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The Mark Belling Podcast #165: The Unthinkable is happening—-a Massachusetts couple has lost custody of its child for failing to recognize the child's decision to change gender. Signs of the stock market cracking seem everywhere but are investors even noticing? And, the leftist narrative turns upside down as it turns out the Clancy holdout juror is a Haitian immigrant. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Way back, I don't know, it seems like it was
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  Speaker 2: sometime in the 80s. Robert Bork, that's a name from
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  Speaker 2: the past. He was nominated for the United States Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court and actually was rejected. His nomination wouldn't get through
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  Speaker 2: for a number of reasons, conservative. Anyway, he wrote a book,
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  Speaker 2: and the title of it was Slouching Toward Gomorrah. Again,
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  Speaker 2: this is 40 years ago or so. My recollection is
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  Speaker 2: it was the 80s. It might have been a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later. And the premise of the book was we
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  Speaker 2: were just kind of sliding We were in a gradual
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  Speaker 2: slide toward Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah, the two biblical cities
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  Speaker 2: that have been forever identified as just falling into depravity,
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  Speaker 2: losing their moral compass, losing all values, losing all decency.
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  Speaker 2: And Bork wrote 40 years ago that that's the way
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  Speaker 2: we were headed. We've been through a lot of culture
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  Speaker 2: wars and a whole lot of water over the dam
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  Speaker 2: since then. I don't know that he was right about
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  Speaker 2: slouching because it always seemed to me that it was
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  Speaker 2: moving faster than that. Maybe he was. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: story here that tells you we are now Gomorrah. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the things that are happening in our society are jaw-dropping.
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  Speaker 2: And perhaps the most frightening thing about them is they're
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  Speaker 2: not even producing any outrage. We'll deal with that story
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  Speaker 2: could apply to the Lindsay Clancy case, but it doesn't. Weirdly,
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  Speaker 2: it's from the same state. This case is from Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly don't think I had heard about it before yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I had, and maybe with all the other outrages
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  Speaker 2: that we have going on, I had heard about it
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  Speaker 2: and I'd forgotten it. There's a family in Massachusetts whose
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  Speaker 2: daughter wanted to transition into being a male, female, and
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  Speaker 2: she identifies as a male, and she wanted to begin
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  Speaker 2: the medical treatment to do it, including getting shot up
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  Speaker 2: with testosterone, the male hormones, and so on. Her parents
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  Speaker 2: are devout Catholics that may or may not matter here.
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  Speaker 2: You can decide for yourself as we go forward. The
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  Speaker 2: parents opposed the decision. They said it was against their
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  Speaker 2: belief system.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a parent of a teenager or a parent
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  Speaker 2: of anybody, but it would be against my belief system.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is nightmarish that we are doing this
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  Speaker 2: to kids who are not in a position to be
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  Speaker 2: making life-altering permanent decisions. They're not adults. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty stupid to do it when you are an adult.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of people do stupid things when we're
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  Speaker 2: adults and we kind of allow them to do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's the kids. So the parents oppose the decision. The
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  Speaker 2: state of Massachusetts has taken away their custodial rights. They've
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  Speaker 2: lost custody of the child. Jason follows this stuff closely.
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  Speaker 2: Were you aware of this story? You heard it like
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of days ago. So again, recently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so this case has been going on for some time,
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  Speaker 2: but it's creating, it created such the little stir that
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  Speaker 2: neither of us, again, many of you may have heard
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  Speaker 2: of it, I hadn't. There aren't a lot of other
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  Speaker 2: extraneous elements to the story. Here are the details. Northborough, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 2: Algonquin Regional High School. The student involved, the girl, spoke
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  Speaker 2: to a school counselor, and the school counselor began the
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  Speaker 2: process of transitioning the child. This would, of course, be
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  Speaker 2: the non-medical transition, changing the name, referring to she as
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  Speaker 2: a he, all of that stuff. The family involved, their
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  Speaker 2: last name is Kutzko, found out that the counselor was
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  Speaker 2: calling the daughter by a male name and male pronouns,
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  Speaker 2: this according to Fox News, they objected. The response from
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  Speaker 2: the counselor was to file a report with the Massachusetts
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  Speaker 2: Department of Children and Families. Now, counselors and others are
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  Speaker 2: required to report all sorts of things. When they think
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  Speaker 2: that there are indications of physical abuse or sexual abuse,
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  Speaker 2: molestation and so on of kids, they're required to report.
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  Speaker 2: This was reported because the parents told the counselor, we
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  Speaker 2: do not approve of our daughter being referred to as
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  Speaker 2: a he. And for that, the counselor reports her to
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  Speaker 2: state government in Massachusetts. Now, Massachusetts, of course, is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most liberal states in the country. The bureaucracy
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  Speaker 2: is in the state Capitol. Everybody involved here is Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: State officials intervened and determined that the conduct of the
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  Speaker 2: parents is beyond the acceptable range of parental choices with
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  Speaker 2: the child and began to initiate a process for legal guardianship.
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  Speaker 2: They took over legal guardianship and then physical custody, removing
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  Speaker 2: the child from the parent's home. And then... issued a
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  Speaker 2: restraining order barring the parents and the child's brother from
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  Speaker 2: having any contact with her. Just as I'm describing this,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like I'm making this up. The family responded
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  Speaker 2: in court and got a judge to issue a temporary
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  Speaker 2: injunction prohibiting the state agency from administering the hormone therapy.
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  Speaker 2: But that's where it stands. The parents right now do
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  Speaker 2: not have custody of their child. The state of Massachusetts does.
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  Speaker 2: The parents are filing legal actions to try to stop
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  Speaker 2: the inflicting of high-dose testosterone on the girl. And while
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  Speaker 2: they've got a court to give them a temporary injunction
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  Speaker 2: stopping that, at least temporarily, they're now raising their child.
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  Speaker 2: They lost their child over this. Interestingly, this story got
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  Speaker 2: on the radar of a lot of people when a
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  Speaker 2: football player made a post on social media about it.
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  Speaker 2: Trayvon Henderson, who's a running back for the Patriots, posted
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  Speaker 2: on social media on behalf of the parents. And he
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  Speaker 2: did it on religious grounds. Now, here's the thing. The
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  Speaker 2: parents are citing their religious beliefs, their Catholics, as their
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  Speaker 2: rationale for opposing this. and Henderson himself is religious, and
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  Speaker 2: he's citing that this is a violation of God's will.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not sure that, I mean, it may be
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  Speaker 2: relevant in terms of a legal sense, but I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure that it is. If these parents were atheists, I
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  Speaker 2: think that they should be able to raise their child
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  Speaker 2: the way they want. I wonder, I sincerely wonder, If
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  Speaker 2: the reaction to this story would be the same if
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  Speaker 2: the parents were Muslim, most Muslims aren't real supportive of
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  Speaker 2: this whole notion of transgender stuff and so on. If
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  Speaker 2: the two parents were Muslims and opposed their Muslim child transitioning,
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  Speaker 2: would the state of Massachusetts have taken action against it?
