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Speaker 1: we begin another beautiful broadcast week on a gorgeous November afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Are we feeling good about the fact that the single

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Speaker 1: best weather October I think any of us can ever remember,

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Speaker 1: Although it was feared as soon as he was injured,

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Speaker 1: two hundred times, Honey, is not supposed to bend like that,

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Speaker 1: and you are obviously tearing something. Just devastating to see

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Speaker 1: Tucker Craft suffer that sort of injury. Far more devastating,

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Speaker 1: I think than yet another inexcusable Green Bay Packers loss

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Speaker 2: Really, you could tell when this game.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't like the Sunday night football game where Seattle got

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Speaker 2: So what do we think?

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Speaker 1: It is a beautiful Monday or still a dark cloud

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Speaker 2: Folks think about it like this. It could be worse.

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Speaker 1: We could be Toronto Blue Jays fans, and that was

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Speaker 1: the worst way to lose a World Series possibly in

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Speaker 1: The only thing that could be worse than the way

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Speaker 1: is when the Chicago White Sox through the darn thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get started with another big week full

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Speaker 1: is great news for Wisconsin's Governor Tony Evers because he

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Speaker 1: You are like the Los Angeles Dodgers slash Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 1: of this shutdown, A winner is you. I reported exclusively

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Speaker 1: authorized for quote, food security grants. Now, if ever people

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Speaker 1: Now people have been asking, well, Dan, doesn't the state

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Speaker 1: legislature need to sign off on the use of that money. No,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, they don't under Wisconsin law. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: bottom line is this Governor Evers needed nobody, not a

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Speaker 1: He had total discretion in how to spend that three

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Speaker 1: coming up for much of the duration of this hour.

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Speaker 1: During the debate over Snap benefits turning off for millions

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Speaker 1: assistance benefits across the country. Forty one point seven million

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Speaker 1: million people in fiscal year two thousand. In a generation,

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Speaker 1: increase in poverty during that time? No, And in fact,

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Speaker 2: Point where we pay more.

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Speaker 1: In just food assistance benefits for twelve percent of the

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Speaker 1: How did we go from a twenty billion dollars SNAP

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Speaker 1: as November first came and SNAP benefits were suddenly turned off.

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Speaker 1: She was terrified because she was on food assistance for

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Speaker 1: are you ready for this three decades?

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Speaker 2: My just went into my throat. Magotto Goun has been

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Speaker 2: a SNAP recipient for more than three decades. Even with

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Speaker 3: I have depended on those benefits since the nineteen nineties,

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Speaker 3: and it's detrimental to my life if I don't get them.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. But what's detrimental to her life

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Speaker 1: in a deeper sense, and what's detrimental to this country

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Speaker 1: without it seems even a thought of getting off of them.

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Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with how many people are able,

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Speaker 1: bodied and able to work. It has everything to do

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Speaker 1: with a twenty five year long, concerted effort by Democrats

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Speaker 1: in Congress and two different Democrat presidents to get as

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Speaker 1: many people on SNAP benefits as humanly possible. Coming up

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Speaker 1: on the Dan O'Donnell Show, a special investigation the Snap Trap.

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Speaker 2: How the heck did this happen?

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Speaker 1: In fiscal year two thousand, about seventeen million people were

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Speaker 1: on SNAP food assistance benefits a monthly average of seventeen

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Speaker 1: point two million people. Believe it or not, that was

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Speaker 1: near all time lows. In fiscal year twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: data is available through May of this year, there are

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Speaker 1: approximately forty one point seven million people receiving SNAP food

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Speaker 2: What the heck happened?

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Speaker 1: It's not as though poverty increased by one hundred and

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Speaker 1: Everybody had been eating. We didn't have massive widespread starvation

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Speaker 2: People who, yes, may need.

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Speaker 1: Them, but do forty one point seven million people need them?

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Speaker 1: But Democrats are not getting the blame by other Democrats

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Speaker 1: An entire generation, literally a generation twenty five years, that's

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Speaker 1: even going so far as to refuse to support any

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Speaker 1: They want people dependent, they want people dependent on them because,

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Speaker 1: amount of power over them. This has been a special investigation,

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Speaker 1: the snap Trap here on the Dan o'donald's show, what

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Speaker 1: exactly is going on in elementary schools in Milwaukee's suburbs. Well,

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Speaker 1: in one there's going to be what else a drag queen,

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Speaker 1: Thank heavens, it's going to be at an adult's only

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Speaker 2: School for some reason.

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Speaker 1: This is Democrats in twenty twenty six. A chicken in

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Speaker 1: We will get into that, and then another exclusive that

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Speaker 1: is actually quite a bit more disturbing than Esther Flowney's

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Speaker 1: shaking her stuff in front of the ladies of Wahatosa.

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Speaker 1: Where else a teacher showing up drunk to an elementary

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Speaker 1: story coming up in the four o'clock hour right now,

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Speaker 2: In Nazi Germany is dangerous because he's evil America.

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Speaker 1: Today's unhinged liberal of the day is Illinois Governor and

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Speaker 2: Pritzker, who took President.

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Speaker 1: Trump and what he called his cronies to task for

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Speaker 1: daring to, I don't know, not want drag queens in

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Speaker 1: clearly Pritzker has been listening to Democratic consultants who have

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Speaker 4: They want to criminalize educators for supporting LGBTQ students. They

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Speaker 4: want to turn classrooms into cultural war battlegrounds. And I'm

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Speaker 4: sorry to be vulgar, but Donald Trump and his cronies

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Speaker 4: can fuck all the way off.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.

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Speaker 1: You know I would tell the famously rotund Governor Pritzker

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Speaker 2: JB.

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Speaker 1: Pritzker, Governor of Illinois. And with that F bomb, I

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Speaker 1: think official presidential contender for twenty twenty eight, your unhinged

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Speaker 1: of the hour, President Trump.

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Speaker 2: With a big interview on sixty.

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Speaker 1: Minutes and Nora O'Donnell no relation to your humble host,

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Speaker 1: at least that I know of.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to the daily Trump Day coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Also check in with a recovering market and where we

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Speaker 1: Wealth Management. Oh no, I didn't misspeak. People are all

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Speaker 1: over the adventnows dot com talking text lines saying Dan,

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Speaker 1: an elementary school teacher, was drunk in class last week. Yes,

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Speaker 1: an elementary school teacher was drunk in class last week. Now,

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Speaker 1: the school district did absolutely everything right, But the reason

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Speaker 2: So we will get to that.

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Speaker 1: It's a Dan O'Donnell show exclusive story coming off. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping to do it later on this hour and then

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Speaker 1: either this hour or next hour. What is it about

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Speaker 1: the left and getting as many drag queens as possible

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Speaker 1: into elementary schools? This one, there's no kid who are

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Speaker 1: going to be at this event? What possible reason is

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Speaker 1: it that the liberal women of Wahwahtosa need to have

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Speaker 1: a drag queen by the name of Esther Flownays at

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Speaker 1: an event? Yes, my producer, and every time I say

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Speaker 1: this particular queen's name Esther Flownas. Now, is this like

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Speaker 1: flow nas like the nasal spray? Is there some sort

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Speaker 1: of weird sexual reference that I'm not getting that's gonna

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Speaker 1: But because I know, if there's one thing I know

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Smith. It's gotta have some overt reference to a

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Speaker 1: body part or some bizarre sex act. So please God,

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping Ester Flow Nays is in some bizarre sexual

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Speaker 1: reference that I'm just not aware of. Why do you

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Speaker 1: have to have this event at an elementary school?

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Speaker 2: Seriously?

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Speaker 1: Why out of all the places you could go? I

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Speaker 1: at like an mma gym. Weird how that I notice

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Speaker 1: it's never at a soup kitchen. We never have the

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Speaker 1: it's never high schools either. Have you noticed that the

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Speaker 1: drag queens do not have any interest in going with

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Speaker 1: I find that very very bizarre. It is only where

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Speaker 1: they can perform.

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Speaker 2: In front of children.

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Speaker 1: Now, again, in fairness, this event is supposed to be

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Speaker 1: will get to that later on on the Dan O'Donnells

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Speaker 1: What was going on in Washington today with the daily

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

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Speaker 2: Just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 1: As we reported earlier in the show, the Trumpet administration

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Speaker 1: funding to partially fund Snap Food Assistants benefits for the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration to try to force them to release those

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Speaker 1: down shows no sign of ending anytime soon, or maybe

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Speaker 1: it does, since of course, election day in a number

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Speaker 1: of key states and New York City is tomorrow, and Democrats,

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Speaker 1: of course, have been desperate to show their increasingly insane

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Speaker 1: the literal Nazis who support him. House Speaker Mike Johnson

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Speaker 1: again in a press conference today, chastising Democrats for refusing

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Speaker 1: to simply vote for a clean continuing resolution.

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Speaker 6: Scrats have voted no every single time. And what is

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Speaker 6: Senate floor, Senate Democrats, they have voted no, they voted

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Speaker 6: It's the hall, to the nearest camera they can find,

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Speaker 6: the most extreme example of gas lighting in the history

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Speaker 1: Well, it's, yes, obviously shameful, but I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson has just gotten to Washington yesterday. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who is actually keeping the government shut down.

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Speaker 1: This time It is most definitely Democrats. Every single Republican

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Speaker 1: open up the government again and again and again and again.

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Speaker 1: It's every single Democrat in both the House and the

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Speaker 1: President Trump, of course, has said over and over and

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Speaker 1: and said the exact same thing on the Nora O'Donnell

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Speaker 1: world of politics today. The two of them, Trump and O'Donnell,

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Speaker 1: of course, no relation to your humble host, got into

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Speaker 2: The problem is.

