America is Winning...Bigly

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What an incredible weekend, setting up an incredibly busy broadcast
week I am dan O'Donnell. Three hours of conservative thought,
not just talk on the way. Broadcast excellence, what we
strive for most often, broadcast competence, what we achieve? President
Trump in France ahead of the G seven summit, announcing

(00:23):
that the Iran deal has been digitally signed. I don't
know do world leaders use DOCU sign for treaty's formal
signing ceremony is scheduled for this Friday. He says, the
straight of horror moves is opening up one of the
widely acknowledged best sporting events in the history of this country.

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And know that is not an exaggeration. The UFC Freedom
two fifty on the White House South Lawn was a
success beyond anyone's expectations. All of this comes as the
World Cup opens up in the US and Americans finally

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finally start to feel like they're in the mood to
celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth not because of all
the spectacle, not because of the pomp and circumstance, but
because of foreigners in the United States for the Cup,
sampling Chipotle and getting free refills of nachos and salsa.

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I will explain how exactly that is forcing all of
us who take the little things about America for granted,
to re examine them and re examine this country us
with fresh eyes. And it is those little things that
add up to big, big moments such as graduations. This

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past weekend undoubtedly the most popular across Wisconsin for high
school graduation ceremonies, and ladies and gentlemen, in the five
o'clock hour, you are going to hear what I believe
might have been one of the best graduation speeches I
have ever heard. It didn't come from a valedictorian, It
didn't come from a class president, it didn't come from

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I don't know a celebrity alum. Do they do that
at high school graduations like they do at college commencement ceremonies.
It came from a high school principle. His message is
so universal, it is so timeless, It is so incredible
that everyone, and I mean everyone needs to hear it.
You're not gonna want to miss it coming up in
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wherever you listen to podcasts. President Trump in France meeting

(04:26):
with French President Emmanuel Mahrone and announcing that the deal
with Iran, the memorandum of understanding that formally ends hostilities,
is already signed. There's going to be a big signing ceremony,
but the straight of horror moves is already starting to
open up, obviously, with oil and other materials flowing through

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one of the critical choke points for commerce in the
entire world. American stock market also buoyed by the space xipo,
and while Elon maybe literally going to the moon sometime soon, figuratively,
this stock appears to be going to the moon now evaluation,
at least earlier in the trading day. I'm not sure

(05:09):
where exactly we closed, but earlier in the trading day,
the valuation skyrocketed of this company from one point seven
trillion dollars. Now this is market cap, this is not
actual evaluation, so market cap.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
To two point four trillion dollars.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yet another example of America winning just the most incredible
weekend might have been the greatest sports weekend of all time,
but the weekend, I think that for most of this
country it really felt like the kickoff of America's two
fiftieth because it felt like, finally we have celebrations befitting

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how awesome this country is. We have the incredible success
of American entrepreneurship and capitalism on full display. We have
everything good about America in front of the entire world
in this World Cup, and oh, by the way, President Trump,
on probably the most amazing heater of his life on

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his birthday, celebrates his eightieth birthday. In the afternoon, he
announces that a deal is done with Iran. We're going
to reopen the strait of horror moves. And then at
night the UFC Freedom two point fifty event, widely considered
again one of the most incredible sports spectacles that has
ever been put on. Today, President Trump taking off for

(06:33):
the G seven summit in France, joint meeting with Immanuel
Macrone outlining just a little bit of what is in
this memorandum of understanding.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Very happy to saying when you're signed the deals, all
the sign and the strain has already partially opened. As
you know, they're doing a little hunting for a couple
of minds they've already found.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
But it's essentially ships are starting to go out now.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
On Friday, it will be completely open. We got along
very well with Iran. It's a different set of leaders,
as you know. The first set is gone, the second
set is gone, and we found the third set to
be very smart, strong, very smart. But we ended up
making a deal. I felt badly that we had to

(07:24):
go back on the attack for two nights, and I.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Thought a third, but we made it before that happened.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
But I think a lot of great things are going
to happen in the Middle East right now, and very importantly,
the oil is plummeting down and the stock market is
shooting up like a rocket today, like record kind of numbers,
and the oil is taking its biggest bunge, and we're
into the low numbers. Not quite back yet, Kevin to

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the extent, but we're getting close to the numbers we
were before it all started.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
And the main thing is that will not have a
deflu weapon.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
I fully agree to that with strong policing balers, and
it won't have a deple a weapon, which is what
was a little bit because I think probably would have
used it if they had it.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
We will have much more on this will go in
greater depth in the daily Trump date coming up in
the four o'clock hour. But suffice it to say on
foreign policy, on American economic might, so on military might,
on diplomatic might, on the might of our American economy,
that capitalistic might as evidenced by SpaceX and the roaring

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lion that is America's stock market. And also yes, what
is derisively referred to as the bread and circuses of
the World Cup and the UFC two fifty. On every
conceivable score, it seems that America won, and dare I
say to bar a popular term from Trump one big

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lely this weekend. But not everybody is happy. In fact,
as you might imagine, Democrats are just like spirot agnews
nattering nabobs of negativity. Right around America's two hundredth anniversary,
they are saying that, well, we gave up way too
much in this Iran deal. Really, the people who were

(09:24):
just fine of secret planeloads full of cash and gold
boolion going to the Ayatola in the Obama administration's secret
negotiations for the JCPOA formerly known as the Iran Nuclear Dealer,
totally fine with that. But the second that Trump says
all right, we've got a deal, immediately there is misinformation

(09:47):
left and right about how we're giving away three hundred
billion dollars. Vice President jd Vance had to go on
ABC News this morning to clear that up. No Iran
doesn't get a thing. This is all performance based. If
they can demonstrate that they're willing to cooperate with American
and international atomic energy regulators. Then yes, then we can

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start talking about sanctions relief. Then we can talk about
unfreezing assets. They don't get anything up front. What they
get up front is the fact that, as you heard
President Trump talk about this third set of leaders that
we can negotiate with, they don't end up like the
first two. And I think Trump is already demonstrated he
is more than willing to go that route when he

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feels like he needs to. So we've got all of
this winning, we have got all of this American success.
We have got one of the biggest anniversaries that many
of us are going to celebrate of this country in
our lifetimes. In America's two fifty I hope, I sincerely hope.
I was born five years after America's two hundredth. I
sincerely hope I'll be around for the three hundredth. But

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that would make me I will have just turned ninety
five years old. So I'm going to say probably only
like a what would you say, eighty ninety percent chance
I make it to ninety five. No, it's fifty to
fifty at best. You live that long. Even with the
advances in yes, American medical technology and the leaps and
bounds advances of artificial intelligence and super computing in medicine

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that is going to potentially allow all of us to
live a whole lot longer and have quality of life
that would have been unheard of just a generation or
less a go well into our eighties and nineties. All
of this is going on, All of this is demonstrating
just how incredible it is and how everybody in this country,
and as recently as America's two hundredth everybody in this

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country would have been incredibly proud of everything this weekend,
but a whole lot of us are not. And as
you can imagine, it is of course broken down by politics.
Because as all of this is going on, yet another
poll came out, this one from NBC News showing that

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Democrats just aren't at all proud to be American. Only
twenty nine percent said that they were very proud to
be American or extremely proud to be American. Republicans it's
about ninety percent, and this is consistent across poles. Every

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single year, Gallup does an annual Patriotism survey and asks
a group of people, how proud are you to be American?
Ninety two percent of Republicans last year said they were
very proud or extremely proud to be American, versus just
thirty six percent of Democrats.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
That is the widest gap.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Since two thousand and one, when this polling was first started,
just a couple of months before nine to eleven. As
you can imagine, huge, huge patriotism swem in this country
in about the first year or two after the nine
to eleven attacks, and then of course it dissipated and
it really hasn't gone back up. We have seen a

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nose dive amongst Democrat respondents ever since, primarily because the
messaging here is not just that this country is off
on the wrong track. And you'll see patriotism spike a
little bit when Democrats actually control the presidency, but it
doesn't spike all that much because the overall message is

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that it doesn't really matter whether it's Democrats who are
Republicans who control the White House. What's really in control
of this country is systemic racism and sexism, and homophobia,
transphobia and xenophobia and overall bigotry. Those numbers, by the way,
I was a little off. In the NBC News pool,

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ninety percent of Republicans extremely are very proud to be American.
I believe I put the Democrat number a little higher
than it should have been twenty nine percent for Democrats.
So less than one out of every three Democrat voters
is proud to be an American. And it's because they
have been inundated, especially post Ferguson in twenty fourteen and

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really ramping up post George Floyd in the woke era
of twenty twenty. They have been told and they have
really internalized the message, especially young voters. You see a
massive split eighteen to thirty four year olds, just thirty
six percent say they're proud to be American, sixty five
plus seventy five percent. There's just no comparison. And it's

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also no surprise that the farthest left, socialist leaning voters
tend to be in that eighteen to thirty four.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Year old cohort.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
But they have been inundated with this messaging that not
only is America this awful place that needs to constantly
be apologized for, but that we can never escape the
the original sin of slavery, of colonialism. It is overall
a very pessimistic worldview, and thus every success of this nation,

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everything that most other people would say is evidence of
American greatness, is somehow transformed into yet another example of
how America has gotten unjustly wealthy and unjustly powerful, unjustly
successful off of the backs of slave labor, off of
the backs of oppression and native people who were genocided

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so that this country could exist. It almost seems like
a caricature, but it is accurate.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
I said.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Over the weekend, I attended an incredible graduation speech.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Also over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
It might have been last weekend actually, Stanford University, at
least the video started making its way to social media,
had its commencement ceremony, its graduation. A whole ton of
kids actually walked out while one of the speakers speaking,
of course, chanting free, free Palestine. Their omni cause is
not necessarily Palestine, it's not necessarily black lives matter, it's

