Jay Thomas Show: "FUGAZI, Kratom and Drivers Ed" 8-11-26

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Well, we found out why the Honor Flight trailer was stolen. Oh, you haven't heard. No, I haven't heard this. Oh, yeah. You'll love this. Am I going to be even more upset than I already? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's just. Why do you do this stuff to me? I had to. Oh, I needed something to haul my bike to Sturgis. What? You have got to be me. I want you. You're my favorite. Oh, boy. Welcome to it. Another gorgeous day, man. All right. So I was already upset yesterday. Many are. Yeah, now I'm like, no mercy. Sweep the leg. Well, just, you know. Let's be done with this dude. On my list of, you know, what my punishment was. You're banned from Sturgis now for life too. Well, not only that, but guess what? Your bike has been seized and we are auctioning it off with all funds going to Veterans Honor Flight. Well, they call them, from what I understand, they call them down and Sturgis say, hey, you got that trailer. Bring it back. Okay, I'll bring it back. Yeah. I'd have the police down there arrest them right on the spot. In the immortal words of the young lady in Forest Gump. Are you stupid or something? I get my bike and belongings to stirrues. Oh, yeah. Fun never ends, buddy. Yeah. Fun never. I just, you know, now my blood pressure is at the same level it was yesterday. Slow your roll player. You're going to be just fine. I'm coming, Elizabeth. It's the big one. What's in the dream? Have you seen there's a new me? Well, I'm presuming it's AI generated, but it's this, it's Sanford. Yeah. Doing his. Red Fox? Yeah, Red Fox. But instead, he's got a Philadelphia 76ers uniform out, and that's LeBron when the first foul is called. I'm coming, Elizabeth. You know. Real. All right. 701, 2939,000. Come on, light them up. Let's talk. You don't have anything on the table, Jay. People put something on the table. Right? Why do I always have to set the table? Put all your cards on the table. 701, 299,000 are Thor, Building, Studio, Line, Post-Framed Construction for Ag, Commercial Industry, best in the business. Built better, built strong, built tough, built to last. Uh, email us. Yeah, you can do that too. Studio at WDAYRadio.com. That is our Red Wing Boot and Shoe Studio inbox 3003. Main Avenue in Fargo, where Teresa and our crew are going to take great care of you. They do a fantastic job. Love my boots. Love my Red Wing boots. Also got the accessories, the custom fit orthotics.

We'll do the repairs if needed. If you're going to be on your feet for 10, 12 hours, like a lot of these construction guys, road crew guys. And gals. Yes, and gals. I'm telling you, the dogs were barking, throbbing last night. Look into the custom orthotics. Because if you're going to be on your feet that long during the day, you need to be comfortable. All right. And throughout the morning and yesterday. Probably continue. The situation involving the wild rice bar, the alleged situation, all I'm going to say on this, because, you know, there's always three sides to every story. There's one side, their side, and then there's the truth. I'd say it's not true. But. My only comment is Wilder Ice Bar, you need to address this better than the way you did, okay? That's not going to fix the situation. You need to address it better. Yeah. I'm just leaving it at that. Yeah, and these things. And I got no dogfight. I mean, I don't know the owners. I don't know anybody who works there. I saw the original post and the response has been overwhelming. It's crazy. But yeah, I saw the response from Wild Rice. Then I saw the response from the cook that was involved and he said, yeah, I was treated horribly. So I'd address it a little bit better. You're going to have some business issues. All right. 11 minutes after 2 o'clock, what do we got on the program today? Oh, boy, no surprise there. President Trump once again set off a firestorm and broke the interweb with his executive order on vaccinations for kids. Yeah, there's... All he's saying is this is the recommendation. You still have a choice as a parent to which you want to do. Well, so that's the key part of this. I can't believe how many vaccinations kids have to get. I'm like, what? Yeah. Holy cow. Yeah, and that's the key part of it. Hang on. To my understanding, no one is telling parents and or their family doctor that you cannot get these... vaccinations. They are not preventing you, but this is why people distrust the media. Because our top of the hour news story at 10 o'clock this morning was... Doctors are just not behind this at all, a complete fear mongering, and the executive order will prevent parents from getting children's needed vaccinations. No, it doesn't. It doesn't affect that at all. Not one bit. Hey, Ken, Jay Thomas. Hey, good afternoon. No, I'm looking for some place to vent. I'm not a big basketball fan, but I don't watch much pro.

sports of any kind, but I started watching the WNBA. You and a lot of other people. These people are really athletes, and it just blows my mind at how many, how far they can hit a basket. But that one link player the other day, she made a new record. She hit 10, three-pointers in a game. So what I'm calling about is that the league is looking at this controversy over trans people coming. And it's like this is a woman's thing, why they're physical enough. They don't need guys in there. I bet you they could beat most of these guys anyway unless they get somebody like LeBron James in there. But anyway. There ought to be some way to keep this a woman's sports. Exactly. It's the WMBA. You know what? Here's the thing. You've got the money that's coming in. I mean, they're still losing money, but it's not like it has before when it comes to the amount of money coming in. You have star players on there that are putting, you know, people, seats in the, or, you know, arses in the seats. And this WNBA can't get out of the way themselves. They're going to implode on themselves. And it's all over this transgender thing. It's the WNBA. That simple. You know, I used to go to State Fair, and like you were mentioned yesterday, I don't want no part of the cities. And I actually considered about going down because they say it's quite a vibe to be in that arena when these women are playing. It would have been fun to go sit in there and do it, but no, we'll keep it on the TV, I guess. There you go, Ken. Appreciate the phone call. Yeah, Ronnie, they can't get out of their own way. Well, no, and ultimately what this is also doing, because there's been college women's basketball, as long as, I mean, virtually as long as there's been college men's basketball, these are high-level skilled athletes, women that would then be denied an opportunity to play. And now they have that opportunity, and now you've got the whole transgender thing. Exactly. I mean, give me a damn break. Matt and Bismarck, Jay, Tomichael. Hey, Jay. Hey. We worked in vaccines for several years. So here's the problem. Traditionally, the recommendation from the CDC meant everything because insurance companies would not cover a vaccine that wasn't recommended.

in the child's an immunization schedule or the adult immunization schedule even. That makes sense. So it was crucial for insurance companies to be recommended. It was kind of like the endorsement, right? Well, since the trial has made various proclamations about... vaccines, I think there was some other things with FDA. It has created a situation where now insurance companies have had to contradict. what CDC says and says, well, we will cover this anyway. Or on these plans, we will cover this, but on these plans, we won't. So what this creates is of a situation where a plan may or may not, and with childhood vaccinations, I'm sure they're going to continue to cover it if they were already. Sure. But if you separate these vaccines, every office visit is a charge. Every office visit. Anytime you administer something, that person's got to get paid for that. That's true. So there's a co-pay, a co-insurance, whatever it is, and how much you're paying out of pocket is going to depend on the plan that you have. So it is further just creating a messy situation within the health care system. And on top of that, you want to know why it's dumb? Because this idea about having, being exposed to too many things in the single vaccine. Your child, the moment you take the child home from the hospital, they're exposed in your car, if you're traveling in an airplane, in a bus, whatever it is. There is. So many more antigens that they're exposed to every day than in that vaccine that's in the, at any given office visits that they're getting. So. Because those, those are pared down and purified like, okay, we're only exposing the child to these antigens and that's it. Everything else out in the wide world throws everything at your immune system. Well, let's let's let's let's be real on it. I mean, there has always been. vaccination, vax deniers. I mean, it's never been to the point it is now. And you know where I put the blame on that? Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC. They're the ones that caused this vaccination scare or nightmare in this country. They're the ones that did it. And this crap keeps coming out regarding Fugazi. It's going to get worse. I was shocked, Matt, because, you know, our kids are in their 30s now. So it's been many, many years. I don't ever remember our boys having to get that many shots when they were younger. I just don't remember that. We don't remember it because we don't remember it because we just did it.

Doc says this is what you're good at. Hey, you come in for this office. You just got it. There wasn't any questioning, right? It was just, this is what we're doing today. Period. End of discussion. Same thing with school. You're doing this. You're going here. You're doing that. You're running a mile. There was no exception. You just did it. Right? And you can't, I mean. Now, and I agree with you on Anthony Fauci, that's created a distrust in many institutions. I was working in vaccines when the MMR thing came up, which is what was being addressed by this executive order. Yeah. Like we put that, that was an annoyance because Dr. Wakefield was discredited. I mean, he was just, got his medical license. It was a total sham thing. It was an annoyance at the time, but it didn't create the problem. post that we're seeing postcode for the reasons that you just outlined. You're exactly right. Yeah, it's the, the whole Anthony Fauci CDC thing. And again, now that all this stuff is being exposed, things that people were saying for, you know, since 2020 or just after it. And now it's all coming to fruition. And I think it's going to make, I think, I think Matt, it's going to, I don't think. I think it'll take decades and decades to be able to turn this around where people actually have gained trust in the CDC and other, you know, federal agencies. It's just the trust has been eroded. Which is sad because you had medical professionals. You have a polio situation where they, that something comes along that's. either extremely scary like polio but not necessarily highly fatal or uh and and they fix it and it restores trust i don't i don't know what that what that looks like because There's been too many what I guess they would call noble lies. Like they felt like they were lying to us for our own good. Yeah. Right? And it's just, it's destroyed everything. Well, and they treated us like we were first graders. That's what they did. And Matt, people should look up and watch the stories. I've seen a couple of documentaries on Dr. Jonas Salk in creating the polio vaccine. And even back then. There were some people, including himself, that were wondering, should I do this? The good outweighs, the bad, like we have to do this. We have to save children's lives. And they ended up making that decision. And it saved a country. Well, 100% and that was even riskier because they were using live attenuated vaccines, which they knew a portion of the population. They were going to give polio to some of them. They knew it. But they felt on balance it was worth saving. They had it. I mean, we're talking 90-some plus. I forget what the numbers were, but.

