civil War guy. You know, I mean, and meanwhile, what this guy's trying to do is teach kids and even just have interaction with them. So more of what he's going to bring to NDSU when we come back with Hayden.

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Remind me on the artist. Great song. I might get it, but it'll take too long.

Sanford Townsend Band. Yeah, they didn't have many hits, right? No, just the one, yeah. This was it.

So good, though. Do I have them in my playlist? I kind of like the one-offs once in a while. You know, the folks that just had it, crushed it, and then just couldn't get the others across the finish line.

That's one of them, though. That's one of those top-down, driving-around summer songs. Isn't it, though? Free and easy down the road I go, I love that one.

There's a lot of them there where you just say, let her rip. Love it. All right, back with our friend Hayden Smith, president of NDSU Turning Point USA Chapter, which is growing like a weed.

If you have a son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, family member, NDSU, get them there. Get them part of that. And all the bad stuff from Higher Ed goes away when you've got kids that come out of school participating and things like that, so it's darn important.

So back to Will Witt, Hayden. It's hard not to like this guy. Tell us about the new book, too.

So you said interacts with students well, which is obvious, and he's an older guy, right? He's got to be probably my age, 60-something, wouldn't you say? No, actually he's 29. Oh, no, Will's young, really young. You're thinking of the wrong guy.

Oh, okay, well, I saw a picture that we were playing earlier. I've never seen him before, and I thought it was an older guy. Maybe there was a guy introducing him.

Sorry, I just saw something on our Beck TV feed that made me think he was old. I see him now. Okay, I get it.

Oh, for funny. He's got the sombrero on and the fake mustache, and it's flying off, and he's talking about cultural appreciation. Oh, I love this.

This is so good. Anyway, tell me about his book, too. Well, I believe he's written two books.

I think the more popular of the two was he wrote one called How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies. It's not to be confused with Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. But I believe the book is a very similar vein, but how to specifically engage with people who believe differently with you, because that was sort of his whole thing he did while he was working for PragerU.

And, by the way, the subtitle is taking on basically people you disagree with, with humor and wit and arguments, right? Just a little pun because his name is Will Witt. Oh, good point. I love that.

I didn't even catch that. See, that's why you're a college student. I'm a high school grad.

But taking on liberal arguments with logic and humor is a way to win them over in a very much Charlie Kirk kind of way. Will there be interaction like Charlie would do on campus with Will Witt when he's at NDSU? I don't believe there will be, like, a specific change my mind section, but there will be a Q&A that he does with the students and whatnot. We really like to do those.

It's funny that you mention how to engage with people, like, in a humorous way, because over this event I just recently received an e-mail from a gentleman very upset, just all the very mean things about how he's happy Charlie got shot and that we're all stupid and brainwashed. And the really funny thing about this guy was he was like, you guys are all stupid and the liberals are all wrong, too. So he was kind of like, everyone's wrong and I'm right.

And I didn't respond to him, but I wanted to respond with, like, well, I'm so glad that you, some random person in North Dakota, has figured it out and everyone else is wrong and you're right. How very smart and wise of you. So you're telling me this NDSU student sends you an e-mail.

He's not a student. He's just a random person from the community. Oh, okay.

Wow. What's his name? I mean, I guess his first name was Cody, but, yeah. His first name was Cody.

I didn't read too much into him. I'd love to know more. I wouldn't mind inviting them on because I think anybody, and I'm glad it's not a college student, but even worse it's an adult saying they're glad Charlie got shot.

Is that what you said he said? Yeah, he was like, Charlie was scum and he deserved it. Come on. That's ridiculous.

Which I can definitely. It's tough to see how you're the good guy when you're happy that people you disagree with are dead. Spot on, buddy.

Very well said. You lose the argument before it started. It's a great point.

Tell folks how they can participate in helping the Turning Point USA NDSU Chapter 1, which we're going to do with that event on November 15th, and I hope all 100 members of the Turning Point USA Chapter will join us on that day with Brian Kilmeade and Jimmy Fela. When is the Will Witt event and how can folks go? So the Will Witt event is next Wednesday. It's at 730 p.m. It's going to be in the Memorial Union in the big ballroom upstairs.

You can just show up, but ideally you would sign up. We have it on our social medias, our Instagram and Facebook. I believe it even got put on WDAY, but it'll just be like a sign-up.

It's all free. Just show up. But, yeah, it should be a really good time.

He'll give a speech and there'll be a Q&A afterwards. That's great. Uncle Kev, you're going to have to go represent me because I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. trying to save the world, but I hope folks go, and we'll put all that on our website, too.

You wanted to say one other thing, Hayden, quick? Yeah, and as far as just getting involved and helping out for students and whatnot, I mean, if you're coming into college, just go to our social medias or go on the MyNDSU. Sign up, show up to our events. If you're a high school student, there's high school chapters that can be started.

And if you're an adult, I mean, get involved in your local community politics. You can still do something even if it's not under the umbrella of Turning Point. You bet.

And, by the way, these events cost money. You've got to fly people in and all that, so you can help that way as well. And that's why FreedomMattersUSA.com is helping Turning Point USA.

So show your support. Let's all be Charlie now. Hayden, God bless you.

Keep fighting. See you tomorrow, folks. God bless you.

Thank you.

