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fun. I really want to have fun. I'm just saying I want to have something. Well, fake it, until you make it, I guess, is the way we approach things. Hey, I know. How to have some fun. Why don't we see if we can make $1,000 surface in your pocket, huh? Make you $1,000 richer in our nationwide spring green cash contest. We've had about a half dozen winners so far in this contest cycle, and we're looking for one right now, as a matter of fact. Number seven, if you will. Spring green cash contest, the key word this hour is family. F-A-M-I-L-Y, nothing more important. And no doubt about it, if your family members learn that you won $1,000 free cash money, they're going to be that much closer to you. The keyword again, family, F-A-M-I-L-Y. Enter the keyword on the website of the fine radio station you are now listening to, and it'll tell you where to do so. It's very intuitive. Enter the keyword family. You could be our next $1,000 winner. In the nationwide spring green cash contest, we'll do it again a couple more times as we move along the show in the 4 o'clock and in the 5 o'clock hour. Speaking of the show, oh, we are jam-packed today with infotainment. Here we go. In the 4 o'clock hour, I'm going to have some very interesting conversations. I hope you'll stick around for these interesting guests. Investigating birth. Tourism There's big money in so-called birthright citizenship. Firms are exploiting the constitutionally suspect allowance by explicitly marketing their maternity services to foreign expected mothers who take advantage of the U.S. immigration system. It is. Really, from my point of view, it is an absolute abuse of the, again, so-called... birthright citizenship, and that is being debated, of course, before the Supreme Court right now, that interpretation of what birthright citizenship actually means. Republican Congressman, and this guy's a rising star to, if you've seen him in some committee hearings, he is a griller.

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He absolutely digs into bureaucrats and leftist and junk peddlers and big government buffoons. Congressman Brandon Gill, Republican Texas, chairman of the task force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses. He wants answers to this growing business of birth. tourism. He'll join us coming up just after the 4 o'clock news. And then this is an interesting case that could appear before the U.S. Supreme Court at some point. Miranda Stovall is a mom of four who advocates for parental rights, educational reform, and education transparency in Kentucky. She requested a copy of a survey administered to one of her children under the state's open records law. The survey was administered by Pearson, a group that notoriously pushes radical ideologies while asking children invasive questions about their mental health and families. The school district denied her request, claiming that the contents of the survey was... Copyrighted. I'm sorry. This is intellectual property from the radical Marxist who are administering this survey. Miranda and the Southeastern Legal Foundation have filed a lawsuit and are now urging the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. It's a very fascinating case, and we'll talk to Miranda Stovall coming up right around 420 or so this afternoon. And in just a bit, our good old friend, Christian Toto, from the excellent website. How about this? A film. Culture Review Site from the Conservative Lens. That's what Hollywood in Toto is. We're going to talk about old bitter Stephen Colbert. Goodbye, Stephen. Don't go away, bitter. Just go away. It's his final week on CBS and his little failing late night experiment. And we'll talk to Christian about that. We've got some other things, including I guess it's really changed over the years, the big blockbuster summer movie season. You know, when I was a kid, we used to have to walk uphill both ways, 45 miles in a snowbank in the middle of July. Just to watch the movies and the big screen productions like Indiana Jay Jones and the extraterrestrial. I do that to my kids sometimes and they say, Dad, you're so weird.

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He said, movie, the whole scene has changed. People are in theaters a lot less, but there are still blockbusters out there. And there are some really, really awful things happening from Hollywood, as we know. We'll talk about that with Christian Toto coming up in just a bit. But now, as old Robert Zimmerman, otherwise known as Bob Dylan, once put it, people are crazy. And times are strange. I'm locked and tight. I'm out of range. I used to care. But things have changed. People are still crazy. No doubt about that. This is a story from the New York Post. It involves a watch in New York that people are literally nearly dying for. Again, I'll hearken back to when I was a youth back in the gritty 1980s. And I remember certain toys where people would line up. Remember the Christmas where the dad beat the hell out of the other dad for the Cabbage Patch Kid? We've been down this road before. But the new tech gadgets always create this kind of excitement. There was a time in America where the real excitement, where you'd stand in line forever for something, was like a who concert or a grateful dead gig at Alpine Valley. Those days, not so much, but a super cool watch, that's what people will stand in line for. By Thursday evening, according to the New York Post, the line outside the Times Square Swatch Store, resembled a small roadside encampment. Not an unusual site for anyone in the resale game looking to make a hefty profit in the aftermarket off a coveted release. Nearly half the block between 7th and 8th avenues was scattered with foldable camping chairs resting against police barricades. Trash bags, empty coffee cups, and personal belongings littered the sidewalk. A sea of humanity, if you will, waiting for the next big thing in technology, I guess, if you consider a watch. technology. What's so special about this watch? Well, the frenzy centered on the latest collaboration between Swatch and some sort of apparently...

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Highfalutant watch designer that I don't know anything about, but I do know the swatches. Anyway, they have a limited edition, bioceramic pocket watch that merges the two companies, the Royal Oak with Swatch's vibrant pop line. I'm reading it and everything in my mind is screaming. I don't care about this. And I look at the photos and I say, I don't care about this. It looks like a cross between a Dr. Seuss and Salvador Dolly watch. That's the best way I can describe it with, you know, something very, very colorful. like you would see an electric Kool-Aid acid test. That's the best way I can compare it. I don't know anything about these things, and I don't care, but these people do it. This watch... Its retail price ranges from $400 to $420, depending on the color way, but the resale margins were promising with early offers into the thousands. And so not just people who really want this watch because they love the whole swatch thing. People looking to make a buck. I mean, a buck. Lots of bucks. You got to have a lot of balls to be right out here. Luis M, a watch enthusiast and reseller behind hyped up NYC, told the New York Post. He and his crew had been camping outside the store since Monday, although he resells everything. He wants to keep this watch. Someone had already offered him. $3,500. For one. You got to know what you're doing, to be honest. This is how impassioned the consumer of this particular watch is. Apparently, a lady was in line and she passed out. just started to nod off. And the crew with the Narcan had to come by and revive her because she was having a drug overdose in the middle of the line. People have been there for five, six days. Sometimes they have folks helping keep their spot in line. They'll go up for a, you know, a potty break. And maybe they'll sleep in the bathroom for a while. Again, there have been things that have interested me in, you know, in life, in consumption. This isn't one of them. And I understand there's a lot of money here, but man, this thing is absolutely insane.

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Uh, coming up in just a bit. Goodbye Stephen. Stephen Colbert is about to be off the air. We'll talk about all of that and what it all means with Hollywood in Toto founder and creator Christian Toto. Straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell show with yours truly, Matt Kittle. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer. An in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market. I think when you're diagnosed with cancer, you crave a semblance of normalcy and control, and so work allowed me to be me. So I think it's really important that companies stay flexible. Cancer and a diagnosis can be all-consuming. But it doesn't have to be. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing. Learn more and sign the pledge at working with cancer pledge.com. Hang on. Doing that voodoo that we do so well. It's the Dan O'Donnell Show, the Friday edition. How are you? Glad to have you along with us, Matt Kittle, your old Radio Amigo filling in. You remember that song from Super Tramp, one of my all-time favorite most not-appreciated bands? I don't think Super Tramp has gotten the kind of appreciation that they deserve and rock and roll. That's my opinion, and I'm... I am bloody well right. You're absolutely correct, my friend. Producer Eric, citing one of the great songs of all time, one of the other great song, many of great songs, but this is one of them, Goodbye Stranger. You remember that classic? Now think about that as we say, Goodbye Stephen, as in Stephen Colbert. That's the theme song I have going around in my... Goodbye, Stephen, it's been nice. Uh, Stephen, don't go away bitter, my friend. Please just go away. Next week is the funeral procession, or the late show. Not because political hack, Cold Bear, is a censorship martyr, as he and elitist friends would have you believe, but because CBS's parent does not want to keep losing money on a comedy show that is alienated half of its audience. Christian Toto, award-winning film critic, journalist, and founder of the fantastic...

