The First Democrat Domino Falls

On Monday's "Dan O'Donnell Show," a Democrat candidate polling at one percent drops out of the gubernatorial race but it actually is a huge deal because of how it was so obviously coordinated to start the process of essentially rigging the primary against the two Socialist frontrunners.

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(01:07):
the day's biggest stories. Right now, President Trump speaking in
the Oval Office as he is signing executive orders provided
a brief update just about a second or two ago
on the status of ongoing negotiations with Iran, which Vice
President JD Vance said in Switzerland earlier today had taken
a major turn for the better, and there is an

(01:29):
agreement in place for Iranians to use unfrozen assets if
and when those assets are unfrozen to buy American cross.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
We're doing very well in terms of negotiating affair and reasonably.
One of the things that we are doing also when
he came up last night, is money that's being unfrozen
is going to be used to buy food, and the
food's going to be bought exclusively through the United States
from our farmers, and corn, soybeans, all the things they

(02:00):
need are going to be bought from our farmers. So
our farmers are very happy.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I've had a lot of calls that we're very happy
about that.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The President is still speaking in the Oval Office. Will
provide a complete update in the daily Trump Date about
an hour from now here from JD Vance as well.
Also across the pond, in the UK, Prime Minister Kiir
Starmer resigns. This is the sixth time in the last
decade a Prime minister of the United Kingdom has resigned,

(02:30):
and the issues that led to that resignation are resonating
here and across the globe. We will dive into that
as well. Biggest story I think here in Wisconsin isn't
the fact that one of the seven Democrats dropped out
and ended her bid for governor. It is in fact
that over the next twenty four hours, it is almost

(02:52):
certain that Buck superstar Jannis Ante Tokumpo is either going
to be traded to the Boston Celtics or the Miami Heat.
We are told that the Bucks are right now weighing
two offers, and they had set a deadline of the
NBA Draft to get this done. The draft, of course,
is tomorrow night. The Bucks are picking tenth, and the

(03:13):
thinking is that Jannis wanted to go to Miami. The
Bucks favored the Heat's deal, but then the Boston Celtics
came in at the last second with a very strong,
very aggressive offer of their own that includes their superstar
Jalen Brown, a draft pick or two. There might be
a third team involved in this trade. NBA insider Schams

(03:36):
Sharania on ESPN this afternoon on the Pat McAfee show.
Yes I know how Bucks fans feel about Sham's Sharania.
But quite frankly, folks, this isn't him engaging in wishful
thinking that the Bucks are going to trade janis Ante Tokumpo.
I know there's this theory that he's doing the league's
bidding and trying to force the Bucks to move one

(03:58):
of the biggest stars in league do a bigger market.
Now he has been reporting, I believe, accurately on what's
been going on behind the scenes, because frankly, I have
been hearing the same thing that Giannis no longer wants
to play for the Bucks. He believes the title window
is closed. He wants to go to a contender. And
while he loves Milwaukee and that will always be a

(04:19):
part of his heart, that will always be a home
he truly cherishes, he no longer wants to play for
this organization. Here's Sharonia This.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Aftersou executives are literally right now in their in their
offices figuring out which direction they're going to go, because
there are two offers right now that has come down
to at a serious and significant level. That's the Celtics
offer led by Jalen Brown, who's a superstar there's other
additional pieces of that deal, or an offer from the

(04:51):
Miami Heat that consists of several players, players that you
have control over on rookie scale contracts, guys that you
can extend at a reasonable number, and a surplus of
draft capital. And so they're two totally different offers. The
Bucks are trying to navigate internally, which direction do we go.
Everything that I hear, all of my sense in my

(05:12):
reporting is that there will be a decision before the
NBA Draft. There's gonna be a resolution before the draft,
so I think over the next twenty four hours. So yeah,
as soon as today, there's going to be a resolution.
This has been something that's been going on for thirteen months,
but at a serious level since February, when the Bucks
took a bunch of calls, got a bunch of offers
that really laid the groundwork for what we're seeing right now.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Now. This isn't coming out of nowhere. Giannis has been
very clear that he wants to play for a contender,
and that if he doesn't believe that the Bucks are
a contender, that he wants to go someplace where he
can potentially win an NBA championship. He would be paired
with Jason Tatum in Boston. Tatum, of course coming off
an achilles injury, but he was able to play in

(05:53):
the playoffs. It's believed he's going to be one hundred
percent healthy for the upcoming season. If the Bucks were
to get back Jalyn Brown, that would be a great
piece to build around. However, Brown is just a couple
of years younger than Jannis, and if the point is
to rebuild, the Bucks should rebuild. Just look at the
San Antonio Spurs in Oklahoma City Thunder, two teams that,

(06:16):
before the knicks magical run to the title, it was
believed were the two best in the NBA. They were
terrible and simply flipped asset after asset after asset for
draft pick after draft pick after draft pick, stockpiled all
of them. The Spurs in particular, were big lottery winners.
They got Webbin Yama first overall, Dylan Harper second overall,

(06:37):
believe Stefan Castle was second or third overall, and the
Thunder had so many assets they were able to draft
Chet Holmgren. They were able to trade for Shay Gilgess,
Alexander's back to back MVP. The last thing the Bucks
can afford to do is be in this place where
you're not contending for titles, you're not going on deep
playoff runs, and you're just going to sort of sit

(07:00):
at the margins. You make the play in tournament and
maybe you don't get into the playoffs as one of
the top eight seeds, you get bounced right away, or
you go against the number one seed in the East,
the Cavs or the Knicks or a team like that,
and you get absolutely smoked. They did that for years
and years and years in the early two thousands, following

(07:21):
the one NBA East Finals appearance where they lost controversially
to the Philadelphia seventy six ers. That was Herb Cole's strategy,
Let's just get a couple of playoff games so we
can boost some revenue. That doesn't work. I believe they
need to take the deal where they're able to get
the most draft picks, the most assets they can flip

(07:43):
for more draft picks, young players that they can build around,
and accept that they're going to be a bad team
for a couple of years. You're going to have to
try to have to explain to the fans, what did
the seventy six ers famously say trust the process that
we're gonna suck, We're going to be able to rebuild.
It's not just in basketball. Look at the Houston Astros.

(08:06):
They lost one hundred games something like two or three
seasons in a row before breaking through and cheating their
way to the World Series a few years back. That's
the way to do it. The Milwaukee Brewers are providing
a pathway. They are drafting well, they are developing young talent.
They've got the best farm system in Major League Baseball.
The NBA is quite a bit different because you're only

(08:28):
drafting one or two players each year, and second round
picks typically don't even make the roster half the time.
But the bottom line is that this is a pivotal
moment for the franchise. It's unfortunately a sad moment for
the city of Milwaukee in the state of Wisconsin, as
Giadis has been the biggest superstar athlete in the state

(08:50):
I think since Aaron Rodgers left the Packers, and he's
been just a great citizen, great representative of Milwaukee and Wisconsin,
and he is absolutely going to be missed. So we
will continue to cover that. We are on Yannis watch.
If a trade happens during this show. Of course, we
will provide complete coverage. You will hear about it as

(09:11):
quickly as I hear about it on the Dan O'Donnell Show.
Big political news today, And why is it big when
a candidate who's polling at about one percent, and I
dare say ninety nine percent of people in this state,
including in this audience, a very politically savvy crowd, doesn't
know who she is. Why is it such a big

(09:34):
deal that she's dropping out? Well, it's because of what
it signals about the state of the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Missy Hughes, who is the former head of the Wisconsin
Economic Development Corporation WEEDC and would be considered one of
the most moderate, if not the most moderate, candidates in

(09:56):
the race, announced today that she is suspending her camp
Pain and endorsing Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez. Now, the fact
that this happened right away on a Monday morning, It
was about mid morning today, right about oh, i'd say,
six weeks before the Democratic primary, and right after a

(10:21):
convention in which Rodriguez won the wis Politics straw poll
and selectively leaked an internal poll that essentially showed that
she was the only non socialist, non crazy candidate who
had a chance to win ladies and gentlemen. It is
my very firm belief that Missy Hughes is simply the

(10:43):
first Democrat Domino to fall in the party's efforts to
essentially rig this race for Sarah Rodriguez. They don't want
Mandela Barnes running statewide again. And in fact, we have
an exclusive SoundBite a video that we were able to
obtain of an interview that Mandela did at some point

(11:06):
in the last couple of days. It was just posted
online today in which he struggles mightily over one of
the easiest questions you could possibly be asked. They don't
want Mandela, and they certainly don't want Francesca Hong because
it is widely believed that neither of them can beat
Tom Tiffany in a general election. Remember, Tiffany, who doesn't

(11:29):
have a primary, is already out framing this race, and
he has been framing this race for months, as this
is a choice between common sense and crazy. If the
Democrats nominate crazy, it plays right into Tiffany's hands. In
her statement earlier today announcing that she's dropping out, Hughes

(11:51):
said the following. Leadership is about making choices, having thought
long and hard about the qualities and proven experience I
think are important or governor, I believe that one person
is best positioned to lead the state in this next period.
Qualities like humility, intelligence, experience, compassion and openness. Experiences like

(12:14):
working hard, working in crisis, and keeping a cool head,
being a team player and a servant leader. These are
what are needed to govern. We are electing a governor.
This job is about running the state and getting things done.
Now here's where it gets very pointed and very very revealing.

