1 00:00:01,139 --> 00:00:03,244 Viewers like you make this program possible. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:05,350 Support your local PBS station. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 5 00:00:43,388 --> 00:00:45,873 I'm sorry, we're-- we're on deadline. 6 00:00:45,907 --> 00:00:47,461 We're ready to put it on the page, 7 00:00:47,495 --> 00:00:50,015 so, yeah, I appreciate that, thanks. 8 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:51,879 Mm-hmm, bye. 9 00:00:51,913 --> 00:00:53,777 Dolores, this press release is coming at you, 10 00:00:53,812 --> 00:00:56,470 from the police, about the building. 11 00:00:56,504 --> 00:00:59,300 Tom, could you come here a sec?Sure. 12 00:01:02,855 --> 00:01:04,478 They added this to the lede. 13 00:01:04,512 --> 00:01:06,376 I think we've got to tell the readers 14 00:01:06,411 --> 00:01:09,828 what the hell is going on here, okay? 15 00:01:09,862 --> 00:01:11,450 Thank you.No problem. 16 00:01:15,454 --> 00:01:17,560 The Times. 17 00:01:17,594 --> 00:01:20,977 Mmm, we're on deadline so I'll see if he's available. 18 00:01:21,011 --> 00:01:24,774 Art, are you available for Gary Lipshutz in Sioux City? 19 00:01:24,808 --> 00:01:27,087 No. 20 00:01:27,121 --> 00:01:29,641 He actually is a little bit busy at the moment. 21 00:01:29,675 --> 00:01:31,953 Could you maybe try back this afternoon? 22 00:01:31,988 --> 00:01:34,232 What time is it, 9:35? 23 00:01:34,266 --> 00:01:36,751 Is the building story done, Dolores? 24 00:01:36,786 --> 00:01:39,513 I'm still doing it. 25 00:01:39,547 --> 00:01:43,620 When that clock hits 10:00, I'm gonna start going apeshit. 26 00:01:43,655 --> 00:01:45,691 I get real uptight about deadlines. 27 00:01:48,625 --> 00:01:51,249 Every hour we're late, it costs us a hundred bucks. 28 00:01:57,186 --> 00:01:59,947 You know, get all amped up twice a week. 29 00:02:01,397 --> 00:02:03,468 Snapping at family members, and you know, 30 00:02:03,502 --> 00:02:05,470 it never works out well later. 31 00:02:09,508 --> 00:02:12,408 You know, Jesus, you've been doing this for 40 years 32 00:02:12,442 --> 00:02:14,651 and people still don't know what time it is. 33 00:02:44,957 --> 00:02:47,408 By today's standards "The Storm Lake Times" 34 00:02:47,443 --> 00:02:49,755 has cause to celebrate, holding steady 35 00:02:49,790 --> 00:02:54,450 in our annual report that we published on Friday. 36 00:03:03,252 --> 00:03:05,978 We've always operated at the break-even point. 37 00:03:06,013 --> 00:03:10,190 One year we post a small profit, the next a small loss. 38 00:03:10,224 --> 00:03:11,639 Seven dollars. 39 00:03:11,674 --> 00:03:13,848 Through three decades we have persevered 40 00:03:13,883 --> 00:03:17,473 thanks primarily to your support, our family of readers. 41 00:03:17,507 --> 00:03:19,060 A lot of people disagree with him, 42 00:03:19,095 --> 00:03:20,648 but they sure read the paper. 43 00:03:20,683 --> 00:03:23,444 I think it gets people to become more open-minded. 44 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:25,101 At least that's what I hope. 45 00:03:25,135 --> 00:03:26,965 "The Storm Lake Times" weaves 46 00:03:26,999 --> 00:03:30,589 the fabric of the community in large ways and small. 47 00:03:30,624 --> 00:03:33,385 We're working hard as ever covering the City Council, 48 00:03:33,420 --> 00:03:36,457 The School Board, Board of Supervisors in the court house. 49 00:03:36,492 --> 00:03:37,907 Do you feel comfortable saying, uh, 50 00:03:37,941 --> 00:03:39,322 if it's going to trial or not? 51 00:03:39,357 --> 00:03:40,841 Oh, we're going to trial. Okay. 52 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:44,224 Son Tom Cullen, our reporter, lives the job. 53 00:03:44,258 --> 00:03:46,329 Come on! Come here. 54 00:03:46,364 --> 00:03:49,229 My wife, Dolores Cullen, is everywhere with Peach 55 00:03:49,263 --> 00:03:51,714 the Newshound and the Times-mobile. 56 00:03:51,748 --> 00:03:53,888 This is Ice Out Day, 57 00:03:53,923 --> 00:03:55,959 the day when all the ice melts. 58 00:03:55,994 --> 00:03:59,791 My sister-in-law, Mary Cullen, is hunting recipe features. 59 00:03:59,825 --> 00:04:02,000 Isn't that pretty? What are the health 60 00:04:02,034 --> 00:04:03,898 benefits of cooking low-salt? 61 00:04:03,933 --> 00:04:06,970 A pretty good rule is that an Iowa town 62 00:04:07,005 --> 00:04:10,802 will be about as strong as its newspaper and its banks. 63 00:04:12,562 --> 00:04:14,599 And without strong local journalism to tell 64 00:04:14,633 --> 00:04:18,810 a community story, the fabric of the place becomes frayed. 65 00:04:18,844 --> 00:04:21,744 The news pages are the heart of the newspaper, 66 00:04:21,778 --> 00:04:24,643 and editorial pages the soul. 67 00:04:24,678 --> 00:04:26,887 My brother, fearless leader John Cullen, 68 00:04:26,921 --> 00:04:29,752 founded the newspaper in 1990 with the belief 69 00:04:29,786 --> 00:04:33,169 that honest reporting would attract a crowd. 70 00:04:33,203 --> 00:04:34,446 It has. 71 00:04:38,347 --> 00:04:41,211 It's a great moment. 72 00:04:44,629 --> 00:04:46,907 Thank you. Thanks, again. 73 00:04:50,497 --> 00:04:53,223 Tom, stand up. Give me a hug. 74 00:04:55,571 --> 00:04:59,954 Now we need to grow that crowd to sustain our mission, 75 00:04:59,989 --> 00:05:02,094 and again humbly ask your support 76 00:05:02,129 --> 00:05:04,096 as we did nearly 30 years ago. 77 00:05:04,131 --> 00:05:05,891 Tom? Police reports done? 78 00:05:05,926 --> 00:05:07,307 They're done. Thank you. 79 00:05:07,341 --> 00:05:09,481 We will always try to be worthy of it. 80 00:05:33,056 --> 00:05:35,369 No, no, haven't fed her, nothing. 81 00:05:35,404 --> 00:05:37,164 All right. I've been completely negligent. 82 00:05:37,198 --> 00:05:38,717 Oh, it's still early. 83 00:05:55,182 --> 00:05:58,737 In the old days of lead type, editors would, uh, 84 00:05:58,772 --> 00:06:02,707 lock up pages of lines of type. They'd lock them up, 85 00:06:02,741 --> 00:06:04,398 uh, in what we called a chase. 86 00:06:04,433 --> 00:06:06,158 And if you were wearing a long tie, 87 00:06:06,193 --> 00:06:08,989 you could lock your tie into the, uh, into the chase, so... 88 00:06:10,197 --> 00:06:12,406 So editors wore bow ties. 89 00:06:14,339 --> 00:06:15,616 I don't have enough butter. 90 00:06:15,651 --> 00:06:17,618 You always got lard. Yeah. 91 00:06:17,653 --> 00:06:19,448 You took all the butter. 92 00:06:19,482 --> 00:06:21,898 I took all the butter, right. 93 00:06:24,349 --> 00:06:27,594 The small Iowa town of Storm Lake is where 94 00:06:27,628 --> 00:06:30,424 some of the Democrats running for president will be speaking. 95 00:06:30,459 --> 00:06:33,427 It's the first major multi-candidate event 96 00:06:33,462 --> 00:06:35,015 of the campaign so far. 97 00:06:35,049 --> 00:06:38,018 Part of the appeal is to be onstage with the town's 98 00:06:38,052 --> 00:06:40,848 Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor. 99 00:06:40,883 --> 00:06:43,333 Art Cullen, the lanky white-haired editor 100 00:06:43,368 --> 00:06:46,509 of "The Storm Lake Times" walks across a downtown street. 101 00:06:46,544 --> 00:06:48,408 Plenty of Democrats running for president 102 00:06:48,442 --> 00:06:50,340 want to be seen with Art. 103 00:06:50,375 --> 00:06:53,654 So it kind of tells me who really cares about rural Iowa. 104 00:06:53,689 --> 00:06:57,313 And if you ain't there, you're square. 105 00:06:57,347 --> 00:06:59,453 Welcome to all of you to Storm Lake, 106 00:06:59,488 --> 00:07:02,042 The City Beautiful, and Buena Vista University. 107 00:07:02,076 --> 00:07:04,769 I'm Art Cullen, editor of "The Storm Lake Times." 108 00:07:04,803 --> 00:07:07,565 And I'd like to introduce our first guest. 109 00:07:07,599 --> 00:07:10,050 And we're very thankful that Senator Elizabeth Warren 110 00:07:10,084 --> 00:07:11,879 from Massachusetts can be here. 111 00:07:15,814 --> 00:07:18,403 Thank you, Senator. Thank you. 112 00:07:19,991 --> 00:07:23,546 Farm income is down by half since 2013. Yup. 113 00:07:23,581 --> 00:07:27,101 What can we do to provide immediate farm income relief 114 00:07:27,136 --> 00:07:30,001 in what is quickly becoming an emergency? 115 00:07:30,035 --> 00:07:34,523 A generation ago, 37 cents out of every 116 00:07:34,557 --> 00:07:37,284 food dollar went into a farmer's pocket. 117 00:07:37,318 --> 00:07:39,562 Today it's 15 cents. 118 00:07:39,597 --> 00:07:41,771 And one of the principal reasons for that 119 00:07:41,806 --> 00:07:45,016 has been concentration in agribusiness. 120 00:07:45,050 --> 00:07:48,847 So I want to see enforcement of our antitrust laws. 121 00:07:48,882 --> 00:07:51,919 I've called for the breakup of these agribusinesses. 122 00:07:53,265 --> 00:07:56,786 Two-thirds of Iowa's 99 counties, all rural, 123 00:07:56,821 --> 00:07:58,685 are declining in population. 124 00:07:58,719 --> 00:08:00,928 How can we ease the transition of immigrants 125 00:08:00,963 --> 00:08:04,035 into rural areas to rejuvenate them? 126 00:08:04,069 --> 00:08:07,176 I'm very proud of the story of Storm Lake in many ways. 127 00:08:07,210 --> 00:08:09,868 You all have shown the value of the immigrant community. 128 00:08:09,903 --> 00:08:12,492 I never thought before this campaign that I would get 129 00:08:12,526 --> 00:08:14,528 great Mexican food in Iowa, but I have. 130 00:08:16,323 --> 00:08:19,084 Take a couple of minutes and just tell us why you're running 131 00:08:19,119 --> 00:08:21,880 for president and what your campaign's all about. 132 00:08:21,915 --> 00:08:24,158 Well, first of all, it is wonderful to be here. 133 00:08:24,193 --> 00:08:26,713 And as you know, I'm your senator next door. 134 00:08:26,747 --> 00:08:29,060 I can see Iowa from my porch. 135 00:08:42,142 --> 00:08:44,593 What'd you think, Whitney? Did you enjoy that? 136 00:08:44,627 --> 00:08:46,422 The forum thing?Yeah. 137 00:08:48,907 --> 00:08:51,151 Tom, you're going to write a lead story on the forum 138 00:08:51,185 --> 00:08:53,912 and then make, what, a sidebar on Vilsack, or-- 139 00:08:53,947 --> 00:08:55,914 Yeah. Or are you just working him into... 140 00:08:55,949 --> 00:08:58,054 Yeah. Love the cowboy shirt. 141 00:08:58,089 --> 00:09:00,401 Don't ask where I got it. 142 00:09:00,436 --> 00:09:02,403 Where'd you get it?Uh, just don't ask. 143 00:09:02,438 --> 00:09:04,820 Uh... Some dead guy, or... 144 00:09:04,854 --> 00:09:06,269 Yeah, it was an estate sale. 145 00:09:06,304 --> 00:09:08,099 Yeah, okay, all right. 146 00:09:08,133 --> 00:09:11,033 Well, anyway, uh, Vilsack sidebar...Yeah. 147 00:09:11,067 --> 00:09:13,932 And, uh, the forum for the front. Yep, yep. 148 00:09:13,967 --> 00:09:16,590 Okay. 149 00:09:16,625 --> 00:09:20,042 I have this, uh, listing 150 00:09:20,076 --> 00:09:24,287 of when Ice Out Day was since 1975. 151 00:09:24,322 --> 00:09:27,808 We kind of fell off the wagon and stopped keeping track 152 00:09:27,843 --> 00:09:30,777 of Ice Out Day since 2012. 153 00:09:30,811 --> 00:09:33,158 Now with all this talk about climate, now there's 154 00:09:33,193 --> 00:09:35,747 kind of like, oh, well, maybe this is more interesting 155 00:09:35,782 --> 00:09:37,611 than we used to think. 156 00:09:47,932 --> 00:09:49,968 Some of these were already signed. 157 00:09:51,970 --> 00:09:55,491 Paying some bills today. Gotta pay the garbage man 158 00:09:55,525 --> 00:09:59,426 and the rug man and... the printer man. 159 00:09:59,460 --> 00:10:00,496 Hey, John? 160 00:10:00,530 --> 00:10:01,911 All the fun stuff. 161 00:10:01,946 --> 00:10:04,189 Would you mind coming over here a sec? 162 00:10:04,224 --> 00:10:06,088 I'm just laying out the front page here, 163 00:10:06,122 --> 00:10:09,643 and of course the big story for this issue is the forum 164 00:10:09,678 --> 00:10:11,887 with the five presidential candidates. 165 00:10:11,921 --> 00:10:13,785 Each image needs about the same weight 166 00:10:13,820 --> 00:10:17,996 so no candidate can say, you know, I wasn't fair to them. 167 00:10:18,031 --> 00:10:20,378 It looks good to me, yeah.Thank you. 168 00:10:20,412 --> 00:10:23,692 John's taught me everything I know about photography. 169 00:10:23,726 --> 00:10:25,659 He taught me about how to use pictures. 170 00:10:25,694 --> 00:10:28,420 He taught me all about graphics. 171 00:10:28,455 --> 00:10:29,974 And he's got a great eye. 172 00:10:35,013 --> 00:10:37,567 How's that forum story coming? 173 00:10:37,602 --> 00:10:39,880 Good. Just a sec. 174 00:10:45,092 --> 00:10:49,545 Ice Out, two pictures and a story, it's all done. 175 00:10:49,579 --> 00:10:52,513 Okay then. 176 00:11:10,773 --> 00:11:13,120 Oh, there they are. 177 00:11:13,155 --> 00:11:16,020 I left Storm Lake. I graduated from high school 178 00:11:16,054 --> 00:11:18,401 here and left and shook the shit off my boots 179 00:11:18,436 --> 00:11:20,300 and never wanted to look back. 180 00:11:20,334 --> 00:11:22,992 But my brother John started this newspaper, 181 00:11:23,027 --> 00:11:25,926 so I came back because I was sick of working 182 00:11:25,961 --> 00:11:29,447 for corporate newspapers without a soul. 183 00:11:29,481 --> 00:11:34,072 And, uh, it was a great move. 184 00:11:34,107 --> 00:11:36,212 We did that presidential forum, 185 00:11:36,247 --> 00:11:39,250 but that's not the reason we get up in the morning. 186 00:11:39,284 --> 00:11:42,253 Most people in Storm Lake care a lot more about 187 00:11:42,287 --> 00:11:44,220 whether garbage is getting picked up 188 00:11:44,255 --> 00:11:47,327 than whether, uh, Elizabeth Warren is in town. 189 00:11:47,361 --> 00:11:51,400 So when it comes to news, our motto is if it didn't happen 190 00:11:51,434 --> 00:11:54,058 in Buena Vista County, it didn't happen. 191 00:11:54,092 --> 00:11:57,371 We're about an hour and a half drive 192 00:11:57,406 --> 00:12:00,512 from the Minnesota border, halfway between 193 00:12:00,547 --> 00:12:03,999 Fort Dodge and Sioux City. 194 00:12:04,033 --> 00:12:07,623 We are the county seat of Buena Vista county. 195 00:12:07,657 --> 00:12:09,832 I was born in 1957. 196 00:12:09,867 --> 00:12:12,455 Storm Lake was a lily-white Republican town. 197 00:12:12,490 --> 00:12:17,046 And we had one Jewish family and one Black person. 