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not necessarily trans rights. It is the idea that America
and by extension its colonialist ally Israel in the Middle East,
represent the ultimate evil of society, and that every single
thing that is wrong with global society today stems from

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this idea. That there are two groups of people, fundamentally
oppressors and the oppressed, and that you can never ever
if you are the oppressed, you can never ever ever
rise up, unless, of course, someone organizes you into a
political force and you rise up against the racially balkanized

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bourgeoisie who control not just the means of production, but
the keys to all wealth and power, not just in
America but also in the broader world. Folks, it's nothing
but Marxist socialism on a racial countrywide scale. You've seen
it be very successful in Europe, and you've seen it

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be increasingly successful here in the United States. But something
is standing in the way of the domination of this
idea that America is not this great place. And that's
a whole bunch of Euros and Asians coming to this country,
often for the first time, and experiencing not the might

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and majesty of the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty,
but fast food, bottomless refills. We'll explain when the Dan
O'Donnell show returns. It certainly feels that this weekend was

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the weekend where America finally started to feel in the
mood to celebrate the greatness and majesty of all that
we've accomplished in the two hundred and fifty years since
the declaration of independence. And it's not necessarily the admittedly
incredible UFC two fifty event which Democrats were trying their

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best to keep people away from us. Oh my gosh,
the weather is going to be terrible. There was like
a twenty minute rain delay at the beginning the skies parted.
There's incredible, incredible shot of the national mall, the big
crowds that had gathered to watch the video screens from
the event.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Just outside of the White House.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You had the fighters walking out for walkouts through the
White House down the steps, and the President's own marine
band playing their intro music. It was just it was
a surren experience. The flyover during the national anthem was
just incredible, But it wasn't the spectacle of that. It
wasn't the spectacle of the World Cup. The NBA Finals

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also this week. You can make actually a very good
case that this was the greatest sports weekend in the
history of sports weekends in this country. And I didn't
even get into here locally. The miz fifteen strikeouts, a
one hitter, complete game. He faced the minimum twenty seven
batters on Friday night. One of the best pitching performances.

(19:32):
We have ever seen the fastest pitch was it this
season or ever by a starting pitcher? One hundred and
four point five miles an hour. Just unbelievable from Jacob Miseraski.
And we'll get into all of that a little bit later.
But no, it wasn't any of that. Well, it wasn't
the Iran deal, It wasn't the might and majesty the

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American any of that. It was Europeans and Japanese touring
coming into this country and reflecting on their observations about
America as they're in town for the World Cup, like
the Japanese national team happened to be playing in Texas.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
Where are you guys from?

Speaker 8 (20:15):
Where's everyone from?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
America?

Speaker 7 (20:19):
Texas?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Texas is good everything to be, including our high school
soccer and football stadiums or mostly football stadiums.

Speaker 9 (20:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
This was the topic of fascination for a whole lot
of people coming into this country. One guy from England
just how big everything is. He was amazed by how
big our high school stadiums are.

Speaker 10 (20:41):
Right, this is a high school stadium. What look at
the amount of seats in this place. Do they actually
fill these stadiums? Like do people actually come for the
games that actually fill these out, because that's howmostly mental,
Like that is crazy. There was a ton of seats
in here. If this was England, literally be like on
a little park field with dogs everywhere.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's undeniably true. Or how about these ladies trying Chipotle
for the first time.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Had Chipole in.

Speaker 10 (21:13):
Australia, I swear to God I would be there every
single day.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
It is so good.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Guzman needs to take notes. Mad Mexican needs to take notes.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Like what is in this crack?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
But it is one Japanese tourist who goes by the
handle japan Nobunga on x waxing poetic about bottomless chips
and salsa at a Mexican restaurant in Texas that has
captured the world's attention because of what it says about

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the United States, what it says about our culture, and
something that truly, truly every American takes for granted. That's
what he writes, Usa a Mexican restaurant. We had not
yet ordered anything and the food was already arriving. Chips
salsa unrequested free. I stopped the waiter. We have not

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earned these. They just come with the table, man, They
come with the table. In my land, hospitality is a debt.
Every gift creates an obligation. Wade carefully returned in the
proper season, with interest of feeling here. The gift arrives
before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

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This is not an appetizer, This is a declaration we
trust you.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Eat.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved, and then
I must report this calmly. The basket emptied and a
new one appeared. Did we refill? The waiter said, it's bottomless. Bottomless,
They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this
nation are beyond anything. My ancestors, imagined, warned me, don't

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fill up on chips.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Dude, too late.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I had accepted three baskets, honor demanded each one be finished.
An unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my
actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was
not hungry, I was not comfortable. I had been defeated
by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot

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be repaid, It can only be survived.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I know the rule.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Now, I have made my peace with the basket. One
basket too. At the most, who am I deceiving? There
is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust
of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend
to honor all of it. That's just a random guy

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writing about something that is totally foreign in his culture,
bottomless chips and salsa. I guarantee you everybody who went
out to a Mexican restaurant over the weekend, or who
went to any restaurant and got bottomless coke or free refills,
which is another thing that people are just amazed by.

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Free refills. Nobody thinks about it, Nobody ever believes that
this is something that actually says something a little deeper
about the United States and our culture.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
But this does.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
And people are saying online that if there was a
Pulitzer Prize for tweets, no Bunga and the bottomless Chips
and Solsa would be the first one to win it.
The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my
ancestors imagined. And that's the thing. That's the thing that
people are understanding. They're realizing you can get waffle House

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at two am, if you need a whiffle ball bat
at eleven thirty pm, you can just go to a
walmarting get it. We have incredible, huge homes compared to
much of Europe, Japan, everywhere even a modest sized house

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in Middle America.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
And this is the thing.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
A lot of these fans. They're not going to New York,
They're not going to Los Angeles, Chicago. Chicago isn't even
hosting any World Cup games. They're going to random cities
like Kansas City, Missouri. They're going to Dallas, Texas. They're
being dropped in the middle of this country. And the
thing that is really getting them even more than local culture.

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For example, the Czech Republic soccer team went to a
rodeo down in Texas. More than that, more than the
culture shock, more than being amazed at just how much
wealth and how much we just excess that we have.
What they're finding is that the people of this country
are incredibly kind, generous, friendly, welcoming, helpful. Propagandas to believe

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that America, just like American liberals have been propagandas to
believe that, well, they're going to hate you because you're different,
because you're foreign, nothing could be farther from the truth.
The actual America isn't on the coasts. It's not in Washington,
d C. It's not in the government. It's always been
in the people, the industriousness, the entrepreneurial spirit. But over

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and above that, the kindness, the goodness, the decency, the
willingness to bend over backwards to help your fellow man.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
People across the world are.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Recognizing this, they're discovering it for the first time, realizing
that for their entire lives they've been lied to about
America and America hens, and they're actually instilling in us
what just might be the best gift that we could
have gotten ahead of our two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
the best birthday present the rest of the world could
have given us, seeing this country, seeing us through fresh eyes,

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seeing us and saying, you know what, there there actually
is something special about this country. There has nothing to
do with wealth, It has nothing to do with power,
military or otherwise. It has everything to do with kindness,
with decency, with goodness. And when we talk about American exceptionalism,
ultimately it starts with that. We'll be right back to

(27:25):
discuss this a little further right here on the Dan
O'Donnell Show.

Speaker 6 (27:36):
It's just incredible, absolutely incredible. There really is like no other.

Speaker 7 (27:43):
I honestly think unless you unless you live in America,
or unless you or unless you visit here, you can't
really comprehend how nice these areas are.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Those aren't the areas that everybody talks about when they
put together travel brochures for America. You know, Grand Canyon,
Yellowstone National Park, California, Los Angeles, those are amazing. America
has some of the most beautiful, breathtaking natural landscapes in

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the entire world. It's got some of the most incredible cities.
What he's talking about, this is yet another European tourist
in town for in this country for the World Cup.
He's talking about just a random spot in Kansas City
where a lot of these fans are going. He's talking
about just you know, a babbling brook and a beautiful

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majestic forest.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
We've got all of it.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
In order to fall in love with this country, I
mean truly fall in love with this country again. I
encourage you go on social media and check out some
of these videos TikTok x. There are great compilations of
them of Europeans, especially just going to America and realizing
that pretty much everything they've heard about this country, and

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more importantly, about the people of this country, has just
been totally wrong. Now you contrast that with the propaganda
that really has a dramatic impact and has had a
dramatic impact on American liberals on this increasingly socialistic mindset
that everything is terrible, that we are divided between the

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haves and have nots. Just so, look no further than
Elon Musk on paper becoming a trillionaire. We have the
world's first trillionaire. And already, of course the usual suspects,
the Mandela barnes Is and the Francesca Hongs here in Wisconsin,
the Zoron Mondani's in New York, the Bernese. They're saying
trillionaires should not exist, that the government should just seize

(29:57):
all of the wealth after you get a dollar short
of being a trillionaire, because billionaires shouldn't exist either. So
at what point does the government say that you've made
enough money? And why is it that government gets to
determine how much money you make? Why is it that
government gets any say in that it inasmuch as they

(30:24):
can seize your wealth, which is still grossly unconstitutional, believe
it or not, The Libs tried to counter program the
UFC fight on the White House lawn last night, so
they trotted out Robert de Niro, who is considering. This
is the thing that's so heartbreaver. So so many people

(30:46):
like my age and especially older who grew up with
Bobby De Niro and The Godfather and Raging Bull and
taxi driver. I mean, the list goes on and on
and on. The man is one of the greatest American
actors of all time. To hear him just become a
whiny liberal third is somewhat heartbreaking. But you contrast the
people who are seeing this country, experiencing this country, realizing

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that all the propaganda coming from the socialist media and
socialist governments of their country are just totally wrong. And
you get someone like Bobby de Niro being totally not
proud of this country, resentful and hateful towards this country.
One of the sixty one seventy one percent, seventy one
percent of Democrats NBC News pulled just out a couple

(31:31):
of days ago, said they are not proud to be American.
Ninety percent of Americans, ninety percent of Republicans proud, very proud,
or extremely proud, to be American just twenty nine percent
of Democrats. You want to know what the attitude of
the other seventy one percent of those Democrats. Just listen
to Bobby de Niro from last night.

