What Mosquitoes (Yes Mosquitoes) Can Teach Us About the State of Science and Media Today

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kids heading back from the first day. You feel me, right?
I mean, you're happy to see all your friends, but ultimately,
you're back in school. The beautiful early afternoon. My wife
and I actually feel like we got stuff done around
the house for the first time in, I don't know,
three months. We got one kid out at college. The

(00:22):
other two we took to middle school and high school today.
And it seems like we finally caught up on the laundry.
It's amazing how that happens. So the sun was shining
in our hearts, and I suspect in the hearts of
parents all across Wisconsin. We love you, kiddos. We just,
you know, love you more. What do they say? Absence

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makes the heart grow fonder, especially when the heart doesn't
have to pick up after you 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. And parents who are a little
bit younger than I am, don't worry. Don't worry. As
the kids get older, paradoxically, the messes get bigger. They
no longer spill their chocolate milk. But it's sort of

(01:06):
like they just leave clothes and sports equipment and video
game stuff just everywhere. So you've got that to look
forward to. It was, in fact, the first day of
school across Wisconsin. And we will discuss all of the
issues facing the Department of Public Instruction. And I think

(01:26):
the person and news organization in most need of education,
particularly some basic science, might unfortunately be the very good, normally,
Fox 6 News and their weather forecaster, Lisa Michaels. who
put out a tweet today and wrote an entire article

(01:49):
about why climate change is making mosquito season longer and worse.
I actually looked into that. A lot of people were
sort of dunking on Fox 6 for the tweet today.
As I tend to do, I looked a little bit
deeper into this and found something that sort of troubled
me from a journalistic ethics perspective. We will dive into

(02:14):
that in the 5 o'clock hour. First, we are dealing
with a number of breaking news stories sent to Comcast.
Announced today, it began a wave of strikes against Iran,
specifically targeting the remnants of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. The
strikes being carried out in retaliation for Iranian attacks on
commercial shipping in where else? The Strait of Hormuz. And

(02:37):
the recent attack on U.S. troops stationed in the region
over the weekend. President Trump posting on Truth Social this afternoon.
The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian targets
near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and
powerful and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at
adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines.

(02:58):
They have been completely removed or detonated. And the Iranians
shooting eight missiles all successfully knocked down at our military
base in Jordan. Now, the U.S. actually started launching strikes
against Iran in retaliation for those missiles headed towards the
base on Sunday. They targeted two launchers on La Rock

(03:21):
Island after IRGC forces were identified as preparing those launchers
to fire towards the strait. In response, Iran launched a
number of missiles towards U.S. troops and military assets stationed
in Jordan. The president said yesterday that all but one
of those missiles was intercepted by U.S. air defense systems.

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Nothing of importance was hit during the attack. The president
had a phone call with Fox News reporter Trey Yinks. This,
according to the Reuters News Service. Now, this comes as
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant in North Carolina, in an interview

(04:02):
with Larry Kudlow of Fox Business, said he is doing
everything he can, as the United States military has already said,
beaten iran into almost total submission it's sort of like
a game of whack-a-mole do they still have whack-a-mole games
at arcades or do you now have like a digital

(04:23):
version There is a version where you have to like
touch the lights as they light up. It's very, very fun.
But the traditional whack-a-mole, everybody knows the mole comes up,
you bop him on the head, it goes back down.
That's sort of what we're facing right now with a
new missile launcher, a new suicide drone popping up every
couple of weeks. That's still causing a lot of chaos

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in the Strait of Hormuz because, frankly, no commercial shipping
company is going to risk sending its vessels and, more importantly,
sending its employees, its human beings, through an area where
potentially they could be targeted. President Trump has been saying
over and over and over again, the Strait is open,
the Strait is clear of mines. yes, we would like

(05:08):
to believe him and we do believe him. But if you're,
let's say Maersk, are you really going to risk the
possibility that two or three of your employees could be
killed by a rogue Iranian drone. And that's the issue.
So as this sort of stuff pops up, the U.S.
military is whacking them down like moles in an arcade. Meanwhile,

(05:32):
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant is using the might of the
American economic system and the power of economic sanctions, not
just against Iran specifically, but also now through a targeted
effort to enact secondary sanctions and tertiary sanctions against nations
that are going under the table to try to do

(05:54):
business with Iran or to try to do any sort
of banking transactions with the Iranian government, they are slapping
them down as well. And in that interview with Kudlow today,
Besant said, this is the real force that we're now
applying to Iran. We are going to decimate their economy

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until they're begging us to come back to the negotiating table.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
We have zero tolerance. We are going to economically fixate
this regime. And as president Trump said, the reason the
MOU did not work, they were not ready for a deal.
My job is to make sure that they want to
have a deal and they will want to have one.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Because there won't be anything left of their economy. Except
for the scraps that we offer them. This, frankly, is
something that should have been done months ago. The idea
that you could trust anyone connected with the Ayatollah's regime
in Iran, I think, was always a fool's errand. But

(07:03):
better late than never, I suppose. So that's going on.
And in Massachusetts. The Lindsay Clancy jury this morning said
that it was deadlocked, that it simply could not come
to a verdict. Well, the judge in that case, William Sullivan, said... Okay,
I understand it's difficult. You've heard 80 witnesses plus. You

(07:27):
have heard months of testimony. But you've only been deliberating
for about four days. So maybe you should get back
in there and try to get to a verdict.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, members of the jury, I've got your question. And
the question is, after many hours of deliberation, we are
unable to come to a unanimous decision. I brought you
back out because... I know that this was a long trial.
I know there were over 80 witnesses. There were over

(07:58):
300 exhibits. But because of that, I'm going to ask
you to go back out, keeping in mind all the
instructions that.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I gave you.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
To go out and to continue your deliberations at this time.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
All right?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
And so with that, I'm going to ask you to
go back out. Like I said, keep in mind the
instructions I gave you, reviewing the evidence, and I'd ask
you to resume your deliberations at this time.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Now, the jury did go back, deliberated for about three
hours more, about 45 minutes ago. Judge Sullivan did dismiss
them for the day. What I can tell you, folks,
in just years of covering trials like this, when you
have a deadlock, And when the judge says, OK, we're
not going to accept a hung jury, we're not going

(08:48):
to do this all again, or this woman is not
going to walk because the state of Massachusetts doesn't want
to expend the resources to try her again. What often
happens is very, very quickly. The one or two holdouts,
whatever the verdict is, and generally it's just in my
experience in being around the law and studying the law

(09:11):
and covering high-profile trials like this, when there is a
jury deadlock, it's almost invariably one or two jurors, oftentimes one,
who simply refuse to go along with the majority on
a guilty verdict. They're the ones who are maybe mistaking
reasonable doubt for any doubt. Well, you know, if this

(09:33):
tiny piece of evidence that didn't really matter that the
defense produced on Sir Rebuttal is considered, you never know
what's going on in the minds of a jury. But
what I can tell you is going through the minds
of human beings. And remember, these are ultimately all human beings.
There are nine women and three men. It is entirely

(09:54):
possible that since this case, at least in recent weeks,
has become a sort of fault line in the gender
divide between men and women in this country, as men
are saying, yeah, so, you know, I get that she
was not of sound mind, but strangling three children is

(10:18):
still And women, at least liberal women, the new thing
on performative, Lindsay Clancy, insane TikTok is now pretending to
like trip and hurt your babies. to show the effects
of postpartum anxiety or postpartum depression. Yeah, it's getting real

(10:43):
weird amongst Gen Z women who are trying to use
this case as a way to say, hey, you need
to respect what we women are going through. In fact,
postpartum depression is very, very, very real. It impacts about
one in seven, one in eight new mothers. It's a

(11:05):
combination of just hormonal imbalance as a result of giving
birth and carrying a baby for so long and then
all of a sudden your body is trying to recover
severe physical trauma of childbirth a lack of sleep I
don't know if you know this there's one thing that
I will say as the kids get older you get

(11:25):
to sleep a lot more because if we would have
let those two kids have their way they would probably
still be asleep they wouldn't miss the first bell of
of the first day of school. They would miss dismissal
of the first day of school. If we let them,
they would sleep until 3 p.m. Babies don't really sleep
all that much. So there's a combination of just sheer exhaustion,

(11:47):
hormonal changes. There is a whole lot that's going on,
and there are very real psychological changes as well. All
of a sudden, there is just this incredible, sure, there's euphoria,
there's joy, but there's also just this incredible incredible feeling
of oh my goodness what are we going to now

(12:09):
i'm responsible for a tiny little life that is completely
and totally dependent upon me it's just it's very easy
ladies we understand postpartum depression at least most people i
am trying my best to end the stigma surrounding mental
health issues by being as open as I can about

(12:30):
my own problems with anxiety, with ADHD. In fact, I
myself just got off, or at least I'm trying to
get off of an anti-anxiety drug that I was on
for a long, long time. I'm talking years. I was
diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder years ago, and I'm thinking
I was misdiagnosed and was in fact never diagnosed with ADHD.

