Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #93: The scandal in plain sight: Somalis in Minnesota steal $1 billion in taxpayer money in full view of the media and full knowledge of pathetic Gov. Tim Walz. Also: the gall of the Democrats hammering on the "affordability" crisis they created. And, Mark's take on the Lightning & Thunder movie Song Sung Blue: is it Oscar-worthy?

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Mark Belling Podcast #93: The scandal in plain sight: Somalis in Minnesota steal $1 billion in taxpayer money in full view of the media and full knowledge of pathetic Gov. Tim Walz. Also: the gall of the Democrats hammering on the "affordability" crisis they created. And, Mark's take on the Lightning & Thunder movie Song Sung Blue: is it Oscar-worthy? · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: There's a scandal that's been going on in plain View,
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  Speaker 2: and it's still going on in plain View, and I
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  Speaker 2: think the fact that it's going on, it's rather obvious
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  Speaker 2: that it's going on. It's going on for some time.
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  Speaker 2: There's a fortune involved, and nobody does anything about it
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  Speaker 2: that's more interesting and more important than the scandal itself.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to dive into that story here in the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the program. It's the Somali scandal centered in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, it's happening in Plainview. Zillions of Somali
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  Speaker 2: refugees come to the United States. A huge number of
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  Speaker 2: them settle in Minnesota, and I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: percentage is, but it's not tiny become scammers. Many of
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  Speaker 2: them don't like America. Some of them have become just
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  Speaker 2: out oute scammers. And we're now learning the details of
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  Speaker 2: this scandal that's been going on in Minnesota. Apparently that
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  Speaker 2: everybody in Minnesota knew about, in which they there were
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  Speaker 2: groups that just stole a fortune in COVID and other
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  Speaker 2: aid money and else the governor didn't do anything about.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently the media knew about it, and it's still going on.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's been revealed, it's outed, it's still going on.
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  Speaker 2: It's a story worth diving into, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: set it up before we roll into the program. With
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  Speaker 2: zillion posts on social media that are coming out, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them from frustrated Minnesota residents who aren't part
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  Speaker 2: of the radical cabal that runs the state. This summarizes
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  Speaker 2: it as well as anybody. It's a post that I
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  Speaker 2: found on x A group of Minnesota Somalis stealing tens
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  Speaker 2: of millions of dollars from American taxpayers told Minnesota's Department
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  Speaker 2: of Education to pay up for their fake charity or
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  Speaker 2: they would call them racist in the media, and it worked.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm going to give you the details of the story,
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  Speaker 2: but that's an extraordinarily good one sentence summary. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: call you racist if you try to cut off our funding.
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  Speaker 2: So they didn't. The fact that it was Somalian Americans
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  Speaker 2: that did it is why they were able to get
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  Speaker 2: not an option. Now, as I say, this story is
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  Speaker 2: now out there and everywhere, and the reason it's out
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  Speaker 2: there and everywhere is the liberal media has now even
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  Speaker 2: reported it. A couple of days ago, the New York Times,
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  Speaker 2: the New York Bleeping Times ran a massive piece exposing
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  Speaker 2: this scandal and pointing attention that to the fact that
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  Speaker 2: it all happened under Tim Waltz, who appeared to empower
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  Speaker 2: the scammers. So as they say, the story's out there
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  Speaker 2: and now nobody's denying it, it's just a reality that
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  Speaker 2: is there. And when the New York Times itself decides
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to report on it, there's no longer
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  Speaker 2: any deniability. You know, it's there, which requires us to
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  Speaker 2: go back and look at how it happened. And then
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  Speaker 2: in development this week that indicates it's still going on,
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  Speaker 2: even as though even the New York Times admits it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read a few paragraphs on the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times piece the fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering
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  Speaker 2: in scale and brazenness. Now let me pause with just that.
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  Speaker 2: Brazen What do you do something that you're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to do and you are brazen about it? In other words,
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  Speaker 2: just doing in broad daylight, whateverybody knowing you're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Like just think of a you know, little kids stealing
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  Speaker 2: from the cookie jar. Imagine little kids stealing from the
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  Speaker 2: cookie jar when the mom is standing right next to
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  Speaker 2: the cookie jar. You are brazen when you feel as
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  Speaker 2: though nobody will do anything about it, even if they
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  Speaker 2: find out about it, they won't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the shoplifting that goes on, or some
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  Speaker 2: of the car thefts in Milwaukee just so obvious. They
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  Speaker 2: braizen somebody driving a stolen car, and instead of trying
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  Speaker 2: to be obscure about it, they'll drive one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty miles an hour so guarantee that the cops will
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  Speaker 2: fight it no concern at all. That's brazen. That's what
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  Speaker 2: this was, Braizen back to the New York Times piece,
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  Speaker 2: and again, if we had an actual mainstream media that
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  Speaker 2: reported on these things when they were happening, many of
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  Speaker 2: these problems would go away. You do have extreme cover
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  Speaker 2: here in being able to quote the New York Times piece,
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  Speaker 2: because nobody on the left is going to claim now
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  Speaker 2: that this is some sort of biased, right wing Fox
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  Speaker 2: News hate mongering racist thing because their own mouth Peace
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  Speaker 2: The New York Times is blowing the whistle at it
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  Speaker 2: because it became so obvious. Why are they blowing the whistle.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get into that in a moment. It's not quite
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  Speaker 2: as interesting as the fact that the scandal went on
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  Speaker 2: as long as it did and it was so obvious continuing,
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  Speaker 2: federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them
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  Speaker 2: of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government
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  Speaker 2: program meant to kept children fed during the COVID nineteen pandemic. No,
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  Speaker 2: let's pause on that. As I told you during COVID nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: you know the old Rama manual line, never let a
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  Speaker 2: good crisis go to waste. The Democrats needed COVID to
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  Speaker 2: be this terrible thing in order to justify spending an
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  Speaker 2: absolute fortune, and that spending an absolute fortune is when
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  Speaker 2: all of these leftist groups licked their chops because they think,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go get that fortune. We just used
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  Speaker 2: COVID as an excuse for the money to exist in
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  Speaker 2: the first place. We saw this all over the place
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  Speaker 2: with COVID. I'm wondering what percentage of COVID money was
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  Speaker 2: actually properly spent. According to what I swear, it's less
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  Speaker 2: than fifty percent. In any event, fortune is being dumped
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  Speaker 2: into this program in Minnesota, and it's aimed at you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have a legitimate problem of hunger, people that are impoverished,
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  Speaker 2: don't eat enough, don't eat good food, children, etc. So
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  Speaker 2: we spend a fortune out of COVID. Okay, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people aren't going to be working. There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be hunger in all of this. And this group of Somalians,
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  Speaker 2: lots of them, just tapped into this and stole all
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  Speaker 2: the money, with everyone in Minnesota apparently where they were
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  Speaker 2: doing it. When they were doing it. At first, many
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  Speaker 2: in the States saw the case as a one off
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  Speaker 2: abuse during a health emergency, but as new schemes targeting
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  Speaker 2: the state's generous safety net programs came to light, State
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  Speaker 2: and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.
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  Speaker 2: You just imagine this. Everybody involved here is liberal. The
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  Speaker 2: scandal went on during the Biden era, and in Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: the governor was Waltz. Okay, the Somalians are stealing all
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  Speaker 2: the money. Instead of the reaction, let's stop. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: but it's some allions. We can't do anything to them.
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  Speaker 2: This is their jarring reality. Over the last five years,
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement officials say fraud took root in pockets of
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota's Somali diaspora, as scores of individuals made small fortunes
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  Speaker 2: by setting up companies that build state agencies for millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars worth of social services that were never provided.
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  Speaker 2: Let me interject one of the scams that we've seen
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  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin in which several people have been charged these
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  Speaker 2: setting up these home health care agencies or childcare agencies.
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  Speaker 2: A woman says, Okay, I'm taking care of fourteen kids,
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  Speaker 2: gets federal funds for all of that, not taking care
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  Speaker 2: of anybody who's actually going to go into our house.
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  Speaker 2: Into a headcount of whether or not any of these
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  Speaker 2: kids are actually in there easy to scam, and there
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  Speaker 2: are certain programs that are set up that just don't
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  Speaker 2: have any safeguards whatsoever. Now in a tight knit ethnic
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  Speaker 2: community like the Somali community, the word just got around
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  Speaker 2: it's very easy to set up and scam this program.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what, they won't do anything to us. We're
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  Speaker 2: too damn powerful. Since so many of us moved to Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: were a massive power block in Minnesota. Nobody's going to
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  Speaker 2: do anything to us. It was part of their calculation
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  Speaker 2: that no one would do anything to them. Federal prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: say that fifty nine people have been convicted in those
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  Speaker 2: schemes so far, and that more than one billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Think about that. This is just one billion billion. One
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars in taxpayer's money has been stolen in three
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  Speaker 2: plots they are investigating. That is more than Minnesota spends
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  Speaker 2: annualated department to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota's fraud
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  Speaker 2: scandals stood out even in the context of rampant theft
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  Speaker 2: during the pandemic, when Americans stole tens of billions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars through unemployment benefits, business loans, and other forms of aid.
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  Speaker 2: According to federal auditors. Outrageous swelled among Minnesotan's. Okay, some
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  Speaker 2: of these people in Minnesota, and you know, there's just
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  Speaker 2: numerous problems with Minnesota. Do you know any of the
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  Speaker 2: problems that associate with Minnesota. It is really liberal. That's
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  Speaker 2: one of the problems. What else. The governor's an idiot,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's that almost goes to the liberal part. But
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  Speaker 2: you know the Somalis that are there. Here's the other part.
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  Speaker 2: The people in Minnesota that aren't like part of that
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  Speaker 2: liberal idiocy. They're dumb. I mean that. Well, all these
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  Speaker 2: Fargo movies and TV things, they must be real. So
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  Speaker 2: now you have the Minnesotans that are honest, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they got the whole Minnesota nice thing there. Now, after
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  Speaker 2: years of this happening right into their noses, now that
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  Speaker 2: everybody is acknowledging it happen, now they're mad and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them are very very mad at their idiot
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  Speaker 2: and income poop governor, who almost became the vice president
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  Speaker 2: of the United States sees people in Minnesota, well, gee,
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  Speaker 2: this is worse than what anybody did in California or
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  Speaker 2: New York or all of these other leftist states. Why
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  Speaker 2: did it happen so badly here Continuing, Governor Tim Waltz
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  Speaker 2: and fellow Democrats are being asked to explain how so
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  Speaker 2: much money was stolen on their watch, providing Republicans who
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  Speaker 2: hope to take back the governor's office in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six with a powerful light of attack. In recent days,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump has weighed in calling Minnesota a hub of
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  Speaker 2: fraudulent money laundering at and saying the Somali perpetrators should
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  Speaker 2: be sent back to where they came from. Many Somali
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  Speaker 2: Americans in Minnesota say the fraud has damaged the reputation
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  Speaker 2: of their entire community, around eighty thousand people, at a
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  Speaker 2: moment when the political and economic standing was on the rise.
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  Speaker 2: What this reminds me of is how so many Italian
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  Speaker 2: Americans back in the day objected to the bracedness of
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  Speaker 2: the mafia, with most Italian Americans who were not criminals saying,
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  Speaker 2: we're all being lumped in with this. People are going
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  Speaker 2: to look upon our entire culture as being corrupt, Whereas
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  Speaker 2: obviously the mafia was a small minority of Italian Americans.
