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Mark Belling Podcast #72:  Vile Winnebago County Democrat hands out apparent Trump death wish bracelet to small child (hate is the official emotion of the American left), Mark introduces you to someone about to be one of the biggest names in sports (he's from here) and Milwaukee tries to use state funds to continue the ripping up of streets Trump and the GOP clawed back · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: There's something going on that I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people still haven't fully processed, in part because it's almost
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable how bad it is. I think we first saw
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  Speaker 2: signs of this five years ago in twenty twenty, when
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  Speaker 2: you saw the depth of the riots and the just
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  Speaker 2: hatred directed toward police all over the United States using
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  Speaker 2: the George Floyd situation. I think as an excuse. In Wahwatosa,
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  Speaker 2: you had night after night after night after night of
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  Speaker 2: marches that's all fine, but included these massive mobs of
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  Speaker 2: people walking right up to Wahwatosa police officers and screaming
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  Speaker 2: in their faces the most vile and hateful thing. You
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  Speaker 2: could write that off as a one off. The lefties
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  Speaker 2: are the people that were scared to death that they'd
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  Speaker 2: all die from COVID. That was twenty twenty. You could
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  Speaker 2: write that off as dead in retrospect, it was the
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  Speaker 2: first sign of a phenomenon that I think the evidence
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  Speaker 2: just overwhelming is way worse than most people, including those
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  Speaker 2: of us on the right, are aware of. And that
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  Speaker 2: is the remarkable amount of hate that's just pervasive. And
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  Speaker 2: people will say that this is a stretch. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it is the entire Democratic Party. It's case after
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  Speaker 2: case after case of it. It's not just the political violence,
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  Speaker 2: not just the assassinations, not just the threats, not just
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  Speaker 2: the seeming glee that Charlie Kirk was killed. It's everything.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason I say pervasive throughout the entire party
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  Speaker 2: is I never that's a stretch. Almost never hear any
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  Speaker 2: condemnation of it, calling out of or consequences for coming
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  Speaker 2: from other Democrats. Here's my latest example. Again, all of
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  Speaker 2: these stories are unbelievable because it's hard to believe that
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  Speaker 2: you have people in this country that are this vile,
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  Speaker 2: this evil, this ugly. Oshkosh Oshkosh they've had to kick
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  Speaker 2: the Winnebago County Democrat Party out of the Oshkosh Farmers
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  Speaker 2: Market because one of the people that was working the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat booth at the farmer's market was handing out bracelets,
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  Speaker 2: one of which was given to an eight year old kid.
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  Speaker 2: The bracelet it's like one of these rubber bracelets that
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  Speaker 2: people have that have sayings on him and so on.
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  Speaker 2: It is he dead yet? The presumption is it's a
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  Speaker 2: reference to President Trump. Who else would it be? Is
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  Speaker 2: he dead yet? Apparently the person had a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the bracelets. We don't know how many were handed out.
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  Speaker 2: We do know that one of them was given to
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  Speaker 2: an eight year old and the eight year old happened
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  Speaker 2: to be a child of one of the people who
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  Speaker 2: runs the Farmer's market. And that's why the story made
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  Speaker 2: some news. Some news. It's been covered by a Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay TV station. I put it up on my account
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  Speaker 2: on X yesterday. If you want more details, you can
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  Speaker 2: But the story's been ignored by much of the mainstream media.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen any coverage of it by any of
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  Speaker 2: the gannet papers. That's JS online and so on. And
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  Speaker 2: the Oshkosh paper is one of the ones they own.
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  Speaker 2: But imagine this, and by the way, the Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: When to Go, you're saying, well, this is a volunteer
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  Speaker 2: and this wasn't authorized. Well, they haven't named the volunteer
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  Speaker 2: who ought to be named, And I haven't heard a
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  Speaker 2: peep of reaction from Democrats in Wisconsin condemning Winnebago Counties Democrats. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many people this's a booth at
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  Speaker 2: the farmers I don't know how many people are sitting there?
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  Speaker 2: Was this person the only one manning the booth? How
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  Speaker 2: many other bracelets were handed out? How many for that
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  Speaker 2: matter of lefties just out there are wearing these things?
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  Speaker 2: Is he dead yet? You've got it? First of all,
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  Speaker 2: nobody on my side can do something like this because
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  Speaker 2: you'd be ruined if you did it, which is probably
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. But second this you can't keep saying
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  Speaker 2: that this is isolated cases. This isn't the entire democratic
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  Speaker 2: it seems to be. If it wasn't, every Democrat in
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  Speaker 2: that party would say, it's this person here, we disassociate
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  Speaker 2: ourselves from them, and everyone would name this person. So
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  Speaker 2: the whole world knows what a monstrous creep is running out,
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  Speaker 2: is he said, not an option. Now this story, it's related.
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  Speaker 2: It comes from the state of Virginia. Give you some
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  Speaker 2: background on politics in Virginia. Virginia is one of those
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  Speaker 2: states that over the last thirty years has gone from
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  Speaker 2: being Republican to very solidly democrat. The biggest reason for
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  Speaker 2: it is simply the explosion in the size of the
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  Speaker 2: federal government. Those federal government employees they all have in
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  Speaker 2: either merrily of Virginia. They're not going to live in
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  Speaker 2: the city of Washington, d C. And the metro area
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  Speaker 2: of Washington, d C. The Virginia part has just boomed
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  Speaker 2: and exploded, and it is unbelievably democratic. Then there's college
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  Speaker 2: towns in there and so on. Much of the geographically.
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  Speaker 2: If you do the red blue chart of morning patents,
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  Speaker 2: the whole state is red. The blue is though, where
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  Speaker 2: the population all is. They did have that incredible election
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  Speaker 2: where Glenn youngin a Republican managed to win the governor's race,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems to have been a one off and
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  Speaker 2: Young Cain is term limited out he can't run for
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  Speaker 2: reelection this year. But the point is is that it's
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  Speaker 2: an extremely democratic state in the big way of the
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  Speaker 2: Trump had for example of the twenty forty four election,
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  Speaker 2: he did not win the state of Virginia. Anyway, to
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  Speaker 2: the governor's race there, I won't say it's a close race.
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  Speaker 2: In the latest polls at six to seven points, they
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  Speaker 2: can be wrong. The Democratic candidate is leading. The Republican
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  Speaker 2: candidate is very interesting. Woman wins the Earl series. African
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  Speaker 2: American woman has quite the life story to tell, and
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  Speaker 2: so she's trailing. Anyway. Now into that race is a
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  Speaker 2: new controversy. The Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia
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  Speaker 2: has been caught making vile texts. Again, are all of
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  Speaker 2: these people vile? And I'll tell you about him in
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  Speaker 2: a moment. They're really vile. Now, the Democrat candidate, he
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  Speaker 2: won't drop out of the race for attorney general. Whether
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  Speaker 2: he wins or not is not the point here. The
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  Speaker 2: bigger point is the Democrat candidate for governor will not
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  Speaker 2: disavow the Democratic candidate for attorney general who put out
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  Speaker 2: the vile texts. The vile texts basically cheered the killing
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  Speaker 2: of a political opponent in Virginia. Guy was killed, and
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  Speaker 2: the guy did texts about how essentially alluding to what
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  Speaker 2: a good thing that that was. Now the easy thing
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  Speaker 2: to do for a Democratic candidate for governor, You know,
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  Speaker 2: why tie yourself to this guy over there who said
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  Speaker 2: this is disavowed, say this terrible thing to do. Democrats
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  Speaker 2: can't do this, And I think they can't do it
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  Speaker 2: because they know huge swaths of their voter base agree
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  Speaker 2: with the guy who said it. They're all in and
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  Speaker 2: this hate, and they want true believers. There's an interesting
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  Speaker 2: column on this that appeared to the Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, and I want to share
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  Speaker 2: it because, well, the story is from Virginia. I just
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  Speaker 2: think it's increasingly typical. Democrat Abigail Spanburger is the favorite
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  Speaker 2: of the Virginia race for governor. Abba Gail's camp amburgers.