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the military because it's built into the program but not with snap so he explains that no then we went to the five and they're talking about the shutdown to so good stuff there we do have a quick quip from Jessica and Greg shuts her down I didn't make you suffer with her too long but it's you it's enough for Greg to get his point in it's pretty funny and then yeah you're welcome I can't take it either and then we have trace Gallagher as well who has a panel again talking about the shutdown and there's a he's got a cut in there from Hakeem oh my lord talking about it it just wants to make you throw up when you hear what Hakeem said about the shutdown blame blame blame he's embarrassing he's no Nancy Pelosi is he no not really not even close he's he's that's the best you got I mean droopy eyes the guy looks like what's the little donkey or whatever in your poo you're kind of has that your look to him you know the flat top of his eyes he's not the brightest bulb in there I wonder he must have been another DEI hire huh yeah there I said it was he the best if I mean it makes you wonder I got yeah I had the other watching him talk it's like okay yeah yes you know when you when you especially on the female side of the aisle both sides I see Erika Kirk was at Ole Miss with JD Vance I watched a bunch of it last night and boy she is a she's sharp beautiful sharp smart and then you see just you know reps here and there that are in states you see members of our Congress you know they they they're beautiful they're smart there and then you look at the other side of the aisle and it's like Jess or whatever Jen Saki's and and Mikey Cheryl's and the I I think we're winning on just I'm just thinking I'm on hot hot women in government the Republicans seem to be winning on that I'm just saying that's not only I don't care not only that I mean they're smart yeah smart yeah they got brains there is that whole package so there you go well check in with Steve Carney just after 8 o'clock check in seeing what's going on getting ready for the North Dakota Minnesota deer opener a week from tomorrow North Dakota at noon week from Saturday in Minnesota half hour before sunrise I believe of what it is and then on the 22nd is when South Dakota deer opener so it's two weeks after North and South North Dakota Minnesota open up but we'll see how he's doing see what I know he's been fishing because the fish just with this season being late the fish are going crazy hey did you see Trump over in the South Korea yesterday they did they gave him a crown they gave him a gold crown so they're kind of like laughing too about the no King stuff Trump's like yeah I wish I could wear that right now it was great by the way he came out of the meeting and China's gonna buy a ton of soybeans so the elevators will be good sounds like it was successful the meeting was only an hour and a half and he had four hours allotted for it so yeah we'll hear more about that on Fox News I'm sure coming up yesterday Scott was talking about just the the panic and the things that are going on and everybody you know when the waters are rising you don't really know what's going on etc etc and but we just have to trust this this team I really believe in we have to realize that nothing and I know it sucks if you have a bin full of spins full of soybeans and you can't sell them I know and cattle ranchers seem to be pretty happy because the cattle prices are fantastic but there's a lot of problems with every other commodity that we're dealing with but it's taken decades to tank this it's taken decades to screw you over well I don't think this team is there to continue the screwing process I think this team is here to fix it so I've got some farmer friends and they do have so I think soybeans my cousin does and they asked her you know over at the elevator you want to sell now or you want to hold up she's like well probably be smart to hold off see what happens with China and I think that's what most farmers are doing so I think it'll all work out in the end amen praying for you no matter what you're dealing with but here's a picture of Hakeem with a team with a sombrero no it's a dollar store Obama on the front of it he kind of is I don't I just I don't I don't understand these folks not getting it I'm not seeing the not not hearing the message other than Trump bad all their messages about 20 after 6 no James this morning Dean will be in here in a minute lead off with weather get a sports page check Toronto looks like it's in position to a beat the stinking Dodgers not that I'm really pulling for Canada to win the World Series but you know it's a better than the stinking Dodgers so there's that we'll also get a business report at the bottom of the hour and Austin Erickson is in the newsroom this morning it is the 20th or 30th day of of October Halloween tomorrow it's national wicked day today wicked today I don't what is just the day before Halloween I don't know maybe it's the movie I don't know Z don't know it's national publicist day today a publicist is someone who used to I think it mattered a lot more before social media but it's still relevant public you know like stars and authors and people they have publicists that control what's what goes out about them and writes press releases and things like that speak up for service day today we do that every day I bless our members of the service any service agencies any nonprofits that actually do good and don't steal the profits of the nonprofit yeah that would not be the Clinton Foundation no we're not gonna go there and it's national candy corn day today what does candy corn get such a beating because it tastes horrible that's why the only way to be any good if you mix it up with some peanuts and M&Ms and kind of make a Chex mix thing out of it it's gross but it looks like it's national flannel day around here today I see Dino and I are both supporting our flannel and I think Jay Thomas's flannel picked out today some but not wearing it today hey do you know I was looking it popped up on my Facebook memory three years ago wait two years ago 2023 heavy we had heavy snow this day 2023 heavy snow not quite like that today though no no far cry I don't remember I thought I would remember that yeah 20 Halloween yeah we're at we're at sweet shots and we're all golfing yeah and it was a bunch of heavy snow out there well that's right it's really hard to see the ball when it's snowing it is yeah really really tough teed off in the snow one time with we were thinking let's just go play it snow who cares we're up in Flagstaff Arizona as soon as we hit the balls like did you see I literally disappeared okay that's enough let's go hit the bar so where are we going we're not snowing yet but no you're still getting at it yeah I still don't see any I mean anything that's gonna accumulate in the forecast here we've been we've been lucky so far I know we had one year and I'll go through the records Bonnie said it was either Bonnie or Bridget we're commenting that I remember a year we didn't have snow until Christmas I'm like really you guys I don't remember I don't remember what I had for lunch no things they just don't stick in my head I'm gonna have to go back and I have to do some digging but find out one's the latest snowfall we've had here in far I remember we yeah I remember getting to Christmas we hardly had any snow Wow which is fine yeah I'm fine right yeah well I mean we're heading in that direction that's for sure but today we've got a few light sprinkles on radar from stretching from about Crookston southwestward to just west of Castleton moving slowly east and this isn't gonna amount to much it's just gonna be enough to tick you off if you washed your vehicle it's gonna be that about that amount of precip and that'll be out of here by oh nine nine thirty this morning it moves eastward and then we'll be left with partly to mostly cloudy 50 today with a west-southwest wind 10 to 20 and mainly cloudy tonight and a load of mid 30s and for Friday a little clipper system a week one pushes in from Canada bringing us clouds and chilly conditions for the trick-or-treaters highs only in the low 40s and we're looking at a few rain or snow showers throughout the day again it's not going to accumulate but it's just a minor event and then the weekend holds two different stories Saturday 40s with partly cloudy skies and then we're up to 60 as we head into Sunday so Sunday looks nice and mild but it will be on the side we're looking at winds we're looking at winds up to 30 you know I don't see it being as strong as it was the other Sunday but still breezy breezy to windy but heck you know you get 60 degrees or so on Sunday that's not bad next week next week's forecast kind of up and down I'll run down those details coming up here about 650 or so alrighty how's the tooth doing you know good thankfully I didn't have to worry about the dry socket I 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Wolford he's from the sign them to the practice squad he went to Wake Forest he spent a lot of time since 2018 he was undrafted a bunch of different teams most recently with the Jaguars last year he's 30 years old I don't know we need somebody that can just take a snap and maybe just hand it off kind of the hope there the twins have found their new manager they're reporting that Derek Sheldon Shelton Derek Shelton is the new manager of the twins Rocky's gone Rocco is gone and so this is the new guy he spent the last six seasons managing the Pirates he got fired in May so they one gets fired given to picking him up watched a bit of the Timberwolves last night got beat by the Lakers by one 116 115 I went to bed right at halftime Randall led with 33 Julius six and five on the assists and rebounds they're missing Anthony Anthony Edwards we'll see they hit the road three-game series start Saturday it'll be Charlotte playing the Hornets tip-off scheduled for five o'clock our time a couple of 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that's we've been saying that forever Trump's shutting down the grift yes he's that doge really shined a light on a lot of it for people who didn't know what was going on we all know now we're all on to you you need to knock it off and those that have been doing it need to leave because you're not gonna get away with it any longer it's not we're not we're not putting up with it we're not getting any more thievery that's saying man you look you tell me that somehow some way in Minnesota with now over a billion with a B in fraudulent go down the list from daycare to autism centers everything's and you sign to tell me somehow that walls knew nothing about any of that or anybody at that level of government in Minnesota didn't know anything about any of that going on didn't have any unless somebody's getting paid to not pay attention have Dean look at about nine ten years ago no snow at Christmas okay okay you're right Hakeem is a real scholar I'm sure he was a valedictorian of his class he said the Republicans are the reasons that the Affordable Care Act isn't affordable yeah can you say DEI yeah the Affordable Care Act isn't affordable because it's the Affordable Care Act if you look at how it works it's and these people just think money grows on trees let's keep growing the money and we'll just keep spending it and stealing it keep it coming 7 0 1 2 3 7 15 90 is the number all right yeah all right majority leader soon he delivered a fiery speech on the Senate floor on day 29 of the federal government shutdown let me just point out if I might that we are 29 days into a Democrat shutdown and the senator from New Mexico was absolutely right snap recipients shouldn't go without food people should be getting paid in this country and we've tried to do that 13 times you voted no 13 times this isn't a political game these are real people's lives that we're talking about and you all just figured out 29 days in that oh there might be some consequences there people run out of money yeah we're 29 days in and they've done their best to make sure that a lot of these programs are funded but at some point the government runs out of money 13 times people over here front voted to fund snap 13 times they voted to fund wick I aching back finally realized this thing has consequences by a kid ass well you know what what Democrats are doing here they're making plans to keep the shutdown going and they realize all of a sudden 29 days in that this is a real consequence real-life pain for American families something that results from their shutdown so are they making plans to end the shutdown and reopen the government nope they're gonna propose a bill to fund food stamps during their shutdown yeah no that's what they want to do just to piecemeal this thing together it's not gonna work though no I I'm I'm fine I'm I'm just keep it shut down we've been saying shut it down now it's shut down now yeah I'm fine with it well they will the Dems need to come to their senses they're playing games with people's lives here let them hang out there so I'm saying this president this request is a transparent admission the Democrats want to keep the shutdown for what another month longer this bill is a cynical attempt to provide political cover for Democrats to allow them to carry on their government shutdown for the long term I'll point out we did 13 short-term clean CRS when they had the majority and President Biden was in the White House 13 which was ridiculous as well they've not voted 13 times against a clean CR I don't wear you I don't have no idea where you're coming from the Democrat leader said that President Trump could end this with a stroke of his pen and he's right we passed that bill with a stroke of his pen he'll sign it in law there you go and the government opens up and snap beneficiary snap recipients get food assistance but you know what else TSA workers get paid air traffic controllers get paid Border Patrol agents get paid troops get paid these people here get paid who are working without pay you want to extend that and keep that going yeah it's ridiculous they they want people to feel the pain and they think the Republicans are gonna cave and give illegals benefits not going to happen well and we have to hope and pray that the electorate is smart enough to see who's doing what here yeah the polls aren't good for the Democrats people know yeah hopefully no one's buying any of the Hakeem Hakeem crap that he's yeah well there's more programs that are going to be affected that we don't hear about so the people who aren't going to get the benefit of what they're trying to do today mr. president are all the other programs that are listen to all these head start grants to law enforcement to fight fentanyl and hire more cops to protect communities rural development programs they're important in my state center from New Mexico State I assume as well that support housing utilities infrastructure projects in rural communities small business loans certain direct loan and emergency programs that farmers rely on National Guard training critical to our nation's military readiness veterans transition assistance as they come out of service veterans cemetery services right now there are no headstones memorial certificates cemetery maintenance programs that are at risk rental and housing assistance delays in processing FHA insured loans delays in aircraft inspections and maintenance for air traffic control equipment not good people that are currently not getting paid I mentioned some of them but air traffic controllers TSA officers Capitol Police the people who protect us in this building NOAA employees who are tracking hurricanes and other potential weather disruptions disasters food inspectors other food and drug safety officials mine safety inspectors people who don't have pay certainty right now troops Coast Guard ice Border Patrol federal law enforcement federal wire line why chef I should say federal wildland fighters firefighters extenders that have lapsed telehealth and at-home care community health centers teaching health centers special diabetes programs payments for ambulances hospital at home services other lapsed authorizations CISA to prevent against cyber attacks national flood insurance program to prevent cloture or closure I should say on homes in flood zones that's what you're leaving on the table the bill at the desk takes care of all of it fun snap funds wick and yes with a stroke of a president's the president's pen he can sign into law and everybody starts getting paid again huh I like that why not that's a lot of agencies not getting paid they need to be they're important boy the Democrats are the party itself is just so lost isn't it it's it's so sad it's like because they've got the mom Donnie's and the Democratic Socialists I mean the lunatics over there they got their head in the sand then you got like Federman and a few others going uh what what are we what are we doing here I didn't I didn't sign on for any of this and meanwhile the the conservative side of the aisle is just common sense and stuff that has to be done they just keep showing out no I don't say are man unreal well the Dems they're just turning a blind eye to the suffering truly this is gotta stop hostage-taking now you want some political cover how long is this gonna go on how much how much longer you want to see it go on just a curiosity yeah so you think this buys some time you want the shutdown to go on for another month or leverage and then we're gonna have another people come down here and well let's carve this out or carve this out why don't we just open the government why don't we I've never seen anything like this I've been here a good amount of time I've seen continuing resolutions and appropriations problems and funding fights and government shutdowns I've been through a few I've never seen anything like this this just isn't done you want to have a discussion about health care absolutely let's do it open the government let's do it president will sit down with Democrats next week if you want to talk about health care that's not what this is about so mr. president we're not gonna pick winners and losers it's time to fund everybody who's experiencing the pain from this shutdown the Democrats really want to fund snap and wick I have a bill for them sitting right there at the desk clean nonpartisan CR to fund snap wick and the entire government and all the many programs and people that the Democrats snap bill completely ignores this president Democrats have spent a month a month now playing with people's livelihoods because the far left wing of their party won't let them accept a clean nonpartisan CR there it is right there yep damage from their shutdown they can end the shutdown bills right here at the desk right here at the desk you want to shut it down let's shut it down and what do they again they want leverage leverage for what they're holding out they won't vote for it because of why orange man we hate him why they want PBS funding back they want USAID nonsense drag shows in Ghana whatever the hell they want the griff back all of it most of all they want their illegal resident voters to get health care that's the griff there they don't want to lose kickbacks from that great stuff man need to know morning show on the flag be right back at a pretty good-looking weekend although windy you know has the details coming up a.m. 1100 FM 92.3 the flag it's the need-to-know morning show Kevin and Alex what year my friends was men at work and who can it be now number one 1980 something that I gotta go it's 84 or 85 I know it was when I grad I can't one I think it was when I graduated 85 okay 86 82 it was earlier than that why I was in your college days actually that are oh no that was still high school high school young about four away from seven six fifty six happy Thursday Halloween tomorrow yeah we're okay I mean it's no big like snow just be a little a little bit of that rain snow mix it's not going to be a sailboat it's at least we're not dealing and like I said last year at this time we had a big snow but not this year and we're looking at partly cloudy skies out there today we've got temperatures currently in the low to mid 30s and there's a little bit of light sprinkles stretching from about Crookston down to Castleton moving slowly eastward the kind of dying out so I'm not expecting much more than sprinkles out of this and that's only for the next couple of hours and then a quiet day 54 high west-southwest winds 10 to 20 down into the low to mid 30s tonight and tomorrow a clipper system comes our way bringing us clouds a few rain or snow showers again this is not going to be a big deal tomorrow chillier with highs in the low 40s then sunshine returns on Saturday looks like mid 40s and then 60 or so on Sunday it will be breezy winds gusting up to 30 and then looks like we're stuck in the 50s that's not a bad place to be stuck for for most of next week I see temperatures in the 50s a couple of minor weak systems coming our way Tuesday and then towards the end of next week but I don't see any big storms on the horizon not too shabby say did you see on the news this guy was driving with frosted frost on his windshield and he hit a pedestrian I heard about that are you kidding me what first off not get ah scrape your window right I mean it's even if you don't have your scraper and if you're on a windshield if you're on a windshield frosters on and then you turn the wipers on how's the pedestrian don't be an idiot I don't know yeah I saw that I saw that don't be an idiot clean your car off really oh yeah kicks me off I get it totally yeah the drive as much as I do buddy yeah everything takes you crazy crazy out there see the video of the guy that got pulled over in Arkansas somewhere near me clothes on some illegal immigrant yeah in the truck he's driving a big rig no clothes and the 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the guy behind him is laughing and it says on top if Trump is a Nazi and Trump won the popular vote that means that most people believe the Democrats are worse than Nazis I heard texture says I heard snap recipients spend more on groceries because they don't have to shop smart 440,000 in Minnesota Wow I I don't know how that works I've never gotten EBT or any of that stuff I don't I know people that have and you can't lump them all together maybe some are a little smarter with their money than others you know the ones that stand out and all the ones on social media now saying they're gonna go start stealing yeah they don't do it give us our money we're gonna steal it yeah okay some real special folks out there to have seen Tom yeah Tom Hamilton the rap artist shares a bunch of them all the time it's like wow who are these people how about you go to go to work go we'll get a job get a job at that Walmart you're ripping off yeah the USDA will allow 42 million people to be on food stamps and WIC well the DOI or whatever says you can't feed the wild animals in the National Parks because they will come dependent on the hand the free handouts a little irony in that isn't there yeah don't feed the animals they'll be they'll come back to the campground and keep coming up they won't they won't go away feel the pain it says because the because the voted for Trump securing borders and end wars feel the pain I don't know what that is but there's a ha ha in the end there I don't know I think the government should stay shut down pay the military and aircraft air traffic controllers with tariff money I think it should be the state's responsibility to make sure their residents have enough to eat well there you go some states are doing better than others hey guys on the naked driving driver most old truckers no longer use CBs because if drivers do speak English all they do is sit in truck stops and tell you I ain't got no panties on huh trucking ain't what it used to be come on and then the thing with the someone said like truck stops big truck stops are worse than like the worst parts of Vegas when it came to working girls and things like that you know I don't know I'd all I know is people that can't read the roadsides probably shouldn't be driving 80,000 no if you can't speak English that's and there's your sign to thanks I Gavin all these other states that are giving out license to people who obviously didn't earn them and if you haven't seen the video this guy the police officers like do you speak English what company do you work at California hey guys did you see crying Chuck try out his acting lessons yesterday he was madder than hell and had himself whooped up into a froth swearing like a sailor oh yeah that's all they've got is swearing we've got some good stuff for you from team coming up you like that one too pretty sad one more here and then we'll roll that Tivo Democrat backfire the government shutdown has awakened a public about how many people are on food stamps 59% of the 42 million are receiving snap but they are not American citizens also a great deal of snap recipients trade some of their food stamps for cash yeah that's true oh it's a whole racket yeah it's a racket we know it mm-hmm no doubt about it keep them coming Oh good Facebook link here too let's see we are literally watching the death of the Democratic Party you're right you're right it's it's gone and the rise of the Socialist Democrat Party the common dummies you think that's how's it gonna work out for you really and we're in the in the big picture of America go to a football stadium in Kansas and fly over country it doesn't matter I guess rocks and cows let's roll this Tivo I want to hear Mark Wayne senator Mark Wayne Mullen tells America's newsroom that he slams the Dems for using Schumer shutdown as leverage Dana we have a lot of tribes obviously in our state and so we have a lot of reservations I'm Cherokee myself when I was younger and we had seven of us kids at home we were on what they call commodities which is a form of SNAP program and it's a helping hand for a lot of these people in rural areas and reservations that may not have the same economic opportunities as some metropolitan areas and so it is I wouldn't say disproportionately high but it is high throughout the state and it's ridiculous that as Kathleen Kathleen Clark the number two ranking Democrat in the house said that they understand families are suffering but quote it's their only leverage point they're using American people for leverage because of political gain so we're not talking about Dana policy there's no policy discussion here this is all about a leverage point for political purposes and that's really hard to negotiate on the only thing we're asking them to do is reopen the government on a clean CR that Chuck Schumer wrote when he was leader of the Senate back set but back in September we're not asking to vote on anything they haven't voted for before either they voted on this in September they passed it they voted for the Democrats all of them voted for it in December they passed it they voted for it in January and they voted for it again in March what's changed is the political environment their base demanded that they shut down the government and they shut it down and now they're looking to play the to play the blame game and try to pin it on Republicans or try to pin it on on on on the president when even CNN's own poll shows that they're losing at that argument because American people aren't fools but they play them like they are well I mean just to follow up on Dana's point I don't know how we ended up with 1 in 8 million Americans that's right supplemental benefits I don't know how that happened well Biden economics what do you mean well he I mean you think about you had inflation at 9.45 as a high when Biden was in office you had in home or you had take-home pay drop you had wages drop you saw prices soar because of inflation and we're just now getting those numbers back to where they need to be because President Trump has brought the economy back you'll see those those individuals transition off as jobs come back as manufacturing jobs come back with middle-class livable wages you'll see those programs be less dependable or less desirable for those that have more income coming into their house yeah by nomics we can blame it a lot of it on there yeah they wanted more people on these programs though because more people on programs equal more Democrat voters well how do you like your Democrats now people amen and pay attention to what he said why this is going to be coming back and nothing again nothing's going to happen overnight but over the next three years pay attention what's coming back will be coming in as they get rid of the waste fraud and abuse that's in the system and and bring manufacturing back bring we have we have well over half a million trade jobs open right now I mean there's all kinds of things that are going to transition in the next couple of years I'm excited well and a lot of this would be helped to if our government computers could talk to each other and get on the same page so we can figure out if there's any inconsistencies right away and flag them I still pray that that's happening I know it is a transportation because I think Sean Duffy's all over that but you're right yeah for the paper trail money can't be moved from the snap program and negotiations are at a standstill okay so it's snap food aid it's head start it's air traffic control essential travel essential air travel awesome military pay here's the vice president on that JD Vance yes we believe that we can continue to pay the troops on Friday unfortunately we're not gonna go and pay everybody because we've been handed a very bad hand by the Democrats this is one of the reasons why you've seen some layoffs in the federal workforce we do think that we can continue paying the troops at least for now but we've got food stamp benefits that are set to run out in a week we're trying to keep as much open as possible we just need the Democrats to actually help us out so I know there's a way to move around money for a lot of these programs and some of that's happening right now but on the Senate side behind the scenes can you report today whether or not there is any movement on negotiations no we we have lost movement about nine days ago with the Democrats their demands are still the same 1.5 trillion dollars to reopen the government to bring back the fraud waste and abuse that one big beautiful bill cut out and give you know illegal immigrants health care again that's not a talking point that literally is what they're there that what they're wanting to do for us a lot of people have questions why can't the president move the money why if he can pay the troops why can't he fund these programs within the Department of War we always give flexibility for the Department of War to flex just in case of times of war and uncertainty and so there's a there's a chunk of money that gives them flexibility through the USDA and the SNAP program it's line item appropriation it's directly related for that and they cannot move funds in those areas unless Congress gives consent the Senate won't even pay essential employees right now will the Republicans will but the Democrats won't want even vote to pay essential employees much less allow those benefits to move and we wouldn't have to do this honestly if they would just simply vote to reopen the government on a clean CR that they wrote I mean it's that simple we could get this whole problem solved today in five minutes if they would vote for a clean CR and they voted for it before now all of a sudden it's a problem well they voted for it before because it included all the pork that's the other thing around they always they voted for it every time because they could because Schumer could put remember all that crap they used to put in at the last minute oh yeah you gotta pass it before we read this is that yeah but this is what they voted for before they they voted for this one last time around and it was perfectly fine without any extra pork well it had pork in it because right and they want back in it is the pork that it had it before you know anyway they need to just figure this out and they they keep saying that yeah they can move the snap money around no they can't no there's no money left to do it nope and sorry we're selling the casino guys it's it's over so go get get in get a new gig or figure it out a couple of texts here every company that employs non-us truckers should be shut down 60,000 more jobs could be added for u.s. citizens and do we have those for many drivers so I think but how about we do a little vetting be good you know drive a semi if you want to know you can read the road signs that'd be good and do that be super Dino's here got to get into the weather get some sports get a business report at the bottom of the hour got some headlines Austin Erickson in the newsroom and Steve Carney a little bit later on after the top of the hour getting ready for the rifle seasons in Minnesota North Dakota then South Dakota opens two weeks after we open a week from this weekend what's the and you probably aren't that far out but a week from tomorrow is the North Dakota opener you know and a week from Saturday is a Minnesota so I I do see some cooler weather coming in around that time okay but nothing cold I mean nothing you know what I mean nothing yeah to really like whoa and we better watch out for that but I do see a little more a slightly more active pattern as we start off this month of November next week but they look like weak systems very fast-moving weak systems so that again we're just are we on borrowed time are we just gonna get are we gonna get paid back for for this nice weather you think of course we are this summer when I want to be in the swimming pool but we are looking at a few light showers on radar right now stretching from just north of northeast of Crookston down through Castleton moving eastward I think we'll see a band of a light shower activity pushing through the FM area here within the next hour and then we're looking at partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies for the rest of the afternoon highs close to 50 today with the west-southwest wind 10 to 20 winds shift to the northwest tonight 10 to 15 and lows dropping off in the low to mid 30s and tomorrow we're looking at a clipper system coming our way cloudy and chilly low 40s tomorrow with a few rain and snow showers but then the weekend dries out and we'll start to warm things up 40s on Saturday and near 60 on Sunday it will be a little bit on the windy side on Sunday nothing like last Sunday but we'll have some pretty breezy conditions up up to or in excess of 30 but last last Sunday I mean it was over 50 yes you don't want to be on the ladder putting up the Christmas lights in the way you know not 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Big Game James is on assignment this morning I can tell you the couple of sports headlines I got the Twins found a new manager guys been with the Pirates the last six seasons he got let go from there they signed him to a deal Derek Shelton it's a guy's name Derek Shelton coming in to replace Rocco Timberwolves got by the Lakers 116 115 the target center last night without Anthony Edwards they're hitting the road for three Saturday Charlotte tip off their five o'clock FanDuel Sports Network North has the game I don't know where to find that but good luck World Series Toronto took down the stinking Dodgers six to one it was beautiful it's rookie this Trey Yesavage unbelievable Yesavage I think that's how they pronounce his name just a huge kid and he just dominated him so Toronto's up three games to two could end everything tomorrow seven o'clock game on Fox Toronto up three games to two if they need a game seven it'll it's in Toronto tomorrow and then they'll be back in Los Angeles on on Saturday why and I think I don't forget how many years it's a lot of years since Toronto's had the win for Canada but it's a stinking Dodgers so I guess I'm better with it Vikings are adding a quarterback they sure need to John Wolford kid that played at Wake Forest that Kevin O'Connell coached for a couple of seasons when he was in with the Rams but sent to the practice squad read about him John Wolford he's 30 years old we need somebody puck drop at seven for the Wild and the Penguins that'll be tonight on the FanDuel Sports Network North again and then just note your calendar tomorrow we've got Davies and Mandan kicking off at 7 on the flag Dragons and Bemidji State noon on Saturday and then on WDAY spuds at Woodbury tomorrow night Concordia and Bethel coming up on Saturday that is a check of your sports page need to know morning show on the flag we'll get a business report in here some headlines then we'll roll more Tebow standby no doubt gonna be chatting about the upcoming 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on I don't think they're on the same page I don't you know that's well that's that's the little conflict so sometimes people like to make a big deal out of it but yeah I agree illegals illegal hey guys the truck driver with no clothes on was parked in an unauthorized spot yes he was this is what attracted the police to him he was undoubtedly in his sleeper and it went downhill from there on I believe he was sitting in the seat of the video I was he was in this front seat with not none naked a bird maybe he just got up out of the sleeper and wasn't ready to but yeah parked illegally I don't know speak English get some pants on there sir sir put some pants on huh oh god bless our law enforcement what you deal with I can't even tell you it was that was a fun video Kev Alex nail the coffin on the nail in the coffin on the Democratic Party they're creating DDD Democratic Debbie Downers like Kevin says about ready to stick a fork in those those folks yeah I they're so divided they're so fractured they and what they're fractured over is nonsense the it's like the really extreme stuff versus the well pretty extreme stuff yeah it's all pretty wild but okay knock yourself out with it memes and links thank you much on that one got a good shot of it's it's a Trump and G together and I tell you what and what is I won't get into what it says but the guy is you see Biden doing that ever anybody know and no at least he's there and he's coming away with a big deal we're the big deal so the soybean bins might be emptied soon let's hope for that 701 237 1590 the five you say on the TV yeah we're gonna go to the five they're talking about day 29 of the consumer shutdown we need five Democrat senators to pull their heads out of their go work for the United States yeah pull their heads up it's in Congress trying to smack some sense into Democratic leaders for keeping the government shut down now on day 29 there's some big deadlines loom the troops are on the verge of missing a paycheck and funding for a snap food stamps is set to run out this week and Democrats are refusing to fudge because it's easier to blame the orange man on Saturday for the first time in American history a vicious heartless president is cutting off food stamps this president is a liar he says there's no money to provide food stamps because of the shutdown that's Donald Trump is trying to weaponize hunger to pressure people on Capitol Hill the Dems are banking on Republicans getting the blame if food banks start overflowing but CNN's data guru says not so fast Republican Congress's net approval rating versus pre-shutdown it's rallying the base for sure look at this the net approval rating up 12 points versus pre-shutdown but it's not just with the base it's also with the middle of the electorate look at this among independents it's up eight points as well so we've got a situation here where Republicans with the shutdown are actually rallying their base but it's also something that's not hurting them with the folks in the middle anything it's helping them with folks in the middle you know Dana I think the Dems could have gotten away with the shutdown is the Republicans fault before Musk bought X but the population is too savvy so if you say oh they create the house and Senate Jessica a ten-year-old can easily refute that by just saying no you need 60 and that's on the Democrats and the Democrats is just I think the Republicans have a very simple message the Democrats shut down the government the Democrats could reopen the government that's yeah that's how you do it they shut it down they can reopen it yep this is not hard yeah they won't because they want the they don't want the casino closed come on well you know what the poll numbers aren't looking very good I do think the polling shows that it's hurting Democrats it's actually hurting Schumer and his polling numbers were low to begin with it's sort of ironic to that the Democrats all say that Trump is a wannabe dictator he's a fascist and they say that he needs to share no Kings but yet now they're saying he's the only one that could reopen the government they could actually reopen the government they could do it tomorrow senator Thune had that was the most animated I have ever seen that very he was a guy who's mad he said we've tried to do what they want to do 13 times there was a senator on today that said don't let the Democrats vote piecemeal and I think that that's the right tact mm-hmm Emily it's day 29 it's getting pretty bad Jerry Nadler is now buying generic diapers but do you think that when you it feels like the key to the Democrats success is other people's suffering they're basically taking their own constituency and holding them like in this kind of like threat this threat I don't know what you call it hostage thank you yeah I think it's it's an abomination because they're doing that from the safety and comfort of their own offices while they're enjoying their paychecks yeah yeah they like the suffering it seems like they they are picking and choosing winners they're like okay we want to fund snap but the rest of you know you're not going to get any money so they trying to piece field nail this thing together and it's it's not working it's what they always do Joey Jones says 10% of the country's snap goes to New York when it comes to this government shutdown Americans are sitting there going wait hold on two things are true right you can you can fund the government the same way it was funded for seven weeks and then the president said he would negotiate with you on the health care stuff before that time limit comes up why is that a bad deal why doesn't that work for you and why doesn't it work from because they don't think they'll win that negotiation either and that's the problem when Chuck Schumer stands up there and he uses cuss words what he's really saying is every opportunity I've had to advocate for my constituents that want the policies I advocate for I've failed at this entire time and this is my last opportunity to get anything I would like to get done because I'm not very good at my job anymore and this is all I have and in the meantime people who vote for him are hurting and I don't see why they would swing towards supporting what he's doing on the snap thing just real quick almost 700 million of eight billion dollars a month comes the New York New York for snap that's almost 10% of the country's snap comes to New York and that's before mom Donnie becomes mayor of this place I mean I think you said a few seconds ago why are people on snap why they continue to need to be on snap and maybe it does need things like work requirements work requirements that are so difficult that if you're under the age of 64 or if you have a child over the age of 14 80 hours a week you have to look for a job train for a job or volunteer oh my god I don't know how anybody could do that I think that's a little irony there yeah get a job like most people do well that's how you get out this is like kovat was like the perfect storm for all this nonsense and now here we are Wow yeah unreal oh well I'm gonna save you from too much Jessica here but this sums up her argument it's the Republicans fault so Gregory I have shown you that my tweet wasn't dumb sorry the Republicans fault if you are in charge you have to negotiate and just saying over and over we need to open the government and then we have to do it you have relation we have to negotiate meaning we have to give into you have to give something that we tell I think and what are you playing just just allowing this to happen is is is a cooperation you guys have to actually somehow stop lying to us about these benefits nothing that I have said is a lie nothing at all if you get here for illegal 90% of the big beautiful bill and you have to protect Americans health care which by the way they'll reward you at the polls because guess what people like to have health care coverage and they don't want to see their premiums go for 114% you will not be mocking me you will be bowing down at my old saved your party yes yeah when it first started I said we all know how this is going to end it will end with the Democrats caving the pain is optional they continue the suffering oh I like the way you say that hey I'm Dana the pain is optional sit over there I'll be back in five minutes we all know how it's gonna end they're gonna have to cave and she's right the pain is optional no one has to suffer just sign this thing and get it over with well and Jessica Tarloff they have to negotiate that thing oh shit no we're not getting the answers no there's no middle ground there's no negotiating the answers no on this done the benefits for illegal for health care the answers no on PBS and all of that the answers no we're not negotiating over that's the answers no on that so anything else you got and nobody this has got to be like an 80-20 thing but we'll we'll see I just Jessica Tarloff oh my gosh sorry beautiful need to know morning show on the flag be right back with a three-degree guarantee welcome back it's the need to know morning show on the flag great memes coming in this morning the with all that's going on the Hakeem Jeffrey ones are the best thank you for all of them 7 0 1 2 3 7 15 you got a hawk when you say I was just noticing it was on the state in 1974 and as a young man in the boxing world it was the rumble in the jungle today you know did you know a boxing fan when you were oh yeah yeah that was Ali knocked out Foreman to regain the heavyweight title at the time and it was in Zaire Africa that's the rumble in the jungle name to it but yeah Foreman gets laid out and I'm guessing that's the day he probably went into the grill business okay I remember those yet those Tyson pay-per-view pay-per-view fights we'd get oh man back in the day no Ali in the rope a dope right yeah if Ali everybody be like the was soap it was theatrics of like no no no no Foreman hit like a freight train if you're on against the ropes you take some of that some of that shot out of it you can maybe beat the guy cuz Foreman was a beast yeah the day three degree guarantee time brought to you by the window and door store the WD store.com they guarantee their work in their products as long as you are in your home the WD store.com you had to be all over it yes oh you finally yeah we forecasted 49 and the actual high yesterday was 49 oh you're such a while it's been a while since today we're gonna go the big 5-0 now we've got a few light sprinkles that are moving through the FM area currently that'll last for about an hour and then move eastward in the lakes country and then it'll be a dry day partly to mostly cloudy again the big 5-0 with the west-southwest wind 10 to 20 low to mid 30s tonight and then rain and snow showers in the forecast for tomorrow with highs only in the low 40s it's not going to interfere with trick-or-treating don't worry we're not gonna have any accumulating snow tomorrow but today's three degree guarantee once again the big 5-0 oh boy I'm glad you rounded it up thank you like that we like to keep things simple right nice even 50s good for me what's going on in Holly weird well South Park has come up with a special Halloween episode it's going to air Halloween night called the woman in the hat it's going to have to do with Trump's demolition of the East Wing okay so I might have to check that out it sounds like it might be funny yeah I have an out of shame to say I love South it's it's kind of funny yeah that Christy gnome episode when her face was falling off was pretty funny too okay and overall but speaking of Halloween Halloween candy is up almost 11% over last year seems more than that though when I've been looking at it Lisa chocolates way up yeah they had like salted nut rolls were like two for a buck fifty I'm like or two bucks or like a buck a piece what are you kidding me Wow yeah only murders in the building has been renewed for a sixth season and this time they're going to be off to London foggy Oh London town and they discovered a new dr. Seuss manuscript featuring the cat in the hat and that's going to be published next year so that'll be kind of cool I love the dr.

