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Speaker 1: How dare we? Kamala Harris sent a clip that's just

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Speaker 1: They're proper tax bills going out. I actually was one

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Speaker 1: In fact, I have been getting email after email after email,

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Speaker 1: The Legislative Fiscal Bureau in July projected that under Governor

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Speaker 1: Thanks to that IRG study, Institute for Reforming Government just

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Speaker 1: It's bureaucrats. It's it's learning coordinators, its education consultants, it's

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Speaker 1: with me inflation. The biggest reason that property taxes have

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Speaker 1: going to say this, but I actually agree with Judge

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Speaker 1: Lynn Adelman's decision because the idea was that we want

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Speaker 1: to hear the questions that are asked these jurors. And

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Speaker 1: obviously there is a very big bone of contention between

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Speaker 1: the prosecution and defense about potential political bias and whether

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Speaker 1: or not political questions like are you a Democrat? Do

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Speaker 1: you support Ice? The defense obviously doesn't want those questions

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Speaker 1: asked for obvious reasons, because they want to stack the

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Speaker 1: jury with libs and make this essentially a case against

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Speaker 1: Ice and a case against Donald Trump. They know folks. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm not the only quasi attorney here who can look

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Speaker 1: at the facts of this case, look at the law,

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Speaker 1: and say, yeah, Hannah Dugan is dead to rights because

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Speaker 1: she very clearly did help a violent illegeleagal alien who

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Speaker 1: has since been deported, escape ICE agents by sneaking him

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Speaker 1: through her jury room doors back in April. Her attorneys

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Speaker 1: know this too, so they're trying to get as many

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Speaker 1: political lefties and insane political lefties to essentially engage in

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Speaker 1: what's known as jury nullification, in spite of the fact

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Speaker 1: that the facts clearly show that under the applicable law,

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Speaker 1: Hannah Dugan committed two separate felonies and deserves to go

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Speaker 1: to prison for what she did. That they're going to

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Speaker 1: nullify that, And they're going to say, now, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we don't like Donald Trump, we really don't like Ice.

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Speaker 1: We think Ice is a bunch of Nazis, so we're

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Speaker 1: going to let her go. That's jury nullification. That's clearly

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Speaker 1: what her defense is trying to do. I can't actually

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Speaker 1: believe that I'm agreeing with Lynn Adelman. Keeping any sort

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Speaker 1: of recording of the jurors out is probably a good

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Speaker 1: thing because we do want those jurors to be anonymous.

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Speaker 1: We don't want there to be for example, what we

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Speaker 1: saw in the Writtenhouse case where you actually had the

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Speaker 1: media following the jury bus as it was dropping off

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Speaker 1: jurors at their homes while they were engaging in deliberations.

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Speaker 1: We don't want those people identified because we don't want

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Speaker 1: pressure to be put on them. Maybe somebody has a

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Speaker 1: very identifiable voice and someone listening or someone watching on television. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's Frank. I guess he's on the jury. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: a big conservative. We better physically threaten him so he

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Speaker 1: doesn't vote to convict Hannah Dugan. So it is actually

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Speaker 1: a good decision. Jury selection is underway. That trial of

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Speaker 1: Hannah Dugan's schedule to begin on Monday. Unhinged Liberal coming

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Speaker 1: up next. The judge in the trial of Charlie Kirk's

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Speaker 1: alleged assassin appears poised to rule right now in Utah

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Speaker 1: that cameras will be allowed in the courtroom, saying excluding

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Speaker 1: cameras would be a disproportionate response to any sort of

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Speaker 1: privacy concerns that would be claimed, that the value to

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Speaker 1: the public interest of allowing cameras in the courtroom probably

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Speaker 1: outweighs any sort of concern. We are keeping our eyes

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Speaker 1: on that here on the Dan O'Donnell's show. But right now,

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Speaker 1: let's name the unhinged liberal of the day is dangerous

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Speaker 1: because he's evil.

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Speaker 3: America.

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Speaker 1: Today's unhinged liberal of the day is Democratic Texas Representative

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Speaker 1: Julie Johnson, who in a hearing today attempted to excuse

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Speaker 1: the assassination of one National Guard soldier and attempted assassination

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Speaker 1: of another by an Afghan Islamist terrorist as being an

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Speaker 1: example of how people are just so frustrated with the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration.

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Speaker 4: You're seeing is an overwhelming frustration of the American people

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Speaker 4: in this country that the lack of respect and regard

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Speaker 4: for the rule of law by this administration and in

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Speaker 4: particular by this secretary is at a level that we

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Speaker 4: have never seen and violates all of the constitutional norms

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Speaker 4: and all of the principles of legal fairness in this country.

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Speaker 5: And you're seeing that manifests itself and threats to law

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Speaker 5: enforcement and bubbling over because people are frustrated and they

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Speaker 5: are channeling that frustration because the administration is not listening.

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Speaker 1: Or hear me out. There was an unvetted Islamist radical

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Speaker 1: terrorist who was allowed into this country from Afghanistan because

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Speaker 1: President Biden's botched withdrawal from that country was a disaster.

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Speaker 1: Julie Johnson, your unhinged liberal of the day, And what

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Speaker 1: did I tell you at the very beginning of this week,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, why I felt like Christmas came early,

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Speaker 1: not just with local crazies like Francesca Hong and man

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Speaker 1: deadbeat Barnes jumping into the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, but with

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Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett getting into a United States Senate race. Her

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Speaker 1: visibility was going to be massively increased, and it was

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Speaker 1: going to be like Christmas every single day with the

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Speaker 1: stupid stuff that comes out of her mouth.

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Speaker 6: And I was right, And now deep thoughts by Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 7: We are going to flip the house, But what good

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Speaker 7: is flipping the house if the only thing that we're

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Speaker 7: doing is shine a light on all the bad that

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Speaker 7: it's being done. The only way that you don't know

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Speaker 7: what's being done is if you're just not paying attention.

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Speaker 7: Like it is clear that they are criminals, It is

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Speaker 7: clear that they have killed people. It is clear that

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Speaker 7: they don't give a damn about the people that actually

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Speaker 7: voted for them. All of this stuff is clear.

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Speaker 1: Wait, it's it's clear that Republicans have killed people. That

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Speaker 1: was from the Joy Read podcast Today. Listen for more

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Speaker 1: deep thoughts by Jasmine Crockett throughout the day and tomorrow

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Speaker 1: here on the Dan o'donald Show. I told you she

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Speaker 1: is dropping some absolute bangers now that the national media

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Speaker 1: attention is even more focused on her. You want to

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Speaker 1: join us on the program this hour, give us a

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Speaker 1: call or shoot us a text four one four seven

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Speaker 1: nine to nine eleven thirty. That's our a noos dot

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Speaker 1: com talk and text line. Email me d D at

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Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Speaker 8: I've told you now a few times that the presidentop

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Speaker 8: wrong SoundBite.

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Speaker 1: There here we go daily Trump Day.

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Speaker 9: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 9: of winning.

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

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Speaker 3: It's also a big win for the United States.

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

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win, Moore, big win for the administration. This morning,

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Speaker 1: Commerce Department reporting a nearly eleven percent drop in the

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Speaker 1: trade deficit to fifty two point eight billion in September.

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Speaker 1: Here's CNBC's Rick Santelli trade.

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Speaker 10: Bunce minus fifty two point eight billion. That's a better

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Speaker 10: lower trade deficit than we expected. We were looking for

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Speaker 10: a number closer to sixty two billion, and that follows

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Speaker 10: a revised minus fifty nine billion.

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Speaker 1: Minus fifty two billion would be.

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Speaker 10: The lightest going back to Wow, we're really going back. Well,

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Speaker 10: my records go back to nineteen ninety two, and to

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Speaker 10: find a smaller number than minus fifty two billion, we're

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Speaker 10: all the way back to June of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Now the President, of course taking to truth social to

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Speaker 1: tout his tariffs as the reason for this trade deficit reduction.

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Speaker 1: It was quite unexpected, as you could I'm sure here

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Speaker 1: in Santelli's voice. Caroline Levitt in her White House press

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Speaker 1: briefing today highlighted some more of the Trump administration's economic successes.

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Speaker 1: As the Democrat narrative has now turned to the affordability

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Speaker 1: crisis that, of course Biden and Democrats caused.

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Speaker 8: President Trump's pro growth policies are making tremendous progress to

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Speaker 8: make America affordable again. Under the painful Biden years, inflation

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Speaker 8: reached a record high nine percent and devoured americans purchasing power.

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Speaker 8: In President Trump's term, thus far, inflation has dropped to

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Speaker 8: an average of just two point seven percent, marking critical progress.

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Speaker 8: The Trump administration is working hard every single day to

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Speaker 8: bring down the cost of living through bigger paychecks and

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Speaker 8: lower prices. Real wages are finally on the rise again

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Speaker 8: and on pace to increase to roughly twelve hundred dollars

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Speaker 8: for the average American worker this year. To put that

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Speaker 8: into perspective, real wage is declined by almost three thousand

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Speaker 8: dollars under the Biden administration. That means Americans right now

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Speaker 8: are on track already to make up one third of

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Speaker 8: the three thousand in lost wages under Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: That's actually kind of remarkable when you think about it.

