Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #154: Mark highlights an ominous warning sign of something that could trigger and economic crisis as bad as the 07-09 housing/credit meltdown. Also, a new study links ultra processed and sugary foods to lack of motivation in kids (this explains a lot). And, David Crowley's plan for a homeless facility in West Allis will cause a disaster because it's being done all wrong.

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Mark Belling Podcast #154: Mark highlights an ominous warning sign of something that could trigger and economic crisis as bad as the 07-09 housing/credit meltdown. Also, a new study links ultra processed and sugary foods to lack of motivation in kids (this explains a lot). And, David Crowley's plan for a homeless facility in West Allis will cause a disaster because it's being done all wrong. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: There are signs right now I think of a massive
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  Speaker 2: problem that could hit the global economy. Doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: it'll happen, but I see signs of it. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not the only one. I'm not picking up on this
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  Speaker 2: on my own sitting there in Milwaukee. Others are commenting
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  Speaker 2: it starts with one of those issues that tend to
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  Speaker 2: make people's eyes glaze over. But actually it's very easy
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  Speaker 2: to explain to me. It's reminiscent of what happened in
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  Speaker 2: the two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine
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  Speaker 2: housing crisis. Let's go back and discuss what happened there.
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  Speaker 2: Housing was going up and up and up and up.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore all these really smart investors on Wall Street
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  Speaker 2: sarcastic when I say really smart. They so desperately wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get in on the ride that they ended up
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  Speaker 2: creating derivatives that matched what was happening with the actual investment.
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  Speaker 2: The most no risk investment, seemingly, so they thought in
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  Speaker 2: that era was housing mortgages. Because housing was going up,
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  Speaker 2: What do you care if the individual buyer defaults. The
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  Speaker 2: bag you end up holding is worth more than what
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  Speaker 2: the guy borrowed it for. So they started packaging lots
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  Speaker 2: and lots of these mortgages into an investment product, the
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  Speaker 2: idea being, of course, what we're heavily dur or diversified.
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  Speaker 2: There's like fifteen thousand mortgages in here, twenty thousand mortgages
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  Speaker 2: in this one package. If a few go under and
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  Speaker 2: a few fail, were still so heavily diversified, no risk. Well,
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  Speaker 2: The investor demand for that was so great that there
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  Speaker 2: weren't enough mortgages to package anymore. So they created derivatives,
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  Speaker 2: and the derivative was simply an investment on the futures
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  Speaker 2: market that would track a basket of actual mortgages, and
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  Speaker 2: it was leveraged like ten times. And again this was
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  Speaker 2: just considered to be a no risk investment because housing
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  Speaker 2: was going up and up and up and up. There
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  Speaker 2: weren't many defaults because anybody that couldn't make their payment
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  Speaker 2: just turned around and sold the home at a profit
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  Speaker 2: because the housing kept going up. Whenever somebody tells you
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  Speaker 2: that the investment is no risk, run for the hills.
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  Speaker 2: These products were sold by financial advisory school districts bought
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  Speaker 2: them well. Of course, what happened is the housing market
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  Speaker 2: first cratered and then crashed. Suddenly, the value of all
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  Speaker 2: of these mortgages, the mortgages themselves, the money owed, was
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  Speaker 2: more than the houses were worth, which caused all of
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  Speaker 2: these defaults. And suddenly all of these financial instruments, including
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  Speaker 2: these derivatives, were massively underwater, so underwater that some huge
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  Speaker 2: investment banks Lehman Brothers, went under when under because of
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  Speaker 2: an investment that was considered so safe. There's another one
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  Speaker 2: that the big money's been going into for twenty years
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  Speaker 2: particular financial crisis that is looming, maybe it won't materialize.
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  Speaker 2: They're just warning signs and they've been flashing this week.
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  Speaker 2: Is not in the United States. Know something you said, Well,
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  Speaker 2: then what do we have to worry about? That's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: All these investments are global and intertwined. The problem deals
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  Speaker 2: in Japan. There's going to be unch of words that
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  Speaker 2: again make people's eyes glaze over and so on. But
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  Speaker 2: this is actually very simple, and I think I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: good at explaining things in a simple way. It's called
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  Speaker 2: the Japanese carry trade. As you may know, interest rates
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  Speaker 2: in Japan have been near zero forever decades. So what
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  Speaker 2: many investors, financial institutions, global large banks, investment houses, they've
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  Speaker 2: been engaging in what they felt was a no lose,
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  Speaker 2: ultra safe investment. Again, whenever somebody says no lose, be careful,
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  Speaker 2: and indeed, for the last twenty years it has been
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  Speaker 2: no lose. Now, remember, interest rates in Japan have been
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  Speaker 2: very low forever. So here's what they do. They'll borrow
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  Speaker 2: money using the Japanese yen at these very very low
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  Speaker 2: interest rates, and then turn around and reinvest it in
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  Speaker 2: the American bond market. Let's imagine you're borrowing costs on
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  Speaker 2: the japan instrument measure in the yen is around one percent,
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  Speaker 2: So you invested in an American bond that's paying five percent.
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  Speaker 2: You're not making a ton of money, but it's almost
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed money. You're making money on that split. That gap
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  Speaker 2: in between, let's call it the float. It's not really
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  Speaker 2: a float, but it's close enough that it works. I'll
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  Speaker 2: just use round numbers. They're dealing with much bigger numbers
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  Speaker 2: in this. But let's imagine I borrow a million dollars
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  Speaker 2: at one percent, and then I invest the same million
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  Speaker 2: dollars in the American bond market at five percent. I'm
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  Speaker 2: making four percent other than the few little costs that
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  Speaker 2: I would have. Now, of course they're doing this for
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  Speaker 2: more than a million dollars, it would seem to be foolproof.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the problem, and I believe that our government sees
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  Speaker 2: the problem and is trying its best to do something
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  Speaker 2: about it. Our Treasury Secretary of Scott Pressent has been
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  Speaker 2: using American funds to try to buy up the yen.
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  Speaker 2: There are warning signs in Japan with regard to the yen.
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  Speaker 2: We want to stabilize the yen. If the yen goes
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  Speaker 2: up in value, and again, when a currency goes up
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  Speaker 2: in value, it simply means it's going up a comparison
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  Speaker 2: to another nation that forces up interest rates in that country.
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  Speaker 2: Our investments, the people that have these investments that have borrowed,
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  Speaker 2: have done it in the yen when it was at
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  Speaker 2: a certain level. If the en goes up in value,
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  Speaker 2: the amount that they have, This old investment goes down
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  Speaker 2: in value, so suddenly you're underwater with all the investments
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  Speaker 2: that you have. Here, the value of your old investment
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  Speaker 2: goes down. Think of it with our own bond market.
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  Speaker 2: If you buy bonds at three percent and the yield
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  Speaker 2: goes up to eight percent, the value of your bond
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  Speaker 2: goes down because why would anybody want your stupid three
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  Speaker 2: percent bond when they can go out from the treasury
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  Speaker 2: and buy one for eight percent. Similar kind of thing here.
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  Speaker 2: Prominent economists named Mark Skousen has been warning about this.
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  Speaker 2: If indeed many of these large, huge investment houses and
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  Speaker 2: international banks and so on suddenly sustain massive losses because
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  Speaker 2: the end goes up, driving down these twenty to twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years worth of carry trades that they have, they
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  Speaker 2: sustain huge losses, which then causes this ripple effect that
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  Speaker 2: can screw up the entire economy. If they're sustaining massive losses,
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  Speaker 2: they have to raise cash. How do they do that
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  Speaker 2: They sell stock. Our stock market, many people believe, has
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  Speaker 2: been overvalued. They may have to dump the American bonds
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  Speaker 2: that they have. Just as the housing market crisis of
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  Speaker 2: seven didn't have to happen. Housing has gone up and
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  Speaker 2: down forever. Overall it goes up, but in between these
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  Speaker 2: ups there are hiccups down. What happened was the so
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  Speaker 2: called geniuses on Wall Street had to create derivatives twenty
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  Speaker 2: thirty fifty times with the actual valuation of the housing
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  Speaker 2: mortgages were they cratered and screwed up the stock market,
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  Speaker 2: which screwed up everything else. So what would have been
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  Speaker 2: a simple downturn, which would have resulted in some people
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  Speaker 2: who had mortgages probably having to sell their houses and
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  Speaker 2: housing suddenly becoming more affordable as prices crashed, instead turned
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  Speaker 2: into this huge thing which sunk the American economy and
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  Speaker 2: probably got Obama elected in eight McCain was probably going
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  Speaker 2: to win the election until that whole thing happened at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the Wish presidency. In that instance, the
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  Speaker 2: economic problem was here in the United States. In this instance,
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  Speaker 2: it's American and other investors that are investing in these
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  Speaker 2: Japanese interests, borrowing a ton of money at low interest
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  Speaker 2: rates in Japan because they could simply turn around and
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  Speaker 2: invest it. People do this kind of thing all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing that we call margin on Wall Street.