Seuss books and Dairy Queen has some holiday blizzards in the lineup peppermint bark blizzard the holiday nog shake frosted sugar cookie blizzard and yeah I guess that's it so those are kind of fun yeah and that in Moscow Moxie Java you're golden well heck yeah and those are my headlines entertaining or not you decide always entertaining my friend well we kick off the NFL season tonight it's weird and the we'll find out tomorrow if the World Series is over it's crazy I'm up I'm all about my brain is all about deer hunting getting the opener here and the rifle should say the rifle opener haven't gotten out to the out to do any bow hunting I do have a tag I just haven't haven't found the time but I'm getting excited because Minnesota opens a week from Saturday North Dakota opens a week from tomorrow 12 noon we'll talk to Steve Carney about that and more after the top of the hour he's our outdoors guru with that Steve Carney outdoors calm it's Carney with a C Steve Carney outdoors that 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and bumpers amazing beautiful stuff find out more at ATI Fargo dot-com yo Steve Carney how you doing brother I'm doing great I had a sleepless night because I'm on cloud nine oh my goodness this is a story for the ages I have never had an hold on before we get started hold on hold on Steve before we get started Kev do we need some mood music for this I don't know do we need the 40 point buck song queued up or 30 pointer yeah yeah yeah that one let's go all right here I am I go out to my soybean field last night and I brought Eunice my plastic dough decoy with me Eunice sits in my pole building most of the year okay so I brought out Eunice and put her out in front of my ground blind and my ground blind was up in the woods about 40 yards away from the southeast wind so was all smashed up so I brought it back set it up put Eunice out in front about 15 yards half hour later I see this giant dough I mean it had a huge head on it there was probably a four-year-old and it's like 500 yards across the soybean field she's looking at my decoy looking looking looking here she comes right on Oh yeah and so she stops about every 20-30 yards wolfing at my decoy she's stomping the ground coming and coming and coming and coming she gets about 25 yards and turns I fire my arrow and I put it right through my window side window of my ground blind you know right through the canvas and it just goes BAM and the arrow goes into the dirt and it made this gigantic loud noise I've done this before I've done this before I've hit the edge of the window before so she takes off takes off three four hundred yards across the soybean field stops again turns looks at my decoy she comes back again where she comes again and she's blowing at me blow blow which usually means goodbye and she's blowing and she comes in and she does the head bob if you've ever seen them do this yeah bring it up really quick yeah only on the hunting shows like on the whisper channels I see things like that but you really don't see that out of out of does that often protecting though the the girl the girls stand up it's just it's just amazing they do this to try to get the decoy to move or get some sort of movement she comes in drops her head what whips it up really fast trying to get you to move and she's stomping the ground here she comes right back to me stops at about 30 yards this time I made a successful shot went about 50 yards it was just a magical thing this is like 25 minutes this whole thing went on and you know usually when they're gone and you screw up they're gone but he came back it was so cool that's my story like a 30 point buck story or something but hey a nice does a nice dough that's fun I had to get help to get it in the back of my truck it was that big you know normal normally these big does like this are so smart that it's pretty hard to fool them with a decoy but I tell you it was just magical to watch that interaction between that deer and my plastic decoy it was just so cool to watch and it was plenty of light out you know it was just magical it was so cool got a just a note in from the newsroom sidebar here a 19th Avenue North by the Air Museum there's a crash up there and the traffic's being diverted around so if you're a commuter whatever brings you to 19th Avenue by the airport by the Air Museum they're diverting traffic as of right now I just want to long got that in so a week from tomorrow at 12 noon the North Dakota rifle opener and then of course Minnesota a week from Saturday everything I'm seeing looks good everybody's seeing deer I've seen a lot of good bow good bow takes I haven't I feel bad I still have a bow tag I'm more of an after rifle season with my bow than I am early but I don't think I'm alone there but I think the numbers are good what's your plan you know you're gonna be hunting close to home or where you gonna be on week from Saturday well you know you guys I don't gun hunt for deer I'm strictly a bow guy and I'm now tagged out so no no I'm I start turning to ducks now when you guys are up on the tree stands I'm on the water and I'm still waiting for a little bit of a push from ducks there's nothing absolutely nothing going on right now but the fishing is really good so I'll be fishing and then duck hunting pheasant hunting and letting you guys have the woods anymore because I don't care it's good to have you in a happy mood today Steve the ducks apparently are all in the Dakotas right from what I'm seeing tons of pictures from South Dakota and out by Bismarck that and they're crushing some pheasants out there too but not so much in Minnesota well this so you know you guys this southeast wind has been plaguing us for like a week it's southeast southeast we've got to get northwest and get a big push getting some redheads and cans in here and I think it's going to happen and you know many years they will come down during the firearms deer season everybody's deer hunting nobody's duck hunting and that can be fantastic so I'm not giving up hope yet it's probably going to happen and we could use some really cold weather and I don't see that either but then fishing will be really good I mean it's been good and it'll just continue to get better so a lot of stuff going on all right well congratulations on the story did you do you ever film any of your stuff do you are you just you just out there yourself oh I really don't I don't have a face for the camera I have a radio if you want yeah I do I live it go to Steve Carney outdoors comm it's Carney with a C that is a great story by the way there and good luck with the fight on the ducks man I think you got to go west though yeah well we'll see in the next week time will tell take care you guys have a great Halloween you bet you too Steve Carney the great Steve Carney Steve Carney outdoors comm yeah it's weird I've seen a ton of swans around lakes country Minnesota but the ducks and a bunch of geese here and there but it's weird I don't know it was the fires or whatever but flyways have all been pushed west but that seems to be the case all right need to know morning show on the flag it's Kevin and Alex getting ready to put a fork in her got more Tivo to wrap up yeah we've got Trace Gallagher with a panel and then he's got some sound from Hakeem you're gonna want to hear all right need to know morning show on the flag we'll wrap it up next coming up on 824 need to know morning show on the flag Dino's got a forecast here and this isn't you ever seen the listen listen into the to the advertiser trying to renovate the big Warlitzer you ever seen the big the big pipe organ at the theater yeah Dean you ever been down there you ever seen this not in here yeah okay that's a worthy that's a worthy renovation that thing is that that is a that is like a work of art so is the Fargo Theatre for that matter when you go in oh yeah it's cool talk about some history yeah let's throw this you got to hear Hakeem here a day 29 of the government shutdown and there is no end in sight we've got Trace Gallagher and he has some sound from Jeffries and a panel to discuss back to you but he's behind closed doors at least at this hour Kevin Cork live for us in DC Kevin thank you let's bring in California Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo and political consultant Michelle Bacchus thank you both for coming on Ali to you first I want to play some sound here Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are now kind of shifting this whole shutdown narrative that Republicans want people now to go hungry mm-hmm they have the money but they are choosing to withhold funding for snap because they want to punish hungry children yeah hungry veterans hungry seniors hungry women and hungry families as part of their continued effort to hurt everyday Americans nobody believes that I mean desperation thing and the other thing is why all the cussing why is Chuck Schumer you know and call the f-word with the president and everybody's got a cuss up on Capitol Hill what happened decorum I'm sorry watching that video just makes me so angry because if anybody watches that and believes for even a second that Democrats care about you they lie I said this earlier in the show Chuck Schumer lies Hakeem Jeffrey lies yeah they really cared about people getting their snap benefits they would get their senators there they would get the government back open and we would get back to business yeah pretty much yeah get the government back open it's it's not that hard yeah they do sound desperate don't think I mean they're swearing and all this fake indignation well listen when you listen to Jeffries it's all just you blame blame blame it's not us yeah it's just a harm and everybody's gonna die or whatever and open it up but all you gotta do open it up sign the papers sometimes are starting to wobble on the shutdown though meantime you had a Democratic senator who was actually challenged on one of his answers Michelle Bacchus it was on CNBC watch are you ready to vote with with the Republicans to reopen the government at this point as a reasonable Democrat maybe others would follow you I'm not there yet this is the right way to do it senator but by people not getting paychecks at the TSA that this is extortion you think this is the right way to do in your conscience you think it's the right way to do it oh he says he's not there yet it sounds to me like and you hear this a fair bit today the Democrats are starting to kind of feel that they might need to adjust Michelle yeah it seems like the Democrat propaganda machine just is not working but to his credit I actually give him credit for pushing this I mean you look at what's going on right now you have 42 million people in the Democrats continually want to blame Trump they want to blame the Republicans this is their stick it's time to give it up look the Democrats could have opened the government I mean they voted not to over a dozen times I don't think even the mainstream media can continue to believe the lies at this point it's just becoming preposterous yeah meantime you have Brooke Rollins the AG secretary on China trade she said the following here watch what's particularly rich about New York saying that or California or any of these other blue states that have filed the lawsuit they say oh no we're gonna go you guys USDA go find the money is it's their very friends partners colleagues Democrat elected officials that continue to vote over and over again to keep the government closed yeah I mean get the soybeans on a boat let's get this thing moving yeah right absolutely and what's funny is Gavin Newsom has called on the president saying you know we're gonna sue you to make sure we get our snap benefits out here well the truth is he can call his friends and we can make this happen pretty quickly if he wants to show his influence within the Democratic Party that he's trying so desperately to do out here in California if he wants to be helpful let's get the government back open let's make things happen and we can go back to our normal program of him challenging President Trump at every turn yeah it's amazing oh she's a rock star yeah so anyway that's the latest on this thing I don't know if they're voting again today hopefully they will and they can get this thing rolling well I want to see more of her she's a she's another one California Assemblywoman of State good-looking Republican woman again speaking a good-looking Dean what do you want nice weekend I think I could get that for you we've got to get there though first and we got a little light rain moving through the FM area right now that's slowly pushing eastward in the lakes country should be out of here within the hour and then we'll be left with partly to mostly cloudy skies for the day should be dry for the rest of the afternoon with highs around 50 west southwest winds 10 to 20 tonight winds shift to the northwest and we'll have mostly cloudy skies low to mid 30s and then a clipper system brings a little rain snow mix on Friday chilly highs only in the low 40s Sun returns for the weekend light winds on Saturday

