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Speaker 2: There's something going on that I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: people still haven't fully processed, in part because it's almost

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Speaker 2: unbelievable how bad it is. I think we first saw

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Speaker 2: you saw the depth of the riots and the just

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Speaker 2: hatred directed toward police all over the United States using

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Speaker 2: the George Floyd situation. I think as an excuse. In Wahwatosa,

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Speaker 2: marches that's all fine, but included these massive mobs of

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Speaker 2: people walking right up to Wahwatosa police officers and screaming

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Speaker 2: in their faces the most vile and hateful thing. You

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Speaker 2: could write that off as a one off. The lefties

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Speaker 2: are the people that were scared to death that they'd

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Speaker 2: all die from COVID. That was twenty twenty. You could

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Speaker 2: first sign of a phenomenon that I think the evidence

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Speaker 2: is the remarkable amount of hate that's just pervasive. And

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Speaker 2: people will say that this is a stretch. I don't

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Speaker 2: think it is the entire Democratic Party. It's case after

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Speaker 2: case after case of it. It's not just the political violence,

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Speaker 2: not just the assassinations, not just the threats, not just

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Speaker 2: the seeming glee that Charlie Kirk was killed. It's everything.

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Speaker 2: And the reason I say pervasive throughout the entire party

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Speaker 2: is I never that's a stretch. Almost never hear any

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Speaker 2: condemnation of it, calling out of or consequences for coming

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Speaker 2: from other Democrats. Here's my latest example. Again, all of

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Speaker 2: these stories are unbelievable because it's hard to believe that

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Speaker 2: you have people in this country that are this vile,

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Speaker 2: this evil, this ugly. Oshkosh Oshkosh they've had to kick

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Speaker 2: the Winnebago County Democrat Party out of the Oshkosh Farmers

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Speaker 2: Market because one of the people that was working the

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Speaker 2: one of which was given to an eight year old kid.

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Speaker 2: The bracelet it's like one of these rubber bracelets that

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Speaker 2: people have that have sayings on him and so on.

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Speaker 2: It is he dead yet? The presumption is it's a

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Speaker 2: reference to President Trump. Who else would it be? Is

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Speaker 2: he dead yet? Apparently the person had a lot of

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Speaker 2: the bracelets. We don't know how many were handed out.

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Speaker 2: We do know that one of them was given to

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Speaker 2: some news. Some news. It's been covered by a Green

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Speaker 2: Bay TV station. I put it up on my account

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Speaker 2: on X yesterday. If you want more details, you can

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Speaker 2: find it there. Mark Bellings Show is my handle on X.

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Speaker 2: But the story's been ignored by much of the mainstream media.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen any coverage of it by any of

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Speaker 2: the Oshkosh paper is one of the ones they own.

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Speaker 2: But imagine this, and by the way, the Democrats and

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Speaker 2: When to Go, you're saying, well, this is a volunteer

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Speaker 2: and this wasn't authorized. Well, they haven't named the volunteer

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Speaker 2: who ought to be named, And I haven't heard a

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Speaker 2: peep of reaction from Democrats in Wisconsin condemning Winnebago Counties Democrats. Furthermore,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many people this's a booth at

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Speaker 2: the farmers I don't know how many people are sitting there?

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Speaker 2: Was this person the only one manning the booth? How

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Speaker 2: many other bracelets were handed out? How many for that

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Speaker 2: matter of lefties just out there are wearing these things?

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Speaker 2: Is he dead yet? You've got it? First of all,

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Speaker 2: nobody on my side can do something like this because

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Speaker 2: you'd be ruined if you did it, which is probably

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Speaker 2: a good thing. But second this you can't keep saying

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Speaker 2: that this is isolated cases. This isn't the entire democratic

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Speaker 2: it seems to be. If it wasn't, every Democrat in

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Speaker 2: that party would say, it's this person here, we disassociate

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Speaker 2: ourselves from them, and everyone would name this person. So

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Speaker 2: the whole world knows what a monstrous creep is running out,

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Speaker 2: but they won't. I would like to share with you

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Speaker 2: is he said, not an option. Now this story, it's related.

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Speaker 2: It comes from the state of Virginia. Give you some

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Speaker 2: background on politics in Virginia. Virginia is one of those

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Speaker 2: states that over the last thirty years has gone from

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Speaker 2: it is simply the explosion in the size of the

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Speaker 2: federal government. Those federal government employees they all have in

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Speaker 2: either merrily of Virginia. They're not going to live in

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Speaker 2: the city of Washington, d C. And the metro area

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Speaker 2: If you do the red blue chart of morning patents,

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Speaker 2: the whole state is red. The blue is though, where

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Speaker 2: the population all is. They did have that incredible election

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Speaker 2: Young Cain is term limited out he can't run for

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Speaker 2: he did not win the state of Virginia. Anyway, to

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Speaker 2: the governor's race there, I won't say it's a close race.

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Speaker 2: In the latest polls at six to seven points, they

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Speaker 2: American woman has quite the life story to tell, and

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Speaker 2: so she's trailing. Anyway. Now into that race is a

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Speaker 2: new controversy. The Democrat candidate for attorney general in Virginia

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Speaker 2: has been caught making vile texts. Again, are all of

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Speaker 2: these people vile? And I'll tell you about him in

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Speaker 2: a moment. They're really vile. Now, the Democrat candidate, he

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Speaker 2: won't drop out of the race for attorney general. Whether

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Speaker 2: he wins or not is not the point here. The

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Speaker 2: bigger point is the Democrat candidate for governor will not

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Speaker 2: disavow the Democratic candidate for attorney general who put out

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Speaker 2: the vile texts. The vile texts basically cheered the killing

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Speaker 2: the guy did texts about how essentially alluding to what

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Speaker 2: a good thing that that was. Now the easy thing

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Speaker 2: to do for a Democratic candidate for governor, You know,

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Speaker 2: why tie yourself to this guy over there who said

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Speaker 2: this is disavowed, say this terrible thing to do. Democrats

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Speaker 2: because they know huge swaths of their voter base agree

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Speaker 2: this hate, and they want true believers. There's an interesting

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Speaker 2: it because, well, the story is from Virginia. I just

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Speaker 2: think it's increasingly typical. Democrat Abigail Spanburger is the favorite

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Speaker 2: of the Virginia race for governor. Abba Gail's camp amburgers.

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Speaker 2: She's the Democrat running for governor, not the attorney general

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Speaker 2: put this out, but she's leading the commonwealths add year

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Speaker 2: elections tend to favor the party that isn't in the

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Speaker 2: White House, and Northern Virginia's full of federal employees. She

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Speaker 2: has millions more in campaign cash than a Republican opponent

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Speaker 2: lieutenant governor wins some earl series. Let me interject, I'd

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Speaker 2: love to read a story once in which the story

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Speaker 2: says the Republican has more money than the Democrat. Well,

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Speaker 2: it is the last time, well, I know, the last

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Speaker 2: time it happened before Citizens United, the case Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: to them anyway, So the Democrat candidate has way more

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Speaker 2: to appeal for suburban swing votes. She is up six

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Speaker 2: Yet for all her advantages, Spanberger looked uncomfortable in the

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Speaker 2: State University. That's doubtless because the biggest story of the

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Speaker 2: past week has involved Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for

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Speaker 2: Attorney General. Fantasizing in leaked text messages about the murder

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Speaker 2: of a political opponent and his family. Quote he receives

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Speaker 2: both bullets every time. Jones told a then colleague about

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Speaker 2: a Republican in a text that much of the country

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Speaker 2: has now seen. You may have seen coverage of this.