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  Speaker 2: If you think the stock market's going up twenty five percent.
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  Speaker 2: You borrow all the money you can at five percent
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  Speaker 2: and throw it into the stock market at twenty The problem,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is at some point the stock market may
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  Speaker 2: go down. What people felt is well, the yen's interest
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  Speaker 2: rates are the interest rates in Japan are going to
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  Speaker 2: be lolola forever. And they thought it was so safe.
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  Speaker 2: So now you may start to see people start unwinding
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  Speaker 2: these investments, dumping dumping, dumping, which of course drives the
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  Speaker 2: investments down. Lower goes along again. I'm not saying this
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  Speaker 2: is going to result in a financial crisis, but there's
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  Speaker 2: warning signs of it, and they're being advertised by the
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  Speaker 2: protective action our government is starting to take. When you
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  Speaker 2: see our treasury trying to buy up in there to
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  Speaker 2: try to intervene and prevent and economic crisis, that means
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  Speaker 2: missand who's very sharp, sees the potential here for a
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  Speaker 2: cratering that won't be our fault, but will badly damage
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  Speaker 2: US and the economies of the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 2: I want to move to another topic. I'd been fascinated
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  Speaker 2: by some of the comments that have come out of
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  Speaker 2: the MAHA movement. Make America healthy again, there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people in this country who simply don't want
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  Speaker 2: to hear this. This is one of those issues where
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  Speaker 2: the politics have simply flipped. For the longest time. The
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  Speaker 2: people in the United States that were critical of the
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  Speaker 2: big food companies, the big drug companies were the lefties.
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  Speaker 2: They were the people who believed in like eating natural
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  Speaker 2: and all of that. Remember the old bean sprout crowd.
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  Speaker 2: When the organics first came in, they were the ones
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  Speaker 2: that were on them. One of the issues that it
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  Speaker 2: was mostly people on the left that were on first
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  Speaker 2: was the non GMO foods, And at the time they
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  Speaker 2: loved Kennedy, who was not only an environmentalist but was
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  Speaker 2: on some of these things as well. Whether it's because
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy is now part of the Trump administration or not,
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  Speaker 2: there's been this just complete refusal by anyone on the
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  Speaker 2: left or anyone in the media to start confronting some
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  Speaker 2: of the issues that Kennedy is raising about this terrible
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  Speaker 2: crisis that we have about how unbelievably unhealthy our kids are.
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  Speaker 2: I was a kid a long time ago. I think
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  Speaker 2: about my grade school class. I won't be mean here,
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  Speaker 2: but we had I'm in the baby boom went to
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  Speaker 2: Catholic school and they would have like one class for
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  Speaker 2: an entire grade. So our class was like forty six
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  Speaker 2: kids had so many kids were in the sixth grade
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  Speaker 2: and on the seventh grade, in the eighth grade in
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  Speaker 2: this particular school, and it was the same ones every
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  Speaker 2: year because it was a Catholic school. The public school
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  Speaker 2: was right across the street. Anyway, I think of that class,
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  Speaker 2: out of forty six, I think maybe two or three
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  Speaker 2: kids were what we would call fat, two or three.
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  Speaker 2: Hardly anybody was fat. You look at kids now, just
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  Speaker 2: say you see a bunch of ten to twelve year olds,
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  Speaker 2: that's that. It seemed like half of them are fat.
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  Speaker 2: Something's going on here In the same way, when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, I don't think I ever heard of
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  Speaker 2: the term autistic. In retrospect. There was maybe one or
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  Speaker 2: two kids. Maybe I went to high school. We had
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  Speaker 2: a class of what four hundred in high school, maybe
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  Speaker 2: one or two kids seemed a little listless or a
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  Speaker 2: little anti social in some of the characteristics we see
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  Speaker 2: of autism, and it wasn't called autism very rare. Now
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  Speaker 2: autism is all over the place. Again. Why one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that's going on in this Mohama moment is
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  Speaker 2: people are asking why and nobody wants to hear it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I understand the people that don't want this looked into
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  Speaker 2: the companies that are making all the drugs that these
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  Speaker 2: kids are taking, and I don't mean illegal drugs, and
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  Speaker 2: the companies that are making all of our foods. Iron
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  Speaker 2: As a kid, I admit I think all I ever
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  Speaker 2: ate were processed foods, but even the processed foods of
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  Speaker 2: them are nowhere nearest processes they are right now, which
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  Speaker 2: is where they come up with this term ultra processed.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that ultra processing does is the
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  Speaker 2: food last forever. Seriously, I haven't bought one of these.
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  Speaker 2: I've bought a box of craft macaroni and cheese in
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  Speaker 2: eight or nine years. But grab it in the store
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  Speaker 2: and look at the expiration date. It's like that you're
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven to ninety two. It lasts forever. Well, one
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  Speaker 2: of the world is in there that would make something
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  Speaker 2: not degrade. Obviously a lot of chemicals. Now, my own
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  Speaker 2: belief based on nothing other than reading about this and
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  Speaker 2: watching people on the internet who try to reason this
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  Speaker 2: thing out, including a lot of smart people who aren't
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  Speaker 2: tied into these industries. But people who have pH masters
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  Speaker 2: and PhDs and so on, is that all of this
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we're putting in the food that results in
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  Speaker 2: it not you know, not decaying, not rotting means it
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  Speaker 2: makes it hard for it to break down in the
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  Speaker 2: body too, and it just hangs around in our bodies
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: and hangs around in our bodies and hangs around in
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  Speaker 2: our bodies. This brings me to this story. You're finally
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  Speaker 2: beginning to see some academic studies in some of these things.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason that there haven't been a lot of
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  Speaker 2: academic studies into all of this is who pays for
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  Speaker 2: these studies. The drug companies and the food companies. They're
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  Speaker 2: paying for studies because they're looking for something to back
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  Speaker 2: up something that they want to do. This story comes
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  Speaker 2: from a study that was done by researchers at Children's
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  Speaker 2: Hospital Los Angeles. They tracked one hundred and forty four
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  Speaker 2: Latino children. Was a long term, comprehensive study. They tracked
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  Speaker 2: them from ages birth through six, so it was tracking
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  Speaker 2: them for six years. Now that's a pretty good study,
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  Speaker 2: and it measured their intake of processed foods at intervals
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  Speaker 2: of six months twelve months, twenty four months, which is
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  Speaker 2: two years, and then seventy two months six years. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the first thing they're measuring here. They're not doing
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  Speaker 2: a study where they have a control group. They're simply
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  Speaker 2: observing and they're measuring these kids and how much processed
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  Speaker 2: foods they're taking in at these various points in time. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that they found is the kids
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  Speaker 2: that were eating the most processed foods and had the
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  Speaker 2: highest calorie count were heavier. No kidding, right, But they
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  Speaker 2: noticed something else. They noticed that that group of kids
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  Speaker 2: that was heavier, that took in the most processed foods
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  Speaker 2: of the most calories, had measurable declines in parts of
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  Speaker 2: their brain. They actually measured and observed the brains of
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  Speaker 2: these chouldren at the same time, and they found out
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  Speaker 2: that parts of the brain of these kids. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: this study is out there and you can find it
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  Speaker 2: almost anywhere. I found it in the Epic Times, but
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  Speaker 2: again the study was done by Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: The size of the brains declined and it was the
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  Speaker 2: part of the brain. Think about a brain. I know
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  Speaker 2: more about a brains than the average person because I
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: had a stroke. One of the reasons that my stroke
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  Speaker 2: has not knocked me out at all is simply where
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the stroke, where the bloodcat clot happened to the brain.
