How the World's Wealthiest Man Makes the Whole World Wealthier

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Terms of the Iran deal have been confirmed by both
the United States and Iranian negotiators, and it does appear

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that that deal is going to be signed sometime very
very soon. We did see a carrier group moving from
the Middle East to Europe in advance of Vice President
jd Vance, very likely going this weekend to formally sign
that agreement. Both sides say a deal is closer than ever.
Stop me if you've heard this one. We spent all
of Memorial Day weekend believing that a deal was imminent,

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when in fact it was not. This time, though it
is different. There is an agreement in place on nuclear material.
We will dive into that with the Daily Trump date
in the four o'clock hour and break down exactly what
those deal points are, exactly what this means for the
United States, exactly what this means for oil prices, all

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of that. Also, the World Cup United States men's national
team opens up. It's played tonight eight o'clock PM. The
official American opening ceremony. Right before that, right now, Canada
one of the other two hosts along with the US.
It's Canada and Mexico. As I said yesterday, everybody knows

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this is America's World Cup, but it was sort of
like mom and Dad made us bring our two kid brothers,
Canada and Mexico along. So Mexico opened up yesterday with
a two nierl win over South Africa. Canada is playing
Bosnia Herzegovina right now, and as always, no spoilers. Learned
my lesson during the Winter Olympics this past winter when

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I figured I just assumed everybody was as plugged in
as I was, and got about five thousand news alerts
every single they and couldn't possibly be left in the
dark as to what Jordan Stoltz was doing in speed skating.
I am giving no scores, I am giving no updates.
I'm not even going to tell you what minute these
two teams are in. So if somebody is taping it,

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if there is a die hard Canada soccer fan in
this audience who's stuck at work and wants to watch
the entire match afterwards, you are not going to have
it spoiled on my account. All right, you whiny Canucks.
You can watch your Canada national team without hearing anything
about it. United States opens up against Paraguay just a

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couple of minutes ago. President Trump called the men's national
team as they prepare to head out towards the stadium
they're playing at Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles, and offered
them words of encouragement. So that's going on. And also
the single biggest IPO or initial public offering ever, SpaceX

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went public today as shares were made publicly available in
initial public offering is simply that it is the first
time that shares of a company are offered to the
general public. That also means with evaluation of are you
ready for this? Between one point seven trillion and one
point eight four trillion dollars and Elon Musk's amount of

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shares in said company, which now have an additional seventy
nine billion dollars in value, which was the estimate that
was raised with this IPO, Musk has officially become on
paper at least the world's first trillionaire. Now it is
believed that other figures throughout world history had the equivalent

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of a trillion dollars. I have heard the Muslim conqueror
Mansa Musa was supposedly the richest man in history. He
had the equivalent of two trillion dollars. Supposedly, the biblical
King Solomon had a net worth that would be estimated
today in the trillions. But the first trillion dollar man

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is Elon Musk. And before the opening bell on the Nasdaq,
where the SpaceX shares are being traded, Musk addressed the
world as well as his SpaceX employees, saying, this was
once when he founded it, back in two thousand and two,
the little company that could.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
I told people this, I luck, We're probably gonna fail,
but you know, I should give it a try.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Because if we that would be the wrong cut. Here's
what he was.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
It is certainly.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Hard to believe that a little company that started in
a warehouse in El Segundo is now now it's not
going public for the with the largest IPO that ever.

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And let me tell you, if people had told me
this was the going to happen, I was like, man,
you must be smoking some really good crack.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Because only Elon ladies and gentlemen, only Elon. Massive demand
for SpaceX stock today actually caused the index to pause
all trading on it. And in fact, if you were
attempting to use say a Fidelity account or Schwab account

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or something like that, you were using an online trading account.
Chances are you were not able to see market fluctuations
in real time because of the sheer volume of trading
just on SpaceX. SpaceX, for probably the last decade, was
one of the world's most valuable, if not the single

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most valuable privately held companies, and its net worth. Its
value is not derived merely from what it does, and
what it does is quite frankly remarkable, but what it
is believed to be able to do the value it
is believed to be able to offer not just investors,

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not just the wealthy, but all of humanity. Everybody thinks
of SpaceX as a rocket company, it also has tens
of thousands of satellites and the Starlink Internet service is
a truly revolutionary, world changing technology. In the early days,

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for example, of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in twenty twenty two,
Russia tried to shut off Ukraine's access to the Internet.
Musk scrambled his Starlink satellites and provided Internet access to
the entire country. We talk here in Wisconsin all the
time about the problem of broad band rural broadband internet,

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that we just don't have good connections for people in
some of the farthest flung places in the state, a
whole lot of cell phone towers out there. Starlink can
solve this problem right now. In fact, it is unfathomable
to me that governments across the country are not contracting
with Starlink to provide a high speed internet, satellite Internet

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to all areas of the state. Musk has a dream
of colonizing Mars. You might have heard this. He has
a dream of taking everybody to space.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
He has a dream of.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Making humanity a multiplanetary species, a species that if it
doesn't have in one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years
settlements or colonies on Mars, that it is at least
able to traverse the cosmos. He firmly believes that SpaceX

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is going to be the company that gets humanity there.
But in a more real sense, in a more tangible sense,
in a more immediate sense, here what SpaceX is doing,
as well as Tesla, as well as Musk's various other companies,
and in a broader sense, all of the billionaires and

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now trillionaires that are providing services to humanity. They're advancing
this species. They're taking it light years ahead and providing
unfathomable wealth for all of us, whether or not we
actually understand it. Musk, though, is single mindedly focused and

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has been for a long time on space.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I told people this luck, We're probably going to fail,
but you know, we should give it a try, because
if we don't, if there's not a new company that
enters space, we will never be a truly space bearing civilization.
You know, while the other aerospace companies they built good
rockets and everything, they were simply not pursuing the technology

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that's necessary to make life multiplanetary, to make to make
Star trek, to make the exciting science fiction futures that
we've read about real. And that's what SpaceX is on,
is to take the fiction out of science fiction and

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create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's not just about taking them to Mars. Everyone is focused,
especially on the political left, on must becoming a trillionaire.
In fact, on X, the two leading gubernatorial candidates here
in Wisconsin, Francesco Hang and Mandela Barnes, both lamented the

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fact that Elon has now surpassed a trillion dollar net worth. Barnes,
there's no reason a trillionaire like Elon Musk should exist
while school districts across Wisconsin are voting to raise their
own tax is just to keep the lights on. We
need to tax the rich. Now Wisconsin can lead the way.
Francesca Hong, the leading candidate for governor on the Democrat side,

(11:10):
the far more shall we say, compact, the far more
to the point statement on X, the far more f
word Franny Hong statement, tax the bleeping trillionaires in all caps,
ladies and gentlemen, this is your Wisconsin Democrat Party. By

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the way, they are gathering in Madison, where else for
their annual state convention. We will have a complete preview
and a couple of shakeups in that gubernatorial race to
bring to you today. But this is the sort of
attitude that leftist tap and this is a perfect opportunity
to explain how narrow minded, how myopic, and frankly, how

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ignorant this view.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Who is this idea is?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
It is very easy, it is very convenient, and it
is very politically expedient to have a trillionaire political enemy
like Elon Musk, especially one who last year was so
politically visible siding with President Trump opening up doze in
the federal government. And remember, Democrats actually won a state

(12:23):
Supreme court race in twenty twenty five by not running
against conservative Brand Shimmel but running against Elon Musk. All
of their advertising was focusing on the fact that Elon
Musk was getting involved in this race to help Brand Shimmel.
So he's a convenient political boogeyman now that he's got
a trillion dollars. And by the way, this can can
I just debunk this notion that if we just tax

(12:44):
Elon Musk more, if we just tax tax the bleeping trillionaires. Okay,
there's one of them that we have one trillionaire, two
tax a. He does not have a trillion dollars. He
does not have a trillion one dollar bills stacked up somewhere,
which means you cannot just instantly seize all of his wealth.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
But let's just assume you could.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
You could take one trillion dollars and transfer it from
Musk directly to the federal government, directly to the federal government,
and this would take care of all of our financial woes.
And uh, this would make the entire world a better
place because we would have all the money we need.

(13:31):
Elon Musk would be penniless. Our schools, they just they
would they would.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Be fully funded. Right, everything would be perfect.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
We would have instantly in the federal coffers one trillion
dollars of Elon Musk's money. Do you know how long
it would take the federal government to spend that? Less
than two months. We would be able to spend Elon's

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money and fully fund the federal government for about a
month and a half, give or take. Primarily because the
federal government spent last year seven trillion dollars seven trillion
dollars fiscal year twenty twenty five, Elon, you could take
every single penny from Elon Musk and you'd get a

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month and a half of funding the federal government. And
this is under President Trump. Well, I guess the last
couple of months were President Trump. So this was the
elevated Biden's spending cycle. But suffice it to say, if
someone like Franni Hong or someone like Mandela Barnes ever
heaven forbid, became president, you would be spending an awful

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lot more than seven trillion dollars with the way they
want to confiscate wealth and tax everybody else. But while
everybody is focused on Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, do
you know how many people instantly with the IPO, with
SpaceX going public today became millionaires. Four thousand, four hundred

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current and former SpaceX employees have at least a million
dollars worth of stock. Roughly four hundred of those forty
four hundred are expected to have stakes of one hundred
million dollars or more. Now Tesla or excuse me, SpaceX

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currently employees about twenty two thousand employees give or take
about twenty percent of the current and former workforce because
of the stock options that they have in SpaceX are
now millionaires. So this is a direct impact of this
company going public and Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. Not

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only that, you've got twenty two thousand jobs and star
base in the Austin, Texas area generates roughly thirteen billion dollars.
This is SpaceX's home base, roughly thirteen billion dollars in
gross economic output. And in addition to the twenty two

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thousand workers in SpaceX's workforce, again twenty percent now millionaires.
These are everyday people. These are people who work in HR.
This is a secretary. This might be the guy.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Who mops the floors.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
This is not some looney South African billionaire making all
this money, trillionaire now making all this money on his own.
A whole lot of people are raised up along with him.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
In addition to that star base.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Generating all of this revenue, generating all of this economic output,
with all of these people going to work there every day,
has created roughly twenty four thousand dollars and hundreds of
millions of dollars in taxes for state and local government.

