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Speaker 1: As I'm sure a lot of you know right now,

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Speaker 3: Dan, First of all, I completely agree with your voices,

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Speaker 1: Well yourself, his career is not over now. He is retiring,

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Speaker 1: Hey, Merry Christmas, sir.

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Speaker 5: Outstanding, Dan, I had to ask your use of the

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Speaker 1: Keep those questions coming. It is Ask Dan Anything right

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Speaker 1: here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Welcome back to Ask

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Speaker 1: Dan Anything, one of our absolute favorite shows of the

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Speaker 1: can we get a new word instead of bombshell report?

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Speaker 1: Not every bombshell is a dud, but every time I

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Speaker 1: who do we got here? John in Plattville, John, Welcome

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Speaker 1: was controversial when it was first proposed. John, Merry Christmas

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Speaker 11: Merry Christmas, Dan, how you doing?

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you too, Sir.

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Speaker 4: I have a question that has been perplexing wisconsinight specifically

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Speaker 12: People for the longest time. Culvers are cops.

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Speaker 1: The ultimate order for cops, all right, you want the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald order, It is a all right double cheeseburger

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. It is Ask Me Anything, Keep those

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to our annual Christmas adjacent show, Ask Dan Anything.

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Speaker 1: We are still waiting for President Trump, who is scheduled

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Speaker 1: here's a great question, Dan, what was your favorite family

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Speaker 1: String Academy, and we have her do the kids playing.

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Speaker 1: And my oldest son, Nick is a high school senior

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Speaker 1: and this is going to be the last time he's

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Speaker 1: in the special it's for kids. I mean, we could

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Speaker 1: probably conscript him and get him to play again. It

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Speaker 1: was the three of them playing their violin. They sounded

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Speaker 1: so beautiful. I just both their mom and I had

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Speaker 1: tears in our eyes. But by far the best moment

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Speaker 1: this year. I think if you pull anybody in our family,

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Speaker 1: not just the five my wife and I and our

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Speaker 1: three kids, but our extended family, it was the moment

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Speaker 1: we met Buddy, the moment we met our little teddy

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Speaker 1: bear puppy, who is He's just He's completed our family.

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Speaker 1: And I've got a related question, Dan, did you ever

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Speaker 1: think you would be a dog owner?

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Speaker 13: To know?

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Speaker 1: I did not. When I was growing up, I was

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Speaker 1: allergic to dogs. I outgrew that allergy. I'm still very

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Speaker 1: very allergic to cats, but no, I never thought I

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Speaker 1: would be a dog owner, and I finally relented, and

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Speaker 1: it was the best decision I think I have ever made.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Steve in Mguanago, Steve and Milwaukee. I apologize, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you're in Milwaukee. No, I don't apologize that you're in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: I kind of do. But welcome to the Dan O'Dell Show,

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Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas to you, sir.

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Speaker 14: I can understand why you would apologize for me being

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Speaker 14: here in this place.

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Speaker 1: You know what, though, is okay? Wait, hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 1: Stephen is Milwaukee? Is Milwaukee not a great city if

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Speaker 1: you strip away all the things that Democrats have done

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Speaker 1: to it, crime, taxes, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 15: I grew up in the.

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Speaker 14: Great Northwoods of Wisconsin, God's Country. Yeah, I have a

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Speaker 14: very different view of Milwaukee, all right, fair enough, I.

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Speaker 1: Grew up in the suburbs, so I'm biased.

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Speaker 14: I'm sad that I'm here, but that's where I am.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't be. You shouldn't be sad for that, Steve,

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Speaker 1: be proud of it. Make Milwaukee a better place anyway. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry I've taken all your time. You had a

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Speaker 1: question for.

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Speaker 14: Me, sir, I do have a question, Uh, how did

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Speaker 14: you win such a lottery of riches to get this,

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Speaker 14: to get this slot? I mean, this must be the

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Speaker 14: pinnacle of of your entire career. How can you possibly

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Speaker 14: be any happier with with with your success?

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Speaker 1: Oh, Steve, that that is that is actually incredibly kind

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Speaker 1: of you to say and to ask, And from the

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Speaker 1: bottom of my heart, thank you for asking. It does

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Speaker 1: feel like I won the lottery. I so thoroughly enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: And as much as I did love the Morning show,

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Speaker 1: because I would be home when the kids got home

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Speaker 1: from school, I just feel so blessed that when the

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Speaker 1: got home from school, and I was there to coach

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Speaker 1: and all of that, and drive them to golf lessons

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Speaker 1: and violin and all of that. But one of the

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Speaker 1: great luxuries. I read this on Facebook or something right before,

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Speaker 1: right around this time last year, and it was, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of those motivational quotes says, one of the great

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Speaker 1: luxury in life is to have a relaxed morning. And

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Speaker 1: I never understood that until I started doing this show. Oh,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. I'm still running around like a chicken with

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Speaker 1: my head cut off, but at a more relaxed pace.

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Speaker 1: I'm sort of like a chicken with his head cut off.

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Speaker 1: He's sort of resigned to his fate. I don't have

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Speaker 1: to be on the air at nine am. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to have everything done. I don't have to be

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Speaker 1: quote unquote on where I'm funny, I'm insightful, you know,

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Speaker 1: like everybody else, sometimes you have good days and you

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Speaker 1: have bad days. Some days you know, you're like, oh God,

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Speaker 1: I've got so much work I need to do. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to do this, but I can honestly say, Steve,

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Speaker 1: there has never been. There has never been since I

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Speaker 1: started doing a talk show, first at nine am, now

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Speaker 1: at three pm, where I thought, oh, I've got to

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Speaker 1: go into work. I am so dreading this. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget this. One of my best friends, Tim

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Speaker 1: said on my very first full time talk shows, it

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Speaker 1: was January third, twenty seventeen, I said, welcome to my

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Speaker 1: dream come true. And it really has been. This has

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Speaker 1: been everything I've ever wanted to do in my career.

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Speaker 1: If you asked, how did I get this? A lot

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Speaker 1: of work, a lot of midnight to six am on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night radio shifts as a twenty one year old,

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Speaker 1: where I would have much rather been at the bar,

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Speaker 1: A whole lot of nights where everybody else was out

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Speaker 1: partying or studying. I was doing radio. A whole lot

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Speaker 1: of meetings, not at this station, but another one where

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Speaker 1: I was literally called in and told how not funny

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Speaker 1: and not creative I am, and I should just be

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Speaker 1: happy to be reading the news. You deal with a lot.

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Speaker 1: This is a very tough business, and I think just

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Speaker 1: hard work, perseverance and getting to a place here at

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Speaker 1: WYSN and at iHeart meeting where people believed in me,

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Speaker 1: honest to goodness, I'll never forget. Right around Christmas time.

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Speaker 1: It was right around Christmas time twenty twelve, at a

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Speaker 1: meeting with Jerry Bott, just sort of on whatever. We

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Speaker 1: had a mutual friend, Ken Herrera, who is also enjoying retirement.

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Speaker 1: He recommended me for an open position, and Jerry Bott said, look,

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Speaker 1: I know what you want to do. I know how

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Speaker 1: good you are. You don't need to sell me. You

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Speaker 1: may be able to go back to TMJ, and they'll

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Speaker 1: give you more money and they'll promise you. Okay, finally, Dan,

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Speaker 1: you'll be allowed to do a political talk show. Here's

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Speaker 1: what I can offer you. Jay Weber is off on

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Speaker 1: January twentieth and twenty first, I've got you penciled in

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Speaker 1: to fill in for it. I took Christmas break to

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Speaker 1: think about that, and the rest was history. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back with more of your questions. It's ask Dan anything.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas from all of us here on the Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donna Show. You'll have to forgive me, folks if it

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Speaker 1: takes me a little longer to get back from break.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to answer as many of these text and

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Speaker 1: email questions as I can, and I'm having a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun doing it. Here's one, Dan, where did you

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Speaker 1: and your wife go on your first date? Well, seeing

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Speaker 1: as it was twenty five years ago, we saw almost

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Speaker 1: famous in theaters after we went to Madison for freak Fest. Nope,

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Speaker 1: not like that, you perves. It was the annual big

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Speaker 1: Halloween bash that always turned I was in the era

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Speaker 1: where every year Madison's Halloween party for the college kids

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Speaker 1: would turn into a riot, and we were part of

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Speaker 1: the riot. Every single year afterwards. Our first official date

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Speaker 1: that we count as our official date was Seeing almost

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Speaker 1: famous in theaters as a result. Tiny Dancer is still

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Speaker 1: our saw. Let's go to Bernie in Madison. You're on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell show. What's going on? Bernie?

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Speaker 5: How are you?

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Speaker 9: Dan?

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Speaker 10: Quickly?

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Speaker 4: Quick tell me your opinion of the good, the bad,

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Speaker 4: and the ugly regarding Trump's HERA.

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Speaker 1: Of course you've got this question with three and a

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Speaker 1: half minutes left in the I could take three and

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Speaker 1: a half hours to answer this one, Bernie.

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Speaker 4: Uh, I've had friends both on them, both sides of

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Speaker 4: the aisle, you know, four and against it. And then

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Speaker 4: still I think I once, I think I'm on the

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Speaker 4: something that I'm thinking, well maybe not.

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Speaker 1: Well you know why?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean you know why, Bernie, because there are great

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Speaker 1: things about Trump's terif regime, and there are horrible things

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Speaker 1: about Trump's tariff regime. The horrible thing is in the

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Speaker 1: long run, ultimately, I think fundamentally recalibrating our trade relationship

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Speaker 1: with even some of our closest partners was necessary. Trump

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Speaker 1: was absolutely correct when he said nations were taking advantage

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Speaker 1: of US tariffing our goods without any retaliation whatsoever. I

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Speaker 1: also love the fact that, for the first time in

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Speaker 1: the history of the American presidency, a president is using

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Speaker 1: trade and using access to the American marketplace as the weapon,

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Speaker 1: or at least the negotiating chip that it is so

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Speaker 1: in order to get better deals for American manufacturers, for

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Speaker 1: American companies, even if their goods are manufactured elsewhere, to

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Speaker 1: be able to get into foreign markets, you need to

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Speaker 1: play a little hard ball. I am still of the

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Speaker 1: opinion that tariffs ultimately are bad because they are taxes,

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Speaker 1: and the bad part of Trump's tariff regime is that

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Speaker 1: they have kept prices on certain goods artificially high when

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Speaker 1: they don't need to be. Now, of course, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be misinterpreted by the Libs who say, well, down,

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Speaker 1: this is just proof. You just prove that Trump is

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Speaker 1: responsible for the affordability crisis. Yeah, okay, that's maybe five

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Speaker 1: percent of the awardability issues. Ninety five percent is the

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Speaker 1: seventeen thousand dollars extra per year that it costs the

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Speaker 1: and services as it could before Biden took office. Democrats

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Speaker 1: are responsible for inflation, But if you wanted to get

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Speaker 1: prices down and wanted to keep them a little bit

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Speaker 1: lower quicker. A terraf regime right at the outset of

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Speaker 1: a term was not the way to do it. That said,

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Speaker 1: it was clearly necessary so that in the long run,

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Speaker 1: and I think, as evidenced by the fact that gross

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Speaker 1: domestic product in the first quarter of twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: is projected to be somewhere in the neighborhood of five percent,

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Speaker 1: I think that's proof positive that ultimately taking a harder

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Speaker 1: line stance on American trade is probably a good idea.

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Speaker 1: Hope that helps you. Bernie. Hey, speaking of Bernie, how

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Speaker 1: about this real quick question from the text line. As

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Speaker 1: an East Coaster I thought, thought, I remember you doing

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Speaker 1: a superb East Coast accent, either Bernie Sanders or Anthony Fauci.

