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Speaker 1: Top of the afternoon. To you and welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. On this beautiful but cold and snowy

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Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. It is the final day of the

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin State Senate session, and I mean final day for

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Speaker 1: the entire year. Yes, on March seventeenth, They're done after today.

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Speaker 1: The final floor session has a number of contentious votes

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Speaker 1: and a big retirement already announced today, Let's dive right

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Speaker 1: into it. Here are the top stories we are following

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Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donalds Show on this Saint Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 1: State Senator Van Wanguard has told colleagues that he is

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Speaker 1: retiring from the state Senate. He won't seek reelection this November.

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Speaker 1: We'll have the details and explain what this means for Republicans'

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Speaker 1: chances of holding their slim margin in the Senate in

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Speaker 1: Senate's year, hotly contested bills on online sports betting and

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Speaker 1: for votes. We're going to be following that pretty much

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Speaker 1: throughout the afternoon, and the US Senate is also taking

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Speaker 1: a critical test vote on the Save America Act this afternoon.

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Speaker 1: The bill faces an uncertain future because of an expected

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Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour. And it is yes Saint Patrick's Day,

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Speaker 1: and as is tradition, President Trump has met with the

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Ireland known as the Tea Shock. He

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Speaker 1: All the details on that what he said about the

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Speaker 1: Right at the start of the show. The bid on

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Auction kicks off tomorrow. We always do this a

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Speaker 1: couple of times a year, usually in the fall and

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Speaker 1: right around Saint Patrick's Day. Well, it is going to

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Speaker 1: be tomorrow and Thursday, two days of bidding. But there

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Speaker 1: is something very important that you do need to know.

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Speaker 1: There was an issue with the bid on Milwaukee dot

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Speaker 1: com website and that means we are switching to a

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Speaker 1: backup site to run this March's auction. Bid on Milwaukeeauction

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Speaker 1: dot com. If you go to bid on Milwaukee dot com,

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Speaker 1: I'm told the site is still up, but you aren't

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Speaker 1: going to be able to bid on things. So please

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Speaker 1: do go to bid on Milwaukeeauction dot com. It is

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Speaker 1: very very easy to get signed up and bid. Go

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Speaker 1: to the station's website, click on the search icon, search

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Speaker 1: the word auction, search on the bid on Milwaukee Auction

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Speaker 1: on the website, or simply go directly to bid on

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Speaker 1: Milwaukeeauction dot com. Very important if you want to bid,

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Speaker 1: and this is a very very cool way to get

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Speaker 1: some of the best deals on things that you are

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Speaker 1: the thirty three foot above ground pool from Blah Blah

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Speaker 1: Bah Bachman's. The opening bid there is eleven thousand dollars. Folks,

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Speaker 1: if you can get a pool for eleven thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: do you have any idea what above ground pools cost? Now, yes,

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Speaker 1: I have been in the market that wasn't serious about

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Speaker 1: just say that Clark Griswold's Christmas bonus in National Lampoon's

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Speaker 1: River aboard the riverboat Twilight. The opening bid there is

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Speaker 1: unbelievable deals here. The reason is that anyone who puts

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Speaker 1: Bachmann's opening bid there forty two hundred dollars. You can

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Speaker 1: lawn Boughts Robotic mowing. Seriously, a robotic lawnmower. It's sort

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Speaker 1: I would totally be in on that if I didn't

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Speaker 1: How about this a six person, five day Canadian fishing

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Speaker 1: WYBA dot com. Don't totally quote me on that, but

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna invent like Stan O'Connell is bidding on stuff.

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Speaker 1: the immediate political impact of this is not good for

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Speaker 1: to come down to three Republican districts, and essentially one

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Speaker 1: that is a mix. Okay, two incumbents because of the

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Speaker 1: Now you can debate whether this is good policy or not.

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Speaker 1: which is completely misunderstood by history. A lot of people,

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Speaker 1: well the Irish, they couldn't grow anything but potatoes, and

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Speaker 1: when the potato crop failed they all starved. Well, yes

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Speaker 1: and no. If you've ever been to Ireland, you would

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Speaker 1: know that really nothing grows in that climate except potatoes.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't that they weren't able to grow enough potatoes,

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Speaker 1: it was that the English. If you ever wondered why

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Speaker 1: the Blight. It's because the War for Independence a couple

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Speaker 1: decades later. But during the blight, the English, who essentially

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Speaker 1: owned all of the farms the and that the Irish

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Speaker 1: were tenant farmers sharecroppers on they demanded that the potatoes

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Speaker 1: that were being grown be sent back to England, and

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Speaker 1: the Irish were not allowed to keep any for themselves.

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Speaker 1: So Irish farm families were starving to death while the

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Speaker 1: English were still demanding their quotas of crops to come down.

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Speaker 1: So the Irish en moss left the country, and primarily

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Speaker 1: they were going to the United States. This was in

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Speaker 1: the eighteen fifties eighteen sixties. The movie Gangs of New

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Speaker 1: York does an incredible job of showing how they were

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Speaker 1: getting off the boat and getting conscripted into the Union

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Speaker 1: Army fighting the Civil War. This led to the infamous

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Speaker 1: draft riots in New York City depicted in the film

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Speaker 1: Great Saint Patrick's Day. Watch. By the way, it's a

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Speaker 1: brutally violent movie. Martin Scorsese, Daniel day lewis playing one

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Speaker 1: of the best villains I think in film history. Bill

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Speaker 1: the Butcher. Leonardo DiCaprio is the main character. And if

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Speaker 1: you want to see Cameron Diaz doing really the worst

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Speaker 1: Irish brogue I have ever heard, watch Gangs of New York.

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Speaker 1: Really really fantastic film. But today the President, as is tradition,

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Speaker 1: so all these Irish immigrants are coming to the United

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Speaker 1: States and they're welcomed with open arms, and Ireland lovingly

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Speaker 1: calls itself America's fifty first state because the Irish diaspora,

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Speaker 1: when all of the people fled all across the country,

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Speaker 1: all across the world, they primarily went to the United States.

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Speaker 1: And the President, President Trump talked about the long history

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Speaker 1: as we prepare to celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth

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Speaker 1: birthday this July of the Irish in America, including very

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Speaker 1: very strong ties to the founding of America itself.

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Speaker 2: You know, I was just told right that twenty three

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Speaker 2: American presidents have some Irish blood on them, right, some

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Speaker 2: some a little bit and some alive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, that's a pretty big number. I don't think any

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Speaker 2: and nobody else competes with that. But out of the

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Speaker 2: fifty six siders of our Declaration of Independence, eleven were

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Speaker 2: patriots with roots in Ireland. Back in July fourth, seventeen

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Speaker 2: seventy six, it was the son of Ireland who actually

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Speaker 2: printed that sacred document for the first time.

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Speaker 1: Who knew that?

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Speaker 2: And it was also an irishman who first read its

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Speaker 2: immortal words to the American public, proclaiming aloud that we

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Speaker 2: are all made free and equal by the hand of

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Speaker 2: our Creator, and endowed by God with rights to life, liberty,

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Speaker 2: and the pursuit of happiness.

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Speaker 1: Came out of the blood of Ireland. Yeah, the guy

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Speaker 1: who first printed the Declaration of Independence actually the night

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Speaker 1: after that, that night July fourth, seventeen seventy six, immediately

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Speaker 1: after the Second Continental Congress approved the final text, a

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Speaker 1: manuscript copy was rushed over to John Dunlap's print shop

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. He was the official printer of the Continental Congress,

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Speaker 1: and he worked all through the night and he printed

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Speaker 1: about two hundred broadside copies. These are like almost giant posters, right.

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Speaker 1: They're known as the Dunlap Broadside and they were publicly

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Speaker 1: distributed the very next day, July fifth. How cool is that, huh,

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Speaker 1: that it was a Sun of Ireland who printed the

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Speaker 1: very first copies of the Declaration of Independence. Cool little

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Speaker 1: history from President Trump. History made in Wisconsin today, the

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Speaker 1: state Senate has given final legislative approval to online sports betting.

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin is one of the final states to approve online

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Speaker 1: sports betting. It does not necessarily face a one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent clean path to signing. Governor Eavers has actually expressed

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Speaker 1: some concern with the bill, saying that the tribes didn't

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Speaker 1: get enough say in the process. Give me a break,

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Speaker 1: they get total control over online sports betting. So that's

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Speaker 1: led some people to think that Ebers isn't going to

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Speaker 1: sign this thing into law. Folks, I hate to spoil

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Speaker 1: the ending. Ebers is going to sign this into law.

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Speaker 1: There is so much lobbying money behind this that you

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Speaker 1: actually heard in the last commercial break if you're listening

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Speaker 1: to this show on WISN radio, you actually had heard

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Speaker 1: an ad for the supporters of online sports betting. It

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Speaker 1: was like, let people bet dot com or something like that.

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Speaker 1: That should tell you how much money if they're spending

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Speaker 1: ads on this station. Interesting lyodo did you notice the

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Speaker 1: radio show that they were spending the most money on.

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Speaker 1: It was clearly this one because they have judged your

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Speaker 1: humble host to be one of the biggest voices of

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Speaker 1: opposition against this bill. And look, folks, I understand I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying here that I am totally opposed to online

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Speaker 1: sports betting. Millions of people do it. Millions of people

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Speaker 1: are able to do it safely, they're able to have

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Speaker 1: fun with it. But there is a segment of the

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Speaker 1: population that gets addicted to it, and online sports betting

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Speaker 1: is very addictive. I have a bigger issue, though not necessarily,

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Speaker 1: with the addictive properties of online sports betting as compared

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Speaker 1: to say, casino gaming, the lottery, scratch off tickets, that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. Clearly something that you're able to do compulsively,

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Speaker 1: NonStop because you've constantly got the means to do it

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Speaker 1: in your hands, in your pocket, in your cell phone.

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Speaker 1: It's obviously going to be way easier to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's obviously going to be way more problematic but I

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Speaker 1: don't have as much of a problem with that as

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Speaker 1: I do with the manner in which this was passed

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Speaker 1: and the power that this gives not just to the

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Speaker 1: native tribes but also to Governor Evers to now reopen

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Speaker 1: in the gaming compacts and to negotiate an even worse

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Speaker 1: deal than his predecessor, Diamond Jim Doyle did twenty three

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Speaker 1: years ago when he, in a late night, midnight deal

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Speaker 1: on of all days, April Fool's Day, sold the state

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Speaker 1: out to the tribes to prevent any future governor or

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Speaker 1: any future legislature from ever reopening the compacts. The other

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Speaker 1: issue with this is that it's almost certainly unconstitutional, and

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Speaker 1: quite frankly, I think the second that this law is signed,

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Speaker 1: it is going to be challenged on constitutional grounds. We

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Speaker 1: will explain how coming up in the four o'clock hour.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we name the unhinged liberal of the

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Speaker 1: day on this Saint Patrick's Day, we'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show, and Happy Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day to you. Shabbon from I believe is this

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Speaker 1: the tossers in the Dan o'donald Show. Saint Patrick's Day,

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Speaker 1: Bumper music, rotation, fun, Celtic punk all day long. Here

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Speaker 1: on The Dan o'donald Show. We are also likely, primarily

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Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour, we're gonna have some Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day fun. The history of the day, why it

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Speaker 1: is the ultimate American holiday. Also, it is a significant

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Speaker 1: anniversary today, folks, twenty years since a seminal moment in

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Speaker 1: American culture that you might not know about. But Folks,

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Speaker 1: when I explain it to you, it's all gonna make sense,

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Speaker 1: and you are going to thank The Dan o'donnald Show

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Speaker 1: for bringing you this indelible piece of Americana. Also, how

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Speaker 1: about what do you think the ultimate Saint Patrick's Day

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Speaker 1: movie is? Think about it. My father, my grandfather, actually,

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Speaker 1: James O'Donnell, always loved The Bells of Saint Mary's. That

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Speaker 1: was he watched every Saint Patrick's Day. I believe that

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Speaker 1: was his absolute favorite movie. There are all sorts of

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Speaker 1: great Irish movies for my money, and maybe because it

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Speaker 1: came out when I was a kid, and I absolutely

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Speaker 1: love it. It was like one of the first grown up

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Speaker 1: movies that I was allowed to see. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with the Fugitive Tommy Lee Jones Oscar winning role. Obviously

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Speaker 1: Harrison Ford as doctor Richard Kimball. There is a little

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Speaker 1: known story about that movie that we are going to

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Speaker 1: get into and how it relates to Saint Patrick's Day,

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Speaker 1: specifically Saint Patrick's day in Chicago. All of that is

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Speaker 1: coming up in the five o'clock hour. In the four

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Speaker 1: o'clock hour, we will get you the daily Trump date

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Speaker 1: and much more. Right now, we bring you the unhinged liberalation.

