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Mark Belling Podcast #74: If No Kings is the other side, I’m glad I’m on my side (looked like the Woodstock crowd’s 56th reunion), is the trans movement already peaking, and the seven year I-94 East-West rebuild is here (what happened to all the lefties who opposed it?). · The Mark Belling Podcast

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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's start with the obvious. The left lies.
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Speaker 2: I think we all know that, right, obvious example. There's
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Speaker 2: millions of obvious examples. Trump colluded with the Russians in
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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, probably the biggest. The Hunter Biden laptop is fake.
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Speaker 2: That's another one. COVID didn't come out of the lab.
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Speaker 2: It came out of like wet markets where they sell
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Speaker 2: bats in China, et cetera, et cetera. We know that
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Speaker 2: they lie. Even by the standards of that. The lie
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Speaker 2: being told about the note King's rally is off the charts.
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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing about live. If you can get
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Speaker 2: away with lying, why fib right, what's the point of fibbing?
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Speaker 2: If you can get away, just go is insanely in
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Speaker 2: come up with the biggest lie possible. As long as
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Speaker 2: you're able to get away with the lie. You know,
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Speaker 2: if you can steal money, you may as well steal
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Speaker 2: every penny that therever you're stealing. Is that am I
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Speaker 2: not right about this. Well, that's my point about getting
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Speaker 2: away with it. You adding in your if there's no ramifications, Well,
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Speaker 2: what do you think getting away with something is that
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Speaker 2: there's no ramifications for it? Paul's contribution for the program
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Speaker 2: for this year, they're no King's Rally. So they claimed
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Speaker 2: they claim that across the country seven million people participated.
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Speaker 2: You realize that that is that there's roughly three hundred
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Speaker 2: I think three hundred and thirty three hundred and forty
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Speaker 2: million people in the United States right now. Seven million.
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Speaker 2: That's more people than live in Wisconsin. I'll do round numbers.
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Speaker 2: It's like one of every fifty man, women, and child
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Speaker 2: in the air. Are you telling me that one out
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Speaker 2: of every fifty human beings in the United States? That's
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Speaker 2: just ridiculous. For one thing, we saw the profile of
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Speaker 2: who they are. There wasn't a single one of them
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Speaker 2: under the edge of forty five. So knock all of
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Speaker 2: them out. So there's these disclaimers. I've got the prededition
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Speaker 2: of the newspaper here and I've got both headlines, and
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Speaker 2: they put in these disclaimers that go in this case
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Speaker 2: in one eye and out the rack at the back
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Speaker 2: of your brain. The first they have the Wisconsin number,
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Speaker 2: and then the national no Kings drew seven million. Organizers say,
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Speaker 2: organizers say I'm twenty six feet tall. Belling says. The
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Speaker 2: fact that I say it does an't have anything to
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Speaker 2: do with anything. Now. Of course they put in the
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Speaker 2: organizers because they don't want to do an estimate themselves.
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Speaker 2: And who are they, well sorrows at all. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to that surely seven million. So what they do, obviously
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Speaker 2: is they take all these local numbers and I guess
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Speaker 2: add them up here in Milwaukee. There's a separate story
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Speaker 2: for the number of people. And I can speak with
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Speaker 2: great authority to this because I had a literally a
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Speaker 2: bird's eye view of this themselves. Sixteen thousand rallied in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, this is the circus Parade all
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Speaker 2: over again. In terms of inflating crowd couds sixteen thousand.
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Speaker 2: I'm coming up with my guess as to what the
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Speaker 2: algorithm would be, and I think it's I don't know, ten.
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Speaker 2: That might be high. I think in Milwaukee they might
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Speaker 2: have gotten a sick sixteen hundred, but that's generous. Also,
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Speaker 2: these people were really really old. Those who started marching
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Speaker 2: may not have been there at the end. I've been
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Speaker 2: told that there were poor people at the Metro Market
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Speaker 2: and Van Buren Street who are stuck in the parking
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Speaker 2: lot for an hour because the thing went up with
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Speaker 2: that and they couldn't get out of the parking lot.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you buy your milk, is spoiling in the
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Speaker 2: car and all of that stuff. I saw them near
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Speaker 2: the lakefront. My estimate, and I'm pretty good at this,
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Speaker 2: is about sixteen hundred. They covered two and a half
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Speaker 2: two blocks maybe, and then you know the Mathemaill, so
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Speaker 2: sixteen that's a lie. So if in Milwaukee it was
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Speaker 2: one to ten, does that mean that nationally it was
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Speaker 2: seven hundred thousand and not seven million? Possible, but that
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Speaker 2: could be a lie to Also, let's imagine you work
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Speaker 2: for a pro sports team. One of the things that
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Speaker 2: they have is they have scouts. Do you have to
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Speaker 2: explain what a scout is? Well, I didn't ask you that.
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Speaker 2: You're not of any help today, you say, I do
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Speaker 2: not have to explain it. For those of you who
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Speaker 2: don't know what approach sports team scout is, I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to tell you because Paul says, I don't have
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Speaker 2: to tell you. If I'm the guy that's scouting the opposition,
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Speaker 2: I am telling you there's nothing to worry about with
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Speaker 2: this bunch, the same people that have been doing this
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Speaker 2: crap for the last fifty years that I'm killing you.
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Speaker 2: Unlike me, they've not aged well, oh my goodness, gracious.
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Speaker 2: Aside from the Palestinians that were mingled into the thing,
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Speaker 2: I think the average age of this bunch was one
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Speaker 2: hundred and four. Cranky, bearded, smelly, uncombed, grade out hippies.
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Speaker 2: That's what it is. Mostly mostly other than and as
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Speaker 2: I say, a handful of Palestinian supporters, all old, all white,
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Speaker 2: and heavy on the old bag component. More on all
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Speaker 2: You can go back to the sixties when it was
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Speaker 2: the war, the early seventies when it was the environment,
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Speaker 2: the late seventies when it was no nyukes. It's the
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Speaker 2: same bunch of them, thinned out by death and the
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Speaker 2: fact that many of them are on walkers. But it's
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Speaker 2: the same bunch, bitter, haggard, unattractive. I mean, I smart,
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Speaker 2: they try it. I mean you have to work at
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Speaker 2: it to be as unattractive as these people. You know,
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Speaker 2: seventy two years old, you got one of these, not
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Speaker 2: one of the long beard ones, but like these thick
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Speaker 2: beards that I think only because you're too lazy to
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Speaker 2: trim them. What's left of your hair is kind of
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Speaker 2: riding around all over the place. Your clothes look like
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Speaker 2: they're thirteen years old. You have to almost work at
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Speaker 2: it to make it a caricature of yourself, to look
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Speaker 2: as awful as these people look. Boh for Bernie Sanders
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Speaker 2: in this, he'd be the best looking bunch of them.
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Speaker 2: He cleans himself up in Congress, and he wears a
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Speaker 2: suit and a tie. What was almost absent in this
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Speaker 2: was any indication of young people on any indication of
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Speaker 2: people of color, with as I say, exception some of
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Speaker 2: the ones that are I guess supporters of Alisaida. You
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Speaker 2: could just see this byther sign the whole thing. You know,
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Speaker 2: this thing is no kings, which means there's nobody even
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Speaker 2: knows what that means. So they got this. They don't
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Speaker 2: have like commonality of their signs. The signs are all
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Speaker 2: over the map, with everything under the sun bull points.
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Speaker 2: There weren't a lot of blacks. I think my side
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Speaker 2: might have done some like undercover infiltration where it had
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Speaker 2: screwed them up and claim that this was an assault
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Speaker 2: on MLK no Kings and you know, maybe black, you say,
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Speaker 2: what these whites are? They're trying to get rid of
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Speaker 2: MLK day no Kings. So let's start with the whole
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Speaker 2: thing that the numbers being reported are just totalized. They
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Speaker 2: don't make any sense, and it wasn't what it was
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Speaker 2: and anybody who saw it with their own I saw
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Speaker 2: it with my own eyes. There weren't sixteen thousand people there.
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Speaker 2: It's making it up to even claim that it's close
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Speaker 2: to that. But again, if you're them, why not just
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Speaker 2: inflight the number? Why I'd say fifty thousand in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: Why I'd say nationally one hundred million. Say that one
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Speaker 2: out of every three the human beings is saying in
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Speaker 2: the United States of America was taking part of this?
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Speaker 2: Why not as long as you're going to make it up.
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Speaker 2: When you come up with a seven million and you
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Speaker 2: understand that these things are mostly held in the big cities, Well,
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Speaker 2: whatever lefties are of the big cities want, they drove
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Speaker 2: two hundred miles to take part. I don't think that
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Speaker 2: was happening. Now about all of this. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: get it into in just a second year where this
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Speaker 2: all comes from, because there is something of a paper trail,
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Speaker 2: and we know where the organizational is coming from. It's
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Speaker 2: basically three or four billionaires who've created foundations that set
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Speaker 2: up the organizing of this. But with regard to Trump
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Speaker 2: and the general realignment in American politics that's been going on,
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Speaker 2: as I've been telling you, you're not getting a lot
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Speaker 2: of young people whose concerns are very precise and they're
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Speaker 2: not particularly concerned about the whole no King's thing. Because
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Speaker 2: I take the millennial group, they want a king, they
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Speaker 2: want to be told what to do. They don't want
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Speaker 2: I want to make any decisions. Fauci says, put on
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Speaker 2: a mask. They put on a mask. This is the
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Speaker 2: generation that's been told what the thing forever and ever
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Speaker 2: and ever. With regard to African Americans, I'm killing you.
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Speaker 2: They have nothing in common with these motley, old white
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Speaker 2: goats that are wandering around. They don't see any commonality
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Speaker 2: with them. Furthermore, the reason that they come up with
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Speaker 2: this whole no kings thing is they can't figure out
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Speaker 2: what policy it is of Trump to oppose, since most
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Speaker 2: of what he's actually done has worked, so they go
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Speaker 2: after that. He's trying to govern as a king, which
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Speaker 2: is comical given the last two democratic administration that ends
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Speaker 2: a and the edicts that came down from them. I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you, though, based on what I've seen, every time
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Speaker 2: you see a hers go by, you're seeing one more
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Speaker 2: lefty go away, because it appears as though they've commandeered
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Speaker 2: the sickly in bad health. All the comments I've ever
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Speaker 2: made about what happens when you smoke pod for sixty years,
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Speaker 2: I just will. I'll cite this thing as proof. You know,
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Speaker 2: the other thing I see every rally there is I
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Speaker 2: live downtown even as this one was actually credit quiet.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you this had nothing that like the George Floyd,
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Speaker 2: the defund the police rallies way more. I mean they're
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Speaker 2: honking horns and they had cars. In this one. Here
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Speaker 2: you had the typical like they always have somebody beating
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Speaker 2: the drums so somebody hears them. They hardly had any drums.
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Speaker 2: The chatting, you couldn't hear anything because they couldn't get
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Speaker 2: it out. They're all too old. Ah, I mean, how
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Speaker 2: much you're gonna get out of that? About this we
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Speaker 2: have based on some reporting, much of it admittedly coming
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Speaker 2: from groups on the right and attempt who track the
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Speaker 2: funding of this. Much of it comes through dark money
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Speaker 2: funding and some of the estimates. One of this is
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Speaker 2: from a poster on the Internet Seamus Bruner. The Arabella Network,
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Speaker 2: which has been written about extensively, seventy nine million, so
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Speaker 2: US Network seventy two million, the Ford Network fifty one million,
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Speaker 2: Tides forty five point five, the Rockefeller Foundation twenty eight
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Speaker 2: point six, Warren Buffett's money sixteen point six. What happens
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Speaker 2: is these billionaires create foundations and the money. When I
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Speaker 2: use the term laundering, people think that that means illegally.
