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Speaker 1: Talk Radio Roulette, where I take calls and you can

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Speaker 1: if they're a federal judge. What Dugan did in shuttling

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Speaker 1: this guy away from Ice agents knowingly shuttling him away

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Speaker 1: he committed. He viciously beat his roommate and also assaulted

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Speaker 1: the roommate's girlfriend in an extremely violent attack. This guy

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Speaker 1: had already been deported once, and Dugan didn't just hide

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Speaker 1: the guy underneath a jury's a juror's seat. I said, okay, Eduardo,

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Speaker 1: it's safe to come out now the ICE agents have gone.

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Speaker 1: She instructed him to go and to run away, knowing

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Speaker 1: roommate of the roommate's girlfriend, that they would just the

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Speaker 1: crimes against them would never be resolved, that they would

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Speaker 1: I can't think of a worse thing for a judge

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Speaker 1: to do. And the fact that you've got all these

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Speaker 1: crazies out there in front of the courtroom celebrating it

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Speaker 1: as though it's striking some heroic blow against Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and his brown shirt Ice agents tells me that there

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Speaker 1: are a whole lot on the political left who, if

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Speaker 1: political and moral judgment for two hundred and fifty years

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Speaker 1: of American jurisprudence. That's a very dangerous place to be.

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Speaker 1: Some good news to report involving the story that we

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, you're not going to want to miss this

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Speaker 1: follow up next. People on my YouTube comment section are

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Speaker 1: suggesting a top ten unhinged Liberals of the Year. I've

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Speaker 1: been thinking about that, folks. It's it's hard because I

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Speaker 1: the week between Christmas and New Year's I know, I

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Speaker 1: two months. Look, I didn't know my brother was going

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Speaker 1: to get married in Mexico City. He kind of sprung

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Speaker 1: that on the entire family. It had a wonderful time,

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Speaker 1: but that in the same month as our listener trip

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Speaker 1: bunch of different Christmas things to go to, and frankly,

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Speaker 1: after a night like last night where just listen to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Go to the iHeartRadio app, find and subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast and just look at

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Speaker 1: how much longer last night's podcast was than every other

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Speaker 1: podcast for those asking had a catastrophic server failure, and

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Speaker 1: on top of that, we also had our satellite receiver

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Speaker 1: So not only did we have the server on which

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Speaker 1: know what happened if a rogue lightning bolt struck the station,

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Speaker 1: but we had both of these things that are related

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Speaker 1: for to what was it, producer Eric two and a

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Speaker 1: half hours? What was it? Two hours and twenty two

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Speaker 1: to even let my wife know that wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: be able to make our daughter's Christmas orchestra concert, so

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Speaker 1: I had to call her live on the air. We

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Speaker 1: our video fiend. We posted it on Facebook, Facebook, dot com,

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Speaker 1: x It is very cute. Hear my daughter is my

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Speaker 1: wife's got I think I connected to the van Bluetooth

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Speaker 1: and you know I'm not going to be able to

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Speaker 1: make the concert. She goes, that's okay, I understand. And

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Speaker 1: as I said earlier this hour, my father in law

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Speaker 1: a story we used for both the Unhinged Liberal and

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Speaker 1: Unsung Hero of the day has quite the update. We

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Speaker 1: have identified the woman who was berated by that unhinged

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Speaker 1: Karen Lib. She is Genie from Target. She is an

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Speaker 1: who was just working at Target and happen to be

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Speaker 1: wearing a red Charlie Kirk shirt while doing so, and god,

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Speaker 1: just berated by this insane leftist.

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Speaker 6: Why are you taking my shair? Why are you wearing

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Speaker 6: that shirt?

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Speaker 1: Why do you let you wear that shirt?

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Speaker 5: Shirt?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Why are you.

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Speaker 1: Taking my thin shure?

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Speaker 6: Why are you wearing that shirt? You're working?

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Speaker 1: It's not a Target hair shirt.

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Speaker 7: I can you wear red any red shirt.

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Speaker 6: It's not a plane shirt. It doesn't have to be

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Speaker 6: a Charlie kirkshirt.

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Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, I know.

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Speaker 6: Are you faking stupid?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: Why the fuck would you wear that? You're at work

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Speaker 6: at Target. That's not a Target shirt. It's not a

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Speaker 6: plane red shirt. You support a racist?

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Speaker 1: It's not racist. You support a racist?

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Speaker 6: Yes he is, Yes, he fucking is. I'm sorry that

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Speaker 6: here arguing you're not You should go get your manager.

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Speaker 6: You should not be allowed to wear the artwork. Unacceptable,

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Speaker 6: unfreaking acceptable. Got your The opinion is he's a fucking

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Speaker 6: racist and you support him. Yes, you're here, and you

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Speaker 6: shouldn't a you should not be allowed to wear that.

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Speaker 6: This is going to be taken above your fucking head.

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Speaker 6: That's insane and safety and fucking safe piece.

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Speaker 1: Of I don't know why, but the Christmas music in

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Speaker 1: the background there just makes her unhinged outburst all that

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Speaker 1: much funnier. The update is that people have set up

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Speaker 1: a give send go to raise money so that Genie

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Speaker 1: Go has now raised one hundred and twenty plus thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: so that Genie, who really behaved incredibly admirably while getting

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Speaker 1: So she is going to have a very merry Christmas,

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Speaker 1: very cool update to that story. Time now to name

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Speaker 1: today is unhinged liberal.

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Speaker 7: Nazi Germany.

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Speaker 8: Oh Touff is dangerous because.

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Speaker 4: He's evil.

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Speaker 1: America is Today's unhinged liberal of the day is none

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Speaker 1: other than Fannie Willis. She is the Fulton County District

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Speaker 1: attorney who was until the investigation was shut down, prosecuting

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and many other people for the twenty twenty election.

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Speaker 1: She also very infamously employed her lover, which she didn't disclose,

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Speaker 1: him hundreds of thousands of dollars. She is now facing

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Speaker 1: a Georgia State Senate hearing and today went absolutely fallistic

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Speaker 1: during a hero What.

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Speaker 9: I can tell you is that I'll give your child,

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Speaker 9: mister Wade to build one hundred and sixty hours a week,

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Speaker 9: and then mister Wade would be the first one in

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Speaker 9: the office making sure that my staff arrived. He corrected

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Speaker 9: their behavior. They thought that eight thirty men, eight thirty.

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Speaker 9: He taught them that eight thirty seven forty five. He

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Speaker 9: got there before them, he left after him. He taught

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Speaker 9: leader to that team and a public servant. And for that, him, like.

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Speaker 1: Me, has been threatened.

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Speaker 9: There are thousands of times you want something to investigate

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Speaker 9: as a legislature, Investigate how many times they've called me

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Speaker 9: the N word?

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Speaker 1: Why don't you investigate that? Why don't you.

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Speaker 9: Investigate them writing on my house? Why don't you investigate

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Speaker 9: the fact that my house has been swatted. If you

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Speaker 9: want something to do with your time, that makes sense,

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Speaker 9: and you can use all this in your campaign. And

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Speaker 9: you attacked Fannie Willis, what have you done, sir, nothing?

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Speaker 1: Biddy Willis, you're unhinged liberal of the death and from

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Speaker 1: all of us here at the Dan o'donald Show, we

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Speaker 1: wish you a very merry Christmas, says well. Christmas Eve

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Speaker 1: now just one week away. Don't stress, relax. Everything will

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Speaker 1: get done. It always does, from shopping to wrapping, to baking,

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Speaker 1: to cooking to getting where you need to be. This

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Speaker 1: is the most stressful time of year. But I assure

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Speaker 1: you all of your work will get done. And then

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Speaker 1: it is the most wonderful time of the year. Children

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Speaker 1: playing the joy of Christmas morning, seeing loved ones, spending

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Speaker 1: time with them. Ah. I just love the Christmas season

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Speaker 1: so so much. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wonders why our

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Speaker 1: property tax is so dog gone high. Well, you don't

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers used as partial veto authority to raise taxes

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Speaker 1: we have a couple of exclusive stories here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. Just today, Democrats are introducing or circulating

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Speaker 1: for co sponsorship truly insane pieces of legislation designed openly,

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Speaker 1: We will discuss those coming up in just a second,

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Speaker 1: but first it is time now to get you updated

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Speaker 1: on what was going on in Donald Trump's Washington. It

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Speaker 1: is our daily segment, the Daily Trump Day.

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Speaker 10: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 10: of winning.

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

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Speaker 7: It's also a big win for the United States. We

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Speaker 7: have to keep winning. We have to win more.

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Speaker 1: Gonna oh wait more. President Trump will address the nation

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Speaker 1: to night nine eastern eight o'clock Central as he touts

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Speaker 1: his economic successes in his first nearly one year in

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Speaker 1: office since winning a second term last November. The President

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Speaker 1: is also going to chart the path ahead as he

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Speaker 1: and the Republicans face an all important mid term election

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Speaker 1: year in which the issue of affordability is likely going

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Speaker 1: to be front and center. Toward that end, big press

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Speaker 1: conference this morning in which Treasury Secretary Scott Vessant introduced

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Speaker 1: the thousand dollars Trump accounts and explain how exactly they're

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Speaker 3: Eligible children born between January one, twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 3: December thirty one, twenty twenty eight will receive a one

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars contribution from the Treasure Department that will immediately

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Speaker 3: be invested in an index fund. To claim this investment,

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Speaker 3: most families need merely check a box on four Form

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Speaker 3: forty five forty seven, the most aptly named text document

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Speaker 3: of all time, the compound growth from Treasuries.

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Speaker 1: By the way, did you catch that Form forty five

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Speaker 1: forty seven I e. President Trump is the forty fifth

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Speaker 1: and forty seventh president.

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Speaker 3: Initial c funding alone sans to make young Americans wealthy.

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Speaker 3: The S and P has grown at a rate of

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Speaker 3: ten point five percent each year on average since the

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Speaker 3: nineteen fifties. Assuming that growth rate continues, a single one

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars deposit into a Trump account at birth will

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Speaker 3: grow to over six hundred thousand dollars by the age

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Speaker 3: of retirement. Our president is putting the American dream within

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Speaker 3: reach of every citizen. No matter the circumstances of birth.

