December 5, 2024 • 60 mins
In episode 3, we discuss:
-Mike Rounds & other SD politics
-Trump's plan for the department of education
-FCS football playoffs
-Biden's son presidential pardon
and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What an amazing place we live, south Dakota.
My mission statement is simpleto re-energize the true
conservative values of SouthDakota.
You're listening to Toby DodenUnfiltered.
Hello again and welcome toepisode three of Toby Doden
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Unfiltered.
I am your host, toby Doden, andwe have got a pile of
interesting topics to discussagain this week.
I hadn't planned on talkingabout Senator Mike Rounds again
this week, but the stupiditycontinues.
In fact, he went actually likea little viral this last week,
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not because of the nonsense hesaid about Ukraine and how we
should send more money toUkraine, but he said something
maybe even crazier this week andMr Mike Rounds' behavior
continues to get more and moresporadic and questionable.
So we're going to talk aboutwhat Senator Rounds said again
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this week.
We're also going to talk aboutPresident Biden and his pardon
of his son, hunter Biden.
We're also going to talk aboutDonald Trump's recently released
plan from the federalstandpoint anyway for K-12
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education in our country.
You're not going to want tomiss that.
Some very, very interestingthings.
World and in our country.
I think a lot of people havemissed what soon-to-be 47th
President Donald Trump has saidabout what his plan and his
administration's plan is for oureducation system.
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We're also going to talk abouta pretty neat story about the
Macy Day Parade.
Sioux Falls Lincoln High Schoolhad their band perform at this
year's Macy Day Parade, so we'regoing to talk about that a
little bit, and we've got a fewother little things to talk
about.
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So let's talk about SenatorMike Rounds one more time.
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Last week we talked aboutSenator Mike Rounds.
We talked about his backgrounda little bit how he was in the
insurance business, made alittle money, parlayed that into
becoming governor and then a USSenator, and then, about a week
and a half ago, he inexplicablygave a seven-minute speech.
That was as about as muchwarmongering as I've heard from
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a US Senator in a very long time, if you didn't listen to last
week's episode.
Basically what Mike Rounds saidwas that the nearly $200
billion in aid, weaponsequipment and everything in
between that our taxpayer moneyhas provided Ukraine in the last
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two to three years.
He said unequivocally that theAmerican taxpayers in our
country have not done nearlyenough to help Ukraine, that we
needed to send them more aid,more equipment, more ammunition,
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more everything.
Well, this week, just wheneverybody thought well, mike
Rounds had his five minutes offame.
Nationally, he flies under theradar.
He came out in very, verystrong support of current FBI
Director, christopher Wray.
Yes, the same Christopher Wraywho has targeted conservatives
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with investigations, includingDonald Trump.
Donald Trump, under the tenureof Director Wray, the FBI has
had a significant bias againstconservative political views and
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he has weaponized thegovernment against political
opponents.
Yes, that, christopher Wray.
Then there's the FISA abuse,the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
It includes claims that underWray's leadership, the FBI
illegally used FISA Section 702collection methods against
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American citizens, which wasrecently highlighted by court
findings.
What about school board protests?
You remember this?
Director Wray of the FBIlabeled parents who protested at
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school board meetings aspotential domestic terrorists.
At school board meetings, aspotential domestic terrorists.
This action was seen as anoverreach into First Amendment
rights.
You think he and his FBI alsopressured social media companies
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like Facebook, like Twitter, tosuppress free speech, like
Twitter to suppress free speech,particularly around the time of
the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Let's not forget if the HunterBiden laptop story had not been
suppressed by people likeDirector Wray of the FBI, donald
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Trump would 100% have beenelected president in 2020.
I think he was anyway, butagain, we're not going to get
into that.
That's water under the bridge.
He also ordered investigationsinto Catholic churches the FBI's
investigation intotraditionalist Catholic groups,
which many saw asunconstitutional intrusion into
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the religious freedoms ofAmericans.
Yes, that, christopher Wray,mike Rounds said, and I'm
quoting I don't have anycomplaints about the way he, as
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in Director Wray, has done hisjob.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Listen to this short video of Mike Rounds talking
about FBI.
Director Wray Picked a verygood man to be the director of
the FBI when he did that in hisfirst term.
When we meet with him behindclosed doors, I've had no
objections to the way that he'shandled himself, and so I don't
have any complaints about theway that he's done his job.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
X, formerly Twitter, absolutely blew up last week and
over the weekend as news beganto spread about what Senator
Rounds had to say aboutChristopher Wray, the current
FBI director.
Sean Davis at SeanMDAV on X.
This guy has more than a halfmillion followers.
He's the co-founder of theFederalist.
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He's a well-respectedindependent journalist and a
conservative independentjournalist and a conservative.
He tweeted either Mike Roundshas an IQ of 85 or he's a
co-conspirator in the corruptionor Ray has pictures or videos
of him being naughty, becausethere's no way an honest person
with a functioning brain canpossibly believe Chris Ray has
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done a great job as FBI director.
That's pretty harsh, but it'strue.
You either have to be grosslyincompetent or you have to be
part of the deep state Based onMike Rounds' career successful
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businessman, governor of SouthDakota, us Senator.
Clearly the guy does not havean IQ of 85, which would lead
many to believe that he is, asuniparty and as deep state and
as establishment, as any otherrhino in DC and as an
establishment as any other rhinoin DC.
Jesse Kelly on X, nearly 800,000followers.
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He's an independent reporter.
He has a syndicated show.
Very successful independentreporter, very successful
conservative, universallyrespected.
He tweets.
South Dakota is one of thereddest states in the union.
They could have the mostbloodthirsty right-wing senators
if they wanted to.
So if losers like Mike Roundstorpedo the most important
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nominations, the GOP primaryvoter only has itself to blame.
So, jesse Kelly, you knowindirectly blaming primary
voters in South Dakota, andthat's fine, I guess, but the
fact of the matter is I don'tthink he understands that there
has not been any other options.
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In South Dakota.
You get to these primaries forthese US senators and
congressmen like Dusty Johnson,and there's hardly ever anybody
on the primary.
It's just them.
So you have no choice, becausethe deep state, the national GOP
, the South Dakota GOP, thepeople that have traditionally
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held all the power and all themoney, they have single-handedly
made sure that these hackrhinos continue to not face
actual tough competition in theprimaries.
I have a feeling that's goingto change moving forward, don't
you?
Here's another tweet.
I like this name Texas Boomer.
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South Dakota is an R plus 30red state.
Why the hell is this guyholding a Senate seat?
Good question, mike RoundsLiberty score is 52%.
That's an F.
He's up for reelection in 2026.
Now would be a good time torecruit a solid primary opponent
.
Don't worry, texas Boomer.
We're on it.
Mike Rounds, what the hell areyou doing?
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Mike Rounds?
What the hell are you doing?
Mike Rounds?
You've been overshadowed by JohnThune.
You've been overshadowed byKristi Noem.
You've been overshadowed byDusty Johnson, mostly for
negative reasons.
But why, like?
We've seen your voting record.
We know you're a rhino.
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We know you've put south dakotain the rearview mirror many,
many years ago, just like therest of them did.
But why now, have you askedyourself, why now has senator
mike rounds decided to goparabolic?
He knew when he said thesethings it was going to go
parabolic.
He knew when he said thesethings it was going to go viral.
He knew the national mainstreammedia was going to pick it up.
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He knew X was going to pick itup.
He knew people were going totalk about it.
Traditionally in the past, mikeRounds has hid from his voting
record.
Now he's out front braggingabout his establishment and deep
state ties.
Maybe there's somebody behindhim kind of nudging him up to
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the microphone, I don't know.
You should let us know yourthoughts.
We're going to post all this onsocial media.
I'd like to know what a lot ofyou guys think.
But listen, let us not forget,it's not just Mike Rounds.
How about John Thune?
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John Thune, as everybody knows,was recently voted to be the
next Senate Majority Leader.
He will be replacing MitchMcConnell, who has had several
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alleged strokes or some sort ofsignificant brain function
episodes.
Have you seen the videosthere's many of them online of
Mitch McConnell over the lastseveral years literally freezing
up in front of cameras, infront of hundreds of reporters
on national TV, and he justfreezes up and his staff
literally has to assist him off,away from the podium.
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Take a look at this cooperationand a string of.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And a string of Anything else you want to say.
I'm sure it's good.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
This is one of the people running our country.
Well, everybody thought it wasgood news.
After Thune was elected asmajority leader, he came out
right away and said that he wasgoing to support Donald Trump.
He was going to support DonaldTrump's policy positions and he
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was going to help Donald Trumpget his nominations through the
Senate.
Then, a couple of days passedand guess what John Thune did?
He made Mitch McConnell yep,the same one that you just saw,
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who repeatedly freezes up justlike this for like two minutes
and his staff has to come gethim.
He's in his mid-80s.
The guy clearly has cognitiveissues.
Right, this guy should be inassisted living.
He's been running the Senate,running the Senate, and now John
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Thune, just when we think MitchMcConnell is done being in
leadership, going to serve outhis term I don't know how, but
serve out his term John Thunemakes him head of the Rules
Committee in the Senate.
That is a massive F-you toDonald Trump and the Republican
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party.
Why do you know what the headof the rules committee does in
the Senate?
They control the legislativeflow.
People in South Dakota that arewatching this and I I know we
get a lot of listeners andviewers in the tri-state area.
But South Dakota voters, johnThune hates you.
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He could give two shits lessabout you.
He comes back once in a while,slicks back his hair, puts a
bunch of hairspray in, wears atight pullover and walks around
and waves at crowds at footballgames.
He goes back to DC and hecompletely fucks you.
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South Dakota, the majority ofSouth Dakota strong majority are
America first conservativesthat support Donald Trump and
his agenda and our electedleaders don't care.
They don't care, they don'tcare.
They think they are Tom Daschleproof.
