Latest / The Mark Belling Podcast / Mark Belling Podcast #77:  The DPI coverup of the Wisconsin teacher predator scandal was inevitable and it's largely the voters' fault.   Widespread legalized sports gambling: will it create even more betting scandals in American sports?   And, the boss of the Milwaukee Latin Kings is caught after 20 years on the run.

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Mark Belling Podcast #77:  The DPI coverup of the Wisconsin teacher predator scandal was inevitable and it's largely the voters' fault.   Widespread legalized sports gambling: will it create even more betting scandals in American sports?   And, the boss of the Milwaukee Latin Kings is caught after 20 years on the run. · The Mark Belling Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Except I just I don't buy that. I want to
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  Speaker 2: know any of those answers and inverse relationship. I will
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  Speaker 2: explain it the following way. An inverse relationship is the
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  Speaker 2: opposite of a relationship. An example of a relationship is
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  Speaker 2: a relationship there. Right now, I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 2: an example of an inverse relationship. This is something that
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  Speaker 2: I've observed over years of observing. That's what I basically
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  Speaker 2: what I've observed. That's pretty much my entire career. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is. Here's an observation. There is an
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  Speaker 2: inverse relationship, In other words, the opposite of an actual religion.
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  Speaker 2: There is an inverse relationship between the amount of awards
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  Speaker 2: that are handed out in a field and the competence
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  Speaker 2: generally of that field. Now, I know that some of
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  Speaker 2: you didn't follow that, like did you follow that? You did? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Why he claims he did? I want to hear, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: explain it. I want to see if you did. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Paul actually understands it. So that means I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I actually will under explain it because I love explaining
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  Speaker 2: this the more incompetent the people are in a field,
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  Speaker 2: the more awards they give out. Whereas the more competent
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  Speaker 2: individuals are in a field, that field tends they have
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  Speaker 2: either fewer or almost no awards at all. Give you
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  Speaker 2: examples of certain fields in which they're constantly handing out awards.
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  Speaker 2: Basically any left wing social service type thing. They've got
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  Speaker 2: Citizens of the Year, this of the Year, Volunteer, all
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  Speaker 2: public education, they're handing out awards all the time. The
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, think of certain fields in which, boy,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like everybody involved is pretty competent. When's the
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  Speaker 2: they show up at the proper place and they don't.
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  Speaker 2: You really, when's the last time a cement truck driver
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  Speaker 2: got an award. Now I could raise it to a
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  Speaker 2: All right, now, here's the story that triggered a little discussion.
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  Speaker 2: The stated excuse that Jill underly Hit of the Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: Department of Public Instruction gave for skipping out of the
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  Speaker 2: legislative hearing last week, which was to investigate allegations that
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  Speaker 2: her agency, DPI, has been covering up predatory behavior by teachers.
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  Speaker 2: In particular, that DPI has been covering up allegations of
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  Speaker 2: quote grooming by teachers. Grooming is the term that is
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  Speaker 2: used for when an adult is kind of softening up
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  Speaker 2: a child for sexual activity, kind of breaking down the walls,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. It's the process that goes on before the
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  Speaker 2: context starts this whole thing. And I'll give you a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of background here. It came out as a
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  Speaker 2: result of can't blame the conservatives for this. The Capital Times,
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  Speaker 2: which used to be a newspaper in Madison. It is
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  Speaker 2: now kind of a website, but also they put some
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  Speaker 2: pages in the Madison newspaper and with a very very
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  Speaker 2: very liberal website when they were an actual newspaper, I'd
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  Speaker 2: say the most liberal newspaper of the state. The Capital
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  Speaker 2: Times has done a major investigation on this. So this
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  Speaker 2: is coming from a lefty news source. So the liberals
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  Speaker 2: that are going to try to look the other way
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  Speaker 2: at this story can't claim that this is from some
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  Speaker 2: lacking credibility right wing source. Anyway, The allegation is the
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  Speaker 2: DPI has been covering up and not investigating these allegations.
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  Speaker 2: DPI is the agency that licenses teachers in the state
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  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin. They were to hold this legislator but they
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  Speaker 2: did hold the legislative hearing last week. Underley is a
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  Speaker 2: no show. The reason she gives for her no show
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  Speaker 2: is she's receiving an award in Indiana. I mean this
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  Speaker 2: is just perfect. First of all, she's her job is
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  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, she's the head of DPI in Wisconsin. She's
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  Speaker 2: getting some award in Indiana. She said, well, she had
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  Speaker 2: a prior commitment. I love that when people say they
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  Speaker 2: have a prior commitment. People prior commitments all the time,
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  Speaker 2: and if you have something more important to do, you
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  Speaker 2: go and do them more importantly. The fact that you
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  Speaker 2: have the commitment first only holds up as if they
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  Speaker 2: are like equal types of obligations. Like if Paul says
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  Speaker 2: that I won't even come up with an example of this,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm not you would be an opposite example of that.
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  Speaker 2: Your your priority would be anything involving me would be first,
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  Speaker 2: and anything else would be second. But you kind of
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  Speaker 2: get the trip anyway. Most people would assume that this
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  Speaker 2: is simply Underley, who's a hack. By the way, that
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  Speaker 2: is the primary qualification to be head of DPI. I
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  Speaker 2: am telling you this is held up for fifty years.
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  Speaker 2: Hacks have run that. I don't remember Barbara Thompson as
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  Speaker 2: the latter first person. Yeah, Barbara Thompson, she ran DPI
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  Speaker 2: in the seventies. I honestly don't know if she was
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  Speaker 2: a hack. I was like in high school or something then,
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  Speaker 2: But after that it's made NonStop hackery. And they last
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  Speaker 2: for Burt Grover, remember Bert, In fact, that's when I
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  Speaker 2: had veted that was his nickname. My show way by
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  Speaker 2: Berth the hack Grover. Then Tony Evert's got in there.
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  Speaker 2: He personifies the term hack. Well, anyway, Jill unders Underley
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  Speaker 2: is in there now. She's a hack to. She obviously
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  Speaker 2: did not want to have to answer questions as to why.
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  Speaker 2: Presuming that the allegations in the Capital Times investigation are accurate,
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  Speaker 2: DPI has been covering up numerous allegations of teachers that
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  Speaker 2: have been engaging in predatory behavior. In other words, the
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  Speaker 2: type of stuff that occur is that leads up to
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  Speaker 2: the molestation. So she goes and accepts the award and
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  Speaker 2: claims that she had but I'm guessing that she is
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  Speaker 2: getting an award, because in that field they hand out
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  Speaker 2: awards all the time. It's what they do. There are
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  Speaker 2: certain fields in which they not only have a martyr complex,
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  Speaker 2: they have a saint complex. I guess those two things
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  Speaker 2: are related. But they're giving won another awards all the
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  Speaker 2: time because they just think that there's so much superior
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  Speaker 2: to the rest of us. And it's among the reasons
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  Speaker 2: in which they're constantly whining about how terribly I mean
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  Speaker 2: teaches them whining in Wisconsin forever and ever and ever.