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  Speaker 2: We don't know that because it's a hypothetical. It's a hypothetical.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure necessarily that this thing has anything
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  Speaker 2: to do with religion. It has to do with A,
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  Speaker 2: whether or not the government of any state should be
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  Speaker 2: assisting a child in taking that second step in transitioning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm describing the first step as simply, you're a girl
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  Speaker 2: and you claim you're a boy. My name is George,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to call me George. And I
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  Speaker 2: want to start using the boys' can. That's the first step.
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  Speaker 2: That's bad, but it's not life-altering. You can always change
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  Speaker 2: your mind, as zillions of these kids have done. But
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  Speaker 2: when you start jamming a girl full of high-dose testosterone,
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  Speaker 2: that's permanent. She's going to start growing hair all over
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  Speaker 2: her face. Voice is going to change. Her sex drive
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  Speaker 2: is going to get all weirded out. We have already
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  Speaker 2: heard from the many young people who started this and
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  Speaker 2: years later regretted it over how they hate their lives
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  Speaker 2: and they wonder why no one stopped them from doing this. Again,
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  Speaker 2: gender change surgery has been around forever. I mean, back
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, there was, remember they discussed
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  Speaker 2: a woman named Christine Jorgensen. I remember as a kid,
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  Speaker 2: they were talking about that Christine Jorgensen used to be
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  Speaker 2: a man, became a woman that was the first person
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  Speaker 2: that they ever performed the surgery on. So that's been
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  Speaker 2: going on forever. It's simply accelerating now. These are kids. See,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's terrible. When a parent refuses to be
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  Speaker 2: a parent and supports the child in this completely screwed
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  Speaker 2: up decision. I claim that there is no, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the left always claims it's science, science, science. I claim
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  Speaker 2: that there's no scientific basis at all for changing your gender.
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  Speaker 2: We don't see it at all in the animal kingdom
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  Speaker 2: and we don't see much homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we're people, we're different. Okay, I agree with that. We're people,
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  Speaker 2: we're different. But there doesn't appear to be a scientific
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  Speaker 2: basis for it. When you're born a male or born
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  Speaker 2: a female, other than a handful of very rare cases,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't just the body parts. It's the type of
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  Speaker 2: hormones that flow through your body. It's the way that
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  Speaker 2: you physically develop. All of that. You can say that
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  Speaker 2: that's how God wanted it, and I think it is
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  Speaker 2: how God wanted it because I think God created it,
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  Speaker 2: but let's take God out of it, as so many
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  Speaker 2: of you want to do. Let's just say it's the
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  Speaker 2: way nature is. Well, the way nature is. So again,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, if you're 35 years old and you're
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  Speaker 2: a guy and you decide you want to wear a
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  Speaker 2: dress and you want to use the other restroom and
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  Speaker 2: you can Get away with doing that. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a very self-destructive way of living your life, but you're
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  Speaker 2: 35 years old and you're going to do it. Okay, fine,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing it. What do I care? I think it's
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  Speaker 2: terrible when a parent allows a child to do this,
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  Speaker 2: as opposed to telling them the same thing that they
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  Speaker 2: tell them on any number of other things. Wait until
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  Speaker 2: you're 18. But in this instance, the parents actually are
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  Speaker 2: being responsible and raising their child according to their desires,
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  Speaker 2: which I would contend were the desires of 99% of
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  Speaker 2: Americans only 20 years ago. You got a boy, you
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  Speaker 2: got a boy. That we have a government of one
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  Speaker 2: of the states now, not only not letting the parents
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  Speaker 2: stop the child from doing this, but taking custody away
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  Speaker 2: from the child and getting a court injunction blocking them
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  Speaker 2: from having any contact with their own kid. To me,
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  Speaker 2: the most alarming thing of this is, as I said,
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  Speaker 2: apparently this case has been proceeding for some time. It's
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  Speaker 2: produced so little outrage that that I just now heard
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  Speaker 2: about it. Now, I'll grant you, I talk a lot
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  Speaker 2: about bias in the media and biases in the determination
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  Speaker 2: of what is news and what is not news. If
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  Speaker 2: nobody in the media was covering this anywhere, how are
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  Speaker 2: any of us supposed to know about it and become outraged?
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  Speaker 2: I found out about it again off of this Fox
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  Speaker 2: News story. I think Jason said he found out about
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  Speaker 2: it two days ago. For me, it was yesterday. This
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  Speaker 2: is an indication of a society that is now sick
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  Speaker 2: and depraved. It's not just our refusal to allow parents
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  Speaker 2: to raise their children the way they want, within some limitations.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things we don't let parents do to
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  Speaker 2: their kids. Obvious reason. We don't allow the parent to
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  Speaker 2: have sex with the child. We don't allow the parent
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  Speaker 2: to do any number of things that we've decided are
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  Speaker 2: outside the range. In this instance, until I heard this story,
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  Speaker 2: I always assumed that this was inside the box. It's not.
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  Speaker 2: But it isn't just that. It's that we would go
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  Speaker 2: so far to facilitate a minor's decision to get chemical
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  Speaker 2: treatment to permanently alter her body Getting back to my point,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the parents are Catholic, is that relevant
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  Speaker 2: or not? I said you can argue that it is,
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  Speaker 2: you can argue that it isn't. I will, however, say this.
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  Speaker 2: I do think the fact that any of this crap
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  Speaker 2: is happening has to be related to the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we are a nation that has less belief in God
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  Speaker 2: than at any point in its history. When your society
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  Speaker 2: becomes this secularized, when you don't believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: a will of God and that God has certain teachings,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't believe that, you're leaving everybody to do
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  Speaker 2: whatever they want. And there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who are libertarian in nature who everybody should be able
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  Speaker 2: to do whatever they want. If we allow that without limitation,
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  Speaker 2: then there's no morality left. Because then anybody can claim, well,
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  Speaker 2: I want to do this or I want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I think there is, and again, it's the same state, weirdly,
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  Speaker 2: a connection with the Lindsay Clancy case. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to have these kids anymore because I have postpartum depression.
