Episode 4

0:01 - Introduction 
02:25 - South Dakota Government Efficiency and Future
19:20 - South Dakota Tax and Regulation
32:50 - State Regulation and Government Efficiency
44:41 - Immigration, Media, USPS, and FCS Football

Episode Transcript

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.
Well, welcome back to TobyDoden Unfiltered.

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This is episode four.
I am your host, toby Doden.
I got to tell you it has gonefast, it has been fun, and I
cannot tell you how much Iappreciate the tens of thousands
of individuals that have tunedin every week to hear our take
on the most important issues inSouth Dakota.

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Just like the last three weeks,we've got a lot of great topics
to discuss this week.
We're going to talk a lot aboutthings directly impacting the
great state of South Dakota.
We're also going to talk aboutthe recent acquittal of Daniel
Penny.
I'm sure you've all heard ofDaniel Penny, of Daniel Penny.

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I'm sure you've all heard ofDaniel Penny.
He was the individual that wastried for, you know, protecting
innocent riders on a subway.
So we're going to talk aboutthat.
We're going to talk about thetanking mainstream media ratings
.
I mean just people, by themillions, are walking away from
the main street media andthey're listening to people in

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ways they've never done sobefore, largely on platforms
like x and other social mediaplatforms.
We're also going to talk abouthow inefficient in general
governments are, especially thefederal government.
We're going to talk a littlebit about the us postal service.
They recently released theirfiscal financial numbers and boy

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is it embarrassing.
We're also going to talk abouta hereon teacher who, it was
recently reported by Kettlelandand other local news
organizations, is being accusedof some very, very serious and
heinous crimes involving youngminor children.

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But before we get to any of that, we're going to start by
talking about the South Dakotastate government.
So I think if you weregenerally speaking, you were
going to talk to just randomregistered voters in the state
of South Dakota.
I think a lot of them wouldtell you that you know South

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Dakota is a better place to liveand you know South Dakota has a
lot of you know things that wenatives love about South Dakota
that a lot of outsiders don'teven know about.
I think a lot of them wouldalso tell you that our state
government is run moreefficiently and more effectively

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than other state governments,and especially our federal
government.
Well, we're going to talk aboutthat today, because I don't
think that's necessarily thecase.
I think when we dig in and lookat the inefficiencies of the
South Dakota state governmentfrom the top down.

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I think people are going tostart to realize that our state
might be smaller, but thatdoesn't mean that we're more
efficient than many of our otherstates, and so let's talk
specifically about regulation.
I don't know how many of you areaware of this, but in 2019,

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governor Brad Little from thegreat state of Idaho made two
executive orders.
Keep in mind, these twoexecutive orders were in
Governor Little's first month inoffice, and what he was aiming

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to do was decrease regulationsin his state.
So the orders that GovernorLittle put forth in 2019 in the
state of Idaho were going to setthe stage for significant
deregulation efforts.
First thing he did was calledthe Red Tape Reduction Act.
Basically, what that did is itrequired state agencies to
identify at least two existingrules to be repealed or
significantly simplified forevery new rule proposed Doesn't

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sound like too bad of an idea,and we're going to talk more
about what Governor Little did.
About what Governor Little didGovernor Little decreased
regulation by 38 percent in avery short period of time upon
becoming governor of Idaho, andso when we look at a state
government like South Dakota,what I see and a lot of the data

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backs this up, is a relativelyinefficient state government.
What do I mean by that?
Well, it's very simple.
Do we have more resources andare we spending more money and
resources to accomplish what theduty and responsibility of our

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state government is?
And I think the answer is 100.
Yes.
I think we could be just aseffective, if not more effective
, as the state government byspending far less money than we
do, not to mention the fact thatSouth Dakota is one of the most
dependent states in our countryon federal funding.

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That's right.
Our state would be bankruptwithout the federal government.
So how can we run and operateand live as a free, independent
state like South Dakota, likepeople think we are, when we are
basically an echo chamber ofthe federal government?

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So we're going to talk aboutthat.
So is the best course of actionfor our state to acquiesce into
the federal government andessentially function as one,
taking billions and billions ofdollars annually in federal
money and then letting themdictate how we should run and

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operate our state?
Or or should our stategovernment be proactive in
shrinking and reducing ourgovernment and our regulation?
The current approach of ouradministration, our governor's
administration and this tricklesall the way down throughout the

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state is business as usual.
Not only has our currentgovernor become a national
figure, she has largely run ourstate as though we are a
subsidized eco-chamber of thefederal government.
Is that what south dakotanswant?

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That's not what I want.
I want a strong, efficient,financially independent state of
south dakota so we collectively, the people, can run and
operate our state how we see fit, not how the federal government

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tells us to operate.
I resist the strategy and Iresist the notion that south
South Dakota cannot be a fullyself-sustainable state.
We need to take a serious lookat the direction of our state as
we look ahead to the 2026election cycle.

