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Speaker 1: Wisconsin digs out from the IDEs of March blizzard. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Monday edition of The Dan o'donald Show as

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Speaker 1: we begin a busy broadcast week where the weather is

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Speaker 1: the biggest story. Upwards of thirty five inches in Door County,

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Speaker 1: Snow on the ground across the state here in southeast

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin closer to about six to eight inches in Madison

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Speaker 1: about nine to twelve inches. Power outages, crashes, spin out,

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Speaker 1: school closures, you name it, and we will cover it

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Speaker 1: all day long to day top stories that we are

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Speaker 1: following right now here on the Dan o'donald Show. The

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Speaker 1: National Weather Service reports that Sturgeon Bay has thirty four

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Speaker 1: inches of snow on the ground, wasaw about thirty one inches.

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Speaker 1: Most other spots in the northeast part of the state

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Speaker 1: between twenty and thirty inches of snow. Thousands of Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: utility customers, mainly we Energies customers, are still without power.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: We will keep you updated on the snow, the road conditions,

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Speaker 1: power outages, all of it throughout the afternoon. Is he

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Speaker 1: seriously going to run? New Reporting this weekend suggests that

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Speaker 1: former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson is giving serious consideration to

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Speaker 1: yet another run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination this year.

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Speaker 2: The details in just a second.

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Speaker 1: Then, at three twenty five, a contentious caucus in the

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Speaker 1: seventh Congressional District leads to no official endorsement in the

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Speaker 1: crowded congressional primary. There what that says about a democratic

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Speaker 1: or rather generational battle that has been brewing in the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin GOP for years now. That's coming off in about

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes or so, Resident Trump today offering a briefing

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Speaker 1: on the situation in Iran.

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Speaker 3: A powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by

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Speaker 3: the Indian regime continued in full force over the past

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Speaker 3: few days. They have been literally obliterated. The air force

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Speaker 3: is gone, the navy is gone. Many many ships have

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Speaker 3: been sunk. They're war fighting ships, but I guess they

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Speaker 3: didn't know how to use them. And anti aircraft is decimated,

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Speaker 3: their radar is gone, and their leaders are gone. Other

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Speaker 1: The President right now is signing a series of executive actions.

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Speaker 1: He is joined in the Oval office by Vice President JD.

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Speaker 1: In fact, let's go right now to the President of

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Speaker 1: the United States, very briefly, all right, when we break

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Speaker 1: away there. Stephen Miller and JD Vance are going to

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Speaker 1: certainly doesn't feel like it, but ladies and gentlemen, we

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Speaker 1: saw a sign of spring today.

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Speaker 2: I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: There's a foot of snow on the ground. If you're

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Speaker 1: up north, if you're listening to me on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: app in Egg Harbor, you're digging out of nearly three

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Speaker 1: feet of snow. I get it, I get it. It

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Speaker 1: does not feel like spring. But ladies and gentlemen, we

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Speaker 1: have seen yet again the surest sign of springtime in Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: In an election you're at.

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Speaker 1: Least Tommy Thompson is again floating his name as a

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Speaker 1: possible statewide candidate. Yes, it is a rite of passage.

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Speaker 1: It is the time when well, here in Wisconsin we

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Speaker 1: country and sometimes in Wisconsin the flowers start blooming, the

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Speaker 1: Maybe you see the first robin redbreast. Well here in Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: Every even number, third year, it seems, Tommy Thompson emerges

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Speaker 1: Run for statewide office, challenging Tammy Baldwin for an open

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Speaker 1: Then again in twenty twenty two, in January, he said, look,

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Speaker 1: ever before. Wisconsin Right Now reporting this weekend that It's

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Speaker 1: him that he's running, not that he's thinking about it,

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Speaker 1: In a month, his family might talk him out of

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Speaker 1: it again. I spoke to Tommy after he bowed out

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Speaker 1: Look, I love Tommy, You love Tommy, everybody loves Tommy.

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Speaker 1: We all love Tommy. Tommy is a legend. He's one

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Speaker 1: Tommy Thompson is indeed seeking support for a run for governor,

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Speaker 1: It is Tommy, not Tommy Well, a different Tommy. Tommy

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Speaker 1: primary by forcing Sarah Godluski and Alex Lazri to drop

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Speaker 1: Democrats have a real problem on their hands with candidate

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Speaker 1: has never really recovered. This is a huge advantage for

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Speaker 1: Republicans because Tiffany can, as he has in digital ads

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Speaker 1: having to fight or spend resources in a bruising primary.

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Speaker 1: If Tommy Thompson gets in, all of that goes away.

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Speaker 1: All of the money that would be flowing into Tom

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Speaker 1: Tiffany that he could just use to bolster his bona

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Speaker 1: and bolster his standing with general election voters from now

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Speaker 1: until election day, up until August, when our very late

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Speaker 1: Tommy Thompson again. Tommy is eighty four. I don't know

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Speaker 1: exactly which of his longtime aids or former staffers are

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Speaker 1: pushing this narrative, or whether it's Tommy himself who just

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Speaker 1: is a very real problem if he gets in. We

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Speaker 1: saw the exact same thing, and folks, I am going

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Speaker 1: to issue a very dire warning because as a student

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Speaker 1: of history, like the great Santayana said, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be doomed to forever repeat it if I don't

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Speaker 1: learn from it. In twenty twenty two, we saw this

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Speaker 1: exact same scenario from folks, the exact same people. They

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Speaker 1: were touting a poll right around this time, probably February

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Speaker 2: be right back.

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Speaker 4: I think of replace on a.

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Speaker 2: I'm goad means the middle.

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Speaker 5: This comes down and racks.

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Speaker 1: My own Moluaci relace. That's unknown take away from my

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Speaker 5: Sacred Lasacle hell. I long for that.

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Speaker 3: Conner I once do so well.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: The dropkick Murphy's in the Saint Patrick's Day bumper music rotation. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I know they are a bunch of unhinged libs. God

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Speaker 1: help me, I still do like their music. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: will be talking about the biggest story in entertainment of

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Speaker 1: the year. The Oscars, the Academy Awards were last night.

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Speaker 1: And I will be completely and totally honest with you folks. Normally,

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Speaker 1: as you know, I'm a big entertainment guy. I'm a

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Speaker 1: big film buff, big TV guy. I completely forgot the

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Speaker 1: Oscars were that last night. Since when did we get

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Speaker 1: into mid March for these things? Usually there in February

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Speaker 1: We're going to get into yet. Look, of course it

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Speaker 1: never I never really understood why conservatives were always so

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Speaker 1: outraged that liberal crazies said crazy liberal things at the Oscars, like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they do.

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Speaker 1: The thing that I want to talk about is it's

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Speaker 1: getting some traction online. But I don't think enough people

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Speaker 1: know about the fact that The Godfather would not be

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Speaker 1: able to win Best Picture today. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: like it wouldn't win. I'm saying it according to the

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Speaker 1: the Godfather would not be eligible to win Best Picture.

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Speaker 1: You think I'm kidding. We will get into that in

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Speaker 1: the five o'clock hour. In the four o'clock hour, we

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Speaker 1: are going to break a pretty substantial story regarding the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Senate. The Senate is back in session tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: on the calendar det the online sports betting bill, meaning

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Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemahue is going to bring it

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Speaker 1: Trump still holding his news conference after he signed that

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Speaker 1: executive order creating the Anti Fraud Task Force. We'll get

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Speaker 1: you the Daily Trump Day. Get you some soundbites from that,

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Speaker 1: as well as an earlier press conference that he held

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Center. That is all coming off here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show. The seventh Congressional Caucus battle over the

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Speaker 1: weekend reveals a relatively deep fracture between the up and

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Speaker 1: coming younger millennials and Generation Z Conservatives who are primarily

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Speaker 1: aligned with Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's organization God Rest

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Speaker 1: His Soul, and the Baby Boomer generation xers and even

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Speaker 1: some people who are still in Republican leadership who are

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Speaker 1: older than the Baby Boom generation. They have been really

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Speaker 1: going at each other's throats for about the last four years,

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Speaker 1: and it is perceived as a battle for control of

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Speaker 1: county parties and a battle for control of the Wisconsin GOP.

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Speaker 1: You might remember we reported exclusively here on the Dan

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Speaker 1: O'Donnell Show that last year the state GOP was actually

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Speaker 1: trying to put in by laws that you could not

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Speaker 1: serve on its executive committee, or you couldn't serve as

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Speaker 1: It was clearly aimed at Turning Point because the fear

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Speaker 1: Oh heaven forfend that we actually appeal to younger people

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Speaker 1: and they would take over the party, that it would

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Speaker 1: essentially be a turning point. Affiliate to that, I said,

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Speaker 1: it's not as though the current iteration of the Republican

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Speaker 1: Party has been winning non stop, and you know, changing

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Speaker 1: horses midstream would be disastrous. Again, I don't really have

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Speaker 1: a dog in this fight. But if the gripe against

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Speaker 1: Michael Alfonso, the twenty six or he would be the

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Speaker 1: youngest member of Congress if he's elected in November, and

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Speaker 1: if he wins the Republican primary, he's going to be

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Speaker 1: elected in November. There's an overwhelmingly Republican seat. So the battle,

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Speaker 1: all of the action is going to be in this primary.

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Speaker 1: If the knock on him is about potential conflicts of

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Speaker 1: interest and Sean Duffy meddling in this to sort of

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Speaker 1: solidify his family's legacy and help his daughter's media career

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Speaker 1: by virtue of her being married to a congressman. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that is a legitimate concern about Alfonso's candidacy, But what

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Speaker 1: I keep hearing is that, well, Michael Alfonso needs to

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Speaker 1: wait his turn. He's only twenty. Why doesn't he run

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Speaker 1: for school board? Why doesn't he run for state Assembly? Well,

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Speaker 1: clearly he's got the infrastructure behind him, he's got the

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Speaker 1: Trump endorsement, he's got the endorsement of pretty much every

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Speaker 1: Republican member of Congress.

