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Mark Belling Podcast #142: Civil War 2.0 is about a much less serious squabble; the South wants year-round Daylight Savings Time and the North doesn't. A fascinating story on the public reaction in El Salvador to a crackdown by the right wing government. And Mark has a theory as to why the left is opposed to the Paramount-Warner merger. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: We have another battle than this country of North versus South.
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  Speaker 2: The stakes are nowhere near as high as they were
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  Speaker 2: in the Civil War, but this is a real geographic
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  Speaker 2: battle and it looks like the North is going to
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  Speaker 2: win again. That bill that passed the House to give
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  Speaker 2: us year round daylight savings time is apparently dead in
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. There's been a revolt senators from northern states,
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  Speaker 2: especially Republican senators in northern States, telling President Trump, don't
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  Speaker 2: sign this and we're not going to pass it. This
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  Speaker 2: is I think an interesting issue on just a lot
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  Speaker 2: of different levels. In particular, why, after all these years
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  Speaker 2: of having daylight savings time, suddenly are all these people
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  Speaker 2: just so upset that twice a year they have to
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  Speaker 2: change their clocks all of one hour two Why it's
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  Speaker 2: a much bigger deal in the North than it is
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  Speaker 2: in the South. And I think most people don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: Because one are the ramifications of the public schools no
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  Speaker 2: longer teaching geography and history and instead replacing it this
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  Speaker 2: glop of social studies. Nobody knows anything anymore about geography
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  Speaker 2: and the way the planet works. So I'm here to
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  Speaker 2: an option. Now, President Trump campaigned on this, and it's
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  Speaker 2: been in response to just this growing complaining for people
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  Speaker 2: that I hate having to switch my clocks. I want
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  Speaker 2: to start at that point my entire life. We've had
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  Speaker 2: daylight savings time and then regular standard time. Number of
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  Speaker 2: years ago, we lengthen the daylight savings time so that
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  Speaker 2: here in our part, you know, actually everywhere, it now
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  Speaker 2: switches over in early March. It used to be like
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  Speaker 2: the end of April would be the end of daylight
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  Speaker 2: savings time, and it's like six months on six months off,
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  Speaker 2: roughly speaking. But now we've turned into about eight months
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  Speaker 2: of daylight savings time and four months of standard time.
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  Speaker 2: But we still have the two days of the year
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  Speaker 2: in which you either set your clocks forward or set
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  Speaker 2: them back. The thing that I just have never been
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  Speaker 2: able to wrap my arms around is why there are
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  Speaker 2: so many people who complain about having to do that.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, it's not like you're switching back seven hours.
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  Speaker 2: It's one. Well, it throws off my schedule. Why now,
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  Speaker 2: I admit I have a weirder schedule than most people.
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  Speaker 2: On the days I do the podcast, I get up
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  Speaker 2: really early. I get up pretty early on Saturday and Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: But on the days I don't do the podcast Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: and Friday, I sleep in. So maybe as much as
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  Speaker 2: four hours difference in the time that I get up.
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  Speaker 2: And they say, you're not supposed to do that, but
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  Speaker 2: I do that. So four hours? What would what would
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  Speaker 2: one hour be? You have one less hour of sleep
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  Speaker 2: and one more hour of sleep, depending on whether or
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  Speaker 2: not you're springing forward a springing bag. Why is that
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  Speaker 2: a problem? And it used to be it wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: long ago. In which you literally had to manually walk
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  Speaker 2: through your house and change every clock, everything on the stove,
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  Speaker 2: every this, every that. The only clock I have to
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  Speaker 2: change now is my watch. Everything else changes automatically unless
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  Speaker 2: it's on the fritz. Your computer changes, your phone changes.
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  Speaker 2: There isn't anything to have to switch. You're not switching
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  Speaker 2: anything other than you know. And for people who have
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  Speaker 2: like a smart watch, like an Apple Watch, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that changes on its own. I got to turn the
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  Speaker 2: thing one hour. So I struggle to figure out what
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  Speaker 2: the incredible inconvenience about all of this is. Nonetheless, the
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  Speaker 2: public has spoken, and the public overwhelmingly says, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do this anymore. So the House passed a
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  Speaker 2: bill that would simply make daylight savings time year round.
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  Speaker 2: We would not have standard time. Now, this would put
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  Speaker 2: us out of sync with most of the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the world. When you take a look at a globe,
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  Speaker 2: they'll map out the time zones and they go around
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  Speaker 2: the clock, and there's these branches in here, and the
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  Speaker 2: standard time is Greenwich meantime, which is the thing in London,
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  Speaker 2: and then the hours that you go back. If we're
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  Speaker 2: not on this, it would mean that the time that
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  Speaker 2: we would have wouldn't be the time necessarily that would
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  Speaker 2: be existing in Europe because they are still switching and
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  Speaker 2: most of the rest of the will not all of
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  Speaker 2: it still switches. Okay, so what I admit, So what
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  Speaker 2: the reason we have the current system is because of
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  Speaker 2: the reality that when you're in the middle of winter
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  Speaker 2: and have fewer hours of sunshine, the question is where
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  Speaker 2: you want to put those hours. If we, for example,
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  Speaker 2: didn't have daylight savings time, it would mean that here
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  Speaker 2: in for example, the state of Wisconsin, it would be
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  Speaker 2: dark even in the middle of summer by seven thirty
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  Speaker 2: at night. I think the latest sunset that we have
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  Speaker 2: is like eight thirty four on the longest day of
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  Speaker 2: the year June twenty first, so that would become seven
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  Speaker 2: thirty four and for much of the rest and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and then the time starts going back in both directions.
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  Speaker 2: By August, it would be dark by six thirty. So
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  Speaker 2: people want to maximize the sunshine in the evening and
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  Speaker 2: the summer. In addition to that, because the days are longer,
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  Speaker 2: the sun rises really really early. I'll give you the
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  Speaker 2: number of hours in a moment as it is here
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  Speaker 2: and Withisconsin on the longest day of the year, the
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  Speaker 2: sun starts popping up a little after five am. Since
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  Speaker 2: I get up at five am on podcast days, I'm
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  Speaker 2: well aware of when it pops up. But it starts
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  Speaker 2: to get bright a little bit. But that's when the
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  Speaker 2: sun comes up. If you didn't have daylight savings time,
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  Speaker 2: that would be four am. Now some people may want that,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm now one of them. It certainly would make
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  Speaker 2: sense that, given that most people are still asleep at
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  Speaker 2: four and five in the morning, but hardly anybody is
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  Speaker 2: at seven o'clock at night, that you would extend the
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  Speaker 2: hours of daytime greater in the evening, thus daylight savings time,
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  Speaker 2: which has been around, as they say, forever. But the
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  Speaker 2: converse is true in the winter. I'll give you the
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  Speaker 2: number of hours here on the shortest day of the year,
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  Speaker 2: December twenty first or twenty second, depending on the year.
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  Speaker 2: Here in Milwaukee, we get nine hours of sunshine. Not so.
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  Speaker 2: The sunset is around four fourteen or four thirteen in
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon on the shortest day of the year, and
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  Speaker 2: the sun rise is a little bit after seven o'clock
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, giving us to nine hours. If we
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  Speaker 2: go to year round, daylight savings time, which is what
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  Speaker 2: the House voted to do. It would mean in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of winter that the sun would not be rising
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  Speaker 2: until well after eight o'clock in the morning. On the
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  Speaker 2: longest days of the year, and even when you're in
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  Speaker 2: November and January, the sun wouldn't be rising until well
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  Speaker 2: after seven am. The people who advocate, however, daylight savings
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  Speaker 2: time year round can't stand the fact that it's dark
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  Speaker 2: by four o'clock in the afternoon. Here in Wisconsin, it
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  Speaker 2: has had an interesting impact. Back when I was in
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  Speaker 2: radio on wys And Radio, most AM radio stations have
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  Speaker 2: to change their signal pattern and power at local sunrise
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  Speaker 2: and sunset because AM radio signals travel way farther at night.