Speaker 11 (31:51):
The phrase we all love our country stuck in my
throat because our country isn't so lovable right now. I
hate to say it, but loving our country is starting
to sound like an abuse spouse saying they loved their abuser.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
That's that's the attitude right there. Keep going, keep going.

Speaker 11 (32:13):
By a racist massogynist is an aphobic tyrant. And let
me just say it, I can't love the country that's
led by Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
And I mean I spent four years loving the country
that was led by someone who is too senile to
realize he was actually leading the country and Joe Biden.
I loved the country as much as I ever did
when Barack Obama or Bill Clinton were running in every
bit as much as when George W. Bush or Donald

(32:51):
Trump or H. W or Ronald Reagan. Those are the
presidents during my lifetime. I don't think my love of
country ever change now. Liberals, yes, have this bizarre obsessive
fixation with their hatred for Donald Trump. And I do
believe that is the manifestation of some sort of deep

(33:13):
seated psychological malady that impacts far too many of them.
But this is largely independent. Well, I can't love my
country because it elected Donald Trump. Well, a whole lot
of Democrats, a whole lot of people who believe this
see Donald Trump as a symptom of American's broader sickness.

(33:33):
That well, of course they're going to elect a racist,
misogynist like Trump. This is who America is now. Never
mind the fact, never mind the fact that, over and
above anything Trump has ever done, the abuses of governmental
power that were undertaken to try to get him from

(33:57):
returning to office manufacturing charge Joe Biden literally saying, according
to his biography by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, that
he didn't have to worry about campaigning because he was
not going to have to really do any campaigning because
Trump would be in jail. Democrats were why didn't Biden

(34:18):
just step aside? Why did Biden put us in this
position where you know, we had to scramble to get
him off the ticket and to nominate Kamala Harris because
the political strategy was to literally lock up the opposition,
something that is fundamentally anti American, antithetical to everything that

(34:41):
right minded Americans. I'm not talking about politically right minded
people who understand just how dangerous what was happening really was.
People are coming into this country, everybody who recognizes it
for the totalitarian, far left, authoritarian power grab that it was.

(35:01):
That the hatred that manifests itself constantly causes all manner
of bad anti American behavior. Hey, we're going to lighten
things up a little bit from that same lib counter
programming of the UFC fight. A song that is so
bad it'll get stuck in your head all night, Stay tuned.

Speaker 6 (35:21):
Unhinge lifts Conservatism contemporary style.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
This is the Dan o'donald Show, coming up next hour.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Here on the Dan o'donald Show, the Daily Trump Date.
Of course, each and every afternoon we update you on
what's going on in Donald Trump's Washington before the Nightly
News gets its chance to spin.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
An iron deal.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Apparently already doc you signed President Trump making that announcement
in France. Today we will get into that the financial ramifications,
as well as this past weekends Wisconsin Democratic State Party Convention,
the Straw Poll was the big highlight, and it wasn't
who won it, it was who finished sixth out of seven.

(36:09):
We will dive into that. The best political analysis in Wisconsin,
both here and online at the Heartland Post. Our staff
put together what it means that Mandela Barnes finished second
last amongst party delegates in that straw poll, beating out

(36:30):
only Missy Hughes, who's pulling at about one percent. Mandela
is supposed to be the front runner.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
What gives?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
We've got a great piece of Heartlandpost dot com. We
will be discussing here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, then
in the five o'clock hour. Trust me when I say this, folks,
one of the single best graduation speeches you will ever hear,
and it comes from a high school principle in the
Milwaukee suburbs. Five o'clock hour, you are not going to

(36:57):
want to miss this speech. Right now though, Time to
name the unhinged liberal of the death we are in pre.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
Nazi Germany.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Coups dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
America, Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you the
Libs are singing again the UFC Freedom two fifty fight
at the White house is a massive dare I say,
smashing success. They held a counter programming rally that featured

(37:40):
this catchy number from boomer Lib women singing about defeating fascism.
You're bow fascist bound, Hey, la, I am fascist.

Speaker 11 (37:57):
Let me put you straight.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
When you come, all the rest of us will fight
you at the.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
Gate and you will lose.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
You fascist bowl.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Everybody involved in that the production that was not AI Unfortunately,
that was a bunch of boomer Lib women uh, singing
their little hearts out. Everyone involved in that, your unhinged
liberals of the day, all you fascists boundaries. I heard it,

(38:27):
So now you have to Dan O'donnalds show coming right
back in just a second, more conservative thought and not
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(39:10):
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(39:32):
you're gonna want to stick around for what I think
is one of the best graduation speeches I ever heard,
and it comes from a suburban high school teacher in Wisconsin.
So just kind of looking through some of the social
media comments on our live stream, some of the texts
on our Carpetland USA Flooring Center talk and text line.

(39:56):
A lot of people want me to comment on the
one guy who knocked out Derek Lewis screaming at the
end of his remarks, Michelle Obama is a man. What
do you say, America, or something to that effect. Isn't
that right, America? What do you think, America? Whatever it
is you're telling me, a dude who professionally gets hit

(40:20):
in the head over and over and over again might
say something stupid and boorish occasionally never would have guessed. Yeah,
obviously it was inappropriate. And so folks, just so we're
clear here, just what this is. I forget the guy's name.
He's apparently quite good. He's undefeated or he's got one loss.
He's like an up and coming fighter. And Derek lewis

(40:43):
known as the Black Beast. Everybody was sort of pulling
for him. He's kind of aging, and you could see
that he was just totally tired. Also, I could not
believe the size of the gut on either of those guys.
Him out and then starts screaming what this was is

(41:04):
an attempt to distract, Like, does this guy the random
cage fighter speak for all conservatives? Well, of course that's
what the narrative is supposed to be, that this event
was a failure because, oh my goodness, Michelle Obama was offended.
Do I need to pull up like five random minutes

(41:26):
of the boomer lib counterprogramming rally to hear them insulting
Trump or saying something about Donald Trump?

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Of course not. But yeah, it was borish, it was dumb.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
It's a ridiculous conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama is actually
a man.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
I don't know. What do you want me to say?
Did it mar the event? No? Of course, not only
if you're a lib. Did it mar the event? All right?
Each and every afternoon, we try to get you.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
For the nightly news twists everything President Trump says and focuses,
of course, instead of the great event on the White
House one, focusing instead on some stupid comment or another.
We try to get you the unfiltered President Trump quotes

(42:24):
what happened today, Ladies and gentlemen, It is the daily
Trump Day.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
We're gonna win so much you may even get.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Tired of winning. Trump just keeps waiting. It is a
win for the administration.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win moore.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
President Trump going right from the UFC fight on his
eightieth birthday. By the way, that's another thing that this
is like Emperor Caesar Trump gustus that he was holding
a gladiator fight in honor of his name day. No,
that wasn't it at all. It's also Flag Day. And

(43:05):
by the way, the UFC did an incredible job with patriotism,
its little video viignettes, all of which I will point
out or at least the vast majority of which were
produced using AI. Lest you think that AI is, you know,
creative AI, generative AI is a passing fancy. Everything you

(43:29):
saw in between those fights, all of those incredible videos
of Washington crossing the Delaware and you saw the footsteps
there was a revolutionary war soldiers marching. The first step
on all of that was AI. Neil Armstrong hopping out
of the lander onto the surface of the moon. All

(43:50):
of it was generative AI, and the UFC just did
an incredible job with all of this. It was a
gift to America and sort of the kickoff to the
America two point fifty celebration. So President Trump, how's about
the best birthday? He turned eighty years old? I think
anyone could have happened. In the afternoon, it's announced that

(44:11):
at long last, there is a memorandum of understanding, a
deal that ends hostilities in Iran. And today President Trump
after taking off for the G seven meeting in France
with French President Immanuel Macrone, whose wife also is not
a man. By the way, can we put that one
to rest. Candice Owen's still getting sued for every last

(44:35):
dollar she ever made for claiming that the first Lady
of France is actually a man that I love this
like it's her brother, that her brother is actually her
and the brother mysteriously vanished thirty years ago. And then
the first Lady of French, Brigitte Macrone, the brother has

(44:56):
been at like everyone of Emmanuel mac Own's inauguration ceremonies.
There's pictures of the brother and sister, Brigitte and John
Michell or whatever the help it's some French name. I
don't know, Francois Macrone or Francois whatever, standing next to
each other.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Stupidity exists on both the left and the right. Okay,
the Michelle Obama is a man, Brigitte Macrone is a man.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
That's stupidity on the left.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
So President Trump is with Immanuel Macrone and made the
announcement that the Iran deal is actually already signed. I
did not know you could sign international treaties with DOCU signed,
but he did make the announcement today that it was
already electronically agreed to.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
And hopefully it's going to be a good relationship and
we're going to get along, and if we don't we
go back to where we started.

