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Mark Belling Podcast #104: An astonishing video exposes the depth of the Minnesota Somali scandal, two really dumb ideas gain traction in Wisconsin and the astonishing bull market in precious metals · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of cliches that address the point I'm
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  Speaker 2: about to make. The iron every cloud is a silver lining,
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  Speaker 2: No pain, no gain. I'm referring to the Minnesota Somali scandal,
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  Speaker 2: which it's turning out to be way worse than even
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  Speaker 2: we had suspected only a couple of weeks ago. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that this is good that this has happened,
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  Speaker 2: but it's certainly possible that a greater good will come
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  Speaker 2: out of the fact that we have found out about it.
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  Speaker 2: Every now and then you come across a story that
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  Speaker 2: explains almost everything, and this story really has it all.
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  Speaker 2: The abuse of our immigration system, how welfare programs are
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  Speaker 2: so vulnerable to massive fraud, to the ineptitude and blindness
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  Speaker 2: of much of the media, to Democrat politicians that have
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  Speaker 2: simply become married to the welfare state because their political
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  Speaker 2: base includes so many people that are either on the
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  Speaker 2: dole or abusing the doll or making money off the door.
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  Speaker 2: Over the weekend, a massive expose came out and it
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  Speaker 2: didn't come out on sixty minutes. Maybe Barry Weis will
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  Speaker 2: eventually fixed that enough that a story like this will
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  Speaker 2: be on sixty minutes. It wasn't anywhere in the mainstream media.
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  Speaker 2: It tied together a lot of this with remarkable visuals,
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  Speaker 2: audio facts and so on. And it's done by this guy,
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  Speaker 2: Nick Shirley. Many of you have heard of him. He's
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  Speaker 2: about twenty three years old. He's a so called independent journalist.
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  Speaker 2: He posted this on his various sites, on YouTube, x
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  Speaker 2: and so on the day after Christmas. The number of
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  Speaker 2: views is now running nearly one hundred and twenty million.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that there's a news out in an
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  Speaker 2: America that can match that reach. So people are finding
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  Speaker 2: out at this and understanding the depth of it. And
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  Speaker 2: as I point out all the time when I say
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  Speaker 2: of the need for those of us on the right
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  Speaker 2: to say I told you so, that's what's critical. When
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  Speaker 2: something goes on that completely is a disaster and blows
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  Speaker 2: up and so on, it is critical for those of
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  Speaker 2: us on the other side to point out I told
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  Speaker 2: of the depth of just one component of the Somali
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  Speaker 2: fraud posted on x by Wall Street Apes. I want
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  Speaker 2: to read their summary. Two more Minnesota Somalia immigrant run
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  Speaker 2: daycares that are supposed to have one hundred and two
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  Speaker 2: children but don't have a child, five point one six
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  Speaker 2: million dollars in funding and not a single child. And
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  Speaker 2: then Nick Shirley, We're going to hear from him in
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  Speaker 2: a moment, or only hear for a portrait of his
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  Speaker 2: video in a moment. This is Nick Shirley, the independent
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  Speaker 2: investigative journalist. Essentially a kid, very calated and not blinded
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  Speaker 2: by bias and in fact liberated by having a conservative
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  Speaker 2: point of view that allows him to see things that
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the media either refuses to see, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to see, or supprise a summary from him. It's
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  Speaker 2: from the State of Minnesota website. It says, you have
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  Speaker 2: one hundred two children here, and you got two point
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  Speaker 2: sixty six million dollars this year in funding in two
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  Speaker 2: point five million last year. We're just wondering where the
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  Speaker 2: kids are. No children inside of the daycare center. Let
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  Speaker 2: me interject, We've had some of these scandals here in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked forever about of all the types of welfare
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  Speaker 2: program to rip off, the child daycare program is about
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  Speaker 2: the easiest. You say you're running a daycare Quote the
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  Speaker 2: famous line from Francis McDormand and Fargo that I quote
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Well, how do you know, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking care of twenty three kids? Do you seriously
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  Speaker 2: think maybe those of you who believe that government is efficient,
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  Speaker 2: do you seriously think anybody checks they already have? Checking
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  Speaker 2: is to look at the paperwork. I would say a
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  Speaker 2: better way of checking is to go over to the
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  Speaker 2: place and stick your head inside. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: to that in a moment. Nick Shirley later confirmed that
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  Speaker 2: there are fourteen Somali healthcare companies in one building. Fourteen
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  Speaker 2: shady healthcare companies registered to one Minneapolis building, not doing
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  Speaker 2: anything but stealing our tax money. Then Liz Collin interviews
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  Speaker 2: a Minnesota government worker about the Somalia immigrant fraud taking place.
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  Speaker 2: She says, they all reported it to all levels. The
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  Speaker 2: worker is blurred to protect her from retaliation. And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I'll interject on that from what I hear,
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  Speaker 2: there is serious fear that Eddie whistleblowers who come forward
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  Speaker 2: at this point are fearing for their lives, fearing that
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  Speaker 2: Somali's will kill them, the Democrats will kill them. That
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  Speaker 2: might be a little bit firefetch, but I understand in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota that Democrats there are prone to insane violence. The
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  Speaker 2: Waltz appointing going out and killing a Democratic officion. Further quote,
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  Speaker 2: I know we were all this is the source. I
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  Speaker 2: know we were all reporting at all levels, all of us,
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  Speaker 2: and we had several meetings discussing how we felt something
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  Speaker 2: very fraudule it was going on. And we had several
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  Speaker 2: meetings discuss how we felt something very fragile was going on,
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  Speaker 2: and we were all expressing it. Clinical directors, supervisors, County Workers'
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  Speaker 2: Mental health workers. We were all reporting Tim Waltz and
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  Speaker 2: so many Minnesota Democrats need to go to prison. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I obviously don't want you to watch it right now,
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  Speaker 2: but when the podcast is over, I would encourage you
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  Speaker 2: to watch Nick Shirley's video. I have posted it on
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  Speaker 2: my account on x under Mark bellingh Show, but it's everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: and as they say, last I checked, it was on
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and fifteen million to one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: million views. We're going to play a small portion of
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  Speaker 2: it here and I'll do this setup. All you hear
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  Speaker 2: here is Nick Shirley introducing a guy. There's a guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a regular guy. He worked in one of
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  Speaker 2: the buildings where a number of these Somali so called
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  Speaker 2: healthcare operations were set up. And he's a dog a guy.
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  Speaker 2: They're only using his first name here. Again, it's just
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  Speaker 2: revealing to me how people This just reminds me of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the mafia back at its heyday, where people
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  Speaker 2: who testified it against them and so one would have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about their lives and about how he began digging.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't until this thing all drew the attention of Finally,
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  Speaker 2: years later, a couple of mainstream media outlets that the
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  Speaker 2: whole world, including people like me, found out about it.
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  Speaker 2: There's been scan follow up in the mainstream media. So
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  Speaker 2: far as I can tell, Tim Watz has not yet resigned.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see there's been. The Justice Department is moving
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  Speaker 2: in to investigate here. And before I get to the video,
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  Speaker 2: as I'll point out, it is not to me shocking
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  Speaker 2: the tens of thousands of Somalis moved to Minnesota and
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  Speaker 2: immediately began rip it off the government because what they
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  Speaker 2: found when they got here is our government is easy
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  Speaker 2: to rip off, and if you cozy up to them politically,
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  Speaker 2: they'll let you rip it off. They have to be thinking,
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  Speaker 2: what a country. Amazing that these people seem to hate
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  Speaker 2: the United States. You'd think they'd love this. So this
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  Speaker 2: is you'll hear Nick Shirley for just like two seconds
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of this, Depending on did you edit
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  Speaker 2: this so we hear Nick Shirley in here? You claim
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  Speaker 2: you did, but I know I'm just asking did Nick
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  Speaker 2: Shirley get into this what Paul claims it is? So
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  Speaker 2: if you don't hear Nick Shirley, you can hear it
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  Speaker 2: from Paul. By the way, Paul did not work on
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  Speaker 2: Friday because he outrageously claimed it was a station holiday,
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  Speaker 2: which it was. Nonetheless, do you know that I threatened
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  Speaker 2: to fire you? Oh, he didn't even listen to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that would be just Paul has two
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  Speaker 2: shows left, this one and the next one, and then
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  Speaker 2: he's going on to whatever it is that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing. We all kind of go off and
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  Speaker 2: do something else and never claim that we're retiring. I
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  Speaker 2: I'm still doing this, and I'm claiming that this is
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  Speaker 2: what I know. I'm just I'm not gonna go pump
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  Speaker 2: all the things that you're doing. But he has two
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  Speaker 2: shows here. I just think it would be hilarious if
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  Speaker 2: I fired you with like two shows left. Don't you
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  Speaker 2: think that would be hilarious? I just I mean, and
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  Speaker 2: then like, but not explain that you only had two
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  Speaker 2: show left. I mean, I could fire you right now.
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  Speaker 2: And the only problem is I need somebody to run
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the podcast. Yeah, there's nobody in there.
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  Speaker 2: There's not been anybody in the building for a week.
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  Speaker 2: I did bring in Christmas cookies all week, so somehow,
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  Speaker 2: even though there's only four this is a sort of
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  Speaker 2: cassic story. Right, there's only five people in the building.
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  Speaker 2: They get cleared out every day, even though five if
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  Speaker 2: the building was actually fully staffed. I mean I swear
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  Speaker 2: that they would be gone before I actually even put
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  Speaker 2: them out. I'd be walking in from the car and
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  Speaker 2: they would be somehow gone. Some of you out there
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  Speaker 2: who have no patience, are you gonna play this? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: So this is Nick Shirley introducing David, who's a very
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  Speaker 2: well organized guy and just starts. It's not very long.
