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Mark Belling Podcast #176: The story that explains everything: Milwaukee criminals can order food delivery while in custody at David Crowley's lockup. The story not only proves the stupidity of Milwaukee leaders but is another demonstration of how leniency on crime results in more crime. And, whether it's Columbus Day or Indigenous People Day, Mark examines European colonialism and why it was both good and bad. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: We're going to start with one of those perfect stories.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about those in the past. A story that
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  Speaker 2: in and of itself is very interesting and usually important.
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  Speaker 2: but also raises all sorts of other larger points. The
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  Speaker 2: story itself, which was first reported by the website Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: Right Now, sounds like a parody. The inmates at what
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  Speaker 2: used to be known as the Milwaukee County House of
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  Speaker 2: Correction can have restaurant food delivered to them. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when we talk about how lenient we are are allowing
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  Speaker 2: our prisons, jails, correctional facilities to get, the next thing
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  Speaker 2: you know, they'll be able to door dash right to
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  Speaker 2: the jail. Well, that's exactly what you can do. That's
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  Speaker 2: what David Crowley is allowing. There's a lot to get
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  Speaker 2: into with regard to this story, including the fact that
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  Speaker 2: the mainstream media does not want you to know about
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  Speaker 2: the latest instance of ridiculous leniency that we show toward
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  Speaker 2: criminals in Milwaukee County. So we'll dive into that in
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  Speaker 2: First reported, as I said, a few days ago by
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin Right Now, the website. Milwaukee County has two correctional facilities.
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  Speaker 2: This can be a little confusing, but it's not very confusing.
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County has so many crux that the jail isn't
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  Speaker 2: big enough to handle all of them. And this has
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  Speaker 2: been the case for many, many years, even before we
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  Speaker 2: built the new jail. So we have two correctional facilities.
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  Speaker 2: One is the Milwaukee County Jail, which is located in
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  Speaker 2: downtown Milwaukee right next to the courthouse. The other, which
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  Speaker 2: has been around for a long time, for many, many years,
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  Speaker 2: for decades, was called the House of Correction. It's a
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  Speaker 2: more rural setting. I guess you would say the security
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  Speaker 2: is a little bit lower. It's no longer the House
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  Speaker 2: of Correction because when David Crowley got in as county executive,
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  Speaker 2: he decided that somehow that name sounds too mean. Somehow,
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  Speaker 2: house of correction. In other words, using the word correction
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  Speaker 2: for someone who is an inmate, their behavior is to
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  Speaker 2: be corrected. That's why they're there. That wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the community reintegration center. Lefties, of course, do
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  Speaker 2: this all the time. They don't like what certain words,
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  Speaker 2: the connotation that comes off of those words, so they
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  Speaker 2: choose new ones. And I guarantee you in 20 years,
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  Speaker 2: they'll choose a new name for this one because somehow
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  Speaker 2: there's a stigma attached to that. Anyway, That's the facility.
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  Speaker 2: It's located in Franklin in southwestern Milwaukee County. Wisconsin right
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  Speaker 2: now is reporting that the inmates there can use a
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  Speaker 2: food delivery service and have a vast array of food
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  Speaker 2: items delivered to them at the Community Reintegration Center. Now,
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  Speaker 2: who's in the Community Reintegration Center? They're all criminals. People
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  Speaker 2: that are housed in either the jail or the House
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  Speaker 2: of Correction tend to be people who have terms that
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  Speaker 2: are 12 months or less. So you've got drunk drivers there,
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  Speaker 2: other people who have committed various crimes in Milwaukee County,
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  Speaker 2: but have received a sentence of less than 12 months.
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  Speaker 2: They choose to put certain people in the jail and
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  Speaker 2: generally less security risks out at the House of Correction.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the people that are in Huber privileges,
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  Speaker 2: they may start at the House of Correction and then
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  Speaker 2: move to another facility and so on. But anyway, that's
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  Speaker 2: what the House of Correction is now called, the Community
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  Speaker 2: Reintegration Center. You have a lot of people that are
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  Speaker 2: convicted of crimes, like rather serious misdemeanors. They may get six, nine,
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  Speaker 2: ten months, et cetera. They're out there. The program that
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County has established allows individuals the inmates to order
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  Speaker 2: from something called Trinity Takeout. Now, I'm quoting from the
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  Speaker 2: WisconsinRightNow.com story. Trinity Takeout gives you the ability to order
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  Speaker 2: an extra special meal for your loved one. Choose from
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  Speaker 2: an a la carte menu of exclusive options, which can
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  Speaker 2: include entree snacks and desserts. After you place an order,
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen prepares it fresh, and a delicious takeout treat
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  Speaker 2: is delivered directly to the recipient. Trinity Takeout is an easy,
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  Speaker 2: convenient way to send satisfying food to brighten their day.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not free, so you've got to pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: But the inmate or someone on behalf of the inmate
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  Speaker 2: can use the service as much as they want to
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  Speaker 2: use it. And then you go through the menu here,
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  Speaker 2: and it's pretty good stuff. I mean, this is at
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  Speaker 2: least above Domino's, but obviously pizza would be one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that would be delivered. Let's see. We got
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  Speaker 2: a bacon cheeseburger with chips, boneless buffalo chicken wings and chips,
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  Speaker 2: bratwurst and chips, cheeseburger and chips, chicken tenders and chips,
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  Speaker 2: crispy chicken sandwich and chips. This goes on and on.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of items in here. Pepperoni cheese pizza,
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  Speaker 2: personal meat lovers pizza, Philly cheesesteak and chips, pepperoni supreme pizza,
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  Speaker 2: personal pepperoni pizza, and then you can order soft drinks
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  Speaker 2: like Pepsi. So that's what we have in place. Every
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  Speaker 2: time we try to talk to people in the rest
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  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin about why Milwaukee tends to be so screwed up,
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  Speaker 2: the explanation that we keep coming back with is because
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  Speaker 2: the people who run Milwaukee are screwed up. These are
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  Speaker 2: things that they believe in. Now, you'll recall there was
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  Speaker 2: a separate story that broke several weeks ago thanks to
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  Speaker 2: a Milwaukee County Circuit judge speaking about it from the bench.
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  Speaker 2: The same county executive, David Crowley, who is the Democrat
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  Speaker 2: candidate for governor of Wisconsin, signed into law legislation passed
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  Speaker 2: by the county board that gives Milwaukee County jail inmates
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  Speaker 2: computer tablets. And it turns out that some of those
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  Speaker 2: inmates were using the messaging function on the tablets to
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  Speaker 2: threaten or intimidate witnesses against them. Many of the inmates
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  Speaker 2: of the jail are people that are being held on
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  Speaker 2: bond or without bond with their trials pending. And Judge
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  Speaker 2: Borowski found out that these tablets that Crowley gave to
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  Speaker 2: the inmates at the jail were often being used for
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  Speaker 2: very inappropriate purposes. Crowley dug in his heels on this
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  Speaker 2: and refused to take the tablets away until last week.
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  Speaker 2: Now that Tom Tiffany is making... A lot of noise
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  Speaker 2: about it. Crowley decided to take the tablets away last week.