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  Speaker 2: It has to do with the band frequency and bouncing
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  Speaker 2: off up and down, it can go forever, which is
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  Speaker 2: why at night you'll often hear a radio station from
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  Speaker 2: Boston or Pittsburgh and so on. So in order to
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  Speaker 2: stop all the stations on the same frequency level, say
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  Speaker 2: all the other stations at eleven thirty, we all have
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  Speaker 2: to turn our power way down. Otherwise we'd be bumping
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  Speaker 2: into each other and the band would entirely be static.
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  Speaker 2: So when I was doing a radio show from three
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  Speaker 2: to six o'clock in the afternoon every year of the winner,
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  Speaker 2: people would be wondering why our signal would fade out
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  Speaker 2: at four fifteen or four thirty in the afternoon or
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  Speaker 2: whatever the time would be. So from my perspective, having
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  Speaker 2: daylight savings time all along would have meant that we
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  Speaker 2: never would have had to reduced power in the winter
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  Speaker 2: during the time that my show was on the air.
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  Speaker 2: We still have to do it when the sun sets
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  Speaker 2: because it's a rule. Because of the way AM radio works,
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  Speaker 2: FM radio is separate. The signals, don't they travel the
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  Speaker 2: same distance in daytime or night anyway. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: reason that we've had this all along. There is a
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  Speaker 2: fundamental problem though here, in the way that this affects people,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm convinced most people don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I know that every time I tell people this,
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  Speaker 2: they look at me like I'm the one that's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There is nowhere near as much difference between sunrise and
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  Speaker 2: sunset times in the winter and summer, the farther south
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  Speaker 2: you go than north. Since I live in the Miami
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  Speaker 2: area part of the year, I use Miami as an example,
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  Speaker 2: and I ran the numbers, do you realize that the
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  Speaker 2: difference is four and a half hours on the extreme
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  Speaker 2: and by converse at the same time of the year
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  Speaker 2: about ninety minutes. The number of hours of sunshine that
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  Speaker 2: you get December twenty first in Milwaukee is nine. In
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  Speaker 2: Miami it's ten and a half. That's an hour and
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  Speaker 2: a half difference. So the so called shortest day of
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  Speaker 2: the year shortest amount of daylight in Miami, it's ten
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  Speaker 2: and a half hours of sunshine and thirteen and a
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  Speaker 2: half hours of darkness. By contrast, the middle of summer
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  Speaker 2: or June twenty first, the longest day of the year,
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  Speaker 2: they'll get thirteen and a half hours of sunshine and
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  Speaker 2: ten and a half of darkness. We're nine and fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: So there isn't that much of a difference. So people
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  Speaker 2: that are farther south don't particularly see what the point
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  Speaker 2: is in changing what the clock is because the sunrise
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  Speaker 2: time and the sunset time don't vary all that much
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  Speaker 2: from the middle of summer to the middle of the winter.
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  Speaker 2: The reason for this is that I say, I just
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  Speaker 2: think people don't know this because they don't know anything
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  Speaker 2: about geography. Because they stop teaching you this. The reason
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  Speaker 2: that we have longer days in the winter, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: longer nights in the winter and longer days in the
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  Speaker 2: summer has to deal with the fact that the Earth
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  Speaker 2: is tilted on its axis, so as the Earth revolves
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  Speaker 2: around the sun in the middle of winter, the southern
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  Speaker 2: hemisphere is kind of pointed more toward the sun and
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  Speaker 2: the northern is angled away. This is the reason why
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  Speaker 2: on June twenty first at the North Pole the sun
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  Speaker 2: never sets, and December twenty first, on the North Pole
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  Speaker 2: the sun never comes up. The farther north you go,
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  Speaker 2: the more extreme there is. This is you heard the
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  Speaker 2: old saying land of the midnight sun. Northern Norway, northern Canada,
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  Speaker 2: northern Russia. In the middle of summer they can get
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  Speaker 2: twenty one twenty two and a half hours of sunshine,
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  Speaker 2: and likewise in the winter it's like dark all the time.
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  Speaker 2: The closer you get to the equator, and none of
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  Speaker 2: the United States is close to the equator, but our
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  Speaker 2: southern part is moving in that direction, and that's where
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  Speaker 2: the gap it's great. So people in the south don't
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  Speaker 2: like the changing of the clocks. They don't see this
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  Speaker 2: point about the daylight sometimes because it isn't really that
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  Speaker 2: much different, whereas here in the North it's radical.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: If they've surveyed people, what would you rather do year
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  Speaker 2: round daylight savings time, year round standard time, meaning there'd
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  Speaker 2: never be daylight savings time, or don't change anything at all,
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  Speaker 2: and the responses come back overwhelming the year around day
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving time, the second no change at all, and
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  Speaker 2: the least is year round standard time. Another anomaly on this,
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  Speaker 2: where you are in your time zone makes a difference. Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: for example, is on the eastern end of the Central
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  Speaker 2: time zone. If you go straight across Lake Michigan, which
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  Speaker 2: will bring you in a Muskegon, Michigan, they're in the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern time zone. So in the middle of the summer,
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  Speaker 2: when our sun will set, say right around now, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's fun ten after eight, quarter after eight, the
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  Speaker 2: sun setting in Muskegan, Michigan around quarter ten after nine,
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  Speaker 2: quarter after nine, because they're on the western edge of
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  Speaker 2: the Eastern time zone. So when our sun is rising
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  Speaker 2: in the summer a little after five am, it's a
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  Speaker 2: little over six am in Muskegon. So where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the time zone, because we're on the eastern edge
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  Speaker 2: of our time zone. That means the sun rises earlier
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  Speaker 2: than most parts of the Central time zone and the
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  Speaker 2: sun will set also earlier. So for us to lose
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  Speaker 2: daylight saving time would mean that we would have really,
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  Speaker 2: really really early sun sets year round and lose much
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  Speaker 2: of our evenings in the summer. So this bill passed
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  Speaker 2: the House. Trump wants to pass the bill because Trump's
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  Speaker 2: and hearing everybody bitching about having to change their clocks.
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  Speaker 2: The problem has occurred down in the Senate where there's
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  Speaker 2: a rebellion. Two groups don't want this change, parents and farmers.
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  Speaker 2: The parents don't like you know, so many I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why school days start so early oldier kids. Oh
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  Speaker 2: they're todthers, they're they're not in school yet. Then huh,
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  Speaker 2: they're not in school yet. I mean when I went
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  Speaker 2: to grade school ever, go to a Catholic grade school.
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  Speaker 2: Every year the school day started at eight am. It
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  Speaker 2: was eight am sharp. When I went to high school,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was seven fifty eight. It was the
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  Speaker 2: first period. I mean, now you've got schools opening at
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  Speaker 2: six forty five. Why do they open so early? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've heard the argument that because so many kids are
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  Speaker 2: now involved in after school activities. They're all on sports
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  Speaker 2: teams and this, that and the other thing in order
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  Speaker 2: to get practice. And you've got to start. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to do a two hour basketball practice, you better
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  Speaker 2: start at by three o'clock. If you're starting at three
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  Speaker 2: forty five, then it's five forty five by the time
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  Speaker 2: the kids get out of there. That it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: accommodating the after school craft that's going on and so on.
