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Mark Belling Podcast #179: France shows how to commit national suicide: mass migration of people who hate you and your values combined with miserable radical leftists who blame their country for their unhappiness. It's happening in France now, but it may be OUR future. The radical who wants to be Wisconsin Governor, David Crowley, gave $100 million to an organization who hired his wife right after Crowley became Milwaukee County Exec (and the media really doesn't want you to know about it. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Let's imagine that you wanted to kill your own country.
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  Speaker 2: If you wanted to simply tear it down from within,
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  Speaker 2: there's a recipe for it. Recipe for national suicide. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what you do. You open up your borders and you
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  Speaker 2: allow mass migration and allow in people who hate you
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  Speaker 2: and hate your way of life. Not mass migration of
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  Speaker 2: people who love you and want to come to your
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  Speaker 2: country because they love that country and everything it stands for,
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  Speaker 2: but mass migration of people who hate you. And then
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  Speaker 2: you have them form an alliance with your own homegrown,
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  Speaker 2: miserably unhappy, bitter people who attribute their unhappiness to the miserable,
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  Speaker 2: rotten country that they live in.
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  Speaker 3: So now you have two groups.
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  Speaker 2: You have these masses of newcomers that you idiotically let in,
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  Speaker 2: and they ally themselves with people who are already in
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  Speaker 2: your own country who hate their country and blame every
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  Speaker 2: one of their miserable feelings and their sadnesses and their
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  Speaker 2: anger and their resentments, they blame it on their own country.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have the two of them work together.
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing that happen right now in France. But I
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  Speaker 2: fear it's the recipe for much of the West, including
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  Speaker 2: the United States. So that's where we're going to start
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  Speaker 2: if any nation deserves this, it's France. France, probably more
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  Speaker 2: than any other country in the Western world, opened up
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  Speaker 2: its borders and said, we're so wonderful, we're France. Of
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  Speaker 2: course everyone wants to come to France. This was the
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  Speaker 2: naivete of France, a combination of naivete and the incredible
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  Speaker 2: sense of superiority that the French have. The French think
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  Speaker 2: that The French people are the greatest people in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and they think France.
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  Speaker 3: Is the greatest nation in the world.
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  Speaker 2: So here come all these migrants from Middle Eastern and
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  Speaker 2: African nations pouring into France.
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  Speaker 3: And the French, in their arrogance.
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  Speaker 2: And their stupidity, think that why they want to come
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  Speaker 2: to France to become French. They love us and our
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  Speaker 2: way of life. You add to this the fact that
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  Speaker 2: France has always had underachievers. lazy people who don't want
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  Speaker 2: to do anything. And they're bitter and angry because they
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  Speaker 2: haven't accomplished anything. And you create that brew and you
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  Speaker 2: throw them together. And that's what happened over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: These violent riots in which chunks of Paris were burned down,
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  Speaker 2: incredible number of injuries, the protesters all wearing masks so
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  Speaker 2: you can't identify who they are, more on that in
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  Speaker 2: a moment. And the result of this is the wussy
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  Speaker 2: leader of France, Emmanuel Macron, is saying, why, this has
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  Speaker 2: gone too far.
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  Speaker 3: There will be accountability. Sure there will.
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  Speaker 2: From the Epoch Times, French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: condemned the violence and destruction wrought as nationwide protests descended
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  Speaker 2: into the worst rioting the country has seen in years.
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  Speaker 2: Those who destroy must pay. Those who looted must repay.
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  Speaker 2: And those who sought to bring down the republic will
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  Speaker 2: have to answer for it. I mean, that's just classic French.
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  Speaker 2: That's classic Macron. A bunch of words that they aren't
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  Speaker 2: even that tough talking. Not that these people are going
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  Speaker 2: to die. Not that we're going to lock them up. No,
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  Speaker 2: they have to pay back. You know, if they burned
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  Speaker 2: down a building, they have to pay us the money
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  Speaker 2: for that, which, of course, they won't do because they
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  Speaker 2: don't know specifically who they are because many of them
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  Speaker 2: are wearing masks. President Trump has called upon France to
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  Speaker 2: close its borders and stop allowing people who want to
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  Speaker 2: destroy France from coming in. And when you think about
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  Speaker 2: the intolerance that much of radical Islam carries, it's in
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  Speaker 2: complete contrast. To all of the values that the French espouse,
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  Speaker 2: they're the nation of openness.
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  Speaker 3: They're the people that are tolerant.
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  Speaker 2: They think that they're better than everyone else because they
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  Speaker 2: accept everyone on their own level. And here they introduce
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  Speaker 2: into their country people who are totally intolerant, who don't
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  Speaker 2: accept the legitimacy of any set of moral values other
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  Speaker 2: than their own. They don't accept the legitimacy of any
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  Speaker 2: religion other than their own. They're consumed often by hatred.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the key part of this. Many of the
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  Speaker 2: migrants who have left some of these nations were encouraged
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  Speaker 2: to leave by their own countries. It wasn't just like
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  Speaker 2: the migration to the United States where countries in Central
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  Speaker 2: America opened up their prisons. There are people who were malcontent,
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  Speaker 2: and a number of African nations and they were kind
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  Speaker 2: of invited to leave. How do you think they got
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  Speaker 2: the money to get to the Mediterranean or make the
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  Speaker 2: crossings that they got into France?
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  Speaker 3: They were encouraged to leave.
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  Speaker 2: So you had a number of nations that got rid
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  Speaker 2: of their most embittered, angry people and let them go
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  Speaker 2: into Europe. And unlike the United States, where we actually
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  Speaker 2: had a border that Biden didn't enforce, in much of Europe,
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  Speaker 2: they knocked down all national borders when they created the
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  Speaker 2: great alliance in which they said you can cross from
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  Speaker 2: Spain into Germany into France and all of these countries
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  Speaker 2: are going to be together. So it's real, real easy
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  Speaker 2: to come in. And the French prided themselves on this
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  Speaker 2: in the same way that people in San Francisco said,
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  Speaker 2: we're proud that we have all of these homeless people
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  Speaker 2: living in the streets because we are tolerant people. The
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  Speaker 2: French invited them in. So have other countries in Europe.
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  Speaker 2: The same problems are occurring in Britain and in other places,
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  Speaker 2: but it's worse in France. So why the wearing of
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  Speaker 2: the masks? Well, obviously, it makes it hard to identify
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  Speaker 2: who it is that did it, but it also makes
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  Speaker 2: it hard to identify how many of these people are Muslim,
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  Speaker 2: how many of them are French themselves. The major French
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  Speaker 2: far-left political movement is encouraging this because France is on
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  Speaker 2: an austerity campaign. Many of these nations in Europe are
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  Speaker 2: dead broke because of all the money that they've spent
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  Speaker 2: over the years, and their bonds are going down.
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  Speaker 3: Are being crushed in value.
