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Mark Belling Podcast #120: Ozempic may make you thinner but it's also making people frail, weak and apathetic. Daniel Hoan's grandson says Milwaukee socialists of today are nothing like Hoan. And Mark's take on the Miz' Magnificent May. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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Speaker 2: I think that ozempic and all the other GLP ones,
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Speaker 2: all these other things that are supposed to quell your
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Speaker 2: appetite in a pill and then you lose weight. I
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Speaker 2: marijuana as opposed to people who just want to legally
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Speaker 2: smoke pod. I think that's what's happening with the GLP ones,
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Speaker 2: and I think, like almost anything else over which there
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Speaker 2: becomes a main a craze, we're jumping into this without
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Speaker 2: dot com. Now, I'm not breaking any ground here. I'm
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Speaker 2: not the first one to make some of the comments
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Speaker 2: that you're about to hear. In fact, this first started
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Speaker 2: getting on my radar when some other podcasts there's mostly
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Speaker 2: fell started talking about it. For those of you who
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Speaker 2: don't know, and I can't imagine you don't know all
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Speaker 2: these different classes of weight loss drugs, the glp ones,
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Speaker 2: they're all very similar. Zembic will go. There's a million
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Speaker 2: names of them, and they all everyone's claiming they're a
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Speaker 2: little bit better for this, that or the other thing.
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Speaker 2: They are being prescribed like mad. Not surprisingly, the whole
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Speaker 2: country's fat. But here's the thing, Well, the whole country
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Speaker 2: seems to be fat. The whole country isn't morbidly obese,
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Speaker 2: but we're filled with a zillion people who could stand
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Speaker 2: to lose an extra fifteen, twenty, twenty, five, thirty pounds,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. When you start seeing people pop these
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Speaker 2: things who aren't in dire straits when it comes to
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Speaker 2: their weight, they're just heavier than they want to be.
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Speaker 2: I just I have this sense that people are popping
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Speaker 2: the pill without any concern about what this is doing
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Speaker 2: to their bodies long term. This is the same argument
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Speaker 2: I made when they were mandating the COVID vaccines. This
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Speaker 2: one size fits all, everybody has to get vaccinated. As
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Speaker 2: you recall, I was never anti vaxed. I was anti mandate.
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Speaker 2: I was somebody who believed in patient free choice, and
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Speaker 2: I also believed that everyone's circumstances were different. I felt
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Speaker 2: and continued to believe the people that are extremely high
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Speaker 2: risk for COVID elderly, way overweight, lots of underlying health conditions,
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Speaker 2: the kind of things for which a virus can kill you.
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Speaker 2: The vaccine probably made some sense. But from the beginning
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Speaker 2: it just didn't seem to me that there was any
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Speaker 2: point for somebody who wasn't likely to get extreme ill
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Speaker 2: or die from COVID to get these vaccines because we
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Speaker 2: didn't know what the long term impact of the vaccines
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Speaker 2: were going to be. That was our position. Then it's
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Speaker 2: my position now, and that position's clearly I think being
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Speaker 2: proven correct. We've got people dropping down a heart attacks,
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Speaker 2: We've got all sorts of other ramifications that we still
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Speaker 2: don't know. Some kid that got one of these shots
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Speaker 2: when they were eight, is there going to be an
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Speaker 2: impact on their bodies and their immune systems when they're
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Speaker 2: forty eight. I bet there will be. But we raced
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Speaker 2: into this thing and allowed quacks like Fauci to jam
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Speaker 2: it down our throats, allowed the media, and allowed all
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Speaker 2: these public health idiots command it. Everybody one side spits
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Speaker 2: all one side spits all. One side spits all it's
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Speaker 2: like telling a man he should have an abortion. And
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Speaker 2: I'm not making any reference to the gender stuff. There's
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Speaker 2: almost nothing out there for which one size fits all,
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Speaker 2: all right to the glps some of these before and
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Speaker 2: after pictures, and I've got to grant you they're amazing,
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Speaker 2: but I'm not sure they're entirely good. Back when Megan
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Speaker 2: Kelly was tolerable to watch, which she might become tolerable
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Speaker 2: again when she just puts her finger up in the
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Speaker 2: ear and decides that her numbers will improve by talking
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Speaker 2: about physicians that are sincere rather than the crap she's
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Speaker 2: viewing out now. Nonetheless, she did these things on Serena Williams.
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Speaker 2: Serena Williams, you know, when she was playing tennis, was
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Speaker 2: really big, she said, a remarkable athlete and one of
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Speaker 2: the reasons why she was so dominant as she's she
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Speaker 2: was just way stronger than any other woman kennis player ever.
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Speaker 2: But now that she's not playing competitive tennis anymore, barely
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Speaker 2: playing it, she's decided that she's going to be a celebrities.
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Speaker 2: She's got the husband, she's got the baby, and now
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Speaker 2: she wants to look hot. She has lost a ton
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Speaker 2: of weight and Megan was showing this picture, and while
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Speaker 2: she's lost a ton of weight, she doesn't look good.
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Speaker 2: She looks like you look if you've had a terrible
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Speaker 2: bout of cancer. It's that jaunt look. Some of the
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Speaker 2: other celebrities, they've indeed lost weight, but they also look frail.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that clearly happens when you're losing
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Speaker 2: a lot of this weight is you lose muscle tone,
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Speaker 2: and for younger adults, that's not good. So lo and behold.
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Speaker 2: A few days ago, this story crosses on the Wall
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Speaker 2: Street Journal. It's a big story. Frailty is a hidden
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Speaker 2: cost of weight loss drugs. For those of you who
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Speaker 2: can access the Wall Treet Journal, just do a search
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Speaker 2: on this. But the author is Kasha Dangour. She writes,
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Speaker 2: Chanelle Robinson achieved exactly what the gold rush of blockbuster
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Speaker 2: weight loss drugs promised. She lost nearly one hundred pounds,
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Speaker 2: lowered her cholesterol to normal levels, and reined in her
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Speaker 2: polycystic ovary syndrome. A lem me, it's been that I'm
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Speaker 2: not knocking these drugs. Clearly that stuff has been happening
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Speaker 2: right and left, and some people are a lot healthier
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Speaker 2: and look a lot better than they did before. Back
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Speaker 2: to the piece. Yet Yet is a great word. It's
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Speaker 2: a cousin to bud. Yet. Nearly three years later into
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Speaker 2: her journey on Mount Jarro, the thirty year old Atlanta
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Speaker 2: for thirty zero from Atlanta, Georgia is discovering the hidden
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Speaker 2: costs of the slimmed down life. Robinson experiences muscle fatigued daily,
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Speaker 2: feeling physically weak, frail, and often cold. Robinson said she
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Speaker 2: experienced birds of bursts of sluggishness sporadically during the day
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Speaker 2: and has trouble with basic tasks like opening a jar.
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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be this difficult, she said. GLP one drugs
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Speaker 2: like ozembic, Munjaro, and zep bound have been a success
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Speaker 2: for public health and the pharmaceutical companies that make them,
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Speaker 2: but for at least some of the thirteen million Americans
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Speaker 2: taking them. I'm surprised he's not higher. That's a high number.
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Speaker 2: I'm just surprised not higher. Losing muscle along with fat
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Speaker 2: is an unexpected downside that isn't broadly discussed or immediately apparent.
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Speaker 2: Say that isn't broadly discussed. Let me talk about this
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Speaker 2: when you watch these drug ads on TV nobody ever
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Speaker 2: listens to the side effects because under the law, in
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Speaker 2: order to cover themselves some lawsuits, they've got to list
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Speaker 2: every side effect, and they're all terrible. You're gonnadrop thead.
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Speaker 2: Your eyebles are gonna fall out, and they have the
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Speaker 2: guys ritting really really fast and all that. And when
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Speaker 2: you see the ads in print, the print is so
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Speaker 2: tiny that, I mean, you need a matt you need
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Speaker 2: the Hubble telescope to read this stuff. And even when
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Speaker 2: you can hear it, like the TV ads, it is
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Speaker 2: tuned out because people say, oh, that's what they have
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Speaker 2: to say. In all the mania though over these drugs,
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Speaker 2: I hardly ever hear any physicians or any doctors, and
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Speaker 2: certainly not the drug companies, And people say, well, the
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Speaker 2: drug companies should be stressing this stuff. I mean the
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Speaker 2: same point during the COVID vaccines. The drug companies do
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Speaker 2: not care about your health anymore so than all of
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Speaker 2: us have a general caring for people's health. The drug
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Speaker 2: companies want to sell their product. The drug companies what
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Speaker 2: liked the COVID vaccine mandates because it meant that people
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Speaker 2: were mandated to buy their vaccine. So if you're making
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Speaker 2: these weight loss drugs. You're not going to run around
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Speaker 2: and scream from the mountaintops the reasons that maybe some
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Speaker 2: people shouldn't use them or some of these downsides. Doctors
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Speaker 2: should be doing this, but also people should be using
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Speaker 2: their noggins. The very thing that RFK and his crowd
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Speaker 2: has urged us to do, and any number of things,
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Speaker 2: and the very thing that the media and the public
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Speaker 2: health zealots told us during COVID that we should not
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Speaker 2: be doing. Don't do your runer resistion. Don't think this through.
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Speaker 2: You're not professional, you're not qualified. We'll start examining with
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Speaker 2: your on nine some of the stuff that's going on here.
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Speaker 2: Anything that can knock your appetite down so strongly that
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Speaker 2: you can lose this much weight this fast, what else
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Speaker 2: is it doing? And again, I want to make it clear,
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Speaker 2: I'm not encouraging people not to use this. I'm just
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Speaker 2: saying there's something going on here, and some of these
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Speaker 2: side effects are profound. We're going to get to another
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Speaker 2: one in a moment, continuing for at least some of
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Speaker 2: the thirteen million Americans taking them. Losing muscle along with
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Speaker 2: fat is an unexpected downside that isn't broadly discussed or
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Speaker 2: immediately apparent. The drugs can cause rapid and significant loss
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Speaker 2: of lean muscle mass up to ten percent, comparable to
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Speaker 2: a decade or more of aging, according to an analysis
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Speaker 2: published by the American Diabetes Association, let me interject, when
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Speaker 2: I've seen some of these before after pictures, they're just
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Speaker 2: different to me than when I see the before after
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Speaker 2: pictures of people who lost weight by going on the
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Speaker 2: no carb diet or by eating less. Those people just
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Speaker 2: seem to look healthier all around. They've lost weight, but
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Speaker 2: they don't have this sickly sunken inlook the GOLP one
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Speaker 2: weight loss people. They clearly look slimmer, but they don't
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Speaker 2: look right. Their bones seem to bulge out. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they just have a look to me that the fat
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Speaker 2: was kind of sucked out with them, along with maybe
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Speaker 2: muscle and everything else. Back to the piece, the loss
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Speaker 2: of lean tissue is similar to weight loss from dieting,
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Speaker 2: but the magnitude over a short period of time can
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Speaker 2: lead to frailty, instability, and lack of coordination. Doctors and
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Speaker 2: researcher said, Okay, good stands. The reason you're losing fat,
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Speaker 2: you're also losing tissue and when the fact that's down,
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Speaker 2: the tissue is going to go down, and uses that
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Speaker 2: can be handled. But the thing is, what if you're
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Speaker 2: losing this tissue so fast your body doesn't adapt, and
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Speaker 2: then you get these frailty concerns that they're mentioning. We
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Speaker 2: are curing a obesity by encouraging frailty. Great quote. Oh
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Speaker 2: is that a good quote? Said Daniel Green, principal research
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Speaker 2: fellow at the University of Western Australia who contributed to
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Speaker 2: the analysis. Many taking weight loss medications initially lose fat
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Speaker 2: and feel great, but quickly start to feel weak and lethargic.
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Speaker 2: He said, No, I'll know it that that weak and lethargic.
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Speaker 2: I've been following this my whole life. It's what I've
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Speaker 2: noticed over the years is what happens to people who
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Speaker 2: are long term pot users and long term users of
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Speaker 2: too much of the too much of these antipsychotic drugs,
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Speaker 2: lethargy and fatigue. When you see so many of these
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Speaker 2: people in their early twenties that are there already happening
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Speaker 2: about the four day week and the work life balance
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Speaker 2: and I only want to work twenty five hours a
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Speaker 2: week and I hate my job and I'm tired, and
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Speaker 2: I'm tired. I'm tired. That's not are you supposed to
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Speaker 2: be when you're that young. There's got to be a
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Speaker 2: reason for it. And I've just assumed that whenever somebody
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Speaker 2: is talking about that they were a pot. Yet I've
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Speaker 2: been assuming this for like forty five fifty years of
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Speaker 2: my life. No, I have to add it up, maybe longer,
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Speaker 2: maybe add another one or two of those years in here.