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Hollywood in Toto, an entertainment review website from a conservative perspective. He's also author of Virtue Bombs. How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul, and he hosts the Hollywood in Toto podcast. He joins us now in the Dan O'Donnell Show. Good afternoon, sir. How are you? I'm glad to be here. Thanks so much. First of all, do you have a big blockbuster movie season fever? We'll talk about that in the moment. You know, I don't. The big guns haven't really fired yet, but we are getting the new Star Wars movie next week. I might as see it on Monday. So that'll be among the bigger ones. Actually, this weekend is really quiet. So, yeah, it's not summer season yet, but we are almost there. We'll have to see how that plays out. I know you're in line for Supergirl already. That's not coming out for a few months, right? I'm wearing the tights right now. That's how committed I am to Supergirl. And our producer Eric, yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, our producer Eric said, please stop doing that. I understand you have a passion for this, but it just, it does not support your figure. And I thought, it's an HR issue. Yeah. Oh, no doubt about it. It's some, it's a basic fat shaming going on over here, but I just, I live, ideal. Speaking of coming up. Coming attractions. This is one of my favorites. Stephen Colbert has been insufferable for a very long time. There was one point in his comedy career I really enjoyed Stephen Colbert because he had a sense of humor about everything in politics on the Stephen Colbert rapport on Comedy Central years ago. He lost that. among other things, when he came to CBS to take over for David Letterman. We learned, what, earlier this year, late last year, Stephen Colbert was on borrowed time. His last show week is coming up next week. You want to get your thoughts on all of that, and some of the guests that will be sending him off the air. Well, I can spell with good rhythms. You know, for exactly the reason why you mentioned, he is a talented guy. I'm not going to deny that, but his show has become... I mean, you know, the monologues that are just focused on one particular person. We all know who that is. The hectoring, you know, I'm actually doing a series of Hollywood in total called Goodbye Stephen Colbert, looking at his lowest moment. That could be the back scene, that dance, that was just unbelievable. Or when he called President Trump a bleep holster for Vladimir Putin, I mean, there are so many low lights that he's kind of committed over the years. But the bottom line is that...

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It just wasn't funny or fun. It was just a different kind of show. And I guess, you know, people, I'm not the first one to say to call it this sort of group liberal therapy. I mean, do we really need that? I'd rather just laugh. I'd rather just have a good time. And listen, if you have a bunch of celebrities on his couch, I'll watch it. It might be enjoyable. But more often than not, it's Caitlin Susan Collins or Madam Schiff. These are deeply unfunny people and deeply people who don't entertain us, but they wanted to lecture us. That's why it is. And by the, we'll quickly don't forget, with all the, I mean, Jake Tapper was just doing this monologue about Stephen Colbert and what we're losing and why Trump is shutting him down. He was reportedly losing CBS $40 million a year. No one has just given that figure. Why in the world would any network put on a show that loses that? Let's just say it's half that. Let's just say it's 20 million. Why would you put that in the air? What's the point? Exactly. And over the last several years, when he took over for Letterman, what was it, like around 16, 17, somewhere in there, right around 2015. So right before the first Trump administration. And... You know, he had the Letterman audience, much bigger audience. We have seen that with Kimmel. We have seen that with Stephen Colbert. We've seen that with late night comedy from this ranting leftist side. They really have lost half of their audience. And I don't know what CBS or any of these networks can do to get that back, but it's certainly not keeping these jokers on. This cannot be good for them, and they realized it. Yeah, and I think when the Paramount Skydance merger happened, I think they just looked at the books. And all of a sudden, they just couldn't hide it anymore. It was something that seemed untenable. I'm guessing that's why it happened. Listen, I don't want government censorship. I don't want President Trump to kick off a comedian, you know, because he or she doesn't, you know, because he doesn't like what's going on. Trump blows up at times. He says things that I don't prove of it at all. But as we've learned over 10 years, is that's just blustered. Nothing's happening behind the scenes. And he was getting good ratings that he was making money for CBS. He'd be on the air in perpetuity. That's not. the case. And I just think this whole format is dying. It's just, it's a plot of another age. Well, doesn't Stephen Colbert have like a, a workforce that's rivals Starbucks? I mean, he's got how many different people? I've been told as many as 150 or 200 is, is that true? I don't know the exact figure. I've heard the term 20 writers being bandied about. But, of course, you need much more than that that put the show on. But, you know, Jimmy Fallow, who's very, very funny, he has a Saturday night show, which is similar in the, you know, it's kind of sketches, it's monologues, it's a lot of political humor. He's a writer. He's the guy who write in a monologue. And, you know, it actually is better because he's funny. It's better because he's got one singular voice in perspective. But you get 20 people just with no diversity of thought on, you know.

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whatever, if it's 20 or 15 or whatever, it's a bunch of riders. They just churn out the same gags, the same targets, the same everything. Did Stephen Colbert talk about Eric Swalwell? Did he talk about, you know, Ilhan Omar saying, World War 11? I mean, there's no, there's an embarrassment of riches on the left to make fun of, and they don't do it. And he talked about all the fraud going on across the country. That's bipartisan. We all should want that to go away. But he's, he's an activist. That's all he is. Yeah, absolutely. And we have seen where their money goes. We have seen Jimmy Kimmel, you know, basically supporting these candidates. Jimmy Kimmel had Eric Swalwell on talking about, as he, as Eric Swalwell launched his campaign for governor, talking about what a good and decent guy this is. That didn't age very well. Christian Toto joins us on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours truly Matt Kittle. Christian, of course, is the award-winning film critic and the guy. He doesn't have a cast of 200 supporting 200 employees writing for him. He's the guy who is putting together the fantastic Hollywood and Toto website. I saw on said site. A column that you had on the old. comedian, and now aging rapidly, who held that spot, held that show in the Ed Dan Sullivan Theater, David Letterman. Letterman, was it last week or earlier this week, joined Stephen Colbert, and I'm going to tell you something. I think that Meth Santa, that's what I have heard. uh, Zach Gallifanakis, call Letterman, he's just, I don't recognize him anymore, just how bitter he is. Yeah, you know, he was the opposite of Stephen Colbert. Listen, he was always left of center. He got a little bit more so at the end of his tenure. But he was all about entertainment and silliness and goofiness and subversive comedy and, you know, all those things. And now he's just bitter and he's, you know, lashing out and he's angry. You know, I mean, listen, I think his legacy on paper is secure, but it's hard to look at him now and think, well, that was the funny guy who made us, you know, helped us drift off his sleep. Each week, it's a bad look for him. And also, stop focusing on Trump and stop focusing on so-called free speech. Your show is losing massive amounts of money. Use your last few episodes to celebrate what you had, to enjoy your time, to look back at good memories and just go out on a high note. This whole, I'm fighting truth to power. It's such nonsense. Because we had a cognitively disabled president. He didn't say boo. Okay? You didn't say boo. You don't believe you. You're a fraud.

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Exactly. So, with all of that in mind, what are you hearing? Where do you think Stephen Colbert goes from here? Where does CBS go with Late Night? Well, they've already got Byron Allen. He has a show. I think it's called Comics. Oh, yeah, that's right. I don't know the exact specifics. It's like a syndicated show, but listen, it's going to cost CBS much, much, much, much less money, and maybe it'll draw a crowd. It might be just maybe it's exactly what that late night spot needs. Funny, comedy, humor. We'll have to see. You know, as for Stephen Colbert, I mean, you know, podcasting, a, a streaming show, this is going to be a lot of landing places for him. We don't have to mourn him, and he's got tons of money. He'll be perfectly fine. But, you know, maybe I had the thought that I just immediately crushed it, but you think he might learn something from this experience, but I don't think he will. But listen, he's going to go to a place where he will have a smaller budget, a smaller staff. He'll need a smaller amount of eyeballs, and he'll be fine. What do you think about this idea? Stephen Colbert Gavin Newsom, 28.

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A blowheart and a guy who only makes things worse. I don't know. That's a powerful combination. It might just work. It really is. The upside of all this for late night is that I think Jimmy Kimmel is going to get a nice little bump from this because he's already been rising in the ratings slightly in recent months. But also, if you're a Stephen Colbert fan, where do you go? I mean, you want a late night something. And Kimmel's the closest thing. You're not going to go to Fallon because he just does basically a neutered down left-up center show. Kimmel's the real deal. He's the true believer. So I think he's going to get a little bump. Absolutely. Before we go, we touched upon a little bit. He said one of the biggest movies of the summer, the latest in the Star Wars franchise. Now, this movie involves the best I can understand it, because I stopped watching Star Wars the franchise after Jar Jar Binks appeared, and it only got worse from there. That was a tell for me. It is not... Yeah, exactly compared to what we're dealing with today. But, I mean, as a guy who grew up with Chewbacca and Prince, I mean, the real Chewbacca and Princess Leia and Han Solo. And what the hell happened to Luke Skywalker, Christian? I mean, I just, it's getting so weird. I don't, it's like my childhood has been crushed now by the weight of this franchise. I feel the same way. You know, I was such a Star Wars fan as a little boy. I went out to see Summer with Mark Hamill, which was a cheesy throwaway movie that he made. Oh, yes. After Star Wars, you just kind of cast him. And it was, you know, it was young, but I had to see it because it was Luke Skywalker. But watching him today, listen, he's a very talented actor. I think he's gotten better as he's gotten older. It's more interesting. But the hatred he has for Trump and the way he shares it and the way he maligns Trump fans, listen, you can hate Trump and not agree with Trump and not vote for Trump. It's fine. It's perfectly rational, perfectly normal. But he takes it to a new level, which is really becoming. It's just gross. Yeah, it is Robert De Niro-esque. So what about this, is it the Mandalorian with the little Yoda guy? I can't keep up with this stuff. I have heard some awful things about this already from some people who share similar concerns that I do about this franchise. Yeah, you know, the director here is John Fedro, who has done some wonderful films, including Elf and Iron Man. So he's talented. He's behind the camera. But the early buzz has been not been good. They had some initial screenings yesterday. And usually there's this first reaction wave where the influencers and sort of the geeky types can see the movie and they rave about it. And even they are getting kind of mixed reviews about it. So it comes out next week. I'll be seeing it Monday. I don't have a lot of hope for it. I really like John Favre. I think he's a very talented fellow, but this seems like the wrong product, the wrong film at the wrong time. I think the Mandalorian had its moment. It was a very good show briefly. They fired Gina Carrano, and it's all been downhill.