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  Speaker 2: On the story itself, let's explore this scandal. The allegation
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  Speaker 2: in the Capital Times report is that when DPI and
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  Speaker 2: again DPI stands for the Division of Public Instruction, I
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  Speaker 2: should explain for those of you don't follow state government closely,
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  Speaker 2: it's an independent agency. It's not under the governor. The
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  Speaker 2: head of DPI is elected by the voters. It's a
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  Speaker 2: standalone agency like the Department of Justices. So the person
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  Speaker 2: who's in charge of DPI is the person elected by
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  Speaker 2: the voters. And that currently is underlay that there have
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  Speaker 2: been numerous instances were reported by school districts and others
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  Speaker 2: to DPI of improper behavior by licensed educators in Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: and they basically just sat on it. That's the allegation.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know why they sat on it. There's two
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  Speaker 2: reasons for this. First, DPI has been forever and ineffectual, lazy,
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  Speaker 2: do nothing agency, they said on this because they sit
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  Speaker 2: on everything. It's all they do. Secondly, and this is
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  Speaker 2: where the story becomes I think important, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: in our understanding, forever, the head of DPI has been
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  Speaker 2: somebody that was backed by the teachers unions forever. Here's why.
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  Speaker 2: The one group that has a vested interest in controlling
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  Speaker 2: this otherwise not very important agency is the teachers union.
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  Speaker 2: Schools are overseen by DPI, so the public schools and
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  Speaker 2: in particular the unions that are in the public schools.
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  Speaker 2: When I have somebody that's going to carry water for
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  Speaker 2: them running that agency, so they spend a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money making sure that what their candidates win. There's no
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  Speaker 2: other special interest group that cares about DPI, and none
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  Speaker 2: on the conservative side. So what has happened is you
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  Speaker 2: generally will have an election in which one of these
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  Speaker 2: lefty hacks runs and a more education reform oriented challenger
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  Speaker 2: who I won't even say to the right, but just
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  Speaker 2: to the right of the person who's back by the
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  Speaker 2: lefties will run and the lefty always wins. The most
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  Speaker 2: recent example was this pass spring when we had an
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  Speaker 2: election in which Underley was re elected. She had an
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  Speaker 2: extremely confident challenger in Britney Kincer. And further, even the
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  Speaker 2: lefties realize Underley is terrible Evers's administration in his peace
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  Speaker 2: people did not back her in the primary. There are
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  Speaker 2: three candidates running in the primary, two liberals, Underly one
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  Speaker 2: of them, then another liberal challenger and Kinser. Even the
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  Speaker 2: leftist and Madison backed the challenger, but Underly, with name
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  Speaker 2: recognition and so on, she got to the primary, as
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  Speaker 2: did Britney Kinser. So you have highly qualified Britney Kinser
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  Speaker 2: and then Jill Underley, who is just an empty pantsuit.
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  Speaker 2: It was a close election, but Underley had way more
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  Speaker 2: money and she beat Britney Kinser, which is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: the teachers want, and especially a teacher who needs to
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  Speaker 2: be regulated. Once Let's imagine you're an a and competent
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  Speaker 2: teacher or be perverted teacher. You can be either one.
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  Speaker 2: What would you like to be in charge of regulating
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  Speaker 2: teachers in the state? A watchdog out to get all
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  Speaker 2: the bad teachers out, or a hack that's going to
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  Speaker 2: carry water for all of you, So it was inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: Then an agency that's run by first Underlay and prior
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  Speaker 2: to that evers and go back throughout the history these
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  Speaker 2: hacks that were in the pocket of the teachers, and
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  Speaker 2: you will be looking the other way at everything. The
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  Speaker 2: big issue that has tormented Underlay over the past year
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  Speaker 2: didn't torment her enough that she didn't get reelected. The
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  Speaker 2: test scores in Wisconsin have been as most people are aware, crashing,
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  Speaker 2: and they really accelerated the crash since COVID. So what
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  Speaker 2: Underly did is change the standards on the state's school's
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  Speaker 2: report card. What does that mean? This is not the
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  Speaker 2: way it works, but it's a corollary that's easy to explain.
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  Speaker 2: Let's imagine you're taking a test and a passing grade
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  Speaker 2: is seventy. One hundred is perfect, zero's the worst, Seventy
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  Speaker 2: means passing barely but passing. And let's imagine that's how
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  Speaker 2: it was for proficiency in the schools of seventy. She
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  Speaker 2: simply made it a fifty. In other words, nobody's proficiency improved,
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  Speaker 2: but they just took a lower level of achievement and
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  Speaker 2: declared a proficient to make it look like more of
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  Speaker 2: the schools are succeeding than they actually were. But again,
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  Speaker 2: that's what Underley would do, because she's a hacker, carries
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  Speaker 2: water for the public schools. With regard to this story
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  Speaker 2: in the grooming, whose fault is it? It's the voter's fault.
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  Speaker 2: Two sets of voters. One the people who vote for
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  Speaker 2: hacks like Underley, but secondly the people who are conservative
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  Speaker 2: in the state who don't vote in these spring elections.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been on this issue for several years and
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  Speaker 2: I don't have an answer to it. In the fall elections,
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  Speaker 2: that's the one where we elect the president, say in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four to twenty eight, thirty two thirty six,
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  Speaker 2: and the other even number elections twenty two, twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: thirty thirty four to thirty eight, et cetera, we elect
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  Speaker 2: the governor of Wisconsin. Senators are on six year terms,
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  Speaker 2: so they're staggered in there. Two of every three of
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  Speaker 2: them would in the fall. Conservatives tend to turn out
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  Speaker 2: and vote, and these are the races in which they're
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  Speaker 2: either really really close or our side actually wins, as
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  Speaker 2: we did in the most recent election with Trump caring Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: But in the spring elections, the voter turnout of the
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  Speaker 2: liberals is about eighty percent of what turns out in
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  Speaker 2: the November elections, but the conservative voter turnouts about sixty.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw this this past year with the state
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court election, where the liberal who one got about
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  Speaker 2: eighty percent of the vote that Kamala Harris got and
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  Speaker 2: the conservative Shim Will got about sixty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: vote that Trump got. It's a chronic problem. The DPI
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  Speaker 2: election is in the spring, so a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: people who are conservative but don't vote in these spring elections,
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  Speaker 2: they're part of the problem. It's two groups. It's the
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  Speaker 2: people that vote for these lefty hacks. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: they're liberals and they want to They claim they care
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  Speaker 2: about education. In fact, what they care about is the
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  Speaker 2: people who work with in education. They don't want education better,
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  Speaker 2: they don't mind that it's getting worse. They just want
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  Speaker 2: the money to keep coming into their own pockets. It's
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  Speaker 2: their loone care about this. If they cared about education,
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  Speaker 2: they'd embrace school choice and all sorts of other schools.
