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And if you're like me, you're trying to figure out

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and our lives.

So each week on Big Technology,

I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech

and outsiders trying to influence it.

Asking where this is all going,

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and plenty more.

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your career choices,

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listen to Big Technology podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

The sun shining, birds are singing

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In fact, one in five people experience

some form of depression,

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I'm the host of Big Technology podcast,

a longtime reporter and an on-air contributor to CNBC.

And if you're like me,

you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence

is changing the business world and our lives.

So each week on Big Technology,

I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech

and outsiders trying to influence it.

Asking where this is all going,

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Keeping it right.

It's a Dan O'Donnell show.

Kettle here, you are there.

Thursday getting dangerously close to a weekend.

Oh, yes.

Need me some weekend.

A little bit busy this week to say the very least.

Coming up in just a bit,

we're gonna have a conversation about a huge, huge win

for parental rights.

The Supreme Court this week blocked California's

insane law requiring public schools

to secretly transition children

without their parents knowledge.

Kerry Severino, president of JCN,

joins us in just a bit to talk more

about the landmark Murabelli versus Bonta case,

what it all means, where we go from here.

Speaking of that,

this is what the left will bring you

if the left wins.

It takes over power in the midterms.

Really at any level.

You remember how horrible life was in the Biden years.

For so many reasons,

we can spend a very long time counting the ways,

but one of those big ways was the,

the constant virtual, virtual signaling that turned into,

that's it, we're gonna get that one of these days,

that turned into this agenda of re-engineering society,

everything, and it still is for them.

They just have been tamped down.

They don't have the power to enforce

these crazy nutty things,

because Americans, particularly parents,

who saw what was happening during COVID,

got a bird's eye view of just how crazy things were

in the leftist run classrooms on the college campuses.

We've learned a lot since then,

and a lot of Americans said,

no, that's enough, and they voted.

They voted to change all of that.

Well, midterms are a very difficult times,

of course, for the party in power.

There's already some doom and gloom setting in

about the Republicans losing the house.

There's some talk Democrats could take the Senate.

It's a long shot, but who knows?

It depends on who's motivated and who's not.

And let's face it, there are a lot of liberals in America

who are extremely motivated

with their Trump derangement syndrome.

They live for this,

and they have a number of ways they want to get there.

But this, this is what you can expect

if the left takes control,

if they get the keys back to the vehicle USA.

For me, prophetic voices like Jesus

have helped me reckon with my own whiteness,

my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego.

It's a never-ending process,

and it's a painful process.

It was painful listening to that,

but I want you to listen to it again

because it's extremely important.

This should be, there should be a red flag

for anybody who says, you know what?

I am so sick of politics.

I'm gonna sit this one out.

Yeah, the left is just driving me insane,

but I'm so fatigued and tired with all of their protest

against ice and the screaming and the destruction

and the protest, the riots in the streets.

I don't want anything to do with it.

Listen to this guy again.

This guy, once again, is named James Telereko.

He is now the Democrats candidate for Senate,

US Senate in Texas.

Huge election coming up if he could possibly win there,

and you say, well, wait a minute,

this is deep red state Texas.

There's no way.

Can I submit to the record Beto O'Rourke?

This guy is Beto O'Rourke on steroids.

Listen to this again because this is what's coming down

the pike if Democrats take back power.

For me, prophetic voices like Jesus

have helped me reckon with my own whiteness,

my own masculinity, my own certainty,

my own ego.

It's a never ending process and it's a painful process.

It is painful.

That would be very painful if we had to go back to this.

This guy has been co-opting Christianity in his run.

And of course, the accomplished media is eating this up.

Oh, look at here.

This Marxist leftist, he's using gospel,

we're misusing it quite frankly,

to make a case why you don't need to vote

if you're of the Christian faith.

You don't need to vote for those conservatives,

those Bible belt conservatives.

This guy has absolutely bastardized

the New Testament and the faith.

And you can hear it when he says things like

prophets like Christ.

Christ isn't a prophet to Christians.

Christ is their Lord and their Savior

and their ticket to eternal life.

He wasn't just seeing things and having visions.

He is the Son of God.

That's what it's all about.

But this, this shester is going to sell this snakewood

to a bunch of really dumb, vulnerable people in Texas.

This race is indicative of what's ahead.

And if they get into power,

they will have guys like this doing stuff like that.

The diversity, equity, inclusion garbage all back in.

Mutilating kids at the altar of transgenderism.

You got it right back there.

Yeah, you just want to talk about government,

big government, Medicaid fraud.

Yeah, you ain't seen nothing yet.

All kinds of stuff they got planned.

And let me tell you how they're going to get there.

I just have a couple of minutes.

You can read the full story at thefederalist.com.

I like this reporter on this story.

This guy, he gets it, man.

Here's the headline.

Michigan's dirty and dead-ridden voter rolls escape scrutiny.

It appears the dead will continue to rest in peace

on Michigan's dirty voter rolls.

The US Supreme Court this week summarily denied a request

to review two lower court decisions

that rejected an election integrity watchdog's lawsuit,

seeking to force Michigan's far-left secretary of state,

Jocelyn Benson, who would very much like to be Michigan's next governor,

to remove the names of deceased people from the voter files.

It's not a handful.

It's not scores.

It's thousands, tens of thousands of people who have died.

Many of them years and years ago

that still remain on the dirty voter rolls in Michigan.

Key swing state, key elections coming up,

center of power for Democrats to try to get back the house,

get back into power.

The public interest legal foundation did an analysis of the state voter list.

They identified almost 26,000 likely deceased individuals registered to vote.

Some of the formerly breathing have been dead for decades,

according to the complaint of the suspect registrants.

Nearly 4,000 have been dead for at least 20 years,

according to the report.

One dead guy, apparently on the rolls, passed in 1823.

Before Michigan became a state.

Why do I say all of this sort of stuff?

Well, when you have dirty voter rolls,

you can do a lot of dirty things.

We have seen that from the Democrat Party over the years,

particularly in the Trump era.

There is real, legitimate concern

that the people who have been desperately trying to get back into power

to take Donald Trump out of power

and the mega movement out of power,

they will do anything.

They are desperate.

And desperate times call for dead voters.

Keep your eye on it.

Stay tuned.

Coming up next, our conversation with Carrie Severino.

She's been working and piecing through this critical Supreme Court decision this week

that blocks California's insane law requiring public schools to secretly transition children

without their parents' knowledge.

We'll talk more about that straight ahead on this edition of the Dan O'Donnell show

with your old radio amigo, Matt Kittle.

Stay with us.

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Glad you're along with us.

On the Dan O'Donnell show.

Got much to do as we work through the next couple of hours of the show.

But right here, right now, let's talk about a critical Supreme Court case

when it comes to parental rights.

The Supreme Court this week blocked California's law requiring public schools

to secretly transition children without their parents' knowledge.

We certainly have seen that story play out in the state of Wisconsin.

A number of schools, perhaps most notably,

the leftist enclave of Madison.

Under long established precedent,

parents not the state have primary authority

with respect to the upbringing and education of children.

The majority said in an unsigned opinion,

the right protected by these precedents

includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions

regarding their children's mental health,

their children's mental health,

the schools children, the parents children.

JCN President Kerry Severino joins us now for some perspective on the landmark

Marabelli versus Bonta.

Kerry, thank you so much for being here.

What a massive case this is.

Yeah, this is incredibly exciting that the Court is continuing its pattern here

of both suing really close to what the Constitution requires

and making sure that religious freedom rights

and in particularly parental rights,

we've seen that a lot in the last term's case and now some of this term

that parental rights are being respected.

