March 6, 2026 - Matt Kittle sits in for Dan

March 6, 2026 - Matt Kittle sits in for Dan

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good Friday afternoon, you exceptional Americans. How do you do?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
It?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Is Friday, the sixth day of March twenty twenty six,
in the year of Our Lord. I'm your old emphasis
on old radiomego Matt Kittle filling in here and now
on the Friday edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show. Feels
good just saying it, doesn't it Friday warm too for

(00:31):
a early March. We'll take it rain and all of
that sort of stuff as well, But nonetheless looking good
out there. Our producer Doug Russell, of course keeping us
on the straight and narrow, and this show in general,
we are proud to report forty percent more additive and

(00:55):
preservative free. So no, check that more additive and preservatives. Yeah,
take a look over here. You can see that. Right now.
We have we have a lot of business to attend
to today, and we're going to get revved up here
in just a moment. Let me tell you what is
ahead coming up a little bit later this hour, right

(01:18):
around three p forty. This is how much a weasel
Tony Evers is. Yeah, yeah, I know you already know
how much of a weasel Tony Evers is. He's adding
to his resume. Today we'll tell you more about that,
and it relates to a tremendous bill that is finally

(01:40):
now law Watch out, groomers, Your Safe Space is Gone
bill passing earlier this year that would protect kids from groomers.
One of the co authors of that bill, State Senator
Jesse James, a Republican from Thorpe, will be joining us

(02:00):
again right around three point forty this afternoon, four o'clock hour.
I mean, it is jam packed with some good, good
stuff for you. It's all good. I mean, they're going
to take this recorded tape right to the Radio Broadcaster
Hall of Fame Museum right after we get done with it,
so you don't have to worry about quality of content.

(02:22):
But coming up in the four o'clock hour conversation about gambling,
we're talking a little bit about this yesterday is bill
that's out there that some are trying to ram through.
As I understand, there are some tricks being played on

(02:44):
this gambling bill. Obviously, there are big moneyed interest behind
all of this. And as a journalist for longer than
I want to acknowledge, the maxim is always and always
follow the money, and there is a lot of money
in gambling. The latest gambling battle in the Badger State

(03:08):
the bipartisan bill to legalize online sports betting in Wisconsin,
facing opposition from high profile companies offering online sports gambling.
There's a lot of back and forth on this. We're
going to cut through it all and try to get
a little perspective from the guys who know this stuff best.

(03:29):
Lucas Weber, deputy legal counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for
Law and Liberty, will join us about four to twenty
this afternoon to give us the deats behind all of this,
the lot of moving parts here, and who is a
lock this year to win an oscar? Who is taking
home best editing? I can't wait. There's still a key

(03:53):
grip category. That's one of my favorite positions in all
of Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Key grip.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
You know, there's some Hollywood producers who took a special
notice of that. Have you seen any of the movies nominated,
by the way, I have not, nor do I generally
because I don't. I just I don't think i've been
to well, no, that's not true. I was going to
say I hadn't been to a movie in an actual

(04:20):
theater since the kids were little and it was some
sort of animated thing. I assure you some sort of
there was a woody involved. I don't know, but no,
last year the kids got me into the Stranger Things.
And you know how they got me into The Stranger Things.
Child of the eighties. That thing is just filled with

(04:42):
stuff from the eighties, and up until about the last season,
it wasn't filled with all kinds of woke crap. And then,
of course, yes, like everything else anyway, how much nausea
can the self congratulatory woke show that is the Academy
Awards pump out this year? Christian, Total award winning film critic, journalist,
and founder of Hollywood in Toto will join us about

(05:05):
four point forty this afternoon to talk a little bit
more about that new little handicapping of who's going to
win that Best Picture, Best Director, and yes, good lord,
best Editing. Christian is a rarity in the entertainment critique business.
He's a conservative, offering criticism of all things entertainment, particularly

(05:29):
Hollywood movies and culture from a conservative point of view.
His website is fantastic. We'll talk to him coming up
just a bit now, though, let's start here. Joyce Joyce
has some problems. Joyce has some severe problems. Somebody should

(05:52):
check in on Joyce. That is a gal in Florida.
I believe who now truly is the face of the
new American Left. Can we take a little listen to Joyce?
See what she's got going on? Go ahead, Joyce, Joyce,
back her up.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Baby, Heyce the advocate here. Come on Canada, Come on, UK,
Come on China, you know you want to do it.
Come in and attack United States. You don't like our regime.
We don't like it either. Help us, Please help the

(06:33):
United States. Come in, come in, help us. We'll figure
it out. We don't like our regime either.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Come on, help us give it.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Give you a little visual of Joyce, who again checked out.
It seems long ago, but Joyce looks like if Larry
David had put a wig on and started talking to
people via video. Yes, what Joyce is doing is calling
for China to invade the United States of America to

(07:10):
remove the uh what she believes to be the death
spot in the White House. Yes, she is clearly deranged.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
She is.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Clearly speaking in the language of treason. Unfortunately, she is
not alone among the crazy Trump deranged radical left, that's right.
A Florida nurse by the name of Joyce posted this
video on TikTok, calling on foreign governments, including China and

(07:47):
the United Kingdom, to attack the United States in order
to remove what she described as the regime of President
Donald Trump. And you heard it, well, we could listen
to it for hours ago. Do we see those dulcet
tones of crazy Joyce?

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Kebad Canada, come UK caved chadda.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
You know you what you want this Joyce, don't you?

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeh?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
She is calling on these well at least one true despot.
United Kingdom has had a lot of problems with censorship
we'll talk about later. But nonetheless, she is calling on
communist China to come in and knock out the duly
elected president of the United States of America. The original

(08:34):
video was later set to a private setting, but thanks
to our good friends over at I Meme, Therefore I
am you can see the treasonous treatment from the deranged Joyce,
a nurse by the way, and this is what I mean.
Therefore I AM says about it, and I think I agree.

(08:54):
Meet Joyce from Florida. Joyce is a nurse who posted
a video begging other countries includ China, to attack the
US because she wants them to remove President Trump in
his administration. It's time for her to retire. Someone with
such extreme views shouldn't be in healthcare. Well, we've seen
a lot of that from members of the healthcare trade

(09:16):
over the last year plus, haven't way, But Joyce, she
might just take the case here. How about some other
deranged women who want to see the regime knocked out?
Unfortunately they're in our own government. Dozens of Democrats have
voted against a non binding resolution in the House that

(09:40):
reaffirms Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism, a
fact that is established not only by the United States
of America but every free loving nation out there. They
are and have been the leading sponsor of terrorism globally

(10:02):
for a very long time. The evil regime that is
in control or losing its grasp on control as we
speak right now in Iran. So dozens of Democrats have
voted against a resolution spelling out that truth. The resolution

(10:24):
put forward by Representative Brian mast the Republican of Florida,
passed by a three hundred and seventy two fifty three
vote on Thursday, with all those voting no being Democrats.
Two Democrats also voted present. That's a brave stance to

(10:45):
take it. Among those who voted against the measure were
all the members of the Yes, you guessed it, the squad,
the squad of America haters, the aocs of the world,
and the are Elans and what have you, all educated
at the Minnesota Leering Center where such such anti American

(11:12):
idiots are produced on a regular basis. Well, nobody's really there,
so representative Alexandria Casio Cortez, il Ilhan, omar Ayana, Presley,
Rashida Talib, the whole gang. The resolution said the Islamic

(11:32):
Republic of Iran remains the world's largest state sponsor of
terrorism and provides a substantial financial and military support base
to groups including, yeah, those freedom fighters that il Han
and AOC like to lift up, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Jutis.

(11:57):
It added that Iran poses a direct and persistent threat
to the United States. I have not to go to
the whole resolution. You know what Iran's doing. For the
better part of the last fifty years. They've killed hundreds
of Americans, maybe more. They have sponsored terrorist acts that
have killed thousands upon thousands of people in the West.

(12:20):
They have screamed continuously that not only is America the
great Satan, it is their job to wipe America and
Israel off the map. They were trying to build a
nuclear weapon to do just that. So we don't need
much in the way of the background. But it is

(12:41):
very interesting, but not shocking to see as many members
of the Democrat Party voting in favor of Iran. You
know who isn't in favor of Iran, some gals who
play on the women's soccer team and those who love them.

(13:03):
The Iranian soccer team women's soccer team appeared to pivot
from its silent stands at the Women's Asian Cup Thursday,
singing and saluting during its national anthem before its match
against Australia. Iranian fans voiced support for President Donald Trump
in the stands amid the ongoing joint military campaign against Iran.