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  Speaker 2: I'm overwhelmed. Masses of people think that that's right. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have to have them. Again, this is an
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  Speaker 2: attitude that I don't recall us ever having. And this
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  Speaker 2: attitude of taking away kids from a parent if the
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  Speaker 2: parent doesn't allow the child to transition, it's an attitude
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen us have before. What changed in us
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  Speaker 2: other than an abandonment of any notion of of right
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  Speaker 2: and wrong, and that right and wrong coming from God
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  Speaker 2: and God's law. What else is it? It is very
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  Speaker 2: hard not to be worried about the moral health of
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  Speaker 2: a nation like this. You hear the stories of Rome,
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  Speaker 2: that one of the reasons that Rome fell in the
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  Speaker 2: first century was just in general the whole depravity of
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  Speaker 2: the Roman society. Everything got soft, and they were prone
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  Speaker 2: to be overconfident. because it was a drunken, oversexed, besotted society.
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  Speaker 2: Happened at the same time that Christianity was beginning to
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  Speaker 2: take hold in the Roman Empire, where the depravity of
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  Speaker 2: worshiping multiple gods led to And anything goes society, and
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  Speaker 2: it ended up being replaced by Christianity, which reimposed a
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  Speaker 2: set of moral values. But you can go back to
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament and Sodom and Gomorrah. History is rife
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  Speaker 2: with what happens when a society loses any sense of
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  Speaker 2: morality at all. It takes a football player from the
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  Speaker 2: Patriots to try to draw attention to this. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how you can look at a story like this
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  Speaker 2: without thinking we're almost totally lost. The other front, of course,
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  Speaker 2: in our society is the political and economic decay of
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  Speaker 2: the views of many Americans where An immoral and totally
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  Speaker 2: discredited economic and political system, Marxism, is being embraced by
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  Speaker 2: one of the two political parties. So on the societal
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  Speaker 2: cultural front, half the country appears to have just degenerated
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  Speaker 2: into depravity. And then the economic and political and social front,
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  Speaker 2: that same half, and I do think it's probably the
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  Speaker 2: same group of people, have degenerated into the embrace of
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  Speaker 2: a political and economic system that argues against personal responsibility
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  Speaker 2: and has always, every time it's been tried, resulted in
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  Speaker 2: economic collapse and tyranny. Let me turn my attention to
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  Speaker 2: another story. Trump is fed up. I know that that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't sound like news. Trump's fed up about something every day.
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  Speaker 2: But he's really fed up about this. He's fed up
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  Speaker 2: with the United States Supreme Court, in particular, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of the justices that he put on the court. He
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been able to put anybody on to the second
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  Speaker 2: term because nobody's left, and I don't think, assuming that
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats get control of the Senate, well, that's an assumption.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they won't. I don't know that Trump's going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get anybody out in the last two years,
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  Speaker 2: even if there is a vacancy that they may confirm nobody.
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  Speaker 2: But he did get some appointees in the first term.
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  Speaker 2: Trump is criticizing several of the decisions of the court
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  Speaker 2: and then personalizes it. He's suggesting he was lied to.
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  Speaker 2: He appointed a law professor from Notre Dame. Went on
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  Speaker 2: to become an appeals judge to the United States Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: He had to walk through a lot of glass on that.
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  Speaker 2: And he did it, he thinks, because he had assurances.
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  Speaker 2: And she's one of the swing justices that keeps ruling
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  Speaker 2: against him in the cases that he's railing about. I
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: want to pick up on His lengthy, I won't even
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: say rant because rant implies out of control, anger and frustration.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: His first complaint is about an immigration decision, saying that
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  Speaker 2: justices and Democrats are totally unable to show the courage
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  Speaker 2: necessary to save our America. Their horrible decision on tariffs,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: this is on tariffs, I think I said on immigration,
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  Speaker 2: this is the decision on tariffs. Their horrible decision on
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Karis will be costing the United States for many years
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  Speaker 2: to come. Trillions and trillions of dollars. They didn't even
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: state money paid down, not have to be paid back,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: country and have been ripping it off for years, unnecessarily
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: costing us immediately billions of dollars. Likewise, the Supreme Court's
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  Speaker 2: decision on birthright citizenship... is a complete and total disaster
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  Speaker 2: for America and has already led to massive corruption with
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  Speaker 2: respect to citizenship in our country. The damage done to
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone
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  Speaker 2: else does. It is an irresponsible and unrecoverable harm. The
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: court's inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: our country will go down in a very negative way
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: in the annals of history. The Supreme Court is bullied
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  Speaker 2: and cajoled by the radical left into making decisions that
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  Speaker 2: have set America back at least 100 years. These are
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  Speaker 2: not the people I interviewed to serve on the United
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  Speaker 2: States Supreme Court. They are merely a shell of their
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: original selves. A court that is costing the United States
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  Speaker 2: trillions of dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of
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  Speaker 2: such magnitude that it won't be easily possible for our
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  Speaker 2: country to recover or heal. It is a court that
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: will go down as having rendered some of the most destructful, hurtful,
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  Speaker 2: and damaging decisions in our country's history. It is not
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  Speaker 2: easy for me to write this criticism of the United
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  Speaker 2: States Supreme Court. It will likely cost me dearly for
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  Speaker 2: years to come. But I feel it is my obligation
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  Speaker 2: and duty as president to do so for the Americans,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: America we love. Then the follow-up from Trump on the
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: ruling on the mail-in ballots. I want to discuss this
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: one for a moment. Trump issued an executive order setting
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: a national standard for the handling of mail-in ballots in
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: our elections. What he was doing is kind of bringing
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: things back to the way that they were for most
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: of our country's history. Almost nobody voted by mail until
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the last 10 years. People who voted by mail were
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: primarily foreigners or American troops stationed either overseas or away
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: from their home states. Handful of people who had second homes.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: But mail-in balloting was a very rare thing. It was
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: far less than 1% of the vote. And it was
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: created only for the purposes of people who simply had
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: no other way of voting because of where they physically were.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: We all know why. A vote sent in by mail
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: has no security at all. Anybody can put a ballot
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: in the mail. And it wouldn't require, when you consider
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the kind of hacking that is going on of some
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: of the most secure data systems in the world, it
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: takes a lot less skill and initiative to forge somebody's ballot.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: When you go and do in-person absentee voting, or voting
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in person on election day, you actually do have to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: present yourself. In some states, you don't have to show
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: an ID, but you have to have a human being
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: there saying, I'm who this guy is. What does a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: letter say? What does a piece of mail say? So
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Trump tried to rein this in. with orders that would
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: universally apply to most of the states. The court has
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: blocked these, and the reason that they blocked them is
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: fascinating and revealing. They said it's simply too late to