What exactly know that California is California?

But what exactly did their law,

by the way, signed on the books by a guy who would like to be the next president

of the United States, leftist governor Gavin Newsom?

What did that law entail?

Yeah, their state had a policy

where they were not going to tell parents

if their child decided they wanted to change their gender expression at school.

So they had parents that had,

one of the sets of parents in this case,

had no idea that their child was experiencing gender dysphoria

and was having these mental health issues until the child attempted suicide.

Meanwhile, at school, they had been socially transitioning the child

using an opposite sex name and everything behind the parents' back.

And their policy was even if parents outright specifically asked the school,

is this happening? The school was to deny it.

And that is outrageous for parents who,

it is the court made very clear. These are the primary protectors of the kids,

the primary educators of the kids.

These are the people who need to be able to have information above all things

about the child's mental health and the school was cutting them out of that

and many of them raised religious freedom issues as well.

The right to direct our child's religious education,

the school can't be stepping in like that.

Well, here is the arrogance of that movement in a nutshell.

I remember a few years back,

and I'm sure this was not an isolated case,

but it was writing a story about a Madison area school

and learned from some parents that there was a sign

on an elementary school teacher's door,

and it said something to the effect.

If your parents don't recognize you and love you for who you are,

I'm your parent now.

And I think that really is at the core of what has gone on,

this crazy legislation, crazy laws in California and elsewhere

taking basic essential rights away from parents.

Where do you see all of that coming from?

Yeah, and that type of sign is really suggesting

and trying to drive a wedge between parents and their children,

which is the opposite of what schools are supposed to be doing.

We are funding these rules with our tax dollars.

We are voting for the school board.

We're the ones who they should be representing.

And I love that the court was very clear about that.

They specifically said parents, not the state,

have primary authority with respect to the upbringing,

and education of their children,

and that goes double for their religious upbringing.

The state, the planting parents,

is something that has really been imported to our system

from places like communism and socialism,

the idea that the state is no better than the parents.

And that's something, you know.

You know, love to do, right?

Because they recognize the family is such a core block of the society deal,

where they will push back against the state.

We cannot allow the state to try to supplant the family,

and thankfully those rights are being protected now

with the Supreme Court.

Kerry Severino from JCN, president of JCN.

You folks used to be known for those who know your good work over the years.

It used to be the judicial crisis network, right?

Now you're JCN?

Okay, just wanted to make sure.

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How long did we get a bucket of kernels chicken?

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We just say KFC.

You said this, posted this on X following the decision,

because it's not just California lawmakers and the executive branch.

We have a judicial federal judicial branch,

a appeals court in California that allowed this to continue.

You said the liberal ninth circuit,

disregard of the court's ruling in Mahmoud,

today the justices reaffirmed the principles of its landmark ruling

and said that California's law substantially interferes

with the right of parents to guide the religious development of their children.

How did we get to a point where we have a any court saying,

yeah, if you want to go ahead and as a school, as a teacher,

you want to go ahead and be complicit in this secret activity

that the parents don't know about, that's just fine.

Yeah, this is why organizations start out talking about a judicial crisis, right?

Because there is a real crisis in the judiciary when there are judges,

who adopt those kind of views that say, hey, the state should be taking precedence over the family,

that they aren't going to be respecting those fundamental rights.

What's almost more interesting here is that a federal court in the Southern District of California

originally did say the parents should win at least at this stage.

What was really happening here is we're just saying what is going to happen

while this case is being argued?

Can California continue hiding this information from parents across the state

or do they have to at least until this case is litigated

until we find out for sure is this constitutional or not, spoiler is probably not, right?

Until that happens, did they have to put it on hold?

A federal district court in California said, yeah, you have to put this on hold.

This was really fishy and it was the ninth circuit,

which has long been one of the most liberal courts in the nation

because a lot of people coming from California, these California senators

who are kind of stalking it and with their favorite types of nominees,

that court said, yeah, sure, this sounds fine to us.

What the good news is, while this obviously was not a great decision from the ninth circuit,

today the ninth circuit looks a whole lot better than it did say 10 years ago.

We've made progress there, but it's still, you know,

it's not the best pool it once was, but I wouldn't go swimming there, let's just say.

Yes, pretty dirty water, like the waters flowing around the swamp in DC now,

a lot of sewer issues they have over there, not just the swamp, the sewer.

Now, that to me, what you just talked about gives me hope,

but then I look at the US Senate, the do little US Senate

and the problems they've had in getting President Trump's nominees through.

If you're going to have any chance at getting rid of or at least lessening the impact

of what I see as a judicial coup in many circumstances out there,

this Senate's going to have to get off, it took us, isn't it?

Well, yeah, although to some extent, you know, at this point,

they're working pretty effectively as compared to what they, again,

used to be able to do partly because of some changes that went into effect

during the first Trump administration in terms of not allowing home state senators

to actually veto nominees.

That's part of the reason the ninth circuit is so bad.

You had these California senators vetoing anyone with half a brain

from being on the ninth circuit, and so you had all the very liberal judges there.

Now, at least for the appeals courts, that has gone away,

but you know, there's still the constitutional check,

which is the President appoints and the Senate confirmed.

So you still can't get judges on these courts who are going to be more conservative than the President,

and importantly, the Senate, we often forget that,

but you know, you could have the most conservative President who wants to appoint

another hundred Scolias and Thomases to the courts,

and if you have a Senate that is not willing to confirm those people, you're out of luck.

And I think that is something we have to reel, especially, you know,

going into another off-election year.

This is what determines how bold the President can be in terms of appointing

true constitutional conservatives to these courts.

And there's a lot of work still to be done to improve the judiciary,

but every time we get someone across the finish line, that's a life tenure.

So absolutely, the Senate needs to keep pedals to the metal on these,

and we need to remember how important it is to make sure that we are electing senators

who have that as a top priority to be willing to confirm the right type of judges

who are going to be faithful to the Constitution.

Final question for you then. This is a critical election year.

Some would say once again, an existential election year.

The guy who's got 28 on his mind,

liberal, smarmy, governor Gavin Newsom from California is the guy who signed this crazy law on the books.

Do you think that the Supreme Court's rejection of this?

And just I think the difference in America of 2026 then 2020,

do you think that that will ultimately cause him some electoral problems moving forward?

Well, you know, we have a such a divided country.

I think some people are going to be cheering him on over this and say,

heck yeah, that's what we want.

I don't think that's where most of America is.

That people will open their eyes and see the kinds of policies that are really being advocated for.

You know, I live in Virginia where we have a governor,

Spanberger, who campaigned as a nice moderate and then gets into office and does absolutely crazy things.

I think we...

I'm sorry about that too.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're going to see this in a lot of places.

I hope people recognize what the actual policies are from.

You can sound really nice and make a good speech,

but if this is someone who's going to try to be stripping constitutional rights from parents when they get into office,

boy, we better know that before going to the voting booth.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Spanberger was a leftist, is a leftist and moderate clothing.

Let me just play a quick clip of a gentleman from Texas who is running for Senate is in the same ilk.

For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego.

It's a never-ending process and it's a painful process.

Tell you what a painful process would be if conservatives lose, you know, the Congress to people like this.

You're going to get more laws like this, even though the court has said what it said.

There's going to be a constant effort to push in this crazy nonsense moving forward.

Carrie, thanks so much for your time and at your expertise. I very much appreciate it.

Have a great day.

You too.

JCN President Carrie Severino joining us for a little perspective on the Supreme Court's slapdown of the insane California law requiring public schools to secretly transition children

without their parents' knowledge.

