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Mark Belling Podcast #91: Why are so many people gravitating to socialism/Marxism/communism? Is it because so many don't own anything anymore? Also, indications are the Milwaukee Lightning & Thunder movie, Song Sung Blue, may be very good. And, if you want to get all A's in college, just go to Harvard. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I talk about a lot
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  Speaker 2: is how when we do things, we never think about
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  Speaker 2: the long term ramifications of them, and when we get
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  Speaker 2: to a certain point, there's never enough introspection of why
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  Speaker 2: we got there. This all serves the left well, because,
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  Speaker 2: as I point out, the left has always proven wrong
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  Speaker 2: about things, but when they are proven wrong, they never
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  Speaker 2: admit it. They just move on to the next thing
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  Speaker 2: and go on and be wrong about that. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we're in the process of being wrong
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  Speaker 2: about is the move towards socialism and Marxism here in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. This is an argument that obviously had
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  Speaker 2: been won in America. Socialism became very popular in the
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  Speaker 2: forties and the fifties, and the anti communist movement knocked
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  Speaker 2: it down. It hit its nator its bottom point late
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  Speaker 2: eighties early nineties, when the Soviet Union fell, the Eastern
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  Speaker 2: Bloc fell, and virtually all Americans left, and rights celebrated
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  Speaker 2: the return of freedom and the return of capitalism and
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  Speaker 2: the proof once and for all that socialism and Marxism
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  Speaker 2: is a disaster. Well it's back now. The Democratic Party
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  Speaker 2: is becoming a Marxist party, Mamdani and AOC. That is
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  Speaker 2: what the Democratic Party is. The remainder of the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: showed no sign at all of resisting or trying to
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  Speaker 2: knock down this oppressive, noxious part of their party. But
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  Speaker 2: the bigger question, and the one that I want to
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  Speaker 2: explore today on the podcast, is this. Why is it
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  Speaker 2: back now? Part of the why is simple, you have
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  Speaker 2: people in their twenties, thirties and early forties who've never
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  Speaker 2: been told the truth about this because they were educated
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  Speaker 2: by leftist teachers who never gave up on socialism and Marxism.
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  Speaker 2: I get that part of it, but it doesn't answer
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  Speaker 2: the second part. Okay, fine, they're people that were telling
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  Speaker 2: this is the way to go. They're lefty educators that
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  Speaker 2: tell you all sorts of idiotic things, but they don't
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  Speaker 2: take hold. Why suddenly is this taking hold when it
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  Speaker 2: hadn't taken hold for decades. I found an interesting piece
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  Speaker 2: that I think puts this all together. I'll tease it
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  Speaker 2: for a moment before I share some information with you
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  Speaker 2: and then go back to it. Here's the tease. There's
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  Speaker 2: an old saying about you need to have skin the game.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, you need to have something at stake.
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  Speaker 2: An example of that is the companies that go to
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  Speaker 2: employee stock ownership plans and the business itself as employee owned. Well,
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  Speaker 2: when the employees actually own the company, the thinking goes
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  Speaker 2: they have a vested interest in being more tied into
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  Speaker 2: the success of the company, as opposed to somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: just going to work there for three months and go
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else. Hold that thought, because I think one of
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  Speaker 2: the growing trends in America tends to explain the embrace,
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  Speaker 2: particularly in the big leftist cities, and that's where this
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  Speaker 2: is all coming from. I don't see like democrats right
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  Speaker 2: and left in rural Wisconsin saying that they're socialists and Marxist.
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  Speaker 2: The big cities around the New York and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: those are the ones that are going for this. There's
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  Speaker 2: dot com. The most perceptive Conservative in recent years was
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk. His loss is immense for a lot of reasons,
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  Speaker 2: including his ability to understand and figure things out. There's
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  Speaker 2: some people that are drawing attention to something that he
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  Speaker 2: said a few months ago and tie it into this
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  Speaker 2: context to the political debate about so called affordability. Now
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to that at a moment. What you've noticed, though,
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  Speaker 2: take Momdanni in New York. He the issue that he
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  Speaker 2: used to sell Marxism in his campaign for New York
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  Speaker 2: was affordability. Everything's too expensive. Now, I can argue, of course,
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  Speaker 2: all the reasons why Marxism doesn't make things less expensive.
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  Speaker 2: That it's what it instead does is it creates massive
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  Speaker 2: product supplies, creates ultimately to terlitarianism. It ultimately fails terribly,
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  Speaker 2: and the Marxists need to have a keep their grip
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  Speaker 2: on control, so they start taking away everybody's rights. It
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  Speaker 2: happens everywhere there's Marxism. But the bigger thing to look
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  Speaker 2: at is why the affordability thing they've been able to
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  Speaker 2: tie into Marxism. Let's start with this. The affordability problem
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  Speaker 2: exploded during the Biden and it was the Democrats that
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  Speaker 2: refused to be bothered by all the inflation that was
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  Speaker 2: going on that are suddenly now complaining about the inflation.
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  Speaker 2: There will be the permanent legacy of Biden. Well, prices
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  Speaker 2: for you don't want prices to go down, that's deflation.
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  Speaker 2: Deflation only occurs in a depression. What we have to
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  Speaker 2: do is stop them from going any higher, which Trump
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  Speaker 2: has been rather successful at doing. Nonetheless, this affordability issue
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  Speaker 2: is there, and it's real, and it's especially real in
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  Speaker 2: the big cities. Big cities have always been more expensive
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  Speaker 2: to live in, obviously than the middle of nowhere, but
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  Speaker 2: it's really bad there. Now. Some people are asking why
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  Speaker 2: didn't they have this concern about affordability when we actually
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  Speaker 2: had inflation. Well I have a theory about that too.
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  Speaker 2: The left piece know we were having inflation when we
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  Speaker 2: were having it. It wasn't like MSNBC was saying, inflation
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  Speaker 2: is exploded. You may have noticed, and many people did,
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  Speaker 2: that the price of butter was going up and the
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  Speaker 2: price of everything else was going up, but it was
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  Speaker 2: never particularly highlighted. And so many people on the left
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  Speaker 2: are incapable of actually observing anything on their own. It's
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  Speaker 2: only when they're told of something that they start reacting
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  Speaker 2: to it. It's an entire class of society, about half
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  Speaker 2: this country, that only does what it's told and only
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  Speaker 2: thinks what it's told to think about anyway, that's where
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  Speaker 2: the affordability came from. But let me go back to
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  Speaker 2: where I want to take this. Why are people open
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  Speaker 2: to the notion that Marxism is the answer to affordability.
