Giannis is Gone. Now What?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yannis is gone, So now what the Bucks pull off
a blockbuster trade dealing to Miami the best player in
their franchise's history and one of the best ambassadors for
Milwaukee and Wisconsin the sports world has ever had. Welcome

(00:22):
to the Tuesday edition of The Dan o'donalds Show. Obviously,
the Yannis trade is the single biggest story in the state.
So for those of you who are firmly in the
stick to the issues crowd, please be aware that sometimes
the issue is sports, and sometimes sports is the issue.

(00:43):
How does an organization like the Bucks move forward? And
is there an element here that we can all learn from? This,
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to podcasts. The NBA Draft is tonight, and Books ownership
had been saying for pretty much the entire second half
of the NBA season that they wanted to get a

(01:48):
deal done by Draft day. They did. Late last night,
the announcement came. The Bucks are trading both Jannis and
Bobby Portis to the Miami Heat in exchange for Tyler Hero,
the Greenfield native and Whitnell High School alum kelll Where
Jamie Jacks Junior, Casparis Jaka Shonas. I should probably figure

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out how to pronounce that last name, just like it
took me about a month and a half to pronounce Antetekoumpo.
The Bucks also get three first round picks, including number
thirteen overall tonight, plus the twenty thirty one and twenty
thirty three Miami first round picks. They also get one

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first round pick swap in twenty thirty and one second
round pick in twenty thirty three. Now you might immediately
be asking why are the Bucks trading for draft picks
so far off into the future, why don't they want
draft picks in twenty twenty seven or twenty eight or
twenty nine. Well, the NBA just made major changes to

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the way that the draft lottery is done. They moved
to what's known as the three to two one lottery CIS,
and it basically classifies teams that don't make the NBA
Playoffs or that qualify for the play in tournament but
don't get one of the top eight seeds, that they
don't play their way into the NBA playoffs. To try

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to cut down on the possibility of tanking, you either
get three lottery balls, two lottery balls, or one lottery ball.
It is a big disincentive to finish with one of
the three worst records in the NBA because up until
now what takes effect for next year's draft lottery, you

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had about a fifteen percent chance of winning the lottery
if you were one of the worst three teams record
wise that season. Well, a whole lot of teams have
been tanking to try to get top draft picks. Tonight's
NBA draft is considered a very very strong one. The
top pick AJ debotsa one of the highest rated prospects

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to come out of college in quite some time. He's
a one and done, as are all of the top
seven or eight players in this draft, all of whom
are potential NBA All Stars. It's really the top four
picks that are the most coveted. You've got a combo
guard from Texas or excuse me, Kansas, by the name
of Darren Peterson. You've also got Carlos Boozer's son, Cameron

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Boozer from Duke. He's projected to go number three. You
have also got Caleb Wilson of North Carolina, Darius Acuff
Junior projected to go number five, Keaton Wagler of Illinois
projected to go number six. Somewhere in there. The Bucks
have the number ten and the number thirteen pick tonight.

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Those two picks could be packaged to move up if
the Bucks want to do so. Suffice it to say, though,
that they want a stockpile as many valuable assets as possible. Now.
As much as this Whitnell High School alum proud class
of nineteen ninety nine would love to see Tyler hero

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play for the Bucks, he is almost certainly going to
be traded, and in fact, today the Bucks have already
entered into discussions with the Detroit Pistons, who have wanted
to trade for Hero and were rumored to be part
of a potential three team deal that would have sent
Jannis to Miami and Tyler Hero to Detroit. Well, what

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the Bucks can do now is with every single one
of the players that they got in exchange for Giannis
and all of the players that remain on their roster,
say like a Kyle Kuzma somebody like that, what they
can do is continually flip those players into draft picks.
And you want draft picks after twenty twenty nine, because

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that's when the current experiment with the three to one
lottery system expires. Teams think that the NBA is probably
going to go back to something like the current lottery
system in twenty thirty, so you want those draft picks
to be in that rank. Not only that, I think

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where things are sort of headed for the Bucks is
that this is going to be a pretty dog gone
bad team for the next three years. And that's not
the worst thing in the world. The San Antonio Spurs
were frankly horrible. They strategically tanked for two seasons starting

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in twenty two and then the following year they were
lucky enough to get the single biggest generational prospect and
I mean that literally. He's seven foot four, probably since
Lebron James in Victor Webbin Yama. This was a franchise
altering pick. The following year they drafted number four they

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got Stefan Castle, very very good player, excellent defender. And
then last year, this past draft, they got Dylan Harper
at number two. They went to the NBA Finals. This
is a very young team, but they were able to
rebuild very quickly. Essic example of what I think the
Bucks need to do is the Oklahoma City Thunder. People

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forget but about fifteen years ago, Oklahoma City had Kevin Durant,
Russell Westbrook, and James Harden all on the same team.
They also had Serge Ibaka well. Unfortunately, their path to
the NBA Finals was constantly blocked by the Golden State Warriors,
and eventually in twenty sixteen, Kevin Durant had enough and

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on the fourth of July, after blowing a three to
nothing or three to one lead in the Western Conference
Finals against Golden State, Kevin Durant made the ultimate WOOSS
move and signed with Golden State. The Thunder realized that
they had to blow it up. They needed to trade
Russell Westbrook, They needed to just turn the page on

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the Big Three era. So what they did was constantly
trade players, constantly assets for draft picks, and then flip
those draft picks for more draft picks. In twenty nineteen,
they had Paul George, who at the time was somewhat
in his prime. He's always sort of an injured big star.

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They trade him to the LA Clippers for a massive
hole headlined by a young guard by the name of
Shay Gilgess Alexander, who of course went on to become
a two time NBA MVP. Same year, Russell Westbrook goes
to the Rockets. They get Chris Paul back, but what

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the big hole was was draft picks. They then continually
flipped picks. They would take on bad contracts just so
they would be able to get drafted. They would be
able to flip those expiring contracts in exchange for more
draft picks. This is, frankly what the Bucks have to do.

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There is no other choice, and I think there's a
lesson here. Everybody wanted to keep you honest. If you
believe Yannis. He wanted to stay in Milwaukee. He just
didn't want to play for the Bucks at some point,
and it's a very, very difficult thing to do, but
eventually that point comes. Things aren't working out. If you

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try to continue to make a bad situation worse because
you believe, well, we're already invested in this, you're engaged
in what's known as the sunk cost fallacy, the idea
that I've already put a lot of money into this investment.
I've already put a lot of time. I've already put

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a lot of my passion, a lot of my hard
work into this whatever cost I have incurred to try
to make something work, whether it's a core of a
basketball team to try to win a championship, whether it's
a small business that started whatever, we are all succept
to the sunk cost fallacy. We believe because we've already

(10:03):
put this much in, if we just keep digging, sometimes
swill or somehow we'll be able to get out of
the hole. It doesn't work. The Bucks are in the
position where I believe they got a pretty substantial haul
for Yannis, but they didn't get nearly as much as
a mid level just middling player, above average player by

(10:26):
the name of Desmond Baine got in terms of draft picks,
who's clearly an inferior player to Yannis. Because they waited,
because they engaged in the sunk cost fallacy and thought, Hey,
the Damian Lillard trade didn't work out, Let's try to
keep Yannis happy by signing Miles Turner in free agency. Well,

(10:48):
that didn't work out either. Let's hire Doc Rivers as
the head coach. That really didn't work out. And because
Yannis is to be a free agent after this season,
he doesn't have as much value because what happens if
things don't work out in Miami? Is he going to
sign that extension or is he going to just demand

(11:12):
a trade if he does. Had the Bucks traded Yannis
last draft, before last season, they would have gotten way
more and the organization would have been in a much
better position now. Hindsight, of course, being what it is,
it's easy to say that now, but the Bucks would
have also gotten a much bigger hole had they traded

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Yannis in February. Now, people thought, okay, well, there's still
a chance Jannis wants to be here, that Janis will
sign an extension. He's not going to demand a trade,
and people were even hanging on to this potential delusion
right up until the news of that trade broke. One

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thing that was very very interesting about how all of
this went down is that there were apparently a whole
lot of people in the media here in Wisconsin that
knew Yannis was done, that he didn't want to play
for the Bucks anymore, and they kept it a secret.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Jim O'sharski, who is the Bucks

(12:22):
beat reporter waited until paragraph twenty two of his story
today outlining the Yannis trade, to drop this bombshell quote
onto Dakoumpo also waffled on his commitment to the team
throughout the season, which he said he regretted in an
April podcast, but at the end of the year he

(12:44):
told the Journal Sentinel he was finished in Milwaukee. Uh
don't you think that should have been reported? Now? I
get it, I get it. This was told to Osharski
off the record. I get things reported to me off

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the record all the time. It's on background. Is how
a lot of people in our business card. I'm going
to tell you this on background so you understand where
we're coming from Osharski was pretty obviously told this on background.
Did you get any sense, in reading the coverage of

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the Bucks potentially trading Antetakoumpo that this was fata complee,
that he was done? I didn't. This also made me
wonder if a Bucks beat reporter is keeping this relevant
information from the public for the better part of a
month and a half two months and then buries it

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on paragraph twenty two of his story when Giannis is
ultimately traded. What else our reporter is keeping from the
general public? Bottom line, though, yea honess is gone and
his what he means to the state of Wisconsin goes
well beyond basket I mean the NBA Championship in twenty

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twenty one, the MVPs, the All NBA. He's He's the
Bucks leader in pretty much every major statistical category. He's
played more games with the Bucks than any other player
in franchise history, believe it or not. Cavalier Johnson, Mayor
of Milwaukee today summed up very very well what both

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Janie and Bobby Portis meant to the community of Milwaukee,
meant to Milwaukee and Wisconsin's culture.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
It's a bittersweet day in Milwaukee. It's better because Jannis
and Bobby Ports as well are leaving Milwaukee, and they
have they have been just incredible, incredible assets in this community.
This is beyond basketball. These gentlemen have been an integral
part of our community for so many years. Of course,

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you know, everybody will point to the NBA championship from
a couple of years ago, and that was wonderful and great,
created so much pride in Milwaukee and in the Milwaukee Bucks.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
But it's even beyond that.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
I mean, the work and the giving back that Yannis
has done in our community over the years has been remarkable.
Is why from Riah has stepped up working to make
sure that women in particular wanted diaper mission got the
resources that they needed for themselves and for their children.
Bobby Ports has been a champion on reckless driving and
other initiatives, back back to school efforts and all that.

