6/26/26 - Matt Kittle fills in for Dan O'Donnell

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Speaking of spectacles, Dan O'Donnell. Dan O'Donnell is at a spectacle. That's why I'm filling in. Of course, he is attending the big FIFA World Cup matches. Not so good last night, as I understand it for the Americans, but they were resting their guys, right? It didn't really matter. They're already in. But they got beat by, what is it now? Turkey. Turkey. Dave, what is it? Because I don't know how to spell it. I always liked it like the bird, and then they had to screw around with it. Anyway, there's some new name to it, like the Czech Republic, which used to be Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, now it's Chechia? I don't know. Why can't we just keep the things the way they are? It's much less confusing. Hey, we have a lot going on on this show today. And we're very close to the weekend. You can almost smell it. It smells great, doesn't it? Coming up on the show today, we are going to give you a chance at pocketing. $2,500. That sound all right? Yeah, I said it before. That is the way to start a weekend. You bet we will do that again coming up in the 5 o'clock hour. It's our 250K USA giveaway. We're going to give you a shot at part of that $250,000. We're giving away in this contest. We'll give you the keyword. You know the drill coming up in the 5 o'clock hour. Also, a little bit later this hour, never forget what the COVID experts did to us. There's an interesting piece, at least I find it so, because I am a bit self-involved. It's in the Federalist today, and it is a reminder. In fact, there's a video montage that... Did I play this yesterday? Now, I can't remember. Yeah, I think I did. But that video montage just really takes you back to what an awful time. Obviously, it's a pandemic, but it was made all the more worse. exacerbated is the word by the scientist who we were supposed to blindly follow. We've got some new information on that. We'll share that with you coming up a little bit later this hour. And, oh, let me, let's set our watches. Let's synchronize our watches. Is it just about riot season? It may be, and there was a Supreme Court decision that I have a hunch may launch riot season coming up, just in time for the midterm elections, of course. And here we go again. Dane County is exploring the Oregon model of homelessness.

That's right. Make homelessness great again is the idea in Dane County. We'll chat about that coming up in just a bit. Talking about Dan at the big soccer tournament, big soccer match. Well, they have many, many matches, of course. And the foreigners, they love the ranch dressing. So much so, you've probably heard this, but I do believe this is very interesting. They have gotten such a Jay Jones, a hankering for the ranch dressing that the TSA, the Transportation Safety Administration, had to issue a notice. advising folks heading back to their home countries that, no, it's not a good idea to bring ranch into your carry-on baggage. Putting that overhead is a recipe for disaster. But I'm telling you, they love the ranch. A little bit later on in the show, have you seen, it's one of my funniest, but one of the funniest bits, and there are so few anymore on SNL, what used to be known as Saturday Night Live, who is that comedian with the googly eyes? I like him, but I never remember his name. He was on there. They did this skit about Washington as they were standing on the brink of fighting in the early parts of the Revolutionary War. Nate Barrens, exactly. I like that guy. I never remember his name. And I probably, it's probably not nice of me to call him the googly-eyed guy. But that's how I remember him. Anyway, Dave, do you know that skit I'm talking about Washington's vision? I love it. Oh, no, no, I know that. I know he's not a cast member. I don't know. The only guy I know is, what's his name? Keenan? No. Kel? I don't know. Kenan Thompson, he's been on there for 700 years. And I really, I like that guy. He's funny. His faces are delightful, as they are in the skit. If we have some time, I'm going to play that as we get closer to The 250th anniversary of this exceptional nation, I think we revisit the Washington's vision skit from SNL. But here's a little play on that as we're thinking about Dan traveling to the FIFA World Cup. This is what Washington would say about it all. And in this great country, we will call it soccer. But isn't it played with the feet, sir? Of course it is. And we will let the clock run for 45 minutes straight without breaks. But what about when they aren't playing? We will call it stoppage time. And how much stoppage will there be, sir? Nobody knows. We'll talk more about that coming up. Yeah, I struggle with the rules of football myself. Straight ahead.

An important conversation, Jackson Barrack, a University of Minnesota student entering his senior year, has joined with the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Young America's Foundation, with former Governor Scott Walker, to sue his school for violating his right to free speech even after the Trump administration ruled to protect it. Jackson and Kimberly Herman, who serves as president of a Southeastern Legal Foundation, will join us to talk about that. Straight ahead. We're just getting started. Just getting warmed up. I hope you will stay with us. It is the Dan O'Donnell Show with your old Radio Amico, Matt Kittle. Hang on. Keeping it real. Keeping it right. It's the Dan O'Donnell Show. Kittle filling in on this Friday. Oh, baby. Is that the stroke? You know, that song takes on a different meaning, the older you grow. It was the soundtrack of my older age. Coming up in just a bit, never forget what the COVID experts did to us. Some want to sweep it all under the rug. We can't let that happen. Now, let us talk about individual rights and where DEI and the crazy pronoun movement have gone in this country. Jason Amy Coney Barrett, a University of Minnesota student entering his senior year, has joined with the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Young America's Foundation. Of course, that's led by former Governor Scott Walker, to sue his school. for violating his right to free speech, even after the Trump administration ruled to protect it. Some of these institutions just don't and can't get the message. Jackson and Kimberly Herman, who serves as president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, joins us now in the Dan O'Donnell Show with Matt Kittle. Thank you both for being here. I very much appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. I heard, Jackson, you and the governor, and gosh, do we miss him? We've missed him over the last eight long years in this state. But that's a topic for another day. But I heard you, folks, were you on Sean Hannity yesterday? One of the national shows, you sounded great, by the way. Thank you very much. Yes, I was on the governor. I was on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with the governor yesterday. Pretty influential step in my hopefully long media career. There you go. I hope so, too. I know that you're actually in a path, as I understand it, in health care, and you're standing up to fight, I think, the good fight. Tell us what happened your experiences with the pronoun police. Yeah, so as you kind of mentioned in my intro there, so going into my senior year, I'm the president of the Yap chapter at the University of Minnesota, so we're a conservative student organization. And the university has pretty much tried to put a muzzle on us as best as we can to make sure that we don't talk about.

pretty normal, normy issues on campus. I mean, the goal that we try to bring is to get university students to feel a different kind of vibe around the area and to make people exposed to different ideas bringing on selected speakers and whatnot. And the way that the university policies are outlined kind of hamper us from doing that. I mean, we want to bring people to speak about transgenderism to speak about biological sex. You know, I don't want to be punished up to including expulsion for that. I don't want to be expelled and waste tens of thousands of dollars for, you know, saying a man is a woman or seeing a man in a woman's bathroom pointing it out. I think that's pretty ridiculous. Mm-hmm. I think it's pretty ridiculous, too. I think it's a massive infringement on your right to free speech in the name of political correctness and allyship, whatever they're calling this crap. But you raise some very good points. So let me give you a, for instance, if you were a student on campus were to, as they say, misidentify a trans individual. And it was a mistake because sometimes it's difficult. But even a mistake could cost you your academic career. Is that correct? Yeah, I would say that that's pretty accurate. I mean, the way that they define, quote, harassment is incredibly subjective and pretty vague in my mind. I mean, it's pretty much whoever's reading it. filing the claim of harassment that's going to be the one who defines it. I mean, it's simply subjective. There's no standards whatsoever. Kim, as we mentioned, this is something that the Trump administration was very interested at the very outset of his second term in office. Started right away with some very important executive orders. These universities, these leftist indoctrination centers, do not want to follow the executive orders that come with... the cash for all of this. What has the university leadership said in regard to that executive order, these executive orders, and where this whole thing stands?