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2026 election, in my opinion, isgoing to be the most important
election, or one of at least, inour history of South Dakota.
Why, toby?
Why are we talking about the2026 election?
It's two years away for cryingout loud.
The reason I'm talking aboutthe 2026 election and the reason
I spend time thinking about the2028 and the 2030 election is
because largely conservativeshaven't done that in decades in

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south dakota and that's how weended up in the position we were
going into 2024.
Our state was being run byliberal republic.
Conservatives weren't lookingahead.
They could see about three feetin front of their face and we
got burned.
Well, that all changed in 2024.
We have talked about this prior.

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We have all new leadership inthe state legislature, all
conservative leaders, everysingle one, not most of them,
not a majority.
Every single person that waselected to a leadership role in
the state legislature is aconservative member of South
Dakota.
But, friends, listen, I imploreyou to listen.

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If you only take this, onething from this entire podcast
is we are only a fraction of theway to where we need to get to
be sustainable.
Taking the leadership powerback in the legislature was only
one small step in a very longand complicated process.
If 2026 and 2028 electionsdon't go the way that they need

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to go, everything we did in 2024will be for nothing, because if
we can't get solid conservativeleadership from the top of our
state government, the governor'soffice, all the way down
through our state legislature,all the way into our county
commissioners, our city councilmembers and everything in

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between, then what we're doingis for not.
So, yes, I am focusing most ofmy time and energy on the 2026
election cycle.
Let's start with governor for2026.
I'm sure those of you listeningto this are probably at least
somewhat, or very, interested instate politics.

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That's why a lot of you aretuning in.
So some of this is newinformation.
Some of this is old information.
But let's look at the 2026 racefor governor Kristi Noem
assuming she's going to beconfirmed as HHS secretary,

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she's going to be gone.
Larry Roden's going to be swornin sometime after the first of
the year.
And in 2026, there's going tobe a Republican primary in June
of that year.
South Dakota needs wholesalechanges of that year.
South Dakota needs wholesalechanges Shrinking our state
government, taking ourgovernment agencies and becoming

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ultra lean, efficient,effective and be able to operate
on a fraction of the resources.
It is possible and with theright leadership and peer, it
will happen.
Do you think dusty johnson isgoing to come in as governor and

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make those changes?
Has dusty johnson done anythingin his entire year after year
of political career?
Has he ever done anything thatwould give you any indication
that he believes in smallergovernment and power to we, the
people?
Dusty has voted for tens, ifnot hundreds, of billions of

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dollars in funding to go toplaces like ukraine.
That's just one example.
Dusty voted against trump'sborder wall in 2019.
That led to massive amounts ofcrime and social resources being
depleted.
Dusty doesn't care about ourcountry.
He sure as heck doesn't careabout our state.

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So is dusty the guy that cancome in and completely rebuild
our state government and make itthe smallest, most efficient
state government in the historyof the united states.
No who else is rumored to berunning for governor marty
jackley, larry roden there'seven rumors mike rounds wants a

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third.
Go at it.
You needn't look any furtherthan mike rounds voting record
in the us senate.
His votes are more liberal thanmany democrat senators.
Mike rounds has a 0.0 chance ofever getting re-elected to any
office nationally or statewide.

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In south dakota.
People know what you've done,mike.
What about marty jackley?
Is marty a game changer?
Some of you have known martyfor years.
Marty's a placeholder.
Marty keeps running for thingsbut doesn't win.
Marty's a really good attorneygeneral, as as a governor, he

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would just be another facelessbureaucrat going through the
motions, trying to trim a budgethere, trying to trim a budget
there.
We need massive reduction,massive changes.
We need massive regulatorydeletions, not adjustments.

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But larry roden, larry roden,christy gnome, larry roden,
christy gnome if you say it fastenough, five times.
They're the same person.
They look different, but theyhave the same political and
ideological views.
Larry roden would be nothingmore than a placeholder.
So I'm telling you, voters ofSouth Dakota, it is time right

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now to start having theseconversations, because we need
the right leadership at the topof the ticket in 2026.
Or everything that we havefought for our land rights,
carbon summit, pipeline,everything hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds, if not thousands,of South Dakotans have spent
thousands of hours fightingagainst the pipeline.

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Who's trying to use eminentdomain for public gain and
they're trying to stealgenerational farmland.
Everything you've done, all ofthe fights you've won, all of
the fights you'll continue tofight and win in the future, are
all going to be for nothing.
If we get a liberal leaning hatas our next governor, it will

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all have been for nothing.
Wasted years.
What about election fraud,election and election integrity?
People like dusty and marty andlarry road to mike rounds.
They don't even know what thosewords mean and somehow, when
you bring up election integrity,people call you an election
denier.
No, that's not what it means.
What it means is we shouldspend some time looking to make

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sure we have the absolute mostsecure elections in the country.
And then we should go toflorida and we should request a
meeting with governor desantisand we should get a tutorial on
how to process our damn votes onelection day, because florida's
done by 11 o'clock on electionnight and they're one of the