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  Speaker 2: But it took weeks of pressure. Now we find out
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  Speaker 2: that there's a separate policy at the other correctional facility,
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing those people have tablets too, but I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: in which they can have restaurant food delivered to them
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  Speaker 2: or restaurant quality food delivered to them. This Tiffany takeout
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  Speaker 2: thing isn't a restaurant. They prepare the food and they
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  Speaker 2: set this up and it's available, I guess, to anybody
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  Speaker 2: in the delivery region. including the HOSA correction. Now, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot on this story. The first, this is what
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  Speaker 2: you get when you elect a liberal Milwaukee Democrat to
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  Speaker 2: statewide office. This is what these people believe in. Since
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  Speaker 2: the Wisconsin Right Now story was reported, I think they
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  Speaker 2: put it up on Friday of last week. It might
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  Speaker 2: have been Thursday, not sure. I did a Google search. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want to clarify, I'm doing this podcast on Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: So if somebody else in the media has picked up
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  Speaker 2: on it other than conservative talk show hosts in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: right now, as of the time I'm doing this, I
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  Speaker 2: did a Google search and the only hits that came
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  Speaker 2: up were from the Wisconsin Right Now story. Meaning nobody
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  Speaker 2: else in the media has chosen to report on this story.
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  Speaker 2: Even though, as I say, I suspect a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people find this quite interesting and newsworthy. That crooks, while
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  Speaker 2: locked up, can get pizza delivered to them while incarcerated.
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't the media cover this story? And the answer
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  Speaker 2: is they don't want you to know about it. Why
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't they want you to know about it? Because who
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  Speaker 2: other than a bleeding-heart lefty who thinks that we should
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  Speaker 2: coddle crooks and that's going to be the next thing
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  Speaker 2: that I get into, would think that this is an
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  Speaker 2: incredibly stupid idea. There's been this, now let's get into
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  Speaker 2: that part of it. There is this ideology on the
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  Speaker 2: left that any type of incarceration, be it a state prison,
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  Speaker 2: a county jail, a house of correction like this now
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  Speaker 2: called the Community Reintegration Center, that the purpose for this
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  Speaker 2: facility is to work with the individual so that they
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  Speaker 2: become a better and more wonderful person when they're released. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: everyone would believe that rehabilitation is part of the responsibility
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  Speaker 2: of a correctional facility. But the question is, how do
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  Speaker 2: you do it? If you've got somebody who's broken the
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  Speaker 2: law seriously enough that they're actually under a sentence where
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  Speaker 2: they've got to be in a facility like this for months,
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  Speaker 2: is the best way to teach them a lesson to
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  Speaker 2: deter them from doing it again to coddle them? Or
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  Speaker 2: is the best way to punish them so that they
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  Speaker 2: have an incentive not to do it again. This has
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  Speaker 2: been debated forever. Well, I think we know what the
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  Speaker 2: result is. The crime problem in Milwaukee County is worse
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  Speaker 2: than the crime problem in any one of the other
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  Speaker 2: 71 counties in Wisconsin. And I think one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons for it is we don't punish many people in
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County. Now, understand there's a larger backdrop to this.
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  Speaker 2: The Milwaukee County Jail, which is not run by Crowley,
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  Speaker 2: it's run by the sheriff. And I should explain that
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  Speaker 2: the Community Reintegration Center, that the legislation and the operation
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  Speaker 2: of this is part of the county executive. The Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: County Jail refuses to accept inmates arrested on traffic wards.
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  Speaker 2: This is a key part to understanding the problem with
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  Speaker 2: reckless driving in Milwaukee. If you have warrants for speeding,
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  Speaker 2: reckless driving, any of these things, and you don't pay
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  Speaker 2: your fine, or if you have warrants for driving while
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  Speaker 2: suspended or driving without a license or driving an unregistered vehicle,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't pay them and you get caught again
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  Speaker 2: and again and again, if they take you to the
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  Speaker 2: county jail on that warrant, the county jail will not
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  Speaker 2: accept you. They claim they don't have enough room. So
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  Speaker 2: this means that the people who are driving recklessly and
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  Speaker 2: have lots of traffic warrants have zero incentive to pay
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  Speaker 2: any of their fines or to stop because they're never
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  Speaker 2: going to be jailed for it. In addition to that,
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  Speaker 2: many of the individuals who drive recklessly and are then
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  Speaker 2: convicted do not get sentenced to jail anyway. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're a juvenile, Unless you run from the authorities and
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  Speaker 2: crash into somebody, you won't even go to a juvenile detention.
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  Speaker 2: We've covered forever the leniency with regard to the sentences
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  Speaker 2: that come down in Milwaukee County. There are some counties
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  Speaker 2: that have bad judges, and there are some good judges
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  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee County. But on the overall, the treatment of
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  Speaker 2: criminals in Milwaukee County is far softer than in most
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  Speaker 2: other counties in the state of Wisconsin. That's an ideology.
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  Speaker 2: You come up with these terms like restorative justice. We
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  Speaker 2: have to prepare people to reintegrate them into the community.
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  Speaker 2: All of this crap. It's been tried. It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Now put yourself in the shoes of your average slug
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  Speaker 2: who just breaks the law all the time. If They
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  Speaker 2: think I can break the law all the time and
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  Speaker 2: not even go to jail. There's no deterrent at all.
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  Speaker 2: If one step up, okay, if they finally catch me
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  Speaker 2: and I don't even have to go to the jail,
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  Speaker 2: I can go to the House of Correction, which we're
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  Speaker 2: now going to make even softer by calling it the
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  Speaker 2: Community Reintegration Center. And I get daytime release privileges, and
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  Speaker 2: I can work outside on the farm all day, and
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  Speaker 2: then at night I can order a couple of cheeseburgers
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  Speaker 2: and wolf them down. It's kind of livable. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'd probably live in some shack in the
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  Speaker 2: inner city or where some of these individuals live than
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  Speaker 2: out there, but it isn't that bad. It's certainly not
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  Speaker 2: hard time. This doesn't sound like San Quentin. What's the
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  Speaker 2: other one? Alcatraz. Although those are all in blue cities,
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  Speaker 2: they probably soften those up too. Sing Sing. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know why they call Sing Sing Sing Sing? You do not.
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  Speaker 2: I asked Jason this. I'm not sure either, but I
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  Speaker 2: think I know. I might be wrong, but I love
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  Speaker 2: this because what is anybody going to do if I
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  Speaker 2: am wrong? I think it's in Ossining, New York. And
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  Speaker 2: Ossining sounds like Sing Sing, and they therefore dubbed it
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  Speaker 2: Sing Sing. I could be wrong, but I think that's
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  Speaker 2: what it is. Anyway. If coddling people after they've been
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  Speaker 2: convicted of crime and making jail as soft as possible worked,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'd be in favor of it. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is when it's really soft, the deterrent factor goes down.
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  Speaker 2: But also, when you remove the concept of punishment, the
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  Speaker 2: disincentive evaporates. The more miserable the experience is, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not suggesting we starve people, But for the longest time,
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  Speaker 2: when you went into the Milwaukee County Jail, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the stories that you hear are true. You get served
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  Speaker 2: a bologna sandwich on like white bread. That's what they
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  Speaker 2: give you. It's really miserable. Anybody who has any sense
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  Speaker 2: of decency at all isn't going to want to live
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  Speaker 2: like that. The more livable you make it, the more
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  Speaker 2: acceptable you make the situation for criminals, the less you deter.
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  Speaker 2: Also understand, running all of these programs costs a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. Now, the inmates have to pay for their
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  Speaker 2: own food delivery, but you've got to have some level
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  Speaker 2: of security where these glorified DoorDash drivers are running food
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  Speaker 2: in and out at all hours of the day. There's
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  Speaker 2: a fair amount of bureaucracy and administration that's associated with that.
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  Speaker 2: It tells you where the priorities of guys like Crowley are.