Actually, coincidentally, I was there standing right behind him with my daughter when he signed those executive orders on Title IX. So it was a monumental day for so many and for our country. But the school is basically saying that they don't care, right? They've continued these policies. Not only do they make it harassment, but there's actually expressed policies that compel this type of pronoun usage. And then you can be expelled if you refuse or accidentally use the wrong pronouns for somebody, which I would actually argue are the correct pronouns for that person. And so these schools just don't care. They're just going to, that's why we have to file these lawsuits. It's going to be the only way to hold them accountable. Well, it should have come as any surprise in a city where they didn't care about the rule of law as it related to federal law enforcement officers doing their job and enforcing federal law enforcement. What we saw was just absolute chaos in that city. And that's what I see the whole leftist agenda and the whole pronoun agenda, the EI agenda as being. Can't they, Kim, can't they lose? funding in all of this? I mean, that funding question has to be an issue for them. What do they say about that? Yeah, they absolutely can, right? So our lawsuits focused on the First Amendment, but it would be amazing to see the Department of Education come in now that we've been able to bring all of these policies to light and start an investigation against the University of Minnesota. And we know what they'll ultimately find, and they're going to find that they're not following Title IX because their policies are a slap in the face to Title IX. And then threaten that federal funding. And so not only do we intend to win this case and increase free speech on campuses, but I think it's a call to action to the Department of Education to step in here, launch an investigation, and let's see what the University of Minnesota does when all of those federal dollars are on the line. You know, they've got huge endowments at universities like this, and this is what they're spending their money on. I also hope that donors would walk. I hope so, too. I think we're seeing some of that, but certainly not enough of that from people who really value free speech on campus. Wisconsin clearly is going through the same problem like so many other campuses. Jackson Amy Coney Barrett, a University of Minnesota student entering his senior year, has joined with the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Young America's Foundation, Yaff. They are suing... the University of Minnesota for violating his rights to free speech. And again, as we noted, the leftist university is doubling down. Jackson, let me ask you this. Have there been students caught up in this? I mean, have we seen students suspended or expelled because they failed to genuflect at the altar of DEI? I think that's a perfect way of describing it.

With pretty good confidence in that in the last two years, there's been nearly 20 complaints filed with the university that students have violated these quote-unquote pro-down policies or harassment policy. So this is not something that's just there and hasn't been used. It's actively being used against students up to, again, the start of the Trump administration. Yeah, so you have students who, whatever their thought crime was, they've had to, what, have to sit out? Have they lost their eligibility for a semester? What's happened so far? I honestly don't know. I'm not sure, and I don't want to speculate on things that I don't know. I try and stick to tax as much as I can. Sorry, that's not the ideal. Unfortunately, it's a black box out there. We just know that these complaints have been filed, and then once they are, the university can pretty much do whatever they want because it's not transparent. So that's why none of us really know. But we do know that their policy says that they can expel students. That's a big problem. I mean, even if nobody has been expelled so far, the fact that they can do this, the fact that they can discipline a student just simply because of free speech, that's very, very troubling and obviously chilling to the First Amendment rights of students on campus. Kim, let me ask you this. The lawsuit is filed. Where is it right now in terms of the legal process? Yeah, so we're at the very, very beginning. We filed the lawsuit last week. And so, you know, we hope to have briefings filed later this summer. Obviously, we're going to move this just as quickly as we can because, you know, come August, September, these students go back onto this campus and every single day that, you know, that they're forced to have to comply with these policies, every single day that a female student. can't stand up for herself in a locker room or a bathroom or that Yaf can't bring a speaker, like a detransitioner like Chloe Cole onto campus, their rights are being violated. And so beginning stages, but I can tell you we're going to move as aggressively as we can with this lawsuit. I don't doubt that. This isn't your first rode at the Southeastern Legal Foundation on these issues. I would imagine that it will be as expeditious as you can possibly make it. There is, you know, the court system, the wheels of justice and all of that. Can I ask you, Jason, Jackson, have you had any... Rough feedback on this front. I know that so many who have challenged this, stood up, courageously challenged these kinds of policies. They've gotten a lot of pushback from the left and sometimes threats.

Sometimes they've dealt with the damage of property and those sorts of things. Have you experienced any of that pushback yet? I would imagine that because it's the summer, not a lot of folks know about it, but I know they will when you head back to campus in the fall. Yeah, honestly, all the feedback that I've gone have been from people, you know, that have been supporting me in this process. And a lot of people have been like, wow, I wish I would have been like on the gun like you were being as willing to partake in this as I was. And I really appreciate that. But thankfully, I haven't really received any pushback from the radical left at all. And hopefully things go smooth into the fall semester. You know what? I'm ready to get, I'm ready to jump at the gun to get speakers on campus and to make sure that, you know, people's rights are spoken for, and it's not just my own rights, it's everyone's rights. All right. Final question for you. We reach a long way throughout the state of Wisconsin, and of course we're very close to the leftist border of Minnesota. If you could, if there are those radical administrators listening in on the show right now, what would you say to them about this policy and about your efforts to secure free speech on campus? You know, 250 years ago, people died in mass numbers for our rights. And I'm ready to take up the fight 250 years later to protect people's liberty to protect people's pursuit of happiness. And I want a change in the policy that allows people to have free speech to be able to have their rights spoken in a free. undetermined, unhampered way. I want to make sure that people have the ability for their own predestination to be able to make the decisions that's right for them. They're not be hampered by arbitrary university policies. Well, I think that is fantastic. And I'm hoping that you are, you know, not in the minority anymore. People coming out courageously like you. Strange turn of phrase, I know, but standing up against this stuff, because it is just so reprehensible. I suppose if you... screamed out from the river to the sea, or if you hated Jews and made that clear, you'd be all right on campus right now. But calling someone by the wrong pronouns, so to speak, or speaking out about men and women showers, that's trouble, right?

Yeah, that would be perfect. And again, I live in Minnesota. I live in the Twin Cities area. So I saw everything that happened in full 4K quality. And again, we had, I think it was what, the 13 people breaking to the administration building and get arrested. And you didn't hear anything from the university after that. So obviously it's pretty selective punishment in here. Amazing. Keep up the good work, both Jackson and Kim. Kim, we've had you on the show before. I always appreciate your perspective and your expertise on this front. Yeah, thanks for having us and covering the case and for highlighting Jackson's bravery here. Absolutely. We'll follow up as well. I wish you guys the best of luck and we will be in touch. Thank you. Jackson Amy Coney Barrett, University of Minnesota student entering his senior year, joining with the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Young America's Foundation, to sue his school for violating his right to free speech. Even after the Trump administration ruled to protect it, the battle for free speech on campus goes on. Conservatives, you have every right in the world. to freely speak. And when that is abridged, when that is taken from you on these college campuses, stand up, just like Jackson has done here. We'll take a quick break coming up in just a bit. We will delve into, I think, a story that is coming back again, and it needs to come back again and again. We need to be reminded of what the COVID experts did to us. We're getting a better reminder of that with some of the new documents that have been released by the intelligence community. More on that. Straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show. Stay with us. Doing that voodoo that we do so well. It's the Dan O'Donnell Show. Your old Radio Amigo, emphasis on old Matt Kittle filling in on this Friday. Just about there. A weekend. Dan will be back with you on Monday, but I guess he's enjoying some FIFA World Cup hot action going on, I believe, in Los Angeles. Yeah, L.A. I wonder if this guy is there. He definitely is at the World Cup, and he is definitely excited. This may be the most excited fan there, although the Scots guy's pretty excited, too, and pretty drunk. This Japanese fella, if you haven't heard, get in on the excitement of FIFA. Oh, yeah. Yeah, my name is Hirochika Nakakki. Oh wow. It's live. Okay. It's live? Yes, it's live. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How excited are you? Yeah. You are so excited, right? Japan, right? Uh, excuse me. Okay. I cannot speak English, but, but I'm excited! I love it! Yeah, baby! Let's go! Japan! Japan, Be!

