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Speaker 1: Show with a big spoiler alert, and I mean big

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Speaker 1: not down by the count of three. It's your own fault.

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Speaker 1: a steady stream of curse words. The Badgers get upset

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Speaker 1: by high Point, and kudo to of all people, Clark

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Speaker 1: Kellogg of the CBS Sports Broadcast crew. As soon as

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, he actually said, I like high Point to

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Speaker 1: The Wisconsin Badgers are out of the nc DOUBLEA Tournament,

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Speaker 1: and every single pandering politician in Wisconsin including Mandela Barnes

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Speaker 1: way to the National Championship, already has their bracket busted.

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Speaker 1: The absolute funniest and I mean funniest of the day

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Speaker 2: He put it out after they lost, after they lost,

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Speaker 1: I know the only thing that will cheer you up

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Speaker 1: after the Badger's defeat mad Man. This is why we

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Speaker 1: love March Madness, right because of the upsets, because of

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Speaker 1: the excitement. It was a fantastic game. The Badgers would

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Speaker 1: now here on the Dan o'donald Show. Senate Majority Leader

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Speaker 1: announce his retirement today. Assembly pro Speaker pro Tem Kevin Peterson,

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show. A reminder, the bid on Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Voss turned some heads when he was asked by reporters

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Speaker 1: control of your majorities in the Assembly and the Senate.

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Speaker 1: He answered, Donald Trump. Now a lot of people. Inasmuch

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Speaker 1: as anybody heard about this remark, because I cannot find

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Speaker 1: a video of it anywhere I know, wispolitics dot com,

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Speaker 1: very very good site, posts the video on their YouTube channel.

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Speaker 1: Avent looking for it for a while. It's of course

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Speaker 1: going to be misconstrued, and Vus has always faced allegations

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Speaker 1: that he's a rhino, that he hated Trump. I will

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Speaker 1: say he doesn't love Trumps much as other Republicans, But

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Speaker 1: what his broader point was was that there are a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of voters that Republicans are now dependent on

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Speaker 1: who will only show up for Donald Trump. Remember back

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, when Trump first ran and we were

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Speaker 1: told that a big problem that he was going to

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Speaker 1: face was never Trump, the voters who just no matter what,

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Speaker 1: were never ever ever going to vote for him. It

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Speaker 1: was called the never Trump faction, right, the never Trump movement,

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Speaker 1: and it was particularly big here in Wisconsin because of

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Speaker 1: the conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes. Sikes just made

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Speaker 1: it abundantly clear he hated Trump. You might remember a

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Speaker 1: very famous interview during the primary right before Wisconsin's primary

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Speaker 1: where Wisconsin little known fact, Wisconsin is the last state

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Speaker 1: not to vote for Donald Trump in a presidential primary.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that? It was in April of twenty sixteen. Yep,

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Speaker 1: you'd remember who won ten years ago, almost exactly ten

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Speaker 1: years ago. Do you remember who won the Wisconsin primary?

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Speaker 1: It was, in fact Ted Cruz. Donald Trump finished second.

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Speaker 1: It was a hotly contested primary when it was the

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Speaker 1: last one that he lost, and Wisconsin because of Sikes's

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Speaker 1: influence and because of well, frankly Trump, I was not

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Speaker 1: doing a daily show then. I did not start a

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Speaker 1: daily show on WYSN until early twenty seventeen. But Belling

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Speaker 1: was not particularly pro Trump. Vicky also had a very

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Speaker 1: viral It was sort of overshadowed by the Charlie Sykes

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Speaker 1: interview with Trump, but she also had a very viral

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Speaker 1: interview with Trump in which she basically was skeptical of

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Speaker 1: how conservative he was actually going to be, and that

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Speaker 1: But it was seen as potentially a big pro for

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Speaker 1: Trump that he was going to run into all of

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Speaker 1: this never Trump opposition right that there were going to

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Speaker 1: be so many people who are just never, ever, ever

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Speaker 1: going to vote for Trump. Well, Trump has been so

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Speaker 1: beloved by conservatives and Republicans far and away, I think

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Speaker 1: the most popular Republican president among conservatives, surpassing even the

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Speaker 1: great Ronaldus Magnus Ronald Reagan. That there is a big

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Speaker 1: subset of people that he brought into American politics who

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Speaker 1: simply will not vote when President Trump is not on

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Speaker 1: the ticket. These are known as only Trump voters. And

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Speaker 1: just as there was a big problem supposedly with the

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Speaker 1: never Trump vote in Wisconsin, turns out it didn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Trump was the first president since Reagan to win Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: in the presidential election Reagan won in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 1: He won forty nine out of fifty states. Trump scored

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Speaker 1: the biggest upset in American political history when he beat

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton, and Wisconsin was actually the state the last

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Speaker 1: state that didn't vote for him in a primary was

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Speaker 1: the state that actually put him over the top and

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Speaker 1: won him the presidency in twenty sixteen. Also technically in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, there were a number of other states

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Speaker 1: that Fox News called essentially at the same time, but

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Speaker 1: it was actually Wisconsin, that was the winning state for

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Speaker 1: Trump in both of his electoral victories in sixteen and

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Speaker 1: twenty four But because Trump became so popular, and because

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Speaker 1: he became so popular with a new subset of voters

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Speaker 1: or people who were just sort of disgusted with the

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Speaker 1: entire political process. Trump was sort of the ultimate outsider,

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Speaker 1: and Trump was the guy who came in and he

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Speaker 1: just threw a rock through the political establishment. Well, there

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Speaker 1: are a whole lot of people who loved that rock

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Speaker 1: being thrown through the establishment, but they never got on

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Speaker 1: board with the Trump political party, the Republicans. They still

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Speaker 1: dislike Republicans, they still dislike the police process, and they

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Speaker 1: only like Donald Trump. We have seen this in pretty

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Speaker 1: much every single election here in Wisconsin since Trump was

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Speaker 1: first elected in twenty sixteen. And in fact, you can

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Speaker 1: pinpoint the exact moment when Republicans and Conservatives went on

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Speaker 1: a huge losing streak in statewide elections. It was when

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Speaker 1: Trump won in twenty sixteen. Now, is this because so

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Speaker 1: many voters here in Wisconsin just rebelled against Donald Trump?

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Speaker 1: They just hate him so much that they're never going

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Speaker 1: to vote for Republicans again. No, it isn't but it changed.

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Speaker 1: Trump represented a fundamental sea change in the body politic,

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Speaker 1: and so many people who were traditional Democrat voters for

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Speaker 1: the very first time became Republicans. But along with that

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Speaker 1: came their voting habits, which is to say, they'll vote

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Speaker 1: in presidential elections if you can get them to vote

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Speaker 1: in presidential elections, but they won't vote in other elections.

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Speaker 1: That's a big, big problem. Because Republicans made something of

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Speaker 1: a faustian bargain here in Wisconsin. We traded away the

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Speaker 1: very loyal Scott Walker coalition in remember the Wow Counties, Walka,

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Speaker 1: two technically three gubernatorial Windsy won the recall election in

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve as well. Republicans dominated based on that coalition.

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Speaker 1: It is my very strong belief that that coalition splintered

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Speaker 1: not because of Donald Trump, but because of retirement and

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Speaker 1: because they're going down to Florida. And we're actually going

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Speaker 1: using as something of a springboard comments that New York

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Speaker 1: Governor Kathy Hokeel made, I can tell you what we

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Speaker 4: Honest that this moment, what is happening across our country

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Speaker 5: We're gonna win so much you may even get.

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Speaker 1: Tired of winning. Just keep winning.

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Speaker 6: A win for the administration, it's also a big win

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Speaker 6: for the United States.

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Speaker 1: We have to keep planning. We have to win Bore.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win bore. The President today welcoming Japan Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister Sanai Takashi to the White House. She is a

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Speaker 1: conservative Prime minister and a big Trump ally. President Trump

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Speaker 1: actually endorsed her in her party's sweeping victory some time ago,

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Speaker 1: and Takaishi, through a translator, praised the President for his

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Speaker 1: handling of the war in Iran and all of the

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Speaker 1: world's security issues.

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Speaker 3: Mains.

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Speaker 6: But even against such badov, I firmly believe that it

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Speaker 6: is only Donald who can achieve peace across the world.

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Speaker 3: It's not that many sugar oil title.

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Speaker 7: And to do so, I am ready how to reach

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Speaker 6: So today I came here at the White House to

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Speaker 1: In turn, President Trump thanked Takaishi for Japan's unwavering support

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Speaker 1: in the Iran war.

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Speaker 5: We're doing, We're gonna be speaking about it today. We've

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Speaker 5: had tremendous support and relationship with Japan and everything. And

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Speaker 5: they are really stepping up to the play now.

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Speaker 1: The President also gave an update on the effort in

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Speaker 1: what he's calling a military excursion in Iraq.

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Speaker 5: I have the strongest military in the world. We have

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Speaker 5: the best equipment. We make by far, the best equipment.

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Speaker 5: The other night they had one hundred and fourteen rockets

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Speaker 5: shot at a certain location, and out of one hundred

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Speaker 5: all our equipment. It's amazing, actually how good it is.

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Speaker 5: So we want to be sure and it's a small

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Speaker 5: price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.

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Speaker 1: Now. The President took questions from reporters and gave a

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Speaker 1: very good answer to one who asked, are you going

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Speaker 1: to commit troops on the ground in Iran? Intend to

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Speaker 1: lift sanctions on the Radiant oil?

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Speaker 6: And do you intend to potentially put you must troops

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Speaker 6: or more troops than the Asia.

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Speaker 5: No, I'm not putting troops anywhere.

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Speaker 1: If I were, I wouldn't tell you. It's the thing

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Speaker 1: that just boggles my mind about the reporters. Mister President,

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Speaker 1: can you please reveal your long term strategy for Operation

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Speaker 1: Epic Fury. Will you be deploying troops and if so,

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Speaker 1: where what strategic location will they go to? Carg Island.

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Speaker 1: Will they go to Tayrn What are these people think?

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Speaker 1: I know you got to ask the questions, all right,

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Speaker 1: But the question that produced the most viral moment from

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Speaker 1: today's Oval Office meeting, and it is going to be

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Speaker 1: the narrative tonight. The left is already saying President Trump

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Speaker 1: deeply embarrassed the Japanese Prime Minister, who remembers one of

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Speaker 1: his closest allies and a big fan of the President,

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Speaker 1: when he made a Pearl Harbor joke. Folks, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: this is one of the funniest jokes that the man

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Speaker 1: has made. Here it is. You're going to hear this

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Speaker 1: on the nightly news. It is going to be presented,

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Speaker 1: of course, in the context of Trump being a bore,

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Speaker 1: Trump being a terrible human being.

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Speaker 4: Can we just.

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Speaker 1: Admit that it's funny? Can we just admit the man

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Speaker 1: is funny?