(12:39):
As you consider what is important to you, Hughes rights,
I urge you to look beyond the talking points, social
media posts and gilded promises and consider what you think
is essential to do the job. Stop asking who will win,
and start asking who you trust to make big decisions

(13:02):
that impact our families and the well being of our
loved ones, our neighbors, and our communities. Then get out
and help that person win. While you may agree with
most candidates on the issues, this job directly impacts lives.
It is not a game or a bet. It is
a choice of where you put your energy, your resources,

(13:23):
and your vote for our future. This is why today
I am proudly endorsing Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez to be
our next governor. What is Hughes saying in that statement.
She's saying, don't trust the social media gilded promises of
the flashier campaigns. She couldn't have said Francesca Hong any

(13:44):
more clearly than if she actually came out and said
Francesca Hong. She is saying, elect somebody who can actually
do the job. Elect somebody, and part of the job
is in fact winning. She said, well, don't ask yourself
who will win or who can. Well, well, that's exactly

(14:05):
what she's saying. She's saying, elect somebody who is able
to start doing what needs to be done immediately to
impact lives and to lead this state. Well, the first
thing you've got to do is, of course, to win
the state in order to lead it. Now, if her

(14:27):
written statement wasn't clearly enough, about an hour ago, Hughes
appeared at a joint press conference with Sarah Rodriguez, again
clearly coordinated here with the Rodriguez campaign to maximize coverage
to get people even like right wing radical Dan O'Donnell
talking about this to dominate the news cycle for the

(14:47):
next couple of days to potentially put pressure on other
candidates like Joel Brennan and Kelda Royce and David Crowley
to drop out so that this race is a three
person race between Rodriguez, who the party very obviously now
wants to get behind Hong and Barnes, where it is

(15:08):
believed that the voters who were going to the other
more moderate candidates. I can't believe. I'm calling kel De
roy is a more moderate candidate, but compared to Mandela
Barnes and Francesca Kuong, she rather amazingly kind of is
the thinking is all their support once all those candidates
go out of the race is going to go to Rodriguez,

(15:29):
whereas the Barnes and Hong voters will cancel each others
out and Rodriguez will be able to win a plurality.
So here's Missy Hughes about an hour ago in her
endorsement of Rodriguez.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
As I've run this campaign and as I've talked with
Wisconsin voters, the biggest thing that they've struggled with is
how to choose between the seven Democratic candidates, and understanding
that each of the candidates brings their value to the
state and their willingness to serve is an incredible thing,

(16:04):
and I can understand why wisconsinates are struggling with that.
But it's time to make a choice. And I believe
in this moment of looking at my campaign and looking
at this race, that true leadership means stepping aside and
making sure that we coalesce around someone who can win.

(16:24):
In November. I am so thrilled to be standing alongside
the person who I think is going to be the
next governor of Wisconsin. Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Once again appointed reference to electing somebody in the primary
who can actually win a general election. Folks, it is
my very strong belief that Democrats have some polling now
and it probably had it for quite some time that
tell them that neither Mandela Barnes, who already lost statewide
for years ago, nor Francesco Hawn who's just too nutty

(17:03):
and too far to the left, stand a chance of
winning against Tom Tiffany. Remember, Tiffany has been able to
sit back bide his time. Have you noticed you haven't
really heard a whole lot about Tom Tiffany over the
last several months that's almost by design. Because he's able
to sit back, his message is resonating with people. His

(17:26):
mission statement, if you will choose common sense and not crazy,
is able to contrast with what people are seeing who
are actually following this race, and I'll admit it is
not a ton of people. Folks. By listening or watching
this show, you're probably in the ten percent most informed
people in Wisconsin. Not necessarily because you're listening to me, well, okay,

(17:46):
it's a big reason, but because you care enough about
politics that on your ride home from work, or while
you're walking the dog, or while you're taking your kids
to baseball practice, you're listening to some nerd talk about
Wisconsin gubernatorial politics for three hours. Most people aren't doing that.
Most people are listening to the radio. Most people are

(18:07):
listening to a true crime podcast. Most people. I don't
even know what goes on in most people's heads. I'm
sort of imagining like the old Simpsons, where it's a
monkey with symbols, or like you know, the old pipe
organ do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
do going on inside Homer Simpsons. That's actually how I

(18:32):
envision a whole lot of people who just, you know,
they kind of float along. They don't really have much
to say or think about the world around them, but
for the people paying attention and the people and this
this is why, folks, Because so few people are paying attention,
it's much much easier to effectively rig a race. And
this has all the signs of Democrats doing exactly what

(18:54):
I've thought for months that they are going to do
when it was clear that Mandela Barnes with it either
going to run away with this primary as it looked
like last fall, or as Hong gained momentum over the
course of the last six to eight months. It's going
to be one of them, unless, of course, Democrats do
exactly what they're doing now. And I will explain exactly

(19:17):
how all of this looks precisely like what Democrats did
in the presidential race in twenty twenty. When we come back,
Dan o'donald will be right back. Why are Democrats so
desperate to avoid Mandela Barnes being their candidate. Yes he's

(19:42):
a left winger, Yes he's a socialist, but really it's
because Democrats don't think he's all that bright. Now, this
is not Dan O'Donnell saying this. This is not the
Republican Party saying this, this is a big reason Democrats
just do not trust him to be their party's statewide

(20:04):
standard bearer. Again, remember, in twenty twenty two, the party
absolutely did rig the primary for US Senate for him
by forcing both Sarah god Luski and Alex Lazri to
drop out. Wouldn't you know it, Sarah god Luski was
rewarded by being named Secretary of State in early twenty

(20:26):
twenty three, and now she just happens to be the
only Democrat running for lieutenant governor. Isn't that weird that
there were like nine or ten Democrats all vying to
be governor. Usually the candidates like the Missy Hughes, who,
as we reported in the last segment, dropped out today
and the Joel Brennans, the Kelta Roys, who really have
no shot of winning the nomination, Usually they'll drop out

(20:49):
early and run for lieutenant governor. Or they'll just run
for lieutenant governor out of the shoot. Why is nobody
running for a lieutenant governor? Because I think it's pretty
obvious that Sarah god Luski was promised as part of
the deal for her dropping out four years ago, that
if she runs, she would have no competition. So I
believe every other candidate has been told, Okay, this is

(21:11):
Sarah's race. Nobody else is going to get in this. Now,
why is it that Democrats don't believe that Mendela Barnes
is that smart? I want you to think like you're
a very educated, areudite, learned liberal. What is the best

(21:32):
way that you can virtue signal to other liberals that
you are indeed educated and are udite and learned. Why
by saying what books you read? Bendela Barnes was on
a podcast hosted by Glendale's mayor, and he was asked

(21:57):
the softball of all softballs, what book are you reading?
This was a train wreck of an answer over one
of the easiest questions. You could guess what book is
on your nightstand or the last book you read?

Speaker 7 (22:16):
The last book I read was either like, what book
is on my nightstand? This is uh, I've developed a
habit now starting a book not finishing it open, and
so the last book would have had to be No,
it wasn't, wasn't one second, this is.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
It was?

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Actually the last book may have been.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
It was called.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Every was it?

Speaker 7 (22:48):
Everybody?

Speaker 1 (22:49):
I know?

Speaker 7 (22:50):
Has No, it wasn't that. Sorry, this is this is
getting tough because I'm trying to think of that was there?

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Here are that time too in the campaign where.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
I make sure to take my time to read book.
Let me see, this is a tough.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Okay, you need to understand something about the left versus
the right.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
All right?

Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you ask me, Dan, what's the last book you read?
What book is on your nightstand? I'd be able to
answer right away. Not because I'm some you know, pompous nerd,
but because I've been really struggling with insomnia. So instead
of just scrolling Twitter or whatever, which usually wakes me
up because inevitably I'm looking at news and I'm thinking

(23:41):
about the next day's show or something for Heartland Post
or something like that, So I need to read something
that's just going to be completely and totally escapist. So
I would say right now, I am about three quarters
of the way through Into Thin Air by John Krackaur.
It is a first hand account of the nineteen ninety
six Mount Everest Is disaster, and I've been reading it

(24:01):
for probably when was my surgery six weeks now, because
I fall asleep after reading twenty pages. I'll fall asleep
after reading a page and a half. Sometimes I'll read
five chapters because I'm up until four thirty am. By
the way, yesterday was the longest day of the year,
the summer solstice. A sunrise is at five till. I

(24:23):
can actually tell you it starts getting light from personal
experience with my d son, it starts getting light out
at about four twenty five am. I actually kind of
enjoy it. Well, I go in the front room so
I don't wake up my wife and the dog with
the light from the iPad. But okay, so I'm reading
a book right now. Before that one was the last
book I read. Well, my son was reading for an

(24:46):
ap English class like two years ago, The Devil in
the White City. You got to choose one, and he
chose that one. So I decided, okay, for the start
of the school year, I'm going to read it with him.
It's a fascinating, fascinating non fiction book about the Chicago
World's Fair in the late eighteen hundreds and a serial
killer who was operating in the city at the time

(25:07):
by the name of H. H. Holmes. A wonderful, wonderful book. Conservatives,
you know, typically we're not going to ask you to,
so what's the last book you read? But for liberals,
for libertal, oh, this is a big question because it
is the chance to virtue signal. I can't even I'm
going to say, like, if you ask a liberal ninety

(25:30):
percent of the time, what is your favorite book or
what is the last book you read, it is either
going to be something by Kurt Vonnegut or Catcher in
the Rye, not because they actually liked those books, but
because they want to sound smart. Do you know how
I know this because I did it too. The only

(25:50):
person I ever wanted to impress my girlfriend at the time,
when I was a sophomore in college now my wife,
and she asked, what's your favorite book? And I said
The Great Gatsby. I hated The Great Gatsby. I thought
it was boring as hell. It's very well written, don't
get me wrong, But I said the Great Gatsby because

(26:11):
I wanted to sound smart. I wanted to sound impressive.
I didn't want to tell her that my favorite book
is actually a comic called Watchmen, and my favorite actual
book is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which I think
technically is a children's book, which kind of makes me
sound like a a dork and be a child. So

(26:31):
I said the Great Gatsby and she read it, and
you know, because she wanted, oh, my gosh, this is
Dan's favorite book. I'm so in love with him. I
want to, you know, get it, get into his psyche
and his worldview. And she's like, man, this is boring
as hell. I can't believe this is Dan's favorite book.
I finally leveled with her, like several years later, that
Great Gatsby was not, in fact my favorite book. I
just said it to him press. That's how liberals work. Concept.