That was the thing that really struck me when I was looking into this issue in a number of schools across Wisconsin in the country.

And that sentiment, that sign from that liberal teacher that said, if your parents don't accept you for the gender you think you are, second grader, I'm your mama now.

As hideous. That's a hideous thought.

And this Supreme Court ruling slapped that notion back.

The fight goes on.

We'll take a quick break coming up in the next hour, a conversation with Congressman Brian style.

I hope you will stay with us the Thursday edition of the Dan O'Donnell show with yours truly Matt Kittle.

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And if you're like me, you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence is changing the business world and our lives.

So each week on Big Technology, I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech and outsiders trying to influence it.

Asking where this is all going. They come from places like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and plenty more.

So if you want to be smart with your wallet, your career choices, and meetings with your colleagues and at dinner parties, listen to Big Technology podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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Welcome back thrill seekers to our number two of our little get together.

On this Thursday, March 6, 2026 in the year of our Lord.

What did I say? Sixth? I guess I desperately want to I want to get to Friday, don't I?

I desperately want to get to Friday and screwing up the schedule.

Good thing I don't have to write a check today. I'm still writing 20, 23 on those things. Yes. Thank you, sir.

That's why Eric Paulson, our extraordinary producer is here. And he's doing yeoman's work to say the very least keeping this guy on the straight and narrow.

Yes, it is March 5th. Tomorrow, Friday will be March 6th. That's what I have my eye on. As Beretta used to say, keep your eye on the sparrow.

And that has nothing to do with what we just talked about. It's just the fact that Beretta was taking a lot of cocaine at that time and mishandling firearms, if I recall, right?

Keep your eye on the sparrow. You remember that one? Perhaps it's best to leave it in the past. Yes, Kit, I don't know. I didn't take the full pill today.

The doctor has said, don't break off the pills. Take the whole pill. Fair enough. You live and you learn. Yes, Matt Kittel, your radio talk show host Phil and Daddy doing just that in the Dan O'Donnell show on this Thursday.

We've got much coming up in this four o'clock hour, including a conversation with Congressman Brian style. That's right.

Representing the fighting first congressional district of Wisconsin. He's also chairman of the House's overseeing administration committee there in charge of election reform.

And something else that I think is extremely interesting that we'll talk about as well. They're in charge of a bill that would stop Congress members of Congress from engaging in insider trading.

That'd be nice, wouldn't it? See, there are a lot of perks that people don't fully understand about being a member of Congress. You get a sweetheart salary.

You get the travel all over the place, not on your bill. You get all kinds of perks. You have a Cadillac health insurance plan and retirement. Oh, it's good. It's good. But there are other benefits as well.

You see, you can sit on a committee and talk to people in business all over the place. And they might tell you in those closed door sessions of conversations.

Hey, you better take a look at our stock. It's about to go up because we're going to do X. And then we're going to do Y. And the congressman, the senator can say, oh, that's very interesting. Thank you for that information.

And then immediately once the gentleman leaves, get on the phone and say, hey, Murray, yeah, this is Jim. I got a tip today. And I'm going to go along on Shreveport stockings.

Get all of what I've gotten to Shreveport stockings. It's about to burst. Yeah, see that's a problem. Nancy Pelosi has made a mint on this practice. And she's not alone. Anyway, we'll talk a little bit more about that with Congressman Brian style coming up right around 440 or so.

Also a little bit later, I want to delve into some interesting mechanics going on behind the scenes, not so much behind the scenes anymore. There's an in Trump endorsement that is on the line in a huge Senate race.

And there is a lot of stuff going on behind that that actually ties into what we have been talking about or what we will talk about with Congressman style. And that is the Save America Act, the legislation that does a couple of simple basic and most importantly,

republic-saving things. A couple of things that are absolutely essential to free and fair elections. It is the ultimate election integrity bill and so much is writing on it. But it says, if you are a non-citizen, you can't vote in US elections.

Oh, I know, the left will tell you, well, they can already, you know, it's already against law. It's already a felony if they do that. Yeah, you know what it's all about? Here's what the current system is.

You check a box to say that you are a US citizen and you can vote in that election. That's it. It's an honor system.

And for folks who are already breaking the law coming into this country illegally, and on top of that, there's a sizable percentage of people coming into the country illegally that have committed all kinds of horrible crimes. Now what's going to stop them from voting in an election helped out, of course, by those very, very helpful,

private good government groups on the left, on the far left, very, very much interested in ultimately legalizing non-citizens voting in elections. Anyway, there's a lot of stuff going on with that. We'll talk about it later this hour.

But let us begin here because Kristi Nome, we hardly knew you.

That's right. The breaking news this afternoon, and there's been a lot of breaking news to say the very least, is that Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Nome, embattled DHS Secretary Kristi Nome, is DHS Secretary Nome.

Fox News, all kinds of media outlets reporting. Kristi Nome, the former South Dakota Congresswoman and Governor, who has led President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security in his second term, was ousted from her position on Thursday. That's how it is being described.

And there's a good deal of truth in that, that verb, ousted.

Trump announced on truth social that he will nominate Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican from Oklahoma, to replace Nome, effective March 31st.

Mark Wayne Mullen, we're going to name our first child, Mark Wayne, and then we didn't.

The current Secretary, Kristi Nome, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border, will be moving to be special envoy for the shield of the Americas.

Our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere, we are announcing on Saturday in Deral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at Homeland.

That was a message on truth social by the President of the United States.

And a lot of folks are saying if you can read between the lines, I don't know, we can here.

And the President is saying, don't let the door or hit you on the way out.

In her first official statement on ex following her departure, Nome thanked Trump for her upcoming appointment.

Secretary Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are incredible leaders, and I look forward to working with them closely to dismantle cartels that have poured drugs into our nation and killed our children and grandchildren.

Nome posted on ex talking about her upcoming new position.

The details of which will be further explained coming up over the weekend.

I know that my good friend and a gentleman who joined us on the show yesterday, Bracken Thieves, our Federalist White House correspondent, Pentagon's correspondent, was in Florida today.

And they were talking about this evolving new cabinet agency that's about to be created.

The Western Hemisphere Nome said is absolutely critical for US security.

In this new role, I will be able to build on partnerships and national security expertise, you know, the usual stuff.

Trump and Mullen, Trump said Mullen, has done a tremendous job in Congress and cited his resume as a former undefeated MMA fighter.

Yes, you got to be a fighter in Washington, D.C.

And sometimes literally, did you see the clip of Tim Shahi, the senator, big guy, who helped break up a rowdy character before a Senate hearing yesterday?

Maybe we'll play the clip of that.

Let me tell you, it did not end well for the guy.

It was a Marine, sad to see.

He's also a Green Party candidate.

He hates the war in Iran.

He's not alone on that accord. There are a number of people who hate that as well.

But it would seem to me that he hates a lot of things that Donald Trump is doing regardless as a member of the Green Party.

And he decided to shout out, you know, a lot of things during this hearing yesterday.

And while he was being forcibly removed, he kept coming back for an encore.

Tough to take down that Marine. There's no doubt about it.

The optics weren't real good either.

Yeah, and all of a sudden, he's trying to get back in.

He gets his arm caught in the door.

And that's where things got outcheap.

The video's out there everywhere.

Molen is the first Native American, by the way.

He's the first Native American senator in decades following Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado.

He appeared just as caught off guard by the announcement as the rest of Washington.

But the scuttle butt behind the scenes is that the president has not been real happy with Christy Nome, particularly of late.