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  Speaker 2: So these governments are trying to finally cut back on
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  Speaker 2: some of the social service spending. Well, the lefties in
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  Speaker 2: France don't want that. You're talking about people who largely
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  Speaker 2: don't work, who leave in Marxism, who want to live
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  Speaker 2: off the government. So they don't like this. So they
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  Speaker 2: form this unholy alliance with people who've come to France
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  Speaker 2: for the purposes of making France a Muslim country. And
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  Speaker 2: you're just seeing in front of us France die. It's
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  Speaker 2: not going to get better. unless the government is turned
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  Speaker 2: over to a right-wing political party who cracks down and
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  Speaker 2: ends this. Otherwise, the institutions of France, the great museums
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  Speaker 2: that are going to be overrun, they're going to be attacked.
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  Speaker 2: The vandalism is going to go to some of the
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  Speaker 2: great national treasures. We just rebuilt Notre Dame. Who knows
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  Speaker 2: how long that's going to stand before the rioters target it,
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  Speaker 2: or the Louvre, or the Eiffel Tower. All of these
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  Speaker 2: beautiful sites of France that the world has admired, they're
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  Speaker 2: all in jeopardy because France is right now in the
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  Speaker 2: early stages of a revolution. And the revolution is miserable leftists,
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  Speaker 2: which many of us, including the United States, are plagued by,
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  Speaker 2: combined with Muslims who come into the country and want
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  Speaker 2: to tear it down. The fear that I have is,
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  Speaker 2: this is us. I talk a lot about the crime
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  Speaker 2: and dysfunction situation in Milwaukee. And I say, we're not
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  Speaker 2: yet Chicago. We're not yet Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Not yet.
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  Speaker 2: But we're moving in that direction. And if we continue
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  Speaker 2: to allow liberals to move farther and farther to the
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  Speaker 2: left with their soft on crime ideologies and their welcoming
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  Speaker 2: in of people committing all sorts of dysfunction like homelessness
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  Speaker 2: and so on, that's what we will become. We're just
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  Speaker 2: not as far gone as them yet because we aren't
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  Speaker 2: under total control in Wisconsin of leftists.
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  Speaker 3: But the states in which they are, They've gone in
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  Speaker 3: that direction. The same, I would say, of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, we still have divided government with Republicans at
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  Speaker 2: least temporarily controlling the Congress and the presidency. But many
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  Speaker 2: of our great states are controlled by liberals. The big
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  Speaker 2: cities are controlled by liberals. Trump and the Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: the last line of defense. If we elect a radical
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  Speaker 2: president in 2028, With a Democratic Congress, the mass migration
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  Speaker 2: that we saw under Biden is going to continue. And
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  Speaker 2: the mass migration from Mexico and Central and South America,
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  Speaker 2: problematic as it is, is nowhere near as bad as
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  Speaker 2: terrorists who enter our country through both the Northern and
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  Speaker 2: the southern border for the purposes of tearing it down.
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  Speaker 2: The argument can be made forever about whether Islam is
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  Speaker 2: a religion of peace or not. Muslims always argue that
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  Speaker 2: when you try to point the finger for many of
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  Speaker 2: these problems on Muslims, that Islam is a religion of peace.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.
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  Speaker 2: But the radicals are not peaceful. Their own philosophy is jihad,
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  Speaker 2: holy war. And what you're seeing in the nations of
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  Speaker 2: Europe and to some extent the United States, certainly in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Minnesota, with Somali Muslims trying to tear
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  Speaker 2: down that state while enriching themselves off of it with
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  Speaker 2: no resistance at all from the buttheaded government there, you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing internal jihad in which nations are being brought down
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  Speaker 2: from within and because the naive leaders of those nations
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  Speaker 2: or states simply allowed them in. I've got a theme here,
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  Speaker 2: and it isn't really America first, but I think all
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  Speaker 2: of these arguments about internal turmoil, migration, come back to,
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  Speaker 2: do the French want to be France first? Do the
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  Speaker 2: British want to be Britain first? Do people in the
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  Speaker 2: United States want to be America first, are we going
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  Speaker 2: to defend our own nation and our own values and
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  Speaker 2: our own people, or are we going to be allowing
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to be torn apart and attacked from within? This
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  Speaker 2: brings me to the unending eternal war between Ukraine and Russia.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly Trump is frustrated. If I was Trump, I'd be frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: I was one of those who, like Trump, believed. When
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  Speaker 2: Trump was running 2024, he said, I'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: settle this thing in two months because it just seems
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  Speaker 2: so easily settled. You've got two countries that are fighting
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  Speaker 2: a war in which both have sustained massive losses. The
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  Speaker 2: Russian economy is a mess. Young males left Russia in
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  Speaker 2: droves because they don't want to be sent to Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: to die. The Ukrainians have lost who knows how many
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  Speaker 2: tens of thousands of their people, much of The great
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  Speaker 2: buildings and cities in Ukraine are in shambles. The solution
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  Speaker 2: to the war is simple. You end the fighting and
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  Speaker 2: give Putin a little bit of what he wants. Let
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  Speaker 2: him control a portion of eastern Ukraine, which is largely
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  Speaker 2: pro-Russian anyway. Let him be able to go back and claim,
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  Speaker 2: I got this great victory. Ukraine also agrees that they're
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  Speaker 2: not going to join NATO. Putin gets to say, see,
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  Speaker 2: this was worth something. I accomplished something. For Ukraine, okay,
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  Speaker 2: they lost a portion of their country. And they don't
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  Speaker 2: get to join NATO. But why do they need to
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  Speaker 2: be in NATO at all? NATO and the United States
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  Speaker 2: are the ones that have been defending them all along.
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  Speaker 2: They would have fallen long before this were it not
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  Speaker 2: for our money. So that's the deal. It would end
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  Speaker 2: the violence. It would end the bloodshed. And it would
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  Speaker 2: be good for both countries. But it hasn't happened. It
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  Speaker 2: hasn't happened because Ukraine refuses to accept giving anything Russia.
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  Speaker 2: And it hasn't happened because Russia is not going to
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  Speaker 2: back down on its war without Putin getting a victory.
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  Speaker 2: Putin realizes if he doesn't get something, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to account for himself to the oligarchs that are
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  Speaker 2: in Russia. If he comes back and just ends this
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  Speaker 2: war and say, OK, we're going to respect the borders
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  Speaker 2: that were there in the first place, all this hell
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  Speaker 2: that Putin put his own country through is for naught.
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  Speaker 3: And Putin knows.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be the end of him. So he has to
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  Speaker 2: get something. Likewise, Zelensky. If the war is over, what
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  Speaker 2: does Ukraine need Zelensky for? I think both of those
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  Speaker 2: leaders want this war to continue. And that's what Trump
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  Speaker 2: called out over the weekend. He said Zelensky wants the
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  Speaker 2: war to continue. Now, there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: here in the United States who have been carrying water
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  Speaker 2: for Ukraine. And of the two sides, Ukraine is more
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  Speaker 2: right than Russia is. But if you're going to look
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  Speaker 2: at this from the perspective of what's in the best
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  Speaker 2: interest of America, who controls what part of Ukraine is
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  Speaker 2: largely irrelevant to us. There may be a right and
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  Speaker 2: a wrong, but in terms of the strategic interests of
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  Speaker 2: the United States, it's kind of a wash. Yet we
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  Speaker 2: have bankrolled to the extent of lots of our bombs
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  Speaker 2: and all sorts of our money, Ukraine, to prop them
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  Speaker 2: up in this fight with Russia.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's been played out long enough.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing's going to change in the next two or three
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  Speaker 2: years other than Putin's going to succeed in killing more
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainians without probably.
