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How can you play games with this particular part of our country?
Public health is not something that you just, you know, I don't know, have fun with.
Depending on your point of view, your personality, issues you have with vaccinations, they hurt.
Is that it?
Maybe you should stop them that way.
Alright, let's get to something that is taking place today this afternoon and it is Attorney General Keith Ellison is spouting off in Minnesota.
I'm sure that this will probably
bring out even more soldiers and ice agents and maybe even the Marines again this time.
Send in the troops.
Yeah, send in the troops.
The deployment of thousands of armed mass DHS agents to Minnesota has done our state serious harm.
This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and it must stop.
There
Because he's poorly trained, aggressive and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct.
They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force.
DHS agents have barged into restaurants asking to access secure areas.
And when asked to present a warrant, which is required by law, they respond, we don't need one.
DHS agents have arrested peaceful bystanders.
They have fired chemical irritants at people obeying lawful orders while exercising their First Amendment rights.
They have even done so at some of our most sensitive places like Roosevelt High School here in Minneapolis They have detained law-abiding citizens leaving them handcuffed for hours Just because of the color of their skin or what they're wearing or they speak English with an accent and on January 7th, 2026 a DHS agent shot and killed
Renee Nicole good Leaving her children without a mother and her six-year-old son without either parent This has to stop
Pretty
You
Oh, it's a beautiful city.
It's a great town.
Twin cities.
I always had a tiki bar.
I think it was in Minneapolis.
It's hard to tell whether it's...
St.
Paul or I'm never quite sure where I am There are free there's a freeway system it kind of divides the the town's up, okay?
was the most
with me.
He's got.
You know, they just wrapped up that news conference.
It's really not kind of his job.
You know, as much as the Maggots would like to complain about this, what happened has been discovered.
by the state government, they've investigated, they've prosecuted a whole bunch of people,
made them
They are watching the daycare centers, the learning centers, they're watching them all.
They have minor violations, which is a reason why they're watching them.
But again, they have people coming out, the magus have people coming out saying that they did more investigating, they found more fraud, more people cheating.
Hundreds of people cheating.
It's just it just keeps getting worse and worse.
They really not a pile on but it's all you know, just BS Yeah, that's that's it.
Okay.
All right
took a
Sorry.
Sorry about that.
You want to start over?
Can we just go to the very beginning of the show?
Aaron?
No.
No, that's okay.
That's cool.
Okay.
All right.
Let's break in news.
Minnesota sues Trump administration to block surge of federal immigrant immigrants.
Immigration agents.
There you go, summer watch.
I heard a clip from Jesse Ventura that
pretty amazing.
Yeah,
You got that?
I
We'll get to that.
And one more thing.
Early on when they were bombing boats, I heard some people talking.
Okay, on the radio, and it was talking about how most drugs are transported by private
and I just thought that was
Yeah,
kind of
Good afternoon.
As I spent part of my career doing some audit work for the state, I'm just wondering if they had an actual order come out and issue his qualified opinion because ironically an unqualified opinion is better than a qualified opinion in the audit world because unqualified means you don't have to have any qualifications to errors you have found or inconsistencies you have found in the audit.
that isn't out there strongly enough is that these people who committed these frauds have already been caught and prosecuted by the state of minnesota and then the pile on sale, oh there's all this there, well then show the damn documentation.
That was what I had to see when I was doing audit work of various kinds that on some state grants that I needed to see the documentation and that I couldn't just say well this is fraud here and you know I can't just couldn't
just said that.
Now you
you can
I just, it is just beyond me what they're, you know, that part of the reason they're surging these guys is they say, well, we're looking to the fraud.
Well, unless these ICE agents have any kind of training at all in accounting or audit work at all, they're not qualified to do that kind of work then.
Right.
I mean, it's blotting through the details and looking through the written documentation and that
And all that stuff should be available to all the auditors.
The auditors are going in and that because that was one of the things for state grants is as an audit for the grants I was responsible for auditing, I had access to all the written materials on those grants, period.
And that it is just, I don't know, it is just.
All the stuff you've brought forward today, oh, they're, you know, look at our private records for this.
Well, everything should require, the government looks into anything, even if they're getting from a private source, they should have to have a warrant to get at that, because the Constitution is pretty clear that with it, you can't, you can't go after our, we're supposed to be secured our papers.
