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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Dan o'donald Show as we dive into

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Speaker 1: the Blue Slip Blues on the Tuesday edition of the

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Speaker 1: program without any further ado, let's dive right into it

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Speaker 1: tough stories that we are following right now. Brad Shimmel

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Speaker 1: At three twenty five, The Milwaukee school Board approves a

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Speaker 1: an update on the War with Iron one days in.

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Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour. And the Save America Act appears

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Speaker 1: powers that be at iHeart just how popular and how

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Speaker 1: influential a talkshow this is. Brad Shimmel, who served as

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Speaker 1: put out by those judges, a majority of judges on

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Speaker 1: the court intends no criticism or commentary on the performance

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Speaker 1: or qualifications of the interim United States Attorney or any

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Speaker 1: The Court awaits the nomination and confirmation of a full

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Speaker 1: He's a partisan actor. Give me a break, a clearly

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Speaker 1: Yes o donald actually is my last name. I don't

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Clayfish is the one Republican woman who can't possibly win.

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Speaker 1: Give me a break. And I rejected that flat out.

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Speaker 1: Tommy's people, though, were relentless. They said, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: So behind the scenes they were trying to get Tommy

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Speaker 1: and then all of the support would go to Tommy.

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Speaker 1: Well again, in April eighteenth, he officially says I'm not

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Speaker 1: Michaels just happened to get all of that institutional Tommy's support,

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Speaker 1: They wanted nothing to do with each other. Once again.

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Speaker 1: but it was obvious he was not the right candidate.

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Speaker 1: Would Rebecca Clayfish have won I don't know, Frankly, it's

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Speaker 1: This notion where the entire party coalesces around one cat.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's Tom Tiffany. And yes, I've heard rumblings

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Speaker 1: just not going to have the institutional support. It would

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Speaker 1: And so help me if this is part of another

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Speaker 1: behind this scenes effort to get an alternative to Tom Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: because now we're starting to get cold feet in Tommy

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Speaker 1: world that Tiffany can't win. I just I can't support

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Speaker 1: any of this now. Is this just Tommy wanting to

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Speaker 1: hear people talk about him. Yeah, it's certainly possible. Certainly possible,

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Speaker 1: it is. But four years ago it wasn't just an

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Speaker 1: years ago, it absolutely was a precursor to one of

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Speaker 1: the most damaging primaries that Republicans have ever inflicted upon themselves,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be dog gone if it's gonna happen again

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Speaker 1: on my watch. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show, Matt hurt in the Saint Patrick's Day

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Speaker 1: the Saint Patrick's Day bumper music. Time. Now to name

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Speaker 1: the unhinged liberal of this hipoint we are in pre

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Speaker 1: Today's unhinged liberal of the day is whomever it is

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Speaker 1: two terrorists from Pennsylvania who went to New York City

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Speaker 1: on Saturday morning and through improvised explosive devices into an

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Speaker 1: anti Muslim protest outside Gracie Mansion. Yeah, here's how CNN

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Speaker 1: of this tweet. Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York

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Speaker 1: anti Muslim protest outside of marizoron Mamdani's home here's what

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Speaker 1: out for a flight on a beautiful September more, what

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Speaker 1: are we doing? They're terrorists, you crazy people. He was

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Speaker 1: at age fifteen, but instead he started mailing bombs to people.

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Speaker 1: The Ted Kaczinski story. What they could have spent a

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Speaker 1: normal day enjoying the city. Yeah, they could have, but

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Speaker 1: they're terrorists, so they did what terrorists have a tendency

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Speaker 1: to do. What is it about liberals in the media

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Speaker 1: and their attempts to sanitize what it is the worst

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Speaker 1: people in humanity do? Whoever it is that runs that

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Speaker 1: coming up. For four straight years, four straight years, Democrats

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Speaker 1: told us that the president is not responsible for gas prices.

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Speaker 1: Do you know? There are just so many factors that

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Speaker 1: the global oil market. Look, there's look, nothing Biden could

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Speaker 1: have done could get gas prices down from five bucks

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Speaker 1: a gallon in the summer of twenty twenty two. Now

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Speaker 1: that we have seen a temporary spike in the price

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Speaker 1: of gas, I believe the triple A average today is

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Speaker 1: three dollars and fifty three cents. Now it is one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent the president's fault. And by the way, by

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Speaker 1: believe that is only eight cents higher than the average

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Speaker 1: price of a gallon of gasoline during four straight years

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Speaker 1: of Joe Biden's presidency. That's right, it was about this

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Speaker 1: price for four years. Libs, you think we'd forget Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show. It is classical conservatism delivered with contemporary style.

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Speaker 1: I want to apologize for a last hour. Apparently we

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Speaker 1: my opening monologue about the blue Slip Blues. How Democrat

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Speaker 1: Senator Tammy Baldwin has been abusing the process by which

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Speaker 1: they're nominated by President Trump. It is the reason that

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Speaker 1: US Attorney Brad Shimmel, who had been serving on an

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Speaker 1: tell you, we'll try to recap a little if we

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Speaker 1: watch the show. Look, I was talking maybe a couple

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Speaker 1: I go off the air. All right, you want to

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Speaker 1: all things Trump. White House. It's the daily Trump Day.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win.

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Speaker 4: So much you may even get tired of winning.

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

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Speaker 4: It's all so a big wind for the United States.

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

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win more. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt

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Speaker 1: updating on the progress of the war in Iran during

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Speaker 1: her daily press briefing this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: More than five thousand enemy targets have been struck so far.

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Speaker 2: Iran's ballistic missile attacks are down more than ninety percent,

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Speaker 2: and their drone attacks are down by approximately eighty five

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Speaker 2: States is also annihilating the Iranian regimes navy, and we

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Speaker 1: Levit also reiterated President Trump's warning to the remnants of

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Speaker 1: the Iatolas regime to not disrupt the transportation of oil

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Speaker 2: The stated objectives for Operation Epicuri remain the same, destroy

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Speaker 2: the terrorist regime's ballistic missiles, raise their Iranian missile industry

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Speaker 2: to the ground, ensure their terrorist proxies can no longer

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Speaker 2: destabilize the region, and ensure that Iran never obtains a

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Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. President Trump remains confident these goals will be

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Speaker 1: Levitt today also urged Senators to pass this Save America Act,

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Speaker 1: which requires proof of citizenship and photo ID for voting

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Speaker 1: in all federal elections. We'll dive into the very latest

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Speaker 1: on that coming off. At about four to twenty five

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Speaker 1: earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegsith offered his own

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Speaker 1: update on the war and said that this conflict will

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Speaker 1: not despite what the media is saying via Forever War.

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Speaker 5: Today will be yet again our most intense day of

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Speaker 5: strikes inside Iran, the most fighters, the most bombers, the

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Speaker 5: most strikes, intelligence, more refined and better than ever.

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Speaker 1: So that's on one hand. On the other hand, the

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Speaker 1: last twenty.

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Speaker 5: Four hours have seen Iran fire the lowest number of

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Speaker 5: missiles they've been capable of firing yet, just the bifurcation,

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Speaker 5: just the trend lines that we talked about on our

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Speaker 5: first briefing. You see, this is not two thousand and three.

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Speaker 1: This is not.

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Speaker 5: Endless nation building under those types of quagmires we saw

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Speaker 5: under Bush or Obama.

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Speaker 1: It's not even close.

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Speaker 5: Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again,

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Speaker 5: and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against

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Speaker 5: those kinds of never ending, nebulously scoped missions.

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Speaker 1: Those days are dead.

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Speaker 5: Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total air dominance,

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Speaker 5: and an unbreakable will to accomplish the President's objectives on

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Speaker 5: our timeline.

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Speaker 1: Oil price continuing to plummet today from a high of

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Speaker 1: over one hundred and fifteen dollars a barrel Sunday evening.

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Speaker 1: The average price at gas in the US is now

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Speaker 1: three point fifty two a gallon, up substantially from a

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Speaker 1: month ago, but up just slightly from the average price

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Speaker 1: under four years at President Biden. More on that coming

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Speaker 1: up in just a second. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy today

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Speaker 1: spoke at the first ever national Autonomous Vehicle Safety For him,

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Speaker 1: he says, the United States is in competition with other

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Speaker 1: nations to master this new technology for the race right.

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Speaker 6: Everyone is trying to have the best technology that will

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Speaker 6: be deployed around the world. And I want the technology

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Speaker 6: to be developed in America. I want the jobs in America,

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Speaker 6: and I want the rest of the world to use

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Speaker 6: American technology. I don't want to see a foreign competitor

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Speaker 6: slash foreign adversary slash Communist Party beat America and have

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Speaker 6: their technology deployed.

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Speaker 1: Around the world.

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Speaker 6: This is a national security issue, This is an economic issue,

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Speaker 6: This is a safety issue.

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Speaker 1: Today seminar is being hailed as the biggest federal gathering

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Speaker 1: on self driving car safety in years. It comes as

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Speaker 1: autonomous taxi services like Waimo and Tesla's Robotaxi scale up

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Speaker 1: their operations in a number of cities that ladies and

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Speaker 1: gentlemen is your Daily Trump Date. Producer Eric is with

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Speaker 1: us here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Eric, you ever

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Speaker 1: been in a robo taxi self driving car. I have

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Speaker 1: not either. My brother was in one in Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 1: and he said it's one of the coolest things he's

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Speaker 1: ever seen. He knew I would be super interested, so

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Speaker 1: he actually videoed his entire ride. He was like giddy

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Speaker 1: as a schoolgirl when he saw a waimo come to

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Speaker 1: pick him and his family up when they were visiting

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Speaker 1: my other brother about a year or so ago, and

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Speaker 1: he said, it's one of the wildest experiences. I am

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Speaker 1: a big believer in autonomous technology, as you i'd imagine.