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  Speaker 2: So now you have other Somalis and I'll just describe
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  Speaker 2: who they are. The ones that are hacked off about this.
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  Speaker 2: They're the ones that weren't stealing any mighty didn't get anything. Now,
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  Speaker 2: with the tables being turned in public attitudes toward immigration
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  Speaker 2: and in particular resettlement refugees and so on, many Somalians
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  Speaker 2: who didn't steal the money are fearful that this is
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  Speaker 2: going to build the case against all of them, and
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  Speaker 2: it probably rightly should. Back to the New York Times
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  Speaker 2: and listen again. The fact that this is in the
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  Speaker 2: New York Times is the substance of the story that
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  Speaker 2: this is now being outed by the left itself. Debate
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  Speaker 2: over the fraud has opened new riffs between the States
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  Speaker 2: Somali community and other Minnesotans, and has left some Somali
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  Speaker 2: Americans saying they are unfairly facing a new layer of
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  Speaker 2: suspicion against all of them rather than the small group
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  Speaker 2: accused of fraud. Critics of the Waltz administration say that
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  Speaker 2: the fraud persisted partly because state officials were fearful of
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  Speaker 2: alienating the Somali community of Minnesota. See that's the story,
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  Speaker 2: Waltz Democrat. The Somali community is packed into areas in
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  Speaker 2: the Twin Cities. That's where the majority of them live
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  Speaker 2: and have a power base in that area. Waltz being
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  Speaker 2: Waltz terrified of getting on the wrong side of that
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  Speaker 2: group of Democrat voters, and Waltz calculating this, if my
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  Speaker 2: administration goes after and targets maybe the two to three
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  Speaker 2: thousand Somalis that are involved in the corruption, all the
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  Speaker 2: other Somalis will hate me. No way of knowing if
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  Speaker 2: that's true. If a bunch of crooked Somalis were charged
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  Speaker 2: and were stopped early on in this would all of
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  Speaker 2: the non crooked Somalis have been furious. Again, there's no
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  Speaker 2: way of knowing, but Waltz and the Democrats who did
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  Speaker 2: this feared that. Now the New York Times story goes on.
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  Speaker 2: The following is a post from a group of Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: Department of Human Services employees. These are employees who work
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  Speaker 2: within the agency who were unable to stop the fraud
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  Speaker 2: from going on that they saw. They've posted on x
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  Speaker 2: Tim Waltz is one hundred percent responsible for massive fraud
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota. We let Tim Waltz know. And again, these
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  Speaker 2: are people who work within the DHS in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Minnesota. We let Tim Waltz know of fraud early on,
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  Speaker 2: hoping for a partnership and stopping fraud, but no, we
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  Speaker 2: got the opposite response. Tim Waltz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers,
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  Speaker 2: using monitoring threats, repression, and did his best to discredit
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  Speaker 2: fraud reports. Instead of partnership, we got the full weight
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  Speaker 2: of retaliation by Tim Waltz. Certain DFL that's the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota, Democratic Farmer Labor parties that they call themselves
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  Speaker 2: DFL members, and indifferent mainstream media in different mainstream media
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  Speaker 2: where was all the media. The media was the same
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  Speaker 2: thing the media in Minnesota. They got newspapers and TV
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  Speaker 2: and all this. They didn't want to expose corruption in
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  Speaker 2: the Sombali community. If this was just a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: companies up and off COVID money, they would not have
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  Speaker 2: had that problem. It was the fact that they were
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  Speaker 2: somebodies that stopped the media from wanting to look into it.
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  Speaker 2: You see the same thing in any number of areas
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  Speaker 2: in which the media is averting its eyes at all
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  Speaker 2: of the violent crime being committed by trans individuals. They
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  Speaker 2: just don't want to see that story because they think
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: focusing on crime criminary trans individuals lumps all trans individuals
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  Speaker 2: in together and suggests that there's that means there's something
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  Speaker 2: wrong with TRANSPI. Same thing as well, free reporting some
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  Speaker 2: Mali criminals. That means that makes it look like all
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  Speaker 2: some allions are criminals. Back to the statement from the
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  Speaker 2: whistleblower employees. In addition to retaliating against whistleblowers, Tim Waltz
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  Speaker 2: disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to
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  Speaker 2: disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting
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  Speaker 2: Tim Walls of the DFL agenda attacked whistle blowers who
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  Speaker 2: were trying to raise red flags and fraudulent activity. As staff,
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  Speaker 2: we first hand witnessed and observed fraud happening, Yet we
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  Speaker 2: were shut down, reassigned, and told to keep quiet. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: more fundamentally, Tim Waltz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity,
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  Speaker 2: his poor leadership abilities, and has never taken any accountability
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  Speaker 2: for his role in fraud. Instead, Tim Waltz deflects by
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  Speaker 2: blaming national politics for his own failings and distracts the
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  Speaker 2: public with inveterate lying thank you New York Times for
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  Speaker 2: bringing the plight of Minnesota to the national state, and
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  Speaker 2: again that's what it took. Unless the leftist media reports it,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't break through this wall of the half the
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  Speaker 2: country that only hears from the leftist media. Jason Riley
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  Speaker 2: excellent columnist Wall Street Journal. He's conservative. He writes on
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  Speaker 2: this when the little Boy in Hans Christian Andersen's the
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  Speaker 2: Emperor's New Clothes. By the way, I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: had to read that when I was a kid. I've
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  Speaker 2: heard references to it forever. I don't remember. Maybe they
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  Speaker 2: did read it and it slipped it. But usually, like
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  Speaker 2: like the Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, some of those,
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  Speaker 2: they stick with you anyway. He cites this reference blurts
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  Speaker 2: out that the emperor is naked. I mean, I've heard
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  Speaker 2: the reference river. I just don't think maybe because it
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  Speaker 2: was nakedness in it, they didn't have us read it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, he says what people already knew. He
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  Speaker 2: says what his fellow townsfolk were thinking. But we're too
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  Speaker 2: afraid to utter themselves. Sometimes it can be seen as
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  Speaker 2: though we're all living in America's fairy tale, where too
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: few people are willing to state the obvious. Let me interject,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: it's just like, you know, I live in down to Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Almost all the liberals know this rip it up in
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  Speaker 2: the city streets is unbelievably stupid. And you know the
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  Speaker 2: concrete sitting in the middle of the road and all
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  Speaker 2: of us, they all know it's stupid. They will not
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  Speaker 2: say so because that means that they have to disaffiliate
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  Speaker 2: themselves in the liberals that did it. But they all
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  Speaker 2: know what. They're all sitting there having to drive all
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  Speaker 2: the way across the middle of the intersection and try
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  Speaker 2: to turn right. I don't know this for a fact,
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  Speaker 2: but I know some people drove right over at the
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  Speaker 2: top of the concrete. When that snow came down. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of the snow that was in downtown melted upon
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  Speaker 2: contact because of where the temperature is. But you get
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  Speaker 2: a couple of feet down there, you're not gonna see
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  Speaker 2: all the concrete. That said that they're gonna drive right
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  Speaker 2: up to the top of it. They have told you
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  Speaker 2: get a snowplow driver having to confront with this. Like
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  Speaker 2: g I said, the lefties all know that. It's just
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  Speaker 2: like they all know now that the trolley's a fiasco.
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  Speaker 2: They all know it, but they don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: it's a fiasco, because that means they have to like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, people like Belling said it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a fiasco. But they all know, but they
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  Speaker 2: can't say it. There's zillions of things like this. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: what happens is somebody on the left says it. They
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  Speaker 2: all that agree and move on, and it happens in
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  Speaker 2: like two seconds, but never any kind of admission they
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  Speaker 2: were wrong. So back to the piece here, Jasid Riley.
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  Speaker 2: Parents of school aged children are expected to watch their
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: daughters play competitive sports with boys and not notice the
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: physical difference. Law abiding citizens are expected to believe the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: police pose a greater threat to public safety than violent criminals.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: We're told that asking someone to show identification before casting
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: a ballot is voter suppression. He's setting all these examples
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of things that people on the left. They all know
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: that this is wrong, they just will not say so.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Last month, the Manhattan Institute's City Journal published an investigative
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: report by Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Ruffaul about COVID related
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: welfare fraud in Minnesota, which happens to be centered in
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the state Somali community. Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: people with setting up fictitious nonprofits that build state agencies
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: for services that were never provided. More than one billion
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: dollars was stolen instead of being used to provide housing
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: or medicaid services. Quote, the money was being used to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles and by real estate
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to the New York Times, and then they quote some
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: of the statements that I've read from the New York
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Times to move forward. The massive fraud was an open secret.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Merrick Ireland, who served as US Attorney General under Joe Biden,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: called it the largest pandemic relief hustle in the nation.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Democratic state officials also suspected wrongdoing, but didn't want to
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: upset an important voting block or be accused of racism.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: A former state senator told Thorpe and Ruffaul, quote, the
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: media does not want to put a light on this,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and if you're a politician, it's a significant disadvantage for
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: you to alienate the Somali community. If you don't win
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. The story
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: goes on, of all the refugee resettlements we've done in
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the United States. The Somali one may be the most disastrous.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: The overwhelming majority of Somali's have become extreme leftists and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: seemed to close an despise the United States. One of
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the things that is sensible when you do a refugee
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: relocation is put all of the people in the same
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: general area, because then they can have support group and
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: someone rather than what Biden did with the illegal immigrants
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: crossing the border, in which we're just flying them all
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: over the country and dropping them everywhere, every here and there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: But it also means that they can become a significant
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: block the amount of crime and fraud that's occurred here,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: as I say, is going on in broad daylight. For example,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: it seems to be widely known that elan Omar married
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: her brother. It's been reported repeatedly, but it's never really pursued.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Hard to prove because tracking birth certificates and proving parentage
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: in Somalia very very difficult to do, and then you
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: got second generation when people came here and so on.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: But it appeared to be a citizen It wasn't a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: perversion thing so much as it apparently was a citizenship
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to be able to make permanent the visa, on and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: on and on those stories went. And now this after
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: all of this has been reported, we have a conviction
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota connected to these scams, one of the many
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: convictions that was just overturned by a Minnesota judge. I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: going to quote the report from Fox News that Republican
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: State Center in Minnesota is calling one judge a true
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: extremist after she overturned a seven point two million dollar
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: taxpayer fraud conviction. They brought the svals to trial in Minnesota.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: They were convicted, the jury convicted him, and after they
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: read the verdict, the judge threw the conviction out. That
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: almost never happens. I didn't say never. Usually, if a
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: judge is going to dismiss the case, they're going to
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: do it before the trial. You know. One of the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: things after the a conviction lawyer will always make a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: motion asking the judge to not accept the verdict, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: it's just routinely rejected. In this case, the judge accepted it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Continue with the story. The defendants were charged in June
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I'm accused of stealing seven point two
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: million dollars from the state's medicaid program while operating a
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: home home health care business. The Minnesota Attorney General's Office said.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: The business lacked an official building and operated for years
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: out of a mailbox. The Attorney General's Office said, and
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: then us Off, one of the defendants, received medicaid money
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: by billing for services not provided and services that lacked
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: any documentation and overbuilt for services. Yusuf allegedly used the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: money to fund a lavish lifestyle, including shopping sprees at
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: luxury stores such as coach Michael Correr's, Nike, Nordstrom, and more.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Usef directed over one million dollars from the business account
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: to his personal and also withdrew over three hundred and
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: eighty seven thousand dollar in cash. A jury convicted use
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: of of six counts of aiding and a betting theft
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: by swindling over thirty five thousand dollars in August. However,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that decision was thrown off by Judge Sarah West in
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a mid November ruling. According to k hey Kai, in
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: a decision West wrowtet the prosecutors quote relied heavily on
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: circumstantial evidence. So what, By the way, juries don't have
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: much of a problem with circumstantial evidence. Some of the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: cases that we've seen convictions of quite controversial. All of
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: the evidence has been circumstantial. I think circumstantial evidence is
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: often better than witness testimony because witnesses often get things wrong,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: and witnesses can lie the whole big trial that's been
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: going on, trials that have been going on for better
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: than a decade now in Florida, entire family involved in
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: higher a hitman to kill the X of one of
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the daughters. There's all circumstantial evidence in every one of
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: those cases. The jury comes in after like an hour
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and a half of deliberation and finds guilty. So there's
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: very circumstanced So what the circumstantial seems every pretty strong.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: They didn't provide any home health care, and they got
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the money. Okay, I guess that's circumstantial. But how do
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: they get all this money? You know the old thing
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: about following the money. They followed the money and throw
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: it out, continuing adding that quote, this is the judge.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: The state didn't rule out other potential reasonable inferences. Well,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: of course they didn't rule out other inferences because they
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: were trying to convict them of this. Well, you didn't
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: go and check and see whether or not they won
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the lottery. Well, I suppose not. Isn't it the job
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of the defense to come up with the possible other
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: explanations for this? Anyway, So you've got convictions being overturned
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota now, even after everybody knows about this, somewhat
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: related this election in Nashville. It's in Tennessee. Part of
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the district is Nashville for the US House. The Republican
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: won yesterday. The margin wasn't real close, but the district
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: is more Republican than the margin would indicate. The margin
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: was fifty three to forty five. It was getting a
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: lot of attention because the polling was closer. The lefty
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: running was Aten Ben. And what made the story fascinating
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: is Aten Ben isn't just a regular Democrat. She's a radical.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And she wasn't running in like New York or Minnesota
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and Detroit with some of the She's running in Tennessee.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: And while the city of Nashville's democratic, rural, Tennessee's overwhelmingly Republican,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: and Ben had all sorts of dirt on her. She