(13:27):
Before the start of the match against Australia, the women's
team notably participated in the performance of the anthem. The
women saluted as rain added to the somber moment. Put
that in perspective. Think about that, for just a moment,

(13:48):
we have AOC and Omar ilhan Omar to lead a
Rashida to leave use me whatever. We have them screaming,
screaming at America. We have them screaming at the President

(14:13):
of the United States, calling him a criminal for teaming
up with Israel in this case to topple whether they
are saying that or not publicly, or still committing to that,
to topple the evil Iranian regime. They have had all

(14:38):
kinds of pejoratives about the United States and about this administration.
Those squad members in the House. On the other side
of that, you see the women of Iran who have
been the subject of real oppression, acid in your face oppression,
and these idiots can't even bring themselves to say that

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Iran is the leading sponsor of terrorism, first and foremost
against their own people. That's where we're at in America.
Remember all of this in November. We'll take a quick break.
Coming up next here, here's a question for you. Here

(15:23):
is a question. Can we stop the public school co
ed showering For the love of God. We will get
into that issue straight ahead on this Friday edition of
the Dan O'Donnell Show with your old radio Amigo Matt
Kitt'll stay with us for the record. Here we are Kittle, here,

(15:45):
you are there. How are you glad to have you
along with us on this Friday? Coming up in just
a bit, and this next segment kind of ties into
the upcoming segment, but we will be joined by State
Senator Jesse James. We can tell you this that, whether

(16:08):
he wanted to or not, the governor weasel, Governor weasel
Tony Evers has signed an into law reluctantly, a bill
that will protect children from groomers. Fact that's a number
of bills, three altogether. We're going to find out more

(16:28):
about that coming up in just a bit.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Again, I don't know why we have to ask this question.
I don't, but apparently we do, and apparently we need
action on this front. Can we stop the public school
co ed showering? For the love of God, listen to me,
just because you feel like a woman doesn't mean you

(16:56):
are a woman, and it doesn't give you the right
to shower with high school girls when you've got high
school boy parts. And the problem has been well, it's
been going on and on and on. Although there is

(17:17):
some news on that front today. The US Department of
Education's Office for Civil Rights initiated a directed investigation into
the New Richmond School District in New Richmond, Wisconsin, based
on reports that the district is allowing biological men to

(17:37):
use female restrooms. The ocr will determine whether the district
violated Title nine of the Education Amendments of nineteen seventy
two by allowing students to access intimate facilities based on
gender identity, not biological sex. So again this breaking yesterday,

(18:01):
the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announcing
that it has initiated a directed investigation into the New
Richmond School District. And here here is why. This is
a story from the Hudson Star Observer. This is from

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late last month. The New Richmond School Board voted down
a request to launch an internal investigation and review a
proposed policy concerning Title nine non discrimination rules and transgender
student restroom facilities use at its February seventeenth regular meeting,

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so it will not be internally investigating some really concerning
incidents there. The board did approve a measure to include
more bathroom facilities in the district to address the ongoing issue.
And what is said issue, Well, it's what we were

(19:05):
just talking about while the school district already has unisex bathrooms.
The board approved further conversations with old our architects to
potentially reevaluate facilities. Board member Greg Gartner weighed in on
the necessity of action. I want to fix this, so

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no school board, no families have to deal with this
issue again when it gets fixed. Okay, they want to
build more bathrooms, what does that mean. The request for
an investigation was brought forward by board member Ben Engelhart
at the February tenth work session. Angle Heart sought to

(19:50):
analyze the district's actions regarding its allowance for transgender students
to use bathrooms aligning with the their gender identity, not
their actual biological sex, and the subsequent impact on fellow students.

(20:11):
Why was the board not informed, Why was it done
behind our backs? Why weren't the parents informed? How long
this has been going on? Because my kids have been
going to school for years and this is the first
year they saw it happen, Engleheart said, voice and concerns

(20:32):
over transparency. Transparency is an issue. The question certainly is
what has been allegedly hidden. Board president Chris Schaeffer defended
the district's current practice. I wanted to read this to
you and let you think on this for a moment.

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The board president defended the district's current practice, and that
current practice is we we will open up our bathroom
facilities to the bathroom facility so that girls will indeed
share those facilities with boys who believe they are girls.

(21:21):
The board president said, our administrators are following the law.
We heard from our attorneys last week that we are
following the law. Our administrators are following the law and
administrating it following case law, Schaeffer said. He argued that

(21:42):
an investigation would constitute quote, a poor use of tax dollars,
noting that the board had previously spent last week's four
hour meeting reviewing the legal justifications for the district's current stance.
Let me tell you something about the current stance. It
does indeed run a foul of Title nine protections. It

(22:06):
also is extremely, extremely offensive to the vast majority of
parents as well as the kids who are dealing with
this stuff. But they're defending it to the very end.
Shafer reiterated that almost every district in the state follows

(22:28):
similar policies and procedures, emphasizing it is against the law
to have a policy that discriminates against anybody. You can't
tell anybody what bathroom they can use.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Oh you can't.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Now that's a problem, and that's not necessarily the truth
or the case. There have been other school districts in
the state of Wisconsin that have faced some pretty various
legal consequences for this allowance. As it has been described,

(23:06):
this is very problematic for the school district. Now the
federal government is involved in this, and this school district says,
why would we waste tax payer money on investigating why
we allowed this particular repulsive policy, why we started it
all up? Right Now, we pause here and note what

(23:29):
we've talked about on previous shows and what this show
and others we've tried to communicate for a long time,
and that is, even though you have a sane Department
of Education, you have a sane Department of Justice, you
have a sane federal administration. The stuff that was going

(23:55):
on before with impunity in our schools, it may have
kind of receded back, changed the names. Let's just put
it this way. Some of the DEI programs that were
so discriminatory and awful, by the way, and when the

(24:16):
school board members, if you can't discriminate against anybody except
people who are viewed as oppressors. We've described them as such.
We have created this category. They're all part of the
big systemic racism thing. They they the oppressors. You can

(24:39):
discriminate against them. That's been a problem. It's also been
a problem to discriminate against young women, girls who do
not want to shower with biological dudes or be in
the same bathroom restroom. I think that's understandable, isn't it.

(25:01):
But saying that an investigation not only into this policy,
but how this school district dealt with the concerns and
the complaints by students and parents is a waste of
taxpayer dollies. That's as insane as this policy. Engelhart also

(25:26):
proposed that the board adopt a policy which aligns with
Title nine by allowing separate comparable toilet, locker room, and
shower facilities based on sex. However, Schaeffer successfully moved to
cease further consideration and review of the proposed policy. Yeah,

(25:49):
this is a big problem, Lea. This is what this
story doesn't get into, because that's what you get from
today's accomplished me This is from the Federal Department of
Education Office for Civil Rights as of January twenty twenty six.
Or At a January twenty twenty six meeting of the

(26:13):
New Richmond School Board, multiple parents expressed concern that males
were being permitted to use the girl's restroom, but parents'
questions about their daughter's safety were reportedly deflected by administrators
who refused to provide answers or assurances. Why would we
possibly want an investigation into something like that? One student

(26:42):
testified at a subsequent board meeting about her fear, embarrassment,
and anxiety given the presence of boys in the girl's restrooms,
noting that she no longer uses the restrooms while in school.
You don't think that girl has a against discrimination?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
What the hell?

Speaker 1 (27:07):
When the school board member introduced a policy in February two,
twenty twenty six, to ensure bathroom and locker rooms are
separated by biological sex, only two of the seven board
members voted in favor of the proposal. This battle is
far from over. But folks in New Richmond, this is

(27:31):
why you don't skip school board elections because of insanity
like this. I always talk about and we will the
importance of this upcoming midterm election. This in New Richmond
is exhibit a of why local elections are so important.

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On a related note, we will delve into coming up
straight ahead, a series of bills now signed into law
quietly that would protect kids from groomers. Well delve into
that straight ahead. Jesse James, Senator from Thorpe, will join

(28:15):
us in just a moment. He is co author of
the bill straight ahead. On this Friday edition of the
Dan O'donnalds Show with yours truly, Matt kittlehang on caeping
it real, keeping it right. This just in thanks to
our producer Doug Russell. Thank you for alerting me this
to this story. Isaiah Thomas, the legendary NBA's Isaiah Thomas

(28:37):
attends Jesse Jackson Memorial honors five presidents. Apparently Isaiah believes
that Kamala was a president as well as Hillary Clinton.
More on these details coming up. As I said, Isaiah

(28:57):
has had some issues over the years. Now though, this
is how much of a weasel Tony Evers is, and
you know he's always been a weasel.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
But just.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Get a load of this and you can put this
on the weasel's Weasel resume, even though he signed into
law reluctantly bills that would protect kids from groomers. Today
Evers did so very very quietly. No press conference, no

(29:35):
media attention, no word to the bill's sponsors, Assembly Bill
six seventy seven. It's one of three bills. This one
establishes a criminal definition of child grooming and imposes strict
felony penalties on predators who target minors. Why would you
think that Governor Weasel wouldn't want to sign this with

(29:59):
great public attention. Well, let's ask the co author of
the bill, State Senator Jesse James, Republican from Thorpe, joining
us now in the dan O'donnald Show. Good afternoon, sir,
how are.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
You good afternoon. I'm doing well on this fine Friday.
I just wish that we would have had some kind
of official recognition in passing awesome legislation that protects our
Wisconsin children in play. Here. We did request a bill hearing,
bill signing, and unfortunately, my staff texts me this morning

(30:35):
and said, well, the governor just signed our grooming bill.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
But that is It's not surprising he's done this on
a number of issues when he has signed a bill
into law that the vast majority of the people, the
voters of Wisconsin, want to see in law. He's reluctantly
done so, he's quietly done so. But my goodness, why
can't you stand up? This reminds me, Senator James. This

(31:02):
reminds me of the State of the Union address. You
remember that moment when the President said, we need a
national bill that ends the mutilation of children through these
so called gender affirming surgeries, and stand up if you
support that. He couldn't get anybody on the Democrats side
of that aisle to stand up. Is that the same

(31:24):
kind of thing we're looking at with evers here?

