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Speaker 1: going to vote for Trump. They're gone, They're dead. They

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Speaker 1: They've become Democrats. Now the issue is only Trump voters.

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Speaker 1: It is people who have come into the Maga Trump

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Speaker 1: voters for Kamala Harris voted overwhelmingly for Susan Crawford. Crawford

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Speaker 1: got sixty two percent of Trump's voters. That's still an

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Speaker 1: incredible percentage, but it's not enough. You need to give

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Speaker 1: just like Trump gave them a reason to vote for him.

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Speaker 1: We named the Unhinged Liberal of the Day when the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show returns classical conservatism and contemporary style. Welcome

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Speaker 1: isn't to say, folks, if you've been listening to the

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Speaker 1: In fact, they very much can. It's just a lot

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Speaker 1: more difficult than it was. I'm not saying Wisconsin is

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Speaker 1: no longer a purple state. It is, but the data

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Speaker 1: they just have to go to downtown Milwaukee and hand

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Speaker 1: Republicans had the voters who would show up in every

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Speaker 1: single election. They were the high propensity voters. Republicans in

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Speaker 1: year after year after year after year. The only statewide

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Speaker 1: Secretary of State Douglas Folla just always got himself re elected,

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Speaker 1: and of course state superintendent, which the teachers' unions have

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Speaker 1: governor's races as well as in Supreme court races, conservatives

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Speaker 1: did very well. There has been a seismic shift in

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Speaker 1: the era of Trump in that sense. Trump has been

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Speaker 1: a truly you rarely get these sorts of political figures.

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Speaker 1: Reagan was one. Trump is one, a truly transformative figure

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Speaker 1: who completely remakes the American electorate. Well, in a swing

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Speaker 1: state like Wisconsin, that is going to be even more

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Speaker 1: acutely felt, especially since, let's face it, we all know

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Speaker 1: to see the sun. For about three months. We've been

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Speaker 1: enjoying probably the best fall we've had in years, but

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Speaker 1: that only means that January is going to see six

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Speaker 1: high tax burden, and Florida does not, and it's a

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Speaker 1: far better run state with a far better climate. People

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the clock right now realizing we're

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Speaker 1: going to have to postpone the unhinged liberal of the day.

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Speaker 1: Have no fear. We'll get to that and much more,

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Speaker 1: including your daily Trump Date, next Conservative Thought, Not just talk.

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Speaker 1: It is the Dan O'Donnell Show. Welcome back to it.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to have some fun this evening. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be at the Ingles Side Hotel along with former

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Speaker 1: Governor and current president of the Young America's Foundation, Scott Walker.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be doing a fireside chat courtesy of

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin for a great organization. They do great work.

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Speaker 1: They always try to have me do a talk. We

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Speaker 1: last year for one of these. Governor Walker is in

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Speaker 1: going to have a lot of fun. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be a fireside chat. We're going to talk about you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to I'm going to talk to

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Speaker 1: some of the challenges that conservatives and Republicans now face

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Speaker 1: that they did in Walker's day. But the Walker Coalition

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Speaker 1: to be talking about that. We're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: talking about what he's seen in the Young America's foundation

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Speaker 1: in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the

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Speaker 1: the government shut down, and much much more. Really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that tonight. Ingleside Hotel seven o clock. The

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Speaker 4: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 4: of winning.

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Speaker 1: Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 1: It's also a big win for the United States. We

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Speaker 1: have to keep winning. We have to win more. We're

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Speaker 1: declaring war on drug cartels, and not just Venezuelan drug cartels. This,

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Speaker 5: Urban says, based upon the cumulative effects of these hostile

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Speaker 5: and friendly foreign nations, the President is determined that the

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Speaker 5: of armed conflict. And the President just talked about this

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Speaker 6: If you try to poison our people, we will blow

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Speaker 1: Because that's the only language they really understand. That's why

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Speaker 1: you don't see any more boats on the ocean.

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Speaker 3: You don't see any boats around Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing, and it's.

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Speaker 5: Not just Venezuela. The President's team is putting out the

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Speaker 1: Now, this comes just a couple of weeks after President

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Speaker 1: down for a second straight day. White House Press Secretary

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Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt went on Fox News earlier today to place

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Speaker 1: the blame for it again squarely on Democrats, who, she says, yes,

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Speaker 1: despite their protestations to the contrary, absolutely do want medicaid

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Speaker 1: for illegal.

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Speaker 7: I have the Democrat proposed continuing resolution right here where

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Speaker 1: Bill to ensure that illegal.

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Speaker 7: Aliens in our country cannot receive Medicaid and taxpayer funded

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Speaker 7: They completely abused our immigration system, and then those illegal

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Speaker 1: We will get into that in greater depth than just

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Speaker 1: that yes, Democrats do want healthcare Medicaid coverage for illegals,

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Speaker 1: and we will get into just how illegal aliens make

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Speaker 1: But it's not just that. We'll get into that in

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Speaker 1: just one second now. On Fox, anchor Bill Hemmer asked

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Speaker 1: Levitt about President Trump on Truth Social this morning, saying

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Speaker 1: that he is meeting with OMB Director Russ Vote to

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Speaker 1: is that a negotiating tactic.

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Speaker 8: Oh, it's very real.

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Speaker 7: And the Democrats should know that they put the White

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Speaker 7: they need to reopen the government. It's very simple. Past

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Speaker 7: We would not be having these discussions here at the

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Speaker 7: the President and vote. We'll be meeting on that later today.

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Speaker 1: It's not just the Medicaid coverage for illegal aliens. It's

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Speaker 1: also the fact that Chuck Schumer, according to Treasury Secretary

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Speaker 1: Schumer into retirement. On CNBC this morning, Bessant said that

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Speaker 6: Let's just step back for a men, and look how

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Speaker 6: we got here. Chuck Schumer did the right thing in

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Speaker 6: the spring and led the Senate to a clean cr.

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Speaker 6: What we've got here is the House has they have

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Speaker 6: passed to clean cr. The Republicans have the votes in

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Speaker 6: the Senate, and he will not allow his numbers to

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Speaker 6: come across. And what's changed since then, it's his poll numbers,

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Speaker 6: you know. So you know the President, Vice President Vans,

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Speaker 6: Speaker Johnson, leaders soon they're not negotiating with Chuck Schumer,

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Speaker 6: who King Jeffreys. They're negotiating with a Representative Acasio Cortez

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Speaker 6: because she's nipping at his heels. And you know, so

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Speaker 6: the American people are being held hostage by Chuck Schumer's

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Speaker 6: poll numbers.

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Speaker 1: That, ladies and gentlemen, is your look back at what

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Speaker 1: happened at the White House today. We call it the

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Speaker 1: Daily Trump. Dad. Hey, speaking of the far left in America,

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Speaker 1: how about Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Senator, Democratic socialist and guest

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Speaker 1: this morning on the CBS Morning News, anchor Tony Doker

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Speaker 1: Pill was accepting as gospel the Democrat talking point that

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Speaker 1: Republicans are lying about medicaid for illegals Liz Lost. You know,

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Speaker 1: Republicans say what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for,

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Speaker 1: as they put it, illegal aliens. I know that's not

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Speaker 1: strictly true, but there is a provision.

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Speaker 8: Excuse me, not strictly it's true, but outlye it is

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Speaker 8: a flat out lie. The way that they in medicaid.

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Speaker 8: There is nothing in Medicare that permits one undocumented immigrant

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Speaker 8: to get one dollar of assistance.

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Speaker 1: It's called emergency Medicaid. And yes, they do get assistance

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Speaker 1: because they're not legally allowed to be turned away from hospitals.

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Speaker 1: Those hospitals get reimbursed by Medicaid. It costs hundreds of millions,

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Speaker 1: if not billions of dollars per year. But did you

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Speaker 1: notice Liz Warren just freaking out over the fact docapill

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Speaker 1: was Look, we know Republicans are lying. Okay, they're lying

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Speaker 1: about this, Senator war No, no, no, no, they're not

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Speaker 1: lying in the strictest sense. They're lying. You either accept

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Speaker 1: our narrative whole cloth, Tony Doak appeal, or you don't

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Speaker 1: even interview Liz Warren. How about this? Now, let's go

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Speaker 1: to page fifty seven of the Democrats Continuing Resolution. It

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Speaker 1: is Section twenty one forty one repeal of Health Subtitle changes.