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Speaker 1: I am a huge believer in artificial intelligence generally. I

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Speaker 1: think it is going to revolutionize the world. I think

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Speaker 1: it is already revolutionizing the world. And you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about not being dependent on the strait of Hormuze

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Speaker 1: or uncertainty in the Middle East, you get into a

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Speaker 1: situation in which autonomous electric vehicles are just dominating American

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Speaker 1: roadways and that does more than anything else to decouple

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Speaker 1: us from awful regimes like Iran. Well also that and

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Speaker 1: just destroying the military capabilities of an evil regime. Now,

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Speaker 1: Democrats are not used to this sort of military might.

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Speaker 1: Now you heard from the Secretary of War Pete Hegseith,

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Speaker 1: and he said what I have been trying to explain

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Speaker 1: to people for several weeks now since this conflict started,

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Speaker 1: and really starting with the arrest of Nicholas Maduro, the

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Speaker 1: now former dictator of Venezuela. We are not going to

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Speaker 1: the idea of a forever war, the idea of American

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Speaker 1: boots on the ground for a generation like there were

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, that is long past. Technologically, the United States

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Speaker 1: is so superior to every other military on planet Earth

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Speaker 1: that we are able to achieve our objectives as quickly

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Speaker 1: as the blink of an eye without deploying a significant

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Speaker 1: portion of our fighting force or any portion of our

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Speaker 1: fighting force. Now, this sort of strength, this sort of speed,

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Speaker 1: this sort of military might, this sort of extreme competence

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Speaker 1: at the top of the Department of War, or as

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Speaker 1: it was formerly known, the Department of Defense, is rather alien.

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Speaker 1: I want to take you back two years ago to

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Speaker 1: February one, twenty twenty four. The Iranian regime's proxies Hamas

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Speaker 1: had just killed three service members, and Biden's Secretary of Defense,

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Speaker 1: Lloyd Austin, took to the White House briefing room podium

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Speaker 1: to offer his condolences and to pledge to do I

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Speaker 1: don't know something in response, the.

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Speaker 7: President will not tolerate attacks on American troops, and neither

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Speaker 7: will I sounds.

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Speaker 1: Tough, right, Exactly forty five seconds after Austin opened that

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Speaker 1: press briefing by saying that he apologized for going a

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Speaker 1: wall over the Christmas holiday, just absolutely disappearing. And even

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Speaker 1: the woman who was left in charge as acting Secretary

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Speaker 1: of Defense had no idea that she was actually in

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Speaker 1: charge while Austin was getting surgery for prostate cancer. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course, nobody is going to criticize Secretary Austin for

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Speaker 1: having prostate cancer. All right. I have loved ones with

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Speaker 1: prostate cancer. I've known my grandfather had prostate cancer. When

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Speaker 1: he passes, millions of men at prostate cancer, millions of

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Speaker 1: men get treatment. That's not the issue. You cannot while

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Speaker 1: hoothy rebels were sinking American ships while Hamas was flexing

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Speaker 1: its muscles, just sort of disappear and leave America without

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Speaker 1: a Secretary of Defense, but forty five seconds later, after

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Speaker 1: he promised some ambiguous action at some future date in

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Speaker 1: response for the killing of three American service members, you

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Speaker 1: had Austin groveling for forgiveness for going a one.

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Speaker 7: But I want to be crystal clear, we did not

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Speaker 7: handle this right, and I did not handle this right.

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Speaker 7: I should have told the President about my cancer diagnosis.

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Speaker 7: I should have also told my team and the American public.

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Speaker 7: And I take full responsibility. I apologize to my teammates

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Speaker 7: and to the American people.

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Speaker 1: How absolutely pathetic was that display. Meanwhile, Democrats have spent

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Speaker 1: two days now predicting that oil would get to two

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars a barrel. It is now at seventy seven dollars,

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Speaker 1: and in free fall. Yesterday we actually saw the single

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Speaker 1: biggest one day decline in the price of a barrel

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Speaker 1: of oil. After there was a whole lot of fear mongering.

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Speaker 1: My good friend Dave Spano over at Annex Wealth Management

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Speaker 1: calls it a wall of worry that just sort of

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Speaker 1: gets built up over things, whatever it is, global conflicts,

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Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve, anything and everything. When you get that

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Speaker 1: wall of worry built up a lot of times you

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Speaker 1: get panic selling a lot of times, you get panic hoarding.

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Speaker 1: You just get illogical behavior. What we saw with the

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Speaker 1: Straits of Hormuz being essentially bottlenecked by the remnants of

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Speaker 1: the Iyatola's regime was this wall of worry being to

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Speaker 1: call it, a dam of fury being built up in

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Speaker 1: the strait of horror moves. But once that cleared, once

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Speaker 1: it was abundantly clear that we had plenty of supply,

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Speaker 1: the price of a barrel of oil dropped from one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten down to eighty four almost instantly Monday,

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Speaker 1: and pretty much every Democrat talking point was destroyed. Right now,

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Speaker 1: though we are in a gas price spike, we have

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Speaker 1: seen higher than normal gas prices. According to Triple A,

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Speaker 1: the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded is

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Speaker 1: three dollars and fifty three cents per gallon. Three dollars

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Speaker 1: and fifty three cents per gallon. The average price under

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden for four years was three dollars and forty

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Speaker 1: five cents a gallon. For four years, we have been

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Speaker 1: paying the price of gas that we are paying for

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Speaker 1: the last two days when it's a natural national emergency.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, Democrats, are screaming about the price of gas,

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Speaker 1: as though we didn't just live through the single worst

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Speaker 1: period for gas prices, probably since the last time we

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Speaker 1: had a truly disastrous Democrat president in Jimmy Carter. And

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Speaker 1: at some point, ladies and gentlemen, I think it is

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Speaker 1: worth revisiting Carter's responsibility for not just bringing us the

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Speaker 1: Iyatola's brutal forty seven year reign of terror in Iran,

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Speaker 1: but also undermining Middle East policy by subsequent presidents through

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Speaker 1: back channel communications with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries

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Speaker 1: after he left office. You know, Jimmy Carter somehow skated

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Speaker 1: by on this reputation, largely unearned, of just being a

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Speaker 1: nice guy who builds houses for habitat for humanity, who's

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Speaker 1: going back to his peanut farming in Georgia and he

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Speaker 1: was just going to live a nice, long life. No,

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Speaker 1: he was actively undermining American foreign policy to the degree

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Speaker 1: where some might consider it to be a criminal offense

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Speaker 1: against the United States of America, to say nothing of

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Speaker 1: the fact that forty seven years of the Iyatolas and

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Speaker 1: the Mullahs brutally oppressing their people, spreading the tentacles of terrorism,

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Speaker 1: not just through the Middle East, but across the globe,

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Speaker 1: killing hundreds of Americans, thousands if you include all of

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Speaker 1: the Ied attacks in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter in in large measure, and his effeckless foreign

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Speaker 1: policy in the late nineteen seventies was responsible for a

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Speaker 1: good portion of it. All Right, when we come back

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Speaker 1: here on the Dan O'Donnell show, the Save America Act

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Speaker 1: King to Senate Majority Leader John Thune is not going

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Speaker 1: to pass because he does not have support for ending

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Speaker 1: the phantom philibuster. We'll discuss in just three minutes here

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Speaker 1: on the Dan o' donald's show. Ballroom Hero, the Dropkick,

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Speaker 1: Murphy's in the Saint Patrick's Day, punk music, bumper music rotation.

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Speaker 1: Here on the Dano donald's Show, Welcome back to it,

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Speaker 1: Happy Saint Patrick's Dale. A little bit early on top

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Speaker 1: of the afternoon. To all of you. Senate Majority Leader

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Speaker 1: John Thune saying today in a press conference with reporters

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Speaker 1: that he does not have the votes to get the

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Speaker 1: Save America Act passed through the talking philibuster. For those

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Speaker 1: who have been unfamiliar with this debate, the talking filibuster

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Speaker 1: is what you would think of philibuster should be you

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Speaker 1: simply talk until you can't talk anymore. You might remember

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Speaker 1: we had to do something like that on this very

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Speaker 1: radio show back in December. When we lost the ability

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Speaker 1: to play commercials or anything else. I basically just had

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Speaker 1: to talk for hours and hours and hours. The most

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Speaker 1: famous example that everybody reminds themselves of when they hear

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Speaker 1: philibuster is Mister Smith Goes to Washington nineteen thirties or

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Speaker 1: forties film starring Jimmy Stewart as Jefferson Smith who goes

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Speaker 1: to Washington and tries to take on corruption, and the

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Speaker 1: climactic scene is him filibustering and he gets all the

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Speaker 1: male delivered from people who support him, and then he

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Speaker 1: collapses because he just can't talk anymore. So that's what

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Speaker 1: people think when there's a filibuster. Well, about one hundred

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Speaker 1: years ago or so, the Senate abolished the talking philibuster

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Speaker 1: and instead went to what's known as a zombie filibuster

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Speaker 1: or phantom filibuster. A senator merely says he's going to filibuster,

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Speaker 1: and then there is a vote for cloture. Lolacher means

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Speaker 1: debate is ended on a particular measure. And then there's

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Speaker 1: a vote on the measure itself. Klocher used to require

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Speaker 1: two thirds plus one majority sixty six votes plus one.