Speaker 6 (31:28):
Well, there's some similarities. I will appreciate the fact that
Wisconsinact eighty eight is now in place, and it is
going to protect our future generations from this day forward
from these grooming activities that like those individuals that like
to attack and take advantage of our most vulnerable population

(31:52):
in our state, our children, just to fulfill their sexual
desires and fantasies. I do have a major problem with that,
and I think have the minimum category as a class
G felony I think is extremely appropriate, with increasing penalties
thereafter and they're well defined in this legislation. So I
think this is going to be an awesome deterrence and

(32:15):
prevention statutory language and law now, and our kids will
hopefully feel a lot more comfortable and you know, sharing
when they feel like they've been a part of something
that they should not be a part of.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Senator Jesse James, Republican from Thorpe joining us. He's one
of three co sponsors at least three on these very
important bills. And I don't want to waste any more
time talking about the governor and why he does or
doesn't do things I could spend Senator, I could spend
four hundred years talking about that as it relates to

(32:58):
our property tax bills. That said, these are bills that
you know are long overdue. You touched upon the one
we talked about and the other. What ultimately will this do?
It criminalizes this kind of behavior, which we have certainly
learned over the last while is much more rampant in

(33:21):
our schools than we thought it was.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
Yeah, and that's the key. I mean, when we have
persons of trust that are in positions of trust and
authority over our children, that is another increasing penalty in
this legislation because they they know what they're doing, and
this goes beyond just typically one child at a time

(33:47):
type of thing. I've investigated these types of cases. Being
the only active law enforcement officer in our state legislature,
I take pride in that I have numerous cases throughout
my career where if grooming was in statute at that time,
we would have been able to address it and actually

(34:09):
added more charges to the cases with this in place.
So I think moving forward, this is awesome for our kids.
I think it's finally the most comprehensive piece of legislation
I've done up to this point. I think with the
we will shot a standard for other states to follow

(34:30):
with our legislative language that we've incorporated into this bill
with the help of Triple Falls Police Department, because really
their case is what perpetuated this action with one of
their cases that they've had. So this isn't this is
it doesn't There's no geographic boundaries or any type of

(34:51):
ethnicity or race or age or anything that comes to
play here. This is about just protecting our kids.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
You bet.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
And final question for you, this isn't just numbers to you,
As you mentioned as the only law enforcement official in
the legislature with experience on this front. You have investigated
these crimes, you have talked to these kids, broken by
the adults that they trusted. I guess you know at

(35:23):
the end of the day, this was kind of a
personal thing for you, wasn't it.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
There The the amount of emotions in tears and sadly
I've lost cases in jury trials when it comes to
this moved activity, sexual assault of children and now having
more tool than the toolbox to add charges at least

(35:54):
at minimum grooming charges and let this go through the
new process. Consulting with your local district attorney see if
there these wood warrant charges and stuff is extremely appropriate.
I know they're excited to have this is another tool
in their toolbox to bring the charges on and then
to also post fact that they have to register a
sex offenders. I'm one hundred percent on board. So their

(36:18):
their life will be decimated now based on their activity
and praying on our on our kids.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
That's right. You got criminal penalties in this. You have
a definition of this stuff which you know it hadn't
existed before this. Now there are no excuses anymore. And yeah,
I will note this You've got bipartisan support on this.
I'm glad Democrats came along for this. Although again I
point back to a governor who has, over his long

(36:49):
long tenure in the executive branch, uh, he always talks
about being a kid friendly administration. This is about his
kid friendly as it gets. I would think he would
want to shout this from the rooftops. But here we are.
Thanks so much for your time and and I appreciate
certainly the bills now into law. Excellent work, and I

(37:13):
hope to talk to you again soon.

Speaker 6 (37:15):
Thank you very much. I have a great day, you bet.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
State Senator Jesse James joining us, Thank you. I'm sorry
I did have.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
To do this.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I got an old buddy, Chris Rogester. If he's listening out,
you know, I.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Had to play the share song here, get to a
share come on.

Speaker 7 (38:17):
Show, just like Jesse.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Jack all of that. Oh, gonna stay with us. We
have so much more to go. The Daniel Donald Show
with Matt Kittle, Welcome back thrill Seekers, our number two
of our little get together on this Friday, March sixth,

(38:40):
twenty twenty six, in the Year of Our Lord. I
am your radio talk show host Phil and Daddy Matt Kittle,
Glad to be here with you as we get ready
for a weekend, just about ready for the ride home,
and we have much to accomplish before we say ado.
This Friday edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show coming up

(39:03):
a little bit later this hour A conversation about gambling. Yes,
another gambling battle here in the state of Wisconsin. We've
had a few of them over the years. Healy bipartisan
bill to legalize online sports betting in Wisconsin is facing
opposition from high profile companies offering online sports gambling. In return,

(39:26):
the tribes that want this exclusively for themselves are opposed
to the people who are opposing them. And in the
middle of it all are a bunch of lawmakers who
don't want this deal to be hashed out in public,
including an Assembly decided to take a voice vote on this.

(39:47):
Very brave Anyway, We're going to talk to Lucas Weber,
deputy legal counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty,
going to give us a closer look at this issue
and what it might mean for free enterprise on this

(40:07):
side in the gambling industry in Wisconsin. So we'll talk
a little bit more about that coming up, and then
a little bit later in the hour round five at
four forty get ahead of ourselves. For forty, we're going
to have some Oscar talk for you. Yeah, it won't
be long, but not this weekend. The weekend after hooray
for Hollywood and all of its creepy people. We're gonna

(40:30):
find out just how woke this show will be. It
has been nauseatingly so in the past. The ninety eighth
version of it should be somewhere in that vomit inducing zone.
Christian Toto, Award winning film critic, journalist and founder of
Hollywood and Toto will join us for what to expect

(40:51):
at the ninety eighth Academy Awards. But now let us
start here. I mentioned before in the last hour to
Doug Russell, our excellent producer, he pointed out that this
is the headline today, Jesse Jackson's memorial. Of course, Jesse Jackson,
the civic civil rights leader who was lauded and praised

(41:16):
upon his recent passing. Of course, a lot of those
obituaries didn't include the full Jesse Jackson, which is a
much more complicated picture than this civil rights icon that
is often painted but that's where we're at in America.

(41:37):
The memorial service was today in the headline from USA Today,
Isaiah Thomas, famous veteran, legendary NBA basketball player for years,
the Pistons.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
The.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Jordan and the Bulls didn't have an answer for Isaiah
Thomas for a few of those years, and then then
they got the answer and they didn't look back. But
Isaiah Thomas was, of course a leader on that Detroit
Pistons team. Today, he attended Jesse Jackson's memorial services to

(42:16):
honor five presidents who were they Well, let's see how
many living presidents do we have. We've just we we
lost Jimmy, so we're down to the Trumpster Joe Well, yeah,
and Obama and George W. Bush and oh that's right,

(42:42):
Bubba Billery, Bill Clinton, he's uh, he's still around. And
then that's it because George H. W. Passed a while back,
and so there we go. Five presidents. No, that's that's
not exactly what Isaiah Thomas is talking about. Thousands of
mourners paid their respects Friday to Rev. Jesse Jackson. The
Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who died last

(43:06):
month at age eighty four. One of those who attended
the public homecoming celebration at Chicago's House of Hope on
Friday was Chicago native and Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer
Isaiah Thomas, who also spoke during the ceremony. During his speech,
Thomas acknowledged the five presidents who were in attendance. Okay, well,

(43:31):
the math doesn't quite add up unless somebody's got a
Wiji board at the event. This is what he said.
I would also like to honor the five presidents who
are sitting here today, President Kamala Harris, President Hillary Clinton,
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Jill Biden, President Biden, and

(43:56):
Chicago's own south Side President Barack Obama, Thomas said, which
drew applause. I get he's not just an idiot. Yes, Oh,
he's making a joke. I kid it. Hillary Clinton, Harris,
who is also among the speakers, each lost their presidential

(44:19):
races to the current president, Donald Trump. As history wal note.
Thomas also praised Jackson for being an inspiration throughout his life,
while adding that fellow civil rights leaders Medgar Evans and
Martin Luther King Jr. Were his heroes. Apparently, George W.

(44:40):
Bush not a hero. Certainly it wouldn't seem Donald Trump,
President Kamala. Also for those who were being honest in
the audience, thinking about that, I'm sure gave them absolute
tremors of fear, just like, wow, this could have been

(45:04):
really bad. Any who. So there are the five presidents.
Jesse Jackson again a guy with a complicated past. If
we looked at his life on a Facebook status relationship wise,
you know, as they say that on the Facebook, it
would be it's complicated. He was very obviously instrumental in

(45:31):
the civil rights movement in America from the sixties up.
Obviously as the leader of the Rainbow Push Coalition, was
very much involved in the fight for civil rights for
a long time. He was the first black candidate for
president who really picked up steam. I mean, there's no

(45:53):
doubt about the eighties, his eighties campaigns, and that he
had obviously a base of support back then. But there
also is no doubt that Jesse Jackson was at the
end of it all, from beginning to end. All about
Jesse Jackson. There's a story that was written by a

(46:18):
gentleman who was next to Martin Luther King on that
horrible April morning when doctor King was assassinated in Memphis
and told the story of how he was there, held

(46:40):
him in his arms, talked to him, assured him that
things were going to be okay. And not long after that,
Jesse Jackson was before all of the cameras saying that
he was there with Martin Luther King Jr. He was
the first one to be at his side. He was

(47:02):
the last one there to see him alive, and he
came out with a blood soaked shirt. And by all accounts,
Jesse Jackson was in the hotel drinking coffee and chatting
with some folks at the time. Was not there at
all during that very violent moment, But that didn't matter.

(47:26):
And that's right there, sums up the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
This does too, though, a guy who had a sense
of humor. You don't find too many liberals with a
sense of humor anymore. And for those of us of
a certain age, we will long remember Jesse Jackson for

(47:48):
his appearance on Saturday Night Live in nineteen ninety when
he addressed the nation reading the Doctor Sue's classic Green
Eggs and ham Have a little bit of that, shall we?

Speaker 8 (48:01):
Peter Gaizo, known to his loyal readers, as Doctor Seuss
died this week at the age of eighty seven. Like
many of us, I grew up with Doctor Seuss, and
one of my favorite stories is Green Eggs and Ham.
Here to read from this classic is the Reverend Jesse
Jackson Real.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Good Night.

Speaker 9 (48:26):
Rather than read from First and Second Samuel, I read
from Sam. I am, according to the latter day Saint SEUs,
you do not like green eggs and ham. I do

(48:47):
not like them, slam i am. I would not own
a boot, I will not will not with a goat.

Speaker 10 (49:06):
I will not eat them in the rain.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
I will not eat them on.

