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Mark Belling Podcast #158: The leftists who change the names of EVERYTHING freak over Trump's changing the name of a lake. Mark explains the real reason for the trade war with Canada (they are laundering Chinese goods). And, Democrat Governor candidate David Crowley is using Milwaukee tax money to give laptops to inmates who use them to threaten witnesses · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: I mean, I understand I have a great job. I
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  Speaker 2: single story that I have kind of amuses me. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm overloading the system. All right. For example, Lake America. Now,
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  Speaker 2: people who never listen to me just have this assumption.
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  Speaker 2: Everything Trump does, you support. Well, that's not true. And
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  Speaker 2: anybody who listens to me knows that it's not true. However,
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  Speaker 2: I think I support more of his stuff than most people. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I've even supported the approach to Iran, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that switching now to an economic war while at the
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  Speaker 2: same time making your only military priority being the straight,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on board with this. But even I admit that
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  Speaker 2: Lake America's stupid. On the other hand, well, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's stupid. I'm kind of glad he did it. See,
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  Speaker 2: I've had this. I came upon this. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was like 1992 that I figured this out. That every
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  Speaker 2: segment that I did on my radio show then that
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  Speaker 2: pissed off lefties was going to be good for my career.
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  Speaker 2: That my audience wants to hear anything that's going to
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  Speaker 2: hack off the average lefty. I mean, it probably didn't
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  Speaker 2: hold every single time, but it's a pretty good formula
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  Speaker 2: for being a very good conservative talk show host. So
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  Speaker 2: while I think this is a dumb idea, I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of glad he didn't, because it's driving lefties crazy. And
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  Speaker 2: anything that drives them crazy has to, even if it's
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  Speaker 2: a dumb idea, it has to have components of it
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  Speaker 2: that are pretty good. So, I mean, they are in
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  Speaker 2: particular apoplectic over this. I mean, even by the standards of,
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  Speaker 2: let's suppose you are a lefty. I mean, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: there's probably 100,000 things that Trump has done that would
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  Speaker 2: be more important than this, but they are just triggered
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  Speaker 2: by it. I want to dive into that. And remember my,
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  Speaker 2: pretty much everybody knows this. Lake Ontario, I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know how long Lake Ontario has been Lake Ontario. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know? Yeah. I mean, I honestly don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: do remember this, and maybe this is before your time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like when they actually taught geography in school,
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  Speaker 2: and I, well, you're from the Midwest, I'm from the Midwest.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you had to memorize the names of the
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  Speaker 2: Great Lakes, and this trick was they came up with
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  Speaker 2: this thing, HOMES, H-O-M-E-S, which is an initial for every
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  Speaker 2: one of the, did they, was that your, did your
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  Speaker 2: teachers give you that as a, your wife's teacher did,
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  Speaker 2: or your wife does that? Oh, your wife is a teacher,
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  Speaker 2: you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You never learn that. Well, anyway, Ontario is the easternmost
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  Speaker 2: of the Great Lakes. And I don't even know why
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  Speaker 2: it's Ontario. It does border Ontario, but it also borders
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  Speaker 2: New York. In the same token, you know, I will
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  Speaker 2: admit that in the overall huge scheme of things, I
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  Speaker 2: wonder why Lake Michigan isn't Lake Wisconsin. Lake Michigan runs
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  Speaker 2: up and down the border of Michigan and also runs
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  Speaker 2: up and down the border of Wisconsin. It's got more
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  Speaker 2: of Michigan because it kind of butts into the UP
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  Speaker 2: sort of, you know, as it angles. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: the whole Green Bay as part of Lake Michigan, but
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  Speaker 2: still is a bay unto itself. But I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: could just as easily call Lake Michigan Lake Wisconsin. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario. And as I say, it's
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  Speaker 2: been its name forever. I don't know when they chose them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if They're not all Indian names. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that those are Indian names that come on them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know where they come from. Neither
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  Speaker 2: do you. Now, there are all sorts of people who
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  Speaker 2: are going to want to tell me the answer to this.
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  Speaker 2: I actually don't care because it's not my point. Trump's
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  Speaker 2: changing the name. Now, again, I don't support this because
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it harms Canada at all that we
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  Speaker 2: change the name of Lake Ontario to to Lake America. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: half the people aren't going to know what the hell
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about if you say Lake America. And we
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  Speaker 2: already did this once. We changed the Gulf of Mexico
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  Speaker 2: to the Gulf of America, which I actually like. The
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  Speaker 2: Gulf of Mexico is a really stupid name. Only one
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  Speaker 2: coast of the Gulf of Mexico borders on Mexico, whereas
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing rims around America. It borders Texas, then
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  Speaker 2: the southern part of the United States, and into Florida.
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  Speaker 2: It should have been the Gulf of America all the time.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it probably should be the Gulf of the
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  Speaker 2: United States. It never should have been the Gulf of Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: I was fine with that. But he can't take every
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  Speaker 2: body of water and put America on it. It starts
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  Speaker 2: to get a little bit confusing. And this wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: causing any harm. So yeah, I think that it's stupid.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm willing to accept a little bit of Trump's
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  Speaker 2: stupidity just to see lefties go absolutely batty over this.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the thing about it. What's their argument against
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  Speaker 2: doing it? That this is a name and we can't
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  Speaker 2: change the name of anything? These are the people that
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  Speaker 2: change the names of every damn thing we have. They
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  Speaker 2: change a boy to a girl. These are the people
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  Speaker 2: that decided that Columbus Day and I'm pretty sure Lake
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  Speaker 2: Ontario wasn't Lake Ontario before Columbus discovered the New World.
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  Speaker 2: They changed the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day,
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  Speaker 2: which is certainly far more loaded than Lake America to
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  Speaker 2: Lake Ontario. Look at all the baseball team names that
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  Speaker 2: they had to change, sports team names. As I pointed
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  Speaker 2: out in my post on X, which got a zillion hits,
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, triggered all sorts of lefties, which
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  Speaker 2: is one of the reasons that I did it, The
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland Indians had to become the Cleveland Guardians. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: would think the Cleveland Indians' name is just as sacred
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  Speaker 2: as the name of a lake. By the way, probably
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  Speaker 2: the least significant Great Lake, wouldn't you say? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Either Erie or Ontario is the smallest, I think, right? Erie,
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  Speaker 2: as you believe. Jason's very smart. That doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: he's right, but I think that he's probably right about that.
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  Speaker 2: I have this girlfriend. She grew up like near Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, when she was a kid, her beach
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  Speaker 2: was Lake Erie. I just, I'm sure it's all cleaned
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  Speaker 2: up then. I just always picture in my mind Lake
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  Speaker 2: Erie being a toilet, because when all of the Great
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  Speaker 2: Lakes were really, really dirty, that was the one that
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  Speaker 2: was always the dirtiest, because there were so many industries
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  Speaker 2: that were added and all of that stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I actually think all bodies of water on all beaches
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  Speaker 2: are gross. I just do. I'm not a germaphobe, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these people that, for example, go swim in
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  Speaker 2: Lake Michigan, I mean, the sewage district dumps raw crap
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  Speaker 2: in there about two, three times a year, not to
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  Speaker 2: mention all the other stuff that's in there, including fish
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  Speaker 2: dying and people throwing their junk in, and you know
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  Speaker 2: the people out there on the lake dump their stuff
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  Speaker 2: in the boats and all. I don't be swimming around
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  Speaker 2: in that. In the same way that if I take
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  Speaker 2: a bath, I'm not going to use my toilet for it,
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  Speaker 2: you know? But I clearly digress. There's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a whole set of digressions. Marquette's basketball team had to
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  Speaker 2: change its name from Warriors to Golden Eagles. Warriors isn't
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  Speaker 2: even necessarily a Native American name. And when any of
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  Speaker 2: us objected to that, we were told to shut up.
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  Speaker 2: I actually have a great quote from Bill Maher. See,
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  Speaker 2: Bill Maher is not a conservative, but I have predicted
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  Speaker 2: that every year that goes by, he's just going to
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  Speaker 2: get closer into our crowd. This is the way it works.
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  Speaker 2: When you're a dyed-in-the-wool lefty and finally something one issue
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  Speaker 2: you finally just say they've gone too far it starts
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  Speaker 2: moving you on everything else here's why when you're a
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  Speaker 2: leftist it's a religion to you you don't question anything
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  Speaker 2: it's like the fundamentalist muslims they don't question anything they
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  Speaker 2: just accept Christianity is filled with questioning, which is why
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  Speaker 2: there have been so many religions that broke off originally
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  Speaker 2: from the Roman Catholic Church, and now there are so
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  Speaker 2: many different, say, Protestant religions. Things are questioned. They're challenged.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that there are certain absolute truths, but people
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  Speaker 2: disagree about what they are. But to be a leftist,
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  Speaker 2: it means to suspend all thinking and all logic. If
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  Speaker 2: you actually thought through any of it, you couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: a leftist. If you thought through socialism, you couldn't be
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  Speaker 2: a socialist. If you thought through any of it, you
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be it because none of it makes any sense
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  Speaker 2: and none of it works. So in order to be
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  Speaker 2: a leftist, it simply has to be, you don't question
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  Speaker 2: any of it. Anything that, this is just what it is,
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  Speaker 2: it's what it is, and you're stupid if you disagree
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  Speaker 2: with it. But if something actually goes so far and
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  Speaker 2: you question it, what happens is your brain has now
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  Speaker 2: opened a crack. And once that crack comes in, you're
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  Speaker 2: opening to questioning the next thing. And the next thing
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  Speaker 2: you know, you start questioning everything. And the whole house
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  Speaker 2: of cards of leftism falls apart. Now, Bill Maher's not
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  Speaker 2: there yet. In fact, he always says, I'm a classic
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  Speaker 2: liberal and so on. But I think he gets far
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  Speaker 2: more jollies right now making fun of the lefties than
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  Speaker 2: making fun of the conservatives. He says it on his
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  Speaker 2: show all the time, you know. None of the lefties
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  Speaker 2: will come on my show. Conservatives come on all the
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  Speaker 2: time and they take my crap. Lefties can't do it
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  Speaker 2: because they can't stand being questioned at anything. Anyway, here's
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  Speaker 2: his quote. Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed
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  Speaker 2: Lake Ontario, Lake America. Liberals are very pissed at this.