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Speaker 1: The Health subtitle from the One Big Beautiful Bill, Subtitle

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Speaker 1: B shall be repealed. Subtitle B is repealed in any

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Speaker 1: law or regulation referred to in such subtitles, shall be

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Speaker 1: applied as if such subtitle and amendments made by such

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Speaker 1: subtitle had not existed. What is subtitle B? Well, Chapter one.

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Speaker 1: Subtitle B, first of all, is called Health. Chapter one

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Speaker 1: is called Medicaid. Section seven one one zero nine is

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Speaker 1: called Alien Medicaid eligibility. Guess what it says. In the

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Speaker 1: One Big Beautiful Bill illegal aliens are not eligible for Medicaid.

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Speaker 1: Democrats want to remove subtitle B. It is in Subtitle

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Speaker 1: E other Health provisions. Section twenty one forty one Repeal

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Speaker 1: of Health Subtitle changes on page fifty seven of the

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Speaker 1: Democrat Continuing Resolution. I don't know how much clearer or

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Speaker 1: more specific I could possibly be than that. If you

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Speaker 1: would like to read it yourself, be my guest. Here

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Speaker 1: are all of the things in that subtitle that would

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Speaker 1: be repealed by the Democrat Continuing Resolution. As I said,

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Speaker 1: Section seven one one zero nine that would that did

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Speaker 1: end Medicaid funding for non citizens seven one one seven

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Speaker 1: closing the California loophole, which will get to in a second,

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Speaker 1: which has allowed illegal aliens to get Medicaid funding through

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Speaker 1: the state of California's subsidization. Seven one two oh one

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Speaker 1: ending Medicare funding for most non citizens and this would

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Speaker 1: one ending Obamacare funding for most non citizens, and seven

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Speaker 1: one three h two repealing the Obamacare special rule for immigrants.

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Speaker 1: All of those would be repealed by the Democratic Continuing Resolution.

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Speaker 1: You can you can read it your self. Democrats are

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Speaker 1: lying about the fact that not a single cent of

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Speaker 1: Medicaid goes to covering illegal aliens. In fact, hundreds of

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars, if not billions, of reimbursements to hospitals

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Speaker 1: under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act or EMTLA

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Speaker 1: require that nobody can be turned away from a hospital

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Speaker 1: regardless of their immigration status, their citizenship status. The idea

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Speaker 1: here is that if you present with a gunshot wound,

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Speaker 1: our doctors, our nurses are going to treat you. They're

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Speaker 1: good people, they're kind people. You're not going to be

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Speaker 1: turned away regardless of whether or not you have insurance

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Speaker 1: guess what though, illegal aliens know this. They understand this,

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Speaker 1: and they have a tendency to flock to emergency rooms

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Speaker 1: to get primary care coverage when they have some sort

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Speaker 1: of illness that they can't treat with tylanol or robotuscin

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Speaker 1: or something like that. When they got an ache or

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Speaker 1: a pain that wouldn't rise to the level of an emergency,

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Speaker 1: but they know they can't be turned away from an

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Speaker 1: emergency room. As a result of this, emergency rooms have

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Speaker 1: become increasingly crowded. With the massive rise in illegal immigration.

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Speaker 1: When we say illegal immigration puts a massive strain on

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Speaker 1: social services, this is one of the big ones. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Medicaid spending on emergency services for undocumented aliens dramatically spiked

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Speaker 1: last year. Why primarily because of the California loophole. Seventy

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Speaker 1: one percent of the billions spent on emergency funding for

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens was spent in California. Spending on emergency services

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Speaker 1: for the undocumented just in California left from one point

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Speaker 1: six billion in twenty twenty three to six point four

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Speaker 1: billion in twenty twenty four. California established a state benefit

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Speaker 1: for illegals, supposedly with state money But here's where you

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Speaker 1: get the California loophole. The state classified more than half

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Speaker 1: of its increased spending on unauthorized illegal aliens as quote

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Speaker 1: emergency care. Now, normally emergency care accounts for only five

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Speaker 1: percent of health care spending. Did all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens just have a terrible year and their use

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Speaker 1: of emergency care services just went up that much. No,

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Speaker 1: it's because California was clearly using Medicaid money. Remember, Medicaid

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Speaker 1: is administered by both the states and the federal government.

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Speaker 1: California was using its Medicaid money to provide health care

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Speaker 1: coverage for illegal aliens by wrongly classifying it as emergency

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Speaker 1: care services. This amounts to fraud. Democrats want that fraud

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Speaker 1: to be opened up again. They want that California loophole reopened.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they want more states to be able to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. Because remember, fourteen states, including California

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Speaker 1: and Washington, d C. Do have state funded healthcare for

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens. Democrats want to expand that as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: They're just lying about it. Dan o'donald Show, coming right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show. It is day

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Speaker 1: two of the non shutdown shutdown insteed insted. Why is

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Speaker 1: that it's not just because nothing really shuts down during

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Speaker 1: a government shut down, but because, for the first time,

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Speaker 1: I think Democrats are a little bit panicked about whether

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Speaker 1: or not they're going to be able to play the

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Speaker 1: same old game that they always do, just rely on

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Speaker 1: their media allies to spin their narrative and pin the

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Speaker 1: blame for it on Republicans. Every so often you do

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Speaker 1: get one Democrat be unintentionally honest about what it really

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Speaker 1: is that they're doing with this shutdown. It is Senator

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Speaker 1: Sheldon Whitehouse on MSNBC last night saying it's actually about leverage.

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Speaker 4: The conversation on the Senate floor is, well, let's negotiate

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Speaker 4: on that, because we know we need to move on that,

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Speaker 4: because our people are going to get hurt on that.

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Speaker 1: But we'd rather.

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Speaker 4: Negotiate with you after you've given away in your leverage.

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Speaker 4: So this whole shutdown, this whole Trump Republican shutdown, is

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Speaker 4: really boiling down to them wanting to solve the problem

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Speaker 4: that we want to solve, but do it in a

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Speaker 4: couple of days or a couple of weeks when we've

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Speaker 4: given up our negotiating leaveradge. I don't think that's the

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Speaker 4: kind of position that you can long stand on.

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Speaker 1: So just as in aside, Sheldon Whitehouse is also the

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Speaker 1: only human being who pronounces it leverridge. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Trump has all the leverridge right now. They knew Trump,

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Speaker 1: Russ Vote, who our meeting right now? And his entire

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Speaker 1: team knew that a shutdown was almost certainly going to happen.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the things that separates the second

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Speaker 1: Trump term from the first. Where the first was marked

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Speaker 1: by chaos and confusion, this one is cold blooded, ruthless efficiency.

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Speaker 1: Before the shutdown started, Vote and other Trump team members

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Speaker 1: had every agency identify non essential functions within their departments. Now,

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Speaker 1: these would be roles that are tied to programs or

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Speaker 1: parts of the department that Trump and his administration deem

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Speaker 1: wasteful diversity initiatives, climate hysteria, that sort of thing. HR

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Speaker 1: and management staff have spent the past several days, if

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Speaker 1: not a week or more, drafting RIF notices. RIF stands

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Speaker 1: for Reduction in Force. HR teams then are deployed throughout

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Speaker 1: the shutdown. They're called furlough teams, and pointedly, OMB did not.

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Speaker 1: They designated HR, and they designated these furlough teams as

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Speaker 1: essential employee. Normally, you would think human Resources isn't really

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Speaker 1: necessary if nobody's at the office, and it's not something

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Speaker 1: that would be deemed an essential function. Well, weirdly enough, HR,

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Speaker 1: especially those furlough teams, have been deemed essential. Guess what

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Speaker 1: they are working on. Those furloughs, seven hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand or so, non essential employees like National Park staff,

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Speaker 1: some you know, I don't know, data crunchers at the

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Speaker 1: you know, Economic Bureau or something like that. They get furloughed.

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Speaker 1: The agencies issue RIF notices for some of those employees

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Speaker 1: for permanent separation because we don't have the fund to

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Speaker 1: pay you anymore. The government is shut down. Those workers

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Speaker 1: who get RIF notices, they don't get back pay. They

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Speaker 1: get severance pay perhaps, but they are simply terminated now.

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Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said on Fox This

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Speaker 1: morning that it's entirely possible that those reductions in force

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Speaker 1: could start within two to three days, if not tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: after the shutdown begins. President Trump has said that he

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Speaker 1: wanted tens of thousands of federal employees permanently cut. There

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Speaker 1: have already been upwards of two hundred to two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand workers who were cut from the federal workforce,

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Speaker 1: including one hundred thousand who resigned at the end of

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Speaker 1: the fiscal year on Monday, September thirtieth, the single biggest

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Speaker 1: one day resignation in the history of the federal government.