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biggest states in the country.
I went to bed at four in themorning still didn't know.
Taffy howard won don't tell meour state government is
efficient when we can't evencount essentially the smallest
amount of votes in the entirecountry in the same time that
ron desantis counts votes inflorida.
We're closer to california thanflorida when it comes to

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counting votes.
So we need to start talkingabout our leadership at the top
level.
We need to talk about the opensenate seat.
I say open because even if mikerounds runs, if a good
conservative runs against him, Ican't see a path of victory for
mike other than the fact thathe now has the warmongering

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industrial complex in his backpocket.
He's taken more than a hundredthousand dollars recently from
these companies.
Why do you think senator roundscame out a few weeks ago and
said we haven't done enough forukraine?
The 200 billion dollars we sentukraine's not enough.
The hell with people in northcarolina that are sleeping in

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tents.
The hell with our homelessveterans.
Let's send billions more toukraine so I can keep lining my
pockets.
Then the next week rounds,comes out and basically says
christopher ray is his BFF, bestfirst friend.
In case you don't know whatthat means, what Chris Wray

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doesn't even like Chris Wray.
Somehow mike rallins has a mancrush on him.
It's insane.
So yes, we need the rightperson in the governor's office.
Yes, we need a strongconservative that shares those
values to run for the us senateposition in 2026.

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And, of course, we needsomebody to run for Congress in
2026.
Not going to get into a lot ofinnuendo or strategy speak today
, but it's likely Dusty Johnsonis going to run for governor of
South Dakota so long as hebelieves he can win.
You see, dusty's not one ofthese people that will fight

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solely based on his core beliefs.
You patriots and me and all ofus that see things the same, we
do pick our fights based onmoral absolutes.
We have a specific set ofvalues that are non-negotiable

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and we're okay if we lose aslong as we're fighting for what
we believe.
Do you think people like dustyjohnson would ever pick a fight
knowing he's likely going tolose just because he 100
believes in the mission?
No, are you kidding me?

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Dusty picks fights based on whohe can beat.
So, depending on how this 2026governor's race shapes up
between now and the summer, Iwould say I think there's a
chance dusty doesn't run,because I think there's a set of
circumstances that could happenthat dusty johnson would look
at it.
He would sit down with all ofhis aides and go.

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I think our percentage ofwinning that primary has
decreased.
I think it's under 50% and Ican't have a loss on my
prestigious political record.
Well, if that's the case, dustymight go back and run for
another two years in the House.
He could also go run for roundssenate seat.

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Dusty's had his heart set onbeing the governor of south
dakota for many, many, manyyears.
This is the worst kept secretin pier, and so, as much as
dusty wants to be our generaland lead our great state, I kind
of think he'd go back to thehouse and only run two more

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years to keep his options openfor the 2030 governor's race.
So we need to find some greatconservative patriots in this
state that are willing to stepup and run against people like
dusty if he reruns for hiscongressional race.
We know the other side and Isay the other side and I don't

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mean the democrats, I mean thesepolitical hacks like casey
crabtree.
This self-serving I could givetwo craps about south dakota
legislator has been secretlytelling people he's going to run
for congress.
Don't think he can win.
I think the way the votesturned out in 2024, all across

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the state, all across ourcountry, there is a conservative
mandate and that mandate saysyou either have to be a democrat
or you have to be aconservative, but you cannot be
a fake republican.
People of south dakota aresmart.
We have the smartest voters inour country.
Let me give you an example.

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The liberals tried to put upthis consumption tax on the
November ballot.
They lied and tried to sell itas a grocery reduction tax, but
it was far more complicated thanthat.
Well, inflation fatigue hascaught up with everybody in our
country, including the residentsof South Dakota.

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Despite the fact that everyfamily in our state has a
smaller paycheck, less money tospend because of inflation.
Despite that, they votedagainst a significant grocery
tax reduction bill because ofall the negative stuff that was

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attached to it.
It was a terrible bill.
I'm all for reducing oreliminating taxes, as long as it
actually eliminates a tax.
But you can't eliminate one taxand then add another tax on a
different group of people andcall it a tax, like either
people are benefiting or peoplearen't benefiting.

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The savvy South Dakota votervoted against it.
They're like nah, yeah, I knowI can save $80 a month on my
groceries, but it's going toscrew our state long-term
because of this, this and this.
So let's talk to thelegislature right and let's look
at ways to put money back inthe pockets of South Dakotans.

