Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #173: A Texas race puts it all in perspective: will voters let unhappiness with Trump or quibbles with a candidate lead them to allow Marxist Democrats to take over and destroy our country. Menomonee Falls school board is a case study in conservatives winning elective office and then selling out after a few years of being on the inside. And Crowley the Taxer proposes another Milwaukee property tax hike while not saying how he'll pay the hundreds of millions to upgrade the Milwaukee Courthouse.

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Mark Belling Podcast #173: A Texas race puts it all in perspective: will voters let unhappiness with Trump or quibbles with a candidate lead them to allow Marxist Democrats to take over and destroy our country. Menomonee Falls school board is a case study in conservatives winning elective office and then selling out after a few years of being on the inside. And Crowley the Taxer proposes another Milwaukee property tax hike while not saying how he'll pay the hundreds of millions to upgrade the Milwaukee Courthouse. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Wow, what a weekend. A lot to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those days that when I was
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  Speaker 2: doing the old radio show, I'd end up going on
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  Speaker 2: and on for four hours. Don't worry. The podcast doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have that many commercials, so we can't go on that long. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: we're not set up to go on that long. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to slash through all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I should be talking about and just talk about all
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  Speaker 2: of the things that I really need to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start with this. We're going to start with
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  Speaker 2: a metaphor. I used to, on the old radio program,
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  Speaker 2: talk all the time about how I'd like to talk
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  Speaker 2: about something that explains something else and explain that that's
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  Speaker 2: really what a parable is. In the Bible, in the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament, Jesus taught through the use of parables. He'd
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  Speaker 2: tell these stories that were often discomforting to the listener.
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  Speaker 2: And people would then realize that that story was how
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  Speaker 2: you figured out the role of God and the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, the kingdom of God. It was a quite
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  Speaker 2: effective way of teaching. I'm thinking, well, if Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: the most effective teacher of all time, I'll just Steal
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of his M.O. and teach him parables myself.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't a parable. It's a metaphor. I have Jason
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  Speaker 2: in here producing, who, by the way, is now kicked
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  Speaker 2: out of our football contest. You're out. You keep winning. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can't hit this. We're not going to
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  Speaker 2: tolerate this. I'm used to having a producer that stinks
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  Speaker 2: at this, not somebody that wins his games by 30
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  Speaker 2: or 40 points. I won mine by half a point. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: do you know the difference between a metaphor and a parable?
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  Speaker 2: I hope you get this wrong because I'm tired of
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  Speaker 2: you getting things correct. You said a parable tells a story.
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  Speaker 2: It does tell a story. What's the difference between a
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  Speaker 2: metaphor and a parable? You don't know. Good. I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: he did. See, a parable is something usually didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's a story that's made up for the purposes of
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  Speaker 2: explaining something else. A metaphor is something that happened. And
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  Speaker 2: you use it to apply to something else. So in
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  Speaker 2: a program in which I said I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: to get through, I've just wasted five minutes explaining the
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  Speaker 2: difference between a metaphor and a parable. This is a metaphor.
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  Speaker 2: There's an election going on right now in Texas. That
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  Speaker 2: is a metaphor for the United States and our country.
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  Speaker 2: It's a race for the United States Senate. It's a
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  Speaker 2: Republican seat. The Republican incumbent lost at his primary. The
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  Speaker 2: Republican incumbent, Cornyn, who was kind of a Republican pain
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  Speaker 2: in the ass, but nonetheless a Republican. He was one
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  Speaker 2: of those that voted to not only impeach, but convict
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  Speaker 2: and remove Trump. But he bucked Trump on a couple
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  Speaker 2: of things. And a lot of conservatives in Texas felt
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't conservative enough. So a very conservative guy, the
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  Speaker 2: attorney general down there, Paxton, ran against him in the primary,
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  Speaker 2: had Trump's endorsement, and Paxton beat Cornyn. The problem with
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  Speaker 2: Paxton is his life's a mess. And there's issues and
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  Speaker 2: baggage there. I mean, not Mandela Barnes baggage, but, you know, baggage.
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  Speaker 2: His baggage would be like a carry-on on the airplane
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to these people that are going on a
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  Speaker 2: cruise and checking 92 bags. That's what he has. And
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  Speaker 2: between the baggage of Paxton... And the fear is that
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be a big national Democratic year.
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  Speaker 2: Many people believe the Democrats are going to win this
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  Speaker 2: seat in Texas. And if they win that seat, they
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  Speaker 2: might take over control of the entire United States Senate.
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  Speaker 2: If the Republicans can't hold Texas, which has been just
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  Speaker 2: solidly Republican for 40 years, it's a bad sign. So
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  Speaker 2: that story is the metaphor. And we're going to expand
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  Speaker 2: on it in a moment because I just think it
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  Speaker 2: is the perfect way of looking at the national political
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  Speaker 2: landscape and what is at stake right now, given the
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  Speaker 2: fact that one of our two major parties has decided
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  Speaker 2: I know, I'm under the time gun, but I have
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  Speaker 2: to do an aside here before I get into the story.
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  Speaker 2: I've said that, like, if I didn't get into radio
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  Speaker 2: and now podcasting, I think there's only like four jobs
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  Speaker 2: I would have been able to do that I would
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  Speaker 2: have been any good at. Everything else I would have
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  Speaker 2: been average at best or maybe below average. I could
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  Speaker 2: have been something else in the media, but that's related. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I would have been a great newspaper reporter. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I could have done that. But that's kind of the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. I've always felt that one of the fields
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  Speaker 2: that I could have thrived in was advertising. You kind
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  Speaker 2: of have always been sort of radio-ish and media-ish, right?
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  Speaker 2: Sales and stuff like that, but it was media type sales.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever thought about if you didn't do this,
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  Speaker 2: what you might have been good at? Or are you
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  Speaker 2: like me that there's like, if it wasn't for this,
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  Speaker 2: there would have been nothing. You would have just, like what?
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  Speaker 2: What else would you have been doing? Small business, but
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  Speaker 2: do you have like a type of business, like a
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  Speaker 2: plumbing shop or a... It's insurance or something. Okay, we
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  Speaker 2: have those. I think I would have been good at advertising.
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  Speaker 2: I think in most fields, a few people are really good,
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  Speaker 2: a lot are average, and quite a few are crappy.
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  Speaker 2: That's not an attack on any one field. I think
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  Speaker 2: you can apply that to every field that's out there.
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  Speaker 2: And I always like thinking and observing, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons that I would be good
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  Speaker 2: at advertising. So I'm at the Brewer game yesterday. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: more on that a little bit later. And I was talking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe a week ago or so on the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: it used to be at Major League Baseball games, there
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  Speaker 2: was never any advertising on the outfield wall. I think
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  Speaker 2: they had it way back in the olden days, like
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  Speaker 2: the polo grounds and so on. But then like 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s,
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  Speaker 2: the walls are pristine. It was just this blue mat.
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  Speaker 2: And the advertising, if there was any, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: signs here and there up higher on the stadium. But
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  Speaker 2: it was minor league stadiums that were always, you know,
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  Speaker 2: advertised up like they were stock cars, signs all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. Well, we're in a different era now. Sports
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  Speaker 2: teams sell every inch of space that they have everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: So the outfield wall at American Family Field, there's various ads.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them are electronic, meaning it'll shift and then
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  Speaker 2: it'll go to a next message like those billboards. I
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  Speaker 2: have figured out where if you are buying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're one of the sponsors you see of the breweries,
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  Speaker 2: what the prime location for your ad to be in
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  Speaker 2: terms of where it is in the bleachers. Not the bleachers,
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  Speaker 2: where it is on the outfield wall. The only people
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  Speaker 2: who can't see it, of course, are the people in
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  Speaker 2: the bleachers because it's down below them. And the answer
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  Speaker 2: is left center field. And I notice this because that's
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  Speaker 2: where Uline's sign is. And I was just thinking about
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  Speaker 2: this as I was reading the Uline thing. And Uline
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  Speaker 2: is like a lot of these other companies in which
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  Speaker 2: the way they advertise is they just put their name there, Uline.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like certain companies, it's just name recognition. They
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  Speaker 2: just put the name. Gruber has his name and always
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  Speaker 2: his slogan. So the little bit on there, there's the
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  Speaker 2: one call that gets all or, you know, with his things.
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  Speaker 2: But by and large, Gruber's thing is just the name Gruber.
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  Speaker 2: And a few other companies are so big and they're
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  Speaker 2: just selling their name, their institutional reputation, and so on. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I noticed when you're watching a game, you're generally looking
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  Speaker 2: toward the pitcher's mound and at the batter. Dead center
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  Speaker 2: field would be no good because the pitcher would be
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  Speaker 2: obstructing your view if you're right behind home plate, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't like to put things right on dead center
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  Speaker 2: field because it obstructs the batter's vision when they're coming through.
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  Speaker 2: But left center field is close enough to the middle,
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  Speaker 2: and your eyes are kind of over there. And I
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  Speaker 2: just noticed the whole game, once I picked up on this,
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  Speaker 2: the U-line sign was just always there, and any time
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  Speaker 2: a ball was hit anywhere out to the outfit, you
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  Speaker 2: notice the U-line sign. So I don't know. I honestly don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing that the Brewers charge more based for the
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  Speaker 2: location of the sign. They must, right? If they don't,
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  Speaker 2: somebody at Uline was very, very smart. They are smart
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  Speaker 2: enough that they're on my podcast. They're smart enough that
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  Speaker 2: they're in left center field at American Family Field. Was
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  Speaker 2: that worth the three minutes that I gave it? It was.