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: do it for the 26th election. The court did not
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: strike these down for the future. They didn't even say
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: that Trump's orders were unconstitutional. They merely said that we
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: are not going to allow him to implement them for
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the 26th election because voting in some states is about
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: to begin. It's simply too late to change the rules.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: But the reason that it's too late is because this
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: case has been sitting in front of the court for weeks.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: lower courts issue injunctions, the Supreme Court could have overturned
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the lower court ruling the very next day. And there
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: would have been more than enough time to get this done.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: So I think what happened is you had the swing
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: justices on the court. Wink, wink, nod, nod. Let's sit
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: on this for a few weeks and then claim It's
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: too late to do it that it would disenfranchise individual
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: voters because it came, it comes about too late in
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: the process. In the end, the ultimate question in a
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court ruling is, does it violate the Constitution? The
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court has the right and the duty to act
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: if some government is doing something that violates the Constitution.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Birthright citizenship is the only one of these issues that
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I think had a constitutional component to it. The determination
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: of who is a citizen or not, it seems to me,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: probably is constitutional and not something that can be done
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: via executive order. On the other hand, the Constitution is
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: indeed very vague on that issue. But of them, it's
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the only one where you can even claim constitutionality. Every
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: one of the other issues that's out here seems to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: be within the authority of the president to issue an
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: executive order. Executive orders have been used by presidents as
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: long as we've had presidents. An executive order is a
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: policy that's made by the president in the absence of
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: a law addressing the matter. It seems to me that
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Trump had every right to issue the executive order that
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: he issued on mail-in voting. whether you agree with it
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: or not. If Congress wanted to override that order, they
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: could have passed legislation overriding the order, and then, in
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: which case, Trump's executive order is moved. Now, in reality,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I doubt that you would have gotten Republican House and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Senate to pass this in the same way that you
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: can't get them to pass voting protections. They're not going
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to go around and stop him from sanctioning and restricting
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: mail-in voting, and he would have vetoed it anyway. Which
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: gets to the point. He has the authority, whether you
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: like it or not, to issue this. The Supreme Court
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: is only supposed to stop a president from doing something
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: if the president's violating the Constitution. He wasn't violating the Constitution.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And this is what I think is rankling Trump. He
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: nominates somebody to the Supreme Court. The thing that has
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: just driven those of us on the right with regard
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: to court nominees is We don't want activist judges that
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: are going to create their own law. We want judges
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: who are going to look at what the constitution says
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: and apply it to the individual case. And that's what
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: he was told they would do. You go on a,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the original intent of the writers of the constitution and
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: be with the constitution says, And you don't decide, well,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: you can't do this, or we don't agree with that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: They swore up and down to him, and for that matter,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: prior to him, to other Republican presidents who were betrayed.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if the first Bush made any demands
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: of Souter or not. Who knows? But there have been
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: other justices who seemed to be conservative and got on
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the court and turned out to, if not be moderates,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: to kind of be, I would call Amy Coney Barrett
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: kind of a knee-buckling conservative. She's conservative except when it's difficult.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: She's like one of those quarterbacks that panics when they're blitzed.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Two things happen to a quarterback when they're blitzed. They
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: either can't do anything about it because 19 guys are
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: coming in, i.e. Jordan Love against the Vikings of the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. What was he supposed to do about it?
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Or they face a blitz and can't make the snap
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: judgment to unload the ball or get out of the
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: pocket and evade. They're simply freaked out by it. And
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I think that that's what you're seeing here. Trump is
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: making very, very bold but constitutional moves. The left is
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: threatening to pack the Supreme Court. We get control of things.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: We get a president and we control the Senate. We're
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: going to put in 17, we'll make it 17 justices.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: So all of you justices that are conservative, you're just
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: going to be outnumbered. We'll pack the court with a
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: bunch of liberals. They're terrified of that threat. You've got
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: people that are threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: showing up at their homes. To use the football analogy,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: That's the Blitz. Obviously far more consequential than a football play.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: But I think they're getting wobbly over this. I want
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: to go back to 2016. I was, as you may recall,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: unsold on Trump. I did not vote for Trump in
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the Wisconsin primary. I voted for Ted Cruz. And on
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: my radio show, I opposed Trump's candidacy. I opposed it
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: because I didn't think he was going to be a conservative.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I thought that he was somebody who was just out
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: there saying whatever he wanted. It seemed to me like
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: he was kind of a liberal for most of his career,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: and that's what he would wander back to. All right,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: then he got the nomination. Some of you recall this.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: What was the thing that turned me? And I got
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: this question. Why suddenly are you pro-Trump? When Trump came
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: out and said, These are the people who advise me
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: on my court nominees. And these are the type of
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: people that he put on a list that I would
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: put on the Supreme Court. And it was one doctrinaire
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: conservative after another. I said to myself, I don't think
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he can renege on that. I think he means it.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: And he did. Trump has tried very hard to put
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: conservatives at all levels of the federal bench. He was
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: so frustrated by some of the Judges from lower courts
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: that he elevated in term number one, that he decided
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: in term number two that he didn't want to use
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: any judges. He wanted to use people that are in
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: private practice. You saw, for example, we had this vacancy
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: for the United States Court of Appeals, the Chicago district,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: the Wisconsin seat on it. Diane Sykes, who was a
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: great appeals court justice, retired. Trump had an appointment. A
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: lot of us thought that it would go to outgoing
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley. She was passed over. Now,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Trump made a very good appointment. But he didn't consider Bradley.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I think the reason he didn't consider Bradley is she
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: was a judge. Now, if ever there was a judge
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: who would be rock solid, it would be her. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: talk about being able to handle the blitz. Rebecca Bradley
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: wouldn't sell out to the left. She's incapable of it.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: But it was just an indication. Trump had been betrayed
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: by so many of these people who came up from
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: lower courts. claimed they were conservative and then turned out
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: to be wobbly. That he just decided that I'm going
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to choose lawyers and prosecutors and private practice that I've