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Speaker 1: It's not, of course going to matter because the media gatekeepers,

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Speaker 1: the people who present their version of reality to the

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Speaker 1: American people, are hell bent on advancing the narrative that

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Speaker 1: inflation only got bad under the Trump administration, and Caitlin

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Speaker 1: Collins of CNN is one of the chief media narrative drivers,

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Speaker 1: and Levitt in her press conference today, let Collins have it.

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Speaker 8: When President Trump left office in his first term, inflation

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Speaker 8: was one point seven percent, and the previous administration jacked

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Speaker 8: it up to a record high nine percent. So again,

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Speaker 8: in ten months, the president has caught us out of

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Speaker 8: this hole. He's kept it low at two point five percent,

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Speaker 8: and we believe that number is going to continue to decline,

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Speaker 8: especially as energy and oil prices continue to decline as well.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't high under Biden. They're just saying it's not well.

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Speaker 8: Nobody reported on it, being my predecessor was standing at

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Speaker 8: this podium, But now you want to ask me a

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Speaker 8: lot of questions about it, which I'm happy to answer,

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Speaker 8: but I will just add there's a lot more scrutiny

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Speaker 8: Well in the previous administration said that too. My predecessor

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Speaker 8: stood up at this podium and she said inflation doesn't exist.

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Speaker 8: She said the border was secure, and people like you

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Speaker 8: just took her out her word. And now those were

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Speaker 8: two utter lies. Everything I'm telling you is the truth,

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Speaker 8: backed by real factual data, and you just don't want

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Speaker 8: to report on it because you want to push unsure

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Speaker 8: narratives about the President.

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Speaker 2: OOO.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna leave it. Mark. Finally, a federal judge in

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Speaker 1: Maryland ruled this morning that the Trump administration must immediately

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Speaker 1: release Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was initially deported back to

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Speaker 1: El Salvador. Brego Garcia is the alleged MS thirteen affiliated

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Speaker 1: Maryland man, as the Democratic Party in the media called him.

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Speaker 1: He is charged in Tennessee with human trafficking. That, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. Chuck Schumer and

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Speaker 1: the Democrat Senate called for a vote today on extending

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Speaker 1: Obama Care subsidies, something that they are counting on the

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Speaker 1: American people not to understand, so that they can point

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Speaker 1: to expected massive increases in Obamacare premiums that are set

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Speaker 1: to hit in twenty twenty six. They can blame those

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Speaker 1: on Republicans. Levitt was actually asked about this planned vote

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Speaker 1: before it happened. It did go down to defeat this afternoons.

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Speaker 8: I have told you now a few times that the

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Speaker 8: President and the Republicans will continue to unveil creative ideas

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Speaker 8: and solutions to the healthcare crisis that was created by Democrats.

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Speaker 8: And I know Chuck Schumer is putting up a vote today.

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Speaker 8: This is a political show vote. Chuck Schumer is not

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Speaker 8: sincerely interested in lowering healthcare costs for the American people.

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Speaker 8: He's putting this vote on the floor knowing that it

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Speaker 8: will fail so he can have another talking point that

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Speaker 1: In fact, the price increases are one one hundred percent Democrats' fault.

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Speaker 1: Why because not a single Republican voted for Obamacare. That

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Speaker 1: coming up in just a second. But first the immediate

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Speaker 1: claim that somehow Republicans are going to be responsible for

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Speaker 1: premiums increasing, Well, why are premiums increasing on January first,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Well, they're actually known as Enhanced ACA

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Speaker 1: subsidies Affordable Care Act subsidies. They're colloquially sometimes known as

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Speaker 1: premium tax credits. They were originally enacted by Democrats in

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Speaker 1: President Biden's American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. Like everything else, they were supposed to be temporary.

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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be COVID relief measures, but the following year,

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Speaker 1: Democrats extended them for a further three years through the

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Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty five in the Inflation Reduction Act. Now,

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Speaker 1: both bills actually passed through budget reconciliation without a single

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Speaker 1: Republican vote. That means there wasn't a single Republican who

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Speaker 1: voted for enhanced ACA subsidies meant to hide the true

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Speaker 1: cost of what people are actually paying for Obamacare from

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Speaker 1: the people who are paying way too much for Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: They did not pass when they was originally enacted and

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Speaker 1: when they were extended through twenty twenty five. Now, as

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Speaker 1: Democrats always do, they're trying to take a temporary crisis

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Speaker 1: and turn it, as Rama Manuel famously said, into a

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Speaker 1: political opportunity. Of course, they wanted to make these subsidies permanent.

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Speaker 1: That was always the plan. They wanted these to extend

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Speaker 1: ad infinitum in order to hide how badly the ACA failed.

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Speaker 1: They were originally supposed to last for a year, but

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Speaker 1: then Democrats in the Inflation Reduction Act decide to spend

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch. What do you think is going to

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Speaker 1: happen if people are getting more money for healthcare? Is

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Speaker 1: that going to increase inflation or reduce inflation. Well, if

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Speaker 1: there's more demand in the form of people being able

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Speaker 1: to use a service more often, and there is roughly

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Speaker 1: the same number of providers of that service i e. Doctors,

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Speaker 1: nurse practitioners and so forth, there is of course going

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Speaker 1: to be inflation. It was an inflationary policy put in

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Speaker 1: the ironically named Inflation Reduction Act that too, passed without

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Speaker 1: a single Republican vote. But if you're wondering whether it's

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Speaker 1: just now that the Affordable Care Act, also ironically named,

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Speaker 1: was largely unaffordable. It was not. Don't take money word

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Speaker 1: for it. Though. Here's Bernie Sanders, Socialist senator, literally two

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Speaker 1: days ago going on CNN and saying, yeah, no, healthcare

671
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Speaker 1: was totally screwed up, long before the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is before the Big Beautiful Bill,

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Speaker 1: our healthcare system was a disaster.

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Speaker 9: It is dysfunctional, and the American people and Democrats have

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Speaker 9: got to deal with the factor.

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Speaker 1: Yeah they do, thank you very much, Bernie. So now

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Speaker 1: this this issue, this idea that somehow it was President

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Speaker 1: Trump's one Big Beautiful Bill which didn't extend the Obamacare

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Speaker 1: premiums forever that this is the reason people are paying

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Speaker 1: way more for health insurance. Folks, We've been over this

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Speaker 1: for almost fifteen years now. In fact, it'll be the

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Speaker 1: fifteenth anniversary Christmas Eve of the passage of Obamacare. Do

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Speaker 1: you know why I know that? Do you know why

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00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: I know that exact day? Because I had to work

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00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: that Christmas Eve because those people wanted to get that

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Speaker 1: thing passed while everybody wasn't paying attention. You might remember

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, we have to pass the bill so you

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Speaker 1: can find out what's in it. Yeah, that was Christmas

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Speaker 1: Eve and I had to work to cover the passage

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Speaker 1: of Obamacare. So, yeah, maybe I'm a little personally bitter.

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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is this. The Affordable Care Act

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Speaker 1: forced insurers to accept everyone, regardless of their health status,

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Speaker 1: and to charge the same base premium to someone who

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Speaker 1: is healthy, someone who is sick, someone who is old,

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Speaker 1: someone who is young. So if you're a twenty four

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Speaker 1: year old who's totally healthy, who is fit as a

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Speaker 1: fiddle and can go out and run marathons, you are

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Speaker 1: being charged the same rate as a twenty four or

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Speaker 1: twenty five year old with care. Answer that is insane,

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Speaker 1: because somebody with cancer is obviously going to incur a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more cost. So the result was that healthy

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Speaker 1: people were massively overcharged to subsidize the people who were

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Speaker 1: taken on who were sick. Right now, a healthy twenty

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Speaker 1: seven year old pays give or take the same premium

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Speaker 1: as a sixty year old with a ton of pre

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Speaker 1: existing conditions. Does that make any sense at all? If

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Speaker 1: you've never gotten into a car accident and you're sixty

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Speaker 1: years old, your vision is totally fine, your reflexes are

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Speaker 1: totally fine, You've got a flawless driving record, and you

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Speaker 1: always drive at exactly the speed limit. Do you think

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Speaker 1: you should be paying the exact same for auto insurance

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Speaker 1: as a sixteen year old whose total dad's car and

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Speaker 1: has three speeding tickets? Of course not Not only that,

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Speaker 1: the ACA required every single individual and small group plan

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Speaker 1: to cover ten broad categories, even if the buyer didn't

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Speaker 1: want or need them. You might remember this twenty seven

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Speaker 1: year old men had to get maternity care. They had

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Speaker 1: to get pediatric, dental, and vision care, even though they

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Speaker 1: didn't have kids and obviously would never need maternity care.

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Speaker 1: A single man in his thirties was forced to buy

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Speaker 1: maternity care. What do you think this is going to do?

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Speaker 1: It added roughly ten to thirty percent to the price

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Speaker 1: of premiums, depending on what state you happen to live in.

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders understands he doesn't want to admit the actual

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Speaker 1: reason because I still believe Obamacare was designed to fail.