198 00:12:17,081 --> 00:12:21,361 In the '90s immigrants populated Storm Lake and turned it blue. 199 00:12:21,395 --> 00:12:25,054 But the rest of the county drowns out that Storm Lake vote. 200 00:12:25,089 --> 00:12:28,851 And so it's very much like a microcosm of the nation. 201 00:12:28,886 --> 00:12:32,924 It's important to know 202 00:12:32,959 --> 00:12:36,548 who had a baby and who died 203 00:12:36,583 --> 00:12:39,620 in a community of ten to fifteen thousand people. 204 00:12:39,655 --> 00:12:41,864 That's important in this community, 205 00:12:41,899 --> 00:12:44,453 to know who's getting married and buried. 206 00:12:44,487 --> 00:12:48,008 And it's important to know what the city council is up to. 207 00:12:48,043 --> 00:12:50,459 So I think it is important to have real news. 208 00:12:50,493 --> 00:12:53,807 I'm still old-fashioned enough to believe in the wisdom 209 00:12:53,842 --> 00:12:56,051 of Thomas Jefferson and the First Amendment. 210 00:12:56,983 --> 00:13:00,469 Maybe a quaint idea these days. 211 00:13:00,503 --> 00:13:03,955 But the question is, 212 00:13:03,990 --> 00:13:07,821 you know, how long does a community support journalism? 213 00:13:07,856 --> 00:13:10,030 And it appears to me that 214 00:13:10,065 --> 00:13:13,862 whether it's Storm Lake or Buffalo Center, 215 00:13:13,896 --> 00:13:18,556 people aren't supporting journalism like they did. 216 00:13:18,590 --> 00:13:20,730 35 in and 23 out... 217 00:13:20,765 --> 00:13:23,388 Okey-doke. ...for the Times. 218 00:13:28,704 --> 00:13:30,740 The last I knew, there were about 219 00:13:30,775 --> 00:13:33,709 300 news deserts in the United States. 220 00:13:33,743 --> 00:13:37,023 And these are towns with twenty or thirty thousand people 221 00:13:37,057 --> 00:13:40,302 that are now without a local news source. 222 00:13:40,336 --> 00:13:42,200 You could say, well, they can get their news 223 00:13:42,235 --> 00:13:45,031 from the metro paper, but these metro papers 224 00:13:45,065 --> 00:13:48,517 don't cover those communities anymore. 225 00:13:48,551 --> 00:13:51,692 When I started out in this business, there were newspapers 226 00:13:51,727 --> 00:13:54,074 so fat you could barely lift them. 227 00:13:54,109 --> 00:13:57,181 Now there's no newspaper at all. 228 00:13:57,215 --> 00:13:59,390 You've got to have a strong business model 229 00:13:59,424 --> 00:14:01,185 to do good journalism. 230 00:14:01,219 --> 00:14:02,980 The problem is that the business model 231 00:14:03,014 --> 00:14:06,328 is falling apart and, uh... 232 00:14:06,362 --> 00:14:09,641 Uh, and also, rural communities are a lot weaker 233 00:14:09,676 --> 00:14:11,022 now than they used to be. 234 00:14:11,057 --> 00:14:13,818 And that makes rural newspapers weaker. 235 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:15,889 A lot of the mom and pop stores that were 236 00:14:15,924 --> 00:14:19,030 the basis of our advertising are gone. 237 00:14:19,065 --> 00:14:23,069 The small-town feed dealers and businesses that catered 238 00:14:23,103 --> 00:14:27,383 to farmers, which is our base here, they're gone because, 239 00:14:27,418 --> 00:14:30,800 the family farms are going, and they're being taken over 240 00:14:30,835 --> 00:14:35,391 by big corporate livestock operations which either have 241 00:14:35,426 --> 00:14:40,362 their own feed mills or they buy direct from the manufacturer. 242 00:14:40,396 --> 00:14:44,504 So they don't need Bob and Sally's feed store anymore. 243 00:14:44,538 --> 00:14:46,023 And Bob and Sally's feed store 244 00:14:46,057 --> 00:14:47,610 then doesn't need "The Storm Lake Times." 245 00:14:47,645 --> 00:14:52,063 So somehow we've got to increase 246 00:14:52,098 --> 00:14:53,478 the number of readers. 247 00:14:53,513 --> 00:14:55,308 If you don't have readers, you've got nothing. 248 00:14:55,342 --> 00:14:58,621 But now people want to get their news for free, 249 00:14:58,656 --> 00:15:02,694 because apparently looking at their breakfast on Facebook 250 00:15:02,729 --> 00:15:04,627 is all the information they need to live 251 00:15:04,662 --> 00:15:06,940 as an informed voter in America. 252 00:15:06,975 --> 00:15:11,427 And that's not how you sustain a democracy, you know? 253 00:15:11,462 --> 00:15:15,431 You need people who can talk about facts and deal in facts. 254 00:15:15,466 --> 00:15:18,987 And that Iowa is getting warmer and wetter 255 00:15:19,021 --> 00:15:21,092 through the decades, those are facts. 256 00:15:21,127 --> 00:15:23,094 That's what we're here for. 257 00:15:23,129 --> 00:15:27,271 And people have said, "Oh, well, that's not worth a dollar." 258 00:16:03,617 --> 00:16:04,722 Chelsea, right? 259 00:16:04,756 --> 00:16:05,999 Yes. Uh, I'm Tom Cullen 260 00:16:06,034 --> 00:16:07,690 with the Times at Storm Lake. Hi. 261 00:16:07,725 --> 00:16:09,520 And it's my understanding you had some material for the media? 262 00:16:09,554 --> 00:16:11,522 If you have your card, I can email you and make 263 00:16:11,556 --> 00:16:13,110 sure that we get you that information that has 264 00:16:13,144 --> 00:16:14,939 all the speakers and their bios and... 265 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:17,010 Thank you so much, really appreciate it.Yeah, you're welcome. 266 00:16:17,045 --> 00:16:18,805 Joe Catera, how's it going? 267 00:16:18,839 --> 00:16:22,671 Okay, welcome, are you ready to stand with me today? 268 00:16:22,705 --> 00:16:24,224 Are you ready? 269 00:16:24,259 --> 00:16:26,364 Let me know if you're ready to work with me today, 270 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:29,229 because all about what we're doing today is going 271 00:16:29,264 --> 00:16:32,922 to be about how hard we will work together 272 00:16:32,957 --> 00:16:34,717 to move our issues forward. 273 00:16:34,752 --> 00:16:37,410 Our farm and rural communities are in crisis mode right now. 274 00:16:37,444 --> 00:16:39,067 We're fed up with multinational 275 00:16:39,101 --> 00:16:41,034 corporations extracting our wealth. 276 00:16:41,069 --> 00:16:43,416 If you wonder why our cities and towns are being 277 00:16:43,450 --> 00:16:45,383 hollowed out, you know, when you understand the largest 278 00:16:45,418 --> 00:16:47,316 owner of beef, poultry, and pork in this country 279 00:16:47,351 --> 00:16:49,629 is a foreign corporation extracting wealth, 280 00:16:49,663 --> 00:16:51,631 taking opportunities out of rural communities. 281 00:16:51,665 --> 00:16:53,943 We need to protect our natural resources. 282 00:16:53,978 --> 00:16:56,049 Believe it or not, we're not the last generation that's going 283 00:16:56,084 --> 00:16:58,672 to live on this land, you know, so it's time for a change. 284 00:16:58,707 --> 00:17:01,399 So thank you all very much for coming, thank you. 285 00:17:06,577 --> 00:17:08,820 Hi, Emmanuel. This is Dolores Cullen 286 00:17:08,855 --> 00:17:10,443 at "The Storm Lake Times." 287 00:17:10,477 --> 00:17:13,963 Can you call me back today so we can talk 288 00:17:13,998 --> 00:17:18,071 about your, uh, talent show experience? 289 00:17:18,106 --> 00:17:21,557 Thank you, bye. 290 00:17:21,592 --> 00:17:25,354 Emmanuel Trujillo, the guy who tipped me off, 291 00:17:25,389 --> 00:17:27,425 sent me a thing last night. 292 00:17:27,460 --> 00:17:32,396 And so I looked it up online, and he seems to be advancing 293 00:17:32,430 --> 00:17:37,366 in this show called "Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento." 294 00:17:37,401 --> 00:17:40,059 And so I looked at the video... 295 00:17:42,992 --> 00:17:44,615 This is a Storm Lake guy 296 00:17:44,649 --> 00:17:48,239 who works at Tyson and... 297 00:17:48,274 --> 00:17:50,069 It looks like they like him. 298 00:17:54,763 --> 00:17:57,352 Well, hey, Emmanuel. 299 00:17:57,386 --> 00:18:00,251 You work at Tyson, right? 300 00:18:00,286 --> 00:18:03,185 I wanted to be able to take a picture of you. 301 00:18:03,220 --> 00:18:05,429 I thought it would be kind of cool to, you know, 302 00:18:05,463 --> 00:18:09,295 you'd just be in like the Tyson parking lot or something. 303 00:18:09,329 --> 00:18:13,022 Like, you know, by your car. And then it would just be... 304 00:18:13,057 --> 00:18:16,543 You can't have any picture taken at Tyson? 305 00:18:16,578 --> 00:18:19,891 That's okay. Could I come to where you live? 306 00:18:19,926 --> 00:18:21,617 Okay, muy bien. 307 00:18:21,652 --> 00:18:23,723 Okay, bye. 308 00:18:23,757 --> 00:18:26,588 This is really good for our community when we have, 309 00:18:26,622 --> 00:18:29,453 like, happy stories about all types of people. 310 00:18:32,801 --> 00:18:34,975 We're all about happy. 311 00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:37,909 That's my... That's my beat, Art. 312 00:18:37,944 --> 00:18:40,395 You're on the happy beat. Yeah. 313 00:18:43,087 --> 00:18:44,226 Hello. Come in. 314 00:18:44,261 --> 00:18:46,021 My name's Dolores. 315 00:18:46,055 --> 00:18:49,093 And I am here to see Emmanuel. 316 00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:51,302 Yeah, he's coming.Okay, he's coming. 317 00:18:51,337 --> 00:18:52,959 It's nice to meet you.Yeah! 318 00:18:52,993 --> 00:18:55,444 I'm Elena. Oh, great. 319 00:18:55,479 --> 00:18:57,757 And then this is your daughter. Yeah. 320 00:18:57,791 --> 00:18:59,966 Okay. Hi! 321 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,450 You're a singing star. 322 00:19:01,485 --> 00:19:02,658 Yep! 323 00:19:02,693 --> 00:19:03,866 Congratulations 324 00:19:03,901 --> 00:19:05,316 Thank you so much. 325 00:19:05,351 --> 00:19:07,629 What do you think your chances are of, uh, 326 00:19:07,663 --> 00:19:10,252 going on beyond the next round? 327 00:19:10,287 --> 00:19:13,773 It's, uh, maybe a hundred... 100 more people. 328 00:19:13,807 --> 00:19:15,015 A hundred-- Oh! 329 00:19:15,050 --> 00:19:17,294 Yeah, so the competition is too hard. 330 00:19:17,328 --> 00:19:20,780 A hundred more people will be competing against you... 331 00:19:20,814 --> 00:19:22,161 Yep, in that second time. 332 00:19:22,195 --> 00:19:24,093 The second time. 333 00:19:24,128 --> 00:19:25,647 So weren't you really nervous? 334 00:19:25,681 --> 00:19:28,443 Yeah, the first time. Oh, really, really nervous. 335 00:19:28,477 --> 00:19:30,099 And I had--You don't look nervous. 336 00:19:30,134 --> 00:19:31,100 You look, you look...Oh, yeah. 337 00:19:31,135 --> 00:19:32,757 kind of, like, excited. 338 00:19:32,792 --> 00:19:34,759 And that's how you looked when you were singing, too. 339 00:19:34,794 --> 00:19:36,485 You looked very confident. 340 00:19:37,935 --> 00:19:39,108 I'm okay, I'm okay. 341 00:19:42,215 --> 00:19:43,561 Big smile. 342 00:19:47,565 --> 00:19:48,601 Okay. 343 00:19:51,535 --> 00:19:56,022 When I met Art, he was at the, um, Algona paper. 344 00:19:56,056 --> 00:19:57,437 And they were doing things 345 00:19:57,472 --> 00:20:01,545 like this, uh, feature stories 346 00:20:01,579 --> 00:20:06,101 about a family that had, um, seventeen children. 347 00:20:06,135 --> 00:20:09,173 And, uh, it appealed to me, 348 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:11,762 'cause I'm a visual person. 349 00:20:11,796 --> 00:20:13,384 I'm an art major. 350 00:20:13,419 --> 00:20:16,629 I wasn't really into politics or anything like that, 351 00:20:16,663 --> 00:20:21,496 but very interested in telling stories in a creative way. 352 00:20:21,530 --> 00:20:24,326 And so, to be involved with them, 353 00:20:24,361 --> 00:20:27,674 that was something that I was interested in. 354 00:20:27,709 --> 00:20:30,539 I didn't know that I would become involved 355 00:20:30,574 --> 00:20:33,128 in the enterprise eventually. 356 00:20:33,162 --> 00:20:35,958 But, uh, I started taking pictures. 357 00:20:35,993 --> 00:20:38,892 And I was usually told by Art that, you know, 358 00:20:38,927 --> 00:20:42,586 if something is interesting, go ahead and report it. 359 00:20:42,620 --> 00:20:48,488 And this, uh, we were covering how, uh, local people 360 00:20:48,523 --> 00:20:51,284 were teaching English to newcomers 361 00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:53,079 who did not speak English. 362 00:20:53,113 --> 00:20:55,564 And these were Sudanese people. 363 00:20:55,599 --> 00:20:58,291 And so I took the picture of-- of this woman, 364 00:20:58,326 --> 00:21:00,742 and Art chose to run it big like this. 365 00:21:00,776 --> 00:21:04,815 And we did get an anonymous letter by-- 366 00:21:04,849 --> 00:21:07,887 from someone who said, "Oh, why is she on the front page?" 367 00:21:07,921 --> 00:21:10,096 And it was really mean. 368 00:21:10,130 --> 00:21:13,237 Um, and that this was a long time ago. 369 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,964 I mean, there was kind of blatant racism. 370 00:21:15,998 --> 00:21:22,350 Uh, so then Julio Barroso was featured, uh, back in 1996 371 00:21:23,834 --> 00:21:28,321 as being a kid who helped other kids learn English. 372 00:21:28,356 --> 00:21:32,187 And there was a raid of the meatpacking plant. 373 00:21:32,221 --> 00:21:33,844 And then in the following issue 374 00:21:33,878 --> 00:21:36,881 it was reported that Julio is gone. 375 00:21:36,916 --> 00:21:39,884 8-year-old deported with parents. 376 00:21:39,919 --> 00:21:44,130 Since we do these feature stories, we get to know people, 377 00:21:44,164 --> 00:21:47,513 but they're not just, like, anonymous immigrants. 378 00:21:47,547 --> 00:21:51,344 This is a kid that we think is awesome and cute. 379 00:21:51,379 --> 00:21:53,933 So then the next day when we find out 380 00:21:53,967 --> 00:21:58,627 that they were kicked out of the U.S., uh, we cared. 381 00:21:58,662 --> 00:22:03,632 And so then later we were asking, you know, 382 00:22:03,667 --> 00:22:05,738 whatever happened to Julio? 383 00:22:05,772 --> 00:22:10,259 And that's where Tom started doing this investigating, 384 00:22:10,294 --> 00:22:15,126 and we actually found him in Mexico 385 00:22:15,161 --> 00:22:17,646 as a young adult today. 386 00:22:21,857 --> 00:22:26,379 A little boy from 22 years ago was top of mind last Thursday. 387 00:22:26,414 --> 00:22:28,588 Julio Barroso. 388 00:22:28,623 --> 00:22:32,178 In 1996, the world changed for Julio, 389 00:22:32,212 --> 00:22:35,561 then in second grade at North School. 