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Speaker 2: In this case, it's just filtered from one group to
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Speaker 2: another to another to another, which is perfectly legal to do,
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Speaker 2: but it means that you can't always tie the money
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Speaker 2: directly to the individual who came up with it in
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Speaker 2: the first place, even though it's their money. What I
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Speaker 2: think is noteworthy is that the gist of this movement
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Speaker 2: right now tends to be either supporters of Palestinians who
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Speaker 2: are completely confused as to who they're supposed to oppose
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Speaker 2: right now, given the fact that Hamas has decided to
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Speaker 2: start killing Palestidians in their attempt to not allow any
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Speaker 2: of the militias in Gaza to take away power from them,
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Speaker 2: and the Trump seems to be the one that is
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Speaker 2: trying to give them a piece deal that would allow
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Speaker 2: them to exist Aside from them, it's aging baby boomers.
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Speaker 2: As someone who is an aging baby boomer, let me
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Speaker 2: tell you something about the general population's view of aging
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Speaker 2: baby boomers. Nobody wants to be like them. Hey, world,
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Speaker 2: who's aspiring to be old? The whole thing you know
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Speaker 2: of influence, Youn't you understand what an influencer is? Don't you?
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Speaker 2: You have daughters? You know what an influencer is if
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Speaker 2: you were going to choose influencers, would you choose any
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Speaker 2: of them? Now, there are old influencers. Here's the way
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Speaker 2: of hiring an effective oldie. Now, if you were going
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Speaker 2: to hire an old influencer, where do you go? Paul's
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Speaker 2: wandering away over what are you doing? Storming out on
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Speaker 2: the program? You're being offended because I'm referring to old
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Speaker 2: white people and you're you're thinking that that's an assault
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Speaker 2: on you if you were going to hire an old
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Speaker 2: baby boomer influencer. Seriously, it's not a sarcastic question. Who
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Speaker 2: would you hire? Well, I'll tell you all, look at
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Speaker 2: who is the one that they're getting it. Somebody who
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Speaker 2: is a glamorous athlete or movie star when they were younger.
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Speaker 2: Why do you think Joe Namath is doing all that?
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Speaker 2: Joe Namath, Jose thisman they like have all the prostate
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Speaker 2: pills and the memory pills and all. That's what you do.
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Speaker 2: You choose someone who at one point in life was
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Speaker 2: like a glamorous, young, flamboyant person and is still kind
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Speaker 2: of held it out, held it together. Joe Namath, jothe
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Speaker 2: Eisman and so on. You don't choose these decrepit old people.
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Speaker 2: I want to say, but I'd be lying. I don't
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Speaker 2: know why I shn't just lie, given the fact that
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Speaker 2: they're like I want to say that I saw all
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Speaker 2: sorts of people and walkers of the thing, but I
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Speaker 2: actually didn't. I'd love to be able to lie and
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Speaker 2: make that up. But there's no point in me telling
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Speaker 2: a lie. But I because by being honest about the
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Speaker 2: whole thing, I've got both the high ground and the
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Speaker 2: low ground. The low ground and that I'm making fun
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Speaker 2: of my elders, and the high ground did that. Everything
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Speaker 2: I'm saying is true is opposed to them lying and
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Speaker 2: claiming that it's a steam anyway. Sixteen million. There's one
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Speaker 2: place that was wiped out empty on Saturday afternoon, retirement homes.
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Speaker 2: They were dead empty because they got every one of
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Speaker 2: those people out of that the ones that could move
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Speaker 2: were brought out. This is the group of people whose
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Speaker 2: lives peaked when they were twenty four, When they were
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Speaker 2: protesting then it was cool we're against the war, or
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Speaker 2: slightly earlier, marching for civil rights, even the early stages
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Speaker 2: ironmental movement. Earth Day, that was a cool and trendy thing.
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Speaker 2: Rock and roll singers were on your side and writing
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Speaker 2: your songs, and you were fighting against the man, were
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Speaker 2: on the whole rage against the machine thing, etc. But
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Speaker 2: their lives, as I say, peaked at twenty four. They've
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Speaker 2: been miserably unhappy ever since. So all they're doing is
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Speaker 2: channeling the days in which they were having fun when
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Speaker 2: they were younger and protesting the ones that have become billionaires.
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Speaker 2: Like Sorrows. He's not out there actually marching himself, He's
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Speaker 2: just bankrolling the whole thing. But the ones that are
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Speaker 2: trotting themselves out there trotting out because they have no
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Speaker 2: meaning in life other than to do this. One of
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Speaker 2: the things that started them was, you know, they were
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Speaker 2: the peace save the world crowd. Well, now the biggest
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Speaker 2: peacenick on the planet is Trump. He's the guy that
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Speaker 2: doesn't want us to use our military in anything other
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Speaker 2: than the kill drug dealers who are killing Americans. Other
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Speaker 2: than that, he's trying to broke her peace all over
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Speaker 2: the world. And they're the ones. They're the Obama Hillary
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Speaker 2: Clinton crowd that wants to bomb everybody, and they now
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Speaker 2: are what they are. Ted Cruz was on Fox News
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Speaker 2: over the weekend. He's been focusing on. See Ted doesn't
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Speaker 2: have I want to say that Ted is term limited out.
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Speaker 2: He's not term limited out in terms of the Senate.
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Speaker 2: He's term limited out in terms of his career. He's
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Speaker 2: not going to be the Republican candidate for president at
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Speaker 2: any point in the future. There's a chance he can
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Speaker 2: become a Supreme Court justice, but then again he's got
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Speaker 2: to be confirmed. So he's sitting there and he's the
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Speaker 2: United States Senator from Texas, and it gives him a
17:40
Speaker 2: great platform. So what he's doing is he's going after
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Speaker 2: and kind of like Ron Johnson, going into and looking
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Speaker 2: into issues that others aren't tapping into. He's been on
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Speaker 2: the Open Secrets Foundation. Everybody I know that people on
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Speaker 2: the right are absolutely terrible at understanding the enemy. That's sorrows.
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Speaker 2: That's one of his foundations. And Ted Cruz is on
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Speaker 2: this and trying to follow the money. I think I
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Speaker 2: said open Secrets, it's open Society. I just got done
18:13
Speaker 2: making fun of people who don't know the names of
18:14
Speaker 2: the NY budget Open Society fun Cruise is pointing out
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Speaker 2: that they issued a two year grant of three million
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Speaker 2: dollars to the organization called indivisible. That's another one of
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Speaker 2: the names of these groups that are out there. And again,
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Speaker 2: as I've been saying, the money is always laundry. Now
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Speaker 2: people hear the word laundered and they think that that
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Speaker 2: means it's illegal. It's not illegal. But you start with
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Speaker 2: Sorrows who creates a foundation, and then they kick it
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Speaker 2: down to another group, this indivisible group. But if you're
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Speaker 2: wondering where all of these people come from, they're all
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Speaker 2: on somebody's payroll. The thing that made Charlie Kirk so
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Speaker 2: indispensable is it became the one organization on the right
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Speaker 2: that had a payroll ended organizing as well as you know,
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Speaker 2: without Charlie Kirk, without turning point, I don't think Trump's
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Speaker 2: the president because they did as much and maybe even
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Speaker 2: more ground level organizing than all the lefty groups did
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Speaker 2: in the last election. It is not a coincidence that
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Speaker 2: the college dormitory suddenly became a Trump stronghold, given the
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Speaker 2: fact that Charlie Kirk's organization was in the dorms like
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Speaker 2: Crazy encountered the impact of the left. The Charlie Kirk
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Speaker 2: organization isn't laundering the money down two to three to
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Speaker 2: four different levels. They just call themselves Turning put. It
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Speaker 2: all stems on the same thing, Charlie. Charlie raised a
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Speaker 2: lot of money and created this network. It is a
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Speaker 2: terrible loss that he's gone, and we don't know whether
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Speaker 2: or not Turning Point or made its effective in his absence.
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Speaker 2: But with regard to all this stuff on the left,
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Speaker 2: it's all organized. The thing that they are missing right now,
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Speaker 2: and it's the thing the left is usually very very
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Speaker 2: good at. Is they lack and anti Trump miss because
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Speaker 2: there's no particular issue for them to rally a ground.
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Speaker 2: What's the biggest of the policy decisions Trump has made.
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Speaker 2: You can't get anything going from them opposing tariffts because
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Speaker 2: deep down a good fifty percent of the left he
20:14
Speaker 2: support the tarrofsts because they've always hated the dumping of
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Speaker 2: foreign goods in the United States and taken away jobs
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Speaker 2: and lower income workers and so on. So it can't
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Speaker 2: be that. It's really hard for them to come out
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Speaker 2: and oppose Trump's attempts to bring peace around the world,
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Speaker 2: So they can't come up with that one. So instead
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Speaker 2: it's well, this whole no Kings thing, which is this
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Speaker 2: idea that Trump is trying to function as a dictator
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Speaker 2: of the world. But again, how far does that dog
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Speaker 2: hunt given the fact that it was Biden that was criminal,
20:47
Speaker 2: like charging Trump and all of his allies for things
20:49
Speaker 2: that they never did. Let us move onward to another
20:55
Speaker 2: interesting story. And as you know, I like to pick
20:58
Speaker 2: up an interesting stories hardly anybody who is picking up
21:01
Speaker 2: on this story in particular, was first deported by Wisconsin
21:05
Speaker 2: right now. This is something percolating under the surface that
21:08
Speaker 2: I am trying to bring right to the surface. Wisconsin
21:13
Speaker 2: is one of the few states left in the United
21:14
Speaker 2: States where you cannot legally bet online. Take I guess,
21:20
Speaker 2: I know, I just kind of tipped it off. There's
21:22
Speaker 2: fifty states. I'm not counting DC or the territories of
21:26
Speaker 2: the fifty states. How many of them have legalized online
21:29
Speaker 2: sports betting? Take your guess fort well, that's a dumb guess.
21:34
Speaker 2: We're one of the only two that's two high. It's
21:37
Speaker 2: thirty nine. It's thirty nine. Wisconsin is one of the
21:42
Speaker 2: eleven that has not. In Wisconsin, the only entity that
21:48
Speaker 2: can run gambling legally is a Native American tribe. That,
21:53
Speaker 2: of course, in addition to the state which runs a lottery.
21:56
Speaker 2: Nobody else can legally offer gambling in Wisconsin. This was
22:00
Speaker 2: the Jim Doyle giveaway compact with the Native American tribes.
22:04
Speaker 2: When the Native American tribes are bringing in their casinos,
22:07
Speaker 2: Doyle for a pittance cut deals. That stated and it
22:11
Speaker 2: stated right in them, nobody else can offer any gambling
22:15
Speaker 2: at all. As you recall, I objected strongly at the time.
22:19
Speaker 2: Most people were yawning, not understanding the gambling was going
22:24
Speaker 2: to spread all over the United States. Here in Wisconsin
22:26
Speaker 2: we get very little money from it. The states that
22:30
Speaker 2: do not restrict their gambling to Native American tribes are
22:33
Speaker 2: making a fortune. I'll give you an example. Mississippi is
22:39
Speaker 2: king of the hill here. You wouldn't think Mississippi, but
22:42
Speaker 2: Mississippi in the Biloxi region. It's Biloxia in a couple
22:45
Speaker 2: of communities adjacent there's numerous casinos under the big giant
22:49
Speaker 2: casino companies, but the same ones that are in Las Vegas.