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Speaker 3: O Truff is.

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Speaker 1: Dangerous because he's evil America. Today's unhinged liberal of the

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Speaker 1: day is none other than Joy Reid, who said on

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Speaker 1: our podcast America, Yeah, it's just as oppressive as the Ayatolas.

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Speaker 1: Your our regen has secret police.

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Speaker 4: They have secret police. Our regen is oppressing women, taking

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Speaker 4: away abortion rights, taking away women's rights in like twenty

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Speaker 4: six twenty six states. Some states where they're trying to

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Speaker 4: have the death penalty for having an abortion, they also

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Speaker 4: oppress women there. They have the highest rate of women

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Speaker 4: who are in stem careers. We're kicking women out of

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Speaker 4: the military, out of university. We're saying that DEI means

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Speaker 4: women can't be hired for high positions in the sciences.

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Speaker 4: So we're marginally better and we're doing it for Christianity.

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Speaker 4: They're doing it for Islam. Right, So it's like we

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Speaker 4: don't get told those things because it would take it

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Speaker 4: would it would take away the kind of American exceptionalism narrative.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, America, just like you're wrong, Joy read you're unhinged.

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Speaker 1: Liberal of the day, Happy Saint Patrick's Day, on the

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Speaker 1: day that everyone's a little bit Irish. I actually am

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Speaker 1: fifty percent Irish, very proud of that. O'Donnell is my

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Speaker 1: real name for those wondering if I use a stage name. No,

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Speaker 1: Daniel O'Donnell is my real name. Yes, I share the

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Speaker 1: same name as a very popular Irish singer. And my

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Speaker 1: dad just texted me to let me know that I

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Speaker 1: was wrong about the movie that Grandpa always watched every

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Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. It wasn't The Bells of Saint Mary's.

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Speaker 1: It was The Quiet Man starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

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Speaker 1: Bells of Saint Mary's was his favorite movie, but every

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Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day he would watch apparently The Quiet Man.

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Speaker 1: I can still remember folks at Grandpa O'Donnell's house in

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Speaker 1: his Den because they had a Sega in the Den

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Speaker 1: for the kid, not Sega Genesis, like the original nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighties Sega that they got for my brother and me

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Speaker 1: when you know, we would come over we were a

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Speaker 1: little boys to play, and he had all his VHS

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Speaker 1: tapes and The Quiet Man was always like right there

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Speaker 1: at the front. I think he had just filmed because

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Speaker 1: it was just it wasn't like the store bought Quiet Man.

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Speaker 1: It was like he recorded The Quiet Man when it

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Speaker 1: aired on Saint Patrick's Day because he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: pay for the VHS tape. But no, it's this story

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Speaker 1: about a boxer who goes back to Ireland falls in love.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's just a wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful film.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have been texting me great movies

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Speaker 1: to watch on Saint Patrick's Day. One suggested, how about

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Speaker 1: The Boondocks Saints, which is about Irish gangsters. That's a

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Speaker 1: good one that departed also about the Irish mob in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson essentially is playing Whitey Bulger in a very

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Speaker 1: very good movie, the movie for which Scorsese finally won

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Speaker 1: the Oscar. He should have won it. For Goodfellas seventeen

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Speaker 1: twenty yeah, seventeen years earlier than that. Goodfellas was nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: That Departed was two thousand seven, two thousand and eight,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six. Somewhere in there. Another one. How

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Speaker 1: about the Leprecawn franchise of campy horror movies about a

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Speaker 1: killer Leprechaun. I just I never actually saw those when

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Speaker 1: I was growing I think I saw Like Leprechaun three

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Speaker 1: because I was suffering from insomnia and it was on

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Speaker 1: the Sci Fi Channel when I was like in my twenties,

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Speaker 1: and it was just it's absolutely awful. I just remember

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Speaker 1: the movie Wayne's World when Wayne is taunting Garth because

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Speaker 1: Garth is scared of the Lepregus. The Leprechaun's gonna get you.

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Speaker 1: So all great Saint Patrick's Date, I would say, A great,

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Speaker 1: A great movie I'm telling you about the experience of

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Speaker 1: the Irish in the United States would be Gangs of

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Speaker 1: New York. It is. It is all about assimilation into

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Speaker 1: broader culture. It's all about the conflict with the nativist

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Speaker 1: gangs that are already there. It's so wonderful. It's set

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Speaker 1: against the New York Aft riots of eighteen sixty one

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Speaker 1: sixty two, somewhere in there is just a wonderful, wonderful movie.

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Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back to the Dan o'donalds Show. A

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Speaker 1: lot of big news on the program, breaking news in fact,

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Speaker 1: from the Wisconsin State Senate and the US Senate, which

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Speaker 1: just passed the Save America Actor. Excuse me, it didn't

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Speaker 1: pass it, it advanced it to the floor. I got

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Speaker 1: a lot of people unnecessarily excited the state Senate passed

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Speaker 1: the online sports betting bill. The United States Senate still

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Speaker 1: has to do something about the Democrat philibuster that is coming,

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Speaker 1: but Republicans are apparently planning a marathon session for at

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Speaker 1: least the next day or two on the Save America Act.

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Speaker 1: It's all for not though. If Democrats are just able

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Speaker 1: to filibuster it, we will dive into that. We'll get

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Speaker 1: back into some of the issues folks. For those saying, well, Dan,

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Speaker 1: why are you spending so much time on this online

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Speaker 1: sports betting bill? Because it deals with so much that

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Speaker 1: is so wrong with the state legislature. You've got cronyism,

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Speaker 1: you've got blatantly unconstitutional behavior. Already, we have got the

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Speaker 1: arch conservative, the retiring Steve Noss with a blistering statement

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Speaker 1: about it. You have got just a whole lot about

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Speaker 1: state government and state politics is wrapped up in this bill. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's about gambling, but really it's about more than that.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to any of that, though, let's get

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Speaker 1: you caught up on what President Trump was up to

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Speaker 1: on this Saint Patrick's Day. It's your daily Trump Day.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna win so much you may even get tired

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Speaker 2: of winning.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win more. The President taking part in the

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Speaker 1: traditional St. Patrick's Day festivities today, speaking this afternoon at

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Speaker 1: the Friends of Ireland luncheon and praising the long history

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Speaker 1: of Irish migration to the US ahead of the nation's

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth birthday.

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Speaker 2: Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than

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Speaker 2: seven thousand targets across Iran. And these have been mostly

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Speaker 2: commercial and military targets.

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Speaker 1: All right, that is obviously not President Trump talking about

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Speaker 1: the Irish. We have struck a whole lot of targets

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Speaker 1: in Dublin, Galway is completely blown apart. The Irish Navy

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Speaker 1: is no more. We have assassinated the T Shock. That's

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Speaker 1: the right, all right, how about we play this right? No,

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Speaker 1: the T Shock is fine. Don't worry about the tea shot.

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Speaker 2: Here under this great celebration we also one or two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years of cherist Irish American friendship and

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Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years of fierce, proud, tenacious Irish

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Speaker 2: American heritage. These are incredible people. Oh, I know so

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Speaker 2: many Irish.

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Speaker 1: They're difficult though, you know, they're very difficult. Great politicians,

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Speaker 1: they certainly are. Yeah, Producer Eric, we got another wrong

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Speaker 1: cut in there. Well, what's going on? You take a

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Speaker 1: couple of days off? Okay? How much Irish whiskey did

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Speaker 1: you consume this morning? Only four shots? All right? Well,

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Speaker 1: you're doing better than I thought. In Producer Eric's defense,

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Speaker 1: usually when he should be getting ready for this stuff,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking his ear off during the news break and

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Speaker 1: commercial breaks, so I'm very distracting to work with. In

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Speaker 1: case you couldn't figure that out, now, the President did, talk,

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Speaker 1: of course, about the military operation in Iran. Here's the

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Speaker 1: clip we accidentally played before.

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Speaker 2: As somebody said they could leave today and it would

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Speaker 2: take ten years to rebuild. The damage has been done.

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Speaker 2: But I think we have to make it a little

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Speaker 2: bit more permanent because no other president has to go

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Speaker 2: through this, and we shouldn't have any other president having to.

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Speaker 1: Go through this this kind of a thing.

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Speaker 2: And if they didn't want to do it, if for

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Speaker 2: some reason they didn't want to do it, would have

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Speaker 2: the same problem. We don't ever want to have that

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Speaker 2: problem again, not with lunatics. You can't have lunatics controlling

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Speaker 2: nuclear weaponry.

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Speaker 1: So I just want to thank you every run now.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, the President, as his tradition, greeted the tea

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Speaker 1: shock Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin. He was at the

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Speaker 1: White House today and of course the big topic of

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Speaker 1: conversation between the two was Iran. The President was asked

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Speaker 1: whether or not he considers this to be an actual war, or,

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Speaker 1: as he put it the other day, an excursion.

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Speaker 2: Iran is just a military operation.

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Speaker 6: To me, Iran is something.

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Speaker 2: That was essentially largely over in two or three days

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Speaker 2: because the Navy was wiped out almost immediately.

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Speaker 6: The air force came next, the anti aircraft came next.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we're flying over Iran we could take out

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Speaker 6: their electric capacity in one hour. We have all the

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Speaker 6: There's nothing they can do right now because everything is

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Speaker 6: knocked out. They have no again, no radar, no anti aircraft,

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Speaker 6: they have nothing, and we don't.

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Speaker 2: And it was a decision I made. We discussed it,

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Speaker 2: Pete Marco jd All of US Chris, we discussed it.

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Speaker 2: We can knock out there electricity in a matter of

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Speaker 2: minutes if we wanted to.

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Speaker 6: There's nothing they can do about it now.

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Speaker 1: The President said that this operation would conclude very very quickly. However,

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Speaker 1: he chied to America's erstwhile allies for not lending their

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Speaker 1: support to the defense of the straight UPORTMA.

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Speaker 2: We're not ready to leave yet, but we will be

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Speaker 2: leaving in the near future. We'll be leaving in pretty

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Speaker 2: much the very near future. But right now they've been

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Speaker 2: decimated from every standpoint. And again we've had great support

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Speaker 2: from countries in the Middle East, great support, but we've

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Speaker 2: had no support from essentially no support from NATO.

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Speaker 1: Now. The President was of course asked, all right, the

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Speaker 1: NATO allies, you're you're ticked off at that's support.

