Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #134:  America 250; will we make 275?  Today's Marxist/leftists don't believe in the Declaration of Independence's principles and they don't believe in freedom.  They must be defeated politically just as the first Americans defeated the British oppressors.  Also, Mark explains why the US can't resume the war with Iran.  And, Mark's take on the amount of money young males are losing betting on sports online.

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Mark Belling Podcast #134:  America 250; will we make 275?  Today's Marxist/leftists don't believe in the Declaration of Independence's principles and they don't believe in freedom.  They must be defeated politically just as the first Americans defeated the British oppressors.  Also, Mark explains why the US can't resume the war with Iran.  And, Mark's take on the amount of money young males are losing betting on sports online. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Obviously, there's a problem with Iran. We've had a problem with.
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  Speaker 3: Iran ever since the Shah fell and they took our
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  Speaker 3: to address it, but it hasn't affixed, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: know right now that we can fix it. I think
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  Speaker 3: we've done about as much as we can do because
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  Speaker 3: there's a problem right now and there's been almost no
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  Speaker 3: difference today visit you line dot com. We've had ever
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  Speaker 3: since the ceasefire was announced and this memorandum of understanding
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  Speaker 3: was released, there's been a back and forth and a
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  Speaker 3: back and forth and a back and forth, and I
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  Speaker 3: think most of us know what's going on here. Iran
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  Speaker 3: is jerking us around. On the other hand, Iran clearly
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  Speaker 3: needs us right now. If you think we're suffering from
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  Speaker 3: instability in the Strait of horm Mooes, how about Iran.
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  Speaker 3: They're the country whose economy is premised on will. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 3: they're jerking us around. Statements from our own government have
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  Speaker 3: been an attempt. I think, let's be honest, but the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration to make things look better than maybe they are.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Vice President Vans. President Trump's directives are clear the
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  Speaker 3: talks are going well, and we will give and we
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  Speaker 3: will give. We will give negotiations every chance to succeed.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think that's accurate.
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  Speaker 3: He says, the talks are going well, We'll give negotiations
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  Speaker 3: every chance to succeed. But they're opening that they're leaving
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  Speaker 3: the door open to the notion that they won't succeed.
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  Speaker 3: That's realistic. As for Trump, he said, there have been
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  Speaker 3: some very good meetings at Dow.
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  Speaker 2: Guitar.
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  Speaker 3: As far as things are going, this is Trump. The
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  Speaker 3: denuclearization of Iran is moving along well. We hit them
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  Speaker 3: very hard, but we're getting along very well. There's an
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  Speaker 3: elephant in the room, and that is the fact that
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  Speaker 3: Iran isn't talking directly.
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  Speaker 2: To Trump. Here's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: I think that a lot of people, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's three sides to this issue.
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  Speaker 2: There are the people who.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want us to do anything with Iran. They can't
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  Speaker 3: stand Israel, they don't think Iran is a threat. They
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  Speaker 3: think America first means not protecting America's vital interests. They
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  Speaker 3: didn't want the war, they don't want anything to do
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  Speaker 3: with it. And then there's the other side, the side
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  Speaker 3: that wants us to obliterate Iran, knock them back, and
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  Speaker 3: knock them down so hard that their government falls. As
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  Speaker 3: you know, I believe that that second position is unrealistic.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe you can totally knock off a government
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  Speaker 3: without an invasion.
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  Speaker 2: You can't win.
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  Speaker 3: A war entirely from the air unless the other side
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  Speaker 3: simply is realistic and surrenders. Iran isn't realistic, and I
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  Speaker 3: don't believe that we can have a ground war on
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  Speaker 3: I Ran. I don't believe that it is worth it.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that that third option of knocking him out,
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  Speaker 3: knocking them out, knocking them out, knocking them out is
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  Speaker 3: a now go. The knockout will have to come from within,
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  Speaker 3: and that's always very difficult, but it's not impossible. Tyrannical
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  Speaker 3: governments have been overthrown as long as there've been tiradical governments.
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  Speaker 3: But if a Ran now doesn't, if I Ran keeps
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  Speaker 3: jerking us around in these talks, why not just go
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  Speaker 3: back and blast them for another three months. That's where
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  Speaker 3: the problem comes in. And I'm not saying this hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been covered. I'm saying that it's getting almost no coverage
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  Speaker 3: in the media. I don't think we have the weapons
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  Speaker 3: to do it. The Center for Strategic and International Study
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  Speaker 3: CSIS has published a rundown of the number of and
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  Speaker 3: it goes through all of the different weapons, but there
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  Speaker 3: are two key ones that jump out at me. Two missiles,
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  Speaker 3: the Patriot missiles and the Tomahawk missiles.
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  Speaker 2: They estimate that.
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  Speaker 3: The inventory that we had prior to the war beginning
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  Speaker 3: was thirty one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: They're estimating that over.
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  Speaker 3: One thousand of those Tomahawk missiles have been used in
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  Speaker 3: the war with a rat it says one thousand plus.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just.
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  Speaker 3: Give our country the benefit of that and say it's
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  Speaker 3: only twelve hundred.
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  Speaker 2: That means we use up forty percent.
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  Speaker 3: Of our Tomahawk missiles already at a rad What are
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  Speaker 3: we gonna do use them all up and have no
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  Speaker 3: missiles now? The Patriot missiles, the estimate was that we
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  Speaker 3: had two thousand, three hundred and thirty of them prior.
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  Speaker 2: To the war.
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  Speaker 3: The CSIS estimate is that we have used between one
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  Speaker 3: thousand and sixty and fourteen hundred and thirty of those missiles.
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  Speaker 3: That's more than if you're on the high end of
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  Speaker 3: that range. What if something else comes up somewhere in
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  Speaker 3: the world without being overly crued. I'll just be partially
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  Speaker 3: crude by censoring one of the words.
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  Speaker 2: We shot. Are you know what already?
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  Speaker 3: We had Iran really really, really really hard. But I
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  Speaker 3: explained this goes back to the war, the two wars
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  Speaker 3: of the rack. You just can't win a war on
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  Speaker 3: the ground. The first Iraq war, the one that the
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  Speaker 3: first Bush won. We did win, but we went in
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  Speaker 3: on the ground, but we never had to go all
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  Speaker 3: the way to Bagdad. We stopped at that point, which
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  Speaker 3: left saddamant place, and which resulted in the second war
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  Speaker 3: that had to occur. We can't keep firing missiles at
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  Speaker 3: Iran because we've run out of missiles. The CSIS report
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  Speaker 3: indicates the amount of delivery time necessary to go from
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  Speaker 3: ordering one of these missiles and getting them, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: the cost of a I'll admit I would not have
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  Speaker 3: known this. We don't have Jason today. We have Dave Michaels.
