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- 0:21Speaker 2: I want to open with one of those stories that
- 0:24Speaker 2: I don't want to make too big of a deal
- 0:26Speaker 2: of it, but I also don't want to make no
- 0:31Speaker 2: deal at all, because that's what the mainstream media is
- 0:35Speaker 2: trying to do with this story, and it's deliberate. Last night,
- 0:42Speaker 2: for those of you not from Wisconsin, was the last
- 0:44Speaker 2: night of the Wisconsin State Fair, and there was a
- 0:49Speaker 2: lot of trouble. What happened was a group of young people,
- 0:55Speaker 2: mostly males, got into the fair by jumping the fence,
- 1:02Speaker 2: and once they got there, they I've used the term
- 1:07Speaker 2: near riot. I wasn't there, but I've watched enough videos.
- 1:11Speaker 2: The fair grounds is huge, so the trouble only occurred
- 1:15Speaker 2: where the young people were and they got in and
- 1:17Speaker 2: they headed toward the area of the midway, and there's
- 1:21Speaker 2: a lot of fights breaking out and just the kind
- 1:24Speaker 2: of stuff that happens. What bothers me the most about
- 1:34Speaker 2: this story is that for about thirteen hours there was
- 1:41Speaker 2: nothing and the mainstream media and Milwaukee about this where
- 1:46Speaker 2: it was. Of course, it's all over social media because
- 1:50Speaker 2: everybody in the world has a cell phone, and all
- 1:52Speaker 2: of those cell phones have cameras, and everybody knows how
- 1:54Speaker 2: to upload the Facebook and Instagram and every tichtok and
- 1:57Speaker 2: everywhere else on social media. The thing is all over
- 1:59Speaker 2: social media. Everybody knows about it. But the media that's
- 2:01Speaker 2: supposed to tell us about stuff like this, the media
- 2:04Speaker 2: that has reporters breathlessly doing live at ten o'clock shots
- 2:08Speaker 2: standing in front of a crime scene where nothing happened
- 2:11Speaker 2: for the last eight hours, had nothing on this story
- 2:15Speaker 2: all morning, door nothing. There's clearly a reason for that,
- 2:23Speaker 2: and we're going to dive into that as we roll
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- 3:04Speaker 2: describes as follows multiple fights broke out late Sunday on
- 3:07Speaker 2: the final night of the Wisconsin State Fair, prompting authorities
- 3:10Speaker 2: to clear Spin City, the fair's carnival ride area and
- 3:14Speaker 2: leading to the early closure of that section of the grounds.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Witnessers reported several brawls near the near the rides. Dispatch
- 3:22Speaker 2: audio captured officers requesting back up, with one saying they
- 3:26Speaker 2: need some help at Spin City. Send anybody extra that
- 3:31Speaker 2: you have. By about ten pm, multiple police officers, including
- 3:35Speaker 2: some on horseback, were positioned at the North entrance near
- 3:37Speaker 2: spin City. And again, spin City would be the area
- 3:40Speaker 2: I used to call it the midway. It's not like
- 3:41Speaker 2: the carnival area. At least one officer was punched in
- 3:46Speaker 2: the face during the disturbance, according to an officer on
- 3:49Speaker 2: the scene. Milwaukee Police confirmed that received calls about the fights.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Video showed groups of authorities rushing toward the area. The
- 3:57Speaker 2: story goes on. Anybody who follows any of this stuff
- 4:03Speaker 2: on social media can find the videos. I've posted a
- 4:07Speaker 2: couple of links. I reposted one thing exis changed its format.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Reposts don't always show up at everybody's feet. I have
- 4:12Speaker 2: a repost on there and then a post of something
- 4:15Speaker 2: else with my own comment, but they're all over and
- 4:17Speaker 2: you could see them. Now, let's start with this. This
- 4:22Speaker 2: is the kind of thing that has plagued every open
- 4:26Speaker 2: air event in the city of Milwaukee. It's the reason
- 4:32Speaker 2: that Greek Fest, which used to be an open air
- 4:34Speaker 2: event at the grounds of the Annunciation Church on Northwest Milwaukee,
- 4:39Speaker 2: has moved two times. They need to be a closed
- 4:43Speaker 2: gated event that people just can't wander in. The one
- 4:48Speaker 2: thing that generally keeps troublemakers out of these events is
- 4:51Speaker 2: that admission charge and secure gates. Well, the fair has
- 4:54Speaker 2: that Summerfest has a very high admission charge and they're
- 5:00Speaker 2: y secure gates. If you wanted to get I mean,
- 5:03Speaker 2: the easiest way to get it a Summerfest for free
- 5:05Speaker 2: would be to do it through the lake, I think,
- 5:07Speaker 2: because I mean, the fences are really, really, really high.
- 5:10Speaker 2: It's but the state fairs in a residential neighborhood, and
- 5:16Speaker 2: apparently what happened is people who didn't want to pay
- 5:19Speaker 2: the admission charge. Dan o'donald told me that they closed
- 5:23Speaker 2: the admission around ten eight o'clock at night. They didn't
- 5:26Speaker 2: want to pay the admission charge, so they climbed over
- 5:28Speaker 2: the fence and they got in for free. The cost
- 5:30Speaker 2: factor is the biggest deterrent to these troublemakers. And what
- 5:35Speaker 2: they do is people say, well, why do they always fight?
- 5:38Speaker 2: Because that's what they want to do, that's their fun
- 5:40Speaker 2: beat each other up. These things sometimes start on social media.
- 5:45Speaker 2: They used to call them flash moms. I don't know
- 5:47Speaker 2: what they call them now. This is like every night
- 5:50Speaker 2: now in Chicago, in the nicest neighborhoods of Chicago. People
- 5:55Speaker 2: come from neighborhoods that aren't nice to do this kind
- 5:58Speaker 2: of thing. And of course because just an downtown there's
- 6:00Speaker 2: no fencing of anything, they just don't go do it
- 6:03Speaker 2: where people are gathered. There's been problems on some locations
- 6:09Speaker 2: in downtown Milwaukee with this, like Water Street. The problems
- 6:13Speaker 2: in Water Street have almost nothing to do with people
- 6:15Speaker 2: go to the bars and Water Street and they have
- 6:17Speaker 2: almost everything to do with people just come down to
- 6:19Speaker 2: that area to cause trouble. Now on Water Street, they're
- 6:22Speaker 2: driving down and they're doing all this stuff with their cars.
- 6:24Speaker 2: Obviously they can't drive into the fair park. But they
- 6:28Speaker 2: climbed the fences and they went in and they started
- 6:29Speaker 2: causing all this trouble. It's the exact kind of thing
- 6:38Speaker 2: that normal people don't want any part of. Who was
- 6:43Speaker 2: that I heard a dinging sound? Jason's investigating what that was?
- 6:54Speaker 2: Jason's Well, then Jason said he's going to edit. No,
- 6:56Speaker 2: I'll leave it in because otherwise I'm going to be
- 6:58Speaker 2: complaining about something and nobody will Nobody knows what nobody
- 7:03Speaker 2: would do. Anyway, This is a relatively new problem the
- 7:13Speaker 2: last ten to fifteen years. We had an incident at
- 7:17Speaker 2: the State Fair a couple of decades ago. It was
- 7:21Speaker 2: a long time ago, where Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was
- 7:24Speaker 2: attacked along with many other people. That you had a
- 7:29Speaker 2: very very large mob, predominantly African American, not entirely, but
- 7:34Speaker 2: predominantly come in and start attacking fairgoers when they left,
- 7:38Speaker 2: and the story got a lot of attention because one
- 7:40Speaker 2: of the people attacked was the then mayor of Milwaukee,
- 7:42Speaker 2: Tom Barrett. There wasn't much the fair could do about that.
- 7:49Speaker 2: There was some criticism of the law enforcement response that
- 7:51Speaker 2: they weren't ready for this kind of thing. Because the
- 7:53Speaker 2: thing occurred outside the fair when people are sort of
- 7:56Speaker 2: getting in and the fair changed their admission gates that
- 7:58Speaker 2: made it harder to get in. But I'll grant you,
- 8:00Speaker 2: unless they and maybe this has to be thought about,
- 8:04Speaker 2: they come up with an appropriation to just put higher
- 8:06Speaker 2: fences and harder barriers to scale. I mean, with all
- 8:14Speaker 2: the money they spend on the fair, I don't think
- 8:15Speaker 2: that would be the most expensive thing in the world.
- 8:17Speaker 2: You're going to be able to come in and bust
- 8:19Speaker 2: into stuff like this and cause trouble. And they cause
- 8:22Speaker 2: trouble because they want to cause trouble. The people on
- 8:25Speaker 2: the left who try to explain this away of ohs well,
- 8:27Speaker 2: you don't understand the rage they have with this. They have.
- 8:30Speaker 2: All of that is crap. Every group of young people
- 8:34Speaker 2: in the history of young people this has wanted to
- 8:36Speaker 2: cause trouble. Back in the then lily White Fox Valley,
- 8:46Speaker 2: goofy kids would like ring doorbells or throw eggs at houses,
- 8:51Speaker 2: obnoxious stuff, But it was done. The envelope is being
- 8:57Speaker 2: pushed right now because of the lack of consequence. Then
- 9:01Speaker 2: let's face it. Let's imagine you're one of the kids
- 9:03Speaker 2: involved in these mobs. Why wouldn't you do it. You
- 9:08Speaker 2: wouldn't do it because it's immoral and wrong. Maybe you
- 9:11Speaker 2: don't want to do it because you're afraid of getting
- 9:14Speaker 2: hurt if somebody slugs you in the face. But other
- 9:17Speaker 2: than that, there's almost zero chance of being caught. You're
- 9:21Speaker 2: out there running around. There's way too many of you.
- 9:24Speaker 2: The cops are mostly trying to break up the fight
- 9:26Speaker 2: or deal with somebody who might be on the ground injured.
- 9:29Speaker 2: You take a swing at a cop, you can run
- 9:31Speaker 2: and take off all You're all real, real, real fast,
- 9:33Speaker 2: and there's way fewer cops than there are people that
- 9:36Speaker 2: are out there are causing trouble. And let's face it,
- 9:40Speaker 2: if you're a jew little and they catch you, you
- 9:42Speaker 2: know dog gone well that in Milwaukee County, the juvenile
- 9:44Speaker 2: court system doesn't do anything to people who do stuff
- 9:49Speaker 2: like this, So they do it because they can they
- 9:53Speaker 2: want to do it. Back when I I was young,
- 10:01Speaker 2: it was protests anti war protests that led to significant
- 10:06Speaker 2: violence in major cities. There were riots. Sixties and early
- 10:11Speaker 2: seventies there were riots. Once again, they were done because
- 10:15Speaker 2: you could get away with it. We've had generations forever
- 10:19Speaker 2: that have this desire to cause mayhem and cause trouble,
- 10:22Speaker 2: and it's almost entirely confined to young people. Back in
- 10:27Speaker 2: the day, there was often a cause associated with it.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Objected to this, opposing the war, civil rights. There's no cause,
- 10:34Speaker 2: and this is just causing trouble. It happens in Chicago
- 10:38Speaker 2: all the time. Why because it happens in Chicago all
- 10:40Speaker 2: the time. Every young person who wants to create trouble
- 10:44Speaker 2: in one of those mobs in Chicago knows dog gone well,
- 10:47Speaker 2: you're not going to be caught. If you are caught,
- 10:50Speaker 2: the COMMI mayor down there has made it clear to
- 10:52Speaker 2: the police that you don't do anything to them. They're
- 10:54Speaker 2: released instantly, so there's no reason not to do it.