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Speaker 1: This once again, we're talking yesterday about the Cloward Piven

727
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Speaker 1: strategy to sociologists who are married to each other. In

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies got the idea that if you just

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Speaker 1: flood the social welfare system, eventually it will collapse. And

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Speaker 1: then you'll be able to point the finger at the

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Speaker 1: system itself and you'll say, hey, this clearly doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: We need to have universal basic income. Well, if you

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Speaker 1: take the Cloward Piven strategy and apply it to healthcare,

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Speaker 1: seems to be working as advertised, doesn't it. You jack

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Speaker 1: up the price of coverage, you make the quote unquote

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Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act so unaffordable, nobody can afford health insurance,

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Speaker 1: and thus nobody can afford medical care. The system collapses,

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Speaker 1: and you're able to say, well, look, this capitalist system

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Speaker 1: clearly does it work. We need to have single payer healthcare.

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Speaker 1: That's why Bernie is still out there saying the system

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Speaker 1: is not sustainable. This is why he continues to say

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Speaker 1: healthcare is dysfunctional because he believes that if this system collapses,

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Speaker 1: and according to Bernie and All is merry band of socialists,

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Speaker 1: it's already collapsed. We need to Cloward Piven, abandon it,

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Speaker 1: junk it, and get to radical left wing socialism. All right,

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, why you need to know Ticky Toby

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Speaker 1: as it relates to Morgan Geyser. It's a connection that

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Speaker 1: has not before been made in media. We are going

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Speaker 1: to make it and it is significant. Stay tuned, Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show, coming right back. We have got what I

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Speaker 1: am not going to call an exclusive story here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'Donnell Show. But I have not yet heard

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Speaker 1: it reported in any sort of media. I have seen

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Speaker 1: this on social media, specifically talk with a number of

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Speaker 1: users noting or at least one user I was made

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Speaker 1: aware of today, one user noting that Morgan Geyser's boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: when he was arrested along with Geyser in Illinois after

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Speaker 1: helping her escape, was actually dressed as a character from

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Speaker 1: the slender Man Creepy Pasta. His name is Tiki Toby,

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Speaker 1: and he is apparently a bad guy in the slender

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Speaker 1: Man universe. According to the wiki Villains Villains Wiki, Ticky

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Speaker 1: Toby is depicted as a disturbing figure with a pale,

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Speaker 1: gaunt complexion, sunken eyes, unkempt hair, crooked teeth, in a

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Speaker 1: thin frame, typically wearing tattered clothing, and characterized by his

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Speaker 1: unsettling grin, unblinking stare, and erratic movements. Toby, according to

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Speaker 1: the biography, is a tragic boy who was born with

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Speaker 1: several mental disorders and was constantly bullied until he went

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Speaker 1: insane and killed his abusive father. He was found by

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Speaker 1: slender Man and serves as one of his proxies. He

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Speaker 1: grew up with little to no friends. He lived with

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Speaker 1: his mother, his older sister, Lyra, and his father. When

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Speaker 1: Toby was seventeen years old, Lyra and Toby were involved

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Speaker 1: in a tragic car accident, resulting in Lyra's death. After

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Speaker 1: the death of his sister, Toby grew more and more troubled,

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Speaker 1: his symptoms getting worse, barely eating or leaving his room,

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Speaker 1: growing less and less social. He then lost control of

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Speaker 1: his sanity and one night attacked and killed his father.

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Speaker 1: He fled out of the house, grabbing two of the

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Speaker 1: hatchets in his garage, a box of matches, a gallon

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Speaker 1: of gasoline, set the neighborhood on fire in the attempt

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Speaker 1: to escape the local police. The fire surrounded him. He

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Speaker 1: was about to give into his own death, but slender

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00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: Man appeared and saved him before he blacked out. Toby

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Speaker 1: woke up with no memory of his past life and

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Speaker 1: soon became one of slender Man's proxies. This sound familiar,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. What was it that Morgan Geyser hoped

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Speaker 1: to do when she stabbed her friend Peyton nineteen times

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Speaker 1: as a twelve year old back in twenty fourteen? She

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Speaker 1: hoped to become one of the slender Man's proxies. Ticky

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Speaker 1: Toby spelled ti cc the eye. Toby is depicted as

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Speaker 1: wearing dark blue jeans, a camouflage green coat over a

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Speaker 1: blue hooded sweatshirt. Guess what slender Man suspect, Morgan Geyser's

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Speaker 1: creepy older transgender boyfriend was wearing when he was arrested

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00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: in his mugshot, and presumably when he helped Geyser escape from

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Speaker 1: that No Security group home in Madison, dark blue jeans,

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Speaker 1: a military fatigue green coat over a blue hooded sweatshirt. Now,

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Speaker 1: I said, last hour, with respect to the Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, that sometimes there can be coincidence, I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is one of those times, Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the exact costume this character, Tiki

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00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: Toby wears. What was Ticky Toby on his way to do?

802
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: He was going to escape his abusive father. What was

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Speaker 1: Morgan doing? She was escaping not her father, but the

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Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin. I believe the boyfriend dressed as Ticky

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Speaker 1: Toby because it was symbolism in his rather warped mind

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Speaker 1: that he was assisting Geyser, i e. The slender Man,

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Speaker 1: or in the alternative, that Geyser, who herself was not

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Speaker 1: dressed as Ticky Toby or any other slender Man adjacent

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Speaker 1: character that I could find. Folks, This may or may

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Speaker 1: not be evidence that Morgan Geyser was still having slender

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Speaker 1: Man delusions even eleven years later. I'm saying may or

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Speaker 1: may not because I will allow for the possibility that

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Speaker 1: the creepy, older trans boyfriend was just looking to have

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Speaker 1: some symbolism and I am accounting for the possibility that

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Speaker 1: this was just a complete coincidence, but again, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is right down to the color. It is like

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Speaker 1: if he was going to go for Halloween as Ticky Toby,

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Speaker 1: this is how he would dress. I am, by the way,

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Speaker 1: putting up a side by side picture that is going

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Speaker 1: to be up across social media on the Dan O'donnald show.

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Speaker 1: I'm not exactly Again, I can't call this an exclusive

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Speaker 1: story because it's sort of been floating around TikTok, and

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Speaker 1: one of my good friends alerted me to this this morning.

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Speaker 1: I said, oh my goodness, that is certainly potentially evidence

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Speaker 1: that the girl is still the young woman is still

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Speaker 1: having slender Man delusions, or that she is or he

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Speaker 1: is poking fun at the fact that she was charged

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Speaker 1: and committed for the slender Man static, or they are

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Speaker 1: sharing a delusion about slender Man. Either way, this appears

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Speaker 1: to be yet more evidence that this young woman had

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Speaker 1: no business ever being released from the Winnebago Mental Health Facility,

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Speaker 1: and quite frankly, if she's still having these delusions, and

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Speaker 1: as I have been reporting, I have been the lone

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Speaker 1: voice reporting this. Ladies and gentlemen, the fact that she

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Speaker 1: is now identifying as a he hymn and has taken

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Speaker 1: on a boy's name. Schizophrenia is often very, very highly

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Speaker 1: correlative or very closely linked with transgender ideology or true

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Speaker 1: gender dysphoria. I mean, think about it. If someone really

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Speaker 1: is not in full possession of their faculties, they think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm you know, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: stab my friend because slender Man told me to, and

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Speaker 1: I want to be like Ticky Toby and become one

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Speaker 1: of his proxies. How is that fundamentally all that different

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Speaker 1: from saying, well, I was actually supposed to be born

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Speaker 1: a boy, but God messed up and gave me female

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Speaker 1: reproductive organs. It's it's a delusion. It's it's ultimately, and

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Speaker 1: mental health professionals used to recognize it as such. When

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Speaker 1: when someone is saying, Okay, I really think that I'm

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Speaker 1: actually a boy when I'm a girl. That's delusional. That's

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Speaker 1: very that's that's evidence of potential schizophrenia or some deep

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Speaker 1: seated psychological issue. I'll tell you what. I Am going

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Speaker 1: to get this up. I could not find a good

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Speaker 1: picture of Ticky Toby to compare the picture of the

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Speaker 1: weird transgender boyfriend too, but I will get that up

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Speaker 1: during this commercial break. Stay tuned. We'll have more on

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01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: this coming up next. Is it coincidental that the creepy,

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Speaker 1: much older transgender boyfriend of Morgan Geyser the I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say convicted slender Man stabber because she was

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Speaker 1: found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect,

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Speaker 1: but the slender Man stabber, the young woman who was

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Speaker 1: sent to a mental health facility in Winnebago after the

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Speaker 1: trial in twenty fourteen. She was twelve years old when

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Speaker 1: she stabbed her friend nineteen times in an attempt to

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Speaker 1: kill her so that she could become a proxy for

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Speaker 1: slender Man. Her creepy older transgender boyfriend, who I am

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Speaker 1: not naming because he has not been criminally charged with anything,

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Speaker 1: he was dressed exactly. We have a side by side

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Speaker 1: comparison photo up on our social media at Dan o'donald's

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Speaker 1: show on Instagram. If you're not following there, we just

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Speaker 1: started using our Instagram pretty regularly, so please do follow us.

