David Crowley's Milwaukee County is Too Dysfunctional Even for its Strip Clubs!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How bad does a city's crime have to be if
even the local skin bar has to close? Such is
the dilemma in David Crowley's Milwaukee County. Silk on Water's
Gentleman's Club in Milwaukee's Water Street Entertainment District has closed

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its doors, citing concerns over recent shootings and violence In
Water Street, the club is located near Water and Juneau.
It first announced the decision on Friday evening, posting a
sign on its front door to inform customers of the
temporary closure. This follows a series of violent incidents in

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the district over the past year, including a shooting in
March that left one person dead and two others injured.
Just a couple of steps from the club. Channel 12,
the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee, reporter T.J. Dysart talked to
a Silk spokesperson. You can tell this is a high-end

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skin bar. Arts Performing Center, this ain't. The old joke
in Milwaukee is forever. The Performing Arts Center was right
across the street from a skin bar called Art's performing
center that became silk downtown and it now is so

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upscale that it has its own spokesperson Craig Peterson talking
with TJ Dysart of WISN Channel 12.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
What was the conversation like in the days leading up
to this announcement?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
You know, this has actually been brewing for several years.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Silk spokesperson Craig Peterson says the closure wasn't something club
officials wanted to do, but says they were left with
no choice.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
We have numerous videotapes of shootings that have occurred.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
You know, right outside our door or right at the intersection.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Now, Silk isn't the first establishment to close its doors
along Water Street this summer. Back in May, Dukes on
Water closed its doors for good. Then, two months later,
Vagabond closed its doors permanently.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
You guys aren't alone, clearly.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Hopefully, what we did and what the other businesses have done,
that this will be a wake-up call for the city.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
One would have thought that Dukes on Water closing back
in May after 22 years in business and the owners
specifically citing as a major reason. The big issue was
the building that Dukes on Water occupied was sold and
the owners didn't sign a new lease because they failed
to come to terms with with the owners of Dukes

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on Water. But a secondary concern, and a major one,
and what the former general manager of Dukes said at
the time was that, look, the area is very violent.
It's scaring customers away, and that now is exactly what
Silk Exotic is saying, at least spokesman Craig Peterson. And
am I the only one who is a little surprised

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that the spokesman for Silk Exotic was named Craig Peterson
and not like Candy Desire or something like that? Do
we think the spokesperson... for Silk actually has an alter ego. Like,
is he performing as a spokesperson under the name Craig Peterson?
But like, wouldn't that be funny if his real name

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was like Major Guns or something like that? I'm kidding, Craig.
I'm kidding. It is just funny to see a spokesperson
for the gentlemen's club. Now, TJ Dysart, the reporter for
Channel 12, actually went and asked Milwaukee's Mayor Cavalier Johnson, hey,

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now we have the downtown strip club. Not being able
to open because they're saying the entertainment district after months
of teen takeovers and mob chaos that have essentially made
Water Street and other entertainment areas. Dicey propositions for people
to go down to. They're seeing dramatic reductions in customers

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going to the establishments. Now, best of luck finding someone
who admitted that they were a regular at Silk Exotic.
But I'm sure if you talked to some of the patrons–
and let's face it, these are college kids, 20-somethings, bachelor parties–
After a night of drinking, you go to the establishment

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formerly known as Arts Performing Center. My producer, Eric Paulson, says, yes,
old radio guys, we– Please tell me you didn't have
like a ceremonial last dance in the champagne room of
Silk Exotic on Friday night. You weren't there like toasting

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to it as it went down like the Titanic. OK,
you promised me you were because I am told I
am told that my producer, Eric Paulson, has an epic
story about arts performing center back in the day that
he absolutely cannot tell on a family radio show. And
he's blushing and laughing in there, which tells me it

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is absolutely true. So first commercial break, you are telling
me that story. That is an order, sir. So TJ Dyson,
reporter for Channel 12, talks to Milwaukee's mayor, Cavalier Johnson.
And of course, Mayor Johnson is, dare I say, pardon
the pun, rather, cavalier about just not believing what's going

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on in his city. I saw the story.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
I don't know if I see exactly the reason why
they said as being accurate, but again, it's something that
I'm interested in looking into.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Excuse me, good sir. Are you questioning the integrity and
moral uprightness of the local Skinbar, how dare you, good sir?
Regardless of what you think about the nature of Silk Exotic,

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and yes, I'm making a lot of jokes, but hey,
those strippers need to eat too, Cavalier. Regardless of what
you think, This is now multiple establishments in the exact
same area, both saying the same thing. We are losing
customers because every summer when the weather gets nicer, it
is simply too violent in the city of Milwaukee. And

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it is. Now, Mayor Johnson and County Executive David Crowley,
they have been crowing, they have been bragging about how
much the murder rate has declined. In fact, I went
to the jsonline.com homicide tracker, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's homicide tracker,
which has been a very valuable database. They went through

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and they tracked every single homicide for years, going back 12,
13 years. Do you know how many homicides they have
logged in 2026 in Milwaukee?

Speaker 6 (07:07):
Zero.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
They just sort of stopped doing the homicide tracker. I
have no idea why, but the Milwaukee Police Department has
recorded 76 homicides so far this year. Everyone is patting
themselves on the back because murders are only on pace
to hit 115 by the end of this year.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Only.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
That would be down to from about 142 in 2025
and 132 in 2024. Since David Crowley became county executive
of Milwaukee County, the average number of homicides per year
have jumped 51% over the six-year average before he became
county executive. From 2014 to 2019, the city of Milwaukee

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averaged 115 homicides per year. From 2020 to 2025, it's
averaged 174 homicides per year, a jump of 51%. Now,
while Milwaukee is crowing about the fact, and David Crowley
and Cavalier Johnson are crowing about the fact that murders

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are down this year, In fact, Milwaukee increased its homicide
total from 2024 to 2025 by about seven and a
half percent, while the nation as a whole saw the
biggest ever year over year decrease in homicides ever at
18 percent. Since record-keeping began in 1900, there was never

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a bigger decrease in the nation's homicide rate than there
was from 2024 to 2025. Not coincidentally, it was the
first year of the second Trump administration where there was
a massive crackdown on criminal illegal aliens. Yet the city
of Milwaukee keeps getting more and more violent. dangerous and

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even now we're on pace to finally after six years
of david crowley being county executive of milwaukee county get
back to the average of what life was like before
radical democrats in the post george floyd decriminalization of crime
era took over why do you think Milwaukee has been

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such a hotbed of crime, even as the crime rate,
the violent crime rate and the murder rate in the
nation has all declined precipitously since President Trump took office.
Why is Milwaukee such an outlier? Could it be because
of the exact policies implemented by Crowley himself, not Cavalier Johnson?

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the mayor of Milwaukee, not the police chief, not the sheriff,
but policies signed into law by people not like David Crowley,
but people who are David Crowley, One of the biggest
scandals that has rocked the governor's race and has certainly

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rocked Milwaukee so much so that even the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel got a comment out of the Milwaukee County Executive's
Office and David Crowley's gubernatorial campaign about it. That is
the iPads for Jail Inmates scandal. On Friday afternoon, we

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played a soundbite of our friend Milwaukee Judge David Borowski,
one of the few level-headed, dare I say, more conservative-leaning
judges in the entire county. He went off. on the
Milwaukee Sheriff's Department because a triple murder suspect appearing before

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him by the name of Thomas Zollicoffer had used a
jail-issued tablet to discuss intimidating witnesses to the triple murder.
Borowski's rant, which was captured by CBS 58 cameras in
the courtroom, was absolutely terrifying.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Why is the Sheriff's Department giving laptops and iPads to
defendants that are charged in homicides, or any defendant? Why
is the Sheriff's Department handing laptops or iPads to defendants?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Why?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Judge, I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
That one's above my pay grade, Judge.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
And that needs to be addressed. This is a bigger question.
I have had cases... I have a case in particular
where I had a defendant who was given a laptop
or an iPad by the sheriff's department. He used it
to intimidate witnesses. He then later apparently allegedly hacked through
it to access child pornography. I have another case. We

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know there's a very high-profile case in front of another judge.
It's not my case, where a defendant allegedly made 1,200
or 1,500 intimidating threats and phone calls or attempts from
a tablet. Why is the sheriff's department giving defendants tablets?
It's preposterous, and I would like the sheriff to answer that.
There is no need, constitutional or otherwise, for a defendant

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to have a tablet when they sit in jail. And
I don't care if they're charged with a burglary or
an armed robbery or, for that matter, a domestic violence case.
This is a triple homicide. This defendant does not need
a laptop, and he will not have one again.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Subject to my court order.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
He won't have a tablet, he won't have a laptop,
and I'm granting the state's request across the board. He's
locked down 24-7 with the exception of meeting with his attorney.
No defendant in this court ever gets to intimidate a
witness or a victim.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
So what today did Thomas Zollicoffer do? He applied for
a transfer of venue. He doesn't want to go before
Judge David Borowski anymore. Why do you suppose that is?
Why do you suppose? It isn't just that he doesn't
have his precious iPad. It's because he knows how tough

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David Borowski is. He understands that Borowski is not going
to put up with any crap. Borowski is an extreme
outlier in Milwaukee County because David Crowley was actually the
one who signed off on the tablets for prisoners, and
everybody else in the Milwaukee County justice system applauded this.

