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Speaker 1: is this the screwiest weather week that we have ever

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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee area with sixty five degrees and sunshine. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to March in Wisconsin, and welcome to the Friday edition

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Speaker 1: into it on a Friday afternoon. Tough stories that we

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Speaker 1: are following right now. Just a couple of minutes ago,

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Speaker 1: President Trump boarding Marine one he's on his way down

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Speaker 1: to Mara Lago for the weekend. He gave an update,

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Speaker 2: No, I mean hitting them monthly hard. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you can possibly get hit harder. But

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Speaker 2: these are thugs and animals and horrible people. But you

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Speaker 2: can't hit anybody harder than we've hit them. Definitely, but

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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised they executed three young people for protestine.

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Speaker 1: Full update coming up in the Daily Trump date in

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Speaker 1: the four o'clock hour. Coming up later this hour, the

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Speaker 1: city of Milwaukee takes down its statue of Caesar Chavez,

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Speaker 1: which sat on South Caesar Chavez Drive, a reckoning amid

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Speaker 1: a massive child sex assault scandal. But why is it

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Speaker 1: that it seems like pretty much every civil rights icon

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Speaker 1: will explore and get into that, and then finally, today

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Speaker 1: some sad news. Chuck Norris has passed away a day

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Speaker 1: after being admitted to the hospital in Hawaii with an

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Speaker 1: unspecified medical emergency. He was eighty six years old. Chuck

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Speaker 1: Norris was, of course, a martial arts legend, a movie

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Speaker 1: and he was also a diehard conservative Republican. He was

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Speaker 1: actually asked some years ago why it is he's a Republican,

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Speaker 1: Why are you a conservative?

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Speaker 3: Sir, Well, I used to be a Democrat, but unfortunately

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Speaker 3: Republicans moved into their position that the Democrats were forty

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Speaker 4: Same, and so what the Democrats believed forty years ago,

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Speaker 1: What the rest are words of wisdom from a late

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Speaker 1: legend rip to Chuck Norris brand. New study from the

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Speaker 1: Common Sense Institute shows that Wisconsin is now the least

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Speaker 1: affordable state in the Upper Midwest. Wisconsin is now less

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Speaker 1: affordable than Illinois if you can believe that. The study

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Speaker 1: released today is entitled the Inflation Hangover. How the post

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Speaker 1: Across the nation, your average household mother, father, two children

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Speaker 1: so far they have been all over the place on messaging.

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Speaker 1: the scarcity principle. Yes, obviously interest rates play a role,

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Speaker 1: a major cost driver, especially for housing. Now, Wisconsin has

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Speaker 1: the four hundred year property tax veto. This has nothing

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Speaker 1: Happened over the past year. Used as partial veto authority

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Speaker 1: He unconstitutionally used his partial veto authority to extend an

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin has the power to increase its property tax levee

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Speaker 1: it's so important to get Maria Lazar elected, even though

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Speaker 1: control ideologically of the court is not at stake. But

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Speaker 1: just ignoring all precedent, ignoring the Constitution itself, which pretty

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Speaker 1: clearly states no, these sorts of Vana White Frankenstein vetos

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Speaker 1: the very first year that the four hundred year veto

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Speaker 1: very easy to find as well. You will not miss it.

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Speaker 1: You will not be going to the polls without that

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Speaker 1: courtesy of us here at the Dan o'donald show. To

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Speaker 1: answer your qu question, why has nobody done this before, Well,

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Speaker 1: there have been a number of very effective guides. Badger

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Speaker 1: Vote was a very good one. At the county level,

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of county parties have been very into

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Speaker 1: the local election process. I know Rebecca Clayfish and her group,

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Speaker 1: the eighteen forty eight Project has done yeomen's work on

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Speaker 1: this sort of thing, candidate recruitment and so forth, and

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Speaker 1: identifying the next generation of conservative leaders in this state,

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Speaker 1: because this is where folks, in these spring elections, in

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Speaker 1: these municipal races, in these offices, where we find the

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Speaker 1: next state representatives, the next congressman, the next governors. Typically

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Speaker 1: a political career will start at the municipal level. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: because these are nonpartisan races, it's just very easy for

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Speaker 1: conservatives to say, well, I I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 1: I want to do is to vote for some unhinged

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Speaker 1: It is my mission to make sure that no Conservative

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Speaker 1: who goes to the polls will ever leave a single

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Speaker 1: race blank. It is my mission to identify every single

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Speaker 1: Conservative in this state that is running in every single race.

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Speaker 1: Our first crack at it starts Monday, the Ultimate Conservative

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Speaker 1: Voter Guide. Disturbing story out of Waukeshaw County yesterday. It

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Speaker 1: was an officer involved incident. It is being called it

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Speaker 1: was a chase that started in ended I believe in

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Speaker 1: the village of Summit. I believe it started, yeah, Jefferson County.

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Speaker 1: It started in Jefferson County. Suspect who reportedly had some

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Speaker 1: felony arrest warrants. It crosses over into Waukeshaw County. Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: deputies from one Kashaw take over the chase. Now they

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Speaker 1: attempted a stop, the suspect took off. He continued the pursuit.

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Speaker 1: At about nine am, he crashes his car gets stuck

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Speaker 1: somehow in a field off of State Highway sixty seven,

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Speaker 1: He gets out of the vehicle, he displays a handgun.

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Speaker 1: Deputies fired in response. Fearing for their lives, they struck

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Speaker 1: the suspect. The suspect, who is believed to be a

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Speaker 1: scene and a handgun was recovered near him. Now is

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Speaker 1: this oh, No other deputies were injured, nobody else was hurt.

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Speaker 1: Was this in fact an officer involved shooting or as

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Speaker 1: it was reported and as a number of law enforcement

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Speaker 1: sources told me, did the suspect take his own life?

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Speaker 1: He was shot, he was injured, he realizes he's done,

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Speaker 1: He's going to prison for a long time, as often

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Speaker 1: happens in these incidents, he turns the gun on himself.

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Speaker 1: We don't know. Obviously, this is under investigation and we

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Speaker 1: will find out. But do you know what evidence will

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Speaker 1: not be available in this case? Body cameras. As my

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Speaker 1: friend and colleague Mark Belling posted in a post on

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Speaker 1: x this afternoon, the Waukeshaw County Sheriff's Department is one

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Speaker 1: of the few law enforcement agencies of its size anywhere

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Speaker 1: not to have body cameras for its deputies. Now, law

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Speaker 1: enforcement for many years fought the requirement of body cameras

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Speaker 1: until law enforcement agencies were forced to wear body cameras,

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Speaker 1: and they revealed that the body camera is the single

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Speaker 1: best friend that a law enforcement officer possibly has, because

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of claims that at an officer was racist,

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Speaker 1: that an officer was engaged in unnecessary force, are completely

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Speaker 1: disproven by body camera footage. Body camera footage is invaluable

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Speaker 1: evidence whenever there is an incident like this. So why

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Speaker 1: is it the Waukeshaw County Sheriff's Department does not have

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Speaker 1: body cameras? Well, it comes down to money, It comes

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Speaker 1: down to funding. But here's the thing. Waukashaw Sheriff's department says,

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Speaker 1: we want body cameras. The county board simply won't provide

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Speaker 1: us the funding for the body cameras. The county board says,

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Speaker 1: we provide a whole lot of funding to the sheriff's department.

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Speaker 1: The sheriff's department needs to prioritize the purchase of body cameras.

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Speaker 1: So it's sort of a back and forth question and

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Speaker 1: back and forth blame game about why it is that

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Speaker 1: the sheriff's department doesn't have body cameras. Frankly, I don't

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Speaker 1: care why the sheriff's department doesn't have body cameras. This

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Speaker 1: is a necessary expense This is something that I would

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Speaker 1: consider to be a critical purchase and a critical investment

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Speaker 1: for Wakashaw County. The Milwaukee Police Department is thanking it's

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Speaker 1: lucky stars that body cameras exist and they're required to

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Speaker 1: wear body cameras because do you remember the story a

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Speaker 1: couple of months ago about the off duty officer who

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Speaker 1: shot and killed the man. He was on his way

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Speaker 1: to his job at the training academy. He was apparently

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Speaker 1: a marksmanship instructor, and he gets into some sort of

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Speaker 1: fender bender with a suspect, with a guy who did

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Speaker 1: not have a criminal background, appeared to be a nice

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Speaker 1: enough guy, good man, and the officer shoots him. Well,

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Speaker 1: the officer is white, the guy who was shot was black. Already,

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Speaker 1: the vultures in the race grievance industry we're circling and

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Speaker 1: descending upon Milwaukee. The family was saying that their loved

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Speaker 1: one was shot and killed in cold blood. Then the

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Speaker 1: body camera was released. Do you know what It showed

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Speaker 1: that the suspect, the man who died, gets out of

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Speaker 1: the officer. The officer had no choice but to grab

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Speaker 1: his firearm and shoot the suspect. The suspect was killed.

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Speaker 1: To the family's credit, they saw the body camera footage

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Speaker 1: and they said, look, we're heartbroken about this. We can't

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Speaker 1: believe our loved one did this, But the evidence is incontrovertible.

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Speaker 1: Ben Krump, the civil rights attorney who just descends like

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Speaker 1: a vulture on these cases, go home. We're not going

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Speaker 1: to pursue any other action that prevented a massive lawsuit.

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Speaker 1: Now imagine a similar situation involving a walka Shaw County

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputy. That deputy would not have the same protection.

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Speaker 1: That deputy would not have the same ability to defend himself.

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Speaker 1: So I don't frankly care why there are no body

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Speaker 1: cameras for Wakashaw County sheriff deputies. There need to be,

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Speaker 1: and there need to be yesterday. Quick correction on that

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Speaker 1: last story is a number of listeners have pointed out

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Speaker 1: it was the officer's dash cam in the Milwaukee shooting

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Speaker 1: that cleared him. In the controversial one, he was off duty,

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Speaker 1: so obviously he wasn't wearing a body camera. The point

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Speaker 1: still stands, though there was video evidence of an officer

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Speaker 1: involved shooting that cleared an officer of any wrongdoing and

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Speaker 1: prevented a George Floyd or Eric Brown hands up, don't

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Speaker 1: shoot Ferguson Missouri situation just a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 1: because there was video evidence. There needs to be similar

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Speaker 1: video evidence. Yes, Walkinshaw County squad cars do have dash

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Speaker 1: cam video, but they don't have body cameras and they

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Speaker 1: need to time now Here on the Dan O'Donnell show,

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Speaker 1: to name the unhinged liberal of the tough is dangerous

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Speaker 1: because he's evil. Today's unhinged liberal of the day is

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Speaker 1: none other than disgraced former CNN host and charged criminal

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Speaker 1: Don Lemon. On Gavin Newsom's podcast today, he said, the

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Speaker 1: United States, YEP is no better than a rock.

