Episode 2

Listen as Toby gives his unfiltered opinions on Mike Rounds' comments on Ukraine, SD sports, SD ACLU transgender tweets, and more!

Episode Transcript

Toby Doeden (00:01):
What an amazing place we live, south Dakota.
My mission statement is simpleto re-energize the true
conservative values of SouthDakota.
You're listening to Toby DodenUnfiltered.
Hey folks, welcome back toepisode two of my podcast, toby

(00:26):
Doden Unfiltered.
I am your host, toby Doden, andbefore we get going on episode
two, I just want to report howhappy we are with the results of
episode one.
I didn't really know what toexpect.
I didn't know if 50 peoplewould watch it or 100 people
would watch it, but I have beenoverwhelmed with how many people

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I know personally and people Idon't even know that have
reached out and are happy thatwe are getting involved and
we're talking about things thata lot of other people, quite
frankly, aren't talking about.
So we actually have tens ofthousands of views across all of
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So we've got a big, big, bigshow today.

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We're going to talk aboutseveral things and we're going
to keep it moving.
One of the things we're goingto talk about is we're going to
recap and I'm excited to do thisbecause we haven't gotten to do
this yet we're going to recapthe recent state high school
volleyball and footballchampionships, so some
interesting stuff there aroundthe state.
So stay tuned for that.
We're also going to discuss arecent conversation or a speech

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that Senator Mike Rounds gave,specifically about the war in
Ukraine.
I've got some interesting takes.
You're not going to want tomiss that.
And we're also going to talkabout the ACLU of South Dakota,
and that is definitely somethingyou're not going to want to
miss.
But before we get to any of that, I had a lot of people before

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episode one and I've had evenmore people since episode one
dropped that think I should talkabout my career, my business
career, and just talk a littlebit about Doden Investment Group
and where the spirit forinvesting came from, and so it's
not that I really like.

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I don't think anybody reallylikes talking about themselves,
but enough people have told methat they would find it
interesting and the peoplethey've spoken to would find it
interesting, and so, in order toget as many people to watch our
show and to interact with ourshow, I suppose it's fair of
them to ask that I, you know,give a little bit more
information about me, myprofessional life, and you know

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kind of where my inspirationcomes from.
So I remember going back as achild.
I mentioned in episode one Iwas the baby of the family and I
was much younger than my nextclosest sibling and so, being
the youngest child, I'm suremany of you out there that are
listening are the youngest childin your family.
It's a blessing and a curse.

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Are listening, are the youngestchild in your family.
It's a blessing and a curse.
Some say you get spoiled, butsome say you also get left
behind a little bit, becausewhen mom and dad have four, five
, six, seven siblings my parentshad four kids by the time they
get to the fourth one,especially when it's an oops, so
to speak, many years after thefact, they're just kind of done

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with it, they're kind of tired,and so I think that's a category
I fell in.
So as a young kid I rememberalways having to look for ways
to entertain myself.
And so from a very, very youngage, I always had a lot of
entrepreneurial thoughts.
I was a daydreamer ofentrepreneurial thoughts.

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I was a daydreamer.
I always had like, played outall these grand visions in my
mind of things I wanted to dowhen I became an adult this is
literally started at five, six,seven years old and so as soon
as I graduated high school and Irealized college wasn't the
answer for me, I immediatelystarted trying to become the

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next, whatever you want to callit.
If there was a way to try tomake a buck, I tried it.
I bought vending machines.
I started a vending company,you know, like the quarter
machines you see at, like thehardware stores and stuff that
have like the nuts and thepeanuts.
Yep, I did a whole bunch ofthose.
I painted houses, I sold cellphones, I sold satellite dishes.