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  Speaker 2: She's the Democrat running for governor, not the attorney general
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  Speaker 2: put this out, but she's leading the commonwealths add year
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  Speaker 2: elections tend to favor the party that isn't in the
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  Speaker 2: White House, and Northern Virginia's full of federal employees. She
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  Speaker 2: has millions more in campaign cash than a Republican opponent
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  Speaker 2: lieutenant governor wins some earl series. Let me interject, I'd
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  Speaker 2: love to read a story once in which the story
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  Speaker 2: says the Republican has more money than the Democrat. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it is the last time, well, I know, the last
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  Speaker 2: time it happened before Citizens United, the case Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: case that the Democrats so criticized and now has turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be the best thing that has ever happened
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  Speaker 2: to them anyway, So the Democrat candidate has way more
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  Speaker 2: campaign funds than the republic Spanberger, a mother of three
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  Speaker 2: and former CIA officer, is a candidate from Central Casting
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  Speaker 2: to appeal for suburban swing votes. She is up six
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  Speaker 2: point five points to the latest Real Clear Politics average.
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  Speaker 2: Yet for all her advantages, Spanberger looked uncomfortable in the
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  Speaker 2: contest's only debate on Thursday, That's last week at Norfolk
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  Speaker 2: State University. That's doubtless because the biggest story of the
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  Speaker 2: past week has involved Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General. Fantasizing in leaked text messages about the murder
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  Speaker 2: of a political opponent and his family. Quote he receives
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  Speaker 2: both bullets every time. Jones told a then colleague about
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  Speaker 2: a Republican in a text that much of the country
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  Speaker 2: has now seen. You may have seen coverage of this.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody obviously leaked one of these texts in which he's
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  Speaker 2: fantasizing about the bullets. Two bullets every time he gets
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  Speaker 2: every time in this fantasy, this guy gets the two bullets.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the story, when the moderator asked Spamberger, now
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  Speaker 2: Democrat cannedate for governor, She's not the one who put
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  Speaker 2: out the text. It's the Cannifer Herney general who did.
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  Speaker 2: But the moderator asks, you can tell that this isn't
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  Speaker 2: a political debate in Wisconsin where the Wisconsin Broadcast Association
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  Speaker 2: picks a bunch of hack some local TV stations. Because
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  Speaker 2: its a good question, they asked the Democratic Cannifer governent, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think about this? If she still supports Jones,
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  Speaker 2: she dodged. Voters now have the information, and it is
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  Speaker 2: enough to voters to make an individual choice based on
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  Speaker 2: this information. I mean, that's just Kamala Harri's stuff. Only
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  Speaker 2: it was coherent, but it's a complete dodging of the question. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: no kidding. Voters have enough to make every The question
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  Speaker 2: is what about you? Do you ges avow this cretan? Wouldn't, no, kid,
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  Speaker 2: why wouldn't you if you're running for governor? Isn't the
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  Speaker 2: path at least resistance that just shed this guy off
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  Speaker 2: your back, this idiot with these And the answer is
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  Speaker 2: she must calculate that she would be fearful if their
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  Speaker 2: new backlash from other Democrats if she condemned somebody who
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  Speaker 2: is cheering to have Republicans killed. She denounced his words
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  Speaker 2: as absolutely abhorrent, but when pressed, she repeated her non answer.
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  Speaker 2: The story goes on, people keep saying, you're cherry picking
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  Speaker 2: these things. Well, yeah, we're cherry picking them up. But
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  Speaker 2: that's tons That cherry pickic just keeps on coming. The
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  Speaker 2: backdrop of this, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to follow my tim in here yesterday Tuesday. We're
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  Speaker 2: doing this podcast. On Wednesday, President Trump awarded posthumously Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Kirk America's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
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  Speaker 2: and declared the day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually going to read the proclamation here. Obviously, the White
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  Speaker 2: House staff's in charge of this, and it's rather short,
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  Speaker 2: but I think just an outstanding mini biography of what
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  Speaker 2: made Charlie Kirk the great human being that he was.
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  Speaker 2: Proclamation signed by the President on the afternoon of Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: September tenth, twenty twenty five, Pure evil struck down struck
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  Speaker 2: when the legendary Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight
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  Speaker 2: in a campus courtyard, triggering a ground swell of righteous
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  Speaker 2: fury all across our land. Today, our nation honors the
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  Speaker 2: immortal memory of Charlie, a father, a husband, a Christian martyr,
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  Speaker 2: and a titan of the American Conservative movement. We honor
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  Speaker 2: his life, we send our condolences to his beautiful family,
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  Speaker 2: and we pledge to advance the values for which he
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  Speaker 2: laid down his life. Every day, Charlie devoted himself to
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  Speaker 2: a set of simple causes, defending the truth, encouraging debate,
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  Speaker 2: and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was gracious
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  Speaker 2: and articulate beyond measure, always welcomed opposing perspectives, and never
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  Speaker 2: deviated from his noble goal of bridging our political, cultural,
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  Speaker 2: and philosophical divides. As we mourn this extraordinary loss, my
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  Speaker 2: administration will continue to do everything in its power to
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  Speaker 2: end this devastating wave of political violence. No civilized society
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  Speaker 2: can endure a culture where open debate is met with gunfire,
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  Speaker 2: the pursuit of truth is met with bloodshed, and love
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  Speaker 2: of country is met with seething hatred. In Charlie's absence,
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  Speaker 2: we are now tasked with continuing his mission of giving
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  Speaker 2: voice to our cherished American ideals. While with confidence and
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  Speaker 2: clarity like him, we must not flinch in the face
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  Speaker 2: of darkness and hostility, and we must never waver in
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  Speaker 2: speaking the truth with joyful and steadfast resolve. Today, on
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  Speaker 2: what would have been his thirty second birthday, our nation
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  Speaker 2: honors the loving memory of Charlie Kirk. We offer our
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  Speaker 2: condolences to his beautiful wife, Erica, and two precious children.
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  Speaker 2: We call on every American to pray for peace in
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  Speaker 2: our public square. Above all, we renew our resolve to
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  Speaker 2: always defend our principles of truth, faith, and the open
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  Speaker 2: exchange of ideas. Now, Therefore, I Donald J. Trump, President
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  Speaker 2: of the United States of America, by virtue of the
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  Speaker 2: authority vested in me by the Constitution of the Laws
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  Speaker 2: of the United States, to hereby proclaim October fourteenth, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, is a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.
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  Speaker 2: I call on the American people to assemble on this
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  Speaker 2: day in their respective places of worship, therefore to pay
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  Speaker 2: homage to Charlie's memory. I invite the people of our
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  Speaker 2: nation to pray for the advancement of peace, truth, and
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  Speaker 2: justice all across our country. In witness whereof I have
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  Speaker 2: hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of October, in
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  Speaker 2: the year of our Lord twenty twenty five and of
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  Speaker 2: the Independence of the United States of America the two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth. And then it's signed, of course by
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. Some comments the left in its attacks on
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  Speaker 2: those of us on the right, when it criticizes someone
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  Speaker 2: say who has bluster and is loud and vocal like Trump,
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  Speaker 2: demands that we be calm and respectful at advancing our
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  Speaker 2: ideas well. That's what Kirk was. As I've said in
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  Speaker 2: the past, I don't think I ever recall hearing him
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  Speaker 2: raise his voice. He engaged with people who disagreed with him,
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  Speaker 2: and he argued politely and logically his case. Yet they
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  Speaker 2: hated him as much as Trump. So don't give me
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  Speaker 2: that it's the tone, it's the this and the that.
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  Speaker 2: They simply seem to hate us, and hate is the
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  Speaker 2: right word. Look at the venom that came out when
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  Speaker 2: he was killed, and they acted as though he was
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  Speaker 2: this you know, racous screaming, you know, Alex Jones type.