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  Speaker 2: They clearly do a better job in the public schools,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't so on this issue here with regard
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  Speaker 2: to this grooming, it's apparent to me that we have
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  Speaker 2: a completely parallel story from the last century. From the
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  Speaker 2: tail end of the last century of the twentieth century,
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  Speaker 2: there was a scandal in the Roman Catholic Church with priests,
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  Speaker 2: many priests. When I say many, a higher percentage than
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  Speaker 2: should be. It was certainly not half, but the numbers
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  Speaker 2: should be zero or fringe one percent. It was more
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  Speaker 2: than that priests were molesting individuals, primarily young boys, not always,
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  Speaker 2: but mostly. And as the story came out, it became
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  Speaker 2: aware that leaders of the church were aware of this
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  Speaker 2: and would shuttle these priests around after what they're caught
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  Speaker 2: in one place, send them off to another community, and
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  Speaker 2: never turn over a referral, and oh, give them the priest
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  Speaker 2: counseling and so on. Eventually the thing blew up, and
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  Speaker 2: all over America there were these funds that have been
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  Speaker 2: created to pay all the victims of the priests. And
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  Speaker 2: it went on because there was decades of looking the
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  Speaker 2: other way, covering up in some cases people within the
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  Speaker 2: parishes themselves who knew that there was a perverted priest,
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  Speaker 2: but didn't demand that he'd be thrown in jail, and
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  Speaker 2: it ended up blowing up in the face of the
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  Speaker 2: Catholic Church. Now that it's exposed, the problem is virtually gone.
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  Speaker 2: There are almost no cases anymore a priest being criminally
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  Speaker 2: charged with this type of behavior. They basically urged the
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  Speaker 2: bad ones out, and they've gotten very aggressive when they
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  Speaker 2: hear of any kind of a problem to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what's happened with any problem, any kind of problem.
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  Speaker 2: When you ignore it, ignore it, ignored, it blows up
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  Speaker 2: and threatens your institution. Well, then you got to deal
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  Speaker 2: with it. Here's where we are. The same story, parallel
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  Speaker 2: is going on with educators. You're hearing these stories all
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  Speaker 2: over the place right now, and weirdly, it seems to me,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it just it seems because you remember these cases more.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me that it's more women with male
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  Speaker 2: students than males with girls. But there's just been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them. And every week, if you follow any
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  Speaker 2: of these cases, and you know, there's YouTube channels that
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  Speaker 2: are devoted to them. One well respected thirty seven year
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  Speaker 2: old teacher and a sixty year old it's on and
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  Speaker 2: on and on and on and on, and it's constant.
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  Speaker 2: And I suspect it's the same thing that happened in
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  Speaker 2: the last century with the Catholic Church, that the behavior
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  Speaker 2: was going on and a lot of people were looking
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  Speaker 2: the other way. And in this instance, DPI, for example,
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  Speaker 2: is sitting on these reports and rather than jumping on
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  Speaker 2: every opportunity. Let's imagine you have say a case in
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  Speaker 2: which okay, the teacher's message a round with the kid,
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  Speaker 2: but the kid's family doesn't want to make it, want
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  Speaker 2: to make us think about it, so you can't find
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  Speaker 2: criminal charges the non cooperating witness, you can still make
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  Speaker 2: sure that person never teaches again. In the same notion,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, a company's got somebody that may be
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  Speaker 2: embezzling from it. He pays back, so you don't call
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  Speaker 2: the police, but you make the guy's fired and you
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  Speaker 2: don't ever give him a reference when he seeks another job.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's the same kind of thing that
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  Speaker 2: this cancer that hit the Catholic Church, which I think
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  Speaker 2: they've taken care of because they had to, and there's
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  Speaker 2: been demands and within and without that they do so
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: is now incredibly in public education and the same looking
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: you're the other way that we saw before is going
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: on now. And the equivalent, say the bishops and the
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: cardinals that look the other way back in the nineteen
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: eighties and nineteen nineties, that'll be Jill Underley right now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: It's really the same story. Let me move on to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the great political debate right now in America. In fact,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at a Fox Monitor Radio got the headline, mom,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Donnie on the future of the Democratic Party. That's where
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going with this. I believe that what we have
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: known to be the Democratic Party in America is just dead.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: It's dead. The left isn't dead. Democratic Party is dead,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and it's been displaced by the socialists. The only thing
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: that they want we haven't done is change the name.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: You know, there's been a socialist Party in the United
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: States forever and ever and ever, and you get to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: like one percent of the vote if that and so on.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: But there's no need for it anymore because the Democratic
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: leadership has been taken over by socialists. So what you're
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: going to have, I think of the foreseeable future is
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Republicans versus socialists. It used to be that there were
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: people on socialist ideology and the Democratic Party, and they
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: denied those days are long gone. They now brag about
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: it and put socialist in their name. Mam Donnie is
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: an example. Mam Donnie comes right out and says he's
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: a socialist. They use this term democratic socialist, but he's
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a socialist and everything that he advocates as socialist. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: there's no shame anymore. And anybody on the left saying
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the socialists that come all right on and brag we're
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: socialists for socialists or socialists. This takeover of the Democratic Party,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: but the socialist has occurred because the traditional non socialist Democrat,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: that's like the old bulls of the party, simply gave up.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: They franced. Did you hear the word I use franced?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I turned France into a verb. They franced France to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: be to France as opposed to the country of France.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: To France. The engaging of France is to quit without
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a fight, which is what they've been accused of doing
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: every time there's a war. They just roll over and
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: cave rather than fight. And that's what's happened in the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Democratic Party. The socialists have taken over. And you see
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: right now the Keem Jeffreys is the latest to endorse
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: ma'mdanni from Mayor of New York, i'm donnie as the
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Democratic House leader. So if there was any type of
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a version of these socialists, there'd be some pushback from
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: within the Democratic Party. And there really isn't. I've got
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a code here posted on X over the weekend from
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Well, it's official.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: The Democrat Party is a full fledged radical, big government
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: socialist party. House Democrats now fully endorse and stand by
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: truly dangerous policies like defunding the police, a massive tax increases. Meanwhile,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Republicans are fighting to lower costs, make streets safer, secure
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: our vorter, and delivering peace through strength. The contrast has
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: never been more clear. Marxist zoron Mamdani's extreme agenda is
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the future of the Democrat Party, but we will not
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: allow it to be the future of America. Now, for
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: people who want to argue that mcdonni's vision is not
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the vision of Democrats, find me five mainstream, well known
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Democrats that are trying to stop Mamdani from getting elected Mayor.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Mair I said five, because you might get two or three.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Bill Ackman, the New York financier, lifelong Democrat, essentially being
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: chased over into our camp. The Democratic Party is in
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the final stages of destroying itself. It is about to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: be replaced by the Socialist Party. The New York City
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: mayoral election is not just about the future of New
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: York City. It is about the future of our country.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. People say, well, it's just New York.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: New York's the most important city. It's more important than
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: many states. Furthermore, this ideological battle in which it's just
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: clear that the majority of Democrats want a socialist to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: be their candidate. You have an independent candidate Cuomo, who's
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: also a Democrat. He lost the Democratic primary. He's running
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: in the general election. Now on this what's going on
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: in that race? The election is in a few days
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: next I think it's it's either next week. I believe