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Across the broader Elon Musk Ecosystem, Tesla, SpaceX X formerly
known as Twitter, all of the companies there are roughly
three hundred and thirty eight billion dollars injected into the
United States economy. Now that is as a direct result

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of Elon's company. This is money just going right into
the company. Not only that, because you have SpaceX before
that Tesla being such a massive company and a massive
part of the stock market, a whole lot of people

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aren't becoming necessarily millionaires today, but because it is going
to be such a big part of retirement accounts and
four oh one k's mutual funds, the investment products that
middle class Americans, lower class Americans do purchase. Thousand dollars

(18:16):
were invested on every American, regardless of socioeconomic status, that
is born during the second Trump term in the form
of these Trump accounts, and it's being invested on their behalf.
SpaceX is a huge portion of that investment. What that
means is that as SpaceX continues to make Elon Musk

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wealthier and continues to make all of the employees wealthier
who have stock in SpaceX, all of the people who
directly invested in SpaceX, yes, those hedge fund billionaires, but
also the people who invested in those funds. Also the
people who are working jobs that don't pay a whole
heck of a lot and have a one K or
maybe a pension outside of government, who really has a

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pension anymore of a government pensions as well, are going
to be major holders of SpaceX stock. Those people are
also going to be benefited. But not only that, the
fact that we have a company that is able to
provide satellite internet access anywhere on Earth to jets flying

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across the Atlantic Ocean. They can get Internet because of
the Starlink satellite system. That is making even the poorest
people on planet Earth much wealthier. If you can go
into the heart of the jungle in Uganda, and you
can find a tribesman who has never been contacted by

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outside civilization by definition has zero money, right has has
zero wealth. You can make that person's life better. Theoretically,
we don't want to contact the uncontact tribes by putting
a phone in his hand and being able to access
all of the world's knowledge on a tiny little device

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that is powered. Because Elon Musk is able to put
satellites into space, not only that, you have got SpaceX
delivering rockets and payloads to the International Space Station. SpaceX
actually rescued a couple of stranded astronauts. You might recall
the Biden administration during the tail end of that failure,

(20:32):
refused to allow Musk's cooperation. As soon as President Trump
takes over January of twenty twenty five, he says, yes,
send a SpaceX rocket. These astronauts were stuck in space
for months. Musk sends a rocket up, goes and gets them,
brings them back home safely. Not only that, SpaceX delivered
and developed the revolutionary technology of being able to reuse rockets,

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saving dramatic research and development costs on space missions. A
reusable rocket is something that a lot of people thought
might be, as Musk said, science fiction. His company made
it a reality. Do you realize what that means? We
can now theoretically go to the Moon, go to Mars,

(21:17):
go to asteroids, go to other planets in our Solar
system with manned or unmanned rockets, and not just land there,
plant a flag and say, Okay, things are going great.
What if we start mining them for rare Earth materials.
What if all of a sudden we could get lithium

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from space and brought back to Earth. What if we
could get everything we needed to power the AI supercomputer
revolution from this company, from this trillionaire and other people
like him, willing to take the risk, willing to invest
in the future, and to bring all of humanity along

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for a ride to literal and figurative space.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
We've got to step aside for a break. I've still
got more to say on this.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Because this gets to the heart of liberalism versus reality.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Really, Dan o'donald show, come right back, classical conservatism, contemporary.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Style, Dan o'donald show will be right back.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Elon Musk today becoming the world's first trillionaire on paper,
his net worth because of his holdings in SpaceX, which
became a publicly traded company today at a fixed price
of one hundred and thirty five dollars. It started trading
at one hundred and fifty very quickly jumped up twenty
two four percent. I've been so busy I didn't even

(22:51):
see what the stock closed at today. Frankly, I don't
really care. Yes, for those wondering, I did buy a
tiny and full of SpaceX shares. I think I got
in at one fifty one. Oh, it's up to one
hundred and sixty one dollars, so I guess basically that
means I'm not going to be here on Monday. I'm retiring.

(23:13):
Elon took me to the moon, so I'm already looking
at gulf Stream Jets to purchase. No shit, know, I
just wanted to say I got in with the initial
public offering. I'm not giving any stock advice. I'm very
clearly not qualified to do so. But okay, I don't
want to do any spoilers. Here Are they seriously doing

(23:38):
another one of these stupid water breaks at the World Cup?

Speaker 2 (23:42):
We've got the World Cup match? I is this at
every match?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Producer armit, We're We're just going through the blasts from
the past of producers. My very first producer and one
of the very best friends I've ever had. Two of
the best friends I've ever made in broadcasting, Arman and
Dave Michaels, my producers. Couple of day we got Armin
in today. Who's following this? Even though I'm like the
soccer guy here in talk radio Land, Arman has been

(24:09):
following this closer than I had. I thought it was
just the two matches in Mexico. No, I know they're playing.
I saw the sprinkler system go on. Was that a
screw up? Or I can't imagine where are they're playing
this game in Toronto? I can't imagine it's super hot
in Toronto. I was told they So soccer is supposed
to have two forty five minute halves running clock. It

(24:31):
doesn't stop for anything. But the two matches yesterday, which
were in Mexico City. In Guadalajara, the altitude is incredibly high,
and folks, I was in Mexico City seven months ago
for my brother's wedding, and you do feel it just
walking around this It is so high up. It is
significantly higher than Denver, Colorado, and you can feel it.

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In fact, half of my family I think had some
form of altitude sickness. When they got back home, my parents,
who are in their upper seventies, they were really struggling
walking around, and then I think it was my niece
got really sick and they think it was a form
of altitude sickness. Right afterwards, so they did these water

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breaks where they would just stop in the middle of
the first half, middle of the second half, and of
course they had commercials. Are they just doing this for
every World Cup match so they can have commercials. That's
one of the big things about soccer on television. They
do not have commercials, so we're used to here in
America football they break for TV commercials every five minutes.

(25:38):
It seems like there's a break in the action soccer.
There isn't, so it's just a different viewing experience. I
got distracted by seeing the sprinkler system go on in
the Canada Bosnia Herzegovina match. Elon Musk today saying SpaceX
is going to take you to the Moon and beyond.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
SpaceX quands be able to take you to the Moon,
take you to Mars and ultimately beyond. And I'm confident
at this point that with the incredible team that we
have here at SpaceX that we will do that for you.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Not only are you going to physically take us to
the moon, And I'm not entirely sure that i'd want to.
There's a ride at Disney World. It's called Mission Space,
and it's basically a flight simulator, and I went on
it when it first opened. It's twenty some years ago,
and you could do like the insaneo, like near professional

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astronaut level thing. They had to tone it down significantly
because so many people were getting sick. I have never
the G forces on your body. I could not even
imagine dealing with that in space. I'm not sure i'd
want to go. I don't want to be like videotaped
like Katie Perry embarrassingly kissing the ground after being up

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in space for like five seconds. But Elon Musk isn't
just literally taking people to space. SpaceX isn't literally taking
people to space just yet. What it's figuratively doing is
elevating humanity into a different era of existence. The Falcon
nine reusable rocket dropped the cost of space exploration of

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rocket technology by about ten to twenty times.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
It made it more feasible. It made it.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
So that people could be launching companies and governments could
be launching things into space, satellites and whatnot at a
much faster clip. This saves NASA, It saves the Department
of Defense, It saves private contractors literally billions of dollars.
Because NASA has contracted with SpaceX, it has saved hundreds

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and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars on the
Dragon missions alone. That money comes from you and me.
Dollars therefore can go to further research in NASA, they
can go elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
This also reduces the.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Costs of the satellites themselves because the production cost it's
baked in. Okay, well, we've got to spend one hundred
thousand dollars on the rocket to get it up into space.
So we get cheaper satellite technology. That means eventually we
get cheaper Internet. We get more satellites, which means we
get more Internet to everywhere folks. Places that have never
had Internet before, the farthest reaches of Africa, the deserts

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of the Middle East, everywhere on Earth can have access
to the Internet. That makes every single person on Earth wealthier.
Wealth is not simply a function of how many dollars
you have in your pocket. Wealth is a function of
what those dollars can buy, how many dollars. It used
to be known as the basket of goods. This is

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sort of an idea of what you can get for
a certain amount. Now we have it's called the big
Mac index, the cost of a big mac relative to
how much the average worker makes. If the big Mac
index goes down, if the average worker can afford more
big Macs because of what is being done technologically, if

