Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #171:  The internal American migration: when people flee high tax Dem states to escape to low tax Repub states, do they wreck the new states by voting for the types of Democrats who wrecked the places they are escaping from?  A huge new steel plant is being built in Iowa but do people care anymore; are we all too lazy to be happy about thousands of jobs?

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Mark Belling Podcast #171:  The internal American migration: when people flee high tax Dem states to escape to low tax Repub states, do they wreck the new states by voting for the types of Democrats who wrecked the places they are escaping from?  A huge new steel plant is being built in Iowa but do people care anymore; are we all too lazy to be happy about thousands of jobs? · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: up with to describe... What's happening now in Texas, particularly Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of major Wall Street firms are pulling out
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  Speaker 2: huge numbers of their employees from New York and relocating
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  Speaker 2: them to Texas, Dallas specifically. So they've come up with this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Wall Street's in New York, y'all street. That's
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  Speaker 2: the dub. Anyway, the latest development is Morgan Stanley. Giant
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  Speaker 2: investment bank is coming. going to relocate 3,800 employees to Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: And they're going to build a facility. I've got the
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  Speaker 2: numbers here. Their campus will be $ 1. 2 billion. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be almost right next to the big
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  Speaker 2: campus that Goldman Sachs, another giant Wall Street investment bank,
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  Speaker 2: is building in Dallas. I'm bringing this up because I
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  Speaker 2: want to deal with a fascinating question, and that is
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  Speaker 2: the internal migration that is going on within America, and
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  Speaker 2: whether or not it's good for the states that are
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  Speaker 2: getting the internal migrants. What's an internal migrant? An internal
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  Speaker 2: migrant is an American that moves from one state to
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  Speaker 2: another state. Are the new states better off? Are the
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  Speaker 2: worst states poorer off? It's not a really easy question
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  Speaker 2: to answer, but It's a trend that I think is
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  Speaker 2: just accelerating. As the Democrats get crazier and loonier, the
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  Speaker 2: states that they run are going to get worse and worse.
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  Speaker 2: Whereas the states that are under Republican control are going
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  Speaker 2: to drastically benefit as people and businesses escape the leftist
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  Speaker 2: hellholes to go to lower tax states with higher quality
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  Speaker 2: of life. So we're going to dive into that whole
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  Speaker 2: know where all of this started, but I think the
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  Speaker 2: big push came when the big tech companies in Silicon
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  Speaker 2: Valley decided they had to get out of Silicon Valley.
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  Speaker 2: There's really two Silicon Valleys. There's the one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Northern California near San Jose and so on. But there's
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  Speaker 2: the second one, and that's near Seattle and Washington where
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  Speaker 2: Microsoft is from and Amazon is from. Anyway, as these
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  Speaker 2: tech companies have gotten to be so huge and as
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  Speaker 2: their executive and employees got to make so much money,
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to get out of tax hells like Washington
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  Speaker 2: State and tax hells like California. In addition to that,
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  Speaker 2: their highly compensated employees didn't want to live in those places.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, City of Saddle is completely going to hell.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a communist mayor. The once beautiful city is
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  Speaker 2: just an armpit. And we all know the problems of California.
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  Speaker 2: So these big tech companies started relocating employees and facilities
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  Speaker 2: to Texas. Then COVID came and it got worse. California
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  Speaker 2: was one of the most locked down states there were.
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  Speaker 2: And here are all these tech companies, Tesla in particular,
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  Speaker 2: that needed to keep production going. This was right when
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  Speaker 2: Tesla was having the first boom in electric car sales.
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  Speaker 2: They had finally gotten the more moderately priced cars on
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  Speaker 2: the assembly line. There were massive orders. People were waiting
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  Speaker 2: months and months for them. And here's California saying, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you can't operate. You got to shut down. And Musk said,
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  Speaker 2: screw this. Pulled the whole production line out of California
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  Speaker 2: and moved to Texas. Now you see the same thing
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  Speaker 2: happening in the Northeast. New York State, which was liberal
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  Speaker 2: but not badly run, and for most of its time
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  Speaker 2: had rather reasonable mayors, very good mayors in Giuliani, average
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  Speaker 2: mayor in Bloomberg. And then it just started to slide.
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  Speaker 2: de Blasio was bad enough. Adams looked like he might
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  Speaker 2: be some salvation, but they had to get rid of him.
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  Speaker 2: And now they've got communist Mamdani in there. In addition
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  Speaker 2: to that, New York State, has gone from a demagogic
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  Speaker 2: but not terrible governor in Cuomo to a left-wing nut
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  Speaker 2: in Hochul. The taxes in New York are brutal. And
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  Speaker 2: now in the city of New York, Mamdani is coming
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  Speaker 2: up on one tax on top of another, all aimed
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  Speaker 2: at individuals and people that own property. So now they're
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  Speaker 2: flying out of there. If you're a highly compensated finance executive,
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  Speaker 2: where would you rather live? Texas with no income tax?
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  Speaker 2: Or New York City where they have a state income tax,
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  Speaker 2: a city income tax, and 9,000 other taxes out the wazoo,
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  Speaker 2: and a double property tax? We always had the geographic migration.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how many people who live here in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: don't know people, especially people older than them, who years
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  Speaker 2: ago moved to Arizona or moved to Florida for the weather.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to the fact that in many cases they
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  Speaker 2: had pensions and they didn't want to have to pay
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  Speaker 2: taxes on them, so they went to a low or
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  Speaker 2: a no tax aid, the weather and its advantages in
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  Speaker 2: the winter months drove people there. So we've had migration
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  Speaker 2: all along, you know, kind of toward the Sun Belt,
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  Speaker 2: but the first big migration was really to California. And
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  Speaker 2: the supposedly higher quality of life, better weather there. But
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  Speaker 2: no state is seeing more people leave right now than California.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't say that all of this is the weather.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the question. A state like Texas, they certainly
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  Speaker 2: in the short term benefit from all of this investment
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  Speaker 2: and all of these jobs. The state's a wash in money. But,
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  Speaker 2: and here's the but, when you attract a big tech
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  Speaker 2: company from California or a big Wall Street firm from
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  Speaker 2: New York, that means all of their employees are coming
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  Speaker 2: with them. Just about everybody in Wall Street is a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: And just about everybody who works in the tech sector
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  Speaker 2: is a Democrat. Are they bringing their stupid political beliefs
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  Speaker 2: with them? In other words, not realizing that the reason
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  Speaker 2: that the states they were leaving had gone to hell
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  Speaker 2: was because of the policies that these people themselves voted for.
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  Speaker 2: Will they come to their new state and wreck it?
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  Speaker 2: That question's being asked openly right now because of what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in the Senate election in Texas, where it's
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  Speaker 2: probably now 50-50 that a Democrat is going to pick
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  Speaker 2: up a Republican seat. The Republican candidate, Paxton, is not
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  Speaker 2: the greatest candidate in the world. There's baggage there. He's
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  Speaker 2: very conservative, too conservative for some moderates. And as we
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  Speaker 2: all know, it's likely to be a big Democratic year.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last 20 years, it would have been unthinkable
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  Speaker 2: that a Democrat could win a statewide election in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Texas had gone from, you know, 40s, 50s, and 60s,
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  Speaker 2: very Democratic to extremely Republican. But that's when the people
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  Speaker 2: who lived in Texas were the people from Texas. I
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  Speaker 2: actually wonder, between illegal immigration, and I guess legal immigration too,
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  Speaker 2: and then the internal migration in America, people from other
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  Speaker 2: states going to Texas, what percentage of people who live
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  Speaker 2: in Texas right now were born in Texas? I don't
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  Speaker 2: know the answer to that. I'd love to know. Is
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  Speaker 2: it 90% or is it actually under 50%? You know,
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  Speaker 2: the joke when I used to go to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 2: always was, if you met somebody who lived in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: they never grew up there. Now that I'm in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: that's the other one. You meet somebody, I actually grew
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  Speaker 2: up in Florida. You think you really grew up, you're
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  Speaker 2: actually from Florida and you're not like 20 years old.
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  Speaker 2: You're older and you've been in Florida your whole life.