Tom Daschle in 2004 thought hewas going to serve forever, that
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he was going to be MitchMcConnell and his brain was
going to be freezing up whenhe's 85 years old.
I think John Thune and MikeRounds and Dusty Johnson have
short memories.
John Thune's up for election in2028.
He hates Donald Trump, he hatesSouth Dakota and, moreover, he
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could give two shits less aboutanything positive happening in
this country.
Here's another tweet ManyRepublicans were upset about the
J6 tapes being released.
These Republicans said that theJ6 tapes being released were a
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threat.
16 Republican came out inunison and said the January 6th
video that would have proveninnocent hundreds and hundreds
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and hundreds of Republican Trumpsupporters that were persecuted
, politically persecuted.
Mike Rounds and John Thune andMitch McConnell were three of
the 16.
That's the Senate.
Dusty Johnson, over the House,also voted for the January 6th
committee.
He also opposed the videocoming out Speaking of Dusty
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Johnson.
You want to talk about disdainfor soon-to-be 47th President,
donald Trump?
If you look up disdain forDonald Trump in the dictionary,
right alongside Mike Rounds andJohn Thune, is a picture of
Dusty Johnson in all his glory.
Liz Cheney, the formercongresswoman from Wyoming who
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lost by, I think, 50 points.
If her last name was Petersonor Jones, nobody would know who
the hell she is.
She rode daddy's coattails asfar as she could and then she
lost to somebody that I can'teven remember the name of in her
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congressional race, I think by50 points, literally.
I don't even know if that'sever happened before.
Liz Cheney is a fraud hack.
Liz Cheney has made it herlife's mission to tear down
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Donald Trump and his supporters.
As a Republican an electedRepublican serving a leadership
position in the US Congress,made it her life's mission this
isn't a secret, this is publicinformation to tear down Donald
Trump.
So other members in the Housetook action.
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They wanted to strip Liz Cheneyof her leadership position
because, after all, if you owneda small business, if you owned
a company, if you were the CEOof a Fortune 500 company and one
of the leaders in yourorganization was tearing you
down and spreading hate anddiscontent, wouldn't you fire
them?
Yeah, guess who voted for LizCheney to keep her leadership
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position in the House?
Dusty Johnson, take a listen.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The reality is that she is a strong, conservative,
independent voice, and I thinkwe need to make room in
leadership for those kind ofqualities.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Don't forget what else Dusty Johnson did.
He's done many things.
As I said, he's hated Trumpfrom the beginning.
He hates everything aboutDonald Trump.
You see Rounds, thune and DustyJohnson.
They are literally intertwinedinto the fabric of the DC
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establishment, which has aunified front that will try to
crush, imprison or killliterally any outsider that
tries to make changes to theiroligarchic system.
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But let's not forget, in 2019,as violent criminals were
crossing our southern border bythe millions and beautiful
Americans like Lakin Riley losttheir life because of this when
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Donald Trump declared a nationalemergency at the southern
border to secure funding for thewall, guess who voted against
it?
Dusty Johnson.
Dusty Johnson in 2019 openlydefied Donald Trump.
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Openly defied the Americanvoters.
Openly defied Donald Trump.
Openly defied the Americanvoters.
Openly defied South Dakotavoters.
So I am excited to tell you weare going to have our first
guest on the Toby DodenUnfiltered podcast.
The first two weeks, we didn'thave a guest.
We just kind of wanted tofigure stuff out.
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This week there's been so muchgoing on with Senator Mike
Rounds as I've discussed SenatorJohn Thune, dusty Johnson and
some other political stuffaround the state and around the
country, we decided to bring ona political expert to discuss
this with us today.
So the person you're going tohear from next is a South Dakota
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political insider.
This guy lives and breathespolitics, specifically South
Dakota politics.
He has worked for some of thetop lawmakers in the state of
South Dakota.
He is universally respected inthe Republican Party in South
Dakota and he is in touch asanybody in the state when it
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comes to South Dakota politics.
Let me introduce to you ourfirst guest on the Toby Doden
Unfiltered Podcast, brian Lewis.
So indeed, we are joined by theaforementioned Brian Lewis.
Brian, how are you?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'm good.
How about you, Toby?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Man, if I was any better, I don't know what I
would do my friend.
Well, that's always good tohear, that is good to hear.
Well, let's get right into it.
Surprisingly, Mike Rounds nevercomes out of his shell.
Really, he kind of flies underthe radar.
We talked about that the lastcouple weeks.
Thune Dusty, Kristi Noem allkind of seem to get more of the
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headlines nationally.
But recently, two weeks ago,Mike Rounds came out and said
that the nearly $200 billionthat taxpayers had sent to
Ukraine wasn't enough and thatwe needed to send more.
And then he doubled down lastweek and when asked about
current fbi director christopherray and everybody knows his
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history he not only supportedhim but like he, like, overtly
supports christopherray keepinghis job as director of the FBI.
What says you?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, I mean, I think it's important to understand
here that this type of behavioris utterly fundamental to the
nature of the rhino politician,just as a cat would meow or a
dog would bark.
What defines a rhino ultimatelyis a lack of care for what
their voters think, a lack ofdesire to represent them
properly and an arrogance,really, that they know better
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than the voter, and a misplacedsort of fake stoicism in the
face of shifting political winds, as we're seeing right now.
So, no, it doesn't surprise meat all that Mike Rounds would
take some bizarre stance likethis, that President Trump's
choice of Kash Patel as FBIdirector would somehow be
inferior to a guy likeChristopher Wray, who has
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presided over the Mar-a-Lagoraid, who permitted the FBI to
pressure Facebook to censor thestories about Hunter Biden's
laptop and who significantlyaided the Russia collusion hoax
through his own inaction, andwho significantly aided the
Russia collusion hoax throughhis own inaction?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, absolutely.
Do you ever remember a time ora specific topic or a policy or
an appointee, anything whereMike Rounds has came out and
been like the face of SouthDakota national politics for
like a two-week period?
I don't ever remember this.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
No, well, I mean, a lot of people don't know that
Mike Rounds voted for almostevery single one of Joe Biden's
cabinet appointees, and now,when it's time for Trump to make
his cabinet appointees, roundssuddenly is a massive critic and
is very strict about therequirements that he wants for
the people that he's going tovote on to fill these positions,
and I think that that'sridiculous and it's so
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emblematic of the Uniparty as weknow it.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, absolutely.
And John Thune transitioninghere a little bit.
You know, everybody thoughtwhen Mitch McConnell announced
earlier this year that he wasstepping down from Senate
Majority Leader that hey, that'sgreat, exciting, we're going to
have a new Majority Leader.
We didn't know who it was atthat time.
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Everybody knew John Thune wasgoing to throw his hat in the
ring, so to speak.
Then John Thune gets elected bythe Senate to be the majority
leader.
He immediately comes out withreally warm and fuzzy Donald
Trump tweets, donald Trump.
He got interviewed a couple oftimes and said I'm here to
support my president, I'm hereto support his agenda, his
policies, his nominations.
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He said everything right thefirst few days and the national
media picked it up and said JohnThune, he's all on board with
Donald Trump.
And then boom, as every saneconservative expected, he turned
his back on Donald Trump byappointing brain freeze Mitch
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McConnell to the head of theRules Committee in the Senate.
And this is significant becausethe head of the Rules of the
Senate kind of controls anddictates what happens in the
Senate, right, brian.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, well, I mean, president Trump a few years ago
referred to John Thune as, quote, mitch's boy, and we've seen
that that certainly is the case.
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And yes, the Rules Committee isthe Freedom Caucus, and the 20
that held out on a speakershipgot from him was the placement
of three conservatives on theHouse Rules Committee, and that
was so big because it determinedso much of what was able to get
done.
It was an effective check onthe power of the establishment.
And so, yeah, it's definitely ahuge deal that Mitch McConnell
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is being put in charge of thiscommittee.
Yeah, it's definitely a hugedeal that Mitch McConnell is
being put in charge of thiscommittee.
I think that Mitch steppingdown is in large part due to a
recognition on his on his partthat he can do more to undermine
the America First agenda on theoutside, not being the face of
the Senate Republican caucus,than he can be by leading the
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caucus and being that face.
And I think that, to a largeextent, there's a lot of
establishment figures, even inSouth Dakota, one in particular,
who recognize that reality.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So put your political thoughts aside just for a
second.
As an American voter, how doesit make you feel that somebody
like Mitch McConnell I'm notmaking light of his health
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issues, I'm simply pointing itout because he's got a very
important role to play in ourfederal government he has had
these alleged stroke-likeincidents where, in front of
hundreds and hundreds of peopleon national TV, he freezes up.
A lot of experts say that it'salong the lines of a stroke, and
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so he freezes up to the pointwhere he can't talk, he can't
move, he can't function, and yousee his supporters in some case
John Thune or other staffmembers helping him away from
the front of the cameras.
How does it make you feel, asan American voter, that people
like Mitch McConnell, wholiterally frees up, can't talk,
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can't speak, can't function, arein charge of some of the most
important issues in theday-to-day Senate of our country
?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Well, I guess you would have to look at who's
really in charge.
I mean, you could look atanother example of Senator John
Fetterman.
When he was in the hospital fora long time and his office
continued to function, hisstaffers were the ones in charge
of that office, as are in largepart Mitch McConnell staffers
here in his office, and I meanthat is what we refer to as the
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deep state, that is, theunelected bureaucratic class,
that is the secret power behindhow our country actually
functions.
So, yeah, it doesn't make mefeel good.
I mean, we're supposed to be arepresentative democracy and it
doesn't strike me as arepresentative democracy in
really any way to have a realitylike that be the reality of our
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government.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So let's transition to Dusty Johnson here quick,
before we wrap this up.
It's no surprise, it's not asecret.
Dusty Johnson has had disdainfor Donald Trump and everything
he stands for for a very longtime, as has Thune as has rounds
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, for that matter.