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Speaker 2: Now we're hearing this with regard to the people that
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Speaker 2: are on the weight loss drugs. Seemingly, you would think anecdotally,
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Speaker 2: you would think, Okay, let's imagine you were fat. Some
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Speaker 2: of you. You can imagine that, you big mouth. Okay,
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Speaker 2: maybe it's not that hard to imagine. Let's imagine you're fat. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's imagine you're not fat and you've lost weight. Wouldn't
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Speaker 2: you think you'd have more energy? You would think that.
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Speaker 2: The answer here, though, is seems to be no continuing
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Speaker 2: Greensberry search showed that the rate of muscle loss could
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Speaker 2: be slowed significantly by regular strength workouts. Well, that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: Are the people that are on these weight loss drugs?
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Speaker 2: Are they doing this then in tandem with a strong
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Speaker 2: exercise program that is aimed at building up their weights.
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing hardly anybody is. Drug makers say, and again
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Speaker 2: the drug makers. When the lefties became got in tandem
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Speaker 2: with the drug makers, it just changed everything, because whatever
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Speaker 2: the narrative of the lefties is is the narrative of
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Speaker 2: the media. Then the lefties during COVID got into bed
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Speaker 2: with the drug companies. Anybody who suggested that we use
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Speaker 2: generic drugs that have been on the market forever and
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Speaker 2: ever and ever, that's a horsty wormer, they said about ivermectin,
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Speaker 2: or you know, you shouldn't do this and are They
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Speaker 2: made fun of Ron Johnson for some of the obvious
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Speaker 2: common sense tactics that he said that you should do
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Speaker 2: to try to avoid catching a virus, because the Lefties
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Speaker 2: instead decided to slavishly bend their knee to the drug
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Speaker 2: companies that were cranking a brand new, on patent extremely
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Speaker 2: expensive drugs and mandating these vaccines for which they were
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Speaker 2: being paid about twenty dollars a pop by the government.
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Speaker 2: So drug makers, all right, let's hear what they have
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Speaker 2: to say. And again, this isn't to be taken with
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Speaker 2: a grain of salt. You've got like a big Do
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Speaker 2: people still have water soffiters? Do you know this? Jason
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Speaker 2: says he doesn't know anybody that has it. Is it
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Speaker 2: just pumped into the water now or is it doesn't
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Speaker 2: have to do with where you live. When I was
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Speaker 2: a kid, everybody had water softiters. I mean everybody this
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Speaker 2: house that you went into at a water softiter? Do
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Speaker 2: you have a water softter when you were a kid? No?
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Speaker 2: I forgot where do you grow up? This plain's Illinois.
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Speaker 2: Yeh see, now you were in Chicago. Maybe they didn't
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Speaker 2: Maybe in Illinois they didn't know about this.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: And then there was like companies like cull again Colly
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Speaker 2: going to bring these big tanks around and some people
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Speaker 2: would have that. This is what it came to for me.
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Speaker 2: Eventually was moved out of the bedroom that I shared
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Speaker 2: with my brother and I got my own bedroom. It
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Speaker 2: was in the basement. It was in the room that
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Speaker 2: the water softiter was two o'clock every morning. You would
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Speaker 2: not believe the sound of this bang that would go
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Speaker 2: off when this thing kicked in. Also, because the water
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Speaker 2: softiter was in my room, whose job was it to
17:41
Speaker 2: lard these forty pounds salt bags down into the basement
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Speaker 2: and then dump them into the water soften. I'm clearly
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Speaker 2: digressing here, but I swear that these digressions is what
17:50
Speaker 2: I made a career off of. So you you didn't
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Speaker 2: have a water softener display and displays, well, and I think,
17:58
Speaker 2: what do we have. I don't know where we got
17:59
Speaker 2: fox River then, but we needed to put salt in
18:03
Speaker 2: the water because the water was too hard. Water softener,
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Speaker 2: that's what they called it. That anyway, drug makers say
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Speaker 2: that was my bag assault. This is what you take with.
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Speaker 2: Drug makers say weight loss drugs should be taken only
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Speaker 2: on the advice of a physician and as part of
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Speaker 2: a long term plan that includes diet and exercise. Well
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Speaker 2: that's true, and I'm sure many physicians are cautioning and
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Speaker 2: against it. But you know that people are piling into
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Speaker 2: doctor's offices right and left saying, I want to go
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Speaker 2: on one of these. My friend just lost forty five pounds.
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Speaker 2: I want to lose that weight. So the doctor. I've
18:42
Speaker 2: had the doctors tell me, Okay, there's the upside of this,
18:44
Speaker 2: and there's an outside of that. I think clearly people
18:47
Speaker 2: are gravitating toward this. Now here's the second portion of this.
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Speaker 2: This is an essay that appeared in the European edition
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Speaker 2: of The Spectator. I find all of these things for
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Speaker 2: you so you don't have to People always say, how,
19:03
Speaker 2: how why does it take you so long to do
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Speaker 2: your show? Because I'm finding this. This is a piece
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Speaker 2: written by Damian Thompson, who seems to be at least
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Speaker 2: something of a loser, which he admits in the piece,
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Speaker 2: which gets to part of the point. The headline of
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Speaker 2: the piece weight loss drugs killed my appetite for life.
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Speaker 2: He starts by writing about Sam Altman. Sam Altman, the
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Speaker 2: co founder of open Ai, which launched chat GPT, is
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Speaker 2: not overweight. Gay tech billionaires rarely are, even so, as
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Speaker 2: he explained in a recent interview, he was keen to
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Speaker 2: try a golp one, one of those drugs that have
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Speaker 2: revolutionized weight loss in the past five years. You can
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Speaker 2: understand why he was curious. Ozembic and munjaro might appear
19:52
Speaker 2: to have nothing in common with artificial intelligence, but both
19:56
Speaker 2: phenomena have helped to create the sensation that were entering
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Speaker 2: an era of accelerating an uncontrollable change. Alas he screwed
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Speaker 2: it up, Altman had someone inject him with a mega dose,
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Speaker 2: puked all night, and then lay in bed for days,
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Speaker 2: staring at a white ceiling thinking nothing, not only feeling
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Speaker 2: no urge to eat, but also no desire for anything.
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Speaker 2: Let me interject in this what happens with the people
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Speaker 2: on the ketamine, which, in small doses may have proper uses.
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Speaker 2: Matthew Perry odeed on ketamim because he went, Okay, if
20:34
Speaker 2: a little bit of it makes me feel so good,
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Speaker 2: let me pound it into my body. Back to the author.
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Speaker 2: When I read that on as, I knew exactly how
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Speaker 2: Altman felt or didn't feel. In a few months, I've
20:54
Speaker 2: lost fifty pounds on Munjaro. Now I'm aware the journalists
20:59
Speaker 2: accounts of their weight loss journeys could qualify for the
21:03
Speaker 2: World Boring Championships imagined by the satirist Michael Wharton in
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Speaker 2: his Peter's Simple Telegraph column. So I'll keep mind brief.
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Speaker 2: This is the second time my weight has dropped from
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Speaker 2: two hundred to one hundred fifty pounds again the raids
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Speaker 2: Damian Thompson. The first time is when I was twenty,
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Speaker 2: thanks to a diet supervised by my mother. For the
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Speaker 2: first time in my life, the girls hit on Porky
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Speaker 2: Thompson my popularity Sword, which told me a lot about
21:28
Speaker 2: how intensely people dislike fatness, even if they don't say so.
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Speaker 2: Four decades later, friends and colleagues scarcely notice which speaks
21:37
Speaker 2: volumes about attitudes to old people. If they're thinner, it
21:40
Speaker 2: will just make it easier for the pall bearers. Never mind,
21:44
Speaker 2: running for the bus is suddenly as is suddenly as
21:48
Speaker 2: easy as it was decades ago. But and this is
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Speaker 2: the key point. Only on the rare occasions when I
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Speaker 2: can be bothered to go anywhere, I could give Altman lessons.
21:59
Speaker 2: Instead aring at ceilings while thinking thinking nothing, I can
22:03
Speaker 2: even outstair my deaf white cat Moira, who spends hours
22:08
Speaker 2: scrutinizing the same patch of wallpaper. I've been a martyr
22:14
Speaker 2: to pathological laziness since I was in the in the pram.
22:19
Speaker 2: Like Donald Trump, I maintained that talking is the form
22:21
Speaker 2: of exercise and leave it at that. From time to
22:25
Speaker 2: time I torment myself by reading the dust jacket of
22:28
Speaker 2: a book published in nineteen ninety six, the debut of
22:31
Speaker 2: a promising new writer that was me. The premise wasn't fulfilled,
22:35
Speaker 2: because if there's one thing I can't bear its writing.
22:39
Speaker 2: To quote another American president, they say hard work never
22:43
Speaker 2: killed anyone, But I figured why take the risk? That
22:46
Speaker 2: was Ronald Reagan who didn't allow cabinet meetings to deserve
22:49
Speaker 2: as schedule of afternoon soap oppers. And then later in life,
22:53
Speaker 2: I discovered Munjyro. The weight fell off, and I fell
22:57
Speaker 2: into bed several times a day. For the first time ever,
23:02
Speaker 2: I lost interest in listening to music. Buying the forty
23:06
Speaker 2: one disc boxed set of remastered an told Doroti Hayden
23:11
Speaker 2: Recordings was no problem. Amazon's one click purchasing worked perfectly
23:15
Speaker 2: well from a horizontal position, But listening to them some
23:20
Speaker 2: other time. I asked my friend doctor Max Pemberton, a
23:23
Speaker 2: National Health and NHS psychiatrist who is also a writer
23:29
Speaker 2: of genius, what was going on? It makes perfect sense
23:33
Speaker 2: to me, he said. Max knows that I have a
23:35
Speaker 2: long history of addiction to alcohol and psychotropic prescription drugs. Again,
23:39
Speaker 2: this guy's laying it all out there about his life.
23:42
Speaker 2: I haven't touched the former since nineteen ninety four, the
23:44
Speaker 2: latter since well, if I'm being honest, about eight o'clock
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Speaker 2: this morning when I started writing this column. But I'll
23:50
Speaker 2: get to that shortly. Max explained that golp ones have
23:54
Speaker 2: a profound effect on rewarding regions of the brain that
23:57
Speaker 2: goes far beyond suppressing appetite.
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Speaker 1: PI.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna interject now the little bit that I've read
24:05
Speaker 2: and know about the golp ones. They suppress your appetite.
24:09
Speaker 2: You know, your body tells you you're hungry, and when
24:12
Speaker 2: your body tells you you're hungry, you eat. You want
24:15
Speaker 2: to satisfy this thing that your body is telling it.
24:17
Speaker 2: Our whole lives work off of what our bodies are
24:20
Speaker 2: telling us. It's the explanation for the sex drive, it's
24:22
Speaker 2: the explanation for the desire to go to sleep, it's
24:25
Speaker 2: the explanation for addictions. In any event, the golp ones
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Speaker 2: are blocking this signal in your brain that says I'm
24:35
Speaker 2: hungry and I need to eat. And if your brain
24:38
Speaker 2: isn't telling you you're hungry and you need to eat,
24:40
Speaker 2: obviously you can go a longer time without eating. You
24:43
Speaker 2: just don't eat. Now, the point that he's making here
24:46
Speaker 2: is that the gop ones aren't precise enough to only
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Speaker 2: zap your appetite, your hunger urge. Other urges too, back
24:57
Speaker 2: to the piece goes far beyond suppress appetite, and that
25:01
Speaker 2: this effect is likely to be magnified in someone like me,
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Speaker 2: whose neural reward pathways have been overstimulated for decades. Even
25:11
Speaker 2: the harmless thrill of listening to Hayden's military Symphony is reduced. Thankfully,
25:17
Speaker 2: the music problem seems to have sorted itself out, but
25:20
Speaker 2: the enhanced laziness still dogs me. It's a miracle that
25:24
Speaker 2: I can be bothered to write these words, and that miracle,
25:27
Speaker 2: I'm embarrassed to admit, comes in the form of a
25:30
Speaker 2: lozenge shaped pill. Modaphanil is a stimulant drug that increases
25:36
Speaker 2: dopamine levels without the adverse effects of classic stimulants such
25:40
Speaker 2: as amphetamine or cocaine. What it does do is increase
25:44
Speaker 2: motivation and powers of concentration as reliably as Munjaro reduces
25:50
Speaker 2: food noise. This one did work for Altman. Man. Do
25:54
Speaker 2: you get a productivity boost? He told an interviewer. Silicon
25:58
Speaker 2: Valley is a wash with medaphino and other cognitive enhancers.