This is the flag 50,000 watt patriotic blowtorch of the Red River Valley right Kev All across the great heartland of America Right on Busy-dang show today Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney Fargo City Commission member Dave pepcorn. We're going to fix that hot mess of downtown Evidently there are some calls That the Fargo PD is now not doing we're going to find out what that's all about. That's according to Commissioner pepcorn What else we got for you today the Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber's got a big announcement today on the Civic engagement piece.

We'll talk a little bit about that and Oh my gosh crack the code With the one and only Senator John Holman. We have that today We got Brian Kilmeade and Jimmy Fela a lot is what we have going today on what's on your mind We're going to start with something. It should be on your calendar If you care about keeping North Dakota business friendly if you care about low taxes if you care about low crime these folks Do a lot of good work making sure that Cass County Has Republicans that represent them in the legislature, and I can't explain why? But a lot of people in particular districts.

They might you know They're talking about Hovind a Kramer for door Chuck a little bit of Kelly Armstrong here And they're very often don't pay attention to the statewide office holders let alone legislators or school board members That is a very dangerous Which is why Carter? Eisinger chair of the Cass County Republicans. I call it the URC United Republican Committee is Active as an engineer has a day job Just says I got to get more involved So he joins us for a couple of minutes to tell us about an event coming up very soon Carter. How are you? How about you doing good, thank you very much, so did I describe Adequately or miss anything about what you guys are up to No absolutely URC is an organization of the Republican district chairs in Cass County Our mission is broad, but it has a singular focus to get Republicans elected all throughout our state and especially our county Of course as you know in Fargo a lot of our positions are nonpartisan so mayor city commissioner school board Our intent isn't to make those partisan positions But what we do as the URC is we endorse we research we talk to candidates and ultimately we put out endorsements We tell people in Cass County.

Hey, this is a candidate who agrees with your views this agrees with the Republican agenda Elect this person to this office help me understand what the Republican agenda is I'll give you two examples I know that I didn't like the fact that Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a legislation related to books that didn't belong in libraries He did it in his view based on the fact that it would be in court wouldn't stand up constitutionally I didn't much care. I'd have taken the court fight He also vetoed school choice legislation Because he didn't think it was Good enough, and we could do better I said let's start somewhere and so did a lot of other people, but Kelly Armstrong is a good governor and 99 point some odd percent of what he Put forward and the legislature ultimately approved was really good So when you define the Republican agenda because Republican agenda could have been what I'm describing on the books or the or the thing Some of us disagree. How do you make those decisions? And how do you decide what the Republican agenda is good? Yeah, no, I'm right there with you Scott some those were two decisions I personally didn't agree with but really the Republican agenda stems from the idea of party politics We need to find ways to work together to advance our most pressing common interests A lot of those are enshrined at the Republican Party platform.

You can go to the ND GOP website It's right there in shiny letters the Republican Party platform. This is what we stand for This is what our elected officials are expected to put forward as their policies in the legislature You know when it comes to those local positions, they aren't they aren't required We don't expect them to hold it every single part of the party platform in the same way They aren't Republicans the same way But at the end of the day right every you ask anybody what a Republican is They're going to give you a different answer that platform is what we agree on as our common interests Those are the things we fight for it's been a while since I read it. I don't remember if the school choice or the School library porn ban.

I don't remember if that was part of our platform, right? That's kind of where it stems from Scott. So that's what I'm fighting for. That's what I believe in Can you think of one thing in the platform that a majority of Republicans are not for that? You know, it's sort of like push and prod a little bit even for elected Republicans.

That is different than what's in the platform That's a good question Um, I sure hope there isn't I'm if you if you see something in the Republican Party platform that you don't agree with people should be getting involved at the district Level people should be showing up to the state convention. We're having our state convention I believe in my not this year if there's something in that platform that most Republicans don't agree with You need to show up to get that change get something changed get something added get something removed I would say do it in in a sense that if I am at Thanksgiving dinner and My sister is I don't know orange man bad or something. I don't know that I'm going to engage I'm just going to say well Here's what I think and maybe we can agree to disagree should the Republican Party work that way or should we go guns a-blazin and say? We're not going to endorse you.

We're not going to you know, help you or we're gonna oppose you What would be the better of the two approaches from your perspective? Well, I think a lot of it depends on the issue a lot of it depends on what revolves around that particular issue I see a meme kind of go around every now and then Scott Says no as kids we were taught not to talk about religion and politics in the dinner table What we really should have been taught is how to talk about religion and politics, right? There's a place for that a lot of times. I call my grandma She's lived in the Twin Cities, and she's very concerned about what's going on So we talk politics am I going to do the same thing with a random person off the street? Am I going to talk the same way to my grandmother as I talk to someone who I know doesn't agree with me? No, I'm not but at the same time right I'm not compromising my values if there's something I believe in and someone says hey like this is I don't I like how this is going I don't like how this is going if I disagree with that we can have a civil conversation. I think having civil conversations Figuring out where we agree and working on those things particularly.

I think that's how we move forward as a society and in politics Yeah, right now I'm gonna vote for you for state chair of the Republican Party because I think all this is a lot of common sense Without question, but you can conquer Cass County first and then take care of the rest from there But I agree and I love the line how we talk about politics because we should I think sometimes our Republican Party rank-and-file not all some Say Kelly does this wrong Hogan does this wrong Kramer does this wrong Julia? And I'm like okay look at how big of margins they win by Let's just talk about how we think differently in politics. Let's not burn the house down It sounds like we're aligned in that thinking quickly Tell me about politics in a plate when it is who will be speaking why you want to get it on folks's calendars Yeah, so the URC in Cass County has been doing politics on a plate for years a decades I'm told Big reason why we do those is because we want to put the electorate that voters you you to the scene to the station We want to put you in front of your elected officials We want to put you in front of people who are running for office who are your elected officials who are doing the work? That you may or may not agree with So every month at the Avalon usually the first Wednesday of the month Avalon provides an absolutely fantastic meal those chefs are just fantastic a couple months ago. We had brisket So I'm not promising what we're gonna have this month But just to let you know there's a lot of good food there so this month in November on November 5th We invited turning point so actually their regional director Dalton Nelson will be present at politics in a plate with us Doors open at 1130 on November the 5th.

You can go to you are C and D Org that's you are C and D org to sign up either pay online ahead of time or pay at the door We'll be there usually about an hour and a half great conversation. I'm sure he'll be taking questions And then in December just for everyone's awareness. We are having Cass County Commissioner Tony Grinberg attending So I'll kind of wrap up our 2025 series of politics in a plate We've got a lot of exciting people working on getting them lined up for the 2026 season going into election season in June So we'd love to see you there all are welcome Come if you'd like to get to know your local politicians a little bit more ask some tough questions here They're good answers, and yeah, that's exactly what we're trying to promote is that conversation between Not only people in Cass County, but between people in Cass County and their elected officials I know Dalton by the way you'll get a great briefing on turning point USA and what they're doing a post Losing their leader to assassination are we all lean into their group We have an event November 15th to and Carter.

You're invited as my guest to see Brian Kilmeade Jimmy Fela in our Charlie Cook Tribute Freedom matters USA calm for more information than that. I'm out of town next Wednesday I'd love to be there because I think it'd be great to hear from but the following Month for sure on Tony Grinberg great idea because we got a lean in on that as well Politics in a plate get it on your calendar next Wednesday Avalon food he's right. It's so good.