Do you think the South Dakotavoters are starting to see these
three for who they actually are?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, I think votersRepublican primary voters in
particular all across thecountry are beginning to see who
their representatives are andif they do or do not represent
them.
You can look at what we didthis year in South Dakota, where
you had a record amount oflegislative incumbents ousted.
We didn't have anycongressional races on the
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ballot in the primary.
We didn't have any Senate raceson the ballot in the primary,
but you saw what we had in SouthDakota replicated in other
states as well Texas, westVirginia, wyoming all across the
country.
This year, people woke up andousted a lot of rhinos in their
state legislature, in theirstate legislatures, and I think
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that in 2026, you're going tosee a record amount of
congressional incumbents ousted,as well as even a few senators.
And it is notoriously hard toprimary senators, sitting
senators.
That is the last one toactually do it.
That, being an elected senator,was Richard Murdoch in Indiana
in I believe, 2014, or I thinkit was 2012, actually, but that
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was the last time that thathappened.
Luther Strange, who wasn'telected, was primaried in 2020
by Roy Moore.
Sorry, I guess it would havebeen like 2017 or so, but yeah,
you don't see that very often.
I think that that's going tochange.
There are a number of veryvulnerable incumbent Senate
rhinos coming up, and MikeRounds might just be the most
vulnerable of all.
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We've already demonstrated inSouth Dakota that we have the
ability to oust rhino incumbentsat will, basically and you can
look at the 14 legislativeincumbents that we took out as
precedent for that- yeah, youmentioned some South
Dakota-specific stuff, so let'stransition to that quickly here
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before I let you go.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
When I saw all of the conservative leaders all around
the country on X and doingtheir news hits on Fox and
elsewhere and they were talkingspecifically about people like
John Thune and specifically MikeRounds the last two weeks and I
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saw a lot of people sayingwhat's wrong with the South
Dakota primary or primary votersin states like South Dakota
that keep reelecting the samerhinos, you know, election cycle
after election cycle, and mythought was well, the primary
voters in South Dakota haven'treally had any options and even
when there is an option, theyget outspent 100 to 1 by all the
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national money and the GOP andeverybody that's supporting
these guys.
Like, how do you feel about theway that not only Rounds has
been attacked, and rightfully sobut it's kind of spilled over
to, hey, what the hell is wrongwith South Dakota?
I've seen that a lot, brian.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Gotcha.
Yeah, I mean, I certainlyreject those characterizations
of South Dakota politics, SouthDakota primary voters.
We are an incrediblyconservative state when the
conservative movement iseffective and organized and able
to properly propagate aconservative message.
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When conservatives aredisorganized, disunited and
candidate quality is lacking, asit has been in certain other
races when we've had to go upagainst billions of
establishment dollars, it's noton the primary voters to be able
to see through the millions ofdollars of lies that people like
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Dusty and Mike Rounds and JohnThune are propagating through
the state of South Dakota.
It's ultimately ourresponsibility to make sure that
they have a counter narrativeand that we're able to expose
the lies when they pop up.
So I think South Dakota isincredibly conservative.
I think that as of now, wemight just have the most
conservative state legislaturein the entire nation and coming
up I mean, hey, we might havethe most conservative Senate
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delegation in a few years if allthings go right.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, absolutely.
That was a great segue into mylast question for you.
You know my PAC, dakota FirstAction, which you're obviously a
part of as well.
Brian, for those of you thatdon't know is, yes, a rumor is
the political director forDakota First Action.
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So, based on what's happened inSouth Dakota and you mentioned
it going into the year 2024, I'mjust going to give a real quick
recap the year 2024.
I'm just going to give a realquick recap.
The state was basically beingran by left-leaning, what I call
fake Republicans.
All of the leadership positionsin the state legislature, the
House and the Senate, you know,were people like Will Mortensen
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and Casey Crabtree and just awhole list of left-leaning fake
Republicans.
Well, that has since changed.
We have a new leader in theHouse, a new leader of the
Senate.
All of the leadership positionshave been flipped to
conservative legislators.
What do you see moving forwardin the state of South Dakota,
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specifically with the newconservative leadership in the
January, february and Marchlegislation session, as well, as
you know, moving on to the 2026election cycle?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Sir, do you mean like legislative priorities in the
upcoming session?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, like, what do you expect to see?
Like, if we were talking inApril and we were recapping what
happened in the statelegislator, what do you expect
is going to happen?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I think that you'll finally be able to see movement
on school choice legislation,which has been a conservative
priority, all across the nation.
I think that you'll seeproperty tax reduction, which is
vital because there's a lot ofpeople being killed out there,
both by inflation and thesky-high property taxes that I
believe are unnecessarily highsky-high property taxes that I
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believe are unnecessarily high,I'm sure you agree as well as
movement to kill the unsafe andunnecessary carbon pipeline
project that Summit CarbonSolutions is trying to drive
through rural East River SouthDakota, and they don't care
whose land they have to seize inorder to build it, and a lot of
their strongest cheerleaders inthe legislature are now
powerless and we have theammunition to protect landowner
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rights and to protect theoverall rights and lives of
South Dakotans.
So that's what I think that theupcoming legislative priorities
will be.
I have full confidence inSpeaker John Hanson, Majority
Leader Scott Odenbach andPresident Pro Tempore Chris Carr
over in the Senate to get thatdone and to build a more
conservative South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, that sounds amazing, brian.
Hey, I tell you what it's beengreat catching up.
I appreciate your time.
I know you're a busy guy andwe'll talk to you soon.
All right, sounds good.
All right, thanks, Brian.
Don't forget how to find TobyDoden unfiltered.
(37:58):
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Next, we're going to talk aboutDonald Trump's recently released
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plan for the education systemin the United States.
I'll be the first to admit I'mnot a national education expert,
but I'm also capable of doingresearch just like anybody else.
And I'm also capable of doingresearch just like anybody else,
and I'm also capable of lookingat facts and data and making
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reasonable assumptions as to howthings are going and maybe
whether or not we should look adifferent direction.
And there's a growing, growingsentiment in this country and I
am one of those that believesthe federal government, when it
comes to supporting education inour country, like everything
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else they do, is superinefficient.
Billions of dollars are beingwasted by the federal government
.
I think the Department ofEducation needs to be
significantly reduced oroutright gone, abolished, and
all of the federal capital, themoney, the resources that the
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federal government in the pasthas spent on education should be
reallocated directly to thestates and the school districts.
Nobody's ever going to convinceme or any sane thinking person
that the bureaucracy inWashington DC is somehow more
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able to efficiently plan how ourchildren in South Dakota should
be educated and be able toallocate funds from you know
2,000 miles away to small, local, rural school districts in
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South Dakota.
So I'm all for taking thefederal education money and
reallocating it to the states.
So what did Donald Trump sayrecently about his education
plan?
First, he said we will respectparents' right to control their
children's education Amen.
Second, we will empower parentsand local school boards to hire
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and reward great principals andteachers and fire those who
perform below par, where,because you do your job long
enough, you get what's calledtenure and even if you're
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terrible at your job, it'snearly impossible to fire.
You Just take the emotion outof it.
Does that make any sense?
Listen, the overwhelmingmajority of teachers I had in my
life were wonderful.
The overwhelming majority ofteachers in this country are
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wonderful, but there are somereally terrible teachers.
I've met them, you've met them.
It's not just the teachingprofession.
There's great lawyers, there'sterrible lawyers.
There's great physicians,there's terrible physicians.
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Every single occupation in theworld has a percentage of that
occupation that aren't very goodat their job, and so one of the
things that Donald Trump hastalked about is revamping the
system so that if a teacher isterrible and is not good at
educating children or mentoringthem or raising productive young
individuals and keeping them ator above the educational pace
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of their peers, they shouldn'tbe teaching anymore.
Third, he wants to ensure thatour classrooms are focused on
non-political indoctrination AimN.
We need to figure out a way todo this in public universities
and private universities as well, but that's a whole other
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discussion.
We should be teaching theskills needed to succeed Reading
, writing, math, science,arithmetic and other beneficial
subjects.
Fourth, we will preparestudents to love their country
and not hate it.
I remember as a youngster,going to school every day, and
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we started every day by recitingthe Pledge of Allegiance, like
why wouldn't young childrenattending public schools in the
United States?
Why wouldn't we want them tohave a deep sense of patriotic
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pride, for their country to havea deep sense of patriotic pride
for their country.
Fifth, him and hisadministration are going to
support bringing prayer back toschools, amen.
Sixth, we will achieve safe,secure and drug-free schools
with immediate expulsion for anystudent who harms a teacher or
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another student.
Expulsion for any student whoharms a teacher or another
student.
This woke ideology and thiswoke mindset in schools.
Have you seen the videos online?
There's a video going aroundright now.
We'll show it to you in asecond.
There's a youngster, a younggirl, in a supermarket Maybe it
was a Walmart Systematicallyruining produce, breaking
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bottles, destroying the store,and in the background you hear
liberal enablers going.
Don't touch her, don't sayanything to her.
She's having some kind of anepisode or something.
Are you kidding me?
If an 8, 9, or 10-year-old kidis tearing up a grocery store,
you kick them straight in theass and you drag them out to the
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parking lot and you give themanother one.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Are you kidding me?
Oh, whoever she's with, we aregoing, but she is in this store.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,don't get with her.
Don't get with her.
You don't know she's missingyou.
Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
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hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,don't report her.
That doesn't matter, you don'tknow what she's doing.
You're a little girl, you don'tknow what she's doing.
Don't y'all do that to a littlegirl.
Y'all don't know what she'sdoing.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Seventh, we'll give all parents the right to choose
another school for theirchildren.
School choice School choice isa complicated subject.
I'm not going to get into thespecifics of it, but at the very
least, the discussion needs tobe had.
Eighth, we'll ensure studentscan access project-based
learning experiences and helptrain them for meaningful work
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outside the classroom.
Listen to this again, this isimportant.
