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Mark Belling Podcast #86: Trump wants a crime-busting US Attorney in Wisconsin and gets it in Brad Schimel, Trump culls the herd and MJT is out, the consensus was wrong (as usual): tariffs aren't inflationary but may be recessionary, and Mark doesn't understand the point of DoorDash · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: I found a survey result something well pool that's really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to spend a few minutes here before I
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  Speaker 2: actually opened the show and roll into everything else. But
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good introduction to the program. I
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  Speaker 2: found the story on Foxnews dot com and it's based
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  Speaker 2: on a survey that was done of It's described as
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  Speaker 2: young women, but that's not probably the right term because
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  Speaker 2: it's a broadcross section of females fifteen to four, so
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  Speaker 2: some of them are girls. And obviously would you say
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  Speaker 2: a woman who's forty three as a young woman. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: from the perspective of me, if they want to start
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  Speaker 2: moving all all of that that stuff back up, that's
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  Speaker 2: fine nonetheless as saying young women, but it's actually fifteen
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  Speaker 2: to forty four. Now, part of this I don't have
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  Speaker 2: how they worded the question, because the way you word
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  Speaker 2: a question can influence the result. But they've been asking
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  Speaker 2: the same question over a lengthy period of time, so
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  Speaker 2: they can track the results, so it's an apples to
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  Speaker 2: apples comparison. The poll was conducted by Gallup. Forty percent
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  Speaker 2: of women in this age group say they would like
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  Speaker 2: to leave the United States. Forty Let me start with
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  Speaker 2: before we dive into who any of them are. My
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  Speaker 2: guess is the overwhelming majority of the forty percent of
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  Speaker 2: women who say they would like to leave the United
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  Speaker 2: States vote for Democrats. So we should all do everything
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  Speaker 2: we can to empower them to go ahead and do it.
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  Speaker 2: But see, that's the point. What do you mean you
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  Speaker 2: want to leave the United States? The caveat of the
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  Speaker 2: pole said, if given the opportunity, what opportunity? It's not
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  Speaker 2: that hard. See, I think it's an insincere response. If
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to leave the United States, you would leave
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  Speaker 2: the United States. It's not that hard to do. The
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  Speaker 2: question didn't even say leave the United States to go
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  Speaker 2: to Canada or Britain or it just leave the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Some countries are hard to get to others it's really easy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, zillions of senior citizens have retired to Costa Rica.
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  Speaker 2: That's become one of those countries that's sort of become
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  Speaker 2: a retirement destination. So I don't know they won't move
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  Speaker 2: it to Costa Rica. But if a bunch of old
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  Speaker 2: farts can move to Costa Rica, some of these young
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  Speaker 2: women can why I don't want to go there. Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe they'd like to leave the United States. But
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  Speaker 2: when asked where would you like to leave? To who?
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  Speaker 2: They can't come up with anything else. But they're saying
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  Speaker 2: they would like to leave. Now, let's unpack this a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. First of all, they're saying they would like
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  Speaker 2: to leave. The United States have given the opportunity, but
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  Speaker 2: they haven't left. Isn't this an indictment of their own helplessness.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, unless it's something you can't afford, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to do something, you do it. And I have
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  Speaker 2: a guess in terms of leaving the United States, there
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  Speaker 2: are all sorts of places in which the cost of
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  Speaker 2: living would be lower than the United States, so affordability
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be that much of an issue. I know personally
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  Speaker 2: people who moved back and forth between Canada. There's rigamarole
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  Speaker 2: with the Canadians and doing it, but people have done it.
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  Speaker 2: So what they're really saying is I'd like to leave
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  Speaker 2: the United States, but I'm too inept to be able
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how to do it, or maybe they're thinking, man, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: i've got kids, I can't leave for that reason, but
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to do what i'd like to do what
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to do it. Nonetheless, forty percent. That means
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  Speaker 2: that forty percent say that they just can't stand it
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  Speaker 2: here and would prefer to be somewhere else. And as
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  Speaker 2: I say, I just think it's intuitive that the overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: majority of those people would be leftists. They've been tracking
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  Speaker 2: this number over a number of years. When they conducted
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  Speaker 2: the survey in twenty fourteen, it was twenty five percent.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the numbers for young women way higher
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  Speaker 2: than for young men. Now, I think that I know
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  Speaker 2: where all of this comes from. I think you have
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  Speaker 2: lots and lots and lots of people, particularly younger people,
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  Speaker 2: who are extremely unhappy. And I think that their unhappiness
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  Speaker 2: is both complex and simple, but it all comes down
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  Speaker 2: to I think just a general codleg of them. I
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  Speaker 2: think that they are inculcated when they are young in
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  Speaker 2: schools with being told about how terrible the United States is,
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  Speaker 2: how much injustice there is, and so on, so they
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  Speaker 2: take on a victim mentality. They're steered away from God
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  Speaker 2: or anything that might lead to fulfillment or a sense
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  Speaker 2: of purpose, enjoy doing much of anything. So they have
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  Speaker 2: this just overwhelming malaise in their lives in which everything's
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  Speaker 2: a blah. And rather than take any kind of accountability
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  Speaker 2: for that blah, Okay, my life screwed up. I'm unhappy,
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  Speaker 2: do something about it. It's like, what can I do
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  Speaker 2: about it? The whole notion that you can do something
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  Speaker 2: and you can take action, they don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: any of that. They think that it is the responsibility
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  Speaker 2: of everyone else to make them happy. This is why
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  Speaker 2: so many of them are voting for people like Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: I wish things didn't cost as much. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: could do this, I wish I could do that. And
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  Speaker 2: this socialist says that we'll be able to get all
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  Speaker 2: of these things for free. So this mentality, I think
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  Speaker 2: comes from an overall sense of coddling. The opposite of
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  Speaker 2: coddling would be to culturalize people at a young age,
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  Speaker 2: to tell them charge of your destiny. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to get ahead, do this, and then do that and
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  Speaker 2: do the other thing. Generally speaking, the harder you work,
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  Speaker 2: the more your chances are of succeeding. But that's not
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  Speaker 2: the message that they're given. They're given every other possible
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  Speaker 2: type of message, and they end up, particularly I think
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  Speaker 2: younger people and particularly younger women, very very unhappy. So
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  Speaker 2: they say they want to leave, but then they haven't
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  Speaker 2: left again because just like everything else, they refuse to
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  Speaker 2: take charge of their own lives and do it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: my guess is those that could do it haven't done it,
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  Speaker 2: meaning they're just lying. So they're forty percent. Thing is
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  Speaker 2: just one more way of bitching about this, because all
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  Speaker 2: they do is bitch and complain about everything. It's like
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  Speaker 2: their own personal version of you know, there's all these
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  Speaker 2: diseases that people have that they can't you know, they
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  Speaker 2: do medical tests on them and they can't find any symptoms,
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  Speaker 2: so they call it a syndrome and something, and they
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  Speaker 2: may exist, they may not, I don't know, like epstein,
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  Speaker 2: barr and chronic fatigue send them. Those things might all
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  Speaker 2: be real or maybe they're not. I honestly don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but I do know that the people who tend to
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  Speaker 2: have one or two of them tend to have nine
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  Speaker 2: or ten of them, and they become an excuse, I think,
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  Speaker 2: to not move forward and again I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: people who have actually have these conditions. I'm just talking
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  Speaker 2: to people who just want to glimb on and claim
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  Speaker 2: that they have this, that they have that, that they
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  Speaker 2: have the other thing, all that excuse to not take
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  Speaker 2: control of their lives and do anything about it. So
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  Speaker 2: they therefore blame it all in the United States and
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  Speaker 2: say I wish I could leave. I guarantee you this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's imagine all of them left. This forty percent they
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  Speaker 2: all left, and by the way, what a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's just zero reason to oppose this. We should empower them. Leave.
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  Speaker 2: Renounce your citizenship too. Don't go off and leave and
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  Speaker 2: then try to send for a ballot to still vote
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  Speaker 2: in our election. No, no, no, you hate it here, get
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  Speaker 2: the hell out and become a citizen of something else.
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  Speaker 2: Let's imagine they all did it, I guarantee you. In
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  Speaker 2: five years. Let's suppose they all moved to England, and
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  Speaker 2: they all moved to France, and they're all over to Canada.
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  Speaker 2: They would all say they want to move from that
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  Speaker 2: country too, because nothing will have changed. They'll probably be
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  Speaker 2: even more miserable than they are here. There are some
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  Speaker 2: people who are predisposed to whining, and it is about
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  Speaker 2: half of the females under the age of forty four,
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  Speaker 2: and you see it by their thing. They say, what
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  Speaker 2: I'd friend of somewhere else, it's whining. Half are predisposed
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  Speaker 2: to that. And the half that are predisposed to whining
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  Speaker 2: are the half that are mostly miserable. So all of
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  Speaker 2: this babying and pampering and coddling that we have done
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  Speaker 2: to them all in an attempt to be nice and
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  Speaker 2: to be understanding of them, has just made them more miserable.
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  Speaker 2: And that number is just going to keep going up.