A couple of things. He wasn't crazy about her testimony in Congress about what is happening, what has happened at the Department of Homeland Security, particularly as it relates to immigration, customs enforcement, water patrol.

Obviously, this has been a major issue.

And an issue that the left has tried to parlay into electoral success.

We'll see how that plays out later this year.

But there have been some gaps in knowing some sources at DHS.

There have been a lot of conversation about a number of things involving Christy Nome's leadership.

Not the least of which, by the way, are some pretty salacious rumors that according to some sources, at least they say, have been confirmed by watching it.

On that topic, we learned today that Corey Lewandowski will be leaving DHS as well.

Not that those two things are related.

Or are they? I don't know.

Anywho, that's it for Christy Nome in the DHS, the surprised Senator Mullen, Mark Wayne Mullen will have a few days to get set and ready to go.

His governor in Oklahoma, a Republican, a rhino at that, will then have the opportunity to appoint his successor to fill out his term.

Oh, won't that be fun? One more thing before we get to a quick break and get caught up on business. And that is this.

Mr. Gonzalez, we'd like you to leave now.

So long, Congressman Gonzalez, speaking of salacious.

This is more trouble. That's more trouble.

See, this is why it doesn't matter what side of the aisle it is. Politicians will always do really creepy things and some have a really difficult time keeping things in their pants.

House GOP leaders have asked embattled representative Tony Gonzalez, Republican from Texas to drop his bid for re-election.

This story, as Paul Harvey used to say, it's a strange.

The ethics committee has announced an investigation into Congressman.

Tony Gonzalez is conduct and we urge them to act expeditiously. That means right there.

Hey, get on the ball. Congressman Gonzalez has said he will fully cooperate with the investigation that statement by Speaker Mike Johnson and other top Republican reads.

Mr. Gonzalez, you've lost the house.

We have encouraged him to address these serious, very serious allegations directly with his constituents and his colleagues.

In the meantime, leadership has asked Congressman Gonzalez to withdraw from the race for re-election because his conduct or alleged conduct looks really bad.

Gonzalez's re-election bid has been plagued by scandal for weeks ever since allegations emerged.

Here it comes.

That he had an affair with his late aide and sent her sexually explicit text messages.

His pseudonym, Carlos Danger. No, no, no, no. Different guy. All together.

The same aide, Regina Santos Aviles. This is horrible. This story gets worse and worse and worse.

And I want to buffer you for this because this is not just, you know, a sexual scandal in Congress.

This is a, a Mary Jo Peckney kind of thing, Kennedy kind of thing.

If you remember this story, the aide committed suicide by setting herself on fire outside her home late last year, dear Lord.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson, leader of the House GOP campaign arm, told Fox News Digital,

they agree with the speaker and the rest of leadership. Tony should withdraw from the runoff and allow the ethics process to move forward while focusing on his family and serving his constituents for the remainder of his term.

Well, it seems like the focus on the family is the lacking to say the least.

Stay tuned. There is definitely more on this story coming up.

More on the mechanics of passing the Save America Act straight ahead on this Thursday edition with the Dan O'Donnell show with yours truly Matt Kittles.

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Kettle here. You are there in the Dan O'Donnell show Thursday edition coming up in just a few minutes.

Congressman Brian style from the fighting first congressional district. He is chair of the administration committee.

And we're going to talk all about the Save America Act, the election integrity bill of all.

I mean, really at the end of the day, this really could go a long way in making sure that the fundamental thing that we all should agree on is in place.

That confidence comes back into elections free and fair elections are truly back in play no more shenanigans, no more nonsense, no more working to bring in ineligible voters.

We'll talk more about that coming up in just a bit. The headline this hour, speaking of the Save America Act, it's all tied in together.

But some of the machinations going on behind the scenes, very interesting that the headline this hour from the federalist, you can read it at the federalist.com is this Trump despises rhinos.

So why is he reportedly about to endorse one of the swamps biggest?

It goes a little something like this. If President Donald Trump is looking for a senator who embodies the spirit and action of Republican in name only, he couldn't find.

He couldn't find a better man than milk toast Texas senator John Cornyn.

The four-term rhino locked in a contentious GOP primary runoff battle against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,

boasts a storied Senate career of Genuflecting at the altar of the swamp.

Cornyn has been begging for Trump's platinum endorsement more shamelessly than he's prostituted himself for establishment cash.

And it's looking like he might get the president's seal of approval, if you can believe the Trump haiding Atlantic and other pro-depressed publications.

President Trump's political advisors expect him to endorse Senator John Cornyn in Texas's May 26th Republican primary runoff election, following the incumbents better than expected.

Finish against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the first round of voting Tuesday.

Three people briefed on the deliberations told us the Atlantic's Michael Shearer and Ashley Parker write,

does that publish today? No matter. That's what all the talk is anyway. Republican strategists, the corporate reporters assert hope the endorsement will make the Texas Senate race less expensive and less competitive.

There's a lot of concern from the establishment that Ken Paxton has, he's got a few things.

I wouldn't say skeletons in his closets because the skeletons are all out. And we were talking about scandals and things like that. He's dealing with his own.

But one thing conservatism Texas tell me. And what I gather from that very, very heated and contentious race is that the core of the conservative movement, the grassroots, they far and away want to see Paxton win the thing.

They do not want another six years, a fifth six year term by John Cornyn, who has done everything he can to be a company man.

They don't want to see that anymore. This is the guy who helped John Thune and glitch and Mitch McConnell back in 22 come up with a very gun control lobby friendly restriction on second amendment rights.

That's the kind of guy John Cornyn is. He's also been very vocal in his support for the Save America Act, the aforementioned Save America Act.

But sources say that he didn't want to see this thing come up for a vote because that might be difficult for him in a Texas general election.

Anyway, so as of the last hour, a lot of folks were hearing that President Trump was going to endorse Cornyn and he was a little upset that Ken Paxton said, well, endorsement or not, I'm staying in this race.

Trump said, in his usual Trump style, that's bad. And maybe I'm just going to throw my endorsement over to somebody right now.

As of yet that hasn't happened, there are a lot of conservatives saying, whoa, hold up.

And they're saying that in large part because Cornyn is not just a rhino.

He has also had all kinds of issues supporting the president and wanted to get seemed dance on his political grave after the first term when Donald Trump faced a lot of a multi front assault, law fair assault.

And we all know about right now.

Here is the thing. Trump hates rhinos and rightfully so.

He said so many, many times, just ask Indiana's pathetic, in quotes, state Senate, state Senate rhinos who got a collective tummy ache over a midterm redistricting bill pushed by Trump that would have boosted GOP membership in a wafer thin Republican majority house.

Meanwhile, Democrats are redrawing blue state maps left and left to get a leg up on the midterms.

You see, that's the thing. These Republicans, they keep saying, well, we have to stand by our principles and without our principles, there's nothing.

You are not going to be reelected. You are out of power.

The Supreme Court said you can do this. They said that the California, which has already one of the most gerrymandered states for Democrats, there is.

Now they've decided to change their principled way of redrawing maps every decade and turn it into a leftist free for all. Yeah, Texas did it. You bet.

They did it because they could. California followed suits and other Republican states. Okay, well, we're going to get in on the act and then they said, well, geez, if we do this, we could start this horrible redistricting war.

Well, if the Democrats are going to do it fine, but we have to stand by our principles and then they stand by their principles as they're walking out Congress door.

You can ask John Cornyn, by the way, in 2022, Trump blasted Cornyn for bowing alongside then Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to the invidious gun control lobby, the aforementioned deal.