They knew that, and that was the risk they wanted. They had felt like that to take. And sometimes, you know, you got to take the risks, but you really, you've got to, you know, when you take that risk, you got to weigh everything. And in that case, they did the right thing. And my old thing with this Trump, what pisses me off, Matt, is that, like, Ronnie, see, you got the news media out there. They can't even report the truth. This is not saying. The government's telling you what you, what vaccinations you can't have for your kids. And that's the way they're trying to report this. And that's just not true. Now, for me, if we had boys, of course, well, we do have boys, but if we had young kids again, I'm not, I'm not listening to the media. I'm not listening to the president. I'm going to trust my doctor. And that might not sit well with people, but I have faith in my doctor. I'm going to talk to my doctor. Okay, do our boys really need all these shots and do they need them right now? Or can we spread these things out? Because actually, no, I don't, dogs. different than humans, but that's what Alex does with our dogs. They don't get all their vaccinations right away because we had to scare with one of our dogs. It messed our dog up. So now when she goes in, instead of getting, okay, the dog needs this, this, this, okay, we'll get one of them now. We'll wait a month or so, and we'll get the other one. So the dog isn't loaded up with all these vaccinations at once. Well, part of that issue is, I don't. anymore. I'm not sure how well easily they can disentangle manufacturing because it's not like they have production lines for... the combination vaccines giving them all individually. That might take a little bit of time if that's going to, but then again, like you say, if it's a choice, there's going to be some people that just want the combination. So a lot of this, how much of a problem this is is going to be predicated, one, on what insurance is going to cover, and two, what the manufacturers can effectively supply. Well, hopefully, and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully the powers that be. You know, hopefully they're looking at all this and addressing this. You know, when it comes to, what is it, the MMR, other nations, it's already split where you don't get all through, you get this, you get, but it's not set up like that in the United States. So they've got to set that up so you can get it split. But it's already set up in other countries. So if it's set up in other countries. You just got to figure, okay, how do you do it here cost-wise and split it here? And that's 100% right. I mean, in a broader scope, there needs to be an insurance. Like, that industry needs to be torn apart and investigated to the hilt because you're required to have those things. And then when you count on it being there, they're like, well.

I don't think we're going to cover that. Did we have this many shots 20 years? Matt, did we have this many shots 20 years ago? I don't think we did. 20? Well, no, not quite as many. I couldn't pinpoint, like, how many additional ones have come up. But part of the development for some of them was decreasing the overall cost of disease burden and to the health care system. There's a lot of things like that. When you look at the rhodovirus vaccine, whooping cough, things that might not have been deadly but cause hospitalization. You know, one hospitalization. You know, that can be hundreds of thousands of dollars. So it really just, it depends on, you know, what the purposes of some of them were. Not all of them are like polio. Right. So it's just some of them were added on for purposes like that. But the other part of this, though, is these are arguments for Medicare for all, right? Because when you pit the insurance companies against what the government wants. I can assure you that's an argument for wrapping the whole thing into one. But that's where the question comes in. Is there concern that you're wrapping everything in one? Are you overloading your system? What I don't, here's the thing that I don't like, Matt. Here's the recommendation. Because if the Trump administration is saying this is the way we want it, but the insurance company is saying, well, that's not how we're covering it. That's an argument for Medicare for all. Okay, fine, then. It's single payer now. That's where that goes. Well, again, I mean, I just, I have no problem with what Trump did yesterday. Again, what I have a problem with is, is it being reported that, you know, he's telling you what you can and can't have, and that's just not the case. Now, of course, there's a whole argument, you know, when it comes to now affordability, because you're going to have to go if you do it that. But I believe you have that, you're going to have that choice, Matt. If you want your kids to get them all now, boom, you can get them all now. If you don't, you can spread it out. It's typical in this country. Anything that has to do with health care is just, it's a nightmare in this country. Your one paycheck away from bankrupt. It should not be like that. The more complicated it is, the more the argument for single-payer heats up. So that's one of the things we've got to make it. simpler, not more complicated. And my problem with this is it's pitting government recommendations against the way it is covered and the way we pay for it out of pocket. It's a whole different matter if it's just us showing it out, but that's not how the way it works. Yeah, exactly. All right, brother, I'll let you go, a good conversation. Of course, Matt's in that business for years. Yes.

Email says, Jay, after Anthony Fauci, it's nearly impossible to trust the government. No one wants to roll the dice with their health and get buffaloed. Exactly. That's what I'm saying earlier. This all comes from what the government did with COVID. Anthony Fauci, the CDC, the powers. Look what you did to people. Just like Matt said, agencies we should have and previously had tons of trust. The CDC says it's now gone. Yeah. And now, you know, all the fears that people had, well, it's all true. Right. These, first the emails or the diary, I should say, and now the text messages that are coming out, I mean, he knew women could miscarriage with this thing and poo-pooed it. Jay Thomas Show. Ah, Joe Jackson, 72 today. I think his biggest hit was, what was that stepping out? I think that's what the song was. Yeah, not the matriarch of the Jackson 5. Or shoeless Joe Jack. Yeah, that's right. All right, Sid, you're going to be first on the phones here. But a officer, I needed a trailer to give my Harley, my belongings to Sturgis. Unreal. I, yeah. All right. WDY Radio and AM1100 to flag. We want to celebrate and honor our local teachers at anybody that works in that industry, whether you're a custodial arts, whatever it is, man. Free lunch happens tomorrow. So if you're a teacher or a school staff member, join us here at our studios, 2852 Thunder Road South. 11-1 tomorrow. We'll have a wide variety of food trucks providing free lunch. Games for the kids and so much more. It's our way saying thank you for what you do. And Ronnie, who are those fabulous sponsors? We have a lengthy list. I know starting specifically with Glass Doctor Otto of Moorhead. Also, Minco Construction, King Pins, Thunder Road. UND Alumni Foundation, Rivera Bank, Capstone Financial Group. Center for the American Experiment, Welton's Tire. remax realty tom claude dave's tire corwin subru and united valley bank man couldn't do it without all those fine sponsors yeah thank you for doing that 701 2939000 sid is in fargo hello sid Hello, Jay. Hey, I was listening to your debates about, on the vaccines. About conversation. About conversation. About one of the things that got me, I'm listening to Jay Thomas say, I'm going to trust my doctor. You know, and you and I are on the same page with that. Yeah. But, boy, and I will never forget, I have a doctor that I've trusted for years, and I'm in his office during COVID because I got family pressures. It's like, you know, if you don't get this shot, you get COVID, you're going to die. So I went to talk to my doctor. My doctor, he got quiet. He looked at the floor. He goes, if I say anything against this shot, I can put my license at risk. That's the crap that needs to change, man. You know, there are fewer in that. But your doctor, at least your doctor, though, told you. You know, he was honest with you. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I know. He could have just not said anything. But that leaves me hanging dry. You know? This, again, this whole CD, I mean, the COVID, the trust is gone. It's going to take decades for that trust to come back. Or some kind of event, like Matt referenced, unfortunately, I don't want to see that, but something similar to polio. No. It's, you know, here's what gets me said. So. Like I said, our boys are all grown and gone up. I don't know if you have children or not, Sid, but I don't ever remember having to give our boys having to get as many shots. This is, so in 1980, American children following the CDC immunization schedule, this is in 1980, received 23 vaccine doses in seven shots against seven different diseases. Now you go to 2024. The recommended number of routine vaccines had risen to at least 84 vaccine doses in at least 57 shots for 17 diseases plus the RSV. So that totals 18. Sid, that's crazy. That's a crazy amount. That is crazy. And something else, it just struck me just now. You know, every once in a while, I still hear those things from the far, far right. And Alex Jay Jones was saying that this vaccine was made to make women sterile and make children sterile. And now we find out that Anthony Fauci put in his notes. That, oh, yeah, if we give this to pregnant women, they're going to abort their children within the first trimester. Yeah, there was a, I think I ended up being, what was it, a 12 per 12% chance of a miscarriage. As more and more of the craziest. Yeah, these text messages I think are going to be more damning. than his diary was. And what did they say? They got 30. The craziest thing I'll say before I let you go. Okay. As man, this Anthony Fauci character, regardless of his presidential pardon, he needs to be held accountable. Yes, he does. And that's all I guess. No, I'm with you. I'm 100% with you. And I think even people that were supporters of Dr. Anthony Fauci now realize that he's an evil man. He's an absolutely evil man. Now, what do you say, right, 35,000 text messages on that government issue phone they got their hands on? Yeah, I didn't think the diary could be worse, and apparently it's Hold My Beer Mom. Well, we're going to find out in the days to come. Let's go to Wheaton. Hey, Troy, you're up, Jay Tom, Michelle. Troy? Can you hear me? Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, I know back when... I had cancer, and it was right in 2020, and my cancer doctor would say, you know, you got to get a COVID shot because if you get COVID, it'll kill you. I was told that. I was told that. I had surgeons. I asked, well, give me the COVID shot then. And he couldn't, the doctors had no say. He couldn't give me a COVID shot. My surgeon.

at Sanford. He couldn't, he said, you got your COVID shot? Nope, don't have it. He couldn't give me the shot. My local doctors in Wheaton couldn't give me the shot. So I, it wasn't controlled. The doctors had no say. That's what bugged the crap out of me. Well, that's crazy if they're asking you if you've got your COVID shot. And they can't give it to. Where do they think you're going to get it that? That doesn't make any sense. On the street corner somewhere? That's what I said. And every doctor and surgeon and my cancer doctor at Roger Maris and I don't give me wrong. I love all them doctors up at Roger Maris and the nurses at Sanford. They're fabulous up that. You know, they save my life. Yeah. But why didn't the doctors have any say about giving you that shot? So then that made me kind of like suspicious. Sure. I started checking into things and started paying attention on the radio. And you'd listen that my wife would have Good Morning America on and they just came with one lie after another about hydroxychloroquine and all this stuff. I go talk to my stepdad that lived by himself on the farm old Korean vet. He said they gave him hydroxychloric when they were in Korea, so they wouldn't get malaria. So, I mean, Good Morning America said it would kill you. Yeah, this, this, I hope we never, Troy, go through this garbage again because it, again, this is what has eroded so much of the trust the American people used to have in these agencies. Because like I said earlier, remember Troy, I mean, I don't know how old you are, but I mean, most my, growing up adult life. If the CDC said something, it's like, holy smokes, the CDC is saying that, okay, then, you know, they know what they're doing. But that trust is gone. It's, it's gone. And it was, you know, all this stuff being pushed on people and being threatened. And, you know, your livelihood is being threatened. You're, you know, you're threatened to go to jail if you're, you know, talking. They're too close. having people over. It was just, it was all bananas. And we were, many people like yourself, we were all going, well, this doesn't make any sense. This, this doesn't add up. And we were right. We were right. Yeah. It's a damn shame. Well, I finally got my shots, you know, after I complained enough, I guess. So who, who finally gave you the shots? Well, they did. I don't, okay, I don't know if it was public health or whatnot, but. After I complained when I was getting my surgery, the nurses asked me right in the operating room, do you get your shot yet? And I just, they can take that shot and you listen and whatever with it. And then when I came to, the nurses were just laughing. Do you remember talking about that? Oh, yeah, whatever. And when I got back home, they called me from the Wheaton Clinic and say, hey, we got a shot for you. I just about didn't take it, but in order to go to Canada, go fishing, I had to have my shot, so that's why I took it. I took my second one. I'll never take another one. Yeah, the, if I forget, I haven't lost my train of thought. Oh, did you, speaking of how to take it to go to Canada, how to take it if you wanted to keep your job, how to take it for this, how to take it for that. And then now, you know, Aaron Rogers, remember he was saying, you know,