(12:53):
And the emotional dysregulation of that was what was actually
causing the anxiety symptoms. So I'm switching medicine. I get
people have things going on that oftentimes it's physiological. It's
brain chemistry. It's all of this. I promise you. I
promise you, ladies. There is nobody in my audience, in

(13:15):
your family, in your friend group that is like Lindsay Clancy.
If in fact she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, which
she was never diagnosed with, and it is my very
strong contention after getting really, really interested in this case,
you know, ADHD and so forth. It's kind of a

(13:38):
superpower when you're really interested in something. And that combined
with like chronic insomnia, which I'm starting to think I
may suffer from as well. There have been a few
nights where I was trying to get to sleep, but
also super interested in reading trial briefs and witness testimony
from this trial. And I wouldn't consider myself an expert

(14:01):
on it by any stretch of the imagination. But based
on the evidence that was presented in court, it seems
very clear to me. She was shopping around for a
diagnosis of postpartum psychosis that she was deliberately mixing medications
in order to set up what I think she was
long planning, and that was the murder of her three children.

(14:24):
Just being a mother who murders her children, even though
it is so horrific, it is so antithetical to tens
of thousands of years of human civilization, women biologically were
designed to take care of, to nurture children. It is
easily the most important job we have. Ladies, anybody who

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tells you that motherhood is not a job or something
like that, and you got to go out of the
home to have, you literally have the single most important
role that human beings have. That is raising, nurturing, and
allowing kids to grow up. When a mother kills her children,

(15:10):
It runs so contra to not just what we believe
in Western civilization or human civilization, but what we are
biologically designed to do that there's this inclination to believe that, well,
she must be crazy. She must be insane. Well, be
that as it may, insanity in the law under what's

(15:32):
known as the McNaughton standard, It's an old Supreme Court
case that has long set the standard definition of what
is insanity in the eyes of the law. And that
is you are unable to tell the difference between right
and wrong. And because of that, because of your mental illness,
you are unable to comport your behavior with the law,

(15:58):
with societal standards, because you have no idea what is
right and what is wrong. The presumption. that someone is,
when they claim a not guilty by reason of insanity
or here in Wisconsin, mental disease or defect defense, the
presumption is, well, they're so nuts because of the action,
because of what they did. I know I've said this before,

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classic example, Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, his attorney,
the late Jerry Boyle, after his insanity defense was rejected
and Despite the most insane criminal behavior that this state
has seen since Ed Gein, Jerry Boyle famously said, how
many people do you have to eat before this state

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declares you insane? It was a great line, but it
misstates what insanity in the eyes of the law actually is.
Dahmer was fully aware that what he was doing was illegal, immoral.
He took steps to cover it up. So too did
Lindsay Clancy. She sent her husband out on errands that
she knew would take him out of the house for

(17:03):
enough time to kill those children. She was tracking him
on the Find My Apple app so she could tell
exactly where he was while she was in the middle
of strangling the children. And then instead of simply sitting
there or behaving in a way that would suggest that

(17:23):
she had no earthly idea what it is she actually did,
She tried to kill herself, but did so in a
few half-hearted ways. She cut her wrists, but in a
way that they looked more like superficial wounds than anything
that would have actually killed her. She took a bunch
of pills, not nearly enough to overdose. And then instead

(17:46):
of just jumping headfirst out of a window, she sort
of leaned out and fell out, and out of a
second-story window... That looks to be someone who knew what
she was doing. Not only that, there was very clear evidence,
I think, of planning and rational behavior throughout the day

(18:10):
of the murders. And the way the murders, and I
don't want to get, especially with so many kids coming
home from school on the first day of school, I
don't want to get too graphic in these murders, but
there was plenty of evidence that she was at least
aware she she could understand the gravity of what she
was doing it is my very strong suspicion we're going

(18:31):
to get a verdict probably tomorrow as i said i
don't necessarily think i can tell and nobody can really
tell what a jury is thinking what i can tell
you is what people are thinking these people have been
sitting in that courtroom for months they have heard more
than eighty witnesses they've been deliberating for days if there
are one or two holdouts It's entirely possible they go

(18:55):
home tonight, they sleep on it, they think about it,
they say, okay, can we live with Lindsay Clancy going
to prison instead of a mental hospital? Can we live
with Lindsay Clancy going to a mental hospital instead of prison?
We just want to get out of here. You would
be surprised, shocked even, if I told you the single

(19:16):
most common time that a jury will return a verdict.
When do you think it is? What day? Out of
any day of the week, what day would you think? Friday. Absolutely.
Eric got it right away. Why? Because no one wants
the trial hanging over their heads come Monday. Well, what
happened today? For much of the country, first day of school.

(19:37):
While this trial was going on, it was summer. Summer vacation.
Kids are home. Now it's sort of a big shift
in people's routines. Now you're back in the swing of things.
You've got to take the kids to school and to
football practice and all of that. Maybe if some of
these jurors are educators or in the education system, they've
got to go back to work. They want to get
on with their lives. They don't want to be stuck here.

(19:59):
So it would not shock me if you see a
verdict tomorrow morning or at some point tomorrow. Because the
last thing that anyone wants, and I think the judge
is going to try his level best to avoid, is
a hung jury and the possibility that this case needs
to be retried. You're listening to The Dano. Quite frankly,
nobody in this country likes the Democratic Party. It is

(20:23):
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believe the first was Clay and Buck. First winner on
the Dan O'Donnell Show. Contest ends this Friday, and your
next chance to win comes up in about an hour
and a half. A terrifying scene on Times Square this afternoon.
A 49-year-old woman from Queens, identified as Pamela Cisneros, who

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has a long history of severe mental illness, pulled two
knives out of a shopping bag and stabbed two people
in a random, it's believed to be totally unprovoked, attack
along 7th Avenue. The stabbings occurred within about 20 seconds
of one another. A 32-year-old woman was stabbed in the

(21:51):
stomach and died of her injuries about an hour later.
A 68-year-old man was also stabbed in the stomach. He
remains in the hospital in stable condition. New York City
police officers confronted Cisneros near 43rd Street, and they tried
talking to her and getting her to drop the knives

(22:13):
for about four minutes. This was documented by multiple bystanders. Already,
the usual suspects are saying that this is an unjustified
police shooting. Cisneros starts waving her arms in circles. She's

(22:33):
holding two knives. she sort of starts going like a
berserker attack, like she's just like spinning her arms around
with two knives, and she starts running towards the police officers.
One officer deploys a taser, no effect whatsoever, within a
split second, gunshots. There's the taser. She was still coming

(23:11):
at them. She was still swinging the knives. She had
just stabbed two people, killed one of them. It's absolutely
a justified shooting. It's captured from multiple angles. Yes, to
people who say, well, how much damage? The woman is
very obese. While she was swinging her arms in a circle,

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it looked like as she was moving forward, she was
going to topple over. Like, honest to God, she looked
so top-heavy. It looked like she was going to fall over.
Do you have any idea how quickly you can be
killed with a knife? I just– it– I don't think
people quite understand how deadly knives are. Well, they could
have disarmed her. They could have taken the knife out

(23:56):
of her.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
No.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
If a suspect is coming at you with a deadly weapon,
in fact, the standard legally is if there is an
imminent risk of death or great bodily harm to the
officer or to anybody else, use of deadly force is
absolutely justified to stop that threat. She could have stabbed

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any one of the six or seven officers that were
trying to talk to her. She could have stabbed any
one of the bystanders who were taking cell phone video.
It was, after all, Times Square-justified shooting. In Madison, guess
what they are doing after the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone

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shut down the area of Williamson Street for about two weeks.
Madison Finance Committee yesterday evening approved a $ 100, 000 relief fund
for Willie Street businesses that lost weeks of revenue after
city officials didn't just allow the illegal Corey Ruiz homeless

(25:04):
camp to exist. Would you believe they actually provided them
with porta potties? They actually helped them by picking up
the garbage. They helped them, believe it or not, barricade
the streets. City crews provided the barricades that were keeping

(25:29):
traffic away from the Willie Street illegal Corey Ruiz homeless camp,
the original proposal for the businesses that had to shut down.
So the people who lived in the area, the people
who operated businesses said they felt like they were trapped
and they felt like the city was the one doing

(25:50):
the trapping. Very obviously, any time Madison's mayor, Sunbeam Rhodes Conway,
wanted to go in and clear out the homeless camp.
She could have done so. Eventually, in fact, Madison police
and city crews and state law enforcement agents, they all
went in 12 days after the neighborhood was shut down

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and they just cleared out the encampment. Why did they
allow the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone or CRAZ to exist
for two weeks? Because they wanted it to exist. Because
they thought that the shooting of Corey Ruiz, who, by
the way, just like Pamela Cisneros in New York City today,

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was armed with a knife and actually did use that
knife to injure one of the officers trying to arrest him.
He attempted to take one of the officer's firearms. A
taser was deployed. Wouldn't you know it? It did not
have much of an impact at all. Despite this, despite
a suspect armed with a knife who has already injured

(26:57):
one officer and is trying to get a weapon off
of another, clearly poses an imminent threat of death or
great bodily harm. Once again, unless there is some fact
that is going to come out in this investigation that
nobody knows, sure seems to me like a pretty justified shooting.
based on the totality of the evidence that we didn't

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matter because mayor sunbeam roads conway and because everybody else
in power in the city of madison said well we
just need to give these people space to protest we
know the community is hurting because a person of color
was brutally murdered by a police officer well that wasn't

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what happened at all And there were very real consequences
of some of the stupidest public policy that this state
has seen in a long time. The committee, the Madison
Finance Committee last night, cut the original $ 300, 000 proposal by
rejecting $ 200, 000 from the city's contingent reserve fund and leaving
only $ 100, 000 that is going to come out of money