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I installed satellite dishes.
I started a paint store with myparents.
I had a couple rentalproperties that I had bought on
a contract for deed when I was20 years old.
I was always trying to make aquick buck.
Well, all of that basically leftme working at Dwayne's, amico

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and Groton for minimum wage.
I had just gotten married, mywife was expecting our first
child, and so you know, it wasat this time I kind of realized
I needed to kind of put theseentrepreneurial dreams on hold
and I needed to do the rightthing and take care of my family

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.
I needed health insurance, Ineeded benefits, I needed a
steady income.
So I applied for a salesposition job at Aberdeen
Chrysler back in February of1997.
I was granted an interview.
I was offered the job on thespot so I took it.
My first month at AberdeenChrysler selling on the floor

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for a whole month was March of1997.
I remember it like it wasyesterday.
I sold 23 cars.
My very first month made moremoney than I had ever dreamed of
.
Keep in mind I was coming froma minimum wage job literally
pumping gas at a gas station,and a month later I had made,
you know, eight or ten timeswhat I had ever made at Dwayne's

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Amoco selling cars.
So I was hooked from day one inthe car business.
I don't think it was the carbusiness necessarily, I think it
was just the sales game.
I I had worked on and off forthree years at 3M as well.
I did a lot of things between 18and 22.
Okay, so, um, I worked in thesummers at 3M for three years

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and when you work in a factorythere aren't any windows right,
and so when you get to work, yougo inside, you don't.
You don't see the blue sky orthe sun for 8 to 12 hours,
depending on your shift.
So when I started selling carsat aberdeen chrysler, I just
remember being amazed that notonly could I see outside and see

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the sun and see the blue skywhile I was working, but I could
actually go outside anytime Iwanted and get fresh air and I
know that sounds kind of goofyfor folks listening in the year
2024.
But you know, 26 years ago,having come off of a factory job
and a minimum wage you know gasstation job, where I was always

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being told what to do everysecond of the day selling cars
was liberating for me.
Yes, I had a supervisor and Ihad rules, but generally
speaking, I felt like I owned myown business because I
controlled my paycheck.
I controlled my paycheck.
The more good folks that I gotin front of and shook their hand

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and developed relationshipswith, the more vehicles I would
sell, and the more vehicles Iwould sell, the more money of me
.
So I was hooked on the carbusiness from day one and I love
selling and I love meetingpeople.
So that continued for a numberof years.
I got many, many, manypromotions at Aberdeen Chrysler
throughout the years, not goingto go through those, and

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ultimately I ended up becomingthe general manager and then the
partner to the gentleman thathired me all the way back in
1997.
His name's Roger Gray.
He was my mentor and eventuallyI ended up buying out his
entire stake in the company andbecame the sole owner.
So that was kind of my earlyprofessional career.

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Everything I've been able to do, everything I've learned how to
build teams, how to mentor, howto bond with people teams, how
to mentor, how to bond withpeople.
You know how to sell things topeople.
All came from my history in thecar business.
The thing is, after more thantwo decades in the car business
I woke up one day and realized acouple of things.

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Number one I didn't really likethe car business.
You know, as a franchise cardealer you are at the mercy of
the manufacturer.
So aberdeen chrysler is achrysler dealer.
So we have jeep, dodge, ramright and so we can do
everything right.
But if the economy isn't doingwell or the manufacturer isn't

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doing well, it can affect ourbusiness.
So I don't like being involvedin businesses where we don't
ultimately control the outcome.
You can do everything perfectin the car business and you can
still lose.
And secondly, I just reallydidn't particularly enjoy the
business and I really wanted toventure off and I wanted to get

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into some other businessopportunities, some other
industries and kind of hedgeagainst the car business From a
business standpoint.
You know there's an old sayingdon't put all of your eggs in
one basket.
At this particular time in mycareer all of my eggs were in
the automotive basket and so Irealized I needed to take

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resources that were available tome and I needed to find a way
to expand.
And the other big part aboutthat that didn't really get
discussed at the time but it'sbecome very prevalent today is
we had so many young, talentedleaders at the dealership.
We were growing so much talentat the dealership.