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: had years of posting on social media. Among the Savans,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: You've got a list here some of the things she
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: you know, she lives in Nashville, and she put her
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: she hates country music, she hates rural Tennessee, she hates this,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: she hates that, all these things that you would think
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: would kind of disqualify her. Yet she was in the
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: game here and she was just doing the same thing
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: which is now the Democratic claim. She's running out affordability
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: every day. That's going to be the issue you're going
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to hear all through twenty twenty six. The network is
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: going to run an affordability It's the same thing that
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Mundanti ran on New York and for a number of voters.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So again, she didn't win in Tennessee, but the fact
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: that she got herself into the hunt in an overwhelmingly
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Republican district is reason to pay attention here. This is
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: one of those issues in which it's easy to see
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: why Republicans are flat footed, because you would never envision
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: that this would be a winning issue for the Democrats.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: The affordability problem was caused by the Democrats. This whole
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: thing developed during Biden. The explosion in inflation occurred during Biden,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: and it was conscious. So now you have the Democrats
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: who gave us the inflation that created the affordability crisis.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Now running on the affordability crisis, you simply would not
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: have thought that this was something that they would want
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to touch, because you would have presumed that everybody knew
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: that they were the ones that caused the problem. Going
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: back to my point though about the New York Times
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: reporting now on the scandal in Minnesota, there's a huge
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: segment of Americans who didn't know that the inflation was
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: going on because their media sources weren't telling them it
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: was going on. I remember the segment on The Morning
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Joe right around the election in which this idiot Scarborough,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: you know, he's worth a fortune, sits there Horses Show
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: with his wife. He expressed shock when he found out
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: how much a pound of butter cost. This is like
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: right when the peak of the Biden inflation in the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: middle of twenty four. His wife Mika pointed out, she said, no,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you're lower, it's like eighth night nine. Do what dollars
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: it is whatever. He had no clue of it. He
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: probably had no clue that these prices were going up
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: because the lefty media wasn't hammering on the three and
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: a half years of inflation. The kit in right when
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Biden started carpet bombing the country with all of this
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: COVID money and the Fed loosened even more. It was
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: a conscious thing. They wanted to create growth by pumping
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: money under the economy and creating all of these programs,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: full well knowing it to be inflationary. So no, here
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: you have the affordability crisis that occurred as a result
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: of this. And who is it that's running to try
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: to deal with the affordability crisis The people who created
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the problem. So I mean, I give the Republicans some
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: slack and being flat footed on this because they never
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: would have thought that the people who created the problem
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: could be the ones that could present themselves as the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: ones who care about the problem that they created. Secondly,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: you see that the affordability issue is resonating most in
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the big cities. Not surprising. Here's something everybody knows. I mean,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: there might be a couple of exceptions, but by and large,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: living in a big city is more expensive than living
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: in a small town. Cost of living, cost of everything
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: is higher. Just going to Milwaukee, the gas pumps in
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the city of Milwaukee usually have a much higher price
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: than they are out in the suburbs just a lot
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: of reasons. Is a higher cost for the business and
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the gas station in the city to have to operate, taxes, shoplifting,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: all the stuff that causes you know, stuff to cost more.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And you take some of the really big cities like
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: New York, the cost of living is insane. Democrats run
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: all these cities. The reason everything costs so much is
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: because of them. There's no inherent reason that the cost
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: of living should be that much higher in cities. In fact,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: the economies of scales so many people living in a
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: small area to pay for the services that are out there,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: you would think would create the opposite. But look, just
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: take a look, for example, the City of Milwaukee. All
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: this crap that we makee money on that doesn't do
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: any good for people. That all comes across in taxes,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: fees and everything else. You know, put up a trolley
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: that loses a fortune, somebody's paying for that, and it's
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: largely people in Milwaukee. City of Milwaukee has to crack,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: has its own sales tax, Milwaukee County has its own
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: sales tax over and above the state sales tax that's
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: in there. Well, that's a huge portion of the affordability
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: right there. All the other things that lefties do, the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: drive up costs, the refusal that are crack down on crime, shoplifting,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: and so on. So of course retailers have to charge
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: more and hire is So the point that I'm making
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: is the people in these big cities are now voting
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: for Democrats because of this affordability problem not occurring to them.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: That the reason that there's an affordability problem is because
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: of the policies the very Democrats that are are running
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: on this issue. The Republicans are going to have to
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: figure out a response to this. But admittedly it's sort
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: of flowboxing, because you would think that most people would
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: know the reason the prices for so many things have
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: gone up is because the Democrats are the ones that
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: drove them up. It's kind of like stating the obvious.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: The rate of inflation is crashed under Trump. People say, well,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Trump didn't lower all the prime Well, see, as I said,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: when the inflation was going on, that's the problem. You
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: don't want to deflate, because deflate is when a depression occurs.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: You can't do that. Once something has inflated, the damage
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: has been done. You can try to stop the inflation,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: but in order for just take housing, for example, in
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: order to deflate you're telling Paul that he's supposed to
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: just accept that his house is going to go down
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: in value two hundred thousand dollars because we'd killed the
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: economy that badly. The only way to deflate something is
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to make everybody so poor that nobody buys anything. We
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: don't want that you can. The only thing that you
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: can do is try to address the problem that's been
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: put in your hands. And what Trump has succeeded in
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: doing despite all this stuff. Oh, the tariffs are going
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: to be inflationary, is that the rate of inflation has
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: flowed so all of a sudden, the Democrats that created
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: an affordability crisis. You fight an area in which everything
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: is way way too expensive. I guarantee you it's lefties
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: running everything. Paul points out the price of gasoline has
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: consistently gone on gone down under Trump. All of that,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: All of that is true. But as I say, who's
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: running on affordability? Lefties? And here's the most unelectable candidate possible,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: somebody you know. They even called Afton ben a clone
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: of AOC. She got forty five percent of the vote
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee running on affordability, even though she's been seeing
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: her entire life how much she hates all the stuff
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: that you know Tennessee consists. It is like that. I'd
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: be like a candidate pre Mayer of running a Green
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Bay saying he hits the packers within. Just say affordability, affordability, affordability,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: the magic words, and it negates with a huge percentage
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: of the voters. The entire issue real quickly. On Obamacare,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Trump is trying to solve this problem. The problem with
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Obamacare is that Obamacare provides crap insurance. When I say
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: crap insurance, most of it has very high deductibles and
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: co payments. For the people who have it, they're gratified
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: that they at least have insurance. Those kinds of policies,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: very high deductibles and high co payments are massive money
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: makers for the companies that sell them, because they're only
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: having to kick in and pay when somebody passes over
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: their yearly deductible and the co payment. And Trump being
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: a great businessman and seeing through all of this is
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: we see these now. The problem with Obamacare is it
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: was massively subsidized so that we could make these prep
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: policies out there, and in the process, the insurance companies
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: have made a fortune. Here's the quote from Trump, Obamacare
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: was made to make the insurance companies rich. Their stocks
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: have gone up one thousand percent in a short period
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: of time because the money goes to the insurance companies.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I want the money to go to the people. Let
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: all the money go to the people, and let the
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: people go out and buy their own healthcare. In other words,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: what he's suggesting is like a voucher for school choice.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Give them money for the insurance policy to the consumer,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and they can't use it just to put it in
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: their pocket. They have to use it for insurance and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: let them go out and pick the policy that they want.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Insurance companies don't want that because they want to create
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: policies that cover everything under the sun. And remember, Obamacare
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: did not allow the flexible policies in which say a
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: single twenty five year old mail could get a spartan
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: policy that didn't cover pregnancy, which he wouldn't need in
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: a bunch of other things. Made all of that illegal
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: because the insurance companies wanted to sell Cadillac plans with
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: these huge subsidies that they had the common denominator in
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: all of this is that the left is now an
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: arm not of lower income people, but of the corporate
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: America that fleeces lower income people. What the left has
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: become is the entity that says it cares about poor people,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: so it supports doing all sorts of things to the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: people who make money off of poor people. Perfect example
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: is the COVID vaccine. We're gonna make everybody get the
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: COVID vaccine, and we're gonna buy all of them so
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: that the drug companies can make the fortunes off of
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: making the COVID vaccine. Next example of this, What of
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: the weaknesses that we on the right have is we're
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: terrible at remembering names of people on the left. The
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: left is brilliant at it. They'll come up with somebody
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: and just demonize the hell out of them. On the right,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Mark Kelly, I know that he's I look at Paul
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and I just see a guy who had slips through.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: He's the senator from Arizona, the leader of the Seditious six.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: So he claims that he knows. Yeah, he claimed that
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: after I started to explain who he was. Yeah, it's
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: a ball. Is you know some interesting reporting now on
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly ran this company called Worldview. It
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: was like this weird old balloon startup. As it turns out,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: he got his financing from ten Cent, te Nce and
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: t not the rapper ten Who is that rapper's name?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Fifty cent? Yeah, not to be confused. That ten cents
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: a Chinese company and for a time it was a
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: big high flyer on the stock market. It's controlled by
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the Chinese Communist Party, the government. That's where he got
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: all of his financing, and it was buried in his
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: financial disclosure statements. Is it fair to say that Mark
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Kelly could be co opted by the Chinese Communist government?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: It is fair to say that when it's the whole
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: concern that we had with TikTok. When the business is
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Chinese and it's government controlled in China and you're getting
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: a ton of money from them, you're obviously beholden. Now
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: we don't know whether or not the company ten Cent
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: made the loan to Kelly because they're sizing him up
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: as a politician that's on the rise and they can
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: have their hooks inside the politician, or if they thought
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: it was a good investment. I'll quote the post ax
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: from amuse is the handle ten set of Chinese Communist
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Party controlled company pumped money into Mark Kelly's stratospheric balloon
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: startup Worldview in twenty thirteen and sixteen. Kelly quietly moved
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the Chinese investment into a secret of blind trust when
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: he ran for the United States Senate. See, that's one
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: of the things that candidates will do. They'll take their
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: financial holdings and they'll put it into a blind trust,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: saying well, I don't control the trust. Well, somebody's controlling
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: a trust. Wink wink, nod. Not Now he's part of
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the Seditious Six, telling US troops to ignore President Trump's
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: lawful orders and awarding that they could be prosecuted once
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Democrats are back in control. Critics note the irony a
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: senator with a CCP linked funding undermining the chain of
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: command of the United States military. Again, this is a
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Democrat beloved by the left. Many believe he's going to
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: run for president, which is why he's fomenting all of
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: this anti Trump attitude within the military, controlled apparently by
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: the Chinese Communists. And again, this story is again now
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: out there. It's in broad daylight. People dug into the
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: fighting in the financials of the companies that are inside
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: of his blind trust, and they realize that a huge
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: chunk of the funding came from Keen Sentich, a Chinese company.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Now people point out that lots of Chinese investors invest
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: said a lot of the United States companies. True, but
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: a disproportionate amount of the money of Kelly's company came
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: from this Chinese funding source. Kelly can explain it away
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: if somebody even forces him to explain it away. But
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: who's going to do that? And finally, this Megan Kelly
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: made a very good point that I'm gonna piggyback off of. It.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Was dealing with this latest anti Trump ruling from a
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: federal court. Three judge Federal Appeals Court disqualified Alina Haba
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: as the interim United States Attorney in New Jersey. Alida
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Habba was Trump's personal lawyer. Trump named her the interim
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: United States Attorney in New Jersey. A three judge panel
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: that said that Trump doesn't have the authority to name
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: these interim US attorneys. There's challenges to these interim and
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: acting United States attorneys all over the place. No, eventually
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: this will have to get to the Supreme court. Prior
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: to this, to my knowledge, nobody's ever challenged the ability
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: of a president to name acting directors of agencies before
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: someone's confirmed. But the things have been blacked right and left.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: And here's the point that making Killy mead. All the
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: news stories about this are pointing out that of the
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: three judges on the panel, to a Republican appointed she said, well, gee,
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: even Republican appointees are blocking Trump. There's a point within
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: this that requires a little bit of thinking and analytical thinking.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: What does Republican appointed judge me see. I know you're
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: not gonna I know you're swimming, and you're swimming Trump,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I glad you took You're you're like the You're like
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: the fish of the water. And it's the most fake
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: looking piece of beef bait that you can imagine. I mean,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: it's like one of those plastic worms. We're gonna run
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: and you're still dumb enough to grab it. No, it
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: does not. How long is Trump and the president five years?