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  Speaker 2: He sais going through all what.
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  Speaker 3: He found and to make this happen, I met up
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  Speaker 3: with a man who's been doing his own investigation for
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  Speaker 3: years now as he has seen the fraud firsthand. His
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  Speaker 3: name is David. Let's get into this and be prepared
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  Speaker 3: to be shocked. How deep is this fraud here inside
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  Speaker 3: of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: It is far worse than anybody can imagine. You heard
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  Speaker 4: it's seven to ten billion and maybe more, and now
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  Speaker 4: the numbers have been revised and put out there publicly
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  Speaker 4: that they think it's more like eight billion. How I
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  Speaker 4: got involved is that where my office is here in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sort of in the heart of all of this fraud.
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  Speaker 4: And I would see these childcare centers. I said, well,
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  Speaker 4: there are any kids there. It's the middle of the day,
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  Speaker 4: and all I see are a couple of guys standing
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  Speaker 4: out front smoking. And then I'd go buy another daycare
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  Speaker 4: and I'd see the same thing. I said, well, where
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  Speaker 4: do these kids play? And so I started to go
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  Speaker 4: online and look and I said, this place is licensed
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  Speaker 4: for eighty children. They had zero children. Every time I
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  Speaker 4: went by there, they never had a single child there.
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  Speaker 4: Then I started to see all these transportation companies going
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  Speaker 4: around and it was always a Somali driver and I said,
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  Speaker 4: well that's great, they're out there transportation contributing, but they
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  Speaker 4: never had a passenger, never ever once. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 4: what is all this transportation? What are they doing? So
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  Speaker 4: then I found out that in Minnesota they have something
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  Speaker 4: called non emergency medical transportation, so this is going to
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  Speaker 4: the dentist office, therapy, whatever it might be. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 4: how many of these companies are there? And the research
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  Speaker 4: came back that there are one thy twenty of them
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  Speaker 4: and more than eight hundred of them are Somalioned. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: from the state of Minnesota ever cross checks to see
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  Speaker 4: if any rides were ever actually provided. All they did
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  Speaker 4: was write the check.
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  Speaker 2: No, we only played ninety seconds here. It's a forty
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  Speaker 2: two minute video, and that's this staved guy who on
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  Speaker 2: his own has been trying to dive into this for years.
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  Speaker 2: But just in the brief little segment there, there's so
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  Speaker 2: much to pull out. He mentions that these companies exist
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  Speaker 2: all over the place non emergency medical transportation. We've got
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  Speaker 2: companies here in Milwaukee, here in Wisconsin that do the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, and therefore, exactly to describe somebody who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: need an ambulance but needs transportation to go see a
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  Speaker 2: healthcare provider, he said that, And I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he meant the state of Minnesota or just in the
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  Speaker 2: Minneapolis area, but he said that there're oneenty and twenty
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  Speaker 2: license providers of this eight hundred ver Somali. Why we're
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred Somali. Well, in a close knit community like this,
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  Speaker 2: One Somali who realizes this is a scam tells another
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  Speaker 2: Somali who tells this is a scam, and they all
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  Speaker 2: time one another, this is a scams. Ano. They're all
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  Speaker 2: who wanted in. They're all just astonished that they're getting
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  Speaker 2: all of this money. They're not driving anybody to anybody anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: but they're all making money, so they tell everyone else.
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  Speaker 2: And you would think after a certain point that it
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  Speaker 2: my Dawna and some of the officials in Minnesota. Why
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  Speaker 2: are all of these Somalis doing it? Now? I understand
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  Speaker 2: there are certain ethnic groups that get into certain fields.
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  Speaker 2: We saw in Milwaukee, for example, I don't know when
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  Speaker 2: it started late eighties or early nineties that a number
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  Speaker 2: of six Sikh from India started buying gas stations. At
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  Speaker 2: part there was I don't mean this pejoratively. I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of a godfather of the community and other there's a
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  Speaker 2: real influential leader of the community. He bought a number
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  Speaker 2: of them and he got helped out a lot of
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  Speaker 2: others to get involved in that business. There's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with that. That's simply you know people who come to
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  Speaker 2: the United States and they look for a field to
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  Speaker 2: work in, and you get connections and somebody tells you
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  Speaker 2: how to do this. We've seen a number of Arab
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  Speaker 2: Americans open grocery stores in the Central City, but this
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  Speaker 2: medical transit that doesn't seem like any of that. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: just looking at the numbers, whether it's the state of
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota or just Minneapolis. That seems like a lot of companies.
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  Speaker 2: And secondly, the one thing that most urban areas are
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  Speaker 2: not lacking is transportation. We still have taxis at ubers
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  Speaker 2: if it's not an emergency. Really, and I get the
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  Speaker 2: there are some people that are really really ill, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not life and death and elderly and may need
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  Speaker 2: some people to drive them, or they have mental conditions
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  Speaker 2: or something or another. But when you saw these numbers,
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  Speaker 2: so here's this guy David pointing out, they're just sending it. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I gave this guy a ride, this guy or ride
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  Speaker 2: this guy, I ride it. Nobody's checking anything. Let me
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  Speaker 2: remind you, because this is connected to this, that this
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  Speaker 2: is the same government that runs our elections and in
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  Speaker 2: some states doesn't even have photo YD with regard to
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  Speaker 2: the whistleblowers. And by the way, that dollar figured that
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  Speaker 2: they throw at eight billion, the GDP of Somalia the
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  Speaker 2: country is twelve. Just the welfare fraud of this handful
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  Speaker 2: of some aliens estimated one hundred thousand that moved to
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota is equivalent to the GDP of the our entire country,
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  Speaker 2: which is a population in the millions. Now imagine you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting over there and somaliing you're hearing from over there
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. These people are making all of course,
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  Speaker 2: they're all going to try to ditch out, and they
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  Speaker 2: need to be able to claim refugee status if they
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  Speaker 2: want to come into the front door. And most of
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  Speaker 2: them are legal immigrants, see the check. The trick here
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  Speaker 2: is you don't want to come in illegally and then
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  Speaker 2: apply to run all of these programs for fear that
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  Speaker 2: that might run flag you. So they come in and
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  Speaker 2: claim that the refugees in indeed Somalia is war torn.
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  Speaker 2: One resume overthrows the other and so on, so they
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  Speaker 2: use this as the cover. Now it's been exposed that
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  Speaker 2: ilan Omar's family is actually part of the regime that
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  Speaker 2: was doing much of the oppression or pressing. When they
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  Speaker 2: got overthrown, she and her family all claimed refugee status
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  Speaker 2: so that they could come into the United States, supposedly
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  Speaker 2: to escape. Now the whistleblowers kept pointing out and they
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  Speaker 2: say that we were told to telling we were telling
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  Speaker 2: me or telling I would say, first of all, if
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  Speaker 2: they're reporting it up the ladder, what good does that
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  Speaker 2: do the ladder? See because and this is the key
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  Speaker 2: to this, that a lot of people who don't like
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  Speaker 2: to politicize everything and resisted hearing it the ladder is
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  Speaker 2: all democrats. It was like reporting a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: social welfare abuse in Milwaukee up the Milwaukee ladder, whether
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  Speaker 2: it be SDC or back in the day, OYC, or
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  Speaker 2: any of the number of other social welfare agencies that
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  Speaker 2: turned out to be almost entirely corrupt. If you're running
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  Speaker 2: these agencies and you're running tons of money through them,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna kick a lot of that money back to
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  Speaker 2: politicians so that they keep giving you the grants to
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  Speaker 2: run these programs. And it goes on until it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: go on. At some point, the thing becomes so big,
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  Speaker 2: greed takes over, that the scandal becomes so big that
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  Speaker 2: it has to come out. And I think what happened
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  Speaker 2: with regard to the Somali fraud in Minnesota is that
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  Speaker 2: given the relatively small number of people involved, the dollar
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  Speaker 2: figure became insane. You understand the context of a state
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  Speaker 2: government eight billion and just in like two or three
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  Speaker 2: or four different welfare programs. So they say that they
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  Speaker 2: were reporting it up the food chain, Well, that food
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  Speaker 2: chain wasn't the right place to report it because they're
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  Speaker 2: simply reporting it up the ladder of Minnesota government that
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  Speaker 2: happened to be the government of Tim Waltz, Tim Walls
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  Speaker 2: is It's one of those unanswerable questions. Is Tim Waltz
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  Speaker 2: more corrupt than he is stupid? Or is he more
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  Speaker 2: stupid than he is corrupt. It's an unanswerable question because
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  Speaker 2: I think that the two feet at one another. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, Tim Wallas is clearly an idiot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a liar and a bs or, and a bad politician
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  Speaker 2: and so on. But he also made a conscious decision,
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  Speaker 2: as many of these Minnesota Democrats did. It's the same
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  Speaker 2: decision that he made with regard to the lefty mayor
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  Speaker 2: of Minneapolis who let his city burn down. The Democrats
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  Speaker 2: realized that a huge segment of their voter base are
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  Speaker 2: people who, in one form or another, are on the door.
