Deep Divisions on the Online Betting Bill

On Thursday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," Dan shares exclusive new insight into Senate deliberations on a bill that would legalize online sports betting in Wisconsin. Plus, terror attacks in Michigan and Virginia and the latest on a massive teacher sex abuse scandal in Oconto Falls.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A pair of terror attacks cin America, one at a
synagogue in Michigan today another at Old Dominion University, are
both tied to Islamic terrorism and both in response to
America's war with Iran. We will investigate. Welcome to the
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the Dan o'donald Show podcast on iHeartRadio or wherever you
listen to podcasts. Biggest story you're in Wisconsin is, of course,
the oncoming blizzard. Yes, Wisconsin could get upwards of eighteen
to thirty inches of snow oh this weekend, with Milwaukee
and Madison probably seeing something like a foot or maybe

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a little bit more powerful winter storm system is headed
our way. In the National Weather Service says today the
snow will start here Saturday, evening and not stop until
Monday morning. The heaviest of it will fall throughout the
midday hours of the day. On Sunday, Milwaukee police shooting
and killing a suspect to hopped in a car and
drag them along the street near fifteenth and Grant while

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trying to escape. Sources tell me the officers were with
a probation and parole squad and we're attempting to bring
the suspect in for a violation when he tried to
take off, dragging at least one of those officers. As
I said, A suspected terror attack at a synagogue in
West Bloomfield, Michigan this afternoon. Fortunately, nobody except the gunman

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appears to have been injured. Law enforcement there says a
man drove a vehicle into the building then started shooting.
He's believed to be dead. No one else hurt, at
least not seriously. More on that coming up in second
then coming up at four o'clock. Senate Majority Leader John
Thune confirms today he is going to bring the Save
America Act for a vote next week.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I will be bringing the Save America Act to the
floor and we will be having a full and robust debate.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Unfortunately, though, the bill is absolutely going to be filibustered
unless we get philibuster reform along with that Save America
Act debate. We will get into it during the Daily
Trump Date in the four o'clock hour then at four fifteen.
The Republican Senate Caucus remains deeply divided on the online
sports betting bill. I've got some exclusive new information I

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will share about one hour from now West Bloomfield, Michigan,
a security guard is apparently recovering from only minor injuries
after it was struck by a car that the suspect
who intentionally rammed into this synagogue there hit him, with
Oakland County Shriff Michael Bouchar just about an hour ago

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providing it up here.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, we know so far.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
A car came to the facility, breached the facility by
driving into it, was engaged by security. We believe there
is one individual deceased in the vehicle. It's been complicated
because there was some.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Fire, to say the.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Least with that vehicle. We believe that individual is deceased.
No kids, this is the important thing. No kids or
no staff was injured whatsoever. Okay, so we have no
victims other than one of the lead security people was
hit by the car and was taken to the hospital
for treatment.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
That individual should be okay. Now.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
This happened at the Temple Israel synagogue as well as
a Jewish day school that is attached to that synagogue.
The shooter is believed to be dead, but it is
unclear because the body was so badly burned. When the
car went up in flames, it is believed that there
were high powered explosives inside that vehicle. This is being

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investigated as a potential incident of international terrorism or potentially
an Iranian sleeper sell something like that, because it comes
on the exact same day that there was a deadly
shooting that is in fact connected to international terrorism at
Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. One student was killed,

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two people were injured. The shooter then turned the gun
on himself. This prompted a campus lockdown that was lifted
after about two hours, and the suspect has now been
identified as Mohammed Jallo. He's a former Army National Guard
member who is convicted years ago of providing material support
to ISIS. He served a number of years in prison,

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I believe eleven years in prison. He's a naturalized citizen
from Sierra Leoni, had communicated online with an undercover FBI
agent po as an ISIS recruiter before his arrest. This
highlights ongoing concerns over post release monitoring of terrorism convicts.
And there have been huge increases in anti Semitic attacks,

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like the one we very clearly saw in Michigan just
a couple of hours ago. They surged after the October
seventh Homos attacks on Israel. According to the Anti Defamation League,
they did a huge audit of all anti Semitic incidents,
the most comprehensive tracker that's been done since nineteen seventy nine.

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There was, of course, a huge spike in anti Semitic
incidents after the Iranian Revolution in twenty twenty two, the
last full year before the October seventh attacks. In October
of twenty twenty three, there were about thirty seven hundred
anti Semitic incidents. Now, this could include harassment, this could

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include graffitiing, this could include outright assaults or other attacks.
For the full year of twenty twenty three, there were
eighty eight hundred anti Semitic incidents, the highest increase year
over year ever. Recorded one hundred and forty percent increase.
There were seventy five hundred incidents after October seventh, more

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than all of twenty twenty two for the full year.
In twenty twenty four, anti Semitic incidents increased even further
nine thousand, three hundred and fifty four. Now this is
the most recent year for which the Anti Defamation League
has kept full year data. It's the highest single year

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for anti Semitic incidents in the forty six year history
of the ad L, A three hundred forty four percent
increase over the past five years in anti Semitic incidents
over the past ten years, a nearly nine hundred percent increase.

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What is abundantly clear is that quite frankly, Jewish people
in this country are not safe, and they haven't been
since October seventh, when, by the way, Jewish people in
Israel were the victims of this single worst hate crime
against them, the single worst loss of life of Jewish
people since the Holocaust. It was a truly stomach turning crime.

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And almost immediately this will stick with me for all
of my days. Almost immediately in New York City and
even here in Wisconsin on the campus of UW.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Madison.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Almost immediately there were celebrations. Not on the West Bank,
not in the Iyatola's Iran, but here in the United States.
There were celebrations. Of course, they were positive to be
rallies in support to the Palestinian people and warning Israel

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about an outsized military response. The first rally took place
October eighth, Sunday, October eighth in New York City. Muslim
Americans and a few unhinged white leftists rallied, and the
tone of the rally was celebratory. They were celebrating the

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death of innocent young people who were killed at a
music festival the day before, and innocent senior citizens, innocent children,
innocent men and women who were living in a nearby settlement,
ladies and gentlemen. Anti Semitism and the specter of terrorism

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in America, especially targeting Jewish Americans, is a very, very
real problem, and as with most problems, it was exacerbated
by the Biden administration open borders. In August of twenty
twenty four, the House Judiciary Committee determined that more than

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two hundred fifty people who are on international terrorism watch
lists were encountered at the Southwest border between fiscal years
twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three. Of those, the
Biden administration released ninety nine into American communities. Later that year,

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House Homeland Security Committee finds three hundred ninety four illegal
aliens were on the terrorist watch list who are apprehended
between ports of entry at the Southwest and Northern borders
over the past three years. This was data that included
fiscal year twenty twenty four. So in the four years

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of the Biden administration, you had three hundred ninety four
illegal aliens who appeared on terrorist watch lists, and according
to the Judiciary Committee, ninety nine were released into communities
in the United States. Not only that, this past November,
Joe Kent, the head of the National Center for Terrorism,

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found that remember when we just kind of took in
one hundred thousand Afghans and we were taking in refugees
from across the Middle East, well, by the nctc's accounting,
we let in roughly eighteen thousand suspected terrorists.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
N CCC has been crunching the numbers and going through
the sheer volume of known and suspected terrorists that are
in the country that came in under the Biden administration.
So far, NCTC has identified around eighteen thousand known and
suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country.
These are individuals who, under normal circumstances would never be

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allowed to enter our country because their ties to jihadi
groups like ISIS and al Qaida. Yet the Biden administration
not only let them into the country and in many
cases facilitated their entry into the country.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
So we have no idea, frankly, just how many people
were let into the country. The NCTC, the National counter
Terrorism Center, estimates it at about eighteen thousand. And they're
going with the Afghan nationals who were allowed in after
that disastrous withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan where people
were just kind of being shuttled onto planes willy nilly,

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and the Biden administration was telling us, yes, yes, yes,
we have properly vetted all of these people. It's called
Operation Allies Welcome. Well, it turns out thousands of those
people were never actually allies to begin with and should
have never been allowed into this country. Not only that,
because we had open borders for four straight years, and
because anywhere between ten and fifteen million people we think

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entered this country illegally. We have absolutely no idea how
many people were coming in from terrorist hotspots in the
Middle East, in Africa, even in South and Central America.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Anyone could have come.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
In for a four year period until President Trump thankfully
got into office and immediately closed down the southern border
and made it impossible for anybody to get in at
any sort of port of entry. It was open season.
Anybody could get into this country. And just like after
October seventh where we saw this massive spike in anti

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Semitic attacks and anti Semitic incidents, we are also expecting now,
as a result of the attack on Iran and the
killing of the Ayatola and the taking out of the
Ayatola and the Mullah's terrorist regime, that we are likely
to face these sorts of lone wolf retaliatory attacks.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
When we hear the.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Word sleeper cell, that Iran has sleeper cells here in
the United States because of Hollywood, to mind this idea
that you've got, you know, Jack Reacher trying to fight
all of these little splinter groups that are all over
the country. These aren't very highly organized things. In fact,
oftentimes it's just some guy who is a terrorist sympathizer

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who gets it in his head that today he's going
to go arm himself to the teeth. He's going to
load up his car with explosives, and he's going to
drive into the middle of a synagogue. This has always
been the gravest terroristic threat that the United States has faced.
In the years after nine to eleven. It was a
minor miracle, actually, I don't even think it's a minor miracle,

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as a flat out miracle that the United States did
not face any of these smaller scale attacks. The thing
that I was scared of for years, for the early
part of the New millennium, was that you would just
have somebody who came in at some point into this country,

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or someone maybe who was born here but shared that
Islamist radical ideology, would simply grab a high powered gun,
or would simply grab a bunch of explosives or something
like that, walk into the middle of a crowded shopping
center and blow himself up or just start shooting what
lo and behold. During the Obama administration that started happening.

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The San Bernardino terror attack was one of the first incidents.
Of course, you had the Boston marathon bombing. That was
another infamous example, and we have had more and more
of these lone wolf style attacks, so too has Europe.
It seems as though we forgot here in the West
that the war on terror never really ended. We may

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have declared victory and we may have pulled out in
Iraq and Afghanistan, but the war is not with a
nation state.

