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A lot of the show yesterday was devoted to severe weather coverage as we, saw , a couple of rounds of storms make their way through much of southern Wisconsin, bringing with them tornadoes, strong straight line winds, a whole lot of lightning and thunder, heavy rains, flooding and hail hail that got to the size of a baseball in some spots, hail that was so severe that it was taking out windshields across the state. We had one listener text in that he actually hurt his hand when a baseball sized hailstone fell on it . Hail of course will form when storms get severe when there are atmospheric conditions that will produce hail. It is not particularly unheard of to have hailstones the size of two to three inches . They can get that big the size of a golf ball . Well , someone needs to tell Wisconsin's secretary of state. Sarah Godluski, while the storm was blowing through , recorded a video apparently at her house in Madison in which she appeared absolutely mystified by the concept of hail. Republicans say we don't have climate change, but this is golf ball size hail in my front yard . This is not normal and we can't keep ignoring our environment . I don't even know what to say. Oh wait, yes, I do. She has no earthly idea what she's talking about. So this video that she posted herself to social media, and I'm telling you folks, there is nobody more cringe in Wisconsin on social media than Sarah Godlusky. Secretary of State is a position just like state treasurer that has no real official duties , and you might remember if you follow politics very, very carefully, very closely that God lusky was actually rewarded when she stepped down from being the other useless position in this state , state treasurer in twenty twenty two to run for the United States Senate . She was rewarded by Governor Evers when she dutifully dropped out because the party wanted to coalesce around Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barn with the role of Secretary of State. She didn't run for it, she didn't win an election. Dougla Fallet won his four hundred seventy fifth consecutive term as Secretary of State and then immediately retired. Governor Evers rewarded God Luski with a statewide position and without ever having to get her confirmed by the Senate just sort of named her secretary of state. It was a rather obvious quid pro quo in exchange for dropping out. No, no, no, Democrats have insisted for four years now. She was just the most qualified person who just happened to do a big, big favor for the Democrat Party several months earlier. So Gotlusky is also running for lieutenant governor and there, to my knowledge is no other serious Democrat candidate. We still have some time before nomination signatures are due, but she is going to be the Dem nominee very likely for Lieutenant Governor. She clearly wants to run for higher office . I am told that she is either biding her time until Tammy Baldwin retires or if Ron Johnson doesn't run for Senate again, which is very likely. He's up in twenty thirty that she just wants to be in the statewide eye so that she can run against Johnson or more accurately, she would run against I don't know, Brian style if Johnson doesn't run again. She would very likely, I should say, run against Johnson again if he runs again, but I don't think there's anybody who expects Johnson to run for yet another term after I believe he pledged way way back in the day to only serve one term and that's two terms ago in any event Sarah Godluski is a gold mine of cringe on social media . She posts stuff like this semi regularly, but this one actually made national news. I mean, this is getting attention across X . Conservatives just making fun of her, of course, and even people who follow climate science are telling her, hey, Sarah , Hail actually is totally normal. By the way, by the way, you can tell this is completely phony because of the way she gets herself up into a high dudgeon . She sounds almost hysterical. She says, This is not normal . And then at the very end, if you hear her voice sort of drops at the very last word as she's about to say to whoever it is that's filming this for her, most likely her husband cut . Listen to this, listen to this. Listen to how she goes from hysterical over the climate change that's going to kill us all with golf ball sized hailstones too and I'm done. Republicans say we don't have climate change, but this is golf ball sized hail in my front yard. This is not normal and we can't keep ignoring our environment. Do you hear at the end, when she says environment, this is not normal and we can't keep ignoring our environment. She goes from hysterical to calculated polit ician in like zero point two seconds. And it's fantastic. Well I sort of was responsible for her becoming a national laughing stock today as I was the one who posted the video loyal listener by the name of Gregory, not R Gregory John , but he goes by wild Gregory on X had the video that he took from her Facebook reels and I posted that video from Gregory's account. Thank you very much Gregory and it just blew up from there. I mean, it's been on libs of TikTok. I believe Fox News picked it up. It's just been everywhere . Now, as a result , the chairman of the Wisconsin Democrat Party, Devin Remaker tried to come to Sarah Godlusky's defense and say well this is not a this is a disingenuous post by Mr. O'Donnell, but Sarah is actually right on the science that golf ball sized hail is not normal He and God LuSki and anybody who thinks that anything that has been happening with respect to our weather over the last couple of days, has anything to do with long term climate trends is insane . Hail size is not determined by climate change . Hail size is determined by several factors that are independent of broader climate trends and are instead dependent on atmos pheric conditions in a specific storm . Extremely large hail, according to No ah , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association requires specific intense ingredients inside a supercell thunderstorm like we had last night . It needs a very strong wide and persistent updraft often over a hundred miles an hour to suspend growing hailstones for ten to fifteen minutes while they accrete super cooled water . In other words, you need to have very, very high winds pushing up that are keeping the hailstones suspended so they are getting bigger and bigger and bigger they eventually fall . You also, according to Noah, need optical optimal levels of super cooled liquid water content in a specific temperature zone . And then you need proper hail trajectories and a strong vertical wind shear to organize and sustain the rotating updraft. Now you'll notice that all of those are taking place within the individual storm , within an individual localized area . Did single spot that saw severe weather last night get hailstones the size of golf balls or hailstones the size of baseballs. No, they did not. In fact, some areas didn't get any hail at all. According to Noah , these are highly localized, chaotic processes inside individual storms . A single supercell can produce golf ball or even softball size hail on one day, while a nearly ident ical looking storm nearby produces only pea sized hail. Climate change operates on global or continental scales over decades. It doesn't dial up the precise updraft strength with or hail embryo pathways needed for monster hail in any given severe storm. Now, at this point , true believers in the climate change narrative may say, well Dan , Dan . That may be true, but the long term trends are that we are seeing way bigger hailstones than we've ever seen before and that is true. Do you know why we are seeing way bigger hailstones than we have ever seen before ? Because there are more people looking bigger hailstones . It is known as reporting bias. Yes, the number of hail reports has in fact risen dramatically since the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties , but this tracks with population growth better radar awareness, meaning we can better pinpoint the conditions that will produce bigger hail. And more importantly, we have way more spotters on the ground. We now have these things in our hands at any given moment called smart phones , which can record pretty much anything at any given time. We also have social media so you are seeing pictures instantly of golf ball or baseball sized hail. We're not necessarily seeing any actual storm changes. In fact , the National Weather Service and the Federal Government Noah all say they both say that there is low confidence in this idea that we are seeing stronger, more intense storms than we ever have before because of any longer term climate change factors . Rather, we are getting a whole lot of report ing bias . And here in Wisconsin, this notion that you're going to get severe thunderstorms that occur more often or that they're more intense than they ever have been before is also debunked by the data . Every single year Wisconsin on average will see about thirty to forty days that have a thunderstorm. Theouther sn part s of the state, Milwaukee, Madison typically sees more thunderstorm activity than northern parts of the state. Severe thunderstorm season begins in what month Everybody say it with me April Thunderstorm season typically runs from April through November. The peak months are as you would expect J,une , July and August. May also sees a significant number of thunderstorms typically. April is firmly part of this active window . Not only that , in case you're wondering whether tornadoes are getting earlier and earlier in the season. We're seeing more tornadoes and tornadoes in