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Yeah, and then there's another movie that's coming out that apparently is getting the woke treatment. Is it the Odyssey or is it Ulysses? It depends on whether you're dealing with Roman lore or Greek myth. But I am told some very odd things about this movie, including the former Ellen Page being Achilles, playing the part of Achilles in this movie. So this is the new Christopher Nolan movie. The Odyssey is coming out July 17th. Some of the casting decisions have been curious, including Lupita Nongo, is playing Ellen of Troy. It's typically in films of a white actress. She's obviously black, and she's very beautiful. Oscar winner. She's certainly talented. That caused a little bit of a kerfuffle. The Elliott Page casting, we don't know what role Elliot will be playing. So I don't want to get too much into the conspiracy part of that. This is, you know, no one is a great director. Maybe he's doing a little casting situation to get those DEI points to make sure it's eligible for a picture. Oscar, I don't know. I don't think we know all the information. I'll just put it that way. I'm trying to hold my... All right, fair. Well, we'll be certainly paying attention, and the best way to do that is to go to your website. You can also get some really interesting conversation on your podcast. What do you have coming up? Who's your guest this week? Yeah, we've got Joseph Granda. He's the director of a really terrific new film called The Saskolologist. It's about a Bigfoot Hunter. It's comedic. It's bit about Merklefilms.com. But he's talking about the movie, how he made it, the shoestring budget, and a little bit about Bigfoot, I had no idea. There's a whole community that's not just into Bigfoot, but it's kind of more beyond that. It's a fascinating subgenre, but the film itself is a real winner, and I hope people do check it out. Did Jack Link's beef jerky sponsor any of that or as a silent funder? They like the Bigfoot, the Sasquatch stuff. Yeah, okay, fair enough. A lot of people like the Bigfoot. Oh, they love the Bigfoot, no doubt about it. Bigger than the Loch Ness Monster, as I'm told. Christian, as always, appreciate your time, your perspective, and the good work that you do. Oh, my pleasure. Christian Toto, award-winning film critic journalist, founder of the fantastic Hollywood in Toto. We'll take a quick break. Straight ahead, the atrocities of Soros prosecutors played out in real time. That is next on the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours, truly Matt Kittle. Stay with us. We could be in for some rough weather coming up. We're also warming up, and I do want to issue the advisory now. We are getting into shirtless dude season. Driving in today. I'm not kidding you. I saw four shirtless dudes, some running, some walking.

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One, skating with all that he had, rollerblading. It was not pretty. We are getting into shirtless dude season. Please, please, be advised. You have about nine minutes left to enter the spring green cash contest. The keyword this hour is family. Yep, we do this, give you the keyword, and you have until 55 minutes past the hour to do so. Again, the keyword is family. F-A-M-I-L-Y. Take the keyword to the website of the fine radio station you are now listening to. You can win $1,000 in our nationwide spring green cash contest. We'll do it again. In the 4 o'clock hour, give you the keyword for the 4 o'clock hour right after the top of the hour news. What else was I going to get to? Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what's coming up in the 4 o'clock hour. We've got a lot of good stuff coming up. I hope you will stay tuned. We're going to talk with U.S. Representative Brandon Gill. He is chairman of the task force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses. It sounds like one of the – it does. There's no doubt about it. It sounds like one of those big, you know, hefty, hefty sounding committees, subcommittees. What are they doing? What do they do? It's got a big name. What are they doing? This just started, but I can tell you, they're already making some dust and making some folks uncomfortable. We're going to talk about what Congressman Gill and I believe Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer have worked on here in the last few days. They're trying to get some information from what has grown into. a very big money, profitable, birth tourism industry. It all goes in line with the so-called birthright citizenship and how some, well, to me anyway, some very unscrupulous people are taking advantage of what I think is a loophole, certainly in citizenship. birthplace citizenship in America. We'll talk more about that. Coming up, right around, well, not 10 after 4, somewhere in there. Right now, though, you, it's hard to think of many other areas. Many other parts of society that have been more destructive than George Soros and the leftist cash in local district attorney, local prosecutor's offices. And the House Judiciary Subcommittee yesterday, a hearing, according to Fox News, and I saw some of this as I was covering some of these issues, it devolved into chaos.

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As a North Carolina lawmaker demanded Fairfax County Commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano, be quiet while the prosecutor was reamed out over cases, including the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl by an illegal alien, an illegal Guatemalan national. We heard a lot of similar stories, just disgusting, just awful. Descano, of course, is the subject of a federal investigation on his horrible, hideous record of letting violent people out onto the streets without any form of... justice, really. I mean, for the victim, really, from the beginning, when it comes to the bail or the bond, very low amount, sometimes not at all, and then making... terrible deals that are more about social justice insanity than they are, again, about actual justice. Descano and Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid, a fellow Democrat, accused of lax enforcement involving a legal immigrant suspect sparred with lawmakers during the hearing, as many invoke the prosecutor's written policy and campaign pledge to account for immigration-related consequences. prosecutorial discretion decision. So what is what is the impact on the poor undocumented violent criminal? That's what we have to consider here according to again this Soros funded all kinds of Soros left wing money into not only Descano this is happening in cities across the country. bought and paid for in their campaigns by Soros Money. Steve Descano, however, objective to characterizations of the policy from Representative Brad Knot. And later, from a gentleman we are going to talk to coming up in the next hour, Representative Brandon Gill of Texas, who both lit into the Soros-backed attorney. in charge of prosecuting crimes in Virginia's largest municipality. I want to share some of that audio now because this is, we hear this on the left. We've heard it since the 60s protest movement. Righteous indignation. That is what Representative Knott has here, and you can hear it in his voice, and he wants accountability. Something that is rare in Washington, D.C. This is representative not asking Steve Descano some very pointed questions. Burger, the new governor, she looks like a complete failure already. A cap of two years. Excuse me, audio problems. A cap of two years.

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Sir, this is a great example. And then when the plea agreement was rejected, what did you do? Sir, this is a great example. This is a great example of a case. You know, I prosecuted, I prosecuted cases. And then you understand cases that had don't have strong evidence. You know what's not a sign of? Guilt. What did you do? Sir, I dismissed the case. Sir. A disgusting, perverted individual praying on children that you dismissed the case. As the father of two young girls, one of them's five. I have a shameful as anything I have seen. Quit defending the end defensible. You clearly don't. Absolutely not. You dismissed the case and it's shameful. You're a coward. That is some pretty powerful stuff. For my money. True. Representative Not asking some very, very pointed questions of the Soros bought and paid for prosecutor in Fairfax County, Virginia. No wonder the whole thing is going to hell in Virginia. And so many good Virginians are having to pay for this. And so many are paying for it with their property and their lives. Steve Descano, Fairfax County Commonwealth's attorney, is under a... A big spotlight right now, and deservedly so. But as we just heard in that exchange, what you have is a lack of accountability, somebody who is blaming all. You understand, I don't, I have to, I have to deal with this and I have to deal with that. When your stated policy is to find ways to release. Illegal immigrants to find ways to look the other way about their violent crimes because there are the extenuating circumstances of their difficulties coming to this country and being in this country. You're no longer working for justice. You are working for a political agenda. And that has to stop. More people are going to die. Let's take a quick break. Four o'clock hour, your chance to win $1,000 straight ahead, the Dan O'Donnell Show with Matt Kittle. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts' farmers' market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day to day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market. I think when you're diagnosed with cancer, you crave a semblance of normalcy and control, and so work allowed me to be me. So I think it's really important that companies stay flexible.