(15:39):
So again, this is beyond basketball. I think folks are
going to remember very very fondly the time that we
had in this city with Giannis, with Bobby, everything that
they've contributed to our community.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
And it's not just the community service and all of that.
Both Bobby Portis and Yan genuinely loved this city, genuinely
love Wisconsin. They were ambassadors for the city and for
the state. Frankly, I think I might be the one
person in the greater Milwaukee area who doesn't have a
picture with Yannis after seeing him out somewhere. He was

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the type of player that would would make it cool
to be in Milwaukee, make it cool to be in Wisconsin.
And everybody loves Jannis. Everyone's gonna miss Yannis. But am
I the only one who thinks it's a little weird
that we're gonna keep the giant mural of Yannis up
in downtown Milwaukee's he's playing for another team now. When

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Lebron left Cleveland, they took his mural down. Now, of course,
he did so in insanely ridiculous fashion, humiliating the entire city,
which happened to be close to his hometown, his home
state with the decision back in twenty nine, twenty ten
somewhere in there. But really, we got the Bob Yucker mural,
Now why do we need the honest mir I'm not

(17:08):
saying cover it up right away, but I don't know
what are we going to paint a Miami Heat Jersey
over the Bucks Jersey. It just it seems a little weird.
NBA Draft seven o'clock tonight, don't be surprised if the
Bucks are very very active trading pretty much every player

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they have on the active roster to try to get worse. Unfortunately,
we're used to this as Bucks fans. We suffered through
some bad, bad years. But what we learned during the
late stages of the Herb Coal ownership of the team
is that you can either be a championship contender or

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you can be tanking to try to get better in
the future. If you are just sort of hanging on
to get one of the last playoff slots, you're going
to be mediocre forever. Sometimes it's tough to sacrifice in
order for you to be better long term, but that's
exactly what now needs to happen. Coming up here on

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the Dan o'donald's show, Democrat Candidate Forum. All six gubernatorial
candidates attend the wis Dom Forum last night, and all
of them doubled down on left wing radicalism. We will
get into that coming up next right here on the
Dan o'donald show. A listener texting on our Carpetland USA

(18:40):
talk and text line has I think the perfect suggestion
for what to do with the Jannis Antetakumpo mural in
downtown Milwaukee. I think it's a little weird that the
city is going to keep it up. He said, just
repurpose it with David Gruber's face instead of Jannies. I
think that's perfect. I think that that is absolutely perfect.

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And you change the number on the back of the
jersey from thirty four to one. Call ah, we are
idea men here On the Dan O'Donnell show. Last night,
the Democratic candidates for governor gathered at the wis Dom
Forum wis Dom. This is a progressive organization and every

(19:27):
Democrat candidate, the six of them who are still in
the race. Remember yesterday the first of the seven, Missy Hughes,
dropped out immediately endorsed Sarah Rodriguez is It is my
very very strong belief that the fix is now in.
Democrats are trying to rig this race against the two radicals.
They are trying to consolidate the vote against Francesco Hang

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and Mandela Barnes. And last night was a pretty good
indicator of why, because out of all the candidates, it
was Chesco Hog and Mandela Barnes, who stood out for
saying the dumbest, weirdest stuff. However, if there's a thought
that somehow Sarah Rodriguez or Joel Brennan or Kel de

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Royce or any of these people are any more center
or any more sane than the socialists, their answer on
illegal immigration and just what benefits they would give to
illegals in this state should have put that to rest
a long time ago. So the moderators of this debate

(20:34):
did one of those things where they give yes and
no little signs that each candidate can hold up because
they don't want to go down the line and have
each candidate answer the question, So for the sake of
saving time, they'll ask something like, okay, who all wants
universal health care? Of course every Democrat will hold up

(20:55):
the yes sign. Well. They also asked which of you
would like to give drivers licenses and in state tuition
to illegal immigrants? Every single Democrat said they would.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Do you support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants?

Speaker 1 (21:19):
All holding the science up? Do you support in state
tuition for undocumented students? Everyone holds the sign up? Again?

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Should local law enforcement be prohibited from asking about immigration
status during routine policing.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Once again, every Democrat held up the sign driver's licenses
for illegal immigrants is a very left wing idea, not
just because it is a tangible benefit to immigrating to
this state in this country illegally. Same thing with in

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state college tuition for would be students to the UW
system that they are not eligible for it. I would
argue that we should not be allowing people who come
into this country illegally to have the benefit of our
government sponsored university system, but that's probably a losing battle.

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In fact, we should not be giving benefits to anyone
who is not in this country legally. We don't want
to incentivize people to take their lives in their hands
by trying to cross the border with the drug cartels
who are now running coyote operations across the Rio grand Now. Fortunately,
because the Trump administration has been so successful on closing

(22:41):
down the border, we have not seen similar waves of
illegals coming into this country anywhere near what we saw
during Biden. But of course also during some of the
early days of the first Trump administration and during the
Obama administration going back to George W. Bush, and even
before that as well. Well, the border is sealed off.
I mean, we know how to do it, and we

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can do it very very quickly. But you do still
have a whole lot of illegal immigrants in this state.
Giving them driver's licenses is a step, a big step,
since you know, you show a driver's license in order
to vote, and somebody would have a driver's license, somebody
would have an address in Wisconsin that would to a

(23:25):
poll worker say hey, yes you can vote. That's a
big problem. But more importantly, it reveals that every single
one of these candidates wants to have as many illegals
in this state as humanly possible. Now, of course, you

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are never ever ever going to be able to compete
with the socialists in terms of giving government benny's to
people who don't really deserve them. And Francesco Hong proved
that last night. Not only does she want to give
in state college tuition and driver's licenses to illegals, she

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wants to give them free car seats, free auto mechanic services,
and much more. It's it's like, if Frandie Hong is
elected governor, the illegals in this state win the showcase showdown.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
So I think it's imperative that the state actually help
fund these initiatives, that we are funding local immigrant justice
organizations and those who are providing basic needs and ensuring
that immigrant communities are able to.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Get to work.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
That there's childcarese that's there's car seats for folks that
we are you know, there's mechanics that help them make
sure that their cars fit, they can get to work
and live their lives. It is time that government actually
get into helping to build community safety when the systems
around us are failing.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
All right, So, my old Toyota Highlander was failing. I
was sick of just dumping money into it, and the
Toyotas they run forever, and this was like a twenty
thirteen twenty fourteen, so I drove it for a long time.
My son drove it after me, and I just got
sick of big We ended up getting a new car.

(25:15):
We went to Lynch and just got a fantastic car,
fantastic terms on a lease. I would highly suggest going
to Lynch visit Shoplinch dot com. It's not the point
of why I'm bringing this up. You're telling me while
I would have to pay for my car repairs, illegal
immigrants under a governor Francesca Hong would have my tax

(25:38):
dollars paying for their car repairs so that they can
get to work. Not only that, while I had to
pay for car seats and car seats, I remember it's
been a long time since my kids were in car seats,
but I can remember those were shockingly expensive also shockingly

(25:59):
difficult to install properly. Illegals get those from my tax dollars.
And my wife and I paid a small fortune for
childcare before the kids were going to school. Illegals get
that free to in fact, for young parents childcare if
both parents work and they don't have grandma and grandpa

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nearby so that they can watch the kids while they're
at work. That is by far the biggest expense outside
of perhaps a mortgage payment, but for a lot of
if it's a bigger expense than rent, it can be
a bigger expense than a mortgage payment. Childcare is insanely expensive.
Francesco Hang thinks, not only should illegal immigrants not have

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to pay for it, but you, a Wisconsin taxpayer, me,
all of us as Wisconsin taxpayer, need to pay for
these things. Auto mechanic services, car seats, childcare, college, tuition,
anything and everything for people who sneak into this country.