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: He was president from seventeen January seventeen to January twenty one,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: and now January of this year to here in December
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: of this year. Federal judges serve for life. None of
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: these judges were Trump appointed. Republican appointed means that many
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: some of them are Trump, many were W. Bush, some
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: who are still around her H. W. Bush, and some
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: of the older ones are Reagan. There is zero reason
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: to believe that a Bush appointed federal judge likes Trump
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: at all. None of the judges of the three judges here,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: the two Republicans are both Bush appointees. Well, we know
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: that the Bushes can't stand Trump. So this is the
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: point that Megan Kelly made. One of the reasons that
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Trump is doing so badly and a lot of these
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: cases in the federal court is many of the Republican
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: appointed judges loathe him just as much as the Democrats.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: And she's making this point that it's clear, and she
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: was on with Mark Halprin. He said, it's just clear
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: the judiciary is now results oriented. They're not ruling on
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: the law, They're ruling on which side they want to
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: be right. We see that with regard to the Wisconsin
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. So even the comfort zone that some have
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: of there being a lot of Republican judges on anther
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: of these courts are Republican appointed judges. The old establishment
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: of the Republican Party can't stand Trump. So the only
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: judges that he can rely upon it all, and that's
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: not a one hundred percent thing, are the ones that
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: he himself has appointed. I went to the Milwaukee showing
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: of Songs Sung Blue last night. This podcast is coming
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: out on Wednesday.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: No.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: First of all, you know, there's going to be stories
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: about this, right, It's almost impossible you could have an
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: event like this in Milwaukee and not like if you
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: knew somebody that went to this and they came back
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: and they didn't have a single story, you'd think that
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: they had to have been like a sleep or something. Right,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: There's got to be stories. I will share some later
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: on in the podcast, including see we can't look to
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: ciscol and Ebert for reviews anymore. You know, why don't you?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: They're dead. Yeah, there's actually weirdly hardly any newspapers every
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: viewers anymore. The Internet's a wash in reviewers. The problem
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: just is I was a fan of Cisco and Ebrid shows,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: and I go way back to you know, when I
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: was in college. That's when they were writing for The
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Tribute and the Sun Times, and I was a mass
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: communications major. We read all those papers, and they were superstars.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: And I think the TV show started in the seventies
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: and it went through a bunch of iterations, but they
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: were actually probably the two best movie critics in America,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: even aside from the fact that they got the greater
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: fame from doing the TV show. And I mean, you know,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: this is back when you'd watch movies and movies are
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: worth going to and so on, and their recommendations. I mean,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't stop, but if like they raved about something,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: you consider going to that. So I didn't even know
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: who it is I'm supposed to follow anymore. Gino salomona
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Fox six, who do you think introduced the movie last night?
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Geno Salomon of Fox six was the guy that introduced
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's like the but he's the only entertainment
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: reporter in our media. So I talk a lot about
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the lack of celebrities. In fact, I was going to
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: go into that a little bit later. Just say it.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, for the longest time, the celebrity stratis fere
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee. Number one was blow Bow Black, Number two
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: was me and there are but nine other people for
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: three And that isn't even me Elematy. It's infightment of
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: our lack of celebrities. She was always bigger than me.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Ever be a recognize her and they're go out and
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: out and out a butt her. Then I think clearly
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I was the second most right, and then there were
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: like a zillion others belong that I don't count, like
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: sports figures or people like that. And it's not somebody
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: that left Milwaukee and somebody actually was here, So like
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: you know, somebody that grew up in Milwaukee and was elsewhere.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't count that. So yeah, so like, okay,
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: we need somebody involved in covering entertainment to introduce something.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, after Gino Salamone, who is the number two,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: that McGivern guy. You say yeah, but I mean Gino Salabone,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: that would be like bow Black here and then there's
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: me and then there's then there's everybody else underneath that.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's still in front of us. This is
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: This issue was cropping up all over the place. Ever
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: since the death of Charlie Kirk. Young people have been
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: trying to start turning point chapters. They called them Club America.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: At schools all over the United States. Before Charlie died,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: there were rezillions of these chapters as it was, but
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: the desire to start chapters even grew after his death.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: But this is not a new thing. As I say,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: before Charlie Kirk died, there were Turning Point chapters all over.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: It's the reason he was such a threat to the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: left is that this is the first time, really at
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: any level, conservatives were organizing at the grassroots level, and
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: they were organized at the grossroo's level among young people,
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: colleges and universities and so on. Well after Charlie died,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: a number of places that didn't have a Turning Point
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: chapter tried to create one, and all of a sudden
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: there became opposition to it. The weird thing is it
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: was easier to get one of these things approved before
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: he was killed. That after I went through the debacle
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: at a local charter school called Lake Country Classical Academy,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: in which the school administration just refused to do it
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: and ended up creating what they call the compromise. They
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: have a school run club that's not affiliated with Turning Point,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: but it's like a Civics Cloud club or something or another,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: and they just didn't want to do it. Well. This
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: issue has been now popping up all over the place.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: There's been coverage on local television that just completely misses
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: the point. It's at Sussex Hamilt at High School. The
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Hammelton School District covers Sussex and the area surrounding area.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: It's in northern Waukashaw County. It's kind of like go
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: beyond Menominee Falls, but not quite get the arrowhead. That's
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: not exactly accurate, but it's close enough. It's a concer
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: conservative area. By voting patterns at Hamilton High School, in
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: order to get any kind of extracurricular club approved, you
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: go through the student council. They were like, apparently, okay,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: let's show the students how to run government. That one
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: of the actual responsibilities they have the student government is
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: you have to approve the clubs. Prior to this, do
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: you know how many clubs have been turned down by
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: the student council that Hambledon High School? You mean, what
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: am I speaking too fast for you? Prior to this?