that, you know, wink, wink, but basically in the NFL, you had to take the shot if you wanted, didn't want to go through the testing every day with the big club up your nose. Yep. And everybody kind of pooh-pood him when he was saying, well, look, you know, there are so many guys running around, not just players, but also, you know, head honchos in, you know, for the teams. They were buying fake COVID cards. And now who was the other player that just came out and said, yeah, that's true. A lot of them were running around with fake cards. I remember hearing that. I just came on today. I also remember Aaron Rogers going on, and that just absolutely blew me away, knowing that that show is on ESPN, who's gone completely woke. Let Aaron Rogers go off on Anthony Fauci himself. During the Pat McAfee show. I loved it. I loved it. Troy, I appreciate the phone call. Congratulations, dude, on your getting better, man. Yeah. It's good to hear those stories. That's crazy, though. Did you get your shot? No. Well, you probably. Do you remember? Yes, just like any disease. Some people need it. Right. Some people. Immunocompromise, though. That was the concern. You're receiving treatments. Your body's weak. Do you remember the passport car? I found mine the other day in my car. Oh, really? My shot passport. Let me see your papers. Oh, my. I didn't have those. Jay, hang on callers. How much do you want to bet that the judge will give that Honor Flight trailer thief a slap on the wrist? Well, let's hope not, but it wouldn't shock me. Also, Jay Fargo is getting wards, only crickets from the opposition, crickets. Don't know what you mean by that. And it hasn't been voted on yet. Right. I think there are people who are opposed. Now, I would say if you're looking at it on the outside, there's quite a few that support it. But I think there are people who are supposed. They'll make their voice heard at the ballot box. Well, again, my gut tells me that this thing's going to. It's going to get voted in the war. Looking on its face, I don't see how you're wrong. No. Yeah, I mean, the support appears to be there. We'll find out what October 2nd. People want to shout and wave their fist like we have had enough, and this is a way to do it. 701-29-39,000 email studio at WDAYRadio Now.com. If you want to weigh in on the vaccines and with the president's executive order, what he did yesterday is the executive order. Uh, Jay, email, there are two men who call themselves transgender, which is a proven lie. What's that, Ronnie? Oh, you give me a count. Okay. Yeah, sorry. Who want to play in the WNBA. One is 6 foot 8 inches tall, 229 pounds. The other is 6 foot 10, 260. How on earth can women compete against the muscular Hulk of these beasts? If the WNBA officials allow this to happen, they should be banned from the WNBA. Thank God for your garage party where common sense insanity still exists. Kudos brother. Thank you. That's right. So.

Is there a chance? I mean, how is the WNBA going to get out of these two former NBA players? I don't think there's a damn thing wrong with it. I think it is. How are they going to get out? They're not. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. How are they going to talk their way out of this thing? I think it is forcing their hand. That's right. that they need to finally, and I don't know that the WNBA wanted to be the ones to finally settle this debate. Well, they are going to be forced to define what the W in WNBA means. Why did they even get involved in this? I don't know. It should have just simply been, look, you know, get in the corporate office, whatever, headquarters. Look, we are not getting involved in this transgender in women's sports. We're staying out of it. We're the WNBA. And if there's players on here that don't like it, then you know what? You're not playing for the WNBA. We're not getting involved. We are here. We are a sports organization. We're here to play women's basketball to entertain people. We're staying out of it. And I don't have a, I agree with you 100%. But the precedence here is the NFL did it. You saw all of the messages about races, everything else. Two national anthems. Baseball is doing it now with who can celebrate Pride Night, who can't celebrate Pride Night due to their religious beliefs, Bible verses on hats. Just get all that stuff on. Exactly. All of it. Take it. Put your cleats on. Put the pads on and go out there and play football. Don't show any preference. for anything else of a personal nature. It's about sports. If a reporter comes up and starts asking the players question, then you know what? They're shuffled out. That are political? Yes. Then you know what? You're banned from reporting. Exactly. You're out of the lack of room. You're not coming here. You're done. 701-2-9-3-9,000. Another email, Jay, should the public also be suspicious and upset at the manufacturers, Pfizer, Moderna, as well as who created the COVID-vax? I haven't been following the story as much, so I apologize. I work in health care and was required to get COVID vaccine and boosters. Well, here's the other thing, too, with drug companies. I'm picking out the drug companies today.

We are bombarded every day with drug ads and new drugs. There's a drug for everything. The human body isn't going to be able to, is not going to be able to fight anything off anymore. Fired up, Ronnie. We're almost out of time. And that's the thing. One second here. There you go. We're looking for caller number 9-701-29-39-9. Caller number 9, you are our next qualifier for the Vegas getaway. You see your favorite Green Eagle football team. VIP tickets, 50-yard line, hotel accommodations airfare. We've got you covered, baby. Yeah, we're bombarded nonstop with drug ads. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. 253, Jay Thomas Show. All right, 306, Jay Thomas Show. Well, Zach, I'm glad you told me about this, man. I just looked up here a little tidbit of information here on the Big Three automakers, what they want to do for vehicles. Okay. This is going to be a topic on the show. Maybe I'll do it next week. I did not know this. Ronnie, did you know this? The Big Three? Looks like I don't see a specific date in here, but oh, it's under a 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. U.S. government directed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to mandate passive impaired driving detection systems in new passenger vehicles. I did not know that. No, I know people have been posting crap about a kill switch or something. Well, that's basically what this is that require passive sensors or cameras that track driver alertness, eye movement. or blood alcohol concentration to prevent an impaired driver from operating vehicle, which I'm for that. Right. But I can see a lot of problems here, man. A lot of problems. Like what was what you told me off there? Like if you're, let's say you jump in your vehicle and you're, you got severe anxiety because there's a storm. You're trying to get away from a storm or something. Is that going to come across as you're impaired? That's what the tests have come up with, and that's what's actually held it back, is there's been a lot of issues with people either having too much anxiety or being in a panic state, it automatically says they're impaired, pulls them off to the side and kills it. Yeah, I mean, technology, yeah, it's a world we live in, but sometimes we jump on this technology too fast. I remember when they first came out with OnStar. And guys were like, you know, on a frozen lake with their vehicle and something going to go wrong with a car. They couldn't figure it out. Well, it shows you're in the middle of a lake. No, I'm on the ice. What? So, okay, I'm going to have to dig more into that, man. Thanks for the heads up on that, brother. Oh, good. Hey, who's our latest qualifier there, Ronnie? That would be Gage B. Gage. Yes. All right, congratulations. Gage. You are an ex-qualifier for the Las Vegas trip.

September 14th, right? September 14th is the party at Kingpins. And out of all of those qualifiers, we'll see if we can get somebody made a grand prize winner. Well, somebody is going to be a grand prize winner. They will be. We're not going to try it. We're going to do it. We're on your bear fare for two from Fargo to Vegas. And yeah, we'll get you home to. Three-night hotel state, two VIP tickets to see Fargo's favorite green and gold. College football team take on University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It was a running rebels. It is the running rebs. Yeah. Now, they're interestingly enough, their quarterback last year, Anthony Calandra, was the Mountain West player of the year, is now playing? for the University of Nebraska. How about that? That game's on October 10th in Las Vegas at Allegiance Stadium, and we're giving you VIP tickets to the game. So you get two tickets on the visiting team's 50-yard line. Access to the Champions Club, which includes unlimited premium food buffet and all your favorite beverages. So just be listening for that sounder when you hear it to you. On this program, be caller 9. I don't know what these other shows do. Something similar, yeah. For college. But your next chance to win tomorrow morning with Bonnie and friends here on WDAY. New people listening on the flag tomorrow morning with Alex and Kevin on the Need to Know Morning Show. All right. Um, emails. Uh, yeah, we'll save those. All right. In studio, it's been a while. Um, sports vape owner, Zach Johnson, cowboy hat, no boots today? Ah, no. Dude, see, I'm saying, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't happen at that golfing game, too. Oh, the golfing game was good, but then I, I went catfishing on the river the other night, and I stepped in what I call a sinkhole? You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't, do you? I, No, cats aren't up here aren't big enough to know. They're not big enough. That is quick. Have you seen, like, seismic? Yeah, that is nuts. That's what's called noodling. Yeah, noodle and basically, you know, flathead catfish is normally what that they do it with or blues down south. They'll find them in a hole. Yeah. And then you basically make them mad. They bite your hand. And then you pull them out. Yeah, you go up into their mouth through the gills and you pull them out. And normally they're almost up to your elbow. They're huge. Those are 80-pounders that you're doing that with. Oh, my God. Yeah, I never wore my boots in the summertime. If you get too hot. Oh, they get hot, but I lost one in the riverbank. I went down to my thigh. I never got the one back. Dude. Were you down there by yourself? Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. On the red? Actually, so I was on the buffalo when I lost a boot, and then I went to the red. So I went for baitfish, and then I went to the red. But everything's so low, it's pretty hard to find them right now. Yeah, it's something. Did you see the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead? Yeah, lowest level since it's creation. Wow, that's not good.