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Speaker 3: They want to give money to prisoners, to drug dealers,

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Speaker 3: to all these millions of people that were allowed to

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Speaker 2: And nobody can do that. Just one Republican would ever

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Speaker 5: My understanding is if those healthcare subsidies are not extended,

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Speaker 5: premiums will double for many of the people that are

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Speaker 5: on it. I was looking into it. Three quarters of

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Speaker 5: these people will see their healthcare premiums double live in

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Speaker 5: states where you won in the last election. I mean

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Speaker 5: even here in Florida has the highest number of residents

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Speaker 3: And you can fix it, Nora.

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Speaker 5: You have helped end these government shutdowns in the past,

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Speaker 5: but it came about it, and you did it by I'm.

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Speaker 2: Very good at it.

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Speaker 3: I'm not member to do it by I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to do it by extortion. I'm not going to do

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Speaker 3: it by being extorted by the Democrats who have lost

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Speaker 3: their way that there's something wrong with these people.

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Speaker 5: So then what happens is a.

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Speaker 3: Humor is a basket case, and he has nothing to lose.

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Speaker 3: He's become I just left Japan. He's become a Kamakazi pilot.

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Speaker 5: Sounds like it's not going to get solved, the shutdown.

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Speaker 3: It's going to get Oh, it's going to get so

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Speaker 3: how we'll get a sub Eventually they're going to have

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Speaker 3: to vote.

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Speaker 1: The thinking is, of course, that Democrats are probably going

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Speaker 1: to quietly cave either later this week or next week.

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Speaker 1: The last thing they want with critical elections for governor

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Speaker 1: of Virginia and New Jersey as well as Mayor of

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Speaker 1: New York set for tomorrow that they be seen as

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Speaker 1: giving in to Adolph Hitler, i e. President Trump shortly

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Speaker 1: before an election and face a voter base that is

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Speaker 1: already furious with them that they're not doing enough to

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Speaker 1: stop Trump's dictatorship. Trump meanwhile, is calling for Senate Republicans,

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Speaker 1: led by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to invoke the

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Speaker 1: nuclear option and get rid of the filibuster. In a

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Speaker 1: truth social post today, he called for it for a

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Speaker 1: second time on his social media site, and he also

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Speaker 1: called for it in that Nora O'Donnell interview last night.

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Speaker 2: The Republicans have to get tougher.

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Speaker 3: If we end the filibuster, we can do exactly what

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Speaker 3: we want.

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Speaker 2: We're not going to lose power.

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Speaker 3: The theory is, oh, then we'll do it, but then

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Speaker 3: when they get into power someday they'll doue.

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Speaker 2: That's true. But you know what, so you think you're

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Speaker 2: here right now?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I like John Downer. I think it's terrific, but I disagree.

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Speaker 3: With him on this point.

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Speaker 5: He said today he wasn't going to do it.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's too bad.

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Speaker 1: No, Actually it's not. Republicans do not under any circumstances

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Speaker 1: want to nuke the filibuster. Democrats are still regretting it

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Speaker 1: when Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option on federal judge

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Speaker 1: appointments that allowed Republicans to extend it so that Democrats

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to filibuster Supreme Court justices, which they

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Speaker 1: attempted to do immediately after President Trump was sworn in

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. You might remember one of his very

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Speaker 1: first major actions was to nominate Neil Gorsich to the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. The first time in American history, Democrats filibustered

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Speaker 1: a Supreme Court nominee, a very milk toast, very vanilla,

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Speaker 1: very mainstream conservative Supreme Court nominee. It was nothing like

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Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh. Why did they go so crazy with Brett

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Speaker 1: Kavanaugh making up all manner of allegations against him because they.

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Speaker 2: Couldn't filibuster him.

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Speaker 1: They had no plan, They had no possibility of stopping him.

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Speaker 1: If Republicans knew the filibuster now, Democrats, if and when,

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Speaker 1: and sadly it is probably a function of when they

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Speaker 1: retake control of the Senate, the House, and the presidency,

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Speaker 1: there will be no recourse for Republicans to stop literally

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Speaker 1: any craziness they come up with. Remember, when Democrats are

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Speaker 1: in power, they may try to do it anyway. But

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Speaker 1: the last several times that they held the Presidency, the Senate,

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Speaker 1: and the House, they didn't dare to duke the filibuster

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Speaker 1: because of what they were worried about Republicans doing when

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Speaker 1: they had the exact scenario that they do now control

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Speaker 1: over the Senate, the House, and the Presidency. That, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, is your look at what was going on

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Speaker 1: in Washington today, A segment we call the Daily Trump Date.

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Speaker 1: We now help you know the difference between financial advisors,

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Speaker 1: what's going on on Wall Street, what's going on on

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Avenue, and what's going on on Main Street, i e.

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Speaker 1: Your street. We bring in Dave Sponno, the CEO of

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Speaker 1: Annex Wealth Management. We talked to him at this time

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Speaker 1: each and every Monday afternoon. Well, Dave, we are at

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Speaker 1: the tail end of earning season. I know there was

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Speaker 1: a big report from Pallaneer, one of the highest of

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Speaker 1: the high flyers on the stock market over the past

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Speaker 1: several years. Earning season so far has been very, very

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Speaker 1: very good. We had some good news coming out of

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Speaker 1: China with that Trump she meeting, some potential thought on

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Speaker 1: the trade war front, and now we're starting to head

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Speaker 1: into the end of the year on what I believe

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Speaker 1: to be a very positive note. Add to all that

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates again.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you've covered them all, all of the market movie news,

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Speaker 7: you know, beginning with perhaps the elections tomorrow might clear

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Speaker 7: the path for ending the government shutdown. That that's probably

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Speaker 7: the biggest news this week. But as you pointed out,

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Speaker 7: the Fed has acted last week as expected, a quarter

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Speaker 7: point cut, as you and I had talked about. But

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Speaker 7: the end of the other part of that was quantitative tightening,

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Speaker 7: in other words, the balance sheet expansion that has gone away,

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Speaker 7: and now you start to see a truth on a

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Speaker 7: truce on tariffs with China. All of this included the

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Speaker 7: earning season that you just laid out, means that were

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Speaker 7: set it up for a pretty good fourth quarter so far.

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Speaker 7: And these are these reports, as you've talked about, have

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Speaker 7: been good, in many cases better than expected, and earnings

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Speaker 7: generally follow that and the market generally follows that. So

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Speaker 7: we're setting ourselves up for a good Q one in

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty six, and in fact GDP estimates now between

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Speaker 7: four and five percent DAN, that is pretty significant. Take

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Speaker 7: that all together with the One Big Beautiful Bill tax

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Speaker 7: stimulus that is going to really start to be injected,

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Speaker 7: and we could be set up for a good twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty six. All of this means that the market and

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Speaker 7: the wealth effect is starting to come into place. Is

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Speaker 7: your portfolio set up to take advantage of all of that?

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Speaker 7: Is it's set up to take advantage of what is

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Speaker 7: in the One Big Beautiful Bill. All of this means

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Speaker 7: it's time to take a look at it, Dan.

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Speaker 1: And you take a look at it with the people

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Speaker 1: who are working with in for you as feel only

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Speaker 1: fiduciaries over at Annex Wealth Management. That's so important because

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of advisors out there who exist,

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Speaker 1: it seems to sell you investment products this fund or

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Speaker 1: that fund. They get a percentage of it. They might

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Speaker 1: not tell you about that. No, what Annex does, and

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Speaker 1: why I am so high on what Annex does, is

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Speaker 1: they are simply looking out for you. The only money

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Speaker 1: they get is from you in the form of the

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Speaker 1: fee that you pay them. They're not selling you something.

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Speaker 1: They are planning for your family's future. That's why I

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Speaker 1: rely on them for tax advice and to help plan

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Speaker 1: my own family's future. We got My oldest son is

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Speaker 1: going to college next year, at least if he can

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Speaker 1: escape a bad case of senioritis this year and make

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Speaker 1: it out of high school. I'm kidding, of course, but

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Speaker 1: we've got a plan for college tuition. We just built

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Speaker 1: a house. There's all sorts of stuff that we need

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Speaker 1: the pros at Annex Wealth Management for and that's why

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Speaker 1: you need to start as I did with a review

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Speaker 1: of your portfolio at annexwealth dot com. Dave always appreciate

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Speaker 1: talking to you. My coming up an exclusive story. Why

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Speaker 1: was there or will there be? A drag queen at

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Speaker 1: an elementary school in Wahwatosa Alexander the Great in the

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Speaker 1: bumper music rotation here at the Dan o'donalds Show by

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Speaker 1: the Lovely Ladies of Bond, who also performed my theme

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Speaker 1: song Explosive. If you are looking for the Dan o'donald

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Speaker 1: Show bumper music that we play here on the show,

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Speaker 1: just search for it on Spotify. Sorry, corporate overlords at iHeart,

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Speaker 1: I am unable to put together a playlist of all

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Speaker 1: of my bumper music on iHeart because I have been

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Speaker 1: struggling in vain to get, as an esteemed iHeart employee,

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Speaker 1: my own iHeartRadio premium membership. And yes, this is a

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Speaker 1: matter of principle, I am not going to pay for

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Speaker 1: an iHeart premium membership because I'm working for the company

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Speaker 1: and so far, every effort to get me a premium membership,

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Speaker 1: I said, Look, the only thing I wanted for is

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Speaker 1: to do a playlist of all of the songs I

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Speaker 1: use for my bumper music for Christmas bumper music. And oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, no, unlike a certain radio station that

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Speaker 1: might or might not be down the hall from us.

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Speaker 1: Right now, that flipped to all Christmas music today, we

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Speaker 1: are not going to Christmas bumper music. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to violate my own rules here because I am actually

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Speaker 1: going to be gone for a little bit of the

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Speaker 1: time where we would normally play Christmas music. I've got

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Speaker 1: a good excuse. My brother's getting married in Mexico, City

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Speaker 1: of all places, so I am going down there with

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Speaker 1: the family in early December, just for a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I believe I'm going to be missing two shows something

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Speaker 1: like that. As a real, real short trip. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: O'Donnell Cartel is going down to Mexico. It's really a

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Speaker 1: front for the drug operation that we're running. My brother's

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Speaker 1: already been for like ten years. I just got to

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Speaker 1: go oversee my cocaine enterprise down And yes, thank you

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Speaker 1: for that, Producer Jeff. I can always count on producer

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Speaker 1: Jeff to make some sort of drug reference. Usually it's

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Speaker 1: about smoking weed at a Slayer concert.