(26:54):
They constantly have to virtue signal to other liberals that
they are so educated, they are so smart. Mandela Barnes's
answer is comical because he's not quick enough say the
autobiography of Malcolm X, say one of Barack Obama's like
fifteen books about himself. Say something by Frederick I don't know,

(27:16):
and nobody will ever question you, Mandela, say, hop on
pop for goodness sake, I could have come up with him.
I could have, you know what, I could have done
a great answer on how The last book I read
was Oh the Places You'll Go, because I read it
to my kid who's graduating from high school or something
like that. In fact, my favorite honors English teacher when

(27:38):
I was in high school read us that book the
last day ever we had with her, and I still
remember it. What thirty some years later, twenty seven, I
graduated at ninety I long, I'm old, I'm old, my
memory is failing, and I could still answer the easy
book question better than Mandela. So this, in a nut shell,

(28:01):
is why they know. The Libs know they can't have
Mandela as their standard bearer. And Francesca Hong, well, she's
even worse because they don't think she has a prayer
of winning. More on this coming up the dan o'donald
she will be right back. Missy Hughes, the former WEDC director,

(28:26):
drops out. She's pulling at one percent, So on its own,
this isn't exactly the biggest news. But it wasn't as
though Missy Hughes dropped out and you know, just said, okay, hey,
I'm pulling at one percent. I see this campaign really
isn't going anywhere. She dropped out and not only immediately

(28:50):
endorsed Sarah Rodriguez, but was able to coordinate a joint
appearance with Sarah Rodriguez, in which they they held a
press conference they announced the endorsement. This just happened to
take place on a Monday mid morning, folks, if you
know a little something about politics, news news cycles, Monday

(29:13):
mid morning is about the best time to break news.
People are back at work. This is the time that
you want to dominate the news cycle, and you can
actually get one or two days, because really the weekend
is sort of the great reset when it comes to
news coverage and whatever happened. This is why bad news
is always released on a Friday afternoon. Good news, or

(29:38):
news that is designed to get saturation coverage, is typically
released early in the week on a morning so that
it basically has has maximum eyeballs on it. So the
Rodriguez campaign and Missy Hughes's campaign clearly coordinate this to

(30:00):
get the endorsement and to have Missy Hughes say in
her statement endorsing Rodriguez, effectively, Sarah Rodriguez is the only
one who can actually win. Don't fall for the gilded
promises guilded. But this is clearly, ironically enough at the Socialists.

(30:20):
It's aimed at Barnes, It's aimed at Hong. It's aimed
at the candidates who are setting social media ablaze, Francesca
Hong and the candidates who are not ready to run
on day one, not ready to serve on day one.

Speaker 9 (30:37):
I e.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Mandela Barnes. What this was was Missy Hughes saying, I
am endorsing Sarah Rodriguez. I am dropping out. The party
needs to coalesce around Sarah Rodriguez. Yes, I do believe
that absolutely Hughes was promised something, a role in the
Rodriguez administration, whatever it is that she wants in exchange

(30:59):
for this endorsement. Kel de Roy's, Joel Brennan, David Crowley,
they all get the exact same deal, and I would
expect that over the next couple of days, over the
next couple of weeks, you start to see those deals
being made, those candidates getting out of the race, and
all of the institutional Democrats support falling behind Sarah Rodriguez. Folks,

(31:23):
this is the exact same thing that happened in the
Wisconsin Democratic Party's last contested statewide primary for Senate in
twenty twenty two. Do you think it was a coincidence
that Barnes' opponents Alex Lazri and Sarah god Luski dropped
out within two days of each other. While votes were
being cast folks, early voting, mail in voting was going on.

(31:48):
When those two candidates dropped out, what possible reason could
they have to drop out? On there? They were told
to drop out. You will be rewarded if you drop out.
Democrats did the exact same thing of the presidential primary
in twenty twenty. They got every single candidate out of
the race save for Joe Biden and what do you know,

(32:09):
the two socialists Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The idea
was to have the socialist vote split between those two
candidates and Joe Biden quite literally sleepwalk to the nomination.
It worked. Pete Bootages was rewarded very handsomely with the
position of Transportation Secretary. He was allowed to launch his

(32:30):
own presidential ambitions. This is how it works in Democrat circles,
and the process is starting right now. Here's Hughes at
our press conference today.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
I believe in this moment of looking at my campaign
and looking at this race, that true leadership means stepping
aside and making sure that we coalesce around someone who
can win in November.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I mean, it really doesn't get any clearer than that,
does it. We need to coalesce around someone who can
win in November. The Sarah Rodriguez poll, that the internal
poll that she leaked right before the start of the
state convention showing her in a distant third Francesco Hong

(33:18):
all right, I'm sorry. Mandela Barnes was leading that with
twenty six percent, Francesco Hong twenty two percent, Sarah Rodriguez
distant third at fifteen percent. Why do you leak that poll?
Why do you release that poll publicly? Because no other
candidate had more than five percent. What she was saying
the day before every prominent Democrat in the state goes

(33:38):
to the convention is hey, Democrats, if you actually want
to win this race. You may not like me very
much Governor Ever's people, but I'm the only prayer you've
got of stopping Francesco Hong or Mandela Barnes and actually
beating Tom Tiffany and winning this election. Coalesce around me.

(33:59):
David Crown doesn't have a shot, Kelta Royce doesn't have
a shot. Certainly, Joel Brennan and Missy Hughes don't have
a shot, and now Hughes is saying the same thing.
Soon enough you'll have Brennan saying the same thing, Royce
as well Crowley. It is starting right now, and frankly,
if you know what to look for, it couldn't be

(34:20):
any more obvious. Unhinge Liberal of the Day is next
coming up after the top of the hour news, President
Trump signing a couple of executive orders on quantum computing.
The next generation of national defense, of artificial intelligence, of

(34:44):
everything is now, and the government is just starting to
catch up, well, at least on the civilian side. On
the military side, it appears that we are at least
twenty to twenty five years ahead of everybody else. But
President Trump also providing an update on the status of
negotiations that are going on in Switzerland, where Vice President JD.

(35:07):
Van says all of that coming up in the Daily
Trump Date right now. I'm the name the unhinged Liberal
of the Day. We are in pre Nazi Germany. Trump
is dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 10 (35:30):
America today is Unhinged Liberal of the Day is former
MSNBC or I guess it's ms NOW host Joy Read
on her podcast explaining why black people are not excited
about the upcoming Fourth of July America two fifty celebration.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Chalker, it's because of racism.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
Because in many ways, and with apologies to my dear
spicy white friends, because I'm know that my white brothers
and sisters do love a Fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
It is Independence Day.

Speaker 9 (36:05):
Everybody's barbecue, and it's a thing I can promise you
Black folks, we will take that day off.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
We will barbecue because we off with black people. That
nobody black I know is really.

Speaker 9 (36:14):
Excited about the Fourth of July because it is what
Frederick douglasson it is. It is the celebration of slaveholders
who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to the
crown for their slave empire.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
And that is what it is. No, actually that's not
what it is. It is a celebration of the values
and form of governance that once and for all abolished
slavery and the West African slave trade. Joy Read. We
could just kind of go to our podcast every day
and name her the unhinged liberal every day, but she

(36:50):
is your unhinged Liberal of the day. We're actually going
to dive into this in a little bit greater depth
than the five o'clock hour again every day this week
and next Special USA two fifty segments as we explore
the rich history of this country, talk about why it

(37:10):
is so special. We will get into that, and yes,
it is been just a truly shocking revelation. Just how
few Democrats like Joy read just how many believe what
Reed believes, that America is founding America itself because of
its original sin of slavery is not worth celebrating that.

(37:32):
You know, what Frederick Douglas she was referring to is
what is the fourth of July to a slave? That
was when human beings were enslaved in this country. That
was before this country sent tens of thousands of men
to die for the cause of liberating their fellow men

(37:52):
and women. We are the only nation on earth that
ever went to war with itself to liberate slaves from bondage. Ever,
you'd think we'd get a couple of points from Joy
Reid for that one, but of course we won't. So
we will dive into that in the five o'clock hour.
And also, I hope we have time for this. A
wonderful Father's Day essay that my own father in law

(38:16):
found for me. I believe it was in the Beloite
News about the importance of fatherhood in every generation. That
is all coming up here on the Dan o'donald show
right now, taking a break for the top of the
hour news back before you know. Well, as far as

(38:39):
we know, Jannis Antetokumpo is still a Milwaukee Buck. We
are continuing to monitor social media for what used to
be known as a woes bomb. Adrian Wojnarowski, first of
Yahoo's Sports and then ESPN was the He was basically

(38:59):
the NBA's Adam Schefter. Whenever there was a big trade
or a free agent signing or something like that, Wojnarowski
would get it first. Well, he went back to his
alma mater. Was it Saint Bonaventure? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (39:10):
St.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Bonaventure producer Doug Russell, where you impressed that on my
first guess, I knew where Adrian Wojnarowski went to college.
He went and took a job as the basketball team's
general manager. Now that they have nil deals and that
sort of stuff, so he's doing that. He's no longer

(39:31):
an NBA insider, But there used to be a woj bomb,
And the biggest woj bomb would have been if Woj
had not retired from the NBA Insider game obviously the
Luka Donjitch trade, but that was broken by Scham's Sharania,
and for some reason, the Shams bomb does not have

(39:53):
the same sort of mojo, if you will, as the
Woj bomb. But we are waiting for the Scham's bomb
tweet to drop that Yannis has been traded to either
the Boston Celtics or the Miami Heat. Folks, I think
I've made my position very clear on this. I thought
that this was inevitable really since the start of the

(40:15):
last season, that in the off season I felt like
the Bucks and Yannis were headed for a divorce. They're
at two different points, two different conflicting points. The Bucks
need to rebuild the Yannis title window is closed. They
don't have the draft capital. They don't have the assets

(40:36):
to be able to trade for young, complimentary players or
more draft picks to sort of fell areas of need.
They swung and missed badly on the Damian Lillard trade
to try to extend that title window. The Miles Turner
free agent signing was a pleasant surprise, but that didn't
work out either, and the Bucks need to blow it

(40:59):
up and rebuild Jannis for his legacy is still in
his prime. He needs to go to a place where
he can contend for NBA titles. Frankly, I thought the
Miami Heat would be a lateral move, although he and
bam Atabaio instantly form probably the most dominant front gort
duo in the league. Tyler Hero as part of that deal,

(41:20):
whitnell Alum would go to the Detroit Pistons as part
of a three or even four team trade involving the
Los Angeles Lakers. But the Boston Celtics came in at
the last second and are apparently dangling one of their
two superstars in Jalen Brown, who would go back to
the Bucks or potentially go to a third team, and

(41:41):
the Bucks get a ton of draft picks, young players
expiring contracts that they can turn for even more draft picks.
I just think that the Bucks need to be terrible
for at least a couple of years. They need to
stockpile draft picks like the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma
City Thunder did before. You can be really good. It's painful,

(42:02):
but you have to be really bad. So we are
on Yannis watch. But of course each and every day
at about four pm, we like to lead things off
by getting you caught up at what was going on
in Washington, DC before the network nightly news as a
chance to spin everything. President Trump said, and did we

(42:23):
bring you the daily Trump?