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By the way, that case that Judge Borowski was citing
was Amir Hassan Jones Jr. We reported on this when
it happened. He's charged in five criminal cases, and he
was sending threatening messages, not just to his ex-girlfriend. One

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of those cases that he was locked up for was
for stalking her. He also was then sending threatening messages
to a police officer investigating his case. One alleged message
cited in the court record reads, if this the detective
from preliminary reading this and on the case, you already

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on my case. hit list. Investigators discovered 1,535 calls that
Jones made to the woman he was, remember, in jail
for stalking between January 15th and May 7th. This from

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the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. These were made both on his
own inmate calling account and the accounts of inmates housed
in the same jail unit as him. He was sending
threatening messages using his tablet. He was making threatening calls
using his tablet. Now that tablet, Sometimes they are described

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as iPads or personal computers or laptops, but they are
tablet computers. They're made by IC Solutions. The Milwaukee County
Board approved the contract in March of 2022 for six
years of providing Milwaukee County jail inmates with these things.

(15:39):
David Crowley didn't just sign off on this. He also
reauthorized the $ 71, 280 per year that we are all paying
for inmate laptops slash tablets so that they can abuse them.

(16:03):
The Wisconsin prison system also has its own free IC
Solutions tablets that cost $ 5 million. The state of Wisconsin paid,
that's you, me, all of us taxpayers, paid about $ 2. 5
million worth of that. Why are these people getting tablets?

(16:27):
It's because David Crowley believes that no matter what, potential
harm could come from, I don't know, some of the
most dangerous, awful people in society having access to the
outside world. And we're told, well, communication is strictly monitored. Well,
pretty obviously it isn't. It is David Crowley's soft on

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crime policy. The overarching attitude towards criminality and criminals that
sends the message to people who are going to shoot
each other right outside of silk exotic in the downtown
entertainment district that nothing's going to happen to you you
get three hots and a cot if you're arrested not

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only that you get your own free ipad to do
whatever the hell you want now this is very clearly
a big scandal how do i know because the journal
sentinel the chief propaganda arm of the david crowley for
governor campaign actually was forced to go out and get

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a statement from Crowley's campaign and Milwaukee County government. We
will get into that. Now, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did
actually have to do some journalism over the weekend and
reach out to both the Milwaukee County Executive's Office and
the David Crowley for Governor campaign because it could no
longer contain the Tablets for Jail Inmates story. The story,

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because of Borowski's rant, had gone viral. It escaped what
I call the talk radio ghetto. If a story that
is damaging to Democrats only is talked about in talk radio,
and this is why you will oftentimes see stories that
we break here on the Dan O'Donnell Show that we

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will break over at the Heartland Post, our new conservative
media center. I don't call it a website. It is
a multimedia digital media one-stop shop for conservatism and real
news here in Wisconsin, heartlandpost.com. If it's only reported there,
if it's only talked about by me and Vicki McKenna

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and Ben and Jason Gotch, if it only hits the
Mark Belling and Jay Weber podcasts, They're totally fine with
that because it's contained to the talk radio ghetto. It
is only going to reach the people who are already
going to vote against the Democrat. They're never going to
vote for David Crowley. But if that story escapes, then

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they actually have to deal with it and they need
to minimize it as best they possibly can. That is
what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel attempted to do over the weekend. Yes, yes,
we know this is controversial, but here is why this
program is so valuable. Milwaukee County Executive's Office tells the

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Journal Sentinel reporter, tablets from IC Solutions were introduced into
correctional facilities so inmates could connect with family members, loved ones,
as well as legal and support services. Quote, spokesperson from
the county executive's office said in a statement quote the
county executive will be reaching out to the milwaukee county
sheriff's office to identify any vulnerabilities in these safeguards and

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put solutions in place so this technology can continue serving
its intended purpose, supporting rehabilitation and helping individuals in county
custody successfully reenter their communities with a strong support system.
How exactly is an iPad integral to that?

Speaker 6 (20:07):
How?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
How is it that the only way that they can
talk to their counsel, that they can talk to their
loved ones, that they can talk to witnesses in their
cases and threaten them with violence if they testify? How
is it clearly the vulnerability is the tablet itself in
the hands of somebody who who is already proven themselves

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to be capable of extreme criminal acts clearly they're going
to find a way to use that tablet to either
commit further criminal acts, as has been well documented just
in the past couple of years, most recently in the
Thomas Zollicoffer case. You've got a triple murderer using his
David Crowley-issued iPads that you and I paid for. Even

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if you don't live in Milwaukee County, remember, you paid
for it because such a substantial portion of shared revenue
coming from state tax dollars, which we all pay, go
back to Milwaukee County. Your tax dollars are going so
that David Crowley can give the most dangerous people in
the state free tablets so that they can commit further crimes.

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We're going to look into the vulnerabilities. Crowley's campaign team,
this according to the journal Sentinel, Crowley's campaign team responded
to Tom Tiffany's statement that he immediately put out on
Friday after Judge Borowski's rant. While David takes this situation seriously,

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he doesn't take seriously the opinion of someone like MAGA
Congressman Tom Tiffany, who is so extreme he voted against
releasing the Epstein files to protect a bunch of pedophiles,
voted to defund the police six times, and applauded January
6th rioters being pardoned, some of whom went on to
be arrested for molesting children and possessing child pornography. And

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he has no business being Governor Crowley campaign spokesperson Jonathan
Farris said in a statement to the journal Sentinel. Is
this guy like 14? I would love. In fact, I
am daring. I know David Crowley is too scared to
actually come on this radio show, even though when he

(22:24):
was running for county executive. He said, sitting in this studio,
that he would love to come on again because he
wants to talk to Democrats and Republicans. I know they
would never, ever, ever put David Crowley on this show.
You know why? Because I would pick him apart. Because
David Crowley is not nearly intelligent enough to be able

(22:45):
to explain all of his failures to someone who actually
knows about government policy. But I am instead going to
welcome Jonathan Farah. who put out one of the most
insane two-quo-quay fallacy-filled statements I have ever heard. Now, how

(23:07):
do I know that David Crowley and Jonathan Farrow will never, ever,
ever take me up on this challenge? Because I guarantee
neither of them knows what a two-quo-quay fallacy is. It's
Latin for but you too. It's commonly known as whataboutism.
Instead of actually answering any of Tiffany's points, you go, well,

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he voted thoroughly, not released Epstein files. Do we really
want to go back and forth on who is cozier
with criminals and who has a better record and worse
record on crime? I'm going to go with the guy

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who didn't just give criminals iPads that they use to
commit more crimes. By the way, if you just had
to take a wild guess, how much child porn do
you feel is being downloaded right now on those jail tablets,
which we are told are totally impregnable, that you can't
possibly do anything on them without the jail staff permission? Now,

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how much these things you don't even need silk exotic anymore.
Just get your hands on one of David Crowley's jail
tablets and you will have all of these scantily clad
women you could ever possibly see. Crowley, excuse me, Tiffany
was on Fox Business this morning taking Crowley. and taking

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his idiot spokesperson Jonathan Farah. I am serious. I know
Crowley is never going to come on. Jonathan Farah is
one of these libs who thinks he's way smarter and
way slicker and can just bring it to any mega extremist.
I am openly daring him, 414-799-1130, to come on and
make those exact points on this radio show. Duh. He

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voted to defund the police. Duh. That makes the iPads
for inmates okay. I honestly wonder if you added Farrah
Crowley and the entire Crowley campaign comms team's IQ together,
you'd hit triple digits. Seriously doubting it. Here's Tom Tiffany

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on Mornings with Maria.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Not only did he approve the program, he re-approved it
a couple years later. So inmates are able to get
free tablets and a free payment on it. so that
they have a package to be able to communicate with people.
And they're doing exactly as you said. They're threatening witnesses
and victims out there. And the judge described it very well.

(25:49):
This is preposterous what is going on. But this is
David Crowley's Milwaukee. Is this what we want for the
state of Wisconsin? It's going to be the question for
the voters here in the Badger State.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
We already have this across Wisconsin because of Tony Evers.
And Josh Cole, who think exactly like David Crowley does
on the issue of crime. Do you think they still
have those old 900 numbers where you would call up
and like a woman would talk dirty to you, but

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it was actually some dude sitting in like a call
center in Calcutta? Do you think the inmates are still
calling up the old 900 numbers? Or did the Internet
and its infinite supply of pornography, did they kill the 900?
I'll tell you what. Do you think David Crowley's jail
inmate calling cards will work for the 900 porno numbers? Now,

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it's not just inmates who are committing crimes. It is
in David Crowley's Milwaukee County jail. even top court officials
that are criminals. An update on the Sumatra Matthews. Jonathan
Farah of the David Crowley campaign is asked by the

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about Tom Tiffany, Crowley's gubernatorial opponent, criticizing
the fact that under David Crowley's free tablets for jail
inmates program, Jail inmates have clearly figured out how to
hack these things and are using them to send threatening
messages to witnesses, talk about threatening witnesses with their co-defendants,

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or even cyber-stalk a Milwaukee police detective and also an
ex-girlfriend that an inmate was actually locked up, was in
jail for stalking. He was able to use his jail-issued
tablet to contact her 1,500 more times earlier this year.

(27:58):
It is a valid question about whether taxpayers should continue
to pay $ 70, 000 per year. Jonathan Farah, Crowley's spokesperson, said this.
While David takes this situation seriously, he doesn't take seriously
the opinion of someone like MAGA Congressman Tom Tiffany, who
is so extreme he voted against releasing the Epstein files

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to protect a bunch of pedophiles, voted to defund the
police six times, and applauded January 6th rioters being pardoned
some of whom went on to be arrested for molesting
children and possessing child pornography, and has no business ever
being governor. I am again reissuing my challenge. I know
the Crowley campaign listens to this radio show every day,

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and I also know the Crowley campaign is way too
smart to ever put David Crowley on this radio program because, frankly,
he's not smart enough to be able to actually discuss
the issues or defend his record. But Jonathan Farah, he
fancies himself a communications campaign miracle worker. Because that was

(29:07):
some grade A spin. I would love him. And I'm
challenging him to come on this radio show today. We
are on until 6 o'clock. We will make time for
him whenever he wants to come on. Make that exact statement.