26:04
Speaker 2: It's likely that the accelerated development of artificial intelligence has
26:07
Speaker 2: been boosted by these drugs. There's no way of proving
26:10
Speaker 2: that of course. But what we do know is that
26:13
Speaker 2: there's a blossoming relationship between AI and the development of
26:16
Speaker 2: drugs which affect mood, perception, and behavior. According to an
26:20
Speaker 2: article in Scientific, American researchers have used the protein structure
26:24
Speaker 2: prediction tool alpha fold to identify hundreds of thousands of
26:28
Speaker 2: potential new psychedelic molecules which could help develop new kinds
26:32
Speaker 2: of antidepressants. But why should they stop at antidepressants? Let
26:37
Speaker 2: the cognitive game begin, or in my case, wind down.
26:41
Speaker 2: The dopamine produced by my two hundred milligram dose is
26:44
Speaker 2: fast running out. It's time to drag my slim body
26:48
Speaker 2: back to the bedroom, whereas there's a deliciously empty white
26:51
Speaker 2: ceiling waiting to be stared at that Pieces of the Spectator,
26:56
Speaker 2: the UK edition of the Spectator, they have a condition
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Speaker 2: written by Damian Thompson. He lost fifty pounds when he
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Speaker 2: went on one of the GLP ones, and he said
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Speaker 2: he became so lazy that he doesn't want to do anything.
27:13
Speaker 2: It's not just suppressing his appetite, it's suppressing his desire
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Speaker 2: to do anything. I'm just throwing this out there. We're
27:27
Speaker 2: still so early in this. I mean, I don't think
27:29
Speaker 2: I heard of one of these drugs at the time
27:31
Speaker 2: COVID was going around. This is all the last three
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Speaker 2: to four five years. They've just been the rage. Five, ten,
27:39
Speaker 2: fifteen years from now. How many behavioral problems are we
27:43
Speaker 2: going to be seeing? How many people are just in
27:46
Speaker 2: utter lethargy. How many people are not only lacked the
27:49
Speaker 2: initiative to go and do anything, they lack the strength
27:52
Speaker 2: because they've all been on these weight loss pills that
27:56
Speaker 2: have not only shriveled their bodies, have shriveled their energy,
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Speaker 2: their motivation, and any sense of enthusiasm for life. I've
28:08
Speaker 2: always heard that pod increases your appetite. Well, this stuff's
28:12
Speaker 2: the opposite, but it also seems to have the same
28:14
Speaker 2: long term effect. It numbs your long term senses to
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Speaker 2: the point that you become a lazy slug who doesn't
28:23
Speaker 2: want to do a damn thing. Now to another revelation,
28:28
Speaker 2: New Orleans. A lot of people think of a lot
28:32
Speaker 2: of things when they think think of New Orleans. Basin Street,
28:36
Speaker 2: Bourbon Street, Marty Grass, the Saints, and Katrina. It's an
28:49
Speaker 2: interesting story that appeared in the Epic Times over the weekend.
28:53
Speaker 2: You may recall that after Katrina, with the damage and
28:57
Speaker 2: the losses were so terrible, and also there was this
29:01
Speaker 2: massive flight of public employees out of New Orleans. A
29:05
Speaker 2: lot of the police officers, firefighters, and other government service workers.
29:08
Speaker 2: They just left rather than they knew that this would
29:11
Speaker 2: be a hell of a job to rebuild. Everything just
29:13
Speaker 2: got out of there. They bugged out. So we dumped
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Speaker 2: a lot of aid into New Orleans. This is during
29:19
Speaker 2: the Bush administration. And one of the positive things that
29:22
Speaker 2: they did when they dumped the aid in is they
29:24
Speaker 2: created an incentive to the New Orleans school system to
29:28
Speaker 2: shift of charter schools. New Orleans is the only major
29:32
Speaker 2: city in the country in which the school system does
29:36
Speaker 2: not run the public schools. There are no schools in
29:41
Speaker 2: New Orleans at all run by any public school system.
29:46
Speaker 2: All of the schools in New Orleans public schools are
29:48
Speaker 2: charter schools. People sometimes confused charter schools and private schools.
29:54
Speaker 2: Private school is just a run by a private organization.
29:57
Speaker 2: A charter school is a public school in which some
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Speaker 2: government entity. It can be a mayor's office, a county
30:05
Speaker 2: executive office, it can be a university. They issue a
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Speaker 2: charter to operate the public school that school then gets
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Speaker 2: public financing, but it isn't run by a school district.
30:21
Speaker 2: In most cities there's a school district and then there's
30:23
Speaker 2: charter schools off to the side. New Orleans is the rare.
30:26
Speaker 2: Do you know about this, Jason, and I, I mean,
30:29
Speaker 2: I admit I didn't know that. This is one of
30:32
Speaker 2: those stories that when all the stuff about Katrina came in,
30:34
Speaker 2: you know, there were some positive change. You know, we
30:36
Speaker 2: heard about the enterprise zones and the rebuilding that came in,
30:39
Speaker 2: the money that they created to do all the rebuilding
30:41
Speaker 2: in New Orleans. Heard about all that stuff. We also
30:43
Speaker 2: heard that there was a lot of fraud associated with it,
30:45
Speaker 2: and I kind of recalled that they did reforms in
30:48
Speaker 2: education which were the kind that we conservatives wanted. But
30:51
Speaker 2: I guess I'd forgotten about that. And I think the
30:54
Speaker 2: reason why I've forgotten about it is this has worked.
30:58
Speaker 2: If this didn't work, the media would going on and
31:00
Speaker 2: on and on about it anyway. So they have in
31:03
Speaker 2: New Orleans charter schools right and left, many run by
31:08
Speaker 2: different entities, and there's also private schools as they're always were,
31:12
Speaker 2: but there are charter schools. There are just no school
31:14
Speaker 2: district run public schools. What do you think has happened?
31:21
Speaker 2: The test scores have exploded upward? Do you know where
31:24
Speaker 2: test scores are going up? Nowhere? Let me quote from
31:29
Speaker 2: the story. In the nineteen nineties, New Orleans schools provided
31:33
Speaker 2: little respite from the lockdowns, the arrests, the drug use,
31:37
Speaker 2: and the violence scene and heard at home, Oscar Brown recalls.
31:40
Speaker 2: Brown grew up in what was then among the poorest,
31:43
Speaker 2: most densely populated public housing projects in the nation. Most
31:47
Speaker 2: of its teenagers attended one crowded high school, George Washington Carver.
31:51
Speaker 2: The teachers cared artists and did the best they could.
31:54
Speaker 2: Brown told, the epic times, but there was always a
31:56
Speaker 2: whole lot of disruptions. The teachers didn't get enough time
32:00
Speaker 2: to educate us. Life skills survival were always more important.
32:04
Speaker 2: Fast forward two decades and passed one of the most
32:07
Speaker 2: catastrophic weather events in US history, and Brown's son had
32:12
Speaker 2: earned an associate's degree at the rebuilt high school on
32:15
Speaker 2: the very same lot in the ninth ward in twenty twenty.
32:19
Speaker 2: That was even before he was handled his hand at
32:22
Speaker 2: his high school diploma. Brown's daughter, a rising senior at
32:27
Speaker 2: the school, is on track to complete a nursing certification
32:31
Speaker 2: that both qualifies her for a good paying job immediately
32:34
Speaker 2: after graduation and helps contribute to a four year college program.
32:39
Speaker 2: So this guy, and again you might see, it's aberration
32:41
Speaker 2: to this guy. He's got a kid that's got an
32:43
Speaker 2: associate degree from college before he graduated from high school
32:47
Speaker 2: because he was taken to accelerated learning classes, and his
32:50
Speaker 2: daughter is graduating from high school with a nursing certificate. Continuing,
32:55
Speaker 2: it's a clear night and day difference, Brown said, schools
32:59
Speaker 2: here really dive into education now. They're not just there
33:03
Speaker 2: to be your mom or your dad. The twenty twenty
33:06
Speaker 2: five twenty six academic year marked the twentieth anniversary of
33:09
Speaker 2: Hurricane Katrina. In unison with the city's physical recovery that
33:13
Speaker 2: began after the two thousand and five disaster, the cities
33:16
Speaker 2: K through twelve learning institutions experienced the sea change of
33:20
Speaker 2: their own, becoming the first all charter system in the
33:23
Speaker 2: nation and potentially a model for others to follow. The
33:28
Speaker 2: most recent public education scorecard, released by researchers from Harvard, Stanford,
33:33
Speaker 2: and Dartmouth on May thirteenth, indicates that the NOLA that's
33:36
Speaker 2: New Orleans Louisiana. The NOLA Public schools consistently ranked in
33:40
Speaker 2: the ninety ninth national percentile for reading growth between twenty
33:45
Speaker 2: twenty two and twenty five and the ninety eighth percentile
33:48
Speaker 2: for math during the same period. This is one of
33:51
Speaker 2: those where one hundred is the peak, that's the highest performing,
33:54
Speaker 2: and one or zero would be the lowest in terms
33:56
Speaker 2: of percenta. So the New Orleans schools in the improvement
33:59
Speaker 2: betwewning two and twenty, we're in the ninety ninth and
34:02
Speaker 2: the ninety eighth percent island terms of growth now between
34:05
Speaker 2: twenty two and twenty five is theteriory of the recovery
34:08
Speaker 2: from the hellish reaction to COVID. So New Orleans's kids
34:14
Speaker 2: are actually improving this during this period and at a
34:18
Speaker 2: rate faster than almost any other schools in the country.
34:22
Speaker 2: And again what's extraordinary about this is New Orleans is
34:25
Speaker 2: an urban area. We all know that across the country
34:28
Speaker 2: urban school district's Milwaukee, Chicago, they stink and there's a
34:32
Speaker 2: zillion reasons for it. Well, these are the schools now,
34:35
Speaker 2: the public charter schools in New Orleans that are seeing
34:38
Speaker 2: that have seen this improvement since COVID back to the peace.
34:42
Speaker 2: Louisiana is the only state to surpass pre COVID nineteen
34:46
Speaker 2: pandemic performance levels in both subjects, according to the report.
34:54
Speaker 2: The story goes on. You can do a search for
34:56
Speaker 2: it if you want to read it. This is a
34:59
Speaker 2: revel So in New Orleans they gut all of the
35:05
Speaker 2: schools run by the school district and they've got a
35:08
Speaker 2: zillion different charter schools. And what's happened. Education has improved
35:13
Speaker 2: and the kids are thriving. Now this is not a
35:17
Speaker 2: surprise to me. If you've been a longtime listener of me,
35:21
Speaker 2: I have said my solution to the problem with education
35:24
Speaker 2: is to blow it all up. It'll never happen in
35:26
Speaker 2: a place like Wisconsin for political reasons. I would get
35:30
Speaker 2: rid of public schools. I've said this many times. Abandon them.
35:34
Speaker 2: No more public school districts will exist, say anywhere in
35:37
Speaker 2: the state of Wisconsin. Instead, you would have private schools
35:42
Speaker 2: in which parents would get vouchers to pick the school
35:44
Speaker 2: of their choice, and charter schools, which are government which
35:47
Speaker 2: are government schools funded by government but not operated by
35:51
Speaker 2: a school district, and kids can then go to the
35:53
Speaker 2: schools of their choice. And I've just I'm convinced that
35:57
Speaker 2: if you had competition where every kid was going to
36:00
Speaker 2: a school, and the way only with that the schools
36:02
Speaker 2: were able to hire more money and get more staff
36:04
Speaker 2: and all of that stuff is by doing a better
36:06
Speaker 2: job on education, you'd have much better education. That's occurring
36:09
Speaker 2: right now with public schools where nobody gets in any
36:12
Speaker 2: trouble when the school suck. When the schools are bad,
36:15
Speaker 2: they just go to the taxpayers and ask for more money.
36:17
Speaker 2: Where the test scores have been declining for forty years,
36:21
Speaker 2: the quality of teacher gets more rotten by the year,
36:24
Speaker 2: the education becomes more ideologizing the teaching, and again, you
36:31
Speaker 2: could operate a charter school that does the same crap
36:34
Speaker 2: that say, Wawatosa's crappy schools do. Spend all this time
36:38
Speaker 2: on gender and doctrination and telling everybody that white males
36:41
Speaker 2: are the worst thing in the world in the meantime,
36:43
Speaker 2: not teaching kids how to add or read or anything
36:45
Speaker 2: like that. You could run a charter school and the
36:47
Speaker 2: lefties want to send their stupid kids to that stupid
36:49
Speaker 2: school and watch them languish and be dumber but become liberals.