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  Speaker 2: Let's now move on to this. This race in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, Paxton... Republican candidate trying to keep the seat.
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  Speaker 2: He's the Attorney General of Texas. He's very conservative, and
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  Speaker 2: he's been a hero of Texas conservatives, the hardliners, and
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  Speaker 2: kind of a hero of conservatives across the United States.
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  Speaker 2: But there's always been controversy about the guy, and lately
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  Speaker 2: now controversy in his personal life. His wife last year
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  Speaker 2: filed for divorce, and apparently this is, as breakups go,
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  Speaker 2: really bitter. These guys, these people who have divorces and
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  Speaker 2: they're not bitter, I mean, they should all write books
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  Speaker 2: on this. I mean, you've noticed this. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: percentage of your friends that got divorced did it turn
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  Speaker 2: out bitter, would you say? No, but you know some
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  Speaker 2: divorced people, right? Oh, just one. I think usually they're
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  Speaker 2: rather bitter, and in some cases they're viciously bitter. The
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  Speaker 2: There are some in which, the ones in which they
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  Speaker 2: kind of get along, I think, they either do it
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  Speaker 2: for the children or it was just they both kind
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  Speaker 2: of knew it's time to move on or whatever. This divorce, though,
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  Speaker 2: is apparently really ugly. And to make matters more volatile,
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  Speaker 2: Paxton's wife is also a politician. And the divorce is coming.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they filed for divorce last year. She filed
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  Speaker 2: for divorce last year. The year before her husband runs
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  Speaker 2: for the United States Senate. Now, there's a time in
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  Speaker 2: America in which that's just a disqualifier. Divorce, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there have been politicians that have been divorced forever and
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  Speaker 2: ever and ever, and sometimes it's a big deal. Reagan
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  Speaker 2: was a president who was divorced, etc. Sometimes it's a
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  Speaker 2: big deal, sometimes it's not. But to have a divorce
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  Speaker 2: right before you run and with the potential for the
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  Speaker 2: reasons for the divorce getting out, it's bad stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: Paxton's wife, Angela, in the filing said she's filing for
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  Speaker 2: biblical reasons. It's a strong implication that he was philandering.
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  Speaker 2: And it's generally accepted that apparently there was somebody else
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  Speaker 2: and he was cheating on her and so on. So
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  Speaker 2: you've got that backdrop in the race. Here's Paxton, the
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  Speaker 2: Republican running. He's conservative. He's controversial down there. The Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have a guy who's been raising money by the boatload
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  Speaker 2: from across the United States. He's a lefty. His name
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  Speaker 2: is Tallarico, but he passions himself as like a religious lefty,
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  Speaker 2: and he's got his message. It's so full of crap.
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  Speaker 2: He's like a smoother version of Mayor Pete, if you
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  Speaker 2: kind of get my drift with it. Anyway, Tallarico. And
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  Speaker 2: most people believe Tallarico is going to beat Paxton, in
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  Speaker 2: part because Tallarico's a smooth guy, and secondly, because Paxton
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  Speaker 2: has got all this baggage going on. Which brings me
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  Speaker 2: to the story that we're going to make the metaphor.
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  Speaker 2: Angela Paxton, this is a woman that's divorcing Ken, just
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  Speaker 2: put out an ad paid for by a PAC in Texas. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: she's also a politician. She's in the state Senate down
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  Speaker 2: there in Texas. He's running for the United States Senate.
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  Speaker 2: And as I say, this divorce is really bitter. Let's
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  Speaker 2: play that audio first, not the second cut. Let's play
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  Speaker 2: the Angela Paxton ad first.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Texas Senator Angela Paxton. People have asked my thoughts
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  Speaker 3: about this election and turns out I have some. Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about the elephant in the room. In a general election,
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  Speaker 3: it's not as much about the individual.
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  Speaker 2: Players on the team.
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  Speaker 3: It's about getting the whole team across the finish line.
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  Speaker 3: Either we hold every Republican seat or we hand the
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  Speaker 3: future of Texas to the other team. That's why I'm
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  Speaker 3: voting for the Republican ticket on November 3rd. Let's hold
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  Speaker 3: the line together.
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  Speaker 2: That ad is driving the media crazy. She, of course,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mention her husband, Ken, but alluded to it, the
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  Speaker 2: elephant in the room. And she said, I'm voting for
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  Speaker 2: the entire Republican ticket meeting. I'm voting for Ken Paxton,
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  Speaker 2: the guy that I'm divorcing, who we're having like the ugliest, awful,
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  Speaker 2: most awful divorce ever. In other words, she's saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: there are things that are more important here, and it
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  Speaker 2: has to do with which party controls our country, controls Texas,
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  Speaker 2: and so on. Now, the left doesn't like that message
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  Speaker 2: because the left and the media have this, it's not
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  Speaker 2: even hypocrisy or double standard. It's just a tactic. When
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  Speaker 2: there's personal baggage with regard to one of their candidates,
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  Speaker 2: they argue that that's an irrelevancy and it's none of
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  Speaker 2: our business. But when there's personal baggage involving a Republican,
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  Speaker 2: they just claim it's disqualified. Even if the personal baggage
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  Speaker 2: is fake and made up, like Trump's a rapist and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that, they'll hammer and hammer and hammer. But
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  Speaker 2: when you have a guy that was actually credibly accused
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  Speaker 2: of rape, like say Bill Clinton, they tell us that
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  Speaker 2: the private lives of those individuals make no difference. So
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  Speaker 2: Angela Paxton is telling the people of Texas, you may
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  Speaker 2: have problems with Ken Paxton. And wink, wink, I have
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  Speaker 2: real problems with him. But I'm voting for him and
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  Speaker 2: every other Republican. So anyway, this ad became a topic
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  Speaker 2: on one of those talk programs that they have on CNN.
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  Speaker 2: CNN has a House conservative, Ken Jennings. He's very good.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be really good when you're the only
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  Speaker 2: conservative and there's like four or five leftist battle axes
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  Speaker 2: that you debate with. He has the advantage, however. He's
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  Speaker 2: very smart and very glib. And also, you'd almost think
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  Speaker 2: that CNN was on our side. The leftists that they
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  Speaker 2: put on these panels with him are always such dim bulbs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're at the level of the battle axis
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  Speaker 2: from The View. There are some lefties who talk this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who are pretty good talkers and pretty good arguers.
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  Speaker 2: Who's that woman on Fox with the glasses? Jessica Tarloff?
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  Speaker 2: She's very good at that, you know, talking and explaining
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  Speaker 2: away leftiest stuff. But these women on CNN, they never are.
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  Speaker 2: And it's almost always women. Anyway, this ad came up
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  Speaker 2: as a topic. And the CNN lefty panelists are kind
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  Speaker 2: of going on, see, you Republicans are hypocrites here. You've
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  Speaker 2: got a cretin like Paxson. And, you know, now his
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  Speaker 2: wife just sells her own soul and says she's going
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  Speaker 2: to vote for the guy that she clearly doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: and so on. And Ken and Jennings, I think, just
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  Speaker 2: put the answer here. This is where I get to
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  Speaker 2: the metaphor for America. He put this in a proper context,
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  Speaker 2: and I think you all need to hear it. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to play. It's like 45 seconds. That includes,
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  Speaker 2: I think, one of the other anchors or somebody else
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  Speaker 2: talking from CNN. And then Ken and Jennings will get
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  Speaker 2: into it. It's at the end of his comment that
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  Speaker 2: he really hits home the real point of all of this.
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  Speaker 4: She says she urges voters to vote for the Republican ticket.