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  Speaker 2: They say you can't just go around renaming to suit
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  Speaker 2: your political agenda. Just ask any Latinx birthing person. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even think the Latinx thing has caught on with anybody,
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  Speaker 2: do you? Far, far. I mean, I never even heard
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  Speaker 2: any of them actually saying it. It would be like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a Latina and a Latino. A Latina is
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  Speaker 2: a female. You know, the Spanish language, the words that
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  Speaker 2: end in the O are masculine and the A are feminine.
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  Speaker 2: So a Latina is a female and a Latino is
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  Speaker 2: a male. So the Latin X, where they put the
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  Speaker 2: X there at the end, that's to be gender neutral
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  Speaker 2: or reflect somebody that is questioning. But mostly it's a
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  Speaker 2: way of being inclusive to all of them. That's their
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  Speaker 2: big thing. And of course, then birthing person, that's the
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  Speaker 2: term that we've now displaced for the term mother. So
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  Speaker 2: the point that says this, obviously, they change absolutely everything,
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  Speaker 2: including established scientific fact and things that are certainly far
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  Speaker 2: more substantive than the name of a lake. So again,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he should have done it.
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  Speaker 2: And also, I wouldn't worry too much about it because
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  Speaker 2: whoever the next president is, maybe not J.D. If it's
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  Speaker 2: Rubio or if it's a Democrat, they're going to change
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  Speaker 2: it right back. And everybody kind of knows this. The
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  Speaker 2: Gulf of America thing might stick. Here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's been long established in journalism that presidents do
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  Speaker 2: have the right to name things. The media has. pretty
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  Speaker 2: much adopted the Gulf of America thing, and now on
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  Speaker 2: Google Maps, Lake Ontario has instantly been updated to say
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  Speaker 2: Lake America. So again, this is just driving lefties crazy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I see this, okay, that's what Trump renamed, kind of stupid,
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  Speaker 2: and then kind of tee-hee about the whole thing. Leftists
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  Speaker 2: are seeing this, I'm just imagining that they're bombarding Google
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  Speaker 2: with complaints about this. How dare Trump change the name
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  Speaker 2: of a lake? As I said, the things that they
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  Speaker 2: complain about are the things that they do. They change everything.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't even gotten started on the streets. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's a Milwaukee street that gets changed at least once
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  Speaker 2: a year. Some lefty that they've got to honor. It's
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  Speaker 2: gotten so bad that they have to change some of
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  Speaker 2: them back. You know, they put Cesar Chavez on there
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  Speaker 2: and he turned out to be a big pervo, so
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  Speaker 2: now they're yanking his name off of everything. Bill Phillips'
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  Speaker 2: name is all over the city for crying out loud.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't good enough that a huge chunk of Third
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  Speaker 2: Street was MLK that they had to make all of
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  Speaker 2: Third Street MLK. They're changing stuff all the time. So
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  Speaker 2: they're changing the name of a street. Trump can't change
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  Speaker 2: his name. See, the thing about Trump is, He's very
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  Speaker 2: good at doing the things that lefties do. Trump's slapping
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  Speaker 2: his own name on everything. He got his name put on,
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: you know, he kind of asked for it and they
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  Speaker 2: gave it to him. Palm Beach has gone from being
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  Speaker 2: like the bluest county in America to pretty red county.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: So they named the airport in Palm Beach, Trump Airport.
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  Speaker 2: Trump then slapped his name up on the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 2: The lefties are going, like they're going to court to
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  Speaker 2: stop that. So now I think Trump is just going
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  Speaker 2: to say, fine. My name's not on it. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to stop the repair of the thing and it's just
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  Speaker 2: going to sit there closed for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Now again, do I think that's petty? Yes, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's petty. Do I wish that Trump wasn't doing it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I wish that Trump wasn't doing it. But deep down,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of glad that he does it just because
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  Speaker 2: I love seeing lefties toss their cookies over this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Now to this larger point of the problems that we're
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  Speaker 2: having with Canada. The media will not cover the news anymore.
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  Speaker 2: In a way that you actually understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Their coverage of this is Trump, bad Canada, good without
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  Speaker 2: actually getting into what's driving the American position on this
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  Speaker 2: and whether or not you agree with tariffs in general
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  Speaker 2: or this tariff specifically. There's a reason Trump is taking
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  Speaker 2: this hard line. It's substantive. It's important. It's a very
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: good piece on the Epoch Times that worked through this.
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  Speaker 2: The big sticking point in the Canadian-American trade talks is
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  Speaker 2: Trump was demanding that Canada stop facilitating Chinese dumping. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that it's the biggest thing that Trump has done,
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  Speaker 2: but it's close to it. I think one of his
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  Speaker 2: highest priorities in coming in, there are a lot of them, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the border and so on. But a reset of this
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: relationship with China. It's what drove him in term number
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  Speaker 2: one and it's driving him now. Trump realizes that ultimately
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  Speaker 2: the greatest threat to America is China. Economically, militarily, socially,
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  Speaker 2: all levels. And China's economy's biggest strength is all the
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  Speaker 2: crap that they sell to the West. China is a
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  Speaker 2: net exporter. And China has been able to do this
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  Speaker 2: on very favorable terms. China totally abuses American companies. They
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  Speaker 2: simply don't honor trademarks. They'll take copyrighted material and reproduce
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  Speaker 2: it with the originator not getting anything. Almost anything that's
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  Speaker 2: created over there that's played or used in China is
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: done without being under a license. They copy material. They
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: simply ignore patents. In addition to that, they have forever
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: dumped products at lower costs into the West in an
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: attempt to kill our manufacturing. China plays the long game.