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  Speaker 3: Winning the war. It's just going to go on and
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  Speaker 3: on and on and on.
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  Speaker 2: And if our own people keep commending that we keep
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  Speaker 2: bankrolling Ukraine, we're carving in money that we desperately need
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  Speaker 2: for our own national defense, in part because Trump won't
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  Speaker 2: end his war, the one with Iran. So Trump realizes
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  Speaker 2: that the obstacle here is Zelensky. And he's made some
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  Speaker 2: policy changes. And I think that they're all aimed at
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  Speaker 2: telling Zelensky, you better make a deal with Putin or
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  Speaker 2: we're going to let you lose the war. Trump waived
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  Speaker 2: the sanctions that were passed, you know, the so-called Lindsey
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  Speaker 2: Graham Act. Congress passed legislation allowing a clampdown, stronger sanctions
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  Speaker 2: against Russia. But Trump has the ability to waive any
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  Speaker 2: of those sanctions. He's waiving them. which means more money
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  Speaker 2: flows into Russia. That's bad for Ukraine. Some comments here
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  Speaker 2: from Trump in which he spells out his policy and
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  Speaker 2: he's going to get abuse for this in the media
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  Speaker 2: and from the warmongers on both the right and the
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  Speaker 2: left that believe that Ukraine is some sort of cause
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  Speaker 2: that we're compelled to back forever. Here's Trump. My decision
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  Speaker 2: on Russia is a very simple one. I am in
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  Speaker 2: the process of negotiating peace in the war between Russia
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  Speaker 2: and Ukraine and and don't want to do anything that
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  Speaker 2: will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table. Great
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  Speaker 2: progress is being made, and that includes current hostage negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: Signing that document at this time will do that, and
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  Speaker 2: I can sign it later or any time that I want.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps most importantly, Russia is doing very little, if anything,
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  Speaker 2: to help the Islamic Republic of Iran. Let me interject.
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  Speaker 2: So what Trump is saying here, look, Putin's working with me,
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  Speaker 2: on this Iran mess. We've managed to isolate Iran. Russia
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  Speaker 2: could easily go and prop up the miserable Iranian regime,
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  Speaker 2: but it isn't doing that. So Trump's trying to reward
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  Speaker 2: Putin for not assisting in Iran and cutting him some
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  Speaker 2: slack with regard to the war with Russia. And Trump's
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  Speaker 2: explaining this. And well, a lot of what Trump does
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  Speaker 2: is clearly hyperbole. And some of it maybe stretches of
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  Speaker 2: the truth. I think this statement that I'm reading here,
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  Speaker 2: he's accurately laying out where he's coming from.
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  Speaker 3: Continuing compared to what they could be doing.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to keep it that way and will
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  Speaker 2: unless stupid people get in the way. Lastly, Zelensky, head
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  Speaker 2: of Ukraine, is using diesel refineries in Russia as a target,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets,
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  Speaker 2: including those in the United States. Farmers, ranchers and businesses
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  Speaker 2: of all kinds are suffering greatly from this. But Russia
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  Speaker 2: is nevertheless sending at a low price millions of barrels
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  Speaker 2: of diesel into the world. Zelensky doesn't care, and frankly,
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  Speaker 2: with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him,
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  Speaker 2: and that crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did.
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  Speaker 2: He could have made a better deal two years ago
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  Speaker 2: than he can now. His country is in shambles, a
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  Speaker 2: large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and
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  Speaker 2: seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded
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  Speaker 2: and or dead. I want the war... I want this
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  Speaker 2: war ended. That's Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with all of that.
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  Speaker 2: If you actually believe in peace, which a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of phonies here don't because they want this war to continue,
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  Speaker 2: they want us to eternally be fighting Putin. If you
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  Speaker 2: want this war to end, we have got to apply
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  Speaker 2: pressure on Ukraine to agree.
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  Speaker 3: To end it.
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  Speaker 2: And Ukraine is never going to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: the victory they want. At some point, that war is
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  Speaker 2: going to be ended or Ukraine is going to be
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  Speaker 2: no more. In the meantime, we have our own problems.
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  Speaker 2: Energy prices are high. It's not entirely because of the
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  Speaker 2: war between Russia and Ukraine, but it certainly contributes to it.
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  Speaker 2: And we've been spending a whole lot of money bucking
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  Speaker 2: up Ukraine if this war ended. we would be able
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  Speaker 2: to take some of the money that we're spending on
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  Speaker 2: the war and use it to assist the Ukrainians in
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  Speaker 2: building their country. And we would probably get further cooperation
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  Speaker 2: with Russia in isolating Iran and maybe even in dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the Houthis. So you can look at this in
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  Speaker 2: the perspective of Ukraine is better than Russia is, so
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: therefore we're going to support a war that will go
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: on forever in which people on both sides are going
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: to die. or we can take the practical steps necessary
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to try to end the war. I think Trump is
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: playing good cop with Putin and bad cop with Zelensky.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And Zelensky needs a bad cop played to him. If
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: we cut him off and we stop the sanctions on Russia,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Ukraine's going to fall. And all the attempts to be
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: nicety-nice to Zelensky and give him a lot of funding
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in an attempt to apply pressure on Russia hasn't worked.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: The war is still going on. Both sides are still
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: bombing the hell out of one another. And in terms
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: of the interests of the out of that on the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: same subject of what's in the best interest of the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: United States. On the ongoing investigation into Ilhan Omar, who
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: may have entered the country illegally by lying about her
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: date of birth and may have aided her brother into
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: entering the country illegally by marrying her own brother. There's
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: obviously a criminal investigation going on to this. The search
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: warrant was signed by a Democratic-appointed federal judge. And there's
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of indication here that she's broken the law.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: So Barack Obama wakes himself up and decides to weigh
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: in on this, pompous.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: As he always is.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Obama has the remarkable ability to try to claim the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: high ground while running around.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: On the lowest ground possible.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: This is Obama, quote, it is a basic principle of
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: American democracy that the government can't selectively target individuals simply
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: because of their political beliefs and or what they say,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: but that is exactly what the Trump administration is doing
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Give me a break.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: You can't target people because of your political beliefs. He's
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: telling this to Trump? He's telling this to conservatives that
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: have been investigating out the wazoo? People went to prison, wrongly,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: over Russia collusion. Trump had to spend fortunes defending himself
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: over Russia collusion. Bogus investigations were conducted by Jack Smith.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: into the events of January 6th and what went on
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: during the election, all in attempt to target Trump. And
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you know doggone well, if the Democrats regain the House
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and the Senate, there are going to be criminal investigations
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and impeachments of Trump.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Again, all for nothing. Furthermore, when did all of this start?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Who was it that turned the IRS loose on conservative organizations?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: That was Obama.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: So he's getting up here and attacking what appears to
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: be a legitimate investigation into pure immigration fraud committed by
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: a congresswoman. And I'll interject. There are crooks in the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Congress on both the Republican and Democratic side. There are
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Republican members of Congress that frankly have been embarrassing and worse.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And very few Republicans have defended them. And there are
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: scoundrels on the Democratic side. And Omar claims that clearly
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: seems to be one of them. If she didn't commit
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: immigration fraud, she has nothing to worry about. What you