390 00:22:35,595 --> 00:22:39,737 The immigration agents swooped in on IBP, predecessor to Tyson, 391 00:22:39,772 --> 00:22:43,465 and rounded up scores of undocumented immigrants. 392 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:46,019 Barroso's family was among them. 393 00:22:46,054 --> 00:22:50,403 Julio, now 30 years old, is married and the father of three, 394 00:22:50,438 --> 00:22:52,647 working in Guadalajara, Mexico 395 00:22:52,681 --> 00:22:57,445 for one-tenth the $18 per hour he could get in Storm Lake. 396 00:22:57,479 --> 00:22:59,550 A dream is foreclosed. 397 00:23:01,828 --> 00:23:05,280 In our lush, green town of 15,000 or so-- 398 00:23:05,314 --> 00:23:07,247 we don't know our exact population 399 00:23:07,282 --> 00:23:08,973 because so many are immigrants. 400 00:23:11,113 --> 00:23:12,874 Nestled among the row crops 401 00:23:12,908 --> 00:23:15,014 and hog houses at Northwest Iowa, 402 00:23:15,048 --> 00:23:19,708 2,200 workers cut up pigs and turkeys for Tyson. 403 00:23:19,743 --> 00:23:22,504 300 others crack eggs for liquid shipment 404 00:23:22,539 --> 00:23:26,405 at Rembrandt Foods 15 miles north. 405 00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:30,098 Hundreds more distill ethanol from corn. 406 00:23:30,132 --> 00:23:31,789 And those 3,000 or so-- 407 00:23:31,824 --> 00:23:34,551 maybe half undocumented, who knows-- 408 00:23:34,585 --> 00:23:36,138 are worrying not just about jobs 409 00:23:36,173 --> 00:23:39,970 but also about their lives in Trump's America. 410 00:23:40,004 --> 00:23:43,629 Even those with papers will tell you they feel a little edgy. 411 00:23:45,113 --> 00:23:48,012 Dreamers are our vitality, our future. 412 00:23:48,047 --> 00:23:49,945 They want to stay here with family, 413 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:53,466 unlike so many of us who push our children off to Chicago 414 00:23:53,501 --> 00:23:54,674 or the Twin Cities. 415 00:23:54,709 --> 00:23:56,711 And we all wish that Julio 416 00:23:56,745 --> 00:23:59,299 would come home to Storm Lake someday. 417 00:23:59,334 --> 00:24:01,543 We need him and miss him. 418 00:24:10,518 --> 00:24:13,313 We're going to suburban Sulphur Springs, Iowa. 419 00:24:13,348 --> 00:24:15,315 Providence Township. 420 00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:18,215 The home of John Snyder. 421 00:24:18,249 --> 00:24:20,320 Big John. 422 00:24:20,355 --> 00:24:21,839 Plumber and farmer. 423 00:24:21,874 --> 00:24:25,498 I'm mainly interested in, when did he plant corn? 424 00:24:25,533 --> 00:24:27,707 How did he cope with the spring weather, 425 00:24:27,742 --> 00:24:30,123 which was torrents of rain? 426 00:24:35,059 --> 00:24:36,509 Wow. 427 00:24:36,544 --> 00:24:38,511 This would be a picture like we've never seen, John. 428 00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:44,621 I mean, it's just barely knee-high now. 429 00:24:57,357 --> 00:24:59,221 We had one day on May 4th... 430 00:24:59,256 --> 00:25:00,740 For corn. For planting, yeah. 431 00:25:00,775 --> 00:25:03,191 And then we got rained out... 432 00:25:03,225 --> 00:25:06,366 until the 15th and 16th of May. 433 00:25:06,401 --> 00:25:08,714 We had two days. 434 00:25:08,748 --> 00:25:11,130 We didn't get back in until June 2nd. 435 00:25:11,164 --> 00:25:13,512 Have you ever seen it this wet in the spring before? 436 00:25:13,546 --> 00:25:15,755 No. Never. Not in my lifetime. 437 00:25:15,790 --> 00:25:17,550 You know, I usually get out end of April. 438 00:25:17,585 --> 00:25:18,896 You're right. 439 00:25:18,931 --> 00:25:20,898 And we're usually done by May 10th. 440 00:25:20,933 --> 00:25:23,383 What do you figure you get knocked off in your yield? 441 00:25:23,418 --> 00:25:26,007 What'd you get last year... on corn? 442 00:25:26,041 --> 00:25:29,666 Oh, probably 225. Probably. 443 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:31,150 What would you guess you'll get this year? 444 00:25:31,184 --> 00:25:32,323 Take a wild-ass guess. 445 00:25:32,358 --> 00:25:34,325 150. 446 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:35,879 I don't know. 447 00:25:35,913 --> 00:25:37,087 If you say 150, 448 00:25:37,121 --> 00:25:38,467 then everything after that is better. 449 00:25:38,502 --> 00:25:39,641 Yeah.Right? 450 00:25:39,676 --> 00:25:41,022 Right. 451 00:25:41,056 --> 00:25:42,402 That's gravy. 452 00:25:42,437 --> 00:25:44,473 That's gravy on top of your taters. 453 00:25:48,512 --> 00:25:50,031 Hi, Peach. 454 00:26:02,975 --> 00:26:04,839 I wasn't really interested in doing the "Knee-High 455 00:26:04,873 --> 00:26:07,186 by the Fourth of July" story like we always did, 456 00:26:07,220 --> 00:26:09,222 but this year the weather's been so bizarre 457 00:26:09,257 --> 00:26:11,328 that I thought we really needed to do it, um, 458 00:26:11,362 --> 00:26:14,814 because we've never seen the corn like this before. 459 00:26:16,298 --> 00:26:19,163 A guy farming today, you're going to need, you know, 460 00:26:19,198 --> 00:26:22,132 over a thousand acres to support a family. 461 00:26:22,166 --> 00:26:24,065 And a generation ago, 462 00:26:24,099 --> 00:26:28,379 John could raise a family on 350 to 500 acres 463 00:26:28,414 --> 00:26:30,623 if he sustained himself on the corn, 464 00:26:30,658 --> 00:26:32,591 and then could make some real money on hogs. 465 00:26:32,625 --> 00:26:35,835 That all changed in the 1990s, really, 466 00:26:35,870 --> 00:26:39,321 when the pork industry was vertically integrated, 467 00:26:39,356 --> 00:26:41,772 where the packer owns the hogs, 468 00:26:41,807 --> 00:26:45,224 and drove John out of production. 469 00:26:45,258 --> 00:26:47,433 You know, that's the game for most people. 470 00:26:47,467 --> 00:26:48,952 If you're going to be in agriculture, 471 00:26:48,986 --> 00:26:51,402 then you're working for a company. 472 00:26:51,437 --> 00:26:55,475 Let's say you break up the, uh, vertical integration model. 473 00:26:55,510 --> 00:26:58,582 Then where does that leave our pork production system? 474 00:26:58,617 --> 00:27:00,619 And where does it leave these immigrants 475 00:27:00,653 --> 00:27:04,726 who are working here if you blow it all up? 476 00:27:04,761 --> 00:27:07,591 And so I don't know. I don't know. 477 00:28:05,684 --> 00:28:08,721 Yeah! Whooo! 478 00:28:11,517 --> 00:28:12,863 God bless the Irish. 479 00:28:33,781 --> 00:28:35,783 Everybody make yourself comfortable. 480 00:28:35,817 --> 00:28:39,027 We're just glad to have, uh, Senator Grassley here with us. 481 00:28:39,062 --> 00:28:40,753 And I also want to thank him 482 00:28:40,788 --> 00:28:43,445 for being super supportive of the water well industry. 483 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,931 And I'm really glad to see him here. 484 00:28:45,965 --> 00:28:49,244 When I am at your, uh, city administrative building 485 00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:50,625 or your local library 486 00:28:50,659 --> 00:28:52,800 and you folks can't come to my town meetings, 487 00:28:52,834 --> 00:28:54,146 I try to go places because you're working. 488 00:28:54,180 --> 00:28:57,114 So I get a chance to interact with people 489 00:28:57,149 --> 00:28:59,116 that wouldn't otherwise interact with me. 490 00:28:59,151 --> 00:29:00,911 Now, what questions do you have? 491 00:29:00,946 --> 00:29:02,430 Anything is legitimate. 492 00:29:02,464 --> 00:29:03,983 I've got one. 493 00:29:04,018 --> 00:29:08,160 I'm not 100% political follower of either party. 494 00:29:08,194 --> 00:29:11,784 And so, I see how this country is divided in half. 495 00:29:11,819 --> 00:29:15,615 And I'll talk to one political party and... 496 00:29:15,650 --> 00:29:17,238 they might have a good idea, 497 00:29:17,272 --> 00:29:18,895 and the other one is going to say, "I don't want it." 498 00:29:18,929 --> 00:29:20,310 Even if it's good, they don't want it. 499 00:29:20,344 --> 00:29:21,794 Just they're going to be the opposite. 500 00:29:21,829 --> 00:29:23,244 And I see that on both sides. 501 00:29:23,278 --> 00:29:25,004 What's it going to take to change that? 502 00:29:25,039 --> 00:29:27,489 You could have asked an easier question. 503 00:29:28,939 --> 00:29:32,218 Um, first of all, there is too much partisanship. 504 00:29:32,253 --> 00:29:35,221 And it's worse now than it's ever been.Yeah. 505 00:29:35,256 --> 00:29:38,362 But, you know, controversy makes news. 506 00:29:38,397 --> 00:29:40,813 So if people are getting along, it doesn't make news. 507 00:29:40,848 --> 00:29:42,815 Thank you. 508 00:29:42,850 --> 00:29:44,023 You're still doing a good job. 509 00:29:44,058 --> 00:29:45,922 Okay. Next question. 510 00:29:45,956 --> 00:29:47,164 As we know about Storm Lake, 511 00:29:47,199 --> 00:29:48,856 it's heavily reliant on immigration. 512 00:29:48,890 --> 00:29:51,686 Uh, what's your sense on that? 513 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,274 Um, what's-- what do you tell people 514 00:29:53,308 --> 00:29:55,690 in Storm Lake who are afraid? 515 00:29:55,724 --> 00:29:57,002 I don't think you have to be afraid 516 00:29:57,036 --> 00:29:58,831 unless you're violating the law. 517 00:29:58,866 --> 00:30:01,213 But as a practical matter, uh, 518 00:30:01,247 --> 00:30:03,387 wasn't there a figure out a couple of weeks ago 519 00:30:03,422 --> 00:30:06,908 that there could be 100,000 people deported?Mm-hmm. 520 00:30:06,943 --> 00:30:10,636 Well, think, 100,000 out of 11 million people... 521 00:30:10,670 --> 00:30:11,982 Yeah. 522 00:30:12,017 --> 00:30:14,191 So why would you have to be very concerned? 523 00:30:14,226 --> 00:30:17,643 I mean, if-- say if you're undocumented here in town-- 524 00:30:17,677 --> 00:30:19,127 and let's just be real, 525 00:30:19,162 --> 00:30:21,129 there are undocumented people here in town-- 526 00:30:21,164 --> 00:30:23,960 I would be very afraid if Trump admits through tweet 527 00:30:23,994 --> 00:30:26,548 that we're going to deport tens of millions of people. 528 00:30:26,583 --> 00:30:28,240 Well...Uh, and I understand 529 00:30:28,274 --> 00:30:30,449 the news media debunked a little bit of that. 530 00:30:30,483 --> 00:30:31,933 We-- I-- I get your point. 531 00:30:31,968 --> 00:30:33,866 We got people in Congress 532 00:30:33,901 --> 00:30:36,041 that think you line up 11 million people 533 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:37,111 and get them out of the country. 534 00:30:37,145 --> 00:30:38,871 That's not the real world. 535 00:30:38,906 --> 00:30:40,390 And I'm not telling anybody that.Yeah. Okay. 536 00:30:40,424 --> 00:30:43,082 You've never heard me say that.No. 537 00:30:43,117 --> 00:30:45,844 The only thing you've heard me say about legalization is 538 00:30:45,878 --> 00:30:47,984 we can't take care of that issue 539 00:30:48,018 --> 00:30:52,091 until we convince the people that we can secure the border. 540 00:30:52,126 --> 00:30:54,438 And listen, you know how many people on the right 541 00:30:54,473 --> 00:30:57,131 would be irritated with what I just told you-- 542 00:30:57,165 --> 00:30:59,892 that I'd even be thinking about that?Yeah. 543 00:31:05,622 --> 00:31:08,487 It is meaningful when politicians want to have 544 00:31:08,521 --> 00:31:10,385 a serious discussion with us. 545 00:31:12,008 --> 00:31:14,976 It's all Dad ever wanted when he started this thing. 546 00:31:15,011 --> 00:31:16,875 Growing up here in Storm Lake 547 00:31:16,909 --> 00:31:20,119 and being Art Cullen's son was... 548 00:31:20,154 --> 00:31:21,638 It was a bit of a roller coaster. 549 00:31:21,672 --> 00:31:23,260 I remember there were teachers who would say, 550 00:31:23,295 --> 00:31:24,917 "This is what Art Cullen thinks, and he's wrong." 551 00:31:24,952 --> 00:31:27,368 You always had to know about the issues. 552 00:31:27,402 --> 00:31:29,922 It was very difficult actually, now that I look back at it. 553 00:31:33,132 --> 00:31:34,616 I never put two and two together 554 00:31:34,651 --> 00:31:37,343 as to why Dad would be working on a Saturday. 555 00:31:37,378 --> 00:31:39,863 Mom was always the one who took care of us. 556 00:31:44,005 --> 00:31:45,973 Okay, can you put them in, Joe? 557 00:31:46,007 --> 00:31:48,941 Now I realize you can't necessarily go 558 00:31:48,976 --> 00:31:51,426 to kids' baseball games or take them on vacation 559 00:31:51,461 --> 00:31:55,465 when there's a paper to get out the next week. 560 00:31:55,499 --> 00:31:58,054 There's a demand for excellence if you're a Cullen. 561 00:31:58,088 --> 00:32:01,022 You will not get away with less than 110%. 562 00:32:04,646 --> 00:32:06,994 Every one of Dad and John's kids worked here. 563 00:32:07,028 --> 00:32:09,444 And I'm the only one left. 564 00:32:11,205 --> 00:32:12,620 But still at the same time, 565 00:32:12,654 --> 00:32:14,863 there's this bond that connects us all. 566 00:32:14,898 --> 00:32:17,004 We all know that we gotta stick together. 567 00:32:17,038 --> 00:32:19,144 'Cause we're all in the same leaky ship. 568 00:32:19,178 --> 00:32:21,905 Tom, can you come here a second, please? 569 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,080 That's a confusing sentence. 570 00:32:24,114 --> 00:32:28,084 And the prospect of the newspaper 571 00:32:28,118 --> 00:32:30,396 not being around terrifies me. 572 00:32:30,431 --> 00:32:32,571 'Cause not only is it a newspaper 573 00:32:32,605 --> 00:32:34,055 which is, in my opinion, 574 00:32:34,090 --> 00:32:36,368 the most important pillar of the community. 575 00:32:36,402 --> 00:32:37,956 It's the family. 576 00:32:44,514 --> 00:32:47,586 You brought sunshine with you. 577 00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:50,554 Right? It's coming. 578 00:32:50,589 --> 00:32:52,694 I've got to warn you, there's a bunch of fans in here. 579 00:32:52,729 --> 00:32:54,903 They're kind of-- It might be kind of a circus in there. 580 00:32:54,938 --> 00:32:56,215 Thanks so much for having us-- 581 00:32:56,250 --> 00:32:57,768 Well, thanks for coming. We appreciate it. 582 00:32:57,803 --> 00:32:59,770 Come on in, everybody. 583 00:32:59,805 --> 00:33:00,806 Thank you. 584 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,049 How are you doing? 585 00:33:02,083 --> 00:33:03,705 Glad to meet you. I'm John Cullen. 