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I'm sorry, we're--
we're on deadline.

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We're ready to put
it on the page,

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so, yeah, I appreciate
that, thanks.

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Mm-hmm, bye.

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Dolores, this press release
is coming at you,

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from the police,
about the building.

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Tom, could you
come here a sec?Sure.

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They added this
to the lede.

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I think we've got
to tell the readers

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what the hell is going
on here, okay?

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Thank you.No problem.

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The Times.

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Mmm, we're on deadline
so I'll see if he's available.

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Art, are you available for
Gary Lipshutz in Sioux City?

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No.

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He actually is a little
bit busy at the moment.

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Could you maybe try
back this afternoon?

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What time is it, 9:35?

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Is the building
story done, Dolores?

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I'm still doing it.

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When that clock hits 10:00,
I'm gonna start going apeshit.

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I get real uptight
about deadlines.

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Every hour we're late,
it costs us a hundred bucks.

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You know, get all amped up
twice a week.

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Snapping at family
members, and you know,

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it never works out
well later.

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You know, Jesus, you've been
doing this for 40 years

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and people still don't
know what time it is.

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By today's standards
"The Storm Lake Times"

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has cause to celebrate,
holding steady

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in our annual report that
we published on Friday.

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We've always operated
at the break-even point.

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One year we post a small profit,
the next a small loss.

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Seven dollars.

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Through three decades
we have persevered

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thanks primarily to your
support, our family of readers.

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A lot of people
disagree with him,

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but they sure
read the paper.

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I think it gets people
to become more open-minded.

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At least that's what I hope.

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"The Storm Lake Times" weaves

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the fabric of the community
in large ways and small.

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We're working hard as ever
covering the City Council,

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The School Board, Board of
Supervisors in the court house.

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Do you feel comfortable
saying, uh,

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if it's going
to trial or not?

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Oh, we're going
to trial.
Okay.

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Son Tom Cullen, our reporter,
lives the job.

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Come on!
Come here.

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My wife, Dolores Cullen,
is everywhere with Peach

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the Newshound
and the Times-mobile.

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This is Ice Out Day,

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the day when all the ice melts.

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My sister-in-law, Mary Cullen,
is hunting recipe features.

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Isn't that pretty?
What are the health

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benefits of cooking
low-salt?

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A pretty good rule
is that an Iowa town

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will be about as strong
as its newspaper and its banks.

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And without strong local
journalism to tell

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a community story, the fabric
of the place becomes frayed.

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The news pages are the heart
of the newspaper,

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and editorial pages
the soul.

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My brother, fearless leader
John Cullen,

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founded the newspaper
in 1990 with the belief

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that honest reporting
would attract a crowd.

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It has.

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It's a great moment.

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Thank you.
Thanks, again.

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Tom, stand up.
Give me a hug.

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Now we need to grow that crowd
to sustain our mission,

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and again humbly
ask your support

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as we did nearly
30 years ago.

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Tom?
Police reports done?

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They're done.
Thank you.

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We will always try
to be worthy of it.

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No, no, haven't
fed her, nothing.

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All right.
I've been
completely negligent.

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Oh, it's still
early.

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In the old days of lead type,
editors would, uh,

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lock up pages of lines of type.
They'd lock them up,

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uh, in what we called a chase.

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And if you were
wearing a long tie,

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you could lock your tie into
the, uh, into the chase, so...

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So editors
wore bow ties.

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I don't have
enough butter.

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You always
got lard.
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You took
all the butter.

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I took all
the butter, right.

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The small Iowa town
of Storm Lake is where

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some of the Democrats running
for president will be speaking.

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It's the first major
multi-candidate event

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of the campaign so far.

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Part of the appeal is to be
onstage with the town's

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Pulitzer Prize-winning
newspaper editor.

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Art Cullen, the lanky
white-haired editor

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of "The Storm Lake Times" walks
across a downtown street.

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Plenty of Democrats
running for president

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want to be seen with Art.

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So it kind of tells me who
really cares about rural Iowa.

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And if you ain't there,
you're square.

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Welcome to all
of you to Storm Lake,

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The City Beautiful,
and Buena Vista University.

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I'm Art Cullen, editor
of "The Storm Lake Times."

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And I'd like to introduce
our first guest.

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And we're very thankful
that Senator Elizabeth Warren

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from Massachusetts can be here.