We will ensure that studentscan access project-based
learning so they can acquiremeaningful work outside the
classroom, getting studentsready for the labor force.
We know that over half the jobsin this country don't require a
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college education.
Yet our guidance counselors andour leadership in these
educational facilities try topush 100% of the students to
higher education.
That needs to end.
There are many legitimatecareers that require a formal
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college education.
I understand that, and thosepeople should go to college.
I didn't go to college.
Most of the entrepreneurs andsmall business owners that I
know that are very successfulnever went to college.
Most of the people I know in mylife that are successful never
went to college.
So why are we trying to pusheverybody to go to college?
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We'll talk about that inanother episode.
Ninth, we will strive to giveall students access to
internships and work experiencesthat can set them on a path to
their first job.
Aim N I've been talking aboutthis for years.
We should be identifying thosestudents in high school that
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they already know they don'twant to go to college.
Community leaders can identifythese young students and start
preparing them for really good,high-paying careers with great
(47:25):
advancement and benefitopportunities.
Tenth another thing that trumpwill be doing very early in his
administration, he says, isclosing up the department of
education in Washington DC andsending all the education back
to the states.
We just talked about that a fewminutes ago.
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I applaud Donald Trump for beingvery proactive policy-wise ever
since November 5th.
If you listen to the mainstreammedia or the crazy liberals,
they talk about retribution andhow Donald Trump wants revenge
(48:06):
and all this stuff.
Have you been listening to whatDonald Trump and his
administration has been saying?
The most that they've talkedabout, the most common thing
they've talked about sinceNovember 5th is policy.
Donald Trump is already leadingthe country.
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He's been in talks with PrimeMinister Trudeau from Canada.
In fact, he jokingly toldTrudeau this weekend in a
meeting that if Canada couldn'tsurvive with the tariffs we were
going to put on them, trumpwould make Canada the 51st state
and let Trudeau be the governor.
Oh, I'd like to be a fly onthat room.
(48:51):
I would have loved to seeTrudeau's face, but Trump's been
talking policy.
He hasn't been talking revengeor retribution.
It's all made up.
Trump wants to lead thiscountry, make it better than
it's ever been.
He's been negotiating on thingsoverseas, with the
Ukraine-Russian war, thesouthern border with the
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president of Mexico.
All he's done is show hisleadership and presidential
skills.
So amen to you, donald Trumpand Toby Doden, for South Dakota
100% supports your educationplan.
Again, to find our show, go toanywhere where podcasts are
(49:35):
available Spotify, apple,youtube and, of course, we're
everywhere on social media.
Next, I want to talk real quick, very, very quick.
I'm sure most of you saw this.
Joe Biden pardoned his son,hunter Biden, but not just any
(49:55):
old regular pardon, but not justany old, regular pardon.
He pardoned Hunter Biden, hisson, for anything and everything
from 2014 through December 1stof 2024.
It just so happens 2014 was thesame year Hunter Biden started
(50:17):
serving on the board ofdirectors of Risma and was paid
millions and millions of dollars, and we remember the stories
about the big guy.
Joe Biden got 10% of thekickback 4 months.
(50:37):
Now 6 months or longer, notonly has Joe Biden been telling
the world he would never pardonhis son, every mainstream
network has been saying the samething, all of them, time after
time after time MSNBC, abc, theAP, cnn, cbs all of them.
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Joe Biden is a man of character.
He will never pardon his sonbecause nobody's above the law.
Jill Biden, when asked severalmonths ago, said my husband will
never pardon Hunter becausenobody is above the law.
And Joe Biden said it a dozentimes I will not pardon my son,
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nobody is above the law.
Well, it turns out Hunter Bidenis indeed above the law for the
last 11 years.
Guess what the mainstream mediais saying in the aftermath.
(51:46):
Did they finally have a come toJesus moment?
Where they go hey, this guy isdirty, he lies all the time.
We've been made fools.
No, they came out and they saidoh man, joe Biden, the type of
strength and compassion it takesto do what he did for his son
by pardoning him Not kidding Anyone of them, you would think
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after the results of the 2024presidential election, the fact
that Donald Trump won thepopular vote, the fact that he
won the overwhelming majority ofelectoral votes, the fact that
he won every single swing state.
You would think that would be awake-up call to the uniparty
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deep state establishment in DC.
But no, their strategy hasn'tchanged.
Their game plan hasn't changed.
It's lie, lie, lie, deny, deny,deny.
They don't realize it's notworking anymore.
The American people are seeingthrough it.
We're seeing it here in SouthDakota.
Our local politician, ourRepublican leaders, or, excuse
(52:58):
me, former Republican leaders inthe state legislator, casey
Crabtree, lee Schoenbeck, youknow, will Martinson, all these
people they haven't changedtheir tactics either.
If they were smart, if theywere career minded, if they
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really wanted to gain power andinfluence, they would, you know,
mosey on over back to theRepublican Party and play nice,
but they are in the sameposition.
These hacks in DC are in.
They're either incompetent.
These hacks in DC are in.
They're either incompetent orjust really stupid, or both,
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because they're continuing touse the same failed tactics that
have got them in the positionthey're in.
So the Macy Day Parade foranybody that grew up as a kid
mom or dad or both grew up as akid mom or dad or both in the
kitchen preparing this massiveThanksgiving feast right.
When I was a kid, we only hadone TV right and that TV had
maybe two or three channels, andwhen you turn the channel, this
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is.
I'm going to age myself.
I'll go like right, like wedidn't have remotes, like I was
the remote, toby changed it tochannel two, toby changed it to
channel nine, right?
So whatever mother was watchingor father, that's what you
watched.
Well, we watched the Macy DayParade every single Thanksgiving
.
It's pretty fun.
Actually, this year, sioux Falls, lincoln High School, their
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band walked and performed in theMacy Day Parade, and so that
got me thinking.
How often does this happen?
That's really cool.
By the way, shout out to SiouxFalls, lincoln.
That's amazing.
Like I was in marching band, Iwas in field band, I was in band
all four years of high school.
We loved band trips.
You know how fun it would havebeen, as a groton high school
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band member back in 1992 or 3,to go to the macy day parade
would have been amazing.
So congratulations to all thestudents that got to experience
that.
I think this is the first timesince 2008 that a south dakota
high school band has been in theparade.
Apparently, they performedAmerica the Beautiful, which is
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awesome.
The parade started a century ago, in 1924, and it was originally
started by Macy's employees,which I did not know.
Helium balloons were notincluded, but they did have
animals from the Central ParkZoo like bears, elephants,
monkeys and camels.
I'm glad I didn't have tofollow them with a shovel.
The first parade route wasconsiderably longer.
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Elephants, monkeys and camelsI'm glad I didn't have to follow
them with a shovel.
The first parade route wasconsiderably longer.
It was six miles long and hadan estimated 250,000 people.
Congratulations, sioux FallsLincoln High School band.
That's pretty awesome.
Listen, if you're from SouthDakota, even if you didn't
attend SDSU or USD, you got tobe really excited right now by
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these FCS football playoffs.
I'm sorry we meant to talkabout this last week but
everything got a little long.
I tell you what you're going tobe hard-pressed to find a
better sporting event to go tothan an FCS football game, let
alone a playoff intensity.
Fcs football game, sdsu,defending national champions.
(56:26):
10 years ago their programwasn't very good.
It was NDSU, ndsu, that's allanybody talked about.
Well, sdsu has caught andsurpassed NDSU the last few
years.
Ndsu still a great program,still very competitive there in
the playoff.
But USD University of SouthDakota in Vermilion has, I mean,
(56:50):
just shocked people by the yearthey put together.
This year I think they're 10-2.
They are also in the playoffs.
They do a multi-round system inthe FCS, unlike the FBS which is
, like you know, alabama andFlorida and all that.
They only have four teams thatgo to the playoffs.
Well, there's a whole bunch ofteams in the FCS and the
championship game is January 6thin Frisco, texas.
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I got to attend in person lastyear and watch SDSU win the
national championship.
It was amazing.
So we are really hoping, sinceUSD is in one half of the
bracket and SDSU is in the otherside of the bracket, we're
hoping that USD and SDSU bothmake it to Frisco.
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That would be amazing.
If either of those teams makeit to Frisco, we are planning to
travel down there and take itall in again and cheer on our
local FCS favorite team.
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North Dakota is our neighborright, so we've got to talk
about them a little bit.
Ndsu also in the playoff thisyear.
I believe they play thisweekend.
They play.
They're the number two seed.
They play at 3 o'clock onSaturday against Abilene
Christian.
(58:18):
They play.
My readers aren't strong enough.
South Dakota State also playson Saturday against Montana and
the University of South Dakotaplays Tarleton State, I think.
Anyway, we will update theresults of those games on next
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week's episode.
Thank you again for listening.
I know everything hasn't beenperfect.
I appreciate those of you thathave tuned in to all three
episodes or even if you've onlylistened to part of one of the
episodes.
As long as the content keepsflowing, we're going to keep
(59:02):
doing this and as long as westill have a good amount of
viewers and listeners, we'regoing to keep doing this every
single week.
The response has been sort ofoverwhelming.
Honestly, we didn't really knowwhat to expect, but we've had
overwhelming.
Honestly, we didn't really knowwhat to expect, but we've had
tens and tens of thousands ofviews and interactions and
(59:23):
comments and all kinds of stuff.
So people are consuming this ina pretty large manner, I would
say, for a South Dakota podcastwith very little fanfare.
So, on behalf of me and a fewstaff folks that help out with
this show it actually takesabout four of us to do this
(59:44):
believe it or not, we appreciateyou tuning in, we appreciate
you following and subscribing usand we can't wait to talk to
you again next week on TobyDoughton Unfiltered.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to TobyDoden Unfiltered.
What an amazing place we live, south Dakota.
My mission statement is simpleto re-energize the true
conservative values of SouthDakota.
You're listening to Toby DodenUnfiltered.