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Speaker 2: But nonetheless, nonetheless.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna be gone, and yes, this week we

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Speaker 1: are going another very brief trip. It is the Dan

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Speaker 1: O'Donnell European Getaway to Rome. Excited to be taken about.

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Speaker 1: I think it's about ninety great listeners to the Eternal City.

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Speaker 1: We leave on Thursday. We'll be back on Wednesday. Have

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Speaker 1: no fear, just a couple of days without your humble host.

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Speaker 1: But because of that, because I'm gonna be gone a

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Speaker 1: couple of days, and I just love playing Christmas bumper music.

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Speaker 1: I think we're actually going to start a little bit

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. And I've actually softened on this quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: I used to be.

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Speaker 1: I used to be against the war of expansion that

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Speaker 1: Christmas has been fighting. We've been hearing about a war

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Speaker 1: on Christmas. For many, many years, the Libs won't even

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Speaker 1: say Merry Christmas, but rather happy Holidays or whatever it

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Speaker 1: is they say. My oldest son and I actually made

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Speaker 1: up a joke about that. We call it the non

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Speaker 1: denominational winter themed gift giving holiday because you're not allowed

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Speaker 1: to say Christmas in a public school or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But it as much as there's been a war on Christmas,

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Speaker 1: there has also been a war of territorial expansion that

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Speaker 1: Christmas has waged on Thanksgiving. And so far Christmas is

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Speaker 1: running rough shod over Thanksgiving like an army of pans

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Speaker 1: or tanks over Poland. November is now a Christmas month.

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Speaker 1: And I used to be a Christmas absolutist and say, nope,

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Speaker 1: Christmas season starts the day after Thanksgiving. I have softened

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Speaker 1: on that little bit. Clearly my family has two. When

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Speaker 1: I saw even before Halloween my daughter on my bed

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Speaker 1: watching home alone. For goodness sakes, I'm like October twenty third,

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Speaker 1: the demand is for more Christmas, and by gosh, I

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Speaker 1: am going to give the people what they want. It

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Speaker 1: appears to be more Christmas. We're likely to start Christmas

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Speaker 1: theme bumper music. The week of Thanksgiving, maybe the week

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. But yes, our our new sister station B

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Speaker 1: ninety seven point three went to all Christmas this morning. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I got an email bright and early this morning, producer

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Speaker 1: Jeff Is shaking his said, I agree with you, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

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Speaker 1: I can stomach like mid November when you're starting to

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Speaker 1: see a whole lot of the Christmas ads. I knew

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Speaker 1: it was coming, though. I happen to be in Target

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Speaker 1: on Saturday November. First I needed to pick up something.

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Speaker 2: You know what.

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Speaker 1: I heard that stupid Christmas rapping song or Christmas paper

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Speaker 1: or whatever. It is about the woman who she goes

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Speaker 1: all year trying to meet this guy.

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Speaker 2: It's like the refrain is Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas. Da

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Speaker 2: da da da da da da da.

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Speaker 1: It's catchy, but I dislike it as a Christmas song

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Speaker 1: in any event. In any event I heard that, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh God, it's starting, it's starting. Christmas has already conquered Turkey,

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Speaker 1: It's next coming for Halloween Town. Thanksgiving now serves as

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Speaker 1: a vassal state. It's like the Roman Empire is what

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Speaker 1: it is. They conquered the gulls and now they're coming

872
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: for what were the British the Franks, They're coming for

873
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Speaker 1: the Frankish Kingdoms. Producer Jeff says, why don't we just

874
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Speaker 1: have Santa light off fireworks at the fourth of July.

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00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 2: Some people would like that.

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Speaker 1: We even have nutsos who want Christmas in July, there

877
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Speaker 1: will be The Hallmark Channel will play Christmas movies for

878
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: like a week or so in July. They call it

879
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Speaker 1: Christmas in July. It's the halfway point between you know, Christmas.

880
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: I don't know where I stand. I think we will

881
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: do this as a debate at some point when it

882
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: is appropriate to Because my wife and daughter, as you

883
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: can imagine, they want Halloween decorations down.

884
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 2: They are done with fall theme.

885
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: Even though we're hosting Thanksgiving this year, they want it

886
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: to be a winter freaking wonderland inside and outside our

887
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: house as soon as humanly possible.

888
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where I stand on this, but it's

889
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 2: it's softening from where I was.

890
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: I will accept that Thanksgiving is now part of the

891
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: overall year end holidays. It exists as its own holiday.

892
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: I'll give you that, but I think we all have

893
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 1: to accept it's being folded into Christmas. It's it is

894
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: like the Roman Empire. Like when Rome would conquer a

895
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 1: state or a nation, they would allow it to govern

896
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Speaker 1: just as it had in the past. So Thanksgiving can

897
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 1: still exist with pilgrims and turkeys and all of that. Yes,

898
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Speaker 1: for those asking, we will be playing Rush Limbaughs the

899
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Speaker 1: story of the First the real story of the First

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01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving has become a tradition on this program. I love

901
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: keeping Rush's memory alive with that story as only he

902
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 1: can tell it. We have been playing this every year

903
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: since his passing. It's my aim to play it every

904
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Speaker 1: single year that I'm on the radio. So we will

905
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Speaker 1: be doing that as we always do. But Thanksgiving is

906
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: allowed to still exist as its own separate holiday, but

907
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 1: it's been conquered, so it has to pay tribute to

908
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 1: the Roman Emperor.

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01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 2: Santa.

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01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: All right, what are you doing on November eighth from

911
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: six to ten pm? Because the wahwood Tosa Woman's Club

912
01:01:55,640 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: is having a Lincoln Bash at Lincoln Elementary School in Wahwatosa.

913
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Speaker 1: It will feature Granny Bingo with esther flownase, a silent auction,

914
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Speaker 1: and heavy apps and drinks. Now, this is being billed

915
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: as an adult social presumably no kids are going to

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Speaker 1: be there. And here's the thing about Esther Flownase. He

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01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: she dresses up as a granny. So granny bingo is

918
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: of course a play on the slang term for transgender individuals.

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01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: But Esther Flownse is a granny and it's an exaggerated

920
01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: old body lady who does the typical drag queen stuff.

921
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 1: But it's not as overtly sexual as other drag queen

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Speaker 1: shows are. Is it still appropriate for a kindergarten cafeteria

923
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Speaker 1: for an elementary school? Let's just say, for the sake

924
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: of arguments, we did the Dan O'Donnell Bob Poocci and

925
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Speaker 1: Roco gun show at Lincoln Elementary. What number Rocko do

926
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Speaker 1: you think old Bob Pooci is on? Now, I'm gonna

927
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 1: go at least like seven or eight. I have been

928
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: hearing the Bob Pooci and Roco for the Waukeshaw gun

929
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Speaker 1: commercials since I was about seven years old, and there

930
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: is no way that the original Roco has lived that long.

931
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Speaker 1: So it'll be Dan O'Donnell, It'll be Bob Poocci and

932
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Speaker 1: Roco the fourteenth at the Lincoln Bash Adult Social gun show.

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Speaker 1: Would that be appropriate for an elementary school would even

934
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Speaker 1: if there are no actual guns. Let's just say it

935
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Speaker 1: was the dan O'Donnell dressed as George Washington Second Amendment

936
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Speaker 1: Club at Wahwatosa's Lincoln Elementary.

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Speaker 2: Would that be acceptable?

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Speaker 1: We had some drinks, we had heavy apps, and I

939
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Speaker 1: do bingo dressed as George Washington and give a speech

940
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Speaker 1: about the importance of the Second Amendment to American liberty.

941
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Speaker 1: Is that something the Wahwatosa School District would allow? If so, great,

942
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Speaker 1: I will be there next July fourth. If not, I

943
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Speaker 1: would like to explain, or have explained to me rather

944
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Speaker 1: why exactly? Esther Flones and Granny Bingo is perfectly appropriate

945
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Speaker 1: for an elementary school class. Now, as I've always said,

946
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:57,320
Speaker 1: folks lest you think, and conservatives always get a bad

947
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: rap of Oh, you're such a prude. You're such a prude.

948
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 1: My brothers and sisters in Christ, I went to my

949
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Speaker 1: cousin's wedding. I've been to Key West like three times. Okay,

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01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: I have been to my fair share of drag shows.

951
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: They are stupid, they are campy, they are fun. There's

952
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: typically a lot of alcohol involved. I wasn't born yesterday.

953
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: They are all incredibly sexual in nature. They are all

954
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: incredibly adult themes, so I don't have an issue if

955
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 1: this is just for adults, if there are gonna be

956
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 1: no kids there, Esther Flowns can shake her groove thing

957
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: while Giddaly calling sixty nine to her heart's content, But

958
01:05:48,560 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: is this appropriate for an elementary school? I will also

959
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 1: point out that I don't think I've ever seen Esther

960
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 1: floons or and I kid you not. There is also

961
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Speaker 1: a Milwaukee based drag queen named Lucinda Rear who we

962
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: have talked about before. I've noticed they never seem to

963
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: want to perform at VA hospitals, at nursing homes, at

964
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: you know, tough man competitions, NFL football games.

965
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Speaker 2: Why is that?

966
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: Why is it that there is just an inordinate number

967
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: of drag events where young children are I have yet

968
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 1: to get a good explanation why we don't have drag

969
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Speaker 1: queen story.

970
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 2: Time at the VA.