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  Speaker 2: And we all know what happened after the George Floyd riots.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: The people who did the riots and the people who
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: backed the hole defund the police movement that got a
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: fortune out of it. Go back to Milwaukee. We had
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: three or four people that were leading these street marches
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, three of them were running goldfundmeans at the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: very same time. One of them, the guy with the
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: faked redlocks, who was otherwise I can't say ball. This
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: is a cue ball because he's African American. He got
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: out of the racket. How he made so much money
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: that he just got out of the business. Another one
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: was investigated in ten was arrested and charged in Tennessee
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in connection with violent crime. Well, that's just raising it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: from the general public. All these other grants and social
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: justices and and the other thing. The people that are
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: on the receiving end of this are smart enough that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: they're going to go back and use their organizations and
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: their money to bank all these politicians. So if you're
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Tim Wilson, you were, you got to stay on the
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: good side of these people. This is your voter base. Minnesota,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: as we saw in the most recent election, is like
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a fifty four to forty six state Democrat. Now you
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: have one hundred thousand people moving into a state of
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: about I don't know it's Minnesota five six million. If
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: they all vote for you, that could swing a lot
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: of elections. Not to mention when they're all making a
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: fortune off the government they're going to kick a lot
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: back in campaign contributions. Now, it's unfair to say that
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: nobody in the media was reporting on this, because there
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: was some reporting in Minnesota. However, it was never the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: reporting of putting it all together. It was the reporting
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: of one individual case rather than the larger picture of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: every Somalian. That seems to me that it was getting
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: one of these, that they were all in on it together,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: and secondly that they were empowered and enabled by the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: top of Waltz's administration. The ilan Omar part, she's like
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the queen of the Somali community in Minnesota, incredibly powerful.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Other Democrats in that state simply are terrified of crossing her.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: First of all, shall call your racist. He's backed by
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: what's essentially almost a crime family. We don't know how
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: many Somalis are criminals. We do know that almost none
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of them were telling on one another. But part of
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: that clearly has to be fear of what happened to you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: When you see Minnesota bureaucrats demanding that they're facing you know,
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: as a regular old person working at the breakers you
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: have on the face blurred on. Imagine if you're a
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Somali person who's bothered by the fact that there's so
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: much overt criminality and fraud and shaking down going on
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the teaching moment. Don't think for a moment that this
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: stuff isn't going on everywhere. It just isn't going on
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: at the scale that this is the reason this blew
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: up is because it was so extreme such and also
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the common denominator of almost everybody being Somali, whereas much
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: of the other kind of welfare fraud and stealing from
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: government programs and so the one that goes on in
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the United States, it's just a lot of people picking
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: up all this as an easy to do rather than
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: all being part of one ethnic group or an ethic community.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: So much of the COVID fraud that went on there
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: were two types of grants that came out in COVID
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: to replace lost income, and then there was the one
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: for businesses that if you stayed open, we're gonna give
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: you money because you're staying open rather than shutting down.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: During COVID, very weird thing. The government was locking all
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: these things down, but if you actually didn't lock yourself down,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you get a ton of money. Well, a lot of
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the businesses that were getting a ton of money for
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: staying open. In fact, we're not open, figuring nobody's gonna check.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: My guess is the overwhelming majority of them got away
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: with it. A few got caught. But if the government
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: program is one the example I've always used because I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: just like using it and it's so easy to understand,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I don't even know whether or not this is I
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: don't know if Trump has killed off this program or not.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: One of the good things about Trump coming in is
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: a lot of these programs are just being eliminated, which
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: drives the lefties crazy because they actually really believe that
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: these are well but childcare for children, parents, you know,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: or the working poor and so on. They need child care. Yes,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: they do need childcare. But when the program is set
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: up to make it so easy to scam, there has
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: to be a better way of doing it than this.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: One of the things that I've come to believe is
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: that when government privatizes operations. In other words, when you're
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: doing the work of the government and the government is
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: your only client, it may actually be worse than the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: government providing it, because when the government's providing it, there's
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: at least some level of oversight, not much. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Tony Rivers still has the State of Wisconsin employees and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: working at home. But when the government takes government money
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: and gives it to somebody else and say you go
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: ahead and do this, then the level of oversay can
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: go down, especially in a corrupt government, to nearly nothing.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And I certainly understand this is a huge problem the
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: people that are lower income and actually working, as opposed
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to second off of welfare program. Who's to take care
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: of the kids. It is an issue, and there is
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: a place for government for it. There's an even bigger place,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I think for charities. Nonetheless, it is a legitimate issue. However,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: what an easy thing to scam? Now? The thing that
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: we saw in Milwaukee, and I reported on this at
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: nauseum over twenty years ago, in every now and then
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: people would get caught. Often it was the small daycare
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: four kids and you know why four kids? And this
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: is a long time ago that I reported on this
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: and tried to explain to people who don't understand scamming.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I always loved to explain scamming to Paul, because Paul
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't understand scamming at all. You don't, I can't believe
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: you haven't been scammed. See, I think your wife probably
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: stops you from being scammed because she just strikes me
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: as being more cynical and suspicious. Why four, All right,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: let's just take two women. I'll use generic names so
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: nobody wants to claim that it's races. Mary and Helen.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Mary has four kids, Helen has four kids. Here's are
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the scam works. Mary's four kids spend the day at
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Helen's house, so Helen builds the government for the daycare.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Helen's four kids spend the day at Mary's house, so
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Mary spends Neither of them are working. Both of them
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: are claiming that they're taking care of kids. It's just
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the other's kids. And of course for those who well
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: why would they send They don't send them over there,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: They just claim that they are. There is a ton
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: of that, the small level of just swapping kids around
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: on paper for the purposes of getting these grants. And again,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: why that type of progium, because it's it's so easy
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to do. Now. In the case of Minnesota, apparently you know,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and Nick was quoting. Nick Shirley was quoted from the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: website of Minnesota Notifications that they set out you don't
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: seem to have any kids here? Where are they? Okay,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: they actually catch out to this, they might be front.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: They send up papers and non compliant letters and so on,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: and this can go on for years. In the meantime,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the money keeps flowing because somewhere above that, when it
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: gets to the level of a high muckety got close
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: enough to walls that just let this alone. Let this alone. Now,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: certainly scandal is possible among Republicans. I'm not suggesting that
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: only Democrats can be crooks. There is, however, a distinction
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: most actual Republicans. If they would find out that a
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: st type of scandal like this was let's imagine it
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: wasn't home health care, but it's something in business or whatever,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: grants for certain businesses that are not of the up
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: andy up, and you're not doing any work. Most Republican
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: voters would be appalled and would be appalled that the
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Republican engaged in the corruption. Most Democrats, I think in
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Minnesota are unbothered by this. So they ripped everybody off.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: So what both are senators and Democrats? The governors a
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Democrat we carried the state for Kamala. He allowed Omer's
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: a lot more Democrats, she rips Trump. What do we care?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: The price of this is And Democrats tend to pretend
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to be outraged that everything a Republican not only does
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: but is accused of doing. The fake outrage over the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Russia collusion of Trump, even if Trump was colluding with
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the Russians, they weren't outraged by it. They were outraged
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: that he won. He wasn't outright, But they don't even
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: pretend to be outraged by their own scandals. I'll prove it.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: You want me to prove it right now? When right now,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: how many Democrats in Minnesota are calling for Waltz's resignation. None.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: The story's out there, the whole world knows it, yet
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: none of the Demomand by the way, Minnesota, I almost
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: said something that I don't know this for a fact.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I believe in Minnesota that it's like Wisconsin that if
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the governor resigns, the lieutenant governor takes over and they
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: run as a ticket. So, for example, in Wisconsin, if
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Ever's quit today, and by the way, I think Evers
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: is going to quit next year, assuming Sarah Rodriguez is
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the nominee for governor, that would make her the incumbent.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: If she wins the Democratic nomination anyway, you'd still have
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: a Democrat. Now it may well be in Minnesota they
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: run separately as tickets, but I just should have looked
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: at that. I'm just saying, I think if if else
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: was forced out, there'd be just be another Democrat that
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: would take over. But how many Democrats in Minnesota are
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: calling for Waltz's resignation over this? And again you might
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: find like one guy in some corner of the state,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: like one of those cities in Minnesota that they shoot
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: one of the one of the episodes of Fargo in
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I think that's just one of the many things hilarious
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: about far which, by the way, is there gonna be
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: another season? The last one was really good. John ham
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: was in John Hamm was in it, the actor from
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: mad Men. He played like some insane, crazed, power hung hungry,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: sex crazed sri from somewhere out there in the in
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the boonies. It's straying away. The stories are straying away
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: each season a little bit more from how the movie was.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: There's always spreads of the component of the movie, like
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: there's always a lady cop that's trying to do the investigating,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and some they seem to work the wood shipper into
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: each thing, and anyway they would. The thing that's gonna
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: say it so funny about Fargo is almost never is
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Fargo in Fargo. It's usually in Fargo. Is in North Dakota.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: It's usually a thing in Minnesota, and there's gonna be
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: like a connection to North Dakota. The one this this
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: pasture was like the Feds that were investigating this, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: think we're from Minnesota and John Ham might have been
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: out of there in North Dakota or whatever. And then
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the wife is kid. The wife runs ones away and
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: is hiding out under a fake identity and married to
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: another guy, and one of live of Minnesota. What was
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: it Dakota zoa someone anyway, see Paul's who was braided.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: They actually set one of the years of the TV
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: show in Bimidgi and the other in Brainerd and I
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: never remembered, which I you know, how people mix up
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin in Minnesota. I'm in Florida. Would not believe the
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: number of people who think I live in Minnesota. They
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: just turned it into one state, which I mean, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: get that we're sort of similar, but It's not like
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: North and South Dakota. I would understand if somebody is
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: down there that I met from South Dakota, I might
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: think that they're from North Dakota or something or another yeah,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: or carolineas I mean, you get a lot of that
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned. Brainerd and Bemidgie are the
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: same city. It's just I've never figured out. I don't
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I could know where one of them is, but I
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: don't know which one of the one that it is
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: and which one is the other one. And they're probably close,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: but they were both in one was in one of
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the the TV episode seasons of Fargo and the other
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: ones in the movie. There might have been both. It
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: might have been that didn't like the U Francis McDormand
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: when she went to he was in the Twin Cities though,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: wasn't he? Was it William H. Macy and the Twin
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Cities the car Dealer? Yeah, but she was from like
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: either Brainerd or a Midge or whatever it was Braider
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Paul cleinss Brainer Fargo. There was one season of the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: TV series, not this last of John Ham, the one
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: that whatever number that is I forget, but the one
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: that was before that that wasn't that good. But otherwise
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: they've all been good. In the movie, of course was good.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: But they they need to do another one, now, don't they.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: They leave a gap. And because the stories are independent,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: itself contained, it's not like the Sopranos, where it's the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: same characters at everything. It's just every season the plot
