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Speaker 2: There's a scandal that's been going on in plain View,

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Speaker 2: and it's still going on in plain View, and I

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Speaker 2: think the fact that it's going on, it's rather obvious

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Speaker 2: that it's going on. It's going on for some time.

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Speaker 2: There's a fortune involved, and nobody does anything about it

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Speaker 2: that's more interesting and more important than the scandal itself.

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Speaker 2: We're going to dive into that story here in the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the program. It's the Somali scandal centered in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: As I said, it's happening in Plainview. Zillions of Somali

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Speaker 2: refugees come to the United States. A huge number of

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Speaker 2: them settle in Minnesota, and I don't know what the

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Speaker 2: percentage is, but it's not tiny become scammers. Many of

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Speaker 2: them don't like America. Some of them have become just

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Speaker 2: out oute scammers. And we're now learning the details of

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Speaker 2: this scandal that's been going on in Minnesota. Apparently that

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Speaker 2: everybody in Minnesota knew about, in which they there were

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Speaker 2: groups that just stole a fortune in COVID and other

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Speaker 2: aid money and else the governor didn't do anything about.

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Speaker 2: Apparently the media knew about it, and it's still going on.

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Speaker 2: Now it's been revealed, it's outed, it's still going on.

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Speaker 2: It's a story worth diving into, and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: set it up before we roll into the program. With

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Speaker 2: zillion posts on social media that are coming out, a

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Speaker 2: lot of them from frustrated Minnesota residents who aren't part

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Speaker 2: of the radical cabal that runs the state. This summarizes

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Speaker 2: it as well as anybody. It's a post that I

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Speaker 2: found on x A group of Minnesota Somalis stealing tens

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Speaker 2: of millions of dollars from American taxpayers told Minnesota's Department

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Speaker 2: of Education to pay up for their fake charity or

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Speaker 2: they would call them racist in the media, and it worked.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to give you the details of the story,

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Speaker 2: but that's an extraordinarily good one sentence summary. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: call you racist if you try to cut off our funding.

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Speaker 2: So they didn't. The fact that it was Somalian Americans

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Speaker 2: that did it is why they were able to get

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Speaker 2: not an option. Now, as I say, this story is

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Speaker 2: now out there and everywhere, and the reason it's out

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Speaker 2: there and everywhere is the liberal media has now even

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Speaker 2: reported it. A couple of days ago, the New York Times,

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Speaker 2: the New York Bleeping Times ran a massive piece exposing

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Speaker 2: this scandal and pointing attention that to the fact that

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Speaker 2: it all happened under Tim Waltz, who appeared to empower

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Speaker 2: the scammers. So as they say, the story's out there

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Speaker 2: and now nobody's denying it, it's just a reality that

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Speaker 2: that it's going to report on it, there's no longer

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Speaker 2: any deniability. You know, it's there, which requires us to

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Speaker 2: go back and look at how it happened. And then

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Speaker 2: in development this week that indicates it's still going on,

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Speaker 2: even as though even the New York Times admits it.

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Speaker 2: Let me read a few paragraphs on the New York

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Speaker 2: Times piece the fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering

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Speaker 2: in scale and brazenness. Now let me pause with just that.

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Speaker 2: Brazen What do you do something that you're not supposed

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Speaker 2: to do and you are brazen about it? In other words,

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Speaker 2: Like just think of a you know, little kids stealing

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Speaker 2: from the cookie jar. Imagine little kids stealing from the

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Speaker 2: cookie jar when the mom is standing right next to

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Speaker 2: though nobody will do anything about it, even if they

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Speaker 2: A lot of the shoplifting that goes on, or some

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Speaker 2: The New York Times is blowing the whistle at it

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Speaker 2: because it became so obvious. Why are they blowing the whistle.

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Speaker 2: I'll get into that in a moment. It's not quite

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Speaker 2: as interesting as the fact that the scandal went on

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Speaker 2: federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them

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Speaker 2: of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government

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Speaker 2: program meant to kept children fed during the COVID nineteen pandemic. No,

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Speaker 2: let's pause on that. As I told you during COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 2: you know the old Rama manual line, never let a

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Speaker 2: good crisis go to waste. The Democrats needed COVID to

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Speaker 2: be this terrible thing in order to justify spending an

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Speaker 2: all of these leftist groups licked their chops because they think,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go get that fortune. We just used

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Speaker 2: COVID as an excuse for the money to exist in

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Speaker 2: the first place. We saw this all over the place

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Speaker 2: with COVID. I'm wondering what percentage of COVID money was

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Speaker 2: actually properly spent. According to what I swear, it's less

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Speaker 2: than fifty percent. In any event, fortune is being dumped

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Speaker 2: into this program in Minnesota, and it's aimed at you know,

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Speaker 2: we have a legitimate problem of hunger, people that are impoverished,

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Speaker 2: don't eat enough, don't eat good food, children, etc. So

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Speaker 2: we spend a fortune out of COVID. Okay, a lot

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Speaker 2: of people aren't going to be working. There's going to

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Speaker 2: be hunger in all of this. And this group of Somalians,

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Speaker 2: lots of them, just tapped into this and stole all

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Speaker 2: doing it. When they were doing it. At first, many

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Speaker 2: in the States saw the case as a one off

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Speaker 2: abuse during a health emergency, but as new schemes targeting

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Speaker 2: the state's generous safety net programs came to light, State

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Speaker 2: and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality.

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Speaker 2: You just imagine this. Everybody involved here is liberal. The

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Speaker 2: scandal went on during the Biden era, and in Minnesota

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Speaker 2: the governor was Waltz. Okay, the Somalians are stealing all

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Speaker 2: the money. Instead of the reaction, let's stop. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: but it's some allions. We can't do anything to them.

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Speaker 2: This is their jarring reality. Over the last five years,

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Speaker 2: law enforcement officials say fraud took root in pockets of

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Speaker 2: Minnesota's Somali diaspora, as scores of individuals made small fortunes

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Speaker 2: by setting up companies that build state agencies for millions

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Speaker 2: of dollars worth of social services that were never provided.

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Speaker 2: Let me interject one of the scams that we've seen

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Speaker 2: in Wisconsin in which several people have been charged these

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Speaker 2: setting up these home health care agencies or childcare agencies.

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Speaker 2: A woman says, Okay, I'm taking care of fourteen kids,

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Speaker 2: gets federal funds for all of that, not taking care

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Speaker 2: Into a headcount of whether or not any of these

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Speaker 2: kids are actually in there easy to scam, and there

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Speaker 2: are certain programs that are set up that just don't

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Speaker 2: have any safeguards whatsoever. Now in a tight knit ethnic

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Speaker 2: community like the Somali community, the word just got around

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Speaker 2: it's very easy to set up and scam this program.

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Speaker 2: And guess what, they won't do anything to us. We're

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Speaker 2: too damn powerful. Since so many of us moved to Minnesota,

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Speaker 2: were a massive power block in Minnesota. Nobody's going to

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Speaker 2: do anything to us. It was part of their calculation

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Speaker 2: that no one would do anything to them. Federal prosecutors

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Speaker 2: say that fifty nine people have been convicted in those

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Speaker 2: schemes so far, and that more than one billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Think about that. This is just one billion billion. One

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Speaker 2: billion dollars in taxpayer's money has been stolen in three

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Speaker 2: annualated department to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota's fraud

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Speaker 2: scandals stood out even in the context of rampant theft

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Speaker 2: during the pandemic, when Americans stole tens of billions of

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Speaker 2: dollars through unemployment benefits, business loans, and other forms of aid.

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Speaker 2: According to federal auditors. Outrageous swelled among Minnesotan's. Okay, some

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Speaker 2: of these people in Minnesota, and you know, there's just

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Speaker 2: numerous problems with Minnesota. Do you know any of the

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Speaker 2: problems that associate with Minnesota. It is really liberal. That's

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Speaker 2: one of the problems. What else. The governor's an idiot,

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Speaker 2: he's he's that almost goes to the liberal part. But

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Speaker 2: you know the Somalis that are there. Here's the other part.

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Speaker 2: The people in Minnesota that aren't like part of that

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Speaker 2: liberal idiocy. They're dumb. I mean that. Well, all these

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Speaker 2: now you have the Minnesotans that are honest, you know,

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Speaker 2: of the United States sees people in Minnesota, well, gee,

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Speaker 2: this is worse than what anybody did in California or

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Speaker 2: much money was stolen on their watch, providing Republicans who

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Speaker 2: six with a powerful light of attack. In recent days,

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Speaker 2: President Trump has weighed in calling Minnesota a hub of

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Speaker 2: fraudulent money laundering at and saying the Somali perpetrators should

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Speaker 2: What this reminds me of is how so many Italian

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Speaker 2: So now you have other Somalis and I'll just describe

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Speaker 2: who they are. The ones that are hacked off about this.

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Speaker 2: They're the ones that weren't stealing any mighty didn't get anything. Now,

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Speaker 2: with the tables being turned in public attitudes toward immigration

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Speaker 2: who didn't steal the money are fearful that this is

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Speaker 2: it probably rightly should. Back to the New York Times

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Speaker 2: and listen again. The fact that this is in the

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Speaker 2: New York Times is the substance of the story that

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Speaker 2: this is now being outed by the left itself. Debate

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Speaker 2: over the fraud has opened new riffs between the States

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Speaker 2: Somali community and other Minnesotans, and has left some Somali

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Speaker 2: suspicion against all of them rather than the small group

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Speaker 2: accused of fraud. Critics of the Waltz administration say that

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Speaker 2: the fraud persisted partly because state officials were fearful of

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Speaker 2: alienating the Somali community of Minnesota. See that's the story,

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Speaker 2: Waltz Democrat. The Somali community is packed into areas in

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Speaker 2: The state didn't rule out other potential reasonable inferences. Well,

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota now, even after everybody knows about this, somewhat

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Speaker 2: related this election in Nashville. It's in Tennessee. Part of

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Speaker 2: the district is Nashville for the US House. The Republican

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Speaker 2: won yesterday. The margin wasn't real close, but the district

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Speaker 2: is more Republican than the margin would indicate. The margin

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Speaker 2: was fifty three to forty five. It was getting a

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Speaker 2: lot of attention because the polling was closer. The lefty

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Speaker 2: running was Aten Ben. And what made the story fascinating

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Speaker 2: is Aten Ben isn't just a regular Democrat. She's a radical.

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Speaker 2: And she wasn't running in like New York or Minnesota

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Speaker 2: and Detroit with some of the She's running in Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: And while the city of Nashville's democratic, rural, Tennessee's overwhelmingly Republican,

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Speaker 2: and Ben had all sorts of dirt on her. She

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Speaker 2: had years of posting on social media. Among the Savans,

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Speaker 2: You've got a list here some of the things she

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Speaker 2: you know, she lives in Nashville, and she put her

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Speaker 2: she hates country music, she hates rural Tennessee, she hates this,

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Speaker 2: she hates that, all these things that you would think

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Speaker 2: would kind of disqualify her. Yet she was in the

447
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 2: game here and she was just doing the same thing

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00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 2: which is now the Democratic claim. She's running out affordability

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Speaker 2: every day. That's going to be the issue you're going

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Speaker 2: to hear all through twenty twenty six. The network is

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Speaker 2: going to run an affordability It's the same thing that

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Speaker 2: Mundanti ran on New York and for a number of voters.

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Speaker 2: So again, she didn't win in Tennessee, but the fact

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Speaker 2: that she got herself into the hunt in an overwhelmingly

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Speaker 2: Republican district is reason to pay attention here. This is

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Speaker 2: one of those issues in which it's easy to see

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Speaker 2: why Republicans are flat footed, because you would never envision

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Speaker 2: that this would be a winning issue for the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: The affordability problem was caused by the Democrats. This whole

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Speaker 2: thing developed during Biden. The explosion in inflation occurred during Biden,

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Speaker 2: and it was conscious. So now you have the Democrats

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Speaker 2: who gave us the inflation that created the affordability crisis.