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we can afford the most advanced tech in the form
of AI, in the form of advanced supercomputing, robotics, and oh,
by the way, Tesla is leading the way in that
another Elon Musk company, we are all bettered as a species.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Not only that.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
You get what is something that is is I think
even more invaluable from a national security and geopolitical standpoint.
If all of this is coming from an American company
or several American companies, we are far less dependent on
anything foreign. Unstable regions of the world like the Middle

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East Iran. Look at how the average price of gas
because of the bottleneck and the strait of horror moves
jumped to something like seven eight dollars a gallon the
equivalent in Europe because they're far more dependent on Opek.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Middle Eastern oil.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
We're at four dollars in falling because we have our own. Apparently,
Reuter says we are now the number one exporter of oil.
That was a big story today. I was under the
impression that we had been for quite some time. But okay,
Reuter's way to go.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
So you see these.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Technological spillovers in the form of cheaper and more abundant everything.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
You see that the government.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Itself, America itself, is benefited all by this company, all
by this guy, this one guy. And this is another
thing Libs left to well. Elon didn't do anything. It's
all the engineers that he employed. Yes, they're the ones
who actually do the calculations that get these rockets to space. Yes,

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he is the one who invested the initial capital with Tesla.
He's the one who purchased it and saved it from bankruptcy.
He's the one with the vision. Same thing with Steve Jobs.
There's some engineer that you have no idea his or
her name, that actually invented the iPhone. Steve Jobs was
the visionary who was able to bring it to market,

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the visionary who is able to convince the entire world
that something that they didn't even know existed, a smartphone
they had to have. From its launch in two thousand
and seven to probably twenty ten to twenty eleven, it
took over the world. Now, name me somebody who does
not have a smartphone, Honest to goodness, Name somebody that

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you know over the age of about twelve. Chances are
they've all got smartphones. Might not all be Apples, but
they are all smartphones. Pattern after the iPhone, Steve Jobs
made billions of dollars. Apple made billions of dollars change
the world. Are we worse off because Steve Jobs made
that money? Are we worse off as a people, as

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a country, as a species because of this incredible advancement?
Amazon dot Com Jeff Bezos is one of the five
to ten richest people on Earth. Am I hurt by that?
Or am I dramatically benefited by the fact that I
can get anything I want for an affordable price, delivered

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to me, sometimes.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
The exact same day the exacts.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
I needed a new tripod for my camera, I got
it within twenty four hours. For something like seventy five dollars,
or it might have otherwise been two hundred and fifty
if it needed to be stocked in a store that
might or might not be available within driving distance of me.
The entire world is at my fingertips because of the

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visionary advancement and yes, profit motive that capitalism provides. Because
a few people get phenomenally wealthy, the entire world benefits
from the products, not just the dollars that they put
into the system, but the products and services that they provide.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Everybody you're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
President Trump announces that we are closer than ever before
to a deal with Iran that is very likely to
be signed within the next day or two. Vice President JD.
Vance headed to Europe today to do that, and or
at least he's going to be headed. I've got conflicting

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reports about whether he and Secretary of State Marco Ruby
are going to be in Los Angeles tonight for the
Team USA opening match of the World Cup. It is
possible that Vance just departs for Europe right after that
or tomorrow, but it is believed that this deal is
going to be done straight of Horror Moves opens immediately
after that. Coming up in the four o'clock hour, we

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are going to analyze the terms of that deal. Plus
big political news in Wisconsin. The Democratic State Convention is
tomorrow and Sunday strawpol could go a long way in
determining which of the seven gubernatorial candidates has the edge
towards getting this nomination.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
And also a.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Raid at our old buddy Kirk bangs Dad's place. Yeah,
they seized all of his beer, all of his canned beer.
We will explain why coming up in the four o'clock hour.
Much much more still to come here on the Dan
O'Donnell Show. Right now, though, it is time to name
the unhinged liberal of the day.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
We are in pre Nazi Germany. Proffer's dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
America in over, Well, here's a blast from the past.
Today's unhinge liberal of the day is Hillary Clinton. She
is blasting President Trump's renewed interest in getting these Save
America Act passed, which would require photo ID for voting

(35:26):
as well as a birth certificate or some other way
to prove citizenship. She opposes it, and she says this
is awful because older people and people in rural areas
don't have access to photo ID or something you carry through.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
What they're doing to try to undermine voting. They're trying
to kick people off voting roles. They're trying to demand,
you know, forms of identification that most real people don't have,
and most older people and most rural people people don't have.
They're certainly redistricting to make it difficult to elect black
representatives or Latino representatives or Democrats. So that means we

(36:11):
have to be even more intentional in showing up and voting.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
This woman's voice, Hillary Clinton, your unhinged liberal of the day,
Should we debunk that very very quickly? All right, Tennessee redistricted.
Do you know who lost their congressional seat, Steve Cohen,
white Man. It is not that black people are never
going to get elected again. They simply cannot be guaranteed

(36:38):
of having a district drawn solely on race, you know,
like the fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits.
This idea that rural or older Americans don't have access
to a driver's license has been repeatedly debunked, as has
this liberal notion that somehow people in the inner city

(36:59):
especially inner city black and Hispanic voters are unable to
get photo ID, are unable to prove that they are
citizens of the United States. You need a photo ID
to do pretty much anything. I'm right now during the
last commercial break, I was registering my daughter for soccer
to play on her soccer team. I have to upload

(37:22):
either her passport or her birth certificate to prove that
she's the age that she's playing, right, to prove that
she's a twelve year old girl, I have to for.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
A twelve year old. She didn't even have a driver's license.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
And I have got two forms of ID that I
could get instantaneously to upload to the local soccer club. Literally,
I'm looking at her passport photo right now as I'm
trying to register her for the upcoming soccer season.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
It's a complete lie.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
And I hope, I sincerely hope what's happened in Los
Angeles shows everyone in this country why it is that
Democrats are so hell bent on not having any photo
ID whatsoever, not having any election security measures, because it's
way easier to get those votes coming in many, many

(38:19):
days after election day, when you can just kind of
get anybody and everybody to ballot harvest. Fill out the ballots,
and you don't really need to prove you are who
it is you say you are.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
That's what ultimately this is all about.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
All Right, We're gonna step aside for a break when
we come back the daily Trump date.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
What is exactly in this Iran deal?

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and on the podcast. Time out to get you caught
up with what was going on in Washington today.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
It's the daily Trump day, We're.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
Gonna win so much you may even get tired of winning.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 7 (41:01):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.
We're gonna win Moore.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
A deal is in place, we think, between the United
States and Iran.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
As always.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
We have been here before, but now all of the
Middle Eastern partners who were assisting in this negotiation are
confirming that, yes, a deal is set. Pakistan's Prime Minister
Shapaz Sharif says a final agreed upon text of the
peace deal has been reached. This after President Trump announced

(41:39):
it on Thursday. Iranian state media actually leaked what it
said were terms of the deal. Today, President Trump took
to truth social to say this was.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Completely and totally false.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
That Iran is not going to immediately get cash like
it did in the Obama administrations version of an Iran
nuclear deal. This is an entirely performance based deal. There
are not going to be any assets unfrozen until Iran
shows compliance. Now, the President says that there is significant

(42:15):
progress being made to shore up the last couple of
deal points on this memorandum of understanding. He says, the
straight of horror moves is going to immediately reopen.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Vice President JD.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Vance, in a post on X says this deal has
the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace.
He added, I'm seeing a lot of fake information about
a potential deal to reopen the Strait and end Iran's
nuclear weapons program. First, the Iranians are not receiving any
cash and no funds are being released for simply signing

(42:50):
a deal or attending a meeting. The deal is structured
to ensure that the US and its allies concerns are
prioritized and that the Islamic Republic of Iran meets its obligations.
Then economic benefits will flow to them and to the
entire region. In just a second, we will get into
some of the details that we believe are in this

(43:12):
actual agreement. Elsewhere, the UFC holding today its pre fight
press conference ahead of UFC Freedom two p fifty set
for this Sunday on the White House, South Jawn. This
is going to be the first professional sporting event ever
at the White House. The main event is lightweight title

(43:32):
unification fight between Ilia Topuria and Justin Gaiche as well
as an interim heavyweight title. That's the co main event.
Alex Pereira takes on Cyril Gone. Other fights include Sean
O'Malley taking on i'm on Zahabi, I'm not a big
UFC guy, Derek Lewis versus Justin Hokit Hockett, and more.

(43:55):
The full seven fight card streams live on Paramount Plus
starting at seven o'clock Central Sunday evening. Meanwhile, a federal
judge has thrown out a last minute lawsuit to try
to block the event, citing Parkland rules and I'm not
kidding you esthetic harm.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
They are claiming.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
We're going to get into this more next hour in
a little bit greater depth. A couple of Vietnam Vets
being represented by some left wing group claim that they
have been permanently esthetically harmed by it's known as the Claw,
this giant lighting system over the UFC octagon that's on

(44:42):
the White House South lawn. Esthetically harm because they have
to look at this giant thing and can't see the
White House and they think it's ugly. Do they have
no idea that it gets torn down Monday, that it's
not going to be there permanently? President Trump has joked

(45:03):
a couple of times about saying, ah, looks kind of nice.
We might just keep it up. I I honestly, I
struggle to understand the liberal brain. Trump broke something very
deep inside their cerebral cortex, and I think it might
be unfixable. The President did a call today Team USA,

(45:27):
the men's national soccer team, as they prepare to open
up the World Cup in Los Angeles taking on Paraguay tonight.
Mister President Andrew Giuliani, how are you well.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
I'm standing in front of twenty six champions and a
great coach, Coach Pochettino right now that are ready to
go and run through a wall.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
So I'm gonna give you a coach Bochettino and the captain,
Mister President.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
How are you well?