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: has KUIs or connections or echoes to things that they've
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: done in the past. Now, let me get back to
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: this corruption in Minnesota, the complaining up the food chain
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and why it didn't do any good from the people
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: blowing the whistle. You were always complaining to people who,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: in the end, even if they weren't in on it,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: were indirectly in on it. You were complaining to Democrats who,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: as I say, we're not going to they weren't bothered
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: by it, and they just assume that you not find
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: out about it because they felt they were benefiting on it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Democrats are not bothered by any crime committed by other
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Democrats at any level. Seriously, I think if elan Omar
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: pulled out a gun and shot and killed the Republican,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I think Democrats perfectly fine with it. And we see
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: how the number of them celebrated, for example, the Charlie Kirks.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I just it's the thing with Democrats, you shouldn't lump
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: all of them in there. Okay, find me this long,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: massive list. The only Democrats that are gonna be calling
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: for Watson's resignation in Minnesota are other Democrats who are
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: eyeballing running for that seat. At some point, Emmer, who's
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: the Republican housewhip congressom from Minnesota, is pointing out that
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: one of the buildings that was housing these setters had
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: the following sign in front quality leering setter. They spelled
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: learning wrong. They were I mean, talk about a tip
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: off that there wasn't any kind of youth childhood education
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: going on to the thing. They didn't even spell the work,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: which again would just be a red flag that what's
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: going on here is not legitimate. Now, the point that
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I was making why this got exposed eventually is it
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: was so massive. But again it took years. But this
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: type of thing goes on all over our country. Way back,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: when trying to think where I worked, I think I
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: might have been working in Springfield. It might have been Madison.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: There was a news organism. I was still in the
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: media that I wasn't a talk show host yet called
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: investigative reporters and editors, and it was Investigative Reporters and
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I was a member of this. I only go to
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: conventions that they're really close. I think this one was
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: in Chicago. Might be wrong about that. I was still
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a reporter. So this is many, many many years ago.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And they have one of these panels and there's a
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: you know, a moderator, and he has a couple of
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: other people and their people. It's like one of the
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: breakout sessions and there's forty people there, and it was
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: one of these things you're brainstorming on the kinds of
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to look into, and I said, I found that one
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: of the best areas to look into is social welfare agencies,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: do gooder agencies. And people stared at me blankly because
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: what they wanted to investigate was corp re fraud and
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: big businesses at the oil company. Well, the reason I
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: brought it up, I've told the story a zillion times.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I worked in Saint Joseph bet and Harbor, Michigan. Was
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: the second full time professional job that I had. I
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: went into that city that was just nons It was
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: just corruption, all over the place, and nobody had ever
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: bothered a report on it, because I don't think there
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: was actually a breathing reporter whoever worked in that city.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: And all you had to do is start looking into it,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: and you got tips right and left, and I found,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I mean everything, Saint Joe is not corrupt at all.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Benton Harbor was totally corrupt. Saint Joe was very wealthy
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: and affluent. Betton Harbor ran an outside government aid which
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: created all of these social welfare programs, and I just
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: it was the level of corruption was incredible, and it
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: was one of the things that was that was the
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: first beginning of the multi year stage of me going
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: from being a lefty to a conservative is I realized
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: that the social welfare programs weren't helping anybody. Benn Harbor
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: was destitute, yet all this money running through it and
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: it never got to But boy o, boy o, boy
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: was it wasn't being skimmed. It just never got to
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: the bottom. Wasn't like they're skimming off the top, They're
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: taking the whole thing because who's to look at it,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: who's to expose You're doing a wonderful thing. Public education
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: is the same thing incredibly overstaffed, people, incredibly overpaid, quality
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: of the product crappy as can be. I mean, I
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: think you could compare the Wahwatosa public schools to the
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Somalis in Minnesota. It's you could say, their children actually
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: going inside the schools in Wahwatosa, I suppose. But look
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: at the number of buildings that they built in a
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: school district with declining enrollment, and look at all of
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the contracts that they were caught handing out to cronies
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: and relatives of friends. Then they say that they've got
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: a massive budget deficit, and the guy who is the
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: business manager who they forced out ends up getting hired
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: and hired up in Kewaskam. If the program is run
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: by the government, it is easier to rip off than
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: if is run by an individual. Now this is not
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: to say individuals can't be ripped off. I mean the
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: comment last week, it seems like the people that do
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: the ripping off over the Internet are Nigerians and the
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: people who actually come here in person to rip you
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: off our Somalis. It's a generalization and it may sound racist,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: but again, every internet's corruption scheme that you seem to
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: find tends to be from Nigeria, and we talked about
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: the dating scams that it by the way, I mentioned
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: the U the app or the company, the outfit that's
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: on YouTube and so unexposed. This is just called catfished,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: and they do these things in which somebody I think
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I'm being scammed online by somebody who says that they
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: love me, that I've been going that I've been sending
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: money to for four years, but we've never met. Well,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: so catfish does high tech things to expose them and
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: invariably at somebody in Nigeria pretending to be a handsome
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: young man you know, and whatever the you know in
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the United States wooing the other person there is, so
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: you can scam individuals and those that are naive, trusting,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: or as I say all the time, you are likely
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: to believe something is true if you want it to
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: be true. So if you're like an old, fat guy
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: and some hot twenty three year old woman says she
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: loves you and wants to spend the rest of your
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: life with you, well you want to believe that. Now,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I'm a cynic. I don't believe people that are shared
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: with people. Somebody can be telling me the truth that
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: I think that they're lying. I just come to the
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: point which I don't believe anybody about anything. I can't
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: help it. I mean, you do my job and look
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: at the stuff that I You know, Okay, Trump colluded
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: with the Russians. You get the COVID vaccine. You'll never
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: get COVID. I'm just go on and on and on.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: This is my whole lifeful. I sent it to this.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: You'd be like this too. You still a naive. I've
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: made you well. Now that you're gonna finally leave the
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: show here, you might revert to your naiveness. Yeah, I
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: think it. I think it won't stick. I think it'll
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: It'll slide right out of your brain. We'll find out. So, yes,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: it can happen with individuals, but it genuinely can only
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: happen to the extent of how much money the individual has.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: It is fire likelier to scam the government. Why, let's
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: imagine you're trying to scam. I mean, I'm a bad example.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I'd be a hard person to scam because I'm just cynical.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: But if you're scamming me, every dollar I send, that's
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: money I don't have. Who in government cares if they
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: don't have the money, talk about no skin in the game.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that there was the falling out between Musk
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: and Trump early on because Doge had the potential to
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: dive into all of this stuff. And you saw, of
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: course the resistance from even among some Republicans when they
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: tried to cut some of these sorgures. Some of the
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: stuff that it does is like usaid, it's like very
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: similar to these types of programs that we had in Minnesota.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: I'm sure some legitimate things were done, So you throw
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: out the legitimate things in order to get rid of
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: everything else, because most of it is crap. Well, you've
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: got to be willing to give up the legitimate things
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: in order to get rid of all of this crap.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: As I say, for people who are going to try
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: to argue that Democrats are not perfectly fine with scandal,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: find me the prominent Democrat. Never in mind Minnesota, anywhere
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: in the United States. Skin would it be off the
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: back of say aoc to call for will it's to reside,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: and the skin off her back would be her good
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: buddy is zilan Omar And they all have to stick together.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: And Democrat fus she's not body by it. She'd rather
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: make up a lie about Trump to be outraged about
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: it than be outraged about actual ripping off of people.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Another story here. This is from Maine, and I suspect
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: what's happening is some of the reporters around the United
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: States that aren't comatose and brain dat are starting to
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: look into some of these daycare programs in healthcare programs
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: and child programs and so on in their own state.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Or if you've got a state that in again a
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: huge percentage of the Somalis settled in Minnesota. If they've
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: settled in your state, you might want to take a
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: look at it. This is from Maine. Apparently there's a
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: fair number of Somalis that have settled in Maine. Maine
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: suspends Medicaid payments to Somali charity after audits and cover
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: more than one million in fraud nicolin dime compared to Minnesota.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: But somebody in Maine spotted at charity, some Mallion charity
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota crooked. This is all over the late JJ
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: blind and I quote him all the time on this
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: when he was on Building and Company. Once he my
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: whole TV show. For those are wondering he made this
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: comment that I quoted forever. Running an anti property program
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee is a license to steal. That always hacked
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: off the lefties that were on the program. But it
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: is a license to steal. It doesn't mean you would steal.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: For instance, I could have a driver's license and not drive.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Not every anti property program is illegitimate. I donate to
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: many of them. I'm just saying that if you do
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: run one and the majority of your money comes not
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: from a private donor but from government, it is a
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: license to steal. The greater percentage of money that the
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: nonprofit gets from private owners, the less likely it is
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: to be stolen from because the private owners and boards
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: of directors who are kicking their own money, and they're
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: they actually believe in the mission of the organization and
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: they don't want it ripped off. I'll give you another
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: example here. Then there are the ones in which it
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: just it seems dubious, but they were performing services, which
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: is way many standards better than what happened in Minnesota.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Janetta Robinson, who's got a street named after him Milwaukee,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: and so does her mother. She ran a program for
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Central City kids for many, many, many years. She did
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: offer services, and for all I know, that was very worthwhile.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: But a lot of money ran through there, drove a cadillag.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: You might say that's a bad look. It wasn't a
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: bad luck. Nobody seemed to care. In addition to that,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: every year she took these kids out of to Jamaica. Now,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: how does it benefit the lines of these impoverished children,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: poor the necessarily impoverished, poor black kids in Milwaukee to
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: go to Jamaica as opposed to say, go to six Flags.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: The answer is it benefited Janeta. She got to go
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: on somebody else's time to Jamaica. But again, at least
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: she performed services. And some people say that she was
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: a good role model in a mentor and so on.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: But you just look at these things and it's just
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: so easy to say how easy it is to scan
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: these things, and how many other people on the left
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: will give you cover. They're the offensive line and the
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: scammers of the running backs. We have a response from
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Tim Walls, by the way, and the Knicks. I mentioned
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: a few moments ago that won my podcasts and some
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: of you are saying, when will it end? Not that long? No,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: watch the video. I've linked it up on X. You
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: can find it anywhere else, but I've made it easy.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Just go to my side on X. So this thing,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: as I said it, I'm doing the podcast very early
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: in the afternoon on Monday. By late morning, it was
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: pushing one hundred and twenty million views, which, by the way,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: that's just that's huge. It's just it's that's just huge,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: which shows you, by the way, that there's a market
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: for this kind of contented reporting. People are interested in
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: this stuff. So Fox News is reporting that Tim Watz
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: has now responded to this, because when you get to
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty million, I mean, that's just that's
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: a real number. So Tim Waltz is offering a response. See.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: The thing about Tim Waltz is obviously we know that
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: he's gonna bs except unlike most Democrats, he's a really
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: bad bser. Have you ever seen anybody the two word?