And another thing, Trump loves loyalty. We should all know that by now, right? He's been pretty clear on that. I mean, he really loves loyalty.

It is perhaps his most defining leadership requisite, responsible for the president's unprecedented political successes and some of his head scratching foibles.

Cornyn is as loyal to Trump and the mega movement as he is to $5 donors. That is to say not much.

Cornyn and his establishment pals have prematurely written Trump's political obituary too many times to trust. In 2023, his Trump was mired in a multi-front leftist warfare campaign to keep him off the ballot and put him in prison.

Cornyn was writing off the GOP's eventual nominee and walking away from him when Trump needed him most. A couple of quotes, by the way. Do you want to go on the way back machine? And I always do.

I think President Trump's time has passed him by, Cornyn claimed in 2023. I don't think President Trump understands that when you run in a general election, you have to appeal to voters beyond your base.

You know, in politics, unless you can win an election, then you're pretty much irrelevant. Cornyn later said,

I have concerns about the president's ability to win in November. Cornyn's political instincts, of course, were as shaky as his loyalty.

So if I used to say the senator's comments didn't age well, defying the odds and a political silencing campaign like no other, Trump won in 2024 and he won bigly.

When he did, guess who was back to curry political favor? That's right. Rhino John. And it goes on and on and on again. This is a guy who has repeatedly stymied the Trump agenda.

He and his Rhino pals in the Senate have done very little to advance the executive orders that the president has signed and moved them into law.

And he's a guy that recently talked about wanting to return to the Senate so he could work on an amnesty bill.

All this trouble we're going through right now to clean up the messes of the previous four years of the Biden administration, the auto pen presidency.

This guy wants to undo all of the cleanup work. I hope that the president who has exhibited a lot of good judgment in a lot of good policy over the last several years in this country.

I do hope he reconsideres. He has not endorsed at this point. Maybe that is still sage strategy. Let it play out. However, it's going to do in this runoff, but standing behind a rhino will get you the horn every time.

All right. We're going to talk a little bit more about some of the stuff surrounding this straight ahead. Congressman Brian style first district.

Congressman Wisconsin joins us next to talk about the Save America Act. Stay right where you are. It's Matt Kittel your old radio amigo here on the Dan O'Donnell show.

Here's what you do. You do a little dance. You make a little love. You get down tonight.

I can save it up for Friday. I understand, but we're getting close and that feels good. Hey, I got that Friday mindset. Believe me, weekend can't get here soon enough.

Well, let's ask the important question because it is an existential question, I think, who will save the Save America Act?

Congressman Brian style Republican representing Wisconsin's fighting first congressional district, also chairman of the House's overseeing administration committee joins us with the latest from the swamp. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you so much for joining us.

Good afternoon. Thanks for having me on.

Before we get to the Save Act and we got a lot of stuff to do on that front, but I wanted to talk to you about today's critical vote in the House.

Apparently, enough Democrats said, you know what, with a war in Iran and the last administration's open door policy that let a number of terrorists on the watch list into this country, perhaps it's a good idea to have a fully funded department of homeland security.

How did that go down? Because as I understand it, 44 Democrats still voted against it.

This is where the spending process in Washington DC is so absolutely broken. We should not ever be shutting down our federal government period full stop.

It's not helpful. It's not productive. The spending process is completely bust. But then when you look at where the national radical Democrats want to take this country, you see it very clearly where they're voting against funding the Department of Homeland Security, the department charge was keeping the homeland safe.

In a period of time, after millions of individuals came into the country unchecked during the Biden administration, floated into the United States at a period of heightened risk based on what's taking place right now in the Middle East knowing that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism around the globe and would love to do harm to the United States.

This is the absolute moment where a vote to fund and make sure that the men and women on the front lines of the Department of Homeland Security are getting paid should pass unanimously.

But it doesn't because it shows you exactly where radical Democrats are in house representatives and across the country.

It's just amazing. And now we pivot, of course, to the underpinning of all of this. And that is election integrity to make sure that we have confidence in our election.

So that the people who are elected are actually officially elected to do whatever they're going to do, shut down the government or whatever it is.

We just want to know that there's a legitimate outcome there. You folks in the house have done your job repeatedly. You have passed the Save Act a number of times.

And he passed the Save America Act in a way where it goes to the Republican controlled Senate as a markup, which means that they have to prioritize this.

But it seems like that's too much to ask because what they're going to need to do is do some work. What are you hearing now in the Senate on where all of this is at and where it's going?

Well, for the same reason our nation is less secure from a national security perspective because of the Biden broken border.

Our elections are less secure because of the Biden broken border. It's why you need to pass the Save America Act two key principles.

One, only U.S. citizens should be voting in U.S. elections. And you should verify that when an individual registers devote.

And two, you need to show photo identification that you are who you say you are. Basic core common sense election integrity principles.

We pass this through the house. The conservators in the house have shown time and again that we can move legislation that's essential for this country.

It's frustrating to many of us in the house that the Senate has not yet moved this forward. There's a large debate is the Senate going to break the filibuster.

Are we going to pass legislation with 50 votes plus one or are we going to continue to allow the 60 vote threshold to continue?

We'll see how the Senate plays this out. I think it's absolutely essential that we force the vote in the Senate. Let the chips fall.

Let's put pressure on the Senate to actually pass this because this is common sense legislation that we have a huge opportunity with to actually make sure that we're moving this forward and getting this done for the American people in advance of the November election.

Are you hearing what I'm hearing about some Republicans in the Senate? Just a handful. There are a couple obviously who have come out and said, we don't want to see this bill become a law for reasons that are odd to me that don't make any sense.

Why wouldn't you want what 80% of the voters want in voter verification? But that said there are a number. There are some Republicans in the Senate who have been very vocal in their support of the bill but do not want to have to deal with the talking filibuster, the hard work that that will take the potentially weeks that this would string out the process.

They say, well, we have more important things to do. They're not passing anything of measure anyway. Have you heard that there are some senators who would rather see this thing go away? Have John Thun said, well, we tried, but sorry, can't do anything about it. Democrats.

Yeah, we hear the parliamentary procedure arguments from the Senate time and again. I think that's what frustrates a lot of us. We want to see action. We want to see results. We have a moment in time where we control the United States Senate, the House representatives and the presidency.

The conservatives are united behind driving this agenda forward, but it seems time and again there's a small number of folks in the Senate that have hit this and caused us to hit a roadblock. A lot has been done.

So we looked at one big beautiful bill. We were able to drive that forward with only Republican votes. We've confirmed people as essential positions in this administration.

We hold the Supreme Court with conservatives. We know we will continue to do that as President Trump is in office and Republicans hold the United States Senate, but it is frustrating when the gymnastics of parliamentary procedure get in the way from real and substantive progress.

There's two things we can think about one apply pressure to the Senate to make sure that these things get across the line into elect more conservative Republicans to the United States Senate. So we never have this type of a problem in the future.

Amen. Amen to that. Now you have been taking this say the America act to step farther. Not too long ago you introduced a bill.

I believe it's called the mega act or should say the make elections great again bill and that includes a number of provisions on election integrity election security.

If you could what else is in that beyond voter verification and where does that bill stand today?

We introduced the mega bill make elections great again because it's my belief that we have to have comprehensive election integrity reform to secure our elections and give Americans confidence in our election system.

We absolutely need to need the two key provisions in the Save America act. We do need citizenship verification and photo ID, but I think we have to go a long ways beyond that.

I think you need paper ballots that are auditable. I think you need to ban ranked choice voting and ban ballot harvesting. I think you need to have elections and on election day.