- 10:58Speaker 2: There's no downside consequences to that. The problem isn't as
- 11:02Speaker 2: bad in Milwaukee, but it is getting bad. There was
- 11:07Speaker 2: a fatal shooting everybody kept saying in the Deer District,
- 11:11Speaker 2: which is the area in your five serve form. It
- 11:13Speaker 2: wasn't in the Deer District, but it was adjacent to
- 11:15Speaker 2: the area around where the Bucks Arena was. It's terrible
- 11:18Speaker 2: imagery for the Bucks and people at five serve form.
- 11:21Speaker 2: But again, you have thousands and thousands and thousands of
- 11:24Speaker 2: people that would exit a game, and from time to
- 11:26Speaker 2: time they have showing parties where they're showing games of
- 11:28Speaker 2: the big screen, and people who want to go where
- 11:31Speaker 2: other people are in cost trouble are going to do it.
- 11:38Speaker 2: It doesn't stop until the response to this is to
- 11:45Speaker 2: grab as many of the troublemakers as you can and
- 11:49Speaker 2: give them real consequences, lock them up, none of this,
- 11:54Speaker 2: call their parents and released it to the parents, let
- 11:57Speaker 2: them sit for a couple of days, and how about
- 12:01Speaker 2: putting them into jubil incarceration. I know, we just don't
- 12:05Speaker 2: do that anymore. We're not gonna send anybody to Ethan Allen.
- 12:07Speaker 2: But but the lack of consequences is the reason that
- 12:10Speaker 2: this happens the other open air events that we have,
- 12:18Speaker 2: and I can tell you that I think it's one
- 12:21Speaker 2: of the reasons why the extremely weenye County Executive of Milwaukee,
- 12:25Speaker 2: who wants to become the extremely weeny governor of Wisconsin,
- 12:30Speaker 2: doesn't want to have the July third fireworks anymore. Incapable
- 12:35Speaker 2: of figuring out a way to provide crowd safety, we
- 12:38Speaker 2: just call everything off. We're not going to call off
- 12:40Speaker 2: the fair A million people go to the fair. People
- 12:42Speaker 2: from all over Wisconsin go to the fair. But the
- 12:46Speaker 2: biggest threat to the fair is if people from Abbotsford,
- 12:49Speaker 2: Wisconsin think that they're going to go down there and
- 12:51Speaker 2: be in the middle of a riot. No, admittedly, it
- 12:54Speaker 2: was the last slight of the fair. It was late
- 12:55Speaker 2: at night. The four age kids that are showing their
- 12:59Speaker 2: hogs aren't the one's hanging around at the fair on
- 13:01Speaker 2: a Sunday night, two three hours before the closing time. Now,
- 13:07Speaker 2: let's get to the lack of media coverage of this.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I made a post on x I don't know the
- 13:14Speaker 2: exact time. It was around ten twenty and at the
- 13:17Speaker 2: time I posted, and again there's been some news coverage
- 13:20Speaker 2: on some of the sites sent that since then. But
- 13:22Speaker 2: ten twenty was about fourteen or so hours approximately after
- 13:25Speaker 2: this trouble started. I checked the mainstream Now I say
- 13:32Speaker 2: mainstream media, there's a zillion sights. I checked js online
- 13:41Speaker 2: and the four broadcast television network news stations. I didn't
- 13:45Speaker 2: check radio stations. Didn't check public radio. I didn't check
- 13:48Speaker 2: I mean, it's only so far I can go. But
- 13:50Speaker 2: those are to be the biggies in terms of the
- 13:51Speaker 2: mainstream media. The only one that had any coverage of
- 13:54Speaker 2: it at all was CBS fifty eight. I don't know
- 13:56Speaker 2: when their story went up, but at the time I
- 13:58Speaker 2: did this quick survey, they were the only one that
- 14:01Speaker 2: had anything. This wasn't fourteen minutes there, It's fourteen hours.
- 14:09Speaker 2: And at the same time, it was just all over
- 14:11Speaker 2: social media. I was out of town this weekend, got
- 14:15Speaker 2: in last night, got into the building. I was unaware
- 14:20Speaker 2: of it, didn't check anything by the time I had
- 14:24Speaker 2: gotten into the building and Gregory John came in and
- 14:28Speaker 2: told me about the story. So I went there. All there.
- 14:31Speaker 2: It is all over social media, and indeed, hostser on
- 14:34Speaker 2: our own station, Dani o'donald was on a number of
- 14:36Speaker 2: other people posted and so on, and that's when I
- 14:39Speaker 2: checked the mainstream media. Nothing. There is zero chance none
- 14:46Speaker 2: of them knew about it. First of all, it's their
- 14:52Speaker 2: job to pay attention to the news. I'm like oblivious
- 14:55Speaker 2: to anything because I didn't get into town until last night,
- 14:58Speaker 2: and all I did this morning was get up, eat breakfast, shower,
- 15:02Speaker 2: come into work, and I find out about it from
- 15:03Speaker 2: a coworker who comes out in the hall and tells me,
- 15:05Speaker 2: if you're on social media, at all, you're aware of it.
- 15:09Speaker 2: This also happened before the ten o'clock news it started,
- 15:12Speaker 2: I should say before the ten o'clock newscasts last night.
- 15:15Speaker 2: I think newsrooms still have scanners. Dan o'donald and his
- 15:18Speaker 2: report on the Heartland Post quoted scanner activity. Gregor has
- 15:24Speaker 2: said one of the TV stations said, well, there's police presence,
- 15:27Speaker 2: but we don't know why. How would you not know
- 15:32Speaker 2: why if you set a reporter down there, what kind
- 15:35Speaker 2: of an incompetent reporter couldn't figure out what it was
- 15:37Speaker 2: that was going on. There has been a conscious attempt,
- 15:42Speaker 2: and we know this is the case in Chicago. The
- 15:44Speaker 2: Chicago mainstream media does everything in its power to pretend
- 15:48Speaker 2: that these street riots don't happen. If you had a
- 15:53Speaker 2: bunch of white skinheads causing this kind of trouble, well
- 15:58Speaker 2: use the January sixth example. Any kind of acting up
- 16:02Speaker 2: at all by someone that isn't a group of young
- 16:05Speaker 2: African Americans is treated as the end of the world.
- 16:09Speaker 2: But there's a desire to pretend these kinds of things
- 16:12Speaker 2: don't happen. Now. I'm doing my podcast at noon today
- 16:16Speaker 2: for a time reference, So if something happens by the
- 16:18Speaker 2: time you hear it, this is when I've done this.
- 16:21Speaker 2: We have two candidates now for governor of the state
- 16:23Speaker 2: of Wisconsin. Tom Tiffany has posted on the unacceptability of this.
- 16:28Speaker 2: David Crowley has had nothing to say. The reason he
- 16:31Speaker 2: has nothing to say is because if he starts saying something,
- 16:34Speaker 2: he might be asked, well, why don't you do anything
- 16:36Speaker 2: about it? It is your county. In semi fairness to Crowley,
- 16:43Speaker 2: he's not in charge of the sheriff's department. There's a sheriff.
- 16:46Speaker 2: That's a separate position. The State Fair has policing authority
- 16:50Speaker 2: of its own. The State Patrol has the ability to
- 16:52Speaker 2: come in there. In addition to that, the State Fair
- 16:54Speaker 2: weirdly is divided between two cities. Part of the state
- 16:58Speaker 2: farers in West allis part of the state pharers in,
- 17:00Speaker 2: so law enforcement agencies from all of those communities can
- 17:03Speaker 2: come in. The problem is two things. First, there just
- 17:07Speaker 2: aren't enough cops to handle things like this, and secondly,
- 17:13Speaker 2: there is a policy decision made in any community that's
- 17:17Speaker 2: run by a liberal, and that would be all of
- 17:18Speaker 2: them here. West Allis is a liberal mayor, Milwaukee has
- 17:21Speaker 2: a liberal mayor, and the State Fair is part of
- 17:24Speaker 2: the governor's administration of Tony Evers. There is a policy
- 17:29Speaker 2: response to show the least amount of force in dealing
- 17:34Speaker 2: with these kinds of crowds, so the cops get hit.
- 17:37Speaker 2: But God forbid that a cop could use force and
- 17:39Speaker 2: try to take somebody down to the ground, because then
- 17:41Speaker 2: somebody's gonna view police brutality. And the people who run
- 17:44Speaker 2: these governments have a fear of all of this. So
- 17:47Speaker 2: you have a pacified police force that has to engage
- 17:50Speaker 2: with this. And because we don't do anything and there's
- 17:54Speaker 2: no consequences, it continues, and it keeps getting worse and
- 17:57Speaker 2: worse and worse. Fortune I delay this was the last
- 18:01Speaker 2: night of the fair. If this was the first sight
- 18:02Speaker 2: of the fair, there'd be news conferences out the wazoo,
- 18:05Speaker 2: and Evers would send in a handful of National Guard
- 18:08Speaker 2: troops to stand around the thing, just to protect the
- 18:10Speaker 2: fair for the rest of the thing. Well, the fair
- 18:12Speaker 2: is over, so we'd have to worry about them doing
- 18:14Speaker 2: it tonight. I want to get back, though, to this
- 18:17Speaker 2: point of trying to pretend that the story didn't happen.
- 18:20Speaker 2: The reason that and I don't know when fifty eight
- 18:23Speaker 2: story went up but the reason that the other news
- 18:26Speaker 2: sources didn't cover this is that they didn't want to
- 18:28Speaker 2: tell you about it. I look at Fox six's report.
- 18:31Speaker 2: They were on something about an incident that occurred rather
- 18:33Speaker 2: close to the fair at eighty six then Greenfield. I
- 18:35Speaker 2: think it was unrelated to the fair, so they will
- 18:38Speaker 2: let it tell you about trouble that occurs outside the fair,
- 18:40Speaker 2: but not IT'SI why now if the answer is with
- 18:49Speaker 2: and I understand all these staffs have been downsized, but
- 18:53Speaker 2: still I know there are some people that work at
- 18:55Speaker 2: that TV station. Those TV stations, if you turn it on,
- 18:57Speaker 2: they've got a handful of reporters. There's editors, there's photographers.
- 19:01Speaker 2: What none of them knew about this. I don't believe
- 19:08Speaker 2: that nobody in any of these stations do about it.
- 19:11Speaker 2: I just don't. Again, the incompetence explanation for the media
- 19:15Speaker 2: is always a legitimate one. The media tends to find
- 19:19Speaker 2: out about things when somebody sends them a press release.
- 19:21Speaker 2: But the one thing reporters in this era do, they
- 19:24Speaker 2: don't know how to do any kind of journalism. They
- 19:26Speaker 2: all know how to follow social media, so they would
- 19:28Speaker 2: have seen in social media the stuff that was popping
- 19:30Speaker 2: up on all the platforms, on Facebook and everywhere else.
- 19:34Speaker 2: There was an agenda here, and I'm going to tell
- 19:38Speaker 2: you something else. Over the next two and a half months,
- 19:46Speaker 2: this sanitizing of anything bad in Milwaukee will be worse.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Everyone knows a leftist Milwaukee Democrat is running for governor
- 19:56Speaker 2: against a Republican from up north, and everyone knows. One
- 20:04Speaker 2: of the biggest negatives that David Crowley, the leftist Milwaukee Democrat,
- 20:07Speaker 2: has is voters in the state of Wisconsin don't want
- 20:11Speaker 2: Milwaukee values and Milwaukee approaches the crime inflicted on the
- 20:16Speaker 2: rest of the state. Tom Tiffany doesn't even have to
- 20:20Speaker 2: run against Milwaukee. Just by pointing out where Crowley is,
- 20:23Speaker 2: the ad tells itself, but it is a real point.