871
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Speaker 1: It's Instagram at Dan o'donald's show, at Dan o'donald show

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Speaker 1: on Facebook and on x as well, we've got it

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Speaker 1: right at the top of the page on all of

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Speaker 1: our social media. I mean, I producer Eric, do you

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Speaker 1: see that side by side picture. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: a coincidence. I really don't. Does it not look like

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01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 1: he is dressed as the character Tiki Toby. It is

878
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: like Halloween. It's like a Halloween costume he dressed up

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01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: for their big escape. I have got his mugshot on

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01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: one side, and I have got a computer generated picture

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01:03:56,000 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: of Tiki Toby that I found from the villain's wiki

882
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: fandom page. It's sort of like Wikipedia for fictional villains, apparently,

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01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 1: and according to this fictional biography of the character Ticki Toby,

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Speaker 1: he became one of slender Man's proxies after he killed

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Speaker 1: his abusive alcoholic family and then burned down the entire neighborhood. Now,

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01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think you need to have like

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Speaker 1: an advanced literary degree to see the parallels here between

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Speaker 1: what actually happened. She attempts to kill her friend to

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Speaker 1: become one of slender Man's proxies, just like the fictional

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Speaker 1: character Ticki Toby killed his father to become one of

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Speaker 1: slender Man's proxies. Now, eleven years later, she's supposedly totally fine.

892
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: She is no longer schizophrenic, she has no more delusions

893
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: of slender Man. But the guy who shows up to

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01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:58,439
Speaker 1: help her escape from this mental health facillitay, or rather

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Speaker 1: this group home. And I guess I shouldn't say the

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Speaker 1: word escape. That would imply that there was anything keeping

897
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: her in this group home. She just walked out the door.

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Speaker 1: That's why she should have never been in this group home.

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01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: Now this guy's dressed as Ticky Toby. They just go

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Speaker 1: on the run. I think it is worth at least

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01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:27,520
Speaker 1: examining was she going on the run to potentially commit

902
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: another crime so she could become slender Man's proxy. Finally,

903
01:05:32,400 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: after so many years, she's able to do it. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Mike in Greenfield. You're on the Dan O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 6: It's going on, Mike, Hey, damn.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 11: The first thing that came to mind for me was

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Speaker 11: I heard this guy, This creepy old, forty seven year

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Speaker 11: old guy had a domestic abuse. He's been running around

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Speaker 11: homeless this night.

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Speaker 6: He's not a mental health stuck in a mental health situation.

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Speaker 6: She's been in a mental health since she was a child,

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Speaker 6: so her brain probably isn't very developed. Is this guy

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Speaker 6: manipulating her? Because if he is a domestic violence case,

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Speaker 6: that would imply that he's a manipulator of some sort. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: so I'm wondering was he manipulating this young lady's mind

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Speaker 6: that's probably very underdeveloped.

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Speaker 1: You're saying he was dressing as Ticky Toby in order

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Speaker 1: to get her under his sway. It's certainly possible.

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Speaker 11: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: He just sounds like a manipulator.

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Speaker 1: That's entirely possible. Mike, thank you so much for the call,

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Speaker 1: Really to appreciate it. It is certainly possible. I boy,

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Speaker 1: I'd have to think about that. Yes, I think it is.

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Speaker 1: I think what is most likely Ockham's raiser again is

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Speaker 1: that he knew that they were going to escape, and

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Speaker 1: he said, Hey, wouldn't it be fun to dress up

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Speaker 1: as Ticky Toby while we make our escape? Or maybe

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Speaker 1: he just had those clothes lying around folks. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to sound like Candas Owens here. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: got the color scheme almost exactly right. Now. Is it

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Speaker 1: a common thing for people to wear I guess, but

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Speaker 1: it really did seem like he was dressed as Ticky Doo. Again,

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Speaker 1: I will allow for the very distinct possibility this is

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Speaker 1: just a coincidence that, again, this is just what the guy.

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Speaker 1: Remember I was saying in the three o'clock hour that

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Speaker 1: Candice Owans made a big deal out of the fact

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Speaker 1: that there were a bunch of people wearing maroon sweatshirts

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01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: on a hot day in Utah when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is proof positive because this

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Speaker 1: guy happened to be wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a

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Speaker 1: jacket over it. But I'm telling you outa this is

944
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Speaker 1: not like, oh well, it's just kind of a random thing.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea who Ticky Toby was until this morning,

946
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:20,680
Speaker 1: Literally this morning. That's a rather odd combination to be

947
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:24,440
Speaker 1: wearing when you just happen to be helping the slender

948
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:30,679
Speaker 1: Man stabber bust out of her group home. Seriously, check

949
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:35,520
Speaker 1: it out, decide for yourself. Is this just a coincidence.

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01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: I have a side by side picture her boyfriend as

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01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:44,799
Speaker 1: well as Ticky Toby up on all of our social

952
01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:50,280
Speaker 1: media at Dan O'Donnell's show on x on Facebook, on Instagram.

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01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,600
Speaker 1: Let's step aside, we might be able to take a

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01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: couple of more phone calls. We will also name the

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01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 1: unsung Hero of the day. Very cool story. You're not

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01:08:58,439 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 1: going to want to miss that. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. Earlier this year, we started a new

958
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: daily segment on the show, or at least as daily

959
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,600
Speaker 1: as we can. Sometimes breaking news or investigative reports or

960
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,840
Speaker 1: things like that get in the way. But we wanted

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Speaker 1: to have sort of a companion piece to the unhinged

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01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 1: liberal of the day. And it's always great to laugh

963
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: at just how crazy the left is, but I also

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01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 1: wanted to draw attention to people who are doing things right.

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: Don't necessarily have to be politically or socially conservative or

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01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: anything like that. But instead of laughing at the insanity

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01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: of the left, how about we give an ad a

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01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: boy or add a girl to the people who are

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01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 1: doing things that often get overlooked. And that's why we

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01:09:51,040 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: developed the Unsung Hero. Today's Unsung Hero of the Day

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Speaker 1: goes by a nickname, Officer wah Wah. Now you're going

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Speaker 1: to understand why I refer to her as Officer Wahwah

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01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 1: or Suzanne Wawah because she might have the single most

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01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 1: unpronounceable last name in the history of last names. It

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Speaker 1: is spelled wa w r z y nia ko wsk I.

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Speaker 1: Google Gemini suggests Vaja Nayakowski, Vovnihayatkowski. Officer wa wah will

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Speaker 1: Suffice I got the following email from her son, James.

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01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 6: Hi.

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01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: Dan, I'm a big fan of the show, and my

980
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 1: entire family listens to you. I'd like to nominate my

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01:10:56,280 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: mother as your unsung Hero of the day. She has

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Speaker 1: served as an office Sir with the Milwaukee Police Department

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,760
Speaker 1: for thirty four years and is set to retire on

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Speaker 1: December twenty third. She's currently first in seniority. My mother,

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Speaker 1: Officer Wahwah, began her career on July eighth, nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: one has been protecting and serving her community ever since.

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01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: If possible, I'd be grateful if you could read this

988
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: message on air, since I know she'll be listening. Mom,

989
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: I want you to know that now, as an adult,

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01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: I understand how hard it was for you to wake

991
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night and then come

992
01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 1: home in the middle of the day, rarely able to

993
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: see your kids. I now understand how hard it was

994
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: to walk through the door each day and have to

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01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: tuck away all the terrible things you had witnessed. I

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01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: now understand how hard it was to have to work holidays,

997
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: family gatherings, and our birthdays. I now understand how hard

998
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 1: it was for you to tell your own neighbors that

999
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: you are in law enforcement. I now understand how hard

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01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: it was to show up to work during twenty twenty

1001
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: to a city that hated you, but you swore an

1002
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: oath to serve and protect, and you, like all other

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01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: rank and file did. Thank you for sacrificing your mind

1004
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:15,560
Speaker 1: and yourself for the betterment of your husband, children, and community.

1005
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 1: I love you, mom. James. Wow, that is absolutely the

1006
01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:31,839
Speaker 1: type of person that we want to feature. Suzanne Officer. Wahwah,

1007
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 1: congratulations and thank you for an incredible career. You are

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01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: today's unsung hero of the day.

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Speaker 10: Man.

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01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:50,439
Speaker 1: What an incredible email. I actually was almost moved to tears.

1011
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:55,640
Speaker 1: Even as cold hearted as this conservative is, I was

1012
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 1: moved by that. It does sort of put into perspective

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01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: the sacrifices that all law enforcement officers make that sometimes

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01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: maybe their kids don't understand, Like, hey, dad, why you

1015
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: got to leave. It's my birthday. Why can't I see dad?

1016
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: Why does dad or mom have to sleep all day? Well,

1017
01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 1: it's because they've been working all night. And there are

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01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:23,720
Speaker 1: very few people who would make the sort of sacrifices

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01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:29,559
Speaker 1: that Officer woah wah did for thirty four years. I mean,

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01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:33,960
Speaker 1: that is an incredible career, a truly incredible career, and

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01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are going to be like fifteen people.

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01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 1: This might be the most Polish last name I think

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01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 1: I've ever heard, vov Janayakowski, vov Janayakowski. I'm gonna go

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01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:53,480
Speaker 1: with vov Zhanaiyakowski. That's what Ai says. So Officer Wahwah

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01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: or James Wowah. If I totally mangled that, please let

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01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: me know. I love that nickname. By the way, Officer Wahwah,

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01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:09,480
Speaker 1: that's fantastic. You know why it's wahwah because vovjanya Kowski

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01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: would not fit on the little nameplate. It's spelled waw

1029
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:23,640
Speaker 1: rz y n Ia ko Wski. Congratulations, Officer Wawai. I

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01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:25,639
Speaker 1: hope you and your family have a very merry Christmas.