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  Speaker 2: China wants to manufacture everything and the way to manufacture
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  Speaker 2: everything is to kill manufacturing in the West. So they're
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  Speaker 2: willing for 40 years to subsidize their companies, who then
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: sell things over here at a loss, but then make
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: up that difference because the government subsidizes it in an
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  Speaker 2: attempt to kill American manufacturers. In the process, the quality
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of many of these items from China stinks. Not all,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: but a lot of products that come here from China stink.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a little bit of insight. I'm one
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: of those many, many people that send vitamins and supplements
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  Speaker 2: and all of this stuff. I think that the evidence
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: is that A lot of this stuff, not all of it,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of it works. And I think that
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: we have had a media biased against it because the
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  Speaker 2: media takes all of the doctrine from the big pharmaceutical
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  Speaker 2: companies who don't want anybody to buy an 18-cent pill,
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  Speaker 2: 18-cent supplement, as opposed to a $ 49 prescription drug. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of this stuff, the vitamin supplements, are made
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  Speaker 2: in China. You need to check your labels on this.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't trust the stuff that's made in China
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  Speaker 2: and Vietnam. There's no quality control over there at all.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: And if they can put a bunch of filler into
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: something and say that there's actually so many milligrams, who
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: would know? So in any event, this is the big thing, China.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: What does this have to do with Canada? Canada has
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: not been tariffing items from China the way that we have.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Trump has slapped tariffs on China and has worked out
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: a better trade situation with China than we had before.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: But China's been attempting to get around this by dumping
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: massive products to Canada and then the Canadians export them
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: from Canada into the United States. You've heard of money laundering?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: This is product laundering. So you take a Chinese component
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: or a Chinese gadget or a Chinese anything. You export
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it to a company, a middleman in China. The middleman
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: in China then exports it to the United States and
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: they've escaped the tariff. Trump asked Canada to stop doing this.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: He wanted them to stop accepting any products into Canada
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that would not stay in Canada. Or at the very least,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Match our tariffs. Canada wouldn't do it. So Trump's playing
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: hardball here because he sees that China is seeing a go-around,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: a get-around around his tariffs by sending this stuff through Canada.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And Canada has decided that they'd rather play footsie with
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: China than the United States. What the hell has China
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: ever done for Canada? Which country defends Canada?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Us.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Canada would be part of Russia were it not for
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the United States of America. Canada's healthcare system, crappy as
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: it is, becomes the United States healthcare system when all
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: of their people that have any money come to the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: United States for healthcare because they don't want to get
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the Canadian healthcare, which stinks. Canadians can come to the
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: United States on visas for six months. Try to stay
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: in Canada without working for six months. And for that matter,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: try to go to Canada and just work. Very, very
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: hard to do So Trump's playing hardball with Canada on
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: this Chinese thing. I back him on this. Now, admittedly,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a 50% tariff is stiff, but whenever you make a deal,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you decide whether or not the deal, in this instance,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: or lack of a deal, you're taking a negotiating position.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Who is harmed more in a tariff war, Canada or
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the United States? The answer is clearly Canada. Trump has
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: leverage here, and he is using it. And many people
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: would prefer the wussy American presidents of the past, which
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: would be all of them, who rolled over and in
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the name of free trade, let every country walk all
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: over us. True, the beneficiary may be the consumer who
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: gets all this foreign cheap stuff, but it's created the
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: virtual death of the American middle class. The middle class
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: primarily makes stuff. And the less we make, the less
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of a middle class that we have. I haven't seen
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: this China component reported hardly anywhere in the mainstream media,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: because if they did report it, they would take Trump's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: position and you'd see some logic to it, even if
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you disagreed with it, rather than simply, oh, there's Trump,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: just go it off again. Next, the Venezuelan oil. This
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: is a big deal. Is it as big as Trump says? Well, maybe.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Venezuela is one of the largest oil producers in the world.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Trump got a double when he overthrew the tyrant Maduro,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: who is as evil a human being as exists on
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: this planet. The Venezuelan people suffered terribly. The last election
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: that they had there was simply stolen. His predecessor, Hugo Chavez,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: brought in Marxism, much to the lack of interest of
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: our young socialists. The Marxism that they put in place
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: in Venezuela destroyed the country. They nationalized the oil industry,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: kind of. The economy fell apart. The government selling oil
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: was the only basis for the economy, so they had
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to allow massive drug sales in order to keep the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: country afloat. The exodus from Venezuela to the United States
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: has been overwhelming. Florida's crawling with Venezuelans who've gotten out
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: of there in the same way that people got out
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: of Cuba 40 years earlier. 50 years? Yeah, about 40.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: When did Chavez come in? Late 90s? Early zeros? Yeah,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that's about 40 years after Cuba. The Venezuelan people wanted
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: him gone. Trump facilitated the arrest of Maduro on legitimate
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: charges of dumping drugs into the United States, and then
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: was smart enough to cut a deal with Maduro's number
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: two saying, hey, you guys can do really well if
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: you play ball with me. And they pretty much have.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: But that was never his number one goal. His number
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: one goal was to get our hands on some of
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: its oil. Venezuela doesn't need all of its oil. Venezuela
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: is a massive exporter of oil. And rather than export
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that oil to the entire world, Trump would like to
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: see the United States control a chunk of it. And
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: the deal that he's announcing gives the United States, I
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: won't call it a license, but a huge cut of
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: oil that is produced in Venezuela. Now, the downside is
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: this is going to take a lot of years to
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: come to full fruition. The upside is the United States,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: while not cornering the market on oil, will be by
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: far the most powerful nation in the world with regard
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: to oil and long-term, this is a long-term net driver
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: downward of oil prices, and will result in much of
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the profit from oil coming to the United States, even
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: more so than we have now. Sometimes the solutions are wrong,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: but Trump is a problem solver. He's seen Long term,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the energy situation is being a significant problem for the
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: United States. So he's wanted to solve it. Democrat or Republican,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: how many of these presidents wanted to solve anything? It
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: was always just managing stuff. You're listening to the Mark
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. All right,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: we've got a story that's developing in the race for governor.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: There are going to be a lot of these. The
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: difficulty in all of them is going to be to
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: get them out there to the general public because the
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: media is not going to focus on them. I'll say
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: two of the advantages David Crowley has in being the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Democrat candidate for governor is, one, he received zero negative
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: attention during the primaries. He was doing so badly in
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the polls that none of his opponents paid any attention
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: to him or bothered to criticize him. And then secondly,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: when he got to the head-on-head against Hong, Francesca Hong,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: in the last two weeks of the campaign, simply stopped campaigning.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Here's Crowley and Evers attacking her right and left. and
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: leaking all sorts of negative stories, and Hong and her
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: people just sat there scratching their socialist rear ends. They
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: never fired back at any of the baggage that they
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: had on Crowley. So while Hong was brutalized with negatives
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: in the two weeks leading up, there were none on Crowley. Secondly,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the second advantage he has is Even though he said,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I don't really disagree with Hong on much of anything,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: he was presented as a non-socialist, so viewers may have
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the impression of Crowley as being, well, he's a reasonable Democrat.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So what we need to do is establish not just
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: what Crowley believes in, but what he's done. I've been
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: making this point for decades, so I'm going to make
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: it in. There's a reason Milwaukee Democrats never get elected
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: governor of Wisconsin. When I say never, I mean never.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: The rest of the state does not want to be
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: run by the people who run Milwaukee because they think
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee's run terribly. People bring up, what about Scott Walker? A,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Scott Walker is from Wauwatosa. B, he was a Milwaukee Republican.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: His popularity statewide became because he came in and tried
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: to undo much of the leftist crap that was done
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. The fact that Scott Walker, a conservative, was
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: elected county executive in Milwaukee County for two four-year terms
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: remains one of the more remarkable political stories ever. Anyway,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: David Crowley, twice, initially in 2022 and reauthorized in 2025,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: signed legislation using county tax money to buy laptops and tablets,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: computer laptops and tablets, for inmates in the Milwaukee County Jail. Twice.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Now let's start with this. Why do inmates need laptops
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: or tablets? The answer is they don't. If there was
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: a need to have access to the Internet... You say,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, the inmates in the jail get to get
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: out a couple of times during the day. That could
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: be a common area, I suppose. Or maybe you could
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: even make the case that there could be a handful
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: of them loaned out and you wait your turn. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: that's accepting the premise that they ought to be able
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: to have a laptop at all. You're in jail. But
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: they decided that it was a good use of public
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: funds to give these inmates laptops and tablets. This story
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: was pretty much ignored until Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Borowski recently popped off in court. Borowski learned that one
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: of the individuals in his court awaiting trial was using
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: his tablet to email threats against witnesses. He was plotting
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: witness intimidation against the witnesses against him using the laptop
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: or the tablet that was provided to him by the county.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Let's start with this. Normally, all inmate communications are monitored.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: If you go to visit an inmate at the jail,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: they listen in. The only exception is when you talk
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: to your lawyer. If you use the phone, those calls
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: are recorded. Your mail is read, incoming and outgoing. And again,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the reasons are obvious. You don't want the criminals to
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: be engaging in illicit activity while they're in jail. They
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: don't have the right of privacy while they're incarcerated. But
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: they've got these laptops and the tablets and they're using
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: them evidently unmonitored. Now, the judge went off and his
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: focus here of his anger is the sheriff because the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: sheriff runs the jail. Some of us have taken to
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the next step, okay, fine, the sheriff should be monitoring
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: this better, and the sheriff shouldn't be giving them to them,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: but the sheriff can't just spend the money to do this.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: The money was spent by Milwaukee County. Crowley signed the
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: bill giving the money to the sheriff, who is now
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: in need for ball, who turned around and used that
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: money to give the laptops and the tablets to the inmates. Now,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: here's a segment of Judge Borowski from the bench going
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: off on this.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Why is the Sheriff's Department giving laptops and iPads to
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: defendants that are charged in homicides or any defendant? Why
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: is the Sheriff's Department handing laptops or iPads to defendants?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Why? Judge, I have no idea. That one's above my
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: pay grade, Judge.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: And that needs to be addressed. This is a bigger question.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I have had cases... I have a case in particular
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: where I had a defendant who was given a laptop
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: or an iPad by the sheriff's department. He used it
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: to intimidate witnesses. He then later apparently allegedly hacked through
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: it to access child pornography.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: I have another case.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: We know there's a very high profile case in front
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: of another judge. It's not my case where a defendant
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: allegedly made 1200 or 1500 intimidating threats and phone.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Calls or attempts from a tablet.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Why is the sheriff's department giving defendants tablets? It's preposterous,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: and I would like the sheriff to answer that. There
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: is no need, constitutional or otherwise, for a defendant to
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: have a tablet when they sit in jail. And I
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: don't care if they're charged with a burglary or an
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: armed robbery or, for that matter, a domestic violence case.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: This is a triple homicide. This defendant does not need
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: a laptop, and he will not have one again, subject
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: to my court order. He won't have a tablet, he
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: won't have a laptop, and I'm granting the state's request
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: across the board. He's locked down 24-7 with the exception
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: of meeting with his attorney. No defendant in this court
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: ever gets to intimidate a witness or a victim, ever.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: As Judge David Borowski, the defendant is Thomas Salikoffer. He's
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: facing first-degree intentional homicide, three counts. in front of Judge Borowski,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: and Judge Borowski found out that he was using, it
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: was either a laptop or tablet provided by the sheriff
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: to engage in witness intimidation in this murder case against him.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Borowski is one of the handful of Milwaukee County judges
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: who's really good. I'm not going to name the two
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: or three others, although I've named them from time to time.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: They're not all terrible. He's one that's pretty good. Anyway,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: when he brought this up, this is what drew the