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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't he run?

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Speaker 1: Now, Look, how many young conservatives did not get a

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Speaker 1: chance to ever run for Congress Because Jim Sensen Brenner,

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Speaker 1: who I love dearly, be great friend of the show.

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Speaker 1: I love Congressman since and Brenner hope he's doing extraordinarily

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Speaker 1: well in his retirement. But because he served for so long,

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Speaker 1: how many young conservatives waited their turn a turn that

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Speaker 1: never actually came up. You have to seize these opportunities

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Speaker 1: when they arise, regardless of your age, and it's up

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Speaker 1: to the voters to decide whether you've got the requisite experience.

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Speaker 1: This idea that, well, kid, you should sit back and

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Speaker 1: That is more emblematic of I think, and I know

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Speaker 1: relinquish power. But that does seem like a little bit

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Speaker 1: of what's going on here. I mean, think about it

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Speaker 1: this way, think about it this way. The president of

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Speaker 1: the United States in nineteen ninety six was born in

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Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. The President of the United States in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six was born in nineteen forty six. We

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Speaker 1: have had baby boom presidents since nineteen ninety two. Bill

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Speaker 1: Clinton was the first baby boomer president. We have not

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Speaker 1: had a president of any other generation. Yes, Obama was

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Speaker 1: a boomer. He's on the tail end of the baby

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Speaker 1: boom generation born and I believe nineteen sixty two. We

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Speaker 1: have had baby boomer presidents forever. The Democrat Party looks

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Speaker 1: like a nursing home. Dianne Feinstein literally die in office.

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Speaker 1: That's how bad. We have a gerontocracy in this country.

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Speaker 1: And it's in large measure because people are not now.

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Speaker 1: A big part of this is people are just living

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Speaker 1: way longer. They're healthier, way longer. I have no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Tommy Thomas a classic example. He's eighty four years old.

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Speaker 1: He says he's feeling great.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: Tommy has got great energy. He always has a fantastic politican.

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Speaker 1: I last saw him at the Republican National Convention. I

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Speaker 1: was talking actually to him and Scott Walker for a

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Speaker 1: long time on the floor of the convention. You talk

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Speaker 1: about a dream come true for a guy who grew

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Speaker 1: up idolizing Tommy and covering Scott Walker's rise in governorship

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Speaker 1: and becoming friendly with both those Matt, I love him dearly.

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Speaker 2: But again it's like you have to accept.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say time has passed you by,

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Speaker 1: but at eighty four years old, like, look, is there

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Speaker 1: anybody clamoring for Scott Walker to come back, to leave

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Speaker 1: Young America's foundation and to run for governor again.

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Speaker 2: No, because he had.

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Speaker 1: His chance to lead. It is time for a new

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Speaker 1: generation to take their place.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is not Please do not misunderstand. This is not

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Speaker 1: an endorsement of Michael Alfonso. I think any one of

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Speaker 1: those candidates in the seventh Congressional District would be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: But if this is really about people not liking that

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Speaker 1: it's a twenty six year old kid, that's just ludicrous.

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Speaker 1: We need to find and cultivate talent wherever we can.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Dan o'donald show.

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Speaker 2: It is conservative thoughts and not just.

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Speaker 1: The welcome back to the Dan o'donald show. Unfortunately, got

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Speaker 1: to go right back to the News daily. Trump Dake

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Speaker 1: coming up next, and then some big, big stories, including

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Speaker 1: an exclusive you won't want to miss about the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: State Legislature. Stay tuned Dan o'donald's show back before you

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Speaker 1: know it. The President is now calling on America's ally

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Speaker 1: to help with security, not from the Iranian Navy, but

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Speaker 1: the straight Now. Over the weekend, the President apparently received

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Speaker 1: a briefing on the leadership situation in Iran. It's believed

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Speaker 1: that the late Ayatola Ali Komedy's son, Mushtaba Comedy, is

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Speaker 1: in a coma and has no idea that he was

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Speaker 1: named supreme leader. Now, US intelligence indicates that his father

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Speaker 1: was reluctant to name Mushtaba his successor because Mushtaba is gay.

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Speaker 1: According to multiple reports, President Trump burst out laughing when

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Speaker 1: he was briefed on that fact, and other top intelligence

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Speaker 1: officials also laughed at it. But it is apparently very

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Speaker 1: true Mushtaba Kamini is believed to be gay. Now, it

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Speaker 1: had been previously reported that Mushtaba flew multiple times to

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Speaker 1: England to seek treatment for erectile dysfunction, proving that it's

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Speaker 1: not just Iranian missiles that failed two blast off. The

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Speaker 1: President also announcing today his chief of staff, Susie Wiles,

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Speaker 1: is battling breast cancer. In a post on truth Social

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Speaker 1: the President said that Wiles caught it early and she

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Speaker 1: she pursues treatment. Wiles herself tweeted out that her prognosis

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Speaker 1: is excellent. Massive delays at airports across the country during

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Speaker 1: this spring break season as the DHS shut down drags on.

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Speaker 1: TSA agents are going without pay. Hundreds of them have quit.

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Speaker 1: Democrats in the Senate refused to vote for funding for

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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security over concerns about ICE. But

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Speaker 1: ICE is actually fully funded through the end of President

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Speaker 1: Trump's term thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill. The

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Speaker 1: White House is now demanding that Democrats pass a funding

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Speaker 1: measure for the DHS. That, ladies and gentlemen, is your

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Speaker 1: daily Trump Day. We now check in with Dave Spano,

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Speaker 1: the CEO of Annex Wealth Management. We each and every

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Speaker 1: Monday help you know the difference between financial advisors and

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Speaker 1: know what is going on in the markets. Obviously, all

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Speaker 1: of the concern is surrounding the Strait of Horror moves,

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Speaker 1: this concern about the price of oil, international events, Dave,

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Speaker 1: where do the markets stand right now and what is

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Speaker 1: sort of our outlook right now?

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Speaker 6: Well, for right now, the markets have behaved much better today.

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Speaker 6: The vics, which is a measure of fear, came down,

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Speaker 6: as did the price of oil, and the market recovered

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Speaker 6: somewhat today. And obviously none of us are smart enough

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Speaker 6: to know how long this war is going to go,

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Speaker 6: but we certainly don't want it to be a forever war.

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Speaker 6: We don't think that's going to happen. But we did

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Speaker 6: see naval escorts pushing ships through the Strait of Hormo

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Speaker 6: was including some Iranian ships, and so that certainly brought

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Speaker 6: down the temperature a little bit. Today, Dan, there's a

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Speaker 6: lot going on in the price of oil. Is just

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Speaker 6: part of that. We have become less dependent upon East

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Speaker 6: States as much as it is the rest of the world.

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Speaker 6: I think the setup for the conversation with the President

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Speaker 6: and she down the road is happening to already scot Percent,

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Speaker 6: as you know, is meeting in England at the moment,

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Speaker 6: trying to have the meeting before the meeting. So right now,

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Speaker 6: as long as the temperature comes down slightly, you're going

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Speaker 6: to see the VICS or volatility index come down as

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Speaker 6: well as the price of oil.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost like everybody sort of forgot about the

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Speaker 1: trade war with China, but we did have a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of uncertainty instituted into the marketplace when the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court struck down President Trump's emergency tariffs. Obviously, that I

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Speaker 1: think is of even bigger concern to investors than is Iran.

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Speaker 1: Something you said last week dayve really stuck with me,

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Speaker 1: and that is war has a whole lot less of

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Speaker 1: an impact on markets than economic slowdowns or things like that,

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Speaker 1: because the market is very resilient. Obviously, investors will put

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Speaker 1: their money where you can make profit defense type of industries.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the oil is always volatile, But I think

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Speaker 1: the long term outlook here, once we gain control of

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Speaker 1: the strait of horror moves without a crazy genocidal regime

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Speaker 1: controlling it in Iran, that's obviously going to be a

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Speaker 1: good thing. And the markets are very forward looking but

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Speaker 1: with respect to China, that is obviously our biggest geopolitical foe,

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Speaker 1: and it is paradoxically the nation with which we are

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Speaker 1: some concern there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there really is. And the point that I was

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Speaker 6: making last week is that geopolitical hiccups, if you will,

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Speaker 6: if I can use that word in this circumstance, aren't

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Speaker 6: a problem until they become an economic issue. And so

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Speaker 6: what has happened is this geopolitical situation has turned into

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Speaker 6: an economic one because of oil. And going back to

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Speaker 6: the relationship with China, as you point out, Scott, Passent

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Speaker 6: and Greer are meeting with their counterparts in Europe right now,

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Speaker 6: and if that happens, that is something that can be

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Speaker 6: part of the conversation because it can help China. They

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Speaker 6: United States and less from Iran and Russia, and so

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Speaker 6: that will be part of the conversation. That's just and

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Speaker 6: by the way, that is just the beginning of the

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Speaker 6: wall of worry. As we know that the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 6: will meet this week, it is almost a certainty that

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Speaker 6: they will not lower interest rates. At the same time,

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Speaker 6: they're saying that higher oil prices could be inflationary in

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Speaker 6: the short term. There's not a lot of evidence of that,

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Speaker 6: and in fact, the price of oil today, the average

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Speaker 6: what it was from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 6: Now it's higher than what it was, but it's not

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Speaker 6: as inflationary as what has been a pointed out. That's

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Speaker 6: a really important point. The second thing that I would

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Speaker 6: say is Kevin Walsh, who's coming in. You know, he's

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Speaker 6: going to have his hands full because he's going to

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Speaker 6: have inflation in front of him. He's gonna have jobs

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Speaker 6: in front of them, in front of them if the

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Speaker 6: economy is beginning to slow. But he is a balance

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Speaker 6: sheet hawk, and that is much different than what we

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Speaker 6: are talking about. We generally talk about quarter point moves

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Speaker 6: by the Federal Reserve, but they have a lot of

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Speaker 6: other tools, and one of the tools they have is

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Speaker 6: their balance sheet when they go out and buy bonds.