Speaker 5 (14:48):
It never was.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
The war was always with an ideology. And now that
we're in the era of extreme political correctness where you
can't even say that there is a very significant problem
that Islam has with terrorism, with violence, and with having
no compunction about taking human life or injuring other human

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beings to advance a religious or socio political goal. You
are going to continue to have these sorts of attacks.
So long as there are people who are whipped into
a frenzy by anything going on in the Middle East
or anything going on in the news, and so long
as there is this deep hatred of America. You are

(15:30):
listening to the Dan o'donald Show. It is classical conservatism
and contemporary style, all Celtic punk, bunk per music here
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day on Tuesday, Top of the afternoon. To you all,
it is not just Islamist terrorism that we have to
worry about here in the United States. The sad reality

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is that we face this significant threat from left wing
radical terrorism, the likes of which we really haven't seen
since the late nineteen sixties early nineteen seventies. With the
Weather Underground featuring a couple of Barack Obama's old buddies.
Well now we saw in Minneapolis a couple of months

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ago just what left wing radicals are capable of. And
even here in Wisconsin, we're a man by the name
of Andrew Stanton, who you might remember if you've been
listening to this show for quite some time. We highlighted
back in October for making just truly deranged statements about

(16:35):
ICE agents. He's from Kenosha, and he has been convicted
now of threatening to murder a Border Patrol officer who
is serving on the Federal Bureau of Investigations Joint Task Force.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
Stanton pleaded guilty.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
So this started when he began making just truly unhinged
threats on twit TikTok. He said he was going to
kill ICE agents and quote loot their corpses.

Speaker 7 (17:04):
When y'all's bodies lay motionless on the ground, Ice patch
pacing up at the sky.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
We're gonna loot your corpses. And I can't wait to
see those videos.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I do appreciate him using hooked on a feeling as
the background music for a truly deranged video. He didn't
stop there, He said he wants anyone if you see
anyone being arrested by ICE, grab a baseball bat and
start beating the agent.

Speaker 7 (17:34):
Someone has the balls to swing on an ICE agent
or pull out that poll. You can help with them.
And I'm not talking about helping ICE, make sure that
person gets away.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Not only that, of course, he used the old left
wing stand by the only good cop is a dead cop.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
At the end of the day, a good cop is
a dead cop.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
A so members of the FBI ask for us wanted
to go interview the guy now. This prompted him to
post additional calls for violence on his TikTok channel, including
a specific threat to the CBP officer had reached out
to him October fourth. This from a press release from

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the Eastern District of Wisconsin, where Stanton pleaded guilty. He
posted a video to TikTok, in which he stated, what
the bleep are we even talking about here? If ICE
shows up in your neighborhood, I'm sorry, I'm just gonna
say it, it's time to bleeping shooting. To start bleeping
shooting them. If they show up in your neighborhood and

(18:39):
I'm talking to you, Border Patrol Officer Joe, it's time
we start shooting at y'all. Now, this is where this
goes from just a vague general threat, which bizarrely theoretically
could be just First Amendment hyperbolic language that could be
protected speech. Even saying something as terrible as yes, I

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believe we should kill all ICE agents, that is protected
by the First Amendment. It is not a specific threat.
This was Border Patrol Officer Joe was apparently the guy
on the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force who contacted Andrew Stanton.
He said, look, this goes for you, Border Patrol Officer Joe.
It's time we start shooting at y'all. That is a

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specific threat to a specific person. He apparently Stanton did
apparently repeatedly also posted images of weapons and body armor
on TikTok, along with additional violent messages. Stanton's videos, including
his threat to the CBP officer, were viewed hundreds of
thousands of times on TikTok. Now a part of this

(19:46):
is because this reached the libs of TikTok account. That's
where we found it. I believe we named this guy
our unhinged liberal of the day, if I remember correctly,
we might have even done a separate, standalone segment on
him because this, this is just so violent, This is
just so completely unhinged that it bore further examination. Eastern

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District of Wisconsin says Stanton. Sentencing is scheduled for June eighteenth,
twenty twenty six. He faces a term of imprisonment of
up to ten years, up to a quarter of a
million dollars in fines, and up to three years of
supervised release. Now, what makes this a little bit scarier
is the fact that when you heard this stuff, it

(20:34):
was off putting, it was jarring. But was this really
all that out there from the rhetoric that you hear
on a relatively daily basis. When the radical left gets
all you know, they get there, you know what's in
a tizzy. When ice agents are conducting surges or any

(20:59):
sort of op you will hear just the most vile,
disgusting things. I mean, for six months now. On March tenth,
we marked six months since Charlie Kirk's assassination. How many
times did we hear leftists say I'm glad Charlie is dead?
How many times did we see graffiti pop up of

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Charlie Kirk with a bullet hole in his neck and
blood spurting out of it? We hear just the most insane,
unhinged things, and that, of course, the exact same lefties
pretend to retire to the fainting couches the second any
conservative says anything that they perceive to be slightly out
of line. Folks, we hear the vilest, most awful things

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on a near constant basis. And I am glad that
this sort of thing is finally being taken seriously for
what it is, and that is what it's a specific
terroristic threat that it is in fact dealt with as
a specific terroristic threat. You are listening to the Dan
o'donald show right back after this, Welcome back to the

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Speaker 5 (22:32):
On Saint Patrick's Day. The wearin of the Green.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
You might have seen the headlines about a week or
so ago a US citizen stopped at O'Hare detained by
immigration officers for more than a day. The headline in
the Chicago Sun Times US citizen from Skokie stopped at
O'Hare detained by immigration officials for nearly thirty hours. Sunned

(22:59):
US Knackvie and five others were detained at O'Hare International
Airport by federal immigration agents and taken to a holding
facility in Wisconsin. Nacvie is a twenty eight year old.
She is a US citizen. She is in this country legally.
She is an American, but she was abused by those

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evil immigration agents. Turns out it was not true, and
that holding facility in Wisconsin was the Dodge County Jail.
Now Knackvie said she and five of her co workers
were detained for It was either forty eight hours or

(23:42):
thirty hours. I saw both accounts in the media coverage
of this. This happened on March fifth. They were not
released until March seventh. She said they were held at O'Hare.
Then they were determined to be in this country illegally,
transferred to the View Ice Facility in the suburbs of Chicago,

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and then later moved to the Dodge County Jail. Well
almost immediately, Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said, uh no,
we didn't just not take in Sunny knockfee at our
five coworkers. We didn't take in any female inmates or
detainees from the federal government. Here's the official statement. The

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Dodge County Sheriff's office has no record of the individual
reference ever being booked, detained, or released from the Dodge
County Jail. Jail logs confirmed that no female inmates or
detainees from the federal government were admitted or released during
the timeframe in which these events were alleged to have occurred.
Now that was posted on the Dodge County Sheriff's Facebook

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page on March tenth, so two days ago. The Department
of Homeland Security has now responded. Here is the official timeline,
as backed up by timestamped photos and even video from

(25:09):
O'Hare International Airport. Knackvi arrived at ten twenty one am
March fifth. She goes through the primary inspection and then
was referred to a secondary inspection. And sometimes you get this,
it's pretty routine. It's based on a law enforcement check that, okay,

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you've got to do a secondary expansion inspection. You have
your baggage search, that sort of thing. She then departs
the CBP Border Patrol inspection area of her own volition
within ninety minutes at eleven forty three am. She can

(25:53):
be seen on security video as well as time stamped
security photos, walking out of the airport, never taken into custody,
never transferred to ICE, never moved to Broadview, never taken
to the Dodge County jail. Not only this, Notkvia is

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a prior criminal history. And guess what she pleaded guilty
to in twenty twenty two, filing a false police report
from a twenty nineteen sexual assault case. She completed probation,
the case was dismissed. But she's got a history of
lying about this stuff. But it doesn't matter because when

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you tell a story that casts the federal government, especially CBP,
especially ICE, especially any sort of immigration enforcement, as the
bad guy, it's sort of like catnip to the press. Now, meanwhile,
you have almost instantly the federal government coming out and saying, look,
this just does not ring true. Of course, the Chicago

(26:59):
Sun Time pretty much all Chicago media went national.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
A couple of national outlets picked this up.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
They all said, uh, yeah, this, this sounds totally believable.
Dodge County sheriff, within three days of this supposedly happening, says,
uh yeah, So no, this part of her story is wrong.
This part of her story is just a complete fabrication.

(27:29):
And now we've actually got the video and photos. You know,
when people call the press the enemy of the people,
this is the sort of stuff that they're talking about
when you literally can't believe whether a story is actually true.
Let's just go through some of these Google headlines. Here,

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controversial ice detention. People don't just show up at an
ICE facility, major row over Sonny Knackvi's detention. None of
this made any sense. When she first started telling this story.