(27:11):
We have to pay for their lifestyle because it is
important that they get to I hope you folks understand
this is not just Francesco Hank. It is every single
one of these Democrats. Now here's the thing about Hawk.
She's dumb enough to say this stuff that will make
it onto my show and I make fun of her
and it becomes fodder for a Tom tiffany ad at

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some point. But every other Democrat sitting on stage isn't
going to publicize this, is never going to be stupid
enough to say, yeah, totally, I want you to pay
for car repairs for illegal immigrants. They all want more
illegals in this state. They want to subsidize illegals in

(27:54):
this state. They want you to pay for the illegals
in this state. More from that candidate forum when we
come back here on the Dan o'donald Show in just
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(28:17):
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He is right, it is taking off and is about
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Star Spangled Nation, coming up in the five o'clock hour
here on the Dan o'donnald Show last night. Democrat gubernatorial
candidate Forum and Democrats all agree on a couple of things.
One they want as many illegal immigrants in this state
as humanly possible. Two they want to make your lives

(30:28):
as expensive as possible to fund the illegal immigrants in
this state. And all of their various pet projects, including
environmental nonsense, which under Governor Evers spiked utility rates to
levels we've never seen in this state. At last night's forum,
former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, who was the head of

(30:50):
Ever's green energy Initiative when he served as LG during
the first term, he bragged actually about getting power plants,
specifically coal power plants shut down here in Wisconsin. Because
I'm not kidding about this. Those coal power plants are racist.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
We fought some of these tough fights before. Even when
it came to we energies and coal burning power plants,
many people were joining coalition, some folks who are in
this room right now, to take them on to prevent
them from continuing to use coal burning power plants because
of the impact on black and brown and low income
communities and the disproportionate rates of respiratory illnesses that were created.

(31:33):
So again, not just legislation, we need to organize around
this issue even more.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
The coal plants are racist, Ladies and gentlemen. The coal plants,
the pollution from the coal plants only affects black people.
What is it like when they elect a new pope
they have white smoke that doesn't people's lungs in the

(32:01):
white neighbors. I understand what he is saying. The coal
plants go up around where black people typically live in Milwaukee.
When's the last time I knew coal plant went up.
The point here is that, because yes, this is just obvious,
ridiculous pandering, the real reason they want to shut down
the coal plants is for green energy initiatives, solar wind,

(32:24):
all of that. Weirdly enough, they hate the guy who
actually did get America away from pollutants, Elon Musk and
driving electric vehicles. But where do we think we're powering
the electric energy policy? Is perhaps where liberal thought just

(32:46):
completely collapses under the weight of its own lack of
inherent logic. Mandela Barnes, though, revealed that for whatever social
justice reason that Democrats are pretending is important, this week,
they will actively make your lives more expensive. How are
they doing this? Well, if there are fewer coal power plans,

(33:08):
if there are fewer power plans, if there is less
power generation, well, then automatically it would seem that power
would get way more expensive now, wouldn't. And this is
exactly what happened under the Evers administration. Not only that
you had the Public Service Commission under Evers. Remember, because
the utility companies operate as government sanctioned monopolies in their

(33:33):
various regions of the state, we energies and so forth,
they have to go to the government entity known as
the PSC Public Service Commission in order to hike rates.
They have to get permission to raise rates for both
commercial and individual residential customers under Governor Evers, under the

(33:53):
Democrats Sarah Rodriguez and Mandela Barnes serving as Lieutenant governor,
rates have been hiked by two billion dollars because Evers
and Rodriguez and Barnes's Public Service commissioners are approving seventy
five percent or more of the rate increases that are

(34:18):
being requested. By contrast, in eight years under Governor Walker,
his public Service commission nominees approved just twenty five percent
of the rate increases, a much lower total rate increase
for Wisconsinites and even adjusted for inflation, much much lower
per customer. Elect Democrats. Your power bill goes up. Elect Democrats. Obviously,

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your tax bill goes up. That's something on which all
of them always agree. They may differ on what they
want to spend your money on, but the bottom line
is they all want to spend more of your money.
They want to collect more of your money, and they
want to redistribute it to their preferred voting blocks or

(35:06):
future voting blocks like illegal immigrants. That's all this is about.
And whether you elect Mandela or Sarah Rodriguez or Francesco
Holng or Calderize or any of them, all of them
are going to do this, especially since if we are
stupid enough to elect any of these people, it probably
means that both the Assembly and the Senate have fallen

(35:28):
as well, and they'll of course rubber stamp any and
all tax increases. Why do you think every single Democrat
in the Wisconsin Senate voted against that bipartisan budget surplus
bill because they didn't want any money going back to taxpayers.
They wanted to hoard it all for themselves so that
when they come to power, they are able to redistribute

(35:51):
it as they see fit. Coming up next, the unhinged
liberal of the day of christian who hates Christianity. Yeah,
sounds like a lib to me. Stay tuned, intelligent discourse
and irreverent fun. You get both, hopefully in equal measure.

(36:15):
Here on the Dan o'donald Show. Welcome back to it.
Here's the irreverence. It's time to name the unhinged liberal
of the day. We are in pre Nazi Germany. Truff

(36:36):
is dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
America.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Today's unhinged liberal of the day is Senate candidate James
Talerico down in Texas. He is running against Ken Paxson,
The Trump endorsed Attorney General for the US Senate seat
that is going to be abandoned by John Hornan after
Paxton defeated Cornan in the Republican primary earlier this summer.

(37:05):
Well tell Rico fancies himself as a new type of Christian,
a lib Christian who, according to him on a podcast
back in twenty twenty one, hates Christianity. That's right, he
is a self described Christian who hates Christianity. Yeah, and

(37:28):
that's you know.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
I always think of myself as a Christian who hates
Christianity up right, and.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
Like I always get always get drawn back into it.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah. I'm sure that'll play well in the decidedly non
Christian state of Texas. Is there a better liberal description
of somebody who tells all their friends, yes, I'm Christian
than a Christian who hates Christianity. Yes, I am spiritual.

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I love the teachings of Jesus. I just hate his
fan club, I e. Christians who tend to be conservative.
I hear some variation of that near constantly coming from
the quasi religious left. Wouldn't want to be a guy
running for Senate in Texas who has to answer for

(38:23):
a statement like that. That's on video. James Tallerico is
your unhinged Liberal of the day. When we come back,
you're on the Dan O'Donnell Show, Daily Trump Date, and
much much more. Stay tune Welcome back four o'clock hours
starts right now. And President Trump was in Pennsylvania today.

(38:47):
He still is. I don't believe the Air Force one
has left rally this afternoon at the Mack Truck facility there,
and he's touting the economy, which of course is going
to be the big issue on everyone's minds this November.
It always is. People vote with their pocketbooks. What if
the Trump economy was already very, very good and poised

(39:12):
to get even better after the detour in Iran, and
the only thing really standing in the way of prosperity,
or at least a feeling that all are sharing in
that prosperity is the hangover that we're still suffering from
from the Biden administration. That is where we find ourselves

(39:33):
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(40:16):
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or wherever you listen to podcasts. Time now for the
daily Trump Day.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 6 (40:39):
We have to keep winning.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
We have to win more. We're gonna win more. President
Trump heading to perennial battleground Pennsylvania today visiting a Mac
truck manufacturing facility delivering an economic address. This was his
first public appearance outside of Washington in DC following that

(41:01):
interim agreement to enter or excuse me to end enter
the war with Iran, That would be news. To end
the war with Iran. He highlighted the resurgence of the
manufacturing sector in this country under his second term because
of yes, the tariffs, but also because of the one

(41:22):
big beautiful bill that he said is expanding prosperity to also.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
Our great Republican majorities in Congress last fourth of July,
I proudly signed the largest tax cuts in American history.
We gave you the biggest tax cuts in American history.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Not bad, not bad.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
We delivered no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
and no tax on social Security for our great Pennsylvania seniors,
no cuts. And our tax cuts are project to Daboost
take hompey for Pennsylvanians by an average of more than
ten thousand dollars a year per household.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
The focus of the President's address, of course, how his
administration's policies and the Republican majorities are delivering real results
for hard working Americans. Now, as he said, the economy
is in fact going gangbusters after that slight little detour
in Iran, but now that that is largely settled, we

(42:32):
can get down to the business of bringing America back economic.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
As you know, we just achieved a historic peace agreement
with Iran to in the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz.
And by the way, yesterday nineteen million barrels of oil
flowed out of the Strait of Horrormuves, a very beautiful place.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
That's the most that's the.