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Speaker 7: So we cannot lose those norms and those traditions because

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Speaker 7: otherwise we're no better than a country that we're at

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Speaker 7: war with right now. And we're saying, you know that

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Speaker 7: Iran shoots protesters, well so do we, and you know

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Speaker 7: we're over there because Iran, you know, jails reporters or

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Speaker 7: you know, doesn't have free speech, and that makes us

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Speaker 7: know better than them. If we are acting and doing

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Speaker 7: the very same things that they're doing, then what sort

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Speaker 7: of moral authority. Do we have to be able to

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Speaker 7: be there and you know, in a war and quite

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Speaker 7: frankly killing.

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Speaker 1: People extended side, Don Lemon, you're unhinged Liberal of the day,

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Speaker 1: the daily Trump Date, weekly or daily look at what's

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Speaker 1: going on in Trump's Washington? Coming up next here on

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Speaker 1: the Dan O'donnald's show. Well, it didn't take long for

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Speaker 1: the media to try to tear down the legacy of

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Speaker 1: Chuck Norris because, gasp, he was a Republican Variety magazine

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Speaker 1: on its website Variety dot com. Chuck Norris is a

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Speaker 1: great action star, but politics may overshadow his legacy. What politics?

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Speaker 1: Because he disagrees with Libs Give me a break. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you actually need to go down to about paragraph seven

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Speaker 1: to actually get into the substance of this article and

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Speaker 1: its author, William Earle, was Norris a brilliant athlete and

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Speaker 1: top shelf start, Yes, but there's no denying that his

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Speaker 1: roles were part of a body of work used to

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Speaker 1: show American strength, might, and the pernicious attraction of taking

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Speaker 1: the law into one's own hands, something that seems less

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Speaker 1: fun in a year in which our country is funneling

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Speaker 1: money into bombs Iran and ICE agents are acting like

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Speaker 1: one man militia's. Given our nation's divisions in morality, information, literacy,

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Speaker 1: and overall sense of reality, it's easier to see Norris's

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Speaker 1: characters as justification for a fringe conspiracy movement rather than

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Speaker 1: a moral standing. When patriotism and laws shift away from

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Speaker 1: the Constitution, what side does a gunslinger land on? You

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Speaker 1: have got to be kidding me, Ladies and gentlemen. The

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Speaker 1: left can no longer be parodied. They are a self

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Speaker 1: parody Chuck Norris because he was a Republican and because

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Speaker 1: his movies are about the vigilante. And I don't remember

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Speaker 1: this when who is it that played uh, oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: Death Wish? Was that Lee Marvin in Death Wish? When

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Speaker 1: he passed away? Did anybody that was all about vigilantism?

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Is the Keanu Reeves john Wick series about

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Speaker 1: nothing more than vigilantism? Because they killed his dog and

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Speaker 1: he gets into like this international conspiracy with assassins and

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Speaker 1: so forth. Come on, you wonder why traditional media is

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Speaker 1: dying a slow death. Big media story today For those

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Speaker 1: of us in radio, it's sort of a sad day.

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Speaker 1: CBS News Radio is shutting down. For those who are unfamiliar,

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Speaker 1: CBS Radio provides top and bottom of the hour newscasts,

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Speaker 1: and they would also provide to about seven hundred affiliate

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Speaker 1: stations audio soundbites known as actualities reports from CBS correspondence.

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Speaker 1: I actually the very first national radio I ever did

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Speaker 1: was at it as a correspondent or stringer for CBS Radio.

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Speaker 1: I was like twenty two to twenty three years old.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited. But this sadly is part and

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Speaker 1: parcel of that changing media landscape that it's just no

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Speaker 1: longer necessary to have a national news affiliate and one

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Speaker 1: the way, the two big players in the news radio

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Speaker 1: CBS was the third fiddle. Well. One of the biggest

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Speaker 1: reasons for CBS's decline over the past two decades was

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Speaker 1: the rise of Fox News Radio, which we use as

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Speaker 1: most iHeart news talk stations. I do believe our Fox

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Speaker 1: News affiliates don't quote me on that, but I listened

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Speaker 1: to a lot of iHeartRadio, and I listened to a

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Speaker 1: lot of talk radio from across the country just to

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Speaker 1: like sort of sample I kind of do it. I'm

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Speaker 1: a random talk radio host just because I'm a connoisseur

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Speaker 1: of the medium. Well, one of the big problems with

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Speaker 1: CBS News Radio is that it was so liberally biased

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Speaker 1: news talk stations. So a whole lot of those stations

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Speaker 1: were saying, well, wait, a seut, why would we run

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Speaker 1: and then go to CBS News Radio to just have

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Speaker 1: a liberal bias newscast that our hosts were just railing against.

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Speaker 1: But it is the end of an era. The CBS

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Speaker 1: Radio network actually began almost one hundred years ago, and

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Speaker 1: it is going to shut down as part of a

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Speaker 1: massive restructuring of CBS News. And of course the lefties

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Speaker 1: are just freaking out about this. Barry Weiss in Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: whenever I say that the head of CBS News now

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Speaker 1: is a woman by the name of Barry Weiss here

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, what is the first thing you think of

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Speaker 1: when you hear the name Barry Weiss. You think of

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Speaker 1: the line in Google's Summer Drink. It's delicious, right, everybody

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Speaker 1: loves the Linyes, there's Barrywis and Honeywise. Okay, if Barry

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Speaker 1: Weiss is nicknamed like if her husband as a term

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Speaker 1: for endearment and he calls her honey, I've got to

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Speaker 1: meet Barry Weiss just to tell her, like, look, hey,

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Speaker 1: if I ever hear your husband calling you honey, I

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Speaker 1: am going to laugh out loud just because you're both

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Speaker 1: Barry Weis and Honeywise. And no one outside of Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: will ever get that joke, but we hear in Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: find it's hilarious. She is like your most normy, middle

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Speaker 1: of the road in her politics. She ran a site

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Speaker 1: called The Free Press. She was an opinion columnist and

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Speaker 1: a contributing editor I believe, at the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: She gets bounced out of there, starts her own site

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Speaker 1: called the Free Press. It becomes nominally successful, so successful

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Speaker 1: that she is hired to run CBS News and she's

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Speaker 1: trying to make the network more middle of the road.

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Speaker 1: She's trying to make it a true news network again.

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Speaker 1: And wouldn't you know it, the leftists are freaking out

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Speaker 1: because they can't get stories like Chuck Norris's politics are

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Speaker 1: clouding his legacy all right time now here on the

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Speaker 1: Dan O'donnald's show for your daily look at Donald Trump's Washington.

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Speaker 1: We call it the 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 8: It's also a big win for the United States.

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Speaker 1: We have to keep winning.

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Speaker 5: We have to win more.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna win Moore, President Trump right now on Air

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Speaker 1: Force one, he is making his way down to Marra

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Speaker 1: Lago for the weekend. Before doing so, he stopped and

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Speaker 1: talked to reporters on the White House lawn while waiting

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Speaker 1: for Marine one to take him to Joint Bass Andrews

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Speaker 1: for the trip down to Florida. Answered some questions about

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Speaker 1: the Iran War, about carg Island, about potentially any sort

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Speaker 1: of action against Cuba, or whether the Cuban government would

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Speaker 1: be the next despotic regime to fall. Earlier in the

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Speaker 1: day today, he welcomed the Navy football team to the

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Speaker 1: White House for honors and also to sign an executive

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Speaker 1: quarter back. Then he gave an update on the excursion,

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Speaker 1: as he's calling it in a round.

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Speaker 9: I want to begin by just saying we're doing extremely

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Speaker 9: well in Iran. The difference between them and US is

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Speaker 9: they had a navy two weeks ago. They have no

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Speaker 9: navy anymore, so all at the bottom of the sea.

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Speaker 9: Fifty eight chips knockdown in two days, and we have

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Speaker 9: the greatest navy anywhere in the world. It's not even close.

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Speaker 9: So but we are doing really well. We're not going

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Speaker 9: to let them have nuclear weapons because if they had them,

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Speaker 9: they'd use.

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Speaker 1: Them, and we're not going to let that happen.

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Speaker 9: Should have been done a long time ago by other presidents.

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Speaker 1: And the presidents said, he is the only one who

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Speaker 1: actually did something about what other presidents have been talking

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Speaker 1: about for literally forty seven years. He said in both

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Speaker 1: appearances today at the White House and also on the

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Speaker 1: South Bawn that things are going so well that they

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Speaker 1: are very much ahead of schedule in Operation Epic Fury. Now,

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Speaker 1: the purpose of the visit today with the siding of

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Speaker 1: an executive order that is going to make sure that

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Speaker 1: no other college football game can be played while the

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Speaker 1: annual Army Navy game is being played.

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Speaker 9: The annual Army Navy Game is truly one of the

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Speaker 9: most special occasions in all of sports, but in recent years,

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Speaker 9: the college football playoff expansion has encroached on this sacred

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Speaker 9: for our time slot traditionally reserved for Army Navy.

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Speaker 1: So what did I do?

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Speaker 9: I went out. I don't know if I could have

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Speaker 9: pulled it up. I have much more power in my

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Speaker 9: second term, don't you think. What do you think, would

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Speaker 9: you say, Brendan much more power first term? I don't

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Speaker 9: know if I could have gotten nowhere where it is.

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Speaker 1: But what did I do?

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Speaker 9: I went out and said, I will I'm going to

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Speaker 9: sign an executive order to ensure that the second Saturday

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Speaker 9: in December is preserved exclusively. Nobody's playing football, Not Ohio

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Speaker 9: State against Notre Dame, not LSU against Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's going to.

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Speaker 9: Play football for four hours during that very special time

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Speaker 9: of the year in December. It's preserved forever for the

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Speaker 9: Army Navy Game.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm actually kind of unclear whether the president

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Speaker 1: can actually do this. Yeah, why not? I like the

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Speaker 1: Army Navy game. You like the Army Navy game, And yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is kind of ridiculous that the college football playoffs

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Speaker 1: go for about two and a half months. You realize

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Speaker 1: that the National Championship Game is like almost two months

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Speaker 1: after the end of the regular season. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: insane that, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date.

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Speaker 1: Honest to goodness, I am not entirely sure whether the

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Speaker 1: President does have power to do this, because I'm going

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Speaker 1: to assume that this does pass constitutional muster and a

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Speaker 1: lot of these schools are taking federal government money, but

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Speaker 1: it does not seem like this is something. What the

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Speaker 1: order does is it essentially secures an exclusive four hour

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Speaker 1: broadcast window. The order just directs federal agencies like the FCC,

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Speaker 1: I believe chief among them to coordinate with the NC

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Speaker 1: double A. So no, he can't prevent this, but it's

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Speaker 1: sort of like, Hey, this game has a special meaning

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Speaker 1: to the American people. Let's all be patriotic here, raw Rah,

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Speaker 1: And frankly, I think Trump is going to get what

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Speaker 1: he wants on this one. Now, while I disagree with

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Speaker 1: the potential constitutionality of an actual order preventing any other

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Speaker 1: team from playing on the second Saturday of December, is

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Speaker 1: this something that I think President Trump should go to jail?

