Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #182: It's time to vote! Which side turns out more of its low-propensity voters will decide Wisconsin's existential 2026 election. The Brewers are two wins away after an improbable (and lucky?) Game 2 win; tonight they face the hottest pitcher in baseball but Mark says the Brewers' patient hitting style can work against former Brewer Freddy Peralta. And a prominent American Democrat actually calls for stealing SpaceX and Starlink from its stockholders and nationalizing the firms.

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Mark Belling Podcast #182: It's time to vote! Which side turns out more of its low-propensity voters will decide Wisconsin's existential 2026 election. The Brewers are two wins away after an improbable (and lucky?) Game 2 win; tonight they face the hottest pitcher in baseball but Mark says the Brewers' patient hitting style can work against former Brewer Freddy Peralta. And a prominent American Democrat actually calls for stealing SpaceX and Starlink from its stockholders and nationalizing the firms. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: We have one primary message on today's podcast, and that
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  Speaker 2: is V-O-T-E, vote. We're doing this podcast on Monday afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: meaning it's the final week for early voting. for I
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  Speaker 2: think the existentially important Wisconsin election for governor. The 22
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  Speaker 2: election between Evers and Michaels was important. And Evers beating
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  Speaker 2: Walker in 18 was important. And certainly both of Scott
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  Speaker 2: Walker's reelections were very important. I would say the 2010
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  Speaker 2: was also an existential election. It put in place 16
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  Speaker 2: years of progress in Wisconsin that the Democrats have not
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  Speaker 2: fully undone. But this one is the, I think, no
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  Speaker 2: turning back election. We're either going to elect a Democratic
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  Speaker 2: governor and a Democratic legislature combined with a leftist Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: which will make us, best case scenario, Minnesota, which is terrible,
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  Speaker 2: and likely a scenario, Illinois, California, Washington State, Oregon, states
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  Speaker 2: that have simply gone to hell. Or we will be
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  Speaker 2: the pride of the Rust Belt We will likely finally,
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  Speaker 2: if we can get a Republican governor and keep a
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  Speaker 2: Republican legislature in place, bring in legitimate tax relief, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: even addressing the state's obnoxious income tax and making Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: the target state for investment in the Midwest and ending
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  Speaker 2: the bleed of businesses and individuals bailing out of the
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  Speaker 2: state because of our onerous business environment. and excessively wasteful
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  Speaker 2: spending on all sorts of things from public works to
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  Speaker 2: schools and everything else. That's the watershed that we're at.
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  Speaker 2: We either become California, a state that people can't get
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  Speaker 2: out of fast enough. The illegal immigrants that they've welcomed
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  Speaker 2: in have only replaced the businesses and residents that bailed
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  Speaker 2: out of that state because of how miserable it's become.
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  Speaker 2: And you're running out of time to do anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to analyze what's happening with the election and
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  Speaker 2: this call to action on voting in just a moment here.
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  Speaker 2: And I acknowledge that more so than any statewide election
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere in Wisconsin, early voting runs through Friday. Milwaukee might
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  Speaker 2: still go to Saturday, I don't even know. We do have, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: and this has been a problem that I've been addressing
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  Speaker 2: for years that's not been rectified. We do have many
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  Speaker 2: smaller rural communities with dead-ass lazy clerks who will simply
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  Speaker 2: offer almost no advanced voting or very restrictive hours because
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  Speaker 2: they don't think they have any responsibility to provide the
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  Speaker 2: same access to elections that Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, City
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  Speaker 2: of Racine, City of Kenosha, the big leftist enclaves in
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  Speaker 2: the state do. But you all know where you live
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  Speaker 2: and you all know who to contact to find out
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  Speaker 2: what the early voting hours are. Obviously, we've been stressing
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  Speaker 2: early voting on my program for many, many years. The
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  Speaker 2: alternative of waiting till Election Day is just a recipe
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  Speaker 2: for disaster. It has been proven again and again and again.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons that Arizona went from being
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  Speaker 2: a Republican state to a Democrat state, is people waiting
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  Speaker 2: to vote on Election Day and then facing the fiasco
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  Speaker 2: of election officials who simply don't care about Election Day
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  Speaker 2: voting because they know the Democrats don't vote on Election Day.
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  Speaker 2: My biggest argument to do it in advance is because
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  Speaker 2: it's done and it's over with. It's the same philosophy
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  Speaker 2: I have with regard to the Brewers. I want them
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  Speaker 2: to win the next two games. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: have to worry about anything beyond that. Theoretically, they could
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  Speaker 2: lose one or both of the next two games and
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  Speaker 2: still win the World Series, but why run the risk?
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  Speaker 2: We have seen nationally reports that early voting numbers are
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  Speaker 2: up in Republican areas across the country. That would be
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  Speaker 2: a good sign. And again, when you say Republican areas,
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  Speaker 2: it could just be that all the Democrats in those
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  Speaker 2: areas have already voted, or it could be that some
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are going to swing over in this supposed blue
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  Speaker 2: wave and vote for Democrats, but those numbers are pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: The newspaper, the news media polling that's out there, I've
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  Speaker 2: just gotten to disregard. The polling that is always the
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  Speaker 2: best is the polling that's done by the candidates. The
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  Speaker 2: candidates cannot afford to deceive themselves. They need to know
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  Speaker 2: exactly what's going on and where, so they know where
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  Speaker 2: to put their resources. And we're hearing anecdotally Republicans gaining
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  Speaker 2: everywhere in the country. Now that's gaining from being way
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  Speaker 2: down a few weeks ago. This is kind of the
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  Speaker 2: normal pattern. Republicans always surge prior to an election. Always, always, always.
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  Speaker 2: I've gone into in the past why it is that
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  Speaker 2: Democrats do better in polling in August, September, and early October,
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  Speaker 2: so we don't need to do it again. But there
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  Speaker 2: is that sense of a surge there. Here in Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: you have obviously the problem of we're a swing state
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  Speaker 2: and there's a blue wave that's supposed to be coming in. Bad.
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, you have a remarkable mismatch in
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  Speaker 2: quality of candidates. the Republicans have fielded a very strong,
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  Speaker 2: competent candidate with nary a skeleton in his closet, very well-spoken, thoughtful, reasoned,
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  Speaker 2: in-depth experience on the issues in Tiffany. And the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have put up a dumbass who seems like he's running
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  Speaker 2: for seventh-grade class president. I wrote my newspaper column about
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  Speaker 2: the governor's race of the statewide elections. I wrote it yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It comes out on Wednesdays. And I got myself to
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  Speaker 2: think back, is David Crowley the worst major party candidate
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  Speaker 2: for governor in Wisconsin history? Now, I admit, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how bad they all were in the 1940s and
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  Speaker 2: prior to that. So I can go by, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: starting in 1960, while I don't remember a couple of
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  Speaker 2: those early campaigns, I'm certainly aware of And I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean a candidate in a primary. I mean the nominee
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  Speaker 2: in a general election. Has either party ever put up
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  Speaker 2: a more ill-prepared, poor candidate as Crowley is? The closest
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  Speaker 2: I can come up with is in 2014, the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: ran Mary Burke against Scott Walker. Walker crushed her. By
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin standards, a six-point Republican win is a crushing. Mary Burke,
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  Speaker 2: was part of the family from Trek Bikes. She was
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  Speaker 2: a member of the school board in Madison. She was
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  Speaker 2: actually a very nice person, but in completely over her head.
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  Speaker 2: She became their candidate because she was able to self-finance
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  Speaker 2: the campaign because she's very, very rich because her family
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  Speaker 2: started Trek Bikes. But she was in over their head
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  Speaker 2: on a number of issues, and the Democrats just had
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  Speaker 2: a half-hearted approach to that 2014 election. It was a
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  Speaker 2: big Republican year. It was the final off year of
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  Speaker 2: the Obama presidency. Those are very good for the party
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't control the White House. But I remember the
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  Speaker 2: Mary Burke thing. As I say, she was in over
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  Speaker 2: her head, kind of a nice person. But she didn't
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  Speaker 2: seem goofy the way Crowley does. In terms of her
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  Speaker 2: command of the issues, it was at least that. The
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have run, I think, poorer candidates for other statewide
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  Speaker 2: offices like the Senate. I can't say Crowley is worse than, say,
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  Speaker 2: Mandela Barnes. When they put up Mandela Barnes against Ron Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: they did everything they could essentially to let Ron get
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  Speaker 2: elected to another six-year term, which he did. So you
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  Speaker 2: have a very, very good Republican candidate against a train
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  Speaker 2: wreck of a Democratic candidate. So that mitigates against this
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  Speaker 2: whole blue wave, high gas prices thing. And you put
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  Speaker 2: the two things together, and I'm here with a shrug
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  Speaker 2: of a shoulder as to which way this thing is going.
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  Speaker 2: You also have a complicating factor. And I don't mean
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  Speaker 2: complicating in a bad way, just complicating in terms of
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  Speaker 2: trying to analyze things, and that is everybody in this
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  Speaker 2: state is focused on the brewers. It's hard to think
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  Speaker 2: about 19 things at once and As critical as this
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  Speaker 2: election is, what with the Democrats in Wisconsin having turned
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  Speaker 2: Marxist and a very lefty candidate at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the ticket in Crowley, has this gotten to the point
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  Speaker 2: of being for many people who are from the middle
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  Speaker 2: to the right, being one of these elections that you
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  Speaker 2: can't afford to miss because we lose our state perhaps
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  Speaker 2: forever if you blow this election? I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 2: also struck Over the last 20 years, and it's gotten
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  Speaker 2: better every two years, you've just seen on the part
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  Speaker 2: of both political parties more and more yard signs. I
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  Speaker 2: think yard signs are a great sign of a healthy democracy.
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  Speaker 2: People willing to state which side that they're on, they
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  Speaker 2: stick a sign in their yard. There were yard signs
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  Speaker 2: everywhere two years ago, more for Trump than for Kamala,
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  Speaker 2: but they were everywhere. Again, I'm a creature of where
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  Speaker 2: I live. I live in southeastern Wisconsin, and I've not driven...
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  Speaker 2: Outside the region in a month. And when I say
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  Speaker 2: the region, I've been to Ozaukee, Washington, like the collar
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  Speaker 2: counties around here. We're seeing in Kenosha counties. Don't think
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  Speaker 2: I've been to Walworth in the last few weeks. But around,
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  Speaker 2: doing that, going to do a bunch of things just
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  Speaker 2: in Kenosha County a couple of weeks ago. Was in
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  Speaker 2: Ozaukee County last, I've been around. I don't think I've
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  Speaker 2: ever been through a major election in the last 20
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  Speaker 2: years in Wisconsin in which there were fewer yard signs
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  Speaker 2: on both sides. Now, I live on the east side
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  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee. These lefties put up yard signs for everything.
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  Speaker 2: They're bragging about what cause they supported. For everything. There's
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  Speaker 2: Crowley signs. There just aren't many. I would say a
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  Speaker 2: minuscule fraction of the Kamala signs that there were or
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  Speaker 2: even the Evers signs from four years ago. Or the
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  Speaker 2: Mandela Barnes signs from four years ago. And I'm seeing,
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  Speaker 2: I think, even fewer Tiffany signs. Though, again, there may
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  Speaker 2: be those of you that live, say, in Dodge. Oh, Mark,
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  Speaker 2: they're everywhere. And I've heard up north in northern Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: where they're on a mission to elect Tiffany, the Tiffany
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  Speaker 2: signs are all over the place. I hear that anecdotally.