I think you need to make sure that we are cleaning up our voter rolls and a host of other provisions are needed. The mega act is as it sounds. It is the comprehensive reforms that are needed.

It builds on the two provisions of the Save America act and says yes we do need those, but in fact if we're going to clean this up and make our elections the gold standard that they should be.

Here are the reforms that are needed and I think what we have as an opportunity here with President Trump at the White House who is acutely attuned to the exact challenges we face in elections and the need to reform them.

This is our moment in time to substantively fix U.S. elections so that Americans once again have full confidence in the results we see as tallied on election night.

Absolutely and with a big election night coming up extremely consequential in November more important than ever that Congress moves on all of this stuff.

I wish we had some more time because I really wanted to get into another piece of legislation you have and I think so many Americans are glad to hear it, glad to see it.

It's about insider trading in Congress. We're up against the clock, but we will definitely have to have you back on soon to talk a little bit more about that.

Look forward to it. Thanks for having me.

You bet Congressman Brian style representing the fine folks in the fighting first congressional district talking about how we go about saving this republic.

You know how you do it? Pass the damn Save America Act. 80% of the American voters want to see this.

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We got a few things we need to take care of this hour, going to get into a couple of things. I'm not going to have a chance to do it today, I wish I did, because I think there are a lot of people in the state of Wisconsin that are confused and I am one of them by what the hell is going on with this sports betting legislation.

It seems like a tug of war going on between the tribes, which of course have the exclusive right in the state of Wisconsin and the Constitution to run casino's gambling operations. What have you?

And now there's this whole plan to expand to bring into Wisconsin statewide sports betting and the sports betting industry is ticked off about this as far as I understand it for some reasons, absolutely, I get it.

There is the concern about the monopoly. There definitely is the concern about Tony Evers negotiating a deal that goes on for a long time. Now what could possibly go wrong with Tony Evers negotiating a deal that goes on for, oh, I don't know, 400 years.

Well, check your property tax bill, they'll see exactly what can go wrong when that happens. Anyway, the other side obviously says, well, wait a minute, these guys, the sport betting industry, you know, they want to control everything and you won't get your money here in Wisconsin, they're going to be out of state, all these sorts of things.

I wanted to get a clearer understanding of what is going on. I know I've talked to a number of folks who feel the same way. They're also very concerned about some back room deals that are going on that shouldn't be going on. And anyway, that's a topic perhaps for tomorrow. And we'll see what we can do on that front.

Let us begin here, though. I mean, right here, what is that, by the way? Oh, it is some breaking news on the voting front, as we told you about earlier today, last hour, the house passed a measure. How about this to fund the Department of Homeland Security?

That's a good idea. It really is to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, you know, with your transportation security administration, with your FEMA, your emergency agency, your cyber security intelligence, all of that sort of stuff.

And a lot of law enforcement law related officials tied to it, not necessarily ice or border patrol, but so many people, depending on a functioning government.

And it's particularly important to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security when the homeland is under increased threat.

And I think enough Democrats got that through their thick skulls today that they voted in favor of fully funding the DHS.

It took long enough, but we're here. The house passed the measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security this afternoon, but Senate Democrats blocked similar legislation across the Capitol, meaning the partial government shutdown, that's right, will continue for now.

So you're not out of the woods yet, but at least enough Democrats in the house got it passed there, 44 Democrats, as I understand it, said, no, don't worry about the thousands of people who are either actually on terrorist watch list are part of a terror nexus or just really hate America.

Don't worry about that while the war in Iran is going on, because what we're really concerned about is we want to stop the law enforcement officers who are enforcing immigration law.

We don't want them to do their jobs anymore.

I mean, literally, they'll tell you that it's, well, we want reforms in there because this agency is out of control. They've killed people.

Of course, what they always refuse to mention is what they really want is no law enforcement whatsoever.

These are the same people that brought you the defund the police. These are the same people, obviously in Milwaukee, as we talked about yesterday, that want to abolish ICE.

They don't want any cooperation with local law enforcement officials to bring in violent criminal illegal immigrants.

It's a very dangerous world.

Lawmakers shouldn't make it more dangerous.

Anywho, the House approved the measure to fund the HS through September in a 221 to 209 vote.

So you got about what, half a year, and then it's back to this stupidity again.

Earlier in the day, the Senate voted 51 to 45 to move forward, failing for a third time to reach a 60 vote threshold needed to advance.

Good Lord.

Listen, I understand the filibuster is critical to stop insane legislation.

And there's clearly a lot of insane legislation out there because, frankly, there are a lot of insane lawmakers out there.

But you can't get to a 60 vote threshold on something like making sure the homeland is secure.

Listen, I have met, I have been part of really dysfunctional families in my 50 plus years.

This is the most dysfunctional family you will ever meet.

These people cannot be in the same room together. They have shown that over and over again.

A number of them need interventions. A lot of different interventions at that.

GOP leaders have called on their colleagues across the aisle to support a bipartisan agreement that appropriators reached earlier this year to fund the HS through September.

But that deal was reached before a second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis in January, which prompted Democrats to go back on a crazy and say, hey, you see this?

This is rampant violence going on from the people, the law enforcement agents who have experienced an 8,000 uptick and 8,000 percentage point uptick in violence against them.

So, therefore, we will not fund them.

Meanwhile, the, perhaps, the JV team, as Obama like to call them, setting up shop somewhere in Topeka, or God knows where.

President Trump announced shortly before the Senate vote that he was replacing DHS Secretary Kristi Nome.

And so, the pieces kind of fall together on that politically, don't they?

Adding a new twist in negotiations, some Democrats indicated the move could help lead to a compromise.

Democrats, Senator, Richard Stolenvaller-Bloomenthal of Connecticut said earlier that it might be easier for us to negotiate on DHS funding if Nome was fired.

Well, guess what happened.

So, that might make some sense.

A lot of talk that Trump was not real happy with Kristi Nome anyway for a number of reasons, including her testimony before Congress this week.

And so, expendable.

Sure, okay, there you go.

I wouldn't say it's a sacrificial lamb.

I think that Kristi Nome had some bigger issues going on within the management of DHS that a lot of homeland security folks found troubling.

And I'm not talking about the nut jobs in the usual bureaucracy.

But she did a lot of good things, too.

Let's call the record for what it was.

I mean, if you liked getting a border back, she did a great job at that.

If you like law and order in immigration in America, I think she did a pretty good job at that.

I think that she had some messaging problems.

I think that she was way too concerned about making videos in Camel.

Those sexy Camel outfits.

I think just kind of there were a disconnect.

The different hats.

What did they spend?

It was an ungodly amount.

It was upon tens upon millions of dollars.

I don't know what the exact price tag was.

But they were videos produced starring Kristi Nome that were made to tell illegal immigrants, hey, we have a deal for you.

You get the hell out of here.

Before you do, we'll cut you a check.

If you head south, and at some point you can go through the legal process, and we won't bar you from that.

You don't get the money.

You never get a chance to go through the process.

You're barred from coming in at all, and you're screwed.

That was a message that I think obviously was quite successful.

A lot of illegal immigrants took the federal government up on that sweetheart deal.

Kristi Nome did a lot of these videos, except they seemed to all be running on fox news.

I don't know about you.

But I think it's a safe bet that a slim portion, a slim percentage of foxes viewing audience are illegal immigrants.

I'm just saying.

Oh, they ran on Newsmax too.

Yes, even better.

So you got to know your marketplace, and that wouldn't it.

Anywho.

So Kristi's gone.

The hope was that you would get the house, which you did, and then you get the senate.

Now we'd have funding for DHS.