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Speaker 2: Now running on the affordability crisis, you simply would not

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Speaker 2: have thought that this was something that they would want

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Speaker 2: to touch, because you would have presumed that everybody knew

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Speaker 2: that they were the ones that caused the problem. Going

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Speaker 2: back to my point though about the New York Times

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Speaker 2: reporting now on the scandal in Minnesota, there's a huge

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Speaker 2: segment of Americans who didn't know that the inflation was

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Speaker 2: going on because their media sources weren't telling them it

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Speaker 2: was going on. I remember the segment on The Morning

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Speaker 2: Joe right around the election in which this idiot Scarborough,

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Speaker 2: you know, he's worth a fortune, sits there Horses Show

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Speaker 2: with his wife. He expressed shock when he found out

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Speaker 2: how much a pound of butter cost. This is like

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Speaker 2: right when the peak of the Biden inflation in the

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Speaker 2: middle of twenty four. His wife Mika pointed out, she said, no,

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Speaker 2: you're lower, it's like eighth night nine. Do what dollars

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Speaker 2: it is whatever. He had no clue of it. He

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Speaker 2: probably had no clue that these prices were going up

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Speaker 2: because the lefty media wasn't hammering on the three and

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Speaker 2: a half years of inflation. The kit in right when

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Speaker 2: Biden started carpet bombing the country with all of this

484
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Speaker 2: COVID money and the Fed loosened even more. It was

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Speaker 2: a conscious thing. They wanted to create growth by pumping

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Speaker 2: money under the economy and creating all of these programs,

487
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 2: full well knowing it to be inflationary. So no, here

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Speaker 2: you have the affordability crisis that occurred as a result

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Speaker 2: of this. And who is it that's running to try

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Speaker 2: to deal with the affordability crisis The people who created

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Speaker 2: the problem. So I mean, I give the Republicans some

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Speaker 2: slack and being flat footed on this because they never

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Speaker 2: would have thought that the people who created the problem

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Speaker 2: could be the ones that could present themselves as the

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Speaker 2: ones who care about the problem that they created. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: you see that the affordability issue is resonating most in

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Speaker 2: the big cities. Not surprising. Here's something everybody knows. I mean,

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Speaker 2: there might be a couple of exceptions, but by and large,

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Speaker 2: living in a big city is more expensive than living

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Speaker 2: in a small town. Cost of living, cost of everything

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Speaker 2: is higher. Just going to Milwaukee, the gas pumps in

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Speaker 2: the city of Milwaukee usually have a much higher price

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Speaker 2: than they are out in the suburbs just a lot

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Speaker 2: of reasons. Is a higher cost for the business and

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Speaker 2: the gas station in the city to have to operate, taxes, shoplifting,

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Speaker 2: all the stuff that causes you know, stuff to cost more.

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Speaker 2: And you take some of the really big cities like

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Speaker 2: New York, the cost of living is insane. Democrats run

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Speaker 2: all these cities. The reason everything costs so much is

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Speaker 2: because of them. There's no inherent reason that the cost

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Speaker 2: of living should be that much higher in cities. In fact,

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Speaker 2: the economies of scales so many people living in a

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Speaker 2: small area to pay for the services that are out there,

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Speaker 2: you would think would create the opposite. But look, just

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Speaker 2: take a look, for example, the City of Milwaukee. All

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Speaker 2: this crap that we makee money on that doesn't do

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Speaker 2: any good for people. That all comes across in taxes,

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Speaker 2: fees and everything else. You know, put up a trolley

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Speaker 2: that loses a fortune, somebody's paying for that, and it's

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Speaker 2: largely people in Milwaukee. City of Milwaukee has to crack,

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00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 2: has its own sales tax, Milwaukee County has its own

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Speaker 2: sales tax over and above the state sales tax that's

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Speaker 2: in there. Well, that's a huge portion of the affordability

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Speaker 2: right there. All the other things that lefties do, the

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Speaker 2: drive up costs, the refusal that are crack down on crime, shoplifting,

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Speaker 2: and so on. So of course retailers have to charge

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Speaker 2: more and hire is So the point that I'm making

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Speaker 2: is the people in these big cities are now voting

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Speaker 2: for Democrats because of this affordability problem not occurring to them.

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Speaker 2: That the reason that there's an affordability problem is because

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Speaker 2: of the policies the very Democrats that are are running

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Speaker 2: on this issue. The Republicans are going to have to

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Speaker 2: figure out a response to this. But admittedly it's sort

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00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 2: of flowboxing, because you would think that most people would

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Speaker 2: know the reason the prices for so many things have

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Speaker 2: gone up is because the Democrats are the ones that

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Speaker 2: drove them up. It's kind of like stating the obvious.

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Speaker 2: The rate of inflation is crashed under Trump. People say, well,

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Speaker 2: Trump didn't lower all the prime Well, see, as I said,

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Speaker 2: when the inflation was going on, that's the problem. You

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Speaker 2: don't want to deflate, because deflate is when a depression occurs.

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Speaker 2: You can't do that. Once something has inflated, the damage

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00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: has been done. You can try to stop the inflation,

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Speaker 2: but in order for just take housing, for example, in

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Speaker 2: order to deflate you're telling Paul that he's supposed to

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Speaker 2: just accept that his house is going to go down

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00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 2: in value two hundred thousand dollars because we'd killed the

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Speaker 2: economy that badly. The only way to deflate something is

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Speaker 2: to make everybody so poor that nobody buys anything. We

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00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 2: don't want that you can. The only thing that you

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Speaker 2: can do is try to address the problem that's been

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00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 2: put in your hands. And what Trump has succeeded in

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Speaker 2: doing despite all this stuff. Oh, the tariffs are going

554
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 2: to be inflationary, is that the rate of inflation has

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Speaker 2: flowed so all of a sudden, the Democrats that created

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Speaker 2: an affordability crisis. You fight an area in which everything

557
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 2: is way way too expensive. I guarantee you it's lefties

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Speaker 2: running everything. Paul points out the price of gasoline has

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Speaker 2: consistently gone on gone down under Trump. All of that,

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Speaker 2: All of that is true. But as I say, who's

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Speaker 2: running on affordability? Lefties? And here's the most unelectable candidate possible,

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Speaker 2: somebody you know. They even called Afton ben a clone

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Speaker 2: of AOC. She got forty five percent of the vote

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Speaker 2: in Tennessee running on affordability, even though she's been seeing

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Speaker 2: her entire life how much she hates all the stuff

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Speaker 2: that you know Tennessee consists. It is like that. I'd

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00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 2: be like a candidate pre Mayer of running a Green

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00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: Bay saying he hits the packers within. Just say affordability, affordability, affordability,

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Speaker 2: the magic words, and it negates with a huge percentage

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Speaker 2: of the voters. The entire issue real quickly. On Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: Trump is trying to solve this problem. The problem with

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Speaker 2: Obamacare is that Obamacare provides crap insurance. When I say

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Speaker 2: crap insurance, most of it has very high deductibles and

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Speaker 2: co payments. For the people who have it, they're gratified

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Speaker 2: that they at least have insurance. Those kinds of policies,

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Speaker 2: very high deductibles and high co payments are massive money

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Speaker 2: makers for the companies that sell them, because they're only

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Speaker 2: having to kick in and pay when somebody passes over

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Speaker 2: their yearly deductible and the co payment. And Trump being

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Speaker 2: a great businessman and seeing through all of this is

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Speaker 2: we see these now. The problem with Obamacare is it

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00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 2: was massively subsidized so that we could make these prep

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Speaker 2: policies out there, and in the process, the insurance companies

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Speaker 2: have made a fortune. Here's the quote from Trump, Obamacare

585
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 2: was made to make the insurance companies rich. Their stocks

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00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 2: have gone up one thousand percent in a short period

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Speaker 2: of time because the money goes to the insurance companies.

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Speaker 2: I want the money to go to the people. Let

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Speaker 2: all the money go to the people, and let the

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Speaker 2: people go out and buy their own healthcare. In other words,

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00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 2: what he's suggesting is like a voucher for school choice.

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Speaker 2: Give them money for the insurance policy to the consumer,

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Speaker 2: and they can't use it just to put it in

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Speaker 2: their pocket. They have to use it for insurance and

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00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 2: let them go out and pick the policy that they want.

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00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 2: Insurance companies don't want that because they want to create

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Speaker 2: policies that cover everything under the sun. And remember, Obamacare

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00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: did not allow the flexible policies in which say a

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Speaker 2: single twenty five year old mail could get a spartan

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Speaker 2: policy that didn't cover pregnancy, which he wouldn't need in

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Speaker 2: a bunch of other things. Made all of that illegal

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Speaker 2: because the insurance companies wanted to sell Cadillac plans with

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00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 2: these huge subsidies that they had the common denominator in

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00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 2: all of this is that the left is now an

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Speaker 2: arm not of lower income people, but of the corporate

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Speaker 2: America that fleeces lower income people. What the left has

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Speaker 2: become is the entity that says it cares about poor people,

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Speaker 2: so it supports doing all sorts of things to the

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Speaker 2: people who make money off of poor people. Perfect example

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Speaker 2: is the COVID vaccine. We're gonna make everybody get the

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Speaker 2: COVID vaccine, and we're gonna buy all of them so

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Speaker 2: that the drug companies can make the fortunes off of

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Speaker 2: making the COVID vaccine. Next example of this, What of

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Speaker 2: the weaknesses that we on the right have is we're

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Speaker 2: terrible at remembering names of people on the left. The

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00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: left is brilliant at it. They'll come up with somebody

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Speaker 2: and just demonize the hell out of them. On the right,

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Speaker 2: Mark Kelly, I know that he's I look at Paul

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Speaker 2: and I just see a guy who had slips through.

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Speaker 2: He's the senator from Arizona, the leader of the Seditious six.

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Speaker 2: So he claims that he knows. Yeah, he claimed that

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Speaker 2: after I started to explain who he was. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: a ball. Is you know some interesting reporting now on

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Speaker 2: Mark Kelly. Mark Kelly ran this company called Worldview. It

625
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: was like this weird old balloon startup. As it turns out,

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Speaker 2: he got his financing from ten Cent, te Nce and

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Speaker 2: t not the rapper ten Who is that rapper's name?

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Speaker 2: Fifty cent? Yeah, not to be confused. That ten cents

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Speaker 2: a Chinese company and for a time it was a

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Speaker 2: big high flyer on the stock market. It's controlled by

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Speaker 2: the Chinese Communist Party, the government. That's where he got

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Speaker 2: all of his financing, and it was buried in his

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Speaker 2: financial disclosure statements. Is it fair to say that Mark

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Speaker 2: Kelly could be co opted by the Chinese Communist government?

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Speaker 2: It is fair to say that when it's the whole

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Speaker 2: concern that we had with TikTok. When the business is

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Speaker 2: Chinese and it's government controlled in China and you're getting

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Speaker 2: a ton of money from them, you're obviously beholden. Now

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00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 2: we don't know whether or not the company ten Cent

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Speaker 2: made the loan to Kelly because they're sizing him up

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Speaker 2: as a politician that's on the rise and they can

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Speaker 2: have their hooks inside the politician, or if they thought

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Speaker 2: it was a good investment. I'll quote the post ax

644
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Speaker 2: from amuse is the handle ten set of Chinese Communist

645
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 2: Party controlled company pumped money into Mark Kelly's stratospheric balloon

646
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 2: startup Worldview in twenty thirteen and sixteen. Kelly quietly moved

647
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: the Chinese investment into a secret of blind trust when

648
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 2: he ran for the United States Senate. See, that's one

649
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Speaker 2: of the things that candidates will do. They'll take their

650
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Speaker 2: financial holdings and they'll put it into a blind trust,

651
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 2: saying well, I don't control the trust. Well, somebody's controlling

652
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Speaker 2: a trust. Wink wink, nod. Not Now he's part of

653
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: the Seditious Six, telling US troops to ignore President Trump's

654
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Speaker 2: lawful orders and awarding that they could be prosecuted once

655
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: Democrats are back in control. Critics note the irony a

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Speaker 2: senator with a CCP linked funding undermining the chain of

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00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 2: command of the United States military. Again, this is a

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Speaker 2: Democrat beloved by the left. Many believe he's going to

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Speaker 2: run for president, which is why he's fomenting all of

660
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Speaker 2: this anti Trump attitude within the military, controlled apparently by

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Speaker 2: the Chinese Communists. And again, this story is again now

662
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Speaker 2: out there. It's in broad daylight. People dug into the

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Speaker 2: fighting in the financials of the companies that are inside

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Speaker 2: of his blind trust, and they realize that a huge

665
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Speaker 2: chunk of the funding came from Keen Sentich, a Chinese company.

666
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Speaker 2: Now people point out that lots of Chinese investors invest

667
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: said a lot of the United States companies. True, but

668
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 2: a disproportionate amount of the money of Kelly's company came

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Speaker 2: from this Chinese funding source. Kelly can explain it away

670
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 2: if somebody even forces him to explain it away. But

671
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: who's going to do that? And finally, this Megan Kelly

672
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Speaker 2: made a very good point that I'm gonna piggyback off of. It.

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Speaker 2: Was dealing with this latest anti Trump ruling from a

674
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Speaker 2: federal court. Three judge Federal Appeals Court disqualified Alina Haba

675
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Speaker 2: as the interim United States Attorney in New Jersey. Alida

676
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 2: Habba was Trump's personal lawyer. Trump named her the interim

677
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Speaker 2: United States Attorney in New Jersey. A three judge panel

678
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 2: that said that Trump doesn't have the authority to name

679
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 2: these interim US attorneys. There's challenges to these interim and

680
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 2: acting United States attorneys all over the place. No, eventually

681
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 2: this will have to get to the Supreme court. Prior

682
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 2: to this, to my knowledge, nobody's ever challenged the ability

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Speaker 2: of a president to name acting directors of agencies before

684
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 2: someone's confirmed. But the things have been blacked right and left.

685
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 2: And here's the point that making Killy mead. All the

686
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Speaker 2: news stories about this are pointing out that of the

687
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Speaker 2: three judges on the panel, to a Republican appointed she said, well, gee,

688
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 2: even Republican appointees are blocking Trump. There's a point within

689
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Speaker 2: this that requires a little bit of thinking and analytical thinking.

