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Mark Belling Podcast #79: Tone-deaf KJP's misplaced self-pride is a metaphor for all of leftism. Mark explains. In the meantime, Trump globetrots with major trade breakthroughs across Asia. National leftists target a local school for canning the guy who falsely said there was an ICE raid in Waukesha. And, our weekly football preview and point spread picks · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: I think I have a segment here that will offer
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  Speaker 2: a very revealing insight into how leftists think. Let me
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  Speaker 2: set it up for a second. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I've commented on is just the number of issues
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  Speaker 2: at which liberals have created totally new positions to adopt
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  Speaker 2: that they never held even a few years ago. Some
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  Speaker 2: it was a gradual change. It used to be that
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  Speaker 2: the party that was most opposed to illegal immigration was
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats because the unions were threatened by cheap labor
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  Speaker 2: coming in to steal away good paying unionized jobs. And
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  Speaker 2: it was Republicans that kind of looked the other way
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of businesses were happy to get this
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  Speaker 2: cheap labor. That's an issue that they've clearly shifted on.
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  Speaker 2: But look at how they've abandoned women's rights and instead
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  Speaker 2: embraced whatever trans rights are, allowing men to compete against
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  Speaker 2: women in sports and so on. That's a rather brand
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  Speaker 2: new position for them to take. In the meantime, Trump
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  Speaker 2: has moved to the middle and any number of issues
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  Speaker 2: and has adopted positions that used to be, if anything, liberal,
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  Speaker 2: in particular his strong belief in negotiation as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: the use of military force and so on. It makes
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  Speaker 2: you wonder what's going on in the leftist mind. And
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  Speaker 2: I think I have some insight here for them identity
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  Speaker 2: And this part's not new. We all know that they've
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  Speaker 2: been consumed by identity politics. White people are terrible, men
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  Speaker 2: are terrible, toxic, masculinity, white privilege, all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They are consumed by identity over two other eye words
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  Speaker 2: issues in ideology, the identity, the who they are, not
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  Speaker 2: what they think, but who your background, your racial identity,
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  Speaker 2: how you identify in terms of your gender and your
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  Speaker 2: sexual identity. All of that, all of it Trump's issues
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  Speaker 2: and ideology. Let's go back to the Kamala Harris campaign.
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  Speaker 2: You know, before she lost to Trump, liberals were very
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  Speaker 2: confident she was going to win. Remember all the statements
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  Speaker 2: that are made. One of the greatest campaigns in presidential history.
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  Speaker 2: I remember watching the battle axes on the view in
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  Speaker 2: a clip clip was played by every conservative podcast through
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  Speaker 2: out there because after the fact that just showed how
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  Speaker 2: stupid these people were, and they were bragging about how
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  Speaker 2: incredible Kamala's campaign was. In one of the commenters said,
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  Speaker 2: one of the women of the view said, maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was on MSNBC. She even got Queen Latifa to endorse her.
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  Speaker 2: Queen Latifa never endorses is if that meant something? Or
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she paid Beyonce for an endorsement, Well,
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  Speaker 2: Beyonce is someone that African Americans identify with, that women
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  Speaker 2: identify with. All of this is the identity her own
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  Speaker 2: obsession with creating this fake backstory of her life. I
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  Speaker 2: worked at McDonald's, I struggled on the streets, and then
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  Speaker 2: claiming every racial identity that she can come up with,
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  Speaker 2: all of an identity, identity, identity, and her statement recently,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the most qualified kennedyate ever to run for president.
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  Speaker 2: And she based this on simply the jobs that she had,
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  Speaker 2: not anything that she did in any of those jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Y is what drives them, Which brings me to this
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, and I'll tease it before I give you
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  Speaker 2: a little euline information here in the following way. It's
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  Speaker 2: an old joke about a guy who falls out of
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  Speaker 2: the upper deck in a football stadium and lands in
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  Speaker 2: the end zone and thinks he's scored a touchdown because
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  Speaker 2: he's in the end zone. The point of the joke
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  Speaker 2: is that someone, because they got something, thought that they
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  Speaker 2: did something to deserve it, or that they were special
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  Speaker 2: simply because they got that. There's been zillions of other
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  Speaker 2: examples of it. Anyway, I'll come up with my specific
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  Speaker 2: case that I want to talk about, which is kind
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  Speaker 2: Carrine Jean Pierre. She's written a book, so she's out
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  Speaker 2: there on a book tour. The downside for her is
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  Speaker 2: if you write a book and you want to publicize
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  Speaker 2: the book, you have to go and do interviews that
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  Speaker 2: if we've learned anything. The one thing in life that
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  Speaker 2: she's terrible at is answering questions, which means she was
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  Speaker 2: really ill suited to have a position of answering questions. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I think KJP has to be given cut some slack,
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  Speaker 2: only because she was being asked to defend the indefense
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  Speaker 2: of everything under Biden was a disaster and Biden was
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  Speaker 2: breaking down mentally and everyone knew it, and she had
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  Speaker 2: to get up there and lie and say that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't Inflation exploded out of control, and she somehow had
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  Speaker 2: to be claiming that this wasn't a bad thing. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: million people were crossing the border illegally, war was breaking
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  Speaker 2: out all over the world. Everything was going to hell.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be hard for somebody who was good at it
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  Speaker 2: to defend this, much less her, and she was terrible.
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  Speaker 2: So in her attempt to salvage her image, she came
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  Speaker 2: out after the election and said, I'm not a Democrat anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna describe myself as an independent. And now
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  Speaker 2: she's written this book and she's of course doing interviews,
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  Speaker 2: and they're only on the friendliest possible sources. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she just bopping from one MSNBC show to another, and
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  Speaker 2: then a CNN show and then going over to really
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  Speaker 2: really lefty podcasts, but even there they have to ask
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  Speaker 2: her something. Now the following cut and I want you
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  Speaker 2: to listen to it closely, because I say, you just
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  Speaker 2: get I think, an insight into leftism. This is on
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  Speaker 2: MSNBC where the coach, the host rather throws her a
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  Speaker 2: softball on the way she handled her job. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just that she ducked the question, it's what she said.
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  Speaker 2: So I want you to listen to this closely.
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  Speaker 3: I'm look, it's a simple no, no, no, because you're
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  Speaker 3: asking for a yes or no question.
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  Speaker 4: I want to put some context to it too.
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  Speaker 3: I woke up every day. I woke up every day
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  Speaker 3: very proud to be the White House pre Secretary.
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  Speaker 5: I woke up every.
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  Speaker 3: Day as a as a black woman who is queer,
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  Speaker 3: who had never no one had ever i've seen someone
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  Speaker 3: like me at that podium, standing behind that lectern. It
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  Speaker 3: was an honor and a privilege to have that job,
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  Speaker 3: and I did it to the best of my abilities.
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  Speaker 2: That's her answer.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: What he asked her is is there anything you would
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  Speaker 2: have said differently? And her response is it's the same
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  Speaker 2: answer she's giving constantly. It's the same statement always, I'm
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  Speaker 2: black and queer. I'm black and queer. She can't stop
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  Speaker 2: saying that sentence. And nobody's ever seen anyone like me
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  Speaker 2: in that job. Nobody's ever seen anyone who's black. No
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  Speaker 2: one has ever seen anyone who's queer. If you're wondering
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  Speaker 2: what the identification of queer is, that's one of those
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  Speaker 2: terms that went from being a slur to something that
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  Speaker 2: has been embraced by people who have an alternate sexual identity.
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  Speaker 2: The one that she's describing she has and she self
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  Speaker 2: identifies as queer, and she uses that word constantly. But
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  Speaker 2: did you see her answer? None of this? Could you
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  Speaker 2: have done a better job? Said, I got that job.