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Speaker 1: This is a fantastic idea, of course, but it's also

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Speaker 1: rather infuriating because it should remind all Americans that we

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Speaker 1: should have privatized social security long ago, that we should

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Speaker 1: have had funds as President George W. Bush valiantly attempted

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Speaker 1: to do. I think that would have been his single

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Speaker 1: biggest legacy, far and above waging the war on Terran,

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Speaker 1: ensuring that there wasn't another terror attack on American soil

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Speaker 1: on his watch. What he attempted to do was to

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Speaker 1: get funds that were indexed to the stock market, just

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Speaker 1: like these Trump accounts are, and the rate of growth

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Speaker 1: that people would have seen, and he would have been

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Speaker 1: able to opt in, and it was just it was

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal idea. Of course, Democrats would not even allow

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Speaker 1: this proposal to advance. I don't believe they even allowed

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Speaker 1: a vote on it that use procedural moves to block it.

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Speaker 1: All of our all of our net worth would have

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Speaker 1: been much much higher social security. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: it is the third rail of American politics, but it

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Speaker 1: is absolutely a Ponzi scheme. It's the very definition of

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Speaker 1: a Ponzi scheme. Let's just really quickly. I want to

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Speaker 1: elaborate on that in a second. But finally, today the

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Speaker 1: President and Secretary of War Pete Hegesith took part in

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Speaker 1: the dignified transfer of the remains of three Americans, two

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Speaker 1: National Guard soldiers from Iowa and an interpreter who were

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Speaker 1: tragically killed in a terror attack in Syria. Again, the

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Speaker 1: President will address the nation at eight o'clock Central to

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Speaker 1: night that, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump Day?

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Speaker 1: Do we know producer Eric is Wysn going to be

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Speaker 1: carrying the president's address? We are, I'm not actually on

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Speaker 1: that email chain. If we are, I'm sure I'll get

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Speaker 1: a text from Jerry Bott saying yes, we are going

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Speaker 1: to carry the address. Otherwise it's going to be everywhere.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see if the major

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Speaker 1: TV networks actually will carry this address, knowing that it's

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Speaker 1: just President Trump essentially taking a victory lap talking about

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Speaker 1: all his economic and border and foreign policy successes. Or

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Speaker 1: is it only going to be accessible on Newsmax and

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Speaker 1: Fox News. Is CNN going to cut away or are

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Speaker 1: they going to do that thing where they have him

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Speaker 1: talking but they've also got you know, the the CNN

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Speaker 1: tonight panel talking over him. We shall see, but I

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Speaker 1: believe wisn is going to is going to Eric I

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Speaker 1: listen at eight o'clock. If you don't hear the president talking,

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Speaker 1: turn on Fox News. That's the best. That's the best

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Speaker 1: I can tell you. I don't know. But in terms

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Speaker 1: of Social Security, it is absolutely How is this not

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Speaker 1: a Ponzi scheme? The classic like the guy Ponzi who

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Speaker 1: the Ponzi scheme is named after. What a Ponzi scheme

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Speaker 1: is is earlier investors into the scheme are paid with

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Speaker 1: the money of newer investors. You don't have the money

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Speaker 1: that you invested over the course of your lifetime of

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Speaker 1: working in Social Security. It is not, as Al Gore

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Speaker 1: rather infamously said in the two thousand presidential election, it's

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Speaker 1: not in a lock box. It is not kept in

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Speaker 1: a lock box for you until you retire. That that's

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Speaker 1: a travesty should be invested for you. You are paying

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Speaker 1: into the system, but instead the government is taking that

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Speaker 1: money to pay for god knows what it wants to

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Speaker 1: spend money on in that given year, and then you

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Speaker 1: are paid later decades later with the money that is

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Speaker 1: coming in from Social Security. Taxes of younger people that

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Speaker 1: is one hundred percent. So you're social Security benefits if

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Speaker 1: you are on Social Security right now, if you're getting

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Speaker 1: Social Security, you are getting paid with my money. You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think if all of that money that was

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Speaker 1: just sort of automatically taken from your paycheck was invested

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Speaker 1: on your behalf, like in a Trump account, the market

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Speaker 1: would do far better than just government paying you a pittance.

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Speaker 1: Of course it would. George W. Bush tried to change that,

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Speaker 1: and you had a whole lot of Democrats convince vulnerable

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Speaker 1: baby boomers and Greatest generation ers that Bush was going

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Speaker 1: to take your social Security money and he was going

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Speaker 1: to play the what was it the stock market casino?

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Speaker 1: Do you know? There has never been a decade in

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Speaker 1: American history, including the nineteen thirties, where the American stock

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Speaker 1: market has not been higher at the end of the

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Speaker 1: decade then at the beginning. Not one. It has always

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Speaker 1: gone up. Sure there's ups and downs, but it's always

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Speaker 1: going up. There has always been a steady increase, and

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Speaker 1: if you look over the lifespan of the American market,

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Speaker 1: it has been a steady increase. There have been ups,

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Speaker 1: there have been massive highs. There have been massive dips.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen thirty or nineteen twenty nine was the big crash,

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Speaker 1: and then two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine

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Speaker 1: when we had the Great Recession. Those are notable dips.

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Speaker 1: But we have been up exponentially since the Great Recession.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we've been up exponentially since Liberation Day. When

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Speaker 1: liberals told us that Donald Trump was going to tank

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Speaker 1: the economy. When liberals told us that all of these

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Speaker 1: tariffs are going to destroy the American economy, they didn't.

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Speaker 1: Were they a complete panacea that President Trump promised? No,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. Do I believe that the market would be

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Speaker 1: even higher if not for those tariffs? Yes, absolutely I do.

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Speaker 1: Am I at heart still a free trader who believes

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Speaker 1: that tariffs ultimately are taxes on the American consumer because

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Speaker 1: they get passed on from companies to the end point

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Speaker 1: user of the product, i e. The purchaser of the product. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course, it's basic economics. But do I also understand

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Speaker 1: that the end goal for President Trump is not just

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Speaker 1: permanent revenue through tariffs or the replacement of the federal

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Speaker 1: income tax with tariff revenue, as we actually had before

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen and the Federal Income Tax Act. Our federal

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Speaker 1: government is simply far too big to fund entirely with

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Speaker 1: tariff revenue. We would have to be tariffing everybody at

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Speaker 1: about a one thousand percent rate to pay for the

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Speaker 1: two point one five million non military federal employees. That

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Speaker 1: number still absolutely mind just boggles my mind how big

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Speaker 1: our federal government is. But do I understand that ultimately

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Speaker 1: the goal is to get American products into other markets

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Speaker 1: and to make countries less able to just play protectionism

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Speaker 1: with their own homegrown products. What President Trump has been

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Speaker 1: saying is, look, we believe that American toothpaste, American cereal,

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Speaker 1: American widgets, American made products are superior or American marketed products.

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Speaker 1: The actual product might be assembled in Sri Lanka, but

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Speaker 1: ultimately it's an American product. We believe that those are

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Speaker 1: much better than whatever crap they have in Croatia. So

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Speaker 1: we want and I'm just picking on Croatia. I just

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Speaker 1: picked that country at random. It's a wonderful country, very

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Speaker 1: conservative country. But we think that American made goods and

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Speaker 1: American products are superior to Croatian products. But Croatia may have,

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Speaker 1: if not tariffs, all manner of protectionist regulations, non tariff

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Speaker 1: boundaries to free trade that we want to force them

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Speaker 1: to change. Now, if a Croatian product does not have

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Speaker 1: access to the American marketplace because it's simply not profitable

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Speaker 1: for them to do so because of all of the

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Speaker 1: new teriffs that President Trump imposed, well then the president

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Speaker 1: of Croatia needs to come to the bargaining table and say,

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Speaker 1: all right, America, we are going to eliminate or dramatically

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Speaker 1: reduce those non tariff trade boundaries. I understand what the

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Speaker 1: President is doing at an intellectual level, but I also

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Speaker 1: understand that we are a nation that imports a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff and we are not helping ourselves. It's

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Speaker 1: the biggest issue is making that stuff that we import

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Speaker 1: more affordable, not only to purchase, but also to produce

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Speaker 1: and bring over here. If we're putting taxes on that,

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Speaker 1: that's not helping things Ultimately, Though, when President Trump talks

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Speaker 1: about bringing back American manufacturing, I do hope everybody understands

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Speaker 1: what it is he means. It's not as though we're

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Speaker 1: going to go back to the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties,

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Speaker 1: where there was an unprecedented rise in American manufacturing, largely

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Speaker 1: because Europe was decimated following the war and the United

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Speaker 1: States effectively rebuilt Europe and took over as the global

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Speaker 1: leader in manufacturing almost by default, a title it held

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Speaker 1: probably until the mid nineteen nineties with the rise of

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Speaker 1: China and the former Third World. What Trump is talking

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Speaker 1: about is manufacturing here in the United States without massive

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Speaker 1: amounts of workers. What he clearly is oriented towards is

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Speaker 1: an AI based, robotic based manufacturing sector here in the

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Speaker 1: United States, where you do have very high paying jobs

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Speaker 1: of the people who are essentially overseeing the smart robotic technology,

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Speaker 1: AI infused robotic technology that are making cars here, that

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Speaker 1: are making airplanes here, you don't have, like say, in China,

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Speaker 1: they will have factories with I don't think we quite

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Speaker 1: grasp how impossibly large Chinese factories are. There are factories

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Speaker 1: that are the size of three city blocks. There are

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Speaker 1: factories that employ forty thousand people. He's not envisioning that

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Speaker 1: here in the United States. We don't have the manpower,

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Speaker 1: and our standard of living is such that we don't

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Speaker 1: have the ability to pay that many people to work

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Speaker 1: in a factory and to make shoelaces. What he's saying

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Speaker 1: is we don't need people to make shoelaces. We don't

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Speaker 1: need forty thousand people to make relatively inexpensive things. If

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Speaker 1: we can corner the market, if we can be the

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Speaker 1: global leader in artificial intelligence, what we can do is

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Speaker 1: harness American technology, harness American ingenuity, and essentially create an

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Speaker 1: entirely new manufacturing sector. Look, it's not a coincidence, folks,

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Speaker 1: that pretty much every one of the great technological innovations

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Speaker 1: over the past one hundred years has come from America.

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Speaker 1: It's either been entirely developed in America or it has

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Speaker 1: been refined and perfected and produced for mass consumption by

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Speaker 1: America or American innovators. And it's because we are the

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Speaker 1: place where you are free, and because we are the

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00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: place where you have the profit motive to be wealthy

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Speaker 1: beyond your wildest dreams by creating something that makes the

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Speaker 1: rest of the world wealthier for you having invented it,

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Speaker 1: we are all wealthier. Every single one of us is

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Speaker 1: wealthier because Steve Jobs became a billionaire, and Wosniak. Every

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Speaker 1: one of us is wealthier because Jeff Bezos became a multi, multi,

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Speaker 1: multi billionaire, especially those of us who don't have our

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00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: Christmas shopping done yet and are really counting on that

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime next day delivery. You understand how that works.