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: have here is an investigation. And if it comes out
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: that she lied about her age to enter the country
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: illegally by not having been a minor, as she had
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: claimed when she came in with her father, or she
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: indeed did marry her own brother. just to allow him
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: to get legal status into the United States of America,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: then she needs to be deported or criminally prosecuted. But
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: if she didn't do either of those things, she's just
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the pain in the ass that she's always been, but
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: perhaps not a criminal. She doesn't have anything to worry
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: about unless she did something wrong. So far, there have
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: been no allegations made in the prosecution against Omar. She's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: only being investigated. If they bring criminal charges and they
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: are bogus, if, for example, she didn't lie about her
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: birth date, then perhaps Obama has a point. But for
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: him to go on and on and on about it
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: when our side has been targeted again and again and again,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: which started in his own government, is beyond rich. In
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the meantime, Alyssa Slotkin, senator from Michigan, she's supposedly one
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: of the moderate Democrats.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Did you see what she just said?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: One of the things that happens is when lefties get
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: on these podcasts hosted by other lefties, they kind of
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: act as though nobody's listening. And they talk lefty speak
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: to one another, and the truth starts to come out.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Alyssa Slotkin said that one of the reasons why, when
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the Democrats regain control of the Senate, they should begin
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: prosecutions and criminal referrals of Trump administration officials is... You
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: need to send a message to young Americans that they
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: should be afraid to work for the Trump administration.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: She actually said it.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: She actually said, we're going to prosecute current members of
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the Trump administration to scare young people out of coming
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to Washington and working for the Trump administration.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: They need to.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Know that if they work for this dirty Trump, we're
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: coming after them too. In other words, she's threatening to
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: do and saying that the prosecutions of current Trump people
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: would be done for the exact purpose of the thing
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that Obama just purported to deny. I think the Democrats
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: have already factored in that they're going to win in November.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: They're already talking big about the things that they're going
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to do. Usually you keep your mouth shut until the
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: election is over and then you come out and do
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: all the witch hunts and lying and trampling all over
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the constitutional rights of Americans. But they're coming out and
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: indicating they're going to do it right away, which brings
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: me to Canada. And that's going to end this kind
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: of discussion in which I've linked all of these things
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: together and which values of people and nations are being
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: trampled upon. Today, in the province of Alberta, I always
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: have to concentrate to think about if you went from
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: west to east, where you come up with Alberta. But
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Alberta is one of the western provinces of Canada.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: And they're voting.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: On seceding from Canada. Now, it's probably not going to pass.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: And even if it does, it would just be the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: first stage. If they pass the independence, it would authorize
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: their leaders to begin the process of figuring out how
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: it is that they could get out of Canada. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: doubt that Canada would let them secede any more than
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the United States didn't let the Southern states secede during
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the Civil War. But the very fact that they put
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: it on the ballot and large numbers of people in
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Alberta want to do it is interesting. And again, I
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: suspect that it's going to fail. But why do the
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: people of Alberta want out? The Western provinces of Canada
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: are much more conservative than the Eastern provinces. You know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: in the East, you've got the province of Quebec, French, very,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: very liberal. You've got Toronto, very, very liberal. You've got Ottawa, very,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: very liberal. And because the population is They dominate the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Canadian government and they dominate the parliament. In the meantime,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: in Alberta, you have an energy-rich region. Alberta has lots
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: of energy resources and the key to the wealth and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: quality of life for people in Alberta is to sell
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: their energy. In addition to that, Alberta was one of
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: the provinces that was furious. Much of Alberta, there's a
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: couple of big cities there, much of it is spread
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: out wide open spaces. Yet when Canada did their COVID lockdowns,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: which were worse than ours, the people in Alberta, including
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: people who live in small towns where the closest neighbor
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: is a mile away, they had to put up with
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: those lockdowns too. And they were very repressive. So you've
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: got a conservative people in Alberta that deeply resent the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: shoving around comes from the larger overall Canadian government. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: that's the thing that I want to link to all
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: of this. What all of these countries, including our own,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: are facing. is you've got concentrations, huge numbers of people
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in certain cities. In the United States, the cities on
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the coast. So they can perhaps gain overall control of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the country by sheer number. But what they do is
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: their in-nations geographically are huge. And all of these other
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: wide open spaces in between, what they call flyover country,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: they're the ones that can be abused. That's what we're
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: facing in America. If the Marxists take over our country
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and permanently take us from a capitalistic nation that allowed
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: broad expression of individual rights, the right to say what
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: you want, the right to practice the religion you want,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the right to carry a gun, all of that stuff.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: If they trample on this entire mass expanse simply because
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: we don't have the numbers and the concentrations of people
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that they have on the coasts, there will be that
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: same bitterness. And you will see people in the United
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: States wanting their old America back. And I suspect all
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: these people in Alberta that are talking about secession are
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: doing is saying they want their Canada back. This is
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: the David and Erica Crowley story. First of all, the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: mainstream media is dragged into this king and screaming. This
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: story is now about four or five days old. The
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Daily Caller reported on it first, and then a day
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: or two later, the Wisconsin Right Now, a conservative website,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: expanded on it. The mainstream media's focus on this story
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: has been to pretend that it isn't occurring. Now, four
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: or five days later, there's finally an online story on
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: JS Online, and the story is Republicans making big deal about.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: In other words, the story isn't that David Crowley gave
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: nearly $ 100 million to the agency that hired his wife.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: The story is that Republicans are bothered by that. Were
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the story reversed, if you had a Republican official making
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: a sweetheart deal and kicking a fortune into a relative
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: or a wife, right after she got hired by that agency,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: the story wouldn't be the Democrats are bothered by it.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: The story would be simply that it happened also. Apparently,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: this was common knowledge in Milwaukee County. I'll admit, I
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: never knew where Erica Crowley worked. I know that Milwaukee County,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: which despite its claims of being broke, is constantly funding
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: social service agencies to the tune of a four. The
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: great liberal scam is we allocate money billions of dollars
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: in federal funds and kick it to the states and
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: kick it to local municipalities. And those local municipalities don't
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: keep it. They hand it out to independent social service agencies.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: This becomes the power base of the left. The lefties
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: who are on the receiving end of all of this money,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and these social service agencies hire lots and lots of people,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: and the executive directors make a lot of money. And