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  Speaker 2: All these people that were convincing all these girls were
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  Speaker 2: convincing that they're males, and males that we're convincing that
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  Speaker 2: they're females, and soon they're all gonna be miserably unhappy.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna blame it on the United States. They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: want to leave too, And all of this messaging is
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  Speaker 2: coming from people who themselves are miserably unhappy. I believe
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  Speaker 2: I've just in a sense, explained the entire world. You
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  Speaker 2: line moves fast. You don't seem to have any reaction
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  Speaker 2: to this. Don't you have anything you want to chip in?
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  Speaker 2: On this. You're soaking it in. Do you not think
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  Speaker 2: I'm right about this? Well, you have two daughters that
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  Speaker 2: are under the age of forty four. They don't want
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  Speaker 2: to leave, do they. That's my point, because they have
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  Speaker 2: a sense of purpose, they have something that they want
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  Speaker 2: to do, They've got all of this, they've got a
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  Speaker 2: notion that they've got to make their own way in
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  Speaker 2: the world, et cetera. When you don't have any of that,
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  Speaker 2: Big Story. We're going to analyze this one here. If
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  Speaker 2: you I just told you come up with somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: had a remarkably up and down political career in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Shibble's the definition of that talk about battlescard. He's
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  Speaker 2: like one of these players in the NBA that's really
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  Speaker 2: good but ends up on a lot of different teams,
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  Speaker 2: like say Anthony Davis or something. Brad Shimmel is going
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  Speaker 2: to be the new United States Attorney for eastern Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Story broke over the weekend. I don't know who had
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  Speaker 2: it first. I know that dani ol'donald had something on
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  Speaker 2: this before I had heard about it. Wisconsin right now
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  Speaker 2: had reported it, So I don't know who it is
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  Speaker 2: that had it first, but it developed over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's everything about this story. Is it arresting? He's
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  Speaker 2: not been named United States Attorney that requires confirmation by
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. He's been named by the Justice Department and
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  Speaker 2: President Trump interim United States Attorney. Why do it that way?
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  Speaker 2: I bet most of you know don't know why you
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  Speaker 2: do it that way. Some of you do. You don't
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  Speaker 2: know why you're the name of an interim US attorney,
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  Speaker 2: do you no? I'm good, That's why I know you
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  Speaker 2: don't that's why I'm going to explain it. The people
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  Speaker 2: who know are the ones that are just political junkies
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  Speaker 2: and in others. An interim US Attorney does not need
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  Speaker 2: to be confirmed. You can be an interim United States Attorney.
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  Speaker 2: It's either four or six months. I believe four months,
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  Speaker 2: but it means you start, you know, the instant that
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  Speaker 2: they make the apployment. You can start and be in
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  Speaker 2: charge and go down to the office and be in there.
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  Speaker 2: This is the same thing that President Trump did with
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  Speaker 2: the US Attorney for DC. Attorney for DC, that's the
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  Speaker 2: big one, because that's the one that's the United States
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  Speaker 2: Attorney for the federal government. He didn't want any of
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  Speaker 2: the holdover hacks from the Biden Justice Department to do that,
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  Speaker 2: so he quickly named Jeanine Perrol, former personality on Fox
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  Speaker 2: Judge Janeen. He named her the interim United States Attorney
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  Speaker 2: for DC, but it meant she went in there right there.
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  Speaker 2: She has since gotten the permanent position. So what the
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  Speaker 2: President will no doubt do is also down the road
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  Speaker 2: nominate sim Will to be the permanent United States Attorney,
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  Speaker 2: which requires set of confirmation. But once you're in as
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  Speaker 2: the interim a that becomes an easier thing to accomplish.
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  Speaker 2: B you don't have the whole thing held up with
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  Speaker 2: the Senate Delly Deally's around it. So it's his way
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  Speaker 2: of getting somebody in there today right now. Second part,
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  Speaker 2: why shimmo. First of all, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: fronts on which the Trump presidency is fighting right now.
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  Speaker 2: One of them is to clean up the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 2: In our law enforcement agencies, the FBI ice, they've had
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  Speaker 2: wholesale changes at their top and wholesale changes in the
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  Speaker 2: way they're operating. The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has a
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  Speaker 2: mandate to do some of these things. In addition, all
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  Speaker 2: across the country, these agencies and individual branches of the
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department are starting to look at all sorts of
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  Speaker 2: criminal activity that's been going on for years. In some
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  Speaker 2: cases criminal activity committed by the Justice Department. A number
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  Speaker 2: of the individuals who behaved badly and illegally during the
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  Speaker 2: Biden era are now themselves being prosecuted. But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, there are all sorts of things that were
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  Speaker 2: you just generally knew if you did certain crimes on
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  Speaker 2: the left that you get a pass. One of them
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  Speaker 2: would be the case of Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County
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  Speaker 2: Circuit judge who just figured she could obstruct an ice
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  Speaker 2: warrant and help an illegal em we're going to escape.
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  Speaker 2: She's facing criminal charges, and we're going to get to
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  Speaker 2: an update on that story right after this one. Let
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  Speaker 2: me go back to the w Bush era. We had
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  Speaker 2: an aggressive United States attorney then he's now a defense attorney,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Biskupik. A number of prosecutions into political corruption in
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee and in the region went on during that time.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of it was Milwaukee Alderman, Milwaukee public officials
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  Speaker 2: using campaign funds for personal expenses. There were other cases
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  Speaker 2: of bribery. You remember Michael McGee junior Senior was a
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  Speaker 2: piece of work himself. But Michael McGee junior called himself,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he is a gatekeeper of his automatic district.
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  Speaker 2: You want to get something done, you had to pay
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  Speaker 2: him money. Well, there was investigations, prosecutions of people like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's been almost nothing since. The political corruption stuff that's
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  Speaker 2: been going on has been pretty much left to the
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  Speaker 2: local county district attorney's offices. The Milwaukee County DIA has
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  Speaker 2: moved on several things, but a lot of the suburban counties.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing and that's not certainly not because there isn't
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  Speaker 2: criminal activity going on. There's numerous violations of the law
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  Speaker 2: and misconduct and public office and sweetheart deals, etc. One
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons that Shimmel is extremely well qualified for
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  Speaker 2: this is because he's been battered around himself, you know
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  Speaker 2: the old term. He knows where all the bodies are buried,
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  Speaker 2: shovel those where all the bodies are buried. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at his career. Was an assistant district attorney
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  Speaker 2: in Waukeshaw County. He was kind of anointed to become
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  Speaker 2: the DA after Paul Booker left the office DA in
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  Speaker 2: Waukeshaw County. He then built enough of a reputation. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the most aggressive prosecutor, but he was very good.
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  Speaker 2: Waukeshaw County in my lifetime, or at least in my
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  Speaker 2: pier period here setting in nineteen eighty nine, has always
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  Speaker 2: needed a hard hitting, marauding district attorney. It's never had one,
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  Speaker 2: but they've Most of them who've been in there during
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  Speaker 2: the time have been very good, but just not marauding
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  Speaker 2: on hard hit against shim will fit into that category,
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  Speaker 2: but he developed enough of a reputation that he was
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  Speaker 2: able to run for the Republican nomination for attorney general.
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  Speaker 2: Got it twenty ten. Twenty ten was the Republican landslide
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  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. All the Dems got swept out and all
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans came in. That was the year that Scott
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  Speaker 2: Walker got elected governor. It was the year that Ron
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  Speaker 2: Johnson knocked off Fengald the first time to become United
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  Speaker 2: States Senator. It was on the Republicans made massive gains
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  Speaker 2: in both houses of the state legislature and picked up
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  Speaker 2: a Congressional seat and swept in with this with Brad Shimmel.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about the position of Attorney general is it
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  Speaker 2: often becomes a party line vote race. Not always, but
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  Speaker 2: almost always, the party that wins the attorney general wins
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  Speaker 2: the governorship because people tend to vohomin to vote for
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  Speaker 2: all the Democrats and vote off for all the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: And indeed Shimo was re elected in fourteen along with Walker,
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  Speaker 2: and then when Walker was beaten in eighteen, Shimmo was beaten. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so here's Brad career is on the ascendancy. This attorney
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  Speaker 2: DiscT Attorney then he's the attorney general for eight years,
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  Speaker 2: thrown out of office by the voters. Walker lost in
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  Speaker 2: the same election. Remember what happens to a governor or
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  Speaker 2: a president after they lose. The term is called lame duck.