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Speaker 1: It's that we are not just wealthy in terms of

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Speaker 1: the amount of dollars that we have. We are wealthy

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Speaker 1: in terms of what we are able to buy with

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Speaker 1: those dollars. President Trump is a president who stands at

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Speaker 1: the precipice of a complete overhaul, not just in the

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Speaker 1: globe economy with the advent of AI and smart robotics,

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Speaker 1: but the transformation of human civilization with this technology. I

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Speaker 1: truly do believe that, and I believe what he is

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Speaker 1: attempting to do is to get ahead of that and say, look,

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Speaker 1: we aren't manufacturing things here yet, but when we develop

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Speaker 1: smart factories and smart warehouses and driverless trucks to get

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Speaker 1: this stuff all over where do you think people are

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Speaker 1: going to want to manufacture that? If you don't have

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Speaker 1: to deal with employee unions that are requiring a guy

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Speaker 1: who is stuffing a box all day to make seventy

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a year plus insanely good benefits and

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Speaker 1: a pension, of course, they're going to want to manufacture

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Speaker 1: things instead of putting them on a shipping container and

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Speaker 1: having it take three weeks to get from the law

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Speaker 1: on the slow boat from China. You manufacture things in

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Speaker 1: a smart facility in the United States, and the costs

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00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: are next to nothing to get them out to the

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Speaker 1: major population centers New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and get

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Speaker 1: the goods in stores. I mean, this to me is

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Speaker 1: a no brainer. But in the interim there is going

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Speaker 1: to be some pain. So I understand. I just understand

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Speaker 1: the strategy that President Trump is an acting Democrats, though,

852
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 1: are blaming him for an affordability crisis of their own making,

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Speaker 1: and here in Wisconsin some truly insane proposals for new

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Speaker 1: taxes being circulated in the legislature today. It is a

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show exclusive, and it's coming up in just

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Speaker 1: three minutes. President Trump will address the nation at eight

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Speaker 1: o'clock tonight. Coming up in about a half hour, we

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Speaker 1: will get a preview of it from our old friend

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Speaker 1: Kirsten Pells. She was a long time staffer with Senator

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Speaker 1: Ron Johnson and she is now a national Press secretary

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Speaker 1: with the Republican National Committee. We'll talk to her at

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Speaker 1: about five six. Big development in the Morgan geyser case

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. We'll discuss that. And did you know I

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Speaker 1: did not realize until probably forty five minutes ago that

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Speaker 1: the power Bowl jackpot is up to like one point

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Speaker 1: two billion dollars for tonight's drawing. That's utterly insane. This

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Speaker 1: is the first time I think that we have had

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Speaker 1: back to back Powerball jackpots that people are are going

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Speaker 1: to be able to play for over a billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Hold on one second, folks, one point twenty five billion,

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Speaker 1: says producer Eric. Sorry, I just had to plug in

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Speaker 1: my computer, the one that handles our streaming. We are

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Speaker 1: streaming live via the dadcam on x at Dano'donaldshowfacebook, dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash dano'donald Show, Instagram at Dan O'donnald's Show, and the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donnald Show on YouTube. Please do give us a

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Speaker 1: follow across social media. Yeah, so far, so good. On

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Speaker 1: the commercial front, we have we have had no issues whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Are we sure at six o'clock we're going to be

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Speaker 1: able to go to Sean Hannity. I mean we went

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Speaker 1: to Clay and Buck this afternoon without an issue. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: For those of you who missed the program, I had

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Speaker 1: to broadcast for two and a half straight hours without

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Speaker 1: a commercial break, and then had to go until seven

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Speaker 1: point thirty with very limited commercials because we had a

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Speaker 1: catastrophic system crash. I definitely did not expect that one,

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Speaker 1: all right. While Democrats are complaining about affordability and saying

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Speaker 1: that President Trump is making things unaffordable, they are also

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Speaker 1: doing this. Circulated for co sponsorship today by Representatives Ryan Clancy,

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Speaker 1: Francesca Han, Christian Phelps, Darren Madison, Angelito Tenorio, and Ahmad

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Speaker 1: Riviera Wagner, as well as Senator Chris Larson, the farthest

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Speaker 1: of far left representatives. Is a bill that would authorize

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Speaker 1: counties and municipalities to impose local income taxes on high

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Speaker 1: income tax payers and make an appropriation. According to the

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Speaker 1: Legislative Reference Bureau, the bill allows counties and municipalities to

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Speaker 1: impose a local income tax by adopting an ordinance that

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Speaker 1: would impose a tax on Wisconsin taxable income in excess

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Speaker 1: of one million dollars for individuals and married couples who

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Speaker 1: file jointly, it's a wealth tax. This would be the

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Speaker 1: first municipal income tax in Wisconsin's history. We have a

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Speaker 1: state income tax. We have a federal income tax, and

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Speaker 1: then we would have a municipal income tax. Theoretically, you

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Speaker 1: could have a county income tax and you could also

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Speaker 1: have a municipal income tax. For example, how much you

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Speaker 1: want a wager if this bill would ever be passed

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Speaker 1: and it's being circulated for co sponsorship, You've got until

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Speaker 1: January twentieth if you want to co sponsor this. It's

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Speaker 1: never going to see the floor, which I think is

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Speaker 1: a mistake. I think every one of these crazy proposals

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Speaker 1: should be put up for a vote while Republicans control

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Speaker 1: the state legislature so that in an election year, voters

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Speaker 1: can see who exactly is voting to tax them more.

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Speaker 1: Dane County would absolutely vote to impose a county income

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Speaker 1: tax on residents who have taxable income of a million

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Speaker 1: dollars or more. So too with the city of Madison.

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Speaker 1: So therefore, if you live in Madison, you would face

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Speaker 1: a municipal income tax, a county income tax, a state

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Speaker 1: income tax, and a federal income tax. What do you

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Speaker 1: think you would do to avoid two of those taxes?

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Speaker 1: Move The wealthiest people are also the most mobile in society,

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Speaker 1: and they're also the most adept at tax avoidance, not

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Speaker 1: illegal tax avoidance, but they're able to shield income from taxation.

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Speaker 1: What's another major problem with this. A whole lot of

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Speaker 1: companies are actually taxed at the individual taxpayer level. Closely

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Speaker 1: held businesses LLC's sole proprietorships, they are taxed as what's

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Speaker 1: known as pass through income. Just because an individual who say,

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Speaker 1: is the sole proprietor of a successful business shows income

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Speaker 1: in excess of a million dollars, that does not mean

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Speaker 1: that that individual has made a million dollars that year.

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Speaker 1: That means that the business has grossed a million dollars.

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Speaker 1: The individual, by necessity has to put a significant portion

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Speaker 1: of that money back into the business to pay employees,

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Speaker 1: business costs, capital improvement, whatever. But it would be taxed

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Speaker 1: not only at the state level or the federal level,

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Speaker 1: but now at the municipal and potential county level as well.

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Speaker 1: What do you think that is going to do for

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Speaker 1: new business growth? What do you think that is going

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Speaker 1: to do a lot of restaurants, a lot of bars,

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Speaker 1: a lot of service industry type businesses use passed through

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Speaker 1: income for the owner in order to avoid all of

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Speaker 1: the issues of filing a corporation at type C corporation tax.

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Speaker 1: It's just easier to tax the individual who is listed

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Speaker 1: as the sole proprietor or the owner of the LLC.

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Speaker 1: It's just much more. It's just much easier to have

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Speaker 1: passed through income show up on a personal income tax statement.

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Speaker 1: This sure sounds like it's going to tax everybody whose

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Speaker 1: income is in excess of a million dollars. And again,

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Speaker 1: what does Margaret Thatcher? What did she famously say, eventually

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Speaker 1: you run out of other people's money. So as we're

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Speaker 1: constantly expanding government, as we're constantly spending more and more

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Speaker 1: and more under liberal Democrat leadership, just taxing people over

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Speaker 1: a million dollars in income isn't going to be enough.

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon, you're going to see those counties and those

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Speaker 1: municipalities who become dependent on that income tax say, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's not enough. We're going to start needing to tax

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Speaker 1: people who make more than half a million dollars, than

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Speaker 1: a quarter of a million dollars, than one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: As producer Eric says, the million dollar income tax is

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Speaker 1: their gateway drug to taxing everybody. Now, if that wasn't enough, Also,

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Speaker 1: today Democrats introduced an estate tax. They are circulating co

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Speaker 1: sponsorship on the establishment of a state estate tax, Representatives

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Speaker 1: Ryan Clancy, Darren Madison, Francesco Hank, Christian Phelps, Angelito Tenorio Supreme,

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Speaker 1: more Uma Kunde, and Ahmaud Riviera Wagner joining by joining

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Speaker 1: Senator Chris Larson. Here's what they have the absolute stones

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Speaker 1: to say. Under President Trump's guidance, the United States economy

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Speaker 1: is becoming more expensive, more unequal, and more dysfunctional. His

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Speaker 1: massive twenty twenty five tax cut for the rich hasn't

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Speaker 1: led to the promised gains in job creation, economic growth,

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Speaker 1: or development of domestic manufacturing. Instead, our public infrastructure is

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Speaker 1: falling apart while the rich get richer. The state of

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin can no longer rely on the federal government to

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Speaker 1: do its job or even make timely payments of funding

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Speaker 1: appropriated by Congress. Thankfully, we can ensure more stability in

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Speaker 1: revenue and funding of program services and infrastructure by restoring

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Speaker 1: a common sense estate tax. In Wisconsin, any large estate

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Speaker 1: valued at over fifteen million dollars is subject to a

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Speaker 1: federalist state tax that, according to the Tax Policy Institute

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, did twenty billion dollars in federal tax revenue.

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Speaker 1: The authors of this bill say Wisconsin can impose a

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Speaker 1: smaller estate tax rate and generate substantial, much needed revenue,

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Speaker 1: also allowing the state of Wisconsin to rely less on

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Speaker 1: a regressive revenue source such as property taxes, sales taxes,

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Speaker 1: and fees aer fines. This reinstates an estate tax, exempting

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Speaker 1: farm land and starting with estates valued at over five

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Speaker 1: million dollars, taxing them at six point six percent, and

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Speaker 1: fully applying to estates valued at over fifteen million dollars.

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Speaker 1: The fundamental problem with estate taxes is double taxation. Almost

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Speaker 1: all of the wealth in an estate has already been

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Speaker 1: taxed during the person who died their lifetime. First of all,

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Speaker 1: its taxes as income. This is something that liberals just

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Speaker 1: do not fundamentally understand. First, you make money that is

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Speaker 1: taxed at probably the highest tax rate for someone who

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Speaker 1: is a very high income earner. It's taxed as income.