Okay, and Again, it's you are cnd.org for information and all the goodies there, right? Yep, thanks so much Scott. Thanks card Appreciate it Fargo mayor Tim Mahoney after this back on what's on your I'm busy news day Brian Kilmeade Jimmy Fela will join us Senator John Hoven on the program big big big economic development announcement that includes team Kevin O'Leary coming up Actually at the top of next hour. We're gonna do that a little earlier than usual to accommodate their schedule So stay tuned for that and remember coming up.

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How are you? Good Scott. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you Want to talk a little bit about the action Monday night at the City Commission meeting? I was thrilled I said it on the air yesterday.

I know we've talked about this a long time probably too long but you got an action plan and We're moving transitioning away from an engagement center to tell me about what the new facility will do and the name So it's a resource and referral center It's very similar what the VA does if you look at what the VA is done successfully in the community is they get all the vets Into housing get them into treatment get them into the places they need to be That is that next to the federal building quietly doing its work and everybody's been pleased with our outcomes We are working with Southeast Human Services to have a better system In which people can be referred taking care of get into addiction get into counseling get into mental health Those issues in a one-shot stop Monday through Friday eight to five and what we can do is then get people to the places they need to get We're coordinating also with Human Services the state of North Dakota governor and I've been talking about can we do it better than we've done it In the past so rotations through jails doesn't work rotations through mental health doesn't work We got to get some system in which people get into treatments and we manage it better than not As you know, I know you know Scott if people have mental health illness, so they don't take their meds They don't do well, so you got to get them in some kind of system in which people will respond to that So we see it as an opportunity we're gonna ask for donations from the community just like churches United We've got people that have said they would donate that money does not affect my budget in any way Does not affect what goes on in City of Fargo. We've set up a path forward There was a 4-0 vote to move it from downtown And it was a 3-0 vote last night And what we're gonna do is we're gonna raise the money if we don't raise the money We won't move forward so pretty straightforward by the way I heard it was called the Resource and Recovery Center. You mentioned referral is One of the other what is it? Hi could be recoveries too.

I'm sorry referrals kind of something. I've always put in there, but it's recovery Yeah, and resource obviously can be referral I I'm glad you're putting recovery in that because that's really talk to law enforcement It's the frequent flyers the same all the time the same ones and they need help You know and and recovery is a big piece of that you mentioned if you don't take your meds Well when you have mental health and health issues sometimes you don't want to take the meds, so then Then there is the challenge, and you know I the other piece of this I have to ask you is about harm reduction. That's the term they use in the big cities I've done a ride-along with law enforcement downtown Fargo before I've talked to community engagement folks And they'll say something like you know maybe they just need a bottle of water Maybe they need a meal and we got to start there because maybe they don't want a house They call it harm reduction.

I think that's cruel Right because I like the model that you're talking about much better human services is there you know recovery things are there There's there's all kinds of things don't do harm reduction. I fix the problem am I wrong Well the only thing about the harm reduction part of those people who get any kind of center like this are ten times as likely To get into a program if you don't have anything then that they drift And they don't get into anything if we have a program and there are ten times as likely Scott to Accept some help and get somewhere and get someplace else if you listen at some of the non You can listen to some of the people economy is flat right now You know that our sales tax is flat as it's ever been and it makes everybody concerned because we used to have a sales tax Three to five percent people aren't spending money right now But we feel that if we can kind of you catch people and get moving forward then that that'll be helpful And then to your other point on recovery your only opportunity our nonprofits then can go in this space so right now We don't have space for everybody to be in this building. We have this will allow nonprofits to come in space We have a variety different nonprofits that will help us out and when people talk about hey Tim Can we get not carry the whole cost of the city of Fargo? I say yes We can do that the state put some money in for us this year to help us with the budget So we're starting to transition some of that can other people help us solve this issue And are there nonprofits out there that can help us and that's going to be really the experiment.

Yeah, let me By the way, I think some of that should be churches I mean, they're the ones that can go pray for these people. These are the ones that can be the loving arm wrapped around them I'll tell you a story I Spoke at the pond top it in church in downtown Fargo And as I was pulling up and a little close to the time I was speaking so I didn't have time two people freezing outside The community engagement center. Okay, clearly homeless and literally outside the door places and open on Sunday I go into church.

I left my coat. So I go to go back in the church is locked So here's the church and this locked and I say why is it locked? Well downtown, you know homelessness you're a church for crying out loud. I mean shouldn't they help to Yeah, we've reached out the faith community and said you have to have part of this as well And you know, and I know the Church United does a great job but we also tried to motivate the faith community to get back involved with that Scott and I think part of the issue they're Having they're having a hard time fighting volunteers So what we hear sometimes is people just aren't volunteering like they used to So that will be a good challenge that we'll put out to the churches as well Hey, you got to get involved got to help us out Yeah, big time a couple of the quick things here.

Something was mentioned last night. This is from Chris Larson in our news team I'm sorry yesterday afternoon with Dave pepcorn who's going to be here at 10 today to talk about this as well that he is Concerned that the Fargo PD is now eliminating some calls for services. They're not even responding to do you know anything about that? That's totally false.

The chief and I just had a meeting on Monday. They're running all the calls are getting good response rates out there They're getting out there and seeing people that need to be done Our traffic our traffic team has been out there. If you look at the amount of arrests we've made with the traffic cream is astronomical It's just way up from where it's been We're making great gains in many areas and that that is a false head I'm very frustrated with pepcorn right now He doesn't understand what's really going on.

And if you get the facts out there, we respond to every call you 9-1-1 We'll have a cop there and what we had for a while people just didn't like Downtown having a bunch of cops only come down and take care of something But that's what's got to happen. If you have an issue and you have concerned about a dollar 9-1-1 We'll get an officer over there and we'll take care of it. Our Crime Center is helping We have a crime center right now that has cameras on so you can see if somebody does something and before you can charge Them with a crime.

Oh, if we got it on tape, we can charge them with the crime I'm making more more rest than we've ever made. So I we only have a couple minutes left So I just want to go quickly here. I heard a while ago that for instance driveaways from gas stations.

You don't call on So you talked about downtown, but that's that's a long-standing. I don't necessarily agree with it But is he talking about that or is he talking about something else? Do you know I? Don't know what he's talking about because what happened is we transitioned the downtown falls from the engagement center to call policemen and that has changed Dramatically the issues downtown and we address things quicker now and that's just as much better for the downtown if you talk to Rocky Schneider He's getting a much better response downtown and we're improving the experience downtown All right, last question for you only minute to answer. You just said something that alarmed me sales taxes flat.

Why do you believe it's flat? The economy people just aren't spending money, so it's all throughout the city It's not just in our downtown area when you look at the retail downtown It's not hitting this where it should be hitting but when we look at the sales act this last year Scott We are at point five negative We're not positive and it's just a concern because the sales tax goes into the flood diversion and those types of things And it just concerns the public is that what's going on, you know? And I'm hoping now with interest rates coming down people will spend more money And the other issue you heard is our budget is busted. Our budget is not busted. Our budget is doing fine city Our size will have a billion dollars in debt and that's all for municipal debt That's very protected Our city is doing a great job and we've been rated numerous times at other parties that we have one of the most stable Financial plans of any city in the Midwest.

So if people get out there and say we're not doing it, right We are doing it right and we followed all the principles that we've always had in there that we're laid out really basically started with furnace Went with Denny and is with me as well Stay in touch on that because I know there were some bumps related to the cost overruns in the budget But nonetheless appreciate the quick update talk soon mayor Tim Mahoney of Fargo more coming up you know, what's great about the USA and America is The state's created the federal government and we often forget that in the Constitution and There are states that are pro-business. There are states that are anti business Chris Wright the Secretary of Energy was here not long ago and he said you have the Most business-friendly state in the entire 50 states Some people hear that and they think oh, it's just Corporate welfare and you give money to robber barons and stuff. No, no, no, no, no.

No. No, what it means is you can move faster here Hashtag speed kills I've written columns about this Speed kills and North Dakota is right now at the tip of the spear in Many things because we are business-friendly because our elected leaders do anything to walk on broken glass If it's about helping North Dakota making North Dakota better bringing kids and grandkids back And I can't think of anyone who got that better than Kevin O'Leary. Mr. Wonderful who spend an inordinate amount of time in North Dakota as did our next guest is the CEO and general partner of O'Leary ventures and that's a good thing a really good thing that gives us enormous opportunity because Kevin O'Leary and Paul Polanjan is joining us here in a moment could be anywhere literally on earth You mean Abu Dhabi in the Alberta Canada in West Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, but they spent a lot of time right here Why is the question to that and that's our first question for our guest Paul Polanjan Paul.

Thank you for joining us. How are you? I'm great great to be with you Scott great to be with you as well and Had the pleasure of meeting you when Kevin has been here before and I'm always impressed of the amount of time You spend here. Why do you and Kevin O'Leary spend as much time in North Dakota as you do? well You know, there's there's business reasons for that and then there's cultural and personal reasons for that, you know, first and foremost We got to know North Dakota almost serendipitously through a small investment We made through Shark Tank PRX Fitness, which then went on to have great success and build a manufacturing plant in North Dakota that Drew Kevin to North Dakota and it was kind of when he first put boots on the ground On a follow-up for Shark Tank that he started to learn about the state met leadership and came away from it with a an aha moment of The opportunities are boundless here from a business perspective But then as we all know opportunities are a dime a dozen at the end of the day Leadership matters business policy matters but the culture of the people probably matters most and what we've been most impressed by is that there's kind of a preserved Sense of lost Americana that comes out in the culture of the North Dakota people it's a culture of hard work.

It's a culture of of integrity and honesty and many of the things that Ultimately we see are lost in the major cities and on the coasts so we think the heartland is where it's at as You said earlier North Dakota is just the tip of the spear and then there are many Fundamental Superpowers that the state has that make it poised to capitalize on what we think are five decades of megatrend that's gonna Unfold in the years to come. So tell me about the superpowers What are our superpowers that attract you and and others to invest here? Well, this is known to your audience You know 44 million acres 39 million of which are ag the state is relatively flat It's rich in natural resources It's small population Which can be a weakness in terms of workforce and workforce? Retention in terms of growth is also a superpower in that. There's not a lot of red tape There's pro-business policy you your former Governor governor Burgum who's now secretary of interior very entrepreneurial and forward-thinking and Not provincial in his approach to things I think really started to unlock the full potential of the state now You've got Kelly Armstrong in there and this guy is You know a super governor.

He's he's he's got vision he's got leadership chops, and he wants to put North Dakota right in the in the front of everybody's you know a Dialogue in terms of where this country is going and then you've got senators Hoeven and Kramer that sit that have are kind of Titans in the political landscape But then also in the business landscape and they tie into everything that's happening in the country everything that matters right now power infrastructure Technology defense, you know, they're sitting on these committees. And so you've got this kind of At the top you've got this this pyramid Armstrong Hoeven and Kramer that are poised to be Very advantaged for the state as it relates to federal funding and policy and And and you know, it's all there. It's like a blank canvas That's how I would describe the state of North Dakota It's not even started to realize its full potential, but all of the key ingredients are there and I could go on I don't know how much time we have Scott, but you know between the the talent pool coming out of UND and NDSU between the what's happened out in Grand Forks near the Air Force Base with Grand Sky and Advantis and the Hive Phenomenal mayor out there Mayor Brandon Bochenski Just driving a lot of the defense techs, you know, you've got you've got You've got Space Force out there really interesting Ingredients to capitalizing on major trends across the country in Minot where there's going to be a lot of federal spending in and around the Air Force Base You could have a huge renaissance in that economy.

One of our investments. There is pig-iron manufacturing, which we think is critically important for national security and our economic independence as a country everything that's happening in Fargo with the entrepreneurship ecosystem and Jamestown and everywhere in between There's just a massive opportunity so We love it But we love it first and foremost because of the way that we've been treated by the people the way we've been welcomed And you know, I think sky's the limit. There is no limit to what the state can do What would limit that limit? What what do we need to do going forward to make sure I know You you Kevin allure is out here in April met with everybody to explain basically You got a tiger by the tail related to everything you mentioned in the way of resources here for intelligence factories Doug Burgum won't let me call them data centers anymore because it sounds like you're processing insurance claims and some little tiny insurance company but intelligence factories and You and I followed up and Kevin did as well a month or so, maybe a month and a half after April Everything we talked about in April has changed 80% of the data centers being proposed right now You know a big event suppress conferences are not going to be built.

So how do we make sure we're ready for that wave Paul? Well, you know and I think I've said this to you before in private conversations The state has to get off the sidelines there I think you know, I've articulated everything that I think the state has going for it But also, you know when you have a relatively small population you you tend to get Some folks who are involved in decision-making with a very provincial attitude and approach some skepticism to outsiders like us and Then there's always a competitive spirit that would say well if all this opportunity is here Let's keep it for ourselves and not open our market up and not tell the story and there's a kind of a humility And then there's also a protective Approach that I think could ultimately impede the state's ability to really take off Specifically you've got Various pools of capital in the form of the state pension fund and land trust these are huge pools of capital that In our opinion should be allocated in a more effective manner towards in-state investment towards public-private Partnership towards aligning with with investors in a way That would attract more investment bring the whole ecosystem to the state Yeah, and what you just described there is a brilliant. It really is Let's talk more about it after the break and I want to hear more about that pig iron P.i.g. pig iron a project in my not pretty cool All right, 20 past the hour. Paul Blangeon is with us.

He's In Kevin O'Leary's world. Mr. Wonderful as we call him here CEO and general partner for O'Leary ventures Before we finish our chat with him. I want to tell you that speaking of North Dakota and our opportunities We are pleased to have Fox News stars Brian Kilmeade and Jimmy Fala come Thursday November 15th, we have transformed free manners USA Which is a wonderful organization that brought Charlie Kirk to North Dakota many times and now that Charlie's gone His legacy lives on through a movement that is changing lives last time.

I interviewed Charlie. I said, here's the deal We're going to be number one in North Dakota per capita with students and chapters of turning point USA in high schools and colleges and So that's my mission Brian Kilmeade Jimmy Fala coming to help help that we got VIP tickets we have sponsorship opportunities for roundtables we have Tickets for veterans and students at 20 bucks. We have VIP experiences Go to freedom matters USA commerges book your ticket now at event bright and I'm gonna fly out Pick them up flying back because they Fox is only letting them be gone for like I don't know 28 hours or something And you can be rest assured my entire time in the plane is going to be do you know what's going on with our egg? Economy, do you know what's going on with our tech economy? Do you know what's going on in energy and Brian Kilmeade knows? He's been here once he was on a horse with Doug Burgum and loved it but he we're gonna take him out to the western North Dakota see Medora see the library and Get these guys talking about what's happening here So nationally people realize what opportunities are available to us and that's what Paul Palenjan is talking about today in the program So quickly recap if you will the buckets of opportunity We have in North Dakota that are obviously invested in something you're talking about the land trust you talk about to all these different You know things where we squirrel away money.