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  Speaker 2: So when Texas gets all of this economic development and industry,
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  Speaker 2: some other states escape, the tax hells and the awful regulation,
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  Speaker 2: and in many cases, just terrible kind of employee that
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  Speaker 2: you're saddled with in those other states and they relocate.
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  Speaker 2: Do they wreck the states that they move to by
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  Speaker 2: bringing in leftists who go and vote for lefty employees
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  Speaker 2: and then at the local level start raising local taxes
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  Speaker 2: and demanding Taj Mahal schools? Let's move away from state
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  Speaker 2: to state and move into our own area here in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Wauwatosa used to be a city that leaned Republican and
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  Speaker 2: one of the most sensible cities in Wisconsin. It's now
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  Speaker 2: a Marxist hellhole. The schools are terrible. The taxes are terrible.
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  Speaker 2: The streets are undriveable. Police officers have fled the department.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Milwaukee had a residency rule. Interestingly, it was
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans that pressed to get rid of the residency rule.
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  Speaker 2: So the public employees, the teachers and the city employees
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  Speaker 2: and so on, that were living in Milwaukee only because
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  Speaker 2: they were required to for their job, they all leave
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of them move to Wauwatosa. And they
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  Speaker 2: take their left-wing politics with them. I mean, the percentage
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  Speaker 2: of the people who live in Wauwatosa who are government
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  Speaker 2: employees is very high. And you've seen many people in
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  Speaker 2: Wauwatosa just distraught at how wrecked their schools have gotten,
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  Speaker 2: how high their taxes have gotten, and just the general
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  Speaker 2: stupidity of the people that are running the community. And
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  Speaker 2: those people who are lifers, they didn't change their attitudes. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: what happened was inward migration from a lefty city like Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm asking here whether or not the same thing
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  Speaker 2: is going to happen. to the states getting all of
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  Speaker 2: the incoming. Another example would be Florida. It's actually now
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  Speaker 2: a political negative for the people who live in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Too many people have moved to Florida. Florida is just packed. Packed.
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  Speaker 2: There was a huge migration to Florida going on for
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  Speaker 2: 30 and 40 years. Between the weather and the zero
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  Speaker 2: income tax, retirees like crazy were moving to Florida. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to have to pay income taxes as they
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  Speaker 2: tapped into their IRAs and 401ks. And if they had pensions,
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  Speaker 2: they get these pensions from their other states like Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: And when they start collecting their pensions, they don't even
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  Speaker 2: pay taxes back to the state that gave them the
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  Speaker 2: lavish pensions. They go to Florida where they don't have
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  Speaker 2: to pay state income taxes. And then COVID occurred. And
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  Speaker 2: some of these big blue states were the most oppressive
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  Speaker 2: with regard to the lockdowns. And then we went to
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  Speaker 2: work at home and when people, okay, I could work
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  Speaker 2: at home available. Why work at home in New Jersey?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Florida. So Florida has had a mass
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  Speaker 2: inward migration as well. So far, however, in Florida, there
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  Speaker 2: has not been this trend of all the inward migrants
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  Speaker 2: are coming in and they're voting for Democrats. Just the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Rhonda San is the outgoing governor has said. Look, the
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  Speaker 2: people that are fleeing high taxes, that's not a Democratic attitude.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Republican attitude. The people that are looking for
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  Speaker 2: freedom to not have to wear masks and be part
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  Speaker 2: of lockdowns, those are Republicans. The people that are coming
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  Speaker 2: for low taxes and a better opportunity to avoid government regulation,
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  Speaker 2: those aren't Democrats. Those are Republicans. And indeed, over the
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  Speaker 2: last 10 years, I don't think any state has moved
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  Speaker 2: from Leaning Democrat to swing to overwhelmingly Republican than Florida. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: to give you an indication of how dire this political
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  Speaker 2: year might be, as overwhelmingly Republican as Florida is, the
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  Speaker 2: governor's race there, the latest polls show the Republican only
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  Speaker 2: up by six points. Byron Donald's the Republican candidate for governor.
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  Speaker 2: If Florida is in play, that means it's just going
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  Speaker 2: to be a Democratic landslide everywhere. Trump, in the presidential election,
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  Speaker 2: slaughtered in Florida. He won all but four counties. So
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  Speaker 2: we take two states here, 2026 just being an aberrational
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  Speaker 2: year aside. When people leave big blue Democrat states because
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  Speaker 2: they're miserable there, if they learn from their mistakes, and
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  Speaker 2: move to a Republican state and see, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: move here. Well, these states are run by Republicans. That's
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  Speaker 2: why they're in such great shape. And as the light
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  Speaker 2: bulb go on over their head, the problem is the
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  Speaker 2: way I was voting back in the dumpy state I
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  Speaker 2: was there before. Or do they learn nothing and come
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  Speaker 2: in and wreck the new place that they're moving into?
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  Speaker 2: My answer to this is, I don't know. One of
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  Speaker 2: the comments I've heard from people in Arizona for the
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  Speaker 2: last 20 years is, Arizona used to be a very,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Republicans owned Arizona. It was the birth
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  Speaker 2: of the modern conservative movement with Goldwater in the 1960s.
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  Speaker 2: Extremely Republican state. It's now swing to leading Democrat. Trump
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  Speaker 2: carried it. He carried all seven swing states, as you remember.
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  Speaker 2: But in the statewide elections, though, the Democrats seem to
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  Speaker 2: be winning more of them. And all the people in
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  Speaker 2: Arizona just blame it on people in California. You know, California,
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  Speaker 2: it's the straight, you go south from California, you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to go to Mexico. The first place you bump
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  Speaker 2: into is Arizona. There's an enormous influx in Arizona of
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  Speaker 2: California residents. And I know some of these Arizona residents,
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  Speaker 2: and people from Wisconsin have moved on there, and they
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  Speaker 2: all bitch about the people from California. They come in
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  Speaker 2: and they vote for Democrats just like they did in California.
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  Speaker 2: So in the case of Arizona, the inward migration has
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  Speaker 2: clearly damaged the state in terms of their politics. But
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  Speaker 2: it certainly has done the opposite in Florida. Texas is
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  Speaker 2: the wild card. You know, the big industries in Texas
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  Speaker 2: for the longest time were in the energy industry. And
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  Speaker 2: then cattle and ranching and all of that stuff. But
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  Speaker 2: now Texas is, I think the zest of it is,
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  Speaker 2: I think they now have more high-tech jobs than California.
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  Speaker 2: I think I read that. If not, it's growing. Depends
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  Speaker 2: on how you classify them, you know. Is somebody who
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  Speaker 2: works for Tesla in a high-tech job or do they
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  Speaker 2: work for an automobile company? Same thing with Amazon. Do
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  Speaker 2: you work for a retailer or do you deal with
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  Speaker 2: a tech firm? Part of it, it's difficult to determine
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  Speaker 2: how you classify some of those jobs. So the industries
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  Speaker 2: and the types of people that were in Texas before, freedom-loving, capitalist,
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  Speaker 2: they're being displaced by people who come in from different fields, right?
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  Speaker 2: Now let's look at the converse of this. What about
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  Speaker 2: the states that the people are leaving? Let's take Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: Let's imagine Crowley wins and the Democrats flip both the
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  Speaker 2: Assembly and Senate. All three are possible. I think people
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  Speaker 2: have no clue as to how far they're going to
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  Speaker 2: move us to the left quickly. Never mind just get
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  Speaker 2: repealing Act 10. They're going to get rid of all
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  Speaker 2: caps on property taxes and spending. We're going to go
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  Speaker 2: to no cash bail just as Illinois and some places
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  Speaker 2: out west have done. The spending will be insane. The
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  Speaker 2: result of this is clearly going to be an exodus
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  Speaker 2: from Wisconsin, just as you're seeing the exodus from Washington
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  Speaker 2: State and the exodus in California and the exodus from
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  Speaker 2: New York. Leftists get in charge of a state and
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  Speaker 2: people flee like crazy. Will the people that flee be
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  Speaker 2: the ones with all the common sense? In other words,
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  Speaker 2: will the Democrats wreck Wisconsin so badly that it becomes
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  Speaker 2: more democratic than it was before because the Republicans all
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  Speaker 2: got the hell out of here? The situation in New York.