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Speaker 6: There's no Japan on you is a very good friend.

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Speaker 6: But one question, why didn't you tell your eyes.

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Speaker 7: In Europe and the asire like Japan about the war

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Speaker 7: before taking you on? So we are very confused about them.

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Speaker 5: Well, one thing, you don't want to signal too much,

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Speaker 5: you know, when we go in we went in very hard,

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Speaker 5: and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.

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Speaker 5: Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay, why didn't

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Speaker 5: you tell me about Pearl Harbor?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 5: Right, he's asking me, do you believe in surprise? I

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Speaker 5: think much more so than us, And we had a

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Speaker 5: surprise and we did and because of that surprise, we

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Speaker 5: knocked out the first two days. We probably knocked out

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Speaker 5: fifty percent of what we and much more than we

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Speaker 5: anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about

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Speaker 5: it is no longer a surprise.

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Speaker 1: That, ladies and gentlemen your daily Trump date. Okay? Was

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Speaker 1: it in poor taste? It's been eighty some years since

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Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor. I'll admit if he would have made like

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Speaker 1: a Hiroshima joke, yeah, that would have been an incredibly

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Speaker 1: poor taste. The joke was why would I tell you?

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Speaker 1: Why would I tell another nation? This is the other

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Speaker 1: thing that it just boggles my mind. Democrats are furious

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Speaker 1: that President Trump didn't go to Congress first. You don't

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Speaker 1: think that any number of Democrats would have immediately blabbed

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Speaker 1: to the Ayatola Hell, I'm still not convinced that Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson wasn't blabbing to the Ayatola everything he was hearing

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Speaker 1: from people in Trump's orbit. Of course Democrats were going

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Speaker 1: to You really think Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar weren't

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Speaker 1: going to tell the Orange regime, Hey, you better watch

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Speaker 1: you know that meeting. You guys have set to convene

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Speaker 1: on the morning of February twenty eighth, where like everybody

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Speaker 1: in the Iranian regime is gonna be together in one room.

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Speaker 1: Maybe don't do that because they're gonna bomb the holy

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Speaker 1: heck out of you. It's the element of surprise. Should

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Speaker 1: Trump have brought up and this I can just hear

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Speaker 1: I can just hear a certain talk radio host somewhere

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Speaker 1: else down the dial on six twenty in middays fretting, Oh, well, well,

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Speaker 1: he shouldn't have You shouldn't have been saying this. Shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have been saying this. This is this is the sort

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Speaker 1: of thing that makes people leave the Republican Party. This

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Speaker 1: is the sort of makes people leave cert No, it's

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Speaker 1: not it's a joke. Please, can we just admit it

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Speaker 1: was a joke and it was a funny one, and

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Speaker 1: you had one person. It appears in that room, groaning

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Speaker 1: that he me he mentioned Pearl Harbor. You want to

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Speaker 1: bet the person growning there very audibly, meaning she was

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Speaker 1: close to a camera was a reporter. Just unbelievable. The

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Speaker 1: biggest joke in politics very well could be New York's

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Speaker 1: governor today quite literally begging people to come back to

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Speaker 1: New York State, saying, look, if you are a person

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Speaker 1: of means and you know somebody who has fled to

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Speaker 1: West Palm Beach, go down there and tell them to

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Speaker 1: come back. Here's Kathy Hope New York.

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Speaker 8: I need people who are high net worth to support

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Speaker 8: the generous social programs that we want to have in

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Speaker 8: our state. Right now, there are some patriotic millionaires who

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Speaker 8: stepped up.

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Speaker 3: Okay, cut me the checks.

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Speaker 8: I mean, just if you want to be supportive, But

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Speaker 8: maybe the first step should be go down to Palm

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Speaker 8: Beach and see what you can bring back home. Because

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Speaker 8: our tax base has been eroded, so I feel soft.

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Speaker 3: We don't have a problem.

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Speaker 8: It is like I have to look at the fact

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Speaker 8: that we are in competition with other states who have

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Speaker 8: less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals,

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Speaker 8: And I would say remote work changed everything. There are

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Speaker 8: people who could only work in an office in Manhattan

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Speaker 8: and work in New York State, and they were captives

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Speaker 8: to our state.

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Speaker 3: They were in a state we saw that. That's not

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Speaker 3: the case.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you know Wall Street businesses looking at Texas.

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Speaker 8: They're not going there because they have a nicer governor,

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Speaker 8: I know that for sure, But they're going there because

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Speaker 8: of the tax rate.

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Speaker 3: We have to be smart about this.

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Speaker 1: Aha, If you are smart, you'd lower the tax rate. Gov.

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Speaker 1: But why is this so funny? Not just because Kathy

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Speaker 1: Hochel inadvertently revealed every single problem with high tax Democrat

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Speaker 1: run states. No, no, no. The biggest joke is that

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Speaker 1: during her victory speech when she won election back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, she actually said, if you aren't willing

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Speaker 1: to pay for a better New York and if you

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Speaker 1: support Donald Trump, leave we don't want you. Go down

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Speaker 1: to Florida.

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Speaker 8: Winding to bring government back to the people and out

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Speaker 8: of the hands of dictators. And we're here to say

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Speaker 8: that the era of Trump and Zelden and mon Arrow.

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Speaker 8: Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida.

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Speaker 1: Are you blong?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 8: Get out of down, get out of town, Get out

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Speaker 8: because you don't read, you don't represent our values.

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Speaker 3: You are not New Yorkers. You're not New Yorkers.

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Speaker 1: That is too great. Four years later, less than four

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Speaker 1: years later, she is begging all of those people who

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Speaker 1: she told to leave, please, please please come back to

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Speaker 1: New York. Support my generous social welfare programs. We need you.

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Speaker 1: We're in competition with Texas and Florida and all those

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Speaker 1: states that don't soak a every single wealth generating entity

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Speaker 1: or wealth generating human being like we do in New York.

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Speaker 1: And she is, of course absolutely right. COVID nineteen did

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Speaker 1: fundamentally change everything. But there is one immutable lesson of capitalism,

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Speaker 1: and that capital can move. In fact, capital will move

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Speaker 1: where capital can flow the freest. This is something that

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Speaker 1: you're never ever ever going to change by social engineering,

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Speaker 1: the likes of which Kathy Hokel believes in, or at

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Speaker 1: least believed in until it all fled her state. The

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Speaker 1: fact that she is now inadvertently admitting that her policies

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Speaker 1: succeeded only in driving people out of New York and folks,

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Speaker 1: the numbers don't lie. The three states that people are

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Speaker 1: leaving in the greatest numbers in this country are number

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Speaker 1: one California, number two New York, and number three Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Why because telework means they are no longer forced to

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Speaker 1: live in those high tax, high cost of living states.

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Speaker 1: They are no longer captive to the failed government policies

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Speaker 1: of Kathy Hochel, of JB. Pritzker in Illinois and of

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom in California. They can go down to Florida,

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Speaker 1: they can live in Texas, they can go back to

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin if they've got family there that they would rather

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Speaker 1: live in a state where they're not going to be

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Speaker 1: forced to pay usurious rates just to exist in the

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Speaker 1: form of property taxes, income taxes, fees, and anything else.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, if you're anywhere near a

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Speaker 1: big liberal run city like Los Angeles, Chicago, or New

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Speaker 1: York City, you're going to be in a crime infested

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Speaker 1: hell hole with terrible schools. People are voting with their

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Speaker 1: feat so much so that in the twenty thirty census

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Speaker 1: and the redistricting that's going to follow, it is projected

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Speaker 1: that California is going to lose four congressional seats. That

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Speaker 1: means four electoral votes. New York is going to lose

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Speaker 1: three electoral votes possibly four, and Illinois is going to

808
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Speaker 1: lose two or three. Where are they going? Not surprisingly,

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00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: Texas and Florida by far the state's people are moving

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Speaker 1: to the most. Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Arizona. All of

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Speaker 1: those states are in the south. All of those states,

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Speaker 1: of course, have a huge advantage in terms of climate.

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00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: You're not going to have a fifty five degree, beautiful

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Speaker 1: sunny afternoon like we're having in Wisconsin three days after

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Speaker 1: a massive blizzard that dumped three feet of snow on

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Speaker 1: a big portion of this state. You're going to essentially

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Speaker 1: have summer year round, or in South Carolina you're going

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Speaker 1: to have temperate weather year round. It's where a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of people are retiring to. And because the income

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Speaker 1: tax is much lower, or in the case of Florida

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Speaker 1: and Texas, zero, it makes zero sense to continue to

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Speaker 1: pay state income tax, especially if you're on a fixed income,

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Speaker 1: like say a retiree would be. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are not just snowbirds like Wisconsin. It seems like

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Speaker 1: everybody in Wisconsin retires to one of two places Scottsdale,

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Speaker 1: Arizona or Naples, Florida. Well, most people like my mother

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Speaker 1: I use my mom as an example all the time.

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Speaker 1: She said, Guys, you know, I'd love to spend more

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Speaker 1: time in Wisconsin, but frankly, I'm done dealing with winters.

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Speaker 1: I want to have perpetual summer. As much as I

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Speaker 1: love seeing you and the grandkids, but I need to

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Speaker 1: spend six months and one day in Florida because frankly,

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Speaker 1: I would get absolutely crushed by Wisconsin's high tax burden.

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Speaker 1: She's not alone, and unfortunately, here in Wisconsin, because of

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Speaker 1: the high tax burden primarily brought upon us by Democrats,

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Speaker 1: you do have a whole lot of people like my mom,

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Speaker 1: and that is a big reason that the Scott Walker

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Speaker 1: Coalition is no longer propelling Republicans and conservatives like say

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Speaker 1: Marializar or before her, Dan Kelly and Brad Shimmel in

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court races. Across the finish line, the Wow counties

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00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: are no longer nearly as red, no longer and nearly

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Speaker 1: as Republican as they used to be, primarily because a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of those people did just what Kathy Hokeel

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Speaker 1: was talking about. They fled for lower tax states. We

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Speaker 1: will dive into this in a little bit greater depth

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Speaker 1: coming up in just a second here on the Dan

847
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Speaker 1: o'donald Show. Stay tuned. We'll be right back in just

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Speaker 1: three minutes.

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Speaker 5: The thing you don't want to signal to you know,

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Speaker 5: when we go in, we went in very hard, and

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Speaker 5: we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.

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Speaker 5: Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okayy, why didn't

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Speaker 5: you tell me about Pearl Harbor?

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Speaker 1: Okay, right, yeah, he's asking me.

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Speaker 5: Do you believe in surprise? I think much more so

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Speaker 5: than us.

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Speaker 1: It was just too soon. I think that was the problem.

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Speaker 1: Eighty five years. You know, it's just you don't talk

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Speaker 1: about it anybody, anybody who thinks that there's still a

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Speaker 1: sore spot between the United States and Japan. The US

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Speaker 1: and Japan have been about the closest of allies pretty

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Speaker 1: much since the war ended. We have a common enemy

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Speaker 1: in China, and our value systems align, our technology pioneering aligns.