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, Bill Clinton was a great liar. Biden is
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: a bad example because he was you know, his mind
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: was shot. Kamala has just inapted everything. Kama will like
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: make things up. But I mean, if you wanted to,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: I just I think if Tim Waltz was telling a
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: true it would seem like he's lying, right, I mean,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: plus every story that he tells. Oh as a football coach,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: we took he was an assistant, you know, I you
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: know all the valid that he lies about his military record,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: lied about the rank that he left in, lied about
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: whether or not he was ever in combat, just on what. Yeah,
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: there was something with shooting a gun or hunting or something.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: He never really hunted and didn't he didn't he load
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: the gun wrong or what did he was it was
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: it loading the gun or pointing it he didn't know
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: how to load it or something or another. And anyway
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: you want to hear the Tim Waltz response to the
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: video on this Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz's office is pushing
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: back against fraud allegations. It's pushing back against frauday allegations
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: after a viral video showed visits to multiple childcare settings
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: of the state, including one that allegedly received millions of
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: dollars state funding, despite a peer appearing largely inactive. Responding
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: to questions about the alleged allegations and the video posted
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: by independent journalist Nick Shirley, a spokesperson for the governor
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: told Fox News that Waltz has spent years working to
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: crack down on isn't that the lbs? First of all,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: it's just it goes back to my whole thing about
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: stupid or corrupt. If he actually has been working years
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: to crack down the front, it shows you what an
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: incompetent that he is. So again, is he lying or
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: is he an epp? It's all it feeds on. It's
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: up for all we know. Maybe he was trying to
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: crack down. Good job on that. Good job, Kim, You've
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: done a great job cracking down on your fraud there
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Why nothing seems to go on? You're trying to let
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: me get finished the thing and ask the state legislature
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: for war authority. I love. This is the same line
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: that Biden and Kamala said about the border. Remember when
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: they kept saying we had a PAS some bill Trump
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: comes in. They didn't pass any That border was sealed
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: in like three days. Ask the leg The legers said,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: you're in Minnesota, by the way, is democratic to take
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: aggressive action. He has strengthened oversight. See I mean no,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: this is the spokes rassen from walls talking. She's gotta
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: say something, right. I could tell a joke, but people
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: wouldn't understand that it was a joke. It's gonna claim
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: that the new spokesperson is KJP, but people would think
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: that I was telling the truth about time. Yeah, I
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: loved Tim Walton. I've got I need, I need some
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: help on my messaging. Here's KJP, including launching investigations. He's
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: not gonna invest it years. Tim Waltz is gonna invest
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: in it, going to next Shirley's thing. The investigation is
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: all there into these specific facilities. What of Whittress are
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: he closed? Money's right? He closed one of them. There's
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: thousands another post right X On the general issue, our
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: government is a multi trillion dollar a year theft in
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: money laundering operation. The American tax beyers are the victims.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: The American people are sick of being robbed and then
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: called racist or Islamophobic for calling out the robbery. Elon Musk.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: The radical left has been using fraudulent government programs for
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: a long time to import and retain vast number of
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: illegal and legal, in some cases immigrants, to win elections
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: in turn America into a single party stayed, destroying any
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: real democracy. The more you look at it, the more
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: you will be horrified at what your tax money is doing,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: and the fact that if this is not reversed, your
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: vote will mean nothing. The most obvious case example is
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: the Somali voting block in Minnesota, a state that historically
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: had zero Somalis, electing Ilan Omar to the US Congress.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: The same is happening in Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, and
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: New Zealand. It's like what Milton Friedman said, money is
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: most poorly spent when you're spending someone else's money on
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: people you don't know. That's the federal government. In my
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: next segment, let me cover this one. Now. There are
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: some stories that don't require a lot of dissection because
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: after a certain point, everyone becomes aware of them. I
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: think unless you're just one of these people that's not
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: aware of anything, you're probably aware of the unbelievable price
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: explosion in gold and silver. I'm doing this podcast on Monday.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I did not check today Monday, and both are overdue
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: for a pullback. But gold and silver, and part of
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: it it's suddenly traded the day after Christmas. On Friday,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: both exploded. Silver went up more than eleven percent in
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: one day. Gold and silver, gold is in the past,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: was always about one hundred times more than silver per ownce.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Silver is now way ahead of that because while gold
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: has boomed, silver has just exploded this year. I mean
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: silver would move up and down in pennies per day,
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: and gold and a buck here and a buck there,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: and it's been doing nothing. Both have been doing nothing
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: but going up here here in twenty twenty five, and
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason on Friday, it just whether or not
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: it's the bubble being it's the last blast of the
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: bubble or what, or this is still the beginning stages
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: of a massive correction in gold and silver being incredibly
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: undervalued again. I don't know everything what goes up comes down.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's coming down tomorrow or if
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: there's a lot more to run, but it's I mean,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: the last I saw on Friday, silver had gotten up
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: to seventy eight dollars in ours. I remember doing a
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: segment on the show, and it wasn't that long ago,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know, three four years. It was when silver
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: was fourteen, and I talked about the risk reward ratio
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: and how so many people can't evaluate risk. We have
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: the fear of the unknown, for you know, the people
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: that are running around. The twenty five year old people
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: running around wearing masks for fear that they're gonna get COVID.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Not understanding there. So okay, you get COVID. None's gonna happen.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, you got to run around with this
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: mask on. And I always use the one hundred percent rule.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: What's the worst thing that can happen if you put
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: money into something? You lose it? All? Right? Well, when
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: silver was fourteen dollars, I said, well, it can't go
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: to zero. I mean, silver won't ever be free. We
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: need silver for certain things. Plus you know there's lots
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: of app location. You can argue that fourteen dollars is
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: too high, but silver can't be free. It's not like
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: even a company that can go under because of bad finances.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Silver itself is a commodity, has to have some value
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: because it's needed. So let's imagine the lowest would be six.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: You can even say zero. I said, what's like there
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: that silver will at some point in my life go
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: to twenty eight or zero. Twenty eight would be doubling
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Fourteen down to zero would be losing
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent. And I said, silverwhelmingly more likely that
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: it would double, and probably more likely that it will
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: do a firewar than double. And the worst that I
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: could do is lose my money. But they're you know,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: flip a coin, Paul, and I bet heads are tails
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: for a dollar. One of us is going to lose
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: a dollar, one of us going to win a dollar.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: But imagine if the winner of the heads or tails
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: made twenty nine dollars and the loser only lost the
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: one dollar. If there's some way of being able to
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: construct that so and I just and I've made that
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: comment forever that silver, particularly when the goal just struck
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: me as a no brainer investment for the ages that
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: it just seemed to be way, way, way too cheap.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: Now it's stayed around that level for a while, and
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: finally this monstrous move has occurred. There are numerous theories
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: that they're signaling inflation, that the lack of credibility in
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: some cryptos I don't know. There are other theories. You
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: need lots of silver to produce the chips and the
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: computing power for AI. In general commodity inflation, even cheaper metals,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: non precious metals like copper are going up or simply
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: that this was. You know, silver had been depressed for many,
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: many years, and people will say, Okay, silver's gone up,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: but so is beef. Not to the same extent, but
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: a lot of the commodities that were depressed forever suddenly
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: we're not. Now. I don't do a daily radio show anymore.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: So the sponsors that you hear on the show. By
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: the way, people listen to our company nationally will drop
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: in on the national level some spots that have nothing
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: to do. But we have our local sponsors that are
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: here and they buy on an annual contracts, so we
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: have the same ones for the entire year of record.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: I was doing radio. We were running like, how many
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: minutes an hour are we running on my old radio show,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: It was like twenty, wasn't It might have been more
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: bazillion things. And I always said that you could tell
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: when gold and silver were overvalued, and that's when we
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: were running three commercials an hour for buying gold or silver.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: And the reason for that is it people tend to
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: play follow the leader. They're sheep. They buy something after
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: all of their friends told them how much money they
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: made it. Well, that means they're the last one to buy.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: They're getting in at the top and you know the bottomfuls.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: The time to buy gold and silver is when there
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: isn't anybody running any ads. So I actually don't know
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: how many of these ads are running, because radio was
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: always a place that a lot of the ads were running.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: And I'm not giving you any guidance. I can only
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: tell you that I did earlier this here sell a
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: little bit of platinum. Platinum pulled the way, by the way,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: in this month, the loan platinum is up sixty percent.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: I but it was I just had a little bit
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: of an ita for cash, and people are giving me
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: brief over that I have way, way, way, way, way
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: more gold and silver and I haven't sold any of it.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: And part of it is you just gold and silver
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: to me are hedges against chaos and everything else going
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: to hell that you need to have some means of investment.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: Some people think diamonds or the other diamond values have
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: been crushed by the whether you call them fake diamonds
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: or lab diamonds, that's altered their value because unlike gold
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: and silver, it's become easy to mimic them. The problem
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: with mimicking an element like silver that has an industrial
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  Speaker 2: application is they have not figured out a way to
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  Speaker 2: mimic the properties of silver that are needed in the
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  Speaker 2: industries in which they use it. Anyway, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to tell you whether or not there's still farther to
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  Speaker 2: run or not. But obviously silver is a less compelling
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  Speaker 2: by its seventy eighth than it was when it was
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: at thirty five just a few months ago, or fifteen
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: two or three years ago. In my next segment, I
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: want to talk about two unbelievably stupid ideas and something
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: you probably figured but never really thought through. You follow
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  Speaker 2: that You sure I can't fire you? I just I
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: just think that would be funny God for you? What skin?
