During Friday’s episode of The Paul Allen Show on Twin Cities radio station KFAN, Allen, Chad Greenway, and Alec Lewis opened the show discussing the intense cold weather in the region. One person mentioned the recent story about a Los Angeles Rams player putting cayenne in his socks to stay warm, and Allen mentioned the urban legend about trees “exploding” from cold weather.

Umprompted, Allen then interjected by asking, “In conditions like this, do paid protesters get hazard pay? Those are the things that I’ve been thinking about this morning.”

A few minutes later, the conversation switched to football, and Allen once again worked a paid-protester reference into a discussion about NFL coaching hires.

“Everybody’s catching strays this week. [Brian] Flores, Kevin Stefanski from Baker [Mayfield], Charlie ‘Biyatch’ caught one out of nowhere. They’re just all over, paid protesters caught one this morning,” he said, referencing his earlier comments.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 days ago

    I’m saying it’d make a fine retort to turn it around & point out protesters would be fools to turn down payment.

    I dunno that I deserve to be paid just for showing up and flipping a few birdies at assholes.

    We’d definitely take any payment offered though, right?

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      5 days ago

      I mean, I… would much rather the money be spent on legal aid funds or something… if they even had the kind of money to pay us. 18k protestors last friday. even just a 5 dollar giftcardis $90,000.

      The food and coffee and stuff were pretty much donated, lol. (shout out to misfit coffee for anyone in the area. They didn’t close. They were still open. but they were handing out free coffee to protestors.)