What would be like your top three or four examples of that Paul? Forgive me examples of Where the opportunities lie? No more like okay. Yeah opportunity, but I mean like Bank of North Dakota as I don't know nine billion on assets We're 13 billion now in our sovereign wealth fund legacy oil fund you mentioned the land trust Top three do you think we could better leverage would be what? well You know all of those pools of capital. I think Bank of North Dakota actually performs beautifully in its function to act as an accelerant for Businesses Investments things to get started in the state what state pension funds generally do is they hire third-party consultants? those third-party consultants and and and you can think of a pension fund as Kind of decision making is kind of a four-legged stool You'll have the you have the pension fund board and that could be private sector people who sit on For example the state investment board, then you have third-party consultants Then you have the lawyer that represents it and nobody wants to Be seen as taking unnecessary risk they tend to be very risk averse and they tend to allocate capital To huge brand names, but in the case of North Dakota these are brand names that are not in turn Investing back in the state.

They're just kind of checking a box So there's very much a cover your rear end type attitude with how that capital is generally deployed and what I'm the point I'm making To you is the state I think to capitalize on the opportunity before us massive opportunities in power and infrastructure massive opportunities to build AI Factories massive opportunities in defense and defense tech Massive opportunities in health care because the ag industry in and of itself and the state feeds the world We know that but also those are the raw materials for some of the clean energies for some of the new technologies that are developing for biopharmaceutical manufacturing Literally every major opportunity that is before the country and that will lead the way is is is Organic to the state of North Dakota and and and so in order for that to happen the state has to tell its story better We're happy to do that for you. It needs to attract outside capital It needs to bring the ecosystem there because you know Generally, the point I'm making is in the future The only competitive advantage anyone's gonna have any state any investor is the rate at which they change And so insofar as there might be friction to go outside of the box try new things Leverage the state's balance sheet to start to invest and bring that world to the state It's gonna miss the opportunity. That's my concern Yeah, Michael for our house majority leader likes to say we need to manage cash better And we got a lot of cash in a lot of buckets and what you just described is a massive opportunity for North Dakota If we're nimble enough if we can do a little non North Dakota uncomfortable, right? We don't like uncomfortable, but if we get a little uncomfortable just like Donald Trump is doing you look at the MP materials deal He said we need rare earth minerals to be China We'll take an equity position and literally the federal government owns part of MP materials who couldn't get even a bank loan Because of our China screws us.

That's the example I only have four minutes left but I want to talk about kind of the opportunities where a state pension fund could play along and And help move something happen in North Dakota. And that is this pig-iron project in my nut that O'Leary ventures is Investing in and there is a private-public partnership of sorts there Give me your best 90 seconds on this massive announcement in my nut. Well What you have is an entrepreneur who identified in the iron range a lot of already mined raw materials that are suitable for the production in, Minnesota suitable for the production of Pig-iron pig-iron is one of the primary inputs for steel manufacturing and right now Almost all of the pig-iron in the United States that goes to the major steel manufacturers is imported And so the opportunity is to take it Without mining and we already have leases and permits in place to bring that raw material from, Minnesota By rail into North Dakota turn it into pig-iron We're gonna we're gonna create two million metric tons per annum of pig-iron at a 30% lower cost And it's currently being imported FOB nor leaves It's a massive opportunity and it ties directly to national security.

And so Jim Bougalas who's the leader of that initiative? Had an idea it was a brilliant vision what we did was we stepped in as the lead investor In a 15 million dollar round that we wrote our largest check to date in the in the wonder fund which is Five million dollars and we led that transaction and then we were helpful in underwriting that in the state and the Commerce Department also Co-invested in that and the company has received many grants Clean energy. It's going to be green pig-iron in the way. He's manufacturing it and he's gone to my not and he's And my not has kind of rolled out the red carpet for him to identify land near the intermodal site Which is also important in terms of logistics and distribution once it's manufactured and he's tied up about 3,000 acres and it's a huge Opportunity and we've got Cantor As the bank that's going out to the market to raise money and a massive uplift Incredible and we're going to learn more about this in the days to come But that's an example of catching the wave from folks who see opportunity that maybe we don't see always Can't wait to be in flip-flops in Miami and see you soon Paul.

Thanks for this wonderful update. Take care Thank you so much Brian, thanks for doing this. Thanks for coming to North Dakota.

It's gonna be great I enjoyed my first trip ever to North Dakota. I'm sure the second one's gonna be even better Yeah, a lot's happened since then you were here talking to Doug Burgum about whether he might be VP whether he might be Secretary of something or other that worked out. Okay, didn't I? Think he's happier now.

I mean, I mean besides being president I think he really believes that this is his better job even vice president is great and JD Vance is being utilized and Unlike the previous vice president is totally effective, but I think Doug is really in his sweet spot right now I think he loves it. In fact, I saw him two weeks ago and He just better than he could have thought he said I said, well, how is it because it's everything It's even better than I was hoping and if you had to critique Trump on down What what's your what's your view of how they're doing? I? He's doing great and I think he's enjoying himself I'm just amazed the perception is either doing great and you listen to other channels and he's the worst ever still Even though you have things like the New York Times and Washington Post giving him a break sometimes and you know Even warning Joe, even though they're my competition. I'll flip over and look at some clips and They're admitting that a lot of the stuff he does that everyone thought showed that he was inexperienced Instincts have been really good and he's disrupted the way people do foreign policy and the way they do trade deals and the way they Do all deals and he's got us got him to the point where the world at first was making fun of him He's an illegitimate president John Kerry going around the world telling everyone he's gonna be impeached So now they're saying wow, you know what four years with him four years without him I can appreciate him a little bit more and for the first time in our lifetime We're watching a president get additional another four years after watching from the outside and I think he's used it He went from the least experienced president to the most And because those four years he used as learning learning curve, so he came back even better I'm not sure.

I know anybody better in the business. You're in then And you know as a historian like your Doris Kearns Goodwin good on all of this stuff You've written about Teddy Roosevelt. You've seen a lot of this You know how the ebbs and flows work Is he Lincoln ask is he Reagan ask is he Washington s like how is history gonna see this guy I Think the thing that's different.

It's gonna judge him differently. It's his business instinct I mean we never had a president go. I just got to be she to put a hundred hours into country.

I just got Japan to open up five new plants and buy certain f-150s and go. Hey, how come I don't see how come I don't see Chrysler's In Germany, we never had anybody like that. You know, we just All we has people talk about free trade you know and we never had somebody just so focused on raising money and and getting things bigger and better and And he's got the law enforcement instinct and he's got this sense He's got to build up the military, but I think it he has the opposite sense of someone who gets a big military He doesn't want to use it, but he wants to show people that he would so he wouldn't have to so I don't know.

I don't think great good really describes it I think he's so different and I think we do you know, you can't judge somebody's four-year College career. Yeah after nine months of their freshman year. So I look at this as great nine months a lot of potential But I think I think continue to all those things that you opened up the Reorganizing of trade the realignment in the Middle East They're bringing peace to where there was war if you if you can go ahead and build on that then then you could be great Where's the pitfalls? Where's the peril? What do you worry about? I worry about people Inadvertently letting him down where the first time they were intentionally thought they were helping the country by letting them down.

I don't love The battle right now with Kristi Noem and John Holman Tom Holman Tom Holman's right worse first I don't like firing 12 ice leaders They would have with the hardest job in America They have these Democratic mayors and governors making them the bad guys yet They're law enforcement trying to get rid of illegal immigrant criminals Then don't put them in bad spots and don't fire them because the numbers aren't high enough Yeah, I mean two million are gone that we're here and now we're trying to round up criminals. Let them do the Criminals, I like to let Tom Holman take the lead Um, but I Don't know if they're the one the right people to be taking the lead I'd much rather Tom Holman do that and I think that people to get over their skis So maybe Howard Lutnick a few times talking too much Inadvertently hurt the president, but I think it's like anything else you have great cabinet secretaries You have people that are new to government and maybe saying too much like in Lutnick's case But are they gonna adjust and get in line, but I what they got to iron it out at homeland I think in a weird way you tell me I'm wrong. He he loves this.

He loves Brooke Rollins in his ear Saying you know Hey, you got to do this. You got to do that and then in the other ear, you know, we got plenty of time for farmers We'll take care of them right Basant in one ear saying I said, you know like we got to be careful in the tariffs and we got to get deals done Jamison Greer saying the same thing Howard Lutnick and You know other people yell in the other ear Don't you think Trump loves us and just says oh, yeah, I'll go with my gut and we'll go You know why because these people around him are good at their jobs and they want to and they like him and they and they trust Him so sometimes in an effort to do things that they think are right Um, they're not going about the right way, you know, you need you need somebody in the right place at the right time and I think people what I do it unlike the first time if you see someone overzealous or maybe wrong inaccurately focused it's at a hustle these are called hustle mistakes as opposed to John Bolton who I was friendly with who said I know more than this guy. He shouldn't be president So I'm gonna reign him in John Kelly a great American, but he didn't like Trump so how Tillerson thought Trump we may have said horrible things about him.

Well, he's the Secretary of State He'd walk around the country the word there are other countries and apologize For Trump, you think that Rubio's doing that? Absolutely not You know You think that John Radcliffe at the CIA is out there trying to circumvent Trump or work with the Democrats against him? That's not gonna happen. The FBI directed Christopher Wray recommended by by Chris Christie was Was not good That's being kind, right? Yeah Yeah, stone-cold stupid is what he was. Yeah, and you're so right on the on the contrast I do worry about impulsivity a little bit while it is his thing and I get Never doubt the guy like I've said the other day the farmers and ranchers look keep calm trust Trump.

He's gonna get one place Related to better trade deals for you or he's gonna take care of you on the other end Just let the guy work but like the you know The shot across the bow over the Reagan edited video to some rum-dumber mere who cares, right? I mean like I agree why go there, right? Yep, I agree. You know, he is worried about the tariff ruling at the Supreme Court and anybody brought too much emphasis on it No one cares what happens in Ontario So but that that's the one thing that could rock him me back to your original question If the Supreme Court says he did not have the power to levy these tariffs It would be an absolute epic disaster. Our stock market will crash.

It'll be It'll be it'll us. It'll undermine his power and prestige Around the world, you know all these deals that we cut they go We're gonna have to pay back the tariffs now there are things that we could do But well John Thune and John Thune and Mike Johnson could fix that in 15 seconds, couldn't they? in what way Pass the law Trump doesn't need to do it. We did it in Congress.

How could the Supreme Court argue with that? I Don't know. I mean they got to go. They got a draft the law They got to pass the law and Rand Paul is not playing ball.

Tom Tillis is not playing ball Murkowski and and and Collins or a jump ball, you know, they just voted against the his Brazil tariffs. Yeah terrible So you can't say that they have even control and if you need 60 to pass Yeah, you know and this is gonna happen in June, right We'll know in June and the question is does China wait out the Supreme Court decision if I were no I don't I think they're coming in with a deal. I think there's no doubt about it.

They're coming in great point in the markets The fun part is we get to talk about all this and the literally every day We're winning in big ways. The Democrats are worried about ballrooms and Boys and girls bathrooms like could we could we wish for better opponents in this? Right, I mean everybody should just say whatever you do make sure a Kamala Harris is not insulted or ridiculed She's gonna run for president again. Do not stop her, right? Whatever you do.

Yes Yeah, I want on Kamala Kamala Kamala for president And and for the love of God make Tim Walz the VP again, please make that happen Minnesota better wise up and not reelect him, but you're closer to that story and I guess he is Yeah, well, we'll talk more about that when you're out here Just talk quickly about coming back to Fargo. Obviously, we'll talk a little TR. We'll talk a little politics We'll talk about all the fun on Fox like you're just gonna have a blast, right? Absolutely and with Jimmy out there, too.

It's gonna be fantastic So I look forward to coming back and going to the and meeting all these all-american people doing great things on a daily basis So, oh, it'll be a fun weekend. What's the favorite part of traveling for you when you get out to these events? I Love seeing new places. I mean, that's the most important thing and then I love meeting people and giving their stories, you know There's a lot of people who go on camera go on radio, but don't really want to meet people and I'm not saying there's an insult They just not into it.

I met people at Fox like yeah, that's my nightmare. What's your nightmare? Well go to these events or go to a bookstore and signing books and and because a lot of them are shy You know a lot of them, you know, they don't want to talk about themselves or you know, they just don't feel comfortable in crowds That's not the way I I'm like, I like people in fact sometimes you forget Get when you're on the radio. You must know this feeling you forget that you were on the air and people are listening You just do your job you get in the car and then you pull over and people go.

Hey great job on the radio show I really liked that interview with Senator Kennedy. I'm thinking wow. I forgot people were listening Yeah, and we'll get to talk about all that it's gonna be a great night Want the place standing room only pack so you guys will come back and the fun thing is we're gonna take a little quick Our trip out to Medora and you get to see that Teddy Roosevelt presidential library.

That'll be great, right? Yep, it'd be great. It would be good to see Hopefully the the monument to Teddy Roosevelt that I used to see at the Museum of National History For some reason they thought it was offensive now America's sobered up, but you guys aren't giving it back Yeah, it's gonna be great. His diary is gonna be there It's it's amazing and Jimmy Phelan told me that if you bring scratch and sniff books and do story time He'll come with us out there.

So right sounds like Jimmy speed. That sounds like Jimmy Thanks, Brian. See you soon.

Go get him Scott. Uh-huh. I'd forgotten about scratch and sniffs, but you know, I Would we were going back and forth on the text ring? Jimmy's like what's a library? What are you guys talking about? I said just trust me We're gonna go and he said will there be story time? I mean, that's that Jimmy Phelan for you Anyway Speaking of Jimmy Phelan, he's coming back next and again, November 15th Get your tickets freedom matters USA comm bringing these folks in freedom matters USA comm I'm going to drive my brand-new 26 GMC Sierra Denali out there.

That was the rowdiest crowd I've ever seen So I'm coming back just to see if we can top it really and to see the look on Brian Kilmeade's face if he encounters half of what I did Because let me tell you some kill me goes on the road plays all these awesome places Passionate Americans that are watching Fox and Friends watching his show Okay, but what I encountered in Fargo that day was something else It was kind of a you know, they call things like a religious revival, but the religion was America and the sacramental wine was beer and Everybody went up twice. It was a heck of a mass. So I'm excited to see if this sermon is anywhere close to the last one Yeah, I need to call Cardinal Dolan on get forgiveness because I think we just went to sacrilegious But I hear what you're saying in a secular kind of way They were drinking what you were, you know putting it into the fire hose I love it.