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Thank you, Senator.
Thank you.

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Farm income is down
by half since 2013.
Yup.

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What can we do to provide
immediate farm income relief

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in what is quickly
becoming an emergency?

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A generation ago,
37 cents out of every

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food dollar went
into a farmer's pocket.

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Today it's 15 cents.

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And one of the
principal reasons for that

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has been concentration
in agribusiness.

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So I want to see enforcement
of our antitrust laws.

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I've called for the breakup
of these agribusinesses.

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Two-thirds of Iowa's
99 counties, all rural,

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are declining
in population.

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How can we ease
the transition of immigrants

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into rural areas
to rejuvenate them?

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I'm very proud of the story
of Storm Lake in many ways.

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You all have shown the value
of the immigrant community.

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I never thought before this
campaign that I would get

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great Mexican food in Iowa,
but I have.

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Take a couple of minutes and
just tell us why you're running

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for president and what
your campaign's all about.

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Well, first of all,
it is wonderful to be here.

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And as you know,
I'm your senator next door.

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I can see Iowa
from my porch.

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What'd you think, Whitney?
Did you enjoy that?

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The forum thing?Yeah.

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Tom, you're going to write
a lead story on the forum

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and then make, what,
a sidebar on Vilsack, or--

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Yeah.
Or are you just
working him into...

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Yeah.
Love the cowboy shirt.

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Don't ask
where I got it.

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Where'd you get it?Uh, just don't ask.

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Uh...
Some dead guy, or...

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Yeah, it was
an estate sale.

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Yeah, okay, all right.

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Well, anyway, uh,
Vilsack sidebar...Yeah.

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And, uh, the forum
for the front.
Yep, yep.

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Okay.

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I have this, uh, listing

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of when Ice Out Day
was since 1975.

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We kind of fell off the wagon
and stopped keeping track

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of Ice Out Day since 2012.

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Now with all this talk about
climate, now there's

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kind of like, oh, well, maybe
this is more interesting

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than we used to think.

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Some of these
were already signed.

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Paying some bills today.
Gotta pay the garbage man

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and the rug man and...
the printer man.

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Hey, John?

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All the
fun stuff.

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Would you mind coming
over here a sec?

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I'm just laying out
the front page here,

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and of course the big story
for this issue is the forum

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with the five
presidential candidates.

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Each image needs
about the same weight

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so no candidate can say,
you know, I wasn't fair to them.

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It looks good
to me, yeah.Thank you.

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John's taught me everything
I know about photography.

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He taught me about
how to use pictures.

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He taught me all about graphics.

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And he's got a great eye.

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How's that forum
story coming?

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Good.
Just a sec.

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Ice Out, two pictures
and a story, it's all done.

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Okay then.

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Oh, there they are.

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I left Storm Lake.
I graduated from high school

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here and left and shook
the shit off my boots

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and never wanted
to look back.

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But my brother John
started this newspaper,

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so I came back because
I was sick of working

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for corporate newspapers
without a soul.

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And, uh, it was a great move.

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We did that
presidential forum,

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but that's not the reason
we get up in the morning.

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Most people in Storm Lake
care a lot more about

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whether garbage
is getting picked up

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than whether, uh,
Elizabeth Warren is in town.

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So when it comes to news,
our motto is if it didn't happen

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in Buena Vista County,
it didn't happen.

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We're about an hour
and a half drive

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from the Minnesota border,
halfway between

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Fort Dodge and Sioux City.

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We are the county seat
of Buena Vista county.

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I was born in 1957.

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Storm Lake was a lily-white
Republican town.

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And we had one Jewish family
and one Black person.

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In the '90s immigrants populated
Storm Lake and turned it blue.

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But the rest of the county
drowns out that Storm Lake vote.

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And so it's very much like
a microcosm of the nation.

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It's important to know

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who had a baby
and who died

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in a community of ten
to fifteen thousand people.

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That's important
in this community,

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to know who's getting
married and buried.

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And it's important to know what
the city council is up to.

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So I think it is important
to have real news.

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I'm still old-fashioned enough
to believe in the wisdom

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of Thomas Jefferson
and the First Amendment.

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Maybe a quaint idea these days.

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But the question is,

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you know, how long does
a community support journalism?

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And it appears to me that

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whether it's Storm Lake
or Buffalo Center,

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people aren't supporting
journalism like they did.