Speaker 1 (45:55):
I just gone to say, you're a fantastic guy, a
fantastic cups and you're all a going to your record
and your success and the great the players.

Speaker 8 (46:04):
I think you got a really good chance of going it.

Speaker 7 (46:06):
All the way.

Speaker 8 (46:08):
To thank you so much for your support.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
If the President where going to do everything to make
prout you all the people here in this country.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
All right, Coach Poachattino, there you go cue the liberals
losing their minds and suddenly hating soccer. Soccer is like
a liberal coded sport, Isn't it like football in UFC?
Those those are very conservative Republican coded sports. Soccer is
just like soccer, and I think basketball are very liberal

(46:42):
and I'm not entirely.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Sure why so.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Well, soccer, I get because it's seen as like the
European game basketball libs that they just they flock to basketball.
In any event, it's nice to see both basketball and
soccer embracing the president. You had President attending Game three
of the NBA Finals this past week, NBA Commissioner Adam

(47:05):
Silver saying, we're glad to have we love that the
president is here for sitting president to ever attend an
NBA finals. You got the coach of the men's national
team graciously accepting the good luck call from the President
of the United State.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Could you imagine, though this was.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
The WNBA or the women's national soccer team, they would
like start hissing, like actually hissing at the president. Maybe
it's just the gender divide or something.

Speaker 8 (47:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Ladies and gentlemen, that is your daily Trump date. So
what exactly is in this deal, this memorandum of understanding.
It is now believed to be signed early next week
in Europe, possibly as quickly as this weekend, but this
is very fluid and we're still not entirely sure, and frankly,

(48:00):
I'm not going to believe it until the ink is
dry on this document, and even afterwards, I'm still going
to just kind of assume that the Iranians are going
to immediately start violating the terms of this agreement.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
So the only thing I really care.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
About, and it wasn't immediately made available at least publicly,
what the enforcement mechanism is for violations of this terms
of peace. The ceasefire is going to be extended for
another sixty days, which would then be renewable after that.

(48:37):
It will immediately end hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon.
And this is a big one because what sort of
sparked the end of the current ceasefire was Hezbollah and
Israel going at it. The Strait of Hormuze would be
immediately reopened, no restrictions on any international shipping, no harassment.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
No tolls.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Iran immediately removes all of the mines and within thirty
days has to restore traffic through the Strait of Horror
moves to pre war levels. In exchange, the United States
will immediately lift its naval blockade on all Iranian ports.
And I would presume if Iran starts getting squirrely and

(49:27):
deciding that it's going to fire a couple of missiles
on a couple of merchant mariners than the United States.
But immediately, I mean, this is the easiest enforcement that
we got. We have our navy sitting right there. We
just enforce the blockade again. In terms of financial relief,

(49:47):
Iran said that they were going to get twenty four
billion dollars in frozen assets back and that sanctions were
going to be waived in exchange for merely signing their.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Names on the dotted line.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Trump flipped out on truth social and said this is
not accurate at all, that they are not getting a penny.
Vice President Advance you heard me read his tweet saying no,
of course not. We're not stupid. This is all going
to be tied to compliance. And the big issue, of course,

(50:20):
is on Iran's nuclear program. Iran has apparently committed to
not enriching uranium for fifteen to twenty years and to
dismantle any key nuclear site that wasn't bombed to smithereens
back last summer. It will also agree to the removal

(50:41):
and destruction of existing highly enriched uranium stockpiles, and this
will be subject to both the United States, which is
very likely going to be the entity that actually goes
and retreats. Remember, the enriched uranium is the bulk of
it is very under several tons of rubble at the

(51:03):
four Doh nuclear site underneath a mountain that was bombed
last summer as part of Operation Midnight Hammer. The International
Atomic Energy Agency is also going to be providing oversight
the broader nuclear issues, enrichment limits nuclear sites, Is there

(51:24):
any sort of stockpile of any sort of ballistic missile
technology that could be quickly outfitted with nuclear material? That
is going to be negotiated in the sixty day period.
And Iran is saying that they got this sort of postponed,
and this is one of the biggest sources of contention.

(51:47):
Vice President Vance and President Trumper saying no, no, no, no, no,
We've got this in the memorandum of understanding. This was
the big thing that their nuclear program is dunzo. Other
commitments include a United States pledge not to start a
new war or issue any new threats. I believe this

(52:08):
is the truth social clause of this memorandum of understanding,
that President Trump can't just go on social media and say, yeah,
we're gonna bomb the hell out of the next Iyatola too.
If he doesn't turn over the rest of his enriched uranium.
Iran is going to cease funding its terror proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas.

(52:29):
All of this again, folks, I simply do not believe
that they're going to live up to their terms of
the agreement, that it's just what they do. I just
I guess I have to see what the enforcement mechanism is,
where is the guarantee of compliance, and what is the

(52:49):
penalty for non compliance? Before I declare this to be
a victory, before I declare this to be capitulation, before
I declare this to be actually an.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
End to hostilities.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
And this is the thing that everyone on both sides
of the political aisle here in America and pretty much
everyone commenting on this across the globe fails to understand
that this is not over assigned. Deal does not necessarily
mean a thing if Iran just goes back to doing

(53:24):
what it's been doing for the last forty seven years.
Now it's going to do so without its top command
structure that was all taken out on February twenty eighth
in the initial strikes. But if you've got the next
generation of crazies running that country, there's nothing to suggest

(53:44):
to me that Auran will be any less crazy. So
it's almost impossible to analyze this until we get a
full reading of this.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Memorandum of understanding.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
And again, I would not be prized if Aron backs
out at the last second. Again, although supposedly according to Trump,
and according to multiple reports coming from the Middle East,
that Iran was basically bombed into submission this week after
they took down that Apache helicopter, and Trump apparently said,

(54:22):
all right, this is it. We're going to take carg Island.
We are going to remove your ability to power your country,
and we're just going to start killing leaders, and we're
just going to start bombing the holy hell out of
Tehran and every military and every potential regime target that
we can find. We're going to immediately reopen the straight

(54:46):
up horror moves ourselves, if that means going in sweeping
for minds, if that means taking out every last drone
operator on the shore. I think that was the plan,
that there was going to be a escalation and that
was it. Now Does Iron see this as just buying

(55:07):
even more time to get Trump distracted by issues at
home as we get closer to the midterm elections. Very possibly.
I would not hold anything past these people. We will
head back home. The Democratic State Convention here in Wisconsin
going on tomorrow and Sunday, the very latest coming up

(55:28):
next here on the Dan O'Donnell show. Democratic State Convention
in Madison Tomorrow and Sunday. All seven Democrat candidates who
qualified for the gubernatorial ballot are going to be speaking,
and the big highlight, the thing that political observers are

(55:51):
going to be watching is the straw poll, unlike the
Republican Party, which actually endorses a candidate, and that basically
is I don't want to say the Republican Party puts
its thumb on the scale with the endorsement, because usually

(56:12):
it's beyond a parent who the endorsement is going to
go to. Four years ago, the gubernatorial nomination was so
contested between Rebecca Clayfish and Tim Michaels that the party
didn't endorse. There was a movement to have no endorsement
as an option instead of endorsing one candidate. And the

(56:33):
endorsement for Republicans is a big deal because it allows
you to coordinate resources and staff and communications and all
of that heading into the primary. It's possible, and in fact,
it is reasonably easy to happen. If, like you say,
you have the Trump endorsement but not the Republican Party
of Wisconsin's endorsement, chances are you're going to win. Because

(56:54):
the Trump endorsement is so powerful. The Democrats don't do
an endorsement. They do a straw pole. They will pull
the delegates and see who it is that the rank
and file Democrats, the people who are plugged into the party,
but who are also those who are just regular old

(57:15):
primary voters who they like. It is my very strong
belief that Francesca Hong is going to win this straw pole.
New betting odds out from Calshi Today show that for
the first time, Mandela Barnes is not the betting favorite
to win the Democratic Party's nomination. In fact, it is horn.

(57:39):
She has now hit forty percent. She has a forty
percent chance on Kelshie. And remember this is just one
of the betting sites. There's also predicted. There is also.

Speaker 9 (57:51):
Armin.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
What's the other big prediction site, Calshi predicted poly market,
Thank you very much. That's probably the biggest one poly market.
But klshi just highlighted its new odds. And Francesca Hank
is the betting favorite. And how about this Block Milwaukee
Black leaders organizing communities announced their support announced their endorsements

(58:20):
four years ago in the US Senate race. Who do
you suppose they endorsed Alex Laslie, Sarah Godluski or Mandela
Barnes rather obviously Mandela, Right, black leaders Milwaukee, It's Mandela.
He is a black leader, he is from Milwaukee. Block
did not endorse Mandela this time. Would you think they

(58:44):
would endorse the other black leader in Milwaukee, David Crowley?
They did kind of. They also endorsed Socialist Rep. Francesca Hank,
stating on X today, both candidates have shown a genuine
commitment to addressing the needs, concerns, and priorities of the people.