586 00:33:03,740 --> 00:33:04,810 I'm Jim Cullen. 587 00:33:04,844 --> 00:33:06,191 Nice to meet you. 588 00:33:06,225 --> 00:33:07,986 Jim is my brother. Uh, he's the editor 589 00:33:08,020 --> 00:33:09,884 of the "Progressive Populist"... 590 00:33:09,918 --> 00:33:11,644 Uh-huh....out of Austin, Texas. 591 00:33:11,679 --> 00:33:13,198 And we produce it here. 592 00:33:13,232 --> 00:33:14,164 Nice. 593 00:33:14,199 --> 00:33:15,441 Well, anyway, welcome to Iowa. 594 00:33:15,476 --> 00:33:16,477 Thank you. 595 00:33:16,511 --> 00:33:17,996 And especially to Storm Lake. 596 00:33:18,030 --> 00:33:19,411 We've been talking with, uh, people 597 00:33:19,445 --> 00:33:21,516 a lot about rural America...Mm-hmm. 598 00:33:21,551 --> 00:33:24,071 ...and how we got kind of flown over, uh... 599 00:33:24,105 --> 00:33:26,245 ...last time. 600 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,764 So we're real happy you're here. 601 00:33:27,798 --> 00:33:30,249 And we're hearing that perhaps the campaigns 602 00:33:30,284 --> 00:33:33,011 might not even play in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio 603 00:33:33,045 --> 00:33:34,357 in the general election-- 604 00:33:34,391 --> 00:33:36,083 that we're going to get flown over again. 605 00:33:36,117 --> 00:33:37,498 Policy-wise...Right. 606 00:33:37,532 --> 00:33:39,603 ...rural America is often talked about 607 00:33:39,638 --> 00:33:41,364 kind of like a problem we've got to solve. 608 00:33:41,398 --> 00:33:43,573 Right. Right. 609 00:33:43,607 --> 00:33:45,575 Our message ought to make sense in rural America, 610 00:33:45,609 --> 00:33:48,267 'cause the Democratic Party grew out of the idea that-- 611 00:33:48,302 --> 00:33:51,443 that we're standing up for the overlapping interests 612 00:33:51,477 --> 00:33:53,410 between workers and farmers. 613 00:33:53,445 --> 00:33:55,171 It's kind of an unusual community. 614 00:33:55,205 --> 00:33:57,000 It's an immigrant community. 615 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,002 But people here are living in fear. 616 00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,728 And they were living in fear 617 00:34:00,762 --> 00:34:04,007 during the two terms of the Obama administration as well. 618 00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:06,665 What kind of damage has this wrought? 619 00:34:06,699 --> 00:34:08,322 And we're not just talking about immigrants. 620 00:34:08,356 --> 00:34:09,737 We're just talking about race relations in general. 621 00:34:09,771 --> 00:34:11,980 Our city is growing, finally. 622 00:34:12,015 --> 00:34:13,430 Not by much, but we're proud of-- 623 00:34:13,465 --> 00:34:14,983 To be-- to even have a positive number 624 00:34:15,018 --> 00:34:16,709 is a big deal for us, right? 625 00:34:16,744 --> 00:34:20,092 If you net out the factor that immigration played in that, 626 00:34:20,127 --> 00:34:22,715 we'd be flat-line at best. 627 00:34:22,750 --> 00:34:27,341 And so when the President says we're full, I'm thinking... 628 00:34:27,375 --> 00:34:29,239 Right....we're not full. 629 00:34:29,274 --> 00:34:32,311 But the thing is, if we do not resolve racial inequality 630 00:34:32,346 --> 00:34:34,865 in our lifetime-- yours, anyway-- 631 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,937 um, it could sink the American project in our lifetime. 632 00:34:37,972 --> 00:34:40,423 I think we're going to have to go. 633 00:34:40,457 --> 00:34:41,803 I'm sorry.Well, anyway-- 634 00:34:41,838 --> 00:34:43,081 Sorry to cut it a little short. 635 00:34:43,115 --> 00:34:44,116 Thank you very much.Same here. 636 00:34:44,151 --> 00:34:45,531 Thanks for having us. 637 00:34:45,566 --> 00:34:46,877 I hope you'll be back.I sure hope so. 638 00:34:46,912 --> 00:34:48,224 Good to see you again. 639 00:34:48,258 --> 00:34:49,673 I hope you stop by again.I hope so. 640 00:34:49,708 --> 00:34:50,985 Hey, did you sign our sign of the Times? 641 00:34:51,019 --> 00:34:52,262 Oh, no, I'll sign that. 642 00:34:52,297 --> 00:34:53,815 Yeah, you gotta go up top now. 643 00:34:53,850 --> 00:34:55,023 Oh, man. 644 00:34:57,060 --> 00:34:58,268 You're a lefty. 645 00:34:58,303 --> 00:34:59,649 All the great ones, you know? 646 00:34:59,683 --> 00:35:01,029 Did you ever pitch? 647 00:35:01,064 --> 00:35:03,308 All right. No, I got two left hands. 648 00:35:03,342 --> 00:35:06,345 Oh. 649 00:35:44,383 --> 00:35:46,109 We're headed out to see Tom Lane, 650 00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:48,801 who's running for city council. 651 00:35:48,836 --> 00:35:52,529 And the reason why I'm interested in this 652 00:35:52,564 --> 00:35:56,430 is, Tom became interested in city government, 653 00:35:56,464 --> 00:35:59,191 uh, when they were about to shut down Westview Trailer Park 654 00:35:59,226 --> 00:36:01,987 and they were about to evict him from his house. 655 00:36:02,021 --> 00:36:05,301 And he took the leadership role in that community 656 00:36:05,335 --> 00:36:08,200 to stand up to the mayor and the city council in Alta 657 00:36:08,235 --> 00:36:11,583 to say that these are our homes and we're staying. 658 00:36:12,963 --> 00:36:15,207 Oh, man.These weigh about 12 pounds. 659 00:36:15,242 --> 00:36:18,106 And they're a flat head Dutch German cabbage. 660 00:36:18,141 --> 00:36:20,799 How do you get something to be 12 pounds? 661 00:36:20,833 --> 00:36:22,214 All this stuff is pure organic. 662 00:36:22,249 --> 00:36:23,629 No chemicals. 663 00:36:23,664 --> 00:36:25,286 And when did you move to Westview again? 664 00:36:25,321 --> 00:36:28,082 31 years ago.31 years ago. 665 00:36:28,116 --> 00:36:29,739 I'll just say this, it just-- 666 00:36:29,773 --> 00:36:32,880 it does look a lot better than what it was.Yeah. 667 00:36:32,914 --> 00:36:34,951 And it's my understanding that you were behind all that... 668 00:36:34,985 --> 00:36:36,953 Yeah....with your effort at city council. 669 00:36:36,987 --> 00:36:40,025 Is that the-- the culminating piece?Yeah. 670 00:36:40,059 --> 00:36:41,578 I was reading the-- in the paper 671 00:36:41,613 --> 00:36:44,409 that all these openings were coming up.Yeah. 672 00:36:44,443 --> 00:36:46,652 And all of a sudden I decided, you know what, 673 00:36:46,687 --> 00:36:48,689 I'm going to run for city council.Mm-hmm. 674 00:36:48,723 --> 00:36:50,967 How many signatures did you need for that? 675 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:52,313 They said it was ten, 676 00:36:52,348 --> 00:36:53,625 but I got actually 15 of them.Okay. 677 00:36:53,659 --> 00:36:56,628 My wife here, Tarla. Grab some signs 678 00:36:56,662 --> 00:36:58,181 out of the back end of the pickup here. 679 00:37:00,459 --> 00:37:01,702 Okay, if everybody's ready, 680 00:37:01,736 --> 00:37:03,428 we're going to hit the campaign trail. 681 00:37:03,462 --> 00:37:04,912 All right. 682 00:37:04,946 --> 00:37:06,672 What expertise could you offer? 683 00:37:06,707 --> 00:37:08,295 Really, my expertise-- 684 00:37:08,329 --> 00:37:10,573 I can walk in a trailer house 685 00:37:10,607 --> 00:37:12,264 and tell you exactly right now 686 00:37:12,299 --> 00:37:14,093 what's not kosher and everything.Uh-huh. 687 00:37:14,128 --> 00:37:17,131 Well, I've been underneath every one of these trailer houses. 688 00:37:17,165 --> 00:37:20,341 Either checking heat tapes or...Yeah. 689 00:37:20,376 --> 00:37:22,378 ...fixing a frozen pipe, 20 below zero, 690 00:37:22,412 --> 00:37:25,898 wind blowing up your... back end.Yeah. 691 00:37:25,933 --> 00:37:28,418 Not just work on things, 692 00:37:28,453 --> 00:37:29,937 but I'd help people, too.Yeah. 693 00:37:29,971 --> 00:37:31,352 You know...Well, yeah. 694 00:37:31,387 --> 00:37:32,767 Like, I've given them vegetables and... 695 00:37:32,802 --> 00:37:34,113 Yeah....everything. 696 00:37:34,148 --> 00:37:35,598 And I used to go to Sioux City and... 697 00:37:35,632 --> 00:37:37,945 Yeah....and buy a truckload of bread... 698 00:37:37,979 --> 00:37:39,257 Oh, I didn't know that. 699 00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:41,224 ...and bring it back here and-- 700 00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:42,812 and just hand it out to people. 701 00:37:42,846 --> 00:37:43,882 Wow. 702 00:37:45,332 --> 00:37:47,126 Hi there. 703 00:37:47,161 --> 00:37:48,576 Hi. 704 00:37:48,611 --> 00:37:50,268 I'm going to put a sign out. Is that all right? 705 00:37:50,302 --> 00:37:52,200 That's totally fine. Yep, go for it. 706 00:38:03,142 --> 00:38:04,592 So has someone else in your family 707 00:38:04,627 --> 00:38:07,112 been Pork Queen, Pork Princess? 708 00:38:07,146 --> 00:38:11,012 No.My other daughter, she's our Little Miss Fair Queen. 709 00:38:11,047 --> 00:38:12,704 Oh, yeah.So she's-- 710 00:38:12,738 --> 00:38:13,670 Oh, okay. 711 00:38:13,705 --> 00:38:15,362 Now it's coming together for me. 712 00:38:15,396 --> 00:38:17,743 I've seen the name...Yeah, and she was a... 713 00:38:17,778 --> 00:38:19,711 ...McCarthy....Little Miss too when she was that age. 714 00:38:19,745 --> 00:38:21,851 You guys have royalty in your blood. 715 00:38:21,885 --> 00:38:23,197 We do. 716 00:38:23,231 --> 00:38:24,405 This is Mrs. Hughes-Camp. 717 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,200 She's our second grade teacher. 718 00:38:26,234 --> 00:38:27,719 Hi. Nice to meet you. 719 00:38:27,753 --> 00:38:29,962 Do you guys know what's in pig's feed? 720 00:38:29,997 --> 00:38:31,688 Any guesses? 721 00:38:31,723 --> 00:38:33,690 Mud.No. 722 00:38:33,725 --> 00:38:35,313 Calvin? 723 00:38:35,347 --> 00:38:37,176 Corn.Yep, corn is one of them. 724 00:38:37,211 --> 00:38:38,316 And then soybeans is the other. 725 00:38:38,350 --> 00:38:40,352 The piglets in this picture 726 00:38:40,387 --> 00:38:41,802 are drinking milk from their mother. 727 00:38:41,836 --> 00:38:44,701 Look at their noses. They are called snouts. 728 00:38:44,736 --> 00:38:46,945 Can you make a sound like a pig? 729 00:38:48,395 --> 00:38:50,258 Okay, so the pig we're going to bring in 730 00:38:50,293 --> 00:38:52,122 is about three or four weeks old. 731 00:38:55,574 --> 00:38:57,058 You like the diapered pig? 732 00:38:57,093 --> 00:38:58,266 I haven't seen that. 733 00:38:58,301 --> 00:39:00,476 Here, let me get around here. 734 00:39:00,510 --> 00:39:02,581 You guys are... 735 00:39:02,616 --> 00:39:04,825 We try to prevent, uh, accidents. 736 00:39:04,859 --> 00:39:06,378 Yeah, because I'm sure it's happened before. 737 00:39:06,413 --> 00:39:07,931 It's traumati-- Yeah, it has. 738 00:39:07,966 --> 00:39:10,175 Turn him a little more sideways, yeah. 739 00:39:10,209 --> 00:39:11,210 Yeah. 740 00:39:16,284 --> 00:39:17,596 You guys have any questions? 741 00:39:17,631 --> 00:39:19,287 Do you hand them out to the market 742 00:39:19,322 --> 00:39:21,945 when they're babies and full-grown? 743 00:39:21,980 --> 00:39:24,431 So they only go to market when they're a big pig. 744 00:39:24,465 --> 00:39:27,434 The pig has feed all day long, 745 00:39:27,468 --> 00:39:30,057 because we want them to grow as much as possible 746 00:39:30,091 --> 00:39:31,645 in a short amount of time. 747 00:39:31,679 --> 00:39:34,682 Because that is what the pork industry is all about. 748 00:39:34,717 --> 00:39:36,408 We want to grow the best product 749 00:39:36,443 --> 00:39:38,376 with the least amount of resources. 750 00:39:43,864 --> 00:39:46,625 Art, when I write about the pork producer's visit, 751 00:39:46,660 --> 00:39:49,214 could I write "This little piggy wears a diaper"? 752 00:39:49,248 --> 00:39:51,423 Sure.Okay. 753 00:39:51,458 --> 00:39:53,252 'Cause it seemed like they were kind of, like, 754 00:39:53,287 --> 00:39:54,633 covering up the diaper part. 755 00:39:54,668 --> 00:39:56,048 And they'd wrapped him up in a towel. 756 00:39:56,083 --> 00:39:58,430 And I'm like, gee, why cover that up? 757 00:39:58,465 --> 00:40:00,915 I mean, this-- why-- 758 00:40:00,950 --> 00:40:02,917 especially in Albert City where-- 759 00:40:02,952 --> 00:40:04,263 I went there last night, 760 00:40:04,298 --> 00:40:07,025 and it absolutely reeked again. 761 00:40:07,059 --> 00:40:08,613 It was so putrid 762 00:40:08,647 --> 00:40:12,513 I almost gagged from hog confinements. 763 00:40:12,548 --> 00:40:16,621 And I was at the post office 764 00:40:16,655 --> 00:40:18,657 and a guy said hi to me, 765 00:40:18,692 --> 00:40:20,141 'cause I was delivering the papers. 766 00:40:20,176 --> 00:40:22,178 And I said, "Does it really smell this bad 767 00:40:22,212 --> 00:40:23,559 in town all the time?" 768 00:40:23,593 --> 00:40:25,664 Because it smelled so bad on Monday. 769 00:40:25,699 --> 00:40:28,460 And he said, "Oh, no, it's just harvest 770 00:40:28,495 --> 00:40:30,945 and they're drying a lot of corn." 771 00:40:30,980 --> 00:40:34,224 And I'm like, no, this is not the smell of drying corn. 772 00:40:34,259 --> 00:40:37,296 This is hog shit. 773 00:40:37,331 --> 00:40:39,506 Um, so anyway. 774 00:40:40,886 --> 00:40:43,026 He has really pretty eyes. 775 00:40:44,511 --> 00:40:46,305 Okay, now recipes. What are you thinking? 776 00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:47,583 So I have lots. 777 00:40:47,617 --> 00:40:49,205 Okay, so this pumpkin bread recipe is, 778 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,966 um, from my grandma, my mom's mom. 779 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:53,451 Oh!And it's delish. 780 00:40:53,485 --> 00:40:55,487 The pea soup recipe, 781 00:40:55,522 --> 00:40:58,317 um, we used to have pea soup every Christmas... 782 00:40:58,352 --> 00:40:59,733 Really?...with my grandpa. 783 00:40:59,767 --> 00:41:01,389 'Cause it was one of my grandpa's favorites, so. 784 00:41:01,424 --> 00:41:03,081 Oh, nice. Well, we could do all of them! 785 00:41:03,115 --> 00:41:04,254 I don't care. Whatever. 786 00:41:04,289 --> 00:41:05,773 Are you okay with that?Yeah. 787 00:41:05,808 --> 00:41:07,154 I mean, that's a bunch, but it's-- they're all good. 788 00:41:07,188 --> 00:41:08,673 Sandy, hi. 789 00:41:08,707 --> 00:41:10,260 This is John Cullen at "The Storm Lake Times." 790 00:41:10,295 --> 00:41:15,438 I need to check on a loan payment from September 16th. 791 00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,613 I need to know how much was principal 792 00:41:17,647 --> 00:41:20,236 and how much was interest. 