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: when they get the money, they get to go out
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: and buy equipment and furnaces and cars, and they can
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: spend that money on their pals. All of it starts
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: with the federal government, with local officials doing the passing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: And the local officials maintain their power base by handing
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: out all this candy that they have. And Community Advocates
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: is one of these social service agencies, there's a lot
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: of them, that try to get these contracts. As it
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: turns out, right after David Crowley was sworn in as
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County Executive, Community Advocates hires Crowley's wife. I mean,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: on its face, that's really brazen. Now, okay, we'll say, well,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: this is the field that Erica Crowley's in. True, most
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: liberals work in social service nonprofit agencies rather than actually
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: go out and do something productive and work for a
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: private company to try to make money.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: And maybe Erica Crowley's entire background is in one of
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: these social service agencies that grubs for government contracts and
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: then claims they're going to turn around and spend the
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: money to do good things. But why this one? And
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: what happened right after she was hired? Crowley turns around
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: and starts pumping a fortune in federal funds in one
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: contract after another to community advocates. As I said, there
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: are a zillion of these social service agencies in Milwaukee.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Social Development Commission is even trying to come back. Another
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: one that had a low IC before that. Those are
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: agencies that had long histories of corruption involving getting their
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: hands on government contracts. In this instance, community advocates got,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the number of daily caller was 65 million. Wisconsin right
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: now said it's added up all the figures. It's closer
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: to $ 100 million, all from the county of Milwaukee after
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: David Crowley became county executive and after community advocates hired
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Erica Crowley.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: This is corruption. It's what it is.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Now, you can certainly say that if two people are
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: married to one another, one of them might work in
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: a field that has some relationship with government.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: True enough.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: That's what a conflict of interest is. Not all conflicts
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: of interest are wrong. There are zillions of conflicts of interest.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: You know, there could be a talk show host, not me,
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: talk show host out there who could be married to
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: somebody who works for a local city or a local
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: company and a talk show host might have to talk
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: about that company from time to time and then disclose, okay,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: we have this relationship. If I have a conflict of interest,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: for example, if one of our podcast sponsors was involved
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: in some sort of a news story, I would state
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: the conflict of interest. I would still have to honestly
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: discuss the story, but people would need to know about it.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: So not all conflicts of interest are wrong, but many
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: of them are. They are wrong when there is a
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: quid pro quo. Quid pro quo means we do this,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: so therefore you do that. The quid was community advocates
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: hiring up Erica Crowley.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: The quo is all of this money going to community advocates.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Now, David Crowley is going to say the one doesn't
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: have anything to do with the other. Theoretically, it's possible
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: that the one didn't have anything to do with the other,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: but they didn't even attempt to make this timing look non-coincidental.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Why didn't Erica Crowley apply for a job with community
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: advocates before David was the county executive? Could have done
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: it when he was running, or she could have applied
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: to work there a year before he ever decided to
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: run for county executive.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: The fact is, is.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: That probably community advocates didn't think they needed Erica Crowley
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: until David Crowley got in charge of all.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Of this money.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: And every one of these grants that goes to community
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: advocates doesn't go to a different social service anti-poverty agency.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: This not only ought to be a relevant issue in
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: the governor's election, this ought to be the subject of
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a criminal investigation. Which, of course, it won't be because
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: all of the law enforcement agencies in Milwaukee County and
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: the State Department of Justice are currently controlled by Democrats.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: At the very least, though, this should be looked into.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Phone records should be obtained. Emails should be sought. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: witnesses should be investigated. See if there's a whistleblower within
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: community advocates. Find out who else might have been up
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: for the job that Erica Crowley got. And see if
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: they might allege that they were more qualified than she was.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: If Crowley gave this agency a hundred million bucks because
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: they hired his wife, those are the things for what
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: people are supposed to go to jail. And whether or
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: not it was criminal or not, it certainly ought to
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: be investigated. But two weeks before an election, and by
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: the way, early voting begins tomorrow. I'm doing the podcast
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: on Monday. It's a relevant factor to consider in whether
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: or not Crowley is fit to be governor of Wisconsin. Now,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: I've been talking for years about this kind of, I've
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: called it soft corruption that exists in Milwaukee County. I mean,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: it's just notorious. You do something for somebody in government,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, they're holding a fundraiser
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: for you for office.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Is that illegal?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Well, you've got to prove again that it was a
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: quid pro quo. Well, we just, you know, we support
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: this person, so we're going to raise money for him.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: We're not giving him payback for anything, but it happens
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: a lot. In some cases, it's really brazen. Michael McGee Jr.,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: alderman from the Central City, son of Michael McGee Sr.,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: McGee Jr.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Went to prison.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: He came right out and said, I'm the gatekeeper of
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: what goes on in my aldermanic district. You want to
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: do something here? I need to get fed. He went
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: to jail for that. We've had cases like that over
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: the years forever. We've had one non-profit agency, anti-poverty agency
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee after another get exposed.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: So it's not beyond the realm of thinking. that this
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: was totally crooked.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, a news media that would be accurately
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: covering and honestly covering a governor's race would be relishing
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: this story. Now, the JS Online and the other news
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: organizations in the state, they don't want to interview anybody
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: about this.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: They don't want to do any digging.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: They don't want anyone to tell them, hey, there's emails
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: out there saying that if you hire Erica, they're going
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: to be in front of the light and applying for
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: these grants. They don't want to hear anything about this
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: at all because they want Foley to win. which is
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: why it's incumbent upon those of us on the right
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: to get this story out there. Now, as I say,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: this probably was muttered about at the county courthouse and
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: in the social service community forever. There are probably a
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: lot of people who knew exactly what was going on here,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: but it never got to the public's attention. Either nobody
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: told anybody in the news media about it, or maybe
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: for all I know, somebody at JS Online was off
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: three years ago. and they sat on it and did nothing.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: I know that nobody tipped me off to it. If
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: somebody would have told me a few years ago, hey,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Crowley gave this contract to this agency right after they
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: hired his wife, I probably would have done a segment
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: on it would have then been radio show, but I
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: didn't know about it. Well, now we know about it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: It's not only a bad look, it stinks of corruption.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: If it was totally coincidental, they hire Erica, And then