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  Speaker 3: I could pick on him. I could have him try
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  Speaker 3: to guess what the cost of one Tomahawk missile is.
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  Speaker 3: Because I know that your answering, no one has any idea,
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  Speaker 3: and I probably would not have been able to.
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  Speaker 2: I would have been I think I would have been
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  Speaker 2: within one hundred percent. That's very good.
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  Speaker 3: Guess you said two million, it's two point six the Patriot,
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  Speaker 3: which are more sophisticated at three point nine million. The
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  Speaker 3: time to the delivery timeline for a Patriot is forty
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  Speaker 3: two months forty seven for the Tomahawk. So it's not
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  Speaker 3: like we can just tell our defense contractors, hey, give
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  Speaker 3: us another couple two thousand of these things.
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  Speaker 2: It takes years.
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  Speaker 3: I suspect the Iranians know this, and I suspect that
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians though that Trump is bluffing when he talks
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  Speaker 3: about resuming the war and blasting the hell.
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  Speaker 2: Out of them. But we have not done.
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  Speaker 3: Is take out carc Island, because if we did that,
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  Speaker 3: that screws up the world's oil supply and gasoline prices,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just a bridge too far for Trump to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do. Now, we could do that without
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  Speaker 3: a massive use of a lot of missiles, but to
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  Speaker 3: go out and hit them fither and knock out civilian
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  Speaker 3: installations and all of it requires more missiles. There's a
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  Speaker 3: second takeaway on this. The result of this war is
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  Speaker 3: going to have to be an increase in our defense
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  Speaker 3: spending as we rebuild the stockpiles from what we've used
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  Speaker 3: in Iran. I've been arguing the same point since the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the war.
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  Speaker 2: Are good again.
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  Speaker 3: There is nothing wrong with saying we've done enough.
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  Speaker 1: Is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, then you're saying Iran won the war. No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Iran did not.
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  Speaker 3: If the war ended in negotiations edited day, it is
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  Speaker 3: idiotic to say Iran won the war. We've sustained no
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  Speaker 3: loss at all, other than some loss of American proof life,
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  Speaker 3: but way lower than people would have thought. And we've
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  Speaker 3: lost these missiles. Iran has no infrastructure left, it has
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  Speaker 3: almost no military left. Its leadership has been knocked out.
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  Speaker 3: The nuclear scientists many of them were killed in that
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  Speaker 3: initial blast. We've sustained massive damage on them, and even
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  Speaker 3: if there's no deal, they've been set back years in
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  Speaker 3: terms of their nuclear program, and secondly, their financial ability
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  Speaker 3: and their military ability to cause trouble in the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the world is has been significantly degraded. So if
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  Speaker 3: there is no further deal that we can count on,
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  Speaker 3: I certainly think that we still inflicted significant damage on Iran,
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  Speaker 3: but some of these warhawks have to be pretty careful.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta go keep pitting them, Go keep with what
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  Speaker 3: these numbers are real.
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  Speaker 2: Let me move to another.
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  Speaker 3: Story, the frustration that many on the right have with
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  Speaker 3: conservative Supreme.
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  Speaker 2: Court justices who don't always.
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  Speaker 3: Rule with the president, in particular John Roberts, the Chief Justice,
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  Speaker 3: and Amy Connie Barrett. There are six conservatives if you
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  Speaker 3: count the two of them. Three are rock solid, the
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  Speaker 3: fourth virtually rock solid. But Roberts and Barrett go back
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  Speaker 3: and forth. Manny Johnson, who's a conservative pundit podcaster, gadfly
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  Speaker 3: bunch of other things.
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  Speaker 2: He posted the following.
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  Speaker 3: Amy Cony Barrett was sold to us as a rock
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  Speaker 3: solid constitutionalist.
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  Speaker 2: That part is true. Clearly. She was.
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  Speaker 3: Hand picked by Trump, backed by the Federalist Society, and
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  Speaker 3: confirmed with hopes riding high. She looked us in the
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  Speaker 3: eye during her hearings and promised fidelity to the law
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  Speaker 3: and not politics or personal agendas. Now she's stabbing the
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  Speaker 3: base in the back, siding with Roberts and liberals to
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  Speaker 3: protect birthright, citizenship schemes, mail in voting loopholes, and other
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  Speaker 3: pillars of the swamp agenda that conservatives fought to dismantle.
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  Speaker 3: The very people who fought to get her on the
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  Speaker 3: Court are now openly calling for her resignation because this
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  Speaker 3: isn't judicial independence, it's betrayal.
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  Speaker 2: Let me commented that.
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  Speaker 3: Giving her the benefit of the doubt, you could make
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  Speaker 3: the case, and I'm not making it. I'm saying, giving
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  Speaker 3: her the benefit of the douth, the case could be
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  Speaker 3: made that she's doing exactly what she said that she
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  Speaker 3: is ruling on the basis of what the law says
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  Speaker 3: and what the Constitution said. As I said in a
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  Speaker 3: discussion earlier this week on birthright citizenship, even I have
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  Speaker 3: a problem pretending that the fourteenth Amendment does not exist.
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  Speaker 3: It does seem to say that if you're born in
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  Speaker 3: the United States, you're a citizen. It seems to say
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  Speaker 3: that to me.
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  Speaker 2: Now, on the.
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  Speaker 3: Other hand, I'm also a believer in when interpreting the
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  Speaker 3: language of the Constitution, to go back to the intent
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  Speaker 3: of the framers. And in this case, these weren't the founders.
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  Speaker 3: This was the Congress in the post Civil War era.
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  Speaker 3: That's when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. They were not
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  Speaker 3: adopting anything that had to do with foreign nationals coming
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  Speaker 3: into the United States and pop it out babies. It
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  Speaker 3: had to do with slavery, and they wanted to make
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  Speaker 3: it clear that all people born in the United States,
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  Speaker 3: including slaves, former slaves, and then going forward all black
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  Speaker 3: people in the South, that these are citizens. That's the
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  Speaker 3: point of it, and that was their intent. So, as
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  Speaker 3: I say, you could go both ways with regard to
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  Speaker 3: interpreting birthright citizenship. And I certainly think it is ridiculous
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  Speaker 3: to interpret something as saying somebody can fly over from
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  Speaker 3: China eight and a half months pregnant, pop the kid,
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  Speaker 3: go back with the kid to China, never have the
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  Speaker 3: kid ever return to the United States again, and say
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  Speaker 3: that that kid's an American citizens who can vote in.
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  Speaker 2: Our elections, but that's what's being done.