690
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: What does Republican appointed judge me see. I know you're

691
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Speaker 2: not gonna I know you're swimming, and you're swimming Trump,

692
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: I glad you took You're you're like the You're like

693
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 2: the fish of the water. And it's the most fake

694
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Speaker 2: looking piece of beef bait that you can imagine. I mean,

695
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 2: it's like one of those plastic worms. We're gonna run

696
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 2: and you're still dumb enough to grab it. No, it

697
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Speaker 2: does not. How long is Trump and the president five years?

698
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 2: He was president from seventeen January seventeen to January twenty one,

699
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Speaker 2: and now January of this year to here in December

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Speaker 2: of this year. Federal judges serve for life. None of

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00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 2: these judges were Trump appointed. Republican appointed means that many

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00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 2: some of them are Trump, many were W. Bush, some

703
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 2: who are still around her H. W. Bush, and some

704
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 2: of the older ones are Reagan. There is zero reason

705
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Speaker 2: to believe that a Bush appointed federal judge likes Trump

706
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 2: at all. None of the judges of the three judges here,

707
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 2: the two Republicans are both Bush appointees. Well, we know

708
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: that the Bushes can't stand Trump. So this is the

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00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 2: point that Megan Kelly made. One of the reasons that

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Speaker 2: Trump is doing so badly and a lot of these

711
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 2: cases in the federal court is many of the Republican

712
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: appointed judges loathe him just as much as the Democrats.

713
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Speaker 2: And she's making this point that it's clear, and she

714
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 2: was on with Mark Halprin. He said, it's just clear

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Speaker 2: the judiciary is now results oriented. They're not ruling on

716
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: the law, They're ruling on which side they want to

717
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 2: be right. We see that with regard to the Wisconsin

718
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Speaker 2: Supreme Court. So even the comfort zone that some have

719
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Speaker 2: of there being a lot of Republican judges on anther

720
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Speaker 2: of these courts are Republican appointed judges. The old establishment

721
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: of the Republican Party can't stand Trump. So the only

722
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Speaker 2: judges that he can rely upon it all, and that's

723
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Speaker 2: not a one hundred percent thing, are the ones that

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Speaker 2: he himself has appointed. I went to the Milwaukee showing

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Speaker 2: of Songs Sung Blue last night. This podcast is coming

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Speaker 2: out on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: First of all, you know, there's going to be stories

729
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: about this, right, It's almost impossible you could have an

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Speaker 2: event like this in Milwaukee and not like if you

731
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Speaker 2: knew somebody that went to this and they came back

732
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Speaker 2: and they didn't have a single story, you'd think that

733
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Speaker 2: they had to have been like a sleep or something. Right,

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Speaker 2: There's got to be stories. I will share some later

735
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Speaker 2: on in the podcast, including see we can't look to

736
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Speaker 2: ciscol and Ebert for reviews anymore. You know, why don't you?

737
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Speaker 2: They're dead. Yeah, there's actually weirdly hardly any newspapers every

738
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 2: viewers anymore. The Internet's a wash in reviewers. The problem

739
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: just is I was a fan of Cisco and Ebrid shows,

740
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Speaker 2: and I go way back to you know, when I

741
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 2: was in college. That's when they were writing for The

742
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 2: Tribute and the Sun Times, and I was a mass

743
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 2: communications major. We read all those papers, and they were superstars.

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Speaker 2: And I think the TV show started in the seventies

745
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 2: and it went through a bunch of iterations, but they

746
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 2: were actually probably the two best movie critics in America,

747
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 2: even aside from the fact that they got the greater

748
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: fame from doing the TV show. And I mean, you know,

749
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Speaker 2: this is back when you'd watch movies and movies are

750
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Speaker 2: worth going to and so on, and their recommendations. I mean,

751
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,479
Speaker 2: I wouldn't stop, but if like they raved about something,

752
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 2: you consider going to that. So I didn't even know

753
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: who it is I'm supposed to follow anymore. Gino salomona

754
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Speaker 2: Fox six, who do you think introduced the movie last night?

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Speaker 2: Geno Salomon of Fox six was the guy that introduced

756
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's like the but he's the only entertainment

757
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: reporter in our media. So I talk a lot about

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Speaker 2: the lack of celebrities. In fact, I was going to

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00:45:58,640 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 2: go into that a little bit later. Just say it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, for the longest time, the celebrity stratis fere

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Speaker 2: of Milwaukee. Number one was blow Bow Black, Number two

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00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 2: was me and there are but nine other people for

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Speaker 2: three And that isn't even me Elematy. It's infightment of

764
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Speaker 2: our lack of celebrities. She was always bigger than me.

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Speaker 2: Ever be a recognize her and they're go out and

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Speaker 2: out and out a butt her. Then I think clearly

767
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Speaker 2: I was the second most right, and then there were

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Speaker 2: like a zillion others belong that I don't count, like

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00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 2: sports figures or people like that. And it's not somebody

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Speaker 2: that left Milwaukee and somebody actually was here, So like

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Speaker 2: you know, somebody that grew up in Milwaukee and was elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't count that. So yeah, so like, okay,

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Speaker 2: we need somebody involved in covering entertainment to introduce something.

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Speaker 2: I mean, after Gino Salamone, who is the number two,

775
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 2: that McGivern guy. You say yeah, but I mean Gino Salabone,

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Speaker 2: that would be like bow Black here and then there's

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Speaker 2: me and then there's then there's everybody else underneath that.

778
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Speaker 2: So anyway, that's still in front of us. This is

779
00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 2: the Mark Belling podcast. This is the Mark Belling podcast.

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00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 2: This issue was cropping up all over the place. Ever

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00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 2: since the death of Charlie Kirk. Young people have been

782
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Speaker 2: trying to start turning point chapters. They called them Club America.

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00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 2: At schools all over the United States. Before Charlie died,

784
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 2: there were rezillions of these chapters as it was, but

785
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 2: the desire to start chapters even grew after his death.

786
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Speaker 2: But this is not a new thing. As I say,

787
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Speaker 2: before Charlie Kirk died, there were Turning Point chapters all over.

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Speaker 2: It's the reason he was such a threat to the

789
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Speaker 2: left is that this is the first time, really at

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00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 2: any level, conservatives were organizing at the grassroots level, and

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Speaker 2: they were organized at the grossroo's level among young people,

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Speaker 2: colleges and universities and so on. Well after Charlie died,

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00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: a number of places that didn't have a Turning Point

794
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 2: chapter tried to create one, and all of a sudden

795
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 2: there became opposition to it. The weird thing is it

796
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 2: was easier to get one of these things approved before

797
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 2: he was killed. That after I went through the debacle

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Speaker 2: at a local charter school called Lake Country Classical Academy,

799
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 2: in which the school administration just refused to do it

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00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: and ended up creating what they call the compromise. They

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00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 2: have a school run club that's not affiliated with Turning Point,

802
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 2: but it's like a Civics Cloud club or something or another,

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00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 2: and they just didn't want to do it. Well. This

804
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 2: issue has been now popping up all over the place.

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00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 2: There's been coverage on local television that just completely misses

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00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 2: the point. It's at Sussex Hamilt at High School. The

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00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 2: Hammelton School District covers Sussex and the area surrounding area.

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00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 2: It's in northern Waukashaw County. It's kind of like go

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00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 2: beyond Menominee Falls, but not quite get the arrowhead. That's

810
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,959
Speaker 2: not exactly accurate, but it's close enough. It's a concer

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Speaker 2: conservative area. By voting patterns at Hamilton High School, in

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00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 2: order to get any kind of extracurricular club approved, you

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00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 2: go through the student council. They were like, apparently, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's show the students how to run government. That one

815
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 2: of the actual responsibilities they have the student government is

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00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 2: you have to approve the clubs. Prior to this, do

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Speaker 2: you know how many clubs have been turned down by

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00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 2: the student council that Hambledon High School? You mean, what

819
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 2: am I speaking too fast for you? Prior to this?

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Speaker 2: Take a guess as to how many clubs were turned

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Speaker 2: down by the student council that handled in high school. None.

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00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:40,439
Speaker 2: Turning point Chapter is requested funded down by the student council. See,

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Speaker 2: you know what, this is lefty kids not wanting to

824
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 2: have this conservative club. There's a problem here. There is

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00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 2: a law that deals with not discriminating against clubs on

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Speaker 2: the basis of ideology. They can't legally do it. Hammeled

827
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 2: in high school administration knew. So this was a rare

828
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Speaker 2: case of the school administration trying to step in and

829
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 2: do what they legally had to do. So first of all,

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Speaker 2: they've changed the rules. It's no longer going through the

831
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Speaker 2: student council because they can't trust the student council not

832
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Speaker 2: to break the state and federal law. Secondly, this Channel

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00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 2: four has been all over this. The group, the kids

834
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Speaker 2: that are trying to start the club America Club, the

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Speaker 2: Training Point Club put up posters in the school. Some

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Speaker 2: of the lefty brats ripped down the posters. They got

837
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Speaker 2: a suspension from school. The parents run the Channel four.

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Speaker 2: How terrible it is the terror suspended for this. I

839
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Speaker 2: don't know if they should be suspended or not, but

840
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 2: for once, snotty people on the left got a little

841
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 2: bit of punishment. So I'm perfectly fine with, of course,

842
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 2: missing the entire story as the fact that you've got

843
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 2: bigoted kids that wouldn't allow this conservative student group to form.

844
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Speaker 2: Ham of the high school is now allowing the group

845
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Speaker 2: to come into place. There's another local high school called

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Speaker 2: Lake Country Lutheran. I have been told that they rejected

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Speaker 2: a turning point application. The school officials have refused to

848
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,399
Speaker 2: answer my questions about it. Now, I don't know that

849
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 2: that means that it's true, and the administrators are too

850
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Speaker 2: cowardly and gutless to answer my questions. I'm nearly pointing

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Speaker 2: out that I've been told I can't prove it. I'm

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00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 2: not on the school, but I can tell you that

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Speaker 2: I've been very patient and asking the question repeatedly of

854
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 2: the consortium that runs those schools. It's the same consortium

855
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 2: involved with the Milwaukee Lutheran None I'm answering my questions.

856
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 2: They're just something again about and I think I know

857
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 2: what it is. There's something about this Charlie Kirk thing

858
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 2: that this is driving some of these people in school

859
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 2: officials or in the case of hammelting some of the kids.

860
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 2: Battie and I know what it is. Of all the

861
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 2: groups and clubs involving young people in the United States,

862
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 2: how many are conservative, Like what one out of every

863
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 2: eight teen trillion, there's this club, the trans club, the

864
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: chess club, there's legitimate clubs, there's whack every possible club.

865
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Charlie Kirk and hopefully his organization

866
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 2: can continue after his death, has gotten young people to

867
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 2: try to form their group, and the left can't staff.

868
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 2: There's only one. They can't stand it. The thing that

869
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 2: has struck me is often these turning point groups. They

870
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,720
Speaker 2: call them Club America. They're proved in very lefty areas,

871
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 2: mostly because the lefty schools, they just to prove everything

872
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 2: that there is. Okay, you got to have this, you

873
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,359
Speaker 2: three goofy conservatives, go have your thing. Often the backlashes

874
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 2: occurring in more conservative skills. So you've got like little

875
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,320
Speaker 2: mommy running off the TV, you know, whining and complaining

876
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 2: that her kid got suspended for ripping a poster down

877
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 2: from the school. And like I say, maybe they should

878
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 2: have suspended it, Maybe they shouldn't have suspended I would

879
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 2: have suggested maybe require them to read the Constitution of

880
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 2: the United States and sit in a corner and do

881
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 2: it or something or another in But I mean, that's

882
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 2: the coverage of Channel four, rather than covering the actual thing,

883
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 2: the fact that these bigoted student council members wouldn't allow

884
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 2: the turning point thing to come in there, instead going

885
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 2: after the fact that the kids got into trouble for

886
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 2: doing something that's apparently in violation of the law. I've

887
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 2: got a very interesting story here, filled with interesting material today.

888
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: Have you noticed this? I think I'm gonna do the

889
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 2: story this way. I'm gonna share it with you, and

890
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: then I'm going to ask you to think along with

891
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 2: a question about it. Here's the background of the issue.

892
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 2: This is an issue that I have found has confused

893
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 2: people I've done my radio show started in nineteen eighty nine.

894
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 2: For those of you who did the podcast, there is

895
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 2: an issue here on Wisconsin that has confused people. I'm

896
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:56,359
Speaker 2: just telling you forever there are people who never know

897
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 2: what we're talking about when we talk about emissions testing.