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Speaker 1: Could you do it on air? Thanks and Merry Christmas. Well,

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Speaker 1: I tell you, I think I do a pretty good

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders. So when you get Christmas gifts, make sure

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Speaker 1: to share them with those less fortunate, unless, of course,

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Speaker 1: you are an actual socialist, then you take everybody's Christmas

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Speaker 1: gifts and give them to your friends. Merry Christmas. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back with more of Ask Dan Anything after the US.

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Speaker 16: And a merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all of you

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Speaker 16: members of DAN Nation, who we love and appreciate all

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Speaker 16: year long, but especially at this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Folks. I have a dream job, and I recognize that

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Speaker 1: each and every day, and I would not have it

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Speaker 1: if not for your love and support, and please understand

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Speaker 1: I do so deeply appreciate it. Each and every year,

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Speaker 1: we sort of pause for one show. We were hoping

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Speaker 1: to get President Trump. Since this is the week, let's

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Speaker 1: face it, the news sort of slows down. Years ago,

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Speaker 1: we decided to start doing an Ask Me Anything show. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this was shamelessly ripped off from the great Jay Weber,

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Speaker 1: who a reminder his final show will be tomorrow. For

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Speaker 1: those who haven't heard, Jay is retiring from the grind

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Speaker 1: of Daily Radio. We announced today Ben Yaut will take

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Speaker 1: his spot six am to nine am. Then it will

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Speaker 1: be Jason Gotch, who for the past couple of months

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Speaker 1: has been filling in admirably for yours truly, Clay and

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Speaker 1: Bucks Day the same eleven to two. Then it's Vicky

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Speaker 1: mcckennth then me, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin before Coast

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Speaker 1: to Coast am overnight. We do it all again each

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Speaker 1: and every weekday on news Talk eleven thirty w I

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Speaker 1: and it is the next generation of WIS and we

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Speaker 1: will have much more on the career of my friend

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Speaker 1: and mentor Jay Weber tomorrow afternoon at three and then

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Speaker 1: of course, The Dan o'donald Show Family Christmas Special premieres

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours from right now at four pm. We

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Speaker 1: are also simultaneously going to release it as a podcast,

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Speaker 1: so you can listen to it live on the radio.

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Speaker 1: You can listen to it commercial free download it. I

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Speaker 1: am in the process of emailing every child and parent

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Speaker 1: who submitted an entry to let them know exactly where

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Speaker 1: in the special that they are so they can listen

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Speaker 1: extra close. But please do listen tomorrow. It is always

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It is a labor of love

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Speaker 1: to put together, a lot of labor, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of love went into it. And at premieres tomorrow here

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Speaker 1: on The Dan o'donald Show. All right, we have had

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Speaker 1: jammed phone lines for pretty much the entire first hour

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Speaker 1: this show. We're going to try to get to as

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Speaker 1: many phone calls as possible. You can also shoot me

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Speaker 1: a text four one for seven, nine, nine, eleven, thirty

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Speaker 1: or in email. I've been having a blaster in commercial breaks,

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Speaker 1: trying to answer each and every question that comes in.

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Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones. Here is a relevant

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Speaker 1: topical one. We go to Dennison, Fox Point up next

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Ask me anything, Dennis Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 1: Dan Merry Christmas, Sir.

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Speaker 8: I was wondering, based on some of you've got a

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Speaker 8: legal background and what's your why didn't Hannah don take

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Speaker 8: a plea deal? She was obviously guilty of obstruction. She

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Speaker 8: offered no evidence of nisis. There was no coherent defense wood,

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Speaker 8: which I mean she had bad advice.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I believe she did well. Frankly, Frankly, I think

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Speaker 1: her lawyers convinced her that they could get a jury

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Speaker 1: nullification verdict where the jury says, yes, yes, okay, she's

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Speaker 1: clearly guilty on the merits of this case. The prosecution

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Speaker 1: did meet its burden of guilt beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Speaker 1: But because we are all from well Fox Point and

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Speaker 1: Whitefish Bay and Shorewood and we hate Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: we hate Ice, we're going to They were clearly trying

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Speaker 1: to get a jury who was going to just set

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Speaker 1: aside all of the facts and rule solely on who

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Speaker 1: Hannah Dugan is, who she was obstructing, and who it

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Speaker 1: would send a message to and being a stick in

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Speaker 1: the eye to Donald Trump if she were to be acquitted.

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Speaker 1: That is my very strong opinion. Dennis again, Merry Christmas,

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Speaker 1: and thank you so very much. All Right, I gotta

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Speaker 1: go to this one fresh off of his appearance on

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Speaker 1: The Clay and Buck Show last week. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: it is Bill from Oconomowalk. Bill, I would have thought

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Speaker 1: you would have been too big time for us since

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Speaker 1: you made your national radio debut.

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Speaker 17: Well call up and wish you merry Christmas number one

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Speaker 17: and number two if you heard me on Clay, I'm

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Speaker 17: kind of going to reiterate that with you. Let's, for

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Speaker 17: twenty twenty six, learn how to debate each other. Let's

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Speaker 17: stop the finger pointing. Let's admit we were better off

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Speaker 17: a year ago than we are now now that we

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Speaker 17: can debate that, but let's just move forward and let's

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Speaker 17: have progress. Let's listen to each other, Let's respect each

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Speaker 17: other no more all these name calling and finger pointing.

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Speaker 2: Can we do that, Dan.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we can do You believe that Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: a pedophile.

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Speaker 17: Bill, I is out in my mind because they're holding

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Speaker 17: back too much information.

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Speaker 2: If they would release that.

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Speaker 1: We're trying so hard. I knew I thought I could

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Speaker 1: get you, Bill. Merry Christmas to you too. By the way,

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Speaker 1: my friend, I really do you are. And I have

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Speaker 1: said this for a you. Bill, You've been called my show,

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Speaker 1: my goodness since like twenty eighteen. You are the one

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Speaker 1: left winger who actually has the courage of his convictions

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Speaker 1: to call up and talk. And I will forever respect

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Speaker 1: that about you, Bill, I'll say this, You're insane if

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Speaker 1: you think things were better off last year than they

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Speaker 1: are right now. I mean, the border is completely shut down.

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Speaker 1: Violent crime is down compared to last year. We have

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Speaker 1: a projected gross domestic product reading of about five percent.

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Speaker 1: Real wages are up. The inflation rate for the last

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Speaker 1: month data was available for I believe that was November

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Speaker 1: came in much lower than expected at two point seven percent.

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Speaker 1: By every metric, if whether it's economical, we have had

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Speaker 1: how many different international peace agreements? Iran no longer has

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Speaker 1: a nuclear facility. By every objective measure, Bill, we are

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Speaker 1: in fact better off than we were just twelve months ago.

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Speaker 1: I would like to debate a little more, but we

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Speaker 1: do have President Trump now speaking at mar A Lago.

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Speaker 1: Let's check in with him.

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Speaker 18: These cutting edge vessels will be some of the most

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Speaker 18: lethal surface warfare ships. It will be actually the most

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Speaker 18: ever built. Other than our submarines we have Submoran.

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Speaker 1: President Trump just very quickly for contexts. He is announcing

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Speaker 1: a Trump Class of battleship that the United States Navy

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Speaker 1: is deploying, putting into production. He's providing details about that.

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Speaker 19: Largest battleship in the history of our country, the largest

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Speaker 19: battleship in the history of the world ever built. And

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Speaker 19: again it's one hundred times more powerful than the previous

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Speaker 19: Iowa class it's called. Those are the big ones that

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Speaker 19: you'd see on a show Victory at Sea.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone seeing Victory at Sea, but it.

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Speaker 15: Was a classic.

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Speaker 18: They'll help maintain American military supremacy, revive the American shipbuilding industry,

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Speaker 18: and inspire fear in America's enemies all the world. We

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Speaker 18: want respect, We're going to have it. We already have

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Speaker 18: it more respected now that we ever were. A year

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Speaker 18: and a half ago. They laughed at us. Now they

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Speaker 18: respect us again at levels that they've never respected us.

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Speaker 18: We envisioned that these two ships, we're talking about ten,

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Speaker 18: but we're going to start with two, and we're going

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Speaker 18: to quickly morph into ten, and ultimately we think it's

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Speaker 18: going to be anywhere from twenty to twenty five of these.

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Speaker 18: But we're starting with the first two immediately, and we're

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Speaker 18: going to then be very quickly involved with I think

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Speaker 18: we're going to do another eight, and then we're going

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Speaker 18: to ultimately and pretty quickly have a total of about

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Speaker 18: twenty to twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Will make that determination.

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Speaker 18: We envisioned that these ships will be the first of

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Speaker 18: a whole new class of battleships to be produced in

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Speaker 18: the years to come. From Theodore Roosevelt the Great White Fleet,

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Speaker 18: you remember that, the Great White Fleet, to the legendary

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Speaker 18: USS Missouri whose massive guns helped win World War Two.

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Speaker 18: America's battleships have always been unmistakable symbols of national power.

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Speaker 18: We scept making them for whatever reason, I don't know,

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Speaker 18: And I want to congratulate John Thalen, who is your

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Speaker 18: secretary secretary of the name.

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Speaker 1: He came to me the first day we met.

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Speaker 18: He talked about battleships, and I said, you're absolutely on

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Speaker 18: the right track. He said, why are we doing other things?

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Speaker 18: We have missiles which are much more expensive. By the way,

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Speaker 18: these battleships have tremendous numbers of missiles, but they also

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Speaker 18: have guns, and in many ways, guns can do the

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Speaker 18: trick just as well as missiles.

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Speaker 1: That are President Trump talking about the new Trump Class

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Speaker 1: of battleship that he says are going to be the

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Speaker 1: biggest ever. They are going to be the biggest battleships

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Speaker 1: America and the world have ever seen. He's going to

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Speaker 1: start with the manufacture of two that is going to

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Speaker 1: expand to eventually ten Trump Class battleships. We will continue

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Speaker 1: to monitor the president. Any other news that is broken

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Speaker 1: from there, we will of course pass it along. We

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Speaker 1: now go to Dave Spauno to help you know the difference.

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Speaker 1: And since this is a very special show, Dave, if

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Speaker 1: we call this ask Dan anything. You are now being

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Speaker 1: roped in to ask Dave anything. Are you ready to go?

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Speaker 11: I'm ready?

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Speaker 14: Bring it on.

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Speaker 11: Following DJT that's wee you.

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Speaker 1: This, this this is how we roll?

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Speaker 15: All right?

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Speaker 1: How big is this Santa Claus rally going to be?

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Speaker 11: Yeah? Great question.

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Speaker 20: So the Santa Claus rally, as as defined, is really

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Speaker 20: the last number of trading days. By the way, how

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Speaker 20: is this a lea one answers? Or can I can

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Speaker 20: I pontificate?

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Speaker 1: Pontificate a little buddy, I've been doing it for an

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Speaker 1: hour and fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 11: All right, Okay, I'm gonna give you a break.

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Speaker 20: So the last five days of trading and really the

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Speaker 20: couple of days is really how the Santa Claus rally

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Speaker 20: is defined. And generally what happens is, you know, there's

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Speaker 20: some technical reasons why it happens, but what it is

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Speaker 20: is there's funding that happens. People do some rebalancing. They

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Speaker 20: you know, there's some pension funding that begins the beginning

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Speaker 20: of the year, and so most of the time you

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Speaker 20: see a positive rally and it kind of sets the

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Speaker 20: tone for twenty twenty six. But these five trading days

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Speaker 20: should not set your portfolio allocation. It could be minor,

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Speaker 20: you know, generally three to four percent. But as you

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Speaker 20: pointed out to your caller the other just a minute ago,

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Speaker 20: the GDP report is expected to be above five percent

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Speaker 20: in twenty twenty six, So that's solid GDP growth. Inflation

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Speaker 20: is supposed to come down. FED rates are supposed to

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Speaker 20: come down. So there's a lot of positive stories setting

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Speaker 20: up the conversation for early twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: All right, here's another question, and it's a random one.