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Speaker 1: Nobody is offended by this except liberals who constantly look

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Speaker 1: for a reason to be offended. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show. I think what's much more offensive is

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Speaker 1: that it took New York Governor Kathy Hokeel until she's

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Speaker 1: what what is hoche like sixty three, sixty four years old?

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00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: To real lies the most basic truth about capitalism and socialism,

870
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 1: and that is capital will flow where capital can flow.

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Speaker 1: In other words, people are mobile in a free society,

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Speaker 1: capital can move, and it is obviously going to avoid

873
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Speaker 1: draconian regulation and taxation. It is it is actually kind

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Speaker 1: of a mazing. I'm gonna play this again for those

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00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: who didn't hear it right in the last segment at

876
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Speaker 1: the kind of the top of the hour, because it

877
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: is just it is. It is like in real time

878
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 1: you can see the light bulb going off above this

879
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: woman's head. Of course, nothing's gonna change, like she's not

880
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 1: gonna all of a sudden have a John Fetterman like

881
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: conversion and say, oh, hey, you know everything I believed

882
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Speaker 1: before was pretty much a lie. But it's almost like

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Speaker 1: she is talking like me, like, hey, yeah, uh, if

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Speaker 1: you tax people at insane rates, they're going to leave

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Speaker 1: your state. Listen to this.

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00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 8: I need people who are high net worth to support

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00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 8: the generous social programs that we want to have in

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Speaker 8: our state.

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Speaker 1: The generous social programs we want to have in our state.

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00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: I just love that. Yeah, we need to soak you

891
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: for the welfare state we're going to just take. But

892
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: I need people to come back so that we can

893
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: rob all of their money from them and give it

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Speaker 1: to people who don't. Do you realize? In New York

895
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Speaker 1: City right now, Fox News did a story on this

896
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: that blew my mind. I had to double check it.

897
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Speaker 1: Fox News reports that New York City now spends more

898
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: per homeless person eighty plus thousand dollars per year than

899
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:53,360
Speaker 1: the average income in New York City on homeless programs.

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00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: Eighty one thousand dollars per homeless person in New York City.

901
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Speaker 1: That is more than the average income in New York. Say,

902
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: that is absolutely mind blowing. So you've got Kathy Hockels say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we need to steal money from you so we can

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Speaker 1: give it to homeless people and Democrats who are going

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Speaker 1: to vote for us but really don't feel too much

906
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Speaker 1: like working.

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Speaker 8: Right now, there are some patriotic millionaires who've stepped up.

908
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Speaker 1: Patriotic millionaires. Patriotic millionaires the people who will willingly get

909
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: robbed by government.

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Speaker 3: Okay, cut me the checks. I mean, just if you

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Speaker 3: want to be supportive, but maybe the first step.

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Speaker 1: Okay, here here, just really quick. Did you know there

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Speaker 1: is a form on your tax return, on your income

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Speaker 1: tax returns where you can voluntarily pay more to the government.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there has been a history of There

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Speaker 1: has not been a single liberal in the history of

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Speaker 1: liberals who has ever checked that box and said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I want to fund Kathy Hochel's generous social

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00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: welfare programs. I'm just gonna cut a check to the

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Speaker 1: New York Department of Revenue for fifty thousand dollars, so

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Speaker 1: you know what, they can fund half a homeless person.

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Speaker 8: Should we go down to Palm Beach and see who

923
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 8: you can bring back home? Because our tax base has

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Speaker 8: been eroded. So I philosophically don't have a problem. It

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Speaker 8: is like I have to look at the fact that

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Speaker 8: we are in competition with other states who have less

927
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Speaker 8: of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals.

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Speaker 1: That sound you here is Kathy Hochel's mind exploded. Did

929
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Speaker 1: you know we are in competition with other states and

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Speaker 1: other states have lower tax burdens, and those people are

931
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Speaker 1: going to the states with the lower tax burden. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. Who could have ever predicted this? My goodness.

933
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Speaker 3: And I would say remote work changed everything.

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Speaker 8: There are people who could only work in an office

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Speaker 8: in Manhattan and work in New York State, and they

936
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Speaker 8: were captives to a state. There within a state, we

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Speaker 8: saw that that's not the case. I mean, you know,

938
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Speaker 8: Wall Street businesses looking at Texas. They're not going there

939
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Speaker 8: because they have a nicer governor, I know that for sure,

940
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Speaker 8: But they're going there because of the tax.

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Speaker 3: Right, we have to be smart about this.

942
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Speaker 1: If you're smart, you lower the tax rate.

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Speaker 2: If you were smart, you would lower the tax rate

944
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Speaker 2: to compete with the states that people are moving to.

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Speaker 1: You are New York, you have Manhattan, you have New

946
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Speaker 1: York City. It is one of the great cities on Earth. Look,

947
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Speaker 1: I know, folks, we just sort of as conservatives, you know,

948
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Speaker 1: we intrinsically sort of liberal cities. Look, Chicago is a

949
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Speaker 1: great city. I know, I know, I'm supposed to hate

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Speaker 1: Chicago because I'm a Packers fat, I'm a Wisconsin It's

951
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: a great city. The traffic sucks, yes, the boy they

952
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: did everything they possibly could to destroy retail in downtown Chicago,

953
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 1: but it is still I was I was watching the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Saint Patrick's Day parade a couple of days ago

955
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Speaker 1: and just was reminded, it is a good place, Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I love San Francisco. I love San Francis. San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: California is fantastic. The city I was shocked by. I

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Speaker 1: went back to San Diego in probably twenty twenty two,

959
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Speaker 1: twenty three, somewhere in there spring break with the kids,

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Speaker 1: and I was stunned. I used to go to San

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Speaker 1: Diego all the time because I had relatives out there.

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Speaker 1: I believe I told this story. My mom's cousin, her

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Speaker 1: husband was named Augie Spata and for a long time

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Speaker 1: old Italian guy, he was the highest ranking non commissioned

965
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Speaker 1: officer in the United States Navy. Yeah, we were real proud.

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Speaker 1: We called him Uncle Aggie and Uncle Augy. This is

967
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: a great guy. We went down. I remember because they

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Speaker 1: had an orange tree in there was an orange tree.

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Speaker 5: No, it was.

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Speaker 1: A lime tree. It was a lot tree they had

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Speaker 1: in their front yard. Is when I was like five

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Speaker 1: years old, six years old, and they let us pick

973
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Speaker 1: limes and eat limes, and that's when I realized limes

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Speaker 1: are like super sours. Oh didn't have another line until

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Speaker 1: I started drinking corona. But I always thought San Diego

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Speaker 1: was a beautiful place. We'd go down to the beach,

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Speaker 1: you know, we'd see the big naval base. Uncle Augie

978
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Speaker 1: would take us on the base and it's fantastic, it's

979
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Speaker 1: so great. I was shocked at the number of homeless

980
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Speaker 1: people when we went back to San Diego a couple

981
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Speaker 1: of years ago. I was stunned, stunned. And in Los

982
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: Angeles there were so many homeless people that we were

983
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Speaker 1: on a double decker tour bus, you know, one of

984
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Speaker 1: those hop on, hop off bus tours, and my son,

985
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Speaker 1: my oldest son, made the mistake of making eye contact

986
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Speaker 1: with a homeless dude. Okay, the homeless dude literally takes

987
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 1: his pack, like his his bag with all his earthly

988
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: possessions and shouts hey, kid, catch and launches the bag

989
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 1: up on top of the double decker bus. It lands

990
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: right next to my side. It actually hits my son

991
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,439
Speaker 1: and lands right next to my other son. And I'm

992
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 1: like staring at this thing for a second. I'm like,

993
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,640
Speaker 1: wait what And I thought it took for my wife

994
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 1: and kid said it was shocking how quickly I reacted.

995
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: I thought things must have been moving in slow motion.

996
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: I took the bag and launched it back over the

997
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: side of the bus. Unfortunately, it landed on top of

998
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:38,160
Speaker 1: a minivan that was going in the other direction, and

999
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 1: we were watching the minivan drive off with this homeless

1000
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: guy's earthly possessions. Near as we can tell, he stole

1001
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: that bag from another homeless guy and was trying to

1002
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: get rid of it, or he was crazy and just

1003
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: thought that. I don't know, he was gonna throw all

1004
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 1: his earthly possessions to a random teenager on a tour bus.

1005
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 1: But whatever, I always want under When the people in

1006
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: that minivan realized that there was like a homeless guy's

1007
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 1: bag on top of their van, like they get home,

1008
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 1: they're like, honey, do you do you have like a

1009
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,200
Speaker 1: whole bunch of cans of pork and beans and dirty

1010
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: jackets in a duffel bag on top of our van.

1011
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: I don't They must have heard it land on the car. Eric,

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01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. We were going one way. I didn't

1013
01:04:26,080 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: even think. I just launched it over the side. I'm like,

1014
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if there are syringes in there.

1015
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. It was it was, it was something.

1016
01:04:37,720 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: But still, in spite of that California you drive down

1017
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Speaker 1: the PCH the Pacific Coast Highway, it is about the

1018
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: most beautiful drive in America. I'm not even kidding its gorgeous.

1019
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 1: It's absolutely gorgeous. But because of liberalism for the first

1020
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Speaker 1: time in the history of California. California's history was the

1021
01:04:55,920 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: Gold Rush, the Hollywood Push, and the just ever expanding populations.

1022
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: People wanted to get to. California's the Land of Dreams

1023
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 1: is just a beautiful area, beautiful state, I mean, just gorgeous.

1024
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: Democrats destroyed it in the twenty twenty census and the

1025
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: twenty thirty census. They're gonna be the first time ever

1026
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: California is losing population. California had a peak up I

1027
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: believe fifty six electoral votes. They had fifty plus members

1028
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: of Congress. That's how many people live in California. It's declining.

1029
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: Same thing with New York State. It's declining. Not just

1030
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: because in a post COVID world, people can choose to

1031
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 1: work anywhere, but that is a big reason for it,

1032
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: but it's because people just aren't going to California to

1033
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: make their way or aren't going to New York to

1034
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: make their way. Because it's not just the taxation. It's

1035
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:51,439
Speaker 1: not just the property tax rates, it's not just the

1036
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 1: income tax rates. It's the total cost of government, all

1037
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: of the fees, all of the red tape, all of

1038
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: the bureaucracy that you need to go through to start

1039
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: a business, to build a home, to pretty much do anything.

1040
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: The more repressive a government that you have, the less

1041
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: likely that people are going to want to willingly move there.