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Speaker 1: For rather obviously, not because I am not a psychotic

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Speaker 1: lib you know who is. Though the governor of Illinois, JB. Pritzgert,

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Speaker 1: now he doesn't want President Trump to go to jail

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Speaker 1: over a football game, of course, but he did say

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Speaker 1: in an interview yesterday that part of what Democrats might

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Speaker 1: call Project twenty twenty nine a comprehensive plan of action

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Speaker 1: if they win the presidency in twenty twenty eight and

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Speaker 1: win the Congress. He was asked what that look like.

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Speaker 1: His immediate answer, we got to prosecute members of the

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Speaker 1: Trump administration and ICE agents. What does a Project twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty nine agenda look like for you?

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Speaker 10: I don't think you can speak of it in shorthand,

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Speaker 10: but I'll just say a couple of things that I

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Speaker 10: think are absolutely necessary. One is, we've got to restore

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Speaker 10: the rule of law, and that means holding people accountable

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Speaker 10: who've broken the law, and talking about in this administration

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Speaker 10: when we get a new one, the people in this

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Speaker 10: administration who've broken the law and federal agents who've broken

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Speaker 10: the law need to be held accountable.

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Speaker 1: And that means criminally prosecuted.

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Speaker 10: Criminally prosecuted, civilly prosecute, whatever it is that we can do.

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Speaker 1: They're not even hiding the fact that they are the

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Speaker 1: literal fascists in waiting. Fascist is just a broad catch

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Speaker 1: all that liberals will hurl at anyone who disagrees with her.

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Speaker 1: You disagree with a left winger, you are a fascist.

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Speaker 1: If you are slight to the right of Elizabeth Warren,

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Speaker 1: you probably are a fact that actually is fascist behavior,

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Speaker 1: not actually specifying. Okay, well, there is clear criminality here.

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Speaker 1: He is saying, we are just going to have broad accountability,

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Speaker 1: and that means prosecutions of former Trump administration officials and

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Speaker 1: by the way, Ice agents that might or might not

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Speaker 1: have actually committed crimes. What he's talking about here are

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Speaker 1: clearly show trials. Now, for nearly two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: years in this country's history, it was just assumed that

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Speaker 1: you would never have a president, you would never have

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Speaker 1: an administration come in and make it its business to

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Speaker 1: immediately start prosecuting members of the prior administration. Guess which

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Speaker 1: political party came in and almost immediately broke that nearly

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty year tradition by prosecuting Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: You'd better believe it. It was the Democrats. It was

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Speaker 1: the nameless, faceless cabal of thirty and forty something. They

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Speaker 1: thems who were secretly running the Biden presidency that as

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Speaker 1: soon as Trump announced that he was running for a

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Speaker 1: second term in November of twenty twenty two. You might remember,

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Speaker 1: Republicans were disappointed with the results of the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two midterms and Trump was. There was a lot of

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Speaker 1: grumbling that Trump was to blame. You was politically very unpopular,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to get ahead of somebody like Ron

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Speaker 1: DeSantis announcing that he was going to run for president.

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Speaker 1: So he announced right after the midterms that he was

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Speaker 1: going to run. Would you believe that within a matter

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Speaker 1: of days, President Biden and his Attorney General named a

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Speaker 1: special council to start investigating Trump. Would you believe that

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Speaker 1: within days of Trump's announcement in November of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: the number three ranking official in Merrick Garland's Justice Department

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Speaker 1: suddenly left the DOJ to go to the New York

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Speaker 1: Attorney's Office, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to work as

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Speaker 1: a line prosecutor prosecuting white collar crimes. He revived the

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Speaker 1: so called zombie case against Trump that ultimately led to

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Speaker 1: the thirty four felony convictions. The following year, those thirty

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Speaker 1: four convictions were convictions for the same crime, which wasn't

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Speaker 1: actually a crime. This was the first time this theory

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Speaker 1: of New York's criminal law was ever used. It was

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Speaker 1: a new theory of criminal law, and the first time

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Speaker 1: they ever used it was against the former president of

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Speaker 1: the United States, who is a declared candidate in the

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Speaker 1: next presidential election. For the first time in American history,

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Speaker 1: one president prosecuted another. When President Trump faced two different prosecutions,

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Speaker 1: both of them were on completely dubious grounds. The idea

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Speaker 1: that somehow President Trump was not within the prescribed duties

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Speaker 1: of his office to call for investigations into the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty presidential election. He's the head of the Justice Department.

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Speaker 1: He absolutely is allowed to call for investigations. He can

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Speaker 1: launch investigations into elections if he really wants to. He's

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Speaker 1: the head of the Justice Department. Is a nonsensical crime.

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Speaker 1: They also prosecuted. You might remember the Mara Lago documents case.

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Speaker 1: They criminalized a non criminal statute. President Trump's retention of

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Speaker 1: those documents was governed by the Presidential Records Act from

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies. That's a non criminal statute. There are

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Speaker 1: no criminal penalties. So what they did was try to

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Speaker 1: get Trump on a Trump up charge of basically federal obstruction,

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Speaker 1: which is nonsensical because he was not able to be

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Speaker 1: prosecuted for the underlying crime. What he did was not criminal.

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Speaker 1: He was not criminally obstructing. Then you had the case

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Speaker 1: in Georgia that completely fell apart when it was revealed

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Speaker 1: that Fannie Willis, the disgraced Fulton County prosecutor, hired her

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Speaker 1: lover to be the special prosecutor so he could bill

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Speaker 1: the people of Fulton County for all sorts of hours

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't actually working while prosecuting Trump. All of

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Speaker 1: this was going on in an effort to stop President

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Speaker 1: Trump's candidacy. As Biden revealed in Jake Tapper's book about

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Speaker 1: the Biden presidency, the reason, the primary reason that Biden

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Speaker 1: ran again when a lot of people said he wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to run. Remember when Biden first ran, he said,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be a transitional president. I am going

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Speaker 1: to pass the torch onto the next generation. The clear

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Speaker 1: implication there was I'm only going to run for one

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Speaker 1: term and then I'm going to pass the reins to

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Biden said he only ran. He is quoted

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Speaker 1: in Jake Tapper's book as saying the only reason he

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Speaker 1: ran is because he was convinced Donald Trump was going

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Speaker 1: to be in jail. What does that tell you? The

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Speaker 1: entire electoral strategy in twenty twenty four was to put

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump in jail. That's about the worst thing. From

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Speaker 1: the people who constantly talk about threats to the democracy,

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Speaker 1: threats to our democracy, the single biggest threat to our

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Speaker 1: democracy is a political party, as evidenced by Merrick Garland

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Speaker 1: and Joe Biden and now JB. Pritzker saying as a

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Speaker 1: political strategy, we are just going to lock up our

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Speaker 1: political opponents. That was an admission from Biden that an enfeebled,

862
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: eighty something year old man was going to run for

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Speaker 1: president again. Everybody in the party was okay with this

864
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: because it didn't matter. Donald Trump was going to be

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Speaker 1: in jail. There was no way he was going to

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Speaker 1: be able to run. The American people weren't going to

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Speaker 1: elect somebody who was sitting in a prison cell. So

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Speaker 1: Biden would have a free reign, He would have a

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Speaker 1: free ride to reelection. And then he could just resign.

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Speaker 1: He could say, look, my health has taken a turn

871
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Speaker 1: for the worse, the prostate cancer. I'm going to turn

872
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: things over to Kamala, who, as she demonstrated, could never

873
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: ever win a national election. It's disgusting. And now you've

874
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: got Pritzker saying, oh, yes, our very first thing, the

875
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: very first thing we are going to do when we

876
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: retake power, is to prosecute members of the Trump administration.

877
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: That's simultaneously chilling and not especially surprising, but it does

878
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: illustrate the importance of judicial and US attorney positions. We'll

879
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: dive into that coming up now. Never ceases to amaze

880
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: me how the same people who say Republicans are a

881
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: threat to democracy, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy

882
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: just will openly say, yeah, if we ever get in

883
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 1: power again, we're going to prosecute all of our political

884
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: enemies so that you know they'll be in prison and

885
00:58:56,560 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: they won't be threats to US. JB. Pritzk or kudos

886
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: to him for opening up his big fat mouth and

887
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: giving up the entire game. It's not like it was

888
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:11,920
Speaker 1: really a secret that was democrats entire strategy. In twenty

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00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: twenty three, in twenty twenty four was to put Trump

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Speaker 1: on trial, secure convictions, and make sure by the summer

891
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: after the nominating period, where Republicans couldn't possibly get another candidate,

892
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: Trump would be in prison and thus not be able

893
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: to campaign, not be able to win. You might remember

894
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: that was actually a very effective strategy. It kept him

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00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: off of the campaign trail and out of the swing

896
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 1: states because he had to be in court in New

897
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: York every single day. So what we did on the

898
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: Dan O'Donnell show, and I was broadcasting in mid morning,

899
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,919
Speaker 1: is every time President Trump would go out and he'd

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00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: make a statement outside of the courthouse, he sort of

901
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 1: used that as a daily campaign stop. We played it

902
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: in its entirety on my show because I said, look,

903
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: he's not able to go visit us in the critical

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Speaker 1: swing state of Wisconsin, but by god, the critical swing

905
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: state of Wisconsin is going to hear what this man

906
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: has to say. And this highlights the importance of having

907
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: prosecutors and having judges, having a criminal justice system that

908
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: is free from the influence of corrupt, malign actors like JB. Pritzker, who,

909
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: by the way, is absolutely running for president. He is

910
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: sort of seen as the third candidate behind Gavin Newsom,

911
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: I think is the clear front runner right now, Kamala Harris.

912
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: She is just the last woman who ran. And what

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01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: you're seeing in Wisconsin is sort of the same effect.

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01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 1: It's that people don't really know who the next man

915
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: up is, so they'll often tell pollsters that they support

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01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: whoever it was that ran last because frankly, that's the

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01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: only one they know. That's I think the biggest reason

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Speaker 1: that Mandela Barnes has been pulling so well in the

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01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: Democratic primaries. It's just he's the only one that they do. Seriously,

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01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: if I said the name Joel Brennan to you, would

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Speaker 1: you have any idea who that is? Producer Doug Nope,

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01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: no idea. Missy Hughes, Nope, no clue. Brett Hulsey nope,

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01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: Kelder Roy's nope. Uh well, David Crowley, you know he's

924
01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:26,520
Speaker 1: a Milwaukee County executive. Francesca Hang, yeah, you know her,

925
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: crazy Lady Madison. She's actually their front runner. But you

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Speaker 1: know Mandela because he ran for Senate last time. See

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01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 1: that's how it works, and that's why Kamala is still

928
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 1: doing well in the polling. Gavin Newsom is I think

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01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: very obviously the choice here, and then it's a whole

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01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: lot of Also, Rand's Mayor Pete has grown a beard.