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Speaker 1: Then it's invested, Then it gets taxed again. If there

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Speaker 1: is any profit taken from the capital gain of a

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Speaker 1: stock or an appreciable asset, that's two taxes. Then you

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Speaker 1: tax it again just because you want to transfer it

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Speaker 1: to your son or daughter that's not double taxation, that's

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Speaker 1: triple taxation. There is also, in fact, a lot of

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Speaker 1: data that says estate taxes are probably the least deficient

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Speaker 1: taxes that the federal government relies on because compliance costs

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01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: are so insanely high. In other words, trying to make

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Speaker 1: sure that the decedent has paid the proper amount in

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Speaker 1: a state tax is usually close to what the estate

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Speaker 1: tax actually raises. It's almost impossible to believe, but it

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Speaker 1: is true. Less than one percent of federal receipts in

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Speaker 1: a given year are attributable to estate taxes. Now you'd think, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: not a lot of people have fifteen million dollars or

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Speaker 1: more in estates. That is true, But when you think

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Speaker 1: about the fact that it's costing fifteen million dollars or

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Speaker 1: whatever it is per estate in order to make sure

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Speaker 1: that because we have obviously so many IRS agents who

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Speaker 1: are trying to ensure compliance. Remember we tried to get

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Speaker 1: rid of eighty seven thousand IRS agents. Remember we tried

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Speaker 1: to get rid of federal bloat, and the left screamed

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Speaker 1: bloody murder and tried to stop Doge at every single turn. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is what happens in order to get a very

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Speaker 1: little return on the investment in all of those federal

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 1: workers who are trying to ensure that people are paying

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Speaker 1: their estate taxes. Oftentimes you don't generate nearly the revenue

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Speaker 1: that you think you will, and it's just a waste

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Speaker 1: of time. It's a waste of resources because you're not

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Speaker 1: bringing in all that much money. Again, you could seize

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Speaker 1: every single cent from every single billionaire in this country,

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Speaker 1: including Elon Muski's. We're something like six hundred billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: You take every every dime he's got, every stock, every

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01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 1: every asset. You could take everything from every single billionaire.

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01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:54,800
Speaker 1: It would fund the government for a grand total of

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01:09:54,960 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: six to eight months. That's the reality. We don't have

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Speaker 1: a revenue problem in the federal government or the state.

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Speaker 1: We have a spending problem, and yet Democrats still want

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Speaker 1: to tax you more to spend more. The Journal Sentinel

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Speaker 1: finally discovers that property taxes have gone through the roof.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that next on the Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 1: Real Deep Dive by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Property taxes

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Speaker 1: are surging in Wisconsin. Here's what's behind the rise. Local

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Speaker 1: government tax levies will see their largest increase since twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: including a seven point eight percent hike in K twelve

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Speaker 1: property taxes, the highest amounts in more than three decades.

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Speaker 1: That's according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy

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Speaker 1: for Analyzing Property tax bills hit Wisconsinits As bills hit

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Speaker 1: Wisconsinight's mailboxes this month, county property rates are also set

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Speaker 1: to rise three point one percent, the report notes, which

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Speaker 1: follows the trend of recent years. Well, you don't actually

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Speaker 1: get to paragraph seven, and I actually expected this would

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Speaker 1: get to paragraph fifteen before we get this. That jump

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Speaker 1: is fueled largely by two factors, decisions made in the

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Speaker 1: most recent state budgets and referendums passed at the local

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Speaker 1: level by voters who agreed to pay higher taxes at

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Speaker 1: the request of school districts. The twenty twenty three twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five state budget included a measure to increase district's

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Speaker 1: state imposed limits on how much revenue they are allowed

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Speaker 1: to raise each year by three hundred and twenty five

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Speaker 1: dollars per student. Democratic Governor Tony Evers, a former public

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Speaker 1: school educator, used his powerful partial veto authority to extend

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Speaker 1: that provision for four hundred years, meaning school districts may

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Speaker 1: raise revenue by that amount each year until twenty four,

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Speaker 1: twenty five. So, in case you're wondering who's responsible, took

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Speaker 1: seven paragraphs, but even the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel admits that, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's Governor Evers and the Wisconsin Supreme Court that bizarrely

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Speaker 1: ruled that this veto, this obvious Frankenstein veto was or

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Speaker 1: I guess technically it's an unconstitutional fan of White veto

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Speaker 1: was somehow constitutional and lawful. If you think that this

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Speaker 1: year's property taxes are bad, just remember that your local

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Speaker 1: school district can increase it by the same amount next year,

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Speaker 1: and the year after, and the year after and every

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Speaker 1: year until the year twenty four to twenty five. It

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Speaker 1: almost seems unbelievable, but it's true. I don't think people

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Speaker 1: quite believed me when I was warning about this, when

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Speaker 1: first or Evers did it in the summer of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, and then when it was upheld by the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Supreme Court in this past spring, that this is

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Speaker 1: going to cost your great grandchildren's great grandchildren thousands and

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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of dollars. And what's so galling about

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Speaker 1: it is that the number of K twelve students keeps declining,

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Speaker 1: but the number of school administrators and teachers keeps increasing.

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Speaker 1: Explain to me how that one works. There's less of

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Speaker 1: a need for a service, ergo, there is less of

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Speaker 1: a need for people to provide that service. But because

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Speaker 1: you are the one paying the bill, well, we can

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Speaker 1: just continue to dump more and more and more money

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Speaker 1: into salary for that service. And Democrats are the ones

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Speaker 1: who care about affordability. I see the official gov evers

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Speaker 1: x account posting over and over and over again about

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Speaker 1: affordability and blaming President Trump and saying, well, Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has made life unaffordable. Fever, dude, you just jacked everybody's

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Speaker 1: property tax rate by three hundred and twenty five dollars

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Speaker 1: per student. This means you're looking at a thousand bucks

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Speaker 1: minimum every single year. Your taxes are just going to

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Speaker 1: rise in perpetuity, or at least until twenty four twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, let's get some good news to wrap

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Speaker 1: up this hour. It's time now to name the unsung

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

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Speaker 1: is Bill Dillon. He is a one hundred one year

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Speaker 1: old Army veteran who was speaking at a part at

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Speaker 1: Marrow Lago I believe this was last night, and he

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Speaker 1: said Donald Trump is the best president in his lifetime.

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Speaker 1: And well, you've got to just hear what Bill had

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Speaker 1: to say.

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Speaker 8: Gotten damn who cares more for the station than this

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Speaker 8: guy than.

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Speaker 7: You're looking at.

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Speaker 1: He is the president of the world.

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Speaker 7: I think he doesnotiaated.

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Speaker 8: I'm a hundred to God. Damn it, Honey, I'm going,

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Speaker 8: He said, he deployed tomorrow for President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Bill Dylon, We salute you, sir. You are our unsung

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Speaker 1: hero of the day. The real spirit of Christmas is

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Speaker 1: not what we have. It's about who we are. Each

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Speaker 1: one of us.

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Speaker 10: Is a child of God. That is the true source

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Speaker 10: of joy this time of the year. That is what

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Speaker 10: makes every Christmas.

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Speaker 7: Marriage, Christmas time, the Christmas.

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Speaker 10: As the President of the United States, it's my tremendous

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Speaker 10: honor to finally wish America.

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Speaker 1: A very merry Christmas. Fidal hour at the Dan o'donald's show,

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Speaker 1: So welcome back to it. You want to join us

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Speaker 1: four one four seven nine to nine eleven thirty on

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Speaker 1: can also reach us toll free one eight hundred eight

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Speaker 1: three eight nine four seven six or email me DoD

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Speaker 1: at iHeartMedia dot com. Now, no improvtu games of talk

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Speaker 1: radio Roulette like last night. As we've been explaining all

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Speaker 1: show long, we do hopefully have all of our issues fixed,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna need to go on for what

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Speaker 1: was it two and a half straight hours without a break,

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Speaker 1: And I do appreciate everybody who called in. We invented

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Speaker 1: a little game on the fly. We called it talk

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Speaker 1: Radio Roulette where I would just get a name of

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Speaker 1: whoever it was that was on the line, and they

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Speaker 1: would be able to say whatever it was they wanted

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Speaker 1: to say. Think of it as like open Line Friday,

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Speaker 1: only with all due respect to the late great Rush Limbaugh,

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Speaker 1: I had absolutely no idea what any of the callers

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Speaker 1: were going to say until they said it. We are

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Speaker 1: going to make this hurring bit in the new year.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking Friday evenings we'll have some fun, probably Friday

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Speaker 1: evenings at five o'clock. It'll just pair well with our

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Speaker 1: Strangest Stories of the Week segment, How bizarre, and I'm

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Speaker 1: really looking forward to that lot of stuff happening in

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Speaker 1: the new year. And President Trump about three hours from now,

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Speaker 1: is going to preview it in his address to the nation.

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Speaker 1: Also look back at what I consider to be an

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Speaker 1: incredibly successful first eleven months of the second Trump administration.

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Speaker 1: We are so pleased to be joined right now by

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Speaker 1: National Press Secretary of the Republican National Committee, Kirsten Pill.

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Speaker 1: Kirsten Pell's in her very first radio interview. Kirston, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Dan O'Donnell Show, and congratulations.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me Dan. The last

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Speaker 4: time I spoke with you, I think I was working

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Speaker 4: for a great senator from Wisconsin, Ron Johnson. So I'm

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Speaker 4: happy to be back talking to wiscon and listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So you went from Johnson's office and campaign. Was

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Speaker 1: it the campaign or was it his senatorial office. I

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Speaker 1: honestly it was.

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Speaker 4: His senatorial office. I came in in twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 4: right before he defeated Mandela Barnes, so I got to

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Speaker 4: be there for that during that great time when he

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Speaker 4: won the state for a third time.

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Speaker 1: And you heard I'm sure that Mandela is back. He's

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Speaker 1: now running for governor and it's going to be just

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Speaker 1: as fun with him and the race as it was

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, So when did you join the RNC.

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Speaker 4: Mid May? So I've been here since then, and we're

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Speaker 4: just building momentum, getting ready for next year. And it's

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Speaker 4: been in a very exciting time here at the RNC.