793 00:41:20,270 --> 00:41:22,169 All right, wish me luck. 794 00:41:22,203 --> 00:41:25,966 Per paper, we try to get over $3,000 worth of ads. 795 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,244 They keep the lights on. 796 00:41:28,278 --> 00:41:29,590 And that can be hard. 797 00:41:29,625 --> 00:41:32,420 Especially when Art won the Pulitzer. 798 00:41:32,455 --> 00:41:34,630 It actually got more difficult. 799 00:41:34,664 --> 00:41:39,427 Because people in this town can be very conservative. 800 00:41:39,462 --> 00:41:40,981 And they didn't like that he won. 801 00:41:41,015 --> 00:41:44,778 So I actually had a big backfire on me for a while. 802 00:41:44,812 --> 00:41:45,986 Hey, Mike. 803 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:47,366 Holiday open house time. 804 00:41:47,401 --> 00:41:48,609 Here's what we did last year. 805 00:41:48,644 --> 00:41:50,749 Okay. I'm not for sure, 806 00:41:50,784 --> 00:41:51,923 so we'll have to go over that sort of percentages-- 807 00:41:51,957 --> 00:41:53,441 Yeah. That's no problem. 808 00:41:55,443 --> 00:41:56,824 Hey, Travis.Hey, how are you? 809 00:41:56,859 --> 00:41:58,723 I have last year's ad that we did. 810 00:41:58,757 --> 00:42:01,070 Okay.We did the quarter page in color. 811 00:42:01,104 --> 00:42:03,210 We could even do like a couple more pictures on there, too. 812 00:42:03,244 --> 00:42:04,418 Okay, yeah. 813 00:42:07,904 --> 00:42:09,561 This is what we did last year. 814 00:42:09,596 --> 00:42:11,114 It's a little smaller than a quarter page 815 00:42:11,149 --> 00:42:13,082 for a total of 100. 816 00:42:13,116 --> 00:42:15,567 But it was for two times in the paper in color. 817 00:42:15,602 --> 00:42:17,811 Or we can go down to the one-time one. 818 00:42:17,845 --> 00:42:19,433 'Cause I know a lot of people are going 819 00:42:19,467 --> 00:42:20,814 to be in Friday's issue. 820 00:42:21,815 --> 00:42:24,680 Friday's?Yeah, next Friday. 821 00:42:24,714 --> 00:42:26,716 And it's a hundred?Yeah. 822 00:42:26,751 --> 00:42:28,580 Or we can do-- we can go down to the 52 823 00:42:28,615 --> 00:42:30,789 if you want to do just once, that's fine. 824 00:42:30,824 --> 00:42:32,619 Can I think about it?Yeah. Yeah. 825 00:42:32,653 --> 00:42:33,758 When do you need it by? 826 00:42:33,792 --> 00:42:34,966 I can always stop in on Monday 827 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,381 or Tuesday next week, too. 828 00:42:36,415 --> 00:42:37,969 Running twice-- when would it run? 829 00:42:38,003 --> 00:42:40,454 Wednesday and Friday?Yeah. 830 00:42:41,973 --> 00:42:43,664 Let me think about it just a minute...Yeah. 831 00:42:43,699 --> 00:42:45,390 ...and get a hold of you Monday morning.Yeah. 832 00:42:45,424 --> 00:42:46,633 Sounds good. 833 00:42:46,667 --> 00:42:47,668 Hey, you have a good day.You too. 834 00:42:47,703 --> 00:42:49,118 Tell Mary I said hi. 835 00:42:49,152 --> 00:42:51,603 Thank you. I will. Bye-bye.See you later. 836 00:42:51,638 --> 00:42:53,640 I think it looks good for our newspaper 837 00:42:53,674 --> 00:42:56,228 to have all the ads from downtown in there, 838 00:42:56,263 --> 00:42:57,747 'cause then you can see that, 839 00:42:57,782 --> 00:42:59,646 like, the businesses also support you. 840 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,751 You know, scratch our back, scratch yours. 841 00:43:01,786 --> 00:43:04,582 I mean, how else do you make a small community survive? 842 00:43:40,997 --> 00:43:45,208 Art and I have always liked, uh, delivering papers. 843 00:43:45,243 --> 00:43:47,245 You know, that's one of the most important things 844 00:43:47,279 --> 00:43:49,281 about journalism. The-- the best stories 845 00:43:49,316 --> 00:43:51,283 in the world aren't any good if you don't 846 00:43:51,318 --> 00:43:54,045 get them out on the street so people can read them. 847 00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:55,978 You run into people in the store, 848 00:43:56,012 --> 00:43:57,738 "Oh, you got the new paper?" 849 00:43:57,773 --> 00:43:59,188 Or maybe they'll tell you off. 850 00:43:59,222 --> 00:44:01,431 That's happened to me a couple of times. 851 00:44:01,466 --> 00:44:03,157 And that's good, too. 852 00:44:03,192 --> 00:44:08,473 Art's definitely the voice of the Democrats here in BV County. 853 00:44:08,507 --> 00:44:11,683 We're largely Republican in this area. 854 00:44:11,718 --> 00:44:13,512 And I am more Republican. 855 00:44:13,547 --> 00:44:15,066 So I like to read, though, 856 00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:17,758 what he has to say about it and think about it. 857 00:44:20,174 --> 00:44:23,074 I kind of bypass over the opinions most days. 858 00:44:23,108 --> 00:44:25,870 Everybody's got one, and usually they stink. 859 00:44:25,904 --> 00:44:27,837 I'm more interested in the local news 860 00:44:27,872 --> 00:44:29,736 and what's actually happening. 861 00:44:31,254 --> 00:44:34,602 If we see something we don't like or we find offensive, 862 00:44:34,637 --> 00:44:37,778 it's easy to reach out to them and let them know how we felt. 863 00:44:37,813 --> 00:44:40,160 And they are really good at, 864 00:44:40,194 --> 00:44:42,162 you know, getting back to you and-- 865 00:44:42,196 --> 00:44:45,165 and sit down and discussing the issue at hand. 866 00:44:47,029 --> 00:44:48,720 I think it's very helpful 867 00:44:48,755 --> 00:44:51,792 that we know what's going on in the community. 868 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,177 There are consequences for everything we do. 869 00:44:57,211 --> 00:45:00,007 And we feel that feedback immediately. 870 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,050 You know, you guys cover a lot. 871 00:45:08,084 --> 00:45:11,329 You are big advocates for all the Latino community. 872 00:45:11,363 --> 00:45:15,609 With the struggles that all the newspapers we have, 873 00:45:15,643 --> 00:45:17,715 no matter what language you are, 874 00:45:17,749 --> 00:45:18,992 I was thinking that maybe 875 00:45:19,026 --> 00:45:21,304 we try to do something together, 876 00:45:21,339 --> 00:45:22,961 you know, we can help one each other. 877 00:45:22,996 --> 00:45:24,445 Yeah. So I was thinking 878 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:26,689 you guys can give me your story in English. 879 00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:30,762 I translate it, you know, in-- in Spanish. 880 00:45:30,797 --> 00:45:34,386 And all the credit is going to be 881 00:45:34,421 --> 00:45:35,560 for-- for your paper. 882 00:45:35,594 --> 00:45:36,941 So would the stories that we do 883 00:45:36,975 --> 00:45:39,737 in the Times go into La Prensa then? 884 00:45:39,771 --> 00:45:41,324 It will be-- Yes. 885 00:45:41,359 --> 00:45:42,636 And I will... 886 00:45:42,670 --> 00:45:44,086 So we can take stories out of La Prensa? 887 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:46,605 You can take stories out of La Prensa also. 888 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,781 I will translate those stories in English for you. 889 00:45:49,816 --> 00:45:51,714 Okay. Cool. 890 00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:53,889 So would we do the ad sales or would you? 891 00:45:53,923 --> 00:45:57,582 I was thinking no, you know, you have advertising people. 892 00:45:57,616 --> 00:45:58,825 One person. 893 00:45:58,859 --> 00:46:00,274 Oh, you have one person. 894 00:46:00,309 --> 00:46:01,793 Okay. Yeah. 895 00:46:01,828 --> 00:46:03,899 I just like the idea of shared content... myself. 896 00:46:03,933 --> 00:46:07,419 And I don't know what appetite there is 897 00:46:07,454 --> 00:46:10,077 among advertisers to go in La Prensa Latino publications, 898 00:46:10,112 --> 00:46:11,699 but I'm sure there is one. 899 00:46:11,734 --> 00:46:14,254 If it will be 15, 20 years ago 900 00:46:14,288 --> 00:46:16,325 probably we would not be talking right now. 901 00:46:16,359 --> 00:46:17,809 Right, yeah.Yeah. 902 00:46:17,844 --> 00:46:19,707 Yeah. But it's getting tough. 903 00:46:19,742 --> 00:46:21,088 And it's sad, because we are losing... Yeah. 904 00:46:21,123 --> 00:46:24,609 ...the big foundation of the small communities 905 00:46:24,643 --> 00:46:26,231 that our newspapers...Yeah. 906 00:46:26,266 --> 00:46:29,096 Because nobody else is going to fight for the little person. 907 00:46:29,131 --> 00:46:30,166 Nobody. 908 00:46:30,201 --> 00:46:32,341 Nobody going to talk about corruption. 909 00:46:32,375 --> 00:46:35,516 Nobody going to talk about the church; 910 00:46:35,551 --> 00:46:37,070 about, you know, the activity 911 00:46:37,104 --> 00:46:39,555 that the community get together, 912 00:46:39,589 --> 00:46:41,143 no matter what race we are... 913 00:46:41,177 --> 00:46:42,938 Facebook don't going to do that. 914 00:46:42,972 --> 00:46:45,147 Yeah. But it's sad. 915 00:46:45,181 --> 00:46:46,769 It's sad that it's taking over. 916 00:46:46,804 --> 00:46:49,807 Some politicians talk about fake news. 917 00:46:49,841 --> 00:46:51,532 There it is, the fake news. Yeah. 918 00:46:51,567 --> 00:46:53,086 Facebook. 919 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:56,606 We go to the, you know, to the field. Yeah. 920 00:46:56,641 --> 00:46:58,298 We look the person eye to eye. 921 00:46:58,332 --> 00:47:00,818 We interact with that person. Yeah. 922 00:47:00,852 --> 00:47:02,267 We have to live next to them. 923 00:47:02,302 --> 00:47:04,235 Exactly. Exactly. 924 00:47:04,269 --> 00:47:07,100 Well, it sounds like a good possibility. 925 00:47:07,134 --> 00:47:10,828 I'm, uh-- But as I say, I think, well, Art has to... 926 00:47:10,862 --> 00:47:12,277 Sign off.Make the decision. 927 00:47:12,312 --> 00:47:13,761 ...sign off on this, uh...Mm-hmm. 928 00:47:13,796 --> 00:47:14,866 Thank you so much. 929 00:47:14,901 --> 00:47:15,867 Well, thanks for stopping in. 930 00:47:15,902 --> 00:47:17,110 No, thank you. 931 00:47:17,144 --> 00:47:18,628 Thanks a lot, Lorena.Thank you. 932 00:47:18,663 --> 00:47:19,837 I appreciate it.Yeah, thank you so much. 933 00:47:24,220 --> 00:47:27,292 Could I have, uh, water too when you have a minute? 934 00:47:30,123 --> 00:47:33,022 So what's, uh, this Lorena want to do? 935 00:47:33,057 --> 00:47:35,024 She wants--She was in here yesterday and asked... 936 00:47:35,059 --> 00:47:37,820 Yeah. ...if we could share content and ads. 937 00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:39,960 She says that there's a lot of potential 938 00:47:39,995 --> 00:47:41,513 for us to sell ads for her. 939 00:47:41,548 --> 00:47:43,308 And if she's interested in our content, 940 00:47:43,343 --> 00:47:44,827 we can make a little bit more money. 941 00:47:44,862 --> 00:47:47,588 I don't see why we can't do it. 942 00:47:47,623 --> 00:47:50,833 It wouldn't hurt to have a couple feet on the street. 943 00:47:50,868 --> 00:47:52,593 Yeah. 944 00:47:52,628 --> 00:47:54,526 And she said there's a good appetite for our stories there. 945 00:47:54,561 --> 00:47:57,840 It's just no one can read them in English. 946 00:47:57,875 --> 00:47:59,359 So it would be a way to build readership. 947 00:48:01,119 --> 00:48:03,018 Sounds good to me.Yeah. 948 00:48:03,052 --> 00:48:04,467 Is there anything else we could be doing with, 949 00:48:04,502 --> 00:48:06,297 say, the website or something like that? 950 00:48:06,331 --> 00:48:07,954 I like the idea of, like, Starbucks 951 00:48:07,988 --> 00:48:09,127 selling Wall Street Journal subscriptions. 952 00:48:09,162 --> 00:48:10,370 Oh yeah, I saw that, yeah. 953 00:48:10,404 --> 00:48:12,372 Like, why can't we do that? 954 00:48:12,406 --> 00:48:15,030 If you could pitch it to a place where 955 00:48:15,064 --> 00:48:17,066 as soon as you log on to public Wi-Fi, 956 00:48:17,101 --> 00:48:20,932 you get like a daily complimentary access to StormLake.com. 957 00:48:20,967 --> 00:48:22,865 You'd promote it, and it's free-- 958 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:24,384 just one for day only. 959 00:48:24,418 --> 00:48:26,869 I don't know that we have enough critical mass 960 00:48:26,904 --> 00:48:28,526 to make it work, but who knows? 961 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:29,907 If it sells us a couple of subscriptions... 962 00:48:29,941 --> 00:48:31,425 Yeah....what the hell? 963 00:48:31,460 --> 00:48:34,981 An idea that I raised before is the idea of a podcast. 964 00:48:35,015 --> 00:48:37,190 And then you would be the star of it. 965 00:48:37,224 --> 00:48:38,985 If we could do it semi-regularly, 966 00:48:39,019 --> 00:48:40,918 maybe once a month or something. 967 00:48:40,952 --> 00:48:43,782 Who's going to sell the sponsorship for a podcast 968 00:48:43,817 --> 00:48:46,544 that has a hundred listeners? 969 00:48:46,578 --> 00:48:49,719 I think this should be about reporting and-- 970 00:48:49,754 --> 00:48:51,894 and I should stick to writing columns 971 00:48:51,929 --> 00:48:53,792 and editorials and...Okay. 972 00:48:53,827 --> 00:48:56,830 And I don't understand podcasts, necessarily. 973 00:48:56,864 --> 00:48:58,245 And if I wanted to get into radio, 974 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,075 I would have gotten into radio.Yeah. 975 00:49:00,109 --> 00:49:01,731 I understand this whole... 976 00:49:01,766 --> 00:49:03,871 If the podcast idea is like-- I'm not married to it. 977 00:49:03,906 --> 00:49:05,287 No, no, I know.But-- 978 00:49:05,321 --> 00:49:06,944 I like the idea that you're bringing things up, 979 00:49:06,978 --> 00:49:10,706 but it's just that, uh, we've got to concentrate 980 00:49:10,740 --> 00:49:12,742 on circulation, I think. 981 00:49:12,777 --> 00:49:13,985 We're putting out a good paper. 982 00:49:14,020 --> 00:49:15,953 That's all I know.Yeah. 983 00:49:15,987 --> 00:49:18,334 Ultimately that will pay, right? 984 00:49:18,369 --> 00:49:19,508 Yeah. 985 00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,261 The lake is frozen and snow-swept. 986 00:49:48,295 --> 00:49:50,228 Men will squat in fishing shacks 987 00:49:50,263 --> 00:49:53,059 to take out their anger on walleye and perch 988 00:49:53,093 --> 00:49:55,923 while contemplating the Christmas message. 