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That is not being spent on other programs. It's known
as an underspent or underspent funds. The money is, if
it's approved by the full Madison Common Council, is going
to go to roughly 30 shops and restaurants within two
blocks of Williamson and Baldwin streets. Some of those businesses

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reported sales drops of 90% or shut their doors entirely
until the street reopened. In fact, the Salvation Army reported
a revenue loss of $ 100, 000. Or I'm sorry, not Salvation Army, St.
Vincent de Paul. $ 100, 000 loss after it had to close

(28:54):
the thrift store for about 10 days. So Mayor Sunbeam
and the powers that be in Madison allowing the illegal
homeless camp to shut down St. Vincent de Paul, who
is benefited by a thrift store? People who genuinely or

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generally don't have the funds to be shopping at, say,
you know, Saks Fifth Avenue, who is employed by St.
Vincent de Paul. Oftentimes, people who are in recovery, people
who have been experiencing homelessness, St. Vincent de Paul is
a fantastic charity that does incredible outreach work and puts

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people who are down on their luck to work, Madison said,
you know what? It doesn't matter. matter because the people
who are pissed off that a dude who knifed a
cop and got shot because of it and want to
take over the street so they can have an open
air drug house in the middle of the street. their

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rights to protest, their rights to break state law and
Madison Ordinance, both of which expressly prohibit blocking public streets.
You can't block the street. You can if it's, say,
the 4th of July and there is a parade. Do

(30:19):
you suppose the drug addict psychopaths who formed the Corey
Ruiz Autonomous Zone or crash, you think they pulled permits
for that one?

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Hell.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Mayor Sunbeam and the police chief in Madison tried to
hold a press conference about Kras and the nutso's took
it over while they stood by and impotently watched. Ladies
and gentlemen, this is what happens when Democrats are in
charge of your city. They will shut down your business

(30:56):
for weeks at a time. Because there's some protest that
they agree with, and they don't care how many laws,
how many ordinances the protesters violate, so long as their
cause is just and noble and can be used, most importantly,
to attack. society or capitalism or the police or the

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patriarchy or whatever, whatever imagined boogeyman they come up with.
And then, then while you are shut down, while you
have lost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, while you
are trapped in your apartment, they say, oops, yeah, sorry,
our bad. Uh, here's, here's some money. Uh, We cool? Oh,

(31:39):
by the way, your property taxes are still due at
the end of the year. And yes, those have gone
up exponentially. And yes, we are increasing pretty much every
other usage fee as well. Good luck staying in business,
Willie Street Establishments. You're listening to The Dan O'Donnell Show,
a tour de force of truth. David Crowley says, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(32:04):
I'm totally opposed to flock cameras, too. A day after
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson got near universal praise, including, believe
it or not, from this show, for his policy on
limiting the use of flock cameras after a very high-profile

(32:24):
incident in which a Milwaukee police officer was charged with
using cameras to stalk his ex-girlfriend or current girlfriend. And
he checked those cameras to sort of follow her around
the city a hundred some times. And this has led
to this case. This is actually one of the cases,

(32:45):
if not the case, that's being held up by opponents
of flock cameras to say, look, the penchant for abuse
is so great that we have to dramatically limit the use.
Mayor Johnson actually with one glaring exception, I think struck
the right balance in how a sound public policy on

(33:09):
an amazing new technology needs to be crafted. The one
very obvious, uh, pandering bit of pandering that he did
was saying that no other outside agency can use our
flock cameras. Why do you suppose, what out of all

(33:31):
of the other agencies, do you think it's the Milwaukee
County Sheriff's Department? Do you think it's, you know, I
don't know, there's a high-speed chase through downtown Greendale. A guy,
I don't know, steals a car at the little gazebo,
takes off past Furches. Furches hasn't been there forever. My
kids and I, we went to Furches all the time.

(33:52):
What's the little pizza place? They've got the most wonderful
little pizza place in downtown Greendale. No, no, no, no, no, no. Ricardo's. Ricardo's.
Ricardo's Pizza. Go there. Get the Greendale pizza. Whatever the
Greendale special is, trust me. Tell them Dan O'Donnell told
you to get their Greendale special. It is fantastic. Well,

(34:12):
let's say somebody steals a car from Ricardo's, okay? They
drive like a bat out of hell. The chase goes
into Milwaukee. Do you really think they're worried about the
Greendale Police Department catching a car thief today? who made
off with a whole bunch of Greendale special pizzas from Ricardo's. No,
the one law enforcement agency that they're targeting is, of course, ICE.

(34:38):
We will get into David Crowley and Tom Tiffany both
weighing in on flock cameras coming up in the four
o'clock hour daily Trump date. Also coming up next, you
have got to hear a truck driver at a House
Judiciary Committee hearing today. taking democrats to task over their

(34:59):
sanctuary city policies sort of like not allowing ice or
not allowing the feds to use flock cameras to track
illegal immigrant gangbangers and criminals it is one of the
most stunning takedowns i have heard in a long time
we're going to get to that right after the four
o'clock news right now though it is time to name

(35:20):
the unhinged liberal of the day it is tella Frico himself,
as nicknamed by President Trump, James Tallarico, who passes himself
off as a moderate Democrat. He is a religious Christian Democrat.
He is the type of Christian who hates Christians. He's

(35:42):
actually said that. But the Democrats are trying to pretend
that this guy, who is obviously quite weird and obviously
a woke soy boy, they're trying to position him as
a moderate.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Nah, nah, nah.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
He's not like Francesco Hong. He's like David Crowley. Well,
in 2020, he was saying, yeah, we should use Black
Lives Matter and climate change and all this other stuff
to abolish capitalism.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
To the multifaceted threat of a climate crisis, an economic crisis,
and a social justice crisis. I think that kind of
New Deal effort would be the only approach to start
to address all three in a thoughtful and meaningful way.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Good for you, Jim.

Speaker 7 (36:23):
Thank you very much. The second question, communities of color
receive the most harm from the impacts of climate change
and yet receive the least government support to deal with it.
Tell us about one of the committees you are on
or hope to be on and the most important actions
that committee could take to fight for climate justice and

(36:45):
mitigate the impacts of climate change for all Texans.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
Yeah, and I'm I am so thankful that you asked
this question and also thankful that young activists have have
really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy
and capitalism in our country. And I think only in
the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together,
are we going to be able to begin the process
of dismantling them?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
So let's see those oppressive systems like racism and. climate injustice,
and capitalism all need to be dismantled. It is very
rare you hear a liberal say, yeah, we're totally using
these things to abolish our capitalist government structure and socioeconomic

(37:31):
structure and sweep in socialism where we take control under
the guise of making climate change and racial injustice better. James,
tell a freak-o Your unhinged liberal of the day. One listener, Sean, writes,

(37:53):
just to note, Vince from The Vince Show coined the
phrase Telefrico to describe Texas Senate candidate James Telerico, not Trump.
He coined the term in March, I believe. Vince filled
in for Dan Bongino while he was in the FBI.
And now, as part of that team, I enjoy the show.
Good work. All right. Didn't want to steal credit from Vince,

(38:17):
or at least misassign credit to President Trump. I just
assume Trump gets his nicknames usually from someone else. Like,
for example, I don't know who it was that popularized faux-Cohontas,
F-A-U-X-Cohontas for Elizabeth Warren. But it was a genius nickname.

(38:39):
Rush Limbaugh used it all the time. Trump got a
hold of it, and I don't believe he understood the foe.
I think he thought they were saying Pocahontas, like the
historical figure Pocahontas. So he's been calling her Pocahontas ever since,
and it sucks because everybody forgets the best nickname ever, Focahontas.

(39:04):
So yes, I absolutely believe that Trump Got his nickname
from Vince, from The Vince Show. I like to fancy
myself a student of the talk radio game.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
I will.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Oh, wait, is this Vince Kogler? Yeah, OK. I don't
know him. I met him one of the times I
was out at the White House when they hosted a
bunch of us talk radio. What an incredible dude. Yeah,
Vince Cogley and Easy. Wonderful guy. Absolutely wonderful. Just incredibly
nice guy. He was filling in for Bongino. See, my

(39:39):
problem is I don't listen to a lot of talk
radio because I don't want, you know, to even subconsciously
be influenced by somebody else. Well, Dan's just regurgitating what
he heard on Clay and Buck. So I don't listen
to a lot of talk radio. I don't watch a
lot of Fox News at night for that exact reason.
But yeah, all right. So I don't know if Vince

(40:02):
actually came up with it, but I really like Vince.
So yes, we are going to just say thank you,
loyal listener, Sean. Vince Coglianese came up with Telefrico. I
just really like that nickname. What if I were to
tell you that Democrats aren't just going to lose the
Telefrico race in Texas, but they are also likely to

(40:24):
lose the main Senate race, the Michigan Senate race, and
they are going to do a whole lot worse than
pretty much everybody in the country thinks because they are
so ungodly unpopular. It is a very likely possibility. We
will dive into it later on this hour here on

(40:45):
the Dan O'Donnell Show. Follow the show at Dan O'Donnell
Show on Facebook, Instagram. So, folks, you may have noticed
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the day after Labor Day. So next week, we are

(41:06):
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As part of our digital media initiative, the Heartland Post,
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(41:28):
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(41:53):
Time now for the Daily Trump Date podcast. This is
a look at Donald Trump's Washington. And yes, by the way,
as long as we're sort of talking about stuff behind
the scenes, we still aren't sure if and when we're
going to be able to play music on podcasts again.
So as a result, since I don't want to cut
entire segments out of the podcast, we're just taking a

(42:15):
temporary hiatus from playing all of the theme music. Don't worry,
I didn't get rid of it. It's sitting, it's waiting.
I can't wait. I just, I think this show sounds
so much better. We use our theme song. We use
the YMCA. I want you to just imagine the YMCA,
you know, the cop and the Indian all dancing around
Trump doing his little Trump dance as I tell you

(42:37):
what's going on in Donald Trump's Washington each day. Massive
wave of strikes. going on against Revolutionary Guard Corps forces
in and around Iran because of recent attacks against commercial
shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. There was also an
attempted attack on U.S.