1042
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:17,439
Speaker 1: The lessons in that for Wisconsin and why we too

1043
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: may become a New York or a California. That next

1044
01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: you're on the Dan O'Donnells show. All right, all right,

1045
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: hold up, hold up, hold up. Someone just texted on

1046
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: our adventnos dot com talkin text line that at the

1047
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: bid on Milwaukee auction right now you can get pizza

1048
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: for a year. That that why was I not informed

1049
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: about this? Which one Rocky like Rocky Rococo Rocky Rococo

1050
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: pizza free? Are you kidding me? Right now? That sound

1051
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: you hear is my son's stealing my credit card to

1052
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: outbid all of you for free pizza from Rocky Rococos

1053
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: for an entire year. See I did. That's how much

1054
01:07:02,840 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 1: stuff is on the bid on Milwaukee auction. The website

1055
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Speaker 1: By the way, is bid on Milwaukee auction dot Com

1056
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Speaker 1: is a new website that we're using this time around.

1057
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Speaker 1: Bid on milwaukeeauction dot com. Just go to our website

1058
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Speaker 1: news Talk eleven thirty dot com. Still about two plus

1059
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:22,960
Speaker 1: hours to bid one hundred and sixty bucks for pizza

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Speaker 1: for a year? Are you joking me? No, one hundred

1061
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: and sixty bucks. I swear. I take my kids and

1062
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: my wife out to dinner at like a nice pizza

1063
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Speaker 1: restaurant and it will cost one hundred and sixty bucks.

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Speaker 1: I don't even drink anymore, we don't have alcohol. It

1065
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: is amazing how much food prices have gone up, especially

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Speaker 1: restaurant prices have gone up in the last Ooh dun,

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Speaker 1: I could already hear the left. Damn, that's Trump. That's Trump. Yes,

1068
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: because because Donald Trump, who has been in office for

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01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: a little over a year, had a much bigger impact

1070
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 1: on inflation than the guy before him, who spiked inflation

1071
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Speaker 1: rates to the highest levels in history. Yes, I definitely

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Speaker 1: believe that, but this is actually a big By the way,

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Speaker 1: get to bid on Milwaukee auction dot com and if

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Speaker 1: you would like to buy free pizza for a year

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Speaker 1: and give it to your favorite radio host. Please buy

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Speaker 1: all means do so. Oh it's up to one sixty

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Speaker 1: five now, just me talking about the Rocky Rock Cocoast

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01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: pizza caused somebody to go and bid on the Rocky

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Speaker 1: Rock Cocos pizza.

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Speaker 7: I love.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I love my listeners. Folks.

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Speaker 1: You people are fantastic. Yeah yeah, if only I had that. Well, okay,

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01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: how about this. We need to give love to all

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Speaker 1: of our sponsors. Go buy some built right furniture. Go

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Speaker 1: get your car detailed at Mander Collision. Go buy a

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Speaker 1: new car at the Lynch Family of Dealerships. Go to

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Speaker 1: Current Electric. See I have this sway. If things don't

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Speaker 1: work out as a talk show host, I'm just gonna

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01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: be a professional pitch man or an auctioneer. How about

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01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 1: that you do the bid on Milwaukee? How about this

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01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 1: next time? Instead of an online auction, the bid on

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01:09:16,479 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 1: Milwaukee auction is live on the radio. And I am

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01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:23,160
Speaker 1: doing auction and you're bidding, like all the bids come

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Speaker 1: in on the screen. How fast can I talk? You

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Speaker 1: would be shocked at how fast I could talking? Not

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Speaker 1: fast enough to be an auctioneer. Those those guys are

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Speaker 1: actually quite incredible. I was actually asked. I was at

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Speaker 1: an event last night with the Republican Women Republican Women,

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Speaker 1: not Republican Women, Republican Women of Southeast Wisconsin, and they

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01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:46,599
Speaker 1: asked me to auction off a bottle of Trump wine.

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01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 1: I was like, guys, I just talked for an hour

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Speaker 1: and a half straight, and I came straight from my

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Speaker 1: talk show where I talked for three hours straight. Can

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Speaker 1: I please just catch my breath? No, I would not

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Speaker 1: put up my auctioneer skills against a pro at all.

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Speaker 1: But there is a there is a lesson in all

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Speaker 1: of this for Wisconsin. Kathy Hokeel's saying, hey, people, people

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Speaker 1: need to come back. You need to go to these

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01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:21,600
Speaker 1: these low tax states like Florida and Texas, and you

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01:10:21,680 --> 01:10:24,360
Speaker 1: need to tell your fellow millionaires to come back and

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Speaker 1: pay for all the generous social welfare programs. Folks. Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: as we've seen just in the last week, does not

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01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: exactly have the best physical climate in the world, especially

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Speaker 1: in winter and spring. Spring is seriously my least favorite

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Speaker 1: season here in Wisconsin. It's just wet, it's dirty, you

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Speaker 1: get the random snowstorm in the middle of April. I

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01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: just don't like it. I love fall. Fall is fantastic.

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01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: Summers in Wisconsin are off the hook. I even like

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Speaker 1: winter in Wisconsin. I love cross country skiing. I think

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Speaker 1: it looks beautiful with the snow on the ground. I

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Speaker 1: love this state. I'm never going to move because all

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01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:08,519
Speaker 1: of my family, all of my friends are here. But

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Speaker 1: I could move wherever I wanted to. I could move

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Speaker 1: in with my mom down in Naples. My wife gets

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01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: sick of me, I might have to, like sorry, mom,

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01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 1: staying in the spare bedroom for a while, and it

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01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: would be great. The issue for Wisconsin, and the issue

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Speaker 1: that we face as conservatives, is that because we and

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Speaker 1: conservatives over the last twenty years under Scott Walker and

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Speaker 1: under Robin Voss, and yes, I'll give credit to Devin

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01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: Lemahue as well as well as Scott Fitzgerald before him,

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Speaker 1: the state Senate majority leader who left to run for Congress,

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01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 1: we cut taxes by a great amount, but not nearly enough.

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin is in competition with every other state, not just Florida,

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Speaker 1: not just Texas, not just the states with zero income tax,

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Speaker 1: but states with a far lower tax burden than Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: We actually have a very high property tax rate here

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, and with Governor vers four hundred year veto,

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Speaker 1: it's going to go through the roof for the next

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Speaker 1: four hundred years. School districts without ever going to referendum

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01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 1: can simply jack up your property tax rates by three

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01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five dollars per pupil per year every

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01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:34,840
Speaker 1: single year for the next four hundred years. We have

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01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 1: had sixty five thousand students leave schools, leave K twelve

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01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: public schools in the last twenty five years. We had

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand fewer students in the twenty twenty five twenty

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Speaker 1: six school year than we did in twenty four to

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Fourteen thousand, sixty eight out of seventy two

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Speaker 1: counties lost public schools. Now, big reason for this going

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Speaker 1: to private schools, homeschooling, but an even bigger reason is

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01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 1: a people of my generation, in younger millennials, generation z's

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01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: are just not having as many kids as the baby boomers,

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01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: Generation xers and certainly the Silent generation before them. But

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01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: also people are just leaving Wisconsin folks. For a long time,

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Speaker 1: all of the net migration into Wisconsin was not coming

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Speaker 1: from other states. It wasn't like we were getting all

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01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: of the people who were fleeing from Illinois because they

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01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: saw Wisconsin as only marginally better on taxes. We were

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Speaker 1: getting net migration one hundred percent from out of this country,

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Speaker 1: either legal immigration or illegal immigration. That's a long term

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Speaker 1: trend that is deeply, deeply problematic. It was all outlined

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce annual Competitiveness Report, which I

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01:13:58,200 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 1: think bears revisiting. We spent a good deal of time

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Speaker 1: on this because it was so incredibly eye opening that

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01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: we just you can't ignore the statistics of people who

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Speaker 1: are leaving this because of the tax burden and because

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01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: of the fact that Governor evers and and if he

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Speaker 1: gets a governing trifect, I mean he won't, but if

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Speaker 1: Heaven forbid, Governor Mandela Barnes has a Democrat legislature, a

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Speaker 1: Democrat Senate, a Democrat Assembly, and a liberal state Supreme Court.

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Speaker 1: That will be devastate. How many people do you think

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Speaker 1: are going to leave Wisconsin? You have got We are

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01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 1: smack dab in the middle of the great baby boom

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01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: retirement wave. You are going to have more and more

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Speaker 1: people leaving this state. And rather ironically, that's going to

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Speaker 1: help Democrats solidify their majorities because the people who are

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Speaker 1: reaching retirement age and who want to get out of

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Speaker 1: this state and have the means to get out of

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Speaker 1: this state are almost overwhelmingly they are overwhelming, almost totally conservative.

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Speaker 1: These are people who are saying, Okay, we're going to

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Speaker 1: go down to Florida. It's a much better governed state.

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Speaker 1: Because Conservatives, we are the middle class, we are the

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01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,720
Speaker 1: upper middle class, we are the lower middle class. We

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01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: are the people who are retiring to different states. Democrats,

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01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 1: their voter base is the lower class and the extremely wealthy.

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01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: There really isn't a whole lot of in between there.

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01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 1: But the people who are the extremely wealthy, they've got

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01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: residences all over the place. The poor, people who are

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01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 1: simply not able to retire or who didn't work for

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Speaker 1: the better part of their adult lives, they're not leaving Wisconsin.

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01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 1: That they are going to stay here. They're going to

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Speaker 1: continue voting. Now. One of the big things about leaving

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and establishing residency in a no income tax state

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01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 1: is you also register to vote in that state. I'm

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Speaker 1: convinced that's a big reason. In a very short period

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Speaker 1: of time, Florida went from the ultimate swing state to

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Speaker 1: an overwhelmingly conservative state, Florida might be one of the

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Speaker 1: most Florida is easily, I think, the most conservative big

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Speaker 1: state in the United States of America. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: incredible how quickly that happened. Is because Ron DeSantis and

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01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: the conservative Republican legislature there enacted such great reforms that

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Speaker 1: it made it a magnet for people all over the country.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the dan O'donald Shelby right back after this.

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01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: All right, boy, I cannot do anything right with you

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01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: people today. I try to put on an entertaining, informative show.

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01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: I am accused first of repeatedly spoiling the end of

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01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: the basketball game, the Badger's game. I gave multiple spoiler alerts.

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01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: Now I have multiple people texting me telling me to

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Speaker 1: shut up about the pizza for a year from Rocky

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01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 1: Rococos because they bid on it and they don't want

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01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 1: me to increase the price. I'm kidding, folks, I could

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01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: not possibly love you anymore. And just show you know,

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01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: just show you know. I am prepared to outbid all

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Speaker 1: of you, including Vicky McKenna, for that robot lawnmower, and

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01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,439
Speaker 1: I am going to be sitting on my back patio

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01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:22,559
Speaker 1: eating the Rocky Rococo's pizza that I'm outbidding all of

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01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: you people on as well. No, I'm kidding. People are

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01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: also wondering who is going to win in the battle

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01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:33,720
Speaker 1: of wills between Vicky and me for the robot more.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to defer to Vicky because I've got two

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Speaker 1: teenage lawnmowers myself, So I just I think it's cool.