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  Speaker 2: A doctor said, I was the luckiest guy in the world.
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  Speaker 2: They literally told me, if you could have picked a
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  Speaker 2: spot in your brain to have a clot, it would
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: have been this spot. It affected peripheral vision, and for
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  Speaker 2: the first few weeks after I couldn't read very well.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, to the processing of that, the reading and
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: all of that came back. I've lost a little peripheral vision.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. So yeah, brains, there are parts of your brain.
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  Speaker 2: Some parts of your brain, can you know, deal with emotion.
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  Speaker 2: Some parts of your brain deal with reasoning and thinking, cognition,
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  Speaker 2: all this stuff, the various things that our brain does.
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  Speaker 2: It's different areas of the brain. With this study found
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  Speaker 2: is that the parts of the brain that declined in
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  Speaker 2: size in this group of kids that ate the most
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  Speaker 2: of the ultraprocessed foods and in the highest calory count
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  Speaker 2: were the parts of the brain that dealt with emotion
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  Speaker 2: and motivation. Quoting from the study, they found that every
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  Speaker 2: ten percent increase in cumulative ultra processed food consumption was
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  Speaker 2: associated with a nearly two percent decrease in the size
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  Speaker 2: of sub cortical brain regions, including the amigdala and thalabus,
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  Speaker 2: which governed reward, emotion, and motivation. All right, let me
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  Speaker 2: jump forward here. Boy, this starts to me to explain
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  Speaker 2: a lot I observe, and we observed behaviors. Seriously, every
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  Speaker 2: kid I knew when I was a kid had boundless energy.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to say in the house. So admittedly we
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  Speaker 2: didn't have video games or any of those things. There
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  Speaker 2: was nothing to do in the house. You wanted to
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  Speaker 2: run around, and yet all this energy and so on.
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  Speaker 2: I see so many kids right now that are listless
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  Speaker 2: and they lack ambition. And now let's fast forward. They're
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  Speaker 2: observing these kids from zero to six, these kids that
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  Speaker 2: have been had this diet filled with all this crap.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're eighteen to twenty two. And if indeed the
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  Speaker 2: parts of their brain continue to erode the dealt with
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  Speaker 2: emotion and motivation, does this not explain why some of
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  Speaker 2: them just seem to be kind of depressed, sort of dulled,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't want to do anything. They don't want
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: to leave the house, they don't want to go to work.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: They don't want a job, They have no idea of
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: what kind of career to embark in. These are the
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: people that are terrified of AI. They're also the ones
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: that gravitate towards socialism and are looking for the government
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to take care of them because they don't have any
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: particular desire to take care of themselves. Now I combine this,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: then with all the prescription medication that we put these
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: kids on, the kids that are hyperactive and so on.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: May help them with the hyperactivity, but what else is
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: it doing to slow down everything else that goes on
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: with them? The lack of motivation. That's a terrible thing
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: to happen to him. And being I admit, I'm blessed.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I've always had a work ethic. Had my first job
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: when I was sixteen, and I've worked ever since. When
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I was in college, I always had a job, se
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the editor of the student newspaper, still going to college,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: had a job at a professional rate. Oh, I did work, work, work.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Then when I'm in my twenties, work work, work, Admittedly
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: not so much work going on now. Nonetheless, I felt
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the need to work because I had no safety debt.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I went to college. My mother didn't give any give
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: me any money to go to college and retrospect great thing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I took out a tiny loan at UW Lacrosse, admitted
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: that the tuition was way lower than and I did
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: have an inheritance from my godfather which paid for about
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a year. Has it wasn't that okay. I gotta go
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: to work because otherwise how am I gonna pay for college?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And then I graduated, I go into a terrible paying field.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I go into radio, entry level radio. No money at all.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: So I got to work and do overtime and all
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: this I had to. I had to. I had to
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: it because there was no safety net there for me.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: There was no go back and live in mom's house
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: in the basement until I'm forty. But who the hell
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: wanted to do that? Anyway, When I got out of
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the house, I got out of the house. I was
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: done with that. But as I said, I was motivated
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to work like a dog. I kind of. I thrived
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: on it to the point of insane excess. When I
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: was in my twenties, I'd did one giant meal a
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: day out of like Hamburger. He ended up without a
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: screwed up stomach and so on, because I was living
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: a completely unhealthy lifestyle because all I did was work
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and work and work and work, then go out of
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: bed and work and work and work and work and work.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: But I was motivated to do that. I see so
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: many of these gen zs now that already are demanding
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the four day work quick. They don't want to work
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: at all, They want everything given to them. Well, maybe
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: it all goes back to the crap we're putting into
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: their foods that is screwing up their internal body chemistries
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: we've always associated and I'm not being mean to fat
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: people here, but fat people with kind of laziness. Well,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: maybe the things that go on with excessive food consumption,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: calorie consumption, especially if it's coming from the wrong kinds
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: of foods, the alter processed foods, and I think the
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: alter process foods and the foods that don't break down
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: and all of these sugars, if you eat the same
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: amount of that as opposed to something healthier, yeah, that's
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: gonna make you fat. You're eating everything wrong. And you're
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: listening to all the experts of the fast and kept
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: telling people that fats were bad and carbs are good. Well,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: maybe the thing that increases weight is also the thing
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: that decreases motivation. Maybe it isn't that fat people are lazy,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: because fat people are lazy, but maybe the thing that
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: happened to their brains that is triggering them to gain
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: weight is also the thing that's triggering their lack of
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: motivation in life. And then that feeds in itself because
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: they're not motivated. They're not motivated. Because they're not motivated
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and not motivated, they're not doing much of anything, so
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: they need more and more people to take care of them,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: and they live for like nothing. This also would explain
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: to me the incredibly high number of youth suicides. They
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: don't have any positive emotions, They feel almost nothing, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: they lack ambition. You kill yourself because you don't see
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: a brighter day ahead you. We're seeing some young people
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: they just feel this sense of hopelessness. You're nineteen, How
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: the hell do you know nothing's good gonna happen to you.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: The food industry doesn't want any discussion of this sort
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: of thing because the giant food companies all want to
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: make food at incredibly low cost to them, and that
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: means stuff that stays on the shelves forever, something that's
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: filled with all these crap ingredients. And again, as I said,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: this used to be what I'm saying right now used
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: to be the kind of way lefties talk, but they
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: don't want to hear any of this. Now Kennedy becomes
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the focal point for this because he is the head
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: of HHS and he's been the guy that's been on this.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: He's getting you know, he's bucking up against Trump on
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: some of this stuff because the food industry, you know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: they're going to Trump and they're going to the economic
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: but well, you're gonna wreck the economy if you start
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: driving up the cost of food by not letting us
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: sell this cheap crap and instead of encouraging people to
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: buy whole foods, which end up I don't mean the brand,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the store whole foods, but actual whole foods, higher costs
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: associated with that because they can't last forever. Then I
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: put in a package anyway. Check out that study Children's
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Hospital of Los Angeles. High calorie count, especially when the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: calories come from ultra processed food and sugars, the two
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: great poisons I think in our society, the more you
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: can get that stuff out of your diet. I think
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the better off you're going to be is linked to
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: decline in brain size and the parts of the brain
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that deal with emotion and motivation. All right, let's go
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to this story. We have yet another case of a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: terrible crime being committed by any illegal fox is Bill
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Malogan reported that this week you may have heard of
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: this murder and fair Fact County Virginia of a mother
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: that was stabbed near a jogging trail. The guy is
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: a Salvadoran illegal immigrant. He was caught at the border
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: in El Paso in April of twenty four. Who was
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the president then, Biden. Now you may recall that after
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the end of twenty three, Biden started talking about changing
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the border policies. Remember that they were under incredible pressure
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and suddenly they weren't going to let just automatically let
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: everybody ad This guy, though, was caught an April of
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: twenty four and release. That's what we did at the
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: border under Biden. We catch them, detain them, and release
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: them and give them a date to show up for
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: a hearing. Guy's been in the wind ever since. This
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: is the guy who's now accused of this murder in Virginia.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: These are the people that ICE is looking for. Now.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I can't say that the opposition to ICE some lefties
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: in this particular area, that maybe they would have caught
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: this guy. But we do know this, the lack of
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: cooperation with ICE, the lack you know, the obstruction of ICE,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: it's certainly preventing them from catching some of the people
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: they're looking for. People say, well, a lot of these
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: people aren't murderers. Oh, you're right, a lot of them aren't,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: but some of them are clearly A disproportioned number of
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the people that were kind of kicked out of their