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We were growing so much talent.
We would hire young people withno experience and we would
mentor them and we would growthem, not just to teach them the
car business but to teach themlife and leadership and all the
skills that you need to getahead.
Well, it got to the point wherewe had so many talented people
at Aberdeen Chrysler that acouple of them had left because
we couldn't find challengingopportunities for them to grow

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in their own personal career.
So by venturing off andestablishing the Doden
Investment Group, it gave a lotof people from Aberdeen Chrysler
and eventually from all of thedifferent entities, an
opportunity to keep growing andgrowing.
So if they got an opportunityto lead one business or one
department or one group ofpeople and they knocked it out

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of the park, they were alwaysgoing to have another
opportunity on the horizon andthat's really what has propelled
the upward trajectory of ourbusiness, upward trajectory of
our business.
So the first thing that wereally focused on, in addition
to the car business, was PlazaRentals.
We started Plaza Rentals.

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I mean, plaza Rentals has beenaround a while.
We really started to expandPlaza Rentals in, you know,
around 2019 and 2020.
Our mission was very simple.
Our mission was to do whatnobody else in Aberdeen was

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doing and, quite frankly, Idon't know that anybody had ever
done in Aberdeen.
What we decided to do, and thatwas clean up old, dilapidated
properties.
We call them value addedproperties.
So there's plenty of developersthat build new apartment
complexes, you know, newbuildings and all this kind of

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stuff.
Aberdeen's had a lot of newproperty put up, a lot of
multifamily real estate, twinhomes, et cetera, in the last 10
or 15 years.
That's not what we were lookingto do.
We were looking to improveneighborhoods all over the city
of Aberdeen by buying existingproperties that were either

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dilapidated or had beensignificantly run down by the
current owners of that property.
And our goal was to buy thoseproperties, rejuvenate them,
renovate them, clean them up,get rid of the crime, get rid of
the filth, make safe livingquarters, for you know anybody

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in Aberdeen that was looking forthat.
So that was the first thing westarted to do.
So over the course of the lasthandful of years or so, I think
Plaza Rentals has probablypurchased, you know, maybe 150
to 200 properties.
You know mostly in the Aberdeenarea.
Of those 150 to 200 properties,you know it's a pretty even mix

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of, you know apartmentcomplexes.
You know big apartmentbuildings all bunched together
single family homes, justregular homes that folks live in
, twin homes, commercialproperties, storage units, we've
got extended stays, we've gotcontractor garages you name it

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and we're in it.
So Plaza Rentals grew very,very quickly and to this day
we're still continuing to searchout and look for properties
that have the ability for us tobe able to buy them and to
renovate them and then to findeither tenants for them or to
find new them.
And then to find, you know,either tenants for them or to
find new owners, specificallysingle family homes.

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We bought I can't even tell youhow many dozens and dozens, if
not more than a hundred, singlefamily homes in Aberdeen and
most of them we have renovatedthem, fixed them up, gotten them
first time home buyer eligible,which is a big deal and then we
put them back on the market.
So young folks, you know, havehomes that they can buy.

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So that was really the firstbig thing that we did.
In addition to Plaza Rentals,you know, we decided to invest
into some businesses.
We bought some businesses, westarted some businesses and it
may have seemed a littlesporadic, I had a lot of people

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chuckle the last four or fiveyears because, you know, every
time something got sold inAberdeen they assumed I bought
it.
Well, clearly that's not true,but we did buy a lot of stuff.
We decided to focusspecifically on any kind of
business that the vast majorityof residents have a repeated,

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you know, need for.
So, example gas, you know, realestate rental units, coffee
shop, I mean things automotive,auto body shop, car dealerships.
We're not looking to invest invanity, things right.
So we're looking to invest inthings that people use on a

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daily basis and are always goingto need.
And so we bought a truck stop.
We've since bought a few gasstations, we've got coffee shops
.
We've got coffee shops, we'vegot liquor stores, we've got a
bunch of casinos.
A Gentry Realty Company weacquired, which has fit in very
nicely with Plaza Rentals, to beable to seamlessly buy and sell

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property.
Ingalls Event Center, downtownIpswich Lumber is part of our
group.
We recently and some peopleprobably don't even know this,
but we recently just acquiredCampbell's Town and Country
Lumberyard in Aberdeen, whichwas the largest lumberyard in
Aberdeen.
There are only two lumberyardsin Aberdeen, so we're now going
to own Campbell's Town andCountry.