Speaker 8 (29:23):
Come on.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Argue that point with me. And let's see how well
you do in defending David Crowley's record, such as on, oh,
I don't know, defunding the police. or applauding rioters who
may or may not have rampaged through Milwaukee throughout the

(29:48):
Summer of Love 2020 and who are still, still rampaging
through Milwaukee in the form of teen takeovers. Have we
already forgotten state fair? Now, it's no real surprise that
there would be a lot of lawlessness in David Crowley's

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Milwaukee County when even David Crowley's top court officials, the
second-ranked in the milwaukee county clerk of circuit courts office
the top deputy to clerk of circuit court anna maria
hodges sumatra matthews was actually arrested and criminally charged alongside

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her husband and her husband's son with operating a drug
house out of her home the home that is in
her name paid for by the salary that she has
drawn as a long, long, long, long time county employee. Well,
she retired a couple of years ago and actually went

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right back to work when Milwaukee County Clerk of Court
Anna Maria Hodges was elected in 2024. I asked Hodges
directly via email, is Matthews drawing a pension while also
drawing a taxpayer-funded salary? She actually specifically denied it. She

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wrote an email to me saying that my article in
the Heartland Post was incorrect, demanding that I change it
because I was, quote, speculating that she was double dipping.
Sumatria Matthews was absolutely double dipping, meaning she was getting
a pension paid by taxpayers as well as a salary
paid by taxpayers, something the Milwaukee County Board, in the

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wake of the county pension scandal years ago, voted to end.
So not only do you have a criminal as the
top deputy to the clerk of circuit court in David
Crowley's Milwaukee County, you also have a liar as the
clerk of circuit court. This is the woman responsible for

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setting judicial calendars, for doing all of the behind the
scenes work in the county courthouse. Her BFF and the
reason that Sumatria Matthews went back to the clerk of
court's office after being away for a couple of years
and retiring and taking that big pension, monthly payment of
several thousand dollars plus a huge backdrop, I believe, of

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upwards of 70-some thousand dollars she got paid in a
lump sum. she went back because anna maria hodges was
her bff anna maria hodges hired sumatra matthews because that's
her bff sumatra matthews was running a massive fentanyl and
crack cocaine right now how has david crowley dealt with

(32:40):
all of the fentanyl coming from and being supplied by
apparently the top deputies in his criminal justice system He
put in vending machines that deal Narcan. Glowing story from
Channel 12 back in 2024. Saving lives through vending machines.

Speaker 9 (33:02):
Milwaukee County has added eight new machines across the county
that contain Narcan, gun locks, and fentanyl testing strips. The
county showed off the machines today at the Vin Baker
Recovery Center at 76th and Hampton on the northwest side.

Speaker 10 (33:15):
Every overdose prevented from these testing strips. Every death prevented
from naloxone nasal spray. Every patient started on medication-assisted treatment
and connected to resources by our fire departments. is one
step closer to recovery.

Speaker 9 (33:29):
There are now 19 of the vending machines spread out
throughout Milwaukee County.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
How many of those vending machines, again, that you paid
for through your tax dollars, regardless of whether or not
you live in Milwaukee County, how many of them provided
the Narcan that saved somebody's life from Sumatria Matthews' fentanyl,
I wonder? Do you know what the best way to

(33:56):
crack down on fentanyl overdoses is? It's to actually crack
down on fentanyl coming into this country, being manufactured in
this country. We had a dramatic decline in overdose deaths
in this country from 2024 to 2025. Again, first year decline.
of Trump's second term, not because of David Crowley's Narcan

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vending machine. How dysfunctional of a county do you have
to run that instead of just being able to get
Pepsi and pretzels from a vending machine, you can also
get some Narcan? Oh, I think I'm ODing. Here, F5. Oh, God,
it's not taking my dollar bill. It spit back out

(34:41):
my dollar bill. How am I going to get my Narcan?
And I'm dead. How dysfunctional a county do you have
that you need Narcan vending machines to protect your citizenry
from the Sumatria Matthews fentanyl that is being flooded? into

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this county coming up the unhinged liberal of the day
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name the unhinged liberal of the day And it is
Milwaukee's Central Library. This an exclusive story by our star columnist,
Deborah Prince over at Heartland Post. On September 3rd, that
would be Thursday, the Milwaukee Public Library is rolling out

(35:45):
what they're calling the library show in response to last
week's no Milwaukee rap music. list that forced the shutdown
of the garage on Brady Street. Milwaukee's library, though, instead
of using uplifting music, they are hosting DJs Sonny Lou

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and his brother DJ Mando, DJ Real Girl and rappers
414 Big Frank, Sabbath, Litris, and Cero, and Iuli, a
certified trapper, trap, rap, is a style that it comes
from the trap house, sort of like what Sumatria Matthews

(36:30):
was running. A trap house is a house of drugs
and prostitution, and a trap-style rapper raps about the trap lifestyle.
The type of rap, Prince writes, being showcased is not uplifting,
not educational, and not appropriate for children. The music will
be promoting violence, misogyny, drugs, and illegal guns. This is

(36:53):
not feel-good Milwaukee music and not a community celebration. The
Milwaukee Library, your unhinged liberals of the day. Our Deborah Prince,
columnist over at the Heartland Post, pointed this out. Why
is MPL, the Milwaukee Public Library, hosting an event that
contradicts every single part of its mission? This is exactly

(37:18):
what tax dollars should not be spent on. This is vulgar,
trashy content being placed in a building where kids come
to read, learn, and feel safe. Libraries are not nightclubs.
They should be a place where parents can bring toddlers
for story time, teens for studying after school, and families
attending educational programs. Milwaukee is already struggling with violence, reckless driving,

(37:39):
youth crime, and community instability. This was supposedly the reason
for the Milwaukee rap ban in the first place. Why
are we going backwards and celebrating violent behavior? The rappers
who are going to be performing include 414 Big Frank, Sabbath, Litris,

(38:00):
and Cero, and Aiuli. Now, in case you think that
there is a strict no rap list on the Dan
O'Donnell Show bumper music playlist, that could not possibly be
farther from the truth. In fact, I actually love rap music.

(38:21):
I'm not making a joke at all. I am being
extremely sincere. When it is done well, it is poetry.
It is coming from the heart. It is actually saying something.
And there are a whole ton of Milwaukee rappers that
I think we could have chosen for a literacy event.
For example, Speech from the group Arrested Development. He is

(38:46):
from Milwaukee. He graduated from Rufus King High School. He
moved down to Atlanta to start Arrested Development, which was
one of the best hip-hop collectives in history. They weren't
super huge, but their debut album, second album, had a
ton of hits. And Speech actually comes back to Summerfest

(39:06):
every year. At least he used to. And he works
at the Roast Corn stand, grilling up some roast corn. Yeah,
dead serious. You can see Speech from Arrested Development at Summerfest.
At least you used to. I ran into him a
couple of times and sort of fanboyed over him. All right.
This is from the Arrested Development song, mr wendell it

(39:28):
is all about him meeting and learning from a homeless
man all right here have a dollar in fact no
brother man here have two two dollars means a snack
for me but it means a big deal to you
Be strong. Serve God only. Know that if you do,
beautiful heaven awaits. That's the poem I wrote for the

(39:49):
first time. I saw a man with no clothes, no money,
no plate, Mr. Wendell. That's his name. No one ever
knew his name because he's a no one. Never thought
twice about spending on an old bum until I had
the chance to really get to know one. Now that
I know him, to give him money isn't charity. He
gives me some knowledge. I buy him some shoes. And

(40:10):
to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges. Still,
most of y'all come out confused. As producer Eric Paulson says,
the whitest version of Mr. Wendell. he's ever heard that
is poetry that is wisdom that is but incredible take
on homelessness it's not preachy it's not it's him getting

(40:33):
to know a homeless guy and say hey you can
actually learn something here alright so that speech from arrested
development this issue is actually performing via your tax dollars
at the milwaukee public library on thursday These are lyrics
from 414 Big Frank and his big hit, Backpack. The intro. Yeah, hey. Yeah, hey. Yeah, hey. Yeah, hey. O,

(41:02):
S word. O, S word. God, D word. O, S. O, S.
Verse one. B, we outside with it, feeling like I'm O3.
Being tender about a hoe, trying to expose you, not pee.
N-words trying to make hits and do skits. They ain't me. Man,

(41:26):
it's 2022. These hoes gone F for the fee. A
N-word rap and I make these bees laugh. I'm in
mode with it. These N-Words talking crazy. I'm going to
reach into this backpack. Backpack. Too many Glocks in this backpack. Backpack.

(41:47):
Know what the bleep going on, N-Word. I believe there
are handguns in Mr. Frank's backpack is what the implication is.
That he is going to reach into his backpack and
deal with these N-Words while he is trying to get
with some hoes. The chorus on the backpack loaded up

(42:11):
with things that knickknacks to too much S in there.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Anything you might need. I got inside for you. We
got it all.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
N word.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Backpack.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Backpack.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Finna reach to this backpack.

Speaker 8 (42:26):
Backpack.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
They go and bleed when I reach in this backpack. Backpack.

Speaker 11 (42:31):
B word.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Backpack. Backpack. Should we go back to Arrested Development?

Speaker 8 (42:41):
Mr.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Wendell has freedom. A free that you and I think
is dumb. Free to be without the worries of a
quick-to-diss society for Mr. Wendell's a bum. His only worries
are sickness and an occasional harassment by the police in
their chase. Uncivilized, we call him, but I just saw
him eat off the food we waste. Civilization. Are we
really civilized? Yes or no? Who are we to judge

(43:04):
when thousands of innocent men could be brutally enslaved and
killed over a racist grudge? Mr. Wendell has tried to
warn us about our ways, but we don't hear him talk.
Is it his fault when we've gone too far and
we got too far? Because on him we walk. Mr. Wendell,
a man, a human in flesh, but not by law.
I feed you dignity to stand with pride. Realize that

(43:25):
all in all, you stand tall. Go ahead, Mr. Wendell.
Now back to 414 Big Frank. Ha, yeah, we on that.
This S is F the other side.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Ha!