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: attention of this story to some of us on the
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: right and some in the conservative media. Okay, fine. Why
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: is the sheriff giving them butt? Where'd the sheriff get
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the money for this? And the answer is the county
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: board appropriated the money twice. And in both instances, the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: county executive greenlit and signed this legislation. Now, I don't
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: know how many other counties are doing it. A lot
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: of these counties that are conservative do things very, very liberally. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Now, again,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I don't have a list of all the counties that
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: do this. You're going to have to check one by one.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You can ask your county whether or not you do it.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: But if you have money to go out and buy... Laptops, tablets,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: what's an iPad cost? I don't have an iPad. I
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: think I have every other Apple thing that there is.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I don't even have the earbuds. What is it? 500 bucks?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Four or 500. Now, he said iPad. I don't. That's
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: an Apple product. I actually don't know if they're Samsung
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: or whatever. And there are some that are really cheap
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: that are in there. But when government buys things, they
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: never buy the cheap stuff. Broski asks, why would anybody
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: in the, why do they need this? They're in jail.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: And then he points out, one of the inmates is there.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: He figured out there's probably filters in place that you
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: can't go to certain sites, but this guy was smart
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: enough to get around the filter. He's looking at child
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: porn in the jail because David Crowley bought laptops and
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: tablets for the inmates in the jail. This is what
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Democrats believe in. It specifically is what Democrats in Milwaukee
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: believe in. And this is what is being put up
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: to the voters of the state of Wisconsin. This is
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: how he thinks. By the way, the measure passed the
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: county board 17 to 1. I don't know who the
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: one is that voted no, but we have a very
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: liberal county board, which again explains the problem. This is
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the governance of Milwaukee County. So even if Crowley had
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: the notion that this might be a bad idea, it
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: never actually percolated up to his brain because this is
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: what lefties do. My next point on this. Crowley is
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: constantly crying that Milwaukee County is broke. He even got
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: the sales tax doubled. The Milwaukee County sales tax is 1%.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: The sales tax in other counties is 0.5, and four counties,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: including Waukesha, don't have one at all. In addition to that,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: the city of Milwaukee has its own sales tax on
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: top of this, but we're dealing here with only Milwaukee County.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: The county sales tax was doubled because Crowley said, we're
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: tapped out, we're broke, we're broke, we're broke, we're broke,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: we're broke. Yet somehow the money was out there to
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: buy laptops for the crooks in the jail. And some
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: people say, well, some of these, who's in the jail?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Those aren't felons. Yes, they're felons. They are the felons
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: who have not yet been convicted. The case that Brodsky's
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: talking about is a triple murderer. You're held in your
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: county jail until you're convicted. Then you're sent to the
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: state prison system. So yes, some of them are people
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: that are serving. This is not 100% true, but almost
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: all the time, if the sentence is less than a year,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: it's jail or the House of Correction or a facility
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: like that. If it's more than a year, it tends
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: to be prison. If you're sentenced to something for like
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: four years, it tends to have to be a felony,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: and therefore it wouldn't be the county jail. It's not
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: a hard and fast rule, but it's close. Anyway, so
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: every single person who's charged with a terrible felony is
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: held in a county jail in Wisconsin until they're convicted. Now,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: some people say, what about the prison system? I can
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: debate about the prison system, but there are different kinds
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: of things. The people in the prison system are already
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: adjudicated guilty. The ones that have not yet been found guilty,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: they're the ones for whom this stuff is most dangerous
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: because of the intimidation that they can do. Next. Has
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: the county been monitoring the emails and all of the other,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: and then you can go into the, if you have
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: a laptop, you can also use all the WhatsApp and
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: texting in addition to emailing, just about anything you can
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: do on a phone, you can do on a laptop
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: or a tablet. Are they monitoring every single one of
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: these communications? You know damn well they're not. So here
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: they are, like, recording the set when they go out
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: and use the payphone on the wall. They're monitoring that.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, here these crooks are using the tablets
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: to put out hints on witnesses against them because Crowley
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: gave them the money to do so. Now, I'm doing
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: this story... Well, I don't want to say something that
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: might be time dated by the time it came out. Next.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: There's a photo. It's surfaced, and I'm pretty sure it's
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: going to land in a Tiffany ad. The day that
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: David Crowley got approval to double the Milwaukee County sales tax.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: There's a photo of him and Marcella Nicholson, who's the
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: chairman of the county board, cutting a cake in celebration.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: He just doubled the sales tax on the residents of
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: his county and of all the taxes we have. And again,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I support a mix of taxes. I don't think it
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: should be all income taxes. I don't think it should
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: be all sales taxes. I don't think it should be
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: all property taxes. I've explained all of those reasons in
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: the past. I think they're all too high. But clearly
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: of the three, the most regressive is the sales tax.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: A really, really, really, really wealthy woman has to buy
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: some of the same stuff that really, really, really poor
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: woman has to buy. So the sales tax, obviously, if
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: you're buying a huge yacht, you're making a lot of
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: money off the person who buys it. But there are
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: basic staples and necessities of life, toilet paper, all the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: stuff that you can think of that the sales tax
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: is on. where it's a much bigger chunk of the
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: income of a poorer person. So here's Crowley cutting a
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: cake in celebration because he just raised taxes on the
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: poor people of Milwaukee County. Was it Queen Victoria or
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: was it Queen Elizabeth I who said, let them eat cake?
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: You usually know these things. You're very smart. Do you
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: know which one said? Marie Antoinette said it. Let them
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: eat cake. How do you know these things? I think
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty well informed. I always thought I'd do halfway
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: decent at Jeopardy, but you knew you, So I had
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: it down to Elizabeth or Victoria. So I wouldn't, like,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have done any well on that, if that
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: was a question on Regis Philbin's millionaire thing, because one
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: of the things you can do is knock out two
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: of the answers. So if they were up there, Marianne,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: and that was one of them, they knocked out Victoria,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: I would have said, okay, it was Elizabeth I. It
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: was Marianne. Now that you say that, I guess that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: sounds right. Yes. Let them eat cake. Now, like I say,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's going to be much of this
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: in the mainstream media. Can you imagine if a Republican...
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Imagine if Tom Tiffany signed on to some big tax
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: increase or something like that. There's a picture of him
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: celebrating Wolf and Down Cake. You'd never hear the end
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: of it. JS Online, the head of the Milwaukee Election Commission,
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Paulina Gutierrez, is... talking about the reforms that she's going
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: to be putting in place for the November election to
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: try to prevent yet another late-night fiasco at central count,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: like we had on the night of the primary. There's
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: fiascos late night at central count all the time. But
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: don't worry, the election commission head, Paulina Gutierrez, says she's
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: on top of it. I'll quote the story here from
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Molly Beck. reporter for JSN line, who by the way,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: is a big lefty. All you have to do is
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: read her stuff to know that she's a big lefty.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: I just tell you, she's a big lefty. When I've
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: outed it, first of all, when I call a member
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: of the media, big left, it's really safe to do
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: so because what are the chances are that they weren't,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: but I don't just unilaterally do it. If I know
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: nothing about a reporter, I'm just going to say for certain,
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going to need at least some, I'm very safe.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I've never ever called out a reporter for being a
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: big-time lefty, and had anybody refuted. They've refuted a lot
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: of things that I've said, and they said that I'm
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: wrong about this, that, and the other thing, but none
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: of them that I've called a big-time lefty has ever
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: denied it. I'll be back. So this story is written
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: in the most favorable possible terms for Polina Gutierrez, who
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: somewhat just gets to explain, oh, don't worry, we won't
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: have a fiasco next time because I'm on top of this,
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: she writes, the story writes. Milwaukee's top election official has
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: implemented a series of changes to prevent another error in
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: downloading election results that led to lengthy ballot counting delays
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: during the August 11th primary. Election workers will be required
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: to verbally announce which step they are taking when downloading
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: results to flash drives and must refer to images that
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: show the correct screen workers should be using to obtain
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: the information they need. In other words, she's treating these
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: people like children because apparently that's what you need to
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: do to make sure that they do the thing correctly.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, how long did it take us to train
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: you on how to upload my podcast? A day or two.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if now every day that you did it,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: we'd have to have a screen? First of all, you'd
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: have to have like bring in Dave Michaels and announce
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: to him, now I'm doing this. And then a screen
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: up there to show that you're doing it. You generally
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: have to do this. Anyway, the story continues. The changes
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: detailed by Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez in
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: an August 28th letter to state officials come after city
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: election workers during the August primary downloaded audit logs instead
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: of ballots to flash drives that were then transported to
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee County Courthouse to be counted. The error caused
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the election results to be delayed until the early morning
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: hours of the next day. Gutierrez said in the letter
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the City Election Commission, quote,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: recognizes the broader environment in which election officials and election
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: workers now perform this work. Mistakes can quickly become the
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: basis for misinformation or unfounded allegations about election integrity. That
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: reality makes transparency, accuracy, and strong procedures even more important.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: So she's saying here, We keep making these mistakes. People
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: are going to think we're cheating. Well, in fact, that
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: is happening. People, everybody thinks they're cheating. I don't. I'll
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: rule it out, but I don't. I'm in the stark
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: minority of Republicans. I think that they are incompetent, but
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I just don't have enough to persuade me that they're cheating. Nonetheless,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: She's clearly not concerned that we're actually going to do
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: our job correctly or stop needing until four in the
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: morning to finish this out. We have to make sure
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: we've got to keep screwing up because people think that
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: these screw-ups are actually deliberate. Continuing, she says, it also
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: reinforces the need to protect dedicated election workers from abuse
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: by bad actors focusing on continuing to sow distrust regardless
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: of the facts. Well, there are bad actors out there,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: right and left. There are bad actors on the left,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: In the 2020 presidential election, Milwaukee Election Commission essentially outsourced
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: to a third party, a leftist organization that took over
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: the operation of the Election Commission and the voter registration
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: for several months. Those are bad actors on the left.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: There are bad actors on the right. There are people
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: who come around and deliberately or out of stupidity misstate
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: certain things about the difference between the voter registration lists
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: and the voter rolls. The voter rolls in Wisconsin are
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: shoddily maintained. But shoddily maintained is not necessarily an indication
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: of corruption. Furthermore, just because you're on the voter roll
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you can vote. And some people are
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: suggesting that because all these names are on the voter
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: roll that they actually have voted. There's a distinction. I
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: try not to do that. I try to be very,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: very accurate, and I have enough fodder for the level
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: of incompetence and how the system is open to fraud,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: which is different from the election officials themselves committing fraud.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I believe there is significant election fraud in Wisconsin. I
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: just don't think the city officials are the ones that
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: are committing it. Nonetheless, we see that yet another fiasco
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: that occurs. In this instance, it didn't change the results
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: of the election. Before the late night ballot dump, Crowley
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: had a slight lead, and after the late night ballot dump,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Crowley still had a slight lead. Apparently, the Late-night ballots
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: came in at about the same margin that the regular
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: ballots came in. Continuing, Gutierrez said the audit logs that
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: were downloaded in error will be made public, and she
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: is requiring teams tasked with downloading results to participate in
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a briefing immediately before beginning the work of downloading ballots
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: in the voting machines, among other measures. Okay, so before
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: we do this, we're going to have a meeting, and
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: we're going to brief you on how you do it. Now,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: let me pause for a moment. Jason, does this seem
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: to you to be that hard of work to do?