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Speaker 2: Somebody obviously leaked one of these texts in which he's

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Speaker 2: Back to the story, when the moderator asked Spamberger, now

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Speaker 2: But the moderator asks, you can tell that this isn't

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Speaker 2: she dodged. Voters now have the information, and it is

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Speaker 2: why wouldn't you if you're running for governor? Isn't the

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Speaker 2: new backlash from other Democrats if she condemned somebody who

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Speaker 2: The story goes on, people keep saying, you're cherry picking

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Speaker 2: these things. Well, yeah, we're cherry picking them up. But

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Speaker 2: backdrop of this, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I want

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Speaker 2: doing this podcast. On Wednesday, President Trump awarded posthumously Charlie

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Speaker 2: and declared the day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk. I'm

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Speaker 2: but I think just an outstanding mini biography of what

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Speaker 2: made Charlie Kirk the great human being that he was.

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Speaker 2: Proclamation signed by the President on the afternoon of Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: September tenth, twenty twenty five, Pure evil struck down struck

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Speaker 2: when the legendary Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight

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Speaker 2: in a campus courtyard, triggering a ground swell of righteous

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Speaker 2: immortal memory of Charlie, a father, a husband, a Christian martyr,

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Speaker 2: and a titan of the American Conservative movement. We honor

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Speaker 2: and we pledge to advance the values for which he

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Speaker 2: talking West National Avenue out in West Allis and so on.

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Speaker 2: This is like in Milwaukee from about sixteenth Street. It's

429
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Speaker 2: right in the middle. It's in the area where Milwaukee

430
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Speaker 2: Tech is. It's in the middle of a heavily Latino area.

431
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Speaker 2: It's kind of the link to Walker's Point. Heading toward

432
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Speaker 2: the third ward, it's already an extremely busy street. I

433
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Speaker 2: just can't even imagine what it would be like if

434
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Speaker 2: you rip at and just turn it into the two

435
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Speaker 2: lanes with all the buses and the Amazon trucks and

436
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 2: the places that do the restaurant deliveries that double it

437
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 2: just excess them anyway. Now they don't have the money.

438
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 2: Liberals are very creative when they're told they don't have

439
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 2: the money. So Mayor Chevy doesn't have the federal money

440
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 2: because Trump and the Republicans, thankfully they have clawed it back.

441
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Speaker 2: There's a story in JS online on this what Mayor

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Speaker 2: Chevy is now again. For those of you who just

443
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Speaker 2: do not understand how liberals think, don't worry. I'm here

444
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Speaker 2: to help you out by telling you, like you have

445
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Speaker 2: no idea what they could possibly do if Trump clawed

446
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Speaker 2: back the money, do you no, Well, they go to

447
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Speaker 2: somebody else. Who's next Tony Abers. They're going to the

448
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Speaker 2: state Department of Transportation and will seek unallocated funds there

449
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Speaker 2: at The Republican legislature has not allocating any funds for this,

450
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Speaker 2: but DOT has it. I've been on this thing for years.

451
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,400
Speaker 2: DOT has this massive slush fund of cash just laying around.

452
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Speaker 2: So mayor Chevy is going to ask the taxpayers of

453
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Speaker 2: the rest of the state of Wisconsin, all of you

454
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 2: people sitting there in Veroqua and fond alec at everywhere else,

455
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Speaker 2: to take millions and millions of dollars out of the

456
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Speaker 2: state road fund to allow me or Chevy to screw

457
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Speaker 2: up even more streets in the city of Milwaukee. I

458
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 2: don't know if any Republicans in the legislature are even

459
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Speaker 2: aware of this, of this being going on. And as

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Speaker 2: I say, many of you out there, you think, go, well, okay,

461
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Speaker 2: he's got a little curbs and maybe it's a little

462
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Speaker 2: harder to drive. You just you have no idea. Serrely, seriously,

463
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Speaker 2: you have no idea. I don't know how much better

464
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Speaker 2: I can describe it other than you have no idea.

465
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Speaker 2: Whatever you think it is, it's fifteen times worse. I

466
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Speaker 2: want to address hard to figure out what the right

467
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Speaker 2: term is. Obviously, tragic is partly correct. Case in Milwaukee.

468
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Speaker 2: A Milwaukee woman has been arrested and charged with beating

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Speaker 2: her mother to death with a rock. She took a

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Speaker 2: rock to where mother's had and kept slamming. Was caught

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Speaker 2: in the act by a witness who called the police.

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Speaker 2: The Fox six report and the report of the other

473
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Speaker 2: local TV station websites all say the same through all

474
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Speaker 2: quoting neighbors at saying nobody surprised the woman being charged.

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Speaker 2: Her name is Laurence Spores, that spelled spo Rs. The

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Speaker 2: dead woman is named Carrie Zettel. The neighbors say that

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Speaker 2: the daughter has been violent and a problem forever. She's

478
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Speaker 2: apparently been diagnosed schizophrenic. One of the problems, and it's

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Speaker 2: been discussed by me in the past, and many of

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Speaker 2: you are aware of it, is it's almost impossible to

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Speaker 2: institutionalize someone against their will. The standard of proof is

482
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Speaker 2: incredibly difficult. You have to prove that they are of

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Speaker 2: imminent danger to themselves or someone else. And again that's

484
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Speaker 2: a high standard. And in the case, for example, this

485
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Speaker 2: until she hits her mother over the head with a

486
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Speaker 2: rock a zillion times, people said, well, she won't do that.

487
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Speaker 2: It's again almost impossible to do it. And it's likewise

488
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Speaker 2: almost impossible. There are very yeah, I think this is correct,

489
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Speaker 2: very good drugs to treat these kinds of things. But

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Speaker 2: people who have these kind of psychoses schizophrenia, a manic, depressive,

491
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Speaker 2: and so on. Many of them can't stand taking their meds.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that there are hundreds of people listening to

493
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Speaker 2: this podcast who have a relative or know of this situation.

494
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Speaker 2: They hate taking their meds, and of a situation if

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Speaker 2: someone I knew in Florida she had a kid that

496
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Speaker 2: was like this, I mean, the parents never know what

497
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Speaker 2: to do, but they don't want to take their meds.

498
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Speaker 2: When they take their meds, they're if not fine close.

499
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Speaker 2: The problem is the meds tire them out and they're

500
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Speaker 2: just they don't like it. I wouldn't like it either,

501
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Speaker 2: But the alternative is they're this. I'm raising this issue

502
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Speaker 2: here for a reason. However, I'm just telling you I

503
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: don't know this, but I'm gonna make a guess. I'm

504
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: gonna make a guess that this woman is on pod.

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Speaker 2: The link between marijuana use in schizophrenia is getting overwhelming.