Speaker 1 (43:40):
And we ain't talking about hair products. They gon' die. Ha! Futurama.
Hit them with that. Get them fried. Ha!

Speaker 2 (43:48):
F it.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
We gon' treat them like, mm, shoot, get them tied.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Ha!

Speaker 1 (43:53):
It's crazy. I can make music for the thick Bs,
and I can make some S for the real N-words.
Let's go. Backpack. Backpack. Yeah. Backpack. Backpack. Let's do it. A.
I know which one I think should be performing at

(44:13):
the Milwaukee Library. Unfortunately, it will be 414 Big Frank
and not Speech from Arrested Development. Those are real lyrics.
This guy is going to be performing at a literacy event.
He's promoting literacy at the Milwaukee Library. This is David

(44:37):
Crowley's Milwaukee County. they gonna reach in your backpack. Backpack.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
All right.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
We, I know, I know. Yeah, we've got Dave Spano,
who is going to join us in just a second. Yeah,
I think we should get to that. We normally go
to the Daily Trump Day, which we are going to
get to in the next, I just, I am flabbergasted
that a Milwaukee rapper is going to promote literacy at

(45:12):
the library with 414 Big Frank. Now, Dave Spano is
actually wearing his 414 Big Frank T-shirt right now and
his backpack. Only in his backpack, he doesn't have Glocks
but stock tips.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Yeah, no, I don't have either. I have that big
gold 414 T-shirt. Kind of like Flavor Flav.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
You've got a big, you've got like, instead of the
round clock, you've got like a giant chain with the
Allen Bradley clock tower on it. Okay, I will, 414
Big Frank, all will be forgiven if you show up
to the Milwaukee Library event wearing a Flavor Flav Allen
Bradley clock. Shane, why? Can you see, by the way,

(46:01):
why this bar would say no Milwaukee rap? I listened
to this song during the news break. It's garbage. It's trash.
And I say this. Yes, as somebody who's older and
who loves, like, 90s, early 2000s rap, but my God,
I've been following the Tupac murder trial closer than possibly

(46:22):
any other human being. I actually appreciate the art form.
This is trash. This is.
As our columnist Deborah Prince over at Heartland Post said,
this is not something that should be promoted. In any event,
I did want you to hear this soundbite, Dave, from
Vice President J.D. Vance before he left Washington, D.C. for

(46:43):
a campaign event in Michigan for Senate candidate Mike Rogers.
He was talking about the big, big deal that was
struck with Venezuela late Friday, in which the United States
instantly gets 65 million barrels of oil in reserve.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
I think importantly, we're actually already seeing significant increase in
oil production out of Venezuela. which is one of the
reasons why, despite a lot of people predicting that oil
prices would go to $ 200 a barrel, they're obviously higher
than they were a few months ago. But they're sort
of much more stable in part because of what we
see coming out of Venezuela. So, look, I think that
we are going to see significant increase in production. The

(47:24):
$ 65 billion barrel reserve is a big part of that.
But I think it's a mistake to say when will
we see increased production because we're already seeing increased production already.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
I believe I actually misspoke and said 65 million barrels.
It is, in fact, billion, with a B, barrels of oil.
This is undoubtedly a big thing, but what are the
immediate impacts really going to be, Dave? The Vice President says, yes,
production is already ramping up. How quickly, realistically, will we
see that huge reserve and also increased production capacity really

(47:58):
impact markets?

Speaker 4 (47:59):
Yeah, you know, it's going to take years for that
to happen. And that's really coming from the people who
are doing it. They're talking about adding a number of rigs.
And then at some point into 27 in the year 2028,
they add two rigs per month. So it's a multi-year
process for sure. So we're not going to see a
glut of oil. But the benefits, of course, and why

(48:21):
it's a big deal is because, you know, they have
Venezuela has one of the world's largest proven oil reserves.
There's no doubt about that. And they used to produce
3 million barrels a day, and now they're down to
300,000 or something.

Speaker 10 (48:35):
Along those lines.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
And so there's a number of opportunities. One, obviously, it's
Western Hemisphere oil supply, and that's a big deal. You
don't have to go through the Straits of Hormuz and
the dependence on very unfriendly producers over there. And the U.S.
energy companies have access to these reserves over time. Chevron,
of course– is a big producer. But there is a

(48:58):
number of people who are going to be beneficiaries of that,
not only for the energy part, but if you're looking
for ideas, think about, for example, Schlumberger. You could think
about Halliburton. These are companies that would be beneficiaries of that, Dan.
But the big deal is, will it drive down prices?
And of course, there's an economic impact. And if you

(49:20):
know if oil is at 80 something dollars a barrel
today it's profitable but if it pushes down oil prices
to 50 or 60 it really is a is a
it's a difficult more difficult conversation to have with the
oil producers and They don't want to see it down there.
But the fact is, if oil prices can come down,
inflation is part of that conversation. And it's what's keeping

(49:41):
inflation up right now, not only because of energy prices, but,
of course, gas prices, transportation costs, getting food to your
grocery store. Those are all tied to oil prices, Dan.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Current price of regular unleaded gas, according to AAA, $ 4. 08
a gallon. That's down from $ 3. 18 a gallon a year ago.
It is expected to drop after Labor Day with the
end of the traditional summer driving season. But gas prices
are going to be an issue this election. I actually

(50:16):
went back to take a look at what gas prices
were on August 31st, 2022, four years ago. After we
saw prices hit $ 5 a gallon on average for the
first time in American history under Joe Biden. Do you
know what the price of gas was back then?

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Actually, I'm going to get $ 5.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
No, on August 31st, on August 31st, 384. That's because
Biden tapped the strategic petroleum reserve that the oil reserves
that we have. Not because of a national emergency, but
because it looked like Democrats were going to get absolutely smoked.
What is the likelihood, I wonder, that we now have

(51:01):
65 billion barrels of oil, not in our reserve, but in.
And Venezuela essentially is operating as our own personal gas
station now, which is a big deal. And ultimately, let's
not kid ourselves. Yes, there was a narco-terrorist communist in
charge of the country who was– not recognized by the

(51:23):
United States government as the legitimate head of Venezuela. Nicolas
Maduro is taken into custody. But this is all about
a global game of chess against China as it tries
to expand its influence in our hemisphere. And President Trump
essentially saying, no, now we control all of the oil,

(51:45):
it would be shocking to me if he doesn't deploy
that immediately and we don't see a significant drop very quickly.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Go ahead. Yeah, there's a bunch of risks that, you know,
let's just make sure we have them on the table.
Of course, there's the political risk in Venezuela in that
it could be, you know, she is a temporary at
this moment. And so if there's a change in course
of those leaders, So that could be a risk. Of course,
there is their constitution. Some are arguing that, you know,

(52:15):
can they do it? And then, of course, there's our
regulatory risk to what we're going to do over there.
And as I pointed out earlier, Dan, you know, there
are oil prices and economics work for the oil companies
much better in the 70, 80 and 90 dollar range
than they do in 50. And so there's going to be–
I don't think it's a slam dunk quite yet, but
the idea that this is headed in the right direction

(52:38):
is certainly a positive. And I think years from now,
two or three years from now, it's going to be
a very great advantage to the United States, not only
because it's in the Western Hemisphere, but because of the
fact that we don't have to depend on the Straits
of Hormuz and everything else that goes into that. So
I think long-term it's going to be a really big thing.

(52:58):
We're going to find out, of course, if it does
push down prices and if it calms inflation because, as
you pointed out, that will be one of the main
political points as we go into the last quarter is
going to be inflation and affordability.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
No question. And now the Federal Reserve, I think, under
new chairman Kevin Warsh, has a very difficult decision to make.
I thought I saw the odds of a rate hike.
as opposed to rate cuts, possibly hitting 50-50 by the
end of the year, that probably wouldn't do a whole

(53:34):
lot to stimulate growth. In fact, everybody has been expecting
that Warsh was going to be cutting rates. If we
go the opposite direction, that might be a bit of
an issue.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Yeah, I think 50-50 is a flip of the coin,
and that's right now. The odds are, even though it's
at 50-50 today, that They're not going to do that
because it's not– generally, you just don't do a one-and-done
rate hike. And so that would be– I think he's
far more thoughtful than that just to do one rate hike. And,

(54:05):
of course, there's political ramifications to raising interest rates in
front of an election. And, of course, it doesn't matter
if it was a Democrat or Republican. They have really
tried to stand pat. before the election. So I think
the odds are less than 50-50 that that happens, but
we'll have to see. I mean, we're looking at the
highest 30-year bond in 20 years. It's got to go

(54:27):
all the way back to 2007, frankly, to see a
30-year at 5.2. So that's part of it. You know,
you talked about oil at $ 4 a gallon. There's this
consumer sentiment kind of rule of thumb. If you add
the gallon of an oil– But the price of gas and,
of course, the 30-year mortgage together, and if it exceeds 10,

(54:49):
that's when the consumer starts to feel uncomfortable, and that's
where we are right now.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Well, I was going to say, what are we at,
about 11-something, I'm guessing?

Speaker 8 (54:56):
Right, right.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
The market's doing great, but the consumer doesn't feel it.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Well, because how many people have direct exposure to the market?
I mean, a lot of people have 401ks, but a
substantial portion of this country does not. A lot of
people do individual investments, have their own– portfolios independent of
a retirement account, but a lot of people don't. And
that's what I've sort of been warning about for a
long time. We say, well, the market is up. Yeah, okay, great.