(28:14):
Anyone with half a journalistic instinct could say, well, here
something doesn't really add up. So she lives in Skokee,
but yet she's transferred to the Dodge County Jail in Wisconsin,
and Dodge County is not super close to Chicago's O'Hare

(28:39):
International Airport. As soon as that detail was added, my
Jesse Smolett radar went way up. Why didn't the rest
of the media. It's because of what's known as confirmation bias.
I talk about this often here on The Dan O'Donnell Show.
It is the part of our brain that actively seeks

(29:02):
out information that comports and confirms our worldview. In other words,
we really really like being right. As human beings, who
doesn't like being right? We actually have a process our
brains go through called cognitive dissonance where we actively reject

(29:23):
information that sort of causes us to question our preconceived worldview.
It causes us some manner of discomforts known as cognitive dissonance,
and confirmation bias means that we are going to sift
through information and we are going to, because of cognitive dissonance,
reject the information that sort of contradicts our prior held

(29:45):
beliefs and only accept the information that confirms our beliefs.
When journalists are subject and everybody's subject to confirmation bias.
I'm not going to sit here on high and say, well,
I'm not subject to it, but because I'm aware of it,
I am always going to sift there. I must get

(30:07):
dozens and dozens and dozens of news tips a day.
People reach out, they say, Dan, you won't believe what
have a Dan massive scandal. Now, obviously, as a news guy,
my confirmation bias would say, yes, every single thing that
I am being told is the absolute truth, that this
is going to be the single biggest scandal, that this

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is going to take down whatever politician that the person
who is giving me the tip wants to be taken down.
I would naturally have a bias towards that because it
would benefit me to break a big story. Also, I
just genuinely enjoy doing this sort of stuff. Do you
know how many tips that I actually use and go

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through and are properly vetted. It is very small. It
is probably a percentage, and I'd say about thirty percent.
And I would say about six to seventy percent of
the tips I get are not nearly as sensational as
the people who give me the tips are, and that's
not to say that my sources are you know, sensationalists,

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but everybody thinks whatever it is that's happening to them
is the worst deal of all time.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Now imagine.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
If on this show you didn't get the truth, but
you got a version of it. I am convinced. I
know of no studies that confirm this, but just my
own personal experience. Liberals are way more susceptible to confirmation bias.
They are way more bothered by cognitive dissonance, primarily because

(31:46):
actual information and actual truth is very often in direct
opposition to liberals previously held beliefs. I mean, you've got
the entire human existence to disprove socialism as a valid
economic theory, yet they still.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
Go back to that.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, so it's no surprise all of these reporters and
all of these activists taking on the Sonny knock the
case were fooled by her or believed that somehow this
was evil Ice agents. Because what have we been told
by the media, What has the narrative been since the
start of the Trump administration, and especially after the situation

(32:28):
in Minneapolis at the start of this year, that ICE
agents and border patrol and pretty much every immigration authority
is locking up innocent American citizens that they're not going
after criminals, but they're going after innocent women like Sonny KNOCKVI. Again,
this was catnip for the press to get this anti Trump,

(32:50):
anti Ice, anti CBP, anti immigration enforcement narrative out there.
When people run with that sort of narrative without ever
really vetting the story to make sure it's true, that's
where you get in a real dangerous situation where fake

(33:11):
news actually is disseminated by supposedly legitimate outlets like the
Chicago Sun Times. Coming up at the four o'clock hour
here on the Dan o'donald's show, I've got exclusive new
information about the debate over the online sports betting bill.
There are serious, and I mean serious divisions within the

(33:34):
Republican Caucus that could prevent this bill from ever going
to the floor for a full vote in the Senate.
You might remember that it did pass, I believe, via
a voice vote in the Wisconsin Assembly. But the Senate,
which has already expressed some doubt about its ability to

(33:55):
pass this week the nil bill, particularly the poor or
of it that would allow UW. Madison to just sort
of get nearly fifteen million dollars free and clear from
the state legislature from state taxpayers every single year for
facilities maintenance. And the express purpose of this would be
to free up some of this revenue so that UW Madison,

(34:17):
which is the only high major public university D one program. Yes, UWM,
especially with its basketball team, UW Green Bay basketball program
both also D one, but UW Madison in particular is
bidding on very very high level transfers, especially in football,

(34:39):
and they need to get them with nil money. So
Senate Majority Leader Devin lemahughes idea was, well, why don't
we just give these nil athletes taxpayer money or at
least free up money that UW Madison can use by
because I think it was just a little untoward to say, yeah,

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we're good to get we give taxpayer money. We're going
to give money from you know, plumbers and brick layers
to running backs who are going to make millions of
dollars in the NFL, and we want to pay them
millions of dollars to go to college at UW Madison.
So the idea was that we free up money that
would otherwise go to ongoing facilities maintenance like at Camp

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Randall Stadium or the Coal Center or the Nadatorium or
any of the other athletic facilities that UW. Madison owns
and operates that need continual maintenance. We're just going to
give you that money from the legislature instead of it
having to come out of your operational budget. Air go
more of your operational budget, more of your revenue that's
generated through ticket sales and merchandise and things like that,

(35:47):
more of that can actually go to signing essentially free
agent athletes. I can't tell you how much I oppose
this idea, and it does appear that a number of
state senators do as well. Three Republicans defected from the
Joint Finance Committee's vote, which did pass this eight to five.

(36:08):
We will dive into why the divisions are even deeper
on the online sports betting bill and why this is
just frankly a bad bill that needs to die right now.
Though the unhinged liberal of the dead we are in
pre Nazi Germany.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Cop is dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
America.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Today's unhinged liberal of the day is Andrew Stanton, thirty
eight year old from Kenosha, who posted deeply disturbing TikTok
videos in which he threatened ICE agents and other members
of law enforcement.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
At the end of the day, a good cop is
a dead cock.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Well in, the FBI showed up and said, hey, you
should probably stop posting stuff like that. He posted another
video specifically threatening the CBP officer on the FBI's Joint
Terrorism Task Force who contacted him. Yep, he was arrested,
he was criminally charged, and now he has pleaded guilty

(37:16):
and faces ten years in prison as a maximum sentence,
plus two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fines when
he is sentenced in June. Andrew Stanton is your unhinged
liberal of the day, and just the casual nature with
which he kind of says the most vile things imaginable

(37:38):
is really, frankly quite disturbing. Coming up next Daily Trump
Day right here on the Dan O'Donnell show, Fox News
report of Bill Malugen is reporting that the car that
was used to ram into a synagogue today in where
was it, Wes Broomfield in Michigan was registered to a

(38:02):
naturalized citizen from Lebanon. Now we don't know if that
was the man who actually did ram the car into
the synagogue. We think that the car was loaded with
explosives because it blew up very very quickly afterwards, and
the suspect got out and tried to start shooting people.

(38:23):
The security guard, who was struck by the vehicle but
not seriously injured, taken to the hospital mostly as a precaution,
engaged the suspect and shot and killed him. We don't
know if that is the guy who the car is
registered to, but it's a pretty solid guess that that
is likely going to be the suspect. Just in the

(38:46):
month of March, folks, it is March twelfth, a guy
wearing a shirt saying property of a law shot up
a bar in Austin, killing several people. This was the
night after the Iran attack was first launched. There were

(39:06):
some anti Islam protesters in New York City outside Gracie Mansion.
Two teenagers through IEDs into the crowd. Thankfully, two heroic
New York police officers made sure that those two suspects
were taken down and that the IEDs didn't blow up.
Now we've seen today an attack on that synagogue in Michigan,

(39:30):
and an Isis supporting convict shoots up an ROTC classroom
at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. This is all
within the last twelve days. Hell, this was all within
the last what six days? No, twelve days, I guess, yeah,
it would be twelve days. The Austin attack was I

(39:50):
guess tech No, I guess it was technically March first.
It was after midnight the morning of March first. Different
Islamist radical terror attacks in the United States, Folks, I'm
just I'm going to issue a warning to please be careful,

(40:13):
especially if you are at a synagogue here in Wisconsin,
if you are a member of a Jewish day school
or Jewish community. Just and I'm sure the alert has
gone out after the attack today, but frankly, the stunning,
staggering rise in anti Semitism we outlined it in the

(40:36):
first segment of this show has been nauseating. And now
we're seeing, in response to the Iran attack, to the
killing of the Ayahtola, a huge rise in these lone
wolf terror attacks. Be careful out there, because it is
it is dangerous. All right, Let's catch you updated on

(40:58):
the day at the White House. Time for the daily
Trump Day.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
We're gonna win so much.

Speaker 5 (41:03):
You may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps waiting.
It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
We're gonna win Moore.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Just within the last couple of minutes, President Trump honoring
the nation's women at a ceremony commemorating women's history buds.

Speaker 8 (41:24):
Going all the way back to our nation's founding in
seventeen seventy six, America has been strengthened beyond measure by
the courage, by the spirit, love, devotion, and the incredible woman.
I mean all of these incredible women who have served
our nation, uplifted our communities, pioneered new industries, and been
the heart and soul of the American family.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
And they are the heart and soul.

Speaker 8 (41:48):
From Martha Washington to Betsy Ross, from Clara Barton to
Amelia Earhart and Rosa Parks to Aretha Franklin, American women
have propelled us even greater heights. And now the Trump
administration is working every single day to make America better, safer,
and more prosperous for women and men, but much more

(42:14):
importantly for women.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
The President did highlight some of those specific policies and
brought up a number of women to talk about how
those policies have affected them, like no tax on tips.
This waitress from North Carolina had an emotional reaction to
when she did her taxes this year.

Speaker 9 (42:34):
Thank you. I'm honored to be here today. I have
been a waitress for over twenty years, and a lot
of the people I've seen come and go in the
industry are single moms, and they work hard. They're the
hardest working people I know. And then at the end
of the year they're always super stressed out because they
don't know where they're going to come up with the

(42:55):
extra couple thousand dollars that they owe on the taxes.
And this year I had to do double take. I
had to do my taxes twice to make sure this
was real. I cannot believe it. Thank you, Thank you so.

Speaker 10 (43:07):
Much, thank you.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
I appreciate I love that ending with That's from the heart.
That's from the heart.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Very fun ceremony at the White House. That is just
wrapping up, I believe right now. Earlier today, Energy Secretary
Chris Wright confirmed that the US is going to be
releasing barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This
as it is simultaneously refilling the strategic reserve following it
being rated by the Biden administration nearly four years ago.