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Cancer in a diagnosis can be all-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing. Learn more and sign the pledge at working with cancer pledge.com. Welcome back, thrill seekers, hour number two of our little get-together. On this Friday, May 15th, 2026 in the year of our Lord, my goodness, halfway through the month of May. Hold on now, don't go too fast. I want this summer to stay around for a while and it's starting to warm up. Matt Kittle, you're a radio talk show host, Phil and Daddy. Doing just that on the Dan O'Donnell Show. The Friday version. Welcome to the ride home. Listen, if... If you have some more work to do, and you know, big project, whatever the case may be, you've got some more work to do, you know you're going to be in there for a little while, do this, do yourself a favor. Tell me to do it next week. It's time to go on home, all right? And maybe it's time to win $1,000 to start your weekend. How about that for good fun? Oh, yes, nothing says welcome weekend. Like free money. Your spring green cash contest, keyword this hour, fittingly enough, is fun. F-U-N, fun. Sounded like I was saying something naughty there, didn't it? No, fun. Fun, fun is, I guess can be naughty. But fun is fun, and fun is our keyword this hour. In the spring green cash contest, take that keyword fun to the website of the... Fine radio station you are now listening to. Enter it where it tells you to do so. And you, you could be our next winner. We've had several winners in the spring green cash contest. Again, this hour's word is fun. Good luck to you. We'll do it again in the 5 o'clock hour. Coming up this hour of the Dan O'Donnell show. Oh, a little bit later, as we get toward the end of the hour, Debbie and Gieser say, adopt a beagle. What's that all about? I'll tell you more about that a little bit later on. And then coming up in probably about 10, 15 minutes or so, school secrets, Miranda Stovall, a mom of four who advocates for parental rights, educational reform and education transparency in Kentucky, has requested a copy. This was a while back, requested a copy of a survey.

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administered to one of her children under the state's open records law. And if you have been following this saga for some time as I have in... This day and age of DEI crazy wokeness, the survey was administered by Pearson, a group that notoriously pushes radical ideologies while asking children invasive questions about their mental health and families. The school district said, no, we can't give that to you. They claimed it was a matter of the survey being copyrighted. Miranda and the Southeastern Legal Foundation have filed... A lawsuit and are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. We'll talk to Miranda coming up in just a bit. But now let us begin here. Investigating birth tourism. There is big money in so-called birthright citizenship. Firms are exploiting the constitutionally suspect allowance by explicitly marketing their maternity services to foreign expectant mothers who take advantage of the U.S. immigration system to give birth in the U.S. which, of course, gives their child U.S. citizenship. Republican Congressman Brandon Gill is chairman of the task force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses, and he wants answers from those entities, and he joins us now on the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours, truly Matt Kittle. Representative Gill, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. This task force really got off the ground, and I think it got off the ground with a big start. no better place than to deal with this massive. It is becoming a, like I said, big business, these firms working with individuals to come over to the country, give birth to their children, go back home, their children become citizens. I know you sent a letter out this week. What are you hoping to learn from your investigation? Well, first of all, I would say that I think the American people are awake to what's going on with birth tourism, what it is and how offensive it is to the American people and how it undermines the meaning of American citizenship. So we sent out four different letters requesting documents and information to four birth tourism companies. One of them by the name, by the way, it was called Have My Baby in Miami.

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I mean, there is nothing. Oh, my gosh. And these are companies that are engaged explicitly in birth tourism, in advertising that you can work with them to fly into the country if you're pregnant on a tourist visa and have your baby in the United States. Of course, via birthright citizenship, which is an issue, as we all know. become American citizens and then go back to wherever you came from. That is so deeply... So we're requesting documents and information, and what we want to find, and what I expect we will find, I should say, is that a lot of these are pretty shady companies involved with foreign adversaries, and I think that that's something the American people need to know about, and the goal here is to make this practice illegal, and we can clamp down whenever we find illegal activity. on these companies and hopefully get some bad guys in jail. Yeah, no doubt about it. And this does, certainly on the surface, appear to be a real violation of what the law is meant to represent. Of course, we've had a lot of debates over that with the invasion that we saw with, and the results of that invasion from the auto-pen presidency of Joe Biden. But you're right, there's nothing subtle about this. But is it against the law to do this? Because I think a lot of Americans would say, if it isn't, it should be against the law. Yeah, so it is against the law to misrepresent yourself. For instance, to say that you're coming here to be a tourist for a short period of time if you're knowingly doing so for the purpose of having a child. That is against the law, and I think that's the nexus that we're going to have to clamp down on these companies. But I think what we also want to know, so we want to get immediate justice in that sense. But what we also want to know is to better understand how these businesses operate. so that we can tighten up our laws to stop this from happening in the future. What we don't want is to go after these four companies and probably more. Get justice here, get some criminal referrals, and then see more LLCs popping up that are engaged in the same practice. We want to tighten up our immigration laws in that sense as well. So it's kind of a two-pronged approach. This really does speak to the battle, the legal battle that's going on with the President of the United States, when it was his first order of business was, we've got to stop this nonsense, this whole idea, this long, and I believe faulty, flawed interpretation of what birthright citizenship is.

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In fact, I don't know if you agree with me on this, but I don't think it should be called birthright citizenship. I think really, technically, it's birthplace citizenship. And I think it's been very much abused. Obviously, the Supreme Court will be weighing in on this. We've heard oral arguments. It does not sound promising to me that we will have a stoppage of this. So what can Congress do on that front to... deal with the language that would fit the Constitution as it is interpreted by the Supreme Court? Well, I think we could... There's a few things. One is that we all know that the purpose of the 14th Amendment, which is what the left uses as justification for this perverse form of birthright citizenship, was never intended for birth tourism or anything even remotely resembling this. It was intended, of course, so that the children of freed slaves would be American citizens. Throughout American history, there's been a broad recognition amongst virtually everybody until recently that there were certain people for whom birth right citizenship did not apply. For instance, if you're the children of an invading army, or if you're a Native American tribe that still have tribal relations, these are people that nobody ever expected to be given. citizenship, even if you were born on American soil, we want to return to that core principle. So I think that it's going to be tightening up American immigration laws, but it's also going to be, I think, clarifying. And I think that we can do this legally, ideally with a constitutional amendment, what birthright citizenship or birthplace citizenship actually means. It means something that the left doesn't like to acknowledge, and they don't even like the terminology, the verbiage, anchor babies, anchor children. And that's exact, I think that's a great descriptor of what this is. Republican Congressman Brandon Gill, Chairman of the Task Force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses. joining us on the Dan O'Donnell show this Friday afternoon for a couple more minutes. You saw, in fact, you have been very active in this. I know you were dealing with Fairfax County yesterday at quite a heated hearing on another front, but we heard from, I believe it was a Fairfax County official. that the numbers are pretty stark, something to the effect that one in four or one in five residents of that county could be deported under the law. This tourism, all of that stuff is tied to the explosion that we have had in immigration.

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Obviously illegal and the kind that looks illegal to the average American. How do you deal with the consequences of this harvest, if you will, from cynical Democrats? Well, there's a couple issues that we were dealing with in that hearing. One is the massive number of illegal aliens in Fairfax County. You know, they were putting forward a statistic that one in five people in the county may be deportable. And I think the left sees that and they say, well... If it's one in five, that means mass deportations is a terrible response. And I think we hear that and we say that is why we need mass deportations. This is the problem, and that is the obvious response. That these are people, many of whom came in under the Biden administration, under his policy of open borders, which was so deeply offensive to the American people, just what gave Republicans the mandate last cycle to secure the border and deport illegal aliens. So that was a key part of that hearing yesterday. We were, I was cross-examining, and many of my colleagues were cross-examining a district attorney, Soros back to the A, who has made it a matter of policy quite explicitly. I mean, we had the policy document in front of me to give illegal aliens lesser charges, to reduce their charges whenever they committed offense. in the United States because they want to, because it was his policy to take into account adverse immigration consequences. So for instance, the illegal alien comes in and they murder, they rape somebody, they steal from a business, whatever they do. The DA in deciding how they were going to charge the illegal alien would say, well, I don't think that it's fair that this illegal alien could get deported if we charge him with a felony, for instance. So we're going to reduce the charge. and charge him with a misdemeanor so that there's a lower probability that he gets deported. I mean, that is insane. And one of the cases that I tried to highlight was the case of a Guatemalan illegal alien who was arrested in March 24 for raping an underaged American. And the DA reduced those charges to a misdemeanor charge by using that logic. And that is so wrong on so many levels. It makes the United States obviously significantly more dangerous. And it's something that the American people need to be aware of. It is disgusting. And in one case, if I'm not wrong, we talked about this, the last segment of the show and talked about, frankly, you've done a great job in all of these hearings, you know, asking extremely important questions, making these folks very nervous and I think getting very important information. But, you know, we're talking about this thing. And you hear that a four-year-old girl is raped.