And so you think kill me is like gonna have his eyes open in a whole new way about how our Fargo jam a Thousand percent and that's what I'm probably most excited about is to see everybody but to see kill me in the raw Okay, because the thing about it is and again he loves to meet people I mean you can't host Fox and Friends You can't be on the road as much as he doesn't not like to meet people But I've never met people who like to be met as Morris as much as the flag listeners So for me, this is like two parts. It's half show and it's half like a hazing ritual So yes, I am fired up. Yeah, and there should not be anything other than standing room only for this event We've still got a few VIPs.

They all want to meet you. I haven't figured out why I think it's the alcohol and then And then then we have you know, like $20 tickets for veterans and students So and and everything in between so that sucker should be sold out. No Yeah, I mean you're gonna hurt our feelings But now I'm kidding bigger than that is you know, this is a moment We don't get to do this a lot and you really want to show up all in and we want a statement game You know, they say in sports.

It's a statement game, you know, we're gonna win big so we got to put up some big numbers and Those numbers can't just happen at the bar. They have to happen in the showroom and we're counting on everybody to turn it out We're flying out You know, this is a football Saturday for so normally we'd be back in New York Dodging the bookie taping a TV show but Fox gave me the night off on my word that I was going to do a jam-packed So if I'm skipping a TV taping it better be for a good reason are they gonna be waiting for me when I get back exactly, and the beauty is Every penny we raise is going to go into an effort related to a promise I made to your friend in mind Charlie Kirk that we were gonna have per capita The highest participation of schools and students in high school and college campuses within the sound of our voice North South Dakota, Minnesota Montana, right so what's not to love about that? Amen, it's great night. It's a great cause and yes, you know, we all have an Obligation to all the great work Charlie did to carry that ball forward and sometimes carrying it means having a good time And that is that's the team on the schedule on November 15th So if you guys are ready get your pads on we're having a good time.

We're fired up for this Yeah, we're gonna crush it and you're awesome to come back. You're right about the people in North Dakota They're gonna roll out the red carpet for you and you're gonna make them laugh and we're gonna have some fun Amen, I will drink to that after the show Yes, which remind me or your favorite flavor again? What do we have to have a case of what? No, I drink a lot of mixtures whiskey, but I mean if we're drinking beer you can actually just bribe me with Miller Lights, man I'm not fancy. Well, yeah, but Bush lights made out of corn.

So you should probably go corn since you're in the Dakotas Fair fair and I should probably go light according to the wardrobe departments. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah exact So we'll give you one of each and you can we'll do the taste test. We'll do the you know Pepsi test taste test. All right, my brother.

We'll see you soon. You're the best Scotty rock and roll. Let's get him You better say Kevin's the best tour.

He'll get past us, you know Say you say you love Kevin just do it for him. Give me a little love. I love Kevin Flynn Me I mean I was gonna say when you asked me why I'm coming I was gonna say Kevin Flynn But I thought that was too obvious Flynn better be there or I'm getting right back on the plane and going home No the only thing that you you are you doing a little side hustle and you're gonna go out look at the Teddy Roosevelt presidential library and Is kill me gonna read to you or what's working there? I forget.

Listen. I was promised prop pop-up books or scratch-and-sniff So kill me services shouldn't be needed as long as Teddy put a few books on the shelf That are in my range. Oh, you just brought me back to my childhood.

Did they still have scratch-and-sniffs? I mean Joe Biden did when he was president a good point Yeah, I I think actually the pardons that he signed were all scratch-and-sniff, right? It's amazing. It was scratch-and-sniff and he wrote a presidential memoir in auto pen go figure Yeah, I thought you were the comedian. I think I get points for that one.

Anyway, I love you, brother I'll see you on stage. Take care Oh Is he fun or what Jimmy kill me then again? I can't tell you not kill me Jimmy Fela Jimmy Fela Sorry, kill me didn't fail. What a combo fail will be doing the funny stuff kill me do the serious stuff the great combo Kevin's gonna open up for him and we're gonna do a Q&A with the audience.

You'll get to interact with them Here's the most important part Them coming to town you being at the event is all about making North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana Number one per capita with students and chapters of Turning Point USA in our colleges. I will tell you the USA Then I'm a Minnesota boy. I'd tell them that too, right and the lived in North Dakota for Most of my adult life and it is an extraordinary place.

There's no doubt about that whatsoever And it's the USA We can't fix stupid California's gone, New York's gone, but we can and Minnesota You know, it's a it's a it's a side hustle of mine to help, Minnesota. We're doing our best Kev I know it's on your behalf and the rest of you to the normal part of Minnesota, Western, Minnesota We just got to help I think honestly on this whole political contagion is happening, Minnesota Just like mom Donnie in New York is going to wake up people to how? idiotic These you know boys and girls bathroom types in the case of mom Donnie flat-out socialist I think it's gonna it's gonna swing the pendulum the other way quicker same thing with these goofballs at Minneapolis That people don't want less cops on the streets at some point people are gonna what the hell do I have to lose? I don't care if the Republican green blue yellow. I'm voting for him because I'm tired of this think it's gonna happen The question I have is how much damage will be done in the meantime As someone that has two precious daughters in New York City, you worry about this stuff I say there's really good jobs here, and it doesn't cost four thousand dollars for a broom closet Which is what you pay in New York City if mom Donnie wins that you have to get out of New York City You have to you have to It's like it's like snake Plissken.

Okay, how to escape from New York bad news Today on the program. We're gonna do something yesterday. Do you remember our dear friend grant the rancher from out west? Oh, yeah? We call him farmer grant comes on the program regularly.

He didn't want to answer my question and the simple question is What were cattle prices before Donald Trump orange mad bad said anything about Argentina? Okay, as I recall they were doing pretty darn good, and I was happy for him because they done pretty done bad for a lot Okay, and then when Trump said what he said about Argentina, what did they dip to and then what are they out now? Oh, I want to know Same thing on soybean prices got a lot of farmers their hairs on fire. Oh orange man bad on soybeans What were they before that started? Where did they dip to where they out now? These are simple questions, and it's my wine filter Not cabernet wh-i-any wine factor I want to know are we whining or do we really have a problem here, okay? So I can fight on their behalf on this program Senator John Hoven will answer that he'll talk about crack the code which he's locked on dog on bone Which is great makes everything better in North Dakota for career opportunities Education roads and bridges our sovereign wealth fund known as the oil legacy fund and then Ray Grobanski from Progressive egg will be here to answer some of the questions related to the egg thing in the meantime. I want to talk about terms like harm reduction community downtown Engagement Center, oh those are fancy words.

What do they actually do? To me those are words sort of like Gender-affirming care Those three words should be struck from the English language unless you're okay with cruelty Okay same thing with harm reduction and Downtown Engagement Center and finally and I mean finally we're making some progress on this Dave popcorn is here. He is Are you the longest-serving? Fargo City Commissioner on the Commission now yes, sir, okay, 16 years and just so you know I'm not trying to scare you But we have a lot of listeners Castleton West okay, and I know not you but a lot of Fargo thinks Western, North Dakota is Castleton, right? You think a lot more like they do West River Yes So I think you'll be well received But we're not trying to talk to Bismarck Mandan or Watford City and tell you what to do better in Fargo We're trying to ask you to better inform Fargo. Okay, and there is no homeless problem around the rest of the state Might that be because we have massive services And why would anybody go to Bismarck could that be correct and what they found out yesterday was actually Bismarck are sending them to Fargo And so the taxpayers of Fargo are paying for all the homeless services for the whole state and the whole region Why wouldn't they? If it works, and it's free for them, but not for the taxpayers of Fargo crazy Lean into that Mike a little bit more as I ask you a few questions here So let's let's start with I'm gonna forget history, I'm gonna just say where we're going All right, we you've long complained rightly So and Michelle Turnburg newer City Commission member that if you build it, they will come and right now we have a downtown homeless magnet Correct.

Absolutely It's and it's destroyed our downtown for the first time in decades The property values are being reduced by 5% this year because of the damage that's been done the businesses and the jobs that have been lost I love downtown. You're the business downtown. We all love downtown.

I would say it's not been destroyed. I'd push back a little bit there There's a lot of good down there But it's to your point on property values to your point on what we're seeing more and more of the benches the needles It's under attack. We got to fix it.

It's been damaged. Let me would you agree with that term? I have I do and I feel bad for the Warren Ackley's and Randy Thorson's and You know the the Kilbourn group and others that invested in a big way Yeah needs to be fixed and Rochelle Turnburg your colleague crazy her she says Maybe we shouldn't have benches because then it just becomes a place where these poor people Literally needing a place to sit down But they then congregate right where there are businesses, by the way, I engage with these people all the time 90% of them are friendly souls. They're down on their luck right 10% mental health issues Same people police are encountering, but we're not saying you're saying homeless people bad Are we absolutely not but I will say what we're doing now the taxpayers of Fargo are paying for enabling I'll give you the definition of an enabling our current liberal majority on the city of Fargo And it's called giving misguided support to someone with addiction and the majority of these people have an addiction And so what we should be doing is steering them to get help And that the people with mental health issues the same thing we should be steering and instead we're enabling So if you have a question or comment here, by the way, Dave's here a little the bottom of the hour 701 271 1100 text your question 701 237 1 5 9 0 I'm gonna give credit where credit is due.

We're fixing the problem I don't know how long it's gonna take how long's this and by the way, what is it called resource and recovery center? Right. I mean, is that the name of it now? I just like the idea that recovery was actually in the name because that's a huge part of the problem. You're shaking your head I totally disagree Scott because first of all We should have never made this commitment because mayor Mahoney's term is done in eight months So to be making two and three-year commitments, that's inappropriate.

Do we need facilities? Outside of downtown and should they be based on recovery for homeless people? We absolutely do not need to have the taxpayers of Fargo paying for facilities that are enabling How do you fix the problem then if we want it? We want to remove this from downtown by all means we should steer people to if they have an addiction problem Steer them into treatment if they have a mental health problem getting in to get them into a mental health care facility So they can get help, but aren't we doing that with this Center? Absolutely. We are in enabling what we are not doing So you're saying this facilities already exist have better coordination between what currently exists and law enforcement Absolutely without a big building But we can't the main thing is we the city of Fargo We don't have money for this period now the mayor was on saying County's gonna pay for it state states chipping in a little the churches are gonna help He almost sound like this wasn't gonna cost the city anything. Is that what is your take on that? Well if you believe that you're making a mistake and the reason I spoke on Monday night We the city of Fargo signed that lease agreement.

It's $350,000 a year to rent this building no one else's name is on it It's the city of Fargo, and that's the taxpayers are paying for it, and then interesting so in other words You're saying don't tell me about financial partners unless their names on the lease When you go for a car loan do you say well? I might have some people that'll help me pay for it does the bank care about that Yeah, no, it's it's our name is on the lease the city of Fargo Interesting and it needs renovation as well correct over a million dollars That's on top of that and that's the city of Fargo That's the taxpayers of Fargo are paying for that too, so your solution is just use the services we have Well if you want to know the truth we need to discontinue enabling that's the Gladys Ray shelter That's the Cooper house churches. No no and like the new life. Yeah, I got it.

You're saying they already We're doing too much enabling in all those places Absolutely, we can't afford to do that anymore I told the mayor this but I was at Pond Taupin and church right across from the Downtown Engagement Center three of the worst words in the English language because it basically means, California harm reduction Which is California's bad Fargo's? Obviously Misguided it's too bleeding-heart liberal is what it is, and they're not helping anybody, but as God is my witness I saw two poor homeless people outside on a Sunday where they don't work I guess city employees don't work on Sunday And I think isn't it sad I go into the church and say you know what it's up to people in these four walls To go outside and help these people because city government people can't By law pray for these people and wrap their arms around them guess what the church doors were locked a Church's doors were locked during a service on a Sunday that discussed you or what well The church that I've regularly attend is has to have security in downtown Fargo more after this All right, this whole show is making me hungry. Oh my gosh What a dang mess, and it's so easy to fix. That's the worst part of this this isn't hard.

This isn't complicated I'm gonna go to a Timberwolves game tonight and decompress go watch the Lakers late game. I can't wait Awesome little round ball. I don't remember the last time I've been to a T Wolves game But I'm looking forward to it, and I don't know why this happened, but I'm in Glenn Taylor suite tonight Wow, and I can't wait to talk to him to say Okay, last time.

I saw you you know anything about you you do donate to Republican candidates You're a Minnesota center-right Republican, and you own the Star Tribune, which is the star and sickle like how is this even? Right I don't get it. I need Swedish meatballs Harwood today Swedish meatballs West Main Avenue, West Fargo ADA There is meatloaf and Valley City as beef stew at 12th and I 29 downtown Fargo NP Avenue Petro serve USA don't worry They have security that they have to pay for and they don't even charge you more for your sesame orange chicken Chicken pot pie Glendon whopping and spicy cheese sausage Mac Cheyenne Got to get rolling a lot to talk about with Dave pepcorn. This isn't hard is it nope very easy What's the day pepcorn one two three plan first of all we're going to reduce property taxes by reducing the mills That's the first thing we will do the other thing will make Fargo clean and safe, and that's by Having law and order right now.

We don't have law and order our police do not Arrest people they they don't show up when you call them And and that what's happened now is people just quit calling for service to give you an example Petro serve downtown That that player basically told F you same thing on 13th Avenue South And it was brought to the mayor's attention the police chief. They basically say that you know we got this I I don't get that you said on Jay Thomas's show yesterday that there's now news Calls for service that they don't do if you call them. They won't go absolutely what it what's new there What are they not calling? What are they not listening to so now the police say if it's a misdemeanor, and we don't witness it then we're There's nothing we can do I thought we fixed all that with cameras in the last legislative session I don't know, but I'm just telling you they're not responding, but but what what people what have what's happened now the Citizens of Fargo has lost confidence in our police department and especially the leaders because when you start saying Oh Fargo is safe And then there's another murder, and you keep saying yeah, but Fargo is safe And it didn't fix all that you lose credibility.

Yeah, and that's what's happened didn't we fix all that after the last incident With less suspend doctors making a million for in comm shop and all that didn't we fix that or no well If you if you drive around downtown, there's empty stores. There's empty apartments There's empty condos and people are afraid to go downtown mark West Fargo for Dave popcorn. You're up on what's on your mind Yeah Are you on your blues Help him out Kev on his Bluetooth, and I'll go to John here while we fix this I can't barely hear him John you're next for day popcorn go ahead John Well, we'll see how's my Bluetooth working better.

Thank you go Okay, so what Questions I have about all this okay first of all we're going from a city-owned space to a lease space And our mayor tells us this isn't going to cost the taxpayers anything Okay, we closed it down on the weekends, and that was the taxpayer savings I'm questioning where all these volunteer groups are that all want all this stuff Where are they in the big picture? That's something? These are good questions It seemed like it cost me money and yet these volunteer groups aren't stepping up to the plate and John I got your pointer. I'm just trying to manage the clock here John, but I hear you The mayor is saying they are all stepping up to the plate now the state the churches Human Services yes, no you I haven't seen it I've heard a lot of I've heard a lot of talk and a lot of hypothetical funding But what I know for sure is on Monday night. We approved the city of Fargo paying $345,000 and a million dollars to renovate and then on top of that we're gonna move out of it in a year That's just unacceptable mark West Fargo for day popcorn go Yeah Behaviorism says when you feed an animal it comes back.

