Chapter 1: What is the main issue with ICE in Minneapolis?
Hey, everybody. I'm pretty sure that's a copyrighted thing. I don't think you can use that. I tried my best. I'm just glad that it says, oh, that's rich on the screen. I was worried I was going to have to beat him all day. And that's just, that's a tough job. You have to get over for that.
grayer for sure you got some gray but you're not there yet quite a bit older the hair that i do have is a lot less white um than tim fuck it you gotta go bald man it's true before i get to tim i'm gonna i'm gonna go bald um anyway if people haven't figured out by now they're listening and they're like what is happening right now um This is Rich, and I am your host today. I'm filling in for Tim.
He had to miss the episode. I think he told us, but I immediately forgot. I think he had to get a colonoscopy or something like that. Yeah, some invasive medical procedure, I think. Right, right. I think there was a fiber convention in Maine, and so he had to go to the fiber convention. I'm not sure. One of those things. Sounds about right.
Sounds about right. Violating his HIPAA rights somehow here.
Was I not allowed to share that?
He's been backed up for a week. We'll find out.
Anyway, I'm going to do my best here. But I will start by saying we have an awesome guest with us today. I'm just going to read what I wrote. So if I'm not looking at the camera, don't hold it against me. So she's a content creator. You probably know from Instagram, if not a lot of different places. She covers a lot of topics.
But I think for me, her most recognizable videos are these videos where she plays two parts. And one is a sane person. And the other is like it seems like I'm like a MAGA relative who just magically appears in her house and is usually eating something out of her fridge. And she's like, what the fuck is going on right now? And then they'll just say something dumb.
And she has to like sort of she gets this like, oh, God, look on her face. And then she has to sort of like carefully disassemble and refute the argument. And by the end of the video, you're like, oh, maybe there's hope for for America.
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Chapter 2: How has Anna's upbringing influenced her perspective?
That's how I want to be introduced from now on. i can do that too drink like seven red bulls and then just scream oh my god yeah oh yeah that's that's how i feel most days i don't even need the red bull i'm like let's just start screaming no wake up at 4 a.m the news for like 12 just wake up you're like i'm ready So, Anna, I wanted to ask you first, what is Minneapolis-St. Paul like these days?
Have things calmed down now that there's only 2,300 ICE agents, or is it... Right, yeah, yeah.
It's just, it's so calm now, only 2,300. It's weird. So, I get this question a lot, and I live in a, like, right on the edge of the suburb. So, Minneapolis is one block that way. And... If I go west, further from Minneapolis, it's like nothing is really happening, right? Like ice is not out there.
But the vibe, the attitudes, everything, everybody's just like, it feels like pandemic, honestly, again, where you're kind of like, just, I don't know, weird vibes is how I would say it. But my daughter, I have a four-year-old, she goes to Spanish Immersion. So I'm still very much like in it. We see, you know, the just...
heartbreak every day right where teachers are being detained or their spouses or whomever and it's just like constant news um in our daycare and pretty much all daycare schools around here have you know parent volunteers who are like protecting the school during the day and it's just fucking insane um So, yeah. So I would say it's really based on where you are.
You could be in a neighborhood where you're like, everything's normal. Like, I don't see any of this versus you're in a neighborhood where you're literally seeing ice running through your yard, you know, chasing people.
So Jesus Christ, that's what is it? What does a parent protector have to do? Like, what are their responsibilities?
So our volunteers, it's literally just watching, right? They have like their vests and they have their whistles, whatever, and they're just ready to call and get everyone inside immediately. There's, I can't remember if it's Brooklyn Park or Brooklyn Center, but in a suburb,
where if you guys saw the news article about two women were detained and they ended up saving one of the agents because he was having a seizure. Did you see this?
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Chapter 3: What challenges do parents face regarding ICE in their community?
It reminds me, this is going to sound super morbid, but when there's a school shooting, you'll read articles of like the parents who go for weeks after just kind of like sit at their kid's school. Cause they're like, I'm just going to sit here in my car and make sure nothing happens.
And it's like, that's what we're seeing is parents will just sit there and be like, I'm just gonna make sure everything's okay. So.
Yeah. Except this time it's not random serial killers. It's the government.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just so interesting too, because like, it's not the right, the national narrative is like, we're aware of this stuff, but only you guys are really embedded in it. And that's such a different experience. I'm sure just like America must feel like a totally different country compared to where Rich and I are, you know?