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  Speaker 2: That's where Charlie Kirk made a comment, and it's been resurrected,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not being talked about in some conservative circles
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  Speaker 2: as being prophetic before I read the comment. Let's back
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  Speaker 2: into this. George W. Bush President. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: that he tried to achieve that I think failed was
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  Speaker 2: he kept talking about having an ownership society. Bush had
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  Speaker 2: a number of ideas that sounded pretty good that didn't
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  Speaker 2: work out. One of his ideas was to bring democracy
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  Speaker 2: to the Middle East. Democracy didn't work in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that at the time, but it's clear
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  Speaker 2: that it doesn't. Bush kept pushing this opportunity society. He
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  Speaker 2: pushed very hard for home ownership. He pushed very hard
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  Speaker 2: for entrepreneurialism where people would own their own business. Again,
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  Speaker 2: go back to the skin in the game argument. If
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  Speaker 2: you own something and it goes up in value, you've
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  Speaker 2: created your own economic security plan. For instance, if housing
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  Speaker 2: costs are exploding, but you own housing, it's not a
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  Speaker 2: bad thing for you. If you own a rental property
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  Speaker 2: where the rents go from eighteen hundred dollars a month
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  Speaker 2: to twenty seven hundred dollars a month, and you own
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  Speaker 2: that property, well, that increase is making is keeping up
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  Speaker 2: with all of your costs that are going up for
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  Speaker 2: everything else. If you own a home that you buy
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  Speaker 2: for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and fifteen years
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  Speaker 2: later it's worth six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 2: that home is less affordable than somebody else, but you
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  Speaker 2: own the thing that went up in value. Growth in
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  Speaker 2: an economy only benefits from people who are actually participating
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  Speaker 2: in the economy, and participating in the economy goes beyond
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  Speaker 2: simply I'm gonna go buy something, you have to have
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  Speaker 2: a stake in it. And the comment that Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 2: made dealt with how in the big cities in the
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  Speaker 2: United States, so many people, including very affluent people, we're
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  Speaker 2: all renting. You see this trend in every big city
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  Speaker 2: that we have. You see it in Milwaukee. The housing
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  Speaker 2: boom in downtown Milwaukee is almost entirely rental. That housing boom,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, as I'll mention in a moment here,
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  Speaker 2: I think, has finally ended. I can't say that I'm
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  Speaker 2: right about this because I've thought that the housing market
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  Speaker 2: in downtown Milwaukee was overbuilt for fifteen years. It finally is,
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  Speaker 2: but it certainly wasn't when I started saying it. But
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  Speaker 2: it's almost all rental, and it's everywhere in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: You find these cities that are going to hell, Seattle, Portland,
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco, New York. Almost everybody in New York rents. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: there are some people who in some of the boroughs
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  Speaker 2: own a small home. And then there are the rich
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  Speaker 2: people that own there in their co ops on Madison
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  Speaker 2: Avenue and all of that stuff. But the overwhelming majority rent,
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  Speaker 2: and in many cases rent and pay a fortune. When
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  Speaker 2: you read and pay a fortune, affordability crushes you. When
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  Speaker 2: things become more expensive and you don't own anything, your
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  Speaker 2: entire economic life is you paying for other stuff. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have any skin in the game. There's a
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  Speaker 2: piece on Fox News that appeared a few days ago,
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  Speaker 2: written by Taylor Penley that deals with the Charlie Kirk comment,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to share it here. Resurface warnings from
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  Speaker 2: the Late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk about the
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  Speaker 2: dangers of young Americans embracing socialism are drawing new attention
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  Speaker 2: after New York City mayor elect Zoron Mamdani, a self
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  Speaker 2: described Democratic socialists, met with President Donald Trump and the
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  Speaker 2: White House quote and here's the Charlie quote, how do
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  Speaker 2: we get more young people under the age of thirty
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  Speaker 2: five to have equity in the system. Not the democrat
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  Speaker 2: version of equity where they want to have redistribution, but
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  Speaker 2: actually are they paying a mortgage, do they own stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Or are they permanent renters. This is July eleventh, not
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  Speaker 2: long before he was killed. Charlie Kirk said this, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't own anything, what skin do you have in
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  Speaker 2: the game. You're completely at the mercy of everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: All those apartment buildings in New York that these people
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  Speaker 2: are being priced out of, that they're reading and know
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  Speaker 2: Mondani coming in, I'm gonna do rent control, trying to
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  Speaker 2: make it free. Well, somebody owns all those buildings. You
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  Speaker 2: had an entire generation, the millennials, that just turn their
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  Speaker 2: noses up at the notion of owning anything. They were
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  Speaker 2: late to home ownership, they were late to starting a family.
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  Speaker 2: Some were entrepreneurial, but most were not. They were the
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  Speaker 2: ones that had got all these college degrees at which
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  Speaker 2: they were trained in nothing. They ended up going into
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  Speaker 2: the gig economy, driving uber, doing door dash, doing all
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  Speaker 2: of these part time things because they couldn't find an
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  Speaker 2: actual job. The notion that they would start and own
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  Speaker 2: their own company non existed to them. I wonder, I
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  Speaker 2: honestly don't know. I wonder what percentage of new businesses
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  Speaker 2: started in America in the last twenty years from college graduates.
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  Speaker 2: When I see who started business, it's like people opening
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  Speaker 2: an HVAC company. People in the skilled trades, young people. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I worked in this for six years. Now I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to start my own business. Those are the people who
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  Speaker 2: have the plutancial for long term prosperity. Now. The thing
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  Speaker 2: with regard to rent, and why I think it becomes
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  Speaker 2: such a strong talking point for the Marxists, is that
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  Speaker 2: in many instances these people are rather well off, but
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  Speaker 2: everything's going out the door in rent. When I see
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  Speaker 2: some of the rents in downtown Milwaukee, it blows my mind.
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  Speaker 2: People paying three four five thousand dollars a month, And
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  Speaker 2: I think about the value of a home that you
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  Speaker 2: could get. If that was your mortgage payment, it would
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  Speaker 2: be through the rough. You'd have an extremely nice home,
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  Speaker 2: the long term potential of it increasing in value, helping
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  Speaker 2: you to be set for life. But instead you're paying
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  Speaker 2: pretty much everything you have to live in this nice
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  Speaker 2: place that you're renting, and now here you are, you're
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  Speaker 2: forty five years old. You have nothing to show for
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  Speaker 2: the income that you have. Your rent keeps going up,
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  Speaker 2: the cost of everything else is going up. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: capitalism isn't working for you because you're not right now.
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  Speaker 2: Part of capitalism you don't need anything now. The exception
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  Speaker 2: to this is the people who beat the system. There
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  Speaker 2: are some people who rent and then set aside their
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  Speaker 2: money for them. This doesn't apply if you rent instead
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  Speaker 2: of owning and take all of the savings. You're not
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  Speaker 2: paying homeowners insurance, you're not a mortgae in all of this.
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  Speaker 2: And when you'd get a mortgage a ton of it
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  Speaker 2: as interest, you're not paying any of that. If you're
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  Speaker 2: setting that aside for your own nest egg and you
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  Speaker 2: got all this money in the bag, or you invested
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  Speaker 2: in stocks or whatever, you're still going to be fine
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  Speaker 2: because you own something else. Putting money in your four
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  Speaker 2: oh one K that's in the stock market, that's owning something.