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  Speaker 2: It's a goofy term, but it's been the term as
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  Speaker 2: long as I've been alive. Surprise, somebody hasn't complained about it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not really making fun of the handicapped
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  Speaker 2: and disabled because it's a duck, not a person. It's
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  Speaker 2: a duck, So I mean, who would complain. I guess
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  Speaker 2: ducks or animal nuts or something. A lame duck is someone.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually a terrible it's an inaccurate term. Lamb ducks
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  Speaker 2: are incredibly powerful. They call them lame docks because their
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  Speaker 2: term is about to end, but they are still in
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  Speaker 2: office and still governing. In fact, it's when they are
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  Speaker 2: most powerful because they are not that to lose. Scott
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  Speaker 2: Walker during that period turned around and named Brad Shimmel,
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  Speaker 2: a Walkershaw County Circuit judge. There was a vacancy, so
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Walker filled it by vacancy, and Shimmel was then elected
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to a full term by the voters. And then he's
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: been a Walkershaw County judge. So again the ups and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: downs already and we're just halfway through this. He then
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: made the decision to not run for reelection as a
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: walker Shaw County Circuit judge and instead run for the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin Supreme Court that was earlier this year. He got plastered.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: He got plastered the way all conservative candidates now get
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: plasted when they run for the state Supreme Court. The
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: biggest single reason for this is I've explained many a time,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: is the Democrats have simply been much better at getting
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: their people to turn out in spring elections than Conservatives
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: of Republicans. They're nonpartisan elections, you don't run by party,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: but everybody knows that the Democrats want a liberal Supreme
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Court justice and the Republicans want a conservative, and it's
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: always a liberal against the conservative, and the Democrats just
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: more other people to turn out. And we're going to
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: face the same thing this coming April when there's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: state Supreme Court election when a really lefty judge from Madison,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Chris Taylor runs. The likely conservative opponent she's declared is
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Maria Lazar, who's a state Appeals Court judge. But Maria
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: is going to be running uphill just because it's my side.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Has has just not been as good at getting our
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: low propensity voters to vote in the other So Brad lost.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: So now he's not in the Supreme Court anymore. He's
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: designated by Bondi and Trump now to be the interim
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: United States Attorney. When Shivel ran for the State Supreme Court,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you saw how he was slimed and batted around and
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: so on. That's what makes him ideal for this. He
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: wasn't slimed and batted around as badly as saying Trump
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: has been slimmed and batted around, but he knows what's
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: going on. In addition to that, as a former district attorney,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: he knows how to assemble an office on these federal prosecutors,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: most of our career prosecutors, and they have civil service protection.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: The acting United States Attorney has been rich for Richard Frohling.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: He's done a pretty good job. Now acting is different
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: than interim the acting United States Attorney. The position is
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: just vacant. Someone ascends to it, and that was Froling
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: ever since Biden lost reelection. But now Shimmel is put
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: in and interim means he is the person in that
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: position until he's not, and I would unless Trump and
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: BONDI are not happy with what he does, still dominated
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: for the full position and presumably get confirmed by the Senate.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: The other part of this is you can do rolling inromes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: So if the Senate tries to slow walk this thing,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Trump's are very very good at putting people in these
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: interim positions if there's slow walking their confirmation or obstructing
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: them and so on. So anyway, there's a very very
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: big story, and I think you're going to see, along
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: with the reinvigoration of the FBI and Milwaukee, a much
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: more aggressive justice department. And again this position, I should mention.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: The state of Wisconsin in terms of the federal Judiciary
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: is divided into just two districts, Eastern and Western. Western Is.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: It's almost exactly this. It isn't, but it's really close.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Western Is. Remember the old Highway fifty one, It still exists,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: but it's been replaced by what's that interstate called the
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Interstate that runs in the middle of the state. That
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: was where Highway fifty one was. I'm forgetting right now.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: You know, it goes straight up the middle of the state.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Goes north from Madison all the way up toward Wasaw.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: It's now in thirty nine. That's it pretty much. This
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: is not exactly correct, but it's close enough to work.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Everything west of thirty nine, including the city of Madison,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: is the Western District, and everything east is the Eastern District.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: The thing in the Eastern District is way more population.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: The Eastern District includes Milwaukee and all of southeastern Wisconsin,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and it includes the Fox Valley you know at Fondeleac Oshkosh,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the Fox Cities, Appleting at Connaught, than up to Green Bay,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and then Mana Rock Sheboygan, way more of the population base.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: So it's a big time position with fur ground here
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: for investigations into the kinds of things that have been
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: looked the other way at for some time. And as
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I say, Shimmelt does not require confirmation to take over
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: to get the job on a permanent basis, he does
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: require confirmation. Trump is naming him as an interim. Another
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: point on this, there's been this thing that we've had
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin for decades now, in which when there's a
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: vacancy for federal judge or for federal prosecutor, it goes
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to a Bipartisan Nominating Commission. The two heads of the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: commission of the two United States senators, and there's one Democrat,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: one Republican. Tammy Baldwin's a Democrat. Ron Johnson's a Republican.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: So they come up and they recruit and they get
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: these candidates that they then recommend to the president. When
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the president's a Democrat are the ones that are recommended,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: they grab a Democrat off the list, and when it's
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a Republican, they grab a Republican off the list. Trump
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: has no time for this. Do you think Trump wants
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: to look at what some commission is recommending or do
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you think that he and BONDI want to hire who
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: they want by going the route of an interim That
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: means that this commission, whatever they're doing, is pointless. The
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: law calls for the president to fill these positions. In
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the past, members of the Congress of each individual state
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: had a great say in this, and a term Trump
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: has decided, I'm going to have to say it says
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I'm supposed to appoint. Well, he's going to appoint. Let's
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: motilate to an update on the Dugan story. I mentioned
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it a moment ago. Hanna Dugan is the Milwaukee County
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Circuit judge facing federal felony charges in connection with her
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: obstructing ice agents who had a warrant for an illegal
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: immigrant who was to appear in her court. As reported
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: on JAIS Online on Friday, Dugan's attorneys filed their response.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Let me explain, in the federal court system, essentially the government,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the United States Attorney's Office, they put their case in
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: writing before there's a trial. In other words, you make
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: a filing and the judge then has an opportunity to
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: rule on whether or not there's a problem with the filing.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But you're laying out most of your case in the filing,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and then the defense attorney puts out their response. The
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: jury still has to hear the evidence if it does
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: go to jury trial, but both sides lay out their
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: cases in these filings. Hanna Dugan's defense team, which is
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: about nineteen lawyers, all being paid by somebody other than
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Hannah Dugan, have filed their response and it is quite interesting.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: The response is handed didn't do anything wrong. Here's why
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: they are laying this on the chief judge in Milwaukee County,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Carl Ashley. A moment for explanation. This happens a lot.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: There's two Milwaukee Judge Ashley's. They're related, kyl Ashley's the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: chief judge. Corey Ashley is a terribly lenient judge. She's
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: as bad as they get. This is not her, This
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: is Carl. Carl's the chief judge. Let me quote from
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the JS online story here and see whether or not
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the defense here has a credible case that Hannah didn't
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: do anything wrong but was simply doing what she was
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: supposed to do. This is again I'm quoting from the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: JS online report, which has numerous bylines out it. Everybody's
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: byline on this has been with that paper for like
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: decades combined. It's like, that's amazing, because there's like nobody
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: who survived at the Drinal all the old fires. The
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: only three that have been there for a long time.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Thinkins's name is not on the other three. Dan Biss,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Mary Spacuza, and John Didrich the only ones who have
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: not been laid off or taken the buyouts or whatever
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: on this. In a court filing on November fourteenth, Dugan's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: attorneys argued that she was not trying to obstruct immigration.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Dy I love this. She wasn't trying to She sent
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: them in the coast, hit him and said go to
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the Chief judges office. She wasn't trying to obstruct. Now
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: here's the key on this. They're now claiming she wasn't
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: really trying to obstruct. They're no longer in a position
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: of trying to claim that this isn't criminal activity to
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: obstruct the Nce Wood. She's not saying she wasn't trying
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to do it. You know, and not trying to do
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: it is a key component of the law. It's a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: different crime. If you shoot somebody by accident, you're messing
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: a room with a gun, as opposed to you intended
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: to kill someone because you hate them. They're different things.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: He was not trying to obstruct immigration agents from arresting
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Eduardo Flores Mare's outside her courtroom, but instead abiding by
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: a draft policy provided prepared by Milwaukee County Chief Judge
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Carl Ashley. See what there's saying is the chief judge
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: came up with a policy. What do you do if
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: ice shows up? And all she was doing was following it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: But the key hero is draft. That means it wasn't
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: a policy yet, continued Ashley is likely to become a
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: central witness in the high profile case set to go
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: to trial December fifteenth. So Carl Ashley, the Chief Judge,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be called, probably by the defense. In an
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: attempt by the defense to make the case that Henna
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Dugan wasn't doing anything wrong other than following what the
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Chief Judge, Karl Ashley told her to do. The indictment
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: alleges Judge Dugan obstructed a proceeding by telling ice agents
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: to go to the Chief Judge's office. The defense attorneys wrote,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: even though that's what Chief Judge Ashley's policies required, she
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: asked for guidance, received it, and followed it. Now, I
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: will add nothing of the policy said go hide the
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: guy in another office while you're sending them on this
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: wild goufchase out of the Chief Judge's office. But they're saying, look,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: she sent him that way. The defense are saying, you
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: were trying to you know, misdirection, sent him the wrong
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: place while she she allowed him to get away. She's saying,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the policy said you're supposed to go to the Chief
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: judge off continuing. The defense arguments come in response to
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the prosecutions filing on November seventh, laying out their most
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: detailed description of to date of how they allege Dugan
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: tried to help Floresa Reese avoid arrest. Flores Mares pleaded