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Speaker 4: We're really looking forward to the midterms and we really

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Speaker 4: feel strong and confident going into next year. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm really happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: You know, before we get into the president's speech, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, I think are apprehensive about the midterms.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the Senate map looks pretty good for

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Speaker 1: Republicans to retain control, but obviously with a razor thin

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Speaker 1: margin in the House. People are sort of looking at

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Speaker 1: the generic ballot polling right now, which admittedly it's nearly

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Speaker 1: a year out, but it is relatively predictive at least

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Speaker 1: as you go back in recent midterm elections and you

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Speaker 1: take a look at this point in those cycles where

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Speaker 1: you had generic ballot questions, they had a tendency to

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Speaker 1: predict who is going to win, and just basic politics

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Speaker 1: will tell you that the party that does not control

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Speaker 1: the White House typically does very very well in the

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Speaker 1: next midterm. I know you're obviously feeling good with the RNC,

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Speaker 1: but do you understand why people are sort of nervous

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Speaker 1: about how these midterms might go.

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Speaker 4: So we feel very confident heading into the midterms. And

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Speaker 4: here's why President Trump's leadership and results are delivering this

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Speaker 4: historic agenda for hardworking American families across the country. They're

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Speaker 4: seeing real improvements in their everyday lives, from lower costs

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Speaker 4: to a stronger economy. Historically, of course, midterms can be

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Speaker 4: tough for a party in power, but we believe this

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Speaker 4: is not just a normal political moment. President Trump has

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Speaker 4: unmatched ability to energize voters turn out the based campaign

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Speaker 4: across the country. That changes the equation entirely. We really

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Speaker 4: feel that we are positioned to beat the odds, expand

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Speaker 4: our majorities, and to deliver a full four years of

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Speaker 4: America First leadership. Because remember, if the Democrats gain power,

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Speaker 4: it'll be NonStop impeachments and investigations, and it'll style me

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Speaker 4: this president's agenda. So that's where we stand right now.

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Speaker 4: And again, like I said, I think we feel confident

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Speaker 4: that we will defy history next year.

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Speaker 1: So the President is outlining his agenda for his second

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Speaker 1: year in office. Looking back tonight on the accomplishments of

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Speaker 1: the first year. What are you looking forward to most

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Speaker 1: about him talking about what this administration has done in

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Speaker 1: its first eleventh months.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think tonight will be all about the

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Speaker 4: results of this first eleven months. The facts, in my view,

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Speaker 4: are undeniable. In just eleven months, President Trump has delivered

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Speaker 4: real measurable progress on the issues that Americans feel every

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Speaker 4: single day. Some of those include families are paying less

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Speaker 4: at the pump as gas prices fall across the country.

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Speaker 4: The recent jobs report kept beating expectations as more Americans

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Speaker 4: re enter the workforce, wages continued to grow, and after

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Speaker 4: years of chaos when the Biden administration, the borders finally secure.

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Speaker 4: Illegal border crossings are at historic lows, and criminal illegal

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Speaker 4: immigrants are being removed from our communities. This is something

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Speaker 4: that the President obviously campaigned on and has been wildly successful.

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Speaker 4: And I think it's something that we actually take for

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Speaker 4: granted because this border is so secure now and he

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Speaker 4: just was able to turn that around so fast in

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Speaker 4: less than a year. But this didn't happen by accident.

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Speaker 4: This happened because President Trump has systematically reversed the pill

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Speaker 4: the failed policies of the Biden years and he's really

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Speaker 4: brought back common sense. Democrats made life more expensive, more expensive,

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Speaker 4: and less safe. But President Trump has been focused on

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Speaker 4: fixing this damage. So I think tonight's address is about

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Speaker 4: continuing that momentum into twenty twenty six by highlighting all

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Speaker 4: of these things that he's been focused in.

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Speaker 1: So, Donn, what's sort of amazing to me is that

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Speaker 1: they've made the affordability crisis their central talking point heading

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Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty six mid term year, that somehow

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Speaker 1: it's President Trump's fault that nobody can afford rent, that

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Speaker 1: nobody can afford groceries. Well, prices are coming down somewhat,

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Speaker 1: and key is, as you outlined, the price of gas,

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Speaker 1: and this is just the easiest one to be able

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Speaker 1: to get down because it's all about increasing domestic supply,

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Speaker 1: which is something that President Trump did literally on day

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Speaker 1: one with a flurry of executive actions, essentially as you said,

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Speaker 1: reversing President Biden's day one a actions from twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: But it's laughable to me when you can actually just

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Speaker 1: go back and take a look at the average price

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Speaker 1: in terms of total dollars. I went back and looked

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Speaker 1: at this. It cost at the end of Biden's term,

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Speaker 1: seventeen thousand dollars more per year to afford the same

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Speaker 1: things that the average family afford could afford at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of Biden's term, seventeen thousand dollars per year. That's

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Speaker 1: like an extra rent payment every single year. And they

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Speaker 1: have the gall to blame Trump and Republicans for those

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Speaker 1: price increases.

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Speaker 4: Right, They're utterly shameless about this. The fact that they

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Speaker 4: are claiming to be the Party of affordability is in

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Speaker 4: my view, utterly laughable. Under Joe Biden, gas hit the

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Speaker 4: highest price on record in June twenty twenty two, nearly

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Speaker 4: five dollars a gallon. It stayed above pre dollars for

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Speaker 4: all four years of his president. Families paid over fifty

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Speaker 4: two hundred more per household and energy costs during Biden's term,

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Speaker 4: and prices are falling now because President Trump has reversed

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Speaker 4: biden air war on American energy. This week alone, the

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Speaker 4: national average is down from just a month ago, and

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Speaker 4: prices are trending down across the country and in some

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Speaker 4: drivers are even seeing gas as low as below two

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Speaker 4: dollars a gallon, as low as one dollar and sixty

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Speaker 4: eight cents in Texas. So these high gas prices under

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Speaker 4: Biden and then these lower gas prices under Trump are

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Speaker 4: not an accident. They were a direct result of the

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Speaker 4: Democrat policies that Joe Biden was pushing to basically declare

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Speaker 4: war on American energy. And President Trump has brought prices

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Speaker 4: down but by unleashing American energy and putting working families first,

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Speaker 4: and energy prices affects everything groceries, shipping, heating. So under

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Speaker 4: President Trump, Americans are actually on track to spend the

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Speaker 4: lowest share of their disposable income on gas nearly two decades.

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Speaker 4: And that's real relief for families who were stretched thin

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Speaker 4: under the previous administration.

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Speaker 1: Republican National Committee National Press Secretary Kirsten Pell's my guest

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Speaker 1: here on the Dan o'donnald Show. Of course, President Trump

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Speaker 1: will address the nation to talk about all of this

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock Central time this evening. It is going

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Speaker 1: to be his final national address of the first year

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Speaker 1: of his presidency. You touched on something, Kirsten, that I

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Speaker 1: don't think, as you put it, really gets talked about enough.

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Speaker 1: And that's the way that this presidential administration shut down

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Speaker 1: the border almost instantly. I still think the best line

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Speaker 1: that the president may have come up with, or one

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Speaker 1: of his speech writers may have come up with, came

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Speaker 1: during the address to the Joint Session of Congress within

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Speaker 1: the first month or so of his presidency back in

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Speaker 1: what was it late February early March, where he said

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Speaker 1: the border is now closed. It turns out we didn't

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Speaker 1: need new laws. We just needed a new president that

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Speaker 1: proved to be remarkably accurate.

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Speaker 4: That is entirely accurate, and it's something that actually Senator

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Speaker 4: Johnson said all the time waiting up twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: He's like, we just need a new president. And President

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Speaker 4: Trump was that president to do it, and we knew

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Speaker 4: that he would be. The border is secure. President Trump

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Speaker 4: had promised to end the chaots at the border, and

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Speaker 4: he delivered. The flood of illegal immigration that we saw

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Speaker 4: under Biden has been completely stopped. It's utterly amazing. If

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Speaker 4: you look at it. Since President Trump took office, more

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Speaker 4: than two point two million illegal aliens have either been

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Speaker 4: removed from the country or self deported. And this administration

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Speaker 4: is actually now on pace to deport nearly six hundred

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Speaker 4: thousand illegal aliens and the president's first year alone, So

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Speaker 4: these numbers are staggering, and I just don't think that

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Speaker 4: it's talked about enough. I think, again, this president has

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Speaker 4: done such a good job of securing the border that

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Speaker 4: we almost take it for granted because these stories about

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Speaker 4: illegal immigrants pouring over the border have stopped, and this

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Speaker 4: president has turned that around, and it's pretty it's pretty incredible,

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Speaker 4: and I think this is something he will definitely speak

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Speaker 4: to you tonight as well.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just those six hundred thousand deportations, it's

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Speaker 1: all of the self deportations or voluntary deportations on top

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Speaker 1: of those. I thought. I saw the Center for Immigration

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Speaker 1: Studies put out a finding that said that for every

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Speaker 1: illegal that is forcibly deported, between two and three voluntarily

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Speaker 1: deport So if we've got six hundred thousand who have

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Speaker 1: been forcibly deported in the first year, you probably got

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Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of one point two million to

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Speaker 1: one point eight million who have left the country because

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Speaker 1: they fear getting forcibly deported. And this administration has done

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Speaker 1: what I think is a very smart thing by saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we will pay for you to go back home, and

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Speaker 1: we will incentivize you to go back home, saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: if you go back, you will be able to apply

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Speaker 1: for entry into the country. But if we catch you

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Speaker 1: and you get removed forcibly, you're never getting allowed back

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Speaker 1: into this country, right.

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Speaker 4: And that's the genius of this administration and what they've

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Speaker 4: been doing, not only with supporting a criminal illegal aliens,

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Speaker 4: but also encouraging people who've broken the law to go home,

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Speaker 4: to go back to their countries. Because this president cares

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Speaker 4: about public safety and he cares about this country, and

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Speaker 4: he's supporting illegal aliens but also reducing the strain in

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Speaker 4: our communities and restoring the rule of law. And under

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Speaker 4: Biden it was the opposite. He was incentivizing everyone to

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Speaker 4: come here and endangered the people that were living in

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Speaker 4: those border communities, endangered our communities. And under Biden, we

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Speaker 4: saw more than three hundred thousand illegal immigrants attempted to

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Speaker 4: cross the border in a single month, the highest number

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Speaker 4: ever recorded. And we also saw more than one hundred

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Speaker 4: and eighty five thousand encounters every month. So under Biden,

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Speaker 4: he was encouraging people to come here and to break

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Speaker 4: our laws. And it's just a direct contract the President

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Speaker 4: Strump who's saying, no, we have the rule of law here.

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Speaker 4: You can't just illegally come across the border. And so

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Speaker 4: I think that tells you everything that you need to

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Speaker 4: know about the difference between this administration and the previous one.