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I actually have a few partnersin that.
So we've been very, very activein and around Aberdeen.
We've got a couple other realestate companies that have a
bunch of property in Groton.
We have property in Ipswich, wehave property in Webster, we
have property in Redfield wasreally to revitalize and

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re-energize the business marketand the real estate market in
Northeast South Dakota, and Ithink we've definitely
accomplished that.
So we've grown to I'm not sure,probably, you know well over
three to 400 employees and youknow we are constantly mentoring

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young people, looking for newleadership roles and we're going
to continue to do that.
So that is that.
Might have gotten a littlelonger, but I kind of wanted to
touch on everything.
If you have more questions onthings we're doing or
entrepreneurship, I love talkingbusiness with people.
I think it's great when peoplehave that drive to want to do

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their own thing, but it's notfor everybody.
I had somebody tell me oncethey wanted to own their own
business because they wanted tohave flexible hours and set
their own schedule and all thisstuff.
And I looked at them and I'mlike all right, you're kidding,
right.
Like when you own a smallbusiness, you are the small

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business, right?
Like very few small businessesever scale to the point where
the owner isn't the largestdriving factor in the success of
that business.
So everybody says they want tobe a small business owner, but
history has shown me that a verysmall percentage of people are

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actually willing or able to putthe time and effort in that it
takes to make a small businesssuccessful.
The fact that my investmentgroup, the Doden Investment
Group, has been able to do thisand replicate that success in
more than 20 small businessessimultaneously is a testament of

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the great people and the greatleaders we have in our
organization.
So enough about that.
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other social media platform outthere.
So, as I mentioned in myopening, we're going to talk a

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little bit about Mike Rounds.
Senator Mike Rounds from SouthDakota, as I'm sure most of you
know.
Senator Rounds, you know, hadrounds and I believe it was
rounds and Fisher insurance orFisher and rounds.
The man did well, was abusiness owner, a very, very

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successful insurance company.
He ended up parlaying that intobeing the governor in South
Dakota.
After he was governor, heeventually ran for US Senate and
I guess, as an outsider lookingin at Mr Mike Rounds years ago,
not being involved in politicsat all, he seemed like a good

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fit for South Dakota.
I think, generally speaking, alot of people thought he did
okay as governor and I think upuntil the last five or six years
I think a lot of people inSouth Dakota probably had a
neutral opinion of him and thework he's done as a senator
representing South Dakota in DCand Mike kind of flies under the

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radar.
You know, you hear a lot aboutDusty Johnson for good reason,
because he pretends to be aRepublican, but everything he
does is screams liberalism.
John Thune has risen the ranksin the Senate.
He's now the Senate majorityleader.
Kristi Noem became one of themost well-known governors in the

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country the last three or fouryears and so Mike Rounds was
always kind of the big four, Iguess is what we call them right
, the big four in South Dakota,the four most prominent
politicians from our state.
Mike Rounds kind of flies underthe radar, so to speak.
He certainly has flown under myradar.
Until recently I happened tostumble across a video of Mike

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Rounds in a little roundtabletype discussion with other
people and he proceeded to givea seven minute speech primarily
on the war efforts in Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
And so now as I listen to what's happening in
Ukraine and this is my opinion,it's not the opinion of the
administration, it's not theopinion of the administration,
it's not the opinion of the nextadministration coming in.
But for those folks in Ukrainethat are fighting against a
Russian aggression that we canall see, I just feel so

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frustrated that we have not beenable to provide them all of the
equipment that they need andall of the weapon systems that
they need.
And I got to tell you I wasshocked, I was pissed.
The Biden administration hasstood strong.