(59:06):
This is a relatively big deal. This is just the
latest in a long line of groups to line up
behind Mandela Barnes and do so before the primary was
actually rigged for him in late July of twenty twenty two,
that have now abandoned him to go with Francesca Hawn

(59:27):
or now block the Black Leaders from Milwaukee organization going
with the Asian woman from Madison over one of the
two Black leaders from Milwaukee currently running for governor. That's
not the best look for Mandela Barnes. I mean, this
is exactly the sort of kook left wing radical group

(59:48):
support that Mandela could have just counted on automatically four
years ago. And if Francesca Hank didn't run such an
effective campaign and didn't come out of nowhere. I think
a lot of people when Franni Hang announced her candidacy
sort of expected her to be where Kelda Roys is,

(01:00:08):
the state senator who is floundering at about one or
two percent. Now, Royce is something of a perennial candidate.
She's seen as a Tracy Flick, and Arman immediately is
nodding his head. He knows, this is how you can
tell I'm working almost exclusively with old millennials, because you

(01:00:29):
know the reference Tracy Flick. Tracy Flick is from a
nineteen ninety nine two thousand movie called Election starring Matthew
Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, and it's all about a high
school presidential election, like the class president election. And Tracy
Flick is played by Witherspoon and she's like this over enthusiastic,

(01:00:51):
hyper focused, I Am going to be class president or else.
Everybody knows some social climber like that, who is going
to do anything that is kel de Roy's kel de
Roy's when she was running for I believe it was
Congress back in Oh Boy, twenty twelve, she was running

(01:01:12):
against Mark Cocaan and we called her the Legend of
Kelda for a long time after this. This was back
when it was still not lawful to get married as
a gay couple here in Wisconsin. This was before the
Supreme Court decision which came out in twenty thirteen legalizing

(01:01:34):
gay marriage. She goes to a pride celebration and she says,
my partner and I needed to go to Iowa to
get married. What does that imply, lesbian couple? She couldn't
get married in Wisconsin. Iowa had legalized gay marriage. She said,
my partner and I had to go to Iowa to

(01:01:55):
get married. Her partner is a man, a man who
I believe he is from Iowa, or at the very
least had a ton of family in Iowa. So they
went to Iowa to have a wedding, which they could
have had in Wiscon. She just blatantly lied about it
because she's a social clamber and wanted to appeal to
the gay people, the gay Democrats who had gathered at

(01:02:17):
this pride prim I'm telling you Tracy Flick behavior.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
It is pandering in the extreme.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
So this has led to a lot of people just
not liking kel de Roy's generally. But a lot of
people thought that Franni Hong, who is a left wing radical,
and I mean extreme left wing like socialist radical, she
envisions the future where there is no prison system, there

(01:02:43):
is no law enforcement, there are no billionaires, there is
only Frannie Hong in charge of the National Guard, sending
it to go arrest ice agents. Yes, she actually said
that on a left wing podcast. So she's got dream
views and people thought, okay, well, she doesn't have a

(01:03:06):
big name in Democrat circles. Mandela Barnes has got the
left wing kook fringe sewn up. Well, a funny thing
happened on the way to Mandela just waltzing to this nomination.
The Democratic Party basically told him, Hey, Mandela, you blew
it last time, you couldn't beat Ron Johnson. You aren't

(01:03:28):
going to count on our automatic support this time. And
the left wing base flocked to Francesca Hank, who admittedly
is a very good campaigner. She does retail politics exceptionally well.
She also is I mean, she's nuts. She has crazy

(01:03:49):
and dangerous policy ideas, but frankly, watch her speak, you
watch her interact with people. She is a genuinely likable
person like she is a So you know, I'm always
reminded of this line from one of my favorite movies,
Gangs of New York, and it's the Protestant gang leader

(01:04:10):
Bill the Butcher, and he's going up against Liam Neeson's
priest Valan Bill the Butcher played by the great Daniel
day Lewis, and he respects this guy tremendously.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
He's the Protestant.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Of course, the priest is the Irish Catholic immigrant gang leader.
And he says, me and the priest lived by the
same principles, twas only faith divided us. That's sort of
how I feel about Francesca Hank. I feel like it's
only politics that divides us. I just feel like she
is somebody who I could get along with, because you know,

(01:04:46):
loves sports, loves Wisconsin, apparently loves drinking some beer. If
even I, an avowed arch conservative who she probably thinks
is a Nazi, can admit, hey, this is but who
is very charismatic and very good at relating to people.
This is somebody who in liberal circles is really making waves.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
It is no surprise, therefore, that she's the favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
However, I don't think that this party is going to
allow her to get this nomination. I will explain that
plus an even kookier Democrat who didn't make the gubernatorial ballot,
he's got yet another run in with the law. The
latest and the strange saga of Kirk Bangstad coming up next.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
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We'll get into that and much much more here on
The Dan o'donald Show. Coming up this weekend in Madison.

(01:06:57):
Where else it's the Democratic State Convention. And yesterday we
spent a lot of time on this. An internal poll
released by Sarah Rodriguez, the Lieutenant Governor, showing her in
a distant third behind the front runner, Mandela Barnes, pulling
at twenty six percent. Francesca Hong at twenty two percent,

(01:07:17):
and then Rodriguez at fifteen percent.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Why did she put out that poll?

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Because it showed David Crowley at just five percent and
the three candidates who have never really been above one
or two percent, Calderoy's Missy Hughes and Joel Brennan just
again at one or two percent.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
The reason she put out.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
That poll is because she doesn't believe that either Barnes
or Hong will be allowed to be the nominee. That
the Democrats are going to try to rig this and
she wants to be the one that they rig it for.
She wants to say that David Crowley does not have
the support, only she has the support among the quote
unquote normy candidates, the ones who aren't fire Breathings socialists

(01:08:01):
and would therefore be more electable in a general election
against Tom Tiffany. That is what I think the play
is here, that the institutional support she wants to go to.
Her big news last night the Lakeland Times was first

(01:08:21):
a report that the Department of Revenue sent agents in
to the Minoqua Brewing Company tap rooms in both Minoqua
and Madison to seize approximately twenty five thousand dollars worth
of canned beer from erstwhile gubernatorial candidate slash crazy Person

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Kirk Bangstad. Bankstad tried and failed to get on the
governor's ballot. The Wisconsin Elections Commission just a couple of
days ago ruled that he did not have the two
thousand valid signatures required to get on the ballot, so
his gubernatorial run is over before it began. And then
last night, as part of an ongoing investigation into the

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Monoqua Brewing Company's failure to obtain proper permits and pay
state excise taxes on beer produced in Illinois, they went
in and took all of his canned beer, The Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel reports today. The seizure followed months of discussions
between the brewery and Department of Revenue officials after a

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complaint last year. According to our website, the Heartland Post
agents inspected a Madison warehouse and tap room where they
found Illinois brewed beer being sold without the required Wisconsin
tax documentation, classifying it as contraband under state alcohol beverage laws.
At the same time, local police assisted with a similar

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seizure at the Minoqua location. Bangstad today went on a
long screed describing the seizure as malicious harassment and said
this was politically motivated by the governor, a Democrat, Tony
ebers Banks Dad says it was in response to his

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criticism and his failed gubernatorial campaign in which he was
taking on the quote unquote corporate Dems. Bankstad also outlined
a multi year timeline of disputes with distributors, online sales restrictions,
permitting issues. He blames the Tavern League beer distributors, Republican

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supported laws, basically everybody except him for obtaining the proper permits.
Are you sensing a pattern here? The guy couldn't get
two thousand valid signatures because his circulators were entering the
wrong dates, or they weren't requiring the people who signed

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the petitions to put their addresses down they didn't have
complete addresses. Well, that results in the signature as being invalidated.
It seems pick a unush just as you know, maybe
some of the excise taxes. And frankly, as much as
it pains me to agree with Kirk Bangsdad, he does
have something of a point here about the excessive bureaucratic

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red tape. I'm gonna take a while guess this doesn't
make will Kirk open up his eyes and say, Hey,
maybe the giant tyrannical liberal government that I have been
supporting for a long time was a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
But here's hoping.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
You still have to follow the law, and if you
don't follow the law, consequences can actually happen.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
Bangsdad.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
By the way, we're already at ten minutes to five o'clock.
I would still be reciting all of his run ins
with the law at seven forty five tonight if I
did so.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Suffice it to say this is the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
Late in a long, strange chapter of bizarre behavior surrounding
Kirk Bangstad. The latest incident was when he docks the
Secret Service agent by posting his phone number and name
on the Internet after he was contacted for making threats

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against President Trump. Remember the guy has free beer Day.
He's going to have free beer at his tap room
the day President Trump died. Well, actually, maybe he won't
have free beer day, since you know he doesn't have
any beer at his tap rooms anymore, at least canned beer.
Dan O'Donnell show coming right back. Well, we've made it

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five o'clock on a Friday, quintin time and what a
fun weekend is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Ahead of us.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
As I said, it's probably the first weekend of summer
for pretty much all of Wisconsin's school kids. I think
today was the most popular last day of school. I
know a couple of kids, private school kids that play
soccer with my daughter, very very dear friends. They've been
off since before Memorial Day. Apparently they go back sometime

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in mid August. But man, that is a long that
is an early summer break. The second Friday of June,
typically a week or two after Memorial Day, which was
very early this year, is your most popular last day
of school. Not only that, You've got Team USA opening
up its World Cup run tonight. You've got Game five

(01:13:37):
of the NBA Finals tomorrow night. You've got the Brewers
back home taking on the Philadelphia Philly should be a
big series at American Family Field, and then you've got
the big UFC fight at the White House on Sunday.
It is going to be a great, great weekend, and
what better way to kick it off than by winning

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Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
All right, it's five o'clock. It is a beautiful day.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
We have got how bizarre, strangest stories of the week
coming up very shortly. But now it's time to throw
caution to the wind and turn the program over to you.
Let's play talk radio roulette. Well, I don't know if

(01:15:19):
I'm gambling with my life my career, perhaps because we
are taking your phone calls and I have absolutely no
idea what any of these callers are going to say.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Arman has put them up, Arman.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Has screened them We hope they're not going to go
on some unhinged f bomb Leyden tirade.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
But they might.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
We just roll the Roulette wheel and wherever it lands,
it lands. That's the name of the game. It is
talk Radio Roulette and it begins in Racine where we
find Christen or excuse me, Christine. Welcome to the Dan
o'donalds Show. Christine, what do you got for us this afternoon?