Hello again and welcome toepisode three of Toby Doden
(00:24):
Unfiltered.
I am your host, toby Doden, andwe have got a pile of
interesting topics to discussagain this week.
I hadn't planned on talkingabout Senator Mike Rounds again
this week, but the stupiditycontinues.
In fact, he went actually likea little viral this last week,
(00:46):
not because of the nonsense hesaid about Ukraine and how we
should send more money toUkraine, but he said something
maybe even crazier this week andMr Mike Rounds' behavior
continues to get more and moresporadic and questionable.
So we're going to talk aboutwhat Senator Rounds said again
(01:10):
this week.
We're also going to talk aboutPresident Biden and his pardon
of his son, hunter Biden.
We're also going to talk aboutDonald Trump's recently released
plan from the federalstandpoint anyway for K-12
(01:31):
education in our country.
You're not going to want tomiss that.
Some very, very interestingthings.
World and in our country.
I think a lot of people havemissed what soon-to-be 47th
President Donald Trump has saidabout what his plan and his
administration's plan is for oureducation system.
(01:52):
We're also going to talk abouta pretty neat story about the
Macy Day Parade.
Sioux Falls Lincoln High Schoolhad their band perform at this
year's Macy Day Parade, so we'regoing to talk about that a
little bit, and we've got a fewother little things to talk
about.
Before we get into those things, don't forget you can find us
(02:17):
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Podcasts are available.
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So let's talk about SenatorMike Rounds one more time.
(02:39):
Last week we talked aboutSenator Mike Rounds.
We talked about his backgrounda little bit how he was in the
insurance business, made alittle money, parlayed that into
becoming governor and then a USSenator, and then, about a week
and a half ago, he inexplicablygave a seven-minute speech.
That was as about as muchwarmongering as I've heard from
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a US Senator in a very long time, if you didn't listen to last
week's episode.
Basically what Mike Rounds saidwas that the nearly $200
billion in aid, weaponsequipment and everything in
between that our taxpayer moneyhas provided Ukraine in the last
(03:26):
two to three years.
He said unequivocally that theAmerican taxpayers in our
country have not done nearlyenough to help Ukraine, that we
needed to send them more aid,more equipment, more ammunition,
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more everything.
Well, this week, just wheneverybody thought well, mike
Rounds had his five minutes offame.
Nationally, he flies under theradar.
He came out in very, verystrong support of current FBI
Director, christopher Wray.
Yes, the same Christopher Wraywho has targeted conservatives
(04:16):
with investigations, includingDonald Trump.
Donald Trump, under the tenureof Director Wray, the FBI has
had a significant bias againstconservative political views and
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he has weaponized thegovernment against political
opponents.
Yes, that, christopher Wray.
Then there's the FISA abuse,the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act.
It includes claims that underWray's leadership, the FBI
illegally used FISA Section 702collection methods against
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American citizens, which wasrecently highlighted by court
findings.
What about school board protests?
You remember this?
Director Wray of the FBIlabeled parents who protested at
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school board meetings aspotential domestic terrorists.
At school board meetings, aspotential domestic terrorists.
This action was seen as anoverreach into First Amendment
rights.
You think he and his FBI alsopressured social media companies
(05:41):
like Facebook, like Twitter, tosuppress free speech, like
Twitter to suppress free speech,particularly around the time of
the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Let's not forget if the HunterBiden laptop story had not been
suppressed by people likeDirector Wray of the FBI, donald
(06:05):
Trump would 100% have beenelected president in 2020.
I think he was anyway, butagain, we're not going to get
into that.
That's water under the bridge.
He also ordered investigationsinto Catholic churches the FBI's
investigation intotraditionalist Catholic groups,
which many saw asunconstitutional intrusion into
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the religious freedoms ofAmericans.
Yes, that, christopher Wray,mike Rounds said, and I'm
quoting I don't have anycomplaints about the way he, as
(06:52):
in Director Wray, has done hisjob.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Listen to this short video of Mike Rounds talking
about FBI.
Director Wray Picked a verygood man to be the director of
the FBI when he did that in hisfirst term.
When we meet with him behindclosed doors, I've had no
objections to the way that he'shandled himself, and so I don't
have any complaints about theway that he's done his job.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
X, formerly Twitter, absolutely blew up last week and
over the weekend as news beganto spread about what Senator
Rounds had to say aboutChristopher Wray, the current
FBI director.
Sean Davis at SeanMDAV on X.
This guy has more than a halfmillion followers.
He's the co-founder of theFederalist.
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He's a well-respectedindependent journalist and a
conservative independentjournalist and a conservative.
He tweeted either Mike Roundshas an IQ of 85 or he's a
co-conspirator in the corruptionor Ray has pictures or videos
of him being naughty, becausethere's no way an honest person
with a functioning brain canpossibly believe Chris Ray has
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done a great job as FBI director.
That's pretty harsh, but it'strue.
You either have to be grosslyincompetent or you have to be
part of the deep state Based onMike Rounds' career successful
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businessman, governor of SouthDakota, us Senator.
Clearly the guy does not havean IQ of 85, which would lead
many to believe that he is, asuniparty and as deep state and
as establishment, as any otherrhino in DC and as an
establishment as any other rhinoin DC.
Jesse Kelly on X, nearly 800,000followers.
(08:51):
He's an independent reporter.
He has a syndicated show.
Very successful independentreporter, very successful
conservative, universallyrespected.
He tweets.
South Dakota is one of thereddest states in the union.
They could have the mostbloodthirsty right-wing senators
if they wanted to.
So if losers like Mike Roundstorpedo the most important
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nominations, the GOP primaryvoter only has itself to blame.
So, jesse Kelly, you knowindirectly blaming primary
voters in South Dakota, andthat's fine, I guess, but the
fact of the matter is I don'tthink he understands that there
has not been any other options.
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In South Dakota.
You get to these primaries forthese US senators and
congressmen like Dusty Johnson,and there's hardly ever anybody
on the primary.
It's just them.
So you have no choice, becausethe deep state, the national GOP
, the South Dakota GOP, thepeople that have traditionally
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held all the power and all themoney, they have single-handedly
made sure that these hackrhinos continue to not face
actual tough competition in theprimaries.
I have a feeling that's goingto change moving forward, don't
you?
Here's another tweet.
I like this name Texas Boomer.
(10:19):
South Dakota is an R plus 30red state.
Why the hell is this guyholding a Senate seat?
Good question, mike RoundsLiberty score is 52%.
That's an F.
He's up for reelection in 2026.
Now would be a good time torecruit a solid primary opponent
.
Don't worry, texas Boomer.
We're on it.
Mike Rounds, what the hell areyou doing?
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Mike Rounds?
What the hell are you doing?
Mike Rounds?
You've been overshadowed by JohnThune.
You've been overshadowed byKristi Noem.
You've been overshadowed byDusty Johnson, mostly for
negative reasons.
But why, like?
We've seen your voting record.
We know you're a rhino.
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We know you've put south dakotain the rearview mirror many,
many years ago, just like therest of them did.
But why now, have you askedyourself, why now has senator
mike rounds decided to goparabolic?
He knew when he said thesethings it was going to go
parabolic.
He knew when he said thesethings it was going to go viral.
He knew the national mainstreammedia was going to pick it up.
(11:33):
He knew X was going to pick itup.
He knew people were going totalk about it.
Traditionally in the past, mikeRounds has hid from his voting
record.
Now he's out front braggingabout his establishment and deep
state ties.
Maybe there's somebody behindhim kind of nudging him up to
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the microphone, I don't know.
You should let us know yourthoughts.
We're going to post all this onsocial media.
I'd like to know what a lot ofyou guys think.
But listen, let us not forget,it's not just Mike Rounds.
How about John Thune?
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John Thune, as everybody knows,was recently voted to be the
next Senate Majority Leader.
He will be replacing MitchMcConnell, who has had several
(12:53):
alleged strokes or some sort ofsignificant brain function
episodes.
Have you seen the videosthere's many of them online of
Mitch McConnell over the lastseveral years literally freezing
up in front of cameras, infront of hundreds of reporters
on national TV, and he justfreezes up and his staff
literally has to assist him off,away from the podium.
(13:15):
Take a look at this cooperationand a string of.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And a string of Anything else you want to say.
I'm sure it's good.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
This is one of the people running our country.
Well, everybody thought it wasgood news.
After Thune was elected asmajority leader, he came out
right away and said that he wasgoing to support Donald Trump.
He was going to support DonaldTrump's policy positions and he
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was going to help Donald Trumpget his nominations through the
Senate.
Then, a couple of days passedand guess what John Thune did?
He made Mitch McConnell yep,the same one that you just saw,
(14:40):
who repeatedly freezes up justlike this for like two minutes
and his staff has to come gethim.
He's in his mid-80s.
The guy clearly has cognitiveissues.
Right, this guy should be inassisted living.
He's been running the Senate,running the Senate, and now John
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Thune, just when we think MitchMcConnell is done being in
leadership, going to serve outhis term I don't know how, but
serve out his term John Thunemakes him head of the Rules
Committee in the Senate.
That is a massive F-you toDonald Trump and the Republican
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party.
Why do you know what the headof the rules committee does in
the Senate?
They control the legislativeflow.
People in South Dakota that arewatching this and I I know we
get a lot of listeners andviewers in the tri-state area.
But South Dakota voters, johnThune hates you.
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He could give two shits lessabout you.
He comes back once in a while,slicks back his hair, puts a
bunch of hairspray in, wears atight pullover and walks around
and waves at crowds at footballgames.
He goes back to DC and hecompletely fucks you.
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South Dakota, the majority ofSouth Dakota strong majority are
America first conservativesthat support Donald Trump and
his agenda and our electedleaders don't care.
They don't care, they don'tcare.
They think they are Tom Daschleproof.
Tom Daschle in 2004 thought hewas going to serve forever, that
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he was going to be MitchMcConnell and his brain was
going to be freezing up whenhe's 85 years old.