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: interviewed and that my people are assured are going to
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: be rock solid. I don't blame him for being frustrated here.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: John Roberts, of course, who was not a Trump appointee,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: he's in another category. He's a chief justice, and I
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: think he's a finger to the ear chief justice. He
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: simply can't bring himself, in many instances, to issue strong
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: conservative rulings. Now, I want to clarify, the Supreme Court
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: is still a conservative court, and it is ruled conservatively
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: more often than not. But some of these decisions that
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Trump is complaining about were on matters that were highly consequential.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I will point out the Supreme Court has, to its credit,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: upheld the right of states to to do their own redistricting,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: even if there's a political advantage in the redistricting. They
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: ruled correctly. There's nothing in the Constitution that says you
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: can't base redistricting on political decisions. It doesn't say it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that drawing districts on the basis of
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: political decisions, which both the left, what Democrat states and
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Republican states are doing, is the right thing to do.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: But there's nothing in the Constitution that prohibits. So they
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: have allowed these new lines that have been drawn in
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: many states for the current election. They've allowed them to
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: stand up. and several other things as well. So it's
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: not like that they're wobbling on everything. I alluded a
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: moment ago to the Lindsay Clancy case. I mean, one
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: of the things that the left always does is just
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: make assumptions. After the Clancy verdict came down and we
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: heard that there was one holdout juror, there was only
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: one juror on there who was going to convict her,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: and he would not buckle. They just all assume, and
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: then they found out it's a guy. They just all
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: assume that this is some white male Republican. Some dopey
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: white male. Then a few days ago, it turns out
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: he's a black guy. The reaction from Gayle King on
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: CBS saying, well, that puts things in a different perspective. Why? Well,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: now it gets better. It turns out he's a Haitian
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: immigrant Catholic. The Haitian immigrants are one of the causes
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: of the month on the left right now because many
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: of the Haitians who were in the United States were
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: here on temporary... um, not visas, temporary, uh, temporary refugee status,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: temporary protective status and temporary means temporary. And Trump is saying, okay, fine.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: The temporary is over. You got to leave. Now this
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: guy in Massachusetts is not one of them. He's simply
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: a legal, a legal immigrant from Haiti. So now we
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: find out that not only is it that this isn't
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: a white guy, he's black and he's from Haiti. His
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: brother is given an interview. His name has not been released,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: but everybody apparently in Massachusetts knows who he is. His
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: brother's given an interview and he said that it wasn't
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: his religion that made him make this decision. He simply
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: made the decision on the basis of he felt that
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: this was murder. I think this guy is a contemporary
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: American hero. You have an overwhelming wave of support for
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: killing babies now. It's, I think, almost undeniable that this
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: is going to be the new cause of the American left,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: that if mothers have children they don't want anymore, they're
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: going to have the ability to kill them. If they
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: kill them, they're just going to be able to plead insanity,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: take a couple of anti-crazy pills, and then go on
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: with their life and be released. That's going to be
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: a great cause of the left. You can just see
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: it with the Clancy case. That this guy could show
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: the courage of sitting there in the jury room for
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: three days and withstand the pressure from these immoral battle
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: axes that were trying to persuade him to let this
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: monstrous bitch off. He's a hero. And I think he's
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: going to continue to go through hell over this. But
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: as I said, this changes the narrative in a way
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: that makes the left uncomfortable. Let me move to another story.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I saw Victor Davis Hanson doing a piece on his podcast.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: His podcast is through The Daily Signal. He's got an
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: interesting background, as you know. He's a farmer and a
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: foreign policy expert. The two don't tend to go hand
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: in hand, but he's got deep roots within the intelligence community.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: He's got a lot of sources. and he's been talking
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: about what's going on internally in Iran, and he makes
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: a very interesting point. This is the first war we've
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: had in a long time where there is no American
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: media in the country where the war is going on.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Even in the most recent wars we had, Reporters that
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: were embedded in those nations. We had people embedded in Afghanistan.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: We had people embedded in Iraq. They were often, in
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: those instances, the American troops were in those countries. The
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: war that we're fighting with Iran is one in which
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: almost no American troops have been on Iranian soil. The
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Iranians don't allow any Americans in, and it would not
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: be safe, obviously, for an American reporter to go in.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: There are no resident reporters in Iran. We don't know
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: what's going on in there. The only way that we
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: know anything is Iranians that are sympathetic to the West
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: are getting info out and leaking it out through multiple
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: back channels. And Hansen's wired into this, and he was
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: reporting that apparently there's a lot of killing going on
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: from the Iranian security forces and police. Anybody they think
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: is a dissident, they're killing right now. But secondly, in
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: terms of the economies, that the situation for Iranians is dire.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: He was reporting that in one community, the people just
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: went into the grocery stores and stole everything. They stole
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: everything because none of them have any money. They're out
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: of money, and they have to eat. And there aren't
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: enough police in Iran to go around right now. Now,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: the point that he was making is that it is
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: that dire. And simply, anarchy has come in as people
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: are trying to survive. Nobody has any money. Prices have exploded.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: That we might be closer to an internal revolt than
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: you think. They're not willing to starve to death. Well,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: once the grocery stores are cleared out, the only thing
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: left is to go onto the streets and try to
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: attack the police, I guess. One story connected to that.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: The story appeared in the Epoch Times. the rial, which
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: is the currency of Iran, has declined 75% in the
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: last four months. That essentially means everything costs four times
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: more than it did before. If the value of your
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: currency declines, it means it has less buying power.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: If.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: The American dollar declined that fast, it would mean a
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: dollar would be worth, what was worth a dollar eight
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: months ago, now you only have a quarter, the other
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: way around actually. The dollar becomes valued at only a quarter,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: meaning you have almost no buying power left, and that's
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: even if you have any rials. And it's really hard
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: for people in Iran to be able to convert their
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: currency into foreign currency. I doubt that the Iranian government's
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: allowing these people to buy a lot of gold, and
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: even if you could, How do you exchange it? How
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: do you turn it into capital? How do you turn
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: it into something that you use to sustain your life?