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01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:27,920
Speaker 1: Dan O'donnalds Show coming right back after the news.

1032
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 2: Why when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry

1033
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:38,680
Speaker 2: Christmas and wish each other merry Christmas. These children are

1034
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 2: not going to have a merry Christmas. How dare we

1035
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:46,559
Speaker 2: speak merry Christmas? How dare we?

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01:14:46,560 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: Well? The choice was yours last November, America, and you

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: chose wisely. Kamala Harris back in twenty seventeen when she

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01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 1: was a senator, contrasted with President trum wishing the country

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01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:04,760
Speaker 1: of Merria Christmas. How dare we say Mary Christmas? She

1040
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: sounds like Greta Thunberg. Welcome back to the Dan o'donalds Show.

1041
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:13,720
Speaker 1: It is conservative thought and not just talk. If you'd

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01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: like to join us four one four seven nine nine

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty. That is our vetnos dot com talk and

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Speaker 1: text line. You can reach us toll free one eight

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01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: one hundred eight three eight nine four seven six, email

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01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:31,320
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01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:34,720
Speaker 1: show on x on Facebook, on Instagram, or on our

1048
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. We are streaming everywhere, and please do subscribe

1049
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 1: or like or heart or thumbs up or hug or

1050
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Speaker 1: whatever to the Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio or

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01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:52,640
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts. So I'm breaking news this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Aisha Carr, the former Milwaukee School board member, has pleaded

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01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 1: guilty to charges of corruption. She resigned following an investigation

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01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:10,440
Speaker 1: into her time on the board in which she allegedly

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01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: intentionally failed to make a full report on campaign finance documents.

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Speaker 1: It was alleged that she was using campaign money for

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01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 1: personal expenses. She pleaded guilty to day this past April.

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Speaker 1: She was charged and she was investigated from the time

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Speaker 1: she first started on the board twenty twenty one until

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Speaker 1: May of twenty twenty four, when she abruptly resigned. Now,

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01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:45,680
Speaker 1: the timing of that was always rather suspicious because you

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01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: might remember that we actually had Aisha Karr on this

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01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: very radio station because she was trying to galvanize opposition

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Speaker 1: to a massive Milwaukee Public Schools referendum that ultimately did

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Speaker 1: pass in twenty twenty four. This was while it was

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Speaker 1: abundantly clear that MPs was not deserving of this money,

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Speaker 1: but the public had no idea. Now, Carr said, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not understanding why we need to go to referendum

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Speaker 1: because we have got all of this COVID money. Remember

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Speaker 1: it was a quarter of a billion dollar referendum two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars plus that Milwaukee voters were

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Speaker 1: going to vote for in April of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Car was actually repeatedly rebuffed in her efforts to hold

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Speaker 1: community meetings on this ahead of that vote. She was

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Speaker 1: supposed to use a high school, but then she was

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Speaker 1: told she couldn't use that high school, and it was

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Speaker 1: it was a mess, And apparently this investigation was launched

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Speaker 1: into her as she was blowing the whistle on MPs

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Speaker 1: going to referendum in spite of the fact that it

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Speaker 1: looked like they were flush with cash. Well, what neither

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Speaker 1: Card nor anyone else knew, and what was revealed two

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Speaker 1: weeks after that referendum safely passed, was that Milwaukee Public

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Speaker 1: Schools had not filled out it's required financial disclosures with

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Speaker 1: the state for years. In fact, no one quite knew

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Speaker 1: how Milwaukee spent nearly a billion dollars of those COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen esser relief grants that we were talking about. In

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Speaker 1: the three o'clock hour, the Institute for Reforming Government did

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Speaker 1: an incredible expose on how school districts, including MPs, frittered

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Speaker 1: away this money and then found themselves in a massive

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Speaker 1: financial pickle because what they were frittering away the temporary

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Speaker 1: COVID funding on permanent salaries. Even though there was a

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Speaker 1: five percent decrease in the total number of K twelve

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Speaker 1: students in Wisconsin from pre COVID levels to now, districts

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Speaker 1: hired so aggressively that they hit all time high staffing

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Speaker 1: ratios i e. The number of students per staff members,

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Speaker 1: students per teacher, that sort of thing. This is just

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Speaker 1: too coincidental for me. All of a sudden, there's an investing. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Aisha Karr did not commit a crime,

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Speaker 1: nor am I saying that she shouldn't have been investigated

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Speaker 1: and criminally charged for said crime. I find the timing

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Speaker 1: of the launch of the investigation into her rather suspicious.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, she is blowing the whistle on

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Speaker 1: MPs attempting to soak taxpayers for a quarter of a

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Speaker 1: billion dollars, and she just happens to face said district

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Speaker 1: attorney's investigation. Okay, I mean she was in public office

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Speaker 1: since twenty twenty one. Seems to me, if it was

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Speaker 1: that obvious that she was misusing campaign funds, that you

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Speaker 1: can get real quick charges against her. Seems to me

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Speaker 1: that she could have been criminally charged at any point.

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Speaker 1: It was only at the point where she starts blowing

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Speaker 1: the whistle and starts looking into mps's finances that this

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Speaker 1: investigation into her really hits its stride, and then she's

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Speaker 1: forced to resign the following month after the referendum passes.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we opened up the show by talking

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Speaker 1: about the insane increase in property taxes. Now, I myself

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Speaker 1: don't have much of a basis for comparison. We sold

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Speaker 1: our old house a couple of years ago, a year

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Speaker 1: and a half ago in the summer of twenty what

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Speaker 1: would that have been summer of twenty twenty four, and

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Speaker 1: we just built a house, so we got the very

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Speaker 1: first property assessment for the developed property that we live on.

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Speaker 1: I mean it it's actually lower than I thought it

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Speaker 1: would be, but I was just bracing for the absolute worst.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to know, if you want to text me

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Speaker 1: at four one, four, seven, nine, nine eleven thirty, just

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Speaker 1: how much your property taxes increased by and just where

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Speaker 1: you're from, what city, how much the increase was. I

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Speaker 1: would love to know, because homeowners are getting absolutely hit hard.

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Speaker 1: And now that those property tax bills are going out

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Speaker 1: across the state, you can finally see just what a

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Speaker 1: Governor Ever's budget did to you. Property values have increased,

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Speaker 1: what Biden inflation did to you, and what evers four

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Speaker 1: hundred year school funding veto did to you. Just under

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Speaker 1: Governor Ever's budget, levies estimated by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau

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Speaker 1: to increase by about five percent this year, another five

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Speaker 1: percent next year. That's property tax levies. Okay. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's the amount of tax that's Governor Evers allowed for

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Speaker 1: through this insane four hundred year veto. And I think

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Speaker 1: you pretty sure, Eric, Do you think people understand what

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Speaker 1: we mean when we say the four hundred year veto.

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Speaker 6: Have to?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So Governor Evers used what's known as a partial

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Speaker 1: veto or line item veto. When you think of a veto,

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Speaker 1: you think you can either pass legislation or as a

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Speaker 1: chief executive, you can strike it down. If you are

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Speaker 1: a governor, you're a president, you can veto the legislation

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Speaker 1: that's passed by the legislature and then it just dies.

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Speaker 1: Here in Wisconsin, we have something called the line item vetos.

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Speaker 1: So on a budget, the governor has the power to

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Speaker 1: just strike out parts of it that he doesn't like

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Speaker 1: and keep the rest of it active. What Governor Evers

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Speaker 1: did was to cross out the numbers to zero and

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Speaker 1: a dash to turn twenty twenty four dash twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five into twenty four twenty five. So, instead of the

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Speaker 1: legislature which authorized per pupil increases throughout twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty five until the twenty twenty four twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five school year, when there would be a new

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Speaker 1: budget that would be in effects, allowed the two hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy nine million dollars per year potential increase to

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Speaker 1: go into effect for four hundred more years.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 1: You would think since what are known as Frankenstein or

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Speaker 1: Vana White vetos would be totally unconstitutional. In fact, we

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Speaker 1: did as a state go to referendum and pass a

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Speaker 1: constitutional amendment that barred Frankenstein vetos where you just cross

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Speaker 1: out individual letters to make new words. You would think

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Speaker 1: this is a slam dunk, easy case. Right.

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Speaker 9: Wrong.

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Speaker 1: Wrong. We've got four liberal women who now control the

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Speaker 1: State Supreme Court, and every single one of them voted

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Speaker 1: in a four to three decision to uphold this veto.

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Speaker 1: Why Because a Frankenstein veto, you see, only applies to

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Speaker 1: letters numbers. So even though a number is simply a

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Speaker 1: numerical symbol that represents a word that we understand to mean,

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Speaker 1: two two means the same thing as the numeral two.

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Speaker 1: But because of that difference, you see, Governor Evers was

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Speaker 1: able to extend funding something that the legislature never approved

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Speaker 1: for another four hundred years. As a result of that,

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Speaker 1: we're now seeing an average property tax increase. And this

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Speaker 1: is just on a median priced home of up to

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Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty three dollars per year. The

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Speaker 1: biggest reason that property tax values have increased is that

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Speaker 1: home values have increased, and this is bidenflation equalized property

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Speaker 1: values jumped in eight point six percent for residential properties

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Speaker 1: just in the past year. This is the third largest

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Speaker 1: increase year over year in two thousand and six since

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Commercial properties jumped seven point two percent.