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: I actually watched the video. I looked up the product

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Speaker 1: that we've got on the bid on Milwaukeeauction dot com.

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01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: Auction doesn't sound quite as good as bid on Milwaukee Auction.

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01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: We had an issue with our original website. I don't

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Speaker 1: even pretend to know. It can be one line of

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01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:03,559
Speaker 1: co out of about fifty thousand, and we had an

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01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:05,799
Speaker 1: issue with it. So we had to move last second

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01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 1: to bid on Milwaukee auction dot Com. Easiest thing, just

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01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: go to news Talk eleven thirty dot com. Still about

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01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: two hours to get those last second bids in at

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01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: bid on milwaukeeauction dot Com. No, the robot lawnmower just

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01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: looks very very cool. Also, I have my eye on

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01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:28,559
Speaker 1: an in home sauna. I don't know why. I don't

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01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 1: know where the hell I would put an in home sauna.

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01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: We are doing our basement, so I I don't know,

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01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 1: can we can we put in an inprot I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sit there. I do love at the gym.

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01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: I do love the sauna in the steam room. I'm

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01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 1: more of a steam room guy. I don't know. I

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01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:50,879
Speaker 1: feel like the sauna takes to it, as you can imagine.

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01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 1: I'm sort of impatient. So I want to work up

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01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 1: a good steam and then you know, hop in the

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01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: shower as quickly as about Well, I have to because

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01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 1: I've got to get back to work. U but bid

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01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:04,599
Speaker 1: on Milwaukee auction dot Com. All right, I'm gonna start

1247
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:08,880
Speaker 1: spoiling every NC doublea game? How about that? In case

1248
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,879
Speaker 1: you don't want to hear what happened to the Badgers

1249
01:19:12,960 --> 01:19:17,800
Speaker 1: game today? Again? Three second? I can't believe we're doing this.

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01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 1: I can't do people still. I actually do want you

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01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 1: to text. Do you still tape sporting events? Now? I guess, okay,

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01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: you're at work, you tape it for later. That's a

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01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: little different. But are do we still tape sporting events?

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01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:34,240
Speaker 7: Like?

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01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:38,240
Speaker 1: Do you still watch a game expecting not to be spoiled?

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01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 1: In the era where news and sports scores, you are

1257
01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: like assaulted with information twenty four hours a day. Well yeah,

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01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: producer Eric says, you only tape it if you want

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01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: to watch it and analyze it, well, to see it

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Speaker 1: all the way through. I don't. Well, that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing, he says. You can't not know how

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01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: you how it turns out. I mean, it's just it's

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01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible nowadays. And I guess if so, Okay,

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01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: if you're really dead set on not knowing what the

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01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 1: score of the Badger game was, why would you listen

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01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: to a radio show where the host talks about breaking

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01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: news all the time? Okay, put it on TMJ. See

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01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 1: what see what my buddy John Murcure is talking about. Actually,

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01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 1: don't do that. Do not turn on our competition. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I do love that. John Murcure is like one of

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01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: my one of the best friends I ever had, uh

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01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: in this business. But do not listen to him. His

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01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:44,760
Speaker 1: radio show is terrible, and uh, I don't know he

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01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: hates all of you. No, we love, we love Johnny Mercury.

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01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:52,880
Speaker 1: All right, I should probably get to some content, shouldn't

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01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: I He sounds cooler as Johnny Mercury. Yeah, he does.

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01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 1: That's what we always call. Everybody knows. I think I

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01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 1: spent a decade plus at WTMJ before I came over here.

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Speaker 1: I have actually now been at WISN, been in the

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01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: iHeart family for longer than I was at WTMJ. I

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Speaker 1: still can't believe that. I cannot believe that. It still

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01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 1: boggles my I started as a teenager at WTMJ. I

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01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:25,000
Speaker 1: was there for twelve years. Thirteen years. I just passed

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Speaker 1: my wife, and I just did the calculation like I

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01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 1: just passed. I have now been like barely by a

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01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,280
Speaker 1: matter of months. I have been at WISN for longer

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Speaker 1: than I was at WTMJ. And now that I have

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01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: sent every one of our listeners going to WTMJ because

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Speaker 1: I am talking about absolutely nothing, let's start up the

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Speaker 1: five o'clock hour. As I reported exclusively a couple of

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01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:55,559
Speaker 1: days ago, Devin lemahu was actively looking to retire. This

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01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: was no surprise. It's not as though like I was

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01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 1: the only one to this information. Lemihue has been looking

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01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 1: to retire for quite some time. He was just looking

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01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:13,120
Speaker 1: to finalize some post legislative employment. He announced today that

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Speaker 1: he is not going to seek another term in office

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01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 1: now if it was, If there was any doubt about

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01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:24,559
Speaker 1: this before the final day of the State Senate's session

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01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, it should have been rather obvious afterwards, over

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01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:36,639
Speaker 1: the objections of literally half the Republican caucus. He brought

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01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 1: a controversial online sports betting bill to the floor of

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01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:44,840
Speaker 1: the State Senate, knowing that it would never pass with

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01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 1: just Republican support. And that's sort of the point of

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01:22:48,280 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: the rule of seventeen. The rule of seventeen is informal,

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01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 1: but it is strictly enforced, and it says, in order

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01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 1: to keep the caucus happy in you unified, we only

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01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: bring bills to the floor that can pass with only

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: Republican votes. In other words, seventeen members a majority in

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01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: the State Senate need to be on board with this bill,

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01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: or we won't even bring it up because we don't

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01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: want something that a lot of our members don't want

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01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:22,639
Speaker 1: but that Democrats do. Let me, you brought the online

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01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: sports betting bill to the floor. He bought. He brought

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01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:32,600
Speaker 1: the NIL bill to the floor. Republicans didn't want it.

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01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,600
Speaker 1: There were a number of Republican defections. In fact, the

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01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:40,639
Speaker 1: NIL bill only passed seventeen to sixteen. I believe there

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01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:45,280
Speaker 1: were five Republican defections somewhere in that area. But the

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01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:48,679
Speaker 1: online Sports Betting Bill, there were nine Republicans who voted

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01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 1: against it. That's half the caucus. There are eighteen Republican

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01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 1: state senators. Nine of them voted against this, and nine

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01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: of them were very dead set against this. One of them,

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01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:04,080
Speaker 1: the retiring Steve, put out an absolutely blistering statement about

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01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: just how frankly swampy and awful both the NIL bill

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01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: and the Online Sports Betting Bill were. The online sports

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01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 1: Betting Bill is rather obvious why people didn't want well,

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01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's obvious. It's not like US

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01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: Republicans don't want you to have fun betting. Hell, it's

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Speaker 1: the first day of the NCAA tournament. Everybody is betting

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Speaker 1: on sports. I get it, and most people are betting online. Frankly,

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01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:36,920
Speaker 1: I do believe online sports betting should be legal in Wisconsin.

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01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:41,040
Speaker 1: I don't believe that the tribes, the native tribes, should

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01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 1: have a monopoly on it, that they should be able

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01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:46,679
Speaker 1: to create a government backed cartel for online sports betting,

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01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,080
Speaker 1: that there should be competition introduced in the market. In

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01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: the form of fan duel, of DraftKings, of BETMGM, all

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01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 1: of the big major players that come in and provide

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01:24:57,400 --> 01:25:01,760
Speaker 1: competition in a marketplace that inevitably provides benefit to the consumer,

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01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,760
Speaker 1: which has the choice of where to place his or

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01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 1: her bets. If you can only place your bet with

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01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 1: betpotawatomy dot com, guess what, there's no incentive for Potawatamy.

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01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: And I've got nothing against the Potootomy. Try please don't

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01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: misunderstand this. I've got nothing against the Native tribes. I

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01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: don't go to Potawatami Hotel and casino very offa. Every

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01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 1: time I do, I've had a wonderful experience. I think

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01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:33,280
Speaker 1: their sportsbook actually is fantastic. It's a great place to

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01:25:33,280 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: watch the NCAA tournament. In fact, it's a beautiful sportsbook.

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01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: I think it's the second biggest sportsbook in America. I mean,

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01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: is it is beautiful, It's huge. It's just a great spot.

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01:25:45,760 --> 01:25:49,559
Speaker 1: That said, I don't want the Potootomy and the ho

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01:25:49,680 --> 01:25:53,640
Speaker 1: Chunk and the Oneida to have a cartel that effectively

1351
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: blocks any other competition to come in to the marketplace

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01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:04,720
Speaker 1: to potential provide benefit to consumers, benefit to taxpayers. And

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01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:07,719
Speaker 1: this would be a huge benefit to taxpayers if online

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01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:13,040
Speaker 1: sports betting was allowed in Wisconsin and you had traditional

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01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: betting operators like DraftKings and fan Duel instead of the

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01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 1: Native tribes running this. This would obviously not be subject

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01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: to the gaming compact that provide a far worse deal

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01:26:26,040 --> 01:26:30,440
Speaker 1: for taxpayers. We get far less tax revenue from legalized

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01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 1: tribal gaming than we would because of the compacts that

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01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: were signed and then made permanent by Diamond Jim Doyle

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01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 1: twenty three years ago, because Lemahue forced that through over

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01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:51,080
Speaker 1: the strenuous objections of those in his caucus. I don't

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01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: believe that lemahu can lead this caucus one day longer.

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01:26:56,479 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 1: I believe he needs to step down as Senate Majority leader,

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01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:05,520
Speaker 1: effective immediately. I believe there needs to be new leadership

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01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:09,799
Speaker 1: in place right now. Yes, I know the legislative session

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01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: is done for the year. Yes, in mid March, they're

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01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:18,640
Speaker 1: already calling it a year. But he is already he

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01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: is the definition of a lame duck, and he has

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01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:24,000
Speaker 1: already proven.

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Speaker 5: That.

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Speaker 1: Frankly, he doesn't always have the best interests of every

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01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: member of the caucus at heart, or at least have

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01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 1: the How should I put this he doesn't care so

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01:27:41,479 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 1: much about the rank and file that I think a

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01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 1: leader should. And that's sort of what underpins the rule

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Speaker 1: of seventeen. Right, It's not that, oh, you have to

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01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 1: it's about consensus building. It's about a leader should have

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01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: to go and say, okay, okay, we get that there

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01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 1: are pieces of legislation that not everybody's gonna love, and

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01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:07,840
Speaker 1: the rule of seventeen does it necessarily need to be

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01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,840
Speaker 1: a hard and fast seventeen. In fact, Lemaheue put out

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01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 1: a big statement after the online sports betting bill passed, saying, well,

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Speaker 1: here's all the times that the rule of seventeen was violated. Well, yeah,

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01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: it was because it would pass with like fifteen sixteen

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Speaker 1: Republican votes. Okay, well that's almost there, not nine and

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01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: not a full fifty percent of every Republican in the

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01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 1: Senate saying we don't want this, we don't want to

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Speaker 1: do this, and don't think that I'm going to absolve

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Speaker 1: Robin Voss, the Assembly speaker, of any blame in this. Obviously,

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01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:51,879
Speaker 1: the sports betting bill was going to pass the Assembly,

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01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:54,719
Speaker 1: there was just no question about that. But to schedule

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01:28:54,720 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 1: a voice vote, come on, come on, let these people's constituents.