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: own country would be bad people. Now another story, This
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: is a really good one. I have a particular interest
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: in discussing the absolute phoniness and hypocrisy of the media
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: and the left, and there are certain areas that really
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: the term trigger is such a good one. They just
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: trigger them. The left and the media can't stand attractive
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: conservative women, seriously, it freaks them out. They hate almost
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: all of them, whether they're elected officials, whether they're pundits,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: whether they work for Trump. They're triggered by this. The
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: other thing that goes on with the media is they
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: always talk about conservatives have their talking points. I'd love
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to know where these talking points come from. Jason's a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: talk show host over there, I'm a podcast host. I
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: don't think we have anybody that's telling us all what
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: we're supposed to say. I have no clue what you're
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: going to do on your show, and you don't know
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: what I'm going to do on my podcast until I
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: get in here. But the Left, when one of them
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: gets on something, suddenly it's on all of them and
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: they're all bringing up the same thing, which brings me
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to Natalie Harp. I'll admit I never knew her name,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: but yeah, the end the everywhere Trump goes, there's this
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: blonde woman at his side. You know, I bet in
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the last forty years American politics, just about every governor
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: had somebody that wherever he or she went, there'd be
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: somebody near his side. There's usually one or two people
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: that are in charge of handling. Remember the show did
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: you ever see watch the show VEP? Why didn't you
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: watch vp VIF was hilarious. Vifa's the Julia Louis Dreyfus show,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: which started with her being the vice president and so on.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: But one of the characters of the show was her.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I forget what is the character's name, but he was
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: like her bad guy. He'd be the guy that would
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: follow around and every time she'd meet somebody, he'd whisper
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: at her ear and tell her, you know, tell her
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: who this person he is. And so his Gary was
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: the name of the character on the show, but I
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: forgot what his title was. But they all had somebody
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: like this. Well, Natalie Harp has been seen near Trump
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: really almost everywhere he goes. And suddenly they're on this
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: because Natalie Harp is an attractive, young blonde woman. John
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Assoff the senator from Georgia who might well be the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Democratic candidate for president in twenty eight The lefties love him. He's,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: by the way, right now polling second to Kamala He's
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: pulling higher than AOC. John Ossoff came off and popped
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: off his mouth about Natalie in very vulgar way. And
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: then suddenly MSNBC and all the talking head shows are
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: going on and out and on about why Trump isn't that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: And then when Trump snuck out of Turkey on the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: other plane and not an Air Force one, she was
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: one of the ones that got to go on the planet.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Why was she allowed to Well, we know she was
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: allowed to go on the plane. She's one of the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: people that's a personal assistant Trump who is always with them.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: And as they say, they always all of them have
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: someone like this. If this is just a guy, they
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be talking about it. But the fact that they
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: keep bringing it up on its face, it is simply
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: overtly sexist. They love to accuse everybody on the right
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: of being a sexist. So what if she's blind and attractive?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: What does that bother you? Lefties? How do you know
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: that she's not brilliant at her job? Do you know why?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: You know how she got into Trump's center circle? She
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: had bone cancer and in Trump's first term, he signed
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the right to Try legislation. Wisconsinsatedor Ron Johnson was the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: sponsor of this. The right to Try legislation was the
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: bill that green lighted patience being able to try risky
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: medical procedures if there was no hope of anything else.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: In other words, what's the harm, Well, her bone cancer.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: They're not supposed to use the word cured with regard
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to cancer, but she's been cancer free for years. The
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: treatment that she received worked and she got to the
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: forefront of that issue and spoke out about how proud
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: she was a President Trump for championing this this is
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the issue that kind of brought it a media attention.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: And she then volunteered and went to work for Trump
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and has moved up inside the inner circle as many
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: people would. There's a lengthy story now today in the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal about her. Well, she rarely talks or
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: rarely gives interviews. The spokesman. Who is she? Why is
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: she always around Trump? Because she's the aid that probably
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: is his assistant on all of these things, Like every
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: politician has of somebody who like handles, you know, the
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: arrangements of the president moving around and as a person
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: that make sure he has this paper here and introduces
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: him to that person or that's her job. Well, Trump
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: only has her in that job, probably because she's attractive.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Oh is that not just brazenly sexist? Yet? Well, Trump
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: has so many attractive women who work for him he does.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Some have stunk, some have been great, just like every
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: other type of aid that works for a politician. Some stink,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: some are great, and a lot are in between. Yet
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the same media that can't stand the fact that Trump
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: is an attractive woman, it does and talk a whole lot.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: That's a close aid to him. Just managed to never
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: notice four years of Joe Biden sniffing hair, creepy old fogeye.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: He every time he'd see a little kid there, he'd
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: say something half dirty to him. And this hair sniffing,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I mean it was constant. Can you imagine if Trump
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: was sniffing her hair? Or never mind old old Joe Clinton.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Clinton sexually assaulted one of his staffers in the Oval
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Office the same day her husband killed himself. Catherine Willie.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Trump had an affair, a sexual relationship, oral sex in
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: the White House with an intern for months. Yes, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: we were told that that was no big deal. That's
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: nobody's business. So Clinton can get Bjay's down on him
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: in the White House by an attractive woman thirty years
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: younger than him, But Trump can't have a staffer who
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: stands off with a side near him. Again, I have
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: no idea if this Natalie Harp is any good at
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: her job or not, but I just assume she is
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: because Trump does not tolerate incompetence. I mean, he made
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: a whole career out of firing people on TV it's
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: his thing. He does tend to go through staffers. He's
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: very aggressive, and he doesn't like it when somebody makes
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: him look bad. In some cases, he's childishly immature about
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: it and not tolerating anybody doing something he didn't want,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: like getting on Genine Piro for not for dropping the
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: charges on the reflecting pool and so on. I think
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: she felt they didn't have a case. My point is
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: is that Trump, whether the person is attractive, unattractive, or whatever,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't tolerating competence. Look how quickly he got rid of
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: South Dakota Christinoman, Christinomes screwed up. She lasted about a year.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: He candor. He got rid of Pam Bondy, another attractive woman.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: He wasn't satisfied with her performance. He felt that she
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: botched the whole Epstein thing and said, I got all
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: the evidence here, I'm going to and she didn't. So
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I suspect Trump trust this woman and the fact she
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't talk or anything. You know what that means in
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: the media. I'm gonna explain a few things to deal
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: with media. You know who the media hates most about,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: people who work for a president. You don't even know
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: this Jason. I know this because I've been around the
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: block a long long time. They hate people who don't leak.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: That's what they hate. And most governmental administrations leak like sieves.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: And Trump, by the way, hates leaks. He hates lenks.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: He's obsessed with it. He wants to find out who
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: leaked certain Sometimes leaks are deliberate. You want to get
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: it out, the unauthorized leaks. My guess is that she
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: tells nobody in the media anything. Go back to Trump's
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: first term. First term, he learned a lot from I
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: mean that White House leaked like a sieve. Kelly and Conway.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I know she was leaking right and left. The leaks
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: were mostly positive toward Trump. She was leaking and white
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: and they were all leaking right and left. He went
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: through chiefs, staffs that were leaking things all the time.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: So he's demanded that his inner circle be very loyal
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: to him. Yeah, the greatest press secretary of all times.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: She's unfortunately leaving now because she's got to take care
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: of these babies that she has and probably make a
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: ton of money as a pundit. Caroline love It. I
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: bet she never leaked one thing to the media. That
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Trump didn't want out. Trump prizes that kind of loyalty
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: and discretion. So here's this attractive blonde that as Trump's
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: test trust and that's why she's at his side all
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: the time, and she probably never leaks anything, and many
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: of them tried to do so. So now they got
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: to turn her into a mystery woman and imply the
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: only reason that she's there is she's an attractive blonde.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if we'd tried doing this the other way,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: democratic president as an attractive aid, and all we do
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: is every Oh, she's only there because he's got the
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: hots for her. That's sexist. You refuse to judge a
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: woman on her own merits. You'd never say that about
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: a man, as I've explained to you a million times.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: So let's make it a million in one. Whatever the
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: left accuses the right of, that's what they're doing. That's
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, which is something I just said. You're
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. This story's going to affect some of you
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: more than others. The numbers on the story are mind boggling.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I bet it affects Jason or you one of those
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: cheap skates who takes back roads and adds an hour
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: and a half to your trip because you don't want
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: to be on the tollway. You are you, oh seed,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: you get you, you avoid it altogether, you hit one