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: So the country's being bankrupted from within because the leaders
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: of the nation refuse to surrender a war that they
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: have lost that is crippling their country. I've been arguing
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: for some time that the only way you're going to
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: see an actual change in Iran is if the government falls,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: and it can only fall from within. We're not going
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: to invade Iran and have a ground war that's going
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: to go on a year and kill 15,000 troops. It's
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: not going to happen, and it shouldn't happen. We tried
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: a ground war in Afghanistan. Didn't accomplish one damn thing.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: But countries can fall from within, even countries that are tyrannies.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: And it tends to happen. when the pressure is so
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: overwhelming that the sheer numbers, everybody rallies around, and the
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: police and the military turn on their government. You have
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: to wonder if it's getting close to that in Iran.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: You're listening to the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Mark Belling Podcast. Very interesting story in JS Online. It
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: was a comprehensive report on the attempts by our government
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: to deport the head of the Muslim community in Milwaukee.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Guy's been around forever. His name is Salah Sarsour. He
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: owns a furniture store. He's the head of the Milwaukee
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Islamic Council. The Trump administration has put him under a
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: deportation order. They're arguing that he lied on his papers
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: when he moved into the United States. He came in
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: through the legal process, filling out the paperwork to get
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: a visa. There are two components to the story, though,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: that I think are very, very interesting. The first is,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: what was the lie about? When he was a young man,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: he was effused of committing an atrocity involved in criminal
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: activity in Israel. One of the things that you're asked
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: when you try to enter the United States on a
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: visa is if you've ever been convicted of anything. He
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: said no. And the answer was yes. So on its face,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: that would seem to be grounds for deporting him. You
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: lied on your papers. When you lie as a way
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: of getting into the United States, the response, therefore, if
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: we're following the law, is to throw them out. Now,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: the thing of it is, we've not been following this
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: law forever and ever and ever. Whether you came in
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: legally or illegally, you're just allowed to stay in the
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: United States. Now, there's a backstory for why they want
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: him out. He is clearly a Palestinian sympathizer. He's the
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: head of the Islamic Council, for heaven's sakes. And there
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: are suggestions that his support has been more than just rhetorical.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: But the evidence is fairly strong that indeed he was
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: convicted of crimes while in Israel. His immigration lawyer is
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: claiming that the Israelis beat a confession out of him. Well,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to argue that the Israeli police wouldn't
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: use those tactics. And it was 30 years ago. Would
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: the Israeli authorities 30 years ago, if they had a
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: guy that they thought pretty much had done something bad,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: would they have beaten a confession? I don't know. Maybe yes,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: maybe no. But here's the thing. Anybody can say that.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. But the time to
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: have addressed it was when he tried to enter the
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: United States and claim, yes, I was arrested, and then
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: claim they beat the confession out of me. They didn't
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: do it because they probably would have denied him coming in.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: But there's another component to the story that I find
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: more interesting. By the way, the story was reported by
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Sophie Carson. I don't know why I praise anyone when
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: it doesn't do me any good to praise anyone. I
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: think she's the best reporter they have over there. Now, admittedly,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: that's not saying much. You're the best reporter at the
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Journal Sentinel. But she's... I've read her stuff. She's very good.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: And the story was very balanced and very long. There's
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: another component of the story. Back in 2004, and boy,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: do I remember 2004. When we think, for example, of
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: American sports, I think the golden era of steroid use
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: in American sports were the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Rolling
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: a little bit into the zeros. In some sports, though,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: it kicked in earlier. Like in baseball, it was the
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: late 90s. McGuire and Sosa were suddenly hitting way more
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: home runs than anybody had ever hit. Sammy Sosa went
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: from black to yellow to white in his skin color.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Sammy Sosa was this skinny little runt when he came
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: up with the White Sox as his behemoth playing for
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: the Cubs. Same thing happened with Bonds. Fleet skinny guy
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: when he was with the, who did he come up with,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: the Pirates? And then he becomes this big, thick, muscled
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: up guy. Pictures like Roger Clemens, who keeps denying that
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: he was a steroid user. I mean, just some people
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: that They don't have a chance convincing you that you're correct.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Roger Clemens, just a guy that I just, for whatever reason,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: if he told me something, I would just assume that
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: he's lying. Doesn't he just seem like he's always lying,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Roger Clemens? Football, the steroid era was earlier. I don't
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: even know how many people, I mean, I just, I
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: assume Bo Jackson was on steroids because I've never seen
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: an athlete do what Bo Jackson did since. I never
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: saw anybody do what Bo Jackson did before, and I
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: never saw anybody do anything since. I keep bringing this
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: up because it was just such an unbelievable. I saw
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Bo Jackson grab a ball off the wall in left
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: field and throw home on the fly and nail a
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: runner that was coming. I saw that it's on YouTube,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: if you don't believe that it happened. Unfortunately, what he
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: did was so incredible, the camera doesn't even catch the
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: entirety of the throw because the cameraman just didn't assume
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: he was going to. The cameraman's focused on where the
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: cutoff man is. But there is no cutoff, man, because
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: he grabbed the ball right off the wall and threw
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: to home plate on the fly and kneeled the guy
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: at the plate. Then there was his first NFL game
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: on Monday Night Football when he appeared to be that
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: nobody had the capability of tackling him. So I just
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: assumed Bo Jackson was on steroids. We know that Tony
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: Mandrich was one of the greatest offensive linemen in National
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Football League history, got picked in the first round with
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the Packers, went off the steroids because they're testing better
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: in the NFL and couldn't block anybody. I have my
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: suspicions about Barry Sanders. Walter Payton has essentially been proven.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Walter Payton died at a young age because his liver
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: was shot, a common side effect of steroid use. So
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: that was the glory day of that, where nobody was
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: really paying attention to it and it was rampant. The
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: glory era of vote fraud in Wisconsin was the zeros.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Not now. And I'm not saying that there is an
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: election fraud going on in Wisconsin now, because there is.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: But it was really going on in 00, 04, and 08.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: When the left started these voter mobilization efforts, and nobody
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: really knew what was going on. This is before COVID
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: and all of that stuff. We had the case of
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: the woman, we had a multimillionaire, maybe a billionaire woman
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: from New York, came in and she's down at the
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: rescue mission at 19th and Wells, This is before you
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: could do mail-in voting and all of this stuff. You
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: had to physically go into the polls to vote in advance.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: She was giving guys cigarettes, pack of cigarettes, and saying,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: you want a pack of cigarettes? Okay, I'm going to
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: drive you down to the Milwaukee City Hall, and you're
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: going to vote. She got convicted of that. I mean,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: this stuff was going on right and left, and the
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: rest of us were kind of unaware. It's just that
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: for the longest time, people were unaware of what was
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: going on with steroids. It was in that period that
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Salah Sensor registered to vote. He's not an American citizen.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: He's here on a long-term visa. He's not a citizen.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Yet he registered to vote in 2004. His name was
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: found on a voter card. He signed up and registered
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: to vote, and his name was on the voter rolls
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: for five years. Now, his lawyer said, but he never voted.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: He said somebody was being really aggressive and persuaded him
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: to register to vote. Well, yeah, they were being really
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: aggressive and persuaded them to register to vote. You cannot
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: register to vote if you are not a citizen. You
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: have to swear that you're eligible to vote when you
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: sign one of those cards. Well, they're bringing this up
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: in his deportation hearings. Never mind the lying about whether