- 20:29Speaker 2: The reason that urban America has way more problems than
- 20:33Speaker 2: the rest of America. You could say, well, this is
- 20:37Speaker 2: where minority people live, this is where poor people live. Crap.
- 20:46Speaker 2: Huge numbers of African Americans, Latinos and other racial minorities
- 20:51Speaker 2: live in suburbs, live in small towns, live in rural areas,
- 20:58Speaker 2: and the crime problems aren't as bad. Poverty, Oh, the
- 21:04Speaker 2: only poverty is in the big cities. Oh, my goodness,
- 21:07Speaker 2: you could go to some of these small towns of Wisconsin.
- 21:09Speaker 2: People are there. There are some people that are really
- 21:12Speaker 2: badly off. Go around the United States, go into Kentucky,
- 21:19Speaker 2: into the Hill and the old corps, the coal mines
- 21:21Speaker 2: have closed on, there's destitute. No. The reason that these
- 21:27Speaker 2: problems are worse in urban America is virtually not all,
- 21:31Speaker 2: but almost every big city in this country is run
- 21:34Speaker 2: by leftists, and they have leftist approaches to criminal justice,
- 21:38Speaker 2: leftist approaches to policing, leftist approaches to everything. And it
- 21:50Speaker 2: is out of lists leftist Milwaukee political swamp that the
- 21:57Speaker 2: Democrats desperate to choose anybody others then a communist dingbat
- 22:04Speaker 2: ended up choosing David Crowley. Now do I think that
- 22:08Speaker 2: the average reporter over there at Channel four decided not
- 22:11Speaker 2: to cover this story? Was they, God, oh, this is
- 22:12Speaker 2: gonna look bad for David Crowley. No, but you watch
- 22:16Speaker 2: I woant the sanitization of all of these Milwaukee type
- 22:19Speaker 2: problems over the next two and a half months. No,
- 22:27Speaker 2: I'm not. People say I shouldn't give advice to the Democrats.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Trust me, they don't take my advice. That was David Crowley,
- 22:34Speaker 2: I do who was it that had the sister soldier
- 22:37Speaker 2: moment was that Jesse Jackson was that Bill Clinton is
- 22:42Speaker 2: Bill Clinton? Did Jesse Jackson have one of those moments too?
- 22:49Speaker 2: Soldier was Clinton? If David Crowley was smart, he get
- 22:54Speaker 2: up and call these people thugs. Say that the police
- 22:57Speaker 2: response should have been stronger, and suggests that in the
- 23:05Speaker 2: city of Milwaukee, which is run by Cavalier Johnson, not
- 23:08Speaker 2: by him, that the police department is nowhere near tough
- 23:12Speaker 2: enough and we don't have an aggressive enough response on
- 23:15Speaker 2: jubitle Tublemakers. That would actually be a way for him
- 23:19Speaker 2: to portray himself as something other than the typical left
- 23:23Speaker 2: wing Milwaukee Democratic idiot. I don't think he's gonna do it.
- 23:28Speaker 2: First of all, Crowley's a whimp. Crowley has no political instincts.
- 23:34Speaker 2: When Tony Evers was running around, Tony Evers endorsed it
- 23:37Speaker 2: for government. I mean you even saw the ads. It
- 23:39Speaker 2: was like Crowley had a leasha around his neck. Here's
- 23:41Speaker 2: Tony Evers, which, by the way, I would just think
- 23:43Speaker 2: he'd be a terrible dog owner, wouldn't you. I mean
- 23:47Speaker 2: dog owners have to I mean dogs have to be
- 23:49Speaker 2: subservient to their owners, right that they have to learn
- 23:52Speaker 2: who the boss is. That's the way that you have
- 23:54Speaker 2: a dog. Well you're okay, you're a whimp too with it.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Do you have a big dog or a little dog.
- 24:03Speaker 2: I have a girlfriend with little dogs. They're both poodles.
- 24:08Speaker 2: One loves me and the other is just hell bent
- 24:13Speaker 2: on I think protecting me from from the woman. I
- 24:15Speaker 2: made it. I understand you have to show A you're
- 24:21Speaker 2: not a threat, B you're the friend and be and
- 24:23Speaker 2: then second you're in charge. I just thinks would be.
- 24:27Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine ivers if he told his
- 24:28Speaker 2: dog is said he's not gonna say, set said said none.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Let's say I mean you're talking about a guy who
- 24:37Speaker 2: is like I mean, I would think they run those
- 24:41Speaker 2: blood tests on testoster. There's all these companies that sell
- 24:44Speaker 2: testosterone on the radio and all of that stuff. I
- 24:47Speaker 2: don't think that's a good idea, do you. I mean,
- 24:51Speaker 2: I see guys doing this and you know, increase their LIVIDO.
- 24:54Speaker 2: We don't have any of those success the oone sponsors
- 24:56Speaker 2: on my podcast. I mean, if any that's are on there,
- 24:59Speaker 2: it's national thing that's put on before after the show.
- 25:03Speaker 2: I don't think I just anything with steroids. I just
- 25:06Speaker 2: have Yeah, I mean you see the what happens to well,
- 25:13Speaker 2: especially the athletes that were on steroids in the wild
- 25:17Speaker 2: West era of steroids before. You know, after a certain
- 25:22Speaker 2: point the cheaters knew how much to use and how
- 25:24Speaker 2: much not to use. But I mean significant chunk of
- 25:27Speaker 2: the early on you well, look at Walter Payton, for
- 25:29Speaker 2: heaven's sakes, he got jaundiced. They destroyed their their kidneys,
- 25:34Speaker 2: their livers. Lal al Zada was one of the first
- 25:35Speaker 2: one of them. I'd digress you. My point is is
- 25:39Speaker 2: that when you do the testosteroid count, the tea count
- 25:41Speaker 2: I hear them call it. You've heard that thing, the
- 25:42Speaker 2: tea count. I would think Tony Evers is below zero.
- 25:47Speaker 2: He's like a minus. He's like like a negative amount
- 25:49Speaker 2: of testosterone in there. Nonetheless, in these pictures, it was
- 25:53Speaker 2: like he's walking Crowley around. Here's my here's my pet.
- 25:58Speaker 2: Got got Kennedy for governor to replace, and Crowley just
- 26:01Speaker 2: shimp it around behind him like the two paws up
- 26:03Speaker 2: in the air, like the nice obedient doying. Yes, what
- 26:05Speaker 2: Tony said, What Tony said? The only reason the David
- 26:07Speaker 2: Crowley is the Democratic nominee for governors because Tony Evers
- 26:10Speaker 2: told the Democrats to vote for him, because he said
- 26:12Speaker 2: the other person's gonna lose. That's why it happened. So
- 26:18Speaker 2: Crowley doesn't have any instincts of his own here. If
- 26:21Speaker 2: he did, he'd break out of this typical Democrat mode
- 26:25Speaker 2: and actually act like somebody who's got some balls to him.
- 26:29Speaker 2: The people of Wisconsin don't want riots at their fare,
- 26:32Speaker 2: and I called this a near riot. Again, I wasn't there.
- 26:37Speaker 2: I watched the videos. It looked like it was mostly
- 26:41Speaker 2: the people who were there causing trouble, causing trouble with
- 26:43Speaker 2: one another. I didn't know. Again, I'm just working off
- 26:46Speaker 2: the videos, but I've seen at least twenty five of them, again,
- 26:51Speaker 2: all on social media. I didn't see a lot of
- 26:53Speaker 2: like just a regular bystander standing there and somebody going
- 26:56Speaker 2: up and knocking them over, or somebody finding a young
- 26:58Speaker 2: woman and smashing her of the grind. I didn't see that.
- 27:00Speaker 2: I'm not saying it didn't happen, but it looked like
- 27:02Speaker 2: they mostly were there to just cause trouble amongst one another.
- 27:05Speaker 2: So therefore I'll call it a near riot. A riot
- 27:08Speaker 2: would be you know, badly harming. I would think others.
- 27:12Speaker 2: In any event, it's a bad thing, and just when
- 27:16Speaker 2: nobody in Wisconsin wants it. The people who want this
- 27:19Speaker 2: are the people who hate everything, which is the Marxist
- 27:23Speaker 2: But Curley's got the Marxist vote. By the way, a
- 27:25Speaker 2: quick aside, I think it's fascinating how little complaining Francesca
- 27:32Speaker 2: hang and the Marxists are doing about the fact that
- 27:34Speaker 2: the Democrats came in and stole this thing from her.
- 27:37Speaker 2: I mean they just came in and Evers raised a fortune,
- 27:43Speaker 2: and the Democrat bosses raised the fortune to put Crowley
- 27:46Speaker 2: out there and stop the woman who admittedly she had
- 27:49Speaker 2: a lot to it was her own views that get
- 27:51Speaker 2: her in, and then her campaign staff was stupid enough
- 27:54Speaker 2: to let somebody as dumb as her go on national TV.
- 27:57Speaker 2: Where she made it worse was spiking the football before
- 27:59Speaker 2: the election. She didn't even know how to explain away
- 28:06Speaker 2: her stupid thing about banning Thanksgiving. Still, she was up
- 28:10Speaker 2: by twenty five points and she ended up losing by
- 28:15Speaker 2: just a narrow a moment because the Democratic Party did
- 28:17Speaker 2: everything in its power at the Democratic leadership did everything
- 28:19Speaker 2: is power to stop her. I haven't heard any complaining
- 28:21Speaker 2: about this, just like when the actual, the real raw deal,
- 28:29Speaker 2: when the Democrats rig the election back in sixteen to
- 28:32Speaker 2: have Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders. And we've seen from
- 28:35Speaker 2: the leak memos that came out of the DNC that
- 28:37Speaker 2: it was a rigging that went on. Bernie Sanders never
- 28:41Speaker 2: much bitched about it. Maybe the Communists, the Marxists and
- 28:44Speaker 2: the Democratic Party just know eventually it's going to be
- 28:46Speaker 2: our time. We can't assault the actual Democrats and so on. Anyway,
- 28:55Speaker 2: I want to turn my attention to another story. Listeners
- 29:01Speaker 2: shared this one with me. The state of Kansas has
- 29:15Speaker 2: become the first state of the Union to virtually totally
- 29:22Speaker 2: ban cell phones in schools. Other states have partial bands.
- 29:30Speaker 2: The Kansas thing would be like a ninety nine percent ban.
- 29:38Speaker 2: Daily Caller. One of the strictest statewide bands on student
- 29:43Speaker 2: personal electronic devices, was just implemented in Kansas through HB
- 29:47Speaker 2: twenty two ninety nine. More states should follow suit. Kansas
- 29:51Speaker 2: Governor Laura Kelly signed the bill into law in March,
- 29:55Speaker 2: which went into effect for the first time on the
- 29:57Speaker 2: twenty twenty six school year. So other where it's while
- 30:01Speaker 2: the bill was signed in March, it doesn't kick in
- 30:03Speaker 2: until the school year that's beginning. Why some schools are
- 30:06Speaker 2: already opened up, Isn't that just that's a scandal, isn't it.
- 30:11Speaker 2: I mean, I know why they start so early. It's
- 30:13Speaker 2: because of all the days off that they have in there.
- 30:15Speaker 2: They mostly DIDs still have a minimum number of days
- 30:18Speaker 2: that you have to have in class. So therefore, I mean,
- 30:22Speaker 2: I just think kids shouldn't go just play hooky and
- 30:27Speaker 2: then give up all these stupid four day weeks and
- 30:29Speaker 2: the Wednesday afternoons for in service and oh the crap.