Speaker 9 (01:16:02):
Well, I'm wondering if you're going to I don't know
if you would have you be putting your neck out
on the limb, but to report on the egregious vomitous
situation here with.

Speaker 8 (01:16:16):
Us.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
I've never heard I heard vomitis used as an adjective,
but I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
I'm going to start using that. Christy. What is going
on with the vomitous situation with the sheriff.

Speaker 9 (01:16:31):
Well, the sheriff cony the obviously the sheriff is a
is an elected official, as Harry Madrigal is the individual
who covered up for the Preston Kite situation, which you
probably remember reporting on that. I'm guessing you remember reporting
on Preston Kite as the deputy who is Yeah, the
situation is very very.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
Wide deputy got a fired a couple of years ago, right,
if I remember right, that story correct?

Speaker 9 (01:17:00):
Yeah, but this is very far reaching. It was covered
up and Hot Government exposed the information and it's bad.
Vomitus is the absolute correct adjective. If you read it,
you will be said, well.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
I'll tell you what. Well, yeah, Preston Preston Kite was
He was a Racine County Sheriff's deputy and was arrested
in twenty nineteen twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Left to forgive me.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
I'm kind of going based off of memory, and he
was found possessing child pornography. He eventually was charged, convicted,
sentenced to like fifty sixty years in prison something like that.
Twenty twenty some crimes he was charged with and at
Hot Government. This is Harry Waite's group down in Racine.

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Wait is the guy who is just convicted of trying
to find vote fraud by committing some vote fraud himself.
He apparently had information that there was a cover up,
and apparently it's vomitous. I'm not going to, you know,
go any further on.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
I will read the allegations here and see if I
find this Christine as vomitous.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
I just I can't get pass that way. I love
that word.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
When you are making those sorts of allegations, obviously you
understand that we've got to be able to verify them.
So yes, I can promise you. In fact, my interest
was peaked with what is going on down there? Boy,
I want a little credit here for remembering the Preston
Kite situation just off at the top of I have

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no idea what any of these callers are going to say.
And I'm actually impressed myself that I remembered that, because
that was a big deal a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
But I thought the story was over a while ago.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
But I will, I do promise I will read that
report see what is going on down there. We go
next to Mason in Fredonia. Happy Friday to you, Mason.

Speaker 8 (01:19:05):
Hey, Dan, how's it going fantastic?

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
My friend?

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:19:10):
Two things, so first the question, the second is a
shout out. So I'm a younger guy, if you can't tell,
And I'm wondering if, as a younger person, if it's
worth it for me to buy a new vehicle and
have a car payment, or if it's better for me
to buy use vehicle and be able to save up

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cash and make repairs as I go, and then eventually
keep buying newer vehicles.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Do you drive a lot?

Speaker 1 (01:19:38):
We've now entered the Dave Ramsey portion of the of
the show. I don't really.

Speaker 9 (01:19:45):
I used to drive.

Speaker 8 (01:19:46):
I used to drive out to Horror con Sure. It
was about eighty miles a day.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
I was gonna say, I know Dave Ramsey would kill me.
But if you don't want to deal with repairs, and
you do want a new vehicle and you don't drive
a lot, leasing does make sense. However, if you're a
younger guy, I always would lean towards actually purchasing something
because then you can sell it if you get into

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a financial pinch. In terms of new versus used, the
price of used vehicles has just skyrocketed to the point
where you can get some incredible, incredible deals on new vehicles.
I have just frankly, I actually just needed to get
a new vehicle. I had an old Toyota Highlander that

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my son sort of inherited. It was like a twenty
thirteen It is like a twelve thirteen year old vehicle,
and we were just dumping tons and tons of money
into it. What I can tell you is, and this
is going to sound like a commercial, Mason, I promise
you it's not. I went to my friends over at
Lynch in mcgwanago and we found a fantastic vehicle.

Speaker 2 (01:20:57):
I'm not going to tell you what we got.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
Just for privacy's sake in case you see someone in
my family driving around in it. But they really helped
us out, and they they helped We weren't sure either, Mason,
whether we want it, because it's primarily going to be
the kids driving around in this. We weren't sure whether
we wanted to get a new vehicle for you know,
an eighteen year old and assumed to be sixteen year old,

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or get a used vehicle. But they were able to
really help us. I wish I was better qualified to
answer that. I need to know way more about your finances,
and I just I don't want to do that for
your privacy's sake here on the radio. Generally speaking, if
you can swing it and the payments are affordable, a

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new vehicle, because you're not going to be paying years
down the line or even immediately for repairs, because you'll
have a nice warranty that'll take care of that, and
you said you wanted to do a shout out.

Speaker 8 (01:21:56):
Yeah, if you're not doing anything this weekend, I want
you all to come out to Wabaca, Wisconsin, the birthplace
of flag dates on this Sunday program starts at eleven.
There's a parade to follow. I'd love to see everyone
out there, including you, Dan. It's gonna be a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
I wish I could my friend I am spoken for
on Sunday. But yes, everybody, get on out there. Thank
you very much, Mason. Really do appreciate that, and best
of luck with the decision on a call the wheel Lands.
Next on Scott on talk radio Roulette. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Scott?

Speaker 7 (01:22:36):
Hey, Dan, just let you know you've never had a
bad show as long as I've been listening to bad Well.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
I appreciate that, Scott, but you and I both know
that's not true. In fact, this one's kind of mediocre,
if I'm being totally honest. Now, I do appreciate that, Scott,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (01:22:54):
Yeah, you and me go back like a long time.
I remember you doing the Twilight Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
Oh my god, oh my gosh, you are you are
an og wis and holy coy, that was twenty twelve,
twenty fourteen, twenty fourteen, that would have been my goodness,
what do you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Got for me this afternoon? Scott? Wow, you you are
a longside listener.

Speaker 7 (01:23:15):
Love it. I know, more serious topic. I want to
know why we don't teach young people why we don't
teach them about iras, Like way, when they turn eighteen,
you get it. You get them an IRA and an
index fund right when they start out. Because you can

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ask some of these young people these days that taking
these financial literacy classes, they have no idea what an
IRA is right, and then when they get older, they
we have to pay for them on Social Security, and
you know they've never worked in life.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
Scott, you are preaching to the choir on this one.
Into the visual retirement accounts, any sort of investment taking
advantage of compound interest. Start when you are fifteen years
old and you get your first job at Culver's, put
away part of your paycheck, start saving, save up instead
of buying a new PlayStation, buy a space X share

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or something like that. Or you know, if you aren't
a big investor, get in some sort of fund. Learn
about it. It is the best education you can possibly have. Scott,
you have no idea. I would, boy. I think one
of the clearest examples of people not understanding market economic

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compounding interest that sort of thing was George W. Bush
had a plan to privatize a portion of Social Security.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
Leftists freaked out.

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
If you really want to be depressed, take a look
at had Bush's plans succeeded had Democrats.

Speaker 8 (01:25:03):
Not that way.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Oh my gosh. The stock market roller coaster. Oh it's
a gambling ah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
How much your social security social Security payments would have
been if they would have been invested just at standard
market investments, standard rate of return for the American stock market,
Instead of getting three thousand dollars a month, you'd be

(01:25:29):
getting like ten thousand. I'm not even I'm not exaggerating.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
I mean it is.

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
It's it's staggering. Let's go to Mike in Franklin up
next on talk radio Roulette.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
I Dan love the show, Thank you, my friend.

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
I do not believe that the Iranians are going to
live up to whatever Trump deal comes down. In my opinion,
if you want to look to what's going to happen
in the present or future, you have to look at
what's happened in the past. Yep. And again, in my opinion,

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the only way that we're going to come out on
the on the correct end of this is to invade
that island, take it over, barricade it. I know that
means that we put feet on the ground, and I

(01:26:25):
know that that would probably eliminate Trump in the midterms,
but he's only got two.

Speaker 9 (01:26:33):
And a half what three years little left?

Speaker 7 (01:26:35):
Two two and a half years left. Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
He's got to go down, in my opinion as one
of the greatest presidents ever. And the way one way,
for sure, in my opinion, again, that he can do
that is if he takes I ran and strangles then
and I hate to say that, we're going to.

Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
Have to put Pete tea boots on the ground.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Eat on the ground, but that's the only way that
we can do it, in my opinion. And I'm sure
we've got marines and field teams and army guys that
are ready to go in there. So that's my shot.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
I could respond to that for the next two hours
and not all of it would disagree. In fact, a
large percentage of me would absolutely agree with you. Very quickly,
I think we got time for one more caller on
talk radio. Let let's go to Tim in Greenfield up
next on the Dan O'donnald Show.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
What's going on? Tim?

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
Thank you Dan by first a comment and then a
question in their regards the so called nuclear dust buried
under mountains yep, I read that the youto uranium enriched
is likely to be chemical form of uranium hexafluoride, which

(01:27:58):
is good for diffusion and enriching. It's so it's a
it's in a very secure canisters. Uh, it might may
maybe could survive, you know, the bombing. So not question heasily.
If Iran can behave on their agreements coming up, how

(01:28:22):
about United States pay them for in terms of using
their own so called assets for every you know, canister
of you ridium hexaflorid we can recover and re extract,
we release some of their assets.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Well, I think I think that's actually the plan. I
think that actually is uh what we're planning on doing. Again,
we shall have to see. Thank you to everybody for
calling in when we come back here on the Dano
Donald Show, How Bizarre, Strangest Stories of the week. Stay tuned,
we'll be back in just three minutes. Welcome back. It

(01:29:06):
is the Dan O'Donnell's show, intelligent discourse, irreverent, fun, and
we prove that each and every Frauday at about this time, Look,
it's a beautiful summer evening. We want to take a
little break from all of the serious stories that we
cover the other four days and two and a half
hours or so each week, and we want to focus instead.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
On the silly.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
Look, we know most of you have already started your weekend.
You're getting ready to watch the Brewers' games. A lot
of people going to graduation ceremonies this weekend, a lot
of people already sitting out in the backyard with a beer.
Perfect start to the evening. Hopefully, a lot of you
are getting ready to support America's national team in the

(01:29:53):
World Cup. After the opening ceremony in Canada this afternoon,
and then yesterday and opening ceremony in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
The first three matches.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
Are all being played by the host countries and of
course the United States. Everybody knows this is America's World Cup, folks,
but of course they had to give it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
To our kid brothers, Canada and Mexico.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
Two.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
So the Mexican national team opened yesterday two nil win
over South Africa. Canada played this afternoon. Again, I am
not going to be accused of spoiling any match results
that you might want to watch later this evening.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Maybe you're already watching it right now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:35):
Canada had its opening ceremony and then played its opening match,
and then the United States in about two and a
half hours, give or take, will play at eight pm.
They're going to be playing in Los Angeles against Haraguay.
And this is going to be like the big opening
ceremony to end all opening ceremonies. So as you start

(01:30:57):
your weekend, as we kick off the big event in
the world sports or otherwise in the US, this evening,
we do take in We do indeed take a short
break from the series. We kick off your weekend with
a special World Cup edition of a little segment we
call Holbaza Howbazon Now ahead of the World Cup kicking

(01:31:26):
off for the United States in Canada, uh Los Angeles
will be the host SOFI Stadium for tonight's match. California
Democrats have posted on their official x account a list
of political beliefs that they believe you cannot hold if
you want to watch the World Cup. They literally posted

(01:31:49):
this publicly. They wrote you're not allowed to watch the
World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration. Next post
in the thread, you're not allowed to watch the World Cup.
If you've ever spoken out against DEI. You're not allowed

(01:32:09):
to watch the World Cup if you only want people
to speak English. Now, as you could imagine, the post
led to extensive backlash. A lot of people were saying, Oh,
I'm not allowed to watch the World Cup, just fine
by me, even more pointing out correctly that this is
the event that brings people together irrespective of politics, regardless

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of one's belief regardless of one's religion, regardless of one's
nationality or race or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Everybody comes together through sport.

Speaker 1 (01:32:44):
And if you have different political beliefs, such as say,
unfettered illegal immigration is a grave national security threat, which
obviously it is. It is a huge strain on social services,
which it is. Well, you're not allowed to watch the
World Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
That's none.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've
ever spoken out about DEI.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
You mean racial preferences, you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
Mean the antithesis of everybody being equal, of everybody just
being seen as one race, the human race, elevating some
races over others. Okay, if you only want people to
speak English, I hate to break it to you, ladies
and gentlemen, but one thing you will find as you
are around people who are in the United States for

(01:33:28):
the World Cup this summer, if you're ever traveling abroad,
everybody around the world speaks English. Everybody at least speaks
some passable English, because it's the official language of business.
It is the language of commerce. It's the language of capitalism.
No wonder leftists hate it. California, of course, the site

(01:33:49):
for eight World Cup matches, including tonight. Unclear if the
California Democrats will be outside the gates tonight screening people
for their voter preferences before they're allowed into this stadium.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
Bazon, Algazam Amazon.

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
All right, now, this is the type of story that
the World Cup is actually all about cultures coming together
and finding common ground, appreciating foreign lands.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
Among this story from.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Alabama, among the eighty eight thousand fans who came to
this country early and cheered on Argentina and Iceland. In
Alabama in a friendly World Cup tune up match, one
visitor is going mega viral. His name is Freddy and
he's in town he's in this country, presumably for a

(01:34:45):
long time to watch the German national team, and he's
been documenting his time on America's roads and in its restaurants,
and in particular.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
He really really enjoyed Alabama. Well.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
He began his trek by flying from his native Germany
into New York on June fifth, then made a connecting
flight to Atlanta. He stopped at German restaurant and then
of course had to sample fine American cuisine at Taco Bell.
He's a huge fan of stranger things, so he stopped

(01:35:18):
at filming locations there. Martin Luther King National Historical Park.
He went to waffle House at one am. He stopped
in Gainesville, Florida. Helen Georgia Freddy said he felt at
home among the town's German alpine setting. He went for

(01:35:38):
lunch at Wendy's, dinner at Chili's in Chattanooga, Tenna. This
guy is getting like the full American experience. I'm actually
kind of jealous. He sampled the view from Lookout Mountain.
He stopped at Walmart, and then he went to the match.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Even though it was raining, it was absolutely pouring.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
I guess on match day he was at his hotel
and he was trying to get an uber.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
He posts, I love Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
We were about to walk an hour to the stadium
or to get an uber, but the receptionist at the
hotel we were parked in front of decided to drive
us there now. Once inside Jordan Hare Stadium in Alabama,
Freddy was surprised by a familiar sight to people in Alabama.

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He said, there's an eagle flying around the stadium. He
sat in the upper deck and it was apparently a
very memorable game. He said, this is the craziest stadium
I've ever been to, and I've been to a lot
of stadiums. He was in awe as the sun set,
this is the most the European mind can't comprehend this
moment of my life, he wrote. One of my friends said,

(01:36:50):
punch me five times tomorrow and I'll still think this
isn't real. Fireworks erupted after the match, he said, what
an experience. Well, he wanted to go to Two Corners,
which is the famous area right, but it was too late,
so he went to BUCkies. And this is the post

(01:37:11):
that is going super duper viral on social media.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
As Freddy, a.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
European mind truly could not comprehend BUCkies. Dude, lmao. This
is a gas station.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Of course, BUCkies is a massive, massive store and gas station.
He then headed back out on the road.

Speaker 1 (01:37:37):
His story has been shared over and over and over again,
and it's been joined by dozens hundreds of other Europeans
coming to the United States and really finding out how
much they truly love it. They are posting about stuff
that we take for granted, like Walmart and Bucky stores
staying open past about five six pm. They are getting

(01:37:59):
a taste of an American culture and they love it.
Ladies and gentlemen, this has been your World Cup themed
edition of the strangest Stories over the past seven days
here on the Dan o'donald Show, our weekly segment.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Algaza Albazon.

Speaker 1 (01:38:23):
Classical Conservatism Contemporary Style. It is the Dan o'donald Show.
There's going to be a huge sports weekend. Not only
do you have the World Cup kicking off, as we
spent pretty much all of how bizarre talking about the
strange stories that have come out of that team.

Speaker 2 (01:38:40):
USA has its.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
Opening match against Paraguay in Los Angeles that is going
to kick off at eight pm tonight. There of course,
are a whole ton of games across the United States, Mexico,
and Canada. You have also got the NBA Finals tomorrow night,
Game five. The New York Knicks in San Antonio, up
three games to one, can clinch the NBA Championship. The

(01:39:05):
Brewers are back home, opening up a home stand against
the Philadelphia Phillies, both very good teams.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
The Brewers. They have lost.

Speaker 1 (01:39:14):
A couple, but this team has been so white hot
since the beginning of May. That and the pitching has
been so incredibly good, led of course by Jacob Mizerowski,
that I don't think anybody really minds. But you also have,
in addition to the World Cup, really kicking off America's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration in Washington, DC this Sunday,

(01:39:39):
it is the UFC Freedom Too fifty, the big UFC
match on the White House lawn, and it is going
to go on. After all, a federal judge today has
refused to stop the White House from staging that show
on President Trump's I did not really, I guess I

(01:39:59):
thin I thought for some reason he was turning seventy nine.
He is turning eighty years old. So a big birthday
for the president. It is also flag Day. It is
also the birthday of the US Army. Well, left wing
group did not want this to go on, and their
rationale for it was just about as ridiculous as you

(01:40:21):
might imagine. Somewhat surprisingly, and Obama appointed US District Judge
Amit Meta.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
He didn't side with the White House.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
And this is how you know this was a completely
frivolous lawsuit, because if there's one thing federal judges appointed
by Democrats love to do, it is to rule against
the Trump White House. Meta concluded that the plaintiffs from
the Public Integrity Project, representing an activist and Vietnam that

(01:40:52):
are of course it's a boomer lib folks.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
Of course it's a boomer lib that is filing this lawsuit.