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Another thing that's beingtalked about is a property tax
reduction.
There are some Republicanlegislators that are beating
their chest because they'regoing to put forth a property
tax reduction.
Don't buy the hype.
It's a bunch of BS.
They want to reduce propertytaxes on single family homes,

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but in order to pay for that taxcut, they're going to increase
the state sales tax from 4.2% to5% A 20% tax increase increase.
So let me break this down foryou if you own a home and you
pay real estate taxes everysingle year on that home because
you own it, you are going toget a reduction in your real

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estate taxes.
But every time you go spendmoney anywhere at any store, for
anything retail, you're goingto pay 20 percent more tax, not
to mention the folks that don'town homes, and in south dakota
there's a between 30 and 40percent of the occupants in

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south dakota do not own theirhome.
They don't get any taxreduction because they don't own
any property, but they stillhave to pay 20% more sales tax.
So the property tax reductionbill that's being discussed
right now is actually a taxincrease on the lowest income

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people in our state.
Is that how we want to treat theresidents of South Dakota?
If we're going to do income taxreduction or, excuse me, real
estate tax reduction or grocerytax or any other tax?
If you're going to call it atax break, it has to be a net
tax break, yeah.
But if we do the property taxrelief, it's going to leave a

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$280 million gap in the statebudget.
Well, let's get smaller andmore efficient.
You don't think South Dakotacan operate on $280 million less
.
Our budget is $7.4 billion ayear.
$7.4 billion is our SouthDakota budget.

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You want to know what it wasjust three years ago?
$4.4 billion is our SouthDakota budget.
You want to know what it wasjust three years ago, $4.8
billion.
Our budget right now is nearly$3 billion higher than it was
three years ago $7.4 billionbudget.
So 10% of that would be $740million.

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10% of that would be $740million.
So reducing property taxes isbasically a 3% cut across the
board in our state government.
I can guarantee you there isfar more, far more than 3% that
can be shaved in expense fromour state government.
I'll bet you it's more like 20%to 30% in expense from our

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state government.
I'll bet you it's more like 20to 30 percent.
And so if we're going bill getsanywhere close to the

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legislature unless it iscompletely reformed, you can't
reduce my taxes on my home andthen jack up my sales tax 20
percent.
The South Dakota voters are toosmart for that.
And there's another caveat tothis proposed real estate tax

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reform.
Who needs money-saving measuresmore in South Dakota?
People that own $500,000 homesor people that are renting
apartments for $600 per month?
I think it's the person rentingthe apartment for $600 a month.
So how are they going to gettheir reduction?
They're not, because the billthat's being talked about does

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not lower the real estate taxesfor apartment buildings,
commercial properties,multi-unit family residences,
single family homes only so.
As an individual that owns a lotof real estate in South Dakota,
much of it is multi-familyresidential, large apartment

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buildings and complexes when myexpenses go up, I have to raise
the rent.
Otherwise I can't pay the bank,I can't pay my taxes, I can't
pay my insurance, I can't paythe maintenance, repairs, upkeep
, vacancy, etc.
It's not a glamorous business.
So they want to reduce the realestate taxes, but not for the

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people that actually need it Ifthey reduce my real estate taxes
that have gone up 38% in thelast estate taxes, but not for
the people that actually need itIf they reduce my real estate
taxes that have gone up 38% inthe last two years.
I pay hundreds of thousands ofdollars more this year than I
did two years ago with the sameproperty.
Hundreds of thousands ofdollars.
Who pays for that in the longrun?
Who pays for that?

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I can't lose money as abusiness owner.
I can't stay in business.
So rents go up.
And then it's my fault that therents go up.
No, it's your government'sfault.
It's poor legislation,over-regulation, weak
governments.
That's why your rents go up.
I understand you need somebodyto point the finger at.

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I get it, I've been there.
But let me be clear.
If my real estate taxes I'm noteven looking for a decrease,
I'm looking for them to be resetto what they were two years ago
, before they were unfairlyraised 38%.
If my taxes go back to the waythey were two years ago on all
of my apartment rentals, I'llpass that savings on to my
tenants day one.

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So let's get back to GovernorLittle from the great state of
Idaho.
In addition to the Red TapeReduction Act, he also issued
the Licensing Freedom Act.
This act was aimed at reducingthe burdens on Idaho businesses
by scaling back, eliminating.
Reducing the burdens on Idahobusinesses by scaling back,
eliminating or significantlysimplifying occupational
licensing rules.
As somebody who has a lot oflicenses or in the fuel business

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, restaurant business we haveliquor licenses, casino licenses
, car dealer licenses you nameit license, license, license we
literally have a full-timeperson just to maintain our
licensing.
I mean, you want to talk aboutover regulation?
He also did something calledzero-based regulation approach.

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This is interesting.
What zero-based regulation is?
Simply?
Simply put that agencies wererequired to justify the
necessity of existingregulations, leading to a
comprehensive review where onlyessential rules were readopted.
Basically, that means we willconstantly look at what we're

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doing and we will say do we needto be doing that anymore?
And if the answer is no, we donot need to be doing that
anymore, we will not do thatanymore Seems simple.
So the state of idaho since 2019, pretty similar to south dakota
1.8 million residents.
We have about 900 000, so it'sabout twice as big, but it's a
very, very small state.

