Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #140: Mark comments on the insanity of air pollution laws while Wisconsin and the upper Midwest suffer through the worst air quality day EVER because of Canada's inability to control fires. Also, Congress feels what the J6ers went through as we learn prosecutor Jack Smith was reading text messages of Senators and Representatives. And Mark explains why he wants Argentina to win the World Cup.

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Mark Belling Podcast #140: Mark comments on the insanity of air pollution laws while Wisconsin and the upper Midwest suffer through the worst air quality day EVER because of Canada's inability to control fires. Also, Congress feels what the J6ers went through as we learn prosecutor Jack Smith was reading text messages of Senators and Representatives. And Mark explains why he wants Argentina to win the World Cup. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: I'm doing this podcast midday on Thursday for those of
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  Speaker 2: you listening long after the fact, and today is a
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  Speaker 2: red letter day here in Milwaukee, which is where I
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  Speaker 2: do the podcast from, because today is apparently the worst
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  Speaker 2: air quality day ever, at least as long as they've
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  Speaker 2: been tracking these things. Now, part of my information is
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  Speaker 2: based on the AI, meaning it might be wrong, but
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: According to Google AI, the air Quality Index that's the
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  Speaker 2: number that we use for measuring things like this, zero
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  Speaker 2: would be the best totally clean air the worst day
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  Speaker 2: ever on record in Milwaukee as long as they've been
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  Speaker 2: keeping this data was in June of twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: And for those of you from the Upper Midwest, you
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  Speaker 2: may recall that in twenty twenty three we had just
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  Speaker 2: a heavy round of Canadian wildfires.
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  Speaker 3: It was all summer and the air.
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  Speaker 2: Kept blowing down here and we had terrible air quality
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  Speaker 2: all summer. It was weeks and weeks and weeks of this,
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  Speaker 2: but the worst day ever was this day in June
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  Speaker 2: when it was two thirty three. This morning in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: it was five sixty six. And that number pretty much
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  Speaker 2: held AirNow dot gov, which is part of the government.
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  Speaker 2: They've got measurements from the air monitor and quality stations
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  Speaker 2: that they have. They're all over the United States, so
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  Speaker 2: you can see these things tracked five sixty six, five
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  Speaker 2: sixty six for those of you who and again some
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  Speaker 2: of them are listening to this later, meaning depending on
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  Speaker 2: what direction you are, this is going to be blowing
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  Speaker 2: over toward you. It's just these there are these fires
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  Speaker 2: in northern Canada. The Canada doesn't put out anymore, and
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  Speaker 2: they start with greater frequency than they did in the
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  Speaker 2: past because liberals stop believing in forestry management.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same.
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  Speaker 2: Problem that we've seen in California with the wildfirest We've
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  Speaker 2: always had trees, we've always had drought, we've always had heat,
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  Speaker 2: and we've always had people who will recklessly start fires.
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  Speaker 3: The difference is we used to have in North.
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  Speaker 2: America forestry management, where there would be a constant clearing
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  Speaker 2: out and creation of fire lines down old brush, burning
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  Speaker 2: stuff out, controlled burns, lumberjacking, all of that, and the
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  Speaker 2: lefties just decided, no, no, no, we have to allow nature
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  Speaker 2: to take its course, and they stop doing these things.
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  Speaker 2: Canada has been run by radicals forever and ever and ever.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've lived in Wisconsin almost my entire life.
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall a day like this ever when I
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  Speaker 2: grew up in the Fox Valley, ever, and that those
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  Speaker 2: are back in the days in which we hardly had
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  Speaker 2: any air pollution laws mentioned on yesterday's podcast. I grew
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  Speaker 2: up across no paper bill. You should have seen the
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  Speaker 2: smoke stack off of that thing. There were two of them.
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  Speaker 2: I think one of them kicked out white smoke and
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  Speaker 2: another one kicked out black smoke. It was like we're
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  Speaker 2: constantly electing a pope. That's actually kind of funny. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the white smoke thing is, and why
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  Speaker 2: one was white and one was black. But the black
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  Speaker 2: smoke thing was constantly billowing out. We never had air
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  Speaker 2: quality like that. Two air purifiers, ones in the bedroom,
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  Speaker 2: ones in the living room. The one in the living
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  Speaker 2: room covers the dining rooms. Who it's a stronger one.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to cover twelve hundred square feet. I kept
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  Speaker 2: the doors in the windows closed. They did not open
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  Speaker 2: last night. These things were. They were freaking out. They
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  Speaker 2: just roared all night. The number that it was reaching
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  Speaker 2: was two thirty three. That's indoors. I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: same eaqy. I don't even know what that number is.
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  Speaker 2: Usually the thing doesn't run at all because the indoor
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  Speaker 2: quality is pretty good. All of this kind of rolled
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  Speaker 2: in late in the afternoon. I'm getting lots of dumb
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  Speaker 2: questions about this. By the way, Jason's from Illinois. They
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  Speaker 2: don't A lot of this stuff doesn't get down to Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: This one.
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  Speaker 2: Will you understand any of these things or do you
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  Speaker 2: have dumb questions about what's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: You pretty you pretty much understand them. Here's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: The winds shifted from the north. Usually in the summer
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  Speaker 2: we have a prevailing southern lay and usually southwesterly wind.
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  Speaker 2: Occasionally the lake generates some wind of its own and
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  Speaker 2: it comes off from the east, but primarily the winds
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  Speaker 2: are southern late and the jet stream, of course moves
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  Speaker 2: west to east, so usually this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't come down here.
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  Speaker 2: But there's been assist with this hot weather that we had,
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  Speaker 2: and now a new system moving in, there's been some
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  Speaker 2: north winds that have pushed this stuff south. It hit
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  Speaker 2: the up the upper Peninsula of Michigan a day before us,
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  Speaker 2: and the meteorologists we're all saying, there's smoke coming in,
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  Speaker 2: Smoke coming in, smoking coming in.
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those deals.
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  Speaker 2: Until something happens, you never assume it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: as bad as it is because and this is obviously
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  Speaker 2: worse than anything that we've ever had before. In the
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  Speaker 2: afternoon you noticed a little bit of haze that was
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  Speaker 2: out there. By seven o'clock at night, it was just extraordinary.
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  Speaker 2: And when I got up this morning, you walk it
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  Speaker 2: around inside the house in our building here, it smells
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  Speaker 2: like smoke. I walked outside, it smells like I'm standing
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  Speaker 2: right next to a fire. It just it's stench of smoke.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean the air what will happen now? If
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  Speaker 2: we get a westerly wind, it's going to blow this
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  Speaker 2: stuff east. When I looked at the AQI map right now,
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  Speaker 2: it's stretching into western Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 3: When this gets to New York, it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: all over the media.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee this. I haven't seen a single story about that.
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  Speaker 2: We have a Fox monitor on it here. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen a single story way till this gets to New York,
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  Speaker 2: and that's over them and suddenly they're going to.
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  Speaker 3: Discover this thing.
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  Speaker 2: There are serious points to be made about this, though,
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  Speaker 2: I'm confronting this last night, I'm thinking, what the hell,
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  Speaker 2: I may as well go outside and smoke a cigar.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what would be the downside of that? Walked
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  Speaker 2: outside lit up? It lit up itself. I have to
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  Speaker 2: explain that I'm making that up. I got fresher air
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  Speaker 2: with this inhaling the cigar smoke that I was inhaling
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  Speaker 2: the burnt trees that were coming down from Canada, you'd
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  Speaker 2: actually go, yeah, I did. Anyway, I'm in the medium
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  Speaker 2: range of sensitive to this stuff. I've got a ruddy
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  Speaker 2: nose in my eyes have been burning all day, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't have asthma or things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And those people are absolutely miserable. I mean people that
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  Speaker 2: are having I'm surprised they didn't shut everything down the
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  Speaker 2: way like government runs. They'll shut everything down like two
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  Speaker 2: days later when this is all started to clear out,
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  Speaker 2: but until they see it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, kids are out there and people are I mean,
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  Speaker 3: can you imagine working construction today. It's still pretty hot.
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  Speaker 2: There isn't as much sun because the sun is filtering
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  Speaker 2: through all of the smoke. That's down here and so on.
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  Speaker 2: Now there are serious points to make up be made
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  Speaker 2: about this. We are still under stringent air pollution laws
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  Speaker 2: that drastically raise our cost of living. We phased out
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  Speaker 2: coal power plants because of concern over the air pollution
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  Speaker 2: minimal as it now is with the scrubbers that those
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  Speaker 2: coal plants over air quality. In several counties here in
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  Speaker 2: eastern Wisconsin, we are still considered to be a non
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  Speaker 2: attainment area.