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Take a guess as to how many clubs were turned
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: down by the student council that handled in high school. None.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Turning point Chapter is requested funded down by the student council. See,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: you know what, this is lefty kids not wanting to
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: have this conservative club. There's a problem here. There is
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: a law that deals with not discriminating against clubs on
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: the basis of ideology. They can't legally do it. Hammeled
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: in high school administration knew. So this was a rare
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: case of the school administration trying to step in and
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: do what they legally had to do. So first of all,
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: they've changed the rules. It's no longer going through the
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: student council because they can't trust the student council not
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: to break the state and federal law. Secondly, this Channel
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: four has been all over this. The group, the kids
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: that are trying to start the club America Club, the
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Training Point Club put up posters in the school. Some
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: of the lefty brats ripped down the posters. They got
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: a suspension from school. The parents run the Channel four.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: How terrible it is the terror suspended for this. I
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: don't know if they should be suspended or not, but
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: for once, snotty people on the left got a little
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: bit of punishment. So I'm perfectly fine with, of course,
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: missing the entire story as the fact that you've got
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: bigoted kids that wouldn't allow this conservative student group to form.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Ham of the high school is now allowing the group
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: to come into place. There's another local high school called
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Lake Country Lutheran. I have been told that they rejected
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: a turning point application. The school officials have refused to
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: answer my questions about it. Now, I don't know that
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: that means that it's true, and the administrators are too
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: cowardly and gutless to answer my questions. I'm nearly pointing
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: out that I've been told I can't prove it. I'm
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: not on the school, but I can tell you that
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I've been very patient and asking the question repeatedly of
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: the consortium that runs those schools. It's the same consortium
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: involved with the Milwaukee Lutheran None I'm answering my questions.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: They're just something again about and I think I know
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: what it is. There's something about this Charlie Kirk thing
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: that this is driving some of these people in school
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: officials or in the case of hammelting some of the kids.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Battie and I know what it is. Of all the
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: groups and clubs involving young people in the United States,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: how many are conservative, Like what one out of every
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: eight teen trillion, there's this club, the trans club, the
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: chess club, there's legitimate clubs, there's whack every possible club.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Charlie Kirk and hopefully his organization
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: can continue after his death, has gotten young people to
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: try to form their group, and the left can't staff.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: There's only one. They can't stand it. The thing that
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: has struck me is often these turning point groups. They
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: call them Club America. They're proved in very lefty areas,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: mostly because the lefty schools, they just to prove everything
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: that there is. Okay, you got to have this, you
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: three goofy conservatives, go have your thing. Often the backlashes
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: occurring in more conservative skills. So you've got like little
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: mommy running off the TV, you know, whining and complaining
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: that her kid got suspended for ripping a poster down
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: from the school. And like I say, maybe they should
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: have suspended it, Maybe they shouldn't have suspended I would
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: have suggested maybe require them to read the Constitution of
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: the United States and sit in a corner and do
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: it or something or another in But I mean, that's
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: the coverage of Channel four, rather than covering the actual thing,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: the fact that these bigoted student council members wouldn't allow
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: the turning point thing to come in there, instead going
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: after the fact that the kids got into trouble for
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: doing something that's apparently in violation of the law. I've
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: got a very interesting story here, filled with interesting material today.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Have you noticed this? I think I'm gonna do the
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: story this way. I'm gonna share it with you, and
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: then I'm going to ask you to think along with
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: a question about it. Here's the background of the issue.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: This is an issue that I have found has confused
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: people I've done my radio show started in nineteen eighty nine.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: For those of you who did the podcast, there is
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: an issue here on Wisconsin that has confused people. I'm
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: just telling you forever there are people who never know
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: what we're talking about when we talk about emissions testing.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: The reason is not every county in the state has
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: to have admissions testing. It has to do with years ago,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: the federal government, using the Clean Air Act, designated certain
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: areas as non attainment regions and they were put under
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: restrictions with regard to air pollution. In Wisconsin, most of
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: them were the counties along Lake Michigan, which just proves
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: I think that these regulations were idiotic. Because of the
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: water content over the lake, pollutants in the air kind
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: of hang longer, and then there's the wind forces and
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: so on. In any event, the other thing is air
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: blows along with the prevailing winds and so on. But
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: several counties in southeastern Wisconsin, and it's changed over the years.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: Some of them ran up the lake shore as well,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: were non attainment areas, and one of the restrictions that
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: was put in place is emissions testing. If you live
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee County as an example, And I don't know
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: what the current list of all the counties are, but
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: most are not under emissions testing. So when people will
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: talk about what you can your car pass the emissions
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: you had to go get the emission testing. You say,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: we don't have emissions testing because they seem to think
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: that it's statewide. It's not. It only goes by certain counties,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: including the populous ones in southeastern Wisconsin. The emissions testing
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: is depending on the vehicle, you have either no big
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: deal at all or a giant pain in the ass.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin made a change and I think it happened during
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Walker might have even been Doyle, in which you no
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: longer had to go to a state facility to get
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: emissions testing. When you had to go to a state facility,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: the problem was the lines are ninety five miles long
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: because there were only a few of them. Now they're
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: all over the place. They're often usually they're usually private
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: car dealers, and so on and and I other than
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I just know the rules. Don't go to the first
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: of the month, don't go to the last of the month.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Go somewhere during the month. And usually worst case scenario,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: there's three cars in front of you, and it's really quick,
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: and since you're on a car dealer, it's comfortable, simple,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: But I usually have a new car. Be quite humiliating
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: if you bought a brand new car and it failed emissions,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: how'd you like to be some poor guy driving a
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two whatever? Those are the ones that fail.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: Correcting the problem is often very expensive. Who drives a
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two old beater? Somebody doesn't have much money,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: so the correcting it becomes an incredible hardship for a
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: number of people. So all sorts of scams there. There's
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: ways to get around this. See, you have no ability
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: to think like a scammer's you can't think of one
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: of the ways you would get around it. You would
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: have no idea. Here's one of the things you do.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: People get the car registered in another county. Who do
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: you think checks on this? Nobody? How many people say,
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: why I have a place up north register the car
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: up north. All you have to do is put in
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: where you keep the car. There's nobody going to check
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: where you keep the car. You find somebody in Milwaukee
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: and his car is listed, is being registered in like
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Dane County, Matt, I don't think that, man, I'm pretty
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: sure Madison's not any missions county. But who's checking it?
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: So there's scams to get around this. Just get to
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: get it registered in the county. That what, No, you
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: don't have to pass the test if it's another the
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: county because those counties don't have a missions testing Say,
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: you can't think like a scammer. You can't think like
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: a SCAMMERA I live in the city. I know about
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: all scams. You're in the suburbs. You know about kinky perversion,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: and you know about the exotic drug use before me,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: like you know what, all the suburbani kind of weird
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: old mixed up drugs are taken. I'm in the city.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: They're just taking math, math and heroin and all of
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: that stuff. You got these things that like fifty two
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: year old suburban housewives are taking right before they wife
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: swap with their in their neighbors. And what's the thing
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: that you said they put in the front yard of
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: pineapple or something. See, there's no pineapple sitting in the city.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: For one thing. You put a pineapple and somebody's fight
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: the city of Milwaukee. It's gonna be stolen in five seconds.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: So now people don't know where they can go to,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: like wife wife sal Anyway, it's a lot of background
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: explaining the emissions testing thing. So the point that I'm
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: making is if you have an old beader that can pass,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: it's a real problem. The next big problem, Now you
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: might know a little about this. Aside from the fact
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: that it often can be expensive, what's the other big
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: problem if you have a car that fails emissions in
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: order to bring it into compliance, I think get through
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: a little bit what well, I mean, aside from the cost,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: what's the other big problem. Suppose you have a nineteen
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: ninety two. I didn't even want to diet a car
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two. Four to anything and it fails. The
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: ambissions very hard to find parts. The problem is a
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: part needs to be replaced. That's usually that's why you
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: know that's the problem. Something's not. The parts can be
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: very expensive if you can locate them, so it's a
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: huge hardship on who basically lower income people, which brings
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: me to the following. The following letter has been sent
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: to the Wisconsin Congressional Delegation by a number of members
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: of the state legislature who represent southeastern Wisconsin. I'm going
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: to read it, Dear members of the Wisconson Congressional Delegation.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: As members of the Wisconsin Legislature, we write to day
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: to urge our federal delegation to introduce and support legislation
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  Speaker 2: repealing the Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program requirement under the
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: Clean Air Act. As stewards of this Earth, we recognize
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: the importance important duty to care for Wisconsin's natural beauty
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: and environment. However, the vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program is
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: no longer useful to the economic is no longer I
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: didn't read that right. However, the vehicle Inspection and Maintenance
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: program is no longer useful due to the economic burdens
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: on citizens and technological advancements reducing the need for testing.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: It goes on. One of the points they make is
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: almost every car passes, so you don't need to do this.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: The ones that don't pass, however, are as I say
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: the old beat is it often lower income people have.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: The letter is then signed by a number of members
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: of the state legislature. For let's said the Wisconsin I'm
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: gonna read them real quickly. State Representative Bob Donovan, State
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Senator Van Wanguard, State Representative Scott Allen. He's Waukershaw State
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Senator Julian Bradley. That's southwestern Wisconsin, kind of southern waukers
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Shaw County. So on. State Representative Lindy Bill, State Representative
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Barbara Dietrich, State Representative Cindy Duco. Those are a Western
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: Wakashaw County State Representative Rick Gunner Walkershaw Coni, State Senator
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Rob Hutton. He overlaps in Milwaukee, Wakashall County State Senator
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  Speaker 2: Chris Kappiga, Western Waukashaw Countie State Senator Dan Knoto, that's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Menomine Fallows, Germantown State Representative Dave Maxie, State on New Berland,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: state Representative Paul Melitics, state Representative Amanda Nedweski, State Representative
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Sylvia rts Valz, state Representative Jim p. O Warchik, state
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: Representative Chuck Wiggers, and state Representative Robert Wiggy. Now, wasn't
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: that real fast that I don't expect you to pick
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: up on anything unless you're like a political junkie who
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: knows who all of these people are. So I'm just
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: going to give away what the thing to listen to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: listen for? What The only Democrat that signed this with
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Sylvia Ortiz Valets. She's the other Democrats can't stand her.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: She's a Milwaukee Democrat and she often switches party lines
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: to vote with the Republicans. She represents a lower income
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Latino district on the south side of Milwaukee. In other words,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: the people who are hurt the most by emissions testings
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: the ones who probably drive these meters. Here's my point
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: in bringing this up. The Democrats keep claiming they care
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: about the little guy, yet emissions testing disproportionately crushes the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: little guy. Let's imagine for some reason my car field
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: emissions you have new cars is under warranty. It's gonna
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: be no skin off my back. And even if it
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: was a repair, I could afford it. Some poor person
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: who barely has anybody at all, and they're stuck with
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: a nine hundred and seventy five dollars This kills them again.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: The Democrats orphan low income people for what for this
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: ridiculous ordinance in which the overwhelming majority of the states
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: don't have to comply, so only what The pollution that
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: comes out of a beater in Dane County doesn't screw
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: up the year as much as a beater in Milwaukee County.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: When the lefties keep telling you that they're looking out
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: for the little guy, they are lying. They never do.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: The closest you can get is that they look out