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Speaker 1: If anything, those people need someone to read to them,

972
01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: They need companionships. They need to laugh at Esther floonees

973
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: strutting her stuff. Why do drag queens never go to

974
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Speaker 1: nursing homes?

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Speaker 2: Seriously? Why are they never on college campuses? Why do

976
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Speaker 2: we never have.

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Speaker 1: Drag Queen's story time with the intro to Biology textbook

978
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Speaker 1: that the college freshmen are reading, Like why.

979
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Speaker 2: Why just really young kids?

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01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: Because it's a little weird, right, Like, imagine I do

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01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: speeches all the time. I mean every couple of weeks,

982
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: it seems, during the Lincoln Day season in early spring,

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01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 1: and especially during election years, I'm asked to speak all

984
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: over the place. Now, just imagine, just imagine what I

985
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:52,600
Speaker 1: speak where you would imagine I would speak, right, Republican

986
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 1: Party events, Conservative groups. I've done Young America's Foundation. I

987
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: did a Turning Point event actually with Charge Arley Kirk

988
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 1: way way back in the day. It would be weird

989
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: if I was like only speaking at elementary schools, right,

990
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: Like you would say, hey, Dan, it seems like the

991
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:18,600
Speaker 1: stuff you talk about would be of more interest to

992
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 1: grown adults.

993
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 2: Why why do you constantly want to be around very

994
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 2: small children. It's a little odd.

995
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: I think I've spoken at a grand total of one

996
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: elementary school, and it's the one my kids have gone to.

997
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: That would be like the normal if esther floonez had

998
01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 1: relatives at the school. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, but just

999
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:51,599
Speaker 1: just got to be in that elementary school. Huh okay.

1000
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: Coming up on the dan O'donald Shaw, I'll tell you what.

1001
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 1: We do have an exclusive story about a teacher who

1002
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,719
Speaker 1: is drunk in class at an elementary school.

1003
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Speaker 2: Not sure if we're gonna have enough time to do that.

1004
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 1: Next we'll play an audible folks coming up in the

1005
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: top of the hour, right after the five o'clock news.

1006
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 1: You're not going to want to miss this. A substitute teacher,

1007
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: technically a contracted teacher drunk in a classroom in a

1008
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 1: suburb in southeast Wisconsin. Now, the school district did the

1009
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: exact right thing. They got the police involved immediately, but

1010
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:33,640
Speaker 1: the reason that they needed to go to a staffing

1011
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:37,600
Speaker 1: service in order to get a drunken substitute into the

1012
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Speaker 1: classroom should be some cause for concern. We will dive

1013
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Speaker 1: into that exclusive story coming up at five oh six. Now,

1014
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: I said in the last segment before we were talking

1015
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 1: about Esther Flones and Granny Bingo, that I was loosening

1016
01:09:54,640 --> 01:10:01,680
Speaker 1: my hardline stance on no Christmas music before Thanksgiving. We're

1017
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: not going to start Christmas bumper music just yet. But

1018
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 1: I have accepted the fact that Christmas has sort of

1019
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:15,439
Speaker 1: overtaken Thanksgiving. And it's operating Turkey like its own vassal state,

1020
01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:21,800
Speaker 1: like the Ottoman Empire. Santa Claus is just expanding, ever

1021
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 1: expanding his empire over the other holidays. Veterans' Day is next,

1022
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Speaker 1: then it's Halloween, and from there on it's straight on

1023
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: to Labor Day. I'm afraid, but I have also softened

1024
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: my stance on daylight saving Time. And it was just

1025
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: yesterday morning, in fact, and this morning when our new puppy, Buddy,

1026
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 1: who wakes up every day at about six thirty am,

1027
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: woke us up at five am, me in particular, by

1028
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: licking my faith until I woke up and acknowledged that

1029
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:08,680
Speaker 1: Buddy was there in my face. The dog has no

1030
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: concept of sleeping in the fact that Dad had a

1031
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:17,759
Speaker 1: long night coaching soccer on Saturday night, or the fact

1032
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:18,600
Speaker 1: that he wanted to.

1033
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:22,360
Speaker 2: Get just a couple of extra hours or at least.

1034
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: Minutes of sleep, if for no other reason, then to

1035
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: keep Buddy out of my face. Please, let's just make

1036
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: daylight saving time permanent. I actually hit We had a

1037
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 1: big debate on this on the air, and I'm not

1038
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Speaker 1: going to revisit that. When daylight saving Time began in

1039
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:47,519
Speaker 1: the spring, this weekend. Of course, we fell behind by

1040
01:11:47,600 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: an hour, meaning we actually lost an hour, meaning that

1041
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: for puppy time, six am was actually five am in

1042
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: the real world, and he would up and licking like

1043
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 1: there was no tomorrow. There is, folks, there is no

1044
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:09,680
Speaker 1: excited like a puppy seeing you first thing in the

1045
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:15,519
Speaker 1: morning excited. I just would like to have that happen

1046
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:18,759
Speaker 1: an hour later, if that's at all possible.

1047
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Speaker 2: We name the Unsung Hero of the Day.

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Speaker 1: Where The Dan o'donald Show returns in just a second

1049
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: each and every day. Here on the Dan o'donald Show,

1050
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Speaker 1: we like to highlight the everyday heroes who go above

1051
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Speaker 1: and beyond, people who you know, just are living their

1052
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 1: lives and they're not you know, in politics or doing

1053
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: anything that would normally generate news coverage or anything like that.

1054
01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: But they are the people who just do a little

1055
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Speaker 1: bit extra and we like to honor them. It's time

1056
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Speaker 1: to name now the unsung Hero of the day. Today's

1057
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Speaker 1: Unsung Hero of the Day is Janis Antetakumpo, who heroically

1058
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Speaker 1: foiled a robbery at a pick and save.

1059
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Speaker 2: No, he didn't, you idiots All.

1060
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Speaker 1: Weekend long, I hear about Yannis getting a black eye

1061
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Speaker 1: while stopping a mugging.

1062
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Speaker 2: At a pick and say he was joking. He was joking.

1063
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Speaker 1: How do you people not hear this SoundBite and understand

1064
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Speaker 1: he was joking.

1065
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Speaker 2: He got the black eye because he.

1066
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Speaker 1: Was getting mugged in a manner of speaking in a

1067
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Speaker 1: game against the Sacramento Kings.

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Speaker 5: You's a black eye today? That I was a right.

1069
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Speaker 2: So while I was checking out my a grocery, there

1070
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Speaker 2: was this guy that was about to snatch a person.

1071
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Speaker 5: From a lady.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, hey, man, what are you doing stuff?

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Speaker 2: So I went then got out.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you hear the reporter he's talking to giggling

1075
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Speaker 1: in the background. He's giggling, Gianni says, a big smile

1076
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Speaker 1: on his face when he's telling the story, and he.

1077
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Speaker 2: Kind of turned an elbow in the eye. But then

1078
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Speaker 2: I grabbed him, put him on the floor to the purse,

1079
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Speaker 2: gave it to the lady, and then the lady was safe.

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Speaker 2: I paid for her.

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Speaker 5: He grocer this too, because she was in shock and stuff.

1082
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Speaker 3: You know. The police came and took the guy I

1083
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Speaker 3: don't know, took him into custody.

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Speaker 2: So after that she went back home.

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Speaker 3: He did some minute to him.

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Speaker 1: Now, what did he say, did some what and took

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Speaker 1: an out? Did some did some cleaning and took an out. Look, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I get it. The accent makes it a little difficult.

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Speaker 1: He's he's very good at dead pan. But everybody who

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01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: was listening to the story could tell it was like

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01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: a wink wink. Yes, I got beat up by the

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01:14:50,479 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings in a game where I was also playing

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01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 1: incredibly physical as well. He made up the story about

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01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:02,639
Speaker 1: helping the the old lady who got much How big

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 1: would somebody have to be to catch Yannis Antetakumpo in

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01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 1: the eye with an elbow seven foot four?

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01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 2: What was this like a jumping elbow?

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01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 1: Was this like Little Mac from Mike Tyson's Punch Out

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01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: where he had to jump to hit somebody in the

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01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:21,719
Speaker 1: face every time he would throw a punch. Today's unsung

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01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:25,760
Speaker 1: heroes of the day are the people who looked at

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01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:32,759
Speaker 1: that SoundBite and could actually tell that the man was joking.

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01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 1: The Bucks put out a seemingly serious tweet about it,

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01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:42,759
Speaker 1: saying your friendly neighborhood, Yannis, but even that was pretty

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01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: tongue in cheek. A number of big accounts on X

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01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: over the weekend were reposting that anecdote as if Yannis

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01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:59,719
Speaker 1: was being serious about it, that said, Yannis probably didn't

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01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: think it would become the big meme that it did

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01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: over the weekend, but probably should have said, ah, just kidding, guys,

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01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:07,640
Speaker 1: I got elbow during the game against the Kings or

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01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: something like that. But then again, when he was talking

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01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: to the reporters in the locker room, they were all

1113
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: laughing and knew that it was a tongue in cheek story,

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01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: just a funny little example of how things, even like

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01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: a story of heroism, can be misinterpreted. Coming up after

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01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: the top of the hour news, the Journal Sentinel finally

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01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: catches up to our reporting from oh, two weeks ago

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01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:36,519
Speaker 1: on Mandela Barnes and that big exclusive that we've been

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01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 1: teasing all afternoon. A drunk teacher at an elementary school.

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, We're coming right back. A substitute teacher intoxicated

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01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:54,600
Speaker 1: at an elementary school in southeast Wisconsin. Why that substitute

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01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 1: was there should be a cause for concern, And it's

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01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: not as though the district did anything wrong whatsoever. In fact,

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01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: the school district involved did everything right and should absolutely

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01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:13,639
Speaker 1: be commended, especially a quick thinking art teacher who nipped

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01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: this very serious problem in the bud before the drunken

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01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:24,479
Speaker 1: replacement teacher could do any damage. It is a story

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Speaker 1: that you will hear only here on the Dan o'donald Show.