Speaker 9 (42:57):
Troops.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
The U.S. military launched its first strikes against Iran in
several weeks on Sunday after IRG forces prepared a couple
of missile launchers to fire toward the Strait of Hormuz.
After the US took out those launchers, Iran launched a
number of missiles towards troops and military assets stationed in Jordan.

(43:23):
Not one of them hit. In fact, eight of the
nine were intercepted by our anti-missile technology. The one that
got away hit nowhere near anything. President Trump said in
an interview with Fox News' Trey Yinks yesterday that the U.S.
would hit Iran hard. And in fact, in a post
on Truth Social, he said this afternoon, the U.S. is,

(43:46):
as we speak, striking Iranian targets near the Strait. The
strikes are large and powerful and in retaliation for the Iranians'
failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which
currently has no mines. They have been completely removed or detonated,
and the Iranians shooting eight missiles all successfully knocked down
at our military base in Jordan. We will try to
keep you updated on those strikes. This comes as Treasury

(44:11):
Secretary Scott Besant. is continuing to use economic power and
secondary sanctions to further isolate iran and cut it off
from the international monetary community international uh... economic community basically
to just completely isolated and bankrupt the regime even more

(44:35):
devastatingly that already The highlight of the day today, though,
was a U.S. Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee hearing on
sanctuary city policies. This was a joint judiciary subcommittee in

(44:58):
which Republicans basically took Democrats to task over sanctuary city policies. Now,
this comes on the heels of of a new executive
order from President Trump that was announced by Transportation Secretary
Sean Duffy yesterday that cracked down on more than 100
driving schools, truck driving schools, commercial driving schools, including three

(45:22):
in Wisconsin, because they were graduating truck drivers and giving
out CDL licenses, commercial driver's licenses, to people who are
not proficient in English. A truck driver, an American citizen
by the name of Marcus Coleman testified today about his

(45:42):
daughter Delilah's permanent disabilities after she was struck and badly
injured by an illegal immigrant from India in 2024 in
California by the name of Partop Singh. He received his
CDL from the state of California and caused a multi-vehicle
pileup that left his poor five-year-old little girl, Delilah, with

(46:06):
a traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and just a long
list of medical needs that any father would not only
be devastated over, but as mad, I think, as Marcus
Coleman was at the Democrats who he had to listen

(46:28):
to throughout the bulk of this hear it. talk about
the need for sanctuary city policies and why people like
the illegal alien who paralyzed and and destroyed his daughter's
life five-year-old little girl five-year-old little girl he actually scrapped
his planned testimony and in a two and a half

(46:52):
minute rant spoke from the heart and spoke more forcefully
than I think I have ever heard Democrats spoken to
on the issue of their ungodly and unconscionable protection of
illegal immigrant criminals.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
How is that okay? How are you guys not fighting
for this? Right here, how are you guys not fighting
for this? I reject your guys' sympathy, to be honest
with you. There's no way you guys are sorry. Not
one of you guys have ever called me. Not one
of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not
one of you guys have ever sat there and seen
me in the hallways and said, hey, sorry about your daughter.

(47:32):
You guys do it right here while you guys are
grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is when you
guys care. Right here inside this room is the only
time you guys care. I've never received anything from anybody
over here at all regarding my daughter or my family
or anything.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Hey, Mr.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
Coleman, you guys is Delilah Long. I want to help
you revise this so that we were interested inside of it. Nothing.
You guys have no pathway to anything. You guys want
to sit there and talk about the pathway to citizenship.
There is a pathway. It's not jump the fence and apply.
That's not the way it goes. There's a process to
get it done. You don't just do that. I can't
just go over there and go sit down inside one

(48:08):
of those seats and become a Democrat.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
Oh, you know what?

Speaker 1 (48:10):
I probably could.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
I honestly probably could. So I'm not even going to
say that. But I can't go inside a hospital and
become a doctor just because I want to and go
put on a coat and come to work. It's getting
ridiculous the way it is now. It honestly is. It
makes no sense at all. Sanctuary cities allow so much
to be done that it's almost like the parents not

(48:33):
there to take care of the household. And everybody's running
around and doing what they want to do. And it sucks.
It honestly does. You guys sit there and you guys
talk about ICE invading cities and doing this and doing that.
I agree with Mr.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
Gordon.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Jordan, sorry. That if you guys, if the state sat
there and told them come pick up the person, it
would take one or two people to go do it. Instead,
they got to send an army out there because now
they have to look for them. And then since it's
a sanctuary state, you got people sitting there abusing the ice,
the ice officers that are out there. I have a
whole statement right here that I was going to read

(49:07):
to you guys, but just listening to you guys, none
of this is relevant anymore because you guys just changed
so much. It makes no sense at all. My daughter
doesn't deserve this. She didn't ask for any of this.
The people that jumped the fence did, though. They knew
exactly what they were doing. They still chose to move
forward in that direction. And every day something's happening to somebody.

(49:27):
And it is your guys' fault. I hold each and
every one of you responsible for it. And I always will.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
I actually admire his restraint. frankly twelve-year-old daughter that happened
to her somebody who should not have been in this
country protected by an entire political party ho ho ho
ho i don't know if i could have remained that

(50:00):
composed kudos to marcus coleman now Because Democrats, as Coleman said,
were so terrible and awful on the streets of Minneapolis
to ICE agents just trying to protect everybody from dangerous
criminal illegals, the Trump administration totally changed its strategy. No

(50:24):
more gaudy shows of forces like Operation Metro Surge. Instead,
clandestine operations like one announced today by Homeland Security Secretary
Mark Wayne Mullen in New York City, Operation Rotten Apple,
which just resulted in the arrests that nobody knew about,

(50:48):
the clandestine operations that led to the arrests and detention
and deportation eventually of more than 2,000 criminal illegals.

Speaker 5 (50:59):
Operation Rotten Apple. was an operation we decided to take
on because you have a very liberal slash socialist mayor
here in New York City that instead of working with
law enforcement, tries to cut NYPD's budget by $ 22 million

(51:23):
and refuses to work with federal law enforcement. You have
a governor that refuses to work with us. But over
the last 30 days, Operation Rottenapolis has taken over 2,100
criminals off our streets. That's the worst of the worst.

Speaker 7 (51:44):
2,100.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
We focused on them all across the state of New York.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Good.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
Good.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Focus on them all across the state of New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, everywhere.
and anywhere get dangerous people off the streets. We have
already seen that thanks to a massive, involuntary, forceful, and
voluntary deportation effort that has led to now at least

(52:16):
4 million people, if not way more, getting out of
this country. We saw that. That was the only major
law enforcement policy change from 2024 to 2025. Am I right?
only major nationwide change that was the reason we saw
the single biggest reduction in the homicide rate in a

(52:38):
hundred and twenty-five years in this country saw the single
biggest drop in the overall crime rate according the FBI's
uniform crime reporting statistics just out a couple weeks ago
as well as the biggest drop in the filing crime
rate in at least 60 to 70 years Because dangerous

(52:58):
people are being rounded up. Now, ask yourself, why is
it that Democrats want dangerous people on the streets where
they can injure people like Marcus Coleman's innocent five-year-old daughter? Also,
ask yourself, why is it Democrats always talk about making

(53:18):
things more affordable, yet always, quite literally, use their positions
of power in government to jack up prices. That's exactly
what's going on today as Governor Evers' Public Service Commission
plans to increase your utility rates yet again. We'll discuss
coming up next. Affordability, right? It's all about affordability, that

(53:42):
things are no longer affordable under Donald Trump. And the
Republicans completely forgetting about the $ 1. 9 trillion stimulus that president
Joe Biden and Democrats who controlled both houses of the
legislature in 2021 passed, not a single Republican voted for it.