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  Speaker 3: Or that people can violate the law and bust into
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  Speaker 3: the country illegally, pop out a couple of kids, have
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  Speaker 3: them declared Americans citizens, and then say, now you can't
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  Speaker 3: deport us because our kids are American citizens. But to
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: give it Barrett the benefit of the doubt, you could
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  Speaker 3: argue that she is ruling on what the Constitution actually says,
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: and if you don't like what the constitution actually says,
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  Speaker 3: then you change it or at least pass a law
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  Speaker 3: clarifying it. On the other hand, I will acknowledge that
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  Speaker 3: this is not the first time that someone who seemed
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  Speaker 3: to be a core conservative with his or her track
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  Speaker 3: record has gotten onto a high court and not been
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: anywhere near his core as you thought. In Wisconsin we
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: had the Hagodoron problem. Hegerdon is now a good problem.
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  Speaker 3: He's conservative some of the time, as opposed to the
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  Speaker 3: overwhelming majority of the court, which is radical all of
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  Speaker 3: the time. But when he got on the bench, especially
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: when he became the deciding vote, he didn't always vote
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  Speaker 3: with a concerns and he said the same thing that
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure Amy Cony Barrett would be saying. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: right going along with how it's written. This never happens
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  Speaker 3: with the lefties. Name the last leftist judge named to
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  Speaker 3: the Wisconsin Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court
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  Speaker 3: that was put on by a lefty president who said
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: that they were a lefty.
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  Speaker 2: Justice and moved over to our side. It does not happen.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, there are cases where you'll get eight one
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  Speaker 3: or nine O rulings from the Supreme Court where they
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  Speaker 3: do move over and join the conservatives, but those tend
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: to be open and shut type cases. These five, four
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  Speaker 3: and sixty three rulings that you're seeing from the United
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  Speaker 3: States Supreme Court that go the way of the lefties.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: There aren't that many seven two and eight one or
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  Speaker 3: nine ohs on issues when the lefties come over to
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  Speaker 3: our side and look at the Wisconsin Supreme Court with
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  Speaker 3: the radical women that are on the court. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to deny that there have been some rulings favorable
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  Speaker 3: to conservatives under this liberal court, but in all of
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: the big ones, there's not one instance of any of
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  Speaker 3: the five women that were elected as leftists flipping around
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  Speaker 3: and joining the conservative block. Almost all the time, it
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: almost never happens. Next point, I believe that those of
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: us on the right have to stop considering that membership
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: in the Federalist Society is an automatic qualifier as a
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: conservative jurist. We've been giving grave deference. The Federal Society
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: is a conservative legal organization.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it is. See, you would assume that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: If somebody's in a conservative legal organization, they're conservative. But
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  Speaker 3: there's been a whole lot of people that have come
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: out of the Federal Society who've been very disappointing. One
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: other point should be made on some of these issues
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: that the court is ruling with regard to Trump, Trump
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: clearly is pushing the limit. But that's what he was
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: elected to do. He was elected to push the limit.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: This birthright citizenship thing has been on the books ever
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: since the late eighteen sixties. No president ever, even though
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I suspect many of them thought it was ridiculous, no
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: president ever isshed in an executive order saying that, no,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: this is not what it means. Trump is pushing the
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: limit and all of these things to see how much
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: he can get.
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  Speaker 2: Through the court, and he's getting it a lot through.
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  Speaker 3: They did, for example, affirm his right to fire all
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: of these agency hads this week. It wasn't thought earlier
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: presidents didn't think they had that power. School burned down
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  Speaker 3: in Milwaukee a couple of days ago. You saw this story,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: didn't you, Dave Lincoln Avenue School, For those of you
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: who don't know where Lincoln Avenue School is used to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: have fun with Paula is. It's on Lincoln Abae. It's
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  Speaker 3: not always a given. Sometimes you actually like Milwaukee's third
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  Speaker 3: Ward is actually not in the third Ward. It was
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: the third ward back on the day, which is why
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I have that. But they changed district lines all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Lincoln avet of School is on the south side of Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: Is it about twelfth? You said in Lincoln there's a
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  Speaker 3: fire there burned out.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Here is to me the fascinating part of this story.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I just swear the overwhelming majority of
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: people in this world simply can't analyze anything. They read
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: this story, they read all the details on it, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: some things that really don't jump out at them.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm trying you. It never jumps out at anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the media read this life.
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  Speaker 3: The Fox six report, a massive fire completely destroyed the
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: one hundred nine year old Lincoln Avenue School building. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: was a hundred nine years old, and apparently until this
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: fire it was functioning just fine. So all of your
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: people out there in the suburbs, why do you keep
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: telling us after a school is thirty years old, it's obsolete.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Oh well, let's that way. We can't have this anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: We can't have that anywhere. They keep telling us that
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  Speaker 3: buildings that were put up in the nineteen eighties and
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: nineties have to be replaced. Ye at Milwaukee, whose schools
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: are the biggest money grubbers in the state of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: They were perfectly okay with They've paid, They've tested a
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: zillion referendums and met well two big ones. They didn't
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: feel the need to get the kids out of the
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Lincoln Avenue School.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: The good thing is MPs hordes schools. They own a
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: ton of empty buildings and enrollments declining precipitously. They'll simply
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: have to reassign the kids to other schools and so on.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: But my take on this is, Hey, all you people
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: in Wawatasa, remember when they ripped down all these schools
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: to build up all these news Oh they're obsolate, even
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: the lefties in Milwaukee.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: We're making the Lincoln after the school work.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: You know that guy Dave Ramsey is Yeah, he's he's
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: this TMJ Carrey is showing any worm. I don't even
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know what they do over there. They seem
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: to have it just seems to be nothing but podcasts
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: on there over there by people who do podcasts that
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: nobody would ever want to listen to.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: But I think they might have had him on it
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: one time, or maybe they do not. He's just what.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a personal finance guy and he's kind of
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: he's conservative in terms of his advice, and he thinks,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: you know, we waste money, we do this that or
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the other thing. He's weaning in. I think he's kind
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: of weaning in. He's replaced. Her name is Rachel Cruz.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: She's got a personal connection to Dave Ramsey and she's
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the co host of The Ramsey Show. She's his daughter,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: and she's made some comments that got some news coverage
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: this week, and it's about she says, the total recklessness
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: financially speaking of millions of young American men. She's referencing
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the numbers of them that are wiping themselves out betting
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: on sports. This is an interesting take. We all know
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: the history. The only place you could legally bet on
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: sports for the longest time was Las Vegas. But then
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: when the Internet came around, a number of companies set
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: up shop outside the United States and you can gamble
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: with them. The government said it was illegal, but it's
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: hard to enforce, so some people started to do that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: But it was still illegal, and you still had to
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: go through the process of getting money to an offshore
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: thing and getting it out problematic, So there weren't that
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: many people that did it. But now As time has
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: gone on, casino gambling has expanded across the United States,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: and with it legalized sports gambling.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: We're soon going to have.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Online and much of it has gone online, meaning you