Speaker 5 (45:51):
But I don't think it's going to be necessary.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
The the Iran deal that we made is going to
bring a lot of a lot of success to the world.
Because the oil was really clogged up there for a while.
They would call me on occasion say come on, please,
let's call it the oil prices. But the oil is coming.
Wind has a very honored name.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
In fact, oil dropped all the way to at least
very briefly, under eighty dollars a barrel, from a high
of about one hundred and five bucks. We are getting
down to pre war pricing, even though that here in
America at least, we are in the middle of the
summer driving season, which typically produces a tremendous amount of
demand and that pushes oil prices higher. But a tremendous

(46:36):
amount of optimism surrounding this deal. President Trump asked, when
we're going to get some of the specifics released.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
I think pretty soon, I would say, I mean, I
wanted to be released because it's a very powerful document.
It's not like the Obama document, which was just a
terrible document. This is a very powerful document, and I
wanted to be released. So probably pretty soon I would
say after some time after Friday, because the straight opens

(47:10):
completes open now, but it opens completely. We have all
the minds knocked out them for the most but we
have a lot of aids right now already, So I
think I think sometime, I think sometime in the very interviews.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
And as for the narrative that the United States is
going to provide immediate sanctions relief or just like during
the Obama administration, send palettes of cash to Iran in
order to grease the skids and get a deal done,
the President said, no, absolutely.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
Any sas relieve or Iran. But it is well, they
have to. It's really a behavioral thing.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
If they do what they're supposed to do, that starts
taking effect.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Earlier in the day, Vice President JD. Vance went on
AB Good Morning America in an interview with George Stephanopoulis
and said, look, no, this is one hundred percent performance based.
Iran does not get a single cent until we can
confirm that they are upholding every single aspect of their

(48:17):
end of the bar.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
And we already signed the deal digitally yesterday and there's
been no money released, and that won't change.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
George, again, this is a performance based thing.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
If we see the Iranians making, for example, taking action
to eliminate their stockpile of enriched material, then yes, sanctions.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
Relief will follow.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
If we see the Iranians taking action to allow the
kind of verification regime that we need to see to
know that they're not going to build a nuclear weapon,
yes sanctions relief will follow. So this is really about
walking down a pathway here where the Iranians will be
welcomed into the world economy if they do the right thing.
And George, we have to remember, their economy is fundamentally destroyed.

(48:57):
Their nuclear program is fundamentally destroyed. If they don't do
the right things, if they don't allow the verification regime,
they're never going to have the money to rebuild their
nuclear program to begin with. So this is fundamentally a
win win for the American people. What the President has
said is he wants it to be a win for
the Iranian people as well, but that requires some real
trust building and some real positive conduct from the Iranian

(49:20):
political system.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
We're going to see if that happens.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
If it does, they're absolutely going to find the President
the United States and the entire team a willing partner
to make their country more prosperous.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
The signing ceremony is set for Friday. Vice President Vance
will be their President. Trump, it is believed will be there.
Not a guarantee, however, and as the President said, likely
we are going to get more details from that deal
after that signing ceremony. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been

(49:50):
your daily Trump date. We now bring in Dave Spono,
the CEO of Annex Wealth Management, to help you know
the difference between financial advisors and know the difference between
a bull market and one that quite literally with the
SpaceX ipo, seems to be going to the moon. Dave,
we have got a whole lot of optimism right now,

(50:11):
not just with SpaceX, not just with Iran, but with
the idea here that all of this is also along
with earnings, going to put pressure on the Fed to
not raise interest rates that we likely are going to
be par for the course with that, and this economy

(50:31):
just really looks like it's sitting on the verge of
taking off.

Speaker 8 (50:36):
Yeah, you look at for example, the GDP report, you know,
the GDP now report is mid threes. You know, we've
seen some reports up to five percent quarter GDP report,
and obviously that is very very good, and as you
pointed out, their earnings were fantastic, Dan, I mean twenty
eight percent year over year. It's top descyl of that.

(50:57):
So that is economically really good. But it starts with
you know what you're talking about this MoU. You know,
we'll see it later this week, and it's it's more
important than just opening up the straits. Do the Iranian people,
as you pointed out, do they get assimilated? You do
the Iranian stop funding the proxies? Is the nuclear program

(51:20):
disseminate or deleted? I mean, these are all the things
that are good. They're not the economic part of it,
but all of it leads to a better optimism from investors.
You pointed out for example, the SpaceX. There's a couple
more coming, and we've got Anthropic coming. There's a few
more coming that are going to be part of this conversation.
So yes, optimism is picking up. We'll see though if

(51:44):
things change. You know, the president's heading out for the
G seven and he's got a lot of prickly relationships
that he's gonna have to deal with when he gets there.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Well, he certainly does.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
But I think he's really right now taking a victory
lap on the Iran deally he's saying now he's turning
attention to Russia and Ukraine. Frankly, if I were Cuba,
I'd be a little nervous that President Trump is what
do they say, idle hands are the devil's plaything, And
President Trump has been talking about Cuba for quite some time. Obviously,

(52:17):
the arrest warrant against Raoul Castro and a number of
other Cuban leaders, do they do what they did to
Maduro and they actually send in a strikeforce team to
basically go extract him and have him face justice here
in the United States, It certainly seems I can't shake
the line from we were talking about Bobby de Niro

(52:38):
last hour, the line from The Godfather, Michael Corleo and
Al Pacino. Today we settle all family business. That's sort
of what the last couple of months have felt like
for President Trump and the United States. But financially, it
certainly seems as though, independent of global events, dave in
the price of oil and the straight reopening, it really

(53:01):
does feel like there is unbridled optimism because obviously of
AI supercomputing and all of the industries and all of
the companies that sit sort of adjacent to that, the
the in videos, the AMDs, right, the micron I mean,
all of the right, all of these high flyers are

(53:24):
are the things that are not necessarily AI themselves, but
the AI infrastructure.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
There's just a tremendous.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Amount of optimism in the future of this technology and
also all of the industry and tech that can go
up around it.

Speaker 8 (53:39):
So Elon Musk put together report and his team did
about the total addressable market just for what he was
talking about in SpaceX, and it was twenty eight trillion dollars.
Now I would say I would take try to take
the other side of the coin, and that's kind of
what we do. But you look at it and say,
if there is all of this optimism, you know, what
are we not looking out?

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Four?

Speaker 8 (54:00):
I mean, is is there any potential problem? So that
is the reason why when you look at things like
these IPOs, you have to make sure that they have
some earnings that you can measure, right, And that's why
building them. And I don't want to sound like you
know for the financial planner, you know, uh, but you
just have to make sure that you have a diversified portfolio,

(54:21):
because you know, when you get a run up, you
do get reversions to the means. And so that is
really why you when you're building these portfolios, make sure
that they have earnings, that they're measurable, that you can
put a reasonable multiple. And that's not what happened in
nineteen ninety nine, in two thousand, when you know you
had you know, pets dot com and all these crazy
companies that weren't earning any money. So that's this This

(54:43):
IPO market is part of that conversation. But earning season
is measurable. It was excellent, it was twenty eight percent plus.
You've got GDP report that is significant. You've, as you
pointed out at the very beginning, we're going to find
out Wednesday with the very first meeting from Kevin worsh
and his friend meetings, what the tone is going to be.

(55:05):
His tone is going to be very different than we've
seen from Powell in the rest, where he's not going
to disclose as much. You may get a lot of
no comments. And as as green Span most famously said
during his meeting, he said, if you understood my answer,
I misspoke.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Well, I think President Trump that's a that's a great quote.
I'm reminded of when when you were saying, I don't
want to sound too much like a financial planter. It'say,
you were talking about fundamentals, you were talking about earnings.
He sounded more like Buffett, And I do mean that
as a compliment. What was his famous quote, everyone's a
genius in a bull market it, you know, and.

Speaker 8 (55:43):
So the water comes back and you find out what
they're wearing. But you know, here's here's his other famous
His other famous common applies here too. When everyone is greedy,
be fearful. When you're fearful, that you need to be greedy.
And right now there's a whole lot of enthusiasm. So
i'm I would just assume that most people know they
have a balanced portfolio and make sure that it fits

(56:05):
within your construct.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
And make sure you know is we always say what
you own and why you own it. Take a look
at your portfolio with a pair of trained eyes. That's
working within for you as a fee only fiduciary, not
trying to sell you an investment product this fund or
that fund, but really working with you to plan your
family's financial future. That's what you get at annex wealth Management,
and that's why you need to start with a free

(56:28):
review of your portfolio at annexwealth dot com. Dave always
a pleasure talking with you. We will turn our attention
to state politics the Democratic Convention this past weekend.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
We'll break it all down for.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
You with the Dan o'donald Show returns. We have got
it all here on the Dan o'donald Show. Political analysis
analysis of America itself. We spent much of the three
o'clock hour is sort of talking about the run up

(57:02):
to America's two fiftieth, which really kicked off in earnest.
Over the weekend with the World Cup kicking off. Team
usay just a dominant performance over Panama.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Who is predicted to be a pretty good team.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
I think in the world rankings, team USA is something
like sixteenth, seventeenth and Panama is like twenty second, twenty third.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Panama.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Why do we keep saying Panama, Paraguay? Thank you, Hunter Bombguard.
This is why we love having a sports guy as
our producer today. I don't know why I keep saying, well,
it's Panama. Panama always has the US's number in qualifying.
That's probably why I've got horrible nightmares going back to
twenty eighteen when the US didn't qualify because of a

(57:44):
loss to Panama in the final qualifying match. But it
does look at least from you can't take too much away.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
That's the thing.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
You just cannot take too much away from one match.
And again, no spoilers. We did have a couple of
World Cup matches today involving one of the favorites. This afternoon,
Spain played against Cape Verding and I'm not going to
say a thing because I know there are people who

(58:12):
taped that match who still believe it or not use DVR.
I just it's so foreign to me, folks, because I
get about a million news alerts every single day, so
I've always got to check myself that I'm not spoiling
any results. For people who don't watch things live or
don't have the ability to watch things live and really

(58:32):
do care, they try their best to actually not know
about the results beforehand. To me, it's an impossibility, but
hey man, if you're able to do so, more power
to you. During that first hour, we were talking about
how it's not really the spectacle of the World Cup
or the UFC fight or anything like that. It's how

(58:53):
all of the people in town in towns across the
United States, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Portland, Seattle that are
discovering just how great this country is, realizing that they've
been lied to from their home government and press propagandists,