Because they need that for power. Well, and I was trying to figure out whether that is the official water source for the city of Las Vegas or not that reservoir. I don't know. I think it takes care more than Vegas. Doesn't it take care of like Arizona's one? Good portion of the West. Yeah. Yeah, that's a huge, huge dam hydroelectric power. Yeah. Zach, they're coming at you from all sides, buddy. Let's see, flavored nicotine. um crate them now is there anything else they can come after you guys for i'm sure they'll find something they'll find something we like to fight so we're good with it yeah you look like you'd be a fighter too man uh so you uh told the forums april brumgardner when uh she did a story with you you got a couple thousand dollars worth of cratum that was on its way to your store when uh governor armstrong said we're putting a 30 day ban on it um Where's the stuff sitting at? Sitting in a garage and Moorhead out of state. Because it can't be here. Well, it's a $1,000 fine for possession per product. So I don't know what happens if you have a retail allotment of it. So that brings up a good question because I brought this question up last week. When the ban went into effect. the state posted, okay, where you can drop your cratom off, get rid of it. And I asked the question, so if you're a business that sells cratum, do you have to turn it into or do you just take it off the shelves and tuck it away? Nobody called us. So honestly, we really? Nobody called. I mean, we didn't know about it. We found it out about it online. No one called the store and was like, hey, this is the designated spot. No one was like, hey, you know, if you just bought, you know, five grand to crate them, we'll refund you. That doesn't happen. So we packed it up and it's sitting in Moorhead where it's a legal product in a warehouse. And that way we're not violating North Dakota law by any means. Yeah, that's what you said. We had, we ordered the product with no knowledge of a band and then basically got a three-day notice. We have a product that I don't know what we're going to do with. Yeah. I mean, it depends on what happens with the special session. If the special session goes through and they do what I believe is right and they ban synthetic 7-0-H. That's what I think. I think they're going to do that. And we keep the botanical. We can go back to selling it and we'll be fine. If not, we're just going to have to start calling people because distributors, they're not taking it back. They made their money. That was my next question. Will they take it back? And the answers, no. Well, they'd take it back to trade out for another product, some distributors, but predominantly the distributors that are selling cratum is their own brand. And so that's all they sell. Okay. Your store, sports vape, you guys carry natural leave cratum, which is botanical. Yes. And you guys do not mess with the synthetic stuff. No. No, I've been saying it since for the last two years that's been around. So when we started going to the trade shows a couple years ago, it was a small thing. The next year was like what the entire trade show was about. And I literally looked at a couple different people that I was there with. And I said, this is going to be the end of the Greatam industry. This is the worst thing there is. It's synthetically derived. It's designed to be freaking heroin, basically. Well, it's called gas station heroin. That's it. It interacts with the same receptors, same style. And it gets you high as a kite. And so, yeah, it's bad. It should be gone. So.

Tell us the difference in, okay, well, we know somewhere the difference. Okay, so the botanical that you sell, that's all you guys sell, it supports fame, the botanical, a lot less potent? Oh, yeah, completely different in my two cents. I'm not a scientist or doctor, so I might not do as much justice here. But so there's 40 different alkaloids in Kratum. So, like, a good example is you have a hemp plant. You're going to have CBD. You're going to have CBDG, CBD, and THC, different alkaloids. And they're going to be represented in different proportions naturally occurring. So like in the botanic or in a cratum leaf, there is a very, very, very minute amount of 70H naturally produced. Okay. It's enough where you would never know it or recognize it. But they took it and recognized how potent it was and found a way to make it synthetically. Uh-huh. And so, but mitrogen, which is, I'm going to say the nat... The most known active ingredient, most cratum is labeled in MIT, which is short for mitrogen or how many milligrams of it are in a serving of the product. Not near as potent. So the best way to explain it is on your receptor and your brain, 70H is going to be like a fire hose. Okay. Hosing it down. Mitrogen is going to be like a dripping sink. Like a dripping sink. Okay. But it's going to, I mean, it's a natural energy booster. It's a natural. pain reliever. I'm going to say it's really no different than Tylenol, ibuprofen. For a lot of people, it works better than them for that. I had three ACL replacements, like ibuprofen, Tylenol really don't do anything for me. Create them. One of the things that helps with my knee because I got no cartilage in it. One of the arguments that we're hearing is the stuff is it's dangerous and it's very addictive. Is the addictiveness very addictive? Is that just the seven What do it call 70H? 70H is designed to be extremely addictive. Sure. I'm going to say that regular cratim, I'll put it this way. Anything can be addictive in life, right? Yeah. 70H designed for it. Mitch or gene, not. Like, I use, I use cratim. I use it here and there all the time, but it's not like, oh, man, I wake up in the morning and I go home, man. You're not craving it. I'm not shaking. I'm not shaking. I'm not crying. I'm not puking. It's not like heroin. So what do people come to your place and what are they buying it for? Oh, man, we have people buying it for all sorts. We have a lot of females come in. They buy it for their menstrual cycles. Okay. My wife included. Unless she takes might all, like seven days before her menstrual cycle starts. Yeah. And all the way through on like a four-hour cycle. You're hiding. Huh? You're hiding. Hiding? Hiding. Hiding from her. Oh, no, no, I don't have to. She's curled up in a corner because her cramps are so bad. She was on birth control since she was 13 because her cramps are so bad and there was nothing. When I introduced her to the cratum, it changed her life. She's able to function. She was able to go to work. She didn't have to call out. But she wasn't taken like an entire bottle of my doll or an entire bottle of ibuprofen in a week. Which can be really bad on your organs, on your liver, your kidneys. Yeah, Tylenol is super easy to OD on. You can get liver failure from, you know, eight pills. 701-29-3-9,000 is the phone number. If you got any questions, Zach Johnson with us on SportsVape talking about, create them in this band and the differences. Because everybody that contacted this show over the last week when we brought the topic up, not one person, Zach, has defended 70H, the synthetic. Nobody, and these are people that you say, hey, I got no problem. Ban that stuff, but not the botanical. No, I mean, we have.

We have a large population of people I'm going to say in the 70 to 85 range. They come in and they get Kratum for two reasons. One, it gives them some extra energy through the day. It's a mood booster, but they use it for their arthritis. Instead of going to the doctor, instead of getting prescription pills, they feel the Kratum is better. They take way less of it. It works way better for them. And they don't get the... I'm going to say nauseous feeling. Sure. It's what I've heard from them on the other pills that they're getting for arthritis. So now we hear, we hear that there were, what was the number, North Dakota Governor Armstrong was saying? There were 50. 50 deaths since 2019. And 23 of them directly attributed to create them. But we don't know if that's 70H. It's 708. It's not metrygene, yeah. No, I just heard there was another patient that it was in Minnesota or whatnot. I don't know the full story, but someone took an extreme large dose of 70H, went into a coma and went to the ER and then got Narcan and all the rest of it. Like, it's a bad product, but I've never once. ever and i don't know that there's any research on the natural cratum um gone to the hospital i do know a few people who used to be addicted to heroin and actually used cratum to get off of it but i had a gal call our program last week yeah and i'll put it this way the amount they were taking was insane so like you can buy whole leaf cratom there's a lot of different forms you can buy it in like a kilogram bag um and one of my buddies that used to be addicted he said yeah when i was like feigning and getting off of it i would i would eat like half a bag and he said i started working my way down sure that's how i got off it but so i mean you can take excessive amounts but the plant's pretty self monitoring if you take too much of it you're going to get nauseous so from what i understand uh grown in southeast asia yep um been around for centuries yeah early 1800s has been used medicinally for hundreds of years came to the U.S. in 1970 and has been used in clinical trials. Then manufacturers started making the pills that everybody's having a problem with. Yeah, I don't even, so like 70H, as far as I'm familiar with, it started like two years ago. It might have been around longer, and then someone just finally found it. But, yeah, it was about two years ago. This started, and it's ramped up pretty fast. So what are you, are you going on to testify? Out at the special. I don't know. I don't know if we can. Yeah, it's a good question. Roddy, can you look that up and see if North Dakota special session if people can testify? Yeah.

See if you can do that. If you can, are you going to go out there? Yeah, definitely. We're for the people here. The amount of people this is going to impact. I don't even care about my story, but you're taking something away from people that they're using to get through their lives. They're going to go find something different. Well, I brought that up. I had Dr. Dan Kramer on from the state yesterday. And, you know, we were talking more about, you know, the concern that he and other health officials are having with this all of a sudden ban. people are going to start having withdrawal, and what are they going to do? Yeah, for the 708, 100% for the regular Kratum, they're not going to have withdrawal, but they're going to have to go do something, and they're probably going to have to turn to pharmaceuticals for their pain in the meantime. Or, I'll be honest. Black market. Well, they're just driving out of state. Yeah. South Dakota, Minnesota, it's still legal for Kratom. So I can tell you, I know a ton of gas stations on the border in South Dakota, like their sales are through the roof right now. Oh, it's just insane. Everyone's driving there, and they're stocking up and bringing it back. I mean, if that's, if you know how to get through and manage your arthritis, that's one of the worst, I'm going to say, diseases to have. It's painful. So why do you think, Zach, the state jumped the gun on this thing? Or just, I mean, I shouldn't say jump the gun, but I mean, just all of a sudden out of the blue, it was like, wow. I mean, I'm going to say that. I think it was an overreaction. I think it was a calculated one. I think we 10 out of 10 Chaband 7.OH. And I'm going to say maybe they felt that if they did not make that severe overreaction that people would let it keep going. I don't know that that would have been the decision I made. But that's my assumption. So I think Kelly, Governor Armstrong really is looking out for people. And once it gets greater 70H, wants to get rid of the fentanyl. Do I love how it went about? Do I love the short notice we got on the retail side and what it does for people? On the whole cranium ban, no, but it really does bring a spotlight to it. And so it really shows he cares for people. I'm just hoping that we're not going to be over-regulating an industry that doesn't need to be. Well, it's... And that happens. It's interesting because I don't... Like, for example, your tobacco license, do you get that from the city or is it go through Fargo-Cast Public Health? Right now, that's the state AG. Yeah, okay. Because I just find... it interesting how this came up very short notice. Fargo-Cast Public Health goes out to do compliance checks all the time, but boy, they were really not going to make any extra effort to go out and notify retailers that this ban was going into effect. Well, but is it their job or is that the state's job? That's a good question. That's a good question. Yeah, I'm guessing Armstrong also did this, you know, to get these lawmakers in, and let's let's uh we got to figure this out before because he says it's a wild west and he's right it is a wild west if there's no there's no um restrictions on the 70H yeah i mean 11 year old can just walk into a convenience store and buy this stuff The answer is you're not necessarily wrong. On almost all the packaging of the products, 90% plus are going to say like 21 plus is what they're intending it to be used for. What a gas station does, and there is no state loss. You're right. In theory you could. But how many, you're obviously wearing a convenience store. You know, they know, they know, tobacco can't. You know, how are they going to know, oh, I, you know, here you go. That's fair. That's fair. And so, yeah, I mean, I think 18 minimum age, honestly, 21.