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Speaker 2: You on this repercussion. Well, no, I just think that

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Speaker 2: it's not good for a partnership when they say what

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Speaker 2: you're doing is a great thing, but we're not going

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Speaker 2: to help.

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Speaker 7: As they said, what.

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Speaker 2: What you did is a great thing, but we're not.

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Speaker 6: Going to ask.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Kind of sad that they're not going to help.

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Speaker 1: So far, NATO allies have all rebuffed America's requests to

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Speaker 1: help secure the strait of horror movies. Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: That is your daily Trump date. People texting in with

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Speaker 1: more suggestions for Saint Patrick's Day movies? How could I

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Speaker 1: forget about this one? I watched this when I was

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Speaker 1: a kid again at my grandfather's house, my grandma and

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Speaker 1: Grandpa's house. They we always did. It was a tradition

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Speaker 1: in my family. We would do corn beef and cabbage

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Speaker 1: because of course, and a lot of my aunts and

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Speaker 1: uncles would come in and my mom and dad and

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Speaker 1: we'd go to Gramma and Grandpa's house and it was

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Speaker 1: like every Saint Patrick's Day we'd have corn beef and cabbage.

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Speaker 1: You as an Irish family tradition. And a movie they

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Speaker 1: put on when I was really young was Darby O'Gill

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Speaker 1: and the Little People. Remember that one, Darby O'Gill and

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Speaker 1: the Little People. Did you ever watch that? Producer, Eric, No,

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Speaker 1: it's from nineteen God, either early sixties or late nineteen fifties,

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Speaker 1: I believe is the very first film role of Sean Connery. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Sean Connery is like twenty some years old. He is

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Speaker 1: the lead actor. I want to say, Janet Monroe is

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Speaker 1: the female lead. And yeah, he is uber Scottish. But

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Speaker 1: I think this was a Disney one. And yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was a Walt Disney production film, all right, I got

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Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, and he goes to the Land of

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Speaker 1: the Little People. I can't. I don't know how I

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Speaker 1: forgot about Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I will

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Speaker 1: warn you if you put it on for your kids.

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Speaker 1: It is very nineteen fifty It came out in nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifty nine. That is it is. It is old. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what are some otherwise Far and Away? That is

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Speaker 1: another good one. Waking Ned Divine is another excellent Irish film.

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Speaker 1: All right, So the Save America Act it is going

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Speaker 1: to go to the floor. And this is significant because

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Speaker 1: fifty one Republicans did advance this bill, meaning there are

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Speaker 1: fifty one Republican Senators in support of this and earlier today,

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Speaker 1: before this US Senate floor session, Majority Leader John Thune said, Look,

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Speaker 1: it's just common sense to require voter ID, to require

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Speaker 1: proof of citizenship, because just look at all of the

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Speaker 1: things that you cannot live in modern American society without

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Speaker 1: a photo.

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Speaker 8: Just to sort of illustrate, I think how this issue

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Speaker 8: is something that a lot of people resonate with and

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Speaker 8: connect to, is the fact that pretty much everything you

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Speaker 8: do in your daily life involves showing an ID. You know,

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Speaker 8: whether it's opening a bank account, you know, getting a

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Speaker 8: hotel room, picking up prescription drugs. You need a card

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Speaker 8: in many cases just to get into a library. I mean,

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Speaker 8: these are things that are just basic, fundamental aspects of

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Speaker 8: our everyday life. We certainly ought to be able to

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Speaker 8: apply them to something as important as voting in this country.

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Speaker 1: And if you think about it, even.

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Speaker 8: The Democrats who are complaining loudly about this, required a

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Speaker 8: photo ID to get into the Democrat National Convention. And

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Speaker 8: there are a number of our colleagues, Democrat colleagues on

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Speaker 8: the other side of the aisle, who require or a

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Speaker 8: photo ID just to attend their official events.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting And it's not just that Senate Minority

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Speaker 1: Leader Chuck Schumer, who has been a very vocal opponent

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Speaker 1: of the Save America Act, even going so far as

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Speaker 1: to call it what else. Jim Crow two point zero

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six was on the floor of the

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Speaker 1: Senate in support of ID to get social welfare benefits

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Speaker 1: so as to prevent fraud by d da da da

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Speaker 1: da da da illegal immigrants. Let's submit the truth.

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Speaker 5: Everywhere people go, they're asked for a social Security card.

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Speaker 1: In fact, one way to prove you're a bona.

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Speaker 5: Fide person who can have a job is to ask

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Speaker 5: for a driver's license and a social Security card.

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Speaker 1: This is an anti fraud amendment.

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Speaker 5: All over where we go, people say, well, why can't

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Speaker 5: you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here? And

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Speaker 5: the number one answer we give our constituents is when

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Speaker 5: they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against.

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Speaker 1: The law because of fraud. Ah, So to stop fraud

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Speaker 1: in benefits we need to require IDA. What about stopping

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Speaker 1: fraud in voting? How is that different? Exactly? Now? The

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Speaker 1: argument that Democrats have been making, Schumer especially is Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not so much about voter ID, which is a lie.

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Speaker 1: They say it's the citizenship requirement. The citizenship requirement, because

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Speaker 1: it's just so onerous. Married women just are gonna not

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Speaker 1: be able to vote. They can't figure out how to

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Speaker 1: change their name when they get married on any of

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Speaker 1: their documents. This sounds insanely sexist to me, But what

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Speaker 1: do I know? Brand new poll from you gov and

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Speaker 1: the Economist asked, very simply, do you support providing proof

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Speaker 1: of citizenship for voting? In order to register to vote?

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Speaker 1: Should you have to prove if you're a citizen? Guess

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Speaker 1: how many people? Guess what percentage of Americans support this?

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Speaker 1: This was just in the field March thirteenth through yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Just guess sixty four percent. Almost two thirds of Americans

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Speaker 1: support providing documentary proof of citizenship in order to register

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Speaker 1: to vote. Sixty four to twenty nine percent. Independent voters

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Speaker 1: support this by twenty one points, Black voters by thirteen points,

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Speaker 1: Hispanic voters by eighteen points. The only people who oppose

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Speaker 1: it by eighteen points are Democrats. Every single demographic of

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Speaker 1: people except hardcore liberal Democrats support requiring proof of citizenship

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Speaker 1: to ward off fraud. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get to the State Senate.

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Speaker 1: Also more on the Save Them America Act. It's a

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Speaker 1: jam packed Saint Patrick's Day show here on the Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show. This might actually be my favorite Celtic punk song.

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Speaker 1: It's between this and God Willing by the Dropkick Murphy's.

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Speaker 1: It is Requiem for a Dying Song by Flogging Molly. Again.

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Speaker 1: We have got the Dan o'donalds Show Saint Patrick's Day

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Speaker 1: bumper music playlist up on Spotify. Just search for it.

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Speaker 1: Easy to find to provide the soundtrack for yours Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day, of course, I will offer my annual plea.

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Speaker 1: If you are out there and you're partying, it is

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Speaker 1: very easy to get an uber. It is very easy

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Speaker 1: to get a sober friend to drive you home. This

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Speaker 1: is one of the most dangerous days on the roads

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Speaker 1: for drunk driving for obvious reasons, because it's such a

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Speaker 1: very popular drinking holiday. Please do be safe. Please don't

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Speaker 1: drink and drive, Please be responsible and please have fun

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Speaker 1: today tonight and whatever you are doing, whether you're going

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Speaker 1: out to the pubs, whether you're having corned beef and

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Speaker 1: cabbage at home, whether you're watching one of the great

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Speaker 1: Irish films, that our listeners are suggesting a number of

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Speaker 1: other coming in The Irishman. Eh, Yes, it's Scorsese, Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's de Niro, Yes it's Paccino. The issue that I

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Speaker 1: have is it's about the guy who claims to have

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Speaker 1: been the one who murdered, Oh my gosh, the guy

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Speaker 1: who disappeared the Union head, Jimmy Hoffa. I totally had

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Speaker 1: a brain fart on that one. I've been thinking so

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Speaker 1: much about the Irish side of my heritage. I completely

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Speaker 1: blanked on the Sicilian side. Yeah, Jimmy Hoffa, the guy,

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Speaker 1: he was totally full of crap. It just he was

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Speaker 1: completely lying about everything, and just it wasn't It wasn't

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Speaker 1: Scorsese's best work. He's got final cut and he used it.

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Speaker 1: The movie is just way too long. It's dull. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Paccino as Hoffa is fantastic. Joe Peshi plays the mob

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Speaker 1: boss Russell Buffalino, and de Niro plays the main character,

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Speaker 1: the hit man, the Irish guy who claims to have

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Speaker 1: been the one to have whacked Jimmy Hoffa. But I

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Speaker 1: just I didn't like it. I liked it, I didn't

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Speaker 1: love it. I'll put it that way. I'm a sucker

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Speaker 1: for gangster movies. Basically, if you want to know what

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Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell is watching, it's going to be supernatural, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be about a post apocalyptic future, or it

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Speaker 1: is going to be about gangsters. That's pretty much historical epics.

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Speaker 1: I'm also a sucker for historical epics, but those are

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Speaker 1: my favorite genre films. I just did not love The

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Speaker 1: Irishman as big of a fan of Scorsese as I am.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, the Save America Act did pass a

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Speaker 1: procedural hurdle, meaning debate is now going to be opened

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Speaker 1: up on the floor of the US Senate on the

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Speaker 1: bill that would quite simply just verify people's identities by

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Speaker 1: making them provide photo ID when they go to vote

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Speaker 1: and when they register to vote, to provide proof of

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Speaker 1: citizenship for ninety seven percent of people for eligible voters

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Speaker 1: in this country. It is very, very easy to be

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Speaker 1: able to do this. People say, well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: where my birth certificate is, yeah, okay, the county where

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Speaker 1: you were Do you remember the county where you were born? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: Then they have a copy of it. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: people are saying, well, they're going to go to the

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Speaker 1: polls and they're going to find out that they're not

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Speaker 1: registered to vote. Guess what, we have same day registration

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Speaker 1: here in Wiscon. There is literally no excuse not to

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Speaker 1: pass this. But the big debate that Republicans are having

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Speaker 1: amongst themselves, just like in the state Senate where the

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Speaker 1: big debate over the online sports betting bill was do

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Speaker 1: we get rid of this procedural rule called the rule

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Speaker 1: of seventeen? Republicans are now asking themselves do we get

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Speaker 1: rid of or do we modify the filibuster and get

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Speaker 1: rid of this artificial sixty vote threshold in order to

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Speaker 1: pass legislation? And the argument against it has been simply,

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Speaker 1: if we do this, this will give Democrats the precedent

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Speaker 1: that they would need to be able to completely do

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Speaker 1: away with the filibuster whenever they retake power. Well, I

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Speaker 1: actually went back and unearthed this clip from two years

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Speaker 1: ago on MSNBC where Nancy Pelosi, the former House Speaker,

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Speaker 1: was talking with Katie Turr and Turr was asking her

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Speaker 1: about legislation that Democrats want to get passed, and she said, well,

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Speaker 1: don't you need two thirds of the Senate to get

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Speaker 1: it past? Pelosi's answer should completely decimate the concern that, oh,

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Speaker 1: if Republicans do anything to the filibuster, only then will

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Speaker 1: Democrats get rid of the philibuster. I would take two

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Speaker 1: thirds in the Senate. Think the Democrats can get two

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Speaker 1: thirds in.

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Speaker 9: This That doesn't get two thirds now, doesn't. I mean

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Speaker 9: sixty votes is the Senate now. But if we win

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Speaker 9: fifty plus one in the Senate, fifty plus the Vice president,

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Speaker 9: we can overturn the sixty vote the filibuster the filibuster

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Speaker 9: and pass it with a fifty one vote margin. And

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Speaker 9: that's what we need to do.