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Speaker 1: Best Christmas movie of all time?

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Speaker 20: Uh, I don't think there's much you know, even you

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Speaker 20: think for me, what it has to be is it's

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Speaker 20: a wonderful life.

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Speaker 11: And why because while.

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Speaker 20: You talk about the bank fail, you remember the line

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Speaker 20: where Jimmy Stewart comes in and they said, well what happened?

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Speaker 20: And they said, well, it's not if the bank's not here,

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Speaker 20: it's not in the it's not in the safe.

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Speaker 11: One of the one of the great lions of all time.

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Speaker 1: All Right, I should have I should have figured the

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Speaker 1: guy in finance, it's a wonderful life. Of course, you know.

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Speaker 1: You want to know something. My beautiful wife had never

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Speaker 1: seen It's a Wonderful Life until we went to the

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Rep. They do a live radio play of It's

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Speaker 1: a Wonderful Life, and the cast of five it's three men,

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Speaker 1: two women. They do all of the sound effects, play

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Speaker 1: all of the music live, and voice all of the characters.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely spectacular. I forgot to recommend it the day

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Speaker 1: after we went. Now's a good enough time if you

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Speaker 1: are looking to do something tonight tomorrow. They might be

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Speaker 1: sold out because it's at the Stackner Cabaret. I almost

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Speaker 1: said Stackner Cabernet. I had a couple of cabernets while

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Speaker 1: I was watching the play. It is obviously for me

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Speaker 1: as a radio guy and someone who grew up listening

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Speaker 1: to the Jimmy Stewart radio play that we play here

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Speaker 1: on w i S and Christmas even Christmas Day. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. She never saw it, and she said, Wow,

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Speaker 1: what an incredible story. So I think on Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 1: after the kids go to bed, I am going to

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Speaker 1: show her it's a wonderful life for the very first

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Speaker 1: time my person.

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Speaker 11: Second, he's got to be a White Christmas. I mean,

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Speaker 11: I just call it again.

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Speaker 1: You are a man of the classics.

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Speaker 11: Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kay singing the dancing. There

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Speaker 11: you go, all right.

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Speaker 1: I'll have a I'll have a confession there. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I've ever seen White Christmas all the way through.

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Speaker 1: I might have. I might have when my grandma and

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Speaker 1: Grandpa would watch it. And I think I watched it

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Speaker 1: all the way through when I was eleven or twelve,

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Speaker 1: but don't really remember it. All right, all right, if

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Speaker 1: we're not sound asleep after It's a wonderful life for

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Speaker 1: me because I'm such a millennial and I was nine

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Speaker 1: when it came out. It's got to be Home Alone.

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Speaker 1: To me, Home Alone is the ultimate Christmas movie. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know, it's a wonderful life. A Christmas story is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: National Lampoons, Christmas Vacation, Elf, What are some other ones

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Speaker 1: that people love?

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Speaker 11: You're an angry little Elf.

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Speaker 1: You're an angry You're an angry little What's weird is

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Speaker 1: I came home. I came home to take a shower.

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Speaker 1: I was running some errands in the morning, and my

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Speaker 1: kids just had National Lampoons, Christmas Vacation and Elf on

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Speaker 1: HBO Max just going back to back to back. I

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Speaker 1: think it is still playing on my TV. Hey, Dave,

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Speaker 1: have yourself a wonderful, magical Christmas time. I am so

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00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: grateful to have you, not just as as a partner

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Speaker 1: in this show, but also as a very dear friend.

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Speaker 1: And Merry Christmas to you and your wonderful family.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, to you and all your listeners as well. Enjoy

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Speaker 11: and I'll talk to you soon. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, my friend, he is Dave Spono annexwealth dot com.

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Speaker 1: You have got questions about taxes, You've got questions about

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Speaker 1: highly enough. All right, let's go right back out to

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Speaker 1: the phones. Let's see. I can't wait so, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: we have Tom and Moskeigo. I can't see because of

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Speaker 1: the positioning of my camera. Who's been waiting for the longest.

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Speaker 1: Tom and Miskeigo waiting an hour, sir, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your patients. Merry Christmas, and welcome to the Dan O'Donnell Show.

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Speaker 14: Well, Merry Christmas to you, Dan. And I'm sitting here painting.

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Speaker 14: I'm in the landlord and I'm repainting an apartment and nice.

897
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Speaker 14: It's nice to listen to you while I'm working.

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that very much, Tom, thank you so much.

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Speaker 14: So my question is is I'm I'm kind of a

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Speaker 14: news guy and I've always been curious that the January

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Speaker 14: sixth protesters, a lot of them claim they were treated terribly, Yeah, tortured,

902
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Speaker 14: just not you know, the law wasn't on their side.

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Speaker 14: They were, you know, malnourished, wasn't be able to get

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Speaker 14: the normal rights as a as a prisoner would be.

905
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Speaker 14: And especially since Trump pardon them, I don't hear any

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Speaker 14: stories of like their experience. He would think that with

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Speaker 14: them being pardon they could freely talk and say, here's

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Speaker 14: what really happened. You know, I know it's in d

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Speaker 14: C very liberal, but have you heard of any any

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Speaker 14: of the defendants saying, you know, this is what happened

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Speaker 14: to me.

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Speaker 1: Tom a lot of them right after they finally were

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Speaker 1: allowed to speak with councils as in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: twenty two, they were finally being let out of that

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Speaker 1: goolog in DC. They were talking. The issue is the

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Speaker 1: left wing media still is the dominant player in information dissemination.

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Speaker 1: There's been a democratization of that through podcasts and through

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Speaker 1: independent news organizations. Talk radio chipped a very big dent

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Speaker 1: with the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Belling and

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Speaker 1: Jay and now continuing to this day. So there are

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00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 1: alternative conservative media sources, but if you aren't tuned to

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Speaker 1: the right podcast where they'll have a forty five minute

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Speaker 1: interview with a few January six ers or Jay six ers.

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Speaker 1: You're just not going to hear about that, because what

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Speaker 1: happened to those people, regardless of what you think about

926
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Speaker 1: January sixth, if you think it was a horrible riot,

927
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Speaker 1: if you think it was an insurrection, whatever it was,

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00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: they were very clearly deprived of their civil liberties without

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Speaker 1: due process of law for a long long time. And

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Speaker 1: there are people in power in Washington, d c. And

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Speaker 1: in the national media, Tom that do not want you

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Speaker 1: to know about that, that do not want you to

933
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Speaker 1: know about left wing overreach and how a whole lot

934
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Speaker 1: of these were in fact political persecutions, not prosecutions, but persecutions.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian in Port Washington. You're on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'donald's show. Brian, Merry Christmas. Ask me anything, Hey Christmas?

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Speaker 21: Yeah, Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 5: Dan.

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Speaker 21: Hey, you know, I was curious. I happened to be

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Speaker 21: one of those guys that was fortunate enough to kind of,

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Speaker 21: you know, introduce myself to you as you did some

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Speaker 21: work on your house, and it was okay, it was

943
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Speaker 21: a great process, So I really appreciate it. You're a

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Speaker 21: very nice guy in person as well. Oh but my curiosity.

945
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 21: I've got two questions. Okay, what tab on your landscape?

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Speaker 21: Because I know there's a lot of zeros there and

947
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Speaker 21: then and then beyond that. Sure, do you regret narrowing

948
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Speaker 21: down your driveway?

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Speaker 8: Do?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Brian? I gotta ask, okay, because I actually recognize

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Speaker 1: your voice. What what? What work did you do? You did? Okay,

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Speaker 1: you did do the concrete? Do I regret that?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. So the city came we had this wonderful plan, right,

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Speaker 1: we have this wonderful plan to do now I Brian,

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Speaker 1: Now I completely place you. Yes, that it was wonderful

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Speaker 1: chatting with you while you guys were working. What a professional.

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Speaker 1: I would love to mention the name of it, but

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Speaker 1: there are all sorts of rules that you know, it's Plugola.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I'm even allowed to set you

961
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But soffice it to say, your

962
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Speaker 1: company did excellent work. We love it. Halfway through the job,

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Speaker 1: the city comes in and says, well, hey, you have

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Speaker 1: to do this completely weird, looking hideous, like it almost

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Speaker 1: made our driveway look like a wine bottle. We come back,

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Speaker 1: We're like what's this. So we had to get the

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Speaker 1: city back out there to say, okay, we could do

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Speaker 1: because you have to put concrete over the drainage pipes

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Speaker 1: the culverts, right, And we said, well, what if we

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Speaker 1: just cut the culvert down, would that be okay and

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Speaker 1: put concrete over, and they said, yeah, yeah, that's totally fine.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, why didn't you ask us? Why did

973
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: you just say, all right, you have to widen the driveway.

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Speaker 1: So that was the pain in the butt. To answer

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Speaker 1: your question, Yeah, we did a lot. The landscapers are

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Speaker 1: actually friends, longtime friends of my wife's family, so they

977
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Speaker 1: have done work on their house or brother's house, the business.

978
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Speaker 1: They have gotten so much business from my brother in

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Speaker 1: law's neighborhood, just referrals because they did such a wonderful job.

980
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: So we were very fortunate to have them. And the

981
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: deck guys, they're all sort of in the same like universe.

982
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: They all know each other, and they all they all

983
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Speaker 1: took great care of us just because you know, our

984
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: family had done so mucht it. It it was a

985
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Speaker 1: lot of money, not gonna lie, it was it was it.

986
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: It pained me a great deal, but it's like, you

987
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: know what, what my wife and I told ourselves through

988
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: the home building process, We're only going to do this once,

989
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: and since it almost killed both of us were definitely

990
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: only going to do this once. Uh but my goodness,

991
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,479
Speaker 1: the cost of everything is just it does not matter.

992
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 1: And you guys, I mean the concrete. I was shocked

993
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,560
Speaker 1: at how inexpensive the concrete was. I was I was

994
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: more shocked by how much sod costs Now, my goodness,

995
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 1: it's dirty grass, it's grass rolled up. How much could

996
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: that possibly cost? Anyway, Brian, thank you again for all

997
00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 1: the great work you guys did, and Merry Christmas to

998
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 1: you and to your family. We will get to more

999
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: of your questions. It's asked Dan anything, and it's coming

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00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back to the Dano Donald Show. It

1001
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Speaker 1: is ask Dan anything. The more random, the better. Like

1002
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: this from Jim in Kimberly. You're on the Dan o'

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Speaker 1: donald show.

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00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 21: Hey Dan, longtime listener and first time caller, and Merry Christmas.

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00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you too, sir.

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00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 5: Thank you.

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00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 21: My question is why do you pronounce the word often

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00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 21: as austen.

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00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 1: Because you can pronounce it either way.

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00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 21: Oh really, I was always told that you're the tea

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01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 21: is always silent, and.

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01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: I know how much I mean, the tea is often silent.

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01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 1: But you see what I did there? I don't know,

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01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: to be honest, you know, it's like people people will

1015
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,919
Speaker 1: occasionally ask me like, hey, why why do you say

1016
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: this or why do you pronounce this? I don't know.

1017
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: It's just something that I've always done.

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01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 21: I I just I've never heard this from anybody before

1019
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 21: that there's a multiple ways of pronouncing that work.

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01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: Well, let's see, let's take a look. How do you

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01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 1: pronounce Often you can pronounce the tea and often, but

1022
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 1: it is often silent, like in often that's what Google says.

1023
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. I guess I never I

1024
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: never thought about that. Uh, nor did I ever really notice.

1025
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: But thank you very much. See, this is the sort

1026
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: of stuff that I love getting. I don't know. That

1027
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: honestly stuffed me often often I don't know. I guess

1028
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: it's just something I picked up along the way and

1029
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: never stopped doing it. Let's go to Jeff in Waterford

1030
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:21,400
Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell's show. What's up, Jeff Merry Christmas?