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: And before we get to it, we bring you the

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01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: Fall Fortune Cash contest. Word this hour it is bank,

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01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: b Ank Bank. You've got until five point fifty five

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01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:43,599
Speaker 1: to go to our website and enter the keyword bank

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01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: to enter the contest for this hour.

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Speaker 2: B Ank Bank. Okay, word is bank.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to confuse you with what I'm about

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01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:54,680
Speaker 1: to say next, So all show long, I have been

1137
01:17:54,760 --> 01:18:00,880
Speaker 1: trying to see if iHeartMedia's algorithms. You know, I think

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01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:03,719
Speaker 1: that there aren't human beings who are texting you back

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01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 1: to tell you, hey, thanks for your entry. It's all

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01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 1: done via algorithm. We will plug in what are acceptable

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01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:16,000
Speaker 1: spellings of each of the words, and if you hit

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01:18:16,080 --> 01:18:19,760
Speaker 1: one of those spellings, you're automatically entered. So I have

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01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: been asking listeners since I, for obvious reasons, am not

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01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: allowed to enter the contest, or I suppose I am.

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01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:29,680
Speaker 2: It would just be really, really, really awkward if I

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01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 2: was one of the ones who won. I'd have to.

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01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:36,120
Speaker 1: Sheepishly say yeah, so I'm gonna have to decline the

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01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: prize because I was just testing to see what ridiculous

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01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 1: spellings of the word are algorithms will allow.

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01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:44,719
Speaker 2: Last hour's word was bills.

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01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 1: Would you believe you can type in wills wil ls

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01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: or like the famed Olympic gymnast biles bil ees will

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01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: also be in a acceptable spelling of bills. I would

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01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: love to see how you could possibly misspell bank. I'm

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01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: going to go like bonk, like the French spelling ba NC,

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01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:19,439
Speaker 1: would dank da nk work. Let me know your creative

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01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: spellings of bank that our servers will accept as an

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01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: entry for the iHeart Radio Music or no excuse me.

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01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: The iHeart Radio Fall Fortune Cash Contest. iHeartRadio Music Festival

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01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,639
Speaker 1: was two months ago, almost well month and a half ago.

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01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 2: I'm told it was a very very cool concert.

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01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: I actually heard from one of our winners who went

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01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: and said, Dan, it really is a fun I mean,

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01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,839
Speaker 1: obviously everybody wants to go to Vegas, but the concert

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01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,840
Speaker 1: itself is really a sight to see. It's really a

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01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:54,640
Speaker 1: lot of fun. So there you have it, all right,

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01:19:54,760 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell's show exclusive story a teach sure at Bay

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01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:09,679
Speaker 1: Lane Elementary School in Muskego was intoxicated while at school.

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Speaker 2: Now it is important to know that this was not

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Speaker 2: a staff.

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01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:20,679
Speaker 1: Member of Baylane Elementary School or even the Muskego School District.

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Speaker 1: This was a guest teacher. This happened I believe last

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01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:30,839
Speaker 1: week Thursday. I have been made privy to a message

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01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: that was sent out through the app Infinite Campus to

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01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: all parents and guardians at Baylane Elementary School by the

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Speaker 1: school's principal, Robin Schrot.

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Speaker 2: Or Schrot.

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Speaker 1: Dear parents and guardians, I am writing to inform you

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Speaker 1: of an incident involving a guest teacher or a substitute

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01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: that occurred at Bayline Elementary today. We believe it is

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01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: essential to communicate directly and transparently issues arise that concern

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01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:05,000
Speaker 1: the safety and well being of our students. Earlier today,

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01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:10,479
Speaker 1: an individual provided by our external staffing partner, Kelly Education,

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01:21:11,200 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: was serving as a guest teacher in a classroom. A

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01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 1: concern was brought forward by an adult and the individual

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01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:22,320
Speaker 1: was immediately removed from the classroom. The Musqigo Police Department

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01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: assisted with the investigation and determined that the guest teacher

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01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 1: was under the influence of alcohol. The individual was removed

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Speaker 1: from campus by our police department. We recognize the seriousness

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Speaker 1: of this situation and are taking definitive action to ensure

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Speaker 1: a safe and professional learning environment for every student. We

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Speaker 1: have been in direct contact with Kelly Education to thoroughly

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Speaker 1: review this incident, ensure appropriate policies are enforced, and demand

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01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:58,559
Speaker 1: a full accounting of their screening and oversight processes. We are,

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Speaker 1: as always incredibly thankful for our staff and community members

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Speaker 1: who see something and say something. This vigilance allowed us

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Speaker 1: to address the situation quickly and decisively. Please be assured

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Speaker 1: that we are taking every measure to ensure that all

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Speaker 1: personnel working with our students meet the highest standards of

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Speaker 1: safety and professionalism. If you have any questions or concerns,

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Speaker 1: please do not hesitate to contact me directly, Sincerely, Robin

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01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 1: Schrote principle, I could report exclusively that this teacher did

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01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: not actually get in front of any students during that

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01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 1: school day, at least as far as I am aware.

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01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:41,800
Speaker 1: He was brought in as a substitute gym teacher. Now,

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Speaker 1: as you could imagine, since he was brought in from

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Speaker 1: Kelly Education, which is a staffing agency, that specializes in

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01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: substitute teachers. He had no idea where the school's gymnasium was.

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01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,760
Speaker 1: He stopped by the art room to ask the art

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Speaker 1: teacher where the was. The art teacher immediately noticed that

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01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 1: there was something off with him and said they and

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01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: said they either reeked of alcohol or seemed like they

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Speaker 1: were under the influence of alcohol or some other substance,

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Speaker 1: but something just seemed off. Thanks to that quick thinking

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Speaker 1: art teacher and the very responsive school staff, I am

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Speaker 1: told that security or some administrative staff immediately intervened, whether

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Speaker 1: it was the principal or assistant principles or somebody realized

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01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,679
Speaker 1: that there was indeed something off with this guest teacher

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01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: didn't allow him in the classroom. Someone else covered for

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Speaker 1: that gym class and covered for the rest of the

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Speaker 1: day when the kids needed a substance to jim teacher,

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Speaker 1: and they immediately called the Muskeigo Police Department. Kudos to

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Speaker 1: that art teacher. That is really quick thinking. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that anything horrible was guaranteed to happen with some

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Speaker 1: lowlife who's had a little too much of a hooch,

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01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: but obviously this is insanely inappropriate and could be incredibly

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Speaker 1: dangerous to every single kid in that classroom. Let's say

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Speaker 1: they're in a dodgeball unit and the drunken idiot wants

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Speaker 1: to do his very best Billy Madison impression and start

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Speaker 1: pelting the kids with dodgeballs as hard as he can.

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Speaker 1: You see where I'm going with this. It is obviously

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Speaker 1: imperative that this guy not be allowed near any teachers. Now,

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Speaker 1: normally I would be saying, all right, what's going on

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01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: with this school district, what's going on with this school?

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Speaker 1: In fact, the school did absolutely everything right immediately. They

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Speaker 1: were as fully transparent with all of the parents and

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Speaker 1: guardians and.

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Speaker 2: School community that they could immediately.

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01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 1: They did the right thing. They didn't try to cover

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01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: this up and handle it in house. We have been

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01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,759
Speaker 1: doing how many stories in the wake of this massive

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01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: Department of Public Instruction scandal where DPI is essentially dropping

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01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 1: investigations into teacher sexual misconduct or grooming of children in

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01:25:39,080 --> 01:25:43,439
Speaker 1: exchange for those teachers under investigation simply surrendering their teachers'

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01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,680
Speaker 1: licenses without ever referring any of this to law enforcement

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01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:51,679
Speaker 1: or ever allowing an in depth investigation into the worst

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01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:56,080
Speaker 1: sort of offenses against children. This is nothing like that.

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Speaker 1: In fact, this is the exact opposite of that. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I want to commend again the art teacher, the principal,

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01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:07,680
Speaker 1: and everybody involved, the Muschigo Police Department in just completely

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01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 1: doing the right thing from start to finish here protecting

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01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 1: those kids from what could have been a bad situation.

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01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:22,040
Speaker 1: Why is Muskego School district and this is not just Muschigo,

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01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: it is pretty much every school district. Why is it

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Speaker 1: forced to go to a staffing agency like Kelly Education?

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01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:38,600
Speaker 1: You cannot pay people enough to be substitute teachers, and

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01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:44,599
Speaker 1: the pay is, i'm told, typically pretty good. One hundred

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01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: and twenty five hundred and fifty bucks a day to

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Speaker 1: do gym class with a bunch of elementary school kids.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like it would be a blast. My kids

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Speaker 1: school has take your parents to gym class day, and

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01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: it's just what it sounds like. The parents get to

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01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: do gym class with their kids at the elementary school.

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Speaker 1: I've tried to do it every year i can, because

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01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 1: it's just so much fun. You play kickball with the

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Speaker 1: kids and they love it, especially when dads do it, because.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you know this, Dad's gonna be on my team

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01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:16,599
Speaker 2: and then of course the kids.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like you think it's gonna be like

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01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: Billy Madison, where the adult is just you know, dominating

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01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:22,120
Speaker 1: all the kids at dodgeball.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that. Do you know why?

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01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: Because every boy in the gym class immediately gangs up

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01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: on the adult and they try to eliminate you first.

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01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:34,719
Speaker 1: It's actually good strategy. It's like Lord of the Flies.

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01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:40,560
Speaker 1: These kids are organizing into a well formed army to

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01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:43,280
Speaker 1: try to hunt you down and get you out of dodgeball.