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  Speaker 4: Will hold your nose and vote for Ken Paxton be
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  Speaker 4: a winning message or sufficient? Well, I hope so. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 4: it's something that people are talking about down there. The
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  Speaker 4: fact that she decided to go out and become part
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  Speaker 4: of this campaign is noteworthy. And, I mean, two things
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  Speaker 4: can be true. You could think Ken Paxton has made,
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  Speaker 4: you know, bad personal decisions. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't want to put my face in
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  Speaker 4: a wood chipper and elect Democrats to run the country.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they've gone plum crazy right now. with all
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  Speaker 4: the socialism and the abolished ICE and the abolished prisons
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  Speaker 4: and the abolished borders, et cetera, et cetera. So just
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  Speaker 4: because I have some quibble with Kim Paxton's personal life
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  Speaker 4: doesn't mean I have to turn the country over to
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  Speaker 4: people who hate it. And so I think that's a
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  Speaker 4: pretty decent message, actually.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the point. Whatever you think about the individual candidate,
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  Speaker 2: for that matter, you just want to send a message
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  Speaker 2: to Trump because you're mad or whatever? The consequence of
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  Speaker 2: that is, as Jennings said, putting your face at a
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  Speaker 2: wood chipper, turning the country over to people who hate it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: People often argue, well, you're just saying to vote for
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  Speaker 2: the lesser of two evils, and I point out all
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  Speaker 2: the time, as somebody who lives in a very liberal
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  Speaker 2: area of Milwaukee, that's all of my local votes, the
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  Speaker 2: lesser of two evils. But I don't think even the
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  Speaker 2: most flawed Republican can be considered an evil in comparison
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  Speaker 2: to What we're facing right now, we all know how
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the Senate works. With the exception of one Democrat, Fetterman,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: they all vote in lockstep. And even Fetterman is usually
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: there with them. And we also know that the policy
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: positions of the Democrat Party right now are driven by
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: the Marxist left. There has been no pushback at all
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: from the old bulls like Schumer or Durbin. They all
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: have rolled over to this. So if you're not in
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Texas voting for Paxton, you're voting to turn over control
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: of the United States Senate to a political party that
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: has embraced Marxism and fundamentally hates America and its values.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: To continue to piggyback on this, there's a piece that
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: appears on townhallmedia.com. Townhall.com is the site. It's a column
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: by Derek Hunter. He hits on this issue hard. He's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: now pulling no punches. He writes, When someone shows you
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: who they are, believe them. When someone tells you they're
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: coming after you, believe them and prepare accordingly. Democrats have
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: been showing us who they are for decades. Monsters, willing
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to do absolutely anything to obtain power and abuse the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: ever-loving hell out of it, once they do have it,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: so they'll never let it go again. They're telling everyone
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: their plan, how they will bury their talent so deep
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: into power if they get it again, that the options
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: for prying it loose are limited and as awful as
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: they are. What will these people do to get back
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: into power? Anything, literally. Democrats have always been infested with
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: violent radicals, but they've been able to win elections without
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: surrendering to them. As their policies have failed, though, in
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: cities and states across the country, their ability to win
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: has faded, as people noticed. Then Obamacare failed, as designed,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: but much sooner than planned. And fewer and fewer people
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: were willing to trust the people who designed the failed
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: system to fix it again. So Democrats could no longer
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: attract enough voters to win elections in places that they
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: hadn't drawn the lines or absolutely dominated. So they had
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to embrace the fringe. Honestly, I thought former President Joe
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Biden might have stood up to these lunatics when he
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: got into the race in 2020. Everyone else in their
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: field was on the, quote, America is fundamentally racist and awful,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and Israel is the root of all evil train. I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: figured there was a lane on the left for someone
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: to stand up and tell those crackpots off. If anyone
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: could pull it off, I figured it would be the
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: cranky old man. But Biden was even more spineless than
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I had imagined. Rather than stand up to the left
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and for the country, he joined them and tried to
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: out-crazy them all. That's when I knew there was nothing
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: redeeming left in the Democrat Party. That not a single
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: candidate in a large field even bothered to stand up
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: for the greatness of the United States. Even the old guy,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: with the resume long enough to do it without any
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: personal electoral consequences. None of them dared to try a
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: different path. It was all obedience to the anti-American left, period.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: He then goes on to say that if the Democrats
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: win the election next month, it won't be because they've
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: won people over to their side. It will be because
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: a result of anger taken out on Republicans over the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: discontent of the moment. Democrats won't admit that, he writes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: And they won't let that give them a second's pause
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: over what they'll try to do with any power they
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: might get. The Nazis never won anywhere close to a
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: majority in 1932, only 37%. But that didn't hinder their
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: goose-stepping over the rights of everyone else. Democrats will be
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: no different. Some of the politicians are laying out the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: pathway Democrats will try to take. The Democrats' representative Jamie Raskin, Maryland,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: and Ro Khanna, California, sleaze, say they will spend their
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: time and our money investigating everything to financially punish anyone
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: who served in the Trump administration. Others, the intellectual hub
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: on the left, are less polished or interested in appearing
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: less fascist. Podcast host and Botox disaster Jennifer Welch wants to, quote,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: restructure the Supreme Court. She demonstrates a puppy's understanding of
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the concept of a co-equal branch of government and wants
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to impeach all the conservative justices because they exist in
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: a way that displeases her. MS Now's Simone Sanders Townsend
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: wants Republicans to be afraid of what Democrats will do
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: with whatever power they get because, as she puts it,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Like a good little Nazi. Rachel Maddow agreed, saying, Trump
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: administration people who are committing those things now should know
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: that they are not in a permanent position of power.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: And when other people take power, which is going to
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: happen in a few weeks, they are going to have
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to preserve their documents and answer for what they did
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: and pay for their crimes. Show me the man and
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I'll show you the crime, comrade. Never underestimate the ability
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: of a small group of committed people to do incredible
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: evil and brutality. That's the story of the 20th century.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: They intend to make it the story of the 21st
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: if we don't beat them. Vote like your life depends
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: on it because it probably does. Now, that's an essay.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Derek Hunter, townhall.com. I think the Texas story that I
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: mentioned can be the metaphor for everywhere, like Wisconsin. In Wisconsin,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Tony Evers salvaged David Crowley's campaign because they feared that
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: an out-and-out avowed Marxist like Francesca Hong wouldn't win. But
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: in that primary campaign, Crowley himself said, I don't disagree
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: with Hong on anything. We're in fundamental agreement. If David
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Crowley becomes the governor, the agenda of the Marxist Hong
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: is what will be implemented. As I said, there has
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: been no pushback anywhere from any Democrat. None of them
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: are willing to stand up to the radicals who are
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: now the majority of their party. Let's just look at
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: what Crowley is willing to do during an election campaign.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: When you would think they would be doing their best
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to keep their massive taxing agenda and socialism quiet. In
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the middle of this campaign, Crowley took the already staggering
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County tax burden and is proposing another 2.5% increase.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing about that. It will be much higher
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: than that. That's the proposal he makes to the county board.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: The county board will take that number, increase it, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: then after the election, Crowley will sign the budget with
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: an even higher tax increase. If Crowley was even attempting
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to portray himself as something other than a taxer, he
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: would have put together a budget with maybe a 2%
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: cut in the property tax levy, knowing full well that
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: he could drag the budget process out, the county board
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: would pass a budget after the election that would be
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: way higher, but he's even acknowledging 2.5%, and here's the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: next part of that. The media is really not covering
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: this story. I'm trying to get it through. David Crowley
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: wants a massive Taj Mahal-like rehabilitation of the big Milwaukee
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: County corridors. Clearly, the building needs some renovation. It's an
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: old and beautiful, glorious building. They're talking about hundreds of
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: millions of dollars, which, of course, is insane. In his
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: current budget, that one with a 2.5% increase, Crowley does
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: not itemize where the funding for that is going to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: come from. There's only one way you can pay off
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the bonds for something that big. And that, of course,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: is an enormous tax increase. That's him in Milwaukee County.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Imagine that ideology running the state of Wisconsin and now
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: imagine it if the Democrats can take control of the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: state assembly and Senate. We talk about affordability problems now
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and we talk about the tax hell that Wisconsin is now.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine? The good thing about this is, unlike
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: in Texas, where the Republican candidate is flawed, in Wisconsin,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you've got a pretty good candidate in Tom Tiffany who's
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: raising a lot of money, and Crowley is A, a lightweight,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and B, weird. Did you see this peeing comment that
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: he made last week? This was on CBS 58. Wisconsin
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: right now picked up on it. When you look at
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: what Congressman Tom Tiffany and Donald Trump are doing... They're
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: peeing on us and telling us it's raining. First of all,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I get the point. You're crapping all over us, et cetera.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Crapping is just less creepy than saying peeing. He didn't
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: even say pissing. He said peeing. I just think it's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: a weird reference. When's the last time you heard a
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: politician use the word peeing ever? I mean, the reason is,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: it's just kind of a word that gives you the heebie-jeebies.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: If you're listening to me right now, it's the heebie-jeebies.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just quoting the guy. Crowley, by the way, on
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: this Kodos project is trying to keep attention away from
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: himself on it. Like even in the JS online, which
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: by the way, can you be more obvious? I understand
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: they're biased and they always want Democrats to win. Can
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: they even attempt to try to look sort of fair
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: in this election? The headline on the story on the
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: court is Milwaukee County Supervisors Advance Massive Courthouse Project as
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: if this thing is coming completely from within the county
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: board and the county executive who is proposing the budget
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: for it has nothing to do with it. Continuing my
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: point of what's at stake, the issue of males in sports.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Right now, President Trump with regard to nationalized sports, has
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: issued this ban. However, in individual states, they have chosen