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Speaker 6: So the balance sheet has moved from four trillion up

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Speaker 6: really looking forward to Kevin worsh coming in as the

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Speaker 1: to get to in the State Senate ahead of the

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Speaker 1: final day of the session tomorrow, including the online sports

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Speaker 1: betting bill. Now major update on the online sports betting

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Speaker 1: bill here in Wisconsin. The State Senate is going to

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Speaker 1: vote on it tomorrow now. This means it is almost

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Speaker 1: certain to pass over steep Republican opposition. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell Show. It is classical conservatism and contemporary style.

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Speaker 1: There are a pair of controversial bills that the Senate

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Speaker 1: is taking up. One deals with name, image and likeness

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Speaker 1: deals for UW system students. Now, the deals themselves nil

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Speaker 1: deals are not controversial at all. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a big fan of them because I think the transfer

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Speaker 1: portal and the amount of money that these kids are

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Speaker 1: getting essentially functioning as free agents every single year has

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Speaker 1: just destroyed college sports. But hey, that's just me Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: getting in and codifying rules that have already been in

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Speaker 1: place for nil deals. That's not controversial. What's controversial is

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Speaker 1: that UW Madison would essentially get a fifteen million dollar

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Speaker 1: gift every year from the state legislature to essentially pay

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Speaker 1: these nil deals. It would cover maintenance on UW Madison

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Speaker 1: facilities so that that money can come out of revenue

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Speaker 1: that the money sports like basketball and football make, and

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Speaker 1: that fifteen million dollars instead of coming out of the

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Speaker 1: revenue that UW makes, it would just come from taxpayers.

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Speaker 1: So essentially taxpayers would be paying these nil deals. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big UW Madison phant. I'm glad the basketball

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Speaker 1: team got a number five seed in the tournament. That

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Speaker 1: was probably the best they could have done. They go

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Speaker 1: to the semi finals but lose to Michigan, who then

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Speaker 1: lost to Purdue in the championship game yesterday. But I

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Speaker 1: guess the Badgers are running into a team that is

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Speaker 1: like an upset special in high Point. Clark Kellogg on

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Speaker 1: the Bracket Reveal show last night, I already said I

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Speaker 1: got high Point beating Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but just.

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Speaker 1: Be warned, high Point is a very trendy upset pick

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Speaker 1: if you're filling out your brackets. So I love the Badgers.

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Speaker 1: I am an alum of the law school. I don't

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Speaker 1: want my tax dollars going to pay for a transfer quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So a number of Republicans bailed on this as it

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Speaker 1: came out of the Joint Finance Committee a couple of

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Speaker 1: days ago. It passed in an eight to five vote,

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Speaker 1: but I believe it was Julian Bradley Staff Schult and

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Speaker 1: there was a third Republican on the Joint Finance Committee

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Speaker 1: who voted against it. Now, this would signify that it

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Speaker 1: does not have the seventeen votes necessary to satisfy what's

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Speaker 1: become known as the rule of seventeen in the Republican Caucus.

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Speaker 1: That rule says that no bill gets brought to the

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Speaker 1: floor for a vote unless it has at least seventeen

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Speaker 1: Republican votes in the Senate. An even less popular bill

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Speaker 1: is the Online Sports Betting Bill. What it does is

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Speaker 1: legalize online sports gambling statewide, but the eleven Native tribes

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Speaker 1: essentially have exclusivity over it. Through what's known as a

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Speaker 1: hub and spoke model. The servers which power Draft Kings,

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Speaker 1: Fan Duel bet, MGM, all of the major online sports

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Speaker 1: gambling providers would be physically located on a sports book property,

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Speaker 1: on a casino property owned by the tribes, so as

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Speaker 1: to comport with the state's gaming compacts. Now, this measure

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Speaker 1: passed very controversially in the Assembly last month.

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Speaker 2: Why because it.

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Speaker 1: Passed on a voice vote. Clearly, not every Republican was

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Speaker 1: in support of this. In fact, I heard a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of nays coming from the Republican caucus when this

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Speaker 1: passed on a voice book. Clearly it shouldn't have been

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Speaker 1: done on voice vote, but it was done because Assembly

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Speaker 1: leadership didn't want members to have to explain this vote

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Speaker 1: in an election.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: Now, Wisconsin is one of the only states left that

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Speaker 1: does not have widespread online sports betting. Tribal exclusivity is

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Speaker 1: a massive, massive sticking point. Now, Yesterday, a top Republican

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Speaker 1: in the caucus, Chris Kappingo, went on up front and

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Speaker 1: host Matt Smith asked him, do you think that the

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Speaker 1: rule of seventeen is going to be violated here so

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Speaker 1: that these bills, especially the online sports betting bill, can

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Speaker 1: be brought to the floor.

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Speaker 6: Does this seventeen vote rules still exist in the caucus.

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Speaker 4: So there's a long presence, so everybody knows, there's a

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Speaker 4: long precedent where the majority likes to make sure that

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Speaker 4: the majority votes on a bill where we've got the

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Speaker 4: seventeen That is usually when you get to very large bills,

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Speaker 4: maybe one or two accession, but precedent has always been

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Speaker 4: you've got to have that rule of seventeen, you know,

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Speaker 4: if it's Republicans or Democrat votes. So I hope the

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Speaker 4: majority leader doesn't go there. I think it's very dangerous

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Speaker 4: for him if he does go there. So I just

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Speaker 4: hope it doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: Well, it certainly sounds like now that the legislative calendar

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Speaker 1: for tomorrow was released that it is going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Both the nil bill and the online sports betting bill

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Speaker 1: are up for votes, meaning that the rule of seventeen

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Speaker 1: is going to be violated, that they're not going to

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Speaker 1: have seventeen votes. And in fact I reported last week

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Speaker 1: late last week on this online sports betting bill that

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Speaker 1: they were nowhere near seventeen. The number was actually something

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Speaker 1: like ten or eleven. Here's the thing, though, Democrats are

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Speaker 1: all in favor of it, so it is going to

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Speaker 1: pass now. I never actually thought something that was lobbied

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Speaker 1: this hard was ever going to die in the State Senate.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was wrong.

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Speaker 1: I thought Roefer right a first refusal that we here

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Speaker 1: on this show helped to kill that was just a terrible,

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Speaker 1: terrible bill. I believe that this sets up a similar

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Speaker 1: sort of cartel for legalized online sports gambling, where the

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Speaker 1: eleven Native tribes essentially get to carve up Wisconsin and

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Speaker 1: split the profits.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: For the privilege of a draft Kings or a fan

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Speaker 1: duel having their server on Native land, the Native tribes

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Speaker 1: take somewhere in the neighborhood of sixty percent of all

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Speaker 1: of the profits. They do nothing. This is sort of

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Speaker 1: like a mob shakedown. Now, lest you think well, Dan,

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Speaker 1: you're just in the pocket of Draft Kings and FanDuel.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I actually do not like online sports betting.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sort of ambivalent to casino betting, and

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Speaker 1: I know that seems like it's sort of an incongruous position,

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Speaker 1: but the reality is that online sports betting is so

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Speaker 1: ubiquitous and it's so easy to do because literally the

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Speaker 1: casino is in your pocket at all times. You can

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Speaker 1: just bet on your phone. It leads to and I've

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Speaker 1: got the stats to back me up here, that it

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Speaker 1: leads to far more compulsive gambling behavior and far more

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Speaker 1: gambling addiction and problem gambling than going to a casino

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Speaker 1: or buying scratch offs or playing the lottery or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. Because it's not just like you're putting twenty

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Speaker 1: bucks on the Badgers to beat high Point in the

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Speaker 1: first round of the NCAA tournament. You're betting the over

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Speaker 1: under a point scored in the first half. You're betting

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Speaker 1: the over under on high Points, small forward how many

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Speaker 1: rebounds he's going to have in the second half. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are endless numbers of bets that you can make

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Speaker 1: on each game, and people who do this compulsively just

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Speaker 1: develop significant problems.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Kappingall also in this appearance on Upfront yesterday, issued a

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Speaker 1: warning for Senate leadership, specifically Senate Majority Leader Devin lemahu

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Speaker 1: and that is, if you violate the rule of seventeen,

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Speaker 1: you basically lose the faith of your cauk.

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Speaker 4: Historically, usually a majority leader does not come back if

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Speaker 4: he brings lots of if he breaks the rule of seventeen.

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Speaker 4: So I hope the majority leader takes that into account.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting statement from Kapinga, and we digged a little

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Speaker 1: digging into this. Coming up on the Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 1: An exclusive story and very likely a big one about

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Speaker 1: the future of Dollis Scott's at Senate now a major

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Speaker 1: exclusive here on the Dan o'donald's show. Multiple sources are

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Speaker 1: telling me that Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemahue is actively

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Speaker 1: planning his exit from the State Senate and is going

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Speaker 1: to announce at some point in the very near future

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Speaker 1: that he is not seeking re election once he secures

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Speaker 1: his post senate employment. Lemahwe has apparently been looking to

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Speaker 1: leave the Senate for several years but could not find

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Speaker 1: the right job, so he stayed on. He also wanted

862
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: to avoid a special election. Now, however, he is very

863
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,720
Speaker 1: close to announcing that he will not run in November. Again,

864
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: this is per multiple sources, and in fact, this has

865
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: been the scuttle butt inside the Capitol for quite some time. Now, tomorrow,

866
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: as we reported in the last segment here on the

867
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show, le Hue is going to bring a

868
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: their very controversial online sports betting bill to the floor

869
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: for a vote despite significant Republican opposition. Now, this is

870
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: a violation of the so called rule of seventeen. It's

871
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: an informal but pretty strictly enforced rule that leaders of

872
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: the Senate will not bring a bill to the floor

873
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: unless there are at least seventeen Republicans who support it.