(54:04):
Then Democrats passed again without a single Republican in favor,
the ironically titled inflation reduction act, both of which injected
massive amounts of government spending. into an economy that was
still recovering from the COVID-19 disruption to the global supply chain, naturally,

(54:26):
of course, causing inflation. It was such a natural outcome
that even left-wing economists were predicting it. All of a sudden,
the price of pretty much everything skyrocketed. In fact, I
saw a couple of tweets on this, and if you
still have a receipt or if you use Walmart Pay,

(54:51):
Walmart has steadfastly refused to accept Apple Pay all these years.
I heard a rumor that they are about to start,
but they want you to sign up for the Walmart
account so you can pay with your phone. Not using
Apple Pay or Google Pay or whatever, but you have
to use Walmart Pay. They're trying to make a go

(55:12):
of that. But one thing you could do at Walmart
was to have a grocery list and you can go
back through years and years and years and see what
it was you bought. Because if you were buying stuff
and you had the Walmart account, if anybody listening to
me right now would do me a favor. Go back.
If you bought groceries or bought whatever from Walmart in 2019, 2020,

(55:37):
and you can still see what it was that you
paid back then, let me know and try to buy
the exact same thing today and see what it costs.
Somebody just a couple of days ago, I happened to
see his post on X had a $ 75 grocery bill
that he tried to pay again. He just said, okay,

(55:59):
I wonder what this would cost. That was sometime middle
of 2020. 2026, it cost him $ 75 six years ago,
$ 192 for the exact same items. Here we're told, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
the price of food at home, it's only up 30%. Ah,

(56:19):
not according to this. Democrats, though, are trying to weaponize
their own failure in completely destroying the nation's consumer economy
through out-of-control inflation and price hikes by saying, well, we're
focused on affordability, affordability, affordability. One of the biggest spikes

(56:44):
in people's bottom line has been the cost of government.
cost of property taxes the cost of sales taxes by
the way the champion of affordability in wisconsin democratic gubernatorial
candidate david crowley didn't just raise property taxes five of
the six years that he was county executive he also

(57:06):
nearly doubled the city's sales tax or the county sales
tax excuse me as the city of milwaukee also implemented
a new two percent sales tax The price of everything
under David Crowley got more expensive in Milwaukee County because
of David Crowley. A new sales tax that he championed,

(57:31):
that he begged the state legislature to allow him to implement,
and that he signed into law. And this guy has
the cojones to lecture anybody else about affordability. Wisconsinites have
also seen massive increases in their utility bills because of

(57:52):
the requests made by Wisconsin's utility electricity power providers. In
southeast Wisconsin, there is a legalized government monopoly by a
company called WE Energies. Now, as a result of this
legalized monopoly status, like you can't open up your own.

(58:15):
I couldn't open Dan energies, Dan energies to compete with
we energies, because first of all, the infrastructure would just
cost a fortune. Second of all, there would be way
too many power lines. Could you imagine if there were
like 10 different public service utilities in Southeast Wisconsin or

(58:37):
in Madison? You wouldn't have any room to throw a
football because every single time you did, it would hit
a power line. So the government allows in each individual
region there to be one utility. In exchange for WE
Energies to be able to raise rates, it needs to

(58:59):
go to the Public Service Commission. Public Service Commission is
appointed by the governor. they serve a set number of terms.
I believe they are three-year terms. Since Governor Evers' appointees
took over majority control of the Public Service Commission, not
only have they increased utility rates by $ 2 billion across

(59:24):
the state, they have approved 75% of of the utility
requests for rate increases Governor Evers' PSC has compared to
Governor Walker, which approved only about 20% of the requests. Today,

(59:44):
WE Energies has been going before the Public Service Commission
with another request to raise rates for electric, natural gas,
and steam. Utilities seeking roughly 14% higher residential electric rates
over two years, about $ 13 more per month in 2027,

(01:00:07):
and another $ 8 to $ 9 per month in 2028 for
a typical customer. Final vote by the PSC expected later
this year. Any approved rate hikes would take effect in January.
What do you suppose the PSC is going to do?
Do you think they're going to say, no, we energies? No. Or,

(01:00:30):
like they have done three out of every four times before,
a utility like we energies has come to them and
said yeah we need to make things less affordable for
everybody who wants you know electricity in their house my
guess is that they're going to keep increasing rates well
Tom Tiffany today says if he's elected governor this rubber

(01:00:53):
stamp for raising your route utility rates stops with.

Speaker 9 (01:00:57):
Family shouldn't dread opening their electric bill in the last
eight years There's been $ 2 billion worth of increases here
in the state of Wisconsin in people's utility bills. My
administration will appoint public service commission members that are going
to make sure that we have affordability at the forefront.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Yeah, so how exactly does David Crowley answer that? By saying, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I totally would make utility rates less affordable. What specifically
would he do different? What commissioners would he appoint that
would be more judicious in approving rate hikes by utilities?

(01:01:42):
Because I see no fundamental difference between he and Evers,
and I see under a Crowley administration everything getting, dare
I say, much less affordable. Coming up next... are democrats
are really going to win everything there is to win

(01:02:03):
these midterms cnn's poll guru harry and didn't doesn't seem
to think so he's got a classical conservatism contemporary style
and mosquito analysis you get all of them here on
the data donald shell what you can miss skito analysis

(01:02:23):
tell us not only about the state of science in America,
but also where we are as a media and how
it is that the media gets the stories that it
regurgitates and passes on to you. That's coming up at

(01:02:45):
the start of the five o'clock hour. I saw a
silly tweet from, actually in the interest of full disclosure,
our news partners over at Fox 6 in Milwaukee. They
partner with us on News Talk 1130 WYS and provide
us with weather coverage, news coverage. And normally they are

(01:03:06):
very good. You have heard me praise, especially Jason Calvey and, no, A.J. Bypore,
CBS 58. Brian Polson is their other investigative reporter. Calvi
is their political reporter. And the best thing I can
say about him and Matt Smith, and I guess buy

(01:03:26):
it poor, I have no idea. You could tell me
they're conservative Republicans. I'd be like, okay, that tracks. You
could tell me they're flaming left socialists. And I would
have no idea because of how good and how down
the middle all three of those guys are. Fox 6
put out not just one of the silliest tweets I

(01:03:49):
think I've ever seen. Mosquito season is here and it's
going to be worse and longer than ever because of
climate change. But Fox 6 did something that kind of
shocked me as, believe it or not, someone who does
have some sense of journalistic ethics. We will discuss what

(01:04:14):
mosquitoes can tell you about a whole lot coming up
in the five o'clock hour. You're not going to want
to miss this. If that was not a tease to
get you to listen to the five o'clock hour. Oh,
and by the way, we're giving you a trip to
Las Vegas at a thousand bucks. Just like we had
a winner from Waukesha. Was it Brian from Waukesha yesterday? Eric,

(01:04:36):
Eric H from Waukesha. Sorry, Eric, but what do you care?
You're going to Las Vegas. You got a thousand bucks.
I could call you Shirley, for goodness sakes. Yeah, I
know where you're going with that, Gen Xer. Don't call
me Shirley. That's exactly what I was going for. Just
to imagine hearing like 10,000 boomers and Gen Xers say

(01:05:00):
in the voice of Leslie Nielsen and don't call me Shirley. Yeah,
I could call Eric Shirley and he wouldn't care because
he won the grand prize. We want the next winner
to be you. That's all coming up. Mosquitoes, cash, Vegas, fun,
all in the five o'clock hour here on the Dan
O'Donnell show. it is conventional wisdom at this point that

(01:05:21):
democrats are just going to sweep the midterms right they
are going to win everything there is to win they're
going to pick up tons of seats in the house
they're going to flip the senate of course they're going
to retain the governorship in a swing state like wisconsin
because donald trump is so unpopular as approval rating is

(01:05:43):
down around thirty one percent Yeah, but Democrats are, according
to CNN's Harry Enten, even less popular than Republicans. Minus

(01:06:03):
25 approval rating.

Speaker 8 (01:06:04):
That favorability rating of the Democratic Party. That favorability rating
of the Democratic Party. You know, back in 2018, when Democrats,
during the first Trump presidency, right, when they were able
to win back control of the House, They were even.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
They were even, right?

Speaker 8 (01:06:18):
Favorable minus unfavorable, even at 0-0-0. Now look at this.
25 points underwater.

Speaker 6 (01:06:26):
Oof.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
Oof.

Speaker 8 (01:06:28):
You know, the Demp brand, as I said, it's not
too good these days.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
It's not too good. No, it's not. And is it
just me or has Harry Enten leaned way more into
his New York accent in the last couple of months?
That is like straight. It's like he just came from
the bleachers at Yankee Stadium. The 25 points underwater. They've
got no pitch and they're not winning the series. When

(01:06:55):
did he become Sal from Brooklyn? I love it. I
love it. The man is entertaining. Man is entertaining. But
this got me thinking, okay, Democrats are 25 points underwater.
Where does this, you know, rank? Where does this rate
amongst recent out parties, parties that don't control the White

(01:07:18):
House in midterm elections? Turns out, Democrats are the least
popular out party by a wide margin that has ever
attempted to win a midterm. In 2022, Republicans in the
final Gallup favorability rating that was done were minus 12.

(01:07:43):
That means they were 12% more unfavorable than they were
favorable as rated by voters. Minus 12. They won nine
House seats, but they actually lost a Senate seat. They
lost two governorships. In 2018, as Enten said, Democrats at

(01:08:09):
this point had a net favorability of about zero, right?
They were about as popular as they were unpopular. As
they got closer to Election Day, they finished at minus eight.
They won 41 House seats, still lost two Senate seats.
They won seven governorships. It was the best that Democrats

(01:08:34):
did this century in midterm elections when Republicans controlled the
White House. In 2010 and 2014, Republicans were either even
or they were about minus 14 in net approval. Guess
which year they did way, way better. In 2010, final gala.

(01:09:00):
approval rating of Republicans right before the election had them even, even.
They won 63 House seats, six Senate seats. And six
governor's mansions. They increased their position by six. They won
a net six seats. Net six governorships. Net 63 House seats.