Yeah, totally.
That's like, it's terrifying. That's the kind of thing, that's where I get really worried about like the fascist sort of stuff because they slowly bleed it in until it's everywhere, you know? And it feels like this is one of the first entry points they're using.
I think that's totally it. And I think that's a huge fear with with Minnesota that I've heard other people say is don't look away. Right. It's the same thing with George Floyd protests when we were all like all eyes on Minnesota. You know, we're very good at protesting, even in negative 45 degrees.
So it's one of those where you're just like, you know, we can't have the news pull out because suddenly they could do anything in here.
I mean, is it because I wonder about this is ice like it's just like ice agents like wandering around like they just like at the grocery store shopping and then all of a sudden they pop out and just start doing their job or there's like really hidden and they just pop out. Like what's the vibe like with that?
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Chapter 4: What responsibilities do parent protectors have against ICE?
So having that in the back of our minds, we're like, OK, we've already done this before. Let's do it again. Yeah. Why would you want to fuck with those people?
I don't know. Hey, Luke's back. Your Internet's alive again now. Just for everybody not watching. We're like, hey, what did we say?
He's back.
You missed some crazy stuff.
Greg Bovino's behind Luke's house cutting cables. Don't talk about me. I hate Greg Bovino. He's like Stephen Miller level horrendous. Fun-sized dickhead. I got to make sure everyone knows that. Fun-sized dickhead, that's what. Maybe that was the badge that was on his Nazi jacket as he was walking. Most likely.
I read that supposedly all the people that accompanied him have to be 5'7 or shorter so he doesn't look so short.
No way. Hilarious.
It's like in his rider like concert. It's in his rider. Nazi rider.
He's like a bowl of Skittles and no one can be taller than me.
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Chapter 5: What experiences have teachers faced with ICE in Minneapolis?
It's just idiots who message me and I'm like, thank you. This is great for my business. So those are easier. But yeah, the editing for the longer ones and like, I don't know if you guys are familiar with the misinformation ones. Those are like a fan favorite and I love them, but they take so long to make because as soon as you add a third character, it's so much harder.
Yeah.
so this is the interesting thing about like interviewing content creators for me is like you do so much fucking work and my dumb ass just walks out to my car and like the my best videos have no script whatsoever yeah that's true that sounds like so much work too like i'll record something in my car you know and it gets millions of views and i'm like well why did i spend eight hours editing that other
My after the fucking bitch comment. Oh, yeah. I was so pissed. I was walking my dog around a track at the school down the street and I was so fucking angry and I had already posted a video that day and I was like, I don't. I don't need to do another video, but like, I'm so fucking angry that he called her a fucking bitch.
Cause that was the day that that audio was leaked and they fucking leaked it. Cause they vindicated them. I'm like, dude. Yeah. And so, um, yeah, I script everything. Um, but it was like, I think I got 70 seconds of being angry, uh, And I can just go and I started recording. And then of course that one got, you know, several million views.
And the one I posted earlier that day that I'd scripted out and worked on really hard was like 50,000 or a hundred thousand or whatever.
Always. Or it's the ones where I'm like, I don't like, like, I'm not a huge fan of this one. Do I really want to post this? Yeah, exactly. Like, I don't really want to post this. And suddenly it's just huge. I'm like, oh, OK, well, I have terrible taste.
That's how it is when I have one that's like, that's a little controversial. Do I want to post that? And then I do it. And then I was like, oh, shit. Well, it's out there now.
Yeah, it's impossible to tell. I've never called it right, I think. Every single time I post, I'm like, oh, this is going to be great. It sucks.
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Chapter 6: How does Anna address the emotional impact of ICE actions?
They controlled everything. We're not going to print the newspapers like that. Right. Right. And that was the only way you got the news was like, did somebody bring it to your doorstep? Now you open your phone and you can't not see somebody get murdered when they get murdered. And that was that. So that day, Charlie Kirk got shot.
It was literally like the first thing on every single one of my feeds is like, of course. And that's that's even on platforms where it was definitely against TOS. Like I saw that shit on tick tock.