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: they get these grants. She could have resigned simply because
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: the appearance is so bad. But she didn't. A, she
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: probably never dreamed anybody would pay attention to this because
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: she probably never dreamed her husband would be the governor
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: because of what the nobody he was. And understand when
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: he did run for governor earlier this year, he was
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: languishing at below 5% of the polls. The only reason
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: he's the Democratic nominee for governor is they had to
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: find somebody and they were scraping the bottom of their barrel.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: They had to find somebody to stop Francesca Huang. So
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: suddenly he's the nominee. And this little sweetheart deal that
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: happened a few years ago and was continued. Community advocates
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: got new contracts and new funding every single year that
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Crowley has been the county executive. It began in 2021,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: the year that he was sworn in. 2020 he was
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: sworn in. And the contract started shortly after that. And
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: they've continued each and every one of these years. And
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: it was never a sense that Erica needs to quit
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: or not be so blatant about it because they just
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: figured this is the way that it's done in Milwaukee
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: and who's going to do anything about it. And let's
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: face it, if Crowley wasn't running for governor, probably nobody
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: would have tipped anyone off about it or nobody would
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: have dug into it. And I don't know who the
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: source for the Daily Caller was. I think Wisconsin right
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: now simply followed up and did digging on its own.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know who whispered in someone's ear. Maybe it
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: was research that was uncovered by the Tiffany campaign that
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: he tipped someone off.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Don't know.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: But it sure is fascinating information, isn't it? In a way,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: this is a good story. The WNBA finals are underway. Now,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I'll grant you, I had no intention of paying any
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: attention to the WNBA finals.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I knew that.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark's team wasn't in it. And I knew the
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Golden State team was in it. I knew that much,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: but that's about all I knew. Well, the finals are underway.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Game one of the WNBA finals, right before the national
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: anthem was to play.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Both teams' players scurried.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: To the dressing room. Now, I'm assuming the timing is
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: similar to the way they do it at NBA games.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: They usually play the anthem right before they introduce the
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: starting lineups.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Meaning there's just a few minutes, both.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Teams ran to the dressing rooms before the anthem was played.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: And the moment the anthem was concluded, both teams returned
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: to the court. So they don't have to come out
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: and say this was a protest, but it sure seems
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: pretty clear that this was not coincidental. So here we
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: are years after Kaepernick, the WNBA, which is filled with
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: all sorts of players who clearly don't think much of America,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: and are constantly running a political agenda, stalk off the court.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Then what happens during the game? Now, the thing about
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: women's sports is the people who follow it, there's two
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: camps of them. There are people who are into women's
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: sports who really believe in women's sports, and they're very
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: opposed to fake women, men, claiming to be women in
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: order to compete. And a lot of them you know,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: girls who want to be girls athletes who want their
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: sport protected. That's a portion of the fan base of
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: women's sports like the WNBA. So at this game, there
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: were a lot of fans that were wearing t-shirts. And
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: one of the t-shirts they wear is XXXY. In other words,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: there's two sexes, male and female. And a number of
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: the fans who were at the game wearing those shirts
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: said they were openly harassed with ugly, hostile comments directed
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: at them.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: By other fans.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Now, we've seen this in so many instances, that there
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: are just so many things that trigger lefties, and they
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: can't keep their stupid mouths shut.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Those of us who are conservatives.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Are inundated with people acting lefty all over the place,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and we mostly just grit our teeth and put up
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: with it. Liberals can't up with it. See, you've got
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: two things that happen. The players romp off the court
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: when they're playing the national anthem, and then fans who
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: want to go and take the legitimate stance that they're
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: allowed to take that Women's sports ought to be for
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: women only.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: They're harassed.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: So I grant you, I'm not going to get up
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: here and say, I'm going to boycott the WNBA finals
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: and I'm not going to watch it because if it
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: had gone to, I don't even know what's best of
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: five or best of seven. If it got to a
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: final game, is it theoretically possible? I might've tuned in
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: for a few minutes theoretically, but I doubt that I
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: would have. I've watched a little bit of Caitlin Clark.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Other than that, The WNBA, there's just too many sports
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: out there, and the WNBA has never gotten to the
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: point of me caring about it. So I'd be lying
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: to you if I said I'm going to boycott this
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: because of it.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: However, this solidifies it.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: So now I don't have to worry about whether or
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: not I'm missing something with the WNBA because my hands
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: are washed. But besides, we have something else to worry
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: about in the state of Wisconsin, and that is the
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: fact that on Friday, the World Series begins. This is
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: my first podcast. since the Brewers won the National League Championship.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I'm doing today's podcast from Florida. Thursday night, we did
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: the Thursday podcast from the Milwaukee studio. I raced over
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: to Mitchell International Airport, got in a plane. Of course,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: it's not a nonstop flight. I flew to Atlanta and
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: then connected from Atlanta, Florida. And I was on Delta.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: And there's TV screens on the flight. And I was
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: hoping I'd be able to watch the Brewer-Dodger game while
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: on the flight on TV, great way to kill time. Unfortunately,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: the game was on FS1, and that wasn't one of
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the channels that was on the Delta in-flight menu. They
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: got a lot of channels on there, but Fox Sports
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: 1 was not one of them. If the game was
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: on regular Fox, and if somebody tells me that it was,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was, but if it was on
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: regular Fox, I could have tuned to that. So I
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: was able to use my Wi-Fi and watch the game
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: on my phone. One of the zillions of apps I
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: subscribe to is Fox One, which is the umbrella of
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: all the Fox networks. So Fox One's app carried the
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: FS1 broadcast. So I'm watching the game on my phone,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: and everybody knows what happens. The Brewers get shelled right
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: from the get-go. Shane Drohan couldn't get out of the
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: second inning. Page said he got hit in the second inning,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: and then they brought in Dustin May, who gave up
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: a three-run home run, and the Brewers are down 4-0. Now,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: I felt going into game four that this was the
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: one the Dodgers were almost.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Certain to win.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Anyway, the reality is the Brewers have only three reliable
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: starting pitchers. And when you get to game four of
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: any of these series, they're going to have to go
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: to a bullpen or just hope for the best. They're
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: now down four to nothing. And my presumption was that
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: the manager, and I think this actually was his plan,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: that Pat Murphy was not going to screw up any
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: future games by using six relievers. that he was going
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: to just look at Dustin May and say, it's your game, buddy.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: There's every sign that you're going to give up a