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to give people background, and I
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: know that most of you know this. For some people,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: they just have a hard time figuring this stuff out.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee has a central count, so do 40 cities in
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: the state of Wisconsin. Central count is where the mail-in
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: ballots and the early in-person ballots and the absentee ballots
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: are counted. In other words, if you vote an election
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: day at your precinct, that's not central count. There's votes
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: that just counted at your precinct. They're counted by the machine.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: When you put the thing in the ballot, that's what's
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: called counting. For the ballots that are taken in advance,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: rather than, and I understand the reason for this. Milwaukee has,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how many. I think it's about 150.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: I could be aloft by a little. About 150 different precincts.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Instead of delivering the ballots that were cast in advance
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: to all those precincts and running them through the machine there,
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: they simply run them through machines, ballot tabulators, at a
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: place called Central Count, which was on the near south
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: side this past year. So what they have to do is,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: after they run all these machines through all these ballots
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: to the machines, they then have to take the result
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: from the ballot machine and and put it on some
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: sort of computer device. It's usually a memory stick. It
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: can be a flash drive. It can be any number
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: of things. But you have to take it off of
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: that so you can then take it down to the
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: county clerk's office where that result is fed into the
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: overall thing that is reported. It just doesn't seem that hard.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Two years ago in 2024, the ballot machines obviously are
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: sealed until you open them up to pull the stuff
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: out to run them. In the middle of election day
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: in 2024, the seals they run, they are all broken.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: They use bad adhesives. Oh my God. Would you not
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: have thought that the adhesive that they bought, they would
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: have tested on the machines first to make sure that
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: it held? In 2020, the then, and we're going back three,
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: head of the Milwaukee Election Commission, forgot one of the
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: flash drives. They went down to the Milwaukee County Clerk's
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Office and one of the flash drives is still sitting
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: on a machine unattended for 20 minutes. Again, there's only like,
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: there were nine of these at the primary election. I
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: don't know how many there were in 2020. How hard
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: is it to make sure that you have all of them?
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Isn't that something you would like quadruple check? True, you
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: can lose things. I somehow yesterday lost a hairbrush. It's
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: really big. I don't, Hard thing to lose. I'm at
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: that stage right now in which I'm deciding, do I
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: buy a new one or will it turn up? And
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: everybody says, well, it'll turn up. There's one area where
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: it doesn't turn up and that's like it fell out
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: of the car or something. Or it fell off of something.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: It must be somewhere. So that can happen. What do
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: I care about a hairbrush? These are the results of
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the election. So the point is that there's history again
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: and again and again, plus my larger point of why
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: it takes them so long. And this is where cynics
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: say it doesn't take them that long. They're waiting until
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: they see how many votes are necessary to flip the
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: results of the election. And Polina's saying it's unfair that
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: people are speculating on this. Well, what do you expect
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: them to do? Madison has central count. Madison's results are
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: always in, it seems to me, by 10.15, 10.30 at night.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee's hours later, yet a huge percentage of the Madison
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: votes are also absentee in mail. And why is Madison,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: as lefty as Milwaukee, able to get their ballots counted
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: faster than Milwaukee? Continuing the story, state election officials and
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: at least one state lawmaker have called on Milwaukee officials
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: to explain how the error occurred. given footage from CBS 58.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: And by the way, this is just dumb luck. CBS
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: 58 had its reporters down there at Central Code. It
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: was like, this is how they do the thing. And
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: they actually had footage of them when they were downloading
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: the machine audit rather than video. There's actually video of this.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Proceedings on the screen, in large font, the workers were
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: obtaining audit logs. So it even said on the thing,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: we're downloading the audit log. The only way you couldn't
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: understand that is if you didn't know what you were doing,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: but the persons that were doing this, you would think
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: that this would be something that they would know how
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: to do, or why would you have chosen them for that? Continuing,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: it gets better. The city is not seeking disciplinary action
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: against the employees who made the mistake, Mayor Kevlar Johnson
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: told the Journal Sentinel. I discussed this last week. The
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: fact that they aren't disciplining the employees who screwed up
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: shows the lack of seriousness with which they treat this error.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: If an athlete made a similar type of error during
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: a game, there's a chance they'd be sent down, benched, fined.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: There'd be some degree of unaccountability, and if they're a
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: marginal player, they'd probably be fired. Yet in terms of
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: the sanctity of the election, and by the way, not
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: even discipline, so short of firing, what, they're not even
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: going to, what, ball them out? Dock them a few days' pay?
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Demote them? How else do you get slacker incompetence to
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: make sure they're doing things right if there aren't consequences
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: for bleeping up? Here's our mayor, little Chevy. I don't
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: think that because somebody made a mistake, not a malicious mistake,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: but just a mistake in the process, I don't think
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: it rises to the level of firing. Whether it does
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: or it doesn't, the question here is any discipline at all.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: And by the way, why doesn't it rise to the
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: level of firing? Why doesn't it? Seems to me a
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: pretty basic mistake out of incredible stupidity and one that
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: would easily be caught, but again, I've got other questions
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: about this that, of course, the media is not answering, asking,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: and all they're doing here is they got a copy
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: of the email that was sent, and I'm sure that
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: the email was sent. I'm not going to say sure.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: The email was probably leaked by the city itself, so
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: they don't have to answer questions, but here's the thing,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: and we'll send it over to you anyway. I often
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: criticize nonprofits, and for that matter, for-profit businesses that get
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: embezzled when they have one-party check-signing rules. I don't believe
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: that any business or any nonprofit should allow a single
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: individual to sign checks. Even if there's only one signature,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: there needs to be at least two people that verify
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: and take a look at the account. Clearly, two people
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: can embezzle together. There's a local nonprofit in Milwaukee where
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: three employees embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the agency.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: They were all in it together, but getting three people
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: to be crooks and steal money is a lot harder
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: than to get one. The process of taking money The
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: voting results off the machine and onto the memory stick
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: has to be one of the most important things they're
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: doing there. Why weren't two people involved? And again, I just,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: by the way, it's not lack of staffing. Milwaukee runs
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: early voting at extended hours. They started the first time
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: that law allows it. They have weekends. They have, because
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: the mayor cranks out this huge funding for Milwaukee early
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: voting because Milwaukee is a democratic city and they want
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: to give voters as many chances as they can to vote.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: The people out there in suburbs and in Republican areas
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: with their lard butt, lazy ass clerks, they might offer two,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: three hours a day if that. of the early voting.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee spends a fortune on this, so there's not a
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: slack of left funds with regard to the election process
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. Why are two people involved in this? And
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: especially if, you know, well, the people that are working
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: for me are dumb as a box of rocks, I
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: should have... And again, when I voted in Milwaukee, I
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: could pay close attention to what's going on. They all
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: seem to be very nice people and there's integrity. I
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: had to vote by mail a couple of years ago
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: when I was in Florida. It was a primary election...
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: I think it was the mayor's election and it was
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: a primary and there was only one race on the ballot,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: but I have a record of perfect voting. So I
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: had to do a mail-in ballot and it never came.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: So like a week and a half before I contacted
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: the election commission and I requested my ballot well in advance.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: And as it turns out, it was sent to my
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: building in Florida and it didn't have the unit number
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: on it. And I live in a building with hundreds,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know, hundreds. Yeah, hundreds of units. And I'm
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: a runner. They must not have known my name. My
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: guess is that it was circulating somewhere. Anyway, they sent
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: the thing back and I said, I'll pay the cost
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: of overnighting. They did everything possible to make sure I
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: got my ballot and then I overnighted it back. They're
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: very responsive. Now, were they responsive just because it was me?