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  Speaker 2: You're owning these businesses and hopefully that the companies whose
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  Speaker 2: socks have been going up in price. But the people
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  Speaker 2: that are living and saving nothing, which is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these lefties who live in the big cities, they're
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  Speaker 2: not participating in that either. The stock market, other than
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  Speaker 2: two or three hiccups, is then nothing but go up
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  Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty one. But how about all the people
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  Speaker 2: that didn't participate in that, and all despite the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they had a rather high income because they were
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  Speaker 2: spending it all I think they're are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: are most open to the Marxist ideas, and take a
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  Speaker 2: look at these bigs. It's all renting. Back to the
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  Speaker 2: Peace on Fox News, quoting Charlie Kirk, a permanent renting
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  Speaker 2: class in this country is the prerequisite, is the leading
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  Speaker 2: ingredient for radical politics that nobody wants to see. That's
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk. He's right about this. If you went into
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  Speaker 2: New York and took a look at the voting percentages
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  Speaker 2: of renters in the mayoral race, I guarantee you that
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  Speaker 2: it was higher than the overall total vote. The percentage
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  Speaker 2: from Mamdani guarantee you continuing, we need to reinvigorate the
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  Speaker 2: ownership economy, and then all of a sudden, when you
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  Speaker 2: own stuff, you're less likely to burn down Wendy's and
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  Speaker 2: vote for candidates like Zora Mandami Mamdani, he's right about
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  Speaker 2: that too. If you own a home in Kenosha, you're
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  Speaker 2: probably less likely during the riots at Gonocehan to burn
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  Speaker 2: Kenosha down than if a you didn't even live in
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  Speaker 2: the city, or b you're just a cannon somewhere. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have any skin in the game in the
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  Speaker 2: area that I live in Florida, it's tons of tons
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  Speaker 2: of condos, and a lot of the condo owners rent
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  Speaker 2: out their condos because it's been just the license to
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  Speaker 2: print money because the underlying value of the condos until
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  Speaker 2: recently had been going up. Everybody wants to live in
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  Speaker 2: South Florida, so they're able to charge huge rent so
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  Speaker 2: they're making way more than their mortgage payments and all
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  Speaker 2: the properties that they've bought and so on they bought in.
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  Speaker 2: One of the big controversies though, is over whether or
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  Speaker 2: not the buildings should allow the airbnbs and the other
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  Speaker 2: short term rentals. Many of the buildings do not do it,
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  Speaker 2: can write in the bylaws they don't allow the owners
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  Speaker 2: to do short term rentals. Others do it because in
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  Speaker 2: the very short term you can make a killing. I
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  Speaker 2: take a look at what some people pay to spend
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  Speaker 2: a weekend and fluid in an airbnb in it's as
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  Speaker 2: much as like hotel rooms, but it's not in the
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  Speaker 2: long term interest of everybody else who lives in the building.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same as a neighborhood. How you like to
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  Speaker 2: live next to somebody who airbnb their house out three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five days a year, stating the obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody that's on a six day short term rental doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give a crap about the condition of the place they're standing.
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  Speaker 2: They beat it all up. What do they care. We're
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  Speaker 2: becoming an airbnb society where nobody has laid their teeth
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  Speaker 2: into anything. Paul's now in the rental locker business, this
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  Speaker 2: storage business. Obviously, some people need to pay for storage.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the money in the storage? Owning the ownit, not
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  Speaker 2: reading it. It's the same for almost anything. So the
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  Speaker 2: point that Charlie Kirk was making in this warning that
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  Speaker 2: seems to be prophetic. If you want to have people
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  Speaker 2: embrace capitalism and oppose self destructive policies like Marxism, which
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  Speaker 2: leads to anarchy, they have to own stuff. And let's
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  Speaker 2: go to the anarchy. By the way. The street takeovers
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  Speaker 2: that we saw in Milwaukee this past summer, and that
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  Speaker 2: occur all the time in Seattle and Portland, there were
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  Speaker 2: several in New York City over the weekend. Fifty sixty
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  Speaker 2: seventy cars come into a street that people have to
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  Speaker 2: heighten their homes to terrify, and the police departments have
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  Speaker 2: no ability to knock it down because they don't have
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  Speaker 2: the fire power or the weaponry to deal with two
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  Speaker 2: hundred people who have guns going crazy. Who's the most
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  Speaker 2: bothered by this? Somebody who owns a home in that
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  Speaker 2: block of New York. If you're a renter, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 2: this is going I lay. If you're a renter, do
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  Speaker 2: you care if people are burning your city down? Get
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  Speaker 2: the flexibility. I you are on the place. You've got
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  Speaker 2: what skin in the game now. I think what happened
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  Speaker 2: with the millennials is as a group, and again we're generalizing.
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  Speaker 2: There's always exceptions, but what happened with the millennials as
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  Speaker 2: a group, their path into adulthood was delayed. I contend
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  Speaker 2: by baby boomer parents. Many of them were living at
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  Speaker 2: home when they were twenty seven years old. They call
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  Speaker 2: mom and dad if they're pulled over by a cop.