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it is the most recent poll and polling in a
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: manorial race as a little difficult because it's hard to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: gauge voter turnout. Suffolk University is the two companies that
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: have played Suffolk University in Quinnipiac College are the two
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: polling companies that have been polling in New York. I
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: can't say that I can endorse the reliability of their polls.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: But what we can do is at least it's in
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: apples to apples comparison. Because you compare the one poll
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: from last month on the same poling outfit, it shows
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: a closing of the gap in the race. But tightening
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: is the wrong word. In the September poll, Mamdanni had
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a twenty point lead over Andrew Cmo. It's down to ten. Well,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the gap is certainly narrowed, but to say tightening, I
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: can't say that a ten point race tightening is the
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: right word. Here are the numbers. Mamdanni's at forty four percent,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Como's at thirty four percent. The problem is is that
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the Republican candidate refuses to drop out of the race
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: despite overwhelming pressure to do so. That's Curtis Slee, while
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: he's at eleven. You can't make somebody drop out of
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: a race. Slee was big gig as he's been a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: talk show host at WAVEC Radio in New York. His
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: general manager or the owner of a station. Castemaditis is
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: his name. John Castemaditas is a billionaire. He just endorsed
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Cuomo Sleeve was said, I'll never go back to work
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: at that radio. They do what everything they can to
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: get him out of the race at an attempt to
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: save New York. A Cloma would be a bad mayor.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: He was a bad governor. But he's a traditional Democrat.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: He's not a socialist. New York said bad Democratic mayors
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: forever and ever and ever. The notion, however, of simply
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: having an out and out socialist who will tax every
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: last business in, every last wealthy person out of the state,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: who's essentially said, I don't believe in locking people up.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: All the other beliefs that he has, New York will
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: fall apart and the country will be badly damaged, and
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: all of the people have invested interest in the city
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: of New York not falling apart. But again, as I say,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: they don't have a rule in which you have to
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: get better than fifty percent of the vote to win.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It's not one of those states where a runoff you
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: simply need a plurality out. If there are more than
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: two candidates running, the one who gets the most votes
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: is going to win. I've said for some time I
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: think Mamdannie's going to win if Sleewood dropped out of
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the race, it might change things, but I don't think
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: he's going to drop out of the race. And secondly,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the other thing that these polls often don't measure is
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: which side is more motivated to vote, and has been
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: explaining forever, with the exception of Charlie Kirk's organization's involvement
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four election, the left is just
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: way better in getting voter turnout than is the right.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: The estimate is is that Mamdannie has ninety thousand canvassers.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Ninety thousand. That's the way to win. Somebody who's essentially
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: going to make sure that someone votes impressed me that
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: making sure can be either nefarious or simply cajoling. But
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: after Mamdatti wins for resuming, he does win it. And
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: you'll see it in the next presidential race whomever the
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Republican is be advanced, or Rubio or whomever is going
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: to be running against a candidate who calls himself a
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Democrat but will indeed be running on socialist principles. You
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: even see it in this whole debate over the shutdown
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: of America along these same lines. One of the things
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: that's undeniably happened in American It's not new, it's just accelerated.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: The term used to be gender gap. They called it
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: a gender gap when they started noticing this drift of
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: women to the Democrats. They don't call it a gender
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: graph now because there's another drift going on, and that
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: is men moving overwhelmingly to the Republicans. There's a piece
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that appeared recently on the Hill. It's a website that
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: covers Capitol Hill. It's an opinion piece written by somebody
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: named John mcgillan, why men are leaving the left and
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: not coming back. He makes some rather obvious but still
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: interesting points. I want to share a portion of it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: He writes, the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging men across the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: United States. They are leaving in waves from the unions
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: that once powered the party's muscle, from classrooms that once
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: echoed with idealism, and from a movement that now talks
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: at them rather than to them. Poles show young men
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: flocking to the right in numbers not seen for generations.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: The trend isn't a blip but a brutal reckoning, and
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: no amount of branding or beer ads will stop it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: The party's latest efforts to woo men are almost painful
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: to watch. The Democratic National Committee has poured money into
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: influencer partnerships, podcast cameos, and clumsy masculinity campaigns filmed in gyms.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Spokesperson's drown on about kitchen table issues as if men
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: are sitting there waiting to be emotionally validated between spoonfuls
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: of reheated stew. None of it works because it isn't real.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Men don't want to be sold to, they want to
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: be spoken to. The problem isn't packaging, but posture. A
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: party that has spent years pathologizing masculinity can't expect gratitude
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: from the men it is spent so long diagnosing. Let
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: me interject the whole toxic masculinity thing that they've been
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: drilling for everything. Well, is it really a surprise that
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: after years of saying that masculinity is toxic, there's a
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: lot of men who want to consider themselves masculine decide
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: that they're going to go over to the side that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: doesn't consider themselves toxic. Continuing, there was a time when
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Democrats didn't need to perform masculinity because they personified it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman and John Kennedy all spoke the
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: language of strength, duty, and sacrifice. Even Bill Clinton, for
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: all his flaws, employed charisma as a form of command.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Barack Obama combined intellect with authority. These were men who
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: carried themselves with the quiet confidence that others respected because
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: they aspired to it. But somewhere along the line, that
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: current of conviction faded. The virtues that once defined democratic leadership, resolved, discipline,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: fortitude were recast as remnants of a primitive past. The
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: same movement that once celebrated builders and breadwinners began to
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: sneer at them. Masculinity became something to manage rather than
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: to honor. The sermon grew stale. Your privileged, you are problematic.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You were not welcome here anymore. That message has exhausted
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: its power. The modern democrat man, No, before I get
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: into his description. When you think of the modern democratic man,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: who comes to mind, He's gonna give you examples, And
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: my guess is it's gonna be the same ones you're
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: thinking of. The one trending on social media. Fluent in
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the language of lived experience feels less like a leader
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: and more like a life coach. Pete boudagain Pweet, Pete
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: boudagad Jet, Pete Buddhajeg speaks with the soothing detachment of
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a corporate wellness coach. Corey Booker dispenses compassion like a
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: man who's been trapped on the seminar circuit too long.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Tim Walls Kamala Harris's ill fated Running Maid was less
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a spark than a screensaver, steady, silent, and impossible to
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: remember once gone. They are not bad men, but they
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: are beije one. They speak softly while the world shouts.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: They offer community care. When men were on competition, competence
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: and consequence, they promised conversation in a culture crying out
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: for courage. They mean well, but politics built on politeness
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: never stirs the blood. Democrats have mistaken attention for trust.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: They think a viral podcast clip can replace authenticity. They
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: think a few relatable posts will fill the void left
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: by decades of distin But men are not looking for content.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: They are looking for meaning. They are tired of being
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: told what's wrong with them, and desperate for someone to
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: tell them what's right. A party that once built bridges
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: now burns them. A movement that once fought for workers,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: now fights for abstractions. No one believes it. It wasn't
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: always disconnected. The Democratic Party once inspired men to see