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Speaker 1: Even if tax bill stayed flat or decreased modestly, taxes

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Speaker 1: would still go up even if the rates were the

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Speaker 1: exact same, because the value is so much more. We

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Speaker 1: are now paying so much more. So I want to

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Speaker 1: see what percent or what total dollar value your property

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Speaker 1: tax bill went up by Send them to me. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's go via tax four one, four, seven, nine, nine

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Speaker 1: to eleven thirty. Let's now, producer Eric, if we can,

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Speaker 1: President Trump is taking questions from reporters in the Oval office.

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Speaker 1: He is signing legislation or an executive order. I'm not

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Speaker 1: exactly sure. Let's go to the president, Eric, Can we

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Speaker 1: go to the president? Can we go to the president

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Speaker 1: right now? Fox News?

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Speaker 3: Thank you on that. Well.

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Speaker 9: Relative to AI, I speak to him a lot about it.

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Speaker 9: I speak to him a lot because I have a

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Speaker 9: very good relationship with him. As you know, if you

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Speaker 9: had another president, you would have a.

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Speaker 3: Big ar earth problem. And it turned out out to

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Speaker 3: be a problem.

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Speaker 9: They're purchasing tremendous amounts of the soybeans and our agricultural products.

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Speaker 3: Now we're getting along with it very well. Know, we

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Speaker 3: talk about AI quite a bit. We talk about everything

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Speaker 3: quite a bit. Well, you have now one of the

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Speaker 3: things that.

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Speaker 9: One of the things I talked to China about is

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Speaker 9: the denuclearization of weapons that we'd like to see if

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Speaker 9: we could stop that. I've spoken to I'm talking about

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Speaker 9: nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 3: I've spoken to China about that.

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Speaker 9: I've spoken to Russia about that, and I think it

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Speaker 9: would be something that we would want to do and

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Speaker 9: they would like to do. And I think they say

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Speaker 9: they won't want you to start or follow along. Well

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Speaker 9: that's what they've told you, But you know what they

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Speaker 9: tell you is different than what they President, you made

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Speaker 9: a commitment to the Europeans back in July.

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Speaker 3: If I remember, right to participate in some kind of

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Speaker 3: uh of a peace keeping force.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Should there be a peace agreement?

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Speaker 9: And you mentioned I think air support, intelligence and so forth.

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Speaker 3: Does that commn't still stand? Uh? Is the US ready

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Speaker 3: to go contribute?

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Speaker 9: It's called the the Security Agreement, bastically that they call

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Speaker 9: it the Security Agree.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we would help. We would help with security.

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Speaker 9: Because it's I think a necessary factor in getting it done.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 9: I thought that we were very close with Russia to

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Speaker 9: having a deal. I thought we were very close with

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Speaker 9: Ukraine to having a deal.

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Speaker 3: In fact. Uh, other than presidents Lensky's people loved the

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Speaker 3: concept of the deal. You know, we threw something out. Well,

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Speaker 3: there's four or five different parts.

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Speaker 9: It's you know, a little bit complicated because you're cutting

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Speaker 9: up land and it's certain way it's not the easiest thing.

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Speaker 9: Is sort of like a complex real estate deal times

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Speaker 9: a thousand, right, But it's a deal that would have

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Speaker 9: stopped the killing of thousands of lives every month, thousands

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Speaker 9: and thousands of lives, mostly soldiers.

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Speaker 3: But as you know, there's some bombs being career.

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Speaker 6: Build.

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Speaker 9: Well, there's a meeting on Saturday. We'll see whether or

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Speaker 9: not we attend the meeting. We said we'll attend the

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Speaker 9: meeting if we think there's a good chance. They want

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Speaker 9: me to attend. They want us to attend, and we'll

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Speaker 9: be attending the meeting on Saturday in Europe.

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Speaker 3: If we think there's a good chance, and we don't.

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Speaker 9: Want to waste a lot of time, we think it's negative.

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Speaker 9: We you know, we we want it to get settled.

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Speaker 9: We want to save a lot of lives. As you know,

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Speaker 9: in the past, we spent could be three hundred, three

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Speaker 9: hundred and fifty billion dollars given it to Ukraine. You know,

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Speaker 9: we got nothing in return, but we gave it to Ukraine.

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Speaker 3: I ended up getting.

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Speaker 9: Rare earth in return, even though I didn't spend money.

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Speaker 9: And we are now selling weapons NATO. We're not selling

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Speaker 9: it to Ukraine. We're selling weapons at full price to.

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Speaker 3: NATO. As you know, they distribute those.

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Speaker 9: Weapons, probably to Ukraine for the most part. They're probably

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Speaker 9: doing it to others also. But we're not involved in

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Speaker 9: the war other than the fact that we are involved

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Speaker 9: in a negotiation because people want us there.

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Speaker 3: Ukraine wants us involved very much.

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Speaker 9: Europe is Europe wants US involved and a great relationship

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Speaker 9: with the countries of Europe. As you know, I took GDP,

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Speaker 9: you know, I took what they're spending as a percentage of.

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Speaker 3: GDP, but it was at two and they weren't paying.

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Speaker 9: And now it's at five, and everybody's amazed.

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Speaker 1: But that five President Trump saying he believed that they

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Speaker 1: were close to a trilateral agreement with the United States, Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: and Russia on ending that war. Let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the presidesies talking about some of the sticking points, but some.

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Speaker 3: People also where bombers were dropped.

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Speaker 9: But for the most part, twenty five thousand and soldiers

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Speaker 9: died last month. I would love to see it stop,

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Speaker 9: and we're working very hard. It doesn't really affect the

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Speaker 9: United States unless they got out.

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Speaker 3: Of control, you know, a thing like that, As you.

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Speaker 9: Probably know because you are a professional, real professional, which

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Speaker 9: is something I don't say about a lot of other people,

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Speaker 9: but you are a great professional. Things like this end

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Speaker 9: up in third world wars. And I told that the

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Speaker 9: other day. I said, you know, everybody keeps playing games

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Speaker 9: like this, you'll end up in a third World war

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Speaker 9: and we don't want to see that happen.

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Speaker 5: Yu get it comes from that.

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Speaker 9: You have appointed at General to meet the shamanization forces

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Speaker 9: in Gaza.

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Speaker 3: What would be his mission and how to.

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Speaker 9: See Well, we're working very strongly on Gaza. Yeah, we're

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01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:49,519
Speaker 9: working very much on Gaza. We actually do have a

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Speaker 9: real piece in the Middle East. We have fifty nine

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Speaker 9: countries supporting it, which has you know, never happened before.

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Speaker 9: We have countries that want to come in and take

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01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:01,680
Speaker 9: care of Hamas as a example. We have countries that

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Speaker 9: want to come in and take care of Hezbollah in

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Speaker 9: Lebanon as an example. And I say, right now, you don't.

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Speaker 3: Have to do that.

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Speaker 9: You may have to do that, but we have countries

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01:32:09,960 --> 01:32:12,679
Speaker 9: that are volunteering to come in and literally take care.

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Speaker 3: Of the whole thing. We have a great piece in

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Speaker 3: the Middle East.

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Speaker 9: It's never happened before, and I think it's very strong

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Speaker 9: actually the.

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Speaker 3: Young one you're supposed to be. To the Indo people,

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Speaker 3: what's all they well, we get along with them very well.

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Speaker 3: He's been a wartime prime minister. Certainly, we did a big.

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Speaker 9: Thing when we d when we went in with this

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Speaker 9: very plane right here, this beautiful plane.

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Speaker 3: We went in with those B twos and we and

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Speaker 3: now I can use the word because it's been confirmed

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Speaker 3: by the Atomic Energy Commission.

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Speaker 9: We obliterated their nuclear capability to their potential, and their

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01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:51,439
Speaker 9: nuclear capability would have been there in about two months.

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Speaker 9: I think it looked like some people say two weeks.

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01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:54,960
Speaker 9: I don't know if it's two weeks, but a very

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01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 9: short period of time. They were very close to having

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Speaker 9: massive nuclear weapons. And these guys went in and they

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Speaker 9: did a job, and that made peace possible because everybody

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Speaker 9: who was afraid of Iran and now they're not afraid

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01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:09,759
Speaker 9: of Iran anymore.

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Speaker 3: And Iran would like to make a deal with us.

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Speaker 1: All right. That is President Trump speaking at a signing

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Speaker 1: ceremony at the White House. Will continue to monitor the

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Speaker 1: President taking questions in the Oval Office from reporters. We're

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Speaker 1: going to step aside for a commercial break. I am

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Speaker 1: actually stunned by some of the increases in some of

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Speaker 1: your property taxes. We'll get to that, plus some political

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Speaker 1: news to cover all that coming up next. I am,

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Speaker 1: honest to goodness, floored by the increases in some of

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01:33:44,520 --> 01:33:48,679
Speaker 1: your property taxes. Keep them coming. Four one, four, seven, nine, nine,

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01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:53,280
Speaker 1: eleven thirty. Shoot me a text at I am. I

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01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:58,800
Speaker 1: am absolutely shocked by this. Here we go in Milwaukee,

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01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:07,080
Speaker 1: up one one thousand dollars. Our good friends Barry and Jill,

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01:34:07,320 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 1: who live in Shorewood, frequent guests on the Dan O'Donnell

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01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:15,599
Speaker 1: show cruises each summer. Very very cool cats. They also

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01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:24,120
Speaker 1: up a thousand dollars, one thousand dollars. Let's see the

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Speaker 1: Hartford Union High School impact up thirty six percent. I'm

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Speaker 1: in Caledonia. My property taxes are up twelve percent this year.