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  Speaker 2: That was not how you did it. And I got
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  Speaker 2: that job. She's the person who fell out of the
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  Speaker 2: end zone, fell out of the upper deck and landed
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  Speaker 2: in the end zone and thinking she scored a touchdown
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  Speaker 2: just because she got there. The how well she did
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  Speaker 2: is not doesn't matter. She's saying she is a success
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  Speaker 2: because she was seen doing this, even if she was
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  Speaker 2: utterly incompetent at it. You see therefore in that answer,
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  Speaker 2: the way she expresses herself that what matters is her identity.
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  Speaker 2: I am black and I am queer, and I was
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  Speaker 2: the White House Press secretary, which, when you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: is the reason she got that job. People have raised
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  Speaker 2: this question, and you'll hear in a segment here reference
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  Speaker 2: to it. John Kirby was the other guy who did
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  Speaker 2: the White House press briefings, white guy. He was better
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  Speaker 2: at it than her. But Joe Biden didn't want a
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  Speaker 2: boring white guy, and Democrats don't want a boring white
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  Speaker 2: guy out there. They wanted somebody with her frizzy, curly
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  Speaker 2: hair and all of different identities. As she keeps obsessively saying,
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  Speaker 2: she won't shut up as I'm black and queer, I'm
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  Speaker 2: black and queer, I'm black and queer, again and again
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  Speaker 2: and again. Pus said, what does that matter? But that's
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  Speaker 2: my point. It is all that matters to them, just
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  Speaker 2: as from Kamally Harris's perspective, So what if Beyonce doesn't saying,
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  Speaker 2: so what if I have to pay somebody to endorse me?
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  Speaker 2: I have her endorsement. I'm the first to do this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the first to do that. Nowhere in any of
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  Speaker 2: that equation does what you think, or what you do,
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  Speaker 2: or whether you were successful coming and play to it.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the next cut. She gave that answer, and
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  Speaker 2: other leftists are very, very uncomfortable trying to defend it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go over to another network, Jake Tappers on CNN,
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  Speaker 2: and they've got one of their Tolkien conservatives on the panel.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Katy Miller. She's a podcaster, and Katie Miller,
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  Speaker 2: of course, is mocking the idiotic answer that Kamala Herris Gabe.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to hear in this cut, the back
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  Speaker 2: and forth in which Jake Tapper his best defensive her is, well,
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  Speaker 2: before she got that job, she didn't seem like an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't even deny that she's an idiot. But I
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  Speaker 2: want you to listen through and listen to what happens
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  Speaker 2: after Katie Miller responds to Jake Tapper.
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  Speaker 6: What I think you're seeing and what Karen is attesting
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  Speaker 6: to is that she is quite incompetent to do the
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  Speaker 6: job right. This is what Republicans have been saying for
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  Speaker 6: years now. Is that she is just another evidence that
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  Speaker 6: DEI doesn't work. Whether that's in the White House in
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  Speaker 6: your press secretary role, or whether that's a you know,
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  Speaker 6: an air traffic controller, an air pilot, whether that's your doctor.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you want to hire the best for the role,
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  Speaker 6: not just based on skin color. Jake, why did she
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  Speaker 6: get the job over John Kirby. She used to be
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  Speaker 6: a commentator on CNN, then two was one on MSNBC,
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  Speaker 6: and she was.
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  Speaker 2: Good at that.
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  Speaker 4: Like I mean, I'm without getting into the job.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she did as Press secretary.
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  Speaker 6: I thought it didn't seem crazy to me because she
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  Speaker 6: was eloquent as a as a commentator. Why she trained
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  Speaker 6: every four sentences to say she is a black, queer
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  Speaker 6: LGBTQ woman, because that's how she's been promoted her entire career. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: Katie Miller and Karen Finny, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: That interview was then ended. He moved on prematurely because
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  Speaker 2: Tamper was so uncomfortable when Katie Miller said, why does
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  Speaker 2: KJP always say every four sentences she's black, queer, lgbt
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  Speaker 2: LGBTQ plus Tamper was very uncomfortable with the term queer
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  Speaker 2: coming out of Katie Millard's mouth, even though it's the
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  Speaker 2: term the KJP uses herself. Paul said, in one of
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  Speaker 2: my references, I said Kamally Harrison, not Karine Jean Pierre.
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  Speaker 2: So if I did that, all of the someone talking
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  Speaker 2: about KJP anyway. So Jake Tapper himself is very, very
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable with somebody who isn't self identifying as queer using
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  Speaker 2: that term, even though all she was doing is drawing
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  Speaker 2: attention to the fact that KJP herself will not shut
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  Speaker 2: up about it. And the point that Katy Miller was
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  Speaker 2: making is this is what DEI is, identity over any accomplishment.
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  Speaker 2: She was the ultimate DEI higher, not because she was
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  Speaker 2: going to be any good at her job, because she
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  Speaker 2: was all of these things. It's the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: led to all of these incompetent leftist hacks being named
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  Speaker 2: president of Ivy League universities. It's all over. So I
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  Speaker 2: think you see in this illustration how people on the
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  Speaker 2: left are only concerned with identity in terms of issues.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know where they stand, which is why they
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  Speaker 2: will change on a dime when their leadership tells them to.
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  Speaker 2: None of them are socialists until they decided they were socialists,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're all socialists. They used to all hate
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitism until they became anti semitic, and now they're
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  Speaker 2: all anti semitic. The issue doesn't matter. They don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to do on anything because nothing they ever do works,
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  Speaker 2: so they don't know what to think. They do what
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  Speaker 2: they're told and focus merely then on identification, which is
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  Speaker 2: why the things that trip their trigger is when they
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  Speaker 2: get to rip an identification that they don't embrace, like masculinity,
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  Speaker 2: toxic masculinity, white privilege. We don't even know what those
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  Speaker 2: terms mean, but we do know is they're saying we're not.
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  Speaker 2: That identity is to them the be all and the
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  Speaker 2: end all. I want to move to a local story.
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  Speaker 2: There is now national backlash being directed against a school
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  Speaker 2: in the Milwaukee area. Here's the backstory. Heard me reference
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  Speaker 2: it a couple of times on past podcasts and all demand.
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  Speaker 2: In the city of Wauka Shaw, Rico Camacho posted a
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  Speaker 2: weekend and a half ago, now about two weekends ago,
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  Speaker 2: that there was an ice raid underway in downtown Waka
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  Speaker 2: Shaw and freaked out all sorts of people. There wasn't
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  Speaker 2: an ice raid. Don't walk a Shaw. There. Ice wasn't
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  Speaker 2: in downtown walker Shaw. The whole thing was wraw. What
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  Speaker 2: was going on is a private security company was having
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  Speaker 2: a drill and some people saw this privates and they're
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  Speaker 2: probably wearing security company unions, and somehow in their goofed
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  Speaker 2: up mindsn this is Ice didn't even do with immigration
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  Speaker 2: or anything. It was simply a drill that of privates.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if they were, you know, drilling
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  Speaker 2: on what to do in a terror or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 2: but they're just doing a drill. That's all it was.
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  Speaker 2: In this idiot Camacho goes on social media it says
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  Speaker 2: there's an ice raid underway in downtown Waukeshaw. He apologized
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  Speaker 2: for putting out his misinformation, but he also got fired
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  Speaker 2: from his full time job, which is he was a teacher,
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  Speaker 2: just hired in August at Waukeshaw Catholic Memorial. They haven't
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  Speaker 2: said why he was fired, but they've implied that he
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  Speaker 2: violated their social media policy, which numerous employers have. We
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  Speaker 2: have one here. There's any number of things that if
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  Speaker 2: I said on social media can get me canned. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Since this has occurred, there's now a national backlash. It
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: started with the lawyer for the butcher of Shadey Robinson,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Anthony Cotton, started raising a stake. So he's now moved
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  Speaker 2: from defending somebody who sliced up an African American woman
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  Speaker 2: to defending a person who tried to panic the community
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  Speaker 2: that there was an ice raid going on. Cotton said
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  Speaker 2: that this is terrible that Camacho got fired. Okayme made
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  Speaker 2: a mistake and he shouldn't Nobo, you shouldn't get fired
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  Speaker 2: for this. In the meantime, move on dot org, big
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  Speaker 2: time national leftist organization, has a nationwide petition. It's all
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  Speaker 2: of our social media demanding the Catholic Memorial be targeted.