(59:15):
and it's causing a whole lot of people to see
this country through a fresh set of eyes. So you
get that on the Dan O'donnald Show, and you also
get some of the best state political analysis around. Over
the weekend, Wisconsin Democrats held their annual convention and all
seven Dems who are vuying to replace Tony Evers got

(59:37):
a chance to speak. Evers himself gave the keynote address,
and he focused on unity and the party coming back
together over the vicious and I mean vicious rift over
the failed budget surplus bill of a couple of weeks ago,
in which you had just open hostility from the Senate
Minority Leader Diane hesselbinning towards the governor. The governor taking

(59:59):
shots left and right. It seems like every time he
sat down with Upfront and Matt Smith, he was ripping
on Democrats again. Well, he struck a conciliatory tone on
Saturday night during the keynote address. The real highlight, though,
was yesterday. Wispolitics dot com, very very good political website
here in Wisconsin, runs a straw poll, and unlike the

(01:00:23):
Republican Party, which actually will endorse, the delegates will vote
to endorse a specific candidate. No real surprises at the
Republican convention. Tom Tiffany was always going to be endorsed.
Nobody else is really running. I think there's another Republican
candidate on the ballot, but the only serious candidate is
Tom Tiffany. Same deal with Eric Tony as ag There

(01:00:46):
is a contested primary for Lieutenant governor. You did see
will Martin win the endorsement there, So it's a big
deal and that allows for coordination between the party and
the campaign. It's usually a huge, huge boost to whichever
candidate wins it. Well, the Democrats don't do that. Instead,

(01:01:07):
wispolitics dot com conducts a straw pool and it's for delegates,
it's for people who attend the convention, so by definition
these are the Democrat party insiders. There was a huge
surprise in that straw pool, and I will caution you
can't take strawpool data very seriously at all. If there

(01:01:30):
are problems with polling data. You can imagine that there
are big problems with somebody just sort of circling somebody's
name on a piece of paper and putting it in
a sealed basket. That's what a straw pool is. It
was six hundred or so party loyalists. Sarah Rodriguez finished
in first place. Francesca Hong was in second and way

(01:01:54):
down in sixth out of seven candidates, behind Joel Brennan
and Kel De Roy's beating only Missy Hughes was the
presumptive front runner Mandela Barnes. What in the what He
only had forty two votes from Deliates?

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Folks?

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
What have I been saying for months and months and
months about the Democratic Party and Mandela Barnes. Nobody wanted
him to run again. They believe that he lost a
race that was almost impossible to lose to Ron Johnson
four years ago, and they still haven't forgiven him for that,

(01:02:34):
for being such a buffoon on the campaign trail and
really in his personal and professional life up until that point.
It provided endless fodder for Johnson and for Republicans, for
people like me to point out just how insanely radical
this guy was and still continues to be. There was

(01:02:55):
a very influential New York Times piece that got put
out right as man Della was deciding whether or not
he was going to get in the race, and it
basically encouraged him not to, citing named and unnamed Democratic
Party sources saying, hey, look, Mandela, we cleared the field
for you four years ago in your Senate run. We're

(01:03:15):
not going to do that again. Milwaukee Courier, very prominent
black newspaper in Milwaukee, they said, look, Mandela, you are
not going to get the support of black Milwaukeeans. Of
the institutional black Democrat vote in Milwaukee is not going
to be guaranteed to you, even though you are black,
even though you are from Milwaukee. Sure Enough, black leaders

(01:03:41):
organizing for Communities, the socialist group known as Block, they
endorsed Mandela Barnes four years ago. No real surprise this year.
David Crowley and Francesca Hank, No Mandela. This was yet
another message sent by the party establishment, Mandela, we don't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Want you now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
It should be noted that in a couple of internal polls,
there was one that's been floating around forever. I've been
hearing rumors about this that Mandela's own polling shows him
with just a nearly insurmountable lead. There was also an
internal poll that was released by Sarah Rodrigo's his campaign

(01:04:24):
that does show Mandela in the lead twenty six percent
long twenty two, Sarah at fifteen percent. No other candidate,
including someone who you would presume to be right there
with Sarah Rodrigez, David Crowley, no other candidate was above
five percent. Clearly what Barnes is trying to do. And
we have got a great staff editorial up at Heartlandpost

(01:04:45):
dot com. You can check it out on our social
media at Heartland Post WI, the Heartland Post on Facebook.
You can also check it out on my social media.
I retweeted it and reposted it on Facebook at Dan
O'Donnell's show across social media.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
There what.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Our editorial staff believes, what I believe very very strongly,
is that Mandela is trying to scape by just on
name recognition, that he believes that Democrats, the rank and
file voters, they have no idea who any of these
other candidates are, including the current Lieutenant governor Sarah Rodriguez,

(01:05:27):
who is very anonymous. Mandela primarily because of the Jacob
Blake situation where he was just front and center, shooting
off his big, stupid mouth and all but encouraging rioting.
The night that Jacob Blake was stabbed while trying to kidnap,
shot while trying to kidnap his kids, and stab police
officers as they were trying to take him down, she

(01:05:52):
cuts a far less, a far lower profile than Mandela
ever did. Mandela is is that all of the polling
he is showing donors, he is showing powerbroker's look. He's
almost that he's running the Thanos campaign, you know from Marvel,
I am inevitable. He's saying, no matter what, the delegates

(01:06:15):
are going to vote for me, the rank and file,
the party faithful, is going to vote for me. Well,
I'm not necessarily sure that that's the case. I think
this set a clear message to Mandela that if we're
electing any socialist, it ain't going to be you. It's
going to be Francesca Honk. But is it going to

(01:06:37):
be Francesca Honng. Probably not super likely, and we'll explain
why when The Dan O'Donnell Show returns. Far from a
virtuoso performance for former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, the presumed
front runner for governor amongst the Democrats in their own
parties straw poll, he finishes.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Sixth out of seven.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Now, a lot of people can put way too much
emphasis on one data point, and you know, I could
be accused of doing so, to be sure, but this
isn't just so as far as predictive nature, No, a
straw pole is not going to be all that. Do

(01:07:21):
you know who won the presidential preference straw pool amongst
delegates to the Wisconsin convention.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Just take a guess. Was it Kamala No? Was it
Gavin Newsom?

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Pete bootagech Pete Bootage?

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
I okay, I guess what this does say, however, is
that the party's most loyal supporters, the people who are
going to spend a beautiful weekend in Madison rallying and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Listening to speech.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
I can think of no more raging Saturday night than
listening to Tony Evers.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Give us.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
These people are actually showing up for it, and these
are the ones who are making the party run. These
are also the people who are in charge of, for
lack of a better word, rigging the primary. It's exactly
what happened four years ago. Last time there was a
contested Democrat primary, they openly rigged it for Mandela Barnes.

(01:08:26):
They forced Sarah god Luski and Alex Lazar to drop
out of that twenty twenty two Senate race while early
voting was going on. Just a couple of days before
the August primary. In two day span, both of those
candidates dropped out. Weirdly enough, Sarah god Luski gets rewarded
with the position of Secretary of State. She stepped down

(01:08:47):
as state Treasurer, both of which are essentially they're positions
that don't have any actual power here in Wisconsin, but
she was clearly rewarded. Doug la Follett won his seventh
one hundred and eighty eighth consecutive term as Secretary of State,
immediately retires, and who do you guess, Tony Ebers appoints

(01:09:07):
to fill the spot. Why, yes, it was Sarah god Luski.
Clearly she was rewarded for doing what she was told
and dropping out. Now, who's running totally unopposed for Lieutenant Governor?

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Sarah god Luski.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Why do you think she's running unopposed because that same
party is continuing to reward her for essentially doing the
right thing and helping rig the.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
Primary for Barnes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
A lot of people, including myself, believe that they're going
to do the exact same thing this time. At the
straw Pole is a pretty good indicator as to who
they are going to rig it for. Four Sarah Rodriguez,
if I had to guess, they don't want Mandela Barnes,
that is clear. He finished sixth in the straw Pole.

(01:09:58):
That is huge in terms of perception of where his
campaign is among hardcore Democrats that they just do not
like him at all. Francesca Hong, She's the darling of
that exact same socialist Madison Bougie left wing, Champagne socialist wing,

(01:10:19):
the Zoron Mamdani wing of the party which is incredibly
powerful at the ballot box but oftentimes has a very
difficult time winning general elections. This is why the National
Party rigged their primary against Bernie Sanders in both twenty
sixteen and twenty twenty and wouldn't allow him anywhere near

(01:10:42):
consideration for the nomination once Old Joe dropped out in
twenty twenty four, when they rigged it for Kamala Harris,
despite saying yes, we're gonna have an opening, transparent, albeit expedient,
a very fast and compacted primary process. Nope, Nope, within
twenty four hours, they just named Kamala Harris as Biden's successor.
I believe when they realized that she was the only

(01:11:03):
one who was going to be able to inherit Biden's
mountains of campaign cash, and they realized they would never
be able to raise that amount of money that quickly,
and they just would have no chance. Also, I believe
that nobody particularly cares for Kamala Harris and the National Party,
and they said, okay, she can be the sacrificial lamb.
I don't think it's a coincidence. Biden dropped out like

(01:11:25):
two days after. I think it was the day after, No,
it was right after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,
which you might remember immediately followed the attempt at assassination
in Butler, Pennsylvania, that iconic American image Trump with his
fist in the air, ying fight, fight fight. I think
Democrats determined the election was lost. Then there was no

(01:11:47):
chance Biden was going to win, So why not just
put Kamala Harris up there? Don't burn a promising potential
candidate for twenty twenty eight, when Trump's not going to
be on the ballot like Gavin Newsom, Moore, Bootage, Inge
or somebody like that. All right, why not Kamala I
think was the thinking there? Why not Sarah Rodriguez I