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: and you avoid the other. The Illinois Tollway is raising
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: its rates fifty seven percent. Fifty seven Now, for those
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: of you who don't know what the toll is, the
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: tollway is not on the entire interstate system in Illinois,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: but it is on ninety four, and I believe it's
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: it's on ninety also, which comes out of Rockford as well.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Isn't that a tool They're both tollways. So the two
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: main ones that lead from the north into the state
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: of Illinois are But then when you get into the
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: city of Chicago, there are the there are portions that
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: are not tollway. The bypass, what is it two ninety four,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: that's that's a toll way, but the other ones aren't.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Generally speaking, and I'm a supporter in general of toolways.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: I believe the user fees the tollway is supposed to
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: run without any kind of a subsidy. The problem is
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the state of Illinois. They have no ability at all
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: to be frugal with money. But I in general do think,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: and I've said forever, that if we wanted to expand
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: our freeways in Wisconsin by an initial lane, just make
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: the additional lane and express lane and a toilll ay.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: They do do that. In Florida, the main interstate Interstate
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: ninety five, in the area where I am between, saying Miami, well,
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: all the way through the state. It's the big main
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: brag Miami for Lauderdale, Palm Beach and so on. If
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: you get into the express lane, which means express lane,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: you go like nine miles without an exit, so there's
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: fewer kis that are in it, meaning you can go
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: faster and avoid all the clog of the traffic. But
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: that express lane's a toll lade. You stay in the
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: regular lanes. It's not a toll laane, So you pay
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: for the right to get somewhere fair. I'm actually in
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: favor of that. The problem here in Illinois is that
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: the cost is insane. Now. I used to every weekend
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: go to the racetrack or go to the otb at Illinois.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: So I would hit this thing, the OTB id and
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: have to take the tollway. But when I went to
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: the racetrack, there'd be the two toll boosts that I
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: would go to way back when it started. You actually
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: remember when you drop the money into the basket. I mean,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: well those things could be backed up for four miles
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: because everybody was great and you needed it, you could
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: stop it. There was actually a cage where a guy
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: was in and they make change. But I mean, you'd
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: always want to have the regular thing that you could
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: just throw the coins in and move along. Well, they
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: don't have that anymore. What you now do is, and
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: every state has this, You buy an eyepass, and most
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: of them they work in multiple states. The one I
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: have in Florida doesn't work in Illinois, so I have two.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: I have the transponder for Illinois and I have a
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: sticker I put in the car for Florida. But I
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: have a different car in Florida than I have up here.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: But anyway, fifty seven percent. So anyway, now what happens
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: is you drive through with a transponder in that records
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: and if you don't have the transponder, the cameras pick
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: it up and they nail you by license plate. So
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the people that don't have license plates, they don't not
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: have registered vehicles. They get away with it, but they
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: catch them that way. So the other thing that you
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: can do is you don't have to have the transponder.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: You simply go online and pay and say I went
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: through this when it's such and such a time, and
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: the system then catches, Okay, he did this. We aren't
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: gonna ding him because we had him going through. But
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: because you don't throw the coins in anymore. I'll admit
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I don't even know what it costs anywhere. I just
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: though it's way higher. Now you have to do it
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: all the time, and your ducking one do you do it?
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: They've known they do it by mile now correct, so
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: mileage is based at it. In any event, what they're
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: doing is raising the rate. Right now, the base rate
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: is apparently seven cents a mile, and they're gonna raise
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: it to eleven cents, which is a fifty seven percent increase,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: so should mean ten miles is a buck head. It
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't impact me that much because I don't go in
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Illinois anywhere near as much as I used to. Boy,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: oh boy, Illinois is raising tea. Every tax they have
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: they're raising. Now, let's move that was clearly an Illinois story.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: The expensive toy, and people Wisconsin just hate tollways, and
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: it's a very hard sell to get them to accept
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: even an additional pay road here, even though, as I said,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: I support the concept if we took if we eliminated
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: the gas tax in Wisconsin and instead simply you couldn't
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: limit it entirely, but we took the entire interstate and
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: made it a tool road, you would be charging the
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: people who use it a lot more of that. But
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: it's not going to happen in Wisconsin because nobody agrees
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: with me on this. The people in Illinois, I think,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: generally accept the notion. The other advantage the tollways is
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: usually there's less traffic because toways have fewer exits. What
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: kills northern Illinois. I haven't explained this one in a while,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: but I think I will now all this economic development
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: that's occurring in Interstate ninety four in Kenosha and Racine Counties.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: One of the reasons it's happening is you can't do
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: it in northern Illinois because they don't have interchanges. In
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Kenosha County, I think there's five or six exits I
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: have to think it through. Yeah, fifty is the third one. Yeah,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: there's six, so that's six, and that's like fourteen miles.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Six exited and fourteen miles in order to have like
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: a warehouse or a factory, or fast food restaurants or
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: all the stuff they eat. All the U Line buildings,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: for example, in Kenosha, they're all near one of the
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: interchanges because the employees can't drive five miles to get
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: out of the thing and so on. But you go
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: south on say ninety four in Illinois, the first exit
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: that you have, I think is Grand Avenue, which is
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: down by Great America and Gurnee Mills right, Russell Road right,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: that's right at the line. That's right at the line.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: And then after that it's like twelve or thirteen miles.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: So they can't nine, so they can't do as much
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: economic development there. If they took that and stopped it
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: being a toll way and put in a bunch of
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: additional interchanges, a lot of the development that we're seeing
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: in southeastern Wisconsin I was seen, and Kenosha Counties can
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: go into Illinois. We kind of benefit from the fact
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: that is, as I say, if you drive along the
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: tollway in it. There's never anything there other than the
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: few interchanges, which is why Gurney Mills in Great America
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: or six Flags, whichever you want to call it, they're
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: all there because that's where you get off the road.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: All right, No Wisconsins. I mean this is like the
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: most Wisconsin story that you could ever tell. There's a
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: proposal in econom Walk to give a gas station the
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: license to get to allow somebody to operate a bar
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: at a gas station. There's a BP gas station in
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: econom Walk and a woman who runs something called Lucky
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: seven Sport wants to open a bar in the gas
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Oh I could go right with that now. I'm sure
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: there are others of these, but I honestly can't think
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: of what now I can think of, Like big Um,
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: there's a gas station and a restaurant and a hotel
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: in the all in the same kind of complex. For example,
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: like when they build the BUCkies. I don't even know
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: if they sell alcohol in BUCkies or not. But this
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: isn't like over the counter by beer. It's an actual
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: bar where you'd drink the stuff at the gas station.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: I can't fathom oh kind of Walk would want to
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: do that? You say, well, why not. Bar is going
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: to be somewhere, why not have it at a gas station?
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: I can't think of one though in Wisconsin. Again, I'm
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: not saying there aren't. I'm just saying I can't think
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: of Eddie. I grew up in an area where we
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: had I mean, so many cities in Wisconsin. You allocated
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: a certain number of liquor license and they're always at
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: the max. Think of the hometown that I grew up in.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: The bar's all over the place. I don't remember any
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: bars being in a gas station. I just don't. But
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: here's the thing. Okonda walk gave a liquor license to
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: a different gas station and they just yanked it. They
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: did an inspection and went in there, and they found
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: that there was nobody in there, including employees. But there
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: were however, was they had all the gambling machines. So
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: apparently they got the bar license so that they could
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: put in the gambling machines and then stopped running the bar.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Nobody wanted to go to the bar at the gas station.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Let me read here. This is from the Walkershaw Freeman
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: during the July twenty first Common Council meeting. The Common
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: Council voted to revoke the Class B fermented malt beverage
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: and Class Sea wine license to public Summit Kenno Force
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Summit Avenue. An inspection by police officers found that the
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: business was open, but did not have any liquor present
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: and no staff members were in the tavern area. There
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: were only gaming machines available for you. So they took
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: away their liquor license because they apparently weren't even actually
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: operating the bar. So they're not turning going to turn
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: around in currently, give one this company that's applied for
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: for it's at a BP station at seven forty four
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: East Wisconsin Avenue, which is the main drive in a
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Dragon o'conom walk. I just want to put a bar
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: in there. I always act superior Toary Illinois, as they
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: did with the fact that they have the screwed up
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: tollway system and so on. But you haven't seen any
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: bars and gas stations in Illinois, have you?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Just?