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01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 1: I didn't say may or Pete has a beard. I

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01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: said Mayor Pete has grown a beard. He certainly doesn't

933
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: use a beard. He is very happy and content with

934
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: who he is, except when it comes time to talk

935
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: to black voters. They don't like the fact that he's

936
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: an openly gay man. And that's a dirty little secret

937
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party. The big reason that Pete Boodage

938
01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: will never ever be president is because black voters, Black

939
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 1: Democrat voters anyway, will not vote for an openly gay man.

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01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,880
Speaker 1: And also, the guy was a disastrous transportation secretary and

941
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Speaker 1: his biggest elective office is mayor of South Bend, Indiana,

942
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: who just sort of decided, yeah, I think I totally

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01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: should run for president mayor Pete, God bless him. You've

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Speaker 1: also got Josh Shapiro, who will never ever ever be

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01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: president because he is Jewish, and the Democrat Party is

946
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 1: so insanely anti Semitic right now that they are never

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01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: going to nominate a Jewish. And that's actually why Kamala

948
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 1: Harris was stuck with the buffoon. Tim Walls instead of

949
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:51,880
Speaker 1: a very very good politician in a critical swing state.

950
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 1: He's the Governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro. And you've also

951
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,440
Speaker 1: got people who are just kind of, you know, testing

952
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: the waters. But really it's going to probably come down

953
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: to Kamala and Gavin Newsom and maybe JB. Pritzker just

954
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 1: because he's a billionaire, because he came into a whole

955
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: lot of family money with the Hyatt hotel chain, and

956
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 1: he can self fund sort of like Michael Bloomberg did.

957
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: But we all saw how Bloomberg flamed out. In the

958
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty Super Tuesday contest coming up on April seventh,

959
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: and starting with the in person early vote period on Tuesday,

960
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: Wisconsin is going to elect a new Supreme Court justice.

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Speaker 1: It is either going to be conservative Maria Lazar, or

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Speaker 1: it is going to be far left, insane liberal Chris Taylor.

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01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: Taylor is considered to be a huge front runner in

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01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: this race, so much so that there really hasn't been

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01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: a whole lot of attention paid to it. What I

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01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: can tell you, ladies and gentlemen, is not only would

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01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor be easily the most political, easily the most

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01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: left win hack judge the Supreme Court has ever seen.

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01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: She is also not like the other justices, like Janet

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01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: Protosceewitz is not a bright human being. She is just

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01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: not particularly well versed on the law. She is not

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01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: particularly well spoken, and she just is not a bright person.

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01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:30,920
Speaker 1: Jill Korowski meh eh, not especially bright. Susan Crawford and

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01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor, they are sharp, they are political, and they

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01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: know exactly how to do what they need to do

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01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: to turn this state a deep shade of blue. Today,

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01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel dove into Chris Taylor's very liberal

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01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: record on the Wisconsin Assembly. She would be the first

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Speaker 1: former member of the Wisconsin legislature to be elected state

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01:04:56,840 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice since David Prosser. Prosser was right down

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01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: the middle. He was a milk toast Republican God rest

982
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: his so he's a great human being, just an incredibly

983
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 1: nice guy. But he wasn't exactly like a fire breathing

984
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: bomb throwing conservative, and of course the media every time

985
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 1: he ran portrayed him as a fire breathing bomb throwing conservative.

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01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor is a fire breathing bomb throwing liberal. She

987
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: is also, according to people who know her, and even

988
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 1: people who like her, a horrible, horrible human being. She

989
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 1: is just a terrible, mean, awful person. She is the

990
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 1: definition of your unhinged liberal wine ant. Not only that

991
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: she is a pretty awful legislator. She introduced two hundred

992
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: and forty plus bills in her tenure as a member

993
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: of the Wisconsin Assembly. Guess how many she got past.

994
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: Guess how good she was at consensus building, even with

995
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: her own caucus, and just getting those bills across the

996
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: finish line and working across the island and making sure

997
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 1: that every one of the two hundred and forty plus

998
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: bills that she co sponsored would would have broad bipartisans support.

999
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 1: Six six out of two hundred and forty plus bills. Six.

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01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 1: You know why, Because she can't consensus build, because she

1001
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: has no interest in reaching across the aisle. Because again,

1002
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: even those who know her best, even those in the

1003
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: legislature who worked with her, know she is an awful,

1004
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:50,760
Speaker 1: mean spirited, vindictive person. I'm saying this not to just

1005
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: her names. This is honest to goodness, what multiple sources,

1006
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: both Republican and Democrat, have told me about this woman.

1007
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: The big thing about her is She's awful. The biggest word,

1008
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: the most common word I have heard to describe Chris

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01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:12,240
Speaker 1: Taylor on a personal level, Just like, what word would

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01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: you describe you know, I don't know what word would

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01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: you use to describe Tom Tiffany. Right, it's a easygoing

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01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's pretty standard conservative. The word I

1013
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: hear most often with Chris Taylor is awful. She is

1014
01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: an awful person. It's not just that she is a

1015
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: liberal activist who cut her teeth as the chief legislative

1016
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: liaison and policy director for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. It's

1017
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: that she truly rubs people friend and foe the wrong way.

1018
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 1: And we are about to put her on the state's

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01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 1: highest court, where she would be the fifth vote that

1020
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 1: would rubber stamp everything a Democrat governor and Democrat legislature

1021
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: would do and conversely block everything a governor, Tom Tiffany

1022
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 1: and a Republican majority in the legislature would ever do.

1023
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:25,639
Speaker 1: But the Journal Sentinel tried its best to sanitize her record,

1024
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: we will actually dive into it and reveal her to

1025
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:35,559
Speaker 1: be the far left, radical and awful person that everyone

1026
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: who knows her knows her to be. That's coming up next.

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01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Today at jsonline dot com attempts to

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01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: sanitize Chris Taylor's very far left voting record, as well

1029
01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: as the record that she left by introducing a truly

1030
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:03,600
Speaker 1: a staggering number of bills during her term as a

1031
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:07,640
Speaker 1: member of the Wisconsin Assembly. By her own admission, she

1032
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:12,879
Speaker 1: introduced or co authored two hundred and fifty plus bills.

1033
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: She got a grand total of six past six and

1034
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:24,560
Speaker 1: all of them were just completely benign, completely do nothing bills. Essentially,

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01:09:24,800 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: if there is a left wing proposal that was made

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01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 1: while Taylor was in the legislature, she was a co

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01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,840
Speaker 1: author on it. She was sort of known for trying

1038
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,680
Speaker 1: to get her name on as many different pieces of

1039
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 1: legislation as possible because she's nothing more than a social

1040
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 1: climber who just wants more power for herself, more recognition

1041
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 1: for herself. She entertained for a long time notions of

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01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 1: running for higher office like governor. But because as I reported, folks,

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01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:00,560
Speaker 1: this is not Dan O'Donnell saying that Chris Taylor is

1044
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: a singularly unlikable person. This is democrats. If you have

1045
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:09,440
Speaker 1: any if you know anybody who is at all connected

1046
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: to the state Democrat party. Ask them about Chris Taylor.

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01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,519
Speaker 1: I guarantee they will say the same thing I'm telling

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01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,720
Speaker 1: you with all of my sources right and left. The

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01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:24,360
Speaker 1: word that keeps coming up to describe her is awful.

1050
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 1: But her progressive far left record includes, of course, marijuana

1051
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: bill's universal basic income abortion. She even wanted to replace

1052
01:10:37,479 --> 01:10:43,360
Speaker 1: the word mother with parents who gave birth in state statutes.

1053
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: That was an honest to God bill that she helped introduce.

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01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: She also wanted, just like tampon tim walls in Minnesota,

1055
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: menstrual products, sanitary napkins, tampons in boys' bathrooms. She also

1056
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, proposed a bill to create an Office

1057
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:07,560
Speaker 1: for Equity and Inclusion within state government to address systemic

1058
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: disparities in all state policies and programs. As part of

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01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: broader anti immigration enforcement legislation, she introduced bills banning and

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Speaker 1: restricting ice facilities in the state, adding immigration status as

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01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: a protected class in housing discrimination laws, granting in state

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01:11:32,240 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 1: tuition to illegal immigrants at Wisconsin universities, and giving drivers

1063
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: licenses to illegals. That's about as left wing as it gets. Now,

1064
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to happen if, say,

1065
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:54,320
Speaker 1: Governor francesco Han, Dear God, please know, and a left

1066
01:11:54,320 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: wing state legislature decides to do something thoroughly unconstantal but

1067
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: fits in with Chris Taylor's legislative agenda. Do you think

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01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 1: there's any chance she is going to stand for the

1069
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Constitution, stand for the Wisconsin or the United States

1070
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: Constitution or Wisconsin statutes and the rule of law more generally,

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Speaker 1: or is she going to do exactly what the Democratic

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Speaker 1: Party bosses and donors tell her to do. That's essentially

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Speaker 1: what she did for her entire career. Of course, she

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Speaker 1: introduced legalizing marijuana abortions on demand legislation, but of course

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Speaker 1: that was her big thing planned parenthood. She is a

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Speaker 1: partisan hack in every sense of the phrase. And the

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Speaker 1: reason this story came out at jsonline dot com on

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Speaker 1: a Friday, right before in person early voting opened, it's

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Speaker 1: so that when people like me were on just what

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Speaker 1: a left wing hack and an unlikable left wing hack

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Speaker 1: Chrissy Taylor actually is the Journal Sentinel which is not

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Speaker 1: going to report another negative thing on Chris Taylor ever, again,

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Speaker 1: certainly not before the April seventh election, because they don't

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Speaker 1: want to potentially cost her a seat on the Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. They can say, look, we did the story

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Speaker 1: already about Chris Taylor's potentially troublesome votes in the state legislature,

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Speaker 1: and that's it's something of an issue. No, it defines her.

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Speaker 1: It exposes her as a left wing radical who has

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Speaker 1: no earthly business anywhere near a courtroom, let alone Wisconsin's

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Speaker 1: highest court. Intelligent discourse, The Dan o'donald Show will be

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Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show. It

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Speaker 1: is time now to name the unsung hero of the day.

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Speaker 1: Here very cool story. Today's unsung heroes of the day

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Speaker 1: are the friends, family members, and pretty much everyone who

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Speaker 1: made it possible that Bill Kerwin, a man in the

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Speaker 1: LA area, could see his daughter graduate even though he

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Speaker 1: is dying of cancer. An incredible story from CBS Los Angeles.