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Speaker 1: This is to ensure that Republicans are all heard, that

875
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: they're all sort of swimming in the same direction, and

876
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 1: that they are only passing bills that have broad based

877
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 1: Republican conservative support. Now, as we played this SoundBite yesterday

878
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: from Senator Chris Kappingut, does it not listen to it

879
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: again with the context that I just told you.

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00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 4: Historically, usually a majority leader does not come back if

881
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,800
Speaker 4: he brings lots of if he breaks the rule of seventeen,

882
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 4: so I hope the Majority leader takes that into account.

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00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 2: He apparently has.

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00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: Lemahu was never really hot to trot about taking on

885
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,720
Speaker 1: the role as Senate Majority Leader in the first place.

886
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: The former Senate Majority Leader, of course, Scott Fitzgerald, got

887
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: himself elected to the Congress in twenty twenty. That left

888
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: a leadership void. Now I was told this was a

889
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: closed caucus vote that led to Lemahue's election. Roger Roth,

890
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:30,840
Speaker 1: who ran for lieutenant governor a couple of years ago unsuccessfully.

891
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: He put his name into the hat. He had a

892
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: decent amount of support, but there were concerns about his

893
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: friendliness with lobbyists, and he just faced enough opposition that

894
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: Republicans needed to have a fallback choice. Roth was considered

895
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 1: to be probably the most obvious choice to be the

896
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Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader, but because he couldn't get the necessary votes,

897
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: there was a backup, sort of contingency candidate, and that

898
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Speaker 1: was Devin Lemahue. Lemahue bristled, I think in large parts

899
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: of the job, especially with how much he and Assembly

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00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: Speaker Robin Voss, who of course wielded a whole lot

901
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 1: more power than Lemmeheue and this is not a slight

902
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: against Devin Lemahew, It's just the truth. Voss is easily

903
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: the most powerful legislative leader in Wisconsin in any of

904
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Speaker 1: our lifetimes, and likely the most effective. Well, he and

905
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: Lemahue butted heads most recently, you might recall, on the

906
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Speaker 1: property tax relief plan. Lemaheue actually went out and said,

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Speaker 1: I believe it was on the Upfront program a couple

908
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: of weeks ago that while Voss and Evers, or at

909
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: least their people had talked, that nobody had talked to

910
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: him about a plan to possibly provide property tax relief

911
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: using a portion of an expected budget surplus to undo

912
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: the effects or at least some of the effects of

913
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: Governor evers disastrous four hundred year veto Well, that was

914
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: a tell that Lemahue is very, very frustrated with how

915
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: things have been going, and there are a number of

916
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: Senators who frankly are not particularly happy with his leadership.

917
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Speaker 1: And from what I'm hearing from the Lemahue camp and

918
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: from people close to him, that he's just sort of

919
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: fed up.

920
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 2: He's done.

921
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: It was a part of his life and now he's

922
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: looking to move on to employment. Whether that means being

923
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: a lobbyist. I don't know, but I can tell you

924
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Speaker 1: per multiple sources, that it is very likely that Lemahue,

925
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: just like Robin Voss, is going to announce, possibly tomorrow,

926
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Speaker 1: that he is not going to run for reelection. Now

927
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: what sort of message do you think this is going

928
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,479
Speaker 1: to send to voters Democrats? I just put this out

929
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: on x and Facebook, and I'm assuming they are already

930
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit about this, because this makes it

931
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Speaker 1: a good deal more difficult to retain the State Senate.

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Speaker 1: Not because Lemahue's seat is in danger.

933
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Speaker 2: It isn't. There are pretty.

934
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Speaker 1: Much four seats that are up for grabs and Republicans

935
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: are playing defense in all of them. But Democrats they

936
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: need to win three out of four in order to

937
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Speaker 1: flip the State Senate. That's a taller order, I think

938
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Speaker 1: than people realize that it is. But you still have

939
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: the possibility that there is another retirement or two. I

940
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: know Van Wanguard has been floating with the idea that

941
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Speaker 1: he might not run again. You always have the unexpected

942
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: senator who gets another job or is just done with it,

943
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: doesn't want to like. What usually happens, though, is they

944
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: realize that they're going to be in the minority. Nobody

945
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: likes being in the minority in a legislative body. It

946
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: apparently sucks. You have no power on committee, your bills

947
00:59:58,880 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: don't get passed.

948
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Speaker 2: It's not fun.

949
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Speaker 1: So you see a lot of people typically head for

950
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: the exits when they see that their party is likely

951
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: to lose control of the majority. When you have not one,

952
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 1: but both leaders in the state legislature potentially heading for

953
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Speaker 1: the exits in the same year, in a year in

954
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: which all of the special elections, all of the primaries,

955
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: all of everything across the country, suggests that it's going

956
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: to be a big Democrat And just look, folks, this

957
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 1: is not doom saying. This is not Dan trying to

958
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: dissuade people from voting or depress the electorate. This is

959
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: me being a realist here. The cyclical nature of politics

960
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: suggests that it is very difficult to win when your

961
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: party controls the White House. Because the party that's out

962
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 1: of power, their voters are very motivated. They just suffered

963
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: a big defeat. Democrats are furious, I mean, their hair

964
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: on fire, screeching after everything Trump does. It is very

965
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: likely that they turn out in massive numbers even though

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01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: control of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court is not up

967
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: for grabs that they turn out in numbers similar to

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01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 1: the majority that drove Susan Crawford to being the deciding

969
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 1: vote on the court last year. And that should have

970
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:32,120
Speaker 1: been our first sign in that state Supreme Court race

971
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five that it is going to be

972
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: very difficult for Republicans to hold the majority, especially with

973
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: the jerry mandered legislative map that Republicans were basically forced

974
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: to sign lest they endure an even more jerrymandered map

975
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: drawn by the uber liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court. Look, I'm

976
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:59,480
Speaker 1: not going to deny that right now. Paradoxically, it would

977
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: seem Tiffany is the favorite to win the governor's race,

978
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: but that's simply because the top two candidates he would

979
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: face are bonafide insane people. Francesco Hang and Mandela Barnes,

980
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: by any objective measure, are terrible candidates. That said, Mandela

981
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: Barnes almost beat Ron Johnson in that twenty twenty two

982
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: Senate race, and Tom Tiffany is not an incumbent. Johnson

983
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: had the benefit of the incumbency. That was a year

984
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: in which incumbents won every single statewide race. Republicans won

985
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 1: every single congressional race where they had an incumbent, and

986
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:42,480
Speaker 1: Democrats won both of their congressional races because, of course,

987
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: their two incumbents are just going to keep serving and

988
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: keep getting re elected and keep doing nothing in Washington,

989
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: d C. Until they retire. This is going to be

990
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: a different electorate. This is going to be a much

991
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: more left wing election it and it's going to be

992
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: much more hostile to Republicans. Now, of course, it's March.

993
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: Anything could change by November. But ladies and gentlemen, I'm

994
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: telling you, I'm not going to sugarcoat this. I think

995
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: this potentially is another tell that Republicans in the legislature

996
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: don't believe that they are going to control the legislature

997
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: after these elections in November. That should be a sobering

998
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:36,960
Speaker 1: wake up call to everybody coming off. A week from today,

999
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, we are going to unveil the day

1000
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: before in person early voting for the spring election, the

1001
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: Supreme Court election, all of the municipal elections. We are

1002
01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: going to debut the state's ultimate Conservative voter Guide. Yes,

1003
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: we are going to be doing better. Noah, candidate where

1004
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: we are going to have conservative candidates from across the

1005
01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: state call in, introduce themselves to you ask for your vote.

1006
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: We have also put together, In fact, I was putting

1007
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: the finishing touches on it last night. Pretty much all

1008
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: day yesterday I was working on this thing along with

1009
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: a staff that I've got that's been helping me to

1010
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 1: put together. It is easily the biggest voter guide that

1011
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: anyone is ever put together for spring elections here in

1012
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,560
Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin. Yes, we are going to be

1013
01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: doing this annually. It is part of a brand new

1014
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 1: project that we are going to be debuting for you

1015
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 1: next week. One week from today, you will have all

1016
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 1: the information. It is an online voter guide and we

1017
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: will give you all the information on where to get

1018
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: hit so that we can get as many conservatives elected

1019
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 1: to statewide office. What I can tell you in going

1020
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: through candidate records and going through donation histories trying to

1021
01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: find and identify the conservatives in far flung corners of

1022
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 1: the states where I frankly just don't know who al

1023
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,440
Speaker 1: a lot of these people are, what I can tell you, folks,

1024
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: is that there are a whole lot more obvious Democrats

1025
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: based on who they're giving money to, based on just

1026
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 1: publicly available records, who are in these municipal positions. That

1027
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 1: has a real trickle up effect. You have got way

1028
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 1: more Democrats in places you wouldn't expect, places like Green County,

1029
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: places where President Trump would win by twenty thirty points.

1030
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 1: Out west and in northern parts of Wisconsin, you've got

1031
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: the village board in like, I'm just going to make

1032
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 1: up a town Danville, although I am told there is

1033
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: a Danville in Wisconsin, but let's just pretend it's this

1034
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: fictional community Danville.

1035
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 2: You have got.

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01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: All five members of the village board are obvious partisan

1037
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 1: Democrat liberals and a big reason for that, I think

1038
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: it is in some of these communities you don't have

1039
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: our voters engaged like they should be in these off

1040
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: year elections, in midterm elections, in gubernatorial elections, that they're

1041
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: only showing up for presidential elections. And because Democrats are

1042
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 1: much but politics is the center of their being, it

1043
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: is their reason for being, so of course they're involved

1044
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: in every single race. In races like this where it's

1045
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: expected to be lower turnout, that is a massive advantage.