898
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 2: The reason is not every county in the state has

899
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 2: to have admissions testing. It has to do with years ago,

900
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: the federal government, using the Clean Air Act, designated certain

901
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,439
Speaker 2: areas as non attainment regions and they were put under

902
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: restrictions with regard to air pollution. In Wisconsin, most of

903
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 2: them were the counties along Lake Michigan, which just proves

904
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 2: I think that these regulations were idiotic. Because of the

905
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 2: water content over the lake, pollutants in the air kind

906
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 2: of hang longer, and then there's the wind forces and

907
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 2: so on. In any event, the other thing is air

908
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 2: blows along with the prevailing winds and so on. But

909
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,959
Speaker 2: several counties in southeastern Wisconsin, and it's changed over the years.

910
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 2: Some of them ran up the lake shore as well,

911
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 2: were non attainment areas, and one of the restrictions that

912
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 2: was put in place is emissions testing. If you live

913
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee County as an example, And I don't know

914
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 2: what the current list of all the counties are, but

915
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 2: most are not under emissions testing. So when people will

916
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 2: talk about what you can your car pass the emissions

917
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 2: you had to go get the emission testing. You say,

918
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 2: we don't have emissions testing because they seem to think

919
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: that it's statewide. It's not. It only goes by certain counties,

920
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 2: including the populous ones in southeastern Wisconsin. The emissions testing

921
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 2: is depending on the vehicle, you have either no big

922
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: deal at all or a giant pain in the ass.

923
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 2: Wisconsin made a change and I think it happened during

924
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 2: Walker might have even been Doyle, in which you no

925
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 2: longer had to go to a state facility to get

926
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 2: emissions testing. When you had to go to a state facility,

927
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,839
Speaker 2: the problem was the lines are ninety five miles long

928
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: because there were only a few of them. Now they're

929
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 2: all over the place. They're often usually they're usually private

930
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 2: car dealers, and so on and and I other than

931
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 2: I just know the rules. Don't go to the first

932
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 2: of the month, don't go to the last of the month.

933
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 2: Go somewhere during the month. And usually worst case scenario,

934
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 2: there's three cars in front of you, and it's really quick,

935
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 2: and since you're on a car dealer, it's comfortable, simple,

936
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 2: But I usually have a new car. Be quite humiliating

937
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 2: if you bought a brand new car and it failed emissions,

938
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 2: how'd you like to be some poor guy driving a

939
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two whatever? Those are the ones that fail.

940
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 2: Correcting the problem is often very expensive. Who drives a

941
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety two old beater? Somebody doesn't have much money,

942
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 2: so the correcting it becomes an incredible hardship for a

943
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,799
Speaker 2: number of people. So all sorts of scams there. There's

944
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 2: ways to get around this. See, you have no ability

945
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 2: to think like a scammer's you can't think of one

946
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 2: of the ways you would get around it. You would

947
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 2: have no idea. Here's one of the things you do.

948
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,799
Speaker 2: People get the car registered in another county. Who do

949
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 2: you think checks on this? Nobody? How many people say,

950
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 2: why I have a place up north register the car

951
00:56:57,719 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 2: up north. All you have to do is put in

952
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 2: where you keep the car. There's nobody going to check

953
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 2: where you keep the car. You find somebody in Milwaukee

954
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 2: and his car is listed, is being registered in like

955
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 2: Dane County, Matt, I don't think that, man, I'm pretty

956
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 2: sure Madison's not any missions county. But who's checking it?

957
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 2: So there's scams to get around this. Just get to

958
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 2: get it registered in the county. That what, No, you

959
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 2: don't have to pass the test if it's another the

960
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 2: county because those counties don't have a missions testing Say,

961
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 2: you can't think like a scammer. You can't think like

962
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 2: a SCAMMERA I live in the city. I know about

963
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 2: all scams. You're in the suburbs. You know about kinky perversion,

964
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 2: and you know about the exotic drug use before me,

965
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 2: like you know what, all the suburbani kind of weird

966
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 2: old mixed up drugs are taken. I'm in the city.

967
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 2: They're just taking math, math and heroin and all of

968
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 2: that stuff. You got these things that like fifty two

969
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 2: year old suburban housewives are taking right before they wife

970
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 2: swap with their in their neighbors. And what's the thing

971
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 2: that you said they put in the front yard of

972
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 2: pineapple or something. See, there's no pineapple sitting in the city.

973
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 2: For one thing. You put a pineapple and somebody's fight

974
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 2: the city of Milwaukee. It's gonna be stolen in five seconds.

975
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 2: So now people don't know where they can go to,

976
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 2: like wife wife sal Anyway, it's a lot of background

977
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 2: explaining the emissions testing thing. So the point that I'm

978
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 2: making is if you have an old beader that can pass,

979
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 2: it's a real problem. The next big problem, Now you

980
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: might know a little about this. Aside from the fact

981
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 2: that it often can be expensive, what's the other big

982
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 2: problem if you have a car that fails emissions in

983
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 2: order to bring it into compliance, I think get through

984
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 2: a little bit what well, I mean, aside from the cost,

985
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 2: what's the other big problem. Suppose you have a nineteen

986
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 2: ninety two. I didn't even want to diet a car

987
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty two. Four to anything and it fails. The

988
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 2: ambissions very hard to find parts. The problem is a

989
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 2: part needs to be replaced. That's usually that's why you

990
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 2: know that's the problem. Something's not. The parts can be

991
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 2: very expensive if you can locate them, so it's a

992
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 2: huge hardship on who basically lower income people, which brings

993
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 2: me to the following. The following letter has been sent

994
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 2: to the Wisconsin Congressional Delegation by a number of members

995
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 2: of the state legislature who represent southeastern Wisconsin. I'm going

996
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 2: to read it, Dear members of the Wisconson Congressional Delegation.

997
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 2: As members of the Wisconsin Legislature, we write to day

998
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 2: to urge our federal delegation to introduce and support legislation

999
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 2: repealing the Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program requirement under the

1000
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 2: Clean Air Act. As stewards of this Earth, we recognize

1001
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 2: the importance important duty to care for Wisconsin's natural beauty

1002
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 2: and environment. However, the vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program is

1003
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 2: no longer useful to the economic is no longer I

1004
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 2: didn't read that right. However, the vehicle Inspection and Maintenance

1005
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 2: program is no longer useful due to the economic burdens

1006
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 2: on citizens and technological advancements reducing the need for testing.

1007
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 2: It goes on. One of the points they make is

1008
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 2: almost every car passes, so you don't need to do this.

1009
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 2: The ones that don't pass, however, are as I say

1010
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,360
Speaker 2: the old beat is it often lower income people have.

1011
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 2: The letter is then signed by a number of members

1012
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 2: of the state legislature. For let's said the Wisconsin I'm

1013
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 2: gonna read them real quickly. State Representative Bob Donovan, State

1014
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 2: Senator Van Wanguard, State Representative Scott Allen. He's Waukershaw State

1015
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 2: Senator Julian Bradley. That's southwestern Wisconsin, kind of southern waukers

1016
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 2: Shaw County. So on. State Representative Lindy Bill, State Representative

1017
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,440
Speaker 2: Barbara Dietrich, State Representative Cindy Duco. Those are a Western

1018
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 2: Wakashaw County State Representative Rick Gunner Walkershaw Coni, State Senator

1019
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 2: Rob Hutton. He overlaps in Milwaukee, Wakashall County State Senator

1020
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 2: Chris Kappiga, Western Waukashaw Countie State Senator Dan Knoto, that's

1021
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 2: Menomine Fallows, Germantown State Representative Dave Maxie, State on New Berland,

1022
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 2: state Representative Paul Melitics, state Representative Amanda Nedweski, State Representative

1023
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 2: Sylvia rts Valz, state Representative Jim p. O Warchik, state

1024
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 2: Representative Chuck Wiggers, and state Representative Robert Wiggy. Now, wasn't

1025
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 2: that real fast that I don't expect you to pick

1026
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 2: up on anything unless you're like a political junkie who

1027
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 2: knows who all of these people are. So I'm just

1028
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 2: going to give away what the thing to listen to

1029
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 2: listen for? What The only Democrat that signed this with

1030
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 2: Sylvia Ortiz Valets. She's the other Democrats can't stand her.

1031
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 2: She's a Milwaukee Democrat and she often switches party lines

1032
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 2: to vote with the Republicans. She represents a lower income

1033
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 2: Latino district on the south side of Milwaukee. In other words,

1034
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 2: the people who are hurt the most by emissions testings

1035
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 2: the ones who probably drive these meters. Here's my point

1036
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 2: in bringing this up. The Democrats keep claiming they care

1037
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 2: about the little guy, yet emissions testing disproportionately crushes the

1038
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 2: little guy. Let's imagine for some reason my car field

1039
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 2: emissions you have new cars is under warranty. It's gonna

1040
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 2: be no skin off my back. And even if it

1041
01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 2: was a repair, I could afford it. Some poor person

1042
01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 2: who barely has anybody at all, and they're stuck with

1043
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 2: a nine hundred and seventy five dollars This kills them again.

1044
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 2: The Democrats orphan low income people for what for this

1045
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 2: ridiculous ordinance in which the overwhelming majority of the states

1046
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 2: don't have to comply, so only what The pollution that

1047
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 2: comes out of a beater in Dane County doesn't screw

1048
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 2: up the year as much as a beater in Milwaukee County.

1049
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 2: When the lefties keep telling you that they're looking out

1050
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 2: for the little guy, they are lying. They never do.

1051
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 2: The closest you can get is that they look out

1052
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 2: for people who make money off the little guy, providing

1053
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,240
Speaker 2: service to the little guy, and say that that's for

1054
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 2: the little guy. But in fact their constituency is the

1055
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 2: people that are getting the money off those services, which

1056
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 2: brings me to Mandela Barnes. This is a fascinating story. Forever,

1057
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 2: not forever, last ten years. The Democrats in Wisconsiner be

1058
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 2: very good telling people who can run for what they

1059
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 2: don't like divisive primaries. Devisive primaries hurt the candidate that

1060
01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 2: wins and split up the party. And the Republicans have

1061
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 2: had these for statewide office for the last number of years,

1062
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 2: and you see the result. I mean, there's people still

1063
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 2: pissed off at each other over Clayfish versus Michael's And

1064
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 2: there's a chance that the Republicans will have the same

1065
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 2: problem with the twenty six governor's race. The Democrats just

1066
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 2: avoid this. Whoever's leading in the pools, they tell everybody

1067
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 2: else to drop out, and they handpick who it is

1068
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 2: that they want to run. Mendela Barnes is as big

1069
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 2: a prima donna as exists in Wisconsin politics. He's an

1070
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 2: incredible First of all, Mendela is not even his first name.

1071
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 2: Now I understand if I was an African American guy,

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01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 2: Mandela is my middle name. Of course, that's the name

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01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna run under. What of course, it's a

1074
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:43,080
Speaker 2: great name. He's named after Nelson Mendela, so he's running

1075
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,280
Speaker 2: with that name. But he's a prima donna. He also

1076
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 2: has more. He has baggage and baggage and baggage and baggage.

1077
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 2: He ran a party in college. He came right out

1078
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 2: and said of the poster, no ratchets allowed. He wasn't

1079
01:03:54,200 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 2: paying his condo fees. He didn't have a driver's license

1080
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. He was having state troopers. I have him

1081
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:04,439
Speaker 2: back and forth because he didn't have all of this crap. Well,

1082
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 2: and he's kind of dumb. He ran against Ron Johnson

1083
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 2: in a year in which the Democrats won everything, including

1084
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 2: they won the governorship in Wisconsin, and Ron beat him.

1085
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 2: The reason that he beat him is that for some

1086
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 2: people in the middle, Mandela Barnes was a bridge too far. No,

1087
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 2: he runs to run for governor. We have a thing

1088
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin where the governorship forever goes back and forth.

1089
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 2: Evers is the governor for eight years, So therefore it

1090
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 2: might swing to the Republicans. On the other hand, it

1091
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 2: is likely to be a Democratic year based on the

1092
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 2: signals that we're seeing out there, and the Democrats have

1093
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 2: already gotten several high profile candidates in the race. David Crawley,

1094
01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee County executive, who, like Barnes, is an African

1095
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 2: American Milwaukee. He's running, and Sarah Rodriguez is the Lieutenant governor,

1096
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 2: and he's being supported by much of the leftist establishment,

1097
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 2: including the public employee unions. None of them want Barnes

1098
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 2: to run. They don't want Barnes to run because they

1099
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 2: fear he's the only one that could screw this up

1100
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 2: and lose. But as I say, Mandela is a prima donna.

1101
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 2: He wants to be a big shot. He wants to

1102
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 2: be He didn't make the Senate, what's lest other than

1103
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 2: send it to be a big shot at Wisconsin governor, right,

1104
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 2: so he wants to be the governor. Phil I'm not

1105
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 2: to run any second. I got great name recognition. My

1106
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 2: first name's Mandela, not really, but I claim it is.

1107
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'll win because of that thing. And

1108
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 2: it worked for him last time, and he thinks it's

1109
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,439
Speaker 2: gonna work for him again, and he's not listening to them.

1110
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 2: It will be very interesting to see if this time

1111
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 2: the Democrats take the gloves off and go out and

1112
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 2: attack him and have an actual primary. You remember Michael's

1113
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 2: versus Clayfish. They beat the crap out of one another.