I don't see any issue with either of those two. I think it's a smart play. Get rid of 70H, put an age limit in for regular cratum. That's what I think they're going to do. That's what I'm hoping, but I'm hoping we're not going to go. We're going to put this whole registry. We're going to put all these extra precautions. You have to have so much milligram per gummy, overregulate it so that there's no companies that even want to get into the space. So what they did with CBD and THC. So like you can sell T. THC gummies in the state of North Dakota, but it has to be, what is it, a 25 part to one part, so 25 part CBD to one part THC. It's got to be like a 5 milligram gummy. You can have no more than like 5 in a container. No manufacturer wants to make it. There's no money. There's, yeah. So, yeah, you can't sell it because nobody makes it. Well, what I think is going to happen in this session, I, I, I think they're going to ban the 70H and then put age restrictions on the botanical. That's what I'm hopeful for. I'm going to say my biggest holdback is the pharmaceutical board is the one ringing the bell. And the one thing I can tell you is you can't patent crate them, just like you can't patent hemp, marijuana, mushrooms, you name it. So to me, I am a little bit worried that we're going to have a blanket ban on it because it is going to increase pharmaceutical sales. So, and we know what these pharmaceutical opioids have done to people. Oh, yeah. There's not much difference than 70H. It's destroyed many, many lives. Well, not just you, but even what's his Global Kratom Coalition Executive Director, Matt Lowe told April Brom-Gunner, he too says the 70H product should be banned in Creighton leaves age-restricted. Yeah. It's really simple using common sense rules where you can make here, which is going to protect people in both facets. Protect people from getting it who aren't at the right age, but also protect people who have been using it and allow them to still use it. Interesting, man. Still working on seeing whether there's public comment when the session begins. Apparently there was a working session last Friday. And they did take limited public comment during that. that session, but I'm trying to find out when the session begins if testimony will be. Well, the session begins September 2nd. Right, correct. And it's three days. Right. That's, I'm trying to find out if the public will be allowed to give testimony during that. But the big thing is contact your legislator. Give them your testimony, or you can still email the congressional websites as well and offer that testimony to your legislator. That's going to be interesting. Wouldn't it be nice if all the rules and regulations as to what the legislative session entails and when you can testify, when you can't, we're a little easier to find? Yeah, wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be a special day? All right. Anything else, Zag, for I let you go. You went golfing for the first time. Hey, Jay, can you ask Zach how botanical cratim is metabolized in the body, liver or kidneys? I believe. It is kidneys. Okay. It's, I believe it's through the kidneys. I know excessive amounts can be hard on the kidneys. Oh, excessive amounts of any sugar. Yeah. It can all be. And that are like Tylenol. Yeah. Well, actually, I have epiprofen for kidneys. Tylenol is your liver. Yep. But I believe it is as a kidneys. Okay. All right, brother, need anything? Let me know. And, uh...

Quite sure down the road we'll be talking more about the nicotine flavored nicotine bag as I talked to somebody today. So where are we at with that? I said, oh, it ain't going away. No, right now Jen Falls waiting for October to bring it back so that way all the momentum we got. Because so many people were frustrated by it. And like a lot of people wanted to make changes. But I'm going to say Cass County Public Health just basically told us. We don't, we want it gone. We're not going to make any concessions. So they're going to bring it back and it'll be a fight. Thanks, Zach. Appreciate it, brother. Hey, appreciate, Jay. 327. Lost my, lost my cowboy boot in the river, catfishing. Oh, it sounds to me like he planted his boot. It ain't coming back. No, that ain't coming back. Is it just me or is he the spitting image of Josh Allsocker? They could be brothers mad. Yeah, now that you say that, yeah. Yeah, 337. Robert Palmer? That's correct. Great tune. Looking for a better way to fix your wheels without breaking your bank account? Yes. Check out Rim Tech, open now in West Fargo. Locally owned, specializing professional wheel and rim repair. And I'll tell you what, rims are not cheap. So if you can get it repaired, get it repaired. It's going to save you a lot of money and let the pros do it. Rim tech fixes the problem, but the source saving you time and money. Whether it's curb, rash, cracks, or a bent rim, their team uses industry-approved methods. They're going to restore your wheels safely. and get you back on the road fast. Call business manager Margarita. She'll get you all set up. You'll find RimTech of 62, 18, 53rd Avenue South, and West Fargo. We'll give them a call 701-7150544. Just visit RimTech LLC.com. Rim tech, professional, reliable, and find a rail up there in West Fargo. Speaking of rims, tires. I tell you the tire story yesterday involving the wife. No, you didn't. Let me, let me go to the text message thread. All right. This was a fun surprise. So, I get up in the morning, and what do I have? Well, it's Monday, honey. The tire lights were on in my truck, and the driver's front tire said 17 pounds of pressure when the rest of them were at 36. So I drove it to work, and it was down to 14 by the time I got to work. It doesn't look flat. And one more thing, the floodlights on the front of the garage were not on this morning. It's because I forgot to hit the switch by accident. Oh, anyway. So I get to work, look at her truck. Pires all look the same. One doesn't look like it's got 14 pounds of pressure in it. TBS sensor issue? Well, that's what I was thinking. So then at about 942, because I told her, said, well, just take the truck in, have him take a look at it. So then I get a, I must have been in the kitchen here at work, making something to eat for breakfast. Call me now, truck. Call me now, truck. Call me now, truck. I'm like, oh, God, this is never good. So I call.

She had a nail in the side wall of one of the tires. So I'm like, how do you get a nail in the side wall of a tire? Right. On the side of it. So she said, well, here, you need to talk to the guys because, well, we can't get just one tire. I mean, you can't get one to put them on. So. Long story short, I end up having to buy four brand new tires for the truck. I could have got just like one or two, but because the other ones, the tread depth on them was getting down there. They said if you just put like one or two new ones. It'll ruin the tread on all the other ones. No, it can mess up. No, no. It can mess up your transfer case and transmission. Ah. Because of the tread difference. Interesting. So $1,32 later, I got a text message. Thanks, honey, for the new tires. And is that a? I've never, I'm not, I've just, I've never. Never heard of that. Now, is that an issue that I presume would be unique to trucks? Only thing with a transfer case? That's what I'm wondering if that's the case. Because I had just heard on cars. Because I replaced like on cars before I placed. Okay, I need a new tire. Yeah. So I guess, you know, it's pretty, pretty, you know, anyway. Right. So, yeah, four, to, holy smokes, man, those are small tires. You know, it's just a little Colorado that she has. I couldn't believe how much tires are now. Well, the cost of everything, I suppose. Holy smokes, man. Rubber and yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm figuring four tires for that small trucking their, what are they, hand-cooked tires. I'm thinking, nah, you know, probably looking at, you know, $600. Yeah, a thousand bucks. Well, that includes installation too, but still, man, that is expensive for a set of tires. Holy cow. So, yeah. Again, I'm like, how do you get a nail on the sidewall of a truck tire? Down to Cooperstown. Troy's up on a J. Thomas Show. What's up, Troy? Oh, I was just listening to the last fellow talking about Kratom. Yeah. There is a Kratom working group meeting at the Rough Rider Room tomorrow in Bismarck at 10.30 to 2.30 p.m. Okay. And there looks like they are going to take comments by interested persons. At 1040. And where's that going to be at? At the Capitol. Capital, Rough Rider Room. See, and I think I was reading the same story, Troy, but the story I read did not differentiate to whether it was last Friday. Well, they had one last Friday. At first session or if one was coming up like in the next day or two. They had one, but there's another one tomorrow. So.

Zach could jump in his truck and head out to Bismarck and make comment during this at 1040? That's what it looks like on their agenda. Okay. Because after lunch, they have a whole bunch of speakers, and it looks like it's a really one-sighted. Commentary after lunch, it's all medical professionals and Kool-Aid drinkers normally. Yeah, well, I think they need to hear from folks like Troy because he's pretty, people like Zach, because he's schooled up on this, man. He does his homework. Great. Awesome. I'm not, but I just thought it'd be nice if he knew he could participate. I'll call him if he's not listening right now. Or Zach, if you're listening, just text me, let me know you got this information. If I don't hear from another, I'll call him during the top of the hour here and let him know about that. Troy, appreciate it. Thanks for the heads up on that, brother. Eric and Fargo, Jay Thomas Show. Hey, Jay. Hey. So as far as those tires go, I've got a... Chevy Equinox and I've got a Chevy Astrovan and both of them are all-wheel drive. So if I got to change, I can't change one tire because it'll rip up the transfer case. Yeah, that's, I didn't see, I didn't, because I guess I've, you know, never had to do one tire or two tires on a, on a truck. But yeah, that's what United Automotive Tech says, say, Jay, if you can go ahead and do one or two tires on this, but you could end up having some serious transfer case issues and tranny issues. I'm like, nah, I don't want that. Put four tires on. So basically one. You know, if you got them on the front or whatever, one tire is moving faster. The one with the less tread is going to be moving faster than the one with the larger tread. Okay. So you're going at two different gear ratios inside that case. Ah, that would make sense. Yep. That would make complete sense. Yeah, I'm like, okay, well, if I got to replace the tires, it's like, oh, man, I got to. And I can't believe how expensive tires are now. Holy smokes. They're nuts. Oh, crazy. Yeah, and these are, you know, they're small, the 17-inch Hand-Cook all-season truck tires. Yeah. Hancook. Hand-cook. Yeah. That's crazy. All right, man. You have a good day. Thanks, brother. Appreciate it. I'm getting a bunch of years. So you're telling me that, I mean, was... On yours, you'll have to replace all four. If you blow one tire, you're going to have to get all four because you got an all-wheel drive, right? I do. I do. Now, mine's a lease. Well, oh, so your tires are covered then. If so... I would have to check into that, but I believe so. The other thing is...

Was the tire, like, just so destroyed, you couldn't take it off repair? If you have a sidewall, forget it. Oh, okay. Yeah, you don't mess with the sidewall. Okay. Let's see, Jay, any all-wheel drive vehicle needs all Ford tires replaced if one is damaged, if the current set has more than a few thousand miles. Wow. One bigger circumference tire due to tread depth will result in the wheels turning at different speeds, just like Eric was saying. It's like what they told me, United Automotive Tech. Another one. Jay, hey, Jay, tire queen here. It's all the all-wheel drive vehicles that need all-new tires. I had a nail in the sidewall. I was allowed to use a tire plug, but the service stations cannot do that. I go through four sets of tires a year. Damn. Wow. That's spendy. Yes. Putting a lot of miles on. Let's see, Jay. There's another one. Subaru, all-wheel drive is no mix and match. Four tires at a time because of transfer case issues. It's that crazy. What am in the good old days if you just toss one tire? I just replace one tire. So yeah, good to know. Heads up, people. You ruin one tire on an all-wheel drive or a four-wheel drive. You're going to have to replace all four of them. I guess that's the case. Unless the tires are practically brand new. Just another reason to explore the lease program. Well, are you sure? Well, I'm just saying you start out with brand new tires. Are you really going to put that great aware on it? Yeah, because you're right. Alex's Colorado, brand new tires on that. But you're right. I should check on that because even if I started out with new tires, if something like that were to happen, I could end up being in the same boat. Let's see. Emails them back to the phones. This is on earlier. We're talking about vaccinations and the executive order Trump did yesterday and the COVID shots and all that. Jay, actually a doctor posted an open letter to the American Board of...