36:53
Speaker 2: They can do it, but the parents who want their
36:56
Speaker 2: kids to actually get somewhere on what actual education can go.
37:00
Speaker 2: The others. Now, the reason it would never happen is
37:02
Speaker 2: these schools are, of course heavily staffed by people, and
37:08
Speaker 2: they lobby and they have votes of Democratic legislators to
37:11
Speaker 2: lean to. What happened in New Orleans is everything blew up.
37:14
Speaker 2: The schools were underwater, the employees had left, and they
37:18
Speaker 2: needed government aid. And in this case it was one
37:20
Speaker 2: of the great things Bush did. He attach these strings
37:22
Speaker 2: to it in which the incentive was to create charter schools.
37:25
Speaker 2: And I'm sure at the time down there the lefties
37:27
Speaker 2: all said, oh, this is terrible, we need to rebuild
37:29
Speaker 2: the public school system. Don't do all these charters. Just
37:32
Speaker 2: as you hear people in the public education institutions now
37:36
Speaker 2: railing against private schools and railing against school choice, they're
37:40
Speaker 2: not afraid of them because these institutions bad. They're afraid
37:44
Speaker 2: of them because they're better. Everybody's afraid of competition that's better.
37:50
Speaker 2: So as we look at this thelem of what to
37:53
Speaker 2: do about an education system that gets worse every year,
37:57
Speaker 2: we know the answer. Lefties only support solutions in which
38:05
Speaker 2: they can make money. They don't have a stranglehold on
38:10
Speaker 2: charter schools and private schools, but they do have a
38:12
Speaker 2: stranglehold on public schools, so they only want the money
38:15
Speaker 2: going there. Why did lefties embrace the climate change issue?
38:20
Speaker 2: Because we have spent billions in billions and billions of
38:23
Speaker 2: dollars to lefty institutions to address climate change. There was
38:30
Speaker 2: money in it. The same thing happened with COVID Biden's
38:35
Speaker 2: huge American Recovery Act, in which we carpet bomb the
38:37
Speaker 2: country with money. The lefties all love that. They needed
38:40
Speaker 2: to hype what the COVID crisis was to provide an
38:44
Speaker 2: excuse to hand out all of this money, almost all
38:47
Speaker 2: of which went to them. I have when we come
38:58
Speaker 2: back in a moment, just there are just some stories
39:03
Speaker 2: that strike one is interesting. In this case, I've got
39:06
Speaker 2: a guy that I'm gonna tell you about in a
39:08
Speaker 2: moment who has a fascinating connection to somebody locally here
39:12
Speaker 2: in the Milwaukee area, and that connection speaks volumes about
39:19
Speaker 2: how screwed up the left has gotten, not only in
39:21
Speaker 2: our area but in our country. We'll do that in
39:23
Speaker 2: a moment. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This
39:29
Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling podcast. Everybody in Milwaukee knows the
39:35
Speaker 2: name Hoan, Why because we named a bridge after him.
39:41
Speaker 2: Funny thing is the lefties kind of want to tear
39:44
Speaker 2: that bridge down even though it's named after a socialist.
39:47
Speaker 2: Daniel Hoan was a longtime mayor of Milwaukee socialist. In
39:52
Speaker 2: the period of about nineteen twenty to nineteen sixty, the
39:55
Speaker 2: Milwaukee's mayors were either Socialists or Democrats. They are republic
40:00
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, but like now, they were in the minority.
40:02
Speaker 2: The battle was between the socialists and the Democrats, and
40:05
Speaker 2: the Socialists would often win. In Milwaukee. They were nicknamed
40:10
Speaker 2: sewer socialists. They believed in providing high level of quality
40:15
Speaker 2: of life, build sewers, et cetera, and Daniel Hone is
40:19
Speaker 2: one of them. Now the Socialists are back and they're
40:24
Speaker 2: trying to take over the Democratic Party, and socialism, which
40:27
Speaker 2: got a bad name because it doesn't work, is back
40:33
Speaker 2: in the Democrats. And you have local Democrats in Milwaukee
40:36
Speaker 2: that are self described socialists saying they consider themselves new
40:42
Speaker 2: Daniel Hones and they throw his name around. There's an
40:46
Speaker 2: interesting piece that appeared in JS online. It's written by
40:51
Speaker 2: a guy that I've met a couple of times he
40:53
Speaker 2: might not even remember. There's years ago. Daniel Steininger Standinger's
40:57
Speaker 2: been a guy that's been He's been around the scene
40:59
Speaker 2: forever ran an insurance company, has been involved in local
41:05
Speaker 2: causes in activity for a long long time. From what
41:09
Speaker 2: I could tell of his politics, I won't say he's
41:12
Speaker 2: an out and all conservative, but he's not a leftist.
41:15
Speaker 2: He's also Daniel Hoan's grandson. He's written a piece. And
41:26
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, the Sunday paper always has these think pieces,
41:30
Speaker 2: think pieces, you know, ty you were, you know, suppose it.
41:36
Speaker 2: Intellectuals write these things about the problems of the day.
41:39
Speaker 2: They're always crap. It's always lefties with stupid solutions, always, always, always.
41:44
Speaker 2: This is the first one I think I've read that
41:47
Speaker 2: they put in this Sunday thing and ten years that's
41:49
Speaker 2: any good And it's really good. The headline is I
41:54
Speaker 2: knew Daniel Hoan today sewers socialist, don't carry his mantle.
41:58
Speaker 2: I'm read this. This is Daniel Staninger as the grandson
42:03
Speaker 2: of a mayor who was a sewer socialist. You might
42:06
Speaker 2: think I'm elated over the emergence of a new crop
42:09
Speaker 2: of leaders seemingly carrying forward the tradition of honest and
42:14
Speaker 2: effective government that started here in Milwaukee, from Alderman state
42:18
Speaker 2: lawmakers and candidates for governor to the mayor of New
42:20
Speaker 2: York City. A term from the past century suddenly as
42:26
Speaker 2: new currency as many seek to return to a time
42:29
Speaker 2: when government was more responsible to the everyday concerns of
42:32
Speaker 2: its residents. That's an admirable goal, considering my grandfather. Daniel
42:37
Speaker 2: Hone was featured on the cover of Time magazine in
42:40
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty six, with the magazine proclaiming him as the
42:43
Speaker 2: mayor of the best run city in America. He was
42:46
Speaker 2: one of three Socialist mayors in Milwaukee, serving from nineteen
42:49
Speaker 2: sixteen to nineteen forty, followed by Frank Zeidler, who was
42:53
Speaker 2: the last Socialist to hold the post when he left
42:55
Speaker 2: office in nineteen sixty. Milwaukee led the country in some
42:59
Speaker 2: way any categories. It's hard to list them, but they
43:03
Speaker 2: include low crime, affordable housing, outstanding public health, a new
43:08
Speaker 2: sewer system that was ahead of its time, excellent schools,
43:11
Speaker 2: and much more importantly, year after year of balanced budgets.
43:15
Speaker 2: Fiscal frugality offers the starkest contract between self proclaimed social
43:22
Speaker 2: sewer socialist versus real ones. In other words, Hone is
43:27
Speaker 2: saying that the so called sewer socialists of the past
43:32
Speaker 2: were fiscally responsible penny pinchers as opposed to what we
43:38
Speaker 2: have right now, and he's gonna he's claiming that the
43:41
Speaker 2: current ones are frauds. Back to the piece one Alderman
43:45
Speaker 2: who leads the charges, Alex Brower, who has publicly claimed
43:49
Speaker 2: to be carrying the mantle in the Daniel Hone tradition.
43:52
Speaker 2: Since I grew up with my grandfather Daniel Hoane and
43:56
Speaker 2: was given his first name, I loved that He's gonna
43:59
Speaker 2: melt this. She was gonna melt this for all he's with.
44:02
Speaker 2: I'm not only Daniel Hoan's grandson, I'm named after him.
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Speaker 2: So I'm here to tell you what he really thought.
44:09
Speaker 2: I wrote Broward during his campaign to tell him, borrowing
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Speaker 2: a line from a presidential debate, I knew Dan Hone, Alex,
44:18
Speaker 2: you are no Dan Hone. Remember who said that that line?
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Speaker 2: With that line was the takeoff on Do you remember that?
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Speaker 2: You do not? He really wanted to know that one,
44:27
Speaker 2: didn't you know it? I was vice presidential debate between
44:31
Speaker 2: Lloyd Benson and Dan Quayle in nineteen eighty eight when
44:36
Speaker 2: George Boyce, the first George Bush picked Quail to be
44:39
Speaker 2: his running maybe he was the Senator from India, Lloyd
44:41
Speaker 2: Benson was the old Bull Senator from Texas Democrat, and
44:46
Speaker 2: Cuaile was trying to pass himself off as qualified by Sadie.
44:49
Speaker 2: I was about the same age as John F. Kennedy,
44:50
Speaker 2: and John F. Kennedy ran for president. And that's when
44:53
Speaker 2: Benson knew. That's what he was saying, because Quail have
44:55
Speaker 2: been using that line forever and Bensoner I knew Jack Kennedy.
44:59
Speaker 2: Kennedy was a friend of mine. You are no Jack Kennedy.
45:03
Speaker 2: It was admittedly a great line that Benson pulled off.
45:06
Speaker 2: Fortunately for us, Benson's running mate was the midget Michael Ducacus,
45:11
Speaker 2: who got his clock cleaned by Bush and Bush and
45:14
Speaker 2: Quil won. Anyway, back to the piece, this is not
45:16
Speaker 2: just a clever phrase, but represents a total misunderstanding of
45:21
Speaker 2: what socialism was in its heyday. It's important to contrast
45:25
Speaker 2: what's happening today with the real reasons socialists were successful
45:29
Speaker 2: in the last century. The current crop are heading in
45:33
Speaker 2: the wrong direction and will not solve the major issues
45:39
Speaker 2: confronting our city. Here are just a few of the
45:44
Speaker 2: differences one today's sewer socialists can't be called fiscally disciplined. First,
45:50
Speaker 2: and foremost, Hone believed in a balanced budget. You imagine
45:54
Speaker 2: you're an AOC call it for a balanced budget. Real
45:58
Speaker 2: estate taxes were moderate so that citizens could afford them.
46:02
Speaker 2: We have some of the reusable string that he kept
46:06
Speaker 2: in his tool room at the summer Home and Eagle River.
46:10
Speaker 2: Many of the current aldermen do not seem to know
46:13
Speaker 2: that legacy, and consequently, in twenty twenty four and twenty
46:16
Speaker 2: twenty five, taxes have been increasing, with some howner on
46:20
Speaker 2: who's experiencing double digit increases. That's despite the fact that
46:24
Speaker 2: the city now also builds separately for water and sewer treatment,
46:27
Speaker 2: and those charges are also increasing. Too. Key to a
46:31
Speaker 2: well run city is keeping crime under control. Crime was
46:34
Speaker 2: never a serious issue during the socialist era. Today, despite
46:38
Speaker 2: the mayor's best efforts, it remains a serious problem. Let's
46:41
Speaker 2: forget about the murder rate, which ebbs and flows. It's
46:44
Speaker 2: hard to find someone who doesn't know a friend who
46:46
Speaker 2: hasn't had either their car stole and a personal property taken,
46:51
Speaker 2: sometimes at gunpoint. Yet many of these aldermen want to
46:55
Speaker 2: focus on reducing police funding or reallocating it to such
46:59
Speaker 2: vague solutions as neighborhood services and youth programs. That's not
47:03
Speaker 2: to say that those aren't important, but criminals are not stupid.
47:07
Speaker 2: Without a rigorous attempt to enforce the laws, crime increases.
47:11
Speaker 2: So the point that he's making here is that when
47:13
Speaker 2: the socialists ran Milwaukee, they heavily funded the police department,
47:17
Speaker 2: and they knew that law and order was critical to
47:20
Speaker 2: a well won SETI a well run socialist city. Three
47:23
Speaker 2: hone supporters labor. Hone supported labor, but was not beholden
47:28
Speaker 2: to unions. There's no question. Now let me interject here.
