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Speaker 1: I was yelling myself horse at an incredible championship soccer match.

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Speaker 1: to my daughter's team winning their championship. She actually made

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Speaker 1: But we will make it through together, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Is of course a big day. President Trump announces a

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Speaker 1: massive rare earth minerals deal with Australia and signals a

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Speaker 1: willingness to work with the President of China, Shi Jinping

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Speaker 1: on entering the stalemate, ending the stalemate over trade. There also,

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Speaker 1: the first name on the Republican side announces a run

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Speaker 1: for lieutenant governor. We will talk with Will Martin coming

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Speaker 1: up in the five o'clock our. A resignation from a

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Speaker 1: key position at the Republican Party of Wisconsin could signal

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Speaker 1: some disfunction, as she puts it, within RpW, we will

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Speaker 1: dive in to it. And of course, the No Kings

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Speaker 1: protests on Saturday, thousands of people in Milwaukee and Madison,

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Speaker 1: in cities across Wisconsin. They're claiming millions of people across

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Speaker 1: the United States and the world. But I noticed something

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Speaker 1: When you actually take a close look at those protesters,

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Speaker 1: you'd notice lot of gray hairs. The single best nickname

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Speaker 1: to them the boomer Libs, has to be Grandifa. I

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Speaker 1: nickname for the boomer Libs. As I've always said, you

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Speaker 1: as this past weekend proved, do not, under any circumstances

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Speaker 1: all right. How is it that people over the age

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Speaker 1: of sixty five, the Baby Boom generation, has become more

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Speaker 1: than it was even in nineteen ninety two, when you

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Speaker 1: would think those who are sixty five seventy seventy five

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Speaker 1: were in their late thirties and early to mid forties. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's actually the complex interplay between media consumption, fear over

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Speaker 1: social security and medicare benefits, as well as social media

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Speaker 1: algorithms that are radicalizing people of all ages and across

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Speaker 1: all demographics. But it seems as though older people are

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Speaker 1: more susceptible to them. Now, Please don't make any mistake.

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Speaker 1: The Baby Boom generation has because of the rise of

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Speaker 1: I always say, while Boomer Libs are the most cringe

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Speaker 1: exactly sure what happened with the boomer Libs, but there

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Speaker 1: are more of them than there probably should be, would

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Speaker 1: you believe? In nineteen ninety two, following eight years of

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Speaker 1: Union and the baby boomers entering into their prime earning years,

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Speaker 1: there were thirty two percent who identified as Democrats. That's

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Speaker 1: Abacus Data survey. Sixty plus Americans, mostly baby boomers, showed

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Speaker 1: thirty two percent left wing support even higher than younger groups,

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Speaker 1: it comes to fiscal policy and national defense, and pretty

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Speaker 1: much all forms of politics and policy that actually impact people.

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Speaker 1: Baby boomers, though, have been different. In twenty twenty, fifty

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Speaker 1: if these voting trends continue, by twenty thirty, boomers could

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Speaker 1: been going on is the Greatest Generation, or silent generation,

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Speaker 1: the baby boomer's parents have been dying off. There has

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Speaker 1: Boomers came of age in an era of incredible societal change.

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Speaker 1: Self identification. That may sound okay, hey Dan, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: that is defying longstanding trends that you tend to get

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Speaker 1: you get older. But why. Increasing susceptibility to social media messaging,

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Speaker 1: especially on social justice issues, appears to be the reason.

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Speaker 1: Trump's win on November fifth of last year, shifted a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of public opinion. According to a Pew survey,

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Speaker 1: In addition, positive views of illegal immigration and in reality

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Speaker 1: Folks on this show, we tease the boomers a lot.

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Speaker 1: We love you all. The Internet was primarily a baby

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Speaker 1: Boomer invention. I mean, obviously right, it was all Al Gore. Now,

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Speaker 1: seeing this reflected in a whole lot of Baby Boomers

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Speaker 1: being forced to go back to work. This is not

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Speaker 1: specific to that generation at all. In fact, millennials and

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Speaker 1: Generation z's are probably going to do even worse with

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Speaker 1: their savings. It's no surprise then that sixty two percent

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Speaker 1: you're marching with some sign wishing death on Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: the unhinged liberal of the day. Coming up in just

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Speaker 1: the second we will also check in with our good

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Speaker 1: friend Dave Spawno. But the main reason for this, I

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Speaker 1: believe is the one cohort of people who still subscribes

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Speaker 1: to the increasingly propagandistic television news industry is older Americans

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Speaker 1: and those who aren't watching Fox News, those who aren't

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Speaker 1: watching Newsmax are getting ninety five percent negative stories about

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Speaker 1: Trump the only time that they will ever refer to

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Speaker 1: a Trump victory. And this is why I think so

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Speaker 1: many boomers have become so radicalized regarding Trump. And I

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Speaker 1: believe Trump is the big factor in all of this

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Speaker 1: is because every one of his victories is framed as

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Speaker 1: the same reason January sixth was made into the darkest

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Speaker 1: day in American history. It's because it's feeding into the

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Speaker 1: prior previously held beliefs of people who are constantly being

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Speaker 1: fed propaganda. Then they go on social medium. Social media,

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Speaker 1: according to pretty much every single survey done on it,

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Speaker 1: will show you between eighty to ninety percent of content

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Speaker 1: that aligns with your views. This is a study done

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Speaker 1: by NYU. There was I believe an earlier study done

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, so you get narrowing worldviews.

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Speaker 1: But what happened between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: the era of social media censorship is that conservative views

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Speaker 1: were just systematically removed from those social media algorithms. Not

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Speaker 1: only that conservatives. I use myself for example, I get

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Speaker 1: a ton of occupied Democrats content on my Facebook page. Why,

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Speaker 1: clearly I disagree with it, but it's because it's being

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Speaker 1: shown to me because I am likely to engage with it.

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Speaker 1: In other words, the more extreme content, when you call

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump hitler, the more likely you are to show

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Speaker 1: up in more people's feeds because you'll have people like

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Speaker 1: me making snide comments about it. You'll have lib saying yes,

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Speaker 1: I agree. It is generating more engagement. When Democrat older

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Speaker 1: people who rely on television come in with previous held

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Speaker 1: beliefs that are largely molded by TV and public radio

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Speaker 1: is another big one. Propaganda masquerading as news. They then

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Speaker 1: go on social media and have their previously held beliefs confirmed.

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Speaker 1: This creates heavy confirmation bias that is never ever ever overcome.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to leave it there for now, because

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Speaker 1: we will get to Dave's Spawno and the Unhinged Liberal

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Speaker 1: of the Day. If we have time, when The Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show returns Little Mix with their Halloween hit black

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Speaker 1: Magic in the Dan o'donald Show Bumper Music rotation all

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Speaker 1: Halloween bumper music from now until Friday, October thirty. First,

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Speaker 1: we now go to Dave Spawno or actually, Dave, what

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Speaker 1: do you say? Can you hang around and lead off

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Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour with us? I hate to do this,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just looking at the clock. Okay, okay, I

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Speaker 1: So all right, we've got to say. This is how

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Speaker 1: we do things on the Dan O'Donnell Show. It is

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Speaker 1: like live scheduling. You you get forget about a peek

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain, you get to see it all. Let's

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Speaker 1: catch you very quickly. The unhinged Liberal of the Dead.

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Speaker 2: Were Nazi Germany Tough.

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Speaker 1: Is dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 3: America.

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Speaker 1: If over so many unhinged libs over the weekend, it's

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Speaker 1: impossible to just pick one. But here's a good one.

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Speaker 1: How about the woman wearing the grateful dead t shirt

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Speaker 1: holding a sign at the Walker Shaw No Kings two

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Speaker 1: Psychotic Boogoloo rally that features a skull on it and

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Speaker 1: it says, let's hope Trump takes his healthcare advice from

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Speaker 1: RFK Junior, meaning RFK Junior is going to kill us all.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully Trump is one of them. That woman and everyone

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Speaker 1: else with a sign calling for or wishing for death

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Speaker 1: for Trump, your unhinged liberals of the day. I assume

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Speaker 1: at some point we will get back into what I'm

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Speaker 1: calling the rise of Grantifa. Why is the Baby Boom

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Speaker 1: generation the most liberal older generation perhaps ever? Why are

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Speaker 1: they bucking the trend of generations becoming more conservative as

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Speaker 1: they get older. I think the reason has to do

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Speaker 1: with the reliance on television news as the primary way

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Speaker 1: that they get information delivered to them, supplemented by social

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Speaker 1: media algorithms that then reinforce their preconceived political philosophy. This

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Speaker 1: combined with increasing fear over a lack of savings and

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Speaker 1: a desire to protect social security and Medicare, and a deep, deep,

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Speaker 1: deep belief that Donald Trump is, as they were protesting

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Speaker 1: this weekend, some sort of fascist god king. Before we

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Speaker 1: get into the daily Trump date, before we bring Before

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Speaker 1: we bring on Dave Sponno to get into some of

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Speaker 1: the things that President Trump was talking about China, rare

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Speaker 1: earth minerals and the like. We get a chance for

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Speaker 1: you to win one thousand dollars in our Full Fortune

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Speaker 1: cash contest. Again. I will take this opportunity to apologize

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Speaker 1: for my voice. It doesn't sound that bad, does It

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Speaker 1: just sounds a little rough. I'm not going to dare

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Speaker 1: try to sing, which I probably shouldn't anyway. It's just

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Speaker 1: I am feeling it's a challenge. I have been chugging

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Speaker 1: my chain smoking producer Jeff No. I have not been.

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Speaker 1: It feels like I've smoked about half a pack right now,

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Speaker 1: but that's because I'm just you know, it's it's unfortunate

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Speaker 1: She's a speech pathologist, she says, vocal strain. Well, what

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Speaker 1: they'll say is don't talk, don't use your voice. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of tough for me to do so. Before

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Speaker 1: we get into any of this full fortune cash contest

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Speaker 1: forty five minutes to go to our websit. I'd enter

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Speaker 1: If your entry is picked at random, you will win

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Speaker 1: a thousand of those You heard how I said thousand,

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Speaker 1: It's just a thousand. It's just every so often my

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Speaker 1: What often helps is you sort of hold your throat,

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Speaker 1: but it looks like I'm doing the Reggie Miller choking

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Speaker 1: sign from Game seven against the Knicks, so I can't

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Speaker 1: very much do that. You want to join the Dan

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Speaker 1: the difference, or at least try to between financial advisors

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Speaker 1: by talking with Dave Spono, the CEO of Annex Wealth Management.