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  Speaker 3: For OH zone. Do you know where we are?
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  Speaker 2: Because of Chicago where you're from there, and the ozone
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  Speaker 2: often will cut. They'll blame auto emissions for it. But
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  Speaker 2: as I said, the prevailing wind is usually in the summer,
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  Speaker 2: more from the south. There's obviously dense automobile concentration in
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  Speaker 2: northeastern Illinois that blows on up. For example, Kiwane County,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know about door, but Kiwanee County, which
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  Speaker 2: is just south of Dora County on the Lake Michigan shoreline,
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  Speaker 2: they've been a non attainment area forever. Hardly anybody lives there,
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  Speaker 2: but it's all the pollution that's wafting on up in
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  Speaker 2: any event, Several of the counties in eastern Wisconsin are
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  Speaker 2: still under because we're a non attainment area for ozone,
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  Speaker 2: we have to do auto emissions, which is a huge
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  Speaker 2: pain in the ass. Republicans in Wisconsin have been trying
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  Speaker 2: to get this change that would require changing the Clean
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  Speaker 2: Air Act. Prump can't do it with an executive order
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  Speaker 2: because it's actually in federal law. And because most of
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  Speaker 2: the country isn't under one of these things, they don't
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  Speaker 2: much care about it. But it does require the people.
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  Speaker 2: Every two years and you get your auto registration, get
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  Speaker 2: an emissions test, very painless if you're passing. No, I
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  Speaker 2: generally have a newer car, so I always pass. The
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  Speaker 2: places are all over the place, all over because the
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  Speaker 2: used to be the state just random and those lines
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  Speaker 2: are forever. But now, I mean maybe not if you're
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  Speaker 2: in northern Wisconsin, but they're not under auto emissions. This
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  Speaker 2: is a car dealers having body shops have it. They
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  Speaker 2: all get paid a little bit by the state. They
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  Speaker 2: strap it up to a computer. You're in and out
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  Speaker 2: in about five minutes. But if you have an old beater,
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  Speaker 2: often you don't pass, and if you don't pass, you
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  Speaker 2: can't get registered. I did a segment about this a
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  Speaker 2: few months ago. There are The worker runs on this
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  Speaker 2: thing are notorious.
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  Speaker 3: One of them.
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  Speaker 2: You just get the car registered in the county even
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  Speaker 2: though you live here. That's illegal, but it's almost impossible
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  Speaker 2: to check. I mean, how would how would anybody really know,
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  Speaker 2: say you have a vacation home up north, registering up
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  Speaker 2: there that even the vehicle is down here. You're not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do that. But there are worker runs that
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  Speaker 2: are because this is an enormous thing. And to bring
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  Speaker 2: your car, if it's an old beater into compliance, it's
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  Speaker 2: often hundreds of dollars, thousands even it's a tremendous pain
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  Speaker 2: for the people who have cards like that, which is
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  Speaker 2: primarily lower income people. But we have this air quality,
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  Speaker 2: air quality, air quality. You know, in the average day
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  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, our air quality is like twenty five or
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  Speaker 2: thirty very good. Yeah, we still have all of these
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  Speaker 2: damn laws. You have lefties who have put in place
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  Speaker 2: all of these vehicle fuel emission fuel standards, fuel efficiency
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  Speaker 2: standards because they can't stand the so called pollution that
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  Speaker 2: comes from the SUVs. They screaming yell that people shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be using power lawnmoars all for what air quality? All
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  Speaker 2: the pollution we have all year might not e equal
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  Speaker 2: what's being puked into us from Canada today. And they're
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  Speaker 2: silent about this because Canada is run by lefties and
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  Speaker 2: they can't blame Canada. There's nothing corporate America is doing
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  Speaker 2: to cause this, Nothing anybody in an suv is doing
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  Speaker 2: to cause this. This is Canada and its inability to
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  Speaker 2: manage the forests that have been in Canada as long
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  Speaker 2: as he's been a planet. Now they'll try to dredge
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  Speaker 2: up this thing about somehow that this has something to
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  Speaker 2: do with climate change, which is just absolute hooey, because
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  Speaker 2: we've had droughts as long as we've had a client,
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  Speaker 2: long before this version of climate change came in place.
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  Speaker 2: We've had hot weather, we've had wind chings, all of
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  Speaker 2: these things have been in place. Yet what's going on
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  Speaker 2: now is a relatively new phenomenon. Maybe it happened back
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  Speaker 2: in the olden days before we had anything, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: hardly anybody lived here in the Western hemisphere. Maybe these
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  Speaker 2: things happened all the time, and want anybody ever to
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  Speaker 2: tell anything about it. But for most of my lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: this is a brand new phenomenon that is going on here.
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  Speaker 2: And in terms of the quality and the damage to
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  Speaker 2: people obviously breathing some of this year. I think with
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  Speaker 2: the people that are always afraid of getting all these
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  Speaker 2: illnesses and so on, running around with these masks, today
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  Speaker 2: would be a day to wear a mask, and in
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  Speaker 2: fact they're urging them for people with asm and other
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  Speaker 2: breathing conditions and so on. Plus these are carcinogens. You
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  Speaker 2: burn stuff that's a carcinogen, you're inhaling. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: would equate this to somebody that lived with a two
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  Speaker 2: pack of day chain smoker and inhaling all their second
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  Speaker 2: and smoke all day. It shows the folly of passing
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  Speaker 2: extreme legislation that drives up the automobile costs of regular Americans,
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  Speaker 2: drives up the cost of everything because of the compliance
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  Speaker 2: that's put on the utilities, makes us use more expensive
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  Speaker 2: and less efficient electricity generation like stupid solar because we're
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  Speaker 2: terrified call.
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  Speaker 3: When we have days like this that dwarf anything I checked.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Los Angeles still has I believe it's
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  Speaker 2: still the most congested city in the United States. I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe maybe Houston.
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  Speaker 3: Passed it up.
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  Speaker 2: You read those things that it's simply just so many
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  Speaker 2: people in there's only so many places that you can
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  Speaker 2: but roads, the freeways on the side of thing. The
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  Speaker 2: air quality index in Los Angeles City was like forty
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  Speaker 2: and forty five. There's only so much that smog could
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  Speaker 2: do to make the air quality bad.
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  Speaker 3: We five sixty six.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's worse when you're on water. But this is
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  Speaker 2: just this is like a storm system. It's just dwarfing
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  Speaker 2: the Midwest. And maybe it's a little bit higher in
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  Speaker 2: your water. But the first that got this were on
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  Speaker 2: the north and end of this and this you know,
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  Speaker 2: for those of you that are listening to me right
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  Speaker 2: after I'm doing the podcast yesterday in Marquette, Michigan, it
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  Speaker 2: was one thousand and six. That's like the cleanest part
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  Speaker 2: of the world. There is up in the up It's
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  Speaker 2: up by Lake Superior, thousand and six. They just have
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  Speaker 2: the misfortune. I'm being about the first ones that get
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  Speaker 2: the crap that comes south from Ottawa from Ontario. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see any of that. I don't think our government
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  Speaker 2: monitors year callity necessarily in Canada, but I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: see that because I'm guessing that most of this stuff
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  Speaker 2: is biped blown right away. There's still fires burning all
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  Speaker 2: over the place up there, California and Canada. They're the
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  Speaker 2: only two places in the Western hemisphere. They can't put
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  Speaker 2: out fires, California and Canada, and there's no accountability for it.
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  Speaker 2: The mayor of Los Angeles who couldn't put out any fires,
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  Speaker 2: she was the leading boat getterer in the mayoral primary.
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  Speaker 2: The Liberal Party in Canada, Trudeau has gone, but he's
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  Speaker 2: just been replaced by another Liberal they won the Canadian elections.
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  Speaker 2: There's no accountability for any of it at all, so
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  Speaker 2: there's no reason for them to change.
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  Speaker 3: But in the meantime, they.
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  Speaker 2: Will lecture people like me as being not caring about
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  Speaker 2: the planet or the environment.
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  Speaker 3: Let's move to this story.