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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to that again. Did she say, well,

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Speaker 1: if Republicans win the majority and they do anything to

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Speaker 1: the philibuster, well then that gives us the president. No,

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Speaker 1: she said, if we win in twenty twenty four, as

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of Democrats thought they were going to remember,

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Speaker 1: there was the August twenty twenty four. There was about

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Speaker 1: a three week to five weeks stretch in there where

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Speaker 1: Democrats thought that remember when they were pushing the kamala

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Speaker 1: Is the hip cool kamala Is bratt Do you remember

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Speaker 1: that they were honestly trying to make that it was

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Speaker 1: a young people saying it comes from Charlie XCX, the

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Speaker 1: pop singer, and Bratt is like cool, Kamala is Bratt.

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Speaker 1: This was Brat's summer. This was Kamala's brat summer. And

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Speaker 1: they the narrative they were going with was honest to god,

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Speaker 1: Trump and JD. Vance are weird. They're weird. These are

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Speaker 1: not the best and brightest human beings running the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Party or its messaging. Weird, They're weird. But they actually

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Speaker 1: thought that they were going to win the presidency, they

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Speaker 1: were going to win the Senate, they were going to

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Speaker 1: win the House. They would have a governing trifecta. And

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Speaker 1: Pelosi flat out says, when we win back control of

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Speaker 1: the Senate, we're totally getting rid of the film. Will

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Speaker 1: take two thirds in the Senate. I think the Democrats

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Speaker 1: can get two thirds.

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Speaker 9: And the it doesn't get two thirds, that doesn't I mean,

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Speaker 9: sixty votes is the Senate now. But if we win

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Speaker 9: fifty plus one in the Senate, fifty plus the vice president,

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Speaker 9: we can overturn the sixty vote, the philibuster, the filibuster,

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Speaker 9: and pass it with a fifty one vote margin. And

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Speaker 9: that's what we need to do.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they're going to do. It doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: Republicans do. The filibuster is gone. The second Democrats need

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Speaker 1: the filibuster to be gone, and nobody will say boo,

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Speaker 1: because the media will go right back to the narrative

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Speaker 1: that they were spitting out when Republicans were filibustering Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama's legislation or Joe Biden's legislation, and that it is

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Speaker 1: a racist philibuster, a racist relic. The filibuster is of

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Speaker 1: the Jim Crow South, and this was just used to

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Speaker 1: try to block civil rights legislation, and we need to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the filibuster. You can see this all

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Speaker 1: coming from a mile away. You don't need to get

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Speaker 1: rid of the philibuster. Just go back to a talking filibuster,

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Speaker 1: or go back to the one track system of legislation

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Speaker 1: where if a bill gets filibustered, you don't actually need

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Speaker 1: to stand up and talk like mister Smith goes to Washington,

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Speaker 1: but no other Senate business can be conducted until the

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Speaker 1: filibuster is broken. It would dramatically cut down on filibusters.

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Speaker 1: And you don't need to do anything but rest assured

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Speaker 1: the filibuster is going to be gone as soon as

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Speaker 1: Democrats retake power. We are going to go back to

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Speaker 1: this State Senate, a Conservative member absolutely blasting leadership for

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Speaker 1: the online sports betting bill. Stay tuned, Dan o'donald Show,

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Speaker 1: coming right back, shabon by the tossers in the Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day bumper music rotation here on the Dan o'donald Show,

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Speaker 1: Slancha and welcome back to it. Some things you should

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Speaker 1: know about Saint Patrick's Day if you plan on going

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Speaker 1: out tonight. And I am actually serious about this first

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Speaker 1: of all, for obvious reasons, if you ever find yourself

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Speaker 1: in Dublin, do not, ever, under any circumstances, order an

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Speaker 1: Irish carbumb in Ireland. It is just super offensive. Obviously.

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Speaker 1: It's reference to the troubles, the long period following the

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Speaker 1: War for Independence between the Irish Catholic Irish and the Protestants,

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Speaker 1: those from the North who aligned themselves with England and

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Speaker 1: the Catholic South that fought and won their independence, and

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of Irish history is wrapped up in

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Speaker 1: that War for Independence in that was finally one in

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two. Another bit of etiquette that people don't understand.

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Speaker 1: What is the most popular type of beer yes, guinness,

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Speaker 1: but you mix Guinness with harp in a beer known

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Speaker 1: as one a black and tan? Right, No, no, do

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Speaker 1: not order a black and tan orr. At the very least,

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Speaker 1: do not call it a black and tan. I happen

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Speaker 1: to love black and tans. I'm not currently drinking right now,

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Speaker 1: so I guess my Irish drink of choice is going

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Speaker 1: to be a sprite. Maybe they can put some green

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Speaker 1: dye in it so I can have a green sprite

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Speaker 1: on Saint Patrick's Day? But a black and tan. Do

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Speaker 1: you ever wonder why it was called black and tan

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Speaker 1: or what the connection to Ireland is? Yes, because the

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Speaker 1: Guinness is black and the harp lagger, Smittics or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is, it's tan in color, so it's a black

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Speaker 1: and tan. The Black and Tans were an English mercenary

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Speaker 1: force during the War for Independence that was known for

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Speaker 1: being just brutal and cruel to the Irish freedom fighters

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Speaker 1: and they would just viciously beat them, they would torture them.

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Speaker 1: The Black and Tans were absolutely hated in Ireland. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to show respect to the Irish today,

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Speaker 1: don't order a black and tan. Call it a half

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Speaker 1: and half. And if the bartender says, what's that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a black and tan. It's still a black

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Speaker 1: and tan. The State Senate here in Wisconsin the so

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Speaker 1: called online sports betting bill today. It is almost certainly

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Speaker 1: going to face a constitutional challenge because, frankly, I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that this is constitutional. Article four, section twenty four

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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin's Constitution specifically deals with gambling. It provides that

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Speaker 1: an act of the legislature cannot establish a new form

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Speaker 1: of gambling. Only the people of Wisconsin, through constitutional amendment

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Speaker 1: can do that. Is online sports betting a new form

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Speaker 1: of gambling? Now, supporters of it who believe it's constitutional, say, no,

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Speaker 1: it's not new. You're still betting on sports. It's just

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Speaker 1: a new delivery mechanism to make those bets. But people

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Speaker 1: who I think are are more in the nuance of gambling, well, yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it is a new form of gambling. Is online video

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Speaker 1: poker the same as playing poker at a casino. No,

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Speaker 1: online poker is fundamentally different. It is poker that is

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Speaker 1: played online. It is a different game. In order to

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Speaker 1: therefore get online sports betting legalized, it would require not

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Speaker 1: an act of the legislature, not a bill signed by

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Speaker 1: Governor Evers, and not an alteration of Wisconsin's Gaming Compact,

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Speaker 1: but rather a constitutional amendment, meaning the same bill would

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Speaker 1: need to pass setting up a constitutional amendment, It would

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Speaker 1: need to pass in two consecutive legislative sessions, and then

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Speaker 1: it would go to the people in the form of

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Speaker 1: a ballot question. If the people approve, then online sports

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Speaker 1: betting could be allowed. It could be legal, The compacts

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Speaker 1: could be opened up and renegotiated. I don't know, frankly,

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Speaker 1: how the Wisconsin superse Court is likely to rule on that. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm going to take a wild guess.

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Speaker 1: It's whatever Democrats want, because that's how the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: always rules. The retiring conservative state Senator Steve Noss from

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Speaker 1: Whitewater today after the vote on the online sports betting bill,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, it did pass with significant Republican opposition.

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Speaker 1: Nine Republican senators defected. That is half of the caucus.

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Speaker 1: Senate majority leader Devin Lemaheu passed this bill with almost

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Speaker 1: no support in his caucus. That's actually kind of remarkable.

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Speaker 1: Nos issued a statement just blasting Lemahu Voss everyone in

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Speaker 1: leadership today, the people of Wisconsin should have no lingering

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Speaker 1: doubts as to how morally corrupt this state legislature has

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Speaker 1: become in only doing the business of very powerful special interests.

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Speaker 1: The public is overwhelmingly opposed to the tribal online Gambling

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Speaker 1: bill and the UWNIL bill, but the voters of this

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Speaker 1: state clearly don't matter to legislative leaders when campaign cash

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Speaker 1: is flowing to grease the skids. The problem for legislative

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Speaker 1: Republicans is that our core voters will hold us to

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Speaker 1: account for selling out their interests, and the passage of

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Speaker 1: these two unpopular bills will help pave the way to

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Speaker 1: minority status for Republicans come November. Wisconsin Republicans have done

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Speaker 1: little to economically help families and small businesses, but our

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Speaker 1: GOP leaders fought to force taxpayers to begin subsidizing million

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Speaker 1: dollar payments for UW athletes and further enrich tribal casino operators.

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Speaker 1: Now I have been monitoring the state Senate. Did the

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Speaker 1: NIL bill pass? It might have well, I was focused

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Speaker 1: on the United States Senate. I'm taking a while. Guess

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Speaker 1: it is going to pass. I don't believe it has

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Speaker 1: yet come up for a vote, but it is going

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Speaker 1: to pass. There are going to be a handful of

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Speaker 1: Republican defectors. But no, no, I guess there has not

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Speaker 1: been a vote. I thought not with Nasua is a

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Speaker 1: little premature on that, But that's fine, that's fine. I

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Speaker 1: mean it is going to pass. It absolutely does apply.

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Speaker 1: And this is the thing that is just so sleazy

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Speaker 1: about all this. It may be that the overwhelming majority

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Speaker 1: of people in this state want online sports betting. I

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Speaker 1: believe online sports betting should be legal. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's addictive, Yes, it has clear drawbacks. The addictive nature

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Speaker 1: of it is the biggest one. But millions of people

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Speaker 1: across the world can bet online on sports and have

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Speaker 1: fun doing it, bet within their means and have no

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Speaker 1: problems whatsoever. Why shouldn't Wisconsin iight be able to do.

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Speaker 1: Here's the issue that I have. The hell did the

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Speaker 1: tribes have anything to do with this? If bet Potawatomy

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Speaker 1: comes out with an app that will take online sports

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Speaker 1: bets and they want to put all of the money

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Speaker 1: into it to develop the app, to get the server

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Speaker 1: space to take the bets, sure, go ahead, but compete

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Speaker 1: with DraftKings, compete with FanDuel, compete with BETMGM. Now I

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Speaker 1: could not possibly care less about any of these corporations truly,

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Speaker 1: but competition in a marketplace means better deals for consumers.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's more free play. Cash FanDuel and DraftKings are

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Speaker 1: constantly do it okay, you will double your next bet

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Speaker 1: or something like that, or you get fifty dollars in

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Speaker 1: free play if you sign up for a new account.

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Speaker 1: Why do they do that? Because there is fierce competition

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Speaker 1: in the international online betting marketplace, there would be no

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Speaker 1: marketplace for online sports betting in Wisconsin because the tribes

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01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: would take sixty percent of the profits for doing nothing.

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Speaker 1: They would essentially corner the market on online sports betting,

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Speaker 1: and they would operate like a cartel, not a monopoly,

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Speaker 1: but a cartel. A cartel is simply a group of

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Speaker 1: supposedly independent organizations like drug gangs that carve up territory

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Speaker 1: and operate together to get joint interests taken care of.