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  Speaker 2: I've not been up there to see it. But there
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  Speaker 2: are certain streets around here that I mentioned we're very
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  Speaker 2: close to 124th Street, and 124th Street's the line that
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  Speaker 2: divides Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. And there just have always
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  Speaker 2: been a lot of yard signs that tend to be
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  Speaker 2: in the residences there. And I was just up and
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  Speaker 2: down that street again today, and there wasn't one for
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  Speaker 2: either party, at least that I saw. I'm not constantly
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  Speaker 2: looking off to the side of the road. What does
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  Speaker 2: that mean? I don't know. Does it mean apathy on
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  Speaker 2: both sides? If there is apathy on both sides, that
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  Speaker 2: clearly would help the Republicans, I think. Because if it's
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  Speaker 2: expected to be a wave Democrat year and they don't
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  Speaker 2: turn out their numbers, that mitigates against it. One other thing.
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  Speaker 2: We did one lengthy segment on the podcast a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago on the three referendums. And I said at
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  Speaker 2: the time, I know there are going to be some
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  Speaker 2: people aren't going to hear every podcast. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be inundated with questions. I won't say that I've
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  Speaker 2: been inundated, but I keep getting questions on the referendums.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not referring to any of your local school referendums.
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  Speaker 2: The statewide referendums are always the first three. On my
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  Speaker 2: ballot in Milwaukee, they're the only three. But no matter
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  Speaker 2: where you live, they're the first three. The answer is
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  Speaker 2: to vote yes on all of them. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to take time here on today's program to walk through
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  Speaker 2: individually because I did that on an earlier podcast, but
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  Speaker 2: that is the question. And usually that's the thing that
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  Speaker 2: will flummox people is often people will take a look
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  Speaker 2: online at a sample ballot before they go in to vote.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll ask these questions and they all sound good
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  Speaker 2: and people think they're being tricked. You're not being tricked.
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  Speaker 2: The answer is to vote yes. So anyway, I have
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  Speaker 2: no predictions. And I'm reading in other states just the
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  Speaker 2: betting markets are all over the map. And the betting
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  Speaker 2: markets used to be, I think, very reliable because where
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  Speaker 2: people put their money is usually a much better indicator
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  Speaker 2: than just somebody talking to his rear end. But betting
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  Speaker 2: markets on just about everything have been way off lately
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  Speaker 2: and They were terribly off in past elections. They were
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  Speaker 2: correct in 2024 on Trump. The betting markets had Trump
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  Speaker 2: as the favorite through the entire year of 2024. They're
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  Speaker 2: right on that. But you can bet on the races
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  Speaker 2: on Polymarket and Kelshi in just about every state in
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  Speaker 2: the union. And I can't say what the current odds
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  Speaker 2: as of a week and a half ago. Crowley was
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  Speaker 2: a huge favorite of Wisconsin. But again, that's just based
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  Speaker 2: on people were betting the blue wave. And everyone says
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  Speaker 2: that internally, there's just been a move away from the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats over this last period of time. And if you
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  Speaker 2: wonder why that could possibly be with Trump on popular
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  Speaker 2: high gas prices and so on, I think two things. One,
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  Speaker 2: Trump has gotten himself out there and is defending his record.
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  Speaker 2: And secondly, the mask is off the Democrats. Everybody now
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  Speaker 2: knows that they're radical Marxists. And everyone also knows that
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  Speaker 2: many of them are in bed with Muslim terrorists. Michigan
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  Speaker 2: is a very, very interesting example. If the Democrats win Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: running a communist anti-Semite Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, if the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: can't beat him in a swing state, I think it
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  Speaker 2: means you're going to see an avalanche for the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: all over America. If, however, the Democrats lose that race,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be an indication that they simply overplayed their hand here.
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  Speaker 2: They were so convinced that they were going to win
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  Speaker 2: that they just put up radicals on the ballot all
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  Speaker 2: over the country. The way they approach the Wisconsin race,
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  Speaker 2: not even caring initially if Hong was going to win
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  Speaker 2: until finally some of the more sober Democrats said we
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  Speaker 2: can't run a Hong. She's a nincompoop and an admitted communist.
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  Speaker 2: So they had to try to find somebody, and they
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  Speaker 2: came up with smiley face Crowley, who I actually wonder
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  Speaker 2: if the Republicans win, if the Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 2: ask themselves if they would have been better off with Hong,
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  Speaker 2: given how completely ill-prepared and, frankly, how just goofy Crowley is.
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  Speaker 2: I am growing frustrated with the Tiffany campaign. I think
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  Speaker 2: that the independent organizations that are running ads on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of Tiffany are doing reasonably good jobs in their messaging.
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  Speaker 2: But Tiffany has left issues off the table. I understand
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  Speaker 2: you want to focus on three or four things. Carville
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  Speaker 2: was once a smart guy when he worked for Clinton.
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  Speaker 2: When he in 1992, the slogan of Bill Clinton's campaign was,
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  Speaker 2: it's the economy, stupid. It was their way of don't
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  Speaker 2: talk about anything else. The economy was not good. It's
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  Speaker 2: the economy. It's the economy. It's the economy. And I
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  Speaker 2: think clearly there's been messaging that Tiffany has wanted to use.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of baggage on Crowley that they
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  Speaker 2: haven't utilized. There have not been sufficient ads about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Crowley directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to
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  Speaker 2: his wife's organization. He gave them a massive amount of
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer money, and they immediately turned around as I think
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  Speaker 2: a thank you and put his wife on the payroll.
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  Speaker 2: I think those kinds of things bother people. They don't
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  Speaker 2: like some of the graft that they've seen from some
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  Speaker 2: Trump people, like, for example, Kimberly Guilfoyle, they wouldn't like that.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I'm here with no predictions. Maybe I'll smarten
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  Speaker 2: up over the next week. As important as this election is,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I don't have a strong feel for which way it's going.
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  Speaker 2: Next political story. It's very rare that a candidate for
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State in Wisconsin makes news. For one thing,
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  Speaker 2: that job was just held by default for about 8,000
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  Speaker 2: years by Doug La Follette. Doug La Follette's been the
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State of Wisconsin for decades. He wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: very smart guy, but the voters just decided he gets
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  Speaker 2: to be the Secretary of State in part because the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Secretary of State does nothing. What happened over the years,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: in part because Doug LaFollette was so stupid, was the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: legislature took away most of the authority from the office
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: of the Secretary of State. They did the same thing
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  Speaker 2: with state treasurer. In other states, the Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they still do, but when I
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: was in Illinois, the Secretary of State controlled driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 2: They oversaw the elections. There were a lot of duties
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  Speaker 2: there that were separate from the governor's office. Wisconsin, the
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Secretary of State basically handles corporation paper filings, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: So which candidate wins and which candidate doesn't win? Nobody's
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  Speaker 2: much cared about. The Democratic candidate in this election, Jocasta Zamarepa,
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  Speaker 2: she's a Milwaukee alderman. The Democrats are all in and
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  Speaker 2: trying to jam the city of Milwaukee and its politics
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  Speaker 2: down the state roads. Jocasta Zamarepa came out last week
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  Speaker 2: and said, If she gets elected Secretary of State of Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: her number one priority is to get illegal aliens driver's licenses. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we all know, maybe you don't all know, you all
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  Speaker 2: ought to know why they want to do that. It
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  Speaker 2: makes it very easy for them to vote. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: grant you, you don't need a driver's license to register
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  Speaker 2: to vote. For people who don't have driver's licenses, you
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  Speaker 2: can get a state ID card. You also get it
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  Speaker 2: from DMV. But the driver's license is the gold standard
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  Speaker 2: in terms of identification. The ones that have real ID
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  Speaker 2: on there pretty much establish who someone is. She came
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  Speaker 2: right out and said that's her top priority. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: there has been a freakout in Democrat circles over this
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: for fear that not only did Jocasta say this, that
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: people are going to think that that's the agenda of
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the entire Democratic Party. It is, but you're not supposed
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: to say that out loud. And now, page one of
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: JS Online today, Jocasta has pulled back and says this
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: is not my priority. She's been running for Secretary of
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: State all year, and what was her number one priority
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: has stopped being her number one priority just in the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: last 72 hours once she realized that this is a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: really stupid thing to say out loud. And she now
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: says that her number one priority is to get her
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: office put together well, which is a pretty good indictment
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: of Sarah Godlewski, the current Secretary of State who's running
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: for Lieutenant Governor, if... The office is in shambles as
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Jocasta is now saying, what does it say about Sarah Godlewski?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I want to read something to you here. This is
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: a post from a couple of days ago from President Trump.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: For all of the bluster that Trump has and the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: hyperbole and the overstating and the grandiose and this, this, that,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and we all know how Trump, especially when he has
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: some social media posts. There are times in which I
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: think you get Trump out there and he actually, in
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: an unfiltered way, is telling you exactly why he's doing
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: what he's doing. And this is one of them. He
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: made a post about Iran. And what I think he's
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: attempting to do here is try to lay out why
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: he has made Iran such a high priority, perhaps at
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the expense of increases in the price of oil and
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: some of the other problems that have occurred. And I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: think that this is not just a glimpse into Trump's thinking.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I think this is his thinking. When you hear what
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: he wrote here, it matches why he's done what he's done.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I want to read it. Iran is doing everything they
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: can to drive up the price of oil prior to
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the U.S. midterm election. Let me interject. I've made this
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: point nine times, and I don't know why Republicans haven't
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: done it. I'll get back to Trump in a moment,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: but I want to give you my analysis. The Iranians
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: want Trump to get clobbered in these elections, and while
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: he's not on the ballot, If you can turn over
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the House and the Senate to Democrats, they're going to
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: investigate Trump like crazy. He will be in a weakened position.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: And they believe, Iran, that Trump will be forced to
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: end the war if the Democrats make these gains. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Iran will be able to go back to rebuilding their
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: nukes and the whole thing. And Iran believes the best
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: way to hand this election to the Democrats is to
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: have oil behind. I think they're right about that. If
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the price of oil had not gone up, and everything
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: else was the same, I think that the Republicans would
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: actually defy the off-year trend and make gains this time.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's the only real negative that there is on Trump.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: This stuff with ICE and all of this, none of
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: that has moved swing voters. It's gas prices, inflation, and oil.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: And the inflation is mostly a function, I think, of
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the oil and the gas. And Iran prolonging this war
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and refusing to accept reasonable terms allows them to try
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: to run out the clock here, drive up the price
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of oil, interfere with the Strait of Hormuz, which hurts Iran.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: So Trump's stating this directly. And again, I think he's right. Now,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Trump's pointing this out that this just shows how despicable
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Iran is. Let me go back and I'll read the
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: first sentence. Iran is doing everything they can to drive
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: up the price of oil prior to the U.S. midterm elections.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: They are even making up fake hits, mines, and everything
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: else because more oil is coming to the Hormuz Strait
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: now than it did even prior to the beginning of
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the conflict. Let me interject. The Wall Street Journal reported
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: last week that oil traffic to the Strait of Hormuz
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: is now at pre-war, above pre-war levels. More oil is