22:56
Speaker 2: They're taxed at a very very high level because they're
22:59
Speaker 2: Unbelievably I'm told by people that people that are sick
23:02
Speaker 2: of Vegas at all the pot would love Biloxi. I've
23:04
Speaker 2: not been to auty of the Biloxi casinos and so on.
23:06
Speaker 2: But it's opened anybody out there. Even Illinois has casinos
23:13
Speaker 2: that are run by private, for profit companies all over
23:15
Speaker 2: the state. They manage it badly because they've limited them
23:18
Speaker 2: in terms of size and so on, but they're so
23:20
Speaker 2: star for money. They're changing that. In Wisconsin, Doyle and
23:26
Speaker 2: an attempt to get big money for his reelection from
23:28
Speaker 2: the Pottawatomies and the ho Chunk and the Oneida, who
23:32
Speaker 2: are the big ones, cut these deals that said you
23:35
Speaker 2: could open your casinos and nobody can offer any competing
23:39
Speaker 2: private gambling. Nobody. So that means now that the Native
23:44
Speaker 2: American tribes have started sports betting, nobody else can come
23:47
Speaker 2: in and compete with them. I don't know if you
23:49
Speaker 2: all knew that. And for those of you that I mean,
23:53
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen on TV commercials for uh. DraftKings
23:56
Speaker 2: is one of the biggest You've seen all the DraftKings commercials. Right,
23:59
Speaker 2: it's not dawn on you that Draft Kings you can't.
24:01
Speaker 2: You can only use DraftKings for fantasy. Fantasy is not
24:04
Speaker 2: considered gambling, which kind of a loophole. You can do
24:08
Speaker 2: fantasy legally in Wisconsin, but other than that all these
24:11
Speaker 2: bets that they're saying, you can't use draft kings in
24:13
Speaker 2: Wisconsin because it's only open to tribes. There is, however,
24:18
Speaker 2: in the compact with the state something that ham strings
24:22
Speaker 2: the tribes, and that is to do the sports betting,
24:24
Speaker 2: you have to do it on premise. Paul Dwaft to
24:29
Speaker 2: explain what on premise means? No, he's telling me, I
24:32
Speaker 2: don't have to explain anything. I don't. You're telling me now,
24:34
Speaker 2: I don't have to explain anything again. And the only
24:37
Speaker 2: time you're gonna tell me you have to explain something
24:38
Speaker 2: is what it's something you don't know. So in order
24:40
Speaker 2: to bet a sports on Patawada mean you actually have
24:43
Speaker 2: to go there. First of all, this is not the
24:46
Speaker 2: way it is hardly anywhere else in the United States.
24:49
Speaker 2: Almost everywhere you have an app. So if you're in
24:56
Speaker 2: the state, you bet on your phone, and you know
24:58
Speaker 2: people will make I vets during games and so on.
25:01
Speaker 2: At Potawatamy, you have to go to Potawatamy. Now, pot
25:05
Speaker 2: of Watamy is trying to make it convenient. I don't
25:08
Speaker 2: know where everybody else parks, but it seems to me
25:09
Speaker 2: that everybody parks in the parking lot and when the
25:11
Speaker 2: skywalk from the parking lot, that's where the machines are.
25:14
Speaker 2: They also have a big giant sports book where you
25:16
Speaker 2: can bet and watch the games. But you can walk
25:18
Speaker 2: right in across the skywalk and make the bed and leave.
25:21
Speaker 2: But I mean, unless you live near downtown Milwaukee, that's
25:25
Speaker 2: a drive. And secondly, it is something of a hassle
25:27
Speaker 2: at third l I'm just telling you as somebody who's
25:29
Speaker 2: pretty good at parking garages, the Potawatamy parking garages flummocks me.
25:33
Speaker 2: As long as they had it built. It's very confusing. Oddly,
25:38
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Airport parking garage is very easy to understand.
25:41
Speaker 2: You would think you just think that that would be
25:43
Speaker 2: all screwed up. I think it's because our airport is
25:45
Speaker 2: so small. How could you screw it up? Yeah, you
25:50
Speaker 2: have to be on premise. Well, obviously that means that
25:54
Speaker 2: the tribes and the big ones in Wisconsin are ho
25:57
Speaker 2: Chunk Oneida which is the Green Baker, and Potawatami and Milwaukee.
26:02
Speaker 2: If they were allowed to have people bet on an
26:05
Speaker 2: app anywhere in the state, they would make I think
26:11
Speaker 2: this is conservatively five hundred times more. That's my belief.
26:15
Speaker 2: I think they would do five hundred times more action
26:17
Speaker 2: than having to drive down and go into the building.
26:20
Speaker 2: But the reason that they can't offer through the app
26:22
Speaker 2: is it's not in the compact with the state of Wisconsin.
26:26
Speaker 2: There are members of the legislature, it's bipartisan, that are
26:28
Speaker 2: now proposing to change that and allow online sports betting
26:33
Speaker 2: with the tribes. I'm going to weigh in on this.
26:39
Speaker 2: I think that this is a terrible bill. Here's why.
26:46
Speaker 2: As it is, and again I'm not blaming the tribes
26:49
Speaker 2: of this, but they are ripping us off. Again, here's
26:53
Speaker 2: what I'm not blaming them for it. If you've got
26:55
Speaker 2: a governor, let's imagine you got some baldheaded guy like
26:58
Speaker 2: Doyle who comes in and gives you the bargain of
27:01
Speaker 2: a lifetime in which you get to screw the people
27:03
Speaker 2: of Wisconsin. Why wouldn't you take it. It's not their
27:06
Speaker 2: fault for taking the deal that Doyle gave to them.
27:10
Speaker 2: It was a wink wink, nod nod. You had to
27:12
Speaker 2: kick a ton of money in campaign contributions to the
27:14
Speaker 2: Democrats and so on, and then when the Republicans got in,
27:18
Speaker 2: they gave them money to if you're going to give
27:25
Speaker 2: the tribes this you need. I'm not a fan of taxes,
27:29
Speaker 2: but they have a legalized monopoly. If you're going to
27:32
Speaker 2: give them a legalized monopoly, you have to look out
27:34
Speaker 2: for the taxpayers of the state, and you have to
27:36
Speaker 2: require them to pay more to the state. They've got
27:41
Speaker 2: this deal where you kick in a percentage of the handle,
27:44
Speaker 2: and this would simply expand that to this. So there'd
27:47
Speaker 2: be more money for the state because there'd be more
27:49
Speaker 2: gambling going on. But they are not. They don't ever
27:53
Speaker 2: have to worry in the history of Wisconsin. By the way,
27:55
Speaker 2: these deals are into eternity the monopoly they have. The
27:58
Speaker 2: only way to change it is to get the pot
27:59
Speaker 2: of and the other tribes to agree to changes in
28:02
Speaker 2: the compact. So before you pass the bill giving them this,
28:05
Speaker 2: and I'm telling you that every one of the people
28:07
Speaker 2: that's sponsoring this thing is just getting campaign money from
28:09
Speaker 2: the Indian dribes. There's no way that they would come
28:11
Speaker 2: up with this otherwise, in which you either require that
28:14
Speaker 2: they accept competition or require a greater payment for the taxpayers.
28:22
Speaker 2: Many are confused because they see people betting on apps
28:25
Speaker 2: on sports. In Wisconsin. It's illegal it's done everywhere, but
28:30
Speaker 2: it's illegal. Those apps are with companies that are based
28:33
Speaker 2: outside the United States. There's been this gray area forever
28:38
Speaker 2: with regard to commerce on the internet. If the company
28:42
Speaker 2: taking the bet is in grab a country Belieze, which
28:46
Speaker 2: is where some of them are. If you place a
28:48
Speaker 2: bet with a company in Believes, is the bet being
28:50
Speaker 2: paid in Believes or is the bet being placed in
28:52
Speaker 2: Wisconsin where you are. What the courts have ruled and
28:56
Speaker 2: it's never gone to the Supreme Court, is ban the
29:00
Speaker 2: company from Belize from doing business from having you know,
29:03
Speaker 2: an app that is available in the United States. But
29:06
Speaker 2: you can't prosecute the customer from making the bet because
29:08
Speaker 2: the bet is being placed in Belize. But you can
29:11
Speaker 2: stop the Belize company from being able to access online
29:13
Speaker 2: in the United States. But it's hard for an individual
29:16
Speaker 2: state to do that. So those people are betting illegally. Now,
29:19
Speaker 2: when I say illegally, I can't think of the last time.
29:22
Speaker 2: There have been a few cases where people were prosecuted
29:24
Speaker 2: to where they were basically bookies that were then covering
29:26
Speaker 2: their action by betting into an offshore account. Very few
29:30
Speaker 2: people have to worry about prosecution from it, and Also,
29:33
Speaker 2: there's no taxes being paid on any of this stuff
29:34
Speaker 2: because it's being done illegally, and you know, the overseas
29:38
Speaker 2: companies running this, they're not sending ten ninety nins or
29:40
Speaker 2: whatever it is to the federal government. I think W
29:42
Speaker 2: two g's whatever they are as opposed to potawatomy. When
29:45
Speaker 2: you hit a jackpot, the government finds out of audience
29:47
Speaker 2: and all of it is tracked, so forth and so on.
29:50
Speaker 2: So that's how people are doing it. They're doing it illegally.
29:53
Speaker 2: When you do it through the illegal sources, you always
29:55
Speaker 2: have to worry about will I get paid? Will it
29:57
Speaker 2: go under? Will it just disappear into Internet vi will
30:00
Speaker 2: will they be hacked and lose their all that stuff,
30:02
Speaker 2: which you wouldn't worry about about a company that's sitting
30:04
Speaker 2: here in Milwaukee. Anyway, My take on this is if
30:07
Speaker 2: they are going to go forward and allow online sports
30:10
Speaker 2: betting by the tribes in Wisconsin, the state has to
30:12
Speaker 2: get a better cut of the money than they're getting
30:14
Speaker 2: under current law. All right. Next, I actually think even
30:23
Speaker 2: though this has been covered to death, most people are
30:25
Speaker 2: not aware of the following. The East West Freeway project
30:32
Speaker 2: is going to take seven years it starts in three
30:36
Speaker 2: weeks roughly, it's starting in November. I just think people
30:41
Speaker 2: aren't that aware of it. I want to give you
30:43
Speaker 2: some background here. The East West Freeway is the widening
30:47
Speaker 2: of Interstate ninety four East West portion I ninety four.
30:51
Speaker 2: You know it curves, it goes south towards Chicago. I'm
30:55
Speaker 2: talking the portion that runs from downtown Milwaukee to the
30:58
Speaker 2: Waukeshaw County line West. There is a gap in the
31:03
Speaker 2: middle of it in which the freeway has three lanes
31:05
Speaker 2: in each direction that is being widened to four. It's
31:10
Speaker 2: four west of seventy sixth Street and four east of
31:14
Speaker 2: the stadium. Why does this clog exist? Brief background, It
31:19
Speaker 2: was the reconstruction of the two major highway interchanges in
31:23
Speaker 2: the city of Milwaukee number of years ago. The Marquette
31:26
Speaker 2: Interchange was rebuilt. Boy, that seems like a long time ago.
31:29
Speaker 2: All these things that happened like fifteen years after I
31:32
Speaker 2: got here, and now I say it's a long time ago.
31:33
Speaker 2: It makes me realize that I've been working it forever.