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  Speaker 2: The reason Charlie Kirk was bigger than Alex Jones as
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  Speaker 2: ever was, is because people admired the style that Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Kirk presented. So my point is they seem to hate
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  Speaker 2: all of us. You've got this person working the booth
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  Speaker 2: at the Farmer's Market in Oshkosh handing out a bracelet.
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  Speaker 2: Is he dead? Yet you have people all across this
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  Speaker 2: country screaming, and yet look at the attacks on ICE
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  Speaker 2: officers for trying to enforce the law and get some
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  Speaker 2: lawbreakers out of our nation, by the way, a job
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  Speaker 2: that they have been assigned to do. ICE agents don't
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  Speaker 2: impose the policy. This hatred, as I say, is all
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  Speaker 2: over and they keep saying it's the people in the
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  Speaker 2: right that are the voices of hate bot. The reality
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  Speaker 2: is we're five years now into this, starting with the
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  Speaker 2: old George Floyd thing. It is NonStop rage and hate
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  Speaker 2: that again and again and again is turning in violence.
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  Speaker 2: And when it does turn into violence, it's greeted for
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  Speaker 2: nuons to the left because their actual reaction, I think,
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  Speaker 2: is to cheer it on. There are people who say
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  Speaker 2: that that point that I just made is over the top.
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  Speaker 2: To me, I think it's undeniable. Timing. One day after
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  Speaker 2: we had a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk,
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  Speaker 2: the board of directors of a local school, the God
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  Speaker 2: itself started by raising money from Conservatives, will vote on
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  Speaker 2: whether or not to band an organization founded by Charlie
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  Speaker 2: Kirk from having a chapter at the school. The timing
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  Speaker 2: is sort of coincidental, but not really, because the push
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  Speaker 2: to start these chapters really grew after Charlie was killed,
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  Speaker 2: as young people are determined they need not be snuffed out.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the board of directors at the school,
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  Speaker 2: Lake Country Classical Academy apparently meeting to decide whether or
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  Speaker 2: not to tell the principle of the school, who has
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  Speaker 2: sanct demoniously said I'm not allowing a turning Point USA
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  Speaker 2: chapter here. Her name is Margaret Hagenor, and yes she's
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  Speaker 2: the wife of Supreme Court Justice Brian from banning the organization.
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  Speaker 2: And in this period of time, many of the people
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  Speaker 2: who want to defend the school pretend that they are
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  Speaker 2: standing up for some sort of principle as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: doing exactly what we all know they're doing. They don't
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  Speaker 2: want a Charlie Kirk group there because no matter how
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  Speaker 2: polite and respectful Charlie Kirk is, Jayas think that they're
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  Speaker 2: above that. This is after they went and shilled for
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  Speaker 2: money from us. As I've said repeatedly, there are any
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  Speaker 2: number of ways that this could have been accommodated beyond
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  Speaker 2: the principle sending on a sanctimonious letter to the community saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Point wants to come in and tell us that
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  Speaker 2: they're up to our standards, shut up. I just did
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  Speaker 2: a segment on the podcast maybe two or three ago
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  Speaker 2: on the drift of conservative organizations. This particular school, Lake
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  Speaker 2: Country Classical Academy, its board of directors is like field
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  Speaker 2: of Scott Walker types. The an honorary member of the
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  Speaker 2: board of directors is Scott Walker. To his credit, he
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  Speaker 2: has publicly condemned the actions of the principle that has
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  Speaker 2: urged the voting members of the board to reach an
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  Speaker 2: accommodation here, and I would hope that they would do so.
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  Speaker 2: But again, this is a relatively new school. It was
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  Speaker 2: cheered when it opened because it's affiliated with Hillsdale College,
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  Speaker 2: probably the best known conservative college in the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America, to develop a curriculum that would be essentially
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: anti woke. So who was it that, first of all,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the public schools are all horrified by all these schools,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: because every kid that goes to a school like this
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: is somebody not going to a regular public school. And
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I should mention this school is a semi public school.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: It's a charter school. Charter schools are public schools not
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: run by the school district. This one is chartered by
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: a Native American tribe, the La Cordee Charter School. But
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: it's the left that hates all these schools because they
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: take away potential enrollments and therefore jobs on the union
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: higed schools. And secondly, who comes up with the money
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: to get these conservatives is it's Hillsdale backed and so on.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: And here you are real quickly just doing everything that
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: can to run away from anything that any conservative would
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: stand for, and it's got to be nipped in the bud.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: If it isn't nipped in the bud, give this school
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: two or three more years, and it's going to be
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the same left wing piece of crap that most of
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the other public schools are unless you nip it in
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the bud. And nipping in of the bud means that
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you can't allow people like Margaret Haggart or to run
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: around and tyrannically obstruct things like this. They'll saying, well,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: they got a rule that we don't have both side organizations.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Now you got that rule. I get that, Like the WYA,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: we have a rule. There are always ways to do
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the right things within the confines of the rules. And
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: one of the things I suggested is that they have
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the chapter. They can meet in the school and so on,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and they simply consider it to be an independent chapter
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: by the students at the stud school will facilitate the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: space for them to do it, and they can, you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: do all of that stuff, but it be an independent chapter.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: In the same way that you have many of these
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: club sports at high schools that don't have an official
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: team in a specific sport. There's, like I said, there's
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a zillion ways you could do it. You know, boy
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: scout troops often use schools, but this boy scout troup
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: might not be a direct part. There's a million ways
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you can do it, but there was no attempt to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: do that. Instead, there was a public attempt. Hold no, no, no,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: no way, Charlie Curley, We're not that. Where do all
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: your money come from? Conservatives who endorsed you on his program?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: May I think all this that I'm describing as part
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: of the same thing. There is a loathing and hatred
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: of anything right, and that loathing and hatred it doesn't
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: mean that every single last one of them wants to
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: kill us, but many do. And when you see this,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it's never condemned. There isn't even a story, as I
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: said in jas online about the fact. Can you imagine
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: if some Republican volunteer was handing up bracelets like this
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and during the Biden years, name that hammer ended up.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, for heaven's sakes, person be locked up in jail. Now,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: this this is part of the ongoing series of here's
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: what we're up against. One of these things I just
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: honestly don't know. Is for some of you who don't
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: live who live in the suburbs, and I know, obviously
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: if you're live outside the country, do you have any
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: idea what's happened to the streets in downtown Milwaukee. I
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: do know this. I remember the first time Paul saw
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the trolley tracks, or might have been the first time
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: you saw the trolley it was, but whatever it was,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: whenever that came in how many years ago, and Paul
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: said he made some comment about it. Who couldn't believe it?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I've been describing this for seven years, and it's just
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: the function of if I've learned anything, people react more
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: strongly to that that they see than what they merely
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: hear about. It doesn't seem to matter how much I
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: describe something. People just never believe it's as bad as I. Well,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: what's happening on the streets of downtown Milwaukee, no matter
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: how bad you think it is. They've taken all of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: these four lane streets that had you know, two and
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: four lanes plus parking lanes and taking it all down
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to just two lanes, one in each direction. And they
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: don't allow you to like pass on the right or anything,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: because they put these curbs, the concretes right in the
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: middle of the street and they call it a dedicated
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: bike lane. There's no bikes using these things. The reason
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that it's up there is they're simply trying to narrow
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: up the street. And the reason it's being done is
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: because the mayor is clueless is how to stop the
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: reckless driving going on like crazy, So he's just figuring
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: make the streets almost impos to drive on. And it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: going on all over the city. The worst street is
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Van Buraen, but they're doing all of Michigan Street, all
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the way from about I don't know about eighth Street
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: to the Lake they're doing. They're ripping that one and
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: it's just continuing and continuing, continuing. Anyway. They got this
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: money from a Biden program that was funded in twenty
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: twenty four. Trump and the Republicans did recently the clawback.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: You may recall the clawback. The Supreme Court hasn't ruled
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: out it yet. The clawback is funds that were appropriated.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Does Trump have to spend them? In other words, if
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: there was money appropriated in the past, does that mean
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that the current president has to spend it? We know this.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: The president can't spend money that wasn't appropriated, but if
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: it is appropriated, does it have to be spent? And
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the Republicans said, well, we don't agree with this, so
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: we're not going to spend it. We're simply gonna let
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the money sit in the treasury and cut the size