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  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, the tremendous outflow of people from New
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  Speaker 2: York and New Jersey to Florida over the last 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: I think clearly in terms of New York City, New
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  Speaker 2: York City is way more liberal than it was. New
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  Speaker 2: York City, for heaven's sakes, elected Giuliani as mayor. They've
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  Speaker 2: got a Marxist now. They're with Republican governors of New
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  Speaker 2: York State. So I think undeniably this trend has happened
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  Speaker 2: in New York that a significant number of the people
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  Speaker 2: that have left have been conservative or at least moderate people,
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  Speaker 2: which has left the city of New York and New
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  Speaker 2: York State far more liberal than it was before. Ditto California.
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  Speaker 2: And the fear would certainly be in Wisconsin if Crowley,
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  Speaker 2: who is, you know, Evers was in over his head
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  Speaker 2: and addled. Crowley is a different kind of stupid. He's
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  Speaker 2: just an empty suit. I've got a story that will
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  Speaker 2: explain that, that we're going to, that I'll cover in
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  Speaker 2: a little bit here. So the legislature, which will be
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  Speaker 2: extremely leftist if the Democrats get controlled, Everything that passed,
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  Speaker 2: Crowley's going to sign. There's going to be no restraints
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  Speaker 2: on him. Just as his county executive, he's never stood
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  Speaker 2: up and bucked anything that came from the left with
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  Speaker 2: the exception of he's pocketed a ton of data center
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  Speaker 2: money because he was trying to raise campaign cash and
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the data center companies were trying to get their teeth
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  Speaker 2: into a Democrat and they did that. But in terms
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  Speaker 2: of policy, Crowley's a political coward and he does what
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats tell him to do. But I admit, you
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  Speaker 2: can't have this ideology both ways. If I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: argue all these people from blue states leave and go
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  Speaker 2: to the red states and wreck the red states by
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  Speaker 2: voting blue, I can't also argue that everybody who's going
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  Speaker 2: to leave Wisconsin is red. It doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: If all the Republicans leave Wisconsin, the states that they
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  Speaker 2: would go to would obviously become more Republican than they
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  Speaker 2: are now. So to say it's a dilemma, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: raising this because I don't have answers, I think It
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  Speaker 2: depends on the state. Clearly, Arizona, when the people from
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  Speaker 2: California have moved in, has become more Democratic. And clearly, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: as people have moved in from the northeastern part of
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  Speaker 2: the United States and the upper Midwest escaping high taxation there,
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  Speaker 2: has become more Republican. Texas, it seems to me, is
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  Speaker 2: trending Democrat, but it's still a Republican state. So I
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  Speaker 2: throw out these fascinating questions without having A firm answer.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: We're certainly going to see the results of this over
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the next 10 years because I think this trend is
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: becoming more extreme as you have blue states now becoming
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: openly Marxist. With clear socialists running for governors in numerous
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: of these states and Marxists running for mayors. The exodus
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: is going to become even greater because these northern high-tax states,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: they're going to get even worse. They're all going to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: become California or western Washington state or western Oregon or Chicago.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Poor people in the rest of Illinois are just– because
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Chicago and the almost as bad Chicago suburbs are so democratic,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: they overwhelm in terms of their voting the governance of
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the rest of the states. The next thing about this,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: the Democrats that are embracing radicalism aren't really shy about
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: hiding it anymore. It started with Hong. Yeah, I'm a
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: member of the DSA. Yeah, I'm anti-capitalist. She almost won.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: All right, now here's Crowley. We have an unusual thing
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: going on in the governor's race in Wisconsin. For once,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the Republican has more money than the Democrat. This has
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: not been the case for several recent elections. Part of
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it is the Democrats had this primary, and the donors
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: were sitting on their hands waiting to see who the
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: nominee was, whereas the Republicans for once had no primary,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: and Tiffany's been able to be raising money for the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: last year without any opposition, but the Democrats, they didn't
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: know who the candidate was going to be. And secondly,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Crowley kind of emerged from nowhere, so he started this
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: general election with squat. He's trying to go from zero. Now,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: they're going to raise a lot of money for him
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: because there's a fear on the part of the Democrats
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: that in a year that's likely to be Democrat nationwide,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the last thing they want is a state that has
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a Democrat governor right now to flip to Republican. See
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: where Crowley is? Crowley went to where for a fundraiser? California.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Went to California for a fundraiser headline by Kamala Harris.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: That is not a guy that is attempting to hide
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: what his ideology is. He's going right out to California
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: to get money from Californians so he can come back
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to Wisconsin and make Wisconsin a California. I mean, here's Kamala.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: To this day, we just don't know. If the Democrats
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: had displaced Biden early in the year and elected a
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: more reasonable nominee, let's just say Shapiro of Pennsylvania. It
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: could be anybody. Would Trump have won? Was Trump's win
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: a more pro-Trump win, or was it a more rejection
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: of how bad Kamala Harris was? The answer, of course,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: is a combination of the both, but we don't really
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: know which of the two factors is more powerful. But
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: certainly Kamala Harris is not somebody that has any appeal
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: to mainstream voters. But she's out there fundraising with Crowley
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: in California. So there's David Crowley, unable to raise any
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: money here in Wisconsin. And it's unusually, even for it,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: unusually biased coverage of the governor's election. The Gannett Papers
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, which includes JS Online in Milwaukee, they're making
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a big deal of the fact that Crowley has these
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: billionaire donors. And they cite Diane Hendricks. Oh, I say Crowley. Yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: that Tiffany has these big billion-dollar donors. Dave Michaels catching
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: that error on my part. I wonder if Jason would
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: have caught that. He'd be still stewing over his football
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: pick for tomorrow, so therefore he wouldn't be thinking. The
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Tiffany has these billionaire donors, Diane Hendricks and Liz and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Dick Uleid. Well, it's true. They are backing you. But
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: they're all from Wisconsin, at least sort of. The U-Lines
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: live in Illinois, but they're a company. They have multiple
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: place businesses in Wisconsin, mostly in Kenosha County. Crowley's out
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: there trying to raise money from billionaires. Why is he
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: in California? Because that's where all the tech money is.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: but he's got to raise it from out-of-state money. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: at least the money that Tiffany is raising from fat cats,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: wealthy donors, is Wisconsin wealthy donors as opposed to what
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the Democrats have been getting their money from for all
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: of these years, from outside billionaires like Soros, Reid Hoffman
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: of LinkedIn, Tom Steyer, et cetera. The point that I'm making, though,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: about Crowley going out there, you could have a fundraiser
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: in California for Crowley without Crowley being there. You know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: he could make a video appearance. Or you just have
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the get-together, and you get a bunch of Democrats, okay,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin's a targeted race, you can get to meet Kamala,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: all of that stuff. But they figured they could raise
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: more money by having Crowley go out there, and Crowley
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: certainly knew that some people would find out about this.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So he's not even shy. Yeah, okay, fine. I'm raising
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: money from California because everybody knows that if Crowley, well,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if all the voters know, but anybody
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: who's paying attention knows if Crowley wins, the Democrats are
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: going to try to Californiaize Wisconsin. I don't even think
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: they deny it. Actually, you wouldn't be able to get
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Crowley to answer one way or another because the guy
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: is terrified of answering any questions. Again, I said I'd
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: have an example of that, and let's get to it
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: right now rather than continuing to tease it. Molly Beck,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: for two minutes, got off of her let's do biased
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: anti-Tom Tiffany stories and asked Crowley about this program that
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: he greenlit in Milwaukee County to pay for computer tablets
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: like iPads and notebooks for inmates in the Milwaukee County Jail.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: This has become an enormous issue when we learned, thanks
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski, that there are inmates
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: in the jail using their tablets to engage in witness
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: intimidation and maybe even putting hits out on witnesses. They're
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: using their tablets to try to deter the witnesses against
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: them from testifying at trial. The program exists because Crowley
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: signed the legislation funding it. Now again, that story, how
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: many weeks old is that story? About four? So you'd
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: think Crowley would have an answer if they asked him,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: do you still support the program? You would think that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: But as I say, Crowley is an empty suit. He
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: has an answer for these questions if there's a staffer
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: right next to him who can tell him. I don't
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: think Jason said he watched the show Veep. Did you
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: watch Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus? First season. See, you didn't
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: think it, you evidently didn't think it got better. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: thought it got better. Oh, way after it was over. Yeah. Well, anyway,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the candidate, when Julia Louis-Dreyfus, it's called Veep because the
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: show started when she was vice president. She became everything.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: She was out of office, then she was the president,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: then she lost. Anyway, She had this handler. And when
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: she would go and meet people, he would whisper things
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: in her ear telling her what to say. And I