I can't quote that.
Well, you know, here's the
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They took away the car of the victim, they kept the weapon used, there was no autopsy report that we know of, where are the bullets?
Yeah, you know, and they're, I mean, the local authorities were shut out of doing the investigation.
However, you know, they could do a civil lawsuit.
And they could, you know, they,
should be able to do an investigation.
And I think they're going to sue to be able to do that.
I hope so.
Let's go back to the phones.
Carmela from Milwaukee is on the line here.
Carmela, go ahead.
Hi, good afternoon, gentlemen.
I just wanted to say, in the face of all this chaos that we need to keep hope, this morning, I ran across and reposted something.
It is called a democracy sandwich.
But they're basically saying, you know, we, we did this and we boycotted and nothing happened.
And we, we call their Congress people and nothing happened.
And then kind of reminding us, or we protested and nothing happened, but reminding us that, you know, companies are reporting losses because we're boycotting them, right?
We, Jimmy Kimmel is back.
We did that.
You know, all the things that we did and the people protesting, resisting,
um standing up and i know it's so chaotic and every day we get this and i just want to say yes we did that keep resisting and yeah it's a long haul but it does work and it's so flooding the zone every day uh we're getting it and it's overwhelming and it can be depressing and feel hopeless but um having civic media and this community helps me a lot and i just wanted to share that and say
keep resisting amongst all the chaos.
It works.
Hi, John and Gordy.
I really appreciate your show.
Thank you.
I was listening to you in the morning and this is easier for me to listen to.
So I'm kind of glad you've moved.
Yeah, I was just calling because you mentioned the Debbie Downer and we just have so much Debbie Downer and what are we going to do about all this?
And there's one power that we have that we have never really exercised and it is there.
We saw a little bit of it when they took Jerry
Kimmel off the air and people did not buy the various programs, you know on their on their TV and they brought him back and it just shows that all the money comes from us really and If we don't buy and not just don't buy one thing like you know the people that give this Kimmel show if we just don't purchase anything except the absolute necessities of life like medication or whatever
They will vote, and we've got this general strike.
And we have never really had a successful one, but I'm thinking if they don't have the election, we should have the general strike and see what happens then.
Europe.
It's not going to like not making money.
Right.
That's about all that's left.
I mean, we're losing everything.
We can't even outspend them for elections yet, really.
Support the best people that you, that you want to be in there, but there's going to be a lot of money on the other side.
know, so, um, we can't, that's hard to do.
I'm not saying we got to work on all that, but I'm just saying, if they do something like they don't have the election, that's just, that is just not, that can't happen.
The former governor.
You want to know something?
I'll give you a quote.
We're a third world country now.
You want to know why?
I'm an expert.
I bend to him.
I spent 17 months in Southeast Asia while the draft Dodger was playing golf.
Right?
You know how I know we're a third world country?
Because in third world countries, they have the military doing their police work in the cities when you walk around.
I was in the Philippines the day Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and went under dictatorship.
We went from nobody to a
a guy with a machine gun on every corner.
That's what happens in a dictatorship.
In comes the military.
That's what's happening here.
And people better wake up to it.
You want to read something?
Then read your history of Germany and start comparing the tactics of what happened in 1930s Germany to what's happening here.
Read history.
You learn from history.
That's any time you have the loss of life that it needlessly happens.
That's tragedy.
And what occurred yesterday did not have to happen.
I'll try to think of the title of the song when I when I have a chance here.
But let's get to other things that are going on in in Minneapolis.
One ice agent in Minneapolis shifted the focus from immigrants to Americans, just like that, as a woman was recording him and the other ice agents there.
And in fact, he took her phone at the end of this conversation.
So I just want you to hear, this is breathtaking because it really just says it all.
This is their attitude now.
They have immunity, remember?
absolute immunity.
So let's listen to which, by the way, no one's talking about is crazy stuff.
Immunity.
Them.
All right.
165.
Let's let's listen to that.
Shame on you.
all not learned from the past couple of days?
Have you not learned?
Learned what?
What's our lesson here?
What do you want us to
learn?
right.
Can you really see you following us, interfering with us, honking your horn, blocking our cars?
You have a very high probability of making
a
really bad decision and being arrested
today, OK?