1031
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 7: Do you.

1032
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 21: Hey, Dan?

1033
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 15: Merry Christmas?

1034
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 9: Thanks for taking a call.

1035
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 1: You bet.

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01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 9: Two questions, one serious one maybe not so much, right right, quick,

1037
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 9: all right? For all the good in the big beautiful bill,

1038
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 9: one thing that is in there that is going to

1039
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 9: affect most, if not all, businesses in America is the

1040
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 9: elimination of the fifty deduction for meals and entertainment and

1041
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 9: stuff like that. For businesses taking clients, like if you

1042
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 9: provide snacks, water, whatever for your employees, that was one

1043
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 9: hundred percent introductible. The TCJA took it away to fifty percent.

1044
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,439
Speaker 9: The BBB makes it zero percent. Yeah, I have yet

1045
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 9: to hear you talk about that, and that is I

1046
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 9: think that is a big business thing. And then I'll

1047
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 9: give you my follow up and I'll let you answer

1048
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 9: number one.

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01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 14: All right, ideal, what's happening with the mark?

1050
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: So my guess is what I've known forever is that

1051
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: the IRS has been concerned, and I don't think improperly,

1052
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: that the entertainment credit has been grossly misused, that people

1053
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: are going like business owners, people are putting stuff on

1054
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: the corporate credit card. Oh yes, it's a business expense.

1055
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 1: Oh I'm taking this guy out to lunch when it

1056
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: really isn't. And honestly, how could you ever prove it?

1057
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 1: How could you ever disprove it? Like, let's say, for example, Jeff,

1058
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: you you have Jeff's Broadcasting company and.

1059
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 2: I'm the company.

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01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 9: Dan, what's that I own a business?

1061
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: Okay? But I'm saying for my example, I was going

1062
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: to say you were going to take me out to lunch?

1063
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: But okay, yes, I figured since this is a very

1064
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: specific question, Jeff, that you own a business. Uh So,

1065
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: how would I? Okay, so I guess I'll just I'll

1066
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 1: just ask you straight out, how would I, as an

1067
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:21,479
Speaker 1: IRS agent, ever prove that you took a client out

1068
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: to dinner and not your wife.

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01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 9: Well, my wife is also an owner in the business.

1070
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 1: Well okay, but your friend or if you took me

1071
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: out just as a social thing.

1072
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Speaker 9: Right, But here's the thing that is still fifty percent

1073
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Speaker 9: productible if it's business building. Okay, But like for my

1074
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Speaker 9: small business, we're a five person company, right, I provide

1075
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Speaker 9: like bottled water and gatorade and breakfast snacks for my

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Speaker 9: guys to have in the office. Sure, and you know

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Speaker 9: I write off half of that. Okay, you know I'm

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Speaker 9: not a large company. But if you think about it

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Speaker 9: on the on the grand scale, Microsoft, Google all these

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Speaker 9: huge companies, they have full on cafeterias, yeah, where they

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Speaker 9: provide ice cream machines and whatever as basically as a

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Speaker 9: benefit to their employees or a workplace enhancer, and all

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Speaker 9: of that deduction is now going away. How is that

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Speaker 9: a good thing for business?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not saying it's necessarily a good thing for business.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I probably on balance, I think the fifty

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Speaker 1: percent compromise was probably good. But what I can tell

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Speaker 1: you from a policy perspective, it's that there is a

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Speaker 1: belief that there's a whole lot of revenue that is

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Speaker 1: not coming in because it's been misused.

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Speaker 9: And you know what, I will say this, I know

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Speaker 9: business owners that swim in the gray and probably do

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Speaker 9: take advantage of things like you know, you're almost And

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Speaker 9: I'm not saying you're advt hating for it. I just

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Speaker 9: think I think it's a huge story. I think the

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Speaker 9: IRS records said it's going to bring in seven billion

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Speaker 9: over ten years. When you're thirty seven trillion in debt,

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Speaker 9: seven billion over ten years, what are we really doing?

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, Jeff, I think you would

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Speaker 1: I think you would agree that this impacts you far

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Speaker 1: more than say the average person. Right, So you're hot

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Speaker 1: about this because obviously you want the tax deduction. I

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01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: don't necessarily disagree with that. But in terms of like

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Speaker 1: the larger picture with respect to what we're taking in

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Speaker 1: in tax revenue, the idea has always been to try

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Speaker 1: to get as much honest revenue in there. And I

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Speaker 1: mean by your own admission, and I can tell you

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Speaker 1: just there there is a lot of swimming in the

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01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: gray area. Oh, this is a business expense. Wink wink.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily have a big problem. All right, we

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Speaker 1: do have to move on. What was your second question, Jeff?

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Speaker 15: Second question?

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Speaker 9: Do you have any idea if there is going to

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01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 9: be a well, it was the Mark Belling Year event

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01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 9: with end of you know, are you taking that over?

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Speaker 8: That was?

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Speaker 1: That was Marks? That was Mark's baby. I you know,

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Speaker 1: I was. I was thinking about saying, hey on some day.

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Speaker 1: I thought if if Mark wanted to do it, obviously

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Speaker 1: he would be more than welcome to. I always take

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Speaker 1: the week between Christmas and New Year's off anyway. It's

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Speaker 1: not something I just I'll be honest with you, folks.

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01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: I it takes so much to put together that family

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Speaker 1: Christmas special that I can't also be writing hundreds and

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Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of trivia questions, although I suppose I

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01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: could theoretically just have AI do it and bang it

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01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: out in about forty five seconds, but that was always

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Speaker 1: Mark's thing, and if he wants to do it again,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the three to six slot is always open

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01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: to him, but I think he sees that as part

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01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 1: of his radio show. And his radio show is over

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01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: and now obviously Viva the Mark Belling Podcast. But I

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01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 1: don't know. If we have an opportunity, I would love

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01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,479
Speaker 1: I frankly, folks, I was like the number one fan

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01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: of the Mark Belling Year End Current Events quiz. So

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01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: I hope more than any of you that it comes back.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question, though, Jeff, about the about the

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Speaker 1: entertainment deduction. It really is because it's something that I

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01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: think doesn't have broad application. I was sort of, you know,

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Speaker 1: you get these executive briefs about what it is, the

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01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: One Big Beautiful Bill. I remember reading about that when

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01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,760
Speaker 1: the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July, saying oh huh,

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01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 1: that's interesting, and then reading some of the justification for it.

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01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 1: I again, I mean, if we're up to me, businesses

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01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 1: would be taxed at a far far, far far far

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01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: lower level. And I think obviously, as you do, that

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01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: government attempts to soak business so that it can spend

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01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 1: and fritter away money on pet projects and attempting to

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01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: buy votes of people who aren't contributing in nearly the

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01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: same amount. But hey, that's a different topic for a

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01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: different day. Right now, we are taking as many questions

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01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,600
Speaker 1: as we can't ask Dan anything. You're listening to the

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01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:21,400
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. We will be right back after this.

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01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:28,679
Speaker 1: Back to the phones we go. It is ask Dan

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01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:34,720
Speaker 1: anything where quite literally, you can ask me anything. And

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01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,759
Speaker 1: we go back to the phones. We talk with Tim

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01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 1: in Madison. If I could get him on the air.

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Speaker 1: There we go, Tim, you're on the air. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show. And Merry Christmas to.

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Speaker 15: You, sir, Yeah, thank you Dan, and merry Christmas to

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01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:48,920
Speaker 15: you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,799
Speaker 15: My question is to you, I'm a truck driver. Yeah,

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01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 15: I reside in Monomine Falls. But like what I call,

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01:08:57,520 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 15: I told you I was a Madison but.

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Speaker 1: In you're in Madison now hopefully you'll be home right.

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01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 15: Yeah, hopefully I'm a local driver.

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Speaker 1: Oh Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 15: Loaded anyway, My question is to you, I know they're

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01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 15: passing this law or whatever. Anything over forty hours of

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01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 15: overtime you don't get taxed for, right, But my question

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01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 15: is I work for a company and there's many other

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01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 15: companies out there that do this, and they've done it

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01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 15: for years that they don't pay overtime. We get straight pay.

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Speaker 15: And I'm an hourly person and I work sixty three

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01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,720
Speaker 15: to sixty five hours a week Monday through Friday, and

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Speaker 15: they don't pay us overtime. It's all straight pay now.

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Speaker 15: And my question is anything over forty hours, whether you

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01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 15: make overtime or you get straight paid like I doing,

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01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 15: many other drivers do they still not get paid have

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Speaker 15: to pay taxes on that.

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Speaker 1: Then, boy, that is a really good question. So you're

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01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 1: an out, yes, yeah, it's it sounds like you need

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01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: to be. You might need to be talking to a

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01:10:06,479 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: labor lawyer. I'll be honest with you.

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01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 15: Go ahead, drive companies, driving companies. I started driving when

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01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 15: I was in ninety two. When I got out of it,

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01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 15: I was in it for a long time, got out

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Speaker 15: of it, and I just started back up again in

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Speaker 15: twenty eleven, and I've been with a couple other companies

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01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 15: since then and to this day, there's a lot of

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Speaker 15: companies out there that do not pay overtime. There's only

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01:10:30,160 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 15: a handful of them out.

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01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:34,160
Speaker 1: So you're asking, are they of a law.

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Speaker 15: I don't know. If that, I don't believe that.

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01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: I don't think there is.

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Speaker 15: There's a lot of passed or something that they don't

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Speaker 15: have to for whatever reason. There's a little blipped somewhere.

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Speaker 1: That is a great question that you know what. I'm sure, Tim,

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01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,799
Speaker 1: I'm sure. If anybody has an answer, shoot me a text.

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01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,519
Speaker 1: I wish I had a better answer for you. I

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01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: don't know, and that is a great question. I will admit, Tim,

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01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know enough about labor laws.

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01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:08,680
Speaker 1: It pertains to that whether you are required as an

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01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: hourly worker. For example, I'm under contract, so I'm contracted

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01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 1: at an annual rate, so it doesn't matter how many

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01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 1: hours I work. But if you are getting, say forty

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01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:26,760
Speaker 1: dollars an hour, and you are, are you subject therefore

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01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: to state and federal law where you are required or

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: are truckers except I will admit I'm not as well

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01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: versed in the law. Employment law is not something I

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01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 1: really would consider myself very well versed in so I'm

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01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 1: ashamed to say I don't know Tim, but I'm sure

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01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: somebody does have an answer, and I'm sure they will

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01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 1: text me. Like, for example, our last caller wanted to

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01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 1: know about why he's going to have to pay the

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01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 1: full about he's not going to get reimbursed for providing

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01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: snacks and stuff for his employees. I actually had a

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01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: corporate tax attorney text me up and say, hey, Dan,

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01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: I think that guy should be classifying those as office

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01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: supplies because they clearly are that doesn't fall under the

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01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 1: entertainment and meal exemption. He should still be paying one. So,

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Speaker 1: sir Jeff, I believe his name was, please do consult

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01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: a tax attorney before this, but I think you can

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01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: still claim those as full deductible expenses. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Victor in Sun Prairie. Victor, you're on the Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 14: Hey Dan, thanks for taking my call. Merry Christmas.

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01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you too, sir.

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01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:43,799
Speaker 14: Thank you listen. I've listened to a lot of talk radio,

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01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 14: a healthy amount. I'm a brand new listener to your show.

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01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 14: I enjoy it very much.

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01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: Well, thank you.

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01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 14: So this first time ever recalled the show.

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01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 1: Oh really, you're kidding me. So you literally are a

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01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: first time caller, longtime listener.

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01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 14: That's for sure, a new listener to your program. But

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01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 14: I've enjoyed it very much.

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01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, sir. What's your question?