47:33
Speaker 2: If you know the history of the nineteen hundreds, there
47:36
Speaker 2: was this huge push pull in between the labor movement
47:39
Speaker 2: and the communists. The unions were very anti communists, adamantly
47:44
Speaker 2: anti communists. While the communists said that they were out
47:47
Speaker 2: for the working man, the labor unions thought that that
47:50
Speaker 2: was crap. The labor unions wanted to get their workers
47:54
Speaker 2: highly paid, but in a for profit system, and there
47:59
Speaker 2: was a hate for between the two. And the point
48:02
Speaker 2: here that Signinger is making is the socialists of the
48:06
Speaker 2: last century the nineteen hundreds, they weren't tied to the
48:10
Speaker 2: labor unions. Back to the piece, he writes, there's no
48:13
Speaker 2: question that Holne was a friend of the laboring class.
48:15
Speaker 2: He famously snubbed the visiting King of Belgium, refusing to
48:19
Speaker 2: meet with him, and was quoted in the New York
48:21
Speaker 2: Times as saying, I mean no disrespect to the king,
48:24
Speaker 2: but I say the hell with kings. I'm for the
48:26
Speaker 2: working man. He was also a strong proponent of fair
48:29
Speaker 2: wages for the work for the work the city employees performed,
48:34
Speaker 2: but he did not align himself with the unions. There's
48:37
Speaker 2: no question that unions are an important part of American
48:39
Speaker 2: history and an equally important contributor to the growth of
48:42
Speaker 2: the middle class. But the socialist mayors did not see
48:45
Speaker 2: it as their role to tip the scales for one
48:48
Speaker 2: side of the other. In fact, my grandfather, despite his
48:52
Speaker 2: fiery socialist rhetoric, often told me the quote. The capitalists
48:56
Speaker 2: appreciated his leadership because he provided them with clean government,
49:00
Speaker 2: great education for citizens, functioning public service and fiscal discipline,
49:05
Speaker 2: and for sewer. Socialists were innovators. In addition, Hoane supported
49:10
Speaker 2: innovative efforts to improve the quality of life for citizens.
49:14
Speaker 2: He pioneered the use of malorganite, the fertilizer made from
49:17
Speaker 2: human waste that is still sold that is still sold
49:20
Speaker 2: in the private market today and produced by the Milwaukee
49:23
Speaker 2: Sewerage District. By contrast today's Common Council with a druid
49:27
Speaker 2: support for the Mayor's Innovation Office and refuse to fund
49:31
Speaker 2: additional staffing. This is a tragedy because we all live
49:34
Speaker 2: in a world experiencing almost daily innovations that have improved
49:38
Speaker 2: our health and longevity. The current socialists are firmly entrenched
49:42
Speaker 2: in the belief that capitalists are exploiting Americans. This is
49:46
Speaker 2: preposterous on its face. The only way a company can
49:49
Speaker 2: succeed is to deliver quality services or products to customers
49:52
Speaker 2: at prices they can afford. The Home Foundation, which I
49:56
Speaker 2: help oversee to one or my grandfather's legacy, is it's
50:00
Speaker 2: currently funding pilots in cooperation with the city government to
50:04
Speaker 2: drive innovation and cut costs so there's more money to
50:07
Speaker 2: pay city employees. And Dan Steininger says there's going to
50:11
Speaker 2: be more to his series. You can find that on
50:13
Speaker 2: JS online if you're a subscriber. And standing your man
50:17
Speaker 2: around town. Grandson of Daniel Hone, prominent socialist mayor of
50:22
Speaker 2: Milwaukee in the late nineteen hundreds. He says, these socialists
50:25
Speaker 2: today they're not what his grandfather was. This story I'm
50:34
Speaker 2: going to tie in because it rings true. I received
50:37
Speaker 2: this from a listener he hangs around in Lake Park.
50:42
Speaker 2: Lake Park is a jewel of Milwaukee. It's a really
50:46
Speaker 2: long park north and south and it runs along Lake Michigan.
50:50
Speaker 2: Much of it is kind of on a cliff bluff
50:52
Speaker 2: in which you're elevated above the water. There's like, for
50:57
Speaker 2: whatever reason, it's become a place where people play Pokemon.
51:02
Speaker 2: I do not understand the interest. I mean, you're not
51:04
Speaker 2: reading these stories about professional athletes obsessed with Pokemon. This
51:08
Speaker 2: is one of those things that there's very little upside
51:11
Speaker 2: to being old. But in my opinion, one of the
51:13
Speaker 2: upsides is I was too old to understand what Pokemon
51:16
Speaker 2: is and never get involved. I just can't fathom why
51:19
Speaker 2: anyone would find this interesting. Do you know anything about it?
51:26
Speaker 2: You know that they've at least played it, so you
51:28
Speaker 2: know something. Anyway, Lake Park, that's one of the things
51:33
Speaker 2: that it's known for. But otherwise it's this beautiful park
51:36
Speaker 2: on the west side of the drive. It's usually it
51:39
Speaker 2: runs along Lake Drive. On the west side of the street,
51:43
Speaker 2: there are these beautiful houses. But where Lake Park is,
51:46
Speaker 2: the houses stop and you just have this kind of
51:48
Speaker 2: urban park beautiful. Well, this guy's bitching about what's going
51:53
Speaker 2: on in Lake Park. Lake Park is part of the
51:55
Speaker 2: Milwaukee County Parks is the meeting County executive David Crowley
51:58
Speaker 2: is ultimately in Charre. Hi, Mark, I rarely missed listening
52:02
Speaker 2: to your radio show over thirty plus years, and now
52:04
Speaker 2: catch all of your podcasts. You boasted my conservative beliefs
52:07
Speaker 2: more than anyone. See. I've always explained when people send
52:10
Speaker 2: me something sucking up, it doesn't always work. It never hurts.
52:14
Speaker 2: I'll often make fun of somebody for sucking up. But
52:18
Speaker 2: this is better than you big mouth. You're so boring,
52:20
Speaker 2: But I thought i'd tell you this. He then continues,
52:24
Speaker 2: I enjoy birding at Lake Park frequently. See you no
52:27
Speaker 2: to me, I don't do that either. I don't bird
52:30
Speaker 2: bird is like bird watching and all that. I would
52:33
Speaker 2: think though, if I had to do pokemon or birding,
52:36
Speaker 2: I think I would find birding more interesting. I think
52:39
Speaker 2: it'd be modestly immoderately interesting binoculars. And okay, here's like
52:44
Speaker 2: some pink twilled blue jay or whatever the hell they
52:48
Speaker 2: all are. Wouldn't you find wouldn't you if you had
52:50
Speaker 2: to do one of the two. Wouldn't you rather watch
52:52
Speaker 2: birds out there than run around with looking for these cards? Anyway?
52:57
Speaker 2: This guy birds in Lake Park. There is much in
53:01
Speaker 2: disrepair in the park, many issues. A wooden bridge in
53:05
Speaker 2: the south ravine by the lighthouse has been broken down
53:09
Speaker 2: for three years. The new bridge by the beastro was
53:12
Speaker 2: closed three years before reopening, and it is still not completed.
53:16
Speaker 2: Brush and timber piles are everywhere. Work progresses at a
53:20
Speaker 2: snails pace. David Crowley can't manage this prominent park, yet
53:26
Speaker 2: he thinks he can govern Wisconsin. The guy signs it,
53:30
Speaker 2: I won't read his name. This ties into Steininger's piece
53:38
Speaker 2: about Daniel Hoan. The lefties that run Milwaukee and lefties everywhere.
53:45
Speaker 2: They demand to spend money on this set or the
53:47
Speaker 2: other thing, but they can never run the stuff we
53:50
Speaker 2: already have. Let's just throw way more money into the schools.
53:54
Speaker 2: Let's create a sales tax. In the meantime, you have
53:57
Speaker 2: this park here and most of what this guy's describing
54:00
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem to me like billion dollar work. Pick
54:03
Speaker 2: up the timber, pick up the shrubs, finish the bridge.
54:10
Speaker 2: A lot of people are pushing Crowley as the reasonable
54:13
Speaker 2: Democrat candidate for governor. They're trying to find an alternative
54:16
Speaker 2: to the KAMMI Francesca Hongo right now is the front runner,
54:20
Speaker 2: and they're pushing Crowley pretty hard because they think Crowley
54:23
Speaker 2: might have a chance of winning, saying, all right, I
54:25
Speaker 2: run Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County is doing pretty good, etc.
54:29
Speaker 2: The thing about being a county executive is usually county
54:32
Speaker 2: executives in any county are popular, and mayors are often
54:36
Speaker 2: unpopular because the counties always run the stuff people like.
54:40
Speaker 2: I mean, mayors have to run the parts of a
54:42
Speaker 2: city that are you know, the police, the fire, the
54:46
Speaker 2: street plowing. It's controversial stuff. What a county's run. The zoos,
54:52
Speaker 2: the parks, the airport, usually things that not only are
54:57
Speaker 2: not controversial, but that everybody likes. Milwaukee County, those are
55:00
Speaker 2: the things that Crowley is in charge of. I can't
55:04
Speaker 2: speak to all of the parks because I'll admit I
55:06
Speaker 2: don't go hang out of the parks and I don't
55:07
Speaker 2: go hang out in Lake Park. If I'm going to
55:10
Speaker 2: be in Lake Park, it's probably because I'm going to
55:11
Speaker 2: the restaurant that's in there. But I've heard this complain
55:15
Speaker 2: for some time. And the question that the guy asks
55:19
Speaker 2: is a good one. If Crowley thinks he can run
55:22
Speaker 2: the state of Wisconsin, why can't he do a better
55:25
Speaker 2: job or run of the damn park that he has. Now,
55:28
Speaker 2: I get some of the things that the county has
55:30
Speaker 2: to oversee are a hassle. The county also has the Lakefront.
55:35
Speaker 2: The Lakefront is considered a park. It's under the control
55:38
Speaker 2: most of it of Milwaukee County, and there's always this
55:42
Speaker 2: controlling the crowds, getting people to leave. It's a Sheriff's
55:45
Speaker 2: department responsibility dealing with the you know, all the craft
55:49
Speaker 2: that goes down at the Lakefront, and still keeping that
55:51
Speaker 2: at a level of high quality of life. There are
55:53
Speaker 2: those problems that they have. They've got the zoo, which
55:56
Speaker 2: tries to be self sustaining by taking in a lot
55:58
Speaker 2: of the revenue to run the operas. But the reality
56:02
Speaker 2: is Milwaukee's brag forever about all of these great county
56:04
Speaker 2: parks that we have. I don't know that all of
56:06
Speaker 2: them are as in bad as shape as this guy
56:09
Speaker 2: says that Lake Park is. But if they are, what
56:12
Speaker 2: does it say about the governing of Crowley. And this
56:15
Speaker 2: is my point about when lefties get in charge of anything,
56:18
Speaker 2: they always want to issue these proclamations about divesting from
56:22
Speaker 2: Israel and solve the problems of the world. Lefties are
56:26
Speaker 2: terrible at doing the jobs they're elected to them. They're
56:30
Speaker 2: terrible mayors. The streets become all potwell filled. They do
56:34
Speaker 2: what our little mayor Chevy does and put in all
56:36
Speaker 2: of these little cutouts on the streets that make it
56:38
Speaker 2: impossible to drive and spend a fortune on that. I'm
56:41
Speaker 2: telling you. Take a drive on the south side of Milwaukee.
56:47
Speaker 2: I'm speaking here from recent experience. Try to get to
56:50
Speaker 2: Saint Luke's Hospital without taking the freeway. It is shorter
56:56
Speaker 2: to shortcut, you know, coming from say downtown, worm yourself
57:00
Speaker 2: over on Sixth Street and then go over and lap
57:02
Speaker 2: them or one of those, and then head over to
57:03
Speaker 2: Lincoln and shoot a little bit on Forest Home and
57:06
Speaker 2: then go down it. It is shorter and it is quicker,
57:10
Speaker 2: rather than go on the freeway where you got to
57:12
Speaker 2: come around and kind of do you have to kind
57:14
Speaker 2: of make a semi circle, it is shorter. Those are
57:18
Speaker 2: the worst streets I've ever been on in my life.
57:21
Speaker 2: I'm telling you every residential street on the south side
57:23
Speaker 2: of Milwaukee, the bit not the main drags, not like
57:26
Speaker 2: the Oklahoma Avenue. Some of those are in bad shape too.
57:29
Speaker 2: The regular old streets are falling apart. Yet Milwaukee has
57:35
Speaker 2: this numbbelled, diminutive mayor who's spending tens of millions of
57:39
Speaker 2: dollars to rip up all the streets downtown to put
57:41
Speaker 2: in all of this curving rather than pot fill the
57:44
Speaker 2: potholes and the regular streets that people live in. This
57:48
Speaker 2: is my knock on left. It's like socialists when they
57:50
Speaker 2: run government. They're not only not only have these terrible
57:54
Speaker 2: ideas about what works and chase out business and all
57:56
Speaker 2: of that, they're no good at running the things they're
57:59
Speaker 2: in charge. See, if you're a lefty may hear lefty,
58:02
Speaker 2: you become a mayor. It's boring taking care of the streets.