I
think I'm making exactly the right decision.
Oh, then why are you giving her a warning?
I'm giving her a warning to not interfere with what we're doing, to not make a bad decision today and ruin your life.
Ruin your life?
Thank
you.
Thanks.
OK, all righty.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
I hope you have a terrible day.
OK, thank you.
Don't interfere
And they just go from car to car to car, giving those warnings.
And like the other agents said, you know, didn't you learn your lesson the last two days?
Wow.
And don't make a bad decision today and ruin your life.
Just amazing stuff.
This is a MSN knot.
Ms.
Nowes, Catherine Rapelle, she had this particular editorial comment.
Let's listen to this cut 163.
It is also all of their allies in the right wing media ecosystem.
So I want to play a little bit of what we've heard from the right wing media in the past couple of days.
her family.
There are consequences to your actions.
She was
a disruptor, though she considered herself a legal observer.
If you want to block a street, if you want to hinder and harass law enforcement, that's your responsibility.
I realize a woman died yesterday.
I'm sorry, but that was her own doing.
I
remember when these very same voices were decrying government tyranny, government tyranny under Obama, government tyranny under Biden, so much government tyranny that that's why we all need guns, that's why we should
tolerate gun deaths because we need to arm ourselves against that government tyranny.
And yet these are the very same voices and their listeners who are cheering on this president as he sends out ICE agents to shoot U.S.
citizens in the face, as he sends out the military to occupy U.S.
cities, as he tries to get comedians taken off the air because they hurt his feelings, as he deploys forces to snatch brown people off of the streets for no
That's the tyranny we should be concerned about, right?
It's not just Trump.
He has collaborators.
We have a text here from CJ.
Oh.
And he writes, follow directions or bang, you're dead.
Is that the world you want to live in, CJ?
Really did say that.
Now, I would expect maybe a question mark at the end of it and make it a little ironic, whatever.
I'm not quite sure.
OK, we've got these.
Catherine came into the studio.
Got these plastic whistles.
OK.
Whoops.
I shouldn't.
They are very loud.
But
Or ice alert maybe.
Now I'm seeing some reports here and we got a heads up from one of our listeners here that federal agents removed computers and other personal belongings from the home of ice agent Jonathan Ross following the fatal shooting.
And so, but they swooped in and they were wearing masks
and everything.
So
Hello again.
Well, I just wanted to let you know I was at an event yesterday in Madison at the wisdom ministry, whatever it was.
It was the whole day.
Well, the whole day was a couple hours about.
white Christian nationalism and that's where I got that seven mountains.
yes.
A mandate from.
Okay.
But the whole whistle thing is to give to your neighbors.
Right.
And start alerting your neighborhood when you see ICE agents come into the neighborhood.
basically what this is behind this.
and
I said this to you last week.
This is nothing more than state
Sponsored murder.
I'll stand by that.
I'll stand by this next statement CJ's got to be the dumbest human being on her And
CJ a cage match you and me
between our
Okay, so you remember the interviews with protesters who don't know really why they're out there protesting and you've seen this a lot in media, especially in right wing media.
They always try to make it seem like, oh in fact the No Kings Day, they went out and no one knew why they were out there for No Kings Day.
I don't know how many people they went through before they found somebody who was just there because they went along with a friend and really didn't know what was going on.
But anyway, Sean Hannity thought he had this thing all wrapped up.
He sent a reporter out to try and embarrass a Minneapolis protester and he chose the wrong guy.
So I'd have to hand it to the reporter who was handling handed these questions did a damn good job of reinterpreting This is the cut.
This is fantastic stuff.
Let's list.
Oh, wait, you know what?
We don't have time.
Larry from Deerfield says, great show.
Thank you for that, Larry.
FYI, Jesse Ventura was a Navy SEAL and combat veteran of the Vietnam War.
As he mentioned, what I find intriguing is that now he's become a member of the Green Party, so he's critical of both parties for their failure to address the climate change.
Yeah, climate change.
and as a former fellow of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he's no dummy, eccentric, yes, but he's no one's fool.
Yeah, he really, yeah, you know, that's a good point.
You know, he did become governor of Minnesota, and he was very independent in doing so, and he's, yeah, he's not a dummy.
He wanted to get, he wanted to get some kind of union.
and WWF, which would kind of destroy, you know, getting all these wrestlers for almost nothing.