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: guilty to illegally re entering the United States and was
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: being deported, his attorney said November fifth, Defense attorneys rely
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: on emails on a draft policy from Ashley. The policy
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: was meant to guide Milwaukee Quartos personnel on how they
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: should respond by US Immigration and Customs enforcement agents at
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: size to arrest undocumented immigrants, part of President Donald Trump's
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: cracked down an illegal immigration. Ashley has not yet released
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the formal policy and immigration arrest of the quartos. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: remember she said this is this draft she said she
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: was going, but Ashley doesn't have a policy yet. I
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: would suggest to Ashley if he wants to put up
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: a polo, see if a law enforcement agent comes in
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: with a warrant, cooperate with them in the same way
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: that you would any other agent. All this stuff has
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: been treated differently at immigration. There's not been a policy
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: in place. If the FBI here is that somebody is
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: a child abuser and he's running around in the courthouse
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: for a child support case, they don't say you don't
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: let them arrest them. This all has been changed because
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: of a desire on people on the left to simply
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: violate immigration laws. Back to the story. In one April
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: sixth the email the judges, Ashley warned that ice arrests
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: at the courthouse we're having a chilling effect, and that
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: courts must remain safe havens. The filing says, I've never
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: heard of anybody refer to a court as a safe
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: haven before. Why is the court supposed to be a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: safe haven? That just the opposite. It's where people that
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: need to have justice brought upon them go. I mean,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: it's all It is a safe haven for victims. And
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: you know you're filing a lawsuit. It's the one anyway.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: And continuing tuesdays later, the filing says, Dugan sent an
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: email requesting that protocols being acted for handling such situations code.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I have seen in my court more people not showing
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: up for court dates. I have had two immigration attorneys
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: asking me just today about what protocols are in place.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Obviously this is me no interjecting. The Feds have been
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: on this thing in which they realize one of the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: easiest ways to catch it illegal is to find out
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: when the illegal is doing court for something else, because
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of the illegals are breaking other laws. So
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: instead of ice running around trying to find this illegal,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: if they see that the illegal is doing court on
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a traffic thing or a gun charge or something, they
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: just go there. So now the Dugan is saying, well,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: people aren't showing up. On the morning of April eighteenth,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: six agents appeared outside Dugan's sixth floor court room. When
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: she was alerted, Dugan questioned the agents and directed them
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: to go to Ashley's office, which is nearby. Ashley was
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: out of the office away on business. Now, let me
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: interject that harms Dugan's case. Did Dugan know that Ashley
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: was not there, because if she knew that he was
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: not there, never mind any kind of protocol, You're sending
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: him to an office in which you know that the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: chief judge isn't there. Now, again, I don't know if
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: they have evidence that she knew that or not. Continuing,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Dugan's lawyers wrote that during federal agent's call with Ashley,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: they asked what they had permission to make an arrest,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: whether they had permission to make an arrest in a
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: public hallway or a courtroom. A chief Judge Ashley declined
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: to give them permission because he wanted to work out
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: an agreement with Ice. The defense argues that is why
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the agents followed floraes Ariz down the hallway and into
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: an elevator before arresting him outside the Milwaukee County quodos.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: The indictment alleges that the ICE agents planned to arrest
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: floras Ariz in the public hallway, the defense team wrote,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: but again, that plan seems to have shifted. Instead, the
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: agent followed flora'z Ouiz down the elevator and out of
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the courthouse to arrest him outside the street. Dugan's attorneys
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: also repeatedly cited Ashley's draft policy, which instructed people to
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: promptly refer agents to their managers. Quote. Court personnel may
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: not authorize the enfrey of Immigration agency personnel into the
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: non public areas of any court facility, and must refer
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Immigration agent personnel to their immediate supervisor manager the filing rates.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Quoting the draft policy. I'll interject, but the manager here
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: would be the judge. This isn't a court reporter, this
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: was the judge. Dugan. I suppose you could argue that
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a chief judge would be her supervisor, but each judge
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: is duly elected and they don't really have to listen
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to the chief judge on anything. It adds if an
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: immigration agency officer insists on access to a non public area,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: the employee should not resist, but should say I do
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: not consent, but because I have no other choice at
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: this time, I will not interfere with your order and
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: immediately contact their supervisor about the officer's order, pair a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: written statement about the encounter and submitted to their supervisor.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: In their November fourteenth filing, prosecutors argued that defense attorneys
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: are trying to reprise their argument that Dugan was immune
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: from prosecution for her actions on April eighteenth. Dugan's lawyers
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: say she is being prosecuted for five specific actions she
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: took while she was a judge, and that all of
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: them are protected by judicial imminity. No two things. The
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: case is in front of federal Judge Len Adelman. He
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: has rejected arguments to dismiss the charge, which surprised me.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, he also gets to make all
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the procedural rulings, and I would think that they're all
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: going to go in the favor of the defense, but
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: maybe little surprise me. Then there's the whole problem of
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: a jury. Now, this case is I mentioned this earlier
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Eastern District of Wisconsin, so it's not a Milwaukee County
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: jury exclusively. It would be from the entire southern half
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: of the Eastern District. There's a courthouse in Green Bay
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: and a courthouse in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee hord of those cases,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the potential jury would come from this entire region. You know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Sheboygan fond of Laca, Washington, Milwaukee. It was like the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: whole corner of the State's big corner of the state.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: So you wouldn't necessarily get only Milwaukee jurors. Obviously, the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: defense is going to try hard to get lefties on
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: the jury, and I'm guessing the prosecutors it's going to
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: try hard not to get lefties on the jury. Second
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: point I want to make it does appear as though
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: defense the defense is changing its strategy. They were initially
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: she's immune because she's a judge. I think perhaps they
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: now have decided that that isn't going to work, and
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: instead they're going to say she was only doing what
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Kyle Ashley told her to do. I'm certainly thinking and
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: by the way, we're going through the United States Attorney's Office,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the interim United States Attorney Brad Schimmel, I mean, he
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: now is on the eat. Don't know if he showed
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: up today, but he's it's imminent, it's going to be
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: this week. Richard Frohling has been the acting US Attorney
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: and he was prosecuting the case, and he certainly did
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: not show any signs of not moving forward with this
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: because it came from the Justice Department. So there may
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: be shots called in this from above at the local
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: level or not. But Pam BONDI had made it clear
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: that people that you know it's Trump, has made it
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: clear anybody that Trump obstructs ICE agents anywhere, they're going
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: to be criminally prosecuted. And this just seems to me
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: to be a black and white case of obstruction. I
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: have suggested, and I don't think it's going to happen.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I think Dugan's going to roll the dice and hope
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: she can win a jury, and if she doesn't, hope
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to get it overturned on appeal. I would suggest that
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: there'll be a plea bargain here. I don't know that
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Hanna Dugan has to go to prison, but I think
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: that a proper plea bargain would beat here for her
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to acknowledge that she did obstruct this resign as a judge,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: and there wouldn't be an agreement that she wouldn't be
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: incarcerated as a result. But there needs to be a consequence,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: a conviction and a designation as a judge for people
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: to do this, and it would send a message all
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: over the country that you can't have individual judges and
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: cops obstructing federal agents who have jurisdiction everywhere in the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: United States of America with regard to federal laws. All right,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I need to update you on another story. This is
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: one of those stories that while I didn't spend a
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: lot of time on it at the time, I'm glad
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I spent some time on it because I am being
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: in I'm in the process of being proven correct. There's
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: this company from Madison. You may me making fun of
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: them at the time. They came up with this idea
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: to build three to four different massive developments in downtown Milwaukee,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: all near the Water Street era area. The company's name
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: is Neutral. The first project was a big high rise
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: on the property of the old parking garage at the
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Marcut Center for the Performing Arts. Most people felt that
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: that first proposal was the only one that seemed plausible.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: And I said at the time that the city of
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee biting onto this thing, which they're going to put up,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: you know, thousands of apartment units and so one, that
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: it was insanity. I never named the person, but I
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: said I had spoken to a prominent local developer, and
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: that local developer told me that this idea seems doable
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: in Dubai, not in Milwaukee. The defense like head of
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: neutral this company, he's in his twenties. Because who we're
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: gonna do all? I'm gonna be the Donald Trump of Milwaukee. Well,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the first project construction stopped Threeway tis ago. The worst
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: thing is they've dug the hole in the ground. Now
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: you're approaching winner. That's bad. This thing has to be
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: sealed off and so on. Construction stopped. Apparently the contractors
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: were not getting paid. In other words, the project tears
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: to have failed before it literally got off the ground.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: It got under the ground, but nothing built up yet.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: So on js online Today and in the preddiction of
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the Journal the City of Milwaukee is now seeking new
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: developers for the entire site. In other words, they're willing
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to divorce themselves from Neutral. There's a backstory here. In
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: this instance, the Milwaukee Common Council never approved a development
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: agreement with Neutral. This was done only by the Mayor's office.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: The mayor's office is an apartment of community Development. All
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: mayor's offices has the problem with DCD and Milwaukee, and
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: this goes back decades is it's run by bureaucrats and bureach.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: It's the same problem that you see with Northridge. Well,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: we've got all these ideas for Northridge, all the ideas
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: you want, but in Kills somebody puts up their own
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: money and says I can make a buck doing this.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: You can't just say we're gonna put such and such here.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Somebody has to have the money and think they can
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: mike make money doing it. So DCD, which consists of
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: people who are bureaucrats and not developers who have ever
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: put their own capital at risk, endorse this idea because