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Dad, We're gonna win so much you may even get
tired of winning.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
It's also a big win for the United States.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
We have to keep winning. We have to win more.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
We're gonna win.

Speaker 7 (42:39):
Moore.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Now, after a weekend in which Iran was saber rattling
and as the kids said, like twenty years ago, act
in a fool. Kids don't still say act in a fool?
Do they do? Do people who are like twenty five
still say act in a fool? Man? I'm so old.

(43:02):
Iran was basically trying its best to, I think, save
face in front of its people because it doesn't want
to bend the knee to the great Satan the United States.
It has to still project strength. So it was saying
Israel's ongoing efforts to clean up the last remnants of
Hesblah in Lebanon were an excuse for it not to

(43:25):
reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Well, there was significant and
I mean apparently significant progress towards not just deal points
in that memorandum of understanding, but points of resolution that
will get us to an ultimate resolution to this conflict.
President Trump, in the Oval Office, signing a pair of

(43:46):
executive orders on quantum computing, said he was very pleased
with the negotiations led by his negotiating team and Vice
President JD. Vance in Switzerland earlier today.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Very well, with rest back to the armor straight. We
took in more oil yesterday than we've ever than has
ever gone through the strain. You probably see that we
have an oil gushia. The strait is totally open, you
know that, and where negotiated. We'll see how that all goes.
But we have two things. We have an open straight

(44:20):
and we have a country that will never have a
nuclear weapon.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Will never ever have a nuclear weapon.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Now, the President was asked what he thought about Dvance's negotiations.

Speaker 11 (44:31):
I've seen some misreporting that.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Would not be the correct SoundBite. Do we have the
third Trump SoundBite, Doug, where he's talking about watching JD Vance?
There we go, all right, here's Trump, not Vance himself.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
JD.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
You're gonna have to wait. Here is Trump being asked
if he watched jd AD just for no particular reason.
Trump also just bodied elon Omar and a in praising Vance.

Speaker 12 (45:02):
You heard him, vice President?

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Are happy with his negotiation?

Speaker 11 (45:05):
Yeah, can you share a little bit about what sectory
we're doing we'll be doing in.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
The East this week. I think that they're doing a
fantastic job. Our secretary is fantastic. I think he's maybe
gonna go down as the best ever. And I thought
jad Vance this morning was fantastic. I watched his news
conference and from Switzerland. He's a very smart guy. Did
a great job. You know, when I look at the Democrats,

(45:28):
I call him the Democrats, said the Democrats. When I
watched that where one of them thought it was World
War eleven, she said world War eleven.

Speaker 7 (45:37):
She've bet World War kid.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
You know about that.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
But this is one of their potential leaders, Ilhan Omar,
who married her brother to get.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Into the country by the way illegally. But when I
watch aarc, have no idea what a simple question what
happened when she was over in Switzerland, which she probably
never went there before, but she was. And then I
watched somebody like jd Or Marco I said, what a difference.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
In fact AOC did go. I think it was about
a year almost exactly a year ago, maybe a little longer.
And she was asked some basic policy questions on Middle
East foreign policy and just absolutely nose dives. I mean,
it was just a disaster of an answer. And again

(46:26):
just like the Mandela, what books do you read? Supposed
to be an easy question. Well, here is what President
Trump was talking about JD. Vance this morning, talking about
the status of those negotiations in Switzerland with the Iranians.
So look, yesterday was a very very good day.

Speaker 11 (46:43):
We made a lot of good progress.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
We did exactly what we.

Speaker 11 (46:46):
Wanted to do, which is accomplish four things for the
American people. First, we wanted to build a mechanism for
keeping the straight Afoor moves open.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
It is open.

Speaker 11 (46:56):
We've seen, of course, gas prices and oil prices come down,
millions and millions of barrels of crude and natural gas
flowing through the Strait of Horror Moves that weren't flowing before.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
But we also wanted to make sure that we actually set.

Speaker 11 (47:08):
Out the coordination mechanism so that we could demine the
straits of horror moves so that when there are the
conflicts that inevitably come up, we can make sure we
work through them rather than that leading to escalation. And
that is exactly what we did yesterday.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
The Vice President said. Those other major points of understanding
were allowing International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors into the country
for the first time ever to ensure compliance. That would
lead to the third deal point, the potential unfreezing of
Iranian assets, and the Vice President said Trump struck a

(47:46):
Trumpian bargain by forcing those unfrozen assets to be spent
not on exporting terror as in the Iran nuclear deal
under President Obama, but rather on food for the people
of Iran, food purchased from American farmers. Why is it

(48:06):
Trump is the only president who has ever thought of
stuff like this, Like this is just part of a deal, okay,
you know, instead of just giving money to the Ukrainians
or money to NATO to fund the Ukraine work. Why
is NATO not purchasing our weaponry? Why are we not

(48:27):
striking a deal that first and foremost makes the United
States money, makes the rest of the world safer? But
why are we always expected to bear the cost? Why
aren't we thinking in this way. Same thing with Iran.
All right, not only are you going to buy food
for your people, you're going to buy American food. Vice

(48:48):
President JD. Vans In Switzerland, those negotiations are ongoing. That,
ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. Add optimism
over the standing of those otiations, where they're headed and
where we are. The fact that the Strait is in
fact open, the fact that gas prices continue to come

(49:08):
down as the price of crude oil continues to plummet.
That has sent a wave of optimism through the stock market.
And as we bring in Dave Spano, the CEO of
Annex Wealth Management, to help you know the difference, Dave,
it's not just Iran, it's also markets looking forward to
earning season coming up again, earnings expected to be through

(49:31):
the roof yet again. Also, we've had good, not spectacular,
but very good inflation reports and those were just driven
up by again the cost of fuel. We are seeing
economic indicators I think GDP projections as well that should
send this market to even greater heights, and more importantly,

(49:55):
I think improve the old overall picture of the global economy.

Speaker 13 (50:00):
Yeah, I think that's exactly where you have to start
is if we can get a good resolution. You see
that oil prices have plummeted down twenty five to thirty
percent in just the last thirty days, so that is
a big part of inflation. And inflation is of course
the big argument is is it above the FEDS mandate
of two percent? Well, clearly it is. But the expect

(50:23):
forward expectations DAN are now down to about two point
eight percent, so they're starting to price in lower oil prices,
which then of course will mean lower gasoline, lowering inflation.
At the same time, as you pointed out, you talk
about earnings expectations coming up for the next quarter again
double digits, I mean, and generally stock prices follow earnings.

(50:46):
And the last thing, of course is a GDP report.
And sometimes when you see a higher amount of GDP
that could mean inflation, but it looks like the higher
GDP is coming with better results and therefore it's not
pushing up prices and so therefore the efficiency is in place.
So all of these things, for sure are part of

(51:09):
the conversation. Then you talk about the Fed, you know
what they're going to do. Of course, Alan Greenspan died
and he went across.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
It's a it's a shame when they go so young.

Speaker 13 (51:21):
It's one hundred years old game, one hundred years of.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Hundred we do. I don't mean to make fun, obviously,
it's it's sad. But Matt, you make it to a
hot you make the third digit. You have had a
heck of a life, and he was that's a good run.
Would you argue he and vulgar, most influential fed chairman
of our lifetime?

Speaker 13 (51:45):
Well, I would have to say, because what he's done,
you know, if you know Sands, the fact that he
married Andrew Mitchell, but the fact that give him for that,
forgive him for that right, But he really you know,
he would talk in circles, and so he would you know,
they talked about all the things that he would do.
He you know, the indicator of his of his briefcase,

(52:05):
the briefcase indicator if it was thick, was he going
to raise interest rates or not? And so that was
a big thing because he would talk in circles all
of the time, kind of obfuscate. But you think about
some of the things that he said and and I
think that the same when something along the lines, if
if I was unduly clear to you, Senator, then I
must have misspoke, and so you know.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
He did talk circles.

Speaker 13 (52:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good one, right, And of
course irrational exuberance.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Yea, that's just that's probably his most famous right right,
nineteen sort of entered the cultural lexicon.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (52:42):
Yeah, well I think she put it in his Uh.
I think that Andrew Mitchell put it in her explanation
of when he died today that he was he took
life with the irrational exuberance. But that was really you know,
there was a lot of similarities of what were happening
Dan back then to what is happening right now, because
that was pre y two Q, it was the dot

(53:03):
com boom, and so a lot of people were comparing
nineteen ninety nine to what's happening right now. The difference
is back then, you know, pet, dot com, whatever, pick
pick your favorite name, they didn't have earning earnings. They
were just trading on revenues. The stocks today have real
measurable earnings, and that's why people can put evaluation on it.