colder months like April where we wouldn't normally expect tornadoes. No , that's wrong too. Wisconsin typically sees at least one tornado per month in the month of April , at least in data going back to nineteen ninety one . Once again , we are seeing reporting biases. We are seeing more people reporting and taking down data and just going out and recording thunderstorms and tornadoes. Hey, look in the background. There's a funnel cloud there because of social media, because we are seeing more and more and more storms on our screens. We have a tendency to believe that there are more storms than there ever have been before . If you look, however, going back decades at objective metrics like the number of severe thunderstorms that were issued by the National Weather Service or the number of days that produced a thunderstorm or hail , we are firmly in the normal range , which is variable of how many thunderstorms and how severe those thunderstorms are . Yes, in April of twenty twenty five, we did have a particularly strong and particularly active thunderstorm month . We had the most warnings since twenty eleven . Do you know what year holds the record for most thunderstorm warnings in the month of April in Wisconsin . According to the National Weather Service, it is April of two thousand two You would think if there was a long term trend , an observable objective trend that we are seeing and stronger thunderstorms, more tornadoes in the month of April in particular that the most thunderstorm warnings that we would have, something that is actually objective and actually verifiable would be in twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five or we would see a clear trendline. No , the most by far is April of twenty twenty two. I believe second most is sometime in nineteen ninety two, nineteen ninety three , somewhere in there . It's variable . That's the point. Weather happens . It's not because of some broad based long term trend that Sarah G odluski can blame on Republicans just like yesterday when you have tornadoes dropping out of the sky seemingly at random, severe weather events can pop up at a moment's notice they can get very severe , not because of broader long term trends in the climate, but because of what the weather happens to be in a given day. Anyone, whether they're hysterically screeching on their social media just saying in casual conversation that you know storms are getting worse here in Wisconsin because the climate is changing, you can tell them that simply isn't supported by the Dana. You're listening to the Dano Donald Show. We're coming right back after this . You think the brewers were wishing that they didn't have the roof on American family field . They get shall act again, sixth consecutive defeat for your Milwaukee brewers as they go down to the defending American League champion Toronto Bluejays, it was a blown save by Trevor McGill and Brewers manager Pat Murphy was very mad that Brew ers fans were booing McGale but the fans booing him after he saved thirty games for this team, a kid that's been through all that he's been through and what he did the year before for us to help us win the division and then what he did last year and then came out with an arm injury and still pitched and pitched one of the biggest innings of the game five and for them to be booing them up there that',s just not best fans. That's for sure. We have the great fans . But let's remind them of that. Are they okay to be disappointed, but sometimes young men go through tough stuff? I was disappointed in that those people wouldn't support him when he's going through that stuff. Does he probably care? No is it expected? That's fine. But let's not be these aren't machines out there. These are people . And I thought that was in poor taste . What's in poor taste is losing six straight games and I've been hearing all day. I had to run around I had. a dentist appo intment this morning. I had to run some errands. Yes, unfortunately , I will be gone for the next couple of days. We're doing our Dan O'Donnell show European Adventure. I'm taking a group of listeners to Prague great partners at cruise and tour cruise dash tour . com so I had to get a lot of I'm listening to sports talk radio and news talk radio and they're literally debating whether it's okay to boo the home team . Are you kidding me ? In Philadelphia, they hurl snowballs with batteries at them. They booed Santa Claus. Now the Philly fans get a bad rep for that. The Santa Claus they booed. This was back in the eighties, I believe, mid nineteen eighties. He showed up drunk and he was a terrible Santa Claus . They were absolutely right for booing Santa Claus. And yes, Trevor McGill was f antastic last year , but when you've lost five straight games and your closer's in the process of blowing game number six , yes, it is always appropriate to boo . These guys are making millions and millions and millions of dollars playing in a stadium I might remind you that is financed and the repairs to said stadium were financed by our taxpayer dollars . If , they should have a random fan go on the mic and talk smack to Trevor McGill during a particularly bad outing if they want, just so that we get our money's worth spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build American family field. They were actually debating if it's okay to boo I get Milwaukee nice. I get Midwest nice, but come on, if you can't boo after like fifteen way overpriced miller lights because you're gonna go home to another brewer's loss. When is it okay to boo ? I've booed my kids in little league games for goodness sake. That was the coach , I was the coach can swung and mist at a ball on the tee. Of course I'm going to boot. I'm kidding. I didn't actually do that. We do have coming up in the five o'clock hour a fascinating story about youth sports at the AAU level. This is amateur athletic basketball. Everybody I think knows AAU and a tournament in Milwaukee that isn't just playing games on school days , it is charging truly obscene prices for parents to go and watch their kids play basketball. We're going to get into that. When we come back, though, we're going to dive into a particularly defiant hearing today by the Department of Public Instruction over its infamous water park retreat. Back in just a second. O'Donnell be right back . If you've ever marketed a product or business, you know how much attention it takes to break through. But our nation's two hundred fiftieth is a rare moment that cuts through the noise. 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Read it before seeing the thrilling film adaptation starring Micah Munroe, Thomas and McKenzie and Jason Isaacs in theater september twenty fifth, Victorian Psycho wherever books are sold . Coming up next hour, do you remember when Lake Country Classical Academy it rejected a turning point USA chapter? This was in the fall shortly after the death of Turning Point's founder Charlie Kirk, who of course was a sass inated on september tenth , now it appears that Hillsdale College, which is the very, very popular conservative university, which essentially is the parent organization of Lake Country Classical Academy . It sure sounds like they are extorting Lake Country Classical Academy if they don't fire the board president and the executive director at a board meeting tonight . We will dive into that coming up in the four o'clock hour it is a wild story and I actually can scarcely believe that Hillsdale put these rather explicit threats that they're just going to end the affiliation with Lake Country Classical in writing . We'll get into that. Plus, it is tax day to day today and as has become tradition here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, we will bust a whole lot of myths that the left has created about who pays what in income taxes, what corporations are and are not paying. I swear on everything holy. Social media is not just listening to the things I say but actually following the things I write down because I have seen like five different Elizabeth War ren tweets today in which she is just serving me up softballs, saying that corporations pay no income tax, the rich don't pay their fair share , all of that. First, though , meeting today in a legislative committee. This is the State Assembly's Committee on Governmental Operations, Accountability and Transparency , they hauled in Jill Underlee. Now this was an informational meeting , but they did request that Underley show up to explain how exactly DPI did not violate open meetings law with its super secret water park resort getaway at which they unilaterally changed students standards on the statewide forward exam test that lowered said standards to make it look like Wisconsin's K twelve students were doing a lot better than they were. They spent three hundred sixty eight thousand dollars in taxpayer money that was just completely unknown. Nobody knew about this until the Derryland Sentinel following a year of obstruction and delays in getting open records to the Derryland Sentinel broke the story a few months ago. It became a huge scandal and now our friends at the Institute for Reforming Government have filed an action against the DPI alleging that this was a violation of Wisconsin's open meetings laws. So Jill Underley, the state superintendent, the head of the Department of Public Instruction or DPI , well, she's just unavailable for the hearing today. You might remember the last time she was called before the state legislature , she coincidentally had to be out of the state to accept an award by her grade school . Her grade school in Ohio was giving her a distinguished alum award so she couldn't show up to testify on the