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: going to the Strait right now than before the war
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: ever started, meaning there's no interference of the flow of
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: oil at all. And Trump is saying that Iran is
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: making up that we've made this head on a tanker,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: that they're lying about some of this stuff in order
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: to get the futures markets to drive up the price
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: of oil because actually the free flow of oil is rolling.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: My own belief, and again, I'm wrong on stuff all
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the time. I'm just right more often than not. My
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: own belief is that after the election, oil will crash.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: That's my opinion. I also think after the election that
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Iran might be easier to deal with. they will be
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: really easier to deal with if the Republicans keep control
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: of the Congress, that the Democrats don't get their blue wave.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I think that they know that they'll have to capitulate
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: because after the election, Trump doesn't have, there's no leverage
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: against Trump at all. But it seems to me that
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the one thing that the United States has figured out
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: is how to get the oil flowing through the strait
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: and Iran's ability to limit it is very real. In
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: addition to that, Iran has to get its own oil out.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Its economy is in tatters. The price of oil keeps
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: going up, even though the flow of oil to the
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: strait is above pre-war levels. I've been following investing for
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: 45 years. This is one of those things in which,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: you know, when you see things are overvalued, and frankly,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: sometimes I've been lucky and I've called bubbles, and in
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: other cases, I completely miss them. I missed the dot-com
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: bubble of 98, 99, and 00. I owned some of
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: those stocks. I was an agnostic on the 07 housing
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: market bubble. Thought maybe there is one, maybe there's not.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Oil is a bubble. A couple of other things that
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I've seen as bubbles lately. Oil is a bubble. Oil
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: is higher than the fundamentals would suggest. And whenever that happens,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: they crash. However, it can go on a long time.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Just like many people believe a lot of the AI
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: stocks are overvalued. They're starting to come down a bit.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: But things can get way overvalued before they correct. That
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: happened with crypto too. I think oil is way overvalued.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: That's not to say, I would never suggest shorting anything
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that's still going up. It's a recipe for financial ruin.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: But I do believe that I said at the end
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: of the year, I'll make it even easier. By March
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: of next year, I will be shocked if oil isn't
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: at least 25% lower than it is now and maybe more.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I just would be shocked. And again, I've been wrong.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: And things could happen. There could be an explosion well
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: beyond what we have in the Middle East. There could
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: be any number of things that would screw that up.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: There could be a major terror incident. I just think
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: oil is overvalued. Let me get back to Trump's speech,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Trump's comment. They, referring to Iran... Continue to kill protesters.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Let me interject. This story just will not be covered
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: by the mainstream media. And they say, well, we can't
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: prove it. They can't prove it because there isn't one
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: single American reporter in Iran. But the intelligence has come
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: out like crazy that there have been a lot of
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: street demonstrations in Iran and they're killing them right and left.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I did a segment a couple of weeks ago about
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the looting going on at a grocery store. People are
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: starving in Iran. They're looting the grocery stores and so on,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and the reports are that the police are just going
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: in and shooting to kill. Trump is mentioning this, and again,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: he's laying out the case here of the immorality of Iran.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: They continue to kill protesters and anyone else that happens
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to be in their way. It is truly an evil regime,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and I can only hope the American public and the
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: world understands how evil they are. 75,000 protesters lie dead
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: in less than seven months. It is shocking how the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: world and the Democrat Party seem not to care. Iran
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: can never have a nuclear weapon and they will never
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: have a nuclear weapon. That was Trump. And I think
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: that's the closest thing to none of the, you know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Trump sometimes, you know, he does overstate things. He's great
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: at hyperbole. I think this was Trump laying out why
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: he thinks this is that important. He believes that Iran
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: is inherently evil and somebody that is inherently evil that
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: has a nuclear weapon will use it. That's what I
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: think he believes. And I think he's believed that long
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: before he became a conservative. There's audio of Trump and
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: video of Trump going back way prior to 9-11 that
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Iran can't be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. And
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I think it's the one thing that he's been committed to.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: And I think that this statement here was his kind
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of explanation to the world as to why he's done
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: what he's done. He's had tremendous achievements in this administration,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: but the oil prices and inflation is the negative mark
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: against him. And I think it's almost entirely because of
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the war. I'm of the opinion he needs to find
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: an exit strategy there. But this is him speaking to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: me and everybody else out there as to why we persist. Now, again,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: when Trump and that post was put on Trump's Truth Social,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Trump's site, And sometimes he goes wild when he posts
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: on those things. But I thought that that was a
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: coherent laying out of his beliefs by President Trump. Let
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: us compare this to the following. I mean, Kamala Harris
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: is running for president. I just think that there is
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: zero chance the Democrats, having a full year to pick somebody,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: are going to pick her. The only reason they picked
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: her last time is because She was forced upon them
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: when they finally dropped Biden out of the race. She
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: didn't run through any priorities, but she's back out there.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: She is one of the greatest gifts to conservative podcasters
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: and talk show hosts in the history of the world.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: We have an audio cut from over the weekend of Kamala.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Here it is.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you have the chance in whatever your,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: you know, your circle of life to just, you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: talk to like a eight-year-old. That's one of the best things,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: you know? Someone who just has that twinkle. It hasn't been,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: you know, they have the twinkle, they believe, and.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: They're curious, and.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, that gives me joy. Just because, you know, there
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: is something, I think, about looking at children to remind
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: us of our natural nature, Who we actually, it is
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: our nature. There is something about that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Now, I can, I know what she was trying to say.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: It's fun talking to a kid. That's what you're trying
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to say, right? But she does not have the ability
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: to say it's fun talking to a kid. So you
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: get this. I actually have now a transcript. of what
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: she just said. This is verbatim. I mean, if you
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: have the chance in whatever your, you know, your circle
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: of life to just, your circle of life. She adds
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: all these words to what it is that she's saying.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Let me start over. I got to stop interjecting. It's
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: just hard not to make fun of her when we
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: do this. I mean, If you have the chance in
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: whatever your, you know, your circle of life to just,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you know, talk to like an eight-year-old, that's one of
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the best things, you know, someone who just has that twinkle.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: It hasn't been, you know, they haven't, they have the twinkle.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: They believe in, in all. And they're curious and, oh,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: that gives me joy. Just because, you know, there is
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: something I think about looking at our children to remind
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: us of our natural nature. Natural nature. Would that be
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: like an obvious case of a redundancy? Your natural nature.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: And then, here's a finisher. Our, there is something about that.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: She has not gotten a bit better. Here's one of
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: the things that candidates do prior to running for office.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And she, you know, she lost and she has the
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: ability to learn from the mistakes that were made. And
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: every Democrat knows that the mistakes that were made in
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: her campaign. And usually they send these candidates to like
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: consultant school and they polish them up. And they clearly
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: hadn't done that prior to her running for president in 2024.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: So she's now had two full years off since that election.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: And she's at this appearance. She is getting worse. The
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: woman can't speak the English language. Now, way back when
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: she was running in 24, I explained why she does
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: these word salads. She's trying to think as she goes along,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: and she makes the terrible mistake. Whenever somebody who's stupid
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: tries to sound like they're smart, you get this kind
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: of muddled over-talking and using too many words. First of all,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't even know why she was saying it. She
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: was essentially saying, it's fun talking to a kid. And
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I get, okay, kids are wide-eyed, kids are innocent. Though
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: it's not hard to say what I just said. But instead,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: she's got to over-explain this and then try to explain
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: it like the people listening to her don't know what
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: it's like to talk to a kid. It gets better.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Jason knows this. Jason, do you
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: know where she said this? It was at a pro-abortion rally.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: She's talking about the joys of talking to a child
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: when she's at a rally that's for the right to
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: kill the kids before they become children. Of all the
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: places where you would think it's kind of stupid to
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: be talking about how great little children are, it would
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: be a pro-abortion. No, they call it pro-choice, but... I
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: have no clue who the Democrats are going to make
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: their nominee. Part of me thinks that they're going to
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: be pragmatic because they want to win, and if they're pragmatic,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: they'll pick Bashir of Kentucky or Shapiro of Pennsylvania. The
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: other part of me sees what they've been doing in 26,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and every chance they get to put up a Marxist,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: they'll do so. Look at Michigan. They had a less
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: radical candidate running against El-Sayed in Michigan. Look at New
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: York with Mamdani. Look at Wisconsin, where they almost gave
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: it to Hong and then desperately gave it to a babbling, laughing,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: lightweight idiot in Crowley. That they just can't get to
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the pragmatism, that they just think that they're going to
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: win these elections and they want to get the communists now.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: And that it could be AOC or it could be Ossoff.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: And if Tallarico manages to win in Texas, that it
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: could be him. Don't know. Just so you know, however,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: what we are now facing in this country. Remember Robert Reich?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: That's how Russia always used to pronounce his name. He
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: got great joy of making Reich's name just last forever.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Robert Reich. Robert Reich was the... You're not supposed to
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: say midget anymore. What do they call them now? Not
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: even small people. First of all, it used to be dwarf.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Then they went to midget. You can't say dwarf. So
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: they came up with a different word for dwarf and midget,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: and then... What is it, just short people, or what
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: are they, vertically challenged? I mean, there's, by the way,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: the words that end up having these bad connotations, when
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: they start, they don't have bad connotations. What happens is
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: you start using the word of people associated with what
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: exactly it is, and the lefties decide that that somehow
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: is an offensive thing, and they come up with another thing.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: He was the Secretary of Labor during Clinton. Ivy League professor,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: and I mean, I swear, the guy, he cannot be
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: five feet tall. I know a lot of short people
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: because I know a lot of jockeys. Some of the
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: jockeys are really skinny and they can get to 5'3
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: or 5'4, but most of them are on 4'10, 4'11
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: because it's the only way you can have somebody that's
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: that physically strong but can make the weight of 118 pounds.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: What do all you think Rice.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Is?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: 5'1, you think he's 5'0? Now, the one thing you
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: don't know is I'm not amusing women, do I? Because I...