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even think like on the South
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: side of Chicago they have bars and gas stations. I
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: just but an a kind of a walk they do
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: not watch. Somebody's gonna pick up on this and it'll
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: be like National News in Wisconsin, they have bars in
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: their gas stations. I mean like quick crips have almost
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: sit down restaurants now and so on. But they don't
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: sell liquor, do they. I don't think so. Again, I
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: just maybe I'm just forgetting I know again, I'm not
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: referring to like you'll go into some places and there's
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: a gas station and a restaurant and a million things
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: that's all part of a giant complex that this this
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: is the bar would actually be in the gas station.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: I ride another story for you. This is a good one.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: A listener brings this to my attention. This is a
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: perfect example of the things that government should not run.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: This is a proposal that's coming from Milwaukee County Executive
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: David Crowley's administration. What they want to do is rent
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: space from a church in West Alice to have what
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: they call a warming setter for homeless people. These warming
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: setters are terrible. Homeless shelters are good. The proposal is
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: to put this thing and I'm quoting here from a
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: listener's email. He gives me a lot of information. It
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: said eighty six thirty three West Beacher Street. The church
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: involved is Mount Hope Lutheran Church. I don't know this,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: but I'm guessing it's that wisconsonsined because it looks like
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: a lefty church, and the wisconsonanted churches are never lefty churches.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: They want to lease out to Milwaukee County space that
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: the church has for these homeless facilities. Here's the problem
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: with the so called warming centers, and they are just
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: used in the winter. They're used all the time, which
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: distinguishes them from say, extremely well run shelters like the
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: guest House or the Rescue Mission. The guest House and
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: the Rescue Mission have rules. It's lights out by I
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: don't know the exact hour, but you can't pop into
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: the Rescue Mission and then pop out to go do
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: your drugs or going do your drinking, and you can't
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: do any drinking when you're in there. So what you
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: do is you have to be in for the night
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: at a certain hour, so you're not wandering and roaming
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: the streets. But these places that they call warming centers,
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: they're just stopping go places. So what it ends up
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: is being a magnet for people who want to stay
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: on the street. There are many people, so called street people,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: who do not want to sleep in the shelters. Why
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: there's rules in the shelters. You can't do drugs in
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: the shelters, you can't have sex in the shelters, you
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: can't drink in the shelters. But the ones who want
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: to drink and do drugs and have sex at all hours,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: they prefer to stay on the streets, so they don't
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: go into the shelters. So then there pop in place
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: are these so called warming centers. So what you're gonna
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: do is attract a large homeless population to a residential
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: neighborhood of West Alice because David Crowley, the county executive,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: wants to operate this. And as I said, we have
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: numerous private shelters, charitable organ and the Rescue Mission does
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: a great job, and I support the proposal that the
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Rescue Mission is pursued in New Berlin. They have great
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: they do a great job, they have great rules, and
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: they're not set up to have a bunch of people
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: roaming around in the neighborhood outside them. They're there for
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: people to be inside the facility. But when you put
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: in these up up service places that facilitate people who
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: want to stay on the street, all they are is
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: a magnet for people who can destroy the quality of life.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: If it's a magnet for the people who want to
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: stay outside all night and take wizzards on the street
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: and puke and defecate, which is all over San Francisco,
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: this is a great idea. I want to share some
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: of the information from the listener from West Dallas. First
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: of all, he also points out the great inconsistency of lefties.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: They can't stand the ocean of government allowing individuals to
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: go to private school's school choice, but they certainly accept
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: the ocean of allowing the government to run a homeless
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: shelter inside a private church, So that type of privatization
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: they're all in favor of. That's a good point that
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: he makes. Continuing, the shelter is pretty much across the
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: street from an elementary school the church, which has no cameras,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: and the only security will be to check Wisconsin Circuit
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: access with checking people in. Do homeless people even have IDs?
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Weapons and drugs will have been left at the check in,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: but would be given back to the individual when they leave.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: And see, this is the problem with these places in
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: which you bop in and bop out. Suppose they have
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: a gun, suppose they have a knife. They check it
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: in and then they leave and they go back into
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood with it. He points out that West Alice
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: families can't use the public library anymore because it's overrun
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: with homeless. I can't vote for that, but I do
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: know it's a problem with a lot of libraries that
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: a bunch of bums are just hanging in there, laying
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: on all the tables and stinking the joint up. That
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: nobody wants to go into them because the libraries don't
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: kick them out. He also points out that the sponsor
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: of the proposal is a guy named Chad Halverson, who
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: represents District two in West Alice. The church is in
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: District three. It's an all they've been proposing to put
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: a homeless shelter in a portrait of West Alice that
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: isn't his district. So, as I say, the listener is
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: drawing attention to what appears to be a terrible proposal
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: to take a residential area and allow an in and
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: out homeless shelter. Not a permanent place with rules, which
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: is the place that you stop in, dump your guns
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: at the door. What putting a place like this. It's
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: not a place where people are expected to live and
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: be inside the facility most of the time, an actual shelter,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: but an in and out flophous come in to warm up,
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: come in to go to the can, and so on.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: What it does is attract numerous of these people who
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: will then use it for that purpose, but then live
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: on the streets in the neighborhood that they're in. David
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Crowley is not real bright. He's a classic lefty. I'm
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: not saying he's stupid, hong with stupid, but he not
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: real bright. The way liberals tend to think is they're
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: one dimensional thinkers. Oh, it'd be great to have some
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: homeless shelters out there in the suburbs like West Allis
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: rather than have them all in downtown Milwaukee, never considering
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: all of the things that will happen when you do that,
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: and secondly, how much lousier government run shelters are than
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: the private sector ones. So Milwaukee County taxpayers are going
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: to pay this money to do least this space out
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: from the church to create a homeless shelter, even though
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: we have numerous private sector, privately run, charitable run homeless
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: shelter is it do a wonderful job. You set one
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: up now that's going to have almost no rules that
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: allow people to come and go whenever they please, and
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: you PLoP it into a residential neighborhood, taking a residential
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: neighborhood that right now probably doesn't have that many bums
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: walking the street, and suddenly are going to have two
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty of them in there. Stupid idea. Onward.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: One of the ramifications of Crowley beating Hong for the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Democratic nomination for governor is what I think would have
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: been one of the biggest issues in the campaign has changed.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: Francesca Hong was against all data centers and a talking
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: point all across the country. This is a talking point
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: the Democrats are running on. They're not going to attack
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Republican candidates for governor and the state legislature on data centers.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Their position is we don't want any of them, and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Republicans generally have positions all over the map. My position
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: is data centers are good if they're located in the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: right place, but I'm not against unilaterally having them. I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: also believe that the data centers cannot increase the cost
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: of electricity. That whatever increase in the electrical burden is
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: has to be provided by the data center itself, and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I encourage the data centers to construct their own power plants.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: That's my position. They are the Republicans that have close
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: to mind and all over the map. Tom Tiffany's position
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: has been to support data centers only if there's local
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: support for them. And as I said, Hang was against
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: all of them. But Crowley's a data center whore. Crowley
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: has taken in a fortune in campaign money from the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: companies that do data centers, and Tiffany has already started
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: by attacking him on this issue. Now those of you
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: that don't understand politics are wondering where Tiffany would attack
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Crowley for being pro data center. Here's why this is
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: an immunization. As I said, the talking point from Democrats everywhere,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: and they run the same ads everywhere in the country.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: It was going to be to attack Tiffany on data centers.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: And remember everybody assumed Hong was going to be the candidate,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: and her position is she didn't want any data centers
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: at Wisconsin. So now you have a Democrat that clearly
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: has been pro data center. Why do you think the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: data center developers have been giving him so much money
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  Speaker 2: they knew that if he would get in, he greenlight
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  Speaker 2: all of them. In reality, the positions that the two
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  Speaker 2: of them have is probably not that far apart. Tiffany
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  Speaker 2: will support a well planned data center. Crowley probably a
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  Speaker 2: little bit looser on them. But it totally flips the
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  Speaker 2: script in what everybody thought would be Democrat haung no
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  Speaker 2: data centers. Republican Tiffany could therefore be portrayed as a
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  Speaker 2: guy who wanted a data center up the state. It
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  Speaker 2: will be interesting to see how the Democrats who are
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  Speaker 2: so anti data center will now manage to look the
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  Speaker 2: other way as their candidate for governor is somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: been bankrolled by the data center industry. I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: the same way they look the other way at the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Bertie Sanders' entire political career has been bankrolled
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  Speaker 2: by the drug companies. You know, Bertie Sanders is number
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  Speaker 2: one of the Senate in terms of campaign contributions for
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  Speaker 2: the drug companies. Did you know that? Well, now you
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  Speaker 2: know that if he's not number one, it's near the top. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I remember and RFK Junior when he was having I
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  Speaker 2: mean RFK Junior he's arguing is so hilarious because he's
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  Speaker 2: got the gravelly voice because of the speech impediment that
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  Speaker 2: he has. But Bertie, I can't even do an imitation
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  Speaker 2: of him. I can't even get that gravelly. And I
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  Speaker 2: have a naturally gravelly voice myself. Bertie, your number one
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  Speaker 2: and taken. Then he comes back felt money 's some
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  Speaker 2: of the employees. Well, it has to be from the
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  Speaker 2: employees because companies can't make a donation. They can kick
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  Speaker 2: into packs, but they can't make individual So yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: CEO and no, they all kick in Democrats. Oh and
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  Speaker 2: you know that was the point that I made earlier.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be the Democrats and the left they
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  Speaker 2: were the ones totally against the drug companies. Then COVID
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  Speaker 2: came in and they're just shows it worries for them
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  Speaker 2: and they're great. Hero Bernie Sanders, he's been slopping in
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  Speaker 2: drug company money as long as he's been in politics.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
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  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. High School Football in Wisconsin starts this weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and under that backdrop, an unusual story from it must
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  Speaker 2: be West Allis Day on the program. This is from
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  Speaker 2: West Allis High School, not too far from our studios here,
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  Speaker 2: a couple miles away Nathan Hale High School in West Allis.