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: or not he'd ever been convicted of anything in a
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: foreign country before he came into the United States. If
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: we actually catch a non-citizen trying to vote, he said, well,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: he didn't vote. Well, why did he register? The only
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: reason to register is you intend to vote. Now, maybe
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: he registered and then got cold feet and chickened out
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: of voting because he figured, well, then I might get
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: caught and they might throw me out of the country.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: It seems to me that the case here is overwhelming
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: against him under the letter of the law. The only
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: reason not to do it is again, we broke the rules.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: He's not in the United States illegally, but you know,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: he's a big deal locally. So we're just going to
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: let him stay. I have another interesting story for you.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: This in fact is really interesting. Oracle is announcing that
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: that it is going to expand its electric generating capacity
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: at the big Port Washington data center. Oracle is one
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: of the companies that would operate it. They are saying
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: that the power generation they're producing now will be more
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: than is needed to operate the data center. Now, the
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: power component here has been one of the controversial elements
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: of the data centers, and I am I won't say
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: I'm on the side of the data center opponents, but
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: I have said that one of the things that should
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: be required for the operation of a data center is
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: the data center developer has to pay the cost of
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: the increased amount of electricity that has to be generated
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: because of the data center. Whether that be building their
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: own power plant on site, which is happening a lot,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: or building an adjacent power plant, or paying the utility
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: the cost of building their power plant, I think The
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: data centers should be compelled to pay for the power
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: plants and Oracle has agreed to do so. But now
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: they're saying we're going to build one so big that
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: it's going to create more electricity than we need, meaning
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: we can lower electric costs in eastern Wisconsin because we're
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: going to be generating more electricity and we're simply going
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: to provide it back to the grid. The argument has
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: been made by data center opponents that this is going
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: to drive up all of our electric costs. Well, obviously
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: that isn't true if the data center companies create electricity
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: on their own to match their power needs, but if
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: they actually generate excess capacity and give it back to utilities,
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: it would indeed lower electric costs and mitigate the need
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: mitigate against the need for power companies to start putting
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: up power plants right and left to deal with the
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: fact that we have a massive electricity shortage coming. Next story. Now,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: part of this is obvious. Because there's inflation, numbers are
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: supposed to go up. But the balance, if you take
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: all the 401k accounts in the United States, and 401ks
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: is The most common form of retirement plan, there's IRAs
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: and Roth IRAs and 403Bs and all of that stuff. 401k.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: The average 401k balance in the United States got to
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: a record high in the second quarter. Now, on its face,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: that isn't that noteworthy. Of course, because of inflation and
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: economic growth, numbers should keep getting bigger. For instance, your
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: own personal savings, unless you tap into it, it should
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: keep going up and up and up. The biggest reason
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: for this, however, has been, at least until recently, the
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: stock market has had a very good year. The report
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: on this in the Epoch Times points out that in particular,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: the growth and explosion in the values of many tech
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: companies because of AI and the data centers and so
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: on has fueled the growth in the stock market that
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: has driven these 401k balances to their highest point in history. Now,
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: my first point on this is, this is a hidden
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: component of the economy where everybody's bitching about the economy.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Those people that have been invested in the stock market
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: through a retirement plan or a 401k or something of
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: that sort, their net wealth has actually expanded. But this
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: isn't meant to be a positive segment. I have concerns.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: Separate story. Posted on X by Global Market Observer. Investors
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: are the most overweight in equities in decades. Estimated equity
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: allocation versus fixed income has surged to 72%, the highest
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: level since 1969, according to Wells Fargo. What does that mean?
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: In terms of where people are investing their money, they
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: have the highest percentage of their money in stocks than
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: at any point since 1969. 72% in stocks, only 70%
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: in bonds. The remaining 11% would be in everything else, gold, cash, etc. Historically,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: when we've reached a point at which such a high
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: percentage of our investable income is in stocks, the market
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: goes down. Why? Because there's no more money to put in.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: If everybody has put in all the money into the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: stock market that they have to put in, there's nothing
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: else to put in to drive anything else higher. Likewise,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: when you see stock market investment really, really low, the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: market really has, same thing could be true of housing.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: It has to go up because it can't go any lower.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody who has sold has already sold. I don't want
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: to be Debbie the Doubter here, but I am very
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: concerned about the stock market. First of all, everything that
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: goes up goes down, and we have been so overdue
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: for our market downturn for the longest time. Because of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: what Biden did with flooding the economy with money during COVID,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: we created inflation, which also drove up the values of assets. Well,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: that drove up the stock market. The stock market rallied
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: after COVID rather than got depressed. It crashed it, not crashed,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: It turned down when we first saw COVID, but then
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: when we started creating all this fake money, it went
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: up and the market has continued to soar under Trump. Now,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: I admit I've had these concerns for months. I'm not
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: one of these people that 72% of my investable money
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: is in the stock market. It's way less than that.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: I'm very wary right now, but I'm really wary at
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: the moment. the valuations of many of the AI companies
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: seem extreme. There's growth in the economy in terms of
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: corporate spending. But there's also inflation going on and interest
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: rates are rising. In my history, which is my lifetime,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: when inflation is high and interest rates are going up,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: The stock market craters. Every time those first two things
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: has happened, the stock market does crater. It usually craters
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: because it's a recession. Now, I'll admit, I don't see
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: a recession out there. I just think the stock market
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: has gotten overheated. And when I see stories like this
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: at 72%, and again, some people maybe 10% and other
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: people 99%, when I see that many people just in
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: the stock market, I think people are Overly comfortable. We're
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: seeing incredible angst about the economy from consumers. But there
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: doesn't appear to be concern about the stock market. There's
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: also the price of oil. Generally, if oil, I think
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: this is flipped because America is now such a big
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: producer of oil. But for the longest time, when oil
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: went up, the stock market went down. That didn't happen, however,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: during Trump's first term. When America got to be the
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: number one producer of oil in the world, when oil
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: prices initially went up before they went down during COVID,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: our stock market rallied because so much American net worth
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: is tied into oil. And there's so much oil industry
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: and ownership of oil stocks and people employed in those
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: industries that it hasn't harmed the economy. So that part
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: might be off. I hope I'm wrong about this, but
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: I am. and then I'll add in, I talked about
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: this a few weeks ago, bond yields keep going up.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: And one of the reasons that I think that they're
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: going up is that every country in the world is
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: spending too much money, but also, the situation in Japan
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: with the rising value of the yen could trigger, I think,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: a global bond market collapse. When you have Japanese that
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: are invested... in our bonds because their bonds weren't paying
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: much of anything and the yen suddenly goes up, it's
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: going to create an inverse relationship with their bond prices
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: and could result in massive selling of American and other
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Western bonds. Again, I don't want to get overly technical
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: on this other than to say at the moment with
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: regard to the stock market, I am a worrywart. I
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: wasn't smart enough to be a worrywart when the tech