Speaker 5 (42:58):
Most oil in the history of the strait. It's never
been any You've never seen anything like that. It's called
the Noil Gusha. And most importantly, we are ensuring one thing,
very importantly, because this is why I did it. I
did it for this reason. Ninety nine percent for this,
Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Then they've agreed to there. Back in Washington, d C.
Major major announcement by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche a
string of arrests, hundreds of them in Medicare and other
government welfare fraud scheme.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Today we are announcing federal and state charges, all of
which were charged or uncealed at some point over the
past two weeks. The past fourteen days coordinated nationwide action.
Since June eighth, we've charged four hundred and fifty five
defendants across fifty six like I said a minute ago,
US attorney's offices and forty five US states and territories

(43:59):
alleged in the various indictments, these individuals participated in healthcare
fraud schemes involving over six point five billion dollars in
false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Fraudsters, according to Blanche, would use deceptive practices, fake telemedicine visits,
unnecessary medical treatments, skin grafts that were never needed and
of course never performed. They would get bills for medical
equipment that was never actually ordered. This was one of

(44:37):
the most extensive coordinated healthcare fraud enforcement actions in the
Department of Justice's history. The DOJ today also announcing that
it's established the West Coast Strike Force to combat fraud
in Medicaid and deployed additional federal prosecutors to tackle the issue,
which doctor Oz set at that press conference, is perhaps

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more prevalent in California than much of the rest of
the country combined. Now authorities have seized luxury homes, cars, jewelry,
offshore accounts. It is very impressive what the federal government did. Now.
One of the more interesting parts of this comes to

(45:25):
us from the Chicago Tribune. I was forwarded this by
a listener. This is from the Chicago Tribune's official x account.
The owner of an Oak Lawn methadone clinic has been
charged in a fraud scheme that allegedly swindled millions of
dollars from government programs that were used to fund an
extravagant lifestyle, including luxury cars and a yacht named but

(45:52):
neked n ekk id. That was the Chicago Tribune reporting
that but necond So congratulations to the Trump administration for
finally sinking the ss butt necd that, ladies and gentlemen,

(46:13):
is your daily Trump date. Every day here on the
Dan o'donald's show. We like to get you caught up
on what it is that's going on in Trump's White
House so that you don't have to hear it from
the horribly biased nightly news. As the war on Liberal
desecration of the Lincoln Memorial reflected, I never thought we

(46:37):
would get charged. Do you realize one of the guys
who is charged with basically ripping a three hundred yard
long hole in the bottom of the new lining that
they put in in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pond was
a three time Olympic canoeist. Also, they can say, well,
the Trump administration, Donald Trump can't even win a war

(47:00):
or against algae. Yes, because liberals are so freaking nuts,
they will even attack the reflecting Pool to go after Trump.
Bottom line is that President Trump is right that after
the diversion, the the I don't want to call it
a diversion, but after the detour, I believe he's calling it.

(47:22):
In Iran saying okay, we could not allow Iran to
try to develop a nuclear weapon, which our intelligence said
they were going to. We needed to get them into line.
And yes, we knew that was going to cause some
short term pain, especially at the pump gas prices we're
going to rise. But now we have got a long
term solution. Effectively, if Iran behaves and adheres to the

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Memorandum of Understanding and then a broader peace agreement that
is going to follow and flow from this, and we're
already seeing huge, huge progress on that, then the United
States and the rest of the world will be swimming
in oil. Remember, we are again the number one energy
exporter oil exporter in the entire world. This gives us

(48:10):
significant leverage in our ability to power the engine of
our economy and also to get ourselves even richer by
selling oil to other countries. We now don't have to
worry as much about the insanity and price fixing and
all of this coming from Opak and we hopefully because

(48:33):
we have broader agreements with those countries. Under Trump, remember
he went to Saudi Arabia in the first couple of
months of his second term last year to get these
broader agreements, to try to get the Middle East more
aligned with the US, to get him to stop constantly
trying to destroy Israel, and to sort of unite behind

(48:55):
Saudi Arabia as opposed to Iran, to isolate Iran from
its Gulf Coast neighbors. And that's exactly what happened. Now
you have got the United States able to lean on
a whole lot of different Middle Eastern allies to help
try to keep Iran in line and to help try
to enforce this agreement. Not only that there is going

(49:18):
to be a more stable oil market that the United
States is better able to control, because remember the other
country that we sort of brought under our thumb this
year Venezuela again. All of this Venezuela Iran, it is
all aimed at China. It is all aimed at not
allowing China to control a significant portion of the world's

(49:41):
oil supply and instead to be more dependent upon us
as we are on them for a lot of our manufacturing.
That said, now that that diversion is over, the United
States is poised for I think an amazing renaissance. Now.
I am, of course, the ultimate free trader, and I

(50:03):
was never a big fan of Liberation Day and the
tariffs and that sort of thing. I understood the value,
I understood using them, and I thought it was actually
a brilliant negotiating gambit to be able to leverage access
to the American market in order to get countries to

(50:23):
lower their tariff rates and to remove some of those
non tariff barriers to free trade, some of those protectionist
trade policies that would never allow American products to compete
on an even playing field. I understand all of that,
but I also understand that the single best thing that
the Trump administration has done is largely wrapped up in

(50:47):
that one big, beautiful bill broad based tax cuts, making
existing tax cuts permanent, no tax on tips, no tax
on overtime. That's good, that's great, But business taxes being
lowered and regulatory burdens being cut. Opening not just the
American oil industry, but freeing every industry from the bureaucratic

(51:11):
nightmare that the Biden administration had created, is allowing American
innovation and entrepreneurship to take hold like nothing else before.
We stand at the precipice of a brand new economy,
one powered by AI, one powered by supercomputing, robotics, space exploration, space,

(51:39):
manufacturing space. It's just the commodification of space is something. Yes,
I know. Much has been made about the fact that, oh,
SpaceX shares are doubt yes, they're going to do that.
Stocks have a tendency to go up and down, prices fluctuate.
The thing has been on the market for a grand

(51:59):
total of about a week and a half. Now. The
point is that America is at the forefront of all
of this. We're not in a manufacturing world anymore. We
are in an innovation, tech, artificial intelligence world. The fact
that this is all sort of happening with America as

(52:21):
its epicenter means that we are absolutely standing on what
could be the next great boom that makes the internet
boom of the late nineteen nineties early two thousands and
the cell phone mobile tech boom of the late double

(52:42):
zeros and early twenty tens look like a little ripple.
AI is the potential to change everything. And so long
as America is developing the AI and AI adjacent technologies,
i e. The things that go into AI, the things
that make AI possible. Yes, that does include data centers,

(53:05):
and I know there was much consternation Microsoft finished completion.
It completed its construction of its very first data center. Today.
I think we're going to get into the broader debate
about data centers on tomorrow's show. As now it looks
like nationally they're going to deploy the conservative or at

(53:25):
least quasi conservative comedian THEO Vaughn. Just as Charlie Barns
has been the number one data center opponent here in Wisconsin,
THEO Vaughan, I am hearing, is now being tapped to
go on a nationwide crusade against data center. Boy oh boy,
I understand, but I don't. We'll get into that in

(53:45):
greater depth tomorrow. The one thing that continues to hold
the nation's economy back and again everything is that wages
are going up, take home pay is going up, if
you are invested, you cannot possibly be happier with how

(54:06):
things have gone for the first six months of this year. Unfortunately,
we had a four year stretch in which the price
of everything changed so quickly, so dramatically, that a whole
lot of people who aren't established in life, don't own property,
don't have stocks, don't have a lot of investments that

(54:28):
were being somewhat artificially inflated by the Biden inflation that
took over this nation from twenty twenty one to about
twenty twenty three. They're really struggling, and that is a
very real thing. Ironically, if there is one thing that
might actually propel Democrats to a bigger than expected win

(54:51):
in the midterms, it is going to be their own
party's failures on the issue of inflation, because there are
a whole lot of people, especially young people who maybe
just graduated from college and can't find a job, or
who are looking and have been looking for a job
for the past several years and they are trying, or

(55:14):
worse yet, people who have a job, two jobs, maybe
they're driving uber on the side, and they can't make
ends meet because the cost of everything, rent, utilities, food,
all of it has gone up so dramatically. That is
the one thing, and it is a huge, huge weakness

(55:34):
for Trump and Republicans. Were I a Democrat, first of all,
I would not, under any circumstances nominate socialists, especially like
the Nazi nut job out in Maine, Graham Platner, or
James Tallerico down in Texas, or Francesca Hong here in Wisconsin,
because it makes that economic case a whole lot easier

(55:57):
for Republicans to make. All right, This is, as Tom
Tiffany is putting it, common sense versus crazy, or capitalism
versus socialism. If I were a Democrat, I would not
be focusing on these stupid distractions like whether there's too
much algae in the Lincoln memorial reflecting Pond. I would

(56:20):
be constantly hitting Republicans on the inflation that Democrats actually caused,
the fact that prices are at an unaffordable level and
have been for years because of Democrats. But they're blaming
this on Trump because Trump now owns the nation's economy.

(56:42):
Democrats understand this Again, everything Trump can control tax rates, regulation,
whether or not we have sound economic policy. He is doing.
The Trump administration is doing everything right. What he can't
do is immediately bring down prices. Was it perhaps a

(57:06):
strategic mistake on the campaign trail to promise to bring
down prices? Maybe? But remember Trump was for the most
part elected because Democrats were such massive failures on the
issue of inflation and affordability. Senate Committee met today on
that issue, showing just how seriously the Republican majorities are

(57:31):
taking this. It is a real issue. It is a
very real issue for people who are not nearly as
ideologically grounded or have a clearly defining political philosophy that
will get them to reject socialism and to immediately and

(57:53):
always perpetually go back to the side of the Saine
and the side of free market capitalism. A lot of
the people who voted for Trump in twenty twenty four,
that Trump coalition, those who were essentially transactional voters, they
voted for Trump because they looked past all of the

(58:13):
nonsense of the left and said, Okay, democrats failed so miserably,
we are going to give the ultimate capitalist a chance
to make prices more affordable, make our lives more affordable.
If those people do not believe that their lives are
more affordable on election Day, they are going to take

(58:34):
that out on Trump and the Republicans. We're going to
expand on this because it is such an incredibly important
thing to understand ahead of these midterms. When the Dan
o'donald's show returns in just a second, the next generation
is here. You are listening to the Dan o'donald Show.