Maybe look, it's lit, it's lit. Okay, what are you looking at? Oh my gosh, can you tell me what this is? We're looking at his back. Japanese, Toyama, toyama, okay? Toyama's message, it's, he's Yes, collection. Amen. Message collections. Toyama has message collections. Okay. I love it. Okay. I love the energy. Thank you so much for talking to us. Yeah. You got any predictions? You got a score? Yeah. What do you think? Japan. Yeah. What's the score? What do you think? One zip, one zero. Two, zero, win Japan! Japan! Japan! I love that guy. That guy is excited. Do you think he's gotten a bottle of the ranch yet? Look out. Very, very excited. That had a bit of a borot vibe to it, didn't it? I know that's gone viral. Perhaps you've heard it before, but I couldn't resist because there's so much excitement. Let us turn our attention now to some very dark times populated by some very dark bureaucrats. Yes, COVID. Sometimes, yeah, I don't want to think about it. I don't want to think about those lost years. I don't want to think about the lockdowns, about how they tried to force us out of our churches. Remember that? Ivers pushing that back in early 2020. The jobs lost. Obviously, the people who died from this disease, this virus, and so many people infected by it. And we still are asking the question, but I think it's pretty clear. Where did this deadly thing come from? Spoiler alert, a lab in China, and not a bat at a wet market or whatever the hell they're trying to push, but that still is a sticky situation. I played this on the show yesterday, I believe. A 2024 video montage serves as a painful and necessary reminder of what they did to us. and why the Trump Department of Justice needs to hold them accountable so that they can never do it again. This is from the Federalist. A reporter over there, this guy's easy, he's on the money. Not too bad. The they in question are the scientists, bureaucrats, health officers, the big pharma executives, the experts. so-called, who destroyed so many lives with orders and lockdowns and lies. Lots of lies. The video is titled Mass Psychosis, Trust Science, and Stop Thinking for Yourself, because that is exactly what these bureaucrats, these scientists told us to do.

It is produced by Grabeon, bills itself as the news clip factory. Very familiar with their good work. And it is volume six in the news outlets COVID retrospective series. It features scores of clips from the so-called experts who demanded we trust the experts. The montage opens with the credibility challenged Jake Tapper. You remember old Jake, don't you? Had to go on a Mia Colpa tour with his book to try to sell his book, saying, wow, we were really fooled by those geniuses at the White House that kept telling us that Joe Biden had more cognitive ability than a bowl of KFC mashed potatoes. But... I digress. Jake Tapper in the video launches into a fear-laden CNN segment in October 2020, berating President Donald Trump for writing on Twitter, don't be afraid of COVID. Don't let it dominate your life. The president, of course, trying to do what FDR did so many years ago in a Great Depression. It's the fear that you have to fear. No doubt, this was a deadly virus. But fear, the churning of fear, made everything so much worse. But the sanctimonious tapper screams out, don't let it dominate your life. The full segment includes a full screed about Trump and the latest number of deaths in cases of COVID as of the evening of October 5th, 2020. And it was filled with absolute hysteria. It's okay to be afraid of COVID, and it's okay that it's dominating your life. Tapper assures CNN viewers after medical expert, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. disapprovingly says of the president in terms of responding to a comment like that it's gross it's gross dr gupta said as i noted fear was the most widely circulated currency in those deadly days of the pandemic churned and spread faster than the virus by some very hysterical and irresponsible journalist politicians and health officials who demanded upon threat of imprisonment in some cases that we must follow the science. Follow the science. Follow the science. What's the matter with you? Why aren't you following the science? Science! Science! She blinded me. They blinded us with science. This is one of my favorite quotes from the video. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. Mr. Inconvenient Truth himself, Al Gore says in another edited CNN clip, We won't be free of this pandemic until we listen to the acknowledged truth. Listen to the scientist. Gore continued, the acknowledged truth. Hmm.

And the piece de resistance within the first 45 seconds of the four-minute montage is a curious clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the disgraced COVID-Zar. This is what he said. Now is the time to do what you're told. And he chuckled. Do what you're told. Listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Yes, he's got so much experience. Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, has led a years-long crusade seeking answers from an accountability for those who so badly betrayed the public's trust. I will add to that. It's not in this story, but Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Senior Senator has done the same. And he's come up with some very important and concerning information on that front. But Paul has particularly trained his focus on the bad doctor, director of, at least at that time, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The senator who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs announced earlier this week that he has issued a subpoena to Anthony Fauci, compelling him to testify before the committee. You see, old Anthony Fauci has been less than cooperative. Why should he? The expert received a very generous get-out-of-jail-free card from Joe Biden's auto pen as the senile former president was leaving the White House. Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will not voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so. Paul wrote in an ex-post, therefore today we have issued a subpoena for him to publicly testify. Paul added. Paul has previously referred Anthony Fauci to the DOJ for prosecution, the Biden prosecution, the Biden Department of Justice, on allegations that the doctor lied under oath during a heated exchange with the senator as he testified at a 2021 congressional hearing. Anthony Fauci's own emails, the senator asserts, directly contradicted his 2021 testimony. in which he denied the National Institutes of Health, funded gain of function research at the notorious Wuhan-China laboratory, where the virus is suspected to have originated. As I said before, I think it's becoming increasingly clear, or at least it should be, where this virus originated.

Paul's quest for accountability only intensified after last week's release of newly declassified documents by outgoing Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The never-before-seen files assert that Anthony Fauci worked with politicized career leadership in the intelligence community to suppress the truth about his actions. the virus's lab leak origins and his role in directing U.S. funding for his dangerous research that caused immeasurable harm and countless lost lives. Let's break that down again because there's a lot to unpack. This guy that we were supposed to trust... According to these documents, or at least what Tulsi Gabbard is saying, and I think having read the documents, there are some very concerning issues about that. But you have... The COVID czar working with the intelligence community to stop the flow of information. Now, this has to ring true for anybody who remembers going on Facebook at this time and saying, well, wait a minute. I don't think it is all that scientific to believe that standing six feet apart from someone. will spare me from an airborne virus. And, you know, masks are kind of stupid. They don't really work. All of that. They were silenced, of course. Perhaps the noose is tightening, even as the Pravda Press provides cover for the scientist, who said we could avoid COVID by, as I said, donning cloth masked and standing six feet away from each other in grocery stores. The same scientist who repeatedly advised us that we were just weeks away from, yeah, say it with me, flattening the curve. Which is a great lyric in the Dukes of Hazard theme song by Whalen Jennings. They're the same scientist that said we needed only to give up our liberties, our reason, and human contact until an ever-changing mystery number was achieved. The scientist who dangerously, evasive and misleading... about the taxpayer money going into virus manipulation research aimed at studying the effects of viruses, mutated more powerful kinds in some cases in labs. Now, the latest information that came out from the Director of National Intelligence is just the beginning. It is time now to follow the evidence.