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: it sounds a wallid wonderful. Well it was is kaka
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: mami bs. In addition to that, as I've been arguing
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: for some time. I've been arguing this long before, long
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: before it happened. But the apartment the residential market in
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee has now finally been overbuilt. At some point it
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: was going to happen. Things get overdone, and I suspect
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: that that's one of the reasons that they were having
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: a financing on this, that some of the lenders may
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: have noticed that two other high rises in downtown Milwaukee
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: that were completed in the last two years are not full.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: So why would this with an inferior location? You want
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: to live on Water Street? No, I don't know why
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: anybody who want to live on Water Street maybe South
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Water into the third Ward or something or another at
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Water Street. That's a nice place to live weekend nights,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: thousands of people coming around, bombing around of their cars,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: turning wheelies. Why I just anyway, the city is now willing,
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: ready to move on from neutral. And you may recall
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: that I had suggested from the very beginning that none
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: of this was ever going to come to fruishing. You're
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. Here's the thing about when a consensus of
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: thought develops in the media on the left. He says,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: this is what's going to happen. Most people aren't smart
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: enough to actually know what's going to happen. So whatever
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: this expert says, this is what's going to happen, they
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: just accept that as gospel. COVID was the perfect example
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: of this, and then when it doesn't happen, they can't
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: process that it's not happening because they were just it
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: was going to happen. Tariffs, we have been told, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: the talking plan from the left now and the media
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: for the entire time Trump is and the President is
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: the tariffs are going to be inflationary. Well, again, it's
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: like the Milwaukee apartment market being overbuilt. Maybe at some
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: point they will be, but so far they're not. An
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: interesting report now from the San Francisco Fed. Remember that
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: the Federal Reserve is broken into districts around the United States.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: This is the San Francisco Fed. The San Francisco Fed
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: has done US study on the economic impacts of tariffs,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: and interestingly they break from this earlier consensus. In the
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: report from the San Francisco Fed they say, in fact,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: tariffs are not inflationary, but they have a different downside
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: that what they do is slow the economy down, in
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: other words, the opposite of driving up inflation overheating. In fact,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: the problem with tariffs, according to the San Francisco Fed,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: is they actually slow down economic activity because all of
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: these cheap goods are no longer being dumped into the
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: United States. Let me quote briefly. We find that a
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: tariff hike raises unemployment, lowering economic activity, and lowers CPI inflation. No,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: you'll note this is completely different than the original leftist narrative.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: The original leftist narrative was that the tariffs create inflation.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: The San Francisco FED and don't be surprised now if
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the lefties jump on this and now clay hold on,
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: let's cause it unemployment when their earlier clan was inflation.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: The San Francisco Freed is saying, actually, tariff's lower inflation,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: lower CPI using only tariff changes, as the San Francisco
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Fed driven by long term considerations, that traditional narrative identification
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: gives similar results. We also obtain similar results if we
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: restrict the sample to the modern post World War II period,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: or if we use independent variations from other countries like
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: France and the UK. Now, the takeaway on. This is
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: all these people on the left who just automatically said
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: the tariffs are going to be inflationary never actually looked
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: at the data, because a comprehensive study would show the
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: tariffs and or not inflationary. But they but they might
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: have another effect. Now, I do believe the economy is slowing.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: So far, the GPI, the growth in the economy has
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: been very good. It's three point four percent GPI. That's excellent.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: It's not booming, but it's excellent. But you see signs
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: of slowing, job softening, lots of slowing out there, less demand.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Christmas sales are not thought to be very going to
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: be very good this year. All of that. Trump has
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: been arguing for lowering interest rates. The opponents have been
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: saying no, no, no, no way. Because of your tariffs, things
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: are going to be inflationary. But in fact inflation is
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: now seemingly under control. You don't end you know, all
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: things are still high. Well see, that's the problem with
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: the inflation that came in during Biden. You don't want deflation.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: That's terrible. Deflation probably means you're in a depression. The
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: damage has been done with the inflation that has been there,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: but it seems to have been brought under control. The problem,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: if there is one from the tariffs, is that it
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: may slow down the economy. Now, I agree with Trump
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: that interest rates should be lowered. I do not think
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: that we're in an inflationary period. I think that you're
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: seeing a slowing economy for zillions of reasons, and therefore
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: lowering interest rates would be a smart thing to do.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: That's the man the position of Trump, and I think
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: now the evidence is going to be that we are
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: not seeing an acceleration of inflation in the economy, just
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: the opposite. We're seeing slowing and therefore a lowering of
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: interest rates would be the smart thing to do. But
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: from the overall Fed, not the San Francisco Fed. They've
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: been fretting for the past year that Trump's tariffs would
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: be inflationary, and again maybe they will be by twenty
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: ninety six. They're not now. And you can go into
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: all of the reasons why a tariff charged on the
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: importer wouldn't be inflationary. Whether or not would be inflationary,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: the fact of the matter is the consumer's ability to
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: buy something remains the same. If the tariffs create an
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: added cost but it also reduces the desire of somebody
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: to buy the product. You end up with things not inflating,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: because the demand for our product is always the thing
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: that sets the price. Things like tariffs may be a contributor,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: but the demand for a product will always be more
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: important than any external cost that is building to those
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: that are trying to sell the product. In the meantime,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: despite what I'm saying, there was an interesting i'll use
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: the term pivot by Trump. Over the weekend, the White
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: House Office of Communications put on a big multi page
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: thing about how Trump is making progress on affordability. I
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: think you know why he's doing that. What in my
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: Donnie run on in New York affordability And that's the
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: appeal to the leftist. Let's just give everybody stuff for free.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Everything's too expensive. The problem, of course with socialists is
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: in their attempt to give everything away for free, they
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: run out of money. And you never and we never
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: have anything to give away at all. You just have
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: shortages everything, nothing's ever produced. The famous Margaret Thatcher line.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Socialism works until we run out of other people's money.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: It's the problem. Nonetheless, this message has resonated, particularly with
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: younger people who don't want to work. So Trump is
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: now responding with a number of statements with regard to
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: the progress he's made on affordability, which I think the
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: case that he makes is compelling. Inflation exploded under Biden,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: and the growth rate and the increase in the CPI
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: grows down every quarter. The inflation is now, you you know,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: right around one and a half to two percent, as
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: I think optimal, and we're almost to that level after
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Biden pushing us nearly double digits. In the statement from
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: the Trump Office of Communication, President Trump came Biden's inflation crisis.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Under Biden, inflation averaged nearly five percent, hitting nine point
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: one percent during the worst inflation crisis in decades, fueled
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: by radical less spending, and President Prump's second term, inflation
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: is dropped to an average of just two point seven percent. Next,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Americans have made real wage gains, but there's still work
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: to do. Under Biden, workers lost over twenty nine hundred
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: dollars in purchasing power. What's purchasing power? Do you know
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: what purchasing power is? Yeah, you don't know what it is.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: It's your pay compared to inflation. Let's imagine your pay
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: goes up seven percent and inflation goes up seven percent,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: you'd be flat. That would mean your purchasing power didn't change.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: If your pay goes up more than the rate of inflation,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: that means your purchasing power increased. Under Biden, wage growth
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: was not close to the increase in price, so's that's
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: a purchasing part. Means under Biden, workers lost over twenty
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: nine hundred dollars in purchasing power, meaning inflation rows faster
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: than wages. In President Prump's second term, even after accounting
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: for higher prices, Americans' real wages have grown by nearly
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: seven hundred dollars and are on track to increase by
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: nearly twelve hundred dollars after his first full year in office.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Gas prices are falling. Here's the thing about gas prices.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: When there's a Republican in the White House, the media
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: covers gas prices only when they go up. When there's
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: a Democrat in the White House, the media covers gas
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: prices only when they go down. The gas price thing
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: has been one of those kind of slow bleeds downward.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Here in Wisconsin, we've got that thing with the changing
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: in the formulation of the gas that causes a hiccup
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: right around the beginning of spring and beginning of fall
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: when they change the formulation. But there's been a general
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: downward trend. I use you now have a high falutin car,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: so you use ninety three, don't you. Yeah? So, And
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I've been track, and I mean I generally the weird
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: thing in Florida. And I honestly don't know what this is, Paul.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: As long as I've had that place in Florida, the
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: price of the ninety three has moved maybe ten cents.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: It never moves, and it's hardly at all higher than
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: regular it up here. Though in Wisconsin it's like a
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: buck higher for the ninety three than the eighty seven.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: In Florida, the gap doesn't barely doesn't exist. I don't
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: know why it is. I honestly don't know. It must
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: have something to do with supply. Well, no, the taxes
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: the same. It must have something to do with the reformulation.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I actually don't know. I don't know
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: what it is to do with so it's barely moved.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I'm now paying for the ninety three
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin somewhere. The last I filled up. I think
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: it was three forty nine, and it seems to be
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: going down even more since yeah, yeah, And I usually
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: go to one of the stations around here and there
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: are usually around the same price, and there's certain neighborhood,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: and again the geographic variation is remarkable. You buy gas
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: and the Lord East Saide where I live, it's fifty
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: to sixty cents higher than when I go out here
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: in the suburbs. So I mean, I mean, well, what
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: do you care with all your money? It adds up
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: with eighteen gallons plus I'm not an idiot, you know,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: all right? That was the next thing on trop Grocery
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: prices and housing prices are trending in the right direction.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Housing prices are going down because we're starting to get