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: themselves as part of something greater families, unions, and a
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: country worth defending. Today, however, the same party mocks faith, discipline,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: and fatherhood as punchlines. It worships inclusion but forgets loyalty.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It preaches equality but forgets basic humanity. If Democrats truly
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: want to win men back, they'll need more than consultants
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: and hashtags. They'll need to rediscover their backbone. They'll have
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: to speak about duty without apology, about strength without suspicion,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: and about ambition without shame. They'll have to rediscover that
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: empathy without authority is just noise. They must remember that
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: admiration cannot be outsourced. It must be earned. Until then,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: men will keep drifting right, not because they have changed,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: because Democrats have. The Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy has
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: swapped metal for madness, common sense for the kind of
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: nonsense only consultants applaud. It no longer commands respect because
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: it no longer gives it. Pieces I said appeared on
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: the hill speaking of the femininization of men let's talk
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: about Canada. Can the more perfect example of the whole
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: loss of masculinity than Canada. And you think you want
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: to think of Canada as like this rugged country. There
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: they are up north, all cold and all of that stuff,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: and it's become the woosiest country there is. See anyway,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: if you're not aware, Ottawa, which is a province of Canada,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: it's the one where sectually correct myself, Ontario, province of Canada.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: It's the one where Taradu is. The province of Ontario
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: started running TV ads over the weekend and they were everywhere.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: They're on the packer game, they were everywhere attacking President
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Trump on trade. Now, first of all, the whole thing
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: is just suspicious. The country that has been terrifing to
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: death has been American products can be very very very
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: hard to sell in Canada. If Canada makes the same product,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: they slap huge duties on our stuff. In addition to that,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: it's very hard for Americans to get jobs working in Canada.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: They're very very very restrictive on visus and so on.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: So the whole lusion that suddenly, well, tariffs are execondly.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: The way they do this is they put a voice
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: clip of Ronald Reagan in there. This is just I mean,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember when the left just despised
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan. He's at any of these and actor, he's
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: of a poon, he's an extremist. Now the Left has
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: to channel Ronald Reagan to rebuke Trump, and they pull
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: out this cut of Reagan warning against tariffs. In fact,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Reagan's whole view on tariffs is rather mixed. He did,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: indeed teariff a lot of things. His comments are made
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty seven with regard to opposition to a
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: particular tariff. None of what Reagan said in nineteen eighty
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: seven has a lot of relevance to anything that's going
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: on in twenty twenty five. But Canada is running this
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: ad in an attempt to embarrass Trump. So some turns
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: around and increases the tariff that we have in Canada
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: on carryo backs down, But then the ads kept running
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: all week and saying, well, it takes like five days
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: to pull ads. They always say that, and that seems specious.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: But I work in the media. I can imagine if
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: somebody tried to get an ad pulled here, it would
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: take five days. Wouldn't it. But you would think, like
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: in an NFL game on NBC, it wouldn't be that hard,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: would it. I and I want to end the segment
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: with this story. The government shutdown is now weeks old,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: and most people haven't noticed it because President Trump has
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: made sure that a lot of necessary operations can contain you.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: But the federal employees who are who agencies when shut
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: down have not been paid, and that's moving on for
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: a while. They've always kind of understood, well, when it reopens,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: we'll get back pay, and that may still happen. But
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: now we're facing the food stamp funding for November. In Wisconsin,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: we call food stamps food share. Food Share is going
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to run out of money in the state of Wisconsin.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: The estimate is seven hundred thousand people in Wisconsin get
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: funding under food share. And again, food share is our
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: term for the food stamp program. Same thing around the country.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: There is no mechanism to fund food stamps when the
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: government is shut down. Short of a congressional vote, the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Republicans keep passing these bills to fund the government through
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the Senate. Remember that in the Senate you need sixty
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: votes to pass a bill, not the fifty because you
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: sixty votes to end the debate. In the most recent vote,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: three Democrats joined the Republicans. There's still I think six short.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: The three Democrats are Federman of Pennsylvania and the two
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Democrats from Georgia. I think the Democrats are banking on
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: that when people don't get their food stamp payments, that
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Trump and the Republicans will get the blame. A couple
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: of problems with that. First of all, a lot of
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: these people are people who didn't vote for Trump. They
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: voted for Democrats. Secondly, the facts are obvious. The Republican
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: funding bill funds everything as it is, and they keep
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: passing a funding bill. The side that's opposing the funding
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: bill is the Democrats. It does make me wonder if
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: this will be the issue that gets the Democrats to
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: say uncle and end this. All they need to do
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: is signal the seven of their more moderate Democrats go
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: over and join the Republicans. We can let Cammy Baldwin
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: and the left wing hacks continue to vote the other way.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: You just need to get seven of them over there,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: or will they actually create a hunger crisis in the
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: United States because they continue to oppose the bill? That
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: would restore funding to all of this. I think this
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: will be the big challenge to the resolve of these
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: lefties who just the reason that they're not funding the
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: government is because they're left wing. Base just keeps telling
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: you gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump, you gotta
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump, you gotta fight Trump.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Are they willing to keep try fighting Trump to the
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: point that it's the Democrats that actually stop food stamps
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: from being issued in the United States. This is the
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast. The
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: following is quite a story. There's a historical component to
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: it because the event that's triggering the story is twenty
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: years old for the longest time. In Milwaukee eighties, nineties
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: and early zeros, the dominant street gang in town was
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: the Latin Kings. There were a lot of gangs. The
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Latin Kings, by definition, were primarily Latinos, and they commandeered
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: the Latino neighborhoods of Milwaukee on the north side of Milwaukee,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: which were the more African American neighborhoods. There were a
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: lot of different gangs. There were gangs, the Disciples, and
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: a bunch of others. And they fought over territory, but
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the Latin Kings commandeered the South Side. They were very strong.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: There was even a member of the Milwaukee City Council
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: who was ended up being linked to the Latin Kings.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: It was hard to do business and portions of the
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: South Side to do anything political without the nod of
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: the Latin Kegs, and they were a ruthless gang. The
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Latin Kings remained very powerful across These gangs tend to
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: be national, but their local affiliates can get very very
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: weak when they lose territory of their people get thrown
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: in jail and so on. The Latin Kings are still
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: around all over the United States, but they are nowhere
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: near a strong in Milwaukee as they once were. And
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: part of the reason for that is the leader of
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the Latin Kings disappeared twenty years ago. His name was,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: well it was He still is, Armando Barragut. He was
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: one of the leaders of the Latin Kings. He was
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: implicated in the killing in two thousand and three of
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: a guy in Kutahy named Kevin Hirshfield. Some of you
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: may recall the story, and several members of the Latin
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Kings were convicted of taking part. There was a beatdown
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: going on. The Latin Kings were doing a beatdown of somebody,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: and Hirshfield intervened to help out the guy who was
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: being beaten down. So you stop a beatdown, what's the punishment?