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  Speaker 2: I see some signs that there's a greater interest in
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  Speaker 2: home ownership and property ownership and ownership of anything by
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  Speaker 2: the gen zs. Not all of them, but for a
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: lot of these millennials. They didn't want to be tied down.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: They didn't want responsibility. Well, that's the downside of owning something.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: You have to be responsible for it. You don't want
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to let it go to hell. But over the long term,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: if you don't own anything, unless you're setting aside and
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: saving money, elsewise, you're crushed in an economy in which
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: things become more expensive. So you then bite onto policies
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that will never ever work because you're looking for a
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: short term fix out of the mess that you're in.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: What happens, of course, when you impose Marxism, which makes
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: includes price controls and make things free, is nobody has
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: an incentive to produce anything because there's price controls on them.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: You can't make enough money by making that thing. This
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: seems to be what's going on with beef in America
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: so far as I can tell, and there isn't enough
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: of anything. And you up with the potato lines in Moscow.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I always bring up the potato lines in Moscow because
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: everybody saw those pictures of the potatoes. You'd see these
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Russian women standing in line for seven hours to get
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: one potato, beaten down by the weather, haggard and as
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: ugly looking as you can be. Then we saw all
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: these Russian women who came to the United States when
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: they were in the twenties, after the Berlin after, you know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the Soviet Union fell. They're all beautiful. So what we
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: learned is Russian women when they're young are rather beautiful.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: But all the ones by the time there were fifty
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: when living under communism, looked like they were one hundred
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and fifty years old. That's what shortages. It's what a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: totally an economy that is always in a malaise due
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to people. It doesn't work, Which brings me now to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: where do you think we're going? You should know you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: photo copied my material. You didn't do anything I was
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Some of this has been stockpiled. It brings us to
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: South America. South America is thirty five years ahead of
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: us in the United States. What do I mean by that?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Thirty five years ago most of South America embraced Marxism
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: and socialism, and broadly speaking fifteen to thirty five years.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: But Venezuela, Cuba, of course, started in the Caribbean, a
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: couple of the countries in Central America, Nicaragua back in
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the eighties. Then the revolution in Venezuela. Brazil's now a mess.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Chile's gone back and forth. They embraced socialism and it's
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: been a disaster. The first country to turn was Argentina.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: In its presidential election two years ago. Argentina elected a
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: conservative government. The president is named Mili m I l Ei.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Controversial guy also has I'm guessing his hairpiece because it
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: just it looks pretty goofy. He however, won reelection. His
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: government got a ratification of approval from the Argentine voters.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: There is now it's a big story again in the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal Chile. The conservative political party made significant
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: advances in the most recent election, and the story deals
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: about the right word turn in South America. So as
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: North America, certainly Canada and now fearfully the United States
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: turns to the left toward Marxism, South America is going
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: in the other direction. Well, we know why it's been
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: a disaster down there. And the pattern in all of
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: these South American nations that went marxisty is after coming
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: into the front door, being democratically elected, they then strip
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: away democratic rights. There are no elections. You have what
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you have in Venezuela, in which it's government via gunpoint.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: People try to escape bety have gotten out. The rest
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: of the people are living in abject poverty. The drug
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: dealers are the only force in the economy that's producing anything,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: so they have an extraordinary amount of power. All of
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: that happens. See socialism, Marxism does it work. So once
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: they're in place, they can't allow you to have elections
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: because nobody's going to vote to keep it because everything
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: has gone to hell. The closest we came prior to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: this point was the Carter years in America. Carter wasn't
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: a socialist, but the Democrats in the nineteen seventies were very,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: very liberal, and they wrecked the economy. Everything was bad.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: You had high inflation, high unemployment, and high interest rates,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and people felt as though their country was going to hell.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And Reagan was elected to undo all of that. We
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: never got to the point that South America is at now.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: The danger we're facing now is Jimmy Carter was a liberal,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: was incompetent. These Marxists that are coming around now are radicals.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: They're true believers. Carter would have said I'm not a Marxist.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: They would have considered it a slur. Until very recently,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Democrats kept denying that they were socialists, but now they
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: openly brag of it and admit it. And as I say,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: all of this is going on at a time in
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: which the percentage of Americans who are homeowners is lower
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: than ever, And one of the reasons it's lower than
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: ever is that the values of homes has gone up
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: over the years. Housing prices are very high, rental housing
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: prices are extremely high. So the people who owned all
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: of these things that got way more expensive, they benefited
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: because their thing is worth way more. But those that
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: were crowded out are hurt the most. Trump came up
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: with this idea, and I don't think it's a good one,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: but I under stan where he's coming from. The idea
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: of the fifty year mortgage. No, I don't think it's
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a good idea because I just think having that much debt,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: But I know why he's thinking of this. He's trying
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: to come up with a way to make housing affordable.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: If you lower somebody's payment by stretching it over fifty years,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: they're likely to buy. I know that the following points
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: sound stupid some of you out there, Oh, your points
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: sound stupid because this isn't really skin in the game,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: But it works for me. I think one of the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: reasons I won't say the only but I do think
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the biggest the biggest reason that the Packers were able
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: to survive in Green Bay. There's nothing like this. There's
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: no other city of the size of green Bay that
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: has a pro football team, or for that matter, a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: baseball or basketball team. Some of the lesser sports is
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: a couple like that. Green Bay is what one hundred
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: and ten thousand. How the pack survive by having the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: team being owned. There are people who don't live in
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin to think the city of green Bay owns the team.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: The team is owned by shareholders. Now it's an unusual
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: shareholder set up. As I said, the point's a little
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: stupid because the skin that a Packer shareholder has in
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the game isn't real because if the Packers were ever sold,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you don't get anything and you can't even trade your stock.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: But when you did put the money in, that skin
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: went into the game. There is the concept of pride
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: of ownership. The Packers would have left long ago if
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: they hadn't come up with this financially viable model. That
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: it is a financially viable model. Get the people who
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: like your team to keep putting in enough money that
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you've got a going business. You don't need a billionaire
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: owner because you tens of millions of dollars that were
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: invested in by these shareholders all over the years. The
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: people who own the stock of the packers. Again, it's
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: limited skin in the game. It's not like say, if
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I own a few shares of Microsoft, I actually own
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: something that I can sell, and where Microsoft goes up
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: in value, I can show a profit. It's not as
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: good as that. But by and large, when you have
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: a vested interest in doing well when the country does well,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: you're and I think this is stating the obvious, you're
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: likely to be vested in capitalism and freedom than somebody
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: who has nothing to show up for their life. You've
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: got all of these highly educated people with these semi
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: worthless college degrees, feeling as though they're all under employed.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: But they all want to live the good life, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: they tend to live in the big cities, the worst
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: place that they should live. It's really extended. It's even
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: those big cities, particularly cities like New York. One of
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the things that hasn't worked is to tell the lefties
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: that are embracing Marxism, look around at all the other
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: places that have gone Marxist. Do you want to live
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: like that. It so far has not worked. I do
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: believe that it can work in national elections where many
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: people don't live in those cities. Telling somebody in New
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: York do you want it to be like Seattle didn't
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: work on them, But I think that that certainly works
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: on somebody sitting there in Germantown that they don't want
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: their country to be like Seattle in New York. So
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the Democrats will face a problem if they run a
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Marxist candidate for president, and their next candidate for president
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: may well be a Marxist, because that's where all the
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: momentum in the party is, and that will do really,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: really well, But only in all of the places that