I believe it was the sex abuse . There are so many scandals with respect to DPI and public schools in Wisconsin. It's difficult to keep track of them . This is an accountability scandal. So she sent a functionary by the name of Andrew Heyer Booth . He is the legisl ative liaison for the Department of Public Instruction, and tell me if this guy does not sound like the ultimate government bureaucrat . We want to ensure elected officials have a solid understanding of how agency operations and procedures our mission to advance equitable, transformative and sustainable educational experience. Okay my producer has already fallen asleep. Doug Doug w,ake up budd,y. Wake up . We need to go to commercial break in a second . I swear Jill Underley sent Andrew Heyer Booth specifically because he is so b oring his cadence is so boring. He makes Ben Stein sound like Sam Kinnissen . He was even in the calming dulcet monotone of Andrew Heyer Booth , shockingly defiant . Listen to what he says if you can get through to the good . You want to ensure elected officials have a solid understanding of how agency operations and procedures support our mission to advance equitable, transformative and sustainable educational experience that develop learners, schools, libraries and communities in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, this committee's desire to discuss the standard setting and benchmarking process for the forward exam is a distraction from that mission and is repetitive to numerous prior legislative hearings on the same topic. Now you might have slipped into a coma halfway through that thirty five second soundbite , but what Mr Heyer Booth was saying is we are far too busy educating children to have to come before the legislature and answer your questions . He's the legislative freaking liaison. It is his job to work with the legislature , but because this committee just how dare they want to get to the bottom of why it is DPI told absolutely nobody and made everybody in involved this waterpark retreat sign a non disclosure agreement. It's just in case you forgot. This was in June of twenty twenty four. You have eighty eight different bureaucrats. I would love to see Andrew Heyer Booth at this Chula Vista resort meeting . You know this guy has got the big white slab of sunscreen on his nose . He's got like the sleeveless t shirt and he's wearing socks with sandals as he's getting his chair ready next to the lazy river . He honest to goodness said we're far too busy educating kids poorly, I might add . That just blows me away . You've got to get through dull Tony Evers que cadence , but that was a real slap in the face. And that came right at the beginning of his prepared remarks at the beginning of this hearing this afternoon . So DPI gets together eighty eight different bureaucrats , they somehow spend three hundred sixty eight thousand dollars at the Chula Vista resort, which is some feat because they were probably getting the government hotel rate which is sign,ificant ly cheaper than what the Chula Vista would normally be charging. Now, I know the Chula Vista has an all inclusive option where you can get food and drinks included. You get full water park amenities . I'm taking a wild guess at least some of these bureaucrats were getting massages and other things. What they were there to do was to change how the forward exam measures proficiency , measures whether someone is at grade level in terms of math or English language arts skills. What they did was lower those standards. For example, the forward exam immediately after the changes were made unilaterally, even Tony Evers , even Democrat Evers said he would not have changed the test scores like this . Immediately after those scores were changed , it showed that fourth graders in Wisconsin , fifty two percent of them were proficient in English, fifty two percent . It was fake . The national testing Standards, the NAEP, came out a short time later, and found that just thirty three percent of Wisconsin's fourth graders were actually proficient in English language arts. The forward exam was either made to be easier or what's known as the cut scores were made to essentially juice the numbers so it looked like more students were proficient or at grade level when they actually weren't . Now, as I said, the Institute for Reforming Government just filed an action in Adams County Circuit Court. The Chula Vista is located in Adams County. I believe the rest of the dells, parts of the dells are in Adams County, parts of the dells are in what is it? Soak County. This is part in Adams County. So they filed an action yesterday in order to we actually had the exclus ive before they even filed the suit to basically hold that they violated the open meetings law because the meeting here, which was clearly public business was not properly noticed . There was no public notice, like, hey, we're going to make this massive change that's going to impact every single kid in public education in the state of Wisconsin and we think the public should be, you know, at least aware that this is going on. There were no meeting notes, there were no notes whatsoever. There were no documents. Everybody involved had to sign an NDA . So what was Mr. Heyer Booth's excuse for this ? Well, we contracted with a private company so they weren't subject to the open meetings law, and we needed to have those NDAs because the test questions that the kids would be taking are so super secret. The work in June of twenty twenty four to establish cut scores was part of the DPI's contract with DRC . DRC is an external vendor and private company, not a governmental body subject to Wisconsin's open meeting laws. Yeah, but all of the people who were public employees are working in conjunction with DPI , they absolutely are subject to the open meetings law. It was DRC's responsibility to complete the work outlined in its contract with the department . As such, DRC hosted the convening in the Wisconsin Dells in the summer of twenty twenty four to set standards and establish Cut scores for the forward exam . The DPI provided consultation and support to this external vendor in all areas of the contract when requested . It's important to remember that educators participating in the standard setting meeting were reviewing confidential proprietary test questions. These are questions that can appear on future state assessments in classroom s all across the state . DRC incorporated best practices to protect the credibility of future assessment results and safeguard taxpayer expenses. What he's saying there, again, you got to get past the boring Benstein esque c adence here . But what he's saying is that we needed to have these people sign NDAs, not because we knew that we were frittering away hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money on our selves to treat ourselves to a luxurious Chula Vista weekend getaway , but because the kids might figure out what some of the new questions are on the Wisconsin forward exam , so we have to have these people because there might be some second graders somewhere who would check out the meeting notes of this meeting and figure out that they're going to ask me is two plus two, four or five on the upcoming forward exam. Seriously, that is their story and apparently they're sticking to it that these are proprietary test questions and if they were to fall into the wrong hands like some miscreant seventh grader , well then the entire thing would be ruined . When I say this guy was shockingly defiant , I mean he was shockingly defiant. DPI absolutely does not believe that you as a taxpayer, you as the parent of kids who are taking this rigged exam , have any right to know exactly what they were spending your money on and exactly how they decided to unilaterally change the scores again , not to make the test more rigorous, but rather to make it look like Wisconsin school children were doing a lot better than they were. That was the entire point of this meeting. That's why they are so jealously guarding all of the secrets that were apparently going on here. It's not how many crab legs Jill Underley was able to squeeze into her mouth at the all inclusive resort while she was going down the lazy river. It's because they don't want you to know that the entire purpose of this was to make it seem like Wisconsin's kids were doing better when they weren't . This is the ent irety of Jill Underley's tenure at DPI summed up in a nutshell. Remember, she unilaterally changed years ago how district and school report cards were doing so that far more schools were given passing grades. In fact, there was one year, I believe it was two years ago that not a single school or school district got a failing grade. It was not a single school district, even MPS . National standards show MPS is dead last in the nation in educating black students according to the NAEP standards according to those scores , but it's still got a passing grade by Jill Underley. It's to make MPS look better to make it look like Underley and DPI are doing a better job than they actually If you've ever marketed a product or business, you know how much attention it takes to break through. But our nation's two hundred fiftieth is a rare moment that cuts through the noise. And with seventy seven percent of Americans saying it's an appropriate time to celebrate, your business has a green light to show up for our nation's big birthday party. 