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  Speaker 2: They are far more concerned about a humane, acceptable experience
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  Speaker 2: for the people locked up in jail and the house
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  Speaker 2: of correction than they are about punishing people for doing
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  Speaker 2: something that's wrong. This is the guy who will be
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  Speaker 2: in charge of all Wisconsin state prisons. The governor runs
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  Speaker 2: the prison system. The governor has a department of corrections.
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  Speaker 2: He names the correction secretary. We have really backslid during
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  Speaker 2: Tony Evers' governorship. And as you know, I am predicting
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  Speaker 2: that after the election, Evers is going to pardon people
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  Speaker 2: like crazy. He has given himself the power to reduce
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  Speaker 2: the sentences and release any inmate that he wants to
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  Speaker 2: release from state prison. While we still have truth in
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  Speaker 2: sentencing in Wisconsin, we also still have the ability of
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  Speaker 2: the governor to pardon anyone, and he has reserved that power.
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  Speaker 2: on the other part of the story that I was mentioning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing at some point, somebody in the media, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe because Tiffany turns this into an ad, Crowley's going
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  Speaker 2: to have to answer and explain for it. But to
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  Speaker 2: this point, he hasn't because the media has chosen not
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  Speaker 2: to tell anybody about this story who didn't either read
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  Speaker 2: it on a conservative website or hear a radio talk
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  Speaker 2: show host talk about it. If a Republican county executive
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  Speaker 2: was the candidate for governor and that county executive had
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  Speaker 2: a jail in which they had policies like this where
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  Speaker 2: you could have food delivered, I'm pretty sure you'd hear
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  Speaker 2: about it. The media has a remarkable ability to decide
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  Speaker 2: that something isn't newsworthy when that story is embarrassing to
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat. Going back to the earlier story, the separate
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  Speaker 2: story about jail inmates having tablets. The only reason that
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  Speaker 2: got covered is because a judge talked about it from
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  Speaker 2: the bench. And the video of that judge talking about
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  Speaker 2: it on the bench went viral on YouTube. The story
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be ignored. And the big final takeaway on this
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  Speaker 2: is these are the people that run Milwaukee. My newspaper column,
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  Speaker 2: which comes out on Wednesday, is going to address this
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  Speaker 2: whole problem of the people who run the city of
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee and who run Milwaukee County are dopier than ever.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have the same values as everyone else. I'm
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  Speaker 2: guessing in Dane County, Madison, they probably have crap like
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  Speaker 2: this too because they're really, really liberal. But for most
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  Speaker 2: people in Wisconsin, they'd see the decisions that are made
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  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee and they want no part of them. They
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  Speaker 2: look at the constant crime, the reckless driving, the juvenile
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  Speaker 2: behavior in Milwaukee County and they see it go chronically unpunished.
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  Speaker 2: They think Milwaukee is dysfunctional and it is. That dysfunction
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  Speaker 2: is because of policies like this. We choose not to punish.
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  Speaker 2: We choose not to sanction. We make it really hard
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  Speaker 2: to get anyone locked up, and when they are locked up,
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  Speaker 2: they're treated like hotel guests. I'm guessing if you're at
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  Speaker 2: a hotel, you can order from DoorDash in these places.
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  Speaker 2: I've never tried to do it because there's usually a
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  Speaker 2: restaurant in the hotel, but that probably is done, right?
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  Speaker 2: So what really is the difference between the House of
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  Speaker 2: Correction and, I'll admit, it's not like the Pfister. The
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  Speaker 2: Motel 6. Is Motel 6, they're still around, aren't they?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know how Motel 6 got its name? You
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  Speaker 2: don't know that either. I'm pretty sure I'm right about this.
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  Speaker 2: When Motel 6 opened, it was $ 6 a night. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's what it was. You know, that's long, long.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with that is, what did they think? That
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't going to be inflation? But then they just
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  Speaker 2: kept calling it Motel 6. I think that's what it
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  Speaker 2: was whenever they first started Motel 6s. Is the House
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  Speaker 2: of Correction nicer or rougher than the Motel 6? Now,
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  Speaker 2: you could say, well, the Motel 6, you can leave
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  Speaker 2: whenever you want. All right. The House of Correction, that's
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  Speaker 2: like a farm. There's a big, sprawling expanse out there.
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  Speaker 2: Recreational activity. Bring in the food, they coddle you. My
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  Speaker 2: guess is that the average Motel 6 manager probably doesn't
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  Speaker 2: allow a lot of misbehavior in the Motel 6s as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to David Crowley, who knows what's allowed out at
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  Speaker 2: the Community Reintegration Center. I have several stories in this
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: segment that I find related. There's a story reported a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: week and a half ago about a double shooting that
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: occurred at a homecoming football game in the Minneapolis area.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: The shooting was linked to Somali gang activities. The problems
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota with the Somali crime gangs are severe. The
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Somali gangs operate on multiple levels. We know about the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: massive ripping off of the social service system that had
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: been going on there with Somalians setting up phony home
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: health care services and billing the state of Minnesota. Millions
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: of dollars were lost with this. There are also Somali
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: street gangs that are out there in this particular shooting
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: in which horrified people at a high school football game
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: saw a guy come in and start firing and in
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: fact hit two victims. His name is, the guy who's
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: been charged is named, I mean, there's no way to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: say this name without making it sound like I'm making
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: fun of his name. I'm just reading his name. He
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: has the same first name as last name, which is
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: not the rarest thing in the world. Who's the most
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: famous person you could think of that has the same
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: first name as last name? You're not getting any of
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: these today, are you, Jason? Marky, well, Marky, Mark is not.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: In fact, people try to give me that nickname. That's
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: never stuck with me. Marky and Mark are actually, I'm
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: seeing exactly the same. Now, if his name was Mark Mark,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: then it would be the same. But Mark, what? I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: would say the guy that killed Bobby Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I would say him, right? This guy's name, his first
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: name is Adam and his last name is Adam. This
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: is the Somali gunman in Minnesota. He does, however, have
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the middle name of Abda Hakim. Adam Abda Hakim Adam.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: This is your guy, 18. The county that Minneapolis is
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: in is Hennepin County. They set bail at $ 100, 000. He's out!