Toby Doeden (21:52):
I couldn't believe what was coming out of Senator
Mike Rounds' mouth.
Mike Rounds' mouth.
Mike said US taxpayers haven'tbeen able to provide enough
equipment or weapons to Ukraine.
What?

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Let me repeat that Mike Roundssaid US taxpayers have not been
able to provide enough equipmentor weapons to Ukraine.
Maybe somebody should tell Mikethat the United States
taxpayers have directly orindirectly spent $175 billion on

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the war in Ukraine.
$175 billion on the war inUkraine.
The total aid to Ukraine sincethe war started is $278 billion.
Of the $278 billion, the UnitedStates has paid 63% of that

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total.
Think of all of our otherfriendly governments around the
world.
Why is the United Statessupplying two-thirds of the
financial support to a warhalfway around the country when
people in America are struggling?

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So John Thune thinks we shouldtake more than the $175 billion
that we've sent to Ukraine.
What are you thinking, john?
Are we going to pass a platearound to church?
Are you going to post a websitewhere we can just put our bank
accounts in and you can justdraw off of it every month?

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Should we set up a special taxfor Ukraine, john or Mike?
Excuse me, I get all the rhinosconfused.
Mike Rounds, I would like toknow how we should funnel more
money to Ukraine.
Let's just break down the $175billion that's already gone to
Ukraine, should we?

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Donald Trump wanted to build aborder wall.
Remember this.
So, donald Trump wanted tobuild a border wall.
Remember this.
I'm not talking about right nowor when he, you know, takes
office in 2025.
Donald Trump ran on the borderwall in 2016.
Donald Trump started buildingthe border wall.
You know what the border wallwas going to cost.

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The border wall was going torange from $8 to $12 billion.
So we've sent $175 billion inaid, money, weapons and God only
knows what else to Ukraine.
But everybody had a shit fitwhen we were going to build a

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wall to keep violent criminalsfrom crossing our southern
border.
That was going to cost eightbillion dollars.
Do you know what it would costto eliminate capital gains tax
in the united states?
You're right.
Capital gains tax.
Everybody knows what capitalgains tax is.
You buy and if you sell it formore, the government wants a
share 20 to 24 percent, right?
So if you buy a house for$100,000, you sell it for

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$200,000, they want 20 or 24percent of the $100,000 profit.
That's capital gains tax.
Capital gains tax in 2023 totalfor our country was $163
billion.
So we've already sent moremoney in aid to Ukraine than
what we've collected in capitalgains tax.
Mike Rounds wants to send more.

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How much would it cost to endhomelessness in the United
States?
Now, I realize this is asubjective number, but
everything that I was able toresearch all of the experts
agree it would cost about $20billion a year to end
homelessness in the UnitedStates.
So we could have endedhomelessness in America for

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almost nine years, for what wehave sent to Ukraine in aid.
But tell us, mike Rounds, how weshould send more money, more
weapons and more equipment toUkraine.
So how much do some of thelargest federal departments in

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our government spend each year?
What's the budget for some ofthese massive departments?
Department of Veteran Affairsthe VA it's pretty important,
right?
$113 billion per year, versus$175 billion that we've sent to
Ukraine.
Department of Education $103billion.

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Department of Homeland SecurityHomeland Security, the
department that keeps us safefrom foreign adversaries spent
$107 billion in 2023.
But we've sent $175 billion toUkraine.
And for what?
To launder money?
To crooked deep stateglobalists?

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What To launder money Tocrooked deep state globalists?
Is that why Mike Rounds wantsto send more money to Ukraine?
I don't know.
I'm not making that accusation,I'm just asking the question.
Department of Energy spent $36billion.
Department of Ag spent $193billion.
Maybe Mike will come on mypodcast someday and explain his

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position to me, because I don'tunderstand it.
I don't understand it and I'mnot going to get super deep into
the war.
I'm not a war expert, okay, I'mnot going to pretend I'm a war
expert, but anybody can do alittle bit of research, okay,
and they can find out that.