506
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Speaker 2: And again when people say a link, well, I do

507
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Speaker 2: spot and I'm not schizophatic. I didn't say that not

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Speaker 2: everyone who smokes pot or gets cannabis in another form

509
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Speaker 2: is schizophrenic. But I'm just telling you just about everybody

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Speaker 2: who is schizophrenic uses pot. The length there is seemingly

511
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Speaker 2: very real the marijuana, the cannabis that we have right

512
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Speaker 2: now is extremely powerful lenotia that it can get in

513
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Speaker 2: there and buzz your brain into the zombiesm that you're

514
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Speaker 2: at without potentially doing numerous other things, particularly when some

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Speaker 2: of these people are on all sorts of other meds

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Speaker 2: as well. The interaction. I don't know that there's a

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Speaker 2: connection with the booze and the schizophrenia either, and there

518
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Speaker 2: may be. I'm just never, I'm just never. I'm just never. No,

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying that I don't know that there's a

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Speaker 2: connection in any way with alcohol and schizophrenia. Maybe there

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Speaker 2: will be, I know, not saying that there is or

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Speaker 2: there is it. I'm talking here with regard to the

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Speaker 2: thing that you see again and again and again every

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Speaker 2: time they find I mean, there's been studies that just

525
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Speaker 2: show that almost everyone with schizophrenic is a cannabis user.

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Speaker 2: Not everyone, but it's an incredibly high number. And we

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Speaker 2: just keep running around legalizing and legalizing and legalizing and

528
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Speaker 2: encouraging and encouraging, encouraging despite the fact that, and I

529
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Speaker 2: understand what the point is. Not everybody who uses pot

530
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Speaker 2: becomes mentally ill, so we well, why shouldn't I be

531
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Speaker 2: able to use it. I didn't. I'm not becoming mentally ill,

532
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Speaker 2: and it's a valid enough point. The question is how

533
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Speaker 2: common does the association have to be? But schizophrenic, I

534
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Speaker 2: just it's the same thing with autism. I've been around

535
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Speaker 2: long enough that when I was younger, these illnesses they existed,

536
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Speaker 2: but they were so rare it's now all over. I'm

537
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Speaker 2: not suggesting the link between autism and POT. I think

538
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Speaker 2: Kennedy is onto something though, that with other types of

539
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Speaker 2: pills that are blocking the nerves, the pain receptors in

540
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Speaker 2: the brain, that they may be contributing to a dulling

541
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Speaker 2: in general of what's going on in the fetus. And

542
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Speaker 2: maybe it is the tylenal thing or not. But I

543
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Speaker 2: do know, though, is this I'm just gonna predict, And

544
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 2: again maybe I'm wrong. I'm gonna predict that this woman

545
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Speaker 2: who killed her mother by banging her head with a rock,

546
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Speaker 2: it's a POT user. Again, maybe I'm wrong about that,

547
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Speaker 2: but I think it's a pretty safe. Guest, you're listening

548
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Speaker 2: to the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling Podcast.

549
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: One of the things that I've liked to do over

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Speaker 2: the years. In fact, whenever somebody tells me about something

551
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Speaker 2: like this, They always say, I know you Like that

552
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 2: is to kind of bring things to people's attention before

553
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: most people know about it. In other words, kind of

554
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 2: get ahead of the curve on something that is going

555
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Speaker 2: to be a big friend or is going to be

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Speaker 2: a big deal. And the downside of this is I

557
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 2: never say nobody's ever told. I'm just saying I don't

558
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Speaker 2: think most people are aware of it. Clearly some are, well,

559
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Speaker 2: you're the first there's That's not what I'm saying. What

560
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 2: I'm saying is I am trying to bring to your

561
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: attention and highlight something that most are not aware of.

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Speaker 2: The story is rather extraordinary. Now I know why most

563
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 2: people aren't aware of it, but that's almost part of

564
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Speaker 2: the thing that makes the story interesting. Jordan Stoltz just

565
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Speaker 2: stole an namo it. My guess is about ninety eight

566
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Speaker 2: percent of you don't know who I'm talking about. There

567
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Speaker 2: is a very good chance that in four months, ninety

568
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Speaker 2: eight percent of you will know who I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: As you probably know, the Olympics are three and a

570
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Speaker 2: half months away. They're in Milan, well kind of in Milan.

571
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Speaker 2: They're actually all over northern in a Liba. Milan is

572
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Speaker 2: the biggest city there winner Olympics of course they start

573
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Speaker 2: early February. Jordan stolt is from Kewaskam. He has a

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Speaker 2: chance to win gold in multiple speed skating events. He's

575
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Speaker 2: knocked out a couple of world records. The thing about

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Speaker 2: him is is that in the sport, and by the way,

577
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Speaker 2: I should mention, there are two forms of speed skating,

578
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Speaker 2: long crack and short track. And you know the differre

579
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Speaker 2: sitting long crack and short track. One is long and

580
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Speaker 2: one is short. Short track is the newer sport. It's

581
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Speaker 2: almost it's almost like a circle that they go around

582
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Speaker 2: in whereas longer tracks are you know, they're longer. It's

583
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Speaker 2: it's a different form. The longer tracks are guys that

584
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Speaker 2: will think of Eric Heiden, Body Blair and so on.

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Speaker 2: That's long crack. He he competes. He competes in the now.

586
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: There are short races, there are spreads, but it's just

587
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 2: it's it's long crack, is what Stoltz is it. He

588
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 2: trains at the peddict in that particular sport. You tend

589
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 2: to get a little bit better as you get a

590
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Speaker 2: little older. In some sports, in say track and field

591
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: and so on seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. You

592
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,879
Speaker 2: never get any faster than that. Speed skating. It tends

593
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 2: to be in your mid to late twenties. Eric Heide

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Speaker 2: and Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair, many of them, they lasted

595
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Speaker 2: in that sport for a number of years. Because it's

596
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 2: a sport in which you're combining so many different traits.

597
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: Strength comes into play as much as speed, development of

598
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 2: the muscles, stamina, technique, all that stuff. Anyway, I've linked

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Speaker 2: up on my site on x dot com two stories

600
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: they tell you a lot about. One was written by

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Speaker 2: the Washington County Insider. That's Judy Stephus's publication. That's very,

602
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Speaker 2: very good. She quotes a journalist from the Netherlands who's

603
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Speaker 2: come to the United States to report on him. Why

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Speaker 2: the Netherlands, What do you know about the Netherlands and

605
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Speaker 2: speed skating? Call? Come on, Hans Brinker and the Golden

606
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 2: skate it is. It's like the like our version of football.

607
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 2: That's the United States. That's what the Netherlands is. Speed

608
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Speaker 2: skate it is their big sport. I also linked up

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Speaker 2: a piece on nbcsports dot com, which is profiling major

610
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Speaker 2: American athletes. There's the chance that he's going to win

611
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Speaker 2: more medals than anybody at this Olympics, or maybe or not.

612
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: I mean you have to compete. His forte is the

613
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Speaker 2: shorter distances, the five hundred, one thousand and fifteen hundred

614
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 2: and that's meters. And again in speed skating for the

615
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 2: long crack, those would be shorter races if it's shorter

616
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 2: than that, but that's basically the range that he's in. Anyway.

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Speaker 2: There are some quotes here. This is from Judy Steph

618
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Speaker 2: his story and the Washington County Insider. She interviewed this journalism.

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Speaker 2: This journalist is Dutch journalist who came in from Amsterdam.