Speaker 10 (49:09):
A train, not in a dog, not on a tree,
not in the car. You let me be. I do
not like them in a box. I do not like
them with a fox. I will not eat them in
a house. I do not like them with a mouth.

(49:34):
I do not like them here are there? I do
not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs
and ham.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Oh it was good stuff, good stuff. It was a
simpler time back then. Sure there was a war in
the Middle East, but simpler, simpler times. We'll take a
quick break. Coming up next, a conversation about the latest
gambling battle in Wisconsin. Stay tuned. You are tapped in

(50:10):
and tuned in to the Dan O'donnald Show with your
old radio ego, Matt Kittle. Hang on, we are gonna
rock down to Electric Avenue and then we take it.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Aya.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Let me tell you something, my friends. If you're gonna
rock down to Electric Avenue, you'd better take it. Aya.
There's no reason to rock down to Electric Avenue if
you don't take it. Ayah Kittle. Here you are there,
Welcome to Friday. Much to accomplish yet this hour and
right now we turn our attention to gambling in Wisconsin.

(50:46):
Another gambling battle in the Badger state. A bipartisan bill
to legalize online sports betting in Wisconsin facing opposition from
high profile companies offering online sports gambling in return. Of course,
the tribes here in Wisconsin that want to exclusively control
online gambling in Wisconsin are opposing the opposition. You know

(51:09):
how these things go. The legislation would allow wisconsinights to
place a sports bet via a cell phone or computer
if the service used to host the wager is physically
located on the states federally recognized tribal lands. We always
we've had that deal for a long time, right, you

(51:30):
want gambling in Wisconsin, for the most part, it better
be on tribal land or something that the tribes have
invented as tribal land. Anyway, currently sports betting is only
legal at tribal casinos in Wisconsin. Lucas Weber, deputy legal
counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, joins
us now for a closer look at the issue. Good afternoon, sir,

(51:53):
Thank you for joining us in the Dan O'Donnell show.

Speaker 11 (51:56):
Hey, good afternoon, Chittle, and good afternoon Milwaukee and everybody
streaming out there.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Yeah, it's Friday, buddy. It's just about time to head
on home and put the work week behind us. But
there are some groups working overtime right now to see
if the Senate will pass a bill that would give well,
bring this sports betting universally. I guess to Wisconsin first

(52:24):
of all, break down, what exactly do you know what
the latest version of the legislation is and do you
know why so many lawmakers seem to be hiding from it?

Speaker 11 (52:37):
Yeah, so the version that passed the Assembly is pretty
much the same version that was introduced last fall. There
were some small technical amendments to it, but it's pretty
much the same version that was introduced. What the bill
does because under Wisconsin law, placing a beck is illegal,
well this bill does if it says, if you place
a beck and that bet is being placed with with

(52:58):
a server that's located on tribal lane and in the
state of Wisconsin, then they deem you to have placed
that that on the tribal land, not wherever you actually
placed it in Wisconsin, so it wouldn't be criminal. Sure
if you did that.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
That's kind of the technicality of how it works as
a matter of law.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
That's stupid. Sorry, but it's always been stupid to me,
and I know that that's what Wisconsin has wanted for
a long I don't know. It's subject to change, obviously,
but the constitution says what the constitution says. And all
of these kinds of things new gambling, whether it be
dog racing or slot machines, casino expansion, and now sports gambling,

(53:44):
it all has to be tied into these tribes. They
have to run it. It has to be operated on
their land, except you are not on their land when
you are wagering. You could be you could be at
your casino. You could be at your slot machine and

(54:04):
go into town on that old bandit slot machine right
there at one of the tribal casinos while you are
making online bets about the New York Yankees in the
Boston Red Sox. It's more than likely though, you will
be far away from one of these casinos. So how

(54:27):
do we even get to this point logically?

Speaker 7 (54:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (54:32):
So, And there's a lot of lobbyists on both sides
of this issue, either pushing for it or opposing it,
and they're making a lot of money. Our point on
this has been the Constitution of the state of Wisconsin
is very clear. The people of Wisconsin amended the constitution
in the early nineteen nineties to take away the legislature
power to authorize gaming gambling in any form. What it

(54:54):
says is the legislature may not authorize gambling in any form.
It's a pretty specific and clear command in the in
the constitution, and our points in this bill is just, hey,
if you want to legalize gambling, what you need to
do is first amend the constitution because it has to
allow the legislature simply doesn't have the power to pass
the bill that they want to pass. Here which clearly

(55:15):
is an authorization of gambling in a particular form. And
that's that's the real problem, the kind of the root
of the problem with this bill. The legislature simply cannot
do the thing that the lobbyists want them to do.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Well, this is the thing. I mean, this has been
going on obviously for nyon to forty years. This battle
has been going on. So how do we get to
a point and again, I know we should have this
straightened out and settled already after thirty five plus years,
But how do we get to a point where it's
okay for tribal lands and tribes to operate casinos and

(55:55):
not okay for others in outside of those tribes in
Wisconsin to operate casinos. And again, what we see here
is that the loophole always has been you can't gamble
in Wisconsin unless you're in another nation, as it is assumed.

Speaker 11 (56:15):
Yeah, and it all has to do with superseding federal
law for these particular tribes. In some court cases that
came up over the past three decades. Wisconsin's kind of
tribal gaming framework itself is sort of on tenuous legal ground.
I mean, there was this kind of back and forth
in the early two thousands about whether they could have
this sort of expanded casino gaming. But even if you

(56:36):
assume that they can have sports betting in their casinos now,
which is what's happening, expanding that to outside of their
casinos and throughout the state of Wisconsin would still violate
Wisconsin law as it's currently written right now. And if
the legislature wants to decriminalize any form of gambling as
they would be doing here, they simply don't have the
authority to do it. The people said, you don't have it,

(56:57):
so you can't do it. There's nothing they can do.
What they could do as they could introduce the constitutional
amendment and put it up for a referendum of the
people and let the people decide, And that's ultimately where
this needs to go. There'll certainly be legal fights if
this bill moves forward, certain of that, and it's just
going to be a lot of back and forth here
over the coming years.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Look as Weber, deputy legal counsel at the Wisconsin Institute
for Law and Liberty, joining us about the latest gambling battle.
Now sports betting. Of course, sports betting has been on
the casinos and did did the legislature. I forget did
they have to deal with that first and foremost? Now again,
you can bet on sports, but you have to be

(57:40):
on tribal land in Wisconsin to do that. Was that
a legislative move?

Speaker 11 (57:46):
No, it was not, And that was all done you Latterly,
Governor Evers negotiated amendments to the compacts and he's purportedly
allowed to do that because of a Supreme Court decision
from the state of Wisconsin in the early two thousands.
Kind of gets into some some legal back and forth there.
We actually put on a memo kind of explaining some
of this. But I don't want all your listeners to
do to fall asleep on me here today. But that

(58:08):
was how that all came to be. The governor just
negotiated an amendment directly with the tribes. The legislature has
no oversight or control over that.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
Are you kidding me? That that memo, my friend, it's
it's like or well stuff. I mean, it's it's poetry
and it's it's it's very informative, very very instructive on
that front. Now here's a question for you, what could
possibly go wrong with having Governor Tony Evers negotiate something

(58:40):
exclusively on behalf of of Wisconsinight's uh, He's got a
great track record, of course, of doing things unilaterally that
would never hurt the property tax payers in Wisconsin. Right.

Speaker 7 (58:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (58:56):
I mean, I think anytime anybody is making these kinds
of decisions, you know, latterly, it's a bad idea. Right,
we need to have oversight. You need to have the
public involvement, You need to have the people of Wisconsin engaged.
Anytime you have these kind of backroom deals to make
these amendments, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm not
much of a gambler, and when I am, i'm a
bad gambler. And one of the things I'll be honest
with you that I hate about modern sports radio is
you can't find a show on the radio today that
doesn't have some sort of betting line on it. And
I don't give a crap about that. But there are
a lot of people who do care about this, and
they want this in the state. But here's the question.

(59:36):
You guys are free market folks through and through. How
is this a free market issue that we keep hearing about?
If tribal lands tribes have just exclusive control of this.

Speaker 11 (59:51):
Yeah, we put in our memo with some of the
outlines on that. We actually think there are some constitutional
issues with that. I think that's going to be an
area that courts are going to have to dive into
in the coming years, whether or not it's lawful to allow,
you know, one particular group of people to have casinos
and no one else, whether that comports with you know,
the equal protection guarantees in our in our state and

(01:00:12):
federal constitution. So those are very real questions. I think
there's a lot yet to be answered on gaming law
from our perspective organizationally, and we're a free market organization.
If people want to gamble, there's a way to do it.
You just simply change the constitution to say that it's
you know, you can, you can allow it. The legislature
can then repeal whatever laws they want and and anybody
can enter the marketplace. But until they do that, the

(01:00:35):
legislature simply lacks the power to do the one thing
here that the Travel Gaming alwyats are asking them to do.
And unless they unless the people who Wisconsin give them
that authority, they simply don't have it.

Speaker 7 (01:00:47):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
And maybe that's changed. I mean, the people of Wisconsin
back in the early nineteen nineties, and I was a
voter at that time, they did not approve of gambling
in Wisconsin. Obviously, it's into the constitution. Maybe maybe if
you have a constitutional amendment vote on this. A lot

(01:01:08):
of things have changed. I mean, I never thought in
the early nineteen nineties that I would smell weed coming
out of Illinois as I drive down the southern border
of Kenosha into Illinois. Actually, you don't even need to
have that because in Milwaukee you can't go anywhere without
smelling weed. Obviously, ideas and mores have changed in this area.

(01:01:34):
Why are these folks who on both sides, who are
pushing for sports betting in Wisconsin, why don't they just say, hey,
let's leave it up to the people of Wisconsin.