(55:22):
If people can't afford the basic necessities, that becomes a problem,
even though rather obviously it was Biden and the Democrats
responsible for the massive price hikes. Trump, however, did promise
to get prices down very quickly. they have been persistent.
It's easy to get inflation down, very difficult to get
prices down without a massive recession.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
I was just going to say a lot of that
comes from the war, right? So that's a big part
of the reason.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
We have to push things up. Well, that's why we
have a dollar increase in gas prices over the past year.
It's because commerce just has been so disrupted through the
Strait of Hormuz. Iran knew exactly what it was doing
even long after it was defeated militarily. It could basically
have a stranglehold over commercial shipping by being a terrorist
state and threatening drone strikes or the occasional missile. Once

(56:16):
commerce starts flowing– and did you see also they're apparently
trying to drill? They're making a new strait. They're literally
just cutting through the earth it looks like according to
satellite imagery to try to create alternate shipping that doesn't
go right past Iran. something very interesting to watch. We

(56:36):
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wealth dot com you is this Dan O'Donnell show welcome
back to it a little late we usually start the
four o'clock hour with our daily Trump data summary of
what went on in Donald Trump's Washington but I wanted
to illustrate the absurdity of David Crowley's Milwaukee County hosting

(57:23):
a rap concert and not just a rap concert a
rap concert featuring some of the most vulgar rappers in Milwaukee,
to promote literacy. This is an event to promote literacy.
You heard me read the lyrics from 414 Big Frank.
Did that sound like a modern-day Shakespearean sonnet to you?

(57:46):
And please, Libs, before you scream racism, go back and
listen to my praise for Mr. Wendell by Arrested Development. Seriously,
listen to that whole album. It was three years, 56 days.
Oh my God, what was it called? It was a

(58:07):
seminal album. Tennessee, Mr. Wendell, three years, five months, and
two days in the life of, have People Every Day
that featured the famous sample of I'm Everyday People. It was,
I want to say they became, because of that album,
they were the first rap group to ever win best

(58:30):
artist or best new artist at the Grammys. Oh, they
were fantastic. 1990, 1991, 92. I think it came out
in early 1992. Rap, hip-hop, I listened to Most Def,
Talib Kweli, Common, Atmosphere is a little darker. Eminem is
about as dark as it gets in his early stuff,

(58:53):
but Boy, oh boy, there are some– even Tupac. I mean,
Tupac is seen as like the ultimate gangster rapper. There
is true, honest-to-God poetry in there that you just don't
hear today. I mean, you do.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
You do.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Like uh, uh, there are rappers. I'm a big fan
of Drake. We don't use a whole lot of his beats.
Cause he doesn't use a whole lot of orchestral beats
that sort of fits the theme of this show for
bumper music. You're on the Dan O'Donnell show. My kids
got me into Kendrick Lamar. There is a, an incredible song, uh,
that Kendrick Lamar does called Duckworth, uh, his name is

(59:30):
kendrick lamar duckworth and it's all about his dad and
how his dad was this little nerdy guy who used
to give free food when he worked at a fast
food joint to some big gangbanger and they were going
to go rob this place and shoot it up but
the gangster wouldn't allow kendrick lamar's dad to be harmed

(59:50):
and it turned out that gangbanger sort of grew out
of it became a massive producer and discovered or produced
the first major album of Kendrick Lamar. And it was
just about how fate and God and everything works in
just such mysterious ways and puts people in. It's poetry.
I mean, rap can be absolute poetry. It can also

(01:00:14):
be just raw garbage. And David Crowley's Milwaukee County, of course,
promotes raw garbage. No diss to 414 Big Frank. I'm
sure he's got some true poetry in his songs as well.
I didn't hear it in Backpack where he's talking about
reaching into his backpack to get a Glock to shoot

(01:00:37):
some N-words. you know, they would stop messing with his
hose and he can get back to trapping or whatever
he does. Daily Trump, a big win for the Trump
administration at the United States Supreme Court today, allowing the
president to keep building the White House ballroom 5-4 ruling

(01:00:59):
held that a historic preservation group does not have legal
standing to challenge the ballroom and that if it did
not issue this stay of a lower court's ruling, basically
putting on hold a lower court's ruling stopping construction of
the ballroom, the Trump administration would be irreparably harmed. So

(01:01:21):
the decision allows construction crews to continue their nearly round-the-clock
work on one of President Trump's signature projects. This means
that the project could be largely continued and largely finished
before there is an ultimate ruling on whether or not

(01:01:42):
this conservation group has standing to sue. Here's a spoiler.
They most certainly do not. And also, historic preservation groups
do not get to trump the executive branch when it
comes to what they are going to do with the
White House. You know, the seat of the executive branch.

(01:02:09):
So President Trump earlier this afternoon announced the major expansion
of his most favored nation drug pricing initiative. Nine new
pharmaceutical companies are committing to deliver their lowest possible prices
for American patients.

Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
I'm thrilled to announce a major expansion of one of
our signature affordability initiatives, something that people have been trying
to get for years, for decades. And I'm not even
sure that other presidents tried. They didn't try because the
chances of them getting it were very slim. They would
never have been able to do it. And that's the

(01:02:49):
most favored nation, drug pricing. Biggest thing you'll hear, you know,
we would cut drugs for like one-eighth of a percent.
It was like a big deal. We're cutting them at
numbers that you'll hear in a second are astronomical. nine
new pharmaceutical companies are committing to deliver their lowest drug

(01:03:11):
prices for American patients.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Now, President Trump said during this Oval Office press conference
where he took questions from reporters that if a Democrat
president did anything even approaching this, it would be the
biggest story in America for a week. It is actually massive.
Weirdly enough, I was at the doctor today and And

(01:03:34):
we were talking about prescription drug prices. I saw a
nurse practitioner. I'm sure she had no idea who I was. I,
maybe she did. I don't know, but she was just
saying how it's people. Patients have been telling her, you know,
she doesn't, she said she doesn't like when she doesn't
have to, to prescribe something. If you can through, uh,

(01:03:54):
diet and exercise, be able to, you know, fix a
problem that you're having. But she said, uh, you know,
as a last resort, she'll do prescriptions or whatever. And
she said, yeah, a lot of her patients had been
telling her that over the last couple of months, man,
the price of my medicine has gone down. And I'm
sort of holding my tongue and I was like, well,

(01:04:16):
it's because the most favored nation drug pricing has had
a remarkable impact. President Trump actually did outline some of
those numbers.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
Since launching our most favored nation initiative less than one
year ago, my administration has forged agreements with the world's
17 top pharmaceutical companies and some of them you've met
at other meetings to offer their medicines at these steep discounts.
And with today's announcement, we now have 26 companies representing 90%

(01:04:46):
of the domestic pharmaceutical market and the other 10% are
also coming in.

Speaker 8 (01:04:50):
They have no choice.

Speaker 6 (01:04:52):
In total, these agreements are projected to save Americans more
than $ 600 billion over a very short period of time.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
It is a big deal. Big, big deal. Earlier today,
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an emergency executive shutdown of
110 driving schools tied to thousands of violations of English
proficiency standards. If you are a truck driver or a

(01:05:22):
commercial driver in the United States, you need to be
proficient in English. Why?

Speaker 8 (01:05:28):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
Because that's the language that our road signs are written in.

Speaker 12 (01:05:32):
Today, what we are announcing is an emergency executive shutdown
of 110 driving schools. So these are driving schools that
account for 5,000 of the violations for English proficiency. What

(01:05:54):
I mean by that is you have to speak English
to operate a commercial motor vehicle. I didn't create that rule.
President Trump didn't create that rule. That rule has been
in place for decades.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary, talking on CNBC this morning and
taking the Canadian government to task over the escalation in
the trade war with Canada. Newest U.S. measures on Canada, 50%
additional tariffs These are called the Section 338 tariffs on

(01:06:29):
roughly $ 20 billion of Canadian goods. They took effect on
August 22nd after negotiations with Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, collapsed.
President Trump invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. This,

(01:06:49):
by the way, believe it or not, is the first
known use ever of Section 338 in nearly 100 years.
He targeted Canadian discrimination against U.S. motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages,
and dairy and imposed a 50% tariff. Scott Besant absolutely

(01:07:11):
went off. on Carney in this interview with CNBC.

Speaker 9 (01:07:16):
Mark, it's wondering if we're now in a tit-for-tat trade
war with Canada.

Speaker 11 (01:07:19):
Well, I don't think you can be in a tit-for-tat
with someone who's 13 times larger than you are. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
The man is just an absolute verbal assassin. They say
they're doing okay.

Speaker 11 (01:07:32):
What else are they going to say? Look, I think
this is very unfortunate that Prime Minister Carney has turned
this into... a political shouting match. I mean, we're not
at war with Canada. How are we going to be
at war with Canada? Are they going to take their
two submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sick them on us?
He came to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump agenda. He

(01:07:56):
was 20 points behind in the poll. And then he
started this. And it's unfortunate that he's not doing what's
best for the Canadian people. He's doing what is best
for the Liberal Party, what's best for Mark Carney. And
in the long run, The Canadian people are going to
see through that. And I will say that they were
offered the best trade deal of any country on the globe,

(01:08:17):
and he chose to walk away from it at the
last minute.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
In hindsight, that was probably... a mistake. You're listening to
the Dan O'Donnell Show. Milwaukee announces major changes to the
use of flock cameras. This as President Trump again, along
with Vice President J.D. Vance, dive headlong into the data

(01:08:43):
center debate. The impact of all of that coming up
in the five o'clock hour. Plus, Dane County, loves to
say how welcoming and kind and good and how much
it protects trans lives. What do they always say? Trans genocide.

(01:09:03):
If you misgender a transgender individual, you are committing a
genocide against trans people. What if I was to tell you?
that because of far-left policies in Dane County, the same policies,
by the way, that would be implemented statewide under a
David Crowley administration, a trans person was badly, badly hurt.