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Geographical size they'reslightly larger, but very
similar.
They've reduced or simplified95 percent 95 percent of state
regulation since 2019, makingidaho one of the least regulated
states in our country.
This included cutting orsimplifying rules across various

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sectors, from environmentalregulations to business
licensing.
I think governor brad littlefrom idaho nailed it.
I think the state of southdakota albeit not identical and

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things wouldn't be identical Ithink in four years we could
massively reduce regulation inthe state of south dakota.
I don't know when or why or whodecided that every state law

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has to walk us through everysingle step of our daily life.
Government needs to get off ourbacks.
So this licensing freedom actthat governor little enacted,
it's basically what it does, isit it?
It it's sunrise and sunsetprocesses, right.
So it implements processes forevaluating new licensing laws

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and reviews existing licensinglaws to ensure that they are
still necessary and not overlyrestrictive.
Well, I can tell you they areoverly restrictive.
Heck, some of the licensing wehave.
You have to meet specificrequirements of how many dollars

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of food you have to sell in aperiod of time versus how much
liquor you can serve in a periodof time, and then you have to
report these very specificanalytics to your local
government.
Does that not sound likeover-regulation?
Hey, if I want to have a liquorlicense and I pay the city or I

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buy it from an existing licenseowner, I buy that license, it's
my license.
And if it says I can serveliquor between these hours, do
we really need more regulationthan that?
Oh toby, you didn't sell enoughcheeseburgers last year.
We're going to pull your liquorlicense, not paying people to

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monitor this stuff.
It would streamline licensing.
It's aimed at reducing thenumber of licenses required or
simplifying the process.
Aim n public input.
It encourages public andindustry feedback on licensing
requirements.
When's the last time the stategovernment listened to anybody

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governor?
Little also talked about rulesreauthorization process.
In idaho.
It's a.
It's basically a legislativemechanism where Idaho's
administrative code, whichincludes all state regulations,
must be periodicallyreauthorized by the legislature
to remain in effect, checks andbalance.

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The legislature can look atmoney that's being spent
administrative money and say Iwant you to come in and tell me
why you need that.
That's not happening right now.
There's no oversight.
Zero-based regulation it'sbasically an approach that was

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formalized by Governor Little in2020, where regulations are
reviewed from a zero base,meaning agencies must justify
the need for each regulationfrom scratch rather than
assuming all existing rules arenecessary.
So what does that mean?
That means I go to a governmentagency and I say show me all of

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your regulations.
And then I say you have to sellme on every regulation on your
books and if you cannot, theregulation goes away.
Let me repeat that.
So you go to a specific agencyin your state, let's say tourism
, for example and you say showme all the regulations involved

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with this particular agency andthen, line item by line item,
the people representing thatagency have to sell the value of
what it is that it does inorder to keep it.
You think that happens in SouthDakota?
You think that's going tohappen in Dusty Johnson's South
Dakota?
If you think we are overregulated today, you wait until

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one of these placeholder,faceless, nameless career
politicians become our governor,things would change for the
worse drastically, and they'realready headed in the wrong
direction.
The world also the wealthiestman in the world.
His recent net worth wasreported at $442 billion.

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Yes, with a B.
He has publicly Elon haspublicly discussed the topic of
regulatory reduction,emphasizing the need for less
regulation to foster innovationand economic growth.
He has applauded GovernorLittle in Idaho about his 38%
reduction in state regulation.

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So what are some benefits ofshrinking regulation in the
state of South Dakota?
Well, how about economic growth?
Number one, right at the top ofthe list.
Reducing state regulations inSouth Dakota would significantly
increase economic growth.
People talk all the time.

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How can we keep more of ouryoung adults that are graduating
colleges, our state colleges,school of Mines, all of the
great schools that South Dakotahas to offer for higher
education?
We are keeping a very, verysmall minority percentage of
them in our state.
Why?

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We don't have enoughopportunities for them to follow
the path that they achieve withtheir degrees.
So, over regulation preventsemployers from wanting to set up
shop in your state.
Yep companies look for theleast amount of government

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resistance.
Why do you think there's abillion dollar data processing,
ai, bitcoin mining whateverthey're doing in Ellendale,
north Dakota, because it wouldtake them 20 years to build that
in the Twin Cities or New YorkCity or Chicago.
But job creation, businessattraction, all of it when it's

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easier, less complicated and farless expensive to do business
and start businesses and todevelop and grow companies and
hire hundreds, if not thousands,of people.
It's much easier to do instates that have significantly
reduced regulation.

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It provides increasedinnovation, increased efficiency
, reduces costs for consumers Imean I can go on and on and on
increase transparency andaccountability.
You do understand the differencebetween a government agency or

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a government and the privatesector, right?
What do government agencies andgovernment leaders?
What do they do when they areshort of money?
They raise taxes, right, 100%.
What do private sectorbusinesses do when times are

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tough and profitability hasshrunk or they are losing money?
What do they do?
Well, they can do nothing andgo bankrupt.
They can't snap their fingerslike the government does and
just print more money or raisetaxes or both.
No, people like me that own andoperate businesses and I've been

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doing this for almost 30 yearsand I have been through every up
and down you can imagine inevery industry We've had some
really lean, tough times withmany of our businesses.
So what did we do?
We got more efficient.
We made hard, tough decisions,and every decision I made was

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always for the benefit of thewhole and forward thinking.
We have to survive today, butwe also need to be here in 10
years and in 20 years and in 30years.
It involves making harddecisions.
If your business booms and yougrow to 300 employees and the

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economy tanks and you're losingmoney, you have to lay staff off
.
No business owner likes to dothat.
When's the last time you heard agovernment agency federal state
south dakota, the city ofaberdeen?
When's the last time you hearda government agency federal
state South Dakota, the city ofAberdeen?
When's the last time that yousaw a federal agency reducing

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staff because of a budgetshortfall?
Never, it's never happened.
They just go into debt or theyborrow or they overtax.
We need more private sectorminds smart, shrewd business
people that make decisions basedon data, facts and analytics.

