Spooktacular Morning: Trucking Troubles, King Trump, and Amateurs Box! (10-31-25)

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.

A central Cass graduate. You’re going to hear from head coach Steve Lockway and a couple other fun conversations for you as well. As we get towards the tail end of the regular season.

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Get a business report in here. Happy Halloween. AM 1100, the flag, FM 92.3. Mobile app, listen live at the website.

It’s the Need to Know Morning Show. Kevin Flynn, Alex Taylor. Thanks for being here.

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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A couple texts here, 701-237-1590. Thank you for all the, I get so much information from you when you send these links or the memes and stuff. A lot of them I share.

There’s too many to share them all, but thank you for them. And thank you for the love that we get. By the way, speaking of some love, listen to this.

Good morning, guys. I’ve been listening to your show, to your morning show for a few years now, and just put two and two together. But I went to middle school through high school with your son, Alex.

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.

But, but Kota Bear’s almost 15. So he’s, he’s like, yeah, he’s a grumpy old man. You just leave me alone.

Get off my lawn. Boy, is he ever. Jack says, when talking about Trump making a deal with China, please refer to it as Asian persuasion.

Ah, I like it. Asian persuasion. Uh, Facebook link, uh, X link, uh, door dash sub stack.

Okay. I’ll get all those. Thank you for the links.

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.

We’ll be right back. Or you can dial them up 701-951-RENT. Get a hold of the Zeus team that way.

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?