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by an illegal alien and the guys out walking on the street. That cannot be if this republic is going to survive. So I guess the question is, and I know you've been asking this, you're getting information, you're getting these guys testimony. Is there going to be accountability for this? You know, that's the goal here. I mean, this is somebody who was elected. He received a, this DA in particular, received a ton of money from George Soros. We obviously, this is somebody who shouldn't be anywhere near elected office. But I think that whenever you have prosecutors, district attorneys who, as a matter of policy, will reduce charges for illegal aliens or deliberately make the American people less safe by. throwing criminals. I mean, these are some of the worst, of the worst, by the way, out on our streets. I think there ought to be liability there, and I think that's something, there have been a variety of bills that have come to the, that have been discussed within Congress that would help provide some sort of incentive for those corrupt people who need it to actually operate and adjust way, to actually keep these bad guys off our streets. And I think that is a proper response to these lawless, really dark kind of evil people who are adjudicated, not just adjudicating these cases, but bringing charges on behalf of the American people. I've said it before. I'll say it again. You want real accountability because you're not going to get it from the left side of the aisle. If you want real accountability, elect real conservatives, not rhinos, not conservatives in name only, real conservatives. And thus far in your career, I've got to tell you, I put you squarely in that category, Congressman Gill, real conservative. Thank you for your time and thank you for the work you're doing. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. You bet. There he is. Republican Congressman Brandon Gill, Chairman of the Task Force on defending constitutional rights and exposing institutional abuses. And we didn't get a chance to talk about the myriad things that this committee is doing. One of them we did go into detail about, and that is taking a look at the so-called birth tourism industry. Strange times these. Coming up next, a conversation with a mom who has had enough, thank you very much, and is fighting back, fighting back against the creeps that want to infuse and indoctrinate your kids with radical ideologies. This time in Kentucky. We'll talk more about that. Straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours, truly Matt Kittle. Stay with you. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need.

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So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market. When I was diagnosed, all I wanted to do was get back to work. I wanted to get back to that trajectory that I was on prior to the cancer. I always felt like I had value. I had a place on the team to just be treated with dignity. It means everything. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing. Learn more and sign the pledge at working with cancer pledge.com. Keeping it real, keeping it right, the Dan O'Donnell Show. Your old Radio Amigo, Matt Kittle, filling in. I just had some very joyous news from a relative. We'll keep some anonymity here. One of the great ladies in our family, one of the greatest ladies I know, and she had a surgery yesterday, and she tells me now that she is catheter free. I'm going to tell you, as a dude who's experienced the joys of that angry piece of plastic, I couldn't feel better for someone who has that out. It always makes one sad when they tell you that has to go in. But free at last. Thank God Almighty. free at last. Don't forget you still have a chance to win our spring green cash contest. The keyword this hour is fun. F-U-N-F-N- Fun, which is the opposite of a catheter, of course. It's much more fun to win $1,000 free money from your good friends here at Iheart. Keyword again, fun in our spring green cash contest this hour. Miranda Stovall is a mom of four who advocates for parental rights, educational reform and education transparency in Kentucky. She requested a copy of a survey administered to one of her children under the state's open records law. The survey was administered by Pearson, a group that notoriously pushes radical ideologies while asking children invasive questions about their mental health and their families.

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The school district denied her request, claiming that the contents of the survey were copyrighted. I'm sorry, it's a legal thing. Our hands are tied. This is their intellectual property. We can't turn this over, even though we're using it to indoctrinate your kids. See where the problem is here? Miranda and the Southeastern Legal Foundation have filed a lawsuit and are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. Miranda joins us now on the Dan O'Donnells Show. Good afternoon, ma'am. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me on. This is an extremely important battle. We are fortunate, I think, in this state to have some legal organizations that are on the cutting edge of this. I think of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. They've done some great things on this front. But take us back. What was your experience like? Obviously, you had concerns. You know the reputation. You've heard the horror stories. What happened as you were going through this process? Yeah, so my daughter was in eighth grade, and I'm in a bunch of local Facebook groups like moms groups, and a bunch of the moms were talking about how they were receiving emails from schools, letting them know that their children were going to be given a social, emotional type survey. So, naturally, I was curious. I wanted to know, as well as many other moms wanted to know, you know, what are these questions that you're going to be asking our children. So I first confirmed that my child's school was given the survey, and yes, they were. So I filed an open records request asking for a copy of the survey so I could not only read it myself, I could also share it with other moms in my community. And I was pretty much instantly denied due to copyright law. What was, what, do you know the contents? I'm sure your eighth grader came home and said, well, we took this very curious test today. And perhaps she had some concerns about, not test, I should say survey, but perhaps you had some concerns about it. Maybe you heard from other moms and dads as well. What was in the survey? So I was able to go into the school and view a paper copy of the survey. However, I don't think that I was allowed to view the whole survey. They do give it online, of course, on their Chromebooks, as we all know. Chromebooks are everyday life for school kids now. But, you know, some of these surveys can be extremely invasive. They can ask about political affiliations, you know, personal questions about your family, you know, sometimes they even talk about sexuality, you know, ask children about sex or drugs or things like that. This one, I'm not sure if it was invasive like that. Like I said, I was only able to view a few of the questions, but it was crossing the line of, you know, I feel like my family loves me or things like that. And to me, that's just a little...

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inappropriate for school and for strangers to be asking my daughter this and then what are you doing with the answers you know what are you doing with the data from these surveys is another question that parents have on their minds as well yeah those are all very important questions Miranda Stovall joining us she is in a legal battle to get information that I think quite frankly should be available to parents because Well, we've seen it just in so many different schools with the liberal indoctrination policies, cutting the parent out in some very, very important areas that parents need to be involved in and have every right in the world. Now, what did they tell you? Because I have heard from school districts, well, these surveys are really, they're anonymous and they're really just trying to, you know, gauge where our teens are, where our kids are. terms of their mental health and, you know, cyberbullying and all of these other things that they talk about. What was their response to you other than, I'm sorry, this has got a copyright on it? Well, the interesting thing is my daughter, even though I opted her out of taking the survey, she was made to take it anyways on accident, of course. And, you know, they told me that The survey data is used to curate curriculum and see, you know, what the kids need as far as, you know, classroom and things like that. But if it's anonymous, how do you know which kid needs what or, you know, and, you know, we raise a question of, is it truly anonymous? Because when my daughter accidentally took that survey, they also said that they erased her data. Well, how did you know which data was my daughter? You know, so many questions around these surveys, and they're not academic related. So I feel like it's a waste of time in school. And, you know, we go back to schools need to be transparent with parents and let them in the door and let them know what they're putting in front of their children. Well, I know Kentucky, parents like you have been through these battles. I've read stories and I've written some of the stories. I know here in Wisconsin and across the country. Parents are being regularly cut out in some school districts. In fact, one is too many, but way too many school districts are doing these kinds of things, where they're not transparent. And their argument is we're trying to represent the best interest of the child. Well, the best interest of the child starts and ends with the parent and the parental rights. And so what we have here is... a continuation of that, but you would think that these folks would be starting to learn because law groups like the Southeastern Legal Foundation, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, they've been winning these cases. So let me ask you, where is this case right now? I know you filed the lawsuit, and you've also asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. Where does it stand legally?

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Well, that's the tricky part. Legally, right now, it's all about the copyright law. And, you know, that's a federal law. So federal court says, well, this is a state's open record case. And state court says, no, this is a federal copyright case. So that's where it's kind of, we don't have an answer of where to go even to get an answer to talk about the main issue. That's why we're asking the Supreme Court to take a look at this, and let's figure out which court can ultimately decide on this case. This is an original action. I know some of these legal terms get into a quagmire and everything, but is this a request asking the Supreme Court to take this up before it goes, has to go through a district and circuit court level on the federal side of things? Um, you know, to be honest, Kim Harmon with Southeastern Legal Foundation could answer that a whole lot better than me. I'm so sorry. No problem. No, no problem. Yeah. I believe so. Okay. The bottom line is you've got state court saying it doesn't belong here. Hopefully, if it does, it's a federal law issue, then you have a federal court that takes this up. And I think this is, I really do think this is a big case. I think this is very important because that's the kind of thing, copyright, that these school districts are hiding behind. As opposed to following state open records laws. Yeah. That's exactly what it is. We see excuses from school districts across the country. It's not just here in Kentucky. Across the country, they use different excuses to evade parents' requests and to be transparent with parents. And parents just want to know, what is my child looking at? What are you asking my child? what is being put in front of my child. So it's a huge transparency issue with school districts. And the more that they use these excuses to evade parents' requests, the more the trust is broken. You bet. I'm sure that you have a number of parents who are saying, you go. Hallelujah. I'm glad someone is fighting for this. I'm sure you've also met with resistance, not just from the school district, but from parents and families who believe now this. I believe in the Hillary Clinton, it takes a village, and our government will raise our children for us. I mean, that's basically what I see out of some of these folks. Have you dealt with a lot of pushback resistance on that front?