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to buck these orders and continue their own way. For example,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Minnesota under walls famously still allows males to compete against
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: females in college sports and boys against girls in high
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: school and grade school sports. The same thing is the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: case in Democrat Washington state. And it will surely, as
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: sure as I'm sitting here, if we get a Democrat governor,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Democrat legislature, they're going to change the rules and pressure
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the WIAA in Wisconsin to allow boys to play against
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: girls in high school sports. So in Washington State, that's allowed. Furthermore,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: in Washington State, they have deep confidentiality with regard to
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: trans students. They're not allowed to tell anyone what the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: actual biology of the child is. So what happened is
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: there's a girl who was on the girls' wrestling team.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure even when you were a kid, they
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: didn't have a girls' wrestling team, right? I mean, I
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: initially was kind of bothered by all of that. And
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I was bothered with women boxing. You know what turned
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: my mind around on women's boxing? The Clint Eastwood movie,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: The Million Dollar Baby. I mean, I guess that made
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: me think that it was okay. Why shouldn't women be
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: able to compete on that same level? If a woman
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: wants to smack another woman in the face and so on,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and they're both participants in doing it, fine. So, you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: wrestling is an incredibly athletic sport, and if girls want
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to be involved in it, it's not something that I
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: would particularly like, but I don't think I should begrudge it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And then even this girl, she's on the wrestling team.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: She was in a wrestling match. The girl's name is
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Callie Keeler. The city that she's from is, and I'm
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: sure I'm going to mispronounce this, I think, Puyallup in
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Washington State. There's a current lawsuit that's being given an
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: emergency motion filed with the United States Supreme Court and
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: identifies her by her initial, but she's talked publicly and
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: it's being reported on Fox News today. that that's who
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: it is. Kelly said she was wrestling an opponent who
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: turned out to be trans. It was a male who
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: identifies as a female. This was her opponent, a boy.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: And she says that this boy sexually molested her during
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: the wrestling match. Now, one of the things about wrestling
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: is you grab in all sorts of places. When you're
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: going to try to turn somebody, you can grab between
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the legs and on the crotch or with the legs.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It's as full physical a contact sport as we have.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: You're on top of one another. And whether or not
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: this was Kelly's interpretation or whether it was deliberate, we
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: don't know because obviously you can legitimately have your hands
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: down around that thing, which is all the more reason
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: why it is insane that a male is competing against
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: a girl. In addition to the fact that obviously the
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: males are stronger physically than girls. But Kelly is making
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the case that she was molested and he said that,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and I will give you the caution here, this is graphic,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: there's no other way of telling the story. that he
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: penetrated her. The story has gotten a lot of attention
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: in the news media out West, and we now have
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: an emergency Supreme Court filing in which a group defending
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Callie is filing an emergency motion with the United States
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. Those motions are filed with one justice, and unfortunately,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: it's on a rotation, and the justice who oversees that
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: part of the United States is Elena Kagan. So she
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: may block this thing from getting an emergency filing A
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: media consideration. Let me report on Fox News on this.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Alliance Defending Freedom filed an emergency application with Justice Elena
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Kagan on behalf of KMK, that's Kelly, and her mother,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Stephanie Lynn Brown. The filing asked for an injunction pending
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: an appeal in KMK versus Washington Interscholastic Athletic Activities Association.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: That's their version of the High School Sports Association. The
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: plaintiff is only listed as KMK, and she mentions who
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: she is. The application says Keillor was 15 when she
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: wrestled for third place at the Lady Jag kickoff on
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: December 6, 2025. That's last year. A girls tournament at
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Emerald Ridge High School. She and her mother say they
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: were not told her opponent was male. And again, in
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Washington State, it's total confidentiality for trans people. During the match,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: they allege her opponent penetrated her. Another team's coach told
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: her afterward that the opponent was male, the family says.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: When Brown asked for a guarantee that her daughter would
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: not have to face a male without a penalty and
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: for notice so she could opt out, the district refused.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: So they're filing this legal application saying you at least
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: have to tell us if this is a male because
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: we're just going to have our daughter drop out and
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: not compete in this close contact type sport with a male.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: And the Washington version, now do not confuse this with Wisconsin.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: They have the same initials as ours. They're WIA, Washington State.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: is refusing, and we're not going to tell you. First
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: of all, the boys get to wrestle against the girls,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: and we're not even going to tell you if it's
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: a boy. This is what's at stake in the election.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: So you can sit around, and some of you people, oh,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know about Trump, gas prices, and all of that.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Do understand what you're sitting on your assness does. It
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: gives you this. There was a time in which the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Democrats in this country were merely lefties. There are now
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: people who believe in this. That's the consequence. This story
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: piggybacks off of all of this. For the last 30 years,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: even prior to 9-11, we have been lectured and lectured
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: and lectured and lectured and lectured, but we have to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: stop racial profiling Muslims. It's gotten to the point that,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: you know, TSA does, and I don't blame TSA, they're
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: under orders. would do like almost strip searches of 85-year-old grandmothers,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: whereas some guy who's got five anti-Israel slogans, clearly a
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Muslim guy, walks right through. Because, oh, no, no, no,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: we can't just assume that he might be a terrorist.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: We're going to pick the least likely possible terrorist and
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: give that person the one silver. Because we refuse to
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: accept that. The reason we do racial profiling is that
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: there is a profile. The fly Dubai jet co-pilot not
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: only is a Muslim, we now find out over the weekend,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: he is a Muslim who has espoused radical beliefs for years.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: In fact, the nation of Oman, Oman's a Muslim country.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: It's one of the Emirates. Even that nation was so
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: concerned by this guy's beliefs that they banned him from flying.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: The airline involved is based in Dubai. It's called FlyDubai.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And reading these stories, my take on it is that
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: it appears to be one of the more discount airlines
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: from Dubai. Dubai's big high-end airline is named Emirates. FlyDubai
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: is like a mainstream airline. They hired the guy. They
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: hired him and all of this knowledge about his background
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: was known. Now, In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai, they
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: play this game in which they try, you know, it's
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: a Muslim nation, but it's also a country that depends
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: overwhelmingly on tourism and commerce from the West. It is
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: a very modernized country, but they try to stand and say, well,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: we're still an Islamic nation, and they play footsie with
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: terrorists and so on, and they try to dance this
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: dance of appearing to be reasonable and accommodating and so on, but...
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: This company there and the officials in Dubai gave this
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: guy a plan. Oh, well, okay, he may be saying,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: he may be talking about destruction and death of the
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Jews and all that stuff, but we're not going to
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: say he can't fly a plane. Well, look where that
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: got us. One other element to that story. I find
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: this one just, I talked last week about, you just
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: always wonder what it's like being a passenger on a plane.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: And now with cell phone videos, we might, and I,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: have you seen any cell phone videos from this one yet? Yeah,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: you have. I haven't, but I've had quite the weekend.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: The passengers on the crew of the plane, not the
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: pilot and co-pilot. Co-pilot was the attacker. The pilot was
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: the one that was stabbed, fought him off, got the
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: door open so the people could realize what was going
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: on and allowed people to take him under control. The
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: remainder of the crew, that would be the flight attendants,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: they wanted to take custody of this co-pilot now that
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: he had been gotten under control. The passengers on the
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: plane did not allow the crew, the flight attendants, to
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: hold him. The passengers insisted on going to the front
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: of the plane and sitting on the guy and holding
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: him down. Think about why. Airliners fly Dubai. Probably the
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: flight attendants are mostly Muslim. But this flight is going
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: to Israel. Many of the passengers were Jewish. The Jewish
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: passengers did not trust the flight crew And think about this.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: How do they know maybe some of them are in
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: on it? We know the co-pilot was the guy that
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: was doing it. If you're a passenger, how would you
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: know if maybe if he hadn't gotten two or three
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: of the flight attendants to cooperate? So they didn't trust this.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: They held him down heroically until they were able to
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: assist the injured pilot to get this plane down on
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: the ground and land safely. You're listening to the Mark
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Belling Podcast. This is the Mark. Belling Podcast. We're on
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: a busy weekend. More on that in a minute. I
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: flew to New York on Friday to see USS Valor
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: run in the Grade 1 Champaign at Belmont Park, Horseye Cone,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. He won spectacularly. More on that in a minute.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I found out that I could get back Saturday night,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: that if I really, really rushed from the airport, I
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: could make a night flight at JFK back to Milwaukee
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: so I could be back in Milwaukee in time for
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Game 2, which was Sunday afternoon, Game 2 of the
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Brewers series. So we won. I got out of there.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I barely made the flight. I made it. But I
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: get back, and it's not even that late on Saturday.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I'm back in time to watch on TV the last
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: three innings of the game. I was trying to follow
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: it on my phone on the flight, but the flight
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: took off at 7 p.m. Eastern, which is 6 Central.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: So the flight actually took off 90 minutes before the
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: game started. So I got home in time to see
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: all the excitement at the end of the game. But
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: when I get home, I still get print editions of
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: newspapers because I feel the need to keep myself very
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: well informed to tell you what's going on. And I
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: see laying there on my stoop is the Saturday edition
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Top of page one, headline
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: blaring across the top of the page. Here's what it reads.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Nine wolves killed in Price County. Now, Jason's not from Wisconsin.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: You could guess, however, by just context. Where do you
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: think Price County is? It's way, nowhere near here. Nine
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: wolves killed in Price County. So I look at this