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: It isn't off your back? Oh they do docure for
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: one show left. They wouldn't even do that, would they.
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  Speaker 2: Well you might even be well I mean yeah, I
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: mean if I fired you, they could constantly. I'm gonna
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: fire you for cause they would. I need what? But yeah,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: I know what the cause is. You didn't show up
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: on Friday. There's there's gotta be something. You're wearing a
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: stupid cap to day. That's my cause. This is the
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  Speaker 2: Mark Elling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. I
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: said a moment ago. I have two stories about really
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: dumb things that are being proposed. It's almost like they
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: are myopic. What does myopic mean? You have short vision,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: you can only see things up close, you can't see
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  Speaker 2: the big picture. Before I get to those, I have
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  Speaker 2: another story about myopia myopic. There are many people who
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: have made the point that children have lost all perspective
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  Speaker 2: of the big picture. Kids in general don't see the
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  Speaker 2: big and you see like a kid of eighteen nineteen
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  Speaker 2: committing suicide because you know something bad happened to them.
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  Speaker 2: Your all life's in front of you. Guess what you'll
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: live another seventy years, eighteen thousand. Bad things are gonna
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: happen to you. They're all gonna be worse to this.
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  Speaker 2: But you lack the perspective of realizing that in the end,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: your girlfriend, dumpy, or somebody in front of you on
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: social media is who gives of rats pitot In a
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: few years you'll have a lot more positive things going
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: on and a lot more negative things than that. But
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: they can't see any kind of perspective but that social
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: media has made this worse. But this piece is addressing
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  Speaker 2: whether or not it's the most abused current word in
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  Speaker 2: our language is literally, but this case that actually applies.
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  Speaker 2: They're making them literally myopic. And as I said going
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  Speaker 2: into the segment, my guess is that we all kind
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  Speaker 2: of knew the kids, especially younger kids, spending hours a
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  Speaker 2: day looking at these screens, that this is not only
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  Speaker 2: very bad for them, it may be wrecking their eyes.
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  Speaker 2: And just hearing it, you kind of said, well, no kidding,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably bad, especially for developing eyes to be looking
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  Speaker 2: at these lit, highly pixelated screen mean for all of
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  Speaker 2: these hours a day. Alicia Finley and The Wall Street Journal. Today,
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  Speaker 2: parents and politicians are waking up to how social media
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: and smartphones can harm young people's mental health. How many
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  Speaker 2: realize that sting its staring at screens all day can
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  Speaker 2: make kids literally short sighted. Ophthalmologists are raising alarms about
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  Speaker 2: an epidemic of childhood myopia. Are you short sighted or alongsided? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't have your glasses on, are
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  Speaker 2: you still able to read up close? And you don't
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  Speaker 2: see things so far away? What you can't see far
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  Speaker 2: away but you can see close up, That's what I am.
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  Speaker 2: I mean before my eyes were corrected, when I had
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  Speaker 2: the cataract surgery I mean my glasses off. I could
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  Speaker 2: read something old up in my eye, but by steering
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  Speaker 2: fifty feet away, I mean, I didn't know if that
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  Speaker 2: was a crane there or Jordan Love, I didn't know. Well,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: that's back to the piece. Near Sightedness typically developed between
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  Speaker 2: ages three and ten, when eyeballs are rapidly growing, though
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  Speaker 2: it can progress through adolescents and into young adulthood. While
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  Speaker 2: genetics plays a role, spending more time focusing on things
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  Speaker 2: up close, whether reading books are watching YouTube videos, significantly
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  Speaker 2: increases the risk. It causes the eyeball to grow longer
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  Speaker 2: from front to back, making it harder to focus farther away. Ever,
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  Speaker 2: wonder why children who buried their heads in books were
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: more likely to wear glasses. Now you know. Studies have
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  Speaker 2: found that the more time kids spend outdoors, the less
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: likely they are to become near sighted. Sunlight stimulates the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: release of dopamine in the eyes, which slows lengthening Alas
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  Speaker 2: children these days spend many of their waking hours indoors
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  Speaker 2: fixated on screens, The incidence of myopia is highest in
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  Speaker 2: Southeast Asia, maybe not surprising given the heavy cultural emphasis
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  Speaker 2: on academics, where an estimated eighty percent of students who
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  Speaker 2: complete who complete twelve years of school are myopic. Rates
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  Speaker 2: are somewhat lower in the US forty one percent in
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  Speaker 2: urban areas and sixty percent of rural areas, but have
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  Speaker 2: increased following the COVID school shutdowns. The story goes on.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: If you want to find more, it's Alsia Finley on
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal. Sometimes Wall Street Journal stories are
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  Speaker 2: behind a paywall. Often you get a few free ones
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  Speaker 2: a month. Most of those sites are set up that way.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I have two proposals in front of me.
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  Speaker 2: One they're both really stupid. One is a newer one
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: and the other is one of those idiotic ideas. That
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: was it? They kept coming back? Was that Freddy Krueger?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: He killed him? And then they do another movie? Was
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: he a Halloween or not? I know, I get them.
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  Speaker 2: I never watched any of them. I just I just
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  Speaker 2: knew it. But one of them kept coming back, and
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  Speaker 2: do you kill him? And then there they do another
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: movie and he's back. Whatever it was. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: the newer one. The government agency that oversees American Family Field.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the Brewers have a long term lease on the property.
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  Speaker 2: We have a government agency that controls the overall property.
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  Speaker 2: The government. Officials are appointed by various levels of government,
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  Speaker 2: and most of the levels of the government right now
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  Speaker 2: are Democrat. Obviously everybody local would be a Democrat. The
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: evers appointees of Democrats. There are Republican appointees on there
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  Speaker 2: as well. They have this idea that you have all
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  Speaker 2: of this land around American Family Field, and what is
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  Speaker 2: all of that lad Now, for those of you who
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: are listening far away, unless you're like talking Wrigley Field,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: you can probably visualize what's all around a Major League
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Baseball stadium. Parking goes out and on and on and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: on and on and always. I'm always marveled at how
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: far some people have to walk parking their cars. The
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  Speaker 2: parking goes all the way to thirty fifth Street. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the stadium is on the other side of forty third Street,
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  Speaker 2: the Miller Park. But that's how far to the west
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  Speaker 2: it goes. Paul says, the one north of ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I have gold preferred parking and is like
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  Speaker 2: that I'm walking along. I mean, it's just a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you got all these people who want
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  Speaker 2: to go, and this is why all these crowd constant
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  Speaker 2: they do that there are nine million people. I always
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: know that they're bs. The number of parking spaces that
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: they have an American Family Field is twelve thousand, which
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: means in a sold out game, the average number of
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: people per car is three and a half times per car.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously some people come and buses, some people walk,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of people come together. But on a
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  Speaker 2: sold out game, they're all filled. Well, the people who
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  Speaker 2: oversee the stadium area, they look at all of this parking,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: what do they see waste? They want to develop it.
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  Speaker 2: There are two separate studies that are going on. One
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: is to take much of the parking that is to
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  Speaker 2: the east of it's now called Brewers Boulevard. It used
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: to be called Miller park Way. It's one seventy five
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  Speaker 2: is you all know it if you know the Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: era where the freeway branches to the south for like
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  Speaker 2: two blocks is a freeway, and then it goes on
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  Speaker 2: to the old Miller Parkway south forty third Street and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: so on. The parking to the west of that. They've
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  Speaker 2: put their eyeballs on that, and one of the proposals
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  Speaker 2: is to take fourteen hundred. Another one is a couple
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  Speaker 2: thousand of those spaces and develop it with housing and shops.