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: stocks collapsed in 1987. or at the end of the century.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: The whole COVID thing, everybody was hard to read. I
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: was agnostic when on the housing market collapsing in 06
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: and 07. We did a number of segments of people
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: saying housing is dangerously overvalued and there's so much investment
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: in mortgages that when housing starts to go down, the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: market's going to crash. I was open to the possibility,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: but didn't say it would happen. I have a high
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: level of worry and concern. that the stock market is
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: extremely overvalued. And again, that isn't even anybody's fault. It's
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: extremely overvalued because it's gone up so much. If it
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: goes down, it's not going to be Trump's fault because
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: it's gone up so much during Trump. But I'm concerned
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: that a whole lot of people are set up to
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: take a massive beating because they've got so much money
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: invested in What I think, and again, I'm not a
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: professional in this. We have advertisers that are professionals. I'm
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: just me sitting here shooting off my mouth the way
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: I shoot off my mouth at everything else. I have concerns.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: You're listening to the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Mark Belling Podcast. We're doing this podcast on September 16th.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: I found this story on JS Online. It's about the
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: anniversary of something that occurred on September 14th. 35 years ago, 1991.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I have a story to tell about that event. It
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: was on September 14th, 1991 that Cecil Fielder hit a
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: home run out of Milwaukee County Stadium. Hitting a ball
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: out of the stadium was very rare. Now there's A
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: problem was saying that because County Stadium, when it was
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: built in the early 1950s, they ended up expanding the stadium,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: for example, past left field. In left field and right field,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: in the original stadium, the bleachers didn't go very high.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: So you didn't have to, it wasn't much to hit
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: the ball out of the park the first few years
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: of the stadium because the stadium's outfield depth wasn't great.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: When I say hit the ball out of the stadium,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: I don't mean hitting it into the stands. I mean
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: hitting it beyond the stands and outside the entire park.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Joe Adcock apparently did it with the Braves. But again,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: the stadium wasn't fully built out when that happened. But
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: on September 14th in 1991, Cecil Fielder of the Detroit Tigers, yes,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: he was the father of Prince Fielder. This tells you
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: how long ago the story is. We're talking about a
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: guy who is the father of a guy who has
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: long since been washed up and out of baseball. The
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: thing about Cecil Fielder is he was just like his
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: son in terms that they're both fat guys. And they
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: were both kind of all or nothing hitters. So Cecil
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: Fielder had a lot of power. And he hit a
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: ball that cleared the entire left field bleachers in the
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: old county stadium and left the ballpark. The reason I
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: bring this up and the story I have to tell
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: about this is I was at the game. Dan Plesak
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: was pitching. It was the fourth inning. Would you believe
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: I was in the can? Everybody else did the opposite.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: People always, some of the people who aren't even at the,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: it's just like the famous ice ball. 50,000 people were
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: at Lambeau Field for that game. I swear half a
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: million people from Wisconsin have claimed that they were at
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: the ice ball. My old producer, Paul, and I, we
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: knew somebody who was at the Ice Bowl, and that
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  Speaker 2: was Peggy Crull of Cruisin' Tour. She saved that ticket.
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  Speaker 2: I was running around showing the ticket because nobody ever
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  Speaker 2: believes anybody who says that they were at the Ice Bowl. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they're all saying, I was there the day
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: that Cecil Fielder hit his ball out of Tennessee. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was there, too, but I didn't see it. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, it's the fourth inning. And the opposition team
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  Speaker 2: is batting, which seems to be, that's the kind of
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  Speaker 2: time that people go to go to the bathroom. You're
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: likely to go to the bathroom when the other team
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  Speaker 2: is batting than when the Brewers are batting. And the
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  Speaker 2: fourth inning, that sounds about right as to what I
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: would do it. So all of this has a ring
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  Speaker 2: of truth to me. I'm not sure why Dan Plisak,
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  Speaker 2: who was a closer, was pitching in the fourth inning,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a couple of years past his prime,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the part that I don't have an answer for,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure there was a reason. But Plisak was pitching.
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  Speaker 2: which probably helped because police act through for the time very,
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  Speaker 2: very hard. So I was at the game. I remember
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  Speaker 2: who I was at. I was at the game with
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  Speaker 2: my then girlfriend. At the time, my seats at County
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: Stadium were on the third B side. I have long since,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: in fact, my seats at County Stadium toward the end
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  Speaker 2: were very close to where they were at American Family,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: First Miller Park and now American Family Field then. My
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: original seats at County Stadium were on the third base side,
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  Speaker 2: somewhere between home plate and third base in what was called,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: it was in the lower part of the lower grandstand.
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  Speaker 2: They're pretty good seats. I go to the bathroom and
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  Speaker 2: I come back and I heard this roar. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're wondering what happened. Okay, fine. Somebody, the other team
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: had a home run, but usually you don't get a
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  Speaker 2: roar like that when the other team hits a home run.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually kind of silent. So I said, what happened?
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: And my girlfriend says to me, This guy for the
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Tigers hit it out of the park. And that's what
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: she said. She hit it out of the park. And
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: I felt, he hit a home run. I said, okay. Yeah, so?
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: He hit it out of the park. And after a while,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: I figured out, and maybe somebody was listening to us
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: behind the, no, he actually hit it out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: So I was there at that game. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: they measured the distance at 502 feet, which is apparently
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  Speaker 2: what it took to clear the old. And at County Stadium,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: there was not an upper deck to the bleachers, as
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  Speaker 2: there is now at American Family Field. But it was
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: a rather high bleacher. It went up, I don't know, 35,
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  Speaker 2: 40 rows or so it would seem to me. And
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: it cleared the whole thing and left field at 502 feet. Well,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: the anniversary of that was Monday. And the story was
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: in JS Online because... Elie Delacruz of the Reds the
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  Speaker 2: same night hit a ball out of Great American Ballpark
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  Speaker 2: in Cincinnati. But that was only 475 feet. That's all
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  Speaker 2: it takes to get it out of that park. To
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  Speaker 2: get it out of County Stadium required 502 feet in.
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  Speaker 2: To get something out of American Family Field would require,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I think, a rocket. I don't even know what the shortest. See,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: the stadium is built, you know, when the roof is open,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: There are gaps when you go beyond that upper deck.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: The upper deck doesn't go all the way around the ballpark.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: There's what used to be the restaurant. It is now
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: the golf simulator in left field. There are areas, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I would say 575 feet, and you
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: have to hit it in the right spot so that
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of past the restaurant and past Bernie Chalet.
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  Speaker 2: So you'd have to do like left center or right
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: center to be able to get it out so that probably...
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  Speaker 2: Will never happen. As for the Brewers, they did, for
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  Speaker 2: the fourth year in a row, clinch the National League
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: Central Division. And just like last year, they clinched so
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: unbelievably early. There's 11 games left in the Brewers' season,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: and they've already clinched. The big challenge, though, they're way
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: ahead for this, but I still have some concerns. They
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: are five and a half games ahead in order to
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: get a bye in the first round of the playoffs.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: They have to stay ahead of not only the Dodgers
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: and the Braves. The Dodgers pass them, they still get
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: a bye. But if the Braves and Dodgers pass them,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: they would end up having to play a wild card round,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: which would start two days after the season ends. And
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: given what the Brewers pitching staff is right now, I
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: think that would be a disaster. So it's important for
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: the Brewers to keep their feet on the gas pedal
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: and try to win as many games as they have
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: in the remaining week and a half. That's it for
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: today's program. Remember on the podcast tomorrow, the tail end
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: of the podcast will include our football preview and our
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: football picks. So we'll talk to you then.
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