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Speaker 1: Normally we get to him at the bottom of or

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Speaker 1: the end of the three o'clock hour. Ran out of

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Speaker 1: time a little bit and Dave, we're not only preparing

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Speaker 1: for the fourth quarter amid some pretty incredible growth in

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Speaker 1: markets since Liberation Day back in April, but we're also

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Speaker 1: seeing I think a little bit of trepidation over what

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Speaker 1: President Trump was meeting with the Australian Prime Minister about

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Speaker 1: rare earth minerals, which of course a deal aimed at China,

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Speaker 1: and it's in transigence over rare earths. We are seeing

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Speaker 1: I think a little bit of I don't want to

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Speaker 1: call it fear, but I think a little bit of

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I like to thank Mo from

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Speaker 4: The Simpsons for sitting in for d Ov Day.

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Speaker 1: And I need a man hugging kiss. Can I find

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Speaker 1: a man the hugging kiss? I can? I can do

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Speaker 1: a very good mo right now. Yes, thank you, Dave.

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Speaker 1: You're making it worse, yeah, that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: What we're seeing, for sure is that there's this bifurcation

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Speaker 4: we had this mini credit crisis, if you will. He

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Speaker 4: then try Color followed up by of course, chief executive

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Speaker 4: of JP Morgan Jamie diamond saying when you see one cockroach,

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Speaker 4: you see, you generally see another. And so that scared

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Speaker 4: the heck out of the markets that there might be

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Speaker 4: some kind of contagion happening in the in the markets

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Speaker 4: right now, that was pretty much put to bed. And

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Speaker 4: of course we see a lot of really great news

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Speaker 4: that has come out. We're gonna have twenty percent of

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Speaker 4: the reported companies this week is earning's week, and those

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Speaker 4: companies are expected to do really well. And yeah, so

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Speaker 4: you put that out there. You see, you know, you

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Speaker 4: around the world, and then you're seeing a flight to quality.

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Speaker 4: You see the ten year treasury now under four percent,

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Speaker 4: and you can say some of this is coming from

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Speaker 4: the European weakness. You know, France alone was downgraded again.

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Speaker 4: They've gone through four prime ministers in a year and

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Speaker 4: the day. So France has got all kinds of problems

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Speaker 4: over there. Dan, you know what, Yeah, so I'm.

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Speaker 1: Sorry I was gonna say all weekend long, they're they're

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Speaker 1: calling this Napoleon's. I was just at the Louver last year.

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Speaker 1: We did a fantastic trip with Cruise and Tour. I

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Speaker 1: was just at the They're calling it, Oh is Napoleon's jewelry,

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Speaker 1: Napoleon's jewelrus. It was the Crown Jewels of France. This

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Speaker 1: was like straight out of a George Clooney movie. It

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Speaker 1: was sort of like do you remember do you remember

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Speaker 1: the movie? They did a remake of it. I love

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Speaker 1: the remakes with Pierce prosident heist, Yes, Thomas Crown Affair

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Speaker 1: where they sneaking. I believe it's the Louver or it's

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Speaker 1: it's maybe the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. It's

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Speaker 1: it's one of it too, and they steal it was

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Speaker 1: like the Mona Lisa or something. He's like an art dealer,

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Speaker 1: he's an art collector. He's this billionaire, but he gets

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Speaker 1: his jollyes off of stealing art works for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Who knows what the billion they got? This fell like yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: And Wana Lisa. They said it was just hundreds of

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Speaker 4: yards away. So Francis had all kinds of trouble, right,

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Speaker 4: and so you look at what's happening there. You see

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Speaker 4: the tenure is now under four percent, and rumors that

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Speaker 4: the government shutdown could end at some point. On top

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Speaker 4: of all of that, Dan, you look at potential GDP

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Speaker 4: next year of far more than four percent. All of

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Speaker 4: that together, you're starting to see this rally. You saw

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Speaker 4: that Apple today closing at an all time high. So

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Speaker 4: there is this wifurcation in the economy between yes, there's

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Speaker 4: the concern that this could happen, that you could have

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Speaker 4: a meltown, and on the other side, this AI spending

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Speaker 4: ish pushing stocks up. So you have to know what

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Speaker 4: you own, why you own it, and how much you're

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Speaker 1: And the best way to do that is do what

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Speaker 1: I do. Work with a qualified professional, a fee only fiduciary,

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Speaker 1: an all around great guy or gal at annexwealth dot com.

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Speaker 1: Dave always appreciate you chatting. Yeah, I didn't think we

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Speaker 1: would get into the theft at the Louver. I was

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Speaker 1: planning on talking about that the final we went. We

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Speaker 1: We are just we are. We are you know what

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Speaker 1: it is, Dave, We are renaissance men. That's Why do

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Speaker 1: you know? I was talking to producer Jeff Off the air. Dave,

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Speaker 1: do you know what this reminds me of years ago,

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Speaker 1: maybe seven eight years ago in Milwaukee when a couple

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Speaker 1: of thugs beat up Frank Allman, the concertmaster the Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: Symphony Orchestra, and they stole a three or four million

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Speaker 1: dollars stratif aarius, but then had no idea how to

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Speaker 1: sell it. How do you sell the Crown Jewels of

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Speaker 1: France on a black market? Come on, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: show up on eBay, Yes, Facebook, marketplace. Hey, I've got

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Speaker 1: this crown. Anyone want two hundred million dollars for it?

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Speaker 1: All right, Dave spole annexwell dot Com. Time now to

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Speaker 1: get to the daily Trump day.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 3: of winning.

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

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Speaker 5: It's also a big win for the United States. We

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Speaker 5: have to keep winning.

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Speaker 1: We have to win more.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna win Moore.

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Speaker 1: That never ceases to make me laugh. Prime Minister of

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Speaker 1: Australia welcomed to the White House today to sign a

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Speaker 1: massive rare earth mineral deal with the United States.

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Speaker 3: So we're gonna be here to talk about lots of

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Speaker 3: lots of different.

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Speaker 5: Things, and.

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Speaker 3: We might take a few questions before, but we are

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Speaker 3: discussing critical minerals and rare earths, and we're going to

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Speaker 3: be signing an agreement that's been negotiated over a period of.

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Speaker 5: Four or five months.

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Speaker 3: And it was sort a good timing that we got

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Speaker 3: it done just to denime for the visit. And we

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Speaker 3: work together very much on rarers, critical minerals, and lots

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Speaker 3: of other things, and we've had a very good relationship.

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Speaker 3: We've been working on that for quite a while.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Albaniez, the Australian Prime Minister, welcomed to the White

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Speaker 1: House the United States investing money in firms such as

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Speaker 1: Rare Earth's Minor MP Materials, as well as a number

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Speaker 1: of other Australian based miners, the US government taking ownership

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Speaker 1: stakes in some of those to expand the US based

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Speaker 1: supply chain. It is a move that is rather obviously

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Speaker 1: designed to counter China and its unwillingness to get a

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Speaker 1: rare earth minerals deal done. President Trump, of course, asked

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Speaker 1: about that during his meeting with Albany.

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Speaker 5: I think town has been very respectful of US.

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Speaker 3: They're paying tremendous amounts of money to US as in

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Speaker 3: the form of tariffs. As you know, they're paying fifty

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Speaker 3: five percent. That's a lot of money. They never were

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Speaker 3: paying anything over years and years and years, but they

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Speaker 3: were like anybody else. A lot of countries took advantage

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Speaker 3: of the US. They're not taking advantage anymore. China's paying

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Speaker 3: a fifty five percent and a potential one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty five percent come November first, unless we make a

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Speaker 3: deal and a meeting with presidency.

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Speaker 5: We have a very good relationship with it.

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Speaker 3: Be meeting in South Korea in a couple of weeks

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Speaker 3: and we'll see what we can do.

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Speaker 1: Now, the President did express optimism that at that South

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Speaker 1: Korean meeting there will be a final trade deal before

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Speaker 1: those massive tariffs on China go into a fact.

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Speaker 3: I think when we finish our meetings in South Korea,

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Speaker 3: China and I will have a really fair and really

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Speaker 3: great trade deal together.

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Speaker 5: I want them to buy soybeans.

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Speaker 3: They stopped buying our soybeans because they thought that was punishment,

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Speaker 3: and it is punishment to our But we're not going

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Speaker 3: to allow that to happen because I made a great

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Speaker 3: trade deal with China, a fifty billion dollar trade deal,

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Speaker 3: and they were great about it.

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Speaker 5: They were doing everything that they were supposed to do.

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Speaker 3: And then when Biden came in, you know, I used

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Speaker 3: to call Presidency all the time to say thank you,

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Speaker 3: or you're not buying enough.

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Speaker 5: In other words, they were supposed to buy Biden. Do

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Speaker 5: you think Biden never called him. I don't think Biden

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Speaker 5: never called him.

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Speaker 3: You think Biden lied awake at night thinking about trade

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Speaker 3: with China. He didn't know what he was doing. He

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Speaker 3: was an incompetent president. We had an incompetent president. But

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Speaker 3: you don't have that anymore. So I think we're going

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Speaker 3: to end up having a fantastic deal with China. It's

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Speaker 3: going to be a great trade deal. It's going to

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Speaker 3: be fantastic for both countries, and it's going to be

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Speaker 3: fantastic for the entire world.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Vice President J. D. Vance is headed to Israel

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Speaker 1: as the Israeli defense forces struck Hamas targets following Hamas's

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Speaker 1: execution of a number of Palestinians in apparent violation of

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Speaker 1: the terms of the peace deal. Hamas has still only

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Speaker 1: returned a tiny fraction of the bodies that still remain

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Speaker 1: allegedly in its custody, as was the key tenet of

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Speaker 1: that fragile peace deal. President Trump, though, says that he

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Speaker 1: believes that Hamas will abide by the terms of the

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Speaker 1: agreement or else.

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Speaker 5: You know, we have fifty nine countries that agreed to

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Speaker 5: the deal.

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Speaker 3: We have a peace in the mid least for the

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Speaker 3: first time ever, we made a deal with Hamas that

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Speaker 3: you know, they're going to be very good.

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Speaker 5: They're going to behave they're going to be nice.

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Speaker 3: And if they're not, we're going to go and we're

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Speaker 3: going to eradicate them.

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Speaker 5: If we have to, they'll be eradicated. And they know that.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the US government shutdown is now in its twentieth day.