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01:27:46,640 --> 01:27:50,760
Speaker 1: But nobody wants to do that, and that I think

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01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 1: is the real story here. We have been talking about

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01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 1: a teacher shortage for years. One of the real crises

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01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:03,240
Speaker 1: that is going on right now, not just in Muschigo

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01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: or across southeast Wisconsin, but really all across the country

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01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:12,879
Speaker 1: is there is a serious lack of substitute teachers. Nobody

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01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 1: wants to go in these classrooms, and as a result,

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01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: what used to happen was there would be a roster

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01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:24,479
Speaker 1: of usually retired teachers or sometimes teachers who would want

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01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 1: to go part time because they had kids of their

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01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:29,599
Speaker 1: own or something like that, and they could be counted

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01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:35,160
Speaker 1: on to sub for boy. A couple of weeks or

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01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, a day or two whenever a teacher had

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01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 1: to call in or maternity leave or.

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01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:41,720
Speaker 2: Or whatever it would be.

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01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: That doesn't really exist all that much anymore. I mean

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01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: it does, but not to the level where it might

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01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:56,000
Speaker 1: have even as recently as a decade ago. The reason

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01:28:56,960 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 1: isn't the pay The reason isn't Act ten. The reason

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Speaker 1: is not in schools like Bayleane Elementary, which I'm told

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Speaker 1: is just a fantastic school. Mischigo School District is always

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Speaker 1: very very well regarded. Pretty much every school district in

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Speaker 1: that area. You know, New Berlin, Muskego, Brookfield, elm Grove, Greendale,

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Speaker 1: obviously Whitnel greatest school district in the history of school

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Speaker 1: districts that.

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Speaker 2: I went to, Whitnell High School. That's why I say that.

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Speaker 1: But no, they're all just very regarded, well regarded schools.

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Speaker 1: The reason that there aren't a whole lot of substitute

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Speaker 1: teachers is that in school districts that don't have as

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Speaker 1: much institutional control and who wouldn't have an art teacher

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Speaker 1: immediately go to administration saying, hey, I think this substitute

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Speaker 1: teacher is drunk. The administration wouldn't immediately go to the

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Speaker 1: police after questioning this lush. I'm talking about districts like

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Public Schools. I am talking about districts like the

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Speaker 1: Madison School District. I'm talking about districts where, honest to goodness,

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Speaker 1: the potential for violence at the hands of students has

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Speaker 1: been a very real thing for a long time. A

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Speaker 1: decade ago now, I did a documentary here on the

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Speaker 1: radio called Blood on the Blackboard, the Epidemic of violence

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Speaker 1: against teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools classrooms. Do you know

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Speaker 1: what that did to alleviate the problem? Absolutely nothing. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't even get the MTEA, the Teachers' union to talk

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Speaker 1: to me about it. MPs refused to comment to me,

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Speaker 1: even though the teachers that they employ, the teachers that

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Speaker 1: the union represents, were the ones getting physically assaulted. They

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Speaker 1: did nothing about it. I am told the problem has

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Speaker 1: only gotten worse now. There are teachers at MPs who

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Speaker 1: need the job and for whatever reason, love MPs.

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Speaker 2: There are great schools at MPs. There are great schools

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Speaker 2: in the Madison School.

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Speaker 1: District, but far too many of them are so tolerant

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Speaker 1: of insanely deviant criminal behavior and will not involve law

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Speaker 1: enforcement to the point where you might recall Act twelve,

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Speaker 1: passed by the Wisconsin legislature to give Milwaukee a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of new shared revenue and allow it to institute

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Speaker 1: its own new city sales tax. The only real condition

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Speaker 1: was that Milwaukee Public schools had to rehire school resource

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Speaker 1: officers police officers in the schools. They refused to do

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Speaker 1: so until a judge forced them to. That's what they

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Speaker 1: think about protecting their students and protecting their teachers by

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Speaker 1: getting law enforcement involved in the places where law enforcement

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Speaker 1: is needed in these violent school buildings and violent classrooms.

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Speaker 1: This is why you are getting an exodusive teachers out

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Speaker 1: of MPs, out of Madison, out of the profession, because

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Speaker 1: students have been empowered through years and years and years

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Speaker 1: of doing.

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Speaker 2: All manner of horrible, horrible.

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Speaker 1: Things in class not getting suspended, not getting punished, going

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Speaker 1: right back into the classroom where they can reoffend in

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Speaker 1: an instant. It's the exact same thing we see with

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Speaker 1: recidivism amongst criminal adults. It's the same tiny minority of

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Speaker 1: people in a given population that is committing crime after

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Speaker 1: crime after crime after crime, and is getting break after

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Speaker 1: break after break after break and being released again and

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Speaker 1: again and again and again to reoffend again and again

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Speaker 1: and again and again. Well, that behavior gets reinforced early

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Speaker 1: on in development, when they're able to commit figuratively speaking,

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Speaker 1: hopefully bloody murder in school classrooms and they're never ever,

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Speaker 1: ever kicked out of school. This actually goes back to

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Speaker 1: an Obama administration policy. It was a joint dear colleague

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Speaker 1: letter from the Justice Department in the Department of Education

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Speaker 1: that basically said, do not suspend any students because if

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Speaker 1: you do, we are going to employ a theory of

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Speaker 1: disparate impact. The idea being that if say, you have

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Speaker 1: a policy where if you punch a teacher in the face,

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Speaker 1: you will be suspended for five days automatically, even if

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Speaker 1: it's a very fair obvious policy, a bunch of teacher

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Speaker 1: in the face, you get five days suspension, no harm,

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Speaker 1: no file, boom bim bam boom done. If more black

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Speaker 1: or Hispanic students as either a total number or a

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Speaker 1: percentage of the students suspended under that policy, even if

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Speaker 1: it's totally race neutral, if a black kid punches a

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Speaker 1: teacher in the face, suspended for five days. White kid

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Speaker 1: punches a teacher in the face suspended for five days

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter the race of the offender. But even if

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Speaker 1: it is a race neutral policy, if there is a

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Speaker 1: disparate impact on minority students, the Obama Justice Department and

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Speaker 1: Education departments would have a presumption that it's a racist policy,

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Speaker 1: and you would be punished accordingly. As a result, school

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Speaker 1: stopped suspending, they stopped expelling, they stopped punishing for even

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Speaker 1: the most violent, deviant behavior. We're I'm still dealing with

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Speaker 1: the ramifications of that ten years later, and one of

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Speaker 1: the big ramifications is we do not have enough teachers

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Speaker 1: who are willing to put themselves on the line for

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Speaker 1: the kids. Now, don't get me wrong again, I am not.

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Speaker 2: I am not.

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Speaker 1: Conservatives also get a bad rep here for saying, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: old teachers are lazy. I spent much of the day

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Speaker 1: emailing all my kids teachers because I wasn't able to

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Speaker 1: make parent teacher conferences this year. Because parent teacher conferences,

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Speaker 1: can you guess when they were? They do them via

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Speaker 1: zoom for the high schoolers. Guess what hours they were

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Speaker 1: in between three and six pm. I'm a little occupied,

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to tell the teachers, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: the kids are going to roam in a couple of days.

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Speaker 2: Can you know they're good to be out of class?

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Speaker 2: Can we get you know some of the assignments. Can

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Speaker 2: we help?

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Speaker 1: And hey, by the way, I didn't get a chance

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Speaker 1: to check in for parent teacher conferences?

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Speaker 2: How are they doing?

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Speaker 1: Had great conversations by email, and in one case one

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Speaker 1: of the teachers called, these.

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Speaker 2: Are people who really truly genuinely care.

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Speaker 1: That ar't teacher who called the cops or who got

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Speaker 1: administration involved because she sensed something off with that replacement

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Speaker 1: Jim teacher.

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Speaker 2: That is a teacher who truly cares.

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Speaker 1: That principal at Bayline who said, no, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to let this slide. We're getting the cops involved. That's

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Speaker 1: a principle who truly cares. That's an administration that truly cares.

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Speaker 1: When you've got administrations, though, and you've got teachers. And

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Speaker 1: for the record, I believe ninety to ninety five percent

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Speaker 1: of teachers are good people who desperately want what's best

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Speaker 1: for the kids. Look, I've coached soccer my entire life.

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Speaker 1: It is impossible to get to know a group of kids,

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Speaker 1: to get to know kids individually and not come away

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Speaker 1: just loving them. I mean, they're innocent, they're just they're wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I've been very fortunate. I haven't dealt with any turds, except,

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Speaker 1: of course, my own kids, but that's another story. But

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Speaker 1: when you have the turds who are empowered to just

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Speaker 1: do more and more and more to disrupt the entire classroom,

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Speaker 1: and teachers are not empowered to do anything about it.

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Speaker 1: In many cases, school administrators are not empowered to do

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Speaker 1: anything about it. You've got this at the district and

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Speaker 1: even at one point federal government level sort of working

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Speaker 1: against you at implementing discipline. This is the predictable result.

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Speaker 1: You don't have people who have been in classrooms for

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Speaker 1: thirty years coming back out of the goodness of their

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Speaker 1: hearts because they want to do substitute teaching to just

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Speaker 1: sort of help out the school district that they love

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Speaker 1: so much.

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Speaker 2: They don't want to do that. They don't want to

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Speaker 2: subject themselves to that.

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Speaker 1: So you get people who aren't necessarily the highest caliber

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Speaker 1: individuals who are saying, Okay, well, I can substitute teach

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Speaker 1: history class and just put on a movie for forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes while I sit on my phone in the dark,

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Speaker 1: in the back of the class, and maybe I'll take

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Speaker 1: a couple of nips from my flask while I'm doing so.

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Speaker 1: This sort of thing doesn't happen in a vacuum. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course, this is a weird fluke thing. The whole

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Speaker 1: reason it's a big deal is that it doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: all that often. But the fact that schools now are

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Speaker 1: more dependent than ever before on staffing agencies. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not even saying that the staffing agency necessarily is to blame.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming this guy probably didn't come in wreaking like

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Speaker 1: Scotch for his interview. Maybe it's possible he didn't even

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Speaker 1: get it in person interview they did ad via zoom.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: But the fact that a drunken teacher got into a school,

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Speaker 1: and if not for the quick thinking art teacher here,

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Speaker 1: would have been teaching kids all day long. That is

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Speaker 1: sort of the predictable result of years and years and

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Speaker 1: years of not protecting teachers from students who would abuse them.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Dan.