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: forget who the actor was, but he played that role
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: so well. You know, there'd be somebody walking up and
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the guy would mutter in her ear, you know, he's
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the guy, his wife just got divorced. What? Gary. His
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: name was Gary. Well, that's what Crowley did. So apparently
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Molly Beck asked him, When you make changes to the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: program that you have in Milwaukee County, giving tablets to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: all the inmates. Well, Crowley didn't have a Gary to
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: whisper in his ear, so he wouldn't answer the question. Again,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: this issue's been out there for four weeks. Now, if
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Crowley wasn't a political weakling, and he had any spirits,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: he'd say, yeah, I changed the program. We're going to
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: take the tablets away. And then, after the election simply
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: don't do it or go on to become governor. He
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: won't be the county executives anymore. He said, well, I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: can't take the tablets away anymore. I'm not the county
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: executive anymore. And if he stays as county executive because
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: he loses the governor's election, he just changed, I changed
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: my mind. But you would just at least say that, right?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: But he doesn't know if he should say that because
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: he's out there going to California to shake down money
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: from lefties. Maybe he's afraid. Dave asked me, who's he
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: afraid of upsetting? Maybe the lefties who he's trying to
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: get to unite behind them because he wants to make sure.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: In fact, they make this big deal of having Francesca
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Hong run around the state endorsing Crowley, making sure that
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the Marxist voters and so on, the ones that are
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the hardcores, don't sit this out, hacked off that Hong
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: didn't win. So maybe he's trying to appease to them.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's worried about the people that he's going to
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: raise money from in California. Or maybe he's just too
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: terrified to answer any questions. I mean, the guy has
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: gone from pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in money
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: from data center developers to crashing Tiffany for a few
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: votes that he says were pro data center. So again,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: my point about the blue states are getting bluer. They're
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: all becoming California. It's just proven. Here's Crowley lagging in
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the fundraising race running where to raise money. California. He'd
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: raise money from fat cat Wisconsin liberals, but none of
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: them want to give him any money, so instead he's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: got to go where all the fat cat liberals live,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: which is California. So California can Californiaize Wisconsin. I've got
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: another interesting story to talk about. This week, President Trump announced...
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: that there is going to be a huge steel plant
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: built in Iowa. It's almost the perfect state for it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Iowa is one of those states that needs economic diversification.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: The Iowa economy, obviously they have health care and finance
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: and a few other things like any state would have.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: But it's been such a rural state at a time
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: in which farms are getting larger, and therefore, farm families,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: these farms are being taken over by larger corporations and
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: not individual farmers. There needs to be an economic diversity.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: There needs to be diversity of the economy there, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: they don't have a lot of heavy industry. It's going
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: to be the largest steel plant in the United States
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: of America. Now, obviously, the timing of this election The
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Democrats are making inroads in Iowa in this election. There's
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: fear that the governorship is going to flip to Democrat
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: there again. Everybody thinks this blue wave is coming. So
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: the announcement is timed right before the election, this massive
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: economic boom for the state of Iowa. One of the
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: things that Trump has been focused on so aggressively is
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: not just getting tech jobs back to the United States.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: He's been desperate to protect American steel and auto jobs.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the auto jobs from China and from Canada, and the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: steel mostly from Asia. Trump has determined that these major
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: industries that still are so labor-intensive either stay in the
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: United States or come back to the United States. Here's
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: my but. As long as I've been alive, everybody supported jobs.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: But it was mostly the Democrats, the Republican economic policies
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: dealt with free enterprise, growth in the economy, and so on.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: And Democrats, as long as I've been alive, the thing
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: that they would hammer on is jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: This is the base of the Democratic Party. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: It's not anymore. How many people even want to work
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: at a steel factory? Or do they just want to
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: smoke their joint and have the Marxists give them free
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: health care and free this, that, and the other thing?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: We've got, in terms of employment, really low unemployment in
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: the United States right now. That story is overshadowed by
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: the inflation we have. But one of the reasons the
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: unemployment is so low, remember, unemployed people are people that
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: are seeking work. If you're not working but you're not
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: seeking a job, you're not counted as unemployed. We have
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: huge numbers of people who simply are underemployed or not
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: seeking employment at all. They're satisfied driving for DoorDash and
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: are doing nothing to uplift themselves because DoorDash doesn't test
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you for pot. You can DoorDash whenever you want to.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: You don't have to work 9 to 5 with DoorDash.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: You can work tonight, not work the next night. You
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: can work 3 hours here or 6 hours there. Do
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: whatever you want. As opposed to an actual job where
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: at the factory you work 7 to 3 or 3
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: to 11 or whatever it is. If we've lost our
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: work ethic, we've lost everything. And I just fear that
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: it's not just the data centers or people that turn
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: it up. They don't know we can't have data centers.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: We can't have all of those jobs. Are they not
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: going to say, well, we don't want a steel mill.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: We don't want an auto plant. We don't want an anything.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe this is
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: just a phase. Inflation is high. It's an off year
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: for the Republicans is. off years are in presidential terms.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Some of these Democrats will get reelected, get elected. Their
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: states will go to hell real quickly and it'll all
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: be a huge boost for the Republican candidate for president
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: at 28, whomever that is, Vance Rubio or whomever. That's
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: certainly very possible. We've gone through these phases of electing
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Democrats who've wrecked things and often it results in a
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: massive backlash that creates a new Republican boom like Reagan.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Or for that matter, you can even argue 24 in
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Trump or 16 in Trump. But if somebody announced, say,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: let's imagine this announcement was to put a big steel
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: mill in Wisconsin. Would people actually think it's a good thing?
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: You know, so many people on the left don't care
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: at all about middle class workers. And we've turned our
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: noses up so much at jobs that are not necessarily
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: college graduate type jobs that we don't care about those
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: people at all. One of the reasons why blue collar
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: middle class workers so much went to Trump but identified
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: with MAGA, at least initially, is they felt that the
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Democrats didn't care about them, didn't care about the American dream.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: You know, take a steel factory, talk about great paying jobs.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Usually you get a union in there too, so they
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: get great benefits. Wages are very high. But there are
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: some people that they just, they'd rather die than work
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: at one of those places. They'd rather die than work
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: at any job where you've got to punch a clock
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: and be in there eight hours every day. Think of
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: your average lefty. Think of these battle axes that are
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: out there defending Lindsey Clancy or the ones that are
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: out there, the anti-ICE rallies. Can you imagine any of
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: them working in an actual job? Oh, they could work
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: for government, like in the state of Wisconsin, which is
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: still at work at home, meaning they're not working. Or
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: they could work in the schools with all the days
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: off and prattle on about lefty stuff and then go
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: sit in the faculty lounge. Could you see any of
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: those people that are protesting against ICE showing up every morning?
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: at the steel mill to work in there? Well, I
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: don't get my pot break? No, and in fact, they're
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: going to drug test you in there. These are all
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: quite fascinating questions, I think. You're listening to the Mark
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Belling Podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast. Now, this
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: is a great story. I've got a story about a
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: company that is a bunch of crybaby deadbeats. There's a
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: company in Milwaukee called Red Star Yeast. I mean, first
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: of all, what a... What would you call yeast? Red Star.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it just seem like those names go together? I
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: don't know what. Yeah, I mean, Red Star. It sounds
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: like it could be a gas station. I mean, Red
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Star is one of those names that like a company
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: will have. It doesn't mean anything like you see Blue
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Star or Diamond and all of that stuff. But I
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: just don't think of a yeast company having that. I
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: don't know what the name for it. I mean, a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: yeast company name should just be blah because yeast is blah.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: There's this company called Red Star Yeast in Milwaukee. They
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: bought a giant package of Bucks tickets, which, if you're
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: wondering why Bucks tickets are so ungodly expensive, it's because
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: corporate executives buy a lot of them for themselves. They
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: want to go to those games and sit in the
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: good seats, and it's a great way of entertaining employees
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: and clients. You know, it's indoors. Fiserv Forum gives you
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: all the free food and all of this stuff. It's just...