of goticology that due to 700 of the 827 pregnant, I saw this, pregnant women in the study receiving the experimental shot for COVID in the third trimester, they should be excluded from the study that was used to calculate the 12.6% spontaneous abortion rate, making the actual rate 82%. Yeah, I read that. Ron Johnson, Senator Johnson was talking about that. Ron Pembina, Jay Thomas Show. Yeah, hello there. Hey, what's up, Ron? Well, Jay, as far as a four-wheel drive, you don't need to replace them all in a four-wheel drive. Just the ones you can't take out of all-wheel. Yeah, you can put two on there, and there's no problem whatsoever. I was told no one, because if you start using that four-wheel drive, you're going to have a problem. How often do you use four-wheel drive and a four-wheel drive? You've got a four-wheel drive pickup up, but you don't use it hardly ever. In the winter, it's almost always in the four-wheel driver. You're in town there, I understand. It's always a more miles on mistake than a lot of people put on in purpose. I'm not going against the mechanics, Ron. I appreciate the phone call. The mechanic knows a hell a lot more than I do. The mechanic's telling me that. Hey, this could cause transfer case problems, Ron. I'm putting out four on. Especially at United Automotive Center where they teach people how to do that kind of thing. I apologize, Ron, I accidentally hit the dump, hang up button on him when I was trying to lock you in. So my fault, my bad, buddy. Let's see. Another email on vaccines. Jay, vaccines, it's about choice. That's it. Doctors have been told the public is too stupid to make these choices. And politicians slash school districts slash et cetera, just want control. Everybody wants control of our lives now. Everybody wants a piece of our lives. And it's getting old. Brad, Jay Thomas Show. Hey, Jay. Hey, I work in the industry, in the tire industry. And if you have a one bad tire and it's... You know, if your other three are still decent, you can actually get the tire shaved to match the same 30 seconds as what's on there. There are places that you can get that done, so then you just get one tire. And it'll match up with everything else because they have machines this day and age that can do that. They look like crap. The best thing you did was what you did for your woman because, you know what? For you and me, we can drive crap, but the lady's got to have something. Exactly. And when, you know, it sounds like the tie, because I don't, I'm not out there checking tread depth and all on our tires, but it sounds like.

the tread on them tires was getting pretty, pretty low. And then when, so we got the, I said, well, get the exact same tires she has on there right now. So they did. So when I got home last night and I'm looking at the tires, Brad, I'm like, holy smokes, man, these look like mud tires. So those tires are hers must have really been low on tread. You did good. That's a good brand. You got a good one. Another thing is, too, you think those were expensive? Wait till some guy goes and buys one of these fancy new pickup trucks with 22s on them. And then he has to put new ones on. And then now we're hearing that the manufacturers are going to start putting 24s on some of these cars. Are you serious? They're going to go to 24s? Oh, yeah. You're going to pay 500, 600 bucks a tire when you get up to that size. Well, that's about what I paid for the tires on my rides truck because I got the big tires on there. I can't remember what brand they are. Those were not cheap. And people wonder why pickup trucks cost $85,000. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, 50,000 of it and tires and wheels. Right. You got, well, some of us got to make it a living somehow. Why, you do? That's true. That's right. Exactly. Thanks, Brad. Appreciate it, brother. Oh, let's see. Jay and you do a car show? Yeah, exactly. My thoughts, exactly. Well, like I said, I'm not in the tire industry. Just because I go look at really cool vehicles doesn't mean I know if I think about them. Like I said, I remember old days. Okay, need a tire? No, I go buy a tire, replace one tire. Well, Brad sounded like he was fully versed in tires and tire accessories. Tireology. Yeah, yeah. Toreology. Toreology. Yes, yes. There you go. Torelogy. Um, let's see. Another email. Um, dogs and shots. Jay, I feel like we need to do amount of Vax according to weight slash size. Oh, for example, our little dogs get the same amount of rabies shots as 150 pound dog. My little dog, 18 pounds, had such a bad reaction. I quit getting them. I know one of our dogs had a bad reaction too. I think Alex had them split the shots. She did something with the shots. My cat hadn't had a shot for 10 to 12 years but needed rabies to continue treatment. I had her tighter tested, titter tested? I don't know what this is. And she still had antibodies in her system after all those years. She was able to continue her IVs. All right. That's football. That's WNBA. Okay, we'll get to those another side. Remember I teased this yesterday. Minnesota is seeing an increase in failed driver's tests. Yes. Well, Jay, you know why. It's because everybody gets to me, including people that are illegally. Not necessarily the problem. We're going to talk about what the problem is when we come back. And you and I are going to vent, pal, like we were in my office today. I am so sick and tired of running into people. that look like they're terrified to be behind the wheel of a vehicle. Get the hell off the road. Yeah? 701, 2993,000 J. Thomas Show. 406, that's a custom truck and auto shine. Dom check. Check them out at custom fargo.com more than just a detail shop. Bodywork, accessories. I don't even come to you and wash your fleet for you. It'll detail your semi.

Well, Josie's now coming home, but Jessica is from Valley News live in just a moment. But first, I got to grab Christian here to Fargo. He's been waiting forever to get on the program. And then we'll check in with Jessica Bringing Funnel. It's coming up on the news tonight. Christian, Jay Tomishel. Hey. Jay. What? They're taking it away, Jay. What? The Mustang. In 2028, the Mustang's going to be a four-door. What? I know. Yes, they're turning it into a four-door like the Porsche Panama. Well, they did that when they brought the Dodge Charger back. They made that a four-door, too. I know. I just, it's repetitive nausea. Well, I want a coupa. Go buy a CUDA then. That's because American families want to go 157 miles an hour. That's right. Just ask the North Dakota Highway Patrol. You got it. Have a great day. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Sounds like his day's ruined. Well, by a classic. 407, Jessica, how are you doing? Well, doing better than he is. He's having a bad day. Yeah, sounds like it. Ronnie, we looked it up and see if they're making the Mustang. A whistleblower report. Yeah, the new Mustang. Chris, you've got to call the whistleblower hotline. We'll get all over that, man. Heard it here first. Ronnie, are you looking that up? Yes. Yeah, if you find it, and if it's true, I want to see a picture of that ugly thing. Can't have a four-door Mustang. Come on. I don't want that burned into my brain, so I'll pass on a picture. What's, yeah, what is this, a house blew up this morning in Parker's Prairie? Yeah, and there's a missing person report, so one person unaccounted for. Man, that's scary stuff. All right. Yeah. So you guys, of course, working on that one. What else you're working on tonight? Well, the Big Tucker Carlson voting primary, so we'll have results later tonight. I can tell I'm excited. Yeah, you seem thrilled. Oh, boy. You were out there at seven, right? First in line. I live in North Dakota. Oh, well then, in that case. Of course not. Exactly. And by the way, we'll have, I believe Scott and Steve are teaming up tonight, right? Right, right? Minnesota primary, right? Mm-hmm, as numbers come in. That'll be on the flag. All right, what else you guys got? Also, we've got an update on the one-year-old, the Kaylee Earhart case, the mother, 22-year-old who killed two of her children reportedly. Yeah. The one-year-old is doing well. Good. And is expected to make a full recovery. So that's a positive update there. Absolutely horrific story on a man, dad. My God, it's disgusting. It's hard to read. I got to believe Cave Fire is going to have that one too tonight.

Yes, you would think. We're also, K-FIR is looking at a Bismarck, City Commission approved the next step in an expansion for the airport terminal. So they'll have an update on what that's going to look like. All right, all those stories and more tonight. Five, if you listen on WDY Radio, 5, 5.30 and 6, you get Valley News Live, also on TV, Channel 11 and 4, and they're back at 9 to 10 on TV for you folks listening on the. Flag on Central Western North Dakota. You will get, we get your news on Cave Fire. All right. Thanks, Jessica. Thanks, guys. You got it. 410 in the Valley News Live Rundown. It is brought to you by Warehouse Wonders. You'll find them in the Industrial Park in Moorhead, up to 70% savings. Semi-breaking news. What do you got? Ford recently showed a physical prototype. Wow, that doesn't mean anything. Of a four-door gas-powered or hybrid Mustang sedan internally referred to as the Mach 4 to dealers at a private meeting in Las Vegas. While Ford has not made an official public announcement, reports indicated could arrive before the end of the decade. And what I'm looking at is it would not. be replacing the classic two-door coop so there you go christian you can rest at ease it won't be replacing that coop there's going to possibly add it to the lineup okay warehouse wonders open by the way seven days a week nine to six just google them you get all their information location all that great place uh can j thomas show Good afternoon, folks. What's up? I hate to break y'all's bubbles, but we've had four-door Mustangs down here for probably two or three years. They're not called them. They're a Mustang Maverick. and they're four-wheel drive a lot of them and they're like you saw the back end of it off and and put like a edge back end on it sort of people are made so somebody's making them they're not manufactured through four well there's a lot of them down here all colors and makes and see we got two so It may just be for this area, I don't know. Send me a picture. I want to see a picture. I'll sure try. Send me a picture with them ugly-looking things. Oh, yeah. And they are not making new ones of those, though, because they put the Ford pickup out there now. And now that's taking the place of it, that little ranger. The new rangers are out, and they're really popular down here. All right. Send me a picture of that Mustang. Oh, sure will, Jay. Thanks, brother. Appreciate it.

More tire emails. Jay, the rules for tire repair shop cannot repair sidewall or shoulder area. If they remove the tire and determine it's not repairable by law, they cannot remount it. Ah, Jay, the two retired NBA players should sign directly with the fever rather than being drafted. Oh, you'll love this, Ronnie. Then they start being the enforcers against anyone who follows Caitlin Clark or Sophia Cunningham. Being smashed into by their massive Hawks will shut up any critics against Sophie Cunningham's advocacy of women only in women's sports. Maybe so, and I can see it, protection, things like that. But I think them opening themselves up for the draft to go to any team also puts any other people who question that subject to the same treatment themselves. We'll see how far this goes. Yeah. We'll see. Jay, when the football steroid debate was going strong, I remember someone pointing out there should be a large audience for fully roided competition. And I think that's correct. We have a perfect model in racing, stock to fully modified. There may be an audience for a modified gender sports league. Another email. Jay Fargo is overdue for a more representative system. Oh, this is in regards to a ward system than one where candidates can win citywide with less than 20% of the vote. The opposition is making the yes campaign's job easy. Most of the argument is speculation conspiracy theories about the petitioners and in some circles rhetoric drifting into. Islamphobia or whatever I just tried to say. If Michelle Turnberg is the face of the opposition, this could pass in a landslide. She got worked on the facts in that debate, looked completely out of her depth, complained about the special election, then claimed unnamed lawyers somehow interpret state law differently than the plain English everyone else can read. show pony got cooked so will the opposition at the ballot box in October loved the show appreciate that and I didn't watch the entire debate I watched a chunk of it I just I just couldn't watch it anymore yeah I think it's gonna pass I didn't see any of it but I am glad that they offered an opportunity for people to watch it live streaming And we'll see. I mean, again, if you look at it at its face, the support is there for it to pass.