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Speaker 1: Without question, and with respect to global affairs and national security,

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Speaker 1: I think the big agenda item appears to be what

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Speaker 1: may be imminent in terms of a Ukraine Russia peace deal.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we're going to see that potentially before

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Speaker 1: the end of the year.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think if there's anyone to do it, it

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Speaker 4: would be this president. He's the peace president. He has

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Speaker 4: been brokering deals across the world with different leaders, and he,

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Speaker 4: I think is the president to do that. I obviously

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Speaker 4: won't get ahead of any announcements on that end from

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Speaker 4: the President, but this president, he is a piece through

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Speaker 4: strength President. World leaders respect him and the reason that

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Speaker 4: America is now dominant on the world stage yet again

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Speaker 4: is because of what he's been able to do. And

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Speaker 4: if there's anyone that can broke is there anyone who

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Speaker 4: can bring the war to an end, it's just President.

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Speaker 1: She is National Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee.

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Speaker 1: Kirsten Pels also a great friend of the Dan o'donald

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Speaker 1: Show from her time with Senator Ron Johnson, who we

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Speaker 1: all love here in Wisconsin. Kirsten, you did a great

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Speaker 1: job in your very first radio interview, really did enjoy Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I think you. I think a lot of them are

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Speaker 1: in your future, and I'm so glad your first one

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Speaker 1: was with us. Have yourself a very merry Christmas, Happy holidays.

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Speaker 1: Where is home for you? Where are you going back

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Speaker 1: to for the holidays.

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Speaker 4: I am from Maryland, so I'm actually not very far Okay, okay,

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Speaker 4: Stort carr right away, so I'm looking forward to see

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Speaker 4: seeing my family very soon.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Well, thank you so much for joining us

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Speaker 1: again President Trump's Addressed to the Nation eight o'clock Central

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Speaker 1: to night. We will be right back right here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show. Mar thanks once again to Kirsten

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Speaker 1: Pills for joining us here on the Dan O'Donnell Show

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Speaker 1: to preview the President's Addressed to the Nation tonight, talking

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Speaker 1: about affordability, talking about how his administration has actually tried

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Speaker 1: to and largely succeeded in reversing the insanely costly policies

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Speaker 1: of the Biden administration, and as we outlined earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show, look no further than Democrat policies at every

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Speaker 1: single level of government. For why your taxes are increasing,

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Speaker 1: Governor Rivers four hundred year school funding increased partial veto.

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Speaker 1: That is spiking property tax rates across the state. People

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Speaker 1: are getting sticker shock as they're going to their mailboxes

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Speaker 1: and realizing how much their property taxes went up in

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Speaker 1: just one year. That's because of the governor allowing more

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Speaker 1: increases from local school districts, and local school districts invariably

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Speaker 1: controlled by Democrat school board members are of course taking

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Speaker 1: advantage of the funding mechanisms available to them. As we

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Speaker 1: outlined as well, the Wisconsin Supreme Court almost certainly going

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Speaker 1: to dramatically increase the tax burden on wisconsin its when

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Speaker 1: it overturns Act ten. If the Supreme Court gets cold

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Speaker 1: feet somehow and decides not to overturn Act ten, don't worry.

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Speaker 1: You've got even the moderate candidate for Governor, Joel Brennan,

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Speaker 1: who just threw his hat into the ring in an

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Speaker 1: increasingly crowded Democrat primary, saying yes, absolutely, I will overtime

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Speaker 1: or in Act ten if I'm elected. And then, of

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Speaker 1: course you've got the proposals that were released today Francesco

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Speaker 1: Hang and Ryan Clancy wanting municipal tax increases on anyone

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Speaker 1: who makes a million dollars or more per year. Just

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Speaker 1: wait until like as Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem

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Speaker 1: with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money.

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Speaker 1: Watch for if that were to ever pass. Let's assume

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Speaker 1: that Democrats win the legislature as well as the governor's

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Speaker 1: mansion next year. Obviously that would be something that they

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Speaker 1: would look at enacting, and it would go from a

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Speaker 1: million dollars once you soak those taxpayers, you soak those

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Speaker 1: making three quarters of a million, and then half a million,

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Speaker 1: then two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and before you

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Speaker 1: know it, it's everybody who's making one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: or more. Want to switch gears a little bit. Morgan

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Speaker 1: Geyser's attorney, the Slenderman Stabber, will not contac to petition

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Speaker 1: to revoke her conditional release, according to a letter filed

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Speaker 1: by her attorney, This from today's TMJ four. The conditional

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Speaker 1: release revocation hearing is scheduled for February sixteenth. It comes after,

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Speaker 1: of course, she escaped her zero security group home in

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Speaker 1: Madison after cutting off her ankle bracelet. She was found

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Speaker 1: later in Illinois and arrested alongside a forty three year

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Speaker 1: old friend who identifies as a they them, and was

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Speaker 1: dressed suspiciously similarly as we reported exclusively last week to

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Speaker 1: Ticky Toby, a character from the slender Man universe. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: go back and look at what he was wearing. He

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Speaker 1: is dressed identically to Ticky Toby. Could that have been

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Speaker 1: a coincidence? Yes, absolutely, I'm not necessarily sure that it

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Speaker 1: was so. Geyser was brought back last month to Waukeshaw County.

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Speaker 1: She remained at the county jail for a short time

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Speaker 1: before being moved to a different difrint facility. The Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: Department confirmed the move December tenth, so a week ago today,

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Speaker 1: but did not specify the location of that facility. Geyser's move, though,

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Speaker 1: came about a week after Tony Cotton, her lawyer, requested

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Speaker 1: she be returned to the Winnebago Health Institute mental health institute,

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Speaker 1: where she had been held for more than a decade.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Health Services on November twenty fifth, filed

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Speaker 1: a petition to revoke her conditional release, but in a

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Speaker 1: letter filed with Waukeshaw County Judge Scott Wagner yesterday, Cotton

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Speaker 1: asked the court to approve Geyser's decision not to fight

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Speaker 1: the petition filed by DHS, meaning she is accepting the

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Speaker 1: return to the Winnebago Mental Health Facility, which again raises

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Speaker 1: the question about how it was she was ever able

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Speaker 1: to leave in the first place, especially after she started

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Speaker 1: identifying as a boy. She reportedly was using he him

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Speaker 1: pronouns and was going by the name I think it

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Speaker 1: was Ethan. It might have been Evan, but it certainly

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Speaker 1: wasn't Morgan. She was identifying as a boy, and she

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Speaker 1: just happened to be arrested in the company of another transgender,

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Speaker 1: creepy forty three year old man who, by all accounts

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Speaker 1: was very likely her boyfriend and helping to facilitate her escape,

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Speaker 1: although he hasn't been charged with that, meaning there probably

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Speaker 1: wasn't enough evidence that they would be able to pin

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Speaker 1: that on him, and it wasn't really an escape anyway.

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Speaker 1: She just walked right out after cutting off her bracelet.

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Speaker 1: The biggest issue in this case, notwithstanding all of the

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Speaker 1: rather obvious failures of the Department of Corrections in not

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Speaker 1: notifying anybody, any law enforcement officials in Madison or anywhere

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Speaker 1: else until hours and hours and hours had passed by

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Speaker 1: after she cut off this bracelet and just took off.

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Speaker 1: The biggest issue is why she was ever let out

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Speaker 1: of that mental health facility in the first place. As

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Speaker 1: I outlined a month ago, but I think it bears repeating.

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Speaker 1: This is an example of where the mental health community

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Speaker 1: and progressive liberalism are really putting the public in danger

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Speaker 1: because they are refusing to acknowledge that there is a

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Speaker 1: very strong correlation between gender dysphoria or identifying as the

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Speaker 1: opposite gender, or being confused about your gender, or saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be non binary now, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: use female pronouns even though I'm a boy, and schizophrenia now,

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Speaker 1: all the while that she was saying to her doctors,

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, I'm less schizophrenic. Oh yes, I'm not schizophrenic.

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Speaker 1: I'm not having these delusions of slender Man or anything

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Speaker 1: else anymore, she is now having delusions that she's actually

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Speaker 1: a boy and that she was born into the wrong

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Speaker 1: body or born into the wrong skin, or what the

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Speaker 1: nomenclature is now for that that's evidence that you are

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Speaker 1: not mentally well. And there is a mountain of mental

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Speaker 1: health research to suggest this from all across the country

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Speaker 1: here in the United States, in Europe, large scale cohorts

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Speaker 1: of people who have been studied saying yes, when there

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Speaker 1: is gender dysphoria present, more often than not, there are

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Speaker 1: other very serious mental health issues like schizophrenia. But even

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Speaker 1: though she's telling her doctor, she's telling the people who

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Speaker 1: are signing off on her release to a zero security

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Speaker 1: group home in Madison, that she's identifying as a boy,

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Speaker 1: they're not willing to say, oh, hey, maybe that is

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Speaker 1: connected to her schizophrenia, because they don't want to be

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Speaker 1: accused of being transphobic, or maybe they themselves have fully

1494
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:53,439
Speaker 1: bought into this idea that being transgender is evidence of

1495
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:57,760
Speaker 1: a perfectly healthy mental state. It clearly isn't, and it

1496
01:39:57,880 --> 01:40:01,519
Speaker 1: does nobody any good to pretend that it is. It

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01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:03,640
Speaker 1: is not mean, it is not cruel, It is not

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01:40:03,760 --> 01:40:06,960
Speaker 1: transphobic to say. If somebody is saying I am not

1499
01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:11,160
Speaker 1: happy with the most basic element of myself, what gender

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01:40:11,439 --> 01:40:14,920
Speaker 1: I am, that probably means I'm not happy with other

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01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:18,599
Speaker 1: aspects of my life as well, and there is ample

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01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 1: evidence to suggest that this is being accompanied by other

1503
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:27,719
Speaker 1: sorts of delusions that can often trigger violent self harm

1504
01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:31,720
Speaker 1: violence against other people, as evidenced by the fact that

1505
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:35,720
Speaker 1: something like forty percent of people who identify as transgender

1506
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:40,280
Speaker 1: will commit suicide at some point. When they talk about

1507
01:40:40,360 --> 01:40:45,600
Speaker 1: the trans holocaust or transgenocide or whatever they're calling this,

1508
01:40:45,840 --> 01:40:49,479
Speaker 1: what they mean is a staggering number of people are

1509
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:53,160
Speaker 1: identifying as transgender and ultimately are killing themselves because they're

1510
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:57,040
Speaker 1: not getting the mental health treatment that they need because

1511
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:01,080
Speaker 1: of this belief that, well, they're not actually mentally ill.

1512
01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:04,479
Speaker 1: They just need to be affirmed in their new gender.