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson today revealed something that I think

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Speaker 1: everyone in America needs to know about this shutdown, and

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Speaker 1: that it's that it's the first time any party has

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Speaker 1: ever shut down the government over a refusal to sign

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Speaker 1: a simple extension of spending.

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Speaker 6: This is the first time in history that any party

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Speaker 6: has had the audacity to shut down the government over

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Speaker 6: a totally clean, non partisan continued resolution. This is a

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Speaker 6: political stunt, and it's the first time it's been done,

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Speaker 6: and it is the most costly, most selfish, most dangerous

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Speaker 6: political stunt in the history of the United States Congress.

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Speaker 6: Because as we have stood here day after day after

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Speaker 6: day explaining all the Americans who are being harmed by

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Speaker 6: this nonsense, and the Senate Democrats have zero shame about this.

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Speaker 1: When we come back in just three minutes, US Attorney

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Speaker 1: for Washington d C. Janine Piro, in a press conference

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Speaker 1: just before this show got started at three pm, outline

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Speaker 1: new federal charges against the two men who attacked Big Balls,

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Speaker 1: the former DOGE staffer who heroically saved a woman from

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Speaker 1: being carjacked. It is a story that exemplifies how terrible

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Speaker 1: Democrats are on crime all across the country. You're not

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Speaker 1: going to want to miss this. Meanwhile, this says been

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Speaker 1: your daily Trump Day, classical conservatism, contemporary style. It is

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell show. Welcome back to it. US Attorney

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Speaker 1: Janine Piro today announced criminal charges against two teenagers who

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Speaker 1: were let off the hook by a state trial judge

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Speaker 1: in the assault of Big Balls. Yes that is the

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Speaker 1: nickname he went by. The nineteen year old former DOGE

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Speaker 1: worker who was assaulted in a carjacking attempt a couple

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Speaker 1: of months ago. He is being hailed as a hero

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Speaker 1: because he saved a woman from being attacked. Now, what

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Speaker 1: wasn't previously known is that the two suspects, one of

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Speaker 1: whom as a lengthy track record, a lengthy rap sheet,

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Speaker 1: had already robbed and assaulted another man by the name

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Speaker 1: of Jonathan Levine earlier in the night, stealing his watch

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Speaker 1: as well as his shoes. But yet a judge let

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Speaker 1: them off. Well, now they face new federal charges, and

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Speaker 1: in her press conference announcing said charges, US Attorney Piro

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Speaker 1: went over just the last year of this suspect, who

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Speaker 1: is identified as Cotton. I believe the one per Cotton Powell,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, Lawrence Cotton Powell, nineteen years old, arrested along

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Speaker 1: and charged along with an eighteen year old by the

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Speaker 1: name of Anthony Taylor, who does not have priors. But

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Speaker 1: Powell has a lengthy rap sheet and just in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of months, has had multiple experiences with DC

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Speaker 1: area judges. I want you to listen very carefully to

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Speaker 1: this two minute SoundBite from US Attorney Janine Piro and

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Speaker 1: see if it doesn't sound exactly like what every single

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Speaker 1: high crime. Democrat City is dealing with with prosecutors and

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Speaker 1: judges who are falling over themselves to keep dangerous criminals

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Speaker 1: on the streets.

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Speaker 2: On April third of this year, Lawrence Cotton Powell was

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Speaker 2: sent for a felony attempted robbery. My office asked for

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Speaker 2: jail time. Judge McClain, a judge sitting in the Criminal

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Speaker 2: part in Superior Court with no criminal background, made a

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Speaker 2: decision to give Cotton Powell probation in spite of his

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Speaker 2: conviction on a felony attempted robbery. Within thirty one days,

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Speaker 2: by May fourth, Powell re offense. He's rearrested while he's

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Speaker 2: on probation from the felony, and he's charged with simple

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Speaker 2: assault and possession of a prohibited weapon b On May fourth,

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Speaker 2: my office asked that probation be revoked, but on May sixteenth,

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Speaker 2: that same Judge McClain comes back and releases Cotton Powell

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Speaker 2: and tells him basically be a good boy. On July

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth, he is sentenced to one of the two

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Speaker 2: misdemeanor said he's charged with again, my office asks for

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Speaker 2: jailed time after he victimized yet another person, and on

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Speaker 2: July twenty fifth, another judge to suspends his sentence and

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Speaker 2: decides that he should be on probation. So after a

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Speaker 2: felony of attempted robbery, conviction, after a violation of probation,

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Speaker 2: after a second crime, after a second conviction, after no

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Speaker 2: compliance with c SOSA, the judges say, do better, and

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Speaker 2: they let him go and guess what. Within ten days

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Speaker 2: he's at it again with Ethan Levine and Edward Corstein.

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Speaker 1: Ethan Levine, I believe I'm mistaken as lately, said Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Levine, I believe is a conservative writer. Ethan Levine

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Speaker 1: was targeted immediately before Edward aka Big Balls course at

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Speaker 1: high and he was the one who was viciously a

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Speaker 1: by Cotton Powell and the other codefendant who doesn't appear

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Speaker 1: to have a rap sheet. They beat him, they steal

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Speaker 1: his shoes and his watch, then they go to jack

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Speaker 1: a car. Cotton Powell has just had about every break

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Speaker 1: a young perp can possibly have. I have no earthly

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Speaker 1: idea what these judges are thinking, other than we want

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Speaker 1: dangerous criminals on the streets. If someone is on probation

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Speaker 1: and they reoffend, the absolute bare minimum that a judge

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Speaker 1: can do is to revoke the promation. And this sounds

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Speaker 1: like pretty reasonable. Right, you are on probation, meaning we

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Speaker 1: have a judge that you are a dangerous person, but

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Speaker 1: we are going to keep you out of prison so

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Speaker 1: long as we're going to keep you out of jail,

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Speaker 1: so long as you don't reoffend for the bare minimum

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Speaker 1: term of the probation one year, two years. You stay

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Speaker 1: out of trouble for two years. He made it a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks before he's back at it. And even

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Speaker 1: though the US attorney is saying, hey, we would very

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Speaker 1: much like it if this young man had his probation

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Speaker 1: revoked and he does some time so that probation actually

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Speaker 1: means something, the judge won't do it. Not only that

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Speaker 1: we had already a probation given in this case, President

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Speaker 1: Trump blew a gasket at this, and now we have

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Speaker 1: new federal charges now. Of course, keeping with the theory

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Speaker 1: the theme of this show of the rise of Grantifa

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Speaker 1: and the theory that any victory by the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: will immediately be framed as evidence of him being autocratic

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Speaker 1: and attempting to be a dictator, of course he'll be

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Speaker 1: will Trump wanted charges against the young men who targeted

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Speaker 1: the Doze staffer because he wants his people protected just

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Speaker 1: like he wants his political enemies prosecuted. No, this is

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Speaker 1: part and parcel of the cleanup of Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: By the way, there was also a federal court victory

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Speaker 1: today clearing the way for federal troops to provide material

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Speaker 1: support for federal agents aka ICE agents in Portland after

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Speaker 1: a judge there said no, no, no, no no. You

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Speaker 1: can't use any federal forces to provide support or to

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Speaker 1: provide protection for legitimate federal investigations. This is actually a

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Speaker 1: well worn constitutional precept. It is not Trump the King

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Speaker 1: trying to patrol America's streets with the US Army. It's

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Speaker 1: when you have stand down orders like we're given by

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Police Department to not protect ICE agents, the

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Speaker 1: federal government has no choice but to bring in other

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Speaker 1: federal forces to provide protection. When you have got liberal

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Speaker 1: goons attacking ICE agents as they have in Portland, in

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Speaker 1: Chicago and Los Angeles and New York, in Texas where

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Speaker 1: they were shot at multiple times, as has been going

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Speaker 1: on for months now. But when this lawlessness happens, it

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Speaker 1: happens because there are dangerous people who have no business

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Speaker 1: being on the streets, who are on the streets because

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Speaker 1: there is someone, typically a left wing judge, who wants

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Speaker 1: them there. More left wing lawlessness from the Wisconsin a

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Speaker 1: Journey General. We'll get to that coming up next on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell Show. Rihanna in the Bumper music rotation

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Speaker 1: in Spooky Season twenty twenty five. All Halloween bumpers from

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Speaker 1: now until a t Ober thirty first, which is a

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Speaker 1: week from Friday. Welcome back. It is classical Conservatism contemporary style.

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Cole is appealing a Waukeshaw County

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Speaker 1: judges ruling requiring the Wisconsin Election Commission to actually do

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Speaker 1: its job and verify the citizenship status of all Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: voters before the next statewide election. In February story from

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Speaker 1: jsonline dot com Judge Michael Maxwell's October sixth decision mandating

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin Elections Commission to review the state's voter rolls

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Speaker 1: over the next five months to determine whether anyone who

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Speaker 1: is not a US citizen is registered to vote. Call

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Speaker 1: wrote in his filing to of course, the Dane County

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Speaker 1: based District four Court of Appeals the Circuit Court's decision

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Speaker 1: and order drastically alters vote registration and elections in Wisconsin.

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01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: Violates state law and threatens voting rights, and threatens voting

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Speaker 1: rights for people who are not citizens and thus not

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Speaker 1: legally able to vote. Oh, it gets worse, ladies and gentlemen. Quote,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin law does not require proof of citizenship to register

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Speaker 1: to vote. The Commission therefore has no duty or even

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Speaker 1: authority to oppose it. Plaintiffs also demonstrated no substantial injury, offering,

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Speaker 1: only speculation regarding the risk of vote dilution. So what

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Speaker 1: Call is arguing is that Wisconsin law does not require

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Speaker 1: that someone is a US citizen to vote. Do I

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Speaker 1: get it? Am I stating this accurately? Call does not

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Speaker 1: believe it is a requirement to be a citizen. How

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Speaker 1: do we look at Wisconsin Statute six point zero two

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Speaker 1: qualifications generally of who may vote? Quote, every US citizen

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Speaker 1: age eighteen or older who has resided in an election

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Speaker 1: district or ward for twenty eight consecutive days before any

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Speaker 1: election where the citizen offers to vote is an eligible

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Speaker 1: elector Ergo, it is absolutely a requirement that you are

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Speaker 1: a United States citizen. What call is arguing is that

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Speaker 1: you don't have to prove it, nor should you have

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Speaker 1: to prove it. What other possible way could you interpret

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Speaker 1: this appeal based on this logic, other than we want

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Speaker 1: a certain number of people who are not actually US

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Speaker 1: citizens voting in Wisconsin elections, we don't want to require

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Speaker 1: that you prove that you're a citizen. Easiest way to

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Speaker 1: do that, rather, obviously, is by presenting a photo identification

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Speaker 1: a driver's license issued by the state of Wisconsin or

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Speaker 1: another state, combined with proof that you have actually lived

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin for twenty eight days prior to this election,

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Speaker 1: that you're not just coming up to vote in an election,

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Speaker 1: or United States passport. The issue here is that the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles issues driver's licenses, and this

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Speaker 1: was something about a year ago in the run up

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Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty four presidential election that we covered

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Speaker 1: extensively here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. And that is

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Speaker 1: that these licenses for people who are quote non domiciled

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Speaker 1: are identical to licenses issued to people who are citizens

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Speaker 1: and therefore eligible to vote. If you are a legal

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Speaker 1: United States resident, meaning you are not a citizen and

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Speaker 1: therefore barred from voting. But you aren't here illegally. You're

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Speaker 1: here on a green card. You are a permanent legal resident.