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  Speaker 2: But for the kids now who take me and again,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, the only kids who took
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  Speaker 2: buses where the farm kids will lived way out of time.
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  Speaker 2: You lived a mile and a half. I was a
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  Speaker 2: mile and a half from the high school. You had
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  Speaker 2: to walk. If you had a car or somebody to
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  Speaker 2: drive you, you could do that. You'd walk or take
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  Speaker 2: a bike. But now when the buses come around in
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  Speaker 2: their long schedules, so there are parents who don't like
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  Speaker 2: the ocean that for three hours in the morning, the
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  Speaker 2: kids are going to be in the dark. And for
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  Speaker 2: those that still walk to school, they don't like the
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  Speaker 2: kids walking to school in the dark. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: the farmers whose days start earlier than anyone else, and
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  Speaker 2: they don't like the idea of the first three hours
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  Speaker 2: of their daybag and total darkness. So those two groups
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  Speaker 2: are getting the ears of Republican senators in the North
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  Speaker 2: and they don't want this past. So it's probably going
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  Speaker 2: to die. As I say, when I'm in the winter,
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  Speaker 2: it did strike me, you know, I go to Florida
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  Speaker 2: in the winter and I'm just so used to four
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  Speaker 2: point thirty in the evening it's dark and there I
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  Speaker 2: am down there and five it's like five twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: five thirty and it's still bright out. And it isn't
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  Speaker 2: just because the weather is warmer, it's there isn't the
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  Speaker 2: same degree of difference between summer and winter in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the hours of daylight that you have. So if
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  Speaker 2: I was on this survey, I would say I would
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  Speaker 2: prefer year round daylight saving time because for me, I
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  Speaker 2: don't see any need to have light in the morning whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: The morning is a jolt to me anyhow, And when
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting up now at five in the morning, I
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  Speaker 2: would just as soon it be dark as I'm plotting
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  Speaker 2: around rather than being light. And because I face east,
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  Speaker 2: the thing is blasting right through the shades into my eyes,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. But and I like the people here in Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: we like to be able to cook out and go
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  Speaker 2: to parks and do other things in the evening and
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  Speaker 2: still be able to take advantage of the daylight and
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  Speaker 2: losing a full hour of that by losing the daylight
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  Speaker 2: saving time of the summer. So I guess my preference
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  Speaker 2: would be to have you daylight saving time year round.
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  Speaker 2: The worst would be to have standard time be year round,
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  Speaker 2: in which it would be just darker earlier than we're
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  Speaker 2: used to in the spring, summer, and fall months and
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  Speaker 2: lose that entire hour. My second preference had me to
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  Speaker 2: leave it alone. And I think that that's the best compromise,
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  Speaker 2: leave it alone, because again, for the life of me,
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  Speaker 2: I don't get what the problem is. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: a problem changing your clock? Yeah? Would? I just don't get.
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  Speaker 2: And I just like I said, when I was a
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  Speaker 2: kid and everything was manual, and because we didn't have phone,
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  Speaker 2: we had a lot more clocks then. Because people carry
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: their phone around now they just look at the phone
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  Speaker 2: to see what time it is. There used to be
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  Speaker 2: a clock in every room that you would go into,
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  Speaker 2: and they're all manual. I remember the people had grandfather
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  Speaker 2: clocks we'd have to open the thing up and move
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  Speaker 2: the hand manually and take that around. And it was
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  Speaker 2: a way bigger problem then. But I I never heard
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  Speaker 2: anybody complaining about it. Just was this thing that you did.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard anybody complaining about It's only been like
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the last five to ten years, or people talk about
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the hassle of doing this. And then I'll also hear
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: people say, well, the dogs, the dogs still get up
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: at the same time. I that is just total crap.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You train the dog to get up, and dogs don't
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: automatically get They weren't born knowing to get up, say
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: at six in the morning or whatever. That wasn't something
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: inherent within them. Sometimes they get up because of the sun,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: but they basically get accustomed to a routine that's out there.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: And I mean plus so wide. I mean, the world
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: is just revolving around having to accommodate people with dogs,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: like the people that are taking them on the planes
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: and all of that stuff. All right, now, we're going
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to turn our attention to another story. Somebody sent me
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: this story and he made a pression comment. He said,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: you will never see or hear about this story unless
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you read this. His comment has to do with bias
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: in the media, and he's right. I knew about the story,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: but I didn't know what was going on within the story.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Many of you know that El Salvador has a very
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: right wing government. In fact, I know many of you
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: know this because what I said a few days ago
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: that United States might be the most capitalistic country in
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the Western hemisphere, with Argentina second. Talking with the World
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Cup and everywhere at El Salvador. I stand by my
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: point because L Salvador isn't extremely capitalist, but it is
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: very right way. It's I think undeniably the most right
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: wing government in our entire hemisphere in particular, and it's
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: crackdown on civil liberties, crime, monitoring people's lives, and they
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: are notorious for the harshness of their prisons. You may
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: have picked up on this with some of the deportations
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: that ICE has been focusing on, and one of the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: cases in which the left embraced the criminal who didn't
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: want to go back to his own country free, and
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the reason that they did he was El Salvador. Reason
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: he didn't want to is because the L Salvador prisons
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: are very brutal, or so we're told so that's the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: fact of the story. There's a reporter for the Daily
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Caller named Derek van Buskirk. He did something here. They're
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: just telling you no journalist is gonna do. He actually
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: went to L Salvador, not with a preconceived notion, but
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: with unbiased and open eyes and decided to check out
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and see how it was. Now, the average American reporter
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: who's a lefty is gonna go down there. Oh it's
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: right wing, and I'm gonna go down there and just
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: describe how horrible it is. Now. First of all, that
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: government was elected down there, and if it was then popular,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: it would probably have been thrown out by now. So
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: that's the first tip off that maybe the people kind
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: of like this. I'm gonna share with you extended excerpts
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: from his piece, and I've posted this one for you
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: on Belling dot com. We don't use that website for
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: a lot right now, but I use it for things
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: like this. So for those of you who would like
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: to read and copy this story, it's up on my
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: website Belling dot com. Ben Buscark writes, my first DAYNL
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Salvador coincided with the day of the Faithful Departed, when
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: families gathered to remember loved ones loss, a rural a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: ritual familiar to everyone but the wide eyed toddlers after
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: generations of violence. After dropping my bags at the hotel,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I headed to a nearby cemetery to experience the tradition.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Myself family sat beside graves, sharing meals with the dead,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: or repainting tombs in bright colors, until I came upon
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: a wall of armed security behind it, silently paying his respects,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: said President Naive Bukele. Bukell remains controversial abroad over alleged
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: human rights abuses, the suspension of due process, and the
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  Speaker 2: imprisonment of roughly one percent of the population, but nearly
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: every Salvador and I met adored him. The admiration was everywhere.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Vendors sold Bukali babbleheads and figurines, while one popular papoosa
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: shop displayed murals of the president alongside Prince of his
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: tweets quote, I put him in my prayers, asking God
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  Speaker 2: to watch over him and keep him safe wherever he goes,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: because he's a gorgeous man. I have a photo of
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: him in my house, an elderly fish vendor told me,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: pointing to a photo of Bukelly and joking that he
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: was her husband. Everything changed, the bitterness we had, the suffering,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: everything she said, look at him. Ghiomara, another local, praised
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Boukelly's cracked on on crime quote. He's going step by
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: step and the first step with security god willing. We
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: think for our generations, it's going to be the best thing.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: For the new generations. It will be better than for
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: us who lives through the war and crime. Boucel's support
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: is more than anecdotal. Poles put his approval rating at
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: eighty seven percent. Meanwhile, constitutional changes if cleared the way
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: for him to seek reelection indefinitely. The guy's so popular
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: that they're going to change the constitution to allow him
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  Speaker 2: to keep running for reelection essentially as long as he's alive, continued.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Many people credit that popularity to his willingness to dismantle
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the country's gangster oligarchy by any means necessary, but they
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: also identify something less visible than the mass arrests that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: dominate international headlines. While global media focus on Seacott, the
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: mega prison used the house gang members, admittedly compelling television,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the impact on everyday salvadorns is less dramatic, but more tangible.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: They see prisoners in yellow uniforms rebuilding schools, clearing public squares,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: and improving their communities. That is, because punishment in El