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: So you've got a member of a Somali gang that
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: went to a high school football game to try to
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: kill a couple of people. His gang or somebody was
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: able to pony up 100 grand, he's out. We keep
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing that
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: somehow all these school shootings, now this isn't exactly a
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: school shooting, and it's not exactly a mass shooting. It
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: looks like it was a targeted shooting, but it was
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: at a school-related event that a lot of people were at.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: About how serious all of this is. And that we've
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: got to do a better job of keeping guns out
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: of the hands of the wrong people. Here, we know
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: who the guy, well, we know who the guy that's
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: criminally charged with this is. He's free on bail. Does
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: he not pose a threat? By the way, he was
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: released without conditions. Usually they put 19 million bail conditions
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: on this. You can't do this. You can't access the Internet.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: You can't. There's no bail conditions on him. This is Minnesota.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Minnesota is run by a gubernatorial nincompoop and Tim Walz,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and the legislature is controlled by the Democrats. That will
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: be Wisconsin if Crowley wins and the Democrats get the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Assembly and Senate, which most people think they will. I
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: was just talking to somebody a few days ago that
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: he fears that one of the things that isn't sticking with, say,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: swing voters is we become California. We become Illinois. We
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: become Minnesota if the Democrats take over the entire state,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: that they somehow think that our Democrats aren't as screwy
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: as those Democrats. Trust me on this. David Crowley is
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: as screwy and as lefty as Tim Walz. They're actually
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: comparable people. They're both kind of wussy. Neither of them
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: have any command. Neither of them is particularly smart. They're
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: both political lightweights. And they're both very, very liberal and
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: easily pushed around by partisan progressive activists. Now, another story
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: that I claim is related. This is from the angle
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: of certain stories that the media doesn't cover. One of
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the most watched Senate races in America is Texas. The
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Democrats think they can flip Texas. The Republican candidate is flawed.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: And we've heard about all the flaws. Ken Paxton, the
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: biggest problem with Ken Paxton is Apparently, he cheated on
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: his wife and she filed for divorce. However, he is
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: a big favorite of conservatives. He's the attorney general down
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: in Texas. The Democratic candidate is a guy named James Tallarico.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Several weeks ago, Tallarico disappeared. He's running for the Senate.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Six weeks before the election, no campaign appearances, nothing. He's vanished.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: He's finally resurfaced. there has been remarkable lack of curiosity
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: from the media as to where he was. One conservative website,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Town Hall, is reporting that he was in a mental institution.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: This has not been confirmed. Their reporting, however, at least
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: draws some evidence that that he went to a mental
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: institution and had been there since approximately September 29th. His
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: campaign had said that he was sidelined with the flu.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: A poster on X named Nick Sorter reported, Ohio Mental
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Health Hospital confirms James Tallarico was discharged from the facility
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: earlier this week. In addition to that, another poster reported,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: that a private plane did indeed fly from Austin to
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Hamilton Airport in Ohio. There's not been a confirmation from
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Tallarico's staff that indeed he went into a mental hospital,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: but it is being widely speculated that he may have
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: had a nervous breakdown. Regardless, you've got a guy who
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: apparently is cracking under the pressure of campaigning for the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: United States Senate. If he can't handle a campaign for
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the Senate, how in the world is he going to
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: handle being a senator? Again, I want you to flip
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the script. Imagine a Republican candidate in a swing state
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: in a close United States Senate race disappears for several
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: weeks and there's strong evidence that he went into a
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: mental institution because he cracked up. I'm just telling you,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: that the level of scrutiny into that would be overwhelming
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: and the pressure to drop out of the race would
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: be very powerful. Some people wonder, well, is this relevant?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Let's imagine Tallarico did have a breakdown. Attitudes, they change,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: things change. I guess the closest thing I would compare
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: it to is back in 1972 when George McGovern was
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: the Democratic candidate for president. He chose as his running
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: mate Thomas Eagleton, who was a senator from Missouri. McGovern
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: was running in 72. Nixon was a big favorite to
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: be reelected. McGovern was probably the farthest left down. to
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: that point that had been nominated by a major party
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: for president. So we tried to choose a more mainstream
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: running mate for Vice President Thomas Eagleton. Eagleton did not
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: disclose to McGovern. And McGovern's staff, which was very incompetent,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: they actually waited until The day before the final day
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: of the Democratic Convention to pick Eagleton, as you know now,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: most running mates are chosen and vetted weeks and weeks
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: and weeks in advance. They may only announce it a
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: few days before, but there's incredible vetting that goes on
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: into this. Well, they didn't do any vetting of Eagleton,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and Eagleton did not disclose that he had, earlier in
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: his life, had had a total mental collapse and, in fact,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: had received shock therapy at a mental institution. McGovern tried
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: to ride it out for three or four days. They
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: couldn't do it. The American public did not want somebody
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: that was that mentally vulnerable. And Eagleton was kicked off
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the ticket by McGovern, and they chose a Kennedy in-law
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: named Sergeant Shriver. Do you know about Sergeant Shriver, or
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: is that before your time? You've heard of him. What
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: else do you know about Sergeant Shriver? He was one
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: of the Kennedy's husbands. Anything else you know about him?
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: He's Maria Shriver's father. Did you know that? Yes, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: he was therefore Arnold Schwarzenegger's father-in-law. So there's that. A
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: lot of these guys married into Kennedys and became famous.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Can you think of any other Kennedy in-law? See, these
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: are all before your time. There's another famous Kennedy in-law.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: He's a member of the Rat Pack. Peter Lawford. Peter Lawford,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: he married one of the Kennedy sisters also. Rat Pack
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: reference in here. Oh, that came up because of the
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: whole eagle thing. So here you've got Tallarico, and this
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: is the great hope of the demo. First of all,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Tallarico is a very weird guy. There have been weird
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: things that have come out of his mouth, and they
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: found all sorts of writings and positions and things that
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: he's posted on social media and so on from the
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: last number of years that are really, really, really weird.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: He tries to pass himself off, though, as a religious progressive.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: The lefties have made inroads in the state of Texas,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: and as I say, it's expected to be a Democratic year,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and there are red flags with regard to Paxton. So
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I guess you're going to have to decide if the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: red flags on Paxton, kind of a mess of a
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: person of life, are awaited by the red flags on Tallarico,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: radical lefty pretending that he's not, and somebody who has
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to disappear off the campaign trail, regardless of whether or
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: not he was treated in a mental institution or not. Again,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he was or he wasn't, But
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: you're seeing the media doing everything in its power to
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: avoid just badgering him and demanding answers as to where
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: he went. And finally, this also deals with the media. Now,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to admit, of the major sports that we
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: have out there, my following of the WNBA is almost non-existent.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: The WNBA doesn't have great ratings, but they're way higher
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: than they were before, all, of course, because of Caitlin Clark.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I see all this sideshow stuff. I never watch WNBA.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: When I say never, if I see a highlight, it's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: only because it's on one of those sports shows where
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: they're showing highlights. Or if something big happened and there's
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: a YouTube clip of it, otherwise, I'm not paying attention
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: to it. There's too many sports out there for me
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: to pay attention to, and the WNBA just is not
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: making it up to me. I didn't even watch the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: NASCAR race yesterday. Way too much going on. You had
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: the Packer game, and then I headed off to the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Brewer game. And again, for people listening today, this is
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Monday afternoon. So I'm doing this podcast after game one,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: but before game two of the Brewer-Dodger series. Many of
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: you will be hearing it after game two. So that's
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the time of reference that I'm on. Anyway, the WNBA
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: voting for most valuable player. Now, I will admit, I
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: don't know who should be the MVP here. in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: WNBA because I've not been following the WNBA, but I
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: do know that Caitlin Clark has had a spectacular season.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: In fact, according to this story on foxnews.com, Caitlin Clark
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: had five games this past season of at least 30
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: points and 10 assists. Now, I know obviously from men's basketball,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: a player who both scores a lot and has a
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: lot of assists. is a dominant player in the game
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: because it means that player is handling the ball a lot.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: In order to give an assist, that means somebody else
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: is scoring. So that means that this player is either