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, and that's all it says. So I'm thinking,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: was this some sort of rogue guy that just, he's
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: got some wolves that are killing his chickens or something
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: and he went and shot protected wolves? There could be
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: some reason that this is considered to be a big deal.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: In fact, What it was was the planned and now
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: allowed culling of wolves. These wolves are running rampant because
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: they don't have a real natural predator. The wolves are
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: restored after being endangered, but now without a natural predator,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: they are killing everything in sight and they've become a
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: significant problem and a problem for humans. So there needs
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: to be some control, and this has been debated for
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: some time. So what happened was they were simply nine,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: not nine million, nine, were taken out by actual officials
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: in a regular program. But they put this thing, nine
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: wolves killed in Price County, as if this is some
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: sort of awful thing. But beyond that, nine wolves killed
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: in Price County. That got me to thinking because clearly
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: there are leftists who are just horrified that these nine
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: wolves are killed in Price County. I don't want to
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: break anything to you, but all over planet Earth as
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I speak, beautiful members of God's natural world are being
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: killed by other animals. Animals are killed all the time.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: It happens. But I'm telling you right now, I know
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: that just about every one of those battle axes out
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: there that were happy as could be that Lindsay Clancy
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: didn't get convicted for killing her children are horrified that
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: these damn wolves got killed. I think wolves are beautiful.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I like animals as much as the next guy. But
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: we have a country that has a lot of people
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: that are perfectly fine with not just Unborn babies being killed,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: actual live babies being killed, but boy, oh boy, oh boy,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: if we've got a wolf population that needs management, that's
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: the thing they're horrified by. There are two terms for
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: you people. Nuts. I'd like to say depraved. I'll be nice.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Your moral priorities are seriously out of whack. Or should
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I just say they're depraved? Or is that the definition
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: of depravity? I mean, that's a calmer version of saying
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: the same thing. All right, I gave you both. I
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: have been, I think forever, lecturing on the insanity of
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: the insanity defense. In Wisconsin, we do it better than
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: some other states, but we still allow individuals who do
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: terrible things to escape prison on the basis of mental
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: health or defect. And the standard in Wisconsin is you
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: have to not be able to know that what you're
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: doing was wrong. We had a case in Milwaukee. It
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: was only four years ago. Some of you will remember this.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: This guy that walked into one of the Milwaukee police
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: district stations and started shooting. His name is Darian Parker Bell.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: He was charged with 18 counts of first-degree reckless endangerment
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: by use of a dangerous weapon. He was originally charged
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. When the police station started firing,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: they reduced the charges and said, well, he wasn't necessarily
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: attempted to kill someone, but he was certainly being endangered.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: He pleaded not guilty on the basis of Mental health and,
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: in fact, the insanity defense. And he beat the rap.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: There was an agreed plea with the Milwaukee County District
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Attorney's Office, and they agreed. And whenever this happens, the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: media then reports, the only difference is he'll spend the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: next 20 years in a mental hospital as opposed to
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: a prison. Likewise, if they get off on first agreement,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: the only difference is they'll spend the rest of their
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: life in a mental hospital rather than a prison. And
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: as I've been telling you forever and ever and ever,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: that's not true. They always let them out. I shouldn't
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: say always. There are one or two that keep petitioning
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: for release and don't get out. I think, did Mark
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: David Chapman get out? The John Lennon guy? I think
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: he did, didn't he? There's like one or, what? John
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Hinckley got out. I don't remember Mark David. Maybe he
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: died or whatever it is. But I mean, every now
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: and then you'll get like the so extreme, they try
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: to kill a president that maybe they'll hang on to him.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: But even then, they tend not to. But on the others,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: all they have to do to get out is the
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: shrinks have to say, well, we cured them. They're no
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: longer crazy. We fixed them. They can be released. And indeed,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: a left-wing Milwaukee County judge Nidhi Kashayap has ordered that
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: a conditional release plan be prepared for Darian Parker Bell.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Conditional release plan means he gets to go out and
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: live in the community, maybe in a halfway house, but
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: he's got to report into somebody. I don't know what
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: the conditional release plan will be. They'll draft it up.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe they'll have an ankle bracelet. Maybe they'll tell him
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: you can't do this. Maybe they'll tell him you can't
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: have a gun, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: of course, you can tell anybody anything they want to do.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: So we're to believe. That only four years ago, this
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: guy was so crazed that he literally did not know
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: that it was wrong to go in and try to
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: kill up a bunch of cops. But now four years later,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: he's so perfectly fine that he can walk amongst the
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: rest of us. What happens is you'll get a recommendation
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: from these shrinks and the shrinks have a bias toward
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: always claiming that the person is okay. You know why
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: they have that bias? Because if they didn't, they'd be saying,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I'm a crappy shrink. The shrink always went, oh, I
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: got this guy. He was a homicidal maniac. And I
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: talked him through it or I gave him a couple
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: of lithium. And suddenly, we got Mother Teresa over here.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Here's my safe prediction of the day. This is not
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: the last that we have heard of Darian Parker Bell. Now,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: released to the streets of Milwaukee. this judge from the
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: same party and community of David Crowley, I suspect at
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: some point will go off his meds. That's the other thing.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: They say, well, he's now on his meds. And I
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: don't want to make too much light of this because
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: almost all of us know somebody who's got issues in
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: which they're kind of okay if they're on their meds,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: but then they go off them because the meds generally
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: make them really tired and bring them down. They like
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: the wired feeling of being off their meds. This is
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: a big problem with Paranoid schizophrenics and manic depressives and
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: people who have that condition, and there's a lot of
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: them now, it's just a terrible problem for the family
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: members that are involved. They don't want to stay on
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: their meds. They get off of them and they become
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: dangerous again. So if this guy's being released because they say, well,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: we've got him on a medication plan, I'm just telling you.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: You're playing with human fire here. Now, here's a story
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: for you. I'm making an executive decision not to name
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: the bar. When you have like a bad guy who
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't commit his crime in a bar, but was in
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: a bar before he does his bad thing, I would
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: say the same thing with any business. I don't think
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: it's fair to the business to name it because they
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: didn't do anything. What do you think? All right. So
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take, other than to say the bar's
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: on Brady Street along with every other remaining bar in Milwaukee.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee police have caught a rapist who met or at
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: least saw his victim in a bar on Brady Street
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: and stalked her after she left. She apparently was quite
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: wiped out and she lives in the area. Now, for
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: those of you who don't know, Brady Street is this
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: funky street on the east side of Milwaukee. It is
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: a huge bar district and it is packed on weekends.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: In fact, it was packed yesterday afternoon, Sunday afternoon. They
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: had like a thing where you're supposed to bring your
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: dogs out. I mean, I did everything in my power
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: to stay away from Brady Street. I just can't even
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: imagine how much dog crap was all over the street.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: But I mean, that's what Brady Street is. But it's
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: also a very residential, dense neighborhood, all these streets just
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: off of Brady. That's the neighborhood. Let me quote from
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: the report on JS Online. A 23-year-old Milwaukee man is
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a vehicle near
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Brady Street in the early hours of Sunday, September 27th.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: So that would be eight days ago from when I'm
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: doing the podcast. His name is Felipe Lopez Simon, is
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: charged with second-degree sexual assault with use of force, substantial
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: battery with strangulation and suffocation. Bad stuff. According to a
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: criminal complaint, police were contacted September 27th about a sexual assault.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: A victim said she had been held down by her
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: neck and sexually assaulted by a stranger in a truck.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: The victim initially reported that she had been walking near
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: the 1700 block of North Warren Street near Brady around
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: 2.30 a.m. Now, I should mention, the bar time is 2.30,
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Saturday night, Sunday morning. This is Sunday morning after Saturday night.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: And Brady is 1700 north. So she's on Warren, which
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: is a street that goes north-south. Brady's east-west. So she
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: was just a little tad off of where she was
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: drinking and was walking. Now, as you'll hear on from
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: the story, This guy had been spotting her for some time,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: but apparently she was, thankfully she wasn't driving, but she
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: makes herself vulnerable, obviously, by walking. When a man she
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: didn't know grabbed her by the neck and forced her
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: into a dark truck, she said he struck her, chipping
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: her tooth, and she passed out before walking to the
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: man attempting to sexually assault her inside the vehicle. In
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: an interview the following day, the victim told investigators she
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: had been at, in the name of the bar, around
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: 1 a.m. September 27th, and did not remember leaving. Her
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: next memory was in the back seat of a vehicle
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: with the man sexually assaulting her. The woman said the
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: man was applying pressure to her neck, and again, I
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: know this is graphic, but if you don't want to
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: hear it, don't listen. I think it's important to listen
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: to this stuff so we know what we're dealing with.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Making it hard for her to breathe, she said she
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: had thought he was trying to, she said, I thought
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: he was trying to kill me, and recalled him saying,
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: It's better that you just stay still. The woman fought
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: off the man and fled from the vehicle, yelling for help.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Two men heard her calling and called police for help,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: the complaint says. Now, the good thing about this story is,
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: first of all, these streets that are off of Brady, they're,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: you know, the dense residential streets, duplexes and fourplexes and
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: so on. And they're older streets with lots of trees.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: They're dark. So you've got Brady Street where everything's going
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: on and chaos and so on. But the residential streets
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: often are narrow and dark and so on. The good thing, though,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: is so that you're kind of vulnerable because, you know,
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: it's just dark. But there's still zillions of people that
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: are probably left over from the bars. So when she