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Speaker 8: Stage four pancreatic cancer wasn't going to stop Bill Kerwin

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Speaker 8: from seeing his daughter Abby graduate from Huntington Beach High School.

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Speaker 8: But as his fragile health went downhill recently, sixteen friends

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Speaker 8: came up with a plan.

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Speaker 11: We really got the news last seventy two hours that

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Speaker 11: it's not looking good treatment has stopped, and so this

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Speaker 11: is why pulling this together and the school board, everybody,

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Speaker 11: Like I said, everybody came together.

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Speaker 8: A group of loyal supporters were determined to help the

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Speaker 8: man who was given the country and the community so

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Speaker 8: much as a soldier, a coach, and an employee at

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Speaker 8: the Huntington Beach Union High School District. They also wanted

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Speaker 8: to celebrate Abby, who grew up knowing Dad would be

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Speaker 8: there on her important day.

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Speaker 12: I have always dreamed of my dad giving me my diploma.

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Speaker 12: I've always told my friends and my family about how

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Speaker 12: excited I am to move on from high school, but

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Speaker 12: also just receiving my diploma from my dad.

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Speaker 8: A stage with a big banner was set up at

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Speaker 8: the park in the Kirwin's neighborhood for a private graduation

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Speaker 8: Monday night. Tables loaded with donated food and treats stretched

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Speaker 8: across the grass. Everyone was thrilled to see Bill Abby

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Speaker 8: held on tight to Dad's hand throughout the ceremony. The superintendent,

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Speaker 8: board of education trustees, and her high school principal were

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Speaker 8: there to honor and support her.

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Speaker 5: This is not our traditional ceremony, but is every bit

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Speaker 5: as real, every bit as important and in many ways

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Speaker 5: even more meaningful and an official grad of hunting Sea

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Speaker 5: Beach High School. To know that she graduated, she achieved

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Speaker 5: her goals and I got to be there was overwhelmingly fulfilling.

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Speaker 8: A father determined to be there for one of life's

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Speaker 8: special moments. A daughter filled with so much love.

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Speaker 12: You're the best man I've ever met, and I'm so

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01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 12: glad to receive my diploma from.

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Speaker 8: You in Huntington Beach. Michelle Jeely CBSLA.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm going to have to take a break

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Speaker 1: real quick. It's just all of a sudden got very

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01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 1: dusty and dry in the What an incredible story everybody

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Speaker 1: involved in that special graduation ceremony, Your unsung heroes of

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Speaker 1: the day. Final hour of a busy broadcast week here

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Speaker 1: on The Dan o'donald Show. That means we will bring

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01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 1: you the strangest stories of the past seven days. What

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01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:28,040
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties TV star got herself arrested in Madison this week?

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01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: Find out coming up in about twenty minutes or so.

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01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: If you would like to join The Dan o'donald Show

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01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: four one, four, seven, nine to nine eleven thirty, that's

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01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,360
Speaker 1: are streaming live on social media at Dan o'donalds Show

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Speaker 1: on x on Facebook, on Instagram, on our YouTube channel,

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01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: and please do if you haven't yet subscribed to the

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01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen

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01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:06,599
Speaker 1: to podcasts. Monday is going to be a big, big

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01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: day for conservatives here in Wisconsin. Not only are we

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01:18:10,840 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: going to debut the Ultimate Conservative Voter Guide ahead of

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Speaker 1: the state Supreme Court election and the municipal election, we

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01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:22,720
Speaker 1: are going to unveil a new digital project that we

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01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: have been working very, very hard on that is going

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01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: to hopefully be a major player in conservatism here in

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01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:35,519
Speaker 1: the state of Wisconsin. We are so excited to be

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01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,880
Speaker 1: moving forward with it. We are so excited to pull

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01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,799
Speaker 1: back the curtain on it, and it all happens Monday.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we are going to be running throughout the

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Speaker 1: early voting period the state's largest early vote drive. I

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01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: am trying to get as many people as humanly possible

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Speaker 1: to vote early in every election here in Wisconsin. Now

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01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,759
Speaker 1: this might sound paradoxical because I am not a huge

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01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,959
Speaker 1: fan of early voting. I believe that the best possible

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01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 1: thing that this country can do is get back to

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01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:09,040
Speaker 1: election day, not election month, and to have early voting.

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01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: To go back to true absentee voting. Only if you

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Speaker 1: have an excuse for why you are not able to

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Speaker 1: make election day, should you be able to vote early.

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Speaker 1: This idea that we can just have unlimited voting periods,

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01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: that the Democrats can just turn up any possible vote

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01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:34,480
Speaker 1: that they can find through massive ballot harvesting operations is ludicrous.

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Speaker 1: I want to stop it. I want to get conservatives

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01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:41,719
Speaker 1: so good at early voting. I have said multiple times

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Speaker 1: this is my mission here in this state. I want

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Speaker 1: to get conservatives so good at early voting that Democrats

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01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: beg us to go back to one day of voting,

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Speaker 1: that we dominate so thoroughly the early vote, that we

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01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,320
Speaker 1: turn out so many conservatives across the state, that we

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Speaker 1: win every statewide election that there is to win. That

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01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:08,639
Speaker 1: there is just nothing that Democrats can do, And they say, please, please,

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Speaker 1: can't we can't wait. It was Trump's quote, we can't

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01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:16,719
Speaker 1: take it anymore. It's just too much winning that ultimately

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01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 1: is my goal. Yes, I know it's not going to happen,

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Speaker 1: but I also want to get you in the habit

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Speaker 1: of voting early. I can't believe I still have to

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Speaker 1: talk about this. The advantage of voting early is that

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Speaker 1: your vote is already banned. Now. Of course, I always

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01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 1: get people saying and I understand where they're coming from.

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Speaker 1: I do. Please don't misunderstand when someone tells me, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to vote no matter what. What does it

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01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:49,320
Speaker 1: matter whether my vote is counted early. It's actually not

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Speaker 1: counted earliest run through the machine on election day? But

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01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 1: what does it matter if I vote early or if

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01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: I vote on election Day? And to which I say, well,

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Speaker 1: there's two reasons. One, you don't know if you're actually

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Speaker 1: going to vote on election ate well, and I always

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Speaker 1: vote on election day. Well, you could be hit by

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01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 1: a car and die. I know that sounds morbid. I

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01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,960
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, I wish you live a

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01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: very long life, okay, But the reality is is that

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01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: nobody can possibly know the future. You could be seriously injured,

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01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: A family member could die or be seriously injured. You

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01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:33,559
Speaker 1: could be incarcerated, probably less likely than you being seriously

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01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 1: injured or dying. I don't know, you might go on

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01:21:37,360 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 1: a robbery spree. Who knows. I'm kidding, Please and please

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01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,639
Speaker 1: do not Conservatives go on robbery spree's that would put

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Speaker 1: you in jail and unable to vote on April seventh.

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Speaker 1: So you don't know whether or not you're going to vote.

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Speaker 1: But the real reason that I want to get people

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Speaker 1: to vote early, the real reason that I thus on

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Speaker 1: this is this is a dirty little secret here. I

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Speaker 1: don't actually care about you, my most loyal listeners, and

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01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:11,800
Speaker 1: whether or not you vote earlier or not, because I

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01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: know you're going to vote. I know you always vote.

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01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: I want you to vote early. But what we are

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01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: dependent on now as Conservatives is far more voters who

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01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: are not like you or me, who vote in every

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01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: election because frankly, we're political nerds and frankly we understand

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Speaker 1: the importance of voting in every single election. We are

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Speaker 1: far more dependent on low and medium propensity voters who

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01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:42,360
Speaker 1: frankly are not showing up. These are the people who

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01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:48,120
Speaker 1: will not vote because they forget it's election day. These

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Speaker 1: are people who will not vote because, eh, I didn't

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Speaker 1: really know who is on the ballot. I didn't really care.

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Speaker 1: These are people who won't vote because well, you know,

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01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: I just didn't feel like leaving the house. You think

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Speaker 1: I'm making this stuff up, that this is insane, Dan,

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01:23:06,640 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: nobody would use these excuses for not voting. Yes, tons

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01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 1: of people do. And a lot of these people are

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01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:18,799
Speaker 1: now voting for Republican or rather they're voting for President Trump.

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01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 1: We have a whole lot of only Trump voters. That

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Speaker 1: we have a very tall order in Wisconsin in convincing

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Speaker 1: that every other election is every bit as important as

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Speaker 1: the presidential election. In fact, I am a big advocate

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Speaker 1: of municipal government being the most important and the area

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01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 1: at which you can make the biggest difference, because it's

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01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:51,720
Speaker 1: just true, It is objectively true that you and me,

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01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,640
Speaker 1: and really all of us, we really don't have a

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01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:58,640
Speaker 1: whole lot of say, at the federal level, we don't.

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01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:03,040
Speaker 1: I've been to the White House one, two, three, three

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Speaker 1: or four times in the last year. I was just

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01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: invited to go to the big Trump account unveiling, and

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01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 1: I said I just couldn't. I had a lot going on,

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01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: and plus it wasn't at the White House. It was

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01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,320
Speaker 1: at an auditorium in downtown d C. I'm like, ah,

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01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 1: I think I can skip this one. But I go

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Speaker 1: to the White House pretty regularly. I have the phone

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Speaker 1: numbers of like half of the White House comm staff.

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01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:32,719
Speaker 1: I have very little, if not zero, influence on national

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01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:38,240
Speaker 1: political affairs. None. I can talk to Senator Johnson, I

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01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:41,000
Speaker 1: can talk to any of the congressmen and kind of

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01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,600
Speaker 1: give them my two cents. But ultimately, do any of

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Speaker 1: us really have any influence? Now, Now compare that to

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01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:52,840
Speaker 1: the influence that I or any of you have in

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01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:55,599
Speaker 1: your municipality. That's different. If you're in a big city

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01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: like Milwaukee, you probably But if you're in say the

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Speaker 1: a town of Merton, just by virtue of going to

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01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:10,719
Speaker 1: the town of Merton city council meetings or the Merton

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01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:16,520
Speaker 1: School District meetings and taking an interest in local politics,

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01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 1: you have an outsized influence. You can get to know

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01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 1: your elected representatives, your mayor, your superintendent, your school board,

1265
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:31,400
Speaker 1: you can personally lobby them. Hell, if you are so motivated,

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01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: you can run yourself for these positions and really make

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01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:38,679
Speaker 1: a difference. But there are a lot of people who

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01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:45,680
Speaker 1: don't understand the extreme importance of these positions, and that's

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01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: why I've also tried to make it my mission to

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01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 1: make sure people understand that the future of this state,

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Speaker 1: the present of this state, is in these grassroots, small

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Speaker 1: races that frankly are are. So I don't want to

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01:26:00,640 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 1: say small like because I don't want to diminish their importance.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is is that I can't spend a

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Speaker 1: whole lot of time. I can't spend any time talking

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01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 1: about town of Merton politics because everybody who doesn't live

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01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: in the town of Merton and Merton you know, I

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01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 1: love you, But everybody who doesn't live is going to

1279
01:26:18,520 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: tune out. And I have a vested interest in making

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01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,680
Speaker 1: sure you do not tune out. So you listen to

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Speaker 1: all the commercials. This message brought to you by Mander

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Speaker 1: Collision your best decision after a collision. Ultimately, that's the

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Speaker 1: name of the game. While I would love to talk

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Speaker 1: about every single little political issue, the other thing is

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Speaker 1: I simply don't have I don't have the bandwidth or

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Speaker 1: the ability to keep in touch with what's going on.