Speaker 11 (01:01:46):
You know, I think you've got the casinos that exist
now that have that monopoly. They want to protect it, right,
They want to box out competition, they want to maximize
as much money as they can, and their lobbyists who
are in Madison are trying.

Speaker 7 (01:01:56):
To protect that.

Speaker 11 (01:01:57):
And that's you know. I mean, I think you know,
whether you agree with them or not, I think everybody
kind of understands why they're doing it. And then you've
got these some of these other you know, people who
want to get involved in in gaming who are on
the other side here, and you know they're fighting that
out and whether this is good or bad. And again,
our perspective is just if the people of Wisconsin want this,
there's a lawful way to do it and an unlawful

(01:02:17):
way to do it. The way they're doing it right
now is unlawful. It's unconstitutional. If you want to do this,
there's a couple other steps you have to do, and
the people of Wisconsin they are going to have to
give you that power. And that's spread through the way
it should be. The people should have a say in this.
You know, if they want to amend our constitution, that's
up to the people of Wisconsin. If they've changed their mind,
they're allowed to do that. There's an amendment process, then
they should engage in that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Lucas, it's also sneaky to me. I get a I
always get a creepy Crawley feeling when an issue of
this magnitude is moved forward on a voice vote. What
are you hearing from Madison about that? And what are
you hearing about the Senate Senator lem Mehew apparently has

(01:03:03):
some way to get around the regular process. What's that
all about? What are you hearing these days on that?

Speaker 11 (01:03:09):
Yeah? So for the listeners who don't know, a voice
vote is a way for the legislative bodies to vote
without actually putting their names out there and saying who
voted yes or no. It just sort of passes and
nobody objects to it. So in the Assembly, on a
voice vote. In the Senate, I know there's opposition to it,
the Senate will probably likely voice force a recorded vote

(01:03:30):
and everyone will have to say where they are yes
or no on it if it moves forward in the Senate.
And again I know there's a lot of opposition out
there and they're talking about it. There's not a lot
of time left for them to make decisions on it.
But you know, if it comes forward, we've seen it before,
you know, when when lawmakers oppose something. Obviously, you know,
lawmakers and leadership have other tools in their toolbox in

(01:03:51):
ways that they can kind of force this stuff through.
We've seen it used before against like wedding Barnes for example.
There are tools out there that could use to try
to push this stuff through. So it'll be interesting to
see as a matter of legislative procedure how this all
plays out, of course, but would certainly hope that if
it does play out, at least there's a record so
the people of Wisconsin can see, you know, how everybody voted.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Agreed, agreed, well, and please don't sell yourself short that memo.
It's exquisite writing. It's it is, it's pure poetry. It's
it's Shakespeare. It tells tells you what you need, tells
you what you need to know about the law, and
that's extremely important in this debate. It has to follow

(01:04:36):
the law. Lucas, as always, thanks for your insight, your expertise,
and your time.

Speaker 7 (01:04:41):
Thanks for having me Kit.

Speaker 11 (01:04:42):
I'll have a great weekend everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Lucas Weber, deputy legal counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for
Law and Liberty, joining us about the latest gambling battle
in the Badger State. Next, we go to Hollywood, Well,
we go to Boulder, Colorado. That's where Christian Toto is.
He runs a great website called Hollywood in Toto. Yeah,

(01:05:09):
it borrows from his name. Conservative movie reviewer. We're going
to talk about the oscars straight ahead. I hope you
will stay with us. Kittle here you are there on
the Dan o'donald Show. Hang on doing that voodoo that
we do so well The Dan o'donald Show Friday, Welcome
to the Ride Home, Kittle, your radio talk show host

(01:05:33):
Phil and Daddy doing just that. Filling in today and
filling out. I'm going to have to cut out the
massive amounts of soda that I consume. Hey, coming up
in the five o'clock hour, we lost an absolute legend
here in the state of Wisconsin, a really super great man,
a Hall of Famer, not just because he brought us

(01:05:57):
victory after a long desert of defeat we Green Bay
Packer fans, but the great Bob Harlan passed away at
the age of eighty nine. I talked to a guy
who covered Bob Harlan extensively over the I think the
rebuild and then beyond and the glory years, the glory

(01:06:21):
years that in the main continue and the gentleman we're
going to talk to, of course, is producing this show
here right now, Doug Russell. Will talk to Doug. Like
I said, just after the five o'clock news, get you
caught up on all of the information and all of
that stuff. But now, hooray for Hollywood of these old clips,

(01:06:49):
black and white movie clicks that the old band happily
playing Glenn Miller on his clarinet in a big white
and it's beautiful. It harkens back to a different time,
a much different time in Hollywood, the Golden years. I

(01:07:10):
think that time has passed for a lot of reasons.
Thinking of all of that. Of course, the Oscars are
coming up, the Academy Awards. So who's a lock to
win an Oscar this year? Who's taking home Best Editing?

Speaker 7 (01:07:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
I can't wait. Have you seen any of the movies nominated?
How much nausea can the self congratulatory woke show pump
out this year?

Speaker 6 (01:07:36):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Christian Toto, Award winning film critic, journalist and founder of
Hollywood In toto Excellent website, joins us now for what
to expect at the ninety eighth Academy Awards. Good afternoon, sir,
how are you?

Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
I'm great? Thanks for having the show.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Absolutely, you know you've got a standing invitation here. We
love your website and your podcast will talk about that
in just a moment. Okay, so here we are who
the excitement is building Christian next weekend, not this weekend.
Next weekend, we can hardly contain ourselves. It's the ninety
eighth Academy Awards. One thing I'm glad to see, am

(01:08:15):
I correct in this that Conan is still a topping
the bill to host this.

Speaker 7 (01:08:19):
Conan O'Brien, Yeah, yeah, not the worst pick, and he
can be solid, and he can be funny, and he
is less of thisive than others. So yeah, I mean
rather have Ricky Gervais on the podium, but we can't
have him. Conan's not a bad plan base.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Exactly. He has for the most part, tried to stay
out of all of the political nonsense going on. Speaking
of political nonsense, before we get to the big movies,
the nominees, what are you expecting from this crew given
the current situation, the war in Iran and again the

(01:08:55):
return to the Trump two point zero.

Speaker 7 (01:09:00):
You know, it's funny. During the early Trump years, these
award shows became d nc rallies and it really chased
a lot of viewers away. But in the last few
years they've been course correcting a bit where it's not
as political. It's just the entertainers it's a lot of
thank you, thank you, I appreciate you, blah blah blah,
which is good, and then more recently, I feel like

(01:09:21):
a swinging path to the bad old recent things. So
I don't know what to suspect. There's certainly no shortage
of topics that they could opine on, and I'm sure
if you look at the red carpet there's going to
be a ton of ice out or bleep ice or
something buttons being worn by the beautiful people. But yeah,
I have to say, I just don't know. It won't

(01:09:41):
be unmentioned the usual topics, but I don't know how
far they'll go into it, because I think in recent
years even the Hollywood elite have realized that they're shooting
their cells in the foot in their industry because this
is really ultimately an advertisement for movies, and that's what
this is all about. This is, hey, look at these
where's look at these pretty people. Go see these movies,

(01:10:02):
you know, stream them, see them, rent them, whatever, And
I think they've often forgotten that. And I think in
recent years, because the industry is really suffering a lot
of body blows from multiple fronts, they've been trying to
you know, ratchet it down. But I don't think they
can help themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
I don't think they can either. They're insufferable, and I
think they're going to continue to be insufferable. Well, let
me ask you this question related to it. Will there
be ice arrest at the Academy Awards? There certainly are
a number of illegal immigrants who have helped make the
magic of Hollywood over the years.

Speaker 7 (01:10:36):
Yeah, listen, I'm all for border and forever. I think
I want to see that. That sounds like a worst
case scenario in any ways, So let's just let the
let the guards keep the risk out of the ceremony,
let the stars do what they do, and let's just
let's just hope that the show somehow gets in under
three hours. That can never do it. I just you know,

(01:10:57):
it's the one show I need to watch. It's my job,
and it's the one thing I dread because it's so
long and so boring and so filled with lectures. And
I'm thinking, oh, at least they can make it shorter,
but they always say they're going to, they always promise it,
and it just never happens.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
I know, you're your own boss, but you should give
yourself casualty pay for situations like this. Yeah, there are
a number of drinking games that will be involved in
this particular program as well. I can imagine now talking
about Ice, there is a picture nominated that has a

(01:11:34):
lot of the leftist sentiment on ice in it. As
I understand, I have not seen the movie One Battle
after another, but that up until late and then I
read your column today. Up until late that was like
the odds on winter. But hold the phone, what's going
on there?

Speaker 7 (01:11:54):
Yeah? I mean, right from these very jump, it's like
this is a lock one that'll after another. You've got
under DiCaprio, You've got Paul Thomas Anderson, who's a great director,
and the subject matter is it. I mean, it couldn't
be crafted any better for the Hollywood sort of the
mentality within the industry. It's all about the legal immigration,

(01:12:15):
about defending illegal immigrants, about attacking the government. I mean,
you couldn't write a movie that's more perfectly aligned. And
having said that, it's been the front runner forever, and
the season goes on forever. This award season just goes
on and on, and in recent days, the movie Sinners,
which is the one that has the best chance of
upsetting one battle, getting some momentum, getting some energy. And

(01:12:35):
one of the things I mentioned in that story of
Hollywood in Toto is that the craziest thing happened a
couple of weeks ago the British Award the Baptis. There
was the N word uttered and I know that's an ugly, awful,
terrible word, but the person rep syndrome and boy, he's
literally probably the last word he would ever want to
say at the event. He was backstage, but apparently the

(01:12:56):
audio that leaked out, and of course it's embarrassing, it's ugly,
but you know, you got to think about the context.
This poor guy has a syndrome, and there's a movie
about him that really shows you how delicate this is
and how terrible it is. So we've been talking about
about two or three weeks now, and that's that word
and the fallout and the fact that Sinners is a

(01:13:16):
is a production about black culture in the early you know,
nineteen thirties and racism. You don't know if that could
impact some of the voting. I mean, that's how mercurial
this whole voting process is. Did the actors say all
the right things? Did the director give a good enough
speech at the other award shows. There are so many
little things that go into Oscar season, and so all

(01:13:38):
of a sudden, what seemed like a slam dunk for
one battle after another. I don't think it's as slamdunky
as it was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
H Now, I remember talking to you a few months ago,
and I remember you really liked this movie, Marty Supreme.
Let me ask you, what is your what is your pick?
If you could be you know, the the Ayatola Oscar voting,
what what what's your pick?