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Speaker 1: O'Donnell's show exclusive, we will get to a story that

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Speaker 1: the Journal Center was finally catching up to us on next.

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Speaker 1: Remember when I reported exclusively what two weeks ago I

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Speaker 1: would say that Mandela Barnes is absolutely feared. Not by Republicans, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. We love the idea of the former lieutenant

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Speaker 1: governor running for the big boy chair in twenty twenty six. No,

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Speaker 1: that Democrats are fearful. The word I have heard is

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Speaker 1: petrified of the idea that Mandeadbeat, as we call him

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Speaker 1: here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, would be the Democratic

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Speaker 1: nominee for governor. Remember when I reported that exclusively, I

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Speaker 1: believe producer Jeff you were there. Jeff splits Jeff Worlowski

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Speaker 1: splits the producing gig with Eric Paulson. We have two

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Speaker 1: wonderful producers, and I can never tell who's when on

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Speaker 1: a given day. They switch their shifts so often it's

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Speaker 1: whoever knocks on my door at like one fifteen. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm producer. I'm like, all right, let's have some fun.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, right, I was reporting exclusively Democrats are

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Speaker 1: petrified because Mandeadbeat is such a terrible candidate. They don't

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Speaker 1: want him anywhere near this election. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Speaker 1: is finally rep aarding the same thing Mandela Barnes reports,

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Speaker 1: Molly Beck and Jesse opian oh Poyan. All these year,

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Speaker 1: I've known Jesse for a long time, I still don't

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Speaker 1: know how to pronounce her last name. I apologize, Jesse,

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Speaker 1: Jesse Opoyan Pian. Whatever report, Mandela Barnes hasn't launched a

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Speaker 1: campaign for governor yet, but he's getting pushedback from.

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Speaker 2: Some in his own party to the idea.

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Speaker 1: Barnes, a former lieutenant governor and US Senate candidate, is

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Speaker 1: seriously considering a gubernatorial bid and has started to assemble

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Speaker 1: a team as he mulls the idea. With one statewide

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01:41:37,640 --> 01:41:40,800
Speaker 1: win and a high profile US Senate campaign behind him,

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Speaker 1: Barnes would enter the race as the prohibitive front runner,

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Speaker 1: poised to edge out a slate of Democrat candidates who

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Speaker 1: have little name id statewide and only a sliver of

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Speaker 1: the fundraising network Barnes has established over the last decade.

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Speaker 1: But Barnes received, But Barnes is receiving some please private

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Speaker 1: end public to rethink his plan to enter the race.

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Speaker 1: Those working with him question the motivation behind those efforts,

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Speaker 1: suggesting that they may be driven by fears of their

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Speaker 1: own candidate losing to Barnes in the primary. They then

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Speaker 1: go through what we talked about the Milwaukee Courier op

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Speaker 1: ed urging him not to run the New York Times

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01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:27,200
Speaker 1: story highlighting just how badly he trailed Tony Evers. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Barnes reports the Journal Sentinel does not

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Speaker 1: appear to be swayed, and some Democrats are coming to

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Speaker 1: his defense, pushing back on the criticism that he has received.

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Speaker 1: This story appears to be a validating what I reported

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago exclusively, and in fact, if I remember correctly,

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Speaker 1: I was reporting this even before. Now I may be

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01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:05,760
Speaker 1: wrong on this, but I was hearing this as far

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Speaker 1: back as September. I believe I reported this before that

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Speaker 1: New York Times story came out the day after that

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Speaker 1: it was the Milwaukee Courier story. But I have been

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Speaker 1: hearing for months that Democrats didn't necessarily want Mandela Barnes,

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Speaker 1: even though he would probably go in with so much

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Speaker 1: name id and such an ability to raise money that

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01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:34,160
Speaker 1: nobody else was going to be able to catch up.

1510
01:43:34,240 --> 01:43:37,759
Speaker 1: In fact, I was actually reporting exclusively, and it turned

1511
01:43:37,800 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: out to be true that if Mandela got in the race,

1512
01:43:43,479 --> 01:43:46,840
Speaker 1: Josh Call was not going to Call spent a couple

1513
01:43:46,920 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 1: of weeks talking with Big money donors, and he was

1514
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:53,280
Speaker 1: trying to test the waters to see what sort of

1515
01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:56,559
Speaker 1: support he would have an agubernatorial run. I was told

1516
01:43:56,640 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: if mandadbeat God in the race, Call was probably not

1517
01:44:00,479 --> 01:44:04,679
Speaker 1: going to because all of the institutional Madison support would

1518
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:07,920
Speaker 1: go to one of those candidates or the other. That

1519
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:12,800
Speaker 1: Mandela was simultaneously seeing what Call was going to do.

1520
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:17,280
Speaker 1: Then there was a poll by Platform Communications that came

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01:44:17,320 --> 01:44:20,800
Speaker 1: out that showed that Mandela had twice the support of

1522
01:44:20,960 --> 01:44:24,760
Speaker 1: every other candidate, and from then on Mandela was like

1523
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 1: nuts to this, I'm in regardless of what ag Call

1524
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:33,599
Speaker 1: decides to do. That poll was apparently enough to scare

1525
01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:38,360
Speaker 1: Call and the donors into having Call run for a

1526
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:41,880
Speaker 1: third term now as Attorney General. He was scared out

1527
01:44:41,880 --> 01:44:45,400
Speaker 1: of the race by Mandela's strength, and this sent a

1528
01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 1: lot of people scrambling saying, boy, oh boy, are we

1529
01:44:48,840 --> 01:44:53,000
Speaker 1: really running it back with Mandela Barnes. So immediately after

1530
01:44:53,080 --> 01:44:55,439
Speaker 1: that poll came out, I believe was when I started

1531
01:44:55,520 --> 01:44:58,400
Speaker 1: reporting this. Might have even been three weeks ago that

1532
01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:00,840
Speaker 1: I started reporting this. I think we can go back

1533
01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:03,439
Speaker 1: through my social media or through old shows to try

1534
01:45:03,520 --> 01:45:06,880
Speaker 1: to figure out exactly when I started reporting this. But

1535
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:10,760
Speaker 1: Isn't it remarkable that you hear something on the dan

1536
01:45:10,840 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: o'tt it used to be? Remember the tagline for TV

1537
01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: news see it here tonight, read about it in the

1538
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:22,120
Speaker 1: paper tomorrow. Now it's hear it or see it on

1539
01:45:22,240 --> 01:45:25,679
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show, hear it in the Journal Sentinel.

1540
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:29,160
Speaker 1: In like a month or so, we'll be back with

1541
01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:32,800
Speaker 1: much more on this and what it means for the

1542
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:35,799
Speaker 1: state of the gubernatorial race when we return.

1543
01:45:36,920 --> 01:45:38,559
Speaker 2: Army of the Pharaohs in the.

1544
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:45,599
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show bumper music rotation two weeks at least

1545
01:45:46,280 --> 01:45:50,080
Speaker 1: after we reported that there was deep, deep worry within

1546
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:55,760
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party about Mandela Barnes's impending gubernatorial run. By

1547
01:45:55,760 --> 01:45:58,639
Speaker 1: the way, he is going to announce, ladies and gentlemen,

1548
01:45:58,720 --> 01:46:03,160
Speaker 1: at some point this month. Now I hesitate to say

1549
01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: the exact date, because you know what's gonna happen, the

1550
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 1: exact same thing that happened when I somehow predicted the

1551
01:46:10,680 --> 01:46:13,519
Speaker 1: exact date that Tony Evers was going to announce he

1552
01:46:13,720 --> 01:46:16,840
Speaker 1: wasn't seeking a third term. They're just going to move

1553
01:46:16,880 --> 01:46:20,040
Speaker 1: it so that I won't be correct. So I guess

1554
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it is going to come this month.

1555
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:26,519
Speaker 1: It's probably going to come I would say next week.

1556
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:31,040
Speaker 1: They don't want it too close to Thanksgiving, but they

1557
01:46:31,160 --> 01:46:33,400
Speaker 1: want to hit the news cycle hard. He is going

1558
01:46:33,439 --> 01:46:36,439
Speaker 1: to announce that he's running for governor. It is already

1559
01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:41,439
Speaker 1: been decided he's jumping in that race. It's remarkable. I

1560
01:46:41,600 --> 01:46:45,640
Speaker 1: reported on this show weeks ago that this was the

1561
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:52,560
Speaker 1: case the newspaper of record in Wisconsin, with every Democrat

1562
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:58,120
Speaker 1: in the state leaking to them about everything. They get

1563
01:46:58,280 --> 01:47:02,759
Speaker 1: every bit of opposition research. Whenever you see a story

1564
01:47:03,280 --> 01:47:08,080
Speaker 1: by Dan Biss about some Republican doing something, it is leaked.