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  Speaker 2: I was commenting earlier in the week about you know,
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  Speaker 2: this columnist for the Journal, James Quasi, had his car sold,
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  Speaker 2: and I predicted, you watch he's gonna suddenly become tough
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  Speaker 2: on crime. And there, like clockwork, comes the column in
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  Speaker 2: which he gets tough on crime. The old saying how
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: does someone become a conservative? Is just a liberal who
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: was mugged. Likewise, this story, this is a bad story,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to find a bright component in it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you about a three minute
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  Speaker 2: report from Fox. This is from yesterday when the story
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  Speaker 2: was developing. We have learned that Jack Smith, the special
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor that was investigating President Trump and his supposed misuse
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  Speaker 2: and abuse of the office J six and all of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff, we have now learned that he was reading
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  Speaker 2: the text messages of forty two members of Congress. This
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of thing that the lefties used to
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  Speaker 2: warn us about. This is big brother, this is the
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  Speaker 2: government spy, and in this case, they're spying on members
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  Speaker 2: of Congress. And the text that they were reading in
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  Speaker 2: most cases didn't have anything to do with the subject
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  Speaker 2: even of Trump, much less what Jack Smith was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be investigating. Anyway, there's about a three minute report
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  Speaker 2: here from Fox that includes a couple of members of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: and then you'll hear in this and I'm setting it
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  Speaker 2: up so you know what you're hearing because you can't
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  Speaker 2: see the video. Jack Smith was under given ad opposition
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  Speaker 2: from Congress several months ago, and he was asked, did
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  Speaker 2: you have any members of Congress's phone calls? That you
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  Speaker 2: have any members of Congress's text messages? And he said
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  Speaker 2: not to both questions.
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  Speaker 3: So let's pick this up and listen to about three
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  Speaker 3: minutes of of coverage yesterday from Fox News on Capitol.
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  Speaker 4: Hill the confirmation hearing underway for the Acting Attorney General
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  Speaker 4: Todd Blanche. Meanwhile, anger and outrage on the Hill as
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  Speaker 4: dozens of lawmakers learned former Special Counsel Jack Smith was
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: secretly reading the content of their personal text messages. Dozens
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: of lawmakers now while investigating President Trump. Twenty twenty two,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley announcing
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: plans to drag Smith back before the committee for a
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: public hearing, accusing him of running a rough shot over
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: the institution.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Smith's operation cut corners and blew through constitutional stop signs
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: instead of respecting them, and have been advised about the
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: constitutional problems. The White House message just obtained and reviewed
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: by Smith's team included communications with many Senators and representatives.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: The communications included messages with members on this committee, including
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: this senator. It also included other information irrelevant to Jack
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Smith's case against then citizen Trump. Instead of that information
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: being walled off, it was intentionally shared.
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  Speaker 4: All right now, Congression, of course, finding bill illusion lot
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  Speaker 4: the track today. Let's start with this bill.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, there, and Bill, good morning to you.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: As you mentioned, we are learning today that more than
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: forty members of Congress had their text messages scooped up,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: collected and read by former Special Counsel Jack Smith during
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: his probe of President Trump. And as you can imagine,
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: these lawmakers are not happy about it. Most of them
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: were Republican, but even a few Democrats were caught up
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: in this. So these revelations are coming to us after
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  Speaker 6: Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
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  Speaker 6: released these records yesterday, which he says were turned over
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: to his committee by the Department of Justice. Now, those
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: records reveal that forty four lawmakers had their text messages
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: with Trump administration officials in the final weeks of his
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: first presidency collected and read during Jack Smith's probe. And
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Republicans who were on that list are outraged.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: But first off, it's outrageous, it's disgusting.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: It she just shows you exactly what the bide administration was.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm pretty irritated.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I was irritated when I knew they were reading the
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: text messages members.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: I'm not allowed happier now that I know that.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: It's me and some Republicans that are now accusing Jack
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Smith of lying under oath. This is after he said
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: repeatedly during a December deposition with Congress last year that
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: his probe didn't collect text messages.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: The tool records that you requested from the senators, did
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: they include the content of with the phone calls? The
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: records she requested the toll records from the members of
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: Congress include the content of text messages?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: Senator Ran Paul, who had his text collected, reacted on
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: x singing in part quote December twenty twenty five. Jack
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Smith smore swore under oath that he didn't spy on
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: text messages belonging to members of Congress. Today new evidence
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: confirms he spied on dozens of members of Congress.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Myself included.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: This is a blatant abuse of power and exactly what
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: our founders warned about. Senator Josh Holly, who was also
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: on the list ads quote looks like perjury and back
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: out here live Bill. Two names you wouldn't expect to
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: see on the list who have had their text messages
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: collected as well. New Jersey Democratic Senator Corey Booker and
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: former Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass, who is now the mayor
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: of Los Angeles.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: All right, how's the report from Fox. These are private
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: text messages members of Congress were sending.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Jackson.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: None of them are under investigation for anything yet a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: special council appointed by Joe Biden's Department of Justice, they're
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: reading these text messages. I want you, just for a
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: moment to imagine that right now Trump's Justice Department was
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: reading the text messages of Elizabeth Warren, an AOC, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: a bunch of Democrat members of Congress. These no King's
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: people would be going ballistic, and even Republicans would be screaming,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: this is going too far.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: This is the environment of what was going on.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: During Biden, where you had a clueless president who wasn't
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a check on anything, and a leftist's staff that was
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: out of control. In the case of Smith, you may
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: be wondering why was he doing it? Well, let's imagine
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you're a cop. You can't get your hands on anything
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: that you want to look at. If you want to
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: break into somebody's house and see something, or if you
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: want to hack into somebody's phone, you need a search
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: warrant signed by a judge, and that search warrant itemizes
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: what you can look at, and it'll specifically say that
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: it has to be relevant to your investigation. So if
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: they get a search one for someone's phone and you
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: see something on there in which they're texting about some
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: party or something that you're not supposed to.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Read, that it's limited.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But would cops love to be able to see everything?
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Would they love to be able to look at things
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: without a ward?
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Of course they would.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: We'd solve a lot more crimes that we have protections
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: from citizens so that we don't have the government out
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: there snooping into our private lives without probable cause.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: That a crime has been committed.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And there is no probable cause of a crime with
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: regard to any of these members of Congress. By the way,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: there were two from Wisconsin, Brian's Style, the congresson from
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: southeastern Wisconsin, and Senator Around Johnson. I think those are
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: the only two, the only two I saw on the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: list anyway, So why were they doing it? He was
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: just Okay, I got this stuff. I know I'm not
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: supposed to be looking at it, but I got it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I think I'll look at it. Who knows what I'll find.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: This was the Environment that was in place. Let's charge
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump with this, Let's charge Donald Trump with that
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: once and there's an original sin here.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Once they created the.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Lie of Russian collusion, it justified and opened the door
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: for everything. Everybody from Mueller on down knew that there
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: was never any evidence of Russia collusion. It was made
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: up and it was put in a memo put together
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: by a Democrat law firm that was working on behalf
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: of Hillary Clinton. And that memo was for the purposes
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: of creating the cover to have an investigation of Trump
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: on Russia collusion, which was then reported this fact even
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: though it never occurred. So once that started, once that
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: total misbehavior occurred, it opened the door to say we
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: could do anything because it's Trump. But he didn't stop
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: with Trump. Now I said, there's a positive part of this.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Some of these members of Congress, and the guy, by
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the way, the guy who exposed this, the head of
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the Senate Oversight Committee is Grassley of Iowa. He's over
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: ninety and for some of the people who are concerned
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that there should be an age limited members of the
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Senate because of McConnell's problem and so on, Chuck Gradsley
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: has not lost a step. He's been a marauder in
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: running that committee, the Oversight Committee. He's been the one
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that's been exposing the abuses that were occurring during the entire.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Time that the Biden administration was in place.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: They've been using subpoena power to go in and get
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: their hands on stuff like this.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, a lot of.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: It takes a long time, and the media tends not
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to cover these abuses when they are brought up if
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the abuses are those in which the victims are Republicans.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But you've got guys like Grassley, some pretty powerful members
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of the Senate, say Ran Paul here, who's certainly not
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: been a big supporter of Trump. They're now on the
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: receiving end of the kind of kind of abuse that
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: has gone toward Trump and his supporters. Now they know
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: how the j six defendants feel. There were hundreds of people,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: some of whom were never even indicted on January sixth,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: who were at every element of their lives, investigated their
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: all their emails, read their text messages, read just because
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: they happened to be in DC that day.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: We hype that thing.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: And referred to a break in that was allowed to
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: happen when security was specifically not present, with agitators planted
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: in the crowd and a bunch of people seeing the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: doors open and decided to wander inside the building. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: we turned that into an insurrection because that became the
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: cover to then over investigate every one of the people
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that was involved. There's been a lot of people who
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: yowed it. Well, the Jay sixers, they have that coming,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: you know, Julizie who's coming in here from Iowa thinking
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: that they can come into the Capitol and so on.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Well, now.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: We have members of the Congress, a totally separate branch
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: from the executive that were on the receiving end of this.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: As I say, the.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Left would go crazy were this ever done. We back
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: in the sixties and the seven remember Watergate. I know
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: it's a long time, remember Watergate. There was legitimate outrage
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: over the activities of the Nixon administration in the spying
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that they were doing. It broke into the office of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the psychiatrist for Daniel Elsburg. Daniel Elsburg was the guy
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: who leaked the Pentagon papers, which included a lot of
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the dirt on what led up with the decisions that
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: were going on with regard to the Vietnam War.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: All he did was leak him.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: There was so determined to get dirt on him that
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: they broke into was psychiatrist's soft.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: People were horrified, and they should have been. Here was
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: a bad thing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: There was a time in which people and after all
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of that, the Church Committee held hearings on CIA abuses.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: People wanted to reign in the FBI. But now that
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: the entrenched establishment is leftists, they're perfectly fine with marauding
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: far beyond anything that ever went on in the past.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The lefties used to j Ugar Hoover, who had the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: FBI forever. He had a lifetime appointment. It's well known
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: that he had files and everybody spying that he wasn't
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: supposed to be doing. He had files on the Kennedy's,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: he had big files on Martin Luther King and his
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: opposed philandering and all this stuff and just about everybody.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: And he had it because he wanted to make himself
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: immune from ever being bumped out.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Of that office.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: He had stuff on everybody. When that was discovered, doors
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: as I say, legitimate outrage. Now the lefties are in power,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and the rationale from all of this is but it's
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: different because Trump is somehow evil.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: But now as we see, it went well beyond Trump.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Anything they could get their hands out of the meaning.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Jack Smith was the Special counsel for the Department of
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Justice of the United States. No on this thing, did
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: you ever have a Did you ever look at anyone
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: phone called?