(53:23):
And so there are similarities. The difference is Kevin Walsh,
the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is very different
than Greenspan in the fact that he's not going to
jawbone and he's not going to be as transparent as
he reinvents the FED he is.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Dave Spono, the CEO of Annex Wealth Management. It looks
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as we do have all of this optimism, but always
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(54:02):
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that portfolio at annexwealth dot com. Dave sponno. Just within
the last couple of minutes, Yahoo Sports reports that Jalen
Brown is open to the idea of being traded from

(54:25):
Boston to the Milwaukee Bucks. Brown wants all of this
resolved within the next forty eight hours. It is almost
certainly going to be over the weekend. We had heard
he like, I think half of the NBA doesn't want
to play in Milwaukee. Now I guess we're hearing reports
he's going to what do you think is it going

(54:47):
to be Miami or Boston?

Speaker 11 (54:48):
For you?

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Honest right now it's sounding like Boston.

Speaker 13 (54:51):
Well, if it is Boston, I think it's probably a
sign in trade and he can trade Jalen Brown somewhere
he wants to play for more draft picks. I mean,
you know, I obviously don't know. That's just my opinion.
By the way, I was going to ask you, Yeah,
you know, if you were if you got the softball
question of what book you were reading, would you be
able to answer that?

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Yeah? Did you not hear my answer to the question?
Right right right now, I'm reading Crack Hours into Thin Air,
the first hand account of the nineteen ninety six Mount Everest.

Speaker 13 (55:22):
Well, so you have an answer.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
I do an I do this for a living, as
you would assume Mandela Barnes does as well. All right,
what are you reading right now? If anything?

Speaker 13 (55:31):
Well, you know the funny thing about it is there
was a really really old book, Mcavellian book called The Prince,
and there's some great lines in there that if people
want to find it, you go back and read The
Prince by Mcavelli, and it's a it's a The book
is forever old, but it's it's something.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
From like the thirteen hundred. Niccolo Machiavelli. I thought you were.
I thought you were when you said mcavelly, I thought
instead of a book, you were listening to the Tupac
album that came out right after he goes. I don't know,
spotted West down with west Side west Side till he dies?
Who killed Tupac? That's all I know.

Speaker 13 (56:06):
Who could He'll killed Tilbot? Who killed Tupac is all
I know?

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Well, actually you want the actual answer, It was yes, okay,
near as anybody can tell. It was a guy who
got killed in a drive by shooting. Like two weeks later,
they got into an altercation at a casino. Remember Tupac
got murdered at the right after the Mike Tyson fight
in Las Vegas. Well in I think it was Little Caesar's.

(56:33):
Tupac at his crew got into a fight over some
stolen chain. As only rappers in the nineteen nineties can,
there is a massive brawl in the lobby of this casino,
and then this guy and his uncle happened to see
Tupac and sug Knight of Death Row records on the
Las Vegas Strip. Later that night after the Tyson fight,

(56:55):
they see him parked on the strip or waiting at
a red light on the strip, and they open fire
and Tupac is killed. Well, the reason this was a
mystery for so long is the uncle kept his mouth
shut and the nephew, who is like seventeen eighteen years old,
he died two weeks later. But the working theory is
that it was two of the two of them, and
I believe the uncle has since confessed to it. So

(57:19):
that's that's the general thinking about Tupac. As for I
did deal, dear, that was way I was kidding.

Speaker 13 (57:27):
I really didn't care for who killed.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
What SPAWNO. I don't broadcast just to you. The people
needed this great unsolved mystery solved so we can spend
five minutes talking pok. Always appreciate it, my friend. He
is Dave Spottickswealth dot Com. Tune in next week as
we solve the mystery of the pop smoke homicide. That's it.

(57:55):
That's another Rapper Dan O'Donnell show coming back in the second.
Keith in touch with Dan on Twitter at Dan o'donald's show.
More of the show next coming up in just a second.

(58:19):
A bit of a surprise at Badger Boys State. That
is the model government, sort of like a model un
about a week long retreat. It is a very very
popular event. This year is held at the University of
Wisconsin Eau Claire. The invocation that was read before the

(58:43):
start of Badger Boy's State this week is turning some
heads and we will explain why. First, a bit of
a developing story here at Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge
has formally blocked a city curfew that tried to target
food truck operations. This from the Milwaukee Journal SENTINELJS online

(59:06):
dot com. The Milwaukee Common Council unanimously enacted an ordinance
to an ordinance change in late April that would have
taken effect in early May, enforcing a ban on food
trucks operating after ten pm in Milwaukee's downtown at eleven
pm in the Burnham Park neighborhood. However, just a couple
of days before the enforcement of the ordinance was to

(59:29):
take effect, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sued
the city on behalf of Abdullah Ishmael, owner of Fatty
Patti food truck, who argued the ordinance change would cause
his business irreparable harm and violate his economic rights under
the Wisconsin Constitution. Judge Gene Keyes granted Ishmael an emergency

(59:52):
stay on May eighth, preventing the ordinance from going into effect.
While after an apparently hearing a week or so ago,
food truck restrictions remained on hold as Keys told attorneys
she needed more time to prepare a written ruling on

(01:00:12):
the request for a formal injunction. She issued that written
ruling today, noting that the city offered no proof, just
naked conclusions that shortening the hours of operations for food
trucks would quote reduce or deter or unmoderate the movement
of crowds of people in the city's entertainment districts between

(01:00:34):
ten pm and one am. Today's decision, Ishmael said will
help small business owners like me stay open and keep
our employees working. It is unclear whether the city is
going to appeal. Alderman Bob Bauman told The Journal Sentinel

(01:00:57):
he actually introduced this ordinance change. He said that this
was in the public's interest, but Keys in her order
said there was no evidence presented by the city that
food trucks are some kind of magnet to the underage
drinking individuals and sometimes under curfew age individuals that engage

(01:01:19):
in violet acts. And that is exactly true. This was punishing,
and this was the unlawful restriction of a legal business
because people might gather around the food trucks. Look, I'm
not going to deny that in practice people were gathering
around the food trucks. But people are gathering around downtown regardless.

(01:01:46):
We are still seeing teen takeover events across the city,
regardless of whether there are food trucks there or not.
If a giant mob of kids is going to show
up on Water Street, they're going to show up because
they planned it on social media, not because well, the
taco truck or the euro stand is open that night.

(01:02:09):
They're doing it because they want to be where the
action is, not where the food trucks are. So this
is a very good ruling. It is the correct ruling.
Hopefully this is not a protracted battle. My guess is
the city is going to admit defeat and not going
to appeal this because frankly, I really don't think they

(01:02:31):
have much of a constitutional leg to stand on. Yet
another victory for our good friends at the Wisconsin Institute
for Law and liberty a big controversy at Boys State.
Next Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell show. Badger Boys

(01:02:52):
State and Badger Girls State are very long running programs
here in Wisconsin that, according to their website Badgerboysstate dot org,
it is a program to change a lifetime that educates
young leaders on how to become more impactful community members

(01:03:13):
of Wisconsin. During the program, it's a week long retreat
at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire High School, Students
between their junior and senior years learn how our government
system works by creating their own city, country, and state
level governments. Hundreds of participants leave feeling inspired by the

(01:03:35):
lifelong lessons and relationships developed at Badger Boys State each year.
And there are only a couple of requirements to be
able to go. Got to be entering your senior year.
You've got to be either at a Wisconsin high school
or homeschooled within the state. And there is a sort

(01:04:00):
of a recruitment process where students are encouraged to apply
and to attend. School administrators and history teachers and the
like will form the delegation essentially of boys and girls
who go to Badger Boys State. There are a number

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of scholarships available to the Badger Boy State Alumni Association
members there. It's it's a fun retreat, it is. I
believe this has been going on for eighty some years
here in the state. Maybe not that I'm looking at

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all the alum I feel like I was reading and
getting ready for this. Would suffice it to say it
is a long standing tradition for our young men and
a little bit later young women here in Wisconsin. Oh yeah,
look at this. Going all the way back to nineteen
thirty nine, Badger Boy State was a big thing. As

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you can imagine, a lot of patriotism, a lot of symbolism.
It opens with the pledge of allegiance, the Star spangled banner,
and it always opens with an invocation, a prayer, but
a prayer that is more non denominational, inclusive, open, welcoming,

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and it has always been a kind of vaguely Christian prayer.
Let's face it. I know a lot of people don't
want to admit this or acknowledge this, but the foundations
of American government are based on Judeo Christian traditions. This
is a fundamentally very Christian nation. You cannot learn about

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American government. You cannot learn about the American system without
understanding the overtly Christian influence on it, which is why
a whole lot of people who attended Badger Boy State,
or their parents, their children attended Badger Boys State, or

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people even associated with Badger Boys State, were very confused
and a little put off by the fact that, for
what appears to be the first time in the program's history,
it opened with the star spangled banner. It opened with
the pledge of allegiance, and then it opened with a

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Muslim invocation, and not just that, an express region ultimately
of Christian and Jewish beliefs. Take a listen.

Speaker 8 (01:07:05):
Hello, I am Muswan Ali sayet, and I believe in Islam,
and in Islam we believe that there's only one God
and that the prophet Muhammad is the last Messenger. We
also believe in Jesus and Moses, but as prophets.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
I will begin the prayer in.

Speaker 8 (01:07:23):
English translation, and then in rabic, oh a Law, I
ask for you. I ask you for your bounty and
your mercy, for none possesses them except you, Oh a Lah,
forgive my sins and make my home spacious for me
and bless my provision, oh a lah, I ask you

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for your beneficial knowledge, good provision and accepted deeds. I
see forgiveness from all law. I seek forgiveness from all law.
I seek forgiveness from a lah. I shall not do
in a Rabic version alone my aluka first.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
In Hulaya in and.

Speaker 8 (01:08:09):
Allo whom my irfullly don't be Warslifadari Wabaric.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Is the.

Speaker 8 (01:08:18):
Alohom my innis aluka in Manafia and what is condavan?

Speaker 13 (01:08:26):
Well on.

Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
Stat law sta, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
So uh? Which Islamic principles were incorporated into the model country,
city and state governments there? Now it seemed innocuous enough,
right he did have to open up. As Muslims, we

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believe in Jesus, and actually, in Islam, Jesus is a
pretty revered figure. He's considered a lesser prophet. The final
and only important prophet in Islam is of course Mohammed.
But to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, we we believe in Moses,
who is, along with Abraham, one of the two most

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important figures in Jewish the Jewish faith, and the guy
who Christians believe is the son of God and God himself. Yeah,
they're just you know, they're kind of they're kind of
probably imagine if and I get this, appeared to be
a student. I have no idea who it was that

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gave this invocation. I just in watching the video he
appeared to be a student. He appeared to be an attendee.
And you know, nothing against the kid, but can you
imagine if one of that they get, like say, a
pastor to give the opening invocation, and they say, my
brothers and sisters, we believe in one God, the Father,

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Almighty Jesus Christ is only begotten son. We acknowledge Muhammad
as the conqueror whose armies had to be beaten back
during the Crusades. And yeah, you know, the Jewish faith,
we sort of improved on it because you know, ARMECI

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actually came. We're not still waiting for it. It's just
it's a little dismissive for me. I am kind of
racking my brain. Why, other than for the sake of diversity,
do you break a long, long tradition of what is
very obviously, if not an overtly Christian organization, traditionally at

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least Christian coded. I have tried to find somebody. I
sent an email to the one email address I could
find at Badger Boys State. If I get an answer,
I will pass it on to you, Like why why
a Muslim invocation? Have they ever done a Have they

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ever had a rabbi do a prayer? They ever had
a Mormon?

Speaker 14 (01:11:21):
See?

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
The reason that they do these opening prayers and try
to get as general as possible is to be as
inclusive as possible. Obviously, there's Muslim kids who attend Badger Boys, say,
Hindu kids, Buddhist kids. Probably doesn't matter. That's sort of
the point of the United States of America. It doesn't matter.
But if there was some sort of statement like that,

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it in say a public school conference, Like let's say
all of those edgeocrats who got together at their secret
illegal water park get away in the Dells a couple
of years ago. Let's say they opened with a Christian
prayer in which the speakers said, yeah, Christianity is the
one true religion. They got up and said, yeah, you know, Catholicism.

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Jesus ordained Saint Peter himself to be the rock of
his church. So yeah, all the other religions, they're cute
and all, but this is this is the real one
that we believe in. Little divisive, wouldn't you say.

Speaker 9 (01:12:26):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
When I hear back from Badger Boy's State as to why,
I'm just genuinely curious. I don't you know, I never
went to Badger Boys State. I think I might have
actually spoken at it one time. I can't remember I
spoke at some big high school event. This had to
be thirteen fourteen years ago. And sadly, because I'm an

(01:12:49):
old fart and can't always remember stuff as well as
I could, I don't know. I think it was Badger Boys.
It was that Harold back then it was Carol Costs.
I think it was a Badger Boys State event. I
just I want to know why, like how this decision

(01:13:11):
was made, how it was decided, Yeah, let's just do
a do a Muslim prayer again, I guess. I mean,
it's not a government organization. A private organisam and do
whatever they wanted. You know, I don't really have a
dog in this fight. It's just enough people brought this
to my attention where I'm like, huh, that is sort
of interesting. And these are people who have been affiliated

(01:13:33):
and around Badger Boys State for a long time to say, well,
this is new. This yet another example of diversity and
multiculturalism for multi culturalism's sake, that seems to be the consensus.
Dan O'Donnell's show coming right back with more conservative thought.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
And not just talk.

Speaker 9 (01:14:00):
Back.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
It is the Dan O'Donnell Show, a tour de force
of truth, the sort of truth the rest of the
media used to report but now well sort of doesn't.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tendered his resignation today. This

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came as something of a surprise, but probably shouldn't have,
as Starmer has been embattled since well almost the moment
he took power as the leader of the Labor Party,
but that really intensified after municipal elections saw a shellacking
for Labor unlike anything I believe in several decades. So

(01:14:48):
today outside Number ten Downing Street, he may be announced.

Speaker 12 (01:14:53):
Every decision I've taken has been about putting the country
I love first. That is why I will resign as
leader of the Labor Party. I have spoken to His
Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.
I will ask the National Executive Committee of the Labor
Party to set out a timetable with nominations opening on

(01:15:17):
the ninth of July and completed by the summer recess.
In the case of a contest, this will ensure a
new leader is in place before Parliament returns in September.
I will remain in post as Prime Minister until the
contest is complete, and I will do everything I can

(01:15:38):
to ensure an orderly handover of power.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
Now, the thing that probably facilitated this exit and expedited
it was the release of a report by Parliament into
rape gangs. It is estimated that upwards of two hundred
and fifty thousand and British girls that is not a

(01:16:02):
misprint were raped by roving gangs of Muslim immigrant rapists.
This was something that for years was dismissed by Starmer's
Labor Party as a conspiracy. While there was a parliamentary
inquiry in just a couple of days ago. It came
back with its results found that not only are the

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rape gangs real, but that in many instances many cities
leaders turned a blind eye to them out of concerns for,
of course, political correctness and multi culturalism. That being the
final male in Starmer's political career's coffin is somewhat fitting,

(01:16:49):
as it was under his watch and the watch of
his party, that Britain took in so many immigrants incompatible
with its society that it injured itself and frankly it's people.
So Keir Starmer is out. We celebrate America's two fiftieth
coming up right after the news Welcome Back. It is

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just a second, we are going to bring you the
first in a number of installments of patriotic programming from
America's two fiftieth We are now less than what two
weeks away from America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. The

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fourth of July is extra special this year because we
celebrate a quarter of a millennium, not just of the
greatest country on Earth, but of an idea, an experimental
way of life, a culture, something that fundamentally changed the
world for the better. What's kind of amazing is that,

(01:19:11):
you know, a lot of us didn't really as patriotic
as we are, and folks, I know you love this country.
I love this country. It just didn't feel like there
was a whole lot of buzz for the two hundred
and fiftieth, right, It didn't feel like there was something
extra special about this year. After all, for the second

(01:19:35):
straight year, City of Milwaukee Milwaukee County not doing fireworks
on the third of July. They're doing a drone show
because frankly, I think David probably screwed up the County's
budget so badly that they can't afford fireworks, and they
can't afford to staff the event or the cleanup or
anything like that. But it's not a priority. That's the point.

(01:19:57):
It's not some great communist conspiracy to derive us of fireworks.
And I think our good friend Michael Hupy stepping up
every year to support the drone show is awesome, it's
a fantastic thing. But it's just fireworks are not a
priority for the city of Milwaukee. That sort of speaks volumes.

(01:20:18):
It speaks volumes about the fact that there are a
whole lot of Democrats who just frankly don't like this
country very much. They don't believe that this is a
great place. They don't believe in the idea of American exceptionalism.
In fact, Steve Kornaki, the NBC poll guy, he is

(01:20:44):
the big polling analyst on MSNBC MS now, I should
say today going over once again the polling that has
just been shocking people for the last week and a half,
two weeks. While ninety percent of self identified Republicans say

(01:21:05):
they are very or extremely proud of this country, just
twenty nine percent of Democrats say the same.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Fifty six percent overall have an extremely very very much
proud of the country. It's twenty nine percent among Democrats.
It's ninety percent among Republicans. Look at that staggering gap
between the parties. Look at it on the other end
here only a little or not proud at all. It's
thirty six percent among Democrats. That number among Democrats, it's
higher on the low end there than it is on

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the extremely proud, and it's only three percent for Republicans,
who a massive partisan divide on that question of being
proud to be an American.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
It's not just that it's similarly, only about twenty seven
percent of Democrats say they'll fly the fourth of July
though they'll fly the American flag on the fourth of July.
Ninety percent of Republicans will say the same thing. Now,
this isn't political. We saw Harry in Over at CNN

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last week make a fantastic point. Gallup is doing the
Annual Patriotism Survey. It's been doing the Annual Patriotism Survey
for twenty five years. First time it did it was
January of two thousand and one, so pre nine to eleven,
where the entire country came together, however, briefly, and there
was a surge of Americanism, surge of American patriotism, American spirit.

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Hell George W. Bush's approval ratings were something like eighty
five to ninety percent in the weeks and months after
nine to eleven. That faded real quick when Democrats realized
they needed to win a mid term election. But before
nine to eleven, Democrats were very or extremely proud of

(01:22:44):
their country, to the tune of eighty five percent Republicans
identical ninety percent. January of two thousand and one was
just a couple of weeks removed from the single most
contentious presidential election in American history, Yes, more contentious than
twenty twenty. It went to the Supreme Court. It was,

(01:23:05):
if you'll recall, delivered to George W. Bush, who was selected,
not elected, King George. Rather ironically, given the fact that
we're celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of seventeen
seventy sixty, is what Democrats called George W. Bush that
his brother, who happened to be the governor of Florida,
delivered just enough votes for him to overtake Al Gore. Well,

(01:23:28):
what was actually happening is that Al Gore, just like
the Democrats in California, demanded that the votes kept being counted,
that the recounts keep going on, so that they would
miraculously find more Gore votes. Do you know what it
was happening in those recounts, because this sort of gets
lost to history. Every time they would do a recount,

(01:23:51):
Bush would go up by a greater margin. Finally, the
US Supreme Court said, no, the count has to stop. Constitutionally,
we do need a decision by this that you can't
just sort of extend to recount forever. The Electoral College
has to meet. Bush v. Gore was decided in favor
of George W. Bush. Three weeks later, the Patriotism survey

(01:24:14):
was handed out. Eighty five percent of Democrats, with that
as a backdrop, having lost a gut punch election that
they felt was rigged, it was unfair, it was set
up by the US Supreme Court, eighty five percent of
them still said that they were very or extremely proud
of their country today. Twenty nine percent. What happened? I mean,

(01:24:40):
that's easy. You don't have the same Democrats, you don't
have the same belief system that's in place in one
political party, or in a significant percentage of people who
vote for that party and share its ideological basis. Democrats

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and Republicans in the nineteen nineties early two thousands agreed
on a lot more than they disagreed on that illegal
immigration was a major problem. Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety
five State of the Union address sounded far more right
wing in calling for bigger checks, bigger enforcement of illegal

(01:25:21):
immigration than anything Trump has ever said. Go back and
watch it if you don't believe me. Clinton signed a
national crime bill in effect, California passed three strikes and
your out policies on crime. It was a fundamentally different place,
but everybody agreed that America was the best place over

(01:25:44):
This is the greatest country on earth. So what happened, Well,
we just named her unhinged liberal of the day, joy
Read and people like her who are far left socialist
radical polls seized power in the party and convinced millions

(01:26:06):
of voters that America is not worth being proud of
because of its original sin of colonialism, which of course
led to the slave trade, and that no matter what
happened independent of that of those two things, America can
can never be great. It can never escape that that

(01:26:26):
dark legacy, that shadow that it's cast two hundred fifty
years later, and that's just an awful place. As you said,
you know, black people they don't celebrate the Fourth of
July because of.