1565
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:13,720
Speaker 1: Both parties employ opposition researchers, and for whatever reason, both

1566
01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:15,880
Speaker 1: parties have decided that they're going to give all the

1567
01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:19,800
Speaker 1: opposition research to Dan Biss or someone else at the

1568
01:47:19,880 --> 01:47:23,519
Speaker 1: Journal Sentinel. And I actually know the reason I talk

1569
01:47:23,560 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: about it often. It's the talk radio ghetto. It's if

1570
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:30,519
Speaker 1: you can keep a story on the Dan O'Donnell show

1571
01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:33,439
Speaker 1: in that talk radio ghetto, ensure that it doesn't ever

1572
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:38,240
Speaker 1: get out to the broader media like for example, for example,

1573
01:47:39,200 --> 01:47:45,200
Speaker 1: it took weeks for anybody outside of this show to

1574
01:47:45,360 --> 01:47:49,960
Speaker 1: report that there was deep consternation that man deadbeat Barnes

1575
01:47:50,080 --> 01:47:52,840
Speaker 1: was getting in the race. They're all terrified because he's

1576
01:47:52,880 --> 01:47:55,800
Speaker 1: an awful candidate, and they all know it. They don't

1577
01:47:55,840 --> 01:47:59,200
Speaker 1: want to say it for obvious reasons, because he's a

1578
01:47:59,360 --> 01:48:03,760
Speaker 1: black man who's not afraid to scream racism whenever he's

1579
01:48:03,920 --> 01:48:09,719
Speaker 1: criticized even gently by an obviously very friendly news outlet

1580
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:14,799
Speaker 1: like the Journal Sentinel. But they didn't want to report

1581
01:48:14,880 --> 01:48:17,519
Speaker 1: that when I did, because they might have to give

1582
01:48:17,640 --> 01:48:24,400
Speaker 1: me credit for that exclusive. But they also don't want

1583
01:48:24,800 --> 01:48:29,840
Speaker 1: anybody outside of a talk radio right wing audience who

1584
01:48:29,960 --> 01:48:33,960
Speaker 1: they don't believe really matters all that much, to hear

1585
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:37,400
Speaker 1: about a given story. That's why the tone of the

1586
01:48:37,600 --> 01:48:42,120
Speaker 1: story that Molly Beck and Jesse o'poyan wrote is very

1587
01:48:42,560 --> 01:48:45,160
Speaker 1: favorable to Barnes. It is very well People in the

1588
01:48:45,479 --> 01:48:49,280
Speaker 1: Democratic parties say the concerns over Barnes are overblown.

1589
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 2: No, they're not.

1590
01:48:52,760 --> 01:48:55,839
Speaker 1: He had the backing of every Democrat in the country.

1591
01:48:56,080 --> 01:48:58,879
Speaker 1: He had as much money as he could possibly spend.

1592
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:05,000
Speaker 1: Democrats nationally had Ron Johnson as their number one target

1593
01:49:05,160 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: to take out In twenty twenty two. Governor Evers won

1594
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:14,120
Speaker 1: reelection relatively easily by three points and a three point

1595
01:49:14,200 --> 01:49:21,160
Speaker 1: gubernatorial election in Wisconsin is a pretty easy win. Barnes lost,

1596
01:49:21,320 --> 01:49:29,360
Speaker 1: and he badly underperformed Evers. That's reason enough for concern. Also,

1597
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:35,360
Speaker 1: he says stupid stuff. He's not a particularly bright human being,

1598
01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:42,799
Speaker 1: and pretty much every Democrat insider knows it. The problem

1599
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:48,519
Speaker 1: is there's no obvious heir apparent to Tony Evers. There's

1600
01:49:48,640 --> 01:49:51,599
Speaker 1: nobody who they're all going to just sort of rally around.

1601
01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:56,439
Speaker 1: My guess would have been Sarah Rodriguez, but the Evers

1602
01:49:56,520 --> 01:50:00,679
Speaker 1: team was furious at her for inadvertently proving me right

1603
01:50:01,200 --> 01:50:05,400
Speaker 1: about why Tony Evers team moved his retirement announcement date.

1604
01:50:05,800 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: It was because I was reporting that he was retiring

1605
01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:10,880
Speaker 1: on July seventeenth, so they moved it a week later

1606
01:50:10,960 --> 01:50:11,800
Speaker 1: to the twenty fourth.

1607
01:50:16,200 --> 01:50:21,280
Speaker 2: The idea is always that you want to do whatever

1608
01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:22,559
Speaker 2: you can to.

1609
01:50:24,160 --> 01:50:29,840
Speaker 1: Advance the narrative that Democrats are perfectly in control, that

1610
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:32,479
Speaker 1: they know exactly what they're doing, that they are the

1611
01:50:32,680 --> 01:50:38,040
Speaker 1: picture of competence, when behind the scenes they're not, because

1612
01:50:38,080 --> 01:50:41,840
Speaker 1: they're not able to stop a Mandela Barnes run no

1613
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: matter how much they may like to. All Right, Tuckercraft

1614
01:50:46,040 --> 01:50:49,000
Speaker 1: out for the season with a torn acl what does

1615
01:50:49,080 --> 01:50:52,799
Speaker 1: that mean for the Packers' title chances, if said title

1616
01:50:52,920 --> 01:50:56,800
Speaker 1: chances ever really actually existed. Coming up tomorrow on the

1617
01:50:56,920 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell Show, we will look into some suspicious developments

1618
01:51:02,320 --> 01:51:07,360
Speaker 1: with respect to Wisconsin's voter roles and dot records. I

1619
01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:09,799
Speaker 1: have been trying to get some answers about a story

1620
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,800
Speaker 1: that has been gaining some traction over the past couple

1621
01:51:12,840 --> 01:51:18,599
Speaker 1: of days about forty one thousand people on Wisconsin's voter

1622
01:51:18,760 --> 01:51:23,360
Speaker 1: rules who don't have a corresponding driver's license on file.

1623
01:51:24,439 --> 01:51:28,400
Speaker 1: There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding about a

1624
01:51:28,439 --> 01:51:30,800
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff, and I spent a good portion

1625
01:51:30,920 --> 01:51:33,040
Speaker 1: of today trying to dig through some of this. I'm

1626
01:51:33,120 --> 01:51:37,000
Speaker 1: hoping to get a report for you tomorrow on what's

1627
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:38,040
Speaker 1: actually going on.

1628
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:40,360
Speaker 2: I've been working some sources.

1629
01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:44,720
Speaker 1: Today, so listen for that tomorrow probably threeh six Right

1630
01:51:44,800 --> 01:51:46,280
Speaker 1: here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.

1631
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:48,080
Speaker 2: Packers, of course lose.

1632
01:51:48,120 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 1: In a heartbreaker, inasmuch as an October I guess early

1633
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:57,360
Speaker 1: November loss to the Carolina Panthers at home can be

1634
01:51:57,439 --> 01:52:04,439
Speaker 1: a heartbreaker. What an absolute embarrassment of the game. I

1635
01:52:04,479 --> 01:52:08,599
Speaker 1: gotta give credit where credits due. The liberal writer Dan

1636
01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:13,640
Speaker 1: Schaeffer had quite possibly the greatest Jordan Love tweet I

1637
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:19,120
Speaker 1: have ever seen. Jordan Love doesn't throw many interceptions, but

1638
01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:22,600
Speaker 1: every interception he throws is the worst one you have

1639
01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:26,880
Speaker 1: ever seen, and that one on fourth and eight was.

1640
01:52:27,560 --> 01:52:27,720
Speaker 2: Yes.

1641
01:52:27,840 --> 01:52:30,479
Speaker 1: I know the receivers should have broken back to the ball,

1642
01:52:30,560 --> 01:52:34,360
Speaker 1: and none of them did, but my goodness, there wasn't

1643
01:52:34,520 --> 01:52:40,439
Speaker 1: even another Packer in the same zip code, and that

1644
01:52:41,320 --> 01:52:45,639
Speaker 1: Carolina defender, nobody around me just dropped it. Forget about

1645
01:52:45,720 --> 01:52:50,559
Speaker 1: hands of alignment, hands of thing from Fantastic four. It's

1646
01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:54,280
Speaker 1: just pure stone right there. Tucker Craft, by the way,

1647
01:52:54,479 --> 01:52:57,560
Speaker 1: the star tight end who I am convinced, had he

1648
01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:01,439
Speaker 1: stayed healthy, would have put up insane numbers. I mean,

1649
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 1: he would have been the number one tight end in

1650
01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:06,040
Speaker 1: football by the end of the year. It would have

1651
01:53:06,120 --> 01:53:10,599
Speaker 1: been universally acknowledged. That's how good a season he was having.

1652
01:53:11,160 --> 01:53:16,640
Speaker 1: On just a fluke play, his knee gets just dislocated

1653
01:53:16,720 --> 01:53:21,120
Speaker 1: beyond repair, torn acl He is out for this season.

1654
01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:27,560
Speaker 1: Devastating because the Packers passing game has been inconsistent to

1655
01:53:27,760 --> 01:53:31,479
Speaker 1: say the least, and Matt Lafleur has not relied on

1656
01:53:31,760 --> 01:53:34,519
Speaker 1: the run as much as maybe he should. Given that

1657
01:53:34,960 --> 01:53:38,679
Speaker 1: because he's had Tucker Craft as a big old safety

1658
01:53:38,760 --> 01:53:44,599
Speaker 1: blanket for Jordan Love. Without Craft, that's a big hit

1659
01:53:44,760 --> 01:53:50,240
Speaker 1: to the offense. Luke Musgrave filled in admirably for Craft,

1660
01:53:50,439 --> 01:53:53,679
Speaker 1: but he's just not He doesn't have that same big

1661
01:53:53,920 --> 01:53:57,559
Speaker 1: play ability. I don't think I'd love to be proven wrong,

1662
01:53:58,360 --> 01:54:01,080
Speaker 1: but this strikes me as a massive loss for the

1663
01:54:01,200 --> 01:54:05,000
Speaker 1: packers and folks I when I saw it. I'm no professional,

1664
01:54:05,680 --> 01:54:07,720
Speaker 1: but as somebody who's had a bad knee for a

1665
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:10,320
Speaker 1: good long time now, I'm like, well, and me is

1666
01:54:10,520 --> 01:54:12,960
Speaker 1: not supposed to bend like that. I'm guessing it's a

1667
01:54:13,080 --> 01:54:20,280
Speaker 1: torn acl lo and behold. It was ug Yeah, just

1668
01:54:20,360 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 1: a bad day all the way around, but we had

1669
01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:24,000
Speaker 1: a lot of fun today. Right back to do it

1670
01:54:24,040 --> 01:54:26,920
Speaker 1: all again tomorrow three oh six on The Dan O'Donnell Show.