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You know, not on this case. I haven't dealt with a lot of pushback. I mean, there is some out there. And, you know, I just, I always respond with it is the parents' fundamental right to God's upbringing of their children. So, you know, for the parents that... don't believe that. I don't know why you don't believe that, but yeah. Yeah, it, it ultimately is. And the more we give away to the schools, the more they will take. And, you know, to me, that's a scary scenario. I don't blame you. As a parent, I feel the same way, and I've seen it happen in schools where my kids attended. And it is deeply, deeply concerning to parents across this country. I appreciate your time and keep up the good fight. And please let us know where this thing ends or is heading to next, I suppose. Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me on. Yeah, thank you for joining us. Miranda Stoval. A mom of four advocate for parental rights, and now she is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on, I think, a very compelling issue. The idea of outside groups coming in with surveys and information, and then they claim it's a matter of copyright when you request to know what's in that survey. And we have seen some truly awful and frightening surveys that have been out there that have caused understandably a great deal of concern among kids and families. Some school teachers, too, for that matter. We'll take a quick break. Coming up next, Debbie and Gieser say, adopt a beagle. What's that all about? We'll answer. Straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell show with Matt Kittle. Hang on. It comes Friday. It's almost five o'clock somewhere. You can start now. You've got my permission. Coming up in the 5 o'clock hour, another chance for you to win, $1,000 big cash money in our spring green cash contest. I'll tell you what that key word is in the 5 o'clock hour. Got some monster hail coming our way. As CCR once told us, it looks like we may be in for some nasty weather.

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A legal growth, this is an interesting story about Wisconsin's population growth and where it is. Perhaps you can guess where any growth is really coming from. Zero is a wonderful number, by the way, and the Trump administration has reported a very, very positive zero. We'll tell you more about that. Whoopi castration? Sometimes you put a show together and you put down notes and you say to yourself, yeah, I'll get back to that later. I'll figure that out. I don't know what this is all about. I'm just as intrigued as you are on what this topic relates to. Whoopi castration. I believe it involves Whoopi Goldberg. And a vegan Texas senator? Nah. I'll talk about that too coming up in the 5 o'clock hour, again, if we have time, because it's an action-packed last hour, to be sure. Eric Paulson, our excellent producer, can I tell you, can I ask you a question? We're going to do a little musical experiment here. I want to see if you can tell the difference between one or the other. You ready to play along with us? Okay. You sound a little reluctant. You sound a little bit like a little hesitant. Are you concerned? There's no... Okay. Oh, good. Good. Yeah. Lock in. Lock in now. Let's see. These are two musical acts. I want you to see if you can spot the differences. Let's begin with Artist One. Here you go. Take it away. Mm-hmm. All right. Lots of denim pants and lots of Aquinette hair in this video. probably imagine so that's that's number one uh is this similar to this one uh let me know yeah let's do it right here there we go one of these two bands have in common

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Yeah. Yeah. Anything? Bueller? I'll tune this down. This headbanging is giving me a bit of a headache. Yeah. What are these... Then you should get a gold star already. Did you play them back to back? Yeah, it is. Yeah, I have experienced that through a number of songs that should never have been programmed together. That would be a colossal train wreck. So, yes, you're right. You know, the first one was Debbie Gibson, little bouncy teen from the mid to late 1980s that informed part of my youth. And then the Black Sabbath, of course, with the Oz Man and a little paranoia. And so I asked, what does Debbie Gibson and Black Sabbath have in common? Usually, they both got Lyme disease. No, no, no. They didn't. What? And no. Well, Debbie did, and I think Ozzie had to have several shots after he did bite the head off of a bat in Des Moines, Iowa. That is not, you know, a lot of people think that that is just old rock and roll lore, an old rock and roll wives tale. That happened. I believe it was in 1982 at a show in Des Moines, Iowa. So Lyme disease and rabies, no, not connected. This is it. Debbie. And Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath want you to adopt a beagle rescued from that experimental lab in Wisconsin. You see, two people that really have musically nothing in common, perhaps very little in common in their everyday lives. But they are. waging a campaign together collectively to get the word out about these poor little beagles out there. Pop star Debbie Gibson and Terry Geiser Butler. Hey, did Terry Geyser Butler do any solo work or was it all Black Sabbath for him? Yeah, I haven't either. He's a co-founder of the heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, but they are singing the same tune when it comes to sparing dogs from medical experiments. The unlikely pair, according to Fortune, came together Tuesday, not for a most unusual duet.

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Which, again, would be very interesting to see. But instead, to praise ongoing efforts to find new homes for roughly 1,500 beagles purchased from dog breeder and research facility, Riglin Farms, outside of Madison. And you know this story by now. It's kind of sad. It's set on a number of fronts. One is that there are some reports of some real awful treatment of these poor dogs, and this isn't the only site in America where beagles are tested upon. And that's happening. It is a legal thing. As a dog person, it kind of breaks your heart. But especially when they're violating the terms, what is allowed, and that has been the allegation, of course. But the other part of that is that I'm a little conflicted on. Some of this stuff... was amplified nationally because you had just one of the wackiest groups of animal rights activist. And some of them got destructive and, as I understand it, a little violent. And, you know, they need to be taken care of as well. If this company committed crimes against dogs, yeah, absolutely. I want to see justice served. But we can't allow... chaos. We can't allow lawlessness just because you don't like, and understandably so, the treatment of animals at a facility or from a company, whatever the case may be. You don't have a right to damage property, to trespass, and to do potentially more actual violent things. But anyway, at the end of the day, it's all about making sure that these pups have a home. And my understanding is that they have gone out across Wisconsin. I know the Dane County Humane Society has taken a number of the dogs in. I know some have been moved to other places in New York. And I believe across the Midwest, more close in the Midwest. And I do know this. My 16-year-old daughter, who would adopt every last shelter animal if we allowed that to take place, wants 1,400. No, let me take that back. Once 1,500 of the 1,500 beagles that are now being rescued. And again... You got to say no as a parent sometimes. But she really is hoping at our facility at the Humane Society that she will be able to adopt at least one. Good luck on that front. Five o'clock hours straight ahead. More to come. The Dan O'Donnell Show with Matt Kittle. Hang on.

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Oh, my goodness, do we have some potential for some nasty weather coming up? This was the headline that certainly got my attention today. Millions across 1,200 miles from Wisconsin to Texas under threat of monster hail as severe storms fire up. Oh, no, I just thought about this. Has anybody checked in with Sarah Godluski? If Hale is on the way, believe me, she's going to make another video. And it's all the Republicans' fault. I can't believe it is Hale. It's the size of golf balls. It's falling in my yard. This is climate change. Terrible Republicans. Okay. Sarah, maybe it's time to up the medication. More than 1,200-mile corridor from Wisconsin to Texas could see severe weather beginning Friday afternoon. That's today, with more than 7 million people under the greatest risk of seeing large hail. That's across Iowa and other parts of the Midwest and the Central Plains. Supercell thunderstorms, which I believe was the name of Eric Paulson's second. band and that that band jammed is that correct sir super cell thunderstorm kind of a mix of funk and disco and and polka which i thought wow that that's that is right there that's the holy trinity of of modern pop music Oh, yes. Lots of coffee and, uh, and, uh, what was it from the SCTV? Lots of coffee and, uh, the cucumber cake or whatever it was. Uh, but this big, I'll, I'll play it later. You, you know exactly what I mean. The Schengue brothers. You remember the Schmengue brothers? Okay, all right. Well, then here's your Friday treat coming up, a little bit of the Schmengue brothers. The cabbage rolls, that's right, the coffee and the cabbage rolls for that polka. Supercell thunderstorms are expected to develop during the early evening and into the overnight and could produce monster hail three inches in diameter in diameter. I think I just made up a meteorological term, or a measurement term, for that matter. And tornadoes. So keep it here. We will keep you posted on the potential weather right now. Fine, but as we've heard throughout the day, could have some severe weather coming up late night, overnight, and always make sure you're prepared. for that. The multi-day threat actually started Thursday now. It's sweeping up into the Midwest. Numerous severe thunderstorm warnings were issued across Texas and Oklahoma panhandles with wind gust of 70 miles per hour reported.

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Video on social media showed cloud-to-ground lightning during severe storms in southern Kansas. And again, what they're looking at here in this monster of a storm. system could indeed be some some pretty significant hail along with other portions of severe weather so just be advised of that and please please check on sarah godluski see if she's okay right now she's got to be terribly worried what else do we have coming up this hour oh yes indeed um Well, we're back to this again. Whoopee castration. Still haven't figured that one out quite yet, but we'll deal with that. And a vegan Texas senator. Is that possible? We'll check in. See how that's shaping up as well. But now, let us turn our attention to a little advice that I like to give to the kids coming up in. Love with baseball, just like I was when I was a kid. I got to tell you, this time of the year hit, and I wasn't home for days. I mean, I would be at Legion Field, and we would be tossing the ball. Any kid in the neighborhood who could stand up, who could, they didn't even have to be able to catch a ball. There were many of kids who used to play baseball who did not have that skill set, unfortunately. Any warm body in the neighborhood, we would drag them over to the field, to the diamond, and we would play baseball all summer long. And then, of course, we had, you know, the league play, the minor leagues, and the big leagues, and, you know, all of that sort of stuff. And that was summer. And, of course, I had very big dreams back those days that I was going to be the next Billy Williams or Robin Young. Yeah, I was going to play both outfield and infield. Maybe the Raleigh fingers. I was going to close as well and catch two. Like Mike Piazza. Yeah, I had big dreams, but I want to tell kids, you know, dreams don't always come true, and here's your scared straight program. Obviously, I am not playing Major League Baseball. It's decisions. I went down a dark, dark road, got into the world of political journalism and radio. Hence, did not have a chance to realize my noble dreams of playing Major League Baseball. That doesn't have to happen to you. You don't have to find yourself waking up one day trying to figure out what the hell a politician just said to you. You don't have to go through that struggle. You don't have to look a guy in the eye who is pushing some policy and see that he is full of cruple.