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  Speaker 2: The entire football coaching staff has resigned. We don't know why,
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  Speaker 2: but some of the reporting from the news media indicates
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  Speaker 2: that there is an investigation going on and it may
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  Speaker 2: be criminal. Story from Fox six. It doesn't indicate what
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  Speaker 2: it is that's being investigated now all of it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Nobody's tipped me off to any If I
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  Speaker 2: had two days in advance in this, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: I could fight out about this because if there's any
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  Speaker 2: place that's just, it might not necessarily be the straight school.
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  Speaker 2: But schools are just rumors in schools, that's what schools
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  Speaker 2: operate on. Rumors. The kids gossip, the teachers gossip, the
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: administrator's gossip. I don't know what the issue is, but
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  Speaker 2: all of the coaches have resigned, so they had to
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  Speaker 2: grab at the last minute, just like people on the
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  Speaker 2: staff in West Allis, and suddenly throw them in to
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  Speaker 2: run the football program. The team opens this weekend. You
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: obviously have percd L issues here, and when somebody's under investigation,
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  Speaker 2: but they haven't been accused directly of something. You can't
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  Speaker 2: really say what they're under investigation for, but it clearly
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  Speaker 2: looks like they all resigned because they were told, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't resign, we're going to fire you. But when
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  Speaker 2: they say it's under investigation, that people now when in
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  Speaker 2: this day and age, the first thing you think of
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  Speaker 2: is inappropriate sexual activity or something, but it can't be
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  Speaker 2: all of them. Then the FOXX report says that some
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  Speaker 2: believe that this is that the investigation started after a
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  Speaker 2: group chat involving school district employees. And you know there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these. There's Facebook pages and other pages
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  Speaker 2: that people will do group chats or group texts, and
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  Speaker 2: they became aware of comments that were made or speculation
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  Speaker 2: about something that some of these coaches were involved in
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  Speaker 2: that was in that and that started the investigation, Which
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that the allegation and a group chat turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be correct. But this could be anything. It
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  Speaker 2: could be inappropriate sexual content, it could be child porn.
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  Speaker 2: It can also be expense accounts, it could have to
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  Speaker 2: do with trying to get a student academically eligible. When
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  Speaker 2: it can be anything, but yea end up with I
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  Speaker 2: mean you know, West Allis football teams have had a
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  Speaker 2: hard time competing because they're large schools, so they're oftening
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  Speaker 2: really really difficult conferences, you know. But it's a locked
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  Speaker 2: in suburb and they don't attract open enrollment kids from
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  Speaker 2: the big suburbs, and you're going up against some of
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  Speaker 2: these big, sprawling suburban schools and so on. So here
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  Speaker 2: these kids are. They go through practice in August, they
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  Speaker 2: have to open this weekend, and now they have no coaches,
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  Speaker 2: so all the systems that were in place. The new
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  Speaker 2: coaches that come in, they don't know any of the players.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know who's good and who isn't. They have
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  Speaker 2: to put in their own plays. Nothing that they've you know,
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  Speaker 2: the plays that have been practice. Maybe some of the
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  Speaker 2: team captains said, what a total mess. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: the fault of the kids. I hope that there's some
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  Speaker 2: transparency here that would disclose why they left, even if
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  Speaker 2: it turns out that they're cleared of wrongdoing. But again,
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  Speaker 2: if there wasn't any wrongdoing, I don't know why they
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  Speaker 2: all would have quit. And finally, this story, I have
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  Speaker 2: no particular opinion on whether or not this is good
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  Speaker 2: or bad, but it is fascinating. Some of you may
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  Speaker 2: recall a player on the University of Wisconsin basketball team
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  Speaker 2: from three years ago named aj Store. He's a guard,
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  Speaker 2: he's pretty good. He played. My recollection is he played
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  Speaker 2: his sophomore year at Wisconsin. He transferred from Saint John's.
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  Speaker 2: After his season at Wisconsin, he transferred again. There's probably
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  Speaker 2: somebody else that has this same profile, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've heard of one. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of athletes now that transfer a lot. If they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to start at a certain school, they'll go somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: or more likely they can get a better nil deal
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  Speaker 2: at a new school and someone just move around. Aj Store,
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  Speaker 2: you can pretty much stay eligible for at least five
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  Speaker 2: years in college athletics. Now, this coming fall will be
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  Speaker 2: aj stores fifth year. He'll be a fifth year senior,
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  Speaker 2: and he's just transferred again. He will have attended five
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  Speaker 2: schools in five years. He's transferring from UNLV. He started,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, at Saint John's. Next year was Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: his third year, his junior year was Kansas, his fourth
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  Speaker 2: year was Mississippi, and now he's going to play at UNLV.
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  Speaker 2: His fifth year. I will note and Again, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if this is the reason. When aj Stow Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: he's very good, and when he was at Saint John,
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  Speaker 2: I think he was Freshman of the Year in the
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  Speaker 2: Big East Conference. In other words, he's really talented. But
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  Speaker 2: here he is now in his fifth year, he's not
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  Speaker 2: nobody's offering him anything in the NBA. He's staying in
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  Speaker 2: college and taking He's going to UNLV, which I think
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  Speaker 2: is a step down from the SEC in Mississippi. It
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  Speaker 2: seems to me that the guy has not improved or developed.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe that's one of the things that happens when
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  Speaker 2: you transfer every year and you don't have any continuity
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  Speaker 2: under your coaching staff, you don't get better. But there's
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  Speaker 2: more to this. I don't think I've ever heard of
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  Speaker 2: a kid that has this in his background. Aj Store
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  Speaker 2: transferred every year he was in high school. Also, he
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  Speaker 2: played on four teams in four years in high school,
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  Speaker 2: so for each of the last nine years he's been
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  Speaker 2: at a different school. And in high school, it's not
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  Speaker 2: like in Wisconsin. I don't agree with the rule. I
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  Speaker 2: think you should be able to transfer as much as
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  Speaker 2: you want in Wisconsin. But in Wisconsin you can transfer
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  Speaker 2: after your sophomore season. You can't play some year for
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  Speaker 2: some school as a junior and another school as a
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  Speaker 2: senior unless you've legitimately had a change in location, and
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to get the WI to approve that. But
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  Speaker 2: in the case of Store, this wasn't like a kid
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  Speaker 2: who went to one school on the north side of
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  Speaker 2: Chicago and then he went to a Catholic school in
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  Speaker 2: Chicago his second year. Here's his track record in high
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  Speaker 2: school freshman year kanka Key High School in Illinois. Kanka
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  Speaker 2: Key is like straight south of Chicago, right kenka Kee. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not really a suburb. It would be beyond the suburbs,
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  Speaker 2: but they're all growing together out there and over so
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  Speaker 2: it's like south. It's like even to the east of Joliet.