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's so important that people like you

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Speaker 1: in your communities are serving as the watchdog. You have

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Speaker 1: way more influence than you could ever possibly know. You

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Speaker 1: have way more ability to influence people in your communities

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Speaker 1: than you ever possibly know. And in these spring elections

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Speaker 1: every year, this is where your voice and your vote

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Speaker 1: actually have the most importance. Look, as soon as this

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Speaker 1: election is over, everybody in the state is immediately going

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Speaker 1: to turn to general election. It is going to turn

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Speaker 1: to the full midterm election, the gubernatorial election. It is

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Speaker 1: going to be a political barrage, an ad barrage the

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Speaker 1: likes of which perhaps we have never seen before in

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Speaker 1: this state. Because this is the first time in sixteen

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Speaker 1: years that not only is there going to be a

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Speaker 1: new governor guaranteed no matter which party wins, we're also

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Speaker 1: going to see a new Assembly speaker and a new

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Speaker 1: Senate majority of We're going to have all new leaders

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Speaker 1: in the executive and legislative branches. That has not happened

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Speaker 1: in sixteen years. And you better believe that both parties

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Speaker 1: are going to be fighting like heck to win. But

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Speaker 1: for now, it's all about those local races. And that's why, folks,

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Speaker 1: I so want you to get that voter guide. Go

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Speaker 1: in with confidence, vote for the Conservatives, vote for the

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Speaker 1: people you know align with your values. It's it's very

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Speaker 1: easy or very difficult to know who does because these

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Speaker 1: are non partisan races. Generally speaking, you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: a Republican or a Democrat, you know that you're going

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Speaker 1: to vote for the person with the R next to

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Speaker 1: their name and definitely not vote for the person with

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Speaker 1: the D next to their name. But how do you

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Speaker 1: know in nonpartisan races where there is no R, there

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Speaker 1: is no D. That's where we try to come in.

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Speaker 1: And this is where we are also coming in with

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Speaker 1: this new initiative that I have started that's going to

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Speaker 1: be something of an extension of this radio show to

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Speaker 1: bring conservative news and information in a new way, a

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Speaker 1: way that I dare say has has not been done

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Speaker 1: on the scale that we are going to do this

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Speaker 1: so that you don't just get what I say three

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Speaker 1: hours a day, or maybe you're following me on social media,

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Speaker 1: so you see clips from the show that we post,

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Speaker 1: or you know, you see the breaking news that I

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Speaker 1: post on my social media, the exclusive stories that we post.

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Speaker 1: I dare say, we had a pretty big one. We

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Speaker 1: were the first ones to report that, hey, Devin Lemahue

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Speaker 1: is leaving. He's not going to run for a Senate

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Speaker 1: majority leader again. He's not going to run for the

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Speaker 1: Senate again. And by the way, I am going to

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Speaker 1: reiterate my call for Lemahue to immediately resign as Senate

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Speaker 1: majority leader because he's just the job of the majority

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Speaker 1: leader now is to make sure that Republicans keep their majority.

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Speaker 1: And ultimately, what does Lemahue care? That's too harsh. He's

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Speaker 1: not going to care as much because he knows he's

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Speaker 1: not returning to the state Senate. So what is he

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Speaker 1: Ultimately what vested interest does he really have in making

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Speaker 1: sure that Republicans hold the majority? So he needs to

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Speaker 1: step aside so that someone else in that caucus is

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Speaker 1: able to step up and is able to fight like heck,

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Speaker 1: so that Republicans hold on to their majority. But folks,

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Speaker 1: I care as much as you do about the future

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Speaker 1: of this state, and the future of this state is

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Speaker 1: really determined as much in the spring elections at the

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Speaker 1: local grassroots level as it is at the state wide level,

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Speaker 1: at the gubernatorial level, at the congressional level, and at

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Speaker 1: the state legislative level. All right, we're going to step

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Speaker 1: aside for a break when we come back. Why is

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Speaker 1: it that pretty much every single civil rights leader that

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Speaker 1: the left has deified has been not a particularly great person.

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Speaker 1: That and then how bizarre strangest stories of the past

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Speaker 1: seven days coming up here on the Dan O'Donnell's show.

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Speaker 1: The city of Milwaukee has now taken down this statue

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Speaker 1: of Caesar Chavez that sat just outside the l Ray

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Speaker 1: grocery store on South Caesar Chavez Drive after a bombshell

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Speaker 1: New York Times report this week revealed that Chavez not

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Speaker 1: only had sexual relations with a twelve and thirteen year

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Speaker 1: old girl, both of whom were daughters of fellow labor

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Speaker 1: activists during his rise to prominence, he also raped Dolores Huerta,

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Speaker 1: who is credited with him with the formation of the

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Speaker 1: United farm Workers Union. In other words, a guy who

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Speaker 1: was absolutely deified on the left turned out to be

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Speaker 1: a serial rapist. Kind of puts a damper on Caesar

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Speaker 1: Chavez Day coming up on March thirty first. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the celebration in Milwaukee has been canceled, according to older

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Speaker 1: person Joe Costa Zamaripa and Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson says

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Speaker 1: that there are active discussions about renaming Caesar Chavez Drive,

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Speaker 1: which runs through the Hispanic South Side. It's a portion

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Speaker 1: of South sixteenth Street that runs through the south side

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Speaker 1: of Milwaukee. You also have Caesar Chavez Elementary School, which

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Speaker 1: is given the allegations against Old Caesar. Yeah, probably don't

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Speaker 1: want to have an elementary school named after him. No

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Speaker 1: word on whether the Madison School District is going to

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Speaker 1: get rid of that. You have the Chavez Learning Center

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Speaker 1: in the Kenosha Unified School District, and there are a

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Speaker 1: number of other things across Wisconsin named after Caesar Chavez.

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Speaker 1: This whole affair got me thinking. However, Chavez, by the way,

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Speaker 1: died thirty some years ago. He died in nineteen ninety three,

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Speaker 1: and he is seen as something of a saint on

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Speaker 1: the left. Even though he was a very strong advocate

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Speaker 1: against illegal immigration. He's sort of seen and I have

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Speaker 1: heard him described as not just a labor leader, not

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Speaker 1: just an activist, but as the Hispanic MLK. That's what

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Speaker 1: a towering figure he was on the left until, oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, three days ago, though, it was pretty

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Speaker 1: widely known within the labor movement that Caesar Chavez helped

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Speaker 1: form that he was a creep. And this got me

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Speaker 1: thinking because it seems as though almost every other civil

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Speaker 1: rights leader that the left deified. And this, folks, this

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Speaker 1: is one hundred percent of product of the Boomer libs.

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Speaker 1: The Boomer Libs glorified their own heroes pretty much throughout

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Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, and as that Boomer

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Speaker 1: generation grew up and got into positions of power and

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Speaker 1: authority in the media and education and government, they started

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Speaker 1: sort of mandating the hero worship. I mean, what kid

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Speaker 1: reads a history textbook or a social studies textbook and

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Speaker 1: does not read about Caesar Chavez. Well, I'm gonna take

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Speaker 1: a while. Guess this new chapter is not going to

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Speaker 1: make it into next year fourth grade history reader. But folks,

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Speaker 1: as you know, I am a student of history, and

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that pretty much every if you

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Speaker 1: name for me a prominent civil rights icon for that era,

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Speaker 1: they were somehow insanely creepy. Who is considered to be

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Speaker 1: one of the most prominent gay rights activists of the

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Speaker 1: sixties and seventies era. I'll give you a hint. They

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Speaker 1: made a movie about his life at starred Sean Penn,

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Speaker 1: Harvey Milk right movie Milk. It was actually a very

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Speaker 1: very well done movie. I'm assuming most of my audience

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Speaker 1: didn't see it. I actually did. Do you know, Harvey

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Speaker 1: Milk When he was thirty four years old, he had

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Speaker 1: a sexual relationship with a sixteen year old boy, Jack

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Speaker 1: Galen McKinney was a sixteen year old drug addicted runaway

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Speaker 1: who basically looked up to Milk as a father figure,

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Speaker 1: and Milk, pardon the pun, by all accounts, milked that

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Speaker 1: relationship for all it was worth and started having sex

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Speaker 1: with him. He was sixteen years old when they met

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Speaker 1: and began living together in New York City. McKinley was

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Speaker 1: a runaway in Maryland. He was living on the streets.

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Speaker 1: He was horribly addicted to drugs. Harvey Milk takes him

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Speaker 1: in and has a five to six year long sexual

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Speaker 1: relationship with him. There's a reason that as much as

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Speaker 1: liberals wanted to make Harvey Milk a national like hero figure,

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Speaker 1: he's really only celebrated in California. It's, you know, having

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Speaker 1: sex with the boy. That's sort of the thing. Mahatma Gandhi, right,

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Speaker 1: everybody loves Gandhi, nonviolence, the resistance. Gandhi did not have

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Speaker 1: sex with teenage girls. He just slept with them. After

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Speaker 1: his wife died in the mid nineteen forties, Gandhi, who

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Speaker 1: was in his mid nineteen seventies, began to test his

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Speaker 1: chastity and test his virtue. He had experiments, he called

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Speaker 1: them experiments, so he would have teenage followers accompany him

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Speaker 1: into bed and they were naked. This is a well

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Speaker 1: documented practice that Mahatma Gandhi would sleep with teenage girls,

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Speaker 1: often as young as fourteen or fifteen years old, who

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Speaker 1: were totally naked in his bed. But he totally didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything. Now, if you knew somebody who said, remember however,

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Speaker 1: everybody was so creeped out by Michael Jackson, who you know.

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Speaker 1: He said, what's so wrong with having a sleepover? It's

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Speaker 1: the ross romantic thing in the world to share. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: when you're sharing beds with, you know, teenage boys, people

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Speaker 1: start asking questions. When you're sharing beds with naked teenage girls,

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Speaker 1: people really start asking questions. And the one that brings

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Speaker 1: me no real joy to report doctor Martin Luther King Junior.