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: of the deficit. This program, this Urban Streets program that
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee's tapped into for all of this is the source
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: of the funding. Well. Among the streets that are next
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: up on the hopper to be ripped up are two
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: major thoroughfares. One is Sixth Street, which runs all the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: way from downtown into the near south side. It's a
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: very heavily trafficked street. There are a couple of others
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: as well. National l Avenue is another one. This is
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: the part of National Avenue that would be we're not
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: talking West National Avenue out in West Allis and so on.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: This is like in Milwaukee from about sixteenth Street. It's
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: right in the middle. It's in the area where Milwaukee
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Tech is. It's in the middle of a heavily Latino area.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It's kind of the link to Walker's Point. Heading toward
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the third ward, it's already an extremely busy street. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: just can't even imagine what it would be like if
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: you rip at and just turn it into the two
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: lanes with all the buses and the Amazon trucks and
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the places that do the restaurant deliveries that double it
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: just excess them anyway. Now they don't have the money.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Liberals are very creative when they're told they don't have
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the money. So Mayor Chevy doesn't have the federal money
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: because Trump and the Republicans, thankfully they have clawed it back.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: There's a story in JS online on this what Mayor
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Chevy is now again. For those of you who just
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: do not understand how liberals think, don't worry. I'm here
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: to help you out by telling you, like you have
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: no idea what they could possibly do if Trump clawed
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: back the money, do you no, Well, they go to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: somebody else. Who's next Tony Abers. They're going to the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: state Department of Transportation and will seek unallocated funds there
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: at The Republican legislature has not allocating any funds for this,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: but DOT has it. I've been on this thing for years.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: DOT has this massive slush fund of cash just laying around.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: So mayor Chevy is going to ask the taxpayers of
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the rest of the state of Wisconsin, all of you
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: people sitting there in Veroqua and fond alec at everywhere else,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to take millions and millions of dollars out of the
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: state road fund to allow me or Chevy to screw
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: up even more streets in the city of Milwaukee. I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: don't know if any Republicans in the legislature are even
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: aware of this, of this being going on. And as
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I say, many of you out there, you think, go, well, okay,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: he's got a little curbs and maybe it's a little
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: harder to drive. You just you have no idea. Serrely, seriously,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: you have no idea. I don't know how much better
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I can describe it other than you have no idea.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Whatever you think it is, it's fifteen times worse. I
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: want to address hard to figure out what the right
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: term is. Obviously, tragic is partly correct. Case in Milwaukee.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: A Milwaukee woman has been arrested and charged with beating
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: her mother to death with a rock. She took a
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: rock to where mother's had and kept slamming. Was caught
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: in the act by a witness who called the police.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: The Fox six report and the report of the other
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: local TV station websites all say the same through all
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: quoting neighbors at saying nobody surprised the woman being charged.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Her name is Laurence Spores, that spelled spo Rs. The
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: dead woman is named Carrie Zettel. The neighbors say that
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the daughter has been violent and a problem forever. She's
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: apparently been diagnosed schizophrenic. One of the problems, and it's
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: been discussed by me in the past, and many of
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: you are aware of it, is it's almost impossible to
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: institutionalize someone against their will. The standard of proof is
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: incredibly difficult. You have to prove that they are of
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: imminent danger to themselves or someone else. And again that's
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: a high standard. And in the case, for example, this
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: until she hits her mother over the head with a
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: rock a zillion times, people said, well, she won't do that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: It's again almost impossible to do it. And it's likewise
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: almost impossible. There are very yeah, I think this is correct,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: very good drugs to treat these kinds of things. But
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: people who have these kind of psychoses schizophrenia, a manic, depressive,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: and so on. Many of them can't stand taking their meds.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that there are hundreds of people listening to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: this podcast who have a relative or know of this situation.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: They hate taking their meds, and of a situation if
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: someone I knew in Florida she had a kid that
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: was like this, I mean, the parents never know what
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: to do, but they don't want to take their meds.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: When they take their meds, they're if not fine close.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: The problem is the meds tire them out and they're
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: just they don't like it. I wouldn't like it either,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: But the alternative is they're this. I'm raising this issue
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: here for a reason. However, I'm just telling you I
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: don't know this, but I'm gonna make a guess. I'm
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: gonna make a guess that this woman is on pod.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: The link between marijuana use in schizophrenia is getting overwhelming.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: And again when people say a link, well, I do
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: spot and I'm not schizophatic. I didn't say that not
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: everyone who smokes pot or gets cannabis in another form
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: is schizophrenic. But I'm just telling you just about everybody
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: who is schizophrenic uses pot. The length there is seemingly
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: very real the marijuana, the cannabis that we have right
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: now is extremely powerful lenotia that it can get in
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: there and buzz your brain into the zombiesm that you're
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: at without potentially doing numerous other things, particularly when some
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: of these people are on all sorts of other meds
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: as well. The interaction. I don't know that there's a
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: connection with the booze and the schizophrenia either, and there
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: may be. I'm just never, I'm just never. I'm just never. No,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I don't know that there's a
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: connection in any way with alcohol and schizophrenia. Maybe there
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: will be, I know, not saying that there is or
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: there is it. I'm talking here with regard to the
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: thing that you see again and again and again every
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: time they find I mean, there's been studies that just
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: show that almost everyone with schizophrenic is a cannabis user.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Not everyone, but it's an incredibly high number. And we
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: just keep running around legalizing and legalizing and legalizing and
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: encouraging and encouraging, encouraging despite the fact that, and I
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: understand what the point is. Not everybody who uses pot
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: becomes mentally ill, so we well, why shouldn't I be
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: able to use it. I didn't. I'm not becoming mentally ill,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: and it's a valid enough point. The question is how
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: common does the association have to be? But schizophrenic, I
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: just it's the same thing with autism. I've been around
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: long enough that when I was younger, these illnesses they existed,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: but they were so rare it's now all over. I'm
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: not suggesting the link between autism and POT. I think
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Kennedy is onto something though, that with other types of
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: pills that are blocking the nerves, the pain receptors in
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: the brain, that they may be contributing to a dulling
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: in general of what's going on in the fetus. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: maybe it is the tylenal thing or not. But I
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: do know, though, is this I'm just gonna predict, And
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: again maybe I'm wrong. I'm gonna predict that this woman
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: who killed her mother by banging her head with a rock,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: it's a POT user. Again, maybe I'm wrong about that,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: but I think it's a pretty safe. Guest, you're listening
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I've liked to do over
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the years. In fact, whenever somebody tells me about something
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: like this, They always say, I know you Like that
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: is to kind of bring things to people's attention before
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: most people know about it. In other words, kind of
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: get ahead of the curve on something that is going
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: to be a big friend or is going to be
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: a big deal. And the downside of this is I
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: never say nobody's ever told. I'm just saying I don't
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: think most people are aware of it. Clearly some are, well,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: you're the first there's That's not what I'm saying. What
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I'm saying is I am trying to bring to your
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: attention and highlight something that most are not aware of.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: The story is rather extraordinary. Now I know why most
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: people aren't aware of it, but that's almost part of
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: the thing that makes the story interesting. Jordan Stoltz just
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: stole an namo it. My guess is about ninety eight
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: percent of you don't know who I'm talking about. There
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: is a very good chance that in four months, ninety
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: eight percent of you will know who I'm talking about.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: As you probably know, the Olympics are three and a
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: half months away. They're in Milan, well kind of in Milan.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: They're actually all over northern in a Liba. Milan is
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: the biggest city there winner Olympics of course they start
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: early February. Jordan stolt is from Kewaskam. He has a
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: chance to win gold in multiple speed skating events. He's
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: knocked out a couple of world records. The thing about
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: him is is that in the sport, and by the way,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I should mention, there are two forms of speed skating,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: long crack and short track. And you know the differre
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: sitting long crack and short track. One is long and
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: one is short. Short track is the newer sport. It's
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: almost it's almost like a circle that they go around