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: No?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Do you ever look at any textbiths? No.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He may wheeze a lot out of this because most
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: of the stuff that we thought they had came from
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: these search forms for what's called the toll records, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: these may not have come from that search. It may
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: have come from another search. So they thought that they
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: were asking him, did you ever read any text? Me?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Jesus all together?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Because it wasn't known that he had access to anything
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: other than that first specific search, and that may be
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: his weaseling.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Out of this.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: But whether he committed perjury or not, if I've got
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: a search war and to investigate Jason for whatever the
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: hell it is that he's doing, I can't go rereading
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: text messages of frends he hits from nine years ago
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: that he was texting about Little League teams and then
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: using that to read every other text.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: That he can't do that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: You can in a dictatorship you can in a kingdom,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and that's what we had in this country under Biden.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Another story for you. Back in May, I did a
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: few segments on the podcast and a phenomenon that's been
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: going on that I've referred to as gen Z going
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: back to church. This story came out of nowhere, but
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: there have been anecdotal reports some all over the country
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: of significant and increases in the last year.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Or so.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Of people between say nineteen and twenty four suddenly showing
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: up and end mass, attending Catholic Mass. It hasn't just
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: been Catholic Mass, but this is where it's been reported
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the most New York City, some churches that hardly ever
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: had any young people and suddenly they're.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Packing the pews.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: And I've been commenting on this phenomenon because it's I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: certainly didn't see it coming, and it seems to have
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: been coming out of nowhere. Since we did those reports,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: there have been other stories that have come in that
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: indicate this isn't happening in rural America. It's not happening
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: in small towns. It only seems to be happening in
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: the big cities and the university campuses. In other words,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: it appears to be only the affluent component of gen Z.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Now I've theorized, you know, each generation as certain areas
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: in which it's radically different than the one before, and
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the Millennials are the most non.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Religiou generation ever.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: The law of these gen zs who feel this incredible
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: sense of emptiness, and they're the ones who were most
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: betrayed by institutions. They were the ones that were lied
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: to about COVID, they were the ones that had to
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: attend virtual classes, their proms were canceled, all for something
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: that was total bs that they have not had the
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: same faith and leftist institutions. In the meantime, many of
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: these people who were raised without any religion at all
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: are figuring that there's got to be some greater meaningful.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Life and they've been open to this message.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Little story here that a listener set me the piggybacks
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: at all of this.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: UW. Madison, which I mean it probably has to be
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: one of.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: The most hedonistic universities in the United States of America.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: There's a law, I mean, Berkeley's up there.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: When you think though, of lefty universities, Madison's near the top.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Harvard Yale, m Stanford, Madison, Berkeley. It is what it
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: is they have and they've had for years.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Almost all major universities will have a Catholic church on
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: or adjacent to the campus to serve the campus community.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: In Madison, it's.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Called Saint Paul's. This is from the newsletter that they
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: sent out.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: And again I got this because Alstitor said it to me,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And I'll give you a little bit of background. The
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Easter vigil in the Catholic Church is celebrated the Saturday
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: night before Easter Sunday. In most religions, the actual holiday
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: is believed to begin, you know, at sundown the night before.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: So there's a big mass that's held on the eve
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: of Easter. It's longer than a regular mass. It's like
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: three hours where they do numerous Bible readings and so on.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: It's also the mass in which everybody who converted to
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: the Catholic faith during the past year they go through
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: courses in training and all that during the year that
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: they're brought into the church.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: And baptized at the Easter vigil.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Or people who were perhaps baptized baptized Protestants, baptized something
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and then fell away from the Church, that they convert
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: over to Catholicism or baptized as Catholic but never did
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: anything with it, and confirmed they do all of those
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: things in the Easter vigil light. This newsletter indicates that
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: one hundred students were confirmed into the Catholic Church this
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: past Easter vigil at UW. Madison's church.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: One hundred. The average parish there's like five or six.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: One hundred, And the letter mentions that of those, forty
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: four of them were total conversions to Catholicism, including twenty
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: seven baptisms, So twenty seven of these people had no
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: religion at any point at all.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: They weren't even baptized.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I have no idea if this trend is going to continue.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I have no idea if these people who are suddenly
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: rediscovering church are going to keep going, or if it's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: just a trend and a fat and we'll start doing
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: something at some other point in time. And I still
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: haven't fully come up with an explanation for the fact
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: that it's going on and it's not being widely covered
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: by the media because it's not a trend that I
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: think that the media is comfortable with. I think what
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: you're seeing with gen Z unlike the millennials. And the
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: thing of the millennials is the traits that were ascribed
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: to the millennials they really held across that group. There
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: were very few Millennials that were different from the rest
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: of the millennials. I think gen Z's going off in
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: two directions, and we saw this with regard to the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Trump election. Trump won the under twenty five vote in
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the United States and he won big the college campus
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: under twenty five vote, under twenty two vote. I shouldn't
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: said twenty five twenty two. We see that some of
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the older of the gen zs they weren't buying into this,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: but some of the younger ones were moving toward more
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: traditional lives. We're seeing some indication that some of the
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: gen zs are marrying earlier and starting families earlier. But
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: I think that there's another branch of gen Z that
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: are even more to the left than say the millennials.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: In other words, I think that there's a divide in
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: that generation. And maybe the weirdest thing is that it
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: seems that the more affluent urban of the younger gen
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Zs are those that are more embracing traditional values, while
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the more rural, small town gen zs non college haven't
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: embraced it at all. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get up to speed on the Democratic
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: governor's election in Wisconsin.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: The elections in a month. We all know the background.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Sarah Rodriguez, the lieutenant governor who got anointed by the
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Democratic establishment.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: They forced two other.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Of the non radical candidates out of the race, hoping
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: that all of their supporters would go get behind Sarah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: that Sarah becomes the hope of the party to stop
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the Marxist front runner Francesca Hang and the guy that
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: none of them likes. Scandal plagued Mendela Barnes. So right
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: after all of this happens, we learned that there was
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: a scandal going on within Sarah Rodriguez's own campaign. The
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: campaign contributions that she was indicating that she had the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: number was a fiction and it was off by a
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: factor of five. What her campaign manager was doing is
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: if somebody made a donation, they counted it like five
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: separate times and reported it five separate times to fatten
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the number. This was caught fortunately before they made their
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: campaign finance filely.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Because if you do that's a crime.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: But this were These were the internal numbers that they