(01:12:09):
believe is going to be the thinking here. The idea
is Francesca Hong, who has supplanted Barnes as sort of
the burning figure in Wisconsin, the socialists who they're the
vessel for all the hopes and dreams of the Madison
communist crowd that used to be Barnes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Now it's Francesca Hong.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
But I think the belief is that Hong because it
does not seem like this is going to be this
massive Democrat wave election that the left had been hoping
for when this election cycle started. If it isn't a
massive wave election, it's going to be real hard for
a Madison socialist who literally says things like yes, I

(01:12:55):
imagine a world where cops and prisons don't exist, who
literally said on video, I want to use the National
Guard if I'm governor, to start arresting ICE agents for
daring to try to enforce illegal immigration immigration law in
this state. This stuff is just completely toxic to a

(01:13:16):
vast majority.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Of voters in this state.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
We are still a center to center right state, regardless
of how many blowouts the left seems to win in
the state Supreme Court elections come fall. This is a
pretty fifty to fifty state when you have got a
fall general election electorate. Unless that dramatically changes, I don't

(01:13:42):
believe that there is a broad consensus that a socialist
like Francesca Han can win. That's why you saw that
poll leaked by Rodriguez, an internal poll showing her in
a distant third place. Why would you put that out
that close to convention. She's down eleven points to Mandela Barnes,

(01:14:03):
the leader, She's down seven to Hong for second place.
She did it because it shows her up ten fifteen
percent to five percent over David Crowley, the other more
mainstream palatable candidate that Democrats would theoretically rig their primary
four to try to get Barnes and hang out of
the race and then establish that one of the more moderate,

(01:14:28):
one of the more electable candidates who's better able to
hide their socialist tendencies, that they're going to be the
ones to take on Tom Tiffany. You're listening to the
Dan o'donald show, we will name the unsung Hero of
the day coming up next. Stay tuned you're listening to
the Dano. No, you can't take too much from straw polls,

(01:14:51):
just like you shouldn't take too much from individual polls.
But this one at the Democratic State Convention was especially
interesting because I firmly believe that the party is not
going to allow Francesca Honng to win this nomination. I
believe that, especially after all of the dirt was dumped

(01:15:12):
on Graham Platner, the Socialist candidate for Senate out in Maine,
the Democratic Party here in Wisconsin believes that, just like
with Mandela Barnes, there's way too much Now. Obviously, I
don't believe that there's anything sordid in Francesca Hon's personal
life like with grahamn God I hope not because man,

(01:15:33):
is that guy a scumbag, But in terms of her
policy positions, things she has said in the past that
are just so radical, so crazy, so outside of the
American mainstream that they would be disqualifying. I think this
weekend was the party saying that the straw pole, the
leaked internal poll from Sarah Rodriguez this weekend was the

(01:15:56):
party saying without saying at least explicitly, yes, Sarah is
probably our safest candidate because they are going against a
very formidable candidate in Tom Tiffany, and they don't want
to say it, but Tiffany has pretty much done everything
right on this campaign trail so far, and he's had

(01:16:19):
the benefit, the extreme benefit of not having a contested primary.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Time out a name the unsung hero of the.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
Day, And although it sounds cliched with high school graduation
weekend this past weekend, are unsung heroes of the day
are yes, the graduates, but also everyone in their lives

(01:16:48):
that help them to get where they are right now,
to help them get through school, the parents, the teachers,
the administrators. I when I on Friday named teachers on
the last day of school as the unsung heroes of
the day, we had some bus drivers say, hey, Dan,
what about the bus drivers. Yes, we love all of
you school bus drivers and county bus drivers and every

(01:17:09):
other driver out there, everybody who had an impact on
a graduating senior.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Your unsung heroes of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
When we come back after the top of the hour,
you are not going to want to miss this the
best graduation speech you may ever hear. It comes from
a local high school principal. Dan O'Donnell show, coming right
back a graduation season in Wisconsin and across the country. Obviously,

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everybody who has attended a ceremony, and that's pretty much
all of us says, heard a million speeches, and let's
face it, most of them they kind of sound largely
the same, talking about accomplishments and memories and leaving a
legacy and going out and following your dreams, that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
Sort of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
They're all great, but every so often there is a
speech or a portion of it that that really stands out.
And ladies and gentlemen, I think this weekend Wisconsin saw
one that really truly stood out. Didn't come from a valedictorian,

(01:18:23):
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Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
You miss a single second.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Of today's fora into broadcast excellence ord now let's face
it broadcast competence, please do subscribe and listen to the
Dan O'Donnells Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen
to podcasts. New Berlin Eisenhower High School is a pretty

(01:20:26):
average schools. It's one of the best in Wisconsin. I
shouldn't call it average. I don't mean average in terms
of academic or athletic performance. It's a very, very, very
well respected school, and the school district of New Berlin
is considered one of the very best in Wisconsin. But
when it comes to just its its place in the

(01:20:50):
hierarchy of American education, it's an average high school in
an average UPBB. It's not where you would expect to
find a decidedly above average world philosophy. A graduation speech

(01:21:14):
that actually transcends the let's face it sometimes mundane. The
wrote messaging of many graduation speeches, and I know, I know,
I sat through plenty of them. But as somebody who

(01:21:36):
does this for a living and essentially does impromptu speeches
every single hour of my life. It seems I think
I might be in a fair position to judge. New
berl And Eisenhower Principal Matthew Buckley gave just an incredible speech,

(01:21:56):
not on the amazing moments of state championship wins or
perfect scores on the acts, but about how life is
actually made up of a whole bunch of little moments
that never get graded, that never go on a report
card or a college transcript or anything like that, but

(01:22:18):
the moments that add up to greatness and even more
important than that, to goodness.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
This is the relevant.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
Portion of his speech from Friday night's class of twenty
twenty six New Berlin Eisenhower High School graduation ceremony, in
which he directly addressed the graduates and talked to them
about those little moments that brought them all the way
to high school graduation. It's an incredible, incredible message that

(01:22:56):
I feel honored to share with you.

Speaker 6 (01:22:58):
All Right, graduates, Hi, how you doing good? You look great?
To the little awkward you all the were the same thing,
But you look great. Tonight is a celebration. It's a
celebration of your class, of your growth, of your perseverance,
of your friendships and everything that brought you to this moment.

(01:23:21):
I was thinking about what I wanted to say tonight,
and I found myself thinking back to the very first
senior meeting we have this year at the beginning of
the school year. Some of you may remember it, some
of you definitely don't.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
I do.

Speaker 6 (01:23:37):
I told you I needed you to show up. I
told you that as seniors, we would have to be
partners in leading the school this year and then getting
to today. I told you the best way to do
that was to get all of the easy stuff right.
I also vividly remember telling you that if you ordered
wings and it wasn't lunchtime, that I was going to
eat them. Feel an obligation to tell everyone that not

(01:24:01):
a single one of you tested me on the wingstop policy.
At that meeting, I told you that one of the
jobs of a school is to hold up a mirror.
Schools spend a lot of time reflecting back to students
who you are becoming. Sometimes you like what you see
and sometimes you don't, but that reflection is part of
our work. Tonight, I'm going to hold up a mirror

(01:24:22):
to you one more time. But before I do, I
want to say this Every graduating class tells its own story.
It's not just activities and classes academics. It's friendship, its growth,
it's laughter, it's change, and sometimes it's loss. And through

(01:24:43):
all of that, what has stood out about your class,
the class of twenty twenty six, is not that everything
was easy. It's that you continued to move through this
year together. You showed up for each other in ways
that matter more than most of you probably realize. And
tonight we celebrate all that you've accomplished. We also carry

(01:25:05):
with us the memory of someone who mattered deeply to
this class and to our school community. And while he's
not physically here to walk across the stage, he remains
a part of your story and of your class, and
of the impact this class will leave behind. That sense
of connection, of looking out for one another, of carrying
joy and hard moments together, is part of what makes

(01:25:26):
this group what it is. So when I hold up
that mirror, what do I see? I see a class
that showed up not perfectly, not always on time, maybe
sometimes not exactly the way we wanted you to, but
you showed up consistently for one another. Any of the
classrooms on stage on the athletic fields, on the courts

(01:25:48):
and clubs, and your performances, and in the moments most
people never saw. I see a class that learned how
to navigate a lot of what life is while still
figuring out who you're trying to become, in a class
that's ready for what comes next. And trust me when
I say this. Schools spend a lot of time measuring things.
We measure grades, and we measure attendance credits and act scores,

(01:26:12):
and those things matter. But the most important things that
matter don't fit into a grade book. We don't test
you on whether you were a good friend. We don't
give a final exam on your integrity. We don't hand
out report cards telling you how you treat people when
nobody's watching. And yet those are the important things that
your classmates are going to remember about you. At that

(01:26:33):
senior meeting at the beginning of the year, I asked
you all a question. I asked you, how are you
going to make someone else better?

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Today?

Speaker 6 (01:26:40):
Not someday today, because you're not responsible for fixing everything,
but because you will always have a chance. In small ways,
you can make life better for the people around you.
And as you move forward, we want you to keep
that question in your hearts. We hope you keep thinking
for yourselves. There's no shortage of voices telling you what

(01:27:01):
you should think, what to believe, and what should matter.
So I encourage you to listen, to continue learning, to
be open, but don't ever give away your own independent thinking.
You change your mind when you need to. You decide
for yourself who you want to be. And finally, please remember,
get the easy stuff right, show up, do what you

(01:27:24):
said you would do, Treat people right, be dependable, say
thank you, keep it simple, and just keep doing that
because I hope, sitting here tonight, you realize now that
life is not one big, dramatic moment after another. It's
a lot of small moments stacked on top of one another.