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: in whereas longer tracks are you know, they're longer. It's
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: it's a different form. The longer tracks are guys that
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: will think of Eric Heiden, Body Blair and so on.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: That's long crack. He he competes. He competes in the now.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: There are short races, there are spreads, but it's just
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: it's it's long crack, is what Stoltz is it. He
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: trains at the peddict in that particular sport. You tend
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to get a little bit better as you get a
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: little older. In some sports, in say track and field
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: and so on seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. You
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: never get any faster than that. Speed skating. It tends
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: to be in your mid to late twenties. Eric Heide
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: and Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair, many of them, they lasted
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: in that sport for a number of years. Because it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: a sport in which you're combining so many different traits.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Strength comes into play as much as speed, development of
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: the muscles, stamina, technique, all that stuff. Anyway, I've linked
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: up on my site on x dot com two stories
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: they tell you a lot about. One was written by
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: the Washington County Insider. That's Judy Stephus's publication. That's very,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: very good. She quotes a journalist from the Netherlands who's
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: come to the United States to report on him. Why
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: the Netherlands, What do you know about the Netherlands and
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: speed skating? Call? Come on, Hans Brinker and the Golden
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: skate it is. It's like the like our version of football.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: That's the United States. That's what the Netherlands is. Speed
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: skate it is their big sport. I also linked up
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: a piece on nbcsports dot com, which is profiling major
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: American athletes. There's the chance that he's going to win
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: more medals than anybody at this Olympics, or maybe or not.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: I mean you have to compete. His forte is the
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: shorter distances, the five hundred, one thousand and fifteen hundred
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: and that's meters. And again in speed skating for the
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: long crack, those would be shorter races if it's shorter
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: than that, but that's basically the range that he's in. Anyway.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: There are some quotes here. This is from Judy Steph
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: his story and the Washington County Insider. She interviewed this journalism.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: This journalist is Dutch journalist who came in from Amsterdam.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: I want to read his name, but I'm telling you
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: if I say his name, it will take up the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: rest of the podcast. Should I give it a shot?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I think the first name is these. It's spelled t
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: h I JS. I'm guessing these. I'm guessing that Jay
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: is silent, wouldn't you. I don't think it's stigious. I
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: think it's these or here's the last name. I have
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: to say it. I think that there are forty nine
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: syllables here. I exaggerated. This is though this is right
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: up there with with Giannis's last name's length. Niemann's fat
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: vert driat. I'm just saying Niemant vert driat. Now, I
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: suppose if you say it fasted, if you'll have his name.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: But I had to go that slowly to be able
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: to announciate and get all this. Anyway, these is came
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: to Kuwaskam to do a story here because this guy
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: may be the star of the Olympic sport that is
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: so big over there. I'm going to quote a few
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: lines from the story in the Washingtononian Center means med zend.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say these I'm going to say his
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  Speaker 2: first name. A writer from Amsterdam made the trip across
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  Speaker 2: the Atlantic to me. Jordan Stolt's the twenty one year
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  Speaker 2: old speed skating phenom whose rise is captivated fans worldwide
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: and especially in the Netherlands. A country. We're skating is
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: closer to a national religion than a pastime. They quoted thief. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: He's a phenomenon very well known in Holland. I think
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: even better known there than in the United States. Well,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: I think that's correct, because I don't think anybody knows
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: them in the United States. Quote. We see him as
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  Speaker 2: the main candidate to win a lot of medals at
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the coming Olympics in Milan, and that makes his story fascinating. Quote.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a Dutch TV report where they went to
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  Speaker 2: his parents' house and showed the pond where he learned
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: to skate. Where these stories get to be. He learned
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: to skate in a pond in the backyard. It's just
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I suppose you got to learn to skate somewhere,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: but it just seems to me that most of what
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: that's where you learned. How many Olympic medals did you win?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: You know? That's like saying the Williams sisters learned in
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: the backyard when they were two, with I'm guessing by
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: the time they were four they were at a tenants
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: academy with their crazed father who said, I'm going to
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: make the two greatest tennis players in the world. That anyway,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: quote the says that really struck me. Who learns to
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: skate on their own pond and then turns out to
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: be this talented that's the key. People learn how to
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: skate on their own pond, are you. It's a story
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: that feels very pure, almost old fashioned in the best way.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: In a country like the Netherlands, where Olympic skaters are
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: household names, Stoltz's rise has sparked both awe and friendly rivalry.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: The Dutch have long dominated the sport with vast resources,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: deep tradition, and pack stadiums, but these said Stalls represents
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: something new, a humble American shaking up a sport that
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: one seemed untouched by outsiders. Quote. Every once in a
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: while someone comes from abroad and beats the Dutch. It
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: looks like this is going to happen with Jordan. Honestly,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to beat him in Milan.
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  Speaker 2: Back home in Europe, Stoltz his face is familiar. It
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: appears on TV sports pages and skating broadcasts across the continent.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: But in the United States he can still shop at
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: the grocery store unnoticed. Well, you kind of from up there.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: You think if Jordan walks to the grocery store a Kiwasca,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: anybody knows who he is. I don't know. I don't know.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: But if he goes up the road to West bed
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: probably then he's anonymous again. Right, Yeah, Okay, it's kind
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: of weird, he said in Holland, Norway or Germany. People
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: will recognize him. Here. He can walk into a supermarket
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: and no one will know who he is. Again, this
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: guy has come over to the United States report of
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the story. He probably asked a few people they know
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: who Jordan's and then provo said, no, who's that? But
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: if he wins a few gold medals in Milan, that
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: will change. He'll become an American star. That part is true.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: And this is where I wanted to interject as to
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: why it is. There are some sports you almost need
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: a psychoanalyst to figure out why this is. There are
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: some sports that Americans go crazy over but only during
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: the Olympics. Gymnastics would be number one on that list.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, nobody pays any attention to some owned
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: bios and she competes on the nationals in a non
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Olympic year. The same thing with women's figure skating or
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: men's figure skating when they have the gold medal events
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and that they have world championship with that, every year
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: they have other meets and so on. I'm not saying
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: when I say nobody, I mean hardly anybody pays any
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: attention to that. Track and field is another one. We
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: just had the Every year they have the American Championships
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: in Eugene, Oregon, hardly anybody pays attention when you have
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: the Olympics. There are a number of sports that here
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: in the United States just get I would see another
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: one to throw in a couple of others. The kind
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: of skateboarding that they do in those half shells and
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: all of that. I never see p I don't think
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: people know who the top figures in that are. But
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: when you get to the Olympics and two or three
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: or four people beach volleyballs another one. Remember those two
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: women that won it like sixteen years in a row
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: or whatever. Yeah, I know, but I don't think anybody
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: paid attention. And then when they were just competing. There
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: are just a number of sports that like that in
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: the United States, and it's curious. It's to why Americans
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: have such an incredible interest in these sports. Greetings monstrous
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: in the Olympics, but almost zero any other time. So
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: you know, in the Netherlands, the sport's a big deal
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: all the time. So if Jordan wins, America loves winners
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: in the Olympics. If Jordan does knock out, say one
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: gold or maybe multiple silvers. You know, does a mini
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Eric Heiden thing or anything. Everybody is going to know
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: about him. And the point that's being raised here is
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: and again, you can be an early favorite. End. You know,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: it took Dan Jansen forever to win his gold, so
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: one things can happen, et cetera. Continuing with the story,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: in the February twenty twenty six Olympics, Stoles has set
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: has sits on competing in the five hundred meter, one
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: thousand meters and fifteen hundred meter events. He currently holds
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the world record in all three events. So I mean
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: this means he's it. He's already the world record holder
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: in all three of those events. See, he's the world
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: record holder. He's probably the favorite to win the gold
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: and all of them. Again, it doesn't mean he will.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: You can slip, anything can happen, but he's already the
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: world record holder in all three of these. He's from Kewaska.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Don't say you knew who he was because I threw
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: his name out there a minute to going you didn't
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: know what he was. And again, how would anyone know?