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: had and the numbers that the campaign was operating on
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: the basis of Rodriguez fired her campaign manager, Kara Spencer.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: But the whole thing has just stopped hermomeddum. It makes
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: her look completely and Sarah Rodriguez a completely inept And
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: first of all, it indicates that she has no support
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: at all. She only has two hundred thousand dollars in
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the big So this is the anointed Democratic candidate for governor.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: She didn't have any money. Secondly, why was the campaign
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: manager doing it? My guess is she was doing it
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: to cover up for the fact that she wasn't raising
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: any money and was trying to mislead Sarah.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Now I don't know what the endgame on this is.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: It reminds you of the people that you know on
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: the UH.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I hear these stories, especially in Florida all the time,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: and these people that do online dating. Somebody who put
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: on a photo of themselves and it's like thirty years old,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: or sometimes it's not even them, and then they'll lie
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and they claim that they have this and that out
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: of this boat and all this money, and then you
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: meet the guy and instead of being like a virile,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: good looking, tall guy like me, it's some short, slumpy
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: guy who's driving a bad car and doesn't have any money.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Oh you know.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm just always thinking, what's their plan here? If
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you lie and lie and lie when you actually meet
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: the woman, she's just gonna be And I'm by the
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: way I hear it works even more with guys. These
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: are just things I pick it up. You don't have
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: to know anything about these things, do you, Jason, No,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: you're married anyway. This is what goes on. And my
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: thought it is, I just don't understand the strategy. Because
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: if you tell her that you're tall and your good
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: lay and then you got to meet somewhere in there,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: she's seeing it and here you are, this schlump, her
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: reaction is just gonna be a he's a liar, but
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: be total disappointment. I think, if anything, you would want
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: to undersell yourself so that she kinks in and is
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: shocked and surprised and he's like, oh my god, this
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: guy's actually way better than I thought. Now I know
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: that you know the online thing, you still have to
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: convince the person to go out the first time.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: So they lie and lie to do that. But let's
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: imagine it works. What do you think you're being able
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: to do? Just bullshit your.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Way through it? After it's not gonna pay off for you.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: There's no upside to it. So for Kara Spencer, the
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: campaign manager for Sarah Rodriguez, she knew she had a
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: turn in this campaign finance report and if she reported
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: the multiple donations, everybody would have seen them. It would
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: have been a crime. So at some point this truth
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: was gonna come out.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: It makes Sarah look terrible, and in indition to the
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: fact that it was proving that she wasn't raising any money. Okay,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: what's not there? What are you not seeing? I don't
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: worry if you don't know what it is you're not seeing.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you Brennan and Royce, who probably right
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: now are the four and five candidates in terms of
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: chances of winning. Rodriguez is number three, but falling fast.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Received leader board right now is Hong Barnes. Rodriguez was
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: thought to be number three when she was annointed, but
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: she's probably slipping to four or five. And you know,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Brennan and Roys are fighting at it for four and five.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: So Brennan and Roy's are.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Attacking Sarah, attacking Sarah, attacking Sarah, what are they not doing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: They're not attacking friend Chesla Hong, They're not attacking Mandela Barnes.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: They're the ones that are winning. The only candidate that's
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: going to emerge out of this.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Pack of the non Hong, non Barnes candidate is going
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: to be the one that takes the two of them
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: on and goes after them, so that the voters in
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party who aren't nuts in other words, not Marxists,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: so they wouldn't back Hong and also want to win.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: So then I got to back a loser like Mandela Barnes.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: They will know who it is has the willingness to
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: actually stand up for democratic values and take on these
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: two people. But instead there's Brennan and Roy's picking on
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Sarah Rodriguez over this, over the fact that she's running
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: an campaign. What you do not see them doing is
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: they will not get up and say I'm not a Marxist,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Francesca hang Is, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin is not
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: a bunch of communists like this woman over They won't
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: say that, and they won't say Mendela Barnes's personal life
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: as a shambles. First of all, he's running around using
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: his middle name because it makes him sound good. Secondly,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: he's had more personal scandals than the average issue of
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: the National Inquirer. He still hasn't explained why it was
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: they needed to be shoffered around for two years by
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: a state trooper as he brought him home to Madison
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: every day, and why he wasn't able to drive his
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: own car. He's deadbeating his property taxes. He was in
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: a conflict of her association dues and his condo, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Tony Evers didn't.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Much like him. They've not gone after him.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: So they're picking on a candidate who has no chance
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: of winning because as I and I keep pointing this
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: out with regard to these people say there's a war
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: going on within the Democratic Party, there's not a war.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: The radical left wing of the party is taking over
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: that party and the mainstream isn't fighting back. And if
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: they were fighting back, you, for example, Joel Brennan, who's
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: probably the most electable of the five and the most
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: mainstream of the five, he will not get up and
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: fight against Francesca Hang And it's because regular old mainstream
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Democrats are woosified whims that are terrified of the left
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: wing of their own party, terrified of them, and if
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: they're not going to engage him, you know what's going
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: to happen, and they're going to lose.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Another story, the story that I'm about to share with
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: you is pathetic. It's Waukershaw County and the problem is
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: that the court system in Waukashaw County. And the problem
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: with the court system in Waukershaw County is that, well,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: there's a number of very good judges over there, there's
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: a couple that are terrible. They're both retiring as of
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: right now this summer, but unfortunately they're both being replaced
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: by Tony Evers' appointees. Those two appointees are both being
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: challenged in the next April general election.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Nonetheless, the case that we have here is a case
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: that's men in the courtroom of one of the bad
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: judges in Waukeshaw County, Ralph A. Ramirez. The story deals
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: with the case that happened a year ago, and that's
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: my key.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Last year, in July of last year, there was a
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: fatal crash in o'conomwalk in which a man in his
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: eighties was killed.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: He was driving a tractor.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you hit How do you hit
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: a tractor? Seriously, how do you hit a tractor? If
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Sometimes as you'll see the tractors driving in the middle
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: of the road and they go real slowly and they
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: got the stickers that are on the thing, usually drive
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: it off to the shoulder. I don't know if he
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: was on the road or on the shoulder, but guy
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: who was drunk crashes into it and kill the man
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: and he flees the seed. So you have a hit
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: and run fatal. The guy's name is Matthew Brennecke. As
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: I said, this happened last year. In fact, almost exactly
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: a year ago today, I'm doing this podcast on sixteenth.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: This was July fourteenth of last year. He is still
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: free on bail. Now you need to follow me as
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: I go through the story. I don't worry, I won't
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: take up too much time. I know exactly what's going
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: on here. Let's imagine you've done something that when you're
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: convicted you know is going to result in prison time,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: and you're free on bail. In the interim, you have
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: every incentive to run the clock as long as you
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: possibly can because you don't want to go to jail.