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I think and end of this total imbalance of there
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: simply wasn't any supply, and I think that that's one
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: of the reasons for the sum softening in housing prices.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: As for grocery prices, the one thing that's keeping grocery
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: prices someone high is meat is out of control, and
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: that's why Trump is pushing for the importing of beef.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: And I have some sense of what's going on with
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: meat prices. I just think that for a zillion reasons. Gradually,
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: over time American ranchers lowered their beef herds and move
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: to other type of farming. And the demand for beef
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: has been really high in the United States, and beef prices,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: for example, pork prices are just they used to be.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Pork prices are. Pork is rather inexpensive right now. It
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: just never went up. And I haven't looked lately at
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: the hog futures as opposed to the cattle futures, because
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: that'll tell you what the future is going to be.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: But the meat prices remain high. And Trump, I think
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: it's the one area where he wants something important. He's
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: been tariffing careffin, caraffin tariff and caraffing. But beef prices
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: have been at all levels, from like the cheap old beef,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: ground beef and so on to the really high and
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: you buy the prime stake, et cetera. They're off the charts,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: and they are coffees another one. But those are unique
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: individual things that don't have anything to do with government policy,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: but they're built into the average with regard to the
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: food prices. So Trump goes on Anyway, the point on
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: this is, as we move toward the mid terms, I
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: think the Republicans are sensing that even though everybody you
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: should know, the reason things are high is because everything
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: in flated under Biden. But they're now going to try
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: to blame Trump for this and run on this whole
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: notion of affordability, and Trump is going to try to
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: make the case, Look, we've made tremendous progress in this area.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: I want to now go to the latest rift within
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: the Republican Party. Part of this is I kind of
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: think Trump is culling the herd a little bit. You
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: know what that term means. You know, you don't we
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: are there is. I just think that there are some
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: of these people that were in the Trump universe that
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: he's decided are more trouble than they're worth, like Marjorie
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Tailor Greed. Now here's the thing about Marjorie Taylor Greed.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: She's very courageous, and she's very outspoken, and she's been
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: willing to take all sorts of crap from the left.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: She also has a few ideas that are nutty, but
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: in general, I think her positions are correct and solid
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: with those few exceptions, but she's also a pain in
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: the ass. She's one of these people that demands that
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: you agree with her on everything. Marjorie Taylor Green has
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: been There's always somebody, you know, on our side of
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: the right that the left likes to mock as stupid
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: and looney and an idiot. They've tried it with Trump,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: but just you can't sell anymore that Trump is stupid.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: You could try to argue that he's an egomaniac and
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: so on, but the left can't make the case credible
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: anywhere that Trump isn't a smart guy. So they've just
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: gone after Marjorie Taylor Green. I think they don't like them.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: They don't like her look, they don't like her blondness
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: and her outspoken and all of that. Yeah, she'd wear
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: the mag the whole thing, and they just didn't like her. Now,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green a broken. I know why
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: they've broken. She wants She wanted to run for Senate
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: in Georgia. She would lose the seat. She might win
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: the primary, but she'd lose the seat because she not
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: only is despised by the left, people in the middle
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: don't like her, and Trump does not want to lose
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: the Senate. So Trump told her, I'm not going to
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: endorse you if you run for the Senate. Margorie got
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: to stay in the house. Marjorie doesn't like carrying that.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: So Marjorie pops off something with regard to Epstein, And
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: there's this rift. I here's what I'm wondering, And I says,
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: is sincere wondering if Marjorie Taylor Green now goes wholesale
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: anti Trump, that if she doesn't understand, if you get
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: into a pissing match with Trump, you're gonna lose. Let's
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: suppose Marjorie doesn't understand that. You understand that, don't you.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: I know she would not win it, right, But the
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: thing about some people like her is she may not
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: know that. If she does get into that match, though,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: will the left embrace her as courageous? I wonder see.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: One of the things is I've argued forever the political
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: spectrum is not a lie, that you don't go all
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: the way to the left and on the other end is
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: all the way right. That it's a circle that the
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: extreme left and the extreme right ultimately bump into one another,
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: that where they bump into one another. That was Hitler
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: hilar was a leftist. He's a socialist, government control all
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: of that stuff, anti Semitic, hateful monster. We'll look at
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: our left now and then I'm want of anti semitism,
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: and you're seeing some of that, I think also on
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: the right. Anyway, Marjorie Taylor Green mos far enough into
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: this fringe while batting Trump around and et cetera. I
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: can't rule out that she and AOC would develop some
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: sort of an alliance. Right, Well, I know, but now
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: she hadn't gotten her way in a couple of things.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: And see, I think that Trump will put anybody in there,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: and he tolerates this agreement, but he doesn't want somebody
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: that's kicking him in the teeth, particularly when he was
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: he elevated her, you know, at the inauguration. He didn't
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: have to give her a prime seat. Everywhere Trump would be,
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: she'd be one of the three or not every member
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Congresses in that orbit. She had that spot. Same thing
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: with Tucker, he was being trotted around everywhere and all
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: of that. Well, you don't get to be in the
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: inner circle if you're going to be somebody who turns
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: in the guy. And again that doesn't mean that everybody
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: is beholding you offt to agree with Trump on everything.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: But if you want to be in Trump's inner circle,
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: if you want Trump to prop you up constantly, you
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: can't be somebody who not only disagrees but take shots
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: the bulls that maybe Fetterman could take ivan. So anyway,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: that's what's going on with that. On the whole issue
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: of Epstein. There is now a change in the Trump
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: response on this. I'm going to get in first of all,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: to what I think the whole Trump Epstein thing relationship is.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I think Trump knew Epstein just the way, in the
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: same way that Trump knew everybody in that orbit, and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: because he knew him, I think he probably said some
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: friendly things about him. Do I think Trump went to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: the island and had sex with any of these No,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: and if there was any evidence of that, they come
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: they would have produced it during the time that Biden
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: was the president. But there's probably a couple of emails
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: where Okay, you want to do a deal or something
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: like that where that happened. So the Democrats are trying
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: to bring this up to try to again implicate Trump
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: and this whole Epstein thing, in which the implication is
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: only what I just said. So Trump is now here's
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: the new position. He's saying, fine, if you really want
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: to revisit Epstein, we're revisiting who it was that actually
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: had sex with women with Epstein. The only name that's
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: been nailed down for certain is Prince Andrew. Nobody's disputing that,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: including I think almost even him now he's even kicked
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: out of the royal family. But all this other stuff,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: and I understand why this whole problem with the files
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: is names and emails in there. There aren't things in
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: which there's like a chart that says this person had
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: sex with this girl. It's just who knew this and
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: who knew that? But clearly some people went down to
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: that island. The next thing is not all the women
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: at the island were under age, some were over as,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: some were of legal age, were correct way of saying it,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: and who was doing what been vague? Anyway, Trump is
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: now firing out five you want to go look at this,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the people who actually did stuff with Epstein,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: because they're all of the left. Here's Trump in a
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: post on truth social now that the Democrats are using
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: the Epstein holks involving Democrats not Republicans to try to
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: deflect from the disaster, shutdown and all of the other failures.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: I will be asking ag Pambondi in the Department of Justice,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein's involvements and relationships with and then he names names.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: For those of you who don't know these names, I'll
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: tell you all. Bill Clinton no need to explain who
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: he is. Right by the way, I don't think the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Democrats care Bill Clinton. The Clintons are in their rearview mirror.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: No Democrat cares what happens to Hillary, and they don't
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: care at all about Bill's reputation. Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: that's a Biggie founded LinkedIn billionaire. He's right there with
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Soros and bank rolling Democrat candidates. JP Morgan Chase, that's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Jamie Diamond's company. That was Epstein's bank, and many other
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: people and institutions. Records show that these men and many
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: others spent large portions of their life with Epstein and
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: on his island. Next, The Washington Post reported over the weekend,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: I should give you a background. The United States Territory
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: tories do not have voting members of Congress, but they
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: have representatives in Congress who can't vote. For example, Puerto
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Rico is a United States territory. There's a Puerto Rican
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: delegate to the Congress, but that person doesn't get a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: vote because they're not a state. But they're allowed to
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: sit in there and represent and you know, if there's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: an issue that a constitute of Puerto Rico has, they
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: can you know, work with the government the same way
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: you're Congress and good, but they can't vote. This deals
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: with the United States. Representatives from the US Virgin Islands
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: also requires explanation. Some of the Virgin Islands are British,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: some are the United States. You should know which are
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: the United States. From all of the cruises that we've
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: taken to the Virgin Islands, what are the three US
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Virgin Islands? Saint Thomas is one, you got two left,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: one down, two to go. No, I gotta think Saint
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Croix is a second one. No, it's not saying Lucia, No,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: I got to think myself. It's that it's that small
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: island near Saint Thomas. Remember that, you know, we take
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: a side trip from Saint Thomas. Some people could take
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: on that Saint John. That's it. Saint John's Saint John,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: and I've never I've never taken that side trip, but
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: everybody goes to Saint John says it's beautiful. The problem
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: is if you're going on the cruise, that means you
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: can't spend a day in Saint Thomas, which is really cool.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: It has great beach and great shopping, but Saint John.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Everybody says it's beautiful, but I've never been. Yeah, Michael Jordan,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: et cetera. It's basically beautiful and place for fun for
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: snorkling going on the water, but there's otherwise anyway, that's
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: the US Virgin Islands. This is the representative from the
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: US Virgin Islands, Stacy Plaskett. The Washington Post reported over