(01:27:44):
That's how you all got here tonight. If you get
enough of those small moments right, you'll be just fine.
Actually you'll be better than fine. And that's how we
know you're ready for what comes after tonight. For all
of you, you've done all of the small things over
and over again, day in and day out, to get
you here. I tell our graduates that tonight on this

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occasion marks a strange shift every year, and how you
talk about Eisenhower tonight. Eisenhower is no longer a place
that you go. It's a place that you went. And
while that's true, the moments that brought you here tonight
are also the moments that will make you lions forever.
I want you to know we're proud of you, we're

(01:28:26):
grateful for you, and we're happy because we got to
be a part of your story. So keep showing up,
keep making your friends and everybody else better, and keep
getting the easy stuff right. Can you do that for me?
On behalf of the faculty in staff at Eisenhower Graduates.
Congratulations class of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
That is Matthew Buckley.

Speaker 1 (01:28:50):
He is the principal of New Berlin Eisenhower Middle and
High School. It's a combined seventh and eighth grade middle
school and also high school. At this past is graduation
ceremony for the class of twenty twenty six. What an
incredible message. Trust me when I say this. Schools spend

(01:29:10):
a lot of time measuring things. Grades, attendance, credits, act scores,
and those things matter, but some of the most important
things don't fit into a grade book. We don't test
you on whether you are a good friend. We don't
give a final exam on integrity. We don't hand out
report cards for how you treat people when nobody is watching,
and yet those are the things that people will remember.

(01:29:36):
The message is that these small things actually all add off.
These immeasurable, unquantifiable aspects not of human intelligence but of
the human soul, are what add up to making you you,

(01:29:56):
and what add up to your old to impact on
this place we call planet Earth. As Buckley said, I
hope sitting here tonight, you've realized that life is not
one big, dramatic moment. It's a lot of small ones
stacked on top of each other. That's how you all
got here. If you get enough of those moments right,

(01:30:17):
you'll be just fine, better than fine, actually, And that's
how we know you're ready for what comes after tonight
is over. If you get those little things right, If
you can treat people with kindness, even though they have
nothing to offer you, you just treat them with basic

(01:30:37):
decency and goodness and respect, if you just show up.
There's a very famous quote. I believe it's variously attributed
to Thomas Edison Albert Einstein. Bill Gates said, ninety percent
of life is just showing up. Well, that's part of it.
Ninety percent of life is showing up with a positive

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can do attitude and a willingness to treat everybody as
an equal, regardless of status, regardless of anything else. That
if you are just good and decent and kind and
willing to work hard and in every single small moment

(01:31:21):
to show the rest of the world what you can do. Sure, yeah,
on an act test or on a football field, those
are the big moments. Scoring the winning touchdown, getting an
A on the final exam, those are the big moments
that you remember forever. But I promise you, and this
was the theme of Buckley's speech. What people remember about you,

(01:31:45):
that get to know you, that really get to know you.
It's not about what you can do for them or
what you did for them. It's how you make them feel.
Do you make them feel inadequate? Do you make them
feel defensive? Do you make them feel embarrassed? Or do
you make them feel at ease? Do you make them laugh?
Do you make them feel comfortable? Do you make them

(01:32:09):
want to spend more time around you. It's all about
that attitude, It's all about that character. It's all about
dare I say that soul. That's not just a message
for graduating seniors. It's not just a message for kids
or young adults going out into the real world. It's

(01:32:31):
a message for all us middle agers or retirees who
think we know it all and have seen it all,
but can also look back on our life and all
that we've accomplished, all that we've done, and remember, Yeah,
it really is. Because I guarantee you probably still remember

(01:32:53):
twenty five years ago when you were in high school.
Maybe you weren't particularly nice to a kid who you
thought was less popular than you. Maybe there was somebody
who picked on you. I guarantee you still remember that.
Everybody does. That's the point. It's those small moments that
add up to who you are as a human being.

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You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show. Yes, we do
have the relevant portion of that video. I've put it
out on x at Dan o'donald's show there, retweet it,
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along with a link to the full speech. Because it really.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
Is so incredibly valuable.

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
It is a life lesson for everybody, a timeless, universal
message from a high school principle in suburban Wisconsin. I
couldn't possibly love that anymore. We'll be right back. We
have got the New Berlin community weighing in on Eisenhower
principle mister Buckley's speech. Mister Buckley is a gem, writes

(01:34:04):
one listener another Dan. Mister Buckley was an English major.
I once complimented him on his beautiful writing skills, and
he shared that with me. I told him he should
have been a journalist or an author, Jamie from New Berlin.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
That was one of the.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
Absolute best graduation speeches I've ever heard. I suffice it
to say I was not expecting it to come from
a high school principal. Normally, you know, the principal speech
is like, hey, class, way to go. You know, I
only had to break up five fistfights.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Great job.

Speaker 1 (01:34:42):
This was somebody who said something far deeper, far more
universal and.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Just.

Speaker 1 (01:34:50):
It still resonates with me a few days later, and
probably will for a long time, because this, I hope,
is what I try to talk about on this show,
that yes we focus on politics, and yes that's the
crux of this show, but what has always interested me
about politics? I try to share this periodically is not

(01:35:12):
you know, the adversarial nature of it or combative nature
of it, well that you would expect. I went to
law school. That's all adversarial argument. It's how your worldview
is sort of a window into your soul. No, it
doesn't mean that you know, I can tell everything about

(01:35:32):
a person by how they vote, but it's how you
view the world. And ultimately politics is sort of meaningless.
It's sort of like another team sport, right, And that's
why I always try to talk about how you need
to transcend what ultimately is not the most important thing

(01:35:52):
in the world, for example, like be honest with yourselves.
Has it really impact your life, and I mean your
life directly, not America the world? How much has it
really impacted your life that Donald Trumps president. Let's say,

(01:36:13):
though you got in a big fight with your brother
when Trump was elected and you haven't talked to him since,
I'll bet you that's had a way bigger impact on
your life. If, however, you take the lessons from mister
Buckley and don't allow your own pride or your own

(01:36:36):
sense of loyalty to your team, or your belief that
those on the other team are ruining America, or darkening
the skies over this country until we all fall into
the pit of fascism and ultimate Nazi evil or whatever
we sort of get in this hyperbolic idea ultimately, and

(01:36:57):
I hope going back to our first in all of
the tourists from Europe and around the world coming to
America and what they're being struck by is not the
fact that they can get waffle House at two am
and maybe see a fistfight that a high school principle
would have to break up. Always possible at waffle House
at two am. It's not the fact that America has

(01:37:21):
these just majestic sports stadiums that they're just in awe of.
It's not the natural beauty of the Grand Canyon or
the Rocky Mountains or anything like that, or the coast
of California. What almost to a person, and I've watched
more of these videos than almost any other person on Earth,

(01:37:43):
of foreigners coming into this country, tourists to the World
Cup and just being in awe of America. The one
thing that they say over and over and over again,
it's the friendliness. It's the goodness, it's the decency, it's
the willingness to bend over backwards. There is a very

(01:38:03):
viral tourist by the name of Freddy who's basically been
He's a German tourist, so I'm sure he was happy
with the slacking that the German national team put on Courassow,
the smallest nation to ever make it to the World
Cup at seven to one I think was the final yesterday.
He's been documenting his trip to the American South and

(01:38:25):
he's amazed by BUCkies. The classic European mind can't comprehend
the fact that we have multi story gas stations that
look more like shopping malls, like a Bucky's. But what
he's really amazed by was the fact that it was
raining and it was time for him to go to

(01:38:46):
the stadium to see the match that he was here
to see down in Alabama, I believe, and instead of
allowing him to call his uber a woman at the
front desk of his hotels, I'll just drive you to
the stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
He was amazed.

Speaker 1 (01:39:04):
It was just that decency, that goodness, and now of
course the story has gone viral. JJ Watt as he
was in Houston for Germany's match, got him a luxury
hotel room and the story's just gone viral. I think
he's picked up like half a million followers on x
formerly known as Twitter. But it is it's the relationship

(01:39:27):
that people are building, even in a fleeting moment with
Americans after being told all their lives, hey, Americans are
kind of jerks, Like look at the stereotype of the
ugly American tourist across Europe, and they're coming to America
and they're finding that Americans really take what Buckley was

(01:39:47):
talking about in stressing a whole lot of Americans really
take those small things very seriously. How you treat others,
whether you're willing to give a random German guy that
you just met because you're the concierge of his hotel
a ride in the rain, or whether like at the

(01:40:08):
story of the Japanese guy amazed by the bottomless chips
and solsa. And how about this that the Japanese fans
after their match yesterday they tied one to one against
Switzerland the Netherlands, one of those Nordic countries. Afterwards they
have a tradition they wave garbage bags like towels in

(01:40:31):
the stadium, like the Terrible towels, and after the game
they actually use those garbage bags and pick up all
of the trash because it's a sign of respect. That's
one of those small things. It's become a tradition in Japan,
like the Japanese are notorious for being like the nicest, kindest,
most polite side. There is no hooliganism amongst the Japanese fans.