31:36
Speaker 2: When the Marquette Interchange was rebuilt, it fed into four
31:40
Speaker 2: lanes of I ninety four East West, so they created
31:43
Speaker 2: an additional lane then, but it stopped a little bit
31:46
Speaker 2: paid between thirty fifth Street and the ballpark. Likewise, the
31:50
Speaker 2: other big project done several years later. I think the
31:55
Speaker 2: Marquette Interchange was done in the Doyle era. It might
31:57
Speaker 2: have even gone back to Tommy Thompson, but the Zoo
32:01
Speaker 2: Interchange happened under Walker. The Zoo Interchange. Here's the next one,
32:06
Speaker 2: Paul Daft explain with the Zoo Interchange is, yes, it's
32:11
Speaker 2: the one by the Zoo. Yeah, it's the one on
32:14
Speaker 2: the west side of Milwaukee County, middle of you know,
32:18
Speaker 2: it's what the freeways come together. I forty one goes north,
32:21
Speaker 2: eight ninety four goes south, and ninety four goes east west.
32:24
Speaker 2: They all come together. When the Zoo Interchange was rebuilt again.
32:30
Speaker 2: You it fed out four lanes for the city of Milwaukee,
32:34
Speaker 2: but it stops, as I said, at seventy sixth Street.
32:37
Speaker 2: So you got this plug in the middle, and as
32:40
Speaker 2: anybody knows, during the rush hours, that's where it jams
32:43
Speaker 2: up because you're feeding four lanes into three in both directions.
32:46
Speaker 2: Slows down. So they're finally got to redo it and
32:48
Speaker 2: it's gonna four lanes in each direction. First point of
32:50
Speaker 2: this another indication of how long I've been here. I'm
32:55
Speaker 2: guessing that for this is my I'm in my thirty
32:58
Speaker 2: sixty year here on the air or online. For most
33:02
Speaker 2: of those years, the lefties in Milwaukee have opposed widening
33:05
Speaker 2: the freeway. I'm ready my newspaper colub about this, and
33:08
Speaker 2: I use a to me humorous reference. It may be
33:11
Speaker 2: funny to nobody else, but it's very funny to be
33:12
Speaker 2: which is all that matters. So I'm going to say
33:14
Speaker 2: it to here online as well. You all know who
33:15
Speaker 2: Bruce Murphy is, right, well, you all don't, but Paul
33:18
Speaker 2: knows who Bruce Murfy is. I think Bruce Murphy's gone
33:20
Speaker 2: through five jobs doing this. I've had basically one and
33:23
Speaker 2: sort of two counting this, even though it's the same employer.
33:26
Speaker 2: He's like the was the leader of the lefty opposed
33:29
Speaker 2: widening the freeway thing, and he'd battle me, and I'd
33:33
Speaker 2: battle him. And he's still around at something and I'm
33:35
Speaker 2: still here. The lefties just stopped opposing widening the freeway.
33:42
Speaker 2: I've always told you with regard to the left, they're
33:46
Speaker 2: always proven wrong. But when they're proven wrong, they just
33:49
Speaker 2: shut up and ignore it and move on to the
33:51
Speaker 2: next thing. Do you know who signed the authorization to
33:55
Speaker 2: wide nine ninety four evers one of them? And there
34:00
Speaker 2: wasn't people protest, so they finally just got on. And
34:04
Speaker 2: I think maybe they were worn down by Walker when
34:07
Speaker 2: he did the Zoo interchange getting the first mile and
34:10
Speaker 2: a half to four lanes coming toward Milwaukee. And likewise
34:14
Speaker 2: when they did the Marquette interchange to feed the first
34:17
Speaker 2: four they've got it to four lanes on each end.
34:20
Speaker 2: So this bottleneck of about forty blocks in between they've
34:23
Speaker 2: just given up on. In any event, there is a
34:31
Speaker 2: template for how this will work. How long have you
34:34
Speaker 2: been bitching about how long it was taking them to
34:36
Speaker 2: finish Eye forty three years? Because that's how long it was.
34:41
Speaker 2: It's almost done. It's almost done. That's what they're going
34:46
Speaker 2: to attempt to do here. With a slight difference. They're
34:49
Speaker 2: going to try to keep the freeway open. And when
34:52
Speaker 2: they did I forty three, what they basically did was
34:55
Speaker 2: create two really narrow lanes with I don't even know
34:59
Speaker 2: what the term is you can up with, but the
35:00
Speaker 2: concrete medium built right up against that. There's no shoulder.
35:03
Speaker 2: In other words, it's right up against the lane, so
35:05
Speaker 2: they were able to do the winding but keep at
35:08
Speaker 2: least two lanes moving in each direction. But they were
35:10
Speaker 2: really narrow lanes and they s and zigged and zag.
35:13
Speaker 2: It was all s curves all over the place. But
35:15
Speaker 2: they did keep them open. It was just a slow slog.
35:19
Speaker 2: That's what they will attempt to do here. But the
35:20
Speaker 2: one difference is on the east west ninety four. They're
35:24
Speaker 2: going to do it one at a time. They're going
35:26
Speaker 2: to do westbound first and that's going to take three
35:31
Speaker 2: and a half years, and then in twenty twenty nine
35:35
Speaker 2: they'll do eastbound. So as I understand it, there won't
35:39
Speaker 2: be a lot of activity. There may be some because
35:41
Speaker 2: the construction of them's got to move over, but mostly
35:44
Speaker 2: eastbound will be clear. The westbound, however, starting in this
35:48
Speaker 2: period that we're in, they're going to restrict the lanes,
35:51
Speaker 2: and as I say, it's going to be a traffic
35:53
Speaker 2: nightmare forever and ever and ever. In the process, a
35:56
Speaker 2: lot of the interchanges will be closed because they're going
35:58
Speaker 2: to be expanded, rebuilt in the whole thing, and so on.
36:02
Speaker 2: So this is when I used all these cliches in
36:04
Speaker 2: my column, like no pain, no pain, no gain. This
36:08
Speaker 2: is the pains you get the gain of the whole thing.
36:10
Speaker 2: And the problem with it happened now it's obvious they
36:12
Speaker 2: should have been done in the nineteen nineties because, as
36:14
Speaker 2: I said, traffic's going to keep Here's here was a
36:16
Speaker 2: simple prediction in nineteen ninety two. I said, Paul, there's
36:19
Speaker 2: going to be more traffic in the future. The lefties
36:22
Speaker 2: no there. This all goes back to Henry Meyer, who's
36:26
Speaker 2: been dead forever and buried somewhere wherever his last wife
36:29
Speaker 2: moved him to, like Georgia or whatever. Henry Meyer was
36:32
Speaker 2: one of these Democrats that actually was sort of conservative
36:35
Speaker 2: on a lot of things, but it was really backward
36:37
Speaker 2: and thinking with regard to seeing the future. And he thought,
36:40
Speaker 2: if he built the freeways, everybody's going to move to
36:41
Speaker 2: the suburbs. What happened is everybody moved to the suburbs anyway,
36:45
Speaker 2: but they never had to come back to the city
36:47
Speaker 2: because there's the freeways. So they're finally doing this one
36:51
Speaker 2: because I think they've not one of them has ever
36:53
Speaker 2: admitted we needed to widen the freeway. But they're suddenly
36:56
Speaker 2: just doing it and not bitching anymore. But here's how
36:58
Speaker 2: dumb they are. So now they're starting this what they
37:00
Speaker 2: want to do. They want to knock down another one.
37:03
Speaker 2: They knocked down seven ninety four, so it's not like
37:07
Speaker 2: they ever learned they're incapable of arding. But the East
37:11
Speaker 2: West Project, I think this thing is gonna starts, going
37:14
Speaker 2: to go on for years, and I swear there are
37:16
Speaker 2: people who just don't know that it's gonna happen. But
37:19
Speaker 2: it's not because of lack of news covers. There's been
37:21
Speaker 2: zillions of stories. But I do have hope. I think
37:27
Speaker 2: they did the forty three project well. As Paul said,
37:30
Speaker 2: it took forever, but other than Knights, I don't think
37:33
Speaker 2: they ever totally closed it, meaning you had limited lanes
37:36
Speaker 2: that you could still move through and so on. But
37:40
Speaker 2: this is it. Yes, that's the forty one forty five
37:47
Speaker 2: north of the Zoo Interchange, north of North Avenue. That's
37:50
Speaker 2: the they tried to tie that into the Zoo Interchange.
37:54
Speaker 2: But that's simply the continuing as they go farther north,
37:57
Speaker 2: and that's what they're I remember when Scott Walker was
38:00
Speaker 2: running for reelection in twenty eighteen, let he remember he
38:03
Speaker 2: declared that the Zoo Interchange project was dead, and the
38:06
Speaker 2: Judo tried to claim, no, it was it because this
38:08
Speaker 2: thing by Mayfair, well that wasn't in it. That's that's beyond.
38:11
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't say that the Zoo Energy, if
38:13
Speaker 2: they do some work at Slinger, that that was part
38:15
Speaker 2: of the zoo interchange. Well, that's what it's going to be.
38:20
Speaker 2: They're widening as needed to happen forever and ever and
38:23
Speaker 2: ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. In
38:25
Speaker 2: so anyway, that's about to start. Here's another story that
38:30
Speaker 2: I just have to do. The city of Milwaukee for
38:33
Speaker 2: some reason. Well it's actually hard to figure out what
38:36
Speaker 2: the reason was. They elected this. I'm trying to think
38:42
Speaker 2: of the appropriate term to describe. I'll come up with
38:44
Speaker 2: a benign term. Tierman Spencer's a piece of work. He
38:48
Speaker 2: was voted in by the City of Milwaukee voters to
38:50
Speaker 2: be city attorney. They threw out Grant Langley, who was
38:52
Speaker 2: a great city attorney, I mean, and they put in
38:55
Speaker 2: Tierman Spencer. And there was nothing but bleep ever since.
38:58
Speaker 2: Harassment of employee, he's sexual and otherwise this that, and
39:02
Speaker 2: it was just one scandal after another after another after another.
39:05
Speaker 2: Well he's not he's been he was voted out of office.
39:07
Speaker 2: Evan Goiki beat him. He's facing criminal charges of misconduct
39:11
Speaker 2: for the actions he committed a city attorney, and now
39:14
Speaker 2: there's a whole new series of criminal charges against him.
39:18
Speaker 2: The way this was discovered is kind of hilarious. In
39:22
Speaker 2: investigating the earlier deals that Kairman was involved, and they
39:25
Speaker 2: got a search warrant for his phone, so they get
39:30
Speaker 2: his phone, but you believe that they found new crimes
39:33
Speaker 2: on the phone. Apparently Kirman I hear this is common
39:39
Speaker 2: in the shady parts of the world. Your wife's involved
39:41
Speaker 2: in real estate, she may have heard of some of
39:43
Speaker 2: these deals. Property goes into probate. Well, anyway, there's a
39:48
Speaker 2: property that went into probate, and often in a probate,
39:52
Speaker 2: what's the term for the person in charge of overseeing
39:55
Speaker 2: the probate. It's not administrator, executor. Often the executor doesn't
40:00
Speaker 2: have a financial stake involved. Sometimes they do, sometimes it's
40:03
Speaker 2: a relative, but usually they don't. All right, there was
40:06
Speaker 2: a property that was when it a probate, the executor
40:12
Speaker 2: cut a deal allegedly this is all alleged with Tierman
40:15
Speaker 2: Spencer to sell the property for eight thousand dollars. What
40:20
Speaker 2: do you think the property is really worth. Pick a guess.