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  Speaker 2: They think that given that there's all of that land there,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: that you could do housing. Now, before I completely ridicule this,
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  Speaker 2: I will point out again that whenever the development community
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: sees vacant land, they see the potential for development. I
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: will point out, how however, that much of the city
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee we have housing stock that is currently empty.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: We have other homes that are being knocked down. Now.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Part of that is there are neighborhoods that people don't
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: want to live in. And the notion is is that
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: you've put an apartment buildings in an area that isn't
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: a neighborhood because there's nothing there, it won't be as
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: crime infested in so on as some of the areas
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: where you have this problem. That much of the Monominee
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Valley has been developed industrial and commercially with a massive
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: jumpstart from Pottawatabe. This would be the way area that
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: links say American Family Field the Pottawatamie. And they think,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: and the City of Milwaukee loves this idea because the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: only area of housing growth in Milwaukee in the last
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: thirty years has been the lower east side downtown to
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: the third ward. They think this is another area where
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: can develop housing. The problem, of course, with taking out
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: sixteen hundred and three thousand spaces out of a twelve
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: thousand seat parking lot is you've just given up places
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: for three thousand people to work whether to park. The
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  Speaker 2: second proposal. If you know the ballpark, you know that
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: there's a Little League field in the parking lot called
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Hellfare Field. This proposal would be to take out all
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: of the parking in the area that is directly adjacent
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: to the stadium, in other words, the preferred lots. That
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: would be the lots where you're on the good side
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: of the interstate and so on, in other words, Hellfare Park,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: and then all the way around the left field line
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: and so on the bulk of the parking near the
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: stadium and develop that. The idea is that, for whatever reason,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: people like to live near sporting venues. I was surprised
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: at the apartments in the parking garage near Fiser Forums
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: sold out, But they did their booked as far as
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: I can tell, and they believe that you could turn
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: this into and I know where they're coming from. They
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: sized up Title Town in green Bay, and they think
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: that you can do this at the ballpark. The difference,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: of course is this is that Lambeau and the Green
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: Bay thing is iconic. Secondly, they didn't use the parking lots.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: They use the land that's a little bit down. And thirdly,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: while there is housing and all of that, it's mostly
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: like destination restaurants and so on. I guess there are people, yes,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: title Tom green By and in northeastn Wisconsin on the packers.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: What do you have in Milwaukee. This idea of turning
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: this into a destination is if this proposal would writ
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: the second proposal to take out the parking in the
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: actual main lot itself would take out four thousand parking places.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: The studies are being conducted by brails Fred and Dunlaby.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I guarantee you the studies will say
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: it's a good idea. Here's the thing on studies. I've
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  Speaker 2: explained this many times. When you're hired to do a study,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: you always come back with the conclusion that the people
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: that are paying you want to hear, because otherwise you're
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: not going to be hired to do studies. So they're
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: going to come back and say yes, we ought to
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: do it, and they're gonna say the lost parking can
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: be dealt with by will more book an uber, you
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: can have merimass transit and all of this. The reason
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: that Bud Ceiling did not want the stadium downtown is
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: because he knew that the Brewer fan base was almost
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: overwhelming the people who drove to the ballpark, the tailgating component,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: all of that. That if you had this ballpark downtown,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: nobody would be able to drive to it. There weren't
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: gonna be any parking there, that they'd have to figure
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: out a different way to get there, and so on.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: In other words, like Wrigley Field, there's almost no parking,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: but Riglyfield is in a dense urban area. It's a
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: different kind of thing. I think that this idea is
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: unbelievably stupid to sacrifice. You know, one of the things
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee that works as Brewer attendants from a marketiz size,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: the Brewers drew every draw every year, at least two
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: and a half million in that range. To take away
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: this much of the parking, or force the parking even
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: farther away than it is turns going to the game
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: into an enormous hassle the Brewers. In the end, we'll
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: have the final say on this, and I would certainly
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: hope that the Brewer's ownership and I get you know,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: you can say the five serf form thing again, it's
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: a different animal. The bus owners are the ones that
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: developed the entire area and five serf form and they've
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: made a killing off them that they bought that land
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: for a dollar and it's not a knock on them.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: They were that land was available and nobody was touching
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: it for years and years and years. Herb Cole didn't
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: build a new stadium on his own. The Box owners
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: realized that with a new stadium, you would turn this
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: into a magnet for development, and it has been. And
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: if the Brewer's ownership sees the dollar signs here on,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: well how much are we getting off of parking? But
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: understand one of the reasons they changed the whole parking
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: system so that you can just drive in and pay
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: via and app is the biggest complaint they had with
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: a backups getting into the parking lot. Imagine if you
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: take away half the parking and everything's zillions of miles away,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: what it's going to be like stupid? Right, and then
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: then this one. Every time I bring this up, people
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: say to me, Vicky McKenna disagrees with you. Why do
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: people think talk show hosts have to agree on everything? Well,
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: by the way, do you think she maybe she does care.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: I don't care what Vicky McKenna's opinion on anything is,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: and I'm pretty sure she'd I don't care what Jay
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Webber's opinion anything is. I don't care what Dannel Donald's opinion.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: I don't even care your opinion is on anything. Well,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: I mean that's these his vice president. I mean, I
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: mean she disagrees with me on this. She's wrong, I'm right.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: This is an unbelievable idea of allowing these wedding barns
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: to operate under rules that nobody else has to operate by.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: It's back there. I the only good thing about wedding
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: barns is that a few people make a buck off
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: of them. But if you're not one of those few people,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: what do you give a crap? They're very stupid and
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: dangerous ideas. The laws in the state of Wisconsin say
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: that if you are serving or selling liquor on premise,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: you need to have a liquor license in adition to that,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: in order to have a liquor license, you have to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: have approval of the community. The neighbors can object to
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: what's going on and the thing, and you're generally required
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: to have certain amounts of liability insurance, et cetera, et cetera,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: et cetera. The problem with these barns, and this started
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: with a bunch of people who have barns that aren't
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: being used for farming anymore, thought, well, let's have a
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: wedding out. You're in charge less money than say the
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: Elks Hall of the Knights of Columbus Hall or some
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: banquet hall in a city would charge. And we got
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: all this parking because we all have all this land
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: and to be an easy thing to do, which of
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: course cuts into the business of all the private businesses
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: that have to follow all the rules with regard to
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: liquor licenses and so on. I just don't see what
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: anybody's benefit is other than well, I get to pay less.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: What the hell do the rest of us care about
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: that that you're trying to do something on the cheap?
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: Now Here are the downside? Where are barns generally in
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: rural areas? Can you think of a worse saying, Now
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: you would know more about weddings than most people. Right,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Paul was in a band that played wedding You don't
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: still do this, I hope seven hundred and fifty in
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: your life. Have you noticed that just an obvious thing
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: between your years of going to bars and your years
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: of being at the weddings, where are people likely to
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: get bombed out of their minds the weddings? So now
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: you've got this thing out of the middle of these things,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere, and everybody then drives afterwards.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: What a prescription for disaster. And then in rural areas
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: view you don't have the same number of emergency vehicles,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: the same number of police to patrol the roads and
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: so on. In addition to that, you're at gorod distance.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: What another thing that happens at weddings? E Well, I
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: actually think I know what it is. Partly it's drunk
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: and partly you have two families that are being forced
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: together in laws at all of this stuff. There's a
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: staggering number of fights at a current weddings. I'm sure
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: you've seen a number of these, and Paul, they going
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  Speaker 2: the Okay, now imagine this goes on in the town
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: of Bumpusville or whatever it is. And what Constable Fred
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: is going to be the guy that comes and responds
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: to the all out riot of one hundred and fifty people,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: Or how about the likelihood of guns being brought to
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: these things? My guess is that if something ran a muck,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: the wedding barn operator is going to be very underinsured
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: and there's going to be nobody to be able to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: collect any kind of damages from next one. You think
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: at some of these wedding barns, maybe a lot of thirteen,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: fourteen and fifteen year old kids are going to be drinking.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: I think they are. A bar has the fear of
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  Speaker 2: losing their liquor license hanging over their head. They're there
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: fear of having their insurance canceled out from underneath them.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: They also have to comply with a fair number of
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: rules and regulations. When I say bar hotels, the private
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: wedding venues, the VFW halls, and all the others that
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: are in it, there's certain rules that they have to apply.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: And what these wedding barnes want to do is not
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  Speaker 2: follow any of these rules, not have to have a
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: liquor license, not have to have it anything, and make
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  Speaker 2: money off of this. And again I understand why they
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  Speaker 2: want to do it I just don't know why we
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: should do it for them. They want to leech off
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: the rest of us and compete against legitimate businesses that
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: have all of these other costs to zero benefit to anyone. Now,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: some of them give money to politicians, and other people
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: claim that it's entrepreneurial. Well, there's nothing wrong without fornialism entrepreneurialism,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: but the new entrepreneurs shouldn't be able to break the
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: rules that everybody else has to follow, especially if the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: rules are, on their face, idiotically dangerous. So we passed
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  Speaker 2: this liquor license reform in Wisconsin last year, and it
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: gave the wedding barnes some ability to compete and operate,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: but under significant restrictions. And now they're back again. Andre Jacques,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: who couldn't get himself elected to Congresses, now he's still
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: in the state center proposing dumb ideas, got a couple
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: of Democrats in here, a couple of Republicans, and they
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: say that this is a compromise bill and that it
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: will put a limit on the number of dates they popen,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: except the number of dates is in the thirties. Under
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: the provision, wedding barnes and other private event venues planning
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: to serve alcohol will have two options. Obtain a liquor
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: license and operate like other license establishment. So again, you're
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: not going to see them do that because they don't
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: want to get the liquor license and they don't want
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: to operate like the other establishments. The whole point of
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: operating here is that they want to beat the system.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: Or here's what they're looking for. Obtain a no sale
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: event permit, which would allow renters to bring in their
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: own burea and wine, but not liquor. Okay, first of all,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: they will bring in liquor even if they're not allowed to. Secondly,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: those things are even more dangerous because when you bring
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: your own, you're spending a lot less than when you're buying.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: And if there's anything I've known after years of observing
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: people consume liquor, one of the things that holds back