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Hillsdale College threatening to end its affili ation with Lake Country Classical Academy , unless at a board meeting this evening, LCCA does not fire its board president and eliminate its newly created executive director position. We will dive into that story coming up a little bit later on here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. You can read it right now. I just posted it on social media on my page on X at Dan on O'Dnell's Show there. I am also on facebookfacebook. com slash Dan O'Donald Show and you can find me on the Gram Instagram as well Dan Odd Show. If you'd like to join the program Carpetland USA toll free Talk and te xt line for one four seven nine nine eleven thirty email me DOD at iHeart Media dot com Let's get right into it Lot of stuff going on in Washington DC, today it is your, daily Trump day. We're gonna win so much you may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration . It's also a big win for the United States. We have to keep winning. We have to win war . We're gonna win more . An interview that the president recorded with Maria Barturomo on Fox Business aired this morning, Bartiromo asked the President about the possibility that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell might not actually resign as board chair when his term is up next month. He said he's not leaving if you know Well, then I'll have to fire him. Okay. If he's not leaving on time, I've held back firing him. I've wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial , you know? I want to be uncontroversial. Yes, if there's one thing President Trump does not want to be contro itvers's ial. There's the one thing that he avoids at all costs. It is controversy. I kid, I kid because I love but to confirm. Do you think Tom Tellis is going to give you a won't have to find out he might not, but that's why Tom Tillis is no longer a senator. On the air Tom Tillis is no longer a senator, right? Well, he's on his way out. Well, no, he quit, but he quit. And I think like a dog , he doesn't want the legacy of stopping great a person who could be great. I think Kevin Worsch is going to be great. Agreed. He doesn't want the legacy of having an incompetent guy stay there. You know know, you Trump wanted to say so badly . He resigned he resigned just like a dog. The president did provide an update on the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and Operation Epic Fury and Chast ised NATO for its lack of help. You know, we've had no help, zero from NATO . We're there for them, they're not there for us. We spend, you saw the chart that came out a couple of days ago with a big monster red ball. That was us and all these little satellite balls and it represented the money spent on military and NATO and it's ridiculous. And they should have been better. They should have said, we'll send somebody. It's a small operation compared to a big operation , but NATO was not there for us . And what it means is if they're not there for us here, they're not going to be there for us. So why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO if they're not going to be with us? If they're not going to be with us on Iran, they're not going to be with us on a much bigger subject than Iran . He's absolutely right. And why should we be with them say on continually funding or selling arms with the Russia Ukraine war . I mean this is this is the thing that just absolutely galls me about the European allies. They're the first ones to scream and cry about America not footing the bill for pretty much , but the second we ask half of these nations to lift a finger , they do absolutely nothing. Now Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary, a briefing this afternoon provided an update on the blockade of the streets. Respect to the blockade , as you know, it has been fully implemented , and it's being enforced against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian port s. I want to make that point clear. I've seen some misreporting on that as well. This includes all Iranian port s on the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and our U. S. forces in the region are supporting the freedom of navigation for vessels that are transiting the strait to and from non Iranian ports. So I know some in the press were confused about that. We are supporting the freedom of navigation just not with respect to any tanker or vessel that would benefit the economy of Iran as these negotiations continue. Now it is tax day today and to mark the occasion, the press secretary brought up Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, who outlined just how effective President Trump's tax cuts in the one big beautiful bill have been in helping everyday Americans this tax season thanks to promises made, promises kept , through the working families tax cuts, the president has delivered their record refunds to the American people more than forty five percent of the filers of the returns that we have seen have had at least one of the four president's signature policies, no tax and tips, no tax and overtime, the deductions for our great seniors , and the deductibility of interest on auto loans for American made cars . And I will tell you that the biggest one of those that Americans have taken is no tax and overtime. And it's the American White. If you want to work longer hours, you get to keep more of your money . Amen to that. Coming up in just a second, we will debunk some of the left's myths about the rich not paying their fair share corporations not paying any taxes at all as it is tax day and it's sort of become a tradition here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Finally at the press briefing today , Ms. Levitt outlined some of the plans for what I think is very cool. I can't believe that this is controversial at all, but of course it's something Trump wants to do. So it's going to be controversial, even though he wants to avoid controversy, remember, this I just think is cool . There is going to be in celebration of America's two hundred fiftieth birthday this july fourth, a triumphal arc that is constructed sort of like the Arch di Triomp in Paris . It is going to be in Washington, DC. It's going to be two hundred and fifty feet tall in honor of America's two fiftieth. Levitt outlined exactly what you can expect when the plans for the Arc are unveiled tomorrow. As you know this year, we celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. In honor of this historic occasion, President Trump and the Department of Interior will submit plans for the United States triumphal Ark, which will be an architectural masterpiece to celebrate our history right here in Washington, DC . This is a rendering of the arc for you. Thank you, Peter. It's quite beautiful as you can see, and this monumental arc will beam at two hundred and fifty feet tall in honor of two hundred and fifty years and stand on ground that is currently empty green space in Memorial Circle on Columbia Island, a man made island in the Potomac River managed by the National Park Service. The United States triumphal arc will be outfitted with beautiful artwork and depictions celebrating the success of the American people over our two hundred and fifty year history and the enduring triumph of the American Spirit. Long after everyone in this room is gone, our children and grandchildren will remain inspired by this national monument. Beginning construction this year on the architectural arc is a fitting way to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American Independence. Great nations build beautiful structures that cultivate national pride and love of country and, this triumphal arc should be a project that all Americans of all political persuasions can support because it's a monument for every American to celebrate two hundred fifty years of our nation . And again, the plans for this will be submitted tomorrow. We'll have many more announcements with respect to our two hundred fiftieth anniversary in the coming months as we look forward to the fourth of July. Absolutely. I love it. I love every single thing about this. She is right, great n ations build beautiful monuments. Great nations do not just fall into the Soviet style blaze of brutalist architecture, which appears to have dominated America, at least in liberal cities for quite some time , just look no further than President Obama's abomination of a presidential library that is just an eyesore on Lake Michigan in Chicago. Don't believe me. Ask any Chicagoan what they think of the Obama Presidential Library. They all say it's hideous. Let's build something that does inspire all. Let's build something that we can all celebrate. I am loving this triumphal arc and I am loving and everything having to do with America's two hundred fiftieth birthday. I am hoping there is going to be a whole lot more coming up this summer because quite frankly , I've been a little underwhelmed with what's been going on thus far. Yes, I know it's not summer yet. We're not quite up to the fourth of July. The president is going to have the big MMA fight on the White House lawn on his birthday, which also happens to be flag day. There's going to be the formula one race that goes through the streets of Washington , DC in August. We're going to have the World Cup , which is going to be incredibly cool for America's two hundred fiftieth birthday. But I just want more celebrations of just how awesome America is. Well, today is a day that we don't necessarily celebrate , as I just had to write a substantial check to both the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and the IRS . It's a day we endure , tax day . Every single year on tax day , I feel like I have to remind as let's face it . Jealousy and envy , they're natural human emotions. They're part of the human condition . And when we hear messages from the left which weaponizes our base emotions like jealousy and