Speaker 11 (43:39):
So we're going to release one hundred and seventy two
million barrels and swap it for more than two hundred
million barrels that'll be back in the reserve within a year.
So ultimately this is going to help us fill the reserve.
But we need the oil and the short term for
the for a short term pain for long term gain.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Of course, that short term pain is the temporary spike
in oil price is because of uncertainty caused by Iran
continuing to try to block the Strait of Horror mus
and allowing oil to get to where it needs to be.
Earlier today, President Trump signed an executive order directing the
full force of federal agencies to combat cybercrime, fraud, and

(44:17):
predatory schemes the target American families and businesses. This builds
on earlier cybersecurity priorities but unleash's new tools against foreign
backed criminal networks. The Trump administration also launched Section three
oh one trade investigation into unfair trade practices and excess
production in China, Mexico, and Europe. US Trade Representative Jamison

(44:42):
Greer declared that the US would no longer sacrifice its
industrial base to foreign over capacity. And this is a
significant development in the ongoing battle over terriffs. You might
remember the Supreme Court last month struck down President Trump's
emergency terriffs Section three h one. The sorts of trade
investigations floated as a key tool to keep them going. That,

(45:05):
ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump day to look
at what is going on in Donald Trump's Washington. In
our Madison, the Wisconsin State Senate is going to be
in full session one more day. I believe it is
going to be next Tuesday, Saint Patrick's Day. And the
biggest bill that they are going to have to vote

(45:27):
on is very likely going to be the online sports
betting bill. We have talked about this at great length
here on the Dan o'donald Show and explained why, quite frankly,
this is probably not a great idea. It's likely unconstitutional.
It is definitely going to create cartel like control over

(45:49):
online sports gambling by the eleven Native tribes that run
casinos here in Wisconsin. And it's just bad policy when
I can report exclusion simply today Republicans in caucus today
discussed the measure and they are deeply and I mean
deeply divided on this. My sources tell me there are

(46:12):
nowhere near enough senators on board to meet the so
called rule of seventeen that would be required to bring
the bill to the floor. Now, the rule of seventeen
is not a formal Senate rule. It is a policy
that the Republican Caucus has adopted to try to only
bring bills to the floor that a clear majority that

(46:34):
almost every single Republican supports. The rule of seventeen is
simply that seventeen Republican senators have to be an agreement
on a bill in order for it to go to
the floor. This ensures that bills that only have a
backing of a small percentage or maybe half or or

(46:56):
two thirds of the Republican caucus actually get to the floor,
that bills aren't passed with Democrat votes. That Republicans clearly
want this, and I think frankly it's good policy. However,
Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemahu, according to my sources, seems
determined to pass this bill even if he has to

(47:20):
rely on Democrats. We talked last hour briefly about the
NIL bill, the NIL bill that would give essentially a
fifteen million dollar annual gift to UW Madison for facilities maintenance,
so that they could spend fifteen million dollars that they
take in in revenue to pay nil deals to essentially

(47:41):
free agent football and basketball players, so that the money
making revenue sports for UW Madison could get better. Lemme
Hue is an author of that bill, and again there
are at least three Republicans who oppose it. I believe
it was Testin' Staf Schult and Julian Radley in the
Joint Finance Committee a couple of days ago actually voted down.

(48:05):
Now that the bill did pass the Joint Finance Committee
eight to five, but with three Republican objections, you know,
dog gone. Well, the Democrats want to give any sort
of financial handout to the UW system that they possibly can,
but if Republicans don't want to, that's.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
Going to be a problem.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Lemonheu though is an author, he is an original author
of that UW Madison bailout bill, so there is considerable
speculation that he's just going to bring it to the
floor anyway, and that he's also going to bring the
online sports betting bill to the floor. Even though there
aren't seventeen Republicans who support it, I am told the

(48:43):
number is actually closer to ten or eleven Republicans who
support it. Leadership has been whipping votes. As you can imagine,
the Native tribes, especially the Forest County Potauantami, who have
significant sway within the Capitol because of all of the
lobbying dollars that they have hired, they are putting on

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a full core press. In fact, you can probably hear
the dueling advertisements on this radio station. This is in
large part because of what we have done on this
show to raise awareness of this bill. That you have
is a JB. Van Holland he's against the bill. And
then you've got so there is a significant lobbying for

(49:27):
us in support of the bill. That the Native tribes
obviously want it because it would allow them to have
a cartel like authority. Well in opposition to it is
what's known as the Sports Betting Alliance. That's Draft Kings,
fan Duel BETMGM. What's another one fanatics I think bets

(49:49):
three sixty five is that what it's called there's a
bunch of them.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Here's why they oppose it.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
The bill does not legalized just online sports betting like
pretty much every other state. Instead, it carves out a
narrow exemption to Wisconsin's gambling law, essentially saying that mobile
bets are not illegal wagers if the server is physically

(50:24):
located on tribal land. They got the idea from what's
known as the hub and spoke model in Florida. Florida
passed a very similar law at the behest of the
Seminole tribe. The Seminole tribe said, all right, well they
have a similar gaming compact. And the Seminole tribe said, okay, well,

(50:45):
how about this. If the server, so let's say DraftKings,
wants to operate in Wisconsin, it has to put its
physical server in a casino sports book. Well, guess who
are the only people in this state who are allowed
to run casino sports books. It would be those eleven
native tribes. So there are I believe twenty two to

(51:08):
twenty three casinos run by those eleven tribes across the state,
The Oneida, the ho Chunk, a lot of them. They
run very very small casinos that are located on their reservations.
The big ones that we think of are, of course
Potawatomi Oneida ho Chunk, who is at Lockta Flambeau. They

(51:29):
have a pretty big casino, so this would obviously be
in the big casinos. The hub and spoke model refers
to the hub of gambling is the physical server located
in a sports book. The spokes are all of the
phones that connect to that hub and actually gamble. The

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Sports Betting Alliance says, all right, well, if we're going
to do this, the tribal compacts that Wisconsin has made
under Diamond Jim Doyle, and they are made permanent by
his eleventh hour, truly horrible deal. What was that twenty

(52:15):
three years ago? It'll be twenty three years on April first,
It is April Fool's Day where Diamond Jim played all
Wisconsin nights for all time for fools by making the
gaming compacts and that he signed with the tribes the
sweetheart deals after they donated just hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of dollars to get him elected in two thousand

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and two, he paid them back by making forever deals
with them. Well, the Sports Betting Alliance says, if we
want to operate and we want to put our physical
server in one of the native tribe's sports books, we
have to give up sixty percent of our revenue to

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that tribe.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Sixty percent.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Now, all of the bets are going through Draft Kicks,
They're going through FanDuel, They're going through BETMGM, they're going
through the app.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
You're not going.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
To like the Forest County Pottawatamy the Pottawatamie Hotel and
casino betting app. You're going through FanDuel. You're going through
the apps that you would normally place bets on. But
just like the mafia, the tribes would take most of
the profits because they're operating like a cartel. They're carving

(53:32):
up territory and they're saying, Okay, anybody wants to come
in on our turf, you've got to play by our rules.
Biggest problem of this a it gives cartel like authority
to the tribes. Now, I have nothing against the tribes
the casinos other than the intense lobbying that they're doing,

(53:52):
and other than the fact that they signed just horrible
compacts with Diamond Jim Doyle, and we're very likely paying
him off to get exactly what they wanted way back then.
But I don't believe anybody should have a government backed
monopoly or government backed cartel. It's the exact same reason

(54:14):
that I fought so hard to stop right of first
refusal with electrical transmission. But another massive problem with this
is that it's almost certainly unconstitutional. Good friends at the
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty were arguing this, and
I agree. Wisconsin's constitution, specifically Article four, section twenty four,

(54:36):
strictly limits gambling. Any new form of gambling needs to
be approved by voters through constitutional amendment, not by an
act of the legislature. The legislature cannot allow new forms
of gambling. Now, what supporters of this bill say is that, well,

(54:57):
it's not a new form of gambling. It's sports betting
just being done online. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. It is fundamentally different. You can do
live in game betting anywhere you want.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
And when we.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Come back here on the Dan o'donald Show, we are
going to actually dive into just how much more addictive
online sports betting is. This is not something that folks,
and frankly, frankly well, I am cognizant of just how
addictive this is. We already crossed the rubicon with respect

(55:35):
to gambling. I have no real moral opposition to gambling.
In about a month or so, maybe month and a half,
I'm gonna go on an annual long weekend with some
of my buddies to Las Vegas. It's pretty much the
only time all year that I gamble. I'll play craps,
I'll play roulette, I'll play blackjack. I really never got

(55:58):
into sports gambling quite for I just I don't know.
Everybody has said, well, the games aren't exciting unless you
have some money on it. Have you not watched sports
bro sports are exciting enough, They're fun enough. So I take,
I really take no moral position on gambling as a vice.
But I do understand that, just like with anything, gambling

(56:20):
can be done to excess and it can be very addictive.
And just because of the ubiquitous nature of online sports GAMP,
you've got the casino in your hand at all times,
in your phone, and you're not just betting on the
outcome of a game. You're betting on whether or not
bam Adabaio will actually get plus or minus eighty one

(56:44):
points by Kobe Bryant. I mean you can bet on
things like will Jannis have plus or minus seven points
in the second quarter. I mean just the sheer volume
of bets that you can make on one given game
or one given event is absolutely amazing. We will dive
into the incredibly addictive nature of online sports betting when

(57:08):
The Dan o'donalds Show returns in just a second. Flogging
Molly in the Dan o'donald Show, Saint Patrick's Day Bumper
music rotation. This is one of my favorites, requiem for
a dying song, Welcome Back. It is a tour de
force of truth here on the program each and every
afternoon from three to six pm. And the truth is

(57:32):
that the sports Betting Bill is just not a good
piece of legislation. For all those of you who listen
to this show and think, yeah, Dan o'donald, he's just
a Republican Party flunky. He'll just do whatever the gopiece says.
I can't tell you, folks, how many gopeers in the

(57:53):
state legislature are none too happy with me over first
right of first refusal going down last year and now
the very likely defeat of the sports betting bill. I
can report exclusively this afternoon the Republican caucus in the
Senate remains deeply and I mean deeply divided. They are
nowhere near enough senators in support of this bill to

(58:17):
meet the so called rule of seventeen, an informal rule
that says Republicans need at least seventeen Republican senators on
board with a bill to bring it to the floor.
I am told the whip count right now is somewhere
near ten or eleven at most. However, I am also
told by multiple sources that Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemahue

(58:38):
seems determined to pass this even if he has to
rely on Democrats, even if he has to violate the
so called rule of seventeen. We shall see on Saint
Patrick's day whether he does so, and whether he brings
both this and the so called nil bill to the floor.
My opposition is based solely on principle, Folks, I believe

(59:01):
this bill violates the state constitution. It is a new
form of gambling that would require you, me, and several
million of our friends to pass it in the form
of a statewide constitutional amendment. Any sort of new gambling
in this state cannot simply be approved by the state legislature.