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Then Secretary of State JamesBaker told the Soviet Union in
the early 90s that if Germanywere allowed to reunify with
NATO, that they promised theywould not look for land
expansion to the east.
Well, guess what happened in1999?

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Nato started grabbing more land, heading east toward Russia.
They broke their promise.
Not defending Russia, butthat's their position.
Their position is NATO broketheir promise.
They keep getting closer.
Nato has basically just go lookat a map.
They've surrounded Russia.
Russia feels boxed in, so theyattacked Ukraine Again.

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I'm not defending it.
I hate war.
War should never happen.
But I can tell you what weshouldn't be doing.
The United States of Americashould not be sending $175
billion of our taxpayer money tofight some corrupt war around
the world that nobody reallyknows what's actually happening
or cares.
Donald Trump has said from dayone I'm going to end the war,

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and we know the war wouldn'thave happened if he'd have been
in office.
But that's neither here northere.
Mike Rounds wants to sendUkraine more money.
I think he even fake cried.
If you watch the video andmaybe we'll put the video up on
our social media If you're ataxpaying citizen of South
Dakota or the United States forthat matter I think you should

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know what your elected officialsare saying publicly and what
they want to do with your taxmoney that you are already
overtaxed on.
So anyway, we'll follow up.
In the next episode Maybe we'llreach out to Mike and see if he
wants to talk to us about thefunding in Ukraine.

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I have a feeling he's going tosay no, but it's worth asking
right.
Next up, we're going to talk alittle bit about the ACLU,
specifically the South Dakotabranch of the ACLU.
We're going to talk about that.
In the meantime, don't forgetto subscribe to us on YouTube.

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platform.
Welcome back.
There's no way to seamlesslysegue into this particular
discussion, but we're going totalk about the ACLU,

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specifically the South Dakotachapter of the ACLU, american
Civil Liberties Union.
Everybody's heard of the ACLU,right?
I mean?
It's a very, very well-knownorganization.
The mission I want to read thismission to you the mission of
American Civil Liberties Unionis to preserve and protect the

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rights and liberties guaranteedby the United States
Constitution and laws, focusingspecifically on civil liberties,
civil rights and human rights.
This includes freedom of speech, religion, association and the

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right to privacy, among others.
The ACLU has sworn to defendthese freedoms across the
political spectrum, often takingon cases that might be
unpopular or controversial.
The ACLU works to ensure equalprotection under the law for all

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people, regardless of race, sex, gender identity, sexual
orientation, religion, nationalorigin or other characteristics.
Now you might be asking yourselfwhy are you talking about the
ACLU?
Well, I ran across a tweet on Xthis week.
The account is at ACLU SouthDakota on X and the tweet says
Trans people belong On sportsteams, in restrooms, in schools,

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in workplaces, in families.
Trans people belong everywhere.
That's the tweet.
And so I thought to myself well, there's got to be more.
There's got to be more to thattweet than that right.

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Trans people belong on sportsteams, restrooms, schools,
workplace and family.
Sure, I agree.
A transgender woman who used tobe a man should be able to be on
a sports team.
A transgender woman who is nowa man, or a man that's now a
woman, should be allowed to beon a sports team a man's team.