envy against us in order to gain control over us, we have a tendency to believe some of the things we say . And now that there are an unfortunate number of people on what I will term the alt or podcast now, I'm not talking about Belling and J . You know exactly who I'm talking about. The people who are sounding a little bit too much like Elizabeth Warren when they talk about the distribution of assets and resources in this country. One of the most common things you hear people like this say is that the rich don't pay their fair share. You might remember the famous op ed written about fifteen years ago or so by Warren Buffett in which he claimed that he pays less in taxes than his secretary. This is nons ense, of course . He pays more in income taxes than almost any other human being on Earth. What he is talking about is long term capital gains taxation rates and qualified dividend tax rates which are money you are buying stocks with money that has already been taxed. If the stocks go up and you sell that as a profit , you are getting taxed twice on that money. If you are getting paid a dividend , if that is money that you are accingru , that is taxed twice. It is taxed as income, the money that you use to purchase the asset , and then the money that is gained from said asset . In terms of federal income taxes , the top one percent one point five million people, according to the most recent data from the Tax Foundation, one point five million people are in the top one percent of earners in this country . In order to make it the top one percent , you need to make five hundred sixty one thousand dollars . Believe it or not , or excuse me, no, that is incorrect . It is the amount of taxes paid on average, five hundred sixty one thousand . Adjusted gross income is three point three million dollars. So you've got to be up there in terms of your earnings . How much money or what percent I should say do you think we' getll to how much money that they paid in a second? What percentage of all income taxes do you think are paid by the top one percent ? ten percent, twenty percent, doubt, my producer. What do you think ? twenty three percent, good guess . Forty percent of all federal income taxes are paid by one by one percent of income tax filers . They pay a total of eight hundred sixty three billion dollars dollars in income taxes each year . The top five percent , top five percent . And I guess I was I was I was rather shocked by this . sixty one percent of all income taxes paid . Top five percent. That's five percent of people, seven million income tax filers. The income split point is two hundred sixty one thousand dollars. I guess the income split point is three point three million down to six hundred sixty three thousand dollars for the top one percent, six hundred and sixty three down to two hundred sixty one for the top five percent . Top ten percent, those who earn more than one hundred seventy eight thousand dollars per year . Top ten percent pay seventy two percent of all federal income taxes in this country . Top twenty five percent if you're making more than one hundred thousand dollars , you are in the top twenty five percent of all income tax payers in the country . eighty seven point two percent of all taxes . Top fifty percent of wage earners, those who make more than fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand three hundred thirty nine dollars. If you are making more than that, congratulations on an annual basis. You are in the top half of wage earners . ninety seven percent of all taxes . The bottom fifty percent seventy six million filers , seventy six million pay just three percent of all taxes in this country. Now you may be saying, okay, Dan, Dan , sure, the rich pay a lot, but they obviously have a very outsized share of the total adjusted gross income, like the total money that's paid out , right? Just makes sense . That is true . The top one percent , and I did read that wrong by the way, it was the adjust ed gross income of all of the people are in the top one percent . That was where I was getting that . It was anybody who makes more than six hundred sixty three thousand dollars per year, it's actually kind of amazing. six hundred sixty three thousand dollars . The total share of the adjusted gross income , twenty two percent. Top one percent control twenty two percent of the wages earned , but they're paying forty percent of all of the taxes . Compare that with the bottom fifty percent who pay just three percent in taxes , but control eleven point five percent total adjusted gross income. Now you might say, okay, well, Dan , one percent of people have twice amount of total gross income than the bottom fifty percent . Well yes, it's because they make a lot more money . They are also subsid izing the bottom fifty percent . The taxes don't just kind of exist in a vacuum . Although it does seem like they do, they're just hoovered up by the federal government. No , they are then redistributed to use a very popular phrase on the left , which does not want you to know about these actual tax statistics . That money is redistributed from the top one percent at a very disproportionate level to the bottom fifty percent , many of whom are not actually paying any federal income taxes at all . Seventy six million people paying just three percent of the federal income tax burden. Now again , well what about what about the fact that a lot of these rich people they don't actually show any income . As I said , they are still getting money coming in . That is typically in the form of dividend income . It is in the form of investment income, say interest that is paid when it is paid out or long term capital gains that let's say you sell a stock, it goes up in value, you sell it at a profit . Again , that is money that has already been taxed . You earn the money. It is taxed and you are not taxed. I saw a fundamental misunderstanding of how the tax code works in a salary that was paid out to Kelsey Plum . She is a star with the W NBA, which probably makes sense that you've probably never heard of her. I'll be honest with you. I sort of knew the name . She thought that if she got a one million dollar contract from the LA Sparks, I think the WNBA team in LA is, that she would be she would she would be taxed at just an insane amount because of California's millionaire's tax . Doesn't work like that. So she got a contract of nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars . Your money is taxed . So the as you move up in the brackets , you are your money is being taxed at different rates . For example, your first say fifty thousand is taxed at the lower rate, then as you keep going up, it gets taxed at higher rates. You are not taxed. So there's no cliff that you can sort of fall off. This is another one of the myths that I think political liberals exploit to sort of get to people and make them think that somehow the rich are not paying their fair share. That is actually true, just not in a way that they think it to be true. The rich aren't paying their fair share. They're paying everybody's share . We're gonna get into the drama surrounding Lake Country Classical Academy coming up next here on the Danon O'Dnell show . America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary is a big event, and if you're promoting a business, your advertising plan needs to be bigger than one channel. IHart can help you bring your message to life across podcasts and broadcasts, meaning your business will show up with scale and depth wherever your customers are listening. America two hundred fifty builds up into the july fourth weekend when listeners are traveling , celebrating, and tuned in. Let iHart help you surround those moments. Call eight four eight four IHRT today to get started. 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Hernandez says she's been diagnosed with a concussion as a result of Page just wailing on her and Paige's father Chris shoving her to the ground violently during an anti ice protest in Minneapolis on Saturday . We will try to dive a little bit deeper into that . Coming up , we are also going to get into one of the most egregious cash grabs I think I've seen in youth sports. Sorry, I'm getting texted by people with a connection to a story that we're going to do right now. Hillsdale College has sent a letter threatening to pull its affiliation with Lake Country Classical Academy . If the school does not fire its board president and eliminate its newly created position of executive director . You might remember us reporting on Lake Country Classical Academy last fall . LCCA, as it's known, has been really in turmoil . Ever since its now former head principal, Margaret Hagadorn refused to allow a new turning Po UintSA chapter shortly after Charlie Kirk was assassinated , students said, Hey, we'd like to, in Charlie's memory form a turning point USA chapter. It's sort of weird that LCCA didn't have one because it's an explicitly conservative educational institution . Board president Randy Godsell Hagadorn just flat out refused to allow a turning point USA chapter and tried to provide some sort of alternative like a civics club which absolutely was not the same . Godsell demanded that Hagador n resign, which she did . The board then essentially eliminated the position of head principal with a newly created position called Executive Director. Hillsdale a short time ago sent a letter to LCCA's board if the school does not eliminate this executive director position and force God sell to resign . Now the board is scheduled to meet tonight to discuss this demand . Here is the letter that Hillsdale sent . We do not have confidence that our affiliation with LCCA