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Exactly, hold on, yep.

Speaker 7 (01:14:07):
Yeah. I think Marty Sopreme was the best movie I
saw that the last past year. It's not gonna win,
although I wasn't. We talked about Sinators versus One Battle.
I think Sinders is a better movie. I think it's
brilliant and I hope it wins. But that's just the
way it goes. But Marty Supreme, I thought was going
to catapult the star Timothy Shalomy to Best Actor status
because he's a very talented guy. And now there's a

(01:14:30):
story saying that the insiders in Hollywood don't like his attitude.
He's too brash, He's this or that he came out today.
I don't you know, I don't know when the voting closes.
I think it's very soon. It might have ended already.
But he came out basically making what a ballet and opera,
saying no one cares about those art forms anymore. Again
comment I understand where he's coming from. This popular as

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they once were. But those little silly things sometimes affect
the votes, and it's just crazy because it really should
be what's the best picture, what's the best performance? And
then it was all subjective, but you do try to
boil it down to the best of the best. And
often with these events it's not that, I guess you
get sentimentality in there. You get you know, politics, you
get everything. And it's one of the reasons why you

(01:15:11):
don't care enough about the Oscars anymore, because the winners
everything comes to an asterisk.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
It sure does, Sure it does. Just a couple more
minutes left with Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto real quick
handicap the best actor, Best actress, and best Director. Where
are they going in your estimation?

Speaker 7 (01:15:35):
Well, the actor I thought was Shallo May Now it
looks like it could be Michael B. Jordan and Leonardo
DiCaprio was over in the running. So I think that's
the race there. You know, the actress, I really think
it's just going to be Jesse Buckley, who is really
just tore up the scenery and Hamnet as a grieving mom.
So I think that's the one that maybe lacke is

(01:15:57):
too strong a word. And then direct totally speaking, you know,
it's the same fight. You know. Ryan Coogler is a
terrific young director. He did Sinners. He could certainly win.
But Paul Thomas Anderson, I don't know if he's ever
won Best Director. I need to double check. He may have,
or maybe he hasn't won the Best Picture Award yet
for a movie he's done. So I think that's the

(01:16:17):
race there. And yeah, I'll be interesting to see. And
often when you watch these events, if you're crazy like
me and watch the whole thing, there's a bit of
a momentum sweep going on. So if you see a
movie winning a lot of early awards, maybe the Tech Awards,
you get the sense that that's their night. So if
Sinners starts to win a lot of early awards, that
could be a sign. And also Sinners won sixteen nominations

(01:16:39):
I believe, which is the most of any film ever.
So while I really enjoyed it film, ever, I'm sorry
a lot of other great films that defeated a good movie.
Good good watch, and I hope it does well on
Oscar Night. It deserves it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
You know, you've seen a lot of great movies in
your time in movie criticism. You've seen a lot of
duds too. Next time we have you on, we'll talk
about the latest duds if you will. We're running out
of time, but real quick, what do you got on
the podcast this week?

Speaker 7 (01:17:09):
Yeah, I've got going to intervene with the founder of
a website called worth it or woke, which is a
little bit like Rotten Tomatoes, but the critics are grating
things on that particular curve. Is this pure entertainment or
is it so woke it's exhausting? So we kind of
break down how he created the site, why he did,
and some of the some of the bumps he's kind
of hit along the way.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
They are humorous, good stuff as always, Christian Toto, Hollywood
and Toto, thanks for joining us. Good luck at the Oscars.
More to come. The Dan O'donnald Show Straight ahead, here
we go thrill seekers. Less than an hour left the

(01:17:49):
busy week on the Dan o'donald Show with your old
radio talk show host fill in Daddy Matt Kittle. Hey, Hey, buddy,
how are you welcome to the ride home? Yes, it's
time to get our weekend on. My wife always rolls
her eyes when I say things like that, and just

(01:18:10):
hearing it amplified in my headphones makes me understand why now?
Oh much much to do? Though, before we say a
do on this Friday edition of The Dan O'Donnell Show.
Coming up in just a bit. Here's a strange as
Paul Harvey used to say, strange terminology before a congressional

(01:18:35):
hearing today. I didn't know this was an issue until
we got here. Queering the map. Yes, it's a term.
It was a term officialized, made official during the Biden years,
and it involves cartography and it's really stud but an

(01:19:00):
insane you'll hear the exchange coming up a little bit
later this hour. What else do we have?

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Yes, to be well, not to be censored. A government
anti terrorism unit in the UK has flagged the works
of Shakespeare, among others as Yes, of course, right wing
extremism and fuel for terrorists. We'll talk about that a

(01:19:28):
little bit later, but now sad news to report in
Packer Land. Bob Harlan, one of the all time greats
legends of the Green Bay Packers, a guy who really
came in and cured a listing ship, an NFL storied

(01:19:51):
NFL franchise. Former Packers president Bob Harlan, who was responsible
for hiring two different general managers who won Super Bowls,
died Thursday after a brief illness. The organization reported he
was eighty nine. Harland first joined the Packers in nineteen
seventy one before being elected president and CEO in nineteen

(01:20:16):
eighty nine. This is a guy who lived and breathed
green and Gold were much of his life, most of
his life. His tenure included hiring Ron Wolf, of course,
the legendary Ron Wolf, who was the GM when the
Packers won the Super Bowl during the nineteen ninety six season.

(01:20:37):
Oh it was so good, so good. And Ted Thompson,
who helped the team win its most recent title in
twenty ten. And that makes me that much hungrier for
a new title. Of course, Packers have won a lot
of them, and again, Bob Harlan was the architect really

(01:21:02):
of that at least, you know, bringing in the brain trust,
the powers that be that turn that organization around. A
gentleman who has covered this organization for a long time,
including its management and all that it has done over
the last many many years, is the guy producing this

(01:21:22):
show right now, Doug Russell. Doug, your thoughts on the
passing of this legendary Green and gold Man.

Speaker 5 (01:21:30):
Yeah, tragic, absolutely, I mean he was eighty nine years old.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
He lived in incredible life. Nobody lives ye forever.

Speaker 5 (01:21:35):
Unfortunately, if you thought that someone could, it might have
been Bob Harlan, because it felt like he was still
involved with the team, at least on the periphery for
so long because everyone sought him out wanting to talk
about an era that I think is getting lost among
newer Packers fans because if you're of a certain age,
you don't remember what it's like to not have And

(01:21:56):
we'll see what happens with Jordan Love, but did not
have a Hall of Fame quarterback, for example, First it
was Bread, then it was Aaron, but there were you know,
there's a quarter century before that where this was a
team that was just wandering out into the wilderness after
the Lombardi era, and Bob Harlan was the one who
brought it back.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Oh my goodness, yes, you know there are there are
people listening to this show right now. God bless you.
But you have been extremely blessed over the last thirty
five years thereabouts. In the Bob Harlan era. Of course,
you went from who was before. And I'm trying to
remember Lendy and Fonte as the head coach.

Speaker 5 (01:22:34):
Right, Lindian font yeers, Yeah, Lindy and Fanti was the
head coach that Bob Harlan. Well, Indian Fonte came in
I believe in eighty eight. And so Bob Parents, Robert Parents,
Judge Parents was the president and CEO. But the one
of the things that Bob Harlan talked about through the
revival of the franchise was when Robert Parents and before him,

(01:22:55):
Dominico Anichak was the were the presidents and the CEOs.

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
It was the executive.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
Board who kept meddling in all of the decisions that
were being made. There were too many cooks in the
kitchen and one of the things that they needed to
do and what Bob Harlan needed to do was to
simplify who's making the football decisions. That was top of
his list of one of the things that had to
be done if this team was ever going to reach
the tentacle of football again.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
And it certainly did, and that stream streamlining, of course,
was a new and a refreshing way of thinking. Again,
I don't want to be labor this point, but as
a kid, a young kid in the nineteen seventies and
in my formative years in the nineteen eighties, you're not

(01:23:46):
going to believe this, but there was a time when
Chicago Bears fans used to be able to mock us. Okay,
does that put it in perspective? Now, that's a team,
the Chicago Bears, a storied franchise, obviously, but a team
that has seen Doug how many four hundred and sixty
four quarterbacks in the Bob from the Bob Harlan start.

Speaker 5 (01:24:08):
Well, put it this way, the Bears, the city of
Chicago produced a pope before they have a four thousand
yard passer.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
So that puts it in perspective, no doubt about that.
What was Bob Harlan as he went about recognizing that change,
first and foremost was needed in this organization. What was
it that you remember him most being in the room

(01:24:34):
when they said, Hey, this kid who played football in
Mississippi who is sitting on the bench in Atlanta, I
believe that he's going to be a future franchise quarterback.
Was that his biggest move, along with of course Ron
Wolf and the rest.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
The biggest move that yes and no.