Not those scientists and hold bad actors accountable and never, ever forget what they did to us and never allow them to do it again. You can find the full story at the Federalist, the Federalist.com. Four o'clock hours straight ahead. We've got much to accomplish. Tell you more about how you can win big. Straight ahead on the Dan O'Donnell show with Matt Kittle. Hang on. Welcome back, thrill seekers, hour number two of our little get-together on this Friday edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show. Your old radio amigo, Matt Kittle, filling in. Dan Sullivan back with you on Monday, same bat time, same bat channel. Glad you're along with us. We have plenty to accomplish coming up this hour. In the next hour, we're going to give you a chance to win $2,500. How does that sound? Does that sound all right? That sounds all right to me. It's kind of creepy, wasn't it? Yeah, we'll do that coming up in the 5 o'clock hour, see if we can make another winner in our 250K USA giveaway. Coming up a little bit later this hour, here we go. Dane County is exploring the Oregon model of rampant homelessness. delve into that coming up i'll tell you something we're heading out to the fam and i are heading out to oregon for a little vacation um We have to. It seems we have no other choice unless we want to drive quite a bit. We have to fly into Portland. I have been told by so many suffering people in Portland that, don't do it, man. Don't do it. It's awful. I would escape if I could. The homelessness problem in Portland, Oregon is it's like, A few can compare. It really is. I mean, you've got the fentanyl zombies there, like you have in Los Angeles in these other cities, but just stacked up in a Supreme Court decision. As we were talking about last hour, we have a lot of defiance on that front. So anyway, that's what Dane County apparently is aiming for. We'll talk about that a little bit later on in the hour. And here we go again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I already did that. Here come the riots.

Could we see the return of the summer of love, as they called it, 2020, the whole BLM movement, the leftist? I think they, you always have to be careful. You always have to know situational awareness. I think some recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions could be the manufactured fuse that they intend to light to... get back into the riot business. We'll talk more about that coming up. But let us begin here this hour, shall we? Yeah, that's it. That's the decision that I was talking about. Yeah, absolutely. The Supreme Court... Earlier this week came out with some truly significant wins, not only for the Trump administration, on immigration. and immigration law enforcement and the power of the executive and there's all kinds of things in these two Supreme Court decisions you also have a reminder that executives need to read the executive branch needs to read and follow the law the language of the law the Biden administration of course didn't want anything to do with that when they were dealing with their asylum protection program. The temporary asylum? Yeah. The problem that we have had in this country for many years now, thanks to the Biden administration, the Obama administration, you have Trump now, and you did back in Trump 1.0, trying to set this whole mess. Trying to fix the whole mess, and they're back at it again. They have to fix this whole mess. They had to secure the border first, which of course was open, wide open, left the door open for the invasion of millions upon millions of illegal immigrants. And we know the impacts therein. Just ask some of those nasty, dirty cities what that has meant. for their resources, for their taxpayers. A lot of people are leaving those cities, of course, and this has something to do with that. But the Supreme Court this week ruled that you can't call temporary 16 years. And that is what the temporary asylum, so-called temporary asylum, has been. in this country, particularly for the Haitians and the Syrians. Now, you could certainly make an argument that when the earthquakes hit in Haiti in 2010,

They did a lot of damage and people were displaced and it was awful. You could make the argument that they were people in need of assistance and the Obama administration was more than glad to help. So we got thousands and thousands of Haitian refugees who were here on the idea of temporary asylum and the protections therein. That was 16 years ago. This stuff goes back even farther than that. The Syrians as well. Again, amid war and devastation, you can make an argument that, okay, we are going to... We are going to provide temporary asylum while things get straight now, get back. But you cannot do this forever, and the law was never intended to do that. And so the U.S. Supreme Court in a ruling this week said, no, I'm sorry, leftist. I'm sorry immigration activists and agitators. The law is pretty specific about what temporary means. The other one is a semantics issue as well. That's, well, as I put it this morning on Vicky's show, this really boils down to the old motto in real estate, location, location, location, right? Well, the interpretation by the Biden administration in particular about asylum and where you have to be to receive asylum has been in conflict. The Biden administration said, you can be anywhere near the border in Mexico, miles away. We don't care. We'll grant you asylum. But the law really says you have to be in the United States in order to receive asylum, if that's what you're seeking. So the Supreme Court had to give leftist in this country a geography lesson that Mexico, at least, or I should say the United States, at least for now, is not Mexico.

It is baffling to me, but here is where the rubber meets the road. And this is the point that I was getting into before. We are already hearing from leftist activists talking about demonstrations over the evil, that's what they're calling it, the evil decision of the Supreme Court to actually rule on the law. and follow the law. You know, the rulings in those cases, of course, 6.3. So you had six justices who followed the law, and then you had three leftist justices who said, no, it's our job to not interpret the law, but to make the law. Or when the executive branch makes the law, we need to back them up. And so they were backing up bad Biden decisions, bad Obama decisions on this front. And that can't be if you're going to have a constitutional republic. That just doesn't work. You know, there's the whole separation of powers thing that kind of conflicts with all of that. So now you have the leftist and their leaders just screaming about this. We need to stand up. This is a moral duty. That's what old Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts said at the Capitol right after the decision. He said, we have a moral duty to protect TPS, temporary protective service.

We have to protect TPS holders and provide this vulnerable group with a permanent pathway to citizenship in our country. And, in fact, let's listen to a little bit of what Ed had to say about all of this, because this is the kind of rhetoric we are starting to hear. And it points to something a little bit bigger and a little bit more menacing that I think may be on the way. place in grave risks, the lives of people. And Trump wants to send TPS holders back to unsafe conditions. And it's the far-right extremists sitting on the Supreme Court who has just let him sever this critical lifeline for Haitians and for TPS holders from all around the world. We have a moral duty. to protect TPS holders and provide this vulnerable group with protections and a permanent pathway to citizenship in our country. Do you think he sounds a little bit like an elderly Mayor Quimby from Springfield on the Simpsons? Based on his track record, he has the same moral compass. Senator Ed Markey talking once again about the grave injustice that the U.S. Supreme Court did to immigration in this country in ruling on temporary protected status. that the idea of temporary is temporary, not more than a decade, a decade and a half, 20 years. That had to end because it's not the law, and it has significant ramifications for domestic policy, for national security, for all kinds of things. But you notice the rhetoric here. And this is kind of the milder rhetoric than what we're starting to hear in other leftist circles. Mark, he was talking about the Supreme Court almost in the same kind of way as Chuck Schumer. the useless Democrat leader of the Senate, remember as he stood on the, uh, just outside the steps of the Supreme Court saying that you, you will, uh, how did he phrase that? You have unloosed the wins. You will pay for your decision. All of this sort of thing. Right? the whirlwind. You have unleashed the whirlwind. And he threatened that if that Supreme Court did anything to lay a finger on their coveted abortion decision, Roe v. Wade, why there would be trouble, all kinds of trouble. And the implication was,

Even if he didn't mean so, it echoed in the minds of some nut job radicals that overturning Roe v. Wade was the invitation to murder members of the Supreme Court, to threaten, to menace them, to murder them. And that's exactly what we saw with the decision in Dobbs a little more than four years ago. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, of course, was the victim of a plot. They caught his would-be killer, thankfully, and broke that up. He has been sentenced now. Amy Coney Barrett was constantly under threat. Her sister was threatened many, many miles away. It was a very, very difficult time. It was a violent time. And that was just the threat. So that's kind of what we're hearing here from Ed Markey. And pointing at these conservative justices, how could they possibly do that? Well, how they could possibly do that is they actually care about the rule of law. We're seeing some more extreme chatter on this front. This from the leftist, The Guardian. Lawmakers and immigration advocacy groups on Thursday sharply denounced two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that allowed the Trump administration to strip certain immigration protections and funnily reshape the asylum system. If that means following the law, then, yeah, I guess they reshaped the asylum system that the Democrat presidents reshaped without the benefit of the law. But you can expect that kind of lead from The Guardian. Dozens of groups advocates and members of Congress called the court's decisions disastrous and cruel, while the Trump administration, Republican lawmakers, and anti-immigrant groups celebrated the rulings. Today, Trump's loyalist in the Supreme Court have joined forces with him to deny immigrants internationally recognized human rights and advance an authoritarian... white supremacist agenda at home, said Illinois Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, a Democrat. You don't have to put that in the story. We know. The Supreme Court's decisions put more than 350,000 TPS holders at risk of deportation and countless more asylum seekers' lives in danger. This is the people suffering badly from TDS talking about TPS. So keep that in mind. But the rhetoric here is...