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Right away, just by his first couple of words. You don't have to go wrong like I did, political journalist. You can stay on the baseball track, but one thing you have to remember, if you want to be great, even if you want to play Major League Baseball, do me one favor. Stay out of the cockfighting. That will derail a career just like that. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen a good young prospect absolutely lose his goal, his dreams, because he got into the world of illegal cockfighting. Got himself involved in an illegal cockfighting ring, just like Dodgers pitcher Edwin Diaz. He's been linked to an illegal cockfighting ring in Puerto Rico, according to a report from USA Today. The outlet detailed multiple social media advertisements from a cockfighting club in Diaz's native Puerto Rico that featured Diaz's image, including several wearing a Dodgers jersey.

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Here's another thing. If you are going to go about committing crimes and you play for the Los Angeles Dodgers, don't wear your jersey while you're doing it because that's probably going to give you away. Story goes on to say that Edwin Diaz, who signed to a $69 million deal this past offseason with Los Angeles. This is a wage. This is a pretty good, comfortable living wage that he signed. He is apparently tied to the illegal cockfighting in Puerto Rico. The story also cited a March 10th news article from the island's largest newspaper, El Nuevo Dia. By the way, that's USA Today in Español. No, I think it's a new day. I'm not mistaken. If my two semesters of Platteville High School, Spanish are still paying off. Now, that includes a photo showing Diaz standing in the pit of a cockfighting arena, evidently during an off day amid the Springs World Series baseball classic. That's right. If you head to the World Baseball Classic, make sure you take in one of the island's great treats, and that is a traditional cockfight. While cockfighting is centuries old, is a centuries-old tradition in Puerto Rico, it was banned there when the United States federal government outlawed the practice in all of its territories in... 2019. Now, I was surprised by that. I really was. Just seven years ago, that's when the United States decided that the cockfighting in its territories would end. There would be no extension of cockfighting in the territories. That's when we had the whole Kansas-Nebraska thing, bleeding Kansas. No, it was seven years ago. You would think we have held on. These have been our possessions, our territories for some time. But no, it wasn't until seven years ago. And I'm told that cockfighting may be illegal, but the local authorities don't really turn a blind eye to it. Maybe a little cash peddled on the side. You know, just like that cockfighting ring that Kramer and Jerry got into with little Yerry, he was going to be something. He was going to be something. But yeah, this baseball player, great arm pitcher Edwin Diaz, has been linked to an illegal cock fighting ring in Puerto Rico.

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I'm not exactly sure what the fine will be, what the punishment will be. I don't know if the roosters were on performance enhancing drugs. This story is just developing, and we'll continue to follow it. But again, to the kids out there with a baseball dream, stay away, stay far away from the cockfighting. Coming up straight ahead, illegal growth. How Wisconsin grew last year and has grown in the last several years among... many states in this country. More on that, straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show with yours. Truly, Matt Kittle, stay with us. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day to day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer, an in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmer's Market. I need to be healthy every day to survive it and go through the next scheme around and the next scheme around. So it's important that work was part of that. to keep my mind busy for eight, nine hours. And then I had to go back and face the reality. I had a goal. And the goal is to survive. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing. Learn more and sign the pledge at working with cancer pledge.com. We are cruising right along on the Friday edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show. Didn't it seem like we just started here? And now we're, what, 35 minutes and wrapping this thing up? Good thing I got the big gulp today. Ah! This filling in stuff. I can work up a man-sized thirst. Kittle here, you are there. It's time to do a little something I call, educate Eric Paulson. We were talking about the Schmengue brothers. Were you a big fan of SCTV producer, Eric? Okay, yeah. All right. Well, then that's fair. You wouldn't? Sure. They had all kinds of hilarious characters. I've often said this. Canada has done some horrible things to us. I mean, they gave us Justin Bieber. Okay? And really... Yeah, Celine Dayonne, indeed. And I've often said, I want reparations for that, but they also gave us John Candy and Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara and Dave Thomas and the rest of the guys, with great characters. Among them, the Schmengi Brothers, also known as the Happy Wanderers. You'll remember this. Again, compliments of SCTV.

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I'm your Schmengi. And I'm Stan Schmengi. And we are the happy wanderers. Oh, get ready for you. Your coffee and your cabbage rolls. Oh, look at these happy, happy, happy old geysers. I'm telling you. I don't know where these guys are from necessarily. Welcome to another exciting half hour of the Happy Wanderers. We got a great show lined up for you this evening. Oh, there's going to be excitement and prizes for you. Oh, and let's not forget our special guest, a former member of the Happy Wonders, who left the band to seek his own fame and fortune. The band knows who we're talking about it. He is, of course, the one and only, Lynch Minion. They didn't get to the cabbage rolls and coffee yet, but I don't, their wardrobe, John Candy was one of the shmengies, and Eugene Levy was the other, and it was kind of like the, the broader polka version of the Lawrence Welk show, but, you know, probably seen at... inopportune times on PBS. Anyway, good stuff from SCTV. I told you about this before. I wanted to get to it today. It's how we are growing as a state here in Wisconsin, and frankly how a lot of states are seeing population growth. it probably will not come as a huge surprise how some states are growing population-wise.

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That's the answer to the question. Yeah, it's in this story right here. Thank you, Genesis, Phil Susan Collins. That particular music, video and song from 1983 in this day and age with the radical left. I'm sure they have some problems with that particular song and that particular video. There is an interesting story here from Spectrum News 1. It says Wisconsin gained nearly 16,000 residents from July 24 to July 2025. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its latest population change estimates for the Badger State. Again, just about, well, Wisconsin gained 15,619 residents, 15,619 residents, including 1,161 from natural change, more births than deaths, and 14,244 from immigration, international and domestic. Over the five years from April 1st, 2020 to July 1st, 2025, Wisconsin gained 78,464 residents. So over that five-year period, north of 75,000 people. That's not gangbuster rates, but it's not declining population, certainly. But that number, 78,464 includes 1,022 from natural change and 77,328 from migration, international and domestic. How much of that is coming from international, do you think? And how much of that is coming from domestic from illegal immigrants who are... Coming in to the border and going to places across the country, including right here in Wisconsin. We have seen it play out, particularly over a four-year span during the Biden administration's border invasion. Dane County continues to lead the state in growth. Probably not surprising. Dane County added 4,050 residents from 2024 to 25. 28,868 from 2020 to 2025. Milwaukee County lost 107 residents from 224 to 2025. And over the last five years, saw 15,280 residents go by by. Lost 15,000 plus. The story includes a look at the counties. But again, over a year, Wisconsin grew by a very small percentage. 16,000 residents. The vast majority.

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of those gains came from migration, international and domestic. That's what's driving a lot of places. You can see that certainly in Sunbelt states like Florida and in Texas and in Tennessee and some others. You also see... massive amounts of residents from Illinois and California and New York, highly taxed high crime states that have seen under their sanctuary policies is an explosion in illegal aliens, in their communities, in their states. And because taxpayers are picking up the tab for all kinds of social programs, they become magnets for that. That is what Tony Evers has tried to do over his eight years. Make this a magnet for illegal aliens. Democrats, though not in power in the legislature, have done everything in their power to do so. And when they can't do it at the state level, they definitely do it. at the city and county level where they control things. That's where it was heading. There's been an interruption, however. This now from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, sometimes, what was the old song back in the 1980s from the fix, saved by zero? I think that song relates here. The headline from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Trump administration delivers a full year of zero releases at the border, a full year. Twelve straight months of zero releases at the border under President Donald Trump's leadership, we are delivering the most secure border in American history, said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. The days of catch and release are over. We are enforcing the nation's laws and sending illegal aliens back to their home countries. How about that? First of all, following the rule of law, enforcing the laws on the books when it comes to immigration, and stopping the flood of people who came in. over the four years of the Biden administration, millions upon millions of people who were allowed in on some sort of really twisted asylum claim, who were allowed in because they were again caught at the border and released via the Biden administration policy. Those policies are done. And we are going to see the results of that further down the road. We're going to see the results of that in less strained social programs that we've seen used across the country to pay for the influx of illegal immigrants.