40:25
Speaker 2: We know what it was worth because they flipped it
40:29
Speaker 2: quarter of a million. So they're investigating this deal and
40:33
Speaker 2: so on, and apparently they found the stuff on Tireman's phone,
40:37
Speaker 2: and now Tireman's original trial for the stuff that he
40:40
Speaker 2: did when in the city office is being postponed because
40:42
Speaker 2: they want to tie the two cases together. So Tureman
40:45
Speaker 2: is just I think Tierman's goal here is to simply
40:48
Speaker 2: die before he goes to trial, to run the table
40:50
Speaker 2: out as long as he possibly can, and he's probably
40:52
Speaker 2: figured it's actually to my benefit that I did all
40:55
Speaker 2: these different things, because every time they find a new one,
40:57
Speaker 2: they'll push it back a year and a half to
40:59
Speaker 2: charge me with that. So when they got into the
41:02
Speaker 2: phone and they found out that one of the lawyers
41:04
Speaker 2: for the estate was actually Lena Taylor, who's now a
41:07
Speaker 2: Milwaukee County judge, and she spilled the beans when they
41:10
Speaker 2: asked her about it, She saved all the text messages,
41:12
Speaker 2: turned it over, and no Germans in more trouble than
41:15
Speaker 2: real Quickly this I've been pointing this out for some time.
41:18
Speaker 2: These two year campuses that the University of Wisconsin system runs.
41:21
Speaker 2: They're all eventually going to close. They serve no purpose.
41:24
Speaker 2: The UW systems hemorrhaging enrollment, everything other than the Madison
41:28
Speaker 2: campus because of all the things you discussed in the past,
41:30
Speaker 2: declining birth rate and so on, and the two year
41:33
Speaker 2: campuses which are now all affiliated with four year campuses
41:36
Speaker 2: that redundant. There's one in Baraboo. You know where Baraboo is. No,
41:42
Speaker 2: you keep your hearts so wrong about you said whenever
41:45
Speaker 2: you heat whenever. He hasn't heard of a city. He says,
41:47
Speaker 2: way up north. You do it every now by the Dells.
41:50
Speaker 2: The Dells is not up north the Dells. Now, see,
41:55
Speaker 2: I grew up in the Fox Valley. People think that's
41:57
Speaker 2: up north. I everybody whoever, wherever you live, you think
42:00
Speaker 2: farther north than you was up north. My line is
42:03
Speaker 2: north of Warsaw is considered up north. Some would go
42:05
Speaker 2: a little bitself to that. Barable is right for the Dells.
42:08
Speaker 2: In fact, that's what the big ho Chunk casino is.
42:11
Speaker 2: It's just up the road. The Barable campus is actually
42:15
Speaker 2: affiliated with UW Plattfill. What they did is they took
42:17
Speaker 2: all the two year campuses and fed them into a
42:19
Speaker 2: four year school and now uw platfil says we want
42:22
Speaker 2: to close the barable thing. Nobody goes there, doesn't serve
42:24
Speaker 2: any purpose. And so as I say this is going
42:26
Speaker 2: to continue to happen, they're eventually all going to be gone.
42:29
Speaker 2: And it's happening at the same time that many of
42:32
Speaker 2: the small private four year colleges are in real trouble.
42:36
Speaker 2: You take a look at the enrollment numbers over the
42:38
Speaker 2: last twenty years, some of them are I mean, Concordia's
42:41
Speaker 2: in trouble. I think you know a stretch already closed.
42:46
Speaker 2: I have to wonder about Elberto. It's enrollment. It's just
42:50
Speaker 2: all of them. Well, that's what I'm saying. That the
42:54
Speaker 2: kind of the birth rate, there's just fewer to go.
42:56
Speaker 2: And the second thing that's happening is, as I say,
42:58
Speaker 2: there are so many people who learn them stake of
43:00
Speaker 2: the millennials in that there are a lot of careers
43:02
Speaker 2: that you can pursue that don't require for year college.
43:03
Speaker 2: We we're going to like a lot more getting specialized
43:06
Speaker 2: training in the trade that you're in. We covered a
43:09
Speaker 2: lot of it a good segment here, So therefore I
43:13
Speaker 2: think it's time to do another segment. This is the
43:15
Speaker 2: Marked Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast for
43:22
Speaker 2: those of you that are kind of new to me
43:24
Speaker 2: because you found me in podcast world. One of the
43:27
Speaker 2: things that I've tried to do over the years is
43:31
Speaker 2: pick up on societal trends before everybody else has. That
43:37
Speaker 2: means sometimes you get be wrong. So maybe I will
43:41
Speaker 2: be wrong about this, but I don't think I am.
43:43
Speaker 2: I think the trans thing has peaked. That wouldn't be
43:48
Speaker 2: all that surprising. Almost anything that young people anymore get
43:56
Speaker 2: into becomes fad. Like me, it goes some zero to
44:01
Speaker 2: huge in no time at all, and it tends to
44:06
Speaker 2: fade almost as quickly. The trans thing has happened so fast.
44:13
Speaker 2: You went from virtually nobody being trans and just a
44:17
Speaker 2: general acceptance that it's a decision for adults to make
44:21
Speaker 2: a free will to pumping. I mean, I wonder how
44:27
Speaker 2: many schools at all don't have a single kid that's
44:30
Speaker 2: on puberty blockers or other steroids. Kids right and left
44:34
Speaker 2: being pumped filled with hormones of the opposite gender in
44:39
Speaker 2: order to scolp their own hormonal growth and move them
44:42
Speaker 2: to other areas. Boys having their penises chopped off twelve
44:47
Speaker 2: and thirteen year old girls having mistectomies. It's happened at
44:52
Speaker 2: warp speed. I think it is sick, barbaric, unconscionable, immoral,
45:02
Speaker 2: and it will ruin the lives of many who've done it.
45:05
Speaker 2: I also think it's fat, like everybody just got into it.
45:10
Speaker 2: There is an overwhelming backlash against it. By the way,
45:14
Speaker 2: the elections for new governors of New Jersey and Virginia Republic.
45:18
Speaker 2: Those are both Democratic states. The Republican candidates are hammering
45:21
Speaker 2: on the trans policies that the Democratic candidates support, you know,
45:25
Speaker 2: letting a biological males play in girls sports so forth,
45:28
Speaker 2: you know, having schools pumped, the puberty blockers and a
45:30
Speaker 2: children and so on. And a lot of moderates join
45:34
Speaker 2: on the Republican side on this because people just inherently
45:36
Speaker 2: know that it's rowing anyway, as it peaked. There's an
45:40
Speaker 2: interesting story that appeared to the Epic Times over the weekend,
45:43
Speaker 2: and it was based on a report done by Cast Review,
45:48
Speaker 2: which is surveying the attitudes of young people, and it
45:50
Speaker 2: showed that for the first time in the last several years,
45:54
Speaker 2: that identification as trans dropped in the past year among
45:57
Speaker 2: young Americans. In other words, the percentage of young Americans
46:01
Speaker 2: describe themselves broadly as trans last, after growing for about
46:05
Speaker 2: ten years in a row, actually declined a bit last year.
46:09
Speaker 2: I think a just about everybody who is going to
46:12
Speaker 2: do it may already have done it. B many of
46:16
Speaker 2: them have now seen several years worth of how there
46:18
Speaker 2: is deep regret among the people that have done it,
46:22
Speaker 2: and s I think some of the parents who naively
46:26
Speaker 2: embraced this, and I believe it's child abuse, abuse of
46:30
Speaker 2: their children by taking kids who are not in a
46:32
Speaker 2: position to make any permanent life altering decision about anything,
46:36
Speaker 2: much less their biological makeup. Our recognizing that what they're
46:43
Speaker 2: doing here is horribly wrong, and when you're seeing so
46:47
Speaker 2: many of these people who've done the shift killing themselves
46:49
Speaker 2: and being more depressed than ever because what they've done
46:52
Speaker 2: is irreversible. My belief is that this thing is it's
46:58
Speaker 2: going to be like the opposition to widening the freeway.
47:01
Speaker 2: At some point, it's just going to end, and the
47:02
Speaker 2: Left is simply going to divorce itself from the fact
47:05
Speaker 2: that they were ever in favor of this thing. The
47:07
Speaker 2: big turning point is going to be when the lawsuits
47:09
Speaker 2: start coming again. Some of these butcher shops like Children's
47:12
Speaker 2: hospital from people now five, six, seven years later whose
47:15
Speaker 2: lives are ruined that they had this stuff pushed upon
47:18
Speaker 2: them when they were young, and so on. And once
47:20
Speaker 2: they're the insurance companies realize they're going to lose a
47:23
Speaker 2: fortune on some of these cons The next other thing
47:26
Speaker 2: that's going to happen is I think you will see
47:29
Speaker 2: children when they become adults turn around and sue their
47:31
Speaker 2: parents but not giving them proper guidances, not stopping them
47:34
Speaker 2: from ruining their lives, and it's the best thing that
47:35
Speaker 2: they can do. I believe letting your child do this
47:38
Speaker 2: is a lot worse than spanking them on the butt
47:40
Speaker 2: or the other things that can get you into trouble
47:42
Speaker 2: for child abuse. Anyway, this story for the first time,
47:46
Speaker 2: and many now again. This is one source. One study,
47:48
Speaker 2: cass re View. It's said that identification as trans actually
47:52
Speaker 2: dropped in the last twelve months, ending a ten year
47:56
Speaker 2: trend in the opposite direction. Next story. You may not
48:02
Speaker 2: have picked up on this with all the talk and
48:03
Speaker 2: the government shutdown and so on, but over the last
48:06
Speaker 2: several days, Trump has focused on the illegal activities of Obama.
48:15
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, Telsey Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, issued
48:21
Speaker 2: an ominous statement, what the focus here is on the
48:26
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen document that became the basis for the Russia
48:32
Speaker 2: collusion investigation. We now know that the document was fake,
48:37
Speaker 2: that there was nothing accurate to it. However, the overwhelming
48:42
Speaker 2: indication is that the idea behind all of this came
48:44
Speaker 2: not only from the Obama team but Obama himself. For
48:49
Speaker 2: all the talk of the left of threat to democracy,
48:52
Speaker 2: trying to rig the results of an election by taking
48:57
Speaker 2: a document and starting a criminal invent instigation into it
49:00
Speaker 2: when you know that it is false, it's the ultimate
49:03
Speaker 2: rigging of an election. Here's Tulsea Gabbert's statement, and admittedly
49:11
Speaker 2: she's got her own agenda here. Who is the Democratic
49:16
Speaker 2: candidate in twenty sixteen, Paul Hillary Clinton, who was one
49:23
Speaker 2: of her rivals in the primary, Telsey Gabbard, who was
49:29
Speaker 2: the candidate for president, who called Tulsea Gabbard a Russian
49:32
Speaker 2: asset during the primary debates, Hillary Clinton Telsea Gabbard quote
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Speaker 2: Barack Hussein Obama attempted to overthrow the constitutional Republic of
49:42
Speaker 2: the United States in twenty sixteen as part of a
49:45
Speaker 2: treasonous conspiracy overthrew it in twenty twenty to cover it up,
49:49
Speaker 2: and now he's been caught. A report asks, and this
49:53
Speaker 2: is from Gabbard on her own posting on x does
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Speaker 2: New Info implicate President Obama in criminal behavi When you
50:01
Speaker 2: look at the intent behind creating a fake, manufactured intelligence
50:06
Speaker 2: document that directly contradicts multiple assessments created by the intelligence community,
50:12
Speaker 2: the expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be
50:16
Speaker 2: described as a year's long coup and a treasonous conspiracy
50:21
Speaker 2: against the American people, our republic, and the Trump administration.