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35 in and 23 out...

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Okey-doke.
...for the Times.

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The last I knew,
there were about

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300 news deserts
in the United States.

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And these are towns with twenty
or thirty thousand people

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that are now without
a local news source.

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You could say, well,
they can get their news

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from the metro paper,
but these metro papers

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don't cover those
communities anymore.

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When I started out in this
business, there were newspapers

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so fat you could
barely lift them.

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Now there's
no newspaper at all.

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You've got to have
a strong business model

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to do good journalism.

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The problem is that
the business model

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is falling apart and, uh...

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Uh, and also, rural
communities are a lot weaker

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now than they used to be.

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And that makes rural
newspapers weaker.

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A lot of the mom and pop
stores that were

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the basis of our
advertising are gone.

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The small-town feed dealers
and businesses that catered

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to farmers, which is our base
here, they're gone because,

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the family farms are going,
and they're being taken over

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by big corporate livestock
operations which either have

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their own feed mills or they buy
direct from the manufacturer.

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So they don't need Bob and
Sally's feed store anymore.

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And Bob and
Sally's feed store

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then doesn't need
"The Storm Lake Times."

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So somehow we've
got to increase

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the number of readers.

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If you don't have readers,
you've got nothing.

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But now people want
to get their news for free,

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because apparently looking
at their breakfast on Facebook

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is all the information
they need to live

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as an informed
voter in America.

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And that's not how you
sustain a democracy, you know?

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You need people who can talk
about facts and deal in facts.

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And that Iowa is getting
warmer and wetter

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through the decades,
those are facts.

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That's what we're here for.

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And people have said, "Oh, well,
that's not worth a dollar."

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Chelsea, right?

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00:16:04,756 --> 00:16:05,999
Yes.
Uh, I'm Tom Cullen

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with the Times
at Storm Lake.
Hi.

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And it's my understanding you
had some material for the media?

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If you have your card,
I can email you and make

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sure that we get you that
information that has

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all the speakers
and their bios and...

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00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:17,010
Thank you so much,
really appreciate it.Yeah, you're welcome.

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Joe Catera,
how's it going?

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Okay, welcome, are you ready
to stand with me today?

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Are you ready?

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Let me know if you're ready
to work with me today,

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because all about what
we're doing today is going

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to be about how hard
we will work together

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to move our issues forward.

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Our farm and rural communities
are in crisis mode right now.

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We're fed up
with multinational

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corporations
extracting our wealth.

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If you wonder why our cities
and towns are being

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hollowed out, you know, when
you understand the largest

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owner of beef, poultry,
and pork in this country

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is a foreign corporation
extracting wealth,

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taking opportunities
out of rural communities.

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We need to protect
our natural resources.

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Believe it or not, we're not
the last generation
that's going

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to live on this land, you know,
so it's time for a change.

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So thank you all very much
for coming, thank you.

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Hi, Emmanuel.
This is Dolores Cullen

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at "The Storm Lake Times."

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Can you call me back
today so we can talk

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about your, uh,
talent show experience?

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00:17:18,106 --> 00:17:21,557
Thank you, bye.

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Emmanuel Trujillo,
the guy who tipped me off,

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sent me a thing last night.

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And so I looked it up online,
and he seems to be advancing

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in this show called
"Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento."

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00:17:37,401 --> 00:17:40,059
And so I looked at the video...

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This is a Storm Lake guy

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who works at Tyson and...

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It looks like they like him.

298
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Well, hey, Emmanuel.

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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.

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This is really good for
our community when we have,

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like, happy stories
about all types of people.

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We're all about happy.

311
00:18:35,010 --> 00:18:37,909
That's my...
That's my beat, Art.

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You're on
the happy beat.
Yeah.

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Hello.
Come in.

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My name's Dolores.

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And I am here
to see Emmanuel.

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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!

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I'm Elena.
Oh, great.

319
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And then this
is your daughter.
Yeah.

320
00:18:57,791 --> 00:18:59,966
Okay.
Hi!

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You're a singing star.

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00:19:01,485 --> 00:19:02,658
Yep!

323
00:19:02,693 --> 00:19:03,866
Congratulations

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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.

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And they were doing things

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like this, uh, feature stories

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00:20:01,579 --> 00:20:06,101
about a family that had,
um, seventeen children.