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Speaker 1: In southeast Wisconsin. In in Milwaukee, the Pottawatomy would have

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Speaker 1: all of the servers for DraftKings and fan Duel and

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Speaker 1: BETMGM and all of the major providers. They would take

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Speaker 1: sixty percent of the profits from each from people who

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Speaker 1: are betting in that area, the Oneida in their area

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Speaker 1: would get the servers, the ho Chunk would get the servers,

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Speaker 1: or there would be an agreement in place that the

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Speaker 1: servers would be placed on the Potawatamie physical land because

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Speaker 1: it's just simply the easiest to get to in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: and the other tribes would all get a cut based

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Speaker 1: on how many bets are coming in from their areas.

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Speaker 1: The point is taxpayers lose because if draft Kings and

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Speaker 1: if FanDuel are simply allowed to operate without going through

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Speaker 1: the tribes, it's theoretically not subject to the gaming compacts,

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Speaker 1: which were terrible deals for taxpayers. We do not get

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01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: a fraction of what we should in gambling revenue. The

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Speaker 1: tribes take all of it because it's on tribal land

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Speaker 1: and because again Diamond Jim Doyle on April Fool's Day

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Speaker 1: two thousand and three, in a political payback for the

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01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: tribes that basically single handedly funded his successful gubernatorial run,

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Speaker 1: They gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in a

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01:12:55,880 --> 01:13:02,520
Speaker 1: rather obviously corrupt bargain to get the gaming comps reopened, renegotiated,

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Speaker 1: and Doyle actually changed the compacts so that they were

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,880
Speaker 1: forever compacts that no future governor, no future legislature could

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Speaker 1: ever open them up again. Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court

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01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: struck it down. Then the Supreme Court changes hands. The

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Speaker 1: Liberals win a majority, and they open up this discussion again.

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Speaker 1: They revisit their decision, and they allow Governor ever or

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01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: excuse me, Governor Doyle's corrupt bargain to go through again

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01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:37,479
Speaker 1: to pass constitutional muster. We're stuck getting a fraction of

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Speaker 1: what we should get from tribal gaming because of those compacts.

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Speaker 1: And before you say, well, Dan, if if a competition

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Speaker 1: to the Potawatami sportsbook were to open up, the state

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01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 1: would have to pay a massive penalty, Oh no, it

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01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't because the state could simply force fan duel and

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01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: bet MGM, the Sports Gaming Alliance or whatever, or they

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Speaker 1: call themselves, the trade organization that opposes this bill, They

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Speaker 1: would say, you want to operate in Wisconsin, guess what

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Speaker 1: you got to pay the tribes whatever the violation of

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Speaker 1: the gaming compact would be. But again, all of this

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Speaker 1: is sort of a moot point, because this is almost

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Speaker 1: certainly unconstitutional. This almost certainly violates Article four, Section twenty

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Speaker 1: four of the Wisconsin Constitution. Senator nas is right to

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Speaker 1: do all of this, to give the tribes such a

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Speaker 1: big giveaway, to violate the Constitution, and to do something

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Speaker 1: a clear majority of Wisconsinites don't want to do. You

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Speaker 1: want online sports betting, just allow people to bet online.

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Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. Let the online sports betting

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Speaker 1: providers figure out how much they're going to have to

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01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 1: pay to horn in on the native tribe's turf. But

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Speaker 1: creating a government backed cartel or giving increased power to

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01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: a gambling cartel that already exists, that's terrible policy. And

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Speaker 1: it's very obvious why it was done, because of all

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Speaker 1: the campaign cash that is coming in, because of all

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Speaker 1: of the special interest lobbying. It is just the worst

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Speaker 1: of the worst swampy behavior coming from Republicans. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to the Dano Donald Show. We'll name the unsung hero

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Speaker 1: of the day. Next, Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show.

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Speaker 1: On this Saint Patrick's Day, we will dive into the

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Speaker 1: history of the holiday. White is the ultimate all American holiday.

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Speaker 1: Seems paradoxical, but it is true. That's coming up in

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Speaker 1: the next hour right now.

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Speaker 10: Unsung hero of today, Today's unsung Hero of the day

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Speaker 10: is Wisconsin State Senator Van Wanguard.

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Speaker 1: He is a former police officer. He is a former

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Speaker 1: county board supervisor. He dedicated his entire life to the

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Speaker 1: service of the people, and he announced today that he

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Speaker 1: has re tiring after becoming the longest serving Republican senator

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Speaker 1: currently in the Senate. He is a great guy and

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Speaker 1: we are going to miss him, but we wish him well.

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Speaker 1: State Senator Van Wandguard your unsung hero of the day.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show, final hour on

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Speaker 1: this Saint Patrick's Day. Hope all of you are having

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Speaker 1: a fun and safe evening. I would be remiss if

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Speaker 1: I did not mention county buses free. I believe after

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Speaker 1: six pm in Milwaukee County. It is so easy, folks.

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Speaker 1: My mom is using Uber now, all right, my mom,

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01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: you can use Uber. It is so easy to get

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Speaker 1: a ride anywhere anytime. Uber is like the best Lift two.

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Speaker 1: I have a very good friend named Scott Loyle listener

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Speaker 1: who drives for Lift. Lift is a very good app

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01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: as well. But just get get a ride. I know

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Speaker 1: it's a huge drinking day, green beer and so forth.

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Speaker 1: I myself am going out to the pub after. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to drink. Most likely, I've extended dry January.

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Speaker 1: I call it Dry Danuary, and I've decided I'm just

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Speaker 1: going to keep it going as long as I can.

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Speaker 1: Most Likely, yeah, most likely is doing a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of heavy lifting there. As my producer Eric says, all right.

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Speaker 1: Top stories we're following right now. The Wisconsin State Senate

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Speaker 1: has passed the online sports betting Bill twenty one to twelve,

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Speaker 1: with the Republican caucus evenly split, nine voting in favor,

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Speaker 1: nine opposed. That violates the Senate's rule of seventeen and

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Speaker 1: puts significant pressure on Senate majority leader Devin Lemahue to

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Speaker 1: potentially step down. But we reported exclusively yesterday that it's

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Speaker 1: very likely that Lemahue is not going to seek re election.

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Speaker 1: State Senator Van Wanguard announced today that he is retiring,

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Speaker 1: the longest serving Republican States senator. Said that health challenges

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Speaker 1: and his age he's seventy three years old, made it

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Speaker 1: impossible for him to run again, even though he badly

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Speaker 1: wanted to. Now this puts Republicans in a bind, as

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Speaker 1: the four most competitive seats are now going to be

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Speaker 1: without an incumbent, as Republicans look to hold onto a

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Speaker 1: slim eighteen to fifteen majority in the United States Senate.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans have advanced the Save America Act on a

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Speaker 1: fifty one to forty eight vote. Republican Tom Tillis apparently

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Speaker 1: was not able to make the vote. He was stuck

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina waiting for a plane. How do I

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Speaker 1: know that because Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden tweeted out

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Speaker 1: that both he and Tillis were waiting for this same

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Speaker 1: plane because of weather delays and the horrific TSA backlogs

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Speaker 1: caused by the Democh DHS shutdown responsible for that. It

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Speaker 1: is very likely that Tillis would have voted to advance

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Speaker 1: the legislation. It faces an uncertain future because of the

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Speaker 1: Democrat filibuster and President Trump spent two day talking about

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Speaker 1: the war with Iran. He took part in the traditional

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Speaker 1: Irish Saint Patrick's Day meetings with the Prime Minister, the

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Speaker 1: t Shock of Ireland, as well as attending a special luncheon.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you would like to join the Dan

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Speaker 1: o'donalds show this hour four one, four seven, nine to

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Speaker 1: four seven six. That's our toll free talk and text line.

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Speaker 1: We're also streaming live on YouTube. Please do subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio. Yes, Saint Patrick's

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Speaker 1: Day does hold a very special place in my heart, folks,

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Speaker 1: because you have to understand, as someone of Irish descent

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Speaker 1: and someone who has about the most Irish last name

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Speaker 1: that you could possibly have, O'Donnell. In my family, Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day was always a really big thing. So Saint

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Speaker 1: Patrick's Day, along with Christmas time, are the days I

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Speaker 1: really remember my Grandma and Grandpa, my Aunt Margaret, my

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Speaker 1: Aunt Nora, who are no longer with us, because it

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Speaker 1: was such a big part of my life. We always

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Speaker 1: celebrated with Grandma's homemade soda bread, corn, beef and cabbage.

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Speaker 1: We would always go to Grandma and Grandpa's house for

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Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. Grandpa would always watch The Quiet Man

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Speaker 1: and it just reminds me of them. But in a

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Speaker 1: very real sense, Saint Patrick's Day is about all of

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Speaker 1: us as Americans. Whether or not we're actually.

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Speaker 10: See.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing about Saint Patrick himself. He wasn't actually

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Speaker 1: Irish at all, and that's actually kind of what makes

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Speaker 1: his story so special. He was born Maywin suck At

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Speaker 1: in a town in Britain which was occupied by the

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Speaker 1: Romans in the late three hundreds AD. He later in

1271
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: life adopted the Roman name Patrisius. Now as a teenager,

1272
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: he was actually captured by pirates and held as a

1273
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 1: slave for six years. I was a kid. He was

1274
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: never religious at all, even though his father was a

1275
01:21:41,680 --> 01:21:44,960
Speaker 1: deacon in the early Christian Church. But when he was

1276
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: a slave, as they say, there are no atheists in foxholes,

1277
01:21:49,560 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 1: he found God and devoted his life to Christianity. Converted

1278
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: to Christianity, he escaped his slavery and made his way

1279
01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: back home to Britain, and his faith kept him from

1280
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:05,120
Speaker 1: being bitter at the Irish pagans who had enslaved him.

1281
01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:08,519
Speaker 1: He actually decided that he would make it his life's

1282
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: work to return to Ireland and convert it to Christianity.

1283
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: Do you know why the shamrock is the symbol of

1284
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 1: Ireland Because Patricius actually used the three leaves to teach

1285
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 1: the Irish natives about the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son,

1286
01:22:25,920 --> 01:22:31,719
Speaker 1: and the Holy Spirit. His conversion was incredibly successful. Within

1287
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: about a century or so, Ireland became one of Europe's

1288
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:40,799
Speaker 1: great bastions of Christianity, and for more than a thousand years,

1289
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: Ireland marked Patricius's birthday March seventeenth, with mass and feasts

1290
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: and celebration of a foreigner who came and changed their

1291
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:57,639
Speaker 1: country forever. But really no nation was as changed by

1292
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day as the United Slime States, and as

1293
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: only we can here in America, we turned Saint Patrick's

1294
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: Day into a uniquely American celebration of all of the

1295
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,880
Speaker 1: foreigners who helped us make the nation that we now love.

1296
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: The Irish potato blight was at its height in the

1297
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: eighteen forties and eighteen fifties, and poor Catholic immigrants flooded

1298
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:28,639
Speaker 1: into America by the tens of thousands. Most of them

1299
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: settled in New York City and Boston, and frankly they

1300
01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: were despised, just as Irish immigrants said pretty much been

1301
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: throughout the nation's history. In seventeen seventy two, British soldiers

1302
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 1: who were homesick while patrolling patrolling colonial New York marched

1303
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:55,160
Speaker 1: through this city to a breakfast feast in what's considered

1304
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: the very first Saint Patrick's Day parade. But as the

1305
01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:04,680
Speaker 1: new Irish immigrants started coming into New York and Boston

1306
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: and settling along the Eastern Seaboard, they faced a whole

1307
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: lot of hate. Americans resented them for this feast because

1308
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,839
Speaker 1: it was seen as a vestige of the hated British

1309
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:21,120
Speaker 1: colonial rule. They remembered the British marching through the streets

1310
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:26,719
Speaker 1: on Saint Patrick's Day, and American nativists began pathy making

1311
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: burning effigies of irishmen with potatoes and bottles of whiskey

1312
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 1: in their hands, until the practice was actually banned in

1313
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:41,240
Speaker 1: the early eighteen hundreds. Still, the resentment of the Irish

1314
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: in America grew with each new wave of immigration from

1315
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 1: the Emerald Isle, until it really reached a boiling point

1316
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:53,240
Speaker 1: midway through the century. But then the Civil War broke out.