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Speaker 1: Something like that. You are given a driver's license by

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Speaker 1: the Department of Motor Vehicles that looks identical save for

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Speaker 1: a tiny little note on the front of the license

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Speaker 1: that most people would probably not even notice that says

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Speaker 1: non domiciled or I forget the exact verbiage on it

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Speaker 1: from a year ago. I probably should have looked that up.

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Speaker 1: Completely slipped my mind. What Maxwell's order is saying is that,

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Speaker 1: since it is a legal requirement that you are a

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Speaker 1: United States citizen, since the Department of Motor Vehicles is

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Speaker 1: issuing documents that can be used for voting that, for

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Speaker 1: all intents and purposes look identical to the documents that

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Speaker 1: are issued to legal American citizens who therefore can vote.

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Speaker 1: And given that it is the duty of the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: Elections Commission to administer voter roles to administer elections to

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Speaker 1: ensure that elections in Wisconsin are run in comporting with

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and federal law, as well as both the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: and United States constitutions, the Wisconsin Elections Commission therefore has

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Speaker 1: an affirmative duty to make sure that the licenses that

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Speaker 1: the people who are getting drivers' licenses that could look

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Speaker 1: like licenses that can be used for voting are not

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Speaker 1: actually on the voter roles, that we cross reference the

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Speaker 1: DMV citizenship list with the list of people who are

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Speaker 1: registered to vote. When this was done in other states,

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Speaker 1: there were admittedly not a ton of people who showed

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Speaker 1: up on the rolls. Do you know who did? Though?

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Speaker 1: The superintendent of the was at the Des Moines Public

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Speaker 1: School System in Iowa a couple of weeks ago, who

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Speaker 1: was found to be a violent illegal alien. Turns out

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Speaker 1: he was never ever ever eligible to vote, but he

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Speaker 1: did so. He was registered to voted in Maryland, and

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Speaker 1: he voted in Maryland before moving to Iowa to take

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Speaker 1: over the school system in Des Moines. We know it happens.

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Speaker 1: Maxwell's order says it is incumbent upon the Wisconsin Elections

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Speaker 1: Commission to do this work. The idea that this is

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Speaker 1: somehow a great burden, or that this is somehow not

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Speaker 1: doable in the what five months before we've got the

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Speaker 1: first election, which is the spring primary in the middle

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Speaker 1: of February, is ludicrous. We have computer systems that can

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Speaker 1: do this. My goodness, I'm fairly certain I would be

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Speaker 1: able to get a team together. We'd be able to

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Speaker 1: cross reference this within the matter of two days. The

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Speaker 1: idea is nobody wants to do it because a there

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Speaker 1: is some believed advantage in having all manner of people

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Speaker 1: eligible to vote who aren't actually legally able to vote.

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Speaker 1: And really, there is no other way to read this.

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Speaker 1: That call is saying, Okay, under state law, you are

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Speaker 1: required to attest to the fact that you are a

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Speaker 1: United SIS State citizen. Most of the time this isn't

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Speaker 1: an issue. Because you present your voter ID, you're just

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Speaker 1: presumed to be I have never once been asked to

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Speaker 1: a test that I am a US citizen. Let's say

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Speaker 1: someone shows up without a state issued driver's license or

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Speaker 1: a license that said they are non domicile. They are

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Speaker 1: not someone who should be using that license to vote. Well,

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't be on the voter rules. They should have

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Speaker 1: to prove their citizenship. Caul is saying, well, we don't

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Speaker 1: want that. State law doesn't require that. We don't want

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Speaker 1: people proving that they're US citizens. So it's not overly

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Speaker 1: burdensome because we do have these things called computers which

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Speaker 1: can do this sort of stuff. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you notice this, but computers can count large numbers far faster,

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Speaker 1: and they can cross check huge sets of data far

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Speaker 1: faster than human beings can. I know, I know what

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Speaker 1: an amazing world we live in. Paul doesn't want that.

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Speaker 1: The state of Wisconsin and its Justice Department don't want

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Speaker 1: that because clearly they see some sort of advantage there,

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Speaker 1: or they don't want people like me or other Republicans

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Speaker 1: to say, hey, look we cross reference this list and

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Speaker 1: there were seventy five thousand people who aren't US citizens

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Speaker 1: who are on the voter rules, because that would call

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01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 1: into question every close selection that we've had in Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: won by Democrats. And yes, what we do know is

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Speaker 1: that immigrant populations, legal, illegal, whatever, tend to vote and

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01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 1: support Democrats in much higher numbers than they do Republicans.

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Speaker 1: It's a big advance. Four dams. You're listening to the

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Speaker 1: dan O'donald Shelby're right back in just a second. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what the left is freaking out about today?

999
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Speaker 1: As President Trump, just a couple of minutes ago hosted

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Speaker 1: the LSU Tigers college baseball team, the national champions. Today

1001
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Speaker 1: constructions started today. There was a partial demolition of the

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Speaker 1: east wing of the White House as the President is

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Speaker 1: beginning construction on his brand new ballroom. As he has

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Speaker 1: repeatedly said, presidents have wanted this for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty years. And I've been looking into this claim, and

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Speaker 1: do you know what, Grock Gemini, and this became an

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01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: obsession of mine over the last couple of hours. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what they said? No, presidents have not wanted

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Speaker 1: this for one hundred and fifty years. Oh sure, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Grover Cleveland in eighteen eighty definitely wanted and then Teddy

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01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:06,440
Speaker 1: Roosevelt wanted one. And presidents have been holding state dinners

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Speaker 1: in temporary tents because the White House is just too

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01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: small to accommodate massive things. And yes, they have wanted

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Speaker 1: bigger spaces, but they have not specifically wanted a ballroom

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01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:24,520
Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty years straight. You talk about Grantifa,

1016
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: the boomers who are convinced that Trump is a king

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Speaker 1: and wants to build himself a new gilded ballroom, this

1018
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: is the way you get it. Yes, this absolutely was

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01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 1: something that people who are in the federal who are

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Speaker 1: in White House staffs have wanted because the White House

1021
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:49,720
Speaker 1: hosts so many big events that it doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: space for. Do you know how much the American people

1023
01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 1: are paying for Trump's ballroom? Just take a wild gas.

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01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,559
Speaker 1: We're in the middle of a shutdown. What is Trump

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Speaker 1: wasted your money on? Zero? It is zero taxpayer dollars.

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Speaker 1: Do you know who the primary funder of the ballroom is.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a while, gas. It's an American citizen. He's

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Speaker 1: a private donor. His name is Donald J. Trump. The

1029
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 1: guy is putting up his own money to do this,

1030
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Speaker 1: and they're complaining like he's somehow Louis the was it

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Speaker 1: the fifteenth or the sixteenth that was married to Marie

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Speaker 1: Antoinette and was overthrown in the French Revolution. I believe

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01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: it was the sixteenth That he is somehow this opulent

1034
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: tyrant spending the people's treasure on things that are wholly unnecessary.

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Speaker 1: This is something that has been desired. They're also going

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Speaker 1: nuts about the fact that he paved over a portion

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Speaker 1: of the rose garden at the White House because there

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01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: needed to be a bigger space for White House Rose

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Speaker 1: Garden ceremonies. The White House people, I don't think realize

1040
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Speaker 1: this the White House is relatively small. It is a

1041
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 1: It is not a huge building. It's a big complex.

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01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 1: The building itself is not very big, and America has

1043
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: sort of outgrown it. The President is not demolishing the

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Speaker 1: people's house to build his own palace. He is doing

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Speaker 1: something that has been needed for a long time. It

1046
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: is stunning how this stuff is framed, and sure enough

1047
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Speaker 1: the social media algorithms. All I have seen over the

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Speaker 1: last two hours has been left wingers complaining and calling

1049
01:15:47,479 --> 01:15:51,679
Speaker 1: Trump some sort of king for building his for demash.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. If Obama had done this, couldu Ama? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: If he paid for it himself as a gift to

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Speaker 1: future president vidence and the American people so that they

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Speaker 1: can host allies adversaries, so that they can do the

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Speaker 1: things that we have always wanted to do, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think I would approve it. Will Martin announced his candidacy

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Speaker 1: for Lieutenant governor. He joins us next final hour the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnells Show on this SA beautiful Monday evening. What

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Speaker 1: do we have for a temperature right now? Producer Jeff

1059
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:27,679
Speaker 1: something like fifty seven fifty eight degrees. It's cooled off

1060
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Speaker 1: significantly from last week. We have just had a gorgeous,

1061
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: gorgeous fall, which means, of course it's not going to

1062
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: hit zero for like three straight weeks in January. But

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Speaker 1: let's all remember this during the inevitable three feet of

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Speaker 1: snow we get. On one random Tuesday in the middle

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Speaker 1: of February, just a gorgeous, gorgeous day. I was actually

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Speaker 1: out golfing with an old friend of mine. We've played

1067
01:16:56,280 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: a quick nine this morning, which probably didn't help the

1068
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Speaker 1: old voice. Not like I was screaming, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you got the cool, dry air. As I said, I

1070
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Speaker 1: yelled myself horse my daughter's soccer team, and I would

1071
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: love to give a shout out to the coaches and stuff.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be real careful, folks. You all know who

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Speaker 1: you are. Coaches are spectacular, the parents are a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. I just don't want anybody being, you know,

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01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: targeted or not targeted, but like singled out just the

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01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: association with me as lovely as you folks all know

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Speaker 1: I am. I just to get just a little weird

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Speaker 1: with the kids. But they did win their tournament out

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Speaker 1: in Madison, and it was just a wonderful, wonderful time.