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: scoring with the ball or setting up another player to score.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: It's very hard to be high in both because usually
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: to score a lot of points, you have to shoot
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: all the time. And to have a lot of assists,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: it means you're passing up a lot of shots and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: instead you're making passes. Anyway, she had five games. in
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: which she scored at least 30 points and had at
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: least 10 assists. If you combine all of the other
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: players in the WNBA and how many games this year
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: in which they had a 30-10 game?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Four.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: The entire rest of the league combined had instances of
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: somebody scoring 30 points with 10 assists. Kaitlyn Clark herself
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: did it five times. Yet despite this, She not only
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: did not win most valuable player, 19 voters didn't even
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: put her on their ballot. Now, the way the ballot
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: works is you don't just vote for one person. You rank.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: This is how it's done in a lot of sports.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: You'll get like certain number of points. You rank somebody
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: first place, somebody second place, somebody third place. I don't
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: know how far down it goes. 19 of the voters
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and the WNBA most valuable player, and it's voted for
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: by the media. didn't even put Clark on their ballot.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: The only explanation for that is racism. I might be
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: wrong in this. The idea just popped into my head
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: right now. I would have researched it before the show.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I believe Jackie Robinson was rookie of the year, his
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: first year in Major League Baseball. He was the guy who,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know, He broke the
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: color line. He was the first African-American to play Major
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: League Baseball. I think the year was 46 or 47.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I think he was voted Rookie of the Year. And
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: right out of the box, and again, he came up as,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: he wasn't like 18 or 19 when he came up.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: There was a color line in baseball, and the Dodgers
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: became the first team to sign a guy, and he
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: played minor leagues for a brief period of time, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: then he was called up to the Brooklyn Dodgers. And
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: he had a great first season and had a great
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: career in Major League Baseball. And after he signed, a
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: number of other African-American players were signed and the color
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: line was broken and so on. He did win in
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: 47 in his first year. Jason looked it up. Clearly,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: anybody who would not have put Jackie Robinson on their
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: ballot for rookie of the year in 47 was somebody
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: who just resented the fact that a black player was
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: allowed to play in Major League Baseball. How is this
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: any different? What other explanation would there be for somebody
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: who obviously, whether she's the best player in the WNBA
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: or not, again, the WNBA, I think the title was
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: won by, you know, this Asia Wilson. Do you know
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: about that? You know, you know what her wedding, you,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything as she, she's a, you don't
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: follow it enough either. So you can't really say if
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: she would have been better than Clark, but Caitlin Clark
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: didn't even get named on 19 ballots. It's just an
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: extraordinary thing that the WNBA was absolutely nowhere. It's hard
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: to imagine a sport that had less following in this
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: country than the WNBA before Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clark comes in,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: all the other players, and I shouldn't say all, many
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: of the other players resent the fact that she's coming
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: in and she's more popular than they are. They try
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: to brutalize her on the court. She, by her very presence,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: uplifts the league, which suddenly now has a following, which
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: it didn't have before her, so clearly she's the reason.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: And now she comes in and she's having a spectacular career,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: yet she is still deeply resented for it to the
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: point that many in the media will not even put
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: her on the MVP ballot. I have a thought on
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: this as well. I believe, and I've been arguing this
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: for some time, I believe that on sports voting ballots,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: they should not be confidential. This isn't like a vote
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: for president of the United States where you have a
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: right to privacy of your vote. And I've said this
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: with regard to halls of fame and other things in
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: which the media votes. There needs to be accountability for
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: your selection. If you aren't willing to publicly stand behind
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: who you voted for, you shouldn't be allowed to vote
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: for it. Again, we're not electing public officials. There's not,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I think, any right of privacy with regard to the
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: media and its determination of who should win these awards.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: I've argued this in the past when they've had voting,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: for example, for most valuable player in other sports in.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I've also argued it with regard to the Hall of Fame.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: When you see somebody leave an obvious contender for Hall
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: of Fame off their ballot, we should know who those
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: people are. I've argued it here in Milwaukee. I've been
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: ragging forever on the Braves Brewers Walk of Fame at
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: American Family Field. There are numerous players that just can't
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: get in because, I think frankly, Some of the people
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in the media who vote on it are so young
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: that they don't know some of the great players, not
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: only of particularly the Braves past, since they were here
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: in the 50s and 60s, or certainly the Brewers. They're obvious.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Bob Buell was one of the greatest pitchers in Major
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: League Baseball in the 1950s. He had several spectacular seasons
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: in a row with the Milwaukee Braves. He's not in there.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Pete Vukovich won the Cy Young Award. He's not in there.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: The all-time Milwaukee Brewers wins leader for pitchers. It's not it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's just so many of those. And I
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: have argued that I just, by the way, I'm one
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: of the voters in that thing. And every year I
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: disclose my vote, which players I vote for. I think
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: everybody in the media should have to disclose them. And
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I think that the Brewers should disclose the vote so
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: we know which idiots are so stupid that they don't
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: think some of those players should be in. You're into sports.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Do you agree with me on this? You disagree. Why? Why?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Jason says the mob rules everything. They're afraid to go.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: If you're afraid to go against the grain on voting
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: for something like this, then don't vote. Then don't be
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: part of it. If you're not willing to stand behind your,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: if you're in the media, if you're a commentator, if
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: you're somebody who expresses an opinion on these things, if
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: you're not willing to stand behind it and take the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: grief and abuse. That'd be like a podcast being done
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: by some guy who wouldn't say what his name is
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: when he's out here. It'd be like if I started
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: my career and I was never disclosed, if I was
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: just anonymous, if my name was X. If you're going
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: to have an opinion, you're going to put it out there,
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: you want to stand behind it, or you ought to
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: shut the hell up and not take part of these things. Furthermore,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: I would argue, if anything, this is the opposite of
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: mob rule. It's allowing people who have clear biases against
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: someone who can't justify their vote to just not vote
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: for them because they don't feel like it. Way back
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: in the olden days of sports, there were certain players
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: that the media, like I've read stories that the media
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: couldn't stand Ted Williams, the great player from Boston, because
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: he was dismissive of members of the media. A little
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: bit more contemporarily, Bobby Knight, the basketball coach at most
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: of his career at Indiana was at Army and Texas Tech,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: the media couldn't stand him because he would berate them
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and just be belligerent toward him. And there were suggestions
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: that he didn't get Coach of the Year votes certain
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: years that he should have gotten from some members of
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the media just because they don't like them. You're listening
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: to the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: We're doing this podcast on Monday, which is both Columbus
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Day and Indigenous Peoples Day. I would like to dive
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: into this whole issue. The people who have insisted that
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: we now have a dual name for the day, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: many of them take it a step farther in which
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: they don't want there to be a Columbus Day at all.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Statues of Christopher Columbus are vandalized and so on. They
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: argue that Columbus wasn't a hero, that he was an invader.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: And they say that honoring Columbus... is honoring European colonialism.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: The Europeans came over to the Western Hemisphere, took land
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: from indigenous people, and colonized that land. Well, as a
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, everything in that statement is true. They
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: did do that. The Europeans certainly came from the Eastern Hemisphere.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: They crossed the Atlantic. They came to the Western Hemisphere.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: They colonized the land that they got. They got the
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: land over here and claimed it as their own. And
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: the people that were here before them, the indigenous people,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: and indigenous simply being people who originate from the place
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: that you're speaking of, in some cases had to fight
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: wars to try to keep their land, and in most
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: cases lost those wars. So the attack on this is
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: that this is somehow a terrible thing and should not
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: be commemorated. My take on this. Is America a colonial country?