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: yelled for help, there were people who could hear her
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: because they're still out and about. In other words, it's
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: not a quiet neighborhood. So that part, the passersby heard
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: her and came over to help after she fought the
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: guy off. Investigators reviewed surveillance video connected with the incident.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Footage from cameras near the parking lot of The pick-and-save
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: at 605 East Lyon Street showed a black Toyota pickup
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: truck pull into the parking lot and later depicted the
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: victim running from the vehicle with her skirt around her ankles.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: The vehicle led north on North Jackson Street. A street
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: camera at the intersection of East Brady Street and North
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Ogden Avenue caught the truck's license plate and investigators determined
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the vehicle belonged to Lopez Simon. Surveillance video from the
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: area showed the bar in question. outside that bar, showed
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Lopez Simon walk by the bar twice or shortly after
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: 1.45 a.m. September 27th. So again, remember, bar time is 2.30.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Most bars close at 2.10, a little bit before. So
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: they now have the camera saying this guy was walking
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: back and forth past the bar that we know the
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: victim had said she was at at 1.45. At around
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: 2.05 a.m., the victim could be seen exiting the bar
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: and sitting on the porch of the business next door.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: And then they mentioned that business. Again, they've not done
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: anything wrong. But she left the bar and she's sitting
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: on the stoop, you know, the building next door. At
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: 2.11 a.m., Lopez Simon, that's the alleged rapist, sat on
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: the porch next to the victim. And shortly after, they
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: stood and waited for the victim to stand. Detectives noted
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: that on the video it appeared the victim was barely
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: able to get up and was falling after taking one
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: step on the sidewalk. Lopez Simon offered his hand to
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: assist the victim and they walked out of the camera's view.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: The victim identified as Lopez Simon in a police line
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: and officers arrested him at an address on the 3700
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: block of West Frederick Place. An investigator spoke with Lopez
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Simon's girlfriend. who said the two of them had attended
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: a birthday party on Saturday, September 26th. That would have
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: been the night of this incident. The woman said she
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: and Lopez Simon dropped the woman's parents off at home
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: around midnight, September 27th, and then got food and went
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: to Lopez Simon's residence. She said Lopez Simon left between
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: 1230 a.m. and 1 a.m., so this timeline is perfectly matching,
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: and told her he was going out with a friend,
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: the complaint said. The woman told police she saw a
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: scratch on Lopez Simon's face On September 27th, according to
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the complaint. Here's how I'm bringing up that story. They
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: were able to pretty much figure out exactly the timeline
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: of what happened and where through all of these cameras
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: that are down there. We've got cameras of the woman
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: exiting the bar on Brady Street. Cameras of her then
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: sitting on the stoop of the business next door. Cameras
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: of this guy walking back and forth by the bar.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Cameras of the guy then plopping his rear end next
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: to the woman. What we don't have a camera of
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: is him dragging her into the truck, but we do
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: see a few blocks away near the pick and save,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: which is roughly seven, eight, nine blocks away, the truck
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: driving around in that area over there. So you've got
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: all these cameras that were able to put this together,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: and then you see the vehicle that was the camera,
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: the vehicle was at that grocery store, and then you
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: see the vehicle back on Brady Street, and the license
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: plate reader is able to pick up the license plate.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: That's how they caught this guy. And when they arrested him,
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: she was able to pick him up out of the lineup.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: I'm only bringing this up because of all the bad
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: publicity that people are giving all these cameras that we
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: have all around all over the place. We have apprehended, allegedly,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: a rapist because we have eyes out that are able
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: to see this stuff. And we were also able to
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: see that the victim was clearly a target. If she's woozy,
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: we don't know. If the guy was inside the bar
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: and slipped something in, very likely she was bombed out
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: of her mind and this made her vulnerable. And the
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: predator saw this and acted upon it. If we didn't
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: have all these cameras around and they weren't able to, A,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: match the type of vehicle, which clearly matched what she
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: described in the incident, and then the next one with
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: the license plate reader that nailed it, probably gets away
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: with it. And now to this story. This is the
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: kind of thing that sadly happens all the time. Well-intentioned
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: conservative people run for office in a community, usually in
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: the suburbs. And then they get elected, and the longer
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: they serve, they forget where they came from and become
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: the same insiders that they ran to replace. The Menominee
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Falls community is one we've talked about a lot on
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: our program. It's a community, it's becoming more liberal, but
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: it's still conservative. It used to be very conservative, but
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: it has been governed from the hard left for many years.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: A few years ago, a bunch of conservatives got together,
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: they were all moms, and put together a slate of
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: candidates to run for the school board because they were
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: fed up with the lefty crap going on in the schools,
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: the high levels of taxation, and so on. It's a
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: good thing. But that was a few years ago. The
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Menominee Falls School Board has just hired a surveying company
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: to survey attitudes of the community with regard to priorities
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  Speaker 2: and funding. Now, if you've been listening to me for years,
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I've explained what the MO on this is. Before a
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: tax referendum, what school boards do is they claim that
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: they're going to conduct an unbiased survey of the community
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: to see what the residents think. What they in fact
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: do is use the survey to build the case for
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: the tax hike because they don't ask straightforward questions on
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: the survey. they will put in the survey, oh, the
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: boiler here is flowing down and the kids are stuck
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: in the car over here and this decrepit thing and
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: et cetera. So given that, in other words, the survey
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: questions are biased, but people who read the survey don't
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: think analytically through that. And they think that this is
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: a factual description of what's going on in the school
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: district rather than an attempt to build support for this.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: And then after asking the loaded question, they get the
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: result that they want and use that as the basis.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: to put a monster tax referendum on the ballot. In
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: order to pull this off, though, you need to find
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: a surveying company that will play ball. Now, most legitimate
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: surveying companies, there's in fact, I did a story on
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: this maybe 10 years ago. There's a code of ethics
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: in the surveying business, and legitimate polling companies agree that
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: they will not ask biased questions that attempt to lead
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: people to a result. But there's a company that's based
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: in Slinger that we have been talking about for years.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: It's called School Perceptions. Bad company. Bad for Wisconsin. They
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: market themselves to school districts as a way of helping
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the school districts build the case for referendums. So the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: school districts want to Stack the deck. They hire school
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: perceptions that will ask loaded piece of crap questions in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: an attempt to give the school district the answer that
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: they want. As I exposed this company several years ago
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: after they did one of their bias surveys, might have
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: even been in Menominee Falls. The guy who runs the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: company has a track record of this. And many people
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: who are involved in the polling business contacted me and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: told me about the code of ethics that you're not
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: supposed to be able to do that. And so when
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: you go to the website of this company, they brag
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: right and left about all the school referendums they helped
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: get passed. So who do you think Menominee Falls hired
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: to conduct their survey? A legitimate surveying company because they
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: wanted to hear if the public actually believes that the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: tax burden is too low and they need all of
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: these extra monies. And they hired school perceptions. So the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: same school board that was elected with this reform mindset
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: has now essentially morphed into The same Greco, Jeskowitz, Glasgow
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: crap of fake conservatives that are really big spending lefties
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: that have been predators in their poor community forever. I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: found out about this because a resident of the community
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: complained about this and they responded to him and he
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: sent me a copy of the email. I then sent
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: the following email. They've got a new superintendent in Menominee Falls.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: The conservative school board, they've had all these lefty school superintendents.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: One of them even married away into the Greco family
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: that's run Menominee Falls forever. We got a new guy
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: in there. His name is Munoz. And when they hire
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: these school superintendents and they don't think that they're going
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: to get a lefty, the problem is if you hire
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: a school superintendent who's been working in administration in any
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: other school district, you've got a 99% chance of getting
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: a lefty because those are the only people in that field.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: So I sent the following. And if they respond, I will,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: on a future podcast, read the response. Superintendent Munoz and board,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: given the long history of school perceptions conducting biased surveys
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: aimed at propagandizing and building support for tax referendums, why
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: did your district choose this sham surveying company to purportedly
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: survey community members? Surely you are aware of the years
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: of criticism of this firm. If not, I certainly question
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: if your school board is as conservative as many of
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: its members claimed to be when they ran for office.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: School Perceptions has boasted of its ability to build support
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: for successful referendum campaigns. That's not a surveying firm. It
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: is a company that works with school districts to build
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: cases for raising already obscenely high property tax burdens. To
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: members of the board, Was this firm chosen because of
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: your superintendent's recommendation? If so, why would you cede such
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: an important vendor decision to a school administrator with a
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: vested interest in raising taxes? Now, let me interject. This
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: is not in my email. One of the things that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: you see with lazy-ass school board members is they just
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: show up for the meeting with no prep. They don't
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: do any work. And the superintendent makes a recommendation and
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: they just vote yes. The problem with this, of course,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: is the superintendents are 99% of the time big lefties.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: And anybody who's an administrator wants more money. These are
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: their fiefdoms. So the superintendents are always just trying to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: get the school board to give them more money, do
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: more lefty things, and so on. Activist school board members
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: need to be the ones who rein in and make
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: these decisions. With regard to raising property taxes, you certainly shouldn't...