1114
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 2: The Democrats don't tend to do this. But if Sarah

1115
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 2: Rodriguez gonna give up her chance to be governor just

1116
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 2: because Mendela Barnes goes and elbows out of the way.

1117
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 2: And with regard to the whole racial issue, David Crowley's

1118
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 2: gonna say, I've been the Milwaukee County executive, why does this

1119
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 2: guy who already lost it to come and knock me

1120
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 2: out of the fray? So they may all fold and

1121
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 2: let him win the nomination, or they may go out

1122
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 2: and attack him. Now the safest way to attack him

1123
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 2: is to pound the message he'll lose, he'll lose. He'll

1124
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,360
Speaker 2: lose because Democrats, I think most Democrat voters don't care

1125
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 2: who their candidate is Pridal. They've voted. They were willing

1126
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 2: to support Kamala Harrison, Joe Biden, any Nancapoop, but they

1127
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,920
Speaker 2: don't want to lose. So that would be the angle

1128
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 2: you would run in a campaign. Mendela will lose, but

1129
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 2: it doesn't seem to be enough to get them to

1130
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 2: drop out of the race. And now finally, this this

1131
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 2: is one that requires analytical thinking, which we've established the

1132
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 2: earlier you were incapable of. You're not very minted. Now

1133
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 2: here's the peg for the story. You probably know this.

1134
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:43,040
Speaker 2: The Wisconsin women's hockey team has been really good forever

1135
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 2: that you know, they're always good, and they won the

1136
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 2: national championship last year. Mark Johnson's the coach. It's a

1137
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 2: spectacular program. They won the national championship last year and

1138
01:06:53,400 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 2: most of the players in that team are back this year. Well,

1139
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 2: they played a team that was obviously overmatched. I've never

1140
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 2: heard of this school. It's called stone Hill. They played

1141
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 2: them in one of these holiday tournaments over the weekend

1142
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 2: and they beat them seventeen to two. My guess Wisconsin's

1143
01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 2: women have three goalies. My guess is they probably played

1144
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 2: one of the backup goalies, which is why they gave

1145
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 2: up a couple of goals. They won seventeen to two.

1146
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,960
Speaker 2: That's a school record for the most goals and obvious,

1147
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 2: what are you going to do? And one of the

1148
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 2: things that makes Wisconsin strong is they generally play with

1149
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 2: four lives. That's a lot in hockey because they're so deep,

1150
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 2: which means the starters, the Superstars, the All Americans. When

1151
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 2: they're on the ice, they have fresh legs because they're

1152
01:07:31,760 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 2: running four lines and the deep programs, so they're probably

1153
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 2: playing the women on the final line more minutes than

1154
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 2: they would normally play because it's an over massed opponent,

1155
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 2: but they kept scoring. What is it? What can you

1156
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,160
Speaker 2: do about it? As I say, Wisconsin has this last

1157
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 2: year they lost record forty and one I think thirty

1158
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 2: nine and one or forty, won the national championship and

1159
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 2: wanted in sudden death overtime after scoring the game time

1160
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 2: goal with only a few seconds left in a penalty shot,

1161
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There is a problem though,

1162
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:10,480
Speaker 2: that's going to face the Wisconsin team this year that

1163
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 2: may cost them a number of their wins and the

1164
01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 2: ability to repeat. Let's see if you can figure out. Now,

1165
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 2: this is one of those things. If we were doing

1166
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:23,680
Speaker 2: a live radio show, all the phone lights would light

1167
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 2: up of the people who knew the answer and they

1168
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 2: would tell you. But because we're doing a podcast, people

1169
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 2: are going to call up and light up the phone lines,

1170
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,479
Speaker 2: like when Dan o'donald is on or something or another.

1171
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 2: It's something you should be able through analytical thinking figure

1172
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 2: out and you I'll see you see. The reason you

1173
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 2: can't figure it out is you often will give up.

1174
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 2: I talk about you know a lot of confidence, a

1175
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:47,719
Speaker 2: lot it's the same thing, but you still play golf

1176
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 2: don't you when you know you're going to make a punt,

1177
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 2: you're not. Maybe might, maybe you won't make it. But

1178
01:08:53,320 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 2: when when you think, I know I'm going to miss it,

1179
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 2: have you ever made one when you knew you were

1180
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 2: going to miss it? No? Same thing with free throws.

1181
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 2: As a kid, I was actually a very good free

1182
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 2: throw shooter, and when I got in a role, it

1183
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:04,679
Speaker 2: just meant I'd make the next one because I knew

1184
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:09,800
Speaker 2: I was gonna make it. Well, what happens is you

1185
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,879
Speaker 2: miss something when negative thoughts interfere with your muscle memory.

1186
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 2: When you when you have no thoughts, that's when you

1187
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 2: do well. When you're on the autopilot and sword you

1188
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 2: just assumed that you can't get it all right? You

1189
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 2: want to hint? You know, yes, this is pretty simple.

1190
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,759
Speaker 2: Any big deals coming up in the world of sports

1191
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,880
Speaker 2: over the next number of months. What okay, now you're

1192
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 2: getting somewhere. Yes, a number of the Badger players will

1193
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 2: be on the American women. See you got that hint?

1194
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 2: Help Paul. The Olympics are coming up in a couple

1195
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 2: of months. And because Wisconsin's women's hockey team include there's

1196
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 2: a professional women's hockey league now, so it isn't just

1197
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 2: college players, but several of the Wisconsin women are among

1198
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 2: the best players in the world. Layla Edwards, for example,

1199
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:03,839
Speaker 2: is right now the best female hockey player in America

1200
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 2: and one of the best players altogether, and she's been

1201
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 2: on the national team already along with a number of others.

1202
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 2: Several of the Badger's superstars are going to be on

1203
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 2: the Olympic team, which means they have to leave the

1204
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 2: team in the middle of the season. With regard to

1205
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 2: men's hockey, they keep changing it back and forth over

1206
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 2: the years, and I actually don't even recall, but National

1207
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,960
Speaker 2: Hockey League team members would leave their team, but the

1208
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 2: NHL would just stop their season during the Olympics and

1209
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,320
Speaker 2: the players would come right back to their teams after

1210
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 2: the two to three weeks of the Olympics are over.

1211
01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 2: With regard though, to the women's hockey, they're going to

1212
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 2: play together for several games. They have to play and

1213
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:40,799
Speaker 2: get to learn one another, so they could play exhibitions

1214
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 2: in the United States for the weeks leading up to

1215
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:44,600
Speaker 2: the Olympics, and then they go off to the Is

1216
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 2: it Milan, I think it's Milan. It is Milan, isn't

1217
01:10:49,560 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 2: it I should know this twenty six Winter Olympics. Yeah, yeah,

1218
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:06,799
Speaker 2: that's the area. Yeah, that's the area. It's northern Italy.

1219
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 2: It's the part of Italy that's close to the Alps

1220
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 2: and so on. It. Yeah, it's all over that area.

1221
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 2: Milan is the center where the ceremony will be and

1222
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 2: it's the whole region of Northern Northern That's what the

1223
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,520
Speaker 2: winn Our Olympics are going to be. So the Wisconsin

1224
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 2: women's hockey team is going to have to count on

1225
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 2: some of these players that are kind of on the

1226
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 2: second of the third lines. Wisconsin is a great defenseman too,

1227
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 2: weird just think about her as her nickname has nothing

1228
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:37,880
Speaker 2: to do with her. With her name anyway, a number

1229
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 2: of their great players will be gone. I think there's

1230
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 2: some notion that they will be back in time for

1231
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament and reintegrate them then. But it's an

1232
01:11:48,120 --> 01:11:51,519
Speaker 2: incredibly strong program and Mark Johnson's the greatest coach the

1233
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 2: history of the sport. No, of course that No, they're

1234
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 2: all they're gonna go. I mean, and they've been on

1235
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,640
Speaker 2: national teams before and so on, But often the other

1236
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 2: competition does not occur to during your regular collegiate season.

1237
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of the time frame is to

1238
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 2: win the Olympics. Of course you're not gonna leave on

1239
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 2: the Olympics end. The NBA has not had that problem

1240
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 2: because it does not occur. The basketball is in the

1241
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 2: summer Olympics, and you know, basketball is a winner sport,

1242
01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:19,799
Speaker 2: but it's not played outdoors, so they put it naturally

1243
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:24,280
Speaker 2: in the Summer Olympics. Baseball has created this World Baseball Classic,

1244
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 2: and they took baseball out of the Olympics so that

1245
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 2: it didn't come in there. But hockey remains the one

1246
01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 2: sport where it's right in the middle of the season.

1247
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:34,720
Speaker 2: And I do think with regard to the NHL, there's

1248
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 2: been discussion over this back and forth. Should the NHL

1249
01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 2: let its players go play on the Olympics and get hurt,

1250
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:44,120
Speaker 2: you know with international basketball competition. You know, Bucks fans

1251
01:12:44,160 --> 01:12:46,679
Speaker 2: have been frustrated forever that Yannis keeps playing for grease,

1252
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 2: fearing that he's going to hurt himself in these games

1253
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 2: in which he's playing for nothing. Although Giannis might not

1254
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:54,720
Speaker 2: be playing for the Bucks by the middle of next

1255
01:12:54,760 --> 01:13:00,080
Speaker 2: week anyway, what yeah, we're going to talk about that

1256
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 2: in the context of my thoughts on Songsung Blue the

1257
01:13:04,520 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 2: movie that it's incredibly Milwaukee without being Milwaukee at all.

1258
01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 2: It had premiere is the wrong word. They've been throwing

1259
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 2: that around. But then I found out this has been

1260
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:20,599
Speaker 2: like six or seven different different premieres. Hollywood's very very

1261
01:13:20,600 --> 01:13:24,000
Speaker 2: good at using hype words to It was an advance

1262
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 2: showing and it was held in Milwaukee last night, and

1263
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough to be there. And as I

1264
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 2: said at the beginning of the program, the chances of

1265
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,360
Speaker 2: having a bit like this in Milwaukee without and there

1266
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 2: not being stories, you'd have to be the most non

1267
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 2: observant person in the world not to pick up on

1268
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 2: a few things. Well, here you've got me. I'm like

1269
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 2: a cop. I got the eyes in the back of

1270
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 2: my head picking up on every goopball thing that they're

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Speaker 2: all right. This is the Mark Belling podcast. This is

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Speaker 2: the Mark Belling Podcast. We were talking earlier about celebrities

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Speaker 2: and generally I don't count athletes because in any city,

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Speaker 2: of course, an athlete, Yannis is a unique situation in

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Speaker 2: that he's not only an athlete, he's a Milwaukee personality.

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Speaker 2: That is kind of I say, anybody that doesn't have

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Speaker 2: a yanis sighting, doesn't spend much time in the city.

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Speaker 2: He's just one of these people that pops up everywhere,

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Speaker 2: and unlike a lot of people, he's the most recognizable

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Speaker 2: person probably in the state of Wisconsin. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: a seven foot tall African American who just he stands

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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 2: out for reasons that are obvious. And he's been with

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Speaker 2: the Bucks his entire career, which has been an unbelievably

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01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 2: long career because he came here at the age of

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Speaker 2: eighteen and has become a larger than life figure. Well,

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Speaker 2: this drama that's been going on with him, will he leave?

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01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 2: Does he want to be traded has been going on

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Speaker 2: now for several years. Who I resign with and not?

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Speaker 2: And it finally does look like the Yannis era in

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee is coming to an end. He's made it clear

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Speaker 2: that he'll stay in Milwaukee so long as the team

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Speaker 2: is competitive. Right now, the team is playing terribly. They

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Speaker 2: had one of the worst losses in recent memory on

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Speaker 2: Monday when they lost to a terrible team, the Wizards,

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Speaker 2: even with Giannis in the lineup. He sends on his

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Speaker 2: social media scrubbed all references to Milwaukee and the Bucks,

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01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 2: and it just says athlete and people are reading this

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01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 2: set and the other thing into it. Part of it

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Speaker 2: is is he just being a drama queen or is

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Speaker 2: a trade imminent? Now I'm doing this podcast at Wednesday,

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01:15:20,520 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 2: a tip off will be the Wednesday night game. If

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Speaker 2: Jannis is close to being traded, the Bucks are not

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01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 2: going to put him in the lineup because the night

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01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 2: beare would be you're planning to trade a guy and

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01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 2: then he gets hurt and now you can't trade him.

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Speaker 2: So if he plays and he's in the lineup that

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't think anything is imminent, like within a few days.

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Speaker 2: The hard thing with trading Yannis is, aside from just

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01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 2: the fact that you're trading one of the best players

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Speaker 2: in the game to get a proper return for a superstar,

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Speaker 2: and the return would be enormous. I mean it'd be enormous.

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 2: The Bucks will get a ton back for him. But

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Speaker 2: when you trade someone like this, you're generally looking to

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01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,519
Speaker 2: build for the future, and that means get a zillion

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01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 2: draft choices so that you can go into the draft

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01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 2: and get another potential Yanas and so on. But the

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Speaker 2: teams that have the good draft choices are the bad teams.