Speaker 5 (01:24:54):
So the biggest move that Bob Harland did was to
powerplay the executive board to giving all of the authority.
And Ron Wolf actually went to Bob Harlan and asked
permission to trade a first round draft choice to the
Atlanta Falcons for this quarterback that Paul Tagliabu, the late
Paul tag Leaboo when he was drafting, you know, announcing

(01:25:16):
the draft choice, mispronounced his name Brett Favre, And so
nobody really knew who this guy was, even though he
was a second round draft choice. But he fell out
of favor with Jerry Glanville. Maybe Brett was parting a
little bit too much, but he had this rocket arm.
And when Ron Wolf was with the New York Jets
as a scout, he wanted to draft Brett Favre. Unfortunately,

(01:25:36):
he got sniped by the Atlanta Falcons. He was going
to draft him for the Jets, but the Falcons beat
him to it. But he and Jerry Glanville never got
along a long way of saying that. When Ron Wolf
went to Bob Harland to ask permission to trade a
first round draft choice to the Atlanta Falcons.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
Bob said, that's your decision. That's we gave you that power.

Speaker 5 (01:25:55):
If that's what you feel is the best thing to do,
that's what you are in to do.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
That was the biggest move that he made.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
Yeah, and the rest obviously his history and legendary at
that Yeah, I remember that moment. I shouldn't say I
remember that moment. I remember seeing all kinds of audio
clips of Tagliobo mispronouncing Brett's name. And then, of course
I was in the movie theater a few years later

(01:26:26):
when Brett Favre showed up something about Mary. Of course,
but he had established it, had established himself, of course,
as one of the great great arms in football already
by that time. And interestingly enough, he ended up with
the Jets for a for a short period of time,
just as the next Hall of Famer, upcoming Hall of

(01:26:48):
Famer did and Aaron Rodgers. How much was was Harlan
still pretty actively involved on that front as well.

Speaker 5 (01:26:56):
Yeah, I mean when it comes to play a person
on Now, Bob Harlan was in charge when Aaron Rodgers
was drafted, but he also hired Ted Thompson. You mentioned
that Bob Harlan the only person to hire two general
managers that won Super Bowls with entirely different rosters. That's
still an NFL record, and when you think about it,
it's pretty mind boggling. But one of the things that
Bob Harland did again with Ted Thompson, was you make

(01:27:19):
the decision and just to get out of the way
was something that was crucial for the Packers, not only
winning Super Bowl thirty one, but also winning Super Bowl
forty five. The other thing about Bob Harlan is, and
it shouldn't be lost that in the early two thousands,
lambeau Field had fallen into disrepair and it needed to

(01:27:39):
be modernized, and Bob Harlan kept making the case to
Brown County voters that you know, we can't move, but
we can be really bad if we don't have the
finances to compete with other teams in the NFL. That
are spending more money than we are able to do.
And he made that case. And this is coming off
the heels and you remember the bloody fight that Miller
Park was.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
This has come off the heels of that.

Speaker 5 (01:28:01):
And Bob Harlan just kept making the case and kept
making the case and kept making the case. And it
did pass, obviously, but by the slimmest of margins. But
without Bob Harland, it wouldn't have passed, and we wouldn't
have the Cathedral of Sports that we now have at
the corner of Lombardi and Oneida.

Speaker 1 (01:28:19):
I can tell you this, there was a certain former
Racine senator who is so glad he wasn't in on
that decision. That's a long time ago. Now it feels
like a long time ago, all right, So final thought
for you. We talked about the good times that Bob
Harlan brought as president, mainly because he had a good

(01:28:42):
deal of trust in the people below him to do
the job. Is that his ultimate legacy because I know
he loved Green Bay with all of his heart. Kevin Harland,
his famous son, has noted that on multiple occasions.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (01:28:56):
I mean, I think everybody's got a Bob Harlan story,
My Bob Hartrland story is that when I first got
hired at WTMJ on the Packers Radio Network in nineteen
ninety six, I was a nobody. I was just a
producer that had, you know, kind of worked by I
was twenty two, twenty three years old.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
I literally I was nobody in this business.

Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
Bob Harlan wrote me a handwritten letter just congratulating me
and welcoming me to the Packers Radio Network.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
I was blown away by that. And every time I.

Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
Would call Bob Harlan's office, Bob Harlan would pick up
his own phone.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Nobody who does that. Bob Harlan did that. Nobody does that?

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Yeah, no doubt about it. And that's the kind of
guy that he was. It sums it up right there,
a guy who was extremely accessible. The reporters I've known
over the years, covering the locker room and covering, you know,
the management side of things, have said that over and
over again, you could not both he and Ron Wolf

(01:29:57):
in many regards, you couldn't meet more accessible managing NFL franchise.
So he he will be missed, of course, his legacy
will live on. Bob Harlan passing away at eighty nine. Thanks, dog,
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
Yeah, of course, absolutely, Thanks for letting me talk about Bob.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:30:18):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
And by the way, he never let anybody call him
mister Harland either. He was always just called like Bart Starr.
I tried to call Bart Star mister Starr. No, No,
it's Bart. Same thing with Bob Harlan. I tried to
call him mister Harland. No, it's Bob, that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:30:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Mike Holmgren was a lot that way too. He didn't
want anybody to call him mister Holmgren except for me.
He demanded that call him mister Ah good good times.
All right, we'll take a break. Coming up straight ahead,
just about forty minutes left of the old Friday edition,

(01:30:52):
I'm gonna talk a little bit about the censorship factory
in UK and the United Kingdom, and it's getting worse
and worse and worse. Stick around. More to come this
edition of the Dan o'donald Show with your radio amigo
Matt Kittle, hang on, hey you yeah, you right there, Yeah,

(01:31:12):
I'm talking to you. Thanks for listening. I dig that man.
Keeping it real, we're keeping it right. So Dan O'donald's
show with your old radio amigo, Matt Kittle. A couple
of things I wanted to note here. How demonic is this?
First and foremost, the Indiana excuse me an, Indiana court

(01:31:38):
blocks abortion ban on religious grounds. Yeah, get a load
of this in Indiana. And Indiana court blocked the state's
near total abortion ban on Thursday, finding the law ran
a foul of religious freedom protections. Yep, that's right. The

(01:32:01):
American Civil Liberties Union. You think they're going to be
fighting on behalf of the unborn? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. It's for the ACLU. The unborn have no rights,
the SELU claims in the twenty twenty two class action
on behalf of anonymous women and the advocacy group Hoo's

(01:32:25):
your Jews for Choice. I have all their albums, by
the way, that the Indiana law violates religious freedoms by
burdening the ability to obtain an abortion in accordance with
their sincerely held beliefs, their religious beliefs. In her seventeen

(01:32:51):
page ruling, Marion County Judge Christie Christina our Kleinman blocked
the law from being in forced against the plaintiffs, including
any Indiana resident who objects to the ban on religious grounds. Well,
that kind of takes away the you know, the entire legislation,

(01:33:13):
the entire law. Anybody could say, I object. My religion
tells me my patron saint, planned parenthood tells me that
I should have as many abortions as I possibly can.

(01:33:38):
What faith is this, by the way, that says what church?
Well we know what church it is. It's the the
church of the radical left. And this court says, yeah,
there's a good idea. Yeah, yeah, I can see where

(01:33:58):
those constitutional partet for the faithful bowing to their god. Abortion.
That's a good thing. This is what the judge said.
The court finds that there is significant public interest in
ensuring the religious freedom of all citizens, and the state's

(01:34:21):
position that religious freedom is somehow less important than other
exceptions in the abortion law puts the court in an
untenable position and finds a permanent injunction. The only proper
relief this judge is she's a puritanical libertarian, isn't she.

(01:34:48):
We all know some of those folks. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Freedom, freedom for everybody, freedom for everything, you bet,
butcher and babies. Yeah, abortion up to nine months. You
bet bring it. That's the same line of thinking here. Previously,

(01:35:11):
the Indiana Court of Appeals had ruled that the law
likely violated Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but stopped short
of blocking the abortion ban, which has been upheld in
a separate case by the Indiana Supreme Court. So this
lower judge says, ah, hey, Supreme Court, go pound sand.

(01:35:33):
She says this. And here's the thing that you can
you can get by reading the ruling and knowing a
little bit about the judge, and that is this. She
doesn't give a damn about religious freedom. She gives a
damn about people having the ability to have abortions on

(01:35:54):
demand of upholding, upholding infanticide. That's what this is all about,
the right to murder an unborn child. I'd like to

(01:36:15):
I have not. I'd like to take a look at,
as I have long said, followed the money. See how
much the old planned parenthood has dropped into the coffers
of this judge. Although I can't remember now if they
have elections like we do in Wisconsin, number of states

(01:36:38):
do not. The Act prohibits the government from substantially burdening
an individual's exercise of religion. That's the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Unless the Indiana government has compelling interest and uses the
least restrictive means available, that's a good thing. That's a
really good thing, because we have seen governments over and

(01:37:01):
over again restrict the religious freedoms of all kinds of people,
in all kinds of different faiths. But I submit to
you the Church of Abortion Rights is not a faith.
I don't think it is too much to ask there
be limitations on nutty and quite frankly evil crap. Now,

(01:37:26):
speaking of crap, let's go across the palm. Shall we
listen all crap from Great Britain. Oh, let's just say
not so great Britain. According to Fox News, a government
anti terrorism unit and the United Kingdom has reportedly flagged

(01:37:47):
key English literature as potential triggers for right wing extremism.
That's right, leading one author whose work is on the list,
too bad the agency strategy. What constitutes triggers for right

(01:38:08):
wing extremism? Classic authors such as C. S. Lewis, j R. R.
Tolkien as the Lord of the Rings. You know, you
know what it is. It's that whole uh Schmiegel. It's
the Schmigel Thing, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, Aldous Huxley all

(01:38:34):
included on the list of potentially problematic text compiled by
Prevents Research, Information and Communications Unit. That's the anti terrorism wing,
according to The Spectator. Other authors whose work is allegedly

(01:38:57):
shared by people sympathetic with the far right and Brexis Brexit,
I had a little Brexit for breakfast also reportedly include
Thomas Hobbs, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Adam Smith.
Some of the great thinkers of Western civilization are triggering,

(01:39:25):
triggering right wing extremism. Oh yeah, you know, Adam Smith.
The invisible hand, That invisible hand could strap on a
body bomb something. William Shakespeare is on this list. William Shakespeare,

(01:39:47):
how many? Well, I think it's a fair question to
ask how many of your how many of your terrorists
in your terror cells across the country are flipping through
the pages of Midsummer Night's.