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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

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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.

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00:20:35,993 --> 00:20:38,892
And I was usually told
by Art that, you know,

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if something is interesting,
go ahead and report it.

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00:20:42,620 --> 00:20:48,488
And this, uh, we were covering
how, uh, local people

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were teaching English
to newcomers

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00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:53,079
who did not speak English.

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00:20:53,113 --> 00:20:55,564
And these were
Sudanese people.

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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--

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00:21:04,849 --> 00:21:07,887
from someone who said, "Oh, why
is she on the front page?"

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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.

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00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,964
I mean, there was
kind of blatant racism.

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00:21:15,998 --> 00:21:22,350
Uh, so then Julio Barroso was
featured, uh, back in 1996

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00:21:23,834 --> 00:21:28,321
as being a kid who helped
other kids learn English.

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00:21:28,356 --> 00:21:32,187
And there was a raid of
the meatpacking plant.

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00:21:32,221 --> 00:21:33,844
And then in the following issue

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00:21:33,878 --> 00:21:36,881
it was reported
that Julio is gone.

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00:21:36,916 --> 00:21:39,884
8-year-old deported
with parents.

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00:21:39,919 --> 00:21:44,130
Since we do these feature
stories, we get to know people,

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00:21:44,164 --> 00:21:47,513
but they're not just, like,
anonymous immigrants.

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00:21:47,547 --> 00:21:51,344
This is a kid that
we think is awesome and cute.

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00:21:51,379 --> 00:21:53,933
So then the next day
when we find out

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00:21:53,967 --> 00:21:58,627
that they were kicked out
of the U.S., uh, we cared.

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00:21:58,662 --> 00:22:03,632
And so then later
we were asking, you know,

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00:22:03,667 --> 00:22:05,738
whatever happened to Julio?

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00:22:05,772 --> 00:22:10,259
And that's where Tom started
doing this investigating,

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00:22:10,294 --> 00:22:15,126
and we actually found him
in Mexico

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00:22:15,161 --> 00:22:17,646
as a young adult today.

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00:22:21,857 --> 00:22:26,379
A little boy from 22 years ago
was top of mind last Thursday.

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00:22:26,414 --> 00:22:28,588
Julio Barroso.

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00:22:28,623 --> 00:22:32,178
In 1996, the world changed
for Julio,

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00:22:32,212 --> 00:22:35,561
then in second grade
at North School.

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00:22:35,595 --> 00:22:39,737
The immigration agents swooped
in on IBP, predecessor to Tyson,

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00:22:39,772 --> 00:22:43,465
and rounded up scores of
undocumented immigrants.

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00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:46,019
Barroso's family was among them.

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00:22:46,054 --> 00:22:50,403
Julio, now 30 years old, is
married and the father of three,

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00:22:50,438 --> 00:22:52,647
working in Guadalajara, Mexico

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00:22:52,681 --> 00:22:57,445
for one-tenth the $18 per hour
he could get in Storm Lake.

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00:22:57,479 --> 00:22:59,550
A dream is foreclosed.

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00:23:01,828 --> 00:23:05,280
In our lush, green town
of 15,000 or so--

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00:23:05,314 --> 00:23:07,247
we don't know
our exact population

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00:23:07,282 --> 00:23:08,973
because so many are immigrants.

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00:23:11,113 --> 00:23:12,874
Nestled among the row crops

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00:23:12,908 --> 00:23:15,014
and hog houses
at Northwest Iowa,

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00:23:15,048 --> 00:23:19,708
2,200 workers cut up pigs
and turkeys for Tyson.

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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.

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00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:30,098
Hundreds more distill
ethanol from corn.

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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--

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00:23:34,585 --> 00:23:36,138
are worrying not just about jobs

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00:23:36,173 --> 00:23:39,970
but also about their lives
in Trump's America.

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00:23:40,004 --> 00:23:43,629
Even those with papers will tell
you they feel a little edgy.

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00:23:45,113 --> 00:23:48,012
Dreamers are our vitality,
our future.

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00:23:48,047 --> 00:23:49,945
They want to stay here
with family,

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00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:53,466
unlike so many of us who push
our children off to Chicago

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00:23:53,501 --> 00:23:54,674
or the Twin Cities.

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00:23:54,709 --> 00:23:56,711
And we all wish that Julio

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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.

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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.

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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?"