620
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Speaker 2: I want to read his name, but I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: if I say his name, it will take up the

622
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: rest of the podcast. Should I give it a shot?

623
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Speaker 2: I think the first name is these. It's spelled t

624
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Speaker 2: h I JS. I'm guessing these. I'm guessing that Jay

625
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Speaker 2: is silent, wouldn't you. I don't think it's stigious. I

626
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Speaker 2: think it's these or here's the last name. I have

627
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 2: to say it. I think that there are forty nine

628
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Speaker 2: syllables here. I exaggerated. This is though this is right

629
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Speaker 2: up there with with Giannis's last name's length. Niemann's fat

630
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Speaker 2: vert driat. I'm just saying Niemant vert driat. Now, I

631
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Speaker 2: suppose if you say it fasted, if you'll have his name.

632
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Speaker 2: But I had to go that slowly to be able

633
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Speaker 2: to announciate and get all this. Anyway, these is came

634
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Speaker 2: to Kuwaskam to do a story here because this guy

635
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Speaker 2: may be the star of the Olympic sport that is

636
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Speaker 2: so big over there. I'm going to quote a few

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Speaker 2: lines from the story in the Washingtononian Center means med zend.

638
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say these I'm going to say his

639
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 2: first name. A writer from Amsterdam made the trip across

640
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 2: the Atlantic to me. Jordan Stolt's the twenty one year

641
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 2: old speed skating phenom whose rise is captivated fans worldwide

642
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: and especially in the Netherlands. A country. We're skating is

643
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 2: closer to a national religion than a pastime. They quoted thief. Quote,

644
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: He's a phenomenon very well known in Holland. I think

645
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: even better known there than in the United States. Well,

646
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 2: I think that's correct, because I don't think anybody knows

647
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 2: them in the United States. Quote. We see him as

648
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 2: the main candidate to win a lot of medals at

649
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 2: the coming Olympics in Milan, and that makes his story fascinating. Quote.

650
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 2: I saw a Dutch TV report where they went to

651
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 2: his parents' house and showed the pond where he learned

652
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 2: to skate. Where these stories get to be. He learned

653
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 2: to skate in a pond in the backyard. It's just

654
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I suppose you got to learn to skate somewhere,

655
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: but it just seems to me that most of what

656
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 2: that's where you learned. How many Olympic medals did you win?

657
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: You know? That's like saying the Williams sisters learned in

658
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: the backyard when they were two, with I'm guessing by

659
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: the time they were four they were at a tenants

660
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: academy with their crazed father who said, I'm going to

661
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 2: make the two greatest tennis players in the world. That anyway,

662
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 2: quote the says that really struck me. Who learns to

663
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 2: skate on their own pond and then turns out to

664
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 2: be this talented that's the key. People learn how to

665
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,280
Speaker 2: skate on their own pond, are you. It's a story

666
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: that feels very pure, almost old fashioned in the best way.

667
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 2: In a country like the Netherlands, where Olympic skaters are

668
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: household names, Stoltz's rise has sparked both awe and friendly rivalry.

669
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 2: The Dutch have long dominated the sport with vast resources,

670
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 2: deep tradition, and pack stadiums, but these said Stalls represents

671
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: something new, a humble American shaking up a sport that

672
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: one seemed untouched by outsiders. Quote. Every once in a

673
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 2: while someone comes from abroad and beats the Dutch. It

674
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 2: looks like this is going to happen with Jordan. Honestly,

675
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 2: I don't know who's going to beat him in Milan.

676
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 2: Back home in Europe, Stoltz his face is familiar. It

677
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 2: appears on TV sports pages and skating broadcasts across the continent.

678
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 2: But in the United States he can still shop at

679
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 2: the grocery store unnoticed. Well, you kind of from up there.

680
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 2: You think if Jordan walks to the grocery store a Kiwasca,

681
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: anybody knows who he is. I don't know. I don't know.

682
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 2: But if he goes up the road to West bed

683
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 2: probably then he's anonymous again. Right, Yeah, Okay, it's kind

684
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 2: of weird, he said in Holland, Norway or Germany. People

685
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: will recognize him. Here. He can walk into a supermarket

686
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: and no one will know who he is. Again, this

687
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 2: guy has come over to the United States report of

688
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 2: the story. He probably asked a few people they know

689
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 2: who Jordan's and then provo said, no, who's that? But

690
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 2: if he wins a few gold medals in Milan, that

691
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 2: will change. He'll become an American star. That part is true.

692
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 2: And this is where I wanted to interject as to

693
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: why it is. There are some sports you almost need

694
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 2: a psychoanalyst to figure out why this is. There are

695
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: some sports that Americans go crazy over but only during

696
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 2: the Olympics. Gymnastics would be number one on that list.

697
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, nobody pays any attention to some owned

698
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 2: bios and she competes on the nationals in a non

699
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 2: Olympic year. The same thing with women's figure skating or

700
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: men's figure skating when they have the gold medal events

701
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 2: and that they have world championship with that, every year

702
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 2: they have other meets and so on. I'm not saying

703
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: when I say nobody, I mean hardly anybody pays any

704
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 2: attention to that. Track and field is another one. We

705
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,920
Speaker 2: just had the Every year they have the American Championships

706
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 2: in Eugene, Oregon, hardly anybody pays attention when you have

707
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 2: the Olympics. There are a number of sports that here

708
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 2: in the United States just get I would see another

709
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: one to throw in a couple of others. The kind

710
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 2: of skateboarding that they do in those half shells and

711
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 2: all of that. I never see p I don't think

712
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 2: people know who the top figures in that are. But

713
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: when you get to the Olympics and two or three

714
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: or four people beach volleyballs another one. Remember those two

715
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 2: women that won it like sixteen years in a row

716
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 2: or whatever. Yeah, I know, but I don't think anybody

717
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 2: paid attention. And then when they were just competing. There

718
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 2: are just a number of sports that like that in

719
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 2: the United States, and it's curious. It's to why Americans

720
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: have such an incredible interest in these sports. Greetings monstrous

721
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 2: in the Olympics, but almost zero any other time. So

722
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: you know, in the Netherlands, the sport's a big deal

723
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 2: all the time. So if Jordan wins, America loves winners

724
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 2: in the Olympics. If Jordan does knock out, say one

725
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 2: gold or maybe multiple silvers. You know, does a mini

726
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 2: Eric Heiden thing or anything. Everybody is going to know

727
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 2: about him. And the point that's being raised here is

728
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 2: and again, you can be an early favorite. End. You know,

729
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: it took Dan Jansen forever to win his gold, so

730
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: one things can happen, et cetera. Continuing with the story,

731
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: in the February twenty twenty six Olympics, Stoles has set

732
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: has sits on competing in the five hundred meter, one

733
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 2: thousand meters and fifteen hundred meter events. He currently holds

734
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 2: the world record in all three events. So I mean

735
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 2: this means he's it. He's already the world record holder

736
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 2: in all three of those events. See, he's the world

737
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 2: record holder. He's probably the favorite to win the gold

738
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 2: and all of them. Again, it doesn't mean he will.

739
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 2: You can slip, anything can happen, but he's already the

740
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: world record holder in all three of these. He's from Kewaska.

741
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 2: Don't say you knew who he was because I threw

742
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 2: his name out there a minute to going you didn't

743
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 2: know what he was. And again, how would anyone know?