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Speaker 1: And how about this for leverage. You can blame Democrats

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Speaker 1: for the shutdown and say, hey, because of their intransigence

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Speaker 1: and because they're so desperate to get health care coverage

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Speaker 1: and medicaid for illegal aliens, we simply can't afford to

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Speaker 1: pay you. We need to let you go because the

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Speaker 1: government needs to be more efficient, and because Democrats just

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Speaker 1: will not fund you. Of course, Democrats are going to

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Speaker 1: sue to stop this. Congress in the form of recisions,

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Speaker 1: needs to explicitly defund various programs. But in terms of

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Speaker 1: individual employees, the President, as head of the executive branch

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Speaker 1: and his Office of Management and Budget, has wide latitude

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Speaker 1: to determine how the money that Congress appropriates is actually spent.

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Speaker 1: Do we really need fifty two diversity and inclusion employees

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Speaker 1: when well, none would suffice? But maybe two could be

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Speaker 1: left in place to run a slimmed down version of

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Speaker 1: the department. After all, with all that salary freed up,

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Speaker 1: you would have more money to do more diversity and inclusion.

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Speaker 1: The reality is is that the leveradge here is all

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Speaker 1: with Team Trump. Because the President had as his stated

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Speaker 1: goal when he took office reducing dramatically the amount of

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Speaker 1: money that we're spending on redundant and ridiculous federal jobs

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Speaker 1: and federal programs. The fact that he can now use

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Speaker 1: this to get what he has always wanted, a dramatic

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Speaker 1: reduction in both is regardless of how this shutdown ends,

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Speaker 1: a serious win. While it's going on, a couple of

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin leaders try to use the federal shutdown to get

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Speaker 1: their own political goals accomplished. That's next conservative thought, not

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Speaker 1: just talk. It is the Dan o'donald Show. Governor Tony

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Speaker 1: Evers today asked about the federal shutdown. Reporter Matt Smith

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Speaker 1: of Channel twelve in Milwaukee asked about whether or not

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Speaker 1: he would have to do an executive order to get

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Speaker 1: healthcare coverage for everybody. He means illegals he's clearly talking

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Speaker 1: about it. Depend on how long this goes. Do you

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Speaker 1: anticipate any executive action you would have to take or

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Speaker 1: anything you'd ask the legislature to do possible.

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Speaker 9: I mean, there are some things that are so important

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Speaker 9: that we just can't wait to fill December or January,

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Speaker 9: so that might happen, but we're spending. We got a

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Speaker 9: lot of people spending a lot of time waiting for

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Speaker 9: a response, interacting on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Okay, just so we're all clear, Medicaid is not shut down,

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Speaker 1: Medicare is not shut down. Social Security checks keep coming.

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Speaker 1: Those are all mandatory spending. Those are things the government

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Speaker 1: has to spend. The government has to pay out, regardless

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Speaker 1: of whether or not it is technically open. This is

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Speaker 1: why I call it a non government non shutdown shutdown,

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Speaker 1: because there's so much that the government automatically has to pay,

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Speaker 1: and Medicaid is one of those things. In fact, Medicaid

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Speaker 1: is fully funded at the very least through the end

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Speaker 1: of this year. Meaning if Evers isn't talking about an

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Speaker 1: executive order to ensure that illegal aliens do get their

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Speaker 1: Medicaid coverage, I have no idea what he's talking about here.

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Speaker 9: You know, if there's something that just in general, if

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Speaker 9: there's something that is, you know, affecting people's physical health,

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Speaker 9: and we need we needed to maybe use some of

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Speaker 9: our some of our resources here at the state level

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Speaker 9: to make sure people are not put in danger. That's that,

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Speaker 9: that's kind of a uh, that's low hanging fruit. From

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Speaker 9: my vantage point, we have to keep people safe and healthy.

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Speaker 1: Who's not safe or healthy right now? Seriously? Who who

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Speaker 1: does not have health care coverage? Right now? Everyone? Medicaid

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Speaker 1: is fully funded. Medicare is absolutely fully funded. People can

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Speaker 1: still get Social Security. Even illegal aliens can still present

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Speaker 1: at emergency rooms and they do whether or not what

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Speaker 1: it is they have is an emergency or not. They

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Speaker 1: get coverage. The hospitals get reimbursed by Medicaid. Is he

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Speaker 1: talking about an executive order to provide state money for

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Speaker 1: Medicaid for illegals? Sure sounds like it easily though. The

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin leader who has the most cynical see why a

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Speaker 1: move as a result of this shutdown has got to

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Speaker 1: be Melissa Agard, Dane County executive. She says, look, because

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Speaker 1: of Trump and those evil Republicans, she has to institute

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Speaker 1: a hiring freeze for non essential positions in county government.

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Speaker 1: In a statement. She says, even before this shutdown, we

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Speaker 1: were staring down difficult fiscal realities. Costs for services and

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Speaker 1: infrastructure continue to climb while revenues remain flat. Now, with

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Speaker 1: federal dysfunction creating additional uncertainty, it would be reckless to

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Speaker 1: continue with business as usual. This is not a decision

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Speaker 1: I take lightly. I know the people of Dane County

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Speaker 1: depend on us to deliver essential services, and I am

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Speaker 1: committed to protecting those But in this moment of fiscal

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Speaker 1: stress and national uncertainty, this is the most responsible path forward.

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Speaker 1: She's going to go before the Dane County Board during

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Speaker 1: the meeting on October twenty third layout her hiring freeze plan.

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Speaker 1: There would be exemptions for positions that are critical to

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Speaker 1: public health, public safety, for frontline delivery service, things like that,

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Speaker 1: But because of Trump in those Republicans, she just has

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Speaker 1: no choice. Now, you might be asking yourself a very

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Speaker 1: obvious question here, right, how exactly does a federal government

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Speaker 1: shut down impact Dane County. Isn't Dane County primarily funded

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Speaker 1: by state tax dollars through shared revenue and county tax

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Speaker 1: dollars and fees and that sort of thing, don't you

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Speaker 1: think a federal government shutdown would have nothing, or at

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Speaker 1: least very little to do with whether or not Dane

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Speaker 1: County can hire new people or can continue to deliver

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Speaker 1: essential services. What Agard doesn't mention is that long before

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Speaker 1: the federal government shut down, Dane County was facing a

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Speaker 1: thirty one million dollars structural deficit in its twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six budget. That has nothing to do with the government

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Speaker 1: shutdown or Donald trumpet Republicans. It has everything to do

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Speaker 1: with Melissa Agard and the Dane County Board spending like

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Speaker 1: drunken sailors on one unneeded program after another, one unnecessary

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Speaker 1: non essential salary after the next, so much so that

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Speaker 1: the inevitable is happening to Dane County, just as it

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Speaker 1: did to Milwaukee County. When you put Democrats in charge

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Speaker 1: of a budget, it will go tilt. It is inevitable.

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Speaker 1: There is no other outcome. City of Milwaukee had to

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Speaker 1: go hat in hand to the state because of overly

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Speaker 1: generous pension payments. Same thing with Milwaukee County, one of

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Speaker 1: the worst pension scandals in state history just twenty three

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Speaker 1: years ago. They both needed to get more state shared

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Speaker 1: revenue as well as more sales taxes to soak their

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Speaker 1: citizens for more money to pay for their reckless spending.

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Speaker 1: Now Melissa Aguard is trying to cover her own rear

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Speaker 1: end because she knew that she and the Dane County

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Speaker 1: Board spent their county into oblivion. But now they've got

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Speaker 1: a convenient scapegoat, and they know all the idiot lefties

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Speaker 1: who comprise their voter base in Dane County will eat

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Speaker 1: it up. Oh yeah, it was Trump and all of

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Speaker 1: those Republicans. They're the ones who are shutting down Dane County.

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Speaker 1: They're the ones who aren't allowing us to hire a

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Speaker 1: fifteenth Chief Diversity Officer. It's because of Melissa Aguard, not

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, that Dane County has a thirty one million

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Speaker 1: dollar structural deficit. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show,

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Speaker 1: a tour Deforce of truth. Welcome back to the Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show at his time. Now to name the unsung

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Speaker 1: hero of the DWN. Today's unsung hero of the day

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Speaker 1: is Federal Judge Nancy Joseph, who has dismissed a lawsuit

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Speaker 1: filed by a Waukeshaw School District teacher who claimed the

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Speaker 1: district violated her First Amendment rights when it fired her.