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: The timing of the event is reasonable. And there's a
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: lot more high-end opportunities than, say, at American Family Field
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: or something like that. So anyway, a lot of corporations
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: will buy not just the good seeds. They have these areas,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: the suites and the lofts and these private gathering areas
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: or a bunch, a package of seeds in the loge,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: et cetera. Well, Red Star Yeast contracted with the Bucs
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: and as a Bucs season ticket holder, when they built
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: the Pfizer form, they offered people like me a five-year contract.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: And the five-year contract meant I was committed to buying
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the season tickets for five years, but they were capping
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: my price increase. The price would not go up more
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: than 5% in a year for those five years. Well,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: when that thing expired, you went on to a new
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: deal and so on. So obviously with corporate clients, I'm
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: sure they're doing the same sort of thing. Red Star
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Yeast agreed to buy a certain number of high-end tickets
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: for last year's buck season. They contracted. They signed and
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: said they'd do it. Year one. They reneged. The Bucs
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: have sued them. This is almost unheard of. I just
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: don't think of many stories in which a sports team
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: sues somebody who doesn't pay for their tickets. My guess
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: is that usually these things are worked out. Like the
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: account representative who saw Hi Muckety Muck with the Bucks
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: contacts Red Star Yeast and says, OK, fine, we'll take
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: all the tickets back and you only owe us 80%
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: of the money that's down there. You don't want us
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: to sue you because you're going to look like what
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: company wants to look to its competitors as a company
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: that's run by a bunch of deadbeats who don't pay
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: their bills. Now, Red Star Yeast may be on hard times.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Maybe they aren't. I don't know. Why would the yeast
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: business be slumping right now? I mean, they're all claiming
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: everything has to do with gasoline prices. I mean, I
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: don't know. They don't put gasoline in yeast, but they
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: do have to ship the yeast, right? No one's buying beer,
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: but that's been a long-term thing. Yeast goes in bread, too,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: I mean. I don't know what Red Star Yeast's problem is.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: We certainly know that the company is a bunch of deadbeats.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: So Red Star Yeast has offered now its answer to
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the lawsuit the Bucs have filed. And this is where
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: I'm coming down on them, these weasels. They're saying, well,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: the Bucs had a bad team last year. No kidding.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: They did. And the Bucs, when we bought these tickets,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: promised us that a premium experience, but instead they were
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: a bunch of losers. So we shouldn't have to pay.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: That's part of the deal when you buy season tickets
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: for a sports team. They might stink, or they might
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: be great. You can have a pretty good idea of it,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: but take the Packers, who I think are on the
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: verge of stinking this season. Now, obviously, Packers season tickets,
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: they're always sold out and all that stuff. Anyway, you
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: buy those tickets. You're hoping they might be good, but
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: you don't know for sure. It's part of the risk
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: that you take. And then they're saying, well, they even
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: didn't play some of their star players, meaning Giannis. Giannis
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: didn't play the second half of the season. So in
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: other words, Red Star East is committed to buying all
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: these tickets and using this high-end stuff, and they contact
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: their clients, and they don't feel like going because the
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Bucs have lost seven or eight in a row, and
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: they're sitting there with these tickets that aren't the attractive
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: thing that they thought they would be. So they say,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: so we shouldn't have to pay. This is part of
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the risk when you buy sports tickets or tickets to anything.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I have an excellent example to cite. People may have
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: caught on, and now that Giannis is gone, it's changed.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: LeBron James just would not play in Milwaukee. When he
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: was with the Lakers, that meant there was only one
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: game a year. When he was with Cleveland, when he
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: was in the East, you'd often get two games a
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: year in Milwaukee. But when an Eastern Conference, Western Conference,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: the Bucs play one game on the road against all
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Western Conference teams, and the Western Conference team comes here
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: one time. So there was only one Laker game a year.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: And I don't, maybe he played once. LeBron was always hurt,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: or it would be a game he would take rest.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: He just didn't want to play. And I know why
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: he didn't, because Giannis always ate LeBron's lunch, and LeBron
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: didn't like that. I mean, that had to be the reason.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, they'd play like the next night in Chicago,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: and then LeBron would be out on the court. So
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: people would buy these Bucs tickets, and the people who
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: don't buy season tickets that buy individual games, the Laker
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: game was always a huge seller. So you buy like
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: four months in advance the Laker ticket because you think
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: you're going to see LeBron, and then the Lakers come
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: into town, and there's no LeBron. You don't get a refund!
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: It's part of the deal. Now, it is inapplicable at
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: American Family Field because we have a rough, but go
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: back to, say, when the Brewers are in County Stadium.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: You buy a ticket to a game in early June,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and on that night it's 46 degrees and it's drizzly
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: and they play anyway. You don't get a refund. If
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: you did, let's imagine last year The Bucs were having
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: a great season, and there were 29 games above 500
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: in early March. And they contacted Red Star Yeast, and
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: they said, hey, these tickets that you agreed to buy
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the season, we're raising the price
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: on them. I know you already bought the tickets, but
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: we're going to raise the price. We're going to put
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a surcharge on them. Now, they do do that with
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: individual games based on demand, all the sports teams now.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: have prices that go up or down depending on demand
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: for the game. But remember, these were tickets they contracted
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: to buy at the beginning of the season. Imagine it,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: or the Bucs say, we're just going to take them
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: back from you because somebody else is willing to give
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: us more money for them. See, it works both ways.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: But Red Star East doesn't think it should. Now, I
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: know where this is coming from when they're claiming, well,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: the reason we didn't buy is because you weren't as
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: good as we thought you would be. They had to
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: come up with something. The company's a bunch of deadbeats,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: and maybe they've got financial problems and they just didn't pay.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: So they have to come up with some explanation, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: they have a lawyer who tries to come up with, okay,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: the lawyer says, let's just claim that the Bucks promised
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: that they, it's like a legalistic argument. Let's test this argument.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: The team isn't as good as we thought they'd be,
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: so therefore we shouldn't have to pay for our tickets.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: as opposed to the company doing this, because surely the
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: people who run Red Star Yeast know how bad and how,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: you know, how this makes them look like a bunch
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: of deadbeats. Or maybe they're figuring, I mean, I don't think,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: like when you go to the store, you don't buy yeast.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Yeast is something that people put into the products before
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: you buy it, right? I mean, like your wife cooks things.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: She doesn't buy yeast for, does she buy yeast when she,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: first of all, no wives make bread anymore anyway, do they? Grandmas,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think great grandmas do. I know grandmas,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: none of them bake any bread. Well, those people have
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: to buy yeast, don't they? Or is that already in
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: the bread dough that they buy? I know nothing about this.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Do you know how many times I've made bread in
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: my life? None. Do you know how many times I'm
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: going to make bread in my life? None. Of all,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know when I made that decision,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: maybe 11. I don't think I'm ever in my life
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: going to make bread or bake bread or whatever the
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: hell you do with bread. I didn't buy bread. It's
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: all carbs. Anyway. So maybe the people at Red Star Yeast,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: they don't care about what their image is. The yeast plants,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: they kind of create a stink, but you never know.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: When we had that stink, when you drive past the
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Menominee Valley, you never really knew if it was coming
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: from the brewery, if it was coming from the rendering plants.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: We had the stockyards that were back there that it
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: was coming from the yeast plants. I think it was
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: like all of them combined together to create that kind
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: of aroma that was in the air out there. That
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: was mostly red star yeast. So yeah, okay, fine. They're
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: sticking up there. They're thinking, what did I, we already stank.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: What do we care if people now think that we're
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: a bunch of deadbeats? So I'm calling them out on this.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm in Florida, so I have to unload
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: some of my bucks tickets in the second half of
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: the season. I took a beating trying to resell some
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: of those tickets last year because obviously the team wasn't
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: any good. It never dawned on me. First of all,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how it, obviously with these companies,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: when they sign these contracts, you don't have to come