It's gonna repeat the same behavior over and over and over You don't feed homeless people without something attached to it They have to change their behavior and by the way the Salvation Army does that really well. Why can't we do that? thousand-percent We have to just quit enabling if you get technical the Salvation Army is enabling as well They're better at it though. They will not give you vouchers unless you need recovery And they'll send you somewhere for a recovery But I'm just telling you they're not taking the taxpayers money of Fargo And we're and we are subsidizing the whole region Salvation Army were subsidized no I'm just saying yeah the city of Fargo's things let them fix it the Salvation Army and others the New Life Center Yeah, the Salvation Army.

We have lots of profits to do those things make sense Texture says how does Dave have all this insight about what's going on to get better for the city if he isn't running for mayor? What does he know that we don't? Well the reason I have inside information is I'm a city commissioner. Why aren't you running for mayor? Oh? That's to be determined. Yeah, we'll worry about that That's it that opens up in January and you have till April so we got lots of time Yeah, can I just real quick so mayor Mahoney's term is up in June my seat is up and Denise Kolpak seat is up So that's that's who the voters can change vote for change for next June all right And if you get one more conservative that flips it You know so do you have good candidates people listening right now that are super concerned about that? What should they do if you're thinking about running and you're a fiscal conservative? I would encourage it to and I have had people contact us already that are interested and so That's called civic engagement people.

Yep. You got to do it Fargo-Moorhead, West Fargo Chambers got a great initiative going right now They're announcing in more details today be a patriot Be a patriot get involved roll your sleeves up Connie Joe for Dave go ahead Connie Joe Hi, I'm wondering have you checked with Adam Martin at the f5 For regarding these homeless people anybody that's dealing with addiction issues that have come out of jail or prison Adam is awesome He's more than willing to help people and like they said They're just enabling these people connect five. That's another one of the private organizations It does well isn't another nonprofit, and he's doing a great job And so I have I have never met with him individually, but I support what he's doing without a doubt It's good suggestion Connie Joe Jeff Fargo for a day popcorn go Yeah Have you checked if there's any state money for this, I don't see why it's just a city problem well as of right now According to the mayor they put in like I forget.

I'm 25 million or something Absolutely not right now the legislature is not in session, and there is no commitments that have been made. This is all hypothetical Alright, and so right now and actually I talked to the mayor earlier. He said all this Somebody else just texted get the backing and writing or forget it absolutely.

That's what you're saying, too I had about 45 seconds left the mayor basically said you and Michelle turn burger are lying About all this you know I I'm just so disappointed in his leadership Obviously we see a serious deterioration in our downtown and the quality of life And then to try to blame Michelle Turnberg and myself about it. That's embarrassing So I don't really want to get into a back-and-forth with that what I would like to see though. However is that? John strand and Denise Colpack could fix a lot of us Do they have the courage to do it are they bleeding-hard liberals that are never going to flip? I mean if I'm a citizen listening to this and I'm super frustrated I'm like Dave pepcorn and Michelle Turnberg need allies And I would call John strand and I would call Denise Colpack Denise does this basically full-time She can't go to enough meetings and take pictures and put them on Facebook.

Just just Talk to her and say come on. Can you help these people? Let's find some middle ground am I crazy Watch how they vote Scott because that what they say doesn't mean anything watch how they vote all right? Thank you Dave stay in touch. Thanks for having me on yep.

I'm back on what's on your mind One of the Timberwolves game tonight to decompress playing the Lakers that should be all right Target Center pray for me because I'll be in downtown, Minneapolis And I think I'm staying three blocks away Should I walk from the hotel to the Timberwolves game Kev or should I uber it do you think downtown, Minneapolis? What's your best advice? You could take the train probably The trains the mugger mover I'm taking a train well if you're in downtown though on game night. It's not there's no Probably an uber not taking the mugger mover. That's all I know senator John Hovind in a moment and Fargo City.

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I'm sorry another Gordon Lightfoot song for you, okay I Asked Ray Grabowski from Progressive Ag to come on and I want to talk a little bit We got a lot to talk about and crack the code the government shutdown and all that But I'm sure you're hearing from farmers and ranchers right now And I don't know that they have a better friend than John Hoban going back to governor And as a senator who gets all the counter cyclical stuff who gets the crop insurance program you get it in a big way They're very worried right now about two things soybeans in China and a cattle So I asked my friend Ray to come on the program today and help me understand Kind of the market disruption if anything has happened in this regard so Ray Grabowski from progressive AG meet senator Hoban, okay? Yeah, hello senator hey Ray, how are you Ray? How are you doing? Good good. Thanks, so let's start with cattle Ray Before Donald Trump said a word about Argentina or anything else Cattle prices were where? Yeah, I think I just looked back about a week, but you you actually should go back a little earlier You know and Trump himself in a tweet said you know when I put export Tariffs on Brazil of 50% that's when feeder cattle prices really rocketed higher because we import cattle from Brazil and So I don't know you know feeder cattle prices are Pretty high. I don't know a cattle producer who didn't expect that at some point.

They would reach a top You know and and high prices have to cure high prices, so you know you have dropped since Trump talked about that, but cattle prices were we're 55% higher than the previous all-time high in 2014 okay, so and again I don't begrudge cattle of ranchers anything because those high prices follow low prices as you say so they're doing they're doing well Right now he does the deal with Argentina. What happens to cattle prices. How much do they go down from those highs? Well, I guess in the past week We have dropped cattle of I can't remember the numbers exactly But you know we've dropped a quite a bit in the last three or four days But I think you've also you also drop gold and silver a lot Yeah, and they aren't related to cattle fundamentally in any way whatsoever I think the funds ran all three of those markets sharply higher Until they got the attention of the marketplace.

That's the buyers the sellers and the politicians everyone so December live cattle comes down from 240 bucks goes down $11 out of two with the price of 241 November cattle 361 October 23rd now 23 bucks lower so the bottoms not falling out here And as you say it's kind of ebbs and flows same thing on soybeans correct run from wrong 24th of October $10.42 still stink because the cost of production is above the price But that's where they were Today they're at 1074 so literally pennies difference am I right about that Yeah, they're actually they're up 30 or 40 cents actually they're up about 75 or 80 in the last week and a half I think that this China trade deal that they've rumored that they're going to make tomorrow or at least Progress I think that has a lot to do with soybeans going up and quite honestly China has been using US farmers as a weapon He's weaponized and you have a communist country all of those Chinese buyers Wanted to buy u.s.. Soybeans the last five months the government hasn't allowed them to right and by the way Mexico's got a cattle problem Argentina beef stinks compared to ours so senator a hoven you heard what I heard from Ray Grabowski progressive egg Who's my go-to on all of these? Why given this when Donald Trump is trying to make things better for them? Is there this panic among ranchers and soybean farmers right now? They shouldn't be panicking should they? Well Scott. I think the key is that we want to grow our herds here in the u.s. and expand cattle production from from our great ranchers nobody produces higher quality beef or You know better tasting beef than our ranchers and so rather than bringing in more From other countries We want to we want to work with our ranchers to expand the market we can and I talked to the president about that I talked to Scott best and I talked to James from your US trade rep and then yesterday I talked to Vice President JD Vance, and I think the key here is that We need to work with our ranchers expand our herds that creates more supply And then at the same time we've got to look at that supply chain because as you're just talking there to raise you pointed out The price of cattle the you know actual animal prices have come down some now but go if you go in the grocery store and look the price if you're going to buy burger and beef and so forth is up and so my point was Like I say that when I talked to whether it was President Trump or JD Vance or anyone said hey look They're concerned about you know having an impact in the near term, and I'm saying it will if we just Go to work with our ranchers They will expand their herds that sends a market signal right away That helps because it signals are going to be more supply And then if we look at this supply chain like the point I just made even though the animal price went down the price was still up in the store. We got a look At all these other things and what I'm saying these guys I think that's the right plan not only for the short term and for the long term and I think the administration And also talking for problems, I think they're looking at that Very seriously the other point.

I want to make is that we're really hopeful now that We're going to get some sales not only soybeans but also expanded markets for beef and other things and we're hopeful that this meeting in In South Korea with with President Xi is going to result in some good egg sales and again I've been talking to all the folks I just talked about it, and you know there's a framework there And so we're hopeful we're gonna start seeing more sales Which is good for for our farmers certainly as well as for our ranchers And that's both a short-term and a long-term play getting better access to markets Yeah, and you're right about the middle you know the middleman if you will they're the ones ripping us off And aren't half those processing plants owned by Brazil. They're not even u.s. Own have national JBS The national beef are both owned by Brazil for cripes sakes and there's only four of them And so yeah, we've got to put some you know We got to look at that supply chain, and that's going to send a market signal as well And so that's what I think Helps with prices in the store in the short term and the long term and it's the right way with our with our ranchers who? Are the best best in the world we got a lot of other stuff to get there with Senator Hovind But great Grabowski progressive egg. Do you agree with what he just said there? Clear that Senator Hovind has a great understanding of the marketplace and and our ranchers and the high quality u.s. Beef and All of the situation absolutely you got to provide incentive for them to produce and that's exactly what the market's trying to do now You forgot more about this, and I'll ever know but somebody just text today.

Don't forget to take off the buck 37 basis 956 and edgley today for beans right and Sales will help overcome that bit right raise sales will help overcome that basis we get these sales sales will overcome that basis Futures plus the futures just went up you know 85 cents so when futures go up that quickly in a week You're going to take a while to get that basis plus We have harvest all that goes by in a couple months that base is going to prove I was thinking about you're talking about supply chain all sogger beef in out of kindred, North Dakota During the pandemic saw his cattle price plummet And he no place to take beef to to process and he started his own processing plant You've got places marketing retail throughout Fargo highest quality beef you can buy anywhere. Wow that's a great success story We could see more of our furniture and We want more of that. We want more of that right on me.

We want more of that But John that can happen more at the state level right state can remove regulations and let these guys go That's that's not a federal thing state thing right Well selling across state lines and the inspection piece is federal and we've got legislation in to help make that easier for our guys So that they can sell Interstate as well as intrastate, so yeah the state has a big role But there's still a federal aspect somebody else said here the price of the local elevator for soybeans is not 1070 I just sold it a few days ago for 875 is that an elevator issue or you know I've even heard they've delisting soybeans sometimes what's going on there Ray quickly You know There's a there's a problem with storage and availability to to store that crop But let me put let me put it this way if we sign an agreement with China tomorrow a multi-year agreement, which has been rumored I think these soybeans are going to be closer to 12 or 13 dollars in the next year We're starting at a very low place with no sales to China for five months When we normally sell three or four hundred million bushels and the yield on the crop is not nearly what We thought it was just two months ago I think these soybeans are gonna are gonna pop pretty good and that fun money That's pulling out of gold silver and cattle is going right into grains in the last week there you go I think this means Stay calm trust Trump get deals done everything will be fine I get it these poor farmers and ranchers especially farmers when you're farming multiple multiple year after year after year and Your cost of production is above by a chunk what you're taking in It's it's stressful, but banks ought to help out of this and just stay calm more with senator open after this Thanks, right progressive egg call them. That's you know where we take the the co2 from Dakota gasification company And and put it in a wayburn oil fields, but those are traditional wells And so we need to now do that for shale so crack the code one was when our great you know we work with our great entrepreneurial companies, and they crack the code on the shale play the buck and shale with directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing and They figured that out. We you know we put the right kind of Environment in place for them to come into North Dakota and do that and they they crack the code and we went from less Than a hundred thousand barrels oil a day up to 1.5 million Well, we got it crack the code 2.0 So we not only keep our coal plants for the long term and remember within the coal area We've sold socks knocks mercury and as far as co2 what we're looking at now is Actually taking that co2 and putting it down hole from it taking it from our coal plants so again This is about not is it our coal plants for the long term and building more I got it.

I got it that co2 and bringing out What instead of getting 15% out of the shale, let's get 30% out of it. Yeah, that's my You can't even calculate all that now we have a use for the gas to that'll power all kinds of things including intelligence factories But is it I always hear from the ERC folks that the amount of co2 we need We don't have coal plants ethanol plants every bit of industrial co2. We don't have enough to do that What is your number related to what you just described on co2 Well, I mean, you know, we've got millions of tons.

So I mean it'll take us a long way You know, we'll have to see that there may be more that we need but remember this is a two-for-one So people can't be confused. This is about keeping we're gonna need a lot more electricity in this country and we supply about 12 states So we need to make sure that we're advancing the technology for our coal plants So they're around for a long long long after you and I are gone Yeah, I want those things operating and providing a lot more electricity. So remember this is about both This is about a lot more like electric power keeping our coal plants keeping that whole industry and look at all the other things We're doing now with a coal residue.

We're now bringing in Nickel that's mined in Minnesota and we're going to process and then turn it into batteries I mean, this is an integrated effort that is going to just be a huge thing for our state I mean just like the first time around the crack the code, you know on Bach and one So yeah, the hair should be standing up in the back of your neck because of everything He just said they're related to the opportunities and you might say I you know I'm fine with North Dakota the way it is now think about your kids and grandkids It's all about keeping them home and bringing them back home Just give me 20 seconds on what I think I heard you say related to co2 South Dakota screwed it up They become business unfriendly. So the pipeline isn't going to bring it here You're saying there's enough here to walk before we run. Is that what you're saying? Oh Absolutely.

Yeah, we've got huge amount and and you know you really don't have much of a Pipeline issue because you're already out in the coal field in the oil field and it's not you don't need much for pipeline So that I get that that issues got to be figured out and I hope it's done with you in a voluntary way with You know working with people and respecting property rights and all that but that that's that's separate I mean this this is actually connecting our coal plants and the And our office and I would think Everybody would be on board and put their shoulder to the wheel on this big kudos to the Industrial Commission They they just approved 45 million for I'm working on 50 with do we we got we got we got Lynn Helms back working with Ron Nasset North Dakota Petroleum Council. He's kind of our guy in the ground. Nobody, you know, then he's awesome So we're at Kyle House beat run a fossil energy for DOE.

He's from Williston You know We're putting together a hell of a team on this and we're starting with rich gas out there To prove it up on the on the show and if this has legs It's gonna be not just in the Bakken but shale plays around the country. I agree with you Kelly Doug Drew crushing it on the Industrial Commission for sure Yeah, are you gonna fix are you gonna fix the government shutdown I got ten seconds you're gonna be done soon I Think so, I but Dems got to come around. This is ridiculous and people.

Yeah, they're all about leverage now. Thank you, sir See you tomorrow. God bless