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: They put on a death order on him. A hit
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: was ordered on Hirshfield, the guy from cut Hay for intervening,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: and indeed he was killed. The authorities believe that the
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: guy who was principally responsible and put out the order
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: on the hit and may have actively participated, was Armando Barragon.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: As I said, a couple of other people were since convicted,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: but Barragon was never caught again. The murder was in three,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: their indictments in five, and he just has disappeared. Well,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: it's not very hard for me to figure out where
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: the guy went. Now, maybe you wouldn't know where he went,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: but I'm saying broadly, I don't mean what block or
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: what building that he's in, And he went to Mexico.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Mexico is under the control of the gangs, and if
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: you're looking to flee criminal charges in the United States,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: you're likely to go to Mexico, especially if that's your ethnicity.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: It has been suspected that he was in Mexico. The
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: FEDS announced Friday of last week that they arrested him
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: in Mexico. Twenty two years later, barrag And has been caught.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: There's reports on js online and a couple of other
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: news outlets based at a statement from the Milwaukee office
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: of the FBI. I did a segment last week saying
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: that the FBI is back, and it was in reference
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: to the sports gambling probe and so on, and this
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: is just another example of it. One of the things
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: that I think has happened in Trump's playing hardball with Mexico.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Mexico is now somewhat cooperative with the United States on
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of things because Trump started to play hardball
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: with them on trade and these trade battles that are
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: going on with different countries. You don't hear much on Mexico.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Mexico is, I think, generally cooperative with the United States.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: I think what happened here and this is just speculation. Again,
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: this is not based on any information. This guy's been
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: in Mexico for twenty years and wasn't caught, and suddenly
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: he's called somebody the time term has dimed him. It's
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: another taking of a noun and try to get into over.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Somebody dropped her time. Somebody said here's where he is.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: We went in and got him. And that had to
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: be with some cooperation with the Mexican authorities who in
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: the past might not and cooperative. Anyway, the guy has caught.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Now here's a story for you. This reported on js online.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Twenty four year old Milwaukee man arrested over the weekend
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: charged with drunk driving in Wisconsin, we call it owy
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: operating well intoxicated. He was going one hundred and seven
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: miles per hour on I forty one right near County
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Line Road. Now that's a segment in I forty one
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: where Washington, Milwaukee, and Waukeshaw Counties are all close together.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: You've passed out as I forty one angles to the northwest.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: If you're leaving Milwaukee, see you cross out of Milwaukee County.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: By the time you get to County Line Road, you're
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: in Waukeshaw County, which crosses into Washington County. This apparently
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: was still in Waukeshaw County because he was northbound. So
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: it's near County Line road, so he wasn't there, So
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: it's Wakashawe County authorities that apprehended him. He was alleged
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: to be going one hundred and seven mileer, intoxicated and
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: had children in the car. No, I'm not going to
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: be the hippocrewe who gets on my high horse of
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: what's speeding. But one hundred and seven is not eighty
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: five second late. One hundred and seven when you're smashed
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: is not one hundred and seven when you're concentrating. Again,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: that's just stating the obvious. Can you imagine a NASCAR
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: driver drunk while he's driving? Although there have been allocations
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: about it, there were the old Tim Richmond story. So
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: back in the day. Anyway, kids in the car? How
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: can you, no matter how reckless you are, how can
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: you do that if you get children in the car?
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: How His name is Ryad El Mahdi. Last name is
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: spelled E Lmahdi twenty four. I didn't find any other
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: criminal record on him. Let's thrin our attention to an
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: update on the gambling charges from the FBI. It seems
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: to me that there's some shorthand going on in the
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: media here, which is misleading. Well, this is what happens
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: when the NBA embraces gambling and sports with all of
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: these sponsorships. First of all, I don't think that's what
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: it is. Let's imagine all these states legalized sports gambling,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: but the NBA didn't have sponsorships. The guys still would
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: be doing the same thing. I don't think because you
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: go to a Bucks game and there might be a fan. Well,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: actually the Bucks, you can't bet on sports in Wisconsin
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: except to Patawaamy go to another state or one of
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: these games. You see DraftKings is one of the sponsors
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: and so on. I don't think that's the reason, because
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: it's a sponsorship that some guys might be fixing games.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: The problem here is that as sports gambling goes from
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: what it was in the past, legal only in Nevada,
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: but widely done illegally with bookmakers either offshore or guys
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: working at a barbershops, mob connected, et cetera. That's what
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: it was. We then went to thirty nine states now
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: having legal sports gambling in addition to that sports betting
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: in the past until all of this stuff got computerized.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: You know, back when the bookies were writing it down
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: on napkins and so on. You couldn't have a proposition
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: on over under on rebounds, for Bobby Portis as an example,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: you can now bet on those things. Fixing a game
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: is hard for an individual player to do. And let's
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: say it's a pitcher in baseball or something. But let's
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: imagine you're on a basketball team and you decide not
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: to play very hard or whatever unless your teammates are
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: in out of You mightn't win or cover anyway. But
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: the thing you can control is these propositions and your
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: own performance. You can, for example, pretend to be hurt
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: and take yourself out of the game. That way, you
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: don't even get the misshots or anything like that. Rebounds,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: that's an easy one, Okay, I just not gott to
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: quite grab her that ball. It's sort of moving in
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: my direction. There are two separate cases here, or two
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: separate types of gambling, and one of them doesn't seem
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: to have anything to do with the points spread. The
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Chauncey Billufs case. He's the coach of the Portland Trailblazers.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: He's accused of being mobbed up and being involved in
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: crooked poker games. Now it may well be that he
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: was doing this because he was in on the earlier
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: thing with regard to fixing games, but there's no allegation
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: of that, so at least part of this case does.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: The only player directly implicated here in terms of the
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: gambling lines is Terry Rogier of the Miami Heat. The
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: other two players Damon Jones, who spent two seasons with
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: the Bugs but is better known as Lebron James's best friend.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Damon Jones is accused, along the Chauncey Billips, the head
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: coach of Portland, with being involved in mafia poker games. No,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: I know a little bit about the subject of these
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: mafia run poker games. First of all, most of them,
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: based in my experience which goes back just decades of
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: being around and hearing things, are not. The mob made
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: money by simply if there's a term called the rake,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: and it's the same thing when you play in the
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: casinos in Las Vegas, the house takes a percentage of
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: all the bets in the game. Well, yeah, the Tony
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Soprano game. In fact, that's what they weren't cheating anybody
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: in that game. You're simply made money off of There
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: was a little bit of a money. Say, let's imagine
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: this is just a silly way of expanding. There's three
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars bet in one hand. The mob would get
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: a cut. Let's say it's five percent of whatever it is.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: That's what they would take and the rest goes into
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: the pod for the winnings. And their take was based
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: on hosting the game, providing perfection and so on. So
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: this notion of the Mob fixing card games was not
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: the common way it was done because who would take
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: part in the game that they thought was fixed. They
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: think it's not fixed. That's where Chauncey Billups comes in.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: The allegation here is is that the Mob needed to
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: get well known figures to play in the games themselves
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: so that other people think it's on the up and up.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: First of all, okay, I was got again. Chauncey Billips