Right.
To get out there and just work like 24 hours a day, which they did.
Yeah.
He tried to put a stop to that by organizing the wrestlers.
So yeah, he's a smart guy.
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I wanted to get to John Hannity trying to corner a a Protester by making it seem like protesters don't know why they're really protesting out the street They're just out there because they're paid protesters and he thought he had a live one and we'll We'll get to that right now.
Let's listen to this
Have you spoken to any people or can you speak to anybody that's marching right now and ask him what it is that they're marching about?
Yeah Excuse me.
He tells what are you here marching?
Yeah, absolutely.
Sorry my ears are ringing a lot So I don't know if I'll hear perfectly, but yeah, I'm just here because I think it's absolutely Disgusting what ice is doing here.
I think it's absolutely important that they're kidnapping people I'm disgusted that they murdered an innocent human being and yeah, the entire thing just absolutely abhors me this has to stop immediately What I mean like what we're seeing right now is frankly nothing to cleansing.
It's disgusting and it needs to stop
And I'm, I'm glad that there's so many people out here trying to stop this because it's
just important to have a concern that the woman was driving her car at an officer.
Does it concern this individual?
When you, when you saw this video that is out.
Did you have any concern that it looked like this woman may have been driving her vehicle at the officer?
That's not what it looked like to me at all.
And I mean, like, even
if you did
assume that was the case, which it absolutely is not.
We are supposed to train officers to be responsible in these situations and judge the situation objectively, look at it reasonably.
Like, there's just absolutely no justification for this.
But again, looking at the video from both angles, I know that there was another clip that came out earlier today from like a different angle.
You can very clearly tell that she is evacuating the scene.
There is absolutely no evidence that there's any attempt to drive the vehicle into the officers.
Garrett, last question.
What should we do with people that don't obey our laws and come into the country illegally?
Ooh, he's got him now.
What do you think we should do with people that have
come into the country illegally who are here is the question.
I think they have the right to be here, frankly.
I mean, that's just my opinion, but I think they have the right to be here.
I think that's just a basic human right is freedom of movement.
We recognize that in the United Nations Charter that, in my opinion, is just a fundamental human right that all nations ought to recognize.
and I'm glad that some people are standing up for that basic human right.
What's your instrument of choice?
Instrument of choice?
I just found a bell in a bag, someone was handing out free stuff, so there we
There's a lot of reasons why people seek refuge in the US and each one of those has been stopped.
So yeah, there's something wrong here and I think it has a lot to do with racism.
DEI, I'm sorry, DEI has replaced the simple word of racism now.
They're trying to preserve racism in this country by eliminating DEI.
Got it.
All right, but anyway, that was kind of a fun thing to listen to, right?
I want to correct something I said earlier about the original Grateful Dead and who's still around.
Mickey Hart wasn't part of the original band, but he joined him a little bit later on in 1967.
He's still around.
Mickey Hart, I mentioned him and Bill Kreuzman.
the other drummer is the soul surviving original member.
Okay, that's that.
Also,
coming
up on Schwabba's show a little bit later on, right after we're done here and after we get through some news, he'll be talking with comedian Rob Brackenridge and also Nutritionist and Sherry Stoka.
Okay, that's coming up on Pete Schwab's show.
All right.
Katherine Lake is entering the studio right now.
You said there's no other way
to get in this country.
check, John.
What?
check.
check.
Write a check.
You can get in the country.
You can get a gold card.
Three or four people in the ring and that's not going to go well.
I was going to play, but we'll play this tomorrow.
I was going to play a Bucks coach Doc Rivers.
He had a comment about what's going on in Minneapolis.
I thought this was a great comment from him.
You know, I used to be a big fan of the Milwaukee
Oh, yeah.
They were a professional women's basketball team.
They're no
longer around.
No,
Yeah.
I mean, it's a great name, right?
Yes.
Bucks and does.
Bucks and the does.
Yeah.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I enjoyed women's basketball because they didn't have the natural tendency to stuff the ball in the basket.
They actually had to use talent, you know.
Shooting skills.
They had to shoot.
Yeah.
Throw the ball around a little bit more.
And men were they good.
You know, it was really, it was fun.
I loved women's sports in regards to...
basketball.
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