But people are going to have to do their own individual research. Now, I mean, again, it's like anything else. Buy or beware. Be careful what you wish for. You think this thing through before you vote. I know how I'm going to vote. Yes, I would like more representation, including from my specific area, Tom. But will that allow a lot of other things I don't want to be done, potentially? Got away the good with the bad. Yes. The biggest thing is just get out and vote. Exercise that right. That turnout isn't going to be that big. I think you're right. I don't think you're right. I don't think it's going to be that big. And if there's low turnout, this thing passes by an Uber landslide. New reports are showing Minnesotans are having a tougher time passing the state's driving exam. In fact, the state has hit a six-year high in failure rates. Minnesota, Minnesota driver's license for all law went into effect in October of 2023 and has seen a steady increase in the number of people taking their driver's test. The driver's license for all law allows all state residents to get a standard Class D driver's license, instruction permit, or ID card regardless of their immigration status. But that's not what's causing the problems of Minnesota. That there was an uptick in the number of folks who took advantage of that, said Mike Hanson, Director of Minnesota's Office of Traffic Safety. In fact, in 2025, Minnesota shattered its old record for people taking their driving exams at 191,000 versus just more than 170,000 in 2024. The total number of failing driving tests in 2025 also hit a historic high of more than 75,000. Statistics from the Minnesota driver in vehicle services shows that 18 to 20 year olds are failing the most. With more than 1,700 having to take the test, Ronnie, at least four times before they pass.

Four times. Four times. I mean, I can't really. You can't say squat. I got nothing to say. Well, your 18, 19, to 20-year-olds are our most dangerous drivers, says Pete Hosmer, president of the Minnesota Driver Traffic Safety Education Association. Hang on, college. Homer believes lack of education is part of the reason that age range in particular, that age range has a harder time with the test, something required for people younger than 18. The statistics for people in that age group that have been taking driver's education, their pass rates are in the 70 to 75 percentile. People that don't take driver's education, their passing rates are maybe 50%. I thought you had to have driver's education in school. Yeah. So did I. In ninth grade, we had to take driver's education class. Even in a rural school, we were offered it. And how are you waiting until you're 18 to 20 years old to get a driver's license? I mean, I was driving young now. Granted, we were way out in a rural area, but I was still, I was driving my dad's 69 Ford automatic pickup truck, you know. and grain trucks and tractors, everything else. Clay County Sheriff Mark Emptings to the crashes. He and his officers respond to involving 18 to 20-year-olds typically are caused by similar actions and believes more education can lower the number of crashes. Well, I'm pretty sure we know what those actions are. Did you have to take drivers ed in high school? I did. We did. Ninth grade. There were... It was a 10th grade. Maybe it was 10th grade. Yeah, there was one teacher. It was the assistant football coach, and I believe, phys ed teacher, and there were only two of us. But we had scheduled it for quite a few weekends. We had to drive and take it. We did it during the school day. We didn't go on the weekends. It was part of classes. Yeah, we had to do it during the weekends because we were in a different town, too. Mike, Jay Thomas Show. Yeah, Jay, just a question on the ward system. How will they determine how the wards are split up? The wards have, yeah, I can't. Let me, let me real quick here, because they already had language built. Somebody, they had, I can't remember who drew. The ward maps. Is it by population? Do they go by population? I want to say it kind of does so the wards are about equal. I'm searching that map right now. Come on. Where is it here? How do you? Oh, there we go. Okay. Because Mike.

My concern with the ward system is if they go to that, you can, where is all of Fargo's highest density population located in that metro downtown area? And you can pretty much guarantee everybody living outside of that metro. You want to talk about a loss of representation. You may have a representative that's going to represent you in that outer part of the city, but you're going to have very few people representing. And that new ward now is going to be dominated by the four or five people who are tied closely to those wards. that are downtown. That would be my concern with this new ward system. Yeah, I'm trying to find that map up there. I just found it. I just found the map. Okay. Okay, so here is how they've got it divided up. They've got what they'd call the north side ward. Then you've got downtown slash central ward. You've got the near south ward. You've got the southeast ward. You've got the southwest ward, and you have the West Acres ward. The biggest ward, and it's huge, compared to the other wards, is the north side. The other ones are small in comparison. And I can, hang on here. Through the measure. It doesn't say, I can't, I cannot remember who. drew up this. And this isn't set in stone, I believe. This was a concept of how the wards would look. But all good questions. Good points. Are you, are you, no word for you? You know, I'm not really for that war because I worry it's going to be. Fargo continues to kind of evolve into this little mini, Minneapolis. Yep. And with all that voting power being centralized and then how people now are into redistricting. Yeah. I just feel that all of a sudden there's going to be a redistricting set up so that all that inner city. population is going to dominate the voting and you're going to have one ward represented on the north side one ward represented on the far south and it's going to be a two versus five vote every time that they that commission is voting yep yep good points good points Mike appreciate the phone call Lori J. Thomas show hey jay are you guys still discussing the driving ed stuff oh yeah So my oldest just got his license a couple years ago in North Dakota. And now my youngest is currently going through the process right now in Minnesota. And we're in North Dakota. He could basically, my oldest could walk into the DMV and just get his license. They didn't have any, they didn't require any classes. I taught him behind the wheel myself. Okay. Now with my son and Moore had.

He just finished 40 hours of class time. And then I had to sit in for, I think it was like two and a half hours to get credit for his behind the wheel. So I had to pay for the class time. And then I had to pay for an actual third party to do the behind the wheel. The parents can no longer do that. Wow. And then both of these classes, you get certification to take, well, they put it in the system. So when he goes and takes his permit test. All that has to be in the system from these companies before he's even allowed to do the permit test. Jeez, what process. Once he gets the permit test, he has to do 40 hours behind the wheel with this company, otherwise it was 30 because I put my class time in as a parent. And then, yeah, and they take them at like nighttime. They take them at daytime. They take them all throughout the year for weather-wise. Which makes sense. Which I will tell you, I didn't, I wasn't required to North Dakota when I got mine. to take drivers. It was an option, but it wasn't required. Now, I wish going through this process with my youngest in Minnesota, I wish North Dakota would have done this for my oldest because people suck nowadays driving. Oh, they're horrible. And so, you know, I've talked to my significant other and my friends about like, geez, I've spent almost $800 on driving stuff for my youngest son. But I look at it and I wish my oldest would have had this. So this class time is done by a professional and then the parent time with the students is done by actual police officers in Morehead that come in and talk. And so I think it was really important to have this done. Awesome. Lori, appreciate the information. Big difference between North Dakota, Minnesota. Holy cow. Yeah, and see, ours was kind of a unique situation, too. We did take some of the class time, but I was going to school in North Dakota at the time and going to school in South Dakota. Well, then due to that, jump stage. person who did the driving had to drive 20 miles to get us. Then we did our driving. Jim J. Thomas Shaw. Yeah. Being from somewhere where there are some of the worst drivers, a lot of it does have to do. You had mentioned that your deal, the education. And a flux of people that aren't here. and they don't understand the English language.

and it's understandable why they're failing their tests. Well, like I said, the big chunk, it looks like Minnesota, is 18 to 20-year-olds. But again, the whole thing that caught me was, you know, when the people, the powers to be over there are saying, you know, it's an education thing. I'm like, well, wait a minute, we had to take driver's education. It was part of the classes that you took in high school. You had to take it. We sit and watch them gory movies and... Yeah, blood on the highway or whatever it was called, yeah. And then... Right. We did all that, too, but I mean, these kids said... Yeah, we're talking about, I mean, even the 18 to 20-year-olds, 18-to-20-year-olds. Jim, we're losing the signal. It's cutting out horribly. Jim, you got a horrible signal if you want to try to call back. Get a better signal. All right, Crystal, hang on. Jim, hang. I'll get another Jim wait in the wings. You got a bunch of emails. So when you took yours, but now, again, you're in North Dakota. Yeah. But 9th or 10th, I cannot remember which you. It doesn't matter. You took it for, was it a, I think it was a half a semester, but you had to take it. It was a required course. Yes. And then for your behind the wheel. If I'm not mistaken, that was, you know, you would ride with your parents or a guardian or whatever, and you, I think you had to have so many hours, and then your parents would sign off on it. Yes, I took, you know, Jay behind the wheel. But all I know is we had to take the class. All right, Jay Thomas Show. Forgot you had to cue that up, didn't you? I did, yes. All right, we got Crystal, got Paul out in Williston. Lunch emails.

Yes, yes. The garage party wants you. That's right. To get them another beer. We just get them. Yeah, exactly. We just get it done, man. I can't have any beers have to work tonight. What? I got to get up at 2 o'clock in the morning. We're taking off for. Blue Earth, Minnesota. Okay. Who's filling in Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? Tomorrow, Tim Flackle, and of course we've got Lawn and Garden Radio with Don Kinsler. Thursday, Blake Hinky. Oh, Mayor Blake. Yeah, it comes back on the program. And Friday, a best of, I know, shocked. Everybody's shocked. Jay, not here. All right, 438. Let's get back to the phones here. Crystal, Jay Thomas Show. Yeah, thank you. Somebody about half an hour ago brought up the subject of the wards. Yeah. And I also want to talk to Mike. He was calling out there. We're part of the campaign to vote no. And we're in the beginning stages. I kind of like the words hands off Argo. Yeah. Because I think that's in a nutshell. What we're trying to say is what's wrong with what we have and what problem do these other people think they're solving that is not handled right now. I still honestly believe, and I know I'll get pushed back from the, hold on, hold on, I'll get, hang on, I'll get pushed back from this, but I don't care. I honestly believe the whole push for this ward system is there's. some people that feel this is the only way they can get back on that commission. It's a golden opportunity. Anyway, if I may continue. Hurry up, yep, so I've got to get calls. Okay. Well, I believe, and that's okay. I'm thinking as we look, Mayor Mahoney is also against this. Michelle Turnberg is against us. Yep. And so now that we've got, we're in the beginning stages, and so we will get some word out of where people can be to help us stop this and get a hands up our vote. Thank you very much. Well, if you guys want to do any debating on that, Crystal, reach out to us. I'd be more than happy to do a debate on this program for and against awards. All right, we got to get to all these calls because we're run out of time. Paul in Williston, J. Thomas Show. I'll bet I know why 18 to 20-year-olds in Minnesota are having so many accidents. Why? At six, under 18, you have to take driver's ed. Over 18? You don't have to. That's right. But. So they're not, they're not educated. You know, they're not. You would think, you know, you, like I said, when I went to school, you had to take it. There was no choice. It wasn't like now, wait until I'm 18 years old. Right. You still had to take driver's ed in high school. There was no choice.