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: is the break and that you're in the same game
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: with him. But secondly, well, the game can't be corrupt
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: because Kanshi Billups, he must know what's going on and
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: so on. But the bigger question is how did Chauncey
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Billups get tied up in the mafia to the point
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: that he's one of the frontmen for these games. I
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: think that that part of this might be more interesting
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: than the Terry Resir case. I do think in general,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: and everybody says the same thing, and you're going to
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: see it a lot more in college sports. You can't
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: have legal betting in thirty nine states on sports without
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: thinking that there's going to be a lot of people
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: to try to fix the outcome of those bets. I'm
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: involved in horse racing. It's the one thing that you
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: could legally bet up forever. It was the one sport
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: in which gambling was not only a you do it
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: right of the track. So it's fun. And there's always
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: been cases where people were caught involved in fixing and
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: so on. It's constantly probed and investigated. In the biggest
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: regulator of it is all the people that are involved,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: because let's imagine Ioda Hortz. You don't want your jockey
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: or somebody fixing the race, but you can't have into
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: in general any type of gambling. People are going to
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: try to cheat. You know, there's been cheating alleged in
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: all sorts of things going on in Vegas, casinos and
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: all the other stuff. So when you have this as
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: pervasive as it is in sports, there's going to be cheating.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: There's only one way to prevent it, and that is
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: the punishment for those who do it has to be extreme.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: In baseball, your band for life, the whole Pete Rose thing,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: the Black Socks, the Chicago White Sox through the World Series.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Back in the early nineteen hundreds, that's the term black
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: size came emerged. There's been very little of it since
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: in baseball because everybody knew you were done for life.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: You'd have to make a whole lot of a bet
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: to justify losing your entire career. Will you never get
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: a salary again? My guess is that what happens here
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: is these players start betting themselves, maybe not even necessarily
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: on the game that they're in, and they get in debt,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: and now they're looking for a way to get out
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: of debt. They either owe money to bookies or they
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: want to cash on their own bet. In other words,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: tell their friends, Okay, place these fifteen thousand that I'll
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: score fewer than such and such points. Give me a
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: kick of it in order to get out of the
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: debt that they're involved in in the first place. I mean,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think that the answer is to go around
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: and the genies out of the bottle. The states that
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: have legalized sports betting, you know, these states are all
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: making money off of it. They're not going to change it.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: These proposition bets, however, I think they're risky for the
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: play places that are putting up the bets. You can
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: go to Potawatami, you have to be on the premise.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: We discussed that issue last week. It's amazing to me
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: the number of individual bets on a game. There are
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: probably ten receivers in last night's Packers Steelers game in
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: which you could bet on the number of receiving yards
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: they would have or the number of catches they would have.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: I think that that's a risky bet for the bookmaker
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: that's putting up the bet, because if they get stacked
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: with all sorts of action, because somebody knows that a
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: guy's deliberately going to go under whatever that total is,
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: they can be stung. The other part of this, though,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: the mob's influence. I think to me, the most surprising
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: thing is I didn't know that there's enough of a
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: mafia left to be doing. We now know what they're doing.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: They've been pretty much driven out of the drug business
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: by all the cartels and everything. The garbage business in
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: some cities they're still around in and to some extent,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: but waste management has every garbage contact. There is so
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: so much for that. Well, they're apparently the card game.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: I don't even know why the mafia needs to run
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: a card game. A lot of states, gambling and cards
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: is now legal too, isn't it. I mean some of
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: the private games aren't. But I mean there's a lot
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: of part would you say, I mean, but you could,
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: for example, in the Las Vegas casinos, there are no
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: limit games that are going on there. Maybe you know,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: I do think in some states that illegalize sports betting,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: you still have to be I don't know that they've
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: I actually don't know if legal poker is all over
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: the place. Padawanavi had that poker room for a while.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: I've just never heard of anybody particularly. They're just people
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: are just more interested in playing slot machines and sports
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: betting and so on. Saving the Sopranos here approving my
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: point that you claiming that there's a Seinfeld for everything,
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: that I actually that there's a Sopranos for everything. So
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: as I say, in terms of addressing the problem in
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: the case of saying, Terry Rose, You're okay whatever is
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: done to him. Criminally, he's got to be banned from
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: the sport for life, and anybody else out there thinking
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: that has to understand you're going to be banned for life.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: I think the temptation will always be greatest for somebody
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: who doesn't make a lot of money. One of the
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: dumb analyses that I've seen, though, is people saying, Terry
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Rezime Max, I don't know what it is, like twenty
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: six million dollars a year, why would he be doing it.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: It's possible to me that he was so in death
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: that he's blown it all. The more money you have,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: the more you tend to gamble, and people who have
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: the gambling itch and can't control it, they have the
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: ability to lose everything that they have that can't control it.
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: Of course, is the keyle, well, why would you risk
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: for a ten thousand dollars bed? Twenty Well, what if
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: it's been more than just this one ten thousand dollar bed,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: And what if it's more than ten thousand dollars? And
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: what if he's telling all of these people over here
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: and so forth and so on? An example of how
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: the inside information on something like this, Cole Anthony of
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: the Bucks did not play last night. If somebody now,
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: if a player doesn't play, I think that they cancel
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: the bet on it. But what if he only plays
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: three minutes. If someone would have known inside that Cole
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Anthony was likely not to play that very much, somebody
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: could have bet. And that's where you just have to
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: be very, very vigilant, and not just players, but anybody's
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: staff or whatever. Anybody that shares any of this information
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: has to be manned for life. Other than that, I
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: don't know what the deturret is. It's the same position
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: that I take on any other kind of misbehavior. The
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: consequences have to be so great that it scares you
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: out of doing it. This is the Mark Belling podcast.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: This is the Mark Belling podcast. Packers played on Sunday
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Night football. We're doing this podcast on Monday afternoon. I
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: watched a whole game, probably most Packer fans did. I
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: have a couple of observations. First, that second half was
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: as dominant as the Packers have been. There was a
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: point at which they had outscored Pittsburgh in the second
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: half twenty eight to three. Green Bay was down at
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: halftime sixteen to seven, and in fact, it should have
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: been worse. It would have been worse were it not
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: for the fact that Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh were terrible.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: I won't say the red zone because sometimes it stopped
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: earlier than that. But Pittsburgh kicked three field goals in
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: the first half, two of those ten touchdowns, and the
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: margins a lot greater than sixteen to seven. Paul points
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: out the Packers missed a couple of field goals. That's true,
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: but without regard to that, they could have been down
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: by even more than they were. Despite the fact that
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: they were down by that margin, it didn't seem to
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: me that they had played terribly in the first half.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: That second half, though, was stunning. A lot of attention
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: has been given to the fact that Jordan Love competed
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: something like twenty passes in a row and so on.