1046
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: So we are aiming to help close that advantage with

1047
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 1: the Ultimate Conservative voter Guide once again. Multiple sources are

1048
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 1: telling me that Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemahue is actively

1049
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: planning his retirement from the Senate, that he is looking

1050
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: to secure employment post election, and once he does, or

1051
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: once he feels comfortable in making that announcement, he is

1052
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: very very likely, possibly as early as tomorrow, to announce

1053
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: that he is retiring and that he is not going

1054
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: to run for another term, following the retirement of Assembly

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Speaker 1: Speaker Robin Voss. Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 2: Coming right back.

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Speaker 1: Now, coming up after the five o'clock news. Do you

1058
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:34,960
Speaker 1: want to know why these local elections are so important?

1059
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:38,960
Speaker 1: Why I have been literally working for probably two months

1060
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: and working with people to put together a voter guide,

1061
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: Because another school district in western Wisconsin, after New Richmond,

1062
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: has an absolutely insane gender policy. Our good friend Scarlett

1063
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: Johnson of Moms for Liberty broke this story this afternoon.

1064
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: We are going to dive into that. Also, new enrollment

1065
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 1: figures for K twelve schools in Wisconsin paint a disturbing

1066
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: picture of the future of this state, not just an

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01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: education but really in everything. Our friends at Wisconsin Manufacturers

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Speaker 1: and Commerce were warning about this in the state's competitiveness Report,

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Speaker 1: which we focused on like a laser beam about five

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Speaker 1: six weeks ago something like that, because people are leaving

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Speaker 1: this state for quite literally greener pastures. Look, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to get two feet of snow in March in Florida.

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Speaker 1: You also don't have to pay a state income tax. Hey,

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Speaker 1: speaking of the snow, let's get now to the unsung heroes.

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Speaker 7: Of the deck.

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Speaker 1: Today's unsung heroes of the day are emergency responders, police

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Speaker 1: officer EMTs, firefighters, and snowplow drivers across the state who

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Speaker 1: had to brave the roads over the past twenty four

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Speaker 1: to forty eight hours and truly some of the worst

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Speaker 1: weather we.

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Speaker 2: Have had in a long time.

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Speaker 1: A blizzard warning for much of southeast Wisconsin just expired

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Speaker 1: at four pm, and there were blizzard like conditions really

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Speaker 1: across Wisconsin for much of Sunday and a good part

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Speaker 1: of Saturday night. Just take a listen to some of

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Speaker 1: these snow totals. Sturgeon Bay, the Door County area about

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Speaker 1: thirty five inches of snow as I'm seeing it, That

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Speaker 1: is probably the highest statewide. In Oconto, Marinette County, around

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Speaker 1: thirty four inches northeastern Wisconsin near Green Bay. Believe the

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Speaker 1: official Green Bay snow total is now in its twenty

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Speaker 1: six point one inches in Green Bay, so they got

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Speaker 1: more than two feet of snow. The Wsaw area upwards

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Speaker 1: of about two feet of snow here in southeast Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: about six to eight inches. I have not seen an

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Speaker 1: updated snow total now that the snow has stopped falling

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Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. Madison area a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than that nine inches to about a foot of

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Speaker 1: snow on the ground. And this was driving difficult snow.

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Speaker 1: So the plow drivers, the cops who were on the street, firefighters, EMTs,

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Speaker 1: the ambulance drivers, all of you folks, well you're always

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Speaker 1: are unsung heroes, but now you are the unsung heroes

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Speaker 1: of the day. Here on the Dan o'donald show. Coming

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Speaker 1: up also next hour, we're going to get into the

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Speaker 1: Academy Awards. Yes, I know a lot of you don't

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Speaker 1: want me talking about that liberal pap but I think

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Speaker 1: you all have to know about a rule change that

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Speaker 1: would make movies like Braveheart, The Godfather, some of the

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Speaker 1: greatest movie use of all the time, completely ineligible for

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Speaker 1: Best Picture that's coming up next here on the Dad

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Speaker 1: o'dona Show. Wisconsin digs out following a massive winter storm.

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Speaker 1: We are following it, of course here on the Dan o'

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Speaker 1: donald Show, along with the other top stories that we

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Speaker 1: are following in this the five o'clock hour here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show. The Eyes of March storm reaching

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Speaker 1: extreme levels of snow total Sturgeon Bay reporting thirty four

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Speaker 1: plus inches, several spots in northeastern central Wisconsin topping thirty inches,

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Speaker 1: while the Madison and Milwaukee areas saw between four and

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Speaker 1: twelve inches. The heavy snow and gusty winds have led

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Speaker 1: to massive power outages, spinouts and crashes, lots of school closures.

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Speaker 2: Today. Fortunately, the snow has.

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Speaker 1: Stopped and everything is for the most part, back to normal.

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Speaker 1: We reported exclusively about a half hour ago that all

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Speaker 1: signs are pointing to Senate Majority Leader dev Lemahue announcing

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Speaker 1: that he is not going to run for reelection. Multiple

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Speaker 1: sources telling us here at the Dan o'donalds Show that

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Speaker 1: lemma Hue has been plotting his exit for quite some time,

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Speaker 1: and tomorrow he is going to bring a couple of

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Speaker 1: controversial bills to the floor of the Senate without the

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Speaker 1: requisite seventeen. Republicans violating the so called rule of seventeen

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Speaker 1: typically heralds the end of a Senate leader's term. Former

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Speaker 1: Governor Tommy Thompson is apparently serious about running for governor

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Speaker 1: this year. Wisconsin Right Now is reporting that Thompson has

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Speaker 1: been telling allies that he is all in on a run.

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Speaker 1: But Tommy is eighty four years old. He's flirted with

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Speaker 1: statewide runs pretty much every time a position comes open,

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Speaker 1: only for his family to talk him out of running

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Speaker 1: each tom you want to join the Dan o'donald's show

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Speaker 1: this hour. Our phone lines are always open four one,

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Speaker 1: four seven, nine to nine eleven thirty. That is our

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Speaker 1: nos dot com talk in text line. You can always

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Speaker 1: shoot me an email DD at iHeartMedia dot com, at

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Speaker 1: Be sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube. We've

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Speaker 1: got our very own YouTube channel. We are streaming there

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Speaker 1: across social media as well, and of course please do

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Speaker 1: subscribe to the Dan o'donalds Show podcast on iHeartRadio or

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Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts. According to the National Weather

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Speaker 1: Service in Green Bay. According to a listener, was Wassaw

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Speaker 1: set a record for highest three day snow total ever

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Speaker 1: thirty point two inches, wow, smashing the twenty eighteen record

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Speaker 1: of twenty four point eight inches. They also set a

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Speaker 1: twenty four hour record of twenty three point four inches

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Speaker 1: of snow. A truly historic winter storm. And those who

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Speaker 1: were saying, ah, well, it's going to peter out, or

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Speaker 1: those who were saying on Sunday, you woke up Sunday morning,

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Speaker 1: if you're like me or in southeast Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: Say hey, where's all the snow? Wait? What happened?

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Speaker 1: Well, this thing basically just sat and churned over Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: for much of the weekend, all day Saturday or all

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Speaker 1: day Sunday, all night Sunday night into Monday morning, and

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Speaker 1: pretty much every school district canceled with good reason. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't that we just got a ton of snow. Is

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Speaker 1: that it was blowing, It was drifting. It was harrowing.

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Speaker 1: I was at a family function last night and stayed

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Speaker 1: and watched the end of the Oscars with my brother

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Speaker 1: and driving home it was it was rough driving. So

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Speaker 1: kudos to the forecasters for getting this one right. Scarlett

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Speaker 1: Johnson of Moms for Liberty breaking a pretty big story

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Speaker 1: on social media this afternoon. The school district of River Falls,

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Speaker 1: like New Richmond, which was uncovered a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: also by Johnson and Moms for Liberty, has a very

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Speaker 1: very left wing bathroom, locker room, and gender policy. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the school district approved policy four one

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Speaker 1: pint one Rule three gender diverse students. According to this

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Speaker 1: policy an Unlike New Richmond, which apparently never actually had

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Speaker 1: the board past this radical gender series of proposals, this

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Speaker 1: is actually codified by the school board. Staff must address

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Speaker 1: students using chosen names and pronouns tied to gender identity,

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Speaker 1: even without a legal name change. This is what's known

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Speaker 1: as social transitioning. This is where a student, oftentimes without

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Speaker 1: ever tell parents or a legal guardian that when they

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Speaker 1: go off to school, they're no longer dan they're Danielle

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Speaker 1: and they use she her pronouns. And sometimes in these policies,

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Speaker 1: the teachers or the school staff will not tell the

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Speaker 1: parents and will not use the students prefer gender in

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Speaker 1: front of the parents. The stated reason is that, well,

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Speaker 1: the parents might not approve of this, and we want

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Speaker 1: to protect the kids this might cause a major family issue. No,

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Speaker 1: what causes a major family issue is if the kid's

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Speaker 1: school is keeping secrets with the kid from the parents

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Speaker 1: or guardians. Bathroom policy, students may use restrooms based on

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Speaker 1: gender identity and cannot be required to use a unisex

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Speaker 1: or a separate facility locker rooms and showers. A transgender

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Speaker 1: student cannot be required to use facilities based on biological sex.

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Speaker 1: The policy even allows the superintendent to override parental consent

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Speaker 1: in certain cases. In other words, if say a girl's

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Speaker 1: parents say so, yeah, we don't want our daughter showering

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Speaker 1: with a biological male, We're going to opt her out

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Speaker 1: of taking showers after gym class, the superintendent in some cases,

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Speaker 1: according to this proposal, according to this policy, can actually

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Speaker 1: override that and say no, the girl has to take

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Speaker 1: showers with the transgender student.