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: No.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: We were indeed colonized. We were colonized by, in the
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: northeastern portion of the United States, the British. But there
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: are other countries that grabbed other portions of the territory
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: of North America. There were areas that were taken over
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: by the Spanish, areas that were taken over by the French.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: But the country that became the United States of America
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: originated with the 13 colonies that were established by England.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: We overthrew that regime. We are not a colonial nation.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: The people who years later were the children of those
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: who came to the United States overthrew the nation that
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: colonized it. We are independent nations that overthrew the oppressors,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: the colonialists. Does Britain still run the United States? No.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Because there was a revolt. There was a rebellion. That
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: the people who were here were not going to be
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: subject to foreign rule. Some would argue you're still begging
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the question. The fact of the matter is, is that
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Columbus came first and then all sorts of other Europeans
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: came after that. Was that good or bad? I will
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: argue it was mostly good. First of all, it was
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: inevitable that at some point they would figure out that
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: you weren't going to fall off the ocean if you
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: continue to go to the West. which was one of
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: the things that stopped exploration at this point, and they
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: were fearful about how even those who felt that the
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Earth was round did not know how far you were
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: going to go. Columbus himself thought that he was going
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: to land somewhere in India. At some point, they would
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: have figured it out, and if it wasn't Columbus, somebody
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: else a few years later would have come over. If
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: it wasn't Columbus, who was Italian, coming over representing Spain,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: somebody else would have done it for England or some
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: other country, and it would have happened. And just as
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: after Columbus came and the word got back, Hey, there's
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: something over there. Everybody came from numerous nations of Europe
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: and they all tried to grab up portions of both
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: North and South America for themselves. It was going to
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: happen as a result of this. There was a vast
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: expansion of human knowledge. There was far more understanding of
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the physical and scientific world of those in Europe than
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: the indigenous people. who did have some understanding. The Native
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Americans who we called Indians, which I grant you has
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: always been a stupid name. They were called Indians because
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Columbus initially thought that he was landing in India. We,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: in fact, called that part of the Caribbean the West Indies.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: They were called Indians because of this notion that when
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: the Europeans came over here that they thought that they
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: would be finding India. And Native Americans don't seem to
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: mind the name, but it is a stupid name. They
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: certainly had developed their own astronomical skills in which they
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: figured out by the stars and could plot where they
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: were and they had some degree of knowledge, but otherwise,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: they had almost no mechanization. I don't believe they had
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: developed any kind of guns or gunpowder, that they lived
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: a much more primitive lifestyle. Well, this knowledge was expanded
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: to the Western Hemisphere. Secondly, Christianity was brought to a
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: portion of the world that didn't have it. And for
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: people who want to argue that that's irrelevant, if you
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: are a Christian, you certainly would think introducing the possibility
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: of Christ and salvation to others would be a good thing.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: And the Christians indeed were successful in converting almost all
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: of the Western hemisphere. There's been a turning away from Christianity.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: But virtually every part of the Western Hemisphere from northern
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Canada to the southernmost tip of South America became Christian.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Broadly speaking, much of it was Roman Catholic, but huge
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: portions of the United States were not. There were a
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: lot of Calvinists and Quakers that settled in the United States,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: but they were under the broad spectrum of Christianity. Jewish
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: people were among those who emigrated to the United States
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: and emigrated to the West later. Now, if you want
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: to argue that bringing Christianity to the West is a
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: bad thing, you have to be arguing that Christianity is wrong. Well,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think Christianity is wrong. I think it's truth.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm right. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm convinced I'm right.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: But if you're somebody who does believe that it is
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: a good thing, how in the world can you argue
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: that that introducing the potential of salvation and the knowledge
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: of Jesus, who Christians believe is God, is a bad thing.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, many of the conquerors from Europe
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: were more savage than the so-called savages that they faced.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: The Spanish conquistadors were brutal. What happened to the Aztecs
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: and the Incas was savage. On the other hand, do
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: understand that the tribes that were here in the Western
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Hemisphere were pretty brutal toward one another. The Apaches didn't
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: consider the Mohawk to be brethren. They fought wars themselves
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: all the time. Nonetheless, getting back to without belaboring the point,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: the larger point there clearly is were bad things that
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: were done, but I would say on the overall, the
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: fact that it happened was a good thing, and it
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: was going to happen regardless. At some point, the people
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: from Asia, Europe, and Africa were going to figure out
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: that there was another hemisphere over here, and they would
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: have come, and there would have been conflict over who
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: was going to get that land. But as for the
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: colonial part, and you just hear this in the lefties
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: all the time, the colonialism, colonialism, colonialism, I don't disagree
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: with them. I'm not an advocate of colonialism. If somebody
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: attacks you, you have a right to fight back and
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: take their land, i.e. Israel and Egypt. But what happened
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: here with regard to the Europeans is they came in
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: and grabbed a bunch of land and came down and
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: claimed that it was theirs and then neglected the people
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: who lived in that land. And all of them revolted.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Mexico and much of South America revolted against the Spanish.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: For some reason, the Portuguese had a stronghold in Brazil.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: The Brazilians revolted against that. The only country that never
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: really revolted was the Wusses in Canada. They're still broadly
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: part of the British Empire. I've never understood what that
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: relationship was. I mean, they keep explaining it, but it
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. They claim that they're an independent,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: sovereign nation, but whenever the king or the queen goes
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: over there, they all bow and scrape all over them.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: I don't really understand that. Do you understand that? Just
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: based on... They never fought for their independence. That's right.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: So the one country that apparently is fine with colonialism
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: that still sort of bows and scrapes before the imperialists
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: of Europe is Canada, the country that we're supposed to emulate.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Another point of discussion on this. The left keeps arguing
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: that America is a country that stripped away the rights
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: of the indigenous people. This is why they jump on
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: this thing and call today Indigenous Peoples Day. Let's do
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: what I often do. Let's take their words at face value.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: They're for indigenous people. They don't believe that somebody should
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: take away the land and the governance of indigenous people.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: Yet these same people want to wipe out the indigenous
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: people of Israel. The Jews settled in Israel several thousand
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: years before Christ. The history of the settlement of Israel
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: and the Jews going and settling in Israel dating back
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: to Abraham and dating back to Moses, and the fleeing
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: from Israel and the going back, which has been chronicled
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: throughout the Bible, the Jewish people are indigenous to Israel.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: It has been their homeland for about 5,000 years. Yet
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: somehow the right of those indigenous people to live on
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: the small swath of land in the Middle East that
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: was theirs, they don't claim to have control any part
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: of it other than Israel and parts of the countries
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: like Egypt that attack them, suddenly the concern for indigenous
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: people disappears. And then this. One of the oddest causes
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: of the left, and I truly mean this, has been
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: their whole notion of cultural appropriation. This started like 25
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: years ago. It started when they suggested that if you're
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: playing a character of a certain race or ethnicity, the
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: actor has to be of that race or ethnicity. It's very,
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: very weird. In other words, if you have a character that, well,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: as I said, if the character is a certain ethnicity,
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: to have like a white actor play that character, that
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: that is cultural appropriation. You're taking away that person's culture
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: and claiming it for your own. Now, if you carry
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: that all the way through, people who are in Irish
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to drink green beer on St. Patrick's Day. St.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Patrick's Day is one of the many holidays that I
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: just have no use for. What are you? You're mostly Polish.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I just think that the two weirdest holidays that we
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: have are the ones that are named after saints that
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: are turned into like drugs. First of all, St. Valentine's
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Day becomes like a sex fest, and St. Patrick's Day
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: becomes a drunk fest. These days are named after saints.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: They're very odd to me. Valentine's Day is just a very,
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: very dangerous day for any American male. There's my bias
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: on that whole thing. But let's say Patrick's Day thing. Okay,
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: let's get drunk to honor the patron saint of Ireland. Plus,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: you would think that the Irish, instead of embracing this,
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: would resent the fact that they are caricatured, that the
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: way that they celebrate their day is to be drunks. Anyway.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: cultural appropriation. So it started with you couldn't do this,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: and then it's just been taken to, there's now arguments,
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: somebody somewhere, I don't recall where it was, somebody somewhere
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: got heat for wearing cornrows, and they're not African American.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: This is cultural appropriation. Well, this is a hairstyle that
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: belongs to African Americans. You can't wear your hair that way. Now,
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: only leftists concern themselves with these things. But, If they
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: are truly concerned with cultural appropriation and they're truly bothered
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: when someone tries to take the culture and heritage of
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: another people and glom onto it as their own, why
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: aren't they bothered by Elizabeth Warren? Is there anyone in
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: American life who has been caught more blatantly culturally appropriating
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: than her? And the answer is they're unbothered by it.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: If Elizabeth Warren was not a leftist from Massachusetts, let's
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: imagine that Elizabeth Warren was actually Henry Warren from Oklahoma,
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: a part of the country that also had lots and
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: lots of Native Americans. And let's imagine that this Henry Warren,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: senator from Oklahoma, had been claiming that he was Cherokee
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: or Apache or whatever tribe you want to put it on,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: and it turned out that he was lying through his teeth.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, the pressure on that person would
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: have been overwhelming. There's no way they would have survived.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: You had Elizabeth Warren who passed herself off as a
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Cherokee until somebody actually researched it when she was running
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: for president and found out that there was none of it.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: All those, uh, What was the company that started the
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: test where you can go run the genetics of yourself?