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: lot more runs, but I'm going to leave you out
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: there because I don't want to go to the rest
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: of the bullpen in the second inning and have to
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: use six or seven pitchers, including some guys that I
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: might need tomorrow in game five or game six and seven.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: So while they weren't writing the game off, he wasn't
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: going to take a game that they were already down four,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: nothing yet. and allow it to screw up the potential
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: of winning the next game, game five. But Dustin May
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: gathered himself. After that home run, he didn't give up anything.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: He finished off the second inning, finished through the third,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: finished through the fourth. So now after four innings, I
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: think it's 4-0. I'm not sure when the Brewers scored again.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, it starts. They start chipping away.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Here's two runs. Now it's 4-2. Murphy goes to his bullpen.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: He goes to a guy who's pitched very well, but
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: isn't one of the primal relievers.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: He goes to Jojo Romero, who, by the way, was
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: picked up.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: And everybody's saying the Dustin May trade was a bad deal.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I think people forget Jojo Romero was in that trade,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: and he's been huge. So you ended up getting five
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: innings of this game covered by the two guys who
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: came in the Cardinal trade. May, who had he not
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: settled down and given up four or five more runs,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: we wouldn't have won game four, but he did. And
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: then Romero comes in and pitches the fifth and sixth.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: The Brewers keep chipping away. Garrett hits his home run.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: And Aaron Ashby comes in and pitches three Cy Young innings.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: And it's over. And I'm watching this on my phone.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: By the time the game was ending, right around the
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: time I'm getting off the plane, whatever that was, and it.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Was almost disbelief.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't just disbelief because that game seemed unlikely
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: enough to win. I've been a Brewer fan since the
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: first game, and I remember the first game they played here.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: The team moved to Milwaukee a few days before the
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: start of the season when Bud Selig bought the Seattle
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Pilots out of bankruptcy court. They filed for bankruptcy, and
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: he made an offer, and the bankruptcy judge approved the offer,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: which discharged debt of the Seattle Pilots, and they dragged
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: the team to Milwaukee like a week before the season started.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: All right, I'm in grade school. I'm a baseball fan.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I was following the White Sox during that period in
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: between the Braves left I listened. I listened to the radio.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't skip school to listen on the radio. The
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: game wasn't on TV. But I listened on the way home.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: The Brewers lost 12-0. I remember who pitched. Lou Kraus
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: was the pitcher for the Brewers. They lost the first
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: game 12-0. And I have been a Brewers fan ever since.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: It took a long time before the first glory era
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: kicked in, which was the late 70s that overlapped into
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: the early 80s, which gave us our one-world series, which
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: they lost in the seventh game. That time the Brewers
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: were loaded with talent I don't think anybody would have thought.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: It had been nearly two generations before they're back. So
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: now they're back and you don't even know what emotion
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to have because the Brewers are in this
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: unusual situation of being in the World Series. But here's
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: the problem with that. We've just been focusing for so
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: long on getting to a World Series that now you
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: have to win it. We were in one before and
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: they didn't win it.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Brewers having the best record in baseball will have. It's
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: the same format as the NLCS. 1-2 are in Milwaukee,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: 3-4-5 at the American League team, and 6-7 in Milwaukee.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: As I do this podcast, Tampa is up 3-2 in
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the American League series. I felt going in that this
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: was almost a bye.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Tampa is way better than Cleveland. And I.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Admit I wasn't sure the Brewers could beat the Dodgers.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: I kind of didn't think they were going to beat
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: San Diego, which they barely did. They had not much
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: trouble at all with the Dodgers. Tampa is very, very tough.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: They may have the pitching advantage in the first three games.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Game one, they will have Drew Rasmussen going against Jacob Zyrowski.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: And Rasmussen right now is every bit as good as Miz.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: And the difference is Rasmussen, who's a veteran, can go
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: eight innings and Miz can only go five. And if
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: there's a game two, The guy who's pitching tonight for
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Tampa in game six, Freddie Peralta, the old brewer, is
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: likely to go. And Freddie Peralta was traded to the Mets.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: It was just terrible. May have been the worst starting
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: pitcher on all the Major League Baseball. The Mets traded
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the season to Tampa as they
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: tried to salvage something for the stupid trade they made
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: to get Freddie. And he's just been extraordinary. Freddie Peralta
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: has been as good as anybody the last two months.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: And he would face the Brewers' Logan Henderson. So I'm
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: hoping for a miracle, and I'm hoping the Cleveland Guardians
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: can come back and beat Tampa, because I think Tampa
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: will be really tough to beat. I think they might
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: have a pitching edge in starting pitching over the Brewers.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: The Brewers' bullpen remains as good as it's been, which
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: is a big if. They're overdue to be shelled. Then
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: the Brewers might have a bullpen edge, and I think
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: the Brewers hit a little bit better than Tampa Bay.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: But anybody who's listened to me realizes that I think
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: just about all of baseball is pitching, and Tampa had
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: the best record in the American League, the second best
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: record in all of Major League Baseball. I think they're
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: only one or two games behind the Brewers. They will
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: be very, very, very tough to beat. You know, it's
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: kind of like the Super Bowl. I mean, it's great
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: to get there, but if you lose it, it's almost
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: worse than if you hadn't made it. Brewer fans never
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: looked at that World Series loss of 1982 like that. People,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're still making movies and we're still celebrating
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: the 1982 team that lost. We're due to one one
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: of these things. I don't think it's going to be easy,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: but we're there. The ticket prices on the reselling outlets
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: are off the charts insane. I thought the face value
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: was insane. Thankfully, as a season ticket holder, I didn't
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: have to pay those prices. We are given deals if
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: we renew and take the postseason tickets. But the seats
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: in the area that I sit in on the resale
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: market are four, five, six, seven thousand dollars and I
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: could sell my, I'm not. I've been waiting literally my
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: entire life to go see a World Series in Milwaukee.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: And I want to go and I want to see
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: us win. I'm hearing people say, well, I hope that
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: if they win, they don't clinch in Tampa. I don't
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: care if they clinch this thing in Asheville, North Carolina.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Just win it somewhere. You know, there has been in
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: the history of baseball in Milwaukee, one World Series win.
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: I was alive.
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: But I have no memory of the 1957 Braves. They
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: went back and they were in the 1958 World Series,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: went to seven games. They lost it. My memory might
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: be wrong in this, but I think they won game
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: seven in 57 in New York. And I think they
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: lost game seven in 58 in Milwaukee. Might be wrong
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: about that. And then there was the 1982. So all
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: three World Series that Milwaukee teams were in, the two
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Braves and the one Brewers, they all went to the
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: seven games and they all went down to that last one.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: It's the great relief in the Dodgers series that we
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: got that over with. And people were saying, wouldn't it
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: have been great if the Brewers would have clinched in Milwaukee?