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  Speaker 2: They want to target the donors to Catholic Memorial and
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  Speaker 2: demand a boycott of donations until Catholic Memorial reverses this decision.
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  Speaker 2: All right, A lot to unpack here, regardless of whether
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  Speaker 2: or not what Camancho said was a fireable offense from
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  Speaker 2: his teaching position. I've said on my show and now
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  Speaker 2: my podcast a zillion times. I'm just telling you a
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  Speaker 2: zillion times, the left condition out. They can't take it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize how many people on the right have
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  Speaker 2: had their careers ruined because of some dumb thing they
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  Speaker 2: said on social media. And every time somebody on the
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: right says something that's slightly askew on social media, the
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  Speaker 2: left demands our heads, and it has been pointing out
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  Speaker 2: forever they better think about the consequences of this every
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  Speaker 2: single thing you do on social media as a career ender,
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  Speaker 2: because it might at some point be turned against them.
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  Speaker 2: When you take a look at the number of people
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  Speaker 2: on the right who have suffered terribly because of a
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  Speaker 2: social media comment, and you could say, well, they deserve
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  Speaker 2: to suffer, they didn't. The list goes on forever, and
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  Speaker 2: it's almost always someone on the left. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: you have an individual who's got public figure in terms
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  Speaker 2: of being an Alderman and a public profile in terms
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  Speaker 2: of being a school teacher, either recklessly and dangerously spreading
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  Speaker 2: false information. We're told didn't even see it himself, that
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  Speaker 2: somebody just told him, which got into go and jump
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  Speaker 2: and claim something factual was going on. You live by
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  Speaker 2: the sword, you die by the sword. And it's the
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  Speaker 2: left that has created these rules that if you say
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  Speaker 2: anything at all that is wrong on social media, your
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  Speaker 2: career is wiped out. It will be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: if Catholic Memorial caves the Mega movement, Trump and so
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  Speaker 2: on has done a much better job than we conservatives
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  Speaker 2: have done in the past in dishing it out to
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  Speaker 2: the left. And as you can see, they can't take anything.
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  Speaker 2: Every time Trump or anytime anybody in Mega goes after
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  Speaker 2: anybody on the left, they squeal in horror. But the
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  Speaker 2: left is still better at applying the pressure. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see whether or not Catholic Memorial caves that the lefties
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  Speaker 2: are going out after them. Interestingly, of the two positions
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  Speaker 2: that he obviously Catholic Memorial, it's a Catholic school and
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  Speaker 2: so on. They don't expect their teachers to go out
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  Speaker 2: and make false statements that are damaging statements and dangerous
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  Speaker 2: statements on social media. Are not allowed to do it,
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  Speaker 2: without regard to whether or not he's an all of
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  Speaker 2: it or not. But it was certainly a greater breach
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  Speaker 2: of his responsibility as an official of the city. If
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: there was an ice raid going on, which there wasn't,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: he should keep his mouth shut and support a law
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: enforcement agency that's conducting a law enforcement operation in his
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: own city. It is also another indication of how the
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: left just loses its marbles on anything pertaining to wise
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: to the point now that they are going nuts over ice.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: What it is? It even ice? Somebody's an it's ice.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: There's all these like you watch these YouTube videos. There's
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: all these people. This has become a thing to be
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a police impersonator. Now there's a build in the Wisconsin legislation,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: you do up the penalties for it. In most states
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that there isn't much of a penalty for. It's a
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: very dangerous thing. You know, somebody's driving around with a
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: car that looks like a cop car, and we're in
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: a uniform that looks like a cop uniform and having
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: a badge on that looks like a cop badge, and
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: having the gun bill down that looks and it can
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: be very very dangerous if the person is not a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: real cop and is out to do harm to people.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I think that these rent a cops might, these fake
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: cops out there might want to consider some of these
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: lefties are gonna think you're ice and they're gonna come
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and try to try to finish you off because they
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: think they see someone in a uniform, they think it's ice.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, poor Walmart security, what that's ice? Over there,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the Walmart head. I'm just the Walmart security guy. Let
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: me update you on another story. I have a problem
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: with the way this one's been handled. This deals with
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: an automobile crash that occurred earlier this year. In fact,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: it was Super Bowl Sunday. It occurred in Wakashaw County.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: A guy went to a bar and got himself blasted
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: watching the Super Bowl. According to the criminal complaint, he
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: said he had about admitted he had about six drinks
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: at a bar. Then he went over to another bar
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and had another four. He ended up driving the wrong
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: way on Moreland Road in New Berlin. Moreland Road is
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a north south People confused Moreland Road with Moreland Boulevard,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: but Moreland Road runs right to the middle of Brookfield
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: and then New Berlin to the south of Brookfield, goes
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: all the way down I forty three and beyond and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: so on. It is a major thoroughfare, and a good
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: chunk of it is divided. He was going the wrong
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: way on Moreland and crashed into a New Berlin squad
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: car the guys from Muskego. My guess is he was
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: headed home to misqus Ego bombed and crashed head on
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: going the wrong way into a squad car. They tested
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: his blood alcohol content and it comes back at point
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: one six, which is double the legal limit for drunk driving.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: The other thing on these tests is the blood test
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: often is taken. It could take up to two to
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: three hours. The blood test. That's not what you blow
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: in on the side of the road. The blood test
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: is they have to take you to a hospital and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: do a blood draw, and that's after you're arrested. Sometimes
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: it's after your book. It can take a fair amount
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: of time. At another of any event, he was way
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: over the limit. He's on the wrong side of the freeway.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: When this story initially occurred, the reaction is this is
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: again somebody there can't read English. How are they on
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the right? And it wasn't. It's a guy who knows
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the area. He was just that drunk, he's going the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: wrong way and drove head on into a police car.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: The officer was injured, but not severely broke a finger,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: banged up. The case was resolved in Walkashaw County Circuit Court.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: One of the newer judges he was he's a non incumbent.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: He ran unopposed and was elected in April I have
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: a problem with all these judges that are unopposed, in
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: particular when they're running. The first time, he ran as
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: a Conservative and he is endorsed by all the Conservatives.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: He handled this case. There was a plea bargain in
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: which the defendant his name is David A. Scott. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: again David Scott's a very common name. This guy lives
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: in Muschigo. He's fifty seven years old, and he's the
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: one who did it. So if you know a David Scott,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: don't assume that it's this one. This is a A.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Scott from Muskego. He pleaded guilty to some charges and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: others were dismissed, but read in read in means the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: judge can consider them at sentencing. He was also charged
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: with bail jumping after the arrest, but those charges always
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: get dismissed. There's no reason at all, so far as
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I can tell, for anybody to follow the conditions of
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: their bail because they never do anything. Is somebody who's
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: accused of bail jumping if they're then convicted of the
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: other offense. Among the charges that were ready in our
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: second are three counts of second degree recklessly endangering safety
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and one count of causing an injury while operating with
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: a pac over the legal limit. He pleaded guilty to
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: second or more offense of OWI causing injury and second
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: degree recklessly endangering safety. So second offense OWI with the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: enhancer of causing injury and then second degree recklessly endangering safety.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Those are both felonies. In other words, he was, even
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: after the plea bargain, convicted on serious charges and the
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: case was aggravated in terms of the impact. Here he's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: not only going the wrong way while drunkey hits a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: vehicle at squad Kinn the cop was hurt. The judge
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: in the case is Scott Wagner, brand new judge again.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: The guy ran as a conservative in maybe he is,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe he isn't. I admit I, oh, didn't know much