989 00:49:55,958 --> 00:49:59,444 It must be time to write that holiday letter. 990 00:49:59,479 --> 00:50:01,619 The kids are okay. They're not kids. 991 00:50:01,653 --> 00:50:05,519 They're adults able to ride a bicycle solo. 992 00:50:05,554 --> 00:50:07,866 You done good, Dolores. 993 00:50:07,901 --> 00:50:10,455 Yet I wake up with a pit in my stomach. 994 00:50:10,490 --> 00:50:14,183 The Republic is under attack from foes foreign and domestic. 995 00:50:14,218 --> 00:50:16,875 The Constitution is under test. 996 00:50:16,910 --> 00:50:20,120 A free press is in peril. 997 00:50:20,155 --> 00:50:24,021 Here in a small Northwest Iowa town full of churches, 998 00:50:24,055 --> 00:50:26,747 you would like to think better of ourselves. 999 00:50:26,782 --> 00:50:28,577 We rush to our neighbor in need, 1000 00:50:28,611 --> 00:50:30,579 bring in his crops, shovel his drive, 1001 00:50:30,613 --> 00:50:33,961 donate for his new kidney at a pancake feed, 1002 00:50:33,996 --> 00:50:35,653 yet the Commander-in-Chief 1003 00:50:35,687 --> 00:50:39,622 thinks the law of the land is something for someone else. 1004 00:50:39,657 --> 00:50:42,763 Anxiety is the word. 1005 00:50:42,798 --> 00:50:44,213 The corn wasn't that bad. 1006 00:50:44,248 --> 00:50:46,112 The rain just wouldn't stop. 1007 00:50:46,146 --> 00:50:48,804 Tyson is building a new feed mill for its turkeys, 1008 00:50:48,838 --> 00:50:51,531 a good sign for Storm Lake. 1009 00:50:51,565 --> 00:50:54,499 The refugee children in our elementary holiday concert 1010 00:50:54,534 --> 00:50:57,019 are the Christmas story. 1011 00:50:57,054 --> 00:51:00,160 The divine finds us despite the walls. 1012 00:51:00,195 --> 00:51:02,507 Christmas is the time when we hope to perfect 1013 00:51:02,542 --> 00:51:04,544 the flaws of this world. 1014 00:51:04,578 --> 00:51:07,236 There remains more warmth of sharing here 1015 00:51:07,271 --> 00:51:09,135 than shadows of fear. 1016 00:51:09,169 --> 00:51:12,552 The hope that we can be made more perfect endures, 1017 00:51:12,586 --> 00:51:14,692 an antidote to anxiety. 1018 00:51:17,350 --> 00:51:20,560 I just got a first baby of the year picture, Art. 1019 00:51:23,183 --> 00:51:25,254 They're Micronesian. 1020 00:51:25,289 --> 00:51:29,120 We usually make a big fuss about the first baby. 1021 00:51:29,155 --> 00:51:31,536 It's a horizontal picture with a cut line. 1022 00:51:37,439 --> 00:51:39,026 I've been up all night. 1023 00:51:39,061 --> 00:51:40,821 I'm not in a good mood. 1024 00:51:40,856 --> 00:51:42,237 Let's get that story. 1025 00:51:42,271 --> 00:51:44,308 Okay. 1026 00:52:00,496 --> 00:52:01,842 Well, I guess we'll just go without 1027 00:52:01,877 --> 00:52:03,775 heart medicine again this month. 1028 00:52:07,158 --> 00:52:10,161 Our accountant says we made about $2,000, 1029 00:52:10,196 --> 00:52:11,852 so... 1030 00:52:11,887 --> 00:52:17,134 Uh, a profit of $2,000 is better than a loss of $2,000. 1031 00:52:17,168 --> 00:52:18,480 We're kind of like farmers. 1032 00:52:18,514 --> 00:52:20,067 As long as we have money in the bank 1033 00:52:20,102 --> 00:52:21,552 at the end of the year, we're happy. 1034 00:52:21,586 --> 00:52:22,760 Squeaking by. 1035 00:52:22,794 --> 00:52:26,557 We're still keeping ten employees fed. 1036 00:52:26,591 --> 00:52:31,078 And, uh, I don't, uh, get paid now. 1037 00:52:31,113 --> 00:52:32,459 I'm on social security, 1038 00:52:32,494 --> 00:52:34,772 so I'm donating my time to the cause. 1039 00:52:34,806 --> 00:52:38,224 The reason he's here is to make sure we don't go broke. 1040 00:52:38,258 --> 00:52:39,432 Yeah. 1041 00:52:39,466 --> 00:52:40,812 And then we'll be really screwed. 1042 00:52:48,303 --> 00:52:50,167 Here you go. 1043 00:52:56,069 --> 00:52:57,726 Welcome. 1044 00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,280 The purpose of this meeting is to give you more information 1045 00:53:00,315 --> 00:53:02,834 about our dual language program that we're proposing 1046 00:53:02,869 --> 00:53:05,906 to start in Fall of 2020. So next fall. 1047 00:53:23,924 --> 00:53:26,306 There are some other dual language programs in Iowa. 1048 00:53:26,341 --> 00:53:28,515 We will be the seventh in the state. 1049 00:53:28,550 --> 00:53:30,586 We want this program to look much like 1050 00:53:30,621 --> 00:53:33,555 what our demographics look like in our school. 1051 00:53:33,589 --> 00:53:35,798 So we're going to run a lottery system. 1052 00:53:35,833 --> 00:53:37,731 We're not sure how many we'll have the first year, 1053 00:53:37,766 --> 00:53:39,457 but we're guessing that this will catch on 1054 00:53:39,492 --> 00:53:41,218 and we'll get more and more every year. 1055 00:53:41,252 --> 00:53:42,564 All right, are you ready? 1056 00:53:42,598 --> 00:53:44,462 Everybody's got a thumbs up, right? 1057 00:53:44,497 --> 00:53:46,775 One, two, three. Dual language! 1058 00:53:46,809 --> 00:53:48,846 Dual language! 1059 00:53:58,373 --> 00:54:00,375 What's going to happen on Monday exactly? 1060 00:54:00,409 --> 00:54:01,893 How does a caucus work? 1061 00:54:01,928 --> 00:54:05,897 Okay, uh, what a caucus is, is people will gather 1062 00:54:05,932 --> 00:54:07,658 at community centers 1063 00:54:07,692 --> 00:54:09,970 and there'll be collections of neighbors. 1064 00:54:10,005 --> 00:54:12,801 And there's expected to be record turnout of like 1065 00:54:12,835 --> 00:54:18,600 250,000 or more on Monday night across the state. 1066 00:54:18,634 --> 00:54:20,187 And they'll come into these fire stations 1067 00:54:20,222 --> 00:54:22,293 and schoolhouses at the precinct level 1068 00:54:22,328 --> 00:54:27,574 and they'll hear speeches from precinct captains. 1069 00:54:27,609 --> 00:54:30,301 And then they'll say, okay, now everybody 1070 00:54:30,336 --> 00:54:32,234 split into caucuses. 1071 00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:34,719 And so the Warren people are going to caucus 1072 00:54:34,754 --> 00:54:37,066 over here in this corner and the Bernie people 1073 00:54:37,101 --> 00:54:39,517 are going to caucus over here in this corner. 1074 00:54:39,552 --> 00:54:42,486 And so everybody goes to their respective place, 1075 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,419 and then they start counting heads. 1076 00:54:44,453 --> 00:54:49,631 And so you need 15% to be viable 1077 00:54:49,665 --> 00:54:53,186 to get a delegate out of that precinct caucus. 1078 00:54:53,220 --> 00:54:55,568 And that's why it's really not a primary. 1079 00:54:55,602 --> 00:54:57,259 It's a party-building exercise. 1080 00:54:57,294 --> 00:54:59,054 This is where the delegate selection process starts 1081 00:54:59,088 --> 00:55:01,090 for the Democratic National Convention. 1082 00:55:01,125 --> 00:55:04,956 Whereas in a primary, you know, you just go in and vote. 1083 00:55:07,718 --> 00:55:09,375 I just put it on the first page. 1084 00:55:09,409 --> 00:55:10,893 Okay, great. Yeah, that's perfect. 1085 00:55:12,516 --> 00:55:15,104 And then, so I took out Saturday morning. 1086 00:55:15,139 --> 00:55:17,521 Right. And then the Monday through Friday morning. 1087 00:55:17,555 --> 00:55:19,039 Yep, that's perfect.And that's everything that was-- 1088 00:55:19,074 --> 00:55:21,628 You did it just right. 1089 00:55:21,663 --> 00:55:25,391 Let's see if we came out with 31 like we're supposed to. 1090 00:55:25,425 --> 00:55:29,153 I've written several columns over the last couple of months 1091 00:55:29,187 --> 00:55:33,709 explaining what we're going to do with the TV listings. 1092 00:55:33,744 --> 00:55:36,747 We had to do something, because with our insurance 1093 00:55:36,781 --> 00:55:39,439 and printing costs and everything else going up, 1094 00:55:39,474 --> 00:55:41,545 we just-- we're looking for ways 1095 00:55:41,579 --> 00:55:44,962 to control expenses without, uh, 1096 00:55:44,996 --> 00:55:46,308 cutting personnel costs, 1097 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:48,103 which most newspapers have done. 1098 00:55:48,137 --> 00:55:50,795 And we have run a TV section since we started, that-- 1099 00:55:50,830 --> 00:55:54,212 it was a 12-page tab that had all these channels. 1100 00:55:54,247 --> 00:55:56,698 And we thought that maybe, uh, 1101 00:55:56,732 --> 00:55:59,425 we wouldn't need to run the TV Times anymore. 1102 00:55:59,459 --> 00:56:02,531 And, uh, our readers told us, no, don't do that. 1103 00:56:02,566 --> 00:56:04,637 Uh, they still like the printed version better. 1104 00:56:04,671 --> 00:56:08,399 So we asked our readers to let us know 1105 00:56:08,434 --> 00:56:10,159 which channels they wanted to keep. 1106 00:56:10,194 --> 00:56:12,438 And, uh, so we were able to drop 1107 00:56:12,472 --> 00:56:15,717 from about 80 channels down to 31. 1108 00:56:15,751 --> 00:56:18,754 We figured all told that running this TV section 1109 00:56:18,789 --> 00:56:21,964 was costing us close to $20,000 a year. 1110 00:56:21,999 --> 00:56:26,106 And this'll cut our expenses by more than half. 1111 00:56:26,141 --> 00:56:30,317 I hope to satisfy our customers that way. 1112 00:56:32,699 --> 00:56:35,046 I've been referred to twice now-- 1113 00:56:35,081 --> 00:56:38,498 once in "The New York Times" and once in "The Boston Globe"-- 1114 00:56:38,533 --> 00:56:42,813 as having a white mop... of hair. 1115 00:56:42,847 --> 00:56:45,816 Like one of those cotton floor mops. 1116 00:56:45,850 --> 00:56:47,921 Think that's what you're being compared to, Art. 1117 00:56:47,956 --> 00:56:50,510 So that's a hint that you need a haircut. 1118 00:56:50,545 --> 00:56:53,824 Yeah. Hint to the world. 1119 00:57:00,002 --> 00:57:01,487 Is that it? 1120 00:57:04,075 --> 00:57:06,353 Well, okay then. 1121 00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:18,573 And so when we go out to caucus, 1122 00:57:18,607 --> 00:57:20,160 I went to make sure that everybody 1123 00:57:20,195 --> 00:57:23,440 brings at least one person with them. 1124 00:57:23,474 --> 00:57:26,166 Do everything you can to make sure 1125 00:57:26,201 --> 00:57:29,549 that the 2020 Iowa Caucus 1126 00:57:29,584 --> 00:57:31,551 has the largest voter turnout 1127 00:57:31,586 --> 00:57:34,071 in the history of the Iowa Caucus. 1128 00:57:34,105 --> 00:57:37,488 Thank you all very much. 1129 00:57:37,523 --> 00:57:41,665 I am here to speak to those who are still making up your minds 1130 00:57:41,699 --> 00:57:46,428 to look you in the eye and ask you to caucus for me. 1131 00:57:52,779 --> 00:57:54,781 We will continue to seek to have a message that, 1132 00:57:54,816 --> 00:57:56,438 uh, reaches out to everybody 1133 00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:58,751 and makes sure everybody feels welcome. 1134 00:58:14,767 --> 00:58:16,527 We need those Yang ads. 1135 00:58:20,773 --> 00:58:22,637 Is the policy victories worth 1136 00:58:22,671 --> 00:58:25,398 the personal foibles, you know what I mean? 1137 00:58:27,504 --> 00:58:29,471 I mean, who's determining what's... 1138 00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:30,748 Yeah. You know? 1139 00:58:30,783 --> 00:58:32,750 Is it you, the press, determining? 1140 00:58:32,785 --> 00:58:33,820 Sure. Could be. 1141 00:58:33,855 --> 00:58:35,512 Or is it-- is it, you know, 1142 00:58:35,546 --> 00:58:37,306 actions that he's actually done. 1143 00:58:37,341 --> 00:58:40,447 So no, I stand be-- behind him 100%. 1144 00:58:42,622 --> 00:58:45,107 Sure. Nice to see you again. 1145 00:58:45,142 --> 00:58:47,075 Really what I'm after here is what you're seeing 1146 00:58:47,109 --> 00:58:50,043 from voters, what message seems to be resonating the most. 1147 00:58:50,078 --> 00:58:51,631 So I'm going into the small towns, 1148 00:58:51,666 --> 00:58:54,461 and they feel-- people feel so forgotten. 1149 00:58:54,496 --> 00:58:55,670 Especially farmers. 1150 00:58:55,704 --> 00:58:57,603 And they talk about the tariffs. 1151 00:58:57,637 --> 00:59:00,088 And I think they want a leader who has-- 1152 00:59:00,122 --> 00:59:02,021 who has a strong character. 1153 00:59:02,055 --> 00:59:04,368 Yeah.And who is going to lead us into the future. 1154 00:59:04,402 --> 00:59:06,128 Okay.Not what we have now. 1155 00:59:08,372 --> 00:59:11,444 Literally hours away, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders 1156 00:59:11,478 --> 00:59:14,689 are basically tied at the top of the national polls. 1157 00:59:14,723 --> 00:59:16,414 And a lot of the polling on the air has them 1158 00:59:16,449 --> 00:59:19,176 potentially one, two-- although a little more middling 1159 00:59:19,210 --> 00:59:21,074 with Biden and some of the other candidates. 1160 00:59:21,109 --> 00:59:23,180 But the sharp ideological divide between the two 1161 00:59:23,214 --> 00:59:25,734 does mirror divisions within the Democratic Party. 1162 00:59:25,769 --> 00:59:28,185 One is campaigning on shaking things up. 1163 00:59:28,219 --> 00:59:31,602 The other is campaigning on steadying the ship. 1164 00:59:31,637 --> 00:59:33,742 Tonight's results could ultimately signal 1165 00:59:33,777 --> 00:59:36,158 where the Democratic nomination is heading. 1166 00:59:37,366 --> 00:59:38,678 There we are. 1167 00:59:38,713 --> 00:59:42,199 Peach... Art's on TV. 1168 00:59:42,233 --> 00:59:43,959 It just feels like a different energy. 1169 00:59:43,994 --> 00:59:45,616 I don't know how to describe it. 1170 00:59:45,651 --> 00:59:47,204 Well, it's not akin to anything, 1171 00:59:47,238 --> 00:59:49,689 but I think it's closest to '04 1172 00:59:49,724 --> 00:59:51,553 when Howard Dean had a lead. 1173 00:59:51,588 --> 00:59:54,211 John Kerry shot through at the end. 1174 00:59:54,245 --> 00:59:58,940 And, uh, everybody was anxious about electability. 1175 00:59:58,974 --> 01:00:01,183 And that's been the theme this year. 1176 01:00:01,218 --> 01:00:04,152 We are so afraid of screwing this up in Iowa. 1177 01:00:04,186 --> 01:00:06,257 And, uh... Uh, Art, am I being too simplistic? 1178 01:00:06,292 --> 01:00:07,534 Wow, you are hungry. 1179 01:00:07,569 --> 01:00:08,743 It feels like-- Sanders feels like 1180 01:00:08,777 --> 01:00:11,608 he's got the most identified ones, 1181 01:00:11,642 --> 01:00:13,437 as they like to say out here. 1182 01:00:13,471 --> 01:00:17,199 You know, he had what, half the caucus crowd, uh, 1183 01:00:17,234 --> 01:00:18,718 four years ago. 1184 01:00:18,753 --> 01:00:20,409 I'm not sure that he'll end up on top. 1185 01:00:20,444 --> 01:00:23,516 Anybody who is sure is too full of themselves. 