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: don't have to go into any casino at all. We're
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: going to have it soon in Wisconsin, given the fact
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: that the legislature has agreed to allow the Wisconsin Tribes
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: to offer online sports betting the.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Level monopoly doing so.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: They still have to cut agreements on the contracts or
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: compacts to do so with the Evers administration, but that's
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: going to come, so we're going to have it here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: So people that are betting online and Wisconsin and sports
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: are currently doing it ill illegally, but you can do
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: it llegally and more than half the states and you
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: soon will be able to in Wisconsin. And for those
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: of you who know nothing about this, you can bet
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: as much as you want, as often as you want.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: It isn't anymore.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Just take the the World Cup soccer game last night.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: You can bet on the United States and bet on
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Bosnia and Herzevina are bet on a tie they go.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: To a shootout. Then you can.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Bet in the game on any number of things. Take
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: a football game, there are sometimes hundreds of propositions that
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: you can bet on before a game, how many receptions
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: will the guy have, how many interceptions will we throw?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: And how many fumbles will there be? And then during
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: the game they keep updating the points spread. You can
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: re bet again and again and again and again and again,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: and it's all just there, you know, on your smartphone.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: The point that Rachel Cruz is making is that there
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: are many young men who have simply taken all the
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: money they have, they put them into these apps and
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: they're betting all of it. And if we know anything
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: about sports betting and most betting, the overwhelming majority of
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: people lose. There's a house edge built into sports bets.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: There are people who can and do win, and can
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: and do win big. What many people whoever do is
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: they don't have good money management. If they get in
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: a roll and they're winning, they increase the size of
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: their bets, so then they go on the inevitable losing
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: streak and all that they want is gone. Or they
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: tend to bet an emotion. I gotta bet on twenty
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: nine things tonight. And the point that Rachel Cruz is
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: making is the amount of money that they're losing is
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: money that they could have set aside for savings that
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: you're gonna be staring at. A lot of these people,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: they're forty five, fifty years old, and they're gonna have
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: nothing to show for themselves because they've been betting it
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: all the way on sports, because they can't stop doing
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: it because they're addicted. Furthermore, most of these accounts you
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: can fuel by tapping into a credit card, and even
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: if you don't directly fund it through a credit card,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you can take money out of your credit card and
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: use it to fund the account.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So in addition to the.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Fact that people may be using up all of their savings,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: they may be going deeply into debt here now. Back
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: when gambling was limited, either had to go to Las
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Vegas or bet illegally through a bookie.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: This is one of the.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Big industries that the mafia was involved in. The convenience
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: of betting with a bookie is you didn't have to
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: come up with the money up front. The downside was
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: if you lost, you owed the money, and if you
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: didn't have the cash available, they'd start charging you interest,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: big interest, and if you couldn't pay it, they'd beat
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: the hell out of you. That system actually worked. Most
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: people didn't want the hell beaten out of them, so
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: they controlled their betting. And also after a certain point,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: the mob wasn't going to continue to allow you to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: pile on additional money because you don't pay it back.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Then the mob that was taking the bets, you know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: they're gonna.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Lose this system now though, where people can keep placing
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: bets and placing bets and placing bets and placing bets
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: and placing bets, it requires the same degree of calm.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Rational, non emotional thinking.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: That anything else does with your money. Let me quote
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: from a portion of the story in Fox News, The
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: daughter of personal finance expert Dave Ramsey singled out sports
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: betting on as especially risky to young men. Quote it
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: is usually guys in their twenties that are doing this,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and so staying away from that is so crucial. You're
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: throwing your money away to sports betting. It really is
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: taking down a generation economically. This, by the way, I
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: think is one of the hidden I've talked. There's so
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: many issues that are just hidden that are impacting our
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: society and never nobody ever talks about them.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: And one of those.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I would say it would be the addiction to porn.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: You never see anybody discussing that. I think it has
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: a lot to do with the decline in the birth rate.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: It has a lot to do with the fact that
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: millennial men and women never hooked up and got together,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: and now there's this. Maybe one of the reasons that
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: so many younger people seem to be embracing socialism because
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: they have all of these financial worries, is because the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: money that they did have they're farting away. And I'm
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: not condemning betting on sports. Nothing wrong with it, nothing
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: wrong with buying a boat. There's nothing wrong with buying
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a more expensive car than you need. But you have
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: to do it and be realistic at the time that
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: you're doing it, and limit how much you're doing. Furthermore,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: you have to decide if you're good editor not. I
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: firmly believe the estimate is based on you know, most
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: sports bets, some of these online bets. It's worse than this.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: You're charged the ten percent commission on losing bets. That's
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: how the gambling operations make money. In other words, to
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: win fifty after bit fifty five, you charge no commission.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: When you win, because you get the whole thing back.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: But if you lose, you don't lose fifty you lose
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: fifty five. I think that the number is like fifty
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: two point seven percent. If every bet was based on that,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: in order to be profitable, you'd have to win fifty
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: two point seven percent of your bets. And I clearly
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: think that some people can do this. The problem is
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: some of the ones that do so then screw up
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: their money management. They met more on some games than others,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: and then they lose on those games.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: But if you simply.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Had a plan, and you study, and you're very ill,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: you know, get your emotions out of it, I certainly
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: think you can win. But I think the overwhelming majority
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: of people don't. Just as the overwhelming majority of day
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: traders lost, some clearly could win. Remember when day trading
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: was the big thing. You don't hear much about it anymore,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: do you. That's because the people who do, and this
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: is the twenty years ago people in the twenties, twenty
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: years ago, they mostly got wiped out hard to do.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: This is not an argument for banning it. And in
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: my criticism of giving the tribes in Wisconsin the monopoly
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: on online sports betting.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I made it clear.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not opposed to online sports betting. I'm not opposed
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: to any of these things that may be highly risky
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: because the majority of people who do it don't ruin
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: their lives, but some are. And I think some of
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: these younger people who don't have the same you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I've been around gambling my whole life. I have a
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: sense of perspective about the whole thing. Some of these
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: people who are in their twenties who you know, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of it's big talkers too, eh, you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: you know everybody knows what the garden sports. That the
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: big talking blowhards who just think there's certainty to all
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: of these things, well then they back up their certainty.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Though I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: and suddenly the big talking blowhard doesn't know as much