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Salvador is not always confined to a prison cell. Non
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: violent offenders can reduce their sentences by working with every
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  Speaker 2: two days of labor, shaving off a day of their time.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Many of these inmates are sent to Santa Anna Pinal
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Industrial Farm, a low security, open air prison built around
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: one model sero Occhio zero idleness. The prison is almost
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: entirely self sustaining, under the supervision of fellow inmates and
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: only a handful of guards. Prisoners farm crops, raise livestock
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: and pulled rate, catch fish, and prepare their own meals.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: During my afternoon tour i ate a three course meal
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: prepared entirely by inmates, admired impressive oil paintings of Saint Michael,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the Archangels slaying Satan, lost a chess mass to a
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: member of the prison's award winning team, and even milked
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: one of the prison's cows. Some inmates simply helped maintain
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the prison itself, but many worked on projects that served
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the rest of the country, including one massive textile factory,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the inmates produced clothing for prisoners, police officers, and school children.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: As one shift ended, another immediately took its place, keeping
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the factory running around the clock. Elsewhere, inmates operating heavy
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: duty woodworking and metalworking equipment that would make any other
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: warden nervous. They built school desk, playground equipment, and other
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: materials that would be distributed across the country. Lem Interjack,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: can you imagine trying this in the United States, essentially
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: establishing work farms, you know, hard labor. I lefties would
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: just go nuts over it. They'd just be claiming it
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: would be slavery. Here at El salvat Or they took
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: the non violent offenders and said we'll let you get
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  Speaker 2: out early, but you're gonna work your rear ends off.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: And again this reporter down there is claiming it's clearly working. Continuing,
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  Speaker 2: I spoke with prisoners throughout the day, often at random.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Nearly all said they were grateful for the chance to
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: serve their communities while learning skills they could use after
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: their release. Eventually, I began to wonder whether they had
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: been coached. Later, when I found myself alone with one
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: inmate and the whine of buzzsaws and blowtorches drowned our conversation.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I asked him directly whether everyone was simply repeating what
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: they had been told to say. He laughed. Prison was
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: still at prison, he admitted. But the gratitude I had
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: seen I had been hearing, he insisted, was genuine. Many
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: inmates remained inside the compound, while others worked on projects
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: across the country. Some were helping build a Christmas village
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: in San salvad Or Historic District. Many more were renovating schools.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Bucelly's administration has set a goal of rebuilding two schools
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: a day. I visited one school still under construction and
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: another that had just been completed. The transformation was obvious.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Children studied and played on equipment bearing the prison's loco.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: One little girl, mistaking me for the president, smiled and
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: told me the news school was now beautiful. But the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: more consequential change was visible in the parents. When gangs
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: controlled these neighborhoods, they said, fathers were often too afraid
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to walk their children to school for fear of encountering
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: MS thirteen or Barrio eighteen. Many mothers kept their children home. Quote.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: In my case, I have older children they've already studied
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: here too, and for me it used to be a
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: problem going out with them. But now, thanks to everything
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: that's being done, we can go out with them without worry.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: One mother told me, we're picking up her child. Another
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: woman had fled El Salvador after high school and only
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: recently returned after hearing the country had changed. She said
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: she felt like quote a little aunt walking on the
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: street and regularly witnessed people being stabbed in their way
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to school. I was always afraid. I still have nightmares
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: of blood because of that, she said. But now it's wonderful.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: It's so wonderful. The changes extended beyond the schools. Street
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: vendors that once clogged downtown San Salvador had been relocated
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: to shopping centers, making the capital easier to navigate. More
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: striking was what I saw after dark, children playing unattended
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: in the central plaza at nine pm in a school night. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: they can stay till the early hours of the morning.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: There's no problem here, one woman told me after I
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: remarked that such a scene would be almost impossible in Washington, DC.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Quote at the morning, at four in the morning, they
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: can walk around here. Her husband said, there is no
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: problem throughout El Salvador today. However, there is still more
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: work to do. The population centers of the capitol are
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: safe and clean, but as you head away from the city,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: tents and shops in the street look less well kept.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: The country and its people still struggle financially. While they
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: no longer worry about getting shot on the way to work,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the median annual salary is a mere thirty six hundred dollars.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: El Salvador is working to improve the financial situation by
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: securing more than one billion dollars in investment to develop
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: key areas in Send Salvador and Serve City. We want
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: to become that country you fall in love with when
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: you visit it, and afterward you think, why not invest
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: in that person or that country, and then why not
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: think about living in that country, The Minister of Tourists,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Marina Veldez, told me. El Salvador is still trying to
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: find its economic footing, but the progress is evident. Tourism
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: has doubled its share of the country's gross domestic product
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: as the government works toward its goal of attracting five
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: million visitors annually by twenty thirty. Vice President Felix Yoloa
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: acknowledged that much work remained. We have the war against
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the gangs nearly one Now, what's on us to construct again?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: That piece appeared Derek from Busberg in the Daily Call,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: and the guy who said it to me is right.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen that story anywhere else. Instead, you're going
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: to have people who don't like the notion have cracked
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: down and I'll grant you what they're doing there would
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: violate many of our constitutional rights in the United States.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: They got rid of due process. They felt all of
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: this was necessary though, because the gangs were running the country. Instead,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: they went in broke the backs of the gangs, sentence
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: them to long prison sentences, put them in the most
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: brutal prison they could construct, and threw them in right
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: and left, and they've created a country that now is
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: incredibly safe. Can you imagine being able to walk this?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: You know? In one of his commercials from Mayor, Who's
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the guy who ran from here? In Los Angeles Spenser Brett,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Spencer Pratt would show pictures of people walking on c
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: streets in LA and dreaming like that. Well, the reality is, hey,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: he would have been able to do something to combat crime.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: But unless we're willing to start rounding up criminals and
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: treating crime seriously rather than coddling juvenile criminals and allowing
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: all sorts of crime to run a monck and have
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the leaning criminal justice society system that we have here,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: you'd never be able to do that. Now. In the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: case of El Salvador, there was public support for this
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: crackdown because people were in fear of their lives constantly,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: because the gangs were in total control of the country.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: That story that about what El Salvador was is pretty
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: much what Mexico in many portions of the country still
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: is now what you see here, and again, I'm not
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: embracing in the United States the extreme level that they've
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: gone to in l Salvador, but I certainly believe you
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: can overwhelmingly make the case that the more criminals that
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: you lock up, the mass incarceration of criminals dramatically improves
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the equality of the life, quality of life of the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: people who aren't criminals. Let's move to the situation in Iran.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: This quote was from President Trump after he left the
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: World Cup final on Sunday, assessing the current situation, and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I'm using this as the backdrop to set up a
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: comment for Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State Trump, Iran
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: has been very, very badly damaged. They lost everything, almost militarily.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: They've got little left. They've got some missiles, they've got
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: some drones, they've got some manufacturing ability, not much. Trump
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: added regarding the round of retaliatory strikes against retiliatory strikes
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: against targets in Iran, we hit him very hard again tonight,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: and we did that in honor of in honor of
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: the probably three it's probably three, as opposed to two
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: great patriots, referring to the soldiers who were killed. This
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: now for Marco Rubio, he posted this on x in
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: his suggestion that we have to completely disregard this memorandum
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: of understanding that wasn't honored. You can't have a memorandum
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: of understanding that's alive if they're violating the terms. The
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: US always remains open to a diplomatic solution. We've tried
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: multiple times with the Ran and we'll continue to try.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: But their behavior is what will be responding to, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: their behavior is they're launching missiles and drowns against ships.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: That behavior has to change in order for hours to