You don't.

Because once again, you have people that have put their posturing and their performance above public safety.

So here we are.

Is there hope that this thing could come to an end soon?

Never hold your breath.

Republicans have argued that ending the impasse has grown more urgent since the beginning of the war with Iran.

They do that because that is reality.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said this week that quote,

there are always threats to the homeland that have to be addressed.

But the stakes are higher now.

Yes, again, anyone with a lower level IQ understands that.

I'll speak for Mike Johnson said in a statement Tuesday that military action in Iran makes it all the more urgent and crucial to have a fully staffed, fully funded department of homeland security across departments.

If we are being wise, now is the time to be vigilant at home and to ensure that all of our doors are locked.

So to speak, Johnson said obviously everyone understands that it's a heightened threat environment.

Global tensions are high.

Threats are constantly evolving and America's adversaries are watching for any sign of weakness on our part.

Not everyone understands that clearly.

If they did, then DHS would be fully funded right now.

That's not to say that the Department of Homeland Security is going to stave off every threat out there.

They clearly haven't nor will the FBI working with their partners in local law enforcement.

But if you have the people in place, the technology, the intelligence in place, it makes your job a lot easier.

And it makes the odds of a nasty attack much less, much lower.

Now it's time for everyone to get that idea.

We shall see. We shall see.

Coming up next, this is a bad idea.

Or at least it has come to be a bad idea.

And I'm going to tell you something.

I thought this was a bad idea long before coming to pass.

Maybe free Britney hashtag free Britney was such a good idea after all.

We'll delve into the latest on that front.

And before we check out today, this headline, poop spread illness is on the rise just in time.

For dinner, I hope you will stay with us.

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It's a Dan O'Donnell show Thursday edition.

Kittle here.

You are there.

I'm glad you are.

Welcome to the ride home.

One more day, baby.

That's pay dirt.

The weekend.

You smell it.

I love the smell of weekend in the afternoon, don't you?

Sure do.

Well, I said this was a bad idea at the time.

There were some people in my household.

There were some people in my life who said, no.

How can you be so cruel?

How can you be so mean?

Britney.

Britney is a prisoner of her father's making by God.

Set that woman free.

And I said, I get what you're saying, but it's kind of a lunatic.

And this could end very badly for everyone.

No, no, no, no, no, they said they said, uh,

everyone deserves to be free.

She's an adult.

She should be able to make her own decisions about her life, her finances,

the people she has in or out of her life.

I said, yeah, all of that sounds good on the surface.

But have you seen this young woman, not so young anymore?

This young woman's track record.

It's something like a portfolio.

It always say, um, acceptance of the exact opposite.

They say, the past is not indicative of the future.

It's not an indicator of the future.

But in this case, it's all just a little bit of history repeating.

And, uh, here we are.

At least it feels kind of like we're back at the square one.

I'm sure you did, Britney.

You know, I, who would have thought this girl could have gone so wrong

in her tight red rubber suit, gyrating about?

I know it.

That's been the problem.

Um, so, so here it is.

The story, the Britney story, the latest one from Fox News this hour.

Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in California.

I'm going to file this away under the heading of least surprising story of the day.

Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in California.

California Highway Patrol arrested spears around 9, 28 pm,

according to records viewed by Fox News digital.

The baby one more time singer was booked at 302 am.

No, not booked to perform.

It was booked by law enforcement authorities released around 607 am on Thursday.

Authorities arrested spears for allegedly driving under the influence.

A source told Fox News digital TMZ was the first to report the arrest as you might expect.

Is what TMZ do?

This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable.

A rep for spears told Fox News digital.

Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law.

And hopefully this can be the first step in a long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life.

They freed Britney. That was the bottom line, right?

That was what the big documentary, that was the big story several years back.

Pretty sure that that was the case.

It was all about Britney getting control of her life, getting her life back together,

showing the court that was involved in all of this and she could get her life.

And the court had misgivings and all of those sorts of things.

And they still have no matter what, they still have a representative who has to talk in a scolding tone when she deals with this.

What is she 30 something now?

She 40 something? I know those little.

I think she's 40 something too.

I know those puppet faced kids on that.

She's 44. Yes, good lord.

She's not that innocent.

I'm trying to tell you.

What were those twins from that show?

They look like little puppets to me.

The Wilson twins? Flip Wilson's kids?

Oh, the Olsen twins, okay.

Though you're taking me way back in television history, the Olsen twins, that's right.

On that full house show, the one where Bob Sagitt was a clean freak dad who loved his kids.

And then at night would go do some of the raunchiest comedy that you'd ever hear right after TV's funniest home videos where people were always, always doing horrible things to their crutches.

They're in their 40s now too, aren't they? The Olsen twins? They got to be.

All of these kids.

My mom used to say this and I'm getting to an age where I know this more and more.

So just a tad younger than Brittany Spears.

They're not that innocent as the song goes.

My mom used to tell me this before she passed. She said,

everybody I used to watch on television and at the movies and listen to on the radio are dead.

It was not an uplifting thought.

It was true.

Eventually all the people, it's the same thing.

Now Brittany Spears, oops I did it again and baby one more time can be heard on all these stations.

You want to feel real old. There you go.

So anyway, back to Brittany's troubles.

As her rep says, Brittany is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step.

And a long overdue change that needs to occur in Brittany's life.

Yes, the journey of a thousand steps begins with one or 12 as this case may show.

Hopefully she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.

Her boys are going to be spending time with her.

Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan.

Set her up for success for well-being.

It is crazy though, isn't it?

She was a huge star.

I think she was on the Mickey Mouse Club or something years ago.

She was on some Disney show, right?

And so she came out of there and then she's this big, massive celebrity star pop queen.

Then all of a sudden she's topless in places and caught on camera doing things and just spiraling out of control.

And we've seen that with a lot of Hollywood celebrities.

You're not alone. A lot of people and regular Joe's in life have done that.

But Brittany in particular had quite the wipe out.

And apparently it was so bad that her dad and people in her life

had to step in and say, you just can't do it anymore.

And we're going to set up like a trust, a conservatorship.

We're going to have the court involved in this.

We're going to oversee every aspect of your life.

And that's of course when all of the free Brittany campaign came out saying that she was being oppressed by her oppressors.

And oops, she did it again.

This batch audio obtained by Fox News Digital indicated that the California Highway Patrol followed spears for a while.

On the freeway and other roads in the Greater Los Angeles area before polling her over.

Driver is out of the vehicle.

Police can be heard saying just talking with the driver, someone said.

And immediately said, oh my god, it's Britney Spears.

Should she be allowed to drive? No, I didn't say that.

They were thinking that though.

They said, do they need a Ventura supervisor to roll out?

That's police lingo for saying maybe we need some support here.

While dispatch asked officers if they'd like a supervisor, it's unclear if one was needed.

Anyway, Fox News Digital has reached out to California Highway Patrol.

None of that is really necessary.

What is really relevant to the story is according to Fox, the Gimme More singer is no stranger to public scrutiny.

Spears struggle with mental health in the early 2000s led to a controversial conservatorship as we noted before.

Helmed by her father, Jamie Spears.

Some of her fans said the dad was a tyrant.

And again, she should be in control of her own life, her own destiny following two involuntary psychiatric holds in 2008.

Jamie was granted a temporary conservatorship over his daughter.

At the end of the year, the court order became permanent.

And Jamie was appointed conservator with attorney Andrew Wallet named as co conservator.

But then in 19, excuse me, 2021, November of that year, Spears was freed just as the people demanded.

Hashtag free Brittany.

She was freed from a conservatorship.