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: already everybody votes for the Democrats. Anyway. The Charlie Kirk argument, though,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: again so prophetic, and he saw this coming again. His
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: comment was only a few months ago before them ninety one,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: but he tied the embrace of Marxism to be end.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: You know, one of Charlie had all these messages, one
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: of them go to church, another one young people get
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: married early in life, have children, And he kept saying
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: by a home, by a home, by a home, by
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: a home. This is a guy who what didn't graduate
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: from college. He thought college was semi worthless given what
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: it was that they were teaching. His message was resonating
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: with the younger people who listened to him, but it
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: was also largely into reaction to many of the mistakes
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: that those in the millennial generation made. It's certainly possible,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: well that you could buy, you know, start a business.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: You can go under you lose all your money. You
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: could also buy a home in the wrong neighborhood or
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: buy at the wrong time at the peak of a market,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: and lose a fair amount of money. But over the
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: long haul, I would say ninety eight percent of the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: people in America who bought a home made money in
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the deal over the long haul. I don't mean one
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: to two years over the long haul, because now for
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the long haul, well, look at houses where when when
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I was a kid, I remember, I think I know what.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: We moved from the shack across the river to the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: suburbs of Kokana when it's not like closer to the
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: inner city. All those cities up there just have expanded
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: and expanded and expanded and expanded. It's like a ranch.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: It was very, very hard to lose money. So why
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: do you think so many millennials didn't do it? As
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I say, I just think that many of them wanted
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to keep They didn't want to do they we wanted
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: to stay home. They wanted to have their freedom. They're
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: moving to adulthood was just way different than the generations
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: earlier than them. My generations move into adulthood was the
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: age of eighteen, and everybody got out of the house.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: And the generation a little bit earlier than of those
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: that didn't go to college were all sent to Vietnam.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: You were an adult right away. And the World War
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: two generation the same thing. They all came back and
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: they want to own a house. The people in the
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: World War two generation didn't own a house. There was
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: a term for them. Do you know what it was?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Loser bums. That's bums. I mean when I was a kid,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: there were hardly any homes that were rental. They were all,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: even the shacky ones, they were owned by the people
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: who lived in them. And again skin in the game,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: suppose you want a little dumpy you know, I won't
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: even use the term very modest home in one of
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: our more affordable suburbs around here. You do not want
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I have riots in your street. You don't want to
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: have murders. You don't want to have problems. You have
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: skin of the game. You live here and you own
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: your house. When you own nothing, when you have no
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: teeth at all in the United States of America, you
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: don't even have money in an IRA, that's lessen that.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: When you own nothing, you're an open target for people
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: who push greed. Look at all these other people. They're
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: making all this money and you're not. Well, it's true,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: they are making all this money and you're not. All
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: your money is going to the rent you're paying for
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: the place that you can't afford to live in because
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: you want to be in New Yorker. You want to
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: be here, or you want to be in this high
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: falutant place. The answer isn't to embrace Marxism. The answer
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: perhaps is that you would all of the other people
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: who are actually making money are doing. But when you're
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: forty four now you feel you're so far behind the
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: eight ball you can't ever catch up. So some Marxist
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: comes around in sells you a bill of goods, and
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you're gonna fall for it, the same way that people
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: that Cuba fell for Castro the same way that the
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Russians fell for lenin the same way that the nicer
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Rogmans fell for Ortega. And I better stop these examples
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: because they'll run out of communists too. Uh well, that's
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: that's my point. That's my point. Belling's rule. The more
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: screwed up the city is, the more radical the mayor is.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, it just holds. New York right now is
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: not as bad off as Chicago, but it will be,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: that'll be, and that'll be the question is Brandon is
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Johnson the mayor of Chicago, more radical than I'm Nadi?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: They'll make a battle to the left and you'll be
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: able to measure it in the murder rate. And how
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: much the business is falling apart and business is leaving
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: end the economic decay. Times Square returning to what it
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: was in nineteen seventy nine, is opposed to the family friendly,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: tourist mecca that it is now. And then ultimately the
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Potato Line. You remember those pictures of the Russian women
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: standing in the Potato line and bad, everything's fallen, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: they none of them met anybody, but boy, it ended
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: the whole politics of envy because they couldn't be jealous
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: of the rich because nobody was just the only people
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: that were rich were the people that ran the country. Oh,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: they have a great ability to make themselves rich. So
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: you get these billionaires, third generation foreign billionaires like Mamdani
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: that weren't raised in this country that come from and
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: hate America. Oh, they'll take care of themselves, and they'll
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: handle government jobs and government contracts, and all of the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: stuff that's going to be free is going to be
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: provided by people that areround the doal of the government.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: That part all works. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Now here's the next part of this. One of the
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: big problems that we face in this country are people
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: who are stupid but think they're smart. I mean, that's
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: just generally a problem in life. I've said this many times.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Idiots generally are not dangerous. There's not much harm they
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: can do because most idiots know they're idiots. If you're
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: somebody who's not very smart, that you're very very cautious
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: and you try very hard not to make a mistake
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: and you ask for help all the time. It's the
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: people who think they know something but don't are very,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: very dangerous. Jason Riley Collum of the Wall Street Journal.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: We all know about the great inflation that's gone on
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: at the big universities. This one is about Harvard twenty
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: four to twenty five. In other words, the academic year
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: that ended this past May, the percentage of a's courses,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the percentage of grades in courses at Harvard that were a's,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: sixty sixty percent of the grades and all of the
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: courses were a's. Well, it's no wonder they all think
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: they're smart, and no wonder they all graduate and they find,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: in their shock, they can't find a job. They out
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: only are at Harvard. They're getting all a's. The column
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: actually tracks how fast this number has gone through the moon.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Let me read his column. It's well written, he writes.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: You can always tell a Harvard man, the old saying goes,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: but you can't tell him much. That includes, apparently, that
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: he may not be as smart as his grades suggest.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: A recent internal Harvard report found that more than sixty
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: percent of grades given to undergraduates in the twenty four
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: to twenty five academic year were a's. Up from and
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: then they go to two decades ago. This just blows
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: your way. Two decades ago would be let's see no.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Two thousand and five. We're not even talking the seventies.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Of the eighties, it was twenty four percent, then twenty
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: years ago twenty four percent. But one in four of
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: the grades at Harvard were a's. Now it's three and five.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: That's not gradual. That's an incredible spike, to the point
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: that I think it makes the grades meaningless. I have
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: a theorist the weather handing out all of these a's,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: but we'll get to that in a moment. The median
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: grade point of graduation, which was three point twenty nine
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: and three point eight five, is now three point eight three.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: That's the median. I remember when four point zero was
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: considered to be perfect. The median is now three point
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: eight three. That means that there's a whole lot that
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: are in this tight little range above three point eight three.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: But the old Gurris and Kila line from with have
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: a prairie home companion that I quote all the time,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Lake Wobegon, where all of the children are above average.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: It's possible that these outcomes stem from Harvard admitting smarter
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: and more diligent applicants. That's what some of the people
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: who have found all this say, well, Harvard's got really
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: really smart people. They're doing a work. How could we
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: help it? If everybody in the class is doing a work.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: I can't give this kid a C just because I
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: have to give out a certain amount of c's. If
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: they all mastered the work, I have to give them
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the a's. That's the argument that's always been made. My
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: retort to that is, maybe the course is too simple