(58:59):
I want you to You're a twenty or thirty something
and you got your degree, or maybe you went right
into the workforce, the skilled trades, something like that make
you a good living. But all of a sudden, your
rent nearly doubled, Your utilities are thirty percent higher in

(59:22):
the span of just a couple of years. Grocery prices,
the price of healthcare, daycare, every care, everything has just
gone up. Your wages are pretty solid, you've gotten a
three percent raise every year, or maybe you've gotten a
couple of promotions, but you're still not able to catch up.

(59:45):
You're still not able to keep up. You constantly feel
like life is just not affordable anymore. That is how
a whole lot of young people, That is how a
whole lot of Americans feel. Now we can talk about
how great, you know, the gross domestic product figure is,
or how awesome earnings reports are going to be, and

(01:00:08):
why the stock market keeps hitting new highs and the
price of gas is down, and that's great. The price
of gas is such a big one because it is
the price that most people notice, especially in modern society,
where we don't really count out dollar bills or hopefully

(01:00:28):
none of us are still standing in a cash register
line and writing a check. We all pay with credit cards,
or we pay with our phones, or we have automatic billing,
that's another one. We don't even notice that that money
is gone. It's the same thing with taxes on our paycheck,

(01:00:49):
because we no longer physically get that check, the vast
majority of us, it's just automatically deducted. How many times
you get the ach payment right to your back. How
many times do you notice how much was with held
because of Social Security and the like? Not a whole
lot gas prices You are that that number going up
is right in your face, and you are paying attention

(01:01:12):
to every last tick of the gas pump. Imagine though,
if you are somebody who voted for Trump, and you
are voting. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. My
social media, my x feed just updated. They have to

(01:01:35):
put protective fencing around the stupid Lincoln Memorial reflecting Pond
to keep the liberals out of it, to stop them
from vandalizing it. These people are folks. They are utterly insane.
They are crazy human beings. That that is one of
the biggest stories I think that we're facing that there
is a significant percentage of hardcore partisan liberals who are violent, destructive,

(01:02:01):
and deeply mentally ill. They're attacking the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting
Pond a week and a half before the two hundred
and fiftieth birthday of this country because they don't like
that Trump fixed the Lincoln Memorial reflecting Pond. Sorry to
get a little distracted there. I just can't believe what
I'm seeing right now. They're actually putting up protective fencing

(01:02:24):
around the pond to keep liberals out. Can we like
put up protective fencing around Wisconsin to keep liberals out?
Can we just like put a big fence around Chicago,
Maybe fence him in around Madison rest of the state. Ah,
you're not allowed to go here. Think you're gonna we
think you're gonna cause too much damage. Libs, We're just
gonna kind of fence you in In Madison. A lot

(01:02:47):
of the people who are most affected by the affordability
crisis are not politically like the people who are politically
conservative are going to vote Republican. The people who are liberal,
they're going to vote liberal. But there is a percentage
of people, and it's a smaller percentage who are true
swing voters, but they do still swing and they do

(01:03:10):
still decide elections. Well. In twenty twenty four, they swung
on the issue of affordability, not inflation, because in inflation
year over year, inflation was on its way down. It's
how they perceive that they are doing economically. They voted
against Biden, they voted against Harris. It didn't matter who

(01:03:34):
was going to be the nominee. And I firmly believe
that Democrats knew that. And as soon as the Republican
National Convention was over, especially after that iconic moment of
President Trump's near death experience, or he gets up and
his ears covered in blood and he's a fight, fight, fight,
And how about that? How about the mentally ill lives

(01:03:54):
there too, saying Oh no, that was faked. That was
the man. One came within a millimeter or two of
dying instantly. But no, he faked it. He faked it.
He sent some mentally ill, weird leftist to a field
in Butler, Pennsylvania to get shot by a secret surface

(01:04:16):
sniper and killed so he could fake an assassination attempt
to that. That is the conspiracy theory that the lefties
are going. I'm telling you it is mental illness that
is beyond widespread or just some sort of broken brains
Trump derangement syndrome. It Trump I irreparably broke a whole

(01:04:36):
lot of brains. I am convinced of it. But for
the people who aren't firmly in the anti Trump everything camp,
for the people who actually do vote based on the
idea that politicians are either working or not working for me,
The people who are most affected by affordability, the people

(01:04:59):
for whom a hike in the price of gas and
a hike in the price of rent is going to
take the biggest bite out of their net worth, the
biggest bite out of their monthly take home pay. Those
are the younger people. Those are the ones who are
very likely going to decide this election, and unless they
start to feel like they are doing a lot better,

(01:05:21):
they're going to swing back to Democrats. And not to
mention the fact that Trump is not on the ballot.
And we've already seen a number of elections, especially here
in Wisconsin, which is considered the ultimate swing state, when
Trump's not on the ballot. We just lost a statewide
state Supreme court race by twenty points, by twenty Now,

(01:05:43):
the electorate is going to be a lot different in
November than it was in April. But make no mistake,
a lot of people, I think on our side are
whistling past the graveyard and pointing to these projected house
pickups from you call politics and Crystopaul and all that. Well, Republicans,
there's lean Republican. There's two hundred and sixteen seats. We're

(01:06:06):
just fine, Well, what happens if lean Republican seats really
do all go to Democrats in a blue wave. That's
entirely possible. There's nothing to do with uh, anything other
than a the cyclical nature of politics, the fact that
in this country we will typically vote against the president's

(01:06:28):
party in the first midterm after a new president is
elected and be a lot of people who voted either
for Trump the person and aren't especially otherwise political or
don't particularly like either party. These are the people who
will tell you that Republicans are no different than Democrats.
I will tell you that, well, one party is saying
the other is not. That's a pretty significant difference. But

(01:06:51):
what ebbs. These are the people who will float back
and forth, and if you lose them, you may lose
the election. The economy really is everything, and it continues
to be when we come back here on the Dan
o'donald Show, the radicals strike back against Sarah Rodrigez planting

(01:07:14):
a story in a liberal publication. After a couple weeks
of links leaks against Francesco Hawks two Twitter at Dan
o'donald show or.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
The show.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
It is the Dan o'donald Show, a tour to Forests
of truth, and after weeks of leaks against Francesca Hang,
it appears as though the radicals, the left wing in
the Democratic Party is striking back against the establishment's pick

(01:07:50):
Sarah Rodriguez the Lieutenant governor. After Missy Hughes, former weedc Head,
dropped out yesterday and immediately endorsed Rodriguez, and the two
held a joint press conference together on a Monday afternoon,
expecting to essentially set the news cycle for the week. Folks,

(01:08:11):
this is exactly how it's done. This is exactly how
the Democratic Party operates now. They are clearly I think
Hughes was promised something in the Rodriguez administration. She was
promised a future shot at a run for whatever it
is she wants. You're going to get the same deal

(01:08:31):
offered to David Crowley and Kelderoys and Joel Brennan, so
that it's Sarah Rodriguez against the two socialists. They want
both socialists Mandela Barnes and Franni hang in that race,
so they cancel each other out and Rodriguez wins a plurality. Well,
it seems as though a story was now planted against

(01:08:51):
Sarah Rodriguez. There are starting to be oppo drops, opposition
research drops going in the other direction as well. Over
the past couple of weeks, all of those oppo drops
were targeting Franny Hong her insane stances on crime. She
in the Journal Sentinel. Was a tracker somebody who was

(01:09:12):
working with, most likely a Democrat candidate, followed her to
an event in somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin and
got her on audios saying that in her perfect world,
prisons would not exist. They leaked that to the Journal Sentinel.
Week earlier, there was a story at CNN dot com

(01:09:34):
Andrew Kazinski over at the k File just randomly, just
randomly going in on a Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin
for her abolish the police rhetoric. Seemed kind of something
that CNN normally would do, unless, of course, this was planted.

(01:09:55):
It is a planted story designed to attack Francesca Hong
and to to make the powers that be in the
Democrat Party thinks she's unelectable. Well, now it seems that Hoong,
or someone who wants either her or Barnes to be
the nominee is firing back at Rodriguez. The story here
in the Milwaukee Courier by Drake Bentley, who left a

(01:10:20):
position at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to go to this.
It's a historically black newspaper. I believe it was just
purchased by Civic Media. It is a very liberal publication.
This is the sort of publication that a Francesco Hong
or Mandela Barnes aligned operator would leak to Democratic candidate

(01:10:40):
for governor, Sarah Rodriguez, has previously accepted political donations from
we energies while crossing party lines to support giving the
utility company a tax loophole. Rodriguez, the current Lieutenant governor,
took three donations from the corporate pack of Weck Energy,
the parent company of we Energy Jes, totaling thirteen thy

(01:11:01):
eight hundred dollars between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three.
In twenty twenty one, she was one of just four
Democrats who voted with every single Republican on AB one
ninety one, a bill to repeal the personal property tax.
Governor Tony Evers vetoed it, warning it could exempt utility
personal property from advalorum taxes and cost Wisconsin tens of

(01:11:24):
millions in General Fund tax revenue, if not more. In
his veto statement, Evers specifically flagged the potential for the
state to lose millions in taxes owed by utility companies.
Now is Drake Bentley of all reporters in the state.
Is Drake Bentley biding his time spending just hours and

(01:11:44):
hours and hours while Yannis Antetakupo is in the process
of being traded, meaning there's a much bigger story to follow.
Who we think he is just going through the donations
to Sarah Rodriguez from twenty twenty three and he just
happened to notice, Hey, look at this, Look at this.