Speaker 8 (01:40:59):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
Meta concluded that the plaintiffs do not have legal standing
to challenge the event and have failed to prove that
they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward
as planned. Judge also cited the plaintiff's unreasonable delay ensuing
to challenge an event that's been in the works for months.
He wrote in the context of an emergency application and

(01:41:20):
coupled with the fact that the UFC fight date was
known long ago. It is fair to say plaintiffs unreasonably
delayed bringing suit, undercutting their claims of irreparable harm. Now
what sort of harm did those boomer lib Vietnam vets claim,
represented by the Public Integrity Project, which apparently has no

(01:41:41):
integrity whatsoever in bringing such a frivolous lawsuit. They claimed
esthetic harms, as in the White House looks bad right
now because they put this giant structure known as the
clawts ninety two feet tall, the big steel struck sure
that the cage is going to be in the middle

(01:42:02):
of Obviously you need the lights, cameras, all of the works.
They said they were esthetically harmed that when they look
at the White House they have to see this giant claw.
They claim they would be harmed irreparably, even though the
day after the event, on Monday, the UFC ring the

(01:42:26):
Claw everything is being torn down. I don't even know
what to say to that. The White House had called
the lawsuit a baseless attempt to prevent the President from
hosting an event that's no different from many others routinely
hosted at public forums in the nation's capital. This one

(01:42:47):
just happens to be the first major sporting event in
the television era held on the White House lawn. This
is the same sort of thing that liberals have been
freaking out about over the East Ballroom. I can't tell
you how many pictures I've seen of the construction side
of the East Ballroom and they say, oh, this is
before this is happening. Do they think it's just going

(01:43:09):
to be a construction site forever? Like, are they unable
to understand that the claw the UFC ring is temporary,
The construction of the ballroom is temporary. Eventually there's going
to be a building there. Eventually the lawn of the

(01:43:29):
White House is going to be a lawn again.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
I honestly I question.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
Now, obviously this is just a couple of crackpots who
filed a suit and they found some lefty group to
take their claims, baseless though they may be, But I
seriously wonder, given the volume with which I have seen
liberals complaining, don't forget about the.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
National Wall reflecting pool.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
The reflecting pool, I think they're they're they're posting pictures
of it as if it's not going to have water forever.
It looks the exact same as it did before. Then
they were coating it. When they were coating the reflecting
pool with the blue, they were using a blue colored coat,
and liberals were saying, it's going to look just like

(01:44:20):
an Olympic pool.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
It's going to look blue, it's not going to reflect.

Speaker 1 (01:44:24):
Do they have no ability to see like three weeks
into the future when rather obviously it's going to look
exactly as it always did. The attempts to beautify the
city of Washington ahead of the two hundred and fiftieth birthday,
this is admirable. This is stuff that should be praised

(01:44:48):
regardless of political party. The idea here that we're doing
something cool like having a UFC fight on the White
House lawn. I mean, what if it was if it
was if Kamala Harris was president, you know damn well,
we would have like the transgender Men's Chorus of San
Francisco performing on the National Mall or in front of

(01:45:12):
the White House for America's two hundred fiftieth birthday. But
just because you don't like the UFC or people who
don't like soccer don't.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
Really get into the World Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
Can you acknowledge that it is cool that this is happening,
that it is a good thing, that it is a
big event to celebrate, a big anniversary for America. Can
we get past our hatred of the president, the irrational
thought process that just causes reflective knee jerk reactions to

(01:45:41):
everything that is done. The fountains that were repaired objectively
a good thing. Federal officers patrolling Washington, DC, cleaning up
the streets objectively a good thing, to the point where
even the far left Democrat mayor of Washington, DC is saying, yeah, well,

(01:46:02):
this is pretty good. We're going to sign off on
those officers being allowed to stay on a more permanent
basis because she loves the fact that she's getting credit
for the dramatic reduction in the crime rate of her city.
All of this is is stuff that even fifty years ago,
ahead of the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence, everybody would have just kind of

(01:46:23):
agreed with, whether you liked President Gerald Ford or not. Now,
its Democrats are just so blind in their rage.

Speaker 8 (01:46:33):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
Consumed by their contempt for the president and for everybody
who doesn't think like them, that they, I think have
lost the ability to independently and objectively analyze events without
filtering it through that contempt. We're a step aside for

(01:46:56):
a break, Dan O'donnald's show, coming right back in just
a second, just a couple of minutes left of this
busy broadcast week on a beautiful Friday evening here on
the Dan O'donald's Show. A lot of stuff going on
this weekend. As we mentioned, huge sports weekend, it's probably
I think this is the biggest weekend for high school graduations.

(01:47:19):
College graduations obviously a month ago or so, but high
school I think last weekend and this weekend I think
are the two big graduations. I know a lot of
people are going to be busy with that. It is
going to be, as we talked about earlier in the show,
big political weekend as well. Democratic State convention at the
Mendona Terrists or Monona Terras in Madison, and there are

(01:47:43):
seven gubernatorial candidates all vying for the nomination, and it
looks as though it's going to come down to one
of four. As I said, Sarah Rodriguez, the lieutenant governor,
is desperately trying to push David Crowley down with the
three also Ran candidates Joel Brennan, Missy Hughes, and Kelda

(01:48:04):
Royce who have just not consistently pulled above.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Three or four percent.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
And one of those four is almost certainly going to
get the nomination, one of the four Rodrigo or not
get the nomination. One of the three Rodriguez, Francesca Hong
or Mandela Barnes is going to get this nomination. And
I spent the last two days explaining why it was
Rodriguez put out this internal poll just before the convention.

(01:48:32):
It's because she knows that, even though she's in a
distant third, that the party is not going to want
the party bosses, the people who are actually making the
decisions are not going to want one of the two
socialists Frannie Hong or Mandela Barnes, because they view them
as largely unelectable, even though it's likely to be a

(01:48:53):
big Democrat year. Although, as we've got a great post
after the ballot access was finalized this week at Heartland Post,
now that the Wisconsin Elections Commission is finalized, who's going
to be on this ballot? Democrats are not looking the
math does not point to a massive blue wave like

(01:49:14):
they were just sort of counting on a year or
even several months ago. I still think the electorate tilts
toward the Democrats, but it's not going to be this
massive blowout sixty seats in the House of Representatives, that
sort of election. I just don't see it shaping up
that way. And even if it is a better than

(01:49:37):
normal year for Democrats, if you've got a candidate who
just is not a particularly popular one on the ballot,
like Barnes or like Huan, or one that is just
unpalatable because of far left views, like one of those two,
they're just not going to get the votes, and they
might take down some of those competitive Assembly and Senate

(01:49:59):
districts as well. So Rodriguez desperately wants the party to
rig just like they did four years ago. Four Mandela
Barns rather ironically forcing his two main competitors to drop
out just days before the primary while votes were out,
while mail in voting was going on in late July,

(01:50:20):
with the primary just less than two weeks later. I
believe I think early I keep forgetting to check if
in person early voting was actually going on. When Alex
Lazri and Sarah god Luski both dropped out within a
day or two of each other's, like July twenty seventh
and July twenty ninth of twenty twenty two, they cleared
the field for Mandela because they wanted to have the

(01:50:41):
party consolidate around him. So they didn't want either of
those two. And it looked like Mandela is probably going
to cruise to victory anyway, but they didn't want any
of those two, either of those two to mount a
serious challenge and there to be questions about just how
much the party was behind Mandela Barnes Sarah Rodriguez. I

(01:51:03):
think is banking on the fact that they're going to
try to do this again and try to find one
of the more electable candidates to put up to try
to get the Missy Hughes's, the Joel Brennan's, and the
kel De royce is to drop out of this race,
and then you sort of consolidate support around either Crowley

(01:51:23):
or Rodriguez. And Rodriguez's internal poll was designed to show, well,
it can't be Crowley because he's only pulling at five percent,
Rodriguez pulling at a distant third fifteen percent. Is irrelevant
if the top two finishers just aren't going to be
the nominee because the party is just going to fix
it so that they won't be so while the Republican

(01:51:44):
Party has the endorsement process, the Republican Party of Wisconsin
will endorse a candidate, and they did Tom Tiffany obviously
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
It's a big thing.

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
You get party fundraising and coordination with the party and
all of this. The Democrats don't do that, but they
do have this Sunday, a big straw pole, so you
can see which of the candidates are the most popular
amongst the delegates. There's a lot of jockeying that's going
to go on tomorrow and on Sunday ahead of this
straw pole to try to win favor with the grassroots.

(01:52:17):
I firmly believe that Francesca Hang is going to win
that straw pole, probably going away. She is just very,
very popular among the left wing grassroots. But that's going
to be the big story over the weekend. And of course,
even though we are off for the next couple of
days here on the Dan O'donnald Show, we will be

(01:52:38):
covering it on social media and of course on our
digital media venture, the Heartland Post. If you haven't checked
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