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: if everybody's mastering it. Secondly, what's the point of the
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: A from the student who did excellent work if everybody
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: gets the A? Now, I believe one of the things
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: that drives this grotesque grade inflation. There's a lot of things.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: You know, student evaluations have become very very important. The
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: students are likely to rank highly a professor who gave
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: an A than a professor who flunked them out of
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: a course. You also have the whole which college you're
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: going to go to. It's a very competitive thing. Harvard's
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: hard to get into, but if you know that if
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: you do make it in, you're gonna get a bunch
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: of a's, it may make you likelier to go there
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: than a college that the a's aren't given out like candy,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: So they all feel the same pressure to hand out
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the a's, And then there's the whole sense of liberalism
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: and entitlement in which people have the sense that they
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: deserve the AA or I'm a woman, I'm this, I'm that.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Why are you not giving me an A when this
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: white person over here got it. But this adds to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: the issue that we were talking about earlier about all
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: of the people who feel this sense of going nowhere,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: even though they have these degrees and they're living in
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the big cities and so on. There are a whole
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: lot of people who think that they did extraordinarily well
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: in college and their elite, when in fact they just
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: did the same as everybody else that was in there. Now,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: the one thing that's still hard is getting in. And
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: one of the things that makes it hard, and it
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: gets into a discussion that we had earlier in the
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: week with regard to the H one B visas. You've
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: got a lot of foreign students who come in and
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: often highly educated, it's easier to get in. That part
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: is still difficult. Harvard has not raised it's student bodied
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy five thousand. It's still a tough
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: institution to get into. And so is Stanford, and so
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: is Yale, and so is MIT. But once they're in there,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: the a's are handed out, and the end result of
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: this is a sense of arrogance from the people that graduate,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: in which they assume that life is going to be
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: easier for them than it turns out to be. Little
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: did they know that they're entering a job market where
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: everybody else in the field also has all of these a's.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to change the subject about as radically as
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: you could change a subject. Well, I mean, I can
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: go to a break, but we don't have a break
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: to take, so I'm just gonna change the subject. Do
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: you want me to change the subject. This is something
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: that surprises me. It was like three years ago that
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: they announced that they're gonna make a movie about thunder
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: and lightning. I mean, I admit when I heard that,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I just assumed it wouldn't be very good. Didn't you
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: assume that it wouldn't be very good? Yeah, I mean
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I just thought it wouldn't be very good. First of all,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: they make a zillion movies, and somebody said they'm gonna
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: make a movie. You don't know if it's like a
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: movie that's being done by an actual big movie studio
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: or is this like something that somebody's gonna post on YouTube.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: It isn't gonna be it's done for a film class.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Paul says, I should call them Lightning
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: and Thunder people. By the way, mix up who is
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: who you have straight? Who is who was Claire Thunder
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: or was she Lightning? That you don't that part you
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: don't know. Lightning and Thunder was a Neil Diamond tribute band.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: It was a husband and wife a couple, Mike and
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Claire Sordino, who became like huge celebrities in Milwaukee. Like
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: I talked about this a lot when I started doing
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: my show and I got to be really really famous,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: and I mentioned the Milwaukee has hardly any celebrities. There
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: was like me, There was Bou Black, a couple of
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: people on TV. And the thing about all of our
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: celebrities is that we were known anywhere else. There were
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: a few people that were from Milwaukee, like say l Jiaux,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: who were world famous who they went on because in
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: their field, But by and large, our famous people were
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: famous only in Milwaukee, and Lightning and Thunder were two
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: of them. So anyway, they were this Neil Diamond private
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: band and they just got really really hot at the
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: local clubs and they play Summerfest. And to this day,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I don't remember if I've ever talked to Claire. It
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: was zillions of years ago. But I did talk to
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Mike and it was during one of the many health
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: struggles that they both had. I mean, the reason this
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: makes for a movie is it's hard to find two
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: people that had more bad things happened to them and
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: their life just became a what soap opera isn't even
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: the right word. It was a matter of dealing with adversity.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: She lost her leg, there was a bad automobile accident.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Then he got cancer, and it's, I guess, the stuff
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: that movies are made of. And they got a couple
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: of I don't know. They always say a list. I
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: don't know if these are a list stars, but they're
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: close Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. Would you say, you
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: say that's a list or is that like a list?
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, when I think of a list, who's like
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: the biggest star of the world right now, who's really big,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: like Brad Brad pitt is is he's now, He's is
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: he over the hill, Brad Pitt, he because he would be.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: He would have been a list forever and ever. Yet,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: So in other words, this isn't being done by nobody's Kate,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Kate Hudson's are pretty yeah, Kate, Tom Cruise would be.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Do you think Hugh Jackman's at the Tom Cruise level?
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: You think he is? Okay? Well, they made this movie
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: in because they're a Neil Diamond tribute banded Mike kind
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: of look like Neil Diamond, and she's in the band
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: and she's the partner, and they did Neil Diamond stuff
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: and they did other stuff and they made a movie
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: about them, and they got these two borderline A List
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: celebrities to do the movie. It has not been released, However,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: the reviewers have seen it and the reviews that are
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: coming in are very very good. There's these aggregate services.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I think Rotten Tomatoes is one of them, and so on,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: and like I said, the general public has not seen
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: it yet, but when the reviewers that have seen it
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: so far are giving it very, very very high marks.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: The The movie is having its American premiere next week
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee at the Oriental Theater. We are it's very
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: very amusing. Are they gonna put it? And now there
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: is actually a red carpet at the Oriental Theater, but
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: it's not a red carpet, if you know what I mean.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Are they gonna have like a red carpet and block
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: off the streets and they're gonna be people winding around
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: in tux sedes. We have glitterati like, are they gonna
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: bring Joan Rivers back from the dead and have her
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: stand at the thing and so on. One of the
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: reasons I suspect now is I just think that you
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: just can't move the Oriental Theater upscale. Secondly, Kate Hudson's
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: not coming, but Hugh jack But is, and the director
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: of the film, Morgan Brewer is excuse me, Craig Brewer
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: is also going to be here, and that will be
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: the American premiere. They actually had one, and I think
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: in London that they all went to about a week
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: and a half ago. The movie itself is released nationwide,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: and this is important on Christmas Day. The Christmas Day
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: movies the studios released, these are the ones they think
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: are gonna be huge because that period between Christmas and
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: New Year's is the busiest week of the year. For movies.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: The other big time to release a movie is early
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: on the summer, like the summer Blockbuster. Kids are out
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: of school and so on. But that period around Christmas,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: the movies that are released then are the ones that
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: really really huge. And this isn't a straight to Netflix
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: thing or anything like that. This will be in theaters
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: and I obviously haven't seen it, although I am going
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: to the I am going to this premiere, the premier event. Yeah,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: it's well, everybody's coming on to this and it's all
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: part of the you know, to get publicity and they
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: want obviously they want everybody in Milwaukee to go. It's
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: a good way of jump starting then will be so
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: you know, Hugh j Ackman's going to Cops and this,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: that and the other things. So they're having the premiere and.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: It just.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: I've talked about this a lot. When something happens in
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee that makes national lose, it's always a tad weird
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: isn't the right word, but unusual. A husband and wife
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: that do a Neil Diamond tribute act. That's not the
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: normal type of celebrity, but it's exactly what you would
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: think that would come out of Milwaukee and it kind
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: of becomes embraced by the community in the same way
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Bob Yuker was the biggest sports celebrity that we ever had. Well,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: he wasn't any good as a player. He became a
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: guy that was funny. It was like a Milwaukee kind
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: of thing. And yeah, I like I said, I don't