1186 01:00:29,073 --> 01:00:30,868 How you doing? 1187 01:00:30,903 --> 01:00:33,699 Good. How are you?Who are you guys against? 1188 01:00:33,733 --> 01:00:35,977 Pete? Did you see him here at BV? 1189 01:00:36,011 --> 01:00:37,530 We didn't. Uh, we were working. 1190 01:00:37,564 --> 01:00:38,635 Oh, he had a big crowd here. 1191 01:00:38,669 --> 01:00:39,843 Very impressive.Yeah. 1192 01:00:39,877 --> 01:00:41,776 Did you decide just recently? 1193 01:00:41,810 --> 01:00:42,846 Yes.Yeah. 1194 01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:44,537 Who are you with tonight? 1195 01:00:46,194 --> 01:00:47,264 Yeah? 1196 01:00:47,298 --> 01:00:49,128 They've got a pretty good table over there. 1197 01:00:52,441 --> 01:00:53,477 Absolutely. 1198 01:00:53,511 --> 01:00:55,997 When did you make up your mind? 1199 01:00:58,171 --> 01:01:00,173 Pretty much when we got here. It was-- 1200 01:01:03,349 --> 01:01:04,591 Have fun. 1201 01:01:13,808 --> 01:01:15,810 Okay, we're going to get started! 1202 01:01:15,844 --> 01:01:18,088 Hola, hola. 1203 01:01:36,796 --> 01:01:38,349 Everyone have one? 1204 01:01:38,384 --> 01:01:41,732 Okay. Now we're going to have the precinct captains-- 1205 01:01:41,767 --> 01:01:43,734 which for every party that's here 1206 01:01:43,769 --> 01:01:45,667 that wants to represent themselves, 1207 01:01:45,702 --> 01:01:49,533 um, you guys will have two minutes to talk. 1208 01:01:49,567 --> 01:01:50,914 Hi, my name is Linda Torres. 1209 01:01:50,948 --> 01:01:53,399 I really think my uncle Bernie can beat Trump. 1210 01:01:53,433 --> 01:01:55,573 A couple of months ago my dad had passed, 1211 01:01:55,608 --> 01:01:57,161 and he was in the hospital for a week. 1212 01:01:57,196 --> 01:02:00,199 And we didn't have any time to grieve over my dad 1213 01:02:00,233 --> 01:02:02,546 because we were too busy fighting insurance companies. 1214 01:02:02,580 --> 01:02:06,377 And I truly believe that my dad would have still been alive 1215 01:02:06,412 --> 01:02:07,758 if we had Medicare for all, 1216 01:02:07,793 --> 01:02:09,346 and he could have been covered in Iowa, 1217 01:02:09,380 --> 01:02:11,417 and as soon as he got into that ER and been helped out 1218 01:02:11,451 --> 01:02:13,626 by doctors instead of waiting and waiting, 1219 01:02:13,660 --> 01:02:15,490 he would have still been here, 1220 01:02:15,524 --> 01:02:17,561 watching us fight for our country. 1221 01:02:17,595 --> 01:02:18,907 Please vote for Bernie Sanders 1222 01:02:18,942 --> 01:02:21,634 'cause he's gonna change our lives forever. 1223 01:02:27,674 --> 01:02:29,021 Hi, everyone. My name is Jean-Marco. 1224 01:02:29,055 --> 01:02:30,850 Thank you very much for coming here today. 1225 01:02:30,885 --> 01:02:33,335 Um, I'm here to advocate for Andrew Yang. 1226 01:02:43,863 --> 01:02:46,038 Anybody else? Okay. 1227 01:02:46,970 --> 01:02:48,868 All together?Yeah. 1228 01:02:48,903 --> 01:02:53,079 One, two, three, four, five, 1229 01:02:53,114 --> 01:02:57,704 six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 1230 01:02:57,739 --> 01:03:02,537 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1231 01:03:02,571 --> 01:03:06,368 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 1232 01:03:06,403 --> 01:03:08,715 Whoo!Yay! 1233 01:03:08,750 --> 01:03:10,994 Oh, that was-- I was like-- 1234 01:03:12,754 --> 01:03:13,824 We got 20. 1235 01:03:13,859 --> 01:03:15,343 What did Amy have? 1236 01:03:15,377 --> 01:03:16,827 Amy had 20. Right at 20. 1237 01:03:16,862 --> 01:03:19,450 So Warren and Amy each had 20. 1238 01:03:24,041 --> 01:03:26,630 And you were with Yang and you ended up with... 1239 01:03:26,664 --> 01:03:28,114 Sanders. 1240 01:03:28,149 --> 01:03:31,014 But you would have gone with Biden... 1241 01:03:31,048 --> 01:03:33,223 Yes....to make him viable. 1242 01:03:33,257 --> 01:03:34,327 Yes. 1243 01:03:36,226 --> 01:03:38,745 Had you made up your mind a while ago? 1244 01:03:38,780 --> 01:03:40,886 Uh, no. I was-- 1245 01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:42,163 As far as second option, 1246 01:03:42,197 --> 01:03:45,822 I was pretty un-- undecided until today. 1247 01:03:46,788 --> 01:03:48,376 How about on Yang, though? 1248 01:03:48,410 --> 01:03:53,622 Oh, yeah, I've been decided on him for... months now. 1249 01:03:53,657 --> 01:03:55,038 Okay. 1250 01:03:56,073 --> 01:03:58,524 So but you're not really disappointed? 1251 01:03:58,558 --> 01:03:59,732 Or are you? 1252 01:03:59,766 --> 01:04:00,871 I'm very-- I'm super disappointed. 1253 01:04:00,906 --> 01:04:01,976 Oh, you are? Okay. All right. 1254 01:04:02,010 --> 01:04:03,529 Super disappointed. 1255 01:04:03,563 --> 01:04:06,359 Bernie! Bernie! Bernie...Oh, my God. 1256 01:04:06,394 --> 01:04:09,500 This is insane. 1257 01:04:10,847 --> 01:04:12,055 I was not expecting this. 1258 01:04:12,089 --> 01:04:13,228 I thought there would be groups 1259 01:04:13,263 --> 01:04:14,609 that would be relatively even, 1260 01:04:14,643 --> 01:04:16,749 but I did not expect, like, 1261 01:04:16,783 --> 01:04:19,165 that this would be such a bloodbath. 1262 01:04:24,446 --> 01:04:27,449 You should have seen the army of Latinos at Better Day. 1263 01:04:27,484 --> 01:04:29,175 Ooh, awesome. 1264 01:04:29,210 --> 01:04:32,006 Yeah, I'm going to send you like 30-some pictures. 1265 01:04:33,939 --> 01:04:35,906 You looked at the Register, Tom? 1266 01:04:35,941 --> 01:04:37,356 I have not looked at the-- 1267 01:04:37,390 --> 01:04:38,909 I'm looking at the site Troy Price sent me. 1268 01:04:38,944 --> 01:04:40,911 Initial reports out of BV... 1269 01:04:40,946 --> 01:04:42,913 Nothing yet. 1270 01:04:42,948 --> 01:04:45,847 Hi, Ron. This is Dolores from the Times. 1271 01:04:45,882 --> 01:04:47,366 Can you call me back? 1272 01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,092 We're trying to figure out how many people 1273 01:04:49,126 --> 01:04:50,610 you had at Methodist Manor. 1274 01:04:50,645 --> 01:04:52,129 Thanks, bye. 1275 01:04:52,164 --> 01:04:55,477 So Warren's winning in Des Moines at these precincts? 1276 01:04:55,512 --> 01:04:59,826 She did just okay here. That's to be expected. 1277 01:04:59,861 --> 01:05:02,070 Uh, Buttigieg is killing Webster. 1278 01:05:02,105 --> 01:05:03,451 Uh, Warren--There'll be-- 1279 01:05:03,485 --> 01:05:05,971 Yeah, Warren didn't even make viability there. 1280 01:05:06,005 --> 01:05:08,387 Yeah.Whoa. 1281 01:05:08,421 --> 01:05:09,457 Yeah. 1282 01:05:09,491 --> 01:05:12,529 Bill! What's the news in Dubuque? 1283 01:05:14,427 --> 01:05:16,188 Yeah, I'm waiting, too. It's killing me. 1284 01:05:16,222 --> 01:05:17,948 That's why I called, you know? 1285 01:05:17,983 --> 01:05:20,226 But it'll-- it sounds like 1286 01:05:20,261 --> 01:05:23,436 Bernie probably carried Dubuque though, huh? 1287 01:05:23,471 --> 01:05:25,956 Thank you. See ya. Bye. 1288 01:05:25,991 --> 01:05:28,269 So what we do know is that we've been seeing these pictures 1289 01:05:28,303 --> 01:05:30,271 from precinct sites all over Iowa tonight 1290 01:05:30,305 --> 01:05:33,481 where Joe Biden in some of them has not been viable. 1291 01:05:33,515 --> 01:05:35,207 Why is that important? 1292 01:05:35,241 --> 01:05:36,933 Because the Biden campaign has been saying for a long time 1293 01:05:36,967 --> 01:05:38,693 that they believe they're one of the few campaigns 1294 01:05:38,727 --> 01:05:40,937 that would be viable across the state. 1295 01:05:40,971 --> 01:05:42,421 That yes, they may not be as strong 1296 01:05:42,455 --> 01:05:44,250 in the more populated areas... That's right. 1297 01:05:44,285 --> 01:05:45,838 ...like Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Davenport... 1298 01:05:45,872 --> 01:05:47,978 Who?Joe Biden-- uh, not viable. 1299 01:05:48,013 --> 01:05:49,566 ...run up the score in more rural areas. 1300 01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:51,257 And I have to say, Brian, we've been covering 1301 01:05:51,292 --> 01:05:53,259 just about every single Biden event there is 1302 01:05:53,294 --> 01:05:54,812 over the last few months here in Iowa. 1303 01:05:54,847 --> 01:05:57,677 Uh, a lot of the places we go, the best dining option 1304 01:05:57,712 --> 01:05:59,783 is probably a Casey's General Store. 1305 01:05:59,817 --> 01:06:01,164 So these are rural areas. 1306 01:06:01,198 --> 01:06:02,717 And so we should consider that tonight-- 1307 01:06:02,751 --> 01:06:04,408 All right, Mike Memoli at Biden Headquarters 1308 01:06:04,443 --> 01:06:07,135 where they officially know nothing. 1309 01:06:07,170 --> 01:06:08,654 What are you hearing? 1310 01:06:08,688 --> 01:06:10,656 We're all trying to figure out here in New York 1311 01:06:10,690 --> 01:06:13,003 why we don't have any results and where the hang-up may be. 1312 01:06:13,038 --> 01:06:14,625 I've never seen anything like it. 1313 01:06:14,660 --> 01:06:16,006 Oh, hell, the-- 1314 01:06:16,041 --> 01:06:17,628 Every election is like this. 1315 01:06:17,663 --> 01:06:19,527 I can tell you the Iowa Democratic Party now 1316 01:06:19,561 --> 01:06:20,597 isn't saying anything. 1317 01:06:20,631 --> 01:06:22,806 It's not 10:00 yet. 1318 01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:24,463 Yeah. 1319 01:06:24,497 --> 01:06:26,983 I think AP's got a projection coming out. 1320 01:06:27,017 --> 01:06:28,570 In a, you know, a general election, 1321 01:06:28,605 --> 01:06:30,503 you won't get the results until midnight. 1322 01:06:30,538 --> 01:06:31,711 Yeah. 1323 01:06:31,746 --> 01:06:33,127 And yet nothing has been reported-- 1324 01:06:33,161 --> 01:06:35,543 It's not 10:00 yet.Yeah. 1325 01:06:35,577 --> 01:06:37,545 Has it ever been in your experience-- 1326 01:06:37,579 --> 01:06:39,650 No. Of course not. 1327 01:06:39,685 --> 01:06:42,550 Sometimes you won't get the results till the next day. 1328 01:06:42,584 --> 01:06:44,000 Yeah.You know? 1329 01:06:44,034 --> 01:06:47,693 ...further endearing Iowa to the Democratic Party. 1330 01:06:47,727 --> 01:06:49,384 Jeez... 1331 01:06:49,419 --> 01:06:51,214 I know it's going to raise more questions for sure. 1332 01:06:51,248 --> 01:06:54,320 Oh, that's-- What a load of crap. 1333 01:06:54,355 --> 01:06:56,598 I'll be curious about there's the process questions. 1334 01:06:56,633 --> 01:06:58,566 Is this the way we should, you know, nominate a President? 1335 01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,155 Iowa Democratic Party has put a statement out. 1336 01:07:01,189 --> 01:07:02,604 Thank you, my dear. 1337 01:07:02,639 --> 01:07:04,020 Let's hear this. 1338 01:07:04,054 --> 01:07:05,573 We've experienced a delay in the results 1339 01:07:05,607 --> 01:07:07,368 due to the fact that the Iowa Democratic Party 1340 01:07:07,402 --> 01:07:10,336 is reporting out three data sets for the first time. 1341 01:07:10,371 --> 01:07:12,200 Yeah, that's right. Yeah.True enough. 1342 01:07:12,235 --> 01:07:14,064 But regardless, we've only got the explanation. 1343 01:07:14,099 --> 01:07:15,548 We still don't have any digits. 1344 01:07:17,309 --> 01:07:20,726 Everybody's saying it's going to kill the Iowa caucuses... 1345 01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:22,728 Yeah....this delay. 1346 01:07:22,762 --> 01:07:25,006 It shouldn't, but it-- but it will. 1347 01:07:25,041 --> 01:07:27,491 Great.Good night. 1348 01:07:33,394 --> 01:07:35,258 Hey, Tom, would you mind taking a look at this? 1349 01:07:35,292 --> 01:07:37,398 Sure.See what you think. 1350 01:07:37,432 --> 01:07:38,537 Sure. 1351 01:07:42,023 --> 01:07:44,025 Hey, Tom, throw me a pack of smokes, 1352 01:07:44,060 --> 01:07:45,509 'cause if you kill me sooner, 1353 01:07:45,544 --> 01:07:47,097 you can own the newspaper sooner. 1354 01:07:59,489 --> 01:08:01,077 Is that reading all right to you? 1355 01:08:01,111 --> 01:08:02,354 Yeah, it was great. 1356 01:08:02,388 --> 01:08:03,872 It was better than I could have done. 1357 01:08:03,907 --> 01:08:06,047 I really wasn't concentrating on other precincts, 1358 01:08:06,082 --> 01:08:09,119 but I could just say Bernie swept the Latino vote in Storm Lake. 1359 01:08:09,154 --> 01:08:12,295 Yeah. That is 100% true. 1360 01:08:14,366 --> 01:08:15,953 I'm just going to operate 1361 01:08:15,988 --> 01:08:17,576 as though we're not going to see any results tonight. 1362 01:08:17,610 --> 01:08:19,957 I heard it's those caucus cards 1363 01:08:19,992 --> 01:08:21,338 that are causing all the problems. 1364 01:08:21,373 --> 01:08:23,547 They never had them before. 1365 01:08:23,582 --> 01:08:25,653 Yeah.They just counted heads. 1366 01:08:25,687 --> 01:08:27,448 Yeah. 1367 01:08:27,482 --> 01:08:30,347 Well... how much longer you going to stay here? 1368 01:08:30,382 --> 01:08:32,108 About another 15 minutes. 1369 01:08:32,142 --> 01:08:34,593 But I got my lede-in, as it it's just about Linda. 1370 01:08:34,627 --> 01:08:37,458 Linda's rousing speech about her dad dying 1371 01:08:37,492 --> 01:08:40,046 and how Bernie Sanders' health care plan 1372 01:08:40,081 --> 01:08:41,738 probably would have prevented it. 1373 01:08:41,772 --> 01:08:45,155 Well, it's too bad, 'cause it really is a good process 1374 01:08:45,190 --> 01:08:46,915 where neighbors get together 1375 01:08:46,950 --> 01:08:48,641 and actually speak to each other. 1376 01:08:48,676 --> 01:08:50,298 Yeah. 1377 01:08:50,333 --> 01:08:52,335 I think. That's my opinion. 1378 01:08:52,369 --> 01:08:53,957 But--Yeah. 1379 01:08:53,991 --> 01:08:57,063 These are just-- What are-- We got the cashews in here? 1380 01:08:57,098 --> 01:08:58,755 Just--Yeah. 1381 01:08:58,789 --> 01:09:00,170 Take as many as you want. 1382 01:09:00,205 --> 01:09:01,551 I'm going to pick out all the cashews. 1383 01:09:03,794 --> 01:09:05,727 Okay, then.See ya. 1384 01:09:24,539 --> 01:09:27,887 I talked to Matthew Marroquin at like midnight last night. 