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: up with the money all up front. When I buy
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: my tickets, I pay. Well, I think you actually, you
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: can do a payment plan on bucks, tickets and pay
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: as you go along. I pay in full in advance
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: because they give you extra spiffs on that. You get
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: an extra discount. And you've got a concession thing for
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: the tickets and all of that stuff. But if I
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: was on a payment plan, which I'm on to the brewers,
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: I pay like they divide it into nine payments a year.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: And the brewers sunk, which has not been the case
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: in many, many years. So I'm just not going to
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: let you hit my credit card for the rest of
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: the season. I couldn't imagine doing that. It's part of
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: the deal. You buy tickets to something and you don't
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: get what you were expecting. You don't have recourse, just
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: as I'll give you two examples. Two examples. Let's see.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: This whole month has been so busy for me. This
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: is less long ago than I think it was. I
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: think it was only a week and a half ago. Yeah,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: a week ago Sunday. It had to be longer than that,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: but it's not. I went to see a concert at
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. I was in
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Florida a weekend and a half ago. The opening act
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: was Steve Linwood, and the headliner was John Fogerty. I
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: actually thought... Who do you think is bigger, Fogarty or Wynwood? Wynwood.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: You said Wynwood. Yeah, I agree. I would think Wynwood's
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: bigger than Fogarty, but Wynwood was the opener, and Fogarty
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: was the headline act. For those of you who don't know,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: John Fogarty was Creedence Clearwater Revival, giant band, and he
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: also had a solo career, but he was Creedence. And
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Steve Wynwood also was in numerous bands. He was in Traffic,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: he was in Blind Faith, and then had a solo
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: career of his own. He was... He was in traffic,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: informed traffic with Dave Mason when they were both teenagers. Anyway,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: so okay, I go to the show, you don't know
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: what you're going to get. Steve Winwood opened, and it
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: was a nice enough set, but it was Steve Winwood
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: playing some hits, and it was an opening act, went
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: on for 11 songs. It was fine, but is it
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: one of the better concerts I've ever seen? No, it's
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: the third time I think I've seen Steve Winwood. It
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: was fine. Then Fogarty came on. John Fogarty is 81
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: years old. It was one of the best shows I've
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: ever seen, and I've seen a zillion shows. I hate
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: to use the term, but I will use the term.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: My girlfriend was blown away as well. We were both
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: shocked at this. I just, you know, okay, it's John Fogarty.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Creedence Clearwater Revival was a group, was one of those
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: groups that like, okay, they're from that era. Their stuff
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: is good, but they were never like my favorite band.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, part of this is Fogarty didn't tour or
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: record for 30 years. He was in this massive dispute.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: His songwriting rights, he never owned. His publishing rights were
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: sold really early by a manager. And he was in
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: a dispute with whoever owned the music for like decades.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: So he wouldn't record and he wouldn't perform. So he's like,
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: like a baseball player who misses like three or four
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: years of injury. Well, they're now 34 years old. They're
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: fresher than if they had played all of those years.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: He looked great. He sounded great. And his guitaring, I mean,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: the figures are flat out all over the place. It
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: was incredible. It was just a spectacular show. Surprisingly so.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't go and give the Hard Rock Casino more
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: money because the show was better than I thought. Likewise,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: let's imagine it was a dud. I mean, we've all
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: seen classic rock acts where the performers go through the
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: motions and they just crank out a show, blah. That
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: would be the case with the Eagles. The thing with
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: the Eagles is, I know they're just going through the motions.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: They're so damn good that it's still a great show.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Henley's now lip syncing. Did you
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: know that? Yeah, I mean, part of it is how
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: can you hit those high notes at his advanced age,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: but I mean, imagine I went to an Eagles show
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: and I thought it was just kind of blah. And
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: the Eagles tickets, you know, they were playing this long
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: residency out at the Sphere in Las Vegas. So they
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: went out there and I didn't like it. Or they
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: were just saying, you don't get a cut on your tickets. Likewise,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: I was surprised at how good Fogarty was. I didn't
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: have to pay more. Now my second story. This story is,
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: I can pin the year. It was probably 81 or 82.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: It was a couple of years after Evita came out.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Evita was the hit Broadway musical that was based on
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: the life of Eva Peron, Argentina. The big showstopper song
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: was Don't Cry For Me, Argentina, which later Madonna covered.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: They made a movie and Madonna was in the movie.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: But when the musical Evita came out on Broadway, I
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: think it was late 70s. So after a musical makes
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: it to Broadway, they then have a touring company that
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: goes and they have the It's the licensed Broadway performance,
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: and they tour around the country. I lived in Springfield
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: at the time. St. Louis is 100 miles away. The
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: girlfriend that I had then, 45 years ago, I'm telling
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: 45-year-old stories. It was at whatever the downtown auditorium in St.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Louis is, and it was with Patti LuPone. Patti LuPone
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: created the role on Broadway. She won all the Tony's
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: for it. She's still around. She's gone on to become
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: this incredible lefty. She might have been then, too. This
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: kind of relates to the story. So it wasn't just
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: the touring company of Evita. It was the touring company
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: of Evita with Patti LuPone, who created the role. So
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: we go to the show. We're in there. And right
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: before the show starts, the announcement comes out on the
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: public address system. Miss Patti LuPone will not be performing
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: tonight and her understudy and then whoever the understudy was
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: and they named the understudy. When we walked into the theater,
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: there were people that were protesting and picketing Patti LuPone.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: I remember the story because it's a good story. She
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: apparently had performed a few months earlier on a concert
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: tour in South Africa. This was during the time in
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: which there was a lot of pressure, this is when
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: South Africa was still apartheid, on American entertainers not to
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: perform in South Africa, but Patti LuPone, who's now a
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: big-time liberal, she went and she took the money and
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: she performed in South Africa. So there were protesters out
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: there protesting because she went South Africa. I think she
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: simply claimed that she had a cold so she didn't
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: have to walk into that theater through the picket line
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: of protesters. That's my theory. Anyway, It happens. You go
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: on Broadway every night. There's a reason that they have understudies.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: If the star can't perform, or for that matter, all
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: the cast members have understudies, somebody fills in and plays
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: the role. So we saw the understudy, whoever the hell
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: that was, play the role of Evita at Evita. They
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: didn't give me any cut on my money. We're all there.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: It's part of the deal. You take that risk. You
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: go to a Brewer game. They might lose 17 to nothing,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: and it might be one of those games that they're
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: losing so badly that they have a position player pitch
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: the last two innings to give up 10 more runs.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Who wants to sit there for that? You know, you're
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: losing by 14 to nothing in the fifth inning. People
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: get up and leave. You don't get your money back.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Red Star yeast. I'd like boycott them if I knew
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: how to boycott a yeast, but I don't think I've
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: ever bought yeast. All I know is that yeast is
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: something that women have that you're not supposed, that nobody
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: wants to have. I don't even know what those infections
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: are when they have yeast infections. You're married. You must
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: know more about that than I do, right? That's, I'm
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: just saying, I know that it's something you don't want.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: And if the person you're with has it, you don't want,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: you want to be a mile away from her, right?
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't sound like anything I'd ever want to have.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think guys get them because we can't get them, right?
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of it. I mean, I've gotten just
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: about everything in my life, but I've never had that.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: So it's got to be a thing that only a
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: woman can get. I wonder if this is like hacking
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: off Red Star yeast. Well, we'll find out. The thing
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: about a podcast is, unlike a radio station, they don't
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: know who to call to complain about me. I mean,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: they could complain to me myself, but that never does
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: any good. So now you're claiming that men can get them,
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: but It's like certain cancers, I suppose, right? I'm pretty sure.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Watch me. That'll be my payback. Watch I now get.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: It'll be like, what do they call that when you
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: think your way into a sickness? Hypochondria. I'll get like
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: hypochondriatic yeast infection. Except I don't even know where I
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: would get it. So I don't know the way. It's
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: got to be like down to the crotch or something, right?