Speaker 9 (01:26:36):
That, because in many ways, and with apologies to my
dear spicy white friends, because I know that that that
my my my white brothers and sisters do love a
Fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
It is Independence Day.

Speaker 9 (01:26:46):
Everybody is barbecue and it's a thing I can promise
you Black folks, we will take that day off.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
We will barbecue because we off with black people.

Speaker 9 (01:26:54):
That nobody black I know is really excited about the
fourth of July because it is a It is what
Frederick Douglas said, it is. It is the celebration of
slaveholders who freed themselves from having to pay taxes to
the crown for their slave empire.

Speaker 4 (01:27:09):
And that is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
That's a pretty darn good summation of the leftist worldview
of the Fourth of July. It's slave owners who didn't
want to pay their taxes. In fact, there was in
the post twenty twenty era, there was an entire project
of the New York Times now that I think about it,
that might have actually even predated. George Floyd called the

(01:27:33):
sixteen nineteen project. It was an actual, honest to god
retelling of American history, framing the founding of this country
not on July fourth, seventeen seventy six, but rather in
sixteen nineteen, when the first slave ship landed at the
New World That that was the real founding of America. Now,

(01:27:55):
if you accept that as a premise that America was
foul did on the slave trade, which it most definitely
was not. People forget the northern colonies did not have
slavery and had not at the time of the founding.

(01:28:15):
This country developed politically, This country developed constitutionally. This country
developed independent of the slave trade, which was primarily in
the South, which was of course controlled by Democrats really
since the formation of the party in the eighteen twenties
under then President Andrew Jackson. They leave out that part

(01:28:38):
which political party was big into slavery and actually went
to war after the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln was
elected and they thought he was going to make them
give up their slaves. Seriously, South Carolina seceded. I think
it was December twentieth of eighteen sixty, Lincoln wasn't even
sworn in and they're out. But when you start with

(01:29:01):
that as your foundational belief about America, that it was
the slave trade that it was, it was this unique
evil that the West African slave trade was one of
thousands of slave trades across time, space and history. Every

(01:29:23):
culture at some point practice slavery, every single one. We're
the only culture that went to war with ourselves. And
the idea that the founders were somehow unconcerned about this.
They very nearly did not revolt against the crown because

(01:29:43):
they didn't think the southern slaveholding colonies would join them,
so they had to make concessions and essentially punt on
the issue of slavery. And oh this idea that, oh, well,
they were hypocrites because they weren't free. They realized that
read the writings of Alexander have he openly talks about
what hypocrites we are. They understood that in order to

(01:30:07):
you know, deal with priority numero uno eventually getting do
do you think the British crown would have ever allowed
the economic engine of the entire empire at that point
King Cotton in the South, do you think they would
ever have allowed that big of an economic hit by

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ending the slave Of course they wouldn't have. They didn't
want it in their island. They were just fine. Slave
trade existed in all of the British colonies across the Caribbean,
the America is everywhere, but the founders set up a
system that allowed them to eventually do away with it.

(01:30:51):
Remember the Atlantic slave trade was banned in eighteen oh
one eighteen oh two. I mean, just this ignorance of
history that leads to this knee jerk socialist, anti American,
anti capitalist, anti everything, bitterness and just anger, this seething

(01:31:18):
rage that people would actually love. Do you know who
loves this country? And I was kind of went off
on a rant there. Do you know what actually filled
my heart with American spirits and patriotism? I say, I
am pumped for America's two fit. Wasn't the UFC fight
as awesome as that was? And it's not the pomp

(01:31:41):
and circumstance and spectacle of the World Cup. It is
social media filled with Europeans and Asians being dropped in
the middle of Kansas City, Missouri, or Houston, Texas and
falling in love with BUCkies, ranch dressing, and most important
lee regular old Americans in Middle America, in flyover Country,

(01:32:05):
the area of the country that is sneered at by
the same socialists who would never fly an American flag,
never stand for the national anthem, never wear an America
two fifty T shirt on the fourth of July. What
the Euros are finding is that, you know what, this

(01:32:26):
is the best place on earth. There was one guy
from Britain who said, you know, we look down on
the Americans because they don't go on holiday in other countries,
so they don't need to. They go on holiday in
their country. You've got every country in the United You've
got every climate. You've got mountains, you've got oceans, you've

(01:32:46):
got the tropics down in Florida. You've got big cities
like New York and Los Angeles. You've got amazing theme
parks like Walt Disney World. Heck, we've got a random
theme park, one of the best in the United States,
a world class in Gurney, Illinois, just across the Wisconsin
Illinois border. Great America any other nation have that. People

(01:33:12):
are falling in love with American culture more than anything.
How welcoming, how happy there was a woman from somewhere
in eastern Europe who said, you know, when we would
see Americans coming to our country as tourists, we would
sort of look down on them because they were sort
of happy all the time and in a good mood,
and we sort of chuck that up to them being

(01:33:34):
them having learning disabilities or being mentally challenged. She said
it in less politically correct way. She said, now that
I've been here, I realized I was totally wrong. You're
happy because that's your culture. Your culture is upbeat, it's positive,
it's fundamentally optimistic, and I think that ultimately is the

(01:33:59):
disparity that we're seeing. That's the big disconnect between the
right and the left on the issue of the two
fiftieth and American patriotism and Western culture itself. Conservatives, people
who love this country, love this culture, are optimistic about
all of it, about the future, about our ability to
win the AI arms race, about our ability to overcome anything.

(01:34:22):
There was another great tweet. I swear I'm not just
sitting on social media, but as I told you earlier
in the show, I have really bad insomnia that sort
of started right after the Surger raft to have a
brace on my leg and stuck in the locked straight positions.
You can imagine how comfortable that is for sleeping. So
I'm on the internet a lot, reading a lot, trying

(01:34:45):
to fall asleep a lot. And there was a fantastic
tweet about ultimately American pride and patriotism. It goes something
like this, Team USA has been playing very, very well.
They won their first two games, won the group first

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time since nineteen thirty. They've won their first two games
at the World Cup. People are talking crazy, like the
US could win the whole thing. Someone goes, team USA,
Americans think Team USA can win the World Cup just

(01:35:27):
because we think we can. Yeah, we're Americans. We won
two World Wars and went to the Moon just because
we thought we could. That's a fundamentally optimistic worldview. If
you've got a fundamentally pessimistic worldview, you're thinking, well, we

(01:35:50):
really can't do that, We really shouldn't. Is it really
the best thing that America is such a dominant superpower,
the lone superpower? Shouldn't we have a Russian empire? They're
not an evil empire, but the Soviets thing. These are

(01:36:12):
the same people that were literally telling us how great
the Soviet Union was back during the Cold War. Now
they're telling us, Oh, how dominant China is, Oh my gosh,
how China is going to eat our lunch. Nothing could
be farther from the truth. But what the people are

(01:36:34):
coming away from the big city, you know, New York,
Los Angeles, Chicago, filled with the pessimistic, dim view of
America that's showing up in these surveys. They're going to
the heartland. They're going to the smiling, happy, fun loving,
optimistic people are welcoming them with open arms, sharing cultures,

(01:36:57):
exchanging tradition and foods and cheers and songs. Yeah, the
entire a bar in Boston filled with Scottish hooligans singing
take Me Home, Country Roads. When Team USA won its
second group stage match in Seattle a couple of afternoons ago,

(01:37:20):
the entire stadium singing take Me Home Country Roads. It's
just it's amazing, it's powerful. It's the entire world recognizing
what a whole lot of libs simply refused to and
that this really is the single greatest country on Earth.
I'll tell you what, folks, we went way long with that.

(01:37:41):
And yes, I am going to give you the two
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already five twenty seven, we're gonna have to start that tomorrow.
I apologize, I've got a piece on Father's Day I

(01:38:02):
really really want to get to. So we're going to
start our America two fifty celebration tomorrow on tomorrow's program.
But right now, we are giving a chance to you
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know what if people want to call in on this
and reaction, we'll take your phone calls on patriotism, the Libs,
all of it. Four and four, seven, nine, nine eleven
thirty Welcome back at update the Yannis situation, and yes,
I am going to cite his Instagram account. These things

(01:39:07):
actually do matter more than you think. Although Yannis does
like to post for the sake of stirring up drama,
this one does seem like it has some meaning attached
to it. He posted on both Instagram and now he's
got it up on his X account, his official X account.