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: I'm watching on a tiny screen on my phone, and
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: it was great enough for me. It was just a
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: wonderful thing. You're listening to the Mark Belling Podcast. This
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling Podcast. I read online today that
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Dick Strong has passed away. This is a remarkable figure
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: and a guy who got a really raw deal. Back
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: in the early zeros, first of all, in the 90s,
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: mutual funds that were investing in growth companies just exploded
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: in value. And most of the strong funds, Richard Strong
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: named his mutual funds after himself. And first of all,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: it's a great name for a mutual fund, strong funds.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: But he didn't have to pick a sexy name for
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: the mutual funds. It actually was his name. And they're
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: involved in a lot of the really aggressive go-go stocks,
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: some of which did extremely well. in the 1990s, and
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of them obviously took a big hit when
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, but they started to
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: recover not long after that. It was during that time
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: that investigations began into insider trading within these funds. In
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: other words, the people who own the mutual fund company
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: moving their own money in and out of select funds. Now,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I personally don't think that there's anything wrong with that.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: If mutual fund investor can take their own money in
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: and out based on what they think the market is
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: going to do, I don't know why the operators of
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the fund couldn't do it. And there was no indication,
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: that at least I saw, that what Dixlog did in
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: moving his own money in and out of several of
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: the funds that he had in any way impacted the
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: shareholders of those funds.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: But it was investigated.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: At the time, the Attorney General of New York State
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: was a political opportunist. And in one of those things
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: in which things are just just, turned out to be
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: exposed as a sham and a fraud himself, who was
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Eliot Spitzer. And he was bringing these investigations and the
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: end result of it was, is that Dick Strong lost
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: control of his company and he had to pay a
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: fine and so on. And it was disgrace. And I
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: don't think it was justified, but he stayed in Milwaukee.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: And while he didn't run mutual funds anymore, he ran
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: investments of his own, and he may have had some
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: clients that he handled on a private basis. I met
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: him a couple of times. Last time I saw Dick
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Strong was probably, went to dinner with a bunch of guys,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: and now two of them, unfortunately, have passed away. I
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: won't name the others, but he knew of me and
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: listened to my show, and we talked for a while.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: He's just a great guy, and a great contributor to Milwaukee.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, Elliot Spitzer, he became John Doe number one.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: One of those John Does when they conducted investigation a
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: handful of years later into rich guys that were soliciting
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: prostitutes using one of those famous madams from New York.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was Heidi Fleiss, but it
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: was one of those famous madams that a bunch of
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: guys were giving a ton of money to to be
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: set up with hookers.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: And Elliot Spitzer was one of them.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I remember when that story broke, I said, The guy
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: who's got the biggest smile in his face at all
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: over Eliot Spitzer's demise had to be Dick Strong. Dick
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Strong was 84 years old. And now this story. The
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Tesla Roadster story. I don't know how many people are
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: aware of this. I've got Jason producing today. Jason, were
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: you familiar with the story of the new Tesla car,
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: the Roadster?
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: You did hear of it. Musk has invented... One of my.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Knocks on Tesla cars is, other than the truck, which
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: is just weird, they all look the same. And there
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: isn't really a high-end Tesla, and there's not a low-end Tesla.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: He's got several models. You know, there's a Y and
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: the 3. I think they did away with the S,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: and they might be doing away with the X. But
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: they all kind of look the same, and they've never
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: changed in appearance. They all look really, really generic. But
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: then he goes in, He finally does a pickup truck.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: And instead of looking generic, it's the weirdest looking vehicle
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: that's out there. So my kind of knock is that
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: he doesn't really make individualized cars that have style. He's
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: got a great product with regard to the electric cars,
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: but they don't look special. And the one that he
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: did step outside the box, he went too far outside
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: the box and created something that was really weird. Anyway,
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: given the fact that theoretically you can supply maximum power
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: instantaneously from an electric vehicle because you don't have an
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: engine in the car. You don't need a transmission. The
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: transmission doles out the power in little bursts. When you
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: have an electric car, there's no transmission. So theoretically, if
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: you've got enough battery power in the car, when you
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: step on the accelerator, you should be able to get
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: instantaneously as much power and torque as the vehicle has.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: And a lot of the Teslas and some of the
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: other electric vehicles have been doing things like zero to
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: 60 in 2.9 seconds. Kind of the numbers that super
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: cars worth, hype cars worth $ 13 million do. Musk's Roadster
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: goes zero to 60 in 0.87 seconds. Less than a second.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: In other words, it's a rocket on wheels. In addition
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: to that, it can fly. Now, the whole thing, it
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: can fly. Musk loves gimmicks. But I think this is
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: a relevant gimmick. He's developed a technology in which the vehicle,
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you can't go to zero to 60
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: in no seconds because it would mean the vehicle would
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: be in two places at the same time. But going
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: from zero to 60, a standing start. This isn't going
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: from 30 to 90 where you're already moving and having
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: momentum in less than a second.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, think about that, 1,001 seconds.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: In that period of time, that car went from not
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: moving to 60 miles an hour. That's an incredible thing.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: But he has the ability to have the car flip,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: move up into the air. I think this is a harbinger.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Musk is a genius. And a lot of the ideas
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: that Musk comes up with seem impossible.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: At the time.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: And they're implausible until they happen. They've been talking about
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: electric cars as long as I've been alive. Musk was
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: the guy that put them into mass production and turned
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: that company into a massive seller. People have talked forever
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: about private companies sending rockets up so that we don't
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: have the government doing Musk is sending rockets up right
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: and left. Musk believes that he can put data centers
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: on the moon and Mars. Well, if we can, if
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: we can actually put all the data centers on the
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: moon or maybe even on Mars and staff them with
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: the robots that he intends to build, it would certainly
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: deal with the problem of nobody wanting a data center
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: in their backyard. Again, it seems crazy to me. Musk's
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: ideas that seem crazy Inevitably come reality, the car that
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: got off the ground. This seems to me that the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Jetsons is finally reality. The Jetsons was a cartoon that
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: was on in the 60s. I think it ran, it's
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: probably still in reruns now. And it's this futuristic city
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: and it's, you know, they live way up in the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: sky and the car that they drove was actually a
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: flying car. And that's what George Jetson drove around in.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: And of all the technology advances that we've had, we've
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: never really had that. We've had advances like the scooter
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: and a bunch of other things that have been alternate
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: forms of transportation. But we've never had a thing where
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: a person can just start up a car and the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: next thing you know, put it up in the air.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: This is going to require lots of regulation and lots
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: of laws. And what kind of licenses do you need
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: to have a pilot license? But if Musk is able
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: to eventually mass produce a vehicle, that you can get 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 35,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: 40 feet off the ground. It's one of the game
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: changers of all time. It may really kill mass transit.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: It introduces, you know, his notion of the robo-taxi, that
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: none of us are going to own our own cars,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: that we're all simply going to push a button and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: the taxi that doesn't have a driver is going to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: come in and we're just going to sit in the
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: backseat and be driven there, which, you know, Waymo is
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: out there operating some of them. If he can combine
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: the notion of a robo-taxi with the robo-taxi actually being
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: able to safely fly, I bet they pull it off.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody else other than Musk can
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: do it. Clearly, Musk isn't, you know, figuring these things
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: out on his own. But what he does is he
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: envisions it. And he understands the technology enough to kind
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: of know how you would do it. And then he
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: hires geniuses that are able to execute it. So I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: think this vehicle, every now and then something happens in
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: which you realize the world just changed. I think the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Tesla Roadster may be the first step into ending gridlock,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: revolutionizing transportation by having all of us up in the air.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: And if he can have these things run without an
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: actual driver, you eliminate the problem of needing any skill.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: If via AI and robotic technology, these things can fly
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: on their own and program to get to the right
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: destination and not crack into one another. It's one of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: the great societal game changers. That's it for today's podcast.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: The next one is going to come around on Wednesday.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Growers don't play until Friday. And I, you know, I
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: think that you run the risk of losing some momentum
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: with Tampa and Cleveland still playing, but I need the
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: few days myself to get ready for this Friday, Saturday, Friday,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Then in the American League City, Monday, Tuesday, if necessary, Wednesday.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: And then if there is a game six and seven
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, Friday and Saturday of next weekend. Theoretically, game
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: seven would be played on Halloween night in Milwaukee.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: Talk to you soon.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Bye.
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