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I got a yeast infection, it wouldn't
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: be on my forehead, would it? My wife would. Maybe
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: it would be. All right. Clearly, it's time to move
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: on to the next story. The story, this is in
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: JS Online a few days ago. It's about a pervert
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: from Sheboygan who was caught in possession of child porn
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: and was on bail. Now, when you're on bail, they
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: give you all these requirements. You can't do this. Usually,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: if it's porn or something, they say you can't go
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: on the internet at all because they know that these
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: weirdos that are into child porn, even if you're free
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: on bail and you let them go to the internet,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: they're going to wander over there. Let me quote from
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: the report on JS Online. It's about a perverted chiropractor
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: in Sheboygan named Kazimir Kobolinsky. A Milwaukee County judge said
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: bail at $ 1 million for a Sheboygan chiropractor who, for
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: the second time in a year, was found to be
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: in a possession of child pornography, according to a criminal complaint.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Kazimir Kobolinski was charged after authorities say they found hundreds
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: of images depicting children on a USB drive seized from
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: his Sheboygan chiropractic clinic. Prosecutors also say Kobolinski took inappropriate
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: photos of two girls, ages 2 and 10, while he
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: was out on bail in his original case. See, now,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: it's bad enough that this guy did this, but bad
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: for him. There's like three tough judges in all of
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee County, and this guy's got one of them. He's
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: got Borowski. Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski forfeited Kobolinski's previous
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: $ 45, 000 bail and set the new bail at $ 1 million
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: cash bail. So when he was originally charged, his cash
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: bail was $ 45, 000, which is actually pretty high. So unlike
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: what they normally do when people violate their bail... Borowski
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: ordered it forfeited, he pocketed it, and then sets the
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: new bail at a million dollars. So I hope Kobolinski
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: got his jollies out of the kiddie porn that he
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: was involved in during the time that he was free,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: because now the price for being a pervert has just
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: gone up to a million. Borowski also ordered Kobolinski to
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: live in Sheboygan rather than at his Milwaukee home and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: prohibited from having a cell phone. That's assuming, I don't
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: know if he's posted bail, but if he does post bail,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: he has to live in Sheboygan. He can't live in Milwaukee,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: where his home is, and he can't have a cell phone.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Kobolinski was previously charged February 27th of 2025 with 12
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: counts of possession of child pornography. He was ordered not
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: to access child exploitation material and not have unsupervised contact
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: with children, among other conditions. Now, I talk about this
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: all the time. These cases can take so long to
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: go to trial. He was charged in February of last year,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: I think 21 months ago, 20 months ago, And he's
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: free on bail ever since. Now, again, the bail was
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: rather high. One of the terms of bail, though, is
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: that you can't keep doing your perverted stuff, you creepo Cairo.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Creepo Cairo, pretty good. Creepo Cairo, that's pretty good. But
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: there's just something about this particular perversion. And thank God
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I don't even have many perversions,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: but if I don't... I just don't know how you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: get off on a five-year-old kid. I mean, 25-year-old woman
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: with big boobs, I can see why somebody would be
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: obsessed with that. I'm not even suggesting I am because
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: the whole thing with porn is what's the payoff? I mean,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: it's not like these women like you. These people that
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: are sitting there surfing and looking at porn like 17
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: hours a day, at some point, don't you, is it
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: all just becoming a sameness to it?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Kids.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: I get it. There's perversions. There are people that are
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: into having sex with animals. I really don't get that.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: But the thing about perversion with regard to children, I
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: think in most cases, they just can't stop. They can't stop.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: We saw this with the scum bucket that owns the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: toilet masquerading as a steakhouse called the Five O'Clock Steakhouse
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, Stelio. Convicted on federal charges of solicitation of
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: a minor about 20, 25 years ago. He and his
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: family by arrest out of Milwaukee when he's in prison.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: He gets out of prison on those charges. Comes back
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee, the grease ball. People go into his dump
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: knowing full well that the place was owned by a
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: child sexual predator. And he got caught again. Two years ago,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: he was caught at Interesting how these things tie together.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: The very same casino that I just saw John Fogarty in,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: he was at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, with
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: a minor. He was just sentenced to 18 years in
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: federal prison. So here's this guy. He served years. He
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: gets to come back in Milwaukee. He gets a new life.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: There are people that are making him a rich guy
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: go into his dump of a steakhouse that never bothers
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: to take down their archaic Christmas decorations. And has people
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: that are perfectly fine. working for a child predator and
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: customers that go in there knowing damn well that they're
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: bankrolling a guy that's making trips around the United States
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: with girls. I mean, Stelio's back on top. He even
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: has this, like, religious band that played in it. He's
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: such a phony. I found out about Stelio, like, right
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: around the time of his first conviction. I used to,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: when I would go to Chicago, hang around Gibsons, which
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: is like, do you know about Gibsons? You've heard of it. Yeah,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: it's a steakhouse downtown. It's the part of Chicago I
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: would never go anymore because now you can get shot
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: in the head by gangs that come down there, and
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: the mayor doesn't do anything about them. But it was
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: like a scene, and I would go in there like
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: anybody else my age would go into. They called it
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: the Viagra Triangle because there's lots of older guys with
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: hot young women, and Gibson's was right in the dead
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: middle of that. So I was in there talking to
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: a bunch of guys, and they know that I'm from Milwaukee,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: and they bring up Stelio, and they said, yeah, we
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: know this guy Stelio. He just bought a steakhouse in Milwaukee.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: I said, well, what about him? He said, well, he's
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: in federal prison. He's a pervert. And he was a
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: notorious pervert. And they were telling me the stories. So
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: I know all about this. And then the guy's family's
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: running the place he gets out of prison. And so
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: I've been aware of the creep all forever. But my
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: point is, He had landed completely on his feet. He's
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: loaded now with money, running the steakhouse, acting like a
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: big shot. The people go in there. I've given him
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: a pass for being a pervert. He can't stop himself.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: He loses it all. He's in the can now for
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: 18 years because he couldn't stop. Now, admittedly, this isn't
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: child porn. He was actually acting on it with people.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: But there's just something about this obsession sexually with children
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: that I think the overwhelming majority of the predators simply
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: can't kick. no matter what the disincentive or the consequence
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: for themselves. Now let's end with this. Unfortunately, the media
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: got an opportunity to use the hearing yesterday in the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: United States Senate with Jack Smith to not cover Jack Smith.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Jack Smith was the unbelievably biased federal prosecutor who abused
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: his discretion, and targeted all sorts of people who were
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: supporters of President Trump, conservative organizations. He grabbed the phone
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: records of 20 members of the United States Senate. None
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: of this had anything to do with Trump and his
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: activities with regard to trying to remain president at the
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: end of the 2020 presidential election. He simply went on
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: a massive fishing expedition to violate the rights of all
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: sorts of Republicans, never having any crime in place at all,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: just trying to come up with dirt on people that
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: he had no probable cause on whatsoever, lying to the
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: federal judges that gave him the warrants to do so.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: So the Republicans are going to grill him on all
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: of this. Now, many of you know what happened. There's
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: a senator from Missouri, Eric Schmidt. And I know exactly
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: how this happened. Eric Schmidt gets up there and he
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: thinks he's got Jack Smith alive. Another one of the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: prosecutors that was going after Trump on a different issue
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: was Fannie Willis down in Georgia. And Schmidt thinks he
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: has evidence that Jack Smith went down to Atlanta to
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: meet with Fannie Willis. Because Smith had earlier said that
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: he had never met her. And he, you know, he
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: puts these texts up and he posts them on the
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: screen during the hearing that shows Smith talking about having
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: gone on a certain night to a Hawks basketball game. Well,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: the Hawks are from Atlanta. And the night in question,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: they were home game, the night, the date that Eric
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Schmidt was talking about. So he's grilling Jack Smith, and
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Jack Smith's looking at him, and he doesn't know what
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: the guy is talking about. And now Jack Smith is
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: lying and weaseling on every answer. In this case, though,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: he was actually saying no, as opposed to lying because
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: he knows that they've caught him red-handed. In this case,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: he's actually, I don't think I actually did. This is
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: one of the things I didn't do. Well, it turns
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: out that the saw this text about going to a
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: Hawks game, and it was shorthand for Iowa Hawkeyes. This