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Speaker 2: Sports and activities.

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Speaker 1: Students may participate in fi ED classes, clubs, and activities

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Speaker 1: based on their gender identity.

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Speaker 2: No real surprise is there.

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Speaker 1: The WIAA did come out with the I believe they

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Speaker 1: put out guidance producer Doug. Is that corrector am I

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Speaker 1: making that the WIAA actually said you do have to

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Speaker 1: be a biological female in order to play in female sports.

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Speaker 1: I'm not positive either. Let me just check real quick

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Speaker 1: because now I'm doubting myself. Yeah, yeah, they did. It

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Speaker 1: was about a year ago. They updated their policy to

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Speaker 1: align with the federal government's initiative. Only students designated as

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Speaker 1: female at birth are allowed to participate in girls sports competitions.

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Speaker 1: Transgender girls who have initiated hormone therapy may practice, but

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Speaker 1: they are not eligible for girls teams. And that's why

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Speaker 1: this policy is the way it is. So you can

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Speaker 1: be on the you know, I don't know what would

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Speaker 1: be a gender specific club, like if they're say a

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Speaker 1: club like an innermural girls basketball and like during the

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Speaker 1: lunch period they get together and they play basketball or

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Speaker 1: after school they play intermural basketball. Well, you can't have

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Speaker 1: boys playing in the girls intermural basketball. But in terms

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Speaker 1: of interscholastic interschool competition, if you're on the varsity team,

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Speaker 1: you're on the JV team, you have to correspond with

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Speaker 1: the sex assigned at birth as the libs call it. Normally,

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Speaker 1: we would call it your gender because this is something

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Speaker 1: that you can't change. So this is the River Falls

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Speaker 1: School District what we are finding, and kudos to Scarlet

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Speaker 1: for discovering this, is that a whole lot of these

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Speaker 1: districts are still doing in direct opposition to the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration's explicit guidelines through the Department of Education that you

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Speaker 1: will be at risk of losing federal funding. You will

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Speaker 1: be at risk of losing all federal support. So any

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Speaker 1: federal money that's coming into this school district is at

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Speaker 1: risk if you are still subscribing to the insane gender hysteria. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course, there was a whole lot of outrage about

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Speaker 1: New Richmond, and there was such a massive outrage that

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Speaker 1: this became national news. Well, River Falls, this story was

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Speaker 1: just broken this afternoon, but it seems to be even

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Speaker 1: more extreme than what was discovered in New Richmond, and

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Speaker 1: it's apparently been going on for a long time now.

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Speaker 1: The reason that this didn't come to light any sooner

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Speaker 1: is very likely because there just aren't any transgender kids

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Speaker 1: in the River Falls school district, in the high school

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Speaker 1: or in the middle school who are going to test

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Speaker 1: this policy. And this is just because you're playing a

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Speaker 1: numbers game here. In spite of the fact that transgender

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Speaker 1: ideology has been almost omnipresent in the broader culture since

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Do you know the actual percentage of people

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Speaker 1: who identify as transgender or before what I would consider

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Speaker 1: a mass formation psychosis event happened, the actual percentage of

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Speaker 1: people who have true gender dysphoria, who do believe, like

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Speaker 1: do actually believe that they have what is it called

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Speaker 1: hermaphroditism where you have both parts and there are I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is a very very small percent, but there are

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Speaker 1: true there are people who truly either are born with

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Speaker 1: both boy and girl parts or who do have what

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Speaker 1: was previously classified as a psychological disorder known as gender dysphoria.

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Speaker 1: Before the modern overhaul to make psychiatric evaluations and classifications

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Speaker 1: far more politically correct, you were treated holistically, like you

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Speaker 1: were treated if you expressed, especially as a child, I

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Speaker 1: believe I am a boy, but I was born a girl.

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Speaker 1: You are treated as say, okay, let's get to the

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Speaker 1: root of why you're feeling like this, because what we're

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Speaker 1: learning now is transgender ideology is very very closely associated

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Speaker 1: with autism. People who are on the autism spectrum are

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Speaker 1: far more likely to identify as trans. What we're also flying, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: is that people who identify as trans are also very

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Speaker 1: likely to be schizophrenic. So you've got very serious mental

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Speaker 1: health issues that oftentimes are not being treated because what

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Speaker 1: the overwethered it's gender affirming care now, So the protocol

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Speaker 1: here as well. The student will be happy if we

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Speaker 1: just affirm that he's actually a girl. Well, no, you

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Speaker 1: have to treat the autism, you have to treat the schizophrenia,

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Speaker 1: you have to treat the underlying depression that is getting

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Speaker 1: a kid to say I hate everything about me, including

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Speaker 1: the fact that I.

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Speaker 2: Was born a girl.

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Speaker 1: The true percentage of kids who are gender dysphoric is

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Speaker 1: about zero point one percent, a tenth of one percent,

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Speaker 1: not even I would argue it's actually much smaller now.

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Speaker 1: The numbers of people because we have seen this sort

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Speaker 1: of mass formation psychosis in recent years, identifying as transgender

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Speaker 1: has exploded. And a lot of the reason I am

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Speaker 1: convinced is because liberalism and left wing orthodoxy rewards victimhood,

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Speaker 1: and if you are just a straight white male, you

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Speaker 1: don't have any victimhood. You're at the top of the

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Speaker 1: oppression food chain, the oppression pyramid. But if you merely say, well,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm a girl, then you get some sort

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Speaker 1: of societal reward for doing so, but I think the

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Speaker 1: actual increase. Yes, there's this mass formation psychosis hypothesis. I

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Speaker 1: think that it is severely untreated mental illness that is

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Speaker 1: being exacerbated by kids simply going on powerful, uh mind

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Speaker 1: altering drugs. And yes, I say this as somebody, and

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Speaker 1: I'm very open about this stuff specifically so you can

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Speaker 1: be treated for it. I have been taking anti anxiety

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Speaker 1: medication for years. A few years ago I was diagnosed

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Speaker 1: with ADHD, and I have been taking a drug called

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Speaker 1: as terrorists. It is done wonders for me. I was

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Speaker 1: one of those kids who got a's in everything from

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Speaker 1: like first grades straight through to law school. So I

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Speaker 1: skated by When I was growing up. If you got

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Speaker 1: good grades didn't matter. If you know you couldn't keep

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Speaker 1: your room clean or you couldn't find one of your

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Speaker 1: two shoes, you were seen as not possibly having ADHD.

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Speaker 1: So I am on these truck. But I have undergone treatment.

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Speaker 1: I have talked to you, I have researched extensively. Shocker

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell is researching something extensively because I want to

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Speaker 1: get to the bottom of what it is like for me.

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Speaker 1: Very fortunately, all of my issues were simply brain chemistry

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Speaker 1: that I just had chemistry. The release of certain chemicals

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Speaker 1: in my brain was off that the medicine regulates if

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Speaker 1: I need it, if I was expressing serious depressive thoughts,

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Speaker 1: you know, suicidal ideation, that sort of thing. Imagine if

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Speaker 1: instead of my doctor saying, you know what, Dan, I

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Speaker 1: think we need to alter some of the medications that

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Speaker 1: you're on, I think you need to go into more

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Speaker 1: extensive therapy, they just said, you know what, Dan, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna cut off Lil Danny and you're gonna live as

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Speaker 1: a woman and you're gonna be totally happy.

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Speaker 2: Does that solve anything?

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Speaker 1: And this is the biggest issue I have with schools

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Speaker 1: that will do this sort of social transitioning and they

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Speaker 1: won't tell kids. The bathroom policy is obscene. It's there's

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Speaker 1: zero reason that middle school and high school boys, biological boys,

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Speaker 1: and biological girls should be showering or going to.

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Speaker 2: The bathroom together.

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Speaker 1: There's just not There's no there's a reason that society

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Speaker 1: and pretty much all societies across the globe have sort

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Speaker 1: of segregated boys and girls, men and women when they

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Speaker 1: go to the bathroom or when they shower, when they

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Speaker 1: are in positions of undress because of the sexual possibility there.

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Speaker 1: But the thing that actually hanks me off just as

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Speaker 1: badly as that in River Falls and in school districts

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Speaker 1: like New Richmond and was another one Sun Prairie I

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Speaker 1: believe had a big issue a few years back that

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Speaker 1: we reported on. It's this idea that if the kid

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Speaker 1: comes and let's say it's a middle school's kid, very troubled,

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Speaker 1: you know, sullen withdrawn, maybe bullied, having a real tough

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Speaker 1: go of it, and the kid as an IP and

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Speaker 1: individualized education plan and dealing with you know, schizophrenia, dealing

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Speaker 1: with autism, maybe he's on the spectrum, and all of

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01:28:07,560 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 1: a sudden he tells the teacher, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: I'm a girl now, and I am going to go

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Speaker 1: by the name Sugar Magnolia at school, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go with z zer Zerr's pronouns.

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Speaker 2: Teacher says, okay.

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Speaker 1: The student, who's all of twelve years old, says, well,

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Speaker 1: don't tell my mom or dad, because my dad will

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01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 1: get really, really mad. The teacher has noticed a very

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Speaker 1: significant change in the behavior of an already troubled child.

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Speaker 1: Let's say the child instead of saying, you know, I

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Speaker 1: want to be sugar Magnolia now is saying I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about climbing to the top of the school's bell tower

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Speaker 1: and jumping off. You'd tell the parents, right, it's borderline

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Speaker 1: criminal negligence and a dereliction of your duty as someone

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Speaker 1: who cares for these kids to do otherwise, that's a

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Speaker 1: significant change in their behavior, it's a significant change in

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Speaker 1: their mental state. But these policies authorize and even require

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Speaker 1: these teachers to fail to tell the parents, to actually

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Speaker 1: keep secrets from the parents when it comes to their

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Speaker 1: children's behavior. That is completely unforgivable. And the fact that

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Speaker 1: this is actually a school board policy should open the

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Speaker 1: eyes of every single person in the River Falls School

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Speaker 1: District because it is completely and thoroughly unacceptable. Dan O'Donnell

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Speaker 1: shall coming back in.