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: And there's very strategies that you use.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: And I've done so many segments on this and every
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: one of them is in the file that.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: You see here.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: One of them is you keep changing lawyers, because what
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: happens every time you change lawyers in Ulla. Well, I
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: need to come in and I need a few months
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: to review the case. Now, when Bredeckie was arrested, he
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: was they did actually set a proper cash bail for him.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: David Hering, who's one of the poorer court commissioners in
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Walker Sharconne, who had make fun of all the time,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: actually did slap one hundred thousand dollars cash on this guy.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: And cash bond means you got to come up with
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: the cash. But and I acknowledge that this is one
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: of the big problems with regard to the whole bond system.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: For some people, one hundred thousand dollars is impossible to post.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: For others, it's okay, I'll put up one hundred thousand.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I got it, he had it, he posted it, he's out.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: And now this case gets dragged out and dragged out,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: and I could go through all of the court filings
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: here for a while he had. I mean, I'll go
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: through the names of some of the lawyers. Pablo Gelavis,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: who manages to become the court appointed lawyer from the
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Public Defender's Office in a lot of cases.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: He's got the case.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Now, but he's just the latest in a long line
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: of lawyers that are stretching this thing out and stretching
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: this thing out, and stretching this thing out. Go all
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: the way back to the beginning of this. I believe
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: there was a lawyer named Nimmer who had this initially. Yeah,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Amanda Nimmer was his attorney when he made his first
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: appearance July eighteenth.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: She asked for discovery.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: I asked for discovery means I want certain evidence turned
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: over and I don't have this.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: I need more time to review it. Blah blah blah
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: blah blah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: And the meantime, the guy is sitting out, sitting out,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: sitting out, sitting out, sitting out. Let's give a random
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: deed here to indicate how this is being dragged out.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: As I said, he was charged, arrested in charge in July.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: This is October first of last year, Attorney Amanda Nimmer
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: in court with Matthew Brennecke.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Defense requested the matter be adjourned to allow time to
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: review discovery.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: So another discovery is you turn over all this stuff. Now,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: the lawyer asks for an adjournment because I need time
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: to look it all over. Some judges don't allow this,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: but Ralphie Ramirez is in this case and he's all
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: consider about the defendant's rights, and okay, the lawyer needs
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: this time to review, needs this time to In the meantime,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: you've got a guy who killed somebody, hit and running fray.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Now when they release them, they have all these restrictions
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: that they put in place. You can't do this, you
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: can't do that, you can't contact anybody, you can't rank
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: you absolute total sobriety, you can't use drugs, et cetera, etcetera, etcetera. Well,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: here's Bretticky out there by the way, he's from Dausman.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: He's free.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: The case then moves into this year, and suddenly Amanda
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Nimmer says, I'm withdrawing from the case. Did he fire
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: or did he say that he wanted a new lawyer
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: or was he not paying his bill? Could be any
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: of those things. But here's the incentive to pay the
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: lawyer a bill for a while and then stop paying
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: and sayaturay more money, because it starts the whole clock over.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: And now you can request a public defender, and that's
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: another several months while that lawyer comes up to speed.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: This scams had played again and again and again and
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: again and again.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: And often it's played in Waukershaw Code. You may be
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: wondering why I'm bringing this up. Now, guess who just
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: got arrested Matthew Bretdecke.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Drugs. According to the Wakershaw Freeman, he was charged with
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: one count of possessing cocaine, drug paraphernalia and of course
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: bail jumping.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Bail jumping because he's violating the terms of the bail
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: by having the cocaine, not to mention the fact that
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: they caught him with cocaine. So here's a guy, he's
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: been out for the this year, he's still breaking the law,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: and one of the laws that he's breaking is also
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: a violation of the terms of his veil. So what
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: do you figure they're doing. They just set another bail
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: for him. Now back to David Herring, he sets the
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: cash bail at fifty thousand. Remember this guy already posted
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: one hundred, So now even though he's violated the terms
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: of his release with a pretty big one, not only
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: not maintaining absolute sobriety but actually using coke, they slap
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: another fifty k at him.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: Now, the good news this just happened.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: The good news is, as of this morning when I checked,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: he's still in the jail.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: So he hasn't come up with the fifty thousand yet.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe somebody gave him one hundred thousand on the first
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: one and now they're not, or he's just gonna need
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: a few days to do it. But in the meantime,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: he now has the new charge and the other case
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: is still just sitting there. I need more time to review.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Let's see what the most recent excuse is for Yeah,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: March thirtieth of this year. The court address is the
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: withdrawal of Attorney Nimmer. So Nimmer was the lawyer for
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: nine months and then suddenly she's not the lawyer anymore.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: And Bredicky's laughing his way, and there's ralphal Verraz up there,
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: and the court's addressed is RALPHL.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: Ruru.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, you we need to give the new lawyer
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: more time. And you know I'm going to be off
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: the bench and August, and there's only so much more
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: time in which I could be a joke of a
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: judge her. And that all happened.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: By April twenty seventh, Pablo Galibi's tromps in here defense
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: requests the matter be adjourned to allow time to review discovery.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: So now the new lawyer is going to take the
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: two months to review the discovery that the other one
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: did last year. They ended up making him forth before
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: he got arrested in the cocaine he had a four
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: for three thousand dollars of the bond because of an
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: earlier bond violation. This is before he was arrested on
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: the cocaine charge.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Nothing new. So I guess Pablo Violet Glavis, who just got.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Somebody off on an attempted murder case that I talked
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: about earlier in the week, he's taken more time reviewing
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: the discovery here And here's Brennicky as I say, he
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: is now in jail unless he can come up with
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: the fifty thousand dollars and if he posts it, he's
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: out again. On the podcast, Wednesday, I addressed an issue
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: that I am making relevant in the election for Waukershaw
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: County Sheriff, which is next month. The incumbent Sheriff Severson
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: is retiring. He's not running for reelection. There are two
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: candidates to replace him. I find it personally outrageous that
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the state
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin, in one from a rather affluent area, Waukeshaw County,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: does not yet have body cameras. There are some of
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: the smallest communities in America. The office is of body caers,
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: but the Gukashaw County Sheriff's Department does not have body cameras.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: The outgoing sheriff Seversity has simply not required them because
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: he says, I don't have the funding for it. When
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: you say you don't know the funding, it's because you
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: haven't prioritized that above something else you spend the money on.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: He has ripped the county board for not providing specific
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: funding for the bodycams. So in the meantime, Waukeshaw County
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Deputies still they're not a bodycams.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: There are two.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Candidates running for the position. One is an insider, the
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: other is an outsider. The inside candidate is currently a
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: captain in the Sheriff's department.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: His name is Nick Olinger. The outside candidate is John G. Schmeider.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: He was for the longest time a police officer in Glendale,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: became supervisor. He's a trainer for officers and so on.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: He's not involved in private business, but he has long
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: law enforcement expertise, but not from inside that department.
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: Both have a lot of endorsements, and.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: It's interesting that a lot of the people who are
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: officials in Waukeshaw County are not supporting the inside candidate Islnger,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: but in factor supporting Geeshmeider. I don't have any enough
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: insight to tell you who I think the best candidate is,
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: but I put a challenge out to them. I asked
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: both of them yesterday to respond to my question, do
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: you commit that all patrol officers? In other words, I'm
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: not requiring that inside officers have body cams, but all
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: of those that are outside doing patrol type duties be
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: equipped with body cams by the end of twenty twenty seven.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: I didn't allow any kind of hedging. Do you commit
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: to this or not?
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: And I said, I preferred responses in writing, because I
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: didn't want to simply come back and say what the
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: individual said. I want to have the actual piece of
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: pay paper in front of me so I can hold
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: them to it. In no particular order, I'm going to
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: share the responses. The first is Nickolinger. He's the insider,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: He's a captain within the Sheriff's department, and he's endorsed
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: by the outgoing sheriff, Sheriff Severson.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Mark.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: My initial response to you was to quickly let you
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: know that how supportive I am of body worn camera
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: technology and my level of commitment to attaining them. I
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: would like to expound on that further by detailing to
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: you and your audience that I have spent the better
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: part of twenty twenty six researching and beta testing possible vendors,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: speaking with departments that have different vendors, and working with
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: the Wakashaw County Department of Administration to allocate funding to
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  Speaker 2: make this.
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  Speaker 3: Priority of reality.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud to let you know that as we sit
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: here today, funding for body warren cameras to outfit one
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: hundred percent of our uniform deputy division is included in
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty seven budget that will be presented to
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the County Executive and County Board later this year for approval.
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  Speaker 2: I look forward to having support from County Board supervisors
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  Speaker 2: to pass or propose budget. If it in fact passes,
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  Speaker 2: I will on day one. I will act on day
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  Speaker 2: one to obtain outfit train and distribute the bodywarn cameras
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  Speaker 2: to our uniform division. That's the colleger. All right, let
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: me comment on his answer first. I interpret that answer
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  Speaker 2: as no. He did not say by the end of
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: the year every one of these deputies on. He has said,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: if I get funded from the County Board, they will
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  Speaker 2: have them. I don't know if the County Board is
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: going to fund it. The County Board has not funded
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: them yet. The county executive position, this is now a
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: vague gray area. Paul Farrow has passed away. His administrative
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: office has put it in the executive budget. There's an
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: acting county executive that is going to be in the
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: County Board chairman. So there's kind of a I think
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: the executive budget will simply be submitted since there isn't
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: an actual executive in there to tweak it, meaning it's
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: going to go to the County board and they were
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: going to act out it and they're not. I am
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: certainly glad that I'll in. Youre as a huge fan
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: of this, and he's pushing hard to get the funding
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: for it, but it isn't at one hundred percent absolutely yes,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: he's not saying that if they don't get funding approved
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  Speaker 2: that he's going to do it, which would mean that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they've got a big, huge budget in there.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: They buy guns, they have staffing, and the sheriff has
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: discrettioned it over how he spends a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of his money.
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  Speaker 2: They're looking for a special new allocation for the body
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  Speaker 2: cams and I think they should get it, but if
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: they don't, he's not committed to doing it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: This is the answer from Jieschmeider, the other candidate, mister Bellin,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your inquiry and the opportunity to answer
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: this important question. The answer is yes, I fully support
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: body Warren cameras and will make their implementation one of
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: my highest priorities as the next Wakershaw County Sheriff. My
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: goal is to have body Warren cameras deployed to all
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: patrol deputies and investigators by the end of twenty twenty
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: seven a few points regarding my position, and he's disappointing
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: that the Waukershawkonnte Sheriff's Department remains one of the few
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement agencies in southeastern Wisconsin that has not implemented
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  Speaker 2: body Warren cameras. Even some of the count these smallest
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: police departments have found practical and affordable ways to deploy
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: the technology. I'll interject right now, that is a good point.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: You have small police departments in Walkershaw County that have
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: body camped with a big agency. The Sheriff's department does not.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll blame the sheriff for not this is me
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: now prioritizing this, but I especially blame the county government,
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: particularly the County Board, for not allocating special funding for this.