50:29
Speaker 2: Not a political story from Wisconsin. This week, Eric Tony's
50:33
Speaker 2: going to declare his candidacy for attorney general. I haven't
50:35
Speaker 2: heard of any other Republican running. That means you're going
50:38
Speaker 2: to have a repeat. Josh Call wanted to be the governor.
50:41
Speaker 2: The Democrats told him, you can't run for governor. He's
50:43
Speaker 2: going to run for reelection as attorney general. So I
50:45
Speaker 2: think you're gonna see Eric Tony against Josh Call again
50:48
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. Now here's the thing about that election.
50:51
Speaker 2: It's going to break exactly the way the governor's race
50:53
Speaker 2: breaks in twenty twenty two. The vote that Tony Evers
50:59
Speaker 2: got over Tim Michaels was identical to the vote that
51:02
Speaker 2: Josh Call got over Eric Tony. There was no ticket splitting,
51:08
Speaker 2: And I think that that's just generally a trend that
51:10
Speaker 2: now goes on in our elections because it has to
51:12
Speaker 2: do with who turns out enough of their people. If
51:14
Speaker 2: the Republicans can beat the Democratic candidate for governor, my
51:18
Speaker 2: guess is it's going to be Sarah Rodriguez. Many disagree
51:21
Speaker 2: with me on that. My guess is the Republican's going
51:23
Speaker 2: to be Tom Tiffany. Too early to say for certain.
51:26
Speaker 2: Somebody could still jump in. If the Republicans win that election.
51:30
Speaker 2: I think that they can win the attorney general seat.
51:32
Speaker 2: If the Democrats keep the governorship, they're probably going to
51:34
Speaker 2: keep the Attorney generalship, meaning Josh Call is going to
51:37
Speaker 2: have that job for eight hundred and fifty thousand, million
51:40
Speaker 2: zillion come billion years. All right, Next, the term guilty pleasure.
51:46
Speaker 2: You've heard that term, right. What would you consider a
51:49
Speaker 2: guilty pleasure? I mean, I don't mean an example, I mean,
51:52
Speaker 2: how would you define a guilty pleasure? That's a good
51:59
Speaker 2: example enjoying something that you might be embarrassed to tell
52:02
Speaker 2: others about. An example of this from pop culture was
52:05
Speaker 2: the song Sugar Sugar by the Archies. The Archies weren't
52:08
Speaker 2: even a bad it was just a huge hit on
52:10
Speaker 2: the sixties. I thought I never liked it even as
52:12
Speaker 2: a kid. I thought it was shlocky and terrible. It
52:15
Speaker 2: was just a bubblegum song. But some people thought it
52:17
Speaker 2: was catchy. In this you know it it was. Nobody
52:19
Speaker 2: ever would say this song is an example of a
52:21
Speaker 2: great rock and roll song, but it was just that
52:24
Speaker 2: a guilty pleasure. There are other likes. Sometimes there's a
52:26
Speaker 2: fluffy TV show or soap operas. They're often called guilty pleasures.
52:31
Speaker 2: Pauls's watching a Hallmark will be guilty. Like, nobody's gonna
52:34
Speaker 2: claim this is like great drama, but it kind of
52:35
Speaker 2: entertains you, and so on, And there's million examples of
52:38
Speaker 2: I have this fits the definition, but in a completely
52:44
Speaker 2: different way. How do you define it something you enjoyed
52:47
Speaker 2: doing with her embarrasus to tell others it was my
52:50
Speaker 2: guilty pleasure. And again I'm not comparing this to the
52:52
Speaker 2: Sugar Sugar or the bubblegum stuff. It's actually extremely creative
52:57
Speaker 2: and telliative stuff. But there's a reason it's a guilty
52:59
Speaker 2: pressure for me. My guilty pleasure is the Violent Felms. Now,
53:02
Speaker 2: the reason I would describe it as a guilty pleasure
53:04
Speaker 2: is I clearly do not fit in their fan base.
53:08
Speaker 2: When you think of the Violent Femmes fan base, you
53:10
Speaker 2: don't think of me, do you tattoo it? Kind of
53:14
Speaker 2: like the people that were marching in the in the
53:17
Speaker 2: No Kings. Anyway, the Violent Fems concluded the tour at
53:21
Speaker 2: the Riverside on Thursday night. I did not go because
53:24
Speaker 2: A I just think that every other fan they don't
53:27
Speaker 2: want me there and so on. But also I saw
53:30
Speaker 2: the schedule the Brewers are going to be playing in
53:32
Speaker 2: their playoff game, as it turns out, just to soon
53:35
Speaker 2: not see that anyway, but I didn't go. But anyway,
53:38
Speaker 2: the Violent Fems, they're still it's still the same group altogether,
53:42
Speaker 2: other than Victor de Lorenzo, who either quit or was
53:45
Speaker 2: kicked out. Like right after they made it fag and
53:49
Speaker 2: then after they made it big, they were at a
53:50
Speaker 2: brief period in which they had all of their hits,
53:52
Speaker 2: and then they stayed around forever and ever and ever. Now, see,
53:55
Speaker 2: you're a drummer, you probably don't understand the brilliance of
53:57
Speaker 2: Victor Deala Renzo do you well? Do you acknowledge his
54:03
Speaker 2: brilliance as a drummer? What you do? Okay?
54:07
Speaker 1: Now?
54:08
Speaker 2: And I hate to say that because there's been a
54:10
Speaker 2: guy that's been in the They had two or three
54:12
Speaker 2: drummers since then, and one guy has been in for
54:13
Speaker 2: like twelve fifteen years ever since then. But when they
54:16
Speaker 2: did American Music, which I think has a great drum
54:19
Speaker 2: solo inited, I don't like drum solos per se, but
54:22
Speaker 2: it's just a great part. Anyway, the violent films, I've
54:29
Speaker 2: been working on this thing. Every now and then I'll
54:31
Speaker 2: post something like I put on billing dot com my
54:33
Speaker 2: list of the best Mafia movies of all time, which
54:37
Speaker 2: I think we took that down, Paul. It might be
54:39
Speaker 2: in the archives. But anyway, I kept getting blowback from
54:42
Speaker 2: people who do not understand the English language, or this case,
54:45
Speaker 2: the Italian language. They kept suggesting I was omitting, and
54:49
Speaker 2: then they named these mob movies that weren't mafia movies.
54:51
Speaker 2: I didn't say mob movie, I said mafia. The Mafia
54:54
Speaker 2: is the Italian mob. So there are movies like That
54:57
Speaker 2: Departed and so on that I didn't have on the
54:59
Speaker 2: list because that was at the Italian Mob. Who's a
55:01
Speaker 2: mob movie? Anyway, I'm doing this thing of the best
55:05
Speaker 2: songs ever done by a Wisconsin band or musician, and
55:09
Speaker 2: I'm working on this thing, but part of the problem
55:12
Speaker 2: is it's not always clear if the artist is from Wisconsin.
55:17
Speaker 2: For example, I'd like to claim Cheap Trick of in Wisconsin,
55:21
Speaker 2: but they're not. I think they spent more time playing
55:24
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee than any other city, and when they were emerging,
55:26
Speaker 2: they sort of were in Milwaukee. But they're from milanois
55:28
Speaker 2: most they're from Illinois. You know, they're from Rockford. So
55:31
Speaker 2: I would say no, and then you'll have like going
55:35
Speaker 2: back from the past, Les Paul, who's some Waukeshaw but
55:39
Speaker 2: like go On when he was seventeen and like hardly
55:41
Speaker 2: ever came back. Admittedly, it's a close call as to
55:45
Speaker 2: a tough call. Sometimes, For example, I would say Algio
55:49
Speaker 2: is a Milwaukee musician because he not only was from here,
55:51
Speaker 2: but came back and maintained of residence at least part
55:53
Speaker 2: time forever and ever and ever. So I'm working on
55:57
Speaker 2: this list of greatest songs of all time from Wisconsin.
56:01
Speaker 2: Artists that I'm refining it and working through it and
56:04
Speaker 2: so on. But I would argue that the Violent Fems
56:08
Speaker 2: are the greatest band from Wisconsin. The problem with that
56:12
Speaker 2: is the same era that they were in was the Bodines,
56:16
Speaker 2: and the Bodings are close. The Bodians have since broken up,
56:18
Speaker 2: and all but one of the members of the Violent
56:20
Speaker 2: Fems are still together. And then there's you know, you
56:22
Speaker 2: can go into this debate about all the others as
56:25
Speaker 2: to whether they are or they are not. I just
56:31
Speaker 2: the Violent Fems had one thing that made them well known,
56:34
Speaker 2: and it had to do with timing. The Violent Fems
56:37
Speaker 2: were big in the eighties. What happened this is a
56:41
Speaker 2: hard one. The answer. There's one thing that particularly happened
56:44
Speaker 2: in the music business in the eighties. Well, one big
56:49
Speaker 2: thing that changed everything. MTV. The eighties were the era
56:58
Speaker 2: and the music video. The Violent Fems made great videos
57:02
Speaker 2: and they were on MTV constantly. So while their music
57:06
Speaker 2: was kind of not real mainstreamy, some people have called
57:09
Speaker 2: them punk. I don't think you can categorize them to
57:11
Speaker 2: this day. I don't think that there's another band of
57:13
Speaker 2: the world that sounds like the Violent Friends. They had
57:15
Speaker 2: some soundings of like punk bands like the Ramones and
57:18
Speaker 2: no Horns and now Organs and no keyboards. Really it
57:21
Speaker 2: was a very very you know, sparse isn't the right word,
57:24
Speaker 2: but roots is the term. I hear hear a lot
57:26
Speaker 2: for bands like that, but some they spent a lot
57:31
Speaker 2: of time on their videos in like the video of
57:33
Speaker 2: American music is just on YouTube. It's in the zillions
57:36
Speaker 2: and zillions and zillions of views and so on. Anyway,
57:41
Speaker 2: I just think that, I mean, it's an unusual Everything
57:46
Speaker 2: about that band is unusual, starting with the fact that
57:49
Speaker 2: their vocalist is a Mormon and he's still a Mormon.
57:54
Speaker 2: Name all the rock stars off the top of your
57:56
Speaker 2: head that are Mormon's. Paul Gordon a Mormon. That's interesting.
58:05
Speaker 2: I've never heard of a single Mormon that's like a
58:08
Speaker 2: radical lefty, so like maybe he's more in line with
58:11
Speaker 2: where we are and all of that. And anyway, they
58:15
Speaker 2: had a concert at the Riverside. The review at Pete
58:18
Speaker 2: Levy and on js online is very positive and says
58:21
Speaker 2: all the things that a guy like me would say. And
58:23
Speaker 2: they played like a lot of bands will do this.
58:25
Speaker 2: They played one of their albums from entirety and then
58:27
Speaker 2: after that they came back of the second intermission and
58:30
Speaker 2: did all other big hits. The great debate is what's
58:33
Speaker 2: their best song, and they have a lot of them,
58:35
Speaker 2: but a lot of people like Listener in the Sun
58:38
Speaker 2: and Paul said, it's hard to play on the Well,
58:41
Speaker 2: that's why Victor was such. He's just fast and he'd
58:46
Speaker 2: a remarkable thing. And then there's American music. And when
58:50
Speaker 2: the Killers were in town this summer at Summerfest, and
58:52
Speaker 2: I contend the Killers are the best rock and roll
58:54
Speaker 2: band of the twenty first century, they covered American music
58:58
Speaker 2: by the Violin Fems. It's great. So anyway, the Violin
59:03
Speaker 2: Fems are at the riverside. It was the end of
59:04
Speaker 2: this tour that never tire of or anything. There's the
59:06
Speaker 2: band that I think is on their last tour. And
59:08
Speaker 2: another contender for greatest rock band from Wisconsin is Garbage.