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: My guess is they'd be responsive to anybody because chances are,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: in my case, not. But chances are, if you're a
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee voter, you're lefty. So, I mean, I think that
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: they're well-meaning and they're well-intended, but we just have these
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: screw-ups again and again and again. And the biggest one is,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: why does it take them so long? And it's not like, well,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: they're being really careful because they keep screwing up. Next story.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: Candidates for office in Wisconsin have to file a financial
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: disclosure statement. The closest congressional race that we have in Wisconsin...
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: It's considered to be one of the three or four
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: races that will determine whether the Republicans or Democrats control
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: the House of Representatives. It's the western Wisconsin district. It
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: is a swing district. The district sprawls all the way
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: from Eau Claire down virtually to the Illinois state line
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: along the Minnesota-Iowa border. It covers the cities of Eau
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: Claire and La Crosse, a big district. The current congressman
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: is Republican Derek Van Orden. His challenger for the second
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: election in a row is Rebecca Cook. She's a lefty
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: who's trying to pass herself off as a moderate lefty.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: She didn't get her financial disclosure statement in until two
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: days after the primary. She had a Democratic opponent in
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: the primary. a Democrat who ran to the left of her.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: She wasn't quite an AOC socialist, but was close. So
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Cook's people were putting out, well, this opponent can't beat
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Van Orden because Rebecca, she's more moderate than the other one.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, Cook did not get her financial disclosure
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: in until after the primary. Now it's out. Guess who
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Rebecca Cook spent months working for? George Soros! The radical
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Antichrist himself. Quoting, Cook's personal financial disclosure released two days
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: after the Wisconsin August 13th primary shows that she received
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: more than $ 5, 000 apiece for work with Third Way and
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: the Pipeline Fund. Two left-leaning organizations with financial ties to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: George Soros' Open Society Network. One of the things that
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: we Republicans are not as good at the left at.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: The lefties will tie candidates for public office to any
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: unpopular Republican they can find out there and demonize some
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: of them. Like, for example, Musk. Here you have an
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: actual anarchist, anti-American like Soros. Soros is the guy that
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: got almost every one of these radical district attorneys in
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: the United States elected. Soros doesn't believe in incarceration. He's
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: made that clear. So he got elected. You know, district
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: attorney races generally don't have much spending in them. So
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: he funded in Democratic cities hundreds of thousands of dollars
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: and funneled them into radical candidates who ran against incumbent, regular,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: liberal Democratic district attorneys, and they all won. That's who
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: Soros is. And then he runs all of these nonprofit
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: leftist advocacy groups. And for people who say, well, don't worry,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Soros is in his 90s. He's going to die soon.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: His son's even worse. And his son's starting to take
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: over the whole thing. And he's got all these networks
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: and all these operations. And here Rebecca Cook, who wants
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: to represent Eau Claire in Congress, is on George Soros' payroll.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Next story for you. I found this story. I don't
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: know who broke it, but I will say I found
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: it on Wisconsin right now. So maybe they did break it.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: I just don't know. There's a public defender in Racine County.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: His name is Cole Covey. You know, looks can be deceiving.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: And especially the last 20 years, I've met a fair
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: number of kind of long-haired, radical-looking people who are very conservative.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: And have you noticed that? Not as much. And I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: just think part of it is now, if you were
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: like especially like five years ago, if you were a
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: young anti-establishment person, that meant you were a Republican because
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: the whole establishment was actually leftist. But you can usually tell.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I see the pink hair and the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: nose rings, it might be a Republican. It usually isn't.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: You should see this guy, Cole Covey. It doesn't say
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: here where he got his law degree, but my guess
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: is that it was from Marquette of Wisconsin because if
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: you go to Marquette of Wisconsin, you don't have to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: pass the bar. Jason's from Illinois. Did you know that?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Not if you went to a law school from Wisconsin.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: If you went to, say, Harvard or DePaul or Loyola.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Does Loyola have a law school? Yeah. If you go
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: to an out-of-state law, you've got to pass the bar,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: which is not easy. But if you go to Wisconsin
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: or Marquette, you automatically are in there. It's just a
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: huge thing to encourage law students to go to Marquette
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: and Wisconsin because you don't have to pass the bar,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: which means a whole lot of dummies get through. You say, well,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: if they're not, how'd they get through law school? Well,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: some people just study a lot, but they're not doing, anyway.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: He just looks to me like the ultimate hack. He
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: alleged that a Racine County Sheriff's deputy abused an inmate
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: at the county jail. In this instance, The deputies have
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: body cams and the jail has fixed-base cameras. And the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: cameras showed that the deputy didn't do it. You want
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: to know why I'm ragging on Waukesha County Sheriff's Department
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: for still not having body cams? It's because the body cams,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: which initially the lefties were the ones that were pushing
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: because they thought it would expose all this police brutality
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: again and again and again and again. It's the thing
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: that exonerates the police. Maybe in part, some of these
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: police who might have gotten in an extra poke, okay, no,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: they can't because there's the body cams. But by and large,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: they become the things that clear law enforcement and often
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: show the bad actions of the criminal. In this instance,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: the public defender made this allegation. He tried to destroy
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: the deputy's career. Name is Cole Covey. The sheriff in
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: Racine County, Christopher Schmaling, issued a press release ripping him.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: He has now been charged. It was reduced by the
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: DA's office to a non-criminal charge of interfering with or
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: obstructing an officer. He was ordered to report the incident
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: to the Office of Lawyer Regulation within 30 days. Hopefully,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: his license will be yanked. I'm not optimistic. The Office
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: of Lawyer Regulation in Wisconsin, I don't know about all
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: these agencies. There's an agency that oversees plumbers and just
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: about every other thing. I don't know that they're all
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: this bad, but you've got to really screw up to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: have the Office of Lawyer Regulation yank your license. They
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: do suspend people for a while in all of this,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: but this is terrible. This goes beyond simply defending your client,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: the inmate. He made a direct allegation of abuse that
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: would have destroyed this deputy's career. Next. Another bar is
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: closed on Milwaukee's Water Street. There's a trend here. The
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: bar district on Water Street is dying. This one is
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: called Low Country. Just in the last several weeks, Duke's
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: on Water closed, and then several days ago, the strip
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: joint Silk's on Water, not to be confused with the
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: larger down, there's three strip joints in downtown Milwaukee. There's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: a bigger one, what street is it? It's close into
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: the convention center. This one is on Water Street. It's
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: an offshoot of the Silks chain. Silks on Water has closed.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: Now a bar called Low Country is also closing. Low
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Country is a restaurant. I've never been there. Story here
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: says that it had gotten very good reviews. I think
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: in some cases these are coincidences. This isn't a coincidence.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: The bars on Water Street are struggling. Here's why. I've
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: tried to report forever that the problems that we have
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: on Water Street are not because of the patrons at
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: the bars. I mean, some of them are. When you
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: have bars that close at 2 or 2.30 in the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: morning and a lot of people are drunk when they
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: leave the bar, some people cause trouble. But the largest
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: portion of the problem on Water Street is not the
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: bar attendees. They are people that are underage. who go
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: down there to hang out and cause trouble. Water Street's
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: a big, wide street, and they go down there and
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: they run their wheelies and they squeal their tires, and
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: the crowds are so large that even a large police
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: presence often has difficulty controlling them. What has happened is
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: the people who just want to go to the bars
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: are now avoiding Water Street, including a lot of the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: people who don't live near downtown Milwaukee. They're going somewhere
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: where they don't feel as though their lives are going
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: to be threatened when they leave the bar. Now, some
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: people may say this is a good thing. The Water
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Street bar scene, which has been thriving in Milwaukee, I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: would say really ever since the late 80s, and was
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: forever largely a strength of the city, it only became
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: a problem in the last 10 to 15 years when
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: you had these large groups of people just coming in
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: and doing their street takeovers. There's, I won't say, there's
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: a related story here. This is a positive development with
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: regard to Water Street. The Bartolotta chain, Paul Bartolotta, his
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: brother Joe passed away a few years ago. Paul controls
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: the whole company now. Great restaurateur, great chef. He needs
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: to get back and actually do some cooking. I'm sure
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: he oversees and he has his hand in this, but
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: best meal I've ever had in my life was at
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: his restaurant in Las Vegas, which was called Bartolotta. By
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: the way, in Las Vegas, they called it Bartolotta. Because
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: maybe that's the way you're supposed to pronounce it, but
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: they're from Milwaukee and their names are Bartolotta. It was
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: in the window, it's called Bartolotta. He's such a celebrity
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: chef that the restaurant was named after him. Anyway, the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Bartolotta chain, which operates a number of restaurants in Milwaukee,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: many of you know a lot of them. See Bacchus,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Lake Park Bistro, Mr.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: B's.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: There's, I forget the name of the supper club one.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: They own the Italian place in downtown Wauwatosa, whose name
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: is running out of my head right now. A lot
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: of restaurants. They had a restaurant called the Rumpus Room
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: on Water Street. This closed years ago. I think it
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: might have even been before COVID. It closed a long time.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: They still have apparently a lease on that space. The
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: building is 1000 North Water. They are reopening a restaurant
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: in that location. When I first heard this, I thought, wow.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: you're going to try to open a trendy restaurant in
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: the middle of this hellhole of Water Street? On the
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: other hand, restaurants have different hours. The trouble on Water
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Street primarily is 1130 p.m. and later. Restaurants are You know,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: they usually close 9.30, 10, 10.30 the latest. The restaurant
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: is called High Stakes. From the descriptions I've seen, it
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: is to be a high-end steakhouse. High-end steakhouses thrive. They
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: just do. It's a really tough racket because there's a
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: lot of really good operators in there and the price
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: points tend to be very, very high. In addition to that,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: they're going to operate a bar. When it was the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: Rumpus Room, it was a pretty big square foot place
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: and the bar was Let's see, the south end of
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: the facility. They might have it completely laid around, but
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: the bar is to be a destination in and of itself.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: I forget the name, but Peacock Bar comes out to me.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: In any event, they're sinking a fortune into this. So
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: they're making a bet that you can make it work
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: on Water Street. Now, just a little bit farther south
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: on Water Street, you've got the Hotel de St. Kate's.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: It's got like three or four restaurants in there. It's
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: doing really well. The problems on Water Street have been primarily...