- 30:37Speaker 2: HB twenty two ninety nine requires all Kansas public schools
- 30:40Speaker 2: and accredit to private schools to ban students from accessing
- 30:44Speaker 2: cell phone, smart watches, tablets, wireless earbuds, or any other
- 30:48Speaker 2: electric devices from the first bell of the school day
- 30:50Speaker 2: until dismissal. These devices must be powered off and stored
- 30:54Speaker 2: in an inaccessible location. Now, there are some schools here
- 30:58Speaker 2: in Wisconsin that do this, but there's no law requiring it.
- 31:01Speaker 2: It's simply a matter of policy. Most don't. This policy
- 31:08Speaker 2: stands out because, barring some limited exceptions, students were sent
- 31:11Speaker 2: back to the stone age. Kansas is admitting that for
- 31:15Speaker 2: students to learn well, it requires prioritizing blocking students' access
- 31:19Speaker 2: to electronics for the full day. This means there are
- 31:23Speaker 2: no devices in classrooms, during lunch and recess or in
- 31:27Speaker 2: the halls. Many other states have some level of electronics
- 31:31Speaker 2: ban in their schools, but most have stopped short of
- 31:33Speaker 2: this standard. The lack of courage to protect students and
- 31:37Speaker 2: their ability to learn has documented costs. There is ample
- 31:42Speaker 2: evidence of the harms that smartphones and social media cause
- 31:46Speaker 2: for adolescents. There isn't much an educator can do about
- 31:50Speaker 2: a home environment that allows them unfettered access to technology. However,
- 31:54Speaker 2: there is just as much research showing that devices in
- 31:58Speaker 2: classroom settings and enable constant distraction and lower learning. Teachers
- 32:05Speaker 2: complain about having to spend instructional time addressing technology use,
- 32:10Speaker 2: but all the bands in their classrooms just aren't happening.
- 32:14Speaker 2: At the local level, state wide action is a no
- 32:17Speaker 2: brainer solution to fix this problem. Now, the story goes on.
- 32:20Speaker 2: There have been severalistics here in southeast in Wisconsin that
- 32:23Speaker 2: have tried to do this, and some have implemented partial
- 32:25Speaker 2: bands are close to total, but almost every time it happens,
- 32:29Speaker 2: A the students complain. Of course they complain, but B
- 32:33Speaker 2: A lot of their parents can play. As a former kid,
- 32:43Speaker 2: I cannot imagine how little attention we'd all would have
- 32:49Speaker 2: been playing. I mean, I remember what the form of
- 32:52Speaker 2: communication was when I was in grade school. The girls
- 32:54Speaker 2: would pass notes, and you know how they were that
- 32:56Speaker 2: gossip and weight when they got to the point of
- 32:58Speaker 2: like liking boise, they passed notes boys and all of
- 33:00Speaker 2: this stuff, and that was a huge abstraction for them,
- 33:02Speaker 2: and I remember the teachers would often have to address it. Anything. Well,
- 33:07Speaker 2: imagine now that you're on social media and this one
- 33:10Speaker 2: said this about that you're watching this video. There's a
- 33:15Speaker 2: huge lawsuit going on right now against Meta and Google.
- 33:18Speaker 2: Morgan and Morgan, which is the nation's biggest trial lawyer firm,
- 33:22Speaker 2: is one of the lead plaintiffs in this, and they're
- 33:24Speaker 2: advertising for plaintiffs to come forward. It's an attempt, you know,
- 33:29Speaker 2: to shake down big money out of Facebook, which is
- 33:33Speaker 2: Meta and all the other big tech companies and so on.
- 33:39Speaker 2: Whether or not it's their fault or not, I don't know,
- 33:42Speaker 2: but certainly the existence of this type of technology has
- 33:47Speaker 2: a far more devastating impact on kids than adults. It's
- 33:52Speaker 2: extremely distraction distracting, It makes bullying work worse, and if
- 33:58Speaker 2: it's not addictive, it's it's hard to turn away, especially
- 34:02Speaker 2: when you're a kid, and especially if the competition is
- 34:05Speaker 2: some teacher up there drawning on and on about some
- 34:08Speaker 2: school lesson that you find boring. So the solution to
- 34:13Speaker 2: me is obviously, well, they can't have it, and they
- 34:15Speaker 2: can't have it during lunch, and they can't have it
- 34:17Speaker 2: during breaks because they're just gonna get on their head,
- 34:19Speaker 2: get their minds distracted by whatever craft that they're doing
- 34:22Speaker 2: on there. What happens, though, is that you get a
- 34:25Speaker 2: lot of parents subject because many parents are let's be
- 34:28Speaker 2: honest about this, pathetically WOOSI. I first started noticing this
- 34:36Speaker 2: not so much in my generation, which didn't invent divorce,
- 34:39Speaker 2: but it certainly mainstreamed it. The World War two generation,
- 34:45Speaker 2: you know, the generation of my appearance, the force was
- 34:47Speaker 2: rather rare. Baby boomers got married and more than half
- 34:51Speaker 2: of them, I think the number has got divorced. Same
- 34:54Speaker 2: thing happened with the Gen xers. And one of the
- 34:59Speaker 2: things that we started to notice, and you know, this
- 35:01Speaker 2: show's my show started in the radio nineteen eighty nine.
- 35:04Speaker 2: We talked about what's going to happen when these kids
- 35:06Speaker 2: grow up, well, we now know what happens. When they
- 35:08Speaker 2: grew up there, the Millennials and to some extent the
- 35:11Speaker 2: gen Z's, they were raised with much less discipline and
- 35:19Speaker 2: way more protectiveness than our generation. And there was a
- 35:27Speaker 2: desire on the part of many, mostly moms, but not
- 35:30Speaker 2: entirely to be friends with their children. You'd see things
- 35:37Speaker 2: like and again this is my generation and the generation
- 35:41Speaker 2: that Jason is in. Moms who would dress up like
- 35:44Speaker 2: their daughters, you know, were the same kind of short
- 35:46Speaker 2: skirts and go out together. And that would you know,
- 35:49Speaker 2: there was the two things that two girls would goose
- 35:51Speaker 2: to do together or maybe two sisters, the mom and
- 35:54Speaker 2: the daughter would do and they lost the ability to
- 35:58Speaker 2: do the most say the most important word that a
- 36:00Speaker 2: parent could say to a kid, which is no That
- 36:07Speaker 2: problem of wissified parenting has continued now. So when the
- 36:12Speaker 2: kid comes home and tells the parent, but I need
- 36:14Speaker 2: to be able to use my Facebook or I need
- 36:16Speaker 2: to use my phone during school, some of the parents,
- 36:19Speaker 2: rather than using the brains that God gave them and
- 36:21Speaker 2: realize this is no good for you during the school day,
- 36:26Speaker 2: bowed down to them, and then worse, you'll get well
- 36:28Speaker 2: but I need to contact my daughter during the school day.
- 36:31Speaker 2: I have to send her a message about when we're
- 36:33Speaker 2: going to pick her up and when we're going to
- 36:34Speaker 2: do this. I have to be able to do that.
- 36:36Speaker 2: Give me a break. What do y'all do before we
- 36:40Speaker 2: had smartphones? I was a kid who we didn't have smartphones.
- 36:45Speaker 2: If there was something that was all that dog on important,
- 36:48Speaker 2: the parent would get on the phone and call the
- 36:50Speaker 2: principal's office. I honestly don't think in my entire ty,
- 36:55Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm forgetting about Maybe I'm not. I do
- 36:58Speaker 2: not recall a time from kindergarten through graduating high school
- 37:02Speaker 2: did either of my parents ever called the school to
- 37:05Speaker 2: different I don't think it ever happened. Do you remember that? No,
- 37:12Speaker 2: So apparently I managed to go let's see K through
- 37:15Speaker 2: twelve would be thirteen years. I managed to go through
- 37:18Speaker 2: thirteen years of schooling without my parents needed to contact me.
- 37:21Speaker 2: So what do you have to be texting the kid
- 37:23Speaker 2: five times a day for you? Don't? This is why,
- 37:33Speaker 2: and this is the point of the writer here. You
- 37:35Speaker 2: can't let the I believe in local control, but school
- 37:38Speaker 2: boards are whims. Most people elected to school boards across
- 37:42Speaker 2: the board are liberal. We have some conservative school boards
- 37:45Speaker 2: in southeastern Wisconsin, and look at the abuse that they get.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Because the teachers are liberal, they want liberal school boards.
- 37:50Speaker 2: School boards tend to be more liberal as a group.
- 37:52Speaker 2: There's exceptions again, but generalizing than say city councils, county
- 37:56Speaker 2: boards and so on. So when the students get in
- 37:59Speaker 2: there and winding a plan, my parents get in their
- 38:00Speaker 2: want to complain. They didn't even listen to the teachers.
- 38:02Speaker 2: They cave in and rather instead and say no, you're
- 38:05Speaker 2: not going to have them. It's not good for education.
- 38:07Speaker 2: Test courts are going to hell. Discipline is worse than effort.
- 38:10Speaker 2: We think that this is a big part of the problem.
- 38:11Speaker 2: And if you don't like it, well go to some
- 38:13Speaker 2: private schools stupid enough to allow it. Now, there are
- 38:15Speaker 2: a lot of private schools that have these bands, not all.
- 38:20Speaker 2: There's some great private schools and some rotten private schools
- 38:23Speaker 2: and some in between. As a group, the private schools
- 38:25Speaker 2: are better than the public schools, but there's some bad
- 38:27Speaker 2: ones in there, and the ones that have these bands.
- 38:30Speaker 2: I just guarantee you the education is better, the discipline
- 38:32Speaker 2: environment has bet all of it's better. So you have
- 38:36Speaker 2: to do it on a statewide basis. Got another story
- 38:44Speaker 2: for you. This one is from West Alice. The City
- 38:51Speaker 2: Council in West Alice is to vote tomorrow night on
- 38:54Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the end of the story
- 38:55Speaker 2: and then we'll go through the middle and the beginning
- 39:00Speaker 2: to use tiff district funds to make a loan to
- 39:06Speaker 2: a developer of a retail in housing complex so they
- 39:11Speaker 2: can repair their flood damage. The city would be the
- 39:15Speaker 2: one that would be making the loan. Now, when there's
- 39:23Speaker 2: flood damage, as you all know, we have numerous programs
- 39:26Speaker 2: that kick in. FEMA comes in if something's declared a disaster, aary,
- 39:30Speaker 2: and so on. The property involved in West Alice is
- 39:35Speaker 2: called Element eighty four. It's a mixed use, mostly residential
- 39:42Speaker 2: development in the heart of downtown West Alice. According to
- 39:51Speaker 2: the resolution in front of the common council, there was
- 39:56Speaker 2: a significant amount of flooding that occurred last year, not
- 40:00Speaker 2: this most recent round of flooding that we had. This
- 40:02Speaker 2: is August of last year, twenty twenty five, and the
- 40:09Speaker 2: apartments at Element eighty four had a lot of flooding.
- 40:13Speaker 2: I'll read from the resolution during which the underwrong garages
- 40:16Speaker 2: and mechanical areas flooded to a depth of approximately six
- 40:20Speaker 2: and a half feet, resulting in significant physical damage exceeding
- 40:24Speaker 2: three million dollars to critical building systems including electrical services,
- 40:28Speaker 2: h VAC equipment, elevators, fire suppression systems, water heaters, communication systems,
- 40:33Speaker 2: and other infrastructure. Whereas the owners of Element eighty four
- 40:39Speaker 2: and the owners here are the developer in coredditional economic
- 40:43Speaker 2: losses exceed succeeding one million dollars related to temporary resident
- 40:47Speaker 2: housing loss on lincome. So, in other words, there is
- 40:50Speaker 2: this flood damage. This property is not in a floodplain.