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: people from overserving themselves is how damn much it costs.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: And again, if you're in a bar, and I'm not
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: saying that bars don't overserve, and the bars don't let
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: people get drunk and that they can't be fights us.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: But there's at least some level of check on this
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: because the bar has a vested interest in not losing
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: their license. What does the wedding barn operator have on this? Now,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: there are a couple of restaurants I go to in Florida.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: You're the little tiny places. They don't have a liquor license.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: She can bring your own I just I don't. I mean,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: I'd have to have a date that was a drunk
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: and she has to have something to drink it order.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: But you'll see people like bring in and I don't
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: even mean that, they'll bring in their one bottle of
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: wine and have two glasses and cork the thing back
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: up and then get in an uber and leave. And
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: it's usually the places that have like six or seven seats.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, the notion of bringing your
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: own bottles to some raucous thing with And by the way,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: when they bring up wedding, do you think this is
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: stopping at wedding? Then it's going to be prom parties
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: and then it's going to be a bunch of gang
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: bangers from the inner city that I look at it
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: having some wild ass thing that they could never get
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: away with it. Oh yeah, it just goes on motorcyclics.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: That's so on. And again, what public good comes out
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: of this other than somebody wants to do something for
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: cheap and somebody who's got a barn here wants to
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: make a cheap buck off of it. Again, it's hard.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: You know, restaurants are going out under right and left
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin for a zillion reasons. Food costs are up,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: the economy's tough. The bar business has simply changed, I
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: think because of all the pot that's out there. It's
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: just amazing me. I'll drive around down to Milwaukee. I
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: don't mean in a Monday night where they're all closed.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: A Thursday night dead, except you know, maybe on the
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: third ward and maybe still with someone on Water Street,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: but a lot of Water Street, even the people going
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: into the bars and the hangers on that are outside.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: It's a tough enough racket that's out there. So you
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: want to take businesses that have been in business in
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin for decades and give an advantage to these newbies
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: who want to come in, and I think act utterly irresponsible.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: Vicky disagrees with you again, I'm not here to debate
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: her bus for one thing, She's not here. Paul talks
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: about the backyard weddings that you the difference though in
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: the backyard wedding is by size. There's only so many
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: people who can be at it. These barns that can
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: become three and four hundred, and that's when you run
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: of the out of control type of thing. A lot
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: of the backyard weddings, they're smart enough. There's three limos involved,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: and somebody's gonna drive them all back and back in
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: all of that and so on, and nobody's ever really
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: enforced those things. And you know, the the sheer number
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: of this is what I think just makes it a
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: bad idea. But it's going to keep coming back because
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: people are looking to make a racket off. And then
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: you know, eventually you're going to have a few of
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: these things and twenty seven kids are going to be
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: killed when they're joy riding. Leave it a thing after that,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: and people are going to wonder, how in the world
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: did we let that happen. Paul said, Well, if they
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: own the property, they have to pay property taxes. But
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of these properties are assessed at rural rather
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: than commercial in terms of paying the taxes. You talk
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: about the ultimate under the table type of business where Okay,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: I'm renting your thing and I'm paying you in cash.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: It's the whole Well, I mean, they can certainly incorporate
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: as a small business and do all of that. I'm
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: just suggesting that if you're involved in the alcohol business,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: you should follow the same kind of rules that everybody
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: else who's in the business of entertaining people and putting
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: on a mass event and serving alcohol. This is the
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: Bark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. I'm
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: holding in my hands the box office report from the
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: weekend from Variety dot Com. Not surprisingly. See, let's like,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: unless you know nothing about movies, and I'm at the
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: level of next to nothing, you know at least something, right,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: what was the big movie that opened over the week
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: and no, no, no, no, no, no, nationally no, the big, big, big,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: big this movie that you know, the big huge movie
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: over the week? At the Avatar movie opened Avatar ninety
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 2: six or whatever what it is. So you didn't it's
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Avatar three. You didn't know that this was the you know,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, Okay, Paul knows I said, I knew
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: next to nothing, but I knew this that the Avatar
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: movie was opening on Christmas. It was obviously a number
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: one at the box office. In threw eighty eight million,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: which is more than every other new film released this week.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: In no more than every other film this weekend drew.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: If you took every other movie, it didn't equal what
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: Avatar grew in. If you're wondering where the movie featuring
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: the real life story of Milwaukee couple songs Sung Blue finished,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: it finished sixth at seven point six million. I think,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: based on what i've that seven point six million half
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: camp from around here. I think every showing at every
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: screening in southeastern Wisconsin was sold out. The number of
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: people who told me that I called it. I checked
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: every hour and they were all sold out. They were
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: all sold out there. Well, it's like when an iPhone
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: comes out, you don't have to go with the first
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: and I get the Christmas Day is a big movie
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: going day and all of that, and I never want
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: to be the first to do anything. It's always I
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: always use the Las Vegas buffet thing. First of all,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: you're in Las Vegas. You don't have a body clock,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: right I'll eat the dinner at four pm or nine
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with There isn't a lot and where
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: I just I don't want to go to anything when
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: it's going to be too crowded. There's the line unless
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: the crowd is simply a part of the deal, or
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: it just anyway. The song sung Blue Dead seven, which
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: was pretty good, but that's not my point in bringing
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: this up. The second big movie. I've heard that this
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: one's is pretty good, This Marty Supreme movie. No, I'm
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: not going to see Avatar. I'm going to Florida Friday.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: On Friday, I'm finally escaping this weather. One of the
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: things that I've that I've figured out that a dumbbell
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: like me should do on a weekday afternoon is go
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: to a movie. There's a massive mall a couple miles
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: from where I live, and it's got one of those
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: multiplex Paul, I think there's thirty screens in there. Actually
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: I think I'm low So, you know, two thirty in
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: the afternoon. Old fart like me, nothing else to do
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: when I go to a movie. So I've done that.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: I want to see this Marty Supreme. I'm not going
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: to tell you the story because it's about the songs.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: I'm blue thing. Anyway, Variety covers the movie industry, so
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: they give you way more detail than the other stories.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: And in the description of Song Sung Blue, a couple
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: of things in here that just jumped out at me,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: and no, I want to find that it has to
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: do with who it was specifically that went. I want
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: to get the exact code here because I want to
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: get the number right. A lot of it goes on
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: Marty Supreme and wants a hit at the Avatar thing here.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: Song Sung Blue seven point six million over the weekend
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: and twelve million to the four day holiday frame. The
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: holiday frame, I don't know that means no, No, it's
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: it's over. It's a four day I would have thought
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: that maybe they Christmas Day. Was that a Thursday? Maybe? Yeah?
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: The holiday weekend is Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, I'm guessing
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: that when they say frame, it's the four days. Any
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: of the four day holiday frame twelve million, So probably
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: the frame includes Christmas Day because that's such a big day.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: So it did twelve million dollars and the movie only
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: costs thirty millions, so I already got twelve million. Of
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: it back and this is before international the twelve million.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: That's just in the United States, before the international and
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: before the big money occurs, which is streaming and so on.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: So it wasn't bad, but it was not anywhere near
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: the top of the list for the weekend. Then, continuing,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: Craig Grewer directed the thirty million dollar budget movie featuring
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: Hugh Jack Benn Kate Hudson and the true story of
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: two down on their luck musicians who form a Neil
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: Diamond Privit band. Opening weekend. Prods dug the film, which
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: graded which earned in a grade on Cinema Score. You
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: know what Cinema Score is. It's a company that surveys
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: people after movies. It's different from Rotten Tomatoes in which
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: you have to This is a company that proactively goes out.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: It got the highest grade of any of the movies
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: released this weekend, so the audiences that went did like it,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: but the best mark among any of the new releases
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: in terms of ticket buyers, sixty five percent were female.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: I guess I would not have thought one way or
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: another about that other than you know, it's the movie
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: doesn't have Neil Diamond in it, but it's music. I
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: think Neil Diamond was more popul among women than men. Right,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: But here's the next one. Fifty five percent of the
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: audience were above the age of fifty five. I know
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: this about people over fifty five, then I'll go to movies.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, the movie business has just changed. It's almost
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: entirely young people who go to movies and old fart's
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: like me. You wait for the movies to come out
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: on streaming and they watch it there. So the Song
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: Sung Blue movie to do as well as it did
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: given that more than half the people were over the
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: age of fifty five, Now, obviously the story is going
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: to relate to people more over the age of fifty
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: five because the couple in the movie there were in
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: the thirties and the forties as portrayed in the movie,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: and that's when Thunder and Lightning the age they were
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: when they hit and the music of Neil Diamond will
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: Neil Diamond first hit in the nineteen sixties, so that
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: would be it, I do think. And also, there aren't
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: really any young people's storylines in they're the only young
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: people are the kids of Lightning and the Thunder in
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: the movie. But Paul says Zoomers, they never heard of
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: Neil Diamond except you know what I know is when
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: they go to the ball. First of all, everybody knows
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 2: Sweet Caroline because whenever they play it, everybody sings along,
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: and it's always like people I don't sing along, it's
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: like somebody who's eighteen. A couple of other Neil Diamond
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: songs do tend to be like on soundtracks that you'll
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: see like at a sporting event and so on, and
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: you know, all these not so much millennials, but the zoomers,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: who never really had any popular music of their own generation,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: they don't care about hip hop that much, or at
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: least some of them don't. They've gravitated toward not so
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: much the old style rock and roll as old style pop,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: sixties and seventies stuff. So they do know Neil Diamond's music.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: But whether or not, when they see the brief little
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: summary Neil Diamond Tribute Act, it just sounds like something
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: that Paul and I would want to see rather than kids.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: But fifty five percent according to that we're over the
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: age of fifty five. My guess is that the movie
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: will hang on for a while on word of mouth,
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: because the word of mouth is good, but the real
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: hit is going to be the same way I see
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: virtually every movie is when it gets to streaming and
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: people watch it then because that's where the target audience is.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: And with that, we're out of time for today's podcast,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: last podcast of the year, Paul Swansaw it's still tempting
• 1:30:27
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• 1:30:31
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• 1:30:33
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• 1:30:35
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• 1:30:38
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