58:06
Speaker 2: It's boring taking care of the parks. You want to
58:09
Speaker 2: save the world. Can you imagine if AOC was a mayor.
58:12
Speaker 2: Do you think one piece of litter would ever get
58:14
Speaker 2: picked up. So I think that challenge should be put
58:22
Speaker 2: to Crowley. How can you be the governor when the
58:26
Speaker 2: parks that you oversee in Milwaukee are piece of crap?
58:29
Speaker 2: And don't say your budget is overzapped. We already gave
58:32
Speaker 2: you a sales sex. They're constantly over spending money. The
58:36
Speaker 2: parks department itself in the county is ridiculously set up.
58:41
Speaker 2: It's almost all year round employees. There's almost nothing for
58:44
Speaker 2: a parks employee to do in the winter. Yet we're
58:48
Speaker 2: short of employees in the summer because they ought to
58:50
Speaker 2: be switching a lot of them to seasonal or structure
58:53
Speaker 2: the budget in which you kind of deal with the
58:55
Speaker 2: unions that they get their paid dock in winter months.
58:59
Speaker 2: You can spread it out over twelve month basis and
59:00
Speaker 2: they overtime them in the summer. Something that's flexible or
59:04
Speaker 2: better yet, fire all of them and contract out to
59:07
Speaker 2: landscaping services and others to do this. If a private
59:10
Speaker 2: landscaper was in charge of the parks, they would they'd
59:13
Speaker 2: be humiliated if the parks were in as crappy shape
59:16
Speaker 2: as they are with the government employees that run them.
59:19
Speaker 2: All right, I'm giving you a lot of today's show,
59:23
Speaker 2: I do an update on Iran, but I want to
59:26
Speaker 2: focus on the most recent thing. I'm just going to
59:28
Speaker 2: give you my summary of what I think is going
59:30
Speaker 2: on here. I think both Iran and the United States
59:34
Speaker 2: have pushed pull situations of their own. Let me explain that.
59:38
Speaker 2: I'll start in the United States, because I think we
59:40
Speaker 2: can all see what's going on. Half the pressure on
59:44
Speaker 2: President Trump is to just get this damn thing over,
59:48
Speaker 2: whatever the terms, just get the hell out of it.
59:50
Speaker 2: And the other half of the pressure is, damn it, Trump,
59:55
Speaker 2: you have an historic opportunity to make the world better.
1:00:01
Speaker 2: Get this government beaten. Let's go in there and fight
1:00:04
Speaker 2: a real war and finish the job and dispatch these
1:00:10
Speaker 2: monsters that run that country straight to the hell that
1:00:13
Speaker 2: they deserve to be in. And the second group is
1:00:17
Speaker 2: telling Chump, what was the point of doing all of
1:00:19
Speaker 2: this bombing and doing all of this and softing them
1:00:21
Speaker 2: up and you know, wiping out all of their military
1:00:24
Speaker 2: if you weren't going to go in and wipe them
1:00:26
Speaker 2: out and put in a more reasonable government. And then
1:00:29
Speaker 2: the people on the other side, Trump, You've killed off
1:00:33
Speaker 2: their entire military. They don't have any equipment left their
1:00:36
Speaker 2: ability to cause damage and the rest of the world
1:00:38
Speaker 2: is limited. You've done enough, get out of there, get
1:00:42
Speaker 2: the straight of Horn Moos reopened. Even if they resume
1:00:46
Speaker 2: their nuclear program, it's been set back ten or fifteen years.
1:00:49
Speaker 2: Just be done with it. And Trump, who's certainly concerned
1:00:53
Speaker 2: about the domestic situation and gas prices, in all of that,
1:00:57
Speaker 2: I think he's got this desire to get out of
1:00:59
Speaker 2: it well at the same time solve the long term
1:01:04
Speaker 2: consequence of Iran with the news. But there's the push
1:01:07
Speaker 2: pull that's going on, and there's half of this is pushing,
1:01:10
Speaker 2: and you can even see within the administration itself. I
1:01:12
Speaker 2: think Rubio is pushing toward doing more in advance is
1:01:16
Speaker 2: pushing toward doing less. The same divide occurs within thinking
1:01:21
Speaker 2: members of the Republican Party, the lefties. They're just mostly
1:01:24
Speaker 2: get the hell out of there and don't do anything more.
1:01:26
Speaker 2: But there's the dual pressure on Trump. But I think
1:01:28
Speaker 2: the thing that people don't understand is the same things
1:01:31
Speaker 2: happening in Iran. When Trump keeps saying, oh, they really
1:01:34
Speaker 2: want to make a deal, they really want to make
1:01:35
Speaker 2: a deal, and then one of these big Mullers gets
1:01:37
Speaker 2: up there and they're hell to the United States city
1:01:39
Speaker 2: will never give up. And you wonder, is this not
1:01:43
Speaker 2: Are these voices not contradicting one another. I think it's
1:01:46
Speaker 2: the same thing. The President of Iran has just issued
1:01:50
Speaker 2: a statement in the last forty eight hours asking to resign.
1:01:55
Speaker 2: He's one of those that he has been overseeing. Just
1:01:58
Speaker 2: the economy is collapsing. There, the citizens, the public services
1:02:04
Speaker 2: are shot. He wants the war ended, and he thinks
1:02:09
Speaker 2: if the war ends and the straight reopens, then our
1:02:11
Speaker 2: royal economy flows too. That'll be good for us, and
1:02:15
Speaker 2: maybe we can somehow get some aid and deal with
1:02:18
Speaker 2: the fact that our country is shot. But he's being
1:02:22
Speaker 2: outvoted by the hardline mullets that don't give a crap
1:02:25
Speaker 2: about anything, the people who have their extreme version of
1:02:30
Speaker 2: Islam that they're slaves to and all they want to
1:02:32
Speaker 2: do is kill everybody. And there's that push going on
1:02:36
Speaker 2: in i Ran between the people that are pragmatic and
1:02:41
Speaker 2: the stone agers who lack any pragmatism and frankly don't
1:02:45
Speaker 2: seem to care. If the country's a hellhole, it's good
1:02:47
Speaker 2: enough where they're living, and we want to just do
1:02:50
Speaker 2: what we want to do. Go back to our having
1:02:51
Speaker 2: our nuts and killing Jews and killing doing the things
1:02:54
Speaker 2: that we like to do, and slaughtering our own people
1:02:55
Speaker 2: who express dissent. So I think those are the two
1:02:58
Speaker 2: things that are going on on both sides. The latest
1:03:02
Speaker 2: development today, and this is just a rant. I get
1:03:07
Speaker 2: that a RAN's using leverage, because Trump does nothing but
1:03:10
Speaker 2: use leverage. The United States now is not aligned with Israel.
1:03:17
Speaker 2: Israel would be going back to that push pull on Trump.
1:03:20
Speaker 2: Israel wants the Iranian government gone, and they were happy
1:03:25
Speaker 2: that Trump was pounding them hard because they wanted to
1:03:27
Speaker 2: do that. But the government's not gone, and Israel wants
1:03:30
Speaker 2: it gone. And for all of the people who claim
1:03:32
Speaker 2: that the United States suggests that Trump is just under
1:03:35
Speaker 2: the thumb of Israel, which is ridiculous, he's not doing
1:03:39
Speaker 2: what Israel wants. In the meantime, Israel is using the
1:03:43
Speaker 2: cover of all of this to deal with another problem
1:03:45
Speaker 2: they have, and that's Hesbelah. Hesbela is not to be
1:03:49
Speaker 2: confused with Kamas. Hamas is mostly southern. Hesbela is northern.
1:03:52
Speaker 2: Hesbel is sitting up there in Lebanon, and they've been
1:03:55
Speaker 2: a terror group that's been bothering Israel. Forever. Israel is
1:04:00
Speaker 2: bombing the hell out of Hesbola in Lebanon. Hesbola is
1:04:03
Speaker 2: backed by Iran, so Iran's now saying We're gonna stop
1:04:07
Speaker 2: talking to the United States about the United States versus
1:04:09
Speaker 2: Iran and kill Israel stops bombing Hebela. See, I just
1:04:15
Speaker 2: think I'm somebody who understands lawng negotiations for all the people.
1:04:20
Speaker 2: Just I want this to be over. I want this
1:04:21
Speaker 2: to be over. When I've I've been you have a
1:04:25
Speaker 2: contract now with I hurt Jason? Or you still? Just
1:04:28
Speaker 2: you do? Yes, you have a contract? How long did
1:04:30
Speaker 2: you see? Now? You When I was a new guy
1:04:32
Speaker 2: and when I came in for the first time, I
1:04:34
Speaker 2: pretty much I said yes to everything. I was so
1:04:37
Speaker 2: happy to get a job. Were you like that or
1:04:39
Speaker 2: do you like bargain? Yes, you've got a you've got
1:04:48
Speaker 2: a family, two kids, a third of the way and
1:04:50
Speaker 2: so on, and well that's how I was initially. Then
1:04:54
Speaker 2: I got this huge ratings and was the most successful
1:04:56
Speaker 2: talk show host in America. I'm guess the hosting for
1:04:58
Speaker 2: Rush Mike. Every one of them, they were usually two or
1:05:02
Speaker 2: three year deals. Every one of them took nine months
1:05:07
Speaker 2: and somebody say, why is it taking so long, and
1:05:09
Speaker 2: I kept saying, I don't know. You know, from the
1:05:11
Speaker 2: perspective of dealing with that company, you have a national
1:05:15
Speaker 2: management and you have local people, and then it has
1:05:17
Speaker 2: to be you know, I'm a big deal in the company,
1:05:20
Speaker 2: so anything I do, and you're talking a decent amount
1:05:22
Speaker 2: of money, it has to be approved by above, and
1:05:24
Speaker 2: they think this, and then I've got this issue here
1:05:27
Speaker 2: and this issue there. And I'm not going to get
1:05:28
Speaker 2: into any of the tales, but obviously one of the
1:05:30
Speaker 2: things that I was concerned about was having not just
1:05:33
Speaker 2: that verbal understanding from local people because they can be fired.
1:05:36
Speaker 2: I wanted in writing protections that I can pretty much
1:05:39
Speaker 2: say the things that I want to say and they
1:05:41
Speaker 2: can't decide that they're just gonna can me and not
1:05:44
Speaker 2: pay me because I've offended some left to you standing
1:05:46
Speaker 2: outside with the sign. So there are things like that.
1:05:48
Speaker 2: This is now aw completely separate from my podcasting, in
1:05:51
Speaker 2: which the contract's almost irrelevant. Podcasting is a different thing.
1:05:55
Speaker 2: I do a podcast for iHeart, and we split the money.
1:05:58
Speaker 2: It's pretty much, but if nobody listens to the podcast,
1:06:01
Speaker 2: I don't make any money and we're done. So I'm
1:06:03
Speaker 2: not in the same kind of employee as I was before.
1:06:06
Speaker 2: But they went on forever and ever and ever and
1:06:08
Speaker 2: ever and ever, because I was going to look out
1:06:10
Speaker 2: for my long term self interest. I'm in my thirties, forties,
1:06:12
Speaker 2: fifties and then whatever I got to now and then
1:06:15
Speaker 2: an ancient old man, and this is my life and
1:06:19
Speaker 2: the company also, you know, Radio is contracting. They want
1:06:24
Speaker 2: to have flexibility, they want to have control over a
1:06:26
Speaker 2: big mouth goof like me. Well, I never hired an agent.
1:06:29
Speaker 2: There's nine months of this. It was this, the back
1:06:31
Speaker 2: and forth and back and forth. And one of the
1:06:33
Speaker 2: things that both sides do is they'll throw something new
1:06:37
Speaker 2: in there to make just drive the other side crazy.