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I date women who don't even need to do it,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: who've got like nine inches of extra shoe power going
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: on with the heels and all of this stuff. But
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I know guys, short guys, who wear or wore, some
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: cases dead people now, that wore lifts. I mean, I
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: guess as somebody who's never had that problem, and in fact,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I'm probably too tall for my own good. I mean,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I go to the Brewer games. I would not want
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: to sit behind me. Jason's pretty tall. Are you taller
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: than me? 6'3. That's... I'm... I mean, to be honest,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I'm actually closer to 6'4, but I say 6'3, because
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I think people say 6'3 and 3 quarters. Who are
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: you kidding? The people who add the half are so
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: out of the people who are like 5'2, where they
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: try to make it 5'2 and a half and so on.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: And so they measure me every year for my physical.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I have not, despite age, started to shrink. I'm still
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: with the same thing that I always have. Don't know
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: why that is. Anyway, Robert Reich. Interview over the weekend. Now, again,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: this is, he was always, even by the standards of Clinton,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: he was the most lefty guy in his administration. But
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: this is a Democrat who was around in the 90s.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: This isn't Mamdani. He called for Democrats to go after
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Musk's companies. And when I say go after, take them away.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Democrats ought to start laying the groundwork for nationalizing Starlink
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: and SpaceX. You know what that means? That means stealing
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the companies from the shareholders. Nationalizing is what happens when
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: communists take over. When Hugo Chavez got into Venezuela, he
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: nationalized the oil company, which in the United States uses
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: the brand name Citgo. The Venezuelan oil company was taken
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: away from its corporate owners who fled the country before
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: they were killed. That's why there's so many Venezuelans in Florida.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: And he nationalized the oil company. When the communists, when
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Castro and Che Guevara took over in Cuba, they nationalized everything.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: They took over the hotels, the businesses, and the people
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: who were in this stuff had their life savings, everything
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: taken from them. They fled the country because they knew
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: that they would be killed. When you say nationalizing it,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: it means that the national government will simply take it over.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: First of all, SpaceX, which by the way owns Starlink,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Starlink is in SpaceX, is now owned by its shareholders,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: of which Musk is the largest. I own shares in SpaceX.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I told you after the IPO that I expected it
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: to go way down, and when it started to bounce back,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I would buy in because I think the company has
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: incredible potential. I'm a shareholder, minuscule as it is, in SpaceX.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: This would mean that the shares that I own in
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: this would suddenly be the government shares and I'd have nothing.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: This is Robert Reich saying this. This isn't AOC. This
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: isn't Francesca Hong. Now, my guess is I don't... Is
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: he saying this because these companies are tremendous public utilities
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: that Musk has built? And I do think those two
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: companies are going to be the most important companies in
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: the world in the next 50 years. That's just such
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: a wild guess because usually it's a company that doesn't
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: even exist in less than 50 years. In a moment here,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to explain the revolutionary nature of Starlink. So yeah,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: it'd be great if the government actually had developed it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: The notion that the government could develop SpaceX, I mean,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: NASA was doing space forever. The notion that the government
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: could develop SpaceX and come up with these plans that
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Musk has had and develop a rocket that can come
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: back and land in a hoop so you can use it,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: you know, just impossible. Look at Starlink. The government has
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: been spending a fortune trying to wire up the broad
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: countryside so it can get broadband. If you live in
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: the middle of Montana, it's hard to get broadband because
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: there's not a cell tower. There's not wires that you
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: have and all of this stuff. They have a hard
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: time with it. Musk developed Scarlett. You could be standing
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: in the middle of Africa and get an internet connection
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: because you're getting the internet off of space. T-Mobile didn't
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: figure that out. Verizon didn't figure that out. Musk figured
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: it out. So yeah, if the government had that, I
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: suppose that'd be a good thing, except private businesses did
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: this and they have owners. And you now have a
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: prominent Democrat out there saying that, okay, this is something
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: they've created. Now, also, they hate Musk. So let's just
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: steal everything from him and his shareholders and take it
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: for our own. This ought to be chilling to anybody
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: who believes in the notion of freedom, but this is
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: what Marxists do. They believe in nationalizing stuff. They nationalize
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: oil industries. They nationalize their steel industry. And now they
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: want to nationalize Musk's companies. And finally this. I pride
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: myself on paying attention to trends. I'm never really on
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: the cutting edge of this, but I'm like right behind
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: the cutting edge. Other people figure things out, and then
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I notice what it is that they say, and I'm
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: ahead of like 98% of the rest of us. You
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: may have noticed that the stock of T-Mobile, Verizon, and
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: AT & T, they all went down last week. The
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: reason they went down is Musk is copywriting the name
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Starlink Mobile. The belief is that Musk is going to
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: use Starlink, which works differently than the other cell phone
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: companies that are out there. Starlink works by using satellites.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: They don't go through cell towers. That Musk is going
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: to use Starlink technology to develop his own phone network.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking beyond this. And again, this isn't my original thought.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Others have come up with this. But again, Musk just
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: envisions things that change the world before everyone else does.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I think Musk's grand plan is that we will no
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: longer need Wi-Fi at all. That you're simply going to
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: use Starlink and get internet signals off of space and
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: off the moon. I think that's his plan. If it happens,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: it means that paying for Wi-Fi is a thing of
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the past. It would essentially be free. There's no infrastructure
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: at all once the satellites are up there. the only
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: infrastructure is the Starlink device that you hold in your hand.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: It could be a phone, it could be a gadget,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: it could be in anything. You saw when we had
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: the terrible flooding last year in the southeastern part of
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: the United States where the power and all of that
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: was out. Musk came in with all the Starlink gadgets
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden people had, they had communication,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: they had phones, they could use the ability to communicate infinitely.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: If indeed Musk is able to turn Starlink into a
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: mass global developer of Wi-Fi and telephone and voice. I
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: think essentially it bankrupts Verizon, AT & T, and the
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: rest of them. It's the ultimate disruptive and it makes
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: the cost of all communication essentially free. And again, Starlink
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: and his AI, his AI, Grok AI, those are both
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: in SpaceX. He's talking about merging Tesla with SpaceX, which
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: should mean the ultimate massive conglomerate. But SpaceX, people think
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: it's just the rocket company. Remember that the AI that
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Musk is doing, Grok, and all the applications of the AI,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: that's in SpaceX and Starlink, which I think may be
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: even more valuable than the rockets. That's there. Steve Jobs
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: was the great visionary prior to Musk. He came up
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: with the concept of putting all your music on a
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: gadget in your phone, then he turned it into a phone,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: and then the entire Internet is on the phone, and
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: now our lives are controlled through our phones. Somebody else
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: might have eventually came up with it, but Jobs did it.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: We've been talking about electric cars. We've been talking about
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: electronic payments forever and ever and ever. Musk did the
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: both of them. So now here's Musk. He's right of center.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: He's come up with all of these things. He's the
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: wealthiest man in the world because of it. And the
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Democrats have decided that now we have to punish him
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: for this and take everything away from him. Well, guess what?
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: If you take everything away from him, nobody's going to
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: come up with any of the rest of it. Normally,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't be so stupid as to come out and
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: say this before an election. But again, I think they
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: just think they're going to win everything. So they're going
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: to come out and label it. And when they do
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: it and they start taking it, you think they're going
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: to stop it, Musk? Let's imagine they try to nationalize SpaceX.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: It's hard to imagine a Supreme Court would allow it.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: But maybe they try to find some sort of crime
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: that Musk has committed by trumping up something against him
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: and claim that as punishment for the crime that his
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: companies are going to be taken away. This is chilling
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: when you see how these people think you're listening to
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: As I'm recording this podcast, the Brewers are up 2-0
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: over the Rays. We're doing it on Monday afternoon. Games 3, 4,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: and 5 are the next three nights in Tampa. One
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: of the things, and there's a lot, that impresses me
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: about the Brewers is how they simply refuse to do
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: much celebrating after these wins. I mean, I remember the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: last couple of years after they clinched the playoff series,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: the scenes in the locker room were just so unbelievably raucous.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: After they clinched the Dodgers series, I mean, they celebrated.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: It wasn't that much. When game two ended on the
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: appealed third strike, Aaron Ashby didn't even pump his fist.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: He just walked off the mound. The most demonstrative guy
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: on the team is Contreras, and he gave a little
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: bit of a fist bump. But after that, the Brewers,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: who won this incredibly dramatic— it wasn't a mass celebration. This
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: is a very, very good thing. The Brewers recognize that
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: they haven't won a damn thing. Winning what they want
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: to win is the fourth game in the World Series,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: and they're just doing things on a path to try
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: to get there. That, I think, is very, very good.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I don't see any sense they're taking anything for granted.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Having said this, I'm just telling you, I was at
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Game 1, I was at Game 2. Game 1 was
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: thrilling and heart-stopping, but Game 2 was something else entirely.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Game 2 was a miracle. The only thing I'll say
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: about the Brewers' win is, for people who say that
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: they were really, really lucky... The reality is they had
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: numerous scoring opportunities that they didn't take advantage of. They
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: theoretically could have scored a lot more than the five runs.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: But other than that, they had as much luck in
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: that game as a team could have. Going back to
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: when the Brewers scored the two runs in the bottom
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: of the first to immediately cut into that four-run lead,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: remember William Gutierrez's RBI single? I got Jason in there.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: He's a Cub fan. He can't even bring himself to
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: watch these games, can you? You're not even watching the
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: World Series. You've watched almost every pitch. Do you remember
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: what happened in the Contreras first inning at bat before
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: he got the single on the right side of the infield?