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: When's the last time you saw any local? It's just
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: it isn't covered, continuing, this would be stole. It's the
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: second trip to the Olympics. He competed in twenty twenty
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: two in Beijing, where, according to NBC Sports, he was
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: the third youngest American at seventeen to ever compete in
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: long track speed skating. So again, this is a sport
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: where like nineteen twenty that's when you start to get
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: to world class level and so on. So in twenty
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: twenty two he was the third youngest American ever in
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: long track, I think, And again short track is a
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: separate sport. Doesn't reference that for now. These that's this
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: long name. Guy is happy to tell a story what
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Americans are only just beginning to appreciate. But a young
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: what a quiet, modest young man from rural Wisconsin who
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: might be the best skater in the world. He's not
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: someone who brags, he said. He's calm, modest, but inside
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: you can see that there's this fire, this competitiveness that
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: drives him. That's what makes him special. As for predictions,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: these is cautious. The Olympics are unpredictable. There's always some surprise,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: he said. But if all goes well, I think he
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: could win three gold medals five hundred, one thy fifteen hundred.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: That would be truly unique. It's amazing. Really, a boy
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: from a pond in Keywascam might just conquer the Dutch
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: at their own game. That's the kind of story you
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: fly halfway around the world to tell a good story
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: on the watching a Cony insider about this guy who's
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: over there in so again, now you know who Jordan
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Stoltz is, and see what happens. The Olympics start February third,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: and again they're saying Milan. But as I understand it,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: the events are all over and again. Northern Italy is
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: the mountainous region and so on, and it's cold there
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: in the winter. So on, what do you know about Milan?
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: We've been to Milan, haven't we? Well, I gotta think
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: now we went to Florida. We went. We went to Florence,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: which is right in the vicinity. I don't remember anymore,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: but I have the I have the disadvantage of being old.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I don't mean this is always on cruises and so on.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't think we actually, I don't know.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: We didn't go to Milan. For one thing. It's more
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: inland and the other cities are closer to the sea,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: if not on the sea that we end up going to.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I know that the people in southern Italy they think
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: that the northern Italy people twity twity, you know how.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I know that there was a Sopranos about that. That's
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: that's what Fourio said. Maybe he made it up, and
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: maybe there isn't any any of that bigotry. But the north,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: you know that was Da Vinci and all that, they
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: think they're the culture and all of that, and they
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: think the ones in southern Italy they think that they're
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: just they're just you know, boors and so on. Again,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: maybe that's not true, but that's what Fourio said in
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: the Sopranos. That's the extent of my knowledge on this.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Now it's time to move on. The Business journal they're
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: known for. I think these lists. Every public every week
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: they have one of these lists on the one the most,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: the most that, the most other thing. You've seen these lists,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: haven't you? Even every year put on a book of
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: all the lists. Well, I learned something about these lists,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: you know what I learned? They might be crap. They're
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: in the most recent issue they have a list You're
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: of corporate charitable contributions in Wisconsin ranked by total contributions
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: to Wisconsin charity organizations in twenty twenty four. So they
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: take all the companies in the state of Wisconsin and
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: rank who gave the most money to charity. So look
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: at the list again. My brain is wired different than
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: everybody else. I'm seeing something and the analytical gears are
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: just going. Most people take things at face value. Here's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: those number one WEC Energy Corporation, two, Northwestern Mutual three,
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Husco International four, Freighted five, Coals six, Johnson Controls seven,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Associated Bank eight, BEMO nine, bared Can Brewers Community Foundation eleven,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: West Bend Insurance twelve, Johnson Financial thirteen, Aosmith fourteen, Town
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Bank fifteen, M three Insurance sixteen, The Marcus Corporation seventeen,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Godfriancan eighteen, Waterstone Financial goes on. I'm looking at this list,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: know and again some of you who just take everything
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: get fased out. Oh it's interesting, Waterstone Financials eighteen. We
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: have giant companies and what are they chincy, They don't
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: give any money. Are you telling me that Kohler's not
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: on that list? Sc Johnson Minards go through American Family Insurance.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: But they're not on the list. It's not inquired about this.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: I emailed Timothy Gibbons, who's the editor. You know why
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: they're none of the list because the list is only
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: based on companies that volunteered the information. This isn't an
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: actual list of donations. They said that many companies didn't
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: respond to with it. Well, of course many don't. Many
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: companies don't want to indicate how much they want to
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: give others do, so the list is based solely on
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: self reporting. And I said, was just the case with
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: all your lists when you put for example, largest schools
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: and all that. If somebody doesn't respond to you not
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: include them. I thought when I saw a lists like this,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: that that meant that they were doing digging or try
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: to come up with you know, like the we mentioned
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: the four four hundred ordranks the four hundred richest people
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: in the world. And soon they have people who do
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: nothing all year but try to estimate the worth of
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: say someone like Donald Trump or Judy Faulkner of EPIC
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: and soone. That's their sole jobs all year and they
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: try to come up with it anyway, So I emailed
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Gibbons and he gave me a response, and I'm going
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: to read it to you. Let me start with some
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: context around the list. The majority of our lists, this
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: one included, are built out of surveys sent to a
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: group of target companies, usually ones that have volunteered for inclusion,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: either by filling out the link I included in my
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: previous email, or by reaching out to us directly, including
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: after we publish a list they're not on or wish
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: to be. For this specific list, we spent several years
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: soliciting companies who wish to be included, creating the pool
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: of organizations we survey. You will, of course, have known us.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: The footnote that states about the list participation in the
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: list of Corporate Charitable Contribute contributors was solicited from the
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: participation request for possible inclusion. And indeed that is here
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: in small type pall. You should see this, this little
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: tidy type. No one would read that is reading that
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: down there. He continues, As far as I know, there
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: was no one who reached out to be included who
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: was not. Well, Okay, that means all these big giant
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: corporations that I mentioned didn't reach out to be included.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Because there's zillion reasons why many companies don't want us
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: disclose how much money that they give. Sometimes it's proprietary.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it comes across as bragging. Like one of the
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: entities that's not a list. I don't know. You know,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: there's a certain businesses in Milwaukee that are sanctimonious and
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: to go on and on Potawatomy is insufferable, miracle like
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Canal Street and all of this stuff. They don't give
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: that much money away, but they brag about every last
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: dollar as if that's going to make it more justifiable
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: for somebody to go in the slot machines. But then
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: there are many others who it's unseemly to do so,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: or they think by doing so, they're just going to
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: be hit up for more people for more money and
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: so on. But anyway, the point of all of this
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: is is that all these lists that they have, it's
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: based basically on whether or not they tell them. Secondly,
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: do they addit? How do you know that somebody there
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: are some people in business I think that might inflate
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: their amount of money that they give, like you. Let's
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: discuss the Brewers Dodgers series. First of all, the context
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: of how the series has gone so far, and as
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: we do this podcast, of course the Dodgers are up
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: two to nothing. It's just so easy after the fact
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: to say this, and I grant this, but I had
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: very little expectation that the Brewers would win. For any
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: of you who've ever paid any attention to my commentary
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: on baseball, I think pitching is about all that matters
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: in baseball. Some people disagree, and it just the way
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: it worked out is the Brewers pitching fell apart down
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: the stretch with injuries and guys just got banged out,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: and they really only going into the postseason hit two
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: starting pitchers, Freddy Parolta and Quinn Priester. Quinn Priester is inexperienced.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: After getting Sheldon one start, they don't even want him
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: to start. They'll have him pitch multiple innings, but do
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: it by coming in in the second of the third inning.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Jacob Mezerowski stopped being a reliable starter, so they're trying
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: to use him by you pitching in multiple innings without
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: starting the game and so on. And in the case