(01:39:28):
It is a black and white picture of him in
his Bucks uniform with his back to the camera looking
like he is walking away. The message is God, I
trusted you at the beginning, and I will continue to
trust you throughout. Prairie emoji one hundred emoji. That does

(01:39:52):
not sound like a man who believes he is staying put.
It believes like it's a man who knows that the
next chapter of his life is about to begin. If
I had to guess, he's going to be traded to
the Boston Celtics. About an hour ago, you had Jalen Brown,
the Celtic superstar who is He was originally not too

(01:40:16):
happy about being traded, especially to Milwaukee. He came out
about an hour ago, according to Yahoo's Sports, and said, well,
he's now open to being traded. He's open to playing
in Milwaukee folks. My gut says that Brown would be
immediately shipped to a contender, that there would be a

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sign in trade where a team with a lot of
draft capital, like say the Oklahoma City Thunder that is
a contender right now and is looking to load up
for a title run, would get Jalen Brown from the Bucks.
Or there is the possibility that there's a third or
fourth team involved in this, where Brown goes to a contender,

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Jannis goes to a contender, and the team that needs
draft picks gets draft picks from both the Celtics and
whatever other teams are involved in this trade, or players
with expiring contracts who could be flipped for draft capital.
There's all manner of ways that this can be done,

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but it does seem as though this is hurtling toward
an inevitable conclusion. All Right, Our America two hundred and
fiftieth Birthday celebration is going to kick off with fittingly
a tribute to America's national anthem and the uniquely American

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stories that led to its composition. Sort of got off
on a little tangent because it's been sort of a
recurring theme in the run up to the two fiftieth
that there are an awful lot of Americans who are
not particularly proud of this country, But there are a
whole lot of Europeans and a whole lot of Asian,

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African South American tourists who are coming to this country
for the World Cup, which by the way, is being
hailed as a massive success already. In fact, people across
the globe are saying the US should just host this
thing every four years. We don't need to build massive
stadiums like Katar did four years ago. We don't need

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to bankrupt ourselves building infrastructure. It's already here. Do you
realize there are one hundred and four games totally in
this World Cup. The United States has something like nine
hundred stadiums that would be capable of hosting a World
Cup match. Nine hundred. No other country is like ours, none,

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But there are a lot of people who frankly don't
particularly like it. That's robbing a lot of people. The
wrong way is we go out to the phones and
talk with Kurt up first on the Dan O'Donnell show.
It's going on Kurt.

Speaker 14 (01:43:01):
A d o d Kirk from Fredonia.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
A long time.

Speaker 14 (01:43:04):
They'll talk.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
My friend good good to hear from you.

Speaker 14 (01:43:09):
I'm doing just swimmingly.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
How are you fantastic? What's up?

Speaker 14 (01:43:15):
So, Mike, I think that we're finding these wave of
Europeans that spend in particular Europeans coming over here and
they're amazed at our culture because I think partially because
derip right now is going to uh, they're going to
a phase right now where freedoms are are are kind

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of on the wing right now. You you don't have
free speech. You can't even do political memes without them
arresting you. You know, uh, you know, their economy sucks,
they're having to chop down firewood, you know, in order
to keep their homes. That they're coming here to America
and they're finding a Wow, we're so free and we

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have so many good things over here. And I think
this is partially why they're so amazed with us.

Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
I think that's right. I think also they're realizing that
their propagandist media, which told them that they're going to
be shot as soon as their plane lands, they're going
to be shot and killed by all the American cowboys
with guns, that Trump is going to try to immediately
deport them if they somehow survive the initial onslaught by

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the violent Americans, and that the Americans don't want they're
so xenophobic and awful that they don't want foreigners in
their country. Guess what. All of that is being disproven
in real time, and I think there's a big part
of it. They're seeing, Hey, look at how great and
functional this society is. And we think we're at each
other's throats over politics and Trump and all of this. Ultimately, though,

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I mean, Kurt, after the show is over, I'm gonna,
you know, I don't know, go watch my son play soccer,
or I'm going to go, you know, out to dinner
with my wife. I'm going to do anything and everything
to enjoy a beautiful night. That is what America is, right, Yeah,

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it's it's I can do anything, I can get anything
I want, I can do anything I want. And more importantly,
because of that, I have a fundamentally positive, optimistic worldview.
I I'd like to think I'm welcoming and kind and
that is just sort of reflective of the broader spirit,

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the broader the broader sense that that people are coming
here are getting about Americans and about America generally, that
it's not just our our abundant natural resources, our you know,
giant convenient stores and twenty four hour waffle house restaurants
where you can and get you know, breakfast at three

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am and also see a massive knockout brawl between a
woman with five teeth in her bra and a three
hundred and fifty pounds shirtless dude. It's not just that,
it's people are realizing that our culture. And it's not
lost on me, folks, that a lot of people are

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coming here from Europe, Britain, France, Germany, even Asian nations
like Japan that have a very similar culture, shared culture,
shared legacy and heritage. It is a real thing. You
can't important. You'll notice that the the Haitians that were

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just sort of dumped here under the Biden administration aren't
exactly having the easiest time assimilating. There are, i hate
to say it, a whole lot of Middle Eastern Muslims,
especially in Michigan and Minneapolis. You've got a lot of
Somalis who just are not especially compatible with the broader

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American culture because they don't believe in assimilation into the
broader American culture, because they despise it, or at least
they think it is somehow beneath them or simply incompatible
with their way of life, the way that they have
been brought up. But when you have got people coming
to this country you haven't experienced it, who share our culture,
who share our values, they realize instantly just how incredible

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America actually is. You're listening to the Dan o'donald Show,
a tour de force of truth, classical conservatism, contemporary style. Yesterday,
of course, was Father's Day, and my own father in

(01:47:57):
law turned me on to so this piece on fatherhood
by Bill Barth, the former editor of the Beloit Daily News.
He's a member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.
This appeared, I believe in the Waukeshaw Freemen over the weekend.

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Good fathers leave generational imprints for people like me. Father's
Day is a reminder of great loss our fathers have passed.
Same for Mother's Day, because our moms too, have left
this earth in our older years. The world might say
we have become orphans, fatherless, motherless, but that is not true.
Good parents live on in us. The strong hands and

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gentle arms that guided us as children are still there
in a presence. We feel deeply every day, reflected in
the values we hold, in the courage that seize us
through dark days, in the faint voice at the back
of your minds that whispers the difference between right and
wrong and presses to choose wisely. As a farm kid,

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I had the great good fortune from the time I
was old enough to lift a tool to work alongside
not only my dad but also my Pawpaw. Some might
say they were hard men, and that would not be inaccurate.
Scratching a living from the soil is not for the

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weak and timid of heart or hand. From one year
to the next, the future is never guaranteed, subject to
forces beyond control, no matter how hard a farmer labors.
Weather swings, the cost of seed and fuel and fertilizer,
prices for cops and livestocks set not by producers but
by traders at big city exchanges. Yet the men who

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raised me rose before dawn every day in an act
of faith that there was dignity and promise in honest work.
It would be wrong to say they never complained. An
The ring of farmers included rants about bad whether or
trade speculators or bankers. The word quit, though, was not
in their vocabulary. Next day, the rising sun would find

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them back in the barn lot. As a boy just
big enough to help, I remember the process of prying
my sleepy body out of a snug bed. First Dad
would pull down the covers and shake my shoulder. Time
to get up, He'd say, that was the only warning.
If I lingered and fell back asleep, a splash of
cold water in the face came next. The days would

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be long and the work was hard. Many years later,
more than a few of my newspaper colleagues heard a
piece of Dad's philosophy. If they asked me about quitting
time when we're done, I'd say, amused by the memory.
There were times when the guidance of these tough men
seemed overbearing and harsh. To a boy. Much was expected,

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failure to deliver had consequences, But there was understanding two
When you had done your best and still fall in short,
with a pat on the back or an encouraging word,
you'll get it next time. Dad and Pawpaw knew what
I had yet to learn. The world doesn't care about you.
A person succeeds or fails by their own effort. It

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takes grit and determination to accomplish anything when times have
been difficult. We all have those days, those years. I
can literally feel generations of strong men standing behind me,
stiffening my backbone. Their voices are imprinted at a cellular level.
Work harder, accept challenges, do right, and stand up for

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your beliefs. Quitters never win, but failure isn't the end.
You'll get it next time. So no, i am not fatherless.
I am not motherless. I've been blessed to have had
parents who worked and sacrificed and prayed for their children
to have better lives than they did. They didn't measure
lives by the size of one's wallet or job title.

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For them, the measure of a man or woman rose
or fell on whether paying it forward defeated the temptations
of self and greed. The legacy of family, good or
not so good, passes from one generation to the next.
The best parents instinctively knowing the best gift that they

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can give their offspring is the ability to carry values
and responsibility. With the approach of Father's Day and having
reached a certain age, the occasion brings reflection. It's remembering
what Dad and Papa entrusted. To me, it's the thrill
of seeing one's own children become parents themselves and watching
them do the little things every day to mold those

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boys and girls who will inherit the family traditions. It's
the joy of babysitting the little grandkids curled in close
under outstretched arms, tiny reminders of my now grown children
who are once so wonderfully small and innocent. Father's Day
and Mother's Day are manufactured dates on a calendar meaningless,
says a drifting breeze. Your family story is what matters,

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and it's being written in the everyday moments, not in
Hallmark cards. Compose it with care and purpose. That is
one of the best written things I have ever read
about Father's Day, fatherhood, parenthood, and ultimately life. It is

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by Bill Barth. You can read it at gmtoday dot com.
I'll warn you it is behind a payroll. It's entitled
good Fathers Leave Generational Imprints. Barth, former editor of the
Beloit Daily News, member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.
I can see why because he is an exceptional writer
and man. If that doesn't just sum it all up

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about what all of us ultimately, are really here for
you're listening to the Dan o'donald's show. We'll be right
back in just a second. Just an amazing, amazing piece

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of writing by Bill Barth, who is the former editor
of the Beloit Daily News, appeared in the Waukeshaw Freeman
ahead of Father's Day. Good Fathers leave generational imprints. It
is behind a paywall. What I like about the walk
Shaw Freeman GM today dot com is you can actually
buy a day pass for a dollar. So if you

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want to read that story that I just shared, I
read the entire thing because I thought it was just
that good and needed as wide an audience as possible,
you can pay the dollar. Pay support local journalism. Please
don't copy and paste it into a Facebook post, but

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share this far and wide. It is a what I
would actually encourage the free on this one. Unlock the
paywall actually, and if someone wants to reach out to
me and let me know, because I would. I would
love to share this to as many people as possible.
All Right, we are out of time here on the
Dan O'Donnell Show. We'll see I'm taking a wild guest tomorrow.

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At this time we'll be talking about the giannis ante
decupo trade, but we'll see. Have a great night, Wisconsin.