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what happened. He popped the ball up
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: in foul territory on the right side, and Janna ran
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: to the first baseman for the raise, Drop the ball! Now,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I have a rule. There's certain belling rules that exist.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: They don't always hold up. I just think they're good
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: rules because you walk the leadoff man, he always scores.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: That's what I say. They don't always score. It just
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: seems to me that when a guy gets on via single,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: he doesn't score as much as when you walk him.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: My other Belling rule is if you drop a ball
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: that would have been an out in foul territory, the
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: guy always gets on pace. And Contreras did. He would
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: have been out. That rally might not have produced any runs,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: much less the two of them if Aranda doesn't drop
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: the ball. And would you believe that later in the game,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Aranda butchered another one? There was a ground ball the first,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: and he butchered that. I mean, it's possible the three
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: of the Brewers' runs don't score at all if Aranda
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: can just make, I think, rather simple plays. On the
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: end of the game, third string, third strike, check swing.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: First of all, there's crying and whining about this. He swung.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: If you watch the overhead, which I posted on X,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the bat not only crossed the plate, it went well
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: beyond the plate. It doesn't appear to be a sell
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: because he snapped it back really quickly. The problem with
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: check swings in baseball is the rulebook doesn't clearly define
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: what a check swing is or it isn't. Joey Votto,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: the ex-Red, who I never really liked, but turned out
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: to be a pretty good analyst, he said, hitters do
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: this stuff all the time and we try to get
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: away with it. We'll commit with the bat very, very
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: far out of the strike zone so we can pull
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: it back and it doesn't make it look like we're swinging.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: He was committed. He was attempting to hit the ball,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: and if he tries to say that he wasn't, He's lying.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: And in fact, the batter never really argued about that.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: In fact, he was trying to commit and cheat on Ashby.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Ashby has this incredible curveball slash sinker that just drops
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: off the table. And the only way to get a
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: hit on that is to cheat by getting the bat
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: out there early so that you can, if it is
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: going to stay in the strike zone, hit it. And
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: if it isn't, you could pull the bat back so
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: you don't have to postpone your decision at the latest point.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: And that's what he was doing. So that was a
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: good call. So that was not a lucky break, but
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: the umpire had to make that good call in order
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: for it to happen. And if they didn't, they would
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: have had first and third. They would have had the
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: go-ahead run on first base. Maybe they would have scored.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: The Game 4 Dodgers series and Game 2 Rays series
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: and the World Series were so similar. In game two,
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: the Brewers gave up four runs in the first and
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: second innings. Drohan didn't pitch well in the first inning,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: and then Dustin May came in, and he got dinged up,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: and they combined gave up four runs. The Brewers were
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: down 4-0, but the pitcher who gave up the most
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: of the runs, May, in the Dodgers series settled down,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: and they got two more clean innings out of him,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: and the bullpen came in and pitched five shutout innings.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: This was a clone of that. Logan Henderson... who I
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: think was clearly rattled by the situation, gave up four
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: runs in the first five hitters. But he settled down.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: He pitched through the third inning. If Henderson had given
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: up two more, who knows? So I think, just as
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: I thought that Dustin May settling down in Game 4
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: of the Dodgers series was what turned the game around. Likewise,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: in this game, Henderson settling down and not falling apart
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: after this, okay, fine, I gave up these runs, but
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: damn it, I'm going to get down to business, was critical.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: And again, after that, I say this all the time,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: and the Brewers are defying it so far. There's still
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: theoretically five games left. The problem with using five relievers,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: I said this forever, the problem with depending on five
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: relievers in a game is you need only one guy
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: to screw up. One guy gets lit up for four
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: runs and the game is shot. The more pitchers you use,
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the more chances are somebody's going to screw up and
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: have a bad inning. Guys have bad innings all the time.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Brewer relievers, none of them ever have bad innings. I
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: think Tampa probably did more to win game two than
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: the Brewers did, but they were both so close. Game one.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: This defied one of my rules. You give a team
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: four outs, It's going to come back to haunt you.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: That's another Belling's rule. They gave Tampa four outs in
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the ninth inning because Cooper Pratt, despite being 19 feet tall,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: can't keep his foot on second base on a double play,
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: by the way. There are people who are defending Cooper Pratt,
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: who is having the most mixed bag of a World
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Series that you can imagine. I mean, he has at
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: times played in the whole playoffs. He has been terrible.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: And then he's been brilliant. And the manager's not giving
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: up on him because I actually don't know why he's
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: not giving up on him. I would feel more comfortable
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: if Joey Ortiz was playing shortstop right now. I just would.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: But in game one, that throw to end the game
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: that Terang made, it was a spin and a whip.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Was it perfect? No, but it was high because it's
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: supposed to be high because you don't want it to
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: hit the runner. And it's supposed to be wide at
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: the base because it allows you to field it with
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: your momentum going the other way and getting off a
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: clean throw. The thing that the shortstop has to do
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: is keep his foot at the base. By the way, remember,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: I'm a former umpire. It used to be you didn't
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: have to keep your foot on the base. They allowed,
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: they called it the phantom. They allowed you to be
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: off the base as long as the ball beat you.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: And the reason for that is they didn't want guys
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: to get spiked. But now that there's replays and cameras
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: and we watch this, your foot has to be on
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: the base. And Cooper pulled his foot off the base.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: And he had no need to because they had the
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: guy out at first forever. So they gave him an
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: extra out in. McGill comes out and strikes the guy out.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Every time it looks like the Brewers are going to
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: be sunk, they're not. Here's the sobering thing. I think
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: however many games are left, Tampa's going to have the
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: starting pitching matchup advantage in all of them. They have
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: it tonight. The hottest pitcher in baseball is Freddy Peralta.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, his numbers here are just... In the last
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: two months, over two months, which is 11 starts, Freddy
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Peralta's ERA is 1.13%. Now, I'll counter that. Over the
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: same period, two months, Robert Gasser's ERA is 1.54. That's
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: eight appearances. Seven of them were starts. So Gasser's been,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, 1.54 is brilliant for two full months. But
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Freddie's 1.13. I mean, the Freddie Peralta season is just,
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, in horse racing, we have trainers that are
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: just terrible trainers. And you'll see, like, in horse racing,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: at low-level races, you can claim a horse out of
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: a race, whatever the claiming price is. Let's say it's $ 35, 000.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: So if you enter a horse at a $ 35, 000 claimer,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: anybody can drop in a claiming slip, and they can
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: buy the horse for that amount. In some cases, multiple
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: people put it in because they all want the horse.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: And there are horses that are decent enough and have
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: a certain level that they're consistent at, and they're in
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: multiple barns, and then a bad trainer puts in a
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: claiming slip, and the horse... His necks out there run terribly.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: And you wonder how in the world can a horse
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: who's been running great for 18 months, three weeks later,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: run a complete stink bomb when they get into the new,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: what does that incompetent trainer do? It's actually very mystifying
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: to those of us in horse racing. And sometimes, A
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: horse is claimed from a cheater and they go to
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: a non-cheater and it would explain why they don't do well.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: But when you have like six guys that you know
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: don't cheat and suddenly one of these trainers who wins
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: two races in three years gets the horse and he
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: immediately runs up the track, you wonder what in the
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: world they're possibly doing. I think that about the Mets.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: The number of guys that have gone to the Mets
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: over the last few years and gotten terrible is extraordinary.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Freddie Peralta had a great season for the Brewers last year.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: He gets traded to the Mets. He may have been
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: the worst starting pitcher in all of Major League Baseball
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: this season. He's traded to Tampa and becomes the hottest
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: pitcher in all of baseball. What did the Mets do
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: to him? Jason's a huge sports fan. Do you have
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: a theory on this? Now, part of it is there
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: are certain athletes that can't handle the pressure of New York.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: And I think Freddie has that. Freddie thrived in Milwaukee
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: where there's very little pressure and thrives in Tampa where
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: there's no pressure. In New York where the fans get
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: on you like crazy over one bad outing and the
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: media is just relentless and the sports talk show hosts
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: are savage. And when you do badly and they pound
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: on you, there are players that can't handle that. The
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: guy who came from the Marlins to the Yankees, Stanton,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: who immediately got worse when he got to New York.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: He's somebody who I think just can't handle that type
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: of pressure. That's it some of the time in any event.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Freddie Peralta is the hottest pitcher in all of Major
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: League Baseball. I do think, however, that this is actually
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: a better matchup for the Brewers than you think, and
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: I'll explain. Anybody who's been a Brewer fan for years
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: is aware that the shortcoming of Freddie Peralta is he
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: rarely goes more than five innings because his pitch count
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: is so high. Freddie simply cannot do a three-pitch strikeout.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: he's incapable of it. He gets ahead 0-2, and then
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: he's hell-bent on getting them to chase a bad pitch.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: The number of times Freddie Peralta has gone from 0-2
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: to 3-2, it's like every time. He then normally retires
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: the batter, but he's going to waste those three pitches
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: trying to get you to chase a bad one. But
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the end result of that is his pitch count gets up.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: He's now facing a team that is better than any
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: team I have ever seen at staying alive and extending
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: at bats. We had the Jays. Bowers at bat. Which
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: one was it where he had the 13 pitch at
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: bat and hit the home run? Game two, maybe? Dodger series?
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: We had almost the same thing in game two of
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: the Rays series with Sal Freelink. Sal's home run was on,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: I believe, the eighth pitch. He fouled off about four
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: pitches in a row before. I mean, Sal has four
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: home runs all year. He hadn't had a home run
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: in two months, and he hit the ball over the
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: center field wall because he stayed alive and stayed alive.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: And that's just the thing that the Brewers do. They
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: talk about it. The thing that's funny about it is
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: the guru on the staff that presses this is Daniel Vogelbach,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: the hitting coach. think that's so hilarious to me about
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Vogelbeck being the guy that gets you to stay alive
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: and fresh his content? It's the exact opposite of what
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: he was. Vogelbeck was an all-or-nothing guy. He struck out
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: or hit the ball nine million miles. But he preaches this,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: and the Brewers can extend at bats and foul off.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: With a guy who goes high in the pitch count
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: to begin with, I think it's possible Freddie Peralta could
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: be at 100 pitches before five innings are up. So
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: if Gosser can hold his own, you might get Freddie
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: out of the game. And the Rays have, Jason says
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: he's watched them. What do you think the biggest weakness
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: the Rays have? I mean, as a full team, though.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: I don't think their bullpen is very good. They have
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: a very good closer. They're long, really. Every one of
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: these pitchers that they brought in, I see ERAs of three, four,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: and five that are coming in there. I mean. No,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: but I just mean their weakness as a team is
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think that they have a really strong, deep
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: bullpen the way that the Brewers do. So if you
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: can get to their bullpen early, that's a recipe for
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: victory for the Brewers, and it's the reason that they
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: won the first two games is that they were able
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: to ding up the bullpens out there. I look at
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: this series, though. Tampa could have clearly won either of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: these games, and the Brewers have had just tremendous luck
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: the entire postseason. Sometimes this stuff eventually catches up on you,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: but I'd rather be up 2-0 than down 0-2. They
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: always come up with these, well, what are your percentage
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: chances of doing this? That's just so stupid. It's just
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: looking backwards statistically at similar situations. It has nothing to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: do with the two teams that are in front of
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: you right now. But I believe of the last 57
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: World Series that a team was up 2-0, the team
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: with the two wins won 46 of them. I don't
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: believe anyone's ever come back from down 3-0 in a
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: World Series. league series. But never the World Series as
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: a comeback from 3-0. But about 20% of the time
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: it has happened down 2-0. I like the Brewers' chances
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: better in Game 3. I don't even know who's going
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: to pitch in Game 4. There's speculation it's going to
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: be Woodruff. There's speculation it's Dustin May. There's speculation it'd
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: be Drohan. The problem with doing a bullpen game is
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: they've overused the bullpen a lot here and To use
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: an entire bullpen in a game that you might not win,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. But if it goes back to game five,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of confidence in Mizorowski or
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: Henderson being able to do decent quality starts. I mean,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: the bullpen's been much better than the starting pitching, so
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: I think the critical game to win is tonight, which
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: is not a knockout punch, but damn near. In fact,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: using a boxing analogy, it would be a knockdown. You'll
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: see boxing matches where a guy might go down two
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: times in a round and still come back to win,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: usually they don't. So this is, I think, the big one,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: and I think one that the Brewers have a chance,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: and I'm very, very impressed with the composure of Gosser.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: And I do think, as great as Freddie has been,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: that the Brewers' style of hitting could get to him.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: And if anybody knows how to approach Freddie Peralta, it's
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: the Brewers' staff, given the fact that he played here
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: for eight years. One more comment. I made a post
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: on X that I kind of screwed up because I
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: forgot to put the dollar amount in. But yesterday I
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: went on SeatGeek and before I go any farther, these
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: people who have had problems with resale tickets and then
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: not ending up getting them. I buy tickets and sell
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: tickets on resale markets all the time. I'm going to
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: offer a little bit of advice here. You should always
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: go through the reseller that's the official one for either
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: the concert or the sport. In the NBA, the official
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: reseller is Ticketmaster. They're also the official original seller. Major
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: League Baseball, the official reseller is SeatGeek. Why do I
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: say this? When you go to the official reseller, when
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: somebody lists a ticket on that site, in the case
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: of SeatGeek, they attach the ticket themselves because SeatGeek is
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: linked into the MLB ticket database. So for example, let's
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: imagine I had decided to take the $ 15, 000 I could
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: have gotten and sold my game two tickets. When I
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: list them on SeatGeek, they leave my account and SeatGeek
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: has them. When you list them on, say, StubHub, a
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: competing site, you're simply promising that if the tickets are
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: sold to deliver them to the seller, you might not
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: do it. And what's happened is people get an accepted
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: offer and then they renege because they realize that they
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: should have asked for more. And that's why some of
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: these people have ended up not getting their tickets. If
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: you do use a non-official seller, like say SeatGeek, people can,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: with their listing the tickets, upload them to StubHub before
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: they sell them. It says on the listing that that's
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: what's been done. In other words, let's imagine I use
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: StubHub and not SeatGeek. I list them and then I
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: send the tickets electronically to StubHub. That means you can't
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: worry about me reneging because StubHub already has the tickets.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: So if you're buying one in which the ticket is
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: not uploaded and say, well, the tickets will be delivered
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: by such and such a day, you're simply depending that
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: the person who... StubHub's just the middle of that. That
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: they're actually going to make good on this. So that's
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: my advice on this. I did go on SeatGeek and
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: check tickets for Game 3 in Tampa. I mean... It
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: is just extraordinary how much less interest there is in
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: Tampa than there is in Milwaukee. There were two seats,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: ninth row, behind home plate, but just one section over.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: In other words, not dead behind home plate, but like
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: say dead behind, say the third base batter's box. One
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: section over from home plate, ninth row, $ 1, 800 each. 1,800.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Do you know what on the reselling sites standing room
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: went for in Milwaukee Saturday night? $ 2, 300 for a standing
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: room only ticket. It cost $ 500 more for a standing
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: room ticket at Milwaukee than it did for the ninth
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: row behind home plate at Tampa. I think there's going
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: to be a lot of Brewer fans there. The Brewer
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: fans who just couldn't afford tickets here are realizing it
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: is way cheaper to to fly to Tampa, get a hotel,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: and buy a great seat there, and then fly back,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: than it would have been to buy tickets in Milwaukee.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: And secondly, there's a lot of Milwaukeeans who live in
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: the state of Florida. They weren't going to come back
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee for this. I think they will have snapped
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: up those tickets. And they're available because the Tampa Bay Rays,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, don't have much of a fan base.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: Baseball's never caught on down there. And they've had 9
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: million excuses for it, and they say, well, it's a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: transient population and all of that. That's not it. The
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: hockey team that they have in Tampa, the Lightning, they
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: won the Stanley Cup a few years ago. Those fans
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: are rabid for hockey down there. They're just not into baseball.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: And I know it's a crappy stadium and the Brewers
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: didn't draw well when they were in County Stadium, which
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: was aging itself and all of that. All right. Now
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: here's a story for you. I don't think I've... I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: mix these places up. Have you ever eaten at a
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Texas Roadhouse restaurant? You have. See, there's like three competitors
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: of them. Wasn't there a place called Longhorn for a while?