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01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 2: They have the draft lottery at the end of the season,

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Speaker 2: and the worst records have the best chances of getting

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Speaker 2: the first and second pick. But a team that's bad,

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Speaker 2: Jannis won't go to a bad team. The only team

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01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 2: you would trade him to is a team that's close

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Speaker 2: to winning a championship, so their draft choices aren't going

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01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 2: to be good, and if Yannis goes there they could

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Speaker 2: win the championship, they'd be last in the draft. So

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Speaker 2: the hard thing about trading a guy like him. You know, Dallas,

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Speaker 2: for example, traded Lukadancic last year, a trade that has

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Speaker 2: just been ripped. They traded him head on for Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 2: Just traded him for another superstar, and everybody thinks that

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01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,080
Speaker 2: the Lakers got the better of that deal when they

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01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 2: got Donchik. So unless you did trade him for another superstar,

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Speaker 2: who you trade him for, that's the equal of Giannis.

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Speaker 2: Normally you would trade him and then you trade almost

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Speaker 2: everybody else got the team, get ninety million draft choices,

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01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:02,600
Speaker 2: and then get your own team trap picks to be

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Speaker 2: low in the draft. If you're going to trade him,

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Speaker 2: you do it for the purposes of rebuilding. It usually

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01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:10,439
Speaker 2: doesn't work, but sometimes it does, and almost every team

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01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:13,480
Speaker 2: that gets great does it because they went to the bottom.

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01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 2: Detroit's an example of that. They're having a very good

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01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 2: season this year and so on. So I don't know

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Speaker 2: that he will be traded, but these are the most

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01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:23,880
Speaker 2: ominous signs that I've seen so far. The team seems

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01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:26,439
Speaker 2: to be going nowhere even with him, which would be

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01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 2: an incentive for him to possibly even also perhaps an

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01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 2: incentive for the Bucks. If they can't win with him,

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01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 2: why not just see what you can get for him

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Speaker 2: and try to start the whole thing over again. The

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01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 2: problem for the fans and everybody is that often means

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01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 2: a gap of sometimes years before you're competitive again. What

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01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,960
Speaker 2: percentage of the audience, it's been so widely covered, knows

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01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:52,719
Speaker 2: about song sung Blue eighty three, so it doesn't require

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01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 2: much explanation. Thunder and Lightning were just as talking to

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Speaker 2: hear about celebrities. They were like classic, what well it

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01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 2: is Lightning and Thunder, But not, as was explained in

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01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 2: the movie, not always. In fact, one of their friends

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Speaker 2: who was in the band you know is talking about

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01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:15,759
Speaker 2: Thunder and Lightning. Lightning was the originator of the band.

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Speaker 2: That's Mike, and he created this persona of Thunder for

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01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 2: his the girlfriend that he met, Claire and Lightning and

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01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 2: Thunder was the name of them. But if you listen

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01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 2: to the people talk, they talk about Thunder and Lightning

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01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 2: all the time. And Mark Farrillo, who has played but

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01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 2: for Shririlla. Did you ever bump into him? He was

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01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,680
Speaker 2: like always in the music scene. I would see him

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Speaker 2: around Shank Hall and all of that stuff down. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, did you meet Mark Schilla? You did? He

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Speaker 2: passed away. In fact, one of the things about making

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Speaker 2: a movie about people that are long dead is all

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Speaker 2: of the other players in the movie are dead. Michael Imperioli,

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Speaker 2: who played in The Sopranos Christopher and the Sopranos, he's

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Speaker 2: in the movie and he played him. Their manager, Tom

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01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 2: Dematto was played by Jim Belushi, who somehow is less

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01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,080
Speaker 2: fat than he was when he was younger. He usually

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01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 2: doesn't work. He's still fat, but he's not as fat

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Speaker 2: as he used to be. So anyway, they were kind

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01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 2: of like a Neil Diamond act. She sang some Patsy

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01:19:16,120 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 2: Klein stuff, but most of the thing was a Neil

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01:19:18,160 --> 01:19:22,759
Speaker 2: Diamond person interact, and just for kind of Milwaukee reasons,

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01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:27,760
Speaker 2: they got big in Milwaukee and the region, but nowhere else,

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01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:33,320
Speaker 2: which creates for an interesting movie, and then just unbelievable

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01:19:33,360 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 2: tragedy in their life. So I mean, they did a

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01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 2: documentary on them that was done by again him Co's

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01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 2: about twelve or fourteen years ago, and it was really

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01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 2: good and it showed all the heartbreak and all the

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01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 2: awful things that happened to the both of them. I'm

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Speaker 2: in talking about this. There's not a spoiler alert here

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01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 2: because it's a true life story and everybody knows what's happened.

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01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 2: The movie is playing out and watching what occurs, but

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Speaker 2: I won't give away like the tails of the movie.

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01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 2: But you know, they got married and they got this

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01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 2: band in It just turned into a huge kind of

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01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 2: local thing. And I talked about Bull Black. It was

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01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 2: one of those deals that go back about twenty years.

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01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 2: For those of you who are around then. Everybody had

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Speaker 2: heard of them, including people that didn't see them. It

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01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 2: was just a uniquely Milwaukee thing. And a filmmaker decided

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01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,640
Speaker 2: that he was going to take this documentary and use

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01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 2: it an inspiration to make a real life movie, and

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01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 2: he got two huge stars to play the lead roles.

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01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman is playing Lightning and Kate Hudson is just

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01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:41,799
Speaker 2: incredible and now it isn't young anymore, she's playing Thunder.

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01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:44,800
Speaker 2: So that's the setup for the movie. And one of

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01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 2: the things that the movie makers do is they try

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01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 2: to create all of this hype in advance of the movie.

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01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 2: So there's been like the world premiere was in London,

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01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 2: they were at a New York Film Festival or they

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01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,040
Speaker 2: had everybody there for that. So of course one of

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01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:57,599
Speaker 2: the places they're going to go is Milwaukee because these

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01:20:57,600 --> 01:20:59,360
Speaker 2: people are from Milwaukee, and they had this thing a

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01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 2: cops yes and so on. But the actual showing in

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01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 2: the movie was at the Oriental, which is this old

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01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 2: style movie house just off of North Avenue in the

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01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 2: city of Milwaukee. And his movie theaters is pretty big,

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01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 2: but it's one of those places where you can't do

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01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 2: the traditional red carpet because the front door is like

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01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 2: three feet from the road. I mean, there's the sidewalk

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01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 2: and then and then there's the front door. It pulses

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01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 2: the letters that burned on it. I mean, it's just

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01:21:27,200 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 2: it looks exactly like something you would expect to see

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01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 2: on the East side of Milwaukee. All right, So there

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01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 2: are people who got invitations that listen, it's all the

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01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 2: people who like knew them, and then other kind of

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01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 2: there are no big shots in Milwaukee. But if like

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01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 2: I'm a big shot, people like me, and then people

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01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:44,519
Speaker 2: who would then in a lot of media, people who

1427
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 2: would do what I'm doing talk about the movie. That's

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01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 2: who they invite to this. So I get an invitation.

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01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 2: I take a friend and a guy that I know.

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01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 2: He and I went to the thing, and he it's

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01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,599
Speaker 2: this idiotic thing. He thinks we're gonna go door to door,

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01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 2: We're gonna be able to walk right in, that it's

1433
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 2: gonna be the easiest. And I say, there's no way.

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01:21:58,160 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a line ninety seven miles long. So

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01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 2: we show up and there's a line ninety seven miles long.

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01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:04,919
Speaker 2: We get into the line and we're like at North Avenue.

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01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 2: See it's like a block and a half down, And

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01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, last night it was We're not going

1439
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 2: to think of this as cold in two months, but

1440
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 2: by the standards of early December, it was cold, and

1441
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 2: the line sort of moves. It was thirty minutes to

1442
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,720
Speaker 2: get from the when I got there into the thing,

1443
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 2: which wasn't terrible given how long the line looked, because

1444
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:27,040
Speaker 2: all they did was check your creditial and you get

1445
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:28,920
Speaker 2: a thing and you go into the place. But what

1446
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 2: stunned me was the number of people who did not

1447
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 2: have tickets who were standing. They had a second line.

1448
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 2: It would normally be a rope line, but they just

1449
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 2: used police horses. So they're standing on the edge of

1450
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 2: the street and they're there just for the same reason.

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01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 2: All these people were going to cops to see. The

1452
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 2: only real celebrity was Hugh Jackman. Kate Hudson was not

1453
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 2: here for this showing. Hugh Jackman as the star and

1454
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:53,799
Speaker 2: the director was here. Plus Claire who is still alive.

1455
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:56,639
Speaker 2: Claire who was the wife who played Thunder the real

1456
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:58,439
Speaker 2: life Claire, she was still there. So they were just

1457
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 2: there to cheer and do this. And it's you know,

1458
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:02,599
Speaker 2: Milwaukee gets its moment in the sun. So the huge

1459
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 2: numbers and I was kind of expecting, but still for

1460
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:09,439
Speaker 2: people to stand around in the coal just to watch

1461
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 2: a couple of people walk inside of a theater, that's

1462
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 2: a pretty big thing. In addition to that, they had

1463
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,720
Speaker 2: a big party at the Landmark Lanes, which is this

1464
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 2: half stupid half cool kind of Milwaukee bar. It's not

1465
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 2: I mean, it can bowl there, but it's more of

1466
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:24,880
Speaker 2: a bar. And that's what the party was. And it's

1467
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:28,879
Speaker 2: like a door and a half down from the Landmarks.

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01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to tell you my thoughts of

1469
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 2: the movie, but first there's got to be a couple

1470
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 2: of stories. You know, I'm standing in the line, and

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01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 2: you know what people's reaction to me is. It's one

1472
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:42,559
Speaker 2: of three. Either they don't recognize me, and I got

1473
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:44,240
Speaker 2: a hoodie on and all this because it was cold,

1474
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 2: so I pulled the hood over my head, and then

1475
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 2: there's one third to hate me, and then one third

1476
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,120
Speaker 2: are going to like me. Fortunately, standing right behind me

1477
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 2: as a woman who immediately demands that I get a

1478
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 2: picture taken. They're a big fan, so that's at least

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01:23:56,040 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 2: a good enough thing. We get up to the front

1480
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:03,439
Speaker 2: and as I say, the line is, it's a disorganized line,

1481
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:06,639
Speaker 2: but it's orderly but disorganized at the same time because

1482
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:10,200
Speaker 2: you just jammed onto the sidewalk. It's cold, people are

1483
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 2: huddled together trying to get into the thing. And then

1484
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 2: there's this second huge line of people that aren't trying

1485
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 2: to get in because they don't have the tickets that

1486
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:18,840
Speaker 2: are standing off to the side of this, but you

1487
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 2: know you're walking and walking, you get there for thirty minutes. Sorry.

1488
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:23,479
Speaker 2: Just as I'm about to get to the front door

1489
01:24:23,479 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 2: and go in, what do you think happens? I can't

1490
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:35,320
Speaker 2: say I recognize this guy. If I did recognize him

1491
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 2: when I out him or not, I don't know. I

1492
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:40,720
Speaker 2: honestly don't know. But I didn't recognize him, but he

1493
01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 2: was like you could just tell it was a well

1494
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 2: off guy. I'll just go beyond that. By the way,

1495
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 2: there were no tuxedos there, but some people were wearing

1496
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:48,719
Speaker 2: suits and ties like you would expect from a premiere.

1497
01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 2: But they said right on the thing, no dress code.

1498
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:53,560
Speaker 2: I'm just wearing a sweater and wearing a jacket with

1499
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 2: a hood over the top of it. Just as I'm

1500
01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:58,720
Speaker 2: about to walk in, here comes this guy with I

1501
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:00,679
Speaker 2: don't know if the outerage was more than his wife

1502
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 2: or girlfriend or whatever it is, walks right to the

1503
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 2: entrance and says VIP. I don't even know who the

1504
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 2: first person was to start the objection, but I was

1505
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:22,759
Speaker 2: right at no Vip in fact, and his invitation probably

1506
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 2: said VIP. All of us said Vip. He was the same.

1507
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 2: He was the same kind of whatever high mucket he

1508
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 2: muck that the rest of us was. So they said

1509
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 2: him all the way back to the line. So there

1510
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 2: was that. I don't know. I think I was the

1511
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:38,400
Speaker 2: first who object it, because he was you know, if

1512
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 2: you're going to butt into a line, you may as

1513
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 2: well do it right at the front. Why do it

1514
01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 2: in the middle. Right. He walked right to the front door,

1515
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 2: like he owned the place and he was going to

1516
01:25:48,280 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 2: walk past. And once I objected, of course, everybody else objected,

1517
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 2: and then they explained, no, no, no, everybody's VIP. He

1518
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:58,080
Speaker 2: didn't fight it or anything. Maybe he just thought that

1519
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 2: he had some special status. But I don't. I mean,

1520
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 2: I don't. I mean when I say, we just showed

1521
01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:07,759
Speaker 2: up at the wrong time. And you know, the doors

1522
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:09,599
Speaker 2: opened at five thirty, and we got there at five

1523
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 2: thirty five. Probably the line started forming at four forty five.