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
Dream or.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet. In twenty eleven, the UK introduced
the prevent Duty as a component of its broader counter
terrorism approach, or what many of the Brits like to
call their book banning society. It is known as contest.

(01:40:37):
Its primary objective is to employ preventative measures to decrease
the risk of terrorist threats, which encompasses the prevention of
individuals from being enticed into terrorist activities. According to its guidance,
apparently going to Little Earth will get you into the

(01:41:03):
terrorist club, or there are concerns that you'll become an
international terrorist by reading The Lord of the rings. Ulster
Unionist Party counselor John Kyle blasted the list. According to
Northern Irish Outlet newsletter, I know what communist and ttalitarian
regimes have viewed Christianity as dangerously subversive. But when the

(01:41:27):
British government labels C. S. Lewis's Narnia books a terrorist threat,
its counter terrorism unit has lost touch with reality. It has,
I agree, but it has been taken over co opted
by Marxist thinkers who have also, by the way, curiously strangely,

(01:41:55):
decided to turn over the keys of their local and
state governments to a lot of people who preached terrorism.
They have also made it a lot easier for people

(01:42:19):
to be knifed by actual terrorists in their streets. But
Narnia teaching Christian principles that's a bridge too far for
these dopes. Author Douglas Murray, who first reported on the list,

(01:42:40):
echoed Kyle, noting that his own twenty seventeen book, The
Strange Death of Europe, was also flagged. He told Fox
News Digital that the list quote is a sign that
the people advising the government have completely lost their way,
and I would quickly add their mind. This is quite

(01:43:01):
typical that you set something up in government to deal
with one issue and it ends up spreading its remit
until it's remit is so broad that it includes the
mainstream text of the culture, said Murray. It's one of
those sentences you actually have to read in an English
accent that he uses at least around at least around

(01:43:25):
my neighborhood. I don't hear a lot of spreading. It's remit,
spreading it's remit. Murray noted Prevent was first established to
combat Islamic extremism, but has since shifted its focus. Yes, again,
you have Islamic extremism bleeding in the streets of London.

(01:43:48):
You have people being stabbed and murdered by Islamic extremist
and to make this sound fair, you're going to have
to put on the list of potentially terrorism driving literature,
the classics of all time. Yes, the Left and its

(01:44:14):
bigger and bigger government bureaucrats have absolutely lost their minds,
coming up more more losing of minds. Queering the map.
It's an actual term, and it was an actual activity
during the Biden years. More on that straight ahead here

(01:44:34):
on the Friday edition of the Dan o'donnald Show with
yours truly, Matt Kittle, stay with us. Oh won't you
take me to funky town? It's Friday Friday night. Oh yeah,
that's a funky business going on tonight. I bet around
uh Milwaukee, Madison, the entire badge estate, everyone is gonna

(01:44:54):
get down, cut loose, you know. Or maybe you'll be
like me and roll up into a sleep coma and
wake up at some very distant time with your beard
grown out like Rip Van Winkle. Yes, that's how I'm

(01:45:16):
spending my weekend. Just a few things want to get
to before we get on out today. The first thing is,
you know, I like the fact that we have maps,
location devices. Electronically we can go wherever you want to

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and I rarely, although at times still I rarely get lost,
you know, with the old GPS, that the trackers, the
smartphones right at our hands. We can drive here to there.
We don't need to worry about those big old maps, right,
the ones that you always took out. Dad used to

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take out big things. And then he tell you, can
you frold this map up for me? Because he was
behind the wheel of the car and he said, yeah, yeah, Dad,
good And then all of a sudden it ends with
him screaming at you because you're an idiot and can't
roll the map up right. It's always fun as a
kid to sit in the back seat if you if
you did roll the map up right, you finally learn

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that that trade. Then the old man would give you
his trust and he'd lets you take the map out
and look at it, and you know, oh, we're going
here and look at this lake and this is oh,
this is wonderful, this is interesting. What's life like an Arkansas?
You would think as you were heading up north to
the lake. But never ever did I see on those old,

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old timy maps, uh, anything remotely close to a queer map.
I kid you not. This is a term that government
officials have used and acted upon State Department at a

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hearing congressional hearing earlier this week apologizes to Slovakia. They
have to apologize to an entire country for Biden era
program queering the map. The chairman of the committee that

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took a look at this whole issue on Biden's State
Department spending is a representative from Florida. In fact, I
think we might have referenced him earlier in the show
if you're keeping score. Representative Brian mass a Republican from Florida,
and you can tell the frustration in his voice by

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this state department official who said this, I kid you not.
During the hearing, I think we were trying to make
the maps more gay. Listen in to this exchange.

Speaker 12 (01:48:06):
It's very literally, very helpful, because as you witnessed yourself,
we have we will have members literally say, nah, Republicans
just made that up that didn't exist. You shouldn't be
sidelining funding from these agencies. They weren't really doing these things,
and their hand is in the cookie jar and they
won't believe it. They probably won't even believe it if

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you submit the records. But I would prefer you submit
the record. Can you tell me what is queering the map?

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
So I think we were trying to make the maps
more gay. Literally, well, how do you make a map
for especially at all?

Speaker 8 (01:48:42):
You know, since the age of carps.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
But maybe they weren't gay enough.

Speaker 1 (01:48:49):
I love I love masks exchange here. I love his question,
how do you make the maps more gay or gay
at all? How did maps become gay? Well? Quite frankly,
we've seen a few maps of Lithuania that are quite bisexual.

Speaker 11 (01:49:15):
I roll it, so I know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:18):
Also, I took critical theory in college. I think sometimes
people use queer as a verb.

Speaker 12 (01:49:21):
I do understand that the maps that we were trying
to make gay were I think of Czechia and Slovakia.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):
So maybe that's it right there. First and foremost, this
is an official working in the state department who took
critical theory in college, so she has a grasp of
what queering the map means. She should be immediately relieved
of her duties.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
By the way those countries asked for it.

Speaker 11 (01:49:49):
I doubt it, but I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:49:51):
We do have real things to work on in Congress,
like what's going on with the imminent threat of Iran,
and it is embarrassing that we have to talk about
the fact that things like this were funded, non binary
and trans Francophones, linguistic attitudes and ideologies towards inclusive French
in Montreal, Canada. These things, I'm going to give you
a list. My time is expired.

Speaker 2 (01:50:11):
I'm going to give you a list.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
Of these and any of these that.

Speaker 12 (01:50:15):
You can provide me the receipt for the Facebook link
to where they wanted to take photos of how they
were doing a Deia flash mob in Kreigastan. You know,
whatever documentation they have of all of these things, we
would love to see that and would absolutely love to
know the individuals specifically that we're busy writing these grants

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because they have no business receiving another paycheck from the
people of the United States of America. In that I
will recognize Representative Schneider.

Speaker 1 (01:50:48):
Thank you, sir. A little common sense, man. It just
reminds you of how much this administration has to clean up.
Certain it's a race against the clock because in politics,
you know, things are very subject to change and are
more than likely to change with the political whims in

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America today. Again I point out hasten to point out
that if you do not want more queering of maps,
if you don't want to pay for inclusive flash mobs
in Kazurkistan. If you don't want trans plays and poetry

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in Libya. Quite frankly, I don't knowing where the Libyans
have stood on these things. I don't think they want
that either. Anyway, If you don't want any of these
crazy programs that have taken in just insane amounts of money,

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then you know how you got to vote coming up
in November, and the fact that you do have to
vote because this insanity is being checked right now. But look,
we're in early March of twenty twenty six. We're a
full year plus into an administration that has done very

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well in checking this, shutting this DEI stuff down, shutting concepts,
trying to shut down these kinds of insane concepts and
ideas that we have to fund. But it's just now
that they're getting to this particular section and god knows
how many more insane things that they have to deal

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with and dig up. And as Congressman Chairman Mass said,
We've got a lot bigger fish to fry right now.
And I'm sure I can hear the liberals out there saying, yeah,
we got bigger fish to fry. Why would they worry
about these maps, queering the maps? Why should they have

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to worry about that? Why was that a thing to
begin with? Why? And until they shut all of this
stuff down, some of this, I'm afraid, way too much
of it is still being the tab is still being
picked up by you and me. I don't want to

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pay for a more gay map of Czechloslovakia or the
Czech Republic or whatever thing that not the Cheche, the Czecha,
whatever that they're calling their country now. I don't want
a gay map of Slovakia again. Maps do not have

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a do not have a gender, they don't have a sex,
they don't have sexual proclivities, they don't have sex. They're
designed to d mark, demarcate where a country begins and

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where a country ends. And that leads us to why
all of this stupid stuff is happening in the first place,
Because more than queering the maps, the radical left wants
to end the borders around those countries. We have seen that,

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of course in our own country, and as we should
know by now, without a border, without a closed border,
you don't have a country. You have a place where
people show up expecting stuff from your taxpayers. And I

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don't want any more of this coming out of paying
for the money that is coming out of my paycheck,
which is way too much already. Well, on that note,
we're gonna have to get on out of here, get
our weekend on. As I like to say, I hope

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you have a fantastic weekend. Live it up, enjoy it
because you know Monday is here before you know it.
And so until we talk again, this is your old
radiomego Matt Kittle saying, make it a great weekend. Goodbye,
so long, God bless