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01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,639
Speaker 1: But it was just an incredible back and forth game

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01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: one to one tie heading into overtime. The referee younger

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01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,400
Speaker 1: kid as a teenager. It wasn't quite sure how to

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01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:06,680
Speaker 1: douce overtime in the tournament, so we just kind of

1084
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: let the game keep going. Eventually some of the parents

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01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,640
Speaker 1: had to say, hey, you gotta blow the whistle to

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01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 1: stop the game and then you restart it for the

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01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: official start of overtime. I actually am a licensed soccer referee,

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01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 1: so kind of explained it to him and the other

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01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:27,759
Speaker 1: teenage referee crew. You know how overtime worked, and then

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01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to a penalty kick shootout, which it did,

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01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 1: and it was all tied up. If the final kicker

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01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: makes her penalty shot, our team wins. It happened to me,

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01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: my daughter, she nailed it and was just a wonderful,

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01:18:44,439 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 1: wonderful scene. But suffice it to say, not great for

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01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: my voice. But I am so proud of those girls.

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Speaker 1: I've coached them all the time. I'm going to coach

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Speaker 1: a bunch of them in indoor soccer this winter. They're

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01:18:56,880 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: just such sweet kids. And their two coach, which is

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01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: all right, I'll say coach Josh and coach Lindsey I'm

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01:19:03,520 --> 01:19:05,679
Speaker 1: not going to use last names, but they just did

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01:19:05,680 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 1: a wonder that those girls are the Best compliment I

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01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:13,759
Speaker 1: can give is they're playing something that looks like soccer.

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01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 1: It's not just kicking the ball and chasing it. They're passing,

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01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: they're getting spaced out, they're getting into position. They're playing

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01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,439
Speaker 1: great defense, which has been a joy to watch. So

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Speaker 1: congratulations to all them. Coming up in just a second,

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Speaker 1: we will check in with Will Martin, who has launched

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01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 1: today a second shot at running for lieutenant governor. He

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01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 1: ran in twenty twenty two and was the guy for

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01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: whom most Republicans were the most pleasantly surprised, myself included.

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01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 1: In fact, I can remember telling everybody who would listen, hey,

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01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: Will Martin just might have been because we did on

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01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,680
Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell show. We interviewed all of them. We

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01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:03,679
Speaker 1: do better Noahkada. There was something like eleven or twelve

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01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: who were running, and we spent I want to say,

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01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: we spent like twenty minutes interviewing every single one, and

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01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:13,680
Speaker 1: I came away thinking, Wow, this Will Martin guy. I

1118
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 1: didn't really know who he was before, really really liked him.

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01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:20,439
Speaker 1: We will he is standing by and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: see how long I can make him wait on hold,

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01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:26,559
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna start talking about my daughter's golf lessons. Yep,

1122
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 1: Violin was going well, she had a great day at

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01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: school orchestra. So we're gonna just if Will really wants this,

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01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: if he really wants to be lg He's gonna wait,

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Speaker 1: should we do like that old Kimmel bit where he

1126
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:46,719
Speaker 1: brings on Matt Damon. He says, sorry to Matt Damon,

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01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: we just ran out of time for you. And then

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Speaker 1: there was one time, this was back when Kimmel did

1129
01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: real jokes, there was one time he actually did bring

1130
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: on Matt Damon and it was at the end of

1131
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:59,680
Speaker 1: the show and he just rolled the credits right as

1132
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 1: Matt Damon started to talk, and you can see Damon

1133
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: is like screaming at very Obviously he was in on it.

1134
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 1: An absolutely hilarious bit. In any event, Bet you didn't

1135
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: thought think the arch conservative was going to praise Jimmy

1136
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 1: Kimmel today, I did not. All Right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: Martin the Fall Fortune Contest Word of the Hour, money,

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01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,320
Speaker 1: m n e y money, You've got until fifty five

1139
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: passed the hour to go to our website and enter

1140
01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: the keyword money. He announced in a video this morning

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01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: that he is going to seek the Republican nomination for

1142
01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: a lieutenant governor for a second straight election cycle. He

1143
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:42,759
Speaker 1: is the first Republican to announce his candidacy. My guest

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01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: joining us on the Dan O'Donnell Show right now is

1145
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,479
Speaker 1: businessman Will Martin. Will great to talk to you again,

1146
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: my friend.

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01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 7: Hey, this is awesome and I greetings from Oconto Fall

1148
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 7: where it is absolutely beautiful here sixty one degrees sixty

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01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 7: one in oc Falls.

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01:22:01,040 --> 01:22:03,879
Speaker 1: Man, oh man, we have just will you would agree

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01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 1: this has been I think the best fall weather we

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01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 1: have had, and it's got to be a decade.

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01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:14,800
Speaker 7: Right, I'd say it's been the best launch I've ever had.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. So you are running for lieutenant governor and you

1155
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: have a platform of getting Wisconsin back to work and

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01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 1: making sure that we are not losing some of the

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01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: most talented people we have. Can you expand on that

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01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 1: a bit?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely. I just think the stay of Wisconsin is

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01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 7: you know, right now, our families are over taxed and

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01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 7: our businesses are overregulated until we're driving out our young

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01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 7: people because they think opportunity is available somewhere else. We're

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01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 7: driving out the young at heart because they can't afford

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01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 7: to stay here in the state. And just last month

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01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 7: we had a thousand Wisconsin I lose their jobs because

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01:22:59,240 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 7: the plant closure.

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01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 5: Here.

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Speaker 7: We're making it too hard to do business, too hard

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01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 7: to live. It's now three hundred forty three hundred and

1170
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 7: fifty thousand dollars to buy the average new home in Wisconsin.

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01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 7: What young person can afford to do that coming out right,

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01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 7: It's just it's too hard to do. And so I think,

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Speaker 7: you know, really, at the bottom of all of this

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01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 7: is government is no longer on the side of the people,

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01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 7: and we've got to get this back for Wisconsin working

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01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 7: for the people again.

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Speaker 1: How do we do that in just one election cycle?

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01:23:32,120 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 1: Because Wisconsin, under both Republican and Democrat governors, has been

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01:23:38,040 --> 01:23:41,640
Speaker 1: the state with one of the surprisingly highest tax burdens

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Speaker 1: in the country. And given the fact that I think

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01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:47,120
Speaker 1: that tax burden is it's a big reason, don't get

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01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 1: me wrong, don't get me wrong. I mean, the weather

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01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: is great here in October, in January, it's terrible. We

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01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 1: cannot compete with Florida or Texas on that score. For

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01:23:57,120 --> 01:24:00,080
Speaker 1: people who are getting to retirement age, and instead of

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01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: just being snowbirds, are actually becoming Florida residents. But how

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01:24:04,920 --> 01:24:09,280
Speaker 1: do we get Wisconsin's tax climate in a position where

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01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: at least we can be competitive with Florida so that

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01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:17,719
Speaker 1: knowing people are going to leave, but still enticing them

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Speaker 1: to keep their Wisconsin residency.

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Speaker 7: So I believe that we need to have a platform

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01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 7: based on bold leadership to actually cut the size and

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01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 7: cost of government, plain and simple. We've got to get

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Speaker 7: government out of the way. And one of the ways

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Speaker 7: to do that you asked in a one cycle how

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01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:39,919
Speaker 7: do we do this. We have never had a situation

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Speaker 7: where the administration came in and cut the size of

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Speaker 7: government so that was actually smaller than the prior administration.

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Speaker 7: Everybody complains about the last governor, everybody else adds to

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Speaker 7: the budget. So a new governor comes in in forty

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01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 7: five days, they've talked about all these policies and programs

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01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,200
Speaker 7: they'd like to do. Instead of clearing the decks, they

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01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 7: add it to what's already been done. We now have

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01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:05,280
Speaker 7: five agencies that do economic development. Tell me why we

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01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 7: need five for a state of under six million people,

1206
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:11,840
Speaker 7: and yet we're not bringing business in those at that level.

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01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:15,640
Speaker 7: So we've got three that do job training, three that

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01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:18,280
Speaker 7: do housing. We can do better than this if we

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01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:22,320
Speaker 7: streamline government. I believe, of all the positions to run

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01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 7: for lieutenant governor is important if you get the right person.

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Speaker 7: For this reason, I've actually worked for Governor Thompson, for

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01:25:28,840 --> 01:25:31,799
Speaker 7: Governor Walker. I've actually been in several of the departments

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Speaker 7: as well as the governor's office itself. We've got too

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01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:37,679
Speaker 7: much redundancy and having a lieutenant governor on that ticket

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01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 7: to work with a governor, we could actually come in

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01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:44,000
Speaker 7: and start stripping and consolidating so that we could literally

1217
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 7: put forward a conservative budget, a conservative agenda that will

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01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 7: help us make this the opportunity estate. We've got too

1219
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:55,240
Speaker 7: many situations where money is the only answer. We just

1220
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 7: gave a billion dollars to the universities and what they

1221
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 7: do turned around and raised tuition at nine percent more

1222
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 7: one point four one point four one point six billion

1223
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 7: dollars to special education. That's that wasn't enough. Apparently to

1224
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 7: the advocate, money can't be the only answer. Because that's

1225
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 7: the case, we'd have every kid in this state would

1226
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 7: be a scholar, every business would be humming the growth

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01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:23,240
Speaker 7: right now of the state budget is up forty six

1228
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:27,599
Speaker 7: percent since Scott Walker left office forty six percent. Inflation

1229
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:30,000
Speaker 7: was up thirty two cents he left, So you tell

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01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 7: me why double digits above inflation. Our government's been growing

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01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 7: and it's seventy agencies, departments, boards, and commissioned in place today.

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Speaker 1: My goodness. You know that that actually is a very

1233
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:48,600
Speaker 1: common misconception about the role of lieutenant governor here in Wisconsin,

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01:26:48,640 --> 01:26:51,800
Speaker 1: and that it's it's sort of like the vice presidency, right,

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01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 1: there's really nothing for this person to do except to

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01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: just sort of wait their turn to run for governor

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01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 1: next time around, when that could not possibly be farther

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01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 1: from the truth. Okay, sure, the last two lieutenant governors

1239
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 1: we've had, the Democrats, Rodriguez and Barnes, haven't really done anything.