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Speaker 1: When that threshold was lowered to three fifths in the

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, zombie filibusters became commonplace when you only needed

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Speaker 1: sixty plus one. When you only needed sixty votes to

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Speaker 1: end a filibuster, everybody started filibustering, but not actually filibustering

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Speaker 1: using the zombie philibuster. There has been a movement, and

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Speaker 1: this is something, by the way, that the framers of

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Speaker 1: the Constitution never actually intended. Look, the framers of the

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Speaker 1: Constitution never actually intended for the direct election of United

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Speaker 1: States senators. They actually intended that state legislatures would appoint

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Speaker 1: two United States Senators. We changed that with the seventeenth

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Speaker 1: Amendment about a one hundred and fifty years after the

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Speaker 1: Constitution was ratified. Thune today, it's about the votes, It's

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Speaker 1: about the math. I'm the one who has to be

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Speaker 1: clear eyed and a realist about what we can achieve here.

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Speaker 1: We don't have the votes either to proceed to get

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Speaker 1: on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we

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Speaker 1: got on it. There is nothing I can do about that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand the President's got a passion to

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Speaker 1: see this issue addressed, as we all do. Sigh the

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Speaker 1: fear that a lot of Republicans have, and yes, it's

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Speaker 1: the usual suspects, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Cocaine,

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Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. As much as I loved the guy when

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Speaker 1: he was Senate Majority Leader, he has no business being

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Speaker 1: in the Senate anymore. I was in the first hour

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Speaker 1: talking about how Tommy just I hate to say it,

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Speaker 1: but is too old. Even though he's very vibrant, he's

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Speaker 1: very full of life, it just isn't going to work

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Speaker 1: him as governor of Wisconsin. Again, Mitch McConnell is not

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Speaker 1: vibrant at all. He is the opposite of vibrant. He

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Speaker 1: needs to step down now. Of course he's not going to,

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Speaker 1: but he also opposes this. You actually also have a

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Speaker 1: number of other senators I think I saw Barrasso was

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Speaker 1: one of them. That you got a pretty big coalition,

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Speaker 1: seven or eight senators who are saying, look, we don't

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Speaker 1: support going back to the talking filibuster. And the fear

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Speaker 1: is always the same that Democrats will simply do what

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Speaker 1: Republicans did after Cocaine Mitch went on the floor of

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Speaker 1: the Senate. Remember when the late Senate majority leader Harry

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Speaker 1: Reid for the Democrats got rid of the he used

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Speaker 1: the nuclear option to get rid of the filibuster for

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Speaker 1: nominations for federal courts. Cocaine Mitch gets up and he says,

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Speaker 1: you may regret this, and you may regret it sooner

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Speaker 1: than you think. And Democrats absolutely did, because as soon

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Speaker 1: as President Trump took power and Democrats filibustered Neil Gorsich,

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Speaker 1: Republicans simply used democrats precedent against them and said, all right,

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Speaker 1: well now we're going to use the nuclear option and

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Speaker 1: get rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees as well.

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Speaker 1: The fear here is that if Republicans do anything to

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Speaker 1: the filibuster now, as soon as Democrats retake control of

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Speaker 1: the Senate and they've got say, a governing trifecta the President,

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Speaker 1: the Senate and the House of Representatives, that they will

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Speaker 1: simply use the Republican president and further gut the filibuster

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Speaker 1: and get rid of it all together. Is there anyone

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Speaker 1: alive who thinks that this current crop of Democrats. Well, folks,

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Speaker 1: they're talking about packing the Supreme Court, adding states simply

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Speaker 1: to give them more senators, so Republicans have no chance

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Speaker 1: of ever winning the Senate again. And you're wondering if

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Speaker 1: they'll keep the filibuster rule. They were calling the philibuster

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Speaker 1: a relic of Jim Crow when Republicans were using it

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Speaker 1: against President Biden from twenty twenty one to the end

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. You're really telling me that they're

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Speaker 1: not just going to do whatever it is. They feel

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Speaker 1: like maybe a generation or so a go, Democrats would

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Speaker 1: have bowed to precedent and say, Okay, there's a level

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Speaker 1: of decorum here, and we must respect prior precedent. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, folks, this generation of Democrats does not. As

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Speaker 1: soon as it suits them, they will get rid of

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Speaker 1: the filibuster. They will do whatever they need to get

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Speaker 1: their agenda passed. The idea that we can make this

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Speaker 1: most minor change and simply go back to what a

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Speaker 1: filibuster is supposed to be, This idea that this is

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Speaker 1: just a bridge too far and we can't possibly do this,

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Speaker 1: especially to get something passed as vital as ensuring that

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Speaker 1: only American citizens are taking part in America's democratic process.

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Speaker 1: If we can't even do that, then what are we

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Speaker 1: really doing with a governing majority. We will talk more

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Speaker 1: about the Save America Act itself when The Dan o'donald

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Speaker 1: Show returns. Stay tuned, Welcome back to the dano'donald's Show.

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Speaker 1: So the Save America Act itself, what specifically does it require?

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Speaker 1: There is a whole lot of misinformation out there. All

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Speaker 1: it requires is that you essentially prove not only that

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Speaker 1: you are who you say you are, but a soh

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Speaker 1: that you prove that you're an American citizen. During today's

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Speaker 1: White House Press briefing, Press Secretary Caroline Levitt took the

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Speaker 1: very first question on the Save America Act, and it

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Speaker 1: was about Democrats who claim that married women will be

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Speaker 1: unable to comply because they're not able to change their

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Speaker 1: name when they get married. This is honestly one of

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Speaker 1: the dumbest arguments I think I've ever heard. It essentially

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Speaker 1: comes down to married women, and it's always racial minorities.

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Speaker 1: Just racial minorities are unable to comply with this law

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Speaker 1: because reasons, well, the very strong implication is that they're

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Speaker 1: somehow not competent to be able to get the thing

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Speaker 1: that you need to do to do most things in

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Speaker 1: American public life, and that's have a photo ID. In

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Speaker 1: order to get on an airplane, in order to buy

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Speaker 1: a car, in order to rent a car, in order

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Speaker 1: to buy a house, in order to rent an apartment,

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Speaker 1: in order to apply for a loan, for a credit card,

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Speaker 1: for a bank account, you need a photo ID. And

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Speaker 1: what is so wrong with requiring a birth certificate if

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Speaker 1: you don't have a passport? By the way, fifty percent

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Speaker 1: of Americans have a passport. It is it is very

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Speaker 1: easy to get one. Admittedly it does cost money. This

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Speaker 1: is why there is a provision in the law where

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Speaker 1: if you are one of the estimated three percent of

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Speaker 1: people who is unable to get your birth certificate, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't have easy access to your birth certificate. Admittedly I

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Speaker 1: don't have a copy. Actually I do. I take that back.

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Speaker 1: I do have a copy of my birth certificate somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the files in the bowels of my home. I

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Speaker 1: think somewhere in my home office, I've got my birth certificate.

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Speaker 1: But you know what I can do. I was born

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Speaker 1: in Milwaukee County. I can call up Milwaukee County and

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Speaker 1: I can get a birth certificate printed for me. I

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Speaker 1: can go and get it, I can get it emailed

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Speaker 1: to me. There are a million ways. It is very

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Speaker 1: very easy. I make fun of Milwaukee County government in

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Speaker 1: a fish, but their records department is remarkably good, very

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Speaker 1: easy to get. So, Caroline Levitt was asked, Okay, are

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Speaker 1: married women really not going to be able to comply

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Speaker 1: with it?

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Speaker 2: As far as married women who have changed their name,

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Speaker 2: if they're already registered to vote, they're entirely unaffected by

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Speaker 2: the Save Act. And for the small fraction of individuals

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Speaker 2: who have changed their name or their address, they can

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Speaker 2: still register to vote, of course, they just have to

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Speaker 2: go through their state processes to update that documentation. And

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Speaker 2: this is something that the American people, married women and

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Speaker 2: minorities and people all across this country who Democrats are

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Speaker 2: insultingly saying cannot do this. They're already doing it every day,

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Speaker 2: going to the Social Security Office, going to the DMV.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's frankly insulting that the Democrats are

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Speaker 2: saying that there are certain groups of people in this

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Speaker 2: country who aren't smart enough to update their documentation to

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Speaker 2: allow them to vote.

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Speaker 1: That's it exactly the fact that there is a provision

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Speaker 1: in the proposed bill, in the act itself that says, okay,

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Speaker 1: if you truly can it, you are still able to attest,

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01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 1: meaning you're still able to say, okay, hey, person who

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Speaker 1: is checking my idea, I swear I am an American citizen.

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Speaker 1: I am someone who is legally authorized to vote in

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Speaker 1: this country. And oh, by the way, lest you think

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Speaker 1: non citizens voting in American elections is something that never happens,

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Speaker 1: there was just someone who is arrested yesterday for voting

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Speaker 1: in presidential and other federal elections since two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 1: He is a native of his Mauritania. Is that how

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Speaker 1: you say? As a nation in Africa, it's rare? To

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01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: be sure, we think it's rare. We have no idea

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Speaker 1: how often it actually happens. There is no legitimate argument

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Speaker 1: against this, unless when it boils down to we don't

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01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:54,919
Speaker 1: care who it is that's actually voting in our elections. Now,

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Speaker 1: I would say, okay, Democrats don't actually want non citizens

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01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:03,000
Speaker 1: voting in America elections. Except Democrats want non citizens voting

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01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 1: in American elections. Multiple cities across the country, including San Francisco,

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01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: allow non citizens allow legal residents in this country, not

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens. But again, how would you really know if

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Speaker 1: illegal aliens are voting in municipal elections, in school board elections.