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: I know, but there was a place called Longhorn. See,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I know I've been to one of them, but it
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: was years ago. I don't remember which. And then there's
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: a third one. These steakhouses, they're like somewhere between Morton's
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: is at the high end or Capital Grill, the high end,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: and Ponderosa's the low end. And these are in the middle. Outback,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: that was the other one. They're all kind of competitors
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: of one another. Texas Roadhouse. Sycamore, Illinois. Is Sycamore near Joliet? Yeah,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: I think it is on 80. Maybe it, I know
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: it's south of the city of Chicago, but not far south.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: It's like a little bit beyond the suburbs. Yeah. Anyway,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: there's a Texas roadhouse in Sycamore, Illinois. A guy's made
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: a TikTok video I take it back. I screwed this
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: whole thing up. It's not Sycamore. It's Forsyth, Illinois. I
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: don't know where Forsyth is. That's in central Illinois. Okay.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Now I'm thinking it's near St. Louis now that you
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: said that, but who knows where it is. It can't
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: be in central Illinois. Look up where Forsyth is. Oh,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: between Bloomington and Champ. Well, that, okay. Then you're right.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: They'll take that. So he goes to a Texas roadhouse
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: and he orders the filet mignon, which is 30 bucks. See,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: now this is my... I don't want to be a
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: snob on this. A $ 30 filet just can't be a
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: very good cut of meat because I go to the
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: grocery store and they ask for more than that for
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: the filet mignon. But I mean, it's above Ponderosa level.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: It is what it is. And he says he did
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: it three times. He is convinced that each time he
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: ordered the filet, they brought him a sirloin. They have
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: a sirloin on the menu. And sirloin is similar to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: filet mignon. Filet mignon is on the cut of the bone.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: You know, if you have like a T-bone or a
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: porterhouse steak, the filet mignon is on the one side
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: and the strip is on the other. The sirloin... It's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: not from off the bone the way the filet is.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: The sirloin is a cheaper cut of meat, but very
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: similar in texture to the filet. The customer, his name
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: is Kenneth Card, said three times he ordered filets, and
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: each time he believes he got the sirloin. The first time,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: he didn't think anything of it. The second time, he
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: took a video and returned it, and they acknowledged, oh,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: this is a mistake. This is the sirloin. And then
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: it happened the third time. And after the third time,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: he reported to the management and made a TikTok video
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: about it. So it's happened now three times. It's possible
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: the guy is making it up. And I have a
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: great big BS detector. This strikes me as real. I
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: think that particular restaurant in Forsyth, Illinois has a business plan.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: that they were taking the $ 30 for the filet mignon
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: and putting in the $ 20 sirloin, figuring most people wouldn't
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: tell the difference. And the reason I think they figured
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: most people wouldn't tell the difference is it's a Texas
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: Roadhouse filet mignon. You go to some restaurants in the, like,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: go to Bunzel's, which is this great meat market on
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: the northwest side of Milwaukee. Their filets, you better order
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: them butterfly because they're like six inches high. I have
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: to butterfly them or they'd never get done. You'd never
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: get the middle of it done. But they're this incredible
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: piece of meat. But I mean, the cheapo filet mignon
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: you're going to get at the Texas Roadhouse, maybe you
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: would get it and think this is the filet and
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: it wasn't. Now, if this place was franchised, I'd be
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: convinced of that. I don't know if it is franchised. However,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: most Texas Roadhouses are company-owned. However, some of them have
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: managing partners. The managing partner is a guy who might own, say, 10%
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: of the restaurant and be the local guy, but the
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: company owns 90%. So this is either the case of
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: a local owner doing his own version of the Vegas
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: skim or just a guy who is trying to make
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: his numbers for the company. And he's making his numbers
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: by padding the profit margin on his filet by not
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: selling one of the filets by selling a cheaper cut
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: of meat for which their acquisition cost is lower. I
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: don't think it's a coincidence. Texas Roadhouse is giving like
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: a non-denial denial in which they're saying they don't have
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: any proof that this happened three times. Well, how would
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: you have the proof other than the one time he
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: did turn it back in, they said, yeah, it isn't
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: the right thing. And the last time he did the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: video off of it and he said they got a
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: hum of a kind of response from them. I think
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: this happens more than you think. Let me tell you
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: where it happens. There are two cuts of steak that
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: are Japanese in nature. Kobe and Wagyu. There's also an
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: American Wagyu, which is actually very good and not as expensive.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: There are places that list the steak as being Kobe
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: or Wagyu, and it's just a very high-end not Kobe
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: or Wagyu. And again, to quote my favorite line from
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Francis McDormand in Fargo, but how do you know? Let
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: me give you one other clue in on, I won't
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: say restaurant ripoffs because this is really dishonest, but If
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: you go to a restaurant, see, I got a guy
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: from Illinois in here. He doesn't know anything about Wisconsin stuff.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: Do you ever go to fish fries? You're from Illinois.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: They don't even have them there. You're just not a bit.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: But I mean, fish fries aren't fish. Fish fry isn't
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: like tuna and it's not flounder. I mean, they take
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: a piece of cod and they put a ton of
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: breading on it and fry the stuff up. You don't
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: even know that it's fish that's in there. You're Catholic,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: so you go to those sometimes because you can't eat meat.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, Wisconsin is just so creative, and that's where
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: the fish fry came from. You couldn't eat meat on Friday.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: It used to be you couldn't eat meat on Fridays
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: at all. And then it became Lent, and we in
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin came up with something that's better than meat. So
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: we just create the fish fry, and we act like
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: we're sacrificing this one. Most people would rather go to
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: a fish fry than eat a crappy Texas Roadhouse piece
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: of meat anyway. Anyway, you go to a fish fry,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: and it says perch on the menu. And a lot
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: of places will have a choice of cod or perch.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: And the perch usually costs more. If it says perch,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, 90% of the time, it's not lake perch.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: There are two species of fish that have the word
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: perch in it. There's ocean perch, which is a saltwater fish,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: and lake perch, which is a freshwater fish. Lake perch
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: is sweet and has a rich taste. And ocean perch
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: has like an acidic, briny taste. If it just says perch,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: it's ocean perch. Lake perch is very expensive for restaurants
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: to acquire. Ocean perch, which is a grunt fish, is
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: cheap for them to acquire. If it doesn't say lake perch,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: it's usually ocean perch. So for those of you who
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: didn't know that, if it only says perch, I ask
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: the question, not that I'm convinced that they would tell
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: you the truth at the restaurants that you go to,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: but if it just says perch, It's probably not Lake Perch.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: Lake Perch has got, it's not, what's the term? It's
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: not endangered anymore, but it's nowhere near in the quantities
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: that it was when I was a kid. When, you know,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: my grandparents would go out to the lake and just
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: come back with like a basket full of it. All right.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: This Des Bryant story. You know about the Des Bryant story?
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: You did not hear this one. Des Bryant is a
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: guy in one of my favorite Packer Cowboy highlights in
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: which He actually kind of caught a pass, but it's
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: always great to beat a team that has obnoxious fans
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: in which they got jobbed. Because you hear him whine
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: about it, and you kind of know that they did
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: get jobbed, which sort of makes it better than beating
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: them legitimately, I think. Anyway, Dez Bryant was arrested and
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: held at gunpoint by law enforcement officers over the weekend.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: What happened was there was an apparent incident on the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: road and Bryant says a guy dangerously cut him off
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: on the road. They ended up being parked in the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: same situation. I'm going to read the report on Fox
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: Sports on this. Footage provided by Bryant showed an officer
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: aiming a gun in Bryant's direction. Bryant is also seen
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: lying on the ground in handcuffs alongside the two others
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: in South Lake, Texas. Brian ended up at the same
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: parking lot with them, where acknowledged kicking a phone from
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: one man's hand during their argument, but disputed how police
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: handled the encounter and questioned why he received a citation
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: after reporting that he had been threatened. I was really
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: more concerned about my children, you know, looking at their dad,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: you know, being on the ground or the gun pointed
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: at me. The citation reviewed lists, quote, assault by contact
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: and identifies the incident location at 2251 East South Lake Boulevard,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: the same address for Chiloso Mexican Bistro. It marks arrest.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Bryant said the confrontation began. Now, here's where this gets interesting.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: This is road rage. Bryant said the confrontation began after
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: he encountered two vehicles whose occupants appeared to be interacting
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: with one another at a traffic light. He accused the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: drivers of cutting him off and continuing to drive recklessly
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: as they arrived at the restaurant where he was also headed.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: Brian said he told them to stop, acknowledged that he
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: used profanity. He said an argument followed with one of
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: the men, whom the former wide receiver described as a
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: young adult. He go to threatening me and basically saying
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: he'll insinuate that he'll, you know, he'll shoot me or whatever. Dez,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: he didn't say he'd shoot you or you wouldn't have
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: added or whatever. So Dez is clearly embellishing the story,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: which is what happens in these road rage stories. So
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: here's what happens. Dez is driving and he's cut off.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: Being cut off just... I have no patience when I'm driving.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: And when I'm cut off, I hit the horn. I
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: acknowledge that. I don't let it slide. I hit the horn.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: I never do anything else, but I do hit the horn.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: And Most of the people who cut you off couldn't
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: care less if they hit the horn because they're now
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: ahead of you. What are you going to do about it?