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: for people who make money off the little guy, providing
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: service to the little guy, and say that that's for
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: the little guy. But in fact their constituency is the
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: people that are getting the money off those services, which
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: brings me to Mandela Barnes. This is a fascinating story. Forever,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: not forever, last ten years. The Democrats in Wisconsiner be
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: very good telling people who can run for what they
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: don't like divisive primaries. Devisive primaries hurt the candidate that
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: wins and split up the party. And the Republicans have
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: had these for statewide office for the last number of years,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: and you see the result. I mean, there's people still
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: pissed off at each other over Clayfish versus Michael's And
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: there's a chance that the Republicans will have the same
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: problem with the twenty six governor's race. The Democrats just
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: avoid this. Whoever's leading in the pools, they tell everybody
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: else to drop out, and they handpick who it is
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: that they want to run. Mendela Barnes is as big
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: a prima donna as exists in Wisconsin politics. He's an
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: incredible First of all, Mendela is not even his first name.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: Now I understand if I was an African American guy,
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  Speaker 2: Mandela is my middle name. Of course, that's the name
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: that I'm gonna run under. What of course, it's a
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: great name. He's named after Nelson Mendela, so he's running
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: with that name. But he's a prima donna. He also
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: has more. He has baggage and baggage and baggage and baggage.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: He ran a party in college. He came right out
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: and said of the poster, no ratchets allowed. He wasn't
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: paying his condo fees. He didn't have a driver's license
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. He was having state troopers. I have him
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: back and forth because he didn't have all of this crap. Well,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: and he's kind of dumb. He ran against Ron Johnson
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: in a year in which the Democrats won everything, including
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: they won the governorship in Wisconsin, and Ron beat him.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: The reason that he beat him is that for some
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: people in the middle, Mandela Barnes was a bridge too far. No,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: he runs to run for governor. We have a thing
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin where the governorship forever goes back and forth.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: Evers is the governor for eight years, So therefore it
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: might swing to the Republicans. On the other hand, it
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: is likely to be a Democratic year based on the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: signals that we're seeing out there, and the Democrats have
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: already gotten several high profile candidates in the race. David Crawley,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee County executive, who, like Barnes, is an African
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: American Milwaukee. He's running, and Sarah Rodriguez is the Lieutenant governor,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: and he's being supported by much of the leftist establishment,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: including the public employee unions. None of them want Barnes
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: to run. They don't want Barnes to run because they
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: fear he's the only one that could screw this up
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: and lose. But as I say, Mandela is a prima donna.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: He wants to be a big shot. He wants to
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: be He didn't make the Senate, what's lest other than
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: send it to be a big shot at Wisconsin governor, right,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: so he wants to be the governor. Phil I'm not
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: to run any second. I got great name recognition. My
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: first name's Mandela, not really, but I claim it is.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'll win because of that thing. And
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: it worked for him last time, and he thinks it's
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: gonna work for him again, and he's not listening to them.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: It will be very interesting to see if this time
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: the Democrats take the gloves off and go out and
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: attack him and have an actual primary. You remember Michael's
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: versus Clayfish. They beat the crap out of one another.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: The Democrats don't tend to do this. But if Sarah
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Rodriguez gonna give up her chance to be governor just
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: because Mendela Barnes goes and elbows out of the way.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: And with regard to the whole racial issue, David Crowley's
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: gonna say, I've been the Milwaukee County executive, why does this
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: guy who already lost it to come and knock me
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: out of the fray? So they may all fold and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: let him win the nomination, or they may go out
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: and attack him. Now the safest way to attack him
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: is to pound the message he'll lose, he'll lose. He'll
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: lose because Democrats, I think most Democrat voters don't care
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: who their candidate is Pridal. They've voted. They were willing
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: to support Kamala Harrison, Joe Biden, any Nancapoop, but they
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: don't want to lose. So that would be the angle
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: you would run in a campaign. Mendela will lose, but
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: it doesn't seem to be enough to get them to
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: drop out of the race. And now finally, this this
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: is one that requires analytical thinking, which we've established the
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: earlier you were incapable of. You're not very minted. Now
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: here's the peg for the story. You probably know this.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: The Wisconsin women's hockey team has been really good forever
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: that you know, they're always good, and they won the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: national championship last year. Mark Johnson's the coach. It's a
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: spectacular program. They won the national championship last year and
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: most of the players in that team are back this year. Well,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: they played a team that was obviously overmatched. I've never
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: heard of this school. It's called stone Hill. They played
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: them in one of these holiday tournaments over the weekend
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: and they beat them seventeen to two. My guess Wisconsin's
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: women have three goalies. My guess is they probably played
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: one of the backup goalies, which is why they gave
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: up a couple of goals. They won seventeen to two.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: That's a school record for the most goals and obvious,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: what are you going to do? And one of the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: things that makes Wisconsin strong is they generally play with
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: four lives. That's a lot in hockey because they're so deep,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: which means the starters, the Superstars, the All Americans. When
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: they're on the ice, they have fresh legs because they're
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: running four lines and the deep programs, so they're probably
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: playing the women on the final line more minutes than
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: they would normally play because it's an over massed opponent,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: but they kept scoring. What is it? What can you
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: do about it? As I say, Wisconsin has this last
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: year they lost record forty and one I think thirty
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: nine and one or forty, won the national championship and
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: wanted in sudden death overtime after scoring the game time
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: goal with only a few seconds left in a penalty shot,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There is a problem though,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: that's going to face the Wisconsin team this year that
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: may cost them a number of their wins and the
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: ability to repeat. Let's see if you can figure out. Now,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: this is one of those things. If we were doing
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: a live radio show, all the phone lights would light
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: up of the people who knew the answer and they
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: would tell you. But because we're doing a podcast, people
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: are going to call up and light up the phone lines,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: like when Dan o'donald is on or something or another.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: It's something you should be able through analytical thinking figure
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: out and you I'll see you see. The reason you
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: can't figure it out is you often will give up.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: I talk about you know a lot of confidence, a
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: lot it's the same thing, but you still play golf
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: don't you when you know you're going to make a punt,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: you're not. Maybe might, maybe you won't make it. But
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: when when you think, I know I'm going to miss it,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: have you ever made one when you knew you were
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: going to miss it? No? Same thing with free throws.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: As a kid, I was actually a very good free
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: throw shooter, and when I got in a role, it
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: just meant I'd make the next one because I knew
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: I was gonna make it. Well, what happens is you
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: miss something when negative thoughts interfere with your muscle memory.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: When you when you have no thoughts, that's when you
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: do well. When you're on the autopilot and sword you
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: just assumed that you can't get it all right? You
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: want to hint? You know, yes, this is pretty simple.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Any big deals coming up in the world of sports
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: over the next number of months. What okay, now you're
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: getting somewhere. Yes, a number of the Badger players will
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: be on the American women. See you got that hint?
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Help Paul. The Olympics are coming up in a couple
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: of months. And because Wisconsin's women's hockey team include there's
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: a professional women's hockey league now, so it isn't just
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: college players, but several of the Wisconsin women are among
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: the best players in the world. Layla Edwards, for example,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: is right now the best female hockey player in America
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: and one of the best players altogether, and she's been
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: on the national team already along with a number of others.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Several of the Badger's superstars are going to be on
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: the Olympic team, which means they have to leave the
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: team in the middle of the season. With regard to
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: men's hockey, they keep changing it back and forth over
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: the years, and I actually don't even recall, but National
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: Hockey League team members would leave their team, but the
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: NHL would just stop their season during the Olympics and
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: the players would come right back to their teams after
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: the two to three weeks of the Olympics are over.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: With regard though, to the women's hockey, they're going to
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: play together for several games. They have to play and
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: get to learn one another, so they could play exhibitions
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: in the United States for the weeks leading up to
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: the Olympics, and then they go off to the Is
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: it Milan, I think it's Milan. It is Milan, isn't
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: it I should know this twenty six Winter Olympics. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: that's the area. Yeah, that's the area. It's northern Italy.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: It's the part of Italy that's close to the Alps
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: and so on. It. Yeah, it's all over that area.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Milan is the center where the ceremony will be and
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: it's the whole region of Northern Northern That's what the
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: winn Our Olympics are going to be. So the Wisconsin
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: women's hockey team is going to have to count on
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: some of these players that are kind of on the
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: second of the third lines. Wisconsin is a great defenseman too,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: weird just think about her as her nickname has nothing
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: to do with her. With her name anyway, a number
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: of their great players will be gone. I think there's
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: some notion that they will be back in time for
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament and reintegrate them then. But it's an
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: incredibly strong program and Mark Johnson's the greatest coach the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: history of the sport. No, of course that No, they're
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: all they're gonna go. I mean, and they've been on
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: national teams before and so on, But often the other
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: competition does not occur to during your regular collegiate season.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of the time frame is to
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: win the Olympics. Of course you're not gonna leave on
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: the Olympics end. The NBA has not had that problem
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: because it does not occur. The basketball is in the
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: summer Olympics, and you know, basketball is a winner sport,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: but it's not played outdoors, so they put it naturally
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: in the Summer Olympics. Baseball has created this World Baseball Classic,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: and they took baseball out of the Olympics so that
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: it didn't come in there. But hockey remains the one
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: sport where it's right in the middle of the season.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: And I do think with regard to the NHL, there's
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: been discussion over this back and forth. Should the NHL
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: let its players go play on the Olympics and get hurt,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: you know with international basketball competition. You know, Bucks fans
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: have been frustrated forever that Yannis keeps playing for grease,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: fearing that he's going to hurt himself in these games
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: in which he's playing for nothing. Although Giannis might not
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: be playing for the Bucks by the middle of next
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: week anyway, what yeah, we're going to talk about that
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: in the context of my thoughts on Songsung Blue the
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: movie that it's incredibly Milwaukee without being Milwaukee at all.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: It had premiere is the wrong word. They've been throwing
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: that around. But then I found out this has been
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: like six or seven different different premieres. Hollywood's very very
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: good at using hype words to It was an advance
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: showing and it was held in Milwaukee last night, and
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough to be there. And as I
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: said at the beginning of the program, the chances of
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: having a bit like this in Milwaukee without and there
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: not being stories, you'd have to be the most non
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: observant person in the world not to pick up on
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: a few things. Well, here you've got me. I'm like
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: a cop. I got the eyes in the back of
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: my head picking up on every goopball thing that they're
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: all right. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling Podcast. We were talking earlier about celebrities
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: and generally I don't count athletes because in any city,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: of course, an athlete, Yannis is a unique situation in
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: that he's not only an athlete, he's a Milwaukee personality.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: That is kind of I say, anybody that doesn't have
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: a yanis sighting, doesn't spend much time in the city.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: He's just one of these people that pops up everywhere,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: and unlike a lot of people, he's the most recognizable
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: person probably in the state of Wisconsin. I mean, he's
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: a seven foot tall African American who just he stands
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: out for reasons that are obvious. And he's been with
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: the Bucks his entire career, which has been an unbelievably
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: long career because he came here at the age of
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: eighteen and has become a larger than life figure. Well,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: this drama that's been going on with him, will he leave?
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: Does he want to be traded has been going on
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: now for several years. Who I resign with and not?