1317
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: Thousands of those Irish immigrants enlisted. Many were conscripted, but

1318
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:03,679
Speaker 1: many volunteered to serve their new home, and they actually

1319
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:07,839
Speaker 1: served the Union with distinction, a number of them winning

1320
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:12,759
Speaker 1: high honors and more importantly, winning the respect of their peers,

1321
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 1: and at long last they started to gain acceptance into

1322
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 1: American society and the perfect way to honor their contributions,

1323
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 1: especially in New York and Boston, where politicians began to

1324
01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:32,080
Speaker 1: curry their favor to win their votes. Well, it was

1325
01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:36,519
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. Those politicians started attending the parades with

1326
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 1: the Irish. They started attending their Saint Patrick's Day feasts.

1327
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day, you see, became the vehicle by which

1328
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:51,879
Speaker 1: those Irish immigrants became fully American as the broader culture

1329
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:57,799
Speaker 1: celebrated their traditions with them. They assimilated into that broader

1330
01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: culture to create a celebration that serves as sort of

1331
01:26:01,160 --> 01:26:05,240
Speaker 1: the perfect metaphor for the cultural melting pot that America

1332
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: had become. The traditional Irish meal of corn beef cabbage

1333
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:17,120
Speaker 1: in America, well back in Ireland wasn't corn beef at all.

1334
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:23,240
Speaker 1: It was ham and cabbage, but immigrants purchased cheap salted

1335
01:26:23,320 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: beef from Chinese merchant sailors in New York's Harbor. Corn

1336
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:31,120
Speaker 1: beef was not a thing in Ireland. It's a uniquely

1337
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 1: American addition to the Saint Patrick's Day celebration. Now the

1338
01:26:36,640 --> 01:26:42,080
Speaker 1: American Industrial Revolution allowed for the mass production of green

1339
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:46,719
Speaker 1: clothes and hats and eventually green beer, which all became

1340
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:52,120
Speaker 1: staples of the American Saint Patrick's Day. Heck, Chicago even

1341
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: dies its river green every Saint Patrick's Day. Saint Patrick's

1342
01:26:57,439 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 1: Day is a party to celebration. We're people of all races,

1343
01:27:04,720 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: all religions, all creeds, are on one day a year,

1344
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 1: all of us a little bit Irish. You're listening to

1345
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 1: the Dan o'donalds show. We'll be right back after this.

1346
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:29,439
Speaker 1: The unofficial anthem of Dublin, Ireland, Molly Malone in the

1347
01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald show Bumper music rotation. I believe this is

1348
01:27:32,400 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: Johnny Logan and friends their rendition of the traditional Irish classic.

1349
01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: No word on whether there actually was a Molly Malone

1350
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: who was a fishmonger and sure tos no wonder, for

1351
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 1: so were her mother and father before. But there is

1352
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:53,280
Speaker 1: actually a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin. Because of

1353
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: the popularity of the song, it is just universally beloved. There,

1354
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:01,760
Speaker 1: welcome back to the Dan o'donald show. This Saint Patrick's Day.

1355
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 1: I firmly do believe that Saint Patrick's Day is sort

1356
01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: of the perfect holiday for America. Christmas too, really, because

1357
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 1: it Saint Patrick's Day is the first time America explicitly

1358
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: celebrated immigrants to this country, people who came here and

1359
01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 1: made their way in the world, seeing America as a

1360
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 1: land of opportunity, but unlike the people who are coming

1361
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:30,560
Speaker 1: in illegally today. And let's be clear here, the Irish

1362
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:33,879
Speaker 1: who are coming in in the great waves of Irish migration,

1363
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 1: first in the late seventeen hundreds, early eighteen hundreds, and

1364
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,720
Speaker 1: then it really accelerated with the potato famine caused by

1365
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 1: the blight of the eighteen forties. Through about the eighteen seventies.

1366
01:28:44,479 --> 01:28:48,479
Speaker 1: They all came legally, and they were invited to come

1367
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:53,759
Speaker 1: because the expanding America through the concept of manifest destiny,

1368
01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 1: pushing all the way from New York and Boston, where

1369
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:00,080
Speaker 1: many of the Irish settled, all the way west. A

1370
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: whole lot of the Irish worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.

1371
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:08,280
Speaker 1: That's where a lot of them spread throughout the rest

1372
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: of the country. Later on you had German immigrants, many

1373
01:29:12,520 --> 01:29:17,080
Speaker 1: of whom settled in Milwaukee became beer barrens, very very wealthy,

1374
01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:23,439
Speaker 1: and the Italians also settling in Wisconsin. Really the major

1375
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:29,600
Speaker 1: immigrants to Wisconsin obviously Polish, German, Italian, Irish immigrants. You

1376
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 1: had some English, but those were the four big ones

1377
01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:35,799
Speaker 1: from Europe. The big thing about those waves of migration

1378
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:40,439
Speaker 1: is that they fully assimilated into American culture and for

1379
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: generation after generation after generation. Yes, my family was immigrants.

1380
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 1: My family, the O'Donnell side of the family came, I

1381
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:52,599
Speaker 1: want to say, the eighteen eighties eighteen nineties. The other

1382
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:56,560
Speaker 1: side of my family, the Lamponi style, which the Lamponi

1383
01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 1: side of the family that translates in Italian to raspberry.

1384
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:03,520
Speaker 1: So you can take a while guess what my Italian

1385
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:08,120
Speaker 1: ancestors were doing in Mulazzo, Sicily where they were originally

1386
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:11,880
Speaker 1: from the raspberry farmers, or at least they they were

1387
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:15,480
Speaker 1: farmers and were probably very well known for their raspberries

1388
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:20,920
Speaker 1: because eventually they took on the last name. Interesting little thing.

1389
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:24,559
Speaker 1: When my I believe it was my great grandfather came

1390
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:28,240
Speaker 1: to Ellis Island, his name was changed. It was actually

1391
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:31,680
Speaker 1: the spelling was changed from l A m p O

1392
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:36,640
Speaker 1: n I, which is how you spell the word for

1393
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:39,840
Speaker 1: raspberry and Italian to l A m p O n E.

1394
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:43,160
Speaker 1: I suspect that is every Lamponi, like rock O Lamponi,

1395
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 1: the character from the Godfather films. That's it was a

1396
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:52,559
Speaker 1: m ap hell my Italian's terrible. But E would have

1397
01:30:52,600 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 1: been pronounced I would have been pronounced E. So when

1398
01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 1: he was spelling his name for whoever it was that

1399
01:30:58,479 --> 01:31:01,120
Speaker 1: was checking him in at LS, I would have written

1400
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:03,800
Speaker 1: down an E and we think that's how the name

1401
01:31:03,920 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: was changed to Lamponi with an EAT. So my family

1402
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 1: story is very similar to most family stories in this country.

1403
01:31:14,960 --> 01:31:17,639
Speaker 1: We can't trace our roots back to the Mayflower or

1404
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 1: to the founding of this country. Became much later, but

1405
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:26,760
Speaker 1: it was so important to every one of those immigrants

1406
01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:29,880
Speaker 1: to become part of American's society. They wanted nothing more

1407
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:35,280
Speaker 1: than acceptance into the broader culture. They wouldn't dream of,

1408
01:31:35,360 --> 01:31:40,679
Speaker 1: at least most of them wouldn't dream of committing widespread fraud.

1409
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:44,840
Speaker 1: And while yes, I'm well aware of the stereotypes of

1410
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: the Sicilian side of my family and crime, so no,

1411
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:54,120
Speaker 1: I'm not in a glasshouse casting stones at the Somalis here.

1412
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:58,679
Speaker 1: But the overwhelming majority of Sicilians despised the mafia because

1413
01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 1: they were being victimized by the mafiosi in the nineteen

1414
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:04,920
Speaker 1: twenties and the nineteen thirties. In fact, my mother got

1415
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:07,400
Speaker 1: her start in the law. I think I've talked about her.

1416
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:10,080
Speaker 1: I'm very, very proud of my mom. She and another

1417
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: woman who eventually became an appellate court judge. They were

1418
01:32:13,920 --> 01:32:17,920
Speaker 1: the first two female Circuit court judges elected. They were

1419
01:32:17,960 --> 01:32:21,440
Speaker 1: ever elected. Bel Phillips was the first one ever appointed

1420
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:24,839
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties, about fifteen sixteen years before Mom,

1421
01:32:25,400 --> 01:32:29,639
Speaker 1: but she lost her election bid. Mom was actually elected.

1422
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 1: She was elected to be a Milwaukee County you at

1423
01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: first female elever. She actually started in the US Attorney's

1424
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 1: office and she was one of the prosecutors of Sally Pepia.

1425
01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:44,680
Speaker 1: Do you remember, the girlfriend of Frank Balistreri. One of

1426
01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 1: her first big cases was she actually cross examined Sally

1427
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: Pepilla on the witness stand because she was a young

1428
01:32:51,040 --> 01:32:55,360
Speaker 1: Sicilian woman and Sally Peppia was a young Ish Sicilian woman.

1429
01:32:56,040 --> 01:33:03,920
Speaker 1: And it was that sort of opposition to criminality, to fraud,

1430
01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:08,600
Speaker 1: to just anti American activity that was the hallmark of

1431
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:14,040
Speaker 1: the immigrant experience for the entire age of European immigration.

1432
01:33:17,160 --> 01:33:22,360
Speaker 1: What happened throughout that era was America really grew up

1433
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:26,640
Speaker 1: because it truly was enriched by culture. We took a

1434
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 1: why I say Saint Patrick's Day and Christmas are sort

1435
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: of the ultimate American holidays. Christmas, especially Christmas as we

1436
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 1: celebrate it is a complete pastiche of all of the

1437
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:38,880
Speaker 1: immigrant cultures that came to American brought a little piece

1438
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 1: of their Christmas traditions with them, but they all became Americans.

1439
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 1: I can remember my grandma and Grandpa Lamponi on my

1440
01:33:48,320 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: mom's side. They've all been dead for twenty five thirty

1441
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:55,720
Speaker 1: years now. They would speak Italian in the home, and

1442
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:58,000
Speaker 1: they would speak Italian when they didn't want my little

1443
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:00,320
Speaker 1: brother and I when they were watching us. You know

1444
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:02,880
Speaker 1: what they were saying. It was usually Grandma swearing at

1445
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:06,479
Speaker 1: Grandpa because he was hanging out with his buddies and playing.

1446
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:11,799
Speaker 1: My grandpa played accordion in Italian restaurants across southeast Wisconsin.

1447
01:34:11,840 --> 01:34:14,840
Speaker 1: He actually played, you know how old school he is.