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: There are some people, though, when they're cut off in traffic,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: they take it as if you were stabbed in the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: gut with a knife. It just sets off a lot
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: of people. So it may be true that they both,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: by coincidence, were going to the same restaurant or maybe
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: the Dez followed them there. And Dez is still a
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: pretty big guy and he's probably not going to take
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: any crap from anybody. And he was hacked off, then
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: he was cut off. And the next thing you know,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: threats are being made and so on, and the police
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: have responded to the situation, and Dez appeared to be
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: the one who reacted most physically after the confrontation. He
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: felt he was justified because of the argument over the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: road rage. I have my own story about this. I told,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: whenever this happened, and I'm thinking it was like 12
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: years ago, I told it on the old radio show.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: And I know exactly how it happened. And I know
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: exactly why the guy was as hacked off as he
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: was at me. I was driving, those of you in
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Northeastern Wisconsin will know this area. I was driving on
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: Highway 10, east of Appleton. I was going back to
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: my family's home in the Now, I didn't take the interstate.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: Now that I have Waze, I would never take this
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: way anywhere. It used to be really close a dime apiece.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: I took 57, which takes you through New Holstein, Keele, Chilton, Hilbert,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: and so on. And you take it north until you
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: get to Highway 10, which is a U.S. highway. And
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: you take 10, and you go about 10 miles then
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: toward the Fox Valley. So I was coming at 57
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: and so on, and I got to 10. 10, while
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: a U.S. highway is not a freeway. And the stretch
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: of 10 at the time, I'm thinking that they widened it,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: but maybe not. It was a two-lane highway. And there's
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: a guy in front of me, he's in a pickup truck,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: and he's going too slow for my taste. He's probably
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: going like the speed limit, which for my taste probably
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: was too slow, and he's in the pickup truck. But again,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: it's a two-lane divided road, so I passed him. And
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what car I had then, but over
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: the last 30 years, there isn't a car I've owned
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: that doesn't have massive horsepower and torque. So for me,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: passing is pretty easy to do. And there was nobody
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: coming at all in the opposite direction. So passing, that's
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: what you do. If somebody's going too slow for you,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: you pass them. I passed him and then moved in
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: in front of him and continued to drive off. And
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: I noticed in my rear view mirror after I passed
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: the guy, He immediately comes up and tries to get
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: on my tail, and he's flashing his headlights. For those
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: of you who know the area, I was about four
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: miles from the intersection of 10 and Highway 55, which,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: by the way, forever and ever and ever was one
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: of the most deadly intersections in the state of Wisconsin.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: People were killed there all the time. They ended up
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: doing flashing reds and signs, and now they actually have
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: those things in the road saying stop ahead, and they
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: turned it into a four-way stop. Anyway, that's where it was.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: The guy got on me and he started honking and
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: honking and he's just being a goof behind me. I
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: know why he was upset. I know exactly why he
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: was upset. Remember, where am I from? I'm from Milwaukee.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: We're on the freeway all the time. When you change
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: lanes on the freeway in Milwaukee, by nature, you're going
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: to be only a little bit ahead of the other
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: person because unless it's like three in the morning, there's
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: never much of a gap. We are used to when
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: you get ahead of the person, get enough clearance and
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: then pull over to the next lane. My standard is
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: you never should be doing it in a way that
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: the person has to hit their brake. You're clear. But
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: the standard that we have of being clear is not
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: with some hick who's driving up there probably thinks it
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: was clear. He probably thought I came over before I
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: needed to. And again, there was nothing coming against me.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: I could have gone longer in the passing lane. In
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: other words, the oncoming lane. Then I did, but I'm
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: just used to driving a certain way. I think I
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: was easily clear and I was going faster than him.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: So what does he have to worry about? He's not
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: going to hit me because I'm passing. And when you're passing,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: you're probably going 15 miles an hour faster. But he
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: thought it was probably too close. And again, I didn't
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: have a car video then at the time, so I
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: can't go look back and review it. But that had
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: to be why I was hacked off. He followed me
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: all the way into Kekona, which is 10 miles. And
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: now I'm kind of thinking, what am I going to
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: do about this? I'm not the kind of guy who's
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: a wimp and is going to back down, but I'm
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: also one of these people who knows how stupid road
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: rage is. So I tried to lose the guy. I'm
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: pretty good at that. You know, turn at the last
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: second so he isn't able to. I couldn't ditch him.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: I drove even to the north side of Kaukauna, and again,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to avoid the confrontation. I'm not being a chicken.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to avoid the confrontation. I drove way
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: out of my way, and I drove to the North Seneca,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: and I just couldn't lose him. So I finally parked
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: the car. Stopped the car, rather. And I let him
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: go over. I said, what is your problem? And he's
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: screaming away, you endangered my life! You're not used to
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: driving at anything. I didn't come anywhere close to endangering
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: his life. Again, I grant probably by his standard, I
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: came over sooner than he's used to when people are
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: driving up there. Nobody who drives in Milwaukee would have
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: thought anything of it where we just, where we come
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: over all the time when we're on the freeway and
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: so on. So it may be that I cut it
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: closer than I should have. I grant that. I don't
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: think I did because it's the way that I've always driven,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: and I think I was easily clear, and I wouldn't
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: dart in for no reason because, as I recall, there
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: was nothing coming in the other direction. It's clearly clear
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: of the guy, and I moved over into the other lane.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: But he's being this goof, and he's screaming and yelling
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: at you and Adrian. And I said, shut up, or
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: something like that. Then he starts screaming at me to
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: get out of the car. Well, I'm not going to
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: get out of the car. But when we pulled over,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: he pulled in front of me, so he's got me
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: blocked in. So I remember like when you would go
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: into bars. Here's one of the things that would happen
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: to me, especially in the 90s as a conservative talk
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: show host. If I went into a bar like at Victor's,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: when people would give me crap, which happens from time
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: to time, I'm an identifiable conservative. When somebody would come
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: over and give me crap in a public place, 95%
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: of the time it's a woman. It just, it's not always.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: I'd say 95% of the time it's a woman. And
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it was always a teacher. And maybe
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: it wasn't always a teacher, but it always looked like
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: a teacher. They just, if the thinnest skin imaginable, they
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: think that they're, you know what doesn't smell. And they
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: think that anybody who would dare to criticize them, they
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: can come up and just like be obnoxious to you.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: So I have a way of handling this sort of thing.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: And my way of handling it when I have a
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: woman that just being obnoxious and insulting me is to
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: comment on her appearance. It drives them crazy. And the
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: reason it drives them crazy is no guy cares if
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: you commented his appearance. If a woman says to me,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: you're ugly. Yeah, no kidding. Go, you're very observant. No kidding,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: I'm ugly. Are you going to say too that I
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: have too long of a honker? What else are you
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: going to tell me? See, guys don't care about that. So,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, if somebody would just be really, really obnoxious
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: and insulting me in public, this goes back 25 or
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: 30 years. I just say something like, you're very unattractive,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: which doesn't even necessarily mean how they look. It could
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: be the demeanor that they're behaving, and they just don't
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: know what to do other than that they just... So
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: that's the way this guy was behaving. So what's going
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: on with me, and first of all, I'm smart enough
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: to know that maybe the guy has a gun, and
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: I was in my car, and I did not have
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: a gun. But the guy that's being this much of
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: a hothead, he's now followed me for 10 miles into
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: the Kekona, six miles to the city. In fact, 25 minutes.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: He was driving a beater of a pickup truck. And
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: I said to him, all right, I am sorry. It
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: would have been awful if your beautiful truck had been damaged.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: The guy just is leering at me. And there's nothing
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: he could do because he knows if he slugs me,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, now he's committing a crime. So he spits
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: on me. That's what he did. He spit on me.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: I called the Kekona police. This guy followed me for
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: 25 minutes and then gobbed at me. They never responded.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think they took a report. They said that
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: you have to call the sheriff's department. I don't know
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: why I have to call the sheriff's department. Kekona has
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: a police department. They're dispatched by the sheriff's department. They
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: made no big deal about it at all. And that's
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: why people do road rage, because nobody's ever going to
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: do anything about it. In this case, Des Bryant was
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: acting the same way that the guy did before. Either
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: he was cut off or he wasn't, and he overreacts
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: to the thing. And the next thing you know, words
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: are exchanged, and then the cops are called. Des Bryant's
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: the one that called the cops, and the cops put
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: him on the ground. I can relate to the thing entirely.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: You may be wondering what the point of that story was.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: There is no point of that story at all. Now
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: let's get to Milwaukee's Archbishop. Archbishop Grob has apologized for
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: meeting last week with President Trump at the White House.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: Grob and a number of American bishops met at the
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: White House with the President for a session that they
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: was told was going to be private, in which they
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: offered their input on a number of issues to the
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: President and then prayed with the President. There was a
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: photo taken of this and it was released by the
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: White House. After the photo was released and people identified
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: who the bishops were, you know how lefties are with
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: their Trump derangement syndrome. They got enraged at these bishops
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: that they would be seen with Trump. Okay, so far,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: par for the course. Yesterday, Archbishop Grob issued a public
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: apology for hurting the people that he hurt by meeting
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: with Trump. He then says that he was manipulated by
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: the administration. They were told it was a private meeting.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: All right, let's comment on this. First of all, if
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: you go to the White House and meet with the president,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: it is not private. When they say private, in my mind,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: private means nonviolent. nobody else is in the room. It
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that it's secret. The word secret and the
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: word private have two different meanings. Jason, how would you
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: define the word private? Private. Something that you don't share
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: with anybody else. then how would you describe the word secret? Say,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: I would say a private meeting would be if you
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: came into my office and we talked. It doesn't mean
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: that I can't tell anybody what the two of us
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: talked about. It just meant that we were the only
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: people that would be in there talking. A secret meeting
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: would be if we talked and neither, both of us
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: agreed that we're not going to tell anyone we had
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: this discussion. He went into the White House. The White
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: House is a calendar and a visitor log of the
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: people that are in there, and it's often a public record.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: Unless it actually is a secret and covert meeting done
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: for diplomatic purposes and so on, there's a record of it.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: To think that you can go into the White House
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: and nobody's ever going to be allowed to know about
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: this is either naive or disingenuous. Secondly, the White House
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: released the picture. No kidding. And the archbishop, well, they
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: just did this so they could release a picture of
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: the president praying with the bishops. Maybe so. And my
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: retort to that is, so what? So lefties are bothered
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: by this. Why is the archbishop bothered that lefties are
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: bothered by the fact that he went to the White
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: House and talked to the president and prayed? And by
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: the way, other bishops did it as well. I certainly
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: am not going to say that I am more theologically
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: schooled than the Archbishop of Milwaukee. I will tell you, however,
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: that I've read the gospel, and Jesus again and again
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: and again and again met with the scum of the earth.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying the president is the scum of
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  Speaker 2: the earth. I make it a point. He met with
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  Speaker 2: tax collectors. I always loved the tax collectors of the
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  Speaker 2: bad guys in the Bible. The tax collectors then were
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  Speaker 2: not the tax collectors of today. The tax collectors would like...
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  Speaker 2: take on a tribute that just went into the pocket
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  Speaker 2: of the king. They're not collecting like income taxes and
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  Speaker 2: so on. Tax collectors, prostitutes, and thieves. And the Pharisees
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  Speaker 2: would always get on Jesus for meeting with them. Why
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  Speaker 2: does your teacher sit with tax collectors, prostitutes, and thieves?