744
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 2: When's the last time you saw any local? It's just

745
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 2: it isn't covered, continuing, this would be stole. It's the

746
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: second trip to the Olympics. He competed in twenty twenty

747
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: two in Beijing, where, according to NBC Sports, he was

748
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 2: the third youngest American at seventeen to ever compete in

749
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 2: long track speed skating. So again, this is a sport

750
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 2: where like nineteen twenty that's when you start to get

751
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 2: to world class level and so on. So in twenty

752
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 2: twenty two he was the third youngest American ever in

753
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: long track, I think, And again short track is a

754
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 2: separate sport. Doesn't reference that for now. These that's this

755
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 2: long name. Guy is happy to tell a story what

756
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 2: Americans are only just beginning to appreciate. But a young

757
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 2: what a quiet, modest young man from rural Wisconsin who

758
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 2: might be the best skater in the world. He's not

759
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 2: someone who brags, he said. He's calm, modest, but inside

760
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: you can see that there's this fire, this competitiveness that

761
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: drives him. That's what makes him special. As for predictions,

762
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 2: these is cautious. The Olympics are unpredictable. There's always some surprise,

763
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 2: he said. But if all goes well, I think he

764
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 2: could win three gold medals five hundred, one thy fifteen hundred.

765
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 2: That would be truly unique. It's amazing. Really, a boy

766
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 2: from a pond in Keywascam might just conquer the Dutch

767
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 2: at their own game. That's the kind of story you

768
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 2: fly halfway around the world to tell a good story

769
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: on the watching a Cony insider about this guy who's

770
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 2: over there in so again, now you know who Jordan

771
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: Stoltz is, and see what happens. The Olympics start February third,

772
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: and again they're saying Milan. But as I understand it,

773
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: the events are all over and again. Northern Italy is

774
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 2: the mountainous region and so on, and it's cold there

775
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 2: in the winter. So on, what do you know about Milan?

776
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 2: We've been to Milan, haven't we? Well, I gotta think

777
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: now we went to Florida. We went. We went to Florence,

778
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 2: which is right in the vicinity. I don't remember anymore,

779
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: but I have the I have the disadvantage of being old.

780
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: I don't mean this is always on cruises and so on.

781
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: I don't I don't think we actually, I don't know.

782
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 2: We didn't go to Milan. For one thing. It's more

783
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: inland and the other cities are closer to the sea,

784
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 2: if not on the sea that we end up going to.

785
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 2: I know that the people in southern Italy they think

786
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 2: that the northern Italy people twity twity, you know how.

787
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,839
Speaker 2: I know that there was a Sopranos about that. That's

788
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 2: that's what Fourio said. Maybe he made it up, and

789
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 2: maybe there isn't any any of that bigotry. But the north,

790
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 2: you know that was Da Vinci and all that, they

791
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 2: think they're the culture and all of that, and they

792
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 2: think the ones in southern Italy they think that they're

793
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 2: just they're just you know, boors and so on. Again,

794
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 2: maybe that's not true, but that's what Fourio said in

795
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 2: the Sopranos. That's the extent of my knowledge on this.

796
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 2: Now it's time to move on. The Business journal they're

797
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 2: known for. I think these lists. Every public every week

798
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 2: they have one of these lists on the one the most,

799
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 2: the most that, the most other thing. You've seen these lists,

800
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 2: haven't you? Even every year put on a book of

801
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 2: all the lists. Well, I learned something about these lists,

802
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 2: you know what I learned? They might be crap. They're

803
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 2: in the most recent issue they have a list You're

804
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 2: of corporate charitable contributions in Wisconsin ranked by total contributions

805
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 2: to Wisconsin charity organizations in twenty twenty four. So they

806
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: take all the companies in the state of Wisconsin and

807
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 2: rank who gave the most money to charity. So look

808
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 2: at the list again. My brain is wired different than

809
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 2: everybody else. I'm seeing something and the analytical gears are

810
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 2: just going. Most people take things at face value. Here's

811
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 2: those number one WEC Energy Corporation, two, Northwestern Mutual three,

812
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 2: Husco International four, Freighted five, Coals six, Johnson Controls seven,

813
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 2: Associated Bank eight, BEMO nine, bared Can Brewers Community Foundation eleven,

814
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 2: West Bend Insurance twelve, Johnson Financial thirteen, Aosmith fourteen, Town

815
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 2: Bank fifteen, M three Insurance sixteen, The Marcus Corporation seventeen,

816
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:50,240
Speaker 2: Godfriancan eighteen, Waterstone Financial goes on. I'm looking at this list,

817
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 2: know and again some of you who just take everything

818
00:48:52,680 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 2: get fased out. Oh it's interesting, Waterstone Financials eighteen. We

819
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 2: have giant companies and what are they chincy, They don't

820
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 2: give any money. Are you telling me that Kohler's not

821
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 2: on that list? Sc Johnson Minards go through American Family Insurance.

822
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 2: But they're not on the list. It's not inquired about this.

823
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 2: I emailed Timothy Gibbons, who's the editor. You know why

824
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 2: they're none of the list because the list is only

825
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 2: based on companies that volunteered the information. This isn't an

826
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 2: actual list of donations. They said that many companies didn't

827
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 2: respond to with it. Well, of course many don't. Many

828
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 2: companies don't want to indicate how much they want to

829
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 2: give others do, so the list is based solely on

830
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 2: self reporting. And I said, was just the case with

831
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 2: all your lists when you put for example, largest schools

832
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 2: and all that. If somebody doesn't respond to you not

833
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 2: include them. I thought when I saw a lists like this,

834
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 2: that that meant that they were doing digging or try

835
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 2: to come up with you know, like the we mentioned

836
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 2: the four four hundred ordranks the four hundred richest people

837
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 2: in the world. And soon they have people who do

838
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,319
Speaker 2: nothing all year but try to estimate the worth of

839
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: say someone like Donald Trump or Judy Faulkner of EPIC

840
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 2: and soone. That's their sole jobs all year and they

841
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 2: try to come up with it anyway, So I emailed

842
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 2: Gibbons and he gave me a response, and I'm going

843
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 2: to read it to you. Let me start with some

844
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 2: context around the list. The majority of our lists, this

845
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 2: one included, are built out of surveys sent to a

846
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 2: group of target companies, usually ones that have volunteered for inclusion,

847
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 2: either by filling out the link I included in my

848
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 2: previous email, or by reaching out to us directly, including

849
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,439
Speaker 2: after we publish a list they're not on or wish

850
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,760
Speaker 2: to be. For this specific list, we spent several years

851
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 2: soliciting companies who wish to be included, creating the pool

852
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 2: of organizations we survey. You will, of course, have known us.

853
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 2: The footnote that states about the list participation in the

854
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 2: list of Corporate Charitable Contribute contributors was solicited from the

855
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 2: participation request for possible inclusion. And indeed that is here

856
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 2: in small type pall. You should see this, this little

857
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: tidy type. No one would read that is reading that

858
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 2: down there. He continues, As far as I know, there

859
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 2: was no one who reached out to be included who

860
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 2: was not. Well, Okay, that means all these big giant

861
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,720
Speaker 2: corporations that I mentioned didn't reach out to be included.