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: change further Iran is a rich country. One of the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: reasons why Iran is in shambles is because every penny
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: that this regime ever gets, be it through sanctions, relief
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: or through the oil they're able to get out. They
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: invested in Hesbealah, they invested in Hamas. They should be
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: spending billions of dollars building their country, but instead they're
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: using it to sponsored terrorism. So Trump is clearly now
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: and the ruby of view of things and not the
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: vanced view of things. There are a lot of people
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: who think that this is about four or five days
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: left of this bombing. The biggest single problem that we
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: face militarily is there are now considerable reports that that
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Pickaxe Mountain that they've buried the nuclear nuclear weapons deep
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: inside the mountain. And leveling a mountain is pretty do
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I goone hard to do. So that becomes the one
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: thing that's short of a ground invasion that you may
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: not be able to do anything about. But in terms
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: of crippling the country and wrecking it economically and taking
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: out whatever military targets there are left, we're hitting them
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: so hard that we may be able to be close
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: to doing that. The problem, though, is whoever it is
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: that's negotiating for Iran isn't on the same page as
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the hardline leaders of the country, who I think don't
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: want to be reasoned with. The key is that second
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: point that Rubio made. The standard of living in Iran
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: is worse and worse and worse, despite the fact that
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Iran is a resource rich country. And that's because Iran
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: has been spending almost all of its money, as Rubio said,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: sending it to the two terror organizations in the Middle East,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Hamas and Hesbala. I've been wondering forever when the Iranian
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: people would simply decide that it is worth dying to
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: try to overrun and overthrow this government, given the fact
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: that they are not giving any of their wealth to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: their own people. The quality of life for Iranians is
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: terrible because all this money is being sent to terror
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: organizations to kill Jews, to foment unrest in Israel, Lebanon, Syria,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: given that that's been their priority, not worrying about Iranians,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: but conducting this jihad, this holy war. It's hard, therefore,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: to negotiate with people who don't have a rational mindset
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: in terms of doing what's right for their own country.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Do the Iranian leaders care for blowing up the bridges
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: and the streets and the stores that the citizens of
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Iran have to use, or do they not give a
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: crap because in their mind, the only thing that matters
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: is fighting this great jihad, and they're willing to sustain
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: incredible pain. They think that that's what their God wants.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: If that is their view, the only way to cope
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: with them is to cripple and beat them up so
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: badly that their ability to pose a threat is limited.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: At some point, one would think the people in Iran
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: will be willing to sacrifice their own lives by simply
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: charging and rushing and revolting. The Kurds are starting to
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: act up. There's been some movement in the streets in
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: some parts of the country, but unless there's an actual
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: mass civilian takeover. This is what happened in Romania. It's
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: how many other oppressive governments in the past fell, where
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: the mass population simply rose up and the police became
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: afraid of the population and then sided with them, and
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: you were able to overthrow the government. The notion, though,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: of working out an agreement that Iran is going to honor,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: seems to be i think permanently dead. You're listening to
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: We now turn our attention to Penn State University. Really
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: interesting numbers here. This is reported on Exit a post
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: by Fuller Brandon who points out that Penn State has
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: forty two thousand undergraduate students, and indeed Penn State is
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the big public university in Pennsylvania, like UW Madison is
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: the big public university in Wisconsin, and Minnesota is the
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: big public university in the state of Minnesota. Penn State
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: forty two thousand undergrads, even more grad students forty two
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: thousand a lot, so that would mean roughly, I don't
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: know the number. My guess is that they have about
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: six seven thousand graduates every year. Of that forty two thousand,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: some don't finish, they drop out, and some take more
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: than four years. But if you carved it up and
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: say therefore each class, wou'd have about ten thousand. There's
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: always going to be more freshmen than sophomores, and more
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: sophomores and juniors, and more juniors and seniors because of
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the kids have flunk out and so on. But let's
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: say the number of graduates is six or seven thousand,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: maybe it's five. It's gonna be somewhere in that rage. Right.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: They have at Penn State academic majors in women's studies
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: and Gender and Sexuality studies. They're both major programs that
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: you can get a major in. Do you know what
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: the total number of graduates in those two programs was
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: in the past year ten ten? No, he doesn't point
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: out what it was in the past, if that number
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: is declining now or not. I think certainly many of
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the people who've gotten degrees like this have come to
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: realize how absolutely worthless they are, that they don't qualify
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: you for any job at all. That instead you've taken
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: on a massive student load and are qualified to do
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: absolutely nothing. Nonetheless, ten forty two thousand student university ten
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: graduated in that But here's the point that he's making.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Do you know what the total faculty in that department?
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Those departments are twenty eight professors plus academic staff. They
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: have more faculty, think students that are graduating. He goes
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: on to report the studies department racket is real. Every
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: department combined area, cultural, gender, Black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: ethic accounts for just zero point three percent of all
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: four year graduates in the United States. How do departments
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: with ten majors justify twenty eight faculty. Now here's the
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: answer to that. These study areas are always rackets. They
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: are a racket to make money. Whenever somebody starts proposing
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: that there's this new field that we have to study
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: and offer degrees in, it's not because there's an actual
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: need to stay after all these years. Why do we
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: need women's studies? Why don't we just have studies? There
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: are no men's studies department. Why do we need Black studies?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Why do we need Latin American studies as opposed to
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: simply study and then the new thing now gender studies,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: sexuality studies. The answer here is people push for this
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: because there's always jobs associated with it. Every major cause
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: of the left, mark very words of this. Every major
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: cause of the left is a cause that results in
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: thousands and thousands and thousands of lefties making money. The
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: big one DEI. It isn't just all the jobs that
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: people got because of DEI. It's because of all the
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: trainers and the right and the lecturers who've gone on
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: and gotten massive grants and are paid big money to
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: give speeches all on DEEI. So you invent a concept
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: and then get the concept funded and then have itself
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: perpetuate by then educating other people on this, and it continues,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: it continues until eventually people realize the whole thing as
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: a farce and they move on to create the next one.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: This is what climate change has always been about. Climate
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: change has made so many millionaires and in some cases billionaires.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Do you know what rich al Gore is? You don't
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: have any of this money before climent, before he started
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: pushing the climate change. Al Gore has gotten paid every
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: step of the way that he's gone on to create
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: all of these groups and organizations and give all of
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: these speeches and write all of these books with regard
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: to climate change, and the number of people the corporate
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: American that has to hire to come up and deal
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: with climate change, climate change, climate change. The climate change
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: thing again now is fizzling, and we go on to
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: the next one. On the big one now I think
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: is to just oppose all things AI, all data centers
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: and so on. It will always be for the purposes
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: of transferring money off to people on the left. Now
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: this story I dealt with Penn State. I don't know
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: what the numbers are at UW Madison, but I'd love
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: to know. I'm thinking maybe at UW Madison the graduate
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: numbers are still pretty high because you do have all
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: those lefty students. They're stupid enough to go into these
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: disciplines and majors. And maybe it's more than ten. But
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: you wonder what the faculty to student ratio and some
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: of these departments are, and compare that to some of
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: the academic majors that actually produce graduates and fields in
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: which there are jobs available in which we do need
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: to train the skills. Can you imagine if Penn State,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: upon encountering these numbers decided to fire most of its
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: studies to think go people and the leadership to the
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: universities were just not deal with the headache, would not
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: deal with the hassle, so they continue to have these majors.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: The university that I went to, the University of Wisconsin Lacrosse,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I was a major in mass communications. After I left,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: they got rid of the department. They felt that and