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Speaker 1: This has been this was something that for a few

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Speaker 1: years in there, this was all the rage in Democrat circles.

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Speaker 1: We have to allow non citizens to vote in these

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Speaker 1: municipal elections, especially school board elections, because look, they live

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01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: here too, they go to the schools, their children are

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Speaker 1: going to the schools, so they should have a say

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Speaker 1: in who it is that represents them on these school boards,

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Speaker 1: who it is that's hiring the superintendents, and principles and

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Speaker 1: so forth. Regardless of the fact that it is a

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Speaker 1: federal law that only American citizens are allowed to vote

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Speaker 1: in federal elections, the clear implication there is that you

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Speaker 1: need to be a US citizen in order to take

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Speaker 1: part in American democracy. And I just find it bizarre

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Speaker 1: that the Democrat Party, who has positioned itself as the

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Speaker 1: great defenders of democracy ever since January sixth, all of

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01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, does not want any procedural safeguard whatsoever. This

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Speaker 1: is something, folks, that eighty plus percent of Americans won,

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01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: even about forty seven percent of Democrats actually do want

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01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 1: proof of citizenship, not just voter ID, but proof of

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Speaker 1: citizenship before you're allowed to vote in federal elections. Election

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01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 1: security is something that actually unites both parties because frankly,

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Speaker 1: both parties have accused the other of stealing an election

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01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 1: and cheating every time they have lost. Oh, Democrats don't

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01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 1: do that. That's just Republicans. That was just Trump pitching

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Speaker 1: a fit in twenty five twenty Oh really, oh really,

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01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 1: because in twenty twenty four, how many people were taking

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Speaker 1: to social media and say, hey, there were eight million

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Speaker 1: Democrat votes who just disappear. These voters just disappeared. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, there were eight million more Democrat voters for

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden than there were for Kamala Harris in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. What happened? Trump must have done something, to

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01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 1: which I said, yes, absolutely, It is weird. It is

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Speaker 1: very weird that it just looked like there were eight

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Speaker 1: to nine million people who appeared out of the ether

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. They voted for Joe Biden, and then

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Speaker 1: they disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I do find that very weird. In twenty sixteen, Democrats

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01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: claimed that Trump was a Russian agent and that Russia

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01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:56,799
Speaker 1: hacked the election. They were actually going into ballot boxes

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Speaker 1: and hacking the vote totals. Two thousand and four, remember

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Speaker 1: in Ohio, they were claiming that, ironically enough, dominion voting

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Speaker 1: machines were changing John Kerry votes to George W. Bush votes.

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01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: In two thousand, of course, they accused Jeb Bush, then

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Speaker 1: governor of Florida, for rigging the election for his brother

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Speaker 1: in the critical swing state. With the hanging chads and

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court decision. Do you realize that Democrats every

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Speaker 1: single election they lost, every single one this century, they

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Speaker 1: have claimed was rigged, they have claimed was stolen, they

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Speaker 1: have claimed was not on the up and up. Don't

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Speaker 1: you think it is a little weird, therefore, that when

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Speaker 1: Republicans say, okay, yes, we want to do something to

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Speaker 1: make sure that those elections can't be stolen, that elections

1053
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Speaker 1: can't be rigged, that Democrats say, well, no, absolutely not,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to do anything about that. Unsung hero

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Speaker 1: of the day coming up next right here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'doon Show. If Republicans get shellacked in the midterms,

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Speaker 1: you can take a look back at today as a

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Speaker 1: potential big reason why if in fact, John Thune and

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Speaker 1: Republicans in this Senate don't show some sort of spine,

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Speaker 1: some sort of backbone, and President Trump and Republicans can't

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Speaker 1: get something that eighty five percent of the American people

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Speaker 1: want past. That is the Save America Act required voter

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Speaker 1: id for all federal elections in addition to a requirement

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Speaker 1: that you prove citizenship. That'll be a big reason why.

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Speaker 1: Forget about the price of gas, forget about the war

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Speaker 1: in Iran, forget about inflation or the economy, or interest

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Speaker 1: rates or anything like that. This is this is about

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Speaker 1: just doing what your voters want, doing what all American

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Speaker 1: citizens want. The Trump administration has had a year of

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Speaker 1: pretty substantial wins, especially on the immigration issue, but it's

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Speaker 1: all for naught if we can't have faith and can't

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Speaker 1: have secure elections, and we can't have faith in elections

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Speaker 1: that we know to be legitimate and Democrats, this is

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Speaker 1: the thing that absolutely gets me. The charge of being

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Speaker 1: an election denier is almost exclusively hurled at Conservatives, even

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Speaker 1: against your very humble host here, who actually did find

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Speaker 1: a substantial amount of voter fraud in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: presidential election in the form of nursing homes, absolutely casting

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Speaker 1: ballots for patients who had no business voting whatsoever. I

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Speaker 1: found dozens of examples. I think that the final number

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Speaker 1: was seventy six examples that were emailed to me that

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Speaker 1: I could verify. These are people who's loved ones contact

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Speaker 1: in me and said, look, my mother has no idea

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Speaker 1: who is on the bout. She would have no idea

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Speaker 1: whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is even running for president.

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Speaker 1: She had no idea Donald Trump was president. Yet somehow

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Speaker 1: she voted, and I'm going to take a wild guess

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Speaker 1: that she voted for Joe Biden. Democrats have been complaining

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Speaker 1: that elections have been stolen every single time they have

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Speaker 1: lost an election this century. Let me repeat that, every

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Speaker 1: time Democrats have lost an election this century, they have

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Speaker 1: complained that it was rigged. Did Republicans complain in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eight that Barack Obama had rigged the election

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Speaker 1: or did we say, hey, okay, a lot of people

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Speaker 1: voted for the first black president. John McCain was not

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Speaker 1: a particularly inspiring candidate. Heckwee Republicans didn't particularly like McCain

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Speaker 1: all that much. Twenty twelve, same thing. Did we complain

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Speaker 1: that somehow the election was stolen twenty twenty, when all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden you had roughly sixty six sixty seven

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Speaker 1: million total votes for Barack Obama, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that number jumps to eighty three million for Biden, and

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Speaker 1: then it goes right back down to the mid sixties again.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was upper sixties for Kamala Harris. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a big reason that people are suspicious of that that

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Speaker 1: a guy who didn't even campaign got the most votes

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Speaker 1: by far in the history of American elections in a

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Speaker 1: year in which Democrats fully admitted that they changed all

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Speaker 1: the rules because of COVID nineteen. Okay, time out to

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Speaker 1: name the unsung heroes of the day. Today's unsung heroes

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Speaker 1: of the day just might be the most worthy in

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Speaker 1: quite some time. They are Assistant New York City Police

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Speaker 1: Chief Aaron Edwards and Sergeant Luis Navarro. During Saturday terror

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Speaker 1: attack at the anti Islam demonstration outside of Gracie Mansion

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Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Assistant Chief Edwards jumped over an iron barricade

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Speaker 1: and tackled one of the terror suspects, a man by

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Speaker 1: the name of Emir ballad brought him to the ground

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Speaker 1: as he was trying to throw a second improvised explosive device.

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Speaker 1: The video is absolutely incredible. Assistant Chief Edwards actually gets

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Speaker 1: him mid throw. His tackle stopped the second bomb from

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Speaker 1: being launched into the crowd. Sergeant Navarro. As Edwards tackled

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Speaker 1: the suspect, he ran straight toward the lit smoking ied

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Speaker 1: that ballot had dropped near officers and protesters. He did so,

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Speaker 1: according to the New York Police Department, without hesitation and

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Speaker 1: without regard for his own safety, to neutralize the device

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Speaker 1: and protect everyone nearby. Both were publicly honored by mayor

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Speaker 1: 's Ooran Mamdania and New York Police com Missioner Jessica

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Speaker 1: Tish in yesterday's press conference, and today they are the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell shows unsung heroes of the day. When we

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Speaker 1: come back here on the program, MPs is going to

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Speaker 1: cut two hundred and sixty non teaching jobs. Is it enough?

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Speaker 1: Not nearly? Stay tuned. We'll be right back after the news.

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Speaker 1: Believe it or not. We are three weeks away from

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Speaker 1: the spring election here in Wisconsin. My goodness, is it

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Speaker 1: really that quick? Let's see one? Two? Four weeks? All right? Four?

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Speaker 1: Weeks away, two weeks away from the start of early voting,

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Speaker 1: My goodness, in person early voting or the rather paradoxically

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Speaker 1: titled in person absentee voting. That just kind of reiterates

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Speaker 1: how ridiculous it is. You are absentee voting, but you

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Speaker 1: are doing so in person. Folks, we are once again

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Speaker 1: launching the state's largest early vote drive here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show. What we are going to encourage everybody

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Speaker 1: to do, as per usual, is to vote early, to

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Speaker 1: vote as early as possible. Vote for Conservative Maria Azar,

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Speaker 1: vote for every conservative on your ballot. What Dan, What's

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Speaker 1: that you're saying, Dan, Dan, we don't know who the

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Speaker 1: conservatives on our ballot are. We don't know. Well, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, have we got something for you. What we

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Speaker 1: are going to unveil on Monday, March twenty third is

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Speaker 1: the state's ultimate Conservative voter Guide. We have been working

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Speaker 1: on this for the better part of a month and

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Speaker 1: a half now. It is going to be the single

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Speaker 1: biggest conservative voter guide that has ever been put together.