(01:09:27):
By far the best showing of any out party this century.
In 2014, Democrats still controlled the presidency. Barack Obama was
halfway through his second term. Republicans had net favorability of
minus 14. Now, they had just won, remember, a whole

(01:09:49):
lot of House seats. Democrats did okay. They won some
of those Senate seats back. They had a very good 2012,
boosted by Obama. But when Republicans had minus 14 net approval,
they only won 13 House seats. They did, however, win
nine Senate seats and won two more governor's mansions. In

(01:10:11):
other words, there's a pretty strong correlation with approval rating
and also with how many seats you're going to win.
Democrats in 2006 had a huge year, huge, huge year.
Their net favorability was plus 17, plus 17 heading into.

(01:10:34):
So people really like Democrats because they were just sick
of the Iraq war going Hurricane Katrina. Remember, George Bush
doesn't care about black people. Back when Kanye was saying
crazy stuff, but because he wasn't a Republican, they didn't
lock him in a nut house. Democrats were plus 17.
They won 31 House seats, six Senate seats, six governor's mansions.

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There's a pretty decent correlation here. Even if the president
has a low approval rating, as Trump does right now,
If people don't like the out party either, sure, the
out party is going to pick up seats. I'm not
going to lie to you and say, well, Republicans are
actually going to have a big red wave. But it's

(01:11:23):
starting to look like much more like 2022, where Republicans
thought they were going to win everything there was to win,
but didn't. than, say, 2010, where the out party just
had an absolute tsunami. And the reason for that is
because people don't like where this Democrat party has gone.

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Something changed this summer, and I am convinced that something
was the rise of the Democratic Socialists. You just had
Rahm Emanuel, of all people, go on Fox News Sunday.
Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago, one of the architects
of Barack Obama's political career. He is an old-school, left-wing,

(01:12:09):
always socialist, sympathizing figure. He came out very publicly, as did...
David Axelrod, as did the actual socialist who was booted
out of the Obama administration early in his first term
for being a socialist, Van Jones. They all are coming
out now and say, the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA,

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they are not part of our party. Why are they
saying that? Because the more that Democrats are tied to
the DSA, which is in the process of taking over
the party as we speak, the more people realize, hey,
wait a second, this whole party is screwed up. I

(01:12:55):
want no part of this. Milwaukee Public Schools is canceling
classes after one day, deciding that's enough learning for this semester,
ladies and gentlemen. Because of excessive heat in the forecast tomorrow,
there is no school on day two. So I.

Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
Am.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Am I missing something? The high is expected to be
in the upper 80s. Yes, I know. Earlier today, the
heat index, because it was so humid, we had rain
moving through the area, some thunderstorms moved through southeast Wisconsin
about an hour or two ago. More are coming. Well,
what do I have to do tonight? I've got a

(01:13:47):
fantasy football draft. That's pretty much it. The heat index
did top 100 today. I normally, I'm not one who says, well,
in my day, you and I walked to school. When
it's excessive cold, it is so dangerous that kids can't

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be waiting for a bus. I get it. I get it.
Snow days, I'll give you some leeway because, again, it's dangerous.
The heat index is going to be like 95. It's
going to be hot. Now, some schools have air conditioning,
a lot don't. I'm not going to deny that it

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would be uncomfortable, but dangerous? Worth canceling classes over? 60,000
kids just went to school today, and now 60,000 kids
are going to have to get daycare or alternative Plans

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parents are going to have to make because it's hot.
And folks, if the heat index was 105, 110, okay, yes.
Heat index is projected to be like 94, 95. Head
scratcher to me. We'll be right back. Letter to parents
from MPS, which has canceled classes tomorrow, the second day

(01:15:21):
of the school year because of excessive heat in the
forecast that doesn't, to me, I guess, seem all that excessive.
Unless you think, okay, yeah, Dan, sure, yeah, yeah, easy
for you in an air-conditioned studio. Eric, how often... Do
we have air conditioning and heat that actually works the

(01:15:45):
way it's supposed to? Yeah, it's 40. Eric says it's 45.
We may have to cancel the show tomorrow because of
excessive cold in our studio. It's like it will go
from in the in the actual studio. It will go.
from 80 degrees. I mean, it gets so hot that

(01:16:06):
I'll put the temperature down. It says 70. It'll drop
until like 45. I can remember years ago when my
friend and colleague, Mark Belling, would complain about how insanely
cold it would get in the studio. I'm thinking to myself,
all right, Mark, you know, he's a 60-some-year-old guy. He's

(01:16:27):
getting a little old. You know, it's a Everybody feels colder.
I used to go to my grandparents' house. The thermometer
would be set to like 84. It's the middle of July.
Old people, they get colder. I'm doing my show. This
is when I was doing the middays and belling at–
we were at a meeting and he's complaining about it.
He's like, it is unfit for– he said it was

(01:16:49):
like unfit for human– I forget how he put it,
but it was hysterical. As only belling can. And I
was like, I– you know. that will Ferrell anchorman meme.
I don't believe you. I'm sitting at the very next day.
It was like a pneumonia front moved through the radio studio.

(01:17:11):
It didn't just get down to like 40. I'm telling you,
it got down to freezing. I have never experienced a
building this cold. And it was like April, May. I mean,
it wasn't, it wasn't cold. It was beyond, we eventually
had to do, it was something with the HVAC system.
It was, they had to do extensive repairs to it.

(01:17:32):
But at that moment, I and everybody else who thought
that Belling was making things up, like the time he said,
I broke his chair, which, may have inadvertently been the
one who broke the chair. He was like complaining about
that for years. I had to keep quiet because I
was relatively new here. I was trying to lean back

(01:17:56):
in the chair that we all shared and it didn't
go back. I said, oh, that's weird. I guess this
chair doesn't lean back anymore. That afternoon, I hear him
screaming about someone breaking his chair. I'm like, uh-oh, uh-oh. Well,
I'm going to take this secret to my grave. Oh,
we love you, Mark. We love you, Mark. Mark Belling,

(01:18:18):
podcast available on iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to podcasts.
I will never... So, you know what? If you think,
and I got to give MPS the benefit of the doubt,
I do. I do. My instinct is to make fun
of them or say they're a bunch of sissies for closing.

(01:18:39):
They've got to do... What is in the best interests
of the kids to keep them safe. You can't have
kids passing out because of excessive heat inside the classroom.
You know, I, it just, it's the second day of school.
We can't tough it out. I would say hold class outside,

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but in David Crowley's Milwaukee County, that's a recipe for
at least like three or four muggings outside. a couple
of teen takeovers, and maybe a shooting or two if
you get a whole bunch of people outside in a
summer environment. They're closing on the second day of school. Eric,

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keep watching because sometimes school districts will follow, most of
them on snow days at least, will follow Milwaukee Public Schools.
I can't imagine Madison Metro is going to shut down
because I don't think it's going to be nearly as
hot in Madison. But some of the suburban schools in
the Milwaukee area, if you start to see like Racine

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Unified and them shut down, that's the second day of school.
Second day of school.

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in this nationwide contest. All right. Speaking of the weather,
it seems as though a local news station and local
meteorologist need a quick refresher in the difference between weather

(01:21:06):
and climate. Now, I would say that this is meteorologist
Lisa Michaels and Fox six, not quite understanding that difference,
but it goes a little deeper than that because Fox
six and Lisa Michaels didn't actually write, or at least

(01:21:31):
didn't actually provide the research. on a story that appears
on their website fox six now dot com but tweet
from earlier today was widely mocked on social media from
the official fox six now x account mosquitoes are urging

(01:21:57):
up approaching mosquitoes are urging you to go to class
tomorrow mps because it's not going to be that hot
mosquitoes are emerging Fox 6 needs remedial science. I apparently
need remedial reading classes, or at least better reading glasses.
Mosquitoes are emerging earlier, and the season is lasting longer.

(01:22:21):
This is due to climate change. This was posted this morning,
7.57 a.m., under the byline of Lisa Michaels. It appears
to be a story written by Lisa Michaels. Only at
the bottom do you learn in the source, a little

(01:22:46):
information box, the source. The information in this post were
provided by the Fox 6 weather experts and Climate Central. OK,
it looks like Fox 6 needs some remedial English as well.
The information in this post were provided. The information in
this post was provided by the Fox 6 weather experts
and Climate Central. Not going to make fun of them

(01:23:07):
too badly for a typo since because my eyes are very,
very quickly failing. I have a whole lot of typos.
And is it just me? Or has everybody else noticed that?
You make way more typos on the Apple iPhone keyboard
than ever before. I have never seen anything like this,

(01:23:28):
and it's within the last two years. I know I'm
not the only one. I know. So Lisa Michaels and
Fox 6 just regurgitated information from Climate Central. What's that,

(01:23:49):
you ask? it is a non-profit organization funded by a
whole lot of climate alarmists that basically does everything is
the fault of climate change type research. It seems very odd, though,

(01:24:13):
that this is not a story... Look, I get... I
must get... a hundred pitch emails every single day. People say,
Hey Dan, are you interested in this story? Chances are
the answer is no. There is a like 99% chance
that I am not interested in interviewing a congressional candidate

(01:24:34):
from Butte, Montana. I don't know how I got on
your press list, but I am not. Am I interested in,
I'll never forget when I was at the other radio station.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Six 20. Uh, I would get the craziest pitches and
we would get a book called RTIR. It was like
a monthly magazine, radio television interview report. And it was
just filled with suggested interviews of just random guests. I
will never forget the funniest one I ever saw. I