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Speaker 2: Just three minutes.

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Speaker 1: Probably Saint Croix County. What are you people doing out there?

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Speaker 1: First it was New Richmond with its insane gender requirements.

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Speaker 1: Now we have got River Falls, which I know is

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Speaker 1: it's like half in Saint Croix County and half in

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Speaker 1: Pierce County. But these are counties you would not expect.

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Speaker 1: These are overwhelmingly Republican counties. And this illustrates the importance

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Speaker 1: of voting in your school board elections, of getting conservative

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Speaker 1: candidates onto the school board, onto your village board, into

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Speaker 1: the mayor's office in your municipality, and following local government.

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Speaker 1: This is why I have been a big, big, big

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Speaker 1: supporter of getting local candidates, municipal candidates on the air

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Speaker 1: to introduce themselves to my listeners, to conservative voters. And

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Speaker 1: while we're taking that a step, a big step further,

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Speaker 1: we're putting together a digital voter guide and interactive map

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Speaker 1: that is going to be put online. Don't worry, folks,

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Speaker 1: people are saying, Hey, what happened with that? You stop

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Know, well, we were putting it together,

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Speaker 1: and we're working with county Republican parties and the state

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Speaker 1: party and pretty much anybody who could give us information

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Speaker 1: about which candidates are the conservative ones. And we have

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Speaker 1: worked to I that we even went through the massive

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Speaker 1: candidate list put out by the Wisconsin Election Commission and

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Speaker 1: just sort of tried to identify for ourselves based on

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Speaker 1: political giving and that sort of thing, which are Republicans. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you going through a number of candidates

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Speaker 1: in Pierce Saint Croix Lacrosse counties out in western Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: and a lot more identifiable Democrats show up than identifiable Republicans. Now,

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Speaker 1: a big part of this, of course, is Republicans typically

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Speaker 1: aren't as likely to give to candidates or give to

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Speaker 1: the state party. They are less likely to make political donations,

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Speaker 1: not the least reason of which is because they don't

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Speaker 1: want their names to show up in these databases, because

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01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:25,720
Speaker 1: they're worried about harassment from insane liberals. But when you

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Speaker 1: get insane liberals on the school board or on the

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01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:33,760
Speaker 1: village board, you get these asinine policies, you get these

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01:32:33,880 --> 01:32:44,680
Speaker 1: absolutely insane bathroom policies, you get insane child pornography literature

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01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 1: in the library. You think I'm kidding. We've done entire

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Speaker 1: segments on this show or actually risked this radio station's

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Speaker 1: FCC license by simply reading from some of the books

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Speaker 1: that are available in school libraries. Is it any real

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Speaker 1: surprise that K twelve public school populations have precipitously declined,

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Speaker 1: not just over the last twenty five years. We have

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Speaker 1: been talking about long term trends a lot. Wisconsin Public

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Speaker 1: Radio found today big report today, Wisconsin's public schools lost

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand, eighty seven students this school year, with sixty

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Speaker 1: eight out of seventy two counties experiencing a decline in

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Speaker 1: student enrollment. The recently released data from the Department of

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Speaker 1: Public Instruction shows Wisconsin public schools lost just under two

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Speaker 1: percent of enrollments for the twenty five twenty six school

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Speaker 1: year compared to the previous year. From two thousand and

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Speaker 1: two to twenty twenty three, student enrollment declined seven point

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Speaker 1: three percent in Wisconsin from eight hundred and seventy five

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Speaker 1: thousand to eight hundred and eleven thousand. That was compared

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Speaker 1: to a one point three percent decline nationally during the

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Speaker 1: same time period. According to the Wisconsin Policy Forum, there

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Speaker 1: are only three counties that actually saw an increase in students.

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Speaker 1: Burnett County added four students, Richland County three students, Florence

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Speaker 1: County didn't add or lose any Dane County added one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety eight students, But the big jump came

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Speaker 1: from the McFarland School District, which added six hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy eight students, mostly in its virtual high school program,

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01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 1: and that actually takes kids from across the state, not

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Speaker 1: just in McFarland, so it wasn't actually a big increase

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Speaker 1: from Dane County. Why are kids leaving, Well, more students

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01:34:50,160 --> 01:34:54,439
Speaker 1: are enrolling in private schools, more parents are choosing to

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Speaker 1: home school. But the broader trend is that Wisconsin's population

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Speaker 1: is not growing. The Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Competitiveness Report

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Speaker 1: that was put out a few weeks back highlights this

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Speaker 1: very effectively. That quite simply, Wisconsin is taxing itself out

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01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:20,960
Speaker 1: of competition with states like Florida South Carolina, which has

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Speaker 1: just been going gangbusters in gaining population. What you're finding

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01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:29,880
Speaker 1: is that Republican states that have been actively cutting tax

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01:35:29,960 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 1: burdens on their residents are seeing dramatic growth, whereas blue

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01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:38,799
Speaker 1: states like Wisconsin have been increasing taxing. Yes, Wisconsin controlled

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Speaker 1: by a governor. Even though the Republican legislature has done

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Speaker 1: its level best to try to control his worst impulses,

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Speaker 1: we still do have a governor who used his veto

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Speaker 1: authority to increase the property tax levy for the next

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Speaker 1: four hundred years, and the state Supreme Court allowed him

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Speaker 1: to do this. So the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Competitiveness

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Speaker 1: Report shows that for the first twenty three years of

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Speaker 1: this century, public school enrollment dropped by sixty five thousand students.

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Speaker 1: Number of teachers decreased by twenty seven hundred. However, non

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Speaker 1: instructional staff positions like administrators increased by over eight thousand.

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Speaker 2: Eight thousand.

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Speaker 1: This translates to for every eight students lost, public schools

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Speaker 1: added one non instructional staff member. Additionally, for every teacher lost,

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Speaker 1: districts hired three non instructional staff, including one additional administrator,

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Speaker 1: for every teacher they lost. So basically they were just

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Speaker 1: replacing teachers with administrators over the last twenty three years.

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Speaker 1: You want to know why kids are leaving public schools

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01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:07,720
Speaker 1: because they're replacing the people who are actually the most valuable,

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Speaker 1: the teachers who do incredible work with these kids. They're

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Speaker 1: replacing them with assistant principles, with curriculum coordinators, with educational specialists,

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Speaker 1: people whose only job is to essentially push paper around. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm not saying that an assistant principle

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Speaker 1: is inherently Look, one of the absolute best employees in

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Speaker 1: my kid's school district, I've long said she's the best,

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Speaker 1: is the assistant principle. But there's like one of her.

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Speaker 1: There's not twelve all right. The issue is that we

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Speaker 1: have traded education for bureaucracy, and the results have been

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Speaker 1: catastrophic because it's not the teachers who are coming up

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Speaker 1: with these asenine proposals like in New Richmond and River Falls,

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Speaker 1: or the gender neutral bathrooms and keeping gender transitioning secret

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01:38:05,800 --> 01:38:10,200
Speaker 1: from parents. It's these school administrators. It is the bureaucratic

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Speaker 1: bloat that has been the worst thing to happen to

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Speaker 1: education in Wisconsin in decades. The Academy Awarran's coming up next,

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01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:24,040
Speaker 1: the ridiculous woke rules that would make the Godfather ineligible

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Speaker 1: for Best Picture.

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Speaker 2: Next.

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Speaker 1: You know how I feel really bad for in the

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Speaker 1: Great Blizzard of twenty twenty six. Well, everybody who's snowed

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Speaker 1: in and lost power, Yes, obviously can crash their car

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01:38:51,720 --> 01:38:56,120
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Yes, every owner of an Irish

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Speaker 1: pub in like northeast Wisconsin, because you know, h oh,

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Speaker 1: the biggest day of their year is going to be

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Speaker 1: greatly impacted when there's three feet of snow on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell show. A little Lord

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Speaker 1: of the Dance in the Saint Patrick's Day. Bumper music

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Speaker 1: rotation is way too late. In the season to have

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Speaker 1: this much snow, and it's way too late in the

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Speaker 1: season to have the Oscars. I know the Oscars have

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Speaker 1: been in April before, but it just seems like February

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Speaker 1: is a much better month. Really nothing going on. You've

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Speaker 1: watched TV? Yes, I am still it's a guilty pleasure.

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Speaker 1: I am still one of the few, and we are

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Speaker 1: a greatly declining number who does make a plan to

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Speaker 1: watch the Oscars every year. I actually forgot it was

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Speaker 1: on until it was about halfway over. I was at

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Speaker 1: my niece's birthday party. She was born on Saint Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 1: How about that? An O'Donnell lass born on Saint Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 1: So the family all came over and I actually stayed

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Speaker 1: at my brothers. After everybody left, they found the kids

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Speaker 1: found out they had off school, and oh man, it

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01:40:05,320 --> 01:40:08,240
Speaker 1: was like pure joy. I was reading them the text

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Speaker 1: as it came in. The school district has determined that

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Speaker 1: there will be no school tomorrow. All the kids went nuts.

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Speaker 1: So I watched the Oscars and it was kind of

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Speaker 1: your standard issue ceremony. You had a couple political speeches

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Speaker 1: that the movie glorifying left wing terrorism.

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Speaker 2: One best picture you think I'm kidding.

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Speaker 1: One battle after another is actually about left wing terrorists.

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Speaker 1: My favorite left wing virtue signaling though, didn't come at

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Speaker 1: the ceremony itself.