1:06:39
Speaker 2: Make this demand. Will you throw that demand out there
1:06:42
Speaker 2: so you have something to pull back in order to
1:06:45
Speaker 2: get the regular deal that you wanted all along. I
1:06:48
Speaker 2: think that's what Iran is doing. And Iran is saying, look, Trump,
1:06:52
Speaker 2: we're not going to make a deal with you until
1:06:53
Speaker 2: you call off the dogs in Israel. I don't know
1:06:56
Speaker 2: that Trump can call off the dogs in Israel, just
1:06:59
Speaker 2: as I don't believe that Israel made the United States
1:07:02
Speaker 2: attack a rad but it's a ran just being pain
1:07:06
Speaker 2: in the ass difficult. But Trump is pain in the
1:07:08
Speaker 2: ass difficult. He's the first president that we have had
1:07:12
Speaker 2: that has stood up to China, stood up to Mexico,
1:07:14
Speaker 2: stood up to Canada. All of them roll over. None
1:07:17
Speaker 2: of them make themselves a pain in the ascid difficult
1:07:20
Speaker 2: for the rest of the world. The deal was so
1:07:21
Speaker 2: that we can get our best deal. So this is
1:07:26
Speaker 2: my assessment what's going on. I have an update on
1:07:32
Speaker 2: the story. A few weeks ago, I shared a story
1:07:40
Speaker 2: about an eighteen year old from Waukeshaw County named Vaden Vargas.
1:07:46
Speaker 2: He has two separate criminal cases going on. One was bad,
1:07:52
Speaker 2: the other was worse. The one that was bad was
1:07:56
Speaker 2: an incident from the year before last. I got to
1:08:01
Speaker 2: hit my early twenty five. It was from last year.
1:08:04
Speaker 2: It was a hit and run involving injury and causing
1:08:07
Speaker 2: injury while operating with prohibited alcohol. What's the term concentration.
1:08:14
Speaker 2: He's under twenty one, so the amount of alcohol or
1:08:17
Speaker 2: intoxic and you having a system is lower than if
1:08:20
Speaker 2: you're twenty one are over. In addition to that, he
1:08:22
Speaker 2: was accused of hit and run after causing the accident.
1:08:25
Speaker 2: That's one of his cases. The other case, which is
1:08:28
Speaker 2: still pending, is extremely serious. He's accused of force, sexual
1:08:33
Speaker 2: intercourse with a minor. Numerous other charges as well, second
1:08:37
Speaker 2: degree sexual assault, enticement, and numerous others, but essentially sexually
1:08:43
Speaker 2: assaulting with penetration a minor. It's a serious charge that's
1:08:46
Speaker 2: still laying out there. He agreed to a plea deal
1:08:51
Speaker 2: in this first case involving the hit and run while intoxicated,
1:08:56
Speaker 2: and under the plea deal he was sentenced to one
1:09:00
Speaker 2: count twelve months in jail, which is the house of
1:09:03
Speaker 2: correction I believe in Waukasharconi. Maybe not. It's in jail,
1:09:06
Speaker 2: and nine months on the other since he had already
1:09:09
Speaker 2: served ben he's been sitting in jail since the last arrest.
1:09:12
Speaker 2: He was given credit for time served of about nine months,
1:09:15
Speaker 2: so the term basically meant he had three months left
1:09:18
Speaker 2: on the one charge in nine months on another. And
1:09:20
Speaker 2: I said, this is really lame, but he remains still
1:09:26
Speaker 2: sitting in jail because there's high bail set on that
1:09:29
Speaker 2: other case. Vargas is involved in the serious one with
1:09:32
Speaker 2: the sex and so on, So since the same judge
1:09:35
Speaker 2: is involved, I said on the show, my take is
1:09:38
Speaker 2: since Moss is a new judge, he ran as a conservative,
1:09:41
Speaker 2: I'm withholding judgment on what category of judge he falls into.
1:09:46
Speaker 2: In Waukershokoni. It struck me that this sentence was very lame,
1:09:49
Speaker 2: but I said, I think it's also possible that he's
1:09:52
Speaker 2: looking at this in the context of the larger deal
1:09:55
Speaker 2: that when the next case is resolved, the sex case,
1:09:58
Speaker 2: he's likely to get a much longer, longer period of time,
1:10:01
Speaker 2: and I will reserve judgment on his handling of Vaden
1:10:03
Speaker 2: Vargus until the second case is resolved. That was my take,
1:10:09
Speaker 2: and i's wrong. Judge Moss has contacted me and pointed
1:10:14
Speaker 2: out that the sentences he handed down in that first
1:10:17
Speaker 2: case were the max under the law. I didn't know that,
1:10:21
Speaker 2: and therefore I'm correcting the record. The maximum sentence for
1:10:26
Speaker 2: causing injury while operating with a prohibited alcohol concentration first
1:10:29
Speaker 2: offense is one year, and the maximum sentence for felony
1:10:34
Speaker 2: hit and run involving injury is nine months. I'm shocked
1:10:38
Speaker 2: by that, and I said that to the I'm just shocked.
1:10:41
Speaker 2: I'm shocked that hit and run involving injury, which is
1:10:44
Speaker 2: a felony Wisconsin, the maxim pedal of the out of
1:10:46
Speaker 2: state statutes is nine months. Now, the key here is
1:10:51
Speaker 2: the injury not major. There's another category of hit and
1:10:54
Speaker 2: run involving major and those injuries are described as serious injuries.
1:10:58
Speaker 2: That's in the statute. The max for that is fifteen years.
1:11:02
Speaker 2: So apparently the injuries here were minor and therefore the
1:11:06
Speaker 2: charge fell into the category of hit and run causing
1:11:09
Speaker 2: injury but a non serious injury. So nine months was
1:11:12
Speaker 2: the max under the law. And the judge didn't give
1:11:15
Speaker 2: him in that case of those two plea deals the maximum,
1:11:19
Speaker 2: and he said that was more than even the DA's
1:11:21
Speaker 2: office recommended. So I think Judge Moss did everything that
1:11:24
Speaker 2: he could do in that circumstance. However, I don't expect
1:11:28
Speaker 2: anything to happen with this, but I'm just telling you
1:11:31
Speaker 2: right now that if there are any members of the
1:11:32
Speaker 2: legislature that are listening to this program, that statute hit
1:11:37
Speaker 2: and run involving injury, non serious injury nine month maximum
1:11:42
Speaker 2: that has to be changed. I have said forever on
1:11:45
Speaker 2: this show that when people say we need tougher laws,
1:11:48
Speaker 2: tougher loss, I think it. Wisconsin, almost all of our
1:11:50
Speaker 2: laws are tough enough. We just don't have enough das
1:11:54
Speaker 2: and prosecutors that utilize those tough laws and enough judges
1:11:57
Speaker 2: that sentenced to the max of those laws. Never is
1:12:00
Speaker 2: the problem, the law the problems. People are undercharged or
1:12:04
Speaker 2: they are leniently sentenced when convicted of a charge. In
1:12:08
Speaker 2: this instance, I think the max penalty for hit and
1:12:12
Speaker 2: run involving injury being nine months is way too lingent.
1:12:15
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean every case has to get a larger sentence.
1:12:19
Speaker 2: There may be some incident where somebody hits and runs,
1:12:22
Speaker 2: thinks better of it a mile down the road and
1:12:24
Speaker 2: then stops. And then there might be somebody who's hitting
1:12:30
Speaker 2: and running, they're drunk, they take off, they lie about it,
1:12:33
Speaker 2: they conceal, in other words, a more serious thing. It
1:12:36
Speaker 2: would call for a stronger level of punishment. So I
1:12:39
Speaker 2: think the max punishment on that crime, even I even
1:12:43
Speaker 2: have the statute number here, needs to be raised. But
1:12:46
Speaker 2: as for my point about Judge Moss, in fact, he
1:12:49
Speaker 2: did not go soft in this case. He sentenced as
1:12:52
Speaker 2: much to the max as he was allowed to under
1:12:55
Speaker 2: the law. You're listening to the Mark Pelling podcast. This
1:13:01
Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling podcast. We're releasing this podcast on
1:13:07
Speaker 2: June first. I think it is June first, Monday. By
1:13:13
Speaker 2: a quirk of the calendar. Milwaukee Breweries pitcher Jason Mazarowski
1:13:19
Speaker 2: got about as many starts in March, excuse me, in
1:13:22
Speaker 2: May as a pitcher could get. The Breweries have an
1:13:26
Speaker 2: extended rotation. They try to have pitchers pitch with at
1:13:30
Speaker 2: least five days rest. I think that this is now
1:13:32
Speaker 2: the way of the future. In fact, I think that
1:13:35
Speaker 2: the future teams are going to go to six and
1:13:36
Speaker 2: seven days and simply have a lot more games in
1:13:38
Speaker 2: which relievers pitch three in at a bunch of relievers
1:13:41
Speaker 2: pitch three innings. The reason that pitchers fall apart now
1:13:45
Speaker 2: is they throw way harder than they did in the past.
1:13:47
Speaker 2: And I remember people say, well, Warren Spawn pitched until
1:13:50
Speaker 2: he was forty four, and he was pitching on three
1:13:52
Speaker 2: to two and three days rest, and he would go
1:13:53
Speaker 2: thirteen innings and fourteen innings all the time. Warren Spawn
1:13:57
Speaker 2: was still around. And I started paying attention to Bay
1:14:00
Speaker 2: when I was a little kid, and he is a
1:14:01
Speaker 2: great pitcher. Warren Spahn won more games than any left
1:14:04
Speaker 2: handed pitcher in Major League Baseball history. I'm telling you,
1:14:08
Speaker 2: I think Warren Spond's fastball was about eighty seven miles
1:14:10
Speaker 2: an hour. He threw a pretty good screwball too. Guys
1:14:15
Speaker 2: didn't throw the way they throw now. I remember when
1:14:18
Speaker 2: Molan go back to the seventies, when Nolan Ryan came around.
1:14:21
Speaker 2: Never seen anything like it. The other one that struck
1:14:25
Speaker 2: me was Goose Gossage, the reliever, big mustache, big guy,
1:14:29
Speaker 2: glaring down. Then he had this huge, ridiculous, exaggerated wind
1:14:33
Speaker 2: up that nobody uses anymore, glowering in there, and it
1:14:36
Speaker 2: just looked like he was throwing flames. Goose Gossage pitched
1:14:41
Speaker 2: minor league baseball in Appleton when I was a kid.
1:14:43
Speaker 2: Up there we went. He was a starter. Then he's
1:14:46
Speaker 2: eighteen years old, and he just threw harder than anybody.
1:14:51
Speaker 2: People go to the game just to see him throw.
1:14:53
Speaker 2: And you would sit not behind the plate, you'd sit
1:14:55
Speaker 2: any of the first of the third base line, because
1:14:57
Speaker 2: that would be an easier way to get perspective of
1:14:59
Speaker 2: the ball. Come along, when the ball's coming at you,
1:15:02
Speaker 2: you don't get the same sense of perception when you
1:15:04
Speaker 2: see a ball from the side. There's nothing like it.
1:15:06
Speaker 2: My yes is at Gossage through ninety five and Nolan
1:15:10
Speaker 2: Ryan probably threw ninety seven or ninety eight, meaning he
1:15:12
Speaker 2: was throwing nine miles an hour faster than almost everybody else.
1:15:15
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody under the sun throws ninety seven or
1:15:17
Speaker 2: ninety eight now, and some of them are throwing sliders
1:15:20
Speaker 2: at ninety one. You know how to throw a slider.
1:15:23
Speaker 2: I know how to throw a slider. I just can't
1:15:25
Speaker 2: throw a slider. It's a twist of the wrist. That also,
1:15:28
Speaker 2: if you throw a good when you're twisting the elbow
1:15:30
Speaker 2: a little bit, you're doing things to your legament's attendants
1:15:33
Speaker 2: that the body don't allow. So this is why they're
1:15:36
Speaker 2: all falling apart. So you're just giving them more time. Anyway,
1:15:40
Speaker 2: Mitzerowski ended up with six starts in the month of May.
1:15:44
Speaker 2: I posted something on this on x yesterday, put up
1:15:46
Speaker 2: an initial post, and I found that by going from
1:15:49
Speaker 2: the last eight games, which the original post was, to six,
1:15:53
Speaker 2: the numbers were even more freakish. So I changed the
1:15:55
Speaker 2: post and focused on the last six games. The last
1:15:57
Speaker 2: six games happened to be all sixty pitched in March,
1:16:00
Speaker 2: I keep saying March in May. In the month of May,
1:16:05
Speaker 2: Mizuowski made six starts he has an ERA in May
1:16:09
Speaker 2: of zero point two three. That's almost better than if
1:16:14
Speaker 2: it were zero point zero. I mean, by being zero
1:16:17
Speaker 2: point two three, nobody's even heard of an era like
1:16:19
Speaker 2: that zero point two three. He pitched thirty eight and
1:16:22
Speaker 2: a third innings. In those thirty eight and a third innings,
1:16:26
Speaker 2: he struck out fifty seven. Now that's impressive enough. Relievers
1:16:30
Speaker 2: will often have more strikeouts than innings that they're striking
1:16:34
Speaker 2: out more than one per inning. It's hard for a
1:16:36
Speaker 2: starter to do that because starters have to pace themselves.