1513
01:41:04,560 --> 01:41:09,760
Speaker 1: They just need to be placated in this delusion, instead

1514
01:41:09,840 --> 01:41:14,160
Speaker 1: of what the mental health community for decades assumed that

1515
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 1: this was evidence that there was something seriously wrong with

1516
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:22,200
Speaker 1: the mental state of this person. Well, now we're just really, ah,

1517
01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:24,920
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with Morgan or Evan or Ethan or

1518
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:28,560
Speaker 1: whatever she's calling herself. Yes, we will just release he

1519
01:41:29,160 --> 01:41:32,599
Speaker 1: him right out onto the streets and hope for the best.

1520
01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:36,000
Speaker 1: It's not helping Morgan guys, or it's not helping the

1521
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:39,600
Speaker 1: public at large, and it is certainly not helping the

1522
01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:44,080
Speaker 1: thousands of people who are clearly struggling with very serious

1523
01:41:44,280 --> 01:41:48,479
Speaker 1: mental illnesses but are just being told here, change your gender,

1524
01:41:48,800 --> 01:41:51,639
Speaker 1: make sure everyone affirms you, and then you'll be happy.

1525
01:41:51,840 --> 01:41:54,320
Speaker 1: Clearly you will not be You're listening to The Dan

1526
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:58,200
Speaker 1: O'Donnell Show. It is a tour de force of truth,

1527
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:24,280
Speaker 1: conservative thoughts, not just talk. It is The Dan o'donald Show.

1528
01:42:24,560 --> 01:42:27,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back to it. Merry Christmas to one and all.

1529
01:42:27,360 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 1: As we are now just one week away from Christmas Eve,

1530
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:35,320
Speaker 1: a reminder this coming Tuesday, December twenty third, four pm,

1531
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:39,679
Speaker 1: the premiere The Dan o'donald Show Family Christmas Special, Your children,

1532
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: your grandchildren, singing their hearts out, playing the heck out

1533
01:42:43,880 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 1: of their musical instruments for your enjoyment. It is incredibly cute.

1534
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:52,800
Speaker 1: These kids are incredibly talented, and once the show premieres,

1535
01:42:52,960 --> 01:42:56,479
Speaker 1: it will then replay throughout the day, Christmas Eve and

1536
01:42:56,800 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. It will also be available as a download

1537
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: of podcast right here on The Dan O'Donnell Show podcast, iHeartRadio,

1538
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:10,960
Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to podcasts. The New York Knicks

1539
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 1: won the NBA Cup last night over the San Antonio

1540
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:20,200
Speaker 1: Spurs and they have decided not to put up a

1541
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: banner in the rafters of Madison Square Garden indicating that

1542
01:43:25,280 --> 01:43:30,560
Speaker 1: they won the NBA Cup Championship. The fact that I

1543
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:35,320
Speaker 1: had to read today that the NBA Cup Championship was

1544
01:43:35,680 --> 01:43:38,840
Speaker 1: won and that the Knicks won it, and then I

1545
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:42,760
Speaker 1: actually had to ask my friend Doug Russell here at

1546
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,960
Speaker 1: work before the show started, Hey, did the Bucks win

1547
01:43:46,080 --> 01:43:48,799
Speaker 1: the NBA Cup last year? Was that the year before?

1548
01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:52,240
Speaker 1: And he said that was last year until last night,

1549
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 1: they were the reigning NBA Cup champions And the Bucks

1550
01:43:57,479 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 1: actually did hang a banner. I know it was there

1551
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,560
Speaker 1: for the rest of last season. Maybe somebody would be

1552
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:04,639
Speaker 1: able to tell me. I have not been to Fiser

1553
01:44:04,760 --> 01:44:08,200
Speaker 1: Forum yet this season for a Bucks or a Marquette games.

1554
01:44:08,280 --> 01:44:10,879
Speaker 1: That's certainly going to have to change soon, because Fireserve

1555
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:14,200
Speaker 1: is just a wonderful place to take in a basketball

1556
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:16,679
Speaker 1: game or a concert or anything. In fact, the last

1557
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:20,880
Speaker 1: time I think I was there, I saw Shane Gillis.

1558
01:44:20,960 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 1: I saw the comedian Shane Gillis this summer and didn't

1559
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:27,679
Speaker 1: really check to see whether there was still an NBA

1560
01:44:27,920 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 1: Cup banner up in the rafters. This just goes to

1561
01:44:31,320 --> 01:44:36,040
Speaker 1: show you how useless and pointless this in season tournament

1562
01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:39,960
Speaker 1: really is when teams first of all win fans. And

1563
01:44:40,120 --> 01:44:45,800
Speaker 1: I would consider myself a relatively serious Milwaukee Bucks fan.

1564
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 1: I'm not a diehard. I don't watch every game, but

1565
01:44:48,560 --> 01:44:52,719
Speaker 1: I'm up on what the team does. I'm certainly praying

1566
01:44:52,880 --> 01:44:56,400
Speaker 1: that they don't get forced to trade Giannis Antetakumpo, although

1567
01:44:56,840 --> 01:44:59,000
Speaker 1: I think he's already forced him his way to the

1568
01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 1: Knicks or possibly the Spurs, the team the Knicks beat

1569
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:07,360
Speaker 1: to win the useless NBA Cup. But I didn't even

1570
01:45:07,520 --> 01:45:10,840
Speaker 1: know that they had won the thing last year. And

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01:45:11,160 --> 01:45:14,559
Speaker 1: now you've got teams being like, yeah, we're not going

1572
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:19,040
Speaker 1: to put the the championship banner up there. I get

1573
01:45:19,160 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 1: what Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner, is trying to do,

1574
01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:26,320
Speaker 1: and that's generate interest in the eighty two games of

1575
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:29,640
Speaker 1: the regular season and give these teams something to play for,

1576
01:45:29,800 --> 01:45:34,400
Speaker 1: because everybody knows they're just resting their stars left and right.

1577
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:38,080
Speaker 1: This sort of forces teams to actually at least pretend

1578
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:41,719
Speaker 1: like some of these November and December games mean something.

1579
01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:45,800
Speaker 1: But can we stop the farce that is the NBA Cup?

1580
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:46,120
Speaker 9: All right?

1581
01:45:46,200 --> 01:45:50,160
Speaker 1: We will be back with massive powerball jackpot in some

1582
01:45:50,280 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 1: financial advice as well. You're at the dann o'donnah, just

1583
01:46:20,600 --> 01:46:23,360
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes left here on the Dan O'Donnell's show.

1584
01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:27,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back to it. I will admit I had no

1585
01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:30,640
Speaker 1: idea the powerball jackpot was all the way up to

1586
01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:35,960
Speaker 1: one point two five billion dollars. This is the sixth

1587
01:46:36,280 --> 01:46:40,880
Speaker 1: largest jackpot of all time, the largest being November seventh,

1588
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:44,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. It was a two point zero four

1589
01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:49,120
Speaker 1: billion dollar prize. No winners were selected on Monday. That

1590
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:53,200
Speaker 1: means the pot keeps growing. Tonight is the drawing. The

1591
01:46:53,400 --> 01:46:57,480
Speaker 1: last time the powerball jackpot was hit it was September

1592
01:46:57,760 --> 01:47:01,800
Speaker 1: sixth by two tickets in the Missouri and Texas that

1593
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:07,080
Speaker 1: split a one point seven eight seven billion dollar prize.

1594
01:47:07,479 --> 01:47:11,439
Speaker 1: There have been forty three consecutive drawings with no jackpot wins.

1595
01:47:12,120 --> 01:47:15,600
Speaker 1: This is only the uh first time. This is the

1596
01:47:15,640 --> 01:47:18,360
Speaker 1: first time in power ball history that there are back

1597
01:47:18,439 --> 01:47:23,320
Speaker 1: to back billion dollar jackpots. Now, that is not totally

1598
01:47:24,520 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 1: accurate because obviously, as everybody knows, there are two separate options.

1599
01:47:30,080 --> 01:47:32,760
Speaker 1: You can get paid in an annuity where you do

1600
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:36,760
Speaker 1: get the total amount less taxes paid over twenty years

1601
01:47:36,880 --> 01:47:40,280
Speaker 1: or thirty years or whatever it is. But most people,

1602
01:47:40,560 --> 01:47:44,120
Speaker 1: in fact almost all people that win, take the lump

1603
01:47:44,280 --> 01:47:48,519
Speaker 1: sum payout, which is five hundred seventy two point one

1604
01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 1: million dollars off of that one point two five billion,

1605
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,760
Speaker 1: and that of course is adjusted for taxes, so take home,

1606
01:47:56,840 --> 01:48:00,280
Speaker 1: you're probably getting a quarter of a billion dollars thing

1607
01:48:00,400 --> 01:48:03,120
Speaker 1: like that, unless I'm not seeing in this story that

1608
01:48:04,280 --> 01:48:07,000
Speaker 1: I've got from abcnews dot com if this is before

1609
01:48:07,240 --> 01:48:11,959
Speaker 1: or after taxes. Bottom line, if you win the jackpot,

1610
01:48:12,080 --> 01:48:15,519
Speaker 1: you have to take the lump sum payment because the

1611
01:48:15,760 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 1: annuity will pay out, but it will not pay out

1612
01:48:19,120 --> 01:48:21,720
Speaker 1: after your death, so it'll just keep paying out, but

1613
01:48:21,880 --> 01:48:26,160
Speaker 1: in small amounts. And obviously you want that money to

1614
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 1: go to work for you instantly. If you have, whether

1615
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:33,040
Speaker 1: it's five hundred and seventy million dollars or three hundred

1616
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:36,400
Speaker 1: million dollars or whatever, right away you put that money

1617
01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 1: under management and it is going You're just going to

1618
01:48:39,320 --> 01:48:42,519
Speaker 1: be able to live off of interest and dividend income

1619
01:48:43,080 --> 01:48:46,839
Speaker 1: somewhere in the neighborhood of fifteen to twenty million dollars

1620
01:48:47,080 --> 01:48:51,680
Speaker 1: a year. I always use these giant powerball jackpots as

1621
01:48:51,720 --> 01:48:54,879
Speaker 1: a way to talk about the power of compounding interest.

1622
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound too much like Dave Ramsey here.

1623
01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:01,280
Speaker 1: Although my very first job in radio was bored opping

1624
01:49:01,800 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: the Dave Ramsey Show, actually my second job, my very

1625
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:07,519
Speaker 1: first job, I was a DJ at ninety four point

1626
01:49:07,600 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 1: five WKTI, playing the hits of the eighties, nineties, and today.