- 40:56Speaker 2: I don't particularly remember this storm, but it was. I'm
- 40:59Speaker 2: sure it was one of the big storms that we
- 41:00Speaker 2: have where it pours several inches of ran, and it
- 41:02Speaker 2: might have been localized in the area of West Alice,
- 41:04Speaker 2: and it overwhelms the sewer system and the water backs up.
- 41:08Speaker 2: In this case, it was six and a half feet
- 41:10Speaker 2: in the basement, garages and all of these. Okay, big thing.
- 41:15Speaker 2: Sometimes you have insurance that covers it. In this case,
- 41:18Speaker 2: according to the resolution, the insurance coverage was denied. I
- 41:24Speaker 2: don't know if the developer had flood insurance. Specifically, most
- 41:27Speaker 2: people in Wisconsin do not if they're not in a
- 41:29Speaker 2: flood plate because you almost never have to tap into it.
- 41:33Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not even available. Often. Flood is one of
- 41:38Speaker 2: the things that's carved out from insurance policies, business policies,
- 41:42Speaker 2: and homeowners because it just is, well, if they didn't
- 41:45Speaker 2: have insurance coverage for this, so they're going to West
- 41:49Speaker 2: Alice to loan them money to do the fix up.
- 41:53Speaker 2: This particular project is already part of a tax increment district.
- 41:58Speaker 2: I feel the need every time we discussed tax increment
- 42:00Speaker 2: districts to explain what they are. It's one of those
- 42:04Speaker 2: things where it doesn't matter how many times I explain it.
- 42:07Speaker 2: If you don't know it, you don't know it, and
- 42:10Speaker 2: the people therefore who do to know what it is
- 42:11Speaker 2: whish then I didn't explain it because they know what
- 42:13Speaker 2: it is. The tax increment district, which is the same
- 42:17Speaker 2: as tax increment financing, is when the city gives a
- 42:20Speaker 2: subsidy to a developer to do something. I think when
- 42:23Speaker 2: they're done for housing, they are always bad. Ideas well,
- 42:26Speaker 2: this was already done to West Allie, they were done
- 42:28Speaker 2: for housing. I think housing creates demand for services and
- 42:35Speaker 2: simply brings in costs, it is no additional benefit to
- 42:38Speaker 2: a community. I think tift districts for commercial development can
- 42:43Speaker 2: be sort of okay, I think that they're badly abused.
- 42:47Speaker 2: But for residential all you're doing is bringing in an
- 42:49Speaker 2: additional need for services. Limited property tax value in the
- 42:53Speaker 2: TECH ten district means that the tax base that increases
- 42:56Speaker 2: because of the development doesn't even go to the city
- 42:58Speaker 2: or doesn't even go to the school. It simply goes
- 43:01Speaker 2: to pay for the improvements that with the city is
- 43:03Speaker 2: giving you for this. So in other words, a tift
- 43:05Speaker 2: district can be used to put in new straights, sewer,
- 43:07Speaker 2: water and all of that. So the thing gets developed
- 43:09Speaker 2: and it's worth all this amount of money and so on.
- 43:11Speaker 2: But the taxes don't go into the schools and don't
- 43:14Speaker 2: go into this, so why do it? And their answers, well,
- 43:17Speaker 2: we want to have this housing in your committee. Okay,
- 43:18Speaker 2: they did it. So this project Element eighty four is
- 43:22Speaker 2: already a tax income a district. So here's who West
- 43:26Speaker 2: Alice is figuring. We don't want them to go under
- 43:31Speaker 2: because we've already given them this huge subsidy. So now
- 43:34Speaker 2: they got to think they need over a million dollars
- 43:36Speaker 2: to do the water clean up and all of this stuff.
- 43:41Speaker 2: So we're going to give them additional TIFF money by
- 43:44Speaker 2: allowing them to borrow the money from the city. I'm
- 43:47Speaker 2: just trying to imagine this. Where do you live? I
- 43:50Speaker 2: don't even know where do you live? Jason? No? No, no, no?
- 43:54Speaker 2: Do you still live there? Now? You commute daily? You're
- 43:58Speaker 2: out of your mind. I didn't know that selling a
- 44:03Speaker 2: house is to Yeah, when you're asking too much. I
- 44:06Speaker 2: know how long it took that to get there From
- 44:08Speaker 2: where I live in downtown Milwaukee. I drive fast, seventy
- 44:13Speaker 2: four minutes, but I mean, trust me, the point from
- 44:18Speaker 2: the state line and on south was way faster. There's
- 44:21Speaker 2: no cops on the Illinois tool Way. And what's the
- 44:23Speaker 2: one that goes is it two ninety four ninety four
- 44:27Speaker 2: turns into two ninety four and what's your exit? You
- 44:30Speaker 2: don't see a single cop between the state line and
- 44:32Speaker 2: that exit? Do you? In eight months? Maybe one? All right,
- 44:37Speaker 2: So we've distracted the audience with that. Why did I
- 44:41Speaker 2: even ask the question? Now, you completely threw me off
- 44:43Speaker 2: with regard to that. Anyway, I was on the West Alliston.
- 44:47Speaker 2: Why did I ask you that? Yeah? No, no. I remember,
- 44:55Speaker 2: let's imagine you have flooding in your house at Arlington
- 44:58Speaker 2: Heights and you need a load. Can you imagine Calleiam
- 45:03Speaker 2: City Hall. Whatever happened to banks? Why doesn't the developer
- 45:13Speaker 2: of Element eighty four borrow the money from a bank?
- 45:19Speaker 2: Regular old homeowners go and use stupidly use their nineteen
- 45:22Speaker 2: percent interest rate credit card. The City of West Alice
- 45:27Speaker 2: is in a bank, and I know where the City
- 45:28Speaker 2: of West Alice is coming from. But we've already given
- 45:31Speaker 2: them all of this money because of this, and if
- 45:33Speaker 2: they spend this out of their pocket, the problem the
- 45:36Speaker 2: thing might fail and Eliment eighty four might go bankrupt,
- 45:39Speaker 2: and now we've lost the tifted. That's their concern, which
- 45:44Speaker 2: is the concern of everyone who goes in too deep
- 45:50Speaker 2: with someone who has a fear of failing. It's called
- 45:53Speaker 2: good money after bad Now. I wanted to talk to
- 45:55Speaker 2: the Community Development director of West Alice. He did email
- 45:58Speaker 2: me back. He's on vacation. He gave me a brief statement,
- 46:01Speaker 2: but I didn't have a chance to do a back
- 46:03Speaker 2: and forth with him. And this is very very brief,
- 46:08Speaker 2: but at least he did give me something. In short,
- 46:11Speaker 2: the federal fud belief program challenges SBA terms. Well, he's
- 46:14Speaker 2: right about that the tiff is in a positive position
- 46:20Speaker 2: because of Element eighty four. The tiff will close early
- 46:23Speaker 2: and the assistance will be repaid with a guarantee and
- 46:26Speaker 2: market interest terms. So he's saying that so far the
- 46:29Speaker 2: tiff district is good, so therefore we don't want to
- 46:33Speaker 2: screw this up. We'll get the developer the money so
- 46:35Speaker 2: they can go ahead and do this. Now, of course
- 46:37Speaker 2: it's a loan, but it's backed by the tiff money,
- 46:39Speaker 2: which means that the taxpayers of West Allie, indirectly because
- 46:42Speaker 2: it's the Tiff, make the loan. I believe that one
- 46:49Speaker 2: of the Ogden companies is the developer of Element eighty four.
- 46:53Speaker 2: I don't think they're paupers. This is the sort of
- 46:57Speaker 2: thing that happens, though, with local government gets in too
- 47:01Speaker 2: deep with these types of subsidies. There are a lot
- 47:04Speaker 2: of people who question, like government subsidizes businesses, shouldn't they
- 47:07Speaker 2: subsidize residential And the answer is is that businesses don't
- 47:11Speaker 2: require much in government services, but they pay massive property
- 47:15Speaker 2: taxes and employ lots of people. Residential results in more
- 47:20Speaker 2: people going to the schools, the schools are a massive
- 47:23Speaker 2: money loser, as we see from our property taxes. Residential
- 47:29Speaker 2: properties are not you know, they're not valued at the
- 47:31Speaker 2: same amount as a commercial And in the case of
- 47:34Speaker 2: a community like West Allis, again I know why they
- 47:36Speaker 2: do it. They're landlocked. There's no opportunity for further growth.
- 47:39Speaker 2: The school enrollment is plummeting. So put this thing in there.
- 47:42Speaker 2: Get some more people in there. Okay, we have people
- 47:44Speaker 2: in and they'll go to the businesses, and I get
- 47:46Speaker 2: the idea where they come from, and perhaps it's a
- 47:49Speaker 2: better idea than when it's proposed in communities like Mechwan
- 47:52Speaker 2: and so on. I contend Kift District should never be
- 47:55Speaker 2: used for housing. People are going to move where they
- 47:58Speaker 2: want to move, and they're going to move where the
- 47:59Speaker 2: market prices is alone than to move. Nonetheless, it is
- 48:03Speaker 2: an interesting use of TIFF money. By the way, the
- 48:05Speaker 2: loan is seven percent. One of the questions I would
- 48:09Speaker 2: raise is if the developer of Element eighty four don't
- 48:13Speaker 2: have the money, now, how are they gonna have it?
- 48:15Speaker 2: They got to pay this back and it's seven percent interest.
- 48:22Speaker 2: I think the fact that they need the loan is
- 48:24Speaker 2: a bad side about the health of the overall development. Now,
- 48:27Speaker 2: the way developers set these things up, usually each project
- 48:30Speaker 2: is its own LLC or whatever whatever economic form they
- 48:35Speaker 2: used to set it up, so you could have a
- 48:37Speaker 2: develop a successful and ninety six things. If one or
- 48:40Speaker 2: two go under, it doesn't mean the other none the
- 48:42Speaker 2: whole company goes under. It just means those two go under.
- 48:44Speaker 2: And they say that eliment eighty four is successful, that
- 48:47Speaker 2: the city's going to make money off of it in
- 48:48Speaker 2: the whole thing, and they're just protecting their investment and
- 48:50Speaker 2: making this loan. I wonder how many other homeowners in
- 48:54Speaker 2: West allis And again I wish I remembered which storm
- 48:57Speaker 2: this was in August. If you had water in your
- 48:59Speaker 2: basement and you live and say one hundred eleventh Street
- 49:02Speaker 2: in West Allie, Say you live, I drive past there
- 49:05Speaker 2: all the time. Say like one hundred eleventh in Cleveland.
- 49:10Speaker 2: It's on the way to the Walgreens. You know where
- 49:12Speaker 2: that is, don't you? Well, you know where hundred eleventh
- 49:15Speaker 2: in Cleveland is. It's at one hundred and eleventh in Cleveland.
- 49:19Speaker 2: And you had water in your basement, call up Dan Devine,
- 49:22Speaker 2: your mayor over there, and ask him if he'll give
- 49:24Speaker 2: you a loan. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast.
- 49:32Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. Very interesting email released
- 49:40Speaker 2: by Senators Ran Paul and our own Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
- 49:45Speaker 2: You know, we've got this massive trove of Fauci emails
- 49:50Speaker 2: because Fauci used a government server for his emails. All
- 49:55Speaker 2: of this stuff that's destroying Fauci's reputation and proving that
- 49:59Speaker 2: Fauci lie about everything with regard to COVID is all
- 50:02Speaker 2: coming out because he was doing all of his emailing
- 50:06Speaker 2: on a government server. Meeting, it's very easy for the
- 50:09Speaker 2: government to retrieve these records. They're not even his records.