1524
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 2: There was no importance of getting in early because there

1525
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 2: were I did not know this, There were assigned seeds. See,

1526
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:22,160
Speaker 2: I don't everybody knows you don't want to sit in

1527
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 2: the front of a movie theater. I mean, you know that, right, Well,

1528
01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:27,720
Speaker 2: I didn't want that, so, but I mean they were

1529
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:29,679
Speaker 2: I did not know by the way the seats were assigned.

1530
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,719
Speaker 2: When I initially got in there. We just plopped ourselves

1531
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 2: down on two aisle seats, and then I noticed people

1532
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 2: talking about assigned seats. So we sat over there. That's

1533
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 2: the first thing. When I'm first of all sitting and

1534
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:41,640
Speaker 2: I bump into like a couple of people that, you know,

1535
01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 2: somebody who used to I don't know if I should

1536
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:43,640
Speaker 2: mentioned her.

1537
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 1: She?

1538
01:26:44,160 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 2: Can you think of people that worked at the station

1539
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 2: when you and I started, Who comes to mind? Not her? No,

1540
01:26:55,800 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 2: there's only like one or two left female though you're right,

1541
01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 2: aunt Anne is no longer with us, so it can't

1542
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 2: be her. That would have been terrible if you would

1543
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 2: have guessed her. Julie remember her, See, I could say,

1544
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:15,040
Speaker 2: why not? She now works at Summerfestie Julie Dickleman. She

1545
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 2: used to be Julie Stoleper. Oh, she overlapped with you,

1546
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:22,599
Speaker 2: so she was there. I talked to her, bump into

1547
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:25,120
Speaker 2: a couple of other people who recognize me, and so on,

1548
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:29,599
Speaker 2: and then this woman turns around and she keeps looking

1549
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:31,280
Speaker 2: at me. And I am used to this look in

1550
01:27:31,360 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 2: which people think that they recognize me, and then they wonder,

1551
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 2: and you just when you're somebody that's at like my

1552
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:40,080
Speaker 2: level of like medium level whatever. And now the other

1553
01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:41,599
Speaker 2: thing people will do then is they'll go to their

1554
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 2: phot and they'll like google up to get a picture

1555
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 2: and look back to see if I'm So she's eyeballing me,

1556
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 2: and she's like she's been talking the whole time too.

1557
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 2: She's just not somebody that's observing any like be discreet

1558
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,840
Speaker 2: every ound, somebody that might be a big shot. And

1559
01:27:54,880 --> 01:27:56,840
Speaker 2: she turns around to me and said, I know who

1560
01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:01,639
Speaker 2: you are. I mean, I get this a lot by

1561
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 2: the way. Most men do with the following. They'll say

1562
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 2: their name and put out their hand to shake hands

1563
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 2: if they recognize me. Women will do it completely different.

1564
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 2: They'll either demand to know if I am who I

1565
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 2: who they think I am, or say you probably don't

1566
01:28:18,960 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 2: remember me. But he turns around with just incredible confidences,

1567
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 2: I know who you are. Okay, here it comes. I'm trapped.

1568
01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 2: There's nowhere to go. You're Bob Berry. Well, first of all,

1569
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 2: Bob Berry is I think seventeen years older than I am.

1570
01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 2: So the secondly he does, if you take a real

1571
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 2: reach at it, he does look a little bit like me,

1572
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:46,720
Speaker 2: but I don't want to say he looks a lot

1573
01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:49,640
Speaker 2: like me because he's way older. By Bob Berry was

1574
01:28:49,640 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 2: the guy that introduced the Beatles. That was nineteen sixty four.

1575
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:54,400
Speaker 2: I was in probably the second grade or whatever it

1576
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 2: was then, so and I said, no, I'm actually not.

1577
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:01,439
Speaker 2: He said no, I know that it's so now she's

1578
01:29:01,479 --> 01:29:03,639
Speaker 2: convinced because I'm denying it, which is like a real

1579
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,680
Speaker 2: no win situation. I almost felt like going with it

1580
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,920
Speaker 2: and say, yeah, I am Bob Berry. Now these other

1581
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:12,240
Speaker 2: people that are overhearing this and listening, and I'm with

1582
01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 2: a guy and he said, no, he's not Bob Berry.

1583
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:20,639
Speaker 2: Well you're somebody. What's your name? Why, I say, Mark,

1584
01:29:20,680 --> 01:29:23,200
Speaker 2: I don't see the whole thing. No, you're not, you're

1585
01:29:23,240 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 2: Bob Berry. Well then eventually I came up and you know,

1586
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 2: she's demanding, and I say what, I knew, you're that

1587
01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:33,000
Speaker 2: trouble maker. And she's announcing this in the loudest voice

1588
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 2: to everybody under the sun. That's when we realized that

1589
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:37,479
Speaker 2: there were assigned seats, that we were sitting in the

1590
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 2: wrong seats, which turned out not to be the worst

1591
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 2: thing in the world. And went over to our other thing.

1592
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 2: All right, one quick thing. We can't on podcasts play

1593
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:54,840
Speaker 2: music unfortunately, so I can't play this. But after the

1594
01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:57,639
Speaker 2: movie was over, they had the before and after party

1595
01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 2: was at the Landmark Lanes and Hugh jack when who

1596
01:30:00,439 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 2: played the Neil Diamond impersonator, who's the one of the

1597
01:30:05,120 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 2: two protagonists of the movie. That's Lightning Mike Sardina. He

1598
01:30:10,160 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 2: and the actual thunder Clara Sardina. Mike passed away, which

1599
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 2: is part of the movie. He died twenty years ago,

1600
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 2: and that's kind of how the movie. The tragedies of

1601
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:22,800
Speaker 2: their life though, I mean, it's the whole thing was

1602
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,920
Speaker 2: like a vh You remember those old VH one documentaries

1603
01:30:25,920 --> 01:30:28,320
Speaker 2: Behind the Music, I think it was called. They were

1604
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:31,679
Speaker 2: always the same thing and be about a band. They rise,

1605
01:30:31,720 --> 01:30:36,679
Speaker 2: some obscurity, go up the ladder, superstarred and fame and fortune,

1606
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 2: crash and tragedy usually drugs or something or another, and

1607
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:44,559
Speaker 2: then redemption that comeback and then it's the same. Well,

1608
01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:49,519
Speaker 2: this is the actual story of their lives. So, I mean,

1609
01:30:49,560 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 2: you knew that that's what the movie was gonna be.

1610
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 2: And it's just kind of a made for Hollywood kind

1611
01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:59,800
Speaker 2: of thing. Well. Anyway, Clara is still with us, and

1612
01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 2: I did not for it was cold. We were there.

1613
01:31:02,479 --> 01:31:05,360
Speaker 2: I had massive detal work done yesterday and I had

1614
01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 2: taken i'll admit painkillers because I knew when they When

1615
01:31:08,880 --> 01:31:10,880
Speaker 2: I showed up at the movie, the anesthesia was still on,

1616
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:14,680
Speaker 2: so I couldn't eat popcorn or anything, and so I

1617
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 2: had a headache and it was cold. We went home.

1618
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:19,200
Speaker 2: I should have gone to the Landmark Lanes after party

1619
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:25,679
Speaker 2: because on the stage Hugh Jackman saying Sweet Caroline with thunder.

1620
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:27,680
Speaker 2: I can't play it on the air, but it is

1621
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 2: linked up on my x account x formerly known as

1622
01:31:30,400 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 2: Twitter under Mark Belling Show. There's a video of it.

1623
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 2: There's a few others that are going on the internet

1624
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:36,720
Speaker 2: and their viral all over the place. But that was

1625
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:40,960
Speaker 2: had been a wonderful moment there. As for the movie itself,

1626
01:31:44,240 --> 01:31:48,599
Speaker 2: there was. It's been reviewed by some of the reviewers

1627
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 2: who get to see the movies before it's available to

1628
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 2: the general public, and some of the reviewers have been

1629
01:31:53,120 --> 01:31:56,120
Speaker 2: very positive. I thought it was very good. It's the

1630
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 2: kind of movie that clearly it has the potential to

1631
01:31:59,680 --> 01:32:06,559
Speaker 2: be off right. It is done. First of all, the

1632
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 2: two actors are Paul and I were debating are they

1633
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 2: superstars or not, but they are clearly phenomenal actors, Hugh

1634
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 2: Jackman and Kate Hudson. And I've just Kate Hudson's been

1635
01:32:17,840 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 2: one of my favorite actresses ever since the movie Almost Famous.

1636
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:25,880
Speaker 2: She always plays roles that are kind of a little

1637
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:29,080
Speaker 2: bit different kind of person, which allows I think actresses

1638
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:31,519
Speaker 2: and actors to play well. I mean, she played like

1639
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 2: the groupie Penny Lane and Almost Famous. She was just unbelievably.

1640
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:36,599
Speaker 2: I don't remember the name of the movie that Larry

1641
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:39,600
Speaker 2: David did on one of his hiatuses from Curby Your Enthusiasm,

1642
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:40,880
Speaker 2: but he did a movie about a guy that was

1643
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:44,880
Speaker 2: living a Cape cod and she was the funniest scene

1644
01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:46,719
Speaker 2: I've ever seen in a movie was in that movie.

1645
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:48,760
Speaker 2: So she's just always been good at roles and she

1646
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:53,200
Speaker 2: was just she played that role so well, and Jackman

1647
01:32:53,240 --> 01:32:55,920
Speaker 2: played the role really well. And it just this story

1648
01:32:55,960 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 2: of these two people who kind of and made it

1649
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 2: to start them but at that unique level of their fame,

1650
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:08,000
Speaker 2: probably didn't even get to Madison, but just extremely well

1651
01:33:08,040 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 2: known around here and it's got all the you know,

1652
01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 2: they take liberties with the truth which happens often and

1653
01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 2: in some kind it seemed to me. So I thought

1654
01:33:16,520 --> 01:33:19,080
Speaker 2: that the movie was very very well done. It was

1655
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,000
Speaker 2: not cheap and small sy. I thought it was sincere

1656
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:27,920
Speaker 2: and real, rather positive. Maybe the documentary was much more.

1657
01:33:28,640 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 2: All the warts and the problems were really peeled back.

1658
01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 2: That was smoothed out a little bit, but we saw

1659
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 2: all of the problems, and there was an incredible tragedy

1660
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 2: were very famous in their lives, in which she was

1661
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:39,639
Speaker 2: run over by a car in her own front yard

1662
01:33:39,640 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 2: and lost a leg, and he battled health problems and

1663
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 2: he had a history of alcoholism before the band. These

1664
01:33:45,840 --> 01:33:47,800
Speaker 2: are things they're all known by anybody who knew the

1665
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:49,800
Speaker 2: story of the two of them, and it played out

1666
01:33:49,800 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 2: in the movie. But I just thought it was extremely

1667
01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:56,640
Speaker 2: well done for the type of story that when you

1668
01:33:56,680 --> 01:34:00,400
Speaker 2: think of like doing it Hollywood. They could have complete

1669
01:34:00,520 --> 01:34:03,040
Speaker 2: screwed it up. The two things that I thought stood

1670
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:07,680
Speaker 2: out the most were the performances of the main characters

1671
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:11,200
Speaker 2: were just outstanding. The other thing, and I would recommend

1672
01:34:11,200 --> 01:34:13,800
Speaker 2: to Paul to see it for this reason. I thought,

1673
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 2: you know, all the side musicians that were in their

1674
01:34:16,479 --> 01:34:18,240
Speaker 2: band and the people that they knew in the knock

1675
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:21,599
Speaker 2: around circuit, like playing the like the you know, open

1676
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 2: mic Knights, and seeing all the other characters and the

1677
01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:26,840
Speaker 2: actors who played them. I thought it was a very

1678
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:32,240
Speaker 2: good look into the life of lifer musicians who were

1679
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 2: just getting by, who never made it big, but were

1680
01:34:34,560 --> 01:34:36,720
Speaker 2: making it well enough that they could keep doing it.

1681
01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:42,240
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of that. And I butchered a

1682
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 2: guy's name early, and I want to get it correct

1683
01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:46,639
Speaker 2: here because I Mark Shilla. I mean, I didn't really

1684
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:48,479
Speaker 2: know him other than I saw him a lot because

1685
01:34:48,479 --> 01:34:50,320
Speaker 2: he was always downtown and he was in all of

1686
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:53,719
Speaker 2: these bands. He passed away a handful of years ago.

1687
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 2: But he's played by Michael Imperioli, and I mean, who

1688
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 2: didn't really look like him. But I thought that the

1689
01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:04,240
Speaker 2: way they worked them in, you know, and the manager

1690
01:35:04,280 --> 01:35:06,439
Speaker 2: is driving the badger bus to take him from the gigs,

1691
01:35:06,439 --> 01:35:07,960
Speaker 2: and he was one of those guys that drove the

1692
01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:10,400
Speaker 2: bus for those casino junkets and all of that stuff.