So at least you'll learn something. I didn't. I grew up in Colorado. It was an option, but we didn't have to take it. I put my kids through driver's ed. One was in Colorado, and one was in Nevada and Las Vegas. Just because... I guess I don't have the patience to teach a young driver. Yeah, I don't think I would either. Sounds like all the people that try to teach me how to play Pinochle. Oh, good Lord, Ronnie. She's mad. So, yeah, that's, I mean, yeah, and that's what they said in the article, too, you know, if you're 18 and older, you don't have to take drivers that. But, I mean, to me, that's just. that should be part of getting your driver's license. Before you get your first driver's license, you have to have some kind of driver's head, no matter what age you are. And I never even got to this. I don't know if you guys see it out there in Williston, Paul. But boy, I am so, you know, we talk about all the speeders out there. I am so sick and tired of these people that are behind the wheel, especially in town. And they're driving like 20 miles slower than the speed limit. And when you can finally get around them, you look at them. And they look like they're terrified to be behind the wheel and on the road. Or driving. Hell off the road if you're afraid to drive. Or driving vehicles that are barely roadworthy. Oh, yeah. Exactly. I ran into twice again this morning. This guy, I'm in a 30, I think he's a 35 mile an hour. I was 30 mile an hour. This dude, he wasn't even doing 10 miles an hour, and you can't get around him. It's like, dude, get off the road. You see this all the time, all the time. Yep. If you're that paranoid, then take a bus. My mom lives down in Arizona. I went down to visit, and to be honest, she scared the hell out of me driving. I insisted that she'd give up her driver's license. I'm in my mid-60s, and I believe that anybody 70, 75 or older should have to take a driving test at least every two years. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you on that. And I think North Dakota... I think, Ronnie, looked that up. I think when you get a certain age in North Dakota, because right now I think it's every six years, but I think when you get to a certain age, you might have to take it more often. But I'm with you on that. I mean, I'm going to be there one day, too, and it's like, your faculties change fast when you age. Yep, your faculty's change. You lose response time. Yep. it's yep and you get scared yeah exactly it was obvious my mom was scared to drive and well here's the thing the majority of the people that i'm seeing like you know that that are driving like super slow and when you like you said when you get past and look at them they just look terrified it's not even elderly people it's it's people that look like they're probably in there i don't know 20s maybe 30s a majority of them it's like my god i'll say it again

If you're that terrified and you can't do the speed, get off the road. According to what I've found in North Dakota, it's 50 to 77. Your license valid for six years. 78 and older, your driver's license must be renewed every four years. I think that's too long, too. And 70 and older, you have to renew in person, cannot use online renewal options. All right. Paul, appreciate the phone call, brother. Let's go to Minot, Dan, J. Thomas. Hey, Jay. I just got some weird stuff. It's like you guys keep talking about this cratum and everything. And I really don't know much about it. But I remember back in the day when I joined the military, it was like in the mid-80s. We were 18 joined. We could go buy beer on base and all this stuff. And all of a sudden, Bush changed it. We couldn't do it. And then I got this. My son, he grew up, and he was able to buy tobacco at 18, and he was buying tobacco and couldn't do it. And because they changed with 21 and everything like that. And I'm going, like, you know, you guys really got all this goofy laws and regulations. But really, what are you guys accomplishing other than? cutting the people back i mean you know it if i can be in the military i should be able to have a beer and a cigarette at 18 if you want to throw me a weapon at 18 i that that's the way it was back in the 80s and then bush was the idiot who changed that yeah that never made any any sense look um i'm with you i you know If, yeah, if you can sign up or can be drafted at 18 to go fight and a war to handle love, you know, some serious weaponry, you should be able to have a beer and smoke cigarette. On post. On post. Not off post. My kid was born in 1999, and he was like, he used to be able to buy cigarettes, and then they changed law from 1821. I told him, Michael. This is crazy. You're living the same life I lived. Government has so much overreach on our life. I mean, it's time just get the fucking government out of our life. All right. Dude, you can't drop the F-bombs on the radio. I got to let you go. That you can't do. That's a big note. Roddy, you hit that delayed in show. All right, thanks, buddy. Yeah, on post, I have no problem with it. On post, I'm fine with it. Let's see. Enderlin, Alex, J. Thomas Show. Yeah, Jay, I don't really have much of argument with the driver's license and whatnot. Bye. You know, going back to your earlier beginning of your show, you brought up something about these newer vehicles having all these smart technologies and not allowing a person to drive or whatever. Yeah. You know, I'm, I have never, ever, I don't even drive a new vehicle now. You know, I drive older vehicles. And the only reason why I drive older vehicles is not because I'm trying to get away from that technology, but because I can work off. Yeah, exactly. I don't have to spend thousands of dollars to bring it to a shop.

Yep, exactly. Well, and, you know, I... I'm going to look into this more because this was brought up by when my guest Zach was in here earlier. They're looking at by, I think it's 2028 or 2030. I can't remember the year that the car manufacturers looks like the big three and has something to do with some bill from 2021, where there would start putting a new vehicles. The car could determine if you're impaired and just your car ain't going to start or it's going to just shut off on you. I see a lot of problems. I see a lot of problems. I see a lot of problems with that. Take care. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate the phone call. 701-29-3-9,000. That was bouncing all over the place. I like that. Jay, regarding driver's classes, we had it in high school in the early 80s. It cost five bucks. Like I said, we, it was just, it was, you know, like you have to take math. You have to take this. You had to take driver's ed. Let's see. Another one, Jay. Jay, the electric Mustang, the mock E, has been a four-door since its beginning. Oh, maybe that's what Ken Dona, Missouri was talking about. Yeah, it could be. Awards. Jay, regards to your listeners who have emailed in support of the wards and claim there has been crickets from the opposition, that simply is not accurate, Jay. A special election was set for October 6, which was only eight days ago. There is already significant opposition organizing around the measure. This includes at least two major financial donors who are prepared to contribute to the effort to defeat the wards. Opposition groups are already meeting, discussing strategy, coordinating their messaging and determining how these funds will be used to educate voters and encourage a no vote on the ward system. Just because you haven't seen the opposition publicly yet doesn't mean it isn't happening. campaign against awards is getting organized and voters will hear plenty from the opposition as October 6th gets closer I'd be on it now you guys may be organizing stuff which is fantastic but you got to get your message out yeah and it's gonna be you can't be waiting for you don't tell you it's closer Talked over six. It's going to be pretty tough to do that in, what, less than six weeks? Or am I counting wrong? I don't know. That's your Ellen Dale math. Oh, there's some shots fired, yeah. Terry, J. Thomas. Hey, Jay. I'm a graduate of 83. I got a year on you. And I grew up in a small town, and so we had to do the drivers, safety, all the classes and whatever. And I remember this one time, a buddy and I.

went out driving, and the school car was a Ford Fairmont. Oh. And this, and it had the in-line six-cylinder, okay. So we were heading out by Walcott, and the football coach was, you know, the instructor. Okay. And he starts taking a nap, and, and he goes, he goes, you're going to want to turn around and start heading back. I got a meeting. So I'm coming back and I had that thing to the floor. 73 miles an hour is all I would get. And he wakes up and he's looking. He's going, how fast are you going? I go, she'll only go 73. And he goes, slow down. And he goes, and I go, or you got a meeting I'd get to. So I'll remember that for the rest of my life. My mother had a Ford at Fairmont Station wagon, Terry. And we took that thing on a family vacation out to Colorado. And that thing was a gutless turd. That thing could barely move in the mountains. And my mother... I kid you not. It's my mom, my grandma, me, and my sister. Going out to visit some friends out, out, out, I think it was the Colorado Springs there for now to say. Anyway, so as we're going to the mountains, this car can barely make it through the past. My mom. is pulling over and as we're getting out and having me go up and pick up these big rocks because she wanted rocks for her gardens at home. So on top of this car already being gutless, my mom is loading the back of it up with rocks. Needless to say, all the rocks did not make it back to Hibbing, Minnesota, because we had to dump a bunch of them because a car wouldn't go. Jay's putting ballast in the car. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh. No, no. Yeah, this car was, it was pretty gutless, yeah. I can't imagine it full of rock. Oh, they were horrible. Yeah, four people, suitcases, luggage, and rocks. Rocks from the mountains, which was probably illegal to do, too. But, yeah, she'd pull over and go, go down there, honey, give me some of them rocks. I'm like, I wonder a damn Rocky Mountains, Mom. You want me to just get out of it? I don't know if there's grizzly bears or what's going on. I think it was like, 15 years old, 14? I can close my eyes and hear Eugene Levy say it to Chevy Chase now. I mean, you hate it now, but wait until you drive it. Oh, yeah. They look like a family trucker. They were ugly. Terry, appreciate it. I'm out of time. Jay, I went to school in Minnesota, but have always lived in God's country, North Dakota, if there's any doubt. I had to have driver's education in my freshman year because it was required in my school. That's the same as mine. I got a North Dakota license when I was 14 and could have gotten it whether I had drivers ed or not. Okay. I think I'm caught up on everything. I am. All right. Good to go. All right, Ronnie. How much time do we got? About 90 seconds. About 90 seconds. All right. So tomorrow it's Tim Flackle. Yes.

Thursday, it's Mayor Hanky. Yes. I did Friday best of. Yeah. Caller, you got about a minute. Go ahead. Yeah, I did look up, and I just seen that they were making a four-door Mustang and a four-door Camaro. No, no, they're not doing a Camaro. Come on. Triggered. You just triggered me. Why would I like that? You just triggered me. You triggered me, brother. Yeah, well. Ford or in Camaro, I guess they want to get the families involved, you know. You know, if you'll get the families involved, go get a Subaru. Leave our cars alone, man. Yes. Thanks, man. I've got to roll. I'm out of time. And by the way, I mean, it's a terrific transition. One of the sponsors of our teachers' appreciation lunch tomorrow. Yes. Corwin Subaru. There you go. Yes. Yeah, be messing with the Camaros. Go get a Subi if you need a good, safe family car. All right, folks, got to go. We will talk to you on Monday. And then, oh, that's right. Next week, I get to do the morning show on the flag all week. Oh. And the afternoon show. Oh, I'll be in a great mood. Yeah. Maybe I should call in sick. Yeah, you might want to. All right. D.A.Y listeners, you got Valley News Live next. Flag listeners, you got the great one, Mark Levin.