(59:24):
It needs a constitutional amendment. Not only that it creates
a government backed cartel which allows the only operators of
online sports gambling to be the tribes, the Native tribes,
which are allowed to extort the actual purveyors of online
sports gambling DraftKings, FanDuel, bet, MGM, et cetera, et cetera,

(59:46):
by forcing them to place their servers in the physical
sports books operated by the casinos. And the casinos the
tribes then get sixty percent of the revenue, and this
would generate far less revenue for the state because it
would be subject to the gaming compacts as opposed to

(01:00:09):
simply general revenue general taxable revenue if these operators were
allowed in Now, I'm not going to disagree with supporters
of the bill who said, you just can't allow DraftKings
and FanDuel, etc. To operate because that would violate the
state's gaming compact. We unfortunately gave exclusive dominion over gambling

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in Wisconsin to the Native tribes with the original gaming compacts,
and again, Diamond Jim Doyle back on April Fool's Day
two thousand and three made the compacts that he negotiated permanent,
so you would have to pay a substantial penalty to
the tribes. Now what you can do because DraftKings and
bed MGM and all, because these are massive companies with

(01:00:54):
massive amounts of revenue, they could be forced to pay
whatever the state would be for to pay for allowing
them in to operate in violation of the compacts. For example,
if you have to pay one hundred million dollars to
the tribes in order to allow DraftKings and bet MGM
and all of these operators, the Sports Betting Alliance in

(01:01:15):
the state says, okay, you want in, you pay the
tribes one hundred million dollars. My very strong suspicion is
that they would do it to gain access to five
point eight million more potential customers.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
I have so far.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Avoided getting into the actual debate over whether or not
online sports gambling is a net positive or a net
negative for society, because, frankly, I understand that a good
amount of people can bet online, and they can they
can place wagers.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
And it's just fine.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Just like most people can consume alcohol, many people can
you know, dabble in marijuana or whatever and not get
horribly addicted, although given the THHC concentrations, that's getting harder
and harder.

Speaker 5 (01:02:07):
But there is a substantial.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Number of people for whom online sports betting is a
big problem. And in fact, just a couple of years ago,
the National Council on Problem Gambling did a review of
all of the available studies on online sports betting, and
they found that gambling problems among sports betters overall is

(01:02:29):
at least twice as high as among gamblers in general,
for example, those who play roulette, those who play you know,
casino games. And the reason for this is pretty self
evident because most of them. How do you typically make
a sports bet? Well, for many years in Wisconsin, we

(01:02:50):
did not have sports books, so you couldn't do so legally.
In Wisconsin, you call up a bookie and you say,
all right, give me one hundred dollars. On Ohio State,
it's very very easy to do. It's much more difficult.
You want to gamble, you want to play blackjack, You've
got to go all the way down to the casino.
You gotta sit down there, you gotta bring a bunch

(01:03:11):
of cash, you gotta exchange it for chips, and it's
time consuming. You're at a casino. You're sitting there. Obviously,
if you are a problem gambler, you're going to do it.
But it's just the ease with which you can sports bet,
and that's sort of the problem with online sports betting.
When sports betting is done online, the number of problem

(01:03:33):
behaviors that are exhibited by people who do it jumps
even higher. Sixteen percent of people who online sports bet
meet the full clinical criteria for a gambling disorder. Another
thirteen percent show signs of compulsive gambling or problem gambling.

(01:03:55):
This is twenty nine to thirty percent of people who
gamble online through online sports betting. By comparison, the general
population of gamblers, problem gambling rates are one to three percent.
For online sports betters, it's twenty nine to thirty percent.

(01:04:17):
That's a significant issue. And again, the biggest issue is
the fact that the casino isn't in downtown Milwaukee. You
don't got to drive all the way to the Dells
to go to ho Chunk. You don't have to drive
out to the Oneida Casino. Your casino is in your pocket.
It is very, very how many times a day some

(01:04:40):
might argue that your humble host is addicted to going
on X or if you will Twitter. I am addicted
to just knowing what is going on in the world
at all times. My family jokingly calls it stimming. You
know what stemming is. My wife is a former speech

(01:05:03):
pathologist and autistic kids.

Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
She worked with autistic kids a lot. They need stimulus,
so this is.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Why iPads are very, very popular for autistic kids. And
when I would be looking up side, oh Dan stimming,
that was sort of our family joke. I'll make no
bones about it. I'm addicted. I am addicted to the news.
I am addicted to just getting random information. I did

(01:05:30):
completely wow my wife and daughter the other day. We
were at the Texas Roadhouse gourmet dinner over at the
Texas Roadhouse, right, and the boys didn't want to come.
I think one of my sons was sick or something.
And you know how they have the little game, the
little tablet for the kids to play it. Well, they
did trivia and the screen was facing my wife and daughter,

(01:05:51):
who were sitting on the other side of the table,
and they were playing the trivia game. And you know
it's like the multiple choice questions and the point value
goes down the longer you wait. Well, they were just
asking me the questions without any multiple choice. I was
just bang bang, bang, nailing every one of them. Now,
my daughter, she's eleven, How did you do that?

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
How'd you like?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
What do you think I'm doing on my phone all
the time, I'm researching random useless stuff. But the point
is that it's way more difficult for me to research
random useless stuff when I would have to go to
the Encyclopedia Britannica instead of having the sum total of
human knowledge in my pocket at all times.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
The same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
Is true for people who have pornography addictions, and in fact,
the literature on sexual dysfunction and pornography addiction it all
points to the fact that once we got once we
all got phones, once the smartphone became ubiquitous, when you
had a constant access of every sort of pornography imaginable,

(01:06:52):
I mean, truly, just as you have the sum total
of human knowledge, you have the sum total of human depravity.
You also have the some total of all manner of gambling.
When all of that is available to you at all times,
it's of course going to be very very easy to
overdo it. It's going to be very very easy to

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over consume and to not be able to stop. And
one of the big problems with online sports betting as
well is that the people who are taking part in
it the most are typically young men. It is almost
inevitably young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty five.
Those are by far the biggest consumers of these online

(01:07:35):
sports betting apps. Now, who do you think has more money?
Typically forty five year old old codure like me or
say my eighteen year old son. He does in sports
bet But obviously and gambling becomes a problem.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Michael Jordan I think famously said it's gambling is only
going It's only a problem if you don't have the
money to do it, which is kind of true. But
the problem is the people who have the least amount
of money to be able to gamble and waste are
also the people who are doing this activity the most

(01:08:15):
activity that we now know is very very addictive and
can very quickly lead to problem gambling. You are listening
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(01:08:39):
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or tomorrow, so you've got it ahead of your Saint
Patrick's Day weekend? Is this the big bar weekend? I
don't even know. A. I'm old, B. I really have

(01:09:00):
not been been drinking. I think I've been talking about
this and I feel fantastic. I started doing the dry
January thing. You know, it was a pretty common thing.
People have a let's just say they party quite a
bit in December with the holidays, and I always do
dry January. Well, I call it dry Danuary because half

(01:09:22):
the time I feel so good when I'm not drinking
that I just continue it. And the one night I
have drank alcohol was we went to the museum, the
Milwaukee Public Museum for its.

Speaker 5 (01:09:37):
Food and Froth event.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Yeah, did you see this? The Milwaukee County Zoo Milwaukee Counties.

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
I love the Zoo.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
On Easter weekend, they're having a big brunch. They're calling
it egg Day. Really, I thought we were past this. Yeah,
the Milwaukee County Zoo Egg Day brunch and they are
having a here. This is from the Zoological Society. I
wasn't sure if I was gonna talk about this today. Uh,

(01:10:09):
are you ready for an egg sighting time at the zoo?
Bring your family out for a fun time at egg
Day where you can take part in scavenger hunts and
see the bunny handing out treats as he travels around
the zoo. And don't forget to pick up your bunny
ears at the entrance. To really get in the egg

(01:10:30):
Day mood.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
Just call it Easter.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Everybody knows it's Easter. You've got a freaking bunny, you
got baskets, you're doing brunch. I'm sure the little girls
will be in dresses and bonds. Just call it Easter.
Why is this so difficult? It is April fourth, which
is the day before Easter. Nine thirty am to four
thirty pm. They're doing a big seventy dollars brunch. The

(01:10:57):
only time you can get away with doing seventy dollars brunch.
They are like two days of the entire year. Do
you know what days they are? Easter and Mother's Day?

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
Are they gonna Are they gonna call their Mother's Day
brunch the inseminated Person's Day brunch in honor of Governor
Tony Evers?

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
This is just so damned insulting. You won't be the
only ones hopping with joy, the zoo says. Throughout the day,
check out some of your favorite animals as they simulate
their thinking and naturally instincts while showing their abilities by
cracking open egg shaped enrichments filled with their favorite foods. Now,
will those egg shaped enrichments be painted? By any chance?

(01:11:38):
Will you color the egg shaped enrichments For egg Days?
You might get to see lions ripping open eggs with
their claws and teeth at the Florence Mila Porchert Big
Cat Country, or watch the other swim and play with
egg shaped ice cubes at the Modern Woodman Otter Passage.
Or look on as the elephants use their trunks to

(01:11:59):
pull out hidden eggs around their habitat. You're wait, they're
hiding the eggs. You're hiding eggs on Egg Day? And
then a bunny is going to be hopping around handing
out eggs from presumably a basket, and you're having brunch
honest to goodness, I thought mauls are again calling the

(01:12:19):
Easter bunny the Easter bunny Milwaukee Zoo. You can call
egg day Easter. It is okay, I promise you it's okay.
My producer just got himself fired by saying in my ear,
I hope they're just yoking about all of this.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
That is terrible. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Especially did you see what happened in the New York
City Mayor's office, presumably in defiance of this anti Muslim
protest over the weekend outside Gracie Mansion. Mayor zorn Mom
Donnie actually held a Muslim prayer service inside the Mayor's
office as he met with a group of Muslim constituents.