1448
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:18,600
Speaker 1: He played with a young guitarist by the name of

1449
01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:23,920
Speaker 1: Les Pohl, if you can believe that. Yeah, But they

1450
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: were always it was the Italian culture was very strong

1451
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:32,160
Speaker 1: in that household, and they spoke Italian, but they never

1452
01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:36,559
Speaker 1: taught my mom or her older brother's Italian because you're American,

1453
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 1: like you speak English. This it's just, you know, once

1454
01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:44,520
Speaker 1: you come to America, you don't abandon your cultural identity,

1455
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 1: but you become American. You become an American version of

1456
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:52,840
Speaker 1: the culture that you left behind. It doesn't mean ending

1457
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:55,639
Speaker 1: your traditions, but it also doesn't mean setting up your

1458
01:34:55,680 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 1: own little fiefdom and being openly hostile to this country.

1459
01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 1: The immig and experience, especially by the Irish, was one

1460
01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:07,760
Speaker 1: of just pure, unadulterated love for this country. And that's

1461
01:35:07,840 --> 01:35:11,800
Speaker 1: something that in this latest wave of illegal immigration, I'm

1462
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:13,559
Speaker 1: not saying like migrants who are coming to the country

1463
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:17,479
Speaker 1: legally and doing everything right. In fact, I'm talking right

1464
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 1: now with somebody. He is a refugee. He is having

1465
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:25,360
Speaker 1: an issue with his green card and some snaff who

1466
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help him through this, get him an

1467
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:30,640
Speaker 1: immigration attorney. He was. I don't know why he was

1468
01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:34,720
Speaker 1: referred to me, but I'm helping. This is the sort.

1469
01:35:34,800 --> 01:35:38,519
Speaker 1: He volunteers as an EMT and a volunteer firefighter. He's

1470
01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 1: a hard work He's got a family, his wife. I

1471
01:35:41,320 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: believe is an American citizen or a permanent legal resident,

1472
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:46,959
Speaker 1: one of the two. But this is somebody who desperately

1473
01:35:46,960 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 1: wants to be American. And the overwhelming majority of people

1474
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:53,000
Speaker 1: are coming from India and coming from China, coming from

1475
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 1: places all over this country, all over the world to

1476
01:35:56,120 --> 01:36:01,640
Speaker 1: this country. They want to be American because they understand

1477
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:03,639
Speaker 1: what it is. You want to talk to somebody who

1478
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:06,839
Speaker 1: loves America and loves freedom and loves everything we stand

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01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: for more than anyone else. Talk to a Cuban, talk

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01:36:11,439 --> 01:36:16,560
Speaker 1: to someone who floated here on a nineteen fifty two oldsmobile.

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01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:24,240
Speaker 1: They understand what it means to be American. All right,

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01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 1: I promised it is a significant anniversary here on Saint

1483
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day. Anno Domini twenty twenty six, twenty years ago today,

1484
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 1: what could be I think called the very first viral

1485
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 1: video hit YouTube the Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama. In two

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01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:59,160
Speaker 1: thousand and six, a news report in Mobile highlighted a

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01:36:59,240 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 1: group of people in the inner city who thought they

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01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:07,839
Speaker 1: saw a Leprechaun. Now this was years before other funny

1489
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 1: news clips were put online. Do you remember the U

1490
01:37:12,720 --> 01:37:16,240
Speaker 1: What is it? Antoine Dodson, He's climbing in your windows.

1491
01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:20,000
Speaker 1: He's snatching your people up. Better Hydra kids, Hydro wife.

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01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 1: Remember that one about ten fifteen years ago as well

1493
01:37:23,160 --> 01:37:26,040
Speaker 1: before that, where people were acting along and you know,

1494
01:37:26,200 --> 01:37:30,439
Speaker 1: just having fun with news reports. This was the very

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01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:35,799
Speaker 1: first one and it was uploaded twenty years ago. Today,

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01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, one of the funniest Saint Patrick videos

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01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:46,320
Speaker 1: you will ever see. The Leprecaun in Mobile, Alabama.

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01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:48,800
Speaker 11: Well just in time for Saint Patrick's Day. Crowds are

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01:37:48,800 --> 01:37:50,960
Speaker 11: coming by the dozens to get an up close view

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01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:54,320
Speaker 11: at what some say as a piece of Irish folklore.

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01:37:54,479 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 8: Some people in the Criton area of Mobile say aleprecaun

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01:37:58,160 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 8: has taken up residents in their neighborhood. A leprechaws Brian

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01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:03,200
Speaker 8: Johnson as more.

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01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:08,960
Speaker 3: Curiosity leads to large crowds and mobiles frightened community. Many

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01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:13,480
Speaker 3: of you bring binoculars, cancorders even camera phones to take pictures.

1506
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:15,280
Speaker 3: To me, and the lack of lem kind to me,

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01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:16,760
Speaker 3: I gotta do look a bit of tree.

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01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 1: Who else?

1509
01:38:21,160 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 3: My witnesses say the leprechaun only comes out at night.

1510
01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:28,360
Speaker 3: If you shine a light in its direction, it suddenly disappears.

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01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:31,800
Speaker 3: This cemetery sketch resembles what many of you say the

1512
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:35,080
Speaker 3: leprechaun looks like. Others find it hard to believe and

1513
01:38:35,120 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 3: have come up with their own theories and explanations for

1514
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:38,640
Speaker 3: the image.

1515
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:43,679
Speaker 11: My theory is casting a shadow from the other limb.

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01:38:44,160 --> 01:38:45,280
Speaker 1: Could be a quackeg.

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01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:49,719
Speaker 11: You got hold of the round stuff and don't camp

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01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:50,960
Speaker 11: in a tree and play a.

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01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:55,200
Speaker 6: Leprechal won't get down to the bottom of this Yes,

1520
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:56,080
Speaker 6: stre down there, guy.

1521
01:38:56,120 --> 01:38:58,840
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid, man.

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01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:02,559
Speaker 3: This guy, hoping to direct traffic says he's prepared for

1523
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:05,479
Speaker 3: his encounter with the Leprechaun. He sued it up from

1524
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:06,360
Speaker 3: head to toe.

1525
01:39:06,520 --> 01:39:09,160
Speaker 1: This war is all smells right here. This is a

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01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:11,760
Speaker 1: special leprico and flute which has been passed down from

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01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:14,519
Speaker 1: thousands of years ago from my great great grandfather who

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01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:15,320
Speaker 1: was Irish.

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01:39:15,439 --> 01:39:16,599
Speaker 9: And I just came to help out.

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01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:19,519
Speaker 3: Others just came to get lucky in hopes a pot

1531
01:39:19,520 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 3: of gold may be buried under this tree.

1532
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:24,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run a back home and out root that tree.

1533
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:27,880
Speaker 1: I want to know where to gold. I want to go,

1534
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: give me the gold. I want to go.

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01:39:31,280 --> 01:39:34,120
Speaker 3: This is Brian Johnson, NBC fifteen News.

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01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:37,160
Speaker 11: People will do anything for a pot of gold, I

1537
01:39:37,200 --> 01:39:38,439
Speaker 11: mean anything, you know what I like.

1538
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:40,679
Speaker 1: I like the amateur sketch of the Leprechaun. It looks

1539
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:42,360
Speaker 1: like somebody got a really good look at it and

1540
01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:44,320
Speaker 1: got that good drawing up. Who did that? I want

1541
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:48,320
Speaker 1: to know who sketched that? Maybe Brian steps That was

1542
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:52,759
Speaker 1: a good story. The amateur sketch looks nothing like a Leprechaun.

1543
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:56,720
Speaker 1: It looks like an alien with a Leprechaun hat on it.

1544
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:00,640
Speaker 1: Look it up. I actually posted this on X and Facebook.

1545
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 1: If you want to see the video, it is one

1546
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:05,720
Speaker 1: of the funniest things you will see. One of the

1547
01:40:05,960 --> 01:40:09,160
Speaker 1: very first viral videos. Before we even knew what a

1548
01:40:09,280 --> 01:40:12,640
Speaker 1: viral video was, well before X, well before Facebook and

1549
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:18,480
Speaker 1: Instagram and social media, there was the Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama.

1550
01:40:18,560 --> 01:40:20,400
Speaker 1: A lot of fun for Saint Patrick state. We'll be

1551
01:40:20,439 --> 01:40:22,760
Speaker 1: back right here on The Dan o'donald Show before you

1552
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:28,200
Speaker 1: know it. Oh, for those of you listening on wisn

1553
01:40:28,360 --> 01:40:31,000
Speaker 1: you are in for? You were in for a treat.

1554
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:37,679
Speaker 1: Poor Kevin Henry just couldn't get that recorded traffic segment right.

1555
01:40:38,120 --> 01:40:40,920
Speaker 1: You know who is at the bar? Early on The

1556
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show, staff it was our traffic guy. Kevin

1557
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:51,760
Speaker 1: starts the traffic messes up. Oops, it makes a raspberry

1558
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:55,879
Speaker 1: noise before starting over. I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't

1559
01:40:55,920 --> 01:41:01,720
Speaker 1: be jumping in on the traffic report. However, however, that

1560
01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:04,000
Speaker 1: was just too funny, too funny. Welcome back to the

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01:41:04,080 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: dat O'donald's show on this Saint Patrick's day. No passage

1562
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:14,240
Speaker 1: yet of the NIL bill in the Wisconsin Senate. The

1563
01:41:15,560 --> 01:41:18,880
Speaker 1: Senate is working in a marathon session and I was

1564
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:21,760
Speaker 1: looking at the calendar. The NIL bill, which was one

1565
01:41:21,800 --> 01:41:26,479
Speaker 1: of the other controversial ones that Republicans really didn't support

1566
01:41:26,520 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 1: in huge numbers, but is going to pass. They are

1567
01:41:29,040 --> 01:41:30,600
Speaker 1: going to vote on it and it is going to

1568
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:34,040
Speaker 1: pass with Democrat support. That will likely pass later on

1569
01:41:34,479 --> 01:41:39,200
Speaker 1: this evening. Now, another contro controversial bill, if you're a

1570
01:41:39,240 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 1: sane human being, that passed. Sheriffs are going to have

1571
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:48,599
Speaker 1: to verify the legal status of every person in their

1572
01:41:48,760 --> 01:41:52,880
Speaker 1: jails who is detained for a felony, and they would

1573
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 1: have to comply with detainers and administrative warrants received from

1574
01:41:57,720 --> 01:42:03,320
Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security. This passed on a voice vote. Actually,

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01:42:05,400 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: unless Senate Democrats register their opposition after the fact Governor

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01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:18,840
Speaker 1: Evers is kind of in a tough spot because Assembly

1577
01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:22,920
Speaker 1: Democrats voted against the bill. He's threatened to veto it,

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01:42:24,080 --> 01:42:28,959
Speaker 1: but he also has said, hey, finding people who committed

1579
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: crimes and sending them back home. Who could be against that,

1580
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:38,000
Speaker 1: but it would also require cooperating with the evil Ice.

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01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:44,200
Speaker 1: So Senate Democrats they're terrified of voting against this. So

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01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 1: the bill actually passes on a voice vote. Assembly Democrats.

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01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:54,559
Speaker 1: They did oppose this vote. Now Democrats did before they

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01:42:54,600 --> 01:42:58,400
Speaker 1: pass the vote today offer a substitute amendment that would

1585
01:42:58,439 --> 01:43:01,559
Speaker 1: have watered it down by change language from charged with

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01:43:01,600 --> 01:43:05,839
Speaker 1: a felony to essentially anyone convicted of a violent crime.