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: allow the guy who most wants the property taxes to
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: go off the superintendent to pick the surveying firm. So
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: I'm asking you board members, did you go in through
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: and look through and realize what a pile of crap
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: company you're getting here? Or did you just rubber stamp
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: the recommendation from the superintendent? And if you did rubber
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: stamp the recommendation of the superintendent, stop telling me that
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: you're the moms for reform and all of this stuff
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: and just admit that you're a bunch more. You're the
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: same old lazy taxers that that community has been saddled
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: with forever. And I conclude. The more things change in
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Menominee Falls, the more things seem to stay the same.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: I feel this email could have been sent to any
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: number of the Jeskowitz-Greco-Glasgow cabal that has governed Menominee Falls
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: for so many years. Alas, and then I sigh. If
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: they choose to respond to this latest incident of a
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: community recently run by conservatives who eventually pour out and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: sell out and become the same thing that they ran against,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: which is a whole problem that we've had in Wisconsin
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: and the reason that we have declining educational quality, declining enrollment,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: yet exploding property taxes. And as I say, there are
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: so many people that get rich off of school referendums.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: The architectural firms, the construction firms, the design firms, and
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: then all of the subcontractors. There may not be a
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: lot of activity going on in commercial construction, but these
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: government buildings, huge. And then these things are so padded.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: And when they're padded, that pad, that money, that goes
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: to people, that goes to companies. And with this company
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: school of perceptions is then, okay, we don't build anything.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: We don't manufacture anything. We don't put in any plumbing.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: We don't do any engineering. We're going to hitch our
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: wagon to this. We'll just come up with a bunch
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: of bias surveys that they can use to shill this.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: And our wink, wink, nod, nod, use us because you'll
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: get the answers you want if you go to us.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: And they get away with this because who's going to
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: call them on it? Me, that's it. Well, at least
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: I can say I just did. You're listening to the
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Mark Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: have this theory. It's called the law of the tuck rule.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: The tuck rule was this rule in the NFL that
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: nobody knew existed until a then very young New England
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Patriot quarterback named Tom Brady... seemed to fumble a football
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: in a playoff game that was played in an absolute
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: blizzard in New England. The fumble would have turned the
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: ball over to the other team. The referees, however, ruled
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: that it wasn't a fumble. It was called the tuck
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: rule that it was actually the motion of a pass
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: or something or another. New England maintained possession of the ball,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: kicked a field goal in the blizzard, and won the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: playoff game. They went on in advance to the Super
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: Bowl where they played the then powerhouse dynasty Mike Martz St.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: Louis Rams. I was convinced St. Louis would kill New England.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: First of all, New England had been bad for a long,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: long time. Secondly, everybody knew New England shouldn't have been there.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: I think it was the Raiders they actually played in
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: the Tuck Rule game. They were there because of a fluke. Well,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: they're going to get their comeuppance. Well, this was before
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: Belichick was Belichick, and it was before Brady was Brady.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: This was before they won the game. And they would
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: not have even been to that Super Bowl. That was
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: the first win that they had in that dynasty. Were
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: it not for this odd tuck rule, a goofy little
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: thing that, rule that nobody knew about that allowed them
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: to win. Since then, I've come to the conclusion that
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: a team that advances in a sport because of a
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: fluke and a game that they shouldn't have won rather
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: than be something that you say, they only got to
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: this point because of a fluke. Okay, now they'll be
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: knocked out. That it's just the opposite. that you're like
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: the gods are on their side. I just wonder if
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: that would-be 750-foot home-run bomb that that guy France hit
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: for San Diego on Saturday night doesn't hit the roof
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: and manages to drop straight down into the glove of
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Jackson Turturio, is that our tuck rule? Is this Finally,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: the Brewers year. I'm not saying it is, but you
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: got to be open to it. I mean, people say, well,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: the ball was going to go foul. There's no way
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: of knowing if it's going to go foul. I watched
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: the replay a zillion times. It seemed to me that
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: that ball was going straight, but it was hard to
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: track because, I mean, if we didn't have that roof there,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: that ball might have gone all the way to the moon.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: And all these people are saying, I've never seen that
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: before at American Family Field or its predecessor, Miller Park.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: I've been to enough games. I've seen balls hit the
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: roof there. And there's the proper call that they have
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: on it. The roof has cables just below the level
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: of the roof, and the roof there at our field
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: is extremely high, so it's very rare that it would
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: be hit. But I've seen it hit a couple of
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: times and the ball comes down. Usually in the field
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: of play, I've seen it land in the field once, twice,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: three times, either at a game that I was at
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: or on television. In this instance, the ball was going
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: on the left field line, and I think that the ball,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: when it hit the cable, appeared to come straight down,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: which tells me it would have been a home run
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: since it was caught in fair territory by Jackson Churio.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: And he was right at the warning track. It would
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: have been just a few feet further that would have
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: crossed over the fence, and it would have been a
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: fair ball, and the Brewers probably would have lost. So then, yesterday,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: the Brewers played their worst game of the year. These
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: great fielders that are just dubbing it up in the infield,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: something pathetic. I mean, Terang and Pratt and Hamilton were
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: just butchering it out there. Padres bring in the best
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: closer in baseball. I mean, Mason Miller's ERA was 1.6,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: but it really should have been lower than that. I
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: think he was hit, like, for quite a few runs,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: one or two games, but mostly he's just been lights
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: out and impossible to hit. Rolls to the Brewers in
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: the eighth inning. They try to get a two-inning save
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: out of him, and somehow he loses his control. He
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: walks three Brewers. And the last guy that he walks,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, the manager had used every player on his
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: bench because he was going lefty-righty, and he made the
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: decision that he'll take Gary Sanchez, who's probably the weakest
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: hitter on the team, but a big-time home run guy,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: and have him bat rather than David Hamilton. Now, Pat
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Murphy makes very few mistakes, and there was a lefty-righty
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: thing that's going on there, but Hamilton's a contact hitter
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: with a higher batting average. Sanchez is an all or
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: nothing guy. He had only a little over 200, but
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of power in that situation where you just
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: need to scratch something out to maybe get the tying
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: run in or keep the game alive. Maybe the wiser
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: decision would have been to stay with Hamilton, particularly since
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: Gary Sanchez is just the strikeout machine. Well, that strikeout machine,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: you know, Gary came up, he was a New York
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Yankee and his first couple of years of the Yankees,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: people thought he'd be a hall of famer because he
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: had just incredible power. The problem is his batting average
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: just slid more and more over the years, and he's
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: become a career backup. He somehow, against Mason Willer, worked
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: a walk, and he held off on a couple of
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: real sucker pitches. Miller's got this fast... Miller throws almost
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: as fast as Mizorowski, and he's got a slider that
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: they just chase. It breaks out of the strike zone,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: but they chase it because... They don't know that it's
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: not the fastball coming in and it just takes incredible
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: discipline to hold off on it. And Sanchez worked that walk.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: And I mean, I said this two weeks ago, Jackson
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Shurio has become Ryan Braun without regard to the steroid
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: thing on Ryan Braun or whatever. Ryan Braun was one
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: of those athletes that wanted to be up in the
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: clutch moment. There are just certain players that are better
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: when it's important to Michael Jordan was the classic example
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: of that. LeBron has that in him. Tiger Woods had
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: that in him. Tiger Woods would be likelier to make
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: a great putt on the 18th hole where you need
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: a putt to win a tournament than he would on, say,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: the 7th hole on a Thursday. There's just certain athletes
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: that have that moment that when the pressure is on
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: and the consequences are greater that they somehow elevate. And
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Churio's got that. He has it. He just, he's likely
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: to do well. So, though, any guy that you'd want
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: to have face Mason Miller in that situation, I'm sure
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: you'd understand Miller hadn't given up a hit. The three
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: guys that are on base are because of walks. And
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: that at bat, which just, if you haven't seen it,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: watch the YouTube thing. And the Fox news, Fox coverage
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: on FS1 was just spectacular after the game. And they've
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: got great analysts. I don't watch post-game shows, but I
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: watch this one. They have great analysts on the post-game show.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: First of all, they have David Ortiz, who's just, a
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: piece of work. And they've managed to get, they got
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Jeter and A-Rod, who I always say hate each other,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: but they're both great talkers. And they used to analyze
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: that at bat so well. Churio got to two strikes
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: and Mason Miller threw him that slider. And, you know,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: that slider is going to be out of the strike zone.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: The problem is the batter doesn't know what's going to
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: be out of the strike zone because it looks like
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: it's coming right down the middle. And Churio with two
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: strikes on him, he had the stones to not chase.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: He didn't swing. So the count's now 2-2. The bases
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: are loaded. You can't walk, Churrio, and you don't want
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: to get to 3-2. See, there's 103 miles on our fastball,
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: and Churrio won the game with a base hit. Everybody's
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: acting like this series is over. As I said, San
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Diego's really good, and let's be honest, they should be
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: up 2-0, down 0-2. But those are reasons, I think,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: to argue it might be the Brewers' year. I am reminded,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: you're a Cubs fan. Do you remember, was it 84? Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: Now that in that era, they did the five game series.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: I think it was two, three, wasn't it? Yes. I
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: remember that. And I was working in Illinois at the
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: time and I actually covered the, I had no business
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: getting a press pass, but I got a press pass
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: the first two games at Wrigley field. I sat right
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: behind Mike Reichel. The press box at Wrigley Field is tiny,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: so there's a million. They created an auxiliary press box,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: and that was simply just some seats on the third
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: base line. They were pretty good seats at Wrigley Field.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Mike Royko is sitting one row ahead of me, and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: you know who sat next to Royko was Jack Brickhouse.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: Jack no longer did the TV. Harry Carrier had taken
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: over TV. Jack's sitting there, and I'm just thinking, this
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: is wrong. Jack Brickhouse should not be only two rows
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: in front of me. The guy sitting two seats next
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: to me was Bob Greenberg. Did you know him from radio?
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Bob Greenberg was a sports reporter for public radio in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: He's a legend. He's blind. Well, if you've ever been
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  Speaker 2: to Wrigley Field, there's posts everywhere. Obstructed view posts. Jack
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: Brickhouse was like near a post. He wasn't at the post,
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  Speaker 2: but it was like to see around in certain places.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, Jack, change places with Greenberg. Anyway, the
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  Speaker 2: Cubs won the first two games of that series. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that series back in the time, they didn't go 2-2-1
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  Speaker 2: as we do now, two in Milwaukee, two San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: and game five in Milwaukee. It was 2-3 then. The
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  Speaker 2: Cubs won the first two at Wrigley and went to
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  Speaker 2: San Diego and lost all three. And I think in
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  Speaker 2: that era, you only needed, there were only two series
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  Speaker 2: before the World Series, correct? Correct. So that was only
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  Speaker 2: five games, and then you go to the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: So it wasn't then until the year they won it.