That's that's so fast that nobody could even control it. And you're like, oh, my God, I jumped on my stories. And I was like, warning everybody, like, do not you know, if you're like a very sensitive person, especially with visuals like that will stick with me. And as soon as I saw it, I was like, oh, my God.
unsee unsee oh my god this is awful bleach for the eyes yep I got it while I was driving and like my buddy just texted me with no context and he's like just look and I'm like what it's Charlie Kirk oh my god and it's just like okay I'm gonna remember that for fucking ever holy shit the gratuitous violence
Yeah, the gratuitous violence in that video in particular, it was so obscene. I thought it was fake. I was sure that like, yes, he obviously he had been shot. But I thought somebody made an AI video because like that's a perfect opportunity to have a bullshit go viral. Misinformation spreads really fast in that environment. But I didn't know that that happened to a body when.
Well, that was it was a surreal experience. I had thought the same thing. And I actually was like talking to my mom that night. And she works in healthcare and she was like, nope, that was 100% real. Like that was exactly what it looks like. And I was like, holy shit.
So scary. You know what it reminds me? This is going to be such a side tangent. Have you guys watched Blades of Glory anytime in the last 20 years?
Yeah.
Okay, I watched it the other day. It really holds up. But in that scene when they show the like move they're supposed to do and the skater gets decapitated and it's like an AI like version. That's what it felt like.
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Chapter 7: What are the broader implications of ICE's actions on society?
I mean, we all do. Right. You see that stuff. And the next time you see it, you're like, oh, that wasn't as bad as.
one before exactly like i know the method that you're supposed to do like what the military does to avoid ptsd which like you're supposed to play tetris something with flashing repetitive lights and they they literally make people play tetris after they've been in traumatic experiences in the military really clinically proven to reduce ptsd i love tetris i know right i literally played so much tetris after i watched all three of those videos
Maybe that's why none of us have PTSD after 2025. We're all playing our Tetris. If in like 40 years, there's another like orange guy who comes up, I'm going to be itching. I'm going to be gone. No, uh, I didn't expect that topic to come up, but I saw a therapist like in the middle of COVID, you know, parenting, working from home, hoping your kids don't die because there's a new virus.
That was a stressful time. It turned out. Really? But the therapist.
Rich, how old were your kids during COVID?
Oh, Jesus. So when it hit, my son was two and a half and we thought he maybe maybe had asthma and we had and there was no data because there's a lot of asthma in the family. He doesn't, it turns out. But at the time, you know, there was no data on anything. And so we didn't know if like asthmatic people were, you know, if that was a comorbidity or something. And there was, of course, no vaccine.
There was not even a horizon for a vaccine the first year. And he was in daycare full time. My wife and I both work. And my daughter was she's four years older. So she's she would have been like six and a half. Yeah. And so we did. Yeah. Yeah. And most of us got the vaccine before we ever got it.
But he did finally get Omicron right when it came out, like two days after going back to daycare after Christmas break. January of 2021 I think it was when Omicron was on the tear and or 2022 maybe anyway and he was fine he had a high fever but it was kind of a miracle not a miracle but it worked out.
But the, the therapist told us or told me this trick where you like, it's because there's like PTSD is unresolved trauma and, and Tetris, I think because it's like compartmentalizing, it helps your brain actually resolve unresolved things that have been just hanging out there. And so there's this like alternating padding thing that you do and you can move your eyes back and forth.
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Chapter 8: How can community members effectively respond to ICE policies?
So that's usually needs to be more than that. So you must be really good at it.
I'm, I'm, I'm really good at everything. He's the best. And I want, that was a long intro discussion.
Yeah.
still in the intro three minutes left to process the rest of reality no um i did want to ask you because your your videos you have this really well established sort of back and forth between these like maga relatives i think you even mentioned like a maga muse or like a republican muse in one of your so clearly you have real subjects in your life what i want to hear about is like
How did this come to be in your head? Like, I think all of us, we all have, everybody's got somebody MAGA in their family, right? What were your first memories of experiencing people who were like, what the fuck is wrong with their brain? And how do I like bridge the gap with that person?
That's a great question. I think so. I grew up in I grew up a lot of places. I moved around a lot, but high school in Rochester, Minnesota. And so I always tell people that's where the Mayo Clinic is. It's this weird two worlds where you have like rural Minnesota versus like top scientists in the world. And so thankfully, I did not go to high school or college during this time. Right.
Because I truly cannot imagine what kids are going through these days.
Right.
it was hard enough, you know, with like, Obama days, and just wondering, yeah, what was going on in people's minds. And like, it just felt so much more actual politics back then, right? People are like, I'm fiscally conservative. And you're like, well, that makes sense.
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