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: And it finally does look like the Yannis era in
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee is coming to an end. He's made it clear
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: that he'll stay in Milwaukee so long as the team
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: is competitive. Right now, the team is playing terribly. They
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: had one of the worst losses in recent memory on
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Monday when they lost to a terrible team, the Wizards,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: even with Giannis in the lineup. He sends on his
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: social media scrubbed all references to Milwaukee and the Bucks,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: and it just says athlete and people are reading this
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: set and the other thing into it. Part of it
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: is is he just being a drama queen or is
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: a trade imminent? Now I'm doing this podcast at Wednesday,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: a tip off will be the Wednesday night game. If
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Jannis is close to being traded, the Bucks are not
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: going to put him in the lineup because the night
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: beare would be you're planning to trade a guy and
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: then he gets hurt and now you can't trade him.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: So if he plays and he's in the lineup that
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't think anything is imminent, like within a few days.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: The hard thing with trading Yannis is, aside from just
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: the fact that you're trading one of the best players
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: in the game to get a proper return for a superstar,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: and the return would be enormous. I mean it'd be enormous.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: The Bucks will get a ton back for him. But
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: when you trade someone like this, you're generally looking to
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: build for the future, and that means get a zillion
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: draft choices so that you can go into the draft
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: and get another potential Yanas and so on. But the
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: teams that have the good draft choices are the bad teams.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: They have the draft lottery at the end of the season,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: and the worst records have the best chances of getting
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: the first and second pick. But a team that's bad,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Jannis won't go to a bad team. The only team
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: you would trade him to is a team that's close
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: to winning a championship, so their draft choices aren't going
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: to be good, and if Yannis goes there they could
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: win the championship, they'd be last in the draft. So
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: the hard thing about trading a guy like him. You know, Dallas,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: for example, traded Lukadancic last year, a trade that has
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: just been ripped. They traded him head on for Anthony Davis.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: Just traded him for another superstar, and everybody thinks that
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: the Lakers got the better of that deal when they
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: got Donchik. So unless you did trade him for another superstar,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: who you trade him for, that's the equal of Giannis.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Normally you would trade him and then you trade almost
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: everybody else got the team, get ninety million draft choices,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: and then get your own team trap picks to be
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: low in the draft. If you're going to trade him,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: you do it for the purposes of rebuilding. It usually
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: doesn't work, but sometimes it does, and almost every team
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: that gets great does it because they went to the bottom.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: Detroit's an example of that. They're having a very good
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: season this year and so on. So I don't know
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: that he will be traded, but these are the most
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: ominous signs that I've seen so far. The team seems
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: to be going nowhere even with him, which would be
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: an incentive for him to possibly even also perhaps an
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: incentive for the Bucks. If they can't win with him,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: why not just see what you can get for him
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: and try to start the whole thing over again. The
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: problem for the fans and everybody is that often means
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: a gap of sometimes years before you're competitive again. What
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: percentage of the audience, it's been so widely covered, knows
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: about song sung Blue eighty three, so it doesn't require
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: much explanation. Thunder and Lightning were just as talking to
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: hear about celebrities. They were like classic, what well it
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: is Lightning and Thunder, But not, as was explained in
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: the movie, not always. In fact, one of their friends
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: who was in the band you know is talking about
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: Thunder and Lightning. Lightning was the originator of the band.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: That's Mike, and he created this persona of Thunder for
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: his the girlfriend that he met, Claire and Lightning and
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: Thunder was the name of them. But if you listen
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: to the people talk, they talk about Thunder and Lightning
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: all the time. And Mark Farrillo, who has played but
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: for Shririlla. Did you ever bump into him? He was
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: like always in the music scene. I would see him
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: around Shank Hall and all of that stuff down. Yeah,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: you know, did you meet Mark Schilla? You did? He
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: passed away. In fact, one of the things about making
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: a movie about people that are long dead is all
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: of the other players in the movie are dead. Michael Imperioli,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: who played in The Sopranos Christopher and the Sopranos, he's
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: in the movie and he played him. Their manager, Tom
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: Dematto was played by Jim Belushi, who somehow is less
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: fat than he was when he was younger. He usually
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: doesn't work. He's still fat, but he's not as fat
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: as he used to be. So anyway, they were kind
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: of like a Neil Diamond act. She sang some Patsy
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: Klein stuff, but most of the thing was a Neil
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: Diamond person interact, and just for kind of Milwaukee reasons,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: they got big in Milwaukee and the region, but nowhere else,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: which creates for an interesting movie, and then just unbelievable
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: tragedy in their life. So I mean, they did a
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: documentary on them that was done by again him Co's
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: about twelve or fourteen years ago, and it was really
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: good and it showed all the heartbreak and all the
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: awful things that happened to the both of them. I'm
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: in talking about this. There's not a spoiler alert here
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: because it's a true life story and everybody knows what's happened.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: The movie is playing out and watching what occurs, but
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: I won't give away like the tails of the movie.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: But you know, they got married and they got this
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: band in It just turned into a huge kind of
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: local thing. And I talked about Bull Black. It was
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: one of those deals that go back about twenty years.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: For those of you who are around then. Everybody had
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: heard of them, including people that didn't see them. It
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: was just a uniquely Milwaukee thing. And a filmmaker decided
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: that he was going to take this documentary and use
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: it an inspiration to make a real life movie, and
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: he got two huge stars to play the lead roles.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman is playing Lightning and Kate Hudson is just
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: incredible and now it isn't young anymore, she's playing Thunder.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: So that's the setup for the movie. And one of
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: the things that the movie makers do is they try
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: to create all of this hype in advance of the movie.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: So there's been like the world premiere was in London,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: they were at a New York Film Festival or they
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: had everybody there for that. So of course one of
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: the places they're going to go is Milwaukee because these
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: people are from Milwaukee, and they had this thing a
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: cops yes and so on. But the actual showing in
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: the movie was at the Oriental, which is this old
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: style movie house just off of North Avenue in the
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: city of Milwaukee. And his movie theaters is pretty big,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: but it's one of those places where you can't do
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: the traditional red carpet because the front door is like
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: three feet from the road. I mean, there's the sidewalk
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: and then and then there's the front door. It pulses
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: the letters that burned on it. I mean, it's just
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: it looks exactly like something you would expect to see
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: on the East side of Milwaukee. All right, So there
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: are people who got invitations that listen, it's all the
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: people who like knew them, and then other kind of
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: there are no big shots in Milwaukee. But if like
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm a big shot, people like me, and then people
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: who would then in a lot of media, people who
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: would do what I'm doing talk about the movie. That's
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: who they invite to this. So I get an invitation.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: I take a friend and a guy that I know.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: He and I went to the thing, and he it's
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: this idiotic thing. He thinks we're gonna go door to door,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: We're gonna be able to walk right in, that it's
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: gonna be the easiest. And I say, there's no way.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a line ninety seven miles long. So
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: we show up and there's a line ninety seven miles long.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: We get into the line and we're like at North Avenue.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: See it's like a block and a half down, And
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, last night it was We're not going
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: to think of this as cold in two months, but
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: by the standards of early December, it was cold, and
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: the line sort of moves. It was thirty minutes to
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: get from the when I got there into the thing,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: which wasn't terrible given how long the line looked, because
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: all they did was check your creditial and you get
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: a thing and you go into the place. But what
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: stunned me was the number of people who did not
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: have tickets who were standing. They had a second line.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: It would normally be a rope line, but they just
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: used police horses. So they're standing on the edge of
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: the street and they're there just for the same reason.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: All these people were going to cops to see. The
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: only real celebrity was Hugh Jackman. Kate Hudson was not
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: here for this showing. Hugh Jackman as the star and
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: the director was here. Plus Claire who is still alive.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: Claire who was the wife who played Thunder the real
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: life Claire, she was still there. So they were just
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: there to cheer and do this. And it's you know,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee gets its moment in the sun. So the huge
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: numbers and I was kind of expecting, but still for
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: people to stand around in the coal just to watch
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: a couple of people walk inside of a theater, that's
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: a pretty big thing. In addition to that, they had
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: a big party at the Landmark Lanes, which is this
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: half stupid half cool kind of Milwaukee bar. It's not
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, it can bowl there, but it's more of
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: a bar. And that's what the party was. And it's
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: like a door and a half down from the Landmarks.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to tell you my thoughts of
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: the movie, but first there's got to be a couple
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: of stories. You know, I'm standing in the line, and
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: you know what people's reaction to me is. It's one
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: of three. Either they don't recognize me, and I got
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: a hoodie on and all this because it was cold,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: so I pulled the hood over my head, and then
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: there's one third to hate me, and then one third
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: are going to like me. Fortunately, standing right behind me
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: as a woman who immediately demands that I get a
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: picture taken. They're a big fan, so that's at least
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: a good enough thing. We get up to the front
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: and as I say, the line is, it's a disorganized line,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: but it's orderly but disorganized at the same time because
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: you just jammed onto the sidewalk. It's cold, people are
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: huddled together trying to get into the thing. And then
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: there's this second huge line of people that aren't trying
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: to get in because they don't have the tickets that
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: are standing off to the side of this, but you
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: know you're walking and walking, you get there for thirty minutes. Sorry.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: Just as I'm about to get to the front door
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: and go in, what do you think happens? I can't
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: say I recognize this guy. If I did recognize him
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: when I out him or not, I don't know. I
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: honestly don't know. But I didn't recognize him, but he
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: was like you could just tell it was a well
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: off guy. I'll just go beyond that. By the way,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: there were no tuxedos there, but some people were wearing
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: suits and ties like you would expect from a premiere.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: But they said right on the thing, no dress code.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just wearing a sweater and wearing a jacket with
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: a hood over the top of it. Just as I'm
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: about to walk in, here comes this guy with I
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: don't know if the outerage was more than his wife
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: or girlfriend or whatever it is, walks right to the
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: entrance and says VIP. I don't even know who the
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: first person was to start the objection, but I was
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: right at no Vip in fact, and his invitation probably
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: said VIP. All of us said Vip. He was the same.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: He was the same kind of whatever high mucket he
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: muck that the rest of us was. So they said
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: him all the way back to the line. So there
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: was that. I don't know. I think I was the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: first who object it, because he was you know, if
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: you're going to butt into a line, you may as
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: well do it right at the front. Why do it
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: in the middle. Right. He walked right to the front door,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: like he owned the place and he was going to
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: walk past. And once I objected, of course, everybody else objected,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: and then they explained, no, no, no, everybody's VIP. He
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: didn't fight it or anything. Maybe he just thought that
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: he had some special status. But I don't. I mean,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: I don't. I mean when I say, we just showed
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: up at the wrong time. And you know, the doors
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: opened at five thirty, and we got there at five
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: thirty five. Probably the line started forming at four forty five.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: There was no importance of getting in early because there
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: were I did not know this, There were assigned seeds. See,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: I don't everybody knows you don't want to sit in
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: the front of a movie theater. I mean, you know that, right, Well,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: I didn't want that, so, but I mean they were
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: I did not know by the way the seats were assigned.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: When I initially got in there. We just plopped ourselves
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: down on two aisle seats, and then I noticed people
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: talking about assigned seats. So we sat over there. That's
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: the first thing. When I'm first of all sitting and
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: I bump into like a couple of people that, you know,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: somebody who used to I don't know if I should
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: mentioned her.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: She?