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: as the big talking blowhard.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Thinks that they do.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: When you see athletes like Swersby the quarterback who now
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: is going to enter the draft next year, trying to
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: transfer to Texas Tech, and even though he was found
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: to have gambled on games at an earlier school, he's
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: gonna be able to go into the NFL next year
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: have to sit out Ayre for doing it. Here are
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: people that have everything to lose. A former Buck Malik
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Beasley just got charged with the friends for betting, for
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: tipping off gamblers to his own performance.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: When he was at the box. He would for exit
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: if there was a game in.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Which the over under a number of rebounds per game
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: he would get is like two or three, he might
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: tip off betters. I'm just not gonna get any rebods. A.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I might fake an injury or B. I'll just manage
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: the ball's coming over in my direction. I'm not gonna
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: grab you hard at it or the other way. Say
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: it's over that I'm gonna get every I'm gonna stay
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: under the basketing when that's supposed to I'm go get it.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: He's been charged with doing this. He's guys doing it
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: in the NBA.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Here's if this guy is doing this knowing that he
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: could face prison and being banned from the sport for life.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: If that didn't DETERM, how are we gonna deter some
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: twenty eight year old it's got nine hundred dollars to
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: his name, who farts away the nine hundred dollars and
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: now starts tapping into credit cards and so on.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I'm not for banning any of this stuff, but I think,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: no matter what it is that you do in life
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: with money, you got to take a deep breath of
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: be responsible. If everybody's a cheap skate in certain things
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: and everybody spends there are people ask you, I can't
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: believe you spend that much money on a car, But
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: I'll drive herround the block like six times to avoid
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: paying going parking in a parking lot that has fit
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: that's charging fifteen dollars. But everybody's got their thing. As
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I've said repeatedly, I cannot, in my own mind justify
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: going in and buying coffee at one of these places.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: It's not saying I never have. If I'm traveling in
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: on the road, you know, or the airport's another one,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm you can't take your I mean, I
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: guess you can't take a beverage past the checkpoint, stuff
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: like that. So I'm not saying I've never done it,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: But I'm not one of these people that every morning
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: has to stop at Starbucks at one of those and
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: blow twenty five dollars on the coffee that I can
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: make out of my own coffee maker and put into
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: a mugg and take in. They said, would say, well,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: look convenience. So that's my thing in which I'm weirdly
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: cheap skatish. Everybody has something, so no matter how much
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: money you have or how little money you have, you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: still if the thing thinks through and not be reckless
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: about the whole thing, while also understanding the part of
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the enjoyment of life is to do some things that
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: you like that there may not be a return for.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: But when you see some of these people where you're
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: in we've heard these, you know. It started when mister
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: wonderful shark Tank I'm forgetting his actual real name, the
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: ball guy, Kevin O'Leary, Kevin Olary, he was went on
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: something and he was yapping about these people in their
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: twenties going every day in and every day and buying
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: buying this expensive coffee and then whining that they don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: have any money. He said, they're idiots, and they all
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: retaliated and saying, you don't know how different it is.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: There is again some truth to that some of these
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: younger people are actually doing quite well in terms of
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: their income, but they haven't control they're spending and betting
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: on sports. It's part of spending. Now we're picking on
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: the sports they hear. You could say the same thing
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: with regard to I mean, when I've gone into potto,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: it blows me away. The people that I'll see at
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: the fifty dollars blackshack tables that oh, look to me
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: like they have anywhere near enough money to be doing
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: now looks can be deceiving. I know a lot of
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: really wealthy guys that look like bums almost almost half
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: the time.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: But I don't think that's who those people are.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: But at least that requires you to actually get up
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: and physically go there and sit down. Furthermore, you have
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: to pull out cash. I mean, you can do credit
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: there and so on. There's some restriction on it. There's
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: just something enticing though, and you know that there's a
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: house edge against you when you're betting at a casino.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: When you just think, you know, with regard to the
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: sporting event, that you know you've have a far better
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: than fifty to fifty chance of being right, you think,
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: you know, it can be tantalizing to keep doing it
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: and doing it and doing it. And then there's the
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: whole addiction problem from people who just liked it it,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: they get addicted to doing it, and they love the
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: action even as they're wiping out their net worth. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: think it's, as I said, one of those issues that
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: is bigger than most people are aware of. You're listening
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: to the Mark Belling podcast. It's not overstating things to
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: say that the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the United
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: States is being treated as nowhere as big a deal
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: as the two hundredth was. And the reason that the
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: two hundredth anniversary in nineteen seventy six was such a
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: big deal is virtually everybody in America was celebrating it.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: We now have millions of people who simply hate America
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: and don't want to celebrate it. Secondly, we have in
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: this country millions of people who claim that they are
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: patriots and claim that they support our country, but in
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: fact don't. The Declaration of Independence, I believe was divinely inspired.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: It's simply too good not to have been. It not
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: only laid down incredible and at the time unheard of
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: principles for a nation, it did it with incredible eloquence.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: The Declaration was written long before the Constitution. We didn't
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: set up a congress and have a president until seventeen
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: eighty nine. We existed vaguely under the artificial articles of
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: confederation after we won the revolution. I've done this a
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: few times in the past. I'm going to read the
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Declaration of Independence, and I think that there's a staggering
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: number of people in this country that don't know what's
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: in it. And you'll often see this, they'll ask, coup
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: of us with this language here and there, separation at
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: church and state.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Where does that come?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: That comes to the Declaration of eventans? No, it doesn't.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to comment a little bit as i
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: go through it. Written largely by Jefferson, with the assistance
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: and input of some of the other founders, the Unanimous
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Declaration of the United States of America. By the way,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: when they wrote it, they did not capitalize United. This
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: would later come to be the name of the nation.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: What they were saying at the time is these states,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the colonies, they're states, though they're united, thirteen United States
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: of America. Wherein the course of human events, it becomes
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: have connected them with another, and to assume among the
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: powers of the earth the separate and equal station to
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: which the laws of nature and Nature's God entitle them.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Who is saying here is when we have rights that
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: God gave us that are being denied, and we're going
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: to separate ourselves from the people denying them, we better
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: lay out the case as to why we do it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: We have a moral imperative before we do this to
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: make our case. Then it continues.
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  Speaker 2: We hold these truths.
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  Speaker 3: To be self evident, that all men are created equal,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: That to secure these rights, governments are in struct instituted
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: the governed. Let me pause, how many people believe in that?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: How many lefties believe in that the consent of the governed?