Jamie controlled for more than 13 years while addressing the court.

When her term ended, Spears said, I just want my life back.

All I want is to own my money and for my boyfriend to be able to drive me in his car.

Mm-hmm.

And now it appears her boyfriend is going to have to drive her in her car if she is convicted of this operating while intoxicated.

Anyway, there is your Brittany update now.

And for all of those who said passionately, vehemently, free Brittany Spears last night early this morning.

She was in custody once again.

We'll take a quick break coming up.

We've got a few other things I want to get to.

A few spare thoughts as we wrap this baby up.

Stay with us.

It's the Dan O'Donnell show with yours truly, Matt Kittle.

You can tell by the way I walk I'm a woman's man no time to talk.

And then some, hey, how are you?

Kittle here, you are there wrapping it up just a few fleeting moments in this Thursday edition of the Dan O'Donnell show.

And I got too much going on here.

I don't think we're going to get to everything, but let's start here.

A little fun and frivolity.

Eric, you got a little extra cash line around.

Okay.

If you can put whatever you have together, let's you and I, we go in on this deal.

Six flags, entertainment, selling off seven of its amusement parks in the United States and Canada.

You ready?

Let's get out of this radio business.

Well, let's see.

What do they have on the list?

On Thursday, the company said it would sell off Michigan's, where'd that go?

Michigan's kind of hate when they do that.

Michigan's adventure, Michigan's adventure in Muskegon.

Michigan.

Schlitterbahn.

Excuse me.

Waterpark in Galveston, Texas.

Six flags, great escape in Queensbury, New York.

Six flags, Laurent in Montreal.

Six flags, St. Louis in Missouri.

How about that, huh?

You ever been there?

That is a big one.

Oh, man, did we have some fun back in the day there.

Valley fair in Minneapolis is on the market as well.

And worlds of fun in Kansas City.

For, listen, you can get this whole thing, the sweetheart deal.

Six adventure land parks altogether for the low, low price of $331 million.

What do you think?

Going on?

Is that a yes vote?

Let me check my wallet here.

Let me see.

I don't think four bucks is going to cut it.

I'm not even going to cut it for poker tomorrow night.

I better do something else.

Consistent with our strategy, this divestiture, enables us to concentrate our capital.

Leadership and operational focus on the properties that we believe generate the strongest returns

and offer the greatest long-term upside.

Six flags, entertainment corporation chief executive John Riley said in a news release.

So all of these parks, and I've been to a couple of them.

I know that our mutual friend in the I Heart Madison Milwaukee chain, Sean Prebel,

has done like a tour of at least the Midwest big amusement parks and maybe beyond that.

I don't know if he went to, if he's gone to Schlitterbond.

Would you ever have that a October Fest?

It's really good.

You put a little mustard on that Schlitterbond and with a cold mug of beer.

But I know he does the Schlitterbond.

You can drive as fast as you want on the Schlitterbond.

But holy Schlitterbond, there have been some crashes out there, that's for sure.

Anyway, I was glad to see that one of the places that I loved to go to and we would try to do it

when I was a kid once a summer, at least, was Great America in Gurney, Illinois, the Chicago area.

And I rode all of those roller coasters, all of the time.

And I could do that when I was 11 years old.

As a 50-something-year-old man with vertigo, that is a literal death sentence.

I can tell you that.

We were at Little America when the kids were little outside of Madison.

And they just had, you know, they have the big, big roller coasters.

They're the fun-sized kid roller coasters.

And they had something called the bullet.

And my son, who was maybe six, seven years old at the time, he said,

Dad, we got to go on that.

We got to go on that.

And every man must know his limitations.

And I knew mine, but he was really insistent.

And I wanted to be the brave and courageous dad and my young son's eyes.

And so I stupidly decided to get into that coffin-like space

with a little air-breathing vent, wiry vent up top.

And there were two of these pods.

We got into one.

There was another dad and his son and the other one.

And the thing would just shoot down and then come back up,

like a bullet into the ground.

And oh my god, like within 15 seconds, 20 seconds of this ride,

I was out of my head.

Like I said, I have vertigo.

And so things get really not good in that situation.

So things were getting crazy.

I was seeing double.

I was very, very nauseous.

And I just remember screaming to the carny below.

Okay, that's good.

I'm good.

You can stop it now.

Give other kids a chance.

This is like a minute end of this thing.

And I look at what I can see in my blurred vision is this very malicious

malevolent carny who looked up at me.

And he gave me a greasy thumbs up and just smiled and smiled.

I said, no, no, no, you don't understand.

I'm going back and forth very much on the verge.

Things were going to get pretty vomiting.

They never did.

It never came to that.

And after what seemed like a century,

that son of a gun let us down.

And my boy was so excited.

Oh, dad wasn't that funny.

He thought I was being a funny guy when I was saying,

okay, that's enough.

Now slower down.

Could we get off?

Dad, you're so funny.

I'm so sick son.

I'm so, so very sick and wobbly.

So the roller coasters and the spinny things are not good for me.

But I always like to enjoy the kids on there having fun.

I did when I could handle it.

And so yes, it'd be a great, great fun adventure to own six.

Adventure land or not adventure land.

Great America.

Parks, six flags, parks across the country for the low, low price,

$331 million.

Okay, let's close with this story just a warning.

And a bit of a really, how do we get here again?

And shouldn't we alert FDR?

The headline is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

warns of polio risk.

That's right.

Polio in over 30 countries as spring break travel ramps up.

Polio, that's the thing that God Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a wheelchair.

That's the thing you look at these black and white photos

from the 1950s, the Eisenhower years.

And you see kids in those iron lungs.

Just terrible, tragic things.

And all of a sudden the guy comes along, he's got a sugar cube.

And there's no polio anymore in the country.

I mean, it's gone.

It's gone.

It's back.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

as issued a warning about circulating polio virus in over 30 countries.

The level two practiced enhanced precautions.

Well, that does sound serious.

The alert was published earlier this week before any intentional travel.

Make sure you are up to date on your polio vaccines.

The agency said, shaking the agency's head saying,

really polio?

Black death coming next, yes.

The announcement comes as Americans begin their spring break travels.

And countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany are among those listed in the warning.

So if you plan to travel over the pond, remember polio is on the rise.

Travelers are told they can prevent the illness by making sure that both adults and children are up to date on their polio vaccines.

And it comes pretty standard.

It has for a long time.

Adults who previously completed the full routine polio vaccine series may receive a single lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine.

The CDC recommends, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

This isn't one of those bait and switch things.

The old switcheroo, is it?

You're going to say it's polio.

And then it's the 15th version of the COVID update.

This applies, by the way, to any Americans who are planning on traveling to countries listed,

the CDC warns that the disease is crippling, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt could have testified,

and can be deadly impacting the nervous system.

Good handwashing practices could help prevent the spread of this disease, the CDC notes.

It's always good advice, because basically where this is coming from,

and I realize it's getting too close to dinner time, but I want you to be aware and I want you to be warned.

Because the virus that causes polio lives in the feces, aka poop, of an infected person.

People infected with the disease can spread it to others when they do not wash their hands well after number two.

Actually, I love it when you have to force the CDC to use the, in a press release, to use the term pooping.

I said, this happens if you don't wash your hands very well after defecating parentheses, pooping.

You got it?

Wait a minute now.

What's that defecating?

I don't do that.

It's pooping.

Oh, God.

God, I do that.

Okay, I just wanted you to be alert and to be warned.

I've got to go.

You have yourself a great night until we talk again, Kiddell saying goodbye.

So long.

God bless.

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