(01:09:31):
We are going to get into that story also coming
up in the 5 o'clock hour. Right now, however, the
Wisconsin Elections Commission, as expected, has voted today to write
a strongly worded letter to the Milwaukee Election Commission following
Milwaukee's abject failure to do the one thing it's supposed

(01:09:56):
to do, report ballots and votes on time. This from
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and Instagram. Wisconsin Elections Commission voting today to rewrite its

(01:10:43):
letter to Milwaukee election officials after the city delayed unofficial
primary results on August 11th by downloading the wrong files
from ballot tabulators. Commissioners reviewed a six-page response from Milwaukee
Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez. She said workers at
Central Count mistakenly copied audit logs instead of election result

(01:11:06):
files from five of nine high-speed tabulators used to process
more than 27,000 absentee ballots. The error upheld public reporting
of Milwaukee's unofficial results by about an hour. The state
commission had drafted a letter pressing Milwaukee for more transparency,
citing the city's high-profile role in national election scrutiny. After

(01:11:30):
receiving Gutierrez's explanation, though, commissioners agreed to revise that draft
so it acknowledges Milwaukee's response while noting they still want
more documents. According to Commissioner Ann Jacobs, noted Dem and
Milwaukee apologist, quote, By the way, we have identified mauricia

(01:11:59):
harris as the official who selected the wrong files for
milwaukee selection commission now on friday we reported in a
letter that was sent to whack that letter that what
commissioners reacted to today polia gutierrez said that what they're

(01:12:19):
doing to make sure this doesn't happen again and i
am not kidding is to add pictures to the training
people like mauricia harris who is one of the top
deputies to the city of milwaukee election commission executive director
this is like the number two or number three top

(01:12:40):
election official in milwaukee so in david crowley's milwaukee county
You have got the top deputy to the clerk of
circuit court running a drug house and the top deputy
to the city election commissioner being so stupid or functionally
illiterate that she could not read directions to download vote

(01:13:02):
files and not audit logs. And because of this stupidity,
the answer, so they don't have to discipline Marisha Harris
at all, is to add pictures of So Marisha can
look at the pictures before she, you know, does the
job that taxpayers are paying her to do. I said

(01:13:27):
on Friday's show that just to add insult to injury,
they should make her color them in. It shouldn't just
be an illustration. It should be like pretty much every
kid in public school in Wisconsin goes back to school
tomorrow and I always dreaded the coloring assignments. Did your

(01:13:48):
stepson have coloring assignments when he was younger, Eric? My kids, oh,
he started today. Okay, mine start tomorrow. One is going
to middle school for the first time. One just started
at college. The other is a sophomore in high school.
I asked him, do you have like all your school supplies?
Do you need to get notebooks or anything? This is

(01:14:09):
like as only a returning high school kid can answer.
you know, they've had all summer to know all the
supplies that they need for each class. Nah, I don't know.
If they tell me I need something on the first day,
I can just go out and get it. Well, no,
you can't because you don't have your driver's license. So
I can go out and get it. So why don't
we take this last day to go out and get it?

(01:14:31):
I said, this should be like a first day of
school coloring assignment for Marisha Harris. Just so it's like
committed to your memory. You need to color in all
of the illustrations of the stuff you need to do
to enter the data correctly. ahead of november's election dan
o'donnell show coming right back city of milwaukee has sort

(01:14:53):
of become the epicenter of the debate over block surveillance
cameras after a milwaukee police officer was caught using one
more than 120 times to essentially stalk a romantic interest
And now Milwaukee's mayor, Cavalier Johnson, has announced new restrictions

(01:15:15):
on them. The Milwaukee Police Association firing back. We dive
into that. President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance once again
diving into the other debate that is roiling this country
over new technology, of course, data centers. Wisconsin has sort

(01:15:35):
of become the epicenter of that debate as well because
of our flat, cooler terrain, proximity to a massive body
of water in Lake Michigan. It's still Lake Michigan, right? Well,
since President Trump just started calling Lake Ontario Lake America,
can we just start calling it Lake Wisconsin? I mean,

(01:15:57):
everybody knows the UP, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is
actually Wisconsin, right? We just call that Wisconsin North. Like
Iron Mountain, Michigan, that's really Iron Mountain, Wisconsin. So obviously
we have way more territory there. that borders, we have
way more of Lake Wisconsin's shoreline than Michigan does. I

(01:16:22):
think we here in Wisconsin just start calling it Lake Wisconsin.
I know it was, it was, it was, Eric reminds
me it was originally called Lake Illinois. I actually remember that.
Do you know what I remember that from? Bizarrely enough,
it always stuck with me. In fourth grade, i think

(01:16:42):
it's still in fourth grade fourth grade when i was
growing up many many many many years ago all schools
had to do a history lesson on a wisconsin and
it was invariably about the native tribes and that sort
of stuff my fourth grade teacher sister and actually i
think it might have been mister doll yet we had

(01:17:03):
a eighty to the first male teacher any of us
ever had was named mister dot And he was, in fact,
a doll. He was a wonderful, wonderful man, passed on
some years ago. Just a truly hilarious, great teacher. I
didn't have him. I had Sister Anne, who was also fantastic.
She was a tiny little– when I say tiny, I

(01:17:24):
mean the fourth-grade kids oftentimes towered over her. Do you
know how short you have to be that fourth-graders are
towering over you? But it was either Mr. Dahl's class
or Sister Ann. I don't remember this, but I do
remember it specifically because, you know, young Dan, who was
already interested in history. Oh, man, Lake Michigan. Everybody knew

(01:17:46):
about Lake Michigan. Did you know it used to be
Lake Illinois? And I did. It stuck with me all
these years. I think I was in fourth grade 30
years ago.

Speaker 10 (01:17:56):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:17:58):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Oh, God, no, I would have been like sophomore year
of high school, 30, 35 years ago, 40 years ago.
I'm getting old, not old enough that my memory has
failed me so badly that I didn't do the first
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And apparently it is not going to be too crowded.
My brother-in-law was just in Las Vegas a week or
so ago for a trade show, and he said it
is absolutely dead. Now, I don't know if that's because

(01:19:27):
the NFL season hasn't started yet. If it's because it's
summertime and nobody wants to go to a place where
it's a hundred some degrees. But I actually noticed that myself,
my buddies and I go. It's an annual guys trip
every year in about April, mid to late April. So
after the NCAA tournament, I've noticed the last two years

(01:19:50):
or so. it's been noticeably less crowded. I don't know
if that's just normal ebbs and flows reflective of the
economy or whatever, but I've been hearing rumors about the
demise of Las Vegas forever. Folks, I can tell you
with absolute certainty, the city of Milwaukee will single-handedly keep

(01:20:11):
Las Vegas in business for the next century. Whatever it is,
people in this city love Love, love going to Las Vegas.
I told you there are like two retirement destinations for
people from Milwaukee. One, Naples, Florida. Two, Scottsdale, Arizona. I
don't know why, but everybody from southeast Wisconsin retires to

(01:20:33):
one of those two places. Vacation destinations, it is number one,
Las Vegas. People love going to Las Vegas from southeast Wisconsin.
Number two, I don't know, up north? Door County. No,
Door County. Door County is absolutely not up north. Eric,

(01:20:53):
I say up north. He goes, Door County. What kind
of bougie snob are you? What are you going, apple picking? No,
up north is like a cabin in Manitowish waters, all right?
Up north is where you go hunting.

Speaker 11 (01:21:11):
Up north.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
Dork out. Now, ironically, ironically, a lot of the places
like for people in Wisconsin, at least, you know, where
I grew up, southeast of Wisconsin, up north can be
like western Wisconsin. It's just up north is like the
generic term we have for anywhere rural. It can have
a lake to bonus if it's got a lake. Doesn't

(01:21:33):
even need to be a lake because we call everything
a lake when it technically isn't a lake. That's why
when this another thing I learned about geography, maybe not
from Sister Ann. But you know how they say Minnesota
is the land of 10,000 lakes, but Wisconsin has like
58,000 lakes. We actually don't. It's just here in Wisconsin.
Maybe it's because we want to beat Minnesota at their

(01:21:54):
own stupid lake-having game. We call every tiny puddle we
have a lake. It'll be like, yeah, this is Little
Muskego Lake.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
Really?

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
It kind of looks like a reservoir. Not Little Muskego
Lake actually is a lake, but there is one. What
is the one they call it? It's in Hale's Corners,
right on the border of Hale's Corners and New Berlin,
right on like 124th Street. Kelly Lake. Kelly Lake. Kelly Lake.

(01:22:26):
I grew up right around there because I went to
Whitnell High School, right? Yes, they call it Kelly Lake.
That is the most pondy lake I have ever seen.
That is not a lake. It's a beautiful pond. It's wonderful.
A buddy of mine I grew up with lived right
on Kelly Lake. His family had a beautiful house. I
loved going over there. Great sunsets over Kelly Lake. But

(01:22:48):
it's Kelly Pond, Hale's Corners, okay? Kelly Lake. what what
is the size of that ten acres or more is alike.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
okay yeah okay that so all lake producer eric says
has to be ten acres for it to be officially
a lake that i did not know minnesota has a
more stringent definition of those ten acres kelly lake kelly
lake is like maybe and acre that's right yep it's

(01:23:22):
like Like, suck it, Minnesota, we've got 58,000 lakes. Like Kelly.
All right. See, this is the stuff you get on
Wisconsin radio when your host is actually a scotty. No,
this was not on my outline. My outline... Flock cameras

(01:23:43):
wasn't even on my outline. I was supposed to get
to that like an hour ago. Well, we had a
lot to get to. The rap thing... Took a long
time because it's just so asinine. They're going to have
a bunch of rappers go to the God. What a
bunch of virtue signaling pap.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
The controversy over flock cameras. Flock Safety is a company
that operates a nationwide network of at least 100, I've
heard as many as 150,000 different license plate reader cameras.
What they do is not just read a plate, but

(01:24:26):
it will also, through AI, get your vehicle make, model,
and color, and it will get the precise location. So
as you're moving through the Flock network of cameras, you
can very easily be surveilled. There are tens of billions
of scans that the network of cameras does each month.