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  Speaker 2: That county spends a lot of money on.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: A lot of crap.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: I'll get back now to Geeschmeter's answer. If they can
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: do it, so can the Sheriff's department. He's referring again,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: if small police agencies can do it, so can the
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: s Sheriff's department. To my knowledge, neither the county executive
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: nor the County Board has ever received a formal budget
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: request from the sheriff's department seeking funding for a body
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: worn camera program. Let me interject the other candidate Elanders
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: saying that we're submitting it this year. Now this candidate here,
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Gieschmeider are saying that in the past there's never been
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: a request for a specific appropriate for it. Again, the
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: sheriff who's been and currently still is the sheriff Severson.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: He's not running for election. I don't know that you
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: could hold Olajer responsible directly for Severson's priorities and not
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: continuing while discussing regarding body worn cameras have been going on.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Discussions regarding body worn cameras have been going on with
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: the department for some time. No comprehensive implementation plan has
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: yet been presented to county.
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  Speaker 3: Leadership or the public.
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  Speaker 2: If a luck that, I will aggressively pursue every reasonable
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: funding option available, including state and federal grant opportunities and
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: other funding sources, while also reviewing the Sheriff's department budget
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: out for efficiencies that could help support implementation.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: If funding does.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: Not initially allow for every deputy and investigator to receive
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: an individual assigned camera, I would support a phase the
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: implementation many departments successfully utilize shared body worn cameras that
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: deputies check out at the beginning of each shift, providing
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: an affordable entry point while expanding the program over time.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Let me interject saying here is you know, let's imagine
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: somebody's on from eight to four, when he leaves, he
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: leaves his body camera, and somebody on the next shift
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: four to twelve, and I think they have different howords there,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: but that they would wear them rather than assign you know,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: like the guns that assigned to each deputy, and each
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: police officer has their own gun. They're saying, if we
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: can't get funding for all of this, I would have
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: them swap out and they would share the body anyway.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Continue every body warn. Cameras protect everyone involved. They protect
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  Speaker 2: our deputies from false or malicious complaints, provide objective evidence
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: during investigations, enhanced transpiracy, strengthen public confidence, and ultimately protect
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: the citizens of Wakashaw COUNTI. While implementation and ongoing operating
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: costs must be carefully managed at and not believed costs
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: to continue to be the reason the Waukershaw County Sheriff's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Department remains behind many of our neighboring agency. My commitment
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: is to make body warren cameras of reality, and I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: will do everything with my authority as sure of to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: accomplish that goal. And then he cites other things with
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: regard to his campaign. I will know that in his answer.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: I consider that answer to be no as well. He
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: did not say he will guarantee that they will all
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: have body worn cameras by the end of twenty twenty seven.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: He did say I strongly support them, and I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do everything on my damn power to get them,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: and if I can get the county board to fund them,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going to look forever the option that we can,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: and I'll try to share them. So I certainly think
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: that that is a strong answer, but it's not. Neither
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: of them gave me an absolute yes. So if whichever
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: one of them is elected, if they don't have the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: bodyworm camera, but at the end of next year twenty
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: twenty seven, I can't go back and say that they
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: said that they were going to do it, because neither
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: guaranteed that they would, but both guaranteed that they're going
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: to work like hell to get it done, and both
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: indicated they strongly supported which is certainly I would say fair,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: very good, but neither of them gave me an absolute
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  Speaker 2: yes to the way that I put the question, and
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: I put my question as specific. One of the things
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: I point out all the time is people think they're
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: hearing something when they're not. Politicians are very good answering
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: questions the way they want to answer them, and I
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: tended therefore, if I put a question, and this is
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: the reason I wanted the responses.
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  Speaker 3: In writing, enter their credit.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Both candidates did respond in writing, and they both responded promptly.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: I asked yesterday, and I asked it to be given
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: to me today in time for today's podcast. I asked
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: a precise, no wiggle room answer, will they have them
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: by the end of the year, Because if I asked,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: will you support, that's vague. Anybody can support anything. I
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: can support flapping my wings and fly into the moon.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: But I did think both answers are certainly very very good,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: and they're both on the correct side of the issue,
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  Speaker 2: but neither fully committed that even if they don't get
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: the money from the county board to actually do it.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: One other quick point in this there are a lot
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: of issues that would go on in an election like this,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope the people at walker Show County are
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: paying attention, and it particularly those that no people are
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: supporting one of the other of them. I'm not in
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: a position to windors either of them. I think probably
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: both are really really good candidates for the position.
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  Speaker 3: But I see my role.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: As pushing on this side. Everything else in our institutions
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: pushes people to the left. I try to push from
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: the right, and on the issue of the body cams,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: I think, as I said yesterday, they and DNA are
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: the two biggest pro law enforcement advances of this century
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: that we're in the twenty first century, in other words,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: since two thousand.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: Those will be the biggest two. I think DNA is
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: number one.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: But having the body worn cameras, which have turned out
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: not to be something that's been a problem for law
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: enforcement other than a few rare cases. They've vindicated law enforcement,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: probably got in law enforcement officers to behave better and
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: have done a wonderful job exposing the behavior of all
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: sorts of idiots, many of whom end up on YouTube
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: and get shamed for life with their idiotic, awful, outrage
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: just behavior. They become a tremendous pro law enforcement tool.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: That have gone a long way to increase support for
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: law enforcement and give people an indication of the kind
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: of crap.
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  Speaker 3: Oh she's back. How long has she been back? Do
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: you have a monitor in there?
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's coming back today, our press secretary. But Caroline
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Lovett is giving the briefing there. She had her baby
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: at all of that. I can't say that I've been.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Around for all of them, but all of those.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: The last one I remember doing briefings was Ron Ziegler,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: which was Nixon, and he had the hardest shot. The
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: media hated Nixon and he was you know, he was
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: doing them during Watergate. Of all the people that I mean,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: I remember most of them, Jody Powell and them for Carter,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: all the people that had done briefings for presidents. I
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: think she's the best, don't you. Dana Perina was really
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: good for she did Bush for a while. Reagan had
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: some really good ones. Tony still has got I just
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: think she's the best. First of all, she's dealing with
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: the most open Trump. Trump One's first Kaylee Mcananey, who
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: was the press secretar and Trump termed number one, she
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: was really really good too.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: I just think Caroline is just.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Insanely well insanely well prepared. She's just one of these
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: like females that's able to multitask or entire anyway, I
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: see her up there giving the briefing in Oh good,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: she's back.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: And all the.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: Guys that were doing the briefing in the end, you know,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: they would bring it in like Rubio would do it
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: one day, Vance would do it another and then'd be
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: some other assistant and so on, and anyway.
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  Speaker 3: She's back in there.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: All right, you're listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling Podcast. A little ps the last segment.
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  Speaker 2: I think we can all agree without regard to who
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: the best presidential press secretary was. And here I'm referring
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  Speaker 2: here only in the area of doing the briefings, not
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: the other duties of the job, because I don't know
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: how the administration.
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  Speaker 3: And be in the boss and so on.
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  Speaker 2: That the worst person, I mean, is there anybody who
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  Speaker 2: would disagree that the worst ever was Karine John Pierre
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  Speaker 2: For Biden, she was the absolute I understand she had
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: a terrible job. She's got to be up there trying
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: to tell people Joe Biden's not seen now, she's got
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: to be defending, you know, inflation was exploding out of control.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: This was the time the gas prices went up, the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: rough Biden's walking around the wrong way with drool coming.
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, she had a very supportive, soft,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: mean media.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 2: The only guy they would ever ask her, the guy
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: from Fox A, Peter Deucy, would ask her tough questions.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: She's just I admit it's a tough job, but she
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: was just terrible at it. She's she'd have that bider
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: out there and she'd read some prepared answer that probably
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: she didn't even write for herself, and often it wasn't
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: evendirectly related to the question that she was being asked.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: And then after Kama La Lucy, she gets up there,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: I'm quitting the Democratic Party, doing everything in her power,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: then to blame everybody else for her failure. I hope
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Argentina wins the World Cup again. We're doing this podcast
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: on Thursday. The finalist Sunday, Argentina plays England. I hope
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: Argentina wins. Prior to this point, other than casually paying
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: attention to how long the United States was in it,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: I've paid very little attention.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: I usually in the past in the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Right around now is when I pay attention. And even
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: though it's in the United States, says year, I was
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: watching like none of these games, but the two semis.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm okay, I paid attention. I knew who
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: the final four were. I knew France is playing span
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: I knew England was playing Argentina, and I know who
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  Speaker 2: won each of the last two games.