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Speaker 1: Melissa Temple, remember her, claimed her firing was in retaliation

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Speaker 1: for comments she made on X. Temple was a teacher

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Speaker 1: at Higher Elementary School in Waukeshaw. She allowed her school

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Speaker 1: to sing the song rainbow Land at a spring concert

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Speaker 1: for first graders that, of course, is a gay anthem.

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Speaker 1: She was let go. She made comments on X that

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Speaker 1: made it inevitable that she was going to be forced

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Speaker 1: to resign or she was going to be let go.

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Speaker 1: She immediately did what leftists do, and that's to file

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Speaker 1: a lawsuit. But judged Nancy Joseph threw out that lawsuit

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Speaker 1: and said that although Temple was speaking as a private

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Speaker 1: citizen on a matter of public concern, because her tweet

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Speaker 1: disrupted the district's operations, its interests took precedence in this case.

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Speaker 1: It would be very easy for a judge like Nancy

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Speaker 1: Joseph to take the side of the poor put upon

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Speaker 1: rainbow Land teacher Melissa Temple as she was attempting to

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Speaker 1: indoctrinate the kids with her LGBTQIA plus minus equal sign

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Speaker 1: ampersand question mark dogma. But instead she did the right thing,

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Speaker 1: and because It was obvious, painfully obvious to those of

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Speaker 1: us who were covering the story since it first broke

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Speaker 1: that Temple was attempting to get a social media mob

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Speaker 1: after Wakashaw's school district. Judge Joseph did the right thing.

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Speaker 1: And that's why Nancy Joseph is your unsung hero of

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Speaker 1: the day. We will get you the unhinged liberal of

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Speaker 1: the day at some point in the five o'clock hour. Folks,

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Speaker 1: don't think I forgot about that. We've got a good one.

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Speaker 1: Lefties are still insistent that they are able to celebrate

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Speaker 1: the assassination of Charlie Kirkins. It's remarkable how quickly that

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Speaker 1: story got out of the mainstream media, is it not.

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Speaker 1: It was three weeks ago yesterday that one of the

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Speaker 1: most important voices in conservative media and the conservative movement

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Speaker 1: was silenced by a left wing assassin's bullet. And you

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Speaker 1: would be hard pressed to find the name Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: uttered in any mainstream media outlet. Seriously, when's the last

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Speaker 1: time you heard the name Charlie Kirk mentioned on CNN

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Speaker 1: in the pages of the New York Times. Actually, they

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Speaker 1: just did a piece with Tanahashi Coats and Nicole Hannah Jones,

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Speaker 1: the author of the sixteen nineteen project, and apparently they

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Speaker 1: determined that enough time had passed or they could start

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Speaker 1: ripping on Charlie Kirk as being a bigot and racist

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Speaker 1: and all of this an interview that Coates did. I

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Speaker 1: believe we were either going to play a sound bite

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Speaker 1: of it, and I can't actually remember if we did.

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Speaker 1: I think I was so disgusted by that faux intellectual

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Speaker 1: who probably has an IQ of about eighty five but

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Speaker 1: is able to string a couple of words together and

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Speaker 1: leftists go gaga over his every utterance, said that, well,

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Speaker 1: it's okay to be okay with someone like Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: getting brutally murdered and shot through the neck in front

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Speaker 1: of a crowd of people while he's just trying to

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Speaker 1: calmly debate college kids because he was so hateful. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he basically espoused the exact same rhetoric as Kirk's assassin. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: coming up after the top of the hour, the president

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Speaker 1: of Turning Point at Concordia University is once again trying

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Speaker 1: to get a chapter started there, but is still after years,

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Speaker 1: even after the assassination of the organization's founder just three

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Speaker 1: weeks and a day ago, still running into significant opposition. Plus,

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Speaker 1: a teacher at a Middleton school has an assignment that

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Speaker 1: many students believe is marketing them, not for assassination, but

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Speaker 1: certainly for ridicule by their fellow students, and possibly for

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Speaker 1: singling out by that very teacher or some of the teachers'

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Speaker 1: compatriots who don't like if the students would self identify

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Speaker 1: as politically, or economically or culturally conservative. It is a

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Speaker 1: story that was first broken by my friend and colleague

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Speaker 1: Vicky McKenna. This afternoon, we are going to pick up

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Speaker 1: on it right after the top of the hour news.

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Speaker 1: Plus we'll check in with the Cubs and Padres in

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Speaker 1: the final game of their three game series. See who

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Speaker 1: it is the Brewers are going to face on Saturday

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Speaker 1: as they start the divisional round of the playoffs. All

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Speaker 1: that coming up in the five o'clock hour next. Is

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Speaker 1: it just me or these commercial getting shorter and shorter.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it doesn't feel like that for you, folks,

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Speaker 1: but for me as I'm trying to get a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of work done. And see, folks, the secret about

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Speaker 1: a talk radio show like this. The secret about a

1030
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Speaker 1: live radio show like this is that there's always stuff

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Speaker 1: that's going on. I'm always working, I'm always trying to

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Speaker 1: get the show better. I'm always trying to get the

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Speaker 1: latest news out there. I am always trying to, in

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Speaker 1: other words, gets everything that you might want up up.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that means that I am still working as I

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Speaker 1: hear my theme song and scramble to put on my

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Speaker 1: headphones and oh my gosh, I've actually got to do

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Speaker 1: the radio show. I've actually got a put on this

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Speaker 1: stuff that I was looking to put on a kind

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Speaker 1: of remarkable story today about an assignment that one might

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Speaker 1: not think would be overly controversial actually kind of is.

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Speaker 1: Middleton High School in Middleton, Wisconsin has a teacher who

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Speaker 1: I've decided I'm not going to name because frankly, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. He put out an assignment where he had

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Speaker 1: all of his students put on a big board their

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Speaker 1: names and whether or not they were conservatives or liberals.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that story in just one second, and

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Speaker 1: I kind of want your thoughts on it as well.

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Speaker 1: Also at Concordia University, the head of a Turning Point

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Speaker 1: USA chapter says he still can't get one going unless

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Speaker 1: he pledges to do something that he just will not do.

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Speaker 1: That story has even reached Elon Musk. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: it coming up a little bit later. Also, an update

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Speaker 1: on the Cubs and San Diego Padres. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to hear the bad news? Bottom of the third Cubs

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Speaker 1: are up two to nothing. Winner of that series goes

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Speaker 1: on to play the Brewers. I know the Brewers have

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Speaker 1: had a better record this season against Chicago than they

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Speaker 1: have against San Diego, and the Cubs may well be

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Speaker 1: a better matchup. I want them dead and buried and

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Speaker 1: back home on vacation long before the Brewers would have

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Speaker 1: to play them. I can handle if the Brewers lose

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I'd prefer well, I don't know, would

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Speaker 1: you rather have the Brewers flame out in the divisional

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Speaker 1: round or in the World Series. Frankly in the divisional round,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I could handle, like nineteen eighty two,

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Speaker 1: going to Game seven and then losing that kind of heartbreak. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we know the Brewers are going to go all the way.

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Speaker 1: They're going to win the World Series based on the

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Speaker 1: power of friendship. Even though I saw a disturbing graphic on.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Facebook. You realized that since two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three, no team that has had that has

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Speaker 1: finished outside of the top five in payroll has won

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Speaker 1: the World Series. In twenty two years, one of the

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Speaker 1: top five spending teams every single year has won the

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Speaker 1: World Series. That does not fill me with a lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence because two of the top five spending teams

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Speaker 1: are currently going to be playing each other, the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: who punched their t get to the divisional round last night,

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Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brewers would have to

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Speaker 1: go through one of those teams in order to go

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Speaker 1: to the Series where they would face the Yankees if

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Speaker 1: they get past the Red Sox. They I believe were

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Speaker 1: the number one spending team in baseball. I'm not entirely sure.

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Speaker 1: I do know with absolute certainty the Brewers were not

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Speaker 1: in the top five. We'll get into that a little

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Speaker 1: bit later on as well. Plus unhinged Liberal of the Day. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know we've delayed it for about an hour and

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Speaker 1: a half, but we will get to it. I promise,

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Speaker 1: Najo I keyword this hour fall fortune cash contest credit

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Speaker 1: Middleton High School has a US Government class, as most

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Speaker 1: schools do. In fact, my son just took ap US

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Speaker 1: Gov last year. Great class. I thought it was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: He learned all about a whole tot of Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: cases and constitutional principles, the form and function of government.