1:16:39
Speaker 2: That's why a lot of the guys you see that
1:16:40
Speaker 2: are real flame towards are one inning relievers. The thing
1:16:43
Speaker 2: that's so extraordinary about Mazeroski is he's doing this for five,
1:16:46
Speaker 2: six or seven innings. So he struck out fifty seven
1:16:48
Speaker 2: and thirty eight and a third innings. That's an average
1:16:50
Speaker 2: one and a half strikeouts in inning. Even more impressive,
1:16:54
Speaker 2: you know how many walks he had six that's a
1:16:58
Speaker 2: an average of one per start. His walk to strikeout
1:17:01
Speaker 2: ratio is right around only eleven percent. When Mizerowski came
1:17:06
Speaker 2: up last year. The one downside he had is he
1:17:09
Speaker 2: had some control issues, not just wildness. He often wouldn't
1:17:13
Speaker 2: hit his spot. So even when you're throwing one hundred
1:17:15
Speaker 2: and two, if it's right down the middle, the batter
1:17:17
Speaker 2: has a better chance than if you're throwing on right
1:17:20
Speaker 2: at the knees or right of the letters are hitting
1:17:21
Speaker 2: the quarter. His control this year has gotten phenomenal in
1:17:25
Speaker 2: addition to his incredible speed. So okay, thirty eight and
1:17:28
Speaker 2: the third innings, fifty seven strikeouts and six walks. In
1:17:32
Speaker 2: those thirty eight and the third innings over six games,
1:17:34
Speaker 2: he has allowed fourteen hits. That's barely more than two
1:17:38
Speaker 2: a game. I mean, all you need is one kind
1:17:41
Speaker 2: of off game where you give up six, and you'd
1:17:43
Speaker 2: be doubling the number of hitsities given up that era
1:17:47
Speaker 2: of zero point two three. That's because in six starts
1:17:51
Speaker 2: in May he gave up one run, a record of
1:17:57
Speaker 2: five and zero. I think this has to be one
1:18:04
Speaker 2: of the greatest pitching months in the history of Major
1:18:08
Speaker 2: League Baseball. I didn't say the greatest, it's got to
1:18:12
Speaker 2: be one of the greatest. And by the standards of
1:18:15
Speaker 2: today the era that we're in, this is another year
1:18:17
Speaker 2: of the pitcher in baseball. There are a lot of
1:18:19
Speaker 2: pitchers that are phenomenal right now. And the reason for
1:18:22
Speaker 2: it simply is these pictures are throwing harder than they
1:18:25
Speaker 2: ever have. This is just a new thing, and I
1:18:27
Speaker 2: don't know if baseball is going to have to address
1:18:28
Speaker 2: it or not. And there's a lot of things that
1:18:32
Speaker 2: they could do to address it. So pitching is quite dominant.
1:18:35
Speaker 2: In fact, as amazing as it is, Miserowski does not
1:18:40
Speaker 2: have the best stats the Brewers starting rotation. Kyle Harrison,
1:18:44
Speaker 2: who's pitching Tuesday Night, has an even lower ERA than
1:18:47
Speaker 2: Mazerowski does. The difference between the two is that Mazerowski
1:18:51
Speaker 2: is just so physical, visually dominating. Also, Mizerowski had a
1:18:56
Speaker 2: couple of starts where he got dinged up for three
1:18:57
Speaker 2: or four runs in and inning, So a season long start,
1:19:00
Speaker 2: he's got that eer right down to one point sixty five.
1:19:02
Speaker 2: But it took a zero point two to three in
1:19:04
Speaker 2: May in order to pull it off. I won't say
1:19:06
Speaker 2: it's the best month ever. I don't know who holds
1:19:10
Speaker 2: the record for most scoreless innings in a row, but
1:19:13
Speaker 2: I know who held it for the longest time. Jason's
1:19:17
Speaker 2: younger than me, but he's a sports fan. You know
1:19:18
Speaker 2: the name Don Drysdale. You say, of course. I mean
1:19:21
Speaker 2: that's Paul always said, of course, But I never knew
1:19:23
Speaker 2: what he knew what he didn't know. Don Raiseal was
1:19:25
Speaker 2: white in right in my wheelhouse, and I was a kid.
1:19:28
Speaker 2: This is when the Braves are gone and the breweries
1:19:29
Speaker 2: weren't here yet. My favorite team was the White Sox.
1:19:33
Speaker 2: I think I was just rebellious because everybody in my
1:19:37
Speaker 2: family's favorite team was the Cubs. You know, the Braves
1:19:39
Speaker 2: are gods. You take the team that's closer, tough enough
1:19:42
Speaker 2: to you win. You know. The White Sox farm team
1:19:45
Speaker 2: was an Appleton, which is near where we were, and
1:19:49
Speaker 2: I just gravitated toward the White Sox. My grandmother loved
1:19:53
Speaker 2: the Cubs. They all love the Cubs. Even then I
1:19:57
Speaker 2: knew enough not to do that. Well, I will say
1:20:02
Speaker 2: that the upside to the Cubs and my grandmother having
1:20:04
Speaker 2: them on the radio or the TV. The Cubs are
1:20:07
Speaker 2: on TV only once a week when you lived up there,
1:20:09
Speaker 2: but the radio games on wg had every day. The
1:20:12
Speaker 2: Cubs in Hounsers in that era were unbelievably good. I
1:20:16
Speaker 2: mean the radio was done by Vince Lloyd and Lou
1:20:18
Speaker 2: Boudrow and that was one of the greatest radio teams
1:20:21
Speaker 2: that I've ever heard, and the TV was Jack Brickhouse,
1:20:23
Speaker 2: who's just an icon biggest homer of all time but
1:20:27
Speaker 2: unbelievably talented. So at least having to watch and listen
1:20:30
Speaker 2: to all of those games, I heard good announcing. Anyway, Okay,
1:20:33
Speaker 2: the White Sox are my team, so I needed to
1:20:34
Speaker 2: have somebody to cheer for on the National League because
1:20:36
Speaker 2: I'm a kid and I was sports crazy, and the
1:20:38
Speaker 2: Dodgers are my team. It was rare that I have
1:20:41
Speaker 2: a front runner like the Dodgers, but they were my team,
1:20:43
Speaker 2: and they had this incredible pitching. Sandy Kofax was the
1:20:46
Speaker 2: ace and Don Drysdale was the number two, and Kofax
1:20:49
Speaker 2: is one of the greatest pictures in the history of
1:20:51
Speaker 2: the game, so he overshadowed Drysdale, but not by much.
1:20:54
Speaker 2: Don Drysdale, I don't know if it still stands, but
1:20:58
Speaker 2: he had set the record for more scoreless innings in
1:21:01
Speaker 2: a row, which is fifty six and a third and
1:21:04
Speaker 2: he's a starter and he usually went nine, so that
1:21:06
Speaker 2: meant essentially six games in a row of pitching a
1:21:09
Speaker 2: nine inning shutout, and then he finally got dinged in
1:21:11
Speaker 2: the seventh. That might not exactly have worked out like that.
1:21:14
Speaker 2: I do remember the night that he set the record
1:21:18
Speaker 2: to pass, whatever it was, was the same night that
1:21:21
Speaker 2: Bobby Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles, and I just
1:21:23
Speaker 2: remember that the one story was occurring and they were
1:21:25
Speaker 2: reporting that in the backdrop. But you can look that
1:21:27
Speaker 2: up anyway. Don Drysdale fifty six and a third inning,
1:21:30
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that was all precisely in
1:21:32
Speaker 2: one month. So there are probably a couple of pitches
1:21:35
Speaker 2: that have over history over time, may have even had
1:21:37
Speaker 2: a scoreless month as a starting pitcher, but hard to
1:21:41
Speaker 2: do much better than Mazerowski has done. The concern that
1:21:44
Speaker 2: you have with him is just and it's everybody's concerned,
1:21:49
Speaker 2: and it's the obvious one. Guys that throw as hard
1:21:51
Speaker 2: as he does usually get hurt. I've heard conflicting theories
1:21:56
Speaker 2: as to whether or not how skinny he is will
1:21:58
Speaker 2: help him or not. Some of the guys who threw
1:22:01
Speaker 2: really hard, who had longevity, like Roger Clemens, were just sick.
1:22:05
Speaker 2: And Clemens was thick because he was pounding steroids down
1:22:07
Speaker 2: and he's one of the bigger frauds of all time,
1:22:10
Speaker 2: and he never really had significant arm problems. On the
1:22:13
Speaker 2: other hand, Miserowski physically resembles Randy Johnson more than any
1:22:17
Speaker 2: pitcher I can think of. Randy Johnson was even taller
1:22:20
Speaker 2: and just as skinny, and Randy Johnson rarely had arm prebble.
1:22:24
Speaker 2: Nolan Ryan rarely had arm prebble. So those are hard
1:22:26
Speaker 2: throwers who managed to avoid it. Also, Mizerowski doesn't throw
1:22:30
Speaker 2: a slider that much. Sliders, I think are what rip
1:22:33
Speaker 2: up their arms. We can only hope that he remains healthy,
1:22:36
Speaker 2: but right now it's you know a lot of people
1:22:39
Speaker 2: think it's boring to see a pitcher just go out
1:22:41
Speaker 2: there and strike guys out and you don't see any scoring. Well,
1:22:43
Speaker 2: it is boring if you're the team that's not scoring.
1:22:45
Speaker 2: But it's just gotta be I was not at the
1:22:48
Speaker 2: game yesterday, it has to be. Well, you know, they're
1:22:49
Speaker 2: on the road yesterday, but in the home games that
1:22:51
Speaker 2: they've had, it's just got to be exhilarating to see
1:22:54
Speaker 2: him go out there. And you know, they have the
1:22:57
Speaker 2: the thing, the mile Parrower gage that they show for
1:22:59
Speaker 2: the pitches that the stadium. One is on the main
1:23:01
Speaker 2: center field scoreboard, and there's another one that are there's
1:23:04
Speaker 2: another ones that are now on the lines and just
1:23:06
Speaker 2: every pitches and triple digits at one o, two, one
1:23:09
Speaker 2: oh three. What is he throwing like the forty seven
1:23:11
Speaker 2: fastest pitches of all of the year or something or another.
1:23:15
Speaker 2: It's something along those lines. So it's really exciting to
1:23:19
Speaker 2: be part of it and see what he's pulling off.
1:23:21
Speaker 2: What the numbers are phenomenal. Brewers start a series. They've
1:23:27
Speaker 2: had a really rough schedule, and they're very very well
1:23:30
Speaker 2: on it. They're I'll playing this week San Francisco, which
1:23:34
Speaker 2: is just it's one of those franchises that's done everything wrong.
1:23:39
Speaker 2: And I like to point out when I was right
1:23:41
Speaker 2: about something. I I was pounding the table that the
1:23:45
Speaker 2: Brewers should not sign Willia Damas when he had thirty
1:23:48
Speaker 2: to a long term contract. I said he was about
1:23:50
Speaker 2: as bad a risk as anybody that I could imagine that.
1:23:54
Speaker 2: I just Willi Adamas is a fun loving guy. He's
1:23:57
Speaker 2: the last guy in the world that I want to
1:23:59
Speaker 2: see with eighteen million dollars a year, and he's just
1:24:02
Speaker 2: been a bust out there. You know, he's still in
1:24:05
Speaker 2: a few home runs, but his batting average is terrible.
1:24:07
Speaker 2: He's slowing down a little bit they San Francisco has
1:24:10
Speaker 2: spent one of the highest payrolls in baseball. They've just
1:24:13
Speaker 2: spent a lot of money on guys who hit the
1:24:15
Speaker 2: age of thirty when they're on the downside of their careers.
1:24:18
Speaker 2: Their cote, their manager and general manager of non traditional backgrounds.
1:24:23
Speaker 2: It's just it's as badly run franchised as there is
1:24:27
Speaker 2: right now in all of Major League Baseball. Which doesn't
1:24:29
Speaker 2: mean that the Brewers will do well. I think the
1:24:31
Speaker 2: Brewers are due for a slump. They have a bullpen
1:24:34
Speaker 2: game tonight. Hane Rohan will start, so they'll probably use
1:24:36
Speaker 2: four pitchers and Kyle Harrison, who's having a phenomena of
1:24:40
Speaker 2: your pitches tomorrow night. But Brewers sure are a lot
1:24:43
Speaker 2: of fun right now. That's it for today's show. We'll
1:24:45
Speaker 2: be back with another one, releasing on Wednesday of this week.
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