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If you're born a man and youbecome a woman, or you think
you're a woman or you identifyas a woman, you are still a man.
God made men and God made women.
He made nothing in between.
So I agree.
Aclu of South Dakotatransgender people should be

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able to participate in sports.
Dakota transgender peopleshould be able to participate in
sports.
But men that are pretending tobe women should not be
participating in women's sports,nor should they be using female
bathrooms.
I hate to be vulgar here, butsomebody's got to say it.
There are a lot of transgenderwomen who are actually

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biological men that still havetheir penises.
Would you want your sister oryour mother or your 14-year-old
daughter in a private bathroom?
No, with a biological manflipping out his penis to

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urinate, all under the falsepretense that he woke up and
decided he felt feminine.
It's insane.
It's absolutely ludicrous.
So after I saw that tweet Ithought well, heck, let's do

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some more research, maybe I'mmissing something.
So I scoured through the ACLUof South Dakota's Twitter page,
x page, and we're going to showthis on the screen.
But they had a post 15 hoursago.
It says dissent peacefully thisholiday season.
So much for being positive.

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When I think of Thanksgiving,I'm excited.
I get to see family friends,get a little time off from work,
get to eat.
I love to eat Turkey, stuffing,gravy, potatoes, potatoes, all
of it.
Right, I might even eatcranberries.
This year I've never hadcranberries, but no, the aclu

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can't have fun.
So rather than being joyous andlooking forward to thanksgiving
in a positive way, they havedecided to tweet dissent
peacefully.
Why do you have to dissent?
Who's dissenting?
Why do we have dissenters onthanksgiving?
So this graph that you're beingshown right now says how to

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peacefully dissent at yourthanksgiving dinner table.
It starts out at the top and itsays do you want to debate what
I want to eat?
Okay.
And then it says yes, I want todebate.
Then it has a sub question.
It says are you beingantagonized?
Yep, yep.
Well, if you are, take a breath.

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The Constitution and the Billof Rights guarantee that
everyone in this country hasbasic civil liberties.
Are you effing, kidding me?
This is all like.
Do I have to memorize this forThanksgiving dinner tomorrow?
Look at the middle one.
Do you want to debate?
If your response is no, I wantto eat pie.

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Do you want the person to knowyou respect them?
Yeah, it's important to me.
Well, if it's important to you,I don't agree with you, but I
defend your right to freeexpression.
If you don't care if somebodycares about you eating pie.
If you don't care, then justwalk away and eat your pie.
I tell you what I wish I wouldhave had this 30 years ago.

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My Thanksgiving days anddinners would have been much,
much more enjoyable had I had anexpert like the ACLU of South
Dakota give me a tutorial on howto properly dissent at my
family Thanksgiving.

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Let's not forget folks thatprotested at my victory gala in
Sioux Falls this fall.
You heard that right.
Dakota First Action, mypolitical action committee, had
a victory gala at the districtin Sioux Falls.

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It was amazing.
A couple hundred people,leaders from all over the state,
were there.
It was amazing.
Senator Andy Biggs from Arizonawas here.
We had an FBI whistleblower.
We had all kinds of people here.
So why was the ACLU protestingoutside of my gala?

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Because I invited a black manto give the keynote speech.
You heard that right?
The ACLU, whose primary functionis to protect people like Mark
Robinson, lieutenant Governor,first black Lieutenant Governor

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of North Carolina.
Rather than protecting MarkRobinson, they attacked and
vilified Mark Robinson why?
Because of a comment heallegedly made and when I say
allegedly, cnn is the newsorganization that reported this.

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Mark Robinson allegedly saidsomething derogatory on a porn
website 16 years ago.
That's right.
16 years ago, that's right.
Back in 2008, mark Robinsonallegedly said something

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derogatory on a website in 2008.
And because of that, the ACLUof South Dakota.
You know their mission treateverybody equal, give everybody
a fair and open opportunity.
Right, respect everybody.
They protested, mark Robinson.
If that doesn't sum up thehypocrisy of organizations like

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the ACLU, I don't know what does.
So, having grown up in SouthDakota, specifically Groton,
just east of Aberdeen, playingall the sports, I find it very
interesting a lot of things thatare happening in high school

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sports in South Dakota.
The state championship, highschool football and volleyball
championships just ended.
So we're just going to recapthose real quick and I want to
point out a couple interestingthings, certainly locally
interesting things and, I think,probably interesting statewide.
So let's start with football.
Class 9B, high school footballchampion kind of a local team to