(01:24:52):
And the effect of this is to create real-time movement
tracking data that law enforcement can use across multiple jurisdictions
without the requirement of a warrant. Now, there is a
massive controversy about this, and I'm on the fence because

(01:25:13):
I see very clearly both arguments. And in fact, this
might be the first time in a long time the
American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU was on the right
side of an issue because it actually has to do
with civil liberties. The ACLU says, hey, to do this
sort of stuff, you probably need a warrant. And that

(01:25:35):
is correct. people who are much more opposed to them
than I am say, look, this is the mass surveillance
state that we have been warned about for generations. Do
you remember the movie, uh, enemy of the state was

(01:25:57):
it enemy of the state with will will smith i
almost said will ferrell that'd be very funny will ferrell
in the will smith if will ferrell just did all
of will smith's like serious roles right you saw him
in the pursuit of happiness or will ferrell was playing
uh richard williams venus and serena's dad it was will
ferrell who slapped the hell out of chris rock at

(01:26:18):
the oscars that'd be funny that'd be that'd be very
funny will smith gene hackman as uh He's running from
the law, but there's this network of cameras that can
see everything. That was science fiction. That was portrayed as
sort of a dystopian future. Flock makes that very real. Now,
it's not tracking you individually, but it's tracking your car.

(01:26:43):
Not only that, there was a Milwaukee police officer who
became the poster child for the ability of Flock to
be abused. as he used it to stalk his ex,
tracking his partner 124 times using flock cameras. As a

(01:27:08):
result of this, Milwaukee's mayor, Cavalier Johnson, came out today
with an order on huge new limits for how Milwaukee
police use flock cameras. The order essentially prevents most officers
from accessing the system and barring outside agencies from searching

(01:27:29):
the city's data. Now, who do you think that second
part is aimed directly at?

Speaker 8 (01:27:37):
ICE.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
This is an anti-ICE order. Rank and file officers, this
according to our website, the Heartland Post, rank and file
officers and detectives will lose access. Only supervisors may run
searches and only for a narrow set of cases. FBI
part one crimes, critically missing people, abductions and investigations of

(01:28:04):
drug trafficking organizations. Part one offenses include homicide, rape, robbery,
aggravated assault, including non-fatal shootings, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft,
arson and human trafficking. Not only that. Mayor Johnson also
directed the Milwaukee Police Department to stop sharing the city's

(01:28:27):
flock feed with neighboring departments and other agencies. Milwaukee Police
will be the only agency allowed to query cameras in
the city, giving the department sole control of audits of
its own data. The police department did not. not immediately
comment however within the last hour the milwaukee police association
the union that represents milwaukee police officers did put out

(01:28:52):
this statement from president alex ayala on its facebook page
The Milwaukee Police Association understands the need for appropriate safeguards
governing the use of flock cameras and other law enforcement technology.
We do not condone the misuse of law enforcement tools
for personal improper or unauthorized purposes. Officers entrusted with access

(01:29:12):
to these systems have a responsibility to use them only
for legitimate law enforcement purposes, and those who violate that
trust must be held accountable. At the same time, flock
cameras have proven to be a valuable investigative tool for
officers working to solve crimes and protect the people of Milwaukee.
We appreciate that the city's response recognizes the difference between
misuse of a tool and the legitimate use of that

(01:29:35):
tool by the overwhelming majority of officers who follow the rules.
Reasonable safeguards and accountability can coexist with giving police officers
the technology they need to do their jobs effectively. The
MPA believes that is the appropriate balance. With the exception.

(01:29:58):
Of the aspect of these new rules clearly aimed at
not allowing ice or the FBI to use the city's
flock camera data to track illegals. This probably is a
very good, reasonable solution from the city of Milwaukee. In fact,

(01:30:23):
I think The best way, the single best way for, look,
Flock is, it's an incredible tool. And it is the
first in what I believe to be many tools powered
by AI that are going to make solving crimes much,
much easier. The reality is we have been living in

(01:30:48):
a surveillance state for a long time. We just have
sort of gotten accustomed to it. If I go out
after the show and walk my dog, I am going
to appear on every one of my neighbor's ring cameras.
Every time I walk into this building, I am on

(01:31:10):
a surveillance camera. Every time I go on the highway,
my car can be seen on DOT, Department of Transportation,
traffic cameras. Every time I go in a restaurant, every
time I go in a store, every time I'm out
in public, I no longer have a reasonable expectation, not

(01:31:31):
just a privacy, but also that I'm not going to
be videotaped. It is unfortunately a prerequisite to going out. Okay,
here's a classic example. I'm at my daughter's soccer game.
She had a soccer tournament over the weekend. In fact,
I just got texted saying, from an old friend I

(01:31:52):
used to coach basketball with. And he said, my son
swears he saw you coaching soccer. I thought you're my
older son is now in high school was your youngest.
He said, are you still coach? I would have thought
you retired. I'm like, brother, I'd never retire from coaching
soccer or youth sports. It's my passion. I was actually joking.
I'm coach. I don't have time to coach my daughter's

(01:32:12):
soccer team or anything in the fall because obviously it's
six o'clock. It's pitch dark. by about September 15th when
I get off the show. But I was joking. I'm
coaching the goalkeepers for my daughter's team. And I said,
it's sort of like Michael Corleone in Godfather 3. Just
when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.

(01:32:34):
To which the head coach said, Dan, who are you joking?
You pulled yourself back. And I said, absolutely, I am.
When I was at the daughter's soccer team games, Every
single team on every single field had a surveillance camera
that is up on a long pole. I'm sure you've

(01:32:55):
seen this. They are, is it Huddle, the company that
makes these cameras? I don't know. I had to sign
up for a Huddle account for my son where you
type in his jersey number, you type in, yeah, Huddle Cam.
If you have a Huddle account, they are now advertising
that they can actually with this camera track individual players

(01:33:20):
on a soccer field I presume you can do the
same thing with football basketball whatever they now use AI
to track the jersey number and you can actually have
individual sorta highlights up every player on the field it's
remarkable guess what else those cameras are capture people on

(01:33:41):
the sidelines shell when I'm making fun of the parents
on the other team. No, I'm just kidding. I don't
do that. Okay, I totally do that. I make fun
of everybody all the time, every day. No, I don't.
I try to be on my best behavior as a
soccer player. I'm not one of those crazy ones screaming.

(01:34:04):
In fact, in fact, you're not going to believe this.
There was, at the end of the game yesterday, there
was two of the girls like crashed into each other.
And they're sixth, seventh grade girls. I don't even think
they know how to like intentionally be violent. I can't
even tell you, coaching girls, how many times there was

(01:34:26):
an injury on the field and like our girl who
was tied up with the girl who's hurt is like
sobbing because she hurt the other girl. Meanwhile, the high
school boys are like punching each other in the face
and screaming like, yeah, stay down, you son of a...
I'm like, boy, the difference in the sexes illustrated right
there But there was two girls were like going in
and our girl kind of lowered the shoulder and she

(01:34:48):
got the other girl running for the ball in the back.
And one of our parents were like, come on, there's
not a foul. The assistant referee on the sideline like turned.
And I think he must have heard it a bunch
from the parents and was like, hey, you know, come on. Yeah,
that was obviously a foul on our girl. Here's why.
So I'm not one of those who yells at the ref.
In fact, I. Well, I took the referee training. So

(01:35:10):
the referees are my brethren. I also heard I was
at a high school football game on Friday. Did you
know the reason that every team in the WIAA has
to play a Thursday night game? Because the referee shortage
is that great that if every team was playing on
Friday nights, they wouldn't have enough referees. I'm sure I

(01:35:31):
heard this somewhere, but be nice to your local referees
because they aren't getting paid nearly enough to take your abuse.
They do this because they love the game so much.
They are doing a favor to you and your kids
because they love the game. They love your kids. They
love doing what they do. Don't make their job a nightmare.
Please just respect them.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (01:35:54):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
I was on camera, I'm sure, and so was everybody
else at that tournament. We have no expectation of privacy
ever in this country. But there is a real possibility
that the people in charge have access to a tremendous
tool that can be abused. This is why the critical

(01:36:21):
thing is that every agency, I think, follows Milwaukee's lead.
Rank and file officers cannot, and this is not to
say we can't trust all of you, there just needs
to be proper safeguards because the temptation, and we have
seen dozens of officers either criminally charged like in Milwaukee

(01:36:43):
or reprimanded for improper use of flock cameras to stalk
People had suspicion of cheating on them or ex-girlfriends or
anything like that to track movement. Having designated flock access
is a huge step. Not only that, I can't believe

(01:37:04):
we allowed access to this sort of stuff without a warrant.
Because this is the classic fishing expedition that a government
law enforcement agency could engage in. In which they're trying
to find criminality without any reasonable suspicion that criminality occurred.
In fact, I can't believe there hasn't been a case yet.

(01:37:27):
I'm sure there are a couple pending in the court system. Ultimately,
the Supreme Court is going to have to weigh in
on this. And this is just the first of many
things that are going to– we're basically going to need
to rewrite constitutional law, especially as it pertains to the
Fourth Amendment right to privacy, especially as it pertains to

(01:37:49):
the collection of evidence as we increasingly use artificial intelligence
to analyze data to potentially find, say, white-collar crimes, tax evasion,
that sort of thing. there is going to need to be,
and Flock is just the first example of the next
20 years, 50 years as technology expands and gets much,

(01:38:10):
much better of our lives, of the law of public
policy catching up to what technology can do. We are
once again in a big debate over data centers. President Trump,
Vice President Vance, both weighing in today. We'll get to
that coming up next. President Trump is once again coming

(01:38:32):
out very strongly in favor of data centers in a
post on truth social this morning he wrote the only
reason that communities throughout the usa should not want data
centers is if they want to end up being backwards
and poor If they want to be successful and rich
with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place,

(01:38:53):
let data reign. The good news is that there are
plenty of other places that want them. If we kill
the golden goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.
China could not be happier with this anti-data center movement. Actually,
they can't believe it is happening, President DJT. In fact...