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: of anything about him when he ran the sentence four
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: months in jail, four months the rest probation. No, this
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: isn't just drunk driving. It's a repeat offense. But secondly,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: it's drunk driving on the wrong side of the road.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: We had drove straight into a vehicle. It hurt the driver,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: who happened to be a cop. Four months. He's lucky.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: The cop didn't die because obviously then you're talking lengthy
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: prison but four months, so it's too early to make
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a permanent decision on this new judge Wagner. But my
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: first impression of him is is that he's a clown
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: show who said that he was a conservative and then
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: can't pull the trigger when he has somebody who was.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just think people are fed up with
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: these cars going the wrong way on the freeway, wrong
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: way on the roads, and so on. It's happening all
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the time, and in this case, by his own admission,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: he was drinking like crazy four months. So this guy
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: over there is judge. There's a lot of judges named Wagner.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: This is Scott Wagner Walker Shaw County. He's unnoticed. He
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: seems to be auditioning to be to displace Ralphie Ramirez
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: as the biggest clown showed judge and Walker Shaw Cony.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I think this sentence is a disgrace. I don't think
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: that the guy needs to spend ten years in prison,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: but it was beyond mitigation. There's numerous factors that led
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: up to this and it resulted in an individual of
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: all the people that are getting themselves blasted on Super
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Bowl Sunday. There weren't many of them that managed to
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: on Moreland Road, go the wrong way and drive into
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: a cop four months four months? Should I say four months?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: One more time? Paul said, maybe what are four months?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. I mean, what do you think about it? Well,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Trump is pulling off as is extraordinary. There is some
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: sense that there is more hype than substances some of this,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: and maybe that's true, maybe it isn't. But Trump gets
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: in a plane, gets an Air Force one and bops
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: all over Asia and comes back with trade deals right
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and left, including this surprise meeting with the g of China.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: They did not reach a permanent deal, but Trump issued
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: a statement claiming significant progress was gained the China situation.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Of all the countries that we have trade, but I
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: think the two big ones to deal with are Cana
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: In China, we do massive trade with Canada, and Canada
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: has been raping US forever and so is China. And
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Trump has been determined. He's he vowed to do it,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: and it was running for president for the second term
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: here that he was going to do a reset. He
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: made progress in the first term. Biden none did all
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: of it. China has some leverage over the United States.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It's a difficult situation. And Trump, as has been his
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: wont w ont want. Won't you ever heard of that word? Won't? Well,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: it's it's a word, as is his like way of
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: doing things. It's not want is in the contraction wo
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: in apostrophe T. I think it's pronounced want as his
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: his want. Well, that's what it is. I admit it's
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: a nine dollars word that it didn't have to use,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: so I have to explain therefore the word anyway, Trump
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: plays his own good cop bad cop. He was going
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: to go to China a few weeks ago. Then he canceled,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: said there's no point in it because China slept a
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: big tariff on some of the rare earth minerals and
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: so on. All right, then Chump runs an end run
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: around him, makes a trade deal with China, made a
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: trade deal with Cambodia. He had earlier cut a trade
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: deal with Vietnam. All of those countries undercut China. You
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: see here The threat to China is if some of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: these companies move their production to other countries in Southeast
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Asia that can affect them. So Trump does that first
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: goes over to G and he issued the following statement
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: describing the deal. Now, again this is not finalized, but
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Trump's statement implies that significant progress occurred. I had a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: truly great meeting with President G of China. There is
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: enormous respect between our two countries, and that will only
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: be enhanced by with what just took place. We agreed
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: on many things, with others even of high importance, being
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: very close to resolved. I was extremely honored by the
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: fact that President G authorized China to begin the purchase
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: of massive amounts of soybean, sorghum, and other farm products.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: It's a big deal. Some of the American agriculture products,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: like soybeans in particular, the whole world uses them and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: way more than they produce, way more than we need
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: in the United States, and China's just had tariffs on
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: our stuff. This is been a big thing for farmers,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: especially in the parts of the country, and that's the
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: mid section on particularly soybeans and continuing. Our farmers will
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: be very happy. In fact, as I said once before
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: during my first administration, farmers should immediately go out and
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: buy more at land and larger tractors. I would like
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: to thank President g for this. The key that Trump's
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: pointing out here is we all know that there's been
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: this issue of farmland being subdivided and so on. If
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: we can finally start exporting more of our agriculture of
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: products because other countries stop putting these tariffs on them,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: it's a growth industry for agriculture continuing. Additionally, China has
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: agreed to continue the flow of rare earth critical minerals, magnets, etc.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Openly and freely. Very significantly, China has strongly stated that
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: they will work diligently with us to stop the flow
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: of fenool into our country. This will help us end
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the fenerol crisis. It goes on, say name, but there's
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Trump bopping around doing this. He's I think, getting back
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: to the United States today. Nineteen other things are going
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: to happen here. He's going to do whatever he can
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: to leverage the Congress to pass the bill to fund
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: the federal government and so on, without regard to whether
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: you agree with him on most of these things. And
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I think a better trade deal with China is something
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: that unless you just hate Trump, everyone would agree with
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the level of activity from this president has been extraordinary.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I now want to move to the story that keeps
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: hanging over this country, and that is the growing information
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: we have about the misconduct that occurred during the Biden
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: administration directed word promp. I want to first focus on
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: the leftist hypocrisy here. We're celebrating here in twenty five,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the fiftieth anniversary of all things Watergate. It's the fiftieth
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: aniversary of Nixon resigning. The break in was last year,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: you know, so all the Woodward and Bernstein retrospectives are
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: coming back. Watergay, water Gay, Watergate, Watergate, and it's been
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: written by more than a few people that jordy of
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Americans may not have been alive when Watergate was going on,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: and they don't even know what the scandal was, or
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: they misunderstand the scandal and think that there was this
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: small little break in that they tried to cover up.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: In fact, the cover up was because the break in
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: exposed the larger scandal that was going on that was
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: pervasive in Nixon's administration. The famous movie All the President's Men,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: which is based on the book that was written by
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Woodward and Bernstein and starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: who played bernstand At Woodward. Hel Holbrooke played one of
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Woodward's primary sources. He was not identified until decades later.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: It was Mark Feld who was the number two of
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: the FBI, but he was dubbed because they never named
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: him deep Throat, and he got the deep Throat. If
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: you're not aware, if people need to know what deep throat,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: where the name came Do you know where it came from.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: It's a porno movie. It was like the first big
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: porno movie and it it's Destiny with blood woman performing
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: a sexual act that I'm in Deep Throat And the
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: name came to be applied here because the source was
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: on deep background. Deep background means you don't even identify
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: that he's in the administration. You don't use anything to
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: identify deep background, and one of the editors came up
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: with deep Throat. This is a segment from the movie.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Deep Throat was played by hel Holbrook who at the
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: time was a really big actor, And all the meetings
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: were in this parking garage, and every scene that they