862
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 2: Because there's zillion reasons why many companies don't want us

863
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 2: disclose how much money that they give. Sometimes it's proprietary.

864
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 2: Sometimes it comes across as bragging. Like one of the

865
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 2: entities that's not a list. I don't know. You know,

866
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 2: there's a certain businesses in Milwaukee that are sanctimonious and

867
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 2: to go on and on Potawatomy is insufferable, miracle like

868
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 2: Canal Street and all of this stuff. They don't give

869
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 2: that much money away, but they brag about every last

870
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 2: dollar as if that's going to make it more justifiable

871
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 2: for somebody to go in the slot machines. But then

872
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 2: there are many others who it's unseemly to do so,

873
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 2: or they think by doing so, they're just going to

874
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 2: be hit up for more people for more money and

875
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 2: so on. But anyway, the point of all of this

876
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 2: is is that all these lists that they have, it's

877
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 2: based basically on whether or not they tell them. Secondly,

878
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 2: do they addit? How do you know that somebody there

879
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 2: are some people in business I think that might inflate

880
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 2: their amount of money that they give, like you. Let's

881
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 2: discuss the Brewers Dodgers series. First of all, the context

882
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 2: of how the series has gone so far, and as

883
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 2: we do this podcast, of course the Dodgers are up

884
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 2: two to nothing. It's just so easy after the fact

885
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 2: to say this, and I grant this, but I had

886
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 2: very little expectation that the Brewers would win. For any

887
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 2: of you who've ever paid any attention to my commentary

888
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 2: on baseball, I think pitching is about all that matters

889
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 2: in baseball. Some people disagree, and it just the way

890
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 2: it worked out is the Brewers pitching fell apart down

891
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 2: the stretch with injuries and guys just got banged out,

892
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 2: and they really only going into the postseason hit two

893
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 2: starting pitchers, Freddy Parolta and Quinn Priester. Quinn Priester is inexperienced.

894
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 2: After getting Sheldon one start, they don't even want him

895
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,319
Speaker 2: to start. They'll have him pitch multiple innings, but do

896
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,240
Speaker 2: it by coming in in the second of the third inning.

897
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 2: Jacob Mezerowski stopped being a reliable starter, so they're trying

898
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 2: to use him by you pitching in multiple innings without

899
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 2: starting the game and so on. And in the case

900
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 2: of Freddy Parolta, it's just clear if you've looked at

901
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 2: his performances down the stretch, he's worn out. In fact,

902
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 2: as at the game last night, his fastballs normally ninety six.

903
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 2: I saw him at ninety six only twice the entire game.

904
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:44,879
Speaker 2: He was in the ninety three to ninety four rage.

905
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 2: So I just think that the starting pitching is kind

906
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 2: of worn out, and they've been trying to cobble together

907
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,439
Speaker 2: these games. Their best games have been ones in which

908
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 2: they use five or six gate guys out of the

909
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 2: bullpen and so on. And the thing with the Dodgers

910
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 2: is all year they're pitching as stunk, except Blake Snell

911
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: has come along down the stretch and is right now

912
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 2: as effective as any pitcher in baseball. He almost pitched

913
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 2: the perfect game against the Brewers in Game one, a

914
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 2: game the Brewer is almost won because the manager of

915
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 2: the Dodgers our secret repon is Dave Roberts is an idiot,

916
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 2: I mean, the Dodger fan, and bitched about it. He

917
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 2: took a guy out who had pitched essentially a perfect

918
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,479
Speaker 2: game through eight hittings. He gave up one base runner

919
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 2: and that base runner immediately got thrown out trying to

920
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 2: steal second anyway, and then there was the game last night.

921
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are a team filled with home run hitters

922
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 2: and so on, and if the Brewer pitching isn't sharp,

923
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 2: I don't see him winning. So again, it's so simple.

924
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 2: After you're down to nothing. Oh, I figured they'd be

925
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 2: down to nothing. And I understand just saying something after

926
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 2: the fact, but it is what it is. More to

927
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 2: the point, there was a big story in the Wall

928
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 2: Street Journal earlier this week on this series, and that's

929
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 2: what I want to dive into here. I didn't know

930
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 2: if you all know that, But there is a very

931
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 2: strong chance there will need be no baseball season in

932
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. The current player union contract expires at

933
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 2: the end of the twenty six season. The owners want

934
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 2: a salary cap. Baseball does not have a salary cap.

935
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 2: They have attacks. The baseball system works that after you

936
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 2: go over a certain amount, you have to pay a

937
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 2: tax to the league and the money is distributed to

938
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 2: the rest of the teams. But there's no cap. Football

939
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 2: has a salary cap. Basketball is a salary cap. Both

940
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 2: are really complicated as to how they work, but there

941
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 2: is a number that if you butt up against it,

942
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,800
Speaker 2: you really can't spend any more than that. Baseball doesn't

943
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: have one. The owners want a salary cap, but that

944
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 2: has to be negotiated with the union. Obviously, the players'

945
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 2: union don't want a salary cap because the salary cap

946
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 2: whatever that is multiply by the thirty teams. That's the

947
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,359
Speaker 2: max that can go to the players and salaries. And

948
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 2: it is perceived that neither side will budge on this,

949
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 2: and both might be willing to forego an entire season

950
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 2: in order to win that battle. That's the backdrop anyway

951
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 2: that has brought up this discussion of the Brewers Dodgers series.

952
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 2: The players Union is making the case baseball doesn't need

953
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: a salary cap, and what is that case? Premison the Brewers.

954
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 2: The Union is saying, look, you don't need a salary cap.

955
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 2: You've got one of the lowest payroll teams in all

956
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball and they're in the playoffs every

957
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 2: year's there in the final four. So you don't need

958
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 2: a salary cap. What's the problem. The Brewers prove you

959
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 2: don't need one, and then they'll point out, look at

960
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 2: the teams that have salaries. There are teams with two

961
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 2: times the payroll of the Brewers, not double two. That

962
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 2: means triple. Brewers I think are in the range of

963
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 2: what are they won thirty five? The team's over four hundred,

964
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 2: and the Brewers do better than they are. So the

965
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 2: Union is saying you don't need one. Baseball is retorting, Okay,

966
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,399
Speaker 2: who's the other Brewers? Though the Brewers are the only

967
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 2: ones that can figure this out. Pittsburgh's not in there.

968
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 2: Once at a bloomoon, Minnesota's in that. That's true. In fact,

969
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 2: of the final four teams, here's the ranking the Dodgers have.

970
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 2: I think it was number two. I think the Mets

971
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 2: were number one in Pei role this year. It's in

972
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 2: the story. Mark find this quickly. It's either one or two,

973
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: and then five and fifteen. Toronto's five. Toronto's a huge market.