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Speaker 1: I know it's an election year, and I know Voss's

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01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 1: number one goal is to preserve that majority, and by god,

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01:29:05,840 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: he has done an incredible job in doing that for

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01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 1: his entire tenure. But to have that, I mean to

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01:29:13,880 --> 01:29:18,559
Speaker 1: have what is the biggest expansion of gambling in this

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01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 1: state in decades to pass on a voice vote so

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Speaker 1: we don't even get to see how our state representatives

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01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 1: voted on it. That's just cowardly in the extreme. But Lemahue,

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01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:34,080
Speaker 1: I believe needs to step aside. And this is again,

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01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: this is nothing personal. This is not you know, always

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01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:39,400
Speaker 1: a terrible leader, and I actually think he's been a

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01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:44,519
Speaker 1: very good leader in the state Senate. Leadership in pretty

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01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:48,840
Speaker 1: much every level of Republican governance will always turn into

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01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:53,320
Speaker 1: the enemy. It's actually remarkable that name a Speaker of

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01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:57,880
Speaker 1: the House. Name a Republican Speaker of the House that

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01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:03,200
Speaker 1: is beloved, And don't say Newt Gingrich because he was

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01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: run out of town on a rail. He was hated.

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01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:11,599
Speaker 1: Towards the end of his term. Denny Hastert was yeah,

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01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 1: you remember the alligator. You remember the crimes committed by

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01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 1: Denny Hastert. Paul Ryan, John Bayner. Kevin McCarthy, you had

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01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:31,720
Speaker 1: a kamikaze effort to unseat him that actually succeeded. First

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01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 1: of all, you had the Marjorie Taylor Green caucus, and

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01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:41,639
Speaker 1: we all know Marjorie Taylor Green is not the died

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01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:45,720
Speaker 1: in the wool conservative, the true conservative that she portrayed

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01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 1: herself to be. She was all along just kind of

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01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:53,720
Speaker 1: an opportunistic grifter. But she and Matt Gates, who was

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01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:59,360
Speaker 1: fighting tooth and nail to keep an ethics inquiry into him,

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01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 1: seek where he was alleged to be. What is it

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01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:12,200
Speaker 1: with these people in underage partners? He fought so hard

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01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: to keep that secret. He wanted Kevin McCarthy out because

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01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:21,400
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy was going to release his personal peccadillos for

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01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 1: the entire world to see. In the Senate. Mitch McConnell

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01:31:28,280 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 1: before him, Robin Voss, My goodness, there is no more

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01:31:32,479 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 1: hated Republican in this state by both the left and

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01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:41,960
Speaker 1: the right than Robin Voss. Voss was easily the most

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01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:47,040
Speaker 1: effective leader that we had. Scott Fitzgerald now a congressman,

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01:31:47,080 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 1: He was a fantastic Senate majority leader. And I think

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01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 1: Devin for essentially being kind of forced into the role

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01:31:55,520 --> 01:31:59,439
Speaker 1: because the original choice back then was Roger Roth, who

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01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:03,560
Speaker 1: ran on successfully for lieutenant governor and then ran unsuccessfully

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01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:06,000
Speaker 1: for Congress. He was defeated in the primary by Congressman

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01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 1: Tony Wead in twenty twenty four. He was sort of

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01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 1: seen as the next in line, but I guess there

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01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:18,639
Speaker 1: was some concern about his coziness with lobbyists, so Devin

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01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:22,200
Speaker 1: after Scott Fitzgerald was elected to the Congress in twenty twenty,

1439
01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: he was sort of the consensus choice. He was kind

1440
01:32:25,320 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 1: of like the backup choice. And when you're forced into

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01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:32,720
Speaker 1: that role and you don't have like this faction supporting

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01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:34,920
Speaker 1: you that's always going to be loyal to you, it's

1443
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: very difficult to do that. And I'm very sympathetic to

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01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:40,360
Speaker 1: the job he did, and I think he did the

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01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: best job he could working with Voss, I mean, the

1446
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 1: two butted heads pretty often, but to fight against what

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01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 1: Tony Evers was attempting to do to this state, it

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01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:57,559
Speaker 1: is noble in a way to keep the calucus together.

1449
01:32:57,600 --> 01:33:02,120
Speaker 1: But on his way out, the go to say, okay, well,

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01:33:02,120 --> 01:33:04,120
Speaker 1: we're going to give this last little gift to the

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01:33:04,240 --> 01:33:07,439
Speaker 1: native tribes and I don't really care if we have

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01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 1: the requisite support in the Republican caucus. That tells me

1453
01:33:11,400 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: that you don't really care about building consensus in that caucus,

1454
01:33:15,400 --> 01:33:18,519
Speaker 1: and you don't really care about leading that caucus anymore.

1455
01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:20,960
Speaker 1: So I think the best thing that he can do

1456
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:26,879
Speaker 1: is step aside, have Republicans hold an interim leadership election

1457
01:33:27,120 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 1: for his successor, and have somebody in that position to

1458
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:36,960
Speaker 1: lead them through the all important election year. Yeah, I

1459
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 1: know they're going to be back in district. They're going

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01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:44,760
Speaker 1: to be back for a special session on Governor Evers redistricting,

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01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:48,600
Speaker 1: on the nonpartisan redistricting commission that Democrats suddenly have no

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01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: interest in because they realize they can jerrymander the hell

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01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 1: out of this state using the state Supreme Court. They

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01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:58,240
Speaker 1: don't want a nonpartisan judiciary or a nonpartisan redistricting commission.

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01:33:58,560 --> 01:34:01,480
Speaker 1: They want a partisan supreme to do all their jerrymandering

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01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 1: dirty work for them. So they're going to have to

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01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:05,400
Speaker 1: be in caucus. They're going to have to be in

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01:34:05,439 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 1: session for that, and there is going to have to

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01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:12,560
Speaker 1: likely be a vote on a potential tax deal, a

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01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:16,120
Speaker 1: property tax relief deal with Evers, which I still think

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01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 1: is the height of stupidity. The biggest weakness that Democrats

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01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: have right now is the fact that utility bills are

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01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:26,120
Speaker 1: sky high thanks to Evers, and property taxes are sky

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01:34:26,240 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 1: high thanks to Evers. You want to screw up a

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01:34:29,280 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: Tom Tiffany gubernatorial run, allow Evers to get out of

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01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:39,559
Speaker 1: this mess. You say to the people of Wisconsin, you

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01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:45,280
Speaker 1: want property tax relief. Elect Republicans. You want utility bill relief.

1478
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,880
Speaker 1: Elect Republicans. This is what happens when you have a

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01:34:48,920 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 1: Democrat governor elected Republican governor Elect Tom Tiffany. We're done

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01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:56,439
Speaker 1: for the year. Sorry, Oh well, then Evers is going

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01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:58,680
Speaker 1: to pass the blame on to the Republicans. Yeah, so

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01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:04,320
Speaker 1: be it. Be it. Everybody knows it was his four

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01:35:04,400 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 1: hundred year veto that did this. Why would you take

1484
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:13,520
Speaker 1: the most potent political weapon, the fact that everything is unaffordable,

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01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:17,960
Speaker 1: and allow Evers to get out from under it, to

1486
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:22,360
Speaker 1: allow Democrats to get out from under it. The bottom line, though,

1487
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:28,240
Speaker 1: is that the Senate Caucus cannot be run by somebody

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Speaker 1: who frankly doesn't really have a vested interest anymore in

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01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 1: remaining in the majority. Who does have a vested interest

1490
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:43,080
Speaker 1: in saving this state from whatever Democrats are going to

1491
01:35:43,080 --> 01:35:47,320
Speaker 1: do with this as again, no diss to Devin Lemahue,

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01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:50,680
Speaker 1: but it is the truth. Really, how hard is he

1493
01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 1: going to fight to fundraise, to go to all of

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01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 1: the fundraising meetings and dinners, the rubber chicken circuit we

1495
01:35:58,040 --> 01:36:01,479
Speaker 1: call it. How hard is he going to be able

1496
01:36:01,479 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: to fight? And how hard is he going to be

1497
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:09,519
Speaker 1: willing to fight? On a beautiful summer Saturday evening. Is

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01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: he really gonna want to be in Kakana at some

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01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:17,080
Speaker 1: caucus and some fundraiser? Is he really going to want

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01:36:17,080 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 1: to do fundraising calls for the Republican Senate Campaign Committee?

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01:36:23,400 --> 01:36:26,639
Speaker 1: Probably not. He's on of there in a couple of months.

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01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:29,800
Speaker 1: What is he care? He's not running for reelection. Get

1503
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:34,679
Speaker 1: somebody in there who can't. I don't frankly care who,

1504
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 1: honest to goodness, get get Felskowski right, she'd be a

1505
01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 1: pretty good pick. I think she's next woman up. But

1506
01:36:46,479 --> 01:36:50,240
Speaker 1: it can't be somebody who is essentially a lamb duck.

1507
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:53,880
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show. It is conservative thought,

1508
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: not just talk. We are back in just three minutes,

1509
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 1: have no fear back before you know it?

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01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 3: All right?

1511
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:08,040
Speaker 1: Once again, spoiler alert. A bunch of you texted me that, yes,

1512
01:37:08,120 --> 01:37:12,080
Speaker 1: people still do DVR sporting events to watch them later.

1513
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:15,439
Speaker 1: I get okay, I get church. Right. You're at church,

1514
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:17,680
Speaker 1: the Packer game is on at noon. Maybe you've got

1515
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:20,960
Speaker 1: like an eleven thirty service or an eleven am service,

1516
01:37:21,600 --> 01:37:23,960
Speaker 1: and you get home by about like twelve thirty, and

1517
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:27,519
Speaker 1: you're it's easy. You probably shouldn't be on your phone

1518
01:37:27,560 --> 01:37:30,400
Speaker 1: at church. But just like in the middle of the day,

1519
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 1: Badger's NCAA first round game. Okay, I'm gonna give the

1520
01:37:35,280 --> 01:37:38,800
Speaker 1: spoiler alert. Ready, three two one, turn the radio down,

1521
01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:42,120
Speaker 1: Turn the radio down. Here it comes. Badgers get upset

1522
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:46,120
Speaker 1: by number twelve seed High Point. This might be the

1523
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:53,080
Speaker 1: most mind blowing college basketball stat of all time. Chase Johnston.

