Mandan

I don't know if it still is or not, but there may be one or two left as well.

Okay, and then we've got Mandan as well.

Yeah, Mandan, that's another one.

What is Mandan? Is it just a bunch of money added anyone can enter, or is it a qualification for

that? I think they took, I'd have to look and see.

Last I knew, I knew last year they took like $30,000.

We got like Albuquerque and a few others, but kind of the major rodeos.

We got Pendleton this week.

We're seeing the construction at that rapid pace of the applied digital infrastructure.

But I've noticed Mandan, over 600 people.

Castleton last night, over 300 people.

I mean, they're packing these auditoriums because there is questions, there's concerns, and you're out there at least having the conversation.

You get some, you know, got the Governor's Cup.

You got a $60,000 one-header in Mandan, North Dakota.

Um, you know, I mean, there's so many good...

Uh, Puyallup's added good money.

So, um, we got Puyallup this week.

Next week starts Pendleton, and then we'll have to go to Mandan, North Dakota also next week.

And then come the next, the following week I go to, uh, I think I'm gonna go to Amarillo.

I got one extra rodeo on Travis, so he gets, he gets to unofficial that one, and I'll go to Amarillo Governor's Cup, and then end it right there in, uh, Stephenville, h- at old 377 Arena.

Like, that's gonna supercharge propaganda." And there's, you know, I've...

[laughs] Speaking of Facebook, there, I follow some Facebook pages in Bismarck and Mandan, which are, you know, these twin cities that, very small cities that are pretty close to the Standing Rock Reservation.

And even there, you know, local people who probably hated these protests, they were part of probably, like, among the targets of this propaganda we're talking about, um, are kind of up in arms because there's a data center, according to Facebook, I'm not, I don't know, that i- is being proposed in that area.

So-

You know, they, they saw very clearly, in part because they had this, like, counterinsurgency background, that this was something that they needed to counteract.

And yeah, I think, um, the fact of Trump too, beyond...

I've, I spoke to a fair amount of local people in, you know, in both Bismarck, Mandan, Morton County, which are North Dakota, and, and folks in Iowa, because there was, some of this propaganda was aimed at the anti-pipeline movement in Iowa.

And people, like, on their own say, well, you know, this was 2016, 2017, so it was the moment of Make America Great Again.

When you're tasked with collecting rent, enforcing rules, and maintaining appliances at over 500 apartments, condos, and mobile homes, you're bound to catch some shit.

Property owners paid RJR, based in Mandan, North Dakota, to do the jobs they didn't want to do.

Not surprisingly, company employees were more likely to be greeted with, what the hell do you want? Or what took you so long? Versus, it's nice to see you, or I appreciate you coming out.

Some days, it felt like everywhere they went, it seemed they had targets on their back.

Owner Robert Fokler and three employees, Bill Cobb, Lois Cobb, and Adam Fuhrer.

Seven years later, the question remains, why did this happen? This is Jamie, and you're listening to Murderish.

Join me as I examine the shocking 2019 Mandan murders, get to know some of the victims, and explore what could have been the motive for such a heinous crime.

Mandan sits on the western banks of the Missouri River, near one of North Dakota's few population centers.