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Speaker 1: It was a great class. However, at Middleton High School,

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Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen year old kids, juniors and seniors mostly

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01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: are being forced to publicly declare their allegiance to a

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Speaker 1: political party as part of an assignment by one of

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Speaker 1: their teachers. Both Vicky McKenna and I this morning got

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Speaker 1: an email from a concern teacher. Vicky got this up

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Speaker 1: on social media and on her show very quickly, so

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Speaker 1: I will give her the exclusive on this one, and

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Speaker 1: it has gotten a lot of traction as well it should.

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Speaker 1: One of the students who wrote to us said, we

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Speaker 1: had to write either a blue or red or purple

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Speaker 1: slip of paper. We had to put our names on it.

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Speaker 1: So obviously, if you're red, you're Republican, if you're blue,

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Speaker 1: you're a Democrat. If you're purple. You're in the middle.

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Speaker 1: And then we had to write our full first and

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Speaker 1: last name on the front with a few other things

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Speaker 1: that I don't remember typical sixteen seventeen year old kid.

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Speaker 1: And the back you had to write about three issues

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Speaker 1: you want to resolve and why, immigration, abortion, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: And then you went out into the hallway where the

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Speaker 1: big bulletin board is and we all lined up against

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Speaker 1: the wall across from the board. The teacher called us

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Speaker 1: up one by one and we had to say our

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Speaker 1: name and tell everyone why we want to change those

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Speaker 1: things and what party we stand with. And then we

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Speaker 1: had to staple our card on the other side on

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Speaker 1: either side of the bulletin board, I should say on

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Speaker 1: the parts that you feel you aligned with. And while

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Speaker 1: we were walking back into the classroom not even thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes later, a few kids that me and my friend

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Speaker 1: believed to be seniors said, all those people are Nazis

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Speaker 1: while looking at my friend's paper. When we went into class,

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01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 1: my teacher asked me why I didn't participate, and I

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01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: told them that I didn't want to, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: give him much of a reason because I got nervous

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Speaker 1: and because it's none of his business. He said that

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Speaker 1: I had to do the assignment even if it wasn't

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Speaker 1: that day. I told him I didn't want to again,

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Speaker 1: and he said I had to do it because it's

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Speaker 1: for his class. Then my friend told him that we

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01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 1: heard a kid called the Republicans Nazis, and he said

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Speaker 1: that's not true. But he was kind of dry with

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Speaker 1: that response. I think to keep his party vote private,

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01:23:58,880 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 1: which doesn't make sense, and it's why he will keep

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Speaker 1: his private. But we have to. He said it's not

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Speaker 1: really a choice not to do it, and that I

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Speaker 1: would be doing it next class. The student was shaking

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Speaker 1: after class because of how intimidated she felt with the

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Speaker 1: teacher telling us she had to do it. And then

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Speaker 1: this student, well, an adult that was writing on behalf

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Speaker 1: of the student. And obviously I'm not going to use

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Speaker 1: any names here. Sources are always fully protected. Took a

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01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: picture of the bulletin board and you can see several

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Speaker 1: dozen of these cards blue red, and it's along an

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Speaker 1: X and a Y axis. There is socially liberal to

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Speaker 1: socially conservative on the horizontal access, and on the vertical

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Speaker 1: access there is fiscally conservative and fiscally liberal. Now the

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Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of the studentdance, as you could imagine in

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Speaker 1: in in Middleton, are blue. So along the horizontal access

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Speaker 1: on the Democrat side, there is at the far left

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Speaker 1: the progressive left, then establishment liberals, then Democratic main stays,

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Speaker 1: and then the outsider left. On the Republican axis there

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01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 1: is the and you go farther and farther conservative. Now

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Speaker 1: I would have gone with at the far left of

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Speaker 1: the axis political assassins and Tesla firebombers, but I guess

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01:25:46,040 --> 01:25:51,520
Speaker 1: progressive liberals would be okay too. You have the ambivalent

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Speaker 1: right closest to the middle, then you have the populist right.

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Speaker 1: Then you have constitutional conservative, and then you have faith

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Speaker 1: and flag conservative. Did this teacher just make these things up?

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Speaker 1: I have never heard of a faith and flag conservative,

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Speaker 1: And if anything, the populist conservatives are far closer to

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Speaker 1: the middle the ambivalent right. There is one kid who

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Speaker 1: is my absolute favorite. Everybody is sort of grouped towards

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Speaker 1: the middle. There is one kid who put his sticker

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Speaker 1: at the farthest possible right for fiscal conservative and social conservative.

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Speaker 1: I want to know who that kid is, because I'm

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Speaker 1: getting him like some Dan O'Donnell's show. Merch inviting him

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Speaker 1: to sit in on the show. That's my kind of kid.

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Speaker 1: Loud and proud. You are hard right and young man,

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Speaker 1: I salute you. Of course, nobody out well, there were

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Speaker 1: a couple who put themselves way out on the far left,

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01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:08,800
Speaker 1: but this strikes me as being very inappropriate. Now I

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Speaker 1: understand what the teacher is doing here, I really do.

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Speaker 1: I truly do, because it's a focal point for discussion. Okay,

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01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:18,920
Speaker 1: here are the issues that you want to see solved.

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Speaker 1: Here are the issues that you care about. I don't

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01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:25,960
Speaker 1: believe that this was an attempt to brand the kids

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01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:32,160
Speaker 1: with a scarlet letter A I truly don't. Why the

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Speaker 1: hell did they have to put their names on it.

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01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:41,040
Speaker 1: We are in an era where sadly, you can be

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Speaker 1: even marked for death if you speak out about your

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Speaker 1: political views. Don't believe me. It happened on a college

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01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:54,120
Speaker 1: campus three weeks and a day ago. Making those kids

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Speaker 1: in an obviously overwhelmingly left wing school and left wing

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Speaker 1: district identify themselves as conservatives quite literally, giving themselves a

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01:28:09,080 --> 01:28:16,559
Speaker 1: scarlet letter is the height of foolishness. I think this

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Speaker 1: assignment is incredibly inappropriate, and I'm wondering what the proper

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Speaker 1: consequences should be here four one, four seven, nine to

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Speaker 1: nine eleven thirty. That is the ADVENTNOS dot com talk

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Speaker 1: and text line. First of all, we will be by

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Speaker 1: the way taking your calls and your texts, probably over

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Speaker 1: the next ten minutes or so, because I do want

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Speaker 1: to get to this Concordias story. I've also got some

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01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 1: other stuff I wanted to get to as well. Before

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01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: we say goodbye on this beautiful Thursday evening, I've got

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01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 1: to run over to the Ingle side and chat with

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Speaker 1: Governor Walker. Am I going to have to identify myself

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Speaker 1: as a conservative before I go in? Am I going

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Speaker 1: to have to put dan O'Donnell in bright red letters

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01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: and like stick it on my forehead so everybody in

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Speaker 1: the world knows who I am and knows what I

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Speaker 1: believe without more context here, And frankly, folks, I did

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Speaker 1: not have time. I guarantee I was going to get

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Speaker 1: just a rote response from Middleton High School. And this

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Speaker 1: wasn't really my story, it was Vicky's, so I kind

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01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 1: of didn't spend a ton of time getting it. Like

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Speaker 1: I understand where the teacher is coming from. Okay, we're

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Speaker 1: going to take a look at these issues, and you

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01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:42,920
Speaker 1: might think that this issue is actually on the left,

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Speaker 1: actually on the right. Here's the thing. Knowing what I

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Speaker 1: know about government class, the US government class, do you

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01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:54,960
Speaker 1: know how much? Now My kids go to a school

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01:29:55,040 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 1: district that is remarkably well run, and the teacher just

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Speaker 1: happens to well, you know what. I'm not going to

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01:30:04,640 --> 01:30:10,240
Speaker 1: out her, but let's just say she would periodically ask

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01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 1: my son how her dad was, how his dad was doing,

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01:30:14,280 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: because you know, she listened every now and again. She

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Speaker 1: didn't want to say nothing, but you know she listened.

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Speaker 1: I don't recall any sort and you'd better believe my

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Speaker 1: kid would tell me if this is, you know, what

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01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 1: they were learning. They were learning about US government. They

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01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:33,840
Speaker 1: would talk about issues, to be sure, but it was

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01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: never about left or right. It was always within the

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Speaker 1: context and the framework of the actual course, which is

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Speaker 1: to learn about US government. If you want to teach

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Speaker 1: a current events class, that's just fine. And frankly, I

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Speaker 1: have no problem even with a left wing teacher teaching

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01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:56,720
Speaker 1: things from a left wing perspective. Okay, I am obviously

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Speaker 1: if I go into a classroom and I go to

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Speaker 1: teach a current events class, I'm going to do my

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01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:04,639
Speaker 1: best to try to present both sides of the issue.