1524
01:37:53,720 --> 01:37:57,880
Speaker 1: He is a guard for High Point. He did not

1525
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: score a single two point basket all season. The only

1526
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:04,719
Speaker 1: field goals that he shot, and the only field goals

1527
01:38:04,720 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 1: he made were three pointers a three point specialist. The

1528
01:38:08,280 --> 01:38:12,240
Speaker 1: first two point basket he made was the game winning

1529
01:38:12,400 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 1: layup to beat Wisconsin. That is how you know it.

1530
01:38:20,120 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 1: Just ate your day at the n seed Double A.

1531
01:38:25,840 --> 01:38:31,200
Speaker 1: And at what point do we start to question Greg

1532
01:38:31,320 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 1: gard losing to those twelve seeds at a pretty remarkable clip.

1533
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: I didn't think Badger's basketball was going to go particularly far.

1534
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:45,400
Speaker 1: I think in one of the five brackets I filled out,

1535
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:48,120
Speaker 1: I had him go into the sweet sixteen. And that's

1536
01:38:48,160 --> 01:38:52,719
Speaker 1: only because Alabama's second leading scorer got arrested. In fact,

1537
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 1: in what I want to say in one of the brackets,

1538
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:56,920
Speaker 1: I actually i'd have to go and double check. I

1539
01:38:56,920 --> 01:38:59,839
Speaker 1: think I did have them getting upset by high point,

1540
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:03,320
Speaker 1: just because I'm a sucker for those five to twelve matchups.

1541
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:08,839
Speaker 1: Duke very nearly lost today to a number sixteen seed.

1542
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,600
Speaker 1: They were the first number one seed ever to be

1543
01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:14,679
Speaker 1: trailing at halftime by double digits. But they came back

1544
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,679
Speaker 1: and they defeated Sienna by I think the final score

1545
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:20,800
Speaker 1: was like ninety five to ninety or something like that.

1546
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:23,760
Speaker 1: Remarkably high scoring game. Oh no, I was way off.

1547
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:28,040
Speaker 1: Seventy one to sixty six. Eighty three. Eighty two was

1548
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 1: the final high point. And Wisconsin. There was one game

1549
01:39:31,160 --> 01:39:36,200
Speaker 1: that was insanely high scoring today. Oh that was Michigan

1550
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 1: State just blowing out North Dakota State ninety two to

1551
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:41,200
Speaker 1: sixty seven. I think I was thinking of that one

1552
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 1: another great game. The very first game that tipped off today,

1553
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 1: TCU beat OSU sixty six sixty four. Folks, I'm sorry,

1554
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay. I love the NC DOUBLEA tournament. The

1555
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:56,320
Speaker 1: first weekend of the NC DOUBLEA Tournament, for my money,

1556
01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:59,960
Speaker 1: is like the greatest time of the year in sports.

1557
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:04,919
Speaker 1: It's just fun, it's exciting. You get together with your friends.

1558
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: I have a tradition, a couple of buddies and I

1559
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:12,720
Speaker 1: we're going to go and go watch all the games Tomorrow.

1560
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:14,519
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to get a lot of my

1561
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:17,320
Speaker 1: work done for the showcas At eleven o'clock, I'm going

1562
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: to be watching at least one of the games. I'll

1563
01:40:19,240 --> 01:40:22,200
Speaker 1: get in here obviously and get ready for the Friday

1564
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:26,679
Speaker 1: edition of the program. But it started as a tradition

1565
01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 1: a couple of friends of mine and I have the

1566
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:31,920
Speaker 1: first Friday of the NCAA tournament, I was working, I

1567
01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:33,800
Speaker 1: believe I was either off or I was doing the

1568
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:35,880
Speaker 1: morning show, So I was off at like eleven am.

1569
01:40:35,920 --> 01:40:39,120
Speaker 1: My buddy and I just sat down at a table

1570
01:40:39,120 --> 01:40:43,040
Speaker 1: and started watching games and we just didn't stop. I

1571
01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: think my wife was out of town at the time

1572
01:40:45,160 --> 01:40:47,920
Speaker 1: or something like that, and we went. We watched every

1573
01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:50,599
Speaker 1: single game we were there for. I want to say

1574
01:40:50,680 --> 01:40:53,840
Speaker 1: it was like eleven or twelve hours. We watched from

1575
01:40:53,840 --> 01:40:56,200
Speaker 1: the first game to the very last. Like people were

1576
01:40:56,200 --> 01:40:58,800
Speaker 1: coming back. We felt like mafia bosses. People were like

1577
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:01,760
Speaker 1: coming and paying respect and like having lunch or having

1578
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 1: a beer with us. I think my bar tab was

1579
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:06,920
Speaker 1: something like three hundred and fifty dollars, but it didn't

1580
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:09,200
Speaker 1: matter because it was just it was fun and like,

1581
01:41:09,240 --> 01:41:11,479
Speaker 1: this is what sports is about. It's like that that

1582
01:41:11,479 --> 01:41:15,320
Speaker 1: that I don't know, it's just bringing people together, having fun,

1583
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 1: having a good time. Yes, producer Eric, Yeah, three hundred

1584
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:22,360
Speaker 1: bucks and four thousand calories. I think we had like

1585
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:24,880
Speaker 1: three different orders of potato skins. But it's like, that's

1586
01:41:24,920 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. It's like the traditions. You know,

1587
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:30,800
Speaker 1: everybody goes and watches the Super Bowl, right, That's that's

1588
01:41:30,840 --> 01:41:35,920
Speaker 1: another big one. The sports calendar, the sports year is

1589
01:41:36,040 --> 01:41:39,799
Speaker 1: just built for these moments where you know, people people

1590
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:42,360
Speaker 1: come together and they just celebrate, they watch basketball. I mean,

1591
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:52,120
Speaker 1: it's just pure fun entertainment. Especially since the oh sorry,

1592
01:41:52,360 --> 01:41:55,160
Speaker 1: especially I'm sorry. I'm getting like furious texts from a

1593
01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 1: bunch of sources and I'm like, oh God, is somebody

1594
01:41:57,240 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: else from the Republican caucus retiring? Oh you know, well

1595
01:42:02,840 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: the last one who is still a Republican in the

1596
01:42:05,880 --> 01:42:08,559
Speaker 1: state legislature. Please turn out the lives now. Literally, I

1597
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:11,320
Speaker 1: got like five texts in the last thirty seconds, and

1598
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh boy, something's going on. My point is

1599
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:23,120
Speaker 1: that sports is just it's fun. It's it's it's interesting.

1600
01:42:23,320 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 1: I we're getting texts. These upsets happened all the time.

1601
01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:31,040
Speaker 1: In the first round, Arkansas, Yeah, Arkansas, l Arkansas just won?

1602
01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:35,880
Speaker 1: Was it Arkansas? The Badgers would be playing Arkansas? Yeah,

1603
01:42:35,880 --> 01:42:39,040
Speaker 1: I guess that's right. I guess that's right. I had Alabama.

1604
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,000
Speaker 1: I think I have Alabama losing in the first round

1605
01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:43,400
Speaker 1: because the second leading scorer getting I can't even remember

1606
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:45,040
Speaker 1: the kid's name, but it was all over the news.

1607
01:42:45,080 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: The other I'm like, oh, that ain't good. That ain't good. Yeah,

1608
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 1: he's it wasn't I think it was a violent crime.

1609
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:55,519
Speaker 1: Producer Eric said, he's he's leading the NCAA tournament in steals.

1610
01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 1: But dump bump. No, it's like some it was a

1611
01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:02,439
Speaker 1: weapons charge or something like that. But my point in

1612
01:43:03,320 --> 01:43:09,240
Speaker 1: all of this is to say that sports is less

1613
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:16,400
Speaker 1: about you know, the games themselves that you know, who

1614
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 1: shot fifty two percent from the field and oh this

1615
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:21,720
Speaker 1: guy shot of all the threes. No, it's about you know,

1616
01:43:22,040 --> 01:43:25,679
Speaker 1: and I think this is it says something about life

1617
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:30,760
Speaker 1: that you need to have a distraction, you need to

1618
01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:35,040
Speaker 1: have something that if you're just so focused on politics,

1619
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:37,000
Speaker 1: and this is why you know, the stick to politics Crown.

1620
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:38,680
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. It's a political show. I

1621
01:43:38,720 --> 01:43:41,680
Speaker 1: do political you know, I don't. I'm not a particular

1622
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: expert on sports by any stretch of the imagination. I

1623
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:46,720
Speaker 1: like to think I know a little something about constitutional

1624
01:43:46,760 --> 01:43:50,000
Speaker 1: law and politics here in Wisconsin, have some insight to offer.

1625
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 1: So yes, that's obviously what I'm being paid to talk about.

1626
01:43:53,479 --> 01:43:56,040
Speaker 1: But when you're just focused on politics, it's just like, oh,

1627
01:43:56,120 --> 01:43:58,879
Speaker 1: you know, let's you know, hammer away at the Dems.

1628
01:43:59,280 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 1: It's like we forget that there are things that sort

1629
01:44:02,400 --> 01:44:05,160
Speaker 1: of unite all of us, Like everybody in Wisconsin except

1630
01:44:05,200 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 1: us marquettelums, who a big portion of us are secretly

1631
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:12,760
Speaker 1: very very happy that Wisconsin lost. I am not. I

1632
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:19,400
Speaker 1: went to UW law school. Sports are something that unite us,

1633
01:44:20,040 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: and like this is the thing I was talking about

1634
01:44:22,960 --> 01:44:25,559
Speaker 1: this a bit yesterday or the day before, I can't

1635
01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:28,760
Speaker 1: remember which. Now that we no longer have in this

1636
01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:32,800
Speaker 1: era of Internet and this era of algorithms that are

1637
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 1: designed for social media use, that is an experience that

1638
01:44:36,640 --> 01:44:39,799
Speaker 1: is just for you. Like just you, John Smith sitting

1639
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:43,160
Speaker 1: in traffic listening to me right now, your phone, your

1640
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:47,160
Speaker 1: social media is geared towards you. Nobody else, just you.

1641
01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:51,120
Speaker 1: That's a big change from how most of us grew up.