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: a little bit to the farther south of that, and
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: then to the north. So it may well be that
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: the trouble created by the crowds outside the bars is
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: killing almost all of the bars, and none of the
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: operators are able to make any money anymore because their
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: customers are afraid to come in. But in the meantime,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: the portions of Water Street that haven't gone to hell,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: they may be bouncing back with a higher-end experience. You're
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: listening to the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the Mark
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. It's possible that by the time you're hearing this,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: this mistake has been corrected because I posted it on
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: my site on X at 12.07 in the afternoon on Monday.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: And it might have been corrected like four minutes after
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: that because these things get seen and then people repost them.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: In some cases, AI is really improving the world. For example...
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Google's AI, I think, is unbelievably. If I Google something
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: and Google AI, it's way better than the regular Google
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: search was. It'll give me incredible information on arcane stuff,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: and you can tell it's correct. But in other cases,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: when companies are using AI, I'm thinking that there's kind
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: of an AI situation combined with dumbbell slacker employees. The
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: website of Fox 6, which is a news partner of
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: my former radio station, WISN, who I have a sister's
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: length relationship with, I do my show from their studio.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: The website of Fox 6 today, on the homepage, in
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: other words, not when you click in to get to
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: a page, but just the main homepage, has a story
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: up there. In fact, it was up there twice. Milwaukee doubleheader,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee mile doubleheader race postponed. Oh, my. That's what it said. Well, indeed,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: the Saturday race wasn't run until Sunday, but today's Monday
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: and both races were run and are over. In addition
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: to that, nowhere in the homepage did they have the
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: story about the results of the race. So if you,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: I get, you know, I get the print edition of
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: the Journal Sentinel still. I mean, that thing has got
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: so old, it's got mold on it. On the Monday paper,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: you'll get like the Saturday Brewer score, not the Sunday.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: But what's the excuse on a website? Indeed, the IndyCar race,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee had a doubleheader. You know, if the Milwaukee mile
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: just being dead, IndyCar has fallen in love with the facility,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: and they run two races here, and it's the season
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: wrapper for them, meaning the points championship and so on.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: They run a race on Saturday, and they run a
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: race on Sunday. Well, Saturday's rain weather was crappy, and
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: the race was stopped after 91 laps, and they waited
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: six hours to try to resume. And they just couldn't
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: because it just would rain again and they couldn't dry
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: off the track. Both races were 250 laps and the
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: mile is obviously a mile, 250 miles. So they suspended
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: the race on Saturday and said we're going to repeat
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: it and finish it off on Sunday. They also had
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: the regular race Sunday scheduled for noon. So the original
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: plan was to conclude the Saturday race at 8 o'clock
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: in the morning. Because you need to have time between
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: races so the teams can work on the cars and
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: so on. You know, some cars wreck out of mechanical
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: problems and so on. In addition to that, they had
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: their second tier series, I think NXT or whatever it's called.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: That was the run of 10 in the morning. Well,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: it was still raining at 8 o'clock Sunday morning. So
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: they pushed the conclusion of the Saturday race back to
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: 5 in the afternoon Sunday. And the weather then cleared up,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: so they ran the regular Sunday race at noon. By
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: the way, the weather then was beautiful. Somehow in the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: long run, this all worked out. I've been to all
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: the races, the Indy races at the mile. I was
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: not able to go this year, but I did watch
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: the bulk of the noon race on TV. It looked
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: like a very good crowd. The crowds have gotten bigger
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: and bigger. The only seats that were not filled in
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: the grandstand are the ones that that are lowest. And
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: if you've ever been there, the low seats are the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: worst ones because you can't see across the track because
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: of the cars and the haulers and the infield. So
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: you want to be higher up. But it looked to
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: me like the entire run of the grandstand was essentially
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: filled once you got into the upper, say, 60% of
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: the grandstand. And fortunately, the really good seats on the turns,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: they still don't sell. They can't get to that. But
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: IndyCar doesn't draw huge crowds in many of their races.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: And this one's been very successful. And Because it's only
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: a mile. It's such a unique track with no banking.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: It looks good on TV. Anyway, Pato Award won. Well,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: here's the thing that's funny about this. When they stopped
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: the Saturday race after 91 laps, Pato Award was in
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: the lead. So Pato Award, during the race, the Sunday race,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: was actually leading two Indy races at the same time.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: He's in the lead in the race that's going on,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: and he's actually leading the race that was suspended that
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: would be restarted. Well, he didn't win that race. He
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: won the race, the Sunday race. People say, what a coincidence.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Not so much, really. But the Saturday race, which was
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: restarted at 5 o'clock, he won that, too. So he
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: won two races in the same day. Now, that's not
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: surprising because, you know, if you've got a car that's
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: set up and handling well, and Milwaukee is a unique track,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: when I say no banking, for those of you who
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: know nothing about racing, the higher banking, the more, you know,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: you can stay on the throttle the whole thing because
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: the banking, you know, facilitates your turn when it's flat.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: really rough on the tires, and it takes a unique
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: type of driving style and setting up the chassis and
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: the way that you've staggered the tires and so on
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: to be able to handle it, and not all drivers
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: are as adept at it as others. Well, Pato Award
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: obviously had a feel, and his team had a feel
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: for the Milwaukee Crack, and while there was a gap
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: of two and a half hours between races, he won
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: both races, and the second race was on. That's the
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: other thing about the Fox 6 screw-up. Do you know
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: what channel the Sunday race was on? It was on
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: Fox 6! You'd think that since they carried the race,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: they'd be making an extra deal out of the result
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: of the race. The second race was on Fox 1,
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: and obviously fewer people, but there were a fair number
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: that hung around, and kudos to them. There was an
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: issue created with the tickets. you had three options for
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: buying tickets. You could buy Saturday-only tickets, Sunday-only tickets, or
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: you could buy a two-day pass. You buy a two-day pass,
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: you get the same seats for both days. But if
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  Speaker 2: you buy only Saturday, you get specific seats. And if
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: you buy only Sunday-specific seats. So the problem is that
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: some of the Saturday tickets are held by the Sunday people,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: so when the Saturday race was delayed, they came up
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: with this system. I think it's a pretty good solution.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: They said the Saturday people can come in on Sunday.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: Your tickets will be honored, but you don't get your seat.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: You have to take a general admission seat. However, that
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: when they resume the Saturday race, which is five in
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: the afternoon, you get to go to your seat there.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: And if somebody's still sitting in there who had a
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: Sunday ticket, they have to move to the general admission.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: As it was, the second race, the resumption of the
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: Saturday race was sparsely intended, and I'm sure it worked
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: out for everybody. But in the end, they got off
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: two races and Milwaukee is becoming, other than the Indy 500,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: I would say the biggest, most important stop in that circuit.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: They also had the advantage this year of being one
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: week after the Freedom 250 run on the streets of Washington, D.C.,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: which certainly helped. In addition to Pato winning both races,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Alex Palou won the season championship and won it easily.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: He didn't figure strongly in either race, but again, I
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: watched both. He was driving safe. He just didn't want
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: to wreck, which would cost himself a lot of points.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: He was driving just well enough, I think. He had
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: a huge lead going into the race. This is the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: fifth time in six years that Alex Velou has won
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: the IndyCar Championship he drives for. Chip Ganassi. Chip Ganassi
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: is one of those names that even if you don't
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: know anything about auto racing, it just sounds familiar to
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: people for whatever reason. My old producer, Paul, knew nothing
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: about automobile racing. Do you know anything about it? A
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: little bit. You knew of Roger Penske and Ganesi and
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: all of that. Did you know, like, Alex Palou? was
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: what yeah yeah he's five champions champion five of the
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: last six years um for whatever reason the mclaren team
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: is very when i go to the races there's tons
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: of people who wear the mclaren shirts i don't know
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: why that's a thing it might be because mclaren is
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: a strong team in formula one as well and some
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: people are just into that brand but pot of award
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: um Yeah, he drives for Arrow McLaren, and he won
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: the two races here. They did make a deal that
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: they're going to be here at least through, I think,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: the year 2031. So the Milwaukee Mile, which I was
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: convinced was dead, is back and thriving. And this particular
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: weekend for the IndyCar is working out, and I'm glad
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: they were able to finally get the weather to break
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: and get the two races in and so.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: On.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: Packer cuts. I'm putting this at the end of the
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: podcast because some people don't care and other people care
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: a lot. By the way, no coverage of Bear cuts.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: I'll just ask Jason, did they do anything significant? I mean,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: was there anything Bear fans were discussing? Will they keep
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: this guy or not that guy? I'll comment on three
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: noteworthy Packer cut developments. For the second year in a row,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: the fans get all wound up about the third string quarterback.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: And for the second year in a row, the third