974
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 2: By the way, people think Toronto's a small market because

975
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 2: Toronto's in Canada. The Toronto metroery is just unbelievable. It

976
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 2: goes on and on and on and out. Toronto has

977
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 2: the fifth highest payroll Seattle, which is the third team

978
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 2: in they're in the middle, they're at fifteen. The Brewers

979
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 2: are in the twenties. So that's the distinction that's there. Actually,

980
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 2: the Brewers payroll is one hundred and twenty two million

981
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 2: this year. That ranks twenty second out of thirty. The

982
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,160
Speaker 2: story goes on that the Brewers seem to be be

983
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 2: aberrational in that there are certain things that the Brewers

984
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 2: do that other teams have not done. The Brewers make

985
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 2: it a religion to get rid of guys when they

986
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 2: hit thirty. They will sign retreads over thirty that they

987
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 2: can get for discount, but they will not overpay for

988
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 2: guys on the downside of their career. For example, I

989
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 2: do believe that unless the Brewers win a couple of

990
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 2: games in Los Angeles, Freddy Perol that pitched his last

991
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 2: game for the Brewers last night, he's a free agent

992
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 2: year after next. And the Brewers MO has been to

993
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 2: trade a guy when there's one year left in his

994
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 2: contract when they can still get a lot. They did

995
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 2: that with Devin Williams, and that's why we have Caleb

996
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 2: Durban at third. They've done it with Corbyn Burns. Who

997
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 2: do we get for Corbyn? And we're's getting fuzzy here

998
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: one of our starters. It wasn't Ortiz anyway, THEIRMO has

999
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 2: been rather than spend three thirty five million dollars on

1000
00:59:01,520 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 2: a contract of a player who's probably going to go

1001
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 2: on the DL or might be borderline washed up cases

1002
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,280
Speaker 2: of both Burns and Williams, to try to get somebody

1003
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 2: young back who they can plunk out of the starting

1004
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 2: line up immediately. The Brewers' other m always to try

1005
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 2: to acquire players who have multiple years left in their

1006
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 2: contract or extend guys early, and most teams don't do that.

1007
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 2: The other key, I think though, to the Brewers is

1008
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 2: and I think the Erin Savali trade is indicative of this.

1009
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 2: The Brewers had a starting pitcher was bitching and mourning Savally,

1010
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 2: you gotta trade him. Andrew Vaughan was in the Triple

1011
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 2: A in the minor leagues. He was washing out with

1012
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 2: the White Sox. The Brewers scouting felt that he still

1013
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 2: had a lot of talent in him, that probably he's

1014
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 2: simply it's not a losing team forever in an empty stadium,

1015
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:48,800
Speaker 2: that you could turn him around. They've done this with

1016
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 2: any number of pitchers they traded at the beginning of

1017
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 2: this season for Quinn Priester. Yet a pretty good young

1018
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 2: player for him, But Quinn Priesters signed for multiple years

1019
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 2: because he's a young player. They saw something in him

1020
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 2: and they can develop them. So the Brewers keep winning

1021
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: all these awards for being the best organization in baseball

1022
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 2: because they can do all of this. The counter, though, is,

1023
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 2: in the postseason you need superstars, and the Brewers tend

1024
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 2: to develop all of these stars. But do they have superstars?

1025
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 2: My take is somewhere in between. Of course, it's easier

1026
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers with their payroll to win. The counter

1027
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 2: to that is, I believe it was the Mets that

1028
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 2: had the number one payroll in all of baseball. Where

1029
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 2: are they? The Angels are always in the top five,

1030
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 2: and they've stunk forever. Having a ton of money doesn't

1031
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 2: guarantee success, but it makes it much easier. I think

1032
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 2: baseball needs a salary cap. Some people say that's not American.

1033
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 2: The difference is they're in an association. These are not

1034
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 2: independent businesses competing against one another. This is not you know,

1035
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 2: one drugstore chain competing against another. They're joining an association

1036
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:57,600
Speaker 2: for the purpose of competition. So there's nothing wrong with

1037
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 2: the association putting in rules to create a level in

1038
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 2: fair playing. It's the same for example, in the NFL,

1039
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 2: everybody has the same roster. You can't have two hundred

1040
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 2: guys in your roster. Will let somebody else's fifty three.

1041
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 2: There are limitations that you have. One of the reasons

1042
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 2: football has been so successful is they've had a salary cap.

1043
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 2: In revenue sharing, one team can spend disproportionately more than

1044
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 2: the other. Head you get the money that you haven't

1045
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 2: try to figure out who's going to use it most

1046
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 2: wisely say that again, it was our keys and dl

1047
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 2: Hall who another problem that we have with the playoffs here.

1048
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 2: Dl Hall got hurt and wasn't quite a very good

1049
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 2: pitcher and a guy that can pitch three or four innings.

1050
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 2: And so I mean, Corbyn Burns blew out his arm

1051
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:45,480
Speaker 2: this year. He signed a big contract with Arizona. May

1052
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 2: not pitch for two more years. He'll be thirty two

1053
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 2: to thirty three when he comes back. And Joey Ortiz

1054
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 2: maybe the best fielding shortstop and all of baseball and

1055
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 2: so on. I mean, and you combine that with the

1056
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 2: Brewers doing an excellent job of drafting young players and

1057
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 2: then finding somebody and Venezuela like Jackson Curio when he

1058
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 2: was sixteen years old, and so on. It's the reason

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Speaker 2: that they are where they are, whether or not it

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Speaker 2: could ever turn into a world Series. I mean, I

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Speaker 2: think it's kind of luck. I think that Seattle might

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Speaker 2: win the World Series this year. It's a team that

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Speaker 2: made a zillion moves at the middle of the season.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes those works sometimes, though't they don't. They seem to

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Speaker 2: be the hottest team. The Dodgers problem is once you

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Speaker 2: get packed, it's the top two starters not good. Their

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Speaker 2: number three starter is Shohaiotani. He's a much better hitter

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Speaker 2: than a pitcher. He's a good pitcher, but he's he's

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Speaker 2: not anywhere near as dominant as the first first two games,

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Speaker 2: and the Dodger bullpen is rather weak. I mean, you say,

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Speaker 2: final story about the Dodger Brewer game. I do need

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Speaker 2: to bring this up. You cannot imagine how many people,

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Speaker 2: including I think you were one of them. There's a

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Speaker 2: guy with a massive following on YouTube. It's just enormous.

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Speaker 2: His name is John Boy. He does Baseball breakdown. Were

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Speaker 2: you aware of John Boy before this video? Just zillions

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Speaker 2: of people followed John by Jomboy. What he'll do is

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Speaker 2: he'll find something weird that happens in a game, and

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Speaker 2: he does incredible editing to break it down. Often it's

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Speaker 2: an argument or a fighter when somebody's buzzed with a

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Speaker 2: fastball or something unusual, or an argument with the umpires.

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Speaker 2: He is an unbelievable lip reader, so he'll show the

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Speaker 2: cameras and he's saying you could say, okay, that's what

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Speaker 2: the person is saying. So he did this breakdown of this.

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Speaker 2: Some of you were saying, strangest play in baseball history.

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Speaker 2: It was close. Max Months the other Dodgers in Game

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Speaker 2: one hit what appeared to what looked like it was

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Speaker 2: going to be a Grand Slam home run that turned

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Speaker 2: into a double play with no runs being scored. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I could go through the whole description, but any of

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Speaker 2: you who care probably knew about it. Anyway. Anyway, John

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Speaker 2: Boys got all this video and he's going through all

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Speaker 2: of this, and he put it out that he's on

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Speaker 2: paternity lead because they having a kid, so he's not

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Speaker 2: been spending as much time. So he slapped this together

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Speaker 2: in the middle of the night. And I know that

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Speaker 2: he slapped it together because he didn't seem to know

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Speaker 2: sell Freelik's name he put it. But anyway, he sees this,

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Speaker 2: they got the shot. The cameras are always on the

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Speaker 2: third base side for a right handed hitter. So they're

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Speaker 2: showing the shot. When the ball is hit, I'm throwing

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Speaker 2: my hands up in the air, and nobody else is react. Well,

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Speaker 2: the reason I throw my hands say, I pay more attention.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, this could be a Grand Slam home run.