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This notion that governmentagencies should be run
differently than a privatesector business is fool's gold,
smoke and mirrors.
That's what the bureaucracywants you to think, so they can
justify doing what they're doing.
If south dakota had asuccessful, shrewd, analytical,

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analytical business personrunning our state.
I can guarantee you we wouldbecome more efficient, our
government would become smaller,regulation would significantly
decrease and you would seebudget surpluses that the state
of south dakota has neverimagined.

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We would take less federalmoney.
The goal would be to take nofederal money.
And what happens with thesemassive, massive state budget
surpluses?
What happens to them?
Well, now, if they have extramoney, they spend it on

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something.
What should happen?
It should go back to you.
I would advocate strongly thatwe get lean and we get efficient
and we run the state governmentas a for-profit business and we
end up with more money at theend of the year than what we
needed to operate and then wereturn that money back to you,

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the people of south dakota.
I don't know when the turningpoint was when south dakota
became a de facto dictatorship.
The state legislature issupposed to be running our state
.
State senators and staterepresentatives are elected by

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we, the people, and they, muchlike the senate back in ancient
rome.
They are chosen by the peopleto represent we, the people.
But when we get acommander-in-chief, aka the
governor of south dakota, whenthe governor of south dakota

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oversteps their bounds andauthority and starts mingling
and dictating to the statelegislature.
We are no longer a republic, weare a dictatorship.
The governor in our state shouldbe there to support the
legislature.
There's over 100 members, 100members selected by the great

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people, the smart voters ofSouth Dakota.
Those 100 people should berunning our state, not the
governor.
The governor should be the CEOof our state, holding everybody
accountable and dropping thehammer when it needs to be.
That, my friends, is the roleof a governor.

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It's a CEO.
I'm the CEO of nearly 20businesses and an investment
group.
I never get involved inday-to-day decisions.
I set the course of my business, I point my business in a
direction, I give my leadershipguardrails and I hold them
accountable.

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Absolute, 100% accountability,100% of the time, no exceptions,
no equivocations.
Yet for years.
And now we have governors whothink they run the whole state,
calling legislatures in andbelittling them because they
disagree.
No, you want that.

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You vote for dusty, you votefor marty, you vote for Marty
Jackley, you vote for LarryRoden.
I want change.
I want the power to be back towe, the people, and I want the
power to solely rest with thestate legislature.
And I want our governor to runthis state with an iron fist and

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hand it off to the nextgeneration.
So the state of South Dakotacan only survive forever and
remain a conservative stronghold.
Speaking of the state of SouthDakota, let's talk about illegal
immigration.
Illegal immigration, that's anational problem, right?

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Guess how many illegalimmigrants, criminals, criminals
, criminals.
Illegal is synonymous withcriminal.
So can we stop with the?
Oh, don't call them criminals,they're criminals.
There's a process in thiscountry for people from other
parts of the world to come herelegally.

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Yes, I know it's a long process.
Yes, I know it's hard, butshouldn't it be hard and
shouldn't it take a long time tovet these people who decided
that the several hundred millionpeople of the united states
should suffer because of theterrible governments around the

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country?
We can't fix the entire globe.
We, we can't, and it'sfrustrating to come to those
conclusions.
I've been frustrated for years.
My companies give back in avery large way.
We help out a lot of people ina lot of groups, and it is
frustrating because all of themoney in the world, I couldn't

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help everybody that I want to,and that's the way we need to
look at it as a federalgovernment.
So you can either feel sadabout people around the world,
and that's okay, I do too.
It's awful, it's horrible whatsome people have to live with,
but do you want to jeopardizeyour family livelihood, your

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safety, your families, your nextgeneration, like at some point
we have to take care ofourselves, because if we don't
remain a strong, unified nation,we're not going to be here a
hundred years from now to makesure that there's peace in the
world.
So that's estimated that southdakota has 10000 criminal

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illegal aliens.
What does it cost the state ofSouth Dakota, directly or
indirectly, to have theseroughly 10,000 illegal
immigrants living here?
It's estimated at $89 millionto $102 million a year.
So over the next 10 10 years,not even factoring in inflation

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or an increase of illegalimmigrants, based on today's
numbers, in 10 years we willhave spent north of a billion
dollars because of illegal,undocumented aliens living in
the state of south dakota.
People know this.
Do people not just want to?
I mean, like, being aneffective leader does not mean