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: of Freddy Parolta, it's just clear if you've looked at
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: his performances down the stretch, he's worn out. In fact,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: as at the game last night, his fastballs normally ninety six.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: I saw him at ninety six only twice the entire game.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: He was in the ninety three to ninety four rage.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: So I just think that the starting pitching is kind
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: of worn out, and they've been trying to cobble together
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: these games. Their best games have been ones in which
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: they use five or six gate guys out of the
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: bullpen and so on. And the thing with the Dodgers
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: is all year they're pitching as stunk, except Blake Snell
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: has come along down the stretch and is right now
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: as effective as any pitcher in baseball. He almost pitched
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: the perfect game against the Brewers in Game one, a
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: game the Brewer is almost won because the manager of
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers our secret repon is Dave Roberts is an idiot,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Dodger fan, and bitched about it. He
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: took a guy out who had pitched essentially a perfect
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: game through eight hittings. He gave up one base runner
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: and that base runner immediately got thrown out trying to
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: steal second anyway, and then there was the game last night.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers are a team filled with home run hitters
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: and so on, and if the Brewer pitching isn't sharp,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: I don't see him winning. So again, it's so simple.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: After you're down to nothing. Oh, I figured they'd be
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: down to nothing. And I understand just saying something after
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: the fact, but it is what it is. More to
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: the point, there was a big story in the Wall
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Street Journal earlier this week on this series, and that's
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: what I want to dive into here. I didn't know
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: if you all know that, But there is a very
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: strong chance there will need be no baseball season in
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. The current player union contract expires at
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: the end of the twenty six season. The owners want
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: a salary cap. Baseball does not have a salary cap.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: They have attacks. The baseball system works that after you
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: go over a certain amount, you have to pay a
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: tax to the league and the money is distributed to
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: the rest of the teams. But there's no cap. Football
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: has a salary cap. Basketball is a salary cap. Both
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: are really complicated as to how they work, but there
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: is a number that if you butt up against it,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: you really can't spend any more than that. Baseball doesn't
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: have one. The owners want a salary cap, but that
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: has to be negotiated with the union. Obviously, the players'
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: union don't want a salary cap because the salary cap
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: whatever that is multiply by the thirty teams. That's the
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: max that can go to the players and salaries. And
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: it is perceived that neither side will budge on this,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: and both might be willing to forego an entire season
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: in order to win that battle. That's the backdrop anyway
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: that has brought up this discussion of the Brewers Dodgers series.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: The players Union is making the case baseball doesn't need
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: a salary cap, and what is that case? Premison the Brewers.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: The Union is saying, look, you don't need a salary cap.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: You've got one of the lowest payroll teams in all
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball and they're in the playoffs every
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: year's there in the final four. So you don't need
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: a salary cap. What's the problem. The Brewers prove you
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: don't need one, and then they'll point out, look at
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: the teams that have salaries. There are teams with two
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: times the payroll of the Brewers, not double two. That
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: means triple. Brewers I think are in the range of
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: what are they won thirty five? The team's over four hundred,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: and the Brewers do better than they are. So the
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Union is saying you don't need one. Baseball is retorting, Okay,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: who's the other Brewers? Though the Brewers are the only
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: ones that can figure this out. Pittsburgh's not in there.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Once at a bloomoon, Minnesota's in that. That's true. In fact,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: of the final four teams, here's the ranking the Dodgers have.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: I think it was number two. I think the Mets
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: were number one in Pei role this year. It's in
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: the story. Mark find this quickly. It's either one or two,
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: and then five and fifteen. Toronto's five. Toronto's a huge market.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: By the way, people think Toronto's a small market because
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Toronto's in Canada. The Toronto metroery is just unbelievable. It
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: goes on and on and on and out. Toronto has
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: the fifth highest payroll Seattle, which is the third team
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: in they're in the middle, they're at fifteen. The Brewers
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: are in the twenties. So that's the distinction that's there. Actually,
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: the Brewers payroll is one hundred and twenty two million
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: this year. That ranks twenty second out of thirty. The
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: story goes on that the Brewers seem to be be
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: aberrational in that there are certain things that the Brewers
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: do that other teams have not done. The Brewers make
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: it a religion to get rid of guys when they
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: hit thirty. They will sign retreads over thirty that they
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: can get for discount, but they will not overpay for
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: guys on the downside of their career. For example, I
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: do believe that unless the Brewers win a couple of
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: games in Los Angeles, Freddy Perol that pitched his last
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: game for the Brewers last night, he's a free agent
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: year after next. And the Brewers MO has been to
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: trade a guy when there's one year left in his
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: contract when they can still get a lot. They did
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: that with Devin Williams, and that's why we have Caleb
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Durban at third. They've done it with Corbyn Burns. Who
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: do we get for Corbyn? And we're's getting fuzzy here
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: one of our starters. It wasn't Ortiz anyway, THEIRMO has
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: been rather than spend three thirty five million dollars on
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: a contract of a player who's probably going to go
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: on the DL or might be borderline washed up cases
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: of both Burns and Williams, to try to get somebody
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: young back who they can plunk out of the starting
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: line up immediately. The Brewers' other m always to try
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: to acquire players who have multiple years left in their
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: contract or extend guys early, and most teams don't do that.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: The other key, I think though, to the Brewers is
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: and I think the Erin Savali trade is indicative of this.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: The Brewers had a starting pitcher was bitching and mourning Savally,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: you gotta trade him. Andrew Vaughan was in the Triple
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: A in the minor leagues. He was washing out with
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: the White Sox. The Brewers scouting felt that he still
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: had a lot of talent in him, that probably he's
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: simply it's not a losing team forever in an empty stadium,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: that you could turn him around. They've done this with
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: any number of pitchers they traded at the beginning of
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: this season for Quinn Priester. Yet a pretty good young
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: player for him, But Quinn Priesters signed for multiple years
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: because he's a young player. They saw something in him
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: and they can develop them. So the Brewers keep winning
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: all these awards for being the best organization in baseball
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: because they can do all of this. The counter, though, is,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: in the postseason you need superstars, and the Brewers tend
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: to develop all of these stars. But do they have superstars?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: My take is somewhere in between. Of course, it's easier
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: for the Dodgers with their payroll to win. The counter
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: to that is, I believe it was the Mets that
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: had the number one payroll in all of baseball. Where
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: are they? The Angels are always in the top five,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: and they've stunk forever. Having a ton of money doesn't
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: guarantee success, but it makes it much easier. I think
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: baseball needs a salary cap. Some people say that's not American.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: The difference is they're in an association. These are not
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: independent businesses competing against one another. This is not you know,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: one drugstore chain competing against another. They're joining an association
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: for the purpose of competition. So there's nothing wrong with
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: the association putting in rules to create a level in
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: fair playing. It's the same for example, in the NFL,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: everybody has the same roster. You can't have two hundred
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: guys in your roster. Will let somebody else's fifty three.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: There are limitations that you have. One of the reasons
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: football has been so successful is they've had a salary cap.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: In revenue sharing, one team can spend disproportionately more than
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: the other. Head you get the money that you haven't
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: try to figure out who's going to use it most
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: wisely say that again, it was our keys and dl
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Hall who another problem that we have with the playoffs here.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Dl Hall got hurt and wasn't quite a very good
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: pitcher and a guy that can pitch three or four innings.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: And so I mean, Corbyn Burns blew out his arm
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: this year. He signed a big contract with Arizona. May
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: not pitch for two more years. He'll be thirty two
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: to thirty three when he comes back. And Joey Ortiz
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: maybe the best fielding shortstop and all of baseball and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: so on. I mean, and you combine that with the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Brewers doing an excellent job of drafting young players and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: then finding somebody and Venezuela like Jackson Curio when he