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01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: But just look at the last Republican lieutenant governor. We

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01:27:13,439 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 1: had Rebecca Clayfish, who really took that role. What I

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01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 1: love about the role of lieutenant governor is that there

1243
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:25,080
Speaker 1: are no specified duties, but that you can just sort

1244
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:28,639
Speaker 1: of make the position whatever you want. And what I'm

1245
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:31,920
Speaker 1: hearing from you is that you're going to go in there,

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01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:35,519
Speaker 1: and I hope I don't offend you by comparing you

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01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 1: to al Gore, Sir, But people forget when Clinton first

1248
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,719
Speaker 1: took office in nineteen ninety three, he put his vice

1249
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,760
Speaker 1: President Al Gore in charge of shrinking the size of

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01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:50,439
Speaker 1: the federal government. Would you believe the Clinton administration was

1251
01:27:50,520 --> 01:27:54,360
Speaker 1: the single best, probably in our lifetime in doing so.

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01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:58,040
Speaker 1: Under Gore ran a well oiled machine. I believe their

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01:27:58,040 --> 01:28:02,799
Speaker 1: final tally was cutting three one hundred thousand unnecessary federal

1254
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 1: jobs and just trimming billions and billions and billions out

1255
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:10,280
Speaker 1: of federal outlays, to the point that by the middle

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01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: of the nineteen nineties we actually had a balanced budget

1257
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:16,639
Speaker 1: for the last time ever. So I sort of see you,

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01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: sir as al Gore. Not you know, climate change al Gore,

1259
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: but like based let's cut government bloat al Gore? Is

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01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 1: that a fair comparison?

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Speaker 7: Well, I would say that we were both born in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: I love that is a great lie. So were you

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01:28:37,240 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: actually born in Tennessee or did you just say that

1264
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:40,599
Speaker 1: to have a lie?

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01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:45,120
Speaker 7: Oh? No, I in fact, I was born in Tennessee,

1266
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:48,719
Speaker 7: about a county away from Dolly Parton and not far

1267
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:49,799
Speaker 7: from the Smoky Mountains.

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01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:51,920
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 7: I grew up with my great grandparents, grandparents with an

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01:28:55,520 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 7: expectation that we would live up to higher education, hard work,

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01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:05,080
Speaker 7: and making sure to care for our neighbors. So I

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01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:08,880
Speaker 7: took that with me. I brought that to Wisconsin. Governor

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01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:11,720
Speaker 7: Thompson saw something in me that I probably didn't even

1274
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:14,720
Speaker 7: see him myself at the time, and I thought, Man,

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01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 7: if he believes in me, Wisconsin's my opportunity state. I

1276
01:29:18,800 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 7: want to make sure that every young person who's in

1277
01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 7: the state or could come to the state sees Wisconsin

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01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,599
Speaker 7: at the opportunity state. And we can't do it when

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01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 7: we're spending more per capita on state government than half

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01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:32,000
Speaker 7: the nation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the thing that absolutely blows my mind.

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01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:40,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I was half joking about comparing you

1283
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: to Gore. But if you what you're saying is your

1284
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 1: role as lieutenant governor will be to when Governor Tiffany

1285
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:55,839
Speaker 1: or Governor Showman gets in. You're going to say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: these are the unnecessary positions. This is what we can do,

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Speaker 1: this is how we can streamline government. That's what you're

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Speaker 1: going to do with your role as Lieutenant governor, Sir,

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Speaker 1: I honest to goodness. Think you might be the first

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Speaker 1: person who has come on this show and not just

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Speaker 1: say yeah, you know, we need to we need to

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Speaker 1: cut some of this government bloat, but say, Okay, here's

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna cut first, and then here's what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna cut second.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear about some more redundant state programs

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Speaker 1: that are just contributing to the bloat that we all

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Speaker 1: know exists in state government.

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Speaker 7: I can give you one right now. Yeah, fact that,

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01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:40,799
Speaker 7: right right now, we have two and a half million,

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Speaker 7: by the government's own reckoning, they to it, and a

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Speaker 7: half million square feet of office space two and a

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Speaker 7: half million. This is the same time a governor has

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01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 7: allowed people to work from home. Yes, now, tell me

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Speaker 7: why it is that the people of Wisconsin have paid

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Speaker 7: for their maintenance, utility, and insurance on buildings that are

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Speaker 7: largely empty instead of selling them. And the reason is

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Speaker 7: because it doesn't matter. That can taxs you whether or

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Speaker 7: not you like it.

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Speaker 1: That's a great point. So where's the incentive to cut

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01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:13,120
Speaker 1: when when you think you have unlimited money? Where's the

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01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 1: incentive right to be frugal?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. So when I say that we are

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Speaker 7: spending more for capita than half the nation. That includes

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Speaker 7: places like Ohio in Pennsylvania, but also Illinois. Now we

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01:31:24,680 --> 01:31:27,639
Speaker 7: know that Illinois is broke. So if you're spending more

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Speaker 7: money for capita than Illinois that is broke, you know

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Speaker 7: what path we're going down. Yeah, And so one of

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Speaker 7: the things that I think I can bring to this

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Speaker 7: is we've got we've got two great candidates for governor,

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Speaker 7: but in both cases neither has actually served in an administration.

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Speaker 7: One has been in the legislature, one is a is

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Speaker 7: an executive at the local government level, but neither of

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01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 7: them have been in these departments. I'm telling you that

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Speaker 7: that first hand experience in terms of dealing with either

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Speaker 7: being a liaison among departments or having actually worked in

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Speaker 7: departments and seeing firsthand overlap that happens, I can. I

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01:32:08,479 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 7: can tell you right now the Department of Administration has

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Speaker 7: an entire division that has the same mandate that we'da

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Speaker 7: HA Wisconsin Housing Economic Development thought R. Why in the

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Speaker 7: world WEEDA is off the books? In other words, very specifically,

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01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 7: we do not pay taxes to run WEEDA. Correct, we

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01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:28,639
Speaker 7: do pay taxes to run d o A. Why would

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Speaker 7: you have a division that that really, under a conservative administration,

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Speaker 7: you could simply contract or m ou with uh, with

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Speaker 7: you with WEEDA to do exactly what's being done by

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Speaker 7: that one division. That's just one example where you've got

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Speaker 7: a floor of folks that could actually, you know, be

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Speaker 7: handled by off the books administration, off the books independent agency.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that Will this this is why I

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01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:03,280
Speaker 1: open this secon by saying I came away in twenty

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01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: twenty two saying, boy, I didn't know a whole lot

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01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:11,240
Speaker 1: about Will Martin. But after I think our first conversation

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01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: when we had you on for a lengthy interview, I

1345
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:18,200
Speaker 1: remember saying, my goodness, I hope he runs for something again,

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01:33:18,680 --> 01:33:24,040
Speaker 1: because it's that commitment to the actual conservative principle of

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01:33:24,200 --> 01:33:28,320
Speaker 1: not just willy nilly cutting government, but having government, just

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01:33:28,479 --> 01:33:32,559
Speaker 1: like private business, need to be responsive to the current

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01:33:32,680 --> 01:33:35,960
Speaker 1: needs of its clientele i e. Taxpayers and the people

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin as it is today, not as it was

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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. These massive opulent office buildings in the

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Speaker 1: era of zoom and in the era of everybody wanting

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01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:51,320
Speaker 1: to work from home aren't necessary. And the idea that

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Speaker 1: we have how many different jobs agencies ironically seeming to

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01:33:55,800 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: exist just to employ people in government. This is something

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Speaker 1: that just needs to stop. And I'm so glad that

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Speaker 1: you're running again on this platform of again right sizing

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Speaker 1: government for where we are. Do you believe that all

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Speaker 1: of the problems that we're staring into with this structural

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Speaker 1: deficit that is going to hit in the next budget

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Speaker 1: can be resolved just through these sorts of government cuts.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, when you've got over seventy departments, agencies, commissions and boards, yeah,

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Speaker 7: absolutely we can make that. Don In addition, I'll tell

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01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 7: you there's also the opportunity to streamline the government. Think

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01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:40,280
Speaker 7: about the sales and use tax right now. Yeah, I

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01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:43,439
Speaker 7: have had people literally cry to me about the fact

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Speaker 7: that it is so cumbersome to actually figure out the

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Speaker 7: sales and use tax return. So being able to help

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Speaker 7: streamline to help our businesses so they can actually more

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Speaker 7: efficiently file would make all the sense in the world.

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Speaker 7: Helps our business. This is the whole point of making

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Speaker 7: government work again for the people in our businesses. If

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Speaker 7: there's a reason why we're in the bottom ten for entrepreneurship,

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Speaker 7: the bottom ten for business startups, because we've made it

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Speaker 7: so difficult for businesses to start up in the state again,

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Speaker 7: getting us back to the opportunity state will allow us.

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Speaker 7: I came from another state. I came as a poor

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Speaker 7: kid from Tennessee, and I got a scholarship here and

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Speaker 7: I've never left. I want to make sure that not

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Speaker 7: just the kids who grow up here and really want

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01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 7: to be here, but all the other kids who see

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Speaker 7: this as an opportunity for them. I want them to

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01:35:36,800 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 7: all flock to the state because I know what the

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Speaker 7: state can do for someone.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you my producer in there is very impressed.

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01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm seeing the smile on his face. Will, I think

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Speaker 1: you've won him over already. Best of luck to you

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Speaker 1: in this run your website for those who I'm sure

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Speaker 1: are going to want to now know more about your

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01:35:59,760 --> 01:36:02,320
Speaker 1: cab after hearing about your platform.

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Speaker 7: What is it it is vote Will Martin dot com.

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01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:09,799
Speaker 7: Trying to make it simple vote Will Martin dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's about as simple as it gets common spelling WI

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Speaker 1: L L M A R T I and Will it

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Speaker 1: is always a pleasure. I'm so glad you are running

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Speaker 1: for this again, and you come on any time you want.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about what else you want to cut from

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01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,240
Speaker 1: state government. Because I swear I'm getting like goosebumps hearing

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Speaker 1: about all this stuff.

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Speaker 7: Well, we're serious as a hard tech about it, and

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01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:34,720
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to being on a ticket so we

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01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 7: can make this happen to the people Wisconsin.