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: The number of times in which lefties have supported doing
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: things that trample over the wishes of the majority certainly
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: makes it clear that they don't buy in the notion
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: that governed have to consent to all of this, that
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: it is the right of the people to alter or
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: on such principle, and organizing its power in such form
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: as to them shall seem most likely.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: To affect their safety and happiness.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Prudence indeed will dictate the government's long established should not
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: be changed for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: experiences have shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despoties, it
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: their former system of government. The history of the present
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: operation till his assent should be obtained, and when so suspended,
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: refused to pass other laws for the accommodations of large
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: them into compliance with his measures. Sure seems to me
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: that that could have been said about COVID. Continuing, he
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: has dissolved representative houses representative's house repeatedly for opposing, with
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: manly firmness his invasion on the rights of the people.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: He has refused for a long time after such disillusions
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: for their exercise. The state remaining in the meantime exposed
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: For that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: raising the conditions of a new appropriation of land. He
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: has obstructed the administrative administration of justice by refusing his
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: assent to laws for establishing judicial power. He has made
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: their offices and the amount and payment of the salaries.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: hither swarms of others to harass our people and eat
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: out their substance. He has kept among us, in times
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: of peace, standing armies, with the consent of our legislatures.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: He has affected to render the military independent of and
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: superior to, the civil power. He has combined with others
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: and acknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: acts of pretended legislation, For quartering large bodies of armed
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: troops among us, for protecting them by a mock trial
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: from punishment for any murders which they should committed on
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: the inhabitants of these states. For cutting off our trade
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: us without our consent? I'll interject, do you think any
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: of the Mamdani Marxists are agreeing with this?
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Oh man alive?
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Did they support imposing taxes without our consent? Continuing for
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: depriving us, in many cases of the benefits of trial
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: by jury, for transporting us beyond seas to be tried
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: for pretended offenses. For abolishing the free system of English
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: once an example and fit instrument, for introducing the same
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: absolute rule into these colonies. For taking away our charters,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: of our governments, For suspending our own legislatures and declaring
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here by declaring us
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: out of its protection and waging war against us. The
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: point that they're making here is we were being attacked
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: right and left.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: You know at the time.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: There were the colonials that came from other countries that
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: were attacking us, and he wasn't allowing us to be defended,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: is the argument they're making back to the declaration. He
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: has plundered our sees, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: and destroyed the lives of our people.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Sounds like Gavin newsom Oh.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: in the most barbarous of ages, and totally unworthy the
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens,
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: own rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexists,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: and conditions. Let me interject very clear that the framers
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: of the Declaration of Independence believed that it was the
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: responsibility of Britain to help these colonists from defending themselves
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: against the Native Americans or American Indians. That is language,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: obviously that many would find controversial today, and it may
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: not be lauda toured today, but it is critical in
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: understanding where they were coming from, for better, or in
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: this case, likely.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: For worse.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: is unfit to be the ruler of.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: A free people.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: We have warned them from time to time of attempts
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: and settlement here. We have appealed to the native justice
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations which would
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: deaf to the voice of justice and conseguinity. We must therefore,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: that's a word that hasn't held up over time. Consanguinity
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: I mean sanglinity. I'm sure was a state. It's sanguine.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Con be the opposite of that. Anyway, they too have
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: been deaf to the voice of justice and consingiguity. We
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation,
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: enemies in war in peace. Friends, We therefore, representatives of
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: the United States of America in Congress assembled, appealing to
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: the Supreme Judge of the world. Clearly, that's a god
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: reference for the rectitude of our intentions. Due in the
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: name and by authority of the good people of these colonies,
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: solemnly publish and declare that these United Colonies are and
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: of right ought to be free and independent states. That
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crowd,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: and that all political connections between them and the State
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: And that as free and independent states, they have full
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: and to do all other acts and things which independent.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: States may right may of right do.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: And for the support of this declaration, with a firm
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Now some comments, if you wanted to give the cliff
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: notes of this. They were saying that the rights that
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: were given them by God were being taken away, and therefore,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: in the name of God, we are declaring our independence.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: So for all of these people who want to argue
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: that the intention of the founders is to create a
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: society without religion and without God, this country was based
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: entirely on the rights inalienable to us, because they were
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: given to us by.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: God were being denied.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: After the war, and then after the Constitution, taxes were limited,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: there was no real safety net, there was no welfare state.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: That still wasn't even much of them until Franklin Roosevelt
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: came around in the nineteen twenties and thirties. This country
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: was set up to be a country in which people
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: had the right to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: of happiness language in there and suffer the consequences of
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: if it doesn't work out. There are I think a
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: lot of people who just reject this, though they believe
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: in the old British system of taxing people to death
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: and having nobody responsible for their own actions whatsoever. We
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: set ourselves up to be a nation utterly independent. With
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: the latter document, the document that came around thirteen to
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: fifteen years later, the original Constitution, and then the ten
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: amendments to it, the Bill of Rights. We actually created
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: a government that just enumerated, over and over and over
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: not the rights of the government. It limited the rights
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: of the government and said everything else belonged to the people,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: and then enumerated.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Specifically the rights that people had.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Boy, there are a lot of people uncomfortable with that.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: These founders would never have imagined that you could be
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: mandated to have to take an experimental vaca. They never
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: would have imagined that after a certain level of wealth,
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: the government would confiscate the overwhelming majority of their income.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: They didn't set us up to be that having freedom
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: requires capitalism, because capitalism is simply the freedom to try
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: to go out and be productive and make money. If
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: you're not allowed to keep your money, you're not free.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: The people that are looking for the free lunch are
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: proposing to have a country here that is the antithesis
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: to the ones, the one that the founders created. For
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: almost all of my life, people on both the left
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: and right embrace the First Amendment, embraced freedom, embrace that
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: we are a nation under God. We also held the
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: belief that we had a moral responsibility to look out
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: to some extent for our fellow man. I would argue
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: preferably through private charity. Some would argue through a government
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: safety debt. It is only now that we have so
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: many people not willing to offer any sacrifice at all,
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: maybe because they're drugged out, maybe because they're lazy, maybe
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: because they simply don't have the energy to go into
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: a risk heavy world in which the rewards are great,
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: but the potential for falling flat on your face maybe
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: even greater. What I can tell you is the reason
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: our country became the world's great superpower is because of
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: these two documents, the Declaration and then the Constitution. It
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: laid the groundwork to be able to create a nation
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: with the prosperity and freedom that we had. Many have argued,