(01:13:05):
This happened, I believe yesterday they did the whole prayer
rug thing. Now is that I'm sorry I heard any
reference to Christmas or if you don't call Easter egg day.
It's the worst violation of the First Amendment that this
country has ever seen. But you can have the mayor
praying on his prayer matt while meeting with constituents for

(01:13:29):
an explicitly religious thing. Folks, It's never about keeping religion
out of all public life. It is always about keeping
Christianity out of all public life. Seriously, Milwaukee Zoo. I
love the Milwaukee. We have one of the best zoos

(01:13:49):
in the entire country. I'm telling you, I've been to
a ton of them, the only ones that are better.
San Diego Zoo is just incredible. The San Diego Zoo
you have to get to it is fantast Minneapolis has
a very very good zoo. And I'm not just talking
about all the left wing crazies that you can go
out and watch protesting Ice when they get all riled up,

(01:14:11):
that's a pretty fun zoo to watch too. I'm talking
about the actual Minneapolis. I believe it's called the Como
Zoo up there. Brooklyn or the Bronx Zoo.

Speaker 5 (01:14:22):
Yeah is it?

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Where's the big zoo Bronx or Brooklyn? Yeah, it is
in the Bronx. They've got a very nice suit. Milwaukee
is up there. Milwaukee has got a tremendous hue.

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
Just call it Easter.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
This is like we're still fighting the stupid liberal fight
from twenty years ago when we had to rename all
of the Easter bunnies in every mall the springtime bunny.
So we wouldn't offend a bunch of left wing wackados.

(01:14:57):
It's out to name the unsung hero the day here
on the Dan o'donald Show, and it is the as
yet unnamed security guard at the Temple Synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan,
who confronted a terrorist suspect who we now believe to
be a naturalized citizen from Lebanon, who crashed his car

(01:15:18):
into that synagogue and immediately started opening fire. That security
guard was struck by the car. He returned fire, killing
the suspect and very likely saving untold numbers of lives.
He is an American hero, and he is, of course
your unsung hero of the day. What we now know

(01:15:40):
about all of the recent terror attacks in the United
States is that all were committed by either naturalized citizens
or the children of naturalized citizens. Who are we allowing
into this country. Do we have a legal immigration problem
in the United States. We'll discuss that and more coming
up here on the Dan o'donald Show. So we are

(01:16:01):
apparently going to get between one and fifty four inches
of snow between Saturday night and Monday morning. I am
told this by the exact same people who will tell
me with a straight face that they know if we
continue burning fossil fuels, the Earth's temperature will rise two

(01:16:22):
degrees over the next century and a half. When you
can tell me how much snow we're going to get
in two days, I'll believe you when you tell me
what the Earth's average temperature is going to be in
the year twenty one fifty six. Okay, Oh well, dad, Dan,
that's different. That's temperature versus climate. And there are a

(01:16:43):
whole bunch of different variables that go into a weather forecast. Yeah,
there are. Now imagine all of the variables that go
into long term weather forecasts, which are known as climate forecasts.
I have absolutely no idea how much snow is going
to fall, and neither does anyone else.

Speaker 5 (01:17:03):
Top stories we are following. National Weather Service.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Says it's likely to be a foot or more in
Milwaukee and Madison, with the vast majority of it falling
on Sunday. Basically, if you don't have to be anywhere,
don't go anywhere. Already, my kids are asking why did
it have to fall on Sunday and not Monday?

Speaker 12 (01:17:23):
Why?

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Oh why? God?

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
You kids go to a public school, you get like
every third Monday off. Anyway, I cannot get over how
many federal holidays these kids have. Presidents Day, Martin Luther
King Day, Teacher in Service Day, Spring Break is coming
up later this month, then they get a couple of
days off for Easter as well. An exclusive report here

(01:17:49):
on the Dan o'donald show, the Senence Republican CLOCKUS remains
deeply divided on the issue of online sports gambling. We
spent a good portion of the four o'clock hour discussing
that it is unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemaheue
is going to bring the controversial measure to the full
Senate floor for a vote on what is projected to

(01:18:10):
be the last day of the Senate session this year,
on Tuesday. Equally contentious is the Save America Act in
the United States Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune saying
today he is going to bring it to the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
At the core of the Save America Act is the
requirement that individuals provide proof of citizenship to register to
vote and then show an ID when they go to
the polls. In other words, it would require Americans to
demonstrate that they're eligible to vote and that they are
who they say they are when they go to do so.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Yeah, the only problem with that, of course, the bill
is going to be filibustered. It's not about whether or
not the Save America Act should be brought to the floor.
Every Republican believes it should be. It's whether or not
we need philibuster reform in order to do so. Those
are the top stories we are following right now four one, four, seven, nine, nine,
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(01:19:06):
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(01:19:29):
iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts. A teacher in
the Sturgeon Bay School District who we hear at the
Dan o'donald Show have identified, but we're not going to
release her name. She's she's a civilian, she's a private citizen.
She's not in government, but she is a teacher who

(01:19:50):
is unfortunately indoctrinated into left wing craziness, but we can
tell you she is in the Sturgeon Bay School District.
She has been going viral on soci social media today
after she posted a TikTok video saying that she put
out a Google spreadsheet that she has her students fill
out with their gender, preferred pronouns, and preferred name.

Speaker 12 (01:20:15):
So this is something I'm starting this semester to help
with inclusivity in the classroom, making sure her students feel comfortable.
So our first day, we made a simple Google form
asking some information for myself. My form asks very simple
things and asks what classes there in? It asks a
preferred name or nickname, preferred pet pronounce It asks is this.

Speaker 10 (01:20:40):
Safe for me to use when I call or email home?

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
What do you mean safe? What she's talking about is
known as social transitioning. This is when a child at
school or in social situations identifies as a different gender.
You is oftentimes a different name, totally different pronouns consistent
with the chosen gender. And where this becomes a big,

(01:21:08):
big problem is when teachers, just like this woman in
the Sturgeon Bay School District don't tell the parents that
social transitioning is going on. When she says, is it
safe for me to use your name and to use
your pronouns when.

Speaker 5 (01:21:23):
I call home?

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
What she's talking about is essentially keeping secrets from parents
that the child is rather clearly going through some sort
of mental health crisis, i e. Gender dysphoria. I saw this.

Speaker 12 (01:21:38):
Idea here on TikTok. I just thought it was a
good way to make students feel super comfortable, and I
really like that it includes height. Is this okay to
use home or not okay to use a home? Because
that's a really important question to ask your kidos.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
So, uh no, actually it isn't. It is never a
question you should ask your kiddos.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
Is it okay? Should we keep this secret?

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Look, folks, we just talked about this yesterday in the
context of the single worst sexual abuse scandal in quite
possibly Wisconsin's history, in the history of the public school
system in Oconto Falls. We've got to follow up on
that coming up later on this hour Here on the
Dan o'donald Show, we're actually gonna hear from one of
those victims. She is speaking out after her lawyers held

(01:22:25):
a press conference yesterday suing the o'conto Falls School district
alleging massive cover ups of massive teacher sexual abuse. We
were talking about why it was so important that there
are no secrets between adults and children. This is look,
it's not always a sign of grooming, but when you're

(01:22:49):
saying something to the effect of, don't tell your mom
and dad, here is a secret between me and you
that you're sharing with a child. You can't trust your
parents with this, but you can trust me. That is
a very problematic thing to be doing by somebody who
is in a position of power and authority, a position

(01:23:10):
of taking care of that student, being responsible for that
student's well being like a teacher.

Speaker 5 (01:23:15):
And by the way, this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Would be illegal under AB one three, a bill that
the state legislature passed this session banning this sort of
social transitioning two major portions of it. It requires a written,
notarized request to the school principles submitted by a parent

(01:23:39):
or guardian if a child is going to be changing
a name or pronouns. In other words, this ensures that
the school and the parent and the student, everybody is
all on the same page, that the parents are aware
that the student is transitioning, The parents are awa where

(01:24:00):
that the school is not going to be keeping secrets.
It also requires a policy on staff usage of names
and pronouns for these students that basically says, the parents
are the legal guardians of the kid, determine what names
and pronouns school staff can use during school hours, and
staff members like this teacher cannot refer to a student

(01:24:24):
by a name or pronouns that don't aligned with the
biological sex again without this written and authorized notification from
a parent or guardian. And the reason for this is
because a parent has a right to know if a
student is exhibiting troublesome behavior. And I know we like
to pretend in liberal society that changing your gender and

(01:24:50):
going by different pronouns is not evidence of mental illness
or it's not evidence of troublesome behavior.

Speaker 5 (01:24:58):
It is by every class vacation.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
It is if all of a sudden a student was
saying things in class like I want to harm myself,
I hate myself, I am not satisfied with who I am,
a teacher would have a duty to tell the parents,
right because that would be depressive behavior. That would be
evidence that the student has some sort of mental illness,

(01:25:22):
that the student.

Speaker 5 (01:25:23):
Is not doing well well.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
What if a student is saying, essentially, I don't like
my gender, I don't like the name Dan. I want
to go by Dan Yelle from now, but don't tell
my parents. That's going to be a secret between me
and you, and the teacher actually keeps that a secret.
Do you know what the suicide rate is for transgender

(01:25:46):
individuals or for those who are suffering from gender dysphoria.
Let's take a wild guess, not suicidal ideation, not suicidal thought.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
The rate of.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
People who kill themselves who identify as trans it is
about forty to forty one percent. That is staggeringly high.
And it's staggeringly high because these people, unfortunately, are not
being treated for the severe depression, the schizophrenia, and just
the sheer mental anguish that they're going through. Saying I'm

(01:26:20):
not happy with who I am. I want to change
my gender. That's not the that's not the diagnosis. That's
the symptom of a deeper mental problem. Psychiatry and psychology
used to understand this. The medical profession used to understand this,
and there would be like a holistic treatment of what
was known as gender dysmorphic disorder or gender dysphoria. Well,

(01:26:45):
long about ten years ago and accelerating as everything did
in the era of woke.