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Speaker 1: It is going to be in a new digital spot

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Speaker 1: which we are going to unveil on Monday, March twenty third.

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Speaker 1: I am very very excited about it. And as part

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Speaker 1: of this, we are going to be running once again

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Speaker 1: our very popular segment Better Noah Candidate, and we are

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Speaker 1: expanding this in conjunction with my good friends Benyant and

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Speaker 1: Jason Gotch, who do the morning and midday shows here

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Speaker 1: on our flagship station News Talk eleven thirty WISN. They

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Speaker 1: are also going to be doing Better Noah Candidate, and

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Speaker 1: they are also going to be letting you know where

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Speaker 1: you can get the digital copy. We are not having

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Speaker 1: hard copies of the Conservative Voter Guide. It is going

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Speaker 1: to be let's just say, at a brand new spot

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Speaker 1: online and you are going to know no matter what

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Speaker 1: county you are in, we're going to have an interactive

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Speaker 1: map where you're just going to be able to click

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Speaker 1: on your county and you are going to have every

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Speaker 1: conservative that we were able to identify. We have been

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Speaker 1: working with Republican Party county parties across the state. We

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Speaker 1: have been working with conservative groups across the state. We

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Speaker 1: have just been going through and doing our own research

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Speaker 1: on the candidates, and we are trying to get as

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Speaker 1: many conservatives as humanly possible. Again, if you are a

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Speaker 1: conservative if you're in southeast Wisconsin, Waukeshaw County does easily

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Speaker 1: the best job of this. I think i've ever seen

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party of Waukeshaw County. Terry Dietrich, the chairman there,

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Speaker 1: does just an excellent job. He runs an initiative called

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Speaker 1: wis Red, and we have partnered with them here at

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donnald Show. So if you're in Waukeshaw County,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. We already know who you are. You are

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Speaker 1: already in our voter guide. Same thing with I believe

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee County. We've got Racine, We've got Kenosha, sh Boygan,

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Speaker 1: I believe, Fond de Lac, We've got What wis red

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Speaker 1: does is to identify candidates and actually produce materials to

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Speaker 1: help them win in local elections. We're not doing that

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Speaker 1: here on the Dan o'donald Show. We're literally just giving

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Speaker 1: you a list of names. Because for years and years

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Speaker 1: and years now, I've been doing this radio show for

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Speaker 1: the better part of a decade. I believe it's coming

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Speaker 1: up on a decade now. The number one question I

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Speaker 1: get every spring is, Dan when is Tommy Thompson going

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Speaker 1: to say he's thinking about a serious run for state

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Speaker 1: wide office. Okay, But the second biggest question that I

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Speaker 1: get is Dan, who is the conservative in this race? Dan?

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Speaker 1: Who should I vote for in this race? I am

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Speaker 1: firmly convinced that one of the big reasons that conservative

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Speaker 1: turnout is somewhat depressed and has been for a long

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Speaker 1: time now in spring elections in state Supreme court elections,

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Speaker 1: is that conservatives stay home because they literally don't know

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Speaker 1: who to vote for. And this isn't you know. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure this point liberals are going to be saying, well,

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Speaker 1: that's because conservatives are stupid. They don't pay attention to

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Speaker 1: local race. It's very difficult. It's very difficult. Pretty much

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Speaker 1: every study has shown, by the way that conservatives actually

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Speaker 1: consume way more news than do liberals and are way

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Speaker 1: more informed and better informed on current events than the left.

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Speaker 8: Is.

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Speaker 1: The reality is, when am I going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about the you know, Mount Horreb School board, When am

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Speaker 1: I going to be talking about the Shaniqua Village board elections?

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Speaker 1: And folks, I dare say, we hear on this show,

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Speaker 1: do local news and do Wisconsin news more in depth,

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Speaker 1: and I may pull out a shoulder blade patting myself

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Speaker 1: on the back here. But I dare say we do

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Speaker 1: better local coverage than pretty much anywhere else. We certainly

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Speaker 1: break more exclusive stories, I think than any other news

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Speaker 1: organization in this state on Whiskey news and politics, but

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Speaker 1: we can't cover it at a granular level. And an

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Speaker 1: unfortunate byproduct of the destruction of local news is that

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Speaker 1: you just don't get that coverage anymore. Remember when we

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Speaker 1: used to have the CNI local newspapers, you'd have like Greendale,

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Speaker 1: now Hell's Corners, now cut a Hey. Now those don't

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Speaker 1: exist anymore, and we don't have Patch. Attempted to fill

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Speaker 1: the void, but it really didn't work out. It is

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Speaker 1: very difficult to do. I'm sort of hoping that now

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Speaker 1: in the era of artificial intelligence, where you can have

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Speaker 1: AI do some of the newsroom work that you would

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Speaker 1: otherwise have like low level employees or interns, do you

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Speaker 1: might see that again. But the reality is there just

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Speaker 1: aren't a whole lot of people passionate about it. So

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Speaker 1: as a result, we're a less informed electorate, We're a

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Speaker 1: much worse served electorate by the so called forth the state,

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Speaker 1: and heaven knows the biggest news organizations in the state,

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Speaker 1: the Journal set or the State Journal. They aren't covering

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Speaker 1: local elections in any fair manner whatsoever. So that's why

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Speaker 1: I think, I actually do believe that you get people

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Speaker 1: to say, wow, I don't know who any of these

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Speaker 1: candidates are. I don't even know if I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be running voting for the right person, why should I

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Speaker 1: show up? And then when you say, okay, well there's

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Speaker 1: a big Supreme Court election on the ballot, some people

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Speaker 1: will show up and just vote for that. But other

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Speaker 1: people will say, well, does it really matter? Honest to goodness,

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Speaker 1: does it really matter? All right? That was a long

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Speaker 1: way of saying. Stay tuned. Monday, March twenty third, The

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Speaker 1: Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide goes live online. Top stories we're

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Speaker 1: following right now here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. The

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Speaker 1: White House is providing an update this afternoon on the

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Speaker 1: status of the military campaign in Iran. Press Secretary Caroline

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Speaker 1: Levitt says iran ability to strike back against its enemies

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Speaker 1: is decimated and the US its mission is well ahead

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Speaker 1: of schedule.

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Speaker 2: Moving forward, The stated objectives for Operation Epic Fury remain

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Speaker 2: the same, destroy the terrorist regime's ballistic missiles, raise their

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Speaker 2: Iranian missile industry to the ground, ensure their terrorist proxies

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Speaker 2: can no longer destabilize the region, and ensure that Iron

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Speaker 2: never obtains a nuclear weapon. President Chump remains confident these

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Speaker 2: goals will be accomplished in swift fashion.

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Speaker 1: And I have no doubt that that is the case.

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Speaker 1: Here at home, The Milwaukee Public School Board has approved

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Speaker 1: MPs Superintendent Friend of Cassilius's plan to cut two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty non teaching positions. More details on that coming

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Speaker 1: up in just a second, then coming up in three

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Did the Hudson School District flat out lie

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Speaker 1: to parents about an anti ice student walkout last month?

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Speaker 1: It sure seems like it. One parent called the district

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Speaker 1: out during last night's school board meeting. U won't want

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Speaker 1: to miss this audio from that brave parent. Finally, what

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Speaker 1: is it about liberals that they don't want parents knowing

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Speaker 1: what sort of sexually explicit material their kids have access to.

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Speaker 1: A library group in Madison is very upset that Republicans

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Speaker 1: in the legislature want warning labels on graphic books for kids.

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Speaker 1: That story coming up at five thirty five right now,

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Speaker 1: though Brenda Cassilius, the Milwaukee School superintendent, has announced plans

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Speaker 1: that she is going to cut two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: two non teaching positions from MPs. This is to help

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Speaker 1: close a forty six million dollar budget shortfall. Now, that

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Speaker 1: sounds pretty impressive, and MPs the school board passed these

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Speaker 1: cuts last night. The school district wants some plaudits here.

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Speaker 1: They want they want an attaboy for saying, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're doing something right. This is on top of the

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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty jobs cut last year. About a

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Speaker 1: one hundred and four of those positions I believe were

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Speaker 1: subsequently refilled. Well, I actually did some digging just how

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Speaker 1: many non teaching positions are there in MPs and what

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Speaker 1: percentage is two hundred and sixty two non teaching non

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Speaker 1: teaching positions. According to mps's website, it employs four thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred teachers. It's pretty impressive. That's actually very impressive.

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Speaker 1: Plus one thousand, five hundred educational aids. Okay, one thousand,

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Speaker 1: five hundred, so we have got six thousand and what

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Speaker 1: I would consider teaching professions professionals. Right, guess how many

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Speaker 1: non teaching positions there are in the Milwaukee Public so

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Speaker 1: mid level school district nationally, it is by far the

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Speaker 1: biggest school district in Wisconsin. Sake a whild guess, four thousand,

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Speaker 1: four thousand non teaching positions. There are roughly ten thousand

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Speaker 1: total employees in Milwaukee Public Schools. The two hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty two non teaching positions that are being cut right

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Speaker 1: now represents a six point five percent reduction in the

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Speaker 1: number of non teaching positions. Given the fact that MPs

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Speaker 1: has been fiscally underwater for quite some time now, and

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Speaker 1: apparently its financial situation has been so bad that they

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Speaker 1: have just refused to report it to the Department of

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Speaker 1: Public Instruction for several years, resulting in all manner of

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Speaker 1: sanctions not just from DPI, but also from the federal

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Speaker 1: government because of its financial reporting requirements that MPs did

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Speaker 1: not follow. And also, by the way, the fact that

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Speaker 1: the head Start program, the pre K daycare program that

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Speaker 1: MPs runs, was quite literally losing track of children. The

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01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: Biden Education Department actually cut funding from mps's head Start program.