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: It was two numbers, like 9andMe. What was that company?
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. 23andMe or something or another.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: 23 and me. Yeah. So anyway, whatever that's, it just, this,
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: the people who are lying about their background and, you know,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren, it was all just an attempt to, by
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: the way, she got grants when she was going to
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: college and used her minority status for this. It was
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: all just something to get ahead and give herself legitimacy
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: as opposed to being like the whitest person in the
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: entire United States Senate. She's paid no price for that
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: on the left at all. So all of their yapping
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: about cultural appropriation like they're lecturing on everything else is very,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: very situational. It's a terrible thing unless, of course, one
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: of the people that they love does it. Let's talk
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: about the Trump diesel deal. It's another issue that's got
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: the left up in arms. For those of you not aware,
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: diesel prices have exploded. A lot of diesel fuel comes...
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: from refineries in Russia. President Trump has cut a deal
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: with the Russians to buy enormous amounts of diesel fuel.
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: This is angering people on the left because we've got
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: sanctions that are blocking certain purchases from Russia because of
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: the Russia-Ukraine war. Let me quote from Trump's explanation of
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: this in his first post on it. I have just
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin. It
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 tons
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace, another
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: 500,000 tons during the month of November, and 1 million
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: diesel refineries, Russia will then deliver within a short period
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: of time 3 million tons of diesel fuel. Diesel prices
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: for Americans, and indeed the world, will be coming down
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: in record numbers and fast. Lower prices for Americans, especially
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: our great farmers, ranchers, and truckers, is my greatest priority.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: This is a very big and important announcement. The price
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: of fuel, which is largely, I believe, responsible for the
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: inflation that we're having a hard time knocking below 4%,
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: is a point that the left has used to hammer Trump. Now,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Trump takes a very proactive and I'll grant you controversial
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: action to buy massive amounts of diesel fuel from Russia.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: And the same people that want to blame him for
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: the high cost of fuel are ripping him for trying
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: to do something about the high cost of fuel. Now,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: I admit the issue is complicated. The reason we've placed
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: sanctions on purchases of anything from Russia, including fuel, is
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: we've wanted to starve off the Russian economy to pressure
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: them to end the stupid war with Ukraine. And it is,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: if ever there was a war that was stupid, the
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: war with Ukraine. Ukraine's position is stupid and Russia's position
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: is stupid. My own belief... is that the whole point
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: of America First is that we base our decisions on
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: what is in the best interest of America. Now, the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: people who have defended are bankrolling Ukraine. And the reason
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: that Ukraine is still surviving is because we have bankrolled
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: their war machine. They have claimed that Russia taking over
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Ukraine would not be in our best interests. My thought
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: on that is, We'd probably be better off if Russia
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: didn't take over Ukraine, but if they did take over Ukraine,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't be that big of a deal for us.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: You hear all the time people using this statement, you know,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: two things can be true at the same time. Well,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: two things can be true at the same time. Resisting
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: the Russia takeover of Ukraine can be a laudable goal.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: But addressing the fact that diesel prices seem to be
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: near $ 7 a gallon is a laudable goal too. And
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: the question here of which one is more important to
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: us right now? The other thing that Trump has been
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: pushing for is to try to stop the Ukrainians from
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: bombing the Russian refineries. Now, why have the Ukrainians been
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: bombing the Russian refineries? Because the oil that Russia has
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: is one of the few assets that it has in
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: order to fund its war machines. Russia needs those refineries,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: so therefore Ukraine bombing them, that affects them. In the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: same way, why is Putin hitting civilian targets in Ukraine?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Because he's trying to hurt the Ukrainians. This is what
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: happens during war, especially irrational, stupid war like this. So
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: the bombing of the Russian refineries is another thing that
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: has driven up the price of oil, particularly diesel fuel,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: which is a derivative of oil. So Trump has asked
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: them to stop, and Zelensky has sort of claimed, yes,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: I'll stop bombing their refineries, but he's claiming that Russia's not,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: they're violating their terms of the ceasefire, which I'm sure
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: is true. What you have here are two complete slime
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: buckets fighting a war against one another. Putin is a
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: slime bucket. And I don't know that Zelensky's is bad,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: but he's approaching the same level of slime bucket. My
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: own belief is, and I've argued this for some time,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: that Zelensky does not want peace. Because once there's peace
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: with Russia, there's no need in Ukraine for Zelensky and
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: he will be taken out. Or the Russian peace deal will,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: in order to cut a deal with Russia, they will
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: insist that Zelensky be removed as the leader of Ukraine.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: And when the war ends and the Ukrainians realize that
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: they lost a horrible number of their own citizens and
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: much of their country was bombed and they got nothing
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  Speaker 2: out of it, they will resent Zelensky and... Who's Zelensky
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  Speaker 2: after the war? Nobody knew who he was before the war,
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  Speaker 2: and once the war is over, he goes back to
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  Speaker 2: being a nobody. So I think he doesn't want it
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  Speaker 2: to end. Putin doesn't want it to end because it
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  Speaker 2: would mean that he would be humiliated in front of
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  Speaker 2: his own country that he fought this war for four
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  Speaker 2: years and had nothing much to show for it either.
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  Speaker 2: So they both continue this war for their own selfish reasons,
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  Speaker 2: contrary to the interests of their own country. As for
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  Speaker 2: the United States, we need to focus on our own country.
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  Speaker 2: If Zelensky... continues to bomb the refineries in Russia, that
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  Speaker 2: we now want to be able to go into the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: global oil supply so we can bring oil prices down,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: then we should cut off Zelensky. It is very interesting
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  Speaker 2: to me that many on the left blame the war
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: with Iran for the increase in oil prices. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: it is a big reason for the increase in oil prices.