59:12
Speaker 2: But that's a tough call because the singer for Garbage
59:15
Speaker 2: is not from Wisconsin, but the rest of the band is.
59:18
Speaker 2: And the genius behind the band Butch Vague, who almost
59:21
Speaker 2: really invented grunge rock. I mean he was tied into
59:24
Speaker 2: Pearl Jam and a lot of the others. You know
59:26
Speaker 2: he's the kind of like the guru of the band
59:30
Speaker 2: and so on, but surely answered the singers from Australia.
59:32
Speaker 2: I think Australia are somewhere down there. But I would
59:34
Speaker 2: consider them a Wisconsin band even though she's not, because
59:37
Speaker 2: everybody else in the band is. But you see where
59:40
Speaker 2: they're all close calls though, right, yeah, yeah, and they're
59:45
Speaker 2: all from Wisconsin. Other than than her, another band that
59:50
Speaker 2: I love that would be see. So my opinion, Violent
59:53
Speaker 2: Fems is a guilty pleasure for me because it would
59:55
Speaker 2: be embarrassing for me to admit it, even though guilty
59:58
Speaker 2: pleasures are normally the opposite of them, because Violent Felms
1:00:01
Speaker 2: is always a band. But like the critics loved, but
1:00:04
Speaker 2: they never had huge top forty hits other than as
1:00:06
Speaker 2: I say, they had this following because their videos were
1:00:09
Speaker 2: on MTV. Because the videos were Paul says, Gordon Lafe
1:00:13
Speaker 2: would be exactly guilty. That would be somebody. There are
1:00:17
Speaker 2: people who loved Gordon Laight, but I just was you
1:00:19
Speaker 2: were one of them, and I'm not. Gordon Liff was fine.
1:00:23
Speaker 2: I just think he recorded one of the worst songs
1:00:25
Speaker 2: in the history of the world and the wreck of
1:00:27
Speaker 2: the Edmin fitztrail is. I just think it's in the
1:00:29
Speaker 2: top five most terrible pieces of music ever recorded by
1:00:33
Speaker 2: the way way back in the old radio show days,
1:00:35
Speaker 2: back in the old radio shades show days, I did
1:00:37
Speaker 2: identify the worst song of all time, which is blind
1:00:39
Speaker 2: Man of the Bleachers, which Paul had not heard of.
1:00:41
Speaker 2: And then I had Paul listened up and said, oh
1:00:43
Speaker 2: my god, it is the worst song of all time.
1:00:46
Speaker 2: So this is like a reverse guilty pleasure. It wouldn't
1:00:48
Speaker 2: be a guilty pleasure for like everybody that's into music,
1:00:51
Speaker 2: but it would be considered one for anyway. The violent Felms.
1:00:59
Speaker 2: All right, the program is not over. We do need
1:01:06
Speaker 2: to assess something that happened that nobody paid any attention to,
1:01:10
Speaker 2: which is interesting. And then the I don't know that
1:01:14
Speaker 2: weird is the right word, but the thud that ended
1:01:17
Speaker 2: the Brewer season. That's next on the Mark Belling podcast.
1:01:23
Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. A lot of times
1:01:28
Speaker 2: things will soar in popularity sole late because of Netflix,
1:01:34
Speaker 2: Like there's a couple of you know, a lot of
1:01:36
Speaker 2: what Netflix does is they'll do like these true crime
1:01:39
Speaker 2: pieces and so on. And I think they have one
1:01:42
Speaker 2: on ed Geen that came out in the last few months,
1:01:45
Speaker 2: and I hear, I haven't watched it yet. I hear
1:01:48
Speaker 2: it's no good, but the youth Paul said it's not
1:01:51
Speaker 2: good anyway. The ed Gan was like a guy who's
1:01:53
Speaker 2: a weirdo murderer from Wisconsin in the fifties. Probably nobody
1:01:56
Speaker 2: outside of Wisconsin ever heard of Egg. Sometimes he's brought
1:01:59
Speaker 2: up because it was the movie Cycle as I think,
1:02:01
Speaker 2: loosely based on the very loosely based on Edging and
1:02:05
Speaker 2: so on. But now it's and everybody's now googling ed
1:02:07
Speaker 2: Green and so on because of the Netflix, saying and
1:02:09
Speaker 2: so on. Well, that's what happened to Formula one. Formula one,
1:02:12
Speaker 2: which is the dominant racing circuit probably in the world,
1:02:19
Speaker 2: had a couple of Netflix One was a series that
1:02:21
Speaker 2: I think one was a documentary done about it, and
1:02:24
Speaker 2: it really grew in popularity and a lot of people
1:02:26
Speaker 2: referenced it and so on. Forever and ever and ever,
1:02:29
Speaker 2: there were no Formula and races in America. Well there
1:02:31
Speaker 2: is one now. But even though Formula one has gotten
1:02:34
Speaker 2: like this new found appeal, especially among young people, because
1:02:37
Speaker 2: of the Netflix. One of the two United States races
1:02:41
Speaker 2: was held over the weekend, and I'm telling you it
1:02:42
Speaker 2: got no coverage at all, and I know why. It's
1:02:45
Speaker 2: at the wrong time of the year. Part of it
1:02:47
Speaker 2: is they have a geographic schedule. The two American races
1:02:50
Speaker 2: are in our fall. You're up just up against football,
1:02:55
Speaker 2: and it's in Texas, a football crazy state. It's in
1:02:58
Speaker 2: the city in Texas. You know, doesn't it has the
1:03:00
Speaker 2: University of Texas, but they have the formula and race.
1:03:02
Speaker 2: It's a course just outside of Austin and Max for
1:03:06
Speaker 2: Stopping one he's had a resurrection. The whole thing in
1:03:09
Speaker 2: Formula one is drivers don't win. Teams win. You know,
1:03:12
Speaker 2: they can't give the driver the name, but if the
1:03:14
Speaker 2: team is dominant, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
1:03:17
Speaker 2: In when for Stopping was on Red Bull, he couldn't
1:03:21
Speaker 2: do anything but win, and not another team anyway he
1:03:24
Speaker 2: won the race over the weekend. Is it's just up
1:03:26
Speaker 2: against American football and baseball is going on and everything,
1:03:29
Speaker 2: and it got very little mainstream media coverage. And as
1:03:32
Speaker 2: I say, I just think if you want that race
1:03:35
Speaker 2: in America to work, it needs to be in the
1:03:37
Speaker 2: summer where it doesn't have all this competition from football
1:03:41
Speaker 2: and so on. The other American race is the one
1:03:43
Speaker 2: that they run on the streets of Las Vegas, and
1:03:46
Speaker 2: that's coming up in I think two or three weeks.
1:03:49
Speaker 2: And again it's because of the circuit there. Okay, they're
1:03:51
Speaker 2: in America for one, they'll be in America for another.
1:03:55
Speaker 2: The race in Exus is on a course that they built.
1:03:58
Speaker 2: It's not streets, but the Vegas Race. It's up the
1:04:00
Speaker 2: strip and the whole the whole thing. The Brewers, I
1:04:06
Speaker 2: think two things. I think they just got worn out
1:04:10
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers finally became the Dodgers that were on paper.
1:04:13
Speaker 2: The weird thing about the Dodgers is they're like the
1:04:15
Speaker 2: one team in baseball that was healthier at the end
1:04:18
Speaker 2: of the year than they were all year. Most teams,
1:04:20
Speaker 2: like the Brewers, you're falling apart physically. The season's too long.
1:04:23
Speaker 2: Pitchers don't last well. The Dodgers pitchers all got hurt
1:04:26
Speaker 2: during the season, so they came in there's fresh as
1:04:30
Speaker 2: can be. Right now. Otani didn't even pitch the first
1:04:33
Speaker 2: part out of the season, still recovering from his injury.
1:04:35
Speaker 2: A couple of the other guys were hurt and missed
1:04:36
Speaker 2: much of the season, and they just had four great
1:04:41
Speaker 2: pitchers that were off and on, not that great or
1:04:43
Speaker 2: not even in commission during the season shut the Breweries
1:04:47
Speaker 2: down to nothing. But before you give them all the credit,
1:04:50
Speaker 2: the Achilles Seal of the Dodgers all year was an
1:04:52
Speaker 2: atrociously terrible bullpen, and that bullpen even got better. Before
1:04:56
Speaker 2: the Brewers series started. The Dodgers and Phillies play a
1:04:58
Speaker 2: fifteen inning game in which the Dodgers wi didn't give
1:05:00
Speaker 2: up a run to those innings, so they just peaked
1:05:03
Speaker 2: on themselves. The Brewers' best chance for a win was
1:05:05
Speaker 2: Game one, which I'm not knocking it forth, but if
1:05:08
Speaker 2: Brice ter rang lets that ball hit him, we would
1:05:10
Speaker 2: have won Game one. But I even that they wouldn't
1:05:11
Speaker 2: have won the series. And then they just I just
1:05:14
Speaker 2: thought that the pitching was worn out, held up as
1:05:16
Speaker 2: much as it could, and the bats all became dead.
1:05:19
Speaker 2: And that's what it is. And I just don't think
1:05:22
Speaker 2: anybody can grumble about this because you just recognize the
1:05:25
Speaker 2: Dodgers have peaked at the right time. And secondly, the
1:05:28
Speaker 2: Breweries completely overachieved, so that leaves us to look to
1:05:32
Speaker 2: the future for the Breweries and they just they for
1:05:36
Speaker 2: years have had the best farm system in baseball. They
1:05:38
Speaker 2: do a tremendous job of identifying players, and the greatest
1:05:42
Speaker 2: need is for another outfielder. Garrett Mitchell hopefully will be
1:05:45
Speaker 2: back and finally be healthy. They have infielders that are
1:05:48
Speaker 2: about a year away coming out out the Wazoo. In
1:05:51
Speaker 2: terms of pitching, Robert I always notice in the playoffs
1:05:54
Speaker 2: that there's a guy wait till next year with him.
1:05:57
Speaker 2: I remember when Abner u Reba came into a playoff
1:05:59
Speaker 2: game and through ninety. A couple of years before that,
1:06:01
Speaker 2: it was Trevor McGill who pitched like the eighth inning
1:06:03
Speaker 2: of a game that they were gonna lose at the
1:06:05
Speaker 2: end of it. In Gosser just he's going to be
1:06:08
Speaker 2: fully recovered from the major arm surgery that he had
1:06:12
Speaker 2: on next year and putting him in the starting rotation
1:06:14
Speaker 2: with Mizerowski, who did have a great postseason. The future,
1:06:18
Speaker 2: the future is right. Jesus Made is the infielder who's
1:06:21
Speaker 2: the next Jackson Curio. He's probably a full year away.
1:06:24
Speaker 2: He's only eighteen. But Luis Pinna, who's almost the same
1:06:28
Speaker 2: age and as another infielder, is almost as good. They
1:06:31
Speaker 2: got lots of guys and the future just seems bright
1:06:34
Speaker 2: forever because of the way they identify. The second thing
1:06:37
Speaker 2: is the Brewers are committed to the strategy of getting
1:06:40
Speaker 2: rid of guys a year before their contract is up.