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Speaker 1: And given the fact that the Laukee Public Schools just

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Speaker 1: passed a two hundred and fifty two million dollar referendum,

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Speaker 1: a couple of springs ago, and also got roughly seven

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million dollars in federal esser grants for

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen relief. In mitigation, this district, over and above

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Speaker 1: shared revenue from the school or from the state, over

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Speaker 1: and above property tax revenue, has gotten more than a

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Speaker 1: billion dollars. The fact that it can only manage to

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Speaker 1: cut six point five percent of the non teaching staff

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Speaker 1: is frankly a slap in the face. Not only that,

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Speaker 1: what we found from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce are great

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Speaker 1: friends here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, in their brand

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Speaker 1: new competitiveness report here in Wisconsin, is that statewide, we

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Speaker 1: have lost anywhere between sixty five thousand and eighty three

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Speaker 1: thousand K twelve public school students since the year two thousand. Now,

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Speaker 1: as you might imagine, that's led to a loss of

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Speaker 1: teaching positions as well. We have shed roughly two thousand

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Speaker 1: teaching positions in the past twenty five years, but according

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Speaker 1: to WMC, across the state, we have gained eight thousand

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Speaker 1: non teaching educational bureaucrat positions in that same time frame.

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Speaker 1: How exactly does that make sense, especially when oftentimes non

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Speaker 1: teaching positions, vice principles, education coordinators, any manner of make

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Speaker 1: work jobs at MPs central office or in district offices

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Speaker 1: across the state. These people are oftentimes making, sometimes double

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Speaker 1: the salary that teachers are making, when teachers are the

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Speaker 1: ones who are providing the most valuable service actually educating

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Speaker 1: our kids. If anything, lest you think that that evil

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell, big bad conservative, he hates teachers. If anything,

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Speaker 1: I would say, double teachers salaries and get rid of

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Speaker 1: half of the administrative staff. I'd rather have instead of

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Speaker 1: forty five hundred teachers and fifty teen hundred educational assistants,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have fifty five hundred teachers and two thousand

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01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:14,760
Speaker 1: educational assistants and maybe a thousand non teaching bureaucrats who

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Speaker 1: are making, by the way, way more than those teachers

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Speaker 1: and educational assistants. I would actually bump up the salary

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Speaker 1: of teachers and dramatically reduce the salary of the educational bureaucrats. Look, folks,

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Speaker 1: the reality is it ain't working. MPs is according to

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Speaker 1: the most recent national testing, the NAEP National Test, it

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01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:47,719
Speaker 1: is the worst school district in America for educating black students.

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Speaker 1: Pretty damn bad at educating all students. But Milwaukee has

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01:31:52,520 --> 01:31:55,760
Speaker 1: this single worst racial disparity in the country. It's so

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01:31:55,960 --> 01:32:00,599
Speaker 1: bad that the entire state of Wisconsin has the worst

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Speaker 1: racial disparity of any state in the entire country. Cutting

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty two bureaucrats is a good start,

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Speaker 1: and I will actually admit I have been pleasantly surprised

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01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:18,240
Speaker 1: by Brenda Casselius's brief tenure as the head of MPs.

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01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 1: The bottom line, though, is that more bureaucrats need to

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Speaker 1: be cut, More salaries need to be shed, More of

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Speaker 1: these wake make work positions need to go away permanently,

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Speaker 1: and the investment has to be in teachers. The investment

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Speaker 1: has to go into the classroom. The investment, in other words,

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Speaker 1: needs to actually go to kids from Milwaukee to Hudson.

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Speaker 1: A student walkout in protest of ice put students in danger.

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Speaker 1: One parent is absolutely furious. You'll hear from him coming

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Speaker 1: up in just three minutes. Welcome back to the Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald show is who we are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day

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Speaker 1: a week early and for the entire week leading up

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01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:14,920
Speaker 1: to the wearin of the Green with special Celtic punk

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01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 1: bumper music all week long here on the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to It. Well, about a month ago, students

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Speaker 1: across Wisconsin across the country were taking advantage of the

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01:33:29,320 --> 01:33:32,640
Speaker 1: lefties freaking out about how quaint it seems. When the

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Speaker 1: lefties were just freaking out about ice raids in Minneapolis,

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Speaker 1: now they're freaking out about World War three, about the

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01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:44,519
Speaker 1: price of gas is just quickly. It's remarkable how quickly

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Speaker 1: they're able to just turn on a dime as to

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Speaker 1: what the most existential crisis to this world is. Well,

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Speaker 1: about a month ago it was ice rains, and you

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Speaker 1: might recall that every Democrat in Wisconsin was panicmongering that

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Speaker 1: ice was going to leave Minnesota and they were going

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Speaker 1: to set up shop in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay. Were

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Speaker 1: not entirely sure where maybe in Hudson, students in the

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Speaker 1: Hudson School District took part in the nationwide trend of

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Speaker 1: getting not a class by walking out in protest of ice. Well,

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Speaker 1: one parent at the Hudson School Board meeting last night,

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Speaker 1: by the name of Joseph Rivera stood up and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: wait a second. Last month, we were told by the

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Speaker 1: superintendent that there was going to be no walkout, that

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Speaker 1: students were not going to be walking out of class.

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Speaker 1: The very next day, guess what, the students walked out

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Speaker 1: of class, and not just that they walked out in

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Speaker 1: what appeared to be a very highly coordinated school anti

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Speaker 1: ice walkout.

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Speaker 9: Parents were told that students would not be permitted to

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Speaker 9: leave campus, that destructions would be minimized, and that parents

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Speaker 9: could excuse their children if they plan to participate. In response,

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Speaker 9: the superintendent wrote back stating that he supported that message

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Speaker 9: to families and that the district had handled previous walkouts

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Speaker 9: in the same manner. But the next day, around one

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Speaker 9: hundred and fifty students, including middle school students, walked out

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Speaker 9: of school and were seeing downtown participating in protests and

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Speaker 9: wandering around the streets with alongside adults. That was not spontaneous,

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Speaker 9: it was anticipated. District policy four four to two clearly

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Speaker 9: states that disruptive demonstrations and walkouts during the school day

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Speaker 9: will not be permitted and that students remain subject to

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Speaker 9: compulsory attendance loss. Yet the walkouts still happened. Parents were

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Speaker 9: told one thing and experienced another. I heard from families

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Speaker 9: who were frustrating that their children were allowed to leave

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Speaker 9: campus without their permission and without consequences. That creates confusion,

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Speaker 9: if undermine trust, and it puts our students at risk.

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Speaker 1: Now, why would the school district say no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: students are not going to be allowed to leave campus.

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Speaker 1: If they want to walk out, they can walk around,

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Speaker 1: and they can march around the campus. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to go downtown. But they did go downtown. Now, just

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Speaker 1: to be clearer, Just to be clear, this is not

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Speaker 1: Joseph Rivera or Dan O'Donnell or anybody else saying that

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Speaker 1: these students don't have a right to walk out. They

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Speaker 1: do First Amendment. They however, are still students. They are

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Speaker 1: still kids. They are still being protected by school staff,

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Speaker 1: by teachers, by adults who should know better than to

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Speaker 1: allow them to just sort of wander around downtown where

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Speaker 1: there's one hundred and fifty kids marching and maybe only

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Speaker 1: a handful of chaperones in something that was never communicated

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Speaker 1: to the parents. The parents, in fact, were told the

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Speaker 1: exact opposite. Okay, your kids aren't going to march out.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to leave campus and then lo and

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Speaker 1: behold very next day They're marching out and they're leaving campus.

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Speaker 1: Here's Rivera.

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Speaker 9: When students are on campus during the school day, they're

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Speaker 9: under the district's care and responsibility. Allowing that many students

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Speaker 9: to leave campus and walk around through downtown during school

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Speaker 9: hours creates obvious safety risks. Hudson Police were present, and

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Speaker 9: I appreciate their support. They were only there because this

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Speaker 9: was a known safety risk. But the reality is this,

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Speaker 9: we got lucky that no student was hurt, and we

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Speaker 9: cannot rely on luck when it comes to the safety

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Speaker 9: of our students. Policy exists for moments like this, when

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Speaker 9: leadership must enforce clear boundaries and set expectations. If a

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Speaker 9: policy exists, it must be followed. If expectations are communicated,

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Speaker 9: they must be enforced. And if safety is the priority,

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Speaker 9: actions must match words. Our students deserve that level of leadership,

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Speaker 9: our families expected, and our district must do better.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Joseph Rivera is running for a

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Speaker 1: school board or not, but he should and he absolutely

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Speaker 1: would have my vote. Why is it that a random

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Speaker 1: parent seems to be the only one in the Hudson

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Speaker 1: School District who is concerned about this sort of thing. Again,

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Speaker 1: nobody is saying the kids can't walk out, they can't

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Speaker 1: make us stink about Ice. As dopey as some of

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Speaker 1: those protests were. They do need to be safe, and

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Speaker 1: parents do need to know where their kids are going

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01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 1: to be. You drop off your kid, especially if it's

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Speaker 1: a middle schooler kid who's sixth seventh grade, you drop

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Speaker 1: your kid off at school, and if they're going to

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Speaker 1: be leaving the school building, say they go on a

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Speaker 1: field trip, right, is there always a big Well, there's

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01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: weather Day at the ballpark, the meteorologists from a local

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Speaker 1: TV station. You'll go to American Family Field and you

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Speaker 1: watch a daytime Brewers game and you learn about the weather.