- 50:12Speaker 2: It's the same thing as if I do something on
- 50:14Speaker 2: the iHeart server, so iHeart stuff anyway. The email shows
- 50:22Speaker 2: that and the date here is critical, so I'm going
- 50:24Speaker 2: to go slowly. May twenty seventh of twenty one. COVID
- 50:31Speaker 2: started surfacing in the United States in early twenty It
- 50:37Speaker 2: was when in March when all hell broke lose. That's
- 50:40Speaker 2: when the NBA, the NBA shut down and the next thing,
- 50:43Speaker 2: you know, everything shut down, and then we're going to
- 50:45Speaker 2: have the fourteen days to flatten the curve, which turned
- 50:47Speaker 2: out to be two years and so on. The vaccines
- 50:50Speaker 2: were then developed throughout twenty and the first vaccines were
- 50:55Speaker 2: finalized right at the end of twenty well, Trump was
- 50:58Speaker 2: still in people weren't starting to get them until early
- 51:02Speaker 2: twenty one. Biden has worn in January of twenty one,
- 51:08Speaker 2: and the Biden administration in Fauci went insane pro vaccine.
- 51:15Speaker 2: This is when the mandate started. Many employers required it
- 51:20Speaker 2: or said if you don't get the vaccine, you'll be fired.
- 51:23Speaker 2: The number of human resources directors who had to fire
- 51:25Speaker 2: twenty and thirty year employees because they didn't want to
- 51:27Speaker 2: make take the risk of taking a vaccine that was unproven.
- 51:32Speaker 2: The country was shut down for the longest time, and
- 51:34Speaker 2: then after it was reopened. In many cases you had
- 51:37Speaker 2: to show proof of vaccine. You know, you had to
- 51:39Speaker 2: show proof of vaccine to go on a cruise, You
- 51:41Speaker 2: had to show proof of vaccine to flan a plane.
- 51:45Speaker 2: Because it was just relentless. Everybody has to be accident
- 51:48Speaker 2: and if it has to be vaccined. This email was
- 51:51Speaker 2: sent May twenty seventh to twenty one, so we're several
- 51:54Speaker 2: months into the push for the vaccines, and you'll recall
- 51:57Speaker 2: the thing with the vaccines. So the vaccines first came out,
- 52:00Speaker 2: there were two groups in this country, the people who
- 52:02Speaker 2: wanted them the people who didn't. People who wanted them,
- 52:06Speaker 2: they sit in line. The first time it was available
- 52:08Speaker 2: for them. They go over to think, I got mine.
- 52:11Speaker 2: Remember it was that you had to get two doses
- 52:13Speaker 2: unless Johnson and Johnson were just one shot. The Feiser,
- 52:17Speaker 2: I said, Meser, Moderna and Pfeiser were two dose vaccines.
- 52:23Speaker 2: I think I got mine. At West Allis Hospital, they're
- 52:28Speaker 2: rushing to get everybody in there, and brushing to get
- 52:30Speaker 2: him in the ever Brain and anybody who suggested that
- 52:32Speaker 2: there might be a downside, and they were hushed up
- 52:37Speaker 2: May twenty seventh and twenty twenty one. In other words,
- 52:39Speaker 2: very early in the vaccine period in which the hammer
- 52:42Speaker 2: was being put down. You must get vaccinated. The Commissioner
- 52:47Speaker 2: of the FDA, Janet Woodcock, send an email to Anthony Fauci.
- 52:54Speaker 2: And we now know this because the senators who were
- 53:00Speaker 2: dive in their staffs that are diving through Fauci's emails
- 53:03Speaker 2: have found it. The head of the FDA told Fauci
- 53:10Speaker 2: that there was significant evidence of people having bad reactions
- 53:14Speaker 2: to the vaccine. She wrote I have been contacted by
- 53:20Speaker 2: a number of people who experienced adverse post COVID nineteen
- 53:24Speaker 2: vaccination from all three of the current vaccines. Many are
- 53:28Speaker 2: healthcare professionals, some of whom I know. The symptoms do
- 53:33Speaker 2: not fit together into a distinctive syndrome, and most are
- 53:36Speaker 2: not easily quantifiable or evaluated with standard laboratory testing. Clearly,
- 53:42Speaker 2: during mass vaccination you will get a lot of psychological
- 53:45Speaker 2: reactions that it is hard to sort these things out.
- 53:48Speaker 2: But the people's main complaint is that no one takes
- 53:51Speaker 2: them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and
- 53:55Speaker 2: there is no effort to study this. These problems are
- 53:59Speaker 2: not the sol that a system like ARS vers is
- 54:02Speaker 2: the system in which you report adverse reactions of vaccines.
- 54:07Speaker 2: These are not the problems that systems like VIARS would
- 54:10Speaker 2: be able to detect, or even a more sophisticated population
- 54:14Speaker 2: based active follow up such as CDC HAS or a
- 54:18Speaker 2: medical record based system such as BEST. I think it
- 54:21Speaker 2: would be worthwhile to do a study and evaluate a
- 54:25Speaker 2: cohort of these individuals, but of course money needs to
- 54:29Speaker 2: be made available, and you would need an investigator who
- 54:33Speaker 2: is interested in medical mysteries. I doubt the industry would
- 54:37Speaker 2: support for obvious reasons. But my experience is that if
- 54:40Speaker 2: you have a problem fester, that it will come back
- 54:43Speaker 2: to bite you later if you are not prepared. What
- 54:47Speaker 2: do you think of this? That email was sent by
- 54:49Speaker 2: the head of the FDA to Fauci. We have absolute
- 54:55Speaker 2: evidence here. This isn't coming from an anti vaxit vaxer.
- 55:00Speaker 2: It wasn't even coming from some of the many prominent scientists,
- 55:04Speaker 2: doctor Bectiah and so on that were questioning this. This
- 55:07Speaker 2: came from another Biden administration department had the head of
- 55:10Speaker 2: the FDA, we need to study this. There are reports
- 55:15Speaker 2: coming in all over the place. Months later, the media
- 55:21Speaker 2: and FAUCI were claiming that none of this was going on.
- 55:25Speaker 2: Senator Ron Johnson is a hero. You'll remember, months after
- 55:30Speaker 2: the vaccine started coming out, held a congressional hearing in
- 55:35Speaker 2: which he had a number of people that were adversely
- 55:37Speaker 2: harmed by the vaccine come forward. He held a news conference.
- 55:44Speaker 2: He was attacked and savaged by js online. Milwaukee Journal
- 55:48Speaker 2: Sentinel ridiculed he's anti science. Here was a guy who
- 55:54Speaker 2: had people come to him. I had bad reactions in
- 55:57Speaker 2: the vaccine. Nobody wanted to hear it, and they were
- 56:00Speaker 2: all saying, well, the experts say it's not true. The
- 56:02Speaker 2: experts say, there's no bad reactions. The experts say, the
- 56:04Speaker 2: experts say, we now know that Fauci the expert, was
- 56:07Speaker 2: told by the head of the FDA that bad stuff
- 56:09Speaker 2: was happening. By the way, the FDA didn't come forward
- 56:13Speaker 2: to this at all, so they had this information way
- 56:16Speaker 2: back then and they covered it up. As I say,
- 56:20Speaker 2: the truth always comes out, and there are other people
- 56:23Speaker 2: wondering why we even bother with any of this now
- 56:26Speaker 2: if we don't bother with it now. The dishonest version
- 56:31Speaker 2: of the history of this, the lie, is the version
- 56:35Speaker 2: that can that continues. Their final statement, my experience is
- 56:43Speaker 2: that if you let a problem fester, which they did,
- 56:45Speaker 2: they didn't do a damn thing about this. They kept
- 56:48Speaker 2: pushing the vaccine rather than you know, tell it being
- 56:52Speaker 2: honest with people. We think it's a good idea for
- 56:54Speaker 2: you with COVID, but there is a significant risk. There's
- 56:56Speaker 2: a risk rather of significantly bad problems. We had simply
- 57:00Speaker 2: said from the beginning, if you're at high risk for this,
- 57:02Speaker 2: we think it's a good idea. If you're at low
- 57:03Speaker 2: rest for this, while you're on your own, no mandates,
- 57:06Speaker 2: no nothing. But we didn't. We didn't, and we didn't
- 57:13Speaker 2: do it because you had a guy Fauci who was
- 57:16Speaker 2: not interested in healthcare, but was mostly interested in chilling
- 57:20Speaker 2: for the vaccine manufacturers and doing his best to cover
- 57:24Speaker 2: up the fact that the vaccine existed in the first
- 57:27Speaker 2: place because he bankworled research in China in a lab
- 57:30Speaker 2: where a vaccine leaped out him. I have another story.
- 57:39Speaker 2: I have another story for you. I did my column
- 57:46Speaker 2: and one segment of the podcast. The segment of the
- 57:48Speaker 2: podcast is on Thursday of last week. My newspaper column
- 57:50Speaker 2: came on on Wednesday of last week, in which I
- 57:53Speaker 2: expressed concern that President Trump's unwilling US to accept that
- 58:00Speaker 2: Iran is not going to surrender in the war, is
- 58:06Speaker 2: going to allow him to have a ran due to
- 58:10Speaker 2: him what Vietnam did to Lyndon Bins Johnson. Lynden Bins
- 58:15Speaker 2: Johnson had one of the most substantial presidencies of the
- 58:17Speaker 2: twentieth century. Not always good, but it was almost all important.
- 58:24Speaker 2: Nobody remembers him for any of it. You only remember
- 58:27Speaker 2: him for Vietnam. One of the things that Trump has
- 58:33Speaker 2: accomplished and you know our society is we only focus
- 58:37Speaker 2: on problems. That something gets better, we don't even notice it.
- 58:43Speaker 2: Drug prices in the United States. Prescription drug prices in
- 58:46Speaker 2: the United States are net downward right now. The reason
- 58:51Speaker 2: for this is Trump and RFK Junior deserves a lot
- 58:55Speaker 2: of credit for this. Ended the practice of the drug
- 58:59Speaker 2: companies being able to charge United States users of prescriptions
- 59:04Speaker 2: way more than users in other countries. What Trump did
- 59:07Speaker 2: the term is called most Favored Nation. He required the
- 59:12Speaker 2: drug manufacturers to give most Favored Nation status to the
- 59:16Speaker 2: United States of America, meaning whatever the lowest price that
- 59:20Speaker 2: you sell these drugs to in a particular country, we
- 59:23Speaker 2: have to be on that scale. Now, the thing about
- 59:27Speaker 2: prescription drugs is some people feel the pain for them
- 59:30Speaker 2: more than others. I am someone for whom, and I'll
- 59:35Speaker 2: be honest with you, prescription drug costs are rather irrelevant
- 59:38Speaker 2: to me. Here's why I'm on Medicare Party. Party is
- 59:42Speaker 2: an insurance plan for drugs. Get into Medicare. They're expensive,
- 59:48Speaker 2: but the way it works is after I hit a
- 59:50Speaker 2: certain level, if you have a stroke, you're going to
- 59:52Speaker 2: be on a lot of drugs for the rest of
- 59:53Speaker 2: your life. Blood thinners and all that crap, et cetera.
- 59:57Speaker 2: So I hit my out of pocket level. After I pay,
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: I have to pay essentially cash. I pay the huge
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: cost for the drugs, and then by like March April,
- 1:00:06Speaker 2: I hit my out of pocket for the year. So frankly,
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: what do I care how much the drug costs for
- 1:00:10Speaker 2: the rest of the year because the insurance is covering
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: it indirectly. Of course, the cost of all of these
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: drugs is the reason that the insurance premium for this.
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: By the way, when these lefties all call for medicare
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: for all, do they have any idea how much medicare costs?