Not surprising, but I think it may be a signal of where all of this is heading because we are seeing the formation of demonstrations, protest, against this decision. And you start throwing in the language of the Black Lives Matter movement, which was so disastrous in 2020, you had cities burned. Ask the good folks in Kenosha about that time period. Ask the good folks in Madison around the capital about all of that. It feels very similar. And a lot of the BLM stuff was clearly manufactured by radicals who saw an opening to break up. to do some dismantling of the republic and its ideals and the governance. Speaking of which, we saw plenty of insurrections at that time, attacks on government buildings, but we didn't have a January 6th committee for all of that. But this feels a lot like... that in the first 48 hours or so, 36 hours after this decision, I do see this as an avenue for some very opportunist, radical leftist groups who are going to say in the name of humanity. A, we should not have borders. It's this evil fascist Donald Trump and the fascist, they will say, on the U.S. Supreme Court. They're the ones. They're responsible. Get them! And this is, of course, a very potentially volatile time. As we celebrate this country's 250th anniversary, the left, of course, in this country, have already hung their heads and had a shame meeting, a shame circle. They just cannot. celebrate this exceptional republic of course because that runs absolutely counter to their whole narrative their whole philosophy their religion which is this is a country of oppressors white oppressors white supremacist And there's nothing to celebrate. And there will be nothing to celebrate until the revolution, the Marxist revolution sweeps through. Just, I say this in all sincerity. Be on the lookout. There are a number of demonstrations and protests coming up. I do see this in their twisted minds as a catalyst to say, come join us.

They've taken away fundamental rights. No, they haven't taken away fundamental rights. You don't have that right according to the law. Temporary does not mean forever. Location matters. But language matters more to the leftist, and they will use it like they will use anything for their advantage. And that often leads to some very violent clashes beyond the lookout for the next riot season. We'll take a quick break coming up in just a bit. I wanted to delve in a little bit about this Dane County. Is it policy or kind of a direction where they're going with... homeless policy and be concerned if you live in the area. Be very concerned. That and so much more on this Friday edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours truly Matt Kittles. Stay with us. This episode sponsored by She's Bertie. Every woman knows that feeling, and She's Birdie knows it too. The just-in-case feeling. Just in case I hear something. Just in case someone tries the door. Just in case I need to wake up fast. It's not fear, it's awareness. And Birdie Box from She's Birdie was made for exactly that. Birdie Box is a portable travel door alarm designed by She's Bertie for hotels, dorms, Airbnbs, and anywhere you're staying away from home. It installs in seconds on the doorframe. And if the door is opened, it activates a loud siren and flashing strobe to help draw attention instantly. She's Birdie, because peace of mind should check in with you. Birdie Box by She's Birdie. Visit she's birdie.com. That's S-H-E-B-I-R-D-I-E.com. And order your Bertie box before your next day away from home. How do you do? Hey, it's Friday. Here comes the weekend. Really about half an hour from quitting time, the standard 5 p.m. I'm going to give you permission right now. Your boss, fine with this. Go ahead. Leave early. What are you going to get done now? I'm sure your boss will agree. And then I'm going to get some angry phone calls. Hey, Kittle, you said, yeah, really, you believe me? What kind of power do you think I have here? Coming up again, I want to remind you the 5 o'clock hour, going to give you another chance to win $2,500. We've had several winners over the last several weeks, and we want to see if we can make you a winner in our nationwide contest coming up in just a bit. What's the Trumpster saying about the socialist? Well, he is speaking his mind, and I think putting... This whole thing in perspective. President Donald Trump took aim at the trajectory of the Democrat Party on Friday telling attendees at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference that its recent socialist primary winners are godless communist. He doesn't mince words, does he?

These are not social Democrats. These are hardcore godless communist. They're godless communist. All communists are godless. They don't believe in God. This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence. In my opinion, 250 years ago, this is a major threat to our country, said Trump. Did you pick up what he was laying down there? I think the bullet points here are that communists are godless. And, yeah, that's pretty much true. A lot of atheists in that camp, for sure. Plenty of agnostics. But, yeah, a lot of godless folk in the communist movement. Tuesday's primary results in New York signaled a shift. In the Democrat Party, with several socialist-backed candidates defeating incumbent office holders, Trump, speaking ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, highlighted America's founding principles, arguing they stand in sharp contrast to the growing influence of socialist movements within the Democrat Party. He said, our most important birthday so far, 250 years, And instead of speaking about Christ, and instead of speaking about freedom and victories of all different kinds, we're speaking about yet another threat to the foundations of America. And Trump is right about that. There's all kinds of talk, and there has been for some time about America is an idea. That's partially true. But America is also a country that has borders, at least it does now. It didn't for four years. It is a country that has a culture that is America. And I know there's a lot of argument about this. But just let me put it succinctly. When you invite the third world into your country, you get the third world. And we have seen that over and over again in our nation's largest cities, sanctuary cities, where now, of course, sanctuary city leaders are saying, this is very expensive. Can the federal government pick up the tab for this? No. No. But that's where the Zohran Mamdani of the world are moving. And Trump... pointed this out because it really is coming into sharper focus. This guy is not a democratic socialist. Zohran Mamdani is a socialist, a communist. And he took a step, another step toward that, confirming that this week.

Trump took aim at New York City socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, over a historic decision by New York City. New York City! Yes, New York City's Rent Guidelines Board. Uh-oh. That smells trouble. Zohran Mamdani scored another political victory Tuesday with all three congressional candidates. He endorsed Brad Lander. A beta white male who has apparently rented out his skull to Marxist cultist. Same with Claire Valdez and diarrhea. No, that's not her name. Daria, Daria Liza, Daria. I'm just going to stick with diarrhea. Diarylaea. Diaryla, That's a tough name growing up as a kid. A lot of, a lot of nicknames for guys and gals with different names. But, man, for diarrhea, that's trouble. No, her name is Daryliza, Daryaliza, Evia Chevalier. That is a salad bar of foreigner right there. Winning their respective democratic primaries. For the first time in history, the powerful rent stabilization board, as an example that sets rents in New York City just happened today. They've done it for years and years, and they've been very far left. That was Donald Trump. And that's all part of the democratic socialist agenda. They're going to set rent, which sounds really good. It does. I don't want to... When I rented, I didn't like to see rent increases, and New York City is all about rent increases. There's no doubt about it. But you don't fix the problem by putting your fist down on the property owners because they won't stay. And the only other option then is that New York City... The government starts purchasing properties. This is a government that is very much in debt already by leftist policies. This guy is just going to destroy this city. And Trump knows that. Trump sees that coming. And he has a special perspective on that. as a longtime New York resident, as a guy who built there, as a guy who knows what the climate is like, how he succeeded there or anybody does, I don't know, but success is about to leave town. In fact, a lot of folks already have with increasing tax rates and collectivism.

in city-owned grocery stores and now the rent control programs, the rent board. What could possibly go wrong? We're about to find out. Trump said this, and I think he hit it right on the head. As this spreads throughout the country, very much like an uncontrollable form of cancer, The country itself will be taken down. It will be third world, strictly third world, and it's happened many times before to very big and powerful countries. But it's not going to happen to the United States of America. It's not going to happen to the United States of America if Americans can wake up and say, no, no more. This is a bridge too far. One of the biggest problems this republic has is that over the last two to three generations, the next generation of Americans, they have been trained in indoctrination camps, Marxist indoctrination camps in our public schools and our institutions of higher education. We already talked about that earlier on the show, the leftist and what we're seeing, what we have seen on college campuses and in high schools. That is going to be difficult because that's the mindset. These are the individuals who are electing these democratic socialist. We shall see. We'll take a quick break coming up in just a bit. Yes, here we go again. Dane County exploring the Oregon model. Tell you more about that. Straight ahead on this edition of the Vicki McKenna Show with Matt Kittle. Hang on.