Speaker 5 (01:26:52):
In twenty twenty, that changed.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
The state legislature did the right thing and said, okay,
parents have a right to know if there is a
substantial change in a child, just like if the child
was saying things like I'm not happy with you know,
I don't know whatever the child is saying, I'm not happy.
You call home, It's expected. It's what you do as

(01:27:20):
a teacher, It's what you do as a coach, it's
what you do as a babysitter, as as somebody responsible
for the child. If there's some behavior that you notice
that is change, call the parents. What is it about
this specific behavior that we have to keep it secret
from the parents? It's common sense legislation, right, Well, every

(01:27:41):
single Democrat voted against this, and Evers is almost certainly
going to veto it. By the way, Democrats who voted
against this and Evers, who's going to veto it. These
are the same people who say they follow the science, right,
follow the science.

Speaker 5 (01:28:01):
Follow the science.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
You know what, the best science we have on social
transitioning and just how we treat transgender youth. You know
what the best science is. It's known as the Cast Review.
It's a comprehensive review of studies published in twenty twenty
four by the National Health Service in England. It founds
that there it found that there is quote remarkably weak

(01:28:23):
evidence underpinning pretty much every current practice on transgender youth.
Social transitioning in particular, finds that there is no difference
whatsoever if you socially transition. If you say, Okay, my
name is Danielle and my pronouns are zz or in zers,

(01:28:44):
there is no difference in depression, anxiety, feelings of self
worth or overall psychological functioning. Then if you don't socially transition,
meaning there is no reason to do so. And if anything,
the Cast Review found that if you socially transition in childhood,
you are much more likely to persist with gender dysphoria

(01:29:08):
into adolescents and adulthood. Do you know what happens to
the overwhelming majority of kids who say, yeah, I think
I was born in the wrong body. I think I'm
actually supposed to be a girl. They outgrow it. But
when you socially transition, the younger you socially transition a
kid that's associated with ninety two to ninety seven percent

(01:29:30):
of these kids continuing to identify as transgender after five
or more years. Only two to seven percent of kids say, Okay,
I've outgrown this, And the reason is because everybody around
them is saying, Nope, nope, you're actually a girl. Nope,
you're actually a girl. Direct quote from this study. It

(01:29:51):
is difficult to assess the impact of social transition due
to the small volume and low quality of research. Professionals
should be aware of the absence of robust evidence on
benefits or harms. Now what happens if there's no evidence,
or no good evidence, or not a whole lot of
evidence to support what it is you're doing to the kids?
Do you think you should continue to do that to

(01:30:13):
the kids or do you think you should stop it?
If you are a person who say follows the science.
By the way, the key recommendations from this cast review,
puberty blockers should almost never be subscribed or prescribed. I
should say that there is just no evidence that they
are worth it, that they work cross sex hormones, like

(01:30:40):
giving a boy a bunch of estrogen or a girl
a whole bunch of testosterone. Use extreme caution for anyone
under eighteen and parental involvement. This was the biggest one.
Is absolutely critical. Any social transitioning for children who have

(01:31:00):
not yet hit puberty requires absolute input from parents, from doctors,
from every man. For all kids, parents and people who
care for the kids must be involved, because if they're
not well, this leads to secret keeping, this leads to resentment,
This leads to the breakdown of relationships within the family.

(01:31:23):
In other words, this is about the worst thing that
you can be doing, and this is why the state
legislature wanted to make it illegal. This is also why
Governor Evers needs to defy his party. And if he
actually cares, if he actually is the education governor, if
he actually does care about school kids as much as

(01:31:44):
he and his administration say they do, he will do
the single best thing he could possibly do for school
kids and sign this bill so that the most vulnerable
children are not put in even more danger. A big
follow up on that huge sex scandal out of Oconto Falls. Next,

(01:32:05):
Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show. Let's go live
to West Bloomfield, Michigan, where authorities are providing an update
on today's terror attack on a synagogue there.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
This is the Oakland County Sheriff. You're on the Dan
o'donald show.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
Every place that's got significant houses of worship, a Jewish facility,
synagogue's temples, you name it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Over the past two weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:32:29):
Obviously, what happens around the world sometimes affects us, so
we have to think about it and be prepared for it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
So we've been talking.

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
I text actually the head of security from the temple
two days ago and communicated some information to him. So
the first thing the community should know is that we
not just today work together. We work together all the time.
Our state, federal, and local partners Number one. Number two,
we train and our world preparation is important. We hope

(01:32:58):
and pray it never happens, but that's not a strategy.
Preparation is so all of us have been training together
for many years for active shooters or active assailants, mass
casualty events, and tragically we've had way more than our share.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
So that is ongoing and is in place.

Speaker 4 (01:33:17):
The third thing is important to note no children and
no staff were hurt, so we know there's evil in
the world, and we know they only have to get
it right once and sometimes they do. They may not
come on anybody's radar and they show up, but what
happens when they show up, that's where training and preparation
kicks in.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
The security staff did.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
An amazing job, an amazing job, and you'll get some
of the details on that, but they stopped the threat.
No kids, no staff were hurt. Now, there were some
injuries and things that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Had to be taken care of.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
One of the head of security was taken to the hospital.
He got knocked down by the car when it breached
the building, and we've had thirty law enforcement offs was
taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. So a lot
of our folks from my SWAT team and other agencies
are still in treatment because that building became engulfed in
the car. And we'll learn all of that through the investigation.

(01:34:15):
Why it became engulfed in flams, what was the ignition source?

Speaker 3 (01:34:20):
And I think the.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
ATF has taking that the origin of that source and
origin of the fire. But in any event, what it did,
it caused terrible, terrible smoke in that part of the building.
And so when all of our people collectively went in
that building to search out the threat to remove innocent.
A lot of them took in significant amount of smoke

(01:34:42):
inhalation and they're at the hospital being treated.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
So I also know you're gonna have a lot of questions.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
A lot of those questions can't be answered at this
point because it's super preliminary and investigation. You know, all
of us have thoughts of maybe why this happened, but
we don't operate in a world where we can presume something.
We have to determine it through investigation and specificity, and
that is a work that's in progress as we speak.

(01:35:08):
All of us will work seamlessly together to get the answers.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
And then it will be called what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:35:14):
Obviously it's a hateful or terror terrible thing, right, But
what drove this person into action That has to be
determined by the investigation.

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
We can presume, but we.

Speaker 4 (01:35:25):
Have to find those facts, and that's going to happen
over the next days in time, so we won't be
able to get in a lot of the evidentiary questions.
But we're available to make sure the community understands that
we are stealing a very heightened platform. And the most
important thing that I would tell the community, don't be
afraid to call us. If we're not your own local

(01:35:47):
police department, call your local police department. We'd rather respond
to one hundred nothings than miss one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Real deal. The only way we.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
Prevent something like this is to get a call. Something's
off with my on, my brother, my boyfriend, whatever the case.
I saw something posted. That's the only way we interdict
because people are more likely to see or hear something
before us. So if you see or hear something, you
have to communicate that and then we can intervene and

(01:36:16):
hopefully prevent. But if we can't prevent, then we respond
and mitigate. That's what happened today, and I think, based
on the early information, it happened flawlessly.

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
That is the Sheriff of Oakland County updating on the investigation.
I guess now, is this an update from the FBI?
Lists very quickly go back to this press.

Speaker 13 (01:36:36):
Convict you how we got to where we are today.
So today we received a nine one one call which
came in around twelve nineteen pm. It was about an
active shooter situation at Temple Israel where the individual drove
into the building. West Boomfield officers arrived on scene under
five minutes temple security officers engaged the individual and neutralize

(01:36:56):
the threat. Our officers, combined with area agencies, cleared the
building multiple times and safely and successfully evacuated all children
and staff. This is an active crime scene and we
are examining every angle related to this situation. I will
now turn this over to the FBI for further pow.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Hello.

Speaker 14 (01:37:20):
My name is Jennifer Runyan, last name are U ny
A N and I'm a Special Agent in charge of
the FBI Detroit Field Office. This is a deeply disturbing
and tragic incident, and our deepest sympathies are with the victims,
their family, and the entire Jewish community.

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
The FBI is.

Speaker 14 (01:37:39):
Here working with our state, local, and federal partners to
investigate this incident, and I can confirm that we are
leading the investigation right now. Is a targeted act of
violence against the Jewish community. As my partners have said,
this is an active and ongoing investigation with an active
crime scene, and I ask for your patients as we

(01:37:59):
process this evidence and pursue every lead that has come
to us and that we have developed thus far. What
I can share is this there was one subject involved
in this incident who is now deceased, and as my
partners have said, we've had no victim fatalities. We will
not be able to provide additional information at this time
on the subject or his motive, as our goal is

(01:38:19):
to protect the integrity of this investigation and to ensure
that we give you accurate and timely information as soon
as we can. The ACABI was notified of active reports
excuse me, of active shooter at Temple Israel at approximately twelve
forty five. We immediately activated and deployed all of our
crisis response resources to include our SWAT team, our crisis

(01:38:40):
negotiation team, our evidence response team, our special agent bomb techs,
our Weapons of Mass Destruction team, our cellular analysis survey team,
and our victim services, as well as more than one
hundred agents and analysts to ensure that we are actively
mitigating and responding to the active threat, but also pursuing
diligently and methodically every lead that we have. My ask

(01:39:06):
to the public is a few things. I know everyone
wants information.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Now, the guys that you be.

Speaker 5 (01:39:12):
Patient, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
That is the FBI providing an update on the subject
in the West Bloomfield, Michigan terror attack. He has apparently
now been identified as Iman Gazzally aka Iman Ali al Gazi.
He is a naturalized citizen of the United States from Lebanon.

(01:39:39):
The Austin, Texas mass shooter from last week was a
naturalized citizen. The two teenaged improvised explosive device bombers at
the anti Islam rally outside Gracie Mansion in New York
City over the weekend, the children of naturalized citizens. You
have got four or terror attacks or attempted terror attacks

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in the United States, all committed by naturalized citizens or
the children of naturalized citizens, all within the span of
less than two weeks. Folks, We don't just have an
illegal immigration problem in this country. We very clearly have
a legal immigration problem in this country. Now I know

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it is. It is somewhat politically correct to say anything
other than, well, all legal immigration is good and benefits
the United States. That's clearly not the case, because there
are people coming into this country who are very clearly
incompatible with its values. That has nothing to do with

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a particular religion, although kind of tough to ignore that
there is one religion that keeps motivating people to do
things like this. And yes, I do love the FBI
saying that, well, we do know that this was a
targeted attack against the Jewish community, but we're still trying
to figure out a motive. I'm fairly certain the motive

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was killing a lot of members of the Jewish community.
I call me crazy. I'm no FBI agent, but I
do have a fully functioning frontal cortex. This was a
terror attack against the Jewish community. Muslims have been engaged
in a long campaign to eradicate Jews.