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  Speaker 3: And I watched the game yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I am certainly not a soccer expert, but anybody can
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: analyze that game. England dominated the You know, it's ninety
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: minutes plus the added time, and you're never sure exactly
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: how then they put in how much added time there is,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: but that's never exact. But so the first seventy minutes
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: of the ninety minute game, England that totally dominated the game.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: I'd say sixty minutes, they scored a goal, and they
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: controlled the temple with the game. And for the last
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: thirty minutes the ball was in the Argentinians hands and
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: the Argentinians were on the attack.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't barely.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Recall during that last thirty minutes England have any goal
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: scoring opportunities. The ball was just always on the other
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: end of the field, and it was explained that the
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: English coach pulled all of his attackers the players had
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: specialized scoring, and put in extra defenders that he essentially
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: tried to fill the box. On defense, I guess in
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: comparison to American football, you would describe this as maybe
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: a prevent defense, where you do everything that can to
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: stop them from scoring and don't do anything that would
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: be on the attack and so on. Well, the end
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: result of this was Argentina just kept attacking and attacking
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: and attacking and attacking and attacking, and they never really
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: had to go the full length of the field with
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: any of the attacks, because when England was not doing
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: nothing to advance the ball, they were just trying to
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: stop Argentina from scoring. And Argentina scored one goal. And
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: I know this some hockey. If you're behind, and you
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: are you a hockey fan from chicag you're probably black hocky.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: I've just seen again. I'm a big fan of the
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin women's hockey team and followed them for years, and
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: when you're behind in a game by say a goal,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: and you tie it up, it's just uncanny to me
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: how quickly you score another wedding. You've noticed that in hockey,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: haven't you. It's just momentum and the other team is
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: on its heels or whatever.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: It just happened.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: Argentina scored the first goal that tied it up at
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: one one, and five minutes later they.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: Had the second one.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: In both cases, Messi made great assists, and in soccer,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: the assist getting the ball to the guy and physician
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: to score is as important as the goal.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Scoring. Now, why do I want Argentina to win?
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: First of all, as a non soccer fan, I'm a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: fan of Lionel Messi.
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  Speaker 3: I just happen.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: First of all, I lived four months of the year
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: in Miami and he plays for Miami. That's his regular
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: Gigy plays for Inner Miami. That's the big thing American
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: soccer got. That got the best player in the world
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: to play in the inferior American League plays for Inner Miami.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: In every indication, is he just a really cool guy?
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: I mean he's shopping at Public's and walking around there,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: and you know it's in international communities everybody recognizes, So
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: there's that. But secondly, once we're out, I judge my
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: rooting for our country entirely on the following who am
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: I rooting against? So when it came to the final four,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: I ranked the four countries on the basis of most
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: conservative to least conservative. In other words, number one would
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: be the most conservative government and number four would be
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: like the most Marxist government, and I ranked them in order.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: Argentina won England two. Then it got tough France or Spain,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: who's farther to the left. But I put France three,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: in Spain fourth, Spain being the most lefty of the
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: but still I kind of wanted Spain to beat France.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: There's just France rubs you the wrong way, and then
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: you know, candae OANs is probably wrong about Macron, but
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: there's this whole thing in which he seems to think
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: that Macron is married to his own father. I mean
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: that his father became a woman and then married McCrone.
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  Speaker 2: Plus they're French, but I.
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  Speaker 3: Ranked them on that order.
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  Speaker 2: Argentina is, i would argue, in the Western Hemisphere, the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: second most capitalistic government in the entire hemisphere, the United
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: States being the first. The president Javier Millay. He's kind
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: of a libertarian conservative, but he has strongly re established
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: the free market. Then there's other factories you bring in
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: which people annoy you more. I think British people would
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: annoy me more than Margentinians. Argentinian women are better looking
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: than British women. Argentinian food is better than British food.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the British have no food. There isn't anything
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: that anyone could name as being British cuisine.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what fish and.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: Chips that's named the name the second one. And by
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: the way, fish and chips that's not even really their
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: own thing. I mean, we have fisch fries. It's just
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: to say it's the same thing. Is nothing even creative
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: about fish and chips? Name the second British food after
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: fish and chips? Of courts, they put salt in everything
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: because all they serve as bland crafts that they have.
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  Speaker 3: To put something on it.
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  Speaker 2: You go to an Argentinian stecause the true those are really,
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  Speaker 2: really good.
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  Speaker 3: They're really good. So everything I.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Got here is leaning for it toward Argentina. The I
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: think better music has come out of Britain. The only
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: music I can think of it that's come out of
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Argentina was a veto, which isn't even really about that.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: It was just about one of the radical left wing dicators.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: So I like.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: MESSI the Argentinian uniform first, England's uniforms just seem wrong
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: to me. The uniforms aren't British uniforms because the other
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: countries of Britain have their own teams. So I'm expecting
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: like the Union jack, but that's actually the flag of
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: the UK.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: And not of England.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: So they have these blue and it's the you know,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: Argentina's had that same uniform forever. The light blue and
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: white stripes reminds you of like the City of Chicago
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: Police department squad cars at that color. And they won
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: it last time, and so I'm going to cheer for
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Argentina on Sunday. So I've gotten myself at least engaged
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: that I have a rooting interest, and I was glad
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: that they beat England, and certainly the final forty five
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: minutes of the game yesterday, which perfect for a guy
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: that has a podcast at midday to have games that
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: are around at two o'clock in the afternoon. And you know,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know many maybe somebody has brought this up,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: but I will admit I'm not fully up to speed,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: and all of the nuances that have been going on
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: in people reacting to the World Cup. And I know
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: zillions of people have been watching, and I haven't been
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: one of them, but I do think and maybe a
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: million people have made this point. I just have not
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: been paying attention. I do think one of the reasons
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: that there's men such the buzz here is so many
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: of the games are on free TV. None of these
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: games are on Netflix, are on streaming a few of them,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: I think I've been on Fox Sports one, but a
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: lot of them are on regular Fox over the air
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: Fox like Channel six right, including both of the games
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: this week. So I mean, for all of the people
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: who don't have this cable package of that, and they
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: don't have this streaming and so on, just about everybody
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: has the over the year channels. And I think, you know,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: I did a post on X about the Bucks this season,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: they're moving their games to free TV. They're not going
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: to be on I mean, they'll be on cable because
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: the free TV channel is on cable, but you won't
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: need cable or streaming to get it. They're simply going
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: to be on Channel twenty four. And that's a function
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: of fan Duel Wisconsin. They're going under there's just there's
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: nothing left over there, and they weren't paying the Bucks.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: The Brewers set up their own network so you can
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: get Brewers TV on cable is streaming all those stuff,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: but you have to pay indirectly for all of it.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: The Bucks are just going to be on free TV.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: That post got thousands and thousands and thousands of views,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: So I think that this whole thing has touched a
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: nerve of you know, the home Run Derby and Baseball
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: this week was on Netflix. Now I have long since
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: given up caring about the stupid home run Derby, and
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: I don't care about the All Star Game anymore. But
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: I just okay, Baseball put it on Netflix because Netflix
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: plays way more than a network is going to pay.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: But if a sports isn't available to be seen by
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: the masses long run, I think that's bad for the sport.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 3: And I think that the NFL.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: Is facing this forever and ever and ever. Every NFL
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: game was on free TV, and then you went to, okay,
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: the ESPN game, But now they're on this and this
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: and this and this and all of these networks that require.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: A special extra charge.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're getting more money off of it, but your
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: total universe of potential.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: Viewers is lower.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: You care who wins the World Cup, England or Argentina.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: You want Argentina too, but they've already beaten Spain. Do
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: you even know that there are down to the final tour?
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Are you paying it even less attention to it than me?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: So you know that they play They're playing England. You
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: knew that, didn't you. I mean yeah, I mean the
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: Sunday game, who do you want to win?
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: The next game? Oh, you're you're, you're, you're, You're right
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: about that. I got that reverse. Argentina is playing Spain
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: in the next game, and we're rather than looking backward.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: So Spain is really lefty and that's why you don't
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: want them and they Yeah, I mean, that's that's just
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: where I come down in this. Spain is the most
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: lefty of those and they were in the final four.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: And I would say Argentina. Now, Argentina hasn't always been
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: the most conservative. They had a Marxist government, but the
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: public threw them out in an election. I mean, all
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: over Latin America, Marxist governments are being thrown out. At
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: the same time, Latin America and South America, whereas here
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: in North America we're embracing with South America and Latin
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: America have been saddled with forever and ever and ever
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: the people there, and they are liberating themselves from And
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: that is the end of this week's podcast, at least
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: the next one on Monday.
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