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: was sixteen years old, and so on. It's the reason
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: that they are where they are, whether or not it
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: could ever turn into a world Series. I mean, I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: think it's kind of luck. I think that Seattle might
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: win the World Series this year. It's a team that
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: made a zillion moves at the middle of the season.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Sometimes those works sometimes, though't they don't. They seem to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: be the hottest team. The Dodgers problem is once you
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: get packed, it's the top two starters not good. Their
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: number three starter is Shohaiotani. He's a much better hitter
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: than a pitcher. He's a good pitcher, but he's he's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: not anywhere near as dominant as the first first two games,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: and the Dodger bullpen is rather weak. I mean, you say,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: final story about the Dodger Brewer game. I do need
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: to bring this up. You cannot imagine how many people,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: including I think you were one of them. There's a
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: guy with a massive following on YouTube. It's just enormous.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: His name is John Boy. He does Baseball breakdown. Were
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: you aware of John Boy before this video? Just zillions
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: of people followed John by Jomboy. What he'll do is
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: he'll find something weird that happens in a game, and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: he does incredible editing to break it down. Often it's
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: an argument or a fighter when somebody's buzzed with a
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: fastball or something unusual, or an argument with the umpires.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: He is an unbelievable lip reader, so he'll show the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: cameras and he's saying you could say, okay, that's what
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: the person is saying. So he did this breakdown of this.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Some of you were saying, strangest play in baseball history.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: It was close. Max Months the other Dodgers in Game
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: one hit what appeared to what looked like it was
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: going to be a Grand Slam home run that turned
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: into a double play with no runs being scored. I mean,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: I could go through the whole description, but any of
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: you who care probably knew about it. Anyway. Anyway, John
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: Boys got all this video and he's going through all
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: of this, and he put it out that he's on
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: paternity lead because they having a kid, so he's not
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: been spending as much time. So he slapped this together
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. And I know that
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: he slapped it together because he didn't seem to know
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: sell Freelik's name he put it. But anyway, he sees this,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: they got the shot. The cameras are always on the
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: third base side for a right handed hitter. So they're
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: showing the shot. When the ball is hit, I'm throwing
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: my hands up in the air, and nobody else is react. Well,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: the reason I throw my hands say, I pay more attention.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Oh man, this could be a Grand Slam home run.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: So they zone in on this and John Boyce says,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: look at this guy saying oh no, and everybody else
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: is sitting there like it takes them an extra second
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: to realize, here's this ball going to deep center field.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: So he closes up on me and shows it. And
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, there may not be a state
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: in the United States where I'm not heard from somebody say,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: you were on the job boy video. I linked that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: up on x dot com. There's a lot of content
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: that you can find. Yeah, I mean, it's it's just everywhere.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: In my reaction, Thank god, it was the proper reaction, like,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: oh no, this could be a Grand Slam home run,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: as opposed to me picking my nose or I'm going
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: to explain something to you when we come back. I'm
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: going to explain to you why Obamacare is falling apart.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: You don't know why it's falling apart, do you? I mean,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: you know that it's falling apart because Obama and Pelosi
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: did it. But I mean the actual that explanation coming
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: up next on the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: Mark Belling Podcast. A prominent poster on X he goes
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: onto the handle of Wall Street MAV. I'm guessing that's
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: short from Maverick. He has a very short post in
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: which he essentially explained the problem with Obamacare. If you're
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: not aware, Obamacare is hitting that financial brick wall and
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: it's exploding right now. The costs are going to go
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: to the roof, and they're asking the Congress, which now
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: is the Republican Congress, and Trump to come up with
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: a massive baiload. Now, before I get into the guy's explanation,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: when obama Care was passed now better than a decade ago,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: every one of the critics said this was going to happen.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: So they said, this thing is not self sustaining, that
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: there is no way that you can make endspeed anyway.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: That's the shorthand version. Wall Street Map does a spectacular
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: job of explaining in two paragraphs what the problem is,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to share it with you. He writes. Obamacare,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, explained, Democrats passed Obamacare,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: which made deductible so high that you rarely ever reach them.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: Let me interject, Sometimes people hear the especially people who
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: never get sick, they hear these terms. Your deductible is
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: the amount you pay before the insurance kicks in. The
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: point that he makes is that when they drafted Obamacare,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: which was an attempt to make the insurance companies rich,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: essentially that's what it was. When they created Obamacare, they
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: made the deductibles really, really high. So unless you're somebody
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: who had a lot of illness, everything was out of pocket.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Anyway that you essentially didn't have insurance. Your insurance was
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: if you go to the hospital, you get cancer or something,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: then they kicking. But the point that he's making, and
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: again I don't want to belabor this, is that Obamacare,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: the Affordable Care Act, that the people under it, the plans,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: almost all had very high deductibles. So continuing Democrats passed Obamacare,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: which made deductibles so high that you rarely ever reach them,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: So you pay for insurance plus out of pocket for
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: insurance you rarely use. Designed to fund health care for
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: deadbeats and the illegal aliens, now that's his explanation here.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: The reason that they had to create it this way
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: so that so many individuals ended up essentially not getting
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: anything out of Obamacare because everything was out of pocket.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: They did this so that they would have the funds
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: to cover the people who don't kick in in anything
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: at all, like all the illegal aliens are on Obamacare.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: This is one of the things now that's being debated
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: with regard to Trump should be paying for the healthcare
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: expenses of people that are in the United States illegally.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: That's why the Democrats have shut down the government. They
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: want that continue. Back now to Wall Street map designed
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: to fund healthcare for deadbeats and illegal aliads. From twenty
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty twenty one, it was getting worse
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: the Biden Then Biden and the Democrats passed temporary subsidies
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: to hide how crazy expenses ACA insurance had become. Those
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: subsidies expire December thirty, first twenty five. In other words,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: when the Biden administration was in they passed subsidies to
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: cover all these shortfalls that were in place with regard
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: to Obamacare. But like almost all of these other funding bills,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: it expires as I've planted on any number of times
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: whenever the government creates a program, Oh, it's only temperate,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: it's only temperate's only temporary. The pressure is just overwhelming
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: to keep the program going. Once you create an entitlement,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: people go nuts if they expect that, if they don't
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: think it's going to last forever. Okay, so that's coming
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: up now in two and a half months now. Democrats
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: want to extend those subsidies. If they could, they would
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: even expand the subsidies more to further hide the disaster
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: of Obamacare. Before Obamacare, health insurance companies could offer cheaper
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: plans with certain things excluded, but Obamacare banned the cheaper plans.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: You may recall that when Obamacare came in, you couldn't
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: do the plans that a lot of small businesses and
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: others liked, in which the plan was more tailored to
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: a person. For example, if you're a small business and
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: you got three employees and they're all guys, you're not
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: going to put pregnancy coverage and all of that stuff
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: in there. Obamacare require that all of this stuff being
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: all of these plans. That there were no low cost
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: plans that were out there, so you ended up with
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: this financial cliff that we hit to Zamacare is costing
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: a fortune with the losses being more and more and more.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: In addition to that, all insurance cost is going to
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: explode next year, all having to do with some of
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: these subsidies. Healthcare costs are going to go way way
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: up next year because we got an aging population. We're
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: covering all of these things that maybe some of the
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: policies shouldn't cover, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: the point that was being explained by this poster here
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: on Wall Street MAB is that when they created Obamacare,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: they created these enormous government subsidies to cover for the
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: fact that it was hemorrhaging money. And then sunset and
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: the subsidies. So now we're facing the sunset and they're
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: demanding that the subsidization continues, which is what drives this
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: whole issue of whether or not we should be paying
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: for health care for illegal immigrants or not.
• 1:10:51
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