(01:25:07):
can't remember if it was emailed to me or I
saw it in the RTIR report. It was called macking
at the speed of life. It was a guy who,
who would teach you how to Mac on women, meaning
pick up women. And he was like this, we, we

(01:25:29):
actually producer Armin Sarian and I, we actually watched a
YouTube video with him. And he's this smooth talking black
dude who admittedly was hilarious. And I'm like, we got
to get the Mac and at the speed of life
guy on. So if you know, whoever that was, we
think he wrote a book on the art of Mac
and on the ladies. We would very much like to
have him on. So I get, okay, is Climate Central

(01:25:52):
pitching mosquitoes are bad and getting worse because of climate change?
Is this some partnership? Because all of the graphics are
ready to go in this story on Fox6Now. com. But there's
no actual there there. There's no actual case being made

(01:26:16):
that mosquitoes are worse because of climate change. This is
the entire article on the Fox 6 website. This is
not a synopsis. This is the entire article. Climate change
is impacting mosquito season across Wisconsin, the United States, and
the entire world. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal due to
the ability to spread disease. Over the past 55 years,

(01:26:37):
the majority of the United States has seen an increase
in the number of days that mosquitoes are around. The
Midwest and Great Lakes regions have some of the highest increases,
with Milwaukee experiencing an entire additional month a year when
mosquitoes are around. This, by the way, is completely wrong.
It is not at all accurate. I'll get to that

(01:26:57):
in a second. It's a complete misstatement. It is the
definition of misinformation. This provides more days when people can
be exposed to diseases just by a single bite. What
is prompting this change? Climate change! Warmer temperatures are helping
speed up reproduction rates and allowing mosquitoes to grow faster.
Milder winters will allow them to emerge earlier in the

(01:27:19):
spring and last longer into the fall. More frequent rainfall
can lead to standing water, which is prime breeding ground.
In addition, mosquitoes are able to move into areas that
were too cold in the past but are warmer now.
Only female mosquitoes bite and attacks are often at dusk
and dawn. As climate changes, additional species are arriving and
can attack during the day. It is important to make

(01:27:40):
sure that you protect yourself by wearing long-sleeved shirts and pants,
light-colored and loose clothing, and use insect repellent. That's the
entire story. And it's broken up by graphics provided by
this climate group. Climate Central. Again, a group dedicated, expressly dedicated.

(01:28:01):
It is a non-profit. It's a non-profit dedicated. It is
funded by people who want to advance the idea that
climate change is causing everything. I'm reading this article and
I thought, hmm, I seem to remember thinking that it's

(01:28:23):
not just temperature. But there's a whole ton of reasons,
you see, that mosquitoes emerged earlier or later or whatever, because,
you know, living in Wisconsin, you get to be a
mosquito expert whether or not you want to be. We know.
from mosquitoes here in the Badger State. So I'm reading

(01:28:45):
through this and I actually did a little bit of research.
I said, you know, there's got to be some scientific
studies on this. And it was sort of like Luke
Skywalker in The Last Jedi. I know everybody hated that movie,
but he got off a great line where Kylo Ren
is like yelling about something towards the end. And he

(01:29:06):
just says very calmly, amazing. Every single word that you
just said is wrong. The idea that climate change is
making mosquito season longer, that mosquitoes are present, hatching earlier
and they're around longer, that's not even suggested by the

(01:29:29):
data that Climate Central provides. What Climate Central actually provided
was the number of days whose average temperature sits inside
the thermal limits for the type of mosquito that lives
here in Wisconsin. So the different types of mosquitoes that

(01:29:51):
live in Wisconsin are can't hatch, they can't survive if, say,
the average temperature or the temperature gets below 50 degrees
or whatever. So Climate Central simply took the average temperature
on certain days and said, well, there can be mosquitoes
on this day, so there are mosquitoes on this day.

(01:30:15):
So Different species of mosquitoes. And folks, I learned more
about mosquitoes today than I think I have learned in
my previous 45 years of life. Certain mosquito species will
hatch at different times. The biggest thing that impacts them

(01:30:38):
is the presence of what? Everybody in Wisconsin knows this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Water.

Speaker 1 (01:30:44):
Standing water. There are some species of mosquito that will
only hatch after the snow melts. There's a lot of
water on the ground, obviously. Once it gets warm enough,
there are spring rains that sort of prompt the hatching

(01:31:05):
of the mosquito eggs. Some that live in wetlands and marshes,
they actually hatch over the winter and they become active
as soon as the temperatures get warm enough. There are
other mosquitoes known as cattail mosquitoes that don't hatch until
much later in the season. The single biggest factor is

(01:31:28):
the timing of the snow melt, which is individual. Like,
can you say necessarily snow is going to melt earlier
in the season because of climate change? Well, if you're
also arguing that snow is no longer going to exist
because of climate change, kind of difficult question. to argue
that same thing. Also, how wet, how rainy a spring

(01:31:50):
and how rainy an early summer is impacts when mosquitoes hatch,
how long there are, how many mosquitoes there are, and
how much standing water is in a given location. There
is actually a 2023 scientific study that proves this. The
scientists who wanted to show exactly what Fox 6 and

(01:32:14):
the Climate Central folks were setting out to prove, that
a warming world, warmer temperature, necessarily going to bring more mosquitoes.
Guess what? They found the exact opposite. The study, Climate, Landscape,
and Life History Jointly Predict Multidecadal Community Mosquito Phenology, published

(01:32:34):
in Scientific Reports. I know that title just rolls right
off the tongue, right? Quote, temperature had generally weak support
on its own, impacting onset and peak abundance timing. Rather,
temperature has interacting effects with humidity or precipitation. In other words,

(01:32:57):
individual weather events are much better predictors of how bad
a mosquito season is going to be. In fact, long-term
climate changes have relatively little impact whatsoever. There was another
study that took a survey of 187 different mosquito studies.

(01:33:21):
Did you know there were 187 different mosquito studies that
were done in the scientific community? My God, I know
it's important. But I think we have reached peak mosquito research.
Unless you are researching a good way to kill them all.
Like the only genocide I support is mosquito genocide. And

(01:33:45):
I'm sure I'm going to have the environmentalists go all crazy.
The mosquitoes probably are, you know, they keep some other
horrible pest. Yeah, they feed bats, but. That is right.
The first sentence, the mosquito is by far the deadliest
animal on earth. Do you know why? Because it spreads malaria,

(01:34:06):
not just any disease, malaria. Do you realize we essentially
wiped out malaria throughout most of the world through the
use of a chemical called DDT? And then a woman
by the name of Rachel Carson, an environmentalist who you
probably learned about in school. She was a celebrity. Oh
my God. She wrote this in Awful, wrong, misinformation-filled book

(01:34:31):
called Silent Spring. We banned the use of DDT. Malaria
roared back. And malaria is now killing tens of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands of people, especially in Africa,
every single year. Because we can't use the chemical that
the environmentalists. Way to go. 187 studies, about a third,

(01:34:58):
maybe less than a third, mentioned climate just in passing
in any of the research. Not one was able to
tie climate change to increased mosquito populations, longer mosquito seasons,
or anything. So the claim that climate change is making

(01:35:21):
mosquito season worms is is a complete fabrication. It is
the very definition of misinformation designed to make a socio-political point.
Using something, and I'm sure Climate Central did this intentionally,

(01:35:41):
let's find something that everybody hates, mosquitoes. Let's tie it
to climate change. Now, why do they want to do this?
We can go back to our unhinged liberal of the day,
James Tallarico, caught in 2020 saying, look, climate change, racism, capitalism,

(01:36:03):
we need to overthrow the system so we can get
rid of all of these. Climate change has been used
for decades by the increasingly socialist-leaning left to assert more
control over private industry to eventually make it so that

(01:36:24):
private industry cat function independent of government oversight and ultimately
government control it seems silly a dumb story a dumb
tweet about mosquitoes but i think it speaks volumes about
who is actually writing And who, with an obvious political

(01:36:50):
and environmental axe to grind, is providing content to how
many different local news outlets like Fox 6 that are,
it's just completely and provably wrong. This is what you
get here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Analysis of media,

(01:37:13):
of science, of culture, all through mosquitoes. I was more
curious as to how a non-profit pro let's blame everything
on climate change group found itself writing articles for Fox 6,
the affiliate of Fox News. I should just reach out

(01:37:36):
to them. Admittedly, and I will give them a chance
to respond if they would like Obviously, we do have
a news sharing agreement and that sort of stuff, and
I normally find Fox 6 to be very fair, very good.
Did you see, by the way, Carl Deffenbaugh is leaving? Yeah,

(01:37:57):
the morning show host. He announced on social media his
last day is Friday. After 10 years, I guess they
were going to move him to a different time slot.
That's what I gathered from his thing. He said, ah,
you know what? Probably time to pull the ripcord. It's tough,
you know? I.
I can't tell you how many I had to pull

(01:38:17):
back from coaching soccer and stuff because, you know, my
show ends at 6 o'clock. I've had to miss a
good amount of high school soccer games because they start
at 4.30. You do have to make sacrifices sometimes. Have
no fear, folks. I'm not going anywhere until they pull

(01:38:39):
me out of this. I'm going to be like that
1990s movie Airheads. I'm going to barricade myself in the
radio studio. There's going to be like cops outside. Yeah, Dan,
your position's been eliminated. No, I'm going to be broadcasting
for the next 24 hours straight. Where was I? I'm
already senile. They're going to pull me out. I'm kidding.