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Aberdeen Sully Buttes beatFaulkton area 34-14.
Congratulations, sully Buttes.
9a high school footballchampionship was won by howard.
They beat wolsey wessington bya score of 38 to 30.
9 double a was won by a prior11b school that won a pile of

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state football championships in11b, including when I was in
high school they used to beatthe crap out of us in Groton.
Hamlin beat Parkston 32-8.
It's interesting to see a lotof these powerhouse teams like
Parkston and Hamlin and Winterbounce back and forth from nine
man to 11 man Doesn't reallyseem to matter, they just

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continue to be dominant.
11b was won by theaforementioned winner.
Winner defeated Sioux Valley bya score of 20-14.
11a was won by Lennox.
They beat Sioux Falls Christian14-6.
Again, sioux Falls Christian isan annual powerhouse, but they

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were defeated this year.
Probably the most interestinglevel of football right now is
in 11-double-A.
Pierre has been absolutelydominant.
Leading up to this year, pierrehad won seven straight state
football titles.
I'm not sure if that's everbeen done.
I didn't look it up.
If it has.

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It's very, very rare for oneteam to win seven straight
titles.
It's amazing they lost thisyear to Watertown.
Congratulations, watertown.
That's a big deal Close game20-14.
And the biggest class offootball in South Dakota, 11-aaa
was won by Sioux Falls Lincolnover Brandon Valley by a score

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of 31-21.
Now on to girls.
High school volleyball statechampion results.
We'll start with Class B.
I think by anybody's standard Imight be a little biased,
because I literally grew up justa few minutes from Warner and a
few minutes from Northwestern,two of the predominant

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powerhouses in state volleyballfor decades, literally this year
.
Well, if we go back a little bit, they actually changed the
rules for how the playoffs arerun, in large part because of
Warner and Northwesternvolleyball.

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Every year, year after yearafter year, warner and
Northwestern girls volleyballwould face each other in the
regional finals.
There used to be districts andthen there was regions and the
winner of each region would goon to the state tournament.
The problem with that formatwas Northwestern and Warner were

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the number one and number twovolleyball teams in the state
pretty much every year, withvery few exceptions for the past
two to three decades.
So the championship matchalways took place in the
regional finals, and that's notwhat the fans want.
At the end of the day, sportsshould be about the enjoyment
and development of ouryoungsters, but it also needs to

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be about the fans.
Without the fans being engagedand supporting the activities,
they wouldn't happen.
So fans wanted to see the twobest teams play in the state
championship, so they went tothe Sweet 16 format, like pretty
much, I think, all the classesdid, and so now we can get
Northwestern and Warnertheoretically in the state
tournament at the same time.

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So let's just look back at thelast 10 years.
I'm sorry, I find State B girlsvolleyball fascinating because
everybody loves dominantprograms, right?
Alabama football and NewEngland Patriots, on and on and
on.
Northwestern won the state bgirls volleyball title in 2015,
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2026straight years, 2021 warner,

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2022 chester, 2023 warner andthe 2024 State Girls Volleyball
Champion the Chester FlyersAmazing.
So 10 years.
We have six years in a row ofNorthwestern and then
Warner-Chester, warner-chester.
I don't know about you guys,but I am looking forward to next

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year's State Girls Volleyballand I have a feeling we're going
to be there to watch it.
Chester beat Northwestern thisyear in five sets in an exciting
15-10 deciding fifth set.
Class A girls high schoolvolleyball champion Del Rapids
secured their first state titleby defeating Dakota Valley in a

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four-set match at the DennySanford Premier Center in Sioux
Falls.
And, lastly, the 2024 Class AASouth Dakota High School
Volleyball Championship was wonby Harrisburg.
They completed a three-peat,defeating Sioux Falls Washington
in four sets.
Congratulations to all of thechampionship teams in girls

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