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01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 22: So?

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01:13:08,240 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 14: I grew up in the Sun Prairie area, and I

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01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 14: returned recently for work, and I did a little kind

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01:13:14,720 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 14: of nostalgic tour around my hometown and was driving past

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01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 14: my schools in the Sun Prairie School District. The American

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01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:27,799
Speaker 14: flag on top of the flag pole, the state flag next,

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01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 14: and then the lbg Qford flag.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, Victor, the Sun Prairie School

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01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:38,240
Speaker 1: District has changed quite a bit since you were there, sir.

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01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: It is one of the more reliably left wing school

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01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:43,759
Speaker 1: districts in this entire state.

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01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 22: Yeah.

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01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 14: I guess my question to you, though, is dan is,

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01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:55,120
Speaker 14: how is a publicly tacked school district allowed to and

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01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 14: I would say that this amounts to discrimination?

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01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: Well, no, Victor, No, they will say this is a celebration.

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01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: This is you see, this is this is this is

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: celebrating all people, and this is this is affirmation. Now,

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01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: if you would ever ask them to fly, say, oh,

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01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know a thin blue line flag,

1259
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: an American flag with that thin blue line to show

1260
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:24,120
Speaker 1: support for comps. Oh no, no, we couldn't possibly do that,

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01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 1: Victor your mouth to God's ears. I have no idea

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01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 1: why they're allowed to fly those under any flag code. Basically,

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01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,720
Speaker 1: when liberals are in charge, they kind of write their

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01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:41,679
Speaker 1: own rules, and because they have media cover, the only

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01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:43,760
Speaker 1: people who ever calls them out on stuff like that

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01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: is me or people like me, they feel like they

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01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: can get away with it. I wish I had a

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01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: better answer for you, but that is the God's honest truth.

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01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: Why do they fly those flags? Because they can and

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01:14:55,920 --> 01:15:00,120
Speaker 1: because they want to stick your nose in it, That's why.

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Speaker 1: And we wish all of Dan Nation, our loyal listener family,

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01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: are very merry Christmas as well. Welcome back to the

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01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: Dan O Donald Show five o'clock hour. Ask me anything continues.

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01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: It's an annual tradition right around Christmas time. I'm not

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01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:22,240
Speaker 1: even sure how it started. I know Jay Webber, who

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01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:26,200
Speaker 1: is ending his broadcast radio career tomorrow before he rides

1277
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: off into retirement, only to resurface in a couple of

1278
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: months with a two day a week podcast that he

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01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:35,679
Speaker 1: will be producing for iHeart Radio. He started doing ask

1280
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: Me Anything hours and then I just sort of shamelessly

1281
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: imitated him. I don't even know. I think people were

1282
01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: asking me to do and ask Me anything, and I said, ah,

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01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll do it right around Christmas because

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01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 1: typically now is the time where there really isn't a

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01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: whole lot of news that breaks. Congress is on its

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01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: Christmas break, so too is the state legislature. President Trump

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Speaker 1: is already down at Marl Law Go for Christmas, and

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Speaker 1: we thought, you know what, let's just let's have some fun.

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Speaker 1: Let's just interact with listeners and just talk about whatever

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Speaker 1: it is that's on your mind. Sorry, I just dropped

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Speaker 1: my pen. I've kind of taken notes on some of

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Speaker 1: the questions that come in so I can answer them later. Like,

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Speaker 1: for example, we had this one in the These are

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Speaker 1: some ones that I could answer in much longer form

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Speaker 1: like this. These are questions I got from the ivetnows

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Speaker 1: dot com talking text line. We have had jammed phone

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Speaker 1: lines for quite some time, so your best bet to

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Speaker 1: get me a question, and I am trying to answer

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Speaker 1: every single one that comes in via text to shoot

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Speaker 1: me a text four one, four, seven, nine to nine.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, eleven thirty. Here's one that I got a

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Speaker 1: couple of hours ago. How do you encourage or light

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Speaker 1: a fire under your twenty year old son to get

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Speaker 1: a better paying job and become a productive adult? Boy?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, where do I go with that one? There

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Speaker 1: are a million different ways, but ultimately trust that eventually

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Speaker 1: he will. Eventually, everybody grows up at their own pace.

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Speaker 1: Some need a swifter kick in that you know where

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Speaker 1: to do so, but ultimately everybody does. And it's it's

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Speaker 1: very difficult to be a young man, especially a young

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Speaker 1: man in twenty twenty five, when you're constantly told, especially

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Speaker 1: if you happen to be the wrong race, that you

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Speaker 1: are responsible for all of the world's evil according to

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Speaker 1: the political and cultural left. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you saw, but there was a huge scandal coming out

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Speaker 1: of elite universities academia where there were just positions that

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Speaker 1: were not being filled by white men. And in fact,

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Speaker 1: there have been emails that they said, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to higher a like guy. I mean what, that's insanely unlawful.

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Speaker 1: So just trust, don't worry your son, dear listener, will

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Speaker 1: eventually get a better paying job, will move forward in life.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's at that age you feel like the

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Speaker 1: weight of the world is on your shoulders. I can

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Speaker 1: remember feeling it myself, and you can almost be so

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Speaker 1: stressed that your defense mechanism is in action. But eventually

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Speaker 1: everything has a funny way of working out. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know that's not concrete, step by step advice, but

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Speaker 1: it's be a good parent, be a good mom, be

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Speaker 1: a good dad, be a friend to them, be a

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Speaker 1: stern voice when they need it, be a motivator. In short,

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Speaker 1: just be a parent, and eventually things will work out

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Speaker 1: for them. Let's go to Dan in mechwan, ask me anything. Dad,

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Speaker 1: you're on the program. Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 22: Merry Christmas, Dan, thanks for taking my phone call. I

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Speaker 22: got a question for you. This is going back in

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Speaker 22: time a little bit. The last election we had, uh,

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Speaker 22: there were tapes. There were a security tape that was

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Speaker 22: that would open or off on the adding machines, the

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Speaker 22: balant adding machines in.

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Speaker 17: The Milwaukee Yep, did yeah?

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Speaker 22: Was there any feat was and the cameras in the

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Speaker 22: room and they made it sound like they could figure

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Speaker 22: this out. Was did I miss an episode. Is there

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Speaker 22: any feedback on how that happened?

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Speaker 1: They beg in trouble was, if I remember correctly, there

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Speaker 1: was an innocuous explanation for it. It wasn't that someone

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Speaker 1: was trying to get into the machines early. It was

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Speaker 1: that someone thought that they were supposed to be doing

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Speaker 1: something that wasn't supposed to be done until later. The

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Republican Party was there. I'm sure my friend Hilario

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Speaker 1: de lyone of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, who is

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Speaker 1: the one who actually discovered this, would be able to

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Speaker 1: fill me in. But it was. It was not a

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Speaker 1: scandalous thing. It was obviously there was a lot of confusion,

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Speaker 1: but if memory serves, it was not some nefarious reason.

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Speaker 1: It was it was a completely just random Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the explanation. Now that we've got it fixed, let's

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Speaker 1: count these ballots. Let's go to cecil or Cecil in Shorewood.

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Speaker 1: You are on the Dan o'donald Show, Sir. Welcome to it.

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Speaker 9: Hi, Hi Dan, Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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Speaker 1: You two, sir.

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Speaker 6: My question is how do we make the people in

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Speaker 6: this country aware of.

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Speaker 9: The fred and that.

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Speaker 23: It's being controlled by outside it's mainly creditors to the

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Speaker 23: fact and being.

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Speaker 1: The Federal Reserve. How do we make people aware, Frankly.

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Speaker 18: You make people aware that that is say that's it's

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Speaker 18: say so with banking system, it's it's cessile.

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Speaker 1: Fortunately, so a lot of a lot of what you hear,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming on podcasts and stuff about the Rothschild family

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Speaker 1: and all of that, it is completely overblown. Uh, the

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Speaker 1: the idea that there is one family of secret trillionaires

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Speaker 1: uh that secretly controls everything. First of all, it really

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Speaker 1: is and I don't say this lightly, it is rooted

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Speaker 1: in a lot of the anti Semitic nonsense that you're

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Speaker 1: starting to hear, unfortunately from people like Candice Owens. The

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Speaker 1: Rothschild family, while wealthy, does not have nearly the controlled

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Speaker 1: nor influence that you think it does, and they have

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Speaker 1: become a very popular boogeyman, much like do you remember

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Speaker 1: the Koch brothers back during the Bush administration when both

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Speaker 1: Charles and David were alive. The Koch brothers were the

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Speaker 1: boogieyman for everything. To some extent, George Soros is that

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Speaker 1: sort of boogeyman here on the American right, Although here

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. He does happen to dump like a million

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Speaker 1: or two dollars into the Democratic Party every time we

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Speaker 1: have an election. The idea though, that the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 1: is controlled by shadowy secretive forces. Look, folks, if there's

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Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory in this country, I'm dead serious about this.

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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by conspiracy theories. I'm always looking for any

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Speaker 1: credible evidence to support them. There really isn't the idea

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Speaker 1: that there are these shadowy bankers who just happened to

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Speaker 1: be the prominent wealthy Jewish family. It does a lot

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Speaker 1: of times come back to anti Semitism, which unfortunately is

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Speaker 1: on the rise. So Cecil says, I'm sorry if I'm

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Speaker 1: mispronouncing your name. I would look a little bit deeper

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Speaker 1: and instead of and what I would very strongly encourage

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Speaker 1: you to do. Instead of just either dismissing a conspiracy

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Speaker 1: out of hand. And I could go on for the

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Speaker 1: next forty minutes on the Rothschilds and the all of

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Speaker 1: the other stuff, but frankly, I want to get to

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Speaker 1: as many calls as I can. Instead of just dismissing

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Speaker 1: conspiracies out of hand, actually look look up, like what

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Speaker 1: is the evidence. What is the evidence for what is

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Speaker 1: the evidence against? Same thing with if you believe a conspiracy,

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Speaker 1: do yourself a favor and say, okay, what is the

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Speaker 1: actual evidence? Because one way or another, we are all

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Speaker 1: victim of I talk about this all the time. We

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Speaker 1: are all victim of conspiracy or conspiracy confirmation bias that

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Speaker 1: we seek out information and we actually push away information.

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Speaker 1: We seek out information that confirms our worldview, and our brain,

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Speaker 1: through a process called cognitive dissonance, actually pushes away and

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Speaker 1: we reject evidence that goes against our worldview. We want

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Speaker 1: to be right. And a lot of times what I

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Speaker 1: have found with conspiracy theories is they crumble under the

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Speaker 1: weight of a lack of evidence, for one, and the

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Speaker 1: evidence that is presented of the conspiracy existing is often

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Speaker 1: not even circumstantial. People don't really understand what circumstantial evidence is.

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Speaker 1: It's circular reasoning. Well, this conspiracy exists because these people exist,

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Speaker 1: and these people must be in the conspiracy. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: you haven't proven that they are. Well, well, this person

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Speaker 1: was at this place where this person was at the

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Speaker 1: same time in nineteen twelve and the Federal Reserve Act. Well, okay, yes,

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Speaker 1: you've proven that have you proven your central case? Have

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Speaker 1: you proven that they conspired together? Look, conspiracies exist. Russia.

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Speaker 1: Gates was a pretty big one, weaponizing the Justice Department

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Speaker 1: to try to take out the presidential candidate for the

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Speaker 1: opposition party. That was a pretty big conspiracy, and there's

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Speaker 1: evidence of it. You see, they are all sort there's

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Speaker 1: a massive paper trail tying all of these people to it.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to worry about or you don't need

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Speaker 1: to rely on all of this inference. For example, I

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Speaker 1: do believe there was a John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: I happen to believe in the conspiracy of embarrassment. I

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Speaker 1: believe the BI, the CIA, and the Secret Service all

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Speaker 1: classified tons of documents that did not need to be

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Speaker 1: classified because they showed that the FBI, the CIA, and

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Speaker 1: the Secret Service were completely incompetent in allowing this communist sympathizer,

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Speaker 1: this left wing radical, this nineteen sixties era Tyler Robinson

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Speaker 1: to get back from the Soviet Union to buy a

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Speaker 1: mail order rifle and a tract. John F. Kennedy's movements

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Speaker 1: all the way to Dallas where he assassinated him. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to uh, how about Dave in Franklin. You're on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell show. It's going on, Dave, oh, Dan.