On the Dan O'Donnell Show, of course. I'm not exactly sure where I am. Just had a fit a little bit. Yes, we'll be back soon here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. We're back, and we're doing it to it on a Friday. Let's get ready to embrace our weekendness, huh? Yes, live your weekend truth, as the left may say. Matt Kittle filling in on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Sometimes we older folks get confused. Yes, it's the Dan O'Donnell Show where you, dear friend. can win $2,500. That's coming up in, oh, I would say just about 15 minutes plus or so. So stay tuned to that. Dane County has decided to go the Portland way. in terms of dealing with the homeless. This is from WKOW TV in Madison. The Dane County Board, and they say will vote. They did vote on Thursday, and they did approve funding for a new men's shelter. Okay. They also gave the thumbs up to a camp for the homeless. Now, wait, hold on a minute. You're not going to win a merit badge for this, guys. Certainly not going to win a merit badge in Dane County. The county's first purpose-built shelter can house up to 250 men. It will replace the current men shelter on Zyler Road, excuse me, Zyre Road, which can hold about 400. The vote is, was considered procedural, however, because the Zyre Road shelter will eventually close. The number of available beds will be reduced. To address this, the vote includes funds for a possible outdoor camp round. That's right. It's time for one of my favorite shows, camping with the homeless. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. When it was first planned, it was going to meet the need, said Heidi Weggleitner from the Dane County Board of Supervisors. Here we are, and the crisis has only gotten worse, and there's people that will not be able to be served by the shelter because there's just not enough beds. The overarching issue, of course, is not a shelter, a lot of communities that are doing just that, and, you know, that's what you want to do. That's what you do. When you create camps, however, that creates a big problem. And Madison has been down this road before. Why, I remember, I'm old enough to remember the Occupy movement.

And the Occupy movement took over a portion of East Washington Avenue. It was an old concrete parking lot, basically. It used to be a car dealership. The city, though, had different ideas. I believe old Paul Sagan was the mayor at the time. So you had this homeless encampment identifying as an Occupy protest. There were lots of complaints in the neighborhood, plenty of problems. And here was the biggest problem for Madison at the time. They were redeveloping this whole corridor, you know, near the capital, east of the capital. And they had a lot of run-down buildings, and they were really starting to fix this place up. And you had restaurants and entertainment centers, and it just kind of clashed with the Occupy, the homeless Occupy movement, right? So they had to make a decision. And that did not sit well with the Occupy movement. Now they are back, but more so doing what Portland and other Oregon communities have done, even in the face of the Supreme Court ruling, that has said, no, you can't just camp on public sites. Dane County says... We're going to let them camp on public sites. And that, of course, has worked out terribly for San Francisco and Los Angeles and Portland and so many others.

When it was first planned, it was going to meet the need. Well, we talked about the shelter. Officials are now looking for ways to house the remaining people, including using close to half a million dollars toward a winter overflow shelter, and now $2 million for an outside group to buy land for legal outdoor sleeping. There needs to be a legal place for people to sleep, said Weglightner. It's a human rights issue. Okay. Is it a human rights issue that people in the area? Do they, are they humans? Do they have rights? What do they? Do they get a say in this? Because I assure you that there are a lot of humans who believe their rights are trampled on when fentanyl zombies start rolling around. I believe their rights are infringed upon when you have drug deals happening, which happens quite frequently at homeless campsites. When you have a higher crime, violent behavior, you have mental illness issues out in the middle, like severe mental health issues going on. But that's Madison. That's what Madison does. While talks for the campground are in their very early stages, again, as I noted, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The board gave this the go-ahead, basically. Gave it at least the thumbs up. Well, let's move forward. Let's get this thing happen. The county is talking with one provider for the overflow shelter. Weg Lightner said, while the moves are critical, what's needed is more low-income housing. Sure. Yes. More low-income housing. That's fine, if that's what you want to invest in. But campgrounds for the homeless is a recipe for disaster. And it's not like the citizens of Madison haven't seen this movie before. But it is Madison. And that's what Madison does. Okay, we're going to break for news and all of the usual things that come up at the top of the hour. Straight ahead, I hope you will stay with us. Your chance to win in the 5 o'clock hour, $2,500. We got some fun stuff, too, as we celebrate this beautiful country's 250th birthday. Have a couple of fun things for you. And, hey, way to go, Waukesha. That's in the 5 o'clock hour, too. I hope you stick around, because the 5 o'clock hour, to me, I don't know, sounds like it might be fun, extremely entertaining. Maybe informative, too. Who knows? We'll do it next. Stay with us. The Dan O'Donnell Show with Matt Kittle. Hang on. Here we go, Milwaukee, Madison, God's Country.

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pickup in revenue, that always helped a lot. And, you know, watching football in the summertime, you can't beat that. And in these years, this was after the Super Bowl, the year after they decided to come to Platteville, and they were there for about 20 years or so. But you could... Go out and see them just like anybody else. They had their scrimmage game and you could go and watch them practice and you were right up close to it. But in Platteville, you could go to the quick trip and see these guys. And I did. There was on one occasion where I saw the fridge come into the quick trip on Water Street. And I kid you not. He was loading up on hostess products. I just remember hostess cupcakes. No twinkies. Maybe some fruit pies in there, but his hands, he had a bunch of stuff, and he was taking it up to the counter. And I thought to myself, yeah, that tracks with William the refrigerator Perry. A nice guy. I mean, a lot of those guys were just really nice. You know, you had Linda McMahon at that time. Who wasn't so nice? But. It's neither here. Gary Fensick was not a real nice guy either. I have to tell you that. But we had sweetness. He was just wonderful, of course, and a lot of those guys on the line, they were always there to, didn't care, they would stay longer to give autographs to kids in particular. And I thought a lot of those folks were class acts, including. the fridge, and he was a big attraction, and he did sign a lot of autographs, I remember at that time, but seeing him in that element, quick trip, no pads on, of course, you know, just in street clothes, and there he is, picking out his myriad junk food items. And so when I think about William the refrigerator Perry, and I think about those encounters in Platteville, It is perhaps no wonder that I see headline after headline over the last several years that the death of William, the refrigerator Perry, is premature, or as Mark Twain, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of his demise have been exaggerated. I hope that's not the case, but there is no credible source this hour that the fridge has passed away. And so my heart leaps. Speaking of junk food,

There was a program, and it was quite successful in Iowa and Kansas, I believe, several states. They got a waiver from the Trump administration. No longer did they have to, nor would they allow SNAP users to buy junk food with their taxpayer-funded SNAP cards. No more big gulps, no more slurpees, no more cupcakes. Fruit Pie, the magician, he's gone. Although, as I understand it, fruit pie has been celebrating pride in a very joyous way. Anywho, yeah, the junk food, the candy bars and the chips and all of that, it was gone. And man, were people on that program, some anyway, very upset about that. And they had an organization, of course, a law firm that was more than glad to sue the federal government and say, bring these people back their choccodiles. They deserve chocodiles. It's written in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal and all should have access to chocodiles and twinkies and creamer for your coffee. All this kinds of stuff. Well, a federal court judge this week... And I should note, an Obama appointed judge, yes, of course you knew that, said, no, the folks on SNAP, they should have access to the junk food too, and so we're going to stop this waiver program. It's junk food for everybody. Well, a lot of taxpayers are not happy about that decision. And I understand it. I get it. They do not want to pay for people. who want to load up on the junk food, because it is, after all, the supplemental nutrition assistance program, that snap. And while most of us don't begrudge three squares a day, you know, food for people really in need, the junk food is, no, no, no, no. But in Congress this week, we had an activist, I believe.