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Reagan among them, that all the freedoms that we built
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: in all of these years now two hundred and fifty
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: can die within one generation. I think the next twenty
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: five years could kill off everything we have if the
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: Democrats indeed become the Marxists, and it looks to me
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: like they are because the actual mainstream Democrats, the regular Democrats,
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: refuse to fight back against the Marxists. They won't attack
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: their ideas, they won't call them Marxist, they won't call
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: them irresponsible, and they keep losing to them. For the
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: individual Democrat voter, depressed, unhappy, whiney asked people with their
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: hands constantly out this is what they want.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: It won't work, and.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: The survival of our nation going forward will require not
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: the war in terms of armament and rebellion that the
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: colonists engaged in after the passage of the declaration, but
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: an effort just as great, through the preservation of our
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: government and winning elections, to resist and fight off this threat,
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: which I contend is as existential as not the threat,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: but the reality that the original colonists were living on.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: As many people know, the fourth of July is my birthday.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: So therefore I've always had an interest in the Declaration
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: of Independence and the founding of the country. And either
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: do way you don't, Just like almost every guy of
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: my generation. In other words, the generation that was born
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: after World War Two was fascinated by World War Two stories.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, there are channels that were on cable TV. Oh,
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: they are the military channel of history. Ninety percent of
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: the content seems to be World War Two. When I
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: was a kid, I was fascinated by the arguments over
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: the founding of our country. The musical Hamilton, which not
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: everybody liked. I thought actually was a fair handling of
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: the founding of the country. It was said after the
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Constitution was ratified, Well, the big debate in which we
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: created this government, and you had the two wings, the Federalists,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: the George Washington John Adams wing, who believed in a
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: strong central government, and the people came at the time
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: to be known as Democrats who hated a central government,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: who believed that all of the power should remain with
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: the states. What did I say, Yeah, it was the
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: Thomas Jefferson world and so on, and they clashed and
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: the great reality And again, I think to say that
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: this was simply dumb luck is naive. I think it
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: had to have been divinely inspired God, as will is.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: The truth was somewhere in between. In order to survive
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: as a nation, we have to have some central form
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: of government to look out for us collectively. But we
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: can't make people of South Dakota live under the thumb
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: of the governor of California and their beliefs, which is
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: precisely why we have some states that are rotting and
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: going to hell that are run by Marxist and others
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: that are thriving because they're run by capitalists. But anyway,
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: the affinity that I had for just learning and there
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: have been many great There was a HBO series I
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: don't know, maybe fifteen twenty years ago called John Adams
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: about John Adams, what, Yeah, what was it was?
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Paul Jamadi.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he played he played John Adams, and it covered
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: that particular era. I thought very fairly, without going toward
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: one side or the other, celebrating the founding of this
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: nation is celebrating the greatness that we have achieved. Were
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: it not for us, all of Europe would be run,
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: probably to this day by Nazis. Were it not for us,
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: how many advances in commerce would have been delayed or
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: have never happened. We are a country that has shown
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: more generosity for its own people, and I don't mean
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: just government generosity, private generosity than almost any other. We
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: become dominant in virtually everything that's mattered. The things that
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: were not dominating it in are things that we either
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: have chosen not to be particularly involved.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: In or.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: That became too expensive for us to do. We are
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: the giant tech companies of the world, the giant AI companies.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: They're still American. Thomas said, has seen who, prior to
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Musk was the greatest inventor ever, It wasn't French. I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: believe this. I believe the people who don't want to
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this country
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: are just unhappy people.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: And as I've argued.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: As long as I've had a career rationalization being the
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: second strongest human drive. They have to rationalize their unhappiness
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: and blame it on something, and they blame it on
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: the country, and their unhappiness is fed into by fraudsters,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: often Muslims, who, just as in Europe, want to destroy
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: our way of life and create their theocracy here the
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: Mamdanis of the world by telling everybody how miserable and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: awful and terrible the whole thing is, so that they
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: be given power to make everything worse.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: And once they get that power, ignore that.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Bring back all the arguments of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: Every time a country goes Marxist, it takes away everyone's rights.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: And do you know why they do it. Do you
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: know why Hugo Chaves, who by the way, was elected initially,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: do you know why he took away everybody's rights in Venezuela.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: It's the same reason why when Castro and Gavera had
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: the revolution in Cuba and took over the country, then
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: took away everybody's rights. It's the same reason why Stalin's
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: communists and his successor communists took away everybody's rights. It's
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: precisely why when the Soviets essentially a next and put
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: under their wing the countries of Eastern Europe that they
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: took away all of their rights. The reason that they
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: take away everybody's rights is what they do doesn't work,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: and they know that if people can willingly make a decision,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: they'll get rid of this. You're seeing right now in
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Latin America, one country after another after another rejecting Marxism
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: and embracing capitalism. This is because they've lived forever under
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: the hellish conditions. Fortunately, many of those nations still had
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: free elections. Venezuela may be salvagible.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Cuba is likely to fall any time now. It will
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: then be.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: Salvagible, but it's only going to be because of external forces.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: You know, they had an election in Venezuela a couple
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: of years. They rig the election. They have to rig
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  Speaker 3: the election because people who live under this end up
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  Speaker 3: hating as much as the founders hated living under the
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  Speaker 3: tyranny of the King of England. But boy, oh boy,
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  Speaker 3: when this stuff is marketed and sold a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people fall for it.
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  Speaker 2: So people that are miserable and unhappy with.
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  Speaker 3: Their lives, rather than trying to make things better on
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  Speaker 3: their own and taking some responsibility for the conditions that
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  Speaker 3: they're in is blame it on the country.
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  Speaker 2: So they end up hating the country.
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  Speaker 3: And when you ask them which one is better, they
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  Speaker 3: can't come up with one because it would mean that
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  Speaker 3: you would have to call their bluff and say, well,
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  Speaker 3: then why don't you go move to that paradise that
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  Speaker 3: you think is so much better. So I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a bittersweet happy birthday. We hit number two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty with certainly one of our two political parties
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  Speaker 3: being taken over by Marxist with the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: members and leaders of that party not bowing down without
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  Speaker 3: a fight. You know what the mainstream Democrats in this
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  Speaker 3: country are. They're French. They put up the same resistance
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  Speaker 3: that France puts up when tyrants try to overrun them.
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  Speaker 3: Stays with France. It's going to require the rest of
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  Speaker 3: US Americans, the patriotic ones, to save not only ourselves,
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  Speaker 3: but the left from the left. You're listening to the
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  Speaker 3: Mark Belling podcast three two one. We alluded to this
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  Speaker 3: story briefly on the Midweek podcast. It's now official. The
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  Speaker 3: University of Wisconsin has a new athletic director. His name
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  Speaker 3: is Sean Ikhours. He's certainly qualified. In fact, I think
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  Speaker 3: the qualification is almost perfect. They went out and they
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  Speaker 3: got a number two from one of the most successful
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  Speaker 3: in terms of athletic programs in the country, Texas. But
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  Speaker 3: that number two also has experience as a number one.
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  Speaker 3: He was the ad at Miami and then left to
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  Speaker 3: go to Nebraska. His tenure at Nebraska was largely successful.