Speaker 5 (01:41:35):
The quicker. We understand that the quicker.

Speaker 1 (01:41:38):
We accept that, not not all Muslims, not not even close,
but enough in this country where we have to take
a look and say, hey, there is something going on here,
and we're so concerned about political correctness that just as

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you heard the Oakland County sheriff say, look, if you
see something, if you see your neighbor who happens to
be an Islamic guy and he appears to be loading
up a whole lot of plutonium into the back of his.

Speaker 5 (01:42:14):
Van, maybe don't worry about.

Speaker 1 (01:42:17):
Being called an islamophobe. Call the FBI. Call nine to
one one if you see that. Because what we've seen,
especially since October seventh, is you have got substantial numbers
of the Muslim community in this country being ever more
brazen and ever more open about their just pure hatred

(01:42:41):
of Jewish people, and quite frankly, the hatred against Jewish
people on both the extreme political left and yes, the
extreme political right. Oh no, no, no, Dan, we're not
anti Semites, We're not anti Jewish, We're anti Zionists. Oh oh,
so you just think that the state of Israel should

(01:43:02):
not exist? What, pray tell, do you think should happen
to all the Jewish people who live.

Speaker 5 (01:43:08):
In the State of Israel?

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Just by saying this, of course, there are going to
be some members of this audience. Oh, Dan, it's just
a Zionist. He's being paid off by Bibi net and Yahoo.
Do you know I have been actually asked how many
shekels I have gotten for expressing my support for the
Iran war. Just people completely oblivious to just how anti

(01:43:33):
Semitic and insane that sounds. People just it's just, frankly,
it pisses me off. And the same people who are
so concerned, Oh can't say this, Oh you don't want
to be racist. You can't dare bring up you can't

(01:43:54):
dare bring up the crime statistics that paint a very
clear picture about crime in America.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
Oh no, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
But at the same time, the same people, the same liberals,
just saying the most awful things about Jewish people, and
I just it's it's irritating. All right, we're gonna get
back on schedule. I did not realize there was going
to be an update from the FBI and officials in Michigan.
There we are going to get you the latest on
the massive sexual abuse scandal at Oconto Falls High School.

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You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show. Back in just
a second. Welcome back to the Dan o'donald Show and
top of the evening Tuia as we are counting down
the days to Saint Patrick's. Stay here with all Saint
Patrick's Day themed bumper music right up until the big
day on Tuesday. Massive bombshell federal lawsuit filed yesterday in

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the Eastern District of Wisconsin, alleging a twenty five year
pattern of sexual abuse and cover up by teachers, staff, coaches,
and administrators at the Oconto Fulls School District. Three different
young women filed this lawsuit alleging that they were sexually abused,

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groomed and then proposition for sex, or had an assistant
volleyball coach or a tech education teacher actually tried to
have sexual relations with them. Two of those women, who
were students at Oconto Falls High School years apart, were

(01:45:35):
both They both claimed that they were abused by the
same woman, an assistant volleyball coach whose mother was the
head volleyball coach at Oconto Falls for many years. Now,
that woman, the assistant volleyball coach, has been criminally charged.

Speaker 5 (01:45:51):
The tech education teacher.

Speaker 1 (01:45:53):
Who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman named Amanda, who we
are not identifying in full to I know her name
is out there, but folks, nobody involved in this. The
assistant volleyball coach was criminally charged. This man has not
been He is not named as a party to the lawsuit.

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The lawsuit is against the Oconto Falls School District, so
we're just we're identifying her only as Amanda. Well, Amanda
is speaking out about why this lawsuit is being filed.

Speaker 10 (01:46:27):
My personal abuser has not been held accountable at all
at this point, and we're over a year from me
coming forward, so it's been going an ongoing cause of
just hurt and pain, and so coming forward, having the
voice to do so, in the means to do so,
in the support to do so is important because not
everybody has that opportunity, that is in the same position

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that we are in now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
This allegedly happened between twenty ten and twenty thirteen, culminating
in a trip to the Wisconsin Dell's for a Skills
USA competition in twenty twelve, where Amanda alleged that this
teacher went into her hotel room and attempted to have
sexual contact with her.

Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
Now for years, she.

Speaker 1 (01:47:14):
Said that he was grooming her, taking her on long
car rides, telling her about his marriage, how he'll take
care of her, how he's only teaching to do something,
that his family is very wealthy, he doesn't really need
the money. He wants to run away with her. I mean,
this is just classic grooming behavior, which, by the way,
is now criminal thanks to a bill that was introduced

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by state assembly Woman Amanda ned Wesky and signed into
law by Governor Evers' last week. This behavior in and
of itself would be criminal. Just grooming a child for
future potential sexual contact would be a crime. Now Amanda
is alleging that this tech education teacher did in fact

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commit sexual assault like he did statutorily. Raper he did
commit sexual we don't call it statutory rape here in Wisconsin,
we call it sexual abuse of a child. That he
did in fact commit this, and she says, look, since
the investigation found additional victims and additional perpetrators at the

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Oconto Falls School District, that this lawsuit needed to be fun.

Speaker 10 (01:48:23):
It's got to stop, right So it takes somebody to
have the courage to step up and stop it. Otherwise
it's going to continue for another twenty years and then
other plaintiffs will be in their their motherhood or their
later years and uncover the trauma that they experienced in
their earlier years. And I just want to prevent that
as much as possible because it has impacted my life greatly.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
What is absolutely staggering right now is that there has not, been,
to my knowledge, a single member of the media in
Wisconsin to stick a microphone in doctor Jill Underley's face,
the state's superintendent and say, look, you said that DPI,
in contradiction of the investigative report by cap Times over

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the fall, that DPI was not covering up child sex
abusers in public schools. Here we have a massive and
I mean massive cover up of quite possibly the worst
teacher sex abuse scandal in the history of the state.
And this comes not in a vacuum, but as you're
promising to increase transparency. Were any of these teachers in

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Oconto Falls ever investigated by DPI? Did any of the
complaints ever rise to the level of the Department of
Public Instruction? Because the cap Times investigation only looked at
twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three, and to my knowledge,
the three named victims, the three plaintiffs in this lawsuit
were alleging sexual misconduct from twenty ten to twenty thirteen

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from Amanda, and then there were two other defendants, one
of whom was in high school and being abused by
the assistant volleyball coach at about the same time. The
other was alleging abuse that stopped when she left Oconto
Falls High School in twenty eighteen. Is it possible that
this assistant volleyball coach or this tech education teacher were

(01:50:17):
referred for investigation to DPI. If cap Times had looked
into the years twenty ten to twenty eighteen, would they
find them and they were just let right back into
the Oconto Falls School District to go right back to
teaching and right back to sexually abusing students. These are
questions that need to be answered, and by God, Jill

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Underley had better start answering them. Welcome back to the
Dan O'Donnell Show. The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team gets
a win in the Big Ten Tournament over Washington. They
advanced to play Illinois. They are very much on the bubble.
I think it's far more likely that they are in
rather than being out. The Marquete Golden Eagles, unfortunately, sort

(01:51:02):
of a nightmare season for them comes to an end
with a loss in the Big East Tournament to Xavier.
Some good news though, Nigel James Junior named Big East
Freshman of the Year, so that the future does seem bright.
Couldn't be much darker this year for the Golden Eagles.
My beloved Golden Eagles, of course, I am a very
proud alum. Big sports news in the NFL, Kyler Murray

(01:51:26):
cut by the Arizona Cardinals. Guess which team he just
signed with about an hour ago, the Minnesota Vikings, where
he is expected to compete with former first round pick
JJ McCarthy. Murray is signing a one year deal with
the Vikes, sort of a prove it contract. This has

(01:51:48):
all the hallmarks of a classic quarterback competition in training camp,
and when your options are Jj McCarthy and Kyler Murray,
I'm feeling pretty darn good as a green Bay Packers fan. Packers, though,
have been very very quiet in free agency. In fact,
the biggest name signing that they've had is Sky Moore.

Speaker 5 (01:52:11):
Do you realize with.

Speaker 1 (01:52:13):
The loss of all of the players that they have
in free agency? The longest tenured Green Bay Packer right
now is Jordan Love. He was drafted in twenty twenty.
He has been with the Packers the longest. They do
not have anybody who has been with this team for
more than six years. That's actually kind of amazing. The

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Packers did have one of the very youngest teams in
the NFL, but with half of their defensive line now
on the Dallas Cowboys, Kenny Clark is there and help
me out.

Speaker 5 (01:52:50):
Who else?

Speaker 1 (01:52:50):
Just Rashan Gary, thank you, thank you. Rashan Gary was
the number one pick in twenty nineteen, so he and
Clark were the last two players who were longer tenured
than Jordan Love. Doesn't really look like anybody in the
NFC North dramatically has improved themselves in free agency. You
really can't tell, to be perfectly honest with you. The

(01:53:13):
Detroit Lions they lost well, the Bears lost their starting center.
The Lions lost their starting center. The Lions lost one
of their two stud running backs in David Montgomery. He
signs with the was it Tennessee or Houston? Houston, I
believe he signed with. It's always difficult to keep up
with all of the free agency news, especially with some

(01:53:34):
of those like second tier players, Like obviously you hear
about the Big Now everybody knew about the Max Crosby
trade that got rejected. Like when it's a superstar going
from one team to another. Trey Hendrickson signs with the
Baltimore Ravens, very very good defensive lineman, edge rusher late
of the Cincinnati Bengals. When it's some of these sort
of second tier players difficult to keep track of. Friday

(01:53:57):
edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show, coming up to my
or We'll get you ready for the potential weekend blizzard.
Starting at three oh six tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (01:54:05):
We will talk to you. Then here on the Dan
o'donald show,