(01:39:15):
The Chinese are behind a substantial amount of anti-data center propaganda.
This idea that somehow they're going to drain lakes dry
is a Chinese invention. This is coming from near as
anyone can tell, not actual science, but rather Chinese agitprop

(01:39:39):
that is showing up on social media, especially the Chinese
spy app TikTok that was, of course, forced to sell
its U.S. operations because, you know, it was a Chinese
spy app. In fact, Neville Roy Singham, who is a billionaire,

(01:40:01):
he is a huge anti-data center zealot. He is doing
so at the behest of communist China. I am still
convinced that most of the celebrity opposition to data centers,
the influence operations coming out against data centers, is paid.

(01:40:26):
I can't prove it, but it has long been my
suspicion that beloved Wisconsin comedian Charlie Behrens isn't totally being
forthcoming with why all of a sudden His opposition to
data centers has been his biggest crusade because, yeah, you know,

(01:40:47):
Charlie is a standard Wisconsin Dem, right? You can hear
it in his comedy. He's a very funny guy. And
you're supposed to normally say if something is brought to
you by a particular brand, like Charlie will partner with, say,
Quick Trip. And he does skits that are sort of
based around humorous situations that you might find in a

(01:41:10):
gas station or a convenience store. He sets them at
Quick Trip because it's a brand partnership. He's been doing
a whole lot of anti-data center content. And I would
love to know if someone is, I don't know, maybe
telling him, hey, You should probably be doing this. And

(01:41:30):
you know what? It would be worth your while to
do so. Again, it's weird that all of a sudden
the anti-data center movement. But on the flip side, where's
Charlie Barron's from? Is he from like Elm Grove, New
Berlin area? I can't tell. He's definitely not from Manitowoc,
despite what his most famous skit would have you believe.

(01:41:52):
He also, though, is bringing up very good points not
reliant on the agitprop talking points such as, well, it's
going to just increase everybody's power bill. The utility bills
are going to skyrocket. No, because oftentimes as a prerequisite

(01:42:13):
to building or as a way to get a data
center built, Amazon or Microsoft, they actually will subsidize a
substantial portion of a community's utility rates. So they either
hold steady or actually go down. Not only that, in

(01:42:36):
Columbia County, Georgia, Google is finalizing a deal that about
to planned data centers where the county would actually get
paid forty million dollars a year for seven years the
county currently collects about twenty five million dollars in its

(01:42:58):
share in homestead property taxes columbia county says the google
money will cover that portion to fund a homestead tax
relief racked in other words Because Google is so desperate
to get its data centers built because of the stiff
opposition to them, it is sweetening the deal for the

(01:43:20):
communities that will accept data centers to the point where, hey,
we're going to pay a substantial portion of your property taxes.
In Wisconsin... There is fierce opposition, probably most notably to
the planned data center in Port Washington, which has led

(01:43:43):
to referendums, recall efforts. It has nothing to do in
Port Washington or other places in more rural areas of
Wisconsin with the Chinese propaganda, but rather because a data
center and the associated development around it. President Trump is right, okay?
A data center can generate a good amount of of

(01:44:04):
revenue in increased property taxes, tax collection from payroll, that
sort of stuff, the development that goes up around them
for the people who work at the data centers, but
it also changes the character of a sleepy little town.
If all of a sudden you've got a giant data
center and new apartments and strip malls and all of

(01:44:28):
this stuff going up to support the data center. And oh,
by the way, David Crowley, old data center David, says
you have to, as a data center, he calls it
the Beyonce approach, where they need to bring their own energy.
He's not going to allow small-scale nuclear, which is clearly
the way you power these things. He's going to require

(01:44:51):
massive amounts of solar and wind energy. wind turbines and
solar panels to the tune of hundreds of thousands of acres.
It's not just the data center. It's all of this
nonsensical environmental requirements that just eat up land and really

(01:45:13):
transform the nature of a community. Vice President J.D. Vance
also weighing in on the tarmac before he boarded Air
Force Two to stop at a campaign rally in Michigan.

Speaker 5 (01:45:24):
They're an important part of the AI economy. When people
build them, they have to build the power plants along
with the data centers. I think probably 99% of the
backlash to data centers has come in areas where building
a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for
the people on the ground. So I think what these
companies have to do is take advantage of some of
the federal deregulatory efforts that we've undertaken. If you build

(01:45:47):
a data center, you should be putting power back into
the grid, not taking it out.

Speaker 3 (01:45:51):
And if that is happening, I.

Speaker 5 (01:45:53):
Don't think the data centers are that controversial. It's when
the utility bills get so much higher, that's when it's
a real problem.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
Yeah, that's not entirely it in a place like Wisconsin.
It's about changing the character and nature of a given community.
But This does raise a very interesting question. If we
can have small-scale nuclear, and what that means is exactly
what it sounds like, there are companies right now who

(01:46:21):
are developing small-scale individual business-level nuclear reactors that can actually
power an entire data center without using a single kilowatt
hour of energy from the local grid. The problem, though,
is that the environmental leftists of the 1980s following the

(01:46:45):
Chernobyl disaster basically made it impossible to use nuclear power.
Nuclear power at the micro level can essentially solve America's
energy problems. In as much as we have high utility bills,
in as much as we have a lot of strain

(01:47:06):
on the grid, One of the big things that I
think is going to be a requirement and should be
a requirement is small-scale nuclear for data centers that are
going into areas that want them, that can absorb the
increase in population. You'll notice they never go in Democrat areas.

(01:47:28):
They never, ever go in Democrat control. They always want
to push them off on red state America for some reason.
But the requirement is not only that you are powering
through your small-scale nuclear or through subsidization of the strain
on the utility, that you are paying not only for

(01:47:50):
your use of electricity, your use of the power grid,
but you're also paying for a substantial portion of the
community that you are going into. In other words, if
you want to build energy, in a port washington you'd
better be able to convince the people of port washington
that there is something in it for them democrat areas

(01:48:14):
never going to have data They have bought into the
Chinese propaganda hook, line and sinker. Rural communities have a
very valid argument. We're no longer rural communities. And why
would you put a data center right in the middle
of our little town? Why is nobody talking about anywhere?

(01:48:36):
In David Crowley's Milwaukee County, I could take an hour
and a half tonight and find about 20 different abandoned,
blighted areas where you could put up a data center
in Milwaukee County. Why is it only data center David
Antoinette saying to rural Wisconsin, let them eat data? that

(01:49:02):
is the big issue here you're listening to the Dan
O'Donnell show Dane County says it protects trans lives and
then in a very literal sense does not that's data
center David Crowley has not yet proposed a data center
for Northridge we haven't figured out what to do with

(01:49:25):
that stupid site in 25 years Perfect for a data center. Nope,
don't want it in Milwaukee. Don't want it in Milwaukee County,
bit me. Rural Wisconsin with all those Republican rubes? Yeah,
that's where we want all of our data centers. And
the Republican rubes are noticing and a little resentful. Dane

(01:49:51):
County quite literally does not care about trans lives. How
else do you explain this? Jail records indicate the Dane
County Jail declined a federal immigration hold for one of
two men accused of sexually assaulting a transgender victim on

(01:50:16):
the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. It happened early Saturday morning.
UW police arrested your Fred H. Marcano Gutierrez, 31, and
Arturo R. Santos Albujas, 27, both from Fitchburg. Yeah, they're

(01:50:39):
both from Fitchburg. Long line of dairy farmers. In fact,
I believe the Marcano Gutierrez family goes all the way
back to the Mayflower. Yeah, those Santos albujases. Boy, they've
been here since the revolution. Yeah, I think there was

(01:51:01):
a Santos albujas who signed the Declaration of Independence. A
bystander reported a disturbance on Goodspeed Family Pier near Alumni Park.
Happened 4.10 a.m. Police arrived, learned a sexual assault had occurred.
Investigators said the suspects and victim, none of whom are

(01:51:23):
affiliated with the university, met at a bar, walked to
the pier. The victim was attacked and sexually assaulted while
attempting to leave. Both men were booked into the Dane
County Jail on tentative charges of second degree sexual assault
with force, strangulation and suffocation, battery and false imprisonment. Jail

(01:51:44):
records show the sheriff's office declined an ICE detainer request
for Santos Albuas. Dane County, of course, a sanctuary jurisdiction.
Sheriff Calvin Barrett's office will not honor ICE detainer requests

(01:52:04):
unless federal authorities produce a court document signed by a judge.
This is the most laughable thing of all. ICE, because
the 1996 Immigration Act signed into law by Democrat President
Bill Clinton, recognized that it would be impossible for judges

(01:52:26):
to sign off on all of these detainers, all of
these deportation requests. It allowed ICE, Congress... allowed ICE to
issue its own administrative warrants. These carry the exact same
authority as a court warrant. Liberals like Sheriff Calvin Barrett

(01:52:48):
simply pretend that they don't. Now you have a transgender
victim of a sexual assault suspect who is not going
to be deported, but could very possibly be bail out
of the dane county jail and if there's one thing
we know about liberal jurisdictions like dane and milwaukee county

(01:53:11):
it's that the bails that are set are ridiculously low
he could be out and he could offend again and
since he very likely knows who the victim was he
could offend against that same victim out of time unfortunately
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