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Speaker 1: He won the Nobel Peace Prize. He is honored with

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Speaker 1: a holiday Mlkday. There is not a city in America

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Speaker 1: that does not have a street named after him or

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Speaker 1: a school named after him. He is one of the

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Speaker 1: most revered figures in American history. He was a serial adulterer.

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Speaker 1: He was a reverend, but he used his position to

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Speaker 1: cheat on his wife, Coreta Scott King anywhere from ten

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Speaker 1: to twelve and I'm talking like, not ten to twelve times,

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Speaker 1: ten to twelve different long term affairs, to forty to

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Speaker 1: forty five. In twenty nineteen, a Pulitzer Prize winning MLK

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Speaker 1: biographer by the name of David Garrow highlighted an FBI memo. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is where things get a little complicated, because the

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Speaker 1: FBI under j Edgar Hoover, the longtime director, hated MLK

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Speaker 1: and they were actively trying to discredit him. So their

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Speaker 1: figure of forty to forty five women may or may

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Speaker 1: not be accurate. But it is well established that King

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Speaker 1: had a whole lot of affairs. Now, is this bad

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Speaker 1: as bad as raping your fellow labor leaders and having

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Speaker 1: sex with teenage boys. No, there is also and this

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Speaker 1: is this is where things get really muddled. And I

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Speaker 1: am hoping against hope that it is not true. But

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Speaker 1: there is an FBI wiretap, and there is FBI documentation

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Speaker 1: that purports to have a transcript where the FBI it's

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Speaker 1: well known, right, the FBI was wiretapping MLK again because

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Speaker 1: they were trying to discredit him. They thought he was

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Speaker 1: a threat or jaegg or Hoover thought he was a

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Speaker 1: threat to you know, social order and you know the

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Speaker 1: whatever racial harmony. Okay, they were wiretapping him. They claim

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Speaker 1: that there is a video or audio I guess, of

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Speaker 1: MLK being present during a gang rape and laughing about

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Speaker 1: it or potentially even joining in. Now, again it's not

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Speaker 1: entirely sure whether this was part of the smear campaign,

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Speaker 1: this was accurate. I mean, King faced so much much

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Speaker 1: government pressure. I mean you had government agents writing and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: you need to take your own life. This is so

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Speaker 1: was this true? It's unclear. There is supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a tranch of King documents, including the purported audio or

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Speaker 1: wiretap recording of this gang rape released, and I believe

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, so I guess we will find it

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Speaker 1: is it is still classified. And the thinking is is

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Speaker 1: that it's classified because there there's at least a chance

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Speaker 1: that it's true. And if you think what happened this

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Speaker 1: week to Caesar Chavez was that, imagine if it can

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Speaker 1: be proven that doctor Martin Luther King Junior took part

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01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:54,920
Speaker 1: in a gang rape. That would be awful. How about

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01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:59,520
Speaker 1: Malcolm X. I think everybody knows that Malcolm X aka

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01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:06,400
Speaker 1: Little aka Detroit Red was a pimp, or at least

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01:42:06,479 --> 01:42:09,200
Speaker 1: he was involved in. I guess what do they call him?

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01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:13,080
Speaker 1: A corraller, a steerer. He was the guy who would

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01:42:13,120 --> 01:42:16,920
Speaker 1: go out in this pimping operation and he would be

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01:42:17,040 --> 01:42:21,040
Speaker 1: the one who would get the clients to the girls.

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Speaker 1: According to a number of Malcolm X biographies, he so

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01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 1: the definitive source of Malcolm X's life is what the

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01:42:31,600 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 1: autobiography of Malcolm X. Right, everybody I think has read

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01:42:35,160 --> 01:42:37,519
Speaker 1: at least a portion of it, or you saw X,

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01:42:37,960 --> 01:42:41,360
Speaker 1: the movie by Spike Lee starring Denzel and his starmaking

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01:42:41,400 --> 01:42:46,559
Speaker 1: turn about Malcolm X's life. Well, subsequent biographies reveal that

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01:42:47,240 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: he kind of left out the parts where he viciously

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01:42:52,280 --> 01:42:57,519
Speaker 1: beat the women on behalf of the criminal low lifes

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01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:05,040
Speaker 1: that he was working with. PBS of all places, the

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01:43:05,120 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 1: show American Experience did a documentary on Malcolm X, and

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01:43:08,520 --> 01:43:12,400
Speaker 1: they explicitly described him as a pimp. He was a

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01:43:12,479 --> 01:43:17,320
Speaker 1: drug dealer, he was a con man, and he absolutely

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01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:24,200
Speaker 1: roughed up. According to multiple sources, he roughed up several women,

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01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:29,599
Speaker 1: including in his autobiography, he said he physically abused at

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01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:33,519
Speaker 1: least one partner, a white girlfriend he had by the

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01:43:33,600 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 1: name of Sophia. Now she either So here's the thing.

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01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:42,360
Speaker 1: In a lot of these autobiographies, Obama did this too.

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01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:47,160
Speaker 1: They use composites or to protect people's identity, or they'll

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01:43:47,280 --> 01:43:49,760
Speaker 1: use like a pseudonym for a real girlfriend. So we

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01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:53,000
Speaker 1: don't actually know who Sophia was. But this is Malcolm X.

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01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:57,000
Speaker 1: In his own words, he said he beat her multiple

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01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:01,320
Speaker 1: times quote, just to keep him or keep her in

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01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 1: line while he was demanding that she financially support him. Yeah.

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01:44:14,160 --> 01:44:17,479
Speaker 1: I granted it was a different time back then, but

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01:44:18,520 --> 01:44:23,639
Speaker 1: Malcolm X was a domestic abuser by his own admission.

1523
01:44:25,840 --> 01:44:30,799
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King we know is a serial adulterer. Harvey

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01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:36,200
Speaker 1: Milk was a statutory rapist. You cannot consent to sex

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01:44:36,320 --> 01:44:39,719
Speaker 1: at sixteen. And by the way, some sources actually put

1526
01:44:39,720 --> 01:44:43,200
Speaker 1: that boy's age at fifteen or even younger, but it's

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01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:47,559
Speaker 1: widely believed he was actually sixteen. Mahatma Gandhi at the

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01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:51,240
Speaker 1: very least was kind of pervy. I didn't even get

1529
01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:55,840
Speaker 1: into Nelson Mandela who was an honest to god terrorist

1530
01:44:55,880 --> 01:44:59,680
Speaker 1: who founded a terror network in South Africa. He was

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01:44:59,720 --> 01:45:03,599
Speaker 1: not just contrary to the left wing narrative, Nelson Mandela

1532
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:06,439
Speaker 1: was not just walking down the street one day and

1533
01:45:06,520 --> 01:45:11,919
Speaker 1: put in jail. He was running a violent terror network.

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01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 1: That that is a matter of historical record. It's just

1535
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:18,880
Speaker 1: sort of swept under the rug because again, liberals have

1536
01:45:18,920 --> 01:45:23,320
Speaker 1: a tendency to deify people who aren't just flawed human beings.

1537
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 1: And here's that. Everybody is flawed human beings. Everybody does

1538
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:31,680
Speaker 1: things that they regret. Everybody has skeletons in their closet.

1539
01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:37,880
Speaker 1: Not everybody does the things that these left wing heroes

1540
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:42,639
Speaker 1: are accused of doing. Now, if it was one, okay, fine.

1541
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:45,600
Speaker 1: If it was two even then okay, bad luck. But

1542
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:48,000
Speaker 1: we got a couple of left wing heroes who are

1543
01:45:48,040 --> 01:45:53,160
Speaker 1: not particularly good people. Why does it seem like every

1544
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 1: single left wing hero from that boomer lib era is

1545
01:45:58,520 --> 01:46:04,120
Speaker 1: objectively a pretty terrible person. You're listening to the Dan

1546
01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:05,240
Speaker 1: o'donald Show.

1547
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:12,000
Speaker 10: Classical Conservatism, Contemporary Style.

1548
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald will be right back. Anybody heading out to

1549
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:21,040
Speaker 1: the Realtor's Home and Garden show this weekend down at

1550
01:46:21,160 --> 01:46:24,280
Speaker 1: State Fair Park at the Thompson Expo Center. You should.

1551
01:46:25,200 --> 01:46:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to be there. I'm going to be hanging

1552
01:46:27,080 --> 01:46:31,559
Speaker 1: out with my great friends at Old Fashioned Roofing. You

1553
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:36,000
Speaker 1: know them from easily the most infectious jingle I have

1554
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:39,080
Speaker 1: heard in probably the last five years. Oh just do

1555
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 1: in some roofing. I swear that thing. Every time I

1556
01:46:42,960 --> 01:46:45,799
Speaker 1: hear it. I have to like cover my ears because

1557
01:46:45,960 --> 01:46:49,000
Speaker 1: you know I introduce it. You've heard the ads. I

1558
01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 1: have to cover my ears because it gets in my head.

1559
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:55,840
Speaker 1: It is such a well done jingle, and they are

1560
01:46:55,880 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 1: such a fantastic company, Old Fashioned Roofing. They do things

1561
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:04,840
Speaker 1: the old fashioned way, with hard work, with dedication. They

1562
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 1: are a place where a handshake Still Madison, I would

1563
01:47:07,439 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: love to shake your hand, say hi. I'm going to

1564
01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:13,799
Speaker 1: be there noon to two at the Old Fashioned Roofing

1565
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 1: booth at the Realtor's Home and Garden Show Tomorrow noon

1566
01:47:18,120 --> 01:47:20,400
Speaker 1: to two two, going to be a beautiful day. Stop

1567
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:23,519
Speaker 1: on by, perfect time to get some ideas for your

1568
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:25,519
Speaker 1: home and garden at the Home and Garden Show. Time

1569
01:47:25,560 --> 01:47:27,559
Speaker 1: Now for the strangest stories of the past week. It

1570
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:36,000
Speaker 1: is Bazza how dazawbazon Well? This week in Madison Baywatch

1571
01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:41,200
Speaker 1: star Alexandra Paul, who is now sixty two. She played

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01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:46,080
Speaker 1: Stephanie Holden on the original iteration of Baywatch, the syndicated

1573
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 1: show from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety seven. She

1574
01:47:48,600 --> 01:47:54,160
Speaker 1: was arrested in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, near Madison, during an

1575
01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:59,479
Speaker 1: animal rights protest at Ridgeland Farms, a facility that breeds

1576
01:47:59,520 --> 01:48:07,240
Speaker 1: beagles for scientific research. The video is pretty wild. The

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01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:11,639
Speaker 1: group of about fifty to sixty animal rights activists some

1578
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:16,120
Speaker 1: sources say up to one hundred get on the property

1579
01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 1: at around eight thirty am on Sunday morning. They break

1580
01:48:20,280 --> 01:48:24,840
Speaker 1: into it and begin releasing dozens and dozens of beagles.