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Speaker 23: I was, first of all, ball want to say thank

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Speaker 23: you for cleaning out the anti semitism. I don't understand

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Speaker 23: it in this country, and I just see it as

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Speaker 23: a really bad thing. But sure, that's not my question.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 23: I am member of the creation Science Society of Milwaukee, Okay,

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Speaker 23: and every month we bring in guest speakers who give

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Speaker 23: us good, solid scientific reasons proving that the theory of

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Speaker 23: evolution is quite false, that it does not have good

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Speaker 23: scientific foundation and cannot answer any of the.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry, are you at a walkie talkie, We've

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Speaker 1: got back. I'm sorry to interrupt, but it's like every

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Speaker 1: third word over, uh, keep keep I apologize, Like Armin

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Speaker 1: and I are looking at each other like, wow, we've

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Speaker 1: got a real bad connection. Anyway. So you're with the

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Speaker 1: Creationist Society and every month you have speakers that present

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Speaker 1: evidence for why evolution has not been proven correct.

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Speaker 13: And I just want to know what your theory is

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Speaker 13: on why it's so popular, why they teach it in

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Speaker 13: schools questionably, why the Supreme Court defends it when there's

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Speaker 13: nothing there to defend, and well, that's.

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Speaker 1: Not entirely true, Dave, and I actually don't think creationism

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Speaker 1: and evolution, and this is you're probably gonna end up

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Speaker 1: hating me, Dave. I want you to just remember the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell that you love and you listen to every

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Speaker 1: single day. This is why I don't get into theological stuff.

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Speaker 1: I actually don't believe that creationism and evolution are conflicting ideas.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, I never I never have. I have

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Speaker 1: actually believed for my entire adult life that creation, that

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Speaker 1: that we are all divinely created, that in fact, the

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Speaker 1: the story of the creation of everything, the Book of

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Speaker 1: Genesis was actually just at the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo's ceiling.

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Speaker 1: That the creation is just it's absolutely beautiful. I do

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Speaker 1: believe that happened, just not in the way that the

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Speaker 1: Bible specifically tells us that it happened. So in the

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Speaker 1: beginning there was darkness. God said, let there be light,

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Speaker 1: and there was light. To me, that's the big bang.

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Speaker 1: That is God created the heavens, God created the earth.

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Speaker 1: That is, in an instant there was an ever expanding universe. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you'll notice that first, I believe it was the fish

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Speaker 1: that swam in the seawell. Evolution tells us that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all life probably originated in the oceans, and then over

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Speaker 1: the course of billions of years, more complex creatures came

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Speaker 1: out from there, ultimately culminating in us. Now, do I

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Speaker 1: believe Dave, that somehow we're just we're more monkeys who,

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Speaker 1: through some happy accident, happened to gain happened to gain

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Speaker 1: intelligence and sentience. No, no, I don't, because we are

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Speaker 1: so far beyond every other creature on this planet. Our

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Speaker 1: brains are so impossibly complex that I don't believe it

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Speaker 1: can be explained by just a series of happy accidents.

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Speaker 1: Nor do I believe that evolution happened independent of a

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Speaker 1: divine plan. So while I believe that the world was

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Speaker 1: created in seven days, I believe God's days happened to

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Speaker 1: be a heck of a lot longer than ours. And

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Speaker 1: there are gaps in evolutionary theory, I will grant you that.

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Speaker 1: But we do have billions of years of a fossil record.

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Speaker 1: We do have microbiology that sort of proves that we

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01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 1: do have an ever advancing spectrum of life. That life

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01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 1: started with the single celled organisms that form out of nothing, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that those were divinely created. It just is a different

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01:30:56,200 --> 01:31:01,080
Speaker 1: way of looking at it. So this is my way

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01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:03,720
Speaker 1: of saying, I'm going to piss everybody off, the evolutionists

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01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 1: and the creationists, but I believe, I just believe God

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Speaker 1: is so impossibly above us that we're only beginning to

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Speaker 1: understand how he engaged in the miracle of creation. I

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Speaker 1: believe science is God's language, and in fact it's not

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Speaker 1: just me. Galileo believed that as well. I believe Da

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Speaker 1: Vinci also, who who is one of the great scientific

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Speaker 1: minds of all time, believed that he was. As he

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Speaker 1: was understanding physics, as he was understanding biology, he was

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Speaker 1: understand he was, in some small human way, understanding the divine.

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Speaker 1: I'm just realizing now we have got to get to

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Speaker 1: a break. More of your phone calls, mar of your

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Speaker 1: text more asked Dan anything? Coming up in just three minutes.

1519
01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Maybe the game is ask Dan Anything. And we always

1520
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun doing this. Call us up

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Speaker 1: four one, four, seven, nine, nine, eleven thirty And as

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01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 1: the name suggests, ask me anything. We're answering texts and

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Speaker 1: emails as well. Dianna in Milwaukee is up next. Ask

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01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:20,840
Speaker 1: me anything, Dianna, you're on the air.

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Speaker 24: I have two questions. First question is a fun question. Okay,

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01:32:27,080 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 24: how mad was your wife last week Thursday?

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Speaker 1: Last weekday, Christmas? Oh, last week Tuesday? That was Tuesday.

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01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 13: She was? She was not.

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Speaker 1: We had a massive, massive system failure and as a

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01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 1: result I had to just be on the air. We

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01:32:45,320 --> 01:32:47,320
Speaker 1: could not take a commercial for about two and a

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Speaker 1: half hours, and then we could not go to the

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Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show after I wrapped up, so with very

1534
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:58,200
Speaker 1: limited commercials, I had to broadcast from three until about

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Speaker 1: seven thirty. As a result, I'm missed my daughter's Christmas

1536
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Speaker 1: concert at her elementary school. No, my wife completely understood.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I put her live on the air. She

1538
01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:11,680
Speaker 1: was more ticked off that I put her on the

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01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:16,040
Speaker 1: air with my daughter Grace, because it's hilarious. She walked

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Speaker 1: in to her parents' house the next morning and her father,

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01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:22,479
Speaker 1: who has always very blunt in his assessment of everything,

1542
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:27,479
Speaker 1: goes megs megs D minus. Your performance on the radio

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01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: D minus. You froze. You didn't say anything. Gracie. Gracie

1544
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:33,880
Speaker 1: saved you. She was an A plus, but you were

1545
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:37,439
Speaker 1: a D minus. So that got her super self conscious.

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01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,320
Speaker 1: I said, well, Megs, it wasn't. She couldn't. She couldn't

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01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 1: tell if I was, if I was faking, if I

1548
01:33:42,560 --> 01:33:46,000
Speaker 1: was like pranking her like, hey, Megs, I'm on the

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01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:48,679
Speaker 1: air right now and I can't go to the concert

1550
01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: because I literally can't leave this chair. I just have

1551
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 1: to keep broadcasting. So no, she was not mad at all.

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01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:59,560
Speaker 1: She completely understood. She understands that I don't have a

1553
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 1: quota what normal job, so sometimes this stuff will happen,

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01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:05,080
Speaker 1: and all the kids understand too.

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Speaker 24: And second question with the Benjamin ericson name release from Providence,

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01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:21,080
Speaker 24: Rhode Island. Yes, do and with their being too, of

1557
01:34:21,160 --> 01:34:25,639
Speaker 24: course in southeastern Wisconsin around the same age getting tied

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01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 24: into that, do either one of them, now that they've

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01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:31,880
Speaker 24: been cleared, have the right to sue Providence.

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01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 1: Did Providence ever actually name the Oh, yes, they believe

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01:34:38,280 --> 01:34:44,120
Speaker 1: it was the Providence Police Department. Generally speaking, no, because

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01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 1: if there was reason for that, if there was any

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01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:54,840
Speaker 1: reasonable suspicion they the police department obviously has a right

1564
01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:59,000
Speaker 1: to inform the public of what the investigation is, especially

1565
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:02,920
Speaker 1: if there's a one when new information comes in as

1566
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: it did, that happens, you know, It is unfortunate, unfortunately

1567
01:35:11,080 --> 01:35:15,000
Speaker 1: for both Benjamin Ericsson's and I really have avoided using

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Speaker 1: their name for that exact reason, because neither of them

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01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:21,880
Speaker 1: has done anything wrong. It's unfortunate that what happens on

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01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:26,759
Speaker 1: the Internet is people just put out all the details

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01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:30,720
Speaker 1: of their life, including addresses, phone numbers, that sort of thing,

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01:35:31,360 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 1: and until they're cleared, they're constantly harassed. Now are you

1573
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 1: going to sue random X accounts? You could, It's very

1574
01:35:41,479 --> 01:35:48,560
Speaker 1: very difficult though, so unfortunately you probably can't. Let's go

1575
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:52,280
Speaker 1: to Scott in Saint Francis. You're on the Dan O'Donnell show.

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01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:56,519
Speaker 2: By the way, Dan, this is the real Scott from

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01:35:56,600 --> 01:35:57,280
Speaker 2: Saint Francis.

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01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:00,200
Speaker 1: Yes, we had we had another Scott from Saint as

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01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:03,600
Speaker 1: Scott is a long time listener, great personal friend of

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01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:06,320
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donalds show. And I thought I was talking

1581
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 1: to another one and I was very surprised. I thought

1582
01:36:08,520 --> 01:36:10,519
Speaker 1: I was talking to you. We had another Scott from

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01:36:10,560 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: San Francis, very very surprised. What's going on? My friend?

1584
01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:15,280
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you and God bless.

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01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:16,680
Speaker 2: You as well.

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01:36:17,040 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 12: Uh.

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Speaker 2: One point first for that Tim guy that the truck driver.

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01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, I was actually going to text

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01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:28,439
Speaker 1: you like privately. Hey, Scott, you know about this, as

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01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:32,840
Speaker 1: I understand it. No, technically you are not required to

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01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:33,639
Speaker 1: have overtime.

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01:36:34,840 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 12: No.

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01:36:35,120 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 2: We I'm paid by the mile. I don't get over time. Uh,

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01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to just up your four oh one

1595
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:45,000
Speaker 2: K and max out your IRA. Sorry sorry to the

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01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 2: other driver. Yeah, but two questions quickly. Uh, do you

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01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:53,479
Speaker 2: think Wisconsin is going to go downhill from here with

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01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:56,639
Speaker 2: the property taxes because you gonna move out?

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01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:57,000
Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I do because of that.

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01:36:58,439 --> 01:37:01,720
Speaker 1: That's actually an excellent observation. And Scott, with this four

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01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:04,840
Speaker 1: hundred year Vito, we are going to see massive increases

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01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 1: in the property tax bill, probably every year, all right,

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01:37:08,360 --> 01:37:12,200
Speaker 1: because Governor Evers gave and the state Supreme Court upheld

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01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: the ability to increase property taxes by hundreds of millions

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01:37:16,200 --> 01:37:20,200
Speaker 1: of dollars across the state every single year. If you

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01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:24,439
Speaker 1: are tired of paying property taxes, you're a conservative, and

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01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:28,720
Speaker 1: you're at retirement age, why would you not make your

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01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: primary residence in Florida downsize, sell the property you own

1610
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:36,839
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin to buy a nice little condo in Florida,

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01:37:37,240 --> 01:37:40,799
Speaker 1: and then rent an apartment here so you aren't screwed

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01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:44,120
Speaker 1: with taxes for the five months that you're actually here.