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: know if the movie is going to be any good,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: but the reviewers say that it will be. The thing
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I think that's tricky is, you know, almost all movies
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: like this, you see the rise to the top, which
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: is the good thing, and then you see all the
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: rock and vh one used to do documentaries about rock bands.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: It was all the same thing, the rise to fame,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: then the collapse and tragedy and then the resurrection. No,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they make this the happy ending thing. Claire,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: it's still alive and still performs, but shenew she had
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: obviously health issues, and yeah, she lost her leg and
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Mike passed away. And how you tell the story without
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: the tragic part overwhelming the good part. But obviously they
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: they must know what they're doing. So the movie's got
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: a Christmas relief. It has its American premiere, and that
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: just means that's when you know, I don't know how
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: many seats the general public are going to be able
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: to get to for that, but they release the things
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: in dribs and drabs in the upper premiere, all in
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: an attempt to build publicity and so on. So hopefully
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: it'll be as good as the advanced notices would indicate.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: I want to cover this story briefly. There's been a
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: lot of coverage of the collapse of the Neutral project.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Neutral is this company from Madison that said it was
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: going to build several high rises on Water Street in Milwaukee.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: The first one has become a hole in the ground
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: that has become an embarrassment for the city. The developers
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: from Madison, the lead developers twenty seven years old. The
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: company's name is Neutral. He evidently ran out of money
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: and they had already started construction. They dug the hole
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: in the ground and there's a crane that costs a
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: lot of money. The contractor was CG. Schmidt. They stopped
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: doing work because they said they wanted to be paid.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Neutral didn't say much of anything. Now the cranes been
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: taken away and the project has failed. There are now indications,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: according to the business journal that Neutral is facing problems
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: with a couple of its other projects. Well, let me
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: comment on this. First of all, even in a boom time,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: this project didn't make any sense. I said when it
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: was announced that I thought that there was zero you'll
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: call me saying this zero chance of it happening, zero zero.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: I talked to a developer that I didn't identify, and he
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: said that this proposal makes sense in Dubai, but nowhere
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: in the United States, and certainly not in Milwaukee. They
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: were going to do multiple high rises and take that
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: entire area near the market center for the performing arts
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: and turn it into this massive housing zone. And they
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: weren't going to be small units, they were going to
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: be high rises. In the first one, the Edison project
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: was the Edison was the first one to go up,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: and it never got off the ground. All they have
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: is the whole the part of it is the City
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee and Mayor Chevy and lafay at Crump, they
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: head of DCD. These are people who've never spent a
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: day in their life in the private sector, and they
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: never knew that this project was not doable, and that
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: they didn't realize that the developers didn't pass the smell test.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Some guys in their twenties do become superstar developers. There
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: are the Donald Trumps in the world, but these guys weren't.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: But secondly, and this is my key, the biggest reason
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: this thing has stalled is because we have finally overbuilt
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: the downtown Milwaukee housing market. Now. I don't think they ever,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: even the best of times, could have done five buildings,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: but maybe the first one would have happened. Here's what's happening.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: We have several high rises recently completed that are nowhere
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: near filled. The Couteur, which was delayed forever, finally built
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: and then opened now over a year ago, remains with
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: massive vacancies. If you go on their website, it lists
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: all of the apartments that are still available for rent.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: It's a zillion of them now. A lot of them
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: with the good views toward the lake are gone, but
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: the vacancy rate is high. There's a facility on Van
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Buren Street that's opened called Nova. It's got lots of
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: units available. Whether or not there's an economic component to
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: this or not, I don't know. I just think, like
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: anything else, you finally reach the point of critical mass.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: We have all these housing units that over the last
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: thirty years have developed in the Third Ward of Milwaukee,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: all the high rises that went up and downtown on
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: the Lower east Side, and because they were all successful
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: and all did well, more and more developers did them
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: until you run out of people to live in all
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: of these places. And the fact that you've got two
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: buildings that are nowhere near least I suspect what happened
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: is that developers of Neutral could not get financing from banks, lenders,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: or investors to bank rule this because they saw the
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: two projects that are already finished appear not to be
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: going very well. What I think has happened is, at
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: least for the immediate period, the downtown Milwaukee housing boom
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: has finally. I'm not going to say there's any it's
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: just there's no more people to come in and rent
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: these places. If you keep building new units, it isn't
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: You can't fill up simply with somebody who lives in
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: one Downtown Milwaukee apartment to move to another, because you
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: need to need new people to justify all of the
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: new construction that you're doing with them. And I think
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: it finally maxed out from the perspective of Milwaukee. That's
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: the end of any kind of residential growth because there's
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: not any other part of the city that's had residential
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: growth at all. The only thing that's propped up the
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: south side has been illegal immigrants moving in the northwest side,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: and portions of the inner city have become ghost towns.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: But there's been this trend that you've seen in a
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: lot of places in the United States that started with
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: the millennials they have and then empty nester baby boomers
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: people living in downtowns. What's happened in some of those
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: cities is the cities have gone to hell San Francisco, Seattle,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and people are moving out. We haven't had
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: the same component of going to hell in Milwaukee. I
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: think that this is more a case of it just
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: finally got overbuilt. I will be surprised if any major
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: new project that's primarily residential and I said major, I
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: don't mean fifteen twenty units major happens in the next
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: several years. So I think that this project here neutral
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: is the canary in the coalman A Milwaukee says it's
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: looking for a new developer. I don't know they're going
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: to find a developer I don't know anything's going to
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: happen there for quite some time. The first thing that
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: they can try to sue this developer, but you can't
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: get blood out of a turna van. If this company
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: was simply a guy who was in over his head
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: who eat a couple of projects in Madison, things were
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: going well, so we know things. He can create the
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: World Trade Center of Milwaukee here and did it after
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: all the money was there to be to be made.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: Little story to cover here. There's a piece in the
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal on the takeover of CBS News by
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Barry Weiss. For those of you who haven't been following
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: this closely, Barry Weiss was a reporter for the Wall
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Street Journal in the New York Times. Left of center,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: but she believed strongly in freedom of expression. And when
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: she was at the New York Times, she was the
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: op ed editor. She was the person in charge of
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: getting putting in columns that weren't written by columns for
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: the paper. And she printed it, and she greenlight greenlit
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: a column by senator from Arkansas might have been Cotton
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: that there was just an eternal objection to and there
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: was a huge falling out and the staff of The
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: New York Time. Couldn't Times, couldn't stand that any conservative
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: voice was in that paper at all. Since being forced
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: out of The New York Times, Berry Weiss is not
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: a podcast and other things in which she's drawn attention
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: to leftist media bias. She's becoming one of the queens
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: of the anti woke movement. CBS News was bought by Paramount.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Paramount was taken over by David Ellison, the son of
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Larry Ellison of Oracle. David Ellison is not a leftist,
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: and he realizes that the only way to make CBS
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: News or any of these networks viable is to get
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: rid of the leftist bias. CBS News has some things
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: going for it, sixty Minutes and a few other brands
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that have some value, but it and all of the
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: other networks have been killing themselves by being so overtly biased.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: So Berry Weiss was brought in with a mission of
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: fixing this. Now I've said, I think it's very hard
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: to fix the mainstream media. The problem with the mainstream
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: media is the people who work in the mainstream media.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: To simply tell them not to be biased, it's as
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: hard as telling somebody who eats too much. To stop
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: eating too much. It's like telling somebody hooked unfeded all
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: to stop using fentanyl. Should I come up with more examples?