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01:43:05,920 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: But not only does that change the timeline, it would

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01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:11,719
Speaker 1: have exempted a whole number of serious felonies that aren't

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01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:16,720
Speaker 1: necessarily violent, OWI, child enticement, that sort of thing. So

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01:43:16,760 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 1: Democrats clearly oppose this thing. But does Governor Evers really

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01:43:23,200 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: want to veto it. My guess is that he does,

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01:43:26,880 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 1: even though this is just common sense legislation and a

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01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:33,480
Speaker 1: Republican governor, I'm taking a wild guest, Governor Tom Tiffany

1594
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:36,640
Speaker 1: would sign this into law immediately. This is why it

1595
01:43:36,720 --> 01:43:40,799
Speaker 1: is so important to hold on to the Senate, and folks,

1596
01:43:41,439 --> 01:43:43,400
Speaker 1: I am telling you it is not going to be

1597
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:46,800
Speaker 1: the nearly impossible feat that people think it is going

1598
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,519
Speaker 1: to be to hold on to the Wisconsin Senate. The

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01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:53,080
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Assembly might end up being Look, I'm not going

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01:43:53,120 --> 01:43:56,439
Speaker 1: to sugarcoat this. Republicans have a three seat majority. That

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01:43:56,520 --> 01:43:59,960
Speaker 1: means if Democrats win three seats out of the full

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01:44:00,120 --> 01:44:04,519
Speaker 1: or that are likely to be in play. We just

1603
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 1: had two retirements, Rob Hutton and now Van Wanguard in

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01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 1: two of those districts. It's going to be a tough

1605
01:44:14,880 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 1: battle to keep the Senate. The Assembly might actually be

1606
01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:23,800
Speaker 1: much better at remaining in Republicans hands. Hey, speaking of

1607
01:44:23,840 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 1: the Senate and Senator Van Wanguard's retirement, Senate Democrats on

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01:44:31,520 --> 01:44:36,080
Speaker 1: x posted quote tweeting a report from JR. Ross of

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01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:42,240
Speaker 1: wispolitics dot com that Wanguard was retiring. They posted at

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01:44:42,240 --> 01:44:48,639
Speaker 1: the official at WI Senate Deme's account. Another one bites

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01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:54,400
Speaker 1: the dust. Van wan Guard lost three siblings in the

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01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:59,000
Speaker 1: past year. A fourth sibling has dementia and his daughter

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01:44:59,080 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: has stage four cancer, which he cited as the reason

1614
01:45:04,520 --> 01:45:10,959
Speaker 1: that he is retiring. These people are absolute soulless ghouls.

1615
01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:18,200
Speaker 1: Who will also retire to the fainting couches anytime any

1616
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:25,200
Speaker 1: conservative says anything that they think can be weaponized against them.

1617
01:45:25,880 --> 01:45:30,080
Speaker 1: Forgive me if I doubt the sincerity of people who

1618
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:33,320
Speaker 1: will post another one bites the dust from the guy

1619
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:38,760
Speaker 1: dealing with unimaginable family tragedy and illness and is retiring

1620
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,400
Speaker 1: for that reason. The same people who for six straight

1621
01:45:41,479 --> 01:45:45,679
Speaker 1: months now have been openly celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk,

1622
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:49,720
Speaker 1: and for nearly two years now have been insisting that

1623
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 1: Donald Trump actually faked the assassination attempt against him. An

1624
01:45:54,439 --> 01:45:59,480
Speaker 1: assassination attempt, mind you, that killed a firefighter from Buffalo.

1625
01:46:01,680 --> 01:46:08,439
Speaker 1: These are just heartless, cold people. Thirty three years ago,

1626
01:46:08,760 --> 01:46:14,240
Speaker 1: in Chicago, obviously the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade was

1627
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:19,080
Speaker 1: going on, and well, there was a bit of a surprise.

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01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:24,360
Speaker 1: On the WGN TV News. Robert Jordan, who was the

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01:46:24,400 --> 01:46:28,400
Speaker 1: correspondent in the crowd is WGN was airing the parade,

1630
01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 1: reported on the fact that Tommy Lee Jones was shooting

1631
01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:37,160
Speaker 1: a new movie in said parade, and at that moment

1632
01:46:37,680 --> 01:46:40,519
Speaker 1: Tommy Lee ran up behind him.

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01:46:41,360 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 7: Are you yeah, Well, I I just want to tell

1634
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:45,959
Speaker 7: you interesting story they're shooting a movie down here, The Fugitive,

1635
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:48,639
Speaker 7: and they're taking advantage of the parade because apparently one

1636
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 7: of the scenes in the movie is involves the chase.

1637
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:54,320
Speaker 7: Then and you're seeing Tommy Lee Jones right there.

1638
01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:57,840
Speaker 1: And Tommy Lee. Hi, Bob nor Joy, Okay, I just

1639
01:46:57,840 --> 01:46:58,240
Speaker 1: wanted to.

1640
01:46:58,160 --> 01:47:01,040
Speaker 7: Tell a guy's an interesting anadode. I'm introduce the superintendent

1641
01:47:01,080 --> 01:47:01,720
Speaker 7: of police.

1642
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:03,360
Speaker 1: You and your buddy run by here like.

1643
01:47:03,360 --> 01:47:06,160
Speaker 7: You look at some bad guys are They said, who

1644
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 7: are these guys? And they taught you guys run by

1645
01:47:08,439 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 7: it said, well, they are chasing bad guys, pictitious bad guys.

1646
01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:14,760
Speaker 7: Fictitious cops chasing fictitious bad guys on a really good day.

1647
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:15,160
Speaker 4: Right.

1648
01:47:15,400 --> 01:47:17,680
Speaker 7: What's the movie you're shooting? We called The Fugitive and

1649
01:47:17,720 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 7: it stars Harrison Ford.

1650
01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:20,000
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers.

1651
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:24,200
Speaker 7: Will have it out in late this winter. Okay, well,

1652
01:47:24,200 --> 01:47:26,320
Speaker 7: thanks so much for talking to it. Okay, it's happy

1653
01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:27,200
Speaker 7: stain Battery's statement.

1654
01:47:28,360 --> 01:47:29,040
Speaker 1: Bob, Okay.

1655
01:47:29,120 --> 01:47:32,000
Speaker 7: So, as it turned out, it was really funny to

1656
01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:36,000
Speaker 7: watch the superintendent and John Townson goes, who are these

1657
01:47:36,040 --> 01:47:38,479
Speaker 7: guys chasing? As they saw them run down the street

1658
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 7: chasing their fictitious bad guys back to.

1659
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:44,639
Speaker 1: You, very very cool little moment, and in fact, the

1660
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:49,920
Speaker 1: filming was done almost gorilla style that the filmmaker is

1661
01:47:49,960 --> 01:47:52,200
Speaker 1: for the big SCENEA. This is a pivotal scene in

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01:47:52,240 --> 01:47:55,080
Speaker 1: the film, which I actually watched this afternoon. I was

1663
01:47:55,120 --> 01:47:57,720
Speaker 1: looking for Fox News on my YouTube TV and I

1664
01:47:57,800 --> 01:48:02,000
Speaker 1: happened upon AMC. For some reason, my favorites got wiped

1665
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 1: out or something. I think the TV got unplugged or

1666
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:07,120
Speaker 1: reset or something. So I'm like cycling through the channels

1667
01:48:07,120 --> 01:48:10,160
Speaker 1: and I see the fugitive is on AMC. I'm like, oh, yes,

1668
01:48:10,280 --> 01:48:13,320
Speaker 1: perfect Saint Patrick's Day movie. I turned it on right

1669
01:48:13,439 --> 01:48:16,439
Speaker 1: at the moment where doctor Richard Kimball goes back to

1670
01:48:16,520 --> 01:48:18,640
Speaker 1: the hospital to try to search for records on the

1671
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:21,200
Speaker 1: one armed man who actually killed his wife, or at

1672
01:48:21,280 --> 01:48:23,679
Speaker 1: least he believes he killed his wife. And the Saint

1673
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day parade is going on outside and Tommy Lee

1674
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:30,120
Speaker 1: Jones is right on his tail and he chases him,

1675
01:48:30,240 --> 01:48:33,759
Speaker 1: and Richard Kimball Harrison Ford loses him in the parade

1676
01:48:33,840 --> 01:48:36,519
Speaker 1: by actually going in and out of the parade. The

1677
01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:40,600
Speaker 1: filmmakers actually asked the Mayor of Chicago. I believe it

1678
01:48:40,640 --> 01:48:43,599
Speaker 1: was daily at the time for permission to shoot at

1679
01:48:43,640 --> 01:48:47,839
Speaker 1: the actual parade with minimal cameras, and they just dubbed

1680
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:51,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the sound later in soundstages because they

1681
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 1: didn't want to make a fake parade. They wanted to

1682
01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 1: capture the chaotic excitement of Saint Patrick's day in Chicago,

1683
01:48:58,120 --> 01:49:00,800
Speaker 1: so they were filming on location, and when you see

1684
01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:03,880
Speaker 1: the two chasing each other, that is actually people are

1685
01:49:05,320 --> 01:49:07,639
Speaker 1: told like, hey, we're going to be shooting a scene

1686
01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:10,479
Speaker 1: for a movie. Just ac natural watch the parade. But

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01:49:10,680 --> 01:49:13,880
Speaker 1: it was done that. That entire scene was done in

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01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:18,160
Speaker 1: only a couple of takes because obviously, as people are

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Speaker 1: marching by in the parade, Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee

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01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:25,400
Speaker 1: Jones are weaving in and out of them, and they

1691
01:49:25,439 --> 01:49:27,599
Speaker 1: only had a couple of times that they were able

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01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 1: to get it right. So it was done very very quickly.

1693
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:34,439
Speaker 1: It's just a little interesting tidbit that scene, that entire

1694
01:49:34,600 --> 01:49:38,759
Speaker 1: chase scene, was not originally supposed to be in the movie.

1695
01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:42,120
Speaker 1: The director of the film, whose name is on the

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01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:48,040
Speaker 1: tip of my tongue right now, let's see, say Andrew Davis.

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01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:51,879
Speaker 1: Andrew Davis, the director, said he was actually from Chicago,

1698
01:49:52,320 --> 01:49:55,559
Speaker 1: and he said, look, the best day in Chicago is

1699
01:49:55,600 --> 01:49:57,680
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. You've got the Green River, if you've

1700
01:49:57,680 --> 01:50:00,880
Speaker 1: got a good weather day, it is just so much fun.

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01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: Since they happened to be shooting in Chicago in March,

1702
01:50:05,080 --> 01:50:08,000
Speaker 1: they said how about we do a scene and he

1703
01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:11,000
Speaker 1: went to the top brass in Chicago and said, hey,

1704
01:50:11,160 --> 01:50:14,680
Speaker 1: can we film during the parade? It's basically going to

1705
01:50:14,720 --> 01:50:17,599
Speaker 1: be Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford chasing each other

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01:50:18,080 --> 01:50:20,719
Speaker 1: in and out of the parade. The city said yes,

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01:50:21,360 --> 01:50:25,000
Speaker 1: and apparently the police commissioner was not totally like, Hey,

1708
01:50:25,640 --> 01:50:28,840
Speaker 1: as Robert Jordan from WGNZA, hey, who are these guys chasing?

1709
01:50:29,920 --> 01:50:32,320
Speaker 1: And Jordan had to tell them, yeah, I guess it's

1710
01:50:32,640 --> 01:50:34,920
Speaker 1: it's for a movie. That's actually Harrison Ford. He's one

1711
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:38,120
Speaker 1: of the most famous actors in the entire world. So

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01:50:38,400 --> 01:50:42,280
Speaker 1: a fun little bit of trivia. For one of the

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Speaker 1: best Saint Patrick's Day set movies of all time, you

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01:50:45,280 --> 01:50:47,559
Speaker 1: haven't seen The Fugitive check it out. It is one

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01:50:47,640 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 1: of the great suspense crime thriller movies of all time.