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01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:47,160
Speaker 1: So yes, unfortunately, I do believe that that is going

1614
01:37:47,240 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 1: to happen.

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01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:52,320
Speaker 2: And then one more thing, Dan, do you hear the

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01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:55,720
Speaker 2: talk back line like how Clay Buck does?

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01:37:56,040 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know they do those talkbacks. Do we have

1618
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 1: acces arman? Do you do we have access to that

1619
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:03,640
Speaker 1: talkback thing?

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01:38:03,760 --> 01:38:04,400
Speaker 11: Can we do that?

1621
01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:09,960
Speaker 1: We think We're not entirely sure? Uh, yes, I have

1622
01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:14,000
Speaker 1: heard that. Frankly, Scott, I I actually prefer just talking

1623
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:16,600
Speaker 1: to people in person, you know what I'm saying, like

1624
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:19,680
Speaker 1: over the phone, not just play like a recorded thing.

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01:38:20,360 --> 01:38:23,719
Speaker 1: Those those are more for podcasts right where you don't

1626
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:28,720
Speaker 1: have necessarily people listening live as you're recording it who

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01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:31,439
Speaker 1: would be able to talk to you live. That's why

1628
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:36,439
Speaker 1: we have that that that the the talkback feature came

1629
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:39,800
Speaker 1: into being because so many shows now and eventually I'm

1630
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: assuming the Dan O'Donnell Show will go to podcast only

1631
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:45,720
Speaker 1: because that's just that that's the future. People think about

1632
01:38:45,760 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: how you think about how you watch TV. You don't

1633
01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:51,640
Speaker 1: tune in at nine to eight Central to watch the

1634
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:55,680
Speaker 1: latest episode of Stranger Things. It gets delivered to you

1635
01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:58,960
Speaker 1: and you watch it at your own convenience. That is

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01:38:59,120 --> 01:39:01,439
Speaker 1: how audio content is going to be as well. I

1637
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:04,479
Speaker 1: also don't believe there is going to be any purely

1638
01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:08,040
Speaker 1: audio content anymore. That's why we have for years now

1639
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: done a live stream. That's why we are investing more

1640
01:39:11,160 --> 01:39:14,559
Speaker 1: in doing live stream stuff, because we see this as

1641
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 1: the way of the future. Hey, Scott, Merry Christmas to you,

1642
01:39:19,280 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 1: and God bless you have a very happy New Year.

1643
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:24,240
Speaker 1: We'll get together soon as soon as the rush of

1644
01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: the holidays died down. Scott is a longtime listener caller

1645
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:31,920
Speaker 1: who has actually become a friend, very very cool cat.

1646
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: We actually went to the NFL draft and he was

1647
01:39:37,439 --> 01:39:42,439
Speaker 1: so kind in looking after my uncle Steve as we

1648
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:44,599
Speaker 1: went to the draft with some buddies and Uncle Steve

1649
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 1: and wonder wonder, wonderful time. Let's go to Eric in mechwan.

1650
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:51,800
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan O'donnald's show. Eric. How you doing?

1651
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:54,599
Speaker 6: I'm doing well, Dan, How are you doing?

1652
01:39:54,840 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 1: Fantastic? My friend, Merry Christmas to you.

1653
01:39:58,080 --> 01:39:59,160
Speaker 4: I got a question for you.

1654
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:02,160
Speaker 9: When is Holly We're gonna put out an actual funny

1655
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 9: Christmas movie again?

1656
01:40:04,200 --> 01:40:09,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, when they start acknowledging that Christians exist and that

1657
01:40:10,240 --> 01:40:17,360
Speaker 1: humor exists. I don't know an actual good Christmas comedy,

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01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:19,280
Speaker 1: did you say, or just Christmas movie.

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01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:22,280
Speaker 14: I'd like to see, well, either or but I'd like

1660
01:40:22,320 --> 01:40:23,879
Speaker 14: to see a good Christmas comedy.

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Speaker 12: I'm kind of.

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01:40:25,400 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 1: Christmas Vacation, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean you basically have three.

1663
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,719
Speaker 1: You have Elf, you have Home Alone and its sequel,

1664
01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 1: you have Christmas Vacation, and that's kind of a Christmas story.

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Speaker 1: I guess technically bad sata. Okay, that's another good one.

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Speaker 1: Christmas with the Cranks at all?

1667
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Speaker 2: Right. I throw in Office Christmas Party as well.

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Speaker 1: Office. You know, I never saw that one, but I

1669
01:40:50,760 --> 01:40:53,240
Speaker 1: heard very very good reviews about seven eight years ago.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere in there. To answer your question, Eric, Hollywood is,

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01:40:58,479 --> 01:41:02,320
Speaker 1: so you talk about the broad cast business changing, Hollywood

1672
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 1: has so changed. It's only going to be big budget,

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01:41:06,600 --> 01:41:10,679
Speaker 1: avatar type movies that get released in theaters. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there are gonna be a whole lot

1675
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 1: of Christmas movies ever released in theaters anymore. They're all

1676
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:18,360
Speaker 1: going to go to streaming services because you just can't

1677
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:23,400
Speaker 1: justify the giant budgets of a theatrical release on something

1678
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 1: that's only going to make twenty or thirty million dollars.

1679
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:32,519
Speaker 1: In terms of newer Christmas movies that are very very.

1680
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Speaker 15: Good, the.

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01:41:34,920 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 1: Goldie Hawn Kurt Russell Christmas movies, I have not seen them.

1682
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:44,439
Speaker 1: They're two Klaus maybe now that's the animated one on Netflix.

1683
01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:48,559
Speaker 1: I am told that is very very good, Klaus Clause

1684
01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 1: or Klaus or whatever. And then the Kurt Russell where

1685
01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:54,519
Speaker 1: he plays Santa, but he's sort of like a warrior

1686
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:58,599
Speaker 1: fighting Santa, and Goldie Hawn plays Missus Claws. Those are

1687
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Speaker 1: supposed to be very My nephew obsessed with those movies,

1688
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:02,559
Speaker 1: or at least he was when he was a little

1689
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:06,519
Speaker 1: bit younger. In terms of a Christmas comedy, I don't know.

1690
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:09,960
Speaker 1: As I said, my kids were watching Christmas Vacation and

1691
01:42:10,120 --> 01:42:13,560
Speaker 1: Elf on a loop, so they kind of agree. We

1692
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,600
Speaker 1: do need some more good Christmas comedy movies. More of

1693
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Speaker 1: Dan's Ask Me Anything coming up next.

1694
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 11: Merry Christmas from the Dan o'donald Show.

1695
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:30,720
Speaker 1: Ask Dan Anything. It is a special edition of the

1696
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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Shall we do around the holidays every year,

1697
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 1: and I feel like I have gotten this question for

1698
01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:42,559
Speaker 1: years now. From Jerry from Champagne Champagne Illinois.

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Speaker 9: Correct, Jerry, longtime caller, longtime listener, great topic, love the show.

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01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:50,240
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas, Dan O'donald.

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01:42:49,960 --> 01:42:55,080
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you. Jerry. I saw Jerry from Champagne

1702
01:42:55,280 --> 01:42:58,120
Speaker 1: as soon as you're like Arman was putting up your call,

1703
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:01,760
Speaker 1: and in something clicked in my head. I said, I

1704
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:05,200
Speaker 1: know what he is going to ask. Ask it away, Jerry.

1705
01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 6: Well, I've got two of them though, the first one

1706
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:09,160
Speaker 6: you know the second.

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Speaker 11: All right?

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01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:13,639
Speaker 6: Have you finally watched Wars Clone War?

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01:43:13,840 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 1: No, Jerry, you have been for It has to be

1710
01:43:16,920 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 1: like seven or eight years. You've been on me to

1711
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:23,600
Speaker 1: watch this. The kids unfortunately outgrew Star Wars. I know

1712
01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 1: it is like the best Star Wars show. Obviously, we

1713
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:33,639
Speaker 1: loved the Mandalorian. My son, even though he's fifteen, he's

1714
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:37,320
Speaker 1: getting so pumped up for the Mandalorian and Grogu standalone movie.

1715
01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:41,679
Speaker 1: We never did watch Clone Wars. I'll tell you what, Jerry,

1716
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: keep on me. My oldest is eighteen. Maybe in a

1717
01:43:46,160 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: decade or so I'll have some grandkids I can watch

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01:43:49,040 --> 01:43:51,400
Speaker 1: it with. I don't think I could convince the wife

1719
01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:55,240
Speaker 1: to watch a Star Wars show. Unfortunately, I have read

1720
01:43:56,400 --> 01:44:00,479
Speaker 1: about everything there was to read mostly because you have

1721
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:04,799
Speaker 1: you have kept prodding me, uh and everything. I understand

1722
01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:07,960
Speaker 1: it's a fantastic show, but no, I I just unfortunately,

1723
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:10,880
Speaker 1: that's one of the sad things about the kids growing

1724
01:44:10,960 --> 01:44:13,080
Speaker 1: up is that some of the shows and movies you

1725
01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:16,040
Speaker 1: wanted to watch with you just kind of it passes

1726
01:44:16,080 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 1: you by.

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01:44:17,840 --> 01:44:20,720
Speaker 6: And I'd like to hear you rank your favorite Star

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01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:25,040
Speaker 6: Wars movies, including Solo and Rogue One.

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01:44:25,240 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: Okay, in fairness, I never actually watched Solo because the

1730
01:44:29,040 --> 01:44:32,640
Speaker 1: early reviews were such crap that I was like, uh,

1731
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:35,760
Speaker 1: and I love Donald or not Donald fies on Donald Glover.

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01:44:36,400 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 18: Uh.

1733
01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:40,400
Speaker 1: So I was just I never actually saw it. I

1734
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:46,559
Speaker 1: thought Rogue One was insanely overrated, and I I also

1735
01:44:46,720 --> 01:44:50,240
Speaker 1: didn't see was there a What was the other standalone

1736
01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:53,000
Speaker 1: movie that they did? Were those the only two? Those

1737
01:44:53,040 --> 01:44:54,720
Speaker 1: were the only kid those were the only Okay, I'm

1738
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:57,320
Speaker 1: thinking of Kenoby was a show. I actually liked the

1739
01:44:57,400 --> 01:45:01,920
Speaker 1: Kenobi show. I like that a lot. The worst was

1740
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:04,800
Speaker 1: The Last Jedi. It was just it was a poor movie.

1741
01:45:06,920 --> 01:45:10,400
Speaker 1: What they did to Luke Skywalker was just unforgivable, and

1742
01:45:10,439 --> 01:45:13,519
Speaker 1: they could have saved the entire damn thing if he

1743
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:16,520
Speaker 1: just would have after he did the Force like Hologram

1744
01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:19,840
Speaker 1: or whatever, where he's on a completely different planet if

1745
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:22,720
Speaker 1: he just like goes back down and the movie ends

1746
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:25,000
Speaker 1: and it's like the most badass thing that you've ever seen.

1747
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:26,600
Speaker 1: But they kill him off just because, oh well, we

1748
01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:28,640
Speaker 1: got to kill him off now he didn't have an

1749
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:32,560
Speaker 1: actual story arc. This is one of the greatest heroes

1750
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:36,280
Speaker 1: in the history of film. And what he helps a

1751
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:40,400
Speaker 1: bunch of random people. Oh he saved the Resistant Why

1752
01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 1: because they were able to run through a cave. Oh

1753
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:46,000
Speaker 1: what a great sacrifice. It was just terrible right there

1754
01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:49,720
Speaker 1: with it is the final one? Was it Rise of Skywalker?