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus's answer was, I'm here to heal sinners. So
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  Speaker 2: if Jesus can meet me with tax collectors, prostitutes, and thieves,
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  Speaker 2: why can't the Milwaukee Archbishop meet with the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States? This is offensive. If the Archbishop believes
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  Speaker 2: that it's beneath him to meet with the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States and for people to know about it,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: I would assume that that means he would find it
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  Speaker 2: offensive to meet with me. His predecessor, Archbishop Listecki, was
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  Speaker 2: regularly a guest on my programs. My memory's shaky on this.
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  Speaker 2: I believe now Cardinal, but then Archbishop Dolan was once
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  Speaker 2: a guest on the program. I just don't remember firmly,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought he was because I knew well his brother,
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  Speaker 2: Bob Dolan, was a fellow talk show host here. He's
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  Speaker 2: the brother of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. When Timothy Dolan came
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  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee, I think I had him on the show,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: but I might be wrong. I might have had Bob
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  Speaker 2: on the show talking about what's it like to have
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  Speaker 2: your brother be the Archbishop. I just don't remember. But
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  Speaker 2: Archbishop Listecki was on the program, and in fact, the
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  Speaker 2: archdiocese would buy advertising Christmas messages and, you know, statements
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  Speaker 2: of faith and so on on the show. And Archbishop
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  Speaker 2: Listecki didn't seem to have any kind of a problem
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  Speaker 2: associating himself with the conservative. All right, I'm not Trump,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm a supporter of Trump. And I would further
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  Speaker 2: think that it's perfectly fine for the archbishop to meet
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  Speaker 2: with the governor of Wisconsin or the mayor of Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: or all sorts of lefty people. So I'm certainly hoping
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  Speaker 2: that Archbishop Graub does not meet if David Crowley gets
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  Speaker 2: elected governor with him or anybody else who's controversial on
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  Speaker 2: the left. And if the position of the archbishop is
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  Speaker 2: that Trump's position on immigration is not consistent with Catholic teaching,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: I'd like to ask him which positions on people on
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  Speaker 2: the left on transgenderism and abortion are consistent with Catholic teaching.
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  Speaker 2: Both political parties have positions that are probably not consistent.
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  Speaker 2: with contemporary Catholic teaching. I just think that the Archbishop's
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  Speaker 2: public apology for meeting with Trump and saying he was
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  Speaker 2: manipulative to me is offensive. I'm not going to make
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  Speaker 2: a bigger deal of it beyond that. I have gotten
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  Speaker 2: numerous responses from listeners who are offended by this. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to read the woman's name for obvious reasons,
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  Speaker 2: but she sent the following to the Archbishop, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read it. Dear Most Reverend Archbishop Graub, My
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  Speaker 2: husband and I are practicing Catholics in the archdiocese. We
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  Speaker 2: are completely offended and disappointed that you feel the need
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  Speaker 2: to apologize. This action and communication is lacking in integrity.
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  Speaker 2: You clearly have been pressured to send this message. You
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  Speaker 2: are a very educated man, and it's inconceivable that you
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  Speaker 2: and your team visited the White House and did not
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  Speaker 2: anticipate photographs would be taken. Apologizing for, quote, any damage
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  Speaker 2: my actions have done reeks of bowing to political pressure.
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  Speaker 2: that must have been exerted. We are pilgrim people, and
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  Speaker 2: we hope for our Catholic leaders to act with truth, wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: and integrity. And she signed it. There are many of
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  Speaker 2: us who believe the same way. The thing about the
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  Speaker 2: Catholic Church is that it is about as diverse as
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: you could imagine in terms of ideology. There are hardcore
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  Speaker 2: right-wingers in there, and there are bona fide peacenik lefties.
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  Speaker 2: And one would think that the Archbishop would realize all
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  Speaker 2: of them are in his flock. And by doing what
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  Speaker 2: he did, I think he has offended those of us
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  Speaker 2: who are right of center and supportive of the president
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  Speaker 2: far more than the feigned offense and outrage that people
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: on the left took, thinking that Trump is so miserable
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: of a human being that nobody even dare meet with him.
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  Speaker 2: But crying out loud, Billy Graham, the late Billy Graham,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: met with, I think, just about every president in his lifetime, Republican, Democrat, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's what a leader of faith should do. And as
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  Speaker 2: we were manipulated, you didn't think it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be public. Give me a break. Private. What, a secret
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: meeting because the president of the United States can't run
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: his presidency without hearing from the Archbishop of Milwaukee? The
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  Speaker 2: comments were to be private. But the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: meeting existed, of course it wasn't going to be private.
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  Speaker 2: Did they hold this thing in a secret bunker somewhere
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: or did you walk through the front door of the
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  Speaker 2: White House? So the Archbishop said his piece, and now
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: I said mine. You're listening to the Mark Belling Podcast.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. We talked about the
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: Brewers being in the World Series. I want to talk
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: briefly about the other two major sporting teams that played
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: over the weekend, the Packer game. Now, on our football
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: preview over the weekend, and I should point out, Jason
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: was right yet again. I liked his pick. I almost
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: used it myself. He picked the Bears. I picked Detroit
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: to cover the spread against the Packers, and somehow for
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: the second time this season, I tied. The spread was three,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: and Detroit won by three. I'm not going to want,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I wanted the Packers to win. I'm
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: not going to whine about the fact that Detroit could
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: have scored twice, but the running back went to the
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: ground to run out the clock. That's just, it's what
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: you do, and it's one of the perils of point
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: spread picking. I actually thought the Packers played better and
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: should have won the game, so my pick was fortunate
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: enough to get that tie. I want to comment, though,
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: beyond the game itself, on the problems with the officiating.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: There has been more criticism of NFL officiating this year
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: than ever, and it's been bad a lot. But it
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: is getting to the point of being the NFL is
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: in denial. Several years ago, the NBA had a significant
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: problem with the officiating, and it blew up when eventually
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: one of the refs was on the take and was
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: giving advice, taking bribes from bettors, and then faking his calls.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: And after that, the NBA changed its approach to officiating.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: Prior to that, though, it was the Wild West. Referees
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: deliberately favored home teams. There was brazen treatment of superstars.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan in particular, you couldn't touch
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: them without a fall being called. And it was threatening
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: the integrity of the game. And I think that the NBA,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: you can question the referees right now, but most of
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: that crap is now gone. The same thing has happened
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: in baseball. I mean, one of the reasons that they've
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: allowed pitch strike challenges is because every umpire had a
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: different strike zone. The NFL has the same crisis, but
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: they won't acknowledge it. They keep saying that the officiating
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: is fine. There is a referee that they even had
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: to suspend a couple of weeks ago. They made him
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: sit out a game because he butchered so many calls.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: There are certain common denominators against... The thing about the
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: Packer game is most of the bad calls are made
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: by the head referee himself. Roughing the passer is called
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: by the referee, the white cap guy, the guy that
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: stands in the backfield. There were calls in the Packer
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: game that I thought were absurd. I don't think that
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: the Lions are favored. I just think that the calls
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: were absurd. And I think almost anyone who would be
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: neutral who watched the game would have thought that they
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: were absurd. And it's become routine for this to happen
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. The NFL has a crisis in the
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: lack of confidence in the quality of the officiating that
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: they have. The other call that I want to comment
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: on is a critical penalty that probably changed the outcome
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: of the game, in which they called an unrest, personal fall,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: unnecessary roughness call on Devontae Wyatt of the Packers. The
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: running back for Detroit was tackled and taken to the ground.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: It was a close call, but he was down. His
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  Speaker 2: knee touched down. But he got up and started to run,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: and Wyatt grabbed him and took him to the ground.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: They called unnecessary roughness on Wyatt, but the guy got
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: up and ran right into Wyatt. Furthermore, the whistle did
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: not blow. The head referee acknowledged he didn't hear a whistle,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: but he said it was obvious the guy was tackled.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: Everybody who plays football knows that you are to play
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: until you hear the whistle. And since the guy got
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: up and Wyatt didn't hear the whistle, he tackled the guy.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: They called a necessary reference on that. So again, the
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: discussion of this is not to claim that the Packers
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  Speaker 2: were jobs so much as the NFL has a significant problem.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: And I think that some of these crews have head
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: referees that are in over their heads. I wonder what
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  Speaker 2: the criteria is for– and some of these– when I
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: say head referee, I mean the one that makes the call,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: who's in charge of the crew. Some of these guys
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: are new because we all know these referees because every
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: penalty that's called on TV is called by them, so
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: you come to know the faces of these players. The
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: two referees in question, including the guy yesterday, I'm not
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: familiar with them. So they're newly promoted, and I'd love
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: to know what the criteria is for some of this,
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  Speaker 2: but I think undeniably– that there are some people that
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: are in these positions in the NFL that are not competent.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: And the league, rather than acknowledging this, is in denial.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: And I won't say it threatens the integrity of the
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: game so much as it becomes deeply frustrating to your
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: customers when you think the people running the game are
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: out and out incompetent. We're at a point in which
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: technology is better than ever in all manner of things.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: They also have had this thing in the NFL where
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: they do something called replay assist, where a team doesn't
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 2: challenge something, but the head replay people in New York
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: or wherever they are, they'll say under the earpiece of
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: the referee, that call is wrong, reverse it. Which could
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: have happened in any of these instances, but it didn't
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: kick in here. Finally, with regard to the Badgers, I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had made this my pick on our football contest,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: since I did say to Mike that I thought the
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: Badgers would beat Southern California. It was a dominant, crushing win.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: USC has a great offense. They could score only seven
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: points against Wisconsin. Wisconsin now, for the first time, and
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: I can't even remember how long, is ranked. They're ranked
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: 25th in the AP poll. I think their defense is
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: in the top 10 in the United States. The offense
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: isn't very good, but Wisconsin is getting close to reemerging
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: as a major national program, and I think that this
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: is the best Badger team. I would say... Since three
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: years before Chris left, the team was in decline in
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: the tail end of the Chris era. And for most
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: of the period of fickle, they've not been very good.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: So I would say this is the best Badger team
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: in the last six or seven years. And I believe
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: that now that they are finally competing with NIL money
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: for players and have a high level of coaching, I
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: think that this program is back and is about a
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: year away from being a significant contender to win. the
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: Big Ten. They have probably their most important game of
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: the year this coming week. They play at Iowa. Iowa's
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 2: pretty good, but not as good as Iowa teams in
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: the past. It's a winnable game for Wisconsin, I would say,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: of the games left. This one in Minnesota. Otherwise, the
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: opposition isn't that good. Could Wisconsin go 10-2? Theoretically, I
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: think they could. I think more likely... Eight and four
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: is the base level. I'd be stunned if they're worse
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: than that. They could go nine and three, which is
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 2: a significant reversal of where they've been. And the only
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: two losses have been to two of the best teams
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: in the country. Notre Dame and UCLA right now are
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: both in the top 10. All right, that's it for
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: today's program. I desperately want the Brewers to win game three.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 2: And if you're listening later than that, I would take
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: winning one of the next two. The nightmare scenario is
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 2: losing all three and having to come back in Milwaukee
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: with the need to win two games. Talk to you soon. Bye.
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