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Or as the point already clear? Well, she's in there,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: and according to the story on the Wall Street Journal,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: she told her colleagues that quote, I want to blow
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: this place up. Now, this will be interesting to watch.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Can you take something as leftist as CBS News and
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: remake it into a viable, fair and balanced news organization? Now?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: If they can, I think they'll be successful. Whether or
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: not she can succeed in doing it or not is
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: another question. Let me quote from the Wall Street Journal
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: piece for a sense of Barry Weiss's approach to leading
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: CBS News in her first weeks on the job. Consider
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: a phrase the new editor in chief has used at
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: are as a rallying cry in meetings with colleagues. I
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: want to blow this place up. Wis the former New
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  Speaker 2: York Times. I want to correct that, I want to
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  Speaker 2: blow this up. She didn't say place blow this up?
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  Speaker 2: Weis The former New York Times columnst turned anti woke crusader,
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  Speaker 2: is working to overhaul the organization's evening news program. Counter
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  Speaker 2: what she sees as a left leading bias in legacy
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  Speaker 2: media and make the newsroom operate more efficients efficiently. She
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  Speaker 2: has been given a mandate for change by David Ellison,
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  Speaker 2: the new owner of CBS parent company, Paramount, which bought
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  Speaker 2: her news and opinion platform, The Free Press for one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million dollars. At the time of her appointment.
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  Speaker 2: Ellison said he capped Weis to bring CBS news to
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  Speaker 2: brings to CBS quote news that reflects reality and journalism
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't seek to demonize but seeks to understand. Weiss
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  Speaker 2: is operating with eInsight, with Ellison's full backing. Now the
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  Speaker 2: story goes on and I do 'tenough time to dive
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  Speaker 2: into it in more depth than that. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm skeptical that this can work. However, what there are
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  Speaker 2: here are deep pockets. The owner of Paramount, David Ellison,
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  Speaker 2: his dad Larry Ellison, just fell from two to three,
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  Speaker 2: is the third richest person in the world. Barry Weiss
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  Speaker 2: herself sold her company, Free Press for one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty million. So you have people who have very very
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  Speaker 2: deep pockets here to ride out whatever internal objection that
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  Speaker 2: there is and to be in this for the long haul.
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  Speaker 2: If they are successful in turning CBS News into a
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  Speaker 2: credible news organization, I think that they will then make
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  Speaker 2: large amounts of money. But that if the challenge of
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  Speaker 2: taking a huge leftist news see with Fox News when
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  Speaker 2: they put it on the air, it was easier to
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  Speaker 2: do because anybody who wasn't a died in the ideo
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  Speaker 2: ideological liberal was hired by Fox, but they got all
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  Speaker 2: of them. Secondly, Fox didn't take the on EIR News
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  Speaker 2: product and try to do much with it. It simply
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  Speaker 2: put on all these talk shows that were hosted by
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  Speaker 2: conservatives that were out at night, and they tried, like
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  Speaker 2: the Dickens, especially when Roger Rayles was there, to keep
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  Speaker 2: the bias out of the news programs. But to do
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  Speaker 2: it with the other large news organizations in a field
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  Speaker 2: in which ninety percent of the people who go into
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  Speaker 2: it are leftists is a really hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's like taking a public school and trying to make
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  Speaker 2: it not liberal. You're constantly fighting all of the leftist
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  Speaker 2: teachers who want to teach leftism in the classroom. Which
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  Speaker 2: she has going for her at CBS is this Her
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  Speaker 2: owner is on her side, Her owner hand picked her
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  Speaker 2: she's got a lot of money herself. And the people
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  Speaker 2: who work at CBS are in a field in which
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  Speaker 2: the jobs are being slashed right and left. So if
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  Speaker 2: they want to keep their jobs, they don't have the
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  Speaker 2: ability to be as arrogant as people who had a
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  Speaker 2: greater amount of job security. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. We're releasing the podcast
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  Speaker 2: on Friday, and we're rolling into the teel end of
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  Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving weekend. I always contend that the worst day
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  Speaker 2: of the year is this coming Sunday. Now, if you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to travel, you're not doing anything. What do
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  Speaker 2: you care? But it was conceint it's a perfect storm.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, the airports and everything else are clogged
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  Speaker 2: because people and the Thanksgiving weekend not on the Monday,
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  Speaker 2: but they all come home on the Sunday. The airports
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  Speaker 2: are always a mess. It's filled with people because it's
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  Speaker 2: the end of November. The weather is often crappy, which
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  Speaker 2: creates delays everywhere, and for people who want to drive
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  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, it's the end of deer hunting. See, you've
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  Speaker 2: got all of these people that are coming back on
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  Speaker 2: the roads, coming back from deer hunting, and you have
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  Speaker 2: people that are traveling in Hopefully we'll get through all
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  Speaker 2: of it. I'm way back when I had to go
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  Speaker 2: to Washington, d C. For a meeting. This is in
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  Speaker 2: the nineties, and the meeting was starting the Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: of the end of Thanksgiving weekend. It's a Monday on
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday meeting. And I remember that we were flying out
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  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee with this is mid This is how far
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  Speaker 2: back it was. Midwest Express or it might have been
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  Speaker 2: Midwest Airlines then was still around. So we had a
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  Speaker 2: NonStop to New York and we landed in New York.
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  Speaker 2: It was at it was at National I don't think that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the name had been changed yet to Reagan.
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  Speaker 2: That's how far back it was. And we landed and
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  Speaker 2: it was a driving rainstorm at Washington, and this is
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  Speaker 2: you know, people going back to Washington, and any Sunday
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  Speaker 2: night is huge because they're all coming back for government
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  Speaker 2: on Monday and so on. We got to the airport
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  Speaker 2: and it was just wall the wall people. Everybody's like,
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  Speaker 2: we're in winter clothes and all this stuff. And this
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: is before there's uber and you step outside and you
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  Speaker 2: need a ride and it was just pouring down rain.
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  Speaker 2: And the other stories that I have where we used
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  Speaker 2: to some friends of mine and I used to have
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  Speaker 2: like a get together every Thanksgiving weekend. You come back
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday and fighting the traffic of all of the
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  Speaker 2: deer hunters. The I don't know if they've changed this yet,
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  Speaker 2: but the stretch of the interstate between Toma and Man
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  Speaker 2: that's for both. It's ninety and ninety four together. So
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  Speaker 2: not only do you have two interstates that are combined together,
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  Speaker 2: you've got all these people that are sort of coming
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  Speaker 2: from the north and heading back towards southeastern Wisconsin and
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  Speaker 2: toward Chicago. Ede free would just stop. And it's happened
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  Speaker 2: for years and years and years. So if you're not
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: traveling on Sunday, you're probably better off. That's it for
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  Speaker 2: this week's podcast. We'll be back with another one on Monday.
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