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that you can pick and choose thesubjects and the issues that
you need to address.
The overwhelming majority ofpeople that I've met in my life
don't want to be leaders, andthat's okay.
Not everybody can be, but ifyou're going to step up to the
plate and you're going to take aleadership position, or you

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want to achieve a leadershipposition, you have to be willing
to address every subject, evenif they're delicate, and I get
it.
Illegal immigration it's adelicate subject, but the fact
of the matter is they should notbe here.
The 10 000 illegal immigrants,regardless of what they're doing
here, regardless of whetherthey've broken a law, they

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either need to pay their shareto be here or they need to be
deported from south dakota.
A hundred million dollars peryear.
All the while we are gouginghomeowners with 30 to 40 real
estate tax increases.
Utilities have more thandoubled in the state of south

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dakota in the last four years.
Insurance premiums have doubledin the state of South Dakota
the last four years.
Gas prices, groceries, pharmacy, everything has gone up.
Families have less money tospend.
Everybody in our state, withthe exception of very few, are

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worse off financially today thanthey were four years ago.
What could we do with the $100million a year that we're
spending supporting illegalimmigration in south dakota?
So, moving on to a nationaltopic, real quick, um, a lot of
people have been kind of keepingup on this story.
I think most people have beenkeeping up on the daniel penny

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story.
If you haven't, I'll give you aquick recap, but I mean this
has been, you know, capturingeverybody around the country.
Daniel Penny it's been a longtime ago now, I don't have the
date in front of me, but it'sbeen a long time was on a subway
and a gentleman by the name ofJordan Neely entered the subway

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and I'll fill in the details ina moment, but Daniel Penny ended
up restraining him in achokehold to keep him from
harming other passengers, andJordan Neely eventually ended up
dying, I believe, in thehospital hours later.
The police that were on siteright after it happened didn't

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arrest daniel penny because theysaid it was a justifiable act.
They let him go home, butgeorge soros da alvin bragg had
him arrested and charged himwith very serious crimes.
So who was jordan neely?
Jordan neely was arrested 42times in an eight-year span.

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He was arrested for assaultfour times.
One notable case involved anassault on a 67 year old woman
in 2021, where he reportedlypunched her, causing significant
injuries.
Another incident included neelyassaulting a woman by hitting

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her in the face.
There was an attemptedkidnapping in 2015.
He was trying to kidnap aseven-year-old girl.
He drug her down the street.
He pleaded guilty toendangering the welfare of a
child and was sentenced to fourmonths in jail.
His record also includedcharges for fraud, criminal

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trespass, public lewdness,criminal contempt and for
violating a restraining order.
He had an active warrant at thetime of his death.
He also had allegedly mentalhealth issues and homelessness
on a regular basis.
Who was Daniel Penny?
Daniel Penny, of course, wasthe hero that saved innocent

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lives on the subway that day.
Who was daniel penny?
Well, he was a veteran, is aveteran.
He served in the united statesmarine corps for four years.
He achieved the rank ofsergeant.
His last assignment was at camplejeune in North Carolina.
His platoon sergeants testifiedduring the trial that Penny had

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a reputation for being calm andpeaceful, highlighting his
character as one that would noteasily resort to violence or
aggression.
The incident on the subway wasdescribed by supporters as an
example of Penny's willingnessto protect others, portraying
him as a good samaritan.
Witnesses on the subway thatday reported that neely had

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entered the subway andthreatened to kill passengers,
and he said that he was willingto die.
So an individual in the UnitedStates enters a subway crowded
with hundreds of Americansstates.
Very clearly, and severalwitnesses talked about this

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during the trial Mr Neely veryclearly threatened to kill other
passengers on the subway thatday and said he didn't care if
he died.
While doing so, it wasphysically threatening and
intimidating them.
It was at some point thatDaniel Penny and his military

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training prompted him to act.
He was the only person on thetrain, or at least the first
person on the train, to act verycourageously, putting jordan
neely in an ordinary chokehold.
Jordan neely later died.
It's been a lot of disputesabout why he died.

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Uh, you know, you can look uphis blood work and his blood
tests and all the stuff that wasin his system.
But whether he died or notbecause of the choke in my
opinion is meaningless.
I would hope that anyupstanding citizen in this

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country was in a situation whereinnocent americans were being
physically threatened with harmor death that they would
immediately put their safetyaside and intervene.
I know I would, and thank godthat justice prevailed and
daniel penny was acquitted,because now I think that will

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give americans all over thecountry the trust maybe that
they need to get involved.
Like you've seen these videoson social media of people
getting beat up, people gettingattacked, and there's always
these idiots that arevideotaping with their phones.
And every time I'm thinking whyaren't you helping the victim?

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Some people say it's because ofwhat happened to Daniel Penny.
I still call complete BS onthat.
Regardless of what you think,the aftermath is going to be
when somebody is in trouble, youhelp, period.
So at the beginning I mentionedthat I wanted to talk about the

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mainstream media and theirratings tanking right.
Fox News is actually up 12%year over year Probably not a
surprise, although they'recertainly not as conservative as
they ought to be.
Msnbc year over over year,ratings down 53.
Msnbc in one year has lost overhalf of their viewership.