I think John Thune and MikeRounds and Dusty Johnson have
short memories.
John Thune's up for election in2028.
He hates Donald Trump, he hatesSouth Dakota and, moreover, he
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could give two shits less aboutanything positive happening in
this country.
Here's another tweet ManyRepublicans were upset about the
J6 tapes being released.
These Republicans said that theJ6 tapes being released were a
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threat.
16 Republican came out inunison and said the January 6th
video that would have proveninnocent hundreds and hundreds
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and hundreds of Republican Trumpsupporters that were persecuted
, politically persecuted.
Mike Rounds and John Thune andMitch McConnell were three of
the 16.
That's the Senate.
Dusty Johnson, over the House,also voted for the January 6th
committee.
He also opposed the videocoming out Speaking of Dusty
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Johnson.
You want to talk about disdainfor soon-to-be 47th President,
donald Trump?
If you look up disdain forDonald Trump in the dictionary,
right alongside Mike Rounds andJohn Thune, is a picture of
Dusty Johnson in all his glory.
Liz Cheney, the formercongresswoman from Wyoming who
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lost by, I think, 50 points.
If her last name was Petersonor Jones, nobody would know who
the hell she is.
She rode daddy's coattails asfar as she could and then she
lost to somebody that I can'teven remember the name of in her
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congressional race, I think by50 points, literally.
I don't even know if that'sever happened before.
Liz Cheney is a fraud hack.
Liz Cheney has made it herlife's mission to tear down
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Donald Trump and his supporters.
As a Republican an electedRepublican serving a leadership
position in the US Congress,made it her life's mission this
isn't a secret, this is publicinformation to tear down Donald
Trump.
So other members in the Housetook action.
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They wanted to strip Liz Cheneyof her leadership position
because, after all, if you owneda small business, if you owned
a company, if you were the CEOof a Fortune 500 company and one
of the leaders in yourorganization was tearing you
down and spreading hate anddiscontent, wouldn't you fire
them?
Yeah, guess who voted for LizCheney to keep her leadership
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position in the House?
Dusty Johnson, take a listen.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The reality is that she is a strong, conservative,
independent voice, and I thinkwe need to make room in
leadership for those kind ofqualities.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Don't forget what else Dusty Johnson did.
He's done many things.
As I said, he's hated Trumpfrom the beginning.
He hates everything aboutDonald Trump.
You see Rounds, thune and DustyJohnson.
They are literally intertwinedinto the fabric of the DC
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establishment, which has aunified front that will try to
crush, imprison or killliterally any outsider that
tries to make changes to theiroligarchic system.
(21:00):
But let's not forget, in 2019,as violent criminals were
crossing our southern border bythe millions and beautiful
Americans like Lakin Riley losttheir life because of this when
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Donald Trump declared a nationalemergency at the southern
border to secure funding for thewall, guess who voted against
it?
Dusty Johnson.
Dusty Johnson in 2019 openlydefied Donald Trump.
(21:42):
Openly defied the Americanvoters.
Openly defied Donald Trump.
Openly defied the Americanvoters.
Openly defied South Dakotavoters.
So I am excited to tell you weare going to have our first
guest on the Toby DodenUnfiltered podcast.
The first two weeks, we didn'thave a guest.
We just kind of wanted tofigure stuff out.
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This week there's been so muchgoing on with Senator Mike
Rounds as I've discussed SenatorJohn Thune, dusty Johnson and
some other political stuffaround the state and around the
country, we decided to bring ona political expert to discuss
this with us today.
So the person you're going tohear from next is a South Dakota
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political insider.
This guy lives and breathespolitics, specifically South
Dakota politics.
He has worked for some of thetop lawmakers in the state of
South Dakota.
He is universally respected inthe Republican Party in South
Dakota and he is in touch asanybody in the state when it
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comes to South Dakota politics.
Let me introduce to you ourfirst guest on the Toby Doden
Unfiltered Podcast, brian Lewis.
So indeed, we are joined by theaforementioned Brian Lewis.
Brian, how are you?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I'm good.
How about you, Toby?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Man, if I was any better, I don't know what I
would do my friend.
Well, that's always good tohear, that is good to hear.
Well, let's get right into it.
Surprisingly, Mike Rounds nevercomes out of his shell.
Really, he kind of flies underthe radar.
We talked about that the lastcouple weeks.
Thune Dusty, Kristi Noem allkind of seem to get more of the
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headlines nationally.
But recently, two weeks ago,Mike Rounds came out and said
that the nearly $200 billionthat taxpayers had sent to
Ukraine wasn't enough and thatwe needed to send more.
And then he doubled down lastweek and when asked about
current fbi director christopherray and everybody knows his
(23:58):
history he not only supportedhim but like he, like, overtly
supports christopherray keepinghis job as director of the FBI.
What says you?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, I mean, I think it's important to understand
here that this type of behavioris utterly fundamental to the
nature of the rhino politician,just as a cat would meow or a
dog would bark.
What defines a rhino ultimatelyis a lack of care for what
their voters think, a lack ofdesire to represent them
properly and an arrogance,really, that they know better
(24:36):
than the voter, and a misplacedsort of fake stoicism in the
face of shifting political winds, as we're seeing right now.
So, no, it doesn't surprise meat all that Mike Rounds would
take some bizarre stance likethis, that President Trump's
choice of Kash Patel as FBIdirector would somehow be
inferior to a guy likeChristopher Wray, who has
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presided over the Mar-a-Lagoraid, who permitted the FBI to
pressure Facebook to censor thestories about Hunter Biden's
laptop and who significantlyaided the Russia collusion hoax
through his own inaction, andwho significantly aided the
Russia collusion hoax throughhis own inaction?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, absolutely.
Do you ever remember a time ora specific topic or a policy or
an appointee, anything whereMike Rounds has came out and
been like the face of SouthDakota national politics for
like a two-week period?
I don't ever remember this.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
No, well, I mean, a lot of people don't know that
Mike Rounds voted for almostevery single one of Joe Biden's
cabinet appointees, and now,when it's time for Trump to make
his cabinet appointees, roundssuddenly is a massive critic and
is very strict about therequirements that he wants for
the people that he's going tovote on to fill these positions,
and I think that that'sridiculous and it's so
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emblematic of the Uniparty as weknow it.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, absolutely.
And John Thune transitioninghere a little bit.
You know, everybody thoughtwhen Mitch McConnell announced
earlier this year that he wasstepping down from Senate
Majority Leader that hey, that'sgreat, exciting, we're going to
have a new Majority Leader.
We didn't know who it was atthat time.
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Everybody knew John Thune wasgoing to throw his hat in the
ring, so to speak.
Then John Thune gets elected bythe Senate to be the majority
leader.
He immediately comes out withreally warm and fuzzy Donald
Trump tweets, donald Trump.
He got interviewed a couple oftimes and said I'm here to
support my president, I'm hereto support his agenda, his
policies, his nominations.
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He said everything right thefirst few days and the national
media picked it up and said JohnThune, he's all on board with
Donald Trump.
And then boom, as every saneconservative expected, he turned
his back on Donald Trump byappointing brain freeze Mitch
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McConnell to the head of theRules Committee in the Senate.
And this is significant becausethe head of the Rules of the
Senate kind of controls anddictates what happens in the
Senate, right, brian.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, well, I mean, president Trump a few years ago
referred to John Thune as, quote, mitch's boy, and we've seen
that that certainly is the case.
(27:45):
And yes, the Rules Committee isthe Freedom Caucus, and the 20
that held out on a speakershipgot from him was the placement
of three conservatives on theHouse Rules Committee, and that
was so big because it determinedso much of what was able to get
done.
It was an effective check onthe power of the establishment.
And so, yeah, it's definitely ahuge deal that Mitch McConnell
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is being put in charge of thiscommittee.
Yeah, it's definitely a hugedeal that Mitch McConnell is
being put in charge of thiscommittee.
I think that Mitch steppingdown is in large part due to a
recognition on his on his partthat he can do more to undermine
the America First agenda on theoutside, not being the face of
the Senate Republican caucus,than he can be by leading the
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caucus and being that face.
And I think that, to a largeextent, there's a lot of
establishment figures, even inSouth Dakota, one in particular,
who recognize that reality.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So put your political thoughts aside just for a
second.
As an American voter, how doesit make you feel that somebody
like Mitch McConnell I'm notmaking light of his health
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issues, I'm simply pointing itout because he's got a very
important role to play in ourfederal government he has had
these alleged stroke-likeincidents where, in front of
hundreds and hundreds of peopleon national TV, he freezes up.
A lot of experts say that it'salong the lines of a stroke, and
(29:24):
so he freezes up to the pointwhere he can't talk, he can't
move, he can't function, and yousee his supporters in some case
John Thune or other staffmembers helping him away from
the front of the cameras.
How does it make you feel, asan American voter, that people
like Mitch McConnell, wholiterally frees up, can't talk,
(29:45):
can't speak, can't function, arein charge of some of the most
important issues in theday-to-day Senate of our country
?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Well, I guess you would have to look at who's
really in charge.
I mean, you could look atanother example of Senator John
Fetterman.
When he was in the hospital fora long time and his office
continued to function, hisstaffers were the ones in charge
of that office, as are in largepart Mitch McConnell staffers
here in his office, and I meanthat is what we refer to as the
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deep state, that is, theunelected bureaucratic class,
that is the secret power behindhow our country actually
functions.
So, yeah, it doesn't make mefeel good.
I mean, we're supposed to be arepresentative democracy and it
doesn't strike me as arepresentative democracy in
really any way to have a realitylike that be the reality of our
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government.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So let's transition to Dusty Johnson here quick,
before we wrap this up.
It's no surprise, it's not asecret.
Dusty Johnson has had disdainfor Donald Trump and everything
he stands for for a very longtime, as has Thune as has rounds
(30:59):
, for that matter.