1755
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:53,519
Speaker 1: Come on, you've got r I am all the Jedi

1756
01:45:53,800 --> 01:45:56,200
Speaker 1: and I am all the sixth What are they playing

1757
01:45:56,320 --> 01:46:01,080
Speaker 1: like make believe? Come on, come on, then you've got uh.

1758
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:04,599
Speaker 1: I actually liked Attack of the Clones way better than

1759
01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:07,520
Speaker 1: Revenge of the Sith just because.

1760
01:46:08,760 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 6: No, I'm now Revenge of the Sith has the best

1761
01:46:12,400 --> 01:46:14,040
Speaker 6: opening of any Star Wars.

1762
01:46:14,360 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 1: You'll have to you'll have to refresh me. How did

1763
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:20,960
Speaker 1: how did it open? Okay? Yeah, all right, that does

1764
01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:22,799
Speaker 1: make up for a lot of sense. I just remember

1765
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:26,840
Speaker 1: the very end with Darth Vader no strapped to the table.

1766
01:46:27,080 --> 01:46:30,599
Speaker 1: Come on, it was weak. It was weak. That said.

1767
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:36,519
Speaker 1: I did like uh the first one. Uh fatom menas,

1768
01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:40,439
Speaker 1: thank you. I liked Phantom Menace, primarily because I watched

1769
01:46:40,560 --> 01:46:43,120
Speaker 1: the Phantom edit where they just cut out jar Jar

1770
01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:45,479
Speaker 1: Binks and it was fantastic. I thought Duel of the

1771
01:46:45,560 --> 01:46:46,760
Speaker 1: Fates was tremendous.

1772
01:46:47,360 --> 01:46:47,479
Speaker 7: Uh.

1773
01:46:47,680 --> 01:46:53,040
Speaker 1: I liked Force Awakens. And this might actually tick off

1774
01:46:53,160 --> 01:46:55,280
Speaker 1: you and a lot of Star Wars fans. I find

1775
01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:59,200
Speaker 1: myself liking it as much or more than a Return

1776
01:46:59,280 --> 01:47:01,519
Speaker 1: of the Jedi Price merrily because and hear me out,

1777
01:47:01,600 --> 01:47:04,920
Speaker 1: hear me out, hear me out. Because I was so

1778
01:47:05,200 --> 01:47:08,840
Speaker 1: jaded by the prequels that I didn't plan to go

1779
01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 1: opening night. And then my wife, who was teaching at

1780
01:47:11,200 --> 01:47:13,360
Speaker 1: MPs at the time, she was a speech path at MPs.

1781
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:16,080
Speaker 1: They went that day and she was telling my kids

1782
01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:18,439
Speaker 1: and I about it. The boys where Nick was eight

1783
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:21,600
Speaker 1: and Chris I think was five or six. And I

1784
01:47:21,760 --> 01:47:24,800
Speaker 1: went and saw it that night at a midnight scream

1785
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 1: with my best buddy from grade school. We stayed up

1786
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:30,639
Speaker 1: until like two am talking about it. The very next day,

1787
01:47:30,680 --> 01:47:33,560
Speaker 1: I took the boys to go see Force Awakens. And

1788
01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: they became instantly obsessed with Star Wars, so that will

1789
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:40,960
Speaker 1: always have a special place in my heart. And then

1790
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:44,759
Speaker 1: it's one A and one B for me, Star Wars

1791
01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:48,320
Speaker 1: the Original and then Empire Strikes Back. I see them

1792
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:53,559
Speaker 1: as both equally incredible pieces of filmmaking. And just like that, Jerry,

1793
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:58,759
Speaker 1: we alienated every non Star Wars nerd in the entire audience,

1794
01:47:58,880 --> 01:48:02,759
Speaker 1: but everybody who loves Star Wars, I think largely agrees

1795
01:48:02,800 --> 01:48:07,360
Speaker 1: with me. Hey, Merry Christmas to you, Mary Christmas last Cherry.

1796
01:48:07,479 --> 01:48:09,360
Speaker 1: Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart

1797
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:12,880
Speaker 1: for being such a great listener, and I really do

1798
01:48:13,560 --> 01:48:17,280
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let's go to Tim in Menomine Falls up

1799
01:48:17,320 --> 01:48:19,960
Speaker 1: next on the Dan o'donald Show. Ask me anything, Tim,

1800
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:25,400
Speaker 1: Marry Christmas, Dan, Merry Christmas to you too, sir.

1801
01:48:27,400 --> 01:48:28,200
Speaker 5: Here's what I wanted to know.

1802
01:48:29,240 --> 01:48:29,400
Speaker 22: Now.

1803
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:33,040
Speaker 12: For the past thirty six years, I've been in sales,

1804
01:48:33,040 --> 01:48:37,800
Speaker 12: and I've worked Christmas Eve and I listened to the

1805
01:48:38,360 --> 01:48:41,479
Speaker 12: eleven thirty and they always play the thirties and forties

1806
01:48:42,800 --> 01:48:45,200
Speaker 12: radio shows like Miracle on thirty fourth Street, It's a

1807
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:49,760
Speaker 12: Wonderful Life and a Christmas Carol? Are they going to

1808
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:52,120
Speaker 12: play all three of them again this year or is

1809
01:48:52,160 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 12: it just two?

1810
01:48:53,160 --> 01:48:56,439
Speaker 1: Nope, Okay, we are playing all three. It is going

1811
01:48:56,479 --> 01:48:58,559
Speaker 1: to be It's a Wonderful Life Miracle on thirty fourth

1812
01:48:58,600 --> 01:49:01,720
Speaker 1: Street and a Christmas Carol. We're going to work in

1813
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:05,639
Speaker 1: there my Christmas special. I believe there's a Fox News

1814
01:49:05,920 --> 01:49:10,599
Speaker 1: Christmas program that they right, Raymond Royo, I think does

1815
01:49:10,680 --> 01:49:13,639
Speaker 1: a Christmas program that we're going to air on Christmas Day.

1816
01:49:14,080 --> 01:49:18,200
Speaker 1: But yes, the same radio plays that we have been

1817
01:49:18,280 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 1: airing for my goodness, it has to be thirty years

1818
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:24,760
Speaker 1: because I grew up listening to them. We are going

1819
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:27,760
Speaker 1: to be airing them on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

1820
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:33,360
Speaker 1: Maybe time for another question or two. We will be back.

1821
01:49:33,439 --> 01:49:35,960
Speaker 1: We asked Dan anything here on the Dano Don Cherry

1822
01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:39,679
Speaker 1: Christmas from all of us here at the Dano Don Show.

1823
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:49,439
Speaker 1: Hard to believe we have already reached the end of

1824
01:49:49,560 --> 01:49:52,640
Speaker 1: our annual Ask Me Anything show. This is for me

1825
01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:57,000
Speaker 1: at least, the show that by far goes the fastest

1826
01:49:57,200 --> 01:50:00,679
Speaker 1: of the entire year because it keeps me on my toes.

1827
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:04,280
Speaker 1: We are going to be doing a little variation of

1828
01:50:04,400 --> 01:50:07,080
Speaker 1: this starting in the new year. It was a new

1829
01:50:07,200 --> 01:50:13,400
Speaker 1: segment born of a pure accident where everything basically went

1830
01:50:13,560 --> 01:50:16,320
Speaker 1: wrong all at once on this station, and I had

1831
01:50:16,320 --> 01:50:20,559
Speaker 1: a broadcast constantly well because of the position of my camera,

1832
01:50:20,760 --> 01:50:26,080
Speaker 1: the danocam, and I couldn't really see what people were

1833
01:50:26,320 --> 01:50:29,760
Speaker 1: asking me. But I asked, Hey, just call up. I've

1834
01:50:29,800 --> 01:50:31,840
Speaker 1: got tons of stuff to talk about, but I don't

1835
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 1: know if I've got five hours worth. So I was

1836
01:50:35,400 --> 01:50:38,080
Speaker 1: just having people call up. I had no idea what

1837
01:50:38,200 --> 01:50:39,960
Speaker 1: it was they were going to say. We called it

1838
01:50:40,120 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 1: talk Radio Roulette, sort of like open Line Friday, but

1839
01:50:45,080 --> 01:50:48,920
Speaker 1: different because I legitimately did not know what the caller

1840
01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:51,400
Speaker 1: was going to say. Rush obviously had all of his

1841
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:55,640
Speaker 1: callers screened for him. I had him screen just to

1842
01:50:55,720 --> 01:50:58,000
Speaker 1: make sure that they wouldn't swear, but I had no

1843
01:50:58,160 --> 01:51:00,639
Speaker 1: idea what they were going to ask. We are going

1844
01:51:00,760 --> 01:51:05,679
Speaker 1: to do that, most likely as a Friday segment from

1845
01:51:05,840 --> 01:51:09,360
Speaker 1: here on out, debuting in the new year. Right now,

1846
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:15,799
Speaker 1: one more ask Dan anything. It is Dave in New Berlin.

1847
01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:17,960
Speaker 1: You're on the Dan O'donalds show. What's going on?

1848
01:51:18,120 --> 01:51:22,080
Speaker 7: Dave, Merry Christmas to you, Three Christmas to you and

1849
01:51:22,240 --> 01:51:25,120
Speaker 7: all your listeners. I am an habitual caller. I do

1850
01:51:25,320 --> 01:51:28,840
Speaker 7: not get on the air all the time because of

1851
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:32,479
Speaker 7: my themes at times. But okay, I have a question

1852
01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:36,719
Speaker 7: for you. May I bring a nice bottle of Scotch

1853
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:41,040
Speaker 7: a couple tumblers with some ice, deliver in person for

1854
01:51:41,120 --> 01:51:46,680
Speaker 7: the retirement party and you tomorrow you might need it.

1855
01:51:47,880 --> 01:51:48,200
Speaker 2: I might.

1856
01:51:48,640 --> 01:51:53,000
Speaker 1: I'm that would be That would be very sweet of you, Dave.

1857
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 1: Jay is usually out of here nine a m. It

1858
01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:59,840
Speaker 1: is legal, It is legal. We do take gifts. Okay, yes,

1859
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:04,080
Speaker 1: if you want. Yes, I can't promise anybody is going

1860
01:52:04,320 --> 01:52:07,920
Speaker 1: to be there because it's the day before Christmas Eve.

1861
01:52:08,080 --> 01:52:10,280
Speaker 1: I may not get there until later in the day,

1862
01:52:11,200 --> 01:52:14,200
Speaker 1: but yes, if you would like, we do appreciate that.

1863
01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:18,880
Speaker 1: And yes, after a daylight tomorrow we may need one.

1864
01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:22,760
Speaker 1: It is going to be Jay Weber's final radio broadcast

1865
01:52:22,880 --> 01:52:25,720
Speaker 1: tomorrow six to nine am. He's going to reflect on

1866
01:52:25,880 --> 01:52:28,360
Speaker 1: his career, of course, bring you the news of the day,

1867
01:52:28,400 --> 01:52:30,720
Speaker 1: as he has for years and years and years. We

1868
01:52:30,880 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 1: are back tomorrow. We'll talk about Jay's career, give him

1869
01:52:35,120 --> 01:52:38,920
Speaker 1: the props that he deserves, and then at four pm

1870
01:52:39,400 --> 01:52:43,120
Speaker 1: the premiere of the Dan o'donald show Family Christmas Special.

1871
01:52:43,720 --> 01:52:46,599
Speaker 1: It is something you are not going to want to miss.

1872
01:52:46,760 --> 01:52:49,920
Speaker 1: Listen to it with your family. I can't wait to

1873
01:52:50,080 --> 01:52:52,680
Speaker 1: share it with all of you. Thank you for all

1874
01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:56,439
Speaker 1: the great questions. Merry Christmas to you. We are back

1875
01:52:56,560 --> 01:52:58,679
Speaker 1: tomorrow on The Dan o'donald Show.

1876
01:53:00,439 --> 01:53:00,760
Speaker 9: Did you