1642
01:44:52,200 --> 01:44:56,479
Speaker 1: Do you realize the oscars went from about sixty million

1643
01:44:56,640 --> 01:45:00,400
Speaker 1: viewers twenty five years ago to seventeen million view was

1644
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:05,679
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Do you know where the oscars are going

1645
01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:08,280
Speaker 1: to be broadcast next year? Do you know what network

1646
01:45:08,320 --> 01:45:13,679
Speaker 1: is picking them up? YouTube? The Oscars for the first

1647
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:16,240
Speaker 1: time are not going to be on broadcast television. That

1648
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:19,640
Speaker 1: is a remark that was one of those cultural touchstone

1649
01:45:19,680 --> 01:45:24,920
Speaker 1: moments that brought the entire broader culture together. He said, Oh,

1650
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, you'd be talking about the women would be

1651
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:30,040
Speaker 1: talking about the next day what the you know, starlets

1652
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:32,680
Speaker 1: were wearing and who had the best dress, and like

1653
01:45:32,960 --> 01:45:35,200
Speaker 1: the guys would be talking about, you know, who had

1654
01:45:35,200 --> 01:45:39,479
Speaker 1: the whatever whatever movie they liked the best, who had

1655
01:45:39,520 --> 01:45:43,800
Speaker 1: the best actor performance whatever. Same thing with sports, and

1656
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 1: we have lost a big portion of that because we

1657
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:52,000
Speaker 1: are While we're more connected than ever, paradoxically we have

1658
01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 1: less of a shared culture than we ever have before.

1659
01:45:57,320 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 1: If if I were to ask any of the kids

1660
01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:06,920
Speaker 1: I coach in soccer, the teenage boys, who their favorite

1661
01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:11,640
Speaker 1: streamer was on a team of like fifteen kids, I

1662
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:15,479
Speaker 1: could probably get fifteen different answers. Now if I asked

1663
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 1: my buddies, what were the cartoons you watch or what

1664
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:20,880
Speaker 1: were the TV shows that you watched when you were

1665
01:46:20,880 --> 01:46:23,719
Speaker 1: growing up. A couple of weeks ago, James Vanderbeek, the

1666
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:27,240
Speaker 1: star of Dawson's Creek, passed away. It was very, very young,

1667
01:46:27,280 --> 01:46:32,719
Speaker 1: tragic of cancer. People my age felt a profound sense

1668
01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:36,559
Speaker 1: of loss in that because we all as teenagers watched

1669
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:38,880
Speaker 1: Dawson's Creek. We might not have liked it, but we

1670
01:46:38,880 --> 01:46:41,280
Speaker 1: were all at least aware of it. We were all

1671
01:46:41,280 --> 01:46:46,240
Speaker 1: at least familiar with it. There really aren't those touchstone

1672
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:50,360
Speaker 1: moments anymore. The only thing that really registers in a

1673
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:53,000
Speaker 1: broader sense with the culture that we all have is

1674
01:46:53,080 --> 01:46:58,640
Speaker 1: like a shared experience, is sporting events. It used to

1675
01:46:58,720 --> 01:47:04,840
Speaker 1: be like the big television shows, Seinfeld cheers Mash the

1676
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 1: finales of those. Upwards of one hundred million people watched

1677
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:15,200
Speaker 1: the finale of Mash. Now the audience has got smaller,

1678
01:47:16,560 --> 01:47:19,880
Speaker 1: but now in the era where you can literally get

1679
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:24,400
Speaker 1: any entertainment you want, that's great. I mean, I'm not

1680
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:28,679
Speaker 1: here to say, look, we should have gatekeepers where only

1681
01:47:28,960 --> 01:47:31,000
Speaker 1: a certain number of people should be allowed to be

1682
01:47:31,080 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 1: on television or allowed to be on the ratio. I

1683
01:47:33,360 --> 01:47:35,400
Speaker 1: think it's the greatest thing of the world that anybody

1684
01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:38,639
Speaker 1: can literally put a camera in front of their face

1685
01:47:39,160 --> 01:47:42,000
Speaker 1: for probably under one thousand dollars. Heck, you can buy

1686
01:47:42,040 --> 01:47:45,920
Speaker 1: a webcam for fifty bucks, and if you're good enough,

1687
01:47:45,920 --> 01:47:48,120
Speaker 1: if you're entertaining enough, you can get an audience of

1688
01:47:48,400 --> 01:47:51,320
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of people. That's awesome. That is the

1689
01:47:51,439 --> 01:47:54,760
Speaker 1: greatest testament to the power of capitalism, to the power

1690
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:58,440
Speaker 1: of free markets ever. But it also serves to isolate

1691
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:02,200
Speaker 1: us because what I am watching and what I am

1692
01:48:02,280 --> 01:48:04,560
Speaker 1: presented is not the same thing that you are. I

1693
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:06,599
Speaker 1: always talk about my wife's theory, we'll call it missus

1694
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:09,200
Speaker 1: O'Donnell theory. And one of the reasons, she says, the

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Speaker 1: biggest reason, the biggest reason by far that we are

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Speaker 1: more politically polarized. Is that conservatives in liberals do not

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Speaker 1: exist in the same reality as it is presented to them.

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Speaker 1: There's a reason and liberal news sources are way worse

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Speaker 1: than conservative news sources. I try to tell you everything

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Speaker 1: that's going on, good or bad. I spent the first

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01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:34,440
Speaker 1: forty five minutes of this show telling you, hey, Republicans

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Speaker 1: all leaving the state legislature. It's a pretty good sign

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01:48:37,479 --> 01:48:39,439
Speaker 1: that Republicans are probably not going to hold on to

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Speaker 1: the state legislature. That's bad news for my audience, but

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you it. Liberal talkers, liberal news

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01:48:46,880 --> 01:48:50,240
Speaker 1: sources will just ignore it. Their audiences will have no

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Speaker 1: idea that it's going on. Conservatives, though, will consume news

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01:48:55,479 --> 01:48:58,599
Speaker 1: from people like me, so they are getting information that

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Speaker 1: liberals simply are not. Because the algorithms on X, on TikTok,

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, everywhere, because they can identify your personal viewing patterns,

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Speaker 1: your personal scrolling patterns. If you happen to linger on

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Speaker 1: an advertisement for just a second too long, guess what

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Speaker 1: you are seeing advertisements in that product category for the

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Speaker 1: next month and a half. I can remember when I

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01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:34,599
Speaker 1: was talking about I think I was talking to my wife.

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Speaker 1: There is a decade ago, a decade about possibly getting

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Speaker 1: back into golf and maybe buying some clubs. All I

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Speaker 1: saw for the next three months were advertisements for golf

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Speaker 1: clubs and golf courses. Now, of course, because I'm fairly

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Speaker 1: obsessed with golf, I get nothing, but I get golf tips.

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01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:53,680
Speaker 1: I get golf. If there's a golf product, chances are

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Speaker 1: I've seen an ad for it. You haven't, though you haven't, Producer, Eric,

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01:50:01,080 --> 01:50:06,080
Speaker 1: you see you consume a completely different reality as it's

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Speaker 1: presented to you than I do. And that is a

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Speaker 1: fundamental sea change that we're just kind of coming to

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Speaker 1: grips with. Bet you didn't think a discussion of the

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Speaker 1: NCAA tournament was going to turn that deep digit That's

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Speaker 1: what you get here on the Dan o'donald Show, and

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Speaker 1: that's why we say it is talk radio done different.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald's Show. As we reported yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Senator Van Wanguard has decided to call it a career.

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Speaker 1: He is retiring after a long and very effective Senate career. Well,

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01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:50,280
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin Senate Democrats posted a rather classless send off

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Speaker 1: for him at the official at Wy Senate DEM's x account.

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Speaker 1: In his retirement statement, Wan Guard said that he was

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Speaker 1: going to spend more time with his family as over

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Speaker 1: the past several years he lost three different siblings, a

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Speaker 1: fourth one has dementia and just suffered a heart attack,

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Speaker 1: and his daughter has stage four cancer. That is a

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Speaker 1: you know, my heart just goes out to I guess

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Speaker 1: Tuesday is when he announced that the last day of

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Speaker 1: the Senate session, and we said, look, you know, we're

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Speaker 1: praying for you Van, We love you Van. Wisconsin Senate Democrats.

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Speaker 1: They post another one bites the dust and a picture

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Speaker 1: of Van Wanguard. Wanguard has now responded quote tweeting that

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Speaker 1: post and saying it's been forty eight hours. I decide

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Speaker 1: to retire to be with my family after three siblings died,

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01:51:52,800 --> 01:51:55,760
Speaker 1: daughter has Staged four cancer, and another brother had a

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Speaker 1: heart attack. It shows that Democrats don't care about people,

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Speaker 1: only power. At Senator Hesselbine, that is, the leader of

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Speaker 1: the Senate Dems, should tell her team to take it down.

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Speaker 1: She won't, of course, because the same Democrats who retire

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Speaker 1: to the fainting couches anytime they pretend to be offended

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01:52:24,560 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 1: by jokes or off color statements by conservatives post the

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01:52:30,960 --> 01:52:36,080
Speaker 1: truly vilest stuff imaginable, the most heartless stuff imaginable. Now,

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Speaker 1: fortunately the Senate Dems are getting absolutely dragged all over x.

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Speaker 1: The replies are remarkable. I can't believe they haven't taken

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Speaker 1: it down yet. But to take down the post would

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Speaker 1: be to admit that they agree that it's terrible, and

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Speaker 1: they can't possibly do that, Hesselbein. You know the same

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Speaker 1: Democrats who are rushing to condemn Caesar Chavez thirty three

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Speaker 1: years after his death because you know, he was an

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Speaker 1: honest to goodness serial rapist, you know, the sort of

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Speaker 1: thing that they accused Donald Trump without evidence of being Well,

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Speaker 1: it turns out pretty much every Democrat deified an honest

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Speaker 1: to god serial child rapist. He had sex with thirteen

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Speaker 1: and twelve year old girls. He raped, Dolores Huerta, the

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Speaker 1: woman he started the United farm Workers Movement with, raped her.

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Speaker 1: And there is evidence, right, these women came forward and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this happened, honest to goodness evidence. Their accounts are actually

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Speaker 1: backed up by something other than the insane delusions that

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01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:59,720
Speaker 1: were getting from the Epstein files. But the same Democrats

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01:53:59,720 --> 01:54:05,040
Speaker 1: that will virtue signal they're discussed with Caesar Chavez and

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01:54:05,080 --> 01:54:08,280
Speaker 1: post all about that they won't do the right thing

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01:54:08,280 --> 01:54:11,160
Speaker 1: and say, hey, Senator Hesselbein, yeah, you guys should probably

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Speaker 1: pull this down. Is it the same thing as deifying

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Speaker 1: a pedophile? No, it isn't. But it's just being a

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Speaker 1: crappy human being. And again the exact same people, and

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Speaker 1: I mean the exact same people pretending to be so

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Speaker 1: offended by tweets. Yeah, they have no problem just being

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01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:38,760
Speaker 1: completely heartless to a guy that they have known and

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Speaker 1: worked with. And Van is a very jovial, nice guy

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure a lot of them liked him, loved

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Speaker 1: him still do. Doesn't matter though, We've got to spike

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Speaker 1: the football. Another one bites the dust. We are out

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Speaker 1: of time for the Dan o'donald Sho're going to end

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Speaker 1: a little early. We got another commercial to play. I

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Speaker 1: am back tomorrow three six, We do it all again,

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Speaker 1: the Friday edition of The Dan O'Donnell Show.