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: the weekend that Stacy Plaskett, and I'll just quote here,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: was texting and coordinating her questioning of Michael Cohen. Remember
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: Michael Cohen, He was the Trump lawyer who then turned
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: on Trump in the first term. Stacy Plaska was coordinating
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: or questioning of Michael Cohen with Jeffrey Epstein during a
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen congressional hearing. So when Stacey Plaska was grilling
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: Michael Cohen, it was Jeffrey Epstein feeding her the questions.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: In other words, the implication here is that Epstein was
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: trying to get Trump and going through this Virgin Islands
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: congressman to do so. House democrat exchanged texts with Epstein
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: during nineteen twenty nineteen congressional hearing. Stacey Plaska, a Democrat
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: who represents the US Virgin Islands in Congress as a
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: non voted delegate, exchanged texts with convicted sex offender Jeffrey
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Epstein during a twenty nineteen congressional hearing. Well, this would,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: first of all, certainly imply that Epstein was not anybody
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: that was looking out for Donald Trump. Secondly, that at
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: least one Democrat was totally compromised by our relationship with
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein. I want to get to this story now,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: and this is one of those that I've been on
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: the following issue on a number of podcasts, and this
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: just feeds into a narrative that I have. Jim Farley
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: is the CEO of Ford. He was on a podcast
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: over the weekend in which he talked about the difficulty
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Ford has. He says they have five thousand mechanic jobs
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: right now unfilled in which they're offering one hundred and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars a year almost said, an hour, one
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: hundred twenty thousand dollars a year, and they can't fill them.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: I've talked forever about this. It's so many fields in
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: which even in a slowing economy, we have jobs that
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: employers can't fill, even when they start offering almost insane
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: amounts of money. Now finally's bringing this up. The whole
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: notion of the four to one. It's not the right number.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: The visas, the visas for the skilled people would come
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: into the United States legally through the front door forwarders
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: that they're simply are not enough Americans that are capable
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: of filling some of these jobs. And they're just people
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: keep arguing, no, no, no, there are, there are, there are,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: there are, But then people like you know, the CEO
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: Fords is, we can't find mechanics. I'm not going to
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: go into my whole spiel that I've done. Look at
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: the monitor on Fox there's the story we just said
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: about the text of Stacey Paskett and Jeffrey Epstein. It's
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: just uncanny how I'll talk about something and Fox News
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: will be covering it at the same time that I'm
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: covering it. Anyway, we have millions of people in America
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: under the age of forty five, underemployed. They're looking at socialism,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: have nothing to do with their degree. And then we
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: have zillions of high paying jobs that they'd be wonderful,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: that would be great, good lives for them, but A
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: they don't want to do those jobs, and b they
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: don't have any skill at all. And I'm guessing that
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: these mechanic positions at Ford that it's rather skilled mechanic.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: And you know, some of these companies are spending two
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: and three years training workers themselves. But for a lot
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: of these companies, the problem with that is, let's imagine
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: Ford hires you and trains you, you then quit and
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: go to work for somebody else at the skills that
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: you haven't they don't want to do that. We have
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: this complete disconnect between the jobs that are available in
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: our economy and the things that a people want to
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: do and be that they know how to do. You've
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: got a kid sixteen seventeen years old, rather smart, but
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: they're not like book smart, college smart, but they can
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: just don't waste your money sending them to college. There's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: zillions of physicians that they can do. If they have
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit of street smarts in them, they can
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: go into that field and maybe end up owning their
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: own business moving forward, or go to a company like
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: Ford and move up the ladder and become a form
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: and become somebody who's in charge of manufacturing and a division.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: Just any number of jobs, all the skilled trade. And
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: my guess is the type of mechanic that Farley's talking
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: about would be a skilled mechanic that just falls into
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: that area, just generally of skilled trades. When we come back,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about something that I don't get
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: what football, Well, that's one of them, but that's not
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: where I'm focused. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: is the Mark Belling Podcast. I did lose my football
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: pick again. You know what you were whining earlier in
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: the year that you can't pick any that's I was
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: off to a great start. And the only I'll point
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: I mentioned that I'm in this contest with friends in
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: which we picked three games. You get choose three games
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: to pick against the point spread. The last two weeks
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: I did go two and one in that contest. Unfortunately,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: my radio pick has lost four weeks in a row.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: The two that I got right were both I won
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: by half a point or one point in each of them,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: but at least something. They're just so many. I just
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: look at complete. Paul. Explain the Detroit Lions to me, Well,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: I know they're not that good, but explain how a
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: team that put up forty points now can't score a touchdown.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: Now here's the next thing, here's the next, here's the
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: next thing. The Philadelphia Eagles this month. I didn't say
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: this season have the best defense in the NFL, but
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: they didn't in September. Philadelphia has now shut down two
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: very very good offenses and not allowed them to score
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: at all. Shouldn't a team that has an incredibly dominant defense.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Shouldn't you see signs of that all year rather than
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: the pop out of nowhere? Well, I injuries and all that,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: But how do you become that good suddenly? Cincinnati's like
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: the weirdest one to be a ball teams started the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: season with no offense at a great defense. They all
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: have an unstoppable offense at a terrible defense, and then
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: yesterday they couldn't do anything on either side of the
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: just it's been very, very difficult. But with regard to
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: the Packers, I mean, finally there's a game that made
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: total sense. The Packers are favored by seven and they
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: won by seven, so for good well, they didn't look
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: that they won exactly by what the expectation was. It
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: was one of the few games this weekend that I think,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: I think the Bears and the Vikings, I think, you
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: did you take the Rams? You take the forty nine Ers.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: Paul Paul won that won his pick there, Like, the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: Rams were favored by three over Seattle, and that game
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: was decided by two. Seattle missed a field goal that
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: would have won the game. So there were when you
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: look at a points spread and if it's right near it,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: it means that the outcome would not be surprising. But
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: they just spent so much. There's so many but I mean,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: but that game was in Minnesota and it was right
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: right around. In fact, Minnesota was favored by two and
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: the Bears one by two, so some of those results
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: made some degree of sense. No, here's the thing I
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about is I just read a report
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: about the seemingly limitless growth potential of door dash. First
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: of all, they have almost no competitors. They have a
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: semi competitive relationship with Uber eats. But door dash and
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: Uber some of those are so closely related. A lot
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: of the people that do door dashings type stuff affiliate
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: with a ride service firm to do it. But beyond
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: those two, I mean, there may be other businesses that
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard of. If you're going to order some
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: food out, it's DoorDash or Uber eats, right, and probably
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: DoorDash first. So the notion of this, of the story
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: that I was reading is the e I'm a growth
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: potential for a company. Think about a company in which
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: there's almost no or maybe one competitor that they have.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Uber and Lyft would be another example of that. There's Uber,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: and there's left named the third one. I don't know.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: That's my boy. That's like, well, what a great business
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: to have. You're globally involved in something that's grown out
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: of nowhere and you have at most one competitor. I know,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Uber's It's the same thing with DoorDash and Uber eats.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: There's one huge, then a medium and nothing. Here's the
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: thing I don't get, and I've just not got it
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: from the beginning, and I always like to admit when
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: things happen that surprise me. As I keep telling people,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: don't fight it and deny it. Just the opposite. When
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: you acknowledge you are wrong about something, it means you've
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: learned and you're now smarter. One of the things that
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: I'm just surprised by, because I don't get it at all,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: is the whole DoorDash concept. I don't understand it. And
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: here's what I don't understand. It seems to me with
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: regard to eating, you got two choices. You can go
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: out and eat or you can eat at home. The
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: advantages of eating at home is you have control over
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: what you're eating and it's cheaper. The downside is you
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: actually have to do it, and that means you have
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: to have the food in the house and maybe some
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: things you don't know how to cook. But otherwise, if
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: you're eating at home, it's virtually unless you're making something
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: insanely expensive, it's generally cheaper. They needed the same thing
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: out and you have control over exactly what it is
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: you're gonna eat and how much, and the cost saving.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: The advantage of going out is they make the food
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: for you, they bring it to your table. You don't
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: have to wash the dishes, and you get the social
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: experience of going out with friends without having good invite it.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: You know, that's why you go out, right, you go
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: out to dinner. I mean, I went out for Chinese
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: last night with some friends and we went to China.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: We went and ate Chinese, which is a good Sunday
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: thing to do with the football games are over and
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: so on. Well, you think I wanted to make sweet
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: and sour shimp and then somebody else at the general
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: trot chicken. No, I don't want no. So no, you
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: go out to a Chinese rest and you do that,
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: and you pay more, probably than it would cost. Here's
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: what I don't get, Paul. I don't get why you
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: want to pay the price that you have to pay
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: for going out but eat at home. I've not gotten
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: it now. Obviously it's a massive market. So there's zillions
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: of people who think otherwise than me. The way my
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: this is how my brain is wired. If I'm going
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: to eat home, I'm making it myself to say, buddy,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: if I want to eat out, the point of eating out,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: it seems to me, is you get the social experience
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: of eating out, it's a way of going with friends.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's things going on in the place, maybe you
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: have a drink, You're in an experience, you're seeing all
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  Speaker 2: of the other stuff. If you're gonna eat at home,
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  Speaker 2: why would you order the same thing that you get
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  Speaker 2: at a restaurant to pay a restaurant price, but then
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  Speaker 2: you're just sitting in home. And I get the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: People are lazy and that they don't want to cook.