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Speaker 1: But I am a conservative, Okay, I also have a

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01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:11,719
Speaker 1: fully functioning frontal lobe, so I couldn't possibly be teaching

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Speaker 1: things from a left wing perspective. That's who I am.

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Speaker 1: When you get to a point though, where you are proselytizing,

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01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 1: you are just getting up there and spewing, you know, indoctrination.

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01:31:26,600 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 1: That's where it gets to a point. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that this teacher truly, truly, I do not believe that

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01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:34,599
Speaker 1: that was the point of this exercise. I also don't

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Speaker 1: believe the point of it was to single these kids out,

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01:31:37,680 --> 01:31:41,480
Speaker 1: but it did have that effect, and that effect, especially

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01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:44,519
Speaker 1: in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, when kids

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01:31:44,560 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 1: can be singled out and bullied over pretty much anything,

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01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 1: why force them to put their names on something and

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01:31:53,560 --> 01:31:56,720
Speaker 1: to publicly declare their allegiance. There's a reason that we

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01:31:56,800 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 1: have a secret balance in this country, and it's to

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01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: prove event this exact sort of nonsense. Let's go out

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01:32:04,320 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: to the phones and talk first with Steve and New Berlin. Steve,

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01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 1: what's kracking? You are? Up first on the Dan o'donald Show.

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01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 10: Does it even move anything?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Is the window open on it? No?

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Speaker 1: Steve? Is everything going? Okay? I think I think we've Steve.

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Speaker 2: Are we interrupting to shake the.

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Speaker 1: Okay? This this is way more entertaining than the Dan

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01:32:34,240 --> 01:32:39,599
Speaker 1: o'donald show. I gotta say, oh no. It sounded like

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01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 1: Steve was having car trouble. He said, you gotta pop

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Speaker 1: the hood? Did he stop to uh rescue a motorist

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01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:54,559
Speaker 1: in distress? Honest? The goodest producer, Eric, you're screening, calls

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01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:58,000
Speaker 1: in there. Steve was completely distracted. He was talking to

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Speaker 1: someone else. It sounded like his wife and they either

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01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 1: were having car trouble or he had stopped to help somebody.

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Speaker 1: Say you gotta pop the hood on this? I think

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01:33:08,000 --> 01:33:10,719
Speaker 1: he was trying to like give somebody a jump or something.

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01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:13,960
Speaker 1: All right, wait, Steve, whatever's going on? You call back

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01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:18,080
Speaker 1: and tell us that you're okay? Okay, Steve? Please? You

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01:33:18,080 --> 01:33:20,679
Speaker 1: know what I really hope didn't happen? Is I really

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01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 1: hope he wasn't talking to you, producer Eric, and he

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01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:26,839
Speaker 1: got into a fender bender because he wasn't totally paying attention.

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01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 1: The god, I know, the line just went dead, all right?

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01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:34,360
Speaker 1: Eric in Greenfield. You didn't just get into a collision

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Speaker 1: with a dude from New Berlin, did you? You're safe?

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Speaker 1: I know I did not. Okay, good? What do you

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Speaker 1: think about this? Not Steve's situation, but what's going on

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Speaker 1: in Middleton? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's like I'm sitting comfortably on my coat.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good? Oh god? Are you no? No? No, you're

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01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 1: not getting sick now, are you? You're not going to

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01:33:59,120 --> 01:33:59,719
Speaker 1: start having.

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Speaker 2: An ass.

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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01:34:02,320 --> 01:34:03,719
Speaker 2: Something? They need to give me a I'm.

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01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:08,200
Speaker 1: Like, oh now, this is the worst time to go

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01:34:08,280 --> 01:34:12,719
Speaker 1: to callers. Everybody's dying on man, right, all right, Steve,

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01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:13,320
Speaker 1: what do you got?

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01:34:13,479 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 11: You know?

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01:34:15,080 --> 01:34:16,280
Speaker 2: Actually I'm Eric or Eric?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry Eric. Eric.

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Speaker 2: You remember back like in the early days of you know,

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Speaker 2: East Berlin and this and that, where you know, you

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Speaker 2: had to rat on your neighbor and they had kids,

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01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 2: you know, ratting their parents out, you know, you know,

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01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:38,640
Speaker 2: if they didn't you know, abide by you know, the

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01:34:39,160 --> 01:34:42,200
Speaker 2: rural you know, and then the and the other point

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01:34:42,280 --> 01:34:46,480
Speaker 2: I gotta make is what is there a policy about bullying?

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01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:51,519
Speaker 1: I would imagine, I mean hee.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to see that, you know, And it's like,

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01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 2: wouldn't this be a form of bullying.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it certainly could be. I mean,

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01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:06,360
Speaker 1: the teacher just hounding this student and saying, Okay, you

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01:35:06,479 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: have to take part in this. You have to take

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01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:11,160
Speaker 1: part in this, you know to me? And maybe it's

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01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 1: because I don't know, I'm just sort of thinking this through.

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Speaker 1: If a student comes to me with concerns and says,

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Speaker 1: you know, mister O'Donnell, I really don't feel comfortable. You know,

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01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:25,760
Speaker 1: my friend they called her Nazi, I just I don't

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01:35:25,800 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 1: want to do it. What I would say is, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: I totally get that. Just write down the issues and

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01:35:32,160 --> 01:35:34,519
Speaker 1: don't put your name on it, and then you know,

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01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 1: I might have That might have actually gotten me thinking, hey,

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01:35:36,560 --> 01:35:38,599
Speaker 1: maybe it's a really bad idea to have a bunch

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01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:44,000
Speaker 1: of kids publicly declare their political allegiance. But that's just me.

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01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:49,639
Speaker 1: In terms of the bullying from the teacher, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it quite rises to the level of that. I

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01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:58,160
Speaker 1: think it's more likely an issue of a teacher just

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01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 1: not quite under standing the ramifications of what he's making

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01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: his students do and the intransigence that just digging in

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Speaker 1: the heels. When you say a student comes to you

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01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:14,920
Speaker 1: and says, well, you know, I don't feel comfortable doing this.

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Speaker 1: This is not something that I really feel comfortable with.

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Speaker 1: I just struggle to see what the value is outside

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Speaker 1: of knowing what your student's political leanings are in making

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Speaker 1: them publicly declare them. Let's go to another Eric, this

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Speaker 1: one in Hartford. You are on the Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 1: Eric what's going on?

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Speaker 11: Hey, Dan, thanks for having me on. I just I

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Speaker 11: agree with you. I can understand what the teacher's trying

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Speaker 11: to do and maybe force the conversation, get people to

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Speaker 11: talk about issues in a positive way in a structured environment.

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Speaker 11: But at the same time, you know that opens people up,

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01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:57,680
Speaker 11: especially with the violence of the people that.

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Speaker 2: Are on the left.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't want that kind of speech. The implication,

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01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:05,719
Speaker 11: could you know it could be somebody in that school

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01:37:05,800 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 11: might be disturbed. It opens them up to maybe being

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01:37:09,240 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 11: at the top of that list.

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, okay, let's how about let's let's let's let's

1346
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 1: put it this way. Let's put it this way. Let's

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01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:19,800
Speaker 1: say the the issue was on I mean l G

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01:37:19,960 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: B t Q I A plus minus ampersand exclamation point

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01:37:23,960 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 1: rights are always right, They're always they're always front and center. Right,

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01:37:31,280 --> 01:37:35,680
Speaker 1: Let's say that this teacher had instead of red and

1351
01:37:35,720 --> 01:37:40,840
Speaker 1: blue stickers every color of the rainbow. And if you

1352
01:37:40,920 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 1: were pink, that meant you were gay. If you were yellow,

1353
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:49,000
Speaker 1: that meant you were CIS. If you are purple, you're trans.

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01:37:49,439 --> 01:37:53,439
Speaker 1: If you're green your pan sexual. And you had to

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01:37:53,479 --> 01:37:58,840
Speaker 1: publicly declare your sexuality right, and you had to declare

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01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:03,400
Speaker 1: what LGP t Q I A plus minus pound sign

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01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 1: percentage sign issues matter to you most that everybody would

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01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:15,240
Speaker 1: agree that's completely inappropriate. You're forcing these kids to out themselves. Well,

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01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:20,560
Speaker 1: why is it? Why is it acceptable for political affiliation?