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  Speaker 3: It was not successful in terms of football see whatever
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  Speaker 3: to Texas and became essentially the number two of that
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  Speaker 3: huge program with all the stuff that's going on with it.
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  Speaker 3: The guys got wisconstant tie in background. So I think
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  Speaker 3: they're certainly bringing in somebody qualifying to lead an athletic
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  Speaker 3: department in the age of nil and money, where athletic
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  Speaker 3: success is largely dependent on being able to raise enough
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  Speaker 3: money to pay the best athletes out there to come
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  Speaker 3: to your school. Whether you like it or not, that's
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  Speaker 3: the reality the environment that we're in. There are many
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  Speaker 3: people I know people I know some people that are
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  Speaker 3: in Madison circles that were closer to what was going
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  Speaker 3: on at UW Madison than me, and they felt that
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  Speaker 3: Chris McIntosh was in over his head from the outside
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  Speaker 3: I didn't agree with that, because while there certainly have
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  Speaker 3: been struggles with regard to the football program, the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the athletic department in Madison seemed to be thriving.
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  Speaker 3: Women's basketball was never any good either, but the other
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  Speaker 3: sports that are there, men's hockey had a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a dry spell before the rebound. Now good, the
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  Speaker 3: women's hockey program one of the greatest the country, the
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  Speaker 3: volleyball program one of the greatest of the just numerous
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  Speaker 3: athletic programs over there that we're doing very very well.
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  Speaker 3: The men's basketball program, you're running your out largely competitive.
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  Speaker 3: And the football program was very good until recently. But
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  Speaker 3: these people were arguing that the ability to raise money,
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  Speaker 3: the ability to run a massive operation in the environment
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  Speaker 3: that we're in now that McIntosh was in over his head.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly don't know, because I wasn't that close to
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  Speaker 3: the inner workings of that athletic department. But I think
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  Speaker 3: in hiring I course, it looks like they've hired a
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  Speaker 3: good guy. Now here's the concern for fans of the
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  Speaker 3: football program, or maybe it's something they're excited by. Almost
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  Speaker 3: everyone who comes into a new job likes to in
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  Speaker 3: key positions, get rid of what's there, and bring in
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  Speaker 3: their own people. Luke Fickel, the football coach, I think
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  Speaker 3: is very likely to be fired unless they have a
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  Speaker 3: really good season this year. I of course, has even
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  Speaker 3: said his first priority is to evaluate what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with the football program. I happen to think that Luke
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  Speaker 3: Fickel is the right coach for Wisconsin. I think he
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  Speaker 3: made a terrible mistake when he came here. I think
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  Speaker 3: he decided to embrace the air raid offense, which may
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  Speaker 3: or may not have been a mistake, but he hired
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  Speaker 3: the wrong guy to do it, a guy who I
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  Speaker 3: think benefited at other schools from having head coaches that
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  Speaker 3: were offensive minded, and in one case, North Carolina simply
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  Speaker 3: lucked into having a spectacular quarterback come in. But the
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  Speaker 3: offense that he ran at Wisconsin and the players that
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  Speaker 3: he brought in to run it, it didn't work. And
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  Speaker 3: Fickle has tried to change it all back and go
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  Speaker 3: back to square one, which takes time. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: the defense, which was his calling card, Wisconsin's defense this
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  Speaker 3: past season and I think is one of the best
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  Speaker 3: in the country, and the recruiting seems to have improved
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  Speaker 3: over the last year or two. Whether or not it
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  Speaker 3: can be, it can continue to prove and they can
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  Speaker 3: play with the big boys is going to largely depend
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  Speaker 3: on whether or not I course can start getting alumni
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  Speaker 3: and other donors to start coming up with not five
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year, but five million or ten million.
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  Speaker 3: The Indiana turnaround in sports occurred at the same time
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  Speaker 3: that Mark Cuban, who went there, decided to stick tens
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  Speaker 3: of millions of dollars into the sports program. Some of
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  Speaker 3: the schools of Texas, for many of the alumni are big,
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  Speaker 3: giant fat cats in the oil business. They take their
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  Speaker 3: largess and put it back into their universities. One of
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  Speaker 3: the hardest things in the world to do is fundraise.
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  Speaker 3: Asking people for money is not an easy thing to do,
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  Speaker 3: and there aren't many people that are really.
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  Speaker 2: Good at it.
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  Speaker 3: But that's going to be a big portion of the
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  Speaker 3: responsibility here for the new athletic director. And then the
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  Speaker 3: evaluation of the personality has the coaches that are there,
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  Speaker 3: and then the whole thing of complying with the rules
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  Speaker 3: and all of the other minefields, and just one of
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  Speaker 3: the big challenges so far as so far as it
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  Speaker 3: seems to me with regard to people on these sports programs,
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  Speaker 3: is to keep the pants zipped up and act inappropriately.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the whole mess that's going on at the
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  Speaker 3: University of Michigan. I'm sure he's been vetted in that
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  Speaker 3: regard and the fact that you know he's no Spring Chicken.
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  Speaker 2: He had the Miami job in you know, that's a.
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  Speaker 3: He's responsible, by the way for did Miami win a
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  Speaker 3: national championship under Lorenga. I don't think they did, but
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  Speaker 3: they went to the Final four a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: They hired a great basketball coach he just recently, but
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  Speaker 3: that happened under his tenure. The football program was underachieved
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  Speaker 3: for the longest tign in Nebraska. They have a great
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  Speaker 3: athletic department top to bottom, with the exception that their
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  Speaker 3: football program's kind of been like hours lately, underachieved. But
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  Speaker 3: he left Nebraska in seventeen. He was considered the football
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  Speaker 3: coach higher that he made there. Riley, who came from
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  Speaker 3: I think Oregon State didn't work out, but boy to
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  Speaker 3: get the job at Texas, where I mean they're obsessed
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  Speaker 3: at the university was winning and everything and having the
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  Speaker 3: number two I think he a good background. Yeah, A
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  Speaker 3: Day points out he was actually the athletic director at
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  Speaker 3: Whitewater before all of this, and it's starting to change
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  Speaker 3: a bit, but Whitewater's been the dominant school in the
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  Speaker 3: state of Wisconsin in terms of athletics. It looks like
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  Speaker 3: it's shifting back to lacrosse top to bottom, which it
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  Speaker 3: was in the era that I was there. You know why,
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  Speaker 3: lacrosse was always good in so many sports, huge physical
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  Speaker 3: education major there and obviously there's no scholarships in Division III.
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  Speaker 3: So kids, men and women that are going to major
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  Speaker 3: in Fayette are usually pretty good athletes. And all right,
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  Speaker 3: we clearly wanted a field.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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