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Speaker 2: So they zone in on this and John Boyce says,

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Speaker 2: look at this guy saying oh no, and everybody else

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Speaker 2: is sitting there like it takes them an extra second

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Speaker 2: to realize, here's this ball going to deep center field.

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Speaker 2: So he closes up on me and shows it. And

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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, there may not be a state

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Speaker 2: in the United States where I'm not heard from somebody say,

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Speaker 2: you were on the job boy video. I linked that

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Speaker 2: up on x dot com. There's a lot of content

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Speaker 2: that you can find. Yeah, I mean, it's it's just everywhere.

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Speaker 2: In my reaction, Thank god, it was the proper reaction, like,

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Speaker 2: oh no, this could be a Grand Slam home run,

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Speaker 2: as opposed to me picking my nose or I'm going

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Speaker 2: to explain something to you when we come back. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to explain to you why Obamacare is falling apart.

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Speaker 2: You don't know why it's falling apart, do you? I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know that it's falling apart because Obama and Pelosi

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Speaker 2: did it. But I mean the actual that explanation coming

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Speaker 2: up next on the Mark Belling Podcast. This is the

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Speaker 2: Mark Belling Podcast. A prominent poster on X he goes

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Speaker 2: onto the handle of Wall Street MAV. I'm guessing that's

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Speaker 2: short from Maverick. He has a very short post in

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Speaker 2: which he essentially explained the problem with Obamacare. If you're

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Speaker 2: not aware, Obamacare is hitting that financial brick wall and

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Speaker 2: it's exploding right now. The costs are going to go

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Speaker 2: to the roof, and they're asking the Congress, which now

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Speaker 2: is the Republican Congress, and Trump to come up with

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Speaker 2: a massive baiload. Now, before I get into the guy's explanation,

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Speaker 2: when obama Care was passed now better than a decade ago,

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Speaker 2: every one of the critics said this was going to happen.

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Speaker 2: So they said, this thing is not self sustaining, that

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Speaker 2: there is no way that you can make endspeed anyway.

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Speaker 2: That's the shorthand version. Wall Street Map does a spectacular

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Speaker 2: job of explaining in two paragraphs what the problem is,

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Speaker 2: so I'm going to share it with you. He writes. Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, explained, Democrats passed Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: which made deductible so high that you rarely ever reach them.

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Speaker 2: Let me interject, Sometimes people hear the especially people who

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Speaker 2: never get sick, they hear these terms. Your deductible is

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Speaker 2: the amount you pay before the insurance kicks in. The

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Speaker 2: point that he makes is that when they drafted Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: which was an attempt to make the insurance companies rich,

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Speaker 2: essentially that's what it was. When they created Obamacare, they

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Speaker 2: made the deductibles really, really high. So unless you're somebody

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Speaker 2: who had a lot of illness, everything was out of pocket.

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Speaker 2: Anyway that you essentially didn't have insurance. Your insurance was

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Speaker 2: if you go to the hospital, you get cancer or something,

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Speaker 2: then they kicking. But the point that he's making, and

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Speaker 2: again I don't want to belabor this, is that Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: the Affordable Care Act, that the people under it, the plans,

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Speaker 2: almost all had very high deductibles. So continuing Democrats passed Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: which made deductibles so high that you rarely ever reach them,

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Speaker 2: So you pay for insurance plus out of pocket for

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Speaker 2: insurance you rarely use. Designed to fund health care for

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Speaker 2: deadbeats and the illegal aliens, now that's his explanation here.

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Speaker 2: The reason that they had to create it this way

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Speaker 2: so that so many individuals ended up essentially not getting

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Speaker 2: anything out of Obamacare because everything was out of pocket.

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Speaker 2: They did this so that they would have the funds

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Speaker 2: to cover the people who don't kick in in anything

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Speaker 2: at all, like all the illegal aliens are on Obamacare.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the things now that's being debated

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Speaker 2: with regard to Trump should be paying for the healthcare

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Speaker 2: expenses of people that are in the United States illegally.

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Speaker 2: That's why the Democrats have shut down the government. They

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Speaker 2: want that continue. Back now to Wall Street map designed

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Speaker 2: to fund healthcare for deadbeats and illegal aliads. From twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty twenty one, it was getting worse

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Speaker 2: the Biden Then Biden and the Democrats passed temporary subsidies

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Speaker 2: to hide how crazy expenses ACA insurance had become. Those

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Speaker 2: subsidies expire December thirty, first twenty five. In other words,

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Speaker 2: when the Biden administration was in they passed subsidies to

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Speaker 2: cover all these shortfalls that were in place with regard

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Speaker 2: to Obamacare. But like almost all of these other funding bills,

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Speaker 2: it expires as I've planted on any number of times

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Speaker 2: whenever the government creates a program, Oh, it's only temperate,

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Speaker 2: it's only temperate's only temporary. The pressure is just overwhelming

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Speaker 2: to keep the program going. Once you create an entitlement,

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01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 2: people go nuts if they expect that, if they don't

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Speaker 2: think it's going to last forever. Okay, so that's coming

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Speaker 2: up now in two and a half months now. Democrats

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Speaker 2: want to extend those subsidies. If they could, they would

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Speaker 2: even expand the subsidies more to further hide the disaster

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Speaker 2: of Obamacare. Before Obamacare, health insurance companies could offer cheaper

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Speaker 2: plans with certain things excluded, but Obamacare banned the cheaper plans.

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Speaker 2: You may recall that when Obamacare came in, you couldn't

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Speaker 2: do the plans that a lot of small businesses and

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Speaker 2: others liked, in which the plan was more tailored to

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Speaker 2: a person. For example, if you're a small business and

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Speaker 2: you got three employees and they're all guys, you're not

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Speaker 2: going to put pregnancy coverage and all of that stuff

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Speaker 2: in there. Obamacare require that all of this stuff being

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Speaker 2: all of these plans. That there were no low cost

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Speaker 2: plans that were out there, so you ended up with

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Speaker 2: this financial cliff that we hit to Zamacare is costing

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Speaker 2: a fortune with the losses being more and more and more.

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Speaker 2: In addition to that, all insurance cost is going to

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Speaker 2: explode next year, all having to do with some of

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Speaker 2: these subsidies. Healthcare costs are going to go way way

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Speaker 2: up next year because we got an aging population. We're

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Speaker 2: covering all of these things that maybe some of the

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Speaker 2: policies shouldn't cover, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But

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Speaker 2: the point that was being explained by this poster here

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Speaker 2: on Wall Street MAB is that when they created Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: they created these enormous government subsidies to cover for the

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Speaker 2: fact that it was hemorrhaging money. And then sunset and

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Speaker 2: the subsidies. So now we're facing the sunset and they're

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Speaker 2: demanding that the subsidization continues, which is what drives this

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Speaker 2: whole issue of whether or not we should be paying

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Speaker 2: for health care for illegal immigrants or not.

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