(01:39:01):
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. A big debate today is over
flock cameras. The day after Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson made
a big change to the way the city is handling
its flock cameras, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley realized Yet again,

(01:39:22):
he is on the wrong side of an issue that
people feel very, very strongly about. Tom Tiffany, Republican candidate
for governor, actually said that he is going to have
a pause on all purchases statewide of flock cameras until

(01:39:43):
we can have a more uniform state policy. David Crowley said, Ruh-roh.
Tiffany is staking out the populist position on this issue,
just like he did on data centers. And oh, by
the way, I am the guy who signed the agreement

(01:40:04):
to purchase 40 some flock cameras for Milwaukee County. Crowley
puts out a tough statement today saying we are going
to do this on flock cameras. We're going to stop
this use. He doesn't have total power over that. Milwaukee

(01:40:24):
County Sheriff is an independently elected position. Danita Ball, ultimately,
is the one who makes the decision on how exactly
flock cameras are used. Now, where it gets a little
difficult is The contract that the company flock signed with

(01:40:48):
Milwaukee County was not with the sheriff's department. It was
with the county executive's office. Where are all of the
counties located, county's cameras located? Milwaukee Parkland. County executive's office
ultimately has the purview over the management of the Milwaukee
County Parks. So Crowley... can say all he wants about

(01:41:14):
flock cameras, he needs to work with Danita Ball to
actually craft a policy. Why did he rush and put
it out so quickly? Well, it's rather obvious, because flock
cameras have become a very controversial issue, and also, I
believe his campaign saw how well Mayor Cavalier Johnson's response

(01:41:39):
to flock cameras and how well his policy was received,
both by liberal Democrats and conservatives alike. While I believe
that there is a big, big problem with not allowing
other law enforcement agencies to have any access at all
to the city of Milwaukee's flock camera system, because it's

(01:42:02):
clearly aimed at providing sanctuary for illegals. Which law enforcement
agency are they targeting? Very obviously, ICE. Very obviously, the FBI, CBP.
Anybody who could potentially enforce America's immigration laws would be
prohibited from using the city of Milwaukee's flock cameras. Other

(01:42:25):
than that, however, other than that, it is very clear
that this was a very reasoned reasonable policy. Johnson says
that because of recent abuses, including one case that is

(01:42:46):
well known internationally of a Milwaukee police officer using flock
cameras for stalking more than a hundred times, he's checking
the flock camera system. Only supervisors are allowed to use
the flock cameras. If you want to access flock camp

(01:43:07):
you need a warrant this to me solves 99 of
the problems however if you're limiting their use to only
the milwaukee police department well then that kind of limits
their effectiveness right what happens if there's a high-speed chase

(01:43:29):
coming from say west alice or franklin Are you no
longer allowed to chase this suspect into Milwaukee? Also, the
only crimes that are allowed to be investigated using flock
cameras are the most serious ones as designated by the

(01:43:51):
FBI and also specific ones that are local Milwaukee problems.
Car theft is obviously a big one. Other than that,
you can't investigate, I don't know, jaywalking by using the
flock camera. Oh my God, this guy's a serial jaywalker.
Look at, he's appearing on every camera in the city. No,

(01:44:13):
flock cameras don't actually work that way. They're basically license
plate and car make and model readers. But they are
a very effective law enforcement tool. This, I think, reveals
Crowley's biggest weakness by far. in this campaign and why
he's not nearly the juggernaut that republicans feared or that

(01:44:39):
democrats pretended he was because he plays catch up on
every single issue and on every single issue of consequence
he finds himself on the wrong side of the american
people and of wisconsinites in particular to the point where

(01:45:00):
Even Tom Tiffany, who's supposed to be this right-wing MAGA extremist,
is able to outflank him on the left on the
issues of both data centers and flock cameras. That's kind
of remarkable, actually. You're listening to The Dan O'Donnell Show,
back in just a second. You get politics, you get news,

(01:45:23):
you get sports, you even get mosquito analysis. On sports,
where do you think Thanasis Antetokounmpo ended up? Miami? Nope. Giannis'
brother has signed with a Greek team, Aris BC. Three-year

(01:45:47):
contract with the Aris Basketball Club. I feel like I
should know how to pronounce this since I was just
in Greece. Thessaloniki?

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
Greece?

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
Greece? It competes in the Greek Basketball League. The 34-year-old,
according to jsonline.com, spent his last six seasons in the
NBA playing for the Milwaukee Bucks. He missed the 2024-2025
season due to a torn Achilles tendon. He appeared in

(01:46:20):
232 games for Milwaukee over that time, averaging 2.3 points
per game. Everybody loves Thanasis. You love Thanasis. I love Thanasis.
Thanasis had absolutely no business taking up a roster spot
in an NBA franchise. The Milwaukee Bucks gave him a

(01:46:44):
roster spot. In fact, at one point, The Bucks were
employing two different Antetokounmpo brothers in the hopes of getting
Giannis to not demand a trade. What happens when Giannis
gets what he thinks he wanted all along? a trade

(01:47:05):
to a contender, he goes down to Miami Heat culture
and Pat Riley and so forth. Do they allow him
to play with his brother, who clearly is not an
NBA talent, but is kept on the roster as a
favor to the superstar because the organization was trying to
placate him the best it could? They're not going to

(01:47:27):
do that. Riley is going to use that 12th or
13th spot on the roster on someone who could actually
theoretically play in an NBA game. This, I think, was
the biggest problem with the Bucs by far. They catered

(01:47:47):
to Giannis' every whim. They had a championship window that
closed in their face. Did you see, by the way,
who Miami also just picked up to play with Giannis?
Drew Holiday. Drew Holiday, who very famously was traded. Wait

(01:48:10):
a second. Did they not consummate that deal? I thought
that was a done deal. Apparently it wasn't. There was
a trade that was. I thought agreed to in principle
that would have sent drew from the trail, but ignore
what I just said. The Heat are attempting to sign
or trade for Drew Holiday because Giannis wants to again

(01:48:34):
play with him, I guess. Bam out of bio. I mean,
Drew is still one of the best on-ball defenders in
the NBA. He got traded for Damian Lillard, and maybe
that trade would have worked out had Lillard not immediately
gotten injured and he and Giannis played a grand total
of 20 games together. But the trade didn't work out.

(01:48:57):
It was a trade that Giannis demanded. The Bucks have
had all sorts of coaching problems since firing Mike Budenholzer,
who led them to a championship in 2021. Who apparently
wanted Mike Budenholzer fired? Giannis, because he thought they needed
a new direction. They bring in Adrian Griffin. He's a

(01:49:20):
much more defensive-oriented coach. He lasts all of, what, 44 games?
Even though the Bucs were 30 and 40, he gets fired.
They bring in Doc Rivers, who in his introductory press
conference says, I don't want to be here. I don't
know why you hired me. Now, he's obviously joking. Supposedly,

(01:49:41):
according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, he lost the locker
room right there. Why did they bring in Doc Rivers?
Because Giannis apparently wanted him. The Bucs are now dealing
with a difficult situation. They've got good young players led
by Tyler Hero, Whitnall alum. The future is not nearly

(01:50:03):
as bright as it would have been had they been
able to hold on to their superstar. They did everything
for him and it still wasn't enough. Giannis, you made
your bed and now you've got to lie in it.
Without Thanasis lying next to you on the Miami Heat roster.

(01:50:23):
Because he's going to be in Greece. You're listening to
the Dano. We know when the rain is going to
move through next. There's some scattered showers this evening. I've
got about the nerdiest thing that you could possibly do
in about a half hour. And I'm wondering, do I
race home or do I just do it here in

(01:50:43):
my office? What do you think? If you had to guess,
really nerdy, right around Labor Day weekend. That's right, fantasy
football draft. I have got my first of about six,
I think. I've got the work league. I've got a
high school friends league. I've got an old neighborhood league.

(01:51:06):
I've got my brother's high school friends league. It's a
lot of fun. I enjoy fantasy football, right? I have
done almost no research. As somebody who just prides himself
on doing as much research as humanly possible for this show, well,

(01:51:28):
because I've been doing a lot of research for this
show and I've been working hard, I kind of know
who to draft. I think I pick fourth overall. It's
what's known as a guillotine league or knockout league, which
is actually kind of fun. I don't know if you're
allowed to call it a guillotine league because of the

(01:51:49):
violent imagery. Whichever team each week finishes with the lowest
total points gets eliminated. You're out of the league. Your
season is over. All of your players become free agents
and the remaining teams bid. And whoever like wins with, with, Yes,

(01:52:11):
imaginary play money to bid on imaginary free agents to
have join your imaginary team. Told you, it's really nerdy.
It's Dungeons & Dragons for even dorkier dudes who think
they're cooler. Never got into Dungeons & Dragons. I always
thought it would be kind of fun to play them.
This is the sports equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons. Instead

(01:52:34):
of a traveling party, you've got a fake football team
that you run. So if anybody has any tips for me,
it would be greatly appreciated. All right, we are out
of time here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Back tomorrow,
3.06 p.m. Have a great night, Wisconsin.

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