1:06:43
Speaker 2: They will never be a team that stupidly signs guys
1:06:47
Speaker 2: to long term contracts after the thirty. The Dodgers can
1:06:50
Speaker 2: afford too because they have unlimited money, but the other
1:06:53
Speaker 2: teams that can afford too it never works for them.
1:06:55
Speaker 2: Look at the Angels. The Mets fell apart this year.
1:07:01
Speaker 2: They aren't going to succeed until they develop all of
1:07:03
Speaker 2: their own players. The Yankees have done a pretty good
1:07:05
Speaker 2: job of developing their players, but they often trade them
1:07:08
Speaker 2: away for big time players and so on. I do
1:07:11
Speaker 2: believe that we've seen Freddy parolt To pitch his last
1:07:14
Speaker 2: game as a Brewer. He had the team. There's a
1:07:16
Speaker 2: team option that the Brewers have on Parolta which they
1:07:19
Speaker 2: will pick up, and I think that they will trade him,
1:07:22
Speaker 2: and the same people who grumbled when Corbyn Burns was
1:07:25
Speaker 2: traded will grumble that trade worked out spectacularly well for
1:07:29
Speaker 2: the Brewers. The same people that grumbled when Devin Williams
1:07:32
Speaker 2: has traded a trade that worked out spectacularly. Well, you
1:07:35
Speaker 2: need to get rid of these guys when you can
1:07:37
Speaker 2: still get something back for them. When they start approaching
1:07:40
Speaker 2: that witching hour of thirty in which lots of guys
1:07:43
Speaker 2: they'll get past it. And I think Freddy will be
1:07:45
Speaker 2: the next guy that's traded. Hopefully you'll be getting a
1:07:47
Speaker 2: starter that will come in for him. And the farm
1:07:50
Speaker 2: system just keeps producing or via trade producing young players
1:07:55
Speaker 2: that can replace them. And finally, the Packers. Packers are
1:07:59
Speaker 2: in first place, and I think the NFC North is
1:08:03
Speaker 2: the best division in football, but they don't look the
1:08:06
Speaker 2: first place team. They're first of all, they have a
1:08:09
Speaker 2: weird sounding record, and it's been weird how it's gotten there.
1:08:12
Speaker 2: The Packers are four to one and one the first
1:08:18
Speaker 2: two wins of the season. We're convincing. They've looked, they've looked.
1:08:24
Speaker 2: They don't pass the eye test as being a super team,
1:08:28
Speaker 2: but they keep winning. Some observations on yesterday's game. First
1:08:33
Speaker 2: of all, they don't win that game if the mic
1:08:37
Speaker 2: of Parsons trade isn't made the beginning of the season,
1:08:40
Speaker 2: they just don't. Parsons has changed that defense, and one
1:08:43
Speaker 2: of the things that now they're beginning to show plays.
1:08:45
Speaker 2: The TV will show plays even when she doesn't get
1:08:47
Speaker 2: to the quarterback. I understand what Parsons is bitching about
1:08:51
Speaker 2: the refs, Paul. He's held every play. I see when
1:08:54
Speaker 2: they call holding, and it's when the linemen their arms
1:08:56
Speaker 2: extend a little bit too much and they get a
1:08:58
Speaker 2: bunch of jersey. They put two guys on Parsons and
1:09:00
Speaker 2: they've got hands full out of him. Either take Dragon,
1:09:04
Speaker 2: he had three sacks, an incredible number of hurries of
1:09:09
Speaker 2: the quarterback, and it just it just helped. It helped
1:09:12
Speaker 2: out Rashan Gary who had a spectacular game uh as well. Offensively,
1:09:18
Speaker 2: they really missed Jaden Reid, who had developed into a
1:09:21
Speaker 2: number one receiver. But the counter to that is Tucker
1:09:25
Speaker 2: Craft is becoming the best tight end in the NFL.
1:09:29
Speaker 2: He I think that the it worked in order, first Kelsey,
1:09:33
Speaker 2: then Kittle, and now Kraft. The weird thing, why are
1:09:35
Speaker 2: all their last names k The best tight ends for
1:09:38
Speaker 2: the last going back like twelve years have been have
1:09:41
Speaker 2: been k There's a couple of others that were right
1:09:43
Speaker 2: in there, but Kelsey of Kansas City, then Killdle of
1:09:45
Speaker 2: San Francisco, and now Tucker Crafted. The other thing is
1:09:49
Speaker 2: Tucker Craft is going to get TV commercials. He's very,
1:09:51
Speaker 2: very funny. I did you watch the Fox six postgame show. Oh,
1:09:57
Speaker 2: Tucker Craft steals the microphone. He stole the microphone and
1:10:03
Speaker 2: he started doing the interviews and he signed it all off.
1:10:05
Speaker 2: Tucker Craft boxes. He's very I mean, he made the
1:10:09
Speaker 2: big catch. And the thing about him is you just
1:10:11
Speaker 2: can't imagine in that throw that Love had to make.
1:10:13
Speaker 2: That's the play that they went forward and fourth down
1:10:15
Speaker 2: where they were smartly they didn't settle for the field goal.
1:10:18
Speaker 2: Is you know, I think they knew that they had
1:10:20
Speaker 2: to play and Love change the play at the line
1:10:21
Speaker 2: of scrimmage. The only way that doesn't work is if
1:10:24
Speaker 2: Tucker Kraft drops the ball or if he doesn't get
1:10:26
Speaker 2: his feet down and he's going to make the catch
1:10:28
Speaker 2: and he's going to get his feet down and and
1:10:32
Speaker 2: he did so. I one other thing on this, I
1:10:34
Speaker 2: think I think that there's a chance the Packers are
1:10:39
Speaker 2: going to cut their kicker and keep half resick. I mean,
1:10:42
Speaker 2: it doesn't normally happen that you get injured and you
1:10:44
Speaker 2: lose your job. Also, there's a reason Harisk was signed
1:10:48
Speaker 2: by nobody and was only sitting there on the scrap heap.
1:10:50
Speaker 2: But every kick that he's made has been right down
1:10:52
Speaker 2: the middle and eighty yards over the top of the
1:10:54
Speaker 2: goal post. He kicked the Lugs field goal and team
1:10:56
Speaker 2: history and so on. So McManus is also really good.
1:10:59
Speaker 2: But when McManus gets healthy again, they're not going to
1:11:03
Speaker 2: be able to put either of them on the practice
1:11:05
Speaker 2: squad because somebody's going to sign up one of the
1:11:07
Speaker 2: two of them. We don't know how long the injury
1:11:08
Speaker 2: for McManus is going to be, but they found half
1:11:12
Speaker 2: Forsa and maybe half Verstick's got some misses in his future.
1:11:14
Speaker 2: As I say, there's a reason he wasn't on anybody's roster.
1:11:17
Speaker 2: But so I guess that's just generally my thought on
1:11:21
Speaker 2: the Packers. They keep winning, there's lots of things to like,
1:11:26
Speaker 2: but there's nothing well. Josh fric Jacobs is just still
1:11:29
Speaker 2: not fully healthy, and you just he's not playing great.
1:11:32
Speaker 2: He's playing very good. I'm saying if he was fully healthy,
1:11:35
Speaker 2: some of these runs would be even longer. He's starting
1:11:38
Speaker 2: to fight and they're restricting his playing time because he's
1:11:41
Speaker 2: got the hamstrings and nagging injury. But his little bit
1:11:43
Speaker 2: of explosiveness isn't quite what it could be. What it is,
1:11:47
Speaker 2: He's going to be really, really good. The offensive line
1:11:50
Speaker 2: is finally starting to come together. The other you know,
1:11:54
Speaker 2: and the thing with Arizona. They've not lost five in
1:11:58
Speaker 2: a row, but every one of the losses at the
1:12:00
Speaker 2: end of the game, including this one. So and the
1:12:04
Speaker 2: thing about the game the week before, the Packers beat Cincinnati,
1:12:08
Speaker 2: but weren't impressive at doing so. But then Cincinnati turned
1:12:11
Speaker 2: around and beat Pittsburgh, so again, maybe these wins are
1:12:14
Speaker 2: better than you think. In the meantime, the only team
1:12:18
Speaker 2: in the NFC North that's struggling at all is Minnesota,
1:12:21
Speaker 2: and they're a five hundred team. The Bears look incredible.
1:12:26
Speaker 2: Detroit play has an interesting test tonight against Tampa Bay,
1:12:29
Speaker 2: a team that wins ugly every week. I mean, they
1:12:32
Speaker 2: never win by more than a couple of points and
1:12:34
Speaker 2: so on. But the Packers are four to one and one,
1:12:37
Speaker 2: and as they say, they just they don't look like
1:12:39
Speaker 2: a first place team in the best division in football.
1:12:42
Speaker 2: But it's undeniable that they are playing rather well, with
1:12:46
Speaker 2: quite a few bright spots. If you want to cite
1:12:49
Speaker 2: a negative on the Packers. I'll just keep citing the
1:12:51
Speaker 2: same one that I do cite. It's the off corner
1:12:54
Speaker 2: that's manned by either Valentine or Hobbs. I just think
1:12:57
Speaker 2: that they're very weak there and they have no depth
1:13:00
Speaker 2: at all in the defensive backfield that if a couple
1:13:03
Speaker 2: of starters go down, they're just dead there. And the
1:13:06
Speaker 2: other one they finally produced one yesterday, is they've not
1:13:08
Speaker 2: produced turnovers. And I've heard the explanation that other teams
1:13:13
Speaker 2: aren't throwing deep on them. That the reason McKinney had
1:13:15
Speaker 2: so many picks last year's they're throwing deep and everybody's
1:13:18
Speaker 2: trying to short game against the Packers because the Corners
1:13:20
Speaker 2: have been playing soft. But that's my whole discussion of
1:13:23
Speaker 2: the I understand you lost your football pick again. I
1:13:28
Speaker 2: adorsed it. It was my third favorite pick of the weekend.
1:13:31
Speaker 2: I won mine again. I took the Bears. That was
1:13:34
Speaker 2: my favorite pick. My second favorite pick was the one
1:13:37
Speaker 2: that Mike took on the air, which was Ohio State
1:13:41
Speaker 2: against Wisconsin. And my third pick was Minnesota. So fortunately
1:13:47
Speaker 2: it wasn't my first pick because I did like that
1:13:49
Speaker 2: pick and I thought Philip and it was mostly a
1:13:51
Speaker 2: pick against Philadelphia, who I just think has been reeling.
1:13:54
Speaker 2: But maybe Minnesota's great. They're three and three, but again
1:13:57
Speaker 2: on the eye test, they don't look that good. In
1:13:58
Speaker 2: part we have two average quarterbacks, and right now in
1:14:03
Speaker 2: the NFC North, you need a great quarterback in order
1:14:06
Speaker 2: to keep up with everybody else. All right, that's it.
1:14:08
Speaker 2: You have anything else you want to observe on the
1:14:09
Speaker 2: Packers or anything, Paul says Lafleur struggles with game management decision.
1:14:15
Speaker 2: I I always think game management and play calling are overrated.
1:14:22
Speaker 2: I don't think he's a bad game manager. I actually don't.
1:14:25
Speaker 2: I do think, however, that when they did call the timelines,
1:14:28
Speaker 2: they ended up making the right decision out of the timelone.
1:14:31
Speaker 2: So yeah, well again I think that they thought they
1:14:34
Speaker 2: had a play and the weird thing is they then
1:14:36
Speaker 2: change the play and Love said it was inaudible at
1:14:38
Speaker 2: the line that left the craft open. Okay, back with
1:14:41
Speaker 2: the other podcasts on Wednesday.
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