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01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:41,759
Speaker 1: Burlington Area School's fourteen percent increase, five percent in Plover,

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Speaker 1: Town of Oconomo Walk ten percent. My assessment in Wahwa,

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Speaker 1: Tosa is up fifty percent, and my tax levy is

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01:34:54,280 --> 01:35:06,120
Speaker 1: up nineteen percent or two thousand dollars. My goodness. Also congratulations,

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01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:10,280
Speaker 1: because that is a very big house. If twenty percent

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01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: of your tax bill is two thousand dollars, that is

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01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: paying a lot in taxes. Good sir or madam. Let's

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01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:24,200
Speaker 1: see John on the southwest side says his bill is

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01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:29,759
Speaker 1: seven thousand and seventy seven dollars up from sixty seven hundred,

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01:35:32,200 --> 01:35:38,680
Speaker 1: up five hundred bucks in oconom walk west allis my

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01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:41,200
Speaker 1: property taxes went up six hundred bucks to do a

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Speaker 1: reassessment and value. Folks. It's rough out there, and I

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Speaker 1: hope you remember this. I really do. I hope you

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Speaker 1: remember this next November.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know all of you, at least most of you

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01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:58,799
Speaker 1: who listen to this show, vote the right way. Vote

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Speaker 1: for less, not property tax levies. Don't vote for school referendums,

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01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:08,840
Speaker 1: and folks, I am not one of those Conservatives who

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Speaker 1: says do not vote for a single school referendum ever,

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01:36:12,720 --> 01:36:16,040
Speaker 1: because sometimes they are actually needed if it is an

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01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:21,760
Speaker 1: operational referendum and your school district has been doing everything right.

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Speaker 1: For instance, they haven't gone to referendum to pay for

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Speaker 1: a new field house or something like that, or a

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01:36:28,640 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: new football field. Yeah, we all want new, sparkling sports facilities,

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Speaker 1: but if you're forcing a community to pay for your

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01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:42,280
Speaker 1: new football stadium, you're doing something wrong. Go to a

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01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:46,759
Speaker 1: wealthy alum, I don't know. But if your school district

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01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:52,639
Speaker 1: has done everything right and because of declining enrollment and whatever,

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01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:57,799
Speaker 1: a change to the calculus and how exactly the shared

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Speaker 1: revenue is going to go, Okay, I get it, I

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01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:03,400
Speaker 1: get it. But if it's made a whole bunch of

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01:37:03,720 --> 01:37:09,559
Speaker 1: poor financial decisions, bad bond investments or whatever, and it's

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01:37:09,880 --> 01:37:13,000
Speaker 1: it's just coming to the taxpayer's in hand because of

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01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:15,519
Speaker 1: its own fiscal mismat no, of course you shouldn't support

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01:37:15,600 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 1: that referendum. But again I'm not just going to knee

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Speaker 1: jerk say okay, no, now as a general principle, As

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01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:27,400
Speaker 1: a general rule, I am always going to vote against

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01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:31,479
Speaker 1: tax increase. And in fact, I actually can't think of

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Speaker 1: a time I have ever voted in favor personally of

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Speaker 1: a school reference. I mean, I have kids who are

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Speaker 1: in school. My kids would benefit from a school referendum.

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Speaker 1: I actually don't think the community that we live in

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Speaker 1: has ever actually gone to referendum. They thought about it,

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Speaker 1: but because there's a fundamentally conservative voter base, I don't

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Speaker 1: think one has ever gotten on the ballot, at least

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Speaker 1: since I've been living there since twenty twelve, twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: Somewhere in there. I used to live in Milwaukee, and boy,

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Speaker 1: I guess you know, now that I think about it,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have ever lived in a community

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Speaker 1: and had to vote on a school referendum because Milwaukee

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01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: didn't go to referendum for a long long time. Let's see,

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01:38:14,080 --> 01:38:18,920
Speaker 1: I was living there two thousand and eight to twenty thirteen.

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01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:22,639
Speaker 1: Before that, I guess, yeah, before that, I guess technically

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01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:24,200
Speaker 1: we were still in that condo. We were still is

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01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:27,120
Speaker 1: right on the border of Shorewood and Milwaukee. I'm just

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01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 1: trying to think, like, going back through my voting history,

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01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: I don't think I would ever vote for a school

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01:38:32,040 --> 01:38:36,559
Speaker 1: referendumty totally honest with you. But you know what I

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01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:40,160
Speaker 1: always say is, look, don't just knee jerk. Listen to me.

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01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 1: You know a way, the merits of it, way the

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01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:48,879
Speaker 1: you know, reasons to vote against it and ultimately decide

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01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:54,000
Speaker 1: for yourself, But no that the consequences of your vote

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01:38:54,040 --> 01:38:56,840
Speaker 1: are going to be that potentially you are paying a

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01:38:56,880 --> 01:39:00,880
Speaker 1: whole lot more in property taxes very very quickly. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin is one of the highest property tax states. In fact,

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Speaker 1: we have a very very high tax burden that's probably

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Speaker 1: going to go even higher because the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to prepare you for what I believe

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01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 1: to be the inevitable. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is almost

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01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 1: certainly going to strike down Act ten. There's a case

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01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: currently before it now. These ladies are not stupid pro

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01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:32,599
Speaker 1: to say it's notwithstanding, they're not going to do it

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01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:36,679
Speaker 1: before the next State Supreme Court election this April, which

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01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:40,679
Speaker 1: is going to be liberal Chris Taylor against conservative Maria Lazar,

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01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:44,200
Speaker 1: even though it's not for control of the court like

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01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:47,439
Speaker 1: the last two state Supreme Court elections, where they don't

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01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:51,400
Speaker 1: want to harm Taylor's chances of winning this race by

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01:39:51,439 --> 01:39:54,880
Speaker 1: overturning Act ten and allowing Lazard to say, hey, look,

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01:39:55,760 --> 01:39:58,679
Speaker 1: you need to vote to stop this sort of thing

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01:39:58,800 --> 01:40:00,519
Speaker 1: or you are going to be paying ten tons and

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01:40:00,600 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 1: tons and tons more money. They're watch them do it

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01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:08,360
Speaker 1: almost immediately after the election is over. Okay. A new

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01:40:08,400 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: addition to the Democrat gubernatorial primary, and could there be

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01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: an addition to the Republican primary. It's a very familiar name.

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Speaker 1: Will discuss when the Dan O'Donnell show returns. As always,

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Speaker 1: City of Madison leads the way, Wow, twenty percent increase

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01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 1: in property tax. I did not believe it. We have

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Speaker 1: a Texter who texted in twenty point three percent property

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01:40:44,200 --> 01:40:53,240
Speaker 1: tax increase on a one hundred and seventy thousand dollars property. Wow,

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01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 1: pure dollars. It might not be the biggest increase because

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01:40:57,120 --> 01:41:01,200
Speaker 1: of the price of the property, but in terms of percent,

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01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:07,360
Speaker 1: it's massive. New entry into the Democratic field for Governor.

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01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 1: Joel Brennan, the administration secretary for Governor Evers's first term,

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01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: announces that he is in and pretty much nobody took

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01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:25,160
Speaker 1: note whatsoever. Yeah, Okay, Brennan's been around for a while now.

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01:41:25,200 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 1: He's been a staple of left wing politics. But let's

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01:41:29,000 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 1: face it, he's a middle aged white dude. He has

1447
01:41:33,439 --> 01:41:37,040
Speaker 1: no place in the modern Democratic Party. Come on now,

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01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 1: who is he kidding? Obviously he is not going to

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01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:46,960
Speaker 1: win this nomination. This nomination is going to be won,

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01:41:47,479 --> 01:41:52,080
Speaker 1: most likely by one of three candidates. You have got

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01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:56,160
Speaker 1: David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, who has kept a

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01:41:56,280 --> 01:42:00,759
Speaker 1: remarkably low profile since getting into this race, which sort

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01:42:00,800 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 1: of is in keeping with his remarkably low profile as

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01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:09,519
Speaker 1: Milwaukee County executive. Sarah Rodriguez, the current Lieutenant governor who

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01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:19,720
Speaker 1: appears to be very quietly racking up the endorsements and

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01:42:19,920 --> 01:42:29,639
Speaker 1: institutional support, and of course Mandela mandeadbeat Barnes. Democrats are

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01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 1: absolutely terrified that he is going to run away with

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01:42:33,320 --> 01:42:38,240
Speaker 1: this nomination, because quite frankly, it's believed that he would

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01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 1: be the only candidate who is capable of losing in

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01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:46,880
Speaker 1: what is shaping up to be a very big Democrat year. Folks,

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01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:50,599
Speaker 1: I take no joy in reporting that, but it does

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01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:54,720
Speaker 1: appear to be true. It does seem as though Democrats

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01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:57,960
Speaker 1: are going to do very very well in the midterm elections,

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01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:00,760
Speaker 1: and that it is thus going to be very difficult

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01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:05,559
Speaker 1: for Republicans to win statewide. In fact, I can tell

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01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:10,160
Speaker 1: you there are a number of very big time behind

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01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: the scenes people who are already writing off the State

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01:43:13,280 --> 01:43:17,920
Speaker 1: Supreme Court race and all but handing the seat to

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Speaker 1: Chrissy Taylor. No real surprise that you have got Pannikins.