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: they're right about this. There were too many universities in
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: the state that had journalism or mass communications programs and
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: they are good. Why does every single university have to
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: have this? We're just not going to have this will
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: stress the other thing, Well, I kind of resented the
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: fact that got rid of my department, and that program
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: was very good because it was a hands on program.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: It wasn't so much classroom work as it was get
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: out there and do stuff. You can go to UWM
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: and be a graduate in journalism and never do any journalism.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: They have a campus radio station over there that students
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: don't even work on. They just carry public radio program
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: and you don't hear any students that are on the thing.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: My school had that. But the larger point was that
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: the university, to put it together its budget, felt that
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: a major had to have enough students to justify it
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: being around, and they felt that that one, Well, who
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: is going to bitch about it? Who cares if a
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: bunch of mass comm students lost their major. You try
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: to get rid of gender studies or ethnic this or
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: DEI that and wipe out those people's jobs. Even if
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: the university thought that it was a waste of money
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: to do it, they're never going to take on that battle.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Next story, the merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers is
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: in trouble. You may have heard that a California federal
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: judge appointed by Biden has blocked it. In addition to that,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: a number of Democrats state attorneys general have filed legal
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: actions trying to block the merger of these two companies. Now,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: you may wonder why out of all and you know,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: companies are merging in the United States all the time.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Deals are happening right and left. One company's taken over another.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: It's a constant thing, and usually nobody ever does anything
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: about it. Why is this one tripping the trigger of
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: the left? I'm here to explain that I don't just
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: ask prahetorical questions. I provide actual answers. Now, on its face,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: there's no reason for this merger not to go through.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: These are two failing companies. Like almost every other industry
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: in the world, what's happening with technology is weakening some
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: entrenched industries, and the big Hollywood studios are among those
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: that are endangered. The power has shifted over to the
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: streaming services who pay for the content like Netflix. Netflix
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: commissions the movie and Netflix has the studios that their
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: mercy as to how much they're going to pay them
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: to buy the film, and some of these streaming services
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: are finding it very easy to simply do the production
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: in themselves rather than go to the middlemand Why doesn't
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Netflix just to have a created create its own programming
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: division as opposed to buying stuff from Warner to side
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: buying stuff from Paramount and so on. The stock price
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: of Paramount's been doing nothing but go down the last
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: several years, and Warner has been struggling. Also. Warner broke
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: itself up into two companies, the music company and then
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: the video company that they called I think Warner Discovery.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: So Paramount's buying Warner. This is an industry that is
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: contracting itself. In addition to that, it's still an industry
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: that has a fair amount of competition. There's numerous movie
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: studios left, Sony's got its group, Disney's a major player
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: in this. It's not like you're worried about a monopoly
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: being created here, because these are two companies in a
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: diminishing industry struggling to keep hold of their share of
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: a pie that's falling short. So why oppose it. I'll
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: tell you what Paramount bought CBS, and Paramount is trying
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: to rid CBS of the leftist bias that had been
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: in that network. So therefore the conclusion is is that
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Paramount may be a conservative company. And indeed the chairman
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: of Paramount, David Ellison, is the son of Larry Ellison,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: the big shot of Oracle. Both are close to President Trump.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: David Ellison and running Paramount believes that one of the
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: things that's hurt the show business industry has been how
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: far they've kilted to the left and how they've alienated
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: so many mainshairman of Americans. He's trying to fix that.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: The left can't stand that. There is zero other explanation
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: for why they're trying to block this merger. The judges
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: should a fourteen day restraining order. And before I even
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: read that, I looked. But before I even read the story,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: I knew that this was a Democrat appointed federal judge.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I knew it was going to be. And it turns
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: out that it is a federal By the way, if
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: you didn't know what by after doing the research, the
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: name of the judge or you could tell it. Yeah,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: you can tell it. For the name. I'm going to
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: read this judge's name and you will know that this
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: judge was appointed by a Democrat just on the basis
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: of her name. Are Chelli Martinez Olguin. You know Biden
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: appointed federal judge. Let's move our attention out of Milwaukee.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: We had a case late last year that prompted outrage
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: in the community. I'm here to provide a follow up.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: As covered by Fox six, this is an incident which
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: a woman driving a car was questioned by security guards
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: security guards outside of bar on the north side of Milwaukee.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: She got in the car, instarted to drive away and
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: struck the security guard and then fled the seed. Her
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: name is Juliette Perez. She's eighteen. She was apprehended. She
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: refused to take the test for whether or not she
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: was drunk and was Wisconsin, the legal drinking age is
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: twenty one. In Wisconsin, the legal standard for drunk driving
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: is you can't have any alcohol if you're under twenty one.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: The incident occurred December twenty seventh, two days after Christmas,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: at a place called the Prime Social Lounge, which is
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: seventy six in Good Hope, very busy intersection. Milwaukee police
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: officers were conducting tavern patrol. The police officers will in fact,
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: be at places like this one. Fifty is around bar time,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: at bar time, because often there's a lot of trouble
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: when the bars dispurs According to the complaint, officers saw
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: a security guard speaking with a driver of a blue
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: sedan when a commotion broke out. Two security guards were
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: then seen on the ground in the parking lot as
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: the vehicle drove away. Police stopped the car a short
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: distance away and found three people inside, none of whom
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: were in the driver's seat at the time of the stop.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: So everybody who was dry edit in the car, nobody's
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: in the driver's seat, including the woman who turned out
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: to be the driver. Several open alcohol containers were seen
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: inside the vehicle, according to court fileing So let me interject,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: there's not any indication here as to whether or not
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: this woman was inside the bar. People wonder why there
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: are so many underage people hanging around at bars in Milwaukee.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Often they're not going in because they're carded and they're
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: not allowed in. They hang around in the parking lots,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: smoking their pot and drinking in the parking lots just
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: to hang around outside, and there's very little the bars
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: can do anything about it, And that's where the security
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: was trying to deal with these women that were in
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: this car. Perez was later identified as one of the passengers.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: The complain said she was unbuckled, sitting on a child's
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: car seat, had slurred speech, and was unable to maintain
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: balance without assistance. She initially refused to identify herself and
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: then later tried to leave the scene of the traffic
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: stop before she was detained. The case has been resolved.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: She ended up with a plea bargain that might, on
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: its face seem reasonable because she pleaded gilly to a felony.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Often in plea bargains, they dismissed the felony charges and
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: you plead guilty to a misdemeanor. But in this case,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: she did take a felony conviction. Unfortunately, in Milwaukee County,
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: the vast majority of our judges, not all, but the
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: vast majority stink, and the District Attorney's office is often
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: rather lenient. In this instance, the criminal is eighteen years old,
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: and you know, we're lend as it is on people
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: that are under so when you get somebody who is eighteen,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: that leniency often transfers. Somebody who's eighteen is often treated
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: less harshly than somebody who's thirty, even though eighteen is
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: the age of adulthood. The charges that she was charge,
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: she was convicted of his injury by intoxicated use of
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: a vehicle. That's a felony, and then also a misdemeanor
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: of hit and run. And then the next charge is
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: dismissed but read in. That means you don't take a
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: conviction on it, but the judge reads it in and
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: is allowed to consider it in sentencing. And that is
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: knowingly operating without a valid license, causing great bodily harm.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: So yes, she didn't ever driver's license either. Now, before
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I get into the disposition of the case, this is
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: the kind of thing that people keep railing about, and
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: railing about, and railing about and railing about everybody from
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: mayor Chevy to the police chief on Daut all these
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: people driving without licenses, all these people driving drunk, all
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: these people driving recklessly, all of it. So what do