can continue. Numerous teachers have confided in us that with the continued executive director position and Mr. Godsell's continued leadership of the board , they are lining up other options for the coming academic year while returning their contracts in the hopes that things will change in time for them to stay with LC . We therefore strongly recommend that the following occur at or before the april fifteenth board meeting. Mr. God sell resigns from or otherwise vacates his positions as both board member and board president . Our march thirty first letter noted that the board should identify new board leadership at the chair level, and the board indicated its alignment with this expectation. We are grateful for Mr. Godsell's dedicated service to LCCA during challenging times . Considering the faculty letter of january sixteenth and the subsequent letters from the parent community, however, it is our opinion that Mr. Godsell's resignation from the board is a necessary step toward restoring confidence among the faculty in the broader LCCA community, excuse me . The executive director position , this is another demand or excuse me , very strong suggestion from Hillsdale. The executive director position is discontinued effective the day before the start of the new head principle and the board publicly announces the discontinu ance of this position on april sixteenth, twenty twenty six . As our march thirty first letter and past letters stated, the Executive Director position at LCCA is inconsistent with Hillsdale's recommend ed leadership model. An immediate public announcement of this decision is essential to provide clarity and stability to the school community. Following the resignation of Mr. Goodsell, Godsell, excuse me, and the expiration of Mr. Branagan's current term, that would be the executive director . The board's membership should not exceed five members or excuse me. No, that's not that that's another, I believe the executive director's name is Woo . Branagan would be another board member . At the expiration of Mr. Branagan's current term, the board's membership should not exceed five members for a period of time le.ast At until the end of the twenty six, twenty seven school year, in our view, LCCA needs a refounding effort, and we recommend to founding groups a board size of five committed individuals. Given the recent turmoil at LCCA , a small group of board members is necessary to lead it in reestablishing a policy of governance and strong leadership in the Hillsdale recommended model I don't know about you , but if I'm a board member reading that, that is not a very strong suggestion, that is a demand . Sure sounds like a bit of an extortion attempt here . You don't get rid of Godsell because Godsell was the one who didn't just demand that the head principal resign, which I don't think was especially controversial . She lost the faith of the board and as the UW Board of Regents has taught us over the past week and a half, you don't have to explain why you f anybody even if you are a public board and your salary is paid by taxpayers. You don't owe anybody an explanation as to anything that you do The LCCA board obviously is private , and I didn't think it was especially controversial that Hagadorn, who for whatever reason just would not allow a turning point chapter on campus . She was citing, well, it's an expressly political organization . Yes, it is , but Hillsdale has a turning point chapter . So clearly your charter is perfectly fine as a Hillsdale affiliated educational institution with a turning point chapter on campus. So it's perfectly fine, I think for the board to say misses Agadorn, thanks for five great years , but we've lost confidence in your ability to lead this school , than youk very much. The step too far , according to Hillsdale just getting rid of the head principal position altogether and creating a new position of executive director, which they want to be done . They do not like this Godsell character whatsoever . Frankly, it sounds a little heavy handed, but Hillsdale is the one if you want the Hillsdale affiliation, they're the ones who make the rules. Now I don't pretend to know how valuable the Hillsdale affiliation is. Hillsdale is a very, very, very well respected university. Conservative or not, it's easily the most respected conservative institution, I think in America's in Hillsdale, Michigan, our good friend Ben Yout just taught a talk radio class at Hillsdale a couple of weeks ago . We love Hill sdale. We love the Lake Country Classical Academy here at the Dad O'Donnell Show . It just seems a tad heavy handed for Hillsdale to say, Hey , you fire this guy , you cut your board down, you get rid of this position , or else . Could Lake Country Classical do just fine without the Hillsdale affiliation? My guess is very probably. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell show. It is classical conservatism and contemporary style Got an update on the saga of the Ostrushko family . That is the now former we think UW Stevens Point soccer player Paige Austr al, who is under arrest for assaulting Savannah Hernandez a conservative journalist Hernandez says she's been diagnosed with a concussion as a result of Paige just wailing on her and Paige's father Chris shoving her to the ground violently during an anti ice protest in Minneapolis on Saturday , we will try to dive a little bit deeper into that . Coming up , we are also going to get into one of the most eregious cash grabs I think I've seen in youth sports. Sorry, I'm getting texted by people with a connection to a story that we're going to do right now. Hillsdale College has sent a letter threatening to pull its affiliation with Lake Country Classical Academy . If the school does not fire its board president and eliminate its newly created position of executive director . You might remember us reporting on late countryassical Cl Academy last fall . LCCA, as it's known, has been really in turmoil ever since its now former head principal , Margaret Hagadorn refused to allow a new turning point USA chapter shortly after Charlie Kirk was assassinated , students said, Hey, we'd like to in Charlie's memory form a turning point USA chapter. Sort of weird that LCCA didn't have one because it's an explicitly conservative educational institution . Board president Randy God sell after Hagadorn just flat out refused to allow a turning point USA chapter and tried to provide some sort of alternative like a civics club , which absolutely not the same . Godsell demanded that Hagadorn resign which she did . The board then essentially eliminated the position of head principal with a newly created position called Executive Director . Hillsdale, a short time ago sent a letter to LCCA's board if the school does not eliminate this executive director position and force God sell to resign . Now the board is scheduled to meet tonight to discuss this demand. Here is the letter that Hillsdale sent . We do not have confidence that our affiliation with LCCA can continue. Numerous teachers have confided in us that with the continued executive director position and Mr. Godsell's continued leadership of the board , they are lining up other options for the coming academic year while returning their contract in the hopes that things will change in time for them to stay with LCCA. We therefore strongly recommend that the following occur at or before the april fifteenth board meeting. Mr. God sell resigns from or otherwise vacates his positions as both board member and board president . Our march thirty first letter noted that the board should identify new board leadership at the chair level, and the board indicated its alignment with this expectation . We are grateful for Mr. Godsell's dedicated service to LCCA during challenging times. Considering the faculty letter of january sixteenth and the subsequent letters from the parent community, however, it is our opinion that mister Godsell's resignation from the board is a necessary step toward restoring confidence among the faculty in the broader LC CA community, excuse me . The executive director position , this is another demand or excuse me, very strong suggestion from Hillsdale. The executive director position is discontinued effective the day before the start of the new head principle , and the board publicly announces the discontinuance of this position on april sixteenth, twenty twenty six . As our march thirty first letter and past letters stated the executive director position at LCCA is inconsistent with Hillsdale's recommended leadership model. An immediate public announcement of this decision is essential to provide clarity and stability to the school community . Following the resignation of Mr. Goodsell, Godsell, excuse me, and the expiration of Mr. Branagan's current term, that would be the executive director , the board's membership should not exceed five members or excuse me. No, that's not that 's another, I believe the executive director's name is Woo . Branagan would be another board member . And the expiration of Mr. Branigan's current t erm, the board's membership should not exceed five members for a period of time. At least until the end of the twenty six, twenty seven school year. In our view, LCCA needs a refounding effort, and we recommend to found ing groups a board size of five committed individuals. Given the recent turmoil at LCCA, a small group of board members is necessary to lead it in reestablishing a policy of governance and strong leadership in the Hillsdale recommended model . I don't know about you , but if I'm a board member reading that is not a very strong suggestion. That is a demand . Sure sounds like a bit of an extortion attempt here . You don't get rid of Godsell because God sell was the one who didn't just demand that the head principal resign, which I don't think was especially controversial . She lost the faith of the board and as the UW Board of Regents has taught us over the past week and a half , you don't have to explain why you fire anybody even if you are a public board and your salary is paid by taxpayers. You don't know anybody an explanation as to anything that you do . The LCCA board obviously is private , and I didn't think it was especially controversial that Hagidorn, who for whatever reason just would not allow a turning point chapter on campus . She was citing Well, it's an expressly political organization Yes it is , but Hillsdale has a turning point chapter . So clearly your charter is perfectly fine as a Hillsdale affiliated educational institution with a turning point chapter on campus . So it's perfectly fine I think for the board to say Mrs. Hagadorn, thanks for five great years , but we've lost confidence in your ability to lead this school. Thank you very much . The step too far, according to Hillsdale just getting rid of the head principal position altogether and creating a new position of executive director, which they want to be done . They do not like this Godsell character whatsoever . Frankly, it sounds a little heavy hand ed, but Hillsdale is the one. If you want the Hillsdale affiliation, they're the ones who make the rules. Now, I don't pretend to know how valuable the Hillsdale affiliation is. Hillsdale is a very, very , very well respected university, conservative or not. It's easily the most respected, conservative institution, I think in America. It's in Hillsdale, Michigan, our good friend Ben Yout just taught a talk radio class at Hillsdale a couple of weeks ago . We love Hillsdale. 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Top stories that we are following right now. The Department of Public Instruction defensive and also evasive at an evidentiary fact finding hearing today before a state assembly committee state superintendent Jill Underley was not there to testify but a bureaucrat she sent did not answer clear questions regarding just what went on at the infamous water park retreat in June of twenty twenty four at which standards for Wisconsin's forward exam were unilaterally changed in secret all the while Educational Representatives were spending three hundred sixty eight thousand dollars of taxpayer money. As an aside , there were eight people we believe who were at this meeting, according to open records that were obtained by the Derry Land Sentinel a couple of months ago, eighty eight people spending three hundred sixty eight thousand dollars of taxpayer money . That's four thousand bucks ahead to go to this , four thousand dollars per attendee at this meeting. Now, I go to the Dells pretty regularly , and it's not nearly as affordable as it used to be . But four thousand dollars a person they couldn't go to to a room they couldn't I don't know , do only one round of bumper cars and fifty five . How much of mini golf prices gone up since I was last at the Dells ? You see , producer Doug says he just spent less than that on a cruise. I'll bet you did . Four thousand dollars a person . Yeah, we went to Noah's Arc fifty eight times. What? That boggles my mind. It is tax day and refunds are eleven percent higher than they were last year. The White House says, of course, that is because of the effects of President Trump's tax cuts found in the one big beautiful bill . A couple of days ago we were talking about the excesses of increasingly professionalized youth sports . I think I have found exhibit A in what may be wrong with youth sports culture. 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I assume this is a tournament that got started in Chicago and this is a branch of it. I don't know enough about the AA U circuit . It is sponsored by New Balls . There are three hundred and ninety paid teams . You heard that right . This weekend april seventeenth through the nineteenth . So Friday, two days from now through the nineteenth . There is room for four hundred teams. Today is the deadline if you have an extra seven hundred and ninety five dollars to play . Each team is paying seven hundred and ninety five dollars. That means the tournament is generating three hundred ten thousand dollars in revenue . Each team and this is U fourteen, you fifteen, you sixteen, and you seventeen , each team is guaranteed four games . The venues it's remarkable how big this tournament is . It is billed as the largest spring recruiting event in the Midwest. And the big draw why it's been able to draw three hundred and ninety teams with room for four hundred is because it's promising college coaches or college scouts in attendance There are going to be games on twenty courts at the Wisconsin State Fair Expos Center. They are bringing in twenty basketball courts. I'm actually kind of curious. I wish I wasn't out of town and actually out of the country. this weekend I'd want to check it out. But you'll find out why I probably wouldn't check it out even if I was in this country in just a second . The OAW sports complex in New Berlin will see on play six courts, the facility in Mecwan, the Gateway Sports Academy in Saukville Homestead High School in Mecwan, and the State Fair Wisconsin building, the pavilion . There's two courts apparently at the pavilion at State Fair Park . Not only does it cost seven hundred ninety five dollars to get into this tournament, which I'm not going to complain about this . I talk all the time about how I coach my kids in indoor soccer and the registration is typically for a seven or eight game season, about a thousand bucks, maybe nine hundred a thousand bucks. You spread the cost out over the number of kids. So each kid is paying like a hundred dollars for an eight game session. It's really not that bad . But this is what caught my eye . If you want to watch your kid play and remember there's four games , five games if they make the championship , maybe even more . It will cost you for a full event pass , three day four to five game guarantee and access to all venues ninety two dollars four cents , which includes seven dollars and four cents in fees . So they were going to charge eighty five bucks plus the handling fees. I'm assuming that's a credit card fee that's tacked on there for a child to get in , let's say you're bringing the younger siblings to watch junior play hoops this weekend . fifty four dollars ninety three cents, which includes a four dollar ninety three cent fee, fifty dollars ticket to bring a kid . If you want grandma and grandpa to come and watch. You got a hot shot basketball prospect playing in the big tournament at the State Fair Exp o center . That's going to cost them eighty one dollars and seventy three cents for the full weekend pass . eighty one dollars seventy five dollars ticket, six dollars and seventy three cents in fees . All right, all right, all right. Let's say you just want to go to one day . If you're a kid , twenty two dollars and forty six cents . Seniors twenty seven dollars and fifty two cents . Two watch high school AAU basketball . If you want to go let's say it's you and your spouse and you want to go watch your you got two sons . One is let's say a high school sophomore is playing A . You've got a younger son who's not quite old enough, but he wants to go and watch support, the older br other. That is going to charge you're going to pay two hundred and thirty nine dollars to watch your kid play basketball. And not only that , not only that . I said this tournament starts on Friday , not Friday night . Typically my kids have been playing in soccer tournaments their entire lives and you play some on Friday , typically Friday evening under the lights. Maybe Friday afternoon, typically you're not going to see a game before five PM because you know, parents work and kids go to school. The first Friday games this Friday at eleven AM . So what you pull your kid out of school for a basketball tournament , now I get it, I get it . These are actual events where what they're advertising is NCAA coaches. And they're saying right there if you go to the US JN, and this is Junior National , which is a league. I guess it's a circuit. They call them circuits that they're playing on. You can take a look at what colleges are coming . Gunzaga, which is a very, very top notch program , La Sau , which is a division one. They're, you know, they're sort of an NIT quality school. La Sau used to be very, very good back in like the sixties and seventies, if I recall correctly . And Nebraska , but there is a big number of D one . Oh, wow. Duke is going to be there. They're advertising Duke. I don't know why they wouldn't put Duke right on the front page. That's a little bit bigger than Nebraska . I mean, I know Nebraska finally won their very first NC AA tournament game . Crayton, Auburn, Arizona State , Valparaiso, UWM , is Marquette is Marquette even bothering it's like up the street. Shaka is like that's the off season. I'm going to Cancun Marquette, by the way, did get a big transfer what is his name Nananda Miranda Gru Drew Bru ? He's from Louisville. I just saw a tweet about this. This is big news because Shaka never wanted to go through the transfer portal, but now he is . Maryland is also going to be there . Detroit Mercy , the Dayton Flyers, the Drake Bulldogs, DePaul Paul Cornell, Cornell University. I wonder what Cornell thinks about student athletes skipping school on a Friday to play in the tournament. It's rather ironic. You're skipping education to go play in front of Cornell . It's just an irony there . The draw is the