Do you think the South Dakotavoters are starting to see these
three for who they actually are?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, I think votersRepublican primary voters in
particular all across thecountry are beginning to see who
their representatives are andif they do or do not represent
them.
You can look at what we didthis year in South Dakota, where
you had a record amount oflegislative incumbents ousted.
We didn't have anycongressional races on the
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ballot in the primary.
We didn't have any Senate raceson the ballot in the primary,
but you saw what we had in SouthDakota replicated in other
states as well Texas, westVirginia, wyoming all across the
country.
This year, people woke up andousted a lot of rhinos in their
state legislature, in theirstate legislatures, and I think
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that in 2026, you're going tosee a record amount of
congressional incumbents ousted,as well as even a few senators.
And it is notoriously hard toprimary senators, sitting
senators.
That is the last one toactually do it.
That, being an elected senator,was Richard Murdoch in Indiana
in I believe, 2014, or I thinkit was 2012, actually, but that
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was the last time that thathappened.
Luther Strange, who wasn'telected, was primaried in 2020
by Roy Moore.
Sorry, I guess it would havebeen like 2017 or so, but yeah,
you don't see that very often.
I think that that's going tochange.
There are a number of veryvulnerable incumbent Senate
rhinos coming up, and MikeRounds might just be the most
vulnerable of all.
(32:31):
We've already demonstrated inSouth Dakota that we have the
ability to oust rhino incumbentsat will, basically and you can
look at the 14 legislativeincumbents that we took out as
precedent for that- yeah, youmentioned some South
Dakota-specific stuff, so let'stransition to that quickly here
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before I let you go.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
When I saw all of the conservative leaders all around
the country on X and doingtheir news hits on Fox and
elsewhere and they were talkingspecifically about people like
John Thune and specifically MikeRounds the last two weeks and I
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saw a lot of people sayingwhat's wrong with the South
Dakota primary or primary votersin states like South Dakota
that keep reelecting the samerhinos, you know, election cycle
after election cycle, and mythought was well, the primary
voters in South Dakota haven'treally had any options and even
when there is an option, theyget outspent 100 to 1 by all the
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national money and the GOP andeverybody that's supporting
these guys.
Like, how do you feel about theway that not only Rounds has
been attacked, and rightfully sobut it's kind of spilled over
to, hey, what the hell is wrongwith South Dakota?
I've seen that a lot, brian.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Gotcha.
Yeah, I mean, I certainlyreject those characterizations
of South Dakota politics, SouthDakota primary voters.
We are an incrediblyconservative state when the
conservative movement iseffective and organized and able
to properly propagate aconservative message.
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When conservatives aredisorganized, disunited and
candidate quality is lacking, asit has been in certain other
races when we've had to go upagainst billions of
establishment dollars, it's noton the primary voters to be able
to see through the millions ofdollars of lies that people like
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Dusty and Mike Rounds and JohnThune are propagating through
the state of South Dakota.
It's ultimately ourresponsibility to make sure that
they have a counter narrativeand that we're able to expose
the lies when they pop up.
So I think South Dakota isincredibly conservative.
I think that as of now, wemight just have the most
conservative state legislaturein the entire nation and coming
up I mean, hey, we might havethe most conservative Senate
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delegation in a few years if allthings go right.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, absolutely.
That was a great segue into mylast question for you.
You know my PAC, dakota FirstAction, which you're obviously a
part of as well.
Brian, for those of you thatdon't know is, yes, a rumor is
the political director forDakota First Action.
(35:21):
So, based on what's happened inSouth Dakota and you mentioned
it going into the year 2024, I'mjust going to give a real quick
recap the year 2024.
I'm just going to give a realquick recap.
The state was basically beingran by left-leaning, what I call
fake Republicans.
All of the leadership positionsin the state legislature, the
House and the Senate, you know,were people like Will Mortensen
(35:41):
and Casey Crabtree and just awhole list of left-leaning fake
Republicans.
Well, that has since changed.
We have a new leader in theHouse, a new leader of the
Senate.
All of the leadership positionshave been flipped to
conservative legislators.
What do you see moving forwardin the state of South Dakota,
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specifically with the newconservative leadership in the
January, february and Marchlegislation session, as well, as
you know, moving on to the 2026election cycle?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Sir, do you mean like legislative priorities in the
upcoming session?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yeah, like, what do you expect to see?
Like, if we were talking inApril and we were recapping what
happened in the statelegislator, what do you expect
is going to happen?
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I think that you'll finally be able to see movement
on school choice legislation,which has been a conservative
priority, all across the nation.
I think that you'll seeproperty tax reduction, which is
vital because there's a lot ofpeople being killed out there,
both by inflation and thesky-high property taxes that I
believe are unnecessarily highsky-high property taxes that I
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believe are unnecessarily high,I'm sure you agree as well as
movement to kill the unsafe andunnecessary carbon pipeline
project that Summit CarbonSolutions is trying to drive
through rural East River SouthDakota, and they don't care
whose land they have to seize inorder to build it, and a lot of
their strongest cheerleaders inthe legislature are now
powerless and we have theammunition to protect landowner
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rights and to protect theoverall rights and lives of
South Dakotans.
So that's what I think that theupcoming legislative priorities
will be.
I have full confidence inSpeaker John Hanson, Majority
Leader Scott Odenbach andPresident Pro Tempore Chris Carr
over in the Senate to get thatdone and to build a more
conservative South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Well, that sounds amazing, brian.
Hey, I tell you what it's beengreat catching up.
I appreciate your time.
I know you're a busy guy andwe'll talk to you soon.
All right, sounds good.
All right, thanks, Brian.
Don't forget how to find TobyDoden unfiltered.
(37:58):
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you need to go.
Next, we're going to talk aboutDonald Trump's recently released
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plan for the education systemin the United States.
I'll be the first to admit I'mnot a national education expert,
but I'm also capable of doingresearch just like anybody else.
And I'm also capable of doingresearch just like anybody else,
and I'm also capable of lookingat facts and data and making
(38:43):
reasonable assumptions as to howthings are going and maybe
whether or not we should look adifferent direction.
And there's a growing, growingsentiment in this country and I
am one of those that believesthe federal government, when it
comes to supporting education inour country, like everything
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else they do, is superinefficient.
Billions of dollars are beingwasted by the federal government
.
I think the Department ofEducation needs to be
significantly reduced oroutright gone, abolished, and
all of the federal capital, themoney, the resources that the
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federal government in the pasthas spent on education should be
reallocated directly to thestates and the school districts.
Nobody's ever going to convinceme or any sane thinking person
that the bureaucracy inWashington DC is somehow more
(39:53):
able to efficiently plan how ourchildren in South Dakota should
be educated and be able toallocate funds from you know
2,000 miles away to small, local, rural school districts in
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South Dakota.
So I'm all for taking thefederal education money and
reallocating it to the states.
So what did Donald Trump sayrecently about his education
plan?
First, he said we will respectparents' right to control their
children's education Amen.
Second, we will empower parentsand local school boards to hire
(40:38):
and reward great principals andteachers and fire those who
perform below par, where,because you do your job long
enough, you get what's calledtenure and even if you're
(41:04):
terrible at your job, it'snearly impossible to fire.
You Just take the emotion outof it.
Does that make any sense?
Listen, the overwhelmingmajority of teachers I had in my
life were wonderful.
The overwhelming majority ofteachers in this country are
(41:24):
wonderful, but there are somereally terrible teachers.
I've met them, you've met them.
It's not just the teachingprofession.
There's great lawyers, there'sterrible lawyers.
There's great physicians,there's terrible physicians.
(41:47):
Every single occupation in theworld has a percentage of that
occupation that aren't very goodat their job, and so one of the
things that Donald Trump hastalked about is revamping the
system so that if a teacher isterrible and is not good at
educating children or mentoringthem or raising productive young
individuals and keeping them ator above the educational pace
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of their peers, they shouldn'tbe teaching anymore.
Third, he wants to ensure thatour classrooms are focused on
non-political indoctrination AimN.
We need to figure out a way todo this in public universities
and private universities as well, but that's a whole other
(42:30):
discussion.
We should be teaching theskills needed to succeed Reading
, writing, math, science,arithmetic and other beneficial
subjects.
Fourth, we will preparestudents to love their country
and not hate it.
I remember as a youngster,going to school every day, and
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we started every day by recitingthe Pledge of Allegiance, like
why wouldn't young childrenattending public schools in the
United States?
Why wouldn't we want them tohave a deep sense of patriotic
(43:15):
pride, for their country to havea deep sense of patriotic pride
for their country.
Fifth, him and hisadministration are going to
support bringing prayer back toschools, amen.
Sixth, we will achieve safe,secure and drug-free schools
with immediate expulsion for anystudent who harms a teacher or
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another student.
Expulsion for any student whoharms a teacher or another
student.
This woke ideology and thiswoke mindset in schools.
Have you seen the videos online?
There's a video going aroundright now.
We'll show it to you in asecond.
There's a youngster, a younggirl, in a supermarket Maybe it
was a Walmart Systematicallyruining produce, breaking
(44:00):
bottles, destroying the store,and in the background you hear
liberal enablers going.
Don't touch her, don't sayanything to her.
She's having some kind of anepisode or something.
Are you kidding me?
If an 8, 9, or 10-year-old kidis tearing up a grocery store,
you kick them straight in theass and you drag them out to the
(44:23):
parking lot and you give themanother one.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Are you kidding me?
Oh, whoever she's with, we aregoing, but she is in this store.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,don't get with her.
Don't get with her.
You don't know she's missingyou.
Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
(44:53):
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,don't report her.
That doesn't matter, you don'tknow what she's doing.
You're a little girl, you don'tknow what she's doing.
Don't y'all do that to a littlegirl.
Y'all don't know what she'sdoing.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Seventh, we'll give all parents the right to choose
another school for theirchildren.
School choice School choice isa complicated subject.