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: shot with Deep Throat, he's in the shadows of the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: parking garage. You never really saw hell Hobook's face. But
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to the content because this
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: was the thing that drove the left during Nixon and
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: for decades afterwards to why Watergate was so serious. It
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: was that they were using the entire government to stack
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the deck against their political adversaries. Listen to this cut
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: here of deep.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Throat and it was a Harman operation.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Stop the tape for a second. Haldeman was the White
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: House Chief of Staff. HR Haldeman so deep throat to say,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: this is the very top of the administration. He'll go
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: through some other names that some of you may not
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: know back from the Watergate days, but he's naming the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: biggest player, the people that ran Nixon's presidency.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: And it was a Horrorman operation. The whole business was
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: run by Alderman, the money, everything. It won't be easy
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: getting at him. He was insulated. You'll have to find
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: out how Mitchell started doing covert stuff before anyone else.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: The list is longer than anyone can imagine. It involves
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: the entire US intelligence community, FBI, CIA and Justice. It's
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: incredible cover up had little to do with Watergate. It
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: was mainly to protect the covert operations. It leads everywhere.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Get out your notebook. There's more, all.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Right, That was the scene. The point is it was
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the entire government. They were conducting covert operations, and those
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: covert operations including trying to rig the demoocratic primaries. In
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy two election. They were terrified of the
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: candidacy of Ed Muskie, senator from Maine, who is something
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of a moderate. They wanted to run against McGovern, the
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: radical liberal. They managed to crash out Muskie's campaign by
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: spreading a fake letter that he never wrote. They were
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: not only were trying to bug the Watergate, they were
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: spying on Democrats. They were conducting illegal political operations all
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: over the place. There was also people brought up that
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: we learned from the White House tapes that Nixon was
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: threatening to take away the broadcast licenses of TV stations
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: that were owned by the big lefty newspapers and so
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: leberals are horrified by this, horrified that the government tools
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: were used to spy on their political adversaries. Fifty years later,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: we now know that that happened again, only far more pervasively.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: The code name for it was Operation Arctic Frost. This
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: is the operation that came out of the Department of
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Justice in the FBI and included all the intelligence agencies
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: and were now just beginning to learn the scope the
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: number of Republican politicians and conservative organizations that were targeted
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz's phone was tapped. Other senator's phones were tapped.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Numerous conservative organizations were put under surveillance. Catherine Herridge, formerly
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: of CBS News I want to quote from her post
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Arctic Frost dragnet expands plus four hundred GOP targets. According
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: to new records provided through legally protected whistleblower disclosures to
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Senator Chuck Grassley, one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas sought testimony, records,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: and communications related to at least four hundred and thirty
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: named Republican individuals and entities. Some of the records Special
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Consul Jacksmith's subpoened from banks, individuals, and business. This is
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: included communications with media companies CBS, Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Sinclair and others. Communications with any member, employ or agent
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: of the legislative branch of the US government. Communications with
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: White House advisors such as Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Laura Trump statistical data and analysis relating to donors and
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: fundraising efforts, broad financial data relating to conservative individuals and entities,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: plus seventeen hundred pages. That's Hariage quoting from the documents
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: that Senator Grassley has gotten from whistleblowers. Sean Davis's post
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: on text new Arctic Frost whistleblower documents showed that the
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: corrupt Biden FBI subpoenaed the bank records, donor lists, and
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: emails of nearly every major conservative organization and leader in
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the country, including Donald Trump's campaign, the RNC, Conservative Partnership Institute,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Save America, America First Policy Institute, and even my pillow.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: My pillow, of course, because the guy who ran it
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: was claiming the election was Reagar, et cetera. Now, before
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: I get to the next one, my comment here. Remember
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: why Nixon went down in Watergate. Many of you don't.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: It's because the Republicans turned against him. In order to
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: be impeached and removed via conviction, you needed two thirds vote.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: You needed only a majority vote to impeach, but to
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: remove and Senate trial two thirds. And the Senate Republicans
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: abandoned Nixon because once they saw what the evidence was,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: they said, we cannot have this. Fifty years later, far
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: worse occurred the same type of thing, using all of
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the mechanisms of government to surveil, spy, investigate members of
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: the opposition party, and not a Democrat was bothered by
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: it instead. And here's the great irony there they are
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: worrying about no and Trump targeting its enemies. When you
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: add this when you had virtually every prominent conservative in
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: America and the crossyards of numerous federal agencies. This posts
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: from the House Judiciary Committee was Senator Grassay on the
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Senate Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Oversight to believe
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the first This now from the House Judiciary Committee posting
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: new Arctic Frost documents reveal even further wide ranging investigation
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: by Biden's d or Jay to takedown President Trumpety supporters highlights.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Arctic Frost Investigators utilized FBI field officism across the country
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: to conduct its investigation. Arctic Frost Investigators requested sixteen thousand
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: dollars to travel to conduct more than forty interviews forty
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: five individuals, including Steve Bann and Scott Perry, Rudolph Giuliani,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, and Mark Meadows were potentially under investigation.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Another one hundred eleven individuals, including Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Jeff Rosen, and Ed Martin were also potentially under investigation,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: and then they provide a link to the documents. This
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: was clearly more extensive than Watergate. The difference is that
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: because it was the Democrats that did it, there was
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: no media to expose it. There was no Woodward in
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Bernstein trying to get to the bottom of this. Instead,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: they were doing the opposite. They were the recipient of
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: the leagues indicating these people were under target for investigation
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: because of all these the various things that they must
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: have done. There was a time in which in this
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: country there was principle that there were some things we
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: would not allow the government to do. Without regard to
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: whether it was Democrats and the government Republicans in the government.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I still think most Republicans have some standards and there
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: were certain things that they would not all want a
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Republican government to do. For the Democrats, it's all gone.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: The whole Watergate thing was all forty Maybe the Democrats
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: of the time would not have stood for it, but
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: they're clearly standing for it now, and in fact, when
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Prumpt's people now try to expose the waterged of our
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: times Arctic frost, it's Trump's the bag guy for going
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: after his enemies, even though the enemies he's going after
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: are the ones who started it by illegally not only
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: surveilling him, but just about every other prominent conservative in America.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't I'm a small potato here in Milwaukee, but
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: would I say I would be shocked if I found
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: out that they were looking in I wouldn't be shocked.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: This thing has gone everywhere. You got like eighty five
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: different people in Turning Point that were under this imagined
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: all the other conservative organizations. This I believe was with
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: January sixth, and the overreaction to it was all about
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: it is the excuse that the right is involved in insurrections,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: so therefore we've got to investigate all of them, which
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: is why they hype the whole thing. And one final
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: story here, there is a piece in the Washington Post
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: that appeared yesterday. It's a seemingly minor story, but it's
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: one of those stories that's just kind of I would
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: say the term here would be precious beds have all
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: these agencies. There's something called the Fine Arts Commission. What
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: they do is they're actually in charge of the institutions
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: of fine arts that the government runs. The members of
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: the Commission are appointed by the president. What do you
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: think Trump did with the members of the commission? Fire them?