dream . Now, admitted , this is drawing teams from all over the country . They're coming to Milwaukee to play in front of all these coaches. And unfortunately, this is how the game is quite lit erally played . The Duke Blue Devils are not sending scouts to go watch number one player in Wisconsin this year, number one high school player, very talented kid by the name of Xavier Zens . He played for Wisconsin Lutheran and he just decommitted from I forget where he was committed to, but he just decommitted and he is one of the most sought after late commits . His cousin is Kon Kennippel , who very likely is going actually I think Cooper Flag is probably going to win NBA Rookie of the Year over Khan, but Khan a record setting hot played very, very poorly in that NBA play in game, but we do love Con , the entire Knipple family, big fans of the Dan O'Donnell Show. We are big, big fans of the Knipple. There are like fifteen different Kannipple brothers. All of them are basketball players . Sherry Nordgard Knipple, all time leading scorer at UW Green Bay , Kon Knip seneli'ors all time leading scorer at Wisconsin Lutheran College . You talk about a partnership that was born to produce superstar basketball players and the Knipple family has just turned Wisconsin Lutheran into an absolute powerhouse . Well let's let's talk about their cousin for a second. Xavier Zenz, top player on arguably the top high school team in the country. I mean, Wisconsin Lutheran, just a dominant dominant. Do you realize how dominant Wisconsin Lutheran was this high school season ? Their varsity team JV one team and J V two team, that's what we used to call the freshman team . They all went undefeated. They went a combined seventy three and zero this year. I'm not sure that has ever happened in Wisconsin basketball history. That's how good Wisconsin Lutheran is at the game of basketball typically you would not have coaches going to the Wisconsin Lutheran gym to scout Xavier Zens who won Mr. Basketball, top basketball player in the state this year they would wait for a Zens to play with his club team on one of the AAU circuits and those club teams would have to go to these spotlight events big time magnet tournaments in different areas different regions of the country . So you would have one big showcase event or spotlight event or ID event . It would be in Chicago, or this one happens to be in Milwaukee if you don't go , if you don't go from Pennsylvania and you're not just missing one day of school , you're missing probably a couple because of the travel . So you're probably at least missing Thursday , got to play in the first game at eleven AM on Friday . Then the final games are done at three four PM on Sunday so you can't book a flight on Sunday . You got to fly out Monday so you're missing another day of school . I'm not saying that parents aren't making somebody like Z enz , obviously , you've got the potential to not just play in college but play professionally . You would be stupid not to pursue basketball. For the Kenipple family , you'd be stupid not to make basketball your career . For the overwhelming majority of other basketball players in this tournament , I am I am telling you paying probably a hundred bucks or so for the kid just to get in the tournament, then you've got to pay two hundred plus dollars , then you've got to play probably a thousand dollars. And oh by the way, oh by the way , this is a stay to play tournament. Do you know what that means ? Yeah, Doug is Doug is nodding his head . Now, Doug, you don't have kids, but you're familiar with the scam that is stay to play tournaments, right? So let's say you're from Milwaukee . You don't need to stay anywhere . You want to play in this tournament. You have got to book a certain number of rooms at a partner hotel usually near one of the venues . A kickback hotel says Doug, yeah, that is and they pay a portion of what they're taking into the tournament stay to play . So you've got parents who are coming from , let's say, as far away from Missouri , I'm assuming there are a bunch of teams from Nebraska, Pennsylvania, not of the question . These parents are not just pulling the kids out of school. They're taking time off of work, so they're using PTO or they're using vacation days . They are paying for the travel out of their own pocket That will probably be this prime time for flights probably pay and if you, your spouse , the player, maybe a sibling are all going ? Thousand bucks easy . Now it's not just one tournament that you're doing this . It's five or six . Sometimes at the highest level of league play in some sports in soccer it is known as MLS or academy . Your league games will be in different cities . One of my oldest son's friends played MLS next . His league games were in as follows Chicago , Dallas , Columbus, Ohio , and Phoenix , not tournaments , league games . So every weekend you're traveling to a different city . Now a lot of parents who are in this world say they love it, they absolutely love it. And I'm sure they do. A whole lot of the socialization you become friends with. I can't tell you how many friends I have made my kids' teammates parents. I mean, I've been coaching them forever. I will confess I never got my kids in the high levels of this stuff. My wife and I just made a decision long ago. We're not going to subject them to this . My daughter was in cheerleading for one year as a fourth grader . When she was in fifth grade, she made like the highest level team where she was basically gonna be on with a bunch of high schools. You know why they picked her? So they could throw her in the air because she's tiny , right , she's just the right size. We can launch her twenty feet . Yeah, she was a flight. Yeah, they call they called her a flyer My brother, his daughter was on the same team , and he said the practice was literally them throwing Gracie and occasionally catching her. He said, Oh, they dropped Grace again , up and grace is down . So she decided, yeah, thank you very much, Dad . I think we're going to stick with soccer. It's much closer to the ground. But the point is and I'm not at the gym that she went with , the club, wonderful people. I mean, just incredibly nice, kind people. Every competition was like, did you ever see that old show Dance Moms ? It's literally like that. You would have like sparkle nation in Chicago and there's like five hundred cheerleading and dance teams at some convention center. The next week you're at Disney World, the next week you're in Dubuque, the next week you're in Seattle. Is that what ? Not only that it was something like nine thousand dollars just to be on the team . I am flabbergasted at the amount parents are paying to chase a dream that I look, far be it from me to ever tell anybody to give up on their dreams. I just am never going to do that. If you are a kid right now and your dream is to play in the NBA and you're like eighteen years old and five too. Good luck to you. Good luck to you, Muggsy Bogs, you could well do it . No, I'm never gonna, if you are a kid listening to me right now, you work hard enough, it may happen for you. It may , but it may not . And parents, I know you think you are doing the absolute best for your kids. And that's that's everything we want, right? We do anything for our kids. We'd pay anything, we'd work overtime, we'd go the extra mile , we'd sure. We'd go to a cheerleading competition in Dubuque . I'm telling you it is just it's a toxic professionalized money grab that I think is soaking and I'm not even specifically calling out this one windy city classic which for reasons known only to God is being played in Milwauki . But I'm saying this is part and parcel of a youth sports culture that is just completely out of control. And I know people want to talk. Do we have our phones fixed finally . I feel like we're in Jurassic Park. We don't even have the phones working. Am I going to be attacked by a Velasa raptor ? They are working. Oh , we've got people working on this . What did you send? Samuel L. Jackson through the jungle. We got to send Laura Dern running after him and she's going to grab his arm , which is disconnected from the rest of his body . Yeah, no, I'm not giving a spoiler alert. Tr Pasarkk cameer out like thirty some years ago . If you haven't seen it yet, that's on you . Yeah, Samuel L. Jackson gets eaten. I know we've got people who want to weigh in on this. Hopefully the phone's working you can call in four seven nine nine eleven thirty . Classical conservatism contemporary style . Dan O'Donnell will be right back . America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary is a big event, and if you're promoting a business, your advertising plan needs to be bigger than one channel. 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So apparently Samuel L. Jackson was not able to fix our phones. I regret to inform you that one of the raptors has gotten our engineer because the phones are not working. I really did want to take phone calls on this. I know everybody's got a story. Everybody's got an opinion about the professionalization of youth sports . I'm actually getting texts from someone you would know in Wisconsin politics saying I am sitting at an AAU basketball practice right now listening to you . He really wanted to call in, ladies and gentlemen and I wish we could have I got another actually someone else you would know from Wisconsin politics saying Dan Club volleyball is very similar. It's insane . Folks, I've been in the soccer world for a long time and my kids are nowhere near that high level of play . You know, half of it was half of it, let's just be honest is skill. I mean , they're , you know , don't tell them