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Speaker 1: It's a cool little tradition. You have to sign your

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Speaker 1: consent for your student to go to weather Day, even

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Speaker 1: though they know exactly You know exactly where the kid is. Okay,

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01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 1: he is at American Family Field. Okay, there's a certain

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Speaker 1: number of share parent chaperones, there are teacher chaperones. But

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Speaker 1: when it comes to protesting the evil Nazi brown shirts

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Speaker 1: in Ice, well, those rules don't seem to apply because

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Speaker 1: you see, the message is just so great that we

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Speaker 1: got to allow as many twelve year olds to walk

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Speaker 1: out of the building without ever telling their parents. Again,

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Speaker 1: what is it with these school employees who believe that

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Speaker 1: they do not have to tell parents what it is

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Speaker 1: their kids are doing at school. This goes right back

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Speaker 1: to the same thing we have been arguing about the

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01:40:05,320 --> 01:40:10,520
Speaker 1: social transitioning, where a kid is going by different pronouns

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Speaker 1: at school and the teachers are saying, well, your secret

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01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:19,439
Speaker 1: is safe with me. Okay, adults and children should not

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Speaker 1: have secrets unless their mom and dad, grandma and grandpa. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm old enough to admit this. When I

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Speaker 1: was in my twenties, I really liked PBR beer, perhaps

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Speaker 1: blue Ribbon. This is in the earrow where hipsters were

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01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 1: drinking PBR and Old Milwaukee and you know Schlitz. And

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Speaker 1: everybody accused me of being a hipster because I'd go

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01:40:51,320 --> 01:40:53,400
Speaker 1: out to bars and I would order a PBR. Well,

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Speaker 1: really it was because my grandpa. When I would I

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Speaker 1: was a teenager, I was like a jewis you're a

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Speaker 1: senior in high school and I drive over and every

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Speaker 1: week or so I would mow his lawn. My younger

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01:41:06,200 --> 01:41:09,800
Speaker 1: brother and I took turns. Well, my grandpa, when I

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01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:12,680
Speaker 1: got to be an older teen, he would sit and

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Speaker 1: he loved the smell of freshly cut grass. What dude

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01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:20,040
Speaker 1: does not. And he would sit and he would drink

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Speaker 1: a PBR and watch me mow the grass and just

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01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:27,560
Speaker 1: sit out read his newspaper. And as I got a

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01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:29,240
Speaker 1: little older, I was getting ready to go off to

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01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:33,679
Speaker 1: college and so forth, he would have a PBR waiting

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01:41:33,760 --> 01:41:36,840
Speaker 1: for me and he would say, what do you think?

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Speaker 1: He told me as he and I would sit and

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Speaker 1: sit beer, don't tell your dad. Well, we lost Grandpa

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01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:50,160
Speaker 1: boy fifteen years ago, and I think I can finally

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01:41:50,200 --> 01:41:52,720
Speaker 1: come clean to my dad that Grandpa was allowing me

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01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: to have PBRs. And that's why I still to this

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01:41:56,240 --> 01:42:01,040
Speaker 1: day I love I haven't I've actually extended January. I

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Speaker 1: call it dry Danuary. I haven't really had a drunk.

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01:42:04,200 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 1: I went out to the Milwaukee Public Museum's Food and

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01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:10,479
Speaker 1: Froth event, by the way, fantastic event, the last one

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01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:12,320
Speaker 1: at the old Museum. That was the only time I've

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01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:16,000
Speaker 1: drank in twenty twenty six, the only alcohol I've had.

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01:42:16,680 --> 01:42:20,559
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm probably down, Producer Eric, Do I look thinner?

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01:42:20,760 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 1: I think I'm down fifteen pounds just from cutting out alcohol.

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01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:27,560
Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding, well, just from alcohol, and I

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01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:31,439
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. I boy, it's been a

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01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:35,719
Speaker 1: rough year for health for the old DoD. If I've sounded,

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01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:39,799
Speaker 1: I've had real bad acid reflux and that has really

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01:42:39,880 --> 01:42:44,120
Speaker 1: impacted my hunger. I'm just I'm not hungry because like

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01:42:44,160 --> 01:42:47,760
Speaker 1: my chest and my stomach just constantly feel awful. And

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01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:53,519
Speaker 1: if I've sounded distracted last week, I think I told

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01:42:53,560 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 1: you folks that it was almost certain that I tore

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01:42:57,920 --> 01:43:05,880
Speaker 1: my ACL. Well MRI results finally came back. I didn't

1521
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:09,560
Speaker 1: tear my ACL. I tore my ACL and my meniscus.

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01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:14,639
Speaker 1: So I've been about midway through the show. I took

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01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:18,200
Speaker 1: the call from the doctor's office and yet no real

1524
01:43:18,280 --> 01:43:22,479
Speaker 1: surprise there. I'm gonna need surgery. So boy, oh boy,

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01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:28,479
Speaker 1: But no, I haven't been drinking alcohol. My point though,

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01:43:28,960 --> 01:43:32,439
Speaker 1: in saying all of this, is that unless it's your

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01:43:32,520 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: grandpa sneaking you a beer before you go off to

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01:43:36,120 --> 01:43:40,400
Speaker 1: college after cutting the grass, you should not be having

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01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:45,120
Speaker 1: secrets with adults. This is why this idea of social

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01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:48,519
Speaker 1: transitioning at school is so dangerous. Oh, it's your in

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01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:50,680
Speaker 1: my secret. I won't tell your mom and dad that

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01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:53,639
Speaker 1: you're exhibiting signs of severe mental illness. No, no, no,

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01:43:53,680 --> 01:43:58,200
Speaker 1: you can trust me. What is it about this? In fact,

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01:43:58,280 --> 01:44:03,799
Speaker 1: coming up next, we have got education advocates in Madison

1535
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:07,880
Speaker 1: very very upset that parents might actually know about the

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01:44:08,080 --> 01:44:13,120
Speaker 1: sexually explicit material in some of these left wing children's

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01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:16,320
Speaker 1: books that are on school Library Show. Stay tuned, Dan

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01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:21,559
Speaker 1: o'donald Show coming right back. All Saint Patrick's Day Bumper

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1540
01:44:24,040 --> 01:44:26,839
Speaker 1: you can find on the Dan o'donald Show Sat Patrick's

1541
01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:31,640
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01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:35,560
Speaker 1: link shortly after this show wraps up, in about fifteen

1543
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:38,680
Speaker 1: minutes or so. Or a minder, please do subscribe to

1544
01:44:38,720 --> 01:44:43,400
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you

1545
01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:48,519
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. I'm loving, folks, all of the kind words. Yeah,

1546
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:51,800
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a rough go of it with

1547
01:44:51,920 --> 01:44:54,920
Speaker 1: this knee that's been bothering me for quite some time.

1548
01:44:55,680 --> 01:45:00,519
Speaker 1: Good to finally have some well, not good. The fact

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01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:03,720
Speaker 1: that week ago Saturday, I was playing basketball with my

1550
01:45:03,840 --> 01:45:07,000
Speaker 1: son and just it just collapsed, like my leg just

1551
01:45:07,080 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 1: it was like it wasn't even there, I knew instantly

1552
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:13,439
Speaker 1: something was badly torn. Turns out it is a complete

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01:45:13,439 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 1: tear of the ACL plus a what is in vertical

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01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:21,600
Speaker 1: tear of the meniscus. So yeah, I'm something of an overachiever,

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01:45:21,760 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 1: says one listener on our Avantos dot com talk and

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01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:26,280
Speaker 1: text line. Can't just tear one ligament, I got a

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01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:28,680
Speaker 1: tear two. I am going to need surgery, probably going

1558
01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:32,280
Speaker 1: to miss minimal time off of work, but just fair

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01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:37,120
Speaker 1: warning that that is happening. Republicans in the state legislature

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01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:43,519
Speaker 1: want to require warning labels on explicit content that is

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01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:50,599
Speaker 1: sold commercially and geared towards children's literature. In other words,

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01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:57,320
Speaker 1: some of these truly insanely graphic kids books. Boys Aren't

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01:45:57,479 --> 01:46:02,280
Speaker 1: Blue is a classic example where there is folks, I

1564
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 1: have done this segment so many times that it's almost

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01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:10,760
Speaker 1: become cliche, where I will literally just read passages from

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01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:14,400
Speaker 1: books geared towards children and see if I don't get

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01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:18,720
Speaker 1: shut down by the FCC. That's how graphic this stuff is.

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01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:23,679
Speaker 1: All Republicans want is a warning label on the book

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01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:30,280
Speaker 1: that says, hey, parents, there is like graphic sexual content

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01:46:30,520 --> 01:46:34,800
Speaker 1: in the book that is geared towards eleven year olds. Well,

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01:46:34,880 --> 01:46:39,560
Speaker 1: one group in Madison, headed by a woman named Rowan Childs,

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01:46:40,479 --> 01:46:45,080
Speaker 1: is very upset that Republicans would warn parents about the

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01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:49,120
Speaker 1: pornographic content in the books that are marketed towards children.

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Speaker 1: Here's the report from WMTV.

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Speaker 8: We always are concerned when people are policing books or

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01:46:54,760 --> 01:46:59,640
Speaker 8: policing words, so a we're always concerned about that and

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01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:03,320
Speaker 8: always look at who is trying to police books, whether

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01:47:03,400 --> 01:47:06,759
Speaker 8: they are for adults or teenagers kids.