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  Speaker 2: And I know of millennials and exers love it. Am
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  Speaker 2: I in either of those groups? No, I'm clear that
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned the whole convenience thing to me. I I know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I get all those explanations. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: I don't get personally why that's what it is that
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  Speaker 2: you would want to do. And it just seems to
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  Speaker 2: me that if you were going to I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: generally fun to go out and eat. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna eat somewhere, if I'm gonna pay those prices and
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  Speaker 2: get all of it, I think I'd want to go
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  Speaker 2: to the restaurant and you know, have that experience. I
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: somehow you lived in the middle of nowhere, But if
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: you live in the middle of nowhere you don't have
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  Speaker 2: door dash to bring from all these restaurants because you
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  Speaker 2: might only have one within twenty seven miles. So it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things that if you would have asked
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  Speaker 2: me when door dash and these things started fifteen twenty
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  Speaker 2: years ago, will this business work? I would have said no.
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  Speaker 2: I also didn't really see initially the whole thing with
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  Speaker 2: Uber as opposed to taxi cabs. And you remember my
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: initial thing. I just was very wary of going into
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  Speaker 2: a stranger's car. Well, now the entire world uses Uber
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: and one set of loomowning. You hear about something bad happening,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: but it's worked out, and it was something I certainly
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  Speaker 2: didn't see coming. But the Uber thing at least makes
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  Speaker 2: some sense. It's more convenient than a taxi and you
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  Speaker 2: know how much you're gonna pay, and you can get
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  Speaker 2: him to come right where you are and all of that,
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  Speaker 2: and you see on the app where the thing is
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  Speaker 2: and so on, as opposed to the poor taxi companies
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  Speaker 2: that still have to put the meter in the car
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  Speaker 2: and all that. But the whole idea of well, I
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  Speaker 2: just think about last night. Now, the one thing that
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: you take out people have done in the past is
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  Speaker 2: pizza and Chinese ben Really, making a pizza at home
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  Speaker 2: on your own is hard to do, and a fresh
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  Speaker 2: pizza tastes better than a frozen pizza, and pizzas aren't
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  Speaker 2: real expensive. The same thing with Chinese. Chinese generally isn't
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  Speaker 2: that expensive. But who has all the stuff to make Chinese?
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  Speaker 2: But to order like door dash of McDonald's just seems
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  Speaker 2: crazy to me. I or door dash of like a
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  Speaker 2: seventy five dollars dinner from a restaurant and then well
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  Speaker 2: fuls is the gratuities? I thought, No, this is Do
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  Speaker 2: you know how many times I've used door dash never?
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  Speaker 2: I'm honestly, it's possible. I've forgotten, even in Florida where
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: I heard like ever cook, I don't. But I've had
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  Speaker 2: pizzas delivered in the past and some Chinese in the past,
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  Speaker 2: and it is the same thing. But those are different.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I I don't even know how to make
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  Speaker 2: I throw on the dough. How a You're gonna make
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: your own pizza and I much prefer but I, well,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: you have a wife who knows how to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see me flipping the dough up of the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: ear and chopping up all of the such such and
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: such and so forth and so on. Anyway, I just okay, now,
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  Speaker 2: let's take me. When I'm down there in Florida. I
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: go out some of the times and go to places
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  Speaker 2: where I know people and eat at the bar and
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: talk with freads and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. I can't do
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  Speaker 2: that every night. I have to sit at home. The
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  Speaker 2: idea that I would order for one of the restaurants
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  Speaker 2: that I go to and pay that price and then
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  Speaker 2: eat at home, why not just go to the restaurant
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  Speaker 2: and have the fun of that. If somebody eat at home,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be something that costs hardly anything that I
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: can make myself, and that's the night that I save
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: money and eat healthier than I would otherwor I Paul's
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  Speaker 2: explaining to me the appeal of it, I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying I don't see the appeal of it.
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  Speaker 2: And I just think that there's a way of making
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  Speaker 2: something simple at home that especially since you know to
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: go to the grocery store up, there's zillions of things
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: that you can make that require no preparation. I mean,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: they cost a little bit more than restaurants stuff. But
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: a salad that you pick up at the grocery store
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: is still wait cheaper than the same salad as in
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  Speaker 2: a restaurant and you just open up the bag and
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: there it is. Or your kids, I just I just
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  Speaker 2: don't get it. I just don't get why they don't
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: then just want to. Now you introduce the whole thing
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: of kids, But I get that. I get that if
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: I had kids, do I think i'd want to I
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: would probably want to take them out as much as
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: my parents took us out, which was never That is
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: the other thing. By when I was a kid, when
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: my parents wanted to go out, you know what they did,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: They got a babysitter and we sat in our butts.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: But now that does anybody even babysitter all anymore? I
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: don't think there's many babies. I when I see like
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: one year old kids at Brewers' games, that tells me
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: there are that The babysitter industry has crashed. Is it
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: because people do cheap to pay the babysitter. Is it
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: because they're afraid the babysitter is a pervert or what's
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: the thing on that? Both and hardly anybody babysits, so
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: it's probably way more expensive. I remember when I was
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: a kid, how much you got for babysitting? Did you
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: ever babysit? How much did you get paid? Paul's like
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: ten years younger than me. Ten bucks an hour? I
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: think when I was a kid, it was like a
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: buck or two. Well, I suppose that's part of it,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: but that's simply supply and demand. Again. But like if
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: you're a high if you're a high school kid, See
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: that's the thing. Parents give high school kids too much money,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: don't they, because that used to be who babysat really,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: isn't it, But now they none of them do that.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: But also, if you're a parent, would you trust some
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: sixteen year old kid? It just seems like the sixteen
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: year old kids are way more dangerous and you could
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: never trust them than they were when I was a kid,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: in which, of course you would trust the sixteen Yeah,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: a relative, I would say, because you would trust the
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: relative and not somebody down the street who you might
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: be fearing is going to be giving the kid fed
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: at all or something or another. All right, the camera, yeah,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: well all of that stuff. Anyway, the point of all
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: of this is I just don't understand paying for restaurant
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: food but then having to sit at home and eat it.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Just go to the restaurant. And Paul's got all these
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: other theories and explanations of the whole Why isn't it
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: pretty easy to cook at home? If they make it
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: so much easier, I can't cook. Well, it depends on
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: what it is that you're I know, okay, Paul, But
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: I want to make a steak. I put it in
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: the airfyer and I put on a salad. The effort
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: that I put into that is about forty five seconds. Right.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: If I have a piece of fish, I put it
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: in the oven. Do you think I bet? I have
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: not in the last ten years taken more than six
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: minutes to prepare something. The things that take more than
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: six minutes, I don't make. That's what you do when
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: you're a single guy. Unless you're a single guy and
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: you have a hobby of liking to do that, and
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't. Your wife sends out it because you but
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: you have that all the more reason why you would
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: you think you would never do DoorDash since she's gonna
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: she's willing to do all of that crap herself. For you.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: She she likes that we've clearly exhausted this topic. But
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: now I'll get all sorts of react. You don't understand.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: I know, I don't understand. There's the whole point. I
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: do think it's generational, though I would bet that almost
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: nobody of the universe of door dash users it's minuscule
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: sixty and over. And I'm not saying some people will
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: say that they do. I'm just saying I would guess
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: that in my age group, I'm the norm for all
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: of the reasons that I mentioned, And it's just an
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: attitudinal And then there's a whole thing of no matter
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: how much money you have, there's just some things you're
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: gonna be a chief skate on. There's certain things that
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: I don't mind spending way too much money for, but
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: there are others in which it just drives me. I mean,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: just try. I just think the whole DoorDash thing is
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: and it's sae waste of money to order from a
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: restaurant when you're or even I mean, if the restaurant
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: does take what takeout? Why not just go to wood?
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, are you that lazy that you need to
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: have them drive it to you? You save it. I mean, see,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: that's the thing. Though I'm single and now I'm only
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: working three days a week, I don't need to save
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: any trips. I'm still looking for things to do. You
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: don't want to, you don't even want to, just want
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: to be one of those slumps. Well that's the whole
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: of the forty percent of these women that want to
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: leave the United States that we opened. They want to
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: leave the country they're doing they're so lazy, they don't
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: want to do anything, and they don't probably don't have kids,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: and they all at Also I think they're all smoking
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: pot or taking their taking their cannabis, which makes them lazy,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: and they don't want to move. I'm still a go getter.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: You're more like me than you are like them, aren't you.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: Probably see you should aspire to be more like me
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: and just all things. You haven't passed me in the football,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: have you. Yeah, I'm a slump. I am committed to
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: finding a winner. This is when I you know, I
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: lost fo in a row. I gotta get mine. I
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: mean I just had another terra. I had a big
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: ten point favorite that lost the game outright. I mean
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: it was two terrible picks in a row Id Warner,
• 1:25:13
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