What was her name? Gina Plata Nino, Nino, Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Food Research and Action Center. I'm just curious if there's been an audit of any potential fraud over there. It sounds like one of those places that Somalians are running or something. There is a congressman. from Texas by the name of Brandon Gill, who has done some great work, grilling folks, and at the very least making them very uncomfortable and really shining a light on some shenanigans. Well, he asked some very important questions of Gina Plata Nino. And here's a little of that audio from the... the congressional hearing this week. Got a couple questions for you. Should SNAP dollars be spent on sodas? The purpose of the SNAP program is to provide families to have food and beverages. Should it be spent on sugary sodas? I am happy to talk about hunger and nutrition, but not dictate what Americans should or should not eat or may have access. I'm asking if tax dollars should be used to pay for sodas.

Taxpayers money should be utilized to ensure that individuals have access to the food that they need to survive or may be accessible to them. Do they need sugary sodas to survive? Some of them do, who do have low blood issues. Is that right? Do you think they need Coca-Cola to survive? Do you think that's the most appropriate use of our tax dollars? I am not a physician, but medical records and expertise to show that it's no circumstance. You were just citing the health needs, apparently, of the American people. So do the American people need Coca-Cola to survive? I did that say that? I'm asking me. I'm giving me the opportunity to say yes or no. I will not answer for individuals and their choices. You think that there are some Americans who need Coca-Cola to survive? Is that your testimony? I'm happy to talk about the food and nutrition needs that individuals have. You just don't know? I think most people can rationally say that you don't need Coca-Cola to survive. Wouldn't you agree? I agree that we have a hunger crisis. Oh, my God. And it goes on and on. On and on. She's a Democrat, no doubt about it. Just evasive as you can possibly be. It reminded me of that moment during the Senate confirmation hearings of the Associate Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson. I remember it well when they asked the incoming justice. whether she could define what a woman is. And she said, well, I'm not a biologist. That was her explanation. That was her defense in not answering that question, which kind of shows you where we went on that left side of the Supreme Court. Same kind of thing. Well, I'm just here to talk about the hunger crisis that we have. Yeah, we have a hunger crisis. Okay, very good. But do you need Coca-Cola? Do you need a big gulp of Pepsi to survive? Or could you simply have, you know, staples? Do you need to have, and we've heard the argument over and over again. She didn't get too much into it, but she was hinting at it. The argument from the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the federal government. was that there are diabetics and people suffering with allergies who absolutely need crap in their diet. And that just seems rather counterintuitive because that's the sort of stuff it would seem that got you to diabetes land.

Anyway, the battle goes on for sanity in Washington, D.C. and communities across the country. We'll take a quick break. We've got some fun stuff coming up. I hope you will stay with us because we're going to celebrate as we get... Closer and closer, a week away now to this great country's 250th birthday. We've got a few things on that front coming up. And hey, way to go, walk a shop. We'll tell you more about that. Straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show with your radio talk show host, Phil and Daddy. Matt Kittle. Hang. Ready, set, summer with the Honda Summer event. With available features like all-terrain tires and off-road tuned suspension, the rugged Honda pilot, bridgeline, CRV, and passport. Have all you need to get summer ready with the most fuel-efficient full-line automaker in America. Visit your local Honda dealer today.

See dealer for financing details. Based on EPA estimate of 2024, large, full-line automaker fleet-wide fuel economy. EPA Automotive Trends Report 2025. None. Well, it looks like the ceasefire in Iran has ceased. That's it. It seems to be in doubt right now once again. The latest news coming out of Fox News. U.S. launches strikes on Iran after drone attack threatens vital shipping lane. It was reported today that a drone did indeed. It was that yesterday, but a drone attacked a vessel, was it from Sri Lanka or something like. Senegal, that's what it was. And so now the U.S. is striking Iran once again. for Iran doing what is just nobody saw coming, going back on the terms of the deal and being bellicastic. It's very surprising. So the latest details that we have is that in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps drone struck a Singapore flagged cargo ship. I knew it was one of the S countries. in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, the International Maritime Organization said it temporarily is pausing its vessel evacuation operation in the region following the attack. And now there are reprisals for these kinds of things. It's just back and forth, back and forth. So at this point, all we know is that the U.S. is in the process of striking Iran after the cargo ship was attacked. The ceasefire tensions are escalating. Remember, you've got this memorandum of understanding. They have 60 days to hammer out this peace deal. And nothing says peace more than a drone attack. on a non-military ship. I've said this before. If you cannot trust the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, who can you trust? Want to say congratulations to the good folks over in Milwaukee Shaw. A new study listing the safest mid-sized cities, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The safest midside cities in the United States in 2006 has been released by Financial Advisor website Smart Asset. Oh, I see where they're going there. Yes, naughty, naughty. Smart Asset and three Wisconsin cities are among the top dozen. What do we got out there? The study list, Waukesha, as the eighth safest city out of more than 300 cities in the nation with populations between 65,000 and 250,000. Appleton is number 10 and O'Clair is number 11. How about that for good living?

The rankings were determined by evaluations of four primary aspects of public safety. Violent crime rates, property crime rates, traffic fatality rates, and natural disaster risk. Certainly this bumpy springtime... Weather that we've had is always a problem, but we don't have to worry about earthquakes and such. The study found that per 1,000 residents, Waukesha has about 1.14 violent crimes and 8.75 property crimes. Per 100,000 residents, it has 5.69 auto fatalities and its natural disaster risk. was ranked relatively moderate by the Federal Emergency Management Act. And Appleton and O'Clair had similar statistics. With just slightly higher rates of violent crime, property crime, and auto fatalities, both cities were designated relatively low for risks of natural disasters. Smart assets rankings found that most of the highest ranked cities are inland. with 15 of the 20 safest mid-sized cities in non-coastal states. The safest mid-sized city of 2006 was Broomfield, Colorado. While the last of the cities evaluated, otherwise known as the least safe, was Bill Clinton's Little Rock, Arkansas. Oh, boy, that's too bad for Little Rock, Arkansas. No, I guess... Chicago didn't make the list this year. We were really, really polling for those folks. Of course, in Chicago right now, as they are dealing with wave after wave of gun violence, gangbangers, lots of shootings, lots of people being killed in another long hot summer in Chicago, you have a mayor there who is really concerned about, How does he describe that? It's not going to come to me. I'm going to have to look it up. But basically he is concerned about terrorism against trans people. The story that I read said there was one murder of a trans individual all of last year, and that was a domestic violence case. The good people of Chicago are really getting that kind of leadership that you need to make a successful city. We'll take a quick break. Coming up to celebrate America's 250th birthday, I would like to share with you Washington's great vision. You know, as the founding father was just setting out on a revolutionary war.