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01:38:21,400 --> 01:38:24,479
Speaker 1: And the reality is is that, Oh, I'm sorry, Eric,

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01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:27,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to as many callers as we

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01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:29,639
Speaker 1: can here because I'm looking atway We're almost at five

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01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:33,400
Speaker 1: thirty ra as a fascinating discussion, and I want to

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01:38:33,439 --> 01:38:38,000
Speaker 1: get a couple of more people into it. It is.

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01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:43,920
Speaker 1: It is much less likely now, especially at a school

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Speaker 1: like Middleton, that a kid is going to be bullied

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01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:51,599
Speaker 1: for their sexual identity because the consequences of doing so

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01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:57,400
Speaker 1: are so swift and so harsh. You know, you you

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01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:01,160
Speaker 1: call a student a slang term for a gay person,

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01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: you are probably looking at expulsion. You can, however, probably

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Speaker 1: with impunity, believe someone over their political beliefs, call them

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01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:14,639
Speaker 1: a Nazi or something like that. And I guess I

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01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:19,720
Speaker 1: just really have an issue with a teacher opening up,

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01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:22,640
Speaker 1: even if it was unintentional. Even if it was unintentional,

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01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:26,559
Speaker 1: and frankly, folks, absent any evidence that I have that

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01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 1: this teacher is just a vindictive far left jag who

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01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:34,760
Speaker 1: wants to target his students, I'm going to assume that

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01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 1: the teacher is probably a lib. But I have no idea.

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01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:43,360
Speaker 1: The teacher wants to have a discussion about issues and

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01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:45,679
Speaker 1: wants to show the kids. Okay, well, here's the political

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01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:49,360
Speaker 1: breakdown of our class. Here's what are the issues that

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01:39:49,479 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: matter most of the people who identify themselves as progressive left.

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01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:54,479
Speaker 1: I can actually see the thought process here, and I

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01:39:54,560 --> 01:39:58,519
Speaker 1: actually don't think it's a bad assignment. I just have

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01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:02,519
Speaker 1: a big issue with kids having to put their names

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01:40:02,920 --> 01:40:06,000
Speaker 1: on it. If you're concerned about kids not taking part

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01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:09,080
Speaker 1: in the assignment, we'll have them write down a quick

1388
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:13,840
Speaker 1: little essay regarding their responses and turn it in Just

1389
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:16,960
Speaker 1: to you. You're listening to the Dan o'donald show. When

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01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:21,200
Speaker 1: we come back. Why is it so hard to start

1391
01:40:21,240 --> 01:40:29,040
Speaker 1: a Turning Point USA chapter at Concordia University get in

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01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:32,880
Speaker 1: discussion about that Middleton school assignment. A number of people

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01:40:33,360 --> 01:40:36,800
Speaker 1: I was reading the text comments said I was going

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01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:42,879
Speaker 1: too easy on that teacher. Maybe I guess I without

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01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:47,840
Speaker 1: compelling evidence that this was vindictive in nature, I just

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01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:52,679
Speaker 1: I can't leap to that conclusion. We will see how

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01:40:52,800 --> 01:41:00,360
Speaker 1: Middleton responds. Concordia University, however, has found itself the target

1398
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:04,839
Speaker 1: of some very negative social media buzz as a post

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01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:10,760
Speaker 1: from Jacob Turner, the Turning Point USA Chapter President at

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01:41:10,840 --> 01:41:16,800
Speaker 1: Concordia has gone viral, with even Elon Musk responding to it.

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01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:20,639
Speaker 1: He says, for two years I fought to get our

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01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 1: Turning Point Chapter recognized. Bureaucracy and stonewalling made me give

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01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:30,200
Speaker 1: up at one point, But after Charlie's passing, I found

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01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: a fire that I never felt before. There's a real

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01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:38,679
Speaker 1: revival happening on my campus. So I resubmitted our chapter

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01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:42,200
Speaker 1: for approval to carry out Charlie's vision of a Turning

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01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:46,680
Speaker 1: Point chapter on every college campus. The university made it

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01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 1: clear that they will deny us again. Why because I

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01:41:52,479 --> 01:41:57,760
Speaker 1: won't publicly denounce the Professor watch List, an educational tool

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01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:03,200
Speaker 1: that lets students know who the Marxist professors are so

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01:42:03,240 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 1: they can plan their courseload accordingly. Let me be absolutely clear,

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01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,360
Speaker 1: I will not denounce the watch list. I will not

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01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:14,160
Speaker 1: be silenced. I will not let Charlie's legacy die on

1414
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:19,400
Speaker 1: this campus. This isn't just about TPUSA, It's about truth

1415
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 1: and freedom, all right. What is the professor watch List?

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01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:32,479
Speaker 1: It is a very very well known service that Turning

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01:42:32,520 --> 01:42:38,080
Speaker 1: Point provides for college kids that just identifies who the

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01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:43,720
Speaker 1: radical left wing professors are. Conservative students are therefore advised

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01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:47,639
Speaker 1: to beware if you speak your mind in this class,

1420
01:42:47,680 --> 01:42:50,040
Speaker 1: you could be punished, you could get a bad grade,

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01:42:50,200 --> 01:42:57,680
Speaker 1: you could face ostracism, whatever. So professorwatchlist dot org is

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01:42:57,920 --> 01:43:03,240
Speaker 1: an invaluable tool for anybody who just wants to make

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01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 1: sure that their professor isn't a crazy person who is

1424
01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:13,480
Speaker 1: going to flunk them just because they disagree with their worldview.

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01:43:13,640 --> 01:43:20,679
Speaker 1: Seems pretty fine to me, taken a wild guess, if

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01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:26,080
Speaker 1: there was a right wing hate radio watch list out

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01:43:26,120 --> 01:43:29,680
Speaker 1: there that some lefty put out, I would find myself

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01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:33,519
Speaker 1: on it and I can do about that. What else?

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01:43:34,160 --> 01:43:39,280
Speaker 1: Just own it? Concordia profs. They obviously don't want this

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01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:43,559
Speaker 1: because a whole lot of the Concordia University student body

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01:43:44,320 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: are conservatives. I am told it is one of the

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01:43:46,680 --> 01:43:51,599
Speaker 1: more conservative student bodies in Wisconsin because it is a

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01:43:51,720 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 1: Christian school. It's a Lutheran school, right, producer, Eric, we

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01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:01,040
Speaker 1: look that up. Concordia is a Lutheran school. Lutheran maybe,

1435
01:44:03,280 --> 01:44:04,720
Speaker 1: now watch, I'm going to get a whole bunch of

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01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:07,800
Speaker 1: angry Catholics saying, what are you there, Concordia. No, I'm

1437
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: fairly certain it's a Lutheran school. So you get a

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01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:15,760
Speaker 1: whole lot of conservative students. And obviously was I right?

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01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:20,240
Speaker 1: It was it? Yeah, Lutheran. Okay, not that it really matters.

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01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I'm accurate here if

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01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:31,160
Speaker 1: Jacob is correct, And he included some documentation that he

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01:44:31,320 --> 01:44:40,479
Speaker 1: says is from a number of these faculty that one

1443
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:46,880
Speaker 1: of the faculty concerns. So in a document that Jacob

1444
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 1: had shared on social media, it is section one Faculty Concerns.

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01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:57,720
Speaker 1: TPUSA at Concordia University will encourage students to follow the

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01:44:57,720 --> 01:45:00,679
Speaker 1: procedures outlined in the university catalog when it pressing concerns

1447
01:45:00,760 --> 01:45:05,680
Speaker 1: or conflicts with faculty members. Section two Civil Discourse TPUSA

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01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,720
Speaker 1: will promote civil, respectful discourse and dialogue and alignment with

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01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:11,759
Speaker 1: cuw's mission and values of Christ's centered truth and integrity

1450
01:45:11,800 --> 01:45:15,320
Speaker 1: excellence in service by fostering critical thinking and respectful engagement

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01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: on relevant topics. Well that's rather ironic. Who do you

1452
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:24,599
Speaker 1: suppose was fostering civil, respectful discourse and dialogue during Charlie

1453
01:45:24,680 --> 01:45:28,840
Speaker 1: Kirk's visit to Utah Valley University? Was it Charlie Kirk

1454
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:31,400
Speaker 1: and Turning Point USA or was it the guy who

1455
01:45:31,560 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 1: shot him in the neck. One of the faculty concerns

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01:45:40,640 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 1: that was added on September thirtieth, so two days ago

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01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: at three point fifty seven pm and sent over to

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01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:58,120
Speaker 1: Jacob was local chapter of TPUSA does not endorse the

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01:45:58,400 --> 01:46:06,439
Speaker 1: professor watch. Then there is another one. It was must

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01:46:06,439 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 1: be stronger language, something specific about the professor watch list.