(01:12:06):
There is a pattern here. She gets money from we
energies and she is voting on AB one ninety one.
That is a classic opposition research drop, classic oppo drop. Now,
would this be one that would be from the Tom

(01:12:29):
Tiffany campaign, from the Republican Party of Wisconsin. No, first
of all, is anybody from Republicans anywhere? Is anybody associated
with the GOP leaking to the Milwaukee Courier and Drake
Bentley in particular, who developed something of a reputation for

(01:12:51):
maybe not being the fairest reporter in the entire world
while he was with the Journal Sentinel. Of course, this
is a classic leaked story. It is opposition research pretty
obviously coming from either Mandela Barnes or Francesco Honk. My

(01:13:12):
guess is Francesca Hounk coming from people who do not
want Sarah Rodriguez to be the Democratic nominee. They want
one of the two radical Now is it possible since
this is the Milwaukee Courier. Is it possible that this
is being leaked by David Crowley in a desperate attempt

(01:13:32):
to make up some ground on Rodriguez and to position
himself as the alternative to either Hong or Mandela.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
Absolutely. In fact, I believe there are some close ties
between Crowley, his office and the Milwaukee Career. I would
not put that pass. But this story was put in
the news cycle today the day after that big candidate
forum that they all had last night, specifically to hurt

(01:14:03):
Sarah Rodriguez and to benefit some other Democrat folks. The
point in all this is that I believe there are
now exactly fifty days between now and August eleventh. Things
are heating up, and I think things are going to
move very very quickly following the fourth of July holiday,

(01:14:23):
not this weekend, but next weekend, and you're going to
see I think Joel Brennan drop out probably within the
next couple of days. Kel de Roys thinks she's in
it to win it, same thing with David Crowley, although
Crowley's heart doesn't really seem to be in this campaign.
So if the Democrats make him a good offer, like hey, David,

(01:14:46):
how would you like to be a congressman. Gwen Moore
is not going to be serving forever. Hey, David, how
would you like to be? You know? I don't know, Senator.
I think has been promised to Sarah god Luski for
dropping out in the twenty twenty TI race. I don't know,
but there is going to be tremendous pressure on all
of these candidates not named Sarah Rodriguez to get out

(01:15:09):
of the race because Democrats understand. I think that the
best chance they have to blow this race like Mandela
blew the Senate race four years ago, is to nominate
Mandela again or nominate Francesca, who is potentially a way,
way way worse candidate. Here's the problem they face that
what happens if they face backlash from their own voters

(01:15:34):
for this Planet, As always, no spoilers for World Cup
action in progress right now. I do find it hilarious though,
that they're making England play in Boston a couple of

(01:15:54):
days before America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Yeah, that's right,
you play for your king. You'll be lucky if you
don't face our muskets by that time you get out.
Harry Kane no, most Americans, because Jude Bellingham is one
of the best players in the world. Most Americans, or

(01:16:16):
at least a lot of Americans. See, here's the thing
about soccer. It's every American soccer fan has like a
second team that they root for. For me, it's Italy
and Ireland, half Irish, half Italian. The Italians haven't made
the last three World Cups and the Irish haven't made

(01:16:36):
a World Cup since the last time it was in
the US in nineteen ninety four. So I've sort of
adopted England as my second team simply because they haven't
won the thing since nineteen sixty six. If the US
can't win, I guess it's been long enough. It's been
two hundred and fifty years. I think my grudge over

(01:16:58):
the whole taxation without representation thing has passed. Uh So,
cheerio England. When we come back after the top of
the hour here on the dano' donald Show, we will
open up our special programming America to fifty with a
special essay A star Spangled Nation. You won't want to
miss this next We are now less than two weeks

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away from the biggest party in two hundred and fifty years.
America two fifty the celebration of a quarter of a
millennium since the Great American Experiment began, the Declaration of
Independence was signed. Freedom was not yet one, but the

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wheels were set in motion that shaped the destiny not
just of our people, but of all people. Welcome back
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and have always been, how special a place America is,
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Birthday to America. I don't know about you, but twenty
five hundred dollars could go a long way at the
fireworks store. What's the big one on National Avenue? In
is that New Berlin Big Bend somewhere in there? American fireworks,
They've all always got great deals. There's the big one

(01:20:02):
down ninety four. I forget Phantom. Is that Phantom fireworks
down there? So I'm something of a fireworks officionado. So
we don't like to be called pyros. That's like a
slur in the how the explosaholic community like, we just

(01:20:23):
enjoy blowing stuff up. I was not able to light
off a big fireworks display last year on the fourth
of July because it was raining, and so this year
I have got like double up. It's kind of embarrassing.
So I have spent so much at a fireworks store

(01:20:45):
that every couple of years my fireworks display is free
because I have accumulated enough sigh, pyro points to get
free fireworks. Yes, they are called pyro points. Again, we
prefer we prefer explosive afficionados. That is the proper to piro,

(01:21:10):
sort of like calling a little person a midget, right
like you think it's okay, but it really is. It's
offensive to us in the heavy explosives community. Yeah, I
am still not allowed to light off my own fireworks display.
My wife and daughter got freaked out one year because

(01:21:30):
I was way too close to them while lighting them off,
and I said, guys, guys, I don't need a face.
I work in radio four one, four seven nine, No, No,
I've okay, just so I'm abundantly always be safe when
lighting off fireworks. It's my wife and then nine year

(01:21:52):
old daughter, so maybe they were overreacting. Just to lit
I always try to be as safe as I can.
We actually now have a buddy of mine is a
firefighter and he actually lights off fireworks wearing his full
fire suit, mask all of it. So we're about as
safe as safe gets. So please always be safe. It

(01:22:12):
is about the easiest thing in the world to light
off fireworks incorrectly and to do so in an unsafe manner.
Please always be Who is the New York Giants player
Jason Pierre Paul right blew off like half of his
hand handling fireworks one year, so please do always be

(01:22:32):
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(01:23:19):
America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. It's our way of
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you know what better way to kick off are our

(01:23:44):
America two fifty special programming, then with a story about
the national anthem, Ladies and gentlemen. This is our audio
essay a star Spangled Nation. The part of eighteen fourteen

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had been a devastating one for the fledgling nation of America.
The end of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe meant the
mighty British Empire could turn its full attention to the
War of eighteen twelve and potentially recapturing its former colonies.
A series of attacks culminated with the siege of Washington,

(01:24:32):
d C. On August twenty fourth. The American government was
forced to flee the city and the White House, the capital,
the Treasury, and the Washington Navy Yard all burned. Hope
for the young nation it seemed may have burned with
them across the Potomac River. The British rated Alexandria Virginia.

(01:24:54):
By early September, they were poised to take the entire
Eastern seaboard with it any chance of America surviving as
a fully independent nation. In Baltimore, a thirty five year
old lawyer named Francis Scott Keyy set sail in the
Chesapeake Bay to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners being

(01:25:17):
held on the HMS Taunent, including a civilian doctor William Beans.
Key and his fellow attorney, John Stuart Skinner talked for
days with the Tawnants three commanding officers and secured doctor Beans' release,
but in doing so they learned way too much of

(01:25:39):
the British Navy's plans. A fleet was already on its
way to the Chesapeake Bay, and on the night of
September thirteenth, it would lead the invasion of Baltimore by
destroying Fort McHenry that the British figured would surely cripple
America's resistance and force its surrender by the end of

(01:26:00):
the year. After the Battle of Baltimore, America, the nation
and America, the idea would be ended forever. Of course,
once Key and the other two Americans learned of these plans,
they couldn't be allowed to sail back and warn the
thousand troops stationed at Fort McHenry, so they were to

(01:26:20):
be held captive until Baltimore fell. When the thirteenth arrived, Key, Skinner,
and Beans were allowed to return to their ship, but
with a heavy contingent of British troops, who kept that
ship anchored eight miles away from Fort McHenry. Key paced
the deck anxiously as storm clouds gathered overhead. He glanced

(01:26:45):
at Fort McHenry and saw a giant American flag being
raised in defiance of the advancing British forces. A thick
haze began to envelop the bay as the rains started
to fall, but through it he could see dozens of
British troops and ships, all moving into position. Suddenly, the

(01:27:07):
sky erupted in cannon fire. Key would write later it
seemed as though Mother Earth had opened and was vomiting
shot and shell in a sheet of fire and brimstone.
But each time that fire would rain down on Fort
McHenry or the rampart, he watched, He could see the

(01:27:27):
flag flying, and he knew that for the time being,
at least the fort and America along with it, had
not fallen. Proudly, he hailed from the twilight's last gleaming
through the perilous fight that lit up the stormy night sky,
the flag that meant America's last hope for survival was

(01:27:48):
still alive. Key held on to that hope with each
rocket's red glare and each bomb bursting in air that
allowed him to dream that maybe the thousand brave men
at Fort McHenry could turn back the strongest navy on Earth,
and maybe, just maybe the dream that was America would
live for another night. But the harbor air grew too

(01:28:11):
thick with fog and smoke for Key to see anything
except the flashes of light against the clouds that filled
his heart with dread. But then by the dawn's early light,
the smoke began to clear, and the morning sun broke
through the clouds, and Key could see the American flag,

(01:28:35):
dirty and tattered, but still flying above Fort McHenry. Miraculously,
the strongest navy in the world had been turned back.
Only four of the thousand American troops inside the Fort
had been killed, the city of Baltimore, and the young
Nation had survived. As the officers on board the HMS

(01:28:57):
Taunt had predicted, the battle was a turning point, and
the war ended just a few months later, only with
the British surrendering to the Americans at Fort McHenry. When
the smoke cleared in the early morning hours of September fourteenth, though,
all Francis Scott Key knew was the sheer joy he

(01:29:20):
was feeling, and he tried his best to capture it
by jotting down a poem he called the Defense of
Fort McHenry, which was published in two newspapers in Baltimore
six days later. The poem, which Key's brother in law
noticed fit the melody of a popular song composed by

(01:29:40):
John Stafford Smith, was reprinted in newspapers across the nation.
It became popular as a song and became known as
the Star Spangled Banner. In nineteen thirty one, it was
officially designated as America's national anthem, the perfect anthem for

(01:30:01):
a nation that has stood, like the flag above Fort McHenry,
as a shining light for freedom, even when the forces
of oppression lined up against it seemed their darkest. Francis
Scott Key saw all of that when the smoke cleared
on that freedom's new dawn more than two hundred years ago,

(01:30:24):
and it became the final stanza of his poem, a
stanza that is no longer sung and is all but
forgotten today, but whose theme is utterly timeless. Oh thus
be it ever, when free men shall stand between their

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loved home and the war's desolation, blessed with victory and peace,
May the heaven rescued land praise the power that hath
made and preserved us nation. Then conquer we must when
our cause it is just, And this be our motto.