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01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:41,759
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you are listening to the Dan o'donald show. Much

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01:36:41,840 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 1: more coming up, including a significant resignation from the Republican

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01:36:47,360 --> 01:36:52,360
Speaker 1: Party of Wisconsin. Admit it, you had a thrill running

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01:36:52,439 --> 01:36:55,719
Speaker 1: up your leg in there when Will Martin was talking

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01:36:55,760 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: about all of the redundant departments in state government he

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01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:05,400
Speaker 1: wants to cut. Yeah, me too, I was like, full

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01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:08,800
Speaker 1: was it Chris Matthews, Yeah, he was the ones I

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01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: got a thrill running up my leg. And that was

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01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: just when Obama was talking about empty platitudes.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 1: I love Will because he has got a businessman's sense

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01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 1: for how government should run. He's got a great sense

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01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:29,800
Speaker 1: of humor too. The comparison to Al Gore, people don't

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01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 1: believe me when I talk about this. I was on

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01:37:33,080 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 1: this kick for months during the Doge cuts that Al Gore.

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01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:41,800
Speaker 1: When Gore first got to Washington, d C. I mean,

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01:37:41,840 --> 01:37:47,519
Speaker 1: everybody remembers what Tipper Gore and the parental guidance, parental

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01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:51,680
Speaker 1: advisory sticker on the CDs and and all of that.

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01:37:51,720 --> 01:37:53,920
Speaker 1: At least people in my generation remember him for that,

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01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:58,400
Speaker 1: and then of course he became just a caricature of himself.

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01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 1: But even when he was running for president in two thousand,

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01:38:03,920 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 1: he got just mocked for the idea of a social

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01:38:07,439 --> 01:38:10,759
Speaker 1: security lock box where the money that you put into

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01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:14,679
Speaker 1: social Security is yours. People do not believe me because

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01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 1: all they associate Al Gore with now is the climate

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01:38:18,400 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 1: change grift that he's been running for twenty years now.

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01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:25,160
Speaker 1: He's the only guy I have ever seen bild a

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01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:28,439
Speaker 1: half a billion dollar fortune. I'm not kidding on this,

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01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 1: half a billion dollar fortune on climate change hysteria. He

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01:38:33,880 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 1: won a Nobel Peace Prize for a slide show about

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01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:41,400
Speaker 1: climate change. That's what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize is.

1434
01:38:41,439 --> 01:38:44,400
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks, oh Obama winning it was the biggest joke. No,

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01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 1: it was absolutely Al Gore winning it for an inconvenient truth.

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01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:52,960
Speaker 1: If that didn't delegitimize it, nothing else possibly could. But

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01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 1: when Gore first got to Washington, DC, Bill Clinton, who

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01:38:57,280 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 1: was terrified of the national debt bomb, when the national

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01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,120
Speaker 1: debt was a tiny fraction of what it is today,

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01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:10,280
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. He immediately set out to cut

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01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 1: the size of the federal government, and al Gore would

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01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:18,760
Speaker 1: actually hold regular press conferences where he would talk in

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01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 1: painstaking It was al Gore, after all, pains taking death

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01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:29,120
Speaker 1: about just what programs were unnecessary, were redundant, and he

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01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:33,040
Speaker 1: spoke passionately, at least as passionately as al Gore could

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01:39:33,040 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 1: possibly have spoken. And he was very, very good at

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01:39:36,920 --> 01:39:40,759
Speaker 1: cutting the size of government. In fact, it was because

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01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:44,439
Speaker 1: of him that we actually did. And then obviously Clinton

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01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:48,200
Speaker 1: had to what did they call it, triangulate his position

1450
01:39:48,479 --> 01:39:52,240
Speaker 1: once the nineteen ninety four Republican takeover of the House happened.

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01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: But because of the austerity measures that al Gore spearheaded,

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01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 1: as well as the fiscal hawkishness of Newt Gingrich as

1453
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:09,599
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House before Clinton's entire presidency was in meshton,

1454
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:14,240
Speaker 1: the Monica Lewinsky scandal, it was phenomenally successful. Now it

1455
01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:19,639
Speaker 1: happened to coincide with the Internet boom that when Gore

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01:40:20,080 --> 01:40:22,360
Speaker 1: didn't just cut the size of government, he invented the

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01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 1: entire Internet for goodness, And of course he became a

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01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 1: punchline when he said that which was ridiculous on its

1459
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:30,439
Speaker 1: face that he was part of the team that took

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01:40:30,479 --> 01:40:33,960
Speaker 1: the initiative to create was it called ARPA net, which

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01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:39,320
Speaker 1: eventually became the Internet. But he was about as conservative

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01:40:39,400 --> 01:40:41,960
Speaker 1: as it got when it came to cutting the size

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01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:44,880
Speaker 1: of government. So it's great to hear Will Martin. I

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01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:47,439
Speaker 1: know now I'm going to tease him with that forever

1465
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:50,000
Speaker 1: that he's a Tennessee and like Al Gore. And I

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01:40:50,040 --> 01:40:52,880
Speaker 1: know his consultants are probably like, oh my god, no,

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01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:56,680
Speaker 1: don't compare him to Al Gore. Ah, we hate O'Donnell. No,

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01:40:56,920 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. This is about as good a

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01:40:58,760 --> 01:41:01,800
Speaker 1: thing as it gets. So you know what is not.

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01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:09,439
Speaker 1: The infighting in the Wisconsin Republican Party continues to be

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01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:16,080
Speaker 1: a massive problem today. A long time member of the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party's Executive Committee, the secretary of said committee, Kelly

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Speaker 1: Rue or Rah. I've actually never heard her last name pronounced,

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01:41:27,720 --> 01:41:30,040
Speaker 1: or at least if I did, it was at some

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01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:32,200
Speaker 1: event and I had a couple of scotches in me,

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01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:35,919
Speaker 1: so forgive me. That got a laugh out of my producer.

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01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:40,720
Speaker 1: She announced her retirement and her resignation I guess I

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01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: should say, not a retirement, but her resignation in a

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01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 1: letter that she published openly, she lays into the dysfunction

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01:41:53,600 --> 01:41:57,759
Speaker 1: within the Republican Party of Wisconsin, to whom it may concern.

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01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:00,920
Speaker 1: She writes, I am writing to formally resign my position

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01:42:01,080 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: as treasure of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, effective immediately.

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01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:08,679
Speaker 1: After careful consideration, I have concluded I can no longer

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01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:13,160
Speaker 1: meaningfully contribute to our party's executive leadership team under the

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01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 1: current circumstances. The absence of a strategic plan to find

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01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:22,960
Speaker 1: objectives and measurable outcomes, as well as budgetary issues, have

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01:42:23,080 --> 01:42:27,440
Speaker 1: created an environment in which progress is difficult to assess

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01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 1: and nearly impossible to achieve. As the saying goes, what

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01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:38,439
Speaker 1: gets measured gets done. Unfortunately, without metrics or accountability, it

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01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:41,720
Speaker 1: is unclear what we are working toward or what our

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01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 1: capacity is to achieve our objective. Moreover, the internal dynamics

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01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 1: of RpW, particularly the dysfunctional leadership, have made attempt set

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01:42:54,520 --> 01:43:01,519
Speaker 1: collaboration increasingly unproductive and discouraging. The lack of transparency, direction,

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01:43:01,840 --> 01:43:07,640
Speaker 1: and respect for differing perspectives. You'll have to forgive me

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01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 1: my computer just went greaty. I'm gonna blame Amazon Web services,

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01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:20,080
Speaker 1: even though it was me accidentally hitting a button or

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Speaker 1: even board oversight. The lack of transparency, direction, and respect

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01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: for differing perspectives or even basic board oversight has fostered

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01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:32,720
Speaker 1: a culture that is not only ineffective but also absurd.

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01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 1: I love my country, my state, and my community. This

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01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:39,960
Speaker 1: is why I volunteer my time in the first place.

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01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:44,440
Speaker 1: It pains me that the Republican Party of Wisconsin continues

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01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:48,559
Speaker 1: to repeat the same mistakes time and again. Recent election

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01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:52,720
Speaker 1: results in Wisconsin are clear. If RpW does not drastically

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01:43:52,880 --> 01:43:58,479
Speaker 1: change the approach to everything leadership, fundraising, messaging, organizing, addressing

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01:43:58,600 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 1: issues that Wisconsin it's care about, then it will play

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01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:06,960
Speaker 1: no role in deciding our state's future. As a Conservative.

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01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:10,720
Speaker 1: This greatly disappoints me, but it is clear the required

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01:44:10,880 --> 01:44:14,560
Speaker 1: change is not likely to come from rpw's current leadership.

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01:44:15,080 --> 01:44:19,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunity to have served within RpW over

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01:44:19,160 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 1: the past decade. My sincere hope is that those who

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01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:26,320
Speaker 1: remain in position of authority will institute the critical changes

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01:44:26,800 --> 01:44:31,320
Speaker 1: that must be made to our party. Regards Kelly Rue

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01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 1: or Ron Yikes, we will get into what I think

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01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:46,840
Speaker 1: about this, and as you might imagine, I've got a

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01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:49,960
Speaker 1: lot of thoughts about this. You're not gonna wanna miss

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01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:53,840
Speaker 1: him when we come back all Halloween bumper music here

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01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:57,599
Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald's show as we are smack dab

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01:44:57,640 --> 01:44:59,840
Speaker 1: in the middle of spooky season. One of the spookiest

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01:44:59,840 --> 01:45:04,360
Speaker 1: things if you are a Wisconsin Conservative is the fact

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01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:08,680
Speaker 1: that now there is some significant concern about the leadership

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01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:12,960
Speaker 1: and direction of the Republican Party of Wisconsin coming from

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01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:17,280
Speaker 1: one of the now former leaders of the Republican Party

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01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:24,520
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Kelly Roue or Rauh resigned today. Technically yesterday,

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01:45:24,680 --> 01:45:28,680
Speaker 1: the letter was drafted, it was circulated widely in Republican

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Speaker 1: circles here in Wisconsin. Today we read it just before

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Speaker 1: the commercial break, and she raises some of the same

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01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:41,439
Speaker 1: alarms that I have been raising with respect to the

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01:45:41,520 --> 01:45:51,759
Speaker 1: Republican Party and fundraising and concrete identifiable goals in off years,

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01:45:52,400 --> 01:46:00,960
Speaker 1: not just raising money, messaging, door knocking, voter contact data modernization,

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01:46:01,479 --> 01:46:06,599
Speaker 1: all of this stuff I raised serious concerns about both

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01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:12,320
Speaker 1: before and after the disastrous twenty twenty five Wisconsin Supreme

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01:46:12,400 --> 01:46:18,800
Speaker 1: Court race. Money was not the biggest issue there. We

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01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:22,200
Speaker 1: have been told that well Democrats just bring in tons

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01:46:22,280 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 1: of money from out of state and they swamp us.