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  Speaker 2: Was it 15 they won it? 16. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: until 16 that they got back there. So just don't
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  Speaker 2: assume that because you're up 2-0 to San Diego that
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  Speaker 2: it's a done deal. As for the Packers, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know they won. I've not changed my attitude at all.
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  Speaker 2: My pick in our football contest, I had the, if
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: you have the line, it's the greatest line in the
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: world they have, getting 3.5. It's the worst line. One delay.
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  Speaker 2: I hate laying three and a half. I took the
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  Speaker 2: Buccaneers three and a half, and they lost by three.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, now Adrian Cooper's hurt. The only high-quality Packer player,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: top elite player, who is now not hurt is Jordan Love.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: Parsons is still hurt. Jacobs, I won't describe him as hurt.
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  Speaker 2: He's on this purgatory of whenever they're going to put
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  Speaker 2: him back into play. The tight end, I guess, is
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  Speaker 2: one of the elite players, but They've now lost Edger
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  Speaker 2: and Cooper, and the injury is, it's the only one
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  Speaker 2: I think that's worse than the ACL. The Achilles is
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  Speaker 2: just terrible. I don't know many guys that fully recover
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: from the Achilles. He's out at least a year. With
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: all the problems they have with a putrid offensive line,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: meaning a putrid offense, they're just losing too many players
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  Speaker 2: right and left. The better news is the Badgers. For
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: people who thought that the Penn State win was a fluke,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: I just think they put an exclamation point on it.
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin football is back to the Wisconsin football of the past.
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  Speaker 2: They took a team that they should beat, Michigan State,
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  Speaker 2: and they just absolutely manhandled and dominated them. So the
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  Speaker 2: good news is I think that the Badgers are back
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  Speaker 2: to the level that they were in the Alvarez, Bielema,
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  Speaker 2: Gary Anderson, and first half of Paul Christ years, a
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  Speaker 2: team good enough to be in the top four or
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  Speaker 2: five of the Big Ten with traditional Badger football, incredible defense,
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  Speaker 2: and a good enough offense that moves the ball. So
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  Speaker 2: that was good. Now let me talk about my horse,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: USS Valor, who, if you're not aware of this, is
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  Speaker 2: now in the middle of massive controversy in horse racing
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: because everybody's mad that what a decision that we've made.
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  Speaker 2: He's a two-year-old horse. He had run two times. His
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  Speaker 2: last race, his second race, was the one in which
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  Speaker 2: he ran the fastest speed figure of any two-year-old in
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  Speaker 2: America in six years. So Saturday was his attempt to
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  Speaker 2: legitimize what he had done. Ran in the grade one
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  Speaker 2: champagne stakes, grade one is as high as you can
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  Speaker 2: go in horse racing, at Belmont Park in New York.
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  Speaker 2: There were only six horses entered, only one of which
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: had any chance to beat us. That horse is named Goudreau,
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  Speaker 2: who actually beat us in the first race. Our horse
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: was the overwhelming favorite at one to five. During the
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: running of the race that many of you have asked
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: me about, a couple of other horses were trying to
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  Speaker 2: box our horse in. Jockeys will do that. Even though
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  Speaker 2: it was only a six-horse field, there was a horse
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  Speaker 2: to the outside of our horse, and the rider of
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  Speaker 2: that horse kept trying to ride at the same speed
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: as us. In the meantime, our horse had broken slowly,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: so he was behind Goudreau and two other horses. It's
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  Speaker 2: a mile race, which is around one turn, meaning it
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  Speaker 2: takes a while. We were boxed in and boxed in
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: and boxed in and boxed in and boxed in and
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: boxed in. And you start to wonder, is he ever
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: going to be able to get out? Well, eventually a
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: hole emerged. The other horse came over and banged into
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  Speaker 2: us a bit. But once the hole emerged, USS Valor
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: proved exactly what we know that he is. And it
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: was just eye-popping again. He just exploded and ran away
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: from everybody and crushed and dominated. And he's one of
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  Speaker 2: the most exciting two-year-olds in America in years. The head
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: of our syndicate. announced yesterday that we are not going
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: to run the horse in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Keeneland in Kentucky in three and a half weeks. And
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: it's just a controversy in horse racing. Everybody's all pissed
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: off about, why aren't you running, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, Barry,
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  Speaker 2: who's the managing partner, meaning he makes the decisions you
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: can't have in a partnership, voting on everything. This was
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  Speaker 2: the plan in advance of the race. I sat with him.
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  Speaker 2: All afternoon on Saturday afternoon, I agree with the decision.
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  Speaker 2: I even said to him, don't change your mind on this.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: And he looked at me, I'm not changing my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Asking a horse of this ability at this young of
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  Speaker 2: an age to run four races in 11 weeks is
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  Speaker 2: exactly the prescription for ruining a horse. You know, in
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: the old days, they ran all the time, even when
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: they were young. They weren't as big then. The workout
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: and the conditioning, they weren't as well muscled as they are.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: right now. And whether the breed is deteriorated or whatever
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: it is, they don't do well in this. The slow
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: ones can do it, but the fast ones are putting
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: more pressure on their bodies. And our horse is a
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: huge horse. We think that this horse is a horse
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  Speaker 2: that can win the Kentucky Derby. It's the hardest race
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  Speaker 2: to win. And 9,000 things go wrong for every one
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: thing that goes right physically with a horse. And it's
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: still a long shot to do that. But if we
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: run in this race, I think that We will have
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: a fried and finished horse before his three-year-old season even
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: comes around. So our decision is to give the horse
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: a break. And I don't know if he will race
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: again this year or wait until the early winter of
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  Speaker 2: next year. Most people now try to get two races
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: before the Kentucky Derby and use those two to try
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: to get enough points to qualify to be in the race.
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  Speaker 2: I am adamant that it is the right decision. And
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: there's a reason why in the history of this race,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, only two of those horses have
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: ever won the Kentucky Derby. Most horses that race in
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: the Breeders' Cup Juvenile are done by their three-year-old year.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: You never hear of them again. It's too much too soon. Now,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: the counter to that is we'd probably win it, and
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: we'd be a champion. But the Kentucky Derby is still
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby. So the victory was elating. It was
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: fun to be there. The instant the race, I arranged
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: to have a driver pick me up because I had
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: to get back to my hotel. I get people ask me,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: why did you go back to your hotel before you
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: went to the airport? Jason, you can figure out why
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: I went back to my hotel, can't you? Yes. You can't.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: So why didn't you bring your stuff? You can't bring
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: like a, like it's not as, it's like carry on
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: suitcase type, the type that fits in the overhead. Cause
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: there's only, you can't bring that into a racetrack. There's
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: times that maybe you could, but now they, they don't
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: let you bring anything and you can't bring in this, that,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: or the other thing. Wasn't that far away, but the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: track Belmont park is on the same grounds as the
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: arena for the hockey Islanders who had a game that night,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: UBS arena. And the track's been closed for three years.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: So there's a pickup ride for ride sharing for the
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: UBS Arena. And that's where they directed me to. I had,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a limo, but it's a limo service. It's
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: just the sedan picking me up. But I didn't want
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: to trust this to Uber because I had to get
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: back to the airport and then get to JFK. My
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: flight was seven, meaning that they board at 620. And
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: our race got over around 405 Eastern. So I'm working with,
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: I got about two and a half hours to pull
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: this off. And I'm going, I can't find the driver
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: and he's not there. So I'm calling the driver up
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: and he's, He's talking in broken English, and I could
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: tell he was by the racetrack and I was by
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: the hockey arena because that's where they told me to go.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: It took 45 minutes for us to find one another,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: and it was nobody's fault. The track's just open. There's
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: not a drop-off area at it yet, and so on,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: but I made it back. I got to the gate
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: about two or three minutes before boarding. The Wi-Fi on
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: the plane wasn't too good, so I was following the
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: Brewer game, but the video was choppy, but I was
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: seeing The play-by-play. But I got home to watch the
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: last three innings of the game and so on. And
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: we are where we are. But it is the rare
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: sports weekend where everything went well for me. Probably the
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: best horse I've ever honed. He ran a spectacular race.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: He's now done two races in a row. I think
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: it's more fun to win in sports games that you
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have won. Don't you? I mean, it's like. I
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: always think the best ones to win are the ones
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: that are crushing to the opposition. Both of these losses
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: for San Diego are crushing. That was a home run.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: Do you know what the chances are of it hitting
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: that tiny little cable? People keep saying that the ball
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: was still on the way up. That is impossible. That
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: cable is about 300 feet from home plate. If it's
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: still on the way up, that means the ball would
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: have gone 650 feet. And the roof was closed, so
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: only so far it could have gone. But it had
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: to have been coming down. And it dropped straight down,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: as it would do. It came straight down, which tells
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: me that the cable is probably right directly over where
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: Churrio caught the ball. So the Badgers are back. As
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: I say, the Packers, even though, as I say, I
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: treat this almost as a loss, they actually won the game.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: It was a great weekend. Usually that means everything that
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: happens from this point forward is going to be bad,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: but we hope not. Anyway, that's it for today. Our
• 1:25:39
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• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: See you soon.
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  Speaker 4: Bye.
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