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Speaker 1: I think this, by the way, is the fundamentally wrong

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Speaker 1: thing to do. But let's face it, after millions and

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Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars was dumped in last year

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Speaker 1: to the State Supreme Court race, only to see a

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Speaker 1: very good candidate in Brad shiml lose by eleven points.

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Speaker 1: There's obviously some skepticism as to whether conservatives can win

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01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:54,160
Speaker 1: the state's highest court again. In terms of the gubernatorial race,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of hope on the Republican

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01:43:58,360 --> 01:44:01,360
Speaker 1: side that the candidate is is in fact going to

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01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:06,559
Speaker 1: be Mandela because someone like Sarah Rodriguez with a Hispanic name,

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01:44:06,640 --> 01:44:10,639
Speaker 1: but who is the ultimate white lady. She is sort

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01:44:10,640 --> 01:44:16,479
Speaker 1: of the final boss of Wisconsin's liberal wine ants, she

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01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 1: might be more difficult to be. Barnes has a record

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01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:24,360
Speaker 1: of saying even crazier stuff than Jasmine Crockett. For goodness sakes,

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01:44:24,360 --> 01:44:27,920
Speaker 1: we could probably have deep thoughts by Mandela Barnes be

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01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:31,080
Speaker 1: a recurring segment from now until primary day, and we'd

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01:44:31,080 --> 01:44:34,840
Speaker 1: never run out of material. And the fact that you

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01:44:35,040 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 1: have insiders within the party openly telling the New York

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01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:43,719
Speaker 1: Times we don't want this guy to run. We cleared

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01:44:43,760 --> 01:44:46,760
Speaker 1: the field for him in twenty twenty two, and he

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01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:50,000
Speaker 1: lost a race that many thought he was going to

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01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:55,800
Speaker 1: or any other Democrat was going to win easily. He underperformed.

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Speaker 1: On the same ballot, Tony Evers won relatively easily, and

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Speaker 1: I say relatively easily. Three points in Wisconsin is a

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Speaker 1: relatively easy win. Usually our statewide races are closer, except

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Speaker 1: of course, recent state Supreme court races. He ran behind

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Speaker 1: Evers by four points, he lost by a point. In

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Speaker 1: Evers won by three. That is a significant lag. Now

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Speaker 1: the man Evers defeated might be thinking about running again.

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Speaker 1: Our own Mark Belling of the Mark Belling Podcast is

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Speaker 1: reporting in his latest column for The Walkeshaw Freeman something

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Speaker 1: that I have been hearing for several months now, and

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01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: that is that Tim Michaels is kicking the tires on

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Speaker 1: a run.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 1: Belling's new reporting on this is that Michaels, based on

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Speaker 1: people close to him and who know his thinking on this,

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01:45:54,400 --> 01:45:58,800
Speaker 1: say well, heck, if Mandela is the candidate, this is

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01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:03,120
Speaker 1: gonna be way easy to beat than Tony Evers. Michaels

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Speaker 1: would be saying, okay, well, I only lost by three

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Speaker 1: points last time to an entrenched incumbent, and now I

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Speaker 1: would have to run. People already know who I am,

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Speaker 1: They already know what I stand for, And in fact,

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Speaker 1: the leading candidate in the last poll of Republican primary

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Speaker 1: contenders showed Eric Huvedy leading the field. Huvedy has not

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Speaker 1: expressed any interest at all in running for governor, and

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01:46:29,200 --> 01:46:31,680
Speaker 1: he's almost certainly not going to run for governor. But

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01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: people know who he is. That's the point. In these

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Speaker 1: sorts of races, Name I D is ninety percent of

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01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:42,679
Speaker 1: the battle. Why do you think mandeadbeat is running well

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01:46:42,720 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 1: ahead of everybody else. It's because people remember him from

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01:46:46,600 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: his last statewide race. Well, Michael's thinking, according to Belling,

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Speaker 1: is if it's Mandela, I've already got the name recognition,

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01:46:54,720 --> 01:46:59,320
Speaker 1: and Mandela would be remarkably easy to beat. I do

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Speaker 1: not think that this is a good idea. As Craig

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01:47:02,240 --> 01:47:06,080
Speaker 1: Gilbert to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just pointed out with

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Speaker 1: respect to Man Deadbean, it's very, very difficult for a

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Speaker 1: candidate to lose statewide and then come back and win.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Tim Michaels just proved that it's not very

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Speaker 1: easy to do. You might remember he lost to Russ

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Speaker 1: Feineld once upon a time, launched another bid for governor

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Speaker 1: and voters rejected him. This is true regardless of the

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Speaker 1: state or in presidential politics, when voters reject you, you

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01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 1: oftentimes do not get a second act. Donald Trump very

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01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:43,280
Speaker 1: very different. He is a bonafide political phenomenon, and Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden and the Democrats were just that bad when they

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01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:52,559
Speaker 1: were in charge of everything that people were able to

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Speaker 1: look past their preconceived ideas about Donald Trump and say, Okay, yes,

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Speaker 1: we're going to roll with this guy again, Becausemocrats could

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Speaker 1: not possibly be any worse. Tim Michaels does not have

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Speaker 1: the charisma. He is not a Donald Trump figure and

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Speaker 1: therefore probably would suffer the same fate even if he's

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Speaker 1: running against Mandela because of just the political wave that

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Speaker 1: we're expecting now. Is it possible. Remember everybody thought there

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Speaker 1: was going to be a massive red wave in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two, and there wasn't. I believe there are a

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Speaker 1: number of reasons for that. The big one I still

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01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: think is that Democrats are just so good now at

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Speaker 1: mobilizing every single voter. They know exactly where every one

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Speaker 1: of their voters are. They get a mail in ballot

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Speaker 1: in their hands, and they're just turning out votes left

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Speaker 1: and right. Especially in Dane County, Republicans aren't able to

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Speaker 1: do that. They're able to do that when Trump is

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Speaker 1: on the ballot because he's got a whole lot of

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01:48:56,320 --> 01:48:59,720
Speaker 1: support that will turn out but only for him, and

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Speaker 1: thus far Republicans have been unable to sort of capture

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Speaker 1: that enthusiasm and translate it to other candidates. Michael's getting

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Speaker 1: in this race would create another bruising primary in which

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Speaker 1: he would very obviously have to pull out the exact

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Speaker 1: same strategy that he used against Rebecca Clayfish in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. And that is well, Tom Tiffany is an insider.

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Speaker 1: Tom Tiffany isn't an outsider. He hasn't built a business.

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Speaker 1: That's the sort of thing that forces someone like Tiffany, who,

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Speaker 1: again probably in large part because of his name recognition,

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Speaker 1: has built up a significant lead in this primary. It

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Speaker 1: would force him to expend a whole lot of money

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Speaker 1: just to win the primary, and then he'll be tapped out.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened to Tim Michaels. He spent tons

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Speaker 1: of money to win the primary in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if he saw polling that showed,

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Speaker 1: oh man, you know, you're probably not quit. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the checks stopped rolling in. And the biggest

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Speaker 1: argument that I was hearing behind the scenes for Tim

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Speaker 1: Michaels is that unlike Clayfish. He would be able to

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Speaker 1: sell fund and the big money donors would be able

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Speaker 1: to put all of their resources into helping Ron save

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Speaker 1: his Senate seat. All right, we're gonna step aside for

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01:50:26,760 --> 01:50:30,320
Speaker 1: a break. Mark me down in the column who is

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Speaker 1: very skeptical that Michaels would actually run, And I think

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Speaker 1: Tim's time has passed. Great guy, I just don't think

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Speaker 1: he should get in this race. Not quite enough time

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Speaker 1: to fully get into this story that was breaking. As

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01:50:52,479 --> 01:50:54,600
Speaker 1: we were preparing to go out the area yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: got a whole lot stranger. Last night, Michigan head football

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01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:05,040
Speaker 1: coach Ron Moore was fired, and after we left the air,

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01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:07,840
Speaker 1: I shouldn't laugh, because clearly he was going through something.

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Speaker 1: He was arrested after attempting or at least threatening suicide

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Speaker 1: in front of his wife, who he was cheating on,

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01:51:19,040 --> 01:51:25,960
Speaker 1: and he then went to his paramore her house, threatened

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Speaker 1: to attack her and threaten suicide over there. He was

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Speaker 1: taken into custody, and man o, man o man, this

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Speaker 1: story just couldnot possibly get stranger. He is being investigated

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Speaker 1: into four potential charges. They investigated, police did an alleged assault,

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Speaker 1: and an unnamed suspect later revealed to be Moore, was

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Speaker 1: taken into custody. All Right Out of Time Back tomorrow

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Speaker 1: three to six pm Friday edition of The Dan O'Donnell Show.