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: is when Caitlin Clark was still at Iowa. Iowa went
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: to play Maryland in a basketball game, and Jack Smith
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: went to see Caitlin Clark play there and was texting somebody,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: and he was using Hawkeyes interchangeably. So Smith thought that
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: this was, you know, he catches him dead to rights
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: having been in Atlanta, and he didn't. So the media,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: of course, this is the only thing they covered. All
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: of the obfuscations of... Jack Smith, the remarkable drilling that
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz and Senator Grassley did of him. None of
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: that got any coverage instead. Here's Eric Schmidt claiming he's
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: got a smoking gun. In fact, he has nothing. I
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: know how this happened. You want to take a guess
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: how this happened, Dave? Yeah. There you go. Some idiot staffer.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: You know, These senators don't do their legwork on their own.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Some staffer is digging into trying to find dirt on
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: Jack Smith, trying to find something that'll pop a hole
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: in one of his stories. And as opposed to using
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: all of the actual stuff we know, some staffer sees
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: this text about hawks. Well, the hawks are in Atlanta.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Fannie Willis is from Atlanta. And give this to the senator.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: The senator isn't, doesn't, see, I have a BS detector.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: I also have had, in all the years that I
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: had Paul working for me, I was always driving Paul crazy.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: Are you sure this, that? With regard to some piece
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: of equipment, are you sure this isn't going to record
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: over Paul? No, it's not. It's not. You know, and
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: once every 10 years, something would happen that he was
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: convinced would not happen. See, see, see, and he would
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: get all hacked off of me for being so anally
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: retentive and being so cautious with regard to stuff like that.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Eric Schmidt had no caution about this. His staffer gives
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: him this. They don't think this through at all. The
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: only evidence that they had that Jack Smith was in
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Atlanta is there's this text about going to Hawks. And
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: beyond that, there's more than one Hawks basketball team. There's
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: colleges named Hawks in addition to Hawk Eyes, which is
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: what this is. So Eric Schmidt ends up giving the
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: media the opportunity to make this hearing all about how
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: unfair the Republicans are being to Jack Smith just because
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: one senator said, I do know this. That staffer is done.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: Almost every member, not all, almost every member of the
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: United States Senate is a prima donna, some worse than others.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: You think Eric Schmidt's now being ridiculed. He's being ridiculed
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: because a staffer gave him this thing. And by the way,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: when Smith started to deny, you could tell that Schmidt,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: the senator, he knew he had screwed up. And now
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: he's today, he's not even backing down. I have a
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: right to ask questions. That's exactly the thing that Candace
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: Owens does all the time. Like all these things in
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: which she's trying to pin the murder of Charlie Kirk
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: and Erica Kirk. I'm just asking questions. I'm just asking questions.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: I'm just asking questions. Yeah, you were asking a question.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: You were trying to make a big deal about something
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: that you were wrong on. Because you have a dope
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: of a staffer. As I say, I guarantee you, that
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: staffer is not long for this. They probably won't be
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: fired right away. But this gets filed away like in
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: four or five weeks before they have the holiday break.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: You know, you need to go somewhere else. Remember when
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: Paul did my show, Paul would have like found this
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: for me and gave it to me and they'd all
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: be ridiculed. See, I just don't think I'd... I think
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: I would have caught that. Going to a Hawks game
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: just doesn't even, I don't even know how you jumped
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: necessarily to Atlanta. If there were pictures of him at
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: the Hawks game or something like that, but it was
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: just text and it just said Hawks. So my guess
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: is that Schmidt isn't very careful in this stuff with
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: the staffers. Not a sports fan, probably somebody, the borderline
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: Gen Z becoming a millennial in there and The only
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: way that they look into anything is find it on
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: the internet. They didn't even do any follow-up and ask anybody,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: and that would be the simplest thing to then check.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: There could have been any level of checking, and for
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: that matter, they could have asked. They probably didn't want
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: to ask Smith in questions that the staff puts in
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: advance because this is supposed to be him sandbagging Smith
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: on the thing there, but there had to be a
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: higher level of checking than that. You're listening to the
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Mark Belling Podcast. Three, two, one. This is the Mark
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Belling podcast. All right. For references in time, because many
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: of you will hear this podcast after these comments are moot.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: I said on yesterday's podcast that I want the Cubs
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: to lose to San Diego in this series, meaning that
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: the Brewers would play San Diego in the divisional series
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: and not the Cubs. I admit that comment is stupid.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: I have preached for years. that you have to make
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: decisions on the basis of logic and not emotion. And
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: I grant you, it's entirely emotional. San Diego is, I think,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: better than the Cubs. And I think San Diego has
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: a much better chance of beating the Brewers in a
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: five-game series than the Cubs. San Diego's pitching is much
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: better and the hitting is equal. And San Diego ended
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: the regular season hot, whereas the Cubs didn't. I just
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: am so terrified of losing to the Cubs that I'm
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: willing to play a better team increasing the chances that
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: the Brewers would lose just so that you don't have
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: to put up with the prospect of the Cubs winning.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm admitting that that is stupid. And now that
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: San Diego has taken a 1-0 lead after killing the
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: Cubs 8-0, it's just emphasized that it's stupid. So if
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: I do this intellectually, I'm hoping the Cubs come back
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: and win the remaining two games. And no matter what
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: it is, you want it to be a three-game series
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: because you want both teams to burn out their pitching
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: before the Brewers season starts. On Saturday, with regard to
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: the Saturday games, we have now, this has been out
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: for a day, we have solid information on when the
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: Brewers play. All four of the divisional series start Saturday,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: so all four series will be played, have games on Saturday.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: The Brewers game will be either at 3 or 7
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: here in Milwaukee. If the Cubs advance, and at the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: time I'm doing this podcast, they're down 1-0 in a
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: three-game series. If the Cubs advance, the game will be
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: at 3 in the afternoon at American Family Field. If
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: it's San Diego, it will be the night game. So
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: for Game 1, it will be a mid-afternoon game if
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: the Cubs come back and win the last two games
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: of the San Diego series. If the Brewers play San Diego...
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: It's a Saturday night game. Sunday's game will be at
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: 3 o'clock regardless. So game two will be on Sunday,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: and it is guaranteed to be 3 o'clock regardless of
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: the opponent. The current series that we're in, the games
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: are split between NBC and Peacock. The Brewers series, the
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: divisional series, will be split between Fox and Fox Sports 1.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: And as long as I'm mentioning Fox Sports 1, my
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Remarkable two-year-old horse, USS Valor, who's run only two times
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: in his life. In his last race, he ran the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: fastest speed figure of any two-year-old in America in six years.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: He runs at a grade one race on Saturday at
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: Belmont Park in New York. That race will be on FS1,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports 1. The race will go off at 2.50
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: our time, central time. So the Fox Sports coverage will
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: end at 3 o'clock, and they're going to go to
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: whichever baseball game they show, which would be the Brewers
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: if it's the Cubs they play and one of the
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: other four series going on in the divisional series if
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: the Brewers play San Diego. I am going to the
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: race meeting. I'm going to miss the first Brewers playoff game.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: I have managed my hectic weekend. I'm going to somehow
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: get from The racetrack back to my hotel, the JFK,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: Saturday night. So I'm coming back Saturday night, and I
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: will be here to see. Well, I'm going to miss
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: the first game anyway. Because, I mean, my flight out
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: of New York is Saturday night, regardless. But I will
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: be back for game two on Sunday. Our horse has
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: only one horse to beat in this race. Our horse
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: did not win his first race. Finished third in a
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: photo finish. The horse that won that race is in
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: the stakes race. He has not raced since. We've raced
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: in between and won our maiden race in a spectacular
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: performance that has the horse racing world buzzing. But it's
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: very possible the horse that beat us the first time,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: not having run now in two months, that he's improved
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: dramatically as well and could beat us. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: anybody else in the field winning. Again, our horse's name
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  Speaker 2: is USS Fowler. The race is race eight Saturday at
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  Speaker 2: Belmont Park. It's called the Champagne Stakes and it's on
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  Speaker 2: FS1 or Fox Sports 1, which many of you would have,
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  Speaker 2: and the race time. And in New York, the races
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  Speaker 2: go on pretty much on schedule. 2.50 our time. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Reminder that the Thursday podcast, the one we do tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the one in which the final
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  Speaker 2: segment will be our football preview and our point spread picks.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll do that one next. Talk to you then. Bye.
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