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Speaker 10: Rowan Childs, with the Madison Reading Project, says her organization

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01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:14,600
Speaker 10: focuses on expanding access to books for kids and families

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01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:15,880
Speaker 10: across Dane County.

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Speaker 1: She says a big.

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Speaker 10: Part of that work is making sure children can see

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01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:21,240
Speaker 10: themselves in the stories they read.

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01:47:21,640 --> 01:47:25,880
Speaker 8: The diversification of the books, even just that alone is

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01:47:25,960 --> 01:47:29,240
Speaker 8: really important, so that you can see yourself in the cover,

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01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:31,760
Speaker 8: or you are the main character in the book. Those

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01:47:31,760 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 8: are all really important things so that everybody can engage

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Speaker 8: in the books.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, what if the main character is performing sex acts?

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Speaker 1: Do we want the twelve year old to see himself

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01:47:46,360 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: in the main character. There, nobody's talking about banning books,

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01:47:53,439 --> 01:48:00,280
Speaker 1: although quite frankly folks do yourself a favor and read.

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01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 1: First of all, make sure you explain to anybody else

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01:48:03,320 --> 01:48:07,040
Speaker 1: who might use your computer why you are looking at

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01:48:07,080 --> 01:48:11,120
Speaker 1: the images you are because, folks, I'm telling you, in

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01:48:11,200 --> 01:48:15,519
Speaker 1: some of these books, this is not like are you there, God,

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01:48:15,640 --> 01:48:19,599
Speaker 1: it's me Margaret, where the little girl gets, you know,

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01:48:19,680 --> 01:48:22,479
Speaker 1: she becomes a woman, she gets that time of the

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01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:26,760
Speaker 1: month for the first time. It's not that, Okay. It

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01:48:27,560 --> 01:48:30,559
Speaker 1: is a very different sort of coming of age story

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01:48:31,560 --> 01:48:36,439
Speaker 1: where you have graphic depictions of sex, of drug use

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01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:39,960
Speaker 1: of and I'm not talking about like implied sex where

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01:48:39,960 --> 01:48:44,000
Speaker 1: it's necessary to the plot, where say, I'm trying to think,

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01:48:44,040 --> 01:48:46,280
Speaker 1: what would be trying to think of a classic work

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01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:49,760
Speaker 1: of literature where some sort of sexual abuse is very

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01:48:49,800 --> 01:48:55,519
Speaker 1: central to the plot. Yeah, Lolita, classic example. Lolita is

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01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:59,880
Speaker 1: all about, you know, the relationship between a man and

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01:49:00,120 --> 01:49:08,000
Speaker 1: a girl, about pedophilia. Okay, there is artistic merit to Lolita.

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01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:10,040
Speaker 1: I never actually read it, to be totally honest. It

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01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 1: didn't they make a movie about it, like twenty years

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01:49:11,960 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: ago or something like that. Yeah I didn't. Yeah, just

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01:49:16,560 --> 01:49:19,080
Speaker 1: a little creepy for me, But okay, there you go.

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01:49:19,479 --> 01:49:26,560
Speaker 1: There's at least some sort of art. In many forms

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01:49:26,640 --> 01:49:31,000
Speaker 1: of literature and forms of entertainment where there is going

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01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:37,880
Speaker 1: to be graphic, you know, relations, it was always sort

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01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:41,080
Speaker 1: of done tastefully. You always knew when a sex scene

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01:49:41,240 --> 01:49:45,280
Speaker 1: was coming because you know, the characters would start kissing

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01:49:45,439 --> 01:49:48,600
Speaker 1: and then they would pan away from the bedroom, and

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01:49:48,640 --> 01:49:54,680
Speaker 1: it was implied. Right now, you don't get that, And

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01:49:54,720 --> 01:49:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, folks, take a look at what is

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01:49:57,200 --> 01:50:00,360
Speaker 1: actually in these books. It's not as the I mean,

1623
01:50:00,400 --> 01:50:04,559
Speaker 1: these people they try to pretend that they're freedom fighters

1624
01:50:04,600 --> 01:50:09,360
Speaker 1: standing up against the Nazi book burners, when really it's

1625
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 1: bizarrely trying to make sure that nobody knows what type

1626
01:50:14,160 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: of sick child sexual material. And that's what it is.

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01:50:19,080 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 1: You have got underage characters in books engaging in sexual

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01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:27,720
Speaker 1: content that is being put out into the marketplace and

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01:50:27,800 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: marketed explicitly to underage audiences as part of young adult

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01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:36,960
Speaker 1: or even children's literature. There's a big problem with that.

1631
01:50:37,120 --> 01:50:39,840
Speaker 1: Republicans are saying, Okay, well, maybe we should put warning

1632
01:50:39,920 --> 01:50:44,400
Speaker 1: labels on that. Hey, there's a graphic sex scene in

1633
01:50:44,479 --> 01:50:47,720
Speaker 1: the new Bernstein Bear's book. Okay, I'm making that up.

1634
01:50:48,120 --> 01:50:50,840
Speaker 1: Brother and sister Bear are not doing all manner of

1635
01:50:50,920 --> 01:50:55,760
Speaker 1: unholy things. But the point is that in some of

1636
01:50:55,800 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 1: these books I wish I can't even I can't even

1637
01:51:03,240 --> 01:51:07,120
Speaker 1: describe one of the scenes that I am thinking of

1638
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:12,120
Speaker 1: in Boys Aren't Blue. That's how graphic, that is, how

1639
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:16,719
Speaker 1: truly deviant it is. And the idea that we would

1640
01:51:16,760 --> 01:51:19,800
Speaker 1: warn parents that it's in there is somehow wrong. Give

1641
01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 1: me a break. Couldn't believe what I heard from Senate

1642
01:51:24,120 --> 01:51:28,640
Speaker 1: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer today as he is again voicing

1643
01:51:28,840 --> 01:51:33,320
Speaker 1: his opposition to the Save America Act. It sure as

1644
01:51:33,360 --> 01:51:37,040
Speaker 1: hex sounds like he admitted that there are an awful

1645
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:41,799
Speaker 1: lot of illegal aliens on America's voter roles. Why else

1646
01:51:41,880 --> 01:51:46,360
Speaker 1: would he be spreading the paranoid delusion that ICE is

1647
01:51:46,400 --> 01:51:50,080
Speaker 1: going to be cleaning up the voter rolls. Ice devout

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01:51:50,160 --> 01:51:55,120
Speaker 1: voter registration. It makes it. It allows ICE.

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01:51:56,280 --> 01:51:59,920
Speaker 4: To kick tens of millions of people off the rolls,

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01:52:00,680 --> 01:52:03,920
Speaker 4: off the rolls, and they don't tell them until election

1651
01:52:04,040 --> 01:52:06,160
Speaker 4: day and you show up and you say you're not

1652
01:52:06,280 --> 01:52:07,200
Speaker 4: registered anymore.

1653
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:16,200
Speaker 1: You're not registered here? What Why would ICE be involved

1654
01:52:16,680 --> 01:52:20,880
Speaker 1: Unless the people on the voter rolls are illegal aliens

1655
01:52:21,040 --> 01:52:24,599
Speaker 1: or suspected of being illegal aliens, You're not on the.

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01:52:24,600 --> 01:52:27,800
Speaker 4: Rolls, and they say, I didn't know that. This is

1657
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:30,320
Speaker 4: a bill that destroys the country. And it is not

1658
01:52:30,640 --> 01:52:33,639
Speaker 4: about showing id when you show up to vote. It's

1659
01:52:33,640 --> 01:52:38,240
Speaker 4: about the voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not

1660
01:52:38,400 --> 01:52:43,400
Speaker 4: letting people know, and taking the rights in a algorithm

1661
01:52:43,439 --> 01:52:47,400
Speaker 4: put together by Ice, put together by Doge and Musk.

1662
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:50,800
Speaker 4: It's an outrage and that's why so many people don't

1663
01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 4: want to pass it.

1664
01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:59,240
Speaker 1: You gotta he Ice, Doge, Musk, Benjamin net and Yahoo Israel,

1665
01:53:00,080 --> 01:53:03,600
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, Christy Nome. Let's see who else don't we

1666
01:53:03,800 --> 01:53:08,479
Speaker 1: like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh. Wait, he passed away a

1667
01:53:08,479 --> 01:53:12,439
Speaker 1: few years ago. Give me a break. By the way,

1668
01:53:13,200 --> 01:53:16,120
Speaker 1: if there was no issue with the voter roles, especially

1669
01:53:16,200 --> 01:53:20,479
Speaker 1: here in Wisconsin, why is Governor Evers hiding them from

1670
01:53:20,560 --> 01:53:24,520
Speaker 1: federal investigators? Not Ice that wants to look at Wisconsin's

1671
01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:31,400
Speaker 1: voter roles. It's the FBI. They're apparently finding all manner

1672
01:53:31,600 --> 01:53:36,480
Speaker 1: of inconsistencies on voter roles in Maricopa County in Arizona,

1673
01:53:36,600 --> 01:53:39,519
Speaker 1: so much so that they're now fear mongering that if

1674
01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:42,280
Speaker 1: that happens here in Wisconsin. Big article in the Journal

1675
01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:45,200
Speaker 1: Sentinel today. If that happens here in Wisconsin, they may

1676
01:53:45,360 --> 01:53:48,679
Speaker 1: know who you voted for in twenty Times. No, they won't.

1677
01:53:48,920 --> 01:53:52,240
Speaker 1: You people all right out of time back tomorrow Wednesday

1678
01:53:52,360 --> 01:53:55,080
Speaker 1: edition of The Dan O'Donnell Show. Talk to you then,