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Speaker 2: It came at the Red carpet.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're familiar with the oscars, right, the red carpet,

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Speaker 1: the oscar. Everybody's showing off their Oh who are you

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Speaker 1: wearing dol Chingaban. Well, now the hottest fashion accessory is,

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01:40:57,880 --> 01:41:01,160
Speaker 1: of course a pin that will virtue signal for you.

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01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:05,800
Speaker 1: And an actress from One Piece by the name of

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Speaker 1: Sharithra Chandron was wearing a pin that said ceasefire in Gaza.

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Speaker 1: It's an Artist for Seespire pin and what we are

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Speaker 1: demanding as a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Speaker 2: And I think that I am so blessed to have a.

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Speaker 1: Platform and this is the least.

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Speaker 5: I can do to use it.

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Speaker 4: And like, sometimes the news cycle.

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Speaker 5: Is so fast and people move on, but the people

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Speaker 5: in Gaza in the West Bank are still suffering.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, just bringing attention to that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's bringing attention to the fact that there needs

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Speaker 1: to be a ceasefire in Gaza. She is demanding cease firing.

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Speaker 1: Gaza artists are getting together, Artists for Gaza. They are

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Speaker 1: demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. There has been a ceasefire

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Speaker 1: in Gaza for six freaking months. For six months, there's

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Speaker 1: been a ceasefire. Does she not remember all the hostages

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Speaker 1: coming back? Trump was bragging about the ceasefire in Gaza

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Speaker 1: for like a week and a half. When I say, folks,

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01:42:15,160 --> 01:42:19,559
Speaker 1: who cares what these idiots say in some speech that

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01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:24,280
Speaker 1: barely fifteen million people are going to actually watch and

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01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:27,640
Speaker 1: probably fewer than fifteen hundred are going to remember the

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01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:31,000
Speaker 1: next day. This is what I'm talking about. They are

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01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:36,760
Speaker 1: vapid morons. Cease fire in Gaza. There's ben A said,

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Speaker 1: you cannot make this stuff up. You really can't. If

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01:42:42,800 --> 01:42:46,840
Speaker 1: you're wondering why over the past five years or so,

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01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 1: you have not heard of any of the Best Picture

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01:42:50,880 --> 01:42:55,880
Speaker 1: winners save for Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer of the last few years

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01:42:55,960 --> 01:43:00,160
Speaker 1: is the only way. Here's a pop quiz, what movie

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01:43:00,200 --> 01:43:06,759
Speaker 1: best picture last year? My producer is totally stumped. Yeah,

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01:43:07,800 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: it's called Anora, It's about a prostitute. Was it any good?

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01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:16,599
Speaker 2: Producer? Doug actually saw that It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

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01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:23,000
Speaker 1: It beat out the transgender movie Amelia Perez. Now If

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01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:29,599
Speaker 1: you're wondering why films like that with subject matter nobody

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01:43:29,880 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 1: really relates to or cares about, have been winning, it's

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01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:39,080
Speaker 1: because new woke OSCAR standards became mandatory if you want

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01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:42,719
Speaker 1: to enter your film for consideration for Best Pictures started

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01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:47,360
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four for films released in twenty twenty three,

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01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:52,599
Speaker 1: in order to be eligible for Best Picture. In order

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01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: to even be considered, you must meet at least two

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01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:02,800
Speaker 1: out of four of the following standards. One on screen representation,

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Speaker 1: themes and narratives. Film must meet one of the following

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Speaker 1: leader significant supporting actors from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups,

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Speaker 1: main storyline theme or subject matter centered on underrepresented racial

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Speaker 1: or ethnic groups, main storyline theme or subject focused on women,

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Speaker 1: lgbt Q plus minus ampersgon ampersand equal sign people with disabilities,

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Speaker 1: or other underrepresented groups, or a significant secondary on screen

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01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 1: roles or narrative elements representing these groups. So, in other words,

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Speaker 1: you have to have a minority cast, or at least

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Speaker 1: you have to have at least one token minority member

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Speaker 1: of your cast, or you have to have themes that

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Speaker 1: are an underrepresented group theme. I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: that means. Standard two Creative and leadership team at least

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Speaker 1: two department heads director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: From underrepresented groups or at least six other key roles.

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Speaker 1: First at assistant director, costume designer, hair and makeup, etc.

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01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:08,479
Speaker 1: From underrepresented groups. Standard three Industry Access and Opportunities. The

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01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:12,479
Speaker 1: production company or distributor must demonstrate paid internships, apprenticeships, or

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01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:17,800
Speaker 1: training and mentorship opportunities for underrepresented groups. And Standard for

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01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:22,240
Speaker 1: Audience Development, Marketing, publicity and distribution teams must include members

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Speaker 1: from underrepresented groups with targeted outreach to diverse audiences. So

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01:45:26,920 --> 01:45:31,640
Speaker 1: you have to just to be eligible, you have to

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01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:37,280
Speaker 1: have two of those standards. The biggest one that films

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01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 1: are finding its easiest to be in contention for because obviously,

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01:45:42,160 --> 01:45:45,200
Speaker 1: what's the purpose of this. It's to get stuff on

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01:45:45,320 --> 01:45:51,960
Speaker 1: the screen that specifically pushes an agenda. Standard A. It's

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01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:58,200
Speaker 1: the first one on screen representation. What this means is

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01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:01,680
Speaker 1: some of the greatest films of all time would not

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Speaker 1: be eligible today for Best Picture Casablanca, which actually was

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01:46:12,320 --> 01:46:14,800
Speaker 1: well and no, that's Citizen Kan. I'm thinking of Citizen Kane.

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01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:17,479
Speaker 1: Casablanca was appreciated at a time Citizen Kane was not.

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Speaker 1: Casablanca ineligible for Best Picture, The Godfather ineligible for Best Picture.

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Speaker 2: Gladiator.

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Speaker 1: Actually, people have been saying Gladiator would be ineligible. No,

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Speaker 1: Jamon Hunsu was one of the leading supporting roles is

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01:46:34,479 --> 01:46:39,080
Speaker 1: the African friend of Maximus Decimus Meridius the Gladiator, so

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01:46:39,240 --> 01:46:45,519
Speaker 1: it would be eligible. Chicago, the remake of the play,

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01:46:45,640 --> 01:46:50,599
Speaker 1: not eligible. Lord of the Rings, the trilogy considered one

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01:46:50,640 --> 01:46:57,200
Speaker 1: of the finest masterpieces in film history, not eligible. The

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01:46:57,200 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 1: First Star Wars not eligible. Empire Strikes Back. You've got

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Speaker 1: Billy d Williams as Lando Calrissian, so I think you're okay. Titanic,

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Speaker 1: the highest grossing Best Picture winner of all time, not eligible.

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Speaker 1: You want to know why you get Hollywood's slop, It's

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01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:26,880
Speaker 1: because it's quite literally mandated now by the Academy.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dan o'donald show back in a

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Speaker 2: second problem afternoon, I'm Dave Michaels.

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Speaker 5: Heavy snow, freezing rain, fifty even sixty mile hour wind

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Speaker 5: gusts at time are just a part of what we

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Speaker 5: all experienced weatherwise over the last twenty four hours plus.

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01:47:48,280 --> 01:47:52,000
Speaker 5: The cleanup in our area is already under Way, Racine

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Speaker 5: Mayor Corey Mason.

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01:47:53,479 --> 01:47:55,639
Speaker 8: So we've had the cruise out there since the middle

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01:47:55,680 --> 01:47:58,400
Speaker 8: of the night last night, clearing the main streets over

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01:47:58,400 --> 01:48:00,759
Speaker 8: one hundred and seventy lane miles on the main streets.

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01:48:01,040 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 8: They'll be doing that until middle of the afternoon, and

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01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 8: then about eight this morning they started going into the

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01:48:05,439 --> 01:48:08,599
Speaker 8: local neighborhoods. And that's where people parking on the eyed

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01:48:08,680 --> 01:48:11,000
Speaker 8: side of the street today really matters, because our ability

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01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 8: to go through there and clear one side of the

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Speaker 8: street and then come back later to get the other

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Speaker 8: side of the street really makes a big difference. So

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Speaker 8: for people who are on those local streets and you

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Speaker 8: could park on the odd side today and the even

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Speaker 8: side tomorrow, it'll sure help us clear the snow much faster.

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Speaker 5: Still, there's thousands of people without power, especially in southern

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01:48:30,760 --> 01:48:34,840
Speaker 5: Milwaukee County cities like Saint Francis, cuta Hey and Old Creek.

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Speaker 5: We Energy spokesman Brendan Conway. We understand people want it

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Speaker 5: restored as quickly as possible. We do too, so we're

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Speaker 5: gonna do it safely, We're gonna do it quickly. And

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Speaker 5: a former Wisconsin village clerk has been charged with both

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Speaker 5: Theft and Misconduct.

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Speaker 7: Wisconsin Department of Justice as fifty four year old Dianna

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01:48:51,479 --> 01:48:54,720
Speaker 7: Bronschwig stole over two hundred and eighty thousand dollars of

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Speaker 7: taxpayer dollars without supervisor approval. Bronchwig served as clerk treasure

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Speaker 7: for the Dodge County Village of Niosha and the Waukeshaw

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01:49:03,200 --> 01:49:07,040
Speaker 7: County Village of Shaniqua until a last fall. An investigation

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Speaker 7: began when Nyoshio's village president learned the village's bank account

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Speaker 7: was overdrawn by six thousand dollars. Village leaders later found

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Speaker 7: that Braunschweig allegedly wrote hundreds of checks to herself, totaling

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Speaker 7: over forty thousand dollars. Ted Allen Wisconsin Radio Network.

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Speaker 5: Checking the holiday automotive final Acts, Sports Scoreboard, Bucks home

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow night to play Cleveland from the Orthopedic Associates of

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Speaker 5: Wisconsin News Center. I'm Dave Michael's on Wisconsin's most listened

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Speaker 5: to radio station, News Talk eleven thirty WYSN