1627
01:49:12,160 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 1: Well overnight on WTMJ, they played Dave Ramsey. When Ramsey,

1628
01:49:17,479 --> 01:49:20,599
Speaker 1: I think was just starting out. He was nowhere near

1629
01:49:20,800 --> 01:49:25,760
Speaker 1: the financial advice phenomenon that he is today, and I

1630
01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 1: had to from midnight to six am. We would run

1631
01:49:29,400 --> 01:49:32,240
Speaker 1: reruns of The Dave Ramsey Show, and I believe we

1632
01:49:32,320 --> 01:49:35,040
Speaker 1: had Clark Howard in there, but Dave Ramsey and I

1633
01:49:35,120 --> 01:49:38,800
Speaker 1: have not listened to Dave Ramsey, probably since I was

1634
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 1: bored opping for him and listened to him every single

1635
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: evening from two thousand and one to about mid two

1636
01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:48,439
Speaker 1: thousand and two. But he always opened with I'll never

1637
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:51,840
Speaker 1: forget that. He always opened with where dead is dumb?

1638
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:56,040
Speaker 1: Cash is king, and the paid off home mortgage has

1639
01:49:56,200 --> 01:50:00,519
Speaker 1: replaced the BMW as the status symbol of choice. Here

1640
01:50:00,560 --> 01:50:03,599
Speaker 1: at the Dave Ramsey Show, we give the same advice

1641
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:07,920
Speaker 1: your grandmother gives, only we keep our teeth in every

1642
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:10,600
Speaker 1: single night. He would say that every single hour. And

1643
01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:14,080
Speaker 1: I learned a lot from listening to Dave Ramsey and

1644
01:50:14,200 --> 01:50:18,360
Speaker 1: just my own experience with managing money and understanding about

1645
01:50:18,400 --> 01:50:22,400
Speaker 1: how compound interest works. You can make it work for you.

1646
01:50:22,640 --> 01:50:25,800
Speaker 1: But the thing is debt also compounds as well. And

1647
01:50:25,960 --> 01:50:28,800
Speaker 1: one of the biggest problems that people who win the

1648
01:50:28,920 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 1: jackpot face, or people who come into any amount of

1649
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:35,599
Speaker 1: money don't have to be three hundred million dollars. People

1650
01:50:35,640 --> 01:50:38,240
Speaker 1: who come into a million, two million dollars, they have

1651
01:50:38,280 --> 01:50:41,800
Speaker 1: a tendency to fritter it away because they spend as

1652
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:46,120
Speaker 1: though that one or two million dollar lump, some gift

1653
01:50:46,479 --> 01:50:49,880
Speaker 1: or whatever will be sort of an annual thing. They

1654
01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:53,000
Speaker 1: don't take into account taxes, they don't take into account

1655
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:56,000
Speaker 1: some of the payments that they're going to have to make,

1656
01:50:56,240 --> 01:50:59,800
Speaker 1: and they have a tendency to just spend all of

1657
01:50:59,840 --> 01:51:02,599
Speaker 1: it right away in a crazy binge. So what any

1658
01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: money manager will tell you is, if you win a

1659
01:51:05,040 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 1: big jackpot like the power ball, take ten, fifteen, twenty

1660
01:51:09,479 --> 01:51:13,519
Speaker 1: million dollars right away and just go nuts with it.

1661
01:51:14,040 --> 01:51:17,000
Speaker 1: Buy the houses, buy the cars, buy the boats, buy

1662
01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:22,120
Speaker 1: the the global trips or whatever. The other thing you

1663
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:25,320
Speaker 1: need to do is and this is the big reason

1664
01:51:25,479 --> 01:51:29,760
Speaker 1: people get into trouble, especially professional athletes who a lot

1665
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:32,960
Speaker 1: of times don't come from even middle class backgrounds, and

1666
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:35,759
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they're making ten to fifteen

1667
01:51:35,840 --> 01:51:38,960
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars a year. They have a tendency to

1668
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:41,760
Speaker 1: spend like that money that salary is always going to

1669
01:51:41,800 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: be coming in, when, of course everybody knows they have

1670
01:51:44,160 --> 01:51:47,840
Speaker 1: an incredibly short shelf life. The average football career is

1671
01:51:47,920 --> 01:51:51,160
Speaker 1: something like three four years. Baseball career is seven years.

1672
01:51:51,200 --> 01:51:53,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you have a finite amount of time to

1673
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:56,360
Speaker 1: make all of the money that you are ever going

1674
01:51:56,439 --> 01:51:59,960
Speaker 1: to make in your lifetime. What I always tell uh athletes,

1675
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:03,200
Speaker 1: it says, get really really good at broadcasting. I mean,

1676
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:06,000
Speaker 1: take as many broadcasting courses as you can and actually

1677
01:52:06,080 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: take them seriously and get good at it, because you

1678
01:52:10,479 --> 01:52:13,439
Speaker 1: have a potentially lucrative career at least a very solid

1679
01:52:13,560 --> 01:52:16,759
Speaker 1: career afterwards. I mean, everybody knows what Tom Brady's getting

1680
01:52:16,800 --> 01:52:19,200
Speaker 1: thirty five million dollars a year whatever for Fox. He's

1681
01:52:19,240 --> 01:52:22,560
Speaker 1: not particularly good. But look at a guy like Vinnie Rotino,

1682
01:52:22,720 --> 01:52:26,000
Speaker 1: who does local brewers broadcast games, or up until recently,

1683
01:52:26,120 --> 01:52:31,000
Speaker 1: Steve Novak, you get professional ballplayers or college ball players

1684
01:52:31,439 --> 01:52:34,000
Speaker 1: who will hang on and catch on with the local

1685
01:52:34,080 --> 01:52:38,400
Speaker 1: radio or television broadcast or get with a local sports

1686
01:52:38,439 --> 01:52:42,000
Speaker 1: station make a very very good living. But back to

1687
01:52:42,240 --> 01:52:46,080
Speaker 1: the idea of compounding interest and compounding debt. If you

1688
01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:49,600
Speaker 1: find yourself in debt, your number one goal needs to

1689
01:52:49,760 --> 01:52:53,240
Speaker 1: be to pay off your debt as quickly as you can,

1690
01:52:53,360 --> 01:52:55,840
Speaker 1: as much as you can. So then the money that

1691
01:52:56,040 --> 01:52:59,920
Speaker 1: you are taking in that you're not needing to spend

1692
01:53:00,280 --> 01:53:05,360
Speaker 1: on necessities like housing costs, utility costs, food and grocery costs,

1693
01:53:06,080 --> 01:53:09,760
Speaker 1: school bills, whatever it is you budget for what I

1694
01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:13,840
Speaker 1: absolutely need to spend. You then budget a certain amount

1695
01:53:13,960 --> 01:53:18,160
Speaker 1: that you and your spouse decide is discretionary income once

1696
01:53:18,200 --> 01:53:20,120
Speaker 1: you are done paying down the debt. Now, the one

1697
01:53:20,280 --> 01:53:24,400
Speaker 1: debt that is sort of acceptable to carry for a

1698
01:53:24,479 --> 01:53:29,000
Speaker 1: long time is a mortgage. You want to have a mortgage,

1699
01:53:29,040 --> 01:53:31,400
Speaker 1: I mean, ideally, if you can pay off your mortgage

1700
01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 1: due so you can be debt free and then of

1701
01:53:33,280 --> 01:53:38,080
Speaker 1: course just live off of compounding interest, just invest and save,

1702
01:53:38,240 --> 01:53:41,360
Speaker 1: invest and save. But a mortgage is sort of axempted

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01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:45,559
Speaker 1: from this. You want to get those car payments down.

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01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:47,439
Speaker 1: You want to get the car paid off as quickly

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01:53:47,479 --> 01:53:51,479
Speaker 1: as possible. Student loans have been just an absolute killer

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01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:55,920
Speaker 1: for people because they take out just a phenomenal amount

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01:53:55,960 --> 01:53:59,840
Speaker 1: of loans and then that is often not paid until

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01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,719
Speaker 1: someone is in their forties, and that is just that's

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01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:05,439
Speaker 1: something that is very, very difficult. That's why so many

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Speaker 1: people like me say, look, the trades are a very

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Speaker 1: viable option. If you don't know what you want to

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01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:15,879
Speaker 1: do with your life, don't get a four year degree

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Speaker 1: where you know you're getting For me example, for example,

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01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:22,360
Speaker 1: I got a degree in English. I got a double major.

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01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:26,960
Speaker 1: I double majored in English and communication studies, and neither

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01:54:27,120 --> 01:54:31,040
Speaker 1: of those really are going to I obviously always knew

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01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:33,000
Speaker 1: I was going to go to law school, and ultimately

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01:54:33,040 --> 01:54:36,080
Speaker 1: I knew that I was going to be going into broadcasting.

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Speaker 1: At least I hoped I was going to be able

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Speaker 1: to go into broadcasting and make a career out of this.

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Speaker 1: But if I had gone into English, like if my

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01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:45,800
Speaker 1: degree was English, I'm going to go to college, I

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01:54:45,840 --> 01:54:48,320
Speaker 1: don't exactly know what I'm going to do, well, your

1724
01:54:48,360 --> 01:54:52,320
Speaker 1: options are pretty limited. It's kind of limited to English

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01:54:52,400 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 1: teacher to do something with your degree. Now, obviously you

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01:54:56,080 --> 01:55:00,560
Speaker 1: can go and get a job pretty much anywhere. But

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01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:04,560
Speaker 1: if you're going for something that is highly specified, you

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01:55:04,640 --> 01:55:07,800
Speaker 1: need a degree in that. But if you're just looking,

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01:55:07,800 --> 01:55:09,960
Speaker 1: oh okay, I want to get a degree in business, yes,

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01:55:10,160 --> 01:55:15,000
Speaker 1: obviously most places do require a college degree, but oftentimes

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01:55:15,440 --> 01:55:18,960
Speaker 1: you're better off going and not taking on a whole

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01:55:19,080 --> 01:55:22,280
Speaker 1: lot of debt, working with your hands. And obviously AI

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01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:25,520
Speaker 1: is the big X factor in all of this. AI

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01:55:25,720 --> 01:55:28,360
Speaker 1: is probably going to take a whole lot of white

1735
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Speaker 1: collar jobs over the next twenty to thirty years. All Right,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the clock and we are getting very

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Speaker 1: close to the end of the show. I thank goodness

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Speaker 1: I had more time than I realized I did, because

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01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:43,520
Speaker 1: that was quite the discussion for a step off point

1740
01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:46,720
Speaker 1: of the Powerball Jackpot. But that's what we do here

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01:55:46,920 --> 01:55:50,520
Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald's Show. We talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: deeper about the issues. Thanks to everyone for listening, Thanks

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01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:56,520
Speaker 1: to our producer Eric Paulson. We are back tomorrow three

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Speaker 1: h six pm right here on The Dan o'donald's Show.