1581
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:28,680
Speaker 1: Paul was one of about twenty people arrested. She was

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01:48:28,840 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 1: charged with trespassing, which is a misdemeanor. Just in case

1583
01:48:33,880 --> 01:48:38,320
Speaker 1: you were wondering what your favorite Baywatch beauty was up,

1584
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:45,479
Speaker 1: Talmazam Talmazon. This might actually be one of my favorite

1585
01:48:45,479 --> 01:48:48,880
Speaker 1: stories of the entire year. Are you familiar with the

1586
01:48:48,960 --> 01:48:53,080
Speaker 1: rapper afro Man. He had his biggest hit maybe twenty

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01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:55,840
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. It was because I got H,

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01:48:56,520 --> 01:48:59,400
Speaker 1: because I got H because I got high. Yes, he

1589
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:06,400
Speaker 1: likes himself. The marijuana, and his biggest hit was about

1590
01:49:06,439 --> 01:49:12,360
Speaker 1: the marijuana well. Three years ago in Adams County, Ohio,

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01:49:12,960 --> 01:49:17,759
Speaker 1: where mister Mann lives, deputies from the Adams County Sheriff's

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01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:21,320
Speaker 1: Office executed a search warrant at his house on suspicion

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01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:25,400
Speaker 1: that he was drug trafficking and had several women locked

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01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:29,400
Speaker 1: up in his basement. No drugs were found, there was

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01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:32,439
Speaker 1: no evidence of any kidnapping, and there were no charges

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01:49:32,439 --> 01:49:34,680
Speaker 1: ever filed. Now, Afroman was out of town. He was

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01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,800
Speaker 1: playing a show in Chicago, but he was watching on

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01:49:37,880 --> 01:49:43,320
Speaker 1: the security cameras all over his house and saying, uh,

1599
01:49:43,360 --> 01:49:49,599
Speaker 1: what the heck is going on here? One deputy actually

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01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:54,400
Speaker 1: kicked his door down. They had guns drawn, and security

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01:49:54,400 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 1: footage showed one shall we say, corpulent deputy stop stopping

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01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:05,120
Speaker 1: to look at a lemon pound cake on the kitchen

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01:50:05,160 --> 01:50:12,160
Speaker 1: counter in Afroman's kitchen well. Afroman's wife and young children

1604
01:50:12,479 --> 01:50:18,879
Speaker 1: were reportedly traumatized. Afroman said deputies damaged his property, broken

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01:50:18,920 --> 01:50:23,080
Speaker 1: door gate surveillance wiring. They actually tried to take out

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01:50:23,120 --> 01:50:26,679
Speaker 1: his surveillance cameras, They tried to actually turn them off.

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01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:31,480
Speaker 1: They also seized five thousand dollars in cash when Afroman

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01:50:31,640 --> 01:50:34,360
Speaker 1: went to go get it. He said it was four

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01:50:34,439 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 1: hundred dollars short. They recounted, they said, oh, yep, it

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01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:41,880
Speaker 1: was only forty six hundred dollars. He accused the deputies

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01:50:42,439 --> 01:50:45,439
Speaker 1: of stealing money from him, and he said the damage

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01:50:45,439 --> 01:50:49,080
Speaker 1: to his house totaled upwards of twenty thousand dollars. Well,

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01:50:49,560 --> 01:50:51,040
Speaker 1: you would think that would be the end of it.

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01:50:51,080 --> 01:50:52,479
Speaker 1: And he said, hey, are you guys going to help

1615
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:54,679
Speaker 1: me pay for all the damage you caused? They said, nope,

1616
01:50:54,720 --> 01:50:56,920
Speaker 1: not going to do it. So what did Afroman do.

1617
01:50:58,280 --> 01:51:02,280
Speaker 1: He made a bunch of songs about the search, and

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01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:06,960
Speaker 1: he made music videos. They used the actual surveillance video

1619
01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:10,960
Speaker 1: footage from especially the guy stopping to look at the

1620
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:15,760
Speaker 1: lemon pound cake that became a huge meme online. He

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01:51:15,880 --> 01:51:21,320
Speaker 1: uploaded songs entitled lemon Poundcake, Will you help me repair

1622
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:25,679
Speaker 1: my door? And the music videos were largely just clips

1623
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:30,519
Speaker 1: of the cops busting into his house. All right, so

1624
01:51:30,640 --> 01:51:33,759
Speaker 1: you would think story ends there, Right, it's funny. Everybody

1625
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:37,240
Speaker 1: has a good laugh. Okay, no, no, it does not

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01:51:37,479 --> 01:51:42,640
Speaker 1: end there. The county deputies, the Sheriff's department, sues Afroman

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01:51:42,840 --> 01:51:48,360
Speaker 1: for defamation. Okay, they sue him, and they say he

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01:51:48,400 --> 01:51:52,480
Speaker 1: made false statements that harm their reputations. They alleged invasion

1629
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 1: of privacy for unauthorized use of their likeness and images

1630
01:51:56,200 --> 01:52:00,000
Speaker 1: you know on his security footage where they were executed

1631
01:52:00,200 --> 01:52:04,479
Speaker 1: the most insane search warrant. And as research for this segment, folks,

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01:52:04,640 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 1: I actually listened to and watched videos from some of

1633
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:09,840
Speaker 1: Afroman's songs. Folks, I don't care if you don't like

1634
01:52:09,880 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 1: Afroman or rap watch it because it's absolutely hilarious. You

1635
01:52:13,160 --> 01:52:15,760
Speaker 1: can tell this man was having more fun than a

1636
01:52:15,840 --> 01:52:20,559
Speaker 1: human being should be allowed to have making these songs. Well,

1637
01:52:20,560 --> 01:52:25,200
Speaker 1: it finally culminated in a trial this week. Afroman showed

1638
01:52:25,280 --> 01:52:31,160
Speaker 1: up wearing an American flag suit and he argued First

1639
01:52:31,160 --> 01:52:34,920
Speaker 1: Amendment protection. He said, look, I am protected by the

1640
01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:38,919
Speaker 1: First Amendment. You can't do this is all First Amendment

1641
01:52:39,200 --> 01:52:43,040
Speaker 1: protected behavior. You had. After the three day trial you

1642
01:52:43,080 --> 01:52:45,679
Speaker 1: had during depositions and stuff, you had some of the deputy,

1643
01:52:45,760 --> 01:52:49,479
Speaker 1: one female deputy was crying saying that, oh my gosh,

1644
01:52:49,520 --> 01:52:52,120
Speaker 1: my life has been ruined by being a meme. He,

1645
01:52:52,240 --> 01:52:57,400
Speaker 1: by the way, has been selling merchandise featuring the deputy's faces,

1646
01:52:57,680 --> 01:53:00,680
Speaker 1: like the dude eyeing up his Lemon pound. It's a

1647
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:05,360
Speaker 1: T shirt. You could buy Afroman merch and T shirts. Well,

1648
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:09,479
Speaker 1: he argued, this is First Amendment protected stuff, which I

1649
01:53:09,600 --> 01:53:14,639
Speaker 1: agree it absolutely is. This is not defamatory, he all

1650
01:53:14,680 --> 01:53:17,120
Speaker 1: of his lyrics. Would you believe I actually stayed up

1651
01:53:17,160 --> 01:53:20,200
Speaker 1: late last night reading the briefs in this case because

1652
01:53:20,240 --> 01:53:27,000
Speaker 1: I found it so hilarious. Well, Afroman was found not

1653
01:53:27,360 --> 01:53:34,440
Speaker 1: liable for defamation. So Afroman, in his USA suit, celebrated

1654
01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:40,519
Speaker 1: outside the courthouse screaming, we did it America. Freedom of speech.

1655
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:45,320
Speaker 1: A big victory for Afroman this week, and a big

1656
01:53:45,400 --> 01:53:49,040
Speaker 1: victory for not just the First Amendment, but for people

1657
01:53:49,479 --> 01:53:53,040
Speaker 1: who are able to laugh at their misfortunes and turn

1658
01:53:53,120 --> 01:53:58,680
Speaker 1: it into something creative and fun. Kudos to Afroman for

1659
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:01,800
Speaker 1: standing up in the most larious way possible for the

1660
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:04,200
Speaker 1: First Amendment. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been your weekly

1661
01:54:04,240 --> 01:54:06,720
Speaker 1: look at the strangest stories of the week. In a

1662
01:54:06,760 --> 01:54:15,800
Speaker 1: segment we call Howda Talbazan, Welcome back to the Dan

1663
01:54:15,800 --> 01:54:19,439
Speaker 1: O'Donnell Show. Just about a minute or so before we

1664
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:22,919
Speaker 1: sign off for a couple of days for the weekend,

1665
01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:26,120
Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be absolutely gorgeous tomorrow reminders,

1666
01:54:26,160 --> 01:54:28,759
Speaker 1: Stop on by. I'm going to be at the realtor's

1667
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:31,479
Speaker 1: home and Garden show with my friends at Old Fashioned

1668
01:54:31,520 --> 01:54:35,080
Speaker 1: Roofing from noon to two tomorrow. Come on by, say hi,

1669
01:54:35,320 --> 01:54:38,280
Speaker 1: and now is the perfect time to book your roofing gig.

1670
01:54:38,720 --> 01:54:40,920
Speaker 1: I can guarantee they do a great job because they

1671
01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:43,840
Speaker 1: do things the old fashioned way and they're just a fun,

1672
01:54:44,440 --> 01:54:47,240
Speaker 1: great group of people. I am so glad that we

1673
01:54:47,520 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 1: are working together to bring the message to them. And yes,

1674
01:54:51,880 --> 01:54:55,040
Speaker 1: that jingle is still stuck in my head, still stuck

1675
01:54:55,080 --> 01:54:57,920
Speaker 1: in my head, sort of like the Afroman. So, folks,

1676
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:01,160
Speaker 1: if you are looking to do something fun this weekend,

1677
01:55:01,920 --> 01:55:04,680
Speaker 1: put on your iHeart app, put on your Spotify, something

1678
01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: like that, and listen to the Afroman songs that he

1679
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:14,520
Speaker 1: wrote about the very likely illegal raid on his house

1680
01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:19,120
Speaker 1: by a county Sheriff's department in Ohio. It's just a funny,

1681
01:55:19,320 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: funny saga that we of course outlined on how bizarre

1682
01:55:22,720 --> 01:55:25,880
Speaker 1: we are out a time. Have a wonderful weekend, Wisconsin.

1683
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:29,080
Speaker 1: Back Monday with the debut of a new web initiative

1684
01:55:29,120 --> 01:55:31,440
Speaker 1: and the Voter Guide. Talk to you then,