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: I'll say this, other than one or two where he
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: did the old Brett fire thing and just threw the
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: ball up in the year and a Packer receiver went
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: and caught it. Packer receivers were open constantly. They're open constantly.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: A lot of people will point out to the quarterback.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: If receivers aren't open, there's not much that a quarterback
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: can do, And in the case of when receivers are open,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: you have to be a pretty bad quarterback to not
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: take advantage. Having said that, I just thought that Jordan
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: Love was just in his zone and he knew where
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: everybody was, and he'd look at the right guy at
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: the right time. As I said on the program two
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, Tucker Craft is now the best tight end
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: of the NFL. He had his best career game, He's
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: emerged into quite the player, and so on. So Green
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Bay has not this record a five to one and one,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: which is a weird sounding record, but it pretty much
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: describes how they've played. They've had several games and last
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: night half of a game in which they've been dominant,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: a couple of games in which they weren't very good,
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: and a couple of games in which they're so so,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: which leads you to have one of the best records
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  Speaker 2: in the league. The Pack also had the advantage of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: getting one of their receivers back, Watson. I think that
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: they've really missed Jaden Reid, who they lost after a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks in the season. Getting Watson back kind
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: of replaces Jaden Reid, which helps them out in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the Packer defense. It was just a dominant performance
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  Speaker 2: predicated on, you know, for the first time in years,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: the Packers have passed rush, thanks to Micah Parsons getting
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: they triple team him. Thanks the I mean, you wonder
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: why Rashan Gary gets the quarterback? Everybody there's another guy
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: over there that they got three guys black and it
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: means it means you know, and it got inside Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers's head. Aaron Rodgers was stowing early all the time
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  Speaker 2: because he knew that the Packer pass rush was coming.
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  Speaker 2: A very, very impressive game for the Packers. A couple
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: of other football comments. This thing with regard to firing
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: coaches is Brian Kelly got fired by LSU over the weekend.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: We're seeing coaches who have incredible track records now getting
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: fired because of tours, not even a bad season, like
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: a portion of a season that isn't great. Admittedly, they
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: got slaughtered by Texas A and M, but they almost
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: won a national championship. With Brian Kelly, they had an
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  Speaker 2: incredibly high powered offense. Was it in his first year
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: when they had Jaden Daniels, and who's the really great
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: receiver that he had. They have Malik Neighbors down there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been a successful coach forever and ever
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: and ever. They've only been okay this year and then
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  Speaker 2: they got pasted in one particular game and it got fired.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Penn State fired James Franklin. Every Badger fan
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: that I know is hoping that the Badgers can hire
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: James Franklin. Now they'll talk about Brian Kelly. These teams
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  Speaker 2: that are firing coaches, every other school would want to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: have them. Part of it is just the fan base
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: just can't get passed living in the short term. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who all these teams think that they
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: get is going to be better than some of these
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: people that have winning seasons year in and year out.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: But every team can do what it is that they want,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: and maybe some of these decisions work out for them.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: But it's kind of stunning to see coaches that have
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: winning percentages of like seventy five percent getting canned. As
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin they played. Paul and I were both wrong. We
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  Speaker 2: thought Oregon would cover a thirty two point spread against Wisconsin,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: and they didn't come close. Wisconsin played Oregon very, very tough,
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  Speaker 2: and the Wisconsin defense was spectacular. I mean, Wisconsin's offense
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: is not existent. They can't move the ball at all,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: in part because they have a third string quarterback. They
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: don't seem to want to go back to the second
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: string quarterback, and I think that the first three quarterback
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: has checked out his injury notwithstanding, and the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: for Wisconsin is atrocious, so the defense is constantly on
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  Speaker 2: the field. But Oregon has one of the best offense
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  Speaker 2: in college football and they couldn't do anything against Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: This is after Wisconsin had played two really tough teams
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: in a row and both Paul and I thought that
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  Speaker 2: they would be beaten down. But very inspiring football. In
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: addition to that, Wisconsin now did the thing that Fickle
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: didn't want to do, and they're starting to play some
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: of their true freshmen. You don't want to do that
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: because you lose a year of eligibility when you play them.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: But you know, the running back of Tuca had a
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: I think, pretty good game behind a bad offensive line.
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  Speaker 2: On defense, had a couple of freshmen that were out there.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Mason Posa has just emerged. He not a freshman, but
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: he's emerged into an outstanding player. It's kind of been
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: an inevitability of Wisconsin would fire Luke Fickel, I'm I
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: think you have to play this season out and see
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: whether or not they can improve and beat a couple
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  Speaker 2: of teams down the stretch before you could do that,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: because it's clear that a portion of the rebuilding of
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin is bearing fruit on the defensive side of the ball.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: The offense is still a mess. Same same thing with
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: regard to these better teams that are firing coaches. You
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: fire the coach anymore. With the new rules on transfer
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: and nil, everybody transfers, they all leave a coach. Player
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: that comes to play for one coach, they fired that coach,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: they're gonna leave, and they're gonna go to another school
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: and you start over again. So I think Wisconsin showed
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: signs of life defensively. Offensively, until they get that offensive
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  Speaker 2: line fixed and they can get a first sprint quarterback
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't get knocked out in the first game of
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: the year, which has happened really three years in a row. Here,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: that's clearly a mess. But I'm very surprised. I thought
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: they'd lose by fifty points, and so did Paul and
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: seven the defense played well enough to win. I mean,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: the offense finally got a touchdown after three weeks, but
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: that was an incredible defensive performance by Wisconsin. Paul said,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: whatever game, Yeah, the moment you made that pick, I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: will say this about football this weekend. I've had a
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: good year at our because I would wrong about everything
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: my second, third, fourth, or fifth. I mean, my favorite
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: game in the NFL was the most humiliatingly terrible pick.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: And I'll just admit this. I thought the Falcons would
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: crush the Dolphins. The Dolphins crushed the Falcons. I thought Pittsburgh,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: especially when the line was three and a half, was
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: a good bet against the Packers. The Packers covered on
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: that one. I thought Illinois had a chance to beat
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Washington straight up in the Big Ten. Washington beat him.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: So sometimes it's in these cases of you know, oh,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: if I wish I'd have picked this game, anything I
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: would have picked, I would have been wrong about this
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: past weekend. All right. I have nothing particularly to offer
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: about the World Series other than, you know, there's always
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: this thing when the Brewers getting knocked out, who do
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: you want to win. I never want anybody else to
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: win in anything. I mean, unless you like have a
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: pick on the game or something. But like, if the
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl doesn't involved the Packer, who do I want
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: to win? Kansas City or Philadelphia? I mean, it's just
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: I don't like this. I don't like I don't like
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: any other team. I mean, listen. And then there's this
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: problem of the Dodgers. Part of me wanted the Dodgers
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: to win because it reaffirms that the Brewers at least
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: got knocked out by a good team. But then there's
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: the whole you know, yeah, Los Angeles, you know, Gavin Newsom,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: you don't like this. I have moved over though this
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: ad that Ontario is running attacking Trump. That's where Toronto
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: has screw them. I'm sure I needed some reason to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: grab onto something. So I'm gonna go to the Dodgers now,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: just because everybody in Canada is just they're sticking a
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: finger in my eye and I'm smart enough to say, leep,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: you all right, that's it for rauh. Trudeau is dating
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Katie Perry. I mean that just it actually seems appropriate,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: doesn't it. Here's a good question, who's the dumber of
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: the two. I mean, if you're two dumbs does not
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: equal smart. In other words, if you take two IQs
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: of fifty, you don't get one hundred. All right, that's it.
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