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01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:15,880
Speaker 1: So clearly the faculty is concerned that the faculty would

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01:46:15,920 --> 01:46:19,720
Speaker 1: be outed as a bunch of left wing radicals, and

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01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:25,720
Speaker 1: they don't want Concordia University's Chapter of Turning Point usay

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01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:29,080
Speaker 1: outing them as the insane radicals that they are. So

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01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:34,360
Speaker 1: what is their solution to shut down the chapter unless

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01:46:34,400 --> 01:46:41,200
Speaker 1: they refuse to use the professor watch list. This is

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01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:46,240
Speaker 1: such classic liberalism. And on this I will not give

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01:46:46,360 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: Concordia University the benefit of the doubt, because it's right

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01:46:51,040 --> 01:46:55,800
Speaker 1: there in writing. We need these people to publicly denounce

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01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:59,320
Speaker 1: the professor watch list. They cannot use this, they cannot

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01:46:59,439 --> 01:47:03,200
Speaker 1: endorse this. They cannot say to their members, hey, don't

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01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:06,519
Speaker 1: go to professor Jenkins because he's a foaming at the

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01:47:06,560 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: mouth commie who will fail you if you even say

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01:47:10,400 --> 01:47:15,920
Speaker 1: the word trump without adding must die after it. This

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01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:20,559
Speaker 1: is such classic liberalism, is it not. You either do

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01:47:20,600 --> 01:47:24,280
Speaker 1: what we say or we will silence you. We won't

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01:47:24,320 --> 01:47:28,760
Speaker 1: allow you to organize. Now, Concordia University is a private university,

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01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:32,800
Speaker 1: so the principles of freedom of association don't technically apply

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01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:36,200
Speaker 1: from a constitutional sense as they would at say, a

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01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:42,200
Speaker 1: UW State school. UW could not prevent students from associating

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01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:46,519
Speaker 1: as a Turning Point USA club by saying in order

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01:47:46,600 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: to do so, you must adhere to this speech code

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01:47:50,360 --> 01:47:54,799
Speaker 1: and you must publicly denounce what we say. You must denounce.

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01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:58,800
Speaker 1: But this is along those same lines of a shutting

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01:47:58,920 --> 01:48:03,040
Speaker 1: down of free expression. And free association by a conservative

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01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:09,320
Speaker 1: organization because the powers that be in liberalism just can't handle.

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01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:12,920
Speaker 1: Not that they would be tart, not that they would

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01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:17,160
Speaker 1: be shot through the neck like the founder of Turning

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01:48:17,200 --> 01:48:20,639
Speaker 1: Point USA was on a college campus three weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, that they would just be

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Speaker 1: identified as liberals and warned against two other conservative minded students.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Dan o'donald show. We are running

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Speaker 1: way late, so we are way overdue for a commercial break.

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Speaker 1: They'll have no fear. The Dan o'donald's show will be

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Speaker 1: back before you know it. Thanks to loyal listeners Josh

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Speaker 1: and Kurt for pointing out that it is the Missouri

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Speaker 1: Synod that is Concordia University. They are Missouri Synod Lutheranism,

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Speaker 1: not Well's Lutheran. There's a difference. I don't know. I'm Catholic,

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Speaker 1: I have I have no idea. There's just like there's

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Speaker 1: one brand of Catholic. I don't know, guilt guilt ridden Catholic.

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Speaker 1: That's very good, producer, Eric. There's just there's one type

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Speaker 1: of Catholic. It is it is guilt ridden. There's no

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Speaker 1: other type of Catholic. All right, Two hours late, but

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Speaker 1: we did get to it in the perfect time too,

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Speaker 1: because we were just talking about turning point us a

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Speaker 1: being shut down in an attempt to start a chapter

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Speaker 1: at Concordia University. And now we have a Massachusetts state

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Speaker 1: employee who just couldn't help himself in talking about Charlie.

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Speaker 10: Kirkman's dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 1: America. Today's one hinge liberal of the day is Talbot W. Swan.

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Speaker 1: He is a member of the Official Massachusetts Hate Crime

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Speaker 1: Task Force who was on his podcast saying that, well,

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Speaker 1: he can't believe all of the black people who are

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Speaker 1: out there mourning Charlie kirk.

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Speaker 12: We're not going to celebrate it, but you're not going

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01:50:23,120 --> 01:50:29,240
Speaker 12: to gaslight us into mourning him either. And I'm troubled

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Speaker 12: by the number of black people who are all over

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Speaker 12: the internet mourning a white supremacist who thought you were

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Speaker 12: less than human.

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Speaker 1: I had to do a whole lot of.

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Speaker 12: Blocking of people on social media because I didn't realize

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Speaker 12: we had as many coons as we have.

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Speaker 1: So, uh, not sure using racially derogatory language is something

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Speaker 1: that a member of the Official Massachusetts Hate Crime Task

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Speaker 1: Force should be doing. But what I do know is

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Speaker 1: Talbot w. Swan is your unhinged liberal of the day.

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Speaker 1: Time for a quick update. We are in the top

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Speaker 1: of the sixth as the San Diego Padres are still

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Speaker 1: not on the board. The Cubs are pitching a shutout.

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Speaker 1: They are winning this game two to nothing. The Padres

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Speaker 1: do have a runner on first base with one out.

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Speaker 1: So far, the Cubs have gone into their bullpen, and

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Speaker 1: this is a bullpen game as both teams, the Padres

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Speaker 1: have thrown up one, two, three, four pitchers, including you Darvish,

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Speaker 1: the starter, longtime Major leaguer, and the Cubs. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: this because we want both of them to go real

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Speaker 1: deep into their bullpen because day after tomorrow they had

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Speaker 1: to Milwaukee to take on the Brewers in Game one

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Speaker 1: of the Divisional Series. And after a double play, the

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Speaker 1: sixth inning is over and the Cubs get out of

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Speaker 1: at bottom of the sixth, coming up, producer, Eric, you

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Speaker 1: had something to add, Oh you were you were?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I said the inning, I said, top of the sixth

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Speaker 1: You you didn't hear that. Well, it's a good thing

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Speaker 1: that you're producing this show. So we've got a lot

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01:52:33,840 --> 01:52:38,680
Speaker 1: of quality control here on the Dan o'donald's show. What

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01:52:38,720 --> 01:52:40,680
Speaker 1: do you think should we take another break here and

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01:52:40,720 --> 01:52:42,559
Speaker 1: come back to wrap it up, or should we just

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Speaker 1: go to should we just should we just end it

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01:52:45,880 --> 01:52:48,479
Speaker 1: early because we've got like a minute and a half

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Speaker 1: away from the end of the year. We got we

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Speaker 1: got one more commercial break. I'll leave it up to you.

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Speaker 1: It does now we're a minute five, all right, let's

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01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:58,400
Speaker 1: just we're just gonna end the show a little early

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Speaker 1: here because we do have commercials to So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: end at five fifty five, which is good because I've

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Speaker 1: got a change into a suit to head out to

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Speaker 1: the Ingleside Hotel. We're doing a fireside chat with the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Forum. Former Governor Scott Walker and I are going

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Speaker 1: to talk about a whole bunch of events. I apologize.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe tickets are available. I believe you had

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Speaker 1: to get those in advance, so I know. I know

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01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:28,479
Speaker 1: there are so many people who are just clamoring to

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01:53:28,640 --> 01:53:32,760
Speaker 1: see me. Well, really more Scott Walker. I'm actually looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing Scott too. I haven't seen him, boy,

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Speaker 1: I have not seen Scott in person. We've had him

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Speaker 1: on the show a couple of times, but via the phone.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen him in a good long time, so

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Speaker 1: it's going to be good to catch up with him.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a whole lot of fun. And

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Speaker 1: you better believe I am going to be putting on

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Speaker 1: WGN radio or whatever station the Cubs play on now.

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01:53:55,680 --> 01:53:59,160
Speaker 1: Is it still WGN? I think so. And I am

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01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:02,519
Speaker 1: going to be following that game very very closely. I

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01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:05,679
Speaker 1: am rooting very hard for the Padres to come back

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01:54:05,760 --> 01:54:09,479
Speaker 1: because I do not want the Cubs to beat the Brewerks.

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Speaker 1: All right, out of time. Talk to you tomorrow on

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Speaker 1: The Dan O'Donnell Show.