1693
01:35:10,640 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 2: It was a very well done component of the movie.

1694
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:15,599
Speaker 2: And those are the two things that I thought were

1695
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:18,720
Speaker 2: really good. If I knock it down for anything, it's this.

1696
01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:24,880
Speaker 2: It didn't have a feel of authenticity about the background. Now,

1697
01:35:24,920 --> 01:35:26,920
Speaker 2: maybe nobody else picks up on this, but they didn't

1698
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 2: shoot a single scene in Milwaukee. It was all generic,

1699
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:33,640
Speaker 2: and it didn't even make it like you could have

1700
01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:36,840
Speaker 2: done some things like just stock footage of the skyline

1701
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 2: or something, or sent a crew into shoot a couple

1702
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:42,360
Speaker 2: of few outtakes and pretend that something's in something Milwaukee.

1703
01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:45,479
Speaker 2: But it was not only generic, it looked like they

1704
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:47,559
Speaker 2: apparently shot it in location in New Jersey. It didn't

1705
01:35:47,560 --> 01:35:50,040
Speaker 2: even look like it was shot on location in New Jersey.

1706
01:35:50,120 --> 01:35:52,880
Speaker 2: They clearly didn't want to pay naming rights because they

1707
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:56,639
Speaker 2: took almost all the names of places out. For example,

1708
01:35:56,680 --> 01:36:01,439
Speaker 2: the famous they played I mean, you know, Lightning and

1709
01:36:01,479 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 2: Thunder is kind of was a smalllza act. And Pearl

1710
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:06,559
Speaker 2: Jam at the time was like considered the most authentic

1711
01:36:06,640 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 2: rock band there was. Eddie Vedder was into stuff like this,

1712
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 2: and you know, they would often cover smaltzy stuff, and

1713
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:15,000
Speaker 2: Eddie Vedder found out about it and invited them to

1714
01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:19,559
Speaker 2: play at Summerfest when Pearl Jam performed, and they changed

1715
01:36:19,560 --> 01:36:21,880
Speaker 2: that in the movie and instead they're at a theater

1716
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:23,599
Speaker 2: and they're not at Summerfest, and the name of the

1717
01:36:23,600 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 2: theater is the Rich Theater, which there isn't even one.

1718
01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 2: So I think that that's just that they didn't want

1719
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:31,679
Speaker 2: to cut a deal with Summerfest. But I think shooting

1720
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:34,759
Speaker 2: the movie and even if you create a fake crowd,

1721
01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:38,320
Speaker 2: but making it at Summerfest. They did use the State Fair.

1722
01:36:38,360 --> 01:36:40,240
Speaker 2: That's a generic name. They probably didn't have to pay

1723
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:42,400
Speaker 2: naming rights for that. They got married at the State Fair,

1724
01:36:42,439 --> 01:36:46,640
Speaker 2: so they include that. But otherwise they did. They showed that,

1725
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 2: you know, an outshot of a custage stand that was

1726
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:52,400
Speaker 2: clearly supposed to look like Leons, but they didn't call

1727
01:36:52,439 --> 01:36:55,200
Speaker 2: it Leons, And so I thought that it would benefit

1728
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:58,160
Speaker 2: from even if they didn't film scenes in Milwaukee to

1729
01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:02,640
Speaker 2: make it seem Milwaukee. Having said that Milwaukee's drilled through it.

1730
01:37:02,680 --> 01:37:04,679
Speaker 2: I mean, you watch the movie you'd set in Milwaukee,

1731
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:06,479
Speaker 2: it set in Milwaukee, set of Milwaukee. They say that

1732
01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:09,679
Speaker 2: a mozillion times. But I you know, you might say

1733
01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 2: that somebody who's watching the movie in Houston, they won't

1734
01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 2: even know that it wouldn't be Milwaukee. Usually when you watch,

1735
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,200
Speaker 2: like a movie that's set in Chicago, they'll put like

1736
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:19,880
Speaker 2: Chicago's scenes and it gives you a feel of where

1737
01:37:19,880 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 2: they are. And this kind of reminded me of how

1738
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:25,640
Speaker 2: you know, Happy Days was in Milwaukee, but there was

1739
01:37:25,840 --> 01:37:28,280
Speaker 2: they never shot had any scenes of Milwaukee and Happy

1740
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:31,080
Speaker 2: Days and same thing. All in all, I would put

1741
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 2: it together in I clearly would do the old Siskel

1742
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:36,439
Speaker 2: and Ebert thumbs up. I would recommend it. It's long.

1743
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 2: Usually movies like this. The movies that are long are

1744
01:37:39,280 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 2: usually like dramas or mob movies and so on. Now

1745
01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:45,400
Speaker 2: ninety minutes is the norm, right most of it. This

1746
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 2: is over two hours for a movie like this. That

1747
01:37:48,160 --> 01:37:50,360
Speaker 2: kind of surprised me. It didn't brag, but of course,

1748
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:53,840
Speaker 2: you know, you're seeing all these things that you know about,

1749
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,040
Speaker 2: so of course I'm into it. And the crowd that

1750
01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:58,559
Speaker 2: was there was a lot of people who knew them,

1751
01:37:58,600 --> 01:38:00,720
Speaker 2: and then it was media types and there was no

1752
01:38:00,720 --> 01:38:02,559
Speaker 2: way I was gonna bomb with that crowd. They were

1753
01:38:02,640 --> 01:38:07,559
Speaker 2: cheering for everything and so on. Anyway, Hugh Jackman was

1754
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 2: very gracious when he talked. The director and writer is

1755
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:12,080
Speaker 2: Craig Brewer. This has been his project. He bought the

1756
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 2: rights to the documentary so he could base it off

1757
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,599
Speaker 2: the documentary, and this is his baby. He's worked on forever.

1758
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,439
Speaker 2: He was there, and several members of the family were there,

1759
01:38:21,479 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 2: and Claire was there and so on. I just one

1760
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 2: of the things I question is it opens Christmas Day.

1761
01:38:29,439 --> 01:38:31,840
Speaker 2: That means it's you know, it's a big thing Christmas Day.

1762
01:38:31,840 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 2: Movies that open the studios are making a big play

1763
01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:38,599
Speaker 2: for them. I just it's not a kid's movie. I mean,

1764
01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:40,759
Speaker 2: I know a lot of young people are into music

1765
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 2: of the sixties and the seventies and like the Neil Diamond.

1766
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 2: In fact, one of the things of the whole movie

1767
01:38:45,080 --> 01:38:51,400
Speaker 2: is lightning. Mike hated playing Sweet Caroline. His whole point

1768
01:38:51,439 --> 01:38:54,439
Speaker 2: was Neil Diamond and all of these other great songs,

1769
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:56,640
Speaker 2: and everybody just wants to hear Sweet Caroline, and they

1770
01:38:57,160 --> 01:38:59,680
Speaker 2: play Sweet Caroline, See Caroline, And he had all of

1771
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 2: these other Neil Diamond songs that he wanted to do it,

1772
01:39:02,240 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 2: like they play Sweet Carolina baseball games and all kids

1773
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:07,360
Speaker 2: all know it. So will any of them go Because

1774
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:09,200
Speaker 2: the people who go to movies in the theater are

1775
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 2: primarily young and people of our age really, I think

1776
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:14,639
Speaker 2: forty and over they watched the movie when it hits

1777
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:17,280
Speaker 2: Netflix or whatever the streaming service is, so it might

1778
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:20,479
Speaker 2: be a bigger movie when it hits the streaming service

1779
01:39:20,479 --> 01:39:23,599
Speaker 2: as opposed to going in. I didn't mention the music itself.

1780
01:39:23,640 --> 01:39:25,880
Speaker 2: The sound. Now, the Oriental has a great sound system,

1781
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:28,600
Speaker 2: which you wouldn't think but it does. The sound was

1782
01:39:28,640 --> 01:39:31,519
Speaker 2: really good. They do their own singing, the music was.

1783
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:33,599
Speaker 2: It sounded as good as being at a Neil Diamond

1784
01:39:33,640 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 2: concert and their own way of doing it. So the

1785
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:41,000
Speaker 2: sound is really good. Also, Neil Diamond had a very

1786
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:45,439
Speaker 2: mixed Neil Diamond did a lot of great songs and

1787
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 2: he did some real dumpers too. They picked them right.

1788
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:54,559
Speaker 2: None of the bad songs like that song B from

1789
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 2: Jonathan living Sego that's not in there, Like the really

1790
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:00,160
Speaker 2: bad ones aren't in there, but all the ones you

1791
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:03,320
Speaker 2: would want to hear are in there. So I would

1792
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:06,800
Speaker 2: give it a strong recommendation, especially if you knew those

1793
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:08,880
Speaker 2: people from back in the day. And well, it doesn't

1794
01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:12,559
Speaker 2: have any Milwaukee exteriors to it, it feels Milwaukee because

1795
01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:15,240
Speaker 2: I just think in most cities lightning and thunder would

1796
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 2: not have become a thing, and it's the kind of

1797
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:20,600
Speaker 2: thing that just would work in Milwaukee. I know you

1798
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:23,080
Speaker 2: would like it because of the local musician thing and

1799
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 2: all that and you probably bumped into the two of

1800
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:29,280
Speaker 2: them just from Yeah. They and like I say, before

1801
01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:32,280
Speaker 2: they formed this act, they were kick around musicians, just

1802
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 2: in the scene, doing any number of things, and they

1803
01:40:35,520 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 2: never really made it beyond that. They just kind of

1804
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 2: got to in the same way of one or two.

1805
01:40:41,439 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 2: It's like one or two other like rock bands that

1806
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 2: have last who's the one, who's the big one? The

1807
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:47,200
Speaker 2: name's escaping to me right now. A band that's been

1808
01:40:47,240 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 2: around for like thirty years, kind of a party band,

1809
01:40:50,240 --> 01:40:53,360
Speaker 2: not bad Boy. Later than that they were kind of

1810
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:57,800
Speaker 2: a cover band, not Cherry Pye. A little bit later

1811
01:40:57,840 --> 01:41:04,520
Speaker 2: than that they're still around. Not Philla Cain. Yeah, there's

1812
01:41:05,280 --> 01:41:07,120
Speaker 2: the Toys. That's what I was thinking of. There are

1813
01:41:07,200 --> 01:41:09,639
Speaker 2: bands that like The Toys will be an example. They're

1814
01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:12,919
Speaker 2: just really big around here, but it's only like reagionable

1815
01:41:12,960 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 2: and that's the level the lightning and thunder got by,

1816
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 2: so that becomes a story. And then they were larger

1817
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:20,280
Speaker 2: than life personalities and great actors played them. So there

1818
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:21,679
Speaker 2: was a lot of talk about them. And the reason

1819
01:41:21,720 --> 01:41:23,240
Speaker 2: I'm sure that I got an invite to go there

1820
01:41:23,320 --> 01:41:25,959
Speaker 2: is they were hoping to get fifteen minutes of flicity

1821
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:30,639
Speaker 2: about me talking about the talking about the thing. See,

1822
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 2: so I'm a VIP, I got to go to this.

1823
01:41:32,560 --> 01:41:36,280
Speaker 2: They didn't send the guy walks up in the front

1824
01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 2: of the door saying, I'm a VII. Feel with me.

1825
01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:42,560
Speaker 2: Do you think he thought that there was like a

1826
01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:44,800
Speaker 2: VIP list or do you think that he was just

1827
01:41:44,880 --> 01:41:47,640
Speaker 2: trying to get into the front door he thought there

1828
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:51,800
Speaker 2: was a VII. See the problem with pulling that is

1829
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 2: even if you were a VIP and get in everybody,

1830
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,880
Speaker 2: I mean imagine I had then Can you imagine if

1831
01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:01,639
Speaker 2: I did that and that story would be all over

1832
01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:04,559
Speaker 2: the city, It would have been all over social media.

1833
01:42:05,479 --> 01:42:07,439
Speaker 2: So instead I'm the one that can't do that, and

1834
01:42:07,479 --> 01:42:09,640
Speaker 2: I was the guy. The reason I objected is it

1835
01:42:09,720 --> 01:42:12,320
Speaker 2: was right in front of me thirty minutes in there.

1836
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 2: My nose is running because of the wind whipping around

1837
01:42:14,439 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 2: in the cold, and this is where the vipce go in. Yeah,

1838
01:42:19,240 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 2: it is after everybody that's in front of you gets

1839
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:27,240
Speaker 2: through the line. That's it for today's podcast. We're going

1840
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:31,240
Speaker 2: to have our football preview college football championship games, not

1841
01:42:31,320 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 2: the playoffs, with the conference championship games or this weekend,

1842
01:42:34,479 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 2: and we all know what's going on with the Packers.

1843
01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:39,080
Speaker 2: They play the Bears, then they played Denver, and then

1844
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:41,760
Speaker 2: they play the Bears again. The entire season gonna be

1845
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 2: rolled into the next few weeks. Talk to You Soon by.

1846
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:50,280
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