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We're going to see that across the country in places where Americans are having a difficult time getting hired because, well, you have companies that are hiring illegal immigrants at a much cheaper rate. Oh, but if you don't have the illegal immigrants here, who's going to do the hard work? Americans have done the hard work. They will do the hard work. Crime is a significant issue and has been growing and growing as well. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release says the sustained decline in illegal border crossings and apprehensions, now it levels not seen in over three decades. shows the impact of robust enforcement policies. Again, how about that? Enforce the law. What a difference that makes. Daily apprehensions, down 95% from the previous administration and 15 consecutive months of fewer than 9,000 southwest border apprehensions. The border remains more secure than at any point in history. I don't think that's just hyperbole. But again, Our experience has been clouded by what we went through in the Biden administration. But these are remarkable figures. And I want you to remember something. We were told by Joe Biden and Democrats for years. Well, we need to change the immigration laws. We need immigration reform. Our hands are tied. What can we do if we don't get fundamental change to our immigration laws? This is what you can do with the laws on the books. Yeah, here is a bold, bold step to take. Enforce the existing laws. Not only that, as the numbers reflect, illegal immigrants aren't coming here with expectation. Joe Biden said as much even before he became president of the United States in 2021. Before he was inaugurated, he said effectively, we can take in two million people more than that. And I don't see why we shouldn't. And then they went about doing just that, except, of course, that two million was just a starting point. So the cleanup continues, but 12 straight months of zero releases at the border, catch and release is over, you may see some things change in that small percentage growth we're seeing in places like Wisconsin and population. And that has everything to do with enforcing immigration laws. We'll take a quick break. I've got to get to this story about whoopee castration. We'll figure that out. And a vegan Texas senator among others. That's straight ahead. As we get ready to close down this Friday edition of the Dan O'Donnell Show with Matt Kittle. Stay with us. Pardon me. Getting her done! It's a Dan O'Donnell show. Last segment here and now.

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On the Friday edition, your old radio amigo, Matt Kittle, how do you do? You still have about, oh, I'd say, 10, 11 minutes to get in on the spring green cash contest. The key word this hour in our nationwide spring green cash contest is B-I-L-L-S bills, as in $1,000 could help take care of some of my bills. But it's the weekend, and I'm going to blow it on frills, which is not the keyword. The keyword is B-I-L-L-S. Take that keyword to the website of the fine radio station you are listening to enter it where it tells you to do so. The keyword again, Bills in our spring green cash contest. Good luck to you. I hope we have a winner on this show. All right. I had said before, I've found it. The mystery is solved. I had on my show notes today a lot of things. I get down to about 545 and what I have noted in that, this segment. Whoopee castration. whoopee as in W-H-O-O-O-O-P-I, Whoopi Goldberg. You know that friendly, happy-go-lucky host of the view? Whoopi? I was wondering what the hell I was talking about with whoopee castration, and now I know what it is. Greg Gutfield, Fox News, has some very interesting thoughts about Whoopi Goldberg and her recent comment. that Trump is, quote, castrating America. Can we get a little of that audio from Greg? Whoopi accuses Trump of castrating America. Sorry, Whoopi. Guys stopped getting erections around you years before Trump got into office. Do not blame him for your dateless weekends. Who is she comparing Trump to? Emily went over all of his achievements. But you have to look at how world leaders react to him. You think no one's in charge of the United States. Trump's in charge of the U.S. And it looks like whenever he's around world leaders, he's in charge of them, too. They treat him like a rock star. The only people being deballed in this country are the children of liberals who trans them for virtue points. True enough. Greg Gutfield, playing a little clip from his show last night. the segment termed or themed deballed as a nation, responding to Whoopi Goldberg's comment on the view that Trump is castrating America. Again, to Greg's broader point, if you are serious about practicing abstinence, get yourself a lot of video of Whoopi Goldberg.

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That will help you along the way. The other story I have here is the president. I think he's bound from China, China, where he met with Xi Jinping. And there's all kinds of contrary reporting on just how well that visit went. He was dealing with the head of the Communist Party. communist China. So my hunch is whatever was said from the leader of China, unless it was something important to China, was a lie to Trump. That's how the communists typically work. But nonetheless, President Donald Trump slammed Texas Democrat Senate. nominee, James Talarico, over his bizarre beliefs about gender, Christianity, and meet James Talarico, of course. You know what? He always reminds me of the...

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Church of Latter-day Saints kids who would come around in their suits and then try to have a conversation, knock on the door, have a conversation. I don't know if he has shaved yet. I don't believe so, based on the footage that I've seen, but man, he has said some wacky, wacky things, and he is the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senator in Texas. This is what the Trumpster had to say about James Talarico. I think the Democrats have a weird, a weird candidate. six genders, a real hit on Jesus. I mean, this guy, his manned, with his mask from relatively recently, and he's a vegan, all of a sudden, he's not a vegan, he's not a vegan, he's not. Texas doesn't like vegans. I do believe either one of them will easily quit the race. I think that, for the The candidate the Democrats have in Texas is a very flawed, very weak, very weak. I think he's a pathetic candidate, especially for Texas. You don't like meat in Texas. That can be tough. I love how Trump says vegan. That guy's a crazy vegan. Calarico has been taking serious heat. Ever since he won the Democrat nomination, critics pointed to old and new comments the candidate made that might make one question whether he belongs in a mental institution rather than on the campaign trail. At least that according to Jeff Charles. He did. That's right. Absolutely. Trump made vegan rhyme with bacon. Vegan. Bacon. See what I'm saying? Vegan, bad. Bacon good. Mm-hmm. I see that. Genius. Jeff Charles wrote this, by the way. And it was published in town hall to give credit where credit is due. It goes on, the column goes on to say, Talariko has often touted his Christian faith as an influence on how he views public policy. In another 2021 speech in the Texas legislature, he railed against a GOP-sponsored bill barring gender-affirming care for minors. The candidate argued that God is non-binary, if you remember that classic clip. And, yeah, he's had some trouble with the vegan stuff, as Trump would put it.

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There is more, yes. The reason why people mock Talariko for being a vegan is because of an April 22 event in which the candidate urged Texans to cut back on their meat consumption because if they don't, climate change will burn us all to death in a gigantic fireball or something. James Talarico also boasted about running a non-meat campaign, which of course sparked mockery and backlash against his silliness. And it is really not advised. Perhaps there is a campaign consultant out there that can sit Mr. Talariko down and say, um, You do know that this is like steer country, right? This is Barbecue Central, my man. You want to win in Texas. Even the vegans. in Texas, eat a half rack of ribs every day. Because it's in not just the Texas Constitution, but their own personal constitutions. I have a relative who lives in and around the Austin area. And he is single-handedly keeping Austin weird. But he has been up and... When he does, we all look forward to the trip, not just because he's a nice guy, but because he brings up, there is a place in the Austin area, this barbecue place, they have like the Fred Flintstone-style rack of ribs, and they have the kind of barbecue mustard kind of sauce, you know, with a real kick to it. And you slather that on the ribs, and oh, mama, mercy, mercy me. He brought up ribs, he brought up sausages, he brought up chops, all this. It was like a bouquet of beef and pork products, and it was absolutely delightful. This guy is by no means, the guy I'm talking about is by no means your run-of-the-mill conservative, moderate maybe, kind of a guns rights leftist, if you will. I think he could tell James Talarico a thing or two. Hey, man, you want to campaign for Senate. Stop talking about cutting out the meat. That ain't going to play here. One final thing before we said ado. Yes, I do believe I do. The Port-a-Pottie story, NYC construction worker, catapulted. Out of defective port-a-potty, claims wounds destroyed his sex life. A queen's construction worker was suddenly catapulted. That's the term that really gets my attention. Out of a port-a-potty while using it, leaving him with injuries that caused a big stink in the bedroom.

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A new lawsuit claims. I always love how these stories are written. Steve Gressay and his wife, Janet, are suing the portable toilet firm rent-a-throne, alleging the defective John destroyed his sex life and left him flush with sky-high medical bills. There is something entirely unattractive, something that takes away the libido when one thinks about poop. sprayed all over them. We got to go. Make it a great weekend. Kittle's saying goodbye. So long. God bless. If you're someone who's tracking your sleep, your steps, and your macros, then you already know that what you eat is kind of everything. You should also know that Sprouts Farmer's Market can help make eating for longevity easier. Sprouts has all the high-quality, nutrient-dense, organic foods and cutting-edge supplements you need. So whether you're focused on protein, gut health, or optimizing how you feel day-to-day, it's all there. And here's what no other grocery store can offer. An in-store wellness expert to help you find exactly what you need. So whether you're after longevity or on any other health journey, it's easier at Sprout's Farmers Market. I need to be healthy every day to survive it and go through the next chem around and the next came around. So it's important that work was part of that to keep my mind busy for eight, nine hours. And then I had to go back and face the reality. I had a goal. And the goal is to survive. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing. Learn more and sign the pledge at working with cancer pledge.com.