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: you think they did? And again, this is one of
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: those cases where there's no mitigation at all. She's under age,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: she's clearly intoxicated by her behavior. They find open containers
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: in it. Despite that, almost all of what she was
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: facing is relatively minor self. Instead of simply getting out
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: of the car, she decides to by running over the
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: security guard in front of Fortunately he lived, but he
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: was injured. The guilty plea then is on injury by
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: intoxicated use of a vehicle and everyone knows that it
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: was a hit and run case and there was drinking involved.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I'll read the sentence. And by the way, the judge
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: in the case is Jorge Fragoso, one of the many
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: crappy judges in Milwaukee County. Now when you hear these sentences,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: they always sound good until I get to the end.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to read it. Ask to count one the
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: court sentence. It defended to a maximum term of imprisonment
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: of four and a half years. That was uncount one
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: and account three. The initial term of a confinement of
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: the Wisconsin State prison system is one and a half years.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: The maximum term of extended supervision is three years. So
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: now again, listen to the whole thing. The judges sentencing
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: her to a year and a half in prison followed
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: by three years of super vision, but then stayed the sentence.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Stayed means you don't have to serve it and instead
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: placed throughund probation. One of the terms of probation is
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: she served six months at the community reintegration center. That's
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: not the jail. It's like a halfway house type facility
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: with Huber privileges, meaning she only has to sleep there.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: So she's got to sleep inside the community reintegration cent
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: effort for all I know, maybe as nice as wherever
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: she is sleeping. Anyway. Other than that, a total walk. Again,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I keep pointing out, and I'm not suggesting that we
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: have to go all the way as the l. Salvador situation,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: but you left east from Mayor Chevy on down. Stop
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: telling us how outraged you are over this when you
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: do nothing to the people that are involved. Nothing. You
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: steal a car in Milwaukee, drive recklessly, nothing ever happens
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: in this case, drunk eighteen, causing trouble outside a bar,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: running over a security guard, fleeing the scene. Six months
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: at the reintegration center, nights only. And by the way,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: at the reintegration center, they have good time meeting. She
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: can serve even less than that. I'm always point on, well,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: she's on probation. That means that if she screws up,
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: they'll put her in prison for this term, except they
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: never do. Do you know how often probation is revoked
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. I'm not gonna say never, almost never.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: You can violate these terms again and again and again
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: and again and again and again and again, and they
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: just do not take the step then going to incarceration.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: I want to update you on another story. I just
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: was ripping on Mayor Chevy, so this is one in
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: which I praised him. Mayor Chevy Johnson Kevlar Johnson has
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: come out in seeming opposition to this proposal to tear
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: down I seven ninety four, the only downtown freeway in Milwaukee,
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: and replace it with surface streets. Now, I pointed on
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: all the downside reasons for it, the biggest being you're
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: taking all this track effect that's on the freeway right
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: now and clogging up all of downtown. The travel times
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: will probably quintuple given the fact that all of these
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: people are going to be unclogged city streets. Johnson is
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: pointing out that if you tear down seven ninety four
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: and replace it with a surface street, it's no longer
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: seven ninety four. Why is that key seven ninety four
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: is an interstate highway. Who runs the interstate highway system
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: the Feds. When an interstate highway and interstates, they're all
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: the ones that start with the eye seven ninety four,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: ninety four forty three. Those are federal highways. You get
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: massive federal money to do this. They're usually joint projects.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: For example, when we rebuilt the Market Interchange the Zoo Interchange,
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: state money involved, but also significant federal money comes in
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: because these are interstate highways. But if you switch to
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: cities surface streets, those are just streets. They're no longer
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: interstate designation, meaning there's no money from the fans for this.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: So Johnsons saying, at an issue to everything else, we're
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: talking about having to use property tax money for probably
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: several hundred million dollars of construction to put in the
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: surface level streets that will replaced the freeway that's already
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: sitting up there. You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I have an announcement
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: to make people always get worried when they hear somebody
• 58:36
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• 58:39
  Speaker 2: I announced that was going on the radio show. A
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago that was a big deal. Usually
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: I want to say I have an announcement, it's never
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: a big deal, and this isn't a big deal, and
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: then nonetheless, it's an announcement that I have to make.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: The next podcast that we are will be released on Monday.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: There will not be a Thursday podcast this week. I
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: have to go in for a medical procedure that he's
• 59:00
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• 59:04
  Speaker 2: and like people like the fact that I was so
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  Speaker 2: open to want my stroke because people learn from it
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  Speaker 2: and people with warning signs themselves and so on. I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably tell you about it after the fact. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't like to do it before him. But it's not serious.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to croak or anything like that. But
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  Speaker 2: it does mean that I'm not going to be in
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  Speaker 2: for the program and not up to doing another one
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  Speaker 2: until Monday. So this is going to be the last
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  Speaker 2: one until Monday of next week. So if you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to log on and figure where the next podcast is
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  Speaker 2: in a couple of days, this one will be the
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  Speaker 2: last one that you'll see released until Monday. All right,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: next on Monday night, the Brewery has brought Jacob Mesearowski
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  Speaker 2: back to pitch for the first time, and I think
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  Speaker 2: like twelve or thirteen days. They delayed him because they
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  Speaker 2: said he was showing signs of arm fatigue. He came
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  Speaker 2: back and pitched very well, but was on a limited
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  Speaker 2: pitch count. He only pitched four innings and in fact
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  Speaker 2: had high number of pitches for just four innings. It
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  Speaker 2: was in the sixties. After the game, the Brewers manager
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  Speaker 2: Pat Murphy said, this is what it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the year. Obviously they have a
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  Speaker 2: problem with Mzerowski. He's only twenty innings away from matching
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  Speaker 2: the entire number he pitched last year. This has been
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  Speaker 2: studied to death, but they found that when young pitchers
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  Speaker 2: increase their workload by a significant amount over the preceding year,
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  Speaker 2: this is where you always buy trouble. So Murphy said
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers had two options. One they could go back
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  Speaker 2: to Murphy pitching regular games ninety to one hundred pitches,
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  Speaker 2: but space them out. In other words, instead of pitching
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  Speaker 2: every fifth start, make him pitch maybe every ninth start,
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  Speaker 2: which is an option. The other one is to have
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  Speaker 2: him simply pitch on regular rest, meaning every fifth start,
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  Speaker 2: but keep him on a limited pitch count where he's
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  Speaker 2: probably only going to pitch four innings or five innings
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  Speaker 2: for the remainder of the season, and he said, we're
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  Speaker 2: probably going to do that one rather than the other. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's notion of Mizerowski is enjoy it the
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  Speaker 2: way you can, because he's just a candidate to get
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  Speaker 2: hurt because he's doing things that are unnatural. You're not
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  Speaker 2: supposed to throw one hundred four miles an hour and
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  Speaker 2: do it and do it for four, five or six
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  Speaker 2: innings in a row. In addition to that, he's got
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  Speaker 2: a very fast slider. His cut fastball is running around
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  Speaker 2: ninety eight or ninety nine. His four seamer can be
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  Speaker 2: one oh three or one oh four. When you see
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  Speaker 2: somebody doing things that nobody has ever been able to
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  Speaker 2: do before, you just concerned that it's going to take
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  Speaker 2: the toll on his arm. And the Brewers are already
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  Speaker 2: saying that he's showing significant signs a fatigue. I have
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  Speaker 2: a comment on this, and my comment deals with the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the media isn't pressing this point because it
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  Speaker 2: is a valid point. If they now find the knee
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  Speaker 2: to do this in the second half of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Does that not mean that they were wrong in how
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  Speaker 2: they handled him in the first half. I was at
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  Speaker 2: the game where Miszowski pitched one hundred and five innings
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  Speaker 2: two starts. After that, he threw one oh three. Well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the reason that they need to back off on
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  Speaker 2: him here is because Pat Murphy and Chris Hook, the
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  Speaker 2: pitching coach over used him earlier in the year because
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  Speaker 2: they weren't cognizant of the fact that this is an issue.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no better pitching coach in baseball than Hook,
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  Speaker 2: and no better handling of pitchers than the manager Pat Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that the decision to try to get
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  Speaker 2: a full season out of mizz and I just pessimistic
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to work even with the limited pitch code.