1385 01:09:27,922 --> 01:09:31,374 He gave me so many details about the app for the-- 1386 01:09:31,408 --> 01:09:33,410 Oh, the app did crash.Yeah. 1387 01:09:35,067 --> 01:09:36,379 Okay. 1388 01:09:39,554 --> 01:09:42,454 Tom, uh, Headline: 1389 01:09:42,488 --> 01:09:46,492 who won the caucuses, question mark, not Iowa. 1390 01:09:46,527 --> 01:09:47,459 Yeah. 1391 01:09:47,493 --> 01:09:49,219 That's pretty much it. 1392 01:09:49,254 --> 01:09:50,945 Chances we ever get a caucus again? 1393 01:09:50,979 --> 01:09:53,119 Zero.Apparently not. 1394 01:09:53,154 --> 01:09:54,845 Yeah.Oh well. 1395 01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:58,470 Like Dolores said, maybe they should just leave us alone. 1396 01:10:03,923 --> 01:10:05,891 Doug. 1397 01:10:05,925 --> 01:10:07,686 Shot. How about you? 1398 01:10:09,135 --> 01:10:10,930 Party's over. 1399 01:10:10,965 --> 01:10:12,829 It's not the process that broke down. 1400 01:10:12,863 --> 01:10:15,072 It was the app. 1401 01:10:15,107 --> 01:10:17,178 You know, the main anxiety in Iowa this year 1402 01:10:17,213 --> 01:10:19,284 is we're going to screw this up somehow. 1403 01:10:19,318 --> 01:10:22,114 And we did. 1404 01:10:22,148 --> 01:10:23,909 It used to be, you know, 1405 01:10:23,943 --> 01:10:26,739 the results were always muddied and fucked up, you know, 1406 01:10:26,774 --> 01:10:28,810 but... and we could all live with it, 1407 01:10:28,845 --> 01:10:33,539 but with cable news, you just can't live with that anymore. 1408 01:10:34,747 --> 01:10:36,370 Well, I better get laying out pages. 1409 01:10:36,404 --> 01:10:38,924 All right, catch you later. 1410 01:10:38,958 --> 01:10:40,581 See ya. 1411 01:10:42,997 --> 01:10:44,723 Look at this picture. 1412 01:10:46,276 --> 01:10:48,796 This is democracy working. 1413 01:10:48,830 --> 01:10:50,142 But you know, I'm not-- 1414 01:10:50,176 --> 01:10:51,385 that's not to say that we didn't have-- 1415 01:10:51,419 --> 01:10:53,283 You know, we have our problems, obviously. 1416 01:10:53,318 --> 01:10:55,872 But it's just kinda too bad that-- 1417 01:10:55,906 --> 01:10:59,462 that, uh, we can't be more patient with democracy. 1418 01:11:47,026 --> 01:11:49,339 So it's been a pretty stressful, uh, 1419 01:11:49,374 --> 01:11:51,203 stressful time. 1420 01:11:53,999 --> 01:11:55,759 Very stressful. 1421 01:11:55,794 --> 01:11:58,555 And you know, you-- I've been sitting here for two weeks. 1422 01:11:58,590 --> 01:12:01,351 It's gray and rainy and cold. 1423 01:12:01,386 --> 01:12:03,595 So you're locked in the house 1424 01:12:03,629 --> 01:12:06,114 and you're thinking we're losing money, 1425 01:12:06,149 --> 01:12:10,015 and there ain't a goddamn thing you can do about it. 1426 01:12:10,049 --> 01:12:13,605 So it's really important that we can figure out a way 1427 01:12:13,639 --> 01:12:18,023 not to go deep into debt while saving the newspaper. 1428 01:12:18,057 --> 01:12:21,371 Our ads fell off a cliff just like every other newspaper. 1429 01:12:21,406 --> 01:12:23,477 We, uh... 1430 01:12:23,511 --> 01:12:27,860 We-- Our advertising was down 50% in March. 1431 01:12:27,895 --> 01:12:30,484 We hope that comes back, but, you know, 1432 01:12:30,518 --> 01:12:33,521 most of our advertisers were mom-and-pop stores 1433 01:12:33,556 --> 01:12:36,697 who are really at risk. 1434 01:12:36,731 --> 01:12:38,388 John said, "Well, I've just thought about 1435 01:12:38,423 --> 01:12:39,941 "just shutting it down and walking away. 1436 01:12:39,976 --> 01:12:41,943 I'd just like to walk away and go fishing." 1437 01:12:41,978 --> 01:12:46,810 And, uh, you know, we've both worked very hard. 1438 01:12:46,845 --> 01:12:53,714 And, uh-- And then just to see it all, uh, blow up, 1439 01:12:53,748 --> 01:12:56,924 you just think, well, okay, at least we got the building. 1440 01:12:56,958 --> 01:12:59,858 You know, we could sell that to pay off our debt. 1441 01:13:01,446 --> 01:13:04,690 So... it doesn't make a lot of sense 1442 01:13:04,725 --> 01:13:06,589 for us to go borrow money 1443 01:13:06,623 --> 01:13:09,385 when we could just walk away from it now. 1444 01:13:20,050 --> 01:13:23,433 We're thinking about doing a GoFundMe page 1445 01:13:23,468 --> 01:13:26,954 to seek donations, uh, from anywhere. 1446 01:13:26,988 --> 01:13:32,753 At least buy us some oxygen until this thing clears. 1447 01:13:32,787 --> 01:13:36,653 You know, it just seems like a whole different realm, 1448 01:13:36,688 --> 01:13:38,344 a different reality. 1449 01:13:38,379 --> 01:13:41,486 For this last issue, I interviewed business owners. 1450 01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:44,558 They were sharing all kinds of things. 1451 01:13:44,592 --> 01:13:46,491 Like, the bait guy, 1452 01:13:46,525 --> 01:13:50,426 some people were stealing out of his self-serve bait machine. 1453 01:13:50,460 --> 01:13:52,255 Yeah. 1454 01:13:52,289 --> 01:13:54,568 He threatened them, that he was going to take the wheels 1455 01:13:54,602 --> 01:13:56,570 off their trailer if they kept doing that 1456 01:13:56,604 --> 01:13:57,916 while they were out fishing. 1457 01:13:57,950 --> 01:13:59,745 So I thought of a pretty good headline. 1458 01:13:59,780 --> 01:14:02,023 I thought "Angler Management." 1459 01:14:07,097 --> 01:14:09,583 No one's even talking about testing at this point. 1460 01:14:09,617 --> 01:14:12,931 So we don't know if the virus is even here. 1461 01:14:12,965 --> 01:14:15,105 Um, and all we can say is, like, 1462 01:14:15,140 --> 01:14:17,280 we're just closing down for precaution. 1463 01:14:17,314 --> 01:14:20,766 I call a hospital up to see if anybody's been admitted yet 1464 01:14:20,801 --> 01:14:23,493 for symptoms that appear similar to COVID-19 1465 01:14:23,528 --> 01:14:25,771 and, well, that goes nowhere. 1466 01:14:27,497 --> 01:14:29,637 If we do the right things here, we'll be all right. 1467 01:14:29,672 --> 01:14:31,777 We were kind of scolding local officials 1468 01:14:31,812 --> 01:14:34,159 for falling short on testing. 1469 01:14:34,193 --> 01:14:36,057 We're falling short on equipment. 1470 01:14:36,092 --> 01:14:39,751 And we're falling short on a clear and consistent message 1471 01:14:39,785 --> 01:14:42,098 from local, state, and federal authorities. 1472 01:14:44,721 --> 01:14:48,311 All the meatpacking plants around us we know 1473 01:14:48,345 --> 01:14:50,934 are all infected with COVID. 1474 01:14:50,969 --> 01:14:53,281 So we just know that there's got to be hundreds of workers 1475 01:14:53,316 --> 01:14:55,629 in Storm Lake who are infected, 1476 01:14:55,663 --> 01:14:57,009 but they aren't testing, 1477 01:14:57,044 --> 01:15:01,289 and then not reporting any cases. 1478 01:15:01,324 --> 01:15:06,191 How sickening it is to think of forcing immigrant workers 1479 01:15:06,225 --> 01:15:09,125 who are afraid of deportation, 1480 01:15:09,159 --> 01:15:13,681 forcing them into a potentially deadly workplace, 1481 01:15:13,716 --> 01:15:16,408 uh, without testing. 1482 01:15:16,442 --> 01:15:18,997 And, uh... 1483 01:15:19,031 --> 01:15:21,827 and to me, uh, you know, there are-- 1484 01:15:21,862 --> 01:15:24,071 there are blatant forms of racism 1485 01:15:24,105 --> 01:15:26,556 and there are subtler forms of racism, 1486 01:15:26,591 --> 01:15:28,524 but it's racism all the same. 1487 01:15:36,428 --> 01:15:38,568 Occasionally, I go out to Tyson. 1488 01:15:38,603 --> 01:15:40,052 But, you know, all you could do 1489 01:15:40,087 --> 01:15:41,675 is speak to a spokesperson in Arkansas. 1490 01:15:41,709 --> 01:15:43,987 I called them. And first it starts with, 1491 01:15:44,022 --> 01:15:46,196 how many employees have tested positive? 1492 01:15:46,231 --> 01:15:48,164 Does every employee have sufficient PPE? 1493 01:15:48,198 --> 01:15:49,993 What are you doing as far as sanitation? 1494 01:15:50,028 --> 01:15:52,927 That's just a constant, constant drumbeat. 1495 01:15:52,962 --> 01:15:57,000 And they would get back to you with these statements, like, 1496 01:15:57,035 --> 01:16:01,902 "We take this with the utmost seriousness" and that's it. 1497 01:16:16,502 --> 01:16:18,125 From what I understand, 1498 01:16:18,159 --> 01:16:22,439 there's company-wide testing now at Tyson Storm Lake. 1499 01:16:22,474 --> 01:16:25,166 The problem with this is the state-delegated 1500 01:16:25,201 --> 01:16:29,032 testing responsibility to the meatpacking plants. 1501 01:16:29,067 --> 01:16:32,553 So there's no way we can credibly trace 1502 01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:36,419 the spread of the virus in the last several months. 1503 01:16:36,453 --> 01:16:40,837 It's not clear to me why Tyson or any other meat company 1504 01:16:40,872 --> 01:16:44,082 is now acting as a quasi-public health agency 1505 01:16:44,116 --> 01:16:48,086 and is conducting testing on behalf of the state of Iowa. 1506 01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:50,295 And then it becomes unclear to me 1507 01:16:50,329 --> 01:16:51,952 who owns that information, 1508 01:16:51,986 --> 01:16:54,644 who controls that information, 1509 01:16:54,679 --> 01:16:56,266 and how selective are they 1510 01:16:56,301 --> 01:16:58,165 in the release of that information. 1511 01:17:13,525 --> 01:17:16,045 We were the first ones to actually, like, come to press 1512 01:17:16,079 --> 01:17:19,496 and say a number of Tyson employees tested positive. 1513 01:17:19,531 --> 01:17:23,190 And then there was this dramatic spike of cases in Storm Lake. 1514 01:17:23,224 --> 01:17:26,089 It was just, like, unbelievable. 1515 01:17:26,124 --> 01:17:29,990 We're continuing to report on the numbers as best we can, 1516 01:17:30,024 --> 01:17:33,165 but we never really know the exact count on a given day. 1517 01:17:35,202 --> 01:17:38,101 And that's really incumbent upon the state department of public health 1518 01:17:38,136 --> 01:17:39,896 and the governor's office, of course, 1519 01:17:39,931 --> 01:17:41,518 you know, to enlighten us on that. 1520 01:17:41,553 --> 01:17:43,313 But, you know, they haven't responded 1521 01:17:43,348 --> 01:17:45,626 to a single email of mine. 1522 01:17:45,661 --> 01:17:49,872 Now Storm Lake is the hottest spot in Iowa 1523 01:17:49,906 --> 01:17:52,046 and one of the top ten in the country. 1524 01:17:52,081 --> 01:17:54,290 They decided late last week 1525 01:17:54,324 --> 01:17:56,982 to shut down the Tyson Pork Complex 1526 01:17:57,017 --> 01:17:59,882 for a few days at least for cleaning 1527 01:17:59,916 --> 01:18:01,642 after these test results showed 1528 01:18:01,677 --> 01:18:06,751 that over 20% of the Tyson Pork Plant roster had COVID. 1529 01:18:26,356 --> 01:18:28,048 Come on, Peach. 1530 01:18:29,187 --> 01:18:30,740 Where are you? 1531 01:18:30,775 --> 01:18:32,638 Hey. Come here. 1532 01:18:35,952 --> 01:18:37,782 There's room. There's room. 1533 01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:48,447 "Dear Tom, when James Madison wrote the First Amendment 1534 01:18:48,482 --> 01:18:51,278 "to the Constitution, he had you in mind. 1535 01:18:51,312 --> 01:18:55,558 "The reporter is the cornerstone of an informed electorate 1536 01:18:55,592 --> 01:18:57,802 and a functioning democracy." 1537 01:18:59,873 --> 01:19:02,013 So is it one per house then? 1538 01:19:02,047 --> 01:19:03,842 Yeah. Yep.One of each per house. 1539 01:19:03,877 --> 01:19:08,088 "The best journalism is that which builds communities. 1540 01:19:08,122 --> 01:19:11,712 You build your community by publicizing good deeds done..." 1541 01:19:11,747 --> 01:19:13,300 Hey, guys. 1542 01:19:13,334 --> 01:19:15,647 "...by urging yourself and those around you to do better..." 1543 01:19:15,681 --> 01:19:17,856 Tom!What?! 1544 01:19:17,891 --> 01:19:19,271 How are you?Good. 1545 01:19:19,306 --> 01:19:20,514 Doing good? 1546 01:19:20,548 --> 01:19:22,688 "...and by making certain that your town's issues 1547 01:19:22,723 --> 01:19:24,794 are heard in Des Moines and Washington." 1548 01:19:26,347 --> 01:19:29,488 "Tyranny prevails whenever the press is not free. 1549 01:19:29,523 --> 01:19:30,869 Stand guard." 1550 01:19:35,736 --> 01:19:37,151 Where are you from originally? 1551 01:19:37,186 --> 01:19:40,741 I was actually born in Mexico, in Jalisco.Oh. 1552 01:19:40,776 --> 01:19:42,743 And then, my mother and my two brothers, 1553 01:19:42,778 --> 01:19:44,745 we settled in Storm Lake, Iowa. 1554 01:19:44,780 --> 01:19:45,953 I was one of the first kids 1555 01:19:45,988 --> 01:19:47,541 when the ESL program was getting started. 1556 01:19:47,575 --> 01:19:50,371 "Reporters hold about as much regard 1557 01:19:50,406 --> 01:19:52,477 "as the world's oldest profession. 1558 01:19:52,511 --> 01:19:54,513 "But we are not professionals. 1559 01:19:54,548 --> 01:19:55,825 "Nobody gives us license. 1560 01:19:55,860 --> 01:19:58,000 We draw it from the Constitution." 1561 01:20:00,312 --> 01:20:01,935 None, I did not. 1562 01:20:03,315 --> 01:20:05,662 "All we have is our own credibility, 1563 01:20:05,697 --> 01:20:07,699 "which is called into question 1564 01:20:07,733 --> 01:20:10,598 twice a week in our circumstance." 1565 01:20:10,633 --> 01:20:13,360 So how's business? Uh... 1566 01:20:13,394 --> 01:20:15,500 Is it picking up any? 1567 01:20:17,019 --> 01:20:18,123 Yeah? 1568 01:20:24,854 --> 01:20:26,960 Yeah. I don't know either. 1569 01:20:32,724 --> 01:20:35,175 Right on, sister. 1570 01:20:38,903 --> 01:20:41,181 "Readers decide our future, 1571 01:20:41,215 --> 01:20:43,355 not any branch of government." 1572 01:20:44,563 --> 01:20:45,875 Do you have your press pass? 1573 01:20:45,910 --> 01:20:47,290 Yes, I do. 1574 01:20:47,325 --> 01:20:48,671 Make sure that you have that displayed, okay? 1575 01:20:48,705 --> 01:20:50,052 Okay, will do. 1576 01:20:50,086 --> 01:20:53,089 "If you find writing is a chore after a while, 1577 01:20:53,124 --> 01:20:54,608 "you're in the wrong business. 1578 01:20:54,642 --> 01:20:58,474 "The pay is lousy and the hours can be terrible. 1579 01:20:58,508 --> 01:21:01,373 "But you can change the world through journalism. 1580 01:21:01,408 --> 01:21:05,170 "That's the only good reason to get into this trade. 1581 01:21:05,205 --> 01:21:07,966 "Because when you're looking for a friend, 1582 01:21:08,001 --> 01:21:11,211 "remember that the dog can't read. 1583 01:21:11,245 --> 01:21:16,112 "Love, Dad. 1584 01:21:16,147 --> 01:21:19,081 Is that story done yet?"