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Why do you fire them? Why? Because they're all Biden's people.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: And that's the story is Trump fires some of these
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: people still had time left in their terms. So the
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: wisup was say, is this big story, Trump's firing all
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: the members of the Fine Arts Commission that Biden appointed.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Here's what the story doesn't mention. What do you think
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: happened with that commission in twenty twenty one? Biden fired
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: all the appointees some Trump's first term. So Trump appointed
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: all these members of the Fine Arts Commission, and back
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen when he came in in term one,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Biden got rid of all of him put in his people.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Trump comes in, he gets rid of them, He's gonna
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: put in his people. But the story that's reported is
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Trump firing all the members of the commission not even mentioned.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: In fact, it ask is mentioned way at the end
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: of the story. And well Biden did the same thing,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: but it was never a thing. It was never a
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: reported as major news. It was simply accepted that when
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: a new administration comes into place, they're going to put
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: their own people into these agencies. The one difference between
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: then and now is conservatives Charlie Kirk's organization many others
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: are responsible for this. Trump empowering conservatives to speak out.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: The explosion of conservative media through podcasts, zillions of them,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: like my own other conservative media outlets, is that this
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: information is now getting out. Unfortunately, it doesn't get out
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: to the people who don't pay attention to conservative news outlets,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: just people that are kind of apathetic run into the news,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: or anybody on the left who doesn't listen to any
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: of it. But at least those of us on the
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: right are aware but understand this. Let's imagine Kamala had won,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: we never would have found any of this out. We
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: didn't find it out until now when it was going on.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: We didn't know the whistleblowers that are blowing the whistle now.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: These are people within the FBI, the Department of Justice
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: that were appalled by it. They were terrified to blow
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: the whistle. Back then, because they knew what would happen
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: to them. Now that there is a receptive audience, and
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: that the Republicans control the Senate, in the House and
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: in the White House, with a Department of Justice that
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: wants to clean up all this rot, the whistleblowers are
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: pointing us in the direction of all of the stuff
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: that happened. But it's just like going back to the
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: water get story. In Woodward and Bernstein had deep throat.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: In the other sources of Woodward and Bernstein not talked,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: we wouldn't have known that either. And the only reason
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: we're learning any of this now is that Trump won
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: and some of the people who clearly were not going
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: going to blow the whistle are in fact blowing the whistle.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: The difference in the two eras fifty years apart is
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: that the Democrats who were so appalled when Nixon and
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: the Republicans did it not only are not appalled that
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: it's being done by their side now, they in fact
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: were gleeful to do it. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast, and it's time for
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: our weekly football preview and some point spread picks, and
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: as we are every week, we're joined by Mike murletta
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: of American sports analysts, and Madison. Their website is ASA
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: wins dot com. Before we get rolling here, Mike, anything
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: you want to share about what's going on with your
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: service this weekend.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they can check on Friday. ASA wins dot Com.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: Didn't have a great week weekend last weekend. We won
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: our top college game, lost our top program, but overall
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: probably our worst weekend of the year. So we look
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: to bounce back this week and we'll probably have a
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: special weekend package they can check, and I expect us
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: to have a good weekend. There's some really good matchups
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: this weekend.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't right about anything last weekend. My pick
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: that I used on the radio didn't work. My second
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: favorite pick lost, my third favorite pick lost, my fourth
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: favorite pick, My top five favorite games all lost, and
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: all of them kind of got clobbered. I mean, so
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: we're just putting all that in the rearview mirror. We're
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: going to start with before we get into individual games.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about a couple of issues in
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: college football rather than game previews. There really isn't a
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Marquee Huge Dynamite game this weekend, so I want to
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: talk about a couple of issues, and the first time
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: I want to raise with Mike is this now trend
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: and I think that's the right word, trend of firing
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: coaches not toward the end of the season, and certainly
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: not after the season, but in the middle of the season,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: and in some cases extremely successful coaches, in some cases
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: coaches that had massive contracts with years to go in
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: huge buyouts. The latest, of course being Brian Kelly, fired
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: at LSU. They backed up the truck several years ago
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: to lure him away from Notre Dame. They decided it
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: hasn't worked, even though I think his record's thirty four
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: and fourteen or something there. So they have him this
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: enormous biout, plus whatever it is they're going to have
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: to hire pay for a new coach. James Franklin got
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: fired at Penn State earlier this year. Both Florida schools
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: are likely to have gotten rid of their coaches soon.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Mike Norvella Florida State might be the next to go.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: And the thing that's striking me about this is a
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: the timing and b the fact that some of these coaches,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: because they've been so successful, are owed to a fortune
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: in biots. Let's start with the first thing. What really
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: is the point in firing a coach in the middle
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: of the season, given that you can't go looking for
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: a successor until after the season, and you have to
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: name an interim coach in the meantime, Why do you
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: think that this is going on and it's becoming so prevalent.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure why why it's already become like
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: middle of the season type stuff. Used to never see that.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's twelve FBS openings right now in the
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: middle of the season, and some big like you said, LSU, UCLA, Florida,
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: Penn State, more to come. I don't know if they're
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: trying to get a jump on, you know, contacting other coaches,
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: contacting potential replacements rather than waiting, and other teams have
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: maybe behind the scenes that could be ed, you know,
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: locked up, some coaching can be That's the only reason.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: One of the ramifications of that, though, is you've got
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: a school like Mississippi having a pretty good year. Lane
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Kiffin's their coach. He's rumored for all of these jobs.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: What a distraction for his team for the remaining six
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: or seven games that they have left in the season,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: or for heaven's sakes, if they managed to make it
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: to the playoffs, which they might make it. There are
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: a couple of other coaches of top teams, their names
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: are swirling around and all of this stuff. They probably
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: are talking to their agents who are talking with the schools.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: The coach himself can't talk, but the agents can have
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: backchannel conversations. So it's also affecting all of these coaches
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: that might be rumored to be in the mix. And
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: it's becoming primarily a college thing as opposed to the pros,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: where you might think it's a little bit more understandable
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: to do. So. The other component of this is now
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: that we're in this era of nil where anybody can
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: transfer and go to another school and know sitting out
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: or anything like that. When you fire a coach who
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: recruited some of these players, you might see thirty or
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: forty or forty five players leave the team at the
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: end of the season. And the final point is, I
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: just look at all of this and I think that
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: there are more schools that want a great coach than
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: there are great coaches that are out there. I mean,
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: with the Penn State situation, has been talked about a lot.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody wants to now hire James Franklin, the
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Penn State coach. He's the number one guy in the
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: list for all of these jobs. Yet Penn State had
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: James Franklin and they are rid of him because they
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: couldn't handle a three game losing streak after a bunch
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: of great seasons. Something is totally screwed up here. And
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I think that some of these athletic directors are so
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: behold in too loudmouth alumni that they're making unwise, irrational
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: emotional decisions that not only don't make strategic sense, they
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: don't make financial sense. You pay off a buyout of
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: thirty five million to a coach, tie up seventy million
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: in a new coach when you still have to run
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: an entire athletic department.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I agree that the buyouts are insane. I mean,
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: right now, so far this year, there's like one hundred
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: and seventy million in buyouts from coaches that got fired
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: during the season this year, and like you said, they're
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: gonna have to hire other coaches and pay them. I
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: don't disagree with that. I think a lot of it
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: has to do with big boasters coming in and say
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: we don't want him anymore, we'll raise money to get
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: rid of them, that type of thing, and they're kind of,
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: you know, in a lot of schools running the show
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: more so than the coaches and the administration are.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: That brings us to I think a related topic, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: that's Wisconsin. Paul and I both thought and made our
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: picks on this that Oregon would annihilate Wisconsin, and they didn't.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin actually played defensively an unbelievably good game. They Badgers
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: don't have an offense, but their defense was spectacular in
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: holding an outstanding Oregon team to only twenty one points.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: It makes one wonder if Wisconsin did show that it
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: can salvage the season. They have a buy this week
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: when they come back after the bye by that strong
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: defensive performance that they had there. And going back to
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: this whole business of firing coaches and so on, given
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: that he is building one of the best defenses in America,
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: is the consensus wrong that Luke Fickle needs to be fired?