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In God is our trust, and the star spangled banner
in triumph shall wave, or the Land of the Free
and the home of the breath a star spangled nation.

(01:31:35):
My reflection on the composition of the Defense of Fort
McHenry through the eyes of Francis Scott Key is a
talk I've been doing in various forms since about twenty
fourteen twenty fifteen. Yes, for those asking, it is going
to be available. In fact, I was just putting up

(01:31:57):
the written version on Heartland Post, and yes we will
make the entire video available. We are going to be
posting that. Look for it on my social media, at
Dan O'Donnell's show on x and really across social media.
It's really an amazing story about how one man really

(01:32:19):
saw all of this, he saw the potential for now.
Would the British have made America their subjects again, No,
but they would have been taken in as part of
the British Empire again. They would have been subservient to
the Crown. They would no longer be American colonies. They
would be very likely just a part of what we

(01:32:43):
now know as the Commonwealth. So a truly independent America
very much was at stake just a couple of years
after this nation was first founded. The greatest story I
think of the defense of Fort McHenry, though, is in
the nameless, faceless merchant sailors who actually sailed their boats

(01:33:10):
out to the marth the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay,
that they sailed out to the opening of the harbor,
and they intentionally sunk their own ships the only way
that they had to make a living, so that the
bulk of the British ships wouldn't be able to enter
and they'd get a free clear shot with their cannons

(01:33:31):
at Fort McHenry, and there wouldn't be an easy way
for a landing party to be able to take the fort. Remember,
it was defended by only a thousand soldiers and the
British Navy was bearing down on them. If those merchant
sailors didn't sacrifice everything for this country, it's entirely possible

(01:33:51):
everything would have fallen. Remember, people forget Washington d C.
Had just burned famous story about Dolly Madison, the First Lady,
saving everything she could from the White House as the
British put it to the torch. There's actually also another
great story coming out of that. It was the fact

(01:34:14):
that there was just a storm that appeared out of
nowhere and put out the flames of the burning Washington
d C. And the British were dumbfounded. They thought Providence
itself was against them. I don't know about that, but
maybe there's something to that. But what these stories serve

(01:34:35):
to do is to remind us that throughout our history,
the traditions that we hold deer. Why we have the
Star Spangled banner as our national anthem, and every few
years there are people who want to replace the star
Spangled banner as our anthem. That America the Beautiful is

(01:34:55):
a much better song. And why are we singing about
a f lag Why aren't we singing what do you
want to sing? God Save the King like the British do. No,
it's actually the perfect national anthem for the United States
of America because it tells the story of people who

(01:35:18):
aren't the powerful heads of state. They aren't the generals,
they aren't winning wars, they aren't you know. It's a
thirty five year old lawyer who was a pretty good writer,
and he wrote about what he saw as the sky
was clearing, and how it felt to see the American

(01:35:41):
flag still standing and the instant knowledge that that was
what was going to keep flying above this country now
for another two hundred plus years. So pretty much all
throughout the next couple of weeks you are going to
hear stories like that. You are going to hear stories

(01:36:01):
about America's greatness, about America's fundamental goodness. Here on the
Dan O'Donnell Show, it is our special America two fifty programming.
You know what boggles my mind about a whole lot
of people in this country a couple of years ago,
and I believe this was back in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen.

(01:36:24):
When I wrote this, I think I wrote it in
honor of the fact that the National Anthem had just
ted would have been twenty fourteen, that the National Anthem
had just turned two hundred, that The Defense of Fort
McHenry was written in September of eighteen fourteen. But there
is a third verse, a third stanza of that poem

(01:36:46):
where they refer to hireling and slave. There is a
line about hiring at hirling En slave that the Patriots
are fighting against to side with the British. Would you
believe that over the last twelve thirteen years there have

(01:37:06):
been people on the woke left who have said, well,
we've got to replace the national anthem because of course
there's a reference to slavery. And then, of course there
was the controversy in twenty sixteen started by Colin Kaepernick
in a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers. You
remember that the kneeling for the national anthem trend a
decade ago actually started in Wisconsin. Everything I think it

(01:37:31):
comes back to Wisconsin. Nobody wanted to stand for the
national anthem because of what the flag represents, not all
the greatness, not all the goodness, but the fundamental wickedness
of America, because again it all comes back to the fundamental,

(01:37:51):
original and unforgivable sin on the left of colonialism and slavery.
Never mind that every people since the dawn of civilization,
since before civilization, when we were tribes of hunter gatherers,
we were fighting one another for control of the best

(01:38:13):
hunting grounds. Colonialism, conquest, this is all a part of
human nature. Unfortunately, slavery too. Pretty much every civilization has
kept slaves, has had slavery. The idea is that we

(01:38:34):
somehow don't salute our flag, that we don't stand for
the national anthem, that we don't love our country or
are proud of our country because of that. When we're
the only country, the only people ever to go to
war with ourselves to stop that evil from spreading, to
rid it, to excize it from our country, it's kind

(01:38:55):
of ludicrous. If you asked me so, Yes, we are
going to have printed version if you'd like to read it,
A Star Spangled Nation up at the Heartland Post. Very
very shortly. We'll have the video as well up on
social media. It's part of our America two p. Fifty
special programming. We will be right back here on the

(01:39:16):
Dan o'donald show. So ESPN was accused, especially its reporter
Sham's Sharaniyah, was accused of trying to talk Yannis out

(01:39:38):
of Milwaukee to try to get him to a bigger
market so that the NBA, which of course broadcast partner
major broadcast partner with ESPN, would be able to have
one of its brightest stars playing where more people would
be buying Yannis Jerseys tuning into Yannis game in the

(01:40:00):
middle of the regular season. It makes more business sense.
So the idea was that all of the big ESPN
personalities and the NBA itself wanted Yannis to a city
like Miami or New York or Boston or Los Angeles.
Wear him, wear it, of course, and less. I don't

(01:40:24):
know if you were out all night and just woke
up and didn't hear somehow, Jannis has been traded to
the Miami Heat for a hall of players, none of
whom I think, with the possible exception of where who
is a kill el Ware is a center who's very,
very skilled. He's a young guy under an affordable contract

(01:40:46):
for quite some time. He is a player that potentially,
if he develops, you could build around. Tyler Hero almost
certainly is going to be dealt I would guess probably tonight.
If the Bucks aren't still in active negotiations with Detroit,
I imagine they will be. Bucks are in a full rebuild,
but Yannis is finally in Miami and people are sort

(01:41:09):
of questioning, well, if Yannis wanted to go and play
for titles, why did he accept a trade to Miami.
It seems like a lateral move. He's going to be
paired with bam Adebayo. But the cupboard is somewhat bare
here because the Heat had to trade all of their
supporting players, including arguably their second best scorer, in order

(01:41:33):
to get Yannis. Well, could it be honest just wanted
to play in Miami? And is ESPN now happy that
they don't have to go to Milwaukee to cover games
in the middle of February. Well, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith
today pretty much confirmed that, yes, they are all happy

(01:41:56):
they don't have to go to Milwaukee. Nloaded a rant
on his radio show, which I have to admit I
chuckled at. Being from Milwaukee and a lifelong Wisconsin resident.
He said he felt bad for the guys like Tyler Hero,
who apparently he did not know is from the Milwaukee

(01:42:16):
area and where and Jacks and all of the players
who have to go from Miami to Milwaukee.

Speaker 6 (01:42:24):
And your heart goes out to guys like Tyler Hero
who can ball and others because Khalel wires seven foot
two duo with a three point shot. I'm here to
tell y'all right now, they can act like they don't
know all they want to it's hard going from Miami
to Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
I'm just gonna keep it a buck with you.

Speaker 6 (01:42:39):
That is not easy. That is not an easy transition
to make socially. That is not an easy transition to
make when you're thinking about your quality of life from
Miami to Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (01:42:50):
Oh my god, I think of.

Speaker 6 (01:42:52):
It with me.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
I cry.

Speaker 6 (01:42:53):
I contemplate retirement, to be quite honest with you, just
for the locale issues.

Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
I'm sorry, that would be me. It'd be hard, very hard.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
Not no.

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
I mean, you know, you get to Florida, you get
to South Florida, ladies and gentlemen, it's pushing it. It's
pushing it to get lower than fifty five sixty degrees
in a winter, in a winter, that's hard to pull off.
Needless to say, Milwaukee is a freezer in a winter town,

(01:43:25):
A damn freezer. I mean, that's a hard want to
take you, that's a hard one and stomach right there,
make no mistake, But they gotta do it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:34):
Now, all those of you Milwaukee ins in Wisconsin, I'd say,
how dare he say he would rather retire than go
to Milwaukee? How many of you did retire and immediately
spent your winter months down in Naples? Looking at you, Mom,

(01:43:56):
I kid, I can't see. We can laugh. We have
a good sense of humor, he's saying. Of course, now
there are Miami for a young NBA superstar. Of course
the club scene in my I spent a New Year's
Eve on South Beach, actually bought a beer for the

(01:44:17):
guy sitting next to me, who happened to be NFL
Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor. We saw Jamie Fox walking
down the street. This was year twenty plus years ago.
We saw Jamie Fox walking down the street with two
women on each arm. I am not even kidding you.
Two women. He looked like frankly, he kind of looked

(01:44:42):
like a pimp. But we're like, who's that fellow with
all of the young hot women oh, that's Jamie Fox.
It's it's wild man. We watched fireworks on the beach
at midnight on New Year's Eve. I mean it is Milwaukee.
We don't even do fireworks on the fourth of July.
So yeah, okay, the party scene is a lot better. Also,

(01:45:07):
the NBA season goes from October to about May, well April,
because the Bucks are not sniffing the playoffs for the
next couple of years. Would you want to be all
of you who spend the day after Christmas or maybe
right after New Year's Day as soon as the grandkids
go back to school for a second semester or after

(01:45:30):
Christmas break, you are beating it down for Scottsdale, Arizona,
or Myrtle Beach or Naples or where's the other place
Wisconsin Knights retire to. That's pretty much it. I think
it's Scottsdale, Arizona, and it's Naples, Florida. That the oh, okay,
and the village, well, everybody retires to the villages. Your

(01:45:53):
parents are in the villages. Producer Doug says his parents
are in the village. I think the villages seems like
the most awesome place to be, Like when I I'm
going to see if I can get an age exemption
to move to the village. You are going to have
the Dan O'Donnell's show, Southern Command Studio at the villages,
where I do nothing but play golf, dominate the old

(01:46:15):
farts at pickleball, and then have like you know, fourteen
brandy old fashions every afternoon. Because I am told it
is a do your parents party with the other old
stars down there. I am told it's like frat Row.
It's like a wild college scene, only everybody is over seventy.

(01:46:36):
Every night is Friday Night, says Doug. I do like
stephen A. Smith first of all, Doug, Doug, it just
hates Stephen. I like stephen A. I God help me.
He's an entertainer. He's funny. He makes me laugh. Do
I am I looking for, you know, insanely observed sports

(01:47:01):
takes or otherwise from Steven No, I am not. The
man is a funny broadcast. He is a talented broadcaster, Doug.
Throughout that sound pizone. This guy lives in New York.
What's he complaining about the cold, This jerk Relax. If
you think New York is anywhere near as cold as Wisconsin.

(01:47:22):
You've been in Wisconsin pretty much your whole life. Have
you ever lived in New York? Now, I can't imagine
that New York. The entire city shuts down when they
get like eight inches of snow. Okay it it's like
a blizzard warning throughout Manhattan. We call eight inches of

(01:47:44):
snow Tuesday. Winters just hit different here, So suffice it
to say there is there is a little bit of
an adjustment. It's different than like a player being traded
to the Milwaukee Brewers or even the Packers, right because
football season is over in January unless you go far

(01:48:07):
in the playoffs. It's Super Bowls in February. But you
don't have to spend just the dregs of winter in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. Now, we love it, you know, but
let's imagine some hot shot football player who's from southern California.
It's a bit of an adjustment there. NBA Draft in

(01:48:28):
about an hour and fifteen minutes. We are obviously expecting
that the Bucks are going to be very active. I
expect them to just stockpile draft picks. I think they
are going to trade every possible asset they may be
trying to move up in this year's draft. My gut
says that they're planning on just being very bad for

(01:48:51):
the next two or three years and then trying to
come back just like san Antonio did. Obviously, san Antonio
got real lucky in getting Webben Yama with the number
one overall pick. But chances are the next savior of
the Milwaukee Bucks, that the next superstar, the next Yannis,

(01:49:11):
is probably still in high school, if not middle school. Folks,
I'm telling you those cold winters, those those long, cold,
dark winters, are probably gonna be a little longer, colder,
and darker. If you're a Bucks fan. Now, well, watch

(01:49:36):
my alma mater, Marquette. They're gonna have a better basketball
team this year. You're listening to the Dan o'donalds Show.
We will wrap things up in just a second. Doug,
my producer, tells me the villages has its own radio station,

(01:49:58):
so we could just we could sign on a brand
new affiliate of The Dan O'Donnell Show while I go
down for early retirement to the village of Stephen A. Smith.
It's too cold in Milwaukee in the winter time, yeah
it is. And frankly, I think as soon as my

(01:50:19):
last kid gets out of college. Well, you know I
say that, You know I'm gonna I'm gonna be a
snowbird and go down because it's so easy to do
a radio show from anywhere now, and God willing, I'm
still doing a radio show years from now. Uh that
I say that now. But I'm gonna I'm gonna want

(01:50:40):
to be around the grand kids as much as possible,
although I can already see folks. It's not so much
the winter. It's early spring. I for whatever, I cannot
stand early spring in Wisconsin. I don't mind winter, I
really don't. I think it's beautiful with the snow on
the ground, and you know, I kind of like the cold.

(01:51:02):
It's when everything is just muddy and dirty and gross,
and it's like you have that one day in March
where it's like seventy five degrees before the fourth of July,
and then it doesn't get above sixty until June fifteenth,
and you still have, like, look at what we've been

(01:51:24):
going through the last couple of days, you have the
random cold snap in June. Again, back to my theory
that meteorological and astronomical spring, I think, well, astronomical spring
is and fall in that is set. The summer solstice
is always going to be when the summer solstice is.

(01:51:44):
But I'm saying meteorological spring what we think of as
the spring months the summer months. I'm telling you the
things have just sort of shifted so that our summer
months are now July, August, September here in Whiskey. Those
are that is like peak. You're going to get the
best warm weather. You're not going to get that fall

(01:52:07):
chill in the air really until about mid to late September.
Our fall months, therefore, are October, November, and December. Winter
is January, February, March, and then spring is April, May June.
And yes, we do routinely get snowstorms in April and

(01:52:28):
sometimes May. I just I think, as much as I
love summers here in Wisconsin, though summers, I mean the
guys who are traded here and I love Steven A. Smith.
Not knowing that Tyler Hero spent the first eighteen years
of his life in Milwaukee, Oh, I feel bad for
Tyler Hero having to go from Miami to Milwaukee, now

(01:52:53):
I do. I do think it's it's kind of funny
when Tyler Hero was first drafted, all of us who
went to Whitnell High School. We're very happy, very proud,
Like my goodness, there a guy from our high school
is going to the NBA. And Hero said, you know,
I'm just so happy because where I'm from, not a

(01:53:16):
lot of people make it out. He's from Greenfield Hills Corners. Now,
my brother and I were watching the NBA Draft while
we were on vacation. I think we were in the
Wisconsin Dells.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:53:31):
My brother takes a sip of his beer without missing
a beat. He said, yeah, Tyler, because the Witnell area
is a place where people make it out too. It's like, yeah,
you were really running these mean streets living next to
a dentist. I know what. I knew what he was
trying to say. Though he was like the first person

(01:53:52):
from his high school to be a professional athlete and
all of that. At least I don't think he was
talking about the mean eats of Hale's Corners. Yeah, it's
it's really rough rolling down Lover's Lane. Man, that that
what is it? The Bosh Tavern. That's a real rough

(01:54:13):
crowd there. You might see you might see Gene Miller
of Reightman and Miller. You got you got some tough
homies down down the Bosh. I left. And now so
now my wife last night I tell her, you know,
I was I was up late because I was waiting
for the Yannis trade to come down, and I'm on

(01:54:34):
my iPad and she actually she had she had book clubs,
so she got home late. And I said, you know, hun,
Yannis he got traded. She's like, oh, man, yeah to Miami,
Tyler Hero. And my wife is a witnel alum too,
and she's she's well aware of the joke. And I said, yeah,

(01:54:54):
Tyler Hero is getting traded back to the Bucks. And
she goes, man, he never made it out after all.
So people in my group chats, I'm in like fifteen
different witnel alum We're all still friends group chats. People

(01:55:15):
are sending me memes like from The Godfather Part three.
Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me
back in Tyler Hero getting sucked back into the gang
life of Hale's Corners, Wisconsin. I would not expect him
to be a Buck for much longer. And you know what,
you know what I'm just gonna say when I finally

(01:55:38):
get down to the villages, Like when I finally saved
enough money. I'm gonna say, you know what, I'm proud
because not a lot of people from where I'm from
make it out. Have a great night, Wisconsin back tomorrow

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