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: Do you have an idea what your drug plan's gonna be,
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: not to mention how it's going to destroy Medicare for
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: everybody else? Anyway, for people that have drug plans, if
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: they hit their annual max, you know, and this is
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: the way it works in our society. A lot of
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: people are any medications at all, are maybe one, and
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: then there are a lot of others that are in
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: eighty five, five hundred. So there isn't the same price
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: sensitivity what there are for people who don't have these
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: drug plans. Is some of these prescription drugs kill them,
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: but others have insurance coverage that once they hit that
- 1:01:08Speaker 2: certain max for the year, they don't really care. But certainly,
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: the fact that we have been able with regard to
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: many of these medications lower the price so that we're
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: paying the same amount that they're playing in some European nations,
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: in Canada and some other places has been a significant
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: positive that's been achieved under the Trump administration. Not that
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: the Trump's people put out a press release today doing
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: a year over year comparison, but again, this is my point,
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: if you didn't have this constant problem with the war
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: with a RAN, which, as I say, I believe that
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: the goal here needs to be to develop an exit
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: strategy that we've accomplished as much as we're going to
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: accomplish that. Our goal merely needs to be now to
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: keep the straight of horm Moose open. That to think
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: that you're going to get a RAN to sign a
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: deal that they're going to honor and wave the white flag,
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: they're not going to. We've devastated that country done enough anyway.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: The problem with the thing just continuing to linger on,
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: and gas prices and oil prices staying high, et cetera.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Because of it. It's that it's distracting attention from all
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: of these other accomplishments that Trump achieved. You know, the
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: lefties always carry on about Big Farmer, but they're the
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: ones that suck up to them. The big losers in
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: most Favored Nation status is Big Pharma because they were
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: overcharging American users. In American users is but one of
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: their biggest markets. Another interesting story, Trump wants to call
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: off the military exercises that the United States is doing
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: with South Korea. And he came right out and said,
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: why said I'm getting along great with fat Face. That's
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: my name for Kim Jong Ill. In fact, again, one
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: of the things that you know when you have a
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: president that the media doesn't like, the media is not
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: going to go out and tell you about something positive
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: that it's going on during that presidency, particularly if it's
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: something that you wouldn't otherwise notice. But here's what hasn't
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: been in the news any problem at all with North Korea.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: Trump has neutralized them. They have been a total pain
- 1:03:15Speaker 2: in the ass ever since nineteen fifty. We got to
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: go to war with him, a war we didn't win,
- 1:03:22Speaker 2: A war that resulted in a stalemate, and they've been
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: causing trouble ever since. They've always been threatening to develop
- 1:03:30Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. They've been causing trouble on their border. They're
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: a destabling influence. North Korea hasn't caused any problem at
- 1:03:46Speaker 2: all the last couple of years. I think Trump's success
- 1:03:53Speaker 2: in dealing with the tyrant from Korea, that face is
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: one of the things that has led him to believe
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: that he can achieve success with the tyrants in Iran.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: There's a difference. Iran has a whole large group of radicals.
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: North Korea has a dictator. When you're dealing with just
- 1:04:15Speaker 2: one guy. And what I think that Trump has done
- 1:04:19Speaker 2: is he's raising with him. He said, look, we can
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: isolate you, we can force you to keep spending a
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: fortune to arm ourselves because South Korea spending a fortune
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: over there on its other side, or we can get along.
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: You just have to stop this business of developing nuclear
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: weapons and threatening to shoot him at Alaska. And that's
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: what's happened. I've said many times, Trump is his own
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: good cop bag cup. This is Trump being good cop.
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: He's rewarding North Korea for being less problems during the
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: time that he's been president than at any point in
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: the last seventy five years. The other reason that Trump
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: brings this up is I think Trump is his thing,
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: and I'm with him on this. He doesn't like ingrades.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: He thinks NATO is ingrades. The United States of America
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: has been bankrolling the defense of Western Europe ever since
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: the end of World War Two, and all Western Europe
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: does is crap all over us. And Trump is questioned,
- 1:05:31Speaker 2: why We're spending all this money protecting NATO when Western
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: Europe doesn't do anything to protect us. And the trade
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: policies of the countries of Western Europe have been very
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: anti American. And the critics of Trump say, why is
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: Trump so critical of Europe? But then he sucks up
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: to you know, Putin, And the answer is Trump doesn't
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: like it when countries that we have met. Canada is
- 1:05:55Speaker 2: another Canada is a bunch of total ingrids. Many Canadians
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: are reasonable people, Bill It's people in Montreal and Toronto
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: if they look down their noses at the United States
- 1:06:05Speaker 2: of America, even though again, you know, Canada has almost
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: no military. The thing that has protected Canada from Russia
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: and everyone else is US. They're rich people come down
- 1:06:15Speaker 2: here to get our healthcare because the healthcare up there
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: in Canada sucks. Trump doesn't like ingrades in South Korea
- 1:06:25Speaker 2: has been caused South Korea is moving left, and South
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: Korea has been somewhat difficult on trade. So Trump calls
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: off these military operations, gives a shout out to fat
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: face in North Korea. The South Koreans will stew about it.
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: I think it's a good reaction also, I mean again,
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: going back to the whole raids and the dog thing.
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: You have to let a dog know that's in who's
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: in charge with the best way of training a dog
- 1:06:57Speaker 2: is too give it. Treats me nice to do, rewards, rewards, rewards, rewards,
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: and face it. Kim John Ill is a dog, and
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: Trump's treating him like a dog. He's behaving properly now,
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: or at least less monstrously than in the past. So
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: he just gave him his little treat there. It's a
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: pretty good analogy, I believe, don't you just say yes?
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: Jason says, it's a good analogy. I a good you're
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: listening to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: Belling podcast. See now, I just compared Kim John Ill.
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: Why I call Fat Face of North Korea to a dog.
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: It's actually kind of an apt What dog does he
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: most resemble, you know, like a bulldog? Right with us?
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: Fat Face as a bulldog. He doesn't have the wrinkles
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: that a bulldog has. But you know, bulldogs heads are
- 1:07:46Speaker 2: oversized compared to the rest of their body, and Fat
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: Face would be like that. That'd be the best one
- 1:07:51Speaker 2: I would come up with. It would be a you know,
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: it's a short, roly poly kind of dog, like pugs
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: aren't really roly poly because they can scan it. They
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: can screw around a little bit. But when you're like,
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: I mean bulldogs are really slow. I mean I don't
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: mean French bulldogs that are all hyper. I mean like
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: the standard issue like bulldog. Sometimes you realize how great
- 1:08:16Speaker 2: someoney is when they fail. Let me explain that if
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: someone always succeeds, always, always, always, you tend to take
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: it for granted until they don't. Over the weekend, Katie
- 1:08:35Speaker 2: Ladecci lost the eight hundred meter freestyle in the Pan
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: Pacific Championships. It was held in the suburb of la
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: and Irvine. The Pan Pacific Championships. Now, if you know
- 1:08:49Speaker 2: anything about swimming, and I mean anything you've heard of
- 1:08:52Speaker 2: Katie Ladeki. There are many that would be in there
- 1:08:56Speaker 2: for this, but I think she's certainly the greatest woman
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: swimmer in the h three of women swimming. I can
- 1:09:01Speaker 2: say great at swimmer, some would say phelps, some would
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: say spits, but certainly her level of dominance, becoming great
- 1:09:11Speaker 2: early in her teen years and then sustaining it for
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: so long has just been incredible. I mean, she's got
- 1:09:18Speaker 2: this long body and she's best in middle the longer
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: distances because she just comes and comes and comes and
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: comes and comes and comes and swims like a machine.
- 1:09:27Speaker 2: And she's been able to maintain this forever. Anyway, she
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: did not win the eight hundred meter in the event
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: over the weekend Pan Pacific Championships. I don't know what
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: that is. What my guess is it's well, an Australian beater,
- 1:09:42Speaker 2: so it's probably the countries of Eastern Asia, Australia and
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: so on versus the United States, the Western hemister. I
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: don't know, an Australian beater. It's the first time she's
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: lost in eight hundred meet her race and fourteen years,
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: fourteen years she's not lost in the eight hundred. I'll
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: admit I didn't know that. I know she's got all
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: these records, and you know, she breaks her own world records,
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: and she's unbeatable in certain events. I did not know
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: in the eight hundred. Nobody has beaten her in eight
- 1:10:22Speaker 2: in fourteen years. I don't know, by the way, if
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: overall she's finally slowing up a little bit, or if
- 1:10:30Speaker 2: it was aberrational. I mean, in any other human endeavor,
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: you have a bad game. The best pitcher in baseball
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: of a bad game, best hitter can go a week
- 1:10:38Speaker 2: without getting a thing. I mean, the best race horses
- 1:10:41Speaker 2: lose a race every now and then. Very few go
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: one beaten fourteen years of the eight hundred. Let's discuss
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: the death of Tommy John. What a fascinating story. First
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: of all, one of the greatest names in the history
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: of sports, Tommy John, because it's his name. I don't
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: can you trademark your own name? I mean people have
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: trademarked their own last name, But I mean some people
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: have a name because there's these like underwear company called
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: Tommy John. Right, there's like a sportswear company called Tommy John.
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: So Tommy John apparently couldn't stop them from using the
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: name Tommy John. Yeah, you can trademark your name, but
- 1:11:32Speaker 2: only if it's to advertise a specific brand or services. Well,
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: he wasn't selling underwear, so he couldn't trademark his name
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: for that. So anyway, Tommy John had one of the
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: longest careers of any Major League Baseball pitcher ever. He
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: pitched for twenty six years. But of course that's not
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: the reason he's famous. Tommy John is one of the
- 1:11:51Speaker 2: few human beings ever to have a medical surgery named
- 1:11:57Speaker 2: after him. I mean, when you think of all almost
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: any surgery that's out there, they just call it whatever
- 1:12:02Speaker 2: it is. It's a bypass surgery, it's this, or it's
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: a rotator cuff surgery, it's a knee replacement, or it's
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: an acl Tommy John surgery is named after Tommy John.
- 1:12:13Speaker 2: It's not even I would think, you know, if you
- 1:12:15Speaker 2: name it so, it would be maybe the person who
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: developed it. And some of these surgeries were indeed invented
- 1:12:21Speaker 2: and developed. There's a guy from Nina, by the way,
- 1:12:24Speaker 2: who pioneered rotator cuff surgery. Gary Lassi so sports star.
- 1:12:31Speaker 2: When I was a little kid older than me we're
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: not going to become a big orthopedic surgeon. There's a
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: guy named Frank Job. I don't recall who did the
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: first Tommy John surgery, but surgery is named after him.
- 1:12:41Speaker 2: There are cases like lou Garrey where you name a
- 1:12:43Speaker 2: fatal illness over the person that had it. In Tommy
- 1:12:45Speaker 2: John's case, it was a good thing because Tommy John
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: surgery was one of the greatest developments in the history
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: of athletic surgery. Tommy John blew out his elbow and
- 1:13:01Speaker 2: they came up with the idea of replacing the cartilage
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: cartilage in his elbow with cartilage from another part of
- 1:13:08Speaker 2: the body, stronger cartilage, and Tommy John came back better.
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: My experience in following this, especially the last twenty years,
- 1:13:16Speaker 2: and Tommy John had his surgery No. Sixty years ago,
- 1:13:21Speaker 2: is that pitchers who have Tommy John, if they stay
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: out long enough and I recommend two full years, come
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: back better. Sometimes it takes them a year after they
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: come back, but the fact of the matter is is
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: that they have stronger cartilage than they did before. So
- 1:13:37Speaker 2: the surgery ended up being named after Tommy John and
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: it was such a success. As they say, Tommy John.