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  Speaker 2: It's like straight south of chicag Right, Yeah, Southeast Julia
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  Speaker 2: farther down. So that's where he started kanka Kee. He
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  Speaker 2: goes from kanka Key to Las Vegas. He plays his
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  Speaker 2: sophomore year at Bishop Gorman High School, which I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how they are in basketball, but they always have
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  Speaker 2: one of the best high school football programs of the country.
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  Speaker 2: So he goes in kanka Kee, Illinois to Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: Nevada and high school from one year to the next.
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  Speaker 2: His junior year he goes to a prep school in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: He goes to Easy Compass in Arizona. So now we're
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  Speaker 2: Kanka Key Las Vegas and Arizona. And in his final
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  Speaker 2: year he goes to IMG, which is one of the
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  Speaker 2: big prep schools basketball academy in Florida. So this guy
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  Speaker 2: played on four different teams in high school in four years,
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  Speaker 2: and now he's on his fifteen and five years in college.
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  Speaker 2: I don't Just again, I don't have a problem with
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  Speaker 2: guys going to whatever school they want, And I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that the NCAA necessarily should stop the transferring is
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  Speaker 2: going on. And do I think it's good for the
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  Speaker 2: sport or not? No, I don't. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 2: I went to lacrosse for all five years I was
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  Speaker 2: in college. If I wanted to go to Lacrosse my
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  Speaker 2: freshman year and go to eau Claire my sophomore year,
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  Speaker 2: and go to Oshkosh my junior year, and go to
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  Speaker 2: Stevens Point my senior year, the credits all would have transferred.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't have been a very good way to have
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  Speaker 2: a college life, and it wouldn't be a great way
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  Speaker 2: to have any kind of continuity. Was that against the rules?
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  Speaker 2: But you wonder what it is in the guy's personality
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  Speaker 2: that he simply can't stay anywhere from more than a year.
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  Speaker 2: Is he impossible to deal with? Is he a dank
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  Speaker 2: or the coaches can't stand him? I mean, I get
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  Speaker 2: that in college he's chasing the money each year wherever
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  Speaker 2: he's going to get his best nil deal. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that there were any on idea deals that
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  Speaker 2: he was getting in high school. Nine schools in nine
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  Speaker 2: There's like a few guys like that. In professional sports,
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  Speaker 2: there's just certain guys that get traded all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Who's an NBA player, he's at the Bucks for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Remember Joe Smith, NBA player, he was on two teams
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  Speaker 2: every year he's with the Bucks for like a year
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  Speaker 2: that he's another team for a year. Not the current Beasley,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: but the Beasley that retired a few years ago. He
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: played for the Bucks for a while. Michael Beasley, not Malik.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Malik Beasley's now on a bunch of teams. Michael Beasley
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  Speaker 2: was just on a million teams in baseball right now.
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  Speaker 2: Luis Rias is that guy. He's great at batting average,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: but he has no power, and the analytics people think
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  Speaker 2: that high batting average is no power is kind of useless.
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  Speaker 2: He's always traded, he's on He's on two teams every year.
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  Speaker 2: So there's certain people in pro sports that just get
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  Speaker 2: traded a lot. I think that's going to be Pat
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  Speaker 2: Connident for the rest of his career at all with
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  Speaker 2: the Bucks for a while, but then he went to
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  Speaker 2: Charla and he's release. He's doesn't want to I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's planning to retire. He's going to be one
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  Speaker 2: of these guys that's going to be traded in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the season and use the money to make
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  Speaker 2: the money add up in these deals and you just
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  Speaker 2: get traded, traded, traded, traded, traded, traded, traded, traded, traded, traded, traded,
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  Speaker 2: trade and traded. That could be Bobby Portos too, now
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  Speaker 2: that he's going to Miami, he could clearly be a
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: guy that Miami trades in the middle of the season,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: you know, for somebody else. But to have a guy
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  Speaker 2: in college have that kind of tracker nine and nine years,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: where do you stand at all this college transferring in
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: it is. But see, that's the thing. It is pro sports,
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  Speaker 2: and I've always been in favor of paying players because
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  Speaker 2: I believe that everybody should be able to make money
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  Speaker 2: to him whatever it is that they can do. If
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  Speaker 2: as if a kid plays the trumpet when he's in college,
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  Speaker 2: he can go out and do band gigs on the
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  Speaker 2: weekend and get paid. I don't believe in the schools
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  Speaker 2: paying them, but I don't have a problem with raising
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  Speaker 2: the money from private boosters to pay the nil. With
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  Speaker 2: regard to the transfers, I do agree with you that
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  Speaker 2: there needs to be some restriction, but I do also
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  Speaker 2: look at it this way. Let's imagine you're recruited to
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  Speaker 2: play at Alabama and you get to Alabama and you
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  Speaker 2: can't crack even the third string. You need to be
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: at a school where you get a chance to play, right,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: So you go from Alabama to well, Wisconsin and maybe
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  Speaker 2: you can get some playing time. Well, let's imagine you
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  Speaker 2: still don't make it there. So maybe Western Illinois, a
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  Speaker 2: lower Division I school, is the place that you end
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  Speaker 2: up being able to play. I don't know why you'd
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  Speaker 2: want to stop that, but I'll grant and while that
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  Speaker 2: is some of the transferring. It's just guys that are
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: moving down and oft. In other cases, somebody starts at
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: a small school and they're really good and they move up.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: That happens a lot, the ones where you're right where
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: it's just lateral, where they're just chasing money. They're not
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: going to another school because they can move to a
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: higher thing. It's just somebody's offered them a bigger contract
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: somewhere else. I can see a limitation being placed on it,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean the old system in which transferred you'd
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  Speaker 2: have to sit out a year and so on. My
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  Speaker 2: opposition to that is the coaches they've been jumping on
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: cultural recruiter, got to come to the school. Oh i'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna be with you. I'm gonna be with you. I'm
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: gonna be with you. They quit, They quit before the
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  Speaker 2: season is over, go to another school. They never had
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  Speaker 2: to sit anything out. And they're making six, seven, eight,
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  Speaker 2: nine million dollars a year. And somebody tosses his cookies
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: because a quarterback's making nine hundred and fifty thousand. But
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: it is a chaotic thing. It also makes it really hard.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: The football season starting and we start our football picking
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: contest on the show in two weeks. It's very hard
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: to know who's gonna be good from one year to
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: the other. In the past, you would just look, Okay,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: they had these players, this guy graduated, these freshmen are incoming.
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  Speaker 2: Some of these schools have such incredible like Wisconsin, there's
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: just incredible roster turnover. They finally have a good quarterback.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: Let's hope this one stays healthy. But it's really hard
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: to evaluate teams because there's there's more turnover right now
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: in college than there is in pros, much more. Even
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: take the team like the Bucks that flipped over these
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: kind of you know, school like Marquette that doesn't they're
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: finally taking in transfers with Shaka Smart didn't believe in
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: it at all. And then you have Wisconsin that brings
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: in three new starters every year hopes to keep them
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: for more than a year. All Right, that's it for
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: this week's podcast covered a lot of big territory in
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  Speaker 2: There again. Topic we discussed at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: program look into this situation with regard to the Japanese
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: credit swaps and the fear that some of these big
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: outstanding investments may go badly underwater if the value of
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: the Yan goes up, it could create a massive global
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: financial crisis where institutions have to raise a fortune in
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: cash by dumping everything.
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