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Cnn down 34.
And here's a quick little factcnn just lost in the ratings to
drum roll please.
The Food Network you foodies,you did it.
The Food Network, despite theirreally, really low ratings,

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finished in 17th place among allcable stations last week in
primetime, beating CNN.
What?
Some of these long-term anchorsat CNN and MSNBC, like Rachel
Maddow, show a picture of her upon the screen and then, right
next to it, we're going to showa picture of Mark Cuban, and if

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there ever in the history ofAmerica was a set of twins that
were separated at birth but thenfound each other later in life.
It's definitely rachel maddowand mark cuban.
I also promised I was going totalk about the usps, the us
postal service.
I meant to talk about it alittle bit when we were talking
about all the governmentinefficiencies earlier.

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I didn't, but I do want tohighlight it quick.
So the fiscal year 2023 uspsprofit statement has been
released.
The united states postalservice lost 9.5 billion dollars

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.
Excuse me, this is 2024, my bad, I apologize.
2024 fiscal year.
The united states postalservice has lost 9.5 billion
dollars.
We pay them to deliver ourpackages and our mail, and the
government agency that's calledus postal service lost

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basically10 billion.
So let's compare how they didto their contemporaries in the
private sector.
How about UPS?
Net profit $4 billion.
What about FedEx Net profit $4billion.
So FedEx made $4 billion.
Ups made $4 billion.

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Our inefficient postal servicelost $10 billion.
Ups made 4 billion.
Our inefficient postal servicelost 10 billion dollars.
I would challenge you to findanother statistic that more
accurately portrays what adisaster our government agencies
are.
I cannot wait until January20th, while we get to watch
vivek ramaswamy and elon muskstart kicking you know what with

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doge department of governmentefficiency.
I don't like talking aboutstuff like this, but it's news
and it's disgusting.
A here on middle school teacher,zachary kaderebek, is on unpaid
leave, accused of sending nudepictures to someone he thought

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was a 14 year old girl.
Throw up a picture of him realquick.
This gentleman was a huronmiddle school teacher accused of
sending nude pictures to a girlhe thought was 14 years old.
According to court documents,it wasn't a girl he thought was
14 years old.
According to court documents,it wasn't a girl, but it was a
teenage boy who made a fakeSnapchat account and was

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catfishing him.
Kedara Beck stands accused oftwo counts of sexual
exploitation of a minor, alongwith two counts of solicitation
of a minor.
He is scheduled to be in courtin January when he'll have to
respond to the charges.
In May of this year, courtdocuments say a 12-year-old girl
told a friend Kaderabek hadadded her and sent her a message

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on Snapchat which made her feeluncomfortable.
According to court papers, thatfriend responded by making a
catfish or a fake account posingas a 14-year-old girl named
Kate.
The documents say Kaderabekmade sexual comments and sent
photos of his genitalia.
While we will wait and see whathappens to that case.
He is presumed innocent untilproven guilty.

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If he indeed is proven guilty,I hope he gets a very, very long
prison sentence.
And lastly, today we're going totalk about something pretty
exciting for you football fans.
The fcs championship playoffsare into the quarterfinals and

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and I'll tell you what, if thisisn't exciting?
We have three local schools,two that are important because
they're from South Dakota.
The other ones are, you know,up north and they've won about
600 championships.
So you know they can probablysit this one out, but they're
still in the quarterfinals.
Ndsu plays this weekend.

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Sdsu plays at home at 11 am onsaturday and they play I gotta
find it here uiw incarnate word.
I love some of these names ofthese fcs football teams.
It's great, I love it.
So south dakota State plays at11 am.

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It was originally scheduled fornoon.
It's been pushed up to 11.
I am going to the game.
I don't know who's going withme yet, but I will be there.
We are going to get somecontent at that game for next
week's episode.
Sdsu is a pretty large favoritefor you folks out there that
like to legally wager on somegames.

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Sdsu, I think, is like a 16 ora 17 point favorite.
If they take care of businessand show up on Saturday, they
should win that game handily.
University of South Dakota is aslight favorite.
They're also at home.
They play at 2 pm in the DakotaDome on Saturday.
I am going to plan on beingthere as well.
Well, toby, how are you goingto be in Brookings at 11 and

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Vermillion at 2?
I am Houdini and I fully planon making that happen.
So I want to go to the SDSUgame.
I'm thinking SDSU is going towhoop some butt.
We're going to whip out ofthere by the end of the third
quarter.
It's basically a 25-minuteflight to Vermilion.
We're going to catch most of,if not all of the USD game and

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I'm going to be home by dinner.
I'm excited and USD and SDSUare on opposite sides of the
bracket and I am alreadyshopping for my tickets in
Frisco.
I want to go to Frisco and Iwant to watch the Coyotes versus
the Jackrabbits.
Let's do a total South Dakotatakeover of the FCS football

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playoffs.
Thank you all again for joiningme today.
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