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: He is a young pitcher, and several years into his
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: career he blew out his elbow and they had the
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: surgery which became Tommy John surgery, and is called Tommy
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: John because he was the first guy in whom they
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: performed it. And he went on to pitch forever and
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: ever and ever. When I was a little kid, the
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: Braves we had, we went five We went four years.
- 1:14:03Speaker 2: Four years that Milwaukee you went without baseball sixty six,
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: sixty seven, sixty eight, and sixty nine. The Braves left
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: in sixty five. I was already a sports fan. I'm
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: growing up in the Fox Valley. Everybody up there who
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: followed baseball had to adopt a new team because the
- 1:14:20Speaker 2: Braves are left, and you know who they all adopted.
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: You probably would know who they all adopted, right, No,
- 1:14:29Speaker 2: I guess I would have lived if they adopted the Cubs.
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: Even then, I was smart enough. Now you're a white
- 1:14:37Speaker 2: Sox fan. You never you're Oh, you're a Cubs fan.
- 1:14:40Speaker 2: Where was I thinking? White Sox? I don't know, see it,
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: It's it's just it. Being a Cubs fan is the
- 1:14:49Speaker 2: most virulent. It's it's the worst form of cancer. You know,
- 1:14:52Speaker 2: some characters. If you get the instantly spread to your body.
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: Cubs fandom is just a terrible cancer. If you're anywhere
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: near it, it afflicts you, you know, And okay, we're in
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: the Fox Valley. It's usually like what the closest team is,
- 1:15:06Speaker 2: And I guess that would have been the Cubs because
- 1:15:07Speaker 2: they're on the north side of Chicago, on the south side.
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: Minneapolis is farther away than Chicage. It had to be something,
- 1:15:15Speaker 2: and it was explained to me by my grandmother before
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: the Braves came in nineteen fifty three, that's who people
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: in Wisconsin generally supported. At least she claimed that she
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: was a Cubs fan remember the seventies, even after the
- 1:15:26Speaker 2: Brewers came to town. You know that was in the
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: Cubs only played in the afternoons. My grandmother, so I said,
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: of course, she can't hear a damn thing. She's got
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: in the radio. Every day she listened to Vincent Loeu,
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: who I still think, do you remember them or is
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: that before your time? Vince Lloyd and lou Boudrou. I
- 1:15:44Speaker 2: think that's the best radio tandem I've ever heard that.
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: I mean, they were really good and had personalities behind
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: him in doing goofy things and a guy at a
- 1:15:55Speaker 2: home run and they'd ring a cow bell up there.
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: And this is before Harry carry Carrie did Radio two,
- 1:16:00Speaker 2: but he was primarily I think TV and furthermore, Vincent Lou.
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: Harry Carey had sidekicks, but it was mostly Harry that
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: was doing the thing. Vincent Lou were a two tanum. Anyway,
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: my grand was listening to Vincent Lou every day, even
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: if the Brewers are hearing. Yeah, my dad was a
- 1:16:17Speaker 2: cubstand everybody up there was, so I screw it, I'm
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: gonna be a White Sox fan. Nineteen sixty seven, the
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: White Sox had a fascinating team. There was. This was
- 1:16:26Speaker 2: back before the divisions. To win the American League, he
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: had to finish in first place. Everybody else went home.
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: The winner of the American League went to the World
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: Series Boston Detroit. The White Sox. Maybe maybe another team
- 1:16:39Speaker 2: was in the running. The White Sox could not hit.
- 1:16:42Speaker 2: Late sixties was a dead ball era. There was no
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: hitting at all. But the White Sox really couldn't hit,
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: but they had incredible pitching. They'd win games two to one,
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: three to two. And I listened to these games WMAQ
- 1:16:55Speaker 2: was the station that carried him. And let's say, you know,
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: it's I'm two hundred miles of Chicago stat out the
- 1:17:00Speaker 2: wazoo and trying to listen to this. And the announcer
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: for w you know who did the White Sox in
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: the sixties, You would not know this. He's famous, He's
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: a legend. It's way back. Bob Elson, Bob Elson, the Commander,
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: Bob Elson. He was the opposite of say Harry Carey
- 1:17:19Speaker 2: and Vince Lloyd. He was very he was like a
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: Vin Scully type of announcer. Anyway, the White Sox had
- 1:17:26Speaker 2: this great pitching rotation. They had Gary Peters, Joe Horland, Wilberwood,
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: and Tommy John. This is before the surgery. Tommy John
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: started in nineteen sixty three and he pitched twenty six years.
- 1:17:43Speaker 2: The fact that he blew out his elbow weirdly extended
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: his career because if he hadn't flowed out his elbow,
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: he wouldn't have gotten the stronger ligament in his elbow,
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: and he probably would have simply run the course the
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: way everybody else did. But because he blew out his
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: elbow and they put in the better ligament, it lasted forever.
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: A of course, that became the go to surgery. Any
- 1:18:02Speaker 2: picture now that strains that particular ligament in their elbow
- 1:18:05Speaker 2: gets Tommy John surgery, which is a tremendous bill because
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: they're out for the longest time, but it works. First
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: of all, Tommy John's kind of a cool name because
- 1:18:16Speaker 2: it's two first names, as being your name, Tommy John.
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: It sounds cool. And then I mean everybody who follows
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: sports knows about Tommy John. I mean it's particularly big
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: in baseball, but quarterbacks have to have it. Any but
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: athlete who gets it. It's such a major injury, but
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: always the prognosis is usually pretty good when you come
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: out at the end of it. I think way more
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: people know about the surgery than no Tommy John. But
- 1:18:39Speaker 2: I think Tommy John is way better known than his
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: career would indicate, because people hear the name Tommy John
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: surgery and they wonder, well, where why do they call
- 1:18:46Speaker 2: it Tommy John surgery? They look it up and it's
- 1:18:48Speaker 2: because they's Tommy John. Tommy John was only I think
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: he was only eighty four years old. Eighty three. Yeah,
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: it just seems like eve older because first of all,
- 1:19:01Speaker 2: he goes back. I said, as I said, he goes
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: back and he pitches who back when I was a kid.
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Brewers. I know there's this thing
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: with regard to I think it's the whole thing in baseball.
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: There's something I'll just get to invent a term. It's
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: called Dodger phobia. Oh, the Brewers are gonna get swept
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: at the Dodgers. Well, they went on this West coast trip.
- 1:19:24Speaker 2: They were swept by the Padres and the Brewers. I've
- 1:19:27Speaker 2: been telling you forever they're so overdue for a slump,
- 1:19:30Speaker 2: and I even I feared that this could be a
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: seven game losing streak. And they went on. They lost
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: the first three to San Diego. Would you believe that
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: they went to Dodger Stadium and beat the Dodgers three
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: or four? They were all close. The Dodgers are not invincible.
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: I don't think the Dodgers are the best team in baseball.
- 1:19:47Speaker 2: They might win the World Series again, They've already won
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: it twice in a row. They might win it again,
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: but they've got this huge payroll. Then they go and
- 1:19:56Speaker 2: they get scoo ball, and everybody overreacts to this. I think,
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: right now, the Dodgers are the fourth best team in
- 1:20:06Speaker 2: the National League. I think the Cubs are better and
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: I think the Braves are better now. Admittedly I'm catching
- 1:20:11Speaker 2: the Dodgers in a slump. They had lost seven in
- 1:20:13Speaker 2: a row. They came out of it a little bit.
- 1:20:15Speaker 2: They lost three or four to the Brewers. When you
- 1:20:16Speaker 2: get into the team that's built for the postseason, maybe
- 1:20:19Speaker 2: it will kick into them. But the reality is is
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: that the Dodgers, the Dodgers starting pitching staff is not
- 1:20:26Speaker 2: as good as the Brewers. The pickup of school ball
- 1:20:29Speaker 2: attracts a lot of headlines, but this is not the
- 1:20:31Speaker 2: school ball of the past. I think that the Brewers'
- 1:20:34Speaker 2: starting rotation right now is the best in Major League Baseball,
- 1:20:37Speaker 2: top to bottom. The problem with it is most of
- 1:20:40Speaker 2: these guys are young, and they're all on bailing wire,
- 1:20:43Speaker 2: and I don't know that they can make it to October.
- 1:20:46Speaker 2: I don't know that Miserowski can make it to the
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: middle of September. But the Brewers starting pitching rotation of Miserowski,
- 1:20:54Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison, Logan Henderson, who nobody ever talks about. People
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: forget he had five great starts last year, three and
- 1:21:00Speaker 2: oh last year, he's seven and two. This year, he's
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: now ten and two in his career, and every starts
- 1:21:03Speaker 2: a good start. Dustin May who is going to turn
- 1:21:08Speaker 2: out to be as good a pick up for the
- 1:21:10Speaker 2: Brewers as school ball was for the Dodgers and Robert Gosser.
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: The problem with the Brewers, as I say, is I
- 1:21:17Speaker 2: just think the whole team is tired. Contreras is finally
- 1:21:19Speaker 2: breaking out of his slump, but I love Pat Murphy.
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: He overuses Contreras and I don't know if Conturis needs
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: a stint on the DL, but he needs something to
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: recharge the batteries. He overuses a lot of players. Now
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: Urebay is on the injured list, he had to use
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: Aaron Ashby to close out a game. I fear that
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: McGill is being overused. Mizerowski has already past the most
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: number of innings that he's town in a particular season.
- 1:21:48Speaker 2: You talk about teams that are built for the postseason.
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: Unfortunately for the Brewers, they're built for the regular season.
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: But the Brewers pitching is overcoming the fact that they're
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: not hitting much at all. There's still fourth in the
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: National League and run scored, but the Brewers won three
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: or four in this series. Even though they scored only
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: sixteen runs in a four game series, that's an average
- 1:22:07Speaker 2: of four runs a game, and that's basically the magic
- 1:22:10Speaker 2: number for the Brewers. If the Brewers score four, I
- 1:22:12Speaker 2: think they're gonna win more than half the time because
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: the starting pitching in the bullpen as men that good.
- 1:22:19Speaker 2: But for all this Dodger forby a Dodger, Dodger, Dodger,
- 1:22:22Speaker 2: the team coming into Milwaukee, the Brewers now face a
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: really tough stretch. They've got the Braves, who are really good,
- 1:22:30Speaker 2: and then two series with the Cubs. I think they're
- 1:22:33Speaker 2: in Wrigley first, and then they come back to Milwaukee.
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: It's the Cubs the first part of next week and
- 1:22:39Speaker 2: the week after that, like starting I think, like Labor Day,
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: the Cubs are in Milwaukee. But there's just this sense
- 1:22:46Speaker 2: with the Dodgers, because they've won a two years in
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: a row and they have the high payer rule, that
- 1:22:51Speaker 2: they're the be all and the end all the things.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: The weird thing is the Cubs. That's Jason's team. They're
- 1:22:57Speaker 2: the opposite of the Brewers. I mean, the Cubs I
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: think of the best offensive baseball, but they're pitching just
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: isn't any good. And I think in the end you
- 1:23:04Speaker 2: win with pitching and not with hitching hitting. But the
- 1:23:07Speaker 2: Cubs hitting is so good that they're over I think
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: what they win by. Yes, didn't you what a game
- 1:23:11Speaker 2: twelve to eight over the weekend? Yeah, I mean you
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: give up eight runs, you're supposed to lose. But it
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: was that at home. Sometimes the wind blows on at Wrigley. Yeah.
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: When sometimes the wind is blowing out, I'm from the West.
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: It wriggly just blows all those balls out of the ballpark.
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: All right, that's it for today. Next podcast coming up
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Talk to you then bye.
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