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: string quarterback who performed great in the preseason did not
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: make the team. Actually, it might have been two years ago. Yeah,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: it was two years ago where they had a battle
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: for the number two quarterback and cut everybody and went
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: out and signed Malik Willis, who was a free agent,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: which turned out to be a great deal. This year,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: the number one and number two positions were solidified. Obviously,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Jordan loves your quarterback. And They've signed, I would say,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: Malik Willis turned out to be a great backup, but
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: was not thought to be when they signed him. This
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: is probably the best backup they've had in a long time.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: He's just really old. Tyrod Taylor is 36 or 37
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: years old. But I think with a backup quarterback, you're
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: looking for somebody who, if your main guy goes down,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: you have a chance to win. That's all you're asking for.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: Do we have a chance to win rather than it
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: simply being doomed? And I think Tyrod Taylor gives you
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: a chance to win. against every opponent. He hasn't started
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: in years, but he actually has a 29-31 record as
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: a starter, which isn't bad. But almost all those wins
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: came 11 years ago. He's just been a backup forever.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: And for the last few years, he was first with
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: the Giants and then with the Jets. So now he's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: with Green Bay. But anyway, those two slots were fixed.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: So the battle was to be the number three quarterback.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: And Kyle McCord played very well during the preseason, which
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: resulted in the Packers having to get rid of him.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: That doesn't seem to make any sense. But the way
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: the NFL works, you can have only 53 men on
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: your roster. And almost nobody wastes three roster spots on quarterbacks.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Almost everybody has only two. And you take your third
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: string quarterback and put him on the practice squad. But
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: to put somebody on the practice squad, you have to
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: cut him. And once you cut him, anybody else can
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: then sign him. The Packers knew that McCord played so
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: well that he was going to be signed by somebody else.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: So they traded him to Miami to get something for him.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: They didn't get much. They got a sixth round draft choice,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: not next year, but the following year, 28. So it
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: was something because they knew full well that if they
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: were simply going to cut him to put him on
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: the practice squad, they would not have had him at all.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: The alternative would have been to carry three quarterbacks in.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: The Packers... over the years have been so bad on
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: special teams that they need to use that spot for
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: a special teams player. And in addition to that, they
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: are so thin at three specific positions that I know
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: 53 sounds, you know, back when I started watching football,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: it was first 37 and just 40. But I mean,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: those are the days in which you didn't rotate players
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: in and out for each series and you didn't have
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: nickel packages and all of that. You just need all
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: of that. So the Packers will be looking for, maybe
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: they've already signed one, They'll be looking for a third-string
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: quarterback after all of the cuts are done, pick up
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: somebody else's cut, and make him their third stringer. This
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: is actually remarkable. The 22nd year in a row, an
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: undrafted free agent cracked the Packer roster. And there were
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: several wide receivers that had a chance of making it.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: They kept J. Michael Sturtevant, who looked really good. They
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: had to cut two other wide receivers who were pretty impressive,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: Johnson and Shepard. Now, I'm doing this podcast on Monday.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if either of them have been signed,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: but if they haven't been signed, they'll likely be back
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: to the practice squad. It does mean the Packers are
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: carrying seven wide receivers, which on a team that wide
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: receiver is a pretty strong position on this team. They
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: have several positions that seem to me to be very weak.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: It's a luxury to carry seven wide receivers. I think
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: that they just, and there could be changes between now
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: and the beginning of the season. I think that they
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: didn't want to give up on Sturdivant, who showed pretty
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: good pass catching abilities. And finally, as the Packers conclude
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: now the preseason, there are three positions that strike me
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: as being very scary issues. The first is running back.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs got put on the commissioner's list, meaning he
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: can't play. Only the commissioner can take you off. The
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: whole Jacobs thing is just weird. He has not been charged.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: Everybody's getting this wrong. He has not been charged with
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: domestic violence. He's facing two misdemeanor charges in connection with
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: this incident. But the DA didn't think that they could
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: prove domestic violence. From what we can see in the
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: criminal complaint, they were in an argument. She wanted to
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: look at his phone because, you know, classic. It's exactly
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: what everybody thought. She thinks, you know, they're back in
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: Green Bay. It was for one of the off-season weekends.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: She thinks he's seeing other women, so she wants to
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: see his phone. He won't give the phone. The next
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: thing you know, he's trying to get her phone, probably
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: because she started to record the incident. And there was
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: a physical interaction. How much of it was mutual and
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: how much he was the aggressor, we don't know. But
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: my guess is that she is not a cooperating witness,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: which makes a domestic violence hard charge to sustain, but
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: they do charge him with the other two things that
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: are there. But as I say, they're only misdemeanors. There
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: is apparently, however, a video. And whether it came off
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: her phone or not, there is a video, and those
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: videos never look good. But, you know... How much do
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: you do to a guy who's only facing misdemeanor charges
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: in a league in which people are charged with misdemeanors
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: all the time and don't have any action done to them?
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: But there is, it's still this notion of domestic violence.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody makes the same point with regard to
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: Ray Lewis. Ray Lewis got to kill somebody and nobody
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: ever kept him out of the league. It was different.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: In any event, we don't know how long they'll be
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: without Josh Jacobs. I look at the Packer running back
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: situation and say it's a mess, borderline disaster. They're starting
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: running back as a guy who cannot stay healthy. Marshawn
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: Lloyd is very talented. If he lasts through opening game,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: it'll be a victory. He's always hurt. In addition to that,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: in the offseason, they got rid of Emmanuel Wilson. He
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: signed with somebody else. That was before they knew that
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: they would have Jacobs being a question mark. They had
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: to go sign a very bad backup from the Steelers.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: Their running back position, I think, looks dire. I think
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Lloyd's a very good player. I just don't know that
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: he's capable of sustaining. The second position of concern is
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: I think tight end is a potential disaster. You have
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Tucker Kraft coming back off an ACL. He's one of
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: the best tight ends in football before the ACL, but
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: he's coming back off an ACL. How full strength he'll
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: be initially. Luke Musgrave is just another guy always hurt.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: He's on the physically unable to perform list. The tight
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: end position and especially dual tight ends is so important
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: in the Packers offense. That's scary. And then the position
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: that everybody knows is a problem for the Packers. They've
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: done nothing to improve themselves at cornerback. They have the
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: same group of bad corners that they had last year.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: The Packers are in the weird situation of having, I think,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: the best safeties in the NFL and maybe the worst corners.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: I know they're different positions, but the Packers have three
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: sensational safeties. You would think a safety could play nickel,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: but they say that they can't. Do you know why
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: they can't? Are they just too slow? I mean, they
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: have the nickel and the dime is when there's six
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: defensive backs, and that's when they'll use all three of
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: their safety. So those would be the three positions I
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: have concern on. Remember that the roster that they have now,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: they can change. They can still cut guys that are
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: on there and pick up guys from other teams and
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: so on. But that's my Packer discussion. As the week
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: goes along, we'll talk about the Badgers who open the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: season on Sunday against, I think. I think the Badgers
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: have one unwinnable game on their schedule, and it's the first.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: It's the first one. Every other team that they have
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: on their schedule, including Penn State, I think they could win.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: I think Notre Dame might be the best team in
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: the country, and by the way, so does everybody else.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: So Wisconsin's opening with a monster. It's a non-conference game.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: The scary thing about it is everybody's wondering if Wisconsin's
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: finally going to be improved this year. They might be
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: very improved and might still look bad. Notre Dame's defense
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: is incredible, and So is Wisconsin's. But the Wisconsin offense,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to have a hard time scoring
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: points on Sunday in a very hostile environment. I think
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: it's going to be 80% Notre Dame fans at Lambeau
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: Field just because Notre Dame fans, they're like Cubs fans.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: They just show up and they travel. It doesn't matter
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: where Notre Dame plays. There's like 45% Notre Dame fans
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: that are there. Does Notre Dame get under your skin?
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: They don't get under my, they don't get under my skin,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: but they do, they get under the skin of some
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: people or whatever. Oh, you're Catholic and that's what, so you're,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: you're kind of, yeah, I'm fine with Notre Dame. I
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: think it's a classy institution and all of that, but
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: their alumni are pains in the butt and they're just,
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: I think that With the declining interest in the Badgers
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: and Notre Dame thinking that they have a legit chance
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: to win a national championship, there'll be a lot of
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame fans there for that game. All right, that's
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: it for today's program. Our football preview and football picking
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: contest is going to start at the tail end of
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 2: the podcast that we're doing on Thursday. Next one is
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: coming out on Wednesday. Talk to you then.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Bye.
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