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: And maybe are they better off keeping him. He's built
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: a defense, builds an offense next end. Wouldn't you be
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: in a better position than if you see everybody transfer,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: everybody leaving start over again with another coach. A lot
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: there on Wisconsin. But just your thoughts on whether or
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: not they turned a real corner last week and what
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: the situation with Fickle is.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the interesting thing with Fickle is I don't think
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: he I think he's going to make it through the season.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: I won't be surprised if he's around next year. Look
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: at how many big job openings there. I mean, Wisconsin's
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: way down the pecking cort right for some of those jobs,
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: especially if Florida State opens, Auburn might open. I was
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: really the one thing I've noticed is, and this is
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: a positive for Fickle, the team hasn't quit at all.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: I mean no, and I thought they would. I mean,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: they went to this gauntlet of a schedule, and weirdly
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: they seem to be getting I mean the Iowa loss
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Iowa was the weakest of the three teams that they
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: played in this stretch, and they seem to play better
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: the following two weeks against better opposition in Ohio State
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: and Oregon.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I agree, I mean I was really shocked.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: I liked your point last week, and I agreed that
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: you know, at some point the Wisconsin defense is just
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: going to collapse because they're on the field too much,
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: and they had played so many big games in a
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: row and they play their best game yet they had
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: held Oregon to twenty points below their average, and Oregon
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: is averaging over five hundred yards per game. They held
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: in the three hundred and thirty five yards. If they
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: get a little help from the offense, even if you
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: had just a slightly below average offense, I think they'd
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: actually be okay. So, you know, looking ahead, if they
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: can replace some get a quarterback on offense, which is key.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: They're down to the third string quarterback, you got to
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: have a good Well.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: There's some talk now that they have a highly toted
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: freshman who has not played. The rule in college football
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: is if you play only four games, you can maintain
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: red shirt status and not you lose a year of eligibility.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: That after the bye they may bring him in now
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: that they wouldn't lose a year of eligibility. I don't
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: think that's the explanation, because if a quarterback is really
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: really good, you don't worry that much about eligibility. Because
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: they're thinking of going to the pros after a while,
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: but there's all of that talk that's out there. In
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: the meantime, I'm hearing people talk about Wisconsin should hire James. Frankly,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: they should hire this guy. They should hire that guy.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: These schools that are eating sixty million dollar buyouts are
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: going to lay out one hundred and twenty million dollars
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: in a nine year contract for some of these coaches,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: and I don't think Wisconsin's in a position, you know,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: to be able to do that. All right, let's turn
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: our attention to the NFL, and I do want to
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: preview two games. This seems like a lopside of game,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: but it's an interesting one to talk about, and that's
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: the Packers and the Panthers. First of all, Carolina seems
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: to be no almost perpetually awful. The Packers are a
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: fascinating situation. They played in the second half last week
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: against Pittsburgh as well as an NFL team can play,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: but let's also acknowledge that they were down sixteen to
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: seven at halftime to an only Okay team. It's very
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: hard to get a read on the Packers. They have
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: a great record of five to one and one, and
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: at times they've looked outstanding. They're back home and it's
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: been a while since they've been home. But they're back home,
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: and it's probably a letdown situation with a poor opponent,
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: but visually they finally looked really, really good. Thoughts on
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: Packers and thoughts on this game. The Packers favored by
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: about two touchdowns against Carolina.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're you know, they're favored by thirteen and a
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: half right now. Interestingly enough, twelve to thirteen games last
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: week in the NFL decided by ten points. More so,
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: a lot of blowouts last and you.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Mentioned the twelve that the favorites went eleven and two.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: My favorite NFL game, and I almost choose that out
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: of the year was Atlanta favored by eight over Miami
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: and Miami won by twenty four. It was the one
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: game where an underdog destroyed a favorite at a weekend where
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: none of that happened. That's all wrong. I was on everything,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: but you were right. I mean all the game. Almost
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: all the games are blowouts this past week, and favorites
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: won virtually every one of the game, and the overs
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: went way, way, way over.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, which is bad for the sports folks when that happens.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Green Bay second half. Last week had almost
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: three hundred total yards in the second half and Pittsburgh
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: had barely a hundred, so they played really well. Their
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: offense didn't look great in the first half and they
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: look completely different in the second half. Carolina is not terrible.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: They're four and four, but they you know they They
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: didn't have their quarterback last week. Bryce Young was out
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: and they lost three starting offensive linemen who aren't going
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  Speaker 4: to play this week, which is huge for green Bay.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: It's not green The Packers pass rush is really coming on.
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  Speaker 4: They are, they really are, and with three backup offensive
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: line and that's not great for Carolina A. Green Bay's
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: coming off a big game. They got the Eagles next,
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: so that's not ideal. But double digit favorites this year
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: have been decent. Six and four against the spread, and
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: if you go back to the start of last year,
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: they're twenty and thirteen against the spread the last two
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: years double digit favorites. Historically they're not good, but they
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: have been decent. I wouldn't lay two touchdowns in this game,
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: but I can't see the pay I don't see this
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: being a close game, but I could see green Bay
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: getting ahead and just kind of grinding out and winning
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: somewhere by you know, ten to four teen to seventeen
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: type points. In this game against the banged up Carolina team.
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  Speaker 2: Paul says the Packers played down to opponents level. I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: don't think I agree with that. I can't get a
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: feel for them at all, because the Packers alternate between
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: brilliance and pretty good. They haven't played a stinker of
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  Speaker 2: a game. They were defensively terrible against Dallas, but they
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: put up a lot of points in that game. There's
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  Speaker 2: a just a tough team to get a feel out.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, everybody, this is been the marquee game
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: in the NFL for the last ten years. The Chiefs
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: played the Bills again, they always seemed at first of all,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: they always seem to meet in the postseason, and they
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: seem to meet in the regular season a lot, even
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: though they're not in the same division this year. Kansas City,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: which went to the Super Bowl last year, and I
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: thought they had a down year and they just got
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: to snuck into it. This looks like as good a
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Chiefs team as we've seen. They're really, really good, particularly
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: once we got past the beginning of the season and
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Buffalo's coming off a win of forty to nine in
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: which they massacred a team last week. Your thoughts on
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: the Chiefs of the Bills.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting. Like you said, I think it's the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: NFL's top rivalry right now. And they're not even the
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: Sight Division. I mean, usually you see teams in division
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: being big rivals. But they have played since the twenty
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: counting the twenty twenty one playoffs, they played eight times
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: since then. And the interesting point between these two is
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: they played four times in the playoffs during that stretch.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: Kansas City's four to oh they played four times during
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: the regular season during that stretch and Buffalo's four and oh.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: So Kansas City's winning the games that mean something in
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: the playoffs and Buffalo's winning the regular season games over
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: the last four or five years. In this game, I
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: think you're right. I think right now, Kansas City, even
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  Speaker 4: though they're five and three, I think they're the best
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: team in the NFL right now. They're five to one
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  Speaker 4: both straight up and against the spread. Their last six games,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: and the one they lost they completely dominated Jacksonville and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: lost on some crazy plays. They've outgained their opponents by
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty yards average over their last six
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: Remember during that stretch, they beat Detroit by thirteen points,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: and they beat Baltimore when Baltimore was at full strength
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: by seventeen points. So they're rolling along right now. I
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: think Buffalo's in the better situation. Kamas City's playing their
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: ninth straight week in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: They do have the buy next, and I think Andy
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Reid's record off the bye is great. I have no
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: idea what it is going into the buy. I don't
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: even know if there's a way of track, if anybody
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: tracks that. Kansas City, though in the last two weeks,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: has outscored the opposition eighty nine to twenty four. Yeah,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: some of those teams run very good, and Washington has
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: been banged up in his very disappointing team this year.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: But still, all right, let's get to some point spread
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: picks for this weekend, and we will very quickly recap
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: an ugly week. Last week, both Paul and I took
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Oregon to beat Wisconsin by thirty two or more. Wisconsin
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: lost by only fourteen. Mike said Mississippi and Oklahoma will
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: go under fifty four and a half. He at least
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: came a little close that came end to thirty four
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: to twenty six. So all three of us lost. That's
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: no good at all. All right, let's get started with
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: this weekend's games. Paul, you go first, Paul says, for
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: the first time, he feels confident. This is despite the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: fact that Paul's record is one in eighty six or
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: something in that rage. But yeah, Detroit is at it's
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: Minnesota is at Detroit, and the line is eight and
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: a half on that, Paul says. He Paul says, he
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: has incredible confidence. I know where he's going to go
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: with this, and there's a problem with the pick. But anyway,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: you're taking Detroit. JJ McCarthy is now the quarterback again.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: He's only been given five shots for this job. Carson
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Wentz is out for the season, so they have to
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: go with JJ McCarthy. Detroit's in a four game winning streak,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: winning each game by fifteen. They're averaging thirty six points
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: a game. Paul's got all this. What else? They're at
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: home and they're clicking on all cylinders. Minnesot's terrible. They
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: lost by twenty seven points to the Chargers. Now there's
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: a problem with this pick until you just said this.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: This was my pick, and last week when we were
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: on the same pick, it was an absolute trade wreck.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I have had two games and I'm just going back
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: and forth and wrestling on and I'm now going to
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: take the other game in part Becauyse just you know,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: create a little variety here. But I agree with Paul
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: on everything that he said. But the last time we agreed,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: which was last week, we were dead wrong. I think
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: Minnesota is reeling. I don't think I think McCarthy was
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: a wasted first on pick too early, perhaps to write
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: him off. The ground game doesn't exist for the Vikings anymore.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: Injuries to running back and given who they have at
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: running back not surprising. And Detroit, you know, detroit'sa Kansas city.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Once you got past the right beginning of the season,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: they've been really, really, really good, and you know, we
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: saw all those blowouts last week, so I wouldn't. I'm
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: just no longer afraid of laying a lot of points
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: in the NFL. I think Paul's right about that, but
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to use it as my own pick
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: because it was an ugly situation and when we both
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: put big favorites last night. But I think he's right,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: don't you, Mike.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean the only thing that gets me is
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: the line looks low to me. I mean, it just
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: seems like it should be higher than eight.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I made the line at fifteen myself, and I like
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: to try to make the line before I see what
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: it is, and fifteen would have been I would guess
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Detroit would win by fifteen points. That's how I come
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: up with that. You're right, it does. See. It does
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: seem low, But maybe that's because the line makers simply
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: haven't caught up to how poor Minnesota is. They weren't
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: expected to be this bad, and they're three and four.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: It's not like they're zero and seven, but they're an
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: ugly looking three and four. Yeah.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: In the quarterback situation, obviously, Wentz played with one arm
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: last week, and they played him when he probably shouldn't
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: have played. And McCarthy, like I said, he's had one
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: good quarter, one good half, let's say the entire season.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: The second half against Chicago is actually the fourth quarter. Mainly,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: other than that, he's been bad troited off a bye.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: Campbell with the best spread record. I don't disagree with
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: that pick at all.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Paul's right, Let's go to Let's go
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: to Mike in where are we going to go for
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: our pick?