He saw the future of America and what America could and would be. He had some very far-reaching thoughts and a few strange thoughts at that. We'll delve into that coming up next. So please stay with us. It is the Dan O'Donnell Show, the Friday edition with Matt Kittle. Hang on. Keeping it real, keeping it right. The Dan O'Donnell Show. Kiddle here, you are there at least for just a few more minutes. I've got a couple of things I want to finish up here. I want to remind you as well. You still have a chance to win. $2,500 in our 250K USA giveaway, America's 250th birthday is just about here. And we are celebrating in a big way. Again, this hour, you could score $2,500 toward a dream getaway. Yeah. The key word this hour is America. America. Take that keyword to the website of the fine radio station you are listening to. NewsTalk 1130.com, WIBA.com. Enter it where it tells you to. The keyword America, perhaps you will be our next big winner in the 250K USA giveaway. Again, we do it four times a day, 8 a.m. 11 and then 2 o'clock right here on the Dan O'Donnell show at 5 p.m. in the 5 o'clock hour. A couple of things I wanted to note, one at least, and then I think that kind of ties into where we're going with the celebration, thinking really about 250 years of this exceptional nation and the declaration that began it. Actually, the Revolutionary War started years before, but that's a good starting point when we told the mother country, screw you, we're done. Bye-bye. This is one of the stupidest stories, but it is very indicative. It is Exhibit A of the Democrat Party. Today. The headline from Politico is Democrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success. Anytime someone is grappling with something, you know, it's difficult. And the reporter Adam Wren writes the following, the triumph of the World Cup's first two weeks, boosting the U.S. global reputation with sold-out stadiums and few logistical complications has forced Democrats who had criticized President Donald Trump's role in preparations to grudgingly reconsider.

This is basically what they were doing was praying for. Well, no, not a lot of praying going on there. Hoping for. Their fingers crossed all of that sort of thing. Hoping that the World Cup would be a disaster. And they're really upset that it isn't by this point because just like the reflecting pool and the algae, they want things to go terribly wrong for Donald Trump. their number one enemy. I think that there was a little bit of the, like, liberal wishcasting, that this would maybe be a disaster to sort of stick it to Trump, said Rob Flaherty, the digital democratic strategist and soccer fan who attended the U.S. group stage match with Australia. He concedes it hasn't been that stick-it-to-Trump moment. Before the tournament, attitudes about the World Cup were polarizing. Like so much else along partisan lines with Democrats confronting FIFA and the Trump administration over high ticket prices, shortfalls in public funding. and the government's posture to foreign visitors. Keep in mind again, this is from Politico, German-owned Politico, by the way. As the tournament approached local officials in areas hosting matches, including New York City. New York City! Yes, New York City. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New Jersey Governor Mike Mikie Sherrill turned from critics to cheerleaders. It goes on and on and on. This sentence here struck me as well. Before the tournament, attitudes about the World Cup were polarizing. No, no, no, they weren't. They were polarizing in this sense. My buddy Dan O'Donnell loves some soccer. Is that true, Dave? Obviously, he's attending the FIFA World Cup. I do not share that interest. So the only real divide was people who think that the foreign version of football or football is about as exciting as watching paint dry. And then those who, of course, are fanatical and love it. And I love the fact that we are hosting this event, it's a big moneymaker. And clearly what it has done, is it has shown America to people of all countries involved in this, people from all over the world, that the accomplice media has been lying to them.

They're watching stuff on their channels. Oh, America, Donald Trump, ooh, bad, scary. They get here and they discover, hey, this is not the country that has been promoted to me. And it is not. I think that is a story. I think that is striking. You get people coming from all over the world and they say, wow, the people are friendly here. Look around. This, my God, this is, they have this. They have ranch dressing. Oh, yeah. They love the ranch dressing. No, the real deal was the... The attitudes about the World Cup being polarizing. It's not the World Cup. It's that the dower have to be constantly hating on Donald Trump because they have TDS. They don't like it because Donald Trump is in a large part responsible for America. America's hosting of the World Cup. They are rooting against Donald Trump. They're, again, number one political enemy, but really they're rooting against America. And that's where we are in this country. That's where the polarizing is. I said it earlier that we really have two choices on the ballot this year. And that is people who hate. the United States of America and people who love the United States of America. And I'm hoping that love prevails. Let's just put it that way. Now, thinking about this great nation of ours, 250 years, we need to think back on what it was like in 1775, 76, and into 1777 when things... didn't look good for the new Americans. In fact, it looked pretty dark. It took a man like George Washington to put things in perspective and let his soldiers know exactly, at least remind them what they were fighting for. I say all of that by way of the skit titled Washington's Dream by SNL. If you have not seen this and you'll just hear this, but I think it will do some justice. One of the funniest things that SNL has done in a long time. Let's listen in. I hear the British are sending another 5,000 troops. How will we ever win this war? By remembering what we fight for. General Washington. Said, please. We need your strength for the fight ahead. We fight for a country of our own, a new nation, where we choose our own laws. Here, here, said sir. Choose our own leaders. Yes, sir. And choose our own systems of weights and measures.

Weights and measures, sir? Yes. Yes, I dream of that one day. Our proud nation will measure weights and pounds, and that 2,000 pounds shall be called a ton. And what would 1,000 pounds be called, sir? Nothing. Because we will have no word for that. Seems like we should have a word for 1,000 pounds, sir. And yet we won't. Because we are free men, and we will be free to measure liquids in liters and mill liters. But not all liquids, only soda, wine, and alcohol. Only those, sir. Yes. Because for milk and paint, we will use gallons, pints, and quartz, God will. How many liters are in a gallon, sir? Nobody knows. And, sir, in this new country, what plans are there for men of color such as I? Distance will be measured an inches. Yard and miles. Skip past that question. Difficult. 12 inches to a foot? 12 feet to a yard. If it were only so simple. Three feet to a yard. And how many yards to a mile? Nobody knows. Okay, well, how many feet to a mile? 5,280. Of course. It's a simple number that everyone will remember. I just confess, it feels a little complicated, sir. Why not use meters and kilometers? We will soldier. But only in certain and popular sports like track and swimming. For popular sports, like football, we will use yards. Football, sir? Yes. It's a sport where you throw a ball with your hands. So in football, there is no kicking? There's a little kicking. You kick the ball to get points. How many points, sir? Sometimes one and sometimes three. Very confused, sir. Do not worry. For our new nation, we will have rulers with two sets of numbers, inches on one side, centimeters on the other. So we can see where they line up. Yes, except that they don't line up and they never will. Liberty, son, Liberty. And the slaves, sir. What of them? You asked about the temperature. I did not. We show up two different unrelated scales of temperature. One of them will make sense to the entire world, and the other will be super random. Our great nation, we'll use the random one. What is the scale called, sir? Fahrenheit. Spell that for me? Impossible. But one day, if we are brave, we'll get rid of you in a lot of British words like color and armor. But by God, we will keep the British you in the word glamour. Only glamour, sir?

Only glamour. That is my dream for our countrymen. A melting pot of different measurements that will make Europeans throw little tantrums. In short, a land of liberty. Where all men are free. Oh, that is good stuff. You've seen that before, right, Dave? You said that earlier. Nate? Bargazzi, right? The comedian? I think at the outset of the show I called him the Googli-eyed comedian. I like the guy. He's funny. And I'm told that, Dave, have you seen his new movie? I'm told it's pretty good. It's something for the whole family, I guess. So that's refreshing. That's nice. Funny stuff. And SNL does not deliver a lot of funny stuff these days. But that was fun. An alternate look, if you will. at Washington's vision, Washington's dream for America. As we celebrate, get ready to celebrate, 250 years of this exceptional nation. Got to take off. Always a pleasure filling in. Dan will be back with you on Monday. Until we talk again, Matt Kittle's saying, make it a great weekend. Goodbye. So long. God bless.