(01:40:58):
That's the sort of thing like, how do you the
fact that you will clean up after yourself at a stadium.
That's one of those small moments. That's one of those
things that doesn't add up to a promotion at work,
but that's something that can actually show the rest of

(01:41:20):
the world what type of person you really are. You know,
we have a lot speaking of social media. You know,
I'm at the age where my kids are growing up
and every Sunday, my wife and I kind of laugh.
Every Sunday we know exactly what every post on Facebook
is going to be. Other people's kids winning the soccer tournament,

(01:41:45):
going five and zero in baseball, this weekend successes and highs,
and showing everybody else, Oh my gosh, look at this.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Look at these great moments.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
You'll notice none of us have any real accomplishments anymore.
It's like our accomplishment, will you get to my age?
If you're listening to me as like a recent high
school graduate, you get to my age. Your accomplishment is
like finishing the work week without collapsing of exhaustion, getting
you kids to your soccer tournaments, in your baseball games,

(01:42:15):
getting to graduation ceremonies, and you know, not murdering you
because of a disagreement over whether or not you need
to wear a tie to the ceremony. But a whole
lot of people they love obviously, they love their kids,
and you know, in America we love our youth sports
and we take that so seriously. But is anybody really

(01:42:40):
going to post, hey, you know this guy, I was
slightly short for Starbucks and didn't have my phone or wallet.
I just had a couple of dollars and this guy
ahead of me just paid. I don't think somebody would
ever be that big of a vert choose signaling knob

(01:43:01):
to ever put that on Facebook, like, you'll never believe
what I just did at Starbucks. And obviously, to do
those sorts of things just to get the acclaim and
the accolades and the ATA boys for doing so is
to do them for the wrong reason. But if you
do those for your fellow man, just out of the
goodness of your heart. Boy, I'm telling you how you

(01:43:25):
make people feel really, really like ultimately, you know, I
always talk about the fact that, you know, we talk
about all the ways we measure each other as adults,
you know, as as grown ups. It's invariably money and
career and the success of our kids, the size of
our house, what type of car we buy. Yes, at

(01:43:49):
this point, my buddies are absolutely going to start texting
me making fun of the fact that, well, Dan, you
drive a car with premium gasoline. I was trying to
make a point about how I have been paying like
six dollars for gas for the last six months, and
my friends literally started texting me pictures of the guy
from the Gray Pupon commercial in the back of the

(01:44:10):
limousine from like thirty years ago. But well over and above,
how we try to very carefully image craft how other
people see us. There's no way to fake how we
make other people feel. And I was just thinking about this,

(01:44:31):
as you know, I'm reflecting a lot on graduation and
all of that and kids going on to adulthood. The
very first school my kids ever went to is a daycare,
not even a school, was a daycare.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
And there was a poster.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
Right on the wall as you walked into the little
baby area, and it said something to the effect of,
in a hundred years, it will not matter how much
money I made, what type of car I drove, or
how big my house was, but the world will be
a better place because I was important in the life.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
Of a child. Ultimately, that's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (01:45:09):
Ultimately, the greatest and longest lasting legacy, the only legacy
that really matters, is the impact we have on others,
is the connections that we make with others and how
we make them and us and all of us better
off for it. Once again, it is the new Berlin

(01:45:31):
Eisenhower Class of twenty twenty six graduation speech by the
principle Matthew Buckley. Check it out. I promise you won't
regret it. Online at Dan O'Donnell's show x Facebook everywhere
classical conservatism and contemporary style.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
You get both.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
You get hopefully intelligent discourse, you get irreverent fun, all
again usually in equal measure here on the Dan O'Donnell Show.
And you also get my new favorite genre, of tweet
that is Europeans discovering American things. If you are not

(01:46:14):
proud to be an American after this, I don't know
what to tell you this. As Wisconsin gets its first
BUCkies in Oak Creek, a French fan in America to
watch the French national team compete in the World Cup
documented his trip to BUCkies. Now we're here in Wisconsin

(01:46:36):
and we're here at the dan O'donnald show very much
quick trip loyalists, so when it comes to it, I
will always choose quick trip. In fact, I've never actually
been to a BUCkies. Frankly, I whenever we travel usually
it's by plane. We don't do a lot of driving
outside of Wisconsin, like long road trips. I've just I

(01:46:58):
don't think I've ever been into a BUCkies. And after
listening to this gentleman described, I think I would remember
once again things that we sort of take for granted
in the United States, the massive gas station, supermarket, department store, everything, BUCkies.

(01:47:20):
Through the eyes of a French guy, I.

Speaker 9 (01:47:22):
Saw the end of the world in the US, and
it's called BUCkies. They say it's a gas station, but
that's like a gas station. As a sat sandwich and
a coffee machine that never works. This place has one
hundred and twenty pumps. One hundred and twenty Why are
you refueling the US Air Force? Are you preparing for
an idian invasion? That's terrifying. And the mascot is a
beaver in a baseball cup. I saw grand men taking

(01:47:44):
photos with a statue of a rodent. In France, we
have revolutions in the US. You boil down to a
squirrel on steroids, and inside the aggression a man with
a knife screaming a fresh brisket on the board circum down.
I just want to sparkling water. Don't kid me, but
I have a problem. I wanted to hate it. I
wanted to be the superior of frenchmen snob. But then

(01:48:04):
I ate the beaver nuggets. I don't know what is
in them. I think it's a sugar butter and a
pure metal fit and I ate one. And I had
the whole bag in the parking lot, like white animal.
And the toilets. I have to admit it, but they
are nicer than my apartment. You could eat the brisket
off the floor or in the bathroom. It's thinner than
the hospital. So I failed. I came to judge and
I stayed for the snacks. I don't have the hat,

(01:48:26):
but in my heart, I am wearing the hat. God
bless the beaver.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
I'm sorry. That's tremendous.

Speaker 1 (01:48:32):
His accent very thick. It was difficult to hear. I get,
he said. I wanted to be a good Frenchman and judge.
But then I had the beaver nuggets. I don't know
what was in the beaver nuggets. Some combination of sugar,
butter and pure meth amphetami, he said.

Speaker 2 (01:48:53):
I ate one.

Speaker 1 (01:48:54):
Then I had the whole bag, and the parking lot
like a wild animal. And the toilets. I have to admit,
they're nicer than my apartment. You could eat brisket off
the floor. I came to judge and I stayed for
the snacks. I don't have the hat, but in my heart,
I am wearing the hat. God bless the beaver.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Of BUCkies, Folks.

Speaker 1 (01:49:18):
There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of videos like
this extolling the virtues of America. It's sometimes funny like that,
never though condescending or judgmental, always showing a deep appreciation
of America, a deep appreciation for culture. For those who

(01:49:38):
don't believe we have a culture, I always say, folks,
we have an amalgamation of every culture.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
We are indeed a nation of.

Speaker 1 (01:49:49):
Immigrants, a nation of lawful legal immigrants. We are a
nation that really, at its best, is not a nation
of different communities that sort of never really assimilate, but
a true melting pot that bring the very best of

(01:50:11):
their culture into a brand new American culture. We have
Americanized Mexican fast food like Taco Bell and like Chipotle.
We have British and German traditions at Christmas that we
have taken and turned into uniquely American things.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
That's the beauty of it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:32):
So people see a reflection of their culture, and what
they also see is a people above all else who
are kind and good and decent and nice. You're listening
to the Dan O'Donnell Show, Conservative Thought, not just took.

(01:50:53):
We will be back to wrap it up in just
five minutes. Stay tuned, all right, serious question. I always
rip on people who make bold pronouncements, especially when it
comes to sports without a whole lot of background knowledge.
It feels very reactionary when you say, well, this New

(01:51:17):
York Knicks team is the best NBA Championship run we've
ever seen. Well, it was very very good. They won
at one point thirteen straight games. The Knicks do win
their first NBA Championship since nineteen seventy three, an incredibly
dramatic final game befitting an NBA Finals in which man,

(01:51:39):
oh man, I mean you could say that San Antonio
Spurs choked away. They had double digit leads in every
single game, including the one which it almost felt impossible
to give away twenty nine points they gave away in
Game four. You sort of knew they were going to
win Game five. Sure enough, they don't. Knicks win the championship.

(01:52:01):
Jalen Brunson is your NBA Finals MVP. Just as much
as the Spurs choked, the Knicks have an incredible never
say die attitude, and this was in large part a
team of rejects. Carl Anthony Towns was a superstar until

(01:52:22):
the Minnesota Timberwolves decided that they would rather pair Anthony
Edwards with Rudy Gobert instead of Cat, so he gets
shipped out for Julius Randall. You've got Jalen Brunson, who
was the backup point guard in Dallas. To Luka Doncic
and the Mavericks decide that they're going to low ball

(01:52:44):
him on an extension. He signs a free agent deal
with the Knicks. Oj On Andobi basically given away from
the Toronto Raptors testament to hard work, grit determination. But
when I say this sports weekend might have been the
best sports weekend of my lifetime, I actually mean that.

(01:53:07):
Think about it Friday night. Not only do you have
Team USA opening up the World Cup with a massive
victory over a team that was supposed to give them
fits in Paraguay, a team that was picked by many
to be an upset special. Instead, the United States scores
the most goals it's ever scored in a World Cup match.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Look like World beaters potentially.

Speaker 1 (01:53:33):
You also had Jacob Miseroski, the Miz pitching just an
absolute gem, complete game, one hit, shutout, fifteen strikeouts. He
throws the hardest pitch a starting pitcher has ever thrown,
one hundred and four point five miles and now he
faces the minimum. One of the best pitching performances in

(01:53:55):
Brewer's history, in Major League Baseball history, I think, one
of the best non non hitter performances ever On Saturday,
you've got the NBA Finals, You've got the Knicks winning
the first championship in fifty three years, incredibly dramatic game.
On Sunday, you've got the Carolina Hurricanes winning the Stanley

(01:54:18):
Cup Championship, and an unprecedented spectacle, an event that was
really remarkable in its own right, the UFC Freedom to
Fifty event at the White House. Did you realize that now?

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:54:32):
Granted that card, that fight card was much smaller than
your typical UFC Las Vegas fight card, that was the
first UFC event ever going back thirty years, in which
every match ended in a knockout or TKO. That's kind
of remarkable. Huge upset. In the main event, the American

(01:54:54):
Justin Gaechee wins the championship over the undefeated Georgian Span
champion Ilia Topuria in a battle in which I thought
one man might actually die in the octagon, that's how
badly they were beating each other. And frankly, folks, normally
I love MMA. I think it's awesome. It's a great sport.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
It's a little brutal for my tastes, you know. I
like football, I.

Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
Like soccer, I like basketball, boxing, the sweet sciences. That's
about my speed. Best sports weekend ever, certainly possible at
a time. For Today show back three zero six. Tomorrow
we do it all again on The Dan O'Donnell Show.

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