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  Speaker 2: I think Almost entirely, the reason that the price of
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: oil has gone up in the last two years is
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: the two wars. The war between Russia and Ukraine and
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: the war between the United States and Iran. The war
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: between Russia and Ukraine was the one that was bankrolled
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: by the Biden administration that Trump hasn't entirely shut the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: spigot off on. The war with Iran is the one
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: that was started by Trump. The sooner both wars end,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: the sooner the price of oil will go down. But
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: for the lefties who want Trump to unilaterally end the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: war with Iran because it will bring down energy prices,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: why aren't they equally determined to cut off Zelensky and
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  Speaker 2: either allow Russia to just win the war or force
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  Speaker 2: actual negotiations to end the stupid thing? Now, the Wall
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Street Journal has an editorial that is just full of crap.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: I won't read the entire thing here, but I'll read
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: the headline. Trump's diesel insult to Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham
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  Speaker 2: was the big anti-Russian. He hated Putin. And we passed
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  Speaker 2: the Sanctions Act against Russia, which the Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 2: and the left claim that Trump is violating by this
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: diesel fuel deal. For many on the left and the media,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: stopping Russia from winning the war in Ukraine is is
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  Speaker 2: more important to them than the economy of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it is. Trump has clearly been frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: He said he could end the war between Russia and
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine in three months. I thought he could too. Because
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  Speaker 2: from the outside, this is an easily solved war. You
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: give Russia portions... of Eastern Ukraine, and that's their land. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the part of Ukraine that's always been kind
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: of pro-Russian anyway. And that's the end of it. The
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: killing stops on both sides. The exodus, and I've been
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: on this for some time, young men have been leaving
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  Speaker 2: Russia in droves for years because they don't want to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: go to Ukraine and die. There are people that are
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: escaping out of that country because Putin is completely wrecking it.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, Zelensky's refusal to accept the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Russia has superior military firepower... is resulting in him prolonging
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  Speaker 2: a war that is simply martyring his own people. It's
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: just an idiotic war. And it ought to end with
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: a negotiated settlement that allows Russia to block Ukraine from
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: ever going into NATO and taking a few of those
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  Speaker 2: territories back and then lay it off. And what Ukraine
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: gets out of the deal is they can go back
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  Speaker 2: to being a country that isn't spending all of its
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  Speaker 2: money on war and they can live in peace with
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: those new boundaries that are in place. It's a logical
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  Speaker 2: result that both sides should be able to live with.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: But the reason that it hasn't happened is you have
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: two leaders, Putin and Zelensky, who need the war to
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: continue in order for themselves to remain in power. And
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: this is just flummoxed Trump. And I could say that
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: we could just wash our hands of it, except for
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: the fact that combined with the war with Iran, which
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: Trump also needs to extricate himself with, he's accomplished his goals.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: The area that I have disagreed with Trump, as you've
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: heard me talk about for the last couple of months,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: is I believe we have solved enough of our goal,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: satisfied enough of our goals, I should say, in Iran.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: If we left, I think you'd get the Strait of
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  Speaker 2: Hormuz open, that Iran realizes that it's okay, we're going
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: to allow it to be open. If the United States
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: leaves us alone, we'll reopen it. We've knocked out enough
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: of their nuclear facilities and dismantled enough of their army
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: that it's enough. So while I believe that the war
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: between Russia and Ukraine is stupid... I think that Trump
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: needs a better exit strategy to get out of Iran.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: If both of those wars end, oil prices will, I'd
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: say crash is the proper word. I would say come
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: down $ 35, which would mean about a buck and a
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: half to two bucks on gas prices, buck and a half,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: somewhere in that range. In the short term, is it
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: in the best interest of the United States to defy
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: the sanctions and buy diesel fuel from Russia? Yes. And
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: since I believe it is in the best interest of
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: the United States, I support it. Without regard to whether
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: or not it gives Russia money and therefore more ability
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: to fight their war with Ukraine, a war that I
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: pretty much am done with, you're listening to the Mark
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. I'm used
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: to doing a radio show, and the radio show is
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: on live, and people were listening to it then, and
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: I understand now that doing a podcast, some people will
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: be listening two minutes after we release it, and some
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: people will be listening two years after we release it.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to spend a lot of time
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: talking about the Brewers-Dodgers game one, because by the time
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: most of you hear it, game two will have ended.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: played or already over. But I will comment, therefore, briefly
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: on the Packers-Bears game on Sunday, which frankly surprised me.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised the Packers were competitive. I'm surprised that
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: they destroyed the Bears. I have a Bear fan in
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: here and my producer, Jason. Do you have any thoughts
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: or explanation as to How your Bears look so putrid
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: against a Packer team that I don't think is very
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: good at all. Jason says the defense is banged up
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: and plus the Bears were stuck with backup quarterbacks, but
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: the retort to that is the backup quarterbacks, Bajent and
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: Case Keenum, looked pretty good the week prior to that.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: I think Green Bay played a very good defensive game.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: I am still bothered. I think that the Packers' dominance
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: of the Bears, I'm not yet buying into that the
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Packers are returning to elite level in the NFL. Maybe
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I'm wrong about that, but I still saw this. In
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: a game in which they dominated the Bears, normally when
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: you're up by a lot of points, you just run
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: the ball the entire second after run off the clock.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: The Packers couldn't do that because they couldn't run the ball.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: They were under 100 yards rushing again, I believe, in
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: a game that they won 31-7. Their running backs aren't
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: any good, and their offensive line can't run block. Having
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: said that, the offensive line, I thought, had its best
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: performance of the season. Love had sufficient time to throw,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: and Jordan Love was just deadly. He had one of
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: his greatest games as a Packer, especially with long passes.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: It helped that he had receivers that were getting open,
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: particularly Golden and Christian Watson. That certainly helped. But the
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: offensive line to me and the Packers is still a problem.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: And the larger perspective of things, I mean, the Packers
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: lost yet another key player, another ripped up Achilles. Jaden
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: Hargrave is out for the season. The defensive line, I
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: don't even know who's going to be playing at it
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: by the time that the season is over. One week
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: after they lost their best linebacker, they now lose one
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: of their best defensive linemen. Nobody knows when Parsons is
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: going to be around. So from the perspective of just
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: the healthiness of the team, But I'll grant you, they
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: were totally dominant. The Bears couldn't do anything. As for
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: that injury, I mean, you're going to defend him because
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: he's your coach. But I just thought it was preposterously
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: stupid that down by 24 points with two and a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: half minutes left in the game, Ben Johnson was calling
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: timeouts and throwing the ball. He had no chance of winning.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: All he succeeded in doing is get a Packer hurt.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: And a Packer ripped his Achilles and is out for
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: the season. And it could be career ending. But it
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: could have been a Bear. There's just no point in
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: it other than Ben Johnson is obsessed with the Packers
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: and he's not going to give up because he just
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: isn't going to give up. Do you defend his calling
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: timeouts and throwing the ball when he had no chance
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: of winning? You'd probably pay and say, why don't you
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: just say that he's a hothead who couldn't control himself
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: in that situation and instead was just playing the game
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: like it was actually a close game out of just spite.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: He was hacked off. backup quarterback trying to build. That's
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: just crap. You've got your starting quarterback coming back probably
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: next week. All you're going to do, he could have
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: just as easily potentially gotten one of his own players
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: hurt by doing the thing. So if it is a
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: sign that the Packers have been able to get their
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: feet underneath them, that would be a positive sign. One
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: other thing with regard to the Green Bay defense, injuries
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: and all, the Packers just have elite safeties. I mean,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: all three of them. and one of them plays a
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: modified nickel position. But McKinney had a great game. The
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: safeties on the Packers are just at a high level,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: and they're impacting the game, and it has helped mask
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: the fact that the corners aren't that good. But in general,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: the secondary for the Packers played very good. You have
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: to factor against that the fact that neither bareback or
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: quarterback looked particularly good. As I said, we'll probably comment
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: on whatever is going on with the Brewers-Dodgers series. on
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: the podcast that we do on Wednesday. But I don't
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: want to get into it at any length here because
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: by the time most of you will be listening to
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: this game, two will either be underway or already have
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: been played. So talk to you soon.
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