I'm not going to get into thespecifics of it, but at the very
least, the discussion needs tobe had.
Eighth, we'll ensure studentscan access project-based
learning experiences and helptrain them for meaningful work
(45:34):
outside the classroom.
Listen to this again, this isimportant.
We will ensure that studentscan access project-based
learning so they can acquiremeaningful work outside the
classroom, getting studentsready for the labor force.
We know that over half the jobsin this country don't require a
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college education.
Yet our guidance counselors andour leadership in these
educational facilities try topush 100% of the students to
higher education.
That needs to end.
There are many legitimatecareers that require a formal
(46:18):
college education.
I understand that, and thosepeople should go to college.
I didn't go to college.
Most of the entrepreneurs andsmall business owners that I
know that are very successfulnever went to college.
Most of the people I know in mylife that are successful never
went to college.
So why are we trying to pusheverybody to go to college?
(46:38):
We'll talk about that inanother episode.
Ninth, we will strive to giveall students access to
internships and work experiencesthat can set them on a path to
their first job.
Aim N I've been talking aboutthis for years.
We should be identifying thosestudents in high school that
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they already know they don'twant to go to college.
Community leaders can identifythese young students and start
preparing them for really good,high-paying careers with great
(47:25):
advancement and benefitopportunities.
Tenth another thing that trumpwill be doing very early in his
administration, he says, isclosing up the department of
education in Washington DC andsending all the education back
to the states.
We just talked about that a fewminutes ago.
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I applaud Donald Trump for beingvery proactive policy-wise ever
since November 5th.
If you listen to the mainstreammedia or the crazy liberals,
they talk about retribution andhow Donald Trump wants revenge
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and all this stuff.
Have you been listening to whatDonald Trump and his
administration has been saying?
The most that they've talkedabout, the most common thing
they've talked about sinceNovember 5th is policy.
Donald Trump is already leadingthe country.
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He's been in talks with PrimeMinister Trudeau from Canada.
In fact, he jokingly toldTrudeau this weekend in a
meeting that if Canada couldn'tsurvive with the tariffs we were
going to put on them, trumpwould make Canada the 51st state
and let Trudeau be the governor.
Oh, I'd like to be a fly onthat room.
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I would have loved to seeTrudeau's face, but Trump's been
talking policy.
He hasn't been talking revengeor retribution.
It's all made up.
Trump wants to lead thiscountry, make it better than
it's ever been.
He's been negotiating on thingsoverseas, with the
Ukraine-Russian war, thesouthern border with the
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president of Mexico.
All he's done is show hisleadership and presidential
skills.
So amen to you, donald Trumpand Toby Doden, for South Dakota
100% supports your educationplan.
Again, to find our show, go toanywhere where podcasts are
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available Spotify, apple,youtube and, of course, we're
everywhere on social media.
Next, I want to talk real quick, very, very quick.
I'm sure most of you saw this.
Joe Biden pardoned his son,hunter Biden, but not just any
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old regular pardon, but not justany old, regular pardon.
He pardoned Hunter Biden, hisson, for anything and everything
from 2014 through December 1stof 2024.
It just so happens 2014 was thesame year Hunter Biden started
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serving on the board ofdirectors of Risma and was paid
millions and millions of dollars, and we remember the stories
about the big guy.
Joe Biden got 10% of thekickback 4 months.
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Now 6 months or longer, notonly has Joe Biden been telling
the world he would never pardonhis son, every mainstream
network has been saying the samething, all of them, time after
time after time MSNBC, abc, theAP, cnn, cbs all of them.
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Joe Biden is a man of character.
He will never pardon his sonbecause nobody's above the law.
Jill Biden, when asked severalmonths ago, said my husband will
never pardon Hunter becausenobody is above the law.
And Joe Biden said it a dozentimes I will not pardon my son,
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nobody is above the law.
Well, it turns out Hunter Bidenis indeed above the law for the
last 11 years.
Guess what the mainstream mediais saying in the aftermath.
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Did they finally have a come toJesus moment?
Where they go hey, this guy isdirty, he lies all the time.
We've been made fools.
No, they came out and they saidoh man, joe Biden, the type of
strength and compassion it takesto do what he did for his son
by pardoning him Not kidding Anyone of them, you would think
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after the results of the 2024presidential election, the fact
that Donald Trump won thepopular vote, the fact that he
won the overwhelming majority ofelectoral votes, the fact that
he won every single swing state.
You would think that would be awake-up call to the uniparty
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deep state establishment in DC.
But no, their strategy hasn'tchanged.
Their game plan hasn't changed.
It's lie, lie, lie, deny, deny,deny.
They don't realize it's notworking anymore.
The American people are seeingthrough it.
We're seeing it here in SouthDakota.
Our local politician, ourRepublican leaders, or, excuse
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me, former Republican leaders inthe state legislator, casey
Crabtree, lee Schoenbeck, youknow, will Martinson, all these
people they haven't changedtheir tactics either.
If they were smart, if theywere career minded, if they
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really wanted to gain power andinfluence, they would, you know,
mosey on over back to theRepublican Party and play nice,
but they are in the sameposition.
These hacks in DC are in.
They're either incompetent.
These hacks in DC are in.
They're either incompetent orjust really stupid, or both,
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because they're continuing touse the same failed tactics that
have got them in the positionthey're in.
So the Macy Day Parade foranybody that grew up as a kid
mom or dad or both grew up as akid mom or dad or both in the
kitchen preparing this massiveThanksgiving feast right.
When I was a kid, we only hadone TV right and that TV had
maybe two or three channels, andwhen you turn the channel, this
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is.
I'm going to age myself.
I'll go like right, like wedidn't have remotes, like I was
the remote, toby changed it tochannel two, toby changed it to
channel nine, right?
So whatever mother was watchingor father, that's what you
watched.
Well, we watched the Macy DayParade every single Thanksgiving
.
It's pretty fun.
Actually, this year, sioux Falls, lincoln High School, their
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band walked and performed in theMacy Day Parade, and so that
got me thinking.
How often does this happen?
That's really cool.
By the way, shout out to SiouxFalls, lincoln.
That's amazing.
Like I was in marching band, Iwas in field band, I was in band
all four years of high school.
We loved band trips.
You know how fun it would havebeen, as a groton high school
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band member back in 1992 or 3,to go to the macy day parade
would have been amazing.
So congratulations to all thestudents that got to experience
that.
I think this is the first timesince 2008 that a south dakota
high school band has been in theparade.
Apparently, they performedAmerica the Beautiful, which is
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awesome.
The parade started a century ago, in 1924, and it was originally
started by Macy's employees,which I did not know.
Helium balloons were notincluded, but they did have
animals from the Central ParkZoo like bears, elephants,
monkeys and camels.
I'm glad I didn't have tofollow them with a shovel.
The first parade route wasconsiderably longer.
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Elephants, monkeys and camelsI'm glad I didn't have to follow
them with a shovel.
The first parade route wasconsiderably longer.
It was six miles long and hadan estimated 250,000 people.
Congratulations, sioux FallsLincoln High School band.
That's pretty awesome.
Listen, if you're from SouthDakota, even if you didn't
attend SDSU or USD, you got tobe really excited right now by
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these FCS football playoffs.
I'm sorry we meant to talkabout this last week but
everything got a little long.
I tell you what you're going tobe hard-pressed to find a
better sporting event to go tothan an FCS football game, let
alone a playoff intensity.
Fcs football game, sdsu,defending national champions.
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10 years ago their programwasn't very good.
It was NDSU, ndsu, that's allanybody talked about.
Well, sdsu has caught andsurpassed NDSU the last few
years.
Ndsu still a great program,still very competitive there in
the playoff.
But USD University of SouthDakota in Vermilion has, I mean,
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just shocked people by the yearthey put together.
This year I think they're 10-2.
They are also in the playoffs.
They do a multi-round system inthe FCS, unlike the FBS which is
, like you know, alabama andFlorida and all that.
They only have four teams thatgo to the playoffs.
Well, there's a whole bunch ofteams in the FCS and the
championship game is January 6thin Frisco, texas.
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I got to attend in person lastyear and watch SDSU win the
national championship.
It was amazing.
So we are really hoping, sinceUSD is in one half of the
bracket and SDSU is in the otherside of the bracket, we're
hoping that USD and SDSU bothmake it to Frisco.
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That would be amazing.
If either of those teams makeit to Frisco, we are planning to
travel down there and take itall in again and cheer on our
local FCS favorite team.
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North Dakota is our neighborright, so we've got to talk
about them a little bit.
Ndsu also in the playoff thisyear.
I believe they play thisweekend.
They play.
They're the number two seed.
They play at 3 o'clock onSaturday against Abilene
Christian.
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They play.
My readers aren't strong enough.
South Dakota State also playson Saturday against Montana and
the University of South Dakotaplays Tarleton State, I think.
Anyway, we will update theresults of those games on next
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week's episode.
Thank you again for listening.
I know everything hasn't beenperfect.
I appreciate those of you thathave tuned in to all three
episodes or even if you've onlylistened to part of one of the
episodes.
As long as the content keepsflowing, we're going to keep
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doing this and as long as westill have a good amount of
viewers and listeners, we'regoing to keep doing this every
single week.
The response has been sort ofoverwhelming.
Honestly, we didn't really knowwhat to expect, but we've had
overwhelming.
Honestly, we didn't really knowwhat to expect, but we've had
tens and tens of thousands ofviews and interactions and
(59:23):
comments and all kinds of stuff.
So people are consuming this ina pretty large manner, I would
say, for a South Dakota podcastwith very little fanfare.
So, on behalf of me and a fewstaff folks that help out with
this show it actually takesabout four of us to do this
(59:44):
believe it or not, we appreciateyou tuning in, we appreciate
you following and subscribing usand we can't wait to talk to
you again next week on TobyDoughton Unfiltered.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to TobyDoden Unfiltered.
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