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  Speaker 2: It may be an acknowledgment that they probably should have
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  Speaker 2: been limiting him to five innings max through the entire
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  Speaker 2: course of the year. And finally, on this, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an old school guy, and I refer back to
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  Speaker 2: how things were in the old time and this, that
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  Speaker 2: and the other thing as much as anybody else. But
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  Speaker 2: when I hear people say, well, how was it that
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  Speaker 2: they were able to pitch on just three days rest,
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  Speaker 2: and guys would make forty five forty starts at a season.
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  Speaker 2: And you know the one I hear all the time,
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  Speaker 2: Warren Spawn, Warren Spawn, Warren Spond, Warren Spawn, Warren Spond.
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  Speaker 2: How did he do this and how did he do them?
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  Speaker 2: And the answer is the same as everything else in sports.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't throwing that hard. Go back and watch. I
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  Speaker 2: know that it's hard for people to watch clips of
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  Speaker 2: games on YouTube from the fifties and the sixties because
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  Speaker 2: the quality isn't that good, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: those in the seventies. You will be blown away at
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  Speaker 2: how soft these guys are throwing, even fastballs. There's rare exceptions.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: Kofax they didn't have good pitch clocks. Then, we don't know.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Sandy kofakxkrew really hard. Randy Johnson threw really hard. I
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: saw goose Gottage in the minor leagues before Annappleton, before
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  Speaker 2: he got to the big leagues. He threw really hard.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know. I'm my guess is that those guys
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  Speaker 2: are probably throwing upper nineties because when the pitch clocks
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  Speaker 2: first came in that you know, the flamethrowers of our
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: era used to be ninety six, ninety seven. I remember
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Dan pleets Is throwing ninety seven. People just could not
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  Speaker 2: believe that we in Milwaukee a guy throwing ninety seven.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: You know, years later Brandon would have came along and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: he was starting and throwing ninety seven each game. So
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: now you're in the one hundred threes. We're doing things
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: that those guys back in the past weren't able to do.
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  Speaker 2: But we still got the same physical bone structure. We
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: may have improved the strength of cartilage and tendons, but
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: not that much. It's the same thing that's happened in football.
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  Speaker 2: Why so many guys are hurt. Everybody's bigger, stronger, and faster,
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  Speaker 2: so that when you're cracked as simply more weight at
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: greater speed than we're in the past, everybody gets hurt.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: And finally, on that, I've got Jason in here, who's
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  Speaker 2: a big sports fan. Did you see this story the
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  Speaker 2: guy who broke the world record in the mile this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: You don't know this, You're You're like, well, see, now
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  Speaker 2: you're doing a non sports show. This is why I
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: wish I can remember his name. I do the clipping
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  Speaker 2: in front of me, the mile used to be the
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  Speaker 2: middle distance race, but the metric system is not takeout
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  Speaker 2: over in the United States, but it's taken over in
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  Speaker 2: track and field. Almost all events now are run in meters,
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  Speaker 2: and the fifteen hundred meter is now the go to
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  Speaker 2: event rather than the mile. But the mile still is
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  Speaker 2: used in international competition because it's such a classic record,
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  Speaker 2: and the mile was always the standard, even in the
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: metric system time of the middle distance races the Olympics
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  Speaker 2: used fifteen hundred meters, but the mile was a mile.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I believe maybe I'm wrong about this. I
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  Speaker 2: believe the first guy to break the four minute mile
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  Speaker 2: was British Roger Banister. Maybe it's America, but he is British,
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  Speaker 2: so the mile is still a thing. The world record
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  Speaker 2: in the mile has been in three minutes, forty five
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  Speaker 2: seconds and some odd hundreds for twenty seven years. You
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  Speaker 2: can always tell how great a record is by how
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  Speaker 2: long it holds up. Twenty seven years was broken over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend in an event in London, and it was
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: broken by three seconds. I always thought Bob Beaman's long
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  Speaker 2: jump at the Mexico City Olympics in nineteen sixty eight
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  Speaker 2: was the greatest single athletic event feet of all time
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  Speaker 2: because he broke the long jump record. It was he
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: broke it by one foot nine inches. You know that
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: record in the past, it was breaking somebody would jump
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  Speaker 2: one inch longer than anybody before, and he jumped twenty
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  Speaker 2: one inches longer. The caveat on that is Mexico City
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  Speaker 2: has thin air, and it's like you know, baseball in Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: The thin air is gonna help. But even with that,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't explain why he went twenty one inches longer
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  Speaker 2: than any other human being did, and nobody else competing
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  Speaker 2: in that Olympics in Mexico City came even close. I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: always thought that was the greatest because of the incredibly
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  Speaker 2: huge number by which he broke the earlier record. I
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: am suspicious of this record in the mile. The reason
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  Speaker 2: I'm suspicious of it is while he won the race
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  Speaker 2: by about twenty lengths, the guy who finished second also
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  Speaker 2: broke the world record. So the guy who finished second,
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  Speaker 2: so the second fastest mile, was running in the exact
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  Speaker 2: same race. Now in London, you don't have the issue
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  Speaker 2: with regard to thin air and so on, but I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: do wonder about the surface they were running at further,
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  Speaker 2: the guy said he had said for months that this
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  Speaker 2: is the race I'm going to target to try to
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  Speaker 2: set the world record. There must have been some reason
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  Speaker 2: that that particular track was the one that he thought
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: that he would be able to do it on. They
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  Speaker 2: run track on. It's amazing that there isn't a standardized
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: surface to run track and field them. And I was
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: a kid, they ran on cinder. Now they run it on.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Is it tartan that they it's some what's it? Yeah?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what it is. So but obviously we
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: see this in horse racing. You wonder why some races
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  Speaker 2: a horse will run much faster than in other races,
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  Speaker 2: And often it's simply the condition of the track. If
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  Speaker 2: the track is really firmed out or flattened, or if
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  Speaker 2: they seal the track, you're gonna be able to run faster.
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  Speaker 2: Most tracks in America dirt tracks are sand based. And
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  Speaker 2: just think about running on the beach. If you're running
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  Speaker 2: on the beach at a day in which it's been
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  Speaker 2: dry for weeks and you're running on that loose sand,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: every stepty you come in, it's harder to kick out
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: then run on the beach. What just have to say,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: maybe a tide has come in and the sand is
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: all hard and you can run way faster, So the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: surface that you're run on has a lot to do
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  Speaker 2: with it. I'm just skeptical of whether or not that
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  Speaker 2: record is entirely Maybe it was the fastest of all time,
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  Speaker 2: but how do you break a record by three full
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  Speaker 2: seconds that nobody else was able to break in the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty seven years. Some of you're saying that was
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: a topic. Yeah, well it's the last one. That's it again.
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