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: Can you think of people that worked at the station
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: when you and I started, Who comes to mind? Not her? No,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: there's only like one or two left female though you're right,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: aunt Anne is no longer with us, so it can't
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: be her. That would have been terrible if you would
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: have guessed her. Julie remember her, See, I could say,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: why not? She now works at Summerfestie Julie Dickleman. She
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: used to be Julie Stoleper. Oh, she overlapped with you,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: so she was there. I talked to her, bump into
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: a couple of other people who recognize me, and so on,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: and then this woman turns around and she keeps looking
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: at me. And I am used to this look in
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: which people think that they recognize me, and then they wonder,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: and you just when you're somebody that's at like my
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: level of like medium level whatever. And now the other
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: thing people will do then is they'll go to their
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: phot and they'll like google up to get a picture
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: and look back to see if I'm So she's eyeballing me,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: and she's like she's been talking the whole time too.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: She's just not somebody that's observing any like be discreet
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: every ound, somebody that might be a big shot. And
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: she turns around to me and said, I know who
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: you are. I mean, I get this a lot by
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: the way. Most men do with the following. They'll say
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: their name and put out their hand to shake hands
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: if they recognize me. Women will do it completely different.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: They'll either demand to know if I am who I
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: who they think I am, or say you probably don't
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: remember me. But he turns around with just incredible confidences,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: I know who you are. Okay, here it comes. I'm trapped.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: There's nowhere to go. You're Bob Berry. Well, first of all,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: Bob Berry is I think seventeen years older than I am.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: So the secondly he does, if you take a real
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: reach at it, he does look a little bit like me,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: but I don't want to say he looks a lot
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: like me because he's way older. By Bob Berry was
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: the guy that introduced the Beatles. That was nineteen sixty four.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: I was in probably the second grade or whatever it
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: was then, so and I said, no, I'm actually not.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: He said no, I know that it's so now she's
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: convinced because I'm denying it, which is like a real
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: no win situation. I almost felt like going with it
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: and say, yeah, I am Bob Berry. Now these other
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: people that are overhearing this and listening, and I'm with
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: a guy and he said, no, he's not Bob Berry.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: Well you're somebody. What's your name? Why, I say, Mark,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: I don't see the whole thing. No, you're not, you're
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: Bob Berry. Well then eventually I came up and you know,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: she's demanding, and I say what, I knew, you're that
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: trouble maker. And she's announcing this in the loudest voice
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: to everybody under the sun. That's when we realized that
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: there were assigned seats, that we were sitting in the
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: wrong seats, which turned out not to be the worst
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: thing in the world. And went over to our other thing.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: All right, one quick thing. We can't on podcasts play
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: music unfortunately, so I can't play this. But after the
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: movie was over, they had the before and after party
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: was at the Landmark Lanes and Hugh jack when who
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: played the Neil Diamond impersonator, who's the one of the
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: two protagonists of the movie. That's Lightning Mike Sardina. He
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: and the actual thunder Clara Sardina. Mike passed away, which
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: is part of the movie. He died twenty years ago,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of how the movie. The tragedies of
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: their life though, I mean, it's the whole thing was
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: like a vh You remember those old VH one documentaries
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Behind the Music, I think it was called. They were
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: always the same thing and be about a band. They rise,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: some obscurity, go up the ladder, superstarred and fame and fortune,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: crash and tragedy usually drugs or something or another, and
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: then redemption that comeback and then it's the same. Well,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: this is the actual story of their lives. So, I mean,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: you knew that that's what the movie was gonna be.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: And it's just kind of a made for Hollywood kind
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: of thing. Well. Anyway, Clara is still with us, and
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: I did not for it was cold. We were there.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: I had massive detal work done yesterday and I had
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: taken i'll admit painkillers because I knew when they When
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: I showed up at the movie, the anesthesia was still on,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: so I couldn't eat popcorn or anything, and so I
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: had a headache and it was cold. We went home.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: I should have gone to the Landmark Lanes after party
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: because on the stage Hugh Jackman saying Sweet Caroline with thunder.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: I can't play it on the air, but it is
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: linked up on my x account x formerly known as
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: Twitter under Mark Belling Show. There's a video of it.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: There's a few others that are going on the internet
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: and their viral all over the place. But that was
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: had been a wonderful moment there. As for the movie itself,
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: there was. It's been reviewed by some of the reviewers
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: who get to see the movies before it's available to
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: the general public, and some of the reviewers have been
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: very positive. I thought it was very good. It's the
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: kind of movie that clearly it has the potential to
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: be off right. It is done. First of all, the
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: two actors are Paul and I were debating are they
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: superstars or not, but they are clearly phenomenal actors, Hugh
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: Jackman and Kate Hudson. And I've just Kate Hudson's been
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite actresses ever since the movie Almost Famous.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: She always plays roles that are kind of a little
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: bit different kind of person, which allows I think actresses
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: and actors to play well. I mean, she played like
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: the groupie Penny Lane and Almost Famous. She was just unbelievably.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: I don't remember the name of the movie that Larry
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: David did on one of his hiatuses from Curby Your Enthusiasm,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: but he did a movie about a guy that was
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: living a Cape cod and she was the funniest scene
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: I've ever seen in a movie was in that movie.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: So she's just always been good at roles and she
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: was just she played that role so well, and Jackman
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: played the role really well. And it just this story
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: of these two people who kind of and made it
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: to start them but at that unique level of their fame,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: probably didn't even get to Madison, but just extremely well
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: known around here and it's got all the you know,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: they take liberties with the truth which happens often and
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: in some kind it seemed to me. So I thought
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: that the movie was very very well done. It was
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: not cheap and small sy. I thought it was sincere
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: and real, rather positive. Maybe the documentary was much more.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: All the warts and the problems were really peeled back.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: That was smoothed out a little bit, but we saw
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: all of the problems, and there was an incredible tragedy
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: were very famous in their lives, in which she was
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: run over by a car in her own front yard
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: and lost a leg, and he battled health problems and
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: he had a history of alcoholism before the band. These
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: are things they're all known by anybody who knew the
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: story of the two of them, and it played out
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: in the movie. But I just thought it was extremely
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: well done for the type of story that when you
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: think of like doing it Hollywood. They could have complete
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: screwed it up. The two things that I thought stood
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: out the most were the performances of the main characters
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: were just outstanding. The other thing, and I would recommend
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: to Paul to see it for this reason. I thought,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: you know, all the side musicians that were in their
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: band and the people that they knew in the knock
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: around circuit, like playing the like the you know, open
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: mic Knights, and seeing all the other characters and the
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: actors who played them. I thought it was a very
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: good look into the life of lifer musicians who were
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: just getting by, who never made it big, but were
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: making it well enough that they could keep doing it.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of that. And I butchered a
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: guy's name early, and I want to get it correct
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: here because I Mark Shilla. I mean, I didn't really
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: know him other than I saw him a lot because
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: he was always downtown and he was in all of
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: these bands. He passed away a handful of years ago.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: But he's played by Michael Imperioli, and I mean, who
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: didn't really look like him. But I thought that the
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: way they worked them in, you know, and the manager
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: is driving the badger bus to take him from the gigs,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: and he was one of those guys that drove the
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: bus for those casino junkets and all of that stuff.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: It was a very well done component of the movie.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: And those are the two things that I thought were
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: really good. If I knock it down for anything, it's this.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: It didn't have a feel of authenticity about the background. Now,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: maybe nobody else picks up on this, but they didn't
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: shoot a single scene in Milwaukee. It was all generic,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: and it didn't even make it like you could have
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: done some things like just stock footage of the skyline
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: or something, or sent a crew into shoot a couple
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: of few outtakes and pretend that something's in something Milwaukee.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: But it was not only generic, it looked like they
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: apparently shot it in location in New Jersey. It didn't
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: even look like it was shot on location in New Jersey.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: They clearly didn't want to pay naming rights because they
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: took almost all the names of places out. For example,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: the famous they played I mean, you know, Lightning and
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: Thunder is kind of was a smalllza act. And Pearl
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: Jam at the time was like considered the most authentic
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: rock band there was. Eddie Vedder was into stuff like this,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: and you know, they would often cover smaltzy stuff, and
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: Eddie Vedder found out about it and invited them to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: play at Summerfest when Pearl Jam performed, and they changed
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: that in the movie and instead they're at a theater
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: and they're not at Summerfest, and the name of the
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: theater is the Rich Theater, which there isn't even one.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: So I think that that's just that they didn't want
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: to cut a deal with Summerfest. But I think shooting
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: the movie and even if you create a fake crowd,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: but making it at Summerfest. They did use the State Fair.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: That's a generic name. They probably didn't have to pay
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: naming rights for that. They got married at the State Fair,
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: so they include that. But otherwise they did. They showed that,
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: you know, an outshot of a custage stand that was
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: clearly supposed to look like Leons, but they didn't call
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: it Leons, And so I thought that it would benefit
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: from even if they didn't film scenes in Milwaukee to
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: make it seem Milwaukee. Having said that Milwaukee's drilled through it.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, you watch the movie you'd set in Milwaukee,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: it set in Milwaukee, set of Milwaukee. They say that
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: a mozillion times. But I you know, you might say
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: that somebody who's watching the movie in Houston, they won't
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: even know that it wouldn't be Milwaukee. Usually when you watch,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: like a movie that's set in Chicago, they'll put like
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: Chicago's scenes and it gives you a feel of where
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: they are. And this kind of reminded me of how
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: you know, Happy Days was in Milwaukee, but there was
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: they never shot had any scenes of Milwaukee and Happy
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: Days and same thing. All in all, I would put
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: it together in I clearly would do the old Siskel
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: and Ebert thumbs up. I would recommend it. It's long.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: Usually movies like this. The movies that are long are
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: usually like dramas or mob movies and so on. Now
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: ninety minutes is the norm, right most of it. This
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: is over two hours for a movie like this. That
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: kind of surprised me. It didn't brag, but of course,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: you know, you're seeing all these things that you know about,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: so of course I'm into it. And the crowd that
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: was there was a lot of people who knew them,
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: and then it was media types and there was no
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: way I was gonna bomb with that crowd. They were
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: cheering for everything and so on. Anyway, Hugh Jackman was
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: very gracious when he talked. The director and writer is
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: Craig Brewer. This has been his project. He bought the
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: rights to the documentary so he could base it off
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: the documentary, and this is his baby. He's worked on forever.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: He was there, and several members of the family were there,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 2: and Claire was there and so on. I just one
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: of the things I question is it opens Christmas Day.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 2: That means it's you know, it's a big thing Christmas Day.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: Movies that open the studios are making a big play
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: for them. I just it's not a kid's movie. I mean,
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: I know a lot of young people are into music
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: of the sixties and the seventies and like the Neil Diamond.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: In fact, one of the things of the whole movie
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: is lightning. Mike hated playing Sweet Caroline. His whole point
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: was Neil Diamond and all of these other great songs,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: and everybody just wants to hear Sweet Caroline, and they
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: play Sweet Caroline, See Caroline, And he had all of
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: these other Neil Diamond songs that he wanted to do it,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: like they play Sweet Carolina baseball games and all kids
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: all know it. So will any of them go Because
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: the people who go to movies in the theater are
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: primarily young and people of our age really, I think
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: forty and over they watched the movie when it hits
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: Netflix or whatever the streaming service is, so it might
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: be a bigger movie when it hits the streaming service
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: as opposed to going in. I didn't mention the music itself.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: The sound. Now, the Oriental has a great sound system,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: which you wouldn't think but it does. The sound was
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: really good. They do their own singing, the music was.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: It sounded as good as being at a Neil Diamond
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: concert and their own way of doing it. So the
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: sound is really good. Also, Neil Diamond had a very
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: mixed Neil Diamond did a lot of great songs and
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: he did some real dumpers too. They picked them right.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: None of the bad songs like that song B from
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: Jonathan living Sego that's not in there, Like the really
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: bad ones aren't in there, but all the ones you
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: would want to hear are in there. So I would
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: give it a strong recommendation, especially if you knew those
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: people from back in the day. And well, it doesn't
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: have any Milwaukee exteriors to it, it feels Milwaukee because
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: I just think in most cities lightning and thunder would
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: not have become a thing, and it's the kind of
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: thing that just would work in Milwaukee. I know you
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: would like it because of the local musician thing and
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: all that and you probably bumped into the two of
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: them just from Yeah. They and like I say, before
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: they formed this act, they were kick around musicians, just
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: in the scene, doing any number of things, and they
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: never really made it beyond that. They just kind of
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: got to in the same way of one or two.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: It's like one or two other like rock bands that
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: have last who's the one, who's the big one? The
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: name's escaping to me right now. A band that's been
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: around for like thirty years, kind of a party band,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: not bad Boy. Later than that they were kind of
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: a cover band, not Cherry Pye. A little bit later
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: than that they're still around. Not Philla Cain. Yeah, there's
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: the Toys. That's what I was thinking of. There are
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: bands that like The Toys will be an example. They're
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: just really big around here, but it's only like reagionable
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: and that's the level the lightning and thunder got by,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: so that becomes a story. And then they were larger
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: than life personalities and great actors played them. So there
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: was a lot of talk about them. And the reason
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that I got an invite to go there
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: is they were hoping to get fifteen minutes of flicity
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: about me talking about the talking about the thing. See,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: so I'm a VIP, I got to go to this.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: They didn't send the guy walks up in the front
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 2: of the door saying, I'm a VII. Feel with me.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: Do you think he thought that there was like a
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: VIP list or do you think that he was just
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: trying to get into the front door he thought there
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: was a VII. See the problem with pulling that is
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: even if you were a VIP and get in everybody,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: I mean imagine I had then Can you imagine if
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: I did that and that story would be all over
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: the city, It would have been all over social media.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: So instead I'm the one that can't do that, and
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: I was the guy. The reason I objected is it
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: was right in front of me thirty minutes in there.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: My nose is running because of the wind whipping around
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: in the cold, and this is where the vipce go in. Yeah,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: it is after everybody that's in front of you gets
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 2: through the line. That's it for today's podcast. We're going
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: to have our football preview college football championship games, not
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, with the conference championship games or this weekend,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: and we all know what's going on with the Packers.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: They play the Bears, then they played Denver, and then
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: they play the Bears again. The entire season gonna be
• 1:42:41
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