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01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:29,639
Speaker 1: They just buy elections. There's no way that we can

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01:46:29,720 --> 01:46:36,559
Speaker 1: possibly compete. Well, Brad Shimmel had Elon Musk coming in

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01:46:36,600 --> 01:46:39,720
Speaker 1: on his behalf. Now I think we can all probably

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01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:43,800
Speaker 1: agree that given the fact that Democrats just made this

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01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:47,439
Speaker 1: an election not against Brad Schimmel but against Elon Musk,

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01:46:47,960 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 1: that Musk getting involved in this race was probably a

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01:46:51,560 --> 01:46:56,120
Speaker 1: net negative. But he brought with him a whole ton

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01:46:56,160 --> 01:47:02,520
Speaker 1: of money Democrats, of course, And this is the thing. Okay, Democrats,

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01:47:03,600 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 1: you just had a big rally all across the country

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01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:12,120
Speaker 1: called no Kings, right, no Kings. We don't want our

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01:47:12,320 --> 01:47:17,479
Speaker 1: politicians just behaving like kings. Why is it you all

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01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:22,920
Speaker 1: have no problem whatsoever with the billionaire governor of Illinois

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01:47:23,360 --> 01:47:28,080
Speaker 1: spending millions of dollars every single election cycle trying to

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01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:36,480
Speaker 1: influence Wisconsin politics and install the candidates that he ordains. Seriously,

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01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:40,560
Speaker 1: nobody seems to have a problem with this. George Soros,

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01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:44,720
Speaker 1: one of the wealthiest men in the entire world, routinely

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01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:48,800
Speaker 1: spends one million to two millions, sometimes as much as

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01:47:48,920 --> 01:47:53,760
Speaker 1: four million dollars per election cycle to get his ordained

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01:47:53,920 --> 01:47:57,840
Speaker 1: candidates elected. Nobody seems to have a problem with this,

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01:47:57,880 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 1: but the financial disadvantage, which was not the big one

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01:48:02,080 --> 01:48:05,080
Speaker 1: in the Supreme Court race. And okay, okay, I get

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01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:12,000
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court race. Over the last the spring elections

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01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:16,360
Speaker 1: over the past what seven eight years have been disastrous

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01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:20,800
Speaker 1: for conservatives. They just have been. We did win the

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01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:25,040
Speaker 1: presidential election here in Wisconsin just a couple of months earlier,

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01:48:25,720 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 1: but as I pointed out, yes we did. We did

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01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:34,320
Speaker 1: so with a nationwide massive Republican trend, big trend towards

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01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:42,120
Speaker 1: Trump across demographic groups. We couldn't get Eric Huvedy across

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01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:46,400
Speaker 1: the finish line because there was there was no recognition

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01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:50,519
Speaker 1: that the single biggest threat to Eric Huvedy was not

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01:48:50,720 --> 01:48:55,479
Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin. It was this clown who ran because he

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01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:59,720
Speaker 1: was financed by Democrats and was too stupid to realize

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01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 1: he was actually thinking he was the real conservative in

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01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:08,320
Speaker 1: the race. He got the exact number of votes almost

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01:49:08,400 --> 01:49:13,120
Speaker 1: down to within two or three hundred that separated huved

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01:49:13,920 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 1: and Tammy Baldwin. In other words, he was there as

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01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:20,880
Speaker 1: a spoiler candidate. I believe he was called the American

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01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:26,080
Speaker 1: first candidate. Thomas Leger. He ran under the America First banner,

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01:49:26,760 --> 01:49:30,799
Speaker 1: convincing just enough people who would likely have otherwise voted

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01:49:30,840 --> 01:49:34,600
Speaker 1: for huved that Huvedy was not a real Conservative. You

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01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:38,839
Speaker 1: also had Democrats spending massive amounts of money to boost

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01:49:38,840 --> 01:49:43,559
Speaker 1: the Libertarian in the race. Now, Libertarians, they might or

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01:49:43,640 --> 01:49:47,559
Speaker 1: might not otherwise vote for Republicans. They're sort of their

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01:49:47,600 --> 01:49:52,840
Speaker 1: own separate entity. But there's a reason that Republicans don't

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01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:55,200
Speaker 1: like it when the Libertarian Party is in the race,

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01:49:55,240 --> 01:50:00,400
Speaker 1: because they tend to take more from Republicans. That there

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01:50:00,479 --> 01:50:06,200
Speaker 1: was no challenge to Thomas Leger's ballot access, that there

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01:50:06,320 --> 01:50:11,720
Speaker 1: was no campaign to dissuade votes from either of the

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01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:14,840
Speaker 1: two men who very likely cost Eric of the a

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01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: Senate seat. Dating back to that Supreme Court race. I

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01:50:22,400 --> 01:50:27,599
Speaker 1: actually read on this show the number of door knocks

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01:50:28,200 --> 01:50:34,360
Speaker 1: that the Republican parties paid door knockers were doing. And look,

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01:50:34,479 --> 01:50:38,600
Speaker 1: I said, this ongoing battle between Turning Point and the

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01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:41,000
Speaker 1: Republican Party, it needs to stop. We need to be

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01:50:41,120 --> 01:50:45,840
Speaker 1: united in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, but this

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01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:49,080
Speaker 1: is yet and I'm going to stop short. I made

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01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:52,519
Speaker 1: a pledge in the wake of Charlie's death. I said, look,

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Speaker 1: I am not going to We're all on the same team.

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01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,920
Speaker 1: But this does not mean that the team can still

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01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:06,759
Speaker 1: be dysfunctional and that the team cannot ignore basic things

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01:51:06,880 --> 01:51:13,240
Speaker 1: that win elections. When you have got the person you

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01:51:13,320 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 1: are paying to knock on doors and to coordinate door knocking,

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01:51:17,160 --> 01:51:21,960
Speaker 1: which is voter contact knocking on fewer doors than your

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01:51:22,080 --> 01:51:27,080
Speaker 1: average turning point or young Republican volunteer can do in

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01:51:27,400 --> 01:51:33,599
Speaker 1: an afternoon on a Saturday, that's a massive problem. When

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01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:37,599
Speaker 1: you have got Republican Party leadership that does not have

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01:51:37,840 --> 01:51:41,920
Speaker 1: a great line of communication to the biggest donors to

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01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:46,160
Speaker 1: the Republican Party, Diane Hendrix and Dick and Liz Euline

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01:51:46,439 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: and any When you're not making constant overtures to the

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01:51:51,520 --> 01:51:54,960
Speaker 1: Minard family, which is a very conservative family but does

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01:51:55,000 --> 01:51:58,920
Speaker 1: not donate all that much, that's a big problem. All Right,

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01:51:58,960 --> 01:52:01,400
Speaker 1: We got to step aside for a break. Dan o'donald's

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01:52:01,400 --> 01:52:05,040
Speaker 1: show coming back. We will wrap things up in just

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01:52:05,080 --> 01:52:07,839
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Stay tuned. It's conservative thought. Nacho's

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01:52:07,880 --> 01:52:13,720
Speaker 1: talk an edm remix of the Goosebumps theme in the

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01:52:13,840 --> 01:52:17,799
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald show. Halloween bumper music rotation. Just a couple

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01:52:17,840 --> 01:52:23,120
Speaker 1: of minutes left in the show. Really, all I need

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01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:26,599
Speaker 1: to reflect on the demise of the Brewers season. They

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01:52:26,600 --> 01:52:28,679
Speaker 1: got beat by a better team. What are you supposed

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01:52:28,720 --> 01:52:31,599
Speaker 1: to say? Show? Hey, O Tawny did something that has

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01:52:31,760 --> 01:52:35,519
Speaker 1: never before been done in Major League Baseball history and

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01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:40,719
Speaker 1: very likely never will be done again. He struck out

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01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:46,519
Speaker 1: ten batters in six and a third while simultaneously hitting

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01:52:46,680 --> 01:52:52,320
Speaker 1: three home runs, accounting for more runs than the Brewers

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01:52:52,320 --> 01:52:55,599
Speaker 1: scored in the entire season or in the entire series.

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01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:01,880
Speaker 1: A lot of people got upset when I posted right

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01:53:01,960 --> 01:53:04,599
Speaker 1: after that loss on Friday. It was truly a great

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01:53:04,840 --> 01:53:06,920
Speaker 1: truly a great perform one of the great I think,

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01:53:06,960 --> 01:53:09,760
Speaker 1: one of the great individual performances in the history of

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01:53:09,800 --> 01:53:13,519
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. I don't even think that's arguable, given

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01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:16,120
Speaker 1: what he did on the mound and behind the plate.

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01:53:16,960 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 1: A lot of people got upset when I posted congratulations

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01:53:20,080 --> 01:53:24,839
Speaker 1: to the Dodgers on clinching a lockout in twenty twenty seven. Look, folks,

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01:53:24,880 --> 01:53:28,160
Speaker 1: this ain't Dan O'Donnell's saying this. This is Jeff Passen,

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01:53:28,760 --> 01:53:32,960
Speaker 1: citing multiple owners and people associated with baseball. In fact,

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01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 1: I talked to a number of people close to the

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01:53:35,920 --> 01:53:39,360
Speaker 1: game over the weekend, and they agreed with me. They said, look,

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01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:43,120
Speaker 1: this series is going to be the one that owners

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01:53:43,160 --> 01:53:46,080
Speaker 1: point to when they say the best team in baseball,

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01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:48,759
Speaker 1: team that won ninety seven games, most wins in baseball,

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01:53:49,160 --> 01:53:56,799
Speaker 1: got utterly panced by a team with three times its payroll.

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01:53:57,160 --> 01:54:00,080
Speaker 1: What can you possibly do? Yes, the Dodgers spend a

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01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:04,840
Speaker 1: great percentage of their revenue on player salaries. But I

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01:54:04,840 --> 01:54:07,960
Speaker 1: think it's clear you need a harder salary cap, and

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01:54:08,000 --> 01:54:14,000
Speaker 1: you need a hard salary floor for competitive balance. This

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01:54:14,160 --> 01:54:17,439
Speaker 1: isn't whining. I am telling you it is very possible

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01:54:17,479 --> 01:54:20,840
Speaker 1: there is no baseball in twenty twenty seven because of

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01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:23,320
Speaker 1: this sort of stuff. All right, we are out of

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01:54:23,360 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 1: time here on the Dan O'donnalds show back tomorrow three

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Speaker 1: oh six pm.