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: Let's check the Monday night Arizona Dallas. I need the
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: total on that game.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: That total must be eight hundred fifty four and a half.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: Arizona has a bit of a defense. Dallas's defense occasionally looks. Okay.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: The Dallas offense wasn't that great last week, but fifty
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: four and a half. My guess is most people are
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: betting the game, are betting over. Are you going to
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: be a contraryan and say under it? Do you want
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: to hear about another line?
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: No, I'm going to go over in that game?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Over you.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: You can't go under in Dallas games right now. I
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: don't think the odds makers can set it high enough.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're not going to make it fifty seven
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: to fifty eight, which is probably where it should be.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 4: Dallas games are averaging.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, they played Denver last week and Denver has
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: a go defense, and the total points was sixty eight points.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: In that game, they gave up forty four to Denver,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: but they also scored twenty four on Denver's very good defense.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: The week before that was watched his forty four to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: twenty two. That was sixty six points the week before that.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: Carolina at twenty seven to thirty, that was fifty seven
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: points the week before that. The Jets, who's they're always
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: in low scoring games, thirty seven to twenty two. So
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: you're right, Dallas keeps going over, and they're going over
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: against other teams that aren't like them. Great offense, bad defense.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're they're averaging forty one points per game.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: It's home. They've scored forty or more in every home
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: game this year. They've got the best offense in the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: league we talked about this last week, and the worst defense.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: And on top of having the worst defense, they got
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: multiple injuries on defense. Right now. Their offense is scoring
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: points on almost sixty percent of their drives at home
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: this year, which is by far the best in the NFL,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: but their defense is allowing points on almost thirty five
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: percent of opponent possessions, which is worse than the NFL.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: Arizona's actually been pretty good offense. I'm hoping Brissetts the
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: quarterback here. They've played pretty well the last couple games.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: Murray may be back, but I think it goes over
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: either way.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, lying on that game is only two and
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: a half. I would have thought Dallas may be favored
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: by more. But you know, the Cowboys are a hard
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: team to get a feel for because as great as
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the offense is, that's how bad their defense is. I'm
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: going to go to a game in college football, and
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: as I said, I was probably going to take the
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: pick that Paul took. But there's a game in college
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: football that I like a lot. One of the teams
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: that's really emerged this year is Texas Tech, and it's
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: a controversial team because the team is bankrolled with massive
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: nil money. They're seven and one and they're playing at
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Kansas State and they're favored by seven and a half,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm taking Kansas State. Texas Tech has played only
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: two road games all year. One of them was their
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: one loss when they lost to Arizona State. Kansas State
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: was thought to be a very good team this year,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: and they started really slowly, but they've gotten hot. They
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: outgained Baylor in a game in which they lost the game,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: and they played their arch rival Kansas last week. Kansas
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: isn't terrible and they beat them by twenty five points.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: The quarterback situation. Texas Tech's quarterback is banged up and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: may or may not play. The backup got knocked out
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: altogether last week. They did go to the third stringer,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: who is admittedly a former starter in college football, and
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: he played much of the game last week, but their
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: quarterback situation is shaky in the meantime. I really like
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Kansas State's quarterback. They have a quarterback named Avery Johnson,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: no relation to the old basketball coach. He's got fifteen
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: touchdown passes and only two interceptions, and I think that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: they're an improving team. And I swear you go back
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: forty years with Kansas State, and I know this is
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: through multiple coaches, but I just remember that Bill Snyder
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: when he was there at Kansas State as a home
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: underdog was deadly. They covered all the time, and it
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: seems to be continuing with the coach that they have
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: over there right now. I think Kansas State can win
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: the game and knock off Texas Tech and seven and
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: a half half that's a pretty good number there. So
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: I'm on Kansas State to cover the point spread getting
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: seven and a half against Texas Tech. What do you think?
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know Kansas State's playing really well right now.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: They struggled early in the season and now they're rolling.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: They only lost in their last four games was at
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: Baylor by one, and they led that game by fourteen
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: in the game and they all gained him, right, Yeah,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: they out gained them in that game. I agree with
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: you on texts quarterback situation. It looks like mort and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: their starter is going to be back, but he's injury
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: prone on and off. Their second stringers out out, and
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: their third stringers. Okay, I don't disagree. I'm a little worried.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: Texas Tech has been really, really good, but they seem
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: to be coming back to earth a little bit. Like
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: you said, they lost at Arizona State a few weeks
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: ago with their backup, and they played Oklahoma State last week.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: It's horrendous. I don't disagree. If you're getting over seven,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: i'd probably in Kansas State.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Kansas State opened the season they lost
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: to Iowa State and they managed to barely beat North
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: Dakota and lost the Army.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Wait, there are a couple of teams that are unbeaten
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: this year that I think there isn't anybody in America
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: knows that they're on there's hardly any unbeaten teams left,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: but somehow Navy is unbeaten. I mean, Mike knows that
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: because he knows everything, but I unless you actually looked
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: at everybody's record, I just think that nobody would be
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: aware that Navy is unbeaten. A lot of this is
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: you know who you play and who you don't play
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: and Army. In the meantime, they're three and four. They
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: look great one week and terrible the other. Kansas State, though,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: is understandable. I just think they started slow, and they're
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: a hot team, and the line hasn't caught up here,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: and I can see them pulling off the upset in
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: the same way that Arizona State upset Texas Tech when
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: they went down. There one other game that I do
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: want to throw out, and I was thinking about until
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: the line. It was three and a half points at
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the week, and I love the game.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: But now it's moved on to two and a half,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: and that's more than a one point jump. It moved
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: to the other side of the three, and that's Jacksonville
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: is at the Raiders, and the Raiders are two and
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: a half point underdogs. Now I think Raiders are going
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: to win the game straight up. But when it was
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: three and a half, I liked it a lot more.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: I don't think Jacksonville's as good as their record would indicate.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: All right, let's recap everybody's picks here, Paul's I just
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with Paul's pick at all if I
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: was ready to take it. Paul says the Lions to
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: win by nine or more. Of the vikings. The only
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: downside is it is a big number, and so on.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: Mike says, Dallas and Arizona go over fifty four and